The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1914-08-06
BRIEF NEWS OF OREGON

Leaders of the republican, demo-
cratic and progressive parties In Ore
gon have agreed to leave the prohibi-
tion issue out of the campaign.
Action of the postal department In
rejecting tenders for carrying mails
in rural sections is resented by the
Coquille commercial club.
Big meeting representatives OF all
commercial interests in Portland and
Columbia river basin was heard at
Portland to unite In campaign Tor
rivers and harbors bill.
Refund will be ordered by the Ore
son railroad commission to passen'
ger who was made to pay more for
himself and mother-in-law than for
himself and wife.
There will be no delay In getting
action on the deed to the locks AZ
Oregon City, according to information
given Senator Lane by Assistant Sec.
retary Breckenridge.
Ray Carroll will be sentenced to life
Imprisonment for the murder Of John
zoller, marshal OF Gervais, a jury In
the circuit court having found him
guilty of murder in the second degree
at his third trial.
That loganberry juice, made from
the oregon loganberry, is going to
take prominent place alongside OF
grape Juice as beverage, Is the opin-
ion of +. A. Breck. who has organized
the Breck Fruit Juice company.
Fifteen thousand boxes OF peaches
in the vicinity OF Eugene and Junction
City is the estimate placed On this
crop By DR.. II. +. Mccormack, field
agent for the Eugene Frutigrowers'
association. who has spent = week
estimating the crop.
The United States department OF
agriculture has set apart $1,000 for
extension work In agriculture and
home economics in Oregon during the
next year. This amount may be In
creased TO $4,000. This allowance is
IN addition TO the $4,000 appropriated
10 Oregon under the Smith-Lever bill.
According TO census reports receiv'
ed by State Superintendent OF Public
instruction Churchill the school popu'
lation OF Tillamook. Harney. Coos,
Yamhiil. Wallowa. Baker and Clatsop
counties increased during the year
While In Hood River and Wasco coun'
ties II slightly decreased.
Nearly a score OF those who were
nominated at the May primary have
failed to file their expense accounts
with Secretary OF State olcott. and
he has sent notice TO all Of them that
their names will not appear on the
ballot until they furnish a statement
of their expenses.
The drought OF the hast six weeks
seriously affected the pear crop In the
Rogue river valley. Picking probably
will begin next week. Experts who
have looked over the valley fear there
will not be more than GO per cent OF
the 1913 harvest. The crop Is esti'
mated at 400 cars.
That willamette valley products
Will be well represented at the Pana'
ma-Pacific exposition was assured at
a meeting OF the willamette Valley
Exposition association at Salem. Mem
bers reported that much headway had
been made In their sections toward
exhibits and than the people
were deeply interested in making the
best showing possible.
Auto streetcars. the first TO be in
stalled In the west. are to be In oper'
alton in Pendleton before the opening
OF the Roundup. Two 25'passenger
cars already have been ordered and
are now being built in Portland. When
received they will run on regular
schedule about the city and to the
eastern Oregon hospital for The in
sane. Streetcar rates will be charged,
Ezra Meeker. OF Puyalhp, Wash,
pioneer of 1852, who has twice crossed
the plains by OK team, recently re-
tracing the Oregon trail" shipped
his OK and prairie schooner from
Springfield TO San Francisco, Mr.
Meeker also departed to take a posi-
tion under the Washington state com
mission at the Panama exposition. lie
is TO exhibit his outfit throughout the |
fair and assist in the publicity work.
Figures prepared by Corporation
Watson for his annual
report and just made public show that
his department is the greatest revenue |
producing arm OF the state govern
ment. The department was started |
June 8. 1913. and from that time until
May 81, 1914. the receipts totaled |
1921, 1896. From June TO June 80.
inclusive. the receipts were sSs, ,46S.4S.
a grand total of receipts for
he fiscal year ending June 80. $780,