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OREGON NEWS NOTES
OF GENERAL INTEREST
.cording to th« official report u( Dr
A B Cord ley. director of the Orwgnn
agrlculiural rolteg* experiment sta
Ucvn for the blenalum of 19141911.
which has Just been ma«l» to Presi
lent W J K»rr of the college
Al
a>oal if <1.0'0 acres ran be profitably
ree ls m«xt by irrigation mora than 3.
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Principal Events •! the Week
Briefly Sketched far later
mation ef Our Readers.
IMMOCfl acres of swamp, tide and other
wet land need» drainage and 3.760.000
arrea of burnrdover and logged off
lands can be converted late pre'.tab's
InHuenaa eofidlllona continue to Im
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prove In Albany'
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Members of the Oregon Stat« Motor
association held their annual meeting
in Portland Haturday,
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Of the 439 accidents reported to th*
farm lauda
Gerhrard Kllever and Peter F Fr\>
sen. two Polk county residents, who
before coming to America were real
dents of Russia, were refused natural
ixation papers In th« circuit < ourt at
industrial accident commission for th* Ballas by Judge Harry II H«ll be
week ending January 1«. none wer« i cause they were classed as ’ conarien
fatal
i tlous objectors t>> war " Both stated
Cmatllla county was the first coun I that they did not belter« In war and
ty In the state to contribute its quota ' ;
of the Armenian Syrian relief cam
palgn
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The flu situation In Grants Pass la
now being handled with firmness
Every house In which there Is a case
of the flu la stricUy quarantined
The farmers and dairymen of «■ uth
*rn Clackamas county studied prob
tern* relating to their business at a
school of dairying which was he|«i at
Canby.
In a collision between a speeder
and a gasoline driven passenger car
near Higgs, John Biacumia. track
watchman on the O W
fatally Injured
RAN. was
Melvin C. Spores, formerly of Port
land, a fanner five miles south of
Monmouth, killed Miss Lena Brown,
a young girl neighbor, and In turn
committed suicide
Plans are under consideration for
the construction of a new Elka* temple
In Portland, with sufficient facilities
to care for the needs of the order for
the nest quarter century
The Coos county court has adopted
a new method of handling the high
way appropriations for 1919 and has
placed the work entirely under direc
tion of lioadmaster J 8 Sawyer
All fuel administration regulations
as to prlcea and sones on coal and
coke will be suspended February I
according to a tnlegram from Wash
ington receive«! by Fuel Administrator
Fred J Holmes
Captain James O. Convlll of th«
tinned Slates employment service lr>
Portland, declares there ar* apprnxi
mainly 10,000 unemployed men no«
tn Oregon, most of whom bate been
released from war work
Hopes of securing oil In paying
quantities from the well on the While
aker ranch, southeast of Ballas, has
been abandoned by th« Oregon Oil L
Pipeline company Th* well was drlv
en to a depth of 1200 feet
The Oregon stale highway rommla
■Inn was denied a reduced freight rate
on materials for highway construction
tn a letter received by Senator Me
Nary from Kdward Chambers, traffic
director of th* railroad administra
Hon
John Cyril Liard, convicted of sec
oad degree murder for the shooting
and killing of [teputy Sheriff Frank
Twombley. was sentenced to Ufa Im
prisonment In the state penitentiary
In Circuit Juda» tlantenbein's court
In Portland
Through an agreement reached be
t*oaa the Cooe Hay Shipbuilding com
patiy officers and the carpenters' and
joiners' union, the strike In progress
at Marshfield since January 7 was
settled and the «57 workmen returned
to work Friday morning
Final computation of figures for
Oregon’s war savings stamp campaign
for 1919 shows that the state has ex
reeded Its quota
Purchases through
out the state amounted to 11« .4*9.
