OREGON NEWS NOTES
OF GENERAUNTEREST
Events Occurring Throughout
the State During the Past
Week.
Alleged Thieve Held.
The Dalles. One of the worst bonds
of boxcar thieves the northwest rail
roads have had to deal with in years
was rounded up, it is said, when E. B.
Wood, chief special agent of the O-W.
R, & N. company, brought about the
arrest of five men in this city and in
Arlington. The prisoners are all al
leged -ex-convicts. They are said to
have been operating for several
months. Two of the five are in the
county jail here and three, who were
arrested at Arlington, are in custody
there.
Polk Fair Plant Set
Monmouth. At a meeting of the
Polk County Fair association, com
mitteemen and committeewomen were
named for the fair this year, and Rev.
Edgar W. Miles, a retired Presbyter
ian minister, was re-elected secretary
and genual manager. A bond issue
of $4800 to purchase a tract of 16
acres, west of Dallas, was voted by
the directors. The dates of the annual
exhibit have not been fixed, owing
to uncertainty as to the time set for
fairs in neighboring counties.
Tax For July 4 It Plan. .
Baker. A levy of half a mill on all
taxable property in Baker City for a
fund for an annual Fourth of July
celebration here was indorsed at a
meeting of the merchant's committee
of tfce commercial club.
It was proposed and decided to
ttart Initiative petition to call a vote
at the next regular election to deter
mine whether the city should make
such a levy.
The total on half a mill levy would
be $3000 on present valuation.
Lost Of $600,000 In Portland Fire.
Portland. Twd great docks were
burned, half a million dollars' worth
of grain was ruined, a steamship badly
damaged, a steam schooner destroyed,
almost totally, and a dozen buildings
were injured by fire on the east side
water front The loss, at first estimat
ed at $1,000,000, is cut to $600,000, and
of this amount insurance covers more
than half.
MISS ELEANOR WILSON
BRIEF NEWS OF OREGON
400,000 ACRES THROWN OPEN
Land In Deschutes And Paulina
Reserves To Be Settled
Portland. More than 400,000 acres
of land in the Deschutes and Paulina
National forests in Cook, Lake and
Klamath counties will be thrown open
for settlement within 60 days through
an order just signed by President
Wilson withdrawing this land from
the forest reservations.
It is reported that the land will be
opened for actual settlement May 9
and that filings will be permitted on
and after June 8.
Officials of the Forestry Bureau in
Portland estimate that of the aggre
gate of 410,763 acres thrown open,
approximately 120,000 acres are oc
cupied by settlers. These settlers will
be permitted to remain. Settlers on
the remaining 290,000 acres will be
permitted to take up homesteads of
160 acres each in accordance with the
Federal land laws.
The formalities of transferring this
land from the Agricultural Department
of the Federal Government to the In
terior Department now are in progress
at Washington, D. C.
The entire area will be placed unde
jurisdiction of the local land offices at
Lakeview and The Dalles. Intending
settlers are instructed to make in
quiries concerning the lands at those
offices.
Newport Has Herring Run.
Newport. An unuBua run of her
ring has brought a bonanza to Newport
residents, for the flan were so plenti
ful that it was possible to pick them
out of the bay, where they swarmed
around piling, with one's hands. One
rowboat caught five tons in a net and
small dip-nets were responsible for
hundreds of pounds being caught.
The fish are near the surface of the
water only at low tide.
Social Centers Planned.
Ashland. "A social and intellectual
center" is planned as the outgrowth
of a movement now under way by
residents of Evans valley, in this coun
ty, for the institution of a central
farm or country life school. Several
districts would be consolidated in the
merger In a territory of which Rogue
River station is the hub. Roads In
that section are of the best and other
conditions are favorable.
Sand Spit to Be Sown.
Marshfield. Roy Rozelle, United
States engineer in Coos Bay, started
the planting of 35 acres of sea grass
Monday on the north sand spit. Mr.
Rozelle is also expecting to plant bull
niua and willows in the sand country.
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Miss Eleanor Wilson, youngest
daughter of President Wilson, whose
engagement to Secretary of the Treas
ury McAdoo hat been announced.
Brief News of the Week
Smallpox conditions in South Texas
due to the influx of thousands of
Mexicans who have crossed the border
to escape the revolution, it is declared,
have assumed serious proportions.
To the tune of vehement protests
from Premier Yamamoto, the upper
house of the Japanese parliament re
duced the naval estimates from $S0,
000,000 to $45,000,000.
