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navy were taken In congress when rates was asked of the interstate com­
3enutor
(Jerry,
democrat,
Rhode merce commission by six of the largest
Island, Introduced an amendment to cattlemen’s associations of the West.
the navel appropriation bill providing The(r gp(lkegniiiu toW lhe commission
for four such vessels, to cost not th#t market prlceg on gheep, cattle
more than $24,600,000 each. B efore' and wool had - fallen
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bo low that west­
the house naval committee Represen­ ern catjle raisers and farmers no
tatives Britten, republican, Illniois. longer were able to sell their produce
and Oliver, democrat, Alabama, an­ for enough to pay freight rates.
nounced that they would present bills
The complaint contended that finan­
each providing for two airplane car­ cial conditions made it impossible to
riers.
obtain loans to condition cattle for
All naval officers and Brigadier- market properly and that growers
General Mitchell of the army air serv­ were compelled to sell "fo r whatever
ice, who have been testifying before they can got in un unmarketable con-
the house committee for two days. ^
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have stressed the Importance of ob-
Jolnlng
the com piaint were the
talntng such carriers as soon as pos Nat,ona, Uvegtock shippers’ league.
Bible. General Mitchell said Ameri- the American National Livestock asso-
can aviation officers had little Uuowl- | clation> tjie National W ool Orowers
edge of the uses of the proposed ves- | and others
sets because Great Britain is keeping
It was claimed that increases due to
the data secret.
the commission’s decision last August
LUCKY
STRIKE
“ it ’ s
toasted ^
C IG A R E TTE
j
N o e lg a r e tt o h a s
the same delicious
fla vo r as L u c k y
S t rik e . B e c a u s e
Lucky Strike is the
toasted cigarette.
Child Is Killed and Ctvi Ians Princ|pa| Events of the Week
Are Wounded During
Briefly Sketched for Infor­
Attacks.
mation of Our Readers.
Belfast.—Dublin experienced three
ambuBhes Saturday night, in one of
which a four-vear old child was killed.
Explosions and volleys in the suburbs
were so continuous as to resemble the
tumult of a small battle.
The first ambush was near Merrion
square. Explosions were followed by
rifle and revolver fire. Inhabitants
sought their cellars, while pedestrians
wero stampeded.
Three bombs had been flung at a lor­
amounted to $40,800,000 annually to ry filled with soldiers. This precipi­
the cattlemen in freight rates.
tated an exchange of shots of several
minutes. Two civilians were wounded
Marital Mistake.
The trouble with most marriages is by bomb splinters. The second ambush
that a man always makes the mistake eccurred on the south side, where lor-
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of marrying the woman who carries rles were bombed.
him off Ills feet—instead of trying to
The third ambush occurred when
find one who will keep him on them.— two lorries were attacked in the south
Los Angeles Express.
suburbs.
Our speecu is very queer, 'tts true.
From Queenstown it was reported
Amt many words are punned,
that after services In the cathedral and
For Instance, when our bills are dus
The best of us are dunned.
the churches Sunday, all males be­
Washington.— A reduction In freight
tween 16 and 40 years were rounded
up. Several hundred were conveyed
to the barracks. There, before liber­
ated, they were required to give their
name* g^d addresses.
Afterwards they wejre jljyljjed into
groups, six persons In each, and given
a number and a date. Then they were
Informed that if any crown forces
gi/gpa ambuscaded within two miles of
Qqecnstowu vit wei' dates assigned to
the groups, the men w oplfj^e held jp
sponsible and required to furnish ia-
formatlon to the authorities.
CATTLEMEN ASK FOR
FREIGHT REDUCTION
4 PLANE CARRIERS ASKED Charge Prices For Cattle Not
Enough to Meet Freight
yeeaels Not to Cost More Than $24,-
600,000 Each.
Charges.
Washington.— First steps looking to
the construction of a fleet of modern
high-speed airplane carriers for ti ­
DUBLIN EXPERIENCES OREGON NEWS NOTES
THREE AMBUSCADES OF GENERA1. INTEREST
AMERICAN FARMERS GIVE CORN TO STARVING EUROPE;
Governor Olcott has announced that
se has appointed Miss Margaret Cos­
eer. Salem ; Alfred G. Platt. Pertland;
C. Hampton, La Grande* and G A.
Briscoe, Ashland, members of the state
board of textbook commissioners.
