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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 <!ld go straight to bed. hut got straight I aloe* tw o-cent stam p for reply.
pitched forward on his face.
weeks. When this aeries of lamps is ■ mt again, and wns nwny from his
Undoubtedly the one thing which
A 2-year-old horse fell into a 50-foot installed Albany will hare 81 orna room for a long time, lljalmarsson ! makes poultry profitable Is the ability
well on the Martin ranch on the Lex mental posts.
j could not explain how he got several of ’ he flock owner to prod net egga
ington market road near Heppner. He
scratches on his face. And then a during those months In the fall and
Automobile registration time, and,
detective examined the new goggles. winter when egg prices are high. Off
was standing on the top of the well
|re not 0MIR,|y perfumed, but season egg production cannot be ob
drinking from a watering trough when incidentally, time for payment of the '
annual license fee. is again approach those had the same scent as the pnlr tnlnt-d unless the flock Is hiHinert In n
the timbers gave way under him.
ing. Reminders of this fact were be found beside Egllsson's body. The building which provides somethin«
The unusual eight of a rainbow at ing sent out to approximately 300,000 new goggles were found In a drawer, like spring and early summer condl
night was seen by a number of Glen Oregon motor vehicle owners by Sec next to a box of face powder.
rlons when the thermometer outside
dale people recently at 10:15 when a retary of State Hal E. H om in the
Little more than 12 hours after tells us that it Is winter.
complete rainbow arched the north- ' form of application blanks.
Egllsson died the police hnd sufficient
Pullets and yonng stock now are
evidence to arrest lljalmarsson. He ranging outdoor*.
western sky with a silvery full moon 1
Egg* ure being
Through the efforts of A. C. Allen, was taken Into custody the snme eve produced In great quiintilleg and
in the opposite side of the heavens.
resident state horticultural commis
A total of 11.842 loans, representing sioner, George I. Reeves, senior ety ning and charged by the chief of po price* are low Were II not for the
lice the following day. lljalmarsson fact that a large percentage of eggs
an aggregate of $28,328.525. were au mologist of the department of agri
confessed, and thus the crime was produced In the spring go Into cold
thorized under the state veterans re- i culture, arrived in Talent in Rogue solved In little more than a day and storage, egg production would he an
lief act up to March 1 of this year, ac river valley to begin operations on the a night
profitable snd at that It Is only those
cording to a report from Frank Moore, control of the alfalfa weevil In Jack-
The murderer la now awaiting sen poultrymen who are able to produce
secretary of the state bonus commis son. Josephine and Klamath counties. tence and 1« liable to sentence to pris a maximum number of eggs at the
sion.
on for life— capital punishment was lowest possible cost who are able to
Oiling operations on the Sherman abolished In Iceland tome time ago. make any sort of * showing at thla
highway from Demoaa springs to Reports on the sanity of the prisoner time of the year.
THE MARKETS
Grass
valley, designed to provide a may Influence the sentence.
Now Is the time to begin to plan to
Portland
build a good poultry house for the
Wheat—Big Bend bluestem, $1 16'4; non-skid surface, has started, the atate
pullets which will begin to lay egg*
soft white, western white, I1.03V9; highway office at The Dalles has an
Montana Youth« Plan
next full. Thertf are a number of
hard winter, northern spring, western nounced. A similar surfacing will be
good type* of poultry house*, one
Swim
of
3,500
Mile«
applied on the Columbia highway from
red, $1.01H-
wtileb Is shown In the accompanying
Livingston.
Mont—Livingston’«
en
the
Multnomah
county
Hue
to
The
Hay—Alfalfa, $20 per ton; valley
This I* what la known
durance swimmers, Thomas Currier lllii*tration
timothy, $20.50 ft21; eastern Oregon Dallce.
and Jack Mola, Jr., are still deter aa a two-gahle house. It 1* provided
timothy, $23.50024; clover, $17; oat
Thomas Llllebo of Reedsport start
mined to swim from Livingston to with * concrete floor and foundation
hay, $17; oats and vetch, $17.50® 18. ! ed the work of changing the Rooee- New Orleans—an aquatic Jaunt of a and I* of frame conatructlon. The
Butterfat—31® 35c.
velt ferry routing across Cooa bay and mere MOO miles—via the Yellowstone, house shown here Is 24 feet by 24
Eggs—Ranch, 21624c.
is installing new sllpa on the south Missouri, and Mississippi rivers. The feet square, which provides about ,'USI
Cattle—Steers, good. $11.26011.85.
