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About Sherman County observer. (Moro, Sherman County, Or.) 1897-1931 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 31, 1920)
J 1 to n sway tor a mowuot and did not return at once. Ths engineer thought ho would take M ORO. OREG ON. a last look at bis stakes, to see that no mischievous small boys had extract F R I D A Y , . . . . D ecember 31, 1920 ed any of them. He went down to the back pasture in the twilight. Hls line Tbs price of T h e O bserver is $1.50 per of stakes stretched clean and true ye m . 75 cento lo r si« m o n tlu . 50 cento (or across the green, and he was about to tour months—bur if osid ia »¿vencs we “ • - ■• * * y e a n . Short«* leave when he beard something that cento per n u m b . caused him to check himself. It was ___ 1 earner * “ ‘*- the sound of some one sobbing as , ____ .______upon our calendar, though her heart would break. He •ha date of the nape' aa he date at looked about and saw Mary, a huddled ro r ^urr c t atk»> ipu , ejtrirea" white heap on the grass, crying her 'w a t ----------------- > m »#*»****»< w **** * * heart out In surprise he went up to her. ‘‘What the matter?” he.asked. The Romance "Oh, please go away a n d-let me alone!" sobbed Mary. But he was not o f a Survey >•, to be put off. He sat beside her until her sobs had given way to sighs, and then once more Inquired gently, “What's the iunttqr?” By F R E D E R IC K H A R T - “P— 1 Just was coining down tonight -to -any g»»o<Jby to the old pasture I— |< S ,< « « « I Io veil It so— and’ you’re going to make <4*. IS IS . b y M e C le rs N ew sp aper S yndlcai« ) a track run across It— and 1’tn going On Friday the fam iliar •‘back pas away tomorrow, and—and I Just ture" was much as usual; thv row» couldn't liear I t ! I loved the old pas erased contentedly,- the little bp.x»k ture so, and the little brook, and all." talked to Itself as It had don » for the Young. John Andrews’ heart went thousand years, the scatteryd out t6 her In her distress; but even wore the same air of pertpsneu- more than sympathy \vns the feeling cy as the surrounding hlUs. On F ri that flooded him nt sight of her tears., day; on Sbturdayr the scene had He took her hand in Ills . changed radically. The cows fled In “Mary— dear,” he said, “you’re no terror, the brook babbled adgrily; even sorrier than I am that you are going the trees seemed Indignant. The cause gway tomorrow. I can’t let you go of till thlg disturbance was the appear without telling yon-that I love you and ance of a number of young men In that I want you to love me— even If fluonel shirts and high laced shoes, I did spoil the buck pasture. Won’t soose of whom performed strange feats you make me happy, Mary dearest?" with trlpoda and long red-and-whlte She looked at him, at flrst In amaze poles and Interminable steel tapes, ment, then with swiftly deepening tide shouting and waving their anus In a of crimson flooding her features. He way to frighten any self-respecting saw in her eyes the response that she cow Into bovine hysterics, while others could not put Into words, and the next drove stakes In the ground. It was all moment the disaster to the back pas very strange, thought the cows and the ture was forgotten and she was in brook *nd the trees; no one had ever hls arms. acted that way In the back pasture be . . “And, sweetheart," said John An fore. These sentiments were echoed drews, ‘T i l be waiting for you when by pretty Mary Langhorn when she you come out of school, and—let me made her morning trip to the back pas tell you a secret— I ’m to he the chief ture. - But Mary shared none of the engineer of this whole division I Won’t cow’s terror. She walked straight to it be wonderful, dear?" the young man who seemed to be in To which Mary could only reply that charge of things and demanded of him she loved him, Indeed she did, and she who he was, what he wanted there, didn’t care a pin about the back pas where he came from, what he. was ture. Which was all very right and doing and why he was doing It, all In natural under the circumstances, and a breath. The young man took off hla they went home hand In hand to break •hat— It was a hot morning, and he was the news to the family. The cows had working hard— and mopped hls brow long ago been driven Into their shed; with a bandanna before answering. He but the trees and the