The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1916-11-17
OREGON NEWS NOTES
OF GENERAL INTEREST
important Occurrences OF Past
Week Briefly Compiled tor
- Our Readers.

The cry 81 ilVNu RIVER y tA'i"t
. serious nAtf,Ast y .uoi. because a
the car skoras&
The oregua naval miiiua = soou
90 ehange i,s name. Z WI BE- hiowa
as the naval volunteers
stephen 7. Msiher. assistant secre-
tary Of the interior. IN charge q na-
tional parks. was IN Portland this
weak.
The annual meeting % the oregon
state horticultural society vii he
held in Hood River December ~ u
aud Is
The division og Crook county seesas
10 have carried, rc.or, the question
can b dc,Sralned litigation WilI be
necessary.
A school structure 10 ooutsm 20
class rooms aud to cost $4,000 has
been approved ot b The Astoria board
Of education.
The annual conference of the tacul-
ties Of the independent colleges Of
orcsoa vii take place In Albany De
cember / aud ?
K. Il. Bone aged "a, died at Salem
from injuries received when he was
struck at street CROSSING by South.
ern Pacific train.
aIiss velma C. Davis vss elected
county recorder and AIRS Ida Maxwell
Cummings was elected county school
superintendent In Linn county
State Biologist William L. Finley is
making finsl plans for the publication
OF a general survey OF the wild life
OF Oregon. especially the birds.
For the week ending November 2,
a total OF 2sS accidents we're reported
to the state industrial accident com
mission. Of which five were fatal
As result OF the car shortage. the
clatsop Min at Astoria has been COM
PEELED to shut down temporarily. and
about 200 men are out OF employment
Postal receipts at the Portland post
office for the first 10 days of Noyem-
Der show an increase OF ss2o2.2S as
compared with the similar period Of
1915.
Bonds in the sum Of s1.5eo.0OO were
authorized by vote of 5s for aud 2s
against the, proposition by the land
owners OF the ochoco irrigation dis
trict- I
rF.hn hrff - 81, .toa,,.s .,b,o,ar We
hakeena was launched at Astoria last d,
week ndaanother member was added 4
to the Columbia rivers ocean-going /
fleet
The estimates OF che Hood River b
apple crop for 1916 have jumped from d
100000 boxes. pre-harvest figures, TO
! present total Of more than 100000 s
boxes. /.
4 rolling mill. with capacity Of Il
10000 tons of steel plate month, D
probably wll be added to the plant 4
il the Northwest steel company in D
Portland. Al
Incomplete returns from all couu- II
les or the first congressional district 81
i've w. c. Hawley q lead OF 20.237 II
otes over Mark weatherford. his
pponent r.
The gross earnings Of the Pullman i
ompany in Oregon for the year are il
laced al s4ii.s6s.SO. and the ex- %
enses Of operation in the state at en-
S2s. .704.02. te
The net operating income OF the ri,
umpter Valley Railroad company for RI
ae year ending June 30 was s4s.- IN
02.ss. an increase Of s32.s4356 over so
ie previous year. az
oregon's vegetable production for
1I6. as estimated by o. p. Hoff, state he
Dor commissioner. from statistics Vi,
altered BY employees OF hts office. AN
III equal s26 6.45o.542. ca
Steps are being taken TO organize ID,
state gide automobile association. ho
meeting was held Ia Portland Wed me-
'sday for the purpose Of forming a lac
ellminary organization WI
has been completed at atl
. site of the Pacific Chemical com fec
ny's project at Summer and Albert pa,
xes and the task Of rebuilding the ~
m is about half completed. !
Sixteen leading officials Of nine END
-ge Pacific coast cement companies CO,
ye been indicted by the federal cor
md jury at Portland on charges Of is
a trust In restraint Of 1911
de. shi
William E. Newell. assistant post 5s.1
ster at Grants Pass. was fined fraj
i1.s4 and was sentenced to six aga
nths Ii the county jail for embez- ss.s
lg funds from the Grants Pass post $40
ce no
udge John S. Coke Of the circuit anti
RI decided that the Sunday closing on.
nance OF Eugene prohibiting the day
,s from operating on Sunday is no
in eoniravention OF the state Sun ers'
Iaw. 47s.
be largest deal ever made in the prol
hborhooa of Weston was consum- mai
ID when hey Winn became the anne