The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1918-11-22
OREGON News NOTES
OF GENERAL INTEREST
Principal Events Of the Week
Briefly Sketched for lnfor.
nation Of Our Readers.

approximately 100000 on its roads in
1919.
| The annual meeting OF the Oregon
Irrigation congress will be held in
Portland on January 9, 10 and II.
The service of the Pacific Telephone
6 Telegraph company has been dis.
continued at Brooks, Marion county.
Hilliard Bailey, son of Mayor Harry
Bailey, and Lane Thornton, son OF
A. L. Thornton, of Lakeview, were
drowned while fishing in Goose Lake.
A recent ruling of the War depart.
ment prohibiting fraternities from
holding social meetings and initiating
or pledging new members, has been re.
scinded.
The fourth Oregon state officers
training camp, which was to have
opened at the University of Oregon
November 20, has been indefinitely
postponed.
Regardless of the fact that 140 con.
victs at the state penitentiary at Salem
were inoculated for the disease, 125
of them are suffering from the Span
ish influenza.
According to the figures of the city
budget klamath Falls may have drop
of 32 mills in its tax rate. The adop-
tion of an occupation tax by the city
is considered.
Storm and high tide last week re-
suited in greater damage on Coos bay
than had occurred in a number of
years. The principal damage was to
industries, including sawmills, ship
yards and allied lines.
A big convention of the Oregon But
ter and Cheese Makers organization
will be held in Portland December II
and II. In connection with the meet
a butter and cheese exhibit will be
held in which prizes totaling $3.50 will
be awarded the winners.
Several hundred Oregon trappers al.
ready are at work, according to Carl
Shoemaker, fish and game warden,
who has issued more than 200 licenses
since the trapping season opened the
first of this month. The season will
close February /, 1919
In an effort to provide jobs for sol.
diers discharged from the United
States army upon rehabilitation, the
war department has requested the
state highway commission to provide
1t with information as to how many
men can be provided with jobs in
Oregon.
AS protest against what they term
unsatisfactory wage adjustments by
the Macy commission, the boiler
makers union of Portland will con.
tinue to declare Saturday afternoon a
half-holiday and quit work at noon,
as the men have been doing for a
month or more.
Fourth-class postmasters have been
appointed in Oregon as follows: Col
ton, Clackamas county, Charles P.
Hunter; Crystal, Klamath county, c.
o. Brown; Odessa, klamath county,
Miss May Kinkaid; Redne, Marion
county Mrs, Marie e. Parker; Three
pines, Josephine county, Mrs. Flora A.
Corliss.
Sheriff Chrisman and Deputy Sher-
iff Jarvis made an important arrest at
The Dalles when they captured three
convicts who escaped from the Sho-
shone, Idaho, Jail November 6. The
convicts are G. W, Darcy, Frank Sui
llvan and Edward Miller. They are
said to be three of the most dangerous
criminals in the country.
Power extended to the supreme court
to call to its assistance three circuit
judges of the state to sit as g. part of
that court when 1t is deemed neces-
sary and also power extended to the
chief justice of the supreme court to
direct circuit judges to sit in any
county of the state will be asked by
the committee on law reform created
by the last legislature.
Small railroads are denied "a hours
free time on interchange of cars with
larger lines in letter received by
Public Service Commissioner Corey
from Regional Director Ashton, Mr..
Ashton states that he thinks the small
roads are given very favorable con.
cessions now. considering the fact that
they own no cars and what cars they
use are turned over to them by the
larger roads.
Marion county boasts Of about 1900
acres planted In English walnuts, ac-
Cording to a census made by County
Fruit Inspector Van Trump, and 10
per cent Of these are either yielding
pr paying big returns to their owners.
Many trees this year yielded 150
pounds, the product selling on the mar
ket at as high as 80 cents, The wal
nut industry In this section is steadily
forging ahead as money-maker. Il
Totals complied by Henry E. Reed,
associate director of the state war saw