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Friday, January 13, 1922 INDEPENDENCE ENTERPRISE Page Seven OREGON KEWS NOTES OF OENGAUlTESj Principal Events of the Week Briefly Sketched for Infor mation of Our Readers. I Mm. draco Cunningham ban been appointed postmaster at Chloo, Wallo ; jwa county. I I Active preparation are being mudo ; i for the erection of a number of new I - residences In Monmouth, s i Miss Ituby D. Kiigelman baa boen ' appointed postmistress ut lone to sue- ci'cd Mix. Karl Itlnko, resigned. ' Tbo Scottish Hlt Club of Southern , Oregon waa organized by 32d-degreo I Masons ut a dinner In Mudford. Approximately $10,000 less In taxes will bo assessed In Maker county tltltf ' year ttmn were collected In 1921. Mm. Martha A. Wlllluma, G8 yean I of age, committed suicide at Halem by ; Jumping off u bridge Into Mill Creek, t ,f During tbo yt-ar Just cloned ClulHop ( '' county ha spent $:8,2r,4 for new bridges and repulra to old slructures. I t Total fire Ion In Astoria for tho , year 11)21 waa $157,300, for which In , surance amounting to $133,200 waa i f paid. Kugene property ownera will pay taxes thl yenr on a levy of 5U.1 mill. which In an Increase of 2.1 mills over last year, Excepf aeveral fills and the bridge ' over Lake creek, tho Oregon Caves , highway mur Grants Pass la about couipleted. "i '., There were a total of 242 accidents ; reported to the state Industrial accl- : dent coiiiiulaaion during tno week end- i lug January 5. ! II. J. Kberly. assistant stato forester, , while on his wny to Seattle Sunday by f automobile, suffered a fractured arm I and other Injuries. j During the punt season Clatsop roun- ty operated five state-owned trucks on highway Improvement work at an ex- pens of f 2 1.400.45. I The furmers of the Rlckreall vicinity will meet January 11 to take action I with relation to acquiring flux acre- j ego for the year 1922. Tbo former Clatsop mill In Astoria, , recently purchased by the Astoria Box j company, will soon begin operations ! with 130 men ut work. S A block of $150,000 5 1-2 per cent I Tillamook county road bonds was sold I at Tillamook to a Portland bond house at a premium of $3773.50. I A lath mill will bo Installed In Al- I bany this month by the Anderson Fuel 1 company, which will also operate a lumber yard with Its mill. j Tho county agent work la Cooa coun- I ty has been cut from the expense ac- count of the budget, aa well aa the 'i demonstrator appropriation. A short course for commercial club I secretaries will be offered by the Uul- verslty of Oregon during Easter vaca tion from March 27 to April 1. The Pendleton Packing company baa nearly doubled Its output during the few weeks It baa been In existence and now has 24 men on tta payroll. The Oregon Aggie In the season of 1921 won 10 championships, broke two coast records and played Oregon to a scoreless tie for tho state football title. S. M. Calkins of Kugene, for 15 years reporter of tho circuit court of the dis trict comprising Lane, Denton and Lin coln counties, has resigned bis posi tion. A rotnry diamond drill capable of drilling a 4 12 inch holo to a depth of 4000 feet has been shipped to Med ford for use by the Western Oil com pany. Arrestsby tho Clackamas, county sheriffs offlco for the year of 1921, more than doubled those for 1920, ac cording to a report compiled by Sher iff Wilson. Evidence 6f Medford's continued prosperity and growth of postofflce receipts lies in tho fact that tho Med ford postofflce Is now in the flmt class of postofflccH. Thirty-five thousand cords of white fir wood to be used In the manufacture of paper Iiiib been cut during the year In the upper bnsln of McDowell creek in Linn county. Many of tho small sawmills on the lower Slusluw river and in adjacent territory are resuming operations af ter an Idleness In some cases of a year's duration. The Oregon Agricultural college basketball team opened the northwest conference season at Corvallls with a victory over the Whitman college five by a score of 36 to 18. The industrial rush at Marshfleld and stories of demand for large lum , ber shipments during 1922 are bring ing into the Coos county district more laborers than can get employment. The state limeutone plant at Oold Hill, authorized by the legislature for the purpose of supplying Oregon farm ers with limestone fertilizer at cost, - has become a white elephant. Esti mates were that from 20,000 to 60,000 tons of limestone fertilizer were need ed annually on Oregon farms, whereas total sales during the exlstance of the plant have aggregated only 4128 tons. Tim state sealer of weights and measures offlco Inspected a total of 10,802 scales during 1921, according to a report prepared by W. A. Dulzlel, deputy antler of wilftliis and meas ures, linker county stock growers are of the opinion