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EASTERN CLACKAMAS NEWS. THURSDAY. GRctÜiJ NEüÎô Ik .iS Wash* ngion’s Early Ae!veai~**es CF SFEGÜL INTEREST Mow Assuming New ¿igniti?ne Brief Resume of Happenings of the Week Collected ior Qur Readers. N , A meeting wag he'd at th-> Mill City garage .las: Saturdcy night for the purpose of organizing the Mill City Sun club. |J fS |H M onument v K OVER THE i 3! "DRAKE p, I WELL" Eugene’s first radio broadcasting staticn is being installed at the Eu gene hotel and will be in operation in about 10 days, it was announced. f , 4 J- kk * R. Roux, fireman at the ninin Coos Bay Lumber company mill, was killed when he was caught in an avalanche of sawdust and chips in the fuel bin. Meacham, midway between Pendle ton and La Grande, was the coldest town in Oregon during the recent cold spell, the mercury dropping to 32 below. I , ■ The Eugene woolen mills has an annual payroll of *109 000 and em ploys 80 persons throughout the year, according to Carl Koppe, o'ne of the owners of the plant. \ '''v vu i OR.AKE AS HE LOOKEO IN I&S9 t ■ I :< v 4 *-’ ¡¡ È M il ' V" \ - A monument in honor of the men of Clatsop county who fought for the United States during the Spanish war will be erected on ¡he Clatsop county courthouse grounds next spring. , Thirty-eight government hunters worked in Oregon during the month of November and took 389 coyotes, 47 bobcats, cne bear, eight badgers eight skunks and 12 porcupines. The population of Oregon farms decreased from 214,021 to 210,288 in the five-year interval between 1920 and 1925, according to supplementary figures from The census bureau. t ( c>* b -L e J **H *4 R Y JJ.. PACE 3 HOME .»EMtNDERS INCREASE EGG PRODUCTION --------- Good lookin'? gurraents are made There has been considerable ar- by using the less worn parts of tv.o gunient for and against britficiil :r -.rents, ’ ’laid« or checks ave lighting of poultry houses, some pretty combined v.ith plr.in material, claiming that while lighting may in- und silks with wool. crease egg production, the vitality c f ______ the birds are decreased thereby. The Since leather bu.v.s at a very low agricultural experiment station of temperature, wc shoes a\o .-afely New Jersey, which has n.^ue many dried only in a place not too near experiments both with and without n register or a stove. artificial lighting, states that it has --------- been conclusively proven that in- Heat yellows silk, so a moderate!;- creased egg production and better warm iron ¡3 best for pressing. health are the results of artifi.ial --------- lighting of laying houses. A three- A simple trimming suitable f r year study o f 280 flocks, with a pep- children's garments ¡3 made on t o ulation of 804,137 birds was made sewing machine Tho b bbin 's and these tests showed that on an wound with heavy mercerized or s’ lk average 67.1 ogges were obtained thread. The stitch on tho machine from pullets where no lights wer,c is lengthened and the stitching dcnc- used and 75.8 with lights. The tests in the usual way except on tho covered a period of five months wrong side. yearly, from November to April. --------- ---------------- Pressing a wrinkled pattern be- EGG ASSOCIATIONS INCREASE i ° '-e placing it on the material saves ■ . . ■ ! time in cutting. Since 1913 there has been a re Pinning a seam instead o f basting markable growth in cooperative egg — . . . association* in thi* country They it often saves time. The p.m are are in 18 states, embracing about 70 plscod at right angles to the edge associations, w i t h about 50 000 °4 the seam. members. Forty-eight associations -------- * handled 2,556,515 cases of eggs last] Checking the size of n pattern be- year, at $26,529,218, and it is cx ! fora a garment is cut out saves tine. pected that 1926 will show a large The pattern is placed on the figure increase over these figures. and pinned together at tho scon?, —------------------- The length of back and front, width Exhibits at fairs by boys’ and ° f back and front, shoulder length girls' club members are regarded by 8nd neck size are adjusted to the H. C. Seymour, state club leader, figure, -—■ -• • somewhat as the storekeeper's win Oregon's total assessed valuation dow display. Few persons rccog-'o f $1,110,077,348, is $20,000.000 nize the vast amount of work and j above last year. care back of the exhibits. Starting j .......... ............... everal months before the fair, the Last winter trappers captured club members work diligently until 2,019 Oregon beaver, worth $28,- the event. 316. LIGHTS By HENRY BOTSPORD oi machinery was only beginning, The Pleasant school house, one mile |FTER well nigh a century and with Its insatiate demand for lubn east of SUverton, was destroyed by three-quarters a new Interest cants, while kerosene, though the heal fire last week. The fire had gained has recently been aroused In Illuminant ever known, was danger the earliest military adven-, ouo . because ,, , poor relinlttg lef. g... oii: e considerable headway before being tures of George Washington that was llable t0 esl>lod«- lt *.