OREGON NEWS NOTES
OF GENERAL INTEREST
Principal Events of the Week
Briefly Sketched for Infor*
motion of Our Readers.
Nev bnlldinga of modern type are
being ntxlel on the llocmc I'beaaaat
tart» wool of Bllvwrton.
The laying of the superstructure for
the 1100.000 Barred Heart academy la
Klamath Falla has begun
Voter« of Linn county at the coming
jetton will paaa upon the qurolloo
of an Increased coenty tag levy.
Rain Interfered vith the Lincoln
County fair, keeping the crowd« away
and hurting the fair financially.
County sheriff and county clerk«
of the »tale held two-day conventions
in Pendleton Friday and Saturday.
The recent rains have «topped har
vest work tn Waliowa county, and if It
continue« much damage will be done
Residents of upper Hood River
vall«y plan a vote on the proposition
to increase the district'« special road
tai.
The rains of the past few da/« have
datnagvd the evergreen blackberry
crop of Lane county to a large ex
tent.
Fully 50 per cent more potatoes will
be available for shipment out of ths
Iieechutee valley this fall than last
season.
Irvin 8. Cobb left Rend Thursday
after a three weeks' hunting and fish
ing trip. He will travel cast to the
Oregon Short Line.
Oooley Bun. uged 7 years, was killed
almost instantly «1 Salem when an
auto trunk iu which he was riding was
struck by a moving train.
Principals of the high schools of
Deschutes, Crook and Jefferson noun
tins met Saturday In Redmond to
adopt the 1920 Inlerscholaatlo gridiron
schedule tor Central Oregon.
T. E Harold, who escaped from the
state penitentiary at Bate tn In 1912 «nd
was captured in Idaho a week ago. was
returned to the prison. He has two
years of his sentence yet to serve.
Decision of sawmill companies be
tween Reedsport and Powers to re-
dues wages was abandoned after a
conference with officials of the Loyal
Legion of loggers and Lumbermen.
The Crown-Willamette Paper com
pany has purchased appro*imat»ly
2100 acres of spruce limber land In
Clatsop county from H E. Noble of
Portland, the consideration being RU,-
5o0.
■ Not a single fire started In the tim
bered district of western Lane county
during the past summer, «ecording to
a report by Carl V. Oglesby, aupervls
Ing warden of the Western Fir« Patrol
association.
Discovery of a hybrid prune, the
"New Oregon,** which experts declare
will revolutionise prune growing In
the entire northwest, was announced
at a banquet of prominent Oregon
nursery men.
The candidate«' campaign pamphlet,
which will be printed and mailed to
the voters of Oregon prior to October
17. is being complh-d by Secretary of
Blate Koaer and will contain appronb
malely 50 pages.
After five hours of deliberation a
Jury at Ratem returned a verdict of
guilty against Mrs. Lena Steiger. «5
years old, charged with conspiring
with Jesse Mull in Is to murder her
husband last March.
Thomas A. Hayes of Portland fllbd
with the secretary of state petition«
of his candidacy for United Blates
senator from Oregon at the general
election to be held In November Mr.
Hayes will make the race under the
Independent banner.
Plans for the extermination of the
alfalfa weevil, an insect which «1
ready has caused considerable dam
age to the alfalfa crops Of the Pa
clfic co»:«f. were discussed at • meet
ilig of prominent western entomoli
gists h»id in Halem
Five political panics will be repre
armed on the ballot at the general
«lection tn or.»««»« on November 2.
according to the certif k-aOon of mimes
and information regarding nominees
and measure» prepared by Bam A.
Koser. secretary of stat«.
Communication has been received at
the Oregon Agricultural college, Cor
valll«. from Morningside college.
Rioux City. Iowa, to the affect that the
college will send a jl< bate team on a
tour of the Pacific coast nssl spring,
and ashing a coalast with O. A- C.
After working on ths books of the
The special election called al Ash
defunct Jacksonville bank for six
and on initiative petition to vote for
weeks. Hta-e Bank Superintendent
the city to issue »100,000 bonds for
Bennett Ried his report with th« clr
th« purchase of Buch lake. M mile«
cult court, showing asset« of fill,
east. aa an auslliary water supply,
MT It and tlabtllU»« of »319.900 with
defeated the proposition by a vote of
an animats that the bank will be «bio
UXsio M A »1 -U.C-.t bond election
U> pay ft cents on the dollar.
to conserve th» water» of upper Ash
Fear that Mr. and Mr« Jeeeie E.
land creek for auxilttary water supply,
Tuck of Redmond may be lost, with held Re pt ember 19, carried 4 to 1
out prnvl«tona, in the Urtuly basin
Willamette valley hop growers re
country at the foot of Mount Jefferson,
port that the Oregon crop 1« about «0
prompted the departure of a large pwr cent harve»t-d and saved, not with
anarch party from Slater« No news
•landing the recent «sceedingly heavy
from th« misalug coup!« has been re j rains
It la believed there will be
onlved for the past three weeks.
