The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1918-10-18
OREGON news NOTES
OF GENERAL INTEREST
Principal Events Of the Week
Briefly Sketched for lnfor.
nation Of Our Readers.

In the state bar examinations that
were held at Salem under the direc.
tion of the supreme court only II ap.
plicants for certificates made their ap.
pearance.
Two draft calls for 436 class / men
to be sent to Fort Stevens, Or, and
Fort Macarthur, CAL, have been issued.
Entertainments under both calls are to
be effected in the five-day period start.
ing October 81.
Apples have begun to roll from Hood
River to eastern points in large guam
titles Average shipments now are IA
cars per day. The total crop will ap-
proach 1900 carloads. To date 100 cars
have been sent out.
Not since the Umatilla project was
established ten years ago has the In
terest in alfalfa lands been SO great
as at the present time. During the
last 80 days cash sales have been nu-
merous and prices have been good.
To place plainly before the house
wives Of Oregon once more the what
and why of present food conservation
regulations, the state food administra-
tion is preparing to conduct big
pledge drive October rs to November
2.
Clay Ulam, owner Of a'40.acre prune
orchard near Canyonville, has harvest
ed the record crop of fruit from his
place this year. He secured 95 tons
of dried prunes and sold the output
at 8 cents pound, securing $17,100
for his crop.
Oregon's banks deserve the credit for
putting the state first in the purchase
of treasury certificates. Every bank
in the state took some of the certifi
Gates Of the issue of October /, ant
this record was not duplicated in an.
other commonwealth.
A total Of 500 industrial accidents
of which three were fatal, were report
ed to the state industrial accident CON
mission during the past week. TIL
fatal accidents were. Walter Harve,
and o. l.. Waters, Portland, shipbuild
ing; John Confer, st. Helens, lumber
ing.
In response to an inquiry from
klamath Falls as to whether persons
signing petitions for independent nom
nations must be electors who are reg
istered without party affillation, As
sistant Attorney-General Van Wrinkle
has advised that this Is not required
by law.
The salmon fishing season on the
Siuslaw and Umpqua rivers and on
Coos bay is now at Its height and
many carloads of the fish, are shipped
from these sections over the Coos bay
branch of the Southern Pacific to out
side points, most of them being billed
to New York.
Carl Crosland, representing the de.
partment of commerce, is In Salem to
gather state financial statistics which
are to be sent to Washington for com
pilation. Mr.. Crosland expects to be
there about two weeks, working most
of the time in the office of Secretary
of State 0lcott.
Thomas G. Taylor, past grand
commander of the Knights Templar,
dropped dead in the Masonic temple at
Bend just prior to the opening of a
session Of the grand commandery of
the state. Mr.. Taylor was one of east
ern 0regon's best-known men, having
lived at Pendleton number of years.
Twenty-four hundred common labor
ers are needed immediately by ship
yards In and about Portland II me-
chanics are to be allowed to go ahead
and the production of ships in this
district is not to be seriously crippled,
according to an announcement made
by the United States employment bu.
reau.
As a forerunner of extensive devel-
opments on the klamath Indian reser.
vation, the United States government
Indian irrigation service has applied
to State Engineer Lewis for a permit
to appropriate sufficient water from
Williamson river and its tributaries to
irrigate 1886 acres on the Klamath
swamp.
Notwithstanding the embargo on the
movement of grain to congested ter.
minals In the northwest market cen
tiers, there is considerable total of
demurrage paid to the railroads daily
for cars held beyond the allotted tine
for unloading At Astoria there are
about 200 cars on track waiting to be
unloaded.
Public Service Commissioner II. II.
Corey has returned from eastern Ore
g0n where he effected an agreement
hntwphn the East nrepon InppinR cOm.