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(fhttoiof mm in VOLUME XIX THE ONTARIO AK0U8, AUGCST 26th., 1915 No. 14 m GOOD EXHIBITS ASSURED BY BIG CROPS Special Feature Will Be Ag ricultural Exhibits by Communities PLANS FOR AMUSEMENTS Women to Have Charge of Important Depart ments of Fair. Malheur County Iiiih always Mail tin' reptitution of puttltiK on a cred itable County Call-, and this year will certainly not be any exception to the ruin. The -pint of the fair has tus i'ii hold of Ontario and no douht bar ulso the neighboring towns iirrord-iiii- to reports, and all the commit tees are diligently working, and plutiH are being formulated for not only havliiK the heat anil lurrest c hibltR in every department that they huve ever hIiowii, hut also to furrs!; amusement for the erowdH duriii the entire day. The committees on port! May that a kooiI live curnival coiiipiiuy will he present to fiirnlsl iilitllsciiiclit del ween the raceM, ami iii.' old saying, "something lining vcrv minute" will be the slogan. I (i. llalley, Htiperlutendetit nl m-linnls here with County Agrirul turlsl W. W. Howard, made a trip to Vale, JamleHon, Brogun anil Hie I --. 1 i Chit country last week for the purpnse of securing coinmunlt) " hlhltM for the fair Mr. lluiley say that the prospects for excellent ex liibitu I rem all partH of Mallieur Co iiuty are better thla year than at mi' time since the fair was estiihllshcl The Chitmber of Commerce of Vali la couti'iuplatiiiK muklng a can van ,i tin1 ;.djacent country for a l.i i M tn unit exhibit from Vale and tin surrounding country. OwitiK to the lurge yield of fruit thla year, and the (uality of in rrull it ih expected that much rival ry will he aliown in the canned fruit department. Nowhere could hettc fruit he had for cuiiuIiik purpose, and -iiue the demonstrations have been made ut aome of the Gran, halls by experta thla aeaaotl, and children liave also been urged to tr. the experiment, no douht a lurgi II II III bet' of eiillle- will he made Clowcr culture Iiiih become an inter esling I cut lire w it ll the ladiOH of 1)11 laiiii. as well aH our neighbors, and 1 1 kiii the number of beautiful ante beds already reported thla year the exhibit Printline to be one of the Iiom ever and tliia will be one or the moat attractive exhibits or all Tile lad les hi churgc, Mra. E. C. Van I'eiicn. Mrs I (i. Bailey and Mis Way Wil noli, are urging everyone with flow era to be aure ami make their plain to briiiK them to the lair and while all cannot take Inline a blue ribbon, l lie 0Wf department lends a great leal Of MjOJ uieiil In Hie visitors ami BOCklBg attracts women folk to u coiniiiaiiity more readily than the knowledge that tliey can have suc- il Hotter gurdcus ii.m hum ram KM. WtDIVG iwn UmuI Men in Touch With Carl lev Who Wish In Is.tale Here Several inquiries have been re-riui-il lately by the local poHtottlce concerning the resources or this part ot the atate. The Inquiries have MM from persons who wish to move to a new country and engage in ag ricultural pursuits. One inquiry came from a man rep i.-. .-iiliiiK a colony at Grains I'aaa and the writer slated that the people lie i .-presented were ready to invest a huudred thousand dollars, if they could had a satisfactory location This letter waa referred to W. II Doolittle, who baa takeu tiie matter up with the Ci rants Cass people, and is ti.vmg to arrange lor them to lo cate i. ere. Another Inquiry regard lug laud, stock, irrigation and var iety of cropa, waa relet red to Spencer it Guodfellow The writer repres ented twelve families in Eestern Washington. COCKRUMS BACK FROM CALIFORNIA Arter spending several weeks at the San Cranclsco exposition, and in touring California, Mr. and Mm. A. L. Cockruni, and two aona, Lee and Arthur, in their Hudson "Six" and Mr. and Mra. Homer Kiimbo in their Cadillac, .hi ompaii nil by MIhh Cora McNulty and the Misses IMatt, rc- turneil home Saturday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Cockruni and s.m Arthur, left here about lx week a ago and were met In California by Lee, who went down earlier. The route chosen 'by them waa from here to Hums, on through Alturls, Chlco and Sacramento to San Francisco. They claim that the poorest roada they found