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About The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947 | View Entire Issue (April 24, 1913)
u- E The Ontario National Bank United States Depository State of Oregon Depository IS Our Bank Your hank? If not, we cordially invite you to make our bank your bank. We have the usual Safeguards of Fire Proof Vault, Burglar Proof Safe, Bonded employees, and do business in a conservative manner. -:- -: .;. .;. Capital and Surplus. $80,000 5 Per Cent Net on Time CERTIFICATES OF DEPOSIT B. S. COOK & COMPANY (INCORPORATE!)) J. H. COOK, Manager. Capital Stock 50,000.00 Choice Apple and Prune Lands Land and City Property CT-mt tr? LUXURIOUS NECESSITIES Siiumli agreeable, doet It not t That what 'Standard" luthroom riaturca are. Uniting ii necenary, but a lath in l lautiful white enameled hath if luxunnii, necessity. A completely equipped bathroom linulil he in every horn which makra 'trim of being modern. If ymit Inline ii not to equipped let ui m.ikc you an estimate on a new bath room outfit at once. ll' JMl. tuitC "UnMfM" Sh U, S. Plumbing k Heating Co. ;e.7 C. i II Realty Exchange Farm and city property bought and old. All kinds of property to trad. We write imaranoe Id the beet nnm pauiea in the wot Id. Wo will not let your Insurance run nut without notifying yoo. Many a man haa loaf all be bad by not being injured. Keei yoor property inanred. It la good business. Our rate are always right . Realty Exchange A Bargain 2, BOO fro It trees of the three following rarletlea: Jonathan, Rome Beauty, Wlneanp. For farther partir alara pbone Mrs. Goldbaoher. Old 1 -opera at the Argus office 15 oents per hundred. Just what yon need to line your cabins and place under tbe carpet. 60 shares Owyhee ditch stock for rale on long-time. A. E. Boyer, On tarlo, Oregon. I rain Service. West bound. No. 17 Oregou Wash Ltd 5:15 a n No. 25 Huntington Pass 9:20 a m No. 0 East Mail 0:15 pm No 27 Muutlngton Pass 6:93 p tn No. 5 Oregon Wash Express 7 :50 p m East bound. No. 18 Oregon Wash Ltd 2:51 a n No. 2(1 Boise passenger 8:50 a m No. 10 East Mall 11:24 a m No. 28 Boise passenger .1:50 p in No. 0 Oregon Wash Express 4 :40 p m Vale train leavea at 9:30 a. m. re turning at 3:c"0 p. m. Local Market Report. Corrected Feb. 27, for the beoeflt of Argus readers by the Malheur Mer oantlle Company. Eggs, per dozen. 25o. Butter, per pouuJ, 30o. Oata, per hundred. $1.50 Wheat, per hundred, 91.00. Hay, per ton, 95. Potatoes, per hundred, 60. Colons, per hundred, 92.00. Apples, per box, 91.00. to 91. 5w Chickens, diesaed, per pound, 8o. Pork, dressed, ' to lOo. Pork, life, 6 to Hc. Veal, 0 to lOo. Beef, llo to 12i. HARRIMAN Townsite Now Open Situated near the Malheur Lake, on a high, fine gentle sloping tract of land. This site offers exceptional opportunity for making a good city. Vast areas of ara ble territory spread out in all directions. Every valley and streamlet of the distant mountains has its ranches and flourishing livestock. Considerable land in the valley is still subject to homestead entry, and with the advent of the Oregon-Eastern Railway Now building toward Harney Val kythis grand new empire will teem with land seekers and people seeking business opportunities and professional locations. GET IN EARLY Good opening for a newspaper, blacksmith shop, hotel drugstore, hardware and implement houses, as well as other lines of business. A limited number of lots are now offered for sale at remarkably low prices, either for cash or on easy terms, which prices will advance when the railroad is built into the Harney Valley. REMEMBER, Harriman will be the first important point in the great Harney Valley to have a railroad. UTAH-OREGON LAND COMPANY C H. MOREHOUSE. Pre. Salt Lake City, Utah. H. M. HORTON, Sec. Burns, Oregon S. F. Taylor, Agent, Ontario, Oregon. C. MC60NA6ILL ATTORNEY AT LAW Will Practice in all CourU Notary Public. Office over Poetoffice OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIANS Pit II Mtllll- I Skmih Dlt. I'ai'i.ink Skahh Graduates American 8cbool of Os teopathy, Kirksville, Mo. Wilson Block Telephone. 154 Blk. H. H. WHITNEY PHY81CIAN and SURGEON Office In I. O. O. F. Bldg., Ontario. . Oregon W. H. BROOKE R. W. SWA6LER Attorneys at Law Rooms 13. II. 15. 16. Wilson Bldg. Ontario, Oregon ORS. PRINZIN6 L WEESE Ontario, Oregon Office in New Wilson Block. C. C. GOLDSB, RRY DENTIST Gas with Extractlona Office I'honc. No. 138 R In Wilson Block J W McCulloeh R W Eckhardt Mcculloch & eckhardt LAWYERS Rooms 1-2-3. First Nat'l Bank Bldg Ontario, Oregon Transfer. Baggage and Express Meet All Trains JOHN LANDINGHAM Dr. W. G. Howe DENTISI Telephone No. 732 First National Hank Hid. ONTARIO LAUNDRY Leave Bundles at Any Hotel or Barber Shop Prompt? Attention Given All Order. To Have And To Hold To have a customer means to hold him at this store. We hold turn by never giving him reason to go else where. We carry what people want, we give the kind of service that people like, and we make prices tl at alway- please. We want your trade, ami as a bas is for this trade we want you to feel that it is worth while for you to come here for drug. i.l I IS K TKIAl Bermele's Drug Store W. W. HINTON STOCK IN8FKCTOK OK MAI II K I li COUNTY DEPUTIES- Rob't O'dell, Ontario. 