973 63
This Is one half of 1 per cent
In excess of th# state quota
Al a meeting In Pendleton
tentative citlirns from every com
munlly In Umatilla county and from
farmers and commercial organise
lions, a programme of road building
for the nevi two years celling for the
expenditure of over 3i.5ofl.ooo was in
dorsad
Constituents of Senator Colon It
Eberhard, of Morrow. Umatilla and
Union, hgve protested to him against
th* continuance of the office of state
biologist. which they declare ’to not
necessary. and the money expended
for such office could be better applied
to better purposes"
Merits of Irrigation projects along
the Beachutes river are being placed
before federal officials of the reclam
allon department by State Engineer
upper end I t -res» man N J Sin
not I in the hope of enllst'ng federal
effort to dev lop th« Irrigable lends
aa part of the soldier settlement or
recoa struct km program
Approximately S.uofl.flao acres of
tend awaM rectemattea tax Or«*»*. ac
would not fight to« this country
The towns of Jacksonville, tjranta
Paaa. Rnweburg. Fug«ne. Albany. Ha
Il in < >r<-. Ill
> \ • ■ » >< •« >4 I •«
Hillsboro. Mi Mlnnvllle. Ballas, Cor
vallis. Tillamook. Toledo. Coquille,
Gold Beach. Medford, Ashland and
Marshfield ar* to receive German can
non taken as trophies in th* late war
by th* li •!.
v>itt in'i'-lu« d nt
th* house by Representative lls* Icy.
While records al th* ufflre of th*
Insurance commissioner do not yet
disclose the effect ot the influensa
epidemic upon th« Insurance noctetlra,
it Is known that they f ha«<* Iwn hard
hit
Between 30 and I 4» fraternal in
aurance societies ar* i licensed to op
«rate In Oregon and at the riffles of
the commissioner It 1»
1
said that th*
fraternal* have been l suffering severe-
iy
To discus* th* fltvvic'al end of start
Ing force account jobs to give employ
ment to discharged soldi era and *al!
ora. the state highway commission
met with the roads and hlghwava
Ci .mtn it tees of the 1« glsiatorc Monday
Meanwhile. Highway Engineer Ho
bart Nunn ha» been Instru« ted Io en
xag* about to soldiers and sailors to
work on tb«< Three Rivers road project
at once
Representative McArthur has an
nounccd that he has been autboriod
by the war department Io appoint iw
cadets to the t’nited Stales military
academy for th* term commencing
fun* 13. 1919. and that a preliminary
«■lamination will Iw h*ld in Portland
on February 9 for th* purpose o( *e
l«H-tlng candidates tor th* final ex
amination conducted by the academy
authorities on March 17
William F Turner. president of the
Hpokane. Portland A M-alile railway
was appointed receiver for the Pacific
A Eastern railway, a subsidiary cur
poration of the lilll railroads, owning
63 mll*a of rand extending from Mr<|
ford to Butte Falla
The short liu*
railway was thrown Into receivership
on th* petition of the t'olumbla Trust
company, of New York, trustee fur
the eastern boudholders of th* com
patiy
It la barely poaaible that a final de
«lain* on th* qu«atlon ot au ln< rea»e
ÜW.OTCE
FCIM'-IY OPENED
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treaties negotiated by William Jen
mugs Bryan
Theas provide tor a de
Th« Scio Tribun« il.50 th« year.
lay of a year before declaring war and
Invi- «tignitene by a special commission
of all disputes.
E. A. WF.DDLE
rem-h
President
the
L'rges
KAHBFK
Formation of a League
Successor to Morrt» Broa.
DK. A. G. PRILL
of Nations.
Pinsiciaa ani Sm
mt Albany Steam laundry
Calte Attended
bay or Night
Peris - The peace conference was
' "ortually opener! w4th a speech by
President Poincare. of Franco.
President Wilson nominated
■nler Clemenceau for chairman of the
-»ngr*aa
Th« nomination was sec
■nded by Premier Lloyd George In an
earnest t^' it* to th > F • • h pr> i
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Aironi Albany Chnning Work*
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President Wilson. In nominatili
Premier Clemenceau for chairman of
the conferee«-« delivered a speech In
response to that of President Polio are
»nd paid tribute to Premier Clemen
peno.
