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Newspaper
Independence Enterprise
Location
Independence, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1920
Page
7
The un executors of the estate of B Cooper deceased file final account in Jackson County Oregon. A hearing is set for October 1920 at the Dallas County Court in the forenoon to consider objections and the final account. Attorneys SWOPE and fellows notified.
The forest service issues a one year permit to supply piling and timber for the government railroad from Seward to Fairbanks. It allows limited cutting within five miles of the right of way and one mile bands around Tartingain Arm Kenai and Trail Lanken with strict waste and fire protections.
Kipling delivered a landmark wartime tribute at Edinburgh University upon receiving an LL degree. He praised the university lineage from John Knox and argued soldiers fulfilled a higher duty by facing war with courage, choosing duty over personal ambitions as life itself pressed on. The London Spectator calls the passage one of prose inspired by war.
A catalog describes 3 horses and 2 mules and 1 cow. Included are a 4 year old mare weighing 1500 pounds, a 10 year old mare weighing 1600, an 11 year old mare weighing 1650, a span of mules around 2000 pounds, and a registered Jersey cow four years old.
Sam A. Kozer secretary of state says public backing of traffic officials would cut accidents and enforce laws. Oregon’s driver license law requires 25 cent fee, minimum age 16, five days driving, with licenses issued since last July. Three inspectors aid enforcement and license revenues fund highways and counties.
Pendleton Oswald C. Hansel the last man hanged in Oregon in 1918 and Emmett Bancroft alias Neil Hart, the first to be hanged since capital punishment was restored, both murdered a man named Taylor. Hansel killed Judge Frank J. Taylor in Astoria on September 1, 1913. Hart killed Sheriff Taylor on July 25, 1920. Wart faces execution in November. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Mattison and William Dawes returned from Portland with Miss Mildred Dawes who has started high school here.
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