that the Industry has panned through the worst that eon come to It and t hat 1922 will see much better times for all Baker county stock men. More th mi $200,000 was disbursed by tho federal government among the members of the Oregon National Guard units during the past year as corn pared with less than half that amount for 1920. Lane county's hop crop this year sold for neurly $500,000. The crop In the county amounted to 6600 bales, and an average price of 35 cents a pound, or $70 a bale, was received by local growers. According to the records In tbo As toria customs house, 669 vessels loaded at lumber mills In the Columbia river district during the year 1921 and their combined cargoes amounted to 637,682, 057 feet of lumber, With the Carey act contract with the state executed and a definite allot ment of water made by the state water bourd, the North Canal company Is now ready to proceed with develop ment plans in the vicinity of Hend. Mrs. C. E. Copple, wife of a Hood Hlver orchard 1st and banker, received from I). Tanered of Kent, Wash., a White Leghorn cockerel for which she paid $250. This is the highest-priced chicken ever brought to the valley. Portland is to have a new Orpheum theater. In addition to the four-day-a-wi-ck show now running In Portland, a $1,000,000 structure to house shows under the Junior Orpheum plan will be opened within the next 18 months, Methodist Episcopal churches of the Portland area, which Includes Wash ington and Oregon, have set aside the first week of next April as "cleanup" week, when churches und parsonages and surrounding grounds will be reno vated. The largest gain In postal receipts ever made In Oregon City was record ed st the local postofflce for the year 1921. The gain is 19.7 per cent over last year and places the office high among tho others of its class In the state. A well defined plan is said to be un der way at Astoria to form an organi zation which will control the output of the various logging camps In the lower Columbia river district and thus regulate the prices at which logs shall be sold. Only 67 out of a total of 7G42 claims for cash bonus and loans examined by the world war veterans' state aid commission have been rejected, accord ing to a report prepared by Captain Harry Hrumbaugh, secretary of the commission. The Lakevlew chamber of commerce has adopted a resolution urging that from the money to be derived from the sale of Lake county road bonds tho sum of 190,000 be set apart for con struction of a road from Lake view to Klamath Falls. Seaside probably will be the site of the next ststc Elks' convention, accord ing to a decision reached at a meeting of the officers or the Oregon State Elks association at Portland. Final deci sion was left to George Collins of,Med ford, president of the association. W. C. Henderson, acting chief of the United States biological survey, will be in Portlnnd January 20 to confer with the attorney-general of Oregon on the controversy over the Malheur bird reserve, raised by the settlers in the Harney valley Irrigation district Owners of automobile stage lines op erating between Portland and Salem intimate that some action probably will be taken In the near future to test the constitutionality of at least two of the highway conservation laws, approved at the recent special session of the legislature. The most object on-1 .. ... , ' , , , ,t able of these laws, It was said, is the ! . . f one providing for an increase in the license fees. Following receipt of a pledge from members of the stute fish commission that they will not aguln appear before the legislature in quest of appropria tions, and a statement to the effect that the fishing indusry of the state is at present imperiled because of In sufficient funds to repair damage to hatcheries resulting from recent storms, Governor Olcott signed house bill No. 6 carrying an appropriation of $64,500. Governor Olcott vetoed house bill No. 31, providing for a special election on May 19, to be hold in connection with the regular primary contests, for the purpose of referring to the voterB of the state two resolutions and an enabling act, approved at the recent special session of the legislature. One of the resolutions, which was sched uled to go bofore the voters at the spe cial election, authorized an increased gasoline tax with which to provide funds to finance the proposed 1925 exposition in Portland. The other res olution authorized Linn and Benton counties to levy a tax with which to redeem outstanding warrants. The enabling act provided for putting the world's fair machinery in motion. RUSSIA INVITED TO AHEKDJOilFEBENCE Step Is Regarded As Practi cally Eelng Recognition of Soviet. Cannes. What Is regarded by the majority of the delegates here as amounting to recognition of the Hovlet government of