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About Malheur enterprise. (Vale, Or.) 1909-current | View Entire Issue (April 3, 1920)
JL aoaiaat ADVERTISE IN THE ENTERPRISE The Only Paper That Circulates Throughout the Whole of Malheur County... It Has More Readers Be-. cause it Printa More Reading Matter. People Pay for The Enterprise Be muse They Want to Read the Bent Review of Northwestern and World News; the Moat Thorough Reports of Southeastern Oregon Irrigation, Stock, Fanning, Oil, Mineral and Community Progress , the Latent Market Quota (ions j all Pilings In the U. S. Land Office, Vale District ;Mal hear County Official Notices; Seal Estate Traasfers; County heat aws CoiTospoadeat Lf tters. ' TuU News gervte Per AO County Communities) Largest Circulation Is ry Beetle Of Malheur County Bast If edinm For An County and Outside Advertiser, ill -Han i 11 v ii i i ii awi m a , . -m .arm m r m mrf j-c tjm no. x m if t 1 ibkbV 1 I Til Tfcjil - " -V'M m IT aan k: -v x :b x. sUv aT r j m j -m. tv , ay n F BP M eaafl 4waa sMJ'V . CV m Wf W a. WJ an. iaT aT AT T .v. ft .ai i SO TOUR CO-OPERATION The Homo Newspaper, Read In fcvery Nook of Malheur County. I Suggestion and Support sr BoSe Ited to Help Make The "Enterpriser" a True Representative of Vale, said ' Malheur County. Send a Subscrip tion to Friends Whom You Wish to Welcome to This Country. The Enterprise is Absolutely Independent; Treats Everyone With the Sane Fairnesa is Always Progressive, and Urges Your Activity In the Develop ment of Malheur County's Great Pop slbilittea. It is Your Paper and to Working to Develop Your Community. Let all the Malheur Towns and Sett), menta Work Tan ether for Mare Praspepoo and Better Csvaey. VOL XI. NO. 20. VALE, OREGON SATURDAY, APRIL 3, 1920. SUBSCRIPTION $2.00 PER YEAR C OF C. MEETING WELL ATTENDED Consolidation of Schools Considered Canvass of Districts To Deter mine Wishes of Districts The regular meeting and luncheon of the . Chamber of Commerce last Tuesday was attended by the larg est gathering of businessmen of Vale the luncheon has seen in some time. William Francis Seeman, the chair man of the day, called the meeting to order requesting that the commit tee on the Farm Loans Association render its report. Robert D. Lytle stated that the committee had found that the matter must be held for the time being, until the Courts have passed on certain issues involved before application can be made. The "clean-up-day" program reported a successful issue, the busi men, making arrangements with the committee, for whom C. C. Mueller spoke, to set .next Friday a. "clean-tip-day". Robert D. Lytle, of the Dry Creek PROBLEMS FACING STRICKEN WORLD Shall Chaos or Reconstruction in Europe Follow the Great World War? PHOTOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE THAT JUDGE TEST CONSPIRED WITH HIS SON IN PLOT TO GRAFT HALF OF MONEY DUE TAXPAYERS MEN CHANGED BY BATTLE Soldiers Have Learned What Can Be Accomplished by the Use of Force, Sternly and Efficiently Applied. Article IX By FRANK COMERFORD. Milking a soldier out of a clvlllnri does more tluin change the clothes he wears. It changes the man. Men who luid never owned a revolver or rifle, who had never even shot one off. who hud never killed anything iu their lives, were given firearms. Thpy were drilled, taught to shoot, taught to kill. The ediR'ntlon wns thorough mill scientific. They learned to look I Continued on Page Eight.) MUST REGISTER FOR COMINGPRIMARIES Advises Received Naming Registrars For Purpose of Registering Vot ers not Now Registered down the Might of a rifle, pick out a crossing committee, was heard from, human heiirt for a target, fire and and stated that the committee had 'iijterly watch for the man to fall, taken no definite action, as the Coun- I Tl,,,-V ,vprt' tvt,i,u'1 to n,sh um,1,-v nt H wuii or minimi ncinga mm nine iwy onets Into men's bends And liowels. Many of these men a few years he fore would have fainted In a stock yards where cattle were helng killed. I'or four years they have heen In a