ESTON-; EADER WESTON, OREGON. FRIDAY. APRIL 16. 1&20 NUMlitlt 16 Villi MH A9 ' OREGON NEWS NOTES OF GENERAUNTEREST Principal Events of (ho Week Briefly Sketched for Infor mation of Our Readers. Clarence II. Brown of Hhedd haa bwn fieri H president of the Linn county Jersey ('aula rluli. t'ommnrcial chicken ralarra oTl.lna rolihly' met it l-elmum Halurday In n all day session. i ! peeled that construction work will anon start at Kuaen mi a new lign.nno rnndi-nat-ry and creamery. An unidentified uiau about 40 yeare nlil waa ktlleil by a awitch Kitgim In the O W. II. t N. yerda at Hood Hiver. Klamath Kali" barbers have advane d Urn rlr of hair tuning from to to 75 f'linta and ahavte from 25 (o 36 enle. Th business Section of fcugene la b ln( raiivaaaed In favor of a movement to close all stores at 6 o'rlork lo tho afternoon. Hank"" representing 1-aite. I'ooe, Curry and Dougiae counties mat at Itoaehurg Saturday la regular (roup conference. Tba rreahyierlan rhurrh of rtoarburf haa raised the paslor'a aalary lo $1(10I a year and reduced the church debt from $7ooo to IJOoO. Tha 16th annual Benton county Bun day school con van l Ion waa hold at tba Klrat Congregational church In Cor vallla Saturday aftarnoon. Tha navy department at tha request of Senator Chamberlain will probably detail battleahlp to Aatorla for tha Urand Army encampment. Few contract are being made In Marlon county for loianberrlra at 13 canta per pound. Producer ara hold ing out for 14 and 1 cent. Fir loeaee In Oregon for tha month of March. exeluelvo of Portland to taled $17,000. according to a report by A. C. Barber, atata fire marabal. Captain Cushman llartwell. now with tha Eleventh cavalry at Monterey. Cal , la detailed aa assistant military Instructor at Oregon Agricultural col lege, Corvallla. Rev. O. I Lovell, pimtor of the Unit- d Hvangellral church of 8alem, haa teen elected presiding elder of the Ore gon conference of that denomination for a term of four yeara. Oregon' poatmaalara aoon to be ap pointed are: Mary L. Kolger, Ituell, I'olk county; Charlaa J. Uuah. Harper. Malheur county, and Clement E. Qougb at Mehamn. Marlon county. Under tho name of the Klamath County Chamber of Commerce, tho old Klamath Commercial club, whlrh lapsed Into Inactivity at the beginning of tha war. haa been reorganised. Mrs. K. A. Young of Tangent waa elected prealdant of the Oregon Prea hyterlan Missionary aoclety of tha United Presbyterian church of Oregon In the annual convention at Albany. John II. Seavny, pioneer hop grower at once Second -Hand Sad dles. We will trade new saddles for old ones. Harness Oiled for $..00 per set. - Hitman's Harness Store (Phone 122) Milton Oregon rt l.sne county, haa contracted with a Port i I firm to aell Ilia 1020 crop of hope at 70 renta a pound, whlrh la natd lo be tho highest price aver quot ed In the county. Ground will be broken May I for tha new Catholic academy at Klamath Fall", whlrh It la planned to make eventually one of tba largest Cathollo arhoole In tha atata. Tha building will ba a three atory brick atructure. II. A. Rndrup of llllgard killed blm aelf In the Hotel gommer at Elgin be rauae of dlagrara In being arreeled ot the charge of burning hie hotel build ing at llllgard eevrra! weeka ago la order to collect $1800 Inauranra. W. II. Parker, Klamath Fall manag er of the Klamath Development com pany, bark'd by Han Francisco and Hpokane rapllallata, haa purrhaaed the Keno Power company. Including tha Klamath river power plant. The prlea waa $10,000. Five atill have been filed In the cir cuit court by the atate Induatrlal ac cident commission ar.alnst Clataop county flrme, and Indlvlduala to re cover the amounta alleged to lie due the atate for feea for the atate acci dent Inaurance. At a meeting of the board of direc tors of the Oregon Pioneer esaoclg. Hon recently held preliminary plana for tho 4Hth annual reunion were out lined. The reunion will take place on Thursday. July 1. In the public auditorium In Portland. Contracts were expected to be olgn ed at the shipping board Monday