and north aides. The routing will boy« plan to “dive off" in June and, square feet of floor spare, which Is
sufficient for a flock of about Km
Hogs—Good to choice, $9.50011.
move the north slip a quarter of a mile accompanied by a companion and
White Leghorns or 80 to »0 layer* ol
boat,
to
complete
the
trip
Inside
of
110
Lambs—Good to choice, $8.50 0 10.
westward and the crossing will be
the
heavier breeds Cross sectional
Seattle
shortened several hundred feet, giv day*. By swimming eight hours each draw Inga showing how this building
day
they
believe
they
can
cover
85
Wheat—Soft white, western white, ing ferry crossings 20 minutes instead
la constructed, and the materials
miles between dnwn snd dark.
hard winter, western red and northern of 30 as heretofore.
used, are shown In connection with
spring, $1.04; Big Bend bluestem.
this article. It will be noted Mint the
Jean Jones, 15, daughter of Frank
Stags ‘‘B rick" Holdup
side walls are ft feet ff Inches to the
$115.
Jonea and granddaughter of Benjamin
B t Loula.—8t. Louie bandit* are eav* tine. This la of ■ height sum
Eggs—Ranch. 26029c.
F. Jones, “father of the Roosevelt working “a new one” on their vic
rtent for the placing of nests under
Butterfat—38c.
highway," has been elected to repre tim«. Two negroes strode up to the neafh the window* and permit* the
Cattle—Choice ateera, $1101150.
sent Newport at the opening of th* entrance of a «tore. One walked In. owner to move In all sectluna of the
Hcga—Prime light. $10.10011.
Salmon River highway from Grand The other waited on the outside.
house without discomfort.
Lambs—Choice. $9010.
The one on the outside hurled a
Ronde to Otis, where the new highway
One feature of poultry house con
Sookene
will connect with the Roosevelt high brick through the large ahow case «traction which la most emphasised
Cattle—Steers, good, $10.25011.
way. The opening date has been set window. The owner started after him. by thow architects who have mode «
K rgs—Good to - hoice, $10 35 0 10 50 on July 19. at which time cities of The one In the store obtained $35 from el tidy ef It Is tight construct km The
the cash drawer and fled.
Lam bs—Medium to good. $9.50010
modern poultry house Is not only tight
Oregon will participate in a pageant
to the weather but Is provided with
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Insulation which keeps out the cold
In winter and the heat In summer
This Is accomplished by using In-
■ulgtlng board on Inside wails, allow
Ing an air apace between It anil lb*
outside walls In this house Insulat
ing board la used for the celling, leav
ing the air spuce In the gubled sec
tion of the building.
This la not a difficult house to build.
The architect's floor plans cross ac,'
tlotn of the side snd end w-nlle. etc.
will show anyone who la familiar with
building how It la constructed Also
reproduced are details of the nests
cross sectional view of the window
which Is hinged so that It may tie
used as a ventilator and elevations
and details of the roosts.
liaby chicks which hnve been
batched In late winter and early
spring should hnve plenty of range
anil the proper ration so that they
will develop Into strong sturdy pullets
ready to lay In the early fall. When
that time enmee a proper house
should be ready for Ihem.
Humidity Is Important
in Preserving Health
From one to more than sixteen gal
lons of water s day should be vnpor-
Ixed nnd circulated In the home to
make the nlmosphere humid enough
for health and comfort.
This conclusion Is drawn from a
study of scientific literature on hu
midity written by climatologist«, phy.
vicious nnd engineers.
Unlike nu
merous other nuthorltiitlve works on
the subject, the Informntlon Is couched
In nontechnical form so thnf If may
be rend with Interest by every mem
her of the family.
Rclentlsts In these nrtlclee sny the
atmosphere In most American homes
Is ns tlry ns Ihnl over deserts. The
effect of this condition, they contend.
Is causing many of the colds and tub
er forma of sicknesses, and that the
death rale In the “tlryed ¿„if“ botnet
la comixiratlvely high They also sny
thnf the American young indy In
spending large amounts for cosmetics
In nn nliempt to correct In her beauty
the wrong that the tlry air has done.
Waxed Floors
Rome people are afraid of trnxed
floors because they think they m e
dangerously slippery. This Is not true
If the floors nre properly polished. If
the floor Is uneven snd th* wsx is
not thoroughly rubbed In one might
■ Up. but It Is carelessness that causes
slipping—not polish.