The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1910-11-30
NEWS PARAGRAPHS FROM
OTHER CITIES IN OREGON


determine whether the stream could
be made navigable.
Arrangements have been completed
for the annual convention of the Ore
gon Retail Merchants Association in
Salem, and the dates fixed as Janu-
ary %, 26 and 81. - -4s.,.
A farmers school, to be conducted
in Forest Grove under the auspices
of the Horticultural Society, the
County Dairy Association and Gales
Grange will be held December 6
and 7.
Oregon is to have a country life
commission of it's own, if the move
ment started by the Umatilla county
members of the Farmers Educational
and Cooperative Union of America
meets with success.
Oswald West, governor-elect and
railroad commissioner, will resign his
position as railroad commissioner
about December /, and take short
vacation in California before assum-
ing his duties as governor of oregon
January 8.
The work of reseeding the burned
over areas in the Crater national for
est has been checked temporarily by
a heavy fall of snow within the forest.
If a freeze should occur within the
next few days the work will have to
go over until next fall.
H. C. McAllister, manager for the
Home Rule Association, has filed
statement of expenses incurred by
that organization in the late cam
paign. Total expenditures equa!ed
$39,7S672 and the total contributions
were S40,21925.
Twelve years in the penitentiary
at hard labor was the sentence pro-
nounced upon Herbert Lambert for
killing his wife, Margaret Grace
Lambert, in tent at Portland, July
3. Lambert, after shooting his wife,
shot himself, but recovered from the
wounds. The verdict of the jury was
manslaughter.
Killing elk in Oregon was expen-
sive for E. e. Sleret, of Gresham, for
on November 23 he was found guilty
of such an offense and fined $500 by
Judge Campbell at Oregon City. The
offense was committed last January,
but owing to various postponements
| the trial was not held until recently.
An immense body of timber land
along the Siuslaw river, in Lane coun-
ty, has been purchased by San Fran
cisco capitalists. The tract is said
to contain 1,000,000,000 feet of saw
timber, which was sold at the rate
of 81 thousand feet. This would in.
volve consideration of $1,O00,OOO
the largest that has been made in
| Oregon for several years.
A meeting of representative Asto
ria business men was held to arrange
for holding suitable celebration
next summer of the Tooth anniversary
Of the founding of the first white set
tlement on the Pacific Coast. A com
mittee of five was named to select g
centennial commission of II members
which will have entire charge of the
arrangement.
The Fels fund commission dis
bursed in Oregon during the late
campaign through It's treasurer, H
w. Stone, of Portland, $15,4S472. This
amount was expended in publication
of pamphlets and other literature dis
tributed among the voters in behal
of tax amendments to the constitu
tion that were voted on by the people
and other measures proposed by tn,
Peoples Power League.
Prompted by insane jealousy, VIII
liam Hassing. an electrical worker
fired two bullets into his wife's brail
and, turning the weapon upon him
self, sent two more into his own
moment after they met on the stree
at Portland. The woman died 81
minutes later at st. Vincent's Hospi
tai, where both were taken by tn,
police after the shooting. Hassinl
has a chance to recover.
Fees amounting to more than tn,
legislative appropriation covering th
expenses OF the entire board of con
troll, were turned over to the board b,
f. NJ. Saxton. superintendent of Divi
sion No. 2, representing money col
lected in connection with water righ
adjudications for the past six months
There is still a sum amounting t
Sl,2S4 on hand for that division, no
payable owing to contests and cert
ficates. For the first six months fee
for this division amounted to S2.999,7
and only sssss5 for the second si
months.
State appropriation for the supper
OF the Oregon national guard mus
be increased or the companies form
ing one of the two regiments of mil
tia must be disbanded. according to
statement in the biennial report o
Adjutant-Gene Finer addressed I