The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1917-09-14
OREGON NEWS NOTES
OF GENERAL INTEREST
Principal Events Of The Week
Briefly sketohsd for Infor.
nation OF Our Readers.

.tsinber 10. At tho nAtatorium In Med
ford.
walter v. Ksyeu. mayor of Salem.
and Miss Ida IIeisa, N"re married at
Salem,
4 return OF iiib from an acre Of
peppermint, 10 reported BY r v Martin
ot Eugene.
Elevator operators In Portland. Of
whom ,hrre are about 7B have organic
81 . tabor union.
Construction work on the Douglas
county unit Of iha Pacific highway
will begin shortly.
The pioneers Of Jackson county
held thsis annual reunion In Ll'hia
park In Ashland Thursday,
Real Gather. 20. was crushed 10
death between t~o large spruce logs
q, the Bade mili At Toledo,
Miss Martha Reehen has been ap'
pointed county aErnt for Hood River.
wasco and shrTmau counties.
Captain Leuus q. Krook. acting quar-.
termas,sr az Fort Stevens. committed
suicide By cutting bis throat With a
razor,
Fire entirely destroyed the Glenhda
shIngls mill and = large quantity Of
shingles that were on hand ready for
shipment.
Tho southern Pacific company re'
ported 10 the public service commits
sion q net shortage on itS Oregon lines
.of 1921 cars,
During the month Of August 1897
warrants we're issued by Secretary OF
State oIeo,t. the larEes, number In
the history Of the state,
That the bean crop Of Douglas caun'
~ this yrsr ~lli exceed 100000 In
the statement made by J. G. Hurd,
county agricultural agent
oreEun's greatest agricultural and
Industrial exposition-~thc bsth an
puai stats isir--wili open at Salem
September -. for q week.
Secretary olco,t has issued state
msn, showing that on July there
were sii.s2aes In unclaimed bank
deposits in the banks OF the state
Between 100000 and 100000
sounds Of prunes Is the estimate Of
Douglas countys present crop ar made
BY tho buyers who are in the field.
Governor Withycomhe has lifted tho
proclamation issued by him several
weeks ago closing the hunting Heason
In tho tiunhered area because Of forest
fires
The state highway commission has
nov under way 30 projects of con
s,ruction. The total estimated and con-
trset prices Of which appro1imates
$4,000
Soldiers who have been guarding
tho forests OF Oregon With orders TO
shoot to XIII all persons detected
ia the aet of aetiing fires, have been
Withdrawn.
So great Ia the scarcity at men In
the John Day valley that nearly all Of
the women at Long Creek are now
working with their husbands In the
harvest fields.
The Oregon Field Trial club has
completed arrangements for the run
ming Of It's thirty'second annual trials
September 1917. uSInE grounds near
OYeuco station.
There have been no fires other than
thoss started by lightning IN the Cas-
eade national forest this summer. 10
the assertion OF Clyde y, Seitz, super
visor OF the forest.
Lena Hayes. s'year'old daughter OF
Mr.. aud Mrs. Robert Hayes. of Walter
Vile, was drowned when she fell into
the Eugene municipal power plant
oanai. near that place.
Nearly $4,000 10 the amount appor-
toned 10 the state OF oregon by the
federal government to be used In the
construction of trails and forest roads
during the coming year
A field gsologlst of the United
states geological survey will be sent
to Oregon to lock over the prospects
for oil and natural gas. at the solicit
tation OF Representative Macarthur,
The biggest automobile show ever
held In conjunction with the Oregon
state fair is to be staged on the state
fair Erouuds north OF Salem from Sep
tennber ~ TO 20. inclusive, this year.
The Ashland city council has pur'
chased $40 acres OF timber land In the
Ashland creek canyon as n matter OF
pretection 70 the watershed OF Ash.
land creek, which Is the city water
supply,
Baker county has petitioned the
state highway commission for the sur
ysy Of I've roads from Baker, one 70