NEWS OF o r a 1
STATED IN BRIEF
T
THOMAS F. WALSH
Groceries
People or o f Finance—can
buy better food than we
sell you, at prices you usu
a lly pay fo r good things.
c h r o n ic l e
• ASTORIA.— It has been rumored
that there have been several deposits
o f gold found. near this city and
many .people have panned oat' very
good amounts.
OP
STATE HAPPENINGS.
SILETZ U N O SUIT IS FILED
They Alleys—Ballinger's Tims
L. VanBlaricom
as
Counsel
Cited.
m
PO RTLAN D .— A non-partison tariff
commission, with power to change
the rate of duties as necessity de
mands, Is favored by the Portland
Chamber o f Commerce.
Action of Assistant Secretary Ilissai,
J.
OTHER CITIES IN OREGON
PR IN E V ILLE . — Plans have been
laid by the Commercial Club to bold
a great booster day celebration here
on or soon after April 15.
N o Emperor—either o f a
t e l e g r a p h ic
N E W S PARAGRAPHS PROM
r
EUGENE.— Though a coach o f na
tional reputation has been engaged
and contracts have been signed fo r a
full schedule of games, the University
of Oregon may not hare a football
team .next year.
PO R TLAN D .— Declaring that Sec*
rotary o f the Interior Bellinger, be*,
cause he had been counsel for s num
ber o f lend claimants ia the Sileta
CONDON. — Although
Gilliam
Indian reservation, in Oregon, now
County has been considered entirely
declines to give them the benefit o f
a dry-farming country, steps are now
his Judgment since becoming Secre
being taken to put upwards of 3,000
tary of the Interior, and “ has at
Thomaa P. Walsh, the millionaire
acrea o f splendid land under irriga
tempted to delegate to hla assistant,
mine-owner, who died In Washington
tion.
Frank Pierce, the duty Imposed by
D. C., last Saturday.. Daath was due
For choice cuts of
law on him,” and that the latter has
FOSSIL.— A mass meeting of farm
to a growth Ih tho lungs as tha result
decided adversely to them, W illiam D.
era and business men was held in
the best that the market
Of an Injury rocolved years ago, whan
Bales, Thomas Holrerton and L evy
Fossil for the purpose o f discussing
Mr. Walsh was a minsr in ths Wsst.
affords
M. Gilbert have filed suit In the Su- j
ways and means of getting a railroad
preme Court of the District of Colum-1
built south from Condon via M&yville
Absolutely Cash
hla for an injunction to prevent the HAPPENINGS OP INTERE8T
to Fossil, a distance of 20 miles.
CONDENSED POR READERS
execution o f the order o f Mr. Pierce.
FOREST GROVE.— The Woman’s
Bales says he employed Mr. Ballin
Club of this city has taken up the
is ready to serve you
ger in 1908; and that the latter filed
Governor Shafroth has been asked matter o f sprinkling the streets of
In the office o f the then Secretary to take a hand in the strike o f the Forest Grove during the coming
o f the Interior a brief urging that United Mine Workers o f district No. summer months and a committee has
patents be issued to Bales.
By al 15, by sending troops to the scene been appointed to ascertain the cost
leged Irregularities he claims his title o f the difficulty at Lafayette, Colo. o f the necessary apparatus.
to the entry was clouded, and Mr. I As further punishment to the late
‘ Pierce has rendered against him a d e -4 Fafdgter, the Postmaster-General has ways are to be provided across the
clsion which la about to become op directed that on July 1 the name of Umatilla Indian reservation and no
erative in Oregon unless the court the postofflce at Pinchot, Shoshone longer will sheepmen and cattlemen
prevents its execution..
County, Idaho, be changed to Avery.
be forced to pay toll for crossing the
Bales and the other claimants de -Rumors that Joseph Smith, presi reservation to and from the summer
clare the law allows an appeal to the dent and prophet of the Reorganized ranges. •
Secretary; that they are entitled to it, Church o f Jesus Christ o f Latter
SALEM.— With the annual celebra
and that the action o f the Assistant Day Saints, Will abdicate in favor of tion o f the establishment o f the first
Secretary is without warrant o f law.
his son, Frederick M. Smith, are cur provisional government at Champoeg,
ren t
May 2, 1843, but three weeks away,
Olve us a chance at that
Williams County Next.
