I nMMtM.. m (jhtfctti mm :k VODUMB XIX TIIK ONTARIO AHOUH. AUGPST 19th., 1915 No. II Sb JAIL BREAKERS AT VALE ARE CAUGHT Three Make Good Their Es cape and Throw Offic ers Off MCALLISTER TAKES 3 HORSES Hampton and McCoy Out wit Officers Get Away Afoot Two of the prlnonern who broke l.iii ul Vale last week, have been cup lured, but the other three liuve com pletely I m in imI the officers and have thrown them completely off the trail. The llullun who eMCUped, Alltone Crotlglnn, wan cutiKht the next moni Iiik h few miles up the river. I'ete DeLeeuw led the officers a better chase and wbh not cauKht uptll a lew days later and not until he had made quite Htart Into the Interior. lieorge McAlllMter, who Ih fust get i in- a reputation us a Jail-breaker. Ilrsl Htole horse Trom Uox Davln I It- changed iiRaln at the Twin Springs ranch owned by JudKe Mc knight, then doubled back aloliK IiIh trull und crossed the Malheur river mid headed went. The horae he gut tit the McKnlKhl ranch Inter came back into the valley and It la aup pose.l that McAlllMter caught a fresh horae on the range Ho far ax any newa of F. H. Hamp ton und Mack McCoy la obtainable, It Ik evident that they have traveled on foot and have not attempted to eulcb any borne. They were to i ether when IuhI heard of and tfere up on llircb creek above Huntington At present there are no officer ufler the fuglllvea an they have lorn I he Hulls completely. However iOM wutch Ih being kept ut vurioiiH plures and It Is expected (hat I he) will be ruptured us soon us I hey collie from cover und attempt to get clear uwuy from the country. The offi cers who were detailed to trace the Jull-hreukers, got within ten or tW4 hours travel of them Hoveral time:, hut by doubling buck the hunt ed noli muuuged to escupe. McCoy und McAlllater are probably I he ones wuuleil most by the officers .McCoy bad a merry time some weeks ugo riding through the country and posing ua u deputy aherlff. His stunt wus to borrow a horae every ho often auylug thut he was on the Hull of u horae thief. t)nce lie stole u lior.e, ami, utter doubling buck on his i i.i 1 1. came to the aunie ranch told the owner thut he had found the horae In the hills und charged li i in six dollurs for bringing hlni in .McAllister, on hla previous escupe from the Jail ut Vale, exchanged shots witli the officers following him hut wus linully cuptured by a ruae worked by u furmer with whom he hud breukfuHt, neur Durkee CHINA PHEASANTS ARE RAISED HERE l-oiils Kroessin liaise Many Hll-ds Successfully iu the City Limit. l.ouls Kroessiii, veterun suddle aud liuriieKs deulei of Ontario is one oi the tew men in the United Stales to raise china I'lieusunis successfully Starting with one retting from the Stute Hume Furm lust year, aud ruis ing fourteen birds, Mr Kroesain now hus seveuty-tlve. These pheasants are kept on a aix ty foot lot enclosed witli chicken net ting and also has a cover of netting user the lop as the birds attempt to fly out when very young The young birda are harder to raiae than u turkey, atatea Mr. Kroeaain At manv agricultural colleges incubat ors have beeu tried but with no a vuil as the birda do not have any Vitality and soon die, if they hatch ut all No doubt .Mutually many birds will be raiaed on the small farms, us they prove very profitable. One pullet lays from 76 to 100 eggs dur ing a seaaou aud the egga are mar keted -or from $2 00 to $: 00 per ih, .n The birda aell for 7.00 a pair, or $10 00 for three, aud there la a eousteut demand for theui GEORGE MOYER TO HAVE A NEW TRIAL icu Ho Supreme Court With the lie-uli That Another Hearing Hoon George Moyer, convicted of arson by the Circuit Court of thin county In Muy of last year, and sentenced to nerve an Indeterminate sentence of from one to ten yearn In the pen itentiary, wan brought hack from Sulem to Vale, and may be given a new trial. Moyer ban nerved n Utile more i him a year of hl nentence. Moyer wan tried ror burning n barn at Jordan Valley, the property of the Jordan Valley Hotel Co. He appealed to the Supreme court and the cane wan remanded to the Cir cuit court on a technicality. In 1910 an amendment to the law wan made, permitting the prosecut ing attorney to amend an Indictment in form, but not in nubntance. The cune wan remanded on thin point. POP CORN RAISED ONJEVEN LOTS "Uncle Dick" Rutherford Gets Ton of Corn and Crop of Peanuts The record for raining pop-corn hus been mude by 'Uncle Dick' Itulh rford of thin city, when lie gathered iver u ton of pop-corn, the produc Idll of