Wallowa County chieftain. [volume] (Enterprise, Or.) 1909-1911, 1909-02-04
OREGON BRIEFLETS

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Dimmick is 40 years Of age and
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. Il 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 & 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 of Union county, who was tried
at Pendleton on change OF venus
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
ized 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
I 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.
land of Oregon, and Governor Brady
of Idaho, will be among the prin.
cipal speakers. Many senators ant
representatives will be on the pro
| gramme.
Reports from farmers from al
parts of Gillian county show tina
the recent snow has been a grea
benefit to wheat and prospects arr
bright for fall grain. The covering
of snow protected the wheat durn!
the severe freezing weather and tn,
soil was in excellent condition to re
tain the moisture from the melting
snow.
After posing as two orphans from
rustic regions, Clare Curtis an
Marie Brown, two Portland girls
were arrested and placed in priso
in Oakland, California, where the
confessed to the theft of diamond
and coin and are suspected by th
police OF being confidence operator
and pickpockets with criminal rec
ords.
Tie Linn county court has decide
to offer the following bounties o
wild animals: Cougars, So; gra
wolves, So; wildcats, $3.50; coyote.
$3.50. These bounties will be pal
by Linn county Independent of stat
bounties on animals killed in thl
county. The bounties were allowe
In response to large petition of ia,
payers.
Representative Burnett, of AL;
bama has introduced a bill in cor
gress authorizing Yaquina Wago
Road Company or its assigns I
make lieu selection of about 900
acres of government land in Oregon
- in place of a like area included /
. the grant of this company for col
struction OF wagon road from Co
- Wallis to Yaquina, which has bee
patented to settlers.
Because the Baker river shu
shan Railroad Company, incorpora
ed Oregon December 22, 1908. h;
name identical with a Washingtc
corporation, Secretary of State Sa
H. Nichols, of Washington, refus
to allow the Oregon company to fl
articles at Olympia so it can do bus
ness in that state. The Oregon cor
)any proposes to build a railros
from Baker, Skagit county, to Bak
Lake and to a point near Ricl
Creek.
Coos Bay timber and coal land
. that have received so much Nation
an advertising through the Roosevelt
e Tillman controversy, has receiv,
Il favorable mention by an agent
z E. H. Hartman. The agent foun
= according to his report, that ced
Z grows in the Coos Bay region as n
a where else on earth and forest
y fir as well. A harbor as good
n is to be found on the Pacific Goa:
= and attention is called to the fact
n the increasing value of terminal {
cilities and the likelihood of sor
n one not friendly to the Southern P
cifc's interests getting the most v;
r liable right-of-way unless Hartman
road gets busy.
d Preliminary steps in the formati
of an incorporation capitalized
N. 100000 were taken at the Irrie
tion Congress, held at La Gran
last week, and attended nv ovar Al