The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1918-03-15
OREGON NEWS NOTES
or GENERAL INTEREST
Principal Events Of the Week
Briefly skeiched for lnfOr-
nation OF Our Readers.

Portland now mas Tbu mhnuthetuIlhk
establishments employing ss.e.t per
sons.
Linn colntys saisa Of war savings
s,amps and thrift stamps In February
reached a total Of sS6.7i1p1'
The gross receipts from motor We
hiele and chauffeur licenses In oregon
for 1917 amount 10 tiD6.TsTb0
or i?ts men attending oregon Agrl'
cultural college last year. 322 are nov
In tho service Of their country,
Large shipments OF central Oregon
potatoes arc nov EoinE TO California
a. fast az cars can be secured for them.
Members OF the Lane county chapter
Of the Red Gross during the last few
weeks have completed 1000 knised
helmets,
l.. Jacobs. Klamath capitalist. has
purchased 3I6o acres Of the fertile
lower Klamath lake marsh lands. now
being drained.
Union county farmers have inefeas'
ed their winter when, acreage 81 per
cent and the spFing wheat acreage ~
per cent this year.
DF, Willlam DcVrny. frontier as
soeiate Of Buffalo Hill" Cody and a
Portland ehlropodlst. dicd a, his home
IN Portland. lie was 60 years Of ago.
Terms Of the distrlot Judges in Multi
nomAh county expire January !. 1891.
and not January ;. 1919. according to
an opinion by General Brown.
Bulk handling Of wheat 10 gaining
In favor 10 such an extent that Il 10
estimated that thero will BE- 200 eiova'
tors erected In the northwest thia
season.
c. 8. jackson and n. W. Hagood
have submitted the form Of an iniiia.
tive bill which has for iia object tho
fixing Of prices TO BE- charged for lcsal
publications,
Abraham Rosenberg. Of the univer
atty OF Oregon. won first place In the
annual oraiorleAl contest OF the Ore.
xon IntercollsglAtc oratorIcai associa
tlon q, Salem.
while playing burglar" Virgil
Burch. 10 years old. was shot and
killed by his ia.yearold chum. Till
man Dutton. ct the home OF the pution
boys parents, at Salem.
DR.. J. u. Anderson OF Tho Dailes fIt
ed with Secretary OF State oleott his
declaration of intention to be candi'
date for the republican nomination for
governor at the May primary.
Circulation OF any literature. either
books or handbills. 10 under the ban
IN Pendleton until II has received the
approval OF board OF ccnsors which
win be appointed by the mayor.
Mrs. Ada Johns. ~ years old, and'a
frat cousin OF President Tyler, died
at her daughters home In Salem. fol-
lowing q stroke OF paralysis. She eross
ed the plains TO Oregon In 1851.
Two.dollar.and.twenty.cent wheat Ia
promised Portland BY Julius II. Barnes.
president OF the federal grain corpora
tion, In a letter TO Representative
Hawiey. II certain conditions continue.
Irrigation for Langell valley lands
IN the southeastern part OF klamath
county from the waters Of Clear lake.
California. was indorsed at big meet
Ing Of prospective water users At Lor'
ella.
'fhe Warren Spruce company 10 con
structing two additional buildings At
Toledo TO accommodate soldiers who
viii assist In building the logging road
from Toledo TO connect with the Miller
road.
Some extensive building improve
ments are now under way at the East
efn Oregon state hospital At pendleton
A new horse barn has been completed
and q machine she'd will bo construct
cd at once,
Hiram Wood, Oregon pioneer OF 1852,
one OF Benton county's first settlers
and one OF the oldest citizens Of Linn
county. where he had resided the last
IL years. died at his home in Albany
aged 90 years.
Work ID the industries which come
under the workmen's compensation
law has increased 1888 per cent 10 the
Inas Vaar according 10 w, A, MarshalL
/ member OF the state industrial 40.
.ident commission.
Twenty thousand copies Of President 1
wilson's recent message 10 the farm. 4
re OF America are being printed by
he o..w. r. 4 N. company for general
circulation In the agricultural districts 1
llong the coinpanys lines.
Five thousand dollars will be paid
~ the war risk Insurance bureau to
Ara. ALA Pierce, OF Creswell, on &C.