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About The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947 | View Entire Issue (March 30, 1916)
OREGON NEWS NOTES OF GENERAL INTEREST Important Occurrences of Past Week Briefly Compiled for Gur Readers. Oregon's metal production for H1C Will exceed IS, 000. 000 In valtte. A co-operative cream shippers' anno I elation was organised at Dayton. The drainers of Una county plan to open a public market In Albany. A $30,000 or $35,000 school build- tng Is to be erected In Ih near future i at Hood RWer. An agitation la on In Morrow county for the Improvement of the Heppner- Lexington road. The CM Curry cheese association wan formed at a conveutlou of factory ewnerH In foqiillle. J L Stockton, of Halem. p-esldent of the Oregtm Hetail Merchants' asso elation, hen resigned. Oregon. ' a Whit Leghorn ben at the Oregon afrit ultural college, has laid her thousandth Kg Oenoral resumption of all the Idle lumber mills In Maker county Is plan ned within t Ik- next few weeks. As the result of mass meetings held I laat week, a beet sugar factory is 1 assured for Sutherlln nest year. ! tine honored dollars In nixes will j be glen to the boy corn growers at the Wasco county fair next September, A contract I, us been closed for the sale of 60.000.000 feet of Coos bay sprue lumber to the Husslan govern- saanL H A. Hay .uid 0org Haff are r- ported to have discovered a ledge of ahetllte tunaaten three miles north of Gold Hill Oovernor Wllhycombe haa Issued a proclamation designating the first i week In April "Western Club Woman i Consumers' Week." j For the week ending March 14. IK accidents were reported to tho slat Industrial accident commission, of which five cre fatal. Professor George Haskell Collier. one of the first nu-inl gffl Of 'he facul ly of the University of Unison, died at Eugene, aged 89 year. Preliminary steps have been taken by the state association of county Judges sml commissioners to revise th road laws of Oregon. An organization to be composed n- Mrely of attorneys and to bo known ode of loading, planting and firing sub as tbe Oregon Naval Militia auxiliary marine mines. will be formed at Portland The county court of Gilliam county Stock holdera of the Willamette has ordered that no auto truck aball Valley Southern Railway company have voted an Increase of $500,000 In tin- capital stock of the company. Cornelius Moweraon, a convict em- ployed at the Oregon penitentiary as a trusty teamster, scaped while em- ployed In work outside the prison The cltlxeiis of Enterprise are dls- cuaslng spending $40,000 for additions to Us grade schools and the erection gf a commodious high school building. erased from drinking alcohol. Oscar Bridges snd Oliver Rlesbeck of Salem, engaged in a fight with a beer bottle and a knife and both war severely In- Jured. Stats Engineer Lewis has directed a rough survey of a proposed state road Ihrmmh M.M up Yamhill river and across tin mountains to TH- unions A rich strike .1 1 l ore at the Champion mine In tl mhi tula dls- trlct near Cottage QrOTt has been made 1 in . marts aser.ys about lir.oo par ton O. A. C won s . ' place In the northwestern sT mpumshlp by defeating Waahih.i..i 1 state college tore bouts to two iu .1 meet held at Corvallis. State Kngtnccr l.ewla Is trying to tandardlie the practice of the state highway department with reference to ' location, work and construction of the state roads Maker county Spanish War Yeter ans are anxious to Join the United States troops In their Invasion of Mex ' lco. There are about 1U0 veterans la the county. Mr. Anna Booth, found guilty by a Jury Of killing her husband, William lloolli, near Wlllamlna, on o.tol : I laat. was sentenced to life lmprl.,011 inent at McMinnvllle Arle Vau Visit, ex mauagiug dlrac I stste, made to Secretary of State Ol tor of the horticultural exhibit of Hoi cott. The total registration for the laud at th Panama exposition, haa re i state is 103.890, the reports showed, moved to Ashland, where he will en , l-age In the nursery business. 