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OREGON HEWS NOTES
OF GEN ERAUNTEREST
Events Occurring Throughout
the State During the Past
Week.
"Fir Finder" Will Be Used In Baker.
Baker. New methods of protection
from forest fire damage planned by
the Baker County Forest Fire Protec
tive association for the coming year
include two "fire finders." The "fire
finder" is a new device to this sec
tion. It will locate a forest fire within
radius of approximately 30 miles. An
assessment of 1 per cent per acre on
all the land represented by the mem
bership will provide a fund of over
$2000 tor this purpose.
1 Boy in a "Brigand's" Cave.
Roseburg. "Don't you go near there
If you don't want a bullet shot Into
you," Wllford Simmons, age 10, told
Constable Singleton when the officer
expressed his Intention to search a
cave near Cottage Grove which young
Simmons confessed be and some other
boys had fitted up like the home of a
brigand, and which, he said, was
guarded continually by an armed sen
tinel.
State Water Law Hit By Court
La Grande. State laws governing
the state water board Insofar as it
declares that the board has power to
make water appurtenant to certain
property, that is, water assigned to a
specified tract of land for irrigation,
be used perpetually on that tract and
no other, have been declared uncon
stitutional by Circuit Judge Knowles.
BRIEF NEWS OF OREGON
With an average cash reserve of
15 per cent, the bank of Oregon.how
a very healthy condition.
Pendleton may enter a balloon in
the national balloon race to be started
In Portland during the rose festival.
The Salem chautauqua, which was a
feature during the cherry fair at that
place last year, will be given again
this year on a larger scale than before.
Governor West has been asked to
appoint delegates to the American
Academy of Political and Social Serv
ice convention, which will be held In
Philadelphia.
The railroad commission has sent
notice to the Newberg Telephone com
pany that It will hold an Inquiry Into
Its rates In Newberg April 10 at 11
a, m. '
Mrs. Edith Hill Booker, state pres
ident of the Woman's Christian Tem
perance Union, died at Portland fol
lowing a week's illness from an afflic
tion of the heart
Sixteen hundred pounds of potatoes
went through Albany by parcel post
They had been shipped from Lyons,
CHARLES N. BURKE
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Charles N. Burke, South Dakota
congressman, who defeated Senator
Crawford for the republican primary
Child is Deserted.
St Helens. Called to a deserted
barn near West St Helens on Tues
day morning, March 17, where Gus
Hegele had found a child evidently in
tentionally deserted by its parents.
Deputy Sheriff Lake kept the matter
secret till last Friday, saying he had
a clew he wished to run down.
Wife-Murder Charge Preferred.
Eugene. Charged with causing the
death of his wife by poison, Andrew
H. BoBsen, of Springfield Junction,
was arrested on the county road as
be was bringing his mother-in-law and
her daughter to Eugene, and he was
lodged in jail without bonds.
EDUCATE TO PLAY GAMES
Pamphlet Prepared by Superintendent
Churchill to Go to All Schools.
Salem. Play and education, equip
ment types of school buildings, games
of various kinds, festivals and special
days, athletic meets and athletic
badge tests, field meets and other
forms of exercise are topics discuss
ed in a pamphlet which Superintend
ent Churchill is distributing among
the schools of the state. Mr. Chur
chill's Idea Is to teach the children
how to play wholesome games and
have recesses devoted to such instead
of leaving the children standing about
basements and schoolgrounds, when
they should be getting needed exercise.
It has been found that in many
cbools the children do not know how
to play wholesome games that were
played years ego and that many of
the teachers do not remember them
well enough to teach them. This bul
letin gives a large list of games suit
able for the various grades, carefully
classified, with full directions how to
play each game.
Delegates Are Invited.
Salem. Governor West has been
asked to appoint delegates for Oregon
to the second national conference on
marketing and farm credits to be held
in Chicago beginning April 14. Mar
kets and credits in the various states
will be discussed with the object of
bettering conditions. Persons desir
ing to be appointed delegates to the
conference are invited to communicate
with the governor.
