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About The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947 | View Entire Issue (July 24, 1913)
n ONTARIO-The Pivotal Point of the Great Interior of Eastern Oregon t tttai0 The Ontario Arjrus The Produce from ir,004),000 acres is marketed from On tario each year leads in Prestige, merit, and Circula tion. Watch us grow Representative Newspaper of Ontario and Malheur County. ,-OLUME XVI ONTARIO. OREGON, THURSDAY. JULY 24. 1913. NO. 30 mm i fl MANAGERS BOOSTERS Real Live Bunch Now in Charge Much New Timber Connect ed With the Management But All Noted as Thor ough Workers. Tin' officers and dlteotors of the Mslbcur County fair are the limlcst baarli nf boosters in this section. Most nf the lair managers are new tbli year, they bnve new men In Prcsldi lit Trow, a now secretary in Hum (Irauel ami a new director io :, Killiniialey while Kd Frnser, Inker Hill and Mi. Tachlrgl arc hold over. There are alio going tn he Dtw men In charge of the different .Jtpnrtmauti. I'rof Ualley li rounding up an ax- blbit from the schools and school i-liil ln'ii that ii going to auririM Diuy because of the scope and quality of tht work being turned out. .Istnas Lackey la in iienariil charge of tin- exhibit In the pitvllllon and hilr ha tiaa been going urnnud among (he orchard of the county be baa bean urging the people to bring tbetr choicest, producta of the Heidi for tbt public to ai.e up and they ha? promised to respond witb no exhibit tbat will mora than tax tba ottpaolty of tee great pavlllloo. There ia golni to be a nuuitmr of oommunlty bibita, ae?eml aeotlona ballet Ing thsy if capable of doing better than their nslgbbora. A. MoWllllam aud Dr. Whitney are after the borae men mid tbey are going to be here In greater sum Iters tbau ever before. A. Vans tor aim here a few daya ugo from Crowley and be la golug tn nitre bla JUOu pouud borae here nnd alao aome of Hi., colt i to aboa wbut be ia doing to improve the grade of boraea in the county. Onu new feature la going to ho the 11 -lock, duga aud poulaa mid all orb atiluiala Col. Pntob ia golog t be here wltb hU eutlre collection, nrlli thouaanda of dollais and there r more ouuiing from other eeotlou VACANT LANDS AND LOTS ARE TO DE TAXED Tin. deputy assessor ol the county It in (intarlo thia week getting the haa. i i ttiu auuuiil tax levy. Vacant luu.ii and lot are going to be taxed bluber than usual thia year in order ' relieve the m.tu who ha I assisted iu Hiding up tbe county by Ms im l-roveujenta. Tbe u umber ot tbeep 1 le larger tbau n-.ua! while Wn i.- a tailing oil in cuttle, huge liu pIiuw an increase. Many tracts el kaprured laiida will be assessed thia fear tor tbe drat time. ICE & COLD STORAGE PLANT IS ROBBED fUESDAY NIGHT Another burglary this week ami toe thieves did uot leave any trace. aaWif Tuesday everting the ioe ami Culd btorage plant waa entered and the """ drawer rifled of about fifty doHai iu caab and checks. Tbe en trtiK'f was made through a window ud the drawer pried open witb an axe. It. i- thief opened tbt aide door to tfuid au easy exit lu case be was dis turbed. It looks like a local ob, but still It may have beau done by tbe sir.. UHU t0Ht pulled off the other m here and left uo traoe. O'-sid Reserve la to Be Opened Euue, Or. Complete reversal of Policy of tha forest service with tltUon to the Stualaw national forest od the welcoming of homesteaders 10 'he whole coast country of Oregon, m Tillamook to Coos Bay, was an nounced here, following a week's ia-ix-cuon of the national forest by "' forester Oravea. ALASKA NAN BUYS TEN ACRE RANCH NEAR ONTARIO Mike Sautclll. of Nome, Alaska, bought a ten acre ranch near (Jnlatio a few daya ago. He say there ia a tendency on the part of moat of the men who are making goon In Alaaka to get bold of a email tract of irrl gatted land io a proven district like tbe Snake River valley. More sales are expeoted from that quarter as Mr. Hantelli was more than pleased witb what he saw around Ontario. There haa been an unusual number of land aeekers around during the past few weeka and they are put" varied ns to what they want, depend ing much on where tbey are from. Some of them are here from Cali fornia and they fully appreciate what Irrigated lauds will produce. Othera are here from the arid regions and tby apreolate dry farming and tbose from the fruit belts are after tbe rich fruit lands of this seotlou. Joaeph Little who livea on upper Dead Ux Flat, brought In anme potu toea to Mayor Trow on Monday tbat are cortainly aa line aa can be grown anywhere without water. The rains In June waa what they needed