1 . liuudrcu " of burned over suouiiialh Umi in I. inn county will be replanted by the government foresl servlie this summer Work will lie gtn aa soon as the snow iu the iiioun ' talus melts. Willi the acquisition of ISM feel of frontage on Y. uug's bay, the J A. Mc Kacturn uoini any. of Sen lie umi As torla, has co .plcled final ileulls that will give Asiorlu a IttM.OOO shipbuild- lug concern Bids for the eonslructluii of the post office butUlng t Roscburg, to cost $100 000 will bo opened April 24. The inictiira will be two stories and base meat and the principal materials used j will b brick and stone I aragsn is preparing to entertain the state enrrutipmeiita of the Grand Army of the Republic, tho Spanleh-AmeTlc'nn War Veterans, the Ladles of the Grand Arm; of the Republic and the Wo man's Relief Corpa June 14. 15 and 1 Between 18000 and (9000 Is to be spent on the McKentle highway with in the Cascade national forest this year, according to H J. Pinch, senior highway engineer In the United Htatee office of public roads. The work will be done west of the summit. Arrangements am about completed Portland for the holding of nun ( ,y the members of the old Com- , pany K, O. N. O. The company was I formed originally as a 90 day organl satlon at the time of the atitl Chinese . riots In the Pacific northwest In 1S86. A contract has been signed by State ' Fur -nut Klllott with the United States government whereby the state will re- celve $1000. Its portion of the Weeka j fund, for use In fire patrol work. The ' money Is to be expended under the supervision of the state forestry de part inent. Abolition of private employment agencies uini consolidation of all parta of the municipal and state govern- menl pertaining to labor Into one de- partment, to be known r. the state department of labor, Is now proposed by the citizens' employment commit tee of Portland. All land lu the Oregon A California grant, other than mineral land, which carrlea a stand of more than MMM feet of timber to the 40 acres, will bo classified as timber land, under an 'amendment to the Chamberlain bill adopted by the bouse sub-committee on public lands. As the result of a campaign begun vernl yar ago by th Hood Rlvr I commercial club, the Unltad State. war department I now engaged In , making a survey of the water front ' along the Columbia at Hood River pre paratnry to making recommendations for dredging operations To make possible the running of a large number of cattle In Eagle valley, BaaT Dakar, for which grating prlvl lag were denied by the forestry service, the Cattle and Horse Kaisers' association of the section will lease I all privately ownd rang land r-! maining on rtno creea. The mine planter Ringgold, com manded by Captain Cowley. Coast Ar tillery Corps, has arrived at Fort Steven for mine planting and Inatruc tlon for the Thirty-Fourth company, commanded by Captain Long. A period of alx weeks will be devoted to meth- carry a load exceeding 600 pounds when the rouds arc muddy and soft enough to require chains on the wheel to prevent them from slipping u has been further ordered that no traction engine shall be allowed to haul any load without a permit of the ' county court on request of nine short line rail-1 roads operating In Oregon, the public ' service commission telegraphed Sen alors Chamberlain and 1-an. asking them to Investigate th merit of th ' bill proposed by Senator Phelan. of California, providing for the regula- Hon of railway mall pay rates by the interstate commerce commission for annual welKhiug and other relief. An agreement on the main Issues of the proposed regulations governing j side ad overhead clearance on lira- ! gon railroads was tentatively reached at Salem at a conference between rep- j reaentatives of all Oregon roads, their j employes and the public aasvkwj eaxaj j mission The contemn.- was called 1 by ih.- commission preparatory to It promulgation of standard clearances to apply to rallwaya lu thla state, That there la a great scarcity of ex perlenced' teachers available for firat class districts over the stste Is the report of f, C Ayer. director of the University of Oregon appointment bu reau. For the past few weeks he haa been swamped with calls for teachers, especially those fitted to teach history and English, and Pro feasor Ayer haa had to answer "no qualified candidate" In almost every ; Instance wiih less than a month left in which to register for the primary election iu m.i. less than one third of the quail fled voters of Oregon are on the lists, according to reports from over tho aud it was divided anions the political partlea as follews: Republicans, $,- R-.'