The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1920-10-01
OREGON NEWS NOTES
OF GENERAL INTEREST
Principal Events Of The Week
Briefly Skeiched for lnfor.
nation OF Our Readers.


farm west OF silyerton.
The laying Of the superstruclure for
the 100000 Sacred Heart academy In
klamath Falls has begun.
Voters OF Linn county at the coming
election will pans upon the question
OF an increased county taI levy.
Rain interfsrod with the Lincoln
County fair. keeping the crowds away
and hurting the fair financially,
County sheriff and county clerks
Of the state held twodRy conventions
In Pendleton Friday and Saturday,
Tho reeen, rains have stopped har'
vest work In wallowa county. and II Il
continues much damage will BE- done.
Residents OF upper Hood River
valley plan vote on the proposition
TO increase the districts special road
tAx.
The rh.as OF tho past few days have
damaged tho evergreen blackberry
crop Of Lane county TO a large en-
tent
Fully so pcr cent more potatoes will
bo available for shipment out OF tho
Dcsehutes valley this fall than last
season.
irwin 8. Cobb left bend Thursday
after three weeks hunting and fish
ing trip. He will travel east to tho
Oregon Short Line,
Cooley Sun, aged years, was killed
almost instantly at Salem whom an
auto truck in which he was riding waa
struck by a moving train,
Principals OF tho high schools OF
Deaehutos. Crook and jefferson coun.
ties met Saturday In Redmond to
adopt tho 1890 lnterachoiaatic gridiron
Aei,uds.l- for Lentrai oregon.
r. T.. Harold. who escaped from the
state peniteutiary at Salem In 1914 and
was captured In idaho week ago. was
returned 10 the prison. lie has two
years OF his sentence yet TO serve.
Decision OF Hawmill companies bc.
tween Reedsport and Powers TO re-
duco wages was abandoned after
conference with officials Of tho Loyal
Legion Of Loggers and Lumbermcn.
Tho Crown. willamette Paper COM
pany has purchased approximately
2i0o acrcs OF spruce timber land In
cla,sop county from II. y. Noble OF
Portland. tho consideration being s2is,'
500.
Not q single fire started in the tim
bsrSa diatrict of western Lane county
during tho past summer. according to
n report by Carl V. ogieshy. suporvis'
ing warden OF the Western Fire Patrol
association.
Discovery OF a hybrid prune. the
Now Oregon" which experts declare
will revolu:innize prune growing In
tho entire northwest, was announced
at banquet of prominent Oregon
nursery men,
The candidates campaign pamphlet,
which will bc printed and mailed to
the voters Of Oregon prior IN October
II. Ia being compiled by Secretary OF
State KoEer and will contain approx
mately 80 pages.
After five hours Of delibcration
fury at Salem returned n verdict OF
guilty against Mrs. Lena steiger 90
years old, charged with conspiring
with Jesse Mullinix to murder her
husband last March
Thomas A. Hayes OF Portland filed
with the secretary OF state petitions
Of his candidacy for United States
senator IRON Oregon at the general
election to ho held In November, Mr.
Hayes will make the race under the
independent banner.
Plans for the determination OF the
alfalfa weevll, an insect which al
ready has caused considerable DAM
age TO tho alfalfa crops OF the Pa
cific coast, we're discussed at a meet
ing OF prominent western entomoio-
gists held In Salem. s.....
Five political parties will be repre-,
sented on tho ballot at the general
election In Oregon on November o.
according to the certification OF names
and information regarding nominees
and measures prepared by Sam A.
Kozer, secretary OF state,
Communication has been received at
the Oregon Agricultural college. Cor
wallis. from Morningside college,
Sioux City, Iowa. to the effect that the
college will send debate team on
tour OF the Pacific coast next spring
and asking contest with o. A. G.
Personal Investigation OF devasta'
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