■ scarcely any lues In the remaining )•>
The Wasco county circuit court haa per cent in the yards. The clusters
dismissed the action brought by HI las have been free from lice and mo I
Moody to enjoin the state highway The Oregon crop thia season will ag
commission from constructing a pub «negate about So.dP' bales.
lie highway across land connecting up
The continued full rains have don«
the Columbia river highway in vast great damage to the Oregon prune
era Oregon with the new state bridge crop. Allowing for exagneratlons in
recently completed over the lk-«cbutea reports, which are usual when a crop
river.
la la danger or injured, prune men
The first pay checks covering the uev«rthelesa b«li«v« that this year's
armory drill pay period of sis months crop has bean cut down one half. If
for the Fifth Infantry, Oregon Na Ibis Is true'Il «III mean a teas of
tlonal Guard, were received at the ad about M.OOO.MO to the prune growers
JataBt general « office in Salem from >f Oregon. There wore prospects tn
the war department at Washington th« spring of a crop of »0.0V” M h >
The checks aggregate »4 14" 70 and pounds of dried prutius in the «talc
cover the period from January 1 to The estimate was rut down to <0,0«u.
June 20. 1930.
»0« pounds when the June drop camo
Dtamonr lake, on» of the famous and now the rain damage haa reduced
beauty spots of th« Pactfii North the crop probably lu 30.o0o.000 pounds
»•■st. may be included In the b-tin
O Il Haitwig of 1‘ortland provident
d arias of Crater latke park If the bill of the Oregon Stats’ Federation of
now being prepared by ih>* National loibor, was nominated to continue in
Parka association !>»*«-•• congr-
ac office at th» state federation conveu
cording to word received by W. F. lion at Pendleton
I'avle Ellis of
Ramsdell, forost supet-rtaor of the 1‘ortiaud was liomitvsO 1 for vl<>- : r- t!
Utut iua reserve,
lent amt W. E K.maey. Itiumbcnl.
Marton county will have an agricul was nomiastml for secretary treasurer.
turist. This was divided al a ni<uting Nominatlous for th» »k'cutlvc board I
r. aa follows
Port
' Arthur
of the Marion County Comm-inIty fed
erwtlon. when a proposal front Oregon Brock. J. (.' Jansen. J E Btarr, Balam
Agricultural college was accepted The L J Hlmerai. AMorus M M U»rut
college will prutlili- th« man The sea. Pendleton. Chat tee Keane and
county will raise »4000 and th« state Handy Met lain. La Grand", H T.
contribute 92000 of thn H00O necessary Dodd; Baker, Ates Bewail; Bend, C
If Baker Th<-ae nominations will be
to eetabllsh the office. *
Bacramento was chosen ns the place referrod to all local unions affiliated
for holding the 1921 meeting Of the with the state federation, to be voted
Pacific Coast Gas association at the on by referendum within 30 day« The
cloetng business seeslon of It« con new officer» will take office March
vention in Portland Officer» elected 14. Portland was named aa the place
were Preaident. W. 11 Copus. Port for nest year's »late federation con
land; vice-president. Henry Bostwick. vention No date was sat.
Ban Francisco; secretary treusurer, W
Personal Invest!«, dion of devasta
M Henderson. Ban Francisco.
tion of forests along Oregon scenic
The Norwegian Danish Methodist highways has convinced Herbert
conference was formally opened In Nunn, state highway engineer, that the
Portland by Bishop W O. Hhepard conditions are even worse than origin
with more than 30 ministers, a large ally report««!, according to a tetter pre
number of laymen and a few visiting pared by the engineer and submitted
women In attendance. Thirty five mis | to Governor Olcott.
«Ions and churches were presented by
Patent haa been received by the
the de legatos from California. Idaho. Htate of Oregon for K.M4 M acres
Montana. Waahltfgion and Alaska
of Carey act land, reclaimed under the
A committee of the Miunosola legls I Central Oregon Irrii Olon project tn
latura, composed of W I Nolan and central Oregon and located In the vi
W. I. Norton, representatives of .Mln cinity of Rend. Redmond and Powell
neapoils, and J. T McIntosh and John Buttes, according to Infurmatlou re
I. Levin, senators of 8t Pad«. were IB calved by the «tele engineer.
Salem last week conferring with nota-
hers of th» Oregon Industrial Accident
PATRONIZE
commission with relation to the opera-
Bon of the Workmen'« Compwnsettea
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