* dliil discovered and all the contents were When barely twenty-one years old, in I cu c nowada>'s- when the world is bo- lost. 1753, Washington was sent by Gov-1'" * combed f° r petroleum to Alice Sanders, an employe of the ernor Dinwiddle of Virginia Into t h e '" " 1'? mort! i;a9oltne' ,0 re M -° tha‘ ..... _ ................ . _______, ___ ser far northwestern wilderness—that tr. -’ aoJ' ,ne ^ as °nce a nuisance and a state department . . In Salem, was loitsly burned when her clothing northwestern Pennsylvania—to warn n’ onaco .Tbe lnt^rnal combustion en- caught fire from a heating stove theFrenchthattheym ustceas^ their Klnecrl.e ate<lthedom a!ldforPasollnt■• ? heburn, were"onfined back researcheR to occupy that region Recent “ leum. 0W 'll® " « ° f of p" mo- r°- The burns were confined to to her her back havg <lven a new h,glorl. The demands * of « > mill.cna and left arm. An order for 140.000 white ceder railroad ties has been received at North Bend from Japan. The order will filled bv the coos Coos uaj Bav Lumber wilt be De rinea Dy tne nuir.cer company and the Western White Ce- dar company. Central Point's brick factory, lo- cated On the Pacific highway at the northern nart of the citv limits and r . h T . . t e . !d l. J . . . . . . Is expected to commehce operation Within a short time. . The Salem chamber of Commerce recently launched a movement to ob- taln a radio broadcasting station for fhflt Htv Tlip qtatinn would haVa a y' , \ . , .... . power of 100 watts and w oil la serve both Marlon and Polk counties. The Four-L hall at Westport, re- pUted the finest along the lower Co lumbla river, was burned , to the „ .... , ... , *.. . ground last week, with loss estimated at $10,000, covered by insurance. Re building Is considered probable. At the first session held in six years the county treasurers of Oregon, num bering 15, reorganized their associa tion at a meeting in Portland recently by re-electing for president D. G. Drager of Salem, treasurer of Marlon OOttnty. Ù< ^ C, - ‘ j >. - the late market The pear tonnag- beginning» petroleum 1 value lay *aaetly this new intimacy and uatlef- hbi*p»4 to 4ate reached i l l car*. ( (p u^incagu aad kerosene. The ape, sun din* Brief Resume of Happerrngs of the Week Crllecied for Our Rcr.Jc rs. The new *2.5fii> T # plant of the St. Helens Pulp & Paper company was completed n::d ho.;an operation last Satuiday. The city of Mar difield sold S76.017 worth of luiprov- . :-.t bones to Port land buyers at a 1 rtmlum of $J:!.S0 a thousand. Turkey growers of V;i!e expect to ship 3009 birds for the Christmas trade. Abcut 15 J wore sold tor Thankcgiviug. C. S. Heinllnq. who for tho p:i3t four Fear* has rcrvotl ns postmaster in Roaeburg, h ■« h n nominated by Prosldent Coolldre for another term. Bud;: -t nt prop:.niions totaling $1,- 030.C04 have been authorised by the Co . , olln(.. oourt fai. 1027. Th!g cx. coeds last years buJgot by $574,473. The raport oi tun chief of srgineers recommend« to on- -css nr. a.iproprl- atidn ( f f,3i.<:j.) to. VJk mook bay and bar werk (or the year ending June 30, 1923, Nrcmi, 3-ye:ir-o!;l dauqhtor of Mr. and Airs. William Flschor of Maupin, died in n Luna I k -tat as the lusult of «wallowing colletJtraied lye three months ago, A lynx two I'oet hiyli and three feet lor was trcpp -d n c.-ntly by "Brick” Whitehead cn the 1. >rt 1» (erk of Deep creek. It had flvo ciawa on its front teet and tour on it«i ¡ear ioet. Farmers of Malheur county are planr.lr.g a rabbit drive, lt being eetl- ma.ed that more i:,nn J59.000 worth of (arm produce su. destroyed in that county this year by the posts. Due to depression in ihe lumber business, the naker Whlta I’ ino Lum ber company has ar.cunced a 5 per cent reduction in 811 v.-ar.es o( all em ployes receiving more than $3.40 a day. Twenty-thfeo (¡CoplB were killed and 458 others injured In 3212 accidents on the highways o( Oregon during Nov,- m her, accord In : to a report com piled by T. A. Rai.cty, chief of the state tra’ Lc squad. . caJ significance to that expedition. ‘ ° r car? constantly, lnvcu during which Washington,, always 1 on 8nd chemistry were set at work reckless of his personal safety, had ,v ll'c cap.ains of tho Industry to one of hla narrow escapes from death Pn re nr? iL^cT1 at -d the hands of a treacherous Indian : ollne a.. arg l This a, was " E, r Proper. ion cracking of gas- done by the Thfl rrench at that 0me ,od process, through which every yt rr.c.v Canada and claimed the Mississippi see3 a larsor Proportion of crude oil and Ohio Valleys. Tl^ugh the fringe turi]e<! lnt0 