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HERMISTON, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY. JULY 5. 1923
OREGON NOTES OF GENERAL INTEREST
Im p ortan t O c c u r r e n c e s o f P ast W e e k B riefly C om p iled for
O u r R ead ers
No. 48
HARDING PLEDGES
CLUB PEP
RECLAMATION AID
MEETING HELD
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Links Irrigation, Power and
J,
REPRESENTATIVES OF PENDLE
A price of 9 cents 1* being paid tor
the exact date for the walkout had
Inland Waterways as One
TON CLUB VISITS
Work is progressing rapidly on the not yet been set.
prunes bought in the Umpqua valley
National Program. x
new »»0,000 boy*' dormitory at the
by packers.
Because of the poor market, the
Chemawa
Indian
school
and
the
build
Roseburg
cannery
refused
to
take
any
At a recent election the city of
Award* Totaling $60,100 as Agaist Families Pack Lunch Boxes and Go
Spokane, Wash.—President Harding,
Entertain With Songs and Short
Florence, near the mouth of the Slue- ing will be ready for occupancy at the more loganberries for canning. Ap
Claim* of the Defendants Which I
with his official party. Invaded the
To Reservoir For the Day
Talks
Concerning
Commercial
time
tor
opening
of
school
next
fall.
proximately two carloads of berries
law river, voted to reduce Its size.
Amounted to $101,647, Are
Pacific Northwest Monday afternoon
Club Activities
The Tokay grape crop of Josephine were canned under cooperative agree
on hla speaking tour to Aiaaka, when
Allowed
Twenty-two buildings in Portland, county promises to be a* great as that
ment with the growers, but as the
he stopped here for a visit of nine
Hermiston’s streets were practic *11 rated as flretraps, were condemned of last year. The vines are full of
present price is such that a loas is
by
the
fire
marshal's
office
during
ally deserted last Tuesday and Wed
Quite a number gathered at the hours, during which he delivered an
the green fruit and the weather has certain to result If any more are can
address on reclamation.
A verdict was brought in last F r i-‘ nefsday. Business houses were clo s-’ MaT-
been exceptionally good this spring ned, it was declared that canning Hermiston hotel last Friday night
Supporters of the Columbia basin
day morning by the Jury setting in ed and business for these two days
With broccoli planting at its height, for grapes.
would stop as soon as the present to attend the pep meeting sponsored
irrigation proje* plan took advant
the case whereby the government was forgotten. A good many of Umpqua valley growers are finding a
by
the
local
commercial
club.
Approximately 1500 Oregon cars and supply is exhausted.
had brought condemnation suits to Hermiston’s residents left Tuesday great deal of difficulty in getting
A delegation from Pendleton was age of the president's visit to lay be
1000 foreign cars are inspected each
Seven fatalities out of a total of 751
obtain possession of parcels of land by auto and train for Meacham plants.
In
attendance and furnished the dif fore him in a concrete manner the pro
week at Baker In order to keep the accident* in the state of Oregon were
necessary in the development of the where they attended the celebration
Roy A. Klein has been made per- alfalfa weevil pest from coming In reported to the state industrial acci ferent numbers that constituted the posal to reclaim some 1,763,000 acre*
McKay Creek unit of the Umatilla , held at that place, taking this op- manent chief engineer of the highway from the infected district* of Idaho dent commission during the week program. The quartette rendered a of arid lands in Washington.
project.
In a speech at the armory, President
portunity of seeing the president and department by the state highway com- and the Snalce river.
ended June 28, inclusive. Those fatal number of songs interspersed by Harding renewed his pledge to recla
The trial continued from Monday his party.
mission.
