Mli4fi.Ufe. Vol, i BOAR DM AN, MOKROW COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY LI, 1921 No. 1 REViEW OF OREGON LEGISLATURE WORK. WEEKLY DIGEST OF BILLS CONSIDERED FARMERS PLAN PADLOCK FOR GRAIN EXCHANGE : - . r I fcaa !! 1 Salem. The legislature started On the fifth week or the session with the legislative wheels clogged with un finished work and unless business is speeded up durin? the present waek and 'he customary flow of oratory cur tailed, the usual jam during the clos lag days is certain to prevail. Dmntlosllv nn ininnrtant piece of legislation received the uttention oi both houses during the first lour weeks of the session. In fact, very few of the important bills have ps: I the house in which they Originated, The big bills were still in the nan la of the various committees, bul li.i week most of them will appear on the calendars and the real legislative bat tles of the session may be looked for. Among the more important rueas .ures awaiting final action were: Ap propriation bills, soldiers' bonus, re;::! bills, irrigation, re-apportionment, teachers' tenure and prohibition. When the legislature adjourned over Sunday a total of 573 bills had been Introduced, 319 In the house and 254 In the senate, and 3S hills had passed both houses and were ready for atten tion by (he governor. Sixty Day Session Proposed. The people of the siate w ill be asked to pass upon the question of fixing the length of the legislative session at 60 days and increasing pay of mem hers from $3 to $5 per day, as a senate joint resolution proposing these changes in the state constitution pass ed both houses. The measure as acjopted provides: "The legislative session shall not ex ceed 60 days in duration of actual working days," and that "no bills shajl be introduced after the fortieth day of the session, except appropria tlon bills or bills pertaining to the de fense of the state or nation, except by unanimous consent of the members of the legislative aHseiihty or. W$ call." Game Code Passes. The Rogue river fish and the (UmJ commission bills have passed both houses. These bills were in accord ance with an agreement reached last November by the commercial inter ests and sportsmen. Fishing through the year with hook and line is permitted in' the Rogue river. and the game lull creates a com mission or rte member! to be ap pointed by the governor. The license schedule provides: For hunting wild animals or birds, $3 for residents of the state. $10 for nonresidents: for fishing with hook and line. $3 for resi dents, or, if non-resident and a higher rate is required by his own state, then the same rate as he would have to pay in his own state; for combination , licenses, $5. Woman Juror Bill Fails Oregon women will not be forced against their wills to serve on juries for the house defeated the woman Juror bill Introduced by Mrs. Kinney, Astoria representative. The Roosevelt military highway bill, fathered bv Senators Norblad and Hall, passed the senate with only four i negative votes, but the bill was vigor ously denounced by R. A. Booth, chair man of the state highway commission In an argument before the house com mittee on roads and highways and the opposition of the state highway commission caused a revulsion of sen timent and it is very doubtful if the measure is passed by the house. The Roosevelt Highway was origin ally approved by the people and calls for $2.5H0.000 of state money to be matched by a like amount of federal money for a coast military and scenic highway This contingency was strick en out in the senate bill and in its present shape It calls for setting aside of $2,500,000 for the road, to be paid for by direct taxation. Road Committees Make Progress. The Joint road committees have made progress In, whipping proposed legislation into shape and trie bills will receive attention this week. The committees put the stamp of disapproval upon the proposal of Gov ernor Olcott that the highway commis sion be given the power of eminent domain aud authorized to purchase or acquire parks and scenic beauty spots along the highways, and to improve and maintain them out of the state highway fund. Teachers' Bill Defeated. An amendment to Uif requirement lor elementary teachers' training course framed by Senator Patterson .vc.s defeated in the house. The bi:l proposed to extend the time of the elementary teachers training :arse fren a term of 12 weeks to a rn of i!6 weeks from Januai -, 1923, . Januftry( 1025, and after thai period t was proposed tint the course shoulu extend for 18 months. The hm.se also killed a proposed hill Offered by Representative Shank v'.v.ch provided that where schools th oughout the state were closed for more than two weeks teachers should not be paid. Would Deport Alien Public Charges. The board of control, Under a bill in troduced by Senator Vinton, is auth orized to use state funds for the de portation of non-resident aliens and so-called public charges confined in the public institutions of this state. For the purpose of facilitating