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About The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 22, 1914)
OREGON NEWS NOTES OF GFNERAL INTEREST Events Occurring Throughout the State During the Past Week. Farmer to Face Legislators. Oregon City -kt the regular quar terly Htate convention Of llM Farmers' Hoilitv df l.(iiii hold lure UM farm era, placed llii'iMHolves on record :ih lublrslni; the movement started by tnO farmers' union nnd state Krnngc l appoint legislative committee to OltOnd Inn MtatoBI of the legislatures timl look niter t ti farmers Interests Jtc.solutioii providing for such com rintli eH were passed liy the delegates nt the merlin;' The society also passed resolution favoring the ahol lshmeht of lbs Plate senate ami adopl li'K propori onato representation in the hOOM of repri sonlati .. Eight Hour Day it Edict. Salem State Labor 'oininlmlnner O. P. Hoir has ordered Mnvor Alhee Of Portland to plain the members of the Portland pollco doportment ami the fire department on an tight hour day. I'nder the recent MpfMM court decision In the state Insane asylum cane. I nininlsslotier lloff holds that nil peine iilflciTH and firemen are milt Jeet to the i Ight-liour law and cannot be on dui more than eight boura n day. Applet to Come to Portland. Mood 'liver. -The hoard of trustees of the North 1'acirir Fruit Dlstrlbut Of! at a inc. Minn at Spokane Iiiih le i bled to establish an office in Fort land In time to handle next season's apple crop. The North Pacific Fruit Distributor now Inn M iifflllaled ax aoclntlons and numerous other fruit dl 'i lets have planned to join Hie n tral agem before Hie murki ting of neat season's crop boglMi Albany College Is Ready For Donation. All in). Conditions prescribed ' Jam' s .1 Mill, In louiiciilou with his prop ''I endow ineiil of $riii. nun. have tx i i t with h Mhali) rollogO nil thnrifcH, and a ootnmlttee baa been Spp' hied liy the board of It to i i. ike a showing of assets ami I One the cash subset Ipl lull offered li the financier JUDGE UPHOLDS GOVERNOR Copprrfirld Martial Law Action Ap proved by Court Oration. linker. Or (inei inn . I w. iii belli in hi I action la b I larin- mutual law al I 'opperflebl .latiunrv J h- I decision lib. i b Clroull Jlld ' Qnotnt Ainb i N Tin decision overruled the demurrer to an answer lo a couipl.iinl i whu h a U'lnporary Injunction had been granted, the principal finding being that the powfl grained la the SawH tl be I. dull avvi.v t colli ll I III bj il" .'. ii even should be, us con ii mi. i b tiii' .iiini nc No i he Cob p. .11 ..looiiuieii. abuse I hose pow or I In ii holds that ilie ciinsillu tloual i .1 i . ol tin' plaintiffs, William Wlignud and II A Stewart, the office hobliiii; ,1... .inn. n of I 'opperflebl Whose proport) was confiscated b) the lllllltia at liovcrnor West's order. Wire not Molated liy the governor s OCttnli. and are not violated bv I be Km i i inn -. action, and are not violated by overruling the demurrnr, Inasmuch an they still have the right to bring Civil action for damages against llov arnor West. Colonel U K l.avvson, Kern ll.. 1. 1, and the other defendants, Or to lllsllliile illllllll.il pro. i cdillg'' attain i them Europe's Weather Cold. Porta What bids fall' lo be I lit til I cold snap in ..ii vi.ii holding ..ui '.hi n port loo of western Fu rope in a tight CMP 'li uipi i.ilures as low M (OUr decrees below 10rO (Fahrenheit) havo boon registered New York Schools to Try Movies. New York Moving putuics wnh It oonta as ib.. pin . of admli tli n are lo be civ i ii 111 the Koal Bide public School:. It vv.i. announced b) IhO dt aiiperliiteu.l ni nl . BOOll M.'n Mj Be t'.illeu Fugitive. Hoiight.iu. Midi rii. ui. II M ijroTi i I. 'ill. and Ihe six other in . ills and organt.i'i - ui ih. I.I.! elation ol Ulnars who .ui' ui ii- la dvtment In re lor cohspiracv .v ill ha oottoldorod fugitives (roM u uu less thev return voluatortlj to the siule to stand trial Will Osek Gold Oust. I'hneillv I tie Foih.s .einp.iiv hat Milled leases from I hi ..win is ..I the flats along Hear crook, from Phoenix to Tub ut. for the PUTKMM of washing ihe tainl lor gold Work will begin lu a lew days. an. I will be watched with latere ;, an it was In this vielnitv that rich g .Id deposits SOTO found in 184V. The lev eloping c.iupany is said to he wel. fliiauccvl CRACK SHOT" GLASSES. Men Who Guaranteed to Make Marks man With Speotaelea