Herman Zimmerman, a well known ly Injure^ were: Frank Weaver, short talks give« by members of the mation, touched upon glimpses of new
noon until Friday morning at which
Those who remained in town pack,
miner of the various camps in Baker Salem; G. Gurdipe, Gates; George C. Pendleton organization. The ban- J national strength derived from what
The
Southern
Pacific
company
has
time the Jury rendered their verdict ed lunch boxes Wednesday and hied
a surplus of 831 cars according to a county, was instantly killed In the Smiley, Eldorado Springs, Mo.; W. B. quet was given as a pep meeting for ■
and was dismissed.
themselves to the reservoir or some report received by the public service underground workings of the Home- Beard, Grants Pass; E. H. Burt, Brigh the club and to stimulate the ac-1 he repeatedly terms "thia Western
wonderland” and linked up aa part* ot
The demand of owners and. other shady spot where they spent commission.
stead-Iron-Dyke mine at Homestead by ton; Herman Zimmerman, Homestead, ttvtties of the local body. Pendle one national program the use of water
lessees were as follows: James C. ' the day. Quite a number left Tues-
ton very kindly consenting to turn- ' for lrrfgatlon and power> U e
The Tri-County Bankers' association being struck on the head by a falling and A. Vanstrom, Cascade Locks.
Anderson, 70.4 acres, $77773; J. L. j day by auto for Bingham Springs
75-pound boulder.
The latest addition to the lumber lsh the entertainment. In this Pen- mpnt of ,nland waterway, and the
of
Hopd
River,
Wasco
an^
Sherman
Hudson, lessee of Anderson. »1360: where they spent the two holidays.
The milllon-dollar sawmill built industry in Medford and Jackson coun dleton made good In every detail. | pollcy of reforegtat,oll ot cut-over
Mary S. Jones and heirs, 160 acres,
All of tlfFm are back today on the counties met in Wasco with thirty-
three years ago by the Alsea River ty will be the erection of another mill The musical numbers were well ren lands.
four
present.
»19000; Lewis M. Ladow, 499.9 job and things are gradually getting
dered and those who gave short ad-
In his speech, after introduction by
The Roseburg city council has voted Lumber company of Eugene at Glen- on the Rogue river near McLeod dresses held the Interest
acres, »65,110; J. J. Chisholm, les back to normalcy.
of the Oovernor Louis F. Hart, the president
brook, in Benton county, and which bridge, between Medford and Prospect,
an
emergency
sum
of
»250
to
start
the
see, »4586; B. J. Graham, lessee.
gathering
throughout.
reiterated his frequent statement that
campaign against earwigs which have has never been operated on account with a capacity of seven to eight mil
»2918, total $101,647.
Not What It Was Labeled
of financial difficulties, will be started lion feet of lumber per year. The
he
is not making a political tour, add
Invaded
the
city.
The Jury’s awards were: Ander
There is a certain man in Hermis
up within the next few weeks, ac Brownlee Lumber company that built
ing that he is glad to give an account
With the rainy season at an end,
son »5500; Hudson »600; Jones »14, ton who has quite an enviable repu
the big modern mill in Medford a
cording to Henry Fischer, receiver.
of governmental affair* to the people.
600;
Ladow »35,000; Chisholm tation among his circle of friends fife lookouts have been ordered to
year ago and recently sold it to the
He digressed briefly from bis prepar
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A. S. Dudley, who was recently Olds Lumber company, will build the
»2500; Qraham »2000; total, »60.- on account of him being able to pro- j 4,1 hlgh mountaIn stations within the
ed speech to praise the operations of
chosen
as
the
executive
manager
of
Deschutes
national
forest.
100.
duce "home brew" of the finest
new mill.
Charles Kellar left for a business the budget.
The Jury awarded the settlers ap- “bead" and quality. It is said that
Hundreds of tons of rapidly ripen the Oregon State Chamber of Com
Submission
by
October
1,
1923,
of
a
The president sounded warning
trip
to Portland Monday.
proximately twice as much as the fig. he is able to take a few raisins a ing loganberries in the Salem district merce, will assume his new duties detailed estimate of tha annual bud
against exploitation as well as waste
August
1.
