The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1922-11-16
OREGON news NOTES
OF GENERAL INTEREST
Principal Events Of the Wee
Briefly Sketched for lnfOr-
nation of Our ReaderN

The recall movement against Har-
! vey E. Cross, county Judge Of Clack.
amas county, was lost.
Complete returns from the Salem
precincts in the election show that
John Geiys was elected mayor.
Medford high school boy students
have put the taboo on any Of their
members wearing the famed peon
pants.
At the Eugene city election last
week, the entire yellow" ticket, in
dorsed by the patriotic societies, was
| elected.
Judge Charles Carey Of Portland has
presented to the state library at
| Salem, 65 copies of his work on Ore
gon history.
Herbert R. Satchwell, new post
master at Shedd since October 1, age
about so years, dropped dead from
heart disease.
G. N. Macarthur, for years the re-
preventative in congress for the third
district, was defeated for reelection
by Elton Watkins, democrat.
In the three-cornered contest for
mayor Of Astoria, o. B. Settlers de-
feated M. German and B. F. Stone by
a plurality of approximately 400.
The first boys and girls industrial
club to organize in Linn county for
the coming year is at Franklin Butte
school in the Scio neighborhood.
The port of Astoria budget COM
mittee has fixed the port tax on the
1922 roll at $233,9277O or $32,123.30
less than the amount in last years
roll.
James s. VanWinkle, Linn county
assessor and brother of Attorney-Gen.
eral Van Wrinkle, died at his home in
Albany following several weeks ILL.,
ness.
Twenty-one road districts Of Marion
county have voted special road levies
aggregating $34,474S6, according to
reports received at the county clerks
office.
The first of the 25 special road dis
tricts in Linn county to report the
voting of special tax for road i'm
provement next year is Rock Creek.
near Gates.
Scott & Eager of Dayton, Wash,
have purchased approximately 4,400,-
900 board feet of yellow pine, Douglas
fir and white fir in the Umatilla ma
tional forest.
The political race between George
L. Quine and w. L. Cobb for county
judge of Douglas county will prob
ably not be decided until the final
count is made.
The compulsory education bill which
Oregon adopted at last weeks election
by majority vote of more than $4,000
is to be tested in the courts for Its
constitutional right to live.
The pear shipping season from the
Rogue river valley is about over, there
being only about 20 cars yet to go. So
far 1909 cars of pears have been I
shipped to the eastern market.
According to figures compiled by
the Port Of Portland, of 1923 vessels
from the Columbia river dur
ing the first ten months of the present
year, 91S carried the American flag.
During the month of October the
Oregon Growers association paid out
Of the Salem office. to growers from
various pools and for the packing and
of prunes, total OF S722,-
901.67.
Wheat shipments from the Colum-
bia river district between July / aud
November reached S.S79.2s5 bush
els. while for the same time In the
1922 season they were 16.776.S40
bushels.
The board OF directors OF the lower
Columbia Dairy association has fixed
81 cents pound as the price to be
paid for butterfat delivered to its As
toria creamery during the month OF
October.
The voters Of Medford at last weeks
election adopted charter amendment
providing for water commission to
be appointed by the mayor and to
iaye full control OF the water depart
nent OF the city.
Charles A. Bigelow. commissioner
II public affairs, was reelected and
stanhope s. Pier was elected. accord