The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1920-02-13
OREGON NEWS NOTES
or GENERAL INTEREST
Principal Events Of Tho Week
Briefly Sketched for Inior.
=, nation OF Our Readers.

Smuggling liquor from Canada by
Rirplano into Oregon Ia said TO be tho
latest scheme TO ovRdo the Law,
The Klamath county wool growers
association has elected officors, includ'
Ing u, NJ. Hammond. president
A total OF 29l accidents we're report.
cd to the state industrial accident
commission for tho week ending Feb
ruary 8
Fossil IL having lts share of lnfiu'
cuEa, but tho cases ar. generally mild,
II Ia practically impossible 10 get
nurses
Agreeing TO accept a standard breed
Of dairy cattle. farmers OF Alsca valley
have gone on record for community
Improvement program.
Shut Ia from motor travel. Cove.
Union county. has only developed
three eassS OF contagious diseases In
six months. These cases wero typhoid
A Salvation Army advisory board
has been created at Eugene 20 inTeati'
gate aud report on local conditions In
which the organization can bo OF serv'
Ice
An characterization league has been
formed Rt Marnhileld. with more than
100 members. for the purpose ot pro-
venting tho vaccination Of school chill
dFcn.
After acquiring a fortune OF $4,000
Ahlnlns shoes at Eugene. Louis polalis,
youug Greek has returned To his ma
tive land. after selling out 10 his
brother
Preference rights will be granted sol
dicrn by tho government In films on
tho Oregon q California and other
forfeited land grants To BE- opened TO
settlement,
Mcdford has been named the head
quarters ~ the Episcopal Church In
southern Oregon with Pastor William
n. Hamilton OF 81, Marks church 40
dean Of tho district,
{. Ray Beekiey OF Portland has filed
application with Percy Cupper. state
engineer, for the use Of water from
the 'Jchn Day river for power devel'
opment and irrigation purposes.
Preliminary steps have been taken
at Hoppncr for tho organization OF
Morrow county fair association. with
capital stock OF $4,000, A tract of
4: acres near iieppner will bc pur'
chased.
Tho Penayor Lumber company Of
Saginaw, Mich. has closed contract
for the Savage tract OF timber on tho
border of jackson and Josephine coun.
ties, Removal OF the timber will begin
al once
Not aalcs OF hogs sheep and cattle
acnt to tho Portland stockyardG by the
Lane county cooperative shipping as,
ssciation during the year amounted to
siG4.0T6, sixty.four carloads of stock
were shipped,
Postmnstcrs are TO be appointed In
Oregon as follows: Wayne II, Elliott,
vcneta. Lane county; Charles w,
Sharpe camas Valley, Douglas county;
Percy E Allen. Elsie. Clatsop county.
and Mrs. Marie w. Havill, lIoff. Clack.
amas county
BY agreement with the state, tho Pa.
ciflc Livestock company viii put on
the market 10000 acres of llarney val
ley iand. and first choice viii be given
soldiers and sailore, They will have
90 days IN which 10 take up tho option
Of settlement.
Grasshoppers cannot he clnssed MS
squirrels. noxious rodents or predatory
animals under tho Oregon laws, and
consequently county courts are not
authorized to appropriate money for
their determination, according to an
opinion by Attorney General Brown,
Poultry schools are to be established
in wasco county by the Wnsco County
Poultry association according TO plans
formulated by tho executive commiltee'
II Ia planned TO have ak schools in
various parts of tho county which will
be instructed by prominent poultry ex.
perts
A record price for standing timber
was offered at the government sale OF
IL, ,OO0. 900 feet OF white pine on tho
Klamath Indian reservation, the high
bidder, |. H. Larkcy, bidding S6.S3 per
1000 feet. and $3.50 per 1000 feet rental
for the Kirk sawmill, where tho timber
wlll>be manufactured.
Predatory animsls numbering 32is
were killed by the IS men and women
employed by the United States bio
logical survey in Idaho, Washington