brook seemed had a rather nice brow, thought M a ry ; < satisfied, somehow, that their sacri In fact, he was rather nice to look «t, fices had brought happiness to the lit In his rough clothes, with the upturned tle girl they had known and loved for sleeves showing hls muscular forearms so long. and hls shirt, open at the throat, re vealing the white skin below where ROYAL REVENGE ON MILTON the sun had not tanned I t But she waited for her reply without giving Great Poet’s Book Publicly Burned by any sign* of this ^admiration. The the Hangman Whan Charles II young man seemed apologetic, and was Came Back. quite nice about It. "Well, you see, Miss------ When the restoration of Charles I I "Mary Langhorn’s my name, and this became Imminent, Milton, who Is 'pos IS my father’s Jonas Langhorn’s farm.” sibly best known to the world as the •*—Miss Langhorn, we’re surveying author of “Paradise Lost,” found him fo r a railroad line that’s to run self In a position of peril, as many through here. Tour father was to see of hls writings contained sentiments onr attorneys this morning. We’re run which Charles and hls court cqpld not ning the preliminary now.” be expected to tolerate. . • M ary hadn’t the slightest Idee what In "The. Iconoclast,” and "Defense pro Popnto Anglican»,” much was to ha meant by "running a preliminary,” be found that was Inimical to the hut he really was nice, even If he was Restoration, and when he added "The on her father’s land; and then, the Ready and Easy Way to Establish a mention of attorneys was reassuring Free Commonwealth,” Mlltrtn was and bns|p£ss-llke. So she treated ths obliged to go into hiding. But the young man to a smile, which bo people were tired of the common- seamed to appreciate to the full, and wealth, and so welcomed Charles home returned to the house; where she found again. Though Milton escaped, hls het father In a state of excitement. books did not, and the house of com "W hat do yon think, Mary—<trlT” mons passed a resolution that hls he begin. H er mother, standing be majesty be humbly moved to call In hind * him, echoed "What do yon Mlltdh’s books and order them to he Oiiuu r * , ■. ", • burned by the common hangman; and "They’re goin’ to run a line s’ rail- that the attorney general do proceed rood right through ths back pastur*— I against them by ludlctmept or other wag talkin’ to their,lgw yer Just this wise. ‘ minute—an’ they’re goto’ to pay $800 On Augnst 27, 1000, as many copies on acre fer the right o* way 1 Why, It of the three offending books as could comes to more’n $5,0001 I t ’s s big be found were publicly burned. Three thing tor ns, M ary—It means school days after an act was passed which an* college fer you, fer one thing. Ain’t relieved the poet from further neces ye g la d r . sity of concealment. In fact, the "Oh. D a d !" The dream of Mary’s search had only been perfunctory and Ilfs was to be realise^ at last, and she the chase had been purposely allowed could hardly And words to express her to slacken.— Chicago Journal. - happiness. Theo her mother spoke. . "That young engineer— the, chief o’ Bom to Command. , the gang—Andrews is hls name— John In front of Gen. Winfield Scott’s Andrews— is goln* to live here while house In Elizabeth, New Jersey, were they pot the Una through. Near’s I several shade trees In which certain can find out, he has to stay nearby to epng birds had made their neats. Oue •tend to some Job— gradin’, or some day when the general was at work In thin* Uke that— an’ the lawyer asked hls garden trimming a quince tree could I put him up. a n ’ o’ course. I with a large booked pruning knife he ■aid yea. So we’ll have him around suddenly started with huge strides to fer awhile. Did you see him whan you ward ths street In front. There on was down to the back pasture this the corner was a boy with a shotgun, morn in* 7” gazing up into a tree. The youngster did not observe the "Tse—I eaw him. He— be looked general's approach until the veteran rather nice.” had arrived within twenty paces of "W all 1" Jonas Langhorn’s won}, was him. abort *Tm glad you liked hls. looks* "Young man,” Scott then called out H e’ll cams In far dinner.” In a voice that might have been heard A t dinner be appeared, and the by a whole division of soldiers, ”nre Langhorn fam ily "took to” him at once. you going to shoot my birds?” H e was quiet, bat had a fond of hu The boy for a moment Ipst the power mor that kept them all laughing when of motion; hut he quickly recovered he those to exercise I t He was hand- and took to hls heels, running as If sons* too, thought Mrs. Langhorn as chased by a road hull.