ONTARIO ARGUS
PUm, .silM EVEKY THUK8DAT
Entered in thf tnBtflic nt Ontario
Oregon, for transmission throngh the
mails as second -class matter.
M. K. MAIN.
Publisher.
A llnsincs Proportion-
The tax payers of Mainour county
liavr treated the question of county
oat removal an a strict business
proposition. They 8,'p Itnprow.i with
the businesslike methods of the On
tario people and are cpilck to ace the
advantages offered them by tha; t( rtv
Wi nre offered a new up-to-date coi'rt
linn., nnd Jail building, site and ml'.
free of every charge, In a good live
town that la steadily growing and
will aoon be a rlty of goodly propor
tlonH, and the question Ih whether we
will accept that proposition, and move
the seat of government to Ontario,
or will we continue to do business In
tho old antiquated structure In a town
that la nteadlly declining In every
respect. It la only a question of a
few years until we will have to have a
court house that will properly meet
the demandH of Malheur county. The
present one does not There Is mil
one vault and that Is crowded to the
limit. The HsscKHor's books and
sheriff's and treasurer's records are
not in a vault and In case of fire
would be lost Prisoners cut their
way out ui tin- present Jail with any
kind of an Implement, the last Jail de
livery being made with a table knife.
It cost this county more to get those
prisoners back, and they haven't got
them all yet, than it will to move the
county seat to Ontario and use the
new Jail that will be proof against
Mich outbreaks The property that
is owned by the county nnd situated
In Ontario will bo worth Ml per cent
more aa an Inveatment than were It
wkh tltuutcri In Vale A change now
will save us from building 11 new
it 11 rt house. It will sine iim from the
dinger ol losing out records In case
bf a fire, nnd It will also Ii-hhiiii that
ft tiger iin the new building w 111 be
ti .1 : : in modcpi i. cthods and not by
111- lllhlllllc I "I'tllols IIM. ll III till)
prcHfiil courthouse
The Truth f tho Matter.
The Malheur Kiiterprlse In Its lat
Issue charged th.it the management f
the Malheur Connti Kulr were at
ti iptliM to make tb' County Kulr an
Idaho Fair That special Excuralu i
trains were run from Idaho point, to
tii. t. nt" during tlie recent fair, ami
tii.it MroKiiu. JameiMoii, Vale, Nvjta,
Kingman, lilg lleiul and other Oregon
p,, nit . were slighted during the fair,
Mini were proldeil with no spc Jul
Iniliih The people of the pluccs
Above mentioned know whether or not
the hluteuient inude hi the Enterprise
Is true or false, but there may ne
num. people In the count i who do not
know the facts, and for the puriose of
ascertaining the truth of the matter
we have learned from the l'..h man
agement that there were no special or
excursion trains run from any point
In the suite of Idaho to Ontario dur
ing the recent county fair, but on
the contrary there was a special train
from all the points aboye named, til
ing the cr places that the Enter
prise claimed were so tiadly mistreat
ed hi the Fair Management On Fri
day morning a special excursion train
lilt lirogun fur Ontario 1'his train
stopped at all the tuwnx and sidings
along the line The return trip nun
made late In the evening, thus nil Inn
all the people along tlie line an op
portunity to attend the lair Ulld re
turn home the Hatue day The same
can be said of Ulg Mend, Kingman,
Owyhee. Nyssa ami Arcadia The
rate on both of these excursions was
two cents per mile, and we are sure
tint all the people along the Hues of
these .special excursions except Vale
were well . leased with the same The
Kiiterprlse also objccU that no days
were set apart as special days for the
different towns and communities
Again the Kiiterprlse does not state
the facts Siieclal dais were pro
vided for different communities
Tiicsdnv was advertised as Vale
I ay. and the Val e baud was employ
ed to furnish the -mi sic for that day
The baud came, played collected flf.O
(twenty five dollars more than any
other baud charged) and went home,
but not a single Vale cltiien other
thau the members of the band put In
an appearance on Vale May. Thus Is
another falsehood and viiiific.it ion of
the Two Johns, nailed.
