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(Butwtifi mi t WP- ! xxn ONTARIO, MALHEUR COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY .APRIL , 18 1918 NO. 16 ' wt TWIN FALLS MAN IS SUCCESSFUL BIDDER C K. HF.I.MK.H WITH FHURE OK 87,701.21 AWAKORI) (X)N- TRA4T WMI MI'NICTPAL H TKH WORKH. WILL BE COMPLETE BYSEPT. I Intlrc Sivii-m to Bt llulll W III, In I .tin it or Bend Isaae Rut Pur chase of Old System Not ln luderi III Rstlmaf. At laat, after nearly a year's agi tation, everything Is ready for the be ginning of tin- construction of On tario's municipal water system The last of the contracts wss signal Tuesday anil work will he started In J The blue ribbon representatives of the near future. jthe famous Shorthorn breed of range Acordlng to the plans of the City i stock will he present In Ontario next Council pure filtered water will be week and 76 head of them will be turned Into the mains before the be-.offered for sale at an auction to he ginning of the typhoid season, and I held on Thursday. the entire system will be completed i On Wednesday of convention week, by September 1. at noon, there will be a stork parade, The contracts for the .wo units or during which the high moguls of the the system which were not let at th convention and prominent cltlsens of first opening of bids were signed Ontario will chaperone the crltera Tuesday after the bids were opened ' up and down Oregon street. Monday, the general contract going The Shorthorn Breeders' Asiocla to C. K Helmer of Twin Kails, .Hon of the Not h west Is one of tho Idaho, who offered to construct the! pioneers In the pure breed business system, using fir pipe. for 117,701 21. land soma of the moat famoua breed At the same time the California .era In Washington, Oregon and Idaho Jewel filter company made an offer 'will be her. Amoag them will be to instsll tho pumps for S3, fit. A. I) Dunn of Wapato, Wash.; Day These were the bids accepted A liothrock of Spokaue. Joe Turner By rejecting the previous bids and of Myers Kails, Wash., W O Cum calling for new proposals the City tilings of Mt. Veraon. Oregon; W. J. Council achieved a saving of prsc - Town lay, Sherman A Hutciilnson, W. (Continued on Pace Klve) WAR TALK LEADS TO TROUBLE AT NYSSA I -- - - i Thrual af Hlnmi He I liargrx With Helng CnMiniiuu Mas Attached Makes Mlatller Charge Agsiast 0iMaeal. Charges and counter charges of -pro-Oaraisnlsni. with one man la j Jail charged with assault and an other In a Boiaa hospital with his1 throat and cheek cut was the out-1 come of a quarrel at tha astern Ore-i gon Land company s clear lag camp ' aear Nyssa Monday eveaiag- Tha aian who did the cutting. I'aul Lawbrese, was arrested here; Tuesday evealag by Marshal H. C ' Farmer, Night Policemen Marion Jones olid Constable J II Denlson ; when be attempted to cross the Short . Line bridge. Ha is in Jail now chars ' ed with assault with a dsugerous swiiuii 'ail r i mm o a, low suau , whose tlirwai was i-ut, was taken lo 5S -SJT2t2 -js left ear. crossed his throat and tra versed his Jaw bone lo the point of bia chin and was deep enough, de clared Marshal II D Holmes of! Nyasa to lay a finger In Physicians ' ailed on to care or the man declared however that it was nut daagerou- Aoeerdtng lo the story told Marshal ' Farmer. Frederick and his associates were making slighting remarks about the Italian army and about Italian women, wblch he resented. He Invited them to coma out of the tout and there the light occurred. There being three lo one. Laiubrvoe used his knife Laiubrese, tho of Italian parentage, declares he is su American cilixau and that he tried in enliat in the United Btatea army but was rejected on account of an lujur ed leg. Frederick and his associates de clare that l.ambreee is a pro-German and that his pro-German talk brougnt about bla trouble They threw hi-. bedding out of the lent and followed it out, aad were attacked by him After the ngbl Lambreae made his H cape, walked to Ontario that Bight aad remained la hiding during the day. His flight ended skoal 8 o'clock whan he alless to cross th bridge ad the ggards there net I ted tke ally officials, who were al nag of the tre department when 6ke call eaae latbrese was takea to Vale VI educsdsy HKX)ND lAIR OF BOYS OOMK TO KYUAR HOMK For the