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BRIEF NEWS OF OREGON
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I WHO’S YOUR
VALENTINE?
Highbinders tn Portland ar« on the
verge of war.
Every dental office in Medford, with
, oue exception, was robbed Friday
More
Than
Thirty
Labor
Ofii
Events Occurring Throughout
night. Over $400 in gold was secured.
cials Involved by Grand
A. H. Lea, of Portland, has tiled his
the State During the Past
declaration of iutention to become a
Jury
at
Indianapolis.
Week.
Republican candidate for the office of
state dairy aud food commissioner.
Indianapolis.—Union labor ufflciah
No longer are the short course stu
Big Area to be Watered.
and
agents, said to number between dents at the Oregon Agricultural col
La Grande.—With capital stock of
150,000 subscribed and engineers la 30 and 40, whom the Government lege to be called "Short Horn»." Thia
the field running the Anal line for ir- holds criminally responsible with the edict has been made by the president.
The Medford commercial club wants
rigaiton ditches to water ^0.000 acres McNamaras aud Ortie E. McMauigai
E: have a complete line of
of semi-arid lands lying between La for perpetrating more than 100 ex Governor West to call a special ses
Grande and Cove, completion of ar plosions in cities from Massachusetts sion of the legislature for the sole
Valentines of every de
rangements for extensive irrigation in to California in the last six years, in purpose of securing necessary legis
scription and they are priced
this valley wae reached when the pro- cluding the wrecking of the I .os An lation for good roads.
The Lane county Prohibitionists are
motors formed the La Grande Irriga- geles Times building, were indicted
rijiht, too—they run from 1c to
tion company, The company will irri- here. Thirty-two indictments were preparing for the campaign, and a
$1.00 each. Come in and look
muss meeting or convention was held
gate hundreds of acres owned by returned.
Capiases for arrests have bein is tn Eugene Monday to elect delegates
members of the company and pave
them over.
the way for cutting large semi-arid sued and all the men indicted are to to the state convention.
Representative Hawley has secured
tracts into well watered small farms. be taken into custody on a day secret
ly fixed by the Government, known to inclusion in the army appropriation
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be within a week. March 12 has been bill of an item to pay John E. Butler,
Extensive Work on County Roads.
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Eugene.—Comprehensive plans for set for the arraignment before Federal of Junction City. $417 due him for
past service in the army.
the permanent improvement of Lane Judge Anderson in Indianapolis.
John P. Rusk, of Baker, twice elect
Although the names of the defen
county roads were announced by the
county court, with the statement that dants and their exact number were oi ed to the Oregon legislature, has an
this year's programme called for the dered withheld pending the arrests, nounced his candidacy for repreeen
construction of seven miles of macad it was said probably more than 33, tatlve to congress on the Republican
am road in different parts of the and possibly 40 men are accused, in ticket at the coming primary.
Nora Darling, aged 17, who disap
oounty. but all in such places that it asmuch as more than one defendant
will be a component part of the sys was named in the indictments, peared from her home In Medford sev
Among the men were either union eral months ago and for whom the
tem.
officials or men who were charged authorities have kept up a constant
Lunatic Leaps Into Fire.
with affiliating with the dynamiters. search, has been located at Nashville,
Salem.—Nora Maeller. an inmate of
With the return of the indictments. Tenn.
Benjamin G. McPherson, a promln
the asylum from Multnomah county, District Attorney Miller completed an
made an effi rt to commit suicide inquiry begun last October, and the ent farmer of Springfield. died at his
when she rushed from a band of pa grand jury ended a six weeks' hearing home near that city February 1 at the
tients with whom she was walking of testimony in which, it is said. -Me- age of 67 years. He came across the
and hurled herself into a blazing " nigal's confession, given by him be plains from the east with bls grand
DOVER
brush pile. She was not burned seri fore the jurors and involving others, father in 1853.
Eight highway bills have been put
ously. attendants dragging her from and papers taken from the headquar
Mr. and Mrs. Augustine Miller spent
the fire.
ters of the ironworkers, had important before the people of Oregon by the Thursday in Portland.