seven city lots in the lower ,iurt of (own. The corn wan plant d the 20th., of May, and wan the I'rollllc' variety. The gralnn are of . ery large size and the corn in the i kind when popped. "Uncle Dick" claims that a large amount of .viitcr was used to Irrigate the corn ii spile of repeated warnings from lis friends that too much irrigation wan not conducive to large yields. Alongside of the pop-oorn field 'Uncle Hick also planted ten pounds if peunuts on u tract of ground fifty eel stiuare. From this he has alsed a number of buahela of pea nits. They have not been dug yet ml when a few were pulled up this veek most of the peauuta were omul to be matured. Oil Mirers This Week. Crude oil wan applied to Oregon itreet again tlila week, and If It la a little disagreeable now, It will soon te soaked Iu and will be the means if keeping the dust down for aome- Ime to come. In April of this year In- oil was upplled the last time, and In- business purt of town hus beeu . ree from dust the greater part of the summer. Mrs l-'r.uik Kader, daughter Irene tud small son huve returned from minis Iu Kansas where they have - t several weeks visiting rela tives. Mr. and Mrs. I). M. Newlou and Mr and Mrs C. I. Donovan aud laughter Miss Mildred of Central City, Nebraska, who ure making an Mxtenslve trip of the west, stopped iff for a few days visit witli Mr. and Mrs C K. Secoy. Mrs. H C Secoy and little daugh ter of Underwood, Mum . are here visiting Mra. Secoy 's pareuta, Mr. aud Mrs Orln Hull, and other relatives. A. L McDowell hus beeu elected is the lay delegate from the Ontario Methodist church to the conference it Hoise, September 16th. Fdmoiid Turner was chosen as alternate de legate. State gume reaerves, parka, aa well is owners of large country places ure ulways ready tu buy them. The atate of I'ennslyvania, Mr. Kroeaain states, has offered to buy several thouaaiid this year. The only pheasuntrys kuowu of are located in Chicago, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Denver and the State Uame Farm of Oregon. Mr. Kroeaain first experimented with them iu Minne sota several yeara ago. He atatea that the owner of the farm iu Poughkeepsie Is now inde pendently wealthy, and starting without anything, haa made his for tune ruising pheasants for the large game reserves. WATER SUITS NOW BEING HEARD Claims Filed One Year Ago are Opened to Inspection 350 CLAIMS QN THE MALHEUR Deputy Engineer at City Hall With Maps of New Claims Rhea I.uper, deputy state engineer from Salem, Is at the city hall In On tario, this week, giving people who filed water claims last year an oppor tunity to Inspect the clalum llled by others, and to make preliminary fil ing of content. Under the provisions of the water code panned In 1909 a state hoard wan appointed to nettle all the water claims In the state. The board In composed of John H Lewis, ntute engineer, James T. Chinnock, and George T. Cochran. Mr. Cochran In the superintendent for thin dlntrlct and Mr I.uper is here an htn rep resentative. Last year the hoard received tilings on all water claims Iu the state These claims have been checked over hy the board und tire now opened to Inspection so that anyone who wishes to file contests may do so. The board wlh then set the time for the hearing when the testimony will be taken. In determining the rights of con testants to water In the various streams the board will consider the kind of crops grown, and in general the use made of the water. Prior ity of claim will depend not on I he filing of the water right, but upon completion or the right by the con struction or ditches und the actual use of the water. About four hun dred and fifty claims have been llled on the Malheur river and its trlhula rlea. Other streams iu the state huve several times thut number Mr I.uper hus beeu at Vale for the pust ten days lor the beuellt of wat er users on the upper part of the river. One of the largest contests In I he atate involves about Ha.1100 acres of land belonging to the William Han ley Co., and the Pacific Livestock Co. The water righta lu dispute are on tiie Sltvies river. Mr. Cochran was recently Iu Hums tuklug testi mony on this caae, but It was post poned owing to the illness of several of the chief witnesses Mr. I.uper cume to Ontario yester day and will he here all day today and tomorrow. I). F. Murphy of Heululi wus u vis itor here Tuesday. O. W. Masou was over from New Plymouth, Tuesday. James Frash of Vale was here Tuesday. Mrs. West aud Miss Crystal West were down from Weatfall