a The Ontario National Bank United States Depository i State of Oregon Depository S Our Bank Your Bank ? If not, we cordially invite you to make oar bank your bank. We have the usual Safeguards of Fire Proof Vault, Burglar Proof Safe, Bonded employees, and do business in a conservative manner. -:- -:- - -:- Capital and Surplus. $80,000 5 PTCent Net on Time CERTIFICATES OF DEPQ8IT 6. S. COOK 4 COMPANY (INCORPORATED) J. H. COOK, Manager. Capital Stock 50,000.00 Choice Apple and Prune Lands Land and City Property A Bargain 2.500 fruit trees of the three following varieties: Jonathan, Rome Beauty, Wlnesap. For furtherjpartlo iilnr pbone Mrs. Goldbeober For sale or trade 40 acre on bench 3 mllea sooth esst of Fraltland: 20 sores In young orchard, 20 scree In alfalfa. Also 10 acre orobard tract 21 miles south of Payetta. M. B Curtis. Payette, Idaho. For Bala On span mares, one apan geldings, 2 saddle boreea gentle, for women or children. Call at tba Multnomah rooms. For Sale A Ford nutomoblla in good shape. Price 1350. D. (J. Booth at Multnomah rooma. 60 shares Owyhee ditch stock for aala on long time. A. F. Boyer, On tario, Oregon. Springtime-The Time To Build-Is Here Come in and let us show you some neatlhouseplans, and how to save money on your new house. Our Building Stock is Complete. Lumber, Shingles, Lath, Sash and Doors, Screen Doors, Cement, Lime, Overland Plaster, Glass, Rubber Roofing, Beaver Board, Posts and Coal. Call and Inveatigate Our Beaver Board Department. Exclusive Agents for "King Coal" Once used alwaya used. Oregon Idaho Lumber Co., Ltd. Yard. East Side of Railroad. 40 Acre Fruit and Dairy Ranch for Sale 20 acres In ooe year old apple treea Of a good commercial quality. 5 J ncree of hearing orchard, good stand of alfalfa nn d Hue grass meadow. Full watro right In Owy hee ditch, good house and Imro together with nut. buildings. Teams and stock go with ranch, alio farm implements. Price flfl.OOO. Terms bnlf cash, balance 3 to 5 years time at H per cent Interest. One and one half miles from Ontario, Oregon. If preferred by purchaser would sell half of place, on terms to suit purchaser. W. H. CECIL, Ontario, Orregon. W. W. HINTON STOCK INKI'KCTOK OK M l II I I'M COUNTY DEPUTIES Rob'tO'dell, Ontario. H H High, Vale. C. C. Morton. Old's Perry. John Mathews, Weiaer Bridge. J. K. Holly, Rivarview W 8 Skinner, Jordan Valley. Fred Wilkinson, McDermitt T. A. Barton. Nyaaa HARRIMAN 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 and implement houses, 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 Brief News of the week A score of bodies perhaps more are believed to be beneath the debris of the fire which destroyed the Dewey hotel In Omaha. A yearly license fee of r.oo for each stockbroker who may belong to any stock exchange In the state is propos ed In a bill Introduced In the New York legislature. At the call of Chairman McComba the members of the Democratic na tional committee held a apeclal meet ing In Washington Wednesday to dls euss general queatlona of organisation. The collect-on delivery will be added to the parcel post department of the postal service of the country on July 1 next An order putting tbta Into affect waa algned by Postmaster-Oen-eral Hitchcock. Thlrtyelx million ladybuga have been captured and caged for shipment by the Csllfornla state InsecUry and will be sent to various sections of the state within the next few weeka to aave the melon crops. The Colorado supreme court render ed an opinion holding that the legis lature could repeal a law Initiated and adopted by the voters and could Insert In Any law a so-called "saving clause," which would prevent Its being referred to the voters. The pure mnrriage bill was passed by the Nebraska state senate In Its mended form. As amended the bill makes It necessary only that men who contemplate becoming married shall present a certificate of physical health. Hereafter students In schools be longing to the Association of Ameri can Medical Colleges will be forced to tnko a five year Instead of a four-year course as at present, a resolution to this effect being adopted at the clos ing session of the association In Chi cago. More than 2000 stnte appointments In Illinois are affected by an official opinion given by Attorney General Lucy to the effect that the atate civil aervlce law, which became effective July 1. I'.'ll. waa not legally paaaed and therefore never became a law of the atate. C. McGONAGILL ATTORNEY AT LAW Will Practice In all Courts NoUrv Public. Office over Poetofnce Wm F. G0LDBACHER Optician ear II to Offllce opposite Ontario Hotel ONTARIO. :-: OREGON OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIANS Dr. II aiikikt Sbajis Dh. Pai'mnk Hkah Graduate American School of O Uopatby, Kirksvllle, Mo. WiIh.ui Block Telephone. IM Hlk N. H. WHITNEY PHYSICIAN and