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ONTARIO The Pivotal Point of the Great Interior of EASTERN OREGON QnbxxAti The Ontario Argus leads in Prestige, 'Amm. mt The Produce from 15,000,000 acres is marketed from On tario each year 1 merit, and Circula tion. Watch us grow Representative Newspaper of Ontario and Malheur County. VOLUME XVI ONTARIO. OREGON. THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 13. 1913. NO. 46 MANY CHANGES ABOUT TOWN ARE NOTED Zimmerman Store to Be Occupied by Cigar Store Candy Kitchen Moved--Storea Brightening Up. Tbe Candy Kitchen is being moved to one of the room in the old Flier building. Oliver Nicely it having modern front placed in hia aalnon building. Letaon, the jeweler, has made nun Improvementa In the show windows of his atore room. The paintera have been busy for aeveral daya lntbe Ontario Meat Mnr ket, brightening thinga up. Councilman Zimmerman haa leaeed hla atore room for a olgar atand and lunch room to be run by Ueorge Wanton and T. Redaall. Nathaniel Sims, the eecood section of A. Z. will move bis clothes clean ing eatabllahment to the room made vacant by tbe movlog of the Candy Kitchen. Weatfall brothera are building oew liomea In Kiversldc addition. Mrs. A one Jackson baa a large addition to her east side borne about oompleted. I. V. Arnold baa the frame work up for a new borne south of tbe Bap tlat church. Tbe Joe Sohall home Is well along Hiid will make a very roomy house. WHOLESALE HOUSES CARRY GOODS HERE Bench Apple Growers Are Making Ontario Their Shipping Point Ontario is rapidly developing into a Jobbing center aud many of tin wholssule bouses flud it desirable to carry stocks here io order to properly loos after their trade. During the past few day a we have tjotioed orders going to Vale, Jamie sou, Brogeo, Junturs. Harpers, Hums. Welser, Payette. Frultlaod. i.iiiinett. Smith's Ferry, Ouodiug Silas, Nyaaa. Adrian, Homedale and other points. Stocks are earned here by Alleo and Lewis. Oaks. Falk's and other houses. Many of tbe apple growers on tbe bench are shipping from Ontario and another year there will be more who will take advantage of tbe belter rate and Improved service. The output of tbe Want) evaporator is being shipped from here aud it is likely liter will b other dryers operatlog bre next season as the pro duce is here to keep several working a loog time each aeseon. BRAKENAN INJURED IN WRECK AT JUNTURA DIES AT HOSPITAL Frank hi Hockley, the brakemau who was injured In the railroad wreok near Junturs, died at tbe boa pital Saturday ills brother and sis ter wsre here from Miunnesota and took the body there for burial. He was 33 years of age. SEWER AND DRAIN DITCH NOW PUSHING AHEAD EAST The big sewer and drain ditob is going along makiog a little better than a 1"" feet a day aud this is where tbe big pipe Is being uaed aud tbe eat is from ten to twelve feet deep. Wbea the ditch is oompleted a few hundred feet farther toe oat wilt oot be near so heavy aud toe pipe will be smaller which will eoable tbeui to go much faster The strates where the Pip is being laid carry a large quantity of water sad the effect of this can be seeu in tbe disappearance of many of the water boles. AMERICA REASSURED BY GREAT BRITAIN London. Prime Minister Asqulth discussed the Mexican question in his annual speech at the lord mayor's banquet. "Our Interests In Mexico," said the prime minister, "call for vigilant care. Mexico la atill In the throes of a civil war, but there never was and never haa been any question of political In tervention by Great Britain In the do mestic concerns of Mexico, or In the Central or South American states. "There have been rumors that after the United States had adopted a line of their own in regard to Mexico we took a line calculated deliberately to thwart America. There Is nut a vest ige of foundation for such a rumor. "We have recognised President Huerta, because, having neither the" will nor the power to intervene, we were bound to deal with the de facto government, and, because of Informa tion then In our possession, there ap peared to be no element except that of Ituerta and his supporters which offered any prospect of the restora tion of the stability and order. JOHN PURR0Y MITCHELL John Purroy Mitchell, fusion candi date for mayor, who administered a crushing defeat to Tammany In the New York election. TAXABLE PROPERTY JUMPS County Boards Place Oregon Vslua tions at M13.2M.627 for 1913. Sal.