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About Beaver State herald. (Gresham and Montavilla, Multnomah Co., Or.) 190?-1914 | View Entire Issue (May 9, 1912)
OREGON NEWS NOTES OF GENERAL INTEREST BRIEF NEWS OF OREGON Crop conditions throughout Oregon are the beat on record. Lafayette 1« to have a tine new schoolhouse, costing *12,000. Events Occurring Throughout The Epworth leagues of the Eugene the State During the Past district met in annuul convention at Eugene Friday. Week. Plans are being considered to make Bull Kun forest reserve a wild bird Hermiston Work Moves and game refuge. Hernilatuu. — Guvernuieiit officers The jury In the case of W. H. Foote, ; here wll) comm« nee work In a few charged with murder In the second days slxnlng up th« lands undvr th« degree, al Marsh Held, disagreed. west «xlenalon ol tha Uiuutlllu project. Hengtor Bourne Is urging the estab Contract* fur water rights will be lishment of a star route from Burns } mad«, and as soon aa this work hua to Bend and from Canyon City to been completed It la expected con- Prineville. atructlun work will be ordered. The The Presidential i'ostmasteni' Asso few months* delay wtut caused by ciation of Oregon, Washington and laaal technlcnlltles. but these have Idaho will convene In Portland June | been now overcome and the movement 11, 12. 13 and 14. forward will become more active. The thriving little town of Dayton Is to have the honor of establishing Concern to Prospect for Oil. the flrst automobile street cur service > Albany. The Linn County Oil com in the state of Oregon. pany. recently orttanlsed with a capi Assessor C. P. Strain of Umatilla j Jamas Hamllton Lewls, formar county has filed a statement of his talisation of * 1,000,000, baa secured the land leas«« and other assets of Washington congressman, who won Campaign expense«, showing that he the Valley Oil company. The com the Democratlc nomlnatlon for United spent Just 60 cents to be re-elected. puny now holds leases on approxi Statea sanator at tha Illinois primar Another effort la being made to have mately 6000 acres of land In what la les. Baker desert commission form of gov known as the Imcotnb district, and ernment, a new petition to that effect announcement la made that active STEEL HEARING HAS BEGUN having been Hied with city officials. work of drilling will be In progress Three big Columbia river salmon, within »io days. Sult la Most Important Ever Begun frozen In blocks of ice, will be dis by Government. played this week in show windows at New York. — Hearings In the trial of Dallas, Tex., to advertise one of Ore- LABOR HAS WAGE BILL the government's suit to dissolve the gon's many resources. With *1,600,000 on hand In the state State Federation Will Aak Voters to United States Steel Corporation under the Sherman anti trust law have begun treasury, Oregon is better off financi Halp Regulate Salaries. Portland.—A minimum wage bill, here before Henry I*. Brown, of Phil« ally today than ever before In its his which will permit no man over 20 dclphln, who was appointed special tory. The state has no bonded Indebt yours of ago to work as a clerk, m>- commissioner to conduct the hearings. edness und all debts are paid. In point of magnitude of the proper Charles W. The baud, former presi chunlc, railroad man. bookkeeper or factory hand for more than 10 hours ty Involved and the prominence of the dent of the United States National a day more than six days a week for individual defendants, the suit Is the bank of Vale, has been convicted of less than *2.6o has been prepared by most Important of Its kind ever pre getting away with trust property and direction of the stalo federation of sented by the government. Among converting It to his own use. The strike «ituatlon on the Albany labor and will be placed on the bullot th» Individual defendants are J. P i Morgan. John D. Rt»ckefe|ler. Andrew extension of the Oregon Electric con iu the November election. Women over 20 years of age are Carnegie, James J. Hill, George W. tinues about the same, the company not to be permitted to work over 10 Perkins, E. II. Gary, Charles M. working a number of men. and the hours, more than six days a week, or Schwab, Henry C. Frick, William H. strikers conducting themselves peace- for less than *1.65 aa clerks, book .Moore, Norman II. Ream, 1*. A. H. ; fully. County Judge Bushey ut Salem has keepers, factory hands, waitress.»« or Widener. Daniel G. Reed. Charles Steele, Edmund C. Converse and John signed a temporary restraining order at hotel or laundry work. No child i enjoining Secretary Olcott from call- under 16. It Is proposed, shall be per D. Rockefeller. Jr. i Ing a special recall election against uiltted to work for hire except In bar I District Attorney Cameron of Mult Maryland Favors Roosevelt. vest time or with parent or guardian Baltimore. Md.—Maryland's 16 votes nomah county. for less than 16 cents an hour or more in the natlonni convention will be cast Senator Bourne has withdrawn his than six hours In one day. for Theodore Roosevelt and Speaker opposition to the continuation of Les Farm work Is not affected by the bill, except that a minimum wage of Champ Clark, as a result of the state's lie M. Scott as United State« marshal tor Oregon, and the nomination was *1.66 Is established, and where board first presidential primaries. The primaries divided the delegates ordered favorably reported by the sen and lodging la Included In the pay. It shall not bo charged for nt a greater to the state convention as follows ate judiciary committee George and Charles Humphry«, on sum than *4 per week. Those receiv Republicans—Roosevelt 66, Taft 63. ing *4 per day or more and those en Democrats -Clark 72, Wilson 44. liar trial for the killing of Mrs. Eliza Grif fith at her home near Philomath on gaged In occupations governed by mon 4. In doubt 9. June 2, 1911. have been found guilty lawn of congress are not affected. Confederate Veterans in Wreck. I of murder In the flrst degree, and New Orleans, Iji.—The first section sentenced to hang on Friday. June 14. Two of Engine Crew Ole Government land must produce gold t'olumblu City.