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About The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947 | View Entire Issue (June 26, 1913)
ONTARIO ARGUS PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY Entered in the postoffice at Ontario, Oregon, for transmission through the mails as second-class matter. M. E. BAIN. Editor and Proprietor Andrew Carnegie's gift of $1,000,000 Was rejected by the College of Bishops f the Methodist Episcopal church. The Illinois legislature adjourned Without passing an Initiates and ref erendum bill before It Tha '17-year-locusts" which had been awarmlng In the woods about Kansaa City have disappeared, after doing but little damage. The atate capltol and many stores were unroofed at Tallahassee. Fla.. by a tornado which awept over the city. In the country near by much lWeatock was killed and maimed and other dam age done. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Knglnemen In seaaion at Washington has passed an amendment o us coneimmon admitting to mem bership all employes engaged In the operation of electric locomottvea. A recent heat wave cauaed many probations and six deaths at Chicago, and two deaths in Philadelphia. More than 1600 head of boga died from heat In the Union stock yearda at Chicago, entailing a loss of $36,000. Through a unanlmoua decision of the United Statea supreme court, ne groes can be compelled by steamship compnnles to accept second claaa ac commodations. A municipal wane commission at Los Angeles reported that $4 per day was the lowest wage upon which a family could be aupported In that city. It found that 6000 workers were re ceiving less than $2 per day. The Japanese under secretary of etnto for fori;n affairs at Toklo ten dered an official apology to the Ameri can charge d'affalra for the Inscription directed against the United Htates which was written by unknown per sons on the walla of the American em baaay. A collision between electric cars Thursday near Vallejo, Cal., resulted In violent death to 18 persona. Twenty-five others were Injured, two of them fatally. A two-car train crashed into a single car at full apeed. Twenty-five thousand to 30,000 building workers were locked out in Chicago In pursuance of the expreased determination of the Building Trades Km ploy era' association to break un ionism In Chicago, and the city facsa the most serious building strike since 1900. Oovernor Sulier of New York ap pointed Miss MarK'tret Wilson, laugh ter of President Wilson, a member of commlaslon to investigate the af fairs and management of the prieona nrt rffuriniar i,ri..M of the tat Pllklngton of Portland wee elected president of the American As sociation of Nurserymen, the national organisation of nurserymen's Interests. According to an address made be fore the American Medical association at Washington by Dr. Robert Blue, surgeon general of the public health service, leprosy is steadily Increasing In the United States. William D. Haywood and other offi cers and leaders of the Industrial Workers of the World were arraigned In court Monday at Paterson, N.'j., to stand trial for Inciting riot In con nection with the Paterson silk work era' strike. Thoroughly angry at his treatment when he took the stand as a witness at Chicago in the government's suit te dissolve the harvester truat, George W. Porkina declared after his hearing that he predicted he would be Indicted and prosecuted for criminal violation of the Sherman anti-trust law. bme BRIEF NEWS OF OREGON Fairbanks Urges Hsrmony In Party. Omaha, Neb. Forget and forgive waa the keynote of an address deliv ered here by ex-Vlce-Presldent Chas. W. Fairbanks at a banquet tendered him by 300 Republican leaders of Neb raska. The gathering was fairly rep resentative of both wings of the party In thia state. Russian Tresty Renewal Refused. London A 8t. Petersburg dispatch to the Standard says that President Woodrow Wilson has declined Russia's request for a renews! of the treaty on commerce except on the absolute condition that American Jews are al lowed to enter Russia freely. GOVERNOR SULZER ATTACKS MURPHY Albany, N. Y. Accusing Charles F. Murphy of being "behind a conspiracy to blacken my character because I refused to do his bidding," Oovernor Suiter gave In detail his version of his break with the Tammany chieftain. For more than an hour the governor sat in the executive chamber and told the newspaper correspondents, bitter In Its denunciation of Tammany's lead er and replete with allegations that Murphy had attempted to Influence the executive action In matters of leg Islstlon, sppolntments and removals from office. The governor said he had seen Mur phy only three times since his inau gurstlon. "I listened to his propositions," the governor ssld, "but I refused to do what he wanted me to do because, in "I have always answered," he said, "as I am answering now no man can ruin me but William Sulser. 