The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1910-06-08
NEWS PARAGRAPHS FROM
OTHER CITIES IN OREGON

early shipments.
Public exercises in honor of Flag
Day will be held in Salem this year
under the auspices of the Salem
Lodge Of Elks on June IA.
The State Railroad Commission will
hold hearing on June IA. at Monroe,
Or, to investigate the service fur.
nished by the Corvallis G Alsea River
Railroad Company.
Pumping water from Crooked River
to the tablelands 500 feet above the
river is an experiment being tried at
Redmond.
The third annual meeting of the Ore
goH Society of Mutual Insurance Com
panies was held in McMinnville June
Z and 8.
The Forest Grove Council has re-
pealed the ordinance recently passed
prohibiting the selling, keeping for
sale or having in possession of any
combustible fireworks.
Eugene will hold its first aviation
exhibition June IL and ~ at the Lane
County fair grounds. Whipple s. Hall
will be there at that time with Cur
tiss biplane.
Percival H. Dennison, a prominent
sheepman of Spray, Wheeler County,
committed suicide by shooting him.
self through the heart with revol
yer.
In the final high school debate for
the championship of the State, held
under the auspices of the University
of Oregon, Pendleton won by unani-
nous decision over Eugene,
The Booth-Kelly Company has
started the largest log drive down the
Mckenzie River that ever floated
down the stream. There are 10000
900 feet in the drive. 1t will take
almost a month to bring 1t to Co
burg.
The Oregon Valley Land Company
has awarded the contract for the con.
struction of the Drews Valley dam in
Lake County to e. s. Burney, involv.
ing $125,OOO The work is to be fin
ished by May, 1911.
The dairy industry of Coos County
last year yielded the farmers s3s5,0OO
and 4O5 tons Of butter was shipped
out of the county. The Norway
creamery led in point of production
OF butter, turning out over 100 tons
In the same district 356 tons of cheese
was produced.
Hermiston will have banner al
falfa crop this year. From the esti
mates Of those who are now cutting
hay 1t is safe to state that. fully 5000
tons Of hay will be cut this year. The
first crop will go to 1000 tons. The
acreage is being increased each year
and without doubt the tonnage will
be doubled another season.
Vice-president L. B. Wickersham, oi
the United Railways Company, has
submitted a proposition to the County
Court of Tillamook County to expend
| $4,000 to improve the Wilson River
road, making it suitable for automo
biles, provided Tillamook and Wash
ington counties would contribute each
| $4,000.
Declaring the proposed assembly
scheme to be a crime against popular
government and an insult to the intel
ligence of the voting public, George c
Brownell. for sixteen years a member
Of the State Senate from Clackamas
County and at one time president o
that body, addressed a meeting In thu
Milwaukee town hall.
The conference on the bill renam
| ing the Oregon revenue collection dis
tricts came to an agreement by which
the salary Of the collector at Astorii
will be $4,000 with not over 5000 fo
shortage, and the Willamette Distric
will be renamed the Portland District
with salary of $4,000 in lieu of al
fees and other allowances.
The largest graduating class tina
has ever left the University of Ore
gon will receive its diplomas here a
the annual commencement day exer
cises, June 23. The class comprises
eighty-eight members, not including
the departments of medicine and law
In Portland, whose graduating exer
cises already have been held.
4 Horticulturists are interested in ,
new species Of strawberry which ha
been developed by G. A. Benson o
Silverton. Mr.. Benson. who is . larg
berry grower, has succeeded in pre-
ducing fruit that has all the favo
of the wild strawberry and the sig
OF the domestic berry. He obtaine,
the new fruit production by crossing
pollen Of the wild berry blossoms an,
those Of the cultivated berry. Tn
new addition to the berry crop will
be known as "Benson's Oregonian."
Il To discuss a constitutional amend
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