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About The Weston leader. (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 3, 1917)
OREGON NtfiS NOTES OF GENERAL INTEREST Out oT (SO accldenta raportad ta tta Industrial accident commission dar ing tha m! from July JO to X. la clualva. two wars fatal, thaaa two ba lni J. N. Kelly, McMlnavlll, railroad operation; Denr Marsh. Jackaoa- Principal Events of thWiek . r ... . . An titrating cm short a la rvport- Briefly Sketched for Infor nation of Our Readers. A bra mi Brother' sawmill at Craw fordavllls waa bunted last aek. The Oregon Retail Jewelers' aaaorla- lion met In Dallaa Monday for n two daya aeaaioa. The greatest Irrigated crops In the history of Klamath county are now being harvested. Charles Illxon. of Antelope, commu ted suicide near Antelope by alaah Ing hla throat with a raior. Thousanda of young aheep are being aold by Baker atockmea becauaa of the slab, prices naked tor hay. The woraen'a atate golf champion a!ii will begin at Gearhart bythe-Sea on Monday morning. Auguat 11. Several dairy cow a belonging to farmera of Greaham bare died recent ly from tha erfecta of aome poison. The I'ooa county court la threatened with recall proceedings by cltlaena of Myrtle Point, on a charge of extrava gance. All forest fires are now under con trol, and most of them hare been ex tinguished, according to State Forest er Elliott Lottie and Rather McGulre. aged 13 and 9. daughters or Mr. and Mrs. Rob ert McGulre. of Slleta, drowned while bathing in Sllets river. Governor Wlthycombe baa re-ap-polnted J. M. Cramer of Portland, and J. T. Noti of Baker, aa members or the atate veterinary board, v The Oregon State Baptist Toung People's union and summer aaaembly opened at tha state falrgroonda at Salem for a 10 daya' session. Mum-Sow. the aged widow of Five Crows, one of the famous Indiana of the Northwest, died at her homo on the reservation near Pendleton. Fire put tha Fremont plant of the Eastern Oregon Light at Power com pany plant out of commission and put small cities west of Baker In darkness. Work haa been started on the con struction of the horticultural by-products building and the veterinary hos pital for the Oregon Agrlclutural col lege at Corvallia. ( C A. Harris, 44 years old, an em ploye of the Willamette Valley Lum ber company, at Black Rock, fell 40 feet from a bridge, receiving Injuries from which he died. The excavation at the Port of As toria grounds for tha new million bushel bulk grain blna is about com plete and work la In progress driving the foundation piling. Representative Hawley baa urged Secretary Lane to expedite issuance : of patent to the atate of Oregon for the Saddle Mountain park transferred by a recent act of congress. Oregon's new law governing auto mobiles throughout the atate, doub ling license fees and making several other Important changes, became ef fective Wednesday, August L. ' By the middle of August, at the latest, all road work contemplated by the atate highway commission for thin year will be going ahead in full blast, State . Highway Engineer Nunn an nounces. t The halibut aloop Spray returned to Newport from a two and a half days' fishing cruise with about 11 tons of halibut and nearly three tons of black cod. This is tha beat catch reported this season. ' Close to 12,000,000 pounds of wool, the product of spring clipping in the ' northwestern states, and equal to or greater than the entire clip for the atate of Oregon is stored in ware houses in Portland. Rugg Bros., chief owners of the Ntinemaker Sheep A Land company, have sold to Patrick Connell 5000 acres of land on Rhea creek, the considera tion being $36,000. The land is located 11 miles southwest of Heppoer. Congressman Hawley is advised by tbe Indian office that his request has been granted for an early distribu tion of the Siletz funds. The pay ments to be made aggregate 112,000, which gives each Sllets Indian $30. . One hundred and fifty thousand dol lars worth of livestock has been killed by poison In Klamath county wttbln the last few months, according to tha report of a federal Investigator, and tbe I. W. W. are blamed for the loss. An auction sale of monkeys,' deer, , elk, bear and other animals is in store for Portland. Plana have been formu lated by Mayor Baker for thinning down tbe number of animals at the zoo because