W om en and C hildren
CAVING money U not the easiest thing in the
world, but nothing is so productive of prosper*
ity and happiness. Once get the habit and it will
stay with you. We welcome the Savings accounts
of women and children here aft die U. S. National
Bank, and endeavor to make our
helpful
UNITED STATES
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Parlor
Pharmacy
“Quality Store**
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Our clerks efficient, courteous and pains­
taking. ^ Our aim is ¡to please oar pat­
rons at all tim es, and our reward is the
prestige we. have won^in this neighbor­
hood. Let ns serve yon promptly and
satisfactorily.
DR. S. L. BROWN
Veterinarian
Office corner of Hancock and College streets. One block north
of the United States National Bank
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Phone Black 23
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Portland, Ore.
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S o u t h e r n P a c if ic L in e s
OF 6ENERAL INTEREST
Principal Events nf the Week
Briefly Sketched fer Infer*,
nation of Our Readers.
Fires in Oregon during Juno caused
• loss of $84.820.
Tbs fifth annual Chautauqua opened
la Dellas Tuesday.
MolaUa's two-day celebration and
roupd-up was a huge success.
The eastern Oregon state conven­
tion of Christian churches was held
la La Grands.
Strawberries are growing so large
la Harrisburg that 18 of them fill aa
ordinary berry box.
Actual construction on the Klamath
Falls municipal railway commenced at
Klamath Falls Friday.
Tha tenth annual three-day conven­
tion of the Oregon Chiropractic asso­
ciation was held la Portland.
Work on the new $14,000 addition
to tha chapel of the Oregon normal
school at Monmouth has started.
The next .national convention of the
Mu Phu Epsilon, national music sor­
ority, will be held la Eugene In 1919.
Seventeen branches of the Red Cross
society with e total imbarshtp of
187i have been formed in Llqa county.
Deer in the mountains have suffered
severely from the long winter, says
Charles Hoskins, an Echo sheepman.
The main railroads In Oregon have
abandoned their. attempt to get a IS
per cent Increase In Intrastate freight
rates at this time.
- The little town of Flavel was vlsit-
ed by a blase which destroyed two
frame buildings with the loes of ap­
proximately $2600.
The American Home Bbonomlcs as­
sociation convened In Portland Tues­
day, July 19, ns a section of the Nation­
al Education association.
Hood River has shipped 90 carloads
of strawberries and It la expected
that fully 100 carloads will be handled
before the seesoir closes.
Bids will be opened at Roaebnrg
July 29" for the Douglas county rood
bond issue of $666.000 authorised at
the recent state election.
Boys In the state training school
and girls la the girls' Industrial school
will assist In harvesting the berry
crop of the Willamette valley.
gon State Pharmaceutical association,
began at Seaside Tuesday and will
eontinue until Saturday night.
Reports received from growers In
Marlon county indicate that great
numbers of pickers will be needed to
handle the berry crop this year.
Announcement was made by A. H.
Lea, secretary of the state fair board,
that the board has decided to put on
an automobile show In connection with
the state fair.
Experiments for the control of the
onion mildew are being conducted by
the department of plant pathology at
the Oregon Agricultural college with
promising results.
Complete figures compiled by United
States Attorney Reajnes show that
since war census day, June 6, 284 men
of military age have been permitted to
register at Portland.
A largo cattle transaction took place
when C. A Oorley and Arch Waseom,
of Harrisburg, purchased 1180 head of
Durham steers from George Brown, of
Corvallis for $10,000.
Five mootings will be held in Lina
oouaty this week under the direction
of tho United State# department of
agriculture to teach farmers how to
ax terminate digger squirrels.
John W. Bowman, carpenter, shot
and killed his wife and then sent two
ballets Into his own temple, dying al­
most Instantly, at Pendleton. Friends
said Bowman was Jealous of his wife.
Chiu Bing, the first of six allegad
gunmen implicated In the murder of
Billie Eng, an Americanised Chinaman,
la the recent tong war. yr** found
guilty of second degree murder at La
Grande.
Fire prevention will be taught in the
schools of Salem, and representative!
of tho state fire marshal's departmsut
will make a complete survey of the'
oity, according to plans which have
been outlined.
Several deputy state fire marshals
have been sent to the eastern Ore­
gon grain fields to aid farmers aad
warehousemen to give the fullest pro­
tection against fire that might destroy
needed feed supplies.
While there Is yet little Injury to
the grain crops of the great wheat
belt Immediately tributary to Pendle­
ton, farmers are beginning to ha ap­
prehensive regarding the effect of the
heat on their crop prospects.
Miss Bertha Althaua, saleslady at
the Umpqua hotel at Roseburg; Mrs.
Alice Allea, a Roaeburg nurse; W. J.
