The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1919-01-17
OREGON NEWS NOTES
OF GENERAL INTEREST
Principal Events Of tho Week
Briefly sketched for lnfor'
nation Of Our Readers.

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Alhany'a motioa picture theatsrl
have closed voluntarily 10 remain
closed until all influenza danger Il
passed.
The Warm Springs irrigation prof
eot. which Is already on fair way Il
development. 10 causing . big boom
at Vale,
Approximately 1856 mon employed al
the 81, Helens shIpbullding com
pany's yard at 81 Holens arc out 90
4 strike.
Portland will open its first opeuaIF
school on Januery ~, II will be- tho
only school Of lie kind In oregon and
In Washington.
Joseph McCord. q well.known Baker
county man. who had been LIVING on
his ranch near Rock creek. committed
suicide BY taking s.ryehnlns.
The ministers OF Albany adopted 4
resolution voluntarily closing all OF
the churches OF Albany 70 all meet.
inEs until danger from influenza 10
past.
Tho J. n. Chambers mill at Cottage
Grove is nov getting out several cars
OF iexis ,imbers 10 bo shipped to
Italy. The tlmbera are 80 TO 90 feet
In length.
Delegates from Oregon. Washington
and California win attend the Oregon
State Hotel Mems association conycn.
ton which win open IN Portland Mon.
day. January 70.
Another influenza wave has hit
klamath Fails. The ban which was
placed on the city early In October
has been raised only Q short tlmo, but
the disease again 10 spreading.
The Columbia river between The
palles aud Hood River was comple,s.
~ closed last week with Ice which
stretched from nhofe 10 shore. Auto.
mobiles crossed In safety over the
froEen surface.
Work on tho Eugeue-Loranc road,
which is one OF the big read projects
planned By the Lane county court for
1919. haa been started and crew OF
men has begun 10 clear tho right OF
way at the Eugene end
Mrs. Emmailne Elizabeth Galloway.
wife OF former ciTsuit Judge william
Galloway. died at her home In Salem
after an illness OF several months.
Mrs. Galloway was Ions Identified
with public iite In Oregon.
Fraternities and aororities OF the
Oregon Agricultural college have
formed q corporation for the purpose
Of purchasing fools and other sup.
plies and for syttematiEing operation
OF tho various ckss,er houses.
District Attorney r, w. Swagler
was shot throe times. but not seriously
wounded. by John Hanlon. OF Jordan
Valley. as he was ascending the stair
way In the courthouse In Vale. Han.
Ion 10 In jail charged with assault
with intent to kill.
IN q report TO the state land board.
Attorney General Brown goes at length
into tho land fraud situation In the
state and declares that he will seek
$4,000 from the legislature to further
prosecute the Pacific Livestock case,
but will attempt no other prosecutions.
Matilda whit,le. an Indian woman,
who became famous during the Modoc
war in 1879, when she was the trusted
OF the peace commission
and carried messages 10 and from the
hostile Indians In the lava beds. died !.
It Klamath Falls. She was 80 years
" age.
THAT Indians from umatiila reser
ration have done their part in serving
he country In the war IL shown by
he record Of more than so who have
,een doing their duty in France and
n the training camps. The Indians /
willingly when called to the /
ervice.
After sitting for several days In j
ront OF house at Dillon, east Of The /
lalles, apparently watching passing /
rains, the frozen body Of an aged
egro, believed 10 be Joseph Mullen. /
las found. II is believed he started /
o walk TO The Dalles whom he was I
yercome by the cold. I
Early extension Of the Strahorn !
abroad from its present terminal at /
AIRY. 20 miles east OF Klamath Falls, d
, Bonanza, was indicated at a meet. c
ig OF the residents OF that section, 4
etween $4,000 and $4,000 Of the 8
$4,000 necessary 10 assure this con- e
lruciion was pledged,
Btockmen OF wasco county have 3
greed to support the effort TO be d
ade at this session OF the legislature h
enact law providing for cO-opera- d