The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1922-12-21

feet wide has been completed between
Canyonvllle and Galesville in Douglas
county, according to information re
ceived at the offices of the state high
way department,
Provided the governor-elect and the
legislature guarantee their action will
be legalized, the state highway com.
mission will take up on December 29
the building of the Columbia highway
through the burned area of Astoria.
This and the approach to the city will
amount to about $780, 900.
There were 67 fires in the Crater
national forest during the last season
according to the report of Hugh B.
Rankin, supervisor of that forest. The
cost to the forest service of suppress
ing these fires was $7046.1S, and the
damage to timber inside of the ma
tional forest was $105731.
George William of Haines was found
guilty at Baker of manslaughter by a
jury in circuit court which heard evi-
dence bearing on the first-degree muir
der charge of the prisoner growing out
of his confessed staying last summer
of Tom Paine, recluse living in
small cabin in the hills west of Haines.
Necessity Of increased facilities for
handling the rolling stock of the
Southern Pacific company at its
Brooklyn shops in Portland has re-
suited in active construction work be-
ing started on three new buildings
which will cost approximately $50, 0,000
according to officials of the company
Resolutions requesting the state
legislature to do nothing to disturb
the workings of the present state COM
pensation law were adopted at con-
vention of the Loyal Legion of Loggers
and Lumbermen at Springfield. The
meeting took up several problems of
legislation and also the matter of an
advance in wages.
warning was issued to all dance
hall managers in Douglas county that
in the future the presence of an intox-
icated person at any dance held within
the county Will mean the immediate
forfeiting of the license issued to the
dance manager unless a warrant is
secured for the arrest of the person
disturbing the dance.
A nnicnn oop,pa ion anoipot io
rabbits of the high desert In Deschutes
county will be started within the next
few days under the direction of an
expert sent out by the United States
biological survey in order that the
stores of hay saved for winter feeding
of cattle may not be devoured by the
voracious rodent hordes.
1t was reported at Salem that the
Eastern & Western Lumber company
of Portland has purchased approx
mately 1,000,000,000 feet of timber in
the Cascade range in Marion and
Clackamas counties from the Foster
Timber company of Milwaukee, Wis.
The tract lies north of the Silver Falls
Timber company holdings.
The state labor department sent a
representative to Astoria to investi-
gate the labor situation there. Reports
reaching c. H. Gram, labor commits
sioner, indicated that large number
of men were headed for the lower Co
lumbia river city, while others who
were employed there before the fire
are leaving for other cities.
Action in the lower house of con-
gress for relief of Astoria fire suffer
ers will follow upon a telegraphic re-
port of the conditions requested by
Secretary of War Weeks, 1t was decid-
ed after a conference between Repre-
entative Hawley of Oregon, Majority
Leader Mondell and Chairman Madden
of the house appropriations committee.
The Association of District Attor-
neys of Oregon, In annual session at
Eugene, went on record as favoring
the repeal of the present woman jury
law on account or lts cumbersome pro-
cedure and impossibility of procuring
a jury in many statutory cases wherein
the law requires that half of the jury
shall be women and also favoring
law compelling women to serve.
There were four fatalities In Oregon
due to industrial accidents during the
week ending December IA, according
to a report prepared by the state in
dustrial accident commission. The
victims were: II. II. Nestle, mill work
err Eugene; w. w. Mead, logger, Ma
pleton; A. II. Johnson, foundryman,
Portland, and Frank Arnott, wood
bucker, North Bend. A total of sos
accidents were reported for the week.
Plans for an elaborate summer club
house and hunting lodge, to be the
equal of any game association club
house in the northwest, were drawn
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