The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1914-01-15
GRIEF NEWS OF OREGON


Wilson returns to Washington.
Investigations at Copperfield dis
close the fact that youths were able
to get liquor from local saloons, and
that gambling was run wide open.
A. NJ Crawford, now serving his
twelfth year as Attorney-General of
Oregon, has formally announced him.
self as a candidate for the republican
nomination for governor
Grant B. Dimick of Oregon City has
announced formally that he will seek
the republican nomination for cover.
nor of Oregon at the primary next
May.
Marshfield and North Bend, which
protested against the delay OF the new
dredge Niche at the Columbia bar,
are promised II shall proceed to Coos
Bay as soon as II is given a satisfac-
tory working trial.
The organization committee OF the
federal reserve banking plan will
meet I'm Portland in February to ex.
anime this district as a possible point
in which to establish regional re-
serve bank.
Salmon packers have protested to
Senator Chamberlain against pro.
vision in the bill introduced by Repre-.
sentative Lafferty requiring labels on
canned salmon 10 show the date Of
packing
Governor West has been notified by
the department of the Interior that
bis suggestion that the state and fed
erul government buy and complete the
North Cana, r:ca.eac, ,r.c.ec, g. the Central
Oregon Irrigation company, had been
forwarded TO the reclamation service.
one hundred and ten Indians on
the Klamath reservation have signed
and forwarded to the secretary OF the
interior u petition asking him to re.
soind the order closing Williamson
and Sprague rivers to logging opera
tions
The Alaska Fishermen's association
IN urging the retention of the division
OF Alaska fisheries, practically abol'
ished by the secretary OF commerce
In his estimates. The Portland cham
Der of commerce has telegraphed Sen.
ator Chamberlain TO the same effect.
The Astoria National bank has been
designated ms n government deposl'
tory. Funds OF the war department
for defraying expenses at the forts
about the mouth OF the Columbia will
be deposited NJ the bank when the
required bonds are filed.
The Albany commercial club has
requested the Oregon delegation 10
drop all plans for the Improvement OF
the willamette river excepting the
one establishing three and half
foot channel between Oregon City and
Corvallis.
That the farmers OF the Pacific
coaat are annually spending $4,000, 600
unnecessarily for grain bags, and that
the farmers of no other part OF the
United States are 80 foolish. was the
statement made to the graingrowers
of umatilla county In convention at
Pendleton.
Representative Hawley has taken
up with the agricultural department
the establishment OF an animal quar-
antne station at Portland. II the mat
ter receives favorable consideration,
Mr. llawlry will ask congress for AN
appropriation to establish and main
tain such station,
Declaring that the evidence In the
cases of Mrs Efne Creswell and Stel.
Ia Morgan, inmates OF the state indus.
trial school for girls, convicted In his
court OF attempting to poison the 9th
or inmates and attaches, warranted a
thorough Investigation, Circuit Judge
Clceton rcconycned the grand jury
aud ordered it to make thorough in
vestigation OF the institution,
For the protection OF local mer-
chants the state railroad commission
has announced that the practice OF
certain travelling statesmen OF deliver
ing goods from trunks checked as bag
gage is not lawful, The decision was
rendered at the request of Joseph Si'
mon. of Portland, who desired a con
struction of the law and an order from
the commission,
That the enfranchisement OF women
and the organization OF the progress
siye party will be expensive TO the
state through the printing OF election
matter is the announcement made by
Secretary Plimpton, OF the printing
board lie states that three and one
half tons OF paper are necessary for
tally sheets alone at the coming pri'
mary, whereas heretofore two-and one
half tons had been sufficient.
The mines OF Oregon made a some