Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-05-18
State House News
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Members Of the state lime board
were appointed yesterday by Govern
or Withycombe, and are as follows:
Benton Bowers, Ashland; b. G. Lecdy,
Corvallis, and John Shimanek. The APP
pointments are made under the provis.
ions of chapter 397 of the laws passed
by the 1917 legislature, which says that
the warden of the pcnitcntiary shall
be an cX.Officio member of the board,
and that these four shall choose
fifth member. The nominations for the
places on the board were placed before
the governor by the Farmer Union
and the State Taxpayer s league.
The annual report of the Lebanon
Electric Light and Power company was
filed yesterday with the public service
commission. The report states that the
operating revenues were S20,972 and
the operating expenses Sl3,S20.39. The
! Iuncollectiblc revenue and taxes amount
led to Sl,0lG99, which left n net rev.
Ienue of T6,l33.62.
I Deputy Sealcr Of Weights and Meas
lures Workman is in eastern Oregon for
short time. This is his first official
/ business visit to the counties east OF
the mountains.
The Southern Pacific company was
ordered yesterday to maintain an elce-
trio crossing bell with swinging arms
and an electric flash light at the
crossing on Main street in Aurora, by
the public service commission. other
improvements to the crossing in the
way of catch basins for draining water
were ordered put in.
f. b. MacNaughton of Portland, was
appointed yesterday by Governor
Withycombe to be member of the
state industrial welfare commission to
succeed T. V. O'Hara, Catholic priset,
who has resigned.
The senate bill that passed the lcgis-
lature closing the Willamette river to
commercial fishing south Of Oswego
is to be referred to the people, accord
ing to petition circulated by the
Clackamas County Fisherman IS Union
and filed yesterday by Andrew j. Ha
terline, secretary of the union. Al
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lures to refer, it is claimed the petition
has 6,lG0.
Five dozen JIM fire cxtinguisheri
have been placed in the offices at thC
the state house in addition to othcl
, fire extinguishing apparatus already in
stalled. The extinguishers cost $36l
and were provided for by the last scs
sion of the legislature, which appropri
ated the money for their purchase.
The Southern Pacific railroad ha'
applied to the public service commits
sion for permission to reduce the rate
of carload lots Of sheep from Stanficic
to Bend from $75 a car to $64,50 a car
Sixty thousand dollars is the capital
ization of the Pacific Potato Starch
company, which filed articles of incor-
poration with the corporation commits
sioner this morning The object Of the
company is to deal in potato starch
and by-products of the potato. The Of
flee of the concern is in Portland and
the incorporators are j. +. Griffith, Al
bert Muesig and j. A.. Turner.
rorty thousand dollars is the capita
of the Oregon Dredging company which
proposes to dredge mineral land fol
gold, silver, or copper. The home Of
flee is at Baker and the incorporation
are j. s. Kimball, G. E. Kimball ant
{ j. Saupe.
The Duncan Cash store has file,
| supplementary articles changing it
!: name to the j. M. Hart Mercantile
. company, and increasing its capita
: from four thousand TO five thousand
c dollars.
h. f. F.. Carleton, assistant state supe
: Iintendent of public instruction, leave
) today for Scappoose whore he will Al
tend the graduating exercises Of tn
J, Scappoose high school this evening,
!. Convicts at the state penitentiar
= are TO be used as far as possible in d'
g veloping the lime deposits of the stat
g and putting the product into shape fc
& agricultural purposes, according to til
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