the return of such persons, the board of control may enter into a reciprocal agreement with any other state or states for the mutual exchange of such public charges. Under the bill a person shall be deemed to be a resi dent of Oregon who shall have lived in the state continuously for a period of two years. Any person who shall bring or in any way aid in bringing any public charge into the state, except for treatment for his or her ailment with out first obtaining permission in writ ing from the state board of control, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Meat Commissioner Proposed. Creation of the office of commission er for the co-operative marketing of meats is provided in a bill introduced by Senatca Upton. Under the provisions of this meas ure the commissioner shall maintain an office at any union stockyards in the state, and his compensation shall be fixed by the governor and be paid out of a fund made up from the fees and charges to he levied against ship pers of livestock to the said stock yards. Among the specific duties of the commissioner as set out in the proposed law would be: To gather and disseminate impar tial Information concerning supply, demand, prevailing prices and com mercial movements of livestock and to promote, assist and encourage Ithe organization and co-operation of co operative and other associations for improvement of the relations andserv ices among growers and producers, distributors and consumers of meat and meat products. And generally to do any aud all things necessary to co-ordinate the livestock growers to the end that the speculator and profi teer between the growers and the con sumer can be eliminated. Meat Packers Divided On Bills. Independent small packers and stockmen were arrayed against repre? sentatives of the stockyards aud the big packet in the committee on agri culture and forestry over the Upton bills. These measures are calculated to work certain reforms in the hand ling of cattle in the stockyards to the benefit of the growers and are strong ly opposed by the big packers. Indications point to a favorable re port by the committee on the bill which requires statements of meat in cold storage, but the bill calling for carcasses to be stamped as to grade and price will not receive the favor of the committee, it is expected. Legislative Brevities. The ElliS bill providing for the mark ing of boundaries of unfenced lauds was killed in the senate. Tlie bill providing for punishment of habitual criminals passed the house. Members of the state legislature ln spectid the Oregon Agricultural col lege at Corvallls Saturday. The house killed Representative Hubbard's bill prohibiting the use of seines, fish wheels, traps and other gear on the Columbia river. The senate approved Senator Ntck elson's bill providing that notaries shall not charge for the administering of an oath of verification of any claim against the stste. A house bill by Representative Wells providing s penalty for any person who shall willfully niisreprestnt his personal assets when seeking credit, was approved by the senate. !.- ff' f mm Mm mm of principal LTSU l!U EVEN' S HAr Oambling in grain as practiced b speculators In grain ex changes is one business that the American Farm Bureau Federation is going to try to stop The Committee of Seventeen appointed by President James R Howard with C H Oustafson of Lincoln. Neb. as chairman is making exhaustive Investigation of the whole sub ject nt gram marketing for recommendations and action by the Farm Bureau Federation Herbert Hoover, former food dictatoi. and Bar i, ei Raructl former chairman of KM Wat Board, were on the pro gram 01 the committee meeting at Kansas City Farm-owntd file laims and direct marketing plans .re being worked out COMMERCIAL CLUB TAKES ACTION - TO INCORPORATE BOARDMAN A CITY A meeting of the Boardman Commercial Club in t he school i n (i i to r i it m Tuesday night was one of the most enthusiastic ever h"ld in this city. Committees cure appointed on incorporation and vati f supply for Board man, i o arrange a place where amo tourists might camp, to get trees :or planting ail through the community . to investigate the present, status of the B'artn Loan Act as applying to this district, and to Organise B park and cem etery association. A delegation tfaanlno appoint ed to meet with Cue Prosser Community Club on Monday the 14th to encoutane cooperative relations for toad connecting Grosser and Boardman, with I ferry at Boardman J O. Bal let ger, C. 11. Dillabaugh. A L. Larson. 