Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About The Weston leader. (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 1, 1920)
Weston SJfrADER. 4 . s VOLUMK 43 WESTON, OREGON,' FRIDAY. OCT..1, 192 NUHBER-18 ' "'fc , ' . OREGON NEWS 'NOTES OF GENERAUNTEREST Principal Events of the Week Briefly Sketched for Infor mation of Our Readers. New buildings of modern type sr. being erected on lb Benson Pheasant farm t of flllverton. Th laying of th'. superstructure fur lha 1100.000 Barred Heart cdimy Id Klamath Falls baa begun. Voter of Linn couuty at (ha coming election lll pass upon lha quilon of an Inrrwsed tounty lai lory. Rain Interfered with the Lincoln County fair. karlng ilia rrnwde ay and hurfW Hie fair lliunrlally. County sheriff and county clerks of lha slat held twodey conventions III Pendleton Friday and Saturday! Tba recent ralna haa stopped har vest work In Wallowa county, and If II coutlnuaa much damago will b dona. Resident of upper Hood River valley plan a rota on the propoaltlon to Incraaaa tba dlatrlct'a apeclal road lai. The raias of tba paat far day bar damaged tba evergreen blackberry crop of Lane county to large ex tent. Fully SO per cent more potatoes will bo available for ahlpment out of tba Deschutes valley thla fall than laal teaeon. Irrln 8. Cobb left Dnd Thuraday after a three weeks' bunting and fish ing trip. Mo will travel oast lo the Oregon Bhort Line. Oooley Sun, aged 7 yeara, waa killed almost Instantly at Salem when an auto truck In which bo was riding waa struck by a moving train. Principals of tba high schools of IMwchule. Crook and Jefferson coun ties met Saturday In Itedmond to adopt tho 1920 Interscholasllc gridiron vbad-jla ror LMUii urmmm. T. E. lUrold. who escaped from the state penitentiary at Salem In 1911 and waa captured In Idaho week ago. waa returned to the prison. He baa two years of bis sentence yet to serve. Decision of sawmill companies be tween Iteedsport and Powers to re duce wages waa abandoned after a conference with officials of the Ixl Legion of Loggers and Lumbermen. The Crown-Wlllametia Paper com pany has purchased approximately 2100 acres of spruce timber land In Clataop county from II. B. Noblo of Portland, the consideration being $213, 600. Not a single fire starlet) In the tim bered district of western Una county during the past summer, according to report by Carl V. Oglesby. supervis ing warden of tho Western rtro Patrol association. Discovery of a hybrid prune, tne 'New Oregon." which exports declare will revolutionise prune growing In tho entire northwest, wag announced at a banquet of prominent Oregon nursery men. The candidates' campaign pamphlet, whloh wilt bo printed and mailed to tho voter of Oregon prtor to October 17, la being compiled by Secretary of State Koser and will contain approxi mately SO pagea. ' After fire hours of deliberation Jury at Salem returned a verdict of guilty agalnat Mrs. Lena Stelger. 65 years old, charged with conspiring with Jesse Mulllntx to murder her husband last March. Thomas A. Hayea of Portland filed with the aocretary of state petitions of his candidacy for United States senator from Oregon at the general election to bo hold In November. , Mr. Hayea will make the rare under tho Independent banner. Plant for tho extermination of tho alfalfa weerll, an Insect which al ready has caused considerable dam ago to tho alfalfa crops of tho Pa clflo coast, were discussed at a meet ing of prominent western entomolo gists bald In Salem. Five political parties will bo repre sented on the ballot at the general election In Oregon on November t, according to the certification of namea nd Information regarding nomlneea and measure prepared by Sam A. Koser, aecretary of state. Communication has been received at tho Oregon Agricultural college. Cor rallls, from Mornlngslde college, Sioux City, Iowa, to tho effect that the college will aend a debate team on a tour of tho Paclflo coast next spring, and asking a conleat with O. A. C. Personal Investigation of devasta tion of foresta along Oregon acenlo highways has ronvinrM jterbert Nmin, slate hlghwgy engineer, that the rnd ' .1 are even worse than origin ally r 'ortei, srrrMIng to a littler pre pari by the engineer end submitted to fliivonior Olrotl. I'atont lias been received by the late of Oregon for 16.