OREGON NEWS NOTES
OF GENERAL INTEREST
Principal Events of the Week
Briefly Sketched for Infor
mation of Our Readers.
Th Anti-Compulsory Vapclnatloi
Imiui has been formed at Tin DalLs.
A ntw 100 room hotel li projected tt
The Datlsa If lutflclent Inducement li
assured by local rspltal,
All wooden bridge In the city of
lalrm ire to b painted white In fur
therance of tht civic pride movement,
The convention of the Eaitern Ore
gon Cbrlatlan Endeavor eoclely waa
bald In tb Cortstlao church at Pendle
ton. B'oator McNary baa Introduced a
bill In the aenata to throw open the
V- math lhrflnn r.Mrvltloa lo irltl
Wiit. I
Roaeburg will vol In May on a pro- i
position to Uiue between 1300.000 aud
IbOO.OOO bonda for a municipal light
plant
Mra. Margaret Montelth, who hai re
aided In Albany continuously fur II
yearn, baa celebrated bar ninety-first
birthday.
The 10500 deficit of former Sheriff
Oellatly of Benton county hu beet
made good to tit county by two of hli
brother.
Tb Velerani Une County council
hu been organlied at Eugene. It will
oonalat of representative pf all patri
otic bod let.
Tb annual convention of tb Ore
ion Retail Merchant auoclatlon con
vened In Aatorla Monday for a three
day' aeeelon.
With a large exhibit and attendance,
Albany'! tecond anuual automobile,
truck and tractor ahow wai held Fri
day and Baturday,
Truilee of tb Klamath Fall Pros
byterlan church have placed an order
for a pipe organ to coat M0 to b
Initalled In Auguat.
N. Michel, recently dlicharged from
th eastern Owgon itat boapltal, wa
killed when be threw himself In front
of a train near Kcho.
Voter of Eugene will ballot In May
oh a propotal to expend 122,000 for the
pun-has of an aviation field a a baa
for the fornat patrol.
Clyde Hwkutt, natlv Oregonlan
and 58 year a reildent of Polk county,
died at bla home In Balem following
an attack of Influent.
An adult man cannot adopt another
adult man In Oregon, according to a
decision of, Attorney Oeneral Brown,
In retpuna to an Inquiry, .
E. L. Smith of Hood River, an 11-year-old
pioneer, la th laat aurvlvor
of the republican convention of 060,
which nominated Lincoln for presi
dent. , ,
Scottish Rite Muon at Tinker arc
preparing for local reunion the latter
par) of April, at which all degrwa up
to tnd Including tb 32d will be con
ferred.
Cbarlea II. Iladdli, deputy collector
of cultural at Astoria, wit accldently
killed while be wa replacing the un
derpinning of tha nous at bla raucb
at Fernhlll,
Squirrel have become tuch a nuia-
anc In the Clatkea auction of Clack
amu county that the farmer have ap
pointed Albert Cualcr to distribute
poison grain.
Ankcny grange of Jefferson bu
adopted resolution lauding Governor
Olcott for vetoing a large number Of
bill pissed at tb extra session of
tb legislature.
A movement hi been etarted In
Albany to rail $50,000 for the con
struction of a community center aa a
memorial to tha returned luldlera of
Linn county,
Broccoli In Douglat county I bead
ing up well, but th cold night ara
holding It back enough so that tha
head will b of large ilia and of ex
cellent q.uilty. , .
A oounty wld community and trad
week Is to be tottered by Th Dalle I Churchill, Itat uaerlaUndtnt
bualnsi men. public Instruction, left Baltn Batur-
Th foreit servlc has told 7,000,000 4' ,or Chfcaio annual
feat of timber In Una county bov ,n,nll"1 ' b MtlllMl '
tv.u.m .i ti ts n ihmiuy fm vocational eduratlra.
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Carrying aTon a Mile
for less than a Cent
Freight rates have played a very small part
In the rising cost of living. ',
Other causes the waste of war, under-production,
credit Inflation have added dollars
to the cost of the necessities of life, while '
freight charges have added only cents.
The average charge for hauling a ton
of freight a mile is less than a cent
A suit of clothing that sold for $30
before the war was carried 2,265
miles by rail from Chicago to Ix
. Angeles for 16& cents.
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. Now the freight charge fa 22 cents
" and the suit sells for $50.
'"- . Th coat of th tull hs mcreued 30 rfoflsr.
- The freight on It hu Incrsased only 5 cent.
' Othsi transportation chsrgsa entei into the
coat of th finished srtlcle carrying the wool
to tb mills and th cloth to the tailors hut
these other chugs tmounl to but fw cntt
mora,
The $10 pair of shoes that used to
sell for $5 goes from the New Eng-
land factory to the Florida' dealer for
a freight charge of 5 cents only
one cent more than the pre-war rate.
Beef pays only two-thirds of a cent
a pound freight from Chicago to
New York. .
American freight rates are the lowj
. est in the world. A '
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mis advertisement is published by the
Association oftikilway executives
Vmt dubUt hfvmttwm eeiHemtof th ilr! lUutlion may
eolat liMradtrt 6y witing to Tht Auodatim of Aailvay
' . Suoutiwi, 61 Broadway, Ntu York.
per
Douglsa fir, Incense cedar and rd
cedar and (0 cent for hemlock and
Other timber,
Th Aitorla Port commission and
county court will cooperate la th con
atructlon of a road from tb southern
nd of Eleventh atreet along th beach
to a connection with th Nebalem road
t Wllllamsuort.
