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About Malheur enterprise. (Vale, Or.) 1909-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 8, 1913)
1 VALE, Core of the "New Empire of the West" Oil, Irrigated Farm and Fruit Lands The Banner Live Stock County of The United States The aueeeim of the largest business concerns in the world In due to judi clous and sustained advertising, 90 of which has ben done in paper of general circulation, like the Malheur Enterprise, in these da.va of sharp competition, to succeed, a man muat advertise. 9 a t rrmfcr-w-- rir ...a .... y i I D I I m I M m V M I 1 1 X I I I E i f B C . I X -. IK.nBMirB I B 17 I VI . a r-n t. The Malheur Enterprise De livered to your home or mailed, $2.00 per year, in advance. The Leading Paper of Malheur County. VOL. 4. NO. 12. VALE, OREGON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8. 19KJ. PRICE 5 cents CELILO CANAL 1 OPENING FETE j AT LEWISTON Enterprising Idaho City at I the Head of Navigation Plans Celebration. THREE STATES TO HELP IV ? Columbia-Snake Waterway Will Represent Outlay of $25000000 By Federal Government and Will Be Available to River Boats Clear Through In 1915, The completion of the Celilo canal, 1 -..opening the Columbia-Snake water- .rway to free navigation, at the same time that the Panama Canal is thrown open, is to beceleorated at Lewiston, : Idaho, in 1915, and efforts are now being made to have the Northwest 'states join with Idaho in this obser vance. The Idaho Legislature has a 'ibill before it for the appropriation of $15,000 to finance the exposition and celebration, while Oregon and Wash, lawmakers have each been asked for an appropriation of $7,500. In Sa lem the bill is in the hands of Repre sentative R. N. Stanfield, of Uma tilla county, while Representative Max M. Neumann, of Spokane, has an appropriation bill under his charge ,in Olvmpia. These bills all provide for the appointment of commissioners to manage the expenditures for their 'respective states. I The opening of this waterway at Jthe same time with that of the Pana ma Canal is held to be of great im- portance to the cities of this section, j for it puts them in direct communi- "i cation by a free all-water route with j all of the Western hemisphere, both . l the Atlantic and PnrifiV Heahnarda. ti.f '. and the principal ports of the world. i The opening of these two great ' 4 waterways, the Panama canal and the Columbia-Snake waterway, will revc V' lutionize the water-carrying of "the , j commerce of the United States and of the world, and gives this inland section water rates in competition i 1 j with present railroad rates. S The improvement of the Columbia J Snake waterway will represent an ex ,' penditure, by the federal government of about $25,000,000, directly affect- J ing a territory 250,000 square miles in extent an empire greater thanj all New England, New York, New Jer 8ey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Mary land, Virginia and Ohio combined. i No section of the Pacific coast will be ! if stimulated by the opening of the two 1 1 events as will the Northwest. STEWART AND HOMAN ACTIVE STATE SOLONS Joint Senator and Joint Representative From the Eastern Oregon Districts Conspicuous at Salem In Introduction of Measures Calculated to be Benefit. Lincoln at Gettysburg TTOURSCORE and seven years ago our fathers IW brought forth upon this continent a new na Jl tion, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. "YVe are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as the final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our power to add or detract. "The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here. It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion; that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth." The foregoing speech of Abraham Lincoln, uttered at Gettysburg, dedicating this ensanguined field as a fitting burial place for soldiers, is probably the finest bit of language ever used by the martyred President of the '60s. The last words of this speech are those employed by some of our great orators, who seldom if ever give Lincoln credit for framing them. THOUSANDS OF CATTLE, SHEEP, HOGS, SHIPPED Portland Union Stock Yards Issues Its Third Annual Report, 1909-1912. The Angel's Whisper THE CHAMBER 0F 0REG0N EASTERN OREGON FARJN LEAD East Division of O.