The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1917-03-02
Wallowa national forest.

AT meeting OF CdHyoHNllles Wo
man council held last week, Mrs. T. G.
Shaw, a prominent resident Of that
city, was elected mayor. The mayor
Of Canyonville Is elected by the coun
Growers OF broccoli near Riddle
have made a thorough examination OF
their plants since the cold weather
and have decided that the damage was
much greater than at first supposed.
Efforts to raise funds necessary for
the construction OF a new building for
the old peoples home, of Salem, have
started in earnest and there is every
indication that the efforts will prove
successful.
j. c. Warner, whose place is 10
miles east OF Harrisburg, last week
shipped 10000 pounds OF beans to the
Murphy Seed company of Albany. The
present market price for beans Is about
8 cents per yound.
While apparently unit In agreeing
upon the necessity of constructing a
new penitentiary, members of the
state board Of control have a diverg-
ence of opinion as to where such a
new penitentlary shall be located.
Representative Hawley has appoint
ed Adolph Greenbaum, of Salem, as
midshipman at the Annapolis naval
academy and named Roger Simpson,
Of Eugene; Irwin Stearns, of West
Lynn, and Benjamin Fairhurst, Of
Tualatin, as alternates.
Fred r. Mellls, a Baker ore and
bullion dealer, has received from Pine
creek the largest nugget seen there
since the famous Armstrong nugget
found 15 years ago, 1t was found by
a placer miner and is worth 5000,
which price Mr.. Mellis paid.
February, 1917, has been declared
poison month" by the executive COM
mittee Of the National Wool Growers
association. Sheepmen In all parts OF
the United States will wage cam
paign during the month against coy
otes and other predatory animals by
poisoning them. -
John Hammersley, thought to have
been eaten by pack of timber wolves
In the wilds of Jackson county, is safe.
The skeleton found near Gold Hill,
and at first thought to be that of
Hammersley, has been identified as
that of John Duranda, prospector Of
the Grants Pass country.
The senate has passed Senator Lanes
bill repeating sections 25S8, 1859 and
$500, of tho revised statutes, 80 that
vessels bound In the Cclumbia river
for Portland need no longer stop at
Astoria to exhibit their papers, nor
need vessels bound outward from Port.
land stop at Astoria to file copies OF
their manifests.
Many delegations of representative
citizens OF Gillian, Wheeler, Grant
and other eastern Oregon counties
have visited the legislature within the
last few weeks to present the merits
Of the John Day highway. which they
propose as an important link In the
principal east and west highway
through the state.
During the month of January ~
vessels loaded lumber at the mills In
the lower Columbia river district and
their combined cargoes amounted to
24,463,67S feet of lumber. In the same
period nine vessels carried 7,t01,S91
feet from up-river mills, making
grand total of Sl,565,069 feet of lum.
Der that left tho Columbia river In
cargoes during the month of January.
The box factory, dry kilns and
boiler rooms of the Clatsop mill at
Astoria, ono Of the largest numbering
concerns in the lower Columbia river
district, was destroyed by fire with
loss approximating sl5o.o0o, Pere
Slivola, a young Russian Finn, started
the fire. Loss Is coveredby Insurance
Seven thousand doors were burned In
the factory devoted to their manuiact.
ure, and hundreds Of thousands OF
feet OF valuable lumber In the kiln
was lost
Practically sl.0OO,O0o win be spent
during the coming season In building
roads In Oregon, under the terms of
the federal good roads law, II the state
legislature win put up dollar for dol.
lar to match the allotnents that. have