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About The Weston leader. (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946 | View Entire Issue (July 13, 1917)
, OREGON NEWS NOTES " OF GENERMJNTEREST Principal Events of the Wnk Briefly Sketched for Infor mation ct Our Reader. Fir" lu Oregon during Juns caua4 Ion of ?5i.m The firth annual Chautauqua opened, in rallas Tuesday, Mulatla'a today celebratksa and mund up mi a hus SUWeSB. The eastern Orcaon elate convsa tion of Christian churchee wae held in I-a Grande. Strawberries arc KrwluK to tarM In Harrlxhiiric lht IS of them flU ordinary berry box. Actual construction on th Klamath Kalis tuuuirtpal railway commenced at Klamath Kalla Friday. Ths tenth annual three-day conven lion of the Oregon Chiropractic asao elation was he) J in Portland. I Work on the new IH.OOO addition to the chapel of the Orcjton normal school at Monmouth haa atarted. The next national convention of ths Mu I'hu Kosilon. national music eor ortty. will be held in Kupcne in 191. Seveuteen branches of the Red Croai society with total membership o 1671 hare been formed In Unn county. Peer in the mountains hare suffered severely from the Ion winter, says Oiarles llosklns. an Kcho sheepman. The main railroads in Oregon have abandoned their attempt to get a U per cent increase In intrastate freight rates at this time. The little town of Klavel was visit ed by a blase which destroyed two frame buildings with the loss of ap proximately 12500. The American Home Economlct as sociation convened In rortland Tues day, July 10, as section of the Nation al Education association. Hood River has shipped 80 carloads of strawberries and it Is expected ; that fully 100 carloads will be handled before the season closes. Bids will be opened at Roseburg July 28 for the Douglas county road bond issue of $555,000 authorized at the recent state election. . Boys in the state training school and girls in the girls' industrial school will assist in harvesting the berry crop of the Willamette valley. The 28th annual convention, Ore gon State Pharmaceutical association, began at Seaside Tuesday and will continue until Saturday night. Reports received from growers In Marion county indicate that great numbers of picksrs will be needed tc handle the berry crop this year. Announcement was made by A. H Lea, secretary ol the state fair board, that the board haa decided to put on an automobile show In connection with the state fair. Experiments for the control of ths onion mildew are being conducted b the department of plant pathology at the Oregon Agricultural college with promising results. ; Complete figures compiled by United States Attorney Reames show thai since war census day, June 5, 364 men of military age have been permitted H register at Portland. A large cattle transaction took placs when C. A. Gorley and Arch Wasson. of Harrisburg, purchased 1100 head ol Durham steers from George Brown, ol Corvallis for $10,000. Five meetings will be held in Linn county this week under the direction of Jhe United States department ol agriculture to teach farmers how tfl exterminate digger squirrels. John W. Bowman, carpenter, shot and killed his wife and then sent two bullets into bis own temple, dying al most instantly, at Pendleton. Friends said Bowman was jealous of bis wife. Chin Bing, the first of six alleged gunmen implicated in the murder of Billie Eng. an Americanized Chinaman, in the recent tong war, was found guilty of second degree murder at La Grande. Fire prevention will be taught in the schools of Salem, and representatives of the state fire marshal's department will make a complete survey of the city, according to plans which have been outlined. Several deputy state fire marshal! have been sent to the eastern Ore gon grain fields to aid farnfers and warehousemen to give the fullest pro tection against fire that might destroy needed food supplies. While there Is yet little injury to the grain crops of the great wheat belt Immediately tributary to Pendle ton, farmers are beginning to be ap prehensive regarding the effect of the heat on their crop prospects. Miss Bertha Althaus, saleslady at the Umpqua hotel at Roseburg; Mrs. Alice Allen, a Roseburg nurse; W. J. Weaver, proprietor of the Umpqua hotel at Roseburg; J. M. Burt, travel ing salesman for the John Deere Plow company, of Portland; E. L. Parrott, capitalist, and Floyd MlUer. son of a prominent Dillard rancher, are suffer ing from Injuries which they sustained when Mr. I'arrott s car left the road and turned orer at a point near Ua jontlllf! , ... That the Delland law ensctsd at la recent session of the legislature t prohibit the sals of salmon caught la ths ocean off ths Columbia rlvsr dur Ini tha closed fishing season Is un constitutional was ths decision of Cir cuit Judas Ukla at Astoria. Walla ths aumber of