-W. R. & N. Exceeds All Other Routes For Origin of Livestock Marketed at Kenton, at Confluence of Willamette and the Columbia. Pm. 3& A, Mmmmi' a. mm By far the greater number of cat tle, calves, hogs, sheep, horses and mules were shipped to the Portland Union Stock Yards in 1912 via the East Division of the O.-W. R. R. & N., as shown by the attractive third annual report of the stock yards, just issued. And, as might be expected, the bulk of all livestock received at Kenton the past year had j I lis origin un uregun lamia ctnu ranches. For the year ended Dec. 31, 1912, there were received a total of 76,521 head of cattle, as compared with 88, 139 in 1911, 89,733 in 1910, and 20,556 JKT .JUT" '.Hi-i:"Ji.u irtii.Mti. 1 .MiX Ml.- . mhmmmmmfw : V : I --f RS77 :.l;:yy.':,y...- ., tmmi wmmmmmmm 7 (Continued on Page 3) OWNER OF 320 ACRES OF LAND MAY BUY MORE l "Valentine, Darling of the Golden West; Fortune's child, born in this land of the blest; Sleep on, dream on, of the things yet to be In our lov'd land, our 'kingdom by the sea.' "Eons of ages have stored up the treasure; Ages of eons have filled up the measure; The thunders of Jove, and Neptune's vast pow'r, Have divided the hills, given thy hour. "Valentine, my Valentine; joy is thine; Happy thou art to be born at this time; Born at the dawn of the day of the West, In the 'Garden of the Gods,' home of the blest." j COMMERCE HAS A NEWBOARD Seven Directors Elected and These Reinstate George E. Davis as President, Schmidt Sec'y- CALLS BOSCHKE TO NEWYORK Harriman Chief at Portland Goes East Relative to Construction Work to Be Done In 1913. While Congress has been wrang ling over the matter of Panama tolls on coastwise shipping, and 38 States of the Union have ratified the Six teenth (Income Tax) Amendment to the Constitution, the Solons at Salem have managed to keep busy. The total number of bills introduced in the House exceeds 400, and there are nearly 300 in the Senate. Two weeks ago the Enterpise report ed the most important Senate bills up to S. B. 74. Later bills are reported below. 75 By Senator Farrell -Relating to compensation for inspectors of child labor. 77- By Senator Malarrkey To pro tect the lives, health and morals of women and minor workers. 78 - By Senator Perkins To safe guard tha tale of firearms. 80 -By Senator Calkins-Creating a right of action for damages against a person who shall bargain, give, etc., to intoxicated persons or minors. Hi -By Senator Smith (of Jose phine) To amend Section 'i'MH of Lord's Oregon Laws relating to legal newspaper. 2 By Sniator Smith (of Jim hint) - To toiiiprl employers of lalor to tisv i' m)i on hand tu pay tan :i-Hy tsoimluf Hurtf - (vUlM'(f tii gniula in lu'kj tnrtf, U ui.linws'1 on It t I Attendance at the Chamber of Com merce meetings took a step forward Monday night, wl:en officers for the ensuing year were elected, steps for rejuvenating the Chamber financially were finally acted on and a paid sec retary advocated, subject to the amount of regular dues which after diligent inquiry it shall be found the Chamber is able to pay. The finance committee, consisting of three mem bers, of which Leo Schmidt is chair man, is now busy going over the books, ascertaining all arrearages and computing just how much money will be needed to liquidate outstand ing accounta and carrj forward the work of the Chamber during 1913 the year of opportunity for Vale. Under the constitution and by-laws extant in the Chamber, its members elect board of seven directors, who themselves choose the president and vice-president from among their num ber. The secretary-treasurer may then be elected by the directors either from among the directorate or any member in good standing in the Chamber as a whole., but such officer must be a bona fide member. Mon day night the following directors were elected