The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1920-08-27
OREGON NEWS NOTES
OF GENERAL INTEREST
Principal Events Of Tho Week
Briefly Sketched for lnior'
nation OF Our Readers.

Tho annual Columbia county fair
has been act for September %. 20 and
st.
Construction has begun at Oregon
Agricultural college OF tho first unit
Of the womens dormitory.
A movement lH under way to have
the Jackson county courthouse moved
from Jacksonville to Mcdiord
clyde Fisk aud u, Goodchild OF Eu'
Esns have been fined $50 each for
having deer meat out Of season.
A new sawmiil Of 6O,OOo.oOo feet
yearly capacity will bc constructed
20 miles northwest Of LakcVIcw.
with tho opening OF school only a
month away. 7S Linn county school
districts have not secured teachers
yet
Sam 4. KoIer, secretary OF state.
has gone 10 San Francisco to attend
meeting OF tho National Traffic asSo
citation.
During the frat IS days OF August
go fires werof picked up" by tho
forest patrol planes leaving tho Eu'
gene base.
Tourists at Crater lake report that
for a week or two large cougar has
prowied around nightly In the vicinity
OF the hotel.
The reserve on Hueklebcrry noun
tain. west Of Lost Lake. has been
opened by tho national forest service
TO huckleberry piekeru.
A course TO III YOUNG men for intelli'
gent farm management will be given
at pcudleton high school under pro
visions Of tho Smith Hughes act this
year.
Christian Johnson. son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Jens Johnson Of Astoria, who has
been missing for several months has
been located In an insane asylum at
Lima. Peru.
Tho Pacific highway bctwecen
Grants Pass and Rogue river has been
opened to traffic. cutting off one OF
the worst pieces OF road In this part
Of the state,
Jack Rathio. one Of the men under
indictment at Pendlcton for tho mur'
dor OF Sheriff Taylor. has been identi'
fled as John taffcnbean by the sheriff
OF Power county. Idaho.
sho, and fatally wounded by a rob
her who attempted TO hold up his
store. jUaa N. Thompson. bs. Port
land grocer. died on the walk In front
OF his storo Friday nisat.
Educators from all parts OF tho state
arc expected at Hood River August 20
when tho second annual conference OF
vocational agriculture will be held Mt
the Hood River high school,
W. II. Sales OF Mohler has filod
with tho state engineer application TO
appropriate 5000 aercfeot OF water
from Foley creek for the development
OF power In Tillnmook county.
During tho week OF September 10
II County Agcn, q. w, Kablo will con
duct a poultry culling demonstration
IN Corvallis for tho information OF tho
poultry raisers OF Benton county.
An attempt is being made at Pen
dleton 10 connect the murder OF F, ID.
Jennings and his wife, near Bancroft.
Idaho, to Neil Hart and Jim owens
tho murderers Of Sheriff TIL Taylor
The gasoline shortage, which for q
umo treatened to halt many of Ore
CONS industries, has improved dur
ing the last two weeks, according to
w. A. Daixiel. deputy state sealer OF
weights and measures.
Portland is the ninth city In the
United States In the amount OF its
postal savings and leads all OF the
cities west OF Chicago, the postoffice
department. has reported. Portland's
deposits are sl,74i,7S4.
Tho Oregon Growers Cooperative
association has filed with the public
service commission petition asking
for a physical connertion between
the Southern Pacific and Oregon
Electric at Forest Grove,
Three men we're killed Instantly and
three seriously injured when a truck
carrying - men bumped into slow
iy moving passenger train at imbler'
Tho dead are Lloyd Larsen, Wayne
Keown aad Clarance Larsen.
Raymond Walsh, years old, son OF
MIR. and Mrs, Charles Walsh OF Sven
sen. was accidentally shot and killed
by his brother Cecil, aged l3 years
The boys we're playing soldier at the
time with their fathers shotgun,
Purchase by the government OF 322