The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1918-07-05

NESTLE use ou public lands Of another
state.
10 providr for the welfare Of the
men employed In the production OF
spruce for airplanes IN the logging
eamps and EawmlllH Of western Ore
Eon and Washington. the war camp
community service section OF the FoS.
dick commission Is planning an ener'
Eetlc campaign In cooperation with
the staff Of Colonel Brlce r. Disane.
commanding the Portland headqnar'
ters of the United States signal eorps,
Further reduction IN stocks OF West
Coast lumber mills BY l2.siS.iOt feet
IL reported IN the bulletin OF the West
Coast association. Tho excess OF ship
mrn,s over production during the past
five weeks aggregates b3,67s.377 feet
and has served 20 make biG hole In
surplus stocks.
Further Increase OF street railway
fareh In Portland. 10 I or 8 cents, may
be foreoas, by an agreement reached
by the Portland Railway. Light 4 Pow
er company. and It's employees. TO sub
mi, tho issue OF increased wage. de-
manded By the carmen. 10 the national
war labor board.
Il. stannard. OF Curry county. was
given the democratic nomination for
representative from Coos and Curry,
and X. J. Moore. of Hewberg, the demo.
cratic nomination for representative
from Tlilamook and Yamhili counties.
In q drawing held by Secretary oicots
10 break ties between the men.
Tho oregon public service commission
wired Senator McNary asking him to
urge tha, representative Of the state
commission bo placed on tho local
freight traffic commission. A shipper.
1, was asserted. would only represent
ono locality while q commissioner
would ropresen, an entire state.
The Lane county court will at once
place. on the principal highways OF the
county. signs warning tourists and
others tha, they will be prosecuted II
they exceed the speed liml, OF rs miles
an hour with automobile. II 10 deter
mined by the court TO prevent wear OF
the roads through excessive speeding
II Il 10 possible 10 curb the speed
iienda,
Out OF total Of SAC accidents report.
ed 10 tho state Industrial accident COM
mission for the week ending June ~,
seven we're fatal. as follows: A. weiscn.
field. Astoria, shipbuilding: T. J. Ba'y.
Portland. shipbuliding: John Y. Casey.
Takilna. mining: II. W. Rea, Portland.
shtphuiiding; Oscar Cornelius. Drigh.
ton. numbering: Yaney Cooper. Boring,
numbering.
Captain II. Il. Williams. Lieutenant
J. W. Knocker and ~ members OF the
Oregon state military police are In
Pendietcn. Tho entire company viii
remain for about two weeks, under"
going q course OF intensive training
10 prepare them for duty when the
need comes. They will be assigned TO
posts AZ patrols In the wheat country
during the harvest and hauling season.
The sale OF iOo.ooo.ooo feet OF timber
on the Klamath reservation OF the
Pelican Bay Lumber company has just
boon approved by the government. The
price paid was s3.35 per 1000 feet.
This timber lies In the northern Mount
Scott unit. and is directly adjacent to
the so0.ooo.ooo feet OF timber In the
Crater lake and Paulina national
forests. bought two years ago by this
same company.
J.. p. Logan, who has operated the
Kings Valley FIGURING mill on Luckia'
mute river In Benton county for 30
years. and who more than half GEN.
tury ago built dams TO furnish water
power for the mill. has instituted In
junction proceedings against the
Charles X. Spauiding Logging COM
pany, Of Salem, and the public service
commission. which will test the con.
stitutionality OF the boom franchise law
passed by the last legislature.
A price Of t3.2o a bushel at Portland
for wheat OF the 1918 crop. as against
s2o5 for the crop Of 1917, has been
fixed by the food administration. Al
lowing for the rs per cent increase in
the freight rate on wheat from the
interior to Portland. the farmers will
still receive about 1914 cents bushel
more for their wheat than they did In
the past season. The new crop will bc
at least 100000 bushels larger than
that OF 1917. and the added wealth that
will 90 to the grain producers VIII be
about s26,ooo.oO0 over what they re-
ceiyed last year,