i
I ,i We I ..ig.i
Now that the Democratic tariff has
been In effect a few months let us
-e. what it is doing with our com
merce Take the months of the last
quarter of the fiscal vear just dosed
hi ;tIi bile ' re eiiiortlai !
some 37 millions less, we were Im
porting NN 26 millions more than In
April of the previous year
In May, while we were exporting
some :!.'5 millions less, we were import
ing some 30 millions more-
In June, while we were exporting
some 6 millions less, we were import
ing some 26 Hi millions more
While for the nuarter we exported
$76,687,270 less, we Imported $82,887,
Ml more
Hocatiso we sold so much less to the
foreigners and bought so much more
from them In those three months we
wpre for that period about $160,000,
000 worse off in our foreign trade ac
count as compared with the corres
ponding quarter of a year ago. If
Kurope was too hard up to buy from
us, Europe with the new tariff could
sell to us though we were hard up.
The explanation that we were go
ing through exactly the same expcrl
ence as Europe was going through
will not hold water Europe was not
buying, but was selling abroad. We
wero not Boiling, but were buying
abroad
The people of the Fnited States
now know, what they might have
before, that the Importation of for
eign products means the kindling of
the fires In foreign workshops and the
quenching of our own.
For Your Convenience.
Iet us see whether or not a re
moval of the county seat will be ad
vantageous to us as taxpayers and to
the people living In the out lying dis
tricts of the county. We will ask
this question. How often do you come
to Ontario each year to transact busl
nass? How often flo you go to Vale
to transact business outside of mat
ters pertaining to court house affairs?
Your trips to Ontnrlo would not he
lessened unless a better town was
built up that would supply your de
mands In a commercial wav. Would
you go to Vale as often If you didn't
have to transact your business per
taining to court house affairs there''
Wouldn't It be n lot handler to trans
act all vour affairs, both commercial
ami legal In the same town, making
( trip do for both'.' Wouldn't It be
a lot more pleasant to stay a week
In a town like Ontario, with rirst class
hotels, while In attendance mi court.
Hum It Is to stay the same week In
Vale? Don't )ou feel better ll you
know that your financial Interests ami
Investments as lax pa era are located
In a town that Is growing steadily?
mint vou think It shows poor bust
in sh lodgment on youi part as a tax
payer to make I n rt In i- ilnnm lul In
vestments in a locality where property
values are falling off" Would you
do the same thing In your private
business affairs'1 We wish you would
Just reflect soberl OH these .u. lion ,
and see If you don't think that a re
moval of the county seat would be a
progressive, economic business pio,.
ositiou We think i oil will agree wltii
us that It Is
The Majority Want It.
During the past week thousands of
people visited Ontario, most of whom
were Malheur county people, and we
have talked with a great main of the
icprcsentatlve iieoule of the different
communities In tin count about
their Ideas of Ontario and whether o.
not thev thought that this w.i. the
proper place for the county seal. In
MAPM ivery Instance we found thv.
