The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1918-08-08
OREGON NEWS NOTES
! OF GENERAL INTEREST
Principal Events Of tho Week
Briefly sketched for Infor-
nation OF Our Readers.

] OAtHOH hao NN'n Nn''AtNs
Lane county growers are contractins
TO sell their hops on board cars at
local stations for 20 cents per pound.
A detail OF Oregon military police
viii be stationed In La Grande to help
protect the rapidly ripening grain
fields.
Construction OF a cement drydock
costing s15O.OOO will be commenced In
Portland January /. next. by Joseph
Supple
A loss OF 100000 Is estimated as the
result OF fire which destroyed a
warehouse at waconda, nine miles
north OF Salem.
For the month OF July there passed
through the Pendleton office OF the
federal employment service approx
mately 500 hands.
Statistics for July indicate Increased
industrial activity. good business con.
ditions and an unusual period OF pros
perity In Portland.
oregon again took the lead In ship
launchings Tor July. 20 vessels having
left the ways having a combined dead
weight capacity OF 10000 tons.
Edward Harris, Of the department
Of agriculture. ot New South Wales,
IL In Pendleton for the purpose OF
Studying methods OF bulking wheat,
In the last five years the amount of
revenue collected by the internal rev.
enue ONCE In Portland has Increased
from ,i,oOo.ooo to more than $4,000.
900.
The disappearance Of Lew Barr.
merchant al the Modoc Lumber com
pany's mill on upper Klamath lake. IL
causing some excitement In klamath
Falls.
A convention OF delegates from all
the locals OF the Loyal Legion OF Log.
gers and Lumbermen west OF the Cas-.
cade mountains was held in Portland
Monday.
Fruit canneries In the Brownsville
section are prepared 10 pay cents a
pound for evergreen blackberrlea this
season aud TO take all the fruit they
can get.
Six women lookouts are now EN-.
ployed In the Cascade national forest
md they have been making good. sc.
cording TO Supervisor c. n. seitz OF
that forest
Seventyseven per cent OF the 1918
class OF selectives In Umatilla county
are fitted for full military service. ac.
cordlng TO a statement by the county
draft board.
Insurance clerks are not included IN
the work.or-fisht order. according 10
an advice received by Insurance Com.
missioner Harvey Wells from Provost
Marshal crowder
A total OF $3.50. 6.40i.l2 will be divided
among the counties for the school chill.
dren Of the state. according to figures
prepared by Superintendent Churchill. /
The per capita will be si.ss.
The public service commission has
issued an order denying the applica.
tlon Of the American Railway Express
company for a blanket Increase OF 10
per cent In it's intrastate rates.
McMlnnville college has Just received I
draft for $4,000 In payment OF the
pledge OF the educational board OF the I
Northern Baptist convention made in
the endowment campaign OF two years I
ago.
The rainfall In the forest region
around Waldport has been so great
that Il viii require 80 days for the
brush 10 dry. according TO Supervisor
r. $ Shelley, of the siuslaw national
forest.
owing TO too much automobile
speeding and danger OF accidents and
the damage 10 the gravel road. a motor
cycle officer is 10 be appointed TO police
the road between Newberg and Me.
Mlnnyille
Unless there is more rain IN Oregon
between now and August rs. the open
INK date for the hunting season. State
Forester Elliott will be- In favor OF
keeping the season closed until there
IL further rainfall.
The Pacific highway between Eu-
gene and Junction City has been or
dered closed for 30 days This order
was made TO prevent interference with
work al a point about
six miles north Of Eugene.
The railroad administrations order
requiring soft fruit shippers TO furnish
bond guaranteeing payment OF freight
charges will not affect larger ship
pers materially, II is said, but may
work hardship on smaller ones.
The salmon egg take at the upper
willamette. Mckenzie and santiam
stations OF the Oregon fish and game
VIII be greater this year
han ever before. according 10 Carl ID.
Shoemaker. state game warden.