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About The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 7, 1913)
I 200 Acres for Sale OR TRADE Fifty acres has been seeded to alfalfa. Some buildings. All under fence. Railroad line through tract. On Snake river. Well drained bench land. Elec tric pumping plant can be installed for $12 per acre. Will cut up to suit buyer. Address Box128, Ontario, Oregon BUTTER WRAPPERS Must Be Printed We are printing more wrappers than any other two offices in thissection. There is a reason. We have the machinery, type and workmen necessary and we take the same care with Butter wrappers that we do with wedding invitations. Take your next order of ArmiG Clffira Butter Wrappers to the AlgUS VillltC Empire Lumber Co. Ontario, Oregon Rock Springs and King Coal June and July $7.50 Delivered At yard $7.00 After Aug. 15 $8.00 And $7.50 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. Vastareas 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. 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 Valley to have a railroad. UTAH-OREGON LAND C. H. MOREHOUSE, Pre. Salt Lake City, Utah. S. F. Taylor, Agent, Ontario, Oregon. GET IN EARLY will be the first important point in the great Harney H. ror Trade Two story brick building in vrood town, to trade for irrigated bind. Also goon stock of mer oliHiidi-f in building, will trade wiib building or epartely. AddlTM Realty Exchange bYs 1 Ii'iBbh e 11 mkii unJiM Hb There's Something Doing In the way of novelties all the time at our moving picture show. Constant changes of films and subjects make it The Most Attractive and Original place of its kind, and always the , most entertaining. Here is where Jyou get your money's worth of I fun and instruction. I Dreamland Theatre COMPANY M. HORTON, Sec. Burns, Oregon NEWS FROM OUR NATIONAL CAPITAL Resignation of Ambassador to Mexico is Accepted by President Wilson. Washington President Wilson took the Nrt step In the policy through which he proposes to deal with the Mexican situation when he formally accepted the resignation of Ambassa dor Henry Lane Wilson, to take effect October 14, and sent to Meilco aa his personal representative but not ac credited to the Huerta government ex-Governor John Und, of Minnesota, a life-long friend of Secretary Bryan. The understanding la that when a ela ble government la established In Mexl oo Mr. Llnd will be named aa ambassa dor. It la said the president la observing with keen Interest the efforts of lead ing Mexlcana to bring about peace and will offer no suggestions until these apparently prove futile. That Mr. Llnd will be empowered to explain to all Inquirers the unalterable opposition of the American government to the rec ognition of the Huerta admlnlatratlon Is said to be a factor which may assist the situation. Protectorate for Nicaragua Dropped Secretary Bryan's plan for an Amer ican protectorate over Nicaragua, pro viding for American supervision of Nlonrugua'a finances, Independent and foreign relatione, have been shelved for the time being. Apparently with the knowledge of the administration, the senate foreign ! relations committee piimvcil a resolu tion asking the secretary of atate to submit a new Niraraguan treaty, omit ting the protectorate policy. The com pact at the request of the senate com mltlee Is to be limited strictly to the original negotiations with Nicaragua by which the United States waa to pay 18,000,000 for an exclusive canal right aaroes the country, a naval baae site on the May of Ronnaca, and a leaae to the Corn Islands In the Car Ibbean Sea. Opponenta of the proposed protec torate had made It clear that It would be Impossible to secure ratification of the Nluaraguan treaty In the present congreaa If the ao culled protectorate amendment were Included In It. Thla sentiment Is understood to have In duced Secretary Bryan to consent to Its withdrawal. Federal Cash to Help Move Crops Twenty-five to fifty million dollars of government funda will be deposited In the national banks of the south and west at once by Secretary McAdoo to facilitate the movement of crops. Fed eral, elate and municipal bonds and prime commercial paper will be ac cepted aa security for the money, on which the banks will pay I per cent Interest. The motive of Secretary McAdoo la announolng thla policy la to antlolpate the money atrlngeucy