of the high coat of 11 v lng. ... Official announcement was mad by Governor Witbycombe that on Novem ber' 1 Chester A. Moores, of Portland, will assume the duties of private sec retary to the governor, to succeed George Palmer Putman, who resigned recently. v . - C. E. Coe, superintendent of the Roseburg Indian offices, announces that he is making plana to hold a sal ' of Indian allotmenta on September 25. The lands to be sold are located in northern California, Curry county and ad by tha public aervlce commission, which la receiving dally reports aa to tha number of rare available la tha atate to meet the needa of shippers. The ahortage haa been climbing dally during the past week. A convention of tha Willamette div ision of the Women of Woodcraft Circle will be held In rwtlaa, Auguat t and 1 Thirty-three Uxlgea from tha alx Willamette valley count lea will be represented and over 100 delcgatea are expected to attend. Governor Wlthycombe bas announc ed his plan for keeping Oregon free from labor disturbances by the crea tion of a board of conciliation and arbitration to which would be submit ted all difficulties ahirh might arlae between labor and capital. An estimate waa received by the public aervlce commission from C, F. Porter, chief grain inspector for the commission, that the estimated wheat yield for the atate of Oregon thla year is 11.400.000 bushels, or but (80 per cent of last year's wheat crop. A deed waa filed for record at Aa torla whereby the Youngs River com pany sella to the Crown Willamette Paper company 4355 acres of timber land, located in the upper Younge River district The consideration named la the deed la $450,000. - Because of the danger of fire from discarded lighted cigara or cigarettes. Public Service Commissioner Corey haa written the superintendents of all the railroads or the state, suggesting that temporarily they put screens on the wlndowa of all smoking cars. According to reports received by Carl D. Shoemaker, atate game war den. from hla force of deputy war dens, forest rangers and other sources, there will be plenty of deer when the season opens In district No. 1. which Includes all of western Oregon. Pronouncing the aervlce of the Oa wego Lake Water, Light A Power company insufficient and unreason- WGb.wi, LEADER CUHK WOOD, ruklUhir SUHiCRIrilON KAirt Stncltv in AiO"AiKt The Year $1 50 Six Months 0 75 Four Months 0 50 Abvr.misiNti raui Regular, per inch per Insertion 12VC Transient, per inch per insertion 20c Locals, per line per Insertion 5e Ft DAT, ACS. J, . . . 117 t. Mttrid t tht pattallict st Witn, Oif i iiKtf !! rmiI mattir. relating to the admittance of Ore iron to statehood; a aynopaia of tho rYderal Naturalisation l-awa, and statement of the taxa.ble property in the several counties for the year 1916. UNGUKG EROS BIG SHOW IS COMING THIS WAY Announcement la math1 that on Saturday. August IS. Mingling An Interesting table allowing tho Bw".-ciirua will give afternoon and erle now numb. r ..mn.vlmut i-tr.ti.m l.u nttfht performance at Walla Walla. ' . Tn "',m approximate resist ra Ion by .exea unmitlhowm.n ..Bi, ping9 tfrn the main tent program. The Ring ling have secured erea of rlrrua performer , never before awn In Amcrifa. An entire trained aninml hoJha lfn made a part of tha main tent program thia season. Th menng- loti'j wini am- hant. Inctudinir earth a largest IMM'hydortn, have been increased to unuer mt several poimnu parue n .,, ..-.i ,. I also "included. There ia such del ful Di-ocriun. aeeortlitig to their 41 almost 800 horaea ace car " . . .ii tarn . ...!! t atfi I ....... a. ...I uotilomMe KopuMionn irtiHmlir iiiym ivnt. Tho tmiuwlnuft iMiry U llu! land aiH-etaole. "Cinderella." will T,..,!.- .-ill !. nr.rn.ntlv f.,r. IhI to hoth old and young. warded to all residents of the atate More limn 1000 iMTiuiitM take ried. There will be 0 clowns and big free three-mile atm-t parade allow day morning. part in it. reo,uetit," tuy-a Secretary OU mh UMI Wit. Cet one iiml reml it, if you want to lie xtcd on Oregon nlfttirw. i . ii The Semite hit ivjlimiI the tuition id prohibition Hmendinent for pub- nutamv to the pIhIi. tind it a up to the ilotiNc to iHineur. If it will help any, we concur. ' The Allies proMKc to g-t the ttult marine Umv in order to get the lmn' Mibmui'ine. It ia cily the biggest sec Hingling Hit, have ever DR. C. M. SMITH stngeti and iU glorioua "Itallet of nL.,.!