on the whole trip, were from here to Hums After spend ing a week at the exposition, they went on to Lom Angeles for a visit with Mr. Cockruiu'a brother, O. L. I'ockrutn of that place. From there they went to San Diego and then on to Tfjaiiuii. Mexico. They found pavement all the wuy from 'Criaco to San Diego, with the exception of 14 miles Coming back, they came practically the same route, and spent nometlme in the Ynaenilte Nat ional park. The Kambo party left Ontario u week later than the Cock runiH, and went by the way or Wlnne .iiiiica They round the roada very poor by that route. They Joined the Cock rums at Snn Diego and the two machines made the trip home toge ther. I tot li r the cars were equipped with camping oiittlt and all claim Hint I Ills was one of the best features or I lie whole trip. A comfortahle bed was carried on the running hoards, mil a lunch kit and cooking appa ratus waa carried conveniently, ao hat with the exception or the time penl In the cities, they camped out. mil prepared their own meals Mr Cockruni states that it Is gen rally conceeded that the Oregon iiillding ranks first among the atate lulldiuga, aud tii.it. with the excep lon or the Canadian building, It la lining the most artistic. He states hat the Interior finishing or white' ir. and the decoration or fruits and Tains Is very effective. lAMPKIN opens STORE IN WEISER W. T. I ampk iii. Ontario Met chant, Opeim Cxcluslvc I .in In-.' Htore. Announcement has been made this veek by W. 'I'. I.uinpkln tliut he will pen a new store in Wehter in the iear future. Mr. Lauipkiu lias had i store here for several years and ias had considerable trade from Wel ter, aa well as local trade, and needs in Introduction to the people there, ither ill the reputation us a tlioro usinesH mail, or as to the line of '.ooila carried in hla stock. The new store which will be local -d in the Vendome lilock, one-half dock in. iii the Moi-ri:. Summers Co. lUlldlug, will be known as the l.ump viii Cash Store, Limited, and will be pelted Friday, September 3rd. El ner Orcutt, a young man well known ii thla city, will he in charge aud will own a rew shares or stock. Tills store will teat ure ladies' turn slilngs and reudy-to-weur goods, and uly reputable goods will be carried lUCll aa the Ttedfern" auita, that the iniurio store has become noted tor Being able to buy in quantities, will enable Mr. Lampkin to carry a much letter line iu the local store, aud to .liter better prices than ever before COC NT V FKHTIVAL HI AT CM Ml'. IT c Count Han Big i eleliralioii Assuming Its Oitictal HuHee. The (Jem County Festival, mark ing the occasion when the uew Ida lui County, formed by the last sess ion of the legislature, aaaumea ita official duties and responsibilities began yesterday at Emmett and will last lor three days. Several thou sand dollars have heeu spent to make the celebratiou a grand success and a fine program or speeches, music, sports aud exhibits have been arrang ed. Effort have been made to have us many visitors op baud, to enjoy the program, as it Is possible to mus ter. Several local people, including E. H Con kiln, W. W Howard, A O Kingman and V. V. Hickox went to Emmett yeaterday to attend the celebratiou. RAILROAD WORK GROWS IN STATE Long Expected Construction Begins at Several Points INTERIOR TO BE REACHED New Roads Mean Increase in Mining and Farm ing Industries Construction work on the branch weat of Riverside has been progress ing rapidly und large crews are now on the ground and at work. A mem ber of the firm of Twolty Brothers, contractors of Cortland who have the contract for the construction or the thirty miles beyond ltlverslde, ar rived several days ago and expects to remain until the work Is complet ed. Twohy Brothers are subletting contracts tor a large share of the work. It is generally believed that the work will not stop us soon as the roud Is built to Dog moiintuln but that It will he built on at least us for as the the branch line to conned at Burns. The time bus evidently come 'or n revival or railroad building In Ore gon. Beside the construction on the branch from Riverside, building op erations are being curried on In sev eral parts of tiie atate. Twohy Bro thers also have a contract for build ing