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4 ONTARIO The Pivotal Point of the Great Interior of EASTERN OREGON The Ontario Anrus leads in Prestige, merit, and Circula tion. Watch us grow The Produce from 15,000,000 acres ia marketed from On tario each year Representative Newspaper of Ontario and Malheur County. VOLUME XVI ONTARIO. OREGON. THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 20. 1913. NO. 46 CITY FLECTION TO BE mm mmm CIVEN unn nrmiorD rmoT SEVERAL NEW BOOKS RECENTLY HUERTA DISMISSES PEOPLE ARE ORGANIZING DRY FARMERS GET MVMitm? nir ( liixiVT FOR SEWER CONNECTIONS IIllUULWIDLIMIOI MayorandThreeCouncilmen To be Elected--Nominating Convention Monday The city election will he held Dei-ember first, oo Monday, November 24th o .minuting convention will he heir la the olty bell at 8 o'clock, to which all nre Invited. Tbe officer! whoie term epxlre are the mayor, A. W. Trow, counullmen C. i'.. Keoyon, Jake llregg and J. H. Farley. Alto all the appointive offi cers, tbe manbal, recorder, engineer, treet supervisor and tbe janitor. While there baa been tome Qjolvt work we bnve not heard of any active candidates. Tbe east aide people are entitled to n representation In the council and will ptohably decide whom they wlib. The hold over councilman are B. A. Kraser. A. Zimmerman and L. B. Fry. which laavea the south part of tuwu without a reprt-eentaion. The council hat been llva one during tbe pait year, baa done miiub to keep the olty going alu-ad and there la much fur new council to oonalder ao men of bualncai judg ment should be selected. SHIPPING CARLOAD OF HOGS EVERY WEEK FROM HERE This section it shipping out a car load of hogs a weak. One year ago there waa hardly a carload shipped from here. Ily next year we expect to aee a carload a day shipped out during the season. A carload of hogs means about 91U0O of outside mum cowing in and later, whan we get a packing plant here that will haudle all tbe hogs ol this valley. It will MM iiiHiiv thousands of dollars kept at bouie that ar now sent east for Iowa and Nebraska bacon, hams and lard. Tba Snake rlvar vallay, with tbe wonderful production of alfalfa aud corn that we get. ran raise hogs cheaper than any other place. MR. CLAGETT SEVERS CON NECTIONS WITH EAND CO- Tbos W. Clagett, bus turned over tbe management of the Eastern Ore gou Laud company to C. T I'rulil ami will now devote hi time to his own business Mr. Clagett has heeu try lug to have a successor appointed to the position for over u yeur, but the company did uot have a man to till 'tbe place until recently. Mr. ('Ug.it ts the ageut -for the Alliance Trust company, one of tbe large foreign mortgage companies ud also has cm sib reble property interests that re quire bis attention. Ha has been in Spokane this week attending tbe Apple show. Will furnish Logs For Fair Building Grunts Pass. Jost-pbine county court has taken steps to comply with the request made by Commissioner Booth of Eugene, of the state cummie alon for tbe exhibit and building of Ilia Panama Pacific Exposition, for attvaral pine logs to be used aa col umns In tbe atate building Tbe court has granted $100 to be used in secur ing and bringing to the Southern Pa elf lv tracks, two pine logs to be the entrance columns in the) Oregon building. The logs are to be 40 feet long and measure five feet through at tbe small end. Farmer Stays Wife, Then Self Sandy. To the belief that his wife waa "crasy la laid the cause of a tragedy enacted seven miles from here when Francis ktcCabe, aged 34. ahot and killed his wife, Amanda Kuhn lie Cab, aged 24, want to the home of bis parent, a iiuarter of a mil die tant. told of tbe crime he had commit ted, kissed his t-year-old son, fled from hie father's house and returned to his own. where he fired four shots Into his breast and head, dying In Canity. Fred J. Xeitel, of Ugden, Utah, abowed his faith in the progresslveness of the people of Ontario by sending to the library oomhilialon the fol lowing generoaa donation of bnoka: Kucyclopaedla Btlttanloa, 10 vol rimes; Kldpath'a llittory of tbe World, 9 volumes; Library of Select Ro mancea, 11 volumes; Famous Women of the French Court, !) volumes ; Thackeray In volumes: Ten ayson, 1 volume; Suras, 1 volume: 'i4 volumes of tictliin and poetry. Mr. Kroeasin gave a box of 25 books of flotlnn, travel and history; Mrs. Tyler added six voIuom of popular fiction; Mr (I. W. Clement tbe Life of Frances Wlllard; Mra. Dr Pogue, Hlaory of Peru: Harry