The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1919-11-28
OREGON NEWS NOTES
OF GENERAL INTEREST
Principal Events Of the Week
Briefly Skeiched for lnior.
nation OF Our Readers.

Eugene has raised the salaries Of ita
city employees to tho sE,ont OF 12S7.6o
. month.
There IL much indignation In burns
and the surrounding country over poor
mail service.
Lester ". Humphreya. Of Portland.
has been appointed United States at'
,orney for oregon.
Oregon Agricultural college will offer
q course OF instruction In bookeepins
during tho farmers week.
salsms Sehooi population has In
creased moro than 600 binee the open
Ing OF tho institutions for the fall term.
Umatiila county must raise t67b,sS3
by taxation In 1890 on an assessed
valuation $4,000. 900 lower than In 1919.
Smallpox In Tho DAllos has reached
epidemic form and drastic measures
are being taken TO combat the disease.
W. II. Dair, a commission merchant
A salary increase Of t5 n month was
granted by the board OF school dircc'
tors at its las, meeting 10 teachers OF
klamath Falls.
OF Candy. will ship five carloads OF
Christmas trees to San Francisco aud
ono to Honolulu,
A party OF 10 state highway engi'
ncerh have begun surveys for the 80
miles Of highway between Pcndleton
and Cold Spring.
T. NJ. Brandt. chief Of the dairy de-
partmen, OF Oregon Agricultural col
leEr. was elected as president OF tho
oregon Dairy council
Tho Dina DanIclson gold quartz
mining property near Gold Hill has
been sold to William A. Douglass. an
experienced mine operator.
News 10 received OF tho death at Val
leio. Cal. OF Mrs. Sanford shor,ridgc.
for more than 20 years resident OF
Albany. shc was 81 years old.
The county court has prepared tho
Coos county budget for 1890, which
calls for the expenditure Of t1iS,iio.
For roads tho court asks s2ii,+9o.
Tho American Legion at PrineSiIIo
has started u campaign TO raise $4,000
10 DO used In tho erection OF momor'
iai for soldier heroes OF tho county.
Echo mills made the first shipment
Of flour last week for this milling sea
son. A carload was shipped to Port
land consigned to the grain corpora
tIon.
Voters Of tho klamath irrigation dis
tric. will be asked TO authorize an ex'
pendlturo OF $4,000 for construction
work during the next two years at the
January election.
Work on 20 miles OF The Dalles'Cal'
itornla highway between Bend and
Redmond and four milcs OF the high
way south OF Bend will start within
the noxt two weeks.
Loans amounting to $4,000 were ap'
proved by tho directors OF the First
National Farm Loan association OF
Lane county last week, this amount to
BE- divided among 20 applicants,
Applications for raise In rates have
been filed with the public service COM
mission by the Lebanon Mutual Telo'
phone company OF Lebanon and the
Newberg Telephone company Of New
berg.
w. L. Brewster OF Portland viii be
appointed member OF the state indus
trial welfare commission to succeed
E. b. McNaughton. resigned, according
10 announcement made by Governor
olcott.
The city OF Reedsport, at a recent
election held TO adopt a charter ana
TO bond the city for municipal water
system. probably made unique record
when every elector OF the lbS voted
for both proposals.
Anthracite coal has been found to
exist In the klamath valley. vein OF
Is inches having been cut in drilling
the prospect we'll that Is being driven
at q point about five miles southeast
Of Klamath Falls.
Out of q total OF All accidents dur
ing the week ending November 20 there
was but one fatality. according to the
report OF the state industrial accident
commission. The victim was Douglas
Kelly, n logger OF Selah, Wash.
The state industrial accident CON-
mission had on June 30, 1919. a sur
plus OF $9,Tl2.sso. according to a re-
port on examination and audit OF the
department prepared by J, W. Fergu
son, membe: of the commission.
Samuel =. Young. president OF the
First National bank OF Albany and a
1o.Atao husineea figure in the Will