The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1909-02-06
OREGON BR|EFLETS

Haines Burgess, of the senior
class at Pacific College, won the To-
cal oratorical contest there Friday
night. His subject was Modern
Tyranny" There were five contest
ants.
X. r. Butler, conveying the cleo
toral vote of Oregon arrived in
Washington Friday. The $1,000 for
felt for failure to arrive there by
the time prescribed will not be as
sessed against Mr.. Butler, as copy
had been received by mail.
NJ. j. Meany, the Portland youth,
who was convicted upon his confess
sion of an attempt to rob Henry
Schilling, well-known business
man of Butte, Mont, was sentenced
to 20 years in the Montana peniten-
tiary.
Parts of human skull were
brought up last week from the chan
mel of Coos Bay by the government
dredger. With it were bits of cloth
ing and rock with a rope attached,
which indicated that 1t might have
been the remains of suicide years
ago.
In the person of Harold Barton,
14-year-old boy from Nampa, Idaho,
the Portland police think they have
the lookout for a gang of yeggs.
Barton was picked up along with
Egmnnn InnOpr lf, frp
Baker City, by detectives. Both are
runaways.
Two recruits received at Fort
Stevens from Jefferson Barracks,
Mo-, engaged in fierce fight Friday,
and one of the men, Private White,
Is now in the hospital in a serious
condition. Private Johnson, his as
sailant, is locked up under guard
and will be courtmartialed.
A. S. Hart, of Albany, has 12 hens
which have laid 2595 eggs in the
last year, and he claims it is the
champion laying brood of the world.
Included in this flock is the hen
which recently established a new
worlds record by producing 256
eggs in year
Jesse H. Bond, president of the
senior class of Oregon University
and winner of last years interstate
oratorical contest, Friday won first
place In the tryout to select a repre-
sentative for the intercollegiate con-
test between nine Oregon colleges, at
Corvallis next March.
Reports received from different
sections of Wasco county are favor
able to the outcome of the wheat
crop. Prominent farmers say the
grain crop is in better condition now
than at this time last year. The
damage to fruit has been exaggerat-
ed and fruitraisers are now hopeful
of fair yield.
Through the efforts of Oregon rep
resentatives, provision has been in
serted in the emergency river and
harbor bill by the house committee,
authorizing a survey of the Colum-
bia and Willamette Rivers from
Portland to the sea, with a view to
ascertaining the cost of a 30-foot
channel.
Governor Chamberlain has Issued
a warrant for the extradition of w.
f. Gordon, who is under arrest in
San Francisco and Is wanted in
Marshfield to answer to the charge
of the embezzlement of $176.77, al
legged to have been collected by him
as agent for Portland piano con-
cern upon the payment of an instru-
ment
Brooks e. Sons, proprietors of the
Carlton nursery, have received a
shipment of choice walnut seed di-
rect from France. There were eight
hogsheads in the shipment and they
contained 100000 nuts. This seed
will be planted on tract of land
one mile east of Carlton, which these
men recently purchased for this pur-
pose. This company now has over
100 acres In nursery and Is constant
ly enlarging its holdings.
According to statements made by
Salem loganberrygrowers, the re-
cent freeze killed all kinds of vines
down to the snow line. and there
will be no loganberry crop this year,
except what berries will grow on the
few vines which, through neglect
were lying upon the ground and
were protected by the snow. This
will be severe blow to the logan
berry industry, for beginning was
made the past season in finding a
permanent market for the fruit.
There are also many reports that