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ONTARIO--1 he future County Seat of Malheur County
Railroad, Agricultural, and Population Center of County
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Representative Newspaper of Ontario, Malheur County and Snake River Valley.
VOLUME XVIII
ONTARIO. OREGON. THURSDAY. DECEMBER 3. 1914.
NO. 49
KAISER HONORS
VON HINDENBURG
Berlin, via The Hague and London.
The first field marshal's baton of
tho present war has been awarded to
Oennral von Hlndenburg for his series
of victories In defending eastern Prus
sia against the flood of Russian inva
sion. His chief of staff and collabor
ator, Qeneral von Ludendorm, haa
been promoted to a lieutenant-generalship
for hla share In the successes.
The award to Von Hlndenburg
otncs with the great eastern batUs
undecided, as a reward for the prelim
inary victories at Lodz, which are said
to have thrown the Russians on ths
defensive with n loss of 60.000 prison
ers and 160 guns. It Is taken here to
Indicate that the Kmperor has confi
dence that Von Hlndenburg will de
feat the Russian army completely.
The honor of receiving the Orand
Cross of the Iron Cross, the emblem
alvun a field marshal. Is the highest
military distinction a German com
mander can receive and was won by
Von Hlndenburg. as In the cases of
the first Von Moltke, Crown Prince
frederlch and the Prussian "Red
Prince," Frederlch Karl, on the fjeld
of battlo. The elevation of Von Hln
denburg will be generally acclaimed
In Germany, where he enjoys great
popularity.
The newspapers comment appreci
atively on the honor conferred on Von
Hlndenburg.
700,000 German. Qsther.
London. Ths Weekly Dispatch's
Boulogne correspondent says:
"Ths Germans have collected 700,
OO0 men In the neighborhood of Arras,
where thsy srs preparing for a deter
mined effort to break through the al
lies line."
Attlss Tsklng Offensive.
London. The Dally Mall's Rotter
dsm correspondent reports that tin
allies are taking the offensive soutb
of Ypres, having discovered that the
Oeriuun line Is weaken!
Montenegrins Beat Foe.
Paris. A victory for the Montene
grin troops In their campaign against
the Austrian forces is reported In s
dispatch received by the liuvas agency
from Coltluje, Montenegro.
Son Accidentally Kills Father.
Newberg, Or. James V. Thomas.
of this city, was killed by Klmer
Thomas, his 17 year old son, while the
two were near the river on a duck
hurt. The son explains that he slip
ped ami fell after uiiulng the gun, and
that the shot struck bis father in the
back.
AUDACIOUS TORPEDOED
German Submarine Attacked Super
dreadnought, Exploded Magazines.
Washington. Almost a month after
the British superdreadnought Auda
cious was aunk mysteriously off the
Irish coast, the story of her destruc
tion has been made known. She was
sunk by a torpedo from a German sub
marine. Despite all the mystery that the
British admiralty sought to throw
around this disaster to one of her new
est and greatest ships, the real facts
can now be published.
The news was received here from
an authoritative source in Berlin. ,
The Audacious was hit twice and
the second blow caused her magazines
to explode. This entirely refutes the
suggestion that the big battleship was
blown up by her own crew "to prevent
her becoming a menace to naviga
tion," as was stated some time after
the disaster.
Turks Claim Victorlss.
Berlin. The Turkish embassy made
public here reports of a victory for
General Liman von Sanders, the Ger
man commander of the Turkish forces
near Batum, Asiatic Russia. In which
the Turks say they inflicted heav
losses on the enemy.
ice In This Mine Never Melts.
Virginia, Minn - The Norman mine
of this city has the distinction of hav
ing drifts in which the ice never
thaws. Drafts through the under
ground galleries produce s tempera
ture in one drift u hi-h never goes
above the freezing point Other range
mines are also cool underground, but
few have drifts In which the ice never
thaws
AMERICANS SAFE
FROM 'HOLY WAR'
Washington. American mlsslonar
I lea In Turkey will be fully protected
! from harm In the holy war reported
I proclaimed by the Shlek-Ul Islam and
! t8 other Turkish priests high in Mos
I lem church councils.
Acting 8ecretsry of State Lansing
announced that Turkey had voluntar
ily assured Ambassador Morgenthau
that orders for caroful protection of
American Interests had been Issued
to all Turkish officials.
