OREGON NEWS NOTES
Of GENERAL INTEREST
FRANKLIN K. LANE
Events Occurring Throughout
the State During the Past
Week.
Drugstore Man Arrtattd.
Astoria
Pillowing th'' Inveetlgs
I
ago by I >r Murry, post surgeon Mt
the Port Hl cions bariurks. and 1, I.
Lcvings, a Portland dstoctlvr rm
ployed by th«- Rial«' IVonrd of I’linr
tnacy, Tio-otlor« F l.aurln, propr* i-
of tlir Fugle «Irug -foie. and Ito» A
Farr, rlrrk In tbr ,«m> ator«', »»<•.»
arrratrtl ■ n charges of si-lllnr «or i i>>.
without Imv nr a prt »ci ptloli to >ol
dim. itatlon'd u’ Fort Htevrn»
Contractor Eapacta Work All Winter.
Eugene Grading baa begun by tlx*
Southern I’arltlr Company on it» Ku
(«•nr t’ooa Huy line. Fuller A Co »ub
contractors. having »farted a force of
men and tram» at th«' work on thr
land the company »«cured from the
Ian« County Asset Company
this la
thr high« t point brtween Eugene and
the funnel In the mountain» 23 miles
weat of here, arid becuu»«- It 1« well
drained g adlng ran proceed all win
ter or until the rut la completed
RECALL INOPERATIVE
Attorney General Give» Opinion Act
I» Not Self Executing
Rai rm That the recall amendment
to the th« gon constitution la Inopera
tire and ro ffertlvn bei suae It a not
aeltexe« itlng la the final opin on
of
Attornev • Generrl
Crawford,
banded down for It
II
Howell,
county clerk of Lincoln count», who
requested Information on the point be
cause of a mo»e on foot In that <oun
ty to circular recall petitions agn.n«t
the co mty judge and one of the coun
ty comm aaloner«
Once before thia point had been
passed on by the offlc«- of the attor
ney general when an aa»latant off«- <1
an opinion that the amendment »» • »
»•If executing Th«- hi n:< n » w > i
Ing In Ita nature an«! declare» that < ' «
recall provision la not -elf « »«•« utlny
and that further legialatlve ,n.* t
ment la required before thr recall
amendment will becom« «-fT«ctbe
Franklin K. Leno, interstate eom
mere« commissioner, woo urges a
new commuilon to deal with corpo a
tlon«.
M NAMARAS TAKEN TO PEN
Journey of 501 Miles to han Quentin
Made by Tram.
Ix>s Angclt-a James II McNamara,
eonfeased murderer, and John J Me
Namara. conf« «»«d dynamiter and sec
retary treasurer of the International
Association of llridg« and Structural
Ironworkers, have been taken to San
Qu< ntln penitentiary. .50) miles a«ay
Jams» Il beg.ns a sent« nee of life Im
prlaonmrnt, while bla brother face» a
term of 15 years
"I'tn a un <n man and I m for union
laboi," w»> lolin J McNamara's part
Ing comment to tie world, accord ng
to Clarence S barrow, hl» chief coun
•el. who waa la»t with him John J
also eipr<»»«*<l the hope that the sen
t.ment of union labor toward him
would change, «»marking that In time
the case would be better undi-ritood
Weetern Steel May Reorganise.
Scuttle Creditor» of the Western
Steel Corporation, the 120,000.000
cmiaiir which »»« placed In the
hand» of receiver». Octob« r 13, held
their flrat meeting here and elected
I«eater Turner. Sutcliffe Baiter «nd
Edgar Am« » trust«■••»
A proposition
for the Irnrrn dlat. re. rganliatlon of
the defunct corporation was made by
Port wing Decision
a representative of the Metropolitan
Marshfield Judge John S Coke, of
Trust Company of New York
the circuit court, ha- given a dedal, n
In the In)unct on cage regarding th*
formation of the P««rt of Port Orford
In Curry county, deciding in Loor of
the pi'rt. thua dlB'olvIng 'he temp»»
rary Injunction
It will now be po’
aible for thr canina» of the vote on
the port qu«-tlon to be made by the
Knoxville, Tenn - I'm th«« second
count» offl< la'» of Curry county and
time In 10 .»ears a great mine il »aster
the port proposition dx iared < arr «-d
has made tin Knoxville «olllery dis
trlct «•< ho w.th th«- sobs and walls Of
Estate to Be Cut Up.
