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About The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947 | View Entire Issue (April 10, 1913)
a . i' AN EXCEPTIONAL OFFER The Fruit Grower & Farmer Regular Subscription Price KimbalFs Dairy Farmer Regular Subscription Price Poultry Culture Regular Subscription Price Woman's World Regular Subscription Price Ontario Argus $1.00 .50 .50 .50 1.00 $3.50 All Five Publications for only $lm5Q A Saving of $2.00 F T-1j. 17r:U T?1- f rami iviujiini jriiMjia Don't Scrub Them Avoid the backache and sore knees caused by scrubbing bare floors. Painted floors are easy to keep bright and clean, are attractive and very inexpensive. ACME QUALITY FLOOR PAINT gives a hard, durable, sanitary finish for floors, steps or any inside surface to be walked on, easy to keep clean and hard to wear out You can apply it yourself. It dries in a short time. Offered in appropriate and attractive shades. McBRATNEY-McNULTY HARDWARE CO. ONTARIO, OREGON ' H MIMI CAPSIZES; 1 6 JJVES LOST is Vessel Turns Over When Pulled From Nehalem Spit on Oregon Coast Wheeler, Or. After hanging to a steel bur waist deep In water for 29 bourn, part of which were In pitch darkness, Charles 8. Fisher, of Port land, and Captain J. Westphal, of Ger many, and two Qermnn sailor hoys were rescued by llfesavers from the Oerman bark Mlinl, whlrh capalced early Sunday, after being pulled off the sands of Nehalem sand spit. Sixteen other persona were drowned. Ho far only two bodlee have been re covered, one being that of a Oerman boy and the other that of W. C. Koen, 1181 Klrby street, In Portland. The four were the only ones saved from the crew and the list of work men on the vessel, all others either having beon swept from the deck when the nccldent first occurred or having been washed Into the sea from the boat during the hours the terrific sea of Sunday morning dashed over the teel hull, which barely protruded above the water. The boat Ik a total wreck and no at tempt will ever be made to rescue her. In addition to being smashed almost to pieces she Is lodged In a deep sand and has 900 tona of ballast In her hold. Tons of wooden parts of her have floated ashore. Llfesavers report thnt It would be Impossible to move her and that she Is too far gone to be of any use even If she could be ralaed. Judge Upholds Right to Talk. Paterson, N. J. The right to exer cise free speech In peaceful assembly was established here by Justice Mln turn. of the state supreme court, when he freed William D. Haywood and Adolph Lesslg. labor leaders, sentenc ed to six months' Imprisonment for their activities In connection with the strike of silk workers here. Thousands of strikers gathered m. the streets about the courtroom and rl red the decision of Justice M turn. . UNITKD PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Rev. Kob't J. Davidson D D Pas tor. Hervlos at 11 :00 a in and 7 :30 lm Babl.ath school at 10 :00 a. m CATHOLIC CHI'RCH Haas at H A M on 1st and an! Snrslay of each month. On all other Sundays at lo A M . H. A. lampo, Rector CongregaUoul Church Notice Sunday Services, Sunday School 10 a m Preoenlng Services Ham O K Meeting 7pm Preaching Service 8pm Midweek Lectures every Wednesdsy evening 8 o'clock ADVENT1ST. Every Saturday Sabbath School 10:30 a m Bible Stody 11:30 a m Young pecplea meeting 1 :30 p m Philip Koeulg, Pastor. Methodists. Sunday School 10 A M Preaching Service II A M Junior League 3 P M Kpworlh Lag" 6 aW P M Preach lug Service 73:0 P M Thomas Johns. PASTOR. HAND ITEMS J. R. Graham traded his forty acres of land last week for pro perty in the Peschutes district in Oregon. 8. M. Thomas sold his line team of bay horses last week to Whitsell brothers, of Emmett. The new house belonging to Mr. Huntington is nearing com pletion." About sixty fruit men met here the first of the week and organized a sub-district of the the Fruit Growers' association. The Fruitland people Htid the peoplo of Ontario finished load ing a car of fruit and vegetables Saturday for the sufferers in the middle states. The people from here will send two more cars in the near future. Miss Mamie Bayer left last Monday evening for l'uris, Idaho, whore she will teach a seven week's school. The W. 0. T. U. met Tuesday afternoon with Mrs. E. E. Hun ter. 'I lie subject of the meeting was "Anti-Narcotics" led by Mrs. H. H. Kinnison. Mr. and Mrs. Gargctt, of Sur-mi-, Washington, spent several days last week visiting at the E P. Nokes home. They are en route to their Washington home after several months visit in Nebraska. The Christian Endeavors will hold their regular monthly busi ness meeting Saturday evening at the (J. W. Cotton home. Mrs. Taylor, of Greenb-af, Idaho, is visiting friends iu this neighborhood. The many friends and neigh bors of Mr. and Mrs. II I. Robinson pleasantly surprised them Tuesday evening by giving them a "house wnrmiug. Re freshments were served and all who attended had a splendid time. The school teachers of this district attended the teach n. ineetiug held iu I'ayette last Saturday. They all went to gether in one of the school wagons. The Home Missionary society will meet next Thursday after noon with Mrs. II. E. Robinson. Mi-.