In the late sum mer and fall, which Invariably accom pen lea the marketing and movement of crops, especially when they are un usually large, aa the harvest dow be ginning forecasts. Itepresentatlve bankers of 19 large cities In the agricultural reglous of the south, middle weet and Pacific coast were Invited by Secretary Mc Adoo to coma to Washington to con- J fer with the treasury department re ' gardlog the distribution of govern ment funda to be deposited In the national banka to facilitate the mar keting and movement of the crops Among the 6 cltlea Invited to be represented are Loa Augelea, San Francisco, Portland, Or., Seattle, and Spokane, Waah. National Capital Brevities The house resolution nulling for an Investigation of the attorney general's action In postponing the Dlggs- 'einl uetil white slave case was tabled by a vote of 3 to 67. Chairman Flood, of the house for elgn affairs committee, admitted tlmt It was by direct request of the presi dent that Ambassador Wllsou did not uppear before hla committee. The democratic members of the house banking and currency commit tee have planueU to settle all difficul ties over the currency measure at a party caucus to be held Auxust II. Senator La Kollelte has Informed the senate that only 6 replies bar been received to the 2600 sets of ,u- tlons mailed to manufacturers through 'out the country, In which they were asked to furnish Information aa to the probable effect upon their Indus tries of democratic tariff revision. The lobby committee completed the i examination of Martin M. Muihall, ex Aibbylst for the Nstloual Association 'of Manufacturer, and the grilling of that Individual will be transferred early to the house. Seductions in express rales which will coat the companies fully I26.O0U, 000 a jmu.r. approximately 14 per cent of their groes revenue, were ordered by the Interstate n uirsarca commis sion to become ffe ve on October It, 1911. Notable reforms In practices also were ordered. NEWS OF GENERAL INTEREST IN IDAHO Important Occurrences Of The Past Week From Cities In Our State Jail Insanitary, Prisoner la Wrmt Moscow. Oeorge Oudger who plead ed guilty to gambling at Hovlll recent aa the result of a raid made by the county officials and who was sen tenced to Jail by Probate Judge Mor greldge to aerve a 1200 fine waa grant ed his freedom on a writ of habeas corpus by Dlatrtot Judge 8teele. The principal reasons for freeing Oudger were that he Is declared to be suffer ing from tuberculosis and the Latah county Jail has been condemned as In sanitary. When Oudger waa taken to the county Jail at Lewlaton the officials of Nex Perce county refuaed hint ad mission because of his disease. These facts were presented to Judge Steele. Form Rifle Club In nsndpolnt. Snndpolnt Captain C. B. Lenta, formerly of the New York state mllltla and a Spanish war veteran, 8. W. Fos ter and several others of this city are much Interested In the project of form ing a ririe club to affiliate with the National Rifle club. 8lgnera have been ecured to the number of nearly forty to an application for membership. Ar rangements have been made for the use of the nntlounl gunrd range The ly, aa the result of a rnld made by the munition at cost ami encourages such nlubs In every way possl eTb Bullet Just Mlssss Man Coeur d'Alene. While City Clerk O. W. Edmonds was at work ut his typewriter In his office a 22 caliber bullet en-shed through a plate glaaa window, paaslng within a foot of Mr. Edmonds' head. Where the shot came from la unknown. Mr. Kdmonds Is ilso police Judge. The flattened bul let landed on the floor a short distance rum where Mr. Kdmonds sat. Collects Tasss on ths Spot Moscow. Under the provisions of the new revenue law for Idaho, which la In effect for the first time this year, I'ounty AaeesMor Theodore K Martin ton hua started assessing property In I .ui.ih county and collecting the taxes u same aa faat aa he makea an as esiuent. JOINT PROJECT PROPOSED Oregon and Idaho Should Improve Snake River. Lewis Suggests. Holae State Engineer J. 11 Lewis, if Oregon, haa made a proposal to the itate of Idaho, through Oovernor John M. Halnea, for Idaho and Oregon, with I be ssslstance of the federal govern ment, to work cooperatively to secure information on which to base legisla tion that will reault In the develop ment of power to lift water to high lands along