CilEGON Ml NOTES
OF GENERAMNTEREST
Principal Events of the Week
Briefly Sketched for Infor
mation of Our Readers.
Kutarn Oreson Is experiencing iti
first winter weather or the 191718
season.
Military drill Is a part of the regu
lar college work at Willamette Unl
Teralty at Salem.
Mrs, W. Hudklns of Albany haa knit
ted 26 sweater for the local chapter
of the Red Croat.
Charles Lyman Barnes, one of the
most widely known cltlxens of Polk
county, died In Dallas, aged 68.
The Grants Pass high school debat
ing team won the triangular debate
between Medford. Ashland and Granti
Pass.
Mid-year commencement exercises of
the Eugene high achool. customary In
former -years, were abandoned this
year.
Sheep raising Is to be a feature oi
the' Industrial club work among the
school children of Klamath county the
coming year.
The Washington County Patriotic
council was recently organised by
representative men from various parts
of the county.
The first annual convention of the
Oregon Greeters, a hotel clerks' organi
sation, was held In Portland Tuesday
and Wednesday.
Fire which originated in the Odd
fellows' building wiped out half of the
business section of lone. The loss
Is estimated at (40,000.
Thomas F. Ryan, assistant state
treasurer, has made formal announce
ment of his candidacy for the repub
lican nomination as state treasurer.
Retail hardware dealers from all
parts of Oregon will gather at Port
land January 22 to 25 for the 12th
annual convention of their association.
Dr. J. W. Meredith, 86 years old, and
for 46 years a practicing dentist in
Salem, where he continued his prac
tice during the entire time in one of
fice. Is dead.
Applications for $230,000 worth of
loans have been made by 85 members
of the Lewis and Clark Farm Loan
association of Clatsop county since
April 9, 1917.
Polk county farmers are puzzled over
reoent heavy losses or sheep. While
it is known that dogs are doing the
work, there hasaappeared no effective
way to find the dogs.
Arnold Sandoz, in a fit of anger,
shot and killed his brother-in-law,
Lewis Chase, at the ranch home of
his father, Alfonzo Sandoz, on Mill
creek, five miles south of The Dalles.
The building of 40 miles of track on
the Valley t Siletz railway, between
Independence and the Siletz basin, has
opened up the largest body of yellow
fir timber on any one watershed In
the ate.
In a formal statement. Represent
tlve C. N. McArthur, of Portland, has
announced his candidacy for renomina-
tion upon a platform pledging con
tinued support of the government's
war program.
The Oregon Association for the Pre
vention of Tuberculosis has exceeded
Us quota In the sale of Red Cross
Christmas Beals "by more than $2000
the total returns being $12,161.86, Tht
auota was 110,000.
Another , big. logging earnp will be
opened at once In the coast mountains
west of Eugene, for the Booth-Kelly
Lumber company, adding largely to the
output of logs for the company's big
plant at Springfield.
On the morning that the dally papers
told of the worst blizzard of years in
the east G. W. McFarlanibroughJnto
Cottage Grove a tomato which had ri
pened in his garden and which he had
found that morning.
Charles H. Gram, for six years presi
dent of the state federation of labor
and for ten years deputy state labor
commissioner, has announced his can
dldacy for the republican nomination
as state labor commissioner
One hundred per cent organized in
logging camps and lumber mills Is the
record for Coos oounty, It is reported.
The Loyal Legion of Loggers and Lum
bermen, a patriotic organization, now
has a total of 3821 members
Never before In their history were
the factories of Oregon in a condition
as prosperous as at present In nearly
all cases they are running to capacity,
" and many of them have orders booked
which it will require months to fill
Under the probability that several
Coos Bay sawmills will go on double
shift soon In order to ajdthg airplane
ft
an3 ship Umber production, several
hundred extra men must be housed.
Fifty houses could be rented If avail-
ihliv
Dr. Carl Gregg Doney. president of ,
Willamette University, has been given
a six months' leave of absence by the
trustees of that Institution to go to
France, investigate the conditions
there and return to America to assist
In acquainting the public with such
conditions. During his absence Dean
George H. Alden will act as president
of the school
Representative Hawley has been ad
vised that a preliminary examination
made in Yamhill and Polk counties by
H. 3. Gale, of the United States geolo
gical survey, showed numerous Indica
tions of natural gas. but no indica
tion, of OIL
Estimates published at the San
Francisco office of the United States
eeoloulcal survey, concerning the mln
eral output of the state of Oregon, are
In nianr Instances contradictory, un
reliable and unfair, according to H. M.
prk. of the Oregon bureau of mines.