human slaughterhouse, not only ns spectator, hut as part of the place. It steeled these men. Many of them contracted the undertaker's point of view towards life, a fatalism without fea r. i:perleuce In buttle taught them the meaning of the word "force." They discovered that the Individual wax only Important and efficient when he acted In concert with a grent group. Kveryihlng depended upon team work. Men learned Hint n group of men working In harmony, with nerve and rl lies Willi fixed bayonets, could do wonderful things. They -could take an objective. ," In other words, take the thing they wnnti'tl and needed. When these men came hack into civil life and, took off khaki and put on over alls, the Inking oft of the khaki and t-he putting on of mufti did not erase from their minds this lesson the war hud taught them. This lesson has borne- I'nilt. The men look at the employer us an en emy. The employer thinks of them as a commodity. Hut red is cordial. The men want something. They de mand II. The employer' refuses. Their objective is to get the llilng they want and need. The war taught them there Is a way, n weapon I-'orce. Today In Kurope men reason, "If we can't get what we want, and need, we must take It. We have the force." Having grown habited to suffering, ac customed to blood and death, they look witli Indifference on the question of danger, of price. They saw that when nations could not agree they re sorted to force. They discovered that victory generally went" to the nation possessing the greatest force. . Threat of "Direct Action." In the labor movement of Europe we have this idea In what Is called "direct notion." "Direct action" is nothing' more or less than applying war methods to peace conditions. It County Clerk A. M. Moody state; that the following named Registrar; have- been designated to register all the voters not now registered, so that they may vote at the forth coming primaries and the subsequent elections. Those who have not re gistered cannot cast their yote in less they register. The list of Registrars appointee and at the various parts of Malhoui County follows :- Precinct Registrar? Applegate ....P. M. Boalf Arcadia and Nyssa J. Boydell Beulah t. Lena F. Tillotsor. Big Bend J. E. Holly Bonita D. A. Zehner Brogan J. M. Addington Bully and Westfall Lawrence Lamberson Cairo, Fair and Ontario R. 1, 2, 3, C. M. Stearns Cord L. L. Seward Crowley I. K. Venator Harper Charles J. Bui.h Ironside H. C. Elms Jamicson Rose Z. Pope Jones and Juntura David F. Graham Jordan Valley and Juniper J. E. McDonell Malheur C. H. Morfitt Owyhee Mrs. T. M. Lowe Riverside Dan McPherson Rockville Frank Mullinix Snake River H. G. Joseph Watson L. E. Palmer The - precincts of Grange, North and South Vale will register at the office of the County Clerk. Arrange ments have not yet been completed for the registration of voters in the precincts of Basin, McDermitt, Rome and Skullsprings. aAI.HEUR, County, Orefon. To .. J , iljklfir , OMCQON, ..5 ..P-J Dr. f DATE NAT UBS OF CLAIM "Ufa MaJ (JU4JU4 Ow If6 'Uj Uj. 0 AMOUNT No. of Claim and Warrant .ir?.!.Z.fC Kro Account of Amount, i..e:..f..-:....rrr..., r. Deputy. STAE County ot L duly sworn, toy: that tho wttl MALHEUR Coonty, Oregon, it tho hUn of that tho itomi howa thoraon "ore not for tho moo or honofit of of MALHEUR Coonty, that tho prlcoo charfod thorof or ato r. that tho same ia wholly unpaid. Mll for ....TV-X. I i...-..-a." --r . ie. t . (B -yrvtoev. 1 .VI . VWI oriiM oabh V- No was fumlshod to Uridiial person, hot won softy for tho use and benefit i and not in excess Jtf the market raise thereof, and NOTB-TMi aM mmt W eoUl tr niStr the torn er iwpwltoa wke im Ml hiMMo et M wttSIa HWMi Subscribed and sworn to before mo this , dy of . cJW: t..r " - --, 7 (over) Tax Rebate Claims Signed by J. H. Test, Illustration No. 1 'It is hereby ordered that's Warrant "orTtho V.