women and children relatives of the
Mar hfleld The estate of fl e 1st«
men who»«1 Ilves were snuffed out in a
R I> Hume, recently purchased by
flash a» they work'd
Portland men. h*
pa»aed Into the
One bundled men perhaps more,
band» <«f the new owner» and their
perhaps a few leas -are entombed in
representative. W
II
Leach, tine the Cross Mountain mine near Brice
taken charge of the property
It 1» vtllc
Five men have be« n brought
the Intent on to eatabllah a settle
alive from the mine, and rescuers are
ment and »ell much of the land In making strong effort» to rem h at ’east
email tract» to horne»eeker»
three more whom they believed »till
alive
The explosion 1» believed to have
P. G. W. CONTRACT LET
occurred two mile» from the opening
Pacific Great Weetern Work to Begin and aboui 100 feet below the surface
at Once, Says Chief Engineer.
President Stephenson, of the Knoi
Eugene—The McArthur Perks Com vlllr Iron Company, which own« the
pany. Limited, of Chicago, was mines, said that the explosion prob­
awarded the contract for conatruct'on ably had been caused by a windy
of 114 mile» of railway between Ku shot This might have Ignited gases
gene and tbr const. to be known as accumulated In one of the many
thr Pacific Great Weetern H II Hunt, “rooms" In the mine or might have
chief engineer of the Pacific Great set the coal dust on the floor
Western, promfeea Immediate com
mencemrnt of construction The line
Loss of >150.000 in Lir «ton Firs.
fa popularly supposed to ba a Hill af­
Poitland
Burning ovtr an area of
fair, and a race to Cooa Bay between live acres. Are last night destroyed
thia line anti the Coos Bay extension practically the entire property of the
of the Southern Pacific Is eipeeteo West Oregon Lutnbei Company at
similar to the race that took place Ltanton. entailing a loa of 3160,000.
from the Columbia River up lies with Insurance probably totaling 874.-
chute» canyon Into central Oregon 100
The mill destroyed was one of
Roylance. Messenger * Dye have the finest of Its kind on the coast.
been awarded contract for the big tun
THE MARKETS.
ael at the summit of the Coast range
They were the contractors on the Na
Portland.
tron tunnel
Wheat — Track pricea: Club, 78c;
Stuealem. 83c; red Ruaslan. 78 c.
Reek Roads Planned.
Harley—Feed. 837 per ton.
Hillsboro Several road districts la
Oats—No. 1 white. >31 per ton.
thia county are publishing notice* of
Hay--Timothy. valley. 818; alfalfa,
special road meetings to levy tales
•
14.
for rock roads. This will be In addition
Batter—Creamery, 38c.
to the levy to be made by tbs county
Eggs Ranch, 42c.
oomml’Slonara' oourt, which has aa
Hope—1911 crop, 46c; 1919, aaml
noun c«><1 Its Intention to levy to the
»1.
full limit and turn half of the fund*
Wool — Eastern Oregon. Stfl8a;
over to the road district* for special
«Vlllansette Valley, 16i7i7c
work
Mohair—17c.
FIVE MEN TAKEN
ALIVE FROM MINE
Anderson Jury Dlsagres.
Canyon City —The Jury In the oaae
of George W Andsraoa. who »hot and
htlled Attorney George Barnes In thia
City last June and wa» Indlcted for
murder In the »eeond degrse by the
graad Jury, dlaagr«'ed and was die
ehnrgcd from Service In tie rase.
Seattle.
Whea‘ — B’uestem. 12c; club. 78e;
ed Russian. 77c.