automobllss In ths stats registered up to Jims 30 this year Is greatly In sicess of ths Bum her registered for ths first sis months of last year, ths number of motorcycles has dropped off. according to a state ment issued by Secretary Olcolt. Moving with expedition In Its efforts to promote the stats highway work, the state highway commission haa ad vertised for proposals amount of road work, the proposals to be opened July S. at the office of 8. Beuson. chairman of the commission In Portland. Net profit la total shipment of ore from ths Ulus Lsdge mlns near Med ford during ths last three months Is between 175,000 and 1100.000 In copper alone. The ore yields from $5 to IJ.iO a ton In gold and silver, the net re sults In those metals being (10,000 In the same period. Since ths workmen's compensation law went Into effect on November 5. 1U. up to June 30. 1517. the receipts of the state industrisl accident com mission have been :.:3.5M . while the disbursements hsve been $101,322. 04. according to a financial statement Issued by the commission. Four fatal accidents Slid 352 non fatal accidents were reported to ths stste Industrisl sccldent commission during the past week. The ratal acci dents were: Joseph Strelnier. Portland, department store; Jsmes Adklns. Ore gon City, trespasser; J. F. Cuddeback. Portland, construction; Paul Corchan. Clifton, logging. Eighty tons of the UK crop of flai is now being put through the wstet retting process at the state peniten tiary by Flax Manager R. Crawford. The 20 tons of flax which was retted last fall has been scutched and work ed up into fiber or good quality. Ths 1917 crop, which ia still growing, Is reported to be in good condition. N. Campbell, registrar of the Port land United States land office, has re ceived a bulletin from Washington an nouncing tentative plans for the sals of five sections of Sllets Indisn reset vatlon land in Lincoln county. Ths sale will be held some time In August and will be public The timber is mostly Douglas fir. snd government cruisers gave an estimate of 170.620, 000 feet Scores of men, women and children will be needed to harvest the crops ol Polk county this summer, and unless this demsnd is supplied, fully 50 per cent of the fruit and grain yield will be lost Women, girls snd boys to pick the heavy berry crop now fast ripening are especially wanted at this time, but stesdy work for an unlimit ed number of men from now until tb middle of October or November Is also offered. Attorney-General Brown advises J O. Erickson, district attorney for Clat sop county, that the theory upon which a justice of the peace in that county recently dismissed liquor cases against O. Sund and A. White is unsound. Tbs attorney-general holds that all ths state needs to prove is that the llquoi came Into the defendants' hands and that the burden is then shifted to them to prove that they secured such liquor In a lawful manner? Dissatisfaction of the Klamath In dians culminated In a tribal meeting, at which Clayton Kirk, Charles Hood, Abraham Charley, Drumer David, Har rison Brown, Samuel Clinton and Sup erintendent Asbery were speakers. The Indians declared themselves cap able of self-government and asked that some of their vast resources be made available for immediate use. Criticism of the present practice of the Govern ment In dealing with the Indians was made and resolutions were adopted asking the government to give ths Indians a chance. Work of opening ths central Ore gon highway, which will extend from the Idaho state line to the ses, wss begun last week, when a crew of engineers working under the direc tion of the state engineering depart ment, pitched camp and stsrted work on survey of the portion of the pro posed road from Eugene to Deadwood, in the coast mountains. The three links of this highway will be the pro posed rosd from Florencs to Eugene, the rosd from Eugene through the McKettzie pass to Mitchell and tha John Day highway from Mitchell to Ontario, on the Idaho boundary. District Forester Cecil announced .that approval has been given by ths secretary of agriculture to co-operative road work in Oregon Involving $1,114,194, which Is distributed to 15 projects. This amount is mstcbed by the state, assisted in some instances by counties. The project on which co operation is authorized by the secre tary are as follows: McKenzle Psss road, Eugene-Florence road. Pendla-ton-La Grande road, Medford-KIamath Falls road, Ochoco creek road, Canyon-vllle-Galesville road, Resd sport-Coos Bay road, Little Nestucca road. John Day road, Flora-Enterprise road. La Pine-Lakeview road. Pilot Rock Prairie City rosd, Crescent-Klamath Falls rstJtJtMZUuauojrf. . WESTON LEADER CLAKK 00t, rHthf MJBiCKIIMION KAin !iifrfv it Afentt Ths Year Six Months 75 Four Months 0 W ADvmmiM. KAirt Regular, per Inch per Insertion Ulc Transient, per inch