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About The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 30, 1913)
u N rJ " NM !d h U Money Saver Is What the People Call Farley's Furniture Sale This is a forced sale to raise money and prices have been made so low that you can save money by buying now. Be sure and see the stock and prices. In the New Store Room l wmm nfWS NO TTTfTmfflW" j. H. Farley Furniture Co. V. W. MARSDEN Bicycle Repairing a Specialty All Kinds of Tool Sharpening anil QrtndlOK, Saw Filing, Seizors 0 rinding. Battle iitid Lawn Mower Sharpen ing a Specialty. Next Door to Library MAIN ST., ONTARIO, ORF. The Oregon -Idaho Lumber Co. F 0 R A Complete Stock of Lathe, Poets, Shingles, Cement, Plaster, Lime, Doors, Windows. Class,' Screen Doors, Rubber Roofing, Building Ta per. Moulding and other trimmings W popular I i gij MECHANICS NEWS OF GENERA! WTEHBTJH IDAHO Important Occurrences of the Past Week From Cities in Our State. CF GENERAL INTEREST Ixt uh figure your house bill ONTARIO, - . . OREGON Popular Mechanics Magazine "WRITTEN SO YOU CAN UNDERSTAND IT" A GREAT Continued Story of the World' Progre.i wlmh you may begin rending at any time, and winch will hold your Inter! il fortvfi 250 PACES CACH MONTH 30-) PICTUMI 230 ABTICU8 OF GENERAL MIMST TIH "Skop No(." Drn.r gives en-iy wayi to do thin '' Shop No(r." Drniirlm.nl (VI n.rnl I Inn - ! , .i. ... ... .1. .. i i mi iimcira nir noiue and Mlop, rep lira, etc. "Amateur Mechanic!" (HI p.ir-,l tells how t li miii i lum turc.wirelr n piiKini's, in. mi, . in. I all I he IIiiiik-i a bo loves! $1.50 PCR YEAR. SINGLE COPIES IS CENTS A-k yiur newsdealer, or WBITt FOB nit SAMPLE CORY TODAY POPULAR MKCIIANK S CO. . W. W.MnM1..r ., CHICAGO tiet t he Aru. only 11,00 HARRIMAN 1 Townsite Now Open Situated near the Malheur Lake, on a high, fine gentle sloping tract of land. This site offers exceptional opportunity for making a good city. Vast areas of ara ble territory spread out in all directions. Every valley and streamlet of the distant mountains has its ranches and flourishing livestock. Considerable land in the valley is still subject to homestead entry, and with the advent of the Oregon-Eastern Railway Now building toward Harney Valley this grand new empire will teem with land seekers and people seeking business opportunities and professional locations. GET IN EARLY Good opening for a newspaper, blacksmith shop, hotel drugstore, hardware and implement nouses, as well as other lines of business. A limited number of lots are now offered for sale at remarkably low prices, either for cash or on easv terms, which prices will advance when the raihoad is built into the Harney Valley. REMEMBER, Harriman will be the first important point in the great Harney Valley to have a railroad. UTAH-OREGON LAND COMPANY ( . H. MOREHOUSE, Pres. Salt Lake City, Utah. H. M. HORTON, Set Hums, Oregon Brown & Taylor, Agents, Ontario, Oregon. Empire Lumber Company, WHOLESALER OF Sash, Doors and Weatherproof RETAIL DEALERS IN Lumber. Lime, Cement, Plaster and Coal. The Must Complete UlM of Building Material in Ontario. Limited Roofing BRADY ELECTED SENATOR End Comei Aftsr a Deadlock Lasting Eleven Days Dolsc .In mh's fl. Hnidy, ex Gover nor of liliyjio and ii resident of Pocatel lo, til elected Hnlted States senator DJf the Utii iiinho legislature on the 31st ballot. Friday. Hi was chosen to fill tha vacancy caused by tin- dentil (if W.'Hnti It Ileylmni. Me will take his sent Immediately. is term will expire Marco 4, 1915. Tin- ei, i iinn of Mrndy was nccotn pllnlie, ofttr a contest lusting 11 (lays, replete will, sensational fcaturca. TllO dMdlOl k in the joint nssemlily was OfOken OB tha first ballot Friday by a OBttCttl .luiMMinent. The defeat of Chlal Ulshlfj, the strongest OORlpi tltor Of