Wallowa County chieftain. [volume] (Enterprise, Or.) 1909-1911, 1910-10-06
NEWS PARAGRAPHS FROM
OTHER cITIEs IN OREGON

A warrant has been issued for the
arrest of Elwood l.. Clark, ex.cashier
Of the United States National Bank
at Vale, Malheur county. charging him
with irregularities in connection with
the bank
Oregon's total valuation of crops for
the present year. as estimated by DR..
James Withycombe, director OF the
] Oregon experimental station at Cor.
wallis. will be approximately $ll5,O0O,.
900.
The interstate commerce commits
sion, on complaint of the Oregon &
Washington Lumber Manufacturers
/, Association, suspended the new lum-
Der schedule which the Southern Pa
cific and its connecting lines in Ore
gon proposed to put into effect Oc.
tober l6.
Plans are projected for a number
of new six-inch batteries at Fort Ste.
vens. The extreme rap,dity and accu.
racy with which this calibre weapon
can be fired viii render them ex.
tremely useful in defense OF the sub
marine mine fields.
Including the coastwise traffic Port.
land has shipped 1,l5G,399 bushels OF
wheat during the cereal year begun
July l, as against 595.s46 bushels for.
warded from the combined ports of
Puget Sound, according to a state.
ment which has just been issued by
the Merchants Exchange.
Matthias Machas, a horticulturist
from Budapest, Hungary. travelling in
the United States on "stipendium"
granted him by his government, is
spending several days in Hood River
investigating and studying the meth
ods employed there in raising and
packing apples.
According to statistics compiled by
the department OF agriculture, Ore.
gon leads the United States this year
shows that in September Oregon had
80 per cent OF full crop, while Wash.
ington, the nearest competitor. had 90
per cent Of full crop.
A new high power telescope instru.
ment has arrived at Fort Stevens for
use in discovering and bringing with
in focal distance approaching boats. 1t
has such powerful lenses that objects
at distance of 10000 yards, or near
ly 20 miles, can be plainly discerned
through this instrument.
Master Fish Warden r. e. Clanton.
states that all of the hatcheries in
District No /, with the exception of
that on the Mckenzie. will be closed
until spring, owing to a shortage OF
district funds. All of the eggs from
the other hatcheries in the district
aside from the Mckenzie, will be sent
to the central hatchery at Bonneville.
William H. Williams, who has been
treking across the continent amusing
himself by sending threatening letters
to the governor of Oregon, has been
taken into custody In California and
will be returned to the Oregon hospl-
tai for the insane, from which he was
paroled in 1908. Williams has been
worrying the officials at Salem with
his communications for more than a
year past.
With the coming OF the rainy season
In Oregon, the Forest Service has
planned the seeding Of between 5000
and 5000 acres OF burned-over lands
at cost Of approximately $4,000;
700 acres being situated at the Bull
Run watershed, as an auxiliary to the
Portland water supply. The largest
amount OF planting 10 to be done In
the Mt. Hebo district. The district
was burned over in 1857 and has never
become reforested.
With an attack upon the legality OF
the S3,000,000 klamath Falls reclama-
tion project, Attorney q. w. Fulton,
of Portland, is preparing to not only
oppose the C aim OF the Federal gov
eminent that 1t has the inherent right
TO close navigation when deemed TO
be to the best interest OF the people,
but to open legal question which
may assail every irrigation scheme
now under process OF construction by
the reclamation service in the United
States.
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