11 II Hitch, Vale. C C Morton. Old's Ferry. John Mathews, Weiser Bridge. J. E.. Holly. Kivcrview W U Hkiuner, Jordan Valley. Fred Wilkinson. McDennitt T. A. Barton, Nma Always on the Job If you have a job of hauliug you want doue, large or small, you oau alwaia depend on Jobu Leudiugbaoi being read for you. Call him at ths M" ru Hotel. OREGON NEWS NOTES OF GENERAL INTEREST Events Occurring Throughout the State During the Past Week. Text Book Commission to Reduce Coat Salem. Aa the law creating the state test book commission was enact ed for the purpose of making school courses uniform through the state and reducing the cost of books to a mini mum, the attorney general rendered an opinion that the state text book commission had no authority to adopt two or three books In the same branch of study, In order to give teachers a selection, or to designate books for supplementary reading. C. & E. LINE MUST REBUILD Commission Finds Track Is Poor and Urges Immediate Improvement. Salem. All of the line of the Corval Us A Eastern railroad company, from C'orvallls to Yaqulna, a distance of 71 miles, must be relald with new steel rails, and properly ballasted, and all of the company's line, consisting of 140 miles, must be ballasted, for the stnt" railroad commission, which made an inspect ion of the whole line, direct ed that the company make such Im provements. While thesw directions were iiof reduced to the formality of tin older, the commission Intimates that utile they are obeyed a fornnil order will be made. The commission finds, to begin with. that the entire track of the naajsjajfti line Is unballasted. The track Mat of Albany, It aaya, consists of 56 pound steel rails, laid In 1887, and tie nurture Is kinked and out of allgtl ment. By laying new ties and prop erly ballasting, this condition can be remudled. says the commission. From llmny to t'orvallls the track needs ballasting, but otherwise It la found good. Placer Qold Strike on Canyon John Day. A feverish gold pede has Just been started by a itrlk-i on Canyon Mountain, made hy M OM time prospector. Isn O'Shou. O'Stiei made his strike more than a week ago. but succeeded ill keeping It li several days. When the news flnnll, leaked out there was an Imtnedlal rush. It is rumored oshen has taken out between HM and 13000. One pull It la auld, yielded htm .'"" Anvil May Yst Bs Saved. Florence. Mr. (Jeiicrcaux, who has charge of the Anvil for the Insurance company, found after an examination that the vessel Is In much better shape than was feared and is confident ol success In the attempt float her. She Is gradually moving closer into deep water. AGENT SENT TO UMATILLA Secretary of Interior Has Received Conflicting Stories of Project. Washington. There should be little wonder that the secretary of the In terior. Franklin K. Lane, is unable to decide Juat what course to pursue wl 'u t to the West I'mntlUa extension reclamation project. Reports have reached the secretary that Indicate u serious condition a; the project and he would, like to know what v. tc.hl to give them, lie has In "iii it'l pritty plainly that he will send an uncut to look Into the mutii r and give him an Impartial report. The investigation if made will proh ably be conducted expeditiously The is likcl) to be selected from the western country Itself, but he will not be a man timing an rei.son to show bias either for or agniin-t IM prnjc t tie will he asked to iu chllgate. Seen i.. i) l.aue wnl prohably try to get his opinion as soon as Is consistent with a proper report, and be will (hen act on It without unnecessary deluy. Bigamy and Theft Woman's Charges Portland - Joseph K. Kills, whose aliases are. according to county offi cers, Rev. E. I.. Richards and C. II Duffy, waa taken from the California Limited at Dunamulr. al.. by local officers, acting under instrin tloua sent by Sheriff Word. Ills wife, two daugh ters aud a son were also taken from tbe train. Sheriff Word sent a do puty to bring the family back to Port land, where Kills, or Duffy, ma be charged with blgi-iny und swindling a woman whom he recently married in Georgia, out of 26a0. BRIEF NEWS OF OREGON Klamath Allotments Rut on Block Klamath Falls Score of inherited allotments on the Klamath Indian rat ervatlon will soon be offered for sale Tin-minimum prue at which the lands cun be sold is fixed by a board of ap praiser. The lauda are then adver tibed and