a roud from Orants Paaa to Crescent City, Cal , a distance or u imiii 100 tulles. This will open up a large country which contains a vast amount or low grude ore which can lie mined only with good transports Hon facilities The building or this road will doubtless prove u boon to the mining industry or the atate. Iteporta are also to the effect that '(instruct ion work will soon begin on the road from Roseburg into the ureal 1 1 in bur belt to the east, and another roud Is assured from Suther l.ii up the Calupoola into the timber on the west slope lr the Cascades Observers believe that the building of tiie railroad Into Central Oregon, will nieun a vast Increase In the acre age pianted to graiu, especially to wheat. The great Interior country has been culled the tuiure grunury or the slate and it will soon have a chance to prove ita right to the name The construction work ut River side lias already stimulated business in this section to u lurge extent. Ontario merchants have during the past week or two been shipping large quantities or fruit, vegetables and melons to .liiuiuia aud Riverside The shipments of peaches, water melons and vegetables totul several cars a week, with practically all or the local merchants having a shure in the business. Large quantities or the produce ure being taken Into the Interior by uuto trucks aud wagons l coin the end of the ruilroad and most of tiie produce shipped la bound for the Interior, ultliouglt the railroad construction work beyond Rlveraide has greatly stimulated the trade there. HARVEST HOME FESTIVAL SEPT. 7- The Annual Harvest Home Festi val given at Big Bend, will be held In the Big Beud park Friday, Sept. 27th. Tins information is contained In a letter to the local Commercial Club, with an Invitation to the pen pie of Ontario and vicinity to be pre sent at the occasion. There will be exhibits of the products of the Big Beud section, and a free lunch will be served at noon to all coiners. The program or speeches and sports will Inilnw iu the afternoon Speak ers aud musicians will be aelected from the various visiting couimuui tiea. The letter also expreaaea grati tude for the assistance given the peo ple of the Big Bend by other com muuities in the county for securing the Snake river bridge at that point HONEY INDUSTRY IS GROWING FAST f Another industry that is rapidly making headway In the Snake river valley, is the production of honey About tirty producers between VVel ser and Burma have organized the Idaho-Oregon Honey Producers' Association and the members or the organisation are working together in every wuy possible to make the bee Industry a success The local member. of the associa tion are Her Wood, Howard Mullett, Harold Mallett, W. II. Bennington or Nyssn and M. Townsend. The Mallett boys and Her Wood have be tween live and alx hundred hives, and this tall will have about a car or honey to ship. W. H. Bennington bus prohubly a thousand hives and M. Townsend about tour hundred. Scarcely any rurm Industry offers us much internal itn the production or honey, and certainly none offer more dlfficultlea for the beginner. One of the biggest problems H t,, keep the bees from Increasing too ta-it They increase iii numbers a bniii twenty-live per cent unnually. The difficulty Is not In getting enough bees, hut In nettle, the range for them. It requires .bout two acres or alfalfa lor each colony or bees and bee raisers have a gentleman's agree ment not to locate an apiary closer than a mile and a half of another producer. If the uplaries are too close togather, the reault is that all the producers tnur lose money. There are approximately 125,000 bees in a hive, ao the local owners have about sixty of seventy million bees filiating around over the alfalfa fields. The past law weeks have been favorable im the production or honey, though the first part of the summer was not so good. The weather requirement is that It be warm with no wind. The wind in particular makes It difficult for the bee to Work. The bees In their civic life, have a highly developed social order. The production of the new generations depends upon the drones and the queen bee. A s,..;wm la devised whereby only the strongest of the drones mate witli the queen bee. The queen