-v-Youth’s Com •he looked at ths brenaed face that panion. had admired lg ths forenoon. And he sssmsd to like the farm cook- Culinary Measures. tog. which was the surest way to kind We have Just discovered the genesis ly Mrs. Langhorn’s heart. m i* M a n of an old Jest. Yon remember how was fflent six! aulxlued before b its ; l:t when Bridget was naked why she anng fa c t througli the months that foltdwed a certain hymn while eooktng the — ths waiting to r materials and the breakfast, «he replied: " It’s for the surveying and re-surveying— eggs, mum. When I want ’em soft more and more quiet H er boiled I jrtng one verse, and when I fsthW saw fit to rally her oo the sub- want ’em hard boiled I sing two J s f f t u t she would make no direct re- verses.” About 300 years ago 81 r to r -3 Keoelro Dlgby published a book where, "1 wonder if the * child*« foehn* In giving the directions for making w u llF Inquired his wife of him one tea, he wrote: "Let the water re In an anxious tone. But he main upon It no longer thnrr yon can her. asy Miserere. Psalm very lelanrely.”- S Utile peaked. I’ll admit,” he U. B. Ships Predemlnate In Hamburg. •s M . "But you Jtot wait till fall. Hamburg. — Ten American ship* Wheat she goes to school. I t ’ll make a new girl of her. Too, J 1st w a it’’ go were counted Saturday In a general Mrs. Langhorn dutifully waited. tour of Hamburg harbor, aa against M ar, was to leave for school on the six flying the British flag, (our the fifteenth of September. The night be French, four the Dutch and one ths fore her depertore the young engineer Japanese. that the first shipment of would arrive the next day. Caruso Buret Bleed Vessel Singing. that work on the digging and New York.— Enrico Caruso, tenor, would begin at once. Hls nows the good people of the farm, burst a Mood vessel In hie throat while y were anxious to see the work Singing at the Brooklyn Academy oi hut Mary received l^Jn allenes. Masts. TW MdUtoat, tt was told B MÁ m »» O b s e rv e r* & 1 OREGuiJ m NOTES: OF GEiERAL INTEREST ------ — .— I Principal Events of the Week Briefly Sketched for Infor mation of Our Readers. Citizens of Dallas are attempting to secure a free mail delivery service. George W. W right, Albany attorney, la compiling a history of Linn county. The Lower Columbia Oil A Gas com pany haa begun operations at its well In Clatsop county. An International mining convention w ill be held In Portland during the first week In April. Brooding over family troubles, Rich ard Moss, aged 45, committed suicide at Ontario by shooting himself. Barkley W alker has purchased, and assumed control of the Wallowa Coun ty Reporter, published at Enterprise, John Smith, w.ho crossed the plains to Oregon in 1852, died near Cottage Grove a few days ago at the age of 96 years. Legislation to compel farmers to de stroy Canadian thistles before they bloom Is desired by Pomona Grange df Linn county. Enterprising citizens of goardman, Morrow county, are negotiating to es tablish a ferry across the Columbia river at that city. Oil and gas of a superior quality have been discovered on the Jay Man ning ranch in Klamath county at a depth of 1595 feet. Two hundred dairymen of the Banks district have, subscribed $15,000 for the erection of a creamery and cheese factory In that city. Nearly a thousand dozen egga were marketed by the Ashland Cooperative association in November, the price be ing 75 cents per dozen. More than 25 sawmills In Klamath county have closed down for the win ter. Only thmje are still running and they maj^ suspend soon. Four boys whose ages range from 1$ to 19 years are in the Lane county Jail, charged with the burglary of several stores at Cottage Grove. The fourth annual automobile show of the Pendleton Automobile Dealers* association will be held in Happy Can yon March 10, 11 and 12. Bobcats are having a hard life in Lane county this fall, bounty on 17 of their hides being claimed at the clerk's office In the last few days. The city of Albany is trying to ob tain a furniture factory to replace the furniture manufacturing plant which formerly operated there. The corn-«how held In Woodburn Saturday waa a great