second time In four yearn twin bora bavo arrived at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Knar of the Owyhee. The second pair of twin Holdlar oame laat Saturday evening, here In Ontario. The recent arrivals are husky Americans, weighing eight and a quarter and nine pounds. SHORTHORN SALE CONVENTION FEATURE Annual Hale of the Northwestern Hhorthom Hcerders' Associa tion to Re Held Here for the. First Time. W. Green and a A. Bldeler of Union. Oregon and O. W. DeLay of lint Springe, Oregon. Some of these men have exhibited at the county fair and the class of stock they raise is known all over the North wose. j Mr. Dann, president of the aso- elation, la the man who fad the prim steer which William I'ollman gave to be served st the banquet Wednes- day, and Joe Turner, who la manag- log the sale, baa been here In On- larlo for some lime Mr. Turner de clared that while the number of I head offered here la not as large as same of the previous sales that if sufficient Interest Is shown that the .association will hold an annual sal. here In Ontario. HOMK ON A lllili'H.y Uao Lreils ie- having the pjeeaare thia week of taking bla son BUI over the city to meet friends. Bill la home on a furlough from tha U. 8. A spruce corpe wblch Is getting oat aeroplane timber at Clatsop, Oregon. i ii If you happen to nave a room that Js not In use next weak be patriotic and tell the committee la charge of the preparations for tha ctockmrn Ontario must not fall to care for tbia convention. " -the winner and the donor of .fgKagBB&sy amBB amVMjamal u.i B sjpJbW aflai mm -t.- f h ataxs. k ICtJMIk. BfcatJtlk sJML sWka - 4 O It" asi M. amasAi J agfjgesw a. W ,m HgsKamsv iWL r vll jl Nr tW fiaVtmV" HbHkm. h taValssaaalaHvH I ' ' Ws1 laxWTT'h'i aws waxt r kWf PPffffMi afctlTanes: ,' I-"' "' Jfr atwaBBs flaWaP'W gaasjga. rtxMMVWasLsaf 1 I - MiM mmmmmmmmmmmmmlSkmuJm tmri .. - Ht - n - ii . A sasp saol of t. J. xflMBeoa of cooa say wao gavs the ear to the oatariv hspier Keo Cross, which was waa by Miss iariee Cealfield. those la ibe picture are bask of the car. Mrs A. L Sproule; ia the ear ' Mies Clarice CaaifteM. L J. Simpsaa. In front. Mrs. Pay Wllaoa. Mrs. a. a Browa.who bad charge of the lick- ' MALHEUR COUNTY IS STILL SELLING BONDS With infl.fl lrr (Vnt of Its Quota . Raised Efforts mill Being Mad to Reach the ISO Per Cent Mark. Malheur county Is still below (he 160 per cent mark in the Third Lib erty Loan campaign. This Is due to the slacking off of efforts In some of the communities. This will be re vived In s day or two and there Is no doubt in the minds ct the County Committee that the full amount will be raised. Jordan Valley is still the banner community, with Brogan holding sec ond honors Jordan has over 331 per rent and Brogan has 168.1; IC.v erslde is third with 167.5;- Hockvllle fourth with 155 0; Adrian fifth with 153.8; these are tho only common Itles with over 160 per cent. Vale and Ontario stand tenth ant eleventh, respectively, in per rentag) raised, tho Ontario leads the entlrt county In the total amount. Pol Ontario the First National has $4.1, 450 listed and the Ontario National $43,060. Chairman Frank Itader and his committee went over the list of names of those who have not sub scribed, or who did not reach the sum set for them by the preliminary survey and a number of committees are working on the drive bare still. Aa yet many oi those counted upon for the largest subscriptions here have not been heard from aad with only about $30,000 yet to raise the committee feela certain that It will reach the mark-. Completed details of the Hat can not be printed thla week bat the list Is compiled and will be given pub licity next week. So far tike large.