A. C. Shaw, dismissed from the plans are well developed for the
new home. W e would like
DRAIN.— The apathy manifested by Forestry Service on a charge o f in greatest celebration ever held at the
to put In those Bath Fix
the Eugene and Roseburg committees subordination in connection with the old historic outpost.
tures, Etc., and do your
controversy, will
appointed some time ago to oppose Plnchot-Ballinger
B AK E R C ITY.— One of the most
plumbing.
Jbe_absorption o f a portion of Doug practice law in Portland, Ore.
difficult engineering feats of mining
las County within the lines of the
Chief o f Police Creecy was dis in eastern Oregon has Just been Com
proposed Nesmith County creation, missed from his position by the 5L pleted and water 1 b now ready to be
LET U S FIOURE*W ITH YOU.
and the fact that the people o f Flor Louis Police Board. He was found turned Into the penstock o f the Gold
ence, Lane County, also desire to. ab guilty of five of the eight charges on Coin mine, near Durkee, and the work
sorb the western portion o f Douglas which he was tried.
begun o f washing away a mountain
known
as Umpqua County, has
The Nebraska State Board of Pub of rich gravel.
E. L . E V A N S
aroused the -pople of Drain into an lic Lands and Buildings w ill buy
BAK ER C ITY.— One o f the most
attitude o f defense on their tjwh ac moving picture machine for the Important irrigation deals in Eastern
count.-^ A large meeting o f citizens amusement o f the Insane patients, at Oregon was closed when the Eastern
and bAslness men held here resolved the Norfolk Asylum.
Oregon Land Company, which is con
to outline still another county. The
The Senate has agreed to take np trolled by Balfour, Guthrie A Co.,
committee also has decided upon the the Warren irrigation bill for final completed the deal for the purchase
name, Williams, after Judge W il consideration, and it is expected the o f a one-half interest in the Eldorado
liams, who djed on the morning of the bill will be passed. Only Senator ditch. — ------------- — ^ ----
day the first meeting was held. It is Heyburn and Senator Chamberlain
PO R TLA N D .— Pelican Lodge, the
►
Intended to make Drain the county are known to oppose it.
head of Klamath Lake, in Southern
the excuse that your watch
•eat if the county is authorized by a
William Harria, alias Brown, no Oregon, which the late E. H. Harri-
! [ was wrong doesn't go. -
vote o f the people in November.
torious as a bandit and accomplice of man purchased three yeara ago with a
There's no reason why
Harry Tracy, nhe renowned Western view to making it a summer outing
your watch should not be I !
Banks W ill Fight for Deposits.
desperado, has been released to the resort, is to be sold to D. C. Jacklin,
SALEM.— Proceedings In escheat authorities of the Utah Penitentiary of Salt Lake City, millionaire vice-
right to the second.
to recover accounts that have laid in by officials of the Federal prison, at president and manager o f the Utah
D on't make the excuse.
Copper Company, and the Ray Con
banks for more than seven years Leavenworth, Kan.
Get a watch that times you
without claimants are to be started
The hookworm, according to Dr. solidated Copper Companies.
right and be on time.
W A L L O W A . — The recommenda
against several Oregon banka imme Hollis B. Frissell, o f the Rockefeller
diately. Complaints are being drawn Sanitary Commission, who has com tion o f Harvey W. Harris, supervisor
up by Assistant Attorney-General I. pleted a tour o f Southern states and of the local forest office, has been
H. Van Winkle. That banks against is in Chicago, will soon be a thing of approved and announcement is made
that the President’s proclamation to
whom action is being taken will re the past.
Opposite Postofflce
be
issued early next month for the
sist vigorously is to be expected, as
Henry S. Graves, Chief Forester,
sums to be recovered vary in amount left Washington April 14 for an ex elimination of lands within the Na
tended trip through the forest terri tional forests suitable for agriculture
from $300 to $5,000.
The law enabling the state to re tory. He. will spend some days at w ill include parts o f 11 townships in
cover such funds was enacted by the San Francisco, Ogden, Portland and this vicinity. __
PO R TLAN D .— Three infantry com
legislature in 1907 and amended so Missoula.
The monthly crop report of the De panies of the Oregon National Guard
SB to make it more effective in 1909.
