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Representative Newspaper of Ontario, Malheur County and Snake River Valley.
Volume xviiv
THE ONTARIO ARGUS, THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 1915.
NO. 10
W
JUKE TRACT Of UP
1$ THROWN OPEN
THISjWEEK
Land Whitdrawn From En
try Last Fall. Many
Good Homsteads
AND OFFICE EXPECTS RUSH
)peningto be April 26th,
Entries to be Made Just
One Month Later
A tract of lumt comprising nearly
ki. hundred thousand icm, lying weat
f Nyssa, hat been thrown open thia
Leek by the government to homeatcad.
hit land waa withdrawn from entry
Lm fall in connection with the Warm
Iprings Irrigation project, and haa
rin held until now, when it waa dis
nrtred that the coat of irrigating the
liml from the Worm Springa reser-
dir would he no high as to be almost
roliilnt'i However, there ia a vaat
IniiMiiit of i noil homestead land in the
net, ami the local land office at Vole
Y preparing for a man. The date of
li April 26th, 11(15, and the
km. !..r '.:ikmi entries is mi ior .n
16th, Juat a month later. The follow-
hg notice has been acnt out by the
ml office:
Notlo li hereby given that all of
lie lands hereinafter described, aa
ave not ben formerly restored and
re not otherwise withdrawn, reserved
r appropriated! or covered by exist-
fC ' nil , will be subject to settlement
niler (he public land laws of the
United States on and after April 26,
916, at ! a. m. and will be subject to
try, filing or selection May 26, 1116,
t 9 a. m., at the U. S. Land Office
t Vale, Oregon.
Winning jh hereby expreaaly given
iint nil M-i'Mins who go upon any of
J.e lends to be restored hereunder a d
kerfi.im on; art of settlement .he'ton
nor to 'J o'clock a. m., standard time,
tpril 26, 1115, or who are on or are
tfrupying any part of aaid lands at
men hour, except those having valid
lubsisting settlement right initiated
sior to withdrawal from settlement
mil since maintained, will be consid
ired and dealt with as trespassers and
'ill gain no rights whatever under
luch unlawiul settlement or occu
ancy; provided, however, that noth
ng herein contained shall prevent per
ions fitm going upon and over the
sndi to examine them with a view to
hereafter going upon and making set
Jsment thereon when the land shall
leconie subject thereto, in accordance
fc'ith this notice. Persons having prior
lettlement rights, aa above defined,
rill be allowed to make entry in con
formity with existing law and regula-
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loil.v lntemliiio. buOIhh bm alan
srned to ascertain the status of the
Approximated rru. v......,,i
lollUr.S Of meri'hniwliao .aA kanJu
n Ontario last Saturday when
Jun,lre,s of people gathered here to
fl0 their trading and shopping, the
wxasion being "Ten Per Cent Day."
, e trowd here Saturday was the
ingest seen since the county fair last
a1'. and practically every store was
'"shed all day. Many establishments
" arranged for extra clerks, which
rely aided in taking care of the
'ante business.
A reduction of ten per cent was
panted on practically every article
01(1 ,n city that day which
Counted to a saving to the cus
omers 0f approximately $2500.00.
Barber Shop Sold.
The Moore Hotel barber shop was
sold this week, Frank Page of Baker
county being the new owner. He took
possession Monday morning. C. A.
Smith, the former ownor left yester
day for Caldwell where he will re
main for a few days before going east.
He expects to locate some place in the
middle west.
surveyed land and get all informaion
available as to the unsurveyed lands
by inquiry at the local land office be
fore making settlement thereon.
These lands contain no power possi
bilities. THOS. JONES,
Register.
CIRCUIT GIRT HELD
HERE LAST MONDAY
Circuit Court was held at the city
hall, March B, with Judge Dalton
Biggs presiding. In the forenoon the
case of De Armond vs. Martin was
decided in favor of the defendant.
Wood and McCulloch were attorneys
for the plaintiff, while Brooke and
Lees were the attorneys for the de
fendant. In the afternoon the cnw of
the Welser Land Company vs. Jose
phine and John Bohrcr was tried.
Wood, McCulloch and Coulter were
the attorneys for the plaintiff nnd
Calloway and Aker were the attorneys
for the defense. A verdict waa ren
dered in favor of the plaintiff.
