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i will not get very far. The state cap
itol belongs at Salora, a city which
, has boa uU tied itself In its broad
i streets and sightly parks more than
iag tny other ci(y (he gtate, thus
Entered at the postofflce at Prine- providing an appropriate setting for
Tille, Oregon, as second-class matter, the stately structure that houses the
i principal governmental activities of
1 the commonwealth. It would be a
misfortune for Oregon were a remov
al of the capitol contemplated. Noth
ing could divide the slate more bitter
ly or make it more difficult to accom
plinh anything by popular votes to
wards its development."
What is perhaps the other extreme
In sentiment is exproaed In the Bend
Press of recent Issue, which also com
ments a little on Chapman's quiet
brain storm. The Press says:
Why Move the Capitol? The Ore
gon Voter is agitated because the
rrluevllle Clmmerclal Club as a pun-
' ishraent to Marlon county for voting
idown the entire reconstruction meas-
ERANCHES IN ALL THE PRINCIPAL CITIES urf 01 tne bu"e. URKe the rsp-
: ital be moved to Portland. Editor
i Chapman sees in It a calamity which
would divide the state even more than
it is today. Eastern Oregon does not
much care where the capital of the
state is located for there Is some talk
of just forgetting the entire kit and
kaboodle on the west side of the
mountains and forming a new state
east of the Cascades. Then what?"
The facts are that Prlneville's act
ion is not a sudden fit of rage at our
mossback county where the capital
is at present located.
The trouble Is one of long send
ing, dating back to the time when ISO
votes more or less were p illed In all
of what is today four or five counties.
Then we were ignored and our sugges
tions were not considered in the press
of the State.
By reaching the point of devel
opment already attained, we have
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ABOUT OVR STATE CAPITOIi
It is indeed interesting to note the
comment or in some instances thedone largely without assistance
"l " '""" i from our older settled counties, in
to move the State Capitol from Salem
to Portland.
The Oregon Voter, which has the
elf assumed task of doing the polit
ical thinking for the State at large,
and who seems to wish to atone in
some degree for Prineville'a latet sin,
attempts to pour oil on the troubled
waters before a real storm breaks.
some instances in spite of them, and
in so 'doing have developed a square
shouldered; clear minded way of do
ing things that is not going to toler
ate the old "Salem hog" spirit with
out resentment
We are not exactly committed to a
policy of moving the state institu
tions from Salem to Portland or any
with a little "hush" editorial as tol-;other polnt We beiieve Salem is
lows
"So far none ot the state press
seems to have taken seriously the
Prineville suggestion to move the
state capitol to Portland from Salem
as punishment for Marion county's
opposition to extending state funds
outside of that county. Tillamook
Headligh refers slightingly to "the
Salem hog being still on the job. "The
Oregonian reproaches Marion county
for "To have and to hold" motto, but
does not make any serious claim to
have the Capitol moved. The "Salem
hog" expression recurs in a number of
other newspapers.
"In justice to Salem, It must be
stated that the enterprising people of
that city, especially through their
Commercial Club, for many years
have been attempting with sincerity to
remove the stigma of selfishness
which has been a tradition of the
capitol city. The business men, es
pecially, with the aid of the princi
pal newspaper, the Statesman, have
been pursuing an unselfish attitude.
The main difficulty that has been
encountered is. with the farmer vote
outside of Salem. An these farmers
rote just as consistently against
spending county money or state mon
ey in Salem as they do against spend
pnblic funds outside the county. The
Marion county taxpayer resides so
close to the capital that he sees ab
undant evidence of what to him ap
pears like gross waste of funds, and
consequently is more bitter even than
farmers of other counties so far re
moved that little state money is ever
expended within their limits.
"It is not fair to blame Salem for
this attitude of the farming popula
tion of Marion county as a whole.
The Prineville move was conceived in
pirit of pique. It is vengeful and
beautiful little city, grown so largely
by state money, a goodly portion of
"our" money being expended there,
and that the most beautiful and well
apportioned places there are the state
institutions of course.