Preaident Poincare. tn hla Speech,
urged th* establishment of a league of
ustiona to safeguard humanity from
further suffering
Poincare declared the nations which
made sacri flies In defense of right
would lay down th* rules fur th*
league
Its alma, he said, would b* to
prevent wars and gain respect for the
righteous peace the conference 1s to
establish
Calling attention to th*
fact that the German empire wav born
44 years ago. President Poincare aaM
It had ended Its career tn disgrace and
had aurik Into oblivion, perishing by
th* sw. rd It ir.il.-sllli'l
Premier Clemenceau, who recently
declared tor th* old baiati« •* of power,
amo out In favor of th* league of ua
lions In hl* address
Preliminary coiiv*r«viions over th*
structure of lb* league of nations are.
strictly speaking, still in th* stage of
being dlacuseed In meetings of th*
supreme council, am! ar« not leehnl
rally before the pence congress a* a
whule. but th* fad that the cenare»»
has advanced this queattou to th«
foretuusi place In It* proa ram la taken
to Indicate that such progress la lieing
mad« in th* supreme council as to
warrant vipeilslmn that » definite
and aomrwhat detailed program
be soon evolved
Thia program. It Is believed.
present I the common thought of
leaders I of th* Pill Ieri Slat«», Great
Britain and Frani e and therefor* may
furnish i a starting point from which
all the i pesie delegates may partici'
President
Wilson Is personally
pat*
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pressing forward this on* feature to
the virtual delusion of all others
With discussion now past the (eilnt
where It seems to be agreed there
shill lie no uper sovereignty, nor a
common police force and that the
question of wb< her a nation shall con
tribute force In < arrying out the de
cisiona of the league will l>e Imt to
each nation Individually tu «seh In
stance, the general plan being most
talked about embodies an enlargement
of the principle» « ntalncd
In rate* for the Pm-iflc Telephone A
Telegraph company may not com«1
from the public service eommlaalcti
until tat* In February, or possibly un
Ul after the adjournment of the leg Is
lature The telephone company a»k«td
for a hearing un Monday, lu present
further data, and the commlsaiou « on
templates banding down Ila order a
few weeks afterward
Following th* arrival In The Ball«*
of J K Park, resident engineer reprfl
aenllng the slate highway d*par’m n'.
preliminary
workT was started tin
Wasco county * |7"<l,t>' «) r«4»«l pre rg i
GOOOUSPkiMf WOO UUPOlMt'
n * i . smml
trinimi um I N*l ’ARGE
W’l MEDIUM
Ilf»» g> »«»«Ct I tro ri WK sat two* n svtasM lit«» to «vies t *9 <0 PH 1 WMilr ei tqsn» yum It
for 1919
Beside* th« read from
Mosier to Hood lllver. the Bufur road
will be paved from Th«« Ball*« to
Three Mite cre«h. the road from The
Baltes to Chnnowith will b* hard sur
faced, and the I! mile link of the
«'olumbla river highway from Th«
ftalles to Heuferta will b* paced
Th« first train on the Huiupter Val
ley railroad to carry passengers since
th« strike was ea!l-d on January 1
Baker Friday morning to make
The
th« run through to Prairie City
train was manned partly by officials
of the road and partly by employee,
and ana taken out after a two days'
session between l>. C. Keeles, presi
dent of the road, and the strikers. In
which the latter were offered tbelr
positions al the old wanes
The at
left
tempt to open up the road for traffic
la being made by I’reaident Kt cleg,
who la of the opinion that the govern
ment does not Intend to take any ar
tion affording the road relief, and also
because appeals are bring made by
communities that the line serve*,
stating that th* do- ng of the road Is
■causing suffering and dlstre«*
Th« Scio Tribun« ll.úO th« year.
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