The Flat hits a very larve crop of jaok rnbhlte aud squirrels this season aud the aettlera will apreolate a raohlt drive a lltle later. The people of Ontario can have a day of sport and at tbe same time do the settlers a great service. GEORGE F. COTTERILL Geo. F. Cotterill, Mayor of Seattle, who blamea the Seattle Timaa for the attacka on I. W. W. and Socialist balls by bluejackets. REVOLT IN CHINA GROWS ALARMING I'ekln. The Chinese government Is still dispatching troops to subdue the revoltttionar) movement In the disuf ! soutkara. provinces, but bus not wuhdruwu any soldiers from Mongo lia. I'reaident Yuan Shi Kul ia unxlous to proceed south to lead his troops. but his associates have persuaded him to remain in i'ekln, for fear that he might be assassinated on the way to the scene of hostilities. It is now generally believed that General Sun Vat Sen. former provis ional president of the republic, who has taken sides with the southerners and who Is now at Nanking, and Gen eral Huang Sing, former generalissi mo of the revolutionary army, never Intended to support President Yuan Shi Kal permanently, but only to uae him to bring the revolution to a suc cessful end. Bulgaria Not to Maks Resistance London. Any idea that the Bulgar ian army Is preparing for a counter stroke baa been abandoned. It haa become known that in his anxiety to bring about peace, King Ferdinand ap pealed to the German emperor regard ing Kouinania s action. The nature of the emperor's reply ha uot been dla- clOwHHli A semi-official dispatch from Sofia Mys tbat eveu should tbe Roumaiilans iuvadc the capital no reslatance would be offered. 19 ' i W 1 sfl TTaB V Hk . Mm H iflLH i. aH JHbH 'BT fV JJaBi saW TTi I 1 SAILORS WRECK I. W. W. AND SOCIALIST HEAD- Resenting Attack on Com- raAaa ' l wLliow" i4 fioot. tie Play Havoc With So- cialist and I. W. W. Halls. Seattle. All of the Industrial Wuft ere of tbe World meeting places, (ha Socialist headquarters and a Socialist news stnnd were wrecked and the furniture piled In the afreet and burn ed In front of each place by a great mob, led by 100 sallora from the Pa cific reserve fleet and half aa many aoldlera from the Pugel sound forte, last Friday. One member of the I. W. W. waa slightly Injured, and It Is re ported tbat one aallor euatalned a bro ken arm. It is claimed that the trouble started when three sailors were attacked and tttahbod while passing along the streeta of Seattle. A woman I. W. W. speaker was harangueing a rrowd and abusing the U. S. flag when aome of her sym pathizer noticed the aailors and while in a highly inflamed state of mind aa saultcd and atabbed all three of them, who were Anally rescued from the mob and sent to the hospital. When the rest of the crew learned of the trouble a number of the aailora got together with the intention of evening matter up, The Tlmea printed a report ot a speech made by Secretary of tbe Navy Dantela, at tba Rainier Club, In which the aecretary la aald to have urged forcible auppreaalon of tbe red flag and the 1. W. W. The aecretary de nied that he bad any Intention of conn eellng violence and several who heard bite apeak corroborate his statement The mayor profeeaed to aee In (he Tlmea' account of the eecretary'e speech a causo for the attack of aail ora on the headquarters of I. W. W. and Socialists ami gave thia aa an ex cuae for Issuing a proclaniatlng for bidding the publication of the Times unless proofs of Its contenta should flrat have been submitted to blm for Miutiny. Me followed this up with u proclamation closing all the hu loons of the city on the final day of the an nual I'ot latch, Saturday. Lawyers for tbe Tlmea Immediately ssj n tafore Judge John at Humphrlea of the superior court, and obtained a retraining order preventing the may or or police from Interfering with the publication of the paper. Salooumen alao secured an order from the court aiijolnlng the order to QUARTERS Gounty Court Matters Much Pertaining to the Business In terest of Malheur County. In the mutter of the petition of T. V t'laggeit ot ul for a county i.id .-iiimiik on the west line of It It'll M etc. lvtitlon reail and 01 ''-.-.I viewed and surveyed. In the matter of tbe petition of C. 11. Morrlff et al for a count v road H Morrltt et ul for a county road one half mile helow the W. K Wor sham house, etc. Petition re.ul and ordered viewed and surveyed. In tbe matter of the petition of Fred Campen et al for a county road be ginning at the section line between sections 8 and 9 in tp. 17 S. sV etc. Petition read and ordered viewed and surveyed In the matter of the official bond of F. L Johnson for Justice of the peace for Malheur precinct. Bond -amined and approved. July Vb, 1913. In the rn: tier of the appropriation 0 the Malheur County Fair associa tion for tho y.ar 1913. 