Withycombe 1" volumes of Selections from tbe Best Literature of all Agea. It ia exceedingly gratifying the pertonal ioterett the people In general are tuna if epilog In the furnishing cf liookt. Will you be on tbe list next Nth! WILLIAM B. HALE William B Hals, President Wilson's tnvoy who confsrred with the Meal can rebel leader, Qanaral Carrama, at Nogaltt, Mexico. OREGON "WETS" WILL CONTEST ELECTION Portland Though 12 Oregon towiiH classed previously as "wet" vote. I "dry" at local option elections held in conjunction with the special state t. t ereiidum election on Tuesday, Nov tin ber 4, contests have been taken into court in six bf the towns. These towns are Salem, Hurrishurg, Oregon Cit, Springfield, Uresham and Hillsboro. All are In different counties. In general, the main point of attack In each case Is the sume thut the local option election was illegal be cause it did not take place on the date of a general state or a city election, but at a special election called merely to pass on questions submitted under the referendum. Election Frauds Charged by Wsts Kugene Alleging gross fraud and Intimidation on the part of ageut of Governor West during the progress of the recent local option election In Springfield, T. C. Luckey, owner of one of the saloons there, has filed a suit In the circuit court here aaklng that the county court be enjoined from canvassing the results of tbe election or from declaring that Spring field ia prohibition territory. Rose Planting la Begun ktedford Flfi n thousand roae cutting have b i distributed to the school children of Medford by mem ben of the Greater Medford Club aa the beginning of a campaign looking toward establishing a roae festival aa a permanent feature in this cit Delinquencies Are Few Salem State Treasurer Kay, to a statement to tbe state land board, an nouaced that out of several thousand dollars and notes of the slate edut.. tlotial fund only 2 per cent of the bor rewers are deliuqueut ou interest. JPSPfr jSfcliatrKy amfukf ' j r BTaV l m aa? aal wB Mexican President Will Listen Only to Proposals Compatible With His Own Dignity. Mexico City It wns learned that the American charge had seen Presi dent Hucrta I...J had been told that be would not resign ami would listen only to auch proposals as were com patible with his own dignity and that of his country. What doubt remained regarding General lluerta's Intentions with re spect to compyance with the Ameri can demands for his own elimination was removed from the minds of most Mexicans and foreign residents by his peremptory dismissal of Manuel Gur za Aldape, the minister of the Inter lor, who was looked upon us the head of the lluerta cabinet. Aldape led that croup of the cabinet which held the convlctlou that It would be best to accede to that por tion at least of Washington - demands which meant the total abandonment of power by the provisional president, and he Is said to have been the only one with sufficient courage to discuss the International situation frankly with his chler. Senor Aldape was the last remain ing cabinet officer appointed by agree in. 'lit hctw.vi! lluerta and General Pe :. MM at the close of the battle In the capital In IVbrunry. The agree ment waa signed In the American em bassy. The other ministers then chosen have been eliminated one by I schools open at night for study, int one, provement and recreation, It follows, Kl Paso. Tex. For the sixth titno In ih. last thtee years fludad Juaret changed governments when 2000 reb els, led by General Pancho Villa, at tacked and captured the town. Taken completely by surprise, the federal garrison of approximately 400 men put up a weak resistance. So unprepared for buttle were the federal defenders thut Vtjla'e troops actually reached the center of town before u single shot was fired. Several executions of federal pris HOLY ROSAItV SCRIP LAND SURVEYS HAVE BEEN ACCEPTED Albany. Thut the land office In Washington has accept. I the survey of township IM, south of range 4 east of the W M , whnh Is known as the Northern Pacific scrip land, on whit it a colony of 7u people settled two years ago. following a decision In regard to lands In California, waa the word brought here by Edward G. Weber, one of the homesteaders. The sett lenient is located 10 miles from the town of Whltcomb and about 65 miles east of Albany. Mr Weber said that the legality of the filings will be determined in a short time, prob;.bly before Thanks giving Salem, or A the result of a reso