He
has
been
engaged
in
ures at which their land had been ap- peck or so of potato peelings along will probably be left to decay unless
get of school districts of the first
i
Miss Laura Phipps arrived home i of national resources.
similar work in California.
praised, therefore the settlers felt with a few other ingredients known market conditions are improved.
class and of union high school dis from Willamette college, which she J
Bishop John P. Carroll, Helena, tricts is required of the board Of
their position Justified.
only to himself, and produce the
The city and commercial club of
Col. J. H. Raley, who conducted < real stuff similar to that which Bay City has protested to the public Mont., delivered the sermon at Port director* in school district* of this has been attending.
Milton Matthews went to Spokane
the case for the settlers, expressed ; brought as much fame to Kentucky service commission against a proposed land at the ceremonies attendant up type by tbe tax supervising and con
satisfaction over the verdict but be- as her thoroughbred horses,
raise in fates by the Bay City Water on the celebration of the silver jubilee servation oominlsoioii In each county Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Matheson, of Ione,
of Archbishop Alexander Christie, of the stats, according to a letter
lieved that the awards were too low
A few evenings ago the news was company.
in some instances. He believes the ! circulated among his friends that he
The city of Perrydale has requested who has been a bishop of the Catholic sent by J. A. Churchill, state super were guests at the Williams home the
work wll start at once. He also , had a batch on tap that wss "ripe” the state public service commission to church for 25 years.
intendent of public instruction, to all past week.
Albany, Or. — George Parker and
Mr. and Mrs. Owen Patlerson, Mr. ■ Ruile Johnson escaped Sunday after*
states that while in Portland he was ' and they were invited to his home help With the restoration of a regular
Maplon county mflst accept a loss county and city superintendent* of the
and Mrs. Paul Brume), Miss Elsie noon from the Linn coupty jail, where
informed that the government at- where a party would be given and passenger, express and mall service of »200,000 on its loganberry crop this state.
torneys and representative settlers J each allowed to sample the concoc- in that t6Wn.
year to stabilize itself for future mar
C. M. Hurlburt, ex-county engineer Hester and Mrn. Eula Patterson were they were being held for the murder of
of Stanfield signed up terms whereby 1 tion.
Despite unfavorable weather during keting, was the position taken at a at Hood River, has completed sound dinner guest« at the Whitsett home. Sheriff W. J. Dunlap. Parker waa cap-
tured a few minutes after he got out.
the Stanfield district Is to be lnclud- i An invitation of this nature was the greater part of the month, the conference of banker* and representa ings of the channel of the Columbia Sunday.
ed in the government project.
always well received by his friends. June tourist movement through Bend tives of all the canning interests at river in preparation for construction
The Neighborhood club wil close He wa8 8een b7 8hertff Richard before
R. M. Connor, who has been in It meant that a real treat was in has been considerably In excess of Salem In an attempt to solve the of the Interstate bridge that will con their meetings through the months he had climbed over an iron feaoe that
loganberry marketing problem.
Pendleton for some time awaiting store for them.They would again be that of last year.
nect Hood River and White Salmon, of July and August but will continue surrounds the rear of the Jail. John-
son was still at large.
opportunity to start work, will no able to quaff the "cup that cheers”
The McKenzie pass will not be open Wash. The next steps In the bridge the second week in September.
Don C. Mote, entomologist of the
Investigation by the sheriff reveal
doubt rush preparations and within and the cup would contain the "real Arizona state department of agricul for another three weeks, W. H. May, work will be borings to test for bed
Quite a crowd went to Meacham
a short time many men will be em- quill."
ture, has been appointed associate pro road contractor, reported at Bend after rock. The river is comparatively the 3rd and 4th, and those that did ed that tbe two men bad broken
ployed on, the construction work.