!i, ,cniocrats, 26,336, progressives, fit; prohibitionists. USTj socialists. MTa; miscellaneous, 3147. After making a reconatssance sur- vey of Coos county. Deputy Highway Engineer Cautine has re omiiiendi .1 .1 tumativc plan of road improvement to the county court. The routes he ad vjHed ure us fo'lews: From the Curry ' county Haa t Handon; from Bandou to Coquille or a short distance west of j 'couuille; from there 10 Coos Hay; a road north from the bay to tbe Doug- ;Us county line wa Tenmile. one or two ferries from North llcud to Ken- took Inlet and Nortr. Inlet; comple ' tlon of the road from Glasgow to con-1 uct with th Templeton highway. SCOUTS EMPLOYED TO TRAIL BANDITS Washington Thinks That Cam paign Will End Quickly Un less Villa Fleet. Washington. Washington officials are satisfied that If the Mexican ban dit Villa, makes a stand the cam palgn will end quickly, but It Is be- lleved that If ha leaves his follower he oan reach a haven of safety from his present probable whereabouts In less than a day's riding, In the Guerrero district and In the country adjacent to llabrlcora, Villa la at home. For years he operated there In defiance of the laws of Mex- lco and Its constituted authorities. The mountains to the west offer countless hiding places and routes of escape. If hard pressed. Villa, officials believe, might abandon his men, don the garb Pn nd floe so far Into the south that It would be exceedingly difficult. 1 If not Impossible, to apprehend him. Scouts Know Country. To meet this situation, Oeneral Pershing, It was learned, has decided to employ men as scouts who have lived all their Uvea in these moun tains. These men know the hiding places and retreats In which tbo ban- dlts are sura to take refuge, If hard pressed. On them aa a final resort. will fall the task or trailing Villa to earth. Elaborate scouting plans are understood to have been completed. Th war department haa, at the r- iust of th stste department, sent ex- jMtl Instruction to th for In Mxlco not to occupy Mexican towue. Such occupation. It la aald, might have th result of stirring up resentment mong the Mealcana. Army Mill Rasdy For Amendment. With virtually unanimous declara tion for national preparedness, th house army Increase bill reached th amendment stag after 10 hour of general debate Th house began dls- cusslon of details In earnest Monday, but thr are Indication that oppol- Hon to the measure as s change In na tlonal policy haa collapsed. No op ponent appeared during the debate except Meyer London, the socialist repreaentatlve from New York. Th aenate's army bill also came up Monday, with administration lead I r urging that th senate sidetrack I all other business until It Is disposed I of. Interest centered In President wu sen's attitude as between these two measures, which differ essentially. Bill Called "President's Own." Chairman Hay, of the house mill tary committee, described the house bill during debate as "the president's own bill." Prealdent Wilson let It be known that, while he approves the general feature of the Hay bill, he has not committed himself as to Its details. Administration offlclala ar looking to the conference commltt which will ndjual the house and aenate hills after passage to produce a measure which will have the president's full approval. Speaker Clark closed the general de bat In the house, expressing approval ' of the Hay bill and -declaring It was satisfactory to the average American "d aa good aa could be expected In the circumstances. The nation as a whole, he said, wlahed to hold a mid die course. Air Rich Ar Sought, Three novernmont plant for taking nitrogen from the air for fertiliser. munition of war and the arta. war recommended to the senate agrlcul tural committee b) Thomas H. Norton. former consul at Chetnnitx, Oermuny, where he