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HotsonE 3 f?lb2l iO MIRROR VOLUME II BOAR DM AN, OREGON, FRIDAY, JUNE 2, 19S NUMBER 17, WO.000 CUT MADEJN RAIL PAY 400,000 Men Affected By Re duction Averaging 5 Cents Hourly For Each. ' r local h . tVI .'NIT C1 ' Chicago. More than f. 48.1)00,0011 yearly was slashed from the wages of 400,000 railway employes iu a decision of the United States railroad labor board. The decreases, which averaged five cents an hour in the majority of case, followed cuts of $400,000,000 made last July by the board. The decision, how ever, affected mostly matntcnani of way workers, although decisions arc pending affecting other classifications. If the wage cuts made in the latest decision are extended to other class'. fications expected soon, it was poi :ilt;.i out in railway circles, that much of the $600,000,000 increase given by the board in 1920 would be wiped out and wages restored to a level which rui. way officials had told the board would lead to a new era of development and open the way to the employment 01 200.000 men. The decision was signed by the three railway members of the board and the three members representing the public A dissenting opinion was fibd by til three members representing the labor group. The majority opinion said thai the wage cuts effective on July I, were niade in accordance with decreases in the cost of living. The minority opin ion contended that the wage scale pro vided iu the decision was Insufficient to sustain life on the basis of Aiueri can standards. GON NEWS NOTES OF PiiiNCIPAL EVENTS HAPPENING DURING WEEK mm F2R 8-HSuH DAY IN POSTQFBCi Washington, D. C President Hard lng took action affecting more thai 50.000 postal clerlts and carriers throughout the country when he ar proved a recommendation of the pus office department for the es.ablisi, ment of a strict eight-hour basis fo postal employes. The president's approval of the pla? followed a conference at the Whit House with Acting Postmaster-Gene i a Bartlett, who had explained that thou sands of employes by reason of ex haustion of appropriations for uuxi' iary clerks were obliged to work iro. one-half to two hours overtime at day. The president was of the opin ion, it was understood, that addition, clerks in sufficient numbers shou. be put to work at all points wher . overtime is now required in the d I charge of postal duties. To make sue! a move possible the president w.i said to have advised Mr. B irtieit tl, he would ask congress for an add tioual or deficiency appropriation. To attract the attention of he tourists and other motorists traveling the highway, L. 8. Bonney has placed a large sign at the turn into town to advertise the Highway Inn. Mr. and Mrs J. C. Hallenger en tertained at dinner for Al Mays last Friday evening. E. ft. Mulkey is home until after haying. He is drilling a well with Mr. Pringle for a rancher about 15 miles out. Andrew Anderson and Adolph Skobo were Hoppner visitors Wednesday, Mr. and Mrs. Hopkins have ano ther daughter v.-ho arrived last week. Mrs. Hopkins is at the Mulkey home under Mrs. Muikey's care. Mi ruid Mrs. L. Mead, are guests at the home of their son, Lee Mead. They are here directly from their home in Michigan. Norma motions spent Tuesday with Basil Cramer, at Basil's home In the country. Miss Wilni'a (lilbreth went to Her mlston Tuesday, to have tome dental work done. Mr. and Mrs. Oarrett, Mrs. Wich ardson and Mr. and Mrs. Wtoeh drove to Irrigon Wednesday for A number of I'oaidman people en joyed a swim in the canal Tuesday. Mr. Weech reports he has bougnt a fear Je.-n, " " Mr. . mm Mrs. N. A. Macotnber and daughter Sybil Grace are spending the summer with Mrs. Maeomber's parents at I'ilot Rock. G. A. Macomber and Ida MelTord motored to 1'endleton on Friday and eturned Saturday evening. Mrs. Claire Harter is spmding a ten day vacation with triends and relatives a b and rUJM -. tVaah. K. Frost rup and family, of lllek leton, Wash., and N. Brown and fam ily 0f Portland motored up Sunday ,o see Andrew Anderson. Mr. Ander son is the man who is improving a new place at Coyote Springs. Ml', l-rostrup was a ,brother-in-aw oi Mrs. Anderson. William Hunter, of state fisVneg. department, sploded six boi.'s of dynamite, which he had planted! i:i th? Bands above Tonrrtte point on the. Columbia, where about 50 seals had congregated. It is believed that the , ntire herd was killed. A silver-gray fox farm may We es-1 tablishod on the McKenzie rlvel by S. U. Greenup and Charles OeKer of Los Angeles, Cal., who