whereby tho construction of seven 11, ooo ton tankera wll ba awarded to tba Northwest Bieel company of Portland. In lieu of war contracts for three aleel cargo ahlpa which were canceled. More rain thia week. Tho soil haa about atl it ran hold at present, and if old June will hold off for awhile the farmers would have a chance to get sonic work, done in tho way of plowing". l "OYER THE HILL" J Athena ia to have a commercial club, and it ia a live one, too. Al Johnson, who ia assessor of Wal la Walla county, haa sold hia acreage property near Walla Wala and moved into the city. The new suits for the high school bain-ball team have arrived. Athena playa Weston High on the home grounds Monday afternoon. John W'ull, stalwart ex-acrvice man and member of Perahing'a picked bri gade, haa com up from Pendleton and taken a position in the Preston Shaffer mill. Mr. W. A. Grifflth of Hall. Mon tana, visited hi on Roy at tho Cartlcn homo in this city last week. Ho will a! ho visit another son at On tario, Oregon. Johnny Hoy and hia biff ateam rol ler remained In tho ditch on south Third atrvt for a long time yesterday. The bin niaehino struck a soft place and mired down. Tho pastry sale held last Saturday afternoon in tho Walts & Rogers store, netted tho Methodist Aid So ciety about $30. Tho ladies report a very satisfactory patronntco. Mrs. A. H. Mclntyre arrived homo Monday from Portland where she went to take medical treatment- Sho reports Miss Hudson, who was in tho Jones sanitarium, as recovering. Logsdon & Myriek arc installing an ice manufacturing plant at their Athena Market, this week. Tho plant will have a capacity of twelve hun dred pounds of ice every 24 hour that it is in oixiration. v Roy Montague, nephew of Mr. John Stanton, and Miss Lilian Morri son were united in marriago at Ar lington, on April 9. Tha groom is a son of Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Montague, former residents of Athena. Claude Reeder came up this week from his homo in Tacoma on business, lie will leave Tacoma after the close of the school year for southern Cal ifornia where ho hopes to benefit hia health, the family making their home there. Attorney C. E. Prestbye and wife arrived in Athena Tuesday from Whiteflsh, Mont. Attorney Prest bye will be' associated with Attorney WatU in the practice of law here. He was city attorney at Whiteflsh and city clerk, . , Mr. and Mrs. Willard Bradley are viniting at tho homo of Mrs. Brad ley's parents. Mr." and Mrs. Bern Banister. Mr. Bradley, who was for merly county surveyor, is now con- The End of 11 - . - i6oiiirii " . y : v - . . nected with U. 8. bureau of public work a, at Portland. Will M. Peterson, well known Pen. dleton attorney and candidate for del egate to the National democratic con vention, was in the city for a short while, Wednesday forenoon. All democrats, men, women and children' up this way, would be pleased to see! Mr. Peterson elected. There are fivei aspirants in the race, and Mr. Peter eon believes hia election depends wholly on getting the full democratic vote registered before the primaries, are held. ' News ia received here by Dr. and Mrs. S. F. Sharp from their daughw Ur, Carrie, who haa been critically ill in Seattle, that she has had the fur ther misfortune of losing a trunk full of clothes in the Lincoln Hotel fire. Miss Sharp'a trunk waa stored in the basement of the hotel. Her sister, Mrs. James McSherry, nee Alt Sharp, had left the hotel only the day previous to the disastrous fire in which four people lost their lives. . John Pierce says he has sold IS 10. 