to serve until the last meeting in January, 1914: George E. Davis, Leo Schmidt, R. E. Weant, C. C. Mueller, George W. McKnight, Leonard Cole and T. W. Davidson. After adjournment, the directors held a meeting of organization, and re elected George E. Davis president, and Leo Schmidt vice president. The selectijn of a secretary - treasurer was left open for a few days. Talks on the "good of the order' were made by President Davis, Col. Wheeler, C. C. Mueller and Leo Schmidt, and a better understanding reached all around. ('. K. Helman I was accorded the courtesy and privi lege of honorary membership. "KEEPIOSENINUTAH; NOT WANTED IN VALE" Dan Doneii, who thut and killed Joe Uxloe in Vale, .Ian. II, wan ar. j rested this wek in Salt Lake City on jauspicion that he was wanted here, i The uthoritik.-a of the I'lali rspilal wired a follow : "Doii (indtr n-t hvr; l'" Maul I. tin?" '!'. Mhiili t'an i liivf i-f 1 1 . at Valu, ttiruil la k : "Ducvii a 'tilUd , kn I. ill. in I lul., d i t i li ii. I. tu ' Chief Engineer George W. Bosch ke, of the O.-W. R. & N., has been called ast for a conference with other Harriman offiicals presumably in regard to the amount of construc tion work to be done on the Oregon Eastern line across the State this summer. This project has now wholly been taken over from the Short Line and further building will be done un der Engineer Buschke's direction. Another matter demanding Mr. Boschke's attention in the East is the plan for extensive development of the newly purchased terminal and yardage property just out of Spokane. This tract of about 200 acres was purchased this week and it is under stood the O.-W. R. & N. will build huge carshops and a repair plant there. Vale Council Fails of Quorum. Lack of a quorum prevented any meeting of the Vale City Council on the regular date, Feb. 6. New Ruling of Department of the Interior Permits Acquisition By Purchase of Isolated Tracts Adjoin ing Homestead Claims i UI1U1.1 111 V Ull 1UJ .U itVki The local United States land office has received new instructions from the Department of the Interior relat ing to the sfle of lands at public auc tion under the Act of CongrtBS of March 28, 1912. Before that time the law authorized the Commissioner of the General Land Office, in his dis cretion, to offer isolated or discon nected tracts for sale to the highest bidder but the regulations provided that before a sale could be ordered, the surrounding land must have been entered for at least two years. On March 28, 1912, Congress amen ded this law so far as to permit the sale at auction of land the greater part of which is nioun'.aimios and too rough for cultivation, but the sale will only be ordered on the applica tion of the one owning or holding a valid entry on adjoining lands. The purpose of this is to allow Bettlers to acquire title for grazing purposes to lands adjoining them which are not of sufficient value to warrant their COUNTY JAIL NOT WYOMING VOTES DEFICIENT IN CONSTITUTIONAL PRISONERS AMENDMENT IN i i Two Ne'er-do-Wells Steal and Rifle While New Mexico and New Jersey Suit Cases; a Third Man Held 1 Ratiocinate and Procrastinate on a Charge of Forgery. i Sister State Steals Honor. I (Continued on Page 2) For stealing two suit cases from rooms in the Arlington hotel, taking them into u nearby retreat and rifling them of their contents, John Milne and George Myers, alleged ne'er-do-wells hailing from nowhere in particu lar and without any apparent occupa tion, were sentenced Monday by Just ice Wilson to serve six months ench in the county jail. Both pleaded guilty. John Kopelman and B. W. McGillivray were owners of the suit cases, and appeared as prosecuting witnesses. W. A. Powell, arrested at Nyssa by Sheriff Kerfoot on a charge of forgery, was bound over to the April grand jury in the sum of $500. The Sheriff was also after another alleged forger named Bayard, wanted in Caldwell, Idaho, but the latter was apprehended at Huntington and taken back to Caldwell by tt.e Sheritr of Canyon county, Idaho. Already the criminal docket for the April term of the circuit court is looming