The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1913-12-11
BRIEF NEWS OF OREGON

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high and each car carried 1900 trees.
The first carload of broomcorn ever
shipped out Of Josephine county went
to Ashland, where it will be manufac.
tured into brooms.
Petitions are being circulated at
Medford for the recall of Mayor Pur.
din and every member Of the city
council
Seventy-five citizens Of McMinn-
Vile. who have organized a military
company, are to be made part Of the
national guard by order Of Adjutant.
General Finer.
Citizens OF Grants Pass adopted res
olutions calling on the county court
to annul the 6-mill road tax levy as
to the city of Grants Pass, the object
being to save the city $4,000.
Thomas r. Sheridan, ex.president
Of the First National bank Of Rose
burg, was indicted by the Douglas
county grand Jury for obtaining money
by false pretenses. and for forgery.
| J. ID. Brown, of Arlington, has been
chosen to succeed Arthur V. Swift, G.
Baker, as president of the Oregon Ed.
ucational & Cooperative Union OF
| America.
Frank Brown, OF Carlton, has been
selected to aid in judging the short.
horn cattle at the international live
| .sA "a
is the largest in the show.
In the past season the government
has cruised 100000 acres Of timber
land in the reserves OF Oregon. The
work was done in mature belts, with
the view OF selling the timber to log
| ging companies.
Jackson county was not visited by
q single serious forest fire in the past
season, the protection costing about
half cent an acre for the timber
holdings outside the government re
serves.
A meeting Of 400 dairymen was held
at Forest Grove to discuss conditions
In general. DR.. James withycombe.
head OF the experimental station at
Corvallis. spoke OF breeding Of the
dairy herds.
President Wilson has granted par.
don to Harry Redford. convicted at
Portland last spring on charge OF
taking liquor into the Umatilla Indian
reservation and sentenced to 80 days
In Jail and to pay fine Of 500.
The petition OF the Klamath sports
mems association against the closing
Of sprague and Williamson rivers to
logging operations has reached Wash.
ington and been presented to Secre-
tary Lane by the Oregon delegation.
One hundred and ninety-four re
cruits In three months time is tn
record made by the Oregon national
guard In a campaign to fill up all
companies OF the guard to war
strength in the face OF the present
Mexican situation.
Samples OF the first sheet OF pulp
ever made from yellow fir. and this
from mill waste. have been received
by Governor West from c. A, Smith
OF the c. A. Smith Logging company.
which has built pulp mill In connee-
ton with the company's big plant at
Marshfield.
Poultry produces more wealth for
Oregon annually than does fruit. IL
produces half as much as wheat, three
times as much as wool. one and half
times as much as hops. so per cent as
much as hay, twice as much as oats. |
and per cent of the total agricultural
wealth OF the state.
j. II. Ackerman, president Of the
normal school at Monmouth, who
heads the western state teachers as
sociation. has prepared the program
for it's session at Salem December 22
to "a. The big event of the session |
will be the address OF DIR. M. o. O'Shea |
OF Wisconsin.
Deputy Sealer OF Weights and |
Measures Buchtel has been notified |
that In various parts OF the state
cords OF wood containing less than |
1928 cubic feet. the number required |
by law. are being sold, and has In
structed the county sealers to make
Investigations.
That State Senator McColloch has
no legal right to serve as attorney for |
the corporation department and the
state Industrial commission. was the |
statement made by Attorney-Gen |
Crawford. who. in an opinion, advised
State Treasurer Kay not to honor war
rants for $3.50 a month as remunera-
tion for Mr. McColloch's services.
Governor West has announced that
he will ask the next legislature TO
appropriate sS552.35. a deficiency in
the amount expended for the trans |
portation of Union and Confederate |