-m The total value of taxable property as equalised by the county boards of equalisation in Oregon, not Including tbe property of public eerv ice corporations which will be assess ed by the state tax commission foi 1913 Is 9s36.268.637, according to an announcement of tbe commission. The Increase over 1913 Is $42,173. 346. Messrs. Katun aud G. Iloway state tax commissioners, said the levy which would be in.nl.- l).-i ember 1 would be about 6 mills, a large In crease being necessary to meet tbt appropriations and other expenses ol the last aesalon of tbe legislature. a THAW'S EXTRADITION SIGNED Writ of Habsas Corpus Pravsnts His Removal to New York state. Concord, N II Governor Pelker Ot New Hampshire signed tbe extradition papers returning Harry K. Thaw to New York at the request of Governor Glynn. Thaw's extradition resulted from a charge of conspiracy In con nection with his escape from the Mat tes, wen asylum. This decision, it is said, does not mean that Thaw will be returned Immediately to Mattea wan. elliea Not Guilty of Ritual Murder. Kiev, Russia. Mendel Belllaa was acquitted In the famous "ritual mur der" trial The trial of Belllaa, a Russian oi Hebrew faith, for tbe alleged murder for purposes of "blood ritual" of An drew Tuahlnskl, a Christian lad, be gaa on October 9. The case caused aa Immediate sensation which stirred the whole of Russia. sxaeM NPfv '-' jxn HwAsi sW A fWJj BW m AIH M B AGRICULTURAL LECTURES PROVE VERY INSTRUCTIVE Prof. I .olden and Coterie of Speakers Tell Farmers of this Section Many Valuable Truths Along the Line of Scientific Farming. Tbs P. U. Holden party was hers tbe first of tbe week and covered tbls section very tboroaghly, taking their message jto the farmers and tbeir children iu tbe school bouses and local halls. These men get at the farmer iu a little different w-y than moat eduoa ators and tbelr whole message is prompt bersuse It Is feared the west will some dsy be in the same condi tion as tbe farms of the east are today. Already we are importing 1260.000.000 worth of produoe mere than we are exporting, when we should have tbe balance to our favor. At one time India was sa fartlls s this valley, while ber lands are 90 impoverished today that over 00 million of ber people go to bed bungiy every nlgbt. If the farmers of tbe west pnrsue the same methods as their fathers In another fifty years tbe United States will be depended on ber ueigbbora for food and this was the messsgs delivered by thess speuksrs In tbslr n -in v talks. Prof. Holden arrived here Sstur day .mil was taken over the oountry surrounding bere, on both sides of tbe river, by J. K. Blsckaby nod in tbe eveuiug went to the borne of A. U. Kingman, where he remained until .Monday morning. On Monday O. M. Carroll and W. H. Hnughman held meetings at Wade'a school bouse la the Hig Send, Bos well end Parma, where they were greeted with good audienoes who thoroughly appreciated what these men bed to say. P.O. Holden and J. K. Waggoner held meetings at Arosdia, Owyhee, Hunt and (libaon's Nyssu, II, ml. vard Urauge hall. Tnese meetings were attended by pisotiuelly every farmer in those sections and in some cases the fsrmers followed the epesksre sronml snd beard them talk several times, eager to learn ell possible from these experienced men. On Tuesday the tJrst meeting was lirld at tbe Ontario high school, where Prof. Holden made tbe address to the pupils and a small number of town people. Then there were two meetings ADJOURNED MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL IS HELD A rsgular adjourned meeting of tbe oouneil was bold Wednesday evening. Keelguatioo of Deputy H. L. Noe as city nlgbt marshal accepted aud polioe department authorised to Mil vacancy. Objeotlou from N. C Krlee, W. E. Lees. L Bslle Lees aud Mai v J. Hal Hock by W. K Leea, remonstrating agalusl tbeaewer assessment for truuk if i isiii aud sewer No. 2. waa preeeuted aud motlou unanimously overruled. Liquor license bond of Sam J. Ballin passed and accepted. Ordinance No. 211 was passed. covering tbe coullrmatioa of the as sessmeut roll on trunk sewer No. 2 as tiled by commissioner. All wlsbiog to uvall themselves of the r. men. ft aot must tile notice ol tbeir intention within ten dsys ou blanks which will be furnished them. Ordinance No. 24 6, maouer ot construction use easing and collecting for lateral SSWei dlsti let No. 1 In tbe southern part tbe oily was passed On petition of O'Coooor the lioeose tee per quarter fur shooting gallery waa made 99. Tbe in stu-r of No. 2 