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About The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947 | View Entire Issue (July 20, 1916)
(Ihtfcjriw Argus TOL. ao ONTAIUO, I I. ill IK tXHJNTY, (ilCWiOX. Till llsDA V, II lt BO, li'l.i NO. m : L CLUB BIG IDEAS Your Kelp Needed to Get Favorable Action By Congress. There wan a nieelliiK of tlM COM mcrclal club on Monday evening ami qUltO H few gathered to nee wliut wan Jill tup There were a number of communl catlonx read, one from the 1'orthiml I (iniinerriiil club reiiucxtlng the club to booHt for the pannage of a bill which provide for the openlnic up of the natural resources of the Mule Thlt. wax debated and when the fart wan broiiieht out that Mr I'lnrhot an opposed in the meaxure there was mi diiuht ax to the Hentluient fur I It lull and there will be lettern for v urd-d to Ihe Oregon l'l"Ktit Imi in ' ngrean to bnont for the measure A I other meaxure wax In regard to i ' .11. i.colvcd fro in the xale of o .v C railroad landx beliiK applli'd on Irrigation project In the Mate mid Iblx wax alxo highly end. and tin meinberx of the club are re quested to write to any one they may know in tin cant, .mil urge every person that can be reached to have the mnii'un tuvorahl acted on by n nitric The aUte baa been rob bed of Itx rlgbta to the Irrigation fiindx and lhl Ix a chance to gel aomo of the stolen money back I'hn mailer of a corn allow fur thlx fall wax brought up by Mr Howard, who iiiiule a speech In favor of hold ing one thin fall and atated that It would coat about five hundred dol lara, which could be divided between the farmera Interested, the county and the bualneaa men of Onturlo It aeenied to be the general opin ion thai the acreage of corn In thla action Ix xmaller thla neaaon than laat, but In the item! dlxtrlct It la larger, the cause of the falling off In acreage waa laid to the xmall price of pork for a few month laat fall, but the price of corn wa good nil neaaon. The matter waa turned over to a committee to uncertain the sentiment Of the luixliiena men. II wa.- reported thut there were more entries for the race to be held i at the Kalr thla fall than ever before mid Ihut It wux no arranged that tin-1 cont whs going to he comparatively light A flue lot or horaca have been entered Several other mattera were dis cussed. HAS SOLD NINETY SECTIONS OF LAND To the Stockmen of the In terior Counties. W J liuwdson, of Ihe Oregon & a Colonization company wax li.-r. for a short time last week He - a i.l the itOM men of the interior are realizing more fully MM fMI thut ihey must own their range land and are buying freely from In pany. Thla year many sheep nun have crowded over to the cattle sec tions and destroyed the ran. la only a question of time when all the public landa will be leased aud the sheep men who have not lands of their own will be driven from the business. Many of the cattle and horse ranges have been destroyed In a night by some wandering aheep herder and there la little redress un der existing lawa ao that the home steaders frequently take the law In their own hands and give the herders a good drubbing, but the herder aimply goea to another section aud bothers there until driven out. Mr. Curry, of Im Grande, is a great booster for good roads. He ays the La Grande people are pay ing particular attention to the uuto travellers this season and so fur the) have averaged 20 cars a day, with an average of three people to the car and they leave on an average five dollars aach, n.aklng $300.00 a day Ontario should go after thut highwa) and get some of the tourist money. RAILROAD MAGNATES MEET BURNS PEOPLE There wan nomethlng going on In Mnrney county lant week, but we ft 11 i f 1 1 get tin. Innlde In fiirmat inn, hul believe thin In hIidiii tin- sit na tion : William C Kona, who ix recogui. cd ux a Hill contractor, wan there Mi ottered tu huilil .1 roiul from Crane to Mums and accept the Murns Moudi for Ihe work, whenever I hey wire ready tu -tart I'reblil.'iit Kurrell of the o VV rt i N ( 'i . wux there to guard the In terests o the llarrlman people and Mr Struhorn wan around to nee what i . . ..Mill to It In Just p'innlhle that when work doex atari from Crane that there will he two Piles conxtructed acronn the Flute n:i (In Hill people hue nliiled that when the Harrlnian people de elded what route they wanted, Ih.-n the), the Mill pie. would get buxy , mid build acronn another route. IT OF THE ELECTION OE HUGHES I V. Hope, waa a delegate to the meeting of the republicans at Portland lant week and when he re turned thla week he waa very en thualaatlc over the proapectn of the p.