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VOLUME II
BOARDMAN, C
L922
NT'
MBER 18
LABOR BOARD ORDERS
ANOTHER WAGE CUT
Reduction Afects Railway 3hcp
Mechanics and Saves Ap
proximately $GO,GOD
5 OREGON NEWS NOTES OF PRINCIPAL
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NOTES
a WEEK
e
Chicago, 111. Over the strong
test of the three labor represents!
on the United States railroad M
board, a new wage cut of 7 centf
hour for railw;
9 cents for fri
400,000 shop a
000,000 a year i
board.
The new was
t shop mechanics
Ight car men, cul
?n approximately
nd was ordered by
Willi the
ely has soma contract
in that sec! ion.
O ivernor
mpany
i u md i
Irs. Claire P. Ha i ter
two in! 6 in Ihe Crai:
annually to the railroad's, Collowl
on the heels of a 50,000,000 cut ir
wages of maintenance of way laborer
last. week. The shop crafts det a n
becomes effective July 1, the sa tt
date us last week's or ier.
The minority report of the labo
numbers pointedly stated that I
majority decision was made "with
consideration of human needs" as i
charges; that it fails to carry nut th I
function of the board to set a "jus'
and reasonable" wage.
The board's latest decision, whie
Is to be followed by reductions foi
railway clrk3, telegraphers and ati-j
other classes of railway Employes ex
cept the train service raeu, was brief
and offered no explanation of how tin
new rates were arrived at. This on.
eion brought mote fire from the d:
senters, who declared the majorit;
decision did not consider "human
needs," ignored the pleas of tin
ployes for a "living wage" and i is
"no attempt to show that mechanli
are not entitled to such a standard ."
A strike vote of approximately 1,
200,000 rail workers will be takui bj
the individual unions affected by iaSi
road labor wage reductions, recentlj
ordered and ponding, it was decldi d.
The vote in each organization will
be returnable within thirty days after
the board announces a wage cat lo
that class of employes, the vote of tin. I
shop crafts, whose reduction was or
dered by the board being returnable
June 30.
ing the month of M
! new record for all i
two plains have o
Hlxon shipments to:;
the Drooks Scanlon
UKi d .114 ni'R
Miss Delhi Olson is reeupera.irijt
qua apm
Moi i an operation at St. Anthony's ( th t
':opitai in Pendleton, which sin
unacrw.-.nt. last Saturday morning, j ,roiriat i
At last report che is gaining rapidly, Mary's a
' harbors
Mrs Paul Partlow has been qui e , . , nt t0
! i ho past week. work, to
e senate
S; nator
in, ar- The system of .he Dee Power n:i
iv days' Irrigation company in the Hood rlv.
with her cou.-i
Xi linoi a Ke.. s
and Raekan
:nie at Wiilov
V HI BT
d clare, ahxac
cent by the w
feared the dro
the district's I
ran into a ditch which was dug oomplete and tli
. --"oss the road by !'-e ilarri i.n p'rti "luclion of the
vnd Mrs. Nl-or was thrown eg; hint I within two weel
ho iiMl hi- Id and severely bru s d , UbI year brought the bull
Mr. pftHhe brakes as , on . ground. The cost of the n
is he saw the diich but it vas too j is about $5500 or $7000.
. iid the car plunged into it. The I V. A. Elliott, state fore
he Dee flat stra
s badly damaged I
ind service has iv
ira wherries, growet
jusly affo
unyon, P. p.dletOf
:h runs w ide op.
theround-up, aj
ittract for the col
pavilion will be it
rhe heavy . not .
LANDIS IS UPHELD
by goast lea:
1.
San Francisco. After n wordy 81
sion here the directors of the Pacitit
Coast baseball league voted to accept,
abide by and enfe-ee the decision of
Judge Landis, high commissioner of
baseball. In declaring ineligible for
Silleged irregular practices William H
Klepper, president of the Portland
club: James R. Brewster, Vlce-prdki I
dent of the same club, and William J.
Kenworthy, manager of the team.
