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About The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947 | View Entire Issue (May 22, 1913)
Q The Ontario National Bank United States Depository State of Oregon Depository IS Our Bank Your Bank ? If not, we cordially invite you to make our 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 g lVr Ont Net on Time CERTIFICATES ( D1EPOSIT R. S. COOK 4 COMPANY (INCORPORATED) J. H. COOK, Manager. Capital Stock 50,000.00 Choice Apple and Prune Lands Land and City Property A 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 J. H. Farley Furniture Co. L UNDERMUSLINS For June Brides at May Prices The famous line of SPHINX Muslin Underwear now has a place in our stock. It is the most sightly line of embroid ered muslin underwear we have seen and the prices will surprise you. Come in combinations regular and skirt combi nations, Princess slips, drawers, corset covers, skirts and night gowns. Let us show you them. BOYER'S Department Store 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 drug store, 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 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 lllii'l' In li itni n milvnar) alley to have a railroad. UTAH-OREGON LAND COMPANY c H. MOREHOUSE, Pre. Salt Lake City, Utah. H. M. HORTONSec. Burns, Oregon S. F. Taylor, Agent, Ontario, Oregon. BRIEF NEWS OF OREGON The Pan-Hellenic Association at the Pnlverslty of Oregon has ruled that freshman girls living in sororities must wear simple gowns, devoid of all finery, at dances and parties. Thirty-two students will be grsduat c.l from the Albany high school this commencement. Of this number 21 are young women. June 6 will be graduation day. Labor Commissioner Hoff has re ported that accidents In Oregon for April totaled 411. of which 14 were fatal. There were 146 accidents in connection with railroAd work and 78 in connection with sawmill work. Judge Hamilton, in the circuit court at Roseburg, dismissed the petition for a contest of the Drain mayoralty '!" Hon filed by N. D. Cool, who was beaten by Charles E. Hnsard by one vote In an election recently held there The Anvil has worked herself off the beach and was towed up and beached opposite Florence for repairs before going to Portland. The vessel Is la excellent shape after a month on theMieach. She Is not leaking badly. An advance proof of the ballot on which the people of Portland will choose a mayor, an auditor and four commissioner)- from a mate of 90 names June 2, shows that it 'will be two feet ten Inches In length. N. F. Thome of Ashland has been taking Dr. Frledmann's turtle serum trentment as a precautionary measure against tuberculosis. He is said to be the first person in southern Oregon, If not In the entire state, to try the new cure. The Polk County Fire Patrol asso ciation has been organized at Dallas, and Is one of a chain that are being organized In timbered regions through out the slate. Of the 200.000 acres of timbered lands In Polk county, 140,- 000 were represented st the meeting. According to an ordinance Introduc ed at the council meeting at Albany, it is proposed to light the streets of the residence district of Albany with loo watt lamps at each comer and three cluster lights at each corner In the business district. Several blocks of new pavement have been ordered. la S. Kelaey, 60, a prominent real dent of North Powder, was killed when an automobile skidded and turned tur tie four miles south of Haines. Miss Nellie Slater. 16. suffered a fractured skull snd Internal Injuries, and may die. Three other occupanta of the car were slightly Injured. t int.