The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1914-02-05
BRIEF NEWS OF OREGON

| lO raise StUDV lOI use III
activities Of the club for the ensuing
year.
Representative Lafferty has intro
duced Senator Chamberlain's bill ap-
propriating s2,5o0,OOO for a drydock
on the Columbia river.
The First National bank OF Tilla-
nook and the H,ii isboro National bank
have applied for membership in the
now federal banking system.
The onion crop In the Sherwood dis.
trict this year will net the growers
more than $4,000 and the return from
hops will be S150000.
An oregon man sent the treasury
department 25 cents conscience mon
ey" to repay the government for use
of a cancelled three.cent postage
stamp 40 years ago.
Deputy state Treasurer Ryan esti.
mates that s1,OOO,OOO in unpaid war
rants will be outstanding when the
taxes for the year become available
in April
Preliminary arrangements have
been made for ranchers' junket early
In March from Medford to North Yaki.
ma. Wenatchee. Hood River and other
orchard centers in the northwest.
The report on the practicability Of
creating great power site at The
Dalles will be ready for the next ses.
sion of the Oregon Legislature accord
ing to State Engineer Lewis. \ prof.
ect engineer will be selected.
Representative IIawley has intro.
duced bill authorizing the use of
the revenues OF Crater Lake National
park In defraying the cost Of the park
management and for improving roads
and trails within the park
Corporation Commissioner Watson
has cancelled the permits to do bust.
ness In this state OF the Investors
Building a Trust company and the
State Deposit 4 Mortgage company
of Portland
Oregon viii get $4,000 less from
the Indian appropriation bill than was
recommended by Secretary OF the In.
terror Lane In his report OF December
|. The appropriation Of $4,000 for
the addition to the assembly hall, che
mawa school. was included In the cut,
The war department informs Sena'
tor Chamberlain that army transports
are limited by law to carrying persons
connected with the federal or insular
service and cannot be rented for the
transportation OF agricultural college
cadets to the Panama exposition,
The bill of Senator Lane amending
existing law requiring vessels bound
for Portland to stop ~ Astoria, was
fayorably reported by the commerce
committee. The law providing for the
stop ~ Astoria Is obsolete and nm ob. |
s,uction TO commerce. II II pointed |
oit
SO weak that he could not raise his |
gun To shoot himself with the bullet
he had sayed for his self destruction
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lastahl OF Nchalom was found in the
woods some miles from Nernonia by b
n party that had been searching for
him,
The secretary OF the navy does not
believe In II. and he says so fearless,
ly, but he has just allowed an Oregon
man TO resign from the navy, This
was special case, however, and Il
seemed proper TO let the young man
have an opportunity to make fair
living for his family,
Secretary Lane has allotted s23.
$50, 600 To carry ON work under the
reclamation law this year, and OF this
total, Oregon receives Sl,22O 1855. This
big allotment exhausts all moneys now
available FOR government irrigation
work, including the full S9O,OO0,OOO
lent by congress several years ago,
but heretofore untouched
Portland has ag unemployed prob
lem, II does not amount TO an emer,
gency and i, is not so acute as in
most other cities throughout the coun
try. solution is, however, rendered
more difficult by the closing of the
city rockpile. No adequate plan has
been made by any agency TO handle
HE situation. There are. according
.o estimates, 1000 TO 5000 men there
" no have no work
Instructions 10 institute criminal
against all the commits
sion merchants doing business in this
state without complying with the law
by the last legislature regu,
ating theis business have been sent
put by the state railroad commission
10 10 district attorneys in the state
IN the counties of Multnomah, Marion,
'matilla, Josephine, Clatsop. Wasco
linn, Baker, jackson and Lane Only
lne association or firm in the state