The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1918-11-22
OREGON NEWS NOTES
or GENERAL INTEREST
Principal Events Of tho Week
Briefly sketched for Infor.
nation Of Our Readers.

1919
The annual meeting OF the Oregon
Irrigation congress will be held n
Portland on January .. 10 and II.
The service Of the Pacific Telephone
4 Telegraph company has been dis
continued NJ Brooks. Marion county,
HllliArd Bailey. non Of Mayor Harry
Bailey. and Lana Thornton. SOU oi
A. l. Thornton. Of Laksyiev. were
drowned while fishing IN Goose Lake
A recent ruling Of the War depart.
ment prohibiting fratsrnlties from
holding social meetings and Initiating
or pledslns new members. has been 70
scluded.
Tho fourth Oregon state officers
training camp. which was 10 have
opened At the University Of Oregon
November -. has been indefinitely
postponed
Rsgardlcsa Of the fact that 100 con
vic,s at the state penlten,iary at Salem
were inoculated for the dis.aaes iss
Of them are suffering from the Span.
lsh influenza
According 10 tho figures OF the city
budget Klamath Falls may have drop
Of 80 mills In ia tax rate Tho adop.
ton OF an occupation tar by the city
IL considered.
Storm and high tide last week 70
suited IN greater damage on Coos bay
than had occurred in q number Of
years The principal damage was 10
industries. Including aawmiila. ship.
yards and allied lines
A big convention Of the Oregon But
ter and Cheese Makers organization
will be held 10 Portland December II
and II, In connection with the meet
= butter and cheese exhibit will bs
held In which prizes to,aIIng $3.50 will
be awarded the winners.
Several hundred Oregon irappcra a.
ready are At work. according 10 Carl
Shoemaker. fish and Eane warden.
who has issued more than 900 licenses
since Che trapping season opened the
first OF this month. The season will
close February I, 1919.
In 40 effort 10 provide jobs for sol
dirru discharged from the United
states army upon rehabilitation the
war department has requested the
state highway commission TO provide
II with information ~ TO how many
men can be provided with Jobs in
Oregon.
A a 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
and Quit work At noon.
az the men have been doing for .
month or more.
Fourth.clasa postmastcra have been
appointed IN Oregon 40 follows: Col
ton. clackamaa county. Charles r
Hunters Crystal. klamath county. @
D. Brown: Odessa, Klamath county
Mlha May kinkhid: Redne. Marion
county. Mrs. Marie ". Parker; Three
plnes. Josephine county. Mrs, Flora A !
corlihH.
Sheriff Chrisman and Deputy sher q
IN Jarvis made an important arrest At
rho Dallca when they captured three 4
sonvlcta who escaped from the shc {
,hnne. Idaho. Jail November 0, The 4
,onvicta are G, W, Darcy. Frank Sui I
ivau and Edward Miller. They are .
Iald 10 be three OF the most dangerous !
criminals In the country. 6
Power extended to the supreme court '
o call to lts assistance three circuit v
udges Of the state to sit as q part OF n
hat court when II 10 deemed neces
AIRY and also power extended 10 the s
hlef justice OF the supreme court 70 n
Ilrcct circuit judges to sit In any "
ounty OF the state win be asked by D
he committee on law reform created p
y the last Legislature. "
Small railroads are denied "a hours 81
rec time on interchange Of cars with Il
arger lines in a letter received BY "
'ublIc Service Commissioner Corey IN,
rom Regional Director Ashton, Mr., al
.Ishton states that he thinks the small p'
Dads are given very favorable con IN
esslons now, considering the fact that u
hey own no cars and what cars they
Sc are turned over to them by the III
arger roads. ai
Marion county boasts Of about 1900 tr
cres planted In English walnuts, &C tn
nrding to a census made by County pr
rult Inspector Van Trump, and 10 fl'
or cent Of these are either yielding at
+ paying big returns to their owners W
ANY trsaa this year yielded 100 n