A t-gn early *• x th . succta be. fessor of entomology at the Oregon a trip to the Deschutes-Lane county shallow where the bridge will cross not gathered at the reservoir, school through tbe wire and iron bar netting
above their Celt, had placed a blanket
The work will require several years gan to arrive. They were all as Agricultural college.
line. The last mile of the journey and preliminary tests show that bed house and river and celebrated.
on the netting and then had begun
rock
lies
close
to
the
bottom
of
the
was
made
on
foot,
snowdrifts,
un
for its completion and it is said that thirsty as a cactUR in the Sahara
The highway between Coos county
Guests at the Addleman home Sun- cutting through tbe brick wall, laying
several hundred people will be em- desert. At the proper time the and the Pacific highway near Rose usually deep for this time of the year, river. The steel spans over the river
day were Daisy Calkins, Herbert Hall ai| of the debris on the blanket to that
ployed when work is well under way. lady of the house adjourned to the burg is now open to travel for the preventing further progress by auto will total about 2200 (eet.
, it would not- be noticed during the
—•
J pantry to bring forth the precious entire distance with the Camas moun mobile.
Victory for the United States gov Buster Fox and Gerald Haddox.
..
visits of officers to their cell at var-
Attorney-General Van Winkle has ernment suits to obtain possession of •
Boy Drown* in Columbia At Board- liquid. A decanter was filled and tain detour eliminated.
tous times. Apparently the Job waa
Wliy
This
Issue
>s
Shy
Local
News
parcels
of
land
necessary
in
the
devel
declared
unconstitutional
the
act
pass
man
soon glasses were clinking as they
The new cannery in Eagle valley,
This issue of the Herald Is shy of completed some time Sunday and the
Ezra Hopkins, a nine year old boy drank to the health of their hosrhnd Baker county, has begun operations. ed by the 1923 legislature authorizing opment of the McKay Creek unit of
living at Boardman, was drowned Again and again the glasses were It Is expected the plant will furnish the state Industrial accident commis tbe Umatilla irrigation project was local news. This Is caused by two men, fearing to wait until nightfall,
in the Columbia river last Saturday filled and emptied. The party was a market for produce which In the past sion to reimburse the city of Canby registered when a federal oourt jury recent holidays. On the third we had decided to get away the beat they
afternoon. He in company with a success from every angle. In the has been a loss to the farmers.
with the sum of »1352 which the city at Portland returned awards totaling made the usual rounds In an endeav- could In broad daylight.
Both men were charged with flrat-
paid
Peter Horning in compensation »90,000 as against claims of the de or to gather local Items but found
other boys had been taken with some . wee small hours of the morning the
The Bend woolen mills, the city's
men to Coyoote. The men had left guests started home. It is report- newest industry, started operation last for injuries. The decision may go to fendants which amounted to »101,647. the business houses with a lock on degree murder by the grand Jury and
; I
Decision ot this case opens the Way the door and a sign posted "Back Pleaded not guilty.
the supreme court.
the children instructing them to not 1 ed that all reached their destinaion
week. Sixteen knitting machines are
George M. Miller, pioneer resident to a development on which the gov Thursday."
go near the river while they were |n safety although a few of them installed and the payroll, to Start with,
On the Fourth the office force took
LAND LAW INTERPRETED 1
away. But during their absence ! were heard to murmur that the legis-
of Eugene and brother of the late ernment will expend »2,600,000 and
Is for 30 persons—mostly women.
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Joaquin Miller, poet, has launched a alto establishes a scale ot valuation a holiday. We painted a sign for ■
the boys went in wading. Ezra evi lature should pass a law compelling
Fruit growers of Imbler have begun movement to create a national park on which the government and (he our door, turned the key In the lock Japanese May Profit on Acreage Wlth-
dently waded beyond his depth. the manufacturers of doors to cut
tbe thinning of the apple crop in earn or national monument at Cape Per- owners of the land still needed for and forgot buslnes cares for the day.
out Violating Act.
The w.en who were not far distant bigger keyholes in them.
est and from all Indications a bumper
the project may proceed.
