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MAIU'H 87, 919.
OREGON HEWS NOTES if
1 OF GENERAL INTEREST
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Principal Events of the Week
Briefly Sketched for Infor
mation of Our Readers.
Hardware dealers of Oregon will
set In convention In Portland this
week.
Burglars cracked the safe In Tuffs
ros.' general merchandise store at
Kerbjr and obtained between $4000 and
15000.
The Southern Pacific company has j
a crew of men rebuilding the railroad
trestles on the Lebanon-Woodburn
ranch.
The 16th annual convention of the
Pacific Coast Advertising Men's asso
ciation will be held In Portland June
S, and 10.
Austin Bond, a prominent Linn
count; farmer, was killed when a
southbound Southern Pacific passen
ger train struck his automobile, which
tailed on a crossing In Albany.
, Walter Brackenbush and Peter Nel
son, two alleged moonshiners, were
arrested near Hillsdale, In Washing
ton county. A small still for the manu
facture of prune brandy waa found in
Deration.
Oregon bankers subscribed approxi
mately $4,000,000 to the Issue of Uni
ted States certificates of indebtedness
aatad February 18. Thla issue is In
anticipation of the fifth loan, and ma
tures July 15.
The body of Omar dinger, 42, un
married and one of the best-known
and universally liked citiiens of east
ern Umatilla county, ws found buried
ear his home, 15 miles south of Mil-,
ton, the Tictim of an unidentified
tnnrderer.
While the people of Bend are enjoy
ing the greatest prosperity la years,
Vith a building programme outlined
for the coming aeason which will total
Several hundred thousand dollars, the
city is virtually bankrupt. Mayor J. A.
Xastes declares.
Petitions from Roseburg for the op
ening of the Oregon ft California
grant lands were presented to the in
terior department by Representative
Hawley with a request tor information
as' to why the government is doing
aothlng to dispose of these lands.
Dr. William Shackelford, whose ca
reer as pioneer surgeon and physician
in the northwest for over half a cen
tury had been intimately linked with
tte early history of eastern Oregon
and Washington, died at his home in
The Dalles at the age of 10 years.
Agitation has been begun of a
movement for the annexation of the
Hosier fruit district, now part of Was
co county, to Hood River county. It
Is said Mosier fruit growers favor the
plan when the Hood River-Hosier sec
tion of the Columbia river highway is
completed.
A plan to hold joint meetings of the
executive committees of the chambers
f commerce of North Bend and
Marshfield monthly, as a means of
promoting closer oo-ope ration in mat
ters affecting the welfare of the two
communities, was Indorsed at a meet
ing of the two bodies,
i A co-operative shipping association,
formed in August, 1918, by members
f the farm bureau of Linn county,
has shipped 26 carloads of livestock
from six towns. The saving has been
10 cents a. hundred pounds, or $2000
n the 2( earloads. The present mem
bership is 177 farmers.
. United States Jackson is dead at
Cepperfield. He was born in Halifax,
Nora Scotia, In 1852 and when a small
toy moved to the United States. He
was a government guide and scout in
Arizona during the Indian wars with
Oeronimo, the noted warrior chief.
Mr. Jackson came to Oregon 20 years
ago.
According to state engineers who
arrived in The Dalles last week to
work on the preliminary surveys and
estimates of the Columbia river high
Way, the route from Seuferts to the
Deschutes river has been chosen by
the state highway commission. It will
fellow the original line, approximately
along the railroad j;rade.
. All the northwest national parks are
well cared for In the appropriations
for their support and maintenance,
contained in the sundry civil appro
priation bill just reported to the house.
Crater Lake park receives almost the
total sum asked for by the. interior
department, and the sum named will
are for all requirements.
Orain growers in Idaho, Oregon and
Washington, organized as the Inland
Bmplre Shippers' league, filed with
the Interstate commerce commission
an attack upon the 25 per cent in
crease in freight rates on grain and
grain products made by the railroad
administration last June. The com
plaint of the shippers asserts that the
Increased rates from points in the
three states to Portland "were, when
xacted, and still are inherently and
relatively unjust and unreasonable,"
by comparison with other portions of
the general freight rate structure.
They ask for a return to former rates
and reparation.
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Col Scotty Milne
Auctioneer
The railroad tie business, which hat
been a big industry in the eastern
part of Linn county during the last
year, received a jolt last week when
the purchasers announced a reduction
of $3 a thousand feet on all new con
tracts and that they would not let any
new contract for more than 30 days.
Purchase in Portland of 340,000 bar
rels of flour for European export has
been authorized by the food adminis
tration grain corporation. Nearly $3,
500,000 is involved in the purchase and
approximately 1,530,000 bushels of
wheat will be required to manufacture
the flour, and five 8800-ton steel
steamers will be needed to transport
it
James Fullerton, of Eugene, editor J
ana publisher or the Hornet, a folio
size paper issued at Irregular Inter
vals and devoted to attacks on the
University of Oregon and various per
sons connected with it, has been ar
rested, charged with criminal libel.