large. Wily TurJ, Re-enforced During the Armistice, Repels Attack, by Allies Turkey, during the armistice he- There is considerable difference of tween the Sublime Porte and Bui-1 opinion as to the outcome. One garia, Greece, Montenegro and Servia, ' dispatch from Mustapha today, which which ended Feb. 3, availed itself of reported that the heavy cannonade a golden opportunity to reenforce its continued throughout the night, con army in every possible way. Espec eluded with the prophecy made by the ially was this strengthening of forti fications true of Adrianople, where a sustained attack by the allies began immediately the armistice ended. The Turks have thus far apparently successfully re-pulsed the allies. BOMBARDMENT BEGINS. LONDON, Feb. 4. A terrific ln.ml ardnu nt of the forts around Ad rianople was begun last evening by the Bulgarians and Servians surround ing th city to the number of over 100,000. A I moot at the moment of the ciini-liiHion of the ariiunticti at 7 o'clock, siege guns and nVId guns from various puliita conunaiiding the furla opened fire. Not even the resi dential portion of the city Mas parrd. A full division of Bulgarian infan tiy silvan. t j to tl.u attack of Adii ani'i'lw ll.is iM'iiiii.i, undvr cuvtr of a I. n.t l.i.n.l i iin.i i ( , . i i;i.ln (i l a ui ihr l. h fu n. S.fia. 'I l.ti n ii. II il II. t .... II l l. il i"i. Bulgarian staff that two weeks would suffice for the besiegers to force the . Turks to capituiate. Military Men, however, who know something about the several lines of forts which form the defense of Ad rianople, look for a proloi ged du- j fense. This opinion apparently pre vails within Adrianople itself. Shukri Pasha, the Turkish comman der, who is defending Adrianople, has declared that he will not surrender the fortress until 'he last of his soldiers has been killed. While there have been Homo deser tions from the ranks of the garrison these have been chiefly C'iri-tiaii aoldiers serving with Turkish regi ments. Shukn Pasha still has suinu lU.USI (I, til. If llu allie could ulear liallipi.l if Tuikidi lroi. andsilsi k ll m lUnvllt S 1 1 at 1 1 ll.i H I'U I I yivw fin: ).' e In ll.i 1 .1 1 1 k lliil, 1. 1 1 I. II il. ...... 1. 1 l.i. l-li in in, .lit fiix ii l I l.altl'J l '. Hi 'I'll hand, the Winter season is so unfavor able for offensive operations that the allies may decide to let the Turks ' the Committee onGeological Survey, CHEYENNE, WYO.. Feb. 3.- Under suspension of the rules both houses of the Wyoming legislature today unanimously passed a joint res olution ratifying the income tax amendment to the federal constitution, while the legislatures of New Mexico and New Jersey were endeavoring to reach it first in trie regular order of business. After passing the income tax amendment the house then took up und passed the resolution authorizing the direct election of United States senators, also unanimously. The Ben ate has a similar resolution beforejit. prestigeTfWegon in senate is strong; negligible in house Oregon, through her Senators and representatives is pretty well represented in the United States Con gress. In the Senate, some of the very best committees bear the personnel of the Oregon members. Senator Bourne, for instance, is chairman of the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, being also a member of the Committee on Appropriations, Fisheries, and Woman Suffrage. Senator Chamberlain is chairman of make the first move from Tchataldja. ADRIANOPLE IN FLAMES I. Some in Itiimi K SOFIA, Bulgaria, Feb, iiiiurters of Adrianople are as the result of the lioii.l.ariliiienl by the Bulgarians anil Siiviui, which was resumed with more intensity to day according to advices here re ceived from the front. ALLIES EASILY REPULSED CONSTANTINOPLE, Feb. I The garrison of Adi ianoplc i-amly re pulsed attacks lant night Ix II. e Bulgarian!! on ll.e i.orlli and in. I fronts of ll.e r.iitri'Ho, in'i'or.ling lo II. u ollicial lepi.it ibmiiciI here Imiiiy. Although no at rioua ligMu !.!i i.i rulH'l ah ng He ' . I.u I .. I.I ju tl.u llulttai lun lr.... Kit- I . and a member of tin; committee on Agriculture and Forestry, Indian Alluiis, Irrigation and Reclamation of Arid Lands, Military Affairs, Paci fic Kailmad-i, and Philippines. In the House, eresentative Hawley .in pears in tli ( ommiltee on Agricul ture, while Representative I.alierty is a member of the Committees on Irrigation of Arid Lands, and Mileage. VALE TEMPERATURES THIS WINTER, 7 A. M. RAILWAY WORK GOES FORWARD WEST OF VALE Inclement Weather In the Canyon Hampers But Does Not Stop It. BRIDGE STEEL IS LAID Engineers Hope to Place All the Girders In Position Before the Spring Breakup of Ice Comes. Tunnel Ready Early In April. 