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l of O. Library T7 E Li ME SEVENTEENTH YEAR SPRINGFIELD, LANE COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 1920. NUMBER 1 bil? mil Dean of Lane County Leads in Fight on Bill for New Game Commission. ' HALKM. Jan. 16. By a vote of 34 to 2fi the house yesterday adopted a reaolutlou placing adjournment of tti special session oT lint l glnlature at Naturday noon. Tho senate IiikI earlier panned a likn resolution. On of tho moat Important pieces of leglHlutlon by the house yesterduy waa the panning of a bill to make a new fiHh and game commission com posed of nlix! members. The bill had been prepared at u conference of subcommittee of I h flatteries Indus trlen and gnme committees of the senate and limine. Itepreacntutlve Mean of I. a no coun ty led the fight, for the bill on the floor of the houae. lie declared that although the bill wan not perfect, the committee frit that It waa he bent that c-oulcl be obtained under the clr ( UtllHlalK H "I am not altogether satlnfled with the bill," Huld Representative Bean, "but condition)! confronted ua which demanded that new legislation along thin line be enacted It waa flint pro posed to create two separate and dis tinct commissions, but because the game and fish lawn are mi Interwoven, we derided that nuch a atep waa Im possible. We then turned to another plun and after many bourn of serious atudy und thought we determined upon the bill that in before you to day. "Under the provisions of thla bill five of the member of the commis alon will repreaent the game Intereita of the state, while three membera of the corn m Iks Ion will repreaent the commercial fishing intereata. These membera. under the proponed art, will be elected by the legislature while the ninth member will be selected by the commission and will act aa a chairman and arbiter In canes of din putea. ' "The game and fifth Intereata of thlnj Mate are of more value than many ofi ua realize, mid It wan the foremoat I aim of the committee in drawing thin bill that thin (Treat Industry ahould not be Impaired. I underhand the bill, aa proponed here today, in ac ceptable to the governor and if that la true, Ita punHuge should have a tendency to satisfy those who are clamorlnic for what they term a new deal In fiati and game mutters In thin state." The vote wan 47 to 11 In favor of he bill. A number of other bills Introduced h "emergency" billn huve been In troduced In both houses, the bouse receiving n new onea yesterduy and the senate 17. In the house there is; a new $10,000,000 bond bill for hitch-) waya. The house ulno passed the fol-1 lowing bills: Increased power of dock j commission; a plan to make new state roads; extended time for con gress to meet Itoosevelt highway money In Oregon. The senate yesterday unanimously voted to submit to the people the (uestlon of restoring capital punish ment. Efforts were made to amend the bill us submitted by the judiciary committee in order Hint the trial judge in Ik t have the right to auy whether a convicted murderer ahould be hanged or sent to prison for life, but the senate decided to adopt the recommendations of the committee providing that the Jury ahould fix the penalty of life imprisonment if it saw fit to do so. RATIFY SUFFRAGE AMENDMENT Salem, Jan. 12. Within a short time after the special session of the legislature had convened, both houses had adopted resolutions ratifying the woman suffrage amendment to tile, federal constitution. Business of the session started off with a snap, a ten minute limit being set on speeches. Several resolutions were introduced to shorten the sei aion. The organization of the 1919 ses sion was retained. Shortly after 10:30 both bouse mot In Joint aennlon to hear t)i governor's meanage. Gover nor Olcott recommended that the ac tivities of the legislators be confined -to emergency matters. . A bill by Representative Bean of 1.ane county was passed preventing each lawuiuker from being allowed a stenographer. Mr. Dean said he dona tbls solely as a matter of economy. Seventeen bills were Introduced In the house and eleven In the senate on the first day. YOU CAN GET FREE SEEDS FROM THE POSTMASTER Postmaster Harry Stewart has re ceived a large anck of garden needs from the department of agriculture, sent through the efforts of Senator Chamberlain. They will be given, to any one calling for them at the post office. LANE COUNTY FAIR BOARD MEETS FRIDAY According to Hay H. Wood, secre tary of the Lane county fair board, the board will have Itn firnt meeting of the year Friday night in the cham ber of commerce of Eugene. The board pluus on making an early I start thla year In order to make the' fair bigger and better than ever. Committees will be named and pos-1 wlble changea In the premium list will be dlwcunned. COMMERCIAL BANK Directors Are Re-elected Sub stantial Growth in Institu tion Is Reported. The stockholders of the Commer cial State bank held their annual meeting last Thursday evening at which time O. R. Keaaey, who has had active management of the bank since Its organization in 1911, was elected president, succeeding A. J. Perkins, and A. P. McKlnzcy. who has been w-th the bank for a number of yearn. was elected cashier, succeeding Mr. Kessey. Mr. Perkins declined reelection. giving as bis reasons that he was no longer a resident of Springfield which made It very inconvenient to attend to the duties and further, that the buninesa of the bank had reached auch proportions it was realy neces sary to have the principle officers active In Its management Mr. Per kins retains his stock and his place as a director. All the directors were re-elected. A very nice dividend waa declared and a substantial amount set aside to urphm and undivided profits ac counts. The officers' report of the growth and excellent condition of the bank's nffulrs was received with con siderable enthusiasm and plans were mnde whereby the bank's usefulness to this community might be further extended for the coming years. CITY COUNCIL MET MONDAY The regular meeting of Jhe city council was held last Monday night. 