Indioted. Ht. I-ouls, Mo. "Wearing then glass,. H will enable you to ahoot the amnllitit bird from the tallest tree on a hazy morning." This statement contained In I circular was one of the causes of n federal In dictment against Morris nnd Harry fioldman, who faced trial. They sold 20n,fHI0 pnlrs of the Kinases a year, It in stated The spectacles coat them M eenta nplwe. They guaranteed, the government al leges, that the use of the glasses would make any one a crack shot. Union County Prosperous. I,n (Irande- Five hundred carloads nf apples, IfOO tons of cherries, four train loads oT iota toes, 80,000 feet of lumber, great numbers of cara of horses, cattle and hoga, and 1,500,000 bushels of wheat form an Industrial procession which Is moving to the market from I'nlon county. This county has been In extremely fortun ate circumstances this year for fnir prices have been realized on overy product of the soil. Itecorda have been set this year for whont, charrloa, hoga and cattle. Jail Is Boarding House. Salem. - Declaring that ll was ne cessary for the man to have plenty to eat for a few days to build up hla health. Police Judge Klgln sentenced J. ti. Adklns. charged with obtaining a menl at a restaurant and not paving for It, to serve a sentence of five days hi Jail. The prisoner was tbankrul for the sentence, and announced that he wns almo-ii starved when, In his desperation, he ordered the meal at the restaurant. Tragedy of Fighting Deer. Ashland Trappers on l.lck creek. In this county, recently came across a strange find In the way of two deer with horns Interlocked, one of them a six point buck and UM other n flve p.ilnier The six point animal was dead, and Its can-ass was being drag ged about by the olher one, appear ances indicating that the larger deer ol the two had been dead several da)S. Cooley Bound Over on Murder Charge, lioldbeach. Hr Following his pre liminary hearing on a charge of hav lug murdered Thomas Van I'ell near t'heico, Curry county, February !!. IV'V It. Cooley was I id over to tin- grand Jury with bonds fixed nt a I'ooley's relatives announced tii.it die bonds would be furnished. GOLD FROM NOME STORM. Sands Washed Up From Ses May More Than Repair Damage. Nome. Mi I. i Miner who have worked Ibo boot'h sando bore fw goM believe that the Htm 111 that half df shoved the ill) iiielilly drove ashore fold bearing sands ilnit will nunc Hi. in pay fot the damage done After em h big Stores' miners pan the new sand that has bOOO ' ast up Tho bottom of the sea lii front of Nome Is rich lu giil. but no uielliod of working It has been found. t'aptnlii llallluger of the revenue cut IOC Hear Informed I lie cleiis' relief committee that he would advise the authorities at Washington that nihil tloual assistance was urgently needed here for the sufferers from the atorm H. .1 H ..I Farm Needa of Idaho Stated. Moscow ctihg I'resideiit t'arlyle of the university of Idaho and the col lege of agriculture are .ngaged lu pre paling a statement id. mug to the agricultural needs of Idaho, which has In en asked b the commission ap pointed by Coventor John M llaliics In accordance with a reipiest from the secretary of agriculture It is hoped ni ibis wav that many of I ...... .i I si .it l.luhix'u It . Hi' I I I - ' I I If III K l' IH MSl III IIUIHVB i.asjt w. tural bUoHMti will i'''ir tin uiun- lion of tin- U. tlOUAl .nimimMraUou. Cement Plant Under Labor Lltns. Orofluo -Labor Ileus amounting to more than $600 hive been filed against the orofiuo l'oiii.uiil Cement plant, which sum is otilv a small pott of the wages due employes Claims for la-1 tor. lumtii'i'. in i'. -ii.il an. i supplies, u is alleged, amount to approximately .en Fnder the statutes of Idaho an employe can recover 30 day' addi tional wages if nut paid at the time he quits the set i. e of a corporation or Individual. Indian School at Bonnert Ferry. BouneVa rrri Jones J coukim, acting Indian .igei't ill charge of the local tribe of Kootenai Indians, has received notice from lite department of Indian aftaiis to the effect that ail Indian da .school would be estab I lied here and that bids would bo solicited from local contractu! I It is estimated that the m: aud new buildings plumed will cost the government about eOM geni lonkliu .