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About The Santiam news. (Scio, Linn County, Or.) 1897-1917 | View Entire Issue (April 5, 1917)
* J k? Aal V-.* A t -? - Yol'!: I P.Si RIPTION i \ I II ES on the date «tan jx d lo the sp.i l>. k>w lo th«Mie who pav promptly in ltdvance th< «ubscrtption priee i» ().(»• per year. The price I» (L?5 if paid durmg year. I he paper is not »ent lo «ubscrilicrs who are more than one year in arreara. Orrgon Development New» in Line of Industries. Payroll», and Produrla OF GENERAL INTEREST Principal Events of the Week Briefly Sketched for Infor mation of Our Readers. of Labor and Enterprise. Empire crab cannery running to full capacity, 70 to 100 dozen daily. ¡’Ians completed for new hos pital at Roseburg Soldiers Home. Eugene Chamber of Commerce unanimously approves Bean bill placing () & C land grant lands on tax rolls, as adding $500,000 to revenue. Lebanon and Roseburg making winning tight to establish fruit canneries. Florence subscribed more than its share of $10,000 to proposed shipyard. Estacada still plugging for a cheese factory and shingle null. St Helens lumber shipments for the past week were nearly four millions. Shipyards there will build boats for the govern ment. Also flour mill. Ground broken for erection of a cheese factory at Heppner. Independence securing a iUgar factory with large acreage of beets. Brookings wharf being built to give vessels 25 feet of water. Canby building a bungalow home for the United Artisans. St Johns Lumber (.k> w ill build dock 100 by 250 feet. Portland business men are de manding abolition of the unreg ulated jitney and that operator» take out bonds of $2,500 for each fare. North Bend to have two more factories employing 150 addition al men. Government planning to build 1.000 new ships, many of which will be constructed at Pacific Coast shipyards. Laws that provide political in spectors to put factories out of business are not needed out west so much as state co-operation to start payrolls. Haines opens modern cheese factory this week. I .a Grande and 0 W R & N agree on $22,000 overhead via duct North Bend Box factory clos ed two years will be operated on enlarged scale. Oregon banks gain in resources over a year ago $38.563.449. Warrenton drain tile, hollow tile and sewer pipe plant starts April 7. Salem Presbyterians will erect large Sunday school room. Madras -Jefferson county to get a substantial brick county building. Linen manufacturer from New- York in Oregon to locate a fac tory. Portland - First big steel ship built in Portland yard launch' d Saturday. The present war crisis has Ed» «rd J flail «. &ios earliest set tier la dead The farmers of Junction City havs organixad a co» testing association Portland has a population of 8SS,- 753 according to Polk'» rib directory The flr-t annual automobile »how Oi her return from church last of Bsk-r «III op.-n Thursday sveu Sunday, Mrs Ehza Crabtree was Ing. April 5 met nt the door by a1* of her Albany may have a policewoman to chi'dren who came during her give »:>< ■ «! attention to children on abs »r ce, and reminded that it the streeta at night Condon «til hold It» fourth annual was the anniversary of her birth. race meet, L. ginning Monday. June They had prepared a bounteous S. and continuing for the day» dinner and ea?h had brought a Un Sing I 'loved to be a member birthday cake, the excehent of th<* Hip Hing tong «a« »hot lu quality of which can be testified hl« rcotn in Valeria » Chinatown Twenty five cases i-asi-i of chickenpot to by the News fami'y. It is and mumps have been reported In need!ess to say that they a11 on i Amity arid vicinity In the last month joyed the happy occasion to the Thousand» of tons of baled alfalfa limit Triose present besides hay are being shipped from Echo to Mrs Cn. 'tree and son John were, various points in «astern < in-gun and Mrs Mary Young and three , Idaho. The fourth annual convention of chiklren, Mr and Mrs David th* Oreg :i Cattle t. Herse Breeders' Horseb irgh aud four chikiren, As«< < talk n. i »ill be held at i.a Grande Mr and Mrs Ernest Titus and I April 31 25. Birthday Surprise two ch ! Iren and Mr and Mrs Otto Rann. Mohair Pool The Annual mohair pool is now being formed at Scio, Oregon, with Riley Shelton as secretary. Those d'-siring to pooi ma\ phone or write hi the num! • r of fleect s the grower desires to consign to the pool. Party who took brown hat at school rally list Friday with let ter E in band, please leave with Waiter Bilj e i. brought home to our people the great value of our indist.ies to the nation. Factories, mines, railroads and power companies are all ready it 'he drop of the hat. Laws to pr< t-ct ami encour age them should be the order of the day. Elmira sawmill resumes opera tion w ith 40 hands. Estacada to get sawmill P R L & PCo t j furnisn site. Beaverton will supoly i>>0,0t)0 