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Devoted to the Interests
V o l u m e 11.
N u m b e r ;1S
0. & C. LAKLS (OR ENTRY
Applications For Agricultural Land
Open From June 22, To July 17
Acting: Secretary of the Interior
Vogelsang has approved regulations
opening to entry under the home
stead laws, as modiiied by the act of
J.ne 9, 1910 (29 Stat. 218), about
150,000 acres of land classified as
ag i.-t lti ial, situated in the Portland
la..d district, Oregon. These lands
are a portion of what are commonly
known as the Oregon and California
Rnilioad grant lands, title to which
was resumed by the Government un
der the act of June 9, 1910. The
agricultural lands opened to entry
at this time are practicaly all of the
agricultural
lands in
the
Port
land district. Additional agricultur
al kinds in the grant will be restored
to entry from time to time as the
classifications are completed.
The classifications as agricultural
does not necessarily imply that the
lands are suitable for the plow. The
law under which the classification
was made directed that such lands be
separated into three classes, first,
those valuable for power sites; sec
ond, timber lands, including those
containing 200,000 feet, board meas
ure, of timber, to a tract of forty
acres; thiid, agricultural lands, those
not falling within either of the other
two classes. Large areas so restor
ed are covered with brush or varying
quantities of timber less than 200,-
000 feet, board measure, to the forty
pc re subdivi f*; and some are valu
able only for grazing.
Applications to enter any of the
lands thus restored may be filed by
any duly qualified person for a unit
of 100 acres or less, in the United
Mates land office at Portland, Ore-
go. , at any time during the period
beginning June 22 and ending July
l i , 1918. All applicatios filed during
tins period will be considered a; f i l
ed simultaneously. Persons filing ai
or near the end of the period wdl
have the same opportunity as tlu .c
\.ln me at tne beginning. In c. se of
1 .liciing applications for tne s..mo
1; . d, a drawing will be held on July
L ..!, .o determine the successful ap-
pi a ..s.
. , i c; t ons to enter must be
s .. .. , j before the register or re
ed o; of tne United Slates land of-
iice „i i o and, Oregon, or before a
United hu.ies
Commissioner,
or
judge, or ile.k of. court of records
wi.hin the o nty m which the land
is situated. Each application must
be accompanied by the required land
«•fl ee fees, together with an amount
< i al to fifty cents per acre to apply
on the total purchase pi ice of $2.50
per acre, the balance of $2.00 to be
paid at time of final proof. Ap
plicants must personally examine the
1. nd.
Any person who served for more
than ninety days in the United States
army or navy during the Civil War,
Spanish-American War or the Philip
pine Insurrection, and was honorably
d »charged, may file a soldier’s or
s: ilor’s declaratory statement of at-
torrey in fact on the ground, and
m ale h:s application to enter with
in six months thereafter, hut such
declaratory statement must be ac-
• ••mpanied by the fee of $2.00 and the
in tallment of purchase price re-
( ired of other applicants.
A pamnh'et eontain’ng the regul-
loMons ard a list of the lands with
a brief description thereof will be
E stacada ,
O regon ,
County Championship
Hopes Vanished
If it had not been for nine real
ball playeis from the Molalla high
school, the baseball team of the Es
tacada high school would have been
the undisputed champions of Cack-
amas County on Friday afternoon
last, on the home grounds.
But as it happened, Molalla was
there with balls, bats and gloves and
seemed familiar with the uses of all
three adjuncts of the game, as tes
tified by the score of 8 to 0, with
the visitors taking home the two-
thirds of a dozen runs.
A second game was played at Mo-
lalla on Tuesday, with E. H. S. again
lo-ing by a score of 8 to lti.
School Board Election
June 17th
The annual meeting of the taxpay
ers of the Estacada school district
No. 108 will tane place at the school
auditorium on the evening of June
17th.
At this meeting one member of the
board will be elected, as the term of
Chairman J. W. Reed expires and it
is also expected that Fred Jorg, who
lor the past six months has been in
Portland, will tender his resig
nation, so that a second vacancy
will probably have to he filled.
Mr. Reed, whose good won on the
board for years past, has been in a
large part responsible for the high
standard of the Estacada schools,
has not announced as yet whether lie
will be a candidate for re-election.
To ti ite, little interest is being
taken in this coming election, hut an
effort is being made to elect a woman
to a ply'-o on the board for many feel
that one of the three directors should
he of the feminine gender.
June Draft To Ca’ I
83 C'ackamas Men
Oregon’s net remaining quota to
be raised in the second draft is 5458
men. Official announcement of this
figure has been made from the War
Department at Washington.
In the first draft, Oregon’s net
<n ota was 717 men. Since the filling
° f this quota, the state has furnished
in various draft calls u total of 2861
m"ii. The announcement from Wash
ington states that all these men will
he credited against the state's gross
ouota on the second draft of 9,219
!■ en, leaving a net quota still to he
r: ised of 5,458 men.
These men will not be called out
I' :»* one t:me, but will be inducted
into service as calls are received
from Washington for draft incre
ments of various sizes. At the rate
inductions are now being made, how
ever, it will not he long before they
are all inducted into the service.
The net quota to be called from
Clackamas county under the second
dr; ft is 228. of which 82 are evp«ct-
ed to he ready for entraining to Camp
Lewis between June 24th and 29th.