-1 Individual buyer In the county." Thomas Turnbull. who took $6,000 at Crowley and $600 at Itivarside. Mention ran only be made of a few of the larger subscriptions as re ported by II B. Cockrum aa follews: Charles Uarvln. $1,500, of which $1000 was Hated at the First Na tional and $600 at the Ontario Na tional; Eastern Oregon Laud com pany. $4.00$, divided equally be tween the local banks; Oregon West- Ontario Vale Nyssa Juatura Wsstfall Jordan Valley Brogan .. Ironsides Crowley Adrian Riverside Watson Dead Os Flat Sheavllle Hockvllle -w . , ... . . . .. . .... FAIR GROUNDS TO GET NICE NEW WARDROBE Paint to Re Applied to HutMing and Keners to He Oiveai the Once- Over .Hoard U Organised for IIiihI The Malheur County Fair visitors will be greeted by strange sights this fall at the annual feetivltiea that oc cur Just north of Ontario. The buildings and grounds are to be greatly changed In appearance. The structures are to be given a new coat of paint and all the trimmings that go with It. Besides this the board of directors him' tiiken steps to have the build ings all. put Into good shape, the fences aro to be repaired and the portions which have been used since last fair are to be cleaned up and kept clean hereafter. All thin activity was the result of the onergy of the newly organized Board of Directors, whlrli was for n ed recently with A. 1. Cockrum eg president, E. A. Kraser. vice presi dent. They Interviewed the Count v Court at its recent meeting and t4 cured an appropriation for the work. since the buildings and grounds are the property of the county. TRY FOR KNTRANCK INTO I . S. NAVAL. ACADKM1 Bernard itader, Thel Lampkln and Ed. 8. PrPaaar went to Welssr Tues day to tske the examination for en trance Into Annapolis Naval Acad emy. They have been appointed al ternates to various principals in tli examinations wblch took place last fall. -O ' Mra. 8 F. Taylor, who has been every III for several weeks, Is re- ported Improving. . em Colonisation Co., $16,300. sim ilarly divided; Monte B. Uwhm. Boise, $600; Oregon Life Insurance Co., $1,000 County Chairman J. It Blackaby prepared the table showing the amounts or the various sections of the county with all subscriptions up to Wednesday noou, as follows Quota. Sales Per Cent. $76,656.60 $16,566.06 IISI I5.t6t.t6 65.060 00 11(1 . Sl.4M.d4 31.650 00 146. 1 0,004). 0U 10,006 00 100 0 7,666 00 $.356.00 134.7 26.136.00 01,100 00 MM . lt.06t.60 36.600.00 168.1 16. 385.66 18.000 00 116 3 8.666.66 16.60000 133.'. .. I,t6t. 60 13,300 00 153.8 6,600.60 t0.0a0.60 167.6 4,666 OH MM 00 f k, 660 00 8,000 00 1311 1 ... "UU an 2.000 60 ion I) 4,ttttt 6.325 00 161 Ii $266.666 60 $365.136 00 II 7 red cross car I: PARENT TKACHKRH TO HOLD LAST Mil TIM . The laat meeting of the Parent Teachers' Association will be held Friday afternoon at 3 o'clock. It will be a social session and all the par ent! of the city are Invited to he present. The officers for next year sre to be selected. RACE FOR COUNTY'S JUDGE TO BE WARM Three Candidates Out for ltenul.ll- raa Nomination, While K. II. Test Is Sole Candidal for leniocratir Honor. What promises to be the real feat ure of the county politics! cumpslgn Is tho race for the position of county Judge. There are three ciimlld. id u ithe running for the Keptihllran mini Inatlou while K II Test is the only one seeking cratic nomination. of Ontario the Hem Those who hsve followed the sit uatlon see In the situation a rei,l rues in the November elect on What the outcome of the contest In the 'primaries for the Itepuhlli an nomi nation Is ii conjecture hut the wise ones believe thai with C. C. Wilson of Nyssa and II I. i'oorman of On tario both In Uie race that Judge Mi -Knight or Vale, the other asplrsnt. i has the decided edge. If this prediction Is the correct onelpltallly of Ontario There will ba the race In November will be not less and 400 lo 600 guests here worth watching Political hlslor- next week, and among them will be lans recall the strength Mr. Tost had Governors, would he Governors, .ea rn the early days and declare thai liejdldstee for all the offices In the list. baa aot Inst II. either With a united beside a long array of notables In the party behlad him. Judging by the 'rattle ami horse raising and market strength the party candidates evl-'ing business, deaoad two years ago, there Is every- The sessions will open for business thing to Indicate 'i"u'iiurf boss Hist II will be ii race and Ibis is not the time to plure hels on the on i come COUNCILMAN TICKET TO WAIT UNTIL FALL d.o Mass MeeiLMg tailed for I FveaJag Isoe- N'ollilug Owing lo tliarmr of Nreessart Ma. I. In er for PriM-eedlng. llow lo noiuluate a city ticket Is . uestlon before Interested citixeus these dsys Wbul the effect of the constitutional amendment adopt, d last June kf the tolers is. Is s dis puted question suiung the Iswyers of the city, none