have Wen at-; traded by literature on the Mcjleiuie, i and they are now up the valley Of that i .stream on an investigation trip. Decision to postpone Improvement on the Junction City-Harrisbung sec- . Don of the Pacific highway was j ip.ickwi bv the ijine county . court ! owing to the fact that both the right-of-way and construction ' work will cost more Can was anticip itrd. K. Tropp, realty dealer, and William C. Crittenden, attorney, of San Fran cisco, have bought from the i!s Fnrgo company of New York the U'ellu-K'nrL'n tiMllililie at Sixtli and Oak! A two-foot South African rattlesnake was found in a bunch of bananas which the Pacific Fruit company unloaded at Eugene a few days ago. The which th( agora of the flower show be held In Redmond in ist have decided also to feature arlv Vegetables and fruits. On June 10 an investigation of the Malheur 'ird reserve will be made by representative or the state and the United States Motoglogl survey. One of the worst hail storms ever HOOL VK All CLOSKK WITH COMMENCEMENT The school year to rthe Board man mool ciosed last Thursday night he annual commencement ad rj I rof. N. H. Cornish, of O.A.C subject "The Call of Clciliza There were three graduates. ;ith I dress 1 on th i ion". ;0dna Uro les, tiilbrieli. Mi StUdeUt a nd l oertlficate ent at any college in the conference. Her plans howcer, include matriculation at Washing state college al Pull iman. Following the address practi cally all the teaehere left (or Wiliaiii- te valley homes. and Wllma and l.ercy is Urovles was honor delved the Conference tling her to $;o tvili ion experienced visited Wc amount of orchards. John Lets dli d at his ill SeOttS V croi ted the in the it Scin. damage Santlam doing a to grain vallej large om, early Ore home on I, one illey. aged M plains In 1841 on pioneer. Cedar farm years. He ami settled T. . DUCUHH C.UtiTKlUA l) DOBtlfiSTlC SCilON. AUTO F0RFLITURES LEGAL Court Upholds Condemnation of Ma chine Bearing Liquor. Butte, Mont. G. M. Bourquin, Judge of the United States district court, has handed down an opinion upholding forfeiture and condemnation of an automobile owned by Harvey Noble in which liquor is alleged to have been transported contrary to law. Noble had been charged, tried and acquitted of transporting intoxicating Itquoi and the issue was on recovery of the automobile which had been libeled. The court ruled that-identlty of fact and law Is not established In the two cases and orders the automobile for feited and condemned. The question of the cafeteria was again discussed and also the question of dis-continuing the domestic scie nce and the manual training work for the next year.. A motion was made that the P. T. A. reccomend to the board that the management of the cafeteria should be left to the teachers assisted by her classes, with Ome one employed to wash the dishes, Of course the matter would ! rest largely with the teacher, there being a diversity of opinion among j teachers regarding work. Last jreftr Mrs. Mason thot it too difficult and this year Miss Price came with thei expectation of having that as a ' art of her work. The P. T. A. felt that' it would not be a difficult matter to eliminate one high school teacher If the new principal would help m conduct some of the classes. street:;, Portland. The purchase price, according to Tropp, was neatly !jl, 000,000. Through a decision rendered by Attorney-General Van Winkle, veterans of the world war will have until June 21 to file their claims for benefts un der the atate bonus act. For a long time tl was thought that May 25 would be the final day for the tiling of claims for either the cash orthe loan. No rabies epidemic exists in south e;n Klamath county, according to Stanley G. Jowctt, chief of the preda tory animal division of the biological survey. Mr. Jewttt made a hurried trip to Klamath after receiving re- iiorts that one ne i sou had di.T and 11 had been bitten by mad coyotes anil dogs. The state irrigation and drainage se curities commission has refuses for the second thus to approve plans for the proposed development of the Jo'.' tenon water conservancy district, nee known as the north unit irriga tion district of the big Deschutes proj ect, which Includes 10G.O0O acres iu Jefferson county. A. L. Loavltt, republican nominee for circuit jude of Klamath county, will Resume his new duties immediate ly. Governor Olcott hal appointed Mr. Leavkt to succeed Jndge Stone, who was placed on the Klamath bench wh. n Judge Kuykejndall resigned. Governor Olcotl's