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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (July 13, 1917)
ORESON NEWS NOTES OF 6ENM INTEREST Principal Events of the Week Eriefiy Sketched for Infor mation of Our Readers. Fires In Oregon during June caused b loss oi $r,4,e::0. The fifth annual Chautauqua opened ic Dallas Tuesday. ' Molalia's two-day (celebration and round-up ;w83 a tu?e success. ''The eastern Oregon state conven tiou of Christian churches was held in La Giai.de. Straw berries are growing so large In Harristurg that is of them fill an ordinary terry tax. - Actual construction on the Klamath Tills municipal railway commenced at Klamath Falls Friday. The tenth annual three-day conven tion of the Oregon Chiropractic asso ciation was held in Portland. Work on the asw $14,000 addition to the chapel' oi the Oregon normal school at Monmouth has started. The next national convention of the Mr Fhu Epsilon, national music sor ority, will be heid in Eugene iu 11)19. Seventeen branches cf the Red Cross society with a total membership of 1071 have been formed in Linn county. Deer in the mountains have suffered severely from the long winter, says Charles Hoskins, au Lcho sheepman. The main railroads in Oregon have E'candoned their attempt to get a 15 per cent increase in intrastate freight rates at thi3 time. The little town of Flavel was visit ed by a blaze which destroyed two frame buildings with ths loss of ap proximately $2500. The American Home Economics as sociation convened in Portland Tues day, July 10, as a section of the Nation al Education association. Hood Kiver has shipped 80 carloads of strawberries and it ' Is expected that fully 100 carlcads will be handled before the season closes. Bids will be opened at Roseburg "July 28 for the Douglas county road bend issue of $565,000 authorized at the recent state election. Boys In the state training school and girls in the girls' industrial school will assist in harvesting the berry crop of ths Willamette valley. The 28th annual convention, Ore gon State Pharmaceutical association, began at Seaside Tuesday cud will continue until Saturday night. Reports received from growers in Marion county Indicate that great cumbers of pickers wiil be needed to handle the berry crap this year. Announcement was made by A. if. Lea, secretary of the state fair board, that the board has decided to put on an automobile shew in connection with the state fair. Experiments fcr the control of the onion mildew are being conducted by the department of plant pathology at the Oregon Agricultural cciiege with promising results. Complete figures compiled by United States Attorney Reams show that since war census day. June 6, 3o4 men of military age have been permitted to register at Portland. A large cattle transaction took place when C. A. Gorley and Arch Wassom, of Harrisburg, purchased 1100 head of Durham steers from George Brown, ot Corvallle for J10,0u0. Five meetings wiil be held In Linn county thi3 week under the direction of the United States department of agriculture to teach farmers how to exterminate digger squirrels. John W. Bowman, carpenter, shot and killed his wife and then sent two bullets into his own temple, dying al most Instantly, at Pendleton. Friends said Bowman wa3 Jealous of his wife. Chin iiing, the first of six alleged gunmen implicated in the murder of Eillie Eng. an Americanized Chinaman, In the recent tang war, was found guilty of second degree murde,r at La Grande. Fire prevention will be taught in the schools of Salem, and representatives of the state fire marshals department will make a complete eur.i-.y of the city, according to plans which have been outlined. Several deputy state tire marshals have been sent to the eastern Ore gen gram fields to aid fanners and warehousemen to give the fullest pro tection against firs that might destroy needed foci supplies. Tt'hiis there is yet littie injury to tho :ain crops of the great whe:U belt itnaiedSltaiy tributary to Pendle ton, farmer? ar: tanning to te ap rrchensive regardir.g tho effect of the heat on their crop prcspects. Mlii Bertha Althaus. saleslady ct ths TJrr.pque. hotel at Re-icturg: Mrs. Alico Alies- a Rosebur; r.urse; V.'. J. "."