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Show TREASURER ENJOINED FROM PAYING OUT $100,000 Salem, Ore., May 26. Proceedings have been begun in the state circuit court of Marion county to enjoin the state treasurer of Oregon from paying pay-ing out $100,000 appropriated by the last legislature, to bo used partly to defray the cost or constructing a wagon wag-on road from Medford to Crater Lake, on the ground that it was special legislation. leg-islation. The road In question was the idea of E. H. Harriman, who proposed ir KlamatK Tiud Jackson counties would each contribute $50,000 and the state appropriate $100,000 more, he would add $50,000 to make up the necessary neces-sary $250,000 which It is estimated the road will cost The course of tho projected road runs from Medford to Pelican Bay lodge, Hanlman's summer home in this state, and thence north ! to Crater Lake. This body of water is one of nature's wonders, but its inaccessibility prohibits visiting it. |