OREGON NEWS NOTES OF GENERAUNTEREST Events Occurring Throughout the State During the Past Week. Tunnel Through Mountains I Begun. Eugene. Simultaneously with the beginning of construction work on the Southern Pacific Company' Eugene Coos Bay branch, the Pacific Great Western Railway Company, whose eurvey parallels the Southern Pacific survey to the coast, has begun work t the west end of the bg tunnel through the Coast Mountains at the summit, 25 miles west of Eugene. At this point the two surveys conflict and If toth tunnels are built the western end of each will penetrate the moun tain at about the same place, or there will be a big legal battle in the courts tor possession of the sit. : Form Irrigation District. Klamath Falls. Land owners to be affected by the proposed new Horse fly irrigation district voted on Tues day on the question of instituting the district. The preliminaries of the pro position were delayed somewhat by objections of certain land owners who wer interested in a private irrigation district which had been undertaken by ranchers when the government de cided to abandon the undertaking which it had under advisement. BRIEF NEWS OF OREGON JULUN HAWTHORNE FOUR FRUIT MEN HONORED Twenty-sixth Convention of Oregon State Horticultural Society Ends. Portland. With the election of E. L. Smith, of Hood River; H. B. Miller, of Portland; Henry E. Posch, of Port land, and Homer C. Atwell. of Forest Grove, to honorary membership in the organization for conspicuous services in behalf of horticulture in Oregon, the Oregon State Horticultural Soci ety concluded iti 26th annual meeting at the convention hall of the Commer cial Club. Fruitgrowers of the state are deter mined that the Lafean bill, now be fore Congress, which determines the size of apple boxes and which, it Is said, would be greatly prejudicial to the interests of the Oregon grower, ehall not pass, and a. committee con sisting of W. K. Newell, Gaston; A. I. NaBon, Hood River, and C. E. Whist ler, Medford, wag appointed to draft substitute bill which will be pre sented to the Oregon delegation. The annual convention of the school oftcers of Polk couniy will be held December at Dallas. John T. Wolflnger, on of Grant county's oldest pioneers, and one of the first to operate a placer mine on Canyon Creek, was found dead In his cabin at Juhn Day. The home rule law as It applies to towns and cities In "dry" counties will be tested .11 Springfield, which voted in favor of saloons at the election held a few days ago. Sixty members of the old Company G, On g n National Guard, celebrated tne twenty-eighth anniversary of the company's organiiation t a reunion and banquet held at Portland. The Cosmopolitan Club of the Ore gon Agricultural Coikge. composed ol foreigners now matriculating there, has offered two prizes for the uest ess;vv by an undergraduate on 'Teace." A sanitary, government approved abattoir, to cost between $13,000 and 120.000. is the latest Institution to be proposed for Pendleton and active steps have been taken for its con struction. The storms of the past week have put a stop to all construction work on the government Irrigation project near K'.amath Fr.lls. The Incomplete work is the Lost River diversion dam and the drainage canal. Construction work on the first 23 miles of the Eugene Coos Bay road of the Southern Pacific Company, con tract fcr which was awarded to the Twofty Bros.' Company, of Portland. will start before the end of this month. To make the O-egon apple show a Portland winter feature of the same importance as the rose festival is to the early summer, Is the ambition of A. P. Bateham, of Mosier, the newly elected president of the Oregon State Horticultural Society. P'otection for the settlers of land, making an end to haphazard promo- Dairymen Plan Cooperative Creamery Dayton. At a mass meeting of citi- sens of Dayton and vicinity, which was held to consider the question of organizing a cooperative creamery as sociation, committees were appointed to secure subscriptions for the ade auate amount of stock and ascertain the number of available cows. At a meeting held to act on the re ports of the committee it was decided to proceed to permanent organization. , Mile a Month Is Record. Klamath Falls. About one mile a month is the rate of construction be fng accomplished on the work on the Klamath Falls-Natron cutoff north of Chiloquin. The force of 300 men of the Erickson & Petterson contracting force, which is building the line to the Williamson River crossing, is within two miles of that point, and expects to get the rails laid that far by the first of the year. Julian Hawthorne, the wall known author, whose mining enterprises are