Wallowa County chieftain. [volume] (Enterprise, Or.) 1909-1911, 1910-06-09
NEWS PARAGRAPHS FROM
OTHER CITIES IN OREGON

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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 a hearing on June IA, at Monroe,
Or, TO investigate the service fur.
nished by the Corvallis & 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
gon Society OF Mutual Insurance Com
panies was held in McMinnville June
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 II and IL at the Lane
County fair grounds. Whipple S. Hall
will be there at that time with a Cur
tiss biplane.
Percival H. Dennison, a prominent
sheepman of Spray, Wheeler County,
committed suicide by shooting him
self through the heart with a 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 fioated
down the stream. There are 10000.
600 feet in the drive. II will take
almost a month to bring It 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 s125,00o. The work is to be fin-
ished by May, 1911.
The dairy industry OF Coos County
last year yielded the farmers $3s5,OO0,
and 405 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 $50 tons of cheese
was produced.
Hermiston will have a 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 a doubt the tonnage will
be doubled another season
Vice-president L. B. Wickersham, OF
the United Railways Company, has
submitted proposition to the County
Court of Tillamook County to expend
100000 to improve the Wilson River
road, making it suitable for automo-
biles, provided Tillamoek and Wash.
ington counties would contribute each
$4,000.
Declaring the proposed assembly
scheme to be 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 of
that body, addressed a meeting in the
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 Astoria
will be $4,000 with not over $500 for
shortage, and the Willamette District
will be renamed the Portland District,
with salary of $4,000 in lieu of ali
fees and other allowances.
The largest graduating class that
has ever left the University of Ore
gon will receive its diplomas here .at
the annual commencement day exer-
cises, June %. The class comprises
members, not including
the departments OF medicine and law,
in Portland, whose graduating exer-
cises already have been held.
Horticulturists are interested in
new species of strawberry which has
been developed by c. A. Benson of
Silverton. Mr.. Benson, who is a large
berry grower, has succeeded in pro
iucing fruit that has all the favor
,f the wild strawberry and the size
Of the domestic berry. He obtained
the new fruit production by crossing
pollen Of the wild berry blossoms and |
those Of the cultivated berry. The |
new addition to the berry crop will |