The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1921-02-11
OprcON NEWS NOTES
OF GENERAL INTEREST
Principal Events Of the Week
Briefly Sketched for lnfor.
nation OF Our Readers.

Th0 new DehIoUehh HobplNul ~
Salem was dedicated last week The
building IL not the property OF any
scot. but was erected by donations
from oil sources,
Snow nearly five feet In depth was
found by Forest Ranger X. r, 4, Smith
aud q. l.. Drake. who have Just com
plotsd . week OF cruising In the Lost
Lake region near NJ. Hood,
because Of the crowded condition
OF tho Albany schools. the school
board has decided TO call n special
election for the purpose OF issuing
bonds To provide additional room.
Senator Chamberlain has ieft the
emergency hospital In Warrington
which he entered more than five weeks
ago 10 undergo u serious operation.
and Ia back at bis apartments under
the care OF his physician and q nurse.
Tho sale OF timber on q tract OF land.
between 1000 aud 10000 acres In eI.
tent. on winberry creek. within tho
Cascade national forest. 10 Washing.
ton milling and timber interests 10 In
contemplation. according TO announce
men, nt the Eugene Office Of the for
est service.
A flumo five miles long. TO carry
lumber from the Lost Creek valley
above Dexter 10 the Southern Pacific
railway at pongra station. on the
Natron cutoff. will bo built at once.
according 10 announcement OF d. y.
Yoran. one OF tho organizers OF the
Mount June Fiume company OF Eu'
gene.
During the week ending February
there was one fatality In Oregon
due to Industrial accidents. according
TO rcpor, prepared by the state 10.
dustriAi accident commission. The
victim was John McKeown. laborer OF
Portland A total OF t2I accidents
were reported In tho course OF the
week.
Unidentified men galned entrance
TO tho state tuberculosis hospital at
Salem. carried safe TO an automo-
bile, which had been parked some
distance from the institution. drove
moro than n mile down the highway.
and there wrecked the strongbox and
obtained approximately $500 in cash
and $3.50 In checks
Contracts for more than half a
million dollars worth OF road work,
includin. construction OF Elk bridges
and the laying OF Is miles OF pavement.
were ordered entered into by the state
highway commission following the
opening Of bids upon the proposed
work. bids on many other jobs were
opened and rejected. and u second ad'
vcrtlslng OF the work ordered
Charles ]. schnabel. prominent at.
torncy OF Portland. was shot in the
back and fatally wounded by Joseph
C. Poeschl. an excellent, as he was
about TO enter an elevator on the
third floor OF the court house. He
died In an ambulance on the way to
q hospital. Fancied grievances against
the lawyer. harbored for more than
ten years by poeschl. furnished the
motive for the killing.
Representative Hawley OF Oregon
has succeeded In having four special
bills incorporated in the
omnibus pension bill which has been
TO the house. They are for
Mrs. Henrietta Brewer OF Roseburg,
Mrs. Sofia Il. Mckinney OF Cottage
Grove, Mrs Caroline Hines Willis OF
ard James NJ, Berry OF Mills
City. The widows will receive $50
each and the veteran $50 month,
Federal aid for developing hydro
electric power at umatilla rapids, In
tho Columbia, and passage of the
Joseph hydro.electric commission bill
by the Oregon legislature, were
sought at Pendieton Saturday In Q
OF government and reclamG
ton engineers, representatives Of the
Northern Pacific. Spokane, Portland
q Seattle. oregon.Washington Rail
way & Navigation, and Milwaukee
railroads, the ways and means com
mittee OF the state legislature and 200
business men of eastern Oregon. John
Il. Lewis. formerly state engineer
md Robert N. Stanfield, United
States senator.elect, were among the
speakers. The project pro
poses the development OF 10000
horse. power from the river and the
irrigation of 6ss,o0o acres in the
John Day project, Oregon, and the
Horse Heaven project, Washington. A
arge sum OF money already has been
pledged, and cooperation of the rail-
'oads and the government is sought