28 worth of fur since last fall, having found time to trap besides doing his farm work. His last cleanup was on last Sunday when he opened a den containing seven coyote pups. These will net him $24. During the winter he disposed of mounted coyote pelts amounting to SCI; 77 muskrat skins at 310.18; eleven akunk at 155; ten cayuse hides, $60. His boys, Bob and John assisted in the trapping to some extent. Richard Thompson, who has been farming northwest of Athena, has leased the Louis Bergevin ranch, south of Athena, and purchased the farming equipment and outfit; he will move to the Bergevin place and reside there, retaining his leased holdings northwest of town. also. Mr. Berge vin has purchased land on the south side of the Umatilla river and will en gage in stockraising. John Davidson, former Athena farmer, was in the city this week for a brief visit with his daughters, Mrs. Fred Pinkcrton and Mrs. A. H. Mc lntyre. Mr Davidson has been trans ferred from Walla Walla, where he has long held the position of guard in the penitentiary, to a like place in the Monroe, Wash., reformatory Two big black cats up at tho Boyd home, became involved in a fight one evening recently, and in the scrim mage tipped over on themselves a kerosene can. Both cats received a bath all right, and now tho fur is peeling off and they present an ap pearance corresponding to that of a Mexican lap poodle. Rev. G. Kopriva last Sunday preached his farewell sermon in the Methodist church, where he has re signed his pastorate for a position as field agent for an orphanage in Salt Lake City. Ho left Monday to as sume his new duties, his family re maining here until the close of school. Mrs. Edna McPherrin Bell, well known in Athena, was married re cently at Yuba, California, to Mr. W. D. Caswell, of San Francisco. Mr. and Mrs. Caswell will reside in San Francisco where the groom is en gaged in the automobile business. Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Dudley will leave shortly for California, to re main a short time. They will join Mr. and' Mrs. V. C. McDonald, on a motor trip home, the Dudley car hav ing been left in California, when they came home, several weeks ago. The county rock crusher is crunch ing away at its work in the quarry in tho southwest part of town, and the output is being transported in big trucks to the point of macadamizing the highway, east of town. ID a' Perfect Day Tbe Campfire Girts Swas-Te-Ka Campfiro held a most delightful session at the club room in Memorial hall Saturday aftor nt on. All the members responded to roll call. Homecraft honors were awarded each young lady. Velma Banister was elected musician. A debate was then given on the ques tion: "Resolved, tliat home train ing ia more beneficial to a woman than businesa or political training The affirmative was presented by Misaes Helen Ray born and Velma Banister, while the negative was handled by Misses Ailcen Eagleton and Kathleen Pedersen. A love-feast followed which included a retinue of palatable dishes prepared by Misses Tearl Davis and Velma Banister and Mrs. Sarah Rowland. Mrs. Peter Hass was an interested visitor at this meeting. A "Bike" for the Boys An enterprise that will surely be greeted by three rousing cheers from the Young America of Weston and vicinity has been planned for to morrow (Saturday) by Cash Wood, county secretary of the Y. M. C. A. It ia no less than a grand and glor ious hike to some destination that as yet possesses the glamor of the un known, and it will start at ten o'clock tomorrow from the fountain on Main street. All boys ten years or older are eligible to go on the expedition. They are requested to bring lunch and two raw eggs. No fire arms are allowed on this hike, but the boys may carry cameras, baseball gloves and fishing tackle. Some grownup boys figure on going and renewing their youth. ROADS WANT $600,000,000 Amount Declared Necessary to Buy New Railway Equipment Chicago. Six hundred million dol lars will bo needed by the railroads thia year to finance the purchase ot new equipment, the Association of Railway Executives aunounced. Presi dents of 65 railroads met here to dis cuss division of the $300,000,000 loan provided by the transportation act The remaining $300,000,000 will be furnished by the stronger systems and through loans negotiated in the Investment market, tho executive stated. Equipment needs for this year, the presidents reported, include 100,000 freight cars. 3000 passenger cars and 1000 locomotives. Gtiatemalana In Revolt