Judge Landis will consider briefs
and other evidence tiled in behalf of
the suspended men according to a
telegram received frcm Judge Landis!
by William H. McCarthy, president oi i
the league. The telegram was In '
answer to ono sent by the league
directors here after a special nit eting
asking Judge Landis if he would con
sider sueh evidence.
Id.ll.N k .Mil-.!'
The river is now over i
of the Umatilla river. i
no bridge for some time to
public mostly of iliis stati
a fouiih of the cost of t
this spring lo cro-v, tru fl
ferry but still the count;,
ferwit to our needs. Th
V
has a blot on its smooth t uuac
zler
in;; the Umatilla i
utility officers 1 1 . f t
l election? Put its
UlTKliN
NKW MAI
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I.S
No. 1 Wheat Seiis High as $1.39.
Spokane. Prices for wheat pooled
by the Washington, Idaho and Ore
gon Wheat Growers' association and
sold since last fall have run from
$1.19 to $1.39 per bushel for the No.
1 sacked grain at Pacific coast pciuts,
according to a preliminary audit an
nounced by the Northwst YVlieat Grow
ers' association.
A beginning has been made in the
harvesting of the first crop of alfalfa
In this section. Several f,!ds have
already been knocked down, 'i hi
crop is ready rather earlier than
was expected owing to the lalene&s
the past two weeks has brought it
loreward rapidly. Pro perls arc
food for four crops. Manug r L. A.
Ilttnt, of the Hay Growers Ass'n. re
ports fiom the Hermiston o;Iic. s that
the firsi. orders for new hay are in
.it $14.03 f.o.b. cars. While this is
1 !:", G .: .nt lavf.. which . provld is,
art, thai Ihe burning of all sire i
hupping, v. oodland or brush land d
ing thq period between June 1 to t)
t b r 1 shall be done urider wi i
permission from a state-appointed fir
warden. Burning done in violatio:- c
the law submits ihe party concert
to prosecu .ion.
The cm;, y court of Polk county I
enj ilndl from paying, aaiy portion
the expense of ccrstruc'.lug the we
side Pacific iligiiv.ay, between Hoi
pap and the Benton county line, by
decision' oi t'i.i-nii -Higc Kelly tit . i
lem, in setting aside a contract lr
tv.cen the county court and the .
highway commission whereby
county assumed an Obligation of $1 ,
attempted to divf rt at once
tfom the uu.'ily'.-., market road
for that purpo".
That section of. the Oregon
between Ntskowln, in Tillamook
ty, ar.d G;e Siletz river, lu Li
county, ii-accf ssltic save for hik(
to be provided wuh a road, wiiici
Final agreemeiw m this was hi
a meeting- of the state highway
mis.-; in Portland. Ti e Tills
end has been disposed of, but Li
county officials explained tlta.
had no bond money for th .
pnd, up to the Tillaranok county
It will cost above $'90,000 to com
the rotd and of this cost Lincoln
ty will contribute $120,000. Thi
is to be pro', id'.d by ihe state, an
ins to contract In the stack at $S.0tf C01
to $8.00 with few takers.
ITE FAVORS
7 OF 133,000
Measure Goes to Conference
as it Increases House Fig
ures of 115.000 Men.
Washington, D. C. The annual
array appropriation bill, carrying an
appropriation of $341,760,000, was
passed by the senate. It fixes the size
Of the army for the next year at an
of U
180 officers and 188,
" td d i ".. -,i by grwuhoppers in
Tule Lake dislrict near the Call-
Pr. M U. Kliis. prominent physician
nd. citizen of Albany EOT ahnost 10
tr ts, dltd at his home in that city,
A baud of horses stampeding at
; v yard, c i islhg on the O.-W. R. ft
a, ir llai.t's resulted in the death
. ' ighl, five being race horses.
Five hundred men will soon be at
firk on the state hlyhway surfacing
'b between Myrtle Point and the
0Sburg section, it is CBtimaLtd.
