The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1914-07-30
BRIEF NEWS OF OREGON

Aaron Fox at Troutdale, securing
nearly $4,000 in money and jewelry.
The senate conference committee
agreed to recommend $4,000 for Cra-
ter Lake. Senator Chamberlain had
asked $4,000.
Earl Mccoy was sentenced to the
pcnitentiary at Oregon City for as.
sault with intent to rob +. M. Wood
cock OF Portland.
Joseph Buettgenbach died at Eu.
gene, carrying to the grave secrets Of
health for which he had refused large
sums Of money.
The president has appointed Fred
ID. Fisher Of Oregon consul general at
Mukden to be consul general at Tien
| Tsin.
The secretary OF agriculture informs
Senators Chamberlain and Lane the
department is investigating clover
pests in the Willamette valley recent.
ly complained Of.
From Lakeview comes the report
| that a tract Of Weyerhaeuser's finest
range, containing 1900 acres, and To-
Gated at Foster flat and Yamsey
Mountain, has been leased through
Curtis 4 Utley to William OKeefe.
Acting Secretary OF War Brecken.
ridge has assured Senator Lane that
there will be no unnecessary delay
in acting on the new deed to the ore.
gon City locks after II has been re-
ceived.
Bends new cooperative creamery In
now an established fact. After
months OF work. some discourage.
ments. many delays and most OF the
vicissitudes TO which such projects
are subjected. the new institution In
In operation.
Farmers OF the Blalock section have
organized a company for operating n
public warehouse at that place. Those
interested include J. A. Smith. George
Van Gassbeck, Wash Mckinney. II. s.
Mckinney. J. w. Long, Frank Baker,
and others.
Replying to appeals from fishing In
terests for reinstatement Of the ap.
preparation for protection OF Alaska
fisheries. Senator Chamberlain and
Senator Lane say the conference com.
mittee has agreed on $4,000. which
is considered sufficient for beginning
this work.
Representative Hawley had printed
In the congressional record In connec'
tion with the statement regarding the
fraudulent selling OF so-calied loca.
tions on forfeited railroad lands In
Oregon. reports from the Portland
press covering the trials for the In
formation OF congressman who are re-
ceiving Inquiries about the lands.
After conference with State
Health officer White. State Superin.
| tendent OF Public Instruction Church.
III announced that soon one boy In
every public school would be wearing
q badge not unlike that OF the average
policeman. lie will be the deputy
health officer OF the school and his
duties viii consist OF looking after
the sanitary conditions OF the school
he attends.
Lakeview adyices are that five car.
loads OF ore from the property OF the
Modoc mines company, al High Grade
are about 10 be dispatched to as many
smelters. This is the first concrete
evidence OF the recent strike made by
Manager n. Il, Guyot. and II is OF such
significance as the whole mining
world will await with interest the
news OF the returns per ton.
Plans to place the entire main line
OF the Southern Pacific in Oregon. and
possibly the electric lines. under the
block system are announced by VIII
liam Nichols, chairman OF the exam
lining board OF the Southern Pacific
company. The company now has 1l5
miles out OF its 34l miles of main line
i'm Oregon under the block signal sys-
tem, but II is scattered, having been
installed where the safety devices
have been most needed.
BY practically a unanimous vote at
the annual meeting OF the Hood River
Apple Growers Association, the mem
bers OF the organization adopted by
laws that will reyolutionize the meth
ods by which the affairs of the local
selling agency, an affiliated concern
OF the North Pacific Fruit Distribu-
tors, have been administered. The
vote was elimination OF action ta-
ken at a meeting In the latter part OF
May. when the bylaws were proposed.
Since that time the new rules and reg
ulations have been studied and dis
cussed at different meetings by the
growers. who adopted them.
Revealing a material falling off in