Oregon Association tor Highway lm
bearing.
Mrs J. W. Exon has been viaitihg
provement. They were drafted by the her daughter. Mrs. Geo. Kitzauiiller for
230-Foot Flagpole is Gift.
state-wide committee appointed by several days.
Astoria.—The Astoria Centennial
TO ESTABLISH REPUBLIC Governor West.
committee has decided to present the
One year apple trees, 4 to 6 ft., I Oc
Mrs Thayer wan very sick a few days
The 1912 Roundup of the Northwest
management of the Panama Pacific Chinese Premier is Ordered to Co
last
week.
Frontier Association will be held in
Exposition at San Francisco with the
/’wo year cherries, 5 to 6 ft., 25c
operate With South.
Jos. Dvsbaxi r. was an Oregon City vis
Pendleton September 26. 27 and 28.
largest flagpole in the world. The
Pekin.—The empress dosrngor has These were the dates agreed upon at itor Thursday.
stick is 230 feet long, and was given
All strictly first class, free from diseases
to the committee by the Whitney issued an edict instructing Premier a meetifig of Northwest Fair Associa-
Mrs. ‘Cooper returned from Portland
>uuu
Shi
Kai
to
estaL..^.,
..
repuolic
and true to name. Catalog on application
tion secretaries held in Walla Walla. Friday evening.
company to be erected in the city
in co-operation with the southern re
Construction of a mill on the lower
park at Astoria.
Mrs.
H
Miller
lias
returned
from
Co
publicans. The edict has not yet be«-, Siuslaw, with a daily capacity of $250,-
published and it is expected that it 000 feet, will begin in the spring, and lumbia City when- she lias Iteen visiting
Mining Congress Holds Session.
will
be kept more or less secret as will be pushed to completion by the her son.
Medford.—W’ith nearly 300 delegates
Mr. Reed spent Saturday and Sunday
far as the public is concerned until Wendling-Johnson Timber company
present, the semi-annual session of
arrangements in the south have been When ready for operation it will have in Portland.
the Southern Oregon and Northern
completed.
Mrs. Reid, Iva and Clinton, viaited at
cost nearly $1.000.000.
California Mining Congress was held
Yuan is now endeavoring to per
The grounds and buildings of the Mr. Bews Sunday.
F. N. WIRT
in thiB city Friday and Saturday. The
suade the Nanking government to Pendleton Academy, at Pendleton, are
Proprietor
Jos. IteShazen and family were enter
exhibit of ore from this district was
hand over the control of affairs to to be sold and the proceeds of the tained at Mr. Keiths Sunday.
the largest and most comprehensive
enable him to carry on the adminis- sale added to the endowment fund of
ever gathered in this section and rep
David Miller left for Columbia City
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tration of the whole empire until the Albany college. Pendleton Academy,
resented nearly 200 mines.
national convention appoints a per which was a Presbyterian institution, where he intends to work for some time
manent government and adopts a con was closed a year ago.
TO RECLAIM WASTE LAND stitution.
A scheme to drain the east portion
LUSTtDS
of Lake Labisb came to a head when
Dr. Thou>|>eon of Gresham is improv
Completion of $150.000 Dam Marks
Conners Jury Unable to Agree.
articles of Incorporation were filed at ing bis twenty acres here by building a
Era in Reclaiming Vast Tract.
Los Angeles.—The jury in the case Salem for the Labish District Im small aild it ion to the house and also a
Klamath Falls.—Water is now flow
of Bert H. Conners, accused of hav provement company, which contem porch which will lie painted and add
ing over the Lost River diversion dam.
ing attempted to destroy the Hall of plates the drainage of more than 1800 much to the appearance. He expects to
In Oregon’s Most Reliable Association
constructed to reclaim particularly
Records with dynamite, reported to acres of the finest land in Marion sell it and will make an ideal home for *
the bed land under Tule Lake, and to
Judge Willis that it was unable to county.
