The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1917-03-09
OREGON NEWS NOTES
or GENERAL INTEREST
Principal Events Of tho Week
Briefly Sksichsd for Infer
nation OF Our Readers.

uhlhklc mlll " 70 D' cI'tteu on Wv
North fork Of tho siualaw River at
once.
seyeu out Of nlue OF the eouncilmen
Of oregon Cily ara tacinE a recall. In
Guiding the mayor
The backbone Of the car shortage on
the Southern Pacific lines IN oregon
seems TO BE- broken,
Another effort 10 create Cascade
county out Of the eastern section OF
Clachaman IL reported to BE- afoo,,
Sixteen hundred aersr ot producing
pruue land In Folk county save . TO-
tai Of 100000 pounds OF dried prunes
In 1918
4 carload Of YOUNG shorthorp bulls,
ta In number aged ana years
brought a total OF $4,000 a, = sale
at Union.
The new auxiliary schooner MarGsr'
o. the second vessel built Mt the Nc
Eaohern yards ., Astoria. was launch
ed Saturday,
During the recent heavy snow storm
almost cvery pole on tho Riddle isle'
phone exchange WAS broken and fell
10 tho Gfound
Baker county kold and copper mines
are at present producing an average
Of 5000 = month. according TO CO.
uma,sa Of mining men.
with nearly 200 cases Of measles In
Roseburg the health authorities do
oidcd TO delay opening the public
school until late this week,
With t2t eonviets At the state peni
ten,lary. every able bodied man 10 now
employed at some usetul occupation.
according TO Warden Murphy.
Democrats from western Oregon
gathered In Albany Saturday at =
banquet. IN honor Of W. H. Horni'
brock. former minis,er TO siam.
There arc at leas, 10000 sacks OF
potatoes held IN storage In Portland.
according to u report made to Assessor
Henry ~ Reed OF Mul,nomah county.
Good road enthusiasts IN the state OF
Oregon have been invited to attend n
rally 10 be heid In Eugene the after
noon and evening OF Saturday, March
10.
The. 100000 road bond issue voted
In wasco county at the last general
election Ia valid, according TO an opin'
ion handed down by the supreme
court,
Plans 10 reopen the famous Todd
quicksilver mines At Elk Head. eight
miles east OF Yoncaila, which have
been idle for IL years. have been an
nounced,
Over 80 delegates from the Y. W.
c. A, organizations OF western VIII
lamette valley schools attended con.
ference at the Oregon normal school
AZ Monmouth,
Only such measures as are desig'
mated IN the act calling the special cleo
tion itself win be on tho ballot for
consideration at the election to be held
Monday. June I,
The ". r. Dragcr Fruit company,
Of Roscburg. shipped $1,000 pounds OF
Douglas county pruucs TO London.
where thoy will be distributed among
tho allied armies,
II ls reported that the livestock OF
Douglas county suffered considerably
~ result of the recent snow storm
Hundreds of sheep perished on the
higher elevations.
Fifty Bandon business men are H.
nancing a stock company 10 tho
amount Of $4,000 80 reopen the Bandon
WOODEN mills. which have been idle
for the past two years.
Applications for grazing permits for
0l9l head of cattle and 5i,soO head OF
sheep have been made up to date to
Supervisor W. G. Hastings Of the
Deschutes national forest,
wintworth Lord. one OF tho most
active men In the early history Of The
Dallcs, and. with perhaps one excep-
tion, the oldest pioneer OF Wasco
county, died In McMlnnville.
Miss Bertha Dorris, for the last year
and half matron OF the department
of public safety In Eugene, has been
appointed parole officer Of the state
girls industrial school at Salem.
John V. Bennes, Portland archi.
tect has been named to prepare plans
and specifications for the proposed
500 900 library building to be erected
for the Oregon Agricultural college at
Corvallis.
The Willamette University glce club
has started on q 3O00-mlle tour OF east
ern Oregon. Warrington and Idaho.
The RSs VIII h. -NOeaat tOE " RAen