The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1916-02-24
OREGON NEWS NOTES
OF GENERAL INTEREST
Important Occurrences Of Past
Week Briefly Compiled for
Cur Readers.

Clatsop county plans to expend over
quarter Of a million dollars this year
on roads and bridges.
Myrtle Point has ordered a sewer
survey Of the entire city and proposes
to install It during 1916.
James H. Dunlap was run over and
instantly killed by a westbound freight
between Stanfield and Echo.
twenty-five per cent Of the s,O0O,.
600 fish at the Bonneville hatchery
were destroyed by the late storm.
The Dallas commercial club will
soon take up the project of obtaining
a Y. NJ. c. A. building for Dallas.
Ben Hendricksen, years old, killed
his sister, 3 years old, while they were
playing with revolver at Pendleton.
The Tribune building and the c. II.
/ Voegtly warehouse were destroyed by
/ fire at Burns The loss is about S14.-
600.
Governor Withycombe aud State
Treasurer Tom Kay spent Sunday in
Roseburg inspecting the Soldiers
Iope
The total enrolment at the oregon
Agricultural college is 1850, according
to figures given out at the registrars
office.
The steel bridge which spans the
John Day river at Cottonwood on the
Wasco. Condor road was destroyed by
an ice jam.
Governor Withycombe has granted
paroles to 10 men serving penitentiary
sentences. on recommendation Of the
parole board
About 200 Willamette valley grang
ers met in Portland Monday to attend
a conference on hogs at the Portland
Union stookyards
Nearly $4,000 was spent during
1915 by the United States Indian serv.
ice on the Umatlla Indian resorva.
tion. exclusive OF the school.
The report OF the chief OF police |
shows that all hobo records were bro. |
ken IN Corvallis last month, when 25S |
voorhees, men were taken In.
Organization OF an irrigation district .
90 embrace the Grimes Flat district. .
north OF Prlnoyille, has carried. The /
district will contain $1,000 acres.
II is estimated that the damage .
done TO Hood River orchards this win.
ter as the result OF the heavy SHOWS.
will aggregate approximately 100000, |
The Rogue River Canning company |
shipped two carloads OF canned goods
from Medford TO Dodge City, Kan. the
farthest east II has yet sent It's prod,
uct.
The 80 road supervisors OF Linn
county will meet with the county
court March for the purpose OF dis.
eussing road work for the coming
year,
Mrs, Myrtle Jones and mother, Mrs.
Anna Wilcox. were shot and killed by
William Doyle In Langells valley near
klamath Falls In dispute over a
lease.
Only 27 quarts OF liquor were ship.
ped into Umatilla county during the
first month OF prohibition according
10 returns made by the express com.
panies,
The appropriation for continuing
work at the mouth of the Columbia
river has been cut by the house river
and harbor committee from $2,lO4,OOO
to sl,2OO,OOO,
County judges who have been
chosen at any general election since
November, 1912, will hold office for
six years, Attorney General Brown
has declared.
The supreme court has upheld the
state loan shark law, which provides
that loan companies receiving more
than 10 per cent interest must secure
state licenses.
Tunnel No. on the willamette Pa
cific railroad at Alder Ridge. one Of
the last OF the nine tunnels on the
line between Eugene and Marshfield,
is nearing completion.
Jackson oounty's first poultry show,
Just concluded at Medford, has been
such a success that movement has
already been started to hold the next
state show in that city. -'''~-'
The contract for the construction
of the 100000 Suttles lake irrigation
project was awarded last week at
Grandyiew to Henry J, Kaiser com
pany, of Vancouver, b. C.
According TO figures just compiled,
the presen. county court of Klamath
county has reduced the Indebtedness
of the county a total of Sl24,67763
during the year just closed.
All fruits sold in the Roseburg mar
kets hereafter will be standardized,
according 20 an agreement between