-, I Stutes Senator Chamberlain will introduce a bill providing (hat all proceeds from leasee and other rev enues of Crater i..ke Park shall he available for the construction of roads and bridges within the park. These proceeds now go Into the general treasury fund. A Japanese mall carrier was attack ed at I ..i llrande by two unknown men who held him up In a dark alley. One threatened him with a dirk, while the other rifled the pouch of registered mail. They seemed to have been In terrupted, and made a hasty flight without taking much of value. Commercial fishermen near Oregon City drew from the Willamette six Jutmneae h ho hail been trolling for Chinook salmon. The orientals be came entangled In the eddies below the falls and their boats were capsized. A number of Russian families are expected to arrive soon to locate on lands of the Klamath country The leaders of the colon) took options oil several hundred acres The first fum .lies to locale have arrived and ure making an exhaustive investigation of tin lain! In.oie making iM-rinaiiout selections W. I. Snider ami son of Stella, Wash, hae iiurcluihed the old Palm mill propert) at Clutskanu-, recently burned, of the Hose City lumber and Shingle vi -mpuny. of Portland, and will at once begin the work of clearlnii away the debris preparatory to erec- ion of a shingle mill, which It .a planned to have In operation la the early fall. Captain James Keating, one of the iient known pilots on the Columbia river, accidentally fell overboard from .i launch at Astoria and was drcwicd He was 40 years old, and had resided in Astoria practically all of his life. Attorney Oeneral Crawford has giv en out an opinion at Salem to the effect that the signature of any signer to a referendum petition may be with Irawn at any time prior to the taking if official action thereon. Officials of the O W. It V have announced the surveys of two propos ed extensions Condon to Fossil in i.illiaiii county and Pilot Kock to 1 kiah in I'matillu county. l'he for mer extension would involve 20 miles of track, and the ktttl r 4" miles. The officials say that If the expense is not too great, both Hues will be bull'. Under direction of government offi cers, the Indiana of the Cinutilla res ervation will, sometime during this uininer, assemble to bold memorial ceremonies similar to those reci ntly held jt Fort WadswortS, New York harbor. Oarbed In their historic tren ;.int'.s the Itiiliaiii wi.l gather ai I their tomtoms and with weird chants raise the stars had stripes, dedicating .ii to 'he Xerlenn fg ment and a nobler civilized life. OREGON NEWS NOTES OF GENERAL INTEREST Events Occurring Throughout the State During the Past Week. Slnnott Demands Free Clothing. Washington. Representative Sln nott has pored over the statistics of the wool Industry and has Analyzed the tariff testimony on the same sub ject until he has become pretty well aroused on the subject of the Injustice which he believes Is being done to the wool growers. On May 6 he In troduced an amendment to the bill putting woolen manufactures on the free list. And In support of It he spoke In part as follows: "Mr. Chairman, this bill alms to put the iniquities of schedule K almost wholly upon the wool raiser. Gentle men said, the other day, that there was Invested In woolen manufactures $415, nim.tKiO. In sheep raising of this nn Hon the census shows nn Investment of 1518.000.000. one Is as much do servlng ah the other. Inquiry as to the cost of sheep raising in Oregon, based on 22H.OOO sheep, and with wool selling at 14 cents a pound, shows the profit on those sheep would be about $50,000. If the price drops 4 cents a pound, the loss on those sheep will bo $15,000. Hut there are 2.000,000 sheep In my district alone." GRANGE BACKS PLAN State Organization Indorses Bill for System of Choice Voting. Albany. Initial steps toward sub mitting a bill through the Initiative to establish the preferential voting system, Including first, second and third choices, for fulled Statea sena tors and state officers, were taken la the 40th annual session of the Oregon state tlrange. The legislature was condemned also In a resolution that was passed. This resolution upbraids the legislature for passing measures that have been re jected by the people through the Ini tiative or referendum. The resolution recommending that the state furnish uullorms for public iihool children and that the school districts furnish free lunches at noon was defeated. The committee ' which It was referred recommended that It do not pass and the committee leport was adopted without extende I discussion. That mortgages on farm property be exempted from taxation provided the rate of