."saver, prvpnetor cf ths Umpqua hots! at Rc5-.'lu; ; J. M. 3urt. travci in; salesman f:r the John Lecre flow cempeny, of Fertisr.d: Z. L. FarrUt, capitalist, .nd rioyd Miliar, son cf a rrcimioett Dniard rancher, arc suffir tr; trcas inj-ries which they svstair.ci vlon Xr Farrett'3 cor l't th? "end f.r.2 ever a jsir.i tese,: C:.n ranvUia. ... . . ... That the Ecllaad law enacted" at "the j recent session cf tho legislature to ; .prohibit the stile of s'.r.".nn caught in ' jthe oocin cf:" the Colv.mtis r.ver dur- ! ling the closed f'shir.g season is un I Jtmstitutioa! was the decision of Cir ; euit Judge Eakia at Astoria. V.'hile the number of automobiles in i ths state registered up to June 30 this, j year is greatly in excess of the num- ' ber registered for the fi:st sii months j of last year., the r.uir.ter of mctcrcycies has dropped off, according to a state ment issued by Secretary Oioctt. Moving with expedition in its efforts to promote the state highway work, the state highway commission has ad vertised for proposals ou a large fitnount o! read work, the proposals to be opened July 20, at the office of S. Benson, chairman cf the commission in Portland. Net profit In total shipment of ore from the Blue Ledge mine near Aled ford during the la3t three months is j between $75,000 and ?lou,00O in copper alone. The ore yields from $5 to $7.50 ! a ton in gold and silver, the et re i suits in those metals fcaing $10,000 in I the same period. I Since the workmen's compensation ' law went Into effect on November 5, 1 1914, up to June 30, 1017, the receipts of the state industrial accident eom i mission have been $2,2S3,i;58.96, whije i the disbursements have been $301,322.- 04. according to a financial slatemen' issued by the commission. Four fatal accidents and E52 non fatal accidents were reported to the state industrial accident commission farms the past week. The fatal acci dents were: Joseph Streinier, Portland, department store; James Adkins, Ore gon City, trespasser; J. F. Cuddebaek, Portland, construction; Faul Corchan. Clifton, lodging. Eighty tons cf the 1516 crop of flax is new b?ing put through the water retting process at the state peniten tiary by Fiax Man?er R. Crawford. The 20 tens of flax which was retted laet fail has been scutched and work ed up info fiber of good quality. The 1617 crop, which is still growing, i; reported to be in good condition. N. Campbell, regis irar of the Port laud United States land office, has re ceived a bulletin from Washington an nouncing tentative plans for the sale of five sections of Siletz Indian reser vation land iu Lincoln county. The sale wiil be held some time in August and will be public. The timber is mostly Douglas fir, and government eruissr gave an estimate of 170,620, 000 feet. Scores of men, women and cliildren v, ill be needed to harvest the crops of Polk county this summer, and unless this demand is supplied, fully 50 per cent of the fruit and grain yield wiil be lost Women, giris and boys to pick the heavy berry crop, now fast ripening are especially waited at this time, but steady work i'ct an unlimit ed number cf men from now until the middle of October or November is also offered. Attcrney-Generp.l Brown advises J. O. Erickson, district attorney for Clat sop county, that the theory upon which a justice of the peace in that county iccently dismissed liquor cases against 0. Sund and A. White is unsound. The attorney-general holds that all the state needs to prove is that the liquoi came into the defendants' har.d3 and ihat the burden Is then shifted to them to prove that they secured such liquor In a lawful manne:-. Dissatisfaction of the Klamath In dians culminated in a tribal meeting, at which Clayton Kirk, Charles Hood; Ahvaham' Charley, Drumer David, Har rison Erown, Hamuel Clinton and Sup erintendent Aebery were speakers. The Indians declared themselves cap itble of self-government and asked that some of their vast resources be made available for Immediate use. Criticism of the present practice of the Govern ment in dealing with the Indians was made and resolutions were adopted asking the government to give the Indians a chance. Work of opening the central Ore gnu highway, which will extend from the Idaho state line to the s.a, was begun last week, wheu a crew of engineers working under the direc tion of the state engineering depart wiiiil, piuiiwl camp and started work on survey of the- poitiou of the pro posed road from Eugene to Deadwocd, in the coast mountains. The three imt3 of tins highway will be the pro posed road froin Florence to Eugene, the road from Eug-.ne through the I.ic-Cctieie pass to Mitchell and the John Day high,-, ay from .'Jit-hell ta Or.urio. on the Idaho boundary. District Forester Cecil, cnnoaccsl thai approval has been given by the secretary of ag.