We have gathered together recent
8an Francisco.—A contract between
heard the cries of the children and
The next morning the host of the crop is assured. The output this year petua on the Pacific ocean in the
northwestern corner of Lane county,
rushed to the scene of the drown night before concluded that he would
Mr .and Mrs. Gogl, of Lebanon, happenings throughout the state and a white man and a Japanese whereby
is expected to exceed 400 carloads.
the tract to include a portion of tbe are visiting their daughter, Mrs. are publishing them this week. We the latter Is to settle upon agricultural
ing. The boyH pointed out the place , varnish a certain piece of furniture
A special election will be held in Lincoln county coast as well.
are back In the traces now and are land for the purpoae of preparing It
where he went down but the body and went to the closet to get the
Unke, this week.
Oak Lodge water district In Clacka
anxiously awaiting next Fourth, so for planting, receiving wage* for hla
Plans are being perfected by the
was recovered some distance from can 0( varnish. He found the can
mas county August 2, when voters of Industrial Workers of the World on
that we may be able to again take work and sharing In future profit* on
this spot. Funeral services were ■ )>ut it was empty and calling his
Mrs. John Simpson, aunt of Mrs.
the district will decide an issue of the Pacific coast and in the Pacific
an equal basis, la not a violation of
our
annual holiday.
held Suday.
wife he inuired of what had become »200,000 bonds for a water system.
Enos Martin, and Mrs. Lena Olsen,
tho alien land law passed by the leg
northwest for another strike within
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of It’s contents. "Why,” she ex-
islature, November 2, 1920, the su
Suit to cancel all special road taxes the next few weeks, especial attention of Chicago, are guesis at the Enos
POISON PROOF BEETLES
claimed, "I thought it was the can
HOLY CITY TO MANY SECTS preme court decided.
in six districts in Lane county in being paid to the harvest fields, it was Martin home.
EAT CHICKENS ALIVE , you bad your home brew in and I
The case was that of K. Okhara,
which Starret & Hovey of Detroit,
C. P. Adams and wife, C. C.Mason Jerusalem Held a Secred Spot by
1 guess that we drank it last night.” Mich., own timber lands was Instituted stated in Portland by S. Healy, local
arrested In Placer county on a com
spokesman
for
the
timber
workers
and Mrs. Carpenter were guesis at
O ther* Than Followers Precepts
According to eastern pres dis- j „Holy socks,” he exclaimed, "can't
plaint charging conspiracy with Tom
by this firm in circuit court at Eu- section of the I. W. W. Healv said the Belscamper home the Fourth.
of the Christ.
patches an army of beetles has taken
te„ ¥arnlsh when you RPe ,t
Vlcenclo to violate section 10 of the
possesion of the fruit orchards near T d|d )hlnk R wag a , |(tIe thick ghe
alien land law. It was alleged that
We
were
In
the
outskirts
of
Jeru
Wheeling, W. Va., and unles« check- a)| m|tted, ro put Water into it to
salem before we realized It. We (lie two men agreed that Okhara
ed soon will destroy the crop of fruit. th)n (t down.”
turned a corner in the road, and there should work 20 acres for two year*,
The pest Is a hard shelled beetle
The h08t rushed
the , elephonP
before us rose the city, set upon a making it ready for planting. He waa
about the size of a coffee bean, and He had ¥iaions of his guests lying at ,
hill. In Its narrow, noisome alleys, to be paid »50 per acre for this work
a shoe box filed with the bugs has dea, h.g door perhaps some of them
Its tortuous lanes. It* dim bazars. Its and one-half the profit* when tbe land
been sent to the state agriculturist had a, ready ppsacd over the thresh- i
four-square houses with their brown became productive.
mud walls, rising on the hillside, one
for classification and a recipe for 0,d ,nto the promlHed |and. He
above another, like chairs In an
extermination.
called the phone number of a man !
amphitheater. It resembles many an President Pay* Homage to Pioneers.
