The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1910-07-16
NEWS PARAGRAPHS FROM
OTHER CITIES III OREGON


to pay more than $L,S5 a day.
The association 70 rmed for tie pur-
pose of holding carnival on Coos
Bay during August is planning the
largest public entertainment that has
ever taken place in that county
The Rogue River valley will ship
1000 cars of fruit this year. of which
400 cars will be pears, and 500 cars
viii be apples. The present crop is
pronounced the finest in the history OF
the valley.
The detailed crop report of the de-
partment of agriculture shows the con-
dition of Winter wheat in Oregon. at
harvest this year, to have been SO, or
per cent above what it was last
years. This is a decline, however, of
4 per cent since June 1, last
L. w. Clapp, stage line operator,
has established an automobile service
between klamath Falls and Crater
Lake. Mr.. Clapp has the contract
with the Southern Pacific to handle
the through passenger service from
San Francisco to Crater Lake.
Jesse Powers escaped from his
nurse at the Prineville hospital and
ran for 25 miles over sand and stony
ground bare footed and in his night
clothes before being overtaken by
Sheriff Elks in his auto.
The largest influx of settlers over
known into the Northwest, and esIe-
cially Oregon, is expected this fall.
! Some time within the next few weeks
conference of the Transcontinental
Passenger association Will be held N
Chicago and arrangements will then
be made for the fall colonist rates.
! ]. s. Trumble, a small dairy farmer
OF Forest Grove. has received word
that he is one of about 20 heirs to
s400,O0O,000 estate located in heart Of
Baltimore. There was SO year lease
on the property, which has Just ex-
pired. the property having belonged to
Mr.. Trumble's great grandfather.
The Willamette Valley Applegrow-
ers' association adjourned at Salem,
after selecting directors and naming
a committee of three to draft bill
for presentation at the next legisla-
ture. The ball will ask for an appro-
priation to be used under the direc-
tion Of the experiment station in in
vestigating horticultural troubles, par
ticularly as to fungus growths.
The convention of the National AS.
ISOLATION of Wool Growers. which will
be held in Portland in January, 1911,
and which should bring between 49,
900 and $4,000 visitors to this city, will
do more to advance the sheep growing
business in Oregon than anything else
that could be brought about, is the
opinion of Dan p. Smythe, secretary
of the Oregon State Wool Growers as.
sociation.
Umatilla county will produce this
season between 100000 and 1000, 900
bushels Of wheat Not only will this
be done, but the quality will be the
best ever sent forth. This alone is a
factor of considerable Importance.
Last year the total wheat output of
Umatilla was about 100000 bushels,
,, although some interests were inclined
. to figure that the production was con
siderably above this.
1t cost the state of Oregon 1922 to
Q bring the Grant county murderers to
e the penitentiary. one of whom is to be
!. executed, the other four to be incar
: cerated for life. 1t is the greatest
a cost for bringing prisoners to Salem
= in the history of the state. The pri
!; soners are Joseph H. Caseday, former
deputy sheriff of Grant County, sen
At fenced to death; Bert Green. Ben Hin
d ton, Emmett and Earl Shields.
/, To obtain for Oregon a pure drug
y law was one of the principal subjects
considered at the 2lst annual conven
ton of the Oregon State Druggists ss
ISOLATION. held July 12 to 10, at the
Gearhart Hotel, Seaside. Final report
n was made at the convention by q
N committee appointed year ago tc
\ prepare bill. A campaign will b,
taken up for bringing The bill hefor,
the legislature at its next session. Tn,
2 bill is to be patterned after the United
!. States pure drug law, and will enabl,
!. the druggists of this state to regulat,
the purity Of their drugs according 1,
a the United States pharmacopoeia.
"a A peculiar coincidence came to ligh
q at the executive Offices when extradi
a tion papers were issued for Jesse Bur
Z Lesson. at the behest of the governor o
: North Carolina. Burleson is held a
y the Coos county Jail on a charge o
h murder. An extradition was issue.
ie for George Holder. also for the Nortl
- Carolina governor. Holder was ais,
wanted on charge of murder. Tn,
= crimes were committed at differen