Senator Chamberlain has left the
emergency hospital in W ushlugton
which he entered more than five weeks
ago to undergo a serious operation,
and is back at his apartments under
the care of his physician and a nurse.
Governor Olcott has issued a pro­
clamation designating the week of
February 14 to 19 as "prune week"
to encourage a movement among
growers to dispose of 22,000,000
pounds of prunes which remain un­
sold.
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From the beginning of the cereal
year to February 1, wheat and flour
receipts at Portland and Astoria were
equal to 19,128,450 bushels. In the
same period the shipments from the
Columbia river amounted to 17,855,971
bushels.
Government engineers have ordered
a detailed survey of the Coos Bay en­
trance and proposed Jetty sites for the
purpose of making estimates of the
cost of constructing breakwaters on
the
and south sides of the
channel,
George S. Parker, 61, of La Pins,
believed to have been despondent as
the result
health, went
woods Friday, sat down on
put the muzzle o f his rifle under his
chin and pulled the trigger. Death
was Instantaneous.
Overwork, Incident to his achieve­
ment in completing the Deschutes
county ta* ryjh, yjrqg »ye^y (jjUJSji
than in any previous yfcar, fcaused S
nervous breakdown which resulted In
the death of W. T. Mullarky, assessor
of Deschutes county.
The ~alfi
timber on a tract of land
Exports from Portland during Jan­
uary had a total valuation of about
$4,959,996.
Cottage Grove will have a modern
ice plant before the opening of the
summer season.
A woman's auxiliary to Umpqua
Post. American Legion, was organ­
ized at Roseburg.
The Corvallis Country club direc­
tors have elected Warren G. Harding
to honorary membership.
The sundry civil bill as reported
to the senate carries $400,000 for be-
ginning the Deschutes project in Oro-
] gon.
I Reopening of the state lime plant
at Gold Hill was urged by Marion
county realty men in session at Sa­
lim.
Additional classrooms are needed
at once to house the Increase of
nearly 3C00 children In Portland
schools this term.
Oregon’s campaign to raise funds
for the starving children of eastern
and central Europe is to be closed
officiary February 15.
The Commercial club of Dallas has
, gtvt!l) a puqq» yj' J80b to the Dallas
Machine & Locomotiva0 works and
$500 to the Dallas cannery.
John I. Lukkrila, a farmer on an
island In Youngs riveij, about ten
uiyeij fV ,ir: '.atería, committed sui­
cide by aítóolTúg hlmseJj
}•.()$ 'fcejf.ea fh « »
The public schools at Jefferson have betwedb
been closed as a precautionary meas­ tent, on Wlnberry creek, withiu tha
ure against the spread of diphtheria, Cascade national forest, to Washing­
ton milling and timber Interests is in
which is prevalent there.
The United States bureau of roads contemplation, according to announce­
has let a contract for two miles of ment of the Eugene oflce of the for­
roads near Tidewater. The work will est service.
require about five months.
A flume five miles long, to carry
The total membership of the Linn lumber from the Lcfstl j Cree)c: ralleS
Spokane, Wash^—Member mills of
the Western Pine Manufacturer»’ as­ county farm bureau has passed the above Dejtttjr to the Southern PacifKj
330 mark, and is well on the way to­ railway at Pengra station, on the
sociation produced approximately
Natron cutoff, will be built at once’,
630,000,000 feet of lumber In 1920, ac­ ward the original goal, 1000.
The Eugene high school at the close according to announcement qf B, E-
cording to a report made at the annual
meeting of the association, held here, of the midwinter term had an enroll Yoran, one of the organizers of the
by A. W. Cooper of Portland, Or., sec­ ment of 729, which is 100 greater than Mount June Flume company of Eu­
gene.
retary and manager of the aisoclatlon. the largest enrollment last year,
The cleanup of stored apple stocks
During the week ending February
The figures were based upon the ac­
tual cut of 33 mills, and an estimate of at Hood River will be later than usual. 3 there was one fatality la Oregon
Approximately 175,000 boxes are yet due to Industrial
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the production of the remainder.
