The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1909-01-30
OREGON BRIEFLETS

for governor. Mr.. Dimick wants to
succeed Benson in 1911. Judge
Dimmick is 40 years of age and a
native of Marion county.
Munro Huber, aged 80 years. who
shot and killed William Heltzel, near
Banks, Thursday, committed suicide
at the slrm of William Thornburgh,
where he was in hiding. It is be-
lieved that the shooting was due to
a quarrel over wages.
Mrs. Nancy Smith, of Salem, has
begun an action against the Portland
Railway, Light C Power Company
for $500 damages on account of the
| death of her husband, who was re-
| Gently killed by one of the company's
cars.
R. w. Deal, a white-haired pion-
eer or Union county, who was tried
at Pendleton on change of venue
and found guilty of horse-stealing,
Will soon occupy a cell in the peni-
tentiary. The supreme court has up
held the verdict of the district court
A fruitgrowers union was organ
lied at Albany Saturday. The object
is to obtain better prices for fruit
and to insure a uniform pack and to
market fruit wrapped in a special
label distinctive of the Valley. The
Chinese pheasant label may be adopt
ed. Many fruitmen were in attend
ance.
Albany has begun a campaign for
new armory. A bill calling for an
appropriation was introduced in the
state legislature this week and
strong efforts to secure its passage
will be made by the Albany Com
mercial Club and local officers and
members of the Oregon National
Guard.
! The Oregon-Idaho Development
Congress will meet in the statehouse
at Salem Friday and Saturday, jan
uary 29 and 80. Governor Chamber
land of Oregon, and Governor Brady,
of Idaho, will be among the prin-
cipal speakers. Many senator's and
representatives will be on the pro-
gramme.
Reports from farmers from all
parts of Gillian county show that
the recent snow has been a great
benefit to wheat and prospects are
bright for fall grain. The covering
of snow protected the wheat during
the severe freezing weather and the
soil was in excellent condition to re-
tain the moisture from the melting
snow.
After posing as two orphans from
rustic regions, Glare Curtis and
Marie Brown, two Portland girls,
were arrested and placed in prison
in Oakland, California, where they
confessed to the theft of diamorls
and coin and are suspected by the
police OF being confidence operators
and pickpockets with criminal rec
ords.
The Linn county court has decided
to offer the following bounties on
wild animals: Cougars, IS; gray
wolves, $5; wildcats, $3.50; coyotes
$3.50. These bounties will be paid
by Linn county independent of state
bounties on animals killed in this
county. The bounties were allowed
In response to large petition of tax.
payers.
Representative Burnett, of Ala.
bama has introduced a bill in con.
gress authorizing Yaquina Wagor
Road Company or its assigns tc
make lieu selection of about 1000
acres of government land in Oregon
In place of like area included il
the grant of this company for con
struction Of wagon road from Cor
Wallis to Yaquina, which has beer
patented to settlers.
Because the Baker River & Shut
shan Railroad Company, incorporat
ed Oregon December 22, 1908, ha
name identical with a Washington
corporation, Secretary of State San
H. Nichols, of Washington, refuse
to allow the Oregon company to fill,
articles at Olympia so it can do bust
| ness in that state. The Oregon com
pany proposes to build railroa,
from Baker, Skagit county, to Bake
Lake and to point near Rick,
Creek.
Coos Bay timber and coal lands
that have received so much Nationa
. . advertising through the Roosevelt
: Tillman controversy, has receive
favorable mention by an agent O
E. H. Hartman. The agent found
/ according to his report, that ceda
grows in the Coos Bay region as nc
where else on earth and forest O
| fir as we'll A harbor as good a
is to be found on the Pacific Coast
and attention is called to the fact O
the increasing value of terminal ia
cilities and the likelihood of som
one not friendly to the Southern Pa
ciflc's interests getting the most va
liable right-of-way unless Hartman
road gets busy.
Preliminary steps in the formatio
of an incorporation capitalized q
| 100000 were taken at the Irriga
. ton Congress, held at La Grand
last week, and attended by over 40
!, farmers. The direct result OF tn
Z meeting was the adoption Of repor
y which provides for incorporation an
4 the closing of the subscription book
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