Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-05-07
Here and There Among Our Neighbors


The annual state grange meeting
which was to have been held May 8
has been postponed until June 12.
Matti Kulji, a logger, committed
suicide at Portland Tuesday by jump
ing into the river from the Burnside
bridge.
During the month of April 26 ves-
sells loaded with lumber from lower
Columbia river mills. Their com
bined cargoes totaled 22, ,521, ,557 feet
A justice of the peace, two lawyers
and haif dozen witnesses put in
half a day at Lebanon recently in de-
Gliding which of two persons were en-
titled to receive the rental of $3.50 a
year for town lot.
Several thousand acres of land
along Catherine creek in Union coun-
ty are flooded by the unusually high
waters. Many bridges have been
swept away and many buildings are
in danger.
Corvallis high school girl gradu-
ates this year will wear graduating
gowns costing a sum in strict con-
formity with the universal disposition
toward economy-not more than s..
Such is the edlct issued by the board
of education.
Twelve hundred pounds of pota-
toes were recently shipped from
Burnt ranch, in Siskiyou county,
through the Weaverville postoffice to
Marysvile. Burnt ranch is forty
miles down the Trinity river from
Weaverville and the shipment was
profitable in view of the high price
Of potatoes.
The United Copper Company Of
Grave Creek district recently opened
up rich streak of sulphide ore, and
this is being shipped along with the
concentrates from the mine to the
smeIter at Tacoma. The company has
just installed an equipment of set
tling tanks and jigs. and the first
weeks run amounted to 81 tons
Yreka News: Joe Bower, the stage
man who has the contract to carry
the maH between Hornbrook and
Happy Camp, was in Yreka the last
OF the week. Mr.. Bower said the
roads along the klamath are drying
and will be passable for machines
about May 15 He Is running his
autos as far as Walker. His business
has been exceptionally good this year.
The task of moving the transform
er stations between the Dwinnell sub
station and Grenada by the Califor-
nia-Oregon Power Company has been
completed and the power On the new
10000 line turned on. Hereafter the
service from Grenada to Gazelle will
be handled by the Grenada station.
The work of wiring in the motors for
the new pump station for Grenada
will be commenced next.
Commissions have been issued by
the governor to the first two mem
bers of a company of 100 Boy Scout
game wardens whom State Game
Warden Shoemaker is organizing.
The two are Marion Stroup and Roy
Anderson, both of Portland The
purpose of the organization is to de-
velop higher ideals of sportsmanship
and to encourage the boys to protect
fish and game.
What might have been disastrous
fire occurred in the basement OF l..
A. Pedersen's cleaning and pressing
establishment at Yreka Tuesday af-
ternoon Ernest Cooley was running
the dusting machine when suddenly
the clothing in it caught fire. In a
short time the flames spread to the
room above. The fire was soon eXtin- /
guished through the efforts of volun-
teers.
Schedules of pay for piece work
in fruit and vegetable canneries OF
Oregon, including minimum wage for
such employees, were adopted Tuesday
by the industrial welfare commission. !
The rates are, in the main, the same
as those prevailing for similar work
in California. Under the new ruling,
which will become effective in sixty
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