-rty making a clean nweep thin fall. All of the people he met who had I n In the eant nlnce election told him that Ihe party had thrown off tlie yoke of the bonnen and waa go ing In to win atralght tlcketn In all of the atalea. The progreaalvea are M'lling back Into line and will he found working hard to try and re deem the country from the democrat ic 'ule. The meeting In Portland waa very liai uioiiloux and the offlcera finally xelected are acceptable to all, ao that ull old factlona and difference are forgotten. There will be a meeting of the county committeemen held noon and a line of work for the campaign de- -Ved upon. TWO MEN SAID TO HAVE BEEN THIRSTY On Saturday morning t'harles It. Lewis, u special watchman tor Ihe Oregon Short Line and o It DnM, the ngeut. saw two men go into a freight car. They follow.. I then, up and found Mime beer, which . posed to he what the men took from the car us some beer was missing The men are road employes and they were given a hearing before Id cord er Steam and bond over to the grand niry Mr Lewis slated that there hud be inite I few small articles missed around the depot and the complin) l.ad got tired and was M teriulneil to put a top to It. SOLDIERS EXPECT U A SETTLEMENT SOON Letters received from Wilmer Mov er indicates that the boys exp. -. i f bn mustered out In a short lime, if the Mexicans do not get gay again soon. He thinks it should not tuke over three mouths to clean up things Many of the eastern men are com plaining of not being cared for on the way to the border, some not hav ing anything to eat for thirty-six hours. RUSSIA BUYING STEEL RAILS Lo'.g negotiations of envey: of the e'.ar have result 'd In closing a con tract villi I'llUc. Stlltes sieel pluut. for 1:12,000.000 worth of rails, the I largttt order of Its kind In the his-1 'or) if Amer.c-in industry So i:.;- is the order, which fore. continuance of great trad.- relations w;,,i Russia ufti r pea. It was necescary to divide It among four plants. 11001 MERCHANTS MD SUMMER Every Merchant Making a Special Ef fort to Interest You on Sat urday and Monday. Summer bargain are what Ihe On tario merchants are offering you thlx week. Kvery atore In the city In making a apeclal effort to get you Interented In their ntocka on Saturday and Mm day. At thla neanon many of the xtoren find they have oddn and ends and broken llnex (hat they wlxli to get rid of at any old price and they have lilt on the plan of all making xum tniT offerlngx at the name time and have denlguated Saturday and Mon day, July 22 and 24 an the dates. Thin In a rare opportunity for you to get something that you need for a fraction of what It la actually worth. Some of the ntoren have enumer ated the Itema that they are placing EXCURSION TRIP TO SMITH'S The proposition published In the Argua for an excuralou up the Pay ette river seemed to touch a popular chord .mil the Short Line has made the announcement that they will run a special train on Sunday uext, leav ing Ontario at tl:30 a m. and go by way of Payette and Kmmett. They have also made the wr liberal offer of a fare of two dollar for the round trip, with half fare for children under twelve years. Kor the return trip the train will leave Smiths Kerry at 6 p. m. reach lug Ontario about ten o'clock. It Is also being arranged for the base ball teams from Ontario uud Pa) otic to go along and play U game at the Ferry M J I'1 has Bent word that he will have the diamond In first class shape. The baud Is also l l eh to be taken along us the boys waul au outing. The trip up the Payette is one m the grandest in the west, for over iwcutv miles the truck i. through u canyon, with timber covered iiioun MALHEUR LAKE LANDS NOT SWAMP LANDS So the Supreme Court is Reported as Deriding. Salem, Or, July 19- In mi. inunicutiou to the state land board. Kred Otley. of Lawen, Harney coun ty, aaaerts thut Malheur Lake la not subject to appropriation by the Har ney Ma. in lie elopiueut company, for the reason that the supreme court baa pronounced it a lake uud not swamp lunds. The company has applied to the board for permission to drain the lake, aud members of the beard re cently Inspected the project to deiei mine its feasibility. Otley declares that the supreme court, in the case of Cawifield n Smith, held that the lake was not marsh land and that the meander line owuers own the properly m the center of the lake bed. He says that under the deci sion Its bed is owned by ISO meander line owners. The board directed the clerk to write Otley to the effect that It has not formally acted on the ap