Wallowa County chieftain. [volume] (Enterprise, Or.) 1909-1911, 1910-09-08
NEWS PARAGRAPHS FROM
OTHER CITIEs IN OREGON

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College have organized an association
in Vale.
Medford, following along the line OF
Baker City. has also asked for com
modify rates on certain articles from
Portland.
Acting Governor Jay Bowerman has
issued his proclamation for Labor day,
setting aside Monday. September 5,
as required by law.
In an opinion written by Attorney
General Crawford, the state printer is
advised to print all arguments handed
to him by the secretary of state.
A consignment of 10000 rainbow
trout and 10000 catfish fry from the
Clackamas fish hatchery have been
planted in the lakes of klamath
/ County.
| J. T. Harper of Tygh valley has
filed his declaration of intention to be
a candidate for representative from
Hood River ard Wasco Counties in
the democratic primaries.
! To date, six postmasters in Oregon
have asked that postal savings banks
be established in their towns, and
nine banks have applied to be made
repositories of postal funds.
The water and light plant of Hills
boro was attached by the sheriff. at
the instance of j. W. Shute, local
banker and capitalist, for the sum of
s15,500 and interest
The Medford Commercial Club has
voted TO raise $4,000 by subscription
to buy a building site for a 100000
hospital to be conducted by the Sis
ters OF Providence.
The opening of the forty-ninth Ore
gon state fair, on Monday, September
l2, will usher in what promises to be
the greatest state fair Oregon has
ever held.
The little village of Hartman, So
miles southeast OF Burns, was swept
by a disastrous fire early Sunday
morning that destroyed the only bust
ness block in the place, in which were
located the store, hotel and postoffice.
James w. Nathan, co:ored, was
killed by his wife in their home at
Portland during scuffle over the pos
session Of revolver. Death was al
most instantaneous. The woman said
after her arrest that her husband had
threatened to shoot her.
C. P. Strain, assessor of Umatilla
County. has filed his declaration of in
tention with the secretary of state at
Salem, to become a candidate for the
democratic nomination for railroad
commissioner.
Oregon has at last a naval reserve,
with Portland as the home of the first
division. A second division may pos
sible be established at Astoria when
the organization gets on a good work
ing basis. A commission for the state
naval reserve has been granted
Farmers in the moutain country ad-
jacent to Weston are preparing to
plant commercial orchards, and 80 or
more have contracted for trees. Visit
| ing experts have pronounced the
mountain soil to be well adapted for
Winter apples and pears without irri-
CATION, and each of the farmers inter.
ested will plant from one to ten acres
Of these fruits this fall.
| Eight hundred thousand dollars was
added to the total sum that will be ex-
pended in railroad construction begun
in Oregon this year by the letting Of
the contract for the building of the
Coyote cutoff" on the main line of
the Oregon Railroad & Navigation
Company
The Great Northern Railway has
presented to the prize committee of
Lane County Fair Association two
beautiful silver cups and large as
sortment OF ribbons, to be distributed
among competitors at the coming fair
for various degrees of excellence of
grain, vegetables and fruit.
Construction is being pushed on the
klamath FallsNatron line, but no
construction is beinng done by the
Oregon Trunk in klamath County.
Surveyors are at work in the Wood
river valley and vicinity. No loca-
tons for the line from the head of the
Upper klamath lake to Klamath Falls
have been made. II is believed that
the road will be built 90 that the vast
timber holdings of the Weyerhaeuser
Company can be tapped.
Now that the forest fires in South
ern Oregon are dying out, the extent
of damage is found to be far less than
the early estimates. On the contrary,
the fires have been a benefit, accord.
ing to George F. King, owner of ex-
tensive timber areas in Jackson Coun-