Crook County journal. (Prineville, Or.) 189?-1921, May 13, 1920, Image 22

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Newspaper Page TextYagf 22 CROOK COL'NTl JOURNAL MAY 13, lui OREGON NEWS NOTES OF GENERAUNTEREST Principal Events of the Week Briefly Sketched for Infor mation of Our Readers. The total registration of voter In Lane county at the present time It 16.756. Several employes of the state library at Salem have been granted salary in creases. John W. Todd, superintendent of Sa lem public schools, has been elected president of the Salem Rotary club. A sturgeon so large that It required the united efforts of three men to get it out of the water has been caught near Oregon City. Attorney General Brown has given aa opinion that there is no law in Ore gon to prevent a man or woman from working on Sunday. Superintendent J. A. Churchill has returned from a tour In Eastern Ore gon in the Interest of the educational Institution measures. Roy W. Finseth, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. P. A. Finseth of Dallas com mitted suicide by shooting himself with a 38-caJiber revolver. Miss Pauline Kline, of Corvallls, will be reappointed as a member of the board of Inspectors of child labor when her present term expires on May 21. A definite price, according to ship pers, has been set on contracted apple boxes for the year. The shooks will cost the growers from 28 to 30 cents. The Jersey Calf club at Shedd will exhibit on May I. Fourteen of 29 mem bers are owners of registered purebred heifers, and the rest ewn high grades. The Union and Baker county . forest fire patrol associations are to be di vided Into two separate organizations, according to F. A. Elliott, state forest- On the ruins of the mill burned last 'all at Enterprise, the East Oregon Lumber company has built a larger ntll, which will begin operations about May 15. Ktre resulting from an explosion in the engine room of the mill of the Huehner Lumber company plant at North Bend did damage estimated at $125,000. The spring fishing season on the Co !umbia river opened at noon Saturday. May 1. and there were fully 2000 gill net and trolling boats In the water on '.hat clay. A cherry banquet Is proposed bv the chamber of commerce of The Dulles for Shrlners who pass through that city on June 21. Cherries in all styles will be served. Seventeen cents a pound for straw berries and 11 cents a pouud for cher ries were the offers made Willamette valley fruitgrowers at Salem Saturday by Puyallup buyers. Wilson R. Blaln, 72 years old. and a member of one of Oregon's earliest pioneer families, is dead at Davton. Ohio, according to news Just received by a brother at Albany. Lee Holleubeck, 20, aud Frauk Lew is, 22. employed on the steamer Re lief, were drowned in the Coqullle river while loading milk on the boat at the Punter landing near Lauipa. Bend builders expect a record year for 1920. Permits for construction is sued to date total $103,480, as against $49,975, the value of building authoris ed up to this time last year. Mrs. Sophie Fors, 43. wife of Charles Fors, Astoria contractor, was instantly killed when the automobile in which she and her husband were riding turn ed over a few miles south of Astoria, Registration In Douglas county to tals 3888, of which 5686 registered as Republicans and 2576 as Democrats. The total registration for the Novem ber election is expected to exceed 12,- 000. Being ahort handed in his office, while the coming election itself vastly adds to his duties, Sam A-Koxer can didate for secretary of statu, will not ' be able to leave his duties to make an. active campaign. , ' The Oakrldge Lumber company. ! whlrh recently bought 7.000.000 feet of limber In the Cascade national forest nbove Oukrldge, has the ground clear- ed for the erection of Its mill, three miles fiom that town. The work of paving that section of the Pacific hlRhway extending north ward from Albany to the boundary line between Linn and Marlon count Irs at the Sautlaiii liver at Jefferson will be resumed In a few davs. Hsu lake and Clear lake, near the tumiiiit of the Cascades, about 75 miles lout beast of Albany, are to be made accessible to auto tourists by the forest service, working In connection with state and county on the road over the Santlain pans. Lumber shipments from the Colum bia river during April were the larg est for seve.al months. In that period :':5 vessels loaded at the mills In the ower river district and 12 vessels load ed 14.318. 