East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-09-19

Local proprietors Of drink empori-
ums are once more on the anxious seat
The cause of their uneasiness is the
presence in the city Of a grand jury,
chemist and some citizens who are
desirous of seeing the local option
law enforced. The grand jury is the
new one which was drawn this morn
Ing, while the chemist Ia Prof. John
Fulton of the oregon agricultural col
lege, being the same man who made
some tests of the so-called near beer
. few months ago which resulted In
the arrest Of some of the local deal-
ers on charges of violating the local
option law.
In addition to the expert chemist,
Jerry Stone of Athena, has been be-
fore the grand jury today. 1t is there
fore generally believed that he had
something to do with procuring the
samples of near beer" which are
being tested by the chemist. Prof.
Fulton arrived Saturday evening and
has been busy since his arrival. The
result of his findings have not been
made public.
AS some of the local near beer
stand proprietors have already been
found guilty on one or two different
counts, a conviction at this time
would mean a term in Jail.
The members of the new grand
jury are c. K. Kenison, Alex Hudson.
man, Joe Cuhna, F. NJ. Evans (fore-
mani and Levi Eldridge.
Before being discharged Saturday
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g! final report The principal recon-
mendation in this was that the county
adopt the system of contract work
for road building.
Each of the five men who were to
have been sentenced this morning
were given further respite by reason
that petitions for parole were made
in each instance. They were Clar-
ence Ogilvy, Paul Jones, Leslie But
Ter, William Evans and Thomas Bal
ccm.
The following is the final report OF
the grand jury:
Report of Grand Jury.
In the County Court of the State OF
Oregon for Umatilla county.
To the Honorable Judge of the
above entitled court:
We, your grand jury beg leave to
submit the following report:
We have been in session two days
the first sitting, one day the second
and three days the third. We have
returned a large number of true bills
and some not true bills. We have
carefully considered all matters
brought before US and acted upon the
same as we thought best and to the
best interest of the community and
according to law.
We have visited the various offices
OF the county and the county Jail and
find them to be in first class con-
dition. We visited the poor farm and
find the same satisfactory and man.
aged in first class condition.
We believe the question of good
roads is Of the utmost Importance to
the people of Umatilla county, and We
have given considerable attention to
the best plan for improvement.
! We believe that the present sys-
TEN of building bridges by contract a.
inaugurated by the county court is to
be commended, and we think that II
would be well to extend such system
to the building of county roads and
| WneTS tne WOrk TO De QOne Is OF sur
ficient magnitude, to procure bids for
the work.
We believe that the experiment al
ong this line should be made and at
least a few miles of road built by
contract each year and that if the
plan after trial. proves a success that
it be adopted as the permanent policy
OF the county. We think the county
road master could better superin-
tend the contract work than TO try
and look after the several local
crews hired by the day. and that
eventually the county would become
J possessed of good. permanent roads
and the cost of construction and ex-
pense of maintenance would be less
We wish to thank the District At
! torney and the various court off,
! cals for their assistance given us,
} and now having concluded our work
we respectfully submit this report
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