mt. Scott Gerald Fsbitohed «very Thunder *1 Leals. Orvton by  ----------------------- •______________ anoe and enlarged service, the warning made clear at the eleventh annual conventton ot the Northwest Electric Light and Rower association, held at Portland, and attended by more than 40 representatives of individual electric companies of Orvgvu, Wash fasten. Idaho and Montana Klamath county threshermau have organised an aaaoelatlon. Intend ss Hvund class mail mailer r»bru The convention of the Oregon Slate Sty IS. ms. al lhe P>al .d»ca al Lanta, Orecon Federation of Womea'i Clubs was held under act ot Congnw. March S 1ST» In Portland thia week. The opening day of the Oregon state (air. September 23. will be known as AI1 Nations' day. and all nationalities Sale of a large timber tra$t contain- in the state will be featured in the lag 433,000,000 feet of timber sud In- programme. eluding more than 5000 acres of land Idlers In Portland will be forced to has been closed. Alfred L. Thomas, of work and professional men will be Montana, is the purchaser. The price urged to help with short shifts iu the is understood to be close to 3500.000. shipyards to relieve the present acute The tract Is west ot Monroe and com­ labor shortage. prises what is known as the Monroe Lionel R. Webster, ex-judge of the Timber tympany holdings. It lies on • • • Thu paper has enlisted Multnomah county court and one of the Alsea river and Lake creek, part with the t in the Portland's prominent lawyers, was In­ being in Linn and part in Lane county. killed when he fell from the Governor Wtthycombe has formally ___r___ ricaforthe stantly cause of fourth floor of the Columbia building tendered to Secretary of War Baker period of the war •............ to the bottom ot the elevator shaft. the use of the Oregon state fair Kraner A Carter, who received the grounds at Salem for cantonment pur­ PEACE ONLY contract to build the 16-mlle canal and poses or as a concentration camp dur­ THROUGH VICTORY diverting works for the Gold Hill ir- ing the course of the war Supple­ * rigatlon district at Gold Hill, have menting his letter to Secretary Baker The German order for mobilisa­ beguu active operations, but are hav­ with a brief statement the governor de­ tion was issued on August 1, 1914. ing difficulty in obtaining laborers and clared that It necessary the state would do away with the fair eutirely for a . Vague realisation that civilization teams. At the forthcoming general election year or two, or during the courts of was capable of sustaining a world war for four years was in the minds voters of the Port of Portland district the war. of the American people at that time. will be asked to sanction an additional Before the calls -"ome for men in the The seeming impossible has hap­ tax. so the commission can be assured new registration the men remaining pened, and in spite of tremendous of about 3250.000 above the amount in class 1 from previous registrations loss of life and destruction of prop­ that can be collected under the 6 per will be called. A dispatch from the erty. the end of the terrible con­ cent tax limitation law. provost marshal general's office stat«« flict is not yet in sight. War is be­ A number of women .and girls are that a call will be Issued early In coming the established status of hu­ badly needed to help pick cranberries October, and that Oregon's quota wtll man society and will continue so un­ in Clatsop county, near the beach and be about 652 men. The class of 1917 til the issue is decided. Individual undertakings and opinions must of Astoria The pickers receive 25 cents will be cleaned up first, according to necessity be subservient to the needs for every peck of cranberries they Captain Cullison, followed by the June of the government. There can be pick and most of them are averaging 5, 1918, registrants, and then those of no compromise, on the issue, the free between 32.50 and 33.50 per day. August 24. nations are agreed, through the lead­ A rich vein of manganese has been Farmers of the state of Oregon are ership of the most pacifist people discovered in Curry county on land called upon by George R Hyslop, agri­ in the world, the people who first owned by the Oregon-California Lum- culturist al the Oregon Agricultural fought for the righteous cause of ber company, Assays of the mineral college, to Increase the acreage of fall- Liberty, but the most adverse to war have decided the company to start ex­ sown wheat. In order to assure a food —the Americans. tensive development work on the supply In the event of a short crop to America did not take up the sword claim. It runs more than 70 per cent 1919 and to create