The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1913-06-26
BRIEF NEWS OF OREGON

Wool sales at Condor aggregated
100000 pounds, at prices ranging from
ION to IL rs cents.
Thieves broke into the clothin,
store Of John Anderson in Fores,
Grove and made away with about 81
suits valued at over 500.
| The farmers of Ashland have per
fected a producers association, and
the question of establishing a public
market there is being canvessed.
Accused of tying bunch Of straw
to a horses tail and setting fire To Il
at st. Johns, Otto Russell was fined
slo and costs for cruelty to animals
Judge M. c. George was elected pres
ident OF the Sons and Daughters OF
Oregon Pioneers, at the annual meet.
Ing at Portland. ts
Jay II. Upton, Of Portland, was elect.
ed department commander Of the Unit.
ed Spanish War Veterans and Salem
was chosen as the place OF next meet.
ing.
BY an oversight In enacting a new
law dealing with conditions that we're
disclosed by Portland's vice CLIQUE
scandal the defendants In these cases
will go unpublished.
The county court has appropriated
$3.50 to be used In defraying the OF.
pense Of assembling a creditable OK.
hibit Of Douglas county products at
the state fair at Salem in septmber.
A wallowa county grand jury has
reported that two drug stores In the
dry" district at Enterprise have filled
during 10 months 1o.700 prescriptions
for Intoxicating liquors, or an aggre.
gate Of over 1000 gallons.
According to q report OF the state
market inspector filed at Roseburg.
the Oregon Soldiers Home scored 97.5
out Of possible 100. The inspector
says this In the highest score recorded
by any state institution in Oregon.
Guarded by three forts and strings
Of electrically controlled mines which
extend from the Oregon to Washing.
ton shores. defenses at the mouth OF
the Columbia are considered as good
as any which protect the harbors of
the United States.
The Oregon Bankers association
session at Corvallis. elected w. L.
Thompson OF Pendleton ns president
for the ensuing year. The bankers
decided to cooperate In the movement
toward securing large tracts OF land
for colonization purposes.
Governor West has appointed Ernest
Ringo. Salem lawyer. special agent
and prosecutor for the governors Of.
flee. under a law passed many years
ago. A law passed at the last session
appropriated $1,000 a year for the
work.
A solid gold nugget worth $500 was
panned by George Armstrong and
Richard Staurton on their Dutch Gulch
placer claim three miles from Susan
VILE and 90 miles from Baker. II is
thought to be the largest nugget ever
found In the northwest.
The first apportionment made by
the state under laws passed by the
last legislature was received by Coun-
~ Treasurer Lewis. The apportion'
ment amounts to $i0,i7s.46 and 10 to
be used by the agricultural society
which has.charge OF the annual county
fair In Multnomah county.
Arguments were heard In tho su-
preme court In the suit brought by
L. II. McMahan. q Salem lawyer. to
Secretary OF State Olcott and
State Treasurer Kay from expendins
s45O.Oo0 appropriated by the iesisla'
ture for the reclamation OF lands In
the Columbia Southern project.
No longer will producers be able 70
market their fruits in Oregon under
labels. II the efforts OF
State Dairy and Food Commissioners
avails. This official has be-
gun action to eliminate this bad fea'
.ure of the trade In an effort to aid
he grower who puts up an honest
pack.
Lizzie Clark has brought suit at
Iillsboro against Hare a Giikersou.
,awmill men OF Manning. to recover
I15. 900 damages. The plaintiff 10
,ook, and complains that she Wa
,uried In the debris OF tree which
he defendants workmen feiied aoross
cookhouse which she occupied, She
.lleges that she was permanently dis
.bled, and may lose her syesisht ~
! result OF her Injuries.
To make a study Of the mineral -
ources OF Oregon and induce capital
o develop them. is the object os sni
,asssd by tho Legislature creating the
oregon Bureau of Mines and ossaogy.
nd the prediction is made that II VIII