-! C...w.nn the KHirice," wiih mm dancing Physician and Surgeon girht. ia in itself worth going many mil, to a,. Following "finder. wm ' w" ellM." 400 arenic artiMa apiar in 'liroN . UHhtltN If you don't sec it in the leader tin lto it ain't Thnv years ago (lermany started something that the Allies are going to finish. "Thia whimKTing ff the bully umler the laah," is the way the Oregonian dewrilN-a Teutonic ti-rndea. A "ilve wire" nametl Hutchins has taken hold of the lone Inde pendent and ia making it hum. It ia quite anomalous that aome of ua move in such a narrow plane that we have never seen an aeroplane. Nuttily cakng. we would prefer It may be scorched a bit. but it to l identified as the "Kernel" will be the biggvbt money crop that ratu.r lmui the shell-bound vacuum little old Umatilla county ever typified by the empty head of the raised. Bulldogger ed. able, tbe public aervlce commission baa journ8jj8t who runs the beat pap Issued an order requiring the company to provide the citlxena of Oawcgo with pure water and an adequate service. "Silver Leaf." an orchard dlaease, baa been discovered In the Winston orchards at Roseburg, the first ap pearance, it ia believed, of the pest in the United States. It la known in England, New Zealand and Canada, and Invariably kills the fruit tree at tacked. Governor Jamea Witbycombe of Ore gon and Governor Mosea Alexander or Idaho held a conference at Portland, on the initiative of Governor Alex ander, who had requested the Ore gon executive to meet him for the purpose. Neither would discuss the subject of the conference. The effective work of the Citizens' Defense League, working in co-opera .tion with the officials, seems to have brought a decided check to the I. W. W. activities In Klamath Falls, and a wholesome respect for the incensed people of the community baa been established. There is talk of erecting a stockade. Farmera and other growers of pota toes, if they have access to water, may very materially Increase yield, quality aud profits of tbe potato crop by pro per irrigation. Based on 10 yeara of experiments in potato irrigation, the Oregon Argicultural College experi ment station haa collected extensive auid valuable data. A million gallon reservoir, in addi tion to the present 2,000,000 gallon reservoir, to be built especially for fire righting purposes waa one of tbe most important recommendations made to Mayor Walter" Keyes and William McOilchrist, chairman or the fire prevention committee of Salem by the state fire marshal's department The public aervlce commission haa iavued orders suspending tbe proposed advanced tariffe on intrastate coal shipments In Oregon on the Southern Pacific, O.-W. R. & N., Spokane, Port land A Seattle, Oregon Electric, Pa cific & Eastern and United Railways. The tariffs, under the orders issued, are all auspended until November 1, or until such time aa hearing can be had. Counting road construction, bridge . building and other work turned over to tbe highway commission by tha various counties of the state for over eeing, the commission haa on hand w."Jt aggregating tbe sum of $2,200, 000, which la nearly aa much as tha commission hss done heretofore since Its organization in 1913. There Is now ander way or in proposala called for an aggregate or work in excesa of fLSQOiWO. Several thousand Belgian families, who are war refugees, will be trans ported to Oregon for colonization pur- Monday's issue of the Bulldogger "The man who does not give hia waa really wuth read in', having fullest cooperation to hia country been devoted largely to an import- in thia hour will die unhappy," ant and interesting subject not un- says Wood row Wilson, related to an eminent East End The I. W. W. activities of Frank Little and incidentally Mr. Little have been summarily suspended. Patronize Home Industry -i-mi law mi jpsx in n i mm especially since we are a fortunate be one of a thouannil aa to rttramuBltiee where gut FLavo FLour, houwwlwa can alwav Ntiire-Klsvrril, Over f 100.000.00 la being spent to tell users of its many far-superior merits. llumlrwU of citias and towns cannot fi this belter flour yet. Thia It fortunate In being one community where FLavo KLur Is made. mm mm - lit tk Clillflld Try FLavo FLour J Krrw I. itrniittWf t-lir. m"r wtmbwma hrwwl. tlr t