The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1919-02-28

sons connected with it, has been ar
rested, charged with criminal libel.
Five Indictment were returned by the
Lane county grand jury against Full
I9lerton. III,
Neil Quincy, Canadian; George Min
coff, Bulgarian, and Samuel Levail-
liant, alias Albert Bertrand, German
Swiss, who have been active in the
Portland |. w. w. organization, are
being detained in the Multnomah
county Jail by r. P. Bonham, immi-
grafton inspector, pending the receipt
from Washington of warrants for de-
portation.
Indications that the federal reclaim
alton service is making preparations
for extensive irrigation work were seen
in an announcement made at Bend by
United States Land Commissioner H.
| c. Ellis, who stated that some 10000
acres lying east and northeast of
| Bend have been withdrawn from
homestead entry. The land includes
the Benham falls storage reservoir
site.
The question of boring for oil and
gas in the country around Lacomb,s
ten miles east of Lebanon, is again
being agitated and the prospects are
that something probably will soon be
undertaken to test out the prospects
there. There has been a general be-
lief for many years that there is oil
in that section. Two wells have been
started at different times, but neither
| got deeper than 600 feet.
That the dairy industry is the lar
gest by far of all the agricultural in
dustries of the state was brought out
| at the recent investigation by the SEN
ate committee of the dairy industry
| M. S. Shrock, general manager of the
Oregon Dairymen's league, stated that
there are $4,000 dairy farms in Ore
| gon, employing approximately $4,000
men. There are 81 creameries in the
| state, 78 cheese factories and total
of over 500 employees in these factories
The fuel famine on Coos bay has
provided employment for many, of
those forced into idleness through
closing of the Smith mills. Before
the shutdown the mills had furnished
large portion Of the fuel consumed
in Marshfield, but now there is moth
| ing coming from either mill Men have
gone into the woods in nearby sections
and opened wood camps. Many teams
are occupied in delivery of the output
and the fuel situation is better now
than at any time during the winter.
| Every preparation must be made to
! make the dirt fly on some SO miles of
national forest reserve roads in Ore
gon by the beginning of the construc-
| tive season, according to orders just
received by District Engineer L. L.
Hewes, from the chief engineer of the
] bureau of public roads in Washington.
The So miles is included in 800 miles
that must be ready for construction
in the entire district, No. l, which in
cludes Oregon, Washington, Montana,
Idaho and Alaska. Oregons share is
considered large.
AS a result of thirty farm bureau
demonstrations, seven carloads of
flowers of sulphur, aggregating 300,-
900 pounds and constituting the lar
gest cooperative order of sulphur ever
assembled in Oregon, were shipped for
fertilizing purposes on volcanic ash
soil into the recently developed irri-
gated sections of Crook and Deschutes
counties. This shipment was secured
for 1873 farmers in the two counties
of the district. Each farmer had pre-
viously joined a .sulphur-alfalfa club,
organized by the county agent, and in
so doing had pledged himself to apply
at least eco pounds of sulphur to al.
falfa at the rate of 100 pounds an acre.
Because of the size of the order the
farmers saved $500.
To finance construction of The
Dalles-C California highway, an alliance
of the four counties embraced-Des-
chutes, Wasco, Jefferson and klamath
is to be formed to demand at least
S500000 from the state highway com
mission for road work, Failure on
the part of the legislature to make
provision for road construction in cen.
trail Oregon previously outlined by the
1917 state law makers caused the
Bend commercial club to take action
to enlist the support of every county
from the Columbia to the California
line in a movement to make possible
the construction of the highway from
The Dalles to the southern boundary
of the state. A meeting of represen.
tatives Of the four county govern
ments is to be asked in the near future
for the purpose of formulating the
Joint demand on the commission.
SonTession OF a 1eacner or German.
began bravely this difficult work