0. Ifc Ontario National Bank United States Depository State of Oregon Depository IgOvrBank Your Hunk ? If not, we cordially invite you to innkn our hank your hank. W have tho usual Safeguards of Fire Proof Vault, Burglar Proof Safe, Bonded employees, and do business in a conservative manner. -:- -:- -:- .;. Kor the heal bread and pastry in town go to the Ontario Bakery. For Halo One span mnren. one flHu gi Wings. 2 saddle bone g r 1 1 -. for women or children. Call hi the Mil It ii' in id in in- Capital and .Surplus. $80,000 g p, ., (Vnt Net on Time CERTIFICATES OF DEPOSIT B. S. COOK & COMPANY (DTOOBPOSATID) J. H. COOK, Manager. Capital Stock 50,000. Choice Apple and Prune Lands Land and City Property Uet the Argus, onlv 11.00 ..- 1 Local Market Report. Corrected Fob. I, for the benefit of Argus readers by the Malheur Mer cantile Company. Eggs, per dozen. 30o. Mutter, per pound, 30o. Oats, per hundred, $1.50. Wheat, per hundred, il.CO. Hay, per ton, 90. Potatoes, per hundred, $1.(10. On Inne, per hundred, $2.00. Apple, per box, $1.00. to $1.6., Chickens, dressed, per pound, Is, Pork, dressed, ! to lOo. Pork, live, B?4 to 0 Veal, 0 to 10c, llecf. llo to llr. NEWS OF GENERAL I MEREST IN IDAHO Important Occurrences of the Past Week From Cities in Our State. V. W. MARSDEN Bicycle Repairing a Specialty All Kinds of Tool Sharpening mid (rinding, Saw Filing, Boiotori Grinding. Skate Mini LftWn Mown Sluiip.'n ing a Sjiccialty. Next Door to Liltnin MAIN ST.. ONTABIO, OBI, EDITORS PAY WITH PENNIES Last Chapter In Boise Contempt Case Closed. Boise. The final chapter In ths famous newspaper contempt case of this city, In which the supreme court of Idaho was accuser, Judge and jury In the trinl of Itlchard Story Sheridan, C. O. Uroxon and A. R. Cru.en, owners of the Capital News, who were cited for contempt, wan closed when the newspaper ineu paid their flnea of $500 each assessed by the court. The fines wore raised through popular penny donntlons received from every state In the union and many parts of Canada. Ilnd It not liriMi for the fear thnt Hi" court would not occept the sum In pennies as legal tender, the copper would have been placed In the ennr''- hands. Instead, they were hauled to a legal bank mi drii) hihI there de posited. Cheeks wero drawn on the fund b) in' ill HMi'lantH in pay in. fines. Hie new simper men saving the court ami BttaOttOS the einhurrusaineut ni i1, pan files OHEGON NEWS NOTES OF BENEgAL INTEREST Events Occurring Throughout the State During the Past Week. RULES OF MALHEUR COUNTY DECLAMATORY CONTEST HARRIMAN j 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 drug store, hardware ana 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 easy terms, which prices will advance when the railroad 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 C H. MOREHOUSE, Pre. Salt Lake City, Utah. H. M. HORTON, Sec. Burns, Oregon Brown & Taylor, Agents, Ontario, Oregon. Empire Lumbar Company, Limited WHOLESALER OF Sash, Doors and Weatherproof Roofing RETAIL DEALERS IN Lumber, Lime, Cement, Plaster and Coal. The Most Complete Line of Buildiug Material in OuUrio. Celllo Celebration Urged for 1015. LewlstOtt. The compl'-tlt n of the CHilii eamil. openine. the ' ilni.il.. Snake wnii iw, iv to free navigation nt II ..I- thnt iln i -..I.. I It. throws open, In to be cele brated here in i.i.".. .in. I efforts are now lienor in. n. in have the liorihwcii Jinn M ilh lil.iho In IIiIh ohacrv I bt 1 -i.i Lit legislature Iiiih .i hill befiiii. it ror i in appropriation of 1$,000 to finance the exposition itnl eel. hr.ition. wlille Oregon nnd Wash i law tanker have em h been ask- I If :m I'pt IDf .ilimi ni H$$ In I iL Hi. Mil ll in thf in, mix of Id presents! I ve It. N. Htaiifleld. of I unit 11 Im cnunu. while Hcpiosonlnlh o Max M. Neumann, of Spokane, has an .iiiriiniiilloii hUl nii.lcr his chn; OlxinpM Theft hi 1 1 all provide I. ii ' tlH'lll llf I'llllltlllMMlolllTH to manage the expenditure for their re ,n ctlvs I ' LOGGING CAMPS ARE OPEN Warm Weather Encouraqea Loggers; Market la Steadier. Portland. With the disappearance of the nun In the timber, logging camps in the Columbia river district are gradually resuming operations af ter a shut down of more than a month. This will be welcome news to some mlilmen who in the past month have run short on logs as a result of the Rood demand ur the sawed product. Seme mills, it is stated, will have to I .'own lor several weeks, unless the logging camps come to their res cue shortly. The situation looks good to the log gers for the