gasoline. o£ English spoaking colonies along! HiSh and Growing Demands the Atlantic contained the chief Euro- Today well-nigh 2,500,000 barrels cf "™ ” " * « * Petroleum to sotereignty over most of North Amer- satisfy the demand far motor car-. )ca.g area They were apparent|y de. [ractors. trucks, buses, artificial gas termined to occupy northwestern plants and the Innumerable by-prod Pennsylvania, partly because It was f ucts. Invention Is constantly finding j'J"'7" eveB then t0 be rlcb petr0" new uses, as enterprise Just as con stantly finds new supplies of petro leutu. The wonderful and rather mys- Reflion'l Wealth Known Pioneers and missionaries, Eng- ter,ous fluid has revolutionized social uabj Fl.ench Qerman and Dutch, had habits and industrial methods; yet It all reported to their governments ls °uly two-thirds of a century sinca that the petroleum was of great po- the Industry had Its feeble beginning tent,kl value- There Is. however, no; 'n the Pennsylvania oil country reason to believe that Washington „ T * * r " ! . “ 86 “ t ? knqw of Its existence Or value until 750.000,000 barrels of putroleum. The h)g a(Iventlire 0f 1753 Then he learfl- country will use 700.000,000 gallons or ed that the oij had )ong beefi uged by gasoline and Will export 1.900.'. ) tbe Indians and the pioneering whites more. The production, processing and fof fuel and liPht. for medicine and in marketing of petroleum Is pro,,. ‘ Iv thkklng war palm. Washington was second only to agriculture among sp fiiucb Impressed with its possibill-! American Industries. * ties that he later *• Tame owner of a Roundly. 70 per cent of the world's large area of oil-bearing lands. Al- petroleum industry is American. T- n though the petroleum Industry in its billions of capital Is Invested In It— modern form was then undreamed of, half the valuation of the national rail- Washington was so sure that a tor- road system It employs Just about Nine tract, of timber, located In ian('" .V000 000 peoplV Th? P'!" oleum t that tn bis will De listed tnem as ms line system, grtdironlng a ge-m share Coos, Lane and Linn coun les. were m03t Taluab^ holding*. In the prop- of the country, pggn-cates Jbout 85. .old at Roaeburg by the government 0yty schedule attached to the will ue 000 miles Petroleum revolutionized land office In a sale which aggregated wrote: naval warfare by bringing In the oil approximately $82,000. All of the “ This tract was taken up by Gen burning ship; It Is fast revolutionizing tracts sold were originally Oregon and e*al Lewis and myself on account of merchant marines in thi me fa;;h California grant lands. ,*le bituminous spring which It con Ion Multiplication of motor cars. tains, of so Inflammable a nature as along with the special taxation of F. A. Patterson. 91, pioneer of Ore (0 burn as freely as spirits and as their gasoline, has m de po slble the gon and father of Governor-elect I. L nearly difficult to extinguish.” modern highway system Patterson, died at his home In tnde The Will of Washington A True Social Service pendence last week, deprived Of the Some historians declare that In an Perhaps the most nearly revolution pleasure of seeing his son ascend to “ arller will Washington dedicated this ary result of Drake's mcdernlzatlon of the highest office within the gift of 'burning spring" to the public At the petroleum industry is to he found the people of the state. an5, rat*- 11 had Pa,*«d from bis own In the change It has brought In ae _. . . . . . . . ershlp before his death. He sold this life of rural America It has carried The board of regents of state nor- trgct for 1200.000. but, suspecting it the city »o the country the country mal schools, by a vote of fire to four might revert to his estate under a to the city It has. by making po'sl- selected La Grande as the location for mortgage, he warned his heirs that ble the cheap and quick transporta the new state normal school which should lt do so It would be worth tlon that everybody nowadays en- was created under s measure ap- much more than the $200.000. Joys, enabled country and city to proved by the voters of Oregon at Although Washington s first kno^ know and understand each other as the last general flection. rAge of Petroleum * as gained within they never did before ft hr.v bro igbt » £«w miles of the place where the social and educational privilege,-, -o Opposition to the proposed plan of first oil well In the world was drilled, country dwellers that a few decades establishing a game refuge for mule that first well was not opened until ago seemed absolutely dented to tall deer in western Lake county has one hundred and »lx years later, them On the one hand It has en- been encountered among land owners 1®5# tn that year Edwin Laurentlne abled the cltlea to spread out into sub- Of the diatrlct. who