Fight on Scab Promised.
Hood River. Professor H. S. Jack
son, of the Oregon agricultural col
lege, has procured the services of Pro
fessor L. F. Henderson, formerly head
of the department of botany of the
university of Idaho, at Moscow, in
conducting experiments with the scab
problem that Is confronting the grow
ers of the Hood River valley.
Milton Votes Bonds,
Milton. The proposition to bond
the city for $18,000 for the extension
of the Intake of the water system, tc
give pure city water, and for the de
velopment of the electric system foi
supplying power for irrigation of or
chard tracts outside the city limits,
was carried at the special election, the
vote being 120 to E6.
Slayer Gets Prison Term.
Corvallis. Gust Mamanus, found
guilty of manslaughter, was sentenced
to serve from one to 15 years in the
Oregon state prison.
it. . AO H.llna !
on mo vorni. c cuaveru. nomination for United State senator,
east of Albany, to Fort Kock, in soutn
ern Oregon. The potatoes were In 43
pound sacks.
' Correspondence received at the ad
ministration office of the Oregon nor
mal school Indicates that a large num
ber of teachers, experienced and Inex
perienced In the state, will be on band
for the short course, which will begin
Monday, April 6.
The forestry building of the Lewis
& Clark exposition of 1905 is doomed
to total destruction within a couplt of
years. Dark beetles and lungus
growths have made such progress that
the building is almost unsafe for oc
cupation now, It is said.
The first school In Coos county to
reach the required 96 credits to make
it a 'standard A" school, under the
requirements of a plan recently for
mulated by County Superintendent
Baker, is the school at Bridge, Dis
trict No. 77, which has an enrollment
of 60 pupils.
Alleging that the Rose City Import-'
Ing Company, of Portland, has violat
ed the liquor laws of the state by ship
ping liquor Into "dry" territory with
out labeling it properly. Governor
West has asked Attorney-General
Crawford to bring suit to have the
charter of the company revoked.
That cougars and wildcats are be
coming much less numerous in the
Cascade mountains adjacent to Eu
gene, and that there is a noticeable
increase In the number of deer as a
consequence, is the statement of
George Moody, a young hunter and
trapper of McKenzie bridge.
Two important days for Oregon at
the Panama-Pacific exposition next
year were decided on by the execu
tive committee of the Willamette Val
ley Exposition association In session
at Salem. The first Is July 15, 1915,
which will be cherry day, and the sec
ond is October 15, which will be apple
day.
Governor West has prepared an
amendment to the constitution for In
itiation at the coming election em
powering the executive to remove Dis
trict attorneys, sheriffs and consta
bles and to appoint their successors.
The measure would give the governor
virtual control of law enforcement of
the state.
The class rush has passed Into his
tory at the Oregon normal school.
Hereafter Instead of an open-handed
fight for supremacy the classes will
have their days when programmes will
be presented and athletio contests
carried out. By mutual agreement the
flag of the class which is performing
will fly unmolested.
Thomas B. Kay, state treasurer, has
just given notice that there are funds
in the state treasury with which to
redeem outstanding state warrants
drawn on the general fund and en
dorsed "Presented and not paid for
want of funds" prior to and including
November 19, 1913. The warrants will
now be honored at Mr. Kay's office
and interest on them will cease after
March 30.
Given a man 97 years old, a birth
day cake glowing with 97 candles, t
stereopticon showing pictures of the
days when Oregon was young and the
man was much younger, and a chapel
full of the friends of auld lang syne,
and you have a few of the "high
lights" of a remarkable birthday party
that was given at the Taylor-Street
Methodist Episcopal church at Port
land in honor of Rev. John J.
("Father") Flinn, pioneer Methodist
pastor of Oregon.