plication of the company, ami that before doing so it will consider tin legal question presented by him Cultivators for sule at McDowell's Exchange Store. E on aale, others are telling you of the seasonable goodn they are going to have on display for your approval ' and selection, while othera have placed nale price on everything in tlielr xtorea. Thla la the fir t mid seaxon aale ever placed here, where every tuer chant wan Interented and made a pi. nil effort lo get vou Interexted Look over the advertlnementn In the Argua and nee the many n in enumerated that you can une to good advantage and note the low prices at which they are offered. The Ontario band will have spec-' Inl tuuxlc for the Saturday evening concert and every effort will he made to make your vlnlt here pleasureuble and profitable on those dates SUNDAY FERRY BY 0 S L tains on either side. There Is prac tically one continuous fall or raplda if. the river for the entire distance ad the scene la one never to be for gotten It Is said that trout are plentiful thla year and the train will stop al any of the stations along the line and allow paxnengers to get off and will atop on the return to pick them up Smith's Kerry Is a little opening between the hills, where there are cool, bubbling springs aud fine boat ing and bathing in Hie river. There Is a hotel at the Kerry but you had better take a banket along, because many of the passengers will not do so and the hotel may not In able to care for the crowd. There will be ample rooui on the cars for all who care to go. Kor those wlio cunnot go to Ihe hills for the summer thin is an op portunlty to get u sunt ..I nn.uni.iin air uud a fill of mountain water. If von are lucky you iiuty cuich some i. ne trout from ihe river. IRONSIDES HAS A WIND AND RAIN STORM I That Does Some Damage to Buildings. Ironside, July 19. -The mt i-n very warm of late, the iheinoineter registering 98 in the hade for several days A very se-' .ere wind storm raged through the alley blowlug down houses and trees and leveling hay and grains. A heavy rain fell here on Monday Walter Laurauce of Prairie I'ny spent the week end hete purchasing hay for the winter, returning home' on Monday. A number of frlenda were enter tained at the home of Krnle lxcey on Saturday evening John Smith and family, Klim-r Molthan and Mary Laurauce spent Sunday at Picnic Moulder A large number motored to this vicinity on Saturday and Sundav spending their time hunting sage I. en - Mr and Mrs W J Hinton. Julia Smith and liertha Carlisle luolnied to the home of H C Kims al duty in Sunda) and spent the day A, sumptuous dinner f .ii.i.l on the lawn uud wus enjo)i.-d by some I isilors Mrs. Mc Heltoe is very ill with spotted fever. MAK OFFERINGS Rf If. BAKER GETS IN AN xUTO WRECK There wan a dual xtorm on Sunda afternoon Kev. Maker had MM holding nervlcen at the Mallett school Ml i' and wax on hla way home will Mr Stewart when the du It xtorin struck them. They pulled off to one side "f tin' road and stopped Shortly arter they heard the chug of a big machine coming and started the car to get farther off, hut by the time tliev got the car in motion the hlg Stoddard Dayton with Herr Wood at the wheel loomed up and struck tin in on the left aide, near the front wheel The broken glass from the wind shield struck Hev Raker oer the eye and on Ihe nose, also across one wrist, cutting to the hone, the wounds requiring several stitches The Ford In a wreck, but the Stud dun! wan not Injured much and the' other passengers escaped Kev Maker is still sore from the shaking up. but the wounds are all healing nicely and no serious results are anticipated. CITY OFFICIALS LOOK ING AFTER SANITATION The health officers are going to make u round of the city an try to MM .une things a little. There are xeM'-al sldewall. i ui'tdlng tep.iit mid n. I'h are up In several block '.irhuge cans are Be, being I opt cm red and many are not using BMial ones, ull of which 'a .mlt'st the MM interests of the cllv The time for a, general clean up in now before the epidemic that la klll'n ; so many In the east has a chance to gat started here. The fly season Is the time when epidemics flou'lsli and those wru do not can ti contribute to the gr.ie yard on the hill will see that. Hie i) .- a'e taken i ire it WANTS THE BONDS OF WARM SPRINGS I. U ickershaiu, of Portland, re presenting one of the big bond bin inn firms, was here thla week look liiR up the bond to he issued for the i on -miction of the Warm Springs .. . io.lr and irrigation system p paretitly there Is not going to be any trouble In xelliug these bonds when the work of organizing the district en completed and the boll. I I l.n-e.l on . I. Wild the lunds of the Malheur val ley all supplied w.th u good ..iir r i i: 1 1 the cultnated acres of the count) will I., mall-rial!) Incn With the I. .mil market in good i ..n.lil i.