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About The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 4, 1913)
4th Annual Malheur County Fair t September 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 1913 BRIEF NEWS OF OREGON Something Doing All the Time-From Start to Finish The Greatest Agricultural Exhibition Ever held in Eastern Oregon Willamette hopgrowers announce that the recent rain killed the little red spiders which do great damage to the cropa. Portland la to hare a milk ahow, September 22 to 27. Its prime ob Jecta will be to demonatrate the great food value of milk and the dangers of unaanltary dairying. In lieu of her flrat two puppies, which died a few days after they were whelped, two orphan klttena hare been adopted by a fox terrier belonging to a liveryman of Salem. The $10 round trip rate from Ban Franoleco, 8acramento and point north to Klamath Falla will be on aale September 12 and 13 and will be good for return within two weeka. Well-known bualneaa men and farm era slept on cota In the atreet In front of the Hound-up ticket office at Peu ilii'tnti. la order to be the flrat to pur chaan tleketa when the aale began at 7 o'clock last Monday morning. To be ahot at, the shot missing her but frightening hir horse so that she waa thrown from the saddle and drag p '1 by the stirrup until badly Injured wns the story told hy aged Mrs. John (Hlirlrh. who rami; to Daker from Dig I Cmt to rejiort'to the grand Jury. Sergeant James H. Wolford, of Ore gon's Fourth Coast Artillery Reserve, IiihIii) one of the 12 honor places on ! the I'nlted States team that will de h nd ilie I'ahiKi trophy In the Hep temliiT ii fight with Cunmln. Sweden ami other loiiiitrleH. Oregon hunters are threatened with a big cut In their open season on ducks, geese and other shore birds. If the new federul game law In approved hv President Wilson as It passed con gicsH tinfoil sportsmen will bo al lowed to shoot only between Septem ber l.'i and Dceeinlier IS. OM of Ho bawt Irnlt deals In the feoglM RIVW ft lOJ for this year was made liv Kiiil Hopkins, of IfodfOTd wli-ii through the ProdUOMV' Krnlt Company he sold his entire QfOP Ot U.nt.r Nellls pears. Tfiim boxes. Iroin M aens, in l.oiidon and (ilasgow fruit dealers for aproxlmalely IL'ii.immi, I peculiar malady seems to h.iw In fict.d the !.ick rnhlilts ol tlM Kaslern Ol'i'KOli section Ualiliils are dylllK l the thoiiHands. When overtaken hy the disease the rabbits crawl Into the fin t hole Hie find and die thvre. In llniny h.uU,.-i holes as many as halt .i doxen ilc.nl in I.I.I t have lieeii tOUBd A huge tract of limber laud, lying :' lies north of Medford, comprising 4." acres, has been sold to the Men In I. mil.' i colli im II) ul lleililing. fur $100,000. The new owners will Im mediately begin the construction of a $16,000 fruit box factory that la to aupply apple and pear boxea for tbe entire valley. That some system should be devis ed to postpone the first payments of settlers on government reclamation projects until after the land has bo gun to produce and that their burdens should otherwise be lightened. Is tbe opinion of Will. R. King, x Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court, now chief oounsel for the United States recla mation service. A power and water aystem covering towns from Stayton 10 Salem Is being promoted by Idaho and Spokane men. The proposal la to bring water from the North Fork of the Santlam with which to aupply Salem, Stayton, Aums ville and the state Institutions, alao they are promoting an electric light ing system and trolley line through Stayton and Aumavllle to Salem. The movement for city ownership of the water and lights haa been renewed at Klamath Falls for two reasons One Is that the rates for water for Irriga tion prevent an free use of water for that purpose as would follow lower ates. This preventa the planting of trees and reduces the number of lawns, thus keeping back the work of beau tifying the city. A movement has been started to secure the closing of Mill Slough, a small tldnl estuary which Tenches hiick through the center of Marsh field, dividing the town Into two parts and Just at this time the mntter Is at tracting more ntteiilon that usual be cause of the Important hearing It has on railroad construction, and the mat ter will be taken up with the Oregon I. Hi-gat Inn to secure special legisla tion by congress. Notwithstanding the efforts of Rep resentative Sin in 1 1 and other mem bers of Hie Oregon delegation to get some relief for settlera on lands un surveyed and unopened to entry there seems to he no FgtM IM them The general land office has ruled that the Statute governs and that If they loave i l.ilms they must do so at their own risk. This ruling affects a large num ber of Oregon entrymen. Oswald West, governor, and A M. Crawford, BttOTM general of Oregon, have been suiiiinoiieil to appear 111 the Cniieii states dtstrlos court at Port lat'il September tti. to answer a com plaint In the suit of R. J Barnes and r.s others against the Southern Ore gon company and themselves as offi cials of the state of Oregon. The 69 complnltiiiiiis are people who desire thai land granted by congress in 1860 Ol hi be disposed of l. i hi leruin of the grant. The Old Psintsr. An anecdote which Charles Francis Adams told years ago to tbe young Henry Cabot Lodge was retold by him In ficrlbner's. It was one of Gilbert Stuart and of Mr. Adnms' grandfather. Stuart painted a portrait of John Adams In extreme old age. when he wag nearlng his ninetieth yesr. It la a very fine portrnlt of the old man leaning on his cane. Charles Francll Adams, a boy of eight evil, used to keep bis grandfather company during the sittings and watch tbe painter at work. Ha said tbat Stuart, who was old, too, and near the end of bis career, was physically feeble. Both bis bands shook violently. From a quivering palette be would take hla color, and with hla brush shaking and trembling; he would touch the picture. Mr. Adams said It looked as If be might dssh tbe paint on anywhere, but the brush always touched the portrait, ex traordinary as It seemed. In exactly tbe right spot and In tbe right way. De aptte hla shaking bunds aud trembling lingers the old nrtlst never mads a mistake Bear Hunting In India. 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