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I IlLi MIRROR VOLUME 2 )v AROMAN, OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1922 NUMBER 37 3400 CARS ORDERED FOR WESTERN FRUIT Interstate Commerce Commis sion Acts to Prevent Heavy Loss on Apple Crop. : H LOCAL h J NOTES I I OREGON NEWS NOTES OF PRINCIPAL EVENTS HAPPENING DURING WEEK HEPPNKR- UIJ.GTO. ST.UiE I, IMC STAKTEl) KKt'NXTEY Washington, D. C. Orders have been issued to eastern roads to deliver to western carriers at Chicago within the next 10 days 3400 refrigerator cars to aid in the transportation of the northwestern fruit crop. This action followed urgent telegrams received mainly from the Washington state senators and representatives, who told the commission that it was vitally necessary to get a very large number of refrigerator cars to the northwest at once to prevent a loss of millions of dollars on the apple crops cf the Yakima, Wenatchee and Okanogan valleys. It was admitted at the officas of the interstate commerce commission that the movement of the perishable fruit crop of the country is one of the most serious problems confronting the car service division, which is under Commissioner Aitchison. The de mands are coming from all sections of the country, particularly from the northwest, it was said. To meet all demands from every section there is a total of only 60, 000 cars in the United States, and Oregon, Washington and Idaho com bined could give one eastbound haul to each of these cars this year, an of ficial of the commission declared. At the same time, however, he said the frantic demand for ventilated cars is coming from Michigan, New York, West Virginia, Colorado and a dozen othertates, just at a time when (the commission has finally satisfied the same sort of an appeal from Cali fornia, where the movement of the grape crop was for a time equally as serious a problem as the apple crop has lately become. A. T. Hereim, Jr., is having an attack of croup but it is said to be not very serious. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Cramer were guests at the Lee Mead home Sunday evening. Chas. Latourell, of Heppner , has been enjoying the open season on pheasants here this week. A. W. Cobb and Leslie Packard are measuring the hay of Boardman as sociation members. Italph Wasmer is recuperating from a severe attack of walking typhoid, at the Nick Faler home. Mrs. Clay Warren has been very ill for several days. Frank Otto and R. Wasmer moto red to Hermiston, Monday to see Dr. Illsley. The Boardman Oarage has just installed a new 5 gallon Rowen gas oline pump. Don't forget the eleclion day din ner that the Aid is giving. Fricassed chicken, dumplings and everything. BRITISH REJECT RIGHT OF SEAHCI! Washington, D. C. British rejection of the American proposal for a treaty to extend the right of search of vessels up to 12 miles off-shore was contained in a note'to Secretary Hughes by An, bassador Geddes. The communication was in reply to Mr. Hughes' note of June 26, setting out difficulties en countered by American prohibition en forcement officers in checking the illicit flow of intoxicants into the U..: ted States. The American note dealt particular ly with smuggling operations from Hritish possessions in waters adjacent to the American coast and Biiggest -i "methods by which the existing tremely unfortunate conditions might be remedied." Among these was a pro posal for careful supervision of reg's tries and clearance papers granted to suspected vessels and "an intern. . tional arrangement between the Uni ted States and Great Britain undr which the authorities of each nation would be authorized to exercise be yond the three-mile limit of territorial waters a measure of control over ves sels belonging to the other." Arit Hummell has been staying with Mrs. Blayden while his mother 1st in Heppner at the teacher's institute. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Rallenger, and daughter Maxine, are visiting in Was ro this week with the W. A. Murchie family. Five Injured When Dirigible Burns. San Antonio, Tex. The army diri gible C-2, which recently completed a transcontinental flight and had reach ed San Antonio on its way back to Washington, was burned while being taken from its hangar at Brooks field preparatory to a flight over the city. Four members of the crew and a news paper man, one of the passengers, were injured when the dirigible fell and burned. No fatalities resulted. Three States to Fight Express Rates. Portland, Or. In a conference of public service regulatory bodies of the three states of Oregon, Washington and California here it was unanimous ly decided that the interests of ship pers and consumers on the Pacific coast are similar and that this justi t es concerted action in the proceed ings now pending before the Interstate commerce commission for the consid eration of interstate express rates. Mr. and Mrs. N. A. Maconiber, and Sybil Grace, motored to Pendleton Wednesday on a shopping tour, re turning on Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Raker and fam ily, of Sherman county were guee,s at the E. K. Mulkey home Saturday and Sunday. Last Saturday evening the grange; held a very enjoyable meeting in thej school auditorium. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Smith were given the first and second degrees, that evening. Dr. Miller, eye and throat specialist j will be here on October 25 and 26, to operate for tonsils. Everyone take advantage of this opportunity and i have the best service for the price. Multnomah county's assessment roll, as corrected by Assessor Welch fol lowing adjustments by the board of equalization, shows a decrease of $;". 