of whom, hnweier have gvru the mallnr ion. I. -lud.i As the i. ..Ii there will be no can dldales for lln nouiiuatioii mi the ballots at the urinary rliiih.u In May. for ll was agreed that the pr. mary law provides only for muulua' ii i.iiiiniiid on Page 6) (OIIIT FAI'KM III- till hi I tl.KMlAII IN MAM I MM Willi the return of four true bills aud mie uot true bill by the llrauJ Jury Monday Judge Del Ion Biggs started what prom Ises lo he the ggMa Clrilllt Court In yesra Amoug the features will lie the trial uf Ibe biggest larceny cusc ever heard in Kssiern Oregon This Is ihr case of ' II liiou ii Ii A Wheal. Kranh I'ratt .mil m i S Cole, charged with the lari euy of 1.8110 head of sheep from tin s' liar N Laud t. Lltestm h com pauy. of which William II Btgg is luaniMcer The other true hills leliiun-d are those cbsrglug M Abel ami I' llauihlel with ihefl of lull. Ml froin Ilia i Uilliaj '' of Mali ... sell for pull. i U a I. .... . i i ii II. Gsriues ii. in k . February I, aud I. I) with lbs theft of she.-p p. -h from Donald Mclamou ul Uatarlt Among Ibe array uf sttoruey, ia the Pratt. Brown, Wheal. Cole eaae are H W Swagler ad Davis S Heater for Ibe proaecu Hon MrCillocli s Wood, on tsrlu; K I Perhey Boise, soil G W. Hays, Vsle. for the rt fendsals. ' 4 4 6j V v.: , : 4- CITY READY EXTEND STOCKMEN WELCOME '.Ml' HAND IITININ i'UIMI l FOR IHTV HANQI KT HKINO PHKPWtKD BY WOMI V I V DKR DIRECTION W. .T.I'. WILL BE NOTABLE UTUK Rooms Still Needul Mnajr Reg Speakers on Program Ontario ami Baker Maslcliuis to I'ural'h . . Kntcrtalnmeat, Ontario Is fast completing prepara tions for the entertainment of the mutual convention of the Cattle and Horse Raisers' associstlnn of Ore gon. The sessions eegin next Tuas i;iy morning ul Dri'umliitnl and con- Olgdg Wednesday mulling with it wHt lloovi rlred lmniiiii at the new Ford garage Wednesday evening I In the meantime every minute will he occupied ami the city will have at I M" guests the biggest crowd In Its history. S. O Correll, secretary of the association, over the phone from Baker on Wednesday declared that he was dally learning of men who would be present Will Test Ontario's Hospitality. The entertainment of such a gath ering will prove a real lest of the ho- Tuesday hut the advance guard of the asenilatjnn will reach the eily Sunday and Monday, on Tueml-iv there will lie an auto ride lor the wo- pieu suests mill a luncheon In theli honor This is In charge of a com mittee consisting of Mrs. Walter tJlenii chairman, Mesdsmes John Wood, i .a her Ball, C r Peterson The luncheon will he served at the Carter House. i-. t n Prion Is . iiairniuu o the committee on sutos snd will ar 'range for the excursions , i ..oiioiii.es Active. K. A Kraser Is chairman of tha re .epiioo committee which will exter.d the welcome In the . In ami i It h the assistance of Superintendent II R Douglass and his committees will start the visiiois lor ibe rooms i.i which they haw- been assigned Tha room ptohlem Is giving ll. couinilllcea trouble lime are not enough enlisted Ontario can not Ie' Ms guests sleep in the streets Tie men !U charge feel that Ike illUen du not fully realise the situation Kveryoaa Is urged to make provleioi for the entertainment of the clo I (Continued on Page Ten I H ATRH Kill initio HON IM s aTll.l. M'lyl'6:it OI IKR'IIT Since Ihe Arge Isst week celled attention In Ihe possible S water shortage lor trrigatlou some ellolls kg made III vain lo secure relief Aa yet II looks a tho there would be in. war gardens and 'he trees in the city are due lo die The all uallou Is this I M Grelg. who furnished ihe gglaf to the tanners on the Kaslalaw and the Ontario Watei I sers aasg. 6 latum, has gone m .'I Ihe hu i uess and iuri.nl tl plant over 41 to IM land owrie - and lAsj 4 hae been unalilv In Sfflvi al I solution of th. ptoblet'. I forts lo get the slockhol'lel - ..I 4) ll. Waier L'asjg Asmcat Ion ii.f.iie. -, fur have fa' led Tfcx .I,. . i i ;alni that Ihe pumti ..II u.i supply water hoih lot -ud Ibe i liy lots .mil 4 aud Ibsv will not luslall a lie P ii i.p just l sell water to lbs u' this peer That is how the waller staadii now Ihe llrsl ibiag thai must be dune Is to 4 gat a tiu.niiu uf li.e Waier Itaeis mob lo cousidei grttgej er Cutarlo will revert lo 4 a desert Oils sums' I ' s