iiiinkct Is steadier than at any time dm nig the past two years and prices are better, too. For the l " i i in1 ruling basis of quotation Is ST, 111) mid tit, but it Is considered eo lhte iii. ii l eill be hMed to this 1 I mi I bfuar) 14 when the dollar ni Mites Into effect i I. I to, .'vi'f. opinions .. on this petal union re. Water for Irrigation Is Assured. i- mere snow III 'lie noiintslns of eastern OrefJN tit the 'l tune iliiiu for Hever.il years ntiii Indloatlom are that the OOmlng I slimmer will see rate gvailnhto for hrrlgai ami plai'i r llntal limn there has hern for ssrsral years. The deepest snow ii'i'tirii il iroin any of the Inn i-i twelve feet nt ''a i re in ih. Sumpicr district, about 7f feel above sen level. At Hump ! i Ih-! luc feet on the level, lit . ihorn an. i Dourue nine feet, sud ' i he same depi i at I !w oucopla, iu lite northeast etui of the county. OPPOSED TO NEW COUNTIES Division Bills in Legislature May Be Shelved. noise. Thai he i SBBe ei hi the creation of in M counties in Ibis state. aieepl In such BSsei whore (he pen pie have been given an opportunity to express themselves. Governor Haines has tn;ne known to Ihe Idiho leKlslature. Ihe official nnno'ineeitieut of the Igoiernor spell.- doom for the Ada, I Canyon, Homier and Fremont county division bills Introduced or to be In troduced, It is believed in legislative I circle. liovernor Haines made Ins decision known in a message to the house . In It he announced he had attached his signal urn to the division bills ere lining Minidoka and Lincoln counties , lie assigns his remains for being op i posed to the creation of new countlee I because of the Increase of tuxes that will follow. The Oversmlth bill giving county I mutual fire insurance cmnpajile pow ! er to in.iiiit.iiii a fund from which to I pay losses rather than to levy assess 1 tii-nis with which to pay them, was passed. The senate indefinitely postponed the house joint resolution culling for junketing Mpg of members represent lug Joint committees of both houaee to visit sute institutions both north and south A home rule local option bill providing for precinct local op tion, wait i nt rod hi eil lu the senate by Senator MacBeth. of Cueter county. Farmers Resent Monopoly. listen, Wat nil n cnllng the , ippaiBBl apt i ii egg in pol) v i in" 10 he plan Bin i . ; holdup of the grain grower ot the BOftlureet for the continn sumuier. local farmers through i ne count) salon of the rum ers Coop.i.iii.i .mil I. ilucuiuiti.il In lou are plan. i.i.r. to ask mil Irotu the lev Mature and from iln national con i;i. If necess At lllls Iiiih ilie grunt Ii.ik lirnki Is are nskllik I I i .'til n for hags fnr lite Marriae Bill Urged. If tbs legislature phase the marn age meaaure now pending In the house, a physician's certificate will he necessary before s license may be oh Uined. Tbs proposed saessurs wss Introduc ed In the house at the request of the Federetlsa of Wssssa's Cluhs ta this state. MsrrlsBS hstwesa first eouslas la prohibited, ss ars alllaaees betwssa white persons and uegroes, muluttoss or Mongolians Ths Mil provides that whsrs elites sriaclpsl has been divorced In tala state sad (hereafter within S mouth lesvss this state sad is taarrlss la aa Sther eute ssd rsturns to Idaho with la a period if sli months of ths sxsr riage in ar other state, such s mer rises is aull sad void aatf will net be recognised in Idahs. Halgbt's local option MIL ths prted pal feature of which is the reejulre ment thst common carriers shall keep s record of sli shipments of alcohol sad Intoxlcsting liquors shipped isto "dry" territory, peessd ths senate ssd will be iraijHiiiutoJ to the lower house coiiiiiik huriesi. This arise is eil as outrageous b ihe fa in I iln Itiillai, jute imi this yeur Is re ported as reinnrknl.lv heavy. It is pninied inn i .ii ihe II .nt- sef hug ijiiin.n ion in .M Kivi'ii Ih prhmi e i.i. uce that the supply of bags is monopolised. At this time Isat yssr grain hagg . BfSJ iiiuled ut tf4 mils WANT SlNStAW FOREST OPENED I OR StniEKlNI A petition containing ths name of 230 residents of ihe Hluslaw forest reserve and vicinity, asking senators and memhein gj congress from Oregon to lake steps to have llm Hluslaw i sei v. t ei in in d to set i lenient and make it subject to homestead entry, was for wtrded from Bugene. KLAMATH FALLS TO HAVE ELABORATE PARK SYSTEM The new city purk site recently pur chased h Kluinalli Falls Is to Im laid out and arranged by s professional landscape artist, acorrilng to plans of the I'ark Commlaslon and the Wo men's