maintain that the t,rake bor#d flr*t w*'l. Just south urban areas and the zone of country establishment of the reserve would nt Tlta*r|"«- Pennsylvania and really estate« on the other, it has enabl'd tend to decrease property value. ^ r,*d th* fflodern '“ <»*• lh? *0 have tfT- neighbors, society, church snd school A long-distance telephone message A Oevelopmsnt Wander privileges, in-lmate arq tlntance from John Maben. caretaker of Cra'et Today the American Industry is the' ft is a btrnrlc fart that the trndrn- Lake lodge, reports that the snowfall *AJor part of the world s oil business j cy toward division of interest and un- has reached a depth of erven feet Americana are directing oil develop-fdemanding between city and country five Inrhea In the Crater Lake Na m* nt* 411 0T9r ^ world It Is all1 is the most serious Internal menace to ttonal park. The snow la heavily part of the huge problem to makei-h* security of nations, to the integrl- , pure that the tomorrow« shall *ee ty of «ociety. packed and was still falling steadily America» requirements met Every More thin anythin* else country Up to last week apple shlpmentf decade the production of petroleum aftd city need to know and understand from Hood River had reached 404'. has doubled. Science and technt- each other end each other’s prob- cars and estimates placed remaining progredk have met all demaris lem.s. The easy transporfa'ion. the stored stock* at 550 car*. The re Foreign investment and development ready opportunity for association snd malnder of the apple* of first grad are In the nature of Insurance for the acquaintance that have come with future. , the Age of Petroleum hgve made poe- late-keeping varieties will be held fot In the days of Drake and the Indus si Me in -bn fa .ntry at least, Si'-cT! !Z ;S ITEMS CF STECI'L INTEREST ^ / f COM PAXY of actors gathered on Cull Island off the coast of Maine, after a charity performance of "Tweifth Night.” Some of them still in cos tume. No other people on the island save the caretaker of the great house and an old boatman. One of the com pany murdered. The victim’s body lost in the powerful current. Who did it3 That’s what you will wonder. A real, a satisfying surprise. Q __ Q Q Q O An Amazing Mystery Story That W ill Appear Serially in EASTERN CLACKAMAS NEWS beginning January 6th — Don’t Miss It! Linn county's tax levy on the 192« roll necessary to me^t budget require ments. will ho 27.1 mills, the seme milluge ns the year before, according to the statement c.f the county asses sor to the county court. An air mall llghi has been installed 1V4 miles east of Heines. Thu light b n revolving type of 1000 watts. M one light hums cui ancth-r globo au tomatically Is lighted. The light Is visible at Baker, 11 miles away. Following a public hearing In Hood River the county court and advisory board cut tho tentative budget $2.561.84 and set tho county'3 assess ment fer next year at $277,507 16, an Inrrtaaa of 110.871.45 over that of 1926. C. A. Reed, 48, switchman employed In the Bpokano, Portland & Beattie yards In Astoria, was killed Instantly i when ho was cru; lied by a 76-ton crano, which overturned on the main ] lino near the Astoria Lumber company plant. No dentha were recorded tn the Cot tage Grove aistrict. during the month Of November, according to C. E. Frost, health officer, who has filed hta monthly report. This is the first time that an entire month has passed with out a death. A rock of about 50 pounds weight crushed out the life of Basil Cham bers. 32. at the Hauser Construction company quarry on Coos liver. The rock loosened In the hill and came down without warning, striking Cham bers on the head. I-o-» C'arl!, rancher of the Hermis- ton prsjert sineo 1910, was burned to death at his home when his clothes Ignited while he was dressing near a red-hot. stove. Mr. Clark was past 90 years o' age and possessed all his fac ulties to a remarkable degree, A large female cougar that had been pr> ylng on goats and young hogs of farmers southwest of Falls City for some time was shot and killed last week by Alfred Ferguson. It meas ured six feet sis Inches from nose to tip of tail and weighed 115 pounds. Mrs Henry Padjen of Slaters has traded 11 sliver black foxes for a band i ’ 250 sheep, according to word received from Bend. Mr* Padjen 1* said to have raised the foxes, and her trade was made with a Lake county rancher At present prices the sheep are valued at more than $3000. A proposed legislative measure pro viding for a super-irrigation commis sion, to be known as the state reclam ation board, reefed with broad pow ers, including authority to step in and manage the affairs of any irrigation district fhat Is In default of any of its obligations, was considered recently at a meeting of the trustees of the Oregon reclamation congrea* la Port land.