(14.(0 arret of Carey act land, rerlaltned under the Central Oregon Irrigation project In central Oregon and Inrated In tho vi cinity of llnnd, Redmond and Powell fluttea, according to Information re ceived by the state engineer. Fesr that Mr. and Mrs Joule K. Tuck of Redmond msy be lost, with out provisions. In the Oritriy basin country at the foot of Mount Jefferson, prompted the departure of a large seerrh party from Sisters No news from the missing couple hss been re eelred for the past three weeks. The Waaco county circuit court hss dismissed the action brought by Hllss Moody to enjoin the slate highway conimlsslou from constructing a pub lic highway across land connecting up the Columbia river highway In east ern Oregon with the new slate brldg recently completed over the Deschutes river. The first Par Check covering tbO armory drill pay period of tlx months for the Fifth Infantry. Oregon Na- tlonal Guard, were received at the ad- Iiii.hI ........ I'. ...I.. IM C . I . . rm the war department at Washington Ington. 0. and t 1 to The checks aggregate 14.140.70 cover the period from January June 30 - 1BI0. The continued tall rains cave don great damage to the Oregon prun crop. Allowing for exaggerations lo reports, which are usual when a crop la In danger or Injured, prune men nevertheless believe that this veer's crop has been rot down one half. If this la I run It will mean a loia of loss of about (3.000,000 to the prune growera of Oregon. There were rrorpeote I ,h. s,.rl,rg of a crop of 60.0OO.0O0 pound, of dried prune. In Ibe stale, The estimate wa. cut down to 60.000.- wvw cuunua v it vii " " ssmuw ui ' v and now the rain damsa v,,, K.w. w,vin),uw puuutis. FORMER BOLSHEVIK SECRETARY TAKEN , micajto. Agfnie oi iu "" of Justice raided a house here, arrest- ed a man alleged to b Witty Bchecb man. at one lime aecretary lo Nlcbo laa Lenin. Bolshevist premier, and confiscated document alleged to con tain the cod whereby Russian radi cals In thla country communicated with each other Hcnecnman. accoraiu w ..... --- eeeretarr to lenin prerioua w For tome tlm after that b resided in France ad only recsntly did It be- come known h wa in this country, Th documonU aeltad In th raid ar. ..Id to .how that Sebechman cam to thlt country a th delegate of the Third international of Ru-I. to the recent convention of the Communis Labor party n ChkMO. Con.ld.rabl. radical llteratur. and hhiukuii alaa was seised. ' ' ' ygUV All nruAKin MPT nun vik i .... - Annouoo.rn.nt follow. R.p.at.d - l.. k.1 g ..a..iiA. Ban mnci-Annouement that it had met th. n.vy. prlc. of $2 a barrst for fuel oil. "in order to pr- rent th. sel.ur. of our plant.." waa mad. by th. cutiv. offlc. of th. 8h.ll Oil oompany her. Th. open market prie. of Shell oil I. $2.$5. "W. giv. up W. can't fight th. government," Robert A. Lewin, vice- president and general manager of tho MAmn.nv mmlA. . Th. announcement followed tenure by the navy from th. company's plant at Martinet extending over two ws time. ' - t -A committee oi we miiiuov. lature. composed of W. I. Nolan and -- W. I. Norton, representatives of Mln- neapolls, and J. T. Mcintosh and John I. Levin, senators of 8t Paul, were In- Balem last week conferring with mem- bers of the Oregon Industrial Accident - commission with relation to the opera- tlon ot the Workmeu's Compensation act, now In effect In this state. Files Suit for Tan. . San Franclsco-Sult for $1,700,145 Inheritance taxet, Interest and penal- tie. alleged to b. unpaid wa. filed In " " . ... . w th. Unlteo. otaies uieinct couri no Mrs. rrea iwiscmnns ........ r. . l toruana-was wuucu m by tho government agaln.t th. e.tatd trom her homo at Lamont, Wash., last hav. been free from lice and mold. next utt tedtion con f . .. i.h n.n. ... j r.vl Woisei-t The Orceon croD 1his season will ag- Wall telephone . for sale, inquire ...... of Vat law nenry juumi wwiuj v- fornta eattl. man. . DC BolHng Over "OVER THE HILL" i- t uiil. u i (.- .:.. - c He U vUitinir hla son Leon at Weston. Mr. and Mr. David Partch of Sun- nyskle. Wash., were Round Up guests - . I. - II.. II L l.M G. S. Prestby of Kalitpet, Montana, ia in the city, visiting at the homo of his brother, Attorney E. C. Prestbye. mr. nun una uuBinii, wnu mwc near SUU Line, were over thH week Waiting Mrs. Roy Cannon, who is ill at tho Casa Cannon home. rv - - ........ , - Mra. A. V. McEwcn and daughter, Mi iss Jessica, have been visiting here this week, at the hornet of Mrs. H. A. Iiarrctt am Ralph B. McEwcn. MUs RiA AUen. teacher in tl Mis R,a AUcn. U-arhcr in the pri- mary grades, -Tost ITiday tooK tier momcr, sirs. Alien, a me noapiiai in Pendleton for medical treatment. 'Sh. was accompanied by Mrs. Lul. Rd. tin. A.ien wponou very Miss Elsie Walker was. tfVrC. " : m,'" .,..: r,nin.n. M..mlr. ot th. tolly . Ito .... . ,i , NisUl Ql the jvatltril. In a recent wauo of Uie Us Anf.cu s r - . .nmura nicture.i of nevcral -i i . . pn-iiy uui:n, v - r test, and among the number non was prettier than dainty little Miss Jolene Badilcloy. daughter of tr. anil airs. J. C. Uaddeley, Into of this vicinity. In a letter to an Athena friend, the doctor states that his health continues to im nrovc. . Kmct awards, well Known in this cuy w.. .m-.,., iaay oi niui. brother of Mrs. R. A. Thompson. rCv, C. U Lowthor, the new pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church in Athena, has arrived from Tho Dalles nd with hi. wife it at home in the parsonage. Mayor Barrett this week soUl to Will K.rV ita 'Ce" a d joining the C . A. om '"J now occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Robert Proudnt. Tho wedding of Ha,.d Mclntyre, of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh sicintyro of this city, ami Mis. Llva Kupcrs of Pendleton tooK place . , ar nnme oi inu uriuu at,ut.i, its that c.ty Jtf? Sunday and Mondny in AUm ijM lJnt nc ' sJ.ncou nty wi their home. Tho bnd b 4 y is en . Eminent Pennon family iJSJma Portland, where Mrs f mke hH future - - . i , i home. Mrs. rarKcr is one oi tne oiu- Ccntmme residents and will bo . frjendt hero. Harold Paulsen brother of Mrs o c ,,JSey, visited at the Hadlcy ."' u ""al.ey . tu;. home sunaay anu wom.jr . M pauiscn was on his way ' ' . Albcrt. where he ' home irom uias. ftioervn, iraut becn working the paBt summer. w Fjn(,h and Mrg Mary ' ' . thjs cH wcre uni. . r thi. -itv were uni- j- mBrri,ge at Pendleton, Satur- . . marrag0 ceremony was UUy Ittjiwe A iiq in r .rmw in tha Rantist church par- gon 0j that city, . . hrotton finished thresh- Wednesday noon, after much do- ,ay and somo damage to their stand- ing grtti from the rains of tho past tw0 weeks. n i .inn wcck aim vmu ' home in rendleton. Sunday Mrs. d .... . a .u...,- ..j .i... inir a short atav here irn-i-toil ninnv old friends. Thin was her first visit here in ten years and many changes in the city were noted. Mr. Rosenzweip is . I doing good mercantile business in Lamont, whera also live lr. and Mrs. Charles Gates."' The tons, llititrf and George Rooenzwcig, are farming. iaac Daviion, wm. kicc ana wm. Winship motored to Portland this wce,. xne pgrty Was joined at The Dalles by Mrs. Davidson who went to isttiicv u min. tav tht citv by train. r P rh,ni- n, vrn..vrr. Wnh.. is visiting daughter and son-in-law, i r i u t." I : I T 1 .a I r.. hemc east of towJj nd ,ttcnded the Rounj.Tjp Saturday. .,, , P.M rll;. g ttag her" ' j & Ffo wiU Honolulu, bo- Lloyd Michcner has purchased the. cottage on Jefferson street adjoining ft .. ItOIBnU iVll luiimoimj .f h .!nivpritV Mmnad to -" ji u. roi-nvprmi from tne oneraiion recently nerformcd on his knee. rectntly pcriormcu OREGON NEWS NOTES Dlamonr lake, one ot tne tamous beauty spots of