The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1916-03-30
OREGON NEWS NOTES
OF GENERAL INTEREST
important Occurrences Of Past
Week Briefly Compiled for
Cur Readers.

citation was organized at Dayton.
The Changers OF Linn county plan
10 open a public market in Albany.
A $4,000 or $4,000 school build.
ing is TO be erected in the near future
At Hood River.
An agitation Is on in Morrow county
for the Improvement OF the Heppner.
Lexington road.
The Coos. Curry Cheese association
was formed at convention of factory
owners IN Coquile.
]. l.. Stockton, of Salem. president
OF the oregon Retail Merchants asso.
citation. has resigned.
"Oregona." White Leghorn hen
at the oregon agricultural college, has
laid her thousandth egg.
General resumption Of all the idle
lumber mills in Baker county is plan
ned within the next few weeks
AS the result OF mass meetings held
last week. q beet sugar factory 10
assured for Suthorlln next year.
One hundred dollars In prizes win
be given to the boy corn growers at
tho wasco county fair next September.
A contract has been closed for the
sale OF b0.0OO.O00 feet OF Coos bay
spruce lumber TO the Russian govern
ment
H. A. Ray aud George Half are re.
ported TO have discovered a ledge Of
sheelite tungsten threo miles north OF
Gold Hill.
Governor withycombe has issued a
proclamation designating the first
week In April Western Club Women
Consumers Week"
For the week ending March 10. lSs
accidents we're reported to tho state
Industrial accident commission. OF
which five were fatal.
Professor George Haskell Collier.
one OF the first members Of the faeul.
ty OF the University OF Oregon. died
at Eugene. aged SO years
Preliminary steps have been taken
by the state association OF county
judges and commissioners 10 revise
the road laws OF Oregon.
An organization TO be composed en-.
tirely OF attorneys and To bo known
as the oregon Naval Militia auxiliary
will be formed at Portland.
Stock holders OF the willamette
Valley Southern Railway company
have voted an increase OF 100000 in
the capital stock OF the company.
Cornelius Mowerson. a convict EN-.
ployed AZ the Oregon peniteDtiary as
a trusty teamstor. escaped while en-
ployed In work outside the prison.
The citizens OF Enterprise are dis.
cussing spending $4,000 for additions
TO its grade schools and the erection
OF commodious high school building.
Crazed from drinking alcohol. Oscar
Bridges aud oliver Riesbeck OF Salem.
engaged in n fight with beer bottle
and knife and both we're severely In.
jured.
State Engineer Lewis has directed
rough survey OF proposed state
road through McMlnnville. up Yamhiil
river and across the mountains TO TIL.
lamook.
A rich strike Of gold ore at the
Champion mine In the Bohemia dis
trict near Cottage Grove has been
made. The quartz assays about $4,000 |
per ton.
o. A. G. won second place In the |
northwestern wrestling championship /
by defeating Washington state college /
three bouts to two, in a meet held at
Corvallis.
State Engineer Lewis is trying TO
standardize the practice OF the state |
highway department with reference to
location. work and construction OF the
state roads.
Baker county Spanish War Veter-
ans are anxious 20 Join the United /
States troops in their invasion OF Mex
leo. There are about 100 veterans
In the county.
Mrs. Anna Booth. found guilty by a
Jury OF killing her husband, William
Booth. near Willamina, on October
last, was sentenced 10 life imprison-
ment at McMinnyille,
Arie Van Welt. ex-mansging dlrec-
tor OF the horticultural exhibit OF Hol-
land at the Panama exposition, has re-
moved TO Ashland, where he will en-
rage in the nursery business.
Five hundred acres OF burned-over
mountain land in Linn county will be
replanted by the government forest
service this summer. Work will be-
gin as soon as the snow in the noun
tains melts.
With the acquisition of 1900 feet of
on Young's bay, the ]. A. Nc
Eachern company, of Seattle and As
toria. has completed final details that
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