B R I E F N E W S O F OR EG O N
The ST A Y T O N M AIL
Published every Thursday by
H. IXie and wife o f Salem vis­
ited over Sunday at the- tìentry
home».
••Afuso Time June Tim«
(lond Time l*or llentl"
Good prospects of oil have been
I« the Slogan of the
Mrs. Tripp called o n Mrs.
•truck at Lorane.
Schmitz
Monday
afternoon.
More t{uin $4000 worth of volunteer
roail work was done ou the roads of
A large crowd from here at-j
Fittemi as second class matter at the posto Meo at Sta>ton,
Linn County on Good Hoads day.
tended
the dance a t Stayton
Marion county, Oregon, under the act o f Congress of Nlsrrh 8, 1879.
Plans have been completed for the
All communications should be addressed to Tug S tayton M ail .
Saturday evening.
JUNE 9 10-11-12
establishment of a military academy
in Jacksonville to be opened in Sep­
Clarence Korrette and sister
S I I HiSC 1^11 ' T I O N S , $ 1 . 5 0 p e r y e a r i n u d v u n e e
tember.
: were Salem visitors Tuesday.
A d v o i litsintf K a t e a o n t i p p l i c a t i o i i
Snow, sufficiently heavy to cause
C ards of T hanks $ .5 0
O bituarikb - $1.00 up.
Miss Mary Peters who has
suspension of work for several hours
VIA THE
been
visiting her sister Mrs. A.
is reported as having fallen at the
Positively aII papers stop/nnl on expiration o f subscript ion
Simpson Logging company's camp,
Branch the past few wee'ks, re­
about 20 miles from Dallas, last week.
turned home Tuesday.
Masons from all Oregon will meet in
Portland June 10-12, inclusive, at the
sixty-fourth annual communication of
the Grand Lodge A. K. and A. M. of
Oregon.
On the grounds of fraudulent mis­
Klamath Falls will construct a sewer system in Mills addi­
representation at the time of entry
the United States supreme court in­ tion.
The Exqueltlon Line I9IS
validated title to four tracts of coal
"It is reported that the girls
Knights
o
f
Pythias
will
erect
a
two
story
brick
lodge
hall
at
Th<> Roue Festival of Pnrtlsiui thi» year will •clip»» everythin*
lands held by the Washington Securi­
of Salem, Oregon, raised a fund
previously held. This City will ku«p <>|>en house to all Its ifucul»,
Scio.
ties Co. of Oregon.
ntid
will provide nmuiu>rm<nt and ontertuinment that will b»
of
over
$10,000
for
a
hospital
The Aurora postoffice was burglar­
Port Orford wharf company has let a contract for a large
worth • journey of many miles to nee.
there by selling kisses at $1 each.
ised last week. The safe was carried
dock.
If Ellsworth girls had received
down the railroad track, and nitro­
glycerine was used to blow it open.
Commonwealth Day at Eugene considered a state industrial that price for the kisses they
representing the history and progress of Oregon and IU indus­
Stamps amounting to more than $100« survey.
have handed out during the past
tries -Civil snd Military Pniades S|>orU on Land and W ater-
' and money order blanks were taken
In Linn county a sample of concrete road was laid on Good year (mostly gratis) they would
Grand Festival Hall, etc.
as well as private papers belonging
have raised funds enough for
Tickets on sale from all points on tho S. P. south of Rosoburg including
to the postmaster.
Roads day.
v
Klamath Falls, Juno 7lh to 10, From Roseburg and all points north) also
half a dozen hospitals, also for a
Vergil Chenoweth, a 10-year-old
Coos county has completed plans for a building at the Pana­
from points on the P. E. A E., C. A E., S. F. C A W. and P. R. A N. June 7
farmer living 10 miles east of Oakland
macadam road from here t o
to 12 inclusive.
is the largest turkey grower in Doug­ ma Exposition.
River Falls, and for that sewer
Final return limit all points June IB.
las county. This year he has a herd
Bids have been taken for construction of the Hill railroad system we need, and would have
of 500. Mr. Chenoweth has also start
John
M.
Scott,
General Passenger Agent. Portland, Ore.
terminals at Flavel.
had about $909 loft in cash.”
cd a skunk farm, and now has 24. To
Ellsworth, Wisconsin, Record, j
these he plans to feed the turkeys
The Moose lodge of Bandon will construct a two storv brick
that might die.