292 feet of lumber at the up river mills, making a grand total of 34.146.870 feet of lumber which left the Columbia river In cargoes during the mouth of April A carload of thoroughbred Jersey stock, recruited from farina In Lino and Polk counties, was shipped from Albany by express to Payette, Idaho. for distribution In that state. Thirty six cows and six calves were included In the shipment. Independent or any other legal voter who la registered or may be registered upon election day, has a lawful right to vote upon the measures to be sub mitted at the special election on May 21, according to a legal opinion given by Attorney-General Brown. The Seufert canuery, near The Dalles, states that, owning to the ex treme low water In the Columbia, fish wheels are practically useless. Scow fishing, however, will not be Interfered with. Sufficient water for wheel fish ing by late June Is predicted. Union streetcar employes of Portlsnit The part that fine steels play in a Maxwell VASAggSf&F " OT BR PERFOR- LIFT THE BOXNET AND YOU SEE THE SIMPLEST OF FVOIWKS EXAMINE CLUTCH AND GEARS, AND YOU SEE Swlgw iS THE DEFINITE REASON FOR MAXWELL PERFORMANCE TTTR ENDURANCE IS IN THE FINE STEELS BUILT TO MAX WKI 1' n2 FORMULAS, THAT COMBINE QUALITY AND RARE iPKflHJI DEFY TIME AND THE REPAIR MAN STRENGTH THAT THIS IS THE STORY OF THE MAXWELL THE REAL CATTHK Win BRILLIANT PERFORMANCE AND LONG ENDURANCE THEHFWIO S?T,URI)EV THE B-WINB. THEY MAKE ITS 1 TASK EASIERW? FLATTEN OUT A HILL FOR THE ENGINE. EASIER, THEY .THE COMBINATION OF LIGHT WEIGHT AND WnVTlFRBTTT STRENGTH-THE IDEAL OF MAXWELL CONSTRUCTIOTS ED; S Y, Back Our Boys to Win in the Contest At Central Oregon School Day MAY 15, 1920 REDMOND, OREGON 1:09 A. M. Tennis Contests. Dr. Ilosch and Oymnaslum court. Under direction of 1'riu. K. K. Kvaus. I'rluevlll. 10:00 A. M. Stenography and Typing contests It. 8 Dulldlng. I'nder dlroctlou of Miss Daisy Leonard, ItvdnioaJ, 10:00 A. M. Grade Declamatory contest, at Ovmnasluin. Presiding Officer, Mrs. Lilian Watis. County Super intendent of Jefferson County. :00 P. M. At Fair Grounds Field and Track Kvent. Directed by Executive Committee, J. Alton Thomp son, president: J. E. Meyers, 8upt. of Crook Co., Paul Irvine, secretary. ORDER OF EVENTS 1. '60 Yards High School Kh School 2. BO Y arils Grade 12. . 80 Ynl Mlilgrts . W" Put 4. 100 Y an U High School 220 Yard Dash 8. 100 Yard Grades 13. 0. 100 Yard MldgrU KcUy, WW Yd Mlui Running Itroad Jama Javelin 7. High School Mile Run 14. ui u ,,, . , Running llroad J mm High Jump High School . Griulos High Jump Grade 7B Yard Low Hurdle Discus 15. Pole Vault Grade 9. Tole Vault, High School 75 Yard low Hurdle lU-luy Midget . 17. Relay High School w . HO Yard IlcUy Graile 10. 120 Yurd High Hurdles High School m (, ,om, ,",,clM V0 0r more events will take place at 11. 440-Yard Run one time, as Indicated In 7-$-l-220 Low Hurdles 12-13-14-15.) 8:00 P. M. High School Doclamntory con t est nt Gymnasium. Presiding officer, Supt. 8. W. Moore, Bond. PALL IHVINK, Sue. FOR SALE BY Central Motor Sales Co. PRINEVILLE, OREGON voted to accept the proposal of tins company providing for a small Increase In wages for a few shopmen and re taining the present wage scale of the platform men for another year. Nego tiations have been going on several weeks. A request for the sain of an addition al $1,500,000 of state highway bonds under the provisions of the 1920 amend ment to the Bean-Jlarrctt act to meet federal aid for poHt roads and forest projects was filed with the state board of control by the state highway com mission. James T. Jardine, well. known Inves tigator for the United States depart ment of agriculture and author of many practical government bulletins, has been unanimously elected director of the Oregon Agricultural experiment station. He Is expected to assume Ills duties July 1. Because of the high prices demanded by growers for their 1920 loganberry crop, the management of the Puyallup t Sumner Fruit Growers' Canning company announced that the corpora tion has withdrawn from the Willam ette valley and will purchase no more fruit in this section. An Initiative petition asking for a Place on the November ballot for a proposed single tax amendment to the state constitution was filed with the secretary of state's office by J. R. Her man, manager of the Oregon State Sin gle Tax league. The petition contains the names of 14,685 voters. The sundry civil bill as reported to the house by the appropriations com mittee, carries $170,000 for continuing construction and maintenance on the Umatilla Irrigation project and $289.