Wallowa County chieftain. [volume] (Enterprise, Or.) 1909-1911, 1909-02-18
OREGON BRIEFLETS

The United States National Bank
Of Portland has been approved as
reserve agent for the First National
Bank of North Bend.
At a meeting of the Wasco County
Horticultural Society, held at The
Dalles last week, The Dalles Fruit
growers Union was formed
The senate has passed Senator
Fulton's bill appropriating s175,OOO
for a site and public building at As
toria.
The controller of the currency has
approved the conversion OF the
Douglas County Bank. of Roseburg,
into the Douglas National Bank,
with $4,000 capital.
The oldest horse in Oregon died
near Burns at the age of 43 years.
The animal was an Indian pony and
was owned by the late Captain Jack
Kelley, the Indian fighter of Lava
Beds fame.
The Baker City Light and Power
Company has been absorbed by the
Elkhorn Light & Power Company,
which has plants in Union, Cove and
La Grande. The new company may
also manufacture and sell gas.
Threshing men of Clackamas
county met in Oregon City and Or
ganized the Clackamas County
Threshers' Association. The consti-
tuition and bylaws of the state as
sociation were adopted.
Representative Hawley secured
passage through the house of his bill
to pay S. R. Green S206, being the
amount of postal money stolen from
the postoffice safe at Oregon City
when he was postmaster, which
amount he had IL pay the govern
ment.
Walter Johnson, convicted of the
murder of Elmer Perdue, of Spo
kane, was hanged in the penitentiary
at Salem last week The crime oc-
Cured in the mountains near Hills
boro, while the men were on a tim
Der cruising trip. Robbery was the
motive.
Lebanon has taken the lead of all
cities in the state this year in pre-
pairing to celebrate the Fourth of
July. At recent meeting of the
Business Mems League it was decid
ed to celebrate and preliminary plans
for a big celebration were inaugu
rated.
Not a single person has been sent
to the Penitentiary from Linn coun-
ty for the past two years. This
county has always been remarkably
free from crime, but this is the
longest period in the memory of
court officers without at least one
commitment to the state prison.
Three counties in this state, Ben
ton, Lincoln and Yamhill, have not
single prisoner in the state peni-
tentiary. This is shown by the BIZ
ennial report of the superintendent,
c. W. James, who has classified the
prisoners as to their crimes, length
of sentence and county from which
committed.
Unkempt, dirty and with his ankle
so badly sprained that he cannot
stand without assistance, Robert
Gerrish, who escaped from the Ore
gon insane asylum last November,
was found in barn at Oakland Fri
day night and taken back to the
asylum. He can give no account of
his wanderings or the cause of his
injury.
Before the next regular river and
harbor bill is framed by congress,
report will have been submitted
by the army engineers, passing upon
the necessity for 30-foOt channel
from Portland to the sea, and that
report will be accompanied by the
outline Of a project and estimate of
cost. If the report is favorable, it
will be binding upon congress, and
1T is reasonable to presume that the
new work will be started under au-
thority contained in the bill.
Four tramps were discovered in
an alley at the rear of a Salem
brewery Saturday morning by the
police Two of the men were nearly
dead and several hours were re-
Quired to resuscitate them. The
other two were unconscious and all
were taken to Jail in an express
wagon. They had been drinking
wood alcohol and had fallen asleep
in the middle of a mudhole and were
nearly drowned as we'll as frozen.
1t is possible two OF them will not
survive.
r. S. Smith, of klamath Falls,
representing the Water Users Asso-
citation on the klamath irrigating
project, is in Washington in confer
ence with the reclamation service
and the secretary of the interior, in
the hope of securing a modification
of the order imposing a charge for
water right. Water rights at Klam-
ath have been fixed at $50 per acre,
divided into 10 equal payments. He
wants the department to make the
first payment 81 or S1.25 per acre
and gradually increase the amount
81,