The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1914-05-21
BRIEF NEWS OF OREGON

Of 73h to 57h.
Pacific University defeated the Uni
versity OF Puget Sound in the annual
debate at Forest Grove by unani.
nous decision of the judges.
Between 5000 and 1000 Lane county
school children and their parents par
ticipated in the educational rally day
exercises in Eugene Sunday.
Union will be the magnet for hun
dreds when the sixth annual Union
Livestock show will be held In that
city June 4, s and 9. There will be
races and band concerts.
The girls Of the 1914 graduating
class of the La Grande public schools
are establishing precedent in that
the expensive graduation dress cost
is to be limited to s5.
After an inspection Of the hopyards
Of Salem. Louis Lachmund. dealer In
hops, said that the 1914 crop would
be from 20 to 25 per cent less than
last years crop.
The contest by the forest service
against Hercules Santoine, now In
Portland, for homestead In Joseph
Inc county. has been settled in favor
of Santoine
Representative Hawley has applied
to the board of engineers for permis-
sion TO extend the wharf at Port Or
ford, damaged by rough weather. The
board will make an investigation be-
fore announcing its decision.
DR.. withycombe received 760 out OF
n total OF S73 votes cast for all candi.
dates for governor In the city OF Cor
wallis. lie received In is precincts
heard from out OF the 22 In Benton
county 944 votes OF 1879 votes cast
for all candidates for governor.
Senator Chamberlain has introduced
a bill amending the act to authorize
construction OF dixie on olalla slough
authorizing the construction on foun'
datlons already laid or farther up the
stream OF dixie with a gate for pur-
poses of navigation. the plans 10 bo
approved by the secretary OF war
Tho Indian appropriation bill. re.
ported TO the senate. contains the fol-
lowing Oregon amendments: Appro'
priation OF 100000 to purchase live
stock, farm implements, seed. etc, TO
enable Warm Springs Indians TO be-
come seli.supporting. Fifteen thou
sand dollars for an addition to the as
sembly hall at the Chemnwa school.
An offer OF $4,000 was refused by
Mrs. Mella G. Brown. Eugene woman
inventor for the patent obtained three
weeks ago on sanitary milk cap. The
offer came from Denver capitalists,
She is preparing to place the article
on the market. Instead OF slipping
into the top OF the milk bottle. the cap
is convex In shape and slips over the
top.
The Pender murder case, famous In
Columbia county for It's two long trials
Is soon TO be argued again, this time /,
before the supreme court. Ponder. on
a second trial, was found guilty at 81.
Hclens last January OF killing Mrs. |
Daisy Wehrman and her infant child. |
and was sentenced 10 be hanged in |
March. when an appeal stayed execu'
ton.
The postoffice nj Amity was robbed |
Friday night. The robbers entered by |
means OF skeleton keys, The safe was
opened by nitro glycerine, the charge
used being heavy enough TO blow the |
safe to pieces and to move the front |
wall OF the building. which is frame
one. outward two inches. The robbers !
secured about SlOO in money. but left
other valuables. including stamps and !
registered letters. untouched,
Between $4,000 and 10000 acres of
land located in Grant, umatilla, Baker
and WalloWa counties have been des-
iGnated by the federal government as
subject TO entry under the enlarged
homestead act, All of this land is, or
is supposed TO be, OF semi-arld charac,
ter, non'mineral and containing no
timber Il will be subject 10 entry
June l of this year, where vacant and
public.
Out for the purpose of fighting state
wide prohibition, as a matter of pro.
lection to the hop industry. represen-
Atiye hopgrowers of the Willamettel
valley met at Salem and perfected the
organization OF the Hopgrowers' and
Dealers association of Oregon. Be
sides making the temporary organiza-
tion permanent, the hopmen elected
a vice president for each of the hop
counties, and in those coun-
ties a county organization will be ef-
fected for the purpose of localizing
the efforts of the association.
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