The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1918-07-11


five weeks Aggregates s3,s7s,327 feel
and has served to make big hole IN
surplus stocks.
Further increase Of street railway
fares In Portland, to or 8 cents, may
be forecast by an agreement reached
by the Portland Railway, Light q Pow
er company .and its employees. to sub
init the issue OF increased wage. de
manded by the carmen, to the national
war labor board.
II. stannard, OF Curry county. was
given the democratic nomination for
representative from Coos and Curry
and X. J. Moore. OF Newberg. the demo
cratic nomination for representative
from Tillamook and Yamhill counties,
In drawing held by Secretary Oloott
10 break ties between the men
The Oregon public service commission
wired Senator McNary asking him to
urge that representative OF the state
commission be placed on the local
freight traffic commission. A shipper.
Il was asserted. would only represent
one locality while commissioner
would represent an entire state.
The Lane county court will at once
place. on the principal highways Of the
county. signs warning tourists aud
others that they viii be prosecuted IL
they exceed the speed limit OF 20 milcs
an hour with automobile. II Ia deter.
mined by the court to prevent wear Of
the roads through excessive speeding
II Il IL possible to curb the speed
ficnds.
Out OF a total OF 6l6 accidents report.
cd 10 the state industrial accident com.
mission for the week ending June "a,
seven were fatal. M follows: A. welsen.
field. Astoria. shipbuilding. T. j. Baty.
Portland. shipbuilding: John y. Casey
Takilma. mining; H. w. Rea. Portland.
shipbuilding; Oscar Cornelius. Brigh.
ton. numbering; Yaney Cooper. Boring
numbering.
Captain n. II. Williams. Lieutenant
J. W. Knocker and a. members OF the
Oregon state military police are In
Pendloton. The entire company will
remain for about two weeks. under
going course OF Intensive training
to prepare them for duty when the
need comcs. They will be assigned to
posts Rs patrols In the wheat country
during the harvest and hauling season.
The sale OF 100. .0oo. 900 feet OF timber
on the Klamath reservation OF the
Pelican bay Lumber company has just
been approved by the government. The
price paid was s3.35 per 1000 feet,
This timber lies In the northern Mount
Scott unit. and Ia directly adjacent 10
the 100000. 900 feet OF timber In the
Crater lake and Paulina national
forests, bought two years ago by this
same company.
]. p. Logan. who has operated the
Kings Valley FIGURING mill on Luckia.
mute river In Benton county for so
years. and who more than half n cen.
fury ago built dams 10 furnish water
power for the mill. has Instituted In
junction proceedings against the
Charles X. spaulding Logging com.
pany, OF Salem. and the public service
which will test the con
stltutionality OF the boom franchise Law
passed by the last legislature.
A price OF s2.2o a hnshel at Portland
for wheat OF the 1918 crop. an against
,205 for the crop OF 1917. has been
fixed by the food administration. Al.
lowing for the 20 per cent Increase In
the freight rate on wheat from the
Interior 10 Portland. the formers viii
tim receive about 12h cents a bushel
more for their wheat than they did In
he past season. The new crop will be
,t least IO,OOO.OO0 bushels larger than
hat OF 1917. and the added wealth that
Till so 10 the grain producers win be
about S25.OOO.oOO over what they re.
'eiyed last year
Grades on wheat and rules covering
'orn grading are amended In a few
PARTICULARS In new order issued by
he public service commission cover
ng the grain inspection department
fhe new order will become effective
Iuly Is, The principal change relative
o wheat Grades covers hard red spring
wheat, which under the present rules
4 subdiyided into four classes. but
lnder the new rules will be divided
nto but three classes. these being dark
Iorthern spring, northern spring and
ed spring, the red spring hunpbaek /
rade now In use being eliminated.
There accrued 70 the state OF Oregon 1
n Monday s23s. s.o6all from the United
IGates good roads fund. making a total 7
Z s472, ,i24.z2 TO the credit OF the state
rom that fund. None Of II has yet /
cen used, but projects have bsen ap-
roved calling for an estimated total 4
Z t4Ss. .ss3.s0. These projects will not |
e affected BY the recent announce