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OREGON NEWS NOTES OF GENERAUHTEREST Principal Events of the Week Briefly Sketched for Infor t mation of Our Readers. Jitneys again have made their ap pearance In Portland. James Ellison, resident of Albany tor the past 40 years, died there, aged SO years. The Fanners' Creamery company of Carlton Is Installing a plant tor the manufacture ot cottage cheese. The president sent to the senate the renomlnattons of Edith B. Ward, post master at Stanfleld, and B. C. Small, postmaster at Turner Herbert Nunn, state highway en gineer, was elected president of the Northwest Soc'y of Engineers at a meeting held in Portland. George 0. Watts, a Corvallls soldier, and Private Claude D. Perrln, of Mon roe, with the American expeditionary forces in France, died of pneumonia. The Oregon penitentiary service flag has 15 stars and the 16th Is soon to be added, as another prisoner has just been pardoned to fight for his country. Two of Douglas county's pioneers died last week. T. 0. Dubell, 86 years old, passed away at Riddle, and Graf ton Worthlngton died at Myrtle Creek. An organized effort Is under way for the draining of 3500 acres of land in the southwestern corner of Marion county, known as the Ankeny bottom. The consolidation of Oregon rural schools as a wartime measure of econ omy is advised strongly by the Oregon normal school department of rural edu cation. Oregon farmers prospered so ex ceedingly during the past year that they are from 25 to 100 per cent better off than they were a year ago, accord ing to estimates. Mandlus Olsen, owner of the fine Newell farm and stock ranch at Seghers, a few miles south of Forest Grove, died at his home from the re sults of self-inflicted wounds made by a razor .blade. Bend will be the convention city of the Oregon State Federation of Labor in 1919. That was decided by the unanimous vote of the delegates at tending the fifteenth annual conven tion at Astoria. Fifty-four men and women gave cuticle from their limbs for a skin grafting operation designed to save the life of Harry G. Welger, a soldier of the spruce division, at St Vincent's hospital at Portland. The best record of any rural mall carrier in Oregon In the sale of war savings stamps Is claimed by Roy Han vllle, mail carrier on route No. 2 out of Newberg. One day last week his sales amounted to between $1200 and $1300. The car service committee has ad vised Senator Chamberlain that in structions have been sent the local car committee at Seattle to Investigate and take steps to remedy the car shortage complained of by lumber mills at Baker. The authorities at Astoria have doubled the military guards about the mills, wharves and warehouses in the city. It is thought this action was taken with a view of preventing any disloyal act by German sympathizers or agents. Sergeant George H. Mullln, of Port land, who, according to press dis patches captured a "pill-box" single handed, and rushed a sniper's post, destroying the garrison, on the western front, Is a nephew of Mrs. J. M. Shelley, of Eugene. The last legislature changed the law relative to Arbor day so that It will hereafter be observed on the second Friday in February in all schools west of the Cascade range and on. the sec ond Friday In April in schools east of the mountains. Tillamook county interests are tak ing up with the state highway com mission a proposal that a service able automobile road be constructed through the Grand Ronde Indian res ervation to tap the extensive spruce regions of the county. During the past week 504 accidents were reported to the state industrial accident commission. Of this number, four were fatal, as follows:' Jack Allonius, Astoria, shipbuilder; A. E. Breedon, Portland, shipbuilder; Ankle Yocum, Sheridan, logger, On account of war conditions, three of Forest Grove's leading churches will have only one pastor. To this end eteps were taken toward organizing the three churches Methodist, Christian and Congregational Into one federated church during the war period. For the purpose of developing a bet ter system for the settlement of agri cultural and logged-off land of the state, Governor YYIthyconibe has ere-1 ated a now non-salaried commission, to be known as the Oregon Land Set tlement commission. The commission Includes State Treasurer Kay, Salem; O. M. Clark. Portland; William Han ley, Burns; Emery Olmstead, Port land; J. D. Farrell, Portland; Whitney L. Boise, Portland, and William Poll man, Baker. Governor WIthycombe has declared himself In sympathy with a movement on foot to create some sort ot a board or commission to have general charge of raiting donations for war needs, to avoid duplication In the work. Consumers are taken to task by Food Administrator W. B. Ayvr for failure to follow more closely the food conser vation suggestions. Mr. Ayer says that the consumers can be of great assist ance In carrying out the national con servation plan It they will exercise greater self denial. A big timber deal was consummated last week, when the Clark k Wilson Lumber company, of Llnnton, pur chased