under Investigation by the postal officer. WRIT DENIED TO PACKERS Government Interprets Decision as Meaning Trial Will Now Begin. Chicago. The government won an other move in Its fight to bring to trial nine Indicted Chicago meat packers when Judge Kohlsaat, in the I'nited States circuit court, quashed a writ of habeas corpus. Judge Kohlsnnt, however, agreed to delay the enter ing of a formal order quashing the habeas corpus writs and remanding the nine packers to their sureties. Lawyers for the packers obtained this delay after a sharp fight with the counsel for the government, who urged that the trial be begun Monday, The decision means that after nine years of legal action the packers must go to trial, according to the Interpre- tion of reclamation projects under tne latum or tne government counsel. i- Carey li.nd act. Is the resolve of Gov-1 torneys for the packers, however, con ernor West, who has recently, with j tend that their appeal to the supreme his colleagues of the desert land beard, given much study to the prob lems presented by the long-delayec' projects in central and eastern Ore gon. Almost skinless from his toes to his armpit3 as a consequence of an accidental immersion in the boiling waters of the Hot Lake, at Hot Lake Sanatorium, near La Grande, J. N. Sullivan, a workman. Is near deatii at Hot Lake and In the event that he should recover from tie scald it will require a vast amount of skin graft ing to restore his health. Nearly 6000 acres of land on the Umatilla Indian reservation, lying along the Umatilla River Just east of Pendleton, can easily be irrigated with water from the river, according to surveys Just completed by the Recla mation Department of the Indian Ser vice. A complete map showing the lend which thus can be made much more productive than at present is now on file with Major Swartzlander iit the agency. court will act as a stay to prevent Im mediate trial In the district court 29,818 Came to Coast. Salt Lake City. Reports Just com piled at the local offices of the Har rlman lines show that 29,818 home seekers were carried to the Pacific Coast over the Harriman roads from Sept 15 to Oct. 15 this year. Of this number, 15,320 pased through Ogden gateway, 9929 were carried' via El Paso, 868 via Los Angeles, and 3701 via Portland. PERMANENT ROADS IN COOS County Court Plans Railroad to Stone Quarry Near Coquille, Marshfield. Determined in their ef forts to build permanent roads in Coos county, the county court has de cided to make use of stone which can be procured in the locality. Near Co quille there is a quarry where a first class quality of stone for roadmaking can be procured. The commissioners will build a railroad to reach the quarry so that the stone can be dis tributed along the roadways and used in making permanent roads. The movement for a good highway from Coos Bay to Roseburg is being advocated by the people in general more than ever, and if the commis sioners are enabled next summer to get rock for road building they will probably be able to build highways that will withstand the rainy season. Engineers Rush to Fini6h Survey. ' Vale. Sixteen railroad surveyors of the Oregon Short Line under Chief Engineer Cramer of Salt Lake City arrived in Vale with orders to make the final survey of the Oregon East ern railroad through Malheur canyon as fatt as i2Si'ole. Man Found Dead In Cabin, Pendleton. The body of a man named Mills'ead was found in his cabin at Sand Spur. A bullet hole in he, head showed the cause of death, tut whether it Is murder or suicide has not been determined. State Capital Gleanings H. E. Albert, for a number of years connected with the Capital National Bank, of Salem, has been appointed special deputy superintendent of banks. Articles of incorporation for the Brotherhood of Electrical Railway Employes of the Portland Railway, Light & Power Company were filed with the secretary of state. The cor poration has no capital stock. Complying with an order issued by the Railroad Commission recently, the Southern Pacific Company has sub mitted a voluminous showing of its entire new passenger tariff, to go into effect on all lines as soon as the same has been checked and approved by the commission. There is now one rural school su pervisor in the state of Oregon for every 1442 pupils, or one for every 34 districts, under the new county edu cational law, according to statistics prepared by Superintendent Alder man. This meanB that there are 86, 520 children attending rural schools. Practically all week the railroad commission has been taking testi mony in its Investigations of the nu merous tariffs which were set down for hearing on its own motion. Both by reason of