510 Feet of Heading In Tunnel. Exactly 510 feet of heading in the tunnel at Mile 38, on the Oregon Eastern, remained to be excavated Feb. 1, according to the official engin eering report submitted to O. S. Os born, engineer in charge at Vale. The tunnel should be completed by April, when the track will be exten ded from Mile 37, its present ter minus, clear through the big bore to the valley on the west. The steel girders at the third cros sing of the Malheur river were placed in position this week, and it is hoped to have toe steel in at all four cros sings of the river before the spring breakup of ice comes, carrying away the falsework which now supports the track. Cement work is finished. Although the Short Line has trans ferred many of the men at the front to Nyssa, to build the Buhl line, there is still a considerable force west of Vale, and many busy camps remain thcie during the inclement weather. Engineer Osborn is auth ority for the statement that there are now at Harper and beyond, three bridge gangs, one small track gang, and one fence gang, besides scattered workmen, trainmen, etc. The com missary is still in operation at the main camp. The water tank at mile 19, in Little Valley, is completed, and the depot at Harper about half finished worx is progressing, though slowly than in the fall under favorable weather conditions. All more more COUNTY SEAT EASY OF ACCESS The Minidoka & Southern R. R., now building southward from Nyssa, has passed Riverview, one of the communities which heretofore has been hard to obtain ingress or egress to on account of lack of transportation facilities. It now becomes easy for persons living at Riverview to reach the county seat at Vale, and the same is true of practically every city and town in Malheur county. Tempt tutiircs in S ale, st 7 a in., j as recorded !. the Enterprise Cher- I loolllelr, Ui-le h- folloMn: I I' i i.i ui. i y I '.' I 'I I.u s 1 1 lag i.' of I. I I.i id. ii. ..il . t a 1 1 u 1 1 lit., i . I . i I h i. . a I I . I.iilt.1.1 I II. . Li. ii. If. ... f l 1.1 is I I III I 1 . ,1 I . . III. i a Ml. I. I . I. ii r I.i 'ii in v I 1. 1 ..in v I i I i ii u i v I I I I U 11 1 1 . 1 1 1. Ill ) 3000 RABBITS LAID LOW BY FARMERS' LEAD Twenty Jamieson Ranchers Engage In a Big Drive Sunday, Slaughtering the Lepus In Clump of Brush Near Oxman's; Barrels of Rifles Get Blistering Hot. More than H.lMiO jackrabbits were slain in a big drive held, Sunday, by 20 ranchers between the ranches of Bill Scott and Clarence Oxrnan, at Jamieson. The drive embraced an aiea of about three miles in length, the human destroyers- advancing on the lepus in tl.e form of a wide half inoon. Most of the rabbits were killed in a big clump of willows and brush into ul.ich they were filially compelled to seek shelter between the converging linen of riflemen. So plentiful were the rabbits in the final carnage that many of the guns got too hot to handle, the barrels blinteiing the hands of the men vtl.o fired incessantly at their ipiarry in Mime instances m l over ten feet dis tant. No cot (ill ai Is Mere killtd, said A. S. Fields, a participant in the drive, va ho Vl-iti'd S ale the dav following; "they are such good eat ing that Mould be a crime." The jacks iic lift vWiire they fell, a fcii-.l for nun Hieliiig i'..)oli'. I :'o .'o BOISE PEOPLE MAKRV IN VALE .I.. , i ii 1 1 . f w I . C.t I I Ml .i.i o. ii i ... . I i . u.', I ...i.. Mi I' . , II , . .... I Ii. i n i I ...I.. i if 1 1 I I, ..I . la, , a i .it M .a i