success. The number of licensed amateur ra dio stations In Portland now totals 39. Plans have been launched for or ganization of a national guard In As toria. The 19 1 budget for Wasco county w ill call for an expenditure of $300,- 915,34. Mrs. Electa Anderson has been ap pointed postmaster at Placer, Joseph ine county. Life insurance agents of Eugene have decided to form a permanent or ganization. A total of $8,755,241.27 is given as the assessed valuation of Deschutes county property. A big body of high grade Iron ore has been discovered In Coos county. Just south of Powers. The new $5000 ferry at Harrisburg Is not a success, and the demand for a bridge is becoming Insistent. Hood River county poultrymen will meet in Hood River Friday to organ ize a qounty poultry association On account of the alfalfa weevil Ba ker county alfalfa Is now quarantined against shipment Into California. Harvey ‘Straw, aged 20 years, lost hls life at Powers when a released log rolled over him and crushed him. The assessed valuation of property In Jackson county ia $5,386,907.20, ap proximately $180,000 lesa than last year. The home of O. C. Rice and the post- office at Ix)st Valley, Wheeler county, were totally destroyed by fire last week. END INCOME TAX PUZZLES Aid In Preparing Returns Is Promised by Commissioner. Washington. — A county-to-county campaign by internal revenue officers to aid taxpayers in preparing their in come tax returns was announced by Commissioner Williams to begin short ly after January 1 and continue until Marcfh 15, the final date for filing statistics of Income for the year 1920 Revenue, officers assigned to the work of assisting taxpayers, Commla Blotter Williams said, will be prepared to answer all questions relative to exemptions and income. Mr. W’illiams declared that tax requirements for the next paymeuts are the same as those for 1919. How Gasoline Destroy A The bureau of biological survey says that practically ull Insect Ilf* obtains Its supply of oxygen- through little holes In the Jxxly. When such oily substances as gnsoline come In direct contael with these pests It Is Impossi ble M r them to breathe, and death shortly ensue* Jo’ t Like Homs Mother and I went Into a drutf store and ordered choco'aie svn»lnes Whei finished 1 piled up the dishes, as I bs«‘ been taught to do nt home, and carried them to the coqnter. Of -entv-se, ev eryone' «»nlh-d end I reelfzed Ivbrtt TT had done. It didn't take in* long ty' out of the store.—Exchange. A squash Id large that many people Both the city councit of Rost-bur? lad<¿<4 by |ko KdamatM Castor Bfooi The value of the properly In Uma refused to believe It S reel vegetate tilla oounty 1a $44,99$,$$$. the greatest the city eounr »1 of K lam ath Falls Growers association with W. O. but thought It wee sa im itation made In the state outside of Multnomah have voted to cooperate in any/move l bln, supervisor to the Modoe aaUaaal of paper has been on exhibition for oounty. ment which ban for Its purpuze the forest. several days In the window of M u r Some sand found recently fu Che oil abolishment of the public service com- One hundred and fofty-nlas phy’s seed store to Albany. I t weighs well which the Oregon Petroleum com mlrrlon. nians were decorated by foreign 111 pounds. The Crowr-*,Villsin«tte Paper com eminent» for their Asrvtos pany la sinking east of Lacomb la $$ Two hundred phonographs are now par eant oil. pany baa filed an application with the during the world war, aocordlag In process of manufacture at the Cre Speeders and other traffic violators nubile service comtuLoslon for permts* compilation completed by OooTgO TA. mona Phonograph company’s plant at of Portland have paid a total of $22,- mleelon to construct a temporary rail W hits, adjutaat-gsnsral to tbs attoK Albany. Materials are on the way to 091 In polios court fines during the road over county j-oada between Sea In hla work of organising tbs wortA Albany that will keep the plant oper present year. side and Nehaltm. war records affsotlng Oasgms atto OBb ating at the rate of IB finished cab A power reserve sufficient to u k e gon man. A maehlne gun oompeny of the Ore- inets a day. gen National guard, to oonslat of 7$ rare of much larger pine m illing op Ths milllng-ln-tranaft rats so Mgto The Talent irrigation district has man and two offloera, w ill ba organ erations than are now conducted w ill