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.
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