-icuiiurv to co-opera-tivs read -;c:': '. , n involving ?l.ili.;ti. whkh it aistritutci to 15 project:.. This err: oust is matched by the state. a-:s.s.ed In sorr.; ir.s'.ar.ces, by counties. The project on whifh co cporatxn :s cuutoris-rt l.y tne secre tary ere a? followi: MeKee-z-.e Pass read, Evtjtr.s-Fl-jr.nis road, Fendle-tsr.-La G.-.i5de reed, Mciford-Kiarr.ath Talis road. Ccr.ceo crs.k road. Canyon-.!iie-Gaic3v:a3 roaci, Reed3pcrt-Cces ray road, Littla Nejtvcea road, John Dcy tM. "cra-Zr-.teTprios rcvl, La ?ir.e-Le,i-rr:cT rial, P'ot r.3Ci-FfaJr! ' C.ty reti, Crcscsci-ris-r.ilfl TtSli read, and Z;g,:aj root. ' - RGEERT ALEY 1 . . V.' , i Cr. Robert J, Alay, preEldcr.t of the National Educ:uiorial Association, which is in sssslon at Portland this mm will m to STOP FOOD WASTE Vvasi.inrton A million American women, it was announced here, have eigr.ed pledges to follow the food con servation directions of the food ad ministration. All wiil be enrolled as actual members of the food adminis tration and from time to time-will be sent iustiuctSoiis on household econ omics. Within the next three weeks the administration hopes to enroll vir tually every woman iu the United States. Ths first iist of directions sent out to be posted in the kitchens urge housewives to: Euy less and serve smaller portions; preach ths gospel of the clean plate; don't eat a fourth meal; don't limit the plain food of growing children; watch cut for the wastes in the community; full gar bage pails In America mean empty dinne-r pails in America and Europe; ;f the more fortunate of our people will avoid waste and eat no more than they need, the high cost of living problem of the less fortunate will be 3olved. DRAFT INSTRUCTIONS GIVEN All Men of Craft Age Are Instructed to Follow Newspapers CLs:ly. Washington. Americas men of draft age will be responsible for ascer taining whether or not they are drawn in the big human lottery. Hence the war department ashed that In the next few weeks they be on the alert, follow the newspaper announcements of the draft requirements and when in doubt as'e their local exemption beards. In brief this is what each registrant i.3 required to do: Go to your exemption board and find out what your red ink serial num ber is as soon as your board has fin ished numbering the cards for the big lottery. Watch for the drawing in Washing ton. Then find out whether you were drawn and the order In which you inu:it appear. After that learn when you must ap pear for physical examination. In -case cf doubt as to any point, ask your local board about it. Wheat Prices Are Lower In Europe. Washington. Wheat prices abroad, where the governments have control of food supplies,' are shown to be much lower than in the United States by a report made to the food admin istration by the allied wheat doramit sion. While wheat is selling wpII above $2 in this country, the govern ment prices In other countries, ac oorUing to the allied commission, are ha lullows: Lamed Kingdom and France, f 1 SO; Germany, Jl feU; Bel gium, $10o; Australia, $1.14; India, tl ii; Italy, $1.69 to $1.94. Guardinj cf Gr2in Ajfc;d. Chicago. A request that stockadaa be built around 'all elevators in grain i,:07.!i!S diatrieis as protection against cusmy piot3 v.-a 3 cer.tained in a latter from He; cert C. Hcov.r, fedsra food administrator, reeeivja ty John J. Griffin, president cf tho CMcaso tear! cf trade. TKi MARKETS Pertlsr J. Y.'hsa Ob .:.:0; tlusstem 2.1c; rsd Russian. forty-feid, $2 JO. Barley No. 1 feed, JC per ten. hay Timothy, per tea; alfalfa jUS. j Better Crec.mery, j Eg;: Kaneh, Sic. ' '"'3l a?'-m 0"?s'E, 81c: allcj i i 5 liohair CjC per lb. . .....