The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1916-12-22
OREGON NEWS NOTES
OF GENERAL INTEREST
Principal Events Of the Week
Briefly Skotched for intor-
nation Of Our Readers.

pendence has peeh oPc"e" wv
/, cost o. A. c. sss5 per football
man 10 maintain a team in the season
just passed.
The Oregon woolgrowcrs assocf
alton me, at Hcppner for the n'"e'
teenth annual session.
Dice games. punch boards rs''"'S
and card games for trade checks are
under fire in rendleton.
Indications are that there will be
hut little road.huilding in Polk county
during the COMING season.
The report of county superintendent
NJ /. Jackson shows that Linn county
has so5s children OF school age.
Wild dogs. or tame DOES running
wild. have killed 50 sheep belonging
10 p. A. Stewart, near Roseourg.
The Northern Pacific Rrcwins
plant. at Astoria, has been purchased
and win be converted into a milk con
densory.
The first Of the Willamette Valley
In,erscholastic debates will be held
ON Friday evening, December . at
Lebanon.
Twohy Bros. Of Portland, have re-
eeived an initial contract TO build zoe
freight cars for the Union Pacific
railway system
The National Mohair Growers asoci-
alton. in sixth annual convention at
Galveston elected U. S. Grant. Dallas,
or. president.
Rev. o. II. Holmes, Of Forest
Grove, has rendered his resignation
10 Governor withycombe as mem
her Of the state parole board.
In a duel in which at .erst eight
shots were fired. Salvatore Amato
was killed by his brother, Frank, IN
the Iatter's home in Portland,
Total resources of all the banks in
the state Of Oregon on November u
last we're s2o4.ass.s42.5l, an increase
as compared with November 10. 1915.
OF sss.ss4.2l5.s7.
Farmers Of southern klamath coun-
~ are beginning strenuous campaign
towards the determination OF jack
rabbits. which are becoming seri-
Gus pest in that section.
The contract was let last week Tor
the erection Of the government coast
guard building at the mouth OF the
Siuslaw river near Florence, to H. X.
KibIer OF Portland. His bid was
$3.50.
". d. Barnes OF Tumaio. a. u.
Macintosh OF Bend and L. z. smith
of Redmond have been appointed as
members Of the county court OF Des-
chutes county. created at the Novenn-
ber election
So great has been the demand Tor
flour in Grant county that the Prairie
City mill has been running "a hours
a day, seven days week and Is SO
far behind orders that a second mill
win be opened at John Day
The klamath irrigation project
stands second in the list OF % govern
ment projects now in operation for Its
cash value returns in crops this year
according to the annual report Of
Secretary Franklin X. Lane.
The total assessed valuation OF the
state for this rear, including property
assessed by county assessors and
that assessed by the state tax com
mission is ss7s.753.s44.71. as com
pared to 1894 ,4ss.Os225 for last year
One fatal accident was reported tc
the Industrial accident commission
during the past week, this being Fred
coombs, box factory worker, OF kia
matl Falls. A total Of 3o7 accidents
were reported for the week.
steps TO organize Willamette Val
lev Corn association with eight coun
ties represented. was a feature OF the
closing Of the Marion county corn
show and the exhibit OF the Marion
County Potato Growers association
ct Salem.
The Eugene chamber OF commerce
has sent r. Small, a San Francisco
manufacturer. samples OF flax grown
in Lane county for the purpose o.
testing 1t in the manufacture of fish
ermens twine This twine Is Dos
selling for s2.25 pc1nd,
The state tax levy for 1917 will bt
s2.eea.250. These figures we're arriv
ed at by the State Tax commission b,
taking the last years tax levy, srbit
rsrily adding per cent TO it, and 1eay
ing 1t up TO the legislature TO keeT
within the amount designated.
The famed MacRae ranch OF 5000
acres in Grant county, known as ont
or the most efficiently conducted cat
lie ranches in the west, has been sold
by its owner. Mrs. Lillian MacRae. to
C. p. Ragsdale of Joseph. The price
was 100000 and the deal was cash