The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1914-07-23
BRIEF NEWS OF OREGON

election has been held weak by Dis.
trict Attorney liljequist and another
election is advised.
Fletcher Linn of Portland will take
over the Union Furniture Manufactur-
Ing company of Albany.
Special election will be held at
Roseburg 70 pass on proposed issue
of 100000 bonds to aid in building
railroad from Roseburg to Mashfield.
Fishing Is good at Tillamook and
big run with fair prices is predicted.
State catalogue of the oregon agri-
cultural college has been printed and
is ready for binding.
j. f. Sugrue, manager Of the Cash
mere Fruit Growers association, says
Hood River growers will receive rec
ord yields providing more water can
be obtained for the growing crops.
The Bartlett pear crop of the Rogue
river valley is of good quality this
season and the output promises well.
Packing OF the new crop will start
within about two weeks.
The Eugene Fruit Growers associa.
tion Is finding ready market for
canned loganberries in the east and
carload shipments are being made. A
car was loaded this week
A favorable report was made to the
senate on the bill adopting the Ore.
gon box as the standard apple con.
tainer for the United States. A sim
liar bill Is now on the house calendar.
At Astoria the Luckenbach liner
Pleiades is loading $4,000 cases OF
salmon for New York. The shipment
is valued at $4,000. II is possible
that the vessel will 20 through the
Panama canal.
Secretary OF State Olcott is having
the affirmative arguments of the init.
iative measures prepared 80 that there
will be no delay In getting the work
OF printing started as soon as the
negative arguments have been filed.
The commission investigating In.
dian affairs has refused to sit further
with Senator Lane or allow expense
for him TO continue the inquiry, but
he In taking the matter up himself,
and says proof OF frauds Is being
proved from the records.
Eugene reports that bumper hay
crop will be harvested by local farm
ers this year, according TO reports
brought In by Lane county farmers.
Large amounts OF good quality hay
are being offered local produce deal
ers. the farmers asking $40 TO si2 per
ton delivered.
Linn county has about completed
the harvesting OF the largest hay crop
In the history OF the county. The hay
Is now cut and in the shock or stack
ed for the balers, with that for farm
consumption being rapidly placed in
the barns. The farmers are offering
good hay at So in the fields.
Called 10 care for n body, w. NJ.
Jones. OF the undertaking firm OF J, =.
Finley & Sons. OF Portland. discover.
ed a spark OF life In Mrs. Anna Woods,
GO years old. who lives most of the
time alone, and by his prompt restor-
atiye methods probably saved the wo'
mans life.
That the state board OF control may
at its next meeting fix scale OF
wages at the state institute OF the
feeble minded. whereby experienced
employees will be paid higher wages
than beginners, was announced at
Salem. The wage scale at present
is the same for experienced and in,
experienced employees,
Baker county's first lynching in
years occurred between Whitney and
Audrey, in the upper Burnt river
country when ~ grim and silent
masked men took from j. b. Hardman
an unidentified prisoner who had con
fessed to an attempted criminal at
tack on Hardman's eight-yearold
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tree in a canyon.
Secretary OF State Olcott has adj
vised w, a. shaffer, Of Medford thar
the secretary's office has nothing 10
do with policing the Pacific highway
or any highways OF the state or the
enforcement OF the laws thereon.
Shaffer requested information as 10
whether the secretary of state intend
ed TO place motorcycle policemen on
the Pacific highway through Jackson
county.
Standardization OF high schools was
vigorously indorsed by Assistant
State Superintendent e. f, Carlton at
the school conference in Eugene. Mr..
Carlton told of several counties in the
state where rural school standardiza-
tion was successfully inaugurated and
endeavored TO give several reasons
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