latere! eewer di-n ict ooveriug three i locks north and four blocks south of Nevada aveuue will coins up later. Sulssr Asks October Pay. Albany, K Y William Sulser as sorts he Is still governor of New York In a letter to the state treasurer and the stale controller he demanded his full salary for the last half of October, 1911. ut h Mlltlun.l 1.1 I I... nhjipnnnn .. t I Malleti V and in tbe Maze theatre iu tbe evening. One of tbe most novel tdess ad vanced was tbs good properties ot sweet clover, being equal, If not superior to alfalfa for cows and bogs, bat it must be out down, nnt allowed to get woody anil should be sowed thick and cut for bay when about eighteen Inches high. Cattle and bogs soon learn to like It. H. Is, I'oorroao Ssys be tried it and bis uow old much bsttsr than on alfalfu and it will not bloat animala. retherits. s uew plsnt resembling Kaffir corn, will grow with only a tew i tie nee or rsinisu una produce n large homage. Corn should be out he i the ksrnsls commence to harden and placed In a silo, togst tte high est .ceding valae end when mixed with alfalfa makes an ideal food for all animal. The alfalfa coutaius tbe e ements neoessnrv to bnilil the frams of tbe animals, supplying the bone, blood and enuscles, while the corn supplies tbe let. Diversified farming enriohee the soil, a one orup aystem robs It. Alfalfa abould bo out when tbe oew sprout start to grow, if left too loug you out off the uew sprouts and stuut tbe plant. H cut too soon the hot tan may injure the new shoots If tbs weather will uot peimlt the curlog of slfal'a. stack it with alteroste Isyers of s- aw and uss some Jislt. Alfalfa leaves ere the best part of the plsnt and should be saved, rake up the hay while It is tough. Alfalfa should be cultl vated with u spring tootb hsrrow, a disk harrow will Injure the roots. Alfalfa la worth more than wheat bran for i-owa, coutaluiug more pro tein. Stock appreciates a varisty of foods, just as much as man. It is a orlms to sell alfalfa at 15 a ton and let tbe buyer make 910 a too by feeding. Uee your head, a man from the neck dowu is worth about II .m a day, from tbe ueck up sums men are worlb 60,000. a year. Tbe dairymao who uses bis head Is tbe one who haa tbe good barns and ranches. TWO OLD TIMERS OE THIS SECTION DIE THIS WEEK Oeo. K. Iteee died at bia home ou the Boulevard road Tuesday aged H2 years, mouths and 16 days, lie waa buried Wednesday. Rev. Julius ottlciatiijg. lut ei'iueut was iu Ontario csmstery. (eorge K. Kees was born In Mi nine county, I Vim und waa mairled to Mlaa Harriet Wrigbtou June 27. 186(1. There was buru to them si. sous und one dsugiiter. the daughter died in eh l.i hi. c.i aud tbe sons are liv ing, three of them here wbo attended the funeral with tbe bereaved wife and mother. The sous oot bere were Charles W. who lives in Creslous, Iowa. D. K. in Perudsle. Calif . aud Dean A. the youngest. In Julesburg, '.dorado. Mr. Rees wss a pioneer of Minnesota und from tbsre weut to Iowa when tbst stale was a lenllory aud fourteen years sgo lis osme to Ontario sud took up laud where be lias llied ever since. John Walker died on tbe Dead Ox Flat on Noveu.LiT - aged 82 years, 1 months uod 11 days Tbe funeral wss held from the Methodist church Tueeday. He left u soo snd two deugblers. NEW LIBRARY IS ENCLOSED. The nn f Is on the new library buildlog and ths work of finishing up by tbe carpenters will oow be started. Wbeu tbe u til rsc tors lioisb tbeir work it will only he neoesasry to add a few chairs and books to make it ready for occupancy. MEXICO REALIZES SITUATION DELICATE Mexico City. Government officials, foreign residents and the people of Mexico realize that the relatione be tween this country and the United States are strained almost to the point of war. It Oeneral Huerta Is anxious re garding what may develop, he doee not betray It. Although he has sent to the diplomatic representatives ot ths foreign nations a note, which In ef feet is a defiance of Washington. In his formal ststement to the diplo mats General Huerta sold It was now foreseen that the recent elections were void, as teo few precincts had participated In the voting and that therefore the new congress would an nul the elections. New elections would then be called and he would continue his programme of pacifica tion. President Huerta's backbone has been stiffened by the receipt of suf ficient funds to operate the govern ment until the end of the present month and the Implied promise of further flnsncial