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About The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947 | View Entire Issue (July 13, 1916)
Mfc Great Profit-Sharing Prize Campaign I FREE-Valuable Prizes-ENTER YOUR NAME ONTARIO PHARMACY With each TiO renin purchase and I hin coupon you will be entitled to 2,01X1 OTKH. a A ' ' Hoie-in-the-Ground Riley Home's Home in the Canyon of Owyhee It wan the privilege of the writer to enjoy a vlhlt to the "N-har-N" lunch, familiarly known to the boy of the range a tho "Hole In the tlrounil," recently. While the latter title In suggestive. It hardly does the place Juiitice. And yet, when rom pared with the towering mountain Ic views of the ruiirh. In the rapidly approaching distance, with Its green fields, corrals, stables, orchard anil iirmi' of glunt Uiniburdles which shelter and obscure the home In Its garden of rosea until one -a right at the door. Safely arrived, the gueata are cor- and scores of mile of aagehruah des rt ky which It la aurrounded on all sides. It aeema hut a mere hole in the ground, although a generous sec tion of 11 treinendnuaiy big, and a raggedly, ruggedly, awfully grand canyon, a monster crevice In the earth's surface, a crevice that Indi cates frightful convulsions during the world's formative period. After thirty mllea of aagebrush, the effect of the first view of that can yon la beyond the wrlter'a power of description. Aa the car glides up to the brink of that chasm and stops and there are few drlvera who will take the plunge over the brink with out stopping to consider the possi bilities of getting aafely down and out again -a wonderful panorama la presented to view of the fortunate be holder. Rugged craga, majestic cliffs and weird formations of many hues and colors, with fertile valleys and the Owyhee river, a silvery rib bon edged with emerald green, far below, with majestic mountains tow-' ring over all, combine to form a pic ture not soon to be forgotten. Coming hack to earth, the traveler Is confronted with the problem of getting to the bottom of It all, twelve hundred feet below. Venturesome, Indeed, would be the driver, who without acquaintance with the road and the knowledge that another car Hull) greeted by lllley and Mrs Home .ni.l their two fine children witli truety western hospitality It la a good place to be, down there at the "Hole In the Oroand," a place where still linger the poetry and ro mance of early days In the weat. Twenty-five years ago a sturdy lad Just entering his twenties, a young trapper who had wandered over much of Washington, Oregon, California and Arltona In quest of pelts, with two beaver traps, his wordly poss essions, slung over his shoulder, climbed down Into this "hole" and made his camp. Being a keen observer, he gated at that pleaiunt prospect with a vls'on that peered far Into the future, lie saw, as in a dream, those sagebrush flats transformed Into fertile fields. with rattle and horses grating on deaert and hilt. That trapper lad waa Riley Home, and ti dreams of a quarter of cen tury ago have come true. He now owns a senior of land In that can yon and hundreds of acrea In other near-by places, and his horses and cattle, by hundreds and hundreds, grate on desert and hill Out lund and horses and cattle are not all that Riley has accumulated, hla collection of curios und relics be-j ing well known and many of them I loaned for exhibition purposes. Hla carried this rule whs driven to bay h the redskin . .1 night preud bsi mantle o'er the hills. Confident 01 heir victim, the pursuers retired for the night, renewing their .ittnck at 1'renk of dnv. At the tir t ho the lieselged the Indians rush d loiwurd, mil) to meet n volley Which threw them into pane and rout. Tli Indians said afterward that they had made a mistake "Him loaded gun all night " Across the Owyhee and eight hun dred feet above the "N-har-N" Is the lllnehnrt ranch, Hie scene of many stirring events during the Indian troubles of the early days. At this place occurred nn unrecorded massa -'. 01, - iimr Jllilt. v nil low) were and how thev came to this nut-' i have the opportunity of listening to the atorles and anecdotes of the lite und experiences of such Interesting pioneers, and twice fortunate Is he who meets them nt the home of lllley Home, In the "Hole In the Ground " Kxpress. w JORDAN VAI.I.KV. t Krom the Kxpress) Itiley Home went to Ontario Thurs day morning to arrange for fattening his big steer, which Is expected lo hnat the world's record for site and weight. Charles Harding, who left here last week to Join the Idaho militia, pass ed the examination with a grade of nf-the-way place, difficult of access, 0 percent, even today, will never be known, but Ous Axcuenaga left here Wednes that It was an emigrant party la de- day morning for Murphy, where he la monstrated by the remnants of wag-loading five cars of sheep for the ona, arms, Implements, etc., that have Chicago market, to which point he been found, with bones of the vle tiuis. In a crevice In the earth. Mr. Home has a bub and parta of the felloes of a wagon wheel, one of the spokes being wedged Into its place with a piece of homespun There were, also, relics of equipment in this crevice. Did these