Itussla was decided upon by the allied supreme council when the British proposal for an In ternational, financial and economic conference with the participation of Itussla and Germany was approved un animously. Home time during the first two weeks of March has been set for the momentous gathering and Genoa. Italy, has been designated as the place where it shall be held. An Invitation to the United States to participate has been extended through the American ambassador to Great Urltaln, George Harvey, who is here as officlul observer for his gov ernment. Russia's participation In the Genoa conference is conditioned upon accept ance of a number of conditions; name ly, that she cease bolshevik propagan da abroad, that she undertake not to attack ber neighbors and that she rec ognize all the honorable obligations entered. H)to"by preceding Russian gov ernments. Official announcement was made that soviet Russia would be represent ed at the forthcoming economic con ference at Genoa. This information was contained in a wireless dispatch received by the supreme council be fore "VTormal invitation" to the soviet government had actually been drawn up and the speed with whleh th- Rus sians have replied "to The announce ment that they were to bejnvitedjvas construed to mean thai they are very desirous of joining the nations on almost any terms acceptable to the allies. Notification of indorsement by the Uritlsh cabinet of the written pledge binding Great Dritain immediately to aid France to the full extent of her military and naval resources in case of aggression by Germany is expected from London. The pact was agreed upon by Premiers Ilriand and Lloyd George. CHINESE-JAPANESE NEGOTIATIONS END Washington. D. C The Chinese people will resist, by every means at their disposal, an attempt by the Jap anese to open direct negotiations with I'ekln over Shantung, representatives in Chinese national and provincial or ganizations, who are here as unofficial observers at the conference, declared In a stateiWnt. The Shantung conversations between the Japanese and Chinese delegates were adjourned sine die when the Chinese declined to accept a,Japanese counter proposal for payment for the Kino-chow-Tslnanfu railway by a 15 ye.ar loan redeemable by China in five years upon six months notice. Japaaeee delegates found unaccept able the two Chinese alternative pro posals "in their present form" provid lng for a slngleJmmedlate cash pay ment, or installments covering 12 years with an option to take up remaining notes within a shorter period. The Chinese offer included the appoint ment of a Japanese chief accountant AMBASSADOR HARVEY HURT Narrowly Eecapes Death When Auto Axle Breaks. , Cannes. George Harvey, American t A . .. . . ambassador to Great Britain, narrowly escaped death here in an automobile accident. Accompanied by Richard Crane, former American minister to Czecho slovakia, in whoso car he was riding, and Wlckham Steed, editor of the London Times, Ambassador Har vey was on his way for a round of golf. The axle of the machine broke, and Mr. Harvey was thrown out, landing heavily on the road. He was able to arise, but was rushed back to his hotel in a dazed condition. Mr. Crane was uninjured, but Mr. Steed suffered from bruises and shock. Delegates to the allied supreme council, at which Ambassador Harvey was acting as observer for his gov ernment, sent expressions of sympa thy and congratulations at his escape Newberry Declares His Innocenoe. Washington, D. C. A sweeping dec laration of his innocence was made by Senator Newberry, republican, Michi gan, in the senate. Taking the floor for his defense in the ouster proceed ings brought by Henry Ford, defeated democratio candidate, Senator New berry emphatically denied personal knowledge of the collection or ex penditure of the large campaign fund spent in his behalf. SAYS MEN'S LOOKS IMPROVE That Males of tht Race Art Crowing Handsomer Is Contention of British Surgeon. According to Sir William Orpen. tho painter, men are growing more hand Dome e vry day, says the North China Herald. That their faces are chancing Is a Mlentiie fact, vouched for by Prof. Arthur Keith of the Royal College of Surgeons. In his annual report on the museum of the college he says; "For ninny years past It has been the custom to accept and preserve In the museum all human remains found In Great Britain when they were found under such circumstances as gave an approximate clue to their date. In time, It Is hoped, sufficient materia! will accumulate to provide a basis for a physical history of the inhabitant of these Islands." From the evidence accumulating un der his care Professor Keith has be come convinced that definite changes, particularly in the face and Jaws, have been taking place In the last century or two. Whether these