lution adopted at a meeting of the slate land boa id. at a recent meeting. District Alt. aey Hingo will be In structed by a majority of the mem bers of the board to bring a manda mus suit against Stale Treasurer Kay to compel blm to turn over the atate educational fund, aggregating about M.Coo.Otio. to U G Urowu, clerk of the board it ' ' iii IMaau ?Ma4 M22alaaaaMBa!L5"aaaaaaCEeO W-' -aC S X fiffiiKpM'ipiii lMHPaHn mM- "'" ..... i oners captured by (lenernl Pancho Villa's rebel troops at Juarez have taken place. The order for the execu tion of many of the prisoners has been issued directly by General Villa, and at different periods the firing squadH took out men and shot them. Carranxa Demands Huerta'a Removal Nogales, Sonorn. General Venustl ano Carranza will not consider any means of accomplishing peace in Mex ico not predicated on the absolute elimination of lluerta. The constitu tionalists' political and military leader Issued the following announcement: "We will recognize nobody who suc ceeds lluerta by the power which he has usurped." PERMITS SCHOOL DANCING Washington Attorney-General Saye Recreation la Legal olymplu, Wash. After nearly 12 years, during which dancing In public school buildings has been forbidden rigidly, Attorney General Tanner, In an official opinion, throws the bars down to devotees of the tango, as well as the more conservative forms of the terpslchoreun art. Dancing Is a form of recreation, the attorney general holds, and since the "social center" law of 1!H3 throws the he Bays, that school dniictng Is strictly li gal No darning has been allowed since Attorney General Straiten hand- ed down an adverse opinion ou t he subject In January, l!'i..' Congress Urged to Probt Strike Seattle. A congressional investiga tion of the conditions al the copper mines about Calumet, Mich., where millers ure out on strike, was demand ed in a resolution udopted by the American Kedcr.it ion of Labor, In con veiitlon here. HOSPITAL TIMBER PATENTS ARE HELD UP BY COURT Lewlslon -In a decision Just ren- .;. i d by th- circuit court of appeals at San l'rai,!:.o patents to 17 timber o! (be K -llellbiH b KcM.T hold i:i tin- ( I. -arw.ner district are ...id :..,- i .i i riiation Litigation over these cl tuns has been pending In the courts for a long period. Evidence in these esses, wherein the United States Is complainant and W K Kettetihat h and George II Kester are defendants, was first taken before Warren Trull, referee, and the evidence submitted to Judge Dietrich for decision in tbe spring of INI In practically all the claims on which, by the decision, the patents are held for cancellation, C. N. Holm, tt and H J Steffey were agents for Kettenbach and Kester. Huntington Raid Made Huntington Direct effect of Oov eroor West's activity in iiaker county waa fejt here wiien Kd Hanson, town marshal and dtputy sheriff, raided the West Hotel, arrested the proprietor. A. H. Clark, on a charge of conduct ing a disorderly resort '! The main trunk sewer and drainage ditch is fast approaching tbe aouthern line ot the city, tbe pipe being laid to Indiana avenue. On Sunday morn ing the ditch waa cut to tba King pond and tbe water drained olf. When the water got low there waa a swarm of carp seeking the nutlet nnd tbe men tay they weja several feet long and enough to till a box car. There are only a few hundred feet mora nt tbe fclg pipe aud then tbe work will go faster. The contractor kesps about aeventy men on tbe job and ia pushing the work to that be will have It Mulshed before tbe bad weather aetn In. Tbe people living In the dllferent lateral districts are getting busy and organizing ao they can have the sewer cxteuded to their homes anil get the benetlt of it. Tbe benefit In tbe way of better sanitary conditions that will prevail here another year cao only be meaaured in the saving of undertaken bills. i DAVID I. WALSH David I. Walah, the Democrat who waa elected Oovernor of Maaaachu setta to succeed Oovernor Fosa. WILL INVESTIGATE WORKERS' TROUBLE Sabiii, Or After making practical It . niplele preparations to leave for I'lor. ncu to personally Investigate the I W. W. deportation, Governor West Kot Into communication with Captain Harry K Metculf. O N G , of Cottane Grove, and (totalled hlin to main the ligation. Captain Metculf will be accompanied by another officer of the n.itioual guard of Ills own selection. "If Captain Mct.air reports any thing wrong at Klore nee," said th., governor, ' martial law will be e. lar e.l until the officials there can give as sui.iiice ol seeing that the laws are el. ion . .1 Captain Metculf will Investigate the Klureuce troubles and make his re port from there to the governor. He will remain there until the governor decider what action shall be taken. The governor say he Is determined that mob ml. and deportations lu this stale bull i i.d Horcne. , Or Citizens of Florence .. mm Industrial Workers of the World, who had established their heud'iuart.