Oregon Fire Relief, Oregon Merchants Mutual
some one.
send lx>st ver's pour into the Klam
agree and was discharged. It stood
A thousand acres of orchard and
ath river, eight miles distant. The
Fire, American Life and Accident In
Charles
and
William
Cook
of
Portland
10 to 2 for acquittal.
timber land in the Lorane valley, west
scheme worked was by building a dam
visited their Aunt and I'ncle, E. D.
surance of Portland
of Cottage Grove, was sold to the
which would back the water in the
Hamilton, lor about ten days. The
La
Follette
Suffers
Breakdown.
Milwaukee Orchard company, and a
low Lost river until it flowed over
Highland school, which they attend, is
PROTECTION AND BENEFITS
MODERATE RATES
Washington.—Suffering from a seri number of eastern individual», who
the dam into a high-level canal, which
Hosed on account of sickness.
would carry it about ten miles distant ous nervous breakdown resulting from will hold the timber land for specula
Mr. and Mrs. Gust Carlson and non
to the higher level of the Klamath overwork and the incidental worry to tion. The price paid is in the neigh
Harry
wen* Portland visitors last Friday.
borhood
of
$40,000.
river, thus keeping the water from the illness of his 12-year-old daughter,
Mrs. G. Lusted visited friends in
A mortgage deed given by the Port
spreading off toward the Tule Lake Mary, Senator Robert M. La Follette
has cancelled all his immediate en land, Eugene & Eastern railway to Gresham last Saturday.
country.
While the water is being thus di gagements. By orders of his doctor the Trust Company of America to
Mr. and .Mrs. Dick Maupin returned
verted Tule Lake will have a chance he will take a complete rest for the guarantee the issuance of $10,000,000 home after spending a week in Portland
of bonds, was filed for record at Eu with relatives.
to evaporate. The water is now going next three weeks at least.
gene. Among other projects the com
over the dam to the extent of about
The telephone lines are once more in
pany proposes to have an electric
two inches in depth, or about 200 min
«(»■ration in these parts after tieing out
line
in
operation
between
Corvallis
er’s inches per second, and the canal
NON-SECTAR IA N
almost a month.
and Eugene this year.
dug to carry it is running about a foot
Dr. J. M. Short of Greeham is im
One mile south-east of Lents. Oregon. Offers the
deep with water. The reclamation en
Complaint which has been heard
following advantages:
thusiasts in the Klamath basin are
from farmers in the vicinity of Klam proving bis IIM) acre ranch near the Han
exultant over the completion of the
ath Falls that they cannot find a mark dy river with a new woven wire fence
ABSOLUTE PERMANENCY
around it.
$150,000 dam, as it is believed to
Mexico City.—Without blare of et for their hogs and that they have
an essential tiling
E. 1). Hamilton and son, Harris,have
mark an era of development in the trumpets and without official proclam been unable to dispose of their pork
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EVERY
MODERN
CONVENIENCE IN USE
work of bettering the land conditions ation the federal government proposes ers is met by the Klamath Falls butch been putting in new telephone poles on
a fine thing:
in this section, and is the start of a to employ the drastic methods of ers with the contention that the agri the pipe line for the past two weeks.
solution of making tillable 40,000 acres Diaz in restoring peace. Immediate cultural men are trying to hold them
PARK AND LAWN PLAN
Arnold Ruegg will ship the first car
now waste.
application of the new policy will be up on the price of porkers.
load of potatoes from Cottrell station
a beautiful thing
the naiton's only apprisal of it.
It has been announced by President this week.
PERPETUAL
CARE
WITHOUT EXTRA COST
Dallas Armory Dedicated.
1 his is the substance of a statement Crooks of the Albany college that the
a
grand
thing
Dallas.—The National Guard A mo » by a cabinet minister. Swift punish college has a proposed gift of $12,500
When the ix>wnls become irregular
THE BEST OE SERVICE AT ALL TIMES
ciation of the state of Oregon held a ment is to be the portion of all agi toward the establishment of a memor yon ar« uncomfortable and the longer
convention in this city Monday and tators who can be reached, whether ial professorship. Five thousand dol this condition exists the worse you feel.
a most desirable thing
Tuesday. Monday saw the official of gun or pencil. A few newspaper lars is pledged without condition and You can get rid of this misery quickly
PRICE
OE
BURIAL PLOTS J7.5O AND UP
dedication of the new armory building writers will be deported, It is said, the remainder of the $12,500 is pledg by useing HERBINE. Take a dose on
a reasonable thing
and Tuesday evening a military ball under that provision of the constitu ed on the condition that $12,500 more going to lied and see how fine you feel
was given. Many prominent persons tion which provides for the expulsion is secured from certain sources.