Measures seeking to abolish the rur
al school districts of the state, to place
those schools on the same basis as
those of the cities, and to be super
vised by a central county board with
a school superintendent at the head,
will be Introduced at the next sesolon
of the legislature by the Oregon Civic
league. In addition there are now
being drafted, he says, measures aim
ed to revise the school laws of the
state, which are characterized as ar
chaic, and to abolish the property
qualification for school election voting.
Brief News of the Week
Forty-one blooded horses In the gov
ernment stables at Fort Riley, Kas.,
were burned to death In a fire that
destroyed the barns.
Fire which caused a loss of 1150,000
was caused In the business section of
Esthervllle, Iowa, when a lantern ex
ploded In a livery barn.
Four hundred buildings. Including
the leading hotel and two department
stores, were flooded as a result of
Town Creek overflowing Its banks at
Jackson, Miss.
The first shipment of fruit from
New Zealand ever received, on the Pa
cific coast has been put on sale at
San Francisco, The consignment con
sisted of pears and peaches.
Heavy rains and melting snow
throughout New York and Ohio caus
ed fear of a repetition of last spring's
disastrous floods.
The Southern Pacific railroad shows
a decrease In gross earnings of more
than $3,000,000 for the past elglt
months, according to a statement Is
sued at San Francisco.
The Massachusetts legislature has
voted for the first time In Its history
In favor of referring to the petition
the question of granting suffrage to
women.
Differences between the California
dry campaign and the anti-saloon
league have been settled and petitions
will be circulated asking that the peo
ple declare for prohibition to become
effective after February 15. 1916.
The estate of the late Mrs. Mary
Baker Eddy, founder of the Christian
Science church, has been settled, the
sum of $2,590,632 being delivered to
the trustees of the church by the ad
ministrator. Competition In the telephone busi
ness of the Pacific northwest is arbi
trarily ordered restored, and govern
ment regulation of such business Is
insured, by a decree entered In United
States district court by Judge Robert
S. Bean. The defendants, the Ameri
can Telephone & Telegraph company
and Its subsidiary companies, In the
suit, brought under the Sherman anti
trust law, are perpetually enjoined
from creating a condition that will In
terfere with competition.
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 "Ga"
Twenty and one-tenth miles on one gallon of gasoline by a six-cylnder lluiek carl That's
the mark that the Buick Motor Company may advertise to the world a an official performance.
Not only did the liaick "Six" set this remarkable economy mark on January 14, but the
Model B-25, under similar running conditions, made 22.7 miles wr gallon, while a third ma
ohine, a Model B-37, with no gravity feed tank for the measured gallon of gasoline, made 17.07
miles. The later two models are (ours.
With F. K. Edwards, former American Automobile Aisocistion technical expert and one of
the most conscientious officials in the Industry, in charge of the technical committee and with
Darwin Hatch, St. Clair Couen, Reed Parker and K. (1. Westlake to furnish the aflidavlU as
passengers in the Buick cars, the machines were taken to Thirty-third street and South Park
avenue, Chicago, where the attested Warner speedometers were set and officially recorded by
Messrs. Edwards and Hatch, engine were run until they had sucked the gasoline leads dry and
the technical committea carefully supplied each car with one gallon of ganoline that rated (12 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 for a teiting ground, the wind set in off the lake, the roadways became sheeted
in ice and the temperature fell to 32 degres. The southwest wind, mat niew y..j roues an nour i
the
start, shifted off the lake and became raw ana com, oncrmg great resistance i m hiwuh .
The Buic "six" weighed 4550 pounds, with lour paoeengers and equipment, Uie -sj weigneu
3300 pounds and the "37" 3780 pounds, mclu ling lour passengers ana equipment, i n m
an enaine 3 3 4x5. the "25" ha a bore and stroke of 3 3 4 each, while the "37" i 3 3-4x5. 1 be
gear ratio of the "six" is 3 3 4 to 1, while the others have a 4-to-l gear ratio,
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People in the News
Frederick Weyerhaeuser, the aged
millionaire lumberman, Is HI at his
home in Pasadena, Cal.