SUIT STARTED TO
TEST! HEARD LAW
A friendly suit was filed in Jus
tice's King's court yesterday afternoon
to test the legality of the herd law now
in force in the Snake river precinct.
At the election last fall this precinct
voted to prohibit the running of stock
at large within its confines. The pre
cinct is a large one, and takes in a
large amount of grating land. If the
law is valid, grazing on this land will
have to cease. Prgnk Welch is named
as defendant in the suit, and the com
plaining witness is T. J. Brosnan.
Brooks A Swagler appear for the state,
and W. E. Iea is the attorney for the
defendant.
YOUNG MAN DIES
AT VALLEY VIEW
Will Le Roy, age twenty-five, died
Tuesday morning at the home of his
mother, Mrs. Rich, in the Valley View
neighborhood. Mr. Le Roy haa been
sick for several years with tuberculo
sis. The funeral services will be held
Thursday. Rev. C. C. Pratt of the
Methodist church will preach the fun
eral sermon.
STREETS CROWDED ON
i. "TEN PER CENT DAY"
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'thousands of Dollars Changed Hands Saturday.
Largest Crowd Since Fair Time. Stores are
Crowded All Day Long
Visitors to the city were well pleased
with the new scheme, and the amount
of merchandise sold demonstrates that
the move was a popular one. A free
moving picture show at the Dream
land thaatre during the afternoon
furnished entertainment for a large
number of people, and the day was
made one to be long remembered by
all who were here. Bright sunshine
prevailed, and the roads leading to the
city were in fair condition. Many
people, however, came in on different
trains during the day.
The new scheme is conceded to be
a decided success and will undoubtedly
result in added stimulus to the busi
ness of the city.
BRIDGE BONDS SOLD TO
POLTLAND FIRM BUT
NOT DELIVERED
Denver Bonding House Has
Possession and Refuses
to Give Them Up
JUDGE DAVIS GOES TO DENVER
County May Have a Law
Suit Before Tangle is
Straightened Out
With the Dig Bend bridge bonds sold
to a Porland company, but delivered
and in the hands of a Denver company
who refuse to give them up, haa re
sulted in an unique mix-up in the sale
of the bonds, and promises to entail a
lively law suit before the trouble Is
adjusted. A Denver bonding company
of the firm name of Keeler Bros, have
the bonds, or did have them the last
known by local officials, and now re
fuse to turn them over to the county,
although the county has sold the bonds
to Hall & Lewis of Portland, another
bonding company. The Denver com
pany claims it has already sold the
bonds and that they are in the hands
of a third company.
There is quite a history attached to
the sale of the bonds. On November
ih of last year the county court en
tered into a contract with Keeler
Brothers of Denver for that company
to do the legal work and printing of
the bonds at a price of $750.00, the
Denver company agreeing to bid par
value, plus $750.00 for the bonds when
the sale should be made. The Denver
company complied with its contract,
and the work was all satisfactory.
About the first of February the bonds
were completed and ready to sign, and
a representative of the Denver com
pany appeared before the county
court, asked that the bonds be signed
and executed and then sent to Denver
for their attorneys to make final in
spection and pass same. This was
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HEARING WILL BE
HELD SATURDAY
The Railroad Commission of Oregon
has set Saturday, March, 6th, as the
day to thresh out in Ontario the ques
tion of telephone tolls between On
tario and Nyssa and Ontario and
F'ruitland. The commission would
have held the hearing in Ontario last
Saturday, but attorneys for the Mal
heur Home Telephone company asked
for a postponement of a week, so that
they could prepare their side of the
rase. Attorneys from Denver will rep
resent the teleuhone company. Brooks
& Swagler will represent the city.
The trouble was brought about
when the Mulheur Home Telephone
Co., announced that it would charge a
toll rate of fifteen cents between On
tario and Nyssa and Fruitland. Here
tofore patrons of the telephone system
have enjoyed a free toll between these
places. It is claimed the telephone
company agreed, at the time they pur
chased the line, to maintain free toll
between the three cities, and their ac
tion in charging a toll has brought
forth much protest.