lays only a few eggs the first year, but lays probably many millions the second and third years. The fourth year her power wanes and she is promptly killed by her sub jects, who attack the Job or raising another queen. Arter the swarm seuson the workers kill all the drones as they ure no longer necess ary to the welfare of the community. Then, not content with that whole sale slaughter, about rour-fifths of the workers themselves die In the lull, which save the expense of their teed during the winter. The disease which causes most trouble uiiiong bee owners, Is known us foul brood The disease attacks the bees while In the larval form and witli no new bees hutching, it la not long until the apiary is destroyed. 'The disease is transmitted only through the honey, und the method of lighting it is to get lite beea into a new hive, burning the old one. The safest way Is to burn the affected bees with the hive. The disease was brought into this country about ten years ago when a carload of beea Iroin I'tah was wrecked near I'ayette. The bees already iu Hie country caught the disease by going to the honey in Hie wrecked car. Since then it lias spread over practically the whole country, though a few of the lurge apiaries have managed tn keep It out. Extracted hnuey brings ubout sev en ceuts u pound, while the comb honey is worth ten cents a pound. The extruded honey can be produced cheaper than the comb honey because it is taken out of the combs uud the combs are put back into the hives and used ugaiu by the bees When the comb is sold, the beea have the added tusk of making new combs The breeding season is in the first warm weather of the summer. 'I'll bees swarin in June. The bees work Inside the iiive for fifteen days after they are hutched out, making wax and storing the honey By that tunc they are strong, and begin to make trips out into the fields alter honey The way to prevent an increase in the number of the beea, is either to clip out Hie queen cells or clip Hie queens' wings Sometimes In the latter case, the bees kill the queen and raise a new one. The association la working for bet ter laws regarding bee inspection in both Oregon aud Idaho The men bers or the association are doing all they call to stamp out the disease, which ia tatal to the Industry, but the independent producers cannot now be compelled to destroy Hie affected hives. SCHOOLS OPEN FOR WORK SEPT. 6 Building; c "'Miirr tlvftr- hau para- I FOR "EAR TEACHER Course 01 o-udy for High School Same as Last Year The Ontario public schools will op en for the year's work on September 6th. Necessary preparation for the Is now being made so that all will be In readiness by the first day enablliif, the teachers and students to get down to work without deluy. Hotli the high school und the grade build ings are now undergoing their an uuul cleaning and In addition, tl.e high school rooms and hallways will all be calcimined. The totul enrollment last year win seven hundred and one, one hundred und forty-seven being iu the hl;t!i school. This yeur It Is expected that the high school enrollment will ream one huudred and seventy-five, hut no increase, and probably u slight de crease, is expected In the grades The course r study Iu the high school this year will be the same as last year with the college prepara tory, scientific and commercial courses. Some new equipment lias been milled for Hie science depart ment which will add considerably to Its value. The high school course ot study for schools of the sl.e of On tario Is outlined by the state depart ment of education Schools go Into the first class when their students number a thouaand. The teachers selected tor the high school and the grades for tins year are as follows: Superintendent, E. (!. Bnlley. Principal or high school, J. W. Cruter. Commercial subjects, D. W. lilies Science uud German, C. M. Will lama. Latin and English, Faye Wheeler Domestic Science, I tie Weaver Nth., grade, Nellie Piatt uud Edliu (irlffln. 7th., grude. l.ucy Fox and F. J. cieino. in . grade, Muy Piatt and Jennie Whltaker. Ilk., grude, Tvvyla lleud and Eliimti Mdilverii 4th., grade, Betsy Taylor. :ird., grade, Ituth I'urcell und i 'oru McNulty. 