the Snake River for Irrt gallon purposes, and at the same time form locks to moke the river naviga ble both east and weet from Hunting ton. In hla proposal to Oovernor Halnea Engineer Lewis aays In part "la Snake river between Hunting too and lewlaton there la a tall of about 1100 feet. With the construe tlon of dame to ulllllse this fall ap proximately 100,000 horsepower can be developed. By conatrucUug bal uuoed piston typo, or Incllue cable locks, this portion of the stream could perhaps be made uavlgable. If tbla project could be Intelligently promot il by the two atatea moat Interested nd co-operation of the United Hlates .secured, the whole scheme might be succeaafully carried to completion.' Sandpoint Needs O. N. Aid Saudpoiul. The state demonstra lion farm near here seems an assured fact. lr W. I. t srlyle. acting piesl deut of the University of Idaho, is ad vertising for bMs for ths rough c tear ing of land donated by I J I In in bird There la Just one hitch In the proceed ings, and that Is the fact that tin Oreal Mertbern has not -! announc ed whether It will donate, the $10on asked for. This sum M absolutely ee aentlal to the fstahllah'i.g of tie. farm and If not obtained from " "isat Northern must bo secured elsewhere Shoshone Wlfs Sseks Frssdem Wallace Seized by the arm and violently thrown agulnut the walls of the housu and the china closet la the dining rooiv. called vile names, and compelled to stand by end see her huaband severely whip and strike her children, are some of the ludlgmn. . suffered st the hands of her hubanl by Lola Hcott. arcotdlug to alligation in her suit in the district court against liar husband, John Uurnls Scott, lor an absolute divorce. Offers Business Course Caldwell. -'J he board of directors of the College of Idaho haa recently dded to the advantages of that bagel tutluu by BfT&agiM 'or the establish meat of the practical buslMM ,-oure to be kuowu ss the school at torn morce t tie Catlgvfg of Idaho Last Seashore Excursion August 21. Low rates to Nabcotta. Washing ton. nod return via Oregon Short Lion. Tickets on aale from all points In Idaho nnd Oregon, limited to .-September 0th. See agents regarding rate and further particulars. 01861. NOTICB FOR PUBLICATION. Department of the Interior, U. H. Lnd Ottoe at Vale, Oregoo. July 23, 1013. Notice li hereby given that Haoon B .Daniels, of Ontario. Oregon, who on May 16, 1011, made Homestead Entry No. 01861. for Jai NEt. Eg NW1. Section II, Towlagttr, 17 ft. Range 46 K.. Willamette Meridian, has tiled notice of intention to mako final three year proof, to establish claim to tbo I -nd above described, before the Register and Rooalvar, of tba United state. Land Office, at Vale, Oregon, on tbe 4th day of September, 1013. Ointment names aa witnesses: Uuy P. Morgan, Joseph Little. Prod W. Morton and Oeorge K. Clark, all of Ontario, Oregon. liruoe iv. Kestcr, Register. Notice Sealed proposals will be received by tba City Recorder of the City of Ontario, Oregon, up to toe bour of 8 o'clock p. m. on the 28tb day of August, 1013, for tbe construction of about 0000 feet of sewer In said City accord lag to the plana and tpecltloa tiona Ibsrefor on file with said City Recorder All proposals must bo settled, marked "Proposals for Sewer Construction.'' and addressed to Harry B. (Iranel. City Recorder. On tario. Oregon. The bids will be opened by the Council at tbe above named bour ami the contract awarded. The Council reeervea tbe right tit reject nuy and all hide. All bids must he accompanied by a ceit lib .1 check for i"i cent of such bid. By order of tbe City Counoll. Harry B. (irauel. City Recorder. Farm Loans On Improved Property At current rates. Any amount For straight term or with In stallment privilege. Thomas W. Clagett Ontario - - Oregon THE great numbsr of dsdgni of "Standard" plumbing fiiturei wilt enable you to i humr s isliffsi lory opup iiMtit for your bstiirooin. Ws iliall be plrair.l lo thow you the varum, driigni slid guaranlre honrtt, rrfi ticnl worluitSJuhip when iiulallmg them. 0. S. PLUMBING & HEATING COMPANY oSSSS riratairi On OnldTlO 0ft. J The Most Qualified Judges Pronounce Taylor & Williams Striitjit fillON Sloii wmsktd tbi BEST FOR SALE in iuantitit-a fr m line gallon up, and many other (iood brands, by .1 II 9aaaiv ' asm" ask II anjje iVbgWiaJvvgggwi I. B. II UK. Wholesaler. ON I'AIIIu i 'KKOON