Th6 city of Coquille will vote on
ne tiO on a bond Issue of 80,0 1
-"-naev to be used on ItinJc crteii
a heighten the reservoir dam 10 feet
The public service cc .-amission is
quested to repeal its order for an 8
faic in Portland and restore the
nt rate, In :i resolution adopted by
tig Portland Federation of Women's
iusihI the ligh
we. He is ar
te laurels to the Umatilla
Ca tot fiii'siiing up the dlsj
liort time. Agent llrudieo
tat the feeling ran high In
r a while and lhat a negro
r out of town.
Conductor Piillintu was ba
Uy beal
drt t
rges of attt
ins and the
i charge of
wl!fh"d
P
.1 V
ated
by a (i
i apartim
five bloc!-.
at $3GO,O0
T-.vo logeers. Waller V.'hr
idtr cf Kirby, and Alfn
4!f accidents n ported to the at a1
dustrial accid nt commission di
the week i nd"d Jtine 1.
Half of Prlneville's business se,
wa-i wiped out
which started it
house and sw
causing a
The authoi
was of Incendiary oi I in.
Ilu"sell Hacker was indict
circuit court grand jury of Clackama
county, charged with the murder n
Frank Bowker, Portland musiclut
whose body was found in the Calf
pooia river after nearly a week'
search, which started April 16.
From the standurd four-year hi '
schoolB of Ore; on, ZK'iO students v.!
be graduated this yi;ir, and f,8 p'
-wot these, or H3J, will be girh
according to J. A. Churchill, mate st
p- rinteadi nt of schools. The total -i
roilmt'iit in these' high schools is 2t
that the bl.
d by
It Mil
l.V IN I'
AMI
Uiiiat
A million and a half trout eggs have
been received by the Rcseburg sports
m it's league fiom the state fish com
mission. The egfs were sent to the
where the fry
naiin l
in pre
proji t
the I J
latiiii
It. I.
Rock Creek hatch,
will be cared for t
to relrase in the wi
Umpqua.
large
apti
test
Of the hill which was with
rord vote followed quickly
t vote, by which the senate
in to 21, Its committee's ac-
ln Inoreaaing the house figure on
a of the army from 115.000 to
'mi enlisted men. The strength
L'.Vto iii I leers compares with 11,
as voted by the house,
le measure now goes to confer
I with the house,
irty lines were broken when the
as taken. Nine democrats
rated with the republican majority in
upholding t
six republi
negative.
le seunle committee, while
ana wtre counted in the
ospecta for early action on the
s ildlers' bonua bill improved material-
Ij when the senate, without a protest-
Ing voice, sidetracked the tariff and
gave the right of way to the army ap
propriation bill. The same action will
! taken concerning the naval appro
priation hil! ami other measures.
Pro bonua senators declared that If
the tariff could ba laid aside for the
army and navy bills, it could be laid
aside for the soldiers' bonus. The
action will be regarded as a prece
cal and will be used as a lever to
force consideration of the bonua.
PJTISH TROOPS ROOT
u m
litfe IXI
the
Itidon. Infantry, cavalry, artll
and whippet tanks took part in
first Offensive action of the
lab troops on the Ulster bordar
arhen Petttgoe, which straddles
line, thouch a large part of the
i is in Kree State territory, was
i! .'in I reiaK' n Troni troops of
Irl i republican army who enter
1 1 : i "in Belfast describe the
r i luntryaida as swarming with
I . while the British general
i the operations from head
quarters on a hill outside the town.
iee republican commandant
' 'I Bti ff, Who were taken prisoner
In n the troops entered the town, It
ported that many Blnn Pelnera
:n d in a later clean-up of
Petttgoe.
BR00KHART WINS IN IOWA
' l ' ' He Has Received Re
publican Senatorial Nomination.
Dei Molnei smith W. Brookhart of
Washington, Iowa, led his closest op-
Charles Ij. i'ickett, of Watur-
leore than two to one, In a
field of six candidates for the repub
lican nomination for United States
Senator fri m Iowa.
Ihe returns indicated that Brook
hart ran relatively as well In the
loo,
nit,
by
eltii a, where lo
be less strong,
districts.
Hi ports from
Indicated that
h
tpt i ted to
the rural
all parts of the state
the hottest campaign
i ' in J ars bad drawn only a small
it. j
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