r- The Ontario National Bank United States Depository State of Oregon Depository IS Our Hank 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 m cunpervative manner. :- -?- Capital and Surplus. $80,000 5 !Vr Ont Net on Time CERTIFICATES OF DEPOSIT For Rent 5-room furnished house. Address C. C. Dodge, Box 246, Ontario. Oregon. Transfer, Baggage and Express Meet All Trains JOHN LANDINGHAM C. McGONAGILL ATTORNEY AT LAW Will Practice in all Court! Notary Public. Office over Postofflce BRIEF NEWS OF OREGON A Complete Line of Bribing Slaiummj At the Argus Office OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIANS Dr. Harriet Shark Dr. PaiunkSeahr Graduates American School of Os teopathy. Kirksville, Mo. Wilson Block Telephone. 134. Bik. N. H. WHITNEY PHY81CIAN and SURGEON Office in I. O. O. F. Bid.. Ontario. . . . Oreooh ORS. PRINZIN6 L WEESE Ontario, Oregon Office in New Wilson Block. ogg ONTARIO LIVERY Best Equipped Livery in the city. Headquarters for Stockmen. Hone Bought and Sold. A. McWILLIAMS, Proprietor. C. C. 60LDSBERRY DENTIST Oaa with Extractions Office Phone. No. 188JR in Wilson Block J W MrCulloch R W Eckhardt Mcculloch & eckhardt LAWYERS Rooms 1-2 -S.FIrst Nat'l Bank Bldg Ontario, Oregon Dr. W. G. Hoe DENTIST Telephone No. 732 First National Bank Bid. 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 twms, 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. Bums, Oregon S. F. Taylor, Agent, Ontario, Oregon. The Bishop Scott grammar school for boys will be reopened In Septem ber on the new site near Yamhill, formerly known as North Yamhill. The war department has awarded the contract for the building and eree tion of 11 lock gates In the Celllo ca nal at The Dalles. President Wilson has nominated Milton A. Miller of Lebanon to bs collector of Internal revenue for the district of Oregon. Governor West hss appointed Ar thur Clark, of Corvallls, prosecuting attorney of the fourth tllstrlct, to suc ceed B. B. Wilson, who has sent In tils resignation to become effective July 1. To discuss general conditions and measures for the Improvement of trees and crops, a meeting of all prune grow ers In the stale will be held at Salem July 3. State Game Warden Finley will lib fits IBoo China peasants this month In eastern Oregou counties. The fish car will be sent to Roseburg with 10, 0OP.000 trout fry for planting. The striking teamsters at Spring field have returned to work with no definite agreement as to wagea, al though It Is said the city council la Inclined to be liberal. A campaign for a $106,000 building fund for Albany College to erect build ings on the new campus, recently pur chased southwest of Albsny, was launched at the annual commencement exercises of the college. Governor West has appointed Dr. Juli" Fernando, Morel, of Cortland, until recently atsto veterinarian, a delegate to the department of agricul ture of International exhibition to bs held st Client. Belgium. The desperado who was-killed-!? The Dalles by Artie Minimum while the latter was defending his ranch home, was positively Identified as Ce cil Pettyjohn by his half brother, Thomas Pettyjohn. The salmon fishing season on the Rogue river In Curry county has open ed, and the Indications are that there will be a good catch. This Is the first time that the river has been open to fishing since 1910. Secretary of the Interior l.nm haa grunted the petition of the Vale cham ber of commerce uud restored in nil tlement and entry 6000 acres of land along the Malheur river, withdrawn for reclamation purposes. After a full consideration of the sub Ject. the members of the state fslr board have decided not to use a half mile track this ear for the harness races, but to use it only for the novelty and relay races. A movement to save from the hang man's noose Robert MorKun. sentenced to death for the murder of Vlrgle Hart, his sweetheart, at Condon In-d er. lias been Inaugurated In I'm I laud, and letters haw been sent to Governor Weat urging commutation. A bulletin prepared by Stats Dairy and Food Commissioner Mlckls (Ives the value of the dairy output In Oregon In 1912 at f ltJ.000,000. No farm crop for that year Is valued u( more thuii 112,000.000, the livestock Indus! r of course eiceedlng that figure. With two of the original members of the association present and with one graduate, attending who has been present at ever) reunion for 22 con- sec uliie- i ears, the Alumni Associa tion of Albany College met In 40th annual it union at lhany. 