-i. there should he no trouble nh ;iii Ol Ihe Irrigation Md drain , p ,i i. .n l.i ug finance. I and the , il, ol lon-tructniii .tii it . d this fall A NEW MAN IN FOR COUNTY CLERK -liihu Huston reeeiwd Ids commls sion as postmaster lust week and im mediately handed in Ids resignation aj clerk The place wus tendered t-. V. II Staples the republican noin toee for the place, but he declined because he thought it would be tak lng an undue advantage and pre ferred to wall and permit the people to elect him. The place waa then tendered to W II Doollttle and lie went up Monday and took charge lie paly Clerk Moody resigned and John W heeler was named as deputy Alfred liurcham cut the end oft three fingers on Kriduy afternoon Mr Murchum bus a planing mill on the eust side and wus sawing so lumber. I) P liearliorn helpine him He got drowsy uud let his hand lull MTOM the saw und the ends oi three fingers were tggM ofi and the null from the small flngi Mr. Murchum said he frequently gets ilii.v. ; after hi nooo ue-il. but be will be careful to keep awuj from the saw next time. SHOULD BUILD ROAD TO THE SOOTH END Of the County So The Peo ple Can Come Out to the Railroad. J It Illacknby was culled to Cald well lant week to gn over the road from that point to Homedale and on to the Succor creek, where the Ni trate beds are located The Idea Is to make It a public highway from Caldwell to the Ore gon state llnp and for the Malheur people to care for It from the xtate line south Ihe nitrate people have built nev erul mllen of road from Homednln toward their mines and feel thut the county should help out some, I at I lullv an the road will be the main travelled road to the southern part of the county and will nave the Pol xon creek hill and several miles of gumbo, bexlden xhortenlng the dln tance from Vole to the southern sec tion of the county by about fifteen miles The nitrate people are building up Succor creek on the west side and thus will have no difficult grades or hud places The roud leaves the creek bottom at the rocky ford and from that point there Is now a good road and one that can be travelled at all xcasonn of Hie year. M the count) officials ordering few in I lex of road fixed up from Hi Owyhee bridge through Kingman col ony and up the Snake river a few in i lex connection can be made with J thla highway at small expense. The people of the southern part of thla county are entitled to a road to the county seat and thla will give It to them The Watxon aectlon would no doubt use thin road when fixed as I It would be their best way out. A VV Garren has sold his lumber ynrd at Nampa to Ihe Molse-Payelte Lumber l'o , unit accepted a poult Ion with the new owners, .an had a nice business but the big firm need I ed the yard THE CAME WARDEN WANTS CO-OPERATION - In Protecting the Fish and Came of This Section. II I, Qnjr, who bus been appoint . . itiieii (or thla count), from some olll-lde point I hu .' -d g ale i Ihe local . i, 1. 1... I ol a plum Natural!) Mr Oral arai c il people lo all lake out III P. I md sv.ell i inn. Is tot ' p ,1 I of the I., I. He pi, i i..i im glaj an) ill the -1 rearm or r Id aad a u i Li le ,1 li I hit there .-le a lew ike V .i li li i it illidel -talld v h) a local i ..n ...al. I nut be I. ulh. I who knows omethloi ahum local eundll on to loot allei I li- lew I. lid- and I ..iild make an intelll i ent talk lo Ihe gume cunih for some (IM lo slock Ihe Snal.e and . .i reams of the count) and also for a fe, uuuil und chinas for the up lan I Thla man Uruy may be ull right but M ' " I'ldiocd lo li 1 1 i UK outside men wilh Malheur county l.cense money and we MttOVI most of the hunters am! fishermen will feel the same way about It The general desire of almost ev ery man who likes to fish und hunt is to care for the game, only a teu are naturally game hogs and do not think far enough to care w belli er there ure any left for the other fellow Cume uud fish are u big curd fur uti) cciiou and toduy they h.ne more deer anil birds In the ,ouds of the New Ktigland than we have here, simply because the people there are caring lor them If vou expect in d" an) lishing or hunting you bad better lake out a becall II is cheaper tllSIl paying a fine and some of the mone. may be used to briim in - 1 1 1 - Voting IroUti pike, mud cats or oilier fish suited to our itroaata.