Civic League, which Is cooper ating aitli (he board In the develop tnal of the city's park system HOTEL GIRLS SAVE LIVES Waitresses Sound Alsrm and Rush Through Burning Hslls Sfccramento. Four persons are known to be desd, two others are dy ing, 10 others are In hospitals suffer Ing from hums or broken bones, and the search for bidlet, continues in the ruin", of the St Nleholas apartment house, which went up In flames walls some of ths guests were st hreasfsst. and others were still in their rooass. An explosion of fumes of oil which had escaped from a defective burner In the basement started the Mrs which quickly enveloped the building. That nssrly all of tho 10 persons so cupylng rooms In the houss were net burn, d to death was dus to ths heroic work of Miss Frances Keddick and stlas Mary Courtwright, waitresses who ran through the burnlug halls, awakening everyone ssd assisting those who were overcome by smoke. Following are the rules for ths Declnmatory BSBtOfl which lakes place nt Nyssn March 8. 1. ThlsHssocltitlnn shall bo known Si the Malheur County lntercholsstio Declamatory Contest association 2. The conlestnitlH shall he cm lined to the lUh. 7th and 8th guides. 3. The meet in,.- place shall rotate In such order us determined by the oommlttse. 4. The executive committee slmll consist of the principals of the largest schools In the couuty and one tenchcr from a rural school appointed hv His county superintendent. Tho c mty superintendent la mini" chairman ex-i-.iii.'io of i-rtitl hoard. 5. The time of the Hist meeting shall be some time within the first half of March. it Kadi school till, nig purl in tbs contest shall hear its own expense st each meeting. 7. The BfBjMfg shall consist of such additional miniii- us the com mittee itisv deem mlvlsahle from Stgfag Ihe schools represented. tv, Any school wishiOR to enter this runlet shall tnske ill l test ion to SIIJT BMgJrBM of the cm, mil. aj on or hcfnrs the llrst of l'eliriiat. el each year. !'. It Is umli -rstii ml nii'l agreed thai this Nittiiiiil contest is crested for the mutual lien, lit of all fehnols In the cmintv. H. Any trophy offeree1 will be held the following year l the school winning the gag .- II. Any trophy 00 Huee llttins In Hiteee.sloii by the gBBM school estab llshns an ownership. It, All n itatlmiN shall ls llitiili il to e.i n t' 1 1 ll II t 'X. II, Itirther That the exteoses of the association shall be borne by ths school at the pli.ee whets the contest Is held. 14 ll is sugg. etc I i i he committee that each school enter lllln n local contest to select He' I'litnlidates to take ph.: iu lite mutual contest. It Is also uigeii that all 'm I,, ..Is put forth their best effort to enter Hits contest. The meetings of the past have lieen very proilinl Ii and wi gggjg that gyBM schools be repiesi I, led In Hie Inciting ol the inline. We also wish the ex ecutive Committee to feel free to do such things as mn ln to the herd, In terests of all tin' gehoolg of the eutinty. Ml those wlii have taken part in the contest heretotoie ale iuul iglalile fur Ibe future contests. A. U .Mnc'hcrso!i. Co. Supt. NEWS FROM PORTLAND LIVE STOCK MARKETS V t wiihalaiidiuK the fact that re cflpts have lieen light ami compsr tively few cutlls ollnrs.l to the trade, prices hjBfe saggeil lullv 'JO .nuts nil ul.ilig the line, I'rline steels old fur $7. nil to 7.7.1, cows M.I0 to M.TI h.ifers 7.00 DolT.tl ami hulls at 111. 00. represent a coiiwervat ive rsngs price, Downard lemieuev to the swiue Unite early in the week beuame chronic Ii) Thin .day Btgaj BBft light weight hogs sold at 17.60 hjtl.M. These prices are twenty to thirty cents lowit than i. week ago Liquidation has limn very liberal, CM head of swiue being unloaded here since Saturday. Motion values received a Irimmiug Thursday, dus to the let up iu demsnd The cattle deollue hss uffected liolh sheep hihI hog markets and freeh meat business shows big inseee compared with early January trade. Choice wethers are dowu n iusrter st 90.00 to Iu. f ewss gB.OO to 6 16. Lamb uiatki l rtiady to a shade weaker, tope 7. 00 to 17. 26. demand not ao urgent. Hulk of sheep offerings during week only medium uslltv. THE MANHKIO. Portland. Wheat-Club, Use; blueaiem, red Huaslsn, ISc. Hay- Timothy, 111; alfalfa, 111 Buttsr Creamery, 87 He Kgga- Candled, 36c Hope IK12 crop. Ho. Wool Lantern Oregon, lie; UsseKe valley, 20c. Mc; Bssttle. Wheat -Ulueatem, Mc; eluh, Me; red Russian, Hoc Kggs -30c. i , . .. . i 'eaansaeu thi I l U ' i i-i i I caiuvri J , . Hay Timothy, Vj per tea; ifaUe. M per ten. i