- for .AJ.cU Fund be iasue4 IN PAYMENT OF THIS ACCOUNT. Dated i',iis .?3C. daw oftaX.., 1MT.. 7 -T'Jl .JL.J'H , County Judge. te&ttttfZ. Count Commissioner. .lokrSJUrS Coast Comfltlaaianer. Photographic Reproduction of Court Order, Illustration No. 2 itt a Trartw-iTvr.r'v VVAKrilM'Klrilia WnDl'MCM D1ICV ma n t m i Oregon Short Line Bridge Gang Starts Work On Mill Ditch Crossing A gang of men wi put to work on the crossing of the mill ditch where it crosses tne 0. S. L. Brogan branch. The culvert will have con crete side walls and I-beam strinarert to carry the track. ' The work of installing the machin ery in the Nevada Pumping Plant ia progressing, and will be completed in time to turn water through the Nev ada ditch by April 15th. The farmers ditch is being rapidly shaped up and water will be turned in about the first of next week. A erew has started cleaning and shaping up the Willow Creek pump aiicn ana uie wiuow ireejc gravity ditch. The machinery for .ttie Willow Creek Pump is on the way and passed through Chicago on March 91rh The report from the reservoir March 27th showed 27,600 acre feet stored. FARM BUREAU JORDAN VALLEY ISUNDER WAY Jordan Valley Organizes Farm Bur eau Squirrel Campaign Going -Strong and Results Good AMERICAN LEGION IS TO MEET ON TUESDAYS ball clubs of the new six-team league recently formed and comprised of teams from Parma. Payette Hunt ington, Weiser, Ontario and Vale, met in Payette Sunday March 21st., and arranged and agreed on the schedule of the games for the sea- Additional contributions nv.iat he ttnd wnere they are to be play extended toward the memorial fundedt The season comes In the 18th. of the American Legion, according to : cf April and closes on the 25th. of Legion Memorial Fund Must Be Sup ported or the Monument' Will Fail. (Continued on Page 3) BASEBALL SEASON TO OPEN WITH VAIEGAME ... . s 7 w vi V U-i..wT Photographic ReproducUon of Order For Warrant Said To Be In Judge E. H. Test. Hand Writing. Illustration Nos 3 In order to show the people of Malheur County exactly how the matter of allowing the tax rebate claims in the fifty-fifty holdup case difficult to reproduce the document. This order on the County Clerk you will note is Dated May 6, 1919, four months before the claim was pre seasons Schedule Of The Six-team League Is Arranged Vale-Parma To Play Opening Day , was handled and paid by the count) sented for payment. Now this order court, me maineur enterprise em- was attacnea to tne ciuim oy tne ployed one of the best photo-engravers in the Northwest to- -make the above photographic reproductions of The representative of the base- the records. No. 1 This illustration is a photo graphic reproduction of the. face .of a claim presented by J. H. (Harvey) Test for the Elgin Forwarding Com the presentation of this claim County ment can be found. Judge Test Is Judge E. H. Test must have written An ernest bunch of farmers of I the Jordan Valley section, that rich little valley far to the south in Mai- Iheur County, gathered in the parlor of the Jordan Valley hotel on tho evening Of March 25 to hear of the work of the Farm Bureau and take u thr 'camrtagn of a kxal Biuy war f , -- After listening to a report of the Farm Bureau movement from Its in- rantlnn In fha Stafa . V.1 I some years ago. down through its I spread to Oregon and to Malheur ; County and the progress made thus far in the county, as given by the Agricultural Agent, a motion was passed by acclamation that a local Bureau be formed forthwith. A general discussion ot projects and committeemen followed in which most of those present participated. The projects and committee elected were: Chairman James W. Parks Secretary of Records D. D. Joslyn Soil Improvement St Irrigation .. R. G. Quigley Livestock Improvement... A. B. Acscuenaga Crop Improvement W. S. Skinner Pest & Disease Control.. ..Geo. S. Parka This community has already put out about 800 pounds of squirrel poison. Another shipment of 1000 pounds was sent to them on tho 27th of March. The squirrels are a ser ious pest in that section but tho ' poison is getting the best of them . At the Farm Bureau meeting the -members went on record instructing their pest and disease committeeman