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A total of 52 mills In eastern Ore­ In the hands of the -----------* —
associa­
gon. eastern Washington, western tion.
to a report prepared py the state In­
Mqntgjjjt and Idaho are members df
The
The First National Bank o f Albany, dustrial accident commission.
the association, flits gjR was the larg­ the seconcj oldest existing fictional vlotlm was John McKeown, laborer of
est In the association’» history,
bank in Oregon, celebrated the 50th Portland. A tptal of 424 accident»
it was estimated that the cut of the anniversary of Its organization last were reported In the course ot tha
week.
association for 1921 will show a de­ week,
crease of approximately 20 per cent
Unidentlfied men gained entrance
J. L. Bowman, who owns the Browa#-
*-ora last year, or about 1,300,000,000 vllle woolen mills, 1« negotiating for to the state tuberculosis hospital at
Salem, carried a safe to an automo­
feet.
tne purchase of the woolen mill ma­
Only five sawmill*, ptvned by mem chinery at Bandon and its removal to bile, which had been parked some
distance from the Institution, drovq
bes of the association In attendance at Hrpwnsvillp.
more than a mile down tjig highway
the meeting, were reported to be In
The new Deaconess hospital at
and there wrecked the strongbox and
operation.
Salem was dedicated last week. The
obtained approximately $300 In cash
building is not the property of any
and $150 in checks.
, >
sect, but was erected by donations
Contracts fo r more than half a
from all sources.
Snow nearly five feet in depth was million dollars’ worth of road
Oregon and Washington Delegations
found by Forest Ranger R. E. S. Smith including construction of sig bridge»
Lay Plans For Power Plant.
and the laying of 15 mil«* 0f pavem ent'
Pendleton. Or.—Plans to enrich Ore­ and G. L. Drake, who have Just com
were ordered entered Into by the state
gon and the northwest by millions of pleted a week of cruising in tha Lost highway eemmlsston following ih«
Lake
region
near
Mt.
Hood.
dollars annually by the emotion of a
$ecauge of tjig grpwded condition opening of bids upon the proposed
$25,000,000 hydro-elewtriq plant at
work. Bids on many other Jobs wero
of
the Albany schools, the school
Umatilla rapids on the Columbia river
opened and rejected, and a second ad­
beard
has
decided
to
call
a
special
took definite shape here at a meeting
vertising of the work ordered.
of 160 delegates from eastern Oregon election for the purpose of issuing
Charles J. Schnabel, prominent at­
bonds
to
provide
additional
room.
and southeastern Washington com­
torney of Portland, was shot In the
The executive committee ef the
munities.
back a n l fatally wounded by Joseph
The project, as outlined, would re­ Clatsop county farm bureau has ap­ C. Poeachl, an ex-cllenL as he was
pointed
E.
W.
McMlndes
of
the
state
claim thousands of arid acres In east­
about to
an elevator on the
ern Oregon and southern Washington, agricultural college extension depart­ third floor o f the court house. He
ment
as
county
agricultural
agent.
supply power for electrification of rall-
died In an ambulance on the way to
While preparing a ehlcken for cook
*'u*di and tut ¿emmerclal us« auq
a
nospltal. Fancied grievances agglnst
would make the Columbia river navi­ ing, Miss Grace Brde, a Medford the lawyer, harbored (or more than
nurse,
found
a
rich
gold
pocket
in
gable from Its mouth practically to
ten years by Poeschl. furnished the
the chicken’s craw and extracted five
the junction with the Snake river,
motive for tho killing.
< filb ert Yf, fhelps, circuit Judge of nuggets about the size gf small peas
Representative Hawley of Oregon
Representative McArthur at Wash
Pendleton, was elected president ot
has succeeded in having four special
lngton
has
been
notified
that
all
the
the permanent organization which Is
Pension buis Incorporated In ths
to be known as the Umatilla Rapids details for the transfer to the govern­ omnibus pension bill which has been
ment
of
the
Tongue
point
naval
base
-’ owes Site association.
reported to the bouse. They are tot
by tliatsop county have been com
Mrs. Henrietta Brewer of Roseburg;
pleted.