The skeleton of a man believed to
be many thousands of years old has
been found In the northern part of
German East Africa. Indications point
to a high state of development.
A Judge in Chicago dismissed the
case against a man who had been ac
cused of removing a long feather from
a young woman's hat The feather
brushed his face and when he remon
strated the girl called him an "old
fool."
An agreement has been reached be
tween the socialists, radicals and mod
erates in Copenhagen, for the exten
sive reforms in Denmark. Suffrage
it granted to women and all electorate
qualifications have been abolished.
The Kentucky house of representa
tives by a vote of 60 to 32 passed a
bill providing for the submission to
the voters at the election in 1915 of a
constitutional amendment providing
for a state-wide prohibition.
Twenty-five bodies have been recov
ered from the ruins of the Missouri
Athletic club building. Of these, 21
have been identified. Five bodies are
believed to be in the ruins.
The dissolution of the United States
Express company was authorized at
a meeting of the directors. This ac
tion was taken aa a result of the re
cent reduction ordered in express
rates by the Interstate commerce com
mission. An important change in the parcels
post regulations was made Monday,
on and after which day books will be
accepted for transmission aa parcel
post matter. The rates will be the
same as on other articles, except that
books weighing eight ounces or lest
will cost one cent for each two ounces
or fraction thereof.
People in the News
Vlce-Pretident Marshall accepted an
invitation to speak Tuesday night at
the annual banquet of the Sons of St
Patrick in Hartford, Conn.
The postal vote plan, which enablet
voters to cast their ballots by mall,
Is recommended by Secretary of State
Bryan.
Professor Delbet of Paris announces
that he has discovered a way In which
India rubber can be successfully graft
ed into the tissues of a living person.
The will of George H. Vanderbilt,
as filed for probate, leaves his entire
estate, estimated at $20,000,000, to his
widow and only daughter, Cornelia.
The Right Rev. John Scarborough,
D. D., Protestant Episcopal bishop of
New Jersey, died at his home in Tren
ton after a short illness. He was In
bis 83rd year.
Former President Taft began a
series of lectures before the law school
of the university of Minnesota on
Monday. Tuesday evening he was the
principal speaker at the annual ban
quet of the Minnesota Bar association
held in St. Paul. ,
Declaring that he can no longer give
his services to the government for
the money which the position pays, B.
D. Townsend, special assistant to the
United States attorney general, has
resigned. He has been connected with
the department since 1904 and has
handled a number of Important cases
for the government
A bounty on fltes is going to be of
fered by the Salem commercial club
to the school children In Salem.
Senator Chamberlain has boon re
quested to use his Influence to have
the Dead Ox project Included In the
Owyhee project.
Bids will be opened April 1 at St.
Helens for the $360,000 bond Issue re
cently voted by Columbia county for
permanent highway construction.
Dairy covs in Coos comity this year
are selling for a much higher price
than ever before, due to the Increase
lu the dairy business and the efforts
to better the grade of the dairy stock.
The county lu which a schoolliouso
is located has jurisdiction lu trying
eases of crime in or near the building,
according to an opinion of Attorney
General Crawford.
Tho Corvallis commercial club has
started a campaign to increase Its
membership to 500 and to become
more effective in developing Corvallis
and Benton county commercially.
Counties which have collected In
terest on delinquent taxes without di
viding It with its taxpaylng districts
may be sued by the districts for their
share of the money, so Attorney-Gen
eral Crawford decides.
A false reading of a Babcock butter
fat test is a violation of the weights
and measures law, according to an
opinion written by Attorney-General
Crawford for Deputy State Sealer of
Weights and Measures Buchtel.
Citizens of Gleudale have organized
the Glendale-Cow Creek Good Roads
association, of which Mayor Coo of
Glendale is president The associa
tion starts off with a membership of
35.
The Portland chamber of commerce
has filed a protest with the Oregon
delegation against the proposed re
moval from Portlaud of the pure-food
laboratory of the department of agri
culture. The delegation will try to
have the order of removal rescinded.
That there are thousands of acres
of fine land In Oregon from five to 25
miles from railroads that may be pur
chased for from $20 to $50 an acres,
Is the assertion of Mark Woodruff,
publicity agent of the Portland, Eu
gene & Eastern railway.