Waahington. The long threatened revolution In Guatemala against Presi dent Estrada Cabrera finally has brok en out. Reports to tbe state depart ment said the opponents ot the presi dent had gained control ot Guatemala City, after some street fighting. A marine, guard from the cruiser Ta coma and eubmarine tender Niasara has been landed to protect the Ameri can legation. Labor Board Named. Washington. The railroad labor board waa appointed by President Wil son. The members are: Represent ing the public George W. Hanger, Washington. D. C: Henry Hunt, Cin cinnati; R. M. Barton. Tennesaee. Repreaenting the railroads Horace aker. J. H. Elliot and William L. Park. Representing the employes Albert Phillips, A. O. Wharton and James J. Forrester. The board will be authorised to meet In Washington at once to take no the grlevancea of the railroad employee now on strike. THOUSANDS DESERT NAVY Whole Service Traatened With Dlesata r, Saya Rear Admiral. Washington. Thousands of deser tions In the navy In tha last year bare brought conditlone unparalleled In Ameriran naval hlaiory, Rear Adinlral Tboinea Washington, chief of the bureau of navlaatlou, Friday told the senate investigating committee. Tbe whole naval aervlce, he warned, la threatened with disaster unless con gress immediately enacta legislattaa raising the pay of officers and men to a point that will allow the navy lo Compete with cJtII occapatlona. There were 4 desertions In the last ail months of 11. Rear-Admiral .Washington declared, and thus far thia year they have averaged around 700 a month. Probsra Find Coal Price Inaxeuaable. Washington. Tho Tniled SlatM bituminous coal commission, which set I led the dispute between soft coal miners and operators, declared in a formal statement tbat preaeot prices of bltumlnoua coal "were Inexcusable and out of all relation to the Increate In tbe cost of production caused by higher wagea granted by tbe com mission." Twin Falls Man Idaho Legion Head. Twin Kails. Idaho. Leo Bracken of Twin Falls waa chosen Idaho state commander of the American Legion at tbe final meeting of tbe atate con vention here. Kellogg waa chosen tbe 121 convention city and Twin Falls the atate headquarters for the coming year. Court Defied; Union Man Jailed. Pittsburg, Kan. President Alex ander Howat of the Kansas irtesouri district of United Uine. Workers, waa aent to Jail by Judge A. J. Curran for contempt of court Howat had denied the authority of tbe newly created state industrial court WESTON SCHOOLS i The girls of the Red Cross clas have resumed their work under the insturction of Miss Counahan. They will be examined in this work the latter part of the month. One sem ester's credit will be given for Red Cross work. The boys have been doing little work in baseball and track the last week, on account of the rainy weather." Henry Craigen was a welcome vis itor in the primary room last Fri day. The sophomore class elected Hel en Johnson as secretary-treasurer at a recent meeting. . Mr. Hopkins of Pleasantville, X. J., was a visitor in the high school Friday afternoon. Dr. Louise M. Richter and Mrs. L. S. Sanders from the Oregon Social Hygiene Society, gave lectures Mon day morning to the pupils of the high school and tho si.xth, seventh and eighth grades. The Freshmen will give a benefit movie at Memorial Hall April 22, Marguerite Clarke in "Still Waters," and one of Fatty Arbuckle's comedies will be given. Miss Cojvin -has had nearly a per fect attendance in her room this week. . Tho pupils are doing some very artistic work in spring decora tions. Mrs. Cannon of Milton, was a vis itor in Miss Rintoul's room Tuesday. Eldred Price is back in school aft er an absence of several days. The Astoria Amateur Wireless as sociation, with E. P. Hawkins, presi dent; Carl Josephson, vice-president; E. A. Smith, secretary and treasurer, and a charter membership of 15, was reorganised April 1. The former or ganizatlon was discontinued at the outbreak of the war. The Oregon State Bar association, through Its grievance committoe, has filed