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

VIII Mack Of Grants Pass, charged
with the murder of Miles Garter, was
convicted Of murder in the second
degree Saturday.
Married, divorced and remarked
70 his former wife at the age Of p
years is the experience Of A Vincent
Holgate. formerly of Corvallis, now
Of Halsey.
Congress has passed bill to pay
D. J. Holmes, Of Salem, $500 as re-
endorsement for improvements on
land which was taken from him in
correcting the boundary of the Warm
Spring Indian reservation.
According to the annual report of
the state game warden. he has sue
ceeded, with his deputies. in secur-
ing go convictions which accrued
something over $4,000 to the state in
fines.
Oregon City Oddfellows have Of
fered reward of SIS for the recov-
cry of the body of Charles 2. Mid
lam, who was drowned in the Will
annette river at Oregon City last
week.
Mrs. Hawley. vile Of Representa-
tive Hawley. has been hOnOred by
the women Of the Congressional Club
at Washington. ID. C. by appoint
ment as chairman of the committee
on nomination Of officers.
The Legislature of Oregon will he
requested TO pass upon bill provid-
ing for the repeal of the present anti
prize6ghting law. and the snbstitm-
ton Of another measure that will
permit limited bouts between profes-
sional eXpOnents of the manly art
Will Steel, of Portland is in Wash
inngton, D. c., endeavoring to obtain
lease of lands in Crater Lake Park.
upon which 10 erect summer resort.
hotels and cottages. The department
Of the interior will grant a 1O-year
lease, but Steel desired one for 20
years.
Governor Chamberlain has decided
to pardon COurtland Green. sent up
4bl IlAV mum Lane COuuks lOI luS
murder of John Linn, who was driv-
ing bunch of horses from Eastern
Oregon. Green's mother has been
living in Salem on the county. Moth
er and son will leave at once, ii is
said, going to another state.
Chief among the feature of Home
coming day" which will open the an
nual rose festival in Portland, June
7-12, will be a rousing roundup and
reunion of Oregon's old pioneers.
The regular Pioneer day" is June
16. but it is now planned to have
this date changed to June Z. the
opening day of the festival.
81 hereby instruct and direct my
said executor to erect a tombstone
at my grave, and / wish him to have
engraved thereon in bold letters the
words. I have no desire for Heaven
and no fear of He'll" This is
the queer instruction given in the
last will Of James w. Logan, which
has been admitted to probate in the
Multnomah county court.
A message has been received at
Hood River from Washington, D. c.,
stating that concurrent resolution
was passed in the United States SEN
ate directing the secretary of war to
have a survey and estimate made in
regard to dredging out the channel
of the Columbia river opposite the
city, in order to provide permanent
harbor there.
Bryan R. Dorr, on whom the spot
light of national publicity has been
thrown as a result of the war be-
tween President Roosevelt and Sena-
tor Tillman, announces his intention
of bringing suit against the South
Carolina senator for 100000 for
malicious libel. Mr. Dorr is presi-
dent of the st. Paul & Pacific Timber
Syndicate.
Representative Hawley has secured
the passage through the house of his
bill to pay volunteers of the Cayuse
Indian War who have not heretofore
been compensated for their services.
The bill carries an appropriation of
$500. which will be distributed at
the rate of $3.50 for each days SER
vice during the war OF 1S47-1S4S.
The Pacific Postal Telegraph
Cable Company won its suit against
the Southern Pacific Company, which
was tried out before Judge Wolver-
ton, at Portland, the jury bringing
In a sealed verdict awarding the rail-
road corapany damages amounting to
s66. 900 and granting the telegraph
company a right of way along the
railroad lines between Portland and
San Francisco.
According to official statistics pre-
pared by the department of COM
merce and labor at Washington, d.
c., Portland, during the calendar
year of 1908, exported more wheat
than any other American port. save
New York. Its total shipments to
foreign markets for the year amount
ed to 13.042,063 bushels, as against
9.237,437 bushels in 1907. Exports
for the extire Puget Sound district
the past year amounted to but H.
917,6S2 bushels.
General Manager O'Brien, OF the
Hartman lines. upon his return to
Portland from an extended trip East,