per insertion 80c Locals, per line per insertion Re FRIDAY, JUIT 11, 111 tnttits st iht Milliii st Wills. On), Mteits dsn resll mattes. Charlie Chaplin will jret $l.7.r. im0 for a M-rii'8 of cijrlit pictures which to 'tir mind is nlmut 1.071. il;i.70 tiHi much. We lire t infer frm the re murks of one f them Oml Umatilla county farmer will endeavor t see that I. W. W. agitators adopt a prtcr attitude - toe up and in a wooden box. Now that Kmma Goldman and Alexander Herkman have retired therein, we are led to more fully appreciate the beautiful advantages of a penitentiary. We will take back cverythinjr we have tid ojtaiiuit King Alcohol, hav ing learned from one of Marion Kyle' letter in the Journal that the German lost the battle of the Marne through Krttintf drunk on stolen wine. Appeal to Reason haviiiR Ixen denied admittance to the mails, it apeal to treason will ! lets in evidence. Nine thousand women have pr -posed marriage to the son of Hetly Green, who is a bridegroom at lat. A "momentous upheaval" is pre dicted in Germany. Yea, yea, let 'er upheave! We fancy the Botsche are In-ginning to consider Sherman' defini tion of war as a bit conservative. We are quite well acquainted with a country editor who console himself over remaining a bachelor by the reflection that he might have married a Washington, D. C, vari ety of suffragette. We are inclined to regard the good old baseball battle cry, "Let's go! Let's go!" a a good a war slogan as any. A Topeka, Kansas, woman keeps her husband at home by cutting off one leg of his trousers,. A newspaper pessimist remark that about all that can lie safely predicted of an Arctic exploration is that the dogs will come back as in side passenger. A combination banjo and ukelelc is called "banjuke," which ems an almost adequate description of this musical crime. Next thing we know the Pendle ton Hulldiigger will le attacking the reputation of a dill pickle. This sort of thing makes us sour: "We have come to the conclusion that the sale of vinegar is traffic in illegitimate liquors. We all know vinegar has a mother, but whoever heard of it having a father?" Wallowa lake is a beautiful body of water soon to be almost sur rounded by editors -an excursion to the lake Sunday being the big feature of Pendleton's entertain ment of Oregon newspaMT men. Germany i now by way of find ing the war gnie a bit difficult, there is so much Kussian around. KILL THE WEEDS I Down with the Russian thistle! Gott strafe dor foxtail I Alma U Jim Hill mustard! Aim! Aba! Openly and without equivocnion the Under declare its enmity ! ward the above mentioned and oth er obnoxious weed. If there be those who wish to rush to the defense of the uierfluoua vegetation we thu so bitterly con demn, our columns are ocn. Should they wrk personal satisfac tion we will endeavor to rally 'round with the office mallet. In this a in every oilier ixcet the Odder i the fearless advocate of a fiiv and ciilihtened cople. We Hinl with pride to the public spirit of our farmer friend who have organized neighborhood club for the pun' of cxterminating the Jim Hill mustard. We view with alarm the indifference of townspeople who by order of the council have Ihvii notified by the chief of lioe lo rid Ih.-ir picntiM uf woeds,ryct7d;illy hIoiik wilh mi obvious duty. Seriously, it is time for Mb the lot owner and the tenant to jr forth at eventide ol in the early morn ami attack the weeds wilh scythe anil hoc. If all co-operate, a condition will lie remedied that ha Hppnmched the status of a com munity disgrace. (unecrnintr Jim Hill mustard in imrticular, the exinrience of a lin-al farmer i interesting. He haa at all time succeeded in keeping the petifenu weed out of hi wheat by the simple expcdii nt of ptur injr a small band of sheep on hi summer fallow. Moreover, he find that the hojf wire fence he use is also a safeguard, as it prevents the dry mustard weeds from blowing acros and seeding hi field. ('ongresa could admit thul Hoov er know a great deal more about food control than itclf without nc crediting him wilh suiH-rhuiiuin in telligence. If "haste make wate," ('oiigreis is the aotheosis of economy. SURVEYORS ARE LOOKING FOR GOOD MOUNTAIN PASS The road surveyor who were at work for several week in the vic inity of Bingham Springs have, it i reported to the Leader, been order ed to the summit on what is known a the Umatilla river or old Thoma & Ruckles route aero the Blue. It is alo reported that when they finish thi work they will be direct ed to survey the Elgin-Weston or Toll Gate route. A second camp of surveyor is said to be located on Meacham creek and will survey that route and what i known a the Cabbage hill route the latter lieing the one selected by a majority of the Uma tilla and Union county court for the La Grande-Pendleton road. If these reM)rt are correct it would seem