The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1916-02-10
OREGON NEWS NOTES
OF GENERAL INTEREST
Important Occurrences Of Past
Week Briefly Compiled for
Cur Readers.

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]. Dunn was named by Governor
withycombe as stock inspector for
Lincoln county.
Residents OF Corvallis are consider.
ing the erection OF new high school
to cost $4,000
Edwin Marshall Moore, one OF Rose
burg's earliest residents and its Oldest
citizen. is dead.
Veins OF coal have been discovered
at the base OF Mount Grizzly, six miles
east of Medford.
Fire completely destroyed the Lane
school building occupied by the Rose.
burg high school.
The Monmouth public and high
schools were closed on account OF n
case OF dlphtheria.
Mrs. Sarah Il. Bushnell. resident
of the Willamette valley for GO years.
is dead at Junction City.
The convention OF the oregon Cattle
and Horse Breeders at Baker has been
postponed 20 May 1 and 2.
Stockraisers In Curry county suf.
ferod severe losses on account OF the
unprecedented fall of snow.
The Union County Good Roads as.
sociation was organized at La Grande
with n substantial membership.
Feed Is scarce and hundreds OF head
Of sheep and cattle are reported dead
In Gillian and Wheeler counties.
The survey OF the permanent Pacific
highway through Douglas county will
be completed within the next two
weeks.
During January 4iG accidents we're
reported TO the state Industrial acct.
dent insurance commission. OF which
four were fatal.
Baker faces a water shortage. There
Ia barely enough for domestic pur.
poses and the supply at the reservoirs
has become low.
The Southern Pacific company In.
tends to spend In the neighborhood OF
$4,000 In improvements TO the rail
roud yards In Eugene.
Frank Sullivan and Philip Brooks
are planning the construction OF u
threestory hotel building at Bend dur
ing the coming summer.
AS the winter season advances and
the need for hay becomes greater the
scarcity has become more apparent
throughout eastern Oregon.
Fir logs have advanced 10 d basis Of
ST. $40 and Sl3 per 1000 feet, the high
est price commanded In the Columbia
river district for a long time
Linn county with but Sl2.O5S37 OF
tax delinquency representing 297
pieces Of property, claims the smallest
delinquent tax list In the state,
Oregons forest fire loss last year
was s29,lO9, as compared with Sl5,935
IN 1914, according 10 the flfth annual
report OF State Forester Elliott
The Lincoln day celebration at the
Hotel Mediord on February ~ prom
lses TO be the largest republican ban
quet ever held in southern Oregon.
William |, Vawter, attorney, bank
er, legislator and fraternalist. died at
Medford following an Illness OF sew
eral months. OF Bright's disease. aged
So years.
The Hood River county court has
appointed Mrs, Jessie NJ. Bishop 10 fill
out the uneXpired term OF her hus-
band. the late f. A. Bishop. as county
treasurer,
The first week OF the second semes-
ter of the Oregon normal school closed
with an increased enrolment of 81,
making a total enrolment since Sep
tember of 4Os.
Albany has been selected as the
place for holding the annual state
shoot of the Oregon State Trap-shoot-
ers association. May rs and Is have
been fixed as the da,os.
Mss. J. 4. Ilinkle, &C years old. a
native OF Marion county. was brutally
murdered IN her home at Salem, The
house was robbed and $50 IN money
taken by an unidentified assailant
Mrs. William +, Wallace has asked
the city OF Eugene to pay s7S0O dam
ages for the death OF her husband,
who was killed while feeding vi
cious deer at the Eugene city park.
Rev. James 4, Moore, pastor OF the
Methodist church at Springfield, has
Announced that a new edifice to cost
between $4,000 and $4,000 will be
erected for his congregation next sum
mer,
The steady showing of the past week
has piled up over 10 feet of snow in
the Green Point mountains near Hood
River. and settlers state that the deer
in the mountains are in helpless con
dition.
Multnomah county now has in its
DOssessiOn all of its assessment rolls