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Kitravagancs ta dress will be sal
inated from the Roseburg high school,
according to a »Ota taken by ths girls
of the student body, when 1*0 cast
their ballots la favor of uniform drees
regulations, while ooly K favored tbs
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Principal Event* of the Week vid order of things
Two «tenths numerous I a Jar lea. s»v-
Briefly Sketched for Infor*
■ rral wrwkvd machine« and a number
i at arrests on char««» of reckless driv
mation of Our Reader*.
' Ing were among results of nearly to
automobile arclden.a reported Io the
Pendleton and other towns In t’ma ' Portland police for the 14 hour period
tills county are to have firs surveys closing Hunday eight
There was one fatality due to a«c*
made during the week.
Andrew J Foster waa nominated by d*nt In Oregon during the week ending
President Wilson to be receiver of pub March 11. according to a report by ths
Industrial accident commission
Tht
lie moneys at lakeview
For Ike first time la 11 years the victim was James Pullhrouls. railroad
A total of Sit
Baker county jail waa empty five con employe of Portland
Accident» were reported
eecut I ve days last week
I-re Tabor, a resident of Inland t'lty
L C Cavanagh. 44 years old. re
tired hop grower and stock raiser, la dead an the result of a hold
dropped dead ta the Central cigar up In bls home Two masked ui«n m
to red the room, where Tabor was play
store at tial'in.
Creewell. Ians county, haa a post st Ins solliair- . and ordered him to thru«
the American l-eglen. the veterans of up his hands As he mad«- a mottos
to reach for bls gun he was shot by
that part of the county having organ
I the robbers.
lard Friday night.
Wage Increases aggregating |22S.tM<
A farmers attention school, deal
Ing with poultry, dairying and crop annually and affecting approilmately
managrm«'nt. waa held at Canyonville 2000 ui--n. were announced by the tws
paper mills of Oregon t’lty The firms
Friday and Saturday.
A strong s> ntlnient la developing tn are the Crown Willamette Paper com
Hood River county for a bond Issue to pany and the Hawley Pulp A Pap«>
pave a loop valley road connecting company The average Increase la 31
rents dally.
(M«*ll and Hood River.
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The state highway commission has
Ronco«- Horary died In the Wallowa
hiopltal an the result of wounds from receive«! notice that Oregon will «et
pocket knives In the hands of two of 40 more trucha frota the federal go»
Theta trucha will b« dl»
his piaymat«« a few weeks *<o
H« «-rnment
waa IS years of age
tri but ed among the various count l«*s
Kight thousand acre« of publle land and will be uaed In road coaatructlo«
The alate haa received 170 of
at Tub- lake will be farmed this year work
The these truck» up to the present time
by l-'ssees of the government,
highest price per acre will be |1S 24 as
All records with relation tc the num
her of pati<-nta receiving treatment at
against 1«; last y-ar
Practically all workers tn the teate the stats hospital for the Insane al
are employed at present and than» Salem were shattered last week when
will be a serious shortage of labor the population of the Institution totaled
by June 1, according to W H. Fils
1794 Including the attendants, physi
gerald. federal director of employment. clans and other employes, more than
K« nn«-th y Hay. sal«wmanager of a 3000 person» are housed at the hoepl
big New York firm, who la making a taL
survey of The Dalles fruit district,
If an application made by the H«e»d
predicts that fruit will be higher than River flam«- Protective association Is
ever on account of the atuall California act.-d on favorably by the state fish
crop.
and game comm lesion. Hood River
A large quantity of trinitrotoluol county may soon have a hatchery for
alloted to the Oregon state highway the propagation of trout fry it la pro
commission by the war department for posed to locate the new hatchery Just
use in road construction haa bean south of Hood River along the atream
erdernd shipped from Camp Lewis. of that name.
Wash
A re< ent ruling of the state land
A movement haa been started In board requiring perdona removing »and
Grant county to create a new county nnd gravel from navigable streams In
out of the northern portion to Include Oregon to pay a minimum of 10 cents
the towns of Hamilton. Range. Fog. a cubic yard confronts the state high
Granite. Austin. Long Creek and Hu way commission with a situation which
san vtlle
will add approilmdtely 10 per cent
Htate Prohibition Agent Frank Davis to the cost nt these materials pur
of Baker waa arrested on a westbound chased for road construction.
train at The Dall«« on Information tel
N F Macduff, supervisor of th*
egraphed ah.-ad by the conductor and t'ascade national forest, »ays that be
waa placed la the city jail charged cause of the eiceedlngly dry weather
with drunheaneaa
the past winter and beoause of the
Work of completing the grading of almost utter absence of anew, there Is
the Hood River Mosier stretch of ths grave danger of fires In the mountains
Columbia river highway Is being do this summer. Unless the summer la
layed by broken slram shovels Two rainy, he nays, the timber will be easily
of the big sgcavsllng Implements are Inflammable and careieea campers will
laid up for repairs.
be a deadly menace
The Florence Fleetric company haa
The badly decomposed body of John
fl*>-d an application with the Oregon IhMikman was discovered In hl» rabia
public service commission for an In at a lonely spot a few miles from
ensue- In rate« The minimum charge Heston near the main t'oos Bay blah
Is now |l. and the corporation asks way
Rookman who waa aged aletat
that It b>- Incn-aav-d to 31 44
70. ha«i lived alone for some time In
A vocational training school for all a rough cabin without floor and little
those who have not as yet completed light. It la believed that be died from
their eighth grade work and have exposure and had been dead for prob
dropped out of school to go to work ably five or all w««eks
will be opened In the La Grande high
In a pitched battle lasting for 20
minutes tn The Dalles city jail. Krauk
achool building In the near future.