aid If the new con gress should net favorably on certain old land concessions. William F. MeCombs, chairman of ths democratic nstlonal commutes, who wss rscsntly married In London to sn American girl. TRAINMEN GET MORE PAY 100,000 Msn to thars $9,000,000 in- crsaas In Wages New York. The long-lived contro versy between railroads of the east and their conductors and trainmen over Ho. letter's demauds for more pay has ended. The employes are granted sa III crease of wages sveraglug 7 per cent, and totaling fti.uOO.UUU, about bait of wbat they asked. One hundred thousand men will share in the Increase. Thus ends h) arbitration under the Newlands amendment to the hrdman act a controversy that threatened at one time to tie up by atrlke the trans purtutloii facilities of all states east ot the Mississippi river aud north ol the Ohio WANT EXPERIMENTAL FARM Never Hss Been Determined Whs! Section Offers In Agricultural Way Klamuth Palls. The first Itwfsj bate been taken to get all experiment al farm for Klamath county The county court has been asked to make a special levy to employ an expert and to maintain the farm The mem hers of tbe court have signified u willingness to further the movement I arming 111 tbe Kiamuth country Is yet in the experimental slate. A farm conducted under an expert should prove of material assistance to the early development of the farm lauds of the vast area embraced In Klamath county. Rapid strides In fanning have been made lu recent years, sa , Unitsrlans Will Meet. Hood River Tha North Pacific conference of Unitarian cburchee will be held al Hood River November 11, 12 and II. The Culiartau cburchee of Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana will be represented lo tbe conference. WILLIAM F. M COMBS TK vHTJar w .sfjas ' SaBSBSBsV MANY IMPROVEMENTS AT THE MOORE HOTEL Top Floor Being: Finished Modern Elevator to be Installed And Many Other New Features Added. The Moore hotel under the oweer ship of W. U. Sanderson, la golug to be a credit to Ontario and will be tbe meaua of maalog this the meccn for the traveling public. This week the carpenters are h'isy fitting up a ladles reception room no the ground floor, next to the dining room, with openings fiom tbe lobby and street. Ketlected lights, naneling and otber work will make this the handsomest room la tbls section end one that the ladles will appreciate. The top floor is being finished and will bs ready for guests lu a short time with all modern cooveoieaoee. An elevator has I ordsrsd which will have all the latest Improvements and attachments, making It absolutely safe under all condlliona. Tbe oar caunot be moved while the door la open and a patent clutch will bold the oar If the cables abould break 'and many Other equally desirable Improvemoute are attached. The lobby la also undergoing changes under the dlreotiou of nn able arohl teot, who baa made a spsolalty of hotels. A. J. DRAPERGET8 CON TRACT FOR CHANGES To Be Made in Carter House1 Boise Firm to Install Plumbing Fixtures Twu tracts were 1st this weak for the cbsuges to be made In the Carter house, A. J. Draper received the enutrsct for the addition to the three story part, which is to be used fur the new kitchen end dining room aud ths alterations in the sleeping rooms. The contract calla for tbe Installa tion of five bath rooms aud changes iu the burlier shop and bar room. Tbe contract for tbe plumbing work and tbe luatalllng of water Io ell the bedrooms waa 1st to a Boise firm. Later euotber contract will be let for tbe cbsuges In tbe corner room to make It eulteble fur banking. COUNCIL HAN INVESTIGATES LIGHT PROPOSITION HERE J. D. Ni ale. of Council, wss bsre lest wsek looking up data on the eleotrlo plant. The Council people are figuring ou a municipal light und power plsnt and want to get poatsd before tbey start lu. J. R. EARRELL, BIGAMIST, DIVORCES HIS SECOND WIFE J. R. I .iriidl tbe man who found be had two wives aud tried to get out ol sight, got a div iree from bis second wife s fw dais sgo. He claims that hla (list wife untitled him lhal she bad secured a divorce fioiu turn and after be mauled wife No. 2 then she confessed that abe had uot obtained a dlvoroe. DR. GOLDSBERRY LEAVES ON SHORT TRIPTO JORDAN VALLEY Dr. Ooldsberry tbe dentist, baa gone lo Jordau Valley for a few weeks end will then return snd go south tor tbe winter mouths where be will try outdoor life iu order to build up. Tbe doctor has hosts ot fi lands here wbo hope to see him return fully recovered.