i19
Corvallls school tax reduces two
mills.
Roseburg will build a municipal
feed barn.
The Dalles postofflce building Is to
cost $75,000.
Oregon lias seven canity factories
and 2 & 7 bakeries.
Donald lias completed a
doublo brick store.
Halfway Bonds voted to erect a
$5,000 school house.
Clackamas will spend $15,000 in
1915 on a county jail.
Silverton is planning cluster lights
for its principal streets.
Portland Flouring Mills will erect
a warehouse at Albany.
Oregon City reduces school
levy from 8.3 to 6.7 mills. ,
Klamath Falls and Eugene
fighting for lower tax levies.
Frye & Co., Seattle packers will
erect a market in Portland.
Work has started on a fine new
Catholic church at Prineville.
Odel-Taylor Bros., evaporating
plant burned, may be rebuilt.
Coast lumber shipments last half
of October reached 29,528,000 ft.
Marshfield will establish a coffee
club and free employment bureau.
Klamath Falls New court house
costing $100,000 nearing'completlon.
Marlon and Polk counties will
build $225,000 steel bridge at Salem.
Bids are to be taken Dec. 15 on
the Portland million-dollar post of
fice.
Warrenton will spend $150,000 on I
water supply from Lewis and Clark
river.
Nov. 28 Gresliam and five school
districts voted on a municipal high
school.
Multnomah county will erect a
hospital to hold two hundred pa
tients.
Roseburg Dec. 7 the county-clerk
will open bids on 11,400 feet of coun
ty road.
Seven vessels loaded at St. Hel
ens last week taking 6,000,000 feet
of -lumber.
The Medford postofflce is to be
built of Jackson county limestone or
sandstone.
Silverton Interurban Telephone
Co. has been granted right to in
crease its rates.
Governor-Elect Withycombe says
there will be no fancy trimmings
during his term.
Mayor Vincent and a committee
are working for a municipal water
plant at St. Johns.
Medford Owens Bros, of Eau
Claire, Wis., are planning to build a
sawmill on Bear creek.
The Hoke cannery at Medford has
done a good business and will en
large its plant for 1915.
The effort will be made to revive
some of the bills in the legislature
that were defeated at the polls.
Salem Insane asylum asks $774,-
711 appropriation, or $160,353 more
than for present biennial period.
The cost of school books is to be
investigated and an effort made to
reduce the cost to the people fifty
per cent.
Eugene, Dec. 10-12, will promote the
vaiiipaign lo cui OUI $iUU,UUU
Ktate expenses.
The O-W. R. & N. Railroad Hhops
and terminals are to remain at The
Dalles and will be enlarged to be
come the leading industry.
vvyernauser interests that own
twenty billion feet of timber in the
Clearwater district are looking for a
mill site on the Snake River.
The coming legislature should pass
resolutions limiting the number of
bills to be introduced by each sena
tor or representative to five and no
more.
R. J. Bowers of PIsnio, California
has leased a salmon cannery at Til
lamook and will employ from 35 to
60 hands packing clams, crabs and
small fish.
The State Tax Commission that
lias raised percentages of values in
nearly all counties is to be abolished,
and one man will do the work in
connection with the Railroad and
Public Utility commission.
Natural Phenomena.
The following interesting informa
tion has been received from Captain
C. T. Podorson of the steamer Her
man. He states that, while in Un
alaska during the month of October,
1914, he was informed by Mr. Nokl
for Dickanoff who lives on Hog Is
land, that formerly there was deep
water between Hog island and Amak
nak island and that this pass was
used by large vessels during the Yu
kon gold rush. At the present time
however, there is only 6 feet of wa
ter at high tide, and the United
States Coast and Geodetic chart No.
8860 shows that there was 67 feet
of water.
About 1902, Mr. Dlakanoff could
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see from his house on Hog Island on
ly the top of the Russian church in
Unalaska village. Today he jean see
the whole church and most of the
village of Unalaska which was for
merly not In sight, showing that the
locality has undergone a radical
change In topography.
I have for saie several head of Jr.
sey cows and heifers. Some of these
fresh now and others to become fresh
soon. This is select stock..
lm. O. J. COX, Heppner. Ore.
Burton H. Peck passed through
Heppner last Saturday on his way to
his Rhea creek ranch. He recently
finished seeding several hundred
acres to wheat in the vicinity of Lex
ington. Mr. Peck suffered some hard
luck this year from grasshoppers,
loosing his entire corn crop, thereby
being prevented from making his
usual exhibit at the O.-W. R. & N.
Corn Show.
Milt Maxwell, the Parkers Mill
merchant, was in the city on busi
ness last Monday. Mr. Maxwell had
just returned from southern Oregon,
having spent Thanksgiving at Roseburg.
Vawter Crawford returned home
Saturday after a visit of several days
at Portland and Eastern Washington
points. While away, Mr. Crawford
spent several davs with rnlativaa
old friends at Waltsburg, Wash., his
former home. It was in this town,
over thirty years ago that the editor
Of The GazettB-Tlmna rtavaA i.i
early education and went through
the first stages of the newspaper
game as "printer's devil."
J. T. Knappenberg, lone attorney
and booster and president of the lone
Commercial Club, was a Heppner vis
itor Thursday evening.
Harley Adkins SDent the ThanWa.
giving holidays with his sister, Mrs.
Will Howard at Stanfield. Mr. w
ard Is superintendent of so.hnnU at
Stanfield. Harley returned home
Miss Leona I. Newton visited with
friends at Stanfield several days last
week.
Carl and Earl Miller, of Lexington
visited with relatives and friends in
Heppner on Thanksgiving evening.
Theodore Anderson and wife were
visitors from Eieht Mile lust Woflnoct-
day, to attend the jubilee concert at
the high school. Thev
panied by Walter Beckett and wife
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Sunday evening.
ana Mrs. Ralph Beckett.