% P-AfH- 2 % THF. Titilli NF. i ritNFH. OIIFGON T h iin u liiv, M u y 22, I M O Housing of Poultry POWDER ODOR IS Comfortable Flock Assures Maximum Production KEY TO MURDER Fishing operations In the lower Cm ' luml)la river continue to show small ! results while upriver conditions are good, according to returns to Astoria I caunery men. The Intangibles tax law enacted at Principal Ev e n ts of the Week the 1929 legislature, with a fixed rats ! of 5 per cent, has returned to the state Short Work of Crime My»- Assembled for Information up to this time a total of $907.065.78. tery Made by Detective according to a report prepared by the of Ou r R eaders. state tax commission. in Iceland. According to C. W. Kimball of New The population at the atate peniten­ Reykjavik, Iceland.—A pair of gog- tiary at Salem has reached a new high York city, president of the Kimball I glca and a box of fuce powder are uot Fruit company, who Is visiting the mark, with 900 prisoners on the regis­ among the tilings that usually coin* to company's plant at Central Point, the ter. one's mind when thinking of Iceland. promises for the fruit Industry in Neither I* murder, cold blooded, The first fire of the year in Crater Rogue River valley were never better brutal murder, the hammering of a national forest was started recently than this year. ! mnn to death with a heavy pipe. by lightning striking a tree in the Ap­ Yet the third murder in Iceiund In The annual Gilliam county fair will plegate district near Copper. be held In Condon September 11, 12 dO years wns solved largely through Organised labor of Eugene will spon­ and 13, or two weeka earlier in the the fnct that the murderer drop|>ed a sor a Fourth of July celebration in Eu­ month than in previous years. In hopes pair of goggle« at the scene of the gene, and preliminary steps will be of having better weather and also be | crime and bought a new pair, and both | smelled of the same face powder. taken at once, it is announced. just a week after other fairs in the Murder In Iceland, the land of The cherry crop in Lane county will neighboring counties. fjords, front, and lire; the lurid from be better than It was indicated two Historical markers are to be placed | which Lelfur, son of Elrlkur the Red. or three weeks ago, according to C. on several landmarks la Lane county discovered “Wineland the Good,” or E. Stewart, county fruit inspector. by the local chapter of the Daughters i America, is uncommon. The history I 'f Iceland Is crowded with buttles and of the American Revolution in May ! Owing to lack of funds the city coun­ : Id «oils tied, but the present peaceful cil of Roseburg has deferred the wid­ and June. One of the markers will be population could hardly believe the re- ening of the main streets. The esti­ placed on the homesite of Eugene j port tlmt traveled over the Island one bright morning that a respectable cltl- mate for improving 10 blocks was ap­ Skinner, founder of Eugene. proximately $10.000. Purchase of 15 acres and large con­ ¡ten of Reykjavik bad been attacked I during the night, robbed, brutally beat­ Rocking of the road leading from the crete buildings from the Cooa Bay en. and murdered. It was the third Oregon coast highway north of Flor- Lumber compary by the Port Orford killing In over half a century. Cedar Products company opens a new ence to the ocean beaches between the Found Dead in Bed. mouth of the Siuslaw river and Hecet» industry at Marshfield which will be Jon Egllsson, bachelor, forty-one. used to save waste from the manufac­ head has been started. ; conducted with his brother a motor ture of white cedar lumber. The town council of Lakeview has j car agency and repair «hop. situated Lamb shipping is beginning in sev­ ! :>n the outskirts of the town but fnc- authorized the immediate paving of eral parts of Douglas county. One j Ing the main thoroughfare. On the 10 blocks in the business section. Rob­ ert Gould, city engineer of Bend, has truckload has beeu shipped out of : night of ttie murder Egllsson went to been engaged to supervise the work. Yoncalla and another from Myrtle ; t>ed as he wns accustomed to, sleeping j Creek. Shipments are earlier this sea­ ! alone In the hnllding. At ten o'clock K. A. Young, 55, driller for an oil son owing to the low market, which | the next morning he was found dead company in Coos county, was killed shows little prospect of improvement. j In his bedroom, barefooted and almost when an automobile went over a grade naked, hla head horribly battered. Wheat field« of Jefferson county , About 8.VIO in cash was mlsalug from near Remote on the Coos Bay-Rose- burg highway. It is believed Young hare been greatly benefited by heavy I tho Company's safe. The weapon with rains of the past week, according to which Egllsson was murdered was a fell asleep. information from Madras, where .31 bar of trass. Plans and specifications for th Detective« who first examined the of an inch of precipitation was mesa- Hendricks bridge-Doyle hill section of ured. Spring wheat ta in excellent j f00™ noticed one very unusunl thing; the McKenzie highway covering nine condition and good crop« are expected. k! ler had left hla goggles and miles have been received by the Lane the brass bar behind, but be had taken A fierce electric storm paased over time to wash his hands before leaving county court from the state highway central Oregon recently and left three the scene of the crime. department towns, Prlneville, Redmond and Mad­ The chief of police of Reykjavik. The annual picnic at Pleasant Hill, ras, without power and light service Herma tin Jonasson, took charge of the which has been held since pioneer for many hours. The bolt which put case personally and worked It out ac­ days, will be held this year June 14, the power line out of commission cording to hit own ideas, for there it has been announced. The Christian ■truck a pole In Crooked river gorge. are no real specialists on criminology Endeavor society of that place will In a community with so few criinlnnla. Arthur Cables, garage man of near have charge. • Chauffeur Has New Goggles. Seaside, was confronted with a full- - The last of the salvage from the All the employees of Egllsson's Arm grown cougar in his garden a few days were questioned, but apparently they Admiral Benson, which was wrecked ago. Not relishing the prospects of ■ ill had perfect alibi«. Finally a chaof- By W. A. RAOFORD near the mouth of the Columbia, has becoming a meal. Cables shouted for i feur. Eglll HJnlmsrsson, attracted the M r. W illia m a R ad ford w ill answ er been brought to Astoria. It Includes | help. A cousin appeared with a gun particular attention of the detective« questions snd give advice I 'H K B O F winches, anchors, chains, port lights C O S T on a ll problem s pertain ing to the and fired three shots as the animal because he hnd a new pair of goggles. • object a f b u ild in g work on (ha farm , and other heavy equipment ; He claimed that he hnd been out late for (he renders of this paper On ac- fled. | count of hie wide experience a t editor George Lambrith of Alpine dropped | The Mountain States Power company ' the night before, driving a party Into ; author and m an ufactu rer, he la. w ith d.-ad Sunday at a ball game in which the country, and that when he got out doubt, the hlaheet a u th o rity on the has commenced Installing the 29 new , home at about two o'clock In the j subject Addreae a ll I n q u l r l e e to W il he was playing. He had been batting, ornamental street lamps authorised by morning he went direct to bed. i Ilam A R ad ford No 407 Boutb D ear when the umpire called him "out.” the city council of Albany and will This part of the story was true. He j born Street. C h icag o. I ll, and only In- As he turned to leave the plate he have the worlt done within a few