proceedings in the supreme court asking that George A. Hall, an at torney of Portland, and John N. Seiv ers, an attorney with officea at Oregon City, be disbarred from practicing their profession In Oregon. Pine Valley residents are making another effort to divide Baker county. It is proposed to cut oft what is called the Panhandle, once a part of Union county but later annexed to Baker, and form a new county. The great distance from the Panhandle to Baker, the county seat is the source of dissatisfaction. SONORA REPUDIATES ; fmOJJOVERIIKEHT Federal Custom-Houses and Property Seized When State Secedes. Nogalea, flonora. Cuatoma-housee aod all property of tbe federal govtr- ment of Mexico were formally aeitad In the name of tbe "Republic of Boa ora" hrr, simultaneously wlib receipt of a report of a clash between Carraa ta soldiers and Sonora atate troops at Guaymaa. - " Sooora atate officials, beaded by Governor Adolfo d la Huerta, gover nor of Sonora, who haa been proclaim ed "auprem power of tbe republle ef Sonora," by tbe atate congress; declar ed while the atate had fteceded. It would return to the Mexican republle upon gtiaranteea from tbe national ad min latratlon tbat there would be no infringement of the state'a rights by the federal government The secession waa brought about by Carranza ordering federal troops Into tbe atate. . Spread of the accession movement to other aectiona unless tbe government acta quickly was forecast here. The Slnaloa atate congress, according to In formation received bere, baa Indorsed tho action of the Sonora congress ia demanding constitutional rights and Lower California, according to these reports, la expectedvio do tbe same. Slnaloa politics are closely Interwoven with Sonora'a and both atatea are large ly controlled by General Alyara Obre gon. Reports from tbe Long Creek and Muddy Creek districts In Baker coun ty are to the effect that a second winter is being experienced, and bay la becoming so scarce that there ia likely to be a severe loss of jtock if the winter lasts much longer. Be cause of the snow, all farm work baa been discontinued.. . j- . . Practically all the laws passed at the special session of the legislatureast January, with the exception of those ve toed by Governor Olcott and others con tingent upon approval of the voters at the election to be held on May 21. will become operative April 17, according to announcement made by Sam A. Koser, assistant secretary' of state. Petitions asking that the name of Leonard Wood be placed on the re publican preferential ballot at the pri mary election to be held on May 21 were filed with the secretary ot state. Tbe petitions were signed by more than 2000 voters ef Oregon and were brought to Salem by Dow V. Walker and J. D. Zurcber, both of Portland. J. G. Kelly of Portland filed with the state engineer application for per mission to construct what will be known as the Marlon lake reservoir, at the headwaters of the north fork of the Santiam river, for the storage ot 28,155 acre feet of water, and the ap propriation ot the rtored water for the development of 26,638 horsepower. At a special municipal election . at Baker, two measures, one authorizing the bonding of $40,000 "to provide fundi for construction of a dam on the city's Goodrich creek reservoir site to etore water to augment the present supply, r,nd the other measure authorizing bonds for the construction ot better and larger quarters for the fire depart" nient, passed. TROYLAUIiDRYCO.;i Pendleton, Oregon ' ....J I. .WIIM .L 1LIUIS 1 , , ( ' Leave your bundles on the ' ! :: porch MONDAY and ;; THURSDAY ', for cur. House-to-House Service ' "We Wash Everything But-the Baby." HEMSTITCHING DEPARTMENT A. M. JENSEN CO. Hemstitching, Pecot, Chain Stitch ing Embroidery, Braiding, Plain Stitching, Button Holes ajd Buttons Covered, Pleating. MRS. C. E. FERGUSON Phcne 936, Walla Walla, Wash. DR. W. H. REYNOLDS. Chiropractic Nerve Specialist Rooms 1 and 2, Inland Empire Bank Cuilding, Pendleton, Oregon Phone 1018 Hours 10 to 12 a. m.-l:30 to 5 p. m.