The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1910-10-05
NEWS PARAGRAPHS FROM
OTHER CITIES IN OREGON

inc planting dHd pi uulHS VI ticSS.
A warrant has been issued for the
| arrest of Elwood l.. Clark, ex-cashier
of the United States National Bank
at Vale, Malheur county, charging him
with Irregularities in connection with
the bank
Oregon's total valuation of crops for
the present year, as estimated by DR..
James Withycombe, director of the
Oregon experimental station at Cor
Wallis, will be approximately $115,000,-
600.
The interstate commerce commits
sion, on complaint of the Oregon &
Washington Lumber Manufacturers
, Association, suspended the new lum-
ber schedule which the Southern Pa
cific and its connecting lines in Ore
| gon proposed to put into effect Oc-
tober 16.
Plans are projected for number
of new six-inch batteries at Fort Ste
vens. The extreme rap.dity and accu.
racy with which this calibre weapon
can be fired will render them, ex.
tremely useful in defense of the sub.
marine mine fields.
Including the coastwise traffic Port.
land has shipped 1,156,399 bushels OF
wheat during the cereal year begun
July 1, as against 595,S46 bushels for.
warded from the combined ports OF
Puget Sound, according to a state
ment which has just been issued by
the Merchants Exchange.
Matthias Machas, a horticulturis,
from Budapest, Hungary, travelling in
the United States on "stipendium'
granted him by his government, IL
spending several days in Hood Rivel
investigating and studying the meth
DDS employed there in raising ant
packing apples.
According to statistics compiled b!
the department of agriculture, Ore
gon leads the United States this yea
in apple production. The repor
shows that in September Oregon ha,
SO per cent of full crop, while Wash
ington, the nearest competitor, had 81
per cent Of full crop.
A new high power telescope instru
ment has arrived at Fort Stevens TO
use in discovering and bringing with
in focal distance approaching boats.
has such powerful lenses that object
at distance of 10000 yards, or near
ly % miles. can be plainly discerne,
through this instrument.
| Master Fish Warden r. E. Clanton
states that all of the hatcheries IL
District No. /, with the exception o
that on the Mckenzie, will be close,
until spring, owing to a shortage o
district funds. All of the eggs from
the other hatcheries in the distrlc
aside from the Mckenzie. will be sen
to the central hatchery at Bonneville
William H. Williams, who has beel
treking across the continent amusin
himself by sending threatening letter
to the governor of Oregon, has bee
taken into custody in California an
will be returned to the Oregon hosp
tai for the insane, from which he wa
| IN he
worrying the officials at Salem wit
his communications for more than
year past.
With the coming OF the rainy seaso
In Oregon, the Forest Service ha
planned the seeding Of between 500
and 5000 acres of burned-over land
at cost OF approximately $4,000
700 acres being situated at the Blu
Run watershed. as an auxiliary to tn
Portland water supply The larges
amount Of planting Is to be done l
: the Mt. Hebo district. The distrit
was burned over In 1857 and has neve
become reforested.
With an attack upon the legality {
the s3.000.000 klamath Falls reclam
tion project, Attorney e. w. Fultol
of Portland, is preparing to not onl
oppose the CAIN OF the Federal go
ernment that 1t has the inherent rigl
to close navigation when deemed
. be to the best interest Of the peopl
> but to open legal question whic
may assall every irrigation schen
g now under process Of construction b
l. the reclamation service in the Unite
J. States.