- Lena Wilson, who ha been visiting here for several days returned Thursday to her homestead neer Horteshoe Bend, Idaho. Our - 10 and lb ceut oouuters are loaded with articles you need every day. The Variety Store. NEWS OF GENERAL INTEREST IN IDAHO Important Occurrences Of The Past Week From Cities In Our Stats Idaho Pastor Loses Cost, Hat, Sermon Spokane. -Losing ills Prince Albert coat, his sermons, nil clean 1 1 1 . n ami other clothing, Including his ftttMUy hat, was the experience of the P. B. Hudson of Denver, Col., who r rlved In the city en route to Coeur d'Alenc, to take up his new duties as pastor of the Baptist church there. He was on one of the Burlington trains which was In a head-on col lision Just east of Sheridan, Wyo . and had Ills nermon which he Inten ed to preach as bis first discourse to the congregation In his trunk. MANIACS VICTIM MAY DIE Mrs. H. T. Root, Stricken Down at Granite. Is In Spokane Hospital. Spokane. Hovering between llfo and death, her head terribly mangled and crushed as the result of an as sault with an angle Iron by A. Carlson on the railroad track near Granite, Idaho Thursday. Mrs. H. T. Hood lies at St. Luke's hospital In a semi-conscious condition, the victim of a man iac who declares that he must kill a rabbit, a lion and a woman every time he meets one. Carlson met Mrs. Hood on the rail road right of way and without warning or provocation seised her and began to beat her with the Iron. Children playing near by ran for help, and the men they brought tied Carlson hand and foot, with no resistance on his part. So fiendishly had Carlson worked before help was brought that Mrs. Rood had dropped unconscious to the track in a welti r of blood. She was brought to Ornnlfe and attended by Dr. McKay and other locul physicians, but falling lo regain consciousness, was removed to St. Luke's hospital, where she was placed under tho cars) of Dr. J. O. Matthews. Dr. Mull hews stated that she was Buffering from concussion of the brain mid pmiithl) Internal Injuries, and thai hones In III. lair uml hnnd . re broken. Gift Check Is Vslld Holt c Mthough he repented of the act of writing a Hft check la favor of Mrs. Ross K. Coe, the woman who nursed him when he thought he waa going to die, I'hll Met 'ran, a wealthy retired business man of thla city, muat make the ohllgatlon good. Thla la tho edict of the supreme court of this stato up to which he fought the huh Insti tute! ugalnst htm by the nurse to re cover on the check on which he had ordered his hunk to refuse payment. SAVING TIME h TELEPHONE rjjaw Means Not Only Time But Money Do you ever consider how long it takes to travel the distance from your house to trie Doctor and Merchant andwhat timeyou save Ly Te!tj r r 1 j. ' J1 your time is worth anything you cannot afford to be without a Telephone. Malheur Home Telephone Co. Railroad Stocks Offered Lewlston. At a mass meeting . A. Johnson, prusldent of the Nes I'erce Idaho Railroad, announced Mint he would give stock for all monlen ub scribed for the building uf the con necting line of bla road between I m Iston and Vollmer. One hundred thou sand dollara has already been raised and right of way has been promised. Work to raise the remaiulug I " asked by Mr. Johnson will start at oin e and construction will begin by the end of th month RICH STRIKE ON WOOD RIVER Report of Twelve-foot Vein of High Grade Stuff Uncovered Hnlley. A rich strike Is authentical ly reported from Hock creek In a mine called the Ivantioe. This mine is only a few miles from Halley In the Camas Prairie direction. Last week the miners cut Into a win carryiug 12 feet of flue ore that will concentrate seven into oue and be worth about IN0 to $ll per ton or concentrates, the first class ore chip ped from the mine bavin yielded SB average of 100 ounces Iu silver and 60 percent In lead per toil. The Ivanboe Is owned by George Westlake. Al O'Neli aud Pat Clark, all of Halley. aud they have been pros pecting it for three years. Last winter they commenced a new tunnd almoKi parallel with the on already dug aud found the vein much sooner than they expected to. Sues City of Pocatslle. I'ocatello The Hlrange Ma tiulre Paving company, which last year put down IS blocks of blthulltic paving in Vila city, has filed suit in the district court to i umpel the city treasurer lo t. ki- up (HAno in warrants Issue I lo tic bbIbbsb by tn sty. " H.KK) la v.u minis were Issued to the oiu piinv ami n is now claimed thai SbOOO Uhle, but owing to a suit ask ing an iujuin Hon agnlin-t US treasurer restraining hliu from paying th war i 'in tie ground that ii ay art pro) -i tin- etty, Um ILwle 1 II UP. 'II. warrants represent the cost of lviug .tret Intervillous.