-rs here, to a boat ou which they took them to the mouth of the Sluslay Klver and headed them north along the beach, with Instructions lo "keep going 'I here was no disorder In town after the boat had departed Foot Ball Scores. Portland Gllmour Doble's great Washiugtou football team Is six tin.- a humpioli because Utile Smith shot the bail sijuarely between tbe goal posts from a 20 yard placement and big Penlou failed on a 40 yard effort, a last desperule effort to tie up a 10 to 7 score. Oregon Agricultural College defeat ed the Washington State college elev en by the score of 10 to 2 In tbe hard eat fought game played ou tbe cam pus in a long time. 2aV aWv la V aeOM) "wuaaa Corn and Small Grain Good Broom Factory is In Operation at Emmctt f 1. L. Crocker and C. (1 Oompton. wbn have places on the upper Dead Ox were in Vale this week proving up ou their laud. Mr. Comptnn saya they raised line crops of all klnda there tbia year. Polatoea run from 135 to I '! saoks to the acre and they did not cultivate toem any. Corn and small grain oropa were alto good and several of them have line stands of alfalfa. They also raised some let. i ii. i and It does well, but should be sowed thick. Their land la aome I."1 feet above the i Ivci whsre It will be n long time before they nan expect water aud the settlers have commenced ttry farming and are well satisfied with tli. results. Urports from .lurdau Valley are thai the farmers who planted potatoes last season got good returns for their trouble. It rained there last week and tbe rauues are now in fine shape. The teachers Institute held there Istt week was well attended, with Stl ft. Msc, beisou III charge. A broom factory has been started at I a m. ti and they have nrdera for nt out all the slock they ran make. The Husko river valley can rale . I broom corn and there la room for tevtral fsclnrles as the present price of brooms Is more than double what It was a few yearn ago. Indi cating there Is either a broom trust or a grrut scarcity of bloom corn raised. NEW TRAIN SCHEDULE IN AUGURATED LAST SUNDAY A new train schedule was announc ed by Ibe Short Line olllnlsls. but It only i li. i'ii I a few of the ma In Hue tralus. The uumbesa of i! ami lu have beau changed around and are the same now as they were a few moutne ago. No. 17 the east bound luol'lilug tiiilu. arrives at 4 .17 a. m. All tbe tralus are now maided in stop at Oulailo. formerly 17 and IM eie li, silted llsg. lint always stopped. Home of tin. ticket agents would objcl to selling tickets for Ontario nu those trains and made It disagree uble for patseugers. No change was auuouuced for the Vale tialll or I lie oln miming from Vale lo Jiiutoia, although iht-i were many stioog protests made on tbe plt'sctil schedule, which is about as bad aa could be devised and benefits only the Vale hod Is si the t p.use of the traveling public. At preseut one cannot go to Vale until 111 a. in. aud Dial is too lain for mil having business at cuil (li Ibe return It Is lit cessal to leave there at 'J 10, allowing a very short time tol traveling men to make tbe (..wo without stopping over night. VN lieu It Comes to the people lit lug in the Intel :nr it Is necessary to take ail auto to resell lb- main linn Ibe same da) they start from points ou tbe Junttue Hue uud tlnse going lu must again lesort lo the auto or lay over night iu Vale. tine !-. some times ft, reed In won. In what S i.l iiit.'rest the Shoit Line nltbials who devise tin sti schedules has III Ibe Vale hotels. Most of the business over the line to Vale originates ul Ontai lo, prob ably T per cent of It. at I II they allow one man at Vale to dictate tbe traiu schedule. THIS SECTION FURNISHES HORSES FOR GOVERNMENT Turner, tbe Caldwell hurse buyer. I waa here this week and picked up several car loads of horses and mules for the government service Duumii Mi-ll.it! sold him a car "I mules that measured from II 1 to for (i each. '1 bene wen flue tbiee year olds. , Two more car loads came fnuu tbe 1 Ironside section.