Bndy, was derisive, and aaVI dot to the desertion of two north rti Idaho members llrady received I total nf 41 Mites, two more than the rj number to elect. Solons Have Smallpox A sin. ill pox scare struck the house oi iipresentatlves. owing to the III" nt Representatives Nlliart, of Twin Fall- and Kepresentative Kdcl Events Occurring Throughout the State During the Past Week. aaaer Will Vote On Water Bonda atatkof. A special election for the .....ic of voftnn on bonds for the sun. of 14l,tM to complete the Maker water system will be beld in the near future, the city attorney having been Instructed l the board of commission ers to prepare an ordinance to that ef fect Two qoSBtlOM will DO submitted. One will authorize the Issue of Sff.TOl to repair six and three quaitOTl miles of line bOtWOOO the settling tank and rcicnoir. and the other the Issuance Of tha whole amount of 1 6ft, 000 to do the work and construct new feeders to several other StfOOB tO which the city has title. OF THEN IS GOOD ADVICE Medford Plan Is Unique ItOdford Medford's newly elected mayor, W W Bltert, laaBohod what la believed (, OC kfl itimiv :i l inn In Amen can nunlcipal ovarntnatii when at his formal Installation ho announced that In addition to the otiice of tnujor and council ho WOUld ippiimt an advisory cabinet oi prominent cltlaom from dif ferent walks ol lite who would be ask ed tO attend eer u titiK of the city council and confer with the citv ofll- hlute, of KoOtOMl county, both of I c,'rH regarding all tnaltet 1 of mtinlcl whom now are In the pest house here The house passed h concurrent reso lotion profiling for the appointment and commission of special committees to visit the northern, south, and south eastern Idaho state Institutions 'I In -en ne will tO called upon to approve thO I (institutional amendment providing tor the direct election of t'nlted Slates senators, for the house disposed ol i he measure, giving Its unanimous approval. Two Counties Created Q Hoi .in, i Minidoka oooatloa it.'. iied by the legislature, wlen the senate passed two house irao provtdlag tor them Both in' ton bill- were sent to Governor Haiti's for apprm il Franklin county bill was passed by the hooaa and -eat lo the senate A dii i-iiiii bill to dli Ida alivon coiiii '1 i 1. llllllt Itta Hew CDIIIIty ill I'avette pal admlnlstratloti MERCHANTS END SESSION Le Qrande Chosen for Next Meeting at Oregon Retailers Convention Albany Aficr recommending int portant legislation affecting unrein tile conditions, electing officers lor the tnaulOI V'lir and choosing l.e (irande as the meeting place of next years cunt cutlnii. the Oregon Ketall Mel chants taaOOtattOO iidlourned its sev enth annual convention here. J I, BtOOhtOO, ol Salein. was iiii.inl tllOllsl) fe i -lei led pleslilillt (if the IIS kOCiatlOO ini I. eo It Merrick, of Port land, was unanimously reelected sec rotary lor tha aoeolai yotr other of fleers were ill,,-, II an lollows W. A Ball, of Kllgene. Hist Ice president , F i Fletcher, oi Mbany, second rioo president . J (1 Snoilgrass. of I .a oaa Introduced In tha house, while the tlruude. third vlcepreeldent; Thomas Cower eoiinly hill. Introduced III mid 0 Watts. Ol Iteuben I re elected l trims paaaed by the senate, was sent to the hooaa for approval A measure seeking to divide Ada. the largest county in the stale, giving Meridian a county seat, will bo In troduced next Relief Train Stalled In Snow Murray The relief tram sen from Wallace for Murray Saturday, carrying three carloads of provisions, was stal led in I he snow itl Steamboat siding. lev en miles from Knuvllle, in spite of be fuel that H had two locomotives lie. ivy engine from Harrison went to the rescue, hut was able to do nolh ing except to haul the train back to Wallace again. urer, W F Isaacs, of Medford. C