The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1909-01-16
OREGON BRIEFLE7S

Officers from klamath county have
located car of stolen horses at San
francisco, shipped recently, and are
now on track of the men who drove
tie horses to the shipping point and
collected the payment for the ami
mails.
Criminal proceedings have been
brought against Charles Anderson, of
La Grande, who was recently tried
on a charge of violating the local
option law, and who is accused of
having attempted to bribe Juror
with box of cigars.
A great conference of the timber
trade was held last week in New Zea-
land to discuss the question of the
Importation of Oregon pine. The
press was excluded, but several of
the delegates asserted after the con.
ference that owing to recent whole.
sale importation of pine fully SO saw
mills would close down Indefinitely.
Governor Chamberlain has issued
requisition upon the governor of
California for the extradition of
George Diehl, who is under arrest in
that state and who is wanted in Port
land to answer to charge of obtain
ing $17O0 from R. P. Effinger, last
May, by means of a bogus check for
$500, drawn on the Citizens Nation
al Bank of Los Angeles and signed
with the name of G. D. Bush.
The Senate adopted Senator Full
tons concurrent resolutions directing
the secretary of war to survey the
Siuslaw river to determine what pro-
ject for its improvement can be COM
pleted with the expenditure of $780,
600 in addition to a like sum to be
provided by local residents and also
to survey the Columbia river for i'm
provemenC in front of the town of
Hood River.
klamath county will begin this
year an active campaign of good-road
construction. The county court has
made a levy that will raise $4,000
for use this year and adopted a reso-
luton pledging levy necessary to
have $4,000 each year for two years
for the construction of the state high
way via Crater Lake, at any time
the additional funds necessary to
carry out the project can be made
available.
Argument of the case against
Christ Nielsen has been set for hear
ing before the United States supreme
court on January 18, This Is the
case in which the defendant was
fined $50 in the justice court at AS
toria for operating purse seine in
the Columbia river. The defendant
held license for his seine from the
state of Washington, which has a
special aw which provides for licens-
ing them
All business organizations Of Baker
City have united on a plan of action
to secure the branch insane asylum
which it is proposed shall be located
In Eastern Oregon. Letters have
been mailed to every senator and rep
resentative in the legislature setting
forth many reasons why Baker City
is the proper place for the institution.
A lobby of business men has been
chosen to visit Salem and stay until
the bill is disposed of.
A great deal of Importance is at
tached to the proposition of the Ore
gon Pioneers Association and the
Oregon Historical Society to estab-
lish itself in permanent location in
Portland. The plan is to locate GEN.
trally this way in order that all resi-
dents of the state may have the op-
portunity of availing themselves of
the advantages of such an institution
and make of the enterprise one OF
which every citizen Of Oregon may be
proud.
Resolutions adopted by the Port
land Chamber of Commerce to be
submitted to the legislature, II adopt
ed, will provide for an appropriation
by the legislature that will enable
the Railroad Commission of the state
to contest the rate advances before
the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion. 1t is thought that with funds
sufficient to carry on any proceed
ings they may think necessary, the
members of the state commission
may be able to oppose the increase