—The logging engine of the Confederate veterans' «pedal of the Peninsula Lumber company, of train, crowded with old soldiers, was In paying quantities, and cannot he thia place, while at work in the woods wrecked near Eastabuchle after leav characterized of mineral value by a on the logging road owned by the ing New Orleans. Ten passengers and showing of merely blend mineral col company, eight miles from thia place, six trainmen were killed and 26 pass ors. according to a decision handed down In the Roseburg United States ran nwuy down a moderately steep engers Injured. The veterans were en route to Ma land office. grade, and wan derailed and wrecked. Postal savings banks will be opened Engineer William Bodsley and Fire con, Ga., where the annual reunion man llrettan, the latter a reald.-ut of of Confederate soldier« 1« being held. June I. at the following fourth class postofflce«: Banks. Bay City, Brooks. Deer Island, were Instantly killed. Coburg. Cornelius, Dayton. Dilley, Florence, Gaston, Gervais, Halsey, Co-Ed Athletes Meet I at fa yet te. Linnton. Monroe. Scap- Eugene.—Safely hidden from all poose, Scio. Troutdale, Turner. Wil mnaculine eyes, the women of the Uni sonville. versity of Oregon held their flrat offi An effort Is to be made to change cial track and Held meet here In the New York.—With banners flying and the date of the state mining congress, men's gymnasium The clans cup was won by the sophomore women with bands playing "The Boy I Left Behind which la scheduled to be held at Bak 479.26 points. The freshmen scored Me," the great army of suffragette«, er. June 6. 7 and 8. The Baker com 302.76 points. An Individual system the blggeHt public demonstration of mercial club has voted to ask that It i women ever ««en In this country, be held in August. This change is of scoring was used. marched up Fifth avenue. It 1s es asked because mines are not yet clear timated thnt there were 20.000 march ed of snow. MAN SUES ELECTION JUDGES ers In line. Ernest L. Oetinger, who shot and From Washington Square up Fifth killed Edward Mutch in the Merchants Asks *1600 Damages Because Vote avenue to Fifty-seventh street and Exchange saloon In Portland on the Was Refused. thence to Carnegie hall, greut enlhus night of January 19, when no wit Roseburg.—Denied the privilege of Instlc crowds lined the way; windows nesses were present and who was in voting at the election held In the city balconies, roofs and sidewalks tilled dicted for murder in the second de of Glendale on April 1, of this year, with admiring and cheering throng« gree. was found not guilty by a jury because he was not the owner of real for the plucky women taking the two in circuit court. estate, F. C. Ladd, a merchant of thnt and a half mile walk to demonstrate Engineers In charge of the construc city, has filed suit in the circuit court the earnestness of their supplication tion of the Coos Bay branch of the against the three precinct judges, de for the ballot. Southern Pacific railway announce manding *600 damages from each of So great were the crowds at Wash that rails have been ordered for the them for tb "humiliation" which, he ington square when the marchers be flrst three miles of the line and as says, he su»ered. The complaint re gan to gnther thnt the reserves were soon as they arrive in Eugene, they cites that the action of the Judges was called out to clear the street and will be laid, aa that much of the grade based on a provision of the city char square for the delegations of suffrag has been completed. ter that no nonfreeholder shall be eli ists assembled there. The largest warrant drawn by the gible to vote at a city election. Thia secretary of state's office In the his provision, the complaint declares, di Olympic Games Begin. tory of the state was made out when rectly contravenes the state constitu Stockholm.—In the presence of near Secretary Olcott advanced *200,000 in tion, which, aa interpreted by the sup ly every member of the royal family, a single warrant to the First National reme court in a test case several the Olympic games began here. Bank of Portland to pay the flrst two years ago, gives a citizen the right to installments of the state's share In vote at a municipal election, whether THE MARKETS. the purchase of the canal and locks at he owns real estate or not. The court Oregon City. also held that the election Judges Portland. A one man strike at the Eastern would be amenable to actions for dam Wheat—Track prices: Club. *1.02; Oregon state hospital at Pendleton ages. bluestem, *1.08; red Russian. *1. took effect when a man by the name Oats—No. 1 white, *40 per ton. of Hall, employed by the Pacific Fire Democrats to Have Weekly Hay—Timothy. *17; alfalfa, *13. Extinguisher company, of Portland, to Salem.—What Is designed to be a Butter—Creamery, 26c. do the electrical wiring on the new permanent Democratic weekly maga Egg« Ranch, 21c. luildlng, walked out. His action is a zine, devoted to the state-wide inter Hops 1911 crop. 39c; contracts, 28c. remit of the strike of electrical work «Hts of th» Democratic party, was Wool—Eastern Oregon. 17c; Wil ers of Portland and the coast. started at . meeting of the county A bill to cremate paupers who die central committee. The mngardne will lamette valley, 19c. Mohair—36c. at the state asylum for the Insane will be publish«» at Salem, and the first be introduced at the next legislature, issue will be out about June 1. Seattle. according to plans of Superintendent Wheat—Bluestem, ,1.06; Club. Steiner and member« of the state Coal la Struck In Excavation. *1; red Russian, 99c. board. Near the Salem hospital and Oregon City.—While workmen were Oats- *39 per ton. on the grounds of the state Is the asy excavating on the Farr property, Sev Butter—Creamery, 26c. lum potters' field, where are burled enth and Monroe streets, a few days Eggs 22c. 1439 bodies. In the last year there ago, a vein of coal was struck. From Hay--Timothy, *16 per ton. were 146 burled. indications it appears that it la rich. t SUFFRAGETTES MARCH IN MUNSTER PARADE New Method Laundry Sanitary Laundering Stmnd A re. and Roa tar Road J. G. MCDOUGALL, Prop. 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