Governor Eberhart, of Minnesota,
announces that he will be a candidate
for re-election on the republican ticket
at the primaries in June.
Evangelist "Billy" Sunday Is now a
grandpa, a seven-pound baby boy hav
ing arrived at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. George Sunday, of Tacoma.
Queen Eleanor of Bulgaria will start
on her trip to the United States May
21. She will be the first reigning
monarch to visit America.
A new name, "Muy Slmpatlco,"
meaning "very sympathetic," has been
applied to Colonel Roosevelt by the
natives of South America.
Joe Choynskl, former prize fighter,
received a bequest of $10,000 from
Jim Pon, a wealthy Chinese, whom he
had befriended many years ago, and
who has just died at Chicago.
It took a jury an hour to find Frank
Tannenbaum, leader of the I. W. W.
crowd that invaded New York
churches, guilty of participating In an
unlawful assemblage. He was sen
tenced to one year in the penitentiary
and a fine of $500.
Joseph Angelo, organizer for the in
ternationals, of the United Mine Work
ers of America, waa sentenced to four
years In prison at Vancouver, B, C,
for his part in the Nanaimo riots.
Alfred Farlow, after 26 years of ac
tive service In connection with Chris
tian Science organization, half of
which time he has been manager of
the committee on publications, has re
tired from active work on the commit
tee of his own accord and will now
be active In other lines of Christian
Science work.
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Notice l Mivrirt's .Sale.
By virtue of an execution and
order of snle duly innued by the
clerk of the circuit court of the
county of Crook, stuto of OreRon,
dated the 27th dsy of March, 14)14,
in a certain action in the circuit
court for said county. snd state,
wherein the lScnd Company, a
corporation, as plaintiff and judg
ment creditors, recovered judgment
HgAimt ti. C and N. A. Cooper,
partners, doing bunim-ni as the
Terrebonne Lumber Co., for the
sura of Beven Hundred Nineteen
and 20-100 dollars together with
interest thereon at the rate of 10
per cent per annum from the 27th
day of April, 1912, until paid, and
for costs and disbursements.
Notice is hereby given that I will
ON THE 2a DAT OF MAT, 19H,
at the front door of the court houoe
in 1'rineville, in said county, at 'I
o'clock in the afternoon of said
day, sell at public auction to the
highest bidder, for cash, the follow
ing described property, to-wit:
Lots eight (8) and nine (9), in
block one hundred and twenty-four
(124), llillman, Crook county,
'Oregon. Taken snd levied upon
as the property of the mid (i. C.
and N. A. Cooper, partners, doing
businens under the firm name and
stylo of the Terrebonne Lumber
Co., or as much thereof oh may be
necessary to satisfy the said judg
ment in favor of The Bend Com
panv, a corporation, againnt said
Terrebonne Lumber Co. with Inter
est thereon, toghthor with all costs
and disbursements that have or
may accrue.
Frank Kuunh, Sheriff.
Dated at Prineville, Oregon, April
1, 1914.
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Department of the Interior,
U. 8. Land Olllee at The Dalles, Or.
March 2nd, 11(14.
Notice Is hereby Riven that
TliomuH N. Itlrkman
of Held. Oregon, who, on March
21st, 1!H0, mudn HoincMteuil Entry
No. OUL'GH for swj sei, v nwl, anil
swj hw section 2 anil on December
3lMt, 1910, made additional Home
Htend Kntry No. 078!U for nwj swi,
swi nwl and lot 4, section 2 and lot
1, Hcctlon 1), township lit Hoiitli,
niriKH P.I eiiHt, Willamette Meridian,
lias died notice of Intention to niaku
Final three year proof to establish
claim to tlio land above described,
before A. S. Fokk, U. S. Commln
slonei', at Hampton, On'ROii, oil the
10th day of April. Jlll l.
Claimant names as witnesses:
Paul Meld, Floyd Houston, John
Holland, Sliellle Holland, all of Held,
Oregon. 11. Frank Woodcock,
3-5p Iteglstcr.