American missionaries not only
have not been molested In any of the
disturbances In Turkey but they are
free to leave the country whenever
they please, Ambassador Morgenthau
cabled. Turkish authorities have nev
er closed the Christian schools main
tained by Americans In the Moslem
empire. As further evidence of good
faith, the Turkish government in the
case of official dispatches from the
American embassy In Constantinople
to the stats department has suspended
operation of the ban on cods tola
grams.
Churches In Europe Appssl.
New York. The Fsderal Council of
Churches of Christ In America receiv
ed at headquarters hsre an appeal
from leaders of Protestant churches
by several neutral European countries
urging churchss throughout ths world
to strive for peace The appeal orig
inated with the Right Rev. Nathan
Soederblom. Archbishop of Upsala.
Sweden.
SEN. VON HERRINGEN
Qeneral von Hsrrlngsn, one sf ths
Kaiser's fisld commanders In France.
CANADA FEARS RAID
Movement Similar to Fsnlan Attack
Remote Possibility.
Buffalo, N. Y. Extraordinary pre
cautions have been taken to guard
ugalnst a possible raid by Germans or
German sympathizers across ths Nla
gars rlvsr.
A permanent guard of 30 militiamen
has been stationed at Port Kris, dl
rsctly opposlts Buffalo, and the whols
riverfront from there to Niagara Falls
aad Quoenstown Is patrolled day and
night by between (00 aud 600 mem
bers of the newly organised home
guard regiments. Automobiles and
motorcycles are used by tho men on
putrol duty.
These measures, it Is said, were ta
ken in response to demands from civic
organisations along the Canadian sids
of the Niagara who iusisted In commu
nications to the department of militia
that a movement similar to the Fwnlan
raid was not a remote possibility
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Births During the Past Week
Bom on the 29th to Mr. snd Mrs.
Hamilton Major, a girl.
Born on the 24 fu to Mr. and Mrs. W.
I. Steers, a boy.
Born on the 26th to Mr. and Mrs.
Will Lyells, a son.
OREGON LAND CO.
LOCATE HERE
Close Out Holdings in the
Western Part of State.
J. D. MORRISON IN CHARGE
The Oregon and Western Colonlzs-
lion v.,ompany nave innveu ineir ncau-
quarters rrom Portland to Ontario and
opened up the finest set of offices in
the city, having moved all the fittings
from the Portland office here and in
stalled it there.
The company has closed out their
holdings in the Western part of the
state and came hers to be near their
property.
During the past yesr they have locat
ed several hundred settlers, mostly in
the Harney valley and consider the pro
spects for settling up the balance of
their lands in the near future as very
favorable.
Louis W. Hill snd W. J. Davidson
are the owners of the compsny, snd J,
I). Morrison is the man now in charge
of the Ontario office.
BURNS AND ONTARIO TO
HEtr ON THE GRIDIRON
The Ontario boys who went to Burns
to play football had a great time while
there and speak very highly of the
way ths Burns people treated them.
There will be s return game played
hers on Friday, the Uth, at the Fair
grounds and the players srs planning
to have a good team in line so they can
win this time, they losi the game at
Burns by a score of 12 to 6.
The Burns men are practicing and
will In- prepared to put up a strong
game so the locals will have to hustle
if they turn the table on them. Several
of the old players are getting into the
game and are practicing.
Ontario should turn out a big crowd
to greet the sage brushers and encour
age the home team in the best football
game of the season.
MALHEUR COUNTY WINS
AT WALLA WALLA
Many Prizes Come Here as
Result of Exhibit
SNAKEL RIVER VALLEY REST
Malheur county got very nearly all
the prises at the Walls Walla corn
show given by the O. W. K. & Railroad.
They received first for the best ear
They received tirst, fourth, fifth,
sixth and seventh for the best do ten
ears.
There was no entries in the acre con
test because of the fodder requirement,
no meneuremunts were made hero.
There were 2'W entries from all parts
of tho Northwest and the results show
that the Snake river valley is the
greatest corn section in the northwest.
The quantity of corr. produced to the
acre here ia the best for any part of
the territory and the quality Is the
best. Another year the farmers will
take more care in the selection of their
seed and the seed will be acclimated so
that it will do much better. A few
years ago the yield was small and the
oualitv uoor. because the aead was not
adopted to this section and the climate ,
but this is being overcome and soon we
will be producing nearly double what
we are now.
THE LAST CITY BONDS
HAVE BEEN SOLD
The city has disposed of the last issue
of bonds to Sweet Causey and Foster,
of Denver, receiving ;par and accrued
interest for them.
COYOTE PROBLEM
A SERIOUS ONE
Much Stock Being Killed in
the Interior Sections
A MENACE TO HUMAN LIFE
The mad coyote scare is getting
worse in the country precincts and the
farmers and stockmen are losing cattle,
horses anil sheep.
