The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1918-12-27
OREGON NEWS NOTES
or GENERAL INTEREST
Principal Events Of tho Week
Briefly Skstchod for lnfor-
nation OF Our Readers.

Benjamin BrannAn. a pioneer race
horse owner OF Eugene, died at his
homo there al the age Of 81,
For the frat time In history. Christ
mas turkeys sold In the wholesale
market In Roseburg for Il cents u
pound.
All members OF the e. A. r c. OF
the Oregon Agricultural college, with
the exception OF few students on the
sick list. have been discharged.
Edwin u. Hatch. Of Portland. was
named .embcr Of the state board OF
pharmacy To succeed Frank \, Ward.
OF Salem. secretary OF the board
Ira Langley. wellknown cattle
man Of Dixie creek. near Rye valley.
was shot aud killed by an unidentified
person who was hidden In the brush
near the road,
The top notch price for cattle in
Lake county was reached when W, d.
RobInetL OF Summer lake. sold 80
head Of beef stock to ", @. Moss. Of
Lakoyicw. at 10 cents q pound.
State teachers examinations In Wal
Iowa. Grant. Iiarney. Jefferson. Jack
son. Coos. Douglas. Yamhill and Polk
counties were cancelled because OF
prevalence OF Spanish influenza.
80 very lsrw telephone poles and
- 20 trees, some Of which we're
~'"H' so feet in diameter. we're
TO-, - go - =. a.alpity OF Eugene when
torn up In the v' tsd the section.
small cyclone VI ....,..A ~. ~.
Gold H!il reeen,iyk -. -, ~ - 49,
on influenza BY auarAiN "'"s , A'' '"s.,' '.,
closing all public meetiRA p'~eea, . ,,,'. w..
rooms. and prohibiting thet heta.'S,S ss'.,,S
Of more than five persons ~ pu0'''
places,
A tar levy yielding ssso.Tss III o
required TO maintain the public stfpom
OF Multnomah county during the eoF'
inE year The school census shows
= s,Q2E children Of school age In the
eonuty,
All iogging campo In Coos county.
numbering about 20. closed Saturday
night aud will not renume until after
= New safs, aave the six at Powers,
swhiehhut down the 2tth and reopen
ed q the esth,
white Il Ia said no case OF Influenza
I the state hospital for the insane
.hrcatous TO terminate fatally, DR..
Steiner. superintendent OF the institu'
lion. 10 contemplating closing the hos
pital TO visitors. -
, The total assessed valuation OF the
state IL $685.. .sa3, ,sa6 a7. an increase et
SIS, .32e6i over last year, when the
assessed valuation was ts2s,6o5,bfo.Sd,
according TO figures given out by State
Tax Commissioner Galloway.
All restrictions on tho serving Of
food by hotels, restaurants and other
public eating places were discarded
Monday. In conformity with instruc'
tlons received from Washington by
the Oregon food administration.
Labor and industrial problems In
Oregon during the reconstruction pc
riod will be the special subject OF in.
veptigation and consideration OF con.
vention OF the states leading interests
called for January 9.l0'li. at Portland,
II is reported from the lower imp.
qua river that the Hubbard sawmill.
being rushed TO completion for open.
Ing about January Is to be aban.
doned and no further work will be
done upon II unity the lumber situa.
tIon develops.
The food adA Atnistration has an
nounced the cancellation of flour mill.
ing regulations NThis will throw the
market wide open mlllers and deal.
ers to make such rices as they see
III on flour and mi feed, subject only
to the laws that prtain to protiteor.
Ing.
The new lease az the Pacific Chemi.
cal company on %ummer lake was Ap-
proved by the stA tie land board and
Jason Moore has orfelted the $4,000
which he had de- Bosited to cover the
former lease, UNer the new lease
the first payment royalty money Is
due January l5, 1910,
Mining for gold and platinum will
be undertaken at v hisky Run, local.
ity few miles abdke Bandon, on the
ocean beach. where II, NJ. Axtell is
assembling machinery and apparatus
for the work. whiskY Run ia one OF
the places that we're famous for gold
production in early days.
In instructions seDK out TO all dis
trict sealers Of weights and measures
Deputy State sealer) Spence Workman
countermanded his lorder OF septem.
bcr ~. when the diJtrict sealers were
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