changes are for the better Professor Keith does not say. Hut Sir William Orpwi was quite de cided on the point "Of course we are growing more handsorrte." be said. "A firmer type, a stronger Juw Is developing. I should sny. Men are approximating mre to what Is known 5s the strong, silent type, jo beloved of fiction. ''I believe you can make yourself like anything you like within limits. One of thse limits is that you be come like the people you live with, either In actual life or In the life of the mind. "I have found that husbands grow- like their wives, nnd wives grow like their husbands very frequently." Sir William's theory perhaps may ac count for the fact thnt there Is a type dentist, a tvpe prize fighter, a type Journalist, n type doctor, and so on7 PROFITABLE WELLS TO OWN People Willing tg PSy Liberally for Dip Into Water That Contains Radium Emanations. A mighty profitable piece of prop ertylln these days is a radium well the term referring to water that con tains the precious "emanations" of that wonderful mineral. People are flocking to the Isle of Pines (south of Cuba) for "dips." On that Island, at Santa Fe, are four radium wells that are alleged to be very remarkable. Not far away, at Santa Barbara, are eight more. The wells are not much to look at mere holes dug In the ground and surrounded by ring fences. There are i hotels, which charge only $50 a day j for room and board, with dips thrown In. Outsiders may have the treat ment at $5 per dip. The method Is simple and rather primitive. A piece of canvas Is spread on the ground; the patient sits in the middle of it and two muscular men lift th ends. Lowered into the water hole coe is immersed for a moment or two only. More would be too much. The heart might be dangerously affected. Even after so brief a dip the body of a per son thus immersed Is almost as red as a boiled lobster. It gives one a notion of the strength of the emana tions. Women who take the dips are warned to avoid wetting their heads. The radium water turns the hair -reen. Prospecting in Australia. While five applications have been made for the reward of 50,000 ($250,- 00) offered by the federal govern ment for the discovery of ort in pajr- ble quantities in Australia, no efl iite Indications of large deposits of ll have been made known, says a Mel ; ourne dispatch to the Christian : clence Monitor. In western Austra lia BO samples from the supposed oil region In Kimberley have been for warded for analysis to the geological department, and the minister for mines, J. Scaddan, says that some of the analyses gave evidence of miner al oil similar to thnt found In Su matra. It was hoped that, further investigation might lead to the dis- oovery of oil. Education In Hawaii. It Is the opinion of Vaughan Mao Oaughey, territorial . superintendent of public instruction in Hawaii, that no where In the world is there "a more beautiful or significant schoolyard" than may be seen there. The public school department comprises 42,000 children of more than a score of races, while there re 1,300 teachers and 167 schools. The department was re cently given supervision over 175 foreign-language schools, with 20,000 pupils. It maintains several highly specialized technical schools as well. There are sixty private schools besides the University of Hawaii at Honolulu. New York Evening Post. A Modified Attitude. "You used to say you would never marry a man who drinks." "I might consider it now," replied Miss Cayenne. "With so much boot leg material In circulation I'd probably be a widow very soon unless he re formed." Not His Habit Villager (to perspiring tourist) Turn to the right at the bottom of this read and you'll see the Red Lion sa loon; you pass that Tourist rass ltl Not if I know it 1 Tit-Bits. TURN CHURCH INTO 'CENTRAL' Phone Workmen, Following Olsastsr at Pueblo, Colo., Use Odd Makeshift Time out of mind the church has been an asylum for the helpless and the suffering In yrnes of disaster, but It remained for a church In Pueblo, Colo., In the first few hours of con fusion following the lust flood, to throw open its doors to a telephone comjrtiny, so that a temporary switch-( board might be established In Its base; ment and the vitally necessary system of communication with the outside world might be re-established. No sooner bad the waters receded than the telephone men were on the ground seeking to restore service. The flood had ruined their central ofllee equipment and they sought In vain to find another building in which to house the temporary headquarters. Then Itev, Frank E. Eden, pastor of the First Baptist church, came to their aid with an offer of the use of his building. Gangs of Installers quickly trans formed the basement of tlte church ed ifice Into n up-to-date central office ami for some time Pueblo's only