Tilbury, of McMiuni ill.', c II Murk holder, ol Collage (ir.ne. Kmil dun ther ol Portland. J e Maun, of I'ort laud, John I M.illey, of I'ortland, It Alexander, of I'eudletoti, K I'olack, of I .a (irande. ami T A l.eohay, of As torta, directors "Movies" to Oeplct Poultry Corvallla I'rofessor tames Oryden, head of the depart nient of poultry bus bainlry, will spend the next three weeks In louring the state, giving lee tares on poultry raising and lllustrat lug the subject b means of the mov lug picture film which was made at liri'iiuu Agricultural college and which has proved an Innovation In leaching IDAHO FRUITGROWERS MEET lh -"'-"r i. .p.r me.ho.u m pout tr b isb.mdty Officers of Horticultural Association Are Clscted Boise- The Idaho State Hortlcul lural bmsocIhiIoii has closed a most In tereatlng three day' session In for mutating the program for thla poai - LABOR DIVIDED ON BILL Oregon Federation Repudiatsa Meas ure aa Ambiguous Salem -The Slate le, -ration of l.a- meetiim ihr board of directors arraug ' bor concluded it., paaal session Sat ed only for the consideration of the uioat vital questions confronting the fruit industry in thin state at the pres ent time Officers were elected as follows President, K Smith. Payette; vice president, J K. Waters, Twin Falls, aecretary, (hariea I'ayne, Roawell, iiear-iini J A Fentoii, Meridian, board ol dlreiors, H K Smith, W '1 bomber. H W. Donnan, W A Voume ami .1 A Koberu. A resolution was adopted rOOMO mending that thin stHte tuke necessary steps to protect growers froai pasta and diseases brought Into the state on nursery stock from California and also that the frozen fruit be deesned un marketable autl that our state prevent (he importation ef any froaea (alitor ma fruit. A resolution petitioning the legls lature to appropriate t4n.ai0 to carry on more elficient Inspection saafffioa was passed. Bids en Federal Ouldlng I'd .tiellu. A call for bids lor tl.n at th urday after a tour days discussion of the problems before orgauUeii labor The mailer which brought out the liveliest discussion and produced the widest dltergruc.t of opinion wss the employes compensation .hi. now be fore the legislature. My a vote of to 'i the (inn eiition ropwdlatod tha lull, tad bj i i ota of 1 1 uo M p i resolution saverel) ooudeinnlug Rep resentallie A W Lawiiine, ,it n, mi. ih coiiiity, for latrodUOlag the ine.isiire li.-lore having oimulted the laboi lOroaa This I- tb. bill Wklch w.i drawn b a OOmpOalla ( omuiittee raproaoatlap !,"'h enipioye and tha in in ,i people i 'i prlaolpal irgaasaal uaad by the opponeni- of the bill, aside from Its doubtful nt. titiiflon ility. are 'he cUinik tlial some parts particularly section IS, are ambiguous, and that room is 1,-ti tor doubtful (instructions by the courts In lieu of i he rejected bill, the fed eratlon decided '" frame its own meas mi- and have ii ready for introduction nexi i or ini "Pntiltrv keeping Is a linsinesi that auy honest yoting man or wnman may condiicf without losing their self respect, snid Prof. James Drvdea In a short course lecture at the Ore gon Agricultural college. "1'he Brat lesson to learn is to get rid of the moral cowardice which troubles many in thla connection, " he continued. "The hog raiser and His wheat OTOwOf will not look at, a chicken, hut there are no real grounds for such tin altit nle. The poultre prodlMta of tflS Uoltod Stales were -tuiiHteil at 1700,000.000 for 1011, "A speclHl location, kPOOlSl soil, climate, market conditions ami it ipaolol man are DOOSBBff to a big lOeOOOl in speciiilied pooll ry nig. Bat I da not mean to tail the tanner tli.it the poultry business i- for the peclallati n tl Dtrary, it is a qneottoa ohatbat aaaotaltaod poultry farming is beet anyway. "1 bell, i, it is tar belter for the IndtvldOOl t inner lo hiive his tloi'k of hens to rinse along nh his other farm crops. In (begun tin general number la about .'