1 re fused to do Murphy's bidding, i re fused to be part of a criminal con spiracy to loot a state." H Your separator finkYY H will operate at hill KirJA'' H efficiency is V LibbbwI w H lubricated with 1 H liml a I Standard Hand njWaL ffll Separator Oil pa IV 1 H Specially prepared for cream H M II H separators. Sold by dealers III ! H everywhere and the j : lljwa-wasf-fl I PORTLAND SAN FRANCISCO Those Warm Days Nothing is more delicious and refreshing than a dish of Jensma's Velvet Ice Cream served at the sanitary foun tain in our cool and inviting parlors. Ontario Pharmacy Exclusive Agents Wool sales at Condon aggregated 700.000 pounds, at prices ranging from 10V4 to 14 7-8 cents. Thieves broke Into the clothing store of John Anderson in Forest Grove and made away with about 50 suits vslued at over $700. The farmers of Ashland have per fected a producers' association, and the question of establishing a public market there is being canvesssd. Accused of tying a bunch of straw to s horse's tail and setting firs to It, at St. Johns, Otto Russell was fined $10 and costs for cruelty to animals. Judge M. C. George was elected pres ident of the Sons and Daughters of Oregon Pioneers, at the annual meet ing at Portland. Jay H. Upton, of Portland, waa sleet ed department commander of the Unit ed Spanish War Veterana and Salem wss chosen as the place of next meet ing. By an oversight In enacting a new law dealing with conditions that wsra disclosed by Portland's vice clique scandal the defendants In these cases will go unpunished. The county court has appropriated $750 to be used in defraying the ex pense of assembling a creditable ex hibit of Douglas county producta at the state fair at Salem In Septmber. A Wallowa county grand Jury has reported that two drug stores in the "dry" district at Enterprise have filled during 10 months 10.700 prescriptions for Intoxicating llquora, or an aggre gste of over 2000 gallons. According to a report of trie ststs market inspector riled at Roaeburg, the Oregon Soldiers' Home scored 97.1 out of a possible 100. Ths Inspector says this is the highest score recorded by any state Institution in Oregon. Guarded by three forta and strings of electricslly controlled mlnss which extend from the Oregon to Waahlng ton shores, defenses st the mouth of the Columbia are considered aa good as any which protect the harbors of the United Statea. The Oregon Bankera' aasoclatlon session at Corvallls, elected W. L Thompson of f'endleton as president for the ensuing year. The bankers decided to cooperate In the movement toward securing large tracts of laud for colonisation purposes. Governor West has appointed Krnest Rlngo, .i Salem lawyer, special agent and prosecutor for the governor'a of fice, under a law passed many years ago. A law psssed at the last session appropriated $1000 a year for the work. A solid gold nugget worth $1600 was panned by Cieorge Armstrong und l iHii.nl Htaurton on their Dutch Oulch placer claim three mtlea from Huaaii Tllle and SO mllea from Baker. It is thought to be the largest nugget ever found tn the northwest. The first apportionment made by the atate under laws paased by the laat leglalature was received by Coun ty Treasurer Lewis. The apportion ment amounts to $10,178.46 and Is to be used by the agricultural society which has -charge of the snnual count fair In Multnomah county. Argument were heard In the su- preme court in the ault brought by I.. H. McMahan. a Salem lawyer, to restrain Secretary of But Olcott and State Treasurer Kay from expending $460,000 appropriated by the legtsls- ore for the reclamation of landa In the Columbia Southern project. No longer will producers be able to market their fruits In Oregon under misleading labels. If the efforts of State Dairy and Food Commissioner Mleckle avails. This official hss be gun action to eliminate thia bad fea ture of the trade in an effort to aid the grower who puts up an honest pack. I.liiie Clark haa brought suit at Hlllsboro against Hare uuaerson. sawmill men of Manning, to recover $16,000 damages. The plaintiff is a - and comulalue that she was buried in the debris of a tree which the defendants' workmen felled aoroas a cookhouae which aha ooouplee. 8h alleges that ahe was permaaeetly dis abled, and may lose her eyesight aa a result of her injuries. To make a etudy of the mineral re sources of Oregoe and Induce capital to develop them. Is ths ebjeet oft Ml passed by the legislature creating the Oregon Bureau of Mines sad (Jeeiogy. and the prediction la made that It will increase the elemental wealth of the state by millions of dollar, rsr esu matss plao ths value en the Importer tlsas of clay products eleae at $6,000. 000 aanuaily. and the ImportaUoas of oement. building atone aad other building material alae rea late aatt- llons yearly. A synopsis of the gsaae ana laws of th Stste of Oregon ha fsaued by William L. Finlay. stats fish and game warden. The pamphlet will be distributed among the ge store throughout th city and tate Will O Steel, who will take up ths of fice of uperluiendent of Crater Lake Park on July 1. will werk In oonjunc tion with Mr Finley In making Crater Lake Park a big game refuge a well as a place of scenic beauty. Au eftert will be made to get a number of lire pean birds Into the perk. Sale of Silks This week we are showing a splendid variety of colors in light weight Silks They are pretty designs too. You will be pleased with this value. The price is 25 cents the yard. sxa lons& jtfjvv "-v-4i('VCJWSsri' t F, flWaTrrasTLl'l Wvf yr 'sJrslfi JmwbtHj&' "LaW 'rey e.jz7 Did you ever hear the remark, "Put all the big apples on top Jonn"--which meant that the small spoilt fruit was under neath. Even if we wished it, that could not happen at this store. Our customers demand the closest inspection. Beside it does not pay us to buy any fruit but the beat One bad melon or peach will spoil a whole box, baaket or barrel. We are therefore just a anxious to secure good.melon and fruit a you are. Our buying is don to pleaae you and our guarantee is that we will gladly replace any spoiled fruit, that w may unwittingly sell you. Wilson Bros. & Co. Crack In Canal Alarm. 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