The
above gives an Idea of
hall 100 by 100 feet
Arrangements are being made to
what silly things appear in some
Eugene will spread oil and lay the dust on ten blocks of
again commence operations in wbat
of the boiler-plate country week-j
known as the Dallas oil field. Tw principal residence streets.
lies; to say nothing of the other
wells drilled near Dallas more than
Eugene manufacturers are planning for a state-wide exhibit newspaper o f the country no
a year ago showed unmistakable si$n
person or newspapers is entirely
of oil and one of these is to be re­ of made-in-Oregon products.
opened and drilled deeper and then
The Derringer laundry at Bandon will be rebuilt and equip­ immune from a n intermittent
shot, with a hope of developing a pro­
silly season.
ped with modern machinery.
ducer.
No fund of the kind has been
The Canby postotfice was robbed
Steel for the first ten miles of the Grants Pass and Crescent
raised
in Salem, and the kisses
last week, the robbers leaving no clew City railroad has been bought.
of Salem young ladies are not
except the tools with which they had
Sisters of the Good Shepherd of Portland will erect a $125.- sold for a dollar each. They are
forced the doors. The office has no
safe, as the postmaster keeps his sup­ 000 building on Albina Avenue.
above price. Salem Statesman.
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plies in the bank vault, and as near as
According
to
the
Statesman,
Portland contractors ha\e a large force executing the Tilla­
can be ascertained the loot taken con
W e make a specialty of fine Candies, Ice Creams and
kisses come high in the Capital
mook Bay harbor imprQvements.
sists of $10 in money ^nd part of
City, in fact they assert that,
took of money orders containing 14
Bon Bon:? for Parties. Get our wholesale prices on ice
Willamette valley industries will be a feature of the Oregon
black orders.
they are "above any price.” U n-1
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Through the successful and vigor­ exhibit at the Panama Exposition.
doubtedly some orte on the States­
cream for Lodges Churches and Entertainments.
Only
ous work of Claude C. Cate, county
The past week the streets of Baker were lighted for the man statf must have been stung
agriculturalist, blight ravages to apple
the Purest of Ingredients used.
first time from the municipal plant.
in a breach of promise suit, kisses
and pear trees in the Grande Ronde
valley have been greatly arrested
Lumber and creosote firms are planning to put down blocks are so high. Over in Stayton on
not wholly overcome. Some orchards on the Linnton road out of Portland.
moonlight nights they are cheap,
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were so badly infected with the dis­
in fact may be had for the ask­
The State Grange rejected the proposed initiative law for a
ease that they had to be destroyed en­
ing. We know, for we saw sev­
tirely and other orchards have under­ fifteen hundred dollar tax exemption.
eral given away not many moons
gone a scientific process of pruning
An important industry the past month in Oregon has been ago.
under his direction.
Members of the Japanese colony in the manufacture of graduation dresses.
The Dalles will help celebrate Inde
The Willipa Construction Company was the lowest bidder1
pendence Day in that city, July 3 and
for
the
Astoria Lidefiat filling contracts.
4. The Japanese have raised $150 and
through M. Shimomura, have secured
Silverton Masonic lodge has adopted plans for the erection
a like amount from the executive com
of a four story brick lodge and office building.
mittee, which is arranging for the cel
ebration. The entire amount has been
The steel work in the new courthouse at Klamath Falls will
turned back to the Japanese, and they be made at Portland by the Northwest Steel Co.
will have full charge of the fireworks
rlhe entire floating debt of the state of Oregon, less sinking
for which the money is to be used.
Preparations are under way by the fund assets, is quoted by a census bulletin at $0.04.
farmers and livestock breeders of
The State Grange condemned the proposed eight hour law
south Polk county to make a big ex­
hibit of products a fth e Panama-Paci as dangerous for the farmers and fruit growers of Oregon.
fic exposition in 1915. The breeders
The Eugene creamery has been sold to the farmers’ cream­
of goats, sheep, horses, cattle and bogs
ery
association,
and they propose to bouble the capacity of the
expect to have their stock will repre­
plant.
sented. Growers of hops, prunes and
grain say they will collect samples
President Sproule had one message wherever he spoke in
and send them to San Francisco in a
Oregon:
Open the mills and the factories and get the people back
gigantic lot from Polk county.
to
work.