I.lllllherl -Hilt lit Weutf:ill loMt live
head of his beat milk cows.
Charles Becker has lost several head
of cut ile and many of his neighbors
have lost some.
A herder in the southern part of the
county was bitten and died before he
could reach treatment, and another was
taken to Vale where he is receiving
treatment.
Many of the farmers have built close
fences around their houses to protect
their families from the mad animals.
There ia no bounty and no effort is
being msde to atop them, while ths
dsmsgs is constantly growing Istyer.
NOT MUCH INTEREST IN
COMING CITY ELECTION
The nominating csucus cslled for
Monday evening paased off very quietly
and but one ticket was placed in nom
inatfon. The people are evidently aware that
we have had an especially good sot of
officers the paat year and want to re
tain them as far as possible.
Mr. Zimmerman has moved out of
town and H. L. Peterson was nominat
ed for the vacancy.
Mr. Frsser and Mr. Fry were nomin
ate! to succeed themselves.
There are a number of important
-matters to come before the council dur
ing the next twelve months and it ia
important to have a good set of officials
to handle the business.
With but one set of officers nominat
ed there will be no interest taken intlu
election.
EISH AND GAME CLUB
HOLDS SESSION
Various Committees appoin
ted to Take up Work
MORE PROTECTION THE ORJECT
The Ontario Fish and (lame Prote. t
ive Association met in the rooms of the
Commercial Club Wednesday evening
with about twenty present.
Harry Farmer was appointed a iuii
mittee to rustle new members for tiie
association.
Another committee was appointed to
solicit funds to defray the expenses of
planting ths fish and birds brought here
by the state officers.
The constitution and by laws as com
piled by the committee was adopted.
They provide that there will be no init
iation fee and dues of Alt) cents a year.
The members of the association be
lieve they can make this a good bird
and Ash section and are enthusiastic in
the move to get game and fish started
and protected here.
TEACHERS EXAMINATION
AT VALE THIS MONTH
The following is the program fur the
teacher's examination which will be
held in the Court House in Vale on Dec
ember 16-17-18 and 19, 1914.
Wednesday: Arithmetic, Civil Gov
ernment, Geography, Grammar.
Thursday: History, Orthography,
Heading, Physical Geography, Compos
ition. Friday: Theory and Practice, Writ
ing, School Law, Psychology.
Saturday: American Literature,
Physiology, Algebra,
Very truly,
KAY CLARK
County School Superintendent
ROSSIANS DIVIDE
GERMAN ARMIES
Center is Declared to Have
Been Separated From
Wings.
London The spcclnl correspondent
of the Times, telegraphing from Petro
grnd. snys:
"I feel perfectly confident that the
Rtisslnn troops are not merely nround
Crncow, but already probably past
ti. ii 'Inst stronghold of tho llupshurgs'
as a high military official recently
called.
"During the Inst eight dnys the Rus
sians in lluliclu have captured nearly
40,000 Austrian prisoners with guus,
maxims and stores."
A review of the military operations
In the lust week by both armies In the
rear of Lodi, as given out hero semi
officially, says that the German army
under General Mackenxen has been
cut In three parta, says a dispatch
from Petrograd.
Tho right wing Is struggling 16
miles west by southwest of Lodx In sn
attempt to unite with the column sent
to Its assistance from Weilun. The
cantor Is 10 miles northeast by -north
of Lodz and Is engaged In a desperate
effort to cut Its way west to rejoin ths
loft wing, which Is partially cut oft
from the strongest position on the Vis
tula This army, ths review asserts,
Is moving back before the Rusatsn on
alaught, but Is stubbornly disputing
the Russian advance.
Ths alleged failure of tho Oerman
plan Is attributed to what Is termed a
reckless altsmpt to cut ths Russian
eonter lino.
JAMES W. WADSW0RTH
Fbote by AaMH.oaa Preae Association
James W. Wadsworth, Jr., republi
can, elected United 8tates Senator
from New York.
HOLLAND DECLINES HELP
Honor Dots Not Permit Aid in Care of
Belgian Refugees.
