The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1908-06-04
HAPPENINGS IN OREGON

me owl drugstore, at Huntington
owned by Mack Bros, was broker
into last week and the safe robbed
OF Its contents. amounting to about
$50.
Inc prune crop Of Linn county IL
reported to be injured by frost and 1,
Is said only about half a crop will
be the result.
The First National Bank of Leba.
non, Oregon, has been authorized to
begin business with $4,000 capital
r. M. Scroggin is president, s. F..
Bach, vice-president and Seymour
Washburn, cashier.
The largest walnut orchard in the
state is to be planted by an Albany
man In the hills Of Lincoln county.
M. c. Cuttings of Albany is preparing
to set out 800 acres.
While gazing at a cliff of basalt
rock In the yards of the o. r. & N.
at the Dalles, last week, W. Baum
CARTE was struck by a falling boulder
which suddenly and without warn
Ing fell from the cliff, with the result
that his leg was broken.
Preparations for the merging of
the Willamette Valley Bank and the
Benton County National Bank, at
Corvallis, is proceeding. but the con-
solidauon will not be accomplished
until June /.
In a written opinion submitted to
the railroad commission, the attor-
ney-general holds that the commits
sion has no power under the act of
1907 to require railroads to fence
their tracks or inclose their right.
of-ways.
S-S.--
The state convention of the young
peoples branch union of the Oregon
conference of the United Brethren in
Christ closed its state convention at
Salem last week. A resolution fav-
oring the proposed union of the
churches of the Evangelical associa-
tion, the Methodist Protestant and
the United Brethren denominations
was adopted. The convention also
went on record as opposed to the
home rule" bill which will be upon
the June ballot, declaring 1t a meas
ure in favor of the saloons.
The Ashland mine, which has been
closed some Z or years, is to put
in operation again. The property
has come into the possession Of a Los
Angeles company and work has COM
menced already in the renovation
of the mine. 1t will have to be
pumped out below the 500-foot level,
and some retimbering must be done.
New hoisting and pumping machin-
cry will be installed as the plant was
pulled out of the mine when 1t was
closed down by the Oregon & Mont
real company, its former owners.
The Ashland was a great gold pro-
ducer IL years ago. 1t had yielded
about $1.0OO,OO0 up to the time 1t
was closed by the Montreal COM
pany.
Another bag of gold was brought
into Grants Pass last week from
Williams Creek by Harrison Bros.
the two prospectors who uncovered
a bonanza in that district recently.
These men have cleaned up $4,000
In the past two weeks and have $751;
600 in sight. Most OF this is pure
gold taken from shallow deposita-
Professor G.. A. PEBBLES, who has
been almost continuously engaged In
work in Oregon for 80
years, has resigned the position OF
principal of q Salem school and will
retire from active work ON account
Of his health.
During a pellmell rush to get
away from a baseball game at Port.
land, Sunday, a crowd broke the top
rail for several feet on the top OF
The bleachers and several spectators
Tell to the ground. Mason Roberts,
a youth, received badly wrenched
back and broken collar bone.
Assessor Cornelius, OF Clatsop
County, will probably raise the vaiu-
atoms of that county $3,50O,0O0
over that of last year. Rough lands
and lands on which there is standing
timber will be advanced 25 per cent,
while on timber, railway property
and merchandise the increase Will De
n the neighborhood of 40 per cent.
Selection Of Albany as the place
'or the next meeting, installation OF
officers and a street parade in which
nearly 500 oddfellows and Rebekahs
participated, we're the principal in
.idents of the last day of the ses-
lion of the Oddfellows' grand lodge.
It Salem, last week, There was a
lose contest between Hood River
ind Albany for selection as the next
meeting place, but the latter won out
" a narrow margin.
DR.. Gustav Barr, of Portland, de-
iyered an address at the Congress Oh
in Vienna, Austria, April
10. and was accorded great honors'
With only one exception. they al