a reserve in case until compelled to, which created in pure. next year's crop Is a good one. The the minds of some of the peoples of Out of 627 accidents reported to the college la in receipt of a call from ths other nations an unfavorable impres­ sion as to our fighting qualities and Industrial accident commission for the government asking that an increase of resources. No utterance of a states­ week ending September 12, inclusive, not less than 5 per cent ever this year's man was ever more misunderstood four were fatal. The fatalities were acreage be planted. than that of President Wilson. "We G. E. Peterson. H. O. Merrill, Portland The Baker county court is Informed are too proud to fight." The full shipbuilders; John Skwick, lumber by the state highway commission that significance of the remark comes worker. Linnton, and David Clark, log­ two units of the Baker-Cornucopia home when the despicable methods ger, Astoria post road have been approved and that employed by the Germans become Clatsop county is said to have the better known. What man of intelli­ champion cranberry picker of the Uni­ bids for construction soon will be ask­ ed. The sections approved extend from gence or breeding seeks to enter into ted States C. T Grey has been In­ Eagle valley down Powder river and a brawl with a bunch of bar-room creasing the ntynber of boxes of cran­ from Powder river over the mountain ..ruffians, until the police are found i incapable of handling the situation. berries be can pick each day until now into Pine valley. Survey of the other But once this “too proud to fight” he picks 22 boxes. This for a day’s portions of the 60-mlle highway has individual is satisfied that it is for work has never before been equaled In been completed and the route approved the sake of humanity that he must that territory. with the exception of one small section. A "treasure and trinket drive” is enter the fight, you will never find Acknowledgment of receipt of sub­ him laying down until it is finished being launched at Albany by the mem­ scriptions to treasury certificates of on terms that preclude of another bers of Linn chapter, Daughters of the indebtedness, series of September 3, in one from the same source. The Ger­ American Revolution. The plan is to anticipation of the Fourth Liberty mans have boastfully underestimated gather up old and broken pieces of the peace-loving Americans, who are Jewelry, now valuable as metal, and loan, from every Oregon bank and dec­ laration that Oregon is the first state fighting for no selfish purposes and sell them to raise money for the war In the union to achieve such a record seek nothing but a return of condi­ work of the organization. was received by the Oregon bankers' tions under which all nations, both An epidemic of cholera Infantum la great and small, may be permitted committee from James K. Lynch, gov­ to live at peace with their neighbors. raging at Marshfield, Two children ernor ot the federal reserve bank for The great mass of the American have died of the disease, many other the twelfth district at San Francisco. people, and no doubte those of every children are dangerously ill. and three There are 265 banks In Oregon, every nation, would be glad to have peace grown persons are in the hospital suf­ one of which subscribed to the offering. come tomorrow if it were the right fering with the malady. The disease Several hundred ettixens of Eugene ..kind of peace. But they will fight, appears to be spreading. Many dan­ assembled around a bonfire built ot sacrifice and give four years more gerous cases are reported. magazines and newspapers published if necessary to prevent the wrong Whether or not dogs shall be ban­ by W. R. Hearst and took part In a kind of peace. ished from Albany altogether will be celebration of the advance made by the determined by popular vote this tall. American forces In their offensive MESSAGE FROM The city council has authorized the launched Friday. The Hearst publi­ PRESIDENT WILSON placing on the ballot at the next city cations ware taken from bundles which election of a proposed amendment to had remained unopened since the first the city charter making It unlawful to Teacher» of the United To School of the month, as a result of an agree­ keep dogs within the city limits. t States: ment by the newsdealers of the city Organisation of the Inland Empire it is quite unnecessary, I am sure, not to sell Hearst publications beeauee for me to urge a continuance of the Lumber and Box Interests' Emergency of the publisher's attitude toward the service you and your pupils have Bureau, representing a pine output ot war and the allies. rendered to the Nation