-laics that there aie ubout .0 Indian children of scluvol ie residing in this vicinltv and that most of the oldei ludtaa hlgblv favor the plan of Sliding their childreu lo the School. TALKING APES ARE DEAD. o Knew Their Alphabet War Valued at 150.000. Philadelphia. Itettliut and Borneo, the oraiu: outnngs which had been edu cated by Dr. William Henry Fumeae of Wnlllngford so that they would pro nounce simple words, are dead. By constant teaching Dr. FurneM hnd linpi'd to demonstrate through edu cation that the orang outanga really were the "missing link." capable of sustaining thought and doing almost everything of which a human being Is cnpable Borneo wna eight years old. and I t.-t 1 1 mi was four, and both were as highly educated aa children of the same age 00b knew the a him bet perfectly and could pick It out on lettered blocks. Borneo also could pronounce such words as 'cup-' and "papa." and Dr. Fulness dei lares that Ills nrang OU tangs were proving gradually that they were capable of human rensnplug. lie valued the orang oiifnngs at $50,- (HHI. THREE CAWS FOR JIMCR0W! Ht'a Not So Blaok aa Painttd, Agrl- culture Experts Find. That the crow Is not ns black as he la painted Is tho conclusion reached hy experts of the deportment of agrlcul- tnre win. hive caiuliicd several thou sand craws of the despised bird. An error was made ten years ngo. tho In Test Igators declare. In spreading broad cast a warning ami Inst "old Jltncrow " A report iitiiiouncea tlint the crow does more good than harm: he ents more pests than crops. Ills one beset ting sin Is devouring the eggs and young of Other birds, but the contents of his. craw prove that about nine tenths of his food consists of Insects nnd other crop destroying creature. "Don't be too hard on the crow that squawks about your farm." la the ad rlco given by the department of agri culture to the farmer. TO EUROPE WITHOUT A CENT. Harvard Man Sail to Mak a Living Thin on Tan Dollar Wigir. Cambridge. Mass. Charles K. M"r rls of Brooklyn, a Harvard Junior, Is hound to Kurope with an empty pix-k-etbook on a wager of fit), according t college friends, who say that he sailed on the steamer I.acoiila ami expects u stay several months abroad, depending on his own efforts for a livelihood. "For cents I'd work my way across to Furopc." Morris Is said to have told classmates a few days ago. Olio of them offered to bet $10 that Morris would not go, anil the wager win ac cepted IMPROVEMENTS BIG PHILIPPINE PROBLEM Advocates of Independent Meet Difficulty. Washington. -The continuation of the policy adopted by the present government In the Philippine Islands of building extensive public Improve ments throughout the Islands, school houses, roads, bridges, municipal mar kets, water systems, terries and light ing plants, Is one of the problem which (be advocates of liiiunslliite In dependence ,ue tin. hug dllllciilly ID soiv lug. The present government, through the bureau of public works, has established public Improvements throughout the Islands contributing to a marked el tent to the prosperity which they now enjoy. These vary lu coat from J'J.V) to I'.'oO.utt), and 8tl s-r cent of them are constructed by the administration Itself, pilvate contractors refusing to submit bids on the hazardous under taUlngs "The smallest number of uctlve proj is'ts In any one of the regularly or lm in 'cd provincial Inhabited by the Christianized Filipinos on April 1, I'.M.'t " s.ivs a statement of the bureau of Insular affairs of the war depart ment, "was three and the largest thir ty two "Nearly one half the total number was connected with road aud bridgo Improvements. The list Included nine t.v s new school bouses and thirty four municipal markets, public build ings, water systems, parks, ferries, nil clc. trie light plant aud two telephone sv steins. "It his lus'ii said that, although eur rot Sinenses have been 'lit to provide money for public works, it will take tvventv live years at the present rasa to bring about the highway Improve ments needed today These roads, the best of tlicin being fully equal to any pirU roads In the I'lilted States, have been one of the great factors In the i OT) in ii icd Increase of prosperity dur ing the last few vears Hundreds of communities are lu urgent need of rbottlhousoe, for vvbl.h no funds are available, aud It will necessarily be several veins at the present rate of construction before the school are at all generally hens. si in permanent buildings. Locomotive an Attault Wsapon. Cbl ago - William Newell, an engi neer, w is arrested charged with as Mulling