to work to bring the compulsory r this order in favor of his son. Why the long delay in presenting the claim? There were two reasons. The too clever to get himself in such a dnt contr l8WJnto ctlon &8,n8t place as to face a prison term. But w" " u'u" P0"" a clever man, who is able to accom-, goiners. plish about what he pleases without Test's were anxious to get as many subjecting himself to the penalty ofJ victums under contract as possible; the criminal law, may or may not. before their craft was discovered. I be the proper poison to entrust with, And second they had to kill enough the money of the taxpayers. That time to run a bluff that J. H. Test of course depends upon how thejj was doing something difficult, super human, something that only a son of a county judge could do, in order to justify his fifty-fifty split. If this is not the proper explanation public looks upon such matters. On the trip into Jordan Valley, County Agent Breithaupt visited th Harper, Creston, Crowley, Cord, Rome aru! Ruby neighborhoods and came back by way of Adrian. The people of the Creston, Crowley and Cord communities are so far apart tu... i f. .nu-i. t ihu'ithat it would be difficult for them ituation however that the Enterprise h'v F?n Buru but, wa: are the treat war. tne games. txe tioDineiie status juj - t . placin blame ,y bitten in the handwriting or alleged statement by Judge Test, to Those who have contributed to- j that several additional players can be who hJj ' the w0, i County Judge E. H. Test, and sign-', the effect that ha welcomed a grand srd the fund, since the last report, used on the Vale team and those I ftner.f 0n the con. ed by the claimant to whom the jury investigation. While it ia likely : ! desiring to participate, should. et'trary it lookt to ui that Jud Tetj j rebate was due- the order asking the 'that the grand jury will Investigato, Vale Meat Company A. Howard 1.00 they can, for the time is getting L. MeKinney Total exclusive of Dance $361.15 does not clearly understand. Thai Ontario Argus Immediately came to! helped Harvey expense of the taxpayers. Judge Teat has practically become the poli tical editor of the Argus, and is trying to escape the condemnation of public opinion for his spurious acts by trying to create a false impres sion that the Enterprise is seeking revenge aguinst the Court. Judge Test and the Argus are too cowardly to answer the direct charges snd questions msde by the Enterprise backed up by the public political reason whatsoever for bring ing the light of publicity on the af fairs of the Court and the operations Clerk probably at the time of deliv ery of the warrant. The hundwrit ing in the body of this order in the opinion of many responsible citizens of Malheur County is that of Judge E. H. Test. That it is his hand writing, we leave you to convince yourself. Compare this writing with - - . . . . . . i.l. i i i I : . . . H . ... - . . L. . a1.ua ....... T II. U I ' U III. Mt Itlll II.U I I II 1 1 1. 1 I I H ,i, I" unity, j-uie ivi usui una cmuil who,"- - o - - i , , - - - . . . . ... , r ' . . . . i ...in t...i T..ot li.ii n iu r.-. th Hpfenaa of Judfl-a TeaL admitted presented was September 3, 1919,' lest as county juuge reprouucea , s " " - l" . " . D . " ttet. ;if. Mj Also not that J. It. rest's name and '. in illustration No. 2. Note the pecul-I pie where in such deductions are in- j that the Tax Rebate fifty-nrty -plttj ... :..: '!. th -m- "J H Tf 1. correct? was baa policy, yet tnea to jusmy, aiKiiBiui appear uu ins suiuum - -- .- - , ,,. ,. ,ut 1,l TrJ wouia do possiDie to nave an or- Mo 9 Th a ulnMan ia nhntA "'" ", nan a vuugo im the report of the monument commit-ijuiv and the itinerary comprises ! ,.,.i,i -,-j-,i- v,-i, I Also compare the writing of the body ' interested to make an explanation of tee, or they will not be able to erect j 159 games that are to be played (fUing side of this same claim. This of thi order with the "cknowlwlgej this situation. No word of explana the contemplated tablet at a cost by all the teams combined. (shows how the various members 0f:writinf of J- H- Tuut nown. tion whatever has been given. The of twelve hundred dollars, for up to ( Vale obtained one of the games the Court must sign and approve I """Production No. 1. It apparently Is Enterprise has also called to the at date there is only three hundred and j to be played on the opening day, ;cluim, before the Clerk is author!.