means of communication by telephone was through a switchboard probably the first !u history set up In a bouse of worship. Telegraph instruments were also In stalled and during the period In which the church was put to this emergency use the pastor's sermons were accom panied by the click of Morse Instru ments and the low murmur of the voices of the telephone operators as they transformed Into action the spirit of service which he preached. GIVE UP CONTEST WITH SAND Washington Railroads After Unsuc cessful Fight, Move Their Tracks to Get Out of the Way. After fighting night and day to keep their tracks free from windblown sand, two railroads running along the banks of Jhe Columbia river near Wallula, Washington, have given up the struggle and are soon to move their roadbeds to the top of the bluffs, out of reach of the sand. For months teams of horses and scrapers have struggled with the sand. During the flood season the river deposits sand and silt on the. Colum bia's banks to a depth of from ten to fifteen feet, and as the water recedes. j the wind picks up this fine, rounded I material and carries It over the sur- rounding country. On the farm of II. R. Ostrom a pen and shed filled i J with four hundred sheep were buried overnight, and a few branches bear ing apples protruding from the sur face of the sand-dune is all Eric John son can show for a forty-acre orchard. Popular Science. Growing Demand for Peanuts. Americans are eating peanuts In a number of ways. They eat peanuts straight, peanuts In many forms of candy, salted peanuts on the tables like salted almonds, peanut butter, peanut oil and peanut meal or flour. And all the possibilities of the peanut have not yet been realized) by the, public. American farmers are not supplying the American demand for peanuts. Shelled peanuts by millions of pounds, and peanut oil by millions of gallons come from China and Japanese, pos sessions on the Asiatic continent, and Insular Japan giws peanuts for ex port and runs oil mills for. crushing them. Kobe, and Osaka. Japan, and ShanehaV. China, are perhaps as great peanut marts as our tjwn city of Petersburg in Virginia. India raises peanuts and Spain is a peanut export ing country. The European taste Is turning to peanuts and peanut products Just as Ifte American taste has turned already. The peanut has a great future. One on the Parcon. A southern clergyman tells of an occasion when a friend of his had obtained a job ifor a colored man who had been ifor a long time out of work. The clergyman thought that the man must be getting pretty shabby, so he looked up a suit they were much of a size anu wok it aroana to ine j man's house, The man's wife took it. and the clergyman waited In the room, as he I says, "ready to be overwhelmed with thanks." But wtien the woman re-1 turned he said : I says that he don't hold with parson's clothes, but If you've got anything as wouAd suit a man he'll be glad to have a look at It." "You-AII." Prof. Annette B. Hopkins, of the English department at Goucher college, says that the only way to Iron out sectional accents and colloquialisms is to get 'em young and train 'em. If a student is not made aware of her peculiarities of speech before she is seventeen or eighteen, Professor Hop kins finds. It is usually too late for effecting permanent corrections. "To achieve a speaking vocabulary un polluted by localisms," she said re cently, "requires more than four years of college." Thus, at Goucher, "you all" is a firmly established Institution. New York Evening Post. Too Dangerous. Vicar. You mustn't neglect their education, Mrs. Craddock. Why, I had to pinch severely to send my boys to school. , Mrs. Craddock Ah, sir, but Crad dock Is too feared o' the law to do any thing like that 1 Tit-Bits. LEGAL NOTICES NOTICE TO CREDITORS Notice Is hereby given that the undersigned have been duly appointed executors of the estate of August Quasdorf, deceased, by the County Court of the State of Oregon for Pollc County, and have qualified. All persona having claims against said estate are hereby notified to present the same duly verified, to- gether with the proper vouchers therefor, to the undersigned executors at the Independence National Bank of Independence, in said county, within six months from the date of this notice. ' , Dated and first published December 30th, 1921. LETTICIA QUASDORF & II. IIIRSCHBERG, Executors of the estate of August Quasdorf, deceased. B. F. Swope, Attorney. 30-5t PROFESSIONAL CARDS SWOPE & SWOPE Lawyers Campbell Building INDEPENDENCE, OR. D. E. FLETCHER Cooper Building J; ; Attorney ' ' -. INDEPENDENCE. OR C. C. WRIGHT, M. D. C Veterinarian Residence, "Uncle BillvV If you want to sell it, buy it, trade it, or find it, try an Enterprise Classified ad. 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