043,020 from that of last year. The total last year was $288,636,450 an i this year it is $283,593,430. Plans for exhilji' of Deschutes county potatoes at all of the import ant potato shows of the northwest and middle west were formulated at a meeting of representatives or all the commercial organizations of central Oregon, held In Redmond. Senator McNary has cancelled all speaking engagements for which h was scheduled in New England, New York and New Jersey and left Wash ington, D. C. Sunday for Oregon, where he will take the stump In behalf of republican state and congressional tickets. More than 40 years ago William A. Kirk filed on government land in Morrow county. Last week a son, Will T. Kirk, state industrial accident com missioner, received a check for bit share of an overpayment of more than $100 which his father mude the gov ernment. Sheriff Wellington's threat to in vade the various cities of Columbia county with his deputies and raid shops operating slot machines if the city officials did not stop the gambling was said to have resulted in the clos ing down of most of the various gamb ling devices. The injunction suit of the Lane county good roads association against the recall of the unsold portion of the county's 18,000,006 road bond issue failed when Judge J. W. Hamilton in circuit court at Eugene dismissed the case and ordered the measure placed on the November ballot. Prominent Med lord men who ac qulred timber holdings in that sec tion which will Justify manufacturing operations for many years have organ ized the Talent Lumber company and will erect a sawmill and box factor at Talent with a dally capacity of ap proximately 30,00(1 leet. George Roberio, charged with kill ing Alvin 11. I'riee and wounding an other man in a bus on the lower Co lumhiu river highway August 21. aaf been pronounced insane after an ex amination at St. Helens and the gran d jury has recommended he be confine;! in the state hospital at Salem. The surface of Sutton lake, In tin western part of Lane county, will In lowered about three feet when tin l..iteheil hrotners wno live on Its gshores, have finished opening an out Bet. The Mitcheli brothers will re gclaim 300 acres of land and will culti I cranberries and vegetables. Prellmlnafyvevganixatlon of a road ; association which has fur Its purpose the boosting of a north and south j highway from Pendleton to Lakevlew, ! was effected when .lames Mottle of Uklah was elected president of the i di legations which mot at Pilot Rock, j Felix A. Johnson ot Range was named t vice-president and C. I. Barr of Pendle ton secretary Circuit Judge Belt of Dallas, sitting In court at McMinnville sustained the j demurrer of the defendant in the ease of the Pacific Co-operative Poultry : Producers, a co-operative association, j against J. A. Hansen, thus dissolving the injunction against Hansen selling I his eggs to ethers than the pl aintiff, and dismissing the association's suit j for spei ile performance of contract with Hansen, Initiative petitions referring to the voters of Oregon at tiie general elec tion in Hit a constitutional amend ment providing for state government reorganization and proportionate oc cupational representation, were filed with the secretary of state at Salem. It had been intended to place this amendment tlh the ballot at the elec tion next month but lack of sufficient signatures on the petitions necessitat ed the d 'lay. The Davidson Fruit company of Hood Hiver has loaded aboard the steamer Gothics tar, which departed from Portland Friday, the first ship ment of pears dispatched directly from Portland to Europe by an all-water route. The pears, of assorted varie ties, were shipped in the way of an ex periment. If the fruit holds up well it is anticipated heavy shipments of the fruit will he made by the all water route next year. Oregon pensions have been granted as follows: Benjamin Howell, Kails City, $12; Clara A. Mlkesell. Heppner. $30; Mary I-. White, Tin; Dulles. $30; William O. Ash, Portland. $12; Nancy Ben John. Chiloquin, $12; Clarence E. Marers, Albany, $15; Kite Smilev. i Klnmath agency, $12; Mary A. Gates, Milton, $30; Elizabeth C. Mol,alu. ', Gresham, $30; Joseph Brat' . Port ; land, $12; Charles M. Best, PUoi Rock, $12; Theodore Smith, ''and. $12; : Louis Miller, Molal!a, $l, oorge O. i Mjuct RucUu, 112. O. H. McPherrin and I!. E. Burke: have Installed a stage service between1 Heppner and Arlington that will fill a long felt want with the traveling public. The first trip was made last i Saturday. The line is equipped with two 7 passenger cars which meet all requirements of the state law gover ning motor bus lines and the schedule calls for two round trips a day Mr. McPherrin and Mr. Burke have been operating stages between Pendleton and Weston for the past six years and have a thorough knoyledge of the business and they promise to give the public a strictly first class serivce. Heppner Herald. WALTER M. 118 WOK TALK8 ON TAX ItEIH'CTiON RAILWAY EMPLOYES GRANTED WAGE RISE Pay of 451.911 Men Lifted 2 Cents an Hour by Rail road Labor Board. Walter M. Pierce, democratic cand idate for governor spoke on the tax question in the school auditorium Saturday evening. He gave a very good talk on the subject and left a good impression with the people that he would make an able governor. Properly eating taxed is the vital question