bricks for Portia id post offi ce. To save declining grain export trade Portland will try to issue $3,000,000 bonds for public grain warehouse. Home industries, state payrolls and home merchants deserve pa triotic support. Coos Bay Bay Park mill is be ing improved to cut 100,000 a day. Twenty-two millwrights at work. Bandon- I«ocal shipyard may get contracts. Prineville—$53.000 railroad contract let. To start at once with all local labor. Prineville-Shipment of local jackrabbit skins brings 11 centa each. I), lbs plans first unit of strict ly modern, fireproof, reinforced concrete hospital to accommodate 150 patients The Girl s National honor guard nt i Oregon »ill atari at one* to tu»tu i comfort bags tor members of the Orr gon National guard. The South) rn Oregon Idstrtct Fed eratlon of Womens Club» will con I vi ne in Granta I’n»» for a three day I teasIon, begll’ilng April 13 W T (’arridi, who came to Oregon In ISC« and was deputy Sheriff in I . Ion ci-unty In early days, died In Kug'-n« at the age of 72 years \i’ r:c will b«- hra Iquarters for the new revenue cutter Just completed al Baltic,) -re. which ta to replace the Manning on the Pacific omst. M ny requests b< ing r*< -hid by the state highway department for bridge designs Indicate there Will be mtn h bridge construction this season Th<- t'oos county court ha« turned over to the «tate highway department th<- supervision of the expenditure of the (3*3.000 county bond Issue Women stud tit» of the Oregon Ag rlcultural college who are registered In agriculture have organised the Worn n't Agricultural association. Major Carl Abrams ha» hewn pr<r moted to be lieutenant-colonel of the Third Oregon. He will tn- succeeded a» major by Captain Daughtery, of Portland. Canyon City. Grant county, looks like old times, as the result of a Jump in price of chrome Iron ore from 17 to ('.'.' a ton at Prairie City, the ship plr.g point Officials of the Houthern Pacific are considering plan« to distribute all the fuel nil uaed by their locomotive« In Oregon from a dep<-t to be established on Coos bay Forty pages will Ive Includ'd In the elector's pamphlet which will contain the measures to lw* voted on at the special election In June and the argu mints thereon. The stock industry of Grant county Is suffering the heaviest Iosa es pericnced In the history of the county, according to estimates of forest offlc ers and others. The estimate of the reproduction cost of the line» of the Pacific Tele phone & Telegraph Company in Ore- gon. as prepared by the public servie» conimtealon. Is llo.DJi.ltoj. Captain L. K. Pavla, who died at Newport, was probably the last sur vivor of the colony of Eugi-ne people that settled on Bouth beach when the Ya'iulna Lay country was opened Reclamation of D.’.l acre» of rich bot tom land lying between the Columbia and Oregon sloughs In Multnomah county. Involving an ultimate outlay of approslmate’.y (300.000, Is sought. Aa soon as weather will permit, the i’nlted States forest service will mak* of a road over the tnoun . tain» through the Wenaha national forest in I'nlon and I instill« coun ties. The setting of the machiner» of a - Itoo "00 day product» plant at War ronton in motion has b«en delegated to Governor Wlthycumbe. and he will perform that aervlce on Saturday, kpril 7 V study of the IVougla» fir timber of 1 Oregon with a view of preventing rotting and other defects tn the trees will N- mad* by E P Melneeke. forest pathologist of the depaitment of eg rtcullure The «ar department haa named a coast defense battery on th* Island of Oahu, Hawaii. "Battery Henry Adair, in honor of Lieutenant Henry F Adair, of Portland, »ho was killed at Carrltal Tw<> hundred and righty two Indua trial ari-ldrn:« of whlih two «ere fa tai. I» the ri-eord for the past week, according to report» received by th* »tali- lndu»trlal accident commission i were K Onaka o' Astoria, who w «» employed In > »«»mill and Fred Wil Hams of Gaston. Mayor Alb<-e of Portland forced !• vlers of the warring Chines* tong« to «.. II a - .t*\ , ■ . covering Mult num ah cojuty. and to agree to sign a I* rmiih'-nt peace pact before the rud of 3o days. In order to have at Irait &<>>> auto tnoh.1) « al th* d!»|'- sal uf the military ■ iithorltlea on a moment's notice In • i-ui'-r, '-m . the Motor Alliance »»« formally organi«!il at a meeting at Portland With applications on hand for Irian« amounting to (53,500 out of the rural crédit« fund the state land tmard haa de< Idrd to advertise at once for the n-le of (35u.m>ii worth of « per cent rural credits bond* Helping f.i nier« of the state to per feet thi-ir operations so a« to eliminate Imuy«'» Is the project which ha* been . started recently by the extension sert ill", of the Oregon Agriculture college In a number of counties Authorties are somewhat alarmed over reports from one or two range dtatrlcta of the Grande Ronds valley | that rut.td goyatM BMMttaM **0 b.t several domestic animals and that ».mi- valuable animal» have died Plans to make Crater I Ake national park easily accessible to autoinobtlists are being put before members of the ! highway commission and officiais of the forest s.