1MMI ap propriated. In the matter of the payment of g U E Palmer tor work on tbe Owylie. bridge at Wntson as per con tract with the aM cout-ty court Clerk ordeied to draw warrant for 1250.00. The following claims were audited SECRETARY BRYAN INTI MATES ADMINISTRA TION POLICY parcel post Up for Changes w i , I M Lower Rates and More Poundage Advocated In- vestigation Continues. Washington. Reduction In parcel IKist rates within the first and second tones, and increasea In the maximum weight of parcels and substitution of t new rate chart for the complicated present map was ordered by Postmast er General Burleson to take effect Au gust IB. The rate of postage In the first rone is reduced from 5 cents for the first pound and 1 cent for each additional pound to 6 cents for the first pound nd 1 cent for each additional two pounds. The mlxlmum weight of par cel post packages la Increased from 11 to H pounds, but only in the first and second zones for the present. If this works out the maximum will be made 20 pounds everywhere. In addition, the Insurance rate, orlg Innlly 10 cents, will be reduced to 5 cents on parcels up to the vnlue of $26. ryan Proposes to Quids Nicaragua A new policy toward Nicaragua, In volvfng the virtual control of the af faire of tbat republic by a United Statea trust protectorate, similar to that now exerclued over Cuba waa out lined by Secretary Bryan at a confer ence with membera of the senate for elgt. relations committee. Mr. Bryan's proposal, coming aa a surprise to members of the committee, has been taken by many aenatora aa ilio flrat pronouncement ot a general policy on the part of the admlnlatra Hon to eiteurt American control over the countries surrouudlug the Panama Canal, and to aasure the stability of Central American republlca and the domination by the United Stataa of their relations with other great pow ers. Mexican Situation Alarms Officiate So delicate is the Mexican situation conalderetl In official circles thut the White House Issued the following statement to clear up misrepresenta tions. "On bis aii-nt '.hi being called to tho following statements appearing inter tuln afternoon newspapers (1) thut the prealdeut had stated that he would not recognize the Huertu administra tion and that It would not luat u ytar; () that the president had stated that Continued mi page 8 and allowed by tbe court ' eral fund warrants July teim. 1913: Warren W. Itm-der, watsjf inas. ter $luu.00 Aln.it Helton, water muster, l.'l'i'i H. Skinner, water master 76 00 Wilbur (Iwel), w ,n i master HI on c. P. Htlles, assessing lUOu Dave Worsbam, care of Insane. 9.00 Paul G. Freeman, care of Indi gent 4.86 Warren W. Boeder, water mas ter 77.70 Wilbur Colwell, wut-r master. ) M C D. Davis, assessing 76.00 J Cof felt, labor, C. II 48.00 Win. M Walker, court reporter 20.00 Z O. Wilson, bailiff C. 0 00 C D. Davis, assessing 68.75 C. P. Stiles, assessing 94.00 8. J. Hull, asses: ing 283 60 Olive Sweltier, 8th grade ex . . 6.00 Delia Nelson, Justice steno... 6 00 Delia Nelson, court reporter. . 4.30 F.mina Neely, witness J. 0 170 I. G Wilson, J. P 6.05 Olive Clement, Mh grade ex... 6.00 .S V Wall.!-, 8th giade ex.. 6 00 Olive Bwetizer, Mh . ..de ex... tfjl Mrs. J. T. Clement, Mh grade Continued on last page HAZEL DERRICK OF JAMIESON IS KILLED IN RUNAWAY The two dnughters of Mr. and .Mrs. Arthur A. Derrick, Hester and Hazel, started to tbe postofflee Friday morn lug, July 18, and on the way one of tbe shafts of the buggy dropped down and scared tbe horse causiug It to im. away. Tbe horse mn until It struck a post at tbe bridge and the younger girl. Hazel, waa thrown from tbe buggy, bar bend striking the sale of tbe bridge. She arose aud walked nearly quarter of a mile and then became sleepy, when tbe mother came tbe aroused tbe girl aod tried to keeji her awake nut it medical nlil could be procured. Sho was brought Immedlstely to tbe Outario hospital, where she died about rive minutes after reaching there. The funeral was conducted at .lamlesoo Suii'Ihv afternoon In the presence of a large number of trleuds who came from all quartera to show tbe bereaved family tbat tbey were sorrowing wltb them iu the loss of their btautlfu. daughter. T'" servloes were held In tbe hall and were conducted by Rev. Johns, of Ontario. She leaves to mourn her loas, her father and mother, one sister and two brothers. A. MITCHELL PALMER A. Mitchell Palmer, ths Pennsyl vania Congressmsn who