Oregon Legislature Faces Busy Close as 37 Bills Signed
Oregon lawmakers push to finish 12 working days left with 47 bills signed and 22 house bills plus 15 senate bills awaiting action. Key moves include the bone dry law and stream highway legislation, with consolidation measures and heavy scrutiny of appropriations to meet tax limits.
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House
Senate
Olson
Eddy
Gordon
Public Service Commission
Withycombe
Oregon
Anderson
Jennie M. Kemp
Ada Wallace Unruh
Union
John Berleycorn
Unruh
Child Labor, Industrial Welfare and Labor Commissions
State Industrial Accident Commission
Industrial Ac Eident Commission
Tax-Commission
Ways and Means Committee
Ways and Means
Coos County Good Roads News and Forensic Notes
Coquille Herald discusses a proposed state highway commission with three district appointees. It weighs which candidate from Coos, Roseburg, or Eugene should be favored, arguing unity and strategic support for Charles Hall of the Home Telephone Co. as a strong, countywide candidate.
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Salem
Céeos County
Godset
Coos County
Roseburg
Myrtle Point
Eugene
Siuslaw
Medford
Grants Pass
Coast Range
Coos Bay
Rouge River Valley
Cow Creek Canyon
Siskiyous
Crescent City
Herald
Coos
Lane
Douglas County
the Herald
Charles Hall
Home Telephone Co
Coos County Good Roads Association
Coquille;Herald
Pea Seed Planting Plan For 20000 Acres In Spokane County
Spokane Washington February 2 Twenty thousand acres of Spokane county farm land will be planted to peas this year under contracts with several Eastern seed companies. County farm expert J R Shinn says farmer returns will exceed 800000 dollars. Contracts were made this week mostly in the southern part of the county with John H Allen Seed Company Sheboygan Wis D M Ferry Seed Company Detroit Mich C C Moore Seed Company San Francisco Everett B Clark Co Milford Conn and S D Woodruff Co Orange Conn. Other seed companies have agents in the field negotiating with Shinn and the farmers.
Lumber shipments top seven million feet in December
Coos Bay mills shipped 7 275 000 feet of lumber in the last half of December, reflecting a high price season and strong demand for timber from growers over a seven year period.
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Coos Bay
Rogue River Road Sought For National Forestry Plans
Forest officials from Portland are touring Oregon forests to inspect road projects for possible classification and national forestry funding. Grants Pass and Curry County are pushing for a 27 mile Rogue River route from Bagnell ferry to Agness at an estimated 1500 dollars per mile with county support. The November court sanctioned the effort and the Good Roads association is aiding data collection to obtain department approval and begin work.
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Forestry
Portland
National Forestry
Grants Pass
Macduff
Rogue River
Bagnell Ferry
Agness
Curry County
Wood
Salem
Good Roads Association
Gold Beach
Oregon road bill faces Benson opposition from hotel owner
Benson of Hotel Benson opposes H B 213 in the Oregon legislature. The measure would appoint the highway commission from names proposed by the good roads committee and give the State Engineer Lewis a key role. Benson and his son Amos question Lewis as a practical road man. Benson has been in California for the winter and plans returning soon.
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Hmasx
Senate
Judiciary ‘Committee
Oregon
Eddy
House
Benson
Oregon Good ‘Roads Committee
Highway Commission
Lewis
S. Benson
Amos Benson
California
Telegram
Will Build New Road in Eugene Area
Contracts will be signed at once for building over 9000 feet of new road along the North Fork Siuslaw river from its mouth near Florence. The highway will open a long stretch of country with many dairying farmers, previously inaccessible except by boat on the river.
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Eugene, Or
North Fork
Siuslaw River
Florence
Women Officials Give Big Ball at Umatilla
Pendleton Oregon February report on the inaugural ball for the new women officials of Umatilla held last evening. Mrs Leura Starcher and six other named officers were honored with dances. A large turnout from Pendleton Hermiston Stanfield Echo packed the Masonic hall and adjacent opera house to meet the officials.
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Pendleton
Ore
Umatilla
Leura Starcher
Gladys
Spinning
Bertha ‘Cherry
Opera House
Northwest items round up Feb events and accidents
Feb 3 reports from Pendleton and Salem include Ammunition stock for campaign efforts and car shortage relief, the death of No- Shirt head of the Walla Walla tribe, and the fatal train accident that killed D H Miller in Gold Hill. Elk shipments to state fair grounds and Nome Alaska racing plans also appear with lawmakers debating sterilization bills and Scandinavian day at the State Fair under Prof John O Hall.
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Ben Ore
Paseéniger
H. C. ‘Oliver
Oliver
Bian
Pendleton
No- Shirt
Walla Walla
Thorne Hollow
Gold ‘Hill
Ore
D. H. Miller
Jackson County
Gold Hill
Oregon
Southern’ Pacific
Salem
Wallowa Forest
Klamath Falls
Crater Lake Park
Jackson Hole
Nome
Alaska
A. A
Scotty) Allan
Baldy
Allan
John O. Hall
State Fair Board
Willamette ‘University
John Ovall
Wood Defends National Guard System Before Senate Panel
Major General Leonard Wood told a Senate subcommittee that the national guard system is vicious and indefensible though guardsmen deserve credit. He criticized the volunteer system and said guardsmen returning from the border are wiser and wary of a country leaning on a broken reed.
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Washington
Leonard Wood
Eastern Department
Blair Lee
National Guard For
Border Service
Senate
National Guard
War Department
Wood
SP Officers Limit Glass Headlight Glare To Save Deer
The Southern Pacific Co orders glare from headlights shut off when deer appear on tracks to prevent dazing the animals and help them jump to safety.
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Southern Pacific Co
Foreclosure Tax Lien Notice in Coos County Oregon
Circuit Court of Oregon Coos County issues summons in the case Wadman vs Wadman for foreclosure of a tax lien on real property in Coos County. Plaintiff Mary Wadman claims taxes unpaid for 1914 1915 and 1916 with interest and costs. defendant James Wadman must appear and answer before publication.
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Circuit Court
State OF Oregon
Coos County
Wadman
James Adman
James H. Wadman
Mary H. Wadman
Wamed
Tao
Willamétte Ee
Henge
Mary H. Widen
James Hadman
A. Wadman
Agere Lorecles
Sutton
Coke
Beate
Cotes
Oregon
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Review OF Work OF
Oregon Legislature
Secretary of State
Attorney General
Goode
Multnomah County
Sheldon
Bowman
Crandall
Public Service, Commission
Fierce
Cogs County
Good Roads
the Shondes A
Spokane
Eastern and Western
Jin
United
Salem A
Stott
Shafroth
Foreign Relations Committee
Hood ‘River
Pacific Fruit& Produce Company
Roy R. Gill
Marshfield
Pacific Company
Peck
Board of Eugenics
Summona
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