had made a cloae study of nitrogen manufacture. He was at tached to the bureau of foreigu and domestic commerce lir Norton recommended one plant near the Intersection of Ueorgia, North Carolina and Tennessee, to be reason ably free from a southern invasion of 1 hostile army aud near cheap water-j power. A slightly larger plant he neon-1 mended In western Pennsylvania, to atssfil plsce power could be conducted from Niagara. To avoid high freight I rates 011 nitric acid, he recommended tuiru P'"i iu mtiea uistant rrom the Pacific littoral. Senators Vote to Assure Mexicans, j A concurrent resolution by Senator LaFolletto, declaring that congress ap proved the use of the army to pursue Villa and giving further assurances that the sovereignty of Mexico waa not to be encroached on by the puni tive expedition, waa adopted unani mously without debate by the senate. Taggart to Be Senstor. Indianapolis. Thomas Taggart, tia tlonal coinmittceiimn from Indiana of the democratic party, It became known here, is to be named successor of the hue llenjamlu t, Shively in th United States senate. Cardinal Qotti I Ossd. Rome, via Paris Cardinal Jerome; Mary Oottl, prefect of the propaganda, died Sunday. MAMIM'll ITFMS Mrs. Dow Adams snd family have moved from the Humboldt Mine to their farm near town. Mrs. Thos. Whselock and daugh ter Mary returned home from Pendle ton where they have been visiting for some time. Mr. Oeo. Parrott of Pendleton Is here looking after a new homestead location. Frank L. Morfltt has gone to On tario for a visit with friends. Ed. Hulery of Ontario was here to- day on his way to Bridgeport. Dr. J. B. White was a county seat visitor this week on land business Mrs. Caley Jones and children have moved to the Rainbow mine. ' Dobson and family are moving to their homestead near town. J. K. Hill went to Baker for a few j days. William Sargent Is acting post master during Mr. llrtl's absence. 0. H. Morfltt. Earl Oliver. William I Sargent. Mert Mondy and Riley Banks were all Vale visitors during THE UNIVERSAL INSTRUMENT Thirty yearn ago th telephone waa a luxury. Today, through personal Initiative and private enterprise, It has become a necessity wlthlu the reach of everybody. Where one a busi ness had but one telephone with a limited talking range, today that business has service with a range three-quarters of a conti nent broad, and every branch of every business I linked to ev ery other by an Intercommunicating telephone system. The telephone ha earned Its responsible place and there are now 8,000,000 Bell telephones In this country, over which go 14.000.000 talks dally. Every Bell Telephone in a Long Distance Station. Malheur Home Telephone Co. lir-'JfiftisTsi SMisJgr "Tjll "HE UNIVERSAL CAR ( Every other car on th road Is a Ford; mors than half the car bought thla year Will be Ford. Thar' a mighty good reason. Ford oar ar filling a plaoe In every field of hum an activity. Cot about two cent a mil to operate and maintain. Bat ter order yours today! Kunabout $390; Touring Car $440. All prlcea f. O. b. Detroit. Ob sale at TlfOtf. V. COWAKU. At- Ontario. I I Jfc ) F aaiiSi 1 ajj ffJjy 1 1 Scale Scab Mildew Tin nc me the iritu'ijiitl pests and iliscascs atfectiug the apple orchard JjjgS Soluble Sulphur la the best spray for scale, mildew and scab. It has a proved record of Ave years. Effective, Eco nomical, Convenient. Note results obtained by Washington Him Ion, using M lbs. to 100 gallens: Yakima alley In 1913--w ., scale killed. Yakima Valley lu 1914 -9' ; scale killed. Wenatchee Valley In 1915 98' ; scale killed. Note results obtained by District Inspector at North Yukiina In 1914 with :!0 lbs. to 100 gallons, 99' I scale killed. Again three tests at different strength lu 1915: 16 lbs. to lOil callous 75'., scale killed. N ll. to 100 gallons 96' i scale killed. 