The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1919-01-10
,nd which 10 the property Of the state.
/, No, yscstsd By January n.

A decided decrease IN the humpef W
Industrial accidents I, shown In the
statement issued lss, week by the
usie Industrial accident commission.
However. 10 the list, which totals sII
accidents. tbsrs are five fatal se'''
tents. % follows; q A. Beaier. On
arIo. ieEsing; J. Y. Hsnsy. Knsppa'
iosslnsi Themss ". Phiiilps. Powers.
ossing; 7. n. Ebsnsr. Portland, ship
suildins; A. N. Durant. Portland. ias'
tor.
Fred u. Ward. millionaire sioekmsn
OF Hcme,. Cal. has notified A. u. Lea.
secretary OF the Oregon state fair, that
the directors Of the Ios Angeles fair
have Mr.. Lea's name under considers.
llon for q possible secretary OF that
association At q salary OF $4,000 year.
Thirty.one residents Of Swiss iiome,
Lane county. have pe,itioned tho pub
Ne service commission 10 order the
Willamette Pacific Railway company
10 maintain q station agent At s~iss
Home. They contend there is enough
business at that point 10 Justify the
expense.
School children Of oregon we're In.
strumental In selling more than t2..
$4,000 worth Of thrift stamps during
1918 and In every way Joined In keep.
ins Oregon first" Ia war activities.
according 10 the biennial report Of
Superintendent OF Public Instruction
Churchill
The bodies Of George n. Sims and
his wife we're found In bed At their
home In bend. A revolver was clutch.
ed IN the hand Of the woman. and the
police declare thers was evidence TO
show she had shot her husband while
be lay asleep and then had turned the
gun upon herself
The department Of agriculture. In
lie annual aEgrsgata crop vaIne com.
PARSONS. says that the total value OF
thirteen crops In oregon embracing
oil the crops raised on the farm for
1918 was ts52s7.o0o. This was O rec.
ord.breaker yield. In 1917 the agEre-
gate for these crops was t7s,t57.o0o.
Mail service 10 Canyon City and
Prairie City. Grant county. having
been cut off BY the strike on the Stump
ter Valley railroad. Second Assistan,
possmas,sruen prasger has prom,
lsed Representative Slnnot, that spe'
eisl service viii be provided by stage
either by way Of condon and Fossil
or via Yukiah.
Tho sumptcr Valley railroad com
pany has filed with the public seryic,
commission new passenger tariff, In
creasing the rate from cents. the old
rate. 20 6 cents q mile. On the basI,
Of the passenger business done on the
road for the last three years. this
would mean an additional revenue oi
about $4,000 q year,
With but sst appeals tiled IN 1918. I
remarkable decrease In caoes cominl
before the supreme court 10 shown II
astatemens issued by Court Clerk Ben
son. In 1917 there we're s32 cases
Tho falling OF 10 attributed largely Il
the prohibition Law and the workmen'l
compensation act removing persona
injury cases from the courts.
Figures included IN the report o
the state Industrial accident commits
sion show that accidents reported /,
the commission during 1918 have ay
eraged 81 for each day OF the year
or q total Of more than $4,000. Fo
1917 the total was slightly more thar
$4,000. The increase is due largei!
70 Increased activity In shipbuildlns
while no definite action has beef
taken by state or United States author
tiles. the federal government. Il wa
recently announced, may apply $4,000
TO the construction OF the propose,
Loop road. which will connect III
Columbia highway with the old Barlo,
trail, located In the upper Hood Rive
valley, In this case Oregon will o.
pend like sum.
County Clerk Brown estimates the
1000 umatiila county citizens who's
names appear on the registration
books Of the county have failed t
vote At any Of the three elections du,
ing the past two years. The once |
nov engaged IN eliminating thes
names from the rolls. -Four thousan
names ls about 10 per cent Of the tots
registration for the county
The Baker Commercial club wi
send Joseph ". Teal. Of Portland. an
D, G. Eccles and Frank Gsrdiner. Z
Baker to Washington to confer wit
railroad administration authoritis
there on the situation on the Sumptt
Valley railroad. provided the railroa
administration has IAN open mind" o
the subject, according 10 advices r
;. eeivsd By the public service commit