The Hague, via London. -The Dutch
government haa categorically declined
all offers of financial aid tor llclgiun
refugees In liolluiid, which wore re
oeutly unofficially offered by ai
American charity. While deeply ap
preclallve of the generous proposal.
the government saya It feels that It
would be incompatible with the conn
try's honor to allow another nation or
Individual association to assist In this
work of mercy
Or the 1.000,000 Belgian refugees
who fled Into Holland ut the beginning
of tin; war, 300,000 penniless ones ro
matn. Id addition to the refugees, there
are 46,000 lielglan soldltts who crusa
ed the border Into Holland and were
Interned. The expense for their main
leii&hce eventually will be paid by the
Belgian government,
British Columbis Feels Safe.
Seattle. -With all five of the Gsr
man cruisers In the Pacific accounted
for in Chilian waters, the llritlsli Co
lumbla cities ol Victoria, Vancouver
and I'rini t Rupert have recovered
from the feeling of uitlnlPSSI which
prevailed hi ti Ihe Scha t u hurst, (.nil
gsoau, Lit pSlg. Dresden and Xurnbcrg
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STRIKE COMMISSION
NAMED BY WILSON
President Hopes Differences
Between Miners and Oper
ators May be Settled.
Washington President Wilson an
nounced the appointment of Seth Low,
of New York; Charles W. Mills, of
Philadelphia, and Patrick Ollday, of
Clearfield, Pa., as a commission
through which future differences be
tween operntors and miners involved
In the present Colorado strike may be
settled.
The commission, officials explained,
was not appointed to deal with the ex
isting differences which have caused
rioting and bloodshed In Colorado.
In a statement announcing the ap
pointment of ths commission, tho
president expressed "the very earnest
nnd sincere hope thst the parties may
see It not merely to their own best In
terest, but also a duty which they owe
to the communities they serve and to
the nation Itself to make use of this
Instrumentsllty of psace and render
Strikes of the kind which has threat
ened the order and prosperity of tho
great state of Colorado a thing of tho
paat."
Mr. Wilson added that "merely to
withdraw the federal troops snd leave
tho altuatlou to settle Itself would
seem to me to be doing something loss
than my duty after all that has oo
curred." He has bssn aaksd by Oovsrnor Am
nions, of Colorado, to withdraw the
troops from some of tho districts
SWEDEN MAY DEFY KAISER
Germany Arouse Neighbors by Mik
ing Wood Contraband of War
Lou. I. u l U(i phi' a from Copen
hagen, the Dally Mall correspondent
reports that Germany's declaration
making wood contraband of war has
caused a tremendous revulsion of feel-
Ing In Sweden nnd Norway against
Germany and agitation for an under
standing with Itussla. Sweden's lost.
by reason of this dei laratiou. It Is es
timated b the correspondent, will
tiiioiint to $16,011(1,000 a year
The temper or the Swedes," says
ih. i .it ti-iondeiil, "Is such Hint they
are discussing whether or not It would
he n.hlsahle to h. nd cargous of wood
to Cnglaml through the Kattegat and
Hkngcr Kak under escort of Swedish
warships and defy the (jcl'iualia to at
tut k them "
Zapata Punishes Crime In Cspttsl.
Washington Kxccpt for a few Iso
lated cases of robbery and vlolem . .
which resulted In severe puiilxhinent
to the orlendcrs as soon as doti.iod,
the Zapatista forces have mulm.i ...I
good order In Mexico City, according
to advices from the Uraslllaii minis
ter to the state department.
BRYAN PREACHES PEACE
Nstions Built on Force Hsvs Qens
Down, Told Chicago Presbyterians
Chicago. "Love, not dreadnoughts
and i-lege guns, Is to bring peace to
warring nations'' Is the text of a ser
mon preached Sunday by Secretary
Itryan to Presbyterians of Chicago,
who filled a downtown theater.
"Nations which have been built oa
force have died. Those which have
trusted in armies and fleets have gone
down. Why do not the nations learn
that righteousness Is mightier than
dreadnoughts?" said Secretary liryau.
Mr liryau also denounced the llguor
traffic
"It Is Insat.lty to try to cure ths
evils of society without stopping ths
sources of evil," he asserted. I
Secretary liryau experienced an em
barrassing moment during a reception!
following his talk when a young wo
man utieiupied to einhi.uu him, claim
lug to ht his coiibln
Mi 1 : i ... 1 1 1 eludi.l In r embrace and
the young woman was led away.
Oregon Ballot Measures In Conflict.
Ill f. (r While there Is no llkell
hood that the mistake will nullify
either amendment. Sum Kozer, assist
ant secretary of state, discovered that
the constitutional auieiidmeui.s proud
ing prohibition and ubolishlng tho
death penalty both say In their text
tli.il Ih ey shall he section 3ti ol arilclo
1 of the i oilblllutlon.