pioneers lose their way and wander onto this little flat, guarded by preclpltoua mountain on two aides and by a sheer precipice of eight hundred feet along the river, or were they lured to their fate by Indian treachery Mr. Home's mother, of Portland. Is spending the summer with her son and his family at the "N-bar-N" Mrs. Home Is a charming lady, ereJot, will accompany the shipment iih;h MUM atti.k. F. J. Calmer has purchased eighty and Harry Li v thlrtv head of ILnen rows and calves for their ranches In Indian this vallev. The cows are rosn and red durliams, well bred and are a valuable addition to the llveatock of the valley. Ceoll Palmer. Kd Miller and Wal ter Luoney left for Caldwell yester day to drive the cattle home. DITCH RK.I'AlllriD. Jack Healon, superintendent for Maney Bros., on the Antelope reser voir work, states that the flood wat ers of Jordan creek arc now running alert and keen of Intellect at the age, through the big canal Into the reser of eighty-three, who crossed the voir. The ditch has been widened had made the plunge, would send his '"illictlon of ancient firearms is hlgh- plains by ox-team transportation, 'way back In '47. Some of her Im mediate relatives were members of the famous "Blue Bucket" train that penetrated to the coast a year or two prior to that time. The party with which Mrs Home's people traveled machine over that cliff. The road Is perfectly sate for the careful drn er, however, and the glide la thrill Ingly exhlllratlng as the big touring car goes swiftly down and round and up and over, skirting the edgea of "with narrow margin, responding promptly and faithfully to every movement of the wheel and the slightest pressure on pedal to alack or speed ahead. Krom the start down it la five miles to the ranch, the road clinging to the face of the cliff and winding In and out with the contour of the canyon, affordlug frequent puuorum- camped on the site where Boise now stands, then but a military pott. They croaaed the Hnake river twice, caulk ing their wagou boxes, and using them aa boats to carry the women and children and their goods and supplies In the place where trouble has oc curred, giving a perfect bottom und stronger hanks. More widening will be done and the canal will be In fine shape for filling Hie big reservoir next season. There, la an abund ance of water In atore for all pur poses this year. I- prlted, uhd his fund of historical ' cdmes In connection there with nleasely Interesting to the visitor. CfcMM or his prises In title col let! Ion g the rifle that waa carried !y "Cheeko." the Indian guide, when he piloted the dauntleaa Freemout through the mountains to the coast. This gun waa purchased of Cheeko's l.imlly. after much persuasion, by a Mtsllng. nearly everything belug re-. provement of these roads It Is now frit mi for Hlley'a collection, and g , covered by prompt pursuit Not a I up to Malheur to look after this end authentic. Another prlte Is a relic member of the party was lost during of the line. The Oregon part of the or th! Mexican war, In which Rlleys"le ,on ,rlP Dom the Mississippi to road, however, Is In much letter con father fought. Yet another Is one ,,,e Willamette, where the pioneers dlllon than the Idaho end. thanks The Caldwell Commercial club la endeavoring to have a state highway made of the Jordan valley road to the state line. The Homedale peo ple have been working on this pro- Thls party had no trouble with the , position for some time and have a Indiana beyond pilfering and cattle highway llstrlct organltel for the 1 in of the first repeating rifles the In- '"oatea. dla ns ran up against. The man who' Fortunate, Indeed, are those who Bulletin fo. 0 Suppose this was Your Business! If the Government had asked you to invest your money in a plant to supply Government needs; and after tlie plant was built, and had become useful for no other purpose, the Government built a plant of its own, making your plant useless and your investment valueless would that seem fair ? That is precisely what Congress is planning for the Government to do with reference to our investment of $7,000,000 in an armor plant. Reporting to Congress, Hon. H. A. Herbert, then Secretary of the Nary, said December 31, 1896: "The two armor contractors, the Bethlehem Iron Company and the Carnegie Steel Company, both entered upon the business at the requeat of the Navy Department." Ii it wise is it fair for the Government to destroy a private industry brought into existence to serve the Government, unless for reasons of compelling force? To show that no such reasons exist, we make this offer io the United States Gevernment: The Bethlehem Steel Company will manufacture armor plate for the Government of the United States at actual cost of operation plus such charges for overhead expense, interest, and depreciation as the Federal Trade Commission may fix. We will do this for such period aa the Government may designate. Isn't that fair? The question is now before the United States Senate. to the road supervisor, hut there are bridges, culverts and other work needed which the supervisor has not the means to do. Sss eeeeeee..eeeee l From the Journal.) A series of runaway accidents oc curred In Nyssn and vicinity this with