SURGEON office In I. O. O. P. Bldg., Ontario. . - Oregon W. H. BROOKE R. W. SWA6LER Attorneys at Law Rooma 13, 14, If, 16, Wilson Bldg. Ontario, Oregon NEWS FROM OUR NATNjjjjt CAPITAL President's Veto of Webb Bill Overridden By Large Vote In Both Houses BRIEF NEWS OF OREGON DRS. PRINING & WEESE Ontario, Oregon Office In New Wilson Block. C. C. 60LDSBERRY DENTIST Gaa with Extractions Phone. No. 138 x Office in Wilson Block J W Met ull.x h R W Eckhardt Mcculloch a eckhardt LAWYERS Rooms 1-2-3 Firat Natl Bank Bldg Ontario, Oregon S. F. Taylor, Agent, Ontario, Oregon. Transfer. Baggage and Express Meet All Trains JOHN LANDINGHAM Dr. W. G. Ho-we DENTIST Teleyi.uiie No. 732 First National Bank Bldg. Washington. The house passed tha Webb bill, prohibiting the shipment of liquor from "wet" to "dry" states, over President Taft's veto, by a vote of 244 to 96. Aa the aenate also over rode the president's veto the bill now becomes a law. This Is the second time I 16 years that the presidential veto naa been overridden, and la the first time that President Taffa dlaapproval haa been set at naught. President Taft baaed his veto al most entirely upon the ground that the bill was unconstitutional In that It virtually delegated to the states con trol of Interstate traffic In liquor, when, he held, that control waa vested solely In congress. Attorney-General Wlckershnm had given an opinion, also holding the bill unconstitutional nnd that the president forwarded to the senate with his veto message. Supporters of the bill say It will mak-' effective the prohibition laws of dry states, which, they say, now arc violated because Intoxicants are shipped to private individuals and have the effect of nullifying the local laws. Money Trust Does Exist, Is Flndlrtfl. That a money trust does exist' and thnt It powers should be curbed by Htrlngent federal regulations ns to the conduct of national banks, clearing houses and stock exchanges, were tho findings of tha house money trust committee set forth In the majority safari of Its Investigations filed In the house. The report, signed by Chairman Pu Jo and six other Democratic members waa accompanied by two bllla. one to regulate stock exchangee through for bidding the malla to exchangea which do not comply with federal regulations and the other to regulata clearing house associations through forbidding national banks to Join auch aaaocla Uona unleaa federal regulations are obaerved. Workmen's Bill Passed. The house passed tha senate work men's compensation bill by a vote of IIS to 71. Considerable opposition to tha measure waa voiced. Tha bill, which waa amended by tha houaa Judiciary committee and made to apply to express companies and other common carriers aa well aa rail roads, provides specific rates of com pensatlou for accidental Injuria, re sulting In disability or death, to em ployaa. It will now go to conference. Taft Paases Panama Note to Wllaon Jamea Bryce. British ambassador to tha United Males, presented to the atate department Great Britaln'a re joinder to Secretary Knox' note re gardlng the exemption of American ahlps engaged In coastwise trade from paying Panama canal tolla. Tha cab Inet then discussed the matter. later It waa authoritatively asserted that the Taft admlnlatratlon would not at tempt to anawer 'he reply. The chief points In the British re Joinder were the aasertton that the time la not yet ripe for arbitration of the canal dlapute, and disagreement with Secretary Knox Interpretation Of the "all nations" clauae of the May Pauncefota treaty. National Capital Brsvltlsa. Doth bouses of congress have pass ed tha bill granting a pension of lion a month to Mra. MoArtbur, widow of the lrta General Arthur McArthur. Congressional distribution of seeds waa ended by tha aenate by eilmlnut Ing from tba agricultural approprlu tlon bill a provision appropriating 266,10it for thnt purpoae. By a viva voce vote, tho senate adopted tha provision In tha sundry civil bill, which provide $l.MO,ooo for a government exhibit at tha Pana ma -Pacific exposition, to be held In San Kra.w-lsco In 11)16. The aenate adopted the conference report on the houaa "net weight bill," requiring manufacturer to stamp on tba ouUldo of packages tha exact weight of the contents. Announcement that he would not aeek the leadership of the Democratic majority In the coming session of the senate was made by Senator Thomas B. Martin of Virginia. This practically assures the selection of Senator Kern of Indiana aa leader. The bill for physical valuation of railroads aa a basis of rate regulations was algned by the preelden and be uaane a law. Prealdent Wllaon haa made known to Democratic aenate leaden most ttosely In his confidence that be fav ore the passage of Senator Root's amendment to the Panama canal bill to repeal the provision exempting American coastwise ahipa from pay mem of tolla. A carefully-drawn ayatem of com peusution for personal Injuries of Pan ama canal employes la embodied In an executive order promulgated by Preet dent Taft. to take effect after March A band of yeggmen blew open the) sate In the general store of Langlola a Catsforth, a Riddle, and robbed it of f 7R, and escaped. A Mn Crosby, who a few weeks ago during a quarrel over the question of opening an alley shot J. H. Stamm la the leg, waa fined $100 In the olrcult court at Eugene. Attomeya for Joseph Mlcelll, mayor of Roseburg, charged with selling standard beer to Robert Conner In August. 