Weaver, proprietor of the Umpqua
hotel at Roaeburg; J. M. Burt, travel-
lag salesman for the John Deers Plow
company, of Portland; E. L. Parrott,
capitalist, and Floyd Miner, son of a
prominent Dillard rancher, are suffer­
ing from injuries which they sustained
when Mr. Parrott's car left the road
and turned ever et a point near Can­
yon villa.
Tl»t the BeBand law enacted at the Secretary Olcott has sent out notices
Wen t •«••Ion of tk* legislature to to all of the banks in the state call­
iraUMt tha sale of aalmon caught la ing their attention to the new law
tha ocean off the Columbia river dor- relative to bank deposits that escheat
lag the cloeed fishing season la un­ to the state. Under the new law, sav­
constitutional was the decision of Cir­ ings deposits do not escheat to the
cuit Judge Eaktn at Astoria.
state until after the expiration of 12
While the number of automobiles In years.
tha state registered up to June SO this As a result of the decision of thé in­
year is greatly In excess of the num­ terstate commerce commission In tha
ber registered for the first six months 16 per cent freight rate Increase cases
at last year, the number of motorcycles Chairman Frank J. Miller of the Ore­
has dropped off, according to a state- gon public service commission expects
the railroads la Oregon which have
meat issued by Secretary Olcott.
asked
tor 16 per cent Increase on an
Moving with expedition In its efforts
to promote the state highway work, Intrastate freight rates to aban4on
tha state highway commission has ad­ their general applications and endeav­
vertised tor proposals on a large or to get increases in the rates on cer­
amount of road work, the proposals to tain classes and commodities, which
be opened July SO, at the office of 8. might be able to stand higher rates.
Benson, chairman of the commission Nine fatal accidents, out of a total
of 429, were reported to the state In­
hi Portland.
accident commission this
Net profit la total shipment of ora dustrial
week.
The
accidents were as W. J . S A U N D E R S
from the Blue Ledge mine near Med­ follows: John fatal
to, Astoria, sawmill;
ford during the last three months is Fay B. Barnes, Lan
sawmill; Frits
between $75,000 and $100,000 in copper Miller, Powers, Gaston,
C a r p e n te r and
logging;
Bar
alone. The ore yields from $6 to $7AO pica, Sheridan, sawmill; Charles
L
Concrete Woricer
a ton la gold and silver, the net re­ Sinnett, Bend, logging, Carl Marlon
Carlson, Concrete
sults In those metals being $10,000 la Jlrwood,
W alt, B r e t t Flore, Cte-
logging; Indian George, creie Blockt
« P it , Crete SidewJk.
the same period.
River, railroad trespasser; E.
Since the workmen's compensation Hood
Pendleton, railroad trespas­
law went Into effect on November 5, Correll,
ser;
Charles
1914, up to June $0, 1017, the receipts, road trespasser. Walker, Coquille, rail­
of the state industrial accident com­ On their return from an Inspection ,
mission have been 12.283,668.9«. while of the Payette-Oregoa slope Irrigation
tha disbursements have been *301,322.- project on the Snake river, Attorney-
CHASE A UNTON
04, according to a financial statement General
Brown
and
Superintendent
of
GRAVEL COMPANY
Issued by the commission.
Banks Sargent were enthusiastic
Pour fatal accidents and 862 aon- about
They went as mem­
fatal accidents were reported to tha bers of the the project.
state
bonding
to In­ AU kinds of gravel for con­
state industrial accident commission vestigate the land relative board
to
the
cer­ crete work, cement Mocks,
daring the past week. The fata^accl- tification of $225,009 worth of bonds
dents were: Joseph 8treimer, Portland, the district proposes to issue. Find­ or wood work furnished on«
department store; James Adkins, Ore­ ings will not be drawn up for a few short notice.
gon City, trespasser; J. F. Cuddeback, days, but the board. It is understood,
Telephone White 86
Portland, construction; Paul Corchaa. will indorse the proposed issue. The
Clifton, logging.
Includes 64,000 acres, all water­
Eighty tons of the 1918 crop of flax project
ed
by
pumping,
pumping power be­
Is now being put through the water ing electricity the*
generated
retting process at the state peniten­ water of the Snake river. from the
J. H. GIBSON, Mgr.
tiary by Flax Manager R. Crawford. The culmination of Oregon's largest
The 20 tons of flax which was retted timber
deal of recent years, grow­
iast fall has bean scutched and work­ ing out land
of
the
oh the $4,000,009
ed up into fiber of good quality. The holdings of the option
Dubois
com­ Yamhill County Abstract Co.
1917 crop, which Is still growing. Is pany, granted to David C. Lumber
Eccles,
head
reported to be In good condition.