CITY
OFFICE,
920-921
YEON
BLDG. PHOME COUNTRY OFFICE, TABOR 1468
next day. Price 50c. Hold by Lents
addressed the meeting.
LOCAL4201. Full information gladly furnished, fret auto service between Leets
of undesirables
The entire holdings of the California Pharmacy.
General Pascual Orozco has been Northeastern railroad, operating be
and the Cemetery.
Brakeman Slashed in Fight.
appointed military dictator of the tween Weed, Cal., and Klamath Falls,
Albany.—As the result of a cutting state of Chihuahua with full power have been transferred to the Oregon
affair in this city Harry Halkyer, a to quash the uprisings.
Eastern Railway company, the con
brakeman. Is in 8t. Mary's hospital
sideration named being $5,260,000. The
with a bad gash across his face, and Three Die When Ice Bridge Breaks. railroad was completed to Klamath
Frank Patton is under arrest. The
Our Guarantee on a
Niagara Falls.—The great ice bridge tended on from there to Natron and
cutting was the result of a gambling
Falls
two
years
ago
and
1»
being
ex
watch
or piece of,repair
that has choked the river channel
We Positively Cure Acute and Chronic Diseases
dispute.
between the cataract and the upper will ultimately connect with the Des
work is enough for all
When Others Fail
steel arch bridge below the falls for chutes river line running to Lakeview,
those
who
have
patron
Sawmil.s Resume Operations.
We
are
the
only
Specialists
in Portland who combine careful and painstaking
Alturas and Susanville.
diagnosis with modern and scientific method» of treatment.
Cottage Grove.—One by one the lum the past three weeks, broke from
ized
us.
In
an
opinion
written
by
Attorney-
ber mills in this vicinity are resuming its shoring and went toward the river,
BLOOD DISEASES
General Crawford, It Is held that In
operations after a shutdown of two taking with it to their death a man
treated with the new German Discovery, the marvel of the age combined with
primary
elec-
case
a
candidate
for
the
OUR
GOODS
are
Standard
Makes.
a tonic treatment which inauri*» a permanent and lasting cure
months. It is predicted that every one and woman t.aid to be Mr. and Mrs.
tion dies or is disqualified the party OUR PRICES are open to considera
of the 31 mills tributary to this city Kidridge Stanton, of Toronto, Canada,
RHEUMATISM
tion.
he is representing cannot choose an
will be In operation within a short and Burrell "Heacock, 17 years old, of
Our method» of treating thia diaeaae are entirely new ami we guarantee to cure
other candidate If disqualification or OUR CUSTOMERS are our best proof
Cleveland,
O.
any case of Rheumatism, Acute or Chronic.
time.
death occurs after the date set for
of satisfactory work.
ASTHMA
the filing declarations and before the
General James B Weaver Dlea.
Mabel Young Warner Held Not Guilty
OUR NEW LOCATION in the St.
We will cheerfully refund thecoat of treatment to any patient with thia affliction
In
thia
event,
the
primary
election,
Des Moines.—General James B.
Charlea Building will interest you.
to whom we cannot afford relief and a cure.
Eandtetun.—Mabel Young Warner,
opinion holds, the voters must write
If you cannot call at office write for symptom and diagnoaia chart.
Bee us at 202 Morrison St.
on trial since Monday on a charge of Weaver, Populist candidate for Presi
In the name of a candidate on the
forgery in connection with the estate dent in 1892, died at the home of rela
Flrat
and Alder
Main 44N5
Portland, Oregon
ballot to take the place of the one
of her uncle, J. W. Young, of Weston, tives here. He was 80 years old. He
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dropping out
had been ill only a few days.
was acquitted.
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