the Pacific North ....i n,. Ha inriiiHpft In the boun- park lf the bm now bemg prepared by Uie rnmonai ..,!,. ...iminn misses congress, ac- cordmg t0 word received by W. P. R forest Bupcl-vUor of th . reserve. a xturinn Cnuntr Community fed- 2 AgVSur.l colle'gowa. accepted. Tho C06g0 w, pr0vido tho man. Th cm J p ud a, Btate ( - ., thoplac ,,.. -hr Sacramento was chosen as of the as8ociatlon at tha ... i In Portland. Officers elected w H Cop land; vice-president, Heury Bostwick. San Francisco; secretary-treasurer. W. Fcl8C0. The. Norwegian-Danish Methodist conference was formally opened in Portland by Bishop W. O. Shepard with mor. than 30 ministers, a largo number of Uymen and a few visiting In ..t.nifannA Thlrtv-flv mis - tlons and churches were presented by th. delegates from California. Idaho, Montana, Washington nd Alaska. Th special election called at Ash- l.nd on Initiative petition to vote for ----- ,' .. ,n. no l" """" - tho purchase of Buck lake. 35 miles . ....nln.ii ...I... .imnlw et. aa an auxiliary wato defeated tho proposition by $33 to 60. A $100,000 bond vote Ot 833 to 60. A $100,000 bond election to conserve the waters of upper Ash land creek for auxllitary water supply land creek for ouxilitary water supply. ... hold September 19, carried 4 to 1. Willamette valley hop growers re Port that tho Oregon crop is about 90 percent harvested ani saved, notw.th- standing the recent "'' rains It is belie ved there win b .rcely any loss In the malnlng 10 ne rent in the yards. The clusters - gregate soout oo.uuu na.es. Washington Welfare Officers Resign. Olympla, Wash. Declaring that tho atate Industrial welfare commission at now constituted la Inactive, Mrs. W. II. Udall, of Tacoma, for fir years . 1. , W . 1 U. J mrinurr ui iu cuiuuiianiuu, lull ivr the last two years secretary, tendered nrr rtBigni.iun m u ui inv commission hero. Following adjourn ment of the mooting. Dr. M. II. Mar vin, for seven years a member of tho commission, and the oldest member In point of service, dictated bia resigna tion to Governor Hart, effective Imme diately. li TO PROTECT PANAMA CANAL One of the onti-rcraft guns which guard the Panama cflnnl from air at toclss. The guns bare been placed on cobrrote bases In such locations as to protect the vital works of the canal. TRADE BALANCE GUT SINCE 1919 it-. -l i .1Sia American trrl4 ... t,A ttt .Uhf mnntha of , ihn ts nnn non nno ror tne cor- U1UI J lunil w w , v w , v - responding period of 1919. according to flEurea made public by the depart ment of commerce. They showed Its Import trade is expanding at a more rapid pace' than export trade. Im ports for the eight month of tho year exceeded those of the 11 montha of 1919 by approximately 100,000,000. - "mTZZJ ... n tha other hand, ex- ports for the eight months were $2, S47.171.869 less than those In the 12 months of 1919 and were only $211, 000,000 greater than tho exports for the first eight months ot last year. month( .... t. ist vn in S Eport. tor the eight Jb. was $4,00027.445. compared wItB $2,261,650,440 for tho correspond- r,od , 1919. - DRYS TRAIL WETS OVERSEA ,7ThlB ef Br.w8r. - - - Washington. Resolutions demand ing that congress enact laws providing for tho cancelling of tho citizenship papers of Americans who go to for eign countries "to engage in business outlawed In this country." were adopt ed by the American section of tho World Prohibition federation, meeting here in conjunction with the Interna tional Congress Against Alcoholism. The resolutions also asked that such persons oe aeon i u F.v.