East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-06-10
COL. H. G. NEWPORT
FOR REPRESENTATIVE
WELL KNOWN HERMISTONIAN
ANNOUNCES HIS CANDIDACY
North Dakota People Invest i'm Irri-
gated LandS-A. f. Robb Elected
Assistant Secretary of Umatilla
River Water Users Association
Other News Items.
Especial Correspondence.D

Hermiston, Ore, June 9.-It has
been officially announced that Col,
H. G. Newport will be a candidate
FOR representative from Umatilla
county at the coming election. For
some time it has been conceded that
the irrigated interests of this section
should have some good man to rep
resent them and after quite a little
persuasion Col. Newport will allow his
name to be placed before the people
of Umatilla county. He is we'll and
favorably known all over this district
and is one of the best posted men in
the county on irrigation and the wants
of the irrigationist
Yesterday the Columbia Land COM
pany sold to North Dakota people be-
Hermiston lands, the following is a
partial list of purchasers: John
Mersch, a. ]. Sachelder Mr.. and Mrs,
b. w. Rantz, j. E. Bennett, C. B..
Vallanderhan. Robert Fairbanks, A.
Remmer, NJ. c. Akren, Mr.. and Mrs.
e stark, H. Reded. NJ Echern. The
party was in charge of Schiller B.
Herman and DR. F. e. Ball. Today a
car is at Stanfield from Fargo. More
will follow in few days.
At the monthly meeting of the
board of directors of the umatlla
River Water Users association, a. E.
Robb was elected assistant secretary
The annual estimate for current eX-
penses was made and will be the same
as last year, 10 cents per share. Also
the following resolution was adopted:
Resolved, That we, the board of
directors Of the Umatilla River Water
Users association, regret that any
thing should have occurred that may
have a tendency to delay the compile
ton of the more thorough distribution
system of the waters covered by the
Maxwell water right
That the land holders of the pro-
ject are fully alive to the importance
and necessity of having the water of
the reservoir supplanted by that OBJ
tainable through the Maxwell ditch
as the area of cultivated land in
creases from year to year, and to have
the work of distribution steadily car
ried forward to completion with that
of the water from the reservoir.
We assure you of the hearty CO.
operation of the association with your
efforts to attain that object as rap
idly as conditions will permit.
That a copy of this resolution be
mailed to the project engineer, Her.
bert D. Newell.
r. w. Allen, superintendent of the
Hermiston experiment station is at
Irrigon today and will go to Pendleton
tomorrow. He is inspecting orchard
conditions and intends looking over
most of the orchards between here and
Pendleton within the next couple
weeks.
Herbert D. Newell, project engineer.
spent few days in Portland this week
with Mrs. Newell, who is taking treat
ment from a specialist.
James Johns, one of Pendleton's
prominent abstractors and real es-
tate men, spent part of yesterday in
Hermiston transacting business.
DIR. c. d. Morgan and wife and w.
:. Mcneil and wife recent arrivals
from Ohio, have gone to Portland for
a short stay.
Ed Hit and H. ]. Longley are
Portland visitors taking in the rose
show.