this week. Hruce Header of Pendleton, was a visitor here this week, arriving Tuesday. T. H. Ooodhue of the Palmer Lumber Co., of La (Jraude was here Tuesday and Wednesday. Mrs. Wuldrou and daughter Miss Kuby from near Mallult Station were In towu Monday aud Tuesday Mrs. Murphy of Heululi wus in Ontario transacting business yester day. The three sous of Judge and Mrs. Da I to u Higgs, came home yesterday from the De Armoud ranch above Vale. Mra. Shapb-y. of Seattle, daughter of Mrs Madden, who lias beeu help lug nurse her brothers for the past few weeks, returned home yesterday. Hetnrn From Auto Trip J H Hurrell and , S. Homer returned Monduy evening from a trip overland in Mr. Horner's Ford car, to the John Day eoifntry. They report n fine time, good bunting und tlnhlng and fine cool weather In the minimum They state that there ure over fifty camps at Hlue Moun tain Springs It In an ideal camping spot, they nay, and plenty of amuse ment furnlnlieil for the campers They found a number of Ontario people ut Hie Springs including Mrs. W. W. Wood, Mm. Schupell, Mrs. Shirley and Mr und Mrs Vern chumbers. Mr Hurrell hus reopen ed his studio .which wan cloned while he wus on his vucution. COMMERCIAL CLUB HOLDS ITS MEETING II. II. I Kigali Itepnits on a Plan to i.et the Stale Highway Itoilte Changed. The Ontario Commercial Club held its regular monthly meeting Mon day evening and attended to a num ber of matters of routine business. The committee reported on the pop corn day at the San Pranclnco fair, and said that about twenty thousand hags of pop-corn hud been distribut ed to visitors at the Oregon build ing. II II. Logan reported to the club that some of the Interior countlen, including Orant and tlllliam. were much mil-rested in having the nlate highway built through the center of the state, and he presented to the club some of the reasons why the road should be built that way. The Meacliuui pass, If the road In hullt hy way of Haker and I.a (Jraude, In passable only a few mouths out or the year, while the other way the road could be used practically the year round. The In terior counties also need transpor tation facilities badly. If built straight through to the coast, the route would also he between I2f and lao miles shorter. Another reason advanced, was that If built through the center or the atate. It will con nect witli the Idaho highway at this end at Ontario Mr. Logan was des ignated to take up the matter with commercial clubs In the counties In terested In having the route changed K li Couklln, representing the Houlevard Orange, gave an Invita tion to the club and the people or Ontario to attend the general com munity picnic to be held under the inunugeuienl or the Orunge ut Ar cadia Drove September 1st. RELIEF FROM HEAT IS FOUND IN RIVER Many Ontario People Take Daily Plunge in Pool Beiow Bridge It has been recently discovered by the heat pestered population of On tario that Snake Hiver offers ex cellent opportunities for bathing aul u number huve been tuklug dally or semi-weekly plunges in uu effort to keep cool The pool Just below the Mrst bridge Is the favorite one for swimming The only things lucking to make it us good as a sea-shore re sort, are the taste of salt and Dm breakers sweeping ua outo the shore liven the breakers ure supplied as long as Leu Christiansen has Mind enough left to dive nil the Impro vised diving bourd, at the upper lid of the pool Another lack is a suitable group of dressing rooms The only ones ut present ure the willows furnished by mother nature along the shoie In spite ill tin; handicap or dressing rooms, sunn- startling effects aru reached in the way of costumes It appears that the merchants of ' h city have not anticipated the i.-t lisliineut ol a beach so near Hie city aud have failed to lay lu a stock of bathing paraphenalia. Out of a crowd of about fifty men and women there were perhapu a dozen bona Mile suits A favorite makeshift was a pair or abreviated overalls and a shirt Several of the boys In au effort to ' share the glory won by Leu Chris-1 Hansen lu his aforementioned diving smuts, dived off the railroad bridge : into a deep part of the pool. An other favorite stunt is to upset the loaded canoes In Die middle or Die shallow water. From fifty to a hundred have been iu every evening, and the habit seems to be growing. COMMITTEES AT WORK PLANS Many Stunts Planned for Amusement of the Fair Patrons CARNIVAL COMPANY TO COME Indications are That Stock Exhibits Will be Large Plans for the County Fair are pro