action followed the receipt of Judge S one's resignation. Although two municipal nr asures presented to the voters of S;i'em at the special ejection, received favorable majority votes, it Is possible that neither of these measures passed, ae they did not receive the two-thirds majority vote required by the1 city charter, according to an unofficial opinion by City Attorney Smith. Oregon has again scored ''bofjipll stales in the unlTO, this time In mat ters educational, One person' out of In the enilre slate ag last tend iner st some Institution learning a record which Is d through America, accord- tear Yoncalla in 1852. A monument to tile pioneers who (facet fcfca Oregon trail will be erected a Takenah park at Albany by the members of Linn chapter. Daughters of the American Revolution. With thousands Of spectators lining be s'des of ihe natural amphitheater hi Quenctt Park, the second annual iresenfal ion of the "Pageuni Of Wasco- lam" was given at The Dalles. Lane county will purchase the fair rroutuis at Eugene as a result of the special election held iu connection with the primaries. The lair ground purchase measure carried by :!P votes. to open a can of blacV his pocket knife, Ray known young farmer of e dl'.urict of Morrow atallv buined when the NEW DDI Work has start it HoiM'dinan. I tionday, and ore sight hours a d; HTAIITHD d on the n w dopo he crew arrived on already (MJttinjg ln v on the building. went to Herm ans is under the Some time ago 112 each year in at of higher unoaralli I lng to Dr. George F. Zook, specialist In it( mptlng OOWder with V'ounr, a wel he Blght-M sounty, was igjl exploded. Thi annual encampmeert of the de oartment of Oregon, Grand Army of b Republic, will be held at Newport Tune 27 io 29, according to announce- i.i in made by C. A. Williams, di pnrt ment commander. The first Shipmi nl of the produce of Bt nd'a newest Industry v as made Sun day, when a carload of charcoal manu actured at the wood Glut Illation t t;st plant of the Brooks-Scanlon Lumber aompany was sent out. Ihe Inland Construction company of Portland was the successful bidder r the construction of the new i Idle tank at Pendleton for which nds were voted list fall. The ac cepted bid was $Sf,7ti. Preparations ate now bejng mads .'or the establishment of a summer re st rt at DUnjOUd lakfl la time for the ipenlng of the sciison IsU in .luii". oi si;nuitanei.u.sly with the opening ol the Crater lane season, July 1. With the election of officers for the coming year by the grand lodge ol Oddfellows and the selection of North Bend as the place of the conclave next year, the annual four-day convention of the order closed at Eugene. The biggest slate nnn conference track meet cm the spring calendar took place at Salem when Willamt lt university acted as host to live col leges. These schools were pacific Linfield, Cheinawg, Reed and Albany The ninth annual convention of tlo Cattle and Horse Raiser's associa Mrs. Royal Rami Iston Mbhdny w hen rare Of Or. Gale. Mrs. Bands fell and bruised her shin and it baa not healed properly. NAItnOW ESCAPE East Wednesday nig'el the Gllbreths had a narrow escape when the steer Hg wheel of Paul Demaris' Ford broke and the car tipped over, spil ling the occupants out, bin fortun- fttety no da. .lege was done. They ere returning from the Class nigui exeretaee and just between sseosnei and Boardraan the car went off the grade No one was bun Inn Wilmu who bad her nose rath'-r badly bump d. The oilier occupants received I good shake-up The car was not damaged. I . i. OFPICMRS S, P. IS ORDERED TO DIVORCE G. P. Decision of the Supreme Court Breaks Up Control of Com petitive Lines. Washington, D. C. Dissolution of ownership and control of the Central Pacific railway by the Southern Pa cific company was ordered by the supreme court ln an opinion delivered by Justice Day. The decision ln the i aaa which was the last of the railroad ineiger suits to come before the court, held that the two lines were competi tive, Justices McReynolds and Bran dets, because of their official connec piior to going upon the bench, .ml not participats. Justice McKenua delivered a short dissent. The COUW directed that a decree be entered severing the control by the Seal hern Pacific of the Central Pa ific by stock ownership or by lease, but In accomplishing that end so far SI Compatible, said the mortgage Hen In the Union Trust company of New Yuri; should be protected. The ease had been pending In the courts since February II, 1914, when the United States asked the United