'All were present except Councilman Sldwell. No business of great im portance was transacted. Minutes of the lust meeting were approved and the usual bills were allowed. MEETINGS AT METHODIST CHURCH CONTINUE (Contributed) The Methodist church is on the last week of the big meetings that have been conducted there for over a week. Friday night a good crowd is ex pected and God is expecting to do something for you that He has not yet done. Sunday, the last Sunday of the meetings, and Wednesday night will be the last meetings. I-ast Sunday night an unusual crowd was present. We are expecting a larger crowd next Sunday morning and evening. Evangelist Canaday has proven himself to be just what we have said and even more. Come and hear him sing and preach. Mrs. C, B. Court wrigbt of Wendling Is spending a few days visiting with relatives here. WILL EXPLOIT Chance for Pacific Northwest to Show What It Has in Resources- Scenery- The Pacific Northwest tourist as sociation Is now arranging for a great exhibition of the products, natural ad vantage, scenery, resources and other attractions of the Pacific northwest to be held In the Grand Central Palace of New York city In the latter part of April. The tourist association Is asking the commercial organizations of all i Itles and towns In Oregon and Wash ington to cooperate in sending the bent possible exhiblton at that time. Space for the exhibits Is to be sold at the rate of 11.50 per square foot. In explaining the exposition plans Mr. Cuthbert. executive secretary of the association said: "It will be a grand travel, 'See America Now' exposition under the auspices of the Pacific Northwest Tourist association and will illustrate what the Pacific northwest has to show to visitors, homesteaders, new residents and investors In the way of scenery, railway and steamship trans portation, natural resources, agricul tural products, fruits, dairy products, canned goods, manufacturing and in dustrial lines, lumber, cement, ship building, power development, irriga tion projects and state land settle ment plans. Jt will afford a splendid opportunity for the exploitation of products of this section. "The great publicity value of the exhibit is due to the fact that the Grand Central Palace is In the center of fifteen per cent of the population of the United. States and 67 per cent of the financial power. It will not only advertise our products to a large percentage of the buying public but will also advertise our resources and opportunities to make money from the Investment of capital to the big gest financiers of the country." LEGION POST 40 WILL MEET MONDAY NIGHT The local post of the American Legion will meet next Monday night in a business and social session. It will be necessary at that time to elect a new president and treasurer and the matter of dues for the next year will also be considered. The question of whether the local post shall form a ladies auxiliary of the legion will be considered. After the business meeting a "regu lar" will be staged. The committee in charge of this say you will miss something If not there. All ex-servico men are welcome to attend whether members or not. The meeting will be at 7:30 o'clock. B. O. Smith has been marketing his excellent crop of potatoes lately. At first he was offered a contract price of 4 cents per pound by a Portland firm but turned that down and later sold them nt 4.20, several carloads going at this figure. His friends say that he thinks he may have made a mistake by selling at this figure and he is now holding his culls for 6 or 7 cents and he may get It at that. MAKING BETTER GRADE ON NATRON-JASPER ROAD County Engineer Morse has recent ly been surveying the line for the new road between Jasper and Natron which will eliminate the steep hill on the old road. After a call for one man to help clear the way for running the line, fifteen men turned out, indicat ing; their enthusiasm and willingness for the new road. It is said that most of the right of way will be donated for the road. PRIMARY ELECTION TO BE HELD ON MAY 21 The date for the primary election in Oregon has been set for May 21. At this time Lane county will also vote on the $2,000,000 road bond ques tion. The reinstatement of capital punishment will also be on the ballot LANE COUNTY MAY GET CATTLE FROM GUERNSEY Ira P. Whitney, Lane county agri cultural agent, has been attending the conference of county agents at Cor vallls. He, reports that 300 Guernsey heifers from the Island of Guernsey, off the coast of England, will be brought to Oregon this spring and that some will doubtless be brought to Lane county. Mr. Whitney also says that three Lane county men have now placed their cows on official tests so that a complete record of the performance of each cow will be ma.de. DIE8S FUNERAL HELD IN EUGENE WEDNESDAY ' Funeral services for George F. Dies, former resident of Springfield, who was killed Instantly Monday by a logging train near Mabel, were held yesterday morning at 10 o'clock from the Branstetter chapel In Eugene. Iter. K. V. Stivers, pastor of the First Christian church of Eugene, conduct ed the services which were followed by burial In Mulkey cemetery. Diess. who was working as a brake man on the logging train, was crushed .'between two cars when these came together unexpectedly after being un I coupled. An inquest conducted by U'oroner Branstetter fixed blame upon I no one for the accident. Jurymen j empaneled for the inquest were L. K. , Page. ;II. F. Gordon, James Humphrey, ! George Barnes, Glen Anderson and Vin Williams, all of Springfield. . The body was removed from the ' Walker chapel where It was first brought after the accident, to the j Branstetter chapel at the request of ' the mother of the dead man. FIRST NATIONAL BANK STOCKHOLDERS MEET The annual Stockholders meeting of the First National bank of Springfield was held at their banking room on the evening of January. 