waa impsr sonated by David Lamar, tha New York stock broker. U. S. GRANT WEDS; CHILDREN OPPOSED San HIi wedding of C S Grant, Jr., of thai city, and Mrs Amer ica Workman Will, ot l.., Anne, h, which was to have t.ik-n place Sat urday in u San Mt)s)0 ho'el, did not on n r Instead ot a welding It wan announced tn thoas PfvMBl at the n .oii.ihI lime th ii the mum iff, Sjggl mouy had been perloriiind olio wi-ek ago by JuMlci (ii I'utnrhailgb. V. S. Cram, third, was Ibe only one of I ho bridivrooinV five children who was lu the hot I pailor when the an i.oiuii . meiit ol lie marn.iM' IM made. Ills grown sou Chaffee Grunt and his three daughters absolutely refuse to recognise their step-mother, and It Is aald thut Mr. (irant, In retaliation, threatened to cut them off entirely In bis will, unless tbey change their uttl BLUE SKY LAW IS REACHING Statute Applies to All Companies With Securities to bell. Salem. Corporation Commlaalouer Watson has auitouiicod that all com pa n lea with slocks or bunds to sell, even though they are not offered at tbe preaeut time, come within tha pur view of tbe blue sky law. Ha said that the only Inveatment companies that are exempt are those that have Issued and sold all their securities. All companies, be holds, tbat have stocks or securities not contracted for prior to June 3 must live up to the provls ions of the bill ifM afrhv mi Hj B jjfV ;JBli t 53 '' 1 IKa i (69 jsw an . pbv fc;f- 7 PLAY 10 INNING IGM No Pennant Win ner as Yet Vale and Weiser, Represent ing Idaho and Oregon in the Idaho-Oregon League Play Extra Inning Game. The game between Vale nud Weiser last Hunday failed to determine who should receive the championship. It waa a tie, .'I St II, at the end of the tenth inning. In order to catch their train ami on account of tbe ruin tha ginnc wits called at the end of tbe tenth. It wusiiu interesting game although ruggedly played. Weiser made eight errors to Vale's three. The errors weie nearly all in the outlleld. lions too made a bail one in center field for Vale and Weteer's outfielders divided live lietween them. Knob t- .im scored one run in the senotid. No more runs were made until the seventh, wheu Vale registered one ami Weiser two. Vsle tied the score In the next inning and 'came dangerously near winning the game In tha last halt of tbe ninth. With three man ou bases and - 1 1 1 v one down. Woodward waa caught off of third and Barrett was unable to place a safe one. Klwell lost tbe ball Iu the weeds for three bases In lbs tenth, but bud no chance to score. Brookumu allowsd live bit, struok out nine aud walked threw. Barrett allowad six hits, struck out six aod walked two. No report has i n given aa to wheu the tie will be played off. Not Sunday. July '11, tbere will be no game here on account of tbe exouralou up the I'ayetlo. A game between l'nyete mid Ontario Is being i lanu I fur Auguat third. Arrungaiueuta have not Li-en close. I for another series of games. Vale Is the only team In the prevent organization that does uot wish to continue in the league Km met t baa been meutluued aa a fourth team in tba new orguulatiou. STATE ENGINEER LOOKS OVER PUMPING PUNTS John Lewis, the state engineer, was In re last week and looked over I he l chI i limping plants and those on Dca.i ti list lie was much impress ed with tin' im 1 1 v .1 in. 'tin. ils lu Migii. bcie ami the large areas being reclaimed by thi systems. Mr. Lewis went to lioUe to iulei view tbe Idaho utBoUll on unguium matins Io haw the two Mat work t"g. ' n. i At piM-ul tilings iu one stale M the wuters of a i-tieain are not tecog lile. In the other ami h. will ell dtavor t have an uii.ler.liu.lu g regarding all inlciMnlii waters. EXCURSION TO SMITH'S TERRY NEXT SUNDAY 'I he people of Outario will bale .hi opportunity of apemllug u day in Ii I'ayette rlici on .Sunday and see the wonderful seotlou tbat Im be lug op. n. I up by tiie Pavette Valley and Idaho Noitheru railroad. The beautiful orchards and farms of tbe lower val ley will be paaaed through lir.t and then will (inuie the giamleur of the canyon, wltb tbe Payette river dash ing aloug in tin- valley. There ia plenty ot water lu Ibe Pay ette at all seasons aud the shady pools and Lipids ure billing places for sal mon and many other varieties of tro it. Tbe uountiy around Smith Kerry la spursely settled aud tbe waters buve uot been tished out. 'the truin will remain at tbe Ferry live hours stnl this will give all an opportunity to try their skill with tbe tin. st fish lu the world. Take your UsMfe along as tba place Is not sup I ;n. I ..mi eatlug houses. ihere is plenty of shade aud a cool breeze.