- of AmerCan government and that 0 ftr M possible they be restrained persons be deprived of the protection from reprMentlng themselves as Amerlc,nB. , . Officer Found Slain Near Still. Aberdeen, Wash. Bliudfoliled, bear ing three gunshot wounds and covered with two planks and a tangled mass of -weeds, tho body of Nicolas Koleskl, 24 years old, a special officer ot the Aberdeen police department, was found by boys In a shallow creek In dense woods about three miles south " "".... . of South Aberdeen. He had been miss- a.s,gned to hunt down operator, of a a .tut "W "Pot wner. nia oouy w iuuuu. a, I I -S " i f rr - v I i J 1 PRESIDENT REFUSES TO ANNUL TREATIES Congress Held to Have Ex- ceeded Authority In Order ing Abrogation. Washington. President WUon ha declined to take tepa toward termlna-' tlon of certain eommeretal treatlea aa directed b congress Ia tho merchant marine' act, holding Ik "je.t course would be wholly Irreconcilable with the historical respect which to United Bute ha shown for it Inter national engagement." , o. Formal announcement ot tb presi dent' decision tu mid at th slat department. Th merchant marine act a approved by the president oa the closing day of the It congress sesaion directed th executive within SO day to giro notice to foreign na tions of the Intention of th United State to terminate any sections ot existing commercial treaties which re strict the right of th American gov ernment to Impoao discriminatory charge on shipping in foreign bot tom. Tho president, th stat . dejaurt 'ment's announcement said, ahW Jield that congress exceeded it authority in giving such" direction. , 8toUry president, citing as a precedent th Colby U quoted as supporting; tho action of President Hayes in 187 in refusing the demand o congress 'that a treat with China be abrogated. Th power of modifying treaties. President Uayen held, la not lodged by th con stitution In congress. Termination of Uie 31 treaties, af fected by ..the act, th president ws said to have held, "would amount to nothing less than breach or violation of said treaties, which . . . eovtv erery point ot contact and mutual de pendence which constitute the raoderm The announcement said that "tsl have vetoed the act would ham riflced the great number of aoan4 and? enlightened provision which It doubtedly contains." ' z , .... Japan's Offer Not Accepted Washington. Administration of ficials contlnuo to decline to discus for publication any of th phase of av lne negotiations with Jspan growing out of tho proposed anti-Japanese land law in California, but th impression has gono out that a proposal from Tokio that tho question b referred to a joint commission for solution would bo unacceptable. -' Conversations regarding tho Cali fornia law haro been going on be tween Ambassador Shidebara of Japan and state department ofticiala. .The attltudo ot th state depart-, ment is described as one calculated to prevent tho development ot a feeling of alarm in the United States that' might approach oven approximately that which appears to bo growing in Japan. Conflicting opinions of both Amerl-, can and Japanese authorities on in ternational law are said to have mad tho task ot tho state department offi- UO UUIK VI KilV clals and tho Japanese ambassador difficult. Prooonents ot tho CjO- more difficult. Proponents ot th. Cal ifornia law say that California, in n acting a measure barring tho Japan ese in this country from owning land in that state, would be refusing to tho Japanese no rights or privileges that are not refused by Japanese law to Americans. Japan contends that th. California law, which is to bo voted onin No vember, is dlscrlmlnatory,becaus. it does not apply to ail foreigners alike, as does tho Japanese law. , , O. K. Hartwig of Portland, president of tho Oregon State Federation of Labor, was nominated to continue in office at the state federation conven tion at Pendleton. Davie Ellis of Portland was nominated for vice-president and W. E. Kimsey, incumbent, was nominated for secretary-treasurer. Nominations for the executive board were as follows: Portland, Arthur Brock, J. C. Jensen, J. E. Starr; Salem, L. J. Simeral; Astoria. M. M. Lornt sen; Pendleton. Charles Keano and Sandy McClaln; La Grande. H. T. Dodd; Baker, Alex. Sewell; Bond, C. H. Baker. These nominations will h. MtmmA l0 aU local unions attiUated with tho sUto federation, to bo voted M by vlMn 30 days. Th. wU, take offlc1 March venuon. o 'A