The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1919-05-09


April
Nine wooden steamers launched dur.
Ing April IN tho Oregon district repre-
seuted q total OF $1,000 tons. dead.
weight For the first four months OF
the year there have been 10000 tons
Of wooden vessels fioated, The tonnage
Of the entire fleet launched since Fob.
ruary 81. 1918. whom the first govern.
msnt carrier ief, tho ways. 10 ass,6oo
tons.
Assignment Of tho historic battle
ship Oregon 10 the Oregon naval mill
Tia ~ q training ship In Portland har
bor will he strongly urged by Mayor
Baker upon AetinG Secretary Rooso.
velt Of tho navy. Mayor Baker sent
q telegram asking the conditions under
which tho navy department would
place the famous ba.,leship In Port
land harbor.
whether the coyote menace IN uma'
tiIla county IL decreasing or not. the
bounty fund for tho determination OF
the animals has suffered because OF
the work Of hunters during tho past
month. The records OF the county
clerk show that t7ss wss paid in
bounties. Payments were made 10 "a
trappsrs. The largest catch turned In
was rs skins.
A number Of sheep sales have been
closed at Condor during the past week
and o. prices that were highly salts
factory. Mixed coarse yeaFiIpss have
brought $3.50: fine wool wethers.
$3.50: e.year.oid ewes. 80, and March
lambs. ss. These prices are only
about 90 per cent less than the record
prices paid for similar stock at this
time last year.
Places for iaborsrs far outnumber
the men applying for them In the
Eugene section. according 20 Frank
l.. AFmiiage, superintendent Of the
federal labor bureau In Eugene. There
are rs positions open at the present
time and the employers are having
difficulty In obtaining enough men 10
carry on their enterprises Tho great
80. demand comes from the lumber
Ing and logging camps and the farms.
Johannes Meier Barscth. . native o.
Norway. was forever barred from bc.
coming an American citizen by an
order signed at Astoria By Circuit
Judge Eakin upon the recommends.
ticn OF v. w. Tomiinson. federal
naturalization examiner for this dis.
trict. According 10 the records, Bar.
seth. who had been Columbia river
fisherman had claimed exemption
from the draft on the grounds OF being
an alien.
Calling on Portland housewives 10
roll up their sleeves and don their
kitchen aprons rather than pay tho
increased cost OF bakers bread. and
declaring the i-eent raise decreed BY
the Wholesale bakers as arbitrary and
unwarranted," the Portland Grocers
and Merchants association adopted
resolutions amounting 70 an appeal for
q citywide boycott on the staff Of
life" as manufactured BY the city's
bakeries.
A $4,000 fund which the recent
legislature appropriated for the Ore.
gon naval militia can be used toward
detraying the general expenses Of
keeping the battleship Oregon in Ore.
gon waters II the navy department win
consent 10 loan the vessel TO the state
for an indefinite period. This offer
was made BY Governor olcott In q
telegram which he sent to Franklin
D. Roosevelt, assistant secretary Of
the navy.
That Mrs, Ole streed Of Portland.
who so mystcriously disappeared from
Arlington, April II, drowned herself
and her two little daughters, age and
8 years. Ia the Columbia river, now
seems established. The body Of the
youngest child, Vivian. was found In
the river about three miles below Ar
iington and the body Of the other
child, Virginia, was found near Bla.
lock. The mothers body has also
been recovered,
sororities and iraterhities Il the
University Of Oregon must pay 80
per cent penalty because they have
not paid their war revenue tax, as
sessed against all social organizations,
says Or. George Hewitt Of the inter
nal revenue collectors office, Port
land From November 1, 1917, TO April
/. 1918. all persons initiated into q
or sorority are supposed TO
have paid to the government 10 per
cent Of their initiation dues and
dues not later than one month
after initiation.
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