.r-.i ili-all v even vlsito, at the fair
.us a) rv friendly to our city, Savin,:
bc-'ii In pressed hi the rogres; vc
n -ss of our cliUicn i ml th- fai I
tbi.t our people hu.v romised that
lh would build 'h coiintv a. .cv
9
ci. 'I bouse and tail v. Ithollt t it '
e.ii to the tax layers We heard
a t imber of peop'o express them
selves to the effect that Vale has had
t'u- count) seat for twenty years and
thai dcrlng the past few years Instead
o. I aiding up it is steadily declin
ing In spite of the fact that it has
had the advantage of a county seat
and the activities of railroad construc
tion On the other hand Ontario has
steadily Increased In population
There Is only one answer to this kind
of a proposition and that is that
Ontario is the heller town, has the
uoht natural advantages, and the
tuot.t progressive cltUcn The tax
payers of Malheur Counti are anion
the iivest and most uptodale .in. ens
of the state and naturally want to as
sociate with people of their kind, want
to do their legal business m a live
town That Is the reason every tax
paver of the J.'.OO whose names we
I .'ml on the county seat removal peti
tion were anxious to sign the peti
tion and will be Just us ai.xious to
vote that way this fall
i ba in h.i lain I la i.d t.v ..id Demo
crat In no campaign has tieorge t'hain
herlain been more scathingly dealt
with than the manner in which C K S
; ban lied the Democratic nomiuce
for Senator at the Oregon Civic Lengtio
luncheon Saturday afternoon Wood,
who is a prominent Democrat, Is sup
porting Hanlev, Progressive candidate,
and was to have devoted his talk to
discussing the reasons why Hanlcy
should be elected, only Wood lieeame
engrossed In Chamberlain and uncov
ered his political history. Although
the Alaska railroad bill was prepared
by Secretary of the Interior Kane,
Wood Hiild that Chamberlain was tak
ing the credit of authorship, whereas,
the bill had to be given some Western
Senator to Introduce and Chamberlain
was selected. Wood went on to say
that Chamberlain was not such an ar
dent supporter of President Wilson as
the chamberlain managers assert, for
Chamberlain had not assisted Wilson
on the Federal Reserve Moard and oth
er measures. That Chamberlain was
never for popular government until
the people demanded It, was another
charge, and Wood declared that Cham
berlain avoidel placing himself on rec
ord on any question until he was pos
ture of its popularity.
The People Not Deceived.
Ilehind the dirty campaign of vllll
1 1 ni nm that Is being carried on by the
Enterprise we can detect the fine
Italian hand of one skilled In the irt
of deception and spreading thinly
veiled lies. We point out the article
about the Nyssa cutoff, the one head
ed "Ontario man Rebels'' but unsign
ed. In which the Enterprise attacks
the hospital, the fair and everything
else that sticks In Its craw, the article
headed What became of the money"
nnd unsigned, the dope about the run
ning expenses of the new county,
furnished by a tax dodger who has
tnkeu Rlgby and Roberts over unto bis
staff for the purpose of defeating Ok
w lubes of the settlers In the west sldo
oi the count .
We will continue to iiolnt out these
bogus articles and you may as well
quit trying to hoodoo the voters s !
get down and talk facts, If you have
any, or admit that you havn't and shut
up When you get up a bald faced Hi;
and attempt to masqiierate It tin !er
the head of a contributed article you
an- really making yourself ridleiilou.i
Much bus been said by the Malheur
Enterprise about the boosting or Mal
heur County Itself and the town of
Vale Will Mr. Roberts or some of
the various committees please point
out when and where Vale ever sent a
delegation or an exhibit of Malhuer
coiintv products to any fair, land
uliow. or public gathering for the pur
pose of advertising the resources of
Malheur county. Will you please
point out what ll any thing your paper
or your town has done towards de
veloping the corn Industry which bids
fuir to be one of the chief wealth
producing factors of the county. Have
you ever maintained any kind of a
fair that did anything towards build
in up the county, has your paper or
your town encouraged the upbuilding
o new towns in the interior? Have
vou ever supported any movement
that did not directly benefit our
selves and Vale. We ask the question
A delegation of Vale cltlsens panted
through town last week on their way
to Salem where they will make their
home for the next several years. They
were interview ed on the question of
county seat removal uml expressed
themselves as strictly against at.v
movement of that kitid at this or any
i (her Utile tor the reason that the
solid stone walls of the present court
bouse could be easily cut through with
a table kulle and thus make it easv
lor men oi their kind to obtain
their liberty whenever confined in the
present count) pail. They also ex
press a fear that the uew count) Jail
wbidi will be donated to the county
will bo proof against such simple
methods of escape Had they remain
ed In the count) they would have
mine,! with some others who had been
incarcerated in the Vale jail In sup
Itorting Vale us a future county seat.