Penrose Is For Soldier Bonus.
Mrs. Sofia E. McKlmmey of Cottags
Under the provisions of a lump
Grove, Mrs. Caroline Hines Willis of
Washington.— An American Legion
sum legislative bill, as vas agreed to
Roseburg, and James M. Berry of Mills
delegation was told by Chairman Pen­
In the river and harbor committee,
City. The widows will receive $ 2(1
rose of the senate finance oommittee
surveys were authorized for Tilla­
each and the veteran $30 a month.
tht he would favor Increases In federal
mook bay and the Umpqua river in
Federal aid for developing hydro-
taxation If necessary to provide a cash
Oregon.
electric power at Umatilla rapids, In
bonus for war veterans. He express­
Two hundred retail shoe dealers
the Columbia, and passage of the
ed doubt, however, whether the legis­
from all sections of the state are ex
Joseph hydro-electric commission bill
lation could be put through in this
pectcd to attend the annual conven­
by the Oregon legislature,
were
session.
tion of the Oregon Retail Shoe Deal
sought at Pendleton Saturday In a
ers’ association to be held at Salem
meeting of government and reclam»
U. S. Firm on Island of Yap.
on February 24.
tlon engineers, representatives of the
Washington. — The United States
The depth of snow at Crater lake
will not recognize Japan's mandate rim Is 11 feet, and at Anna spring Northern Pacific, Spokane, Portland
over the Island of Yap unless Japan camp, five miles lower down, is 10 A Seattle, Oregon-Wash lngton Rail
agrees to accept this government's con- feet, according to word received from way A Navigation, and Milwaukee
railroads, the ways and paeans com­
entlon that the island should be in j Ranger Brown, who Is stationed at
mittee of the state legislature and 200
ternatlonallzed insofar us the cable the lake this winter.
business men of eastern Oregon. John
landing station feature is concerned, II
Traffic accidents in Portland for
H. Lewis, formerly state engineer
was said at the state department.
the month of January showed a de-
and Robert N. Stanfield. United
cllne of 249
from December,
while) a , - , . -
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states
senator-elect, were among th«
British Proposal to Cancel Debts Fails traffic violation arrests for the month „Hnelnwl
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Birmingham. England—The British showed an
Increase of 60 per cent
poses the development of
120.00$
government formally proposed a can over the preceding month.
j horse-power from the river sod the
cellatton ot all interallied debts, but
More than 60 Irrigation districts
of 68$,000 acres In the
the pools were unacceptable to the have been organized or are In the Irrigation
.
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John Day project Oregon, and the
American government, said J. Austen process of organization
In this state
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Horse Heaven pi eject, Washington. A
Chamberlain, chancellor of the ex according
to the biennial report of the lar|rB gum of m
£
chequer, in a speech to his const! state engineer These districts have
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pledged, and co-operation ot the ra|8
tuents here.
a total area of 1.200,000 acres.
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1 roads and the government
Is sought
north
of 111
Into the
a log,
SLUMP IN CUT OF
• PINE PREDICTED
Corn grow ers ha attendance at the Illinois Agricultural Association convention last week start­
ed the ball rolling In w hat b fast developing Into the greatest movement o f Its Kind ever indulged In
by the farm ers o f any nation. Listening to an appeal by President Jim Howard o f the American Farm
Bureau Federation, tho Illinoto corn grow ers pledged 100.000 bushels o f corn to the starving nations of
central Europe
Now Indiana, Kansas, Missouri and Ohio corn growers have Joined in and a train of
..AO cars o f corn b being made ready to speed eastward to the seaboard port. Herbert H oover will
-fllgn the corn to the most needy nations. The pictures show a part o f the Illinois cqrn grow ers I d
oaventlon at C hicago and some corn in Indiana which will go to the starving nations.
RAPIDS' POWER IS SOUGHT
work,
enter
SPECIAL
Heating Stoves
m
and Ranges
Ten per cent off
For Cash
MONMOUTH HARDWARE
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