before the people of Chicago. The wage bill of the na- ! tlon's railroads was increased an esti mated $22,125,000 by a decision of the United States railroad labor board granting increased pay of 2 cents an hour to 451,911 maintenance of way employes. Four of nine groups of the United Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes and Railroad Shop Work ers were affected by the raise, the largest single group being common laborers. The decision raised mini mum rates of pay for the classes affected from the present 23 and 35 cents to 25 and 37 cents. Chairman Hooper of the labor board In a statement following the decision said that the hoard based its find ing on a genera! upward trend In Wftges since the board's decision of last July reducing wages for this and other groups of workmen and not on any pronounced change in living costs. The decision marked a victory for OregQn today. These taxes we have voted upon ourselves and there is no the public group of the board which repudiating the same. The only sol- proposed the 2-cent increase, the pro- Ution is lax revenues from new sour- posal being rejected at first by the ces. A severance ta on untaxable three members of the railroad group, commodities of the present day is a wno favored no change, and the three suggested remedy to relieve the sit- members of the labor group, who fav uation. A severance lax of five cents much MwgM Increase, the thousand on the lumber cut of, last year would have produced one million, eight hundred thousand dol lars. Do you know uny reason why this Oregon product should not con tribute toward paying our taxes. Do you know that the second, thrid and fourth grades are bundled off onto you and 1, and the first grade is ship pod to Japan and foreign porta, Wo airiafe our ventilating systems thru third grade knot holes, while the slant-eyed sit snugly behind the strait grained. Who should worry if they were to pay B ' -a for (he privi lege. The same tax applies to Hie fisheries. We tax our I'SS to produce spawn to slc the streams and a few U, S. BOND OFFERING IS OVER SUBSCRIBED Washington, D, O The treasury's new offering of $5oo,ooo,ooo of 4 per con) 30 year bonds has been over Ubscrlbed approximately $1,000,000, 000, it was announced by Secretary Mellon. Books for cash offerings closed at noon October 14. Subscriptions for which 4 per cent victory notes or December 16 treasury certificate! are tendered In payment will be received and allotments will be made in full until November 1. paekers put up the BTfi I t and reap 'Approximately $150,000,000 of such the benefits. Many such revenues r ""lj8'''l"tl(mM already l"ve t- I tea in lull under the terms of the of fering. Subscriptions received to date, ac cording to reports in hand, were said to nsgregate more than $1,550,000,000, of which about $1,400,000,000 represent cash subscriptions. Of the cash sub scriptions more than $325,000,000 was In amounts not exceeding $10,000 for any one subscriber. even spread is not found to relieve the tax on the land then chaosj con fronts the state. Are you thinking or are ou numbed into inactivity thru the perilous position you find your- That Turkish Tobacco The teachTS were all in Heppner : this week attending the teachers in stitute. Mrs. Watklns drove over in her car, taking with" her, Mrs. Crow der and Miss Powell, Dale Watklns acting as chauffeur. Mr. Mulkey had as his guests, Mrs. Hummell and Mr. Carroll. John J. Jenkins, who has charge of the road work in Roardman was in town Monday. Mr. Jenkins) was in poor health most of the summer but is alright again and once more on the road job making more good highways for the project citizens. ' Hepner Herald. The poultry culling demonstration was held by W. O. Kings, on Tuesday as announced before. Mr. Cosby, of O. A. C. was in charge. Only a few were present, but those present re ceived many points concerning lay ing hens which contradicted so many of our traditional beliefs, concerning "old biddy" He pronounced Mr. King?' flock as an exceptionally good flock for breeding purposes He ad vised all poultry keepers to cull early in order to save feeding expenses. Did you take a vacation? No, I took a two week trip In Ford. LAND TRUST IS HELD VOID Washington State Anti-Alien Law Prevents Any Circumvention. oiympia, Wash, The unreins court upheld the ant! alien land law pass ed by the 1921 legislature, construing It as a bar to the holding of prop erty In Washington by citizens for aliens under a declaration of trust. The decision wus In the case of the Hlate against , J. O'Connell and wife, J. 1). O'Connell and Pierre Lonergan, and reversed Judge Gilliam of King county, who sustained a demurrer In the complaint. Tile state sued to escheat to Itself lands held by J. D. O'Connell and Lonergan for E. J. O'Connell and wife and D. P. O'Connell, a minor, all British subjects, under a declaration of trust executed after the passage of the anti-alien land law. 248.5 Mlle Gait New Air Record. Mount demons, Mich. lu traveling at a greater speed than any human being ever before at'nined, lieutenant It. E. Maugbau, a I' in ted States army pilot, set a new wor'd'a airplane speed record. He covered a one kilometer course at the rate ot 248.5 nr'.-s an hour. The record eras made during official government tests of speed planes. Milwaukee Gets Mining Congress. Cleveland, O -Sidney J. Jennings of New York was elected president of the American Mining congress by the board of director here. Milwaukee was selected as the neat meeting place