The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1919-04-11
ATHENA UMATnLA COUNTY. FRIDAY. APRIL H. 1919.
OREGON NEWS NOTES
OF GENERAL INTEREST

cattle as a protection against black
leg.
Martin Berg, resident of Pleasant
Home, about 80 miles from Oregon
City, committed suicide by shooting
himself in the head.
Captain Conrad Stafrin, who recent
ly returned from France, was appoint
ed member Of the state board of
pharmacy by Governor Olcott.
e. B. Fits and E. L. Westover Of
the Oregon Agricultural college exten-
sion service conducted schools in
dairying in Lane county last week.
St. Helens is to have another saw
mill which will have daily cutting
capacity of $4,000 feet, will employ
so men and will cost approximately
$4,000.
Six wooden hulls now on the ways
at Portland are to be converted into
sailing vessels, Commissioner John A.
Donald of the shipping board told
Senator McNary.
A rich strike Of gold-bearing ore
was made in the Highland mine, near
Baker, which promises to make that
property one Of the greatest gold pro
-ducers in that region.
]. R. Nunamaker, of Hood River,
predicts that the fruit yield this sea-
SON will eclipse that of any former
years. He estimates the yield at bet.
ter than 100000 boxes.
The pouring of concrete for the
foundations Of the $500,000 FIGURING
mill which the Port of Astoria is build.
ing for the Astoria FIGURING Mills com
pany will start this week.
The state board of control has re-
appointed Fl. H. Weatherspoon, of Ell
| gin, Wallowa county, and Charles A.
Park, of Salem, as members Of the
state board of horticulture.
The Bend council authorized an
election at which the floating of an
$4,000 bond issue will be placed on
the ballot as means of discharging
the city warrant Indebtedness.
The North Pacific Congress of Ap-
tometry will held its first annual con-
vention under the auspices of the Ore
| gon State Association of Optometry in
Portland on June to II inclusive.
Three hundred representatives of in
surance companies doing business in
| this state will meet at the third an
nual convention Of the Insurance Fed
GRAFTON of Oregon in Portland on April
| 12.
County Agricultural Agent s. v.
Smith has sent out HOO quarts of
poisoned grain during the week to be
used by farmers in all parts of Linn
county in the campaign against gray
| diggers.
Ira Bowers was instantly killed and
Del Saunders probably fatally injured
when high wind blew a plank from
the upper deck Of ship under con-
struction at the Coos Bay shipyards
at Marshfield.
Cattlemen in the Brothers section
near Bend are intolerant Of any en-
croachment by sheep owners on what
is regarded as cattle range and have
driven out several bands of sheep
found grazing in that district.
George T. Cochran of La Grande,
| superintendent Of division No. 2 OF
the state water board, has set May 12
as the date when he will begin an
adjudication of adverse claims made
to the waters of Hood river and tri'
butaries.
Because Mrs. R. E. Brown of Hood
River had been receiving allotment
money from the government for two
husbands in the service, she was ar
rested at Silverton by Deputy United
States Marshal Tichenor and taken to
Portland.
At an enthusiastic mass meeting OF
300 of the leading citizens and tax.
payers ofH3aker county held at Baker
1t was voted unanimously to endorse
the bonding Of the county for $5OO,0OO
for the construction of trunk and mar.
ket roads.
With the openinp Of spring work
and the advent of the lambing season,
shortage of help is being expert.
enced at The Dalles and that branch
of the federal employment service is
unable to supply the demand of ranch
ers for farm hands.
With 30 trained flyers already re
turned to their homes in Portland and
with q number of business men inter.
ested In possible development of com
mercial aeronautics, plans are being
formulated for the formation of real
aero club In Portland.
| Statistics compiled by Deputy Secre-
tary of State Sam Kozer show an in.
crease for the three. months ending