sought by ths smaller tnmbarsaoo or filed with the state engineer applica ised In Albany. be created at Bend next month by tbe western Oregon probably wfll be go* tion for certification of bonds In the The records of the building Inspect Shevlln-Hlxon company, when a bat In fores by ths Southam Patofls com sum of $33,000, to be need for the pur or at Astoria for the 11 months past tery of five tubular boilers w ill be pany In the near future, according to chase of additional land In connection show the amount of new construction Mded to the 1?. oow In uvo. a letter received by Fred O. Walters, with Installation of what w ill bw work doM toUled m g jg g . Ownership “o’ KJe Tan?.a Tn Tandi president of ths Elm ira Lgmbar som- known aa the Emigrant reservoir, near Coquille la contemplating the erec where tidal atreuins, Ay process of pany, from George Quayla. ssersury eshland. tion of a pavilion to house the 1911 erosion, encroach upon the lands of of the Oregon Chamber of Commsrc* Rogue river dairymen won highest corn show. The building w ill he 90x shore owners, follows ths shifting Mr. Quayls enclosed a letter frci. t£ honors In the Oregon Cow Testing as 160 feet and w ill oest $$000. boundary line to the line of ordinary public service commission la v sociation as the result of tests made I t la reported that the Vulcan Oil high tide, according to a legal opin was stated that ths commission ■- during November, according to results Oaa company has concluded arrange ion given by I. H. Van W inkle, a t formed by 'etter from ths rallw which have Just been given out. That ments to begin Immediate drillin g on torney-general. pany that when the new eonzoi. ’ district also led others w ith $1 cows Its holdings In Sams valley. Indication^ of a gsuer.il strengthen lumber ta riff was issued, tbs rr . yielding above 40 pounds of butter tot Bight carloads of hops, represent ing of the markets for dried and green ln-translt privilege would prob.iu for the month. ing nearly a quarter m illion pounds, fruits were announced by R. C. Paul lnclto’ sd. ■ ' Because of the wave ef crime over left Eugene recently, oonatgncd to the us of 8alem, sales manager of the 1 Secretary of tbe titferlor F* the entire country and of the recent Atlantic seaboard for export trade. Oregon Grower«’ Co operative associa i vised Represent?M' - ; burglaries and attempted burglarise The Dalles now haa an independent tion, In an address dollvorcd before and much petty thieving, the Medford Income of about $100 a day, which the State Horticultural society at Its . that some chant* uU'. J. , contract w ltll t t f \ city council ha« added another police soon w ill be Increased to $150 a day meeting In Eugene Friday. man to the night force, and lights have by the sale of rock from the d ty rock Careful Investigation made by tbe Power company : ' of the Llnk-rlvet been placed In Mil the alleya through crushed. Sherman county farm bureau, brznd on out the business district. According to a recent statement of figures kept by co operating farmers, Upper Klamn’ l Declaring In their complaint that the state tax commission, there arc reveals the fact that the average coat provision w ill t - Union county financially 1s unable to $446 acres planted in loganberries In of producing a bushel of wheat lust clear the par 1 proceed with road work, that „road Marlon county and In the entlro state year was $1.86. H alf of the farms pro orument to th< secretary of tl funds are at low ebb, and that the road 6867 acres duced their crop at a figure above this, to approve 11 condition« should remain as they are » After years of effort to supply North tome running as high as $2.40. until labor and materials are oheaper, Bend with a modern hotel, a recently Protest against what is alleged to would per mi W illiam R. Jasper and W elter M. revived campaign has proved success be an excessive rate proposed by tbe drainage dlsL !