This countv will also f"rn ;sh
twelve men of grammar school edu-
ettion, to be specially trained in me-
ch n -al lires at the Henson Poly-
te-l nical School of Portland. These
twelve vacancies should easily be fill,
e l from volunteers, hut if not filled
8” June 7'h, the local board will
nvn.
mailed after June 1st to those re-
ouestinp same from the register and
receiver of the United States land
office at Portland, Oregon.
of Eastern Clackamas
T hursday ,
J une (>
lius
P er Y ear
Wounded Aviator
To Speak In Estacada
EL’( LIBETATION C O iM E IE D
Tlie people of this community wil'
have an opportunity next Friday
evening, June 7th, at the Estacada
school auditorium, to listen to the
experiences of Sergeant Dave Wells,
of the American Aviation service,
who recently returned from active
service in France, where he was se
verely wounded.
Mi. Veils, who is almost helpless
from his wounds, does not claim to
be a public speaker, but what he has
to say is from first hand information
and should be of extreme interest to
his I steners.
On this program will also appear
M ss Mih'm, head of the Home Keon-
< m cs Department of the O. A.
who will speak on other phases of
the war situation. Miss Milam has
twice been called by the government
to attend conferences at Washington,
so her message promises to be an
interesting one.
This meeting has been arranged
through the efforts of Mrs. Frank
Ewing, of Viola, who is one of the
loading workers of the Clackamas
County Council of Defense.
P rt Of Animals Reach Mountains
Some Ar.ive At heavenly Pastures
County Agriculturalist
Not Exempted
Despite the efforts of members of
the county •court and officials of the
Oregon Agricultural College, the
county draft board of Hood Rivoi
ha steadfastly refused to grant ex-
emptien from military service of R.
VV. Arens, Clackamas County’s Ag
ricultural Agent, and it is probable
he will be inducted shortly.
Mr. Arens’ friends felt, that he •
could he of more value to the coun
try in his present capacity than act
ing as a soldier, but the draft hoard
of h:s home county refused to rec-
<>'•:',i p t h<* protest.
If there is an animal heaven, at
least four el of the band of a dozen
or more that last week were destin
ed for liberation m the nearbv moun
tains, duly arrived in the eternal
pastures, with the balance of their
companions finally being turned loose
to •continue the r existences on tins
m ndano sphere.
If the four that went to the ani
mal heaven were to be interviewed,
they would advise ¡ill future bunds of
domesticated brethren to either re
main in the zoological gardens of
the cities or accept the* offer of the
meat men to put them out of their
misery in a humane manner and sell
their steaks, chops, and cutlets to
help reduce the high cost of living.
The liberation was in charge of
Government Packer, Dee Wright, of
Wapinitia, starting irom the Esta-
cmla stock yards on Monday, with
three ¡urinals dead before the nex!
morning. A fourth elk, being the
big bull of the herd, •cashed in his
cheeks r. d:*> or two later on the
banks of the North Fork, but this
old patriarch is reported to have
been in ill health at the time of de
parture.
Stale Biologist Finley was on hand
to take moving pictures of the lib
eration, but is reported to have tak
en no pictures, probably for fear that
explanations would have to-t*e made
of some of the ¡••ceiios depicted.
Some people might object to the
term cruelty being used in connec
tion with this work, especially those
actually aiding in the liberation, but
the fact that four of the eight adult
animals that had to be led, or rath
er dragged, succumbed to the treat
ment, speaks for itself.
Graduation Exercises
Erdf d Wednefdpy
Auto Sales Agent
Breaks Shoulder
The several programs and features
of the graduation exercises of the
Estacada high and grammar schools
were all successfully handled during
the past few days and with large
ard’eaces in attendance at all affairs.
The annual high •.•hool picnic at
Fern Camp on Saturday, was for
once attended by fair weather, with
Me \<> ng folks making their trip in
; 1 muni er of conveyances.
The wind-up of the week was the
Al n,ni Banquet at the Hotel Esta-
cada, when the 1918 “ grads” were
welcomed into the fold of the alumni
by for. ‘er E. II. S. graduates.
Abort two weeks ago, John (’.
Peterson of the Cascade Garage of
Estacada, while instructing a begin
tier in the operation of a mach'.ie
near Boring, ended tin* lesson by be
ing thrown from the car into a ditch
a d btea ing the bones of his left
shoulder.
Be1 iv lie tin t tin- injury was not a
-c ious one, Mr. Peterson did not
consult a physician until hist Satur
day, with the result that he spent
Su: day and part of Monday in a
P< it land hospital, where the broken
bones were set and wired into place,
wi h thi- patient now at home ¡mil ie
c 'perat ing.
Annual Guernsey
Breeders Picnic
T’m annual meeting and picnic of
• ■ Oli i a : i s tJounty < »uein ey ( 'at
1 Club will be held Saturday, June
s’th. at the farm of J. A. and J. T.
R '..<> of Boring.
A interesting program is promis
ed, also an inspection of an excel
lent he^d of pure bred Guernseys,
among them being the cow, Auricu
la’s Hilda, that won first in the milk-
> '<> t at the Multnomah County
Fu r last year.
Autos will meet the noon train a’
Boring, taking the picnicker' to the
firm about a mde and a half d*s-
*-nt. All farmers and o’ hers in*'1»',
ested are invited and urged to bring
their picnic dinners.
Red Cross Donations
Still Coming In
Since the do <■ hist Saturday of the
>tn
1 .'<••(> d R *d Cross drive, when
• 1\ <*<« > I 'astern Clackamas dis
trict. oversubscribed its quota, many
coatrih t •• have in-re been receiv
d at th • New office, which is the
herdqnnrtei of the Estacada uuxil
i ■ *.
Many inquiries have also coni'*,
'in g about the d'snosition of the
<•’<• -tir.n jed',es’ ami clerks’ warrants,
which had been « signed over to the
Red Cros , for ¡ill in ist that th«'
respective ''Htricts be creditead with
their donations. But to date no n -
wer has been received from the O r e
gon City authorities.