Unusual interest is centered in the
case. The telephone company claims
it is willing to maintain the free toll
providing the State Commission will
allow it. It is the general opinion
locally, however, thut the commission
will sanction the free toll.
By mutual consent, the charge of
fifteen cents was suspended until the
hearing could be arranged for, and at
present patrons of the telephone be
tween Ontario and Nyssa and Fruit
land are enjoying their usual free conversation.
PLEASING ADDRESS IS
GIVEN BY MARIS IN
GRANGE HALL
Educator Completes a Two
Weeks Tour of Mal
heur County
"BACK TO THE fARM" PLEA
Scheme Devised to Stimu
late Interest in Farm
Work
Declaring boys and girls the great
est crop raised in Malheaur county,
and making a strong plea to parents
for cooperation in bringing them up
along practical lines, M. C. Maris,
field worker of the State Board of
Education, delivered a pleasing and
instructive address before the mem
bers of the Boulevard Grange at their
grange hall at Cario last Saturday
night. The nddress, in a manner,
summed up the two week's work
which Mr. Maris has just completed
in Malheur county, and it wns the last
address made in the county, as Mr.
Maris left on the trnin Sunday even
ing for 1 .11 Crnnde, and is spending
this week in Union county in similnr
work.
Mr. Muris, together with Miss Fay
Clark, county school superintendent,
and J. F. Shinn, county agriculturist,
visited nearly every school district in
Malheur county, during the two weeks
work, and made preliminary plans for
the organization of industrial clubs
as each meeting. The industrial club
scheme waa originated to start a
"back to the farm" movement, and
this work is to interest boys and girls
in agricultural and farm life to auch
an extent that they will take up a
farmers life through preference, in
stead of crowding to the apparent guv
life of the cities and become non-producers.
At the State Fair at Salem, held
each fall, arrangements have been
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EDGARIM. DRAPER
Kdgar M. Draper, a local boy, has
received the highest possible honor
that can be conferred on a student by
election into the Alpha Chapter of the
Phi Beta Kappa society at the Uni
versity of Washington where he is at
tending school. Kdgar was the first
of six to be chosen out of six hundred
students of the junior class.
The Phi Beta Kappa, which is a
national honorary, literary, fraternity
was established in 1776 and among the
original members were such men as
fabel, Clements, Hardy, Fitzhugh,
Mason, Madison, Lee and John Mar
shall. Today the ablest men in Amer
ica, such as President Wilson and
Roosevelt are among its members.
Only one sixteenth of the eligible
juniors can be elected so that be in
chosen this year makes the honor
more pronounced. The basis of se
lection is on scholarship, moral char
acter and the certainty of making
good in after life. It is also limited
to those students of whose work at
least one-third shall have been de
voted to the study of the languages,
philosophy, history, political and so
cial science, and pure mathematics.
Kdgar Draper graduated from the
Ontario high school in 11)12 and was
one of 'the foremost students in the
I o. alt school. He always had ab
lutions for a higher education and
made preparations early for a course
in college. His success at the uni
versity of Washington is a source of
great pleasure to hia friends and
school mates.
HIGHLY HONORED
Notice of food Koad Day.
Notice is hereby given that Tues
day the 30th day of March, 1916, is
designated as good roads day through
out the County of Malheur.
It is desired that every resident of
the county will give this day in work
on the roads In their immediate vicin
ity. geo. w. Mcknight,
County Judge.
Regular Club Meeting.
The regular monthly meeting of the
Ontario Commercial Club will be held
Monday night, March 16th. at the
club rooms. The regular business will
be transacted.
SOME DELAY IN
SELLING BONDS
There has been some delay in selling
the bonds for Agricultural Fair
Grounds and City Hospital and several
people have been inquiring about
them. In disposing of bonds a good
deal of time must be taken to allow
the bond houses to determine the le
gality of the bonds. To do this their
attorneys must have a full history of
the bonds. In this ense the transcript
hud to go hack as far as 11)11 in order
to show that certain members of the
council were I sum fide officers. Also
the attorney h lui.l to pasH on the pro
ce.lin.' tnKeii in voting the bonds. Al
together the history of the case occu
pied several hundred typewritten
pnges which required considerable
time and patience to secure. But now,
since everythine. is in the hands of the
bonding company, the report of the
sale should reach here within a week
or ten days.