Th entire Houghton building at Tb
Dalle hsi been leased by person In
tereited In th establishment of t
new btnk for Tb Dalles and It I
probsbl th Institution will bt la
operttlon by May 1. i
Plant for a public auditorium for
Th Dallet received definite Impetu
when tb chamber of commerce direct
on voted unanimously to place tb
question before tb voter at tb next
city election, May IS,
W. A. Wlest, for th put thre yean
deputy clerk of the Oregon supreme
court, ha rulgned and will leave
March 1 for Klamath Pall whtr h
will associate himself with C T. Bton
In the prtctlca of law. .
Carl Shoemaker, atata flab and gam
warden, 1 urging remedial legislation
to keep Origon ttreatna atocktd with
flih. He predict that In th near fu
ture It wilt be necuttry for vry
county to have It hatchery.
Members of th La Oranda Ad club
are congratulating themselves oa be
ing able to Increase th population of
th city to ((00 through a cleanup com
mittee, which gather np thou miated
by th cenius enumerator.
About K community meeting will
be held In Linn county in the nsxt
few week, at which farm bureau work
for the remainder of this year will be
planned, 8. V. Smith, county agricul
tural agent, la arranging tha meeting.
Of th 73.5U votart In Multnomah
county who have regtatered to data,
(2,140 hav raglatered a Republican
and 17,331 hav regltered a Demo
crat. Th Socialist, Prohibition and
otbar parties claim tha remaining 4031
voter.
Prospects for a prune crop tbll ta-
on art C'ld wherever th tree were
not killed by th December treete,
according to D. F, Flahar and C. A.
Reed, federal fruit expert who paaaed
aeveral day! In th Marlon county or
chard districts.
Following their purchue of a down
town buslneti tit at a consideration
ot $6500, W. L. and T. M. O'Donnall
of Btnd htv announced that they will
commence the construction of a ISO,
000 theater with a seating capacity of
1600 within a month.
Th state board ot control hu em
ployed W. C. Knighton, former state
architect, to prepare pJlana and speci
fications and to supervise the conduc
tion of th new building at tha itat
horn for the feeble-minded. The struc
ture will cost approximately $40,000.
Fifty-nine marten skin and nine
mink, brought lnlo Bend by Bob
Llewellyn, repreaejut a cash valuation
ot not under 12090 and la the richest
take of" fun marketed there In year.
Llewellyn to a veteran trapper and
has been wintering In the Davis lake
country.
Th Beaver Portland Cement plant
at Oold Hill, under the superintend'
oncy ot W. H. Green, la now ready to
operate, Repairs have been completed
and the plant cleaned up ready tor a
steady run of B300 barrel per day1. The
plant represents an expenditure ot
nearly (100.000.
Startling viluea In platinum ore sent
from .Curry county haa brought Into
the section around Langlola represen
tative! ot Ban Francisco mining con
cerns who are offering u high as iGOOO
for Individual claim located by varl
out residents since the discovery was
made a couple ot months ago.
It 1 reported that a number of
Portland people Interested In the fu
ture ot the state Industrial achoot for
girls will present a bill at the next
session ot th leglalature asking for
an appropriation for the erection and
furnishing of a new building at that
Institution. The proposed building
will cost in the neighborhood of $50,
000, according to those Interested In
the bill.
; With the view to working out a plan
whereby cattle rustling on the ranges
of Central Oregon can be stopped,
livestock men' of Central Oregon met
In Bend with Supervisor N. O. Jacob
son, of the Deschutes National forest,
to formulate a range policy tor the
coming year. , It la conservatively esti
mated by livestock men that no lata
than iOO head ot beet cattle have
either been killed or stolen by cattle
th(eve In the last year.
For the purpose ot determining the
value of logged-oft lands In Oregon
either for agriculture or reforestation,
the research department ot the Port
land forest service headquarters will
make a study ot this territory. The
work will be directed ' by Forest Ex
aminer J, F. Kummel and will Include
a survey ot methods ot logging and
fire protection to Insure a second crop
ot timber,' possibilities ot producing
turpentine from native yellow pine and
Improved methods of handling grat
ing on the forest ranges, -
It hu been decided at Balem to In
stall warning (Ignala at the railroad
crowing at tb Intersection of Capitol
and Union atreett where several acci
dent have recently occurred. '
Definite step have been taken by
Lane county Poet No. t, American Le
gion, Eugene, to plac before the vot
ere ot Lane county the proposition to
build a aoldlen' memorial to coat $20,-
000.
There wer three fatalities due to
accident la Oregon during the week
ending February 12, according to a
report prepared by the Industrial acci
dent commission. Th victim were:
John O. Foster, logger, Coqullle; Hen
ry Sylvia, logger, Bequln, Wuh, and
Fred Wlthrow, sawyer, Llnnton. .
The secretary of th Interior bu re
jected th appeal of Dr. J. F. Reddy ot
Medford, which wu taken from a deci
sion of the war mineral relief com
mission awarding Dr, Reddy approxi
mately $86,000 for hia effort to supply
tb government with chrome from a
Jlsklyou county, California, property,
during th war.
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I am here to saw wood
No raise in prices
at present
S.H.Hinkle, Phone 2411
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Monmouth, Ore, Feb. 27 1920
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