The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1917-04-06
OREGON NEWS NOTES
or GENERAL INTEREST
Principal Events Of tho Week
Briefly Skeiched for Inior.
nation OF Our Readers.

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Portland has a population OF ?ss.
1ta. according TO Folks city directory
The first annual automobile show
Of Baker will open Thursday oven
ing, April 3,
Albany may have q policewoman %
give special attention TO children on
thu streets ., niEht
Coadon will hold itS fourth annual
race meet. beginning Monday. June
4. and continuing for five days.
Lin SinE. believed 10 be q member
NJ the lllp slng tong. was shot In
his room IN Astoris's Chinatown.
twenty-five cases Of ehlckcnpox
and mumps have been reported In
Amity and vicinity In the last month.
Thousands Of tons Of bAied alfalfa
hay are bcinE shipped from Echo 20
various points In eastern oregon and
Idaho.
The fourth annual convention of
the Oregon Cattle & lIoree breeders
Association. will be- held at La Granda
April 2t25.
Tho Girls National honor guard OF
Oregon will start Al once TO make
comfort bags for members Of the ore.
zen National guard.
The Southern oregon District Fed.
GRAFTON OF womens Clubs will con.
veue In Grants Pass for a ,hrcc'day
session. beginning April Il.
W. T. Carroll. who came 10 Oregon
In 1864 aud was deputy Sheriff In
Union county In early days. died In
Eugene nj the age OF 72 years,
Astoria will be headquarters for the
new revenue cutter just completed at
baltimore. which 10 TO replace the
Manning on the Pacific coast,
Many requests beinE received by tho
state highway department for bridge
designs indicate there will be much
bridge construction this season.
Tho Coos county cour, has turned
over TO the state highway department
the supervision OF the expenditure Of
the $780,. 900 county bond issue.
Women students OF the Oregon Az.
riculturai college who are registered
IN agriculture have organized the
Womea'a Agricultural association.
Major Carl Abrams has been pro.
NOTED 10 be iicutensntcolonel Of tho
Third Oregon. He will be succeeded
AZ major by Captain Daugh,ery. OF
Portland.
Canyon City. Grant county. looks
like old times. as the result OF a jump ,
In price OF chrome iron ore from 81
10 $?2 ton at Prairie City. the ship.
ping point
Officials OF the Southern Pacific arc ,
plans TO distribute all the |
'uel oil used by their locomotives In 4
Oregon from q depot 10 be established 1
~ Coos bay.
Forty pages win bo included In the
'leotor's pamphlet which will contain q
no measures 20 be voted on at tho v
peciai election IN June and the argu. {
nents thereon, q
The stock industry OF Grant county Il
, suffering the heaviest loss cx. Il
'arlcnced In the history OF the county, a
ccording to estimates OF forest ofiic.
RI and others. Il
The estimate OF the reproduction Q,
ost Of the lines OF the Pacific Telo. II
hone q Telegraph Company In Orc n
on, as prepared by the public service J,
10 si0,ss6,so3. al
Captain L. Il. Davis, who died at In
Icwport, was probably the last sur.
lvor OF tho colony OF Eugene people W
nat settled on South beach when the st
aquIna bay country was opened, III
Reclamation OF 95i acres OF rich bot. or
I'm land lying between the Columbia m
nd oregon sloughs in Multnomah er
)unty, involving an ultimate outlay M
approximately 100000, Ia sought co
AZ soon az weather will permit. tho
nlted States forest service will make nc
w tUau VNtt tuphh III
lns through the Wenaha national an
rest In Union and umatilla eoun. tic
ps. vi,
The setting OF the machinery OF or
10000 clay products plant at War. op
nton In motion has been delegated dl,
Governor Withycombc, and he will 90
rform that service on Saturday,
pril Z, we
A study OF the Douglas fir timber Of da
-egon with view OF preventing OF
tting and other defects In the trees is
II bo made by e. p. Meinecke. forest sci
thologlst OF the department OF az. the
culture. Law
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