25 lbs. to 100 giillouh 98', scale killed. This is ui! Indisputable scieullllc record. inn lb. drum $7.50 10 1b. can 125 lib. can 20 LILLY'S-Seattle and Portland the week. Lew Sutherland of Ho.itta was In Malheur ovei night on his way to the Rainbow mine. Snow Is still going, the reservoir has reached the high water mark and from all Indications there will be much more water than there has been since the reservoir was com pleted several years ago. Moat all of the stock men have turned their stock out on the range. The grass Is growing very fast and there will not be so great a loss in stock as was feared. Mr. 8. Derrick waa taken to the hoslptal at Ontario to undergo an operation. He la reported as Im proving according to latest reports. Women kiss when they moot, men shake hands, and animals rub noses. But what will Villa and the devil do when they meet? The wise man, you know, Is a man among men, but the tool Is Just only a fool. It You Want to IluW xfow to Control BCALB, MILDIW and BCAB Bead for oar 11 IFBAT ivuitii It tells aboat the est Bpray and how avast to pray ff ' wiaTTr 111 SOLVULL A SULPHUR "csajsTuu m PI40M ,,pxin3,, peiino os etn jo jsoi ii s .ii)ati im 1J019J Xstn oudM "Mi iihiu.iao-ib jo) JB ion run Aiiil l"il agjnt3 nip oj. Only a wise man ever admits that he la a fool. 0. S. L. TIME TABLE Westward No. t 17 Oregon Wash. Ltd 111 m. 75 Huntington pony f 86 . . m IB Oregon Wash Exp. :88 p. n. 5 Fast Mall lilt p. ui. Futstwan' 1 Oregon Was , Lt(.. P. II . m. 76 Boise Pony 0:61 a. m. 4 Eastorn Expre? . j2: i p. m. Oregon Wash Exp 6:. 18 p. m. OKHttON 1: 1 .TM I .t M -II . eat ward No. Laav 139 Mixed uall' except fundey fo lllvrralda 13:20p.m. lAl.i. .HUM. AN rllttM II Hi' 1 h a nl No. Leave i41 idlx" i Vn n A Brognn Da'.y ex ept Hunday 10:00 a.m. '.) P ss. ile dally . 7:00 p. m. F-astwnrri 140 Mlx.il from ItlverHldn daliy except Hunday 12:01p.m. (8 Faaa. from Val. dally 8:40 a. m. .42 Mixed from Hrogan A vale dally except Hunday 3:30 p. m. The Horaedal train leaves Nysaa at 1:80 p. m. on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, returning same day, gnlTltg f.t OiiUDn n ft: 20 p. m OFFICIAL DIRECTORY United Htate President Woodrow Wilson Vlo-l'resldont Tho. It. Marshal Hecretary of State, .. Robert Lansing Secretary of Tnas , . . W. O. McAdoo Secretary 01 War, ..L. M. Harrison Attorney-General.. Thoa. W. Gregory I'ostmaster-t nersl. . . .A. Durlason Hecretary of Navy J. Daniels Sac'y of Interior ..Franklin K.Lano Sc'y of Agrloultuxa,, D. P. Houston 8o'y of Comm-ice. Wm. C. Itdflld Sscretary of Larxr. . . .W. B. Wilson Sec'yto th Pros J. P. Tumulty V. H. Hnpresnc Coiri Chief Justice Kdwurd 1) vVhltx Associate Justlcss, Jiisupli McKenna lillver Wendell Holm , William H. Day j Jama C. Mrlte nolds Charles B. Hughes Willis VanDevaniet Joseph It l.iuusr Mahlon IMtney Vale U. .. I -.ml utile. r. Register Tho.. Vu Receiver M. N Ft, ly Mate Offlcers. Governor Jsmes With) com e 8c'y of Stat Ben Olcc Treasurer, ' 1 J. Kay Attorney-General, . .0o. . 1 .own Supt. of Public Instruction J. A. t nun till) Dairy and Food Commlsslouei J. D. Mlcsl State Printer, A. W. Lawteoc U. 8. Senators. , Hary K. Lane O. E. Chamberlain Congressman. W. C. Il.i ley N. J. Slnnot C. N. McArthur State Supreme C'oart Chief Justice Frank A. Moor Associate Justices, Thomas A. McBrlde Henry J. liean George H. Burnett Robert Eakln Henry L. Benson Lawrence T. Harris Ninth Judicial District District Judge Dalton Bigga District Attorney W. H. Brook Senator 2Hth legislative Assembly Joint Senator, for liraut, Malheur, and Harney Counties, . . Lorlng V. Stewart County fttcer County Judge U. W. McKnlght County Clerk John P. Houston Sheriff Ben J. Brown County Commissioners, John F. Weaver Melville Kelley County Treasurer, J Assessor Ralph Weaver . .Lewis K. Hill Fay Clark . .B. F. Farmer . . . R. O. Payn A. R. Mcintosh (Ontario Dls- O. L. King School Supt County Survayor. . . County Coronor Truant Officer Justice of th Peace trlct Circuit Court Circuit Court for Malheur county meets in Vale, the county seat, on the second Monday lu January; on the fourth Monday in April; and on the first Tuesday in September for regular sessions. Hon. Dalton Biggs, Circuit Judge; W. H. Brooke, Dist rict Attorney; John P. Houston, Clerk. County Court. The County Court of Malheur County meets In regular session at Vale on the first Wednesday of Jan uary, March, May, July, September and November. County Judge, Oeo. W. McKnlght; M. D. Kelley and John F Weaver, Commissioners; John P. Houston, Clerk