Some communities are naturally
selfish and want even thing in sight.
iibile others are broad minded and
satisfied with what they are entitled
u. A few years ago Vale conceive!
the idea of having the county pay
for their high school and so bad the
pi ople vote on the establishing of
-( null high schojl at Vale, but '!
1 eopie co Id not uc It that way . I
the Vale people Ui. .' to support tbelr
blah school.
'he Malheur Co! i;v i alt was b
cotted by the people of Vale In every
iv a- iiii) not only did not attend,
hut thev did not make a single entry
'or exhibition No county institution
not located at Vale is considered
. them During the five years of the
fair they have exhibited a turkey
gobbler
1.. J Hadley of Vale, is dreadfully
(hocked, ami writes a Ions; article for
the Enterprise, because a public of
ficial residing at Ontario has expres
sed an opinion that Ontario is the
proper place for the location of the
county seat. Wonder if Hadloy would
be as badly shocked, and would pro
test as loudly If some public offi
cial residing at Vale, should express
an opinion that Vale Is the proper
place for the County seat- Wo pre
sume he would. Ha ley was con
nected with a little Incident about
four years ago that came near undo
ing his nervous system, since which
time it does not take much to shock
Hadley.
A lot of contributed articles have
appeared In the Enterprise lately
about the donation of the new court
house to the county by the people of
Ontario, and the contributors arise
and ask how about the Corrupt
Practice act. Why don't you Inform
your readers, Mr- Roberts. Or you
could at least refer them to the Dis
trict Attorney's office where they can
relieve their wounded feelings
Governor West rode a horse
through the Capitol building at Salem
one day last week. It will certainly
be a relief when the West crowd are
out of the Capitol and we have a man
there who will appreciate and honor
the position of Oovernor. We do not
want any more Wests or men endors
ing the West policy, like Smith.
President Wilson Is asking for
100 million dollars to meet the de
ficiency In government revenues due
to the failure of his tariff, Income tax
t
and other measures and calls It a war
tax. President Cleveland had tht
same trouble and Issued bonds for re
lief. The Vale people are protesting out
loud about the establishing of the
county seat In the east side of tho
coentv and one Is forced to believe
that they are protesting Just as strong
ly against the establishing of a poo.
fan. i In the east side, but of course
Hi.' are not doing It openly.
LEGAL NOTICES
S timimms.
In the Circuit Court of the State of
Oregon, for the County of Malheur.
Juntura Mercantile Company, a pri
vate corporation, plaintiff,
vs.
tieorge W. Cater, Anna C. Cater,
Ueorge C. Wall, K, K. Sullivan, Melvin
Smith, Fred (J. Anderson, George Kelley,
Henry Dargell, M. S. Huston, John
Hodder. A. C. Woodruff, Clyde Shaver.
John E. Thomas, A. G. Williams, John
Ott and John I). Daly copartnera aa
John Ott A Company; Home Lumber
and Coal Company, a corporation; First
Bank of Juntura, a corporation; Carl-son-Lusk
Hardware Company, a cor
poration, Defendants.
To tieorge W. Cater, Anna C. Cater.
and Melvin Smith, three of the above
named Defendants:
In The Name Of The Stale Of Oregon:
You are hereby required to appear
and answer the complaint tiled against
you in the above entitled suit on or be
fore the 5th day of November, 1914,
the same being the last day of the time
prescribed by order of the court direct
ing service of summons in said suit to
be made upon you by publication; and
if you fail so to answer, for want there
of, the plaintiff will apply to the said
court for the relief demanded in the
said complaint, to-wit: For judgment
against George W. Cater and Anna C.
Cater for $36(1.48, with interest thereon
at the rate of six per cent per annum
from Dec. 5, 1913; and for six dollars
for preparing and recording lien notice;
School Supplies!
chool Books
-
EVERHART
DRUG
COMPANY
Four Doors South of
Post Offic
LEGAL NOTICES
and for $250.00 attorney's fees; and for
costs and disbursements of suit; also
for a decree of said court foreclosing a
certain lien filed by plaintiff to secure
said debt, against the Cater Hotel
Building and ground upon which same
is situated and described as Lots 8, 9,
10 and 11, in Block 19, of the incorpor
ated town of Juntura in Malheur Coun
ty, Oregon, which said lien is of record
in Book "B", page H9, of the records
of Mechanic's Liens for Malheur County,
Oregon, and directing that said proper
ty be sold at sheriff's sale in sstisfact
ion of plaintiff's claim, and for all other
relief demanded in said complaint.