<-. Pierce have enjoined the Union county ful and a modern structure w ill be national forest service for grazing In state law for the p u . . u : g court from contracting two pieces of erected In 1921. the Lava Bed country In Modoc and several thousand peres of marsh lands road, advertised, from the lew « school Captain C. C. Hoven, who operated Siskiyou counties, California, hut been In ths same locality. house to Island City, and from Island a ferry boat between Kalama and Go City to Cove. The distance covered ble for many years, waa drowned at amounts to about 20 miles. Goblo when he fell from hie beat Into L. E. Bean of* Eugene, who recently 20 feet of water. returned from Washington, D. C- Unexplained I oebe -8 of cattle on tbo where he went several weeks ago in Slstera-Mvtoliua range during the past the Interests of the Chamberlain road season w ill total at least 150 head out hill, designed to aid the public land of 3500 placed there by the Stockmen’s states of the west In building high association of Bend. ways, has reoelved a telegram from The Gaaton people have subscribed Representative MoArthqr stating he for $9000 worth of preferred stock and had received assurance from Chairman 'Jhe Gaston State bank w ill guarante*1 Mondell of the house committee on subscriptions for enough more to bqjld public highways snd other house lead a first class cheese factory at that ers that legislation providing for ap place. propriations sim ilar to thofte sailed for Persons haVlng houses for r» r.t 1» In the Chamberlain bill undoubtedly Salem must take adequate sanitary w ill he passed in the house. measures to protect the health of thelr To promote purebred livestock rais teaants or the dwellings w ill remain ins. Klamath Falls banks are offering vacant, according to an order Issued inducements to communities making by the city sanitary officer. the best showing. The F irs t National The Lincoln oounty court has agreed bank has offered a high-class regis to stand 25 per cent of the cost of ex M EM BER tered bull to the district that first rlda tending the Alsea road from the bridge Itself of all scrub slrea snd replaces FEDERAL RESERVE on Alaea river to the west boundary ___ them with purebreds. The F irst State A of the Sluslaw national foraaL The S Y S T E M Savings bank promisee a registered three miles w ill cost $25,000. buck of standard breed to the district Mrs. H. M. Gurncsa, committed to putting In the greatest number of reg the state hospital for the Insane from istered ewea In 1921. To encourage N y o u r p la n n in g , d o n o t o v e rlo o k th e g re a t Portland December 25, 1115, cominlt- hog culture the Klamath State bank assistance y o u c a n e b ta in fro m a lly in g yourself . ted suicide In a lavatory of the insti will give a registered Boar to the dis w ith a s tro n g w e ll m a n a g e d b a n k . O p e n a n ac tution Saturday by hanging herself trict in which the largest number of c o u n t w ith ua to -d a y a n d th u s begin a business with a belt tied to a window guard. registered sows are placed during the a c q u a in ta n c e w h ic h w ill s ta n d y o u in good stead Deschutes county’s first dollar-ar next year, and the American National d u rin g -y e a ra to com e. W e a r e a lw a y s re a d y to bank, to promote the grading up of year official went into office when the ad vise w ith y o u concerning in vestm en ts an d to dairy herds, offers a high-grade hull county oourt announced the appoint assist y o u in e v e ry w a y in o u r p o w e r. 1 O u r ment of A. J. 8anford of Redmond as- to the district making the best dairy- m o tto is service a n d s m a ll accounts as wkU a t bee Inspector. Sanford Is head of the tug record In 1911, la rg e are welcom e. county and state beekeepers' associa More than 19,000 head of beef cattle tion. " F A R M E R S ’ STATE~BANK have been shipped from Klamath coun R.- 8. Shelley, supervisor of the Slus ty since September 1, and 4000 head M o ro - - - - . - O regon law national forest, who has just re still remain on the feeding grounds. turned from a t?lp to the coast, stop Federal game authorities refuse to consider the suggestion of E aster* ping at Mapleton and Florerpe, says Oregon sportsmen that the open sea that nearly all of the s h ic ile mills son for shooting migratory birds be and sawmills in that locali.y have closed down. changed. , T rs d e riW 'R a d e r, Qrant county Marjory Ellis, 12 years eld, waa In raneher, charged with the murder of stantly killed two miles soutk of H ills BY AU TO ^ . . . . , boro when a truck driven by her step Ik B. McCue, whom he fatally shot In father capsized la a oolllsioa w ith an a * altercation arising In February, A N D V IS IT T H E D A L L E S 1911. at the latter’s ranch near John other truck. Day. acquitted by a circuit court Mining men of Eastern Oregon, at a