The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1917-06-08
OREGON NEWS NOTES
OF GENERAL INTEREST
Principal Events Of the Week
Briefly Sketched for lnfor-
nation Of Our Readers.

oregon state hoSpilai mas sNalt'N'
Baker is planning to have genuine
old-fashioncd Fourth OF July eolebra
tion.
Every county in the state has paid
the first half OF the state taxes for
this year.
The Condor Racing association is
holding its annual meeting this week
June 6, I. s and >.
\ floral show will be held IN Pen
dleton this year, The date has not
vet been determined,
Contracts on the new womcu's dor
mitory for the University OF Oregon
will be let probably this week.
While May was an exceptionally
cold and cloudy month in northwest
ern Oregon. the rainfall was far be-
low the average.
Charles l.. McNary, United States
senator designate. has left for Wash
ington Immediately 10 assume his
duties in his new position.
The month just closed was the wet
test May in Umatilla county in re-
cent years, Records show almost
twice the normal rainfall.
Joe Wallace, who shot and killed
his wife some weeks ago on a ranch
near Mayville. and who confessed,
was sentenced to life Imprisonment.
The final report on the farm sur
vey in Clackamas county, based on
reports from almost 500 farms. shows
an increase in acreage of 3 per cent,
\. L. McCully purchased of Colonel
]. II. Raley. at Pendleton, tract OF
farm land on Juniper canyon consist
ing of 1914 acres, the consideration
being $4,000.
Secretary OF State olcott has appor-
toned S77.029.25, received from the
government from forest reserve rent
ais and sale of timber, among IL coun-
ties of the state.
Orders for I75,O0O, 900 to 2O0000,00
feet of lumber for government ship
contracts probably will be placed with
mills in Oregon and Washington with
in the next few days.
Ben Rockwell, 2s. and w. H. Ram
bo. 50, were killed at Mill City when
a logging train got away from the
crew. as they were coming out of the
woods with a load of logs.
The active season for mohair is
over in this state. Over two-thirds OF
the clip has been sold and the holders
Of the remainder are making no par.
ticular effort to market it.
The independence Creamery COM
pany OF Independence will erect
creamery fully equipped for making
butter and also a cheese factory in
within six weeks.
With men and women prominent in
he affairs of the Pacific northwest in
attendance. the first reunion of the
pioneer teachers and students of the
Did Umpqua academy was held at
Wilbur.
All mills ON Coos bay have announc-
ID the minimum wage for ablebodied
men, commencing June /, would be
i3.1S, which is declared to be the high
'st wages paid on the Pacific coast
or millworkers.
Manager Emmett Galligan Of the
rondyke Copper mine at Homestead
eports the opening of 125 foot wide
re body, carrying gold values Of s12
0 the ton, 8 per cent copper and two I
unces in silver.
j. w. Shoemaker, a striking sheep
hearer, was shot and killed at River
ide by James Johnson, a gang boss,
uring quarrel over strike of union
heep shearers, which resulted from
demand for increased pay.
r. r. Childers and associates, who
wn the Greenback mine, the largest !
roducer Of copper ore in southern
regon, have closed deal for the c
'ebb mine of nine claims, seven t
lies southwest from Waldo. a
With view to helping in the food. a
-eparedness compaign at Roseburg, a
e Douglas County Water & Light q
,mpany has announced material t
duction in the cost of water to be 6
,ed for irrigation purposes in Rose. C
Irg.
Because their request for raise Of C
cents a day for all men receiving Il
S. than 81 day was not granted, 0
out 30 of the unskilled laborers at F
g st. Helens Shipbuilding company's n
ant at st. Hclens went out on a
ike. 81
In order to determine as nearly az Il
ssibIe the labor conditions of the Of
tie, the district agents OF Marion, VI
TX. Douglas, Linn, Clackamas and tc
ashington counties met in confer. 81
&c with the extension officials of the ol