The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1908-07-16
dice an nour later. Her sKuH ~As
fractured. her neck dislocated Ana q
blood vessel In her abdomen was
ruptured. She was rendered uncon-
scious and did not revive before her
death.
OREGON STATE NEWS IN BRIEF


attendance from Oregon. Washing
ton and Idaho.
II. A. Cohen, a former Eugene
junk dealer, was arrested at Rose
turg last week upon a warrant is
sued from the Eugene justice court
charging him with obtaining money
under false pretenses.
To facilitate the work of forest
guards and rangers, telephone line
Will be constructed from Eugene to
Prineville or Shaniko. Work has al
ready commenced.
Representative Negro Masons and
their wives met in Portland this
week TO attend the session OF the
grand lodge, F. and A. NJ. Washing
ton and Oregon Jurisdiction. John
{. Logan, of Portland, Is now closing
his fifth term as grand master.
Though but ten years old, George
Ballard is in the Linn county Jail
charged with stealing a horse and
buggy owned by d. Townes of AL
bany on the night of July 4. The
lad has confessed his guilt.
Eastern capitalists are planning
to finance an irrigation project at
La Grande to irrigate something like
10000 acres of semi-arid land. The
waters of the Grand Ronde River
will be used for this purpose and the
water Is to be damned in a natural
basin. Considerably over 81 200, 200
will be spent on the project.
Right-of-way maps for the pro-
posed road between Lakeview and
the California line, In the road from
Andersonville, on the Southern Pa
cific line in Sacramento Valley, tc
Lakeview, in Oregon, were filed in
the United States Land Office al
Lakeview last week by the Harri-
man interests.
One of the attractive features OF
rae Astoria regatta thk gear will be
Ae sangerfest under the auspices OF
the Norwegian Singing Societies OF
the Pacific Coast, arrangements OF
which are now under way. Portland
societies, comprising three Norwe-
gian and Swedish organizations, will
unite with the Astoria society. The
concerts will be under the direction
of DR.. Emil Ena, of Portland.
The Oregon Railroad Commission
has ordered that further hearing be
had, on July 22. upon the applica
ton of the Oregon Electric Railway
Company for a suspension of the de.
murrage provision of the railroad
commission law. The hearing will
be held at Salem. The Oregon Elec-
trio has already been granted sus-
pension of the demurrage regula-
tions until July 22.
Arrayed in logger's shoes and
working clothes and armed with a
hatchet and other light tools, Rail-
road Commissioner Oswald West in
spected the track and bridges of the
Corvallis & Eastern. He made the
trip on foot and examined every tie
and every timber and bolt In every
bridge.
Three important measures will be
urged on the coming Legislature by
B. d. Sigler, assessor of Multnomah
county. One will be q measure to
force payment of $3.50, 900 taxes by
the Hartman system, another will
be a proposed constitutional amend
ment providing for an exemption of
$500 on household goods, and the
third Is proposed compulsory an
nual convention Of the assessors OF
the state.
To provide for the erection of a
new courthouse to cost at least
100000, the next legislature will
be asked to enact law authorizing
the county officials to bond Multno-
nah county for the required sum, If
plans discussed by the County Com
missioners do not miscarry. 1t will
be necessary to secure action by the
legislature to carry out this plan, be-
cause under the present law the COM
missioner have no authority to bond
the county.
The semi-annual report of State
Treasurer Steel, issued last week,
shows the cash on hand in the sew
eral funds Of the state, June 80, was
1914, ,20362, as against $116,377.08,
at the close of the previou semi-an-
nual term, January 1, 1908, and
shows a gradual and healthy in
crease of the state funds In all de-
partments, and all accounts over the
same period year ago. The report
shows that $642,726.02, or over half
the state taxes, had been paid In up
to the close of the report, record
at this time of year. The tax on for
eign insurance companies, being 2
per cent on their net premiums dur
ing the period covered by the report,
amounted to $60,03s.s1, and the
state income for Inheritance taxes
was S17,162.SS, the largest amount
ever collected in six msaths before.
Portland is suffering from an in.
vasion Of cGnntless thousands OF
mosquitoes, for these insects, espe.
cially In the vicinity of the water
front, are so numerous, and sting
with such venom, that woman
scarcely dares approach certain dis.
tricts clad in summer garments. The
pest has only been in evidence In
great numbers but few days and
as yet the health board has taken
no concerted action In the matter ex.
cept to prescribe common household
remedies for the alienation of TEN.
porary discomfort. The mosquitoes
now in evidence are not of the no,
torioU iy poisonous type, although
their mark IL felt ly the victim for
several GayA after thn en- tunter