aold to the highest bidder but no bid less ihan ihe apratsed val uatlou is considered The money de rived from the sale of the lands goes to the heirs of 'be deceased Before the lands are sold the agent in charge of the reservation tails a meeting of all helra. Oil will be used for fuel In the new central heating plant to be Installed at the cnpttol at Salem. Baker lumber mills are reported op erating to their full cnpnclty to fill th crowding orders from the east. L. R. Alderman, Oregon stale super- j Intendent of education, was chosen president of the Inland Empire Tench-' era' association. Eugene Is to have a fSR.ti'M npart-l ment house, three stories high and the largest In town, to be erected by the Hurtle Rwenney company, n local concern. Mood River ferrymen threaten to tie up their boats and shut off that city from the trans-river points, unlean they nre given a landing place dicing the high water period. May 9, the 1918 Inspection day at Oregon Agricultural college Corval Ha, will he made of state-wide interest. An nil day program In the mturo of a military entertainment will be given. A. C. Strange, city superintendent of The Dalles' schools for six years, hnq been chosen to succeed J. A. Churchill at Baker. Mr. Chuivhlll be comes Htiitc superintendent of public Instruction at the close of the school year. The Michigan Trust company of Grand Hnpbls BBS filed a half million dollar mortgage deed at Roseburg. The iii. ult. ,u:e ..'ill. . a -.lv per cent bond Issue floated for the purpose of building a large lumber plant at the mouth of the Sluslnw river. Large quantities of lumber and white cedar railroad ties have been coming ashore near Newport. Thero Is no Indication ns to Just what vessel the lumber came from, except (hut an erupt v fruit box was found bearing the name of Ihe steamship Governor. Fllteeu "coeds" of the I'lilveralty of Oregon, Kug .are working their way through college Independent of outside support. They do sewing, housework and similar tasks, and be-ciiu-e of the democratic spirit at Eu gene, do not suffer loss of social posi tion. W. 0, Thlenes, bf Eugene, who waa recenll) arrested and tried on tho ' i oi perjury, but SOQlUted by Jury, hi BBSO I M. Frniiclu of thill city for 196,000 damages, alleging that It syajg at ITatuls' liiKtlgntlou that tho l rj lad ' him. The large caterpillar traction engine . n the f-irm of Willi miii Itld.lell Snne near Monmouth, lias becu plowing dur ing the past fe dn. The ni.ichlno .ui. in 19 .ores ol grail in on- day, and with He i. M Of tktt outfit, which Is entirely new to Mint county, the sea son's work on tin' M lllddcll farm 1st rapidly coinplci.d. Word was relved by Superintend ent Alib-iman from Superintendent I'arh) of Hroc: ion, Mass, that he I reads to exchange sixth grade teach er and two high school teachers for teachers from Oregon. This la the first fruit of the exchange movement started by Si.,., i .nlenl-ui Mderiu hi during his recent visit to Massachu setts A number of Japanese business men of Hood Itlver have organised an asso ciation for Investment of Um ing of Jnpaue. laborers of the valley. M. Yasui. president of the organisation. which bus a capital stock of lf.n.000, . tlaaatW thai SB '' ""' H'hhI Itlver Japanese now send about 4o, iiiiu annually to the Yokohama Specie haul: at San liunclsco. Ileavj, aheep lossi been sus tained in the vicinity of Castle Rock nmi Arfiagtea TIM itaaltaM ouitit. Of .,!'. Ho.k is said 10 have lost ., which may mean that many I. .nib died also. 'I ho sloeo hud bur n.ciitly be, ii shorn with miuhlnei. If (loser than when doue by hand, and the col. I wind was i ! ay hii.s. "Deft" Sad !-' are alike In a rcvci ul .' Helmut ut The Dalles over tin- MalOSBOBl 'hat the city cotinr:i Ihci. h m had no legal right to llcenso saloons since 1vm. If legal action determine.-, that the statement Ib i on I a special election will follow aud tlio question Isfl ll tbe voters. I'uitlclpiv t ion of suffragettes In tho expected camp-iii'i! would make, it la aald, the hot test fight ever waged hi The Dalles. Hay Ferrell, 'li years of age, fur whou body 50 men spent In days dragging and dyuuniltliig Snuke river, i.ai Ontario, has turned up at La Gi.m, I. n.ll left his wife of two weeks on April 4 to go hunting Ilia gun, hat and coat were found the next uiorning on ihe river bank after an all night scan h His wife has been lit idlou since. Ha signs no cause for his queer ac tion Bttl I capital 'tock of $100,000 and willi 1 jt I'oiti..'.. pionuneii' busl I : incorporators, i Loan isaatttaV Jon filed i oration 'vlih the secretary of stale The missiou oi tl 'I Is lo fight loan shall i ami pro1 don Is made for loan ing tnoui'j ut low interest with a fur ther provision thai llvidends fhall not It Is also pr a i that in case of dissolution, the surplus shall be devoted to charitable