several thousand acres ot tim ber land in Columbia county, Oregon, at a price approximating $800,000. The Fir Tree Lumber company and the Appledale Land company sold the prop erties. Governor WIthycombe will be asked to call a special state election to be held in conjunction with the primary nominating election May 17, that Ore gon voters by the enactment of appro priate legislation' under the Initiative may provide a means by which soldiers and sailors enlisting from this state may participate in future elections In their home state. Representative Slnnott has brought to the attention ot Railroad Director McAdoo the need for federal assistance In completing the railroad from Bend to Klamath Falls. There Is now a gap ot 40 or 50 miles beyond Kirk. If the government Is going to aid in financing new and Important railroad construction, Mr. Slnnott urges that this road be aided. The secretary of agriculture haa ad vised Representative Hawley that no seed can be sent to Cottage Grove for the purpose of reseedlng to suitable grass a large area of land west of that city and east of the Siuslaw valley, which was burned over by forest fires last fall. Residents of Cottage' Grove had agreed to sow the seed if the gov ernment would furnish It Several county stock inspectors in various parts of the state will find their official position knocked from under them, State Veterinarian Lytle says, as the result ot an opinion by Attorney-General Brown. The attorney general holds that the old act provid ing for county stock inspectors is re pealed by Implication by later statutes providing for county veterinarians. Attorney-General Gregory has issued general instructions for the informa tion of German aliens who must reg ister either with the chief of police or the postmaster between February 4 and 9, both Inclusive. These Instruc tions are designed to inform those covered in the registration that has been ordered and are expected to simplify that registration when It is made. Attorney-General Brown has held that candidates for the Bull Moose party are not entitled to a place on the primary ballot in May. The attorney general holds that under the law a party, to secure a place on the ballot, must have at least 20 per cent of the vote for presidential electors at the preceding election and that the Pro gressive party failed to secure that number. - Douglas county must pay R. M. Buttle, a traveling salesman of Des Moines, la., $1300 as a result of injuries alleged to have been the result of a bad road, according to a mandate re ceived by the Lane county circuit court from the supreme court of the state. Buttle was a passenger on a stage which upset while traveling over the road between Drain and Scottsburg April 11. Chrome ore from Josephine county soon will be shipped east in large quan tities for use of the United- States gov ernment. The Golconda chrome prop erty at Takilma, which has been lying idle for several months, will be placed in immediate operation, and concen trating machinery will be Installed. It Is expected that within 60 days this mine will be shipping five carloads ot concentrates per week, requiring the mining of 100 tons a day. After the federal government, through Secretary of War Baker, had rejected a suggestion of Governor WIthycombe that men be sent from the canionmentsjCamnLjwJs to guard the nlll,"warehouseanT shipbuilding properties at Portland, the executive announced that he would seek the men available In the recnntly organised Ore gon militia to serve at such pay as the state Is able to give them. The gov ernor states that In the event funds for that purpoao are Inadequate, rather than to call a special session of the legislature he will appeal to the emer gency board. Immediate organization of a non partisan league In Mils state was de cided upon at an executive meeting ot between 30 and 40 members of the state federation of labor, the grange and the farmorB' union at. Portland. Whether the proposed organisation shall be affiliated with the National Non-Partisan League or shall merely be patterned after the North Dakota league waa left to a special committee consisting of C E. Spence, master ot the grange; Hector Macpherson, of the Oregon Agricultural college; E. J. Stack, secretary state federation of la bor; J. A. Smith, of the farmers' union, and C L. McKenna. of Portland. Prof. H. A. Wheeler and family who have been visiting with Mrs. Wheeler's parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Balderee in Dallas departed for Jajmn last wnk. Mr. Wheeler j is an instructor in the American College in Tokyo. To our Policy Holders and Patrons. The Insurance Agency of the late V. O. Boots and the goodwill of Mrs. Sarah Boots has been purchased by Mr. Geo. W. Chesebro ivho will con tinue to represent the undersigned in lit . . ' , t we capacity as Agent. We bespeak for Mr. Chesebro the same loyal patronage which ljai, for so many years, been enjoyed by ourselves in this agency. Fire Association of Philadelphia London & Lancashire Fire Ins. Co. Lt. 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