gressing rapidly and enough has al ready been done to show that the fair will be bigger and better than ever before. A special committee, headed by A. W. Trow, Is in charge or the amusement features, und the committee Is making uu effort to have an many novel and entertaining features an possible A carnival company ban been secured anil will have twenty concessions, and will run six different shows. The car nival will be run on Nevada Avenue which will he closed to traffic for the four days of the ralr. The street will be prepared for use a week or two before, by covering It with straw and by sprinkling The committee is now trying to make arrang ents to have a bulloon at the fair, with a parachute drop of two thousand feet There will also he a merry-go-round and a forrla wheel fifty feet high, and from the top of which one will he able to see the entire surrounding country. The committee is especially an xious to have stunts pulled off by lo cal people, aud any suggestions will be welcomed hy Mr Trow or Mr Drauel. Stunts of various kinds In cluding a slide for lire, light Ulld loose wire walking, and a number of other things will he pulled off In front of the grand-stand between rac es, so as lo keep something doing till the time. I For the races this year, horses will come from linker, Payette, Wel ser, and a number of oilier places, besides the local entries. A regular live days racing program will be crowded into Die four days. Hesldes the regular races, It Is planned lo have a number of novelty races. W. W. Howard, lu charge of the stock exhibits, reports Dial Indlca Dans are that the exhibits will be far more numerous than ut any previous fair. The entries already received lor hogs will require all the avail able room und extensions will huve to he made lo accomodate other en tries which will come later Other departments also show a large num ber of entries. Several line herds of cattle have already la-en signed up, with prospects or in y more A big feature of the fair will be i he community ex.ilblts. Nyaaa, Hig Hem, Owyhee, Carlo, Dead Ox Flat. Jamb-son and I in, can and it is hoped u number of other places will huve exhibits The yield Of produce iu the county this year Is unusually large and this will help greatly iu getting line entries for the fair. Six exhibits by school clubs throughout the county huve now been at ranged for ulld It Is probab le thill several more will he added to the list. HOSPITAI, NOTIIK. Mra. Small and baby of Westfull re turned to their home Wednesday. Mrs Marion of Welser, who bus beeu elm lined to the hospital for some time, returned home Tuesduy J. P Duuuwa) of Vule underwent a severe operation this week, but is improving nicely Mr Sear in la i.ie-.nii is receiving treatment at the hospital. Mrs Dladdish of Frultlaiid who recently underwent an operation, la improving daily. Miss Violet Cutupbell who bad her tonsils removed at the hospital Sat urday, was removed to her home the following day. T. 11. Moore haa been sick ror over a week with typhoid fever He hus beeu attended by Dr. Priming. ON CHARLES SIMMONS BURRIED TUESDAY Scrtlces for the Former Ontario lleslilenl me Met. I i Die M. II. Church. The I'utieral of Charles Simmons was held at the Methodist church Tuesday morning at in o'clock Mr Simmons wan a former resident of Ontario, und met his death u few days ugo hy drowning at Lovehnul, Oklahoma. He was 211 years of uge und his birthplace was Sllverton. Oregon. Mr. Simmons had live brothers mid four nlntern. Two of Ho- brothers, Frank und Clarence, cume from Sll verton to attend the funeral and ulso (wo of the sintern, Mrs Dickinson and Mrs. Horn, both of Pendleton. Mr. Simmons bus been In Ontario a good deal for the last three years and worked here an u carpenter The funeral was under the auspic es of the Odd Fellows lodge Win McHratney wus the undertaker POP CORN GIVEN AWAY AT FAIR Twenty Thousand Bags are Used to Advertise Corn Section Twenty thousand bugs of Malheur County pop-corn were given away last Saturday to visitor at Hie Ore gon lluilduig at the Sun Francisco fulr. Witli each bug of pop-corn wus u neatly printed card with some spicy ailvertlnlng regarding Die re sources of this section of the slate with particular reference to the dual ity and tiuantlty of the corn grown here. The pop-corn used was grown In the Hlg Heml and was bought lor (lie purpose, hy (he Onturlo Commerclul Club. .lame A. Lacke) assisted by F F McCully. W W. Cavlness und other Kastern Orcgonlaus, guve out the pop-corn to the visitors