bad results, although fortunately no. serious Injuries re sulted. Johnny Lackey was the worst suf ferer. He was loading hay, being on top of the load, when without any apparent cause h.s team started to run Johnny was taken unawares and fell between the horses and the wagon, the wheels of which passed over his head and breast, breaking his Jaw and bruising his body severe ly Ills scalp was badly torn and his face lacerated and one hand mash ed. Dr. Baratln was sent for Im mediately and hurried to the Injured man's relief. He statea that while Johnny's injuries are serious and necessarily painful he will undoubt erly make a quick recovery. A team attached to a cultivator and driven by Everett Host Irk ran away Thursday and In the mlxup the young man sustained a broken leg when the cultivator tipped over and Bos tlck was caught underneath. Dr. Baratln reduced the fracture and re ports the patient doing well. While Frank Ward was driving home Wednesday evening his horses took fright at a paaslng auto and ran Into a fence, where they kicked the buggy to pieces. Frauk escaped In jury by making a new record for iuick Jumping. The most thrilling runaway of all, hut which luckily had no had results, occurred last Saturday when a team attached to a buggy In which were Mrs. II K. Sherwood and two small children took fright on Main street and started down the street at dan gerous speed. They run directly for the Wilson ditch and spectators held their breath, powerless to help und dreading to witness the tragedy that seemed unavoidable. When almost at- the brink the team swerved and aafely crossed the narrow bridge. So near did they come to disaster at this point that onlookers say that two wheels of the buggy were suspended when the turn was made.' Mrs. Sher wood plucklly held lo the lines and n brought the team under control. Most women are admired (of what the) are. and not for whut their an cestors were I. el., re them It is not ulwii)-. 0 ol men THE LAXATIVE FOR YOU I IMS-AIM It n runrl Ion t. n.tt mrlv "a... mm Use at nr rot. It .I.t. thr work In. y, ramly and mnrf atTwtlvvly than vk H Irnl kxativa harauao It doa It aa Natural H .m.n.t..n. Try SAN- JtlX . r 'if a Hrina ItatM.t.l. Bvsrhart Ontario HI HNS. (Krom Times-Hera Id I Judge Dallou Biggs cutue ner from Ontario the latter part of last week to spend the Fourth of July with relative und friends In th He wan urconiDHoled bv Mrs niirirs and two of their children. Miss iienu Biggs, his slater, and Miss Helen Biggs, daughter of J W Biggs of this city. Judge Biggs delivered the 4th of July oration Duncan Mcllae, the old time stock man of Riverside, came In on the af ternoon of the 4th and surprised his many friends in this city Mrs Mc llae and the son also came and they had a fine time with their old rrlends Duncan says Burns has uot changed except to get bigger and better In some respects (the place Is dry you know) but he finds the people the mvuI of hospitality They were tak ' ii Into homes and made welcome Duncan always rinds a hearyt greet ing wherever he goes In the Eastern Oregon country and his friends find the same greeting when they meet him' In his own home. Mr and Mrs Walter (llenn have been over from Malheur county this weak guests at the I. 11 Holland home. Mr. Gleun is bu)iiiK horses in this section and Mrs. Glenn came over with him. Ol IUM I.K.I VF. Kilt I ItO.N'T. The National Ouurd of Idaho Is off for the border, where, they will he stationed somewhere in Arizona. At present wur seems remote, and the hoys are doubtless in for a seasou of life In barracks in a hoi cllmute Mill if they should he called for more strenuous duty they will be found ready. Nyssu is well represented iu the regiuieut, ut least sewn Itoys from here having Joined the colors Fol lowing Is the honor rell: Chester Dunn. Ruck Teltsort, Wallace Lynch. William Morey, Dave t'anham, Claud Smith and Jupe Andei & tousee stairs 'in tie i reat mmi mm shown at the BoBt iBieati CHAS. at. gCHWAb, Ikainaae sxi.tNK ii 1.H41E. r Bethlehem Steel Company This Mexican muddle is working a genuine hardship in the public prints on the political candidates. But, then, it is some relief even at that. Al TO OQtsUBM WITH HOHSK. A distressing accident .iccuu.d uear Nyssa last Saturday morning Iu which u fine young mare lielunglug to A. Erviiiglon was struck by an automobile an injured so that It had to be killed. Mr Ervingtou wuh driving to town and leadiug the mure tied to the back eud of the hack When near the Howsley residence Mr. Krvlngioii was overtakeu by an auto which frightened the aiiiiuul which swung out in front of the ma chine Just as It was passing, break ing the mare's hind leg in two place:. and throwing her to the ground The accident frightened the team, which turned suddenly, upsetting the hack and burying the occupants, Mr Krv liigton and II I-' Drown, underneath No serious injury was sustained by either, but Mr Erviugtou received u number of painful bruises. the re eno etter pictures! The muu who respects fhe rights of others experiences little dirriuulty In securing the consideration due himself, but the wolf generally gets his due. Millionaires and paupers are rub bing elbows at the front. War Is a great leveler of caste.