The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1919-05-02
OREGON NEWS NOTES

Uivilservice examination Tor iourtn.
class postmasters are announced for
May "a at the following places in Ore
son: Ashwood. Durkee. Tygh Valley,
EcoIa. Hebo, Irving and Laurel.
Fourth-class postmasters have been
appointed for Oregon as follows: John
T. Moore. Cloverdale; Arthur B. La
cey, Parker. Polk county.
Thirty-eight miles west Of Independ.
ence. at the Valley and Siletz Lumber
G Logging company's camp in the 81
Ietx basin, an immense dam is under
construction, to be finished May is. At
the lower end Of the basin. creating
400-acre pond, the dam will be Al feet
high. with base 40 feet wide. The
top win be so feet wide and 200 feet
long.
Plans for the early construction OF
a 200-foot wharf and an oil station to
cost between $4,000 and $4,000 for
use by the government bar dredge.
Niche. on properly purchased BY the
federal government at Empire. three
miles west OF North Bend. were an
nounced by James s. Polhemus Of the
United States engineers office Of Port
land.
After numbering his wife. Mrs. Susie
Reighen Hardwick Sar, aged IL, and
her son, David Hardwick, aged 16. as
they soundly slept In their beds in
their homestead abode five miles from
Madras, Charles Sar, rancher, aged
43, placed the % rifle between his
feet. pulled the trigger with one foot
and died instantly. shot through the
temple
Failure Of congress to appropriate
sufficient funds to carry on the work
OF the federal employment bureau,
coupled with the impending shutdown
in all Oregon shipyards this fall, may
necessitate the calling of a special ses-
sion Of the legislature within the next
few months to provide money for
state-managed employment system
which viii meet critical situation.
With an even dozen highway engln.
GERS now on the Job preparations for
the big road programme for klamath
county for the season Of 1919 are going
ahead rapidly. The engineers are at
work on the road between klamath
Falls and Lakeview, but 1t is expected
that some Of them will be transferred
to this north and south highways. A
macadamized road from klamath Falls
to the county line below Malina, dis
tance Of IS miles, will be completed
before the season closes.
The war department has declined to
pay the watchmen who guarded the
dam OF the Cold Springs irrigation
project in Oregon during the war. It
was thought necessary to have the dam
guarded and 1t was supposed that the
watchnen would be paid By the gov
ernment, Just as were many watchmen
who guarded the private property Of
transportation, light and power com.
panies, but the settlers have found the
cost OF these watchmen charged up TO
them az part Of the maintenance.
Those logging roads in Oregon
which have refused to carry any kind
of freight for residents along their
ines because they believed 1t would
make them common carriers within
he meaning Of the law and subject
hem to payment Of revenue taxes on
everything hauled, including their own
lumber products, are neediessly
harmed. The commissioner Of inter-
lal revenue rules that the income tax
aw Of 1919 relieves them Of the pay .
nent OF any tax except on such traffic ,
s they haul for hire for outside In
ividuals or concerns.
Baker county has been infested with
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