Five Indictment were returned by the
Lane county grand jury against Ful
lerton. Neil Guiney, Canadian; George Mln
coff, Bulgarian, and Samuel Levail
lant, alias Albert Bertrand, 'German
Swiss, who have been active In the
Portland L W. W. organization, are
being detained In the Multnomah
coupty Jail by R. P. Bonhara, immi- j
gration inspector, pending the receipt I
from Washington of warrants for de-1
portation. 1
Indications that the federal reclam-
ation service is making preparations
for extensive Irrigation work were seen
in an announcement made at Bend by
United States Land Commissioner H.
C. Ellis, who stated that some 80,000
acres lying east and northeast of
Bend have been withdrawn from
homestead entry. The land Includes
the Benham falls storage reservoir
site.
The question of boring for oil and
gas In the country around Lacomb,
ten miles east of Lebanon, Is again
being agitated and the prospects are
that something probably will soon be
undertaken to test eut the prospects
there. There has been a general be
lief for many years that there is oil
In that section. -.Two wells hare been
started at different times, but neither
got deeper than 100 feet.
That the dairy industry is the lar
gest by far of all the agricultural in
dustries of the state was brought out
at the recent investigation by the sen
ate committee of the dairy industry.
M. S. Shrock, general manager of the
Oregon Dairymen's league, stated that
there are 23,000 dairy farms in Ore
NORTHWEST SHORTHORN BREEDERS
Ninth Annual Spring Sale
and Show of
horihorii
Union Stock Yards, North Portland. Oregon
TUESDAY, APRIL 1ST, 1919
There will be offered at this sale the Highest Class Shorthorns ever placed in the Sale Ring in the Northwest
They are carefully selected individuals from the herds of the leading Shorthorn Breeders of the Pacific North
west Range men of the West never had such an opportunity to get the kind of Bulls they wanted as this sale of
fer! richly bred from 18 to 24 months old. The catalog gives the full information write for your copy NOW,
study the breeding and plan to attend.
gon, employing approximately 48,000
men. There are 91 creamerfes In the
state, 71 cheese factories and a total
of over 100 employes In these factories
The fuel famine on Coos bay has
provided employment for many of
those forced into Idleness through
closing of the Smith mills. Before
the shutdown the mills had furnished
a large portion of the fuel consumed
In Harshfleld, but now there Is noth
ing coming from either mill Hen have
gone into the woods In nearby sections
and opened wood camps. Many leasts
ars occupied In delivery of the output
and the fuel situation is better now
than at any time during the winter.
Every preparation must be made to
make the dirt fly on some 83 miles of
national forest reserve roads in Ore
gon by the beginning of the construc
tive season, according to orders just
received by District Engineer L. I.
Hewes, from the chief engineer of the
bureau of public roads In Washington.
The 53 miles is included la 300 miles
that must be ready for construction
In the entire district. No. 1, which In
cludes Oregon, Washington, Montana,
Idaho and Alaska. Oregon's share is
considered large.
As a result of thirty farm bureau
demonstrations, seven carloads of
flowers of sulphur, aggregating 300,
000 pounds and constituting the lar
gest co-operative order of sulphur ever
assembled in Oregon, were shipped for
fertilizing purposes on volcanic ash
soil into the recently developed irri
gated sections of Crook and Deschutes
counties. This shipment was secured
for 183 farmers in the two counties
of the district Each farmer had pre
viously joined a sulphur-alfalfa club,
organized by the county agent, and la
so doing had pledged himself to apply
at least 500 pounds of sulphur to al
falfa at the rats of 100 pounds an acre.
Because of the size of the srder the
farmers saved $3,500.
Washlngton.--Babieb born in 1918
will bring varying Income tax exemp
tions to their parents, depending on
the month of their birth. A child born
In January, 1918, gives $200 exemp
tion, in addition to the $2000 allowed
married persons, but if a child 'was
born in July the parent la entitled to
exemption of only $100 on the infant's
account If the child was born in
October, the taxpaytng parent Is al
lowed only $50 exemption.
Under another regulation of the rev
enue bureau a person living in one
community acting as the principal sup
port pf a person living elsewhere may
be considered the head of a family and
entitled to exemption of $2000.
FRANK
SAVING THE DAYLIGHT
Don't forget that on Sunday, March
30, all clocks In the country will be
turned forward one hour. We are to
observe the daylight saving law the
same this year as last. This advance
in time will remain In effect until the
last Sunday In October, when the
clocks will again tfe turned back to
conform to our present time.
Copyright im
kr R. J. Reynold!
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Albion Peterson went to Portland
Saturday.
W. It. McFarland returned Satur
day from The Dalles, where he wmii
to visit Mrs. McFarland, who la ill
In the hospital there.
Ira Cox, who was recently dis
charged from the army, passed
through Prlneville Friday on his way
to bis home at Held,
handed - two -
Company, Winston-Salem, N. C
Manager
Mr. find Mrs. A. T. Bogue were In
rnnovllla Saturday from then ranch
on Crooked river.
Jlohcrt Osborn returned Saturday
to Portland to resume his work at
hied College, after spending a ten
days' vacation with relatives In the
city. Ha was accompanied by bis
sister, Vesta Prose, who Is going to
Ashland to remain with her sister,
Mrs. Elsie Miller forseveral months.
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