The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1910-05-25
NEWS PARAGRAPHS FROM
OTHER CITIES IN OREGON

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PENDLETON--Not since the grow.
ing of wheat became the principal in
dustry of Umatilla County has there
been a season when all indications
were more favorable for a bumper
yield.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES against
the alleged St. Johns rioters were de.
clared valid by Presiding Judge Nor.
row of the Circuit Court when he
over-ruled demurrers which had been
interposed.
UGENE-Portland was decided on
as the convention city for the Oddfel-
lows in 1911, the 55th annual session
! coming to close here after one of
the most successful conventions in
| the history of Oddfellowship in Ore
gon.
SALEM--The hearing of the Rail
road Commission ordered to ascertain
the fairness of rates charged by the
Southern Pacific Company on its lines
in Oregon and set by adjournment for
May %, has been postponed until June
8, at II O'Clock, in the offices of the
commission.
SALEM-For the first time in the
history of the Oregon state peniten-
tiary every convict in the prison is
sleeping on a new clean pillow. Here
tofore prisoners have used their coats
for pillows or have gone without.
| OREGON CITY = Timber-owners,
representing Marion, Linn, Clackamas
and Multnomah Counties met here
and organized the North Willamette
Forest Fire Association. Its objects
are to preserve the forests of Ore
| gon from loss by fire and to further
any other purpose of mutual interest.
WESTON-The initiative campaign
of the Eastern Oregon State Normal
School is well under way. Hundreds
of blank petitions have been maileu
to members of the Alumni Associa-
ton and other friends of the school
throughout the state, and the commit
tee expects to secure at least 10000
signers.
FOREST GRovE-Forest Grove
residents are likely to have severe
disappointment when the official CEN
sus return is made. The completed
count has been sent in and while the
enumerator is not allowed to give out
the result, it is said the total will not
run over 1880, while popular estimates
ran from $500 to 5000.
PORTLAND - Oregon militiamen
have requested that Maj. Charles H.
Martin, First United States Infantry,
now stationed at Vancouver, be grant
ed two years leave in order that he
may be made colonel of the Third
Oregon Infantry Of the National
| Guard.
FORT STEVENS-Because Mr.. Kas-
kill, of Hammond, forwarded a petit
ton signed by number of the people
of Hammond to the Prosecuting Attor-
ney requesting that steps be taken to
enforce rigidly, within the corporate
limits of Hammond the anti-gamblinG
law, he was set upon by one of the
members of the gambling element. In
juries sustained were not serious.
| CORVALLIS--James NJ Hamilton,
president OF the Montana State Col
lege; w. F. Herrin, chief counsel Of
the Hartman railway lines, and Rev.
DR.. F. w. Clampett, rector of Trinity
Church, San Francisco, will deliver
the principal addresses at the quarto-
| centennial celebration at the Oregon
Agricultural College. The climax Of
the celebration will fall on Tuesday,
June IA On this day the main ami
versary exercises and the commence
ment program will be held.
MISUNDERSTANDING in Morrow
County is now practically completed
and the clips are being hauled to the
warehouses. The shearlng season has
been unusually favorable and the wool
in general is Of better quality and
cleaner than for a number OF years.
in fact, the heavy woods in the Column
bia river basin are lighter and clean
4 er than ever known The clip for
Morrow County this year is estimated
at 2.5OO.0O0 pounds.
Il THE DALLES--Charles Hatfield,
4 the man who claims he can make rain
by shooting chemicals into the air,
has contract with the merchants of
Wasco. Sherman County, situated in
the heart of the great wheat belt in
the Inland Empire. and with some of
the leading grain-growers. to product
an inch of rainfall in that semi-arid
! region between April 20 and July rs,
In case he succeeds he Is to be paid