A tract of spruce In the Westlake
district near Florence, which will
cruise 60 per cent clear spruce and
produce from 80,000.000 to 90,000.000
feet of spruce timber has been discov
ered and steps are being made to begin
logging operations In the near future.
William Chandler, 50, was shot and
killed, and Mrs. Amanda Bonner, 47.
was probably fatally wounded In Port
land tav W. H. Clark. 51, an unsuc
cessful suitor for the hand of Mrs.
Bonner. Clark then turned his pistol
on himself and fell dead with a bullet
In his brain.
Grating for 25,000 head of Oregon
sheep In the national forests of Idaho
is provided in an agreement reached
by T. P. Mackenzie. In charge or graz
ing privileges In the national forests
of Oregon and Washington, ana a rep
resentative of forest district 2, in a
conference at Missoula, Mont
Engineers have completed a third
survey of a proposed route for the
Columbia river highway between Hood
River and Mosler. The new survey,
referred to as the compromise route,
reaches a maximum elevation of 409
w The total distance of the pro
posed new route Is approximately
flpvpn miles.
Attornev General Brown has advised
Governor Withycombe to direct the
district attorney of Multnomah county
to institute proceedings In the name
of the state, upon leave granted by tne
Hrmit court for Multnomah county, to
annul the charter of the Portland
Stewards association because of 1U
manv convictions for gambling.
h P. Scheel and William McArtnur,
of Tpnlno. Washington, have submitted
a proposal to the citizens of Marshfleld
to establish a coal brlquettlng ana oy
nrnducts nlant with an initial capacity
of 160 tons dally, to employ at the
start from 50 to 75 men and within a
year agree to have a $230,000 Industry
niwratlne. The plant would operate
entirely on the slack coal which Is
wasted at the various mines.
4 total of 517 accidents were re-
oorted to the industrial accident com
mission for the week ending January
10. of which number, six were fatal
One of the deaths reported was due
to an accident sustained prior to the
uoroi hv the report The
ncca v-.-"
fatalities were: Henry J. Bauer, steel
worker, Portland; J. Johnson, Astoria;
F N. Ellsworth. Mill City, and J. O
Brown, Harrisburg, loggers and Joe
Pannaa . Astoria, passenger.
Jackson county cannot be considered
... ivine eaat of the Cascade mountains
in 'tiei aDDlicatlon of chapter 255,
laws of 1915, which provides that no
bull, except a pure bred bull of a recog
nized beef breed, can run at large on
ranges of the counties east of the
mountains. A small part of the coun
ty lies east of the main divide of the
mountains. State Ve-rinarian uyu
a.kPd th attorney general tor an
opinion on the question; with the above
result
Pnrrhases and household supplies ol
flour are limited to one-fourth barrel;
definite limits are placed on sugar
sales by wholesale dealers, and a full
complement of county chairmen to aid
in enforcing food regulations are an
nounced in a letter mailed to every
retail and wholesale grocery dealer
In Oregon by W. B. Ayer, federal food
administrator. Administrator Ayer
avs in his letter that the more
stringent restrictions are not promul
gated because of existing shortage, dui
merely to conserve the supply.
A number of important steps in lil
ting state regulations' of railroads to
the system of federal control were
taken by the public service commis
sion at its last meeting, foremost
among which was the acquiescence in
the demurrage order issued by Dlrec-tor-General
McAdoo and. giving to the
Pacific car demurrage Eurvau auth
ority to publish the demurrage rules
accordingly. These new rules start
demurrage charges at $3 a car and go
as high as $10 a day, while the state
rules start at $3 a car and go only as
high as $4 a day. Ths federal rules
will become effective January 21.
Senator Chamberlain has Introduced
a bill at the request of the aircraft
i reduction board authorising the presi
dent, as a war measure, to take pos
session of privately-owned timber that
may be required for any government
purpose, particularly for shipbuilding
and the construction of airplanes, and
to pay the owners of such timber a
fair recompense. The powers confer
red upon the president are to be dele
gated by him to the secretary of war,
secretary of the navy and chairman
of the shipping board. These officials
will be empowered, under the bill,
when In need of lumber or logs of
particular dimensions, to furnish
specifications to loggers and lumber
men. who will be required to furulsh
the logs or lumber called for.
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Frank Gibson of YYestSalfm is to
be a candidate for the Republican
nomination as county juilRe.
Less than three per cvnt of the
questionnaires sent out to eligiblos
in Polk county have failed to return
Her. la you opportunity to Inwra
timet cmbarrawnf emn in eptllin.
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