The beetles are not only devour- who had attended , he party To h(a
Meacham, Ore.—Paying homage to
other oriental city. But above the flat-
ing the foliage and green fruit, but re](pf and RUrpr|i,e be recognized his I
roofed dwellings rise scores of Impos tho sturdy pioneers who founded Ore
are literally eating the chickens
Voice in answer. "How do you j
ing buildings In brick and stone, gon and saved the great Northwest
alive, reports from rural districts
„ he askpd anxlouaIy - Never ;
diarrhea, convents, monasteries, hos to the nation, President Harding here
pices, mosques, and synagogues, ret,re Tuesday in an address commemorat
disclosed.
Paris gren, arsenate of f#)t bptter in my , j fe .. be replied
senting the religious devotion of ing tbe eightieth anniversary of the
lead and boiling water have no effect ..And w y ., he conUn,led> <T11 give
Protestant and Catholic, I-atln and
on them.
you j , q ¡f you’ll give me the recipe f
Greek, Copt and Armenian, Moslem blazing of the Old Oregon Trail, de
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for
sniff we were drinking last
and Jew. For It must be remembered clared the American people owe these
Methodist Church Notes
i night. She’s sure great. No head
that Jerusalem Is the Holy city of the pioneer* a debt of gratitude which
During the past two Sundays the acbP Or bad feeling this morning.” ’
Hebrews and of the Mohammedans no they never can repay.
less than of the Christians, for here
services have been conducted by He called all of them and enquired |
Solomon reared the temple and on Its Throng* Greet President in Portland.
Rev. N. W. Bloom, who was formerly aa tu their health and every mother’s
site stands the great mosque of Omar,
a postor In Indiana, and Mr. Ora- «on give him the same line of Chat
Portland, Or.—President and Mr*.
the third holiest place In the Mos
ham, a layman of the local church, ter. He went back into the pantry
Harding greeted Portland from a par-
lem world.—Harper’s Magazine.
These services have been worth an(j looked at the empty can. It
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ade route extending over several mile*
while and you have missed an in- ■ wag labeled finishing varnlRh. "Well
Born—To Mr. and Mrs. Carl Voyen of the downtown section upon their
splratlon if you have not attended pj,
durned If thia stuff Is what
a nine and one-half pound girl on ®rrlval here the morning of July 4
Next Sunday morning Rev. Bloom {t jg labeled. No siree, not by a ‘
From the corresponding miles of
Tuesday.
wll preach on the subject. ■’What Is iong shot.
downtown sidewalks throngs of Port
Thtne Occupation." It will be well
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Mrs. J. R. Horning had quite an land people greeted President and Mrn.
for many to avail themselves of this
Water Will Be Shat Off
i experience last Monday morning Harding.
opportunity to hear him. The Sun
Mr. Pankow, the water superln-1
i while returning from Moscow, Idaho,
day school is having splendid att- tendent, advises us that tbe city '
i She procured a berth In the Pullman Bart E. Hanay Ship Board Member.
tendance for summer months. Rev. water wll be shut off next Saturday
Washington, D. C —Bert E Haney
5 and Instructed the porter to call her
Wana will probably return before fmm * p m to 4 A. M.
I time to dress for Hermiston. He of Portland, Or., waa sworn In Mon-
the next Sunday.
Three men will be on duty all l
forjot the Instructions and when the day as a member of the shipping
Dr. Leech w rites from Portland night aa watchmen to take o a fs .o f
train pu led through this city she bpard, *ucceedlng George B. Chamber-
that be will be here to bold the Iasi aBy emergency that may arias. Mr.
wa., asleep. She dressed In time to 'aln-
quarterly conference of the year panknw states that In cse of fire the
leave the train at Stanfield and Mr. I
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Saturday evening. July 14, and wll water ean be turned on at a moments
Horning, when apprised of h er! Robert Boswell left Wednesday
preach Sunday morning, July 1». ¡notice.
plight, met her at thia station.
for Grants Paas.
g ro e .
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