Rn.«ey—|3f> per ton
Oats 8.10 per ton.
Eggs Ranch. 50c.
Butter—Creamery, 38c
Hay—Timothy. |t< per test
BRIEF NEWS OF OREGON
I < Bukei (’iiniiiii-i« ««'I Club will
te. «1 raise a fund for a 840,000 ar
u>ory.
A-t< ria authorities have inaugurat
til u lampalgn to put a stop to the
selling of tobacco and cigarette« to
pilnors
A demonstration road s quarter of a
mile long Is to be built at the Oregon
Agricultural College branch expert
m> ni station located at Hermiston
Poultrytuen of Albany and vicinity
ar« preparing to foi m an organ.xa
Hon for the purpose of reviving the
custom of bolding annual poultry
fairs
The Baker county officers have re
celved many complaints of horse
stealing from the residents of the
Missouri Flat district, and are invest!
gating the matter.
The first carload of grain for Imine
dlate iallroad ablpmen' that haa ever
been sold In Goose Lake Valley was
disposed of by B Keller, of New Pine
Creek, to Reno partle»
Centralisation in Portland of the
government of th« Oregon Washington
llallroad 4 Navigation Company will I
be completed December 15, at which
time al) the company » It«-- will be
placed under the supervision of the
Portland officials
A referendum hsving for Its object
the revoking of a franchise granted
the Prineville 4 Eastern Railway on
the streets of Prineville will be con
sldered by the voters Monday, Decern
ber lk. the date of tbe regular annual
City election
Ihi first bird and garae refuge to
be created under the new game laws
Is on the banks of tbe Wlllsmetre
slough, opposite Sauries' Island
It
has been created by Hannah Hol­
brook and M C Holbrook, and Is
2S5 acres In extent
Tbe Oregon Development League
ha« asked the Marshfield Chamber of
(,'■ mmerce to Induce the farmers to
raise peas for seed The count) grow»
fine p< as. and It la suggested that tbe
farmers cot Id make big money by
growing peas to furnish seed
In one of the swiftest trials in th««
history of Polk county, John Magers,
a negro, who on August 14. while a
paroled conilct. atta« ked Miss Beulah
Walton In West Salem and shortly
afterward attacked Mrs M Jorgenson
on Kola road, was sen!«need to the
penitentiary.
It was booster day In Eugene Fri­
day. delegations from the commercial
organizations of Portland. Salem. Al­
bany. Corvallis. McMinnville, Rose
burg and all the valley towns ga'hcr
l.jg io help the Eng« ne Commercial
Club didlcate the pleasant new quar
ter». Into which It has just moved
With the appointment of a special
legislative «-omm'ttee to go before th*
Legislature and see that the dairymen
receive con side ratIon, and with the
pass.ng ot m portant resolutions hav­
ing to do with the advancement of
the industry in Oregon, the annua!
convention of the State Dairymen s
Assoiiation closed at Portland to
meet next year In Albany.
State Capital Gleanings
The State Thre'hermen's Aaaocla
tlon adjourned to meet In convention
again In 1912. In Condon
An increase of 40 per cent In the
number of state warrants drawn for
the 11 months of 1911 over the 13
months of 1910 Is shown by a stale
ment which has just been prepared
With 175 delegates In attendance,
the Young Men's Christian Asaocta
tlon tor Oregon and Idaho has opened
Its 12th annual convention in this
city
At th«- annual meeting of the Salem
school district taxpayers. It was unan
Iniously decided that eight and one-
tenth mills be levied for the ntainte-
pance and the construction of two
new school buildings
Attorney General
Crawford
has
handed down an opinion to the «’ffert
that foreign corporations transacted
business In the state are supposed to
pay license fees whether their decla
rations to Incorporate have been filed
or not
That Oregon will have ten delegates
te elect to the Republican national
convention In 1913 under the presl
dentlal preference primary nominating
plan is the official statement received
by Secretary Olcott from William
Hayward, secretary of the Republican
national committee
Negotiations by telegraph between
the Desert Land Hoard and the
Northwest Townalte Compauy have
practically assured that oompany that
It can take over the Paisley project
ef 13.000 acres, the contract, for
» liich, to the Portland Irrigation Com
pany. waa cancelled some time ago
The report of the Oregon 4 Wash
lagton Railroad received by the
state railroad commission showed op
erating revenues »mounting to 8935.
