The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1914-11-19
BRIEF NEWS OF OReco

MAJ scnooi movement was held on
institutions grounds at Ashlana
Mayor Rice of Roseburg will p,o
that city with a rockpile this ",
where prisoners can be put to :,
More than a million trout =,
Eastern brook, rainbow and n
spotted varieties were released n
streams of Polk county last wool
Examinations for admissions
the army and navy will be held a,
Oregon agricultural college
month, army officers being in cha
Thomas II. West, of Portland
elected vice.president of the Am.,,
Institute of Banking at the elo,
session OF its twelfth annual ooO,
tion at Dallas. Tex
DR.. Virgil w. Knowles, chole.
pert of the government bureau
taken up the work at the Oregon A
cultural college for the purposs
Kidding hogs of the disease.
The official directory of the sch,
of Jackson county shows that
county has 1Ol schools and emnl
233 teachers. There are GSO6 child
of school age in the county.
Five bodies OF nine washed mh
at Newport and Gardiner from
steamer Francis II. Leggett have h,
identified and arrangements are be
made for their final disposition
The Modoc Point irrigation prof,
which will irrigate about $500 acres
land In the klamath Indian reser
tion, will be fully completed this /
according to Project Engineer H.
Hlncks.
A train load of cattle was ditch
on the Sumpter Valley railway, n,
the smelter. There were 235 ca,
In the wrecked cars, and all mira
lously escaped injury except one vii
had leg broken.
A verdict OF manslaughter was
turned by the jury In the Sprague n
der trial at Baker. Henry spns
was indicted for murder in the HI
degree for killing ID. Yamagama,
Japanese. living In Baker.
A second suit TO restrain the 81
railroad commission from exocut
It's order recently made TO inere
the passenger fares OF the United R
ways Company between Linnton I
Portland, was filed at Salem.
The government surveying pir
which Is conducting a state line en-
nation between Oregon and Cali
mia. have completed their work Ia
Waldo country and gone south throg
Ashland to strike east along the
In pursuance OF their work.
State Highway Commissions Do
by has announced that six miles d
link of the Pacific Highway, which
being constructed from the Gallon
line to Ashland. has been accepted
the state. There are seven more Mi
under process OF construction q
which will be completed In the u
future.
Two hundred delegates from !,
ganizations composing the 0res
Federation OF Women's Clubs '
meet In Eugene October II, 10, IA
10 TO formulate number Of b
which the women OF Oregon eip'
TO bring before the state leglslals
next year. This will be the lih
nual convention OF this organiiaii'
Announcement has been made
State Engineer John IL. Lewis .
II. X. Donnelly has gone TO Enterpn
to assist C. Il. Strickland In the y
vey OF Wallowa valley. and that
work will now be rushed. The sur'
will cover all irrigated lands. p0s
plants and reservoir sites on the VI
Iowa river. A controversy has ah''
over water rights on the stream, u
the purpose of the survey is to ss'
these.
According to a report submitls
the United States bureau Of educsu
by State Superintendent OF Pubic
str,Htion Churchill. the rural scho'
Of the state have been standardn'
during the last year; the indu'u'
fair work has grown until l2,ooo e.
dren are participating; more than =
Parent-Teachers' associations ~
been organized; a complete S'''
record has been adopted and rs'''
tion manual published.
The report of accidents for thsss,
issued by Labor COMMISSIONS n',
shows that two were fatally ns'S
while at work and 80 others mo"
less seriously hurt. ID. Brancs
killed in a mine accident at Oo'',
pia, and John Rassman came "
death as a result of injuries sus''s
while employed in logging Opera
at Vending. Twenty were n.y.
in saymills lumbar wards or IN