2nd., grade, Cauro." Halle 1st., grude, i.uella ll ('alien and Olive Cleiiiout. McAllister caught at la grande George McAllister, another ot the Vale Juil-breakers, was apprehended .it l .a Grande Suttirday, ami arrested i. Sheriff Hug of that pluce Mc Ulisler was probably the most want oil or any of the escapes, uud (lie o III corn are In lie commended nil making the capture McAllister is only years old ami was first held on u lar ceny charge, but the fuel that he has broken jail twice and stolen several louses each time in uu attempt to make Ills escape, will no doubt go hard with him when his sentence ia pronounced. When urrestetl, McAllister was rid ing horse stolen from George Camp bell of Baker last Wednesday night Hue horse which dissn pcarod from a .anil in the Valifc) above ale came liome in a lew d.t.v ami it is supposed hat he turned the horse loose after striking the range, uud took up a . re. h one When Sheriff Brown readied here Sunday night with McAllister, he picked up two other prisoners that lie had brought this fur from Mom ma the day before. A mail by the name or Rawson who was wanted on a burglary charge ut Juutura, and a rancher whom a warrant had been nut tor on account of u neighborhood leud somewhere in the county. IU on was captured at Dillon, Mont THIS VALLEY SHOWS BIO DEVELOPEMENT Ky . II. Hauls of t In Portland Telegram Community .... Farm Inuns money at fair rates of Interest. " Hciluciniti In current interest rates Markets for high grude fruits and vegetables. Fifteen hundred dairy cows In cltnrge . " ".col dairymen. Experle- ration farmers with s, i .nun -nnrke! for stir- fit lift f vegetables. ' lose ducei I Intel I fire hll. ion among pro effort to kill out An Intensely Interesting and Illu minating example of the passing of the old conceptions ami methods or tanning and the coming of new con illt lone ami higher Ideals in rural lire is to he found ut Ontario, on the upper Snake river, In extreme eust ern Oregon. Here In years gone by the cowboy nnd the range stockman liehl undisputed sway; here the man who dreamed of Irrlgutlou und pros perity was considered unreliable In 'he head ami too much of u tender Ion t to make good under pioneer con ditions. Yet, within a tew years a very short space or time -the Ir rigation ditch lias taken Hie place or the cowtrall and the alfalfa field mid orchard have left little of the old tlays except the story of the sage brush plain and the coyote haunt. The evolution has been ton slow, It Is true, but It has been sure, In meth od and sane In result Years more will he required years of toll and struggle before the Job can be call ed complete or even satisfactory. That the effort has been und will prove to be worth while Is maintain ed by everyone who has aided In the work of permanent developetnem, high us has been the price puid In tleah uud blood and rash The upper st reaches of Snake riv er He In a great ancient volcanic plain, the aoll being light uud ushy but very deep, generally. Under water the aoll becomes wonderfully productive; under natural conditions sagebrush and greasewood aud btinchgruss were uud are Hie usual products With plenty or water a Miilable tor his herds and (locks It was natural that the pioneer should become a stockman and that us the .ears pas: eil the settler who would till the soil should have met bitter op nsltlon and prolonged liurdshlp Cor many years Ontario wus a trad ing post for stockmen uud all the Inundations for the early fortunes. nnw so prominent in the life or the community, were laid through herds of cuttle aud (locks of sheep. So it is that all the traditions of Ontario are bused on the range ami the cow hoy, on sheep and wool and cattle ami horaua. The time came when the man who would live near Ontario could not get range for his herd or his fiock should he plull tO bullll UP SUch III! enter prise, so lie turned to the cult I vat Ion of the soil, not because he wanted In or because he saw u roriune in land ilevelopenieiit He found the ultltude uloug the Snuke river about 2,000 feet, Ideal for the production of farm crops, hut lie also found the rainfall deficient, so short iu i.oi that ordinary crops could not mature in Hie light, asliy snll Sn he uil ilcrtiink In put a leud strap on Sunk river for even to this day no effort to harness the stream lias been made and the llrat Irrlgatinn ditch wus the reault. The ditch caine.l enough wuter to Irrigate u goo I sized garden pulch but It demons! r..: ed the supremacy of the land under water as against the range uinle. cat He ami sheep. Irrtgulioii becau e necessary uud profitable mi tl ti.