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
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able of these laws, It was said, is the !
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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
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