8 Benson, riillio.iulre t'.tubermun of Portland, will spend a fortune In au effort to secure the adoption of s con stitutional amendment prohibiting the manufacture, Importation and aale of whixkey. gin and similar splrltoua li quors. S. -. retary of the Navy Daniels haa written to Superintendent of Public Instruction Alderman that the petition, signed by iore thau 10,000 Oregon school children, that the battleablp Oregon lead the parade through tbs Panama Canal at the formal opening, would be carefully considered. That 86 clips of wool, amounting to over 760.000 pounds, will bs offered at the wool aalee at Condon la bow as sured. There are 10 ollps In the ware houses now aad others to come. The wool already there amounts t 1143 sacks or approximately IIT.uOO pounds. Ths Instructional werk of ths ds partaaeuts of mining, engineering aad of forestry at Oregon Agricultural Col lage will bs reorganised before ths ops o lag of ths nsit school year aad tbs departments will In ths future be known respectively as ths school of lalnes aad the school of forsstry Announcsment has boon made thst the girls' training school, provided for by an sot passed at tbs Isst session of tbs legislature, would be opsnsd Jaly I. The old polytechnic building ou ibe grounds of the deaf mule home a' Salem will be used until a bulldln for which f60. 90S has been approariai eg. rsn be erected Jack r Adams who was recently found guilt) of murder In the first degree for killing Harney Chamberlain oa the evening of February 7. is to bs lauged at th state pennentlarv at Salem Friday. July It That was the sentence pronounced by Judge labia of the circuit court a. Asia!. HAWAIIAN VOLCANO TO BE FORTRESS Boston. American troops in tbs Hawaiian Islands hsve taken posses sion of the crater of a largs extinct volcano sltusted on the coast, and are working night and day to convert It Into a fortress capable of withstanding a long siege. Ammunition and food supplies are being stored within It. guna are being mounted, a water sup ply has been arranged for and gardena have been planted on the slopes of the crater to provide food and thus render the place self sustaining in case it Is besieged for any great length of time. This information reached Boston from an authentic source In Honolulu, and the communication ftirther said that Americana residing In the Hawai ian Islands, Including troops, are much eternised over the Japanese situation. FRISCO GRAFTER SENTENCED Policeman Who told Protection to unco Msn Gets Five Years. Ran Francisco. Frank Esola, for 16 years an officer of the San Francisco police department, was sentenced by Judge Dunne In the superior court to serve flvs yeara In Folsom peniten tiary. He had been found guilty of selling protection to bunco men. The specific fonvlctlon was on the charge that he had been an accomplice of Michael Oallo, now lu San Quentln, In fleecing John Foida, a Modesto farmer, out of fin. i in December. 1910. The max! mum penalty posalble waa 10 yeara. Lewlaton Goods Confiscated. I.owlston. Idaho. The Investigation by the state pure food commissioners of Idaho while In Lewlaton reaultsd In confiscation of a largs quantity of groceries and fruits. IDAHO BANKER HAS PLAN End of State Debts and Tsxss Desire Of Wslssr Banker. Welser. One of the most remark able plans proposed In this stats to frse Idaho from indebtedness and place the state ou a uon-taxatlon basis was presented to the Idaho Hankers' Association at Its recent meeting hers by Senator D. W. Davis, of Anierleaa Falls, president of the First N'ntlonal Bank, of that city. He proposed tbo sale of 300,001) acres of land year by the state to raise a sum of more than $30,000,000 to be loaned out at Intereat. part of the Interest money to be plnced aside from, year to year In n surplus fund, thereby multiplying the state's , earning capacity. Idaho has 2,934,000 acres that are unsold l'nder the law only II sec tions, or 16,000 acres, can be sold esch year. At this rate It would 'ake ths state more than ill DC yc.i to die pose of Its land holdings. Taking the total assets i the state ss a basts. Senator Davie proposes by hla plan to build a financial enrnlng producer for Idaho so that In 11 years taxes would be reduced 40 per cent by paying the cost of the state's schools nut of the earnings, leaving a balance to add to the working fund to provide every cent of revenue required In the state, county and munlclpnlltlss, long before the resources of the state csn he brought Into action under the pres ent system. Balkan War Near Again. London. -Both sides refusing to mnko the slightest concession, war between the I la II. an stntes Is growing more Imminent. If Bulgaria ssnds a negative reply to the Servian note and nothing Indicates that she will answer otherwise Hervln and (Ireece will proclaim the annexation of the occupied Macedonian territories, there by establishing a definite casus belli 1 Underwear Clothing We have some boys' and men's cloth and underwear occupying room that we need for other goods. This stuff is odd sized and stock ends and it is yours for small money. 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