conference at Baker to devise means Jury at Pendleton. . Robert L lttla r of Salem was elected of meeting present conditions, adopted a new wage scale providing for a gen president of tbe Western Oregon Old In the concrete, fully equipped, roomy garage of W »l- er Boys* conference during their ses eral reduction. ther-Williams C om pany.. (Competent workman alwayt ready sion at Salem last week. Other offl- There are 7H feet of snow at Anna oers elscted Were: Homer McArthur, i to help you in any way they can a t. least expense to you. Spring camp In the Crater National park, which la four feet more than West Lynn, vice-president; Harold For any service rendered the charge will always be reasonable. there was at that point at the same Box, Albany, secretary; Ralph Em- tnona, Salam, publicity manager. Lime last year. Representative Hawley has been ad Sparks generated by friction while cleaning a silk drees In a Bend laundry vised of the allowance of the follow fired the gasoline, set the building on ing pensions to war veterans at $72 a TH E DALLES, - - QREQON. fire and burned the clothing of G. B. month In each case: Christian ’ F. Belts, Tillamook; John W. Short, OUen, proprietor. The Delta Shingle company at Flor Gold H U I; W illiam E. Page, Roseburg; ence has shut down its m ill ^ n d log Jordan Fuqua, W illam ina; Omar Hoe- ging camp while the capacity of the kina, Eugene; James H . Lincoln. A t a meeting at the Friends’ church mill is being Increased by the addition 1* Newberg a campaign was launched it another machine. Silverton wants an armory building. to standardize Pacific college. Sub A large delegation of citizens want to scriptions to the amount of $26,000 Salem last week to urge appropriation were taken aa a start on the road to of $10,000 county funds, to add to the $160,$00, which la required to bring the endowment up to meet the de city’s appropriation. All gravel on the Old Oregon T ra il mands of the standardisation Aoard. Aa a result of a quarrel at Waplnl- between Pendleton and Echo has been laid and the road la completed except tla, east of The Dalles, Louis Mc^oy for a bridge near Echo, which w ill have la nurstag a knife wound In the shoul der, and Charles Delores, E. Barzee to be built In the spring. Among the various amounts asked of sad V. Fitzpatrick are under arrest ~ 8 p t c l a l A tten tio n G iv e n W heat and S to c k F e r n | congress for Improvements In Oregon charged with aaaault with a deadly 1« an appropriation of $125,000 for weapon. Delores Is alleged by county making a survey of the Coos Bay police officers to have done the stab Wagon road grant lands. bing. ■i 1 11 ■<-i,ir-i,-fr-i-i"*"t-i-?~i-i-i|-i 'i,,i-i--i- i,-i-|i- * + 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 + 114 H ♦ ♦ ♦ » » » The Oregon single tax league has It la reported that the Crown Wll- lamette Paper company w ill resume filed with the secretary of state a Its operations near Seaside within a proposed constitutional. amendment short time. The Seaalde camp em providing tor single tax in this state. Tbe amendment wlU go before the vo ploys several hundred men. Water two test deep ran down Sen- ters to Oregon at the general election aide streets Friday when the surf, 1* November, 1922, unless a special Fiftk * a t V u U ((ta a Sto. J* whipped by a 60-mile gale, dashed over election Is ealled before that date by the board walk and swept through aa set of the legislature. P O R T L A N D . ORB. < Application for permit to appropri part .of the business eeotJon. Room with privilege of hath, Hagle, < > There were two fatalities due to In ate water boa been filed In tbe office ■ $1.00 up; double $1 SO up J J dustrial accidents in Oregon la the of the state engineer by M. F. Hanley J Room w ith private bath, aiagle $1.50 , , week ended December 23, according to Medford, eavering appropriation of up; double $2.50 up. ■ > to a report Issued by the state Indus water from tbe north fork of L ittle Auto Meeta Train«. Street can from ' ’ Uoioa Depot psai our doors. , tria l accident commission. The vic Butte ereek tor Irrigation of 720 teres Transfer at 5th and Glisaa streets from < > tims were s M. Thlcgs, miner, of 1* Jackson oounty. I t la estimated North Beak Depot. ’ Bourn«, and^Joseph M. Fitzgerald, Ito that the development w ill cost approx borer, of Salem. 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