8am Hiidman. T. H Weston and Citas. Barnes will make the trip. A report on the present stains of the John Day Irrigation Dis trict, controversy was offered bv S. H. Boiu'dman, mid it was unanimously decided to st-ind by the present board of directors and to continue lively interest in the present plans. The bar becue it is expected to hold as plai ned with the exception that it will probably occur in Sep tember. and it will be a Hydro Electric John Day Barbecue. Attend Power Silo 1 ' j n fjr Boardman was represented at he Umatilla Rapida Power Site association meeting by Messrs. S. H Boardman, W. A. Good- vim Win Pinnel), 0. H. Dilla taugh, Ed Miles and George Melrord. S. Ei. Bo a. rd man was honored with a vice presidency, as he should be as he has clone as much as any one man or group of men tobring this dream or vision to pass. rni rlMUNITY PLAY PROVES Breaks. Up Gang Morrow county has a wiae judge. A uangot tive boys from 14 to 18 years of apte. it is alleg ed, have been causing trouble in Irrigon both in the school and community for some month Recently they attacked Frank Strader with brass knuckles, and it to t,.-,ri-i a thev also had a ill.-. 1 ' 'V, v. . . . . J gun. over some fancied griev ance in connection with a horse deal. When arraigned befote Judue Campbell, he ruled that lhe gang must be broken up and proceeded to do it in a very ef ficient manner. One is to be pa riled to relatives in Goble, Wash., another to relatives at Boardman, Ore., and still anoth er was found a job at Echo, Ore The two youngest are to remain at home. Ore feature of the I sentence is that each must con 1 titiue in school. The community play, "Al Mar tin's Country Store" given last Friday was an unqualified suc cess All taking part did ex ceptionally well nnd 170 was taken in at the door. The play is a lively rural comedy and muny of the parts require able histri onic ability to sustain. It was a big undertaking for us but as everything we try to do Tn Boardman it went over the top with Hying colors. The charac ters were: Al Marl in. sforekeeperand pott mas ter W. A. Goodwin Mnrii Martin, hi dlUffhtar Mrs. W. L Kinnell Bam Johnson, carpenter Herb Everett Tom Biggs, laborer L. V. Km .tier Buck Friend, brickiiiaker N. a. Haoombw Rube Hutchina, old time farmer A. J. Hedner Harold Hawlev. civil engineer Glenn Mitchell j Robert Corey, promoter Sam Boardman Hess, chum of Marie Mrs. W. 11. Stewart Anna, also chum of Marie Miss Myrtle McNeill Mrs. w. 1 1. King Mrs. L. v. Kutzner Mrs. lilake, Mrs Smith. Mrs. Hawkins, Mrs. Simmons, Hunter, Gus, slow young man Ned, lai euug man Mrs. Hands Mrs. C. P. Hat ter Maurice Goodwin Alton Klitz L la Blaydeu Jerry, a hungry loafer.-. Win. Finnell Si Newoomb, Chas. Hillabaugh BalBtl Milier, school teacher W. P. Tucker Uev .John Wesley Aslibury M. B. Signs ( tto Padrettl. traveling inusic.teacher j hdtflir Doe ring Squire Holden.....j A. J. Hedger Jiiii, Ed McCiellan Maudy. Walih na Kands Between the acts specialties were furnished by Smith and Tucker. Fx'nirts fr:m Portland during Jnn ip.ry h:il a total valuation of about H,Sw9.S96. Cottage Grove will have a modern i. .. ut before lhe opening of the tunmer season. a woman's auxiliary to Umpqtia Pnst, American Legion, was oran-t.-d at Roseburg. The Corva'.iis Country clib direc tors have elected Warren G. Harding to hr.norary membership. The sundry civil hill as reported to the senate curries $400,000 fur be ginning the Deschutes project in Ore- gotu Reopening of the state lime plant at Gold Hill was urged by Marion Bounty realty men in session at Sa- tea. Additldna classrooms are needed at once to house the Increase of nearly 3000 children iu Portland SChoeJl this term. Oregon's campaign to raise funds tor the starving children of eastern and central Europe h; to be closed officially February 15. The Commercial elub of Tallas has given a bonus of 5800 to the Dallas Maonina & Locomotive works and $500 to the Dallas cannery. John 1. Lukkrila, a farmer on an ttlftftd In Youngs river?, about ten miles from Astoria, committed sui cide by shooting himself. The public schools at Jefferson have been closed as a precautionary meas ure against' the spread of diphtheria, which is prevalent there. The United States bureau of roads has let contract for two mileB of roads near Tidewater. The work will reaulre about five months. The total membership of the Linn catfnty farm bureau bus passed the 10 mark, and is well on the way to ward the original goal, 1000. The Lugene high school at the close of the midwinter term had an enroll ment of 729, which is 100 greater than the largest enrollment last year. The cleanup of stored apple stocks at Hood River will be later than usual. Approximately 175,000 boxes are yet in the hands of the growers' associa tion. The First National Dank of Albany. the second oldest existing national hank in Oregon, celebrated the 50th anniversary of Its organization last week. J. L. Bowman, who ovvrs the Browns ville woolen mills, is negotiating for the purchase of the woolen mill ma chinery at Bandon and its removal to Brownsville. The new Deaconess hospital at Siilem was dedicated last week. The building is not the property of any sect, but was erected by donations from all sources. Snow nearly five feet in depth was found by Forest Ranger R. E. S. Smith and G. L. Drake, who have just com pleted a week of cruising in the Lost Lake region near Mt. Hood. Because of the crowded condition of the Albany schools, the school board has decided to call a special