States district court of Utah to re st ruin the two railroads, the Union Trust company Of New York, and th directors and officials of the Southern Pacific under the Sherman anti-trust and the Pacific railroad act. The United Stales asserted that the lines or the two railroads constituted com uetltlve systems and added that the ownership acquired by the Southern Pacific of a controlling Interest ln the Central Pacific be declared unlawful. The Boardinan P. T. A. has elected the roltowiri'g officers lor the ensuing year: Mrs. Margaret Cramer. Presi dent; Mrs. Florence Hoot, Vive Pnsi dent; Mrs. Margaret KlltS, Treasu.re and Mrs. A. T. lb-reini, Secretary. They are recommending to the school board that the work In domestic sci ence bo retained In the kcIm.oIs. Pi Pine, ( Ireg M. B. Sign lion day. lual a J, Dedger, of Ihe La in schools, was a guest of I and family over Decora IIo is on his way to hi will travel via Seattle and homo in Eugct'" bill Snokane, Ellensbtlig Portland. Harry Murchie is building an Ice box In hi. building and already hus a meal block built. As soon us the tools arrive be will open a fliHt-clasH , ...... liel for ihe accooioda ion of the busy run summer days. her during the ho Mr. Laediy, whose home Is near Astoria spenl a few days here tut week looking over the ranch. Mr. Lauiley owns Ihe place between Ihe KuUnsr'fl and King's. Ill E HI MMtEl) KHKMP UltOWNKD IN i Ol TOtn BO! b had '.he BUJSf rl IMS . , ... .v. l,,.U, ,,i higher education of the bureau of edu-j tlon closed its meeting at Enterprise to lose wetmi ........... cation, Washington. D. C. I with the election of W illiam Pollrnan t hasp in Hi irngation canal, jus Unless the pubhe service commls- i president; William Duby, treasurer below the dam, ibis wees. Ihe sion Intervenes, incrtases In cash and I and S. O. Correll, secretary, all ol I sheep had been moved elOM to the commutation rare on street railway Baker. I water and the dog nol Hklag the BSJW systems In Salem and Cine ne will ; Three of the 443 accidents reported local ion descried, and relumed to Decern effective Jure 20. New tar to the state Industrial accident rourmls j lnH 0d (.auip, thus leaving the herder Iffs providing for a fare liter ;.se from slon during the k I ndlng May 26 nogf, When the ihsep headed for 5 to 6 cents In thsa cities were filed, were fatal, according to a report made lh(J ral)al for (ratST be was unable with the commission by the Southern public by the eommisslen, L. 11 H1":,,, ,0 anything and pracilcally the Pacific company, owner of the Salem, of Portland. Fred Whl'aker of Bi .ok ' (,n jr(i i)rJ waH dlown,., before aid Eugene and West Linn street rail Ings and C. K. Hill of Moro loai their foud (j) ()i)lainl;ti wavs. lives. PORTLAND BALL CLUB HEADS ARE ODSTED Portland, Or. The decision by lodge Kenesaw M. Landls, baseball high commissioner, la the Kenworthy Is iiniiuralleled in its severity. Aceordl&g to his verdict, W. H. Klepper, president of the Portland baseball club, must retire from base i.eii. He will be placed on the in eligible list and will not be rainsUted until January 1, 1925. lames it. Brewster of Seattle, vice p hut of Ihe Portland baseball i ub. Is placed on the ineligible list and will not be reinstated until Jan uury I, 1924. Kenworthy Is placed on the Ineligi ble list until January 1, 1924, but can return U the game as a player, not as i managsr, August 1 of this year, if Landls is convinced that Klepper and QrewStS) have absolutely retired from i ebsll, either actively or passively, according U) his order. 11 STATES BACK VOLSTEAD Temperance Forces Units for Rs election of Representative. Milwaukee, Wis -Concentration o: the tempi cans forces of u states u fight for the re-election of Ktipresan tatlve Vollfemd of Minnesota wi agreed upon at the Antl Saloon leugui district conference here, according t It P llutton, state superintendent T be states Included In the agreement are tVlBCOXsIn, Minnesota, Illinois Ohio, Kentucky, Indians, Iowa, Nb ruska, Michigan, North anil South L kota. I a fi at ol lO'prcsciitative Vnlsteac Is desired by the. wets tor Its psycho logical affect upon the nation." Mr llutton said. "The noil-partisan Iiujui ib mocrstl and wets In his dlstrlci hSVS combined against him." HOME SWEET HOME SAD 14 THE JO. Eft OF THE r A f. i lv -AUTOCASTeR.- I & 4 . . i ' j f I . I riu.i - i-J(j I i I MC.i, vnu UIFU, TMt m - Ar- ' o ! i mOK N. Toe k r r- BeLi.t or- -rue , ' mSm 'l Ct 3.'l 1 U-r.-: ilU 1 M s 1 VJHV Of)l'T YOU hi sepiuur s. ton omte? ) . Jf i I - rZZ&s-- ha!