1111, presented In the circuit court a motion for a new trial. Representative Mawley has brought to the attention of the forest service the desire of people In Lincoln county that a road be constructed across Stus law forest and Cape Perpetua. While working In the rigging of a logging camp near Oates Clifford Wolf was almoat Inatantly killed whoa he wss struck on the head by a limb alx Inches In diameter which broke from a tree upon which the fall era were at work. Curtla Gardner, who graduated from the University of Oregon a few years ago, and lately opened nn architect's office In Eugene, was struck In the eye by a nail he was trying a drive, and grave fears for the sight are felt by his physician. The first train over the Salem, Fnlla City A Dallas rullroad bridge, con necting the east and west sides of the Willamette, crossed last week. None but railroad men were allowed to ride as the trip wns to test the stnblllty of tho new structure. The Jury tti the capo of Mra. Bertha Dygert sgVUSBt the city of Eugene i.lictrlcnl department) and the Ore gon Power company lo recover dam ngea for Injuries received In an elec trlo shock, returned a verdict for the plaintiff In the sum of $4000. One of the Important Innd denli of the past week waa the aale of the 3000 acre wheat farm lying on nock creek. In Gilliam county, the ronald eratlon being approximately $00,000. The farm was purchased from 8. K. H. -k: ". of Rnthdrum. Idaho, by D Paul sen of Llnnton. To pay an unique election bet, B. II. Anderson, former general secretary of the Butler. Penneylvanla, chamber of commerce, who backed Kooaevelt against the field, left Portland. Maine, leading a donkey, which he will con tinue to lead across the country to Portland, Oregon. The Hood River Oaa Blectrlo oompany haa withdrawn Ita former rates for the furnishing of light to the city, and beginning March 1, la supplying the city with light at the rate granted to the Hydro Klnctrlc oompany, which la an Increase of 100 per cent over the old rate. Several trappera In the vicinity of Monmouth report great auccess thla winter In catching akunka. muakrats and coona. W. L. Phllllpa and Ed mund E. Terryl caught It akunka In one day, which netted them more tbau $26. Others report equal success and they find trapping profitable. The Ocean Beach company of Min neapolis haa completed Ita camp near Randolph, north of Whlakey Itun, 13 mllea from llandon. The company Is now freighting Ita so ton iracnon dredge to the beach from the Milliard wharf on Coqullle river. Steamer Til lamook unloaded the monater ma chine. A Mexli-un who waa being taken to the penitentiary at Salem from Cooe county by Sheriff Oage, and who ea oaped from that officer at Drain by ellmblng out of a window of the Per klna hotel, waa recaptured. He waa without bla outer clothing, the sheriff having kept those garments In his ewn room. J. F. Ooeller ft Son, of Klamath Palls, have taken a contract to cut. mill and ahlp about S.noo.ooo feet ef timber, sear the Meadow Lake mill. They will ahlp to Hugh McOuyer and associates and will put a large force of t.ien to f.-1 1 In k the timber at once. They expect to finish the work Inside of four mouths The city of Oranta Paaa la consider ing the erection of a library to cost $12 " The proposition comes from the Carnegie Library corporation of New York. It la probable that an amendment will be made to the char ter aud the people given an opportunl ty to expreaa themselvee on the sub ject at the polls Tba office of the Elinlra Lumber company In Eugene was broken Into and the safe blown up. The men se cured $30 In cash and left aeveral hundred dollars In checks strewn over tbe floor. The outer door of the safe had been left unlocked and tbe bur glare blew out the Inner door with nitroglycerine, making a pocket of Shewing gum. That an Incendiary attempted to hum the $4000 schoolbouse recently completed In school district II, aorosa the North Santlam river from the town of Gales, was the report recelv ed by Linn county officers Plrea were set In both the new schoolhouee and the old one, which stood beelde It The ol building was seriously damaged, but the Hre was egtlnguUh ed In the new structure without great