An attendance average of 96.07 per
cent 2877 pupils on record in Polk
county, 1855 pupils neither absent nor
late, are some of the items In a report
Issued by H. C. Seymour, county su
perintendent, for the month of Janu
ary. The forest service is spending $22.10
for roads during the coming summer
in Baker and Grant counties, within
the Whitman national forest The
service plans to open a new and short
er road across the mountains between
Sumpter and lower John Day valleys,
a distance of approximately 60 miles.
Miss Mollio Towne of Fhoenlx, for
merly deputy county clerk, has an
nounced her candidacy for the legisla
ture on the democratic ticket, the first
woman in Oregon to seek legislative
honors. Miss Towne has studied law
and has been admitted to practice.
It is reported that the O-W. R. & N.
company will build a cutoff on its
Umatilla-Spokane line from Cold
Springs siding, on the Columbia river,
across the irrigated section, through
the town of Hermlston, connecting
with the Ecbo-Coyote cutoff about
miles west of Hermlston.
George Stewart, Jr., representing
McMlnnvllle college, won the annual
intercollegiate oratorical contest of
Oregon at Albany. Lisle Hubbard, of
Pacific college, took second place, and
Eric Bolt of Willamette university,
was third. Stewart spoke on "The
American Press and World Peace."
Plans for a federated college and
religious training school will be con
sidered this spring at the annual Ore
gon conferences of the United Evan-!
gelical, United Brethren and Evan- j
gfciical Association denominations, j
The conference of the United Evan
gelical churches will be held at Dal
las, beginning April 4.
The Anti-Saloon league of America,
whose headquarters and general pub
lishing house is in Westervllie, Ohio,
has determined to throw the whole
power of its organization to the as
sistance of the Anti-Saloon league of
Oregon and the other organizations
co-operating with it for a dry Oregon
this year.
Believing that an eight-hour law
having application to farms, dairies
and other agricultural pursuits would
be an injustice, the Linn county Po
mona grange has passed a resolution
protesting against such a regulation.
It Is recited that such a law would be
wholly impracticable to the conditions
peculiar to farm industries.
To retain the services of L. J. Cha
pin, the agricultural expert employed
during the last two yoirs to give ex
pert assistance to the farmers of Ma
rion county, the promotion department
of the Salem commercial club has ap
propriated funds for the payment of
half of his annual salary. In the past
this had been paid by the counfy court,
tho other half being paid by the gov
ernment, but this year the county
court refused to give any funds for
the purpose.
BUICK
The Car that
Sella by the
Train Load
The Buick Car Sets Mark in a Run
Twenty and One-Tenth Mile Made on One Gallon of "Gas"
Twenty and one-tenth miles on one gallon nf gasoline by a six-cylnder Huick earl That'i
the mark that the ltuiek Motor Company may advertise to the world ax an ollicial performance.
Not only did the 15iek "Sis" set thin remarkable economy mark on January H, but the
Model B-25, under similar running conditions, made 22 7 mile per gallon, while a third ma
chine, a Model 11-37, with no gravity feed tank (or the measured gallon of gUHoline, made 17.97
miles. The later two models are (ours.
With F. E. Edwards, former American Automohilo Association technical t-xpert and one of
the most conscientious officials in the industry, in charge of the technical committee and with
Darwin Hatch, St. Clair Councils,,, Reed Parker and 10. (!, Westlake to furnish (he affidavit as
passengers in the Buick cars, the machines were taken to Thirty-third street and Houth 1'ark
avenue, Chicago, where the attested Warner speedometers were set and officially recorded by
Messrs. Edwards and Hutch, engines were run until they bad sucked the gAsoline leads dry and
the technical committed carefully supplied each car with one gallon of gasoline that rated 02 In a
temperature 65 degrees Fahrenheit.
Soon after the machines reached Jackson Park, where a two-mile circuit at and near the lake
shore was utilized (or a testing ground, the wind set in off the lake, the roadways became sheeted
in ice and the temperature fell to 32 degrees, The southwest wind, that blew l',3 miles an hour at
the start, shifted off the lake and became raw and cold, offering great rebalance to the machine.
The l?uic "six" weighed 45f0 pounds, with four passengers and equipment, the "25" weighed
3300 pounds and the "37" 3780 pounds, inclu ling four passengers and equipment. The "six" has
an engine 3 3 4i5, the "25" has a bore and stroke of 3 3 4 each, while the "37" is 3 3-4x5, The
gear ratio of the "six" is 3 3 4 to 1, while the others have a 4-to-l gear ratio.