The money so recovered Is to go into partment of Agriculture just made may be dismissed summarily from
the common school fund of the state public shows that on April 1 winter the state service as a result o f the
and the proceedings to be instituted wheat in the Pacific Northwest was annual inspection just completed by
practically normal, and runs 15 per officers o f the Regular Army. The
3 2 0 sera* line level land in large valley through by the state are similar to those
cent
above the general range for the companies are those located at Mc
of
ordinary
escheat.
which the new Central O regon railroads are now
Minnville, Baker City and Pendleton.
United States.
building.
I have my homestead there and can
The river and harbor bill as re A t least two other companies are re
locate you. i charge $ 6 0 payable only after
Indian Girl Files on Land.
ported In bad condition and their
y o u see the land. N o deposit. W rite me.
L A GRANDE.— A new precedent in ported to the Senate Monday carries
state is to be looked into imme
a
total
appropriation
of
$3,725,300
for
land office records here was set when
diately.
rivers
and
harborB
of
the
Pacific
half-breed Indian girl filed on a
PE N D LETO N . — Considerable pa
piece o f land under the public domain Northwest and authorizes contracts
triotic indignation was stirred up
to
the
extent
of
$2,290,000
additional,
act. The child is now living on the
.Printer,
when news spread about the city that
White Earth reservation in Minne making a grand total of $6,015,300
8 8 1-2 T h ird Street, Portland. Oregon,
the American flag which the law re- !
As
a
result
of
water
competition,
It
sota. and her right to file on an In
quires shall float over every public '
is
stated,
the
transcontinental
rail
dian allotment has not been used be
M O R R IS & S M IT H
or
achoolhouse, was shot down from !
roads
have
announced
that
the
freight
cause the White Earth supply is ex
N e w b erg, O regon
rats on canned salmon in 60,000- above the Meacham school. A mill
hausted. It Is not believed here that
pound shipments, w ill be reduced hand is suspected of the deed. Coun
similar filing has been made in
from 85 cents per hundred pounds to ty
School
Superintendent
Mills
the history of the land office in this
65 cents
per hundred pounds be turned the matter o te r to the district
state. The filing was granted.
tween Columbia River and Puget attorney.
Agento for
Sound points and Chicago.
PO R TLA N D .— At a conference held
Umpqua to Be Surveyed.
Scarcity o f unskilled labor through between W. W. Cotton, counsel for
ROSEBURG. — Senator Jonathan
Yamhill Fruit Land Co. ¡
the United States has resolved itself the O. R. A N. lines in Oregon, and
Bourne has notified the Roseburg
Into a problem so Serious that rail the State Railroad Commission, the
Commercial Club that he has se
road builders and big contractors, es railroad company made It clear that
Have 500 acres, the best in the
cured the adoption of a resolution for
peclally in the Middle West, are fac It w ill pay without protest claims for
county, 4 miles from Newberg,
the survey of the Umpqua River
selling from $175 to $375 per acre.
ing the necessity of throwing up refunds in the Portland distributive
from Scottshurg to Roseburg, as
5 years time. W ill plant to ap
their contracts or securing an exten case where it can be shown that ship- j
asked for In a resolution passed by
ples o r walnuts and care for it
sion of time in which to complete raents come unquestionably under
the club a few months ago.
This
fo r four years if desired. Let us
their work.
the state ruling.
survey
is
for
the
purpose
of
determin
show you the land.
The Imperial Window Glass Com
W A L L O W A .— Lost in’s city election,
ing the feasibility of improving the
Just opposite the Graphic office,
pany, incorporated In West Virginia, rfhlch should have been held Monday, j
stream so as to make it navigable
where I can be found ready to
and 16 officials and directors were in was postponed by an error on t h e !
for steamboat traffic.
supply all o f your wants in tho
dicted by a special Federal
part o f the Recorder In Issuing the
Real Estate business. Come in
Jury on three counts. The Indictment call for the election, he having dated
Coos Bay Plant Burned.
and see me.
charges conspiracy la the restraint the election lo r “ Monday, the fifth
COOS B A Y — A fire, said to be In of the hand-blows window glasé
duy of April.” This error brings to
MONEY TO LOAN
cendlary, damaged the plant of tho trade in the United States; engage
light a provision In the charter that
Coos Bay Ico A Col Storage Com ment ia illegal .-smpetltlon tad an
such an error makes it impossible to
pany to tho amount of 918,00«. Tho attempt to
monspellss laterstats bold aa election this year unless tbe
giant la insured far f«,000.
trade.
Members of the old oeunell realga.
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