You are further notified that this
summons is served upon you by public
ation in pursuance of an order of the
Hon. Dalton Biggs, Judge of this Court,
which said order was made and entered
in said cause on the 24th day of Septem
ber, 1914, and directed that this sum
mons be published once esch week for
six consecutive weeks in the "Ontario
Argus", commencing with the issue of
Sept. 24, 1914, of said newspsper. Fkst
publication of this summons is on Sept.
24, 1914, and last publication is on Nov.
.'.. 1914.
MeCULLOCH A WOOD,
Attorneys for Plaintiff.
Notice to Creditors.
In the County Court of the Spite of
Oregon, for Malheur County:
In the matter of the estate ol) Joseph
Collins May, deceased.
Notice is hereby given that the un
dersigned has been appointed adminis
trator with the will annexed of the
estate of Joseph Collins May, deceased;
and all persons having claims against
said estate are hereby required to pre
sent the same to the undersigned at his
residence in Ontario, Oregon, or at the
offices of W. H. Brooke and R. W.
Swagler, attorneys for this administra
tor In Ontario, Oregon, verified aa by
law required, within six months from
the date of the first publication of this
notice. O. M. Nicely,
Administrator with the will annexed.
Date of first publication September
24, 1914
Date of last publication November
6, 1914.
Administrate ot Ice
In the County Court of the State of
Oregon, for Malheur County. In the
PENDLETON ROUND-UP
Pendleton, Oregon
Sept. 24-26, 1914
Excursions Via
OREGON SHORT LINE
Tickets on sale from
Pocatello and points west,
September 23, 24 and 25;
Limit, September 29, 1914
Bigger and better than ever
Relay RaceH
Bucking Contests
Wild Horse Races
Steer Roping
Steer Buildogging
Fancy Roping
Fancy Riding
Join the big crowd for the grert event
See 0. S. L. Agents
For rates and further particulars
LEGAL NOTICES
matter of the estate of Thomas la,
Mfickman deceased.
Notice Is hereby given to all whom
It may concern, that the undersigned
has been duly appointed by the
County Court of the State of Oregon,
for Malheur County, administratlx of
the estate of Thomas I Blackmnn
deceased All persons having any
claim ii'-nin I the estate of the said
deceased are hereby notified to pro
sent the same to me duly verified for
allowance at the law office of C. Mc
Gonaglll at Ontario, Oregon, within
six months from the date of this
Notice.
Dated at Ontario, Oregon, this 24th
day of September, 1914.
CLARA E BLACKMAN,
Administratlx.
A WISE BIRD
A Plymouth Rock hen on display at
the Poultry show and valued at $200 was
worth twice that sum as the result of
swallowing a $200 ruby which dropped
from a setting In a ring owned by
Charles V. Keller, one of the judges.
The hen belongs to L. C. Danville,
Montfort, Wig. While Keeler was about
to examine the bird the gem dropped
and quick as a flash the hen gulped it
down, Keeler offered Danville $200 for
the bird and subsequently increased the
bid to $400. That bird roasted and ser
ved with a bottle of golden grain belt
beers, would be some dinner. - Adver
tisement. Fourteen carloads of prunes from
10 acres Is the wonderful record of
Charles P. Hartley's orchard east ot
town. The trees are five years old
and this Is the first full crop. Last
year a small crop was gathered. The
trees were so heavily loaded that It
became necessary to pick off two car
loads two weeks before the fruit was
ripe enough to pack. At the market
price of $30 per ton, the output from
this orchard will average $800 per
acre Emmett Index.