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.

died suddenly Of heart failure at Yon-
calla.
Edwin @. Smith, who built the first
house In Grants Pass, died there Mon
day. aged 50.
The queen for the 1915 rose festival
at Portland will be chosen from the
state OF Oregon.
A two-story brick building Is to be
erected at MoMinnville for the w. o.
W. lodge OF that city.
The senate has confirmed the nom
ination OF Victor q. CoHad as register
of the Burns land office.
The northwest district convention OF
the Christian church will be held In
ST Johns March 2i to 20.
The Sumpter Valley railway will
build 80 miles from Dixie to tap the
rich timber belt In southeastern Grant
county.
William Wallace Hawley, early day
miner OF Oregon. Washington and Ida
no. diod at his home In Corvallis OF
heart disease.
The annual United States military
inspection OF the Oregon agricultural
college cadet regiment will be held
this year on May is.
According to Secretary OF State Oh
colt. over 5000 moro automobiles have
been registered to date in 1915 than In
the same period In 1915.
Forty.four delegates from the vari-
ous farmers locals OF wAsoo county
met at Boyd and unanimously indors-
cd the bulk handling Of grain.
BY vote OF iS4 20 i27 the people
of the Roseburg school district have
decided TO issue ,75.ooo bonds TO erect
q modern high school building.
Despondsnt on account OF Ill-hoaith.
Bert Fisher. OF Wilbur. committed sui
eide by shooting himself in the head.
The youth was ~ years OF age.
Rapid progress IL being made with
the construction OF the sugar factory
being erected by the oregon-utah
Sugar company at Grants Pass.
Walter l.. Meyers. OF the university
OF Oregon. won first place. In the an
nual contest OF the intercollegiate Ora
torieai association OF Oregon. at Mon
mouth.
According 10 the annual report OF
DIR. W. II. Lytlo. secretary OF the state
livestock sanitary board. the expendi.
lures OF the board for last year totaled
s20.i00.2L
To famlliarize children In game laws
OF the state. a course OF instruction
will start In the public schools OF
Baker and Grant counties the last OF
this month
The foundation has been laid for
new factory building at Hood Rive
for w. A. sehaffner and A. y. Adam.
who will engage In the preparation OF
oandiod fruits.
Douglas county has appropriated
$4,000 for tho improvement OF the era.
ter Lake road on condition that the
United States forest service contrib
utes like amount
Mrs. Anna Booth was found guilty
of murder In the second degree at
McMinnville for killing her husband.
the late William Booth. near Villa
nina. last October.
The Greater Medford club. CONNER.
cial club and Merchants association.
have Joined in a movement to raise
$1,000 TO insure an up-to-date band in
the city during 1916.
Ground was broken at Pendleton for
the construction OF workshop for the
Blewett Harvester company and II is
announced that the plant will be
moved from Spokane.
With the going OF snow and the
coming OF warm weather. farmers all
over central Oregon are looking for
ward TO one OF the best years they
have ever experienced
Pacific university won the state non
conference college championship when
its varsity basketball team defeated
McMinnville college by the score OF
32 TO ~ at Forest Grove.
The Eugene Fruit Growers associa-
tion has turned down orders for car
loads of evergreen blackberries be-
cause of scarcity. according TO ]. M.
Holt, the association manager.
T. L. Dillon. mining man OF Hugo,
was killed. and George Barrett was
injured when an automobile In which
they we're riding was struck by an
extra Southern Pacific freight train.
Preparatory to constructing jetty
on the north spit of the Umpqua river.
the port OF Umpqua commissioners
have passed an ordinance providing
for the Issuance of 100000 in bonds.
AS a result Of The appearance of
another case Of smallpox. making five
I'm all. at the state prison, the quar-