the wide application of the .rates involved and also because of the thoroughness of the preparations, this has been the most comprehensive and searching investigation the com mission has yet made. Barbers, with all the frills of the profession, will be another class of tradesman turned out by the peniten titary school for prospective parole convicts, according to arrangement toade by Superintendent James. There are a number of expert barbers at the prison, and these will be cet at work , instructing such of the uni nitiated into the art who may desire to follow the barber trade as a voca tion when leaving the penitentiary. FLOOD GUTS OFF SEATTLE'S WATER Seattle Seattle's water supply cut off, the municipal light plant out of commission, railroad service demor alized, bridges washed' out, and val ley towns and farms under water rep resent the damage done by the floods in Western Washington caused by heavy rains in the low lands and the sudden melting of six feet of snow in the Cascade Mountains. The most serious aspect of the flood is the cutting off of Seattle's water supply, which is obtained from Cedar Lake, 35 miles east of here. A bridge 16 miles west of Moncton, that carried the pipe lines across Cedar River, was washed out when a deluge of water came over the power dam Just above Moncton. The Seattle munici pal power plant is situated at this point. The power plant was put out of commission by the washing away of the intake pipe that feeds the big turbines. Wiley Fights Absinthe. Washington. Absinthe is an enemy which the pure food board is going to fight until It is banished from the United States, according to Dr. Wiley. It Is a foe, he asserted, which as yet has not gripped, the people of this country, "and we will try to keep it from getting any hold," he added. THE MARKET8. Portland. Wheat Track prices: Club, 79c; bluestem, 82c; red Russian, 77c. Barley Feed, $33 per ton. Oats No. 1 white, $32 per ton. Hay Timothy, valley, 17; alfalfa, 14. Butter Creamery, 37c. Eggs Ranch, 45c. Hops 1911 crop, 45c; 1910, nomi nal. Wool Eastern Oregon, 916c; Willamette Valley, 1517o. Mohair Choice, 37c. Seattle. Wheat Bluestem, 83c; club, 79c; red Russian, 78c. Barley $35 per ton. Oats $30 per ton. Eggs Ranch, 45c. Butter Creamery, 36c. Hay Timothy, $15 per too; alfalfa. For Your Thanksgiving Dinner You will find all things needed, such at Nuts of all kinds, Canned Fruit and Vegetables, Oranges. Bananas. Lemon Peel, Orange Peel, Citron, Olives, Pickles, and everything usually kept in a First Class Grocery. Remember that in our Dry Goods and Shoe De partment you will find bargains not found elsewhere. Holiday goods now arriving. A usual we will have a full line to select your gifts from. Come early before the best are taken. The Leader MRS. I. MICHEL, Prop. D. P. Adamson & Co. Druggists Prinevilk, - - - Oregon Our new line of Holiday Statery ha just arrived, alio part of the dolls, games, books, toilet sets, bears and lions. jMM A Bird in the hand is Worth Two in the Bush. V I'll if infill I Jl I You can't keep waiting if you are going to secure an overcoat of really clever style. You must re member this: An overcoat on your back right now, is worth two that you might expect to own later. ' It is the early purchaser who invariably secures the smartest style and most fascinating fabric. When you purchase early you have a score of shades, colors and patterns to select from you have many different models to choose from you have everything necessary to the securing of garments which will prove an excellent purchase. Come while the season's young. Our excellent assemblage of BRANDEGEE, KINCAID & CO. MODELS will delight you. Visit our overcoat department while possibilities for a wide choice are greatest. Clifton & Cornett AT THE OLD BRICK STORE. r miW I A H D t C I t " K I X C A I D C - CLOTHES hchool llonJ Sale. Notice Ih hereby (Ivon, by the under signed, ttiu county treasurer of the County or ('rook, HUil of Onon, that, per Htianttoan order of the board of dlreetorsof school district No. 8ft, of Creok County, Ore. icon, tie will Hell for the beHt price obtainable, !. six per cent bonds of said district on or before the 1st day of l'cember lWil.at theof liee of the county treasurer in I'llnevllle, Ore. UuUti thin Aid day of November lull. It A I.PII .loHIIAN, County treasurer of Crook County. Lots for Sale. A bargain, four lots, for salo, one or all, In most desirable building section. Inquire before purchasing elsewhere, at this office. 10-10. PIONEER SADDLER Muuufiielurer of and dottier In Harness, Saddles, Chaps, Bridles, Silver-Mounted Bits and Spurs. Reatas, Quirts, Ladies' Stride Saddles. E. H. Smith, Prop. Prineville, Or.