anil oili er Oregouians gave short talks aud mil mingled with the visitors ill the aisles, telling them of the opportun ities afforded by various sections of the state. Pictures of the folum hia Highway and the Pendleton li'oiiiidup were also shown to the vis itors Some time ago the farmers of the Willamette vulley hud u cherry duy it Die ralr and gave away several thousand hags or cherries advertls ing their section of the state. I.I lilt It NO IKK. Tin- following new books were placed upon the shelves this sum iner Connor, "The Prospector'' Jerome, "Pusslng or the Third Floor Duck." Churchill, "The Crisis " a. , "Mury June's I'u " Fox, "The Trail of the LMMMM Pine." Fox. - "A Knight or the Cumber laud." While, "Hold." Montgomery, "Aline of linen Lubles." Wlggln, "Mother Carey's Chick ens." Wright. "The Culling of Matthewa." Huriihttin, "Inner Flam. Connor, "The Muu From gurry." McCutcheon, "Hrewi.. Ions." Harcluy, The Mistress of stone." Dan (ileli Mill Shen Wed, I Ktugsley, "Miss Phlliila's ing Down." Van Dyke, "The Hlue Flown-." Purrish. "My Lady of (lie North." Daviess, 'The Melting of Molly.'' Shute, "Farming It." Manners. Peg O' My Heart." Klchiuniiil. Andrews, Ferber, Kineliart, "Ki-d I'epper Hums." "The Marshal " HitHered Side Down " "The AiuaHig Adveii tine., ol Let ilia I arbci ry." N'aylor, "The Ktuiluckian." Dram, I llllie, 'uilie, Wll on Harrle, Caiue, Culne, I 'nine, ' t'lidercurrmil " "The Deemster " "The Shadow ol a Crime " "The See I aer " "A Window in Thrums." Tin- lionilman " Tin- Hlind Mother ." "l 'onfesslon " The attendance during the mouth of July was .110. A new geuerul collection is to be MOWERS URGED TO Possibilities of Country to be Shown by Actual Results GRANGE IS TAKING ACTION Committee is Appointed to Appeal the Issue to the Growers Thut Malheur county, In Oregon, und lie tn aud Canyon couiiHps, iu Idaho, will soon be as fatuous ror corn, us Is the Hood ltlver country lor the growing of fruit, In the pre diction made hy prominent members of the Houlevard Orange, who have been appointed on u committee to stimulate Interest in corn growing by tin1 farmers or this section. The committee composed or A. O. King man, K. H. Couklln and F. A. Miller hus Issued a letter urging the furm ers to make as good a showing as they can with their corn crops They point out lu the letter thut i high average yield for a few farm I Is not i' n in u In lv Impressive to the man who wants to he shown what the country can do, but If a lurge number of furmers obtuln u high average yield, many farmers from the middle west will be purstiudeil In locate in this country. Following Is the letter issued by Ho- Orange committee. To the t'orngrowers of Malheur co unty: The Orange com committee Is de pending upon you corn growers to prove this section of Snake ltlver Vulley to he the center of the niter mountain com belt und this can only lie ib by a larger number of corn growers producing a good average yield; If one hundred growers cun gel an average yield of 76 bushels to the acre, It will appeal much stronger to the furmers of the Mis sissippl vulley, than If ouly a amull number grew lfiU bushela to the ac re. They know that with proper preparation aud care lu any locality where com Is grown, great er yields can he had, and they also know If a larger number do produce 7 r bushels or more per acre the country Is a reul com country mid that is what thousands are looking for. Mr. Corugrower, will you help us to help them find this country'.' H so, everyone sluy iu the game to the finish und lu a abort time this section will be us well kuowu us Hood Klver, or any other section lu tin- West, aud this will build up tills .eel ion on u perniuiienl foundation Thanking you iu advuuee, Kespect fully, A. O Kiugtuaii. H Coukllu. F A Miller Mr Drove Single returned to On lurlo Wednesday evening. Hob i opt land uud sou from near Harper were iu town yesterday. Hen McKltoy of Cambridge was in town yesterday. Mr and Mrs James Nurse of Hlg lieud were in Ontario Wednesday. II C. Farmer wus culled to Nebras ka tin.-, week on account or the death of his father. Miss Florence Vuu Vulkenburg has been con lined to her home for more than u week with uu attack of appendicitis. ordered this month from Die Stale i.ibiai v Anyone desiring books uot on our shelves muy borrow Iheiu from Die State Library by liundlug the iiume of the author uud title of tin- volume wanted, to Die local lib rarian before August all Hi HOLD ON 1 to er as a s- ii 0, it et r I, t- d Ml II I I s I- t I k