-' not tne of J' H- (Harvey) jtention of the public other practices seventy-five dollars in the fund. An Parma coming here for a game on ied t0 jg5Ue warrants. I Test nor that of the Claimant. , by the County Court which did not appeal is made to all those who, as tho 21st. of April. . ' . ; 'if you are not acquainted with think were the best policy for the yet have not responded to the call Considerable enthusiasm is dis-1 Tne fcnterPn ubmlts these re-, Juig j,., handwriting, ask some-' public interest. At least the people for this cause, to send in their dona- pl.yed in the games to be played Productions as positive evmence Hon who jg. 'should have been made acquainted tions at the earliest time. This mon- and while there is a shortage of !m!J! ' 1? .1 . "1 f I TiL.? Nw what does the proper inter- with such questionable procedure. .... 1 ,, knowing that Harvey was collecting . . : ... . . ument is to be erected in memory of players in some of the teams, there . " , ,--iJ-i,i preUUon of these records mean. We The only reply to any of the quea- the boy. who laid down their live, , will be plenty .1 'player, or, hand for defendring ! f ind an order dated May 5. apparent-j tions asked by the EnUrpris. is anj. ntto sr. attempt- so m uiiov ,1110 ...m ir.-j. 1 ji.. vi- ly written in tne nsnuwnuns 01 antna ntnirincnt or ouukw s.dv, u w,.-i- Viu ..... .... f"'m ....... r . ..j .1 ...... .... . ....1 j . a I w - r - leging petty reasons. The Enter prise has no personal, sectional, or JS.OOut and get into practice as soon as hM 'ij hi ton Jnto a grafting ' clerk t0 th w,rrmnt 'aaued ;'t must be remembered that Judge tney can, jor vne ume is gcvung . . ,u. the name of the claimant t J . 11. Test has not been cnargM wun any r n 1 t . I a-"- v - . - v .... . I ...... .. d.uu snon. , Taut. Than four months afterward crime suincient to secure a grand . ... . . .u. i 4U.1- . .. , . . ,r , iuvy-ii" cuiiscuon Krai l. 1 i on vna part ui wiw scova ui ineit Th ew suits ordered by the Vale ! w. that J. H. Test oresenU this I lurv indictmenL What District At-'i.,fv h.- rr-ft. The meeting of the Julian Lowe Post No, 85 will be held, on Tuesday Bights beneafortK instaad of oft Mon day nigtrt team are expected to arrive sometime jno. s. inis illustration is a veryi , , . . 1 . . . , . , ; . thi. week andsome of those to wear inter-sting reproduction. In Uie first wurt promptly , tomey SwW may bring ut In Judj T-t U than will probably be sees paradiag placa the on Did axcept ti. sign.- allows it evidaneo ia not known, hut ..t il Boi, the County of Malheur and is ia poai- in tasm in the nsar future. we if la pevall, making it extrwrasly 1 In thr werdi four months h4r eoniliered tikil that any Indict. (Cntlnsd otv page Eigkt.) should join the county organization in order to get tho benefits of mem bership. In the Rome community considerble interest was manifested toward forming a local Bureau and it would be possible to have an or- settlement will also likely wish to organize before many months. Or ganizatlons might be perfected at the Harper-Westfall section, at Iron side and at Juntura for the Juntura-Riverslde-Beulah country. The Farm Bureau campaign a gainst the pocket gophers is get ting under way. Through the pest (Continued on Page Five.) TO HOLD INSTITUTE April 28 is tho date set by County Superintendent Mrs. Hurley for local Teacher Institute and School Board Convention to be held in On tario. All schools near enough for their instructors to attend the Insti tute will close for the day, and it is expected that all Board member, will be present. State flupsngtemdartl J, A. Cbuath 01 will be in attendant ,