The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1915-09-02

| Mormon Basin, Baker county, will
erect fine new school house.
Capt. Smith, of St. Johns, plans to
build a $4,000 river steamer.
Milwaukee carried $4,000 bond is
sue to extend city water system.
Medford Sun is working hard for
more irrigation and industries.
Albany Lumber Co. mill started
last week with crew of 20 men.
Bishop & Son of Pendleton have
purchased Washougal woolen mill.
Franchise has been granted United
Railways over Linnton-Portland road.
Nehalem is constructing a 200,-
OO0-gallon reservoir for water supply.
Present prospects indicate record
breaking crowd at Pendleton Round
I'm with larger number of fasteners.
The St. Helens Shipbuilding Co.
has contracts reaching far into next
year.
A stringent ordinance for the reg
ulation of jitneys is to be passed IN
Salem.
1t is reported that the Corvallis &
Eastern will electrify from Albany to
Corvallis.
The third dredge is to be installed
by the Powder River Gold Co. at
Sumpter.
The west half of Washington
street, Portland, will be paved with
bitulithic.
Hoppicking is now in full swing in
Oregon and thousands are being CIV
en- employment
Portland is still investigating the
s450,OOO increase in city expenses
during past year.
Going and Harvey Furniture Co.
will erect fine building on Broad
way in Marshfield.
Recall elections in several counties
prove little more than farces. They
increase public expenses and accom-
plish nothing.
Portland's municipal wood pile is
. still on it's hands but the city can
stand it as the taxpayer is always
ready to foot the bill.
The liner Rose City will be over
hauled in Portland and $50,000 spent
on new boilers making her one OF the
. best boats on the coast.
. Oregon Voter--When the employer
is making a profit employment Is
plentiful. Legislate the employer out
of his profit, and the army of the un-
/ employed fills the highways.
"The State Engineer boosts the
. neat marshes" is a story sent out
from a capital press bureau. All 1t
/ boosts is the 100000 or 100000 a
year that department costs the tax
payers.
The Oregon Lumber Co. of Hood
River, has completed 22OO-foot
: highline to move logs to its mills and
. has ITS men in the woods. The lum-
ber cut is used to build the Ogden and
Idaho electric.
Following on the heels of the new
Seaman's Bill which stops all Ameri-
can shipping to foreign ports by Its
drastic regulations, Japenese COM
pany has placed orders for six 1900
ton steamers to be built at once.
The Industrial Relations Commits
sion has published report CRITICS
ing most everything that has been
i, done in an industrial way during the
past 10 or Is years and making out
I that the general run of employers
are worse than slave-drivers. Like
most of these commissions, however
it can find lots of fault but can offel
no remedy as the members composing
| it are mere politicians who nevei
| maintained dollar payroll for any
body and in most cases are unable tc
manage a business of their own.
II In his speech at Portland, former
President Taft referred to Oregon
and Washington as sort of Nationa
laboratory to test all sorts of govern
mental investions." He charged the
two northwestern states to proceed
with their experiments under thu
watchful eyes Of their sister states o.
the East, which doubtless will fol
low those that by actual practice yol
find to be worthy Of permanent use.
"We will all get to the same place
anyway" he continued, "but maybe
nv different paths and by differen