Cornelius lle.ignn. fourteen, with a switch engine The boy wa stun I. by the pilot and serloualy hurt It is the tirst charge of the kind ever entered tn Chicago police records. The locomotive is termed a "deadly weapon." EFFORT TO SECURE SETTL ERS FOR EASTERN OREGON Continued from page 1 take advantage ol the opportunities open to them, encourage them. Take an Interest in the people who come here, oall on tbem and encourage them hold meetings, aud get acquaint ed with them. When you are wel corned Id a plue it looks better to you and you wav to stay and make it your home. Hate a ladie auxlli ary with your Commercial club, get all the farmeri in and Hod out boat you can help them and tbeir wives they will appreciate it. Qot together and work for the up building of the county. Theie la a chance to establish factories here We manufacture more woolen in I'm (and than all the rest of the state paper for the coast it made in Oregon, we havo tnanv shoe factories. You fe? .' tmm m ", chlnery Biid start with 000 man and ! Kt'i'l'inlly btiilil up. Send your local papers east, they still lie of intereit to your friends. "et the habit of doing something I esery day for your community AND STOP OFF IN ONTARIO ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION A POWER FOR GOOD HERE Tbe Parma Herald thia week con tains a story ebout the work of tbe Athletic association there. They have leased a room, employed an In structor nnd ordiied ni paratus for a gym The dill'iient evenioga of the week i.ie set aside for the differ til classes as follows: Hoya under ll yOOM of age. Mon day evening ; boy 11 years or over. Tuesday evening; girl under It years, Wednesday even log; Indie. Thurnlay evening; business men, Fri day evening; Other Fellow club. Set uil iv evening. There I no place more In need of nob an Institution tliun Ontario, where the people can gather aud have healthy exercise and Instruction. The p. bonis are doing a little along this line, but not much and there la absolutely tin use of developing the mind of the children unless the I miles are kImi Icveloped. One cmii walk down the stricls here any even ing and see fioin twenty to lllty yniing ne n standing around wondering where they can go. A few dollars expended In a gymnasium woiMd pay lug inter eat in .b v i loping the coming genera tion and improving the present Who will start tbe movemeutr THREE CARLOADS OF HOGS SHIPPED FROM THIS SECTION 1. 1 "Vi i III. h flu i ped three osrloml of bog Tuesday. Oue oar was from the bench aud tbe others from Onta rio aod Nyesa. There was about It OOu paid to the farmer for thi tbipneut. With tbe splendid result tbat have attended the raising of boga here tbl year It I safe to predict that tbeout put will be more than doubled during the coming year. Resolutions ot Condolence. u in-i .,. Tbe I'lviiie Master of the lUiv. i... bit in Hi infinite wisdom removed from our midst our beloved brother, and Whereas. We gi levoualy feel the loss to be oue tbat deepy aflccta the im in bera of the Boulevard grauge. He it Resolvtd. That the members of I the Houlevard grange extern! their Mi.cie aud heartfelt sympathy to the I members of the bereaved familv of lour departed biulhti. aud He it Further RotOlfOd, That a ci'pv of these resolutioua be spieud upon the minutes of our order mii.iJm j copy be ni nl to the stricken family, j aud tie it Further Kesolved, That our chaitcr be diaped in uiotirulug fori a period of thirty day. A. H. Mctiregor. . K. Kimball, A. King, Committee. WEST REPORTED CHOICE ! Governor Said to Have Rejected Inter tat Commerce Commission Offer. Portland. Or Oswald West, gover nor of Oregon, has declined an offer of a position on tbe interstate com merce commission, according to a well-authenticated report. vlovernor West Is said to have de clined the honor for personal reasons, which were that he prefers to remain in Oregon, and (hut he has no roUol for a residence in Washington. D. C ith the almost constant traveling to all parts ol (he country emailed on member of the commission SATURDAY Jan. 24th The last day of the BIG SALE Shoes and Hosiery Buy now when your dollars will go fartherest NEWTON'S CLEANUP SALE SSSBBBSBUSSBBSSSBSWJPBBBffBBJJBBBBV - Now Going On at Raderfs Everything in Winter Goods cut in price. We can't say our stock is complete, but what is left will make it worth while for you to come this and next week RADER'S Ontario, Oregon r -