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

the executive
More than 5000 books have beer
added to the public school libraries
of Linn county this week.
The second annual meeting OF the
Oregon County Assessors association
opened Tuesday In Portland.
Newberg celebrated the statewide
prohibition victory with. torchligh
procession and general jollification.
The programme for the Linn and
Benton counties joint annual teachers
institute, to be held at Corvallis No
vember %, "a and 25, has been issued
Oregon now has 35 counties. The
latest Is jefferson county, which was
carved out OF Crook county by the
voters Of that county in the cleo
ton.
Monday a special election was held
In Oregon City to vote on the pro.
posed amendment to the city charter,
changing the financial system Of the
city.
Practically the entire student body
Of the Oregon Agricultural college
turned out In a street denomination
in honor Of DIR. James Withycombe, 70.
publican --sovernor-elect. at Corvallis.
Unable to see to one side because
Of side curtains. John Steckley. a Linn
county farmer, ran his automobile into
q moving passenger train on the lie.
banon branch OF the s. p. but 90.
capped uninjured.
The yearly payroll Of the gypsum
mine In operation In Baker county is
ssSo.bse. according TO Labor Commis'
sioner Hoff. The place gives employ
ment to 20. operated ai2 days Of nine
hours each and produced lo.s2o tons.
Labor Commissioner Hoff, who Is
gathering data for his biennial report,
announces that the eight plants man.
ufacturing woolen goods In the state
we're valued at S1.o+5.0oo and that
they produce S1.s75.oo worth OF goods
annually.
An Appropriation for the establish
ment OF an experimental fertilizer
plant will In all probability be asked
from the legislature. according to
those interested ip the development
OF tho Five Mile power project near
The Dalles.
Following a quarrel on the county
road near Champoeg, John Schultz
hacked George Brown so severely with
a hatchet that Brown is more dead
than alive. Schultz 10 in the Marion
County Jail. Brown has small chance
TO recover.
Seven candidates are In the field
for the speakership OF the House OF
Representatives In the next legisla'
ture. They are Ben Selling, Il. v, Lit.
8. b. Huston ana Conrad p.
Olson. OF Portlandi Allen I. Eaton. OF
Eugene, Vernon A, Forbes. OF Bend.
aud William |. vawter, OF Medford.
IA no appropriation for the siuslaw
jetty was made by Congress In the
rivers and harbors bill. the question Of
selling the recent issue OF 100000
bonds and placing the same In the
hands OF the United States engineers
to continue work Is under considera-
tion.
The opening OF the Tumalo irriga-
ton project, first In the United States
TO be state financed, has been official. |
Iy announced. Seventeen thousand
five hundred acres are thrown open
10 entry under the terms of Carey act, |
n $40 an acre. The terms are one |
Ienth cash and the balance IN 10 |
years.
Credit for placing Multnomah coun-
" In the dry" column belongs to 23 |
precincts outside the city. The West
,ide went "wet" by a margin which the
East Side could not quite overcome.
,ut 23 precincts in the county rolled
ip enough dry" votes to make the
Inference and place Multnomah in
ne dry column Dy 3Sb.
Although twice as many measures
were issued at this elec-
ion as at the previous one, the cost
vas approximately sll less per page
md Secretary of State olcott has or.
lered refund of $500 of the money
for the cost OF publication.
rhe cost per page at the previous
Election was s45. and the cost for the
ecent election s34l3.
Sixty-three accidents. one of them
atal, were reported during the week
o Labor Commissioner Hoff. The
atal accident occurred near Glover.
'here J, W. Hooper was killed by a
rain Railroad accidents were tn.
most numerous, 10 persons being In
ured in the employment of the lines.
here were several accidents to EN-.
loyes of the lumber concerns, and