We of the stock country are accus
tomed to forging onward in develop
ment, however, and while we have
carried our own burdens lightly and
well, when it becomes necessary to
carry those of the older, wealthier
and less progressive counties we will
not do it without resentment, and
hence the state capitol move was men
tioned. Whether we will follow up
the move depends upon future developments.
Acquired the habit
Crook county with Prineville as Its
center, has maintained the leadership
in many things at least in the country
called Ochoco by the Indians when
the first white man crossed the cas
cades more than fifty years ago.
When the war came Prineville was
preparing to build a railroad. Dur
ing those difficult times, work stead
ily progressed and was practically
the only construction of this nature
during 1917 and 1918.
The Ochoco Project, which pro
vides for the irrigation of some of the
best land in the State, went steadily
forward throughout all those trying
financial times, and is today receiving
the finishing touches, which makes it
a valuable reality and an asset to the
connty and state.
It is but fitting that one of the
largest highway programs the State
has on for this year centers in Prine
ville. We have just acquired the hab
it of keeping things moving, that's
all.
LYRIC THEATER
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Dorothy Phillips In
"The Mortgaged Wife "
An autonioMle show will be held
In Marshfleld ot Jily 5.
Lakevlew Is to have a new hospital
to cost $15,000.
R. E. Phelps has been appointed by
the county court as the Umatilla coun
ty roadmaster.
More than 4(0.o0(l pounds of wool
was sold at IV nd at piUxs ranging
from 42i to B4'.i.
More than 100 pioneers' of I.ane coun
ty gathered at Hendricks park In Eu
gene for their annual picnic.
Plans are belli,, prepared for the
erection of a four-story brick building
for the Elks' lodge ot Pendleton.
By a vote of 3 to 2 the street-car men
ot Portland decided not to Join the
Thomas Mooney sympathetic strike on
July 4.
No less than 50 out-of-town members
visited Pendleton for the two-day dis
trict convention of the Women of
Woodcraft.
Many buyers were present at the
wool sale In Condon. A total of 300,
000 pounds was sold at prices ranging
from 50 to 55 - cents.
Governor Olcott wrote Mayor Baker
of Portland, advising him that he baa
no authority or warrant of law to call
for the organisation of committee
to Investigate the Portland Waverley
Baby Home.
Approaching examinations for presi
dential postoffices in Oregon announc
ed by the postofflce department are for
Harrisburg, a $1400 office, and lone,
$1100, both to be held on September
24, at Albany and The Dalles, respec
tively. The Astoria city board of school di
rectors has decided to install oil burn
ing heating plants In the central and
high schools to supplant the wood and
coal plants, which are proving too ex
pensive as a result of the high prices
of fuel.
A new apple concern, which will pay
cash to growers at harvest time, will
figure in the Hood River purchases
this fall. The new company, known
as the National Fruit company, was
organized by Barney Sugrue and Ken
neth McKay.
M. C. Wilson of the United States
department of agriculture, In charge of
county agent work, has arrived at the
Oregon Agricultural college to make a
study of the methods of keeping rec
ords developed In this state in county
agent service. ,
Need of a live commercial organiza
tion in Klamath Falls Is being urged
through the press and many business
men. The Klamath Commercial club
suspended operations during the war
on account of the large number of
patriotic calls for money.
E.C. Bushnell of Salem, who has the
contract for construction of a new
bridge, to be known as the Wallace
bridge, across the Yamhill river, near
Wlllamlna, has begun work on the
structure and expects to have It com
pleted within two months.
That Charles Conley, the young man
arrested in Los Angeles last week on
a charge of robbing the Beaverton
bank, Is a former inmate of the Ore
gon state penitentiary at Salem, was
announced by J. M. Riley, of the Plpk
erton detective agency In Portland.
That the Reddish farm, north of Eu
gene, would undoubtedly be selected
by the state fish and game eommlsslon
for the pheasant farm, location of
which has been under discussion for
several weeks, was the statement made
by State Game Warden Carl Shoe
maker.
The work of cruising and classifying
the Coos Bay wagon road grant lands
will be completed within a few days.
The survey Is preliminary to the turn
ing over to the government and the
subsequent sale to the public of the
lands forfeited by the Southern Ore
gon company.