- 000 for the Klamath project Crater lake national park receives $25,300. and the fish culture station at Clack amas, $6960. More than 80 witnesses will be call ed for examination and seven law yers will be engaged In the trial of Harold Howell, which atarted in the circuit court before Judge S. Coke at Coqullle Monday morning. This is the third trial of the 15-year-old Bandon youth, who is charged with murder ing Lillian Leuthold last July. Farm laborera of Baker county are severely criticised In a report Issued by the united StateB department of agri culture. The statistics show that the supply of farm labor this year Is 79 per cent of what It was last year, and Is now 69 per cent of normal. The pres ent demand forearm labor is 114 per cent compared with that of last year, and 127 per cent compared with the normal ih umno. A "gravel hauling picnic" ublih will have practical n-Biilts as well . m , ., vlrtlng a day of good fellow n!i to , j enjoyment, will be staged lit the near future by the residents of the Oakvlllo neighborhood, southwest of Albany. The plan Is for the men of the milh. borhood to spend the day hauling and spreading gravel on rerlnin rouds In the vicinity. A big picnic dinner will be served at noon. Because of the Inability of the Hulem Fruit Union to handle the fast-Increas ing crops of Marlon county without ex pending large sums of money for im provements, and the keen competition that has developed between canneries and packing plants n the local field, 296 members of the organization, at a meeting held In Salem, authorized the directors to take Immediate steps to dispose of the union's property. At a meeting at Astoria of repre sentatives of all the canneries and cold storage plants on the Columbia river, with two exoeptlcns, the prices per pound to be paid for raw fish dur ing the season whloh opened at noon Saturday were set as follows: Chl- nooks weighing over eight oounds. ia cents; those undor elght nounds to h refused; steelheads, 9 cents; blue- backs, 9 cents; sIlverMldes, 3 cents; shad, 1 cent; white sturgeon, 10 cents, green sturgeon, 6 cents. Because the state highway commis sion apportioned to some counties of Oregon sums of money in excess of that raised through the uniform tax levy of 1 mill for market roads while to other counties were apportioned funds In amounts smaller than da- rived through their respective levies. A. D. Leedy, district attorney of Grant county has filed with the state hiah- way department a written protest. He urges a re-dlstributlon of the market road funds together with the' granting of such other relief for Grant county as the commission may deem advisable. With a membership of twenty, the Hood River chapter of the women's auxiliary of the American legion has been launched. Immediate relief of shortage of cars In Baker Is demanded by the Baker county chamber of commerce or serious labor troubles as well as financial ruin to the local lumber, Industry Is likely to result. . Directors of the Bend school district have authorized the calling of a special election, the date to be set later, to vote on a $32,000 bond Issue to finance the completion of the main unit of the high school. .... i.lilh MulntiU it'll for the purchase of the $1,000.(100 bond im offered for ail by the state highway depart r ' under the set of last January, la extension of th. Mean Uarrett act, wore rejected by the suite board of control as being too low. Mrs. Kdnard Reboot, of Muhbaril. Is dead und her husband, Or. Edward Bchool, is In a critical condition flow nervous shock as result of the auto mobile In which they were riding being struck by a northbound Southern Pa cific freight train. Till Stratton, well known In the John Day, district, and his wife are dead as a result of a murder and sulcld' com mi ted In a hotel at Baker. The tragedy Is believed to have been caused by domestic trouble and followed sev eral hours of quarreling. Tour hundred Indians gathered near Adams to celebrate the potlatch of the late Yumsunkln, who died In China) ,-eceutly. At the potlatch bis blanket, saddles, horses and other possessions were distributed among his relative, according to the tribal customs. An Increase In the rates of the Union County Telephone oompany to a point comparable with the lowest rate charged by the Home Telephone com pany, operating In the same territory was granted In an order Issued by the public service commission and effectlva May 1. A. B. Foster, whe was convicted nt the murder of Lawrence Uoodell In Portland and who escaped a month ago from the state tuhercul OHls hnanl. tal where he had been transferred from the penitentiary has been return! to Salem. Foster was captured at Bl Paso, Texas. - Strawberry grewers In the Wlllam. ette valley are being offered 15 cent pound for their 1920 product, but as yet few contracts have been made at that: figure. Borne of the growers believe the price will go to 20 cent a pound and are not In' favor of sell ing below that flgur. Total taxes levied by counties for the year 1920, based on the rolls of 1911, exclusive of the fire patrol assess ment, aggregate $33,696,696.03, or ap proximately $7,000,000 In excess of the amount raised In the year 1919, accord ing to- a report prepared bv Frank Lovell, state tax commissioner. A program for paved market mH. In Linn county will be Inaugurated by tne county court this year by paving a stretch of seven miles. The first road to be paved extends from Rein to Green' bridge, which crosses the North Santlam river, the boundary line between Linn and Marlon counties.