election for the purpose of issuing bonds to provide additional room. The executive committee of the Clatsop county farm bureau has ap pointed E. W. MeMindes of the state agricultural college extension depart ment as county agricultural agent. While preparing a chicken for cook ing, Miss Grace Orde, a Mult'onl nurse, found a rich gold pocket in the chicken's craw and extracted five nuggets about the size of small peas. Representative McArthur at Wash ington has been notified that all the details for the transfer to the govern ment of the Tongue Point naval base by ciatsop county have been com pleted. Under the provisions of a lump sum legislative bill, as was agreed to In the river and harbor commit! je surveys were authorized for Tilla mook bay and the Umpqua river ir Oregon. Two hundred retail shoe dealers from all sections of the state are ex pected to attend the annual conven tion of the Oregon Retail Shoe Deal ers' association to be held at Salem on February 24. Tire depth of snow at Crater lake I rim is 11 feet, and at Anna spring j camp, five miles lower down, is 10 I feet, according to word received from Ranger Brown, who Is stationed at the lake this winter. Traffic accidents 'n Portland for the month of January showed a de cline of 249 front December, while traffic violation arrests for the month showed an Increase of 60 per cent over the preceding month. More than SO irrigation districts have been organized or are in the process of organization in this state, according to the b'ennial report of the state engineer. These districts have a total area of 1.200,000 acres. Overwork, incident to his achieve ment in enmnletlna the Deschutes t county tax rolls three weeks earlier i than in any previous year, catu ed a : nervous breakdown which result dl in j the death of W. T. Mullarky, assessor of Deschutes counly. I The sale of timber on a tract of land, ! between 9000 and 10.000 acres in ex i tent, on Winberry creek, Within the Cascade national forest, to Washing I ton milling and timber interests is in i contemplation, according to announce ment of the Eugene ofice of the for est service. A flume five miles long, to carry lumber from the Lost Creek valley above Dexter to the Southern Pacific railway at Pengra station, on the Natron cutoff, will be built at once, according to announcement of D. E. Yoran, one of lhe organizers of the Mount June Flume company of Eu gene. During the week ending February 3 there was one fatality in Oregon due to industrial accidents, according to a report prepared by the state in dustrial accident commission. The vict'im was John McKeown, laborer ol Portland. A total of 424 accidents were reported in the course of the week. Unidentified men gained entrance to the state tuberculosis hospital at Sa'em, carried a safe to an automo bile, which had been parked some distance from the institution, drove more than a mile down the highway, and there wrecked the strongbox and obtained approximately $IiO0 in cash and $150 in checks. Contracts for more than half a million dollars' worth of road work Inch .ling construction of six bridge! and the laying of 15 miles of pavement, were ordered entered into by the stats highway commission following tin opening of bids upon the proposed work. Bids on many other jobs were opened and rejected, and a second ad vertising of the work ordered. rimrlcs 3. Schnabel. prominent at torney of Portland, was shot In th back and fatally wounded by Joseph C. Poeschl, an ex-client, as he wai about to enter an elevator on tin third floor of the court house, lit died in an ambulance on the way tc a hospital. Fancied grievances against the lawyer, harbored for more thar ten years by Poeschl, furnished tht motive for the killing. Representative Hawley of Oregor has succeeded in baving four speclai pension bills incorporated In tin omnibus pension bill which has beer reported to the house. They are foi Mrs. Henrietta Brewer of Roseburg Mrs. Sofiu E. McKlmmey of Cottagt Grove, Mrs. Caroline nines Willis ol Roseburg, and James M. Berry of Milli City. The widowB will receive $2( each and the veteran $30 a month. PedeffJ aid lor developing hydro electric power at Umatilla rapids, ir. the Columbia, and passage of th Jos. pli hydro-electilc commission bit by the Oregon legislature, wen sought at Pendleton Saturday in a meeting of government and reclama lion engineers, representatives of tin Northern Pacific. Spokane, Port lane & Seattle, Oregon-Washington Rail way & Navigation, and Milwaukei railroads, the ways and means com mittee of the state legislature and 201 business men of e astern Oregon. Join H. Lewis, formerly state engineer and Robert N. Btan field, Uni'ec S'ates senator-elect, werej among tin principal speakers. The project pro poses the development of 120,001 horse-power ftom the river and tin Irrigation of 88,000 acres In tin John Day proj.ct, Oregon, and th Horse Heaven project, Washington. A large sum of money already has beei pledged, and co-operation of the rail roads and the government is sought