The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1914-09-17

Bay City will grade and hard sur
face "a blocks of street.
Nyssa sent out band of 500 hor.
ses for government mounts.
A Goes county official cruise shows
1S927,S56,000 feet of timber.
New Plymouth has a $14, 900 high
school with modern equipment.
La Grande Elks have awarded con-
tract for a $4,000 Elk's lodge.
Burns has voted a 100000 bond
issue to improve sewer and water
system.
The Sunnp-Mont Ranch Co.. is de-
veloping 2676 acres of land near
Monroe.
North Pacific Fruit Growers Assn.
shipped 1888 cars of fruit from Ore
gon this season.
Jones & Lewis are installing new
monument plant near the l. o. 0. F..
cemetery at Salem.
DR.. D. E. Biggs has ordered plans
for two-story concrete building 70
100 feet at Bandon.
The c. A. Smith pulp mills at
Marshfeld are to start grinding soon
for the Japan paper mills.
The Bandon Recorder is author
ity for saying that the Willamette
Pacific will reach Bandon next year.
On the $500 exemption Witty
combe and Gill are opposed, U'Ren
favors and Smith is noncommittai
The eight hour minimum wage law
is held responsible for shutting up
the Hood River cannery after short
run.
Astoria is to have the largest wire
less telegraph station on the Pacific
Coast, on the south side of Young's
Bay.
Work has begun on the founda-
tions of the Eugene armory. Con-
tract for the building will be let in
two weeks.
The Klees Electric Co. of Sum-
merville is extending it's light and
power system into the Grande
Rounde Valley.
1t is announced that eight Gamer
les viii operate on the lower Colum-
bia Most of the cold storage plants |
will also operate.
If the proposed eight hour law |
should pass it would mean a sweep |
ing reduction in the daily wage of |
most classes of labor.
Thos. F. Barlee in four months
time took 500 from a ledge he
worked near the head waters of the |
Skies river in Curry county.
By cooperation of the Sheriff's Of
flee and extra police the threats of
in the hop yards by l.
w. WIS did not materialize.
Petitions to the taxpayers of Nal
heur county are being circulated for
purpose of voting a $4,000 bond is
sue for a bridge to cross the Snake
river.
The Eugene Guard says that the
$500 tax exemption if it is passed
will add 5 to SO per cent to the tax
upon land and tend to keep people
away from the farms.
Every unnecessary initiative law
enacted by the people that interiors
with industries lessons chances of
and keeps capital out of
Oregon.-The Manufacturer.
The Portland city council has au-
.horized the purchase of 32 acres for
$4,000 near Troutdale for a detention
lone for women. $1,000 in addition
Will be spent in buildings and i'm
The Booth-kelly Lumber Co., of
eugene, has been granted permission
" the government to build a logging
abroad over a quarter section Of
oregon and California Land Grant
n Lane county.
The town of Alvadore on the P Z.
E. Ry. has a new church, can
lery and other buildings under con-
truction and just voted a three mill .
ak to construct the finest rural
chool house in Lane county. .
Lawyers assert that the proposed
ight-hour law, if passed, would be
eld unconstitutional on the grounds
hat it conflicts with federal regula-
ions in railroad requirements and !
he severity of the penalties provid
d.
The Washington News Bureau of
he Oregonian states that railroads +;
the country are now turning de- ]
cits into net profits after the some
hat favorable suggestions of the /
lterstate Commerce Commission but
lasmuch as this is being done at the /;
Spense of service and equipment it
doubtful whether other methods /
Ill not be more welcome. Probably
ne of the results will eventually be !
lie cessation of hostile legislation.
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