to indicate that the state highway commission and the federal government, who are sur mised to be co-operating in these surveys, are determined to investi gate every possible pass across the Bup mountain liefore determin ing upon the route of the state highway and the government post road. Wou'dn't Hurt Cow. Little Kilith mii" vIhIHiir in the coun try, mid us slie wa coming across the flebl one iliij- (o dinner, nn old pet cow ikiIIci'iJ her, mill Ihllikliu,'. per Imps, IM I III lin'l soiiiethiiiK for her to eut, followed i wely nt her heels. The Utile girl wns o frlKhlened she slnrtetl to run. mid the cow ron, too. I'ltiully, iiunbld to stuii'I It nny longershe burst Into Icnrs, iiiiR: "Oh, If you'll only go nwny, I w.in't hurt you." ' Ths Hydra Is Its Own Ooctsr, A tiny murine animal which consists merely of a stoinm-b and a mouth sur rounded by tentacles ond which Is ca pable of turning Itself Insldo out Is called the hydra. Sometimes the hy dra's mouth becomes overstretched through Its taking In too much food. The snlmsl promptly turns Itself In sids out, ejects ths suiierfltious food and then returns to Its normal condi tion. If It turn ltclf lusids out snd can't get back again It eventually dies. Tbe hydra Is lis own pbysldau and performs miracles of healing. If a tentacle la cut off a complete aulniol will be formed out of It. If ths boJy Is cut In bnlf and ths pieces plsced to gether they will grow together sgslii: If not, two entire animals will lie form ed, sud any part of one snlmsl will grow on to lbs cut i art set of toother. We Are Glad lo Announce Tht We Meke All useis of Mji I'l.our, Nmius Flavored, ar gl ut It)! i"1" runimuniiv is so amunaie i s to I s aids lo sscuia ims much bsiirr t'o.r-mads by our Amsiksn Mil Mill. FLavn Fl-ouf Is Hie telrnisttd flmii so widely advsillsc.t Nationally. Your dssler can saill supply " wilh 1- LaV'i I' Lour. Inn's! "n gelling FLavo Fl our. We will supply y-i illiccl "t thimir.h y" desist. Order a Trial Sack Today Satiaf action Guaranteed Trv li, ami kiuiii ii whui r"U 1i h'i , and ve wl'l nt inirn !! ' money l V'-u nr- m mm ihut plrsneil. Vmi km' i'l and we In ''" Fl.a--i v.iu gitalin! ssiKl. noli VI.Hii' - in- H.oui msUo al out mill. Nolo ine-n MwUi ml rtMillr Muni MllWrt Also Weston's Heat and Whols? Whusl r'liiur: tlrahsm, Orvala, Vvvi sml llsy; Seed (Irsin. 8lK-k KihhI ami Poultry Supplies. Ws do custom nulling. Your patroiisgii solicited. W. Komiiinh. Ths Mistake. lu hi Idiiirsidir of Alesiiilr I 'li ma Harry A. hpmr " that the Im provident Kremii author, who htsl svarlrc, st nine wall lug In line for tils rlak al a soiree wlirn he saw a millionaire gits a tl of M ci nllmes tin cents) to lliu sen snt nli lisnilcJ mil his paletot. Iniumi. tti-iilm; his i-losk, threw H.iwn a !' franc note. "Par don, sir; J mi have madtt a tnlnlake. I think," said Hie inaii, oirrrlug to re turn the note. N, l'". friend." an swereil l'nnisa. raxllnit a ilUdslnftll glance st the mlllliislie. 'It la ths other geiitlemsii who hss made ths mistake." Ready foe Ha. "Who are thwto ltnky geiitlenien? I never saw them at t.iiu of your mu slcsles tiefnre." "uh, they're sll right." 'l0 they sliigT "No, hut they'll come In hsndy, Jims ttqiisllerina atwa)s wauls tbs piano niovsd." PltlslmrKh 1'ost. On Mystery Solvad. lis You ssy these Manilla are exact ly llko those your mother tiied to make? tUis-Exsctly. I!-Tueti that explains why your father paid a phy sician oO to say that t!m.-ulia of any sort would t absolutely fatal to him. Illcbinoiiil Times I'lspati b. Administrator's Notice In ths County Court of ths State of Dreg"" or Umatilla County. In the Matter of ths rUtato of William Walker, deceased. Notice is hereby given that I have been siptinted administrator f the above named estate with the will an nexed, ami have duly qualilled. All persona having claims hkhImsI snid es tate are hereby notified to present thu same, with proper voucher, tu me al thu olflco of Carter & Smythe, attor neys. In the American Nations) Hank building, in Pendleton. Umatilla Coun ty, Oregon, within six months from this date. Dated June 15, 1917. liftANviu.K Plant, Administrator, Ktc. BUY COAL while the buyinR its good. It's scarce now, but the outlook is for greater scarcity and higher prices. P. T. HARBOUR Preston-Shaffer Milling Co. Established 1865 ' Athena, Oregon . Waitsburj, Wash. American Beauty Pure White Made of selected bluestem in one of the best equipped mills in the Northwest. Sold in Weston by Weston Mercantile Company 'Pi ' siteTtrtW , miom ifj WWMl HU.II 'IM.V. I .. ir l'i mum I" i rl. .m' ! M.sv' i il.l luiinnuiiliy. WESTON MILLING COMPANY Weston Meal Market Meats and Fish Ham, Lard and Bacon A. P. Perry TerniB are cash at Weston Leader shop Dr. A. F. Sempert Graduate and Registered DENTIST OHlco Hourn-9 to 12 a. m.; 1 to 5 p. m. Watts Building - Upstairs