The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1918-11-08
OREGON NEWS NOTES
Of GENERAL INTEREST
Principal Events Of tho. wosk
Briefly Sketched for lnfor'
nation OF Our Readers.

Fire completely destroyed thc saw
mill Of Frank CruRhn. near Dexter IL
miles east OF Eugene. cntailInE u loss
Of $4,000.
Dates Of the Pacific International
livestock show. annually held IN Port
land. have been announced an Deccm'
bcr to Is
All Of the schools Of Linn county
were closed Monday by orders Issued
BY Mrs. Cummings county school su'
perlntnndeht
Fire Prevention day IN Oregon ms u
day Of celebrations. mass meetings and
parade was indefinitely postponed
from November ,,
The farmers Of the Union section
arc nearly through their fall plowlhs
and aecding and tho apple crop. which
was very liEh,. is practically all IA
thorcd.
supcrintendents OF all state institu'
tIona will receive increases In salaries
II the legislature adopts a recommon'
dation decided upon by tho state board
OF control
Thomas Jefferson hayter. ono OF the
oldest surviving pioneers Of Polk coun'
". passed away at his home In Dallas
after an iilnena OF several montha due
20 old are.
HAsInE hla figures on census taken
OF s6i homes In the city. W. H. Ruiher
ford. superintendent Of schools, chtim
ated that there are 600 cassa OF intlu
enEa In Eugene
James Oscar Rich. OF Eugene. who
suffered fractured skull when
upecdor from which he fell ran over
him near Mapie,on. died from the In
iurieS he received.
Recent heavy raina, coupled with
riEld enforcement of health reEula
tlona have produced marked I'm
provement IN the Spanish influenza
situation In North Bead,
Through Mayor Masnub Saxon. the
city OF st, ticlcnp has presented to
Mrs. J. II, McKic u nilkcn service flas
bearing four stars. representing her
four anns In the service,
Senator Chamberlain appointed sla'
tor Marcelius Miller. Is years old. OF
RoHehurg, an HIS candidate from the
ntatc ut large for the United States
military academy at West Point,
Heavy onion losses such an occurred
last year In Oregon. may be prevented
or to Il large extent mInimiEcd by pro
vidlng for adequate ventilation. says
II. p. Barpa. plant pathologist at the
Oregon Agricultural college.
Miss Lillian Tlngle. OF the depart
ment OF home economics at the Uni
yorslty OF Oregon. has been appointed
vice.prenldcnt of the National Coun'
ell OF Executive and Administrative
Women In Education for the state OF
Oregon.
Tho average daily population for the
blennium at the Soldiers homo has
boon its. according 10 the report OF
commandant Markee, Just issued, or
these it7 we're engaged In the Civil
war. q In indian wars and four In the
Spanish war.
While the tug ploneer was attempt
Ing 10 enter Coos bay, towing tho lum'
ber.ladcn barge Wallacut, with a crew
of elk men. the tow line broke and the
barge was carried on the south spit.
The sea was rough and the barge Loot
her mast and cargo
Representative sinnott has desig'
mated as his appolntoes to West Point.
Charles o, Canham. OF Nyssa, prinei'
nal, and Walter Marshall. OF Voltage,
alternate. To Annapolis he designated
Robert Emahiser. la. Grande, princi'
pal, and Joseph D, Weller Mosier, al
ternate,
Lack OF accommodation for onier'
Eency cases and pressing need OF more
room, aecentuated by the exlgencIes of
war. are pointed out In the biennial
report or Dr, q. c. Belllnger. super
intendent OF the state tuberculosis hos.
pital, filed with the state board OF
control.
An order authorizing the sale OF
2,3As,0OO feet OF Port Oxford cedar on
the Coos Bay wagon grant lands at
price Of not less than IS a thousand
feet was signed by United States Dis
trict Judge Wolverton, Timber cut
from the tract will be used for air.
plane stock,
A secret indictment charging him
with accepting $3.50 from Fred A. Mat.
son, o former prisoner, caused the ar
rest of Charles s. Sheridan, a former
guard at the state penltentiary. sher'
ldan 10 the first person 70 be takea