-rvlce by Mayor I' E Gate» and II I. Walther, of Medford With promise of considerable build Ing activity. Increased postal receipt« and «ubatantlal gains In bank clear ing«. the month of March h«« been a r-<i letter month for Portland aa In dlcallng Improv' d business conditions County agent Jay L. Smith of Coos county, has announced that arrange- mints have Iw-en made among the bank» of the >-<>unty to extend ■ credit of (SO.tyoo to ranchers who desire to purrha** thoroughbred stock for their dairies During last year there were organlx ed 577 Industrial clubs, with an aggre gate membership uf 13.105, according to a bulletin Issued by Superintendent of Public Instruction Churchill, re viewing the Boys' and Girls' Industrial Clubs of Oregon About <000 acres of rich Tule lake land lying between the acreage to be open'd by the government next month to homestead entry and the present water line of Tule lake can be leased this year, according to an announce ment of Project Manager Camp Total deposits In the banks of the state of Oregon on March 5. 1*17. were (1<3..'"!,54* «9. or an Increase of (35,4*1.469 51 over the amount shown In th* report of March 7. 191*. accord Ing to a statement Issued by H G Sargent. Superintendent of banks Plate glass windows were broken and awnings fell under their load • h*n two Inches of hall fell in Oregon City In the course of the worst hall ■nd electric storm in the memory of llallatonea two th* earliest settlers Imhes in circumference were found after the storm Two accidents which recurred al th* sam* place within on* hour of Rally a Success Over three hundred anti fifty jieople participated in the school rally held here lust Friday, seven schools being represented, Many have been heard to press themselves as having joyed the occasion immensely County Supt Ida M Cummings made a rousing speech that was heartily applauded and the pro gram was carried out substan tially as published last week. New Garage Fred T Bilyeu has the founds tion laid for a parage on the bite of the old hotel just south uf bridge. The structure will 40 x 80 feet, and as soon as weather permits work will rushed on it. Mr Bilyeu who haa the local agency for Ford cars has contemplated this move for some time, and will no doubt enjoy a liberal patronage as SI Hill as the garage is ready fur busi ness. Biq Dunce A dance will be given at Richardson Gap hall by the ban- ketball club Saturday, April 7 Everybody cordially invited. each other brought death and Serious Injuries to two employes of the <1 w It A N a few miles east of Baker. Joseph Fruncla. a laborer, wns killed and C Itesllnia Is In a hospltul suffer Ing Irotn internal injuries Governor Wlthycombe. In common with governors of oilier northwestern states, has Issued a priM'lumwtlon set ting April I« Ji as "western eonsum era' week." ■nd In that time a move incut will be carried forward It encourage the consumption of local product» In the northwest for the en couragement of home Industrie» Iteprenentath ■■ Hlnnott Sinnott haa been notified In has another vacancy to till at the Annapolis natal academy, and will hold u competitive examlna tion May H at Klamath falls. Mke view, Ontario. il«-nd, Baker, la* Grande, 1‘endleton ami Th* Dalles, open to ■ Il bunn flip- residents of his district. between the age» of^lH and 20. Spence Wortman, deputy sealer of weight« and measures, within a few days will Ingin gathering a directory of all wood dealers In the alate It la hla plan to notify them all that to sell wood by the load rather than by the cord nr fraction of a cord la tin lawful and that the district scalers will be Instructed to prosecute any viola lion of such provisions Sheriffs of two counties are hunt Ing for th* slayer of Thomaa Cava naugh. a prominent young ram her of Brownlee district In Baker county, who «aa las' Seen nn March 12 While there la no proof that he was murder ed. a bloody'eabin and th* fact that the missing man failed to keep an appointment with his cousin Welter. Idaho, haa convinced authorities that he m>d with pl»y Pis ns for a big cooperative nery in Albany were launched at an Institute attended by more than Joe farmers and fruitgrowers of the viol nlty. W H Paulhamus. of I'uyallup. If the farmers of the Wash . spoke section will plant 1000 acres of Wilson strawberries. 500 acres of phenomenal berries and too acres of black rasp berries. the Oregon Electric Railroad company promisee to build s big can nery at Albany and turn It over tn a co-operative company to operate and Mr Psulhsmus will handle the produi t uf toe pianl <•