O tssos
the Oregon American Lumber eeas- M c M in n v il u l
. . N. Campbell, registrar of the Port­ of
pany.
on
January
24,
awaits
only
the
land United States land office, has re­
of John Dubois, head of the
ceived a bulletin from Washington an­ return
selling
company, from the east.
nouncing tentative plans for the sale Official notice
that the option, yhich
of five sections of Silets Indian reser­ expired July 1, was
by Th e Newherg
vation land In Lincoln county. Tha purchase was given to be by concluded
Charles
T.
sale will be held some time In August Early, of Portland, manager of the
and will be public. The timber is Eccles timber interests in Oregon, to
mostly Douglas fir, and government K. Gamble, secretary of the Dubois
Cruisers gave an estimate of 170,820,- J. Lumber
company.
Attorney General George M. Brown,
State Engineer John H. Lewis and Su­
perintendent of Banks S. G. Sargent,
the commission created by the Irriga­
this demand Is supplied, fully 80 per tion
law of the 1917 legisla­
cent of the fruit and grain yield will ture, securities
have
Just
returned from a trip
be lost Women, girls and boys to of Inspection preparatory
putting
pick the heavy berry crop now fast the securities statute Into to effect
for
ripening are especially wanted at this the first ime. The irrigation secdrl-
time, bat steady work for an unlimit­ tles act provides for the formation of
ed number of men from now until the irrigation
by agreement and
C .W
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K IE
N Y E L R E
middle of October or November is also vote of the districts
prbperty
owners
within
PIA
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O
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offered.
designated and agreed boundar­
Attorney-General Brown advises J. any
Pianos Tuned
ies.
It also provides that districts
O. Erickson, district attorney for Clat­ may iaaue
bonds,
the
same
as
school
sop county, that the theory upon which or port districts, to bring water to the
a Justice of tho peace in that county land.
recently dismissed liquor cases against The coming session of the Wil­
O. Band and A White la unsound. The lamette valley Chautauqua, which
attorney-general holds that all the
Jw.y 10 at Gladstone park, will
state needs to prove is that the liquor opens
W . R . M O R R IS
mark
the
passing of one of Oregon’s
came lato the defendants’ hands and famous landmarks.
The old andi-
that the burden la then shifted to torium, erected 24 years
la to be
them to prove that they secured such abandoned, and the big ago,
A N D REPAUUNG
programmes
liquor la a lawful manner.
to be held in a new $8000 edifice.
Dissatisfaction of the Klamath In­ are Miss
Helen Metxger. age 1$, died
dians culminated In a tribal meeting, at Portland
from injuries received
at which Clayton Kirk. Charles Hood, when an electric
train hit an auto she
Abraham Charley* Drumer David. Har­ was learning to drive
near Gresham.
rison Brown, Samuel Clinton and Sup­ Miss Metxger was the third
of the oc­
erintendent Asbery were speakers. cupants of the machine to die,
E.
Tha Indians declared themselves* cap­ Lindsey, her grandfather, having S. been
able of self-government and asked that killed instantly and his wife having
some of their vast resources be made
available for immediate use. Criticism died two hours later.
of tho present practice of the Govern­
ment in dealing with the Indians was
made and resolutions ware adopted
asking the government to give the
Indians a chance.
Work of opening the central Ore­
gon highway, which will extend from
the Idaho state line to the sea, was
began last week, when s crew of
engineers working under the direc­
tion of the state engineering depart­
ment, pitched camp and started work
on survey of the portion of the pro­
posed road from Eugene to Deadwood,
la the coast mountains. The three
links of this highway will be the pro­
posed rood from Florence to Eugene,
the mod from Eugene through the 28th day of J««. 1917, Iretreee^JdjJft, 1917.
McKensie pass to Mitchell and the
AilreisehMrii of the «tale of F. T. Key«,
Joha Day highway from Mitchell to
Onthrlo, on the Idaho boundary.
District Forester Cecil announced
that approval has been given by the
secretary of agriculture to corpora­
tive road work in Oregon Involving
$1,114,184, which la distributed to 16
projects. This amount Is matched by
tho otato, assisted In some Instances
by counties. The project on which co­
operation la authorised by the secre­
tary are ao follows: McKensie Pass
road. Eugene-Florence road, Pendle­
ton-La Grande road. Medford-Klamath
Falls rood. Ochoco creek road, Canyon-
vllle-QalesvtHe road, Reeds port-Coos
Bay road. Little Nestucca road, John
Day foad, Flora-Cnterprl-c road, l^a
Plne-Lakevtew road. Pilot Rock-Prairie CUrrece Bud.
Attorney (of «tal
City road. JPrescent-Klamath Falla
Fint reue 6-14.1917.
road, and Zigzag road.
Leaf reue 7-12-1917.
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