tlx "t lkl t v..H all tM a a.! ,rl rt.. It maka waal mw. bfa-4 lift fl.a flwr I. ra.'l.t. Savnnr, logm-l. No df ait l.tl , Mji.oIi a NaluMav..trf .wif. Il r..K(ah lh mora I ) ft I ha wheal tnt. Il larraainv hll. I ha tir.l Il.al raa M avK, Tha Ma tlaismmallv aiU t Ha h-al arna,i lia I ha Savar ara a"l inilla.1 al uf H. All Itm.ik an Marval lnl pfnlwcla am laapavMt a" tcol-J pkum aa-l aal tlla-lia.1 alaatlant iy thlrti Sart- kfarr aava at Vliva f Unit la tartl4. A.k lur Ihia Naiun- (laorl ftovt aa4 t wtu aal awl ttta4 raai lta Ua) kmaaal lewi aiaa. a Order FLavo FLour Today VYESTON MILUNG CO. Maaaaaaaf Caaaaaaaalr Maml M,Uan Also Weston's llvst and Whole Wheat Flour; tiraham, Cereals, Feed and Hay; Sved (Jraln, Stock Fool and Poultry Supplies. Wa do custom milling. Your patronage solicited. W, L. KomilNS. between Milton and gratulations. Athena. Con- a a aa a i Reported to be wondering what will happen to her after the war ia over, Germany would better devote a part of her concern to what will happen to her before it ends. In a sense it is a Butteiful meth-od-and It Will Work. Butte should worry over a hanging bee. Little OVERLAND THE UTMOST El CAR VALUE Coincident with the timely return of his general superintendent, John MENDWELL GARAGE Open for business in the Phil- l Banister no longer looks concerned- i,w garage building Monday, Aug- over the burden of running his ust 6. Complete new equipment, business. Will handle automobile supplies , and accessories. Service and rent car in eonncetion. Free air and free distilled water. Your patronage will be appre ciated. All work guaranteed. L. PENNINGTON. Proprietor. We unhesitatingly condemn the weeds about town for failing to heed the council's edict and the Leader's 'editorial remarks and re moving themselves forthwith from the ken of man. The Iron Chancellor would have allowed a baker's dozen Austrian princelings to have been murdered by half baked Serbs before making the break that has brought the Fatherland to the verge of ruin and drenched the world with blood. Pianos tuned and repaired at rea sonable r prices. First-class work guaranteed. A. W. Lundell, Mus. Bach. 1417 M&feb Model IK) Touring Car 840 Model 8i-4 Touring Car...., 1110 Model 89-6 Tourins: Car 1420 Willys-Knight 1 Overland 1575 Ovcrlanils ulnnwt tfdl themselves, and give, abso lute satisfaction wherever placed. Rest hill climb- It will not be regarded as an evidence of strength that all peace talk emanates from the Central Powers. . Now is the accepted time to brag on Oregon's climate and condole with our heat-baked cousins in the East but we haven't the heart to do it. i ... ....... i 1 Weston Meat Market 1 era on the road today. Let (mo, convince you. Dr. S. L KEffilARD - Weston Agent W.VV.VVaVVaVVA1 What . Congress has lacked in speed Hoover, we trust, will make up in control. ' About the only safe prediction is that the war is three years nearer an end than in August, 1914. Meats and Fish Ham, Lard and Bacon A. P. Perry BUY COAL while the buying ia good. v It's scarce now, but the outlook Is for greater scarcity and higher prices. P. T. HARBOUR NO WONDER ITS BLUE! 1 The Leader is in receipt of a copy of the 1917-1018 Oregon Blue Book from Ben W. Olcott, Secretary of State. This is a convenient and comprehensive book of reference in dispensable to every sanctum, and we are glad that Ben remem bered us. In addition to the valuable statis- Terms are cash at Weston Leader shop Preston-Shaffer Milling Co. Established 1 865 Alhena, Oregon ,,s Waitsburg, Wash. 1 poses If plans outlined to Governor, tjcal matter contained in former ceaUal Oreioa. Witbycombe by Jamna filvln, an Am-ricaa reprantlnR a Bl(?lan col onization organization, materialize. Mr. Slevin closed a deal for 62 acres near Dufur for 269 families and bis mission waa to obtain Informntloa from Governor Wlthycombe as to where other large bodies of land for eoloniiatlpa migta ) araUatila. , issues, corrected to date, this nurn-Ix-f includes a table showing the dales of the ereation of the several counties of the slate and the deriva tions of the county names; the De claration of Independence; the Fed eral Coruititution; the ixveral Acta Dr. A. F. Sempert Graduate and Registered DENTIST Ollice Hours 'J to 12 a. m. ; 1 to 5 p. m. Watts Building - Upstairs 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