Three quarters or a million dollars
is saved annually to the shippers of
The first piling was driven June 3 at Smith’s Point near
the state through the work being done
By the state railroad commission, ac Astoria with public ceremonies, for construction of the big public
cording to a statement made by the dock system.
commission in response to an inquiry
The Hudson Placer Mining and Dredging Co, of Portland
from the commercial club traffic bu
and
Vancouver
is installing a large plant at Gold Center, 7 miles
rcau of Salt Lake City. This saving
is made by reductions on intrastate ¡Tom Sumpter.
shipments of freight and is declared
The Workingmen’s Compersation act, which strips employ-1
to be easily proved by court records
ers
who
refuse to come under its operations of all defences, goes
and the files of the commission.
Instead of entering a Rogue River into effect July 1st.
Valley general display at the Panama
Lumber shipments to San Francisco from west coast har-
expcsition, Jackson county will have
jors
aggregated
23,850,000 for the first two weeks of May.
Coos
a specific exhibit embracing agricul­
lay
sent
5,170,000
feet.
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ture and horticulture, lumbering and
mining. Work has begun in a horti­
The State Grange adopted a resolution limiting the power of
cultural way, especially in the line of
cities
to
inspect food products, such laws being in the interest of
processed fruits. This specialty is un­
the
large
trust packing houses.
der the supervision of H. O. Frohbach,
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of Ashland, the county court having
The sawmills in Cottage Grove may shut down because
appropriated a sum for the purpose.
Strawberries and cherries are being they cannot be operated on small margins o f profit and meet the
handled in this manner, and other demands of the workingmen’s compensation and liability laws.
fruits will be handled in season.
A new law is being initiated to prohibit anyone working
The Southern Pacific company must
tear up its tracks and abandon itF over six days out of the seven. It is in charge of a committee of
T r n u c AC CATC
^ums of $10 ancl under' cash' over $ '0 , 6 months time
Nalron extension towards Klamath churches and labor unions, and would seriously interfere with em­
Falls for a distance of 15 miles, or it ployes on streetcars, railroads, hotels, restaurants, etc.
I L l u U u U r u / l L i ! r “ “ will be given, purchaser to give bankable note at 8$>
must build Lane County a wagon road
Labor unions are picketing the Home Telephone Company
as good as the one it appropriated ( l
interest from date. 5
discount for cash on sums over $10.
the narrow Middle Fork of the Wil because a man and a woman have been employed who are not
lamefte valley between Natron and members of the union, and the company replies that ninety per­
Oakridge. The railroad has built a cent of its business comes from citizens who do not belong to un-
substitute wagon road over the hills
ions.
above the river, but this Is not as good
a road ns it agreed to build, according
to Judge L. T. Harris, who has filed a
E. Giggy was a Stayton visitor
decree in the $100,000 damage case
and injunction suit ugainst the Oregon
the first of the week.
B. B. Rice and daughter of
A Kastern and the Southern Pactflo
Ike Tripp-and family are visit­
railroads.
Portland visited at t h e King
E. M. Olmsted
PORTLAND ROSE FESTIVAL
Special Low Round Trip Fares
INDUSTRIAL NEWS OF THE STATE
KISSES
HISTORICAL AND ALLEGORICAL FLOATS
Candy
Ice Cream
Ice Cream Sodas
G E M C O N F E C T IO N E R Y
I. A . H E N D E R S H O T T
Public
Having sold my ranch 4 miles South of Lyons on the
Lyons and Scio Road, I will sell at Public Sale to
the highest bidder the following described property
W ED . JU N E 17
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LIVE STOCK
One horse, one 2-yr-old filly, one year­
ling filly, 20 head of grade Jersey cattle, 6 of them milch cows, 7
head of hogs, 3 dozen chickens.
MACHINERY
One wagon, one buggy and harness, one
Galloway manure spreader^ new, one good Deering binder, one
mower, one Monitor disc drill, one new hay rake, one hay fork
and rope, one harrow and harrow cart, 3 plows, one incubator, one
Empire cream separator, also Household Goods including range, hea­
ter and other things too numerous to mention.
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H. C. Porter,
Auct.
S. W. WOOD,
West Stayton
home the last of the week.
Owner.
ing relatives in Lebanon.
Free Lunch at Noon