The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1914-04-09
BRIEF NEWS OF OREGON

| htSo man VI OiVbOh ShNyS Nuo ms
taken for a deer near Trail and was
shot and killed.
The senate, after bitter fight con.
firmed the nomination of Frank Nc.
Manamy of Portland to be chief in.
spector of locomotive boilers for the
interstate commerce commission.
Governor West has honored a requi.
siton for the return to Kankakee, ILL.,,
Of Samuel Perlin, accused of operat.
ing a confidence game
A vinegar plant with an annual ca.
pacity of 10000 gallons, began opera
tion at the Eugene Fruit Growers as
sociation cannery, turning to q profit
Gull apples that heretofore have been
entirely wasted.
Fifty Roseburg merchants have
formed company, known as the
Roseburg Stamp company, incorporat.
ed, the purpose being to conduct trad
Ing stamp business to meet the com.
petition of foreign trading stamps.
Senator Chamberlain will endeavor
to induce the war department to with.
draw the plan of having Sand island
ceded to Oregon. The senator held a
conference with Major McIndoe, who
is now in Washington.
Senator Lane has been advised by
the commissioner of the general lane
office that survey has been complet
| cd and accepted of three townships In
Lake county, which will permit tho
opening of these lands for entry about
the last week In November
with apparently not the slightest
fear, but protesting their innocence
to the last, Mike Spanos and Frank
Seymour, slayers OF George Dedaska.
lou OF Medford, went 10 their deaths
calmly On the scaffold at the state
pcnitentlary.
Representative Hawley has been nd.
vised by architects of the treasury de.
partmont that plans for the new fed.
eral building at Medford have about
reached completion, and that this
building will soon be ready TO submit
for bids.
Senator Lane saved II. +. Ferry, a
doorkecper at the government print
Ing office. his Job. The man had been
dismissed for showing the presidents
wife through the offices without first
bringing her direct to Public Printer
Ford.
The Parellus Manufacturing CON.
pany OF Portland, which has the con.
tract for the interior furnishings OF
the new supreme court building at
Salem, has been notined by Labor
Commissioner Hoff that Il must not
work It's employees more than eight
hours a day.
Superintendent OF Public Instruc'
tion Churchill has announced that tho
thirteenth annual convention OF the
Oregon State Teachers association.
Eastern division, TO be held In La
Grande. November "a 20 and 20. will
be the most important IN the history
OF the division.
Senator Lane Is preparing bill
directing the grant OF 100000 acres Of
public land to the state OF Oregon.
the same 20 be sold at no less than 81
hn acre. and the proceeds applied TO
construction OF public roads. He will
probably frame the bill giving Califor
uia and Washington similar grants.
Senator Chamberlain has introduced
bill granting Oregon 42S9 acres Of
swamp lands In townships 81, SS
south. range 10 east, willamette me-
ridlan, heretofore considered Indian
lands. lie has also introduced a bill
authorizing preliminary examination
and survey OF the mouth OF the Ump'
qua river.
A hay shortage threatens Wallowa
county before spring. Diversified
farming has led 10 the production Of
slightly less hay in the southern part
Of the county than In the old days,
before the railroad came. Now stock
feeding is developing on consider
able scale, and all the hay available
will be needed for this purpose,
l.. l.. Haines, a rancher OF Eckley,
Curry county, was shot fatally by his
brother in law, Hugh Hampton
Haines. who is unmarried and about
40 years old. has shown signs OF in
sanity. He attacked a sister at one
time, beating her severely, and this ia
presumed 10 have caused the shoot
ing.