The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1914-03-12
BRIEF NEWS OF OREGON

bia river.
State Bank Superintendent Sargent
has issued q certificate to the First
National Bank of Umatilla to do bust
ness.
A new armory is to be built by Multi
nomah county for the oregon national
guard.
Astoria's rainfall last month amount
cd TO sos inches. The total was 3.7l
inches less than that of the record
of the same month In previous years.
State Treasurer Kay has received
$4,000 from the treasurer Of Baker
county, which is the first to make a
payment this year on the first half oil
taxes.
East side lines of the Southern Pa.
cific announce five hour train serv.
ice between Springfield and Portland.
The exact date for beginning the i'm
proved service has not been given out.
The Lake county court has appro-
priated s25OO for use in reducing the
grade at Millican hill, on the McKen.
zie Pass road. The forestry depart.
ment will furnish $4,000.
State Senator J. ". Burgess os Pen.
dleton sold 26O0O pounds of wool at
13 cents pound. an advance OF cent
over the price received last year This
liz the first sale OF the season reported
from that section.
The Tillamook Bay Construction
company has been awarded the con
tract for the construction of the first
unit OF Bay City's proposed municipal
dock, for si5OO. Work will be com.
menced at once.
a plan IL on foot to divide Lane
county. Glenada, Mapleton and Flor.
ence citizens have named delegates to
plan a program. One reason for the
desired change is the impossible con.
dition OF some OF the roads. II is said.
Banks OF Medford are offering to
take all warrants issued In Jackson
county. ~ par. The work OF bolster
ing up the credit of the county has
been going on for some time, aud
with excellent results.
Irvine Acheson won the prohibition
oratorical contest OF Albany College
and will represent Albany In the In.
tercollegiate prohibition oratorlcal
contest OF Oregon next month. Ache.
son spoke on The Lesson From the
Past and the Present"
Attorney General Crawford. In an
opinion written at the request OF I. J.
Thrift. assessor OF Coos county, holds
that uncultiyated land OF the same
character and quality Of contiguous
cultivated land should be assessed at
the same value for taxation.
Evangelist Bulgin called on Cover
nor West TO send troops to clean up"
Pendleton, lie asserts that grafters
are active with the saloon and gamb.
ling interests. and that the city attor
ney refuses TO act on evidence that
has been furnished him,
\ new treatment for tuberculosis h
boiug tried by Dr, d. VI. Brown and
hi associates. says u report from
Ashland Fish, preferably the salmon.
ale subject to hypodermic injections
Of iodine, thus iodiEing the blood Of
the fish. from which the serum Is
formed
Mrs Anna Rehecca Stewart. pio'
neer OF three different states and n
resident OF Albany continuously for al
most half century, celebrated her
93d birthday AT her home In Albany.
She was resident OF Illinois, Iowa
and Oregon In the pioneer days OF
each state.
Twenty acres of land on the foot
hills overlooking South Portland and
valued al SlOO,OOO, has just been do
mated to the state of Oregon as cam
pus for the medical department of the
University of Oregon by the Oregon.
Washington Railroad A Navigation
company
r, T.. McMeaus. for the past two
years agent az CopperfieId, the scene
OF Governor Nests recent cleanup,
following a permit 10y the state rNl
road commission 10 close the staN
has left town The depot is boarded
up, the equipment is gone, and Cop
perfield is now only flag station.
Giving as his slogan, "Government
ownership of public mouopolies, Ore
gon resources tor Oregon laws for
the people" Representative Latferty.
OF the Third Congressional District
has filed his declaration as a candl-
date for the republican nomination for
reelection with Secretary of State Oh,
colt
The state board of control was noti-
fled by superintendent Steiner OF the
state insane asylum, that Pegr Jones