HUFF-NOBLE AUTO QO.
O. L Huff
PRINEV1LLE, OREGON
AGENTS FOR CHALMERS AND BUICKS
Fred W. Noble
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Statement of Resource and Liabilities of
The First National Bank
OfUTrineville, Oregon
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capital HUick, paid In M.000 00
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STALLIONS
We have 25 imported I'ercherons, Belgians and Shire Stallions,
two to five years old, weighing 1800 to a ton. These are a
grand lot with plenty of bone and action tho kind that will
do you lots of good. If you are in the market (or a stallion or
if you have an aged stallion or geldings you wish to trade,
write us vour wants, or, berter still, come and see us.
S. Metz & Sons
PENDLETON, OREGON
1-15
"PRINORE"
AND .
"STANDARD"
Prineville Flour
Notice lor 1'iihllratton
Department of tie Interior,
C. S. Land Ullioe at The Dallee. Ore.
February 11th, lull.
Notice Is hereby given that
John F. 1 lny inn
of rrineville, Oregon, who, on March
miih, 1D11, nni'lo llouicalead Fntry No.
ONlllI, for lots 1 ami 2, section fl. town
hip 15 aoiitli, rani!" 17 caul, Willum
ctte Meridian, lisa tiled notice of inten
tion to niako Anal tlirie year proof to
eatshliali claim to thn land above da
scrihml ImforB Timothy K. J. Duffy, tl.
8. C'oiiitnifaloner, at I'rlnevillii, Ureoe,
on the lUll, day of April, llll l.
Cluiinatit names as witneaaes: Jamna
F. lilanchsrd, Hkymond Calavun, I uve
Klliott, Charles II. Crnln. all ol 1'rliiB
ville, Oregon. II. Fkank VVoiukimk,
3 6 Keitiater.
Notice lor Publication
Department ol thn Interior,
tJ. S. Land Oltice at The Dalloa, Ore.
February l ttli, 1U.
Notice is linrehy ifiven that
Alpha (). Myers
of Redmond, Oreiton, who, on March
'list, 1U0H, made Ilomeatead F.ntry No.
1511)1 Serial No. 0I3IIH, for ne section
.'1.1, towiifhlp 17 south, rani(H id east,
Willamette Meridian, has tiled notice of
intention to make Final Five Year
I'roof, to eatahlish cliiiin to the Inne!
bIkivb deHcribed, before Timothy K. J.
DniTy, U. H. Coniirdxaioner, at Prine
ville, Oregon, on tho 27tU day of March,
11(11.
Cluiniiint names rs witneaaes: Abhio
Wilaon, lllanchi! Wilum, l.illio Curtis,
Leo Hettinger, all of I'rinevilln, Oregon.
2 11) II. Fkank Woo neurit,
HegiatHr.
Notice of I'liuil Settlement
Notice Is hereby K von by the on
(lerslirned, the udinlnlHtriKor, with
the will annexed of the estate of Ida,
Wright, tleccaaed, to all persons In
tcrcHtcd In said emote that he hae
iniiiln and llled with the clerk of the
county court his llnnl accounting of
his ailinliilHtratloii of Hold eMtateiind
that tile court hae set Monday, the
(Itli day of April, at 10 oYlork'ln the
forenoon, nt the county court room
In Prineville, Oregon, as the time
and place for hearing and cltlliif
sulil final account Intf. At which
said time and place any pcrnon Inter
cHted In said CHtate may appear and
object to said final nccoiliiMiitr.
Dated this 5th day of Feb., 1914. p
M. D. 1'owici.t,,
Administrator with the will an
nexed of the estate of Ida Wright,
deceased.
You . would . enjoy . the . Journal
Only $1.50 per Year
To the Teachers of Crook Co.
The Htate Hoard of Ivlncntn
February lOlli cliiumcd Hulo 27 of
the ItlllcH and Itciriilntlimu Imp tn..
KOiierul Kovernineiit of public schools
in wreiron to read nx r iiwm
"Teachers Shall everctuM wnl.M,.!
care and oversight over the conduct
and habile of the puplle, not only
diirlnji school hours, but also at
recesses and Intermissions, and shall
have tho power to punish the pupil
for any misconduct on tho way to
or from t he school."
Teachers please note this change.
Respectfully. .1. 10 Mvkuh,
Superintendent Crook Co. Hchools.
Prineville Merc Co. gives it away