-r benches and the arrangement drove bad. la the higher lauds ihelr I erds and llncks New communis und unexpected evolutions came rapidly into In o fthe people residing at ami near Ontario as the stock Iiii.iii. n- treated Into the interior and tl.e 'r rigatinnist came u live ami labnr mi the land The first need wit icu M perienced ill lrrigutiun, tin- Mil mnn ey to aid iu bringing water and de veloping the laud, the thud markets Tor the products of the soil. CI -c trie power came after IMM dch.y. giving lights uud eiiergyy for use In ttvttry community us it involuted It did not require the wisdom nl a phllo.ophcr tn set down some nl the disadvantages of the coining irrigated ( cout Iu ued on puge 8) GRANGE PICNIC TO BE HELD SEPT. I Program of Speeches and Sports to Make Good Time for All WHOLE f ,1'NITY INVITED Representative Sinnott to Speak Besides Sever al Local Men The Annual Community picnic un der Hie management of the Boule vnrd Grange, will be held In the grove at Arcadia, Wednesday, Sept. 1st. A big program has been pre pared for the duy and ulso some time has been left for the plcn leers to loci und talk about the weather and re new acquaintances with their neigh bors The people of Ontario and surrounding towns, are Invited to he present In as large numbers as pos sible to see what a good time the country folks can give. N. J. Sinnott, represeutatlve In Congress from this district, will be the principal speaker or the day. Local celebrities will ulso he on the program for short talks. Mayor Trow or Onturlo will boost the coun ty tun nnd A. O. Kingman will talk on the Corn Carnival. The oounty superintendent or schools, Miaa Fay Clurk, will also speak, Iu addition to several others. 'The sports committee baa arranged for some interesting events Including ruces und wrestling matches Sev eral dinner northwest college wrestling rliumpluns are li v lug In the Aoilllty and effort will be made to get them on the mat for u good exhibi tion. There will also he matches be tween those who have not had train ing. The program will begin In the morning and will lust until late Iu the aflernonn with something Inter esting all Hie time. An hour aud a halt, or two hours, will be allowed ror dinner which everyone Is expect I to bring with him There will be a grand stand oil the grounds where rerreshiuents may be purchas ed The committee rroin the Grange wishes to einphasixe the fact that the picnic is a community affair aud Is for everyone, whether a member of Hie Grunge or not, nor la It even nec essary to be iu sympathy with the work the Grunge is doing The de sire is to get up many people In the cniuiiiunily us possible, tngetber for a good profitable time WATER CASES ARE HEARD IN ONTARIO Dcplllv Slate I ngineer llivclvcs p. plications I'or M nl In in mm Khcu l.uper, deputy slate engineer, was in Ontario three duys last week receiving upplicutioua for water rights mi the Mullieur river uud giv lug ull persons here an opportuuilv to inspect the claims tiled witli Hie slate water hoard a year ago. Mr l.uper wus iu Vale tor ten days lot the heiielit nf water Users on Hie up per part or the river. Moat or the people having water rights ou the river are represented by attorneys so most of the detail regarding tiling nf .l.iii.i and inspecting claims tiled by others, was done by them. It Is expected that quite a number or cnu tests will be tiled, us u large number ol con tin ling claims have been filed. The present work ot llie wuter hourd is under the uew water code passed by the legislature in '.n'. I'uder Hits law all the water rights iu the state ure to be adjudicated uud ull contlictiug claims settled i iiiitisis are to be tiled witli Hie board now uud the hearings will come before Hie duties of the bourd are elided Mr. ami Mrs. K G. Freed aud sou Kay, of Kausus City, have been the guests at tiie M Kusseli hi.nic llih week. 1 to er as a II- o. it ft r li t- d. Mi II i- - J 1 I