Interest Is 6 per cent oi I was the glsl of a resolution which waa adopted If the terms of this resolution are enacted Into law It will have the effect of making 6 per cent the maximum rate of interest In this state on loans on farm mortgages. Cornering Wheat on Pacific Coast. Portland Not more than 600,000 buabels of wheat remain unsold In farmers' hands in territory tributary to Portland Some dealers estimate from their warehouse figures, that tlm supply does not exceed 260,000 bush els. This Is. for all practical BsjffSSt a clean up of northwest stocks. Never before in the history of the trade, has the supply been reduced to sue h siuull proportions at this time of year. This condition Is the result of ex tensive but quiet buying that has I i going on In eastern Oregon and east ern Washington in the last few lays, Estimates .if the amount purcluo.cd in this period range from 750,000 o liiiio.liiKl bushels. Almost all the hu lug was done by Portland spaealatora. LANE PLEADS FOR OREGON Senator Makes Impression on Secre tary of Interior. Washington Senator I. ane, if Or gun. appeared before S.-i n-i . ! Interior Iane ami put In a hiil tor the allotment sj ! I tin i I lam i Hon fund sufficient for the construc tion of the West final ilia and Des chutes irrigation projects He not only d monstrateil lbs . . j 1 1 1 1 of in, goli 's i laim ;i.al'iM the reclamation fund, but politico out Ihe feasibility and desirability of both projects, and then showed Seer, tary UBM where funds could be found ample to build these two projects. As Senator l.une com I tided his stats ment be was rongratulati d b) Sec re tary l.anc. who told him his was the iuni eiiciur iniK talW be had heard in the course of the hearings covering tbe past two weeks. C. McGONAGILL ATTORNEY AT LAW Will Practice in all Courts Notarv Public. Office over Postoftlce OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIANS Dn. Hahiukt Skahs Dh. Pavlink Hkars Originates American School of Os teopathy, Kirksville, Mo. Wilson Block Telephone. 154 131k. H. H. WHITNEY PHYSICIAN snd SURGEON Office In I. O. O. F. Bid., Ontario, - . Oregon W. H. BROOKE R. W. SWA6LER Attorneys at Law Rooms 13. 11. IV IB. Wilson Bid. Ontario, . Oregon ORS. PRINZIN6 & WEESE Ontario, Oregon Office In New Wilson Block. C. C. GOl DSBrRRY DKNTI8T Gas witli Extractions Office Phone. No. 138 R in Wilson Block J W McCulloch R W Kckhardt Mt CULLOCH & ECKHARDT LAWYERS Rooms 1141 First Nut I Bank Bldg Ontario, Oregon Transfer. Bciggage ind Express Meet All Trains JOHN LANDINCIIAM Dr. W. (.. H.e DENTIST Telephone No. 732 First National Hank Hid. ONTARIO LAUNDRY Leave Bundles at Any Hotel or Barber Shop Prompt 'Attention (liven All Orders. W. W. HIHTON kin i i: roit ti mai.iikiu ii'ivry ii:pi ties Koh't (iilell, Ontario. II II Bis. Vsk i 0 Morton, old's I'.rry. .lulu Matlu - W last Bi Itlge, J E Holly, Hirer visas W H Skinner, .Ionian Valley. I-id Wilkm-oii, Mi lcrnntt Ti A Bai ton, Nyssa lot dl fMjrktt Ki port. Land to Be Recovered by State. Mil JO.OU'i u n 'l 'o have been fraun i select if the no- torio . If..- gad i , i itlons to th. i tie win be started just us ooi: Utoiui OcihtuI Crawford reeetc . iVusblnKtou, D ('-. the at the general his i - et visit to tbe capital '1 -al ex I . , , : . ... I v.:ih n ll next few d ya, ss he was assured th work there could be ai romplished within ten dsys. 'iiiiicttil May 7, for the heitelit of Argua readers by the Malheur Mer cantile t'l'iiipauv. Egg, per iloxeu. 1 Butter, pi i I .iiu.l, BO Oats, per humlred. tl.uU Wheat, per hundred, 11.00. Bay, per ton, .. Potatoes, cr hundred, -U. Ou ions, p'-r hiiti died, 1.50. Apples, per box, 11.00. to I.r. Chickens, diessed, per pouud,tc. Pork, dressed, ! to Hc. Pork, lire, 7 to 7 . Veal. I to I Or. Beef lie to 1 J. 1 1 dill iVlViU'. West bound. N i. 17 Oregon Wai.h Ltd I 1 ' a n No. S lliiutiugtou Pass U M a oi An. t 1 i..t Ma. I , ;l"i p in No 11 Huntington IV- I II P in No, Oregon Wash Express 7 .o0 p at I'.hi-t ll.lllll'l Nn. 1 tiiegon W.oih I .dl M u iu 6 Poise pSMtenger a ui in last Mall 11 lM a in i. -r :i llO l in No. t Oiegon W safe Express l:i Val train IssWSg St I:li0 a. m. re H Milt K "' ' I