and to the a billion and a half feet of lumber and Refusal ot the capital Issues com­ great cause for which America is at 150,000,000 U-et of box material annu­ mittee at Washington to approve a war. Whatever the Nation’s call has ally, was completed at a meeting in been, the response of the schools Portland Tuesday. The purpose of the 3590.000 issue of state highway bonds has been immediate and enthusiastic. bureau is to promote maximum pro­ i for Oregon will tie up all work of sur­ The Nation and the Government duction with a view to meeting govern­ facing and macadam which has been contemplated by the commission. The agencies know and appreciate your ment demands. following projects were to have been loyalty and devotion and are grate­ One week's shipment of lambs ful for your unfailing support in completed with money to be secured brought a return of approximately every war service. from the rejected bond Issue; Hood The schools and colleges of Amer- 385,000 to the sheepmen of the Bly River to Mosier, grading; Oakland to Ten thousand lambs pur­ | ica are justified by their works when country. Yoncalla, macadam; Myrtle Creek to l the youth of our land and the homes chased by Miller A Lux, of San Fran­ Dillard, macadam; Wolf creek-Graves from which they come are united in cisco, were shipped from Klamath creek, macadam, and six miles of mac unselfish devotion and unstinted sac­ Fails in three installments last week.1 adam In the Slsklyous. rifice for the cause and the country It took over 70 cars to handle the ship­ Barracks for the accommodation of we hold dear. The spirit of Ameri­ ment. The price paid for the lambs 1000 or more soldiers who are expected can democracy is a heritage cher­ was 33.50 per head. to attend the students army training ished and transmitted by public edu­ Hop picking in Oregon nas r«n camp at the University of Oregon this cation. All that America has meant oeased but has slowed down materially. fall and winter will be constructed to us and to the world in the past Reports are coming in from all the it must mean with greater and more at once as a result of a conference disinterested devotion in the future. valley sections of yards being aban­ between President Campbell and rep­ The civic sense that has made each doned- Where the crop was sold on resentatives of the Eugene chamber of home and child part of a commu­ contract picking io going- on as usual. commerce. The new barracks will be nity, part of a state, part of a Na­ In a number of cases where the hops financed through ths organization of tion, is today deepened by this war were not previously contracted for the the University Barracks corporation, and its issues. It affects the fate of growers are also harvesting their as the university at present has the many lands and peoples whose crops. It appears to be their intention fund that can be used to erect blood is in our veins, and whose hap­ to store the bops an the possibility pier future will be part of the tri­ they can be disposed of after the war. necessary buildings for quarters umph of the principles for which we It is believed that one-half of the Ore­ ♦ lio ■nldlArn Charges that a ring exists for fight. gon crop will be gathered, which will sale of prisoners* paroles f-om The doors of the schools have mean considerably more hops than the state penitentiary at 8alem have been opened to a new generation of chil­ dren. Your responsibilities, great in contract sales call for. In a few in­ IsM Wore the prisoners' Aid society, of Portland, wth the result that one the past and greatly met, are still stances settlements of contracts have case of alleged bribery is now under been made between buyer and grower greater today. This publication by Investigation, while It is hinted that the Committee on Public Informa­ and the hops will be left unpicked. others may exist As the first result e * ■ - r- - — ■ ■ ■ I tion, established in response to the The electric Hgnt and power iduuw of the Investigation, Charles A. Sheri­ requests of the schools and the needs try in the northwest Is In a serious dan. a guard at the penitentiary, has of the departments whose programs condition, and unless the Increased been dismissed involve the schools, wilt have served its purpose if it aids you in perform­ cost of operation is met by correspond­ Those Belgians must be obtuse; ing and interpreting the new duties ing Increases in rewenue in the future, It will be almost impossible to meet three years of lessens and they haven't implicit in its title. the demands tor _ necessary ujalnten yet learned the goose step. WOODROW WILSON. A. H. 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