The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1919-04-18
OREGON NEWS NOTES
OF GENERAL INTEREST

oregon broccoli Is now being SEN
to the Chicago market, where 1t Is
meeting with good demand.
| The sixth annual convention of the
Cattle and Horse Raisers' association
Of Oregon will be held at Bend April
% and %.
A proposal to vote 100000 bonds
for road improvement in Linn county
at the special election in June is prac.
tically assured.
Many new fields of loganberries
raspberries and evergreens are being
put out by farmers and growers in
the vicinity of Brownsville.
Over $4,000 in gasoline and distil-
late taxes, under the law passed by the
1918 legislature, was received by Dep
uty Secretary Of State Sam A. Kozer
last week.
The Daughters of the American Rev
olution have started a campaign for
the erection Of a monument to the man
OF Coos county who served In the
world war.
A general meeting of the orchardists
Of the Sutherlin valley will be called
to consider the formation of a state
irrigation district, as soon as the state
engineer, Percy A. CuH Or, arrives.
During the past weeK the state in
dustrial accident commission received
reports of 499 accidents, of which two
were fatal, as follows: Alton Gregory,
Linnton, numbering; Ira Bower, Marsh
field, shipbuilding.
A large warehouse owned by e. L.
Klemer at Alvadore, station On the
west side branch Of the Southern Pa
cific, 13 miles northwest of Eugene,
was destroyed by fire. The loss is
estimated at $1,000.
A fall of snow running from six
inches to two and half feet fell in
the mountains west of Dallas last
week, interfering with logging opera
tions and causing shortage of logs
for the mills in that locality.
A meeting of the mill operators and
employees of the Cottage Grove sec
tion, numbering 400, will be held there
Saturday for the purpose of organizing
the Loyal Legion of Loggers and Lum.
bermen on peace-time basis.
Plans and specifications for sewer
improvements in the Porter Hill resi-
dence district of North Bend amount
ing to more than $4,000 were ap-
proved by the city council. Total
street improvements will exceed $780,
900.
Portland can have fleet of four to
six army airplanes for the Rose Fes
tival in June If flying field is pro
vided, according to the specifications
Of the military air service, Senator
IcNary was told by the chief of the
lrmy air service
Based on unofficial advices received
at victory loan headquarters, Portland
will be called upon to subscribe be-
tween $1S,0C0,00O and $19,OOO,OOO in
he coming patriotic drive. On the
'ame theory, the Oregon quota will be
iround $33,000,00O.
The railroad administration was
1alled on by Representative Sinnott's
1ffice to consider a request of the
Newport Oregon Commercial club for |
he extension of the Yaquina branch |
# the Southern Pacific railroad from
aquina to Newport.
Leases covering approximately 4OOG
cres of oil lands between The Dalles
md Dufur were filed in the county |
Jerks office at The Dalles. The leases
re made for period of Is years and |
'oviGe that the sinking of wells shall |
gin within two years.
Charles Feller, who has started a
nit to kill the crab law applying to /
hipnients from Coos county, lost s25
starter in Justice E. H. Joehnk's
ourt at Marshfield, when the law wac
oheld. The case will be appealed,
Ir. Feller declared, to the circuit
ourt.
Mrs. P. ]. Parks, the young wife Of
e superintendent of government
sh hatchery at Herman creek, west
Hood River on the Columbia river
ghway, was killed, her neck being
lken while attempting to replace .
i in the food grinding room of the
tchery.
A flat reduction of 10 cents a ton
the freight rate on road building
aterials is announced in a telegram
State Highway Engineer Herbert
lnn from Director Wilson, of the
lblic roads department of the federal
lilroad administration. The reduc-
IN is effective May and will extend
. December 81.
Four students of the University Of
lregon. all junior men, were expelled
rom the university by action at the
arulty. on a charge of publishing dur