CEMETERY ASS'N
HOLDS MEETING
An adjom neil meeting of the Ceme
tery Association waa held Tuesday,
March !th, in the city hall. A good
deal of progress was made tending to
ward the final trunsfer of the prop
erty to the city. Arrangements were
made to secure a plot of all the prop
erty, to move certain burials) and
monuments, and to collect some out
standing indebtedness. Also a com
mittee was authorised to endeavor to
secure a quit claim deed to some of
the property, the title to which is
somewhat obscure. The meeting was
adjourned to April 6th, when it is
hoped that the matter will be finally
adjusted.
KNIGHTS WILL GO
TO WEISER MARCH 1 7
On Wednesday night, March 17, the
Knights of Pythias at Weiser will
present a lecture, illustrated by
CREAMER YMAN HERE
LOOKING OVER FIELD
Said to be Good Field Here and Great Inducement
Offered to Man With Some Capital to Invest
H. B. Darling in the city
H. B. Dueling, an experienced
creamery man of Portland, is in On
tario this week, looking over the field
with a view to establishing a cream
cry here. There has been u call made
for a creamery in Onturio, as that is
the one industry which is missing here
at the present time. The opening
lure is claimed to be I gQftd one, and
the proposition off. ml to a creamery
man is attractive.
There is already con-i.lerable dairy
ing in this locality, and the nature of
the country is such that before a great
while, this will be one of the greatest
dairying sections in the west. At the
present time, however, there is enough
dairying to support a creamery. Mr.
MOORE HOTEL CHANGES
HANDS; SANDERSON'S
EARM ALSO SOLD
I. A. Yerex'of Portland ia
New Owner of Famous
Hostelry
E.H. TEST IS NEW MANAGER
Deal One of Largest Made
in Eastern Oregon for J
Many Months'
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Probauly the largest real estate deal
that iias transpired in eastern Oregon
for many months past, occurred in
Ontario this week when the Moore
Hotel changed hands. The deal in
cludes the ranch of W. U. Sanderson
near Weiser, as well as the hotel
property.
I. A. Yerex of Portland, becomes the)
new owner of the hotel and the San
derson ranch near Weiser. The Weis
er runch includes f20 acres and is all
improved. The assets and liabilities of
the Moore Hotel nre assumed.
The Moore Hotel is the largest and
finest in eastern Oregon. It was built
in I'M:! and was opened in September
of that year. T. II. Moore of Ontario
huilt the hotel and continued in tho
management for about a year, when ho
sold to W. U. Sanderson. Mr. San
derson hns since been in active control
of the institution. The same efficient
staff will be retained, and until Mr.
Yerex can arrange other business in
terests in Portland prior to his removal
to Ontario, Mr. Test will have full
charge.
The hotel is a five story structure,
and is modem in every detail. There is
a private bath connected with each
room, and the furnishings are the very
best. The institution has always been
under excellent management.
Mr Sanderson will go to the coast
for a rest, but will return to Kastern
Oregon to engage in the land business,
making Ontario his headquarters.
Southeastern Oregon and Southern
Idaho will be included in his field of
operations.
moving pictures, entitled "Damon and
Pythias." The entertainment is free
and will last several hours. The Myr
tle lodge of Weiser extends invita
tions to all the Knight of Pythias ami
their friends. A large delegation
'rom Ontario will be present. J. M.
Connor has charge of the arrange
ments and requests that everyone
who contemplates taking advantage
of this opportunity of seeing and
hearing the drama, will send him their
name so that accommodations may bo
provided.
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Darling seems well pleased with tho
outlook. He is carefully looking over
the situation, however, and Sunday
went to Weiser, while Monday he was
in New Plymouth.
Krastui Adam.s, aged twenty-eight,
died at his home west of town Satur
day, Mi.i.h 6, of tuberculosis. Ha has
lived h.ie about six months. lie
leaves a wife and three children, un.l
a father and mother. The funeral ser
vices were held Sunday at 2 o'clock
at the home, Rev. C. C. Pratt preach
ing the sermon.
Postmaster Burs Buryd of Junturu,
was an Ontario visitor last week.
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