The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1910-08-24
NEWS PARAGRAPHS FROM
OTHER CITIES IN OREC ON

started in Necanicum river and the
fish are to be had in any quantity.
Five hundred more troops have
been called for by the forestry serv-
ice to fight the forest fires now
spreading in southern Oregon.
Hugh McClain of Coos Bay has filed
his declaration of intention to become
a candidate for railroad commissioner
on the democratic ticket.
| The annual encampment of the G.
A. r. Veterans Association of Lane
County, will be held in Cottage Grove,
September Is, 16 and II.
! The twentieth annual convention of
| the Women's Christian Temperance
Union of Linn County will be held in
Brownsville Thursday and Friday,
August 25 and 20.
Competition between mills and ex.
porters resulted in sale of more than
10000 sacks of Weston wheat at so
cents for No club.
Accused of assault with a danger
Gus weapon, Thomas Hart, of Wilbur,
is hiding in~the woods somewhere in
the vicinity of Oakland, and all eff
forts to capture him have proved fu.
| tile.
A stay of execution of the death
sentence imposed on Ike Harrell for
the murder of Herbert and Walter
| Newell last June has been denied by
the State Supreme Court, and Harrell
will pay the penalty for his crime on
September 8.
Astoria's fifteenth annual regatta,
| scheduled for the last three days of
this month, promises to eclipse any
event of the kind ever before held at
the "City by the Sea-" In years past
this fete has been the occasion for the
gathering of thousands of Oregon and
Northwestern people at Astoria.
The forest fire situation in the Cra-
ter National forest grows steadily
worse. Numbers of the present in
adequate force of fire fighters are
nearly exhausted, many have had no
sleep for hours, men have fallen
asleep on the fire lines and only saved
by friends from death in the flames,
Felix Currin, farmer residing four
miles from Cottage Grove, who has
conducted an individual experiment
station on his farm for many years,
4 has nearly so varieties of wheat and
many kinds of vegetables. The Lane
| County Fair Association has promised
to give Mr.. Currin special space for
his exhibit. In his space will be
shown about $50 varieties of squashes
At the Springfield carnival, the big
hot-air balloon burst at height OF
| 200 feet and Aeronaut Cobe had a
narrow escape from death. AS soon
as the big bag burst he cut loose with
his parachute, but it failed to spread
until within few feet of the ground
Had it delayed few seconds longer
the man would have been dashed to
death.
An average income last year of $40
per acre was earned by all lands irri.
gated under the klamath government
reclamation project. Such is the es-
innate made by conservative experts.
This includes all of the $4,000 acres
that have received water, a part OF
the land being new. Also a great
many of the more than 300 new fam
lilies that have settled on the project
since it was opened knew nothing
about irrigation before coming, hence
the first two years must be consid
cred as largely experimental
Owing to the fact that it has been
repeatedly said that the average voter
Is uninformed on initiative petitions
in general, and in order to get before
the people the merits of their meas.
ure, H. o. Thompson and o. NJ KEN
prominent citizens of Cottage Grove
who have long been earnest county
division advocates, are beginning an
educational campaign in the interests
Of the proposed Nesmith County and
are now covering the state in auto
mobiles.
That foreign life insurance compa
nies draw greater profits from the
state of Oregon than any other class
OF business and invest less of theil
capital or utilize less of it towards
contributing to the states welfare OF
Industrial prosperity is evidenced by
the fact that during the IL year per
iod. 1899 to 1909 inclusive. 35 life in
surance companies collected approxi
mately s17,000.0o0 from policy hold
ers in the state while the total com
bined capital which all of them in
vested in Oregon securities was less
than one-third of the immense
amount.
Water Commissioner f. M. Saxtor
of district No. win begin holdins