The temporary Injunction aslted for
by the Phez company, enjoining the
Salem Fruit union from the sale of
1200 tons of loganberries, for which
the Phez people claim to have a con
tract, was allowed In an order handed
down by Judges Bingham and Kelly
of the Marion county circuit court."
No captured German cannon will be
available for Oregon's state capitol
grounds until after congress has taken
action looking to the distribution of
the material now on hand, aceotdlng
to a letter just received by Governor
Olcott from Major General Henry Htr
rey, assistant chief of staff of the
army.
' Commercial clubs and chamber .of
eommeroe throughout eastern Oregon
are being urged by Public Service Com
missioner Corey to lend every possible
Influence to procure passage of the
long-and-short-haul bill now before
congress, which, If passed, will mean
much to the financial and Industrial
' growth of this state.
O. W. H. Lytle, state veterinarian,
received a salary rise of $2403 ft l?fiM
at n meeting of the livestock sanitary
board held In Salem. His two depu
ties were each Increased from $1(00
to $1800. The present officer of the
board were re-elected. They are Wal
ter K. Taylor, Corvallls, president; W.
R. Barrett. Heppner, vice-president;
W. H. Itle, secretary.
A rcord price was paid at the Union
stockyards In Vartland last week for
nine I.mie county hogs. The animals
belonged to Walter Piatt of Thurston,
and were Included 1 a shipment of
two carloads taken to Portland by W.
A. Ayres, In charge of the co-operative
shipping of livestock by the Lane coun
ty Pomona Grange. They were sold
at $20.75 a hundred pounds,
Carl Shoemaker, state game warden,
who was In Eugene with a party ot
other state game and flh officials,
oa the way from the upper Willamette
to Portland, announced that they se
lected a site for a slate trout hatchery
to be built this year. The site chosen
Is on the flat a short distance above
Onk ltldge, on the biuiku ot Salmon
creek, one of the large tributaries ot
thfl Willamette. ;
Four of the large fruit and vegetable
en put ng plant ot Oregon will be con
solidated, as the result of action taken
by th directors of A. Rupert A Co.,
Inc., oV Portland. The four companies
figuring In the consolidation art the
Valley Canning company ot Newberg,
the Lebanon Canning company of Leb
anon, the Fall City Canning company
of Falls City, and the Rupert plant at
Uresham. The Rupert properties In
Portland will also figure In the merger. 1
Thrs Killed When Train Hits Auto.
Portland, Or. Three persons were
killed and two injured, one probably
fatally, In a collision between an auto
mobile driven by Mrs. Pearl Gillette,
1683 Brandon street, and a Spokane,
Portland A Seattle passenger train on
a railroad crossing two miles north of
Scappoose at noon Sunday. The dead
are: Mrs. Pearl Gillette, 28; Lucille
De Margo, 10, and Henry A. Mayer, 66.
The injured are: Miss Helen Altgll
bers, H, and Michael Gillette, widower
ot Mrs. Pearl Gillette,
REWARD
oWe note that Road Supervisors and
property owners make a practice of burn
ing weeds, that accumulate along the
fences adjacent to our power lines. This
pradice is dangerous, as it damages the
power lines and places the life of persons
who may come in contact with a down
wire in danger of instant death.
We ere compelled to offer a reward
to stop this dangerous pradice. We will
pay $25 to any one giving us information
leading to the arrest and convidion of any
person who in any way may cause our
lines or any of our property to be dam
aged. Des Chutes Power Co.
Allies Tell Turks to Go Horn.
Paris. A note was sent the Turkish
delegation by the council ot four, ad
vising the members to return to Con
stantinople as there is no reason to
believe any agreement can be reached
In the near future because of the
great difference between the demands
ot the Turks and the concessions the
allies are willing to grant '
Northwest Phone Strike Called.
San Francisco. Telephone workers
in Oregon, Washington and Western
Idaho were sailed upon to join In the
California Nevada telephone strike.
The order was sent out by internation
al officials, following a deadlock with
the management of the telephone company.
City Meat Market
J. W. HOR1GAN, Prop,
Choice Home-Made Hams, Bacon
and Lard
Fresh Fish and Oysters
Fruit and Vegetable in Season
Try a Little Classified Ad.
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