726 and operating expenses of 8678.-
413
With other deductions the net
operating revenue was shown to be
8343.313 Th« to« operating inoom«'
was 8340 109
TAFT MEN CONTROL
NATIONAL COMMITTEE
THE LENTS FRIENDS CHURCH
Prifnary Plan Defeated and
Chi ago Selected For N pf ‘
Convention.
Washington —The meeting of the
National Committee was strongly pro
Taft
Th«- President's advisers won
on every point Th«- names of Roose
veil and La Follette wer« nut men-
timed at the meeting, which formu
latex the preliminary plan, for the
campaign of 1912.
Chit ago waa chosen as the National
convention city, and tbe call was Is
sued for the at «ambling of delegates
on Tuesday, June 18.
The Taft forces also dictated the
entire membersnip of th«- arrange­
ments committee, which was increas­
ed to »even. Instead of the usual five, I
and is composed as follows;
New, Indiana; Vorys, Ohio; Mul­
vane, Kansas; Murphy, New Jersey;
Williams, Oregon; Rosewater, Ne­
braska. and Duncan. North Carolina
Tbe committee adhered to tbe «on-
vent Ion call of 18U8 and the primary
questluti waa left as II was four years
ago Tbe champions of Presidential
preference primaries and state w:d>
primaries for tbe selection of dele
gat'
In states where primary ,aws
are not operative, were defeated. They
were led by Senator Borab, of Idaho,
who contented blm»elf with a minor­
ity report from the subcommittee on
call, of which he was chairman.
Liquor Sales In Clubs Ruled Out.
Salem, Ore—Holding that a club
which is a corporation la in Itself an
artificial person and as such owns the
liquors were supposedly the property
of the individual members of the club.
Justice McBride, in the Supreme
Cour', mod.fled the recent opinion of
the Circuit Court la the case of the
Barhelora' Club versus tbe City of
Woodburn.
GIRL WANTS $25.000
Moneyed Citixena, Principals In Tar
Party, Would Pay.
Lincoln Center, Kans—Miss Mary
Chamberlain, the victim of the Shady
Bond "tar party,” will not receive
less than 325,000 damage», and It 1»
prrbahla that the courts have heard
the last of the affair
R G Clark Jay Fitzwater and
Watson Scranton, who pleaded guilty,
and John Schmidt, who was convict­
ed. are worth In the aggregate more
than 8100.0C0, Clark alon«- being rat«»d
iu excess of 850.000
Their pleas of
guilty and the conviction of Schmidt
leave them exposed for an action for
damages
It Is raid that upon the
advice of their attorneys they will
pay rather than g«» to trial.
Gearge V. Hailed as India's Ruler.
Delhi, Indie.—Before thousands of
their subjects, white, brown and black.
King George V and Queen Mary
were proclaimed Emperor and Em
pre»» of India
The ceremonial was
the crowning glory of the Durbar,
and, It Is asserted, surpassed all
epectaclea of modern time*
EXPECT OFFICIALS
TO GIVE SELVES UP
View 'if the I-rw-n«l“ ' liurcli on S Main street Thia chnrch is p«*<*tiliar
in that it has a woman for a paator. If«-r name is Myra B. Smith, who took
up the work up«jn the ilineaa of >M»r husband, Rev. hi. Smith, who i« now
laboring in other ways until his health is improved.
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PRICE OF BURIAL PLOTS $7.50 ANO UP
a reasonable thing
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of Bridge and Structural Ironworkers
are to surrender voluntarily to the
government 1» expected in the nation­
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rages
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