The chief of tbo Called Hints« Heater, police chief, waa knocked un
weather bureau has decline«] to estab conscious and waa locked In the cell
lish a weather station at Oregon Agri corridor with Jamee McClaakey. patrol
cultural college. Corvallis, asserting man. by two recalcitrant youths whose
that It was Impmcticabls. also im « •cape from the city bast lie waa frw
atraled by the timely arrival of Hherlff
possible by reason of lack of funds
Klamath county sheepralsers will « Henderson of Klickitat county aud
meet at Merrill. March 17. la confer John Crawford of Grand Dalles
The most »«tensive realty deal put
ence with Dr H K Armstrong federal
livestock
Inspector.
to
consider
methods of combating the spread of
scabies among Southern Oregon flocks
Every available certified Burbank
and White Hose need potato In Oregon,
aggregating more than loot) sacks, haa
been purchased gby Marlon county
ranchers, according to a report filed
with the c< unty community federation
W D Barnes, county Judge of Dee
chutes county, baa resigned his office
according to announcement made by
Oovemor Olcott-
Hobart W Haw
yer. a Ilend newspaperman, was name«!
by the eiecutlve as Mr. Barnes’ sue
cessor
Members of the Oregon public aerv-
ter commsston will go to Bend on
Match 23. where they wlU conduct a
hearing with reference to an applies
tton of the Ventral Oregon Irrigation
company for an Increase in maintsa-
OREGON NEWS NOTES
OF GENERAL INTEREST
through In recent yearn waa the pur-
«•haae at Bandon by a company com-
poasd of off Mala of th-- Nestle'« Food
company, of the A H Thrift rotate
dairy ranch at Langlois The purcha»
era are K <1 M«-t'oy of Portland. II J,
t'onlln. D. r» Warner and <>«-orge P
Ijilrd of Bandon The ranch consists
of »40 acres lying along the coast The
sale price waa 372.001). which Included
loo dairy cows
lands tn the Klamath Indian rooar*
ration will not be op«-n«-<i for setti»
ment until the timber thereon la ra
moved and sol«i for the benefit >f
the tribe, according to a letter received
from the department of the Interior
following receipt In Washington of a
Joint memorial adopted at the recent
special session of the Oregon legisla
ture asking congress to take actio»
10 the end >>f populating lh«-se* laud«
with white settlers
George Johnson, known aa "nhorty,
a bachelor about to living at Port or-
ford, haa been taken to the stat* asy
lum at Halent. a raving mania« John
son. apparently normal, waa strolling
along the beach at Port Orford wh<-a
he discovered a beautiful agata. The
atone contained almoat a perfect fig
ure of a monument with a « roes on
He declared Il waa a sign of the are-
ond coming of Christ and from that
moment on hit mind Iwtaiur unbal-
anced
At the close of business In the state
department on March « there were
is* sat persona registered for the pri
mary election May It. according to a
report prepared by Hain A Koger. »»
alatant secretary of alate and In charge
of the registration work April 30 will
be the last day to register for the
primary election and unless there la a
spurt between now and that time fewer
names will be on the poll books than
for several years
A< the time the
registration books closed prior to ths
primary election In the yeat laid. JoJ,
•97 persona had qualified
I RACTOR.S
I RACTORS
TRACTORS
Wv have a tractor which wr lifter for your appt ovni
Onr we can
guarantee to do the work, and do it rigrhl.
MT WE HAVE < >NE < >N THE I'l.t X >!< V*
('orne an«! see it.
It is the latest motte! out,
improvements.
with nil the latest
BARTU MOTOR CO
Avenís fot the I'l.ElitAl'
OUR GROCERY DEPARTMENT
Is t oiiiph t<* iili<i nm
stock iresh and ehu.i
\V<- curry n full
(«O tfc (‘ ,
(/mined (»oods,
fact, everything
for the table.
The beat J er er. bull that 31000 will
buy la to b* purchased by a group nt
dairymen In the Alam valley in weal
am Hanton county
Thia actlop waa
taken at the elite« of a three day «1
t< nalon school held In Alara
line of
Spices
and in
needed
HIBLER 8 GILL GO
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Scio Produce Company
Wants Your Business
Will pay Cash for F-KK». Poultry, Veal, Hogg, Hided
Will buy Cream in any quantity anti pay
the highest cash price foi it.
l et ua get acquainted.
If you have a grievance
make it known nnd we will endeavor to rectify it.
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Bring Us Your Csscara Bark
We will give you a Square Deal
FRED GISELMAN, Proprietor
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