The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1918-09-20
OREGON NEWS NOTES

In Portland THIS week.
The opening day OF the Oregon state
fair, September 20. will be known as
All Nations day. and all nationalities
in the state will be featured In the
programme.
Idlers In Portland will be forced to
work and professional men will be
urged 10 help with short shifts in the
shipyards TO relieve the present acute
labor shortage.
Lionel II. Webster, ex-judge Of the
Muitnomah county court and one OF
Portland's prominent lawyers. was in.
stantly killed when he fell from the
fourth floor OF the Columbia building
10 the bottom Of the elevator shaft.
Kramer & Carter. who received the
contract to build the l5-mile canal and
diyerting works for the Gold Hin ir.
rigation district at Gold Hill. have
begun active operations. but are hav-
ing difficulty In obtaining laborers and
teams.
At the forthcoming general election
voters OF the Port Of Portland district
will be asked 10 sanction an additional
tax, so the commission can be assured
OF about $250,000 above the amount
that can be collected under the 8 per
cent tax Limitation law.
A number Of women and girls are
badly needed to help pick cranberries
in Clatsop county. near the beach and
Astoria. The pickers receive rs cents
for every peck of cranberries they
pick and most OF them are averaging
between $3.50 and $3.50 per day.
A rich vein OF manganese has been
discovered In Curry county on land
owned by the oregon-C California Lum-
Der company Assays Of the mineral
have decided the company to start ex-
tensive development work on the
claim. II runs more than 20 per cent
pure.
Out Of 627 accidents reported to the
Industrial accident commission for the
week ending September IL, inclusive.
four we're fatal. The fatalities welr
G. e. Peterson. II. o. Merrill, Portland
shipbuiIders; John Skwick, lumber
worker, Linnton. and David Clark, log
ger. Astoria.
Clatsop county is said TO have the
champion cranberry picker OF the Uni
ted States. {. r. Grey has been In
creasing the number of boxes Of cram
berries he can pick each day until now
he picks 20 boxes. This for a days
work has never before been equaled in
that territory.
A treasure and trinket drive Is
being launched at Albany by the mem
bers Of Linn chapter, Daughters of the
American Revolution. The plan is to
gather up old and broken pieces OF
jewelry, now valuable as metal. and
sell them to raise money for the war
work Of the organization.
An epidemic Of cholera infantum Is
raging at Marshfield. Two children
have died of the disease, many other
children are dangerously Ill, and three
grown persons are in the hospital suf-
fering with the malady. The disease
appears 10 be spreading. Many dan
gerous cases are reported.
whether or not dogs shall be ban.
ished from Albany altogether will be,
determined by popular vote this fall
The city council has authorized the
placing on the ballot at the next city
election of a proposed amendment to
the city charter making it unlawful to
keep dogs within the city limits,
Organization Of the Inland Empire
Lumber and Box Interests Emergency
Bureau. representing pine output of
a billion and half feet of lumber and
l5O, 100000 feet of box material annu-
ally. was completed at meeting in
Portland Tuesday, The purpose OF the
bureau is to promote maximum pro-
ductioh with view TO meeting govern
ment demands,
One weeks shipment of lambs
brought return of approximately
$4,000 TO the shcspmen Of the BLY,
country. Ten thousand lambs pur-
chased by Miller lux, of San Fran
cisco, we're shipped from klamath
Falls in three installments last week.,
1t took over 20 cars to handle the ship
ment. The price paid for the lambs
was $3.50 per head,
Refusal of the capital issues COM
mittee at Washington to approve a
s5s0,O00 issue of state highway bonds
for Oregon will tie up all work of sur
facing and macadam which has been
contemplated by the commission. The
following projects were to have been
completed with money to be secured
from the rejected bond Issue; Hood
River to Mosier, grading; Oakland to
Yonealla, macadam; Myrtle Greek to
billiard. macadam; Wolf creek-Graves