() hens. They could be increased to 100 with very little additional labor. It is the heat ami quloheot way to Increase the poultry products of tbe state. I'lie main poultry producing section ol the aoOOtff is the ml, idle west where Hie system ol Ballad farming is used. "The poultry specialists lollmv dillerent methods, seine having small, intensive (arms of hut an acre or so, and others having free iHiige colony ipatOOl mi large Ncreage, as near Pita loins Calif. Hrobsblv tin best num hot if bens . tO tli" ueie. A gleiit many mora can ha kepi on an aots successful I j ini a tew reara, hoi not lot long. 'I be ground will become Infeated with disease ami vermin un less It Is cropped. The glowing of garden crops en the ground alternate -i.isoiia Will obviate the d lllico Ity. I lie yards must be kept pure ami clean. "On sntiie Mill one csli keep nioin liens than mi others. On heavy clay not so n. mi cau be kept as on light oila. liny cheap land to go Into tbi loiiltry business. Il is not necessary tn have high priced laud. Much of the poultry range of Khmte Island la lorky and unt much good for ngrlcul tntal purposes. I'igkt, porous soil la best, but not amid or soil that nothing will grow on, for one must have feed crops to make the business pay, "Hi re at Hie college we have fan) hena on one acre, rotating crop with (he chickens Last summer we had a t .1- i y crop of oats, although when we began to keep chickens there nothing OOOM grow became the laud bad Ixeii cropped out. Near I'etsluma a man la keeping lisiii haua on three acres of light, rather ariilv -oil Near l.os Angeles a man Bleared II, 100 with "itui hens on two aorai II I war. "I visited a PetMlir , i I i in it 1 JO BOrOS Where two Uien Mild a 11 1 eai old BOJ tOOtl BOtln i 'I' Of 0000 bens ami io cow mi I,, pay lag tsi IBs co as i. hub gMVa t he milk tor Hie hens. I' tick the BOS oil holsebaek JUSt halt Hi hOSJI to feed tbe 8000 Ileus Th- proportion of faarJ. lo i"t' Iba. ' ior each inn. is abooa la thla , HI load "I'lel I" -Hckr. i tell of wheat, corn, t.iiley .ml middlings. ut I I mii . 7 of ci mi co il un veil wilh oooatruottan ol the au,wo federal building was issued here, the bids to be opened February If, Tbe spei ifi aatloaa are far a building three stores and hit.sea.rnr eoVOVtO a ground area Of 4i00 s(j iar- feet. Uate it si tl.- . ueral election in ISM Fear For Five Men en Mountain Kellogg The fate of five sera In ill,- giih h Beiii the Hear Top mine b Aorry to 0 C I.aad. of the Idaho l.ea.i Silver Mining com pany The talaphOOl connection has been broken for over two weeks and the la Lbal (hey pantil la olth II feet of snow. Farmer cf Wasco Mast The j j. dies 'I he BOOOOd annual of this dlatrfot was held here under (he auspices of the Fruit 1. 1, i 'elation, 290 farsn nd merchanta attending. Tramload of Insane Reaches Pendleton P( ndh 'on tti i an all day trip, un eventful laaofar aa tha behavior of the ::0u patlenia were concerned, 'he ape Otal train ( he iLsai.e irons Ue Salem laatltutlon lo their BOO kerua u dg eiti arrived bare .-aiuiday. , milk ami nuat ..ciai a. 9 Iha ' meal " I miii V'rviir. West bound No. 17 Oiegoii Wa.b Ltd 5 1 .1 a in No. C llontiiigtoii Pass . 0 a ui No. ! Fast MhiI i i , ,, ,,, No 21 Hiiutiiigton Pass i; it p ui .,, , Oregon Wiuli Rgproaa 7 i0 p m I a t bound. No. la Uragoa WTaah Utd - -' s No. - liolse passenger n ,L a m No. 0 last Mail I I J I a in No. BOatS passenger p in No. ' Oregon Wash I. - press I In p in Vale tram leaves ' ' 3 ' a m i lui mug at I ;I0 p in. Alwd,s mi Iht Job It oo have i ol haul iii; J U want done, Inge of small, you can alwavs depend oil John Land iiighain being ready foi fou, Call hlni si 'be ,-- re Hotel I I