The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1917-08-17
OREGON NEWS NOTES
OF GENERAL INTEREST
Principal Events Of the Week
Briefly Sketched for Infor-
nation OF Our Readers.

~ NuAhl VI stua F'Nhth" ffNshN"
Lake during the month OF July
Since January !. this year, i3.s6s
), automobiles have been registered In
oregon.
Corvallis has had n building growth
this spring and summer that will to,ai
100000,
X. Yokota, . Japanese ranch hand.
was fatally hurt In u runaway accident
At Hood River,
Oregon has an automobile to every
~ people. according 10 figures com
piled m TO August !.
Yamhill county farmers are ihreHh.
ing . wheat crop that Ia averaging
twothirds OF normal
The Oregon Agricultural college has
been rated by the war department rs
OF distinguished rank"
John whitaker. = resident ri Benton
county since 1853. died at hiH home Ia
Corvallis At the aEe OF ~ years,
During tho fret sir months OF the
present year Multnomah connly has
expended s240.sis on highways.
Excepting in n few favored localities.
young birds are declared minus guam
tity in central oregon this year by
saEehcn hunters,
No award haa been made by tho
Port Of Astoria for machinery for the
new 1000. .o00.b .bushel srain bins, Only
ono bid was received
Freda. i2ycarold daughter Of Poo
Latollette Of Cotton. was thrown from
q RIG aud instantly killed In a runaway
accident near Prineyilic.
The state highway commission has
entered upon n new method OF con
slrueuon BY Agreeing 10 pay oontrae'
tors actual cost, plus Is pcr cent profit.
Since the organization OF the state
Industrial accident commission, Nov.
ernber 6. 1914. ?s.s52 accidents have
been reported. OF which 24a we're fatal.
John McCurdy. ~ years old. was In
stantiy killed at Beaver Greek ranch
near Baker when the roof Of u grannry
which he was tearing down collanaod.
The pastoral conference Of the Ore
Kon and Washington dlstrict of tho
evangelical Lutheran synod Of Missouri
will convene In Salem, August IL to
81.
An organization 10 promote the in
dustrinl and agricultural development
of clataop county has been formed
by - representative men of tho
county.
Yteldn of wheat IN the vicinity OF
Roseburg show that fall sown grain IL
yielding far more than expected. al
though the sprlng aown grain ID
heavy loas,
Sale Of state hunting licenses has
fallen way below the normal mark
for this period OF the season, accord.
Ing to state Game Warden Carl d.
Shoemaker,
William N. Hiileary. Of Brownsville,
commander Of the oregon Volunteer
Veterans association and ox'mastor OF
the Oregon state grange, died at Al
hany at tho age Of n,
Wood procured from stumpaEe viii
be used az fuel at the state hospital
for the insane at least for the next
two yearn. and at the state pcniten
larry for the next three years
a. hap III
established market, owing TO unaettlee
legislation affecting grain, several lots
Of club wheat have been sold at Pen
dleton as high as s2,2s a bushel,
william McAllister, a sawyer at the
spalding aawmill, located about
mile north OF Selma. Douglas county,
was shot by Ralph Turpin, a fellow
workman. and killed, Turpin escaped.
According to the statement of tho
contractors, work will begin this week
at different parts OF the state on the
paving and grading contracts recently
let by the state highway commission
Despite the damage of the long hot
season, reports from the harvest fields
indicate that the yield OF umatilla
county grain will be fair one. In
some places II will be as good as in
the past,
Pendieton has the distinction OF hav.
ing provided more men for the second
officers training camp than any other
Oregon city except Portland Eight
OF the successful applicants were from
Pendleton,
With the draft machinery well un'
der way, reports from all parts Of
the state to Adjutant General George
4. White indicate that Oregon viii
he ready with her quota of III men
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