13th. The same board of directors who have served the past year, were re elected as follows: J. F. Smith, E. F. Mc Bee. L. K. Page, L. G. Hulin, E. E, Brattain, Mollie B. Scott and Charles L. Scott After the election the directors took the oath of office and immediately held their annual organization meet ing, resulting in the following officers being re-elected for the corSlng year: President, Charles L. Scott; vice president. E. E. Brattain; cashier, L. G. Hulin. and assistant cashier, O. S. Penney. The bank has enjoyed a pleasant and profitable year and wishes to take this opportunity to thank its friends and patrolns for their sup port. NEW MEAT MARKET WILL ALSO HANDLE FISH A. M. Vinyard, who has been In the meat business, both wholesale and retail for twelve years, will es tablish a new meat and fish market on Main street in Springfield. He recently sold his half interest in the People's market in Eugene where he had been for the past year. His shop tiere will be known as the People's Market. . The new shop will open Saturday morning and will carry a full line of fresh, government Inspected meats, also a complete line of sea foods such as fish, clams, crabs, oysters and shrimp. A gay dancing party to which a jiuniber of the younger set were in vited was the one last week at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank DePue on North Fifth street. Those invited were Misses Zelda Hamilton, Amelia Lindahl, Marjorle Machen, Florence Furuset. Lena Brewer. Dora Nelson, Jack Gorrle. Norman Anderson, Ver non Harper. Bob Van Valzah, Dale Beeson and Frank DePue, Mrs. D. Crouch, formerly a resident of Springfield, was here Monday from Yoncalla, where she Is visiting with her mother, and visited with friends. Tom Seavey, who lives on the Mc Keuzie, was in the city on business Wednesday. T OLCOTT GOVERNOR Will Resign as Secretary of State Soon as Republican Nominee Determined. SALEM, Jan. 13. The Oregon state supreme court gave a decision today In which It declared that Ben W. Ol cott is governor of Oregon for the full unexpired term of the late Gover nor WIthycombe. The predominating opinion waa written by Justice Johns. Chief Jus tice McBiide and Justice Bean con curring and Justice Bennett writing a special concurring opinion. Justice Burnett wrote a special dis senting decision with Justice Harris and Benson also dissenting from the the decision of the four Justices. Attorney General Brown explained that according to the decision of the supreme court Olcott will be gover nor for the next three years unless the constitution is changed limiting 'he term of the governor to two years Intsead of four as at present. There is a rumor that a constitu tional amendment may be submitted to the people at the May primaries which will provide for an election of governor next November. Governor Olcott Wednesday gave out the following statement: "In light of the supreme court de cision handed down covering the status of the governor's office, I wish to say that immediately after it has been definitely decided who Is the successful Republican nominee for the office of secretary of state at the primaries in May, I ahall resign as secretary of state and appoint the successful , Republican nominee to that office. I think it is now too close to the primary nominating election to appoint any one as secretary of state. By awatmgt the remit of the prim aries It will be possible to appoint the choice of the Republican voters to serve until such time aa the gen eral election can be held." BILLINGS, FORMER RESIDENT, DIES IN BEND HOSPITAL The body of Cale Billings, who died in a hospital in Bend at 5 o'clock yesterday morning, will arrive in Springfield tonight for burial here, according to a wire received yester day from Mrs. Billings, who, with her father, F. F. Hubbard, will accompany the body. Mr. Billings, whose home waa form erly here, waa employed in a logging camp near Bend. During the recent heavy snows his work forced him to remain out of doors much of the time and his feet became frozen, from the treatment of which Infection set in. the latter causing his death. The deceased was born in Kansas In 1878. He is survived by hla wife and three children, a girl and two boys, his mother, Mrs. Maggie Bill ings, and five brothers and sisters. One of the sisters, Mrs. F. R. Alex ander, has been here for several days with her mother. Mrs. J. P. Fry has been in Spring field several days looking after busi ness interests. She has gon e to Goshen to visit her brother, William Ketcheni. R. R. Baker and wife were In from Jasper on Wednesday trading. Census Taking Moves Rapidly Washington, Jan. 12. Sam L. Rog ers, director of the 1920 census, today said that less than 100 of the 87.000 census enumerators had reported ina bility to begin canvassing on account of bad weather. He predicted com pletion of the census in record break ing time. The statement was also given out .that anyone refusing to answer ques tions concerning the census would be subject to trial. Very little trouble with the "reds" has been reported,