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OXT.tlllO, IMIII.I It COUNTY, ORKOOV, Tllt'IlSD IV. AUGUST 10, Ifllfl
M'MIIK.H M
RAILROAD MEN ARE
IN FAVOR OE STRIKE
If Drm.i nds Are Not (Irant-
ed at Once by the
Companies.
New York rtepresentatlTS of tilt
four (treat railroad brotherhoods
I ii 'lav presented in the railroad
managers tin- result of the strike
vote lo enforce their demands fur mi
eight-hour day and higher overtime
pay
Soon after the figure were present
eil tlin conference itel Jinirtii-il until
Wednesday to allow the rullroiiil
managers to conHldor the reHiilt
The engineer reported 98 II per
ront favored a strike and the fire
men and englnemcn ON 04 per cent
lor a atrlke. The iriilnmen ami
conductors IlkewlMe voled over
whelmingly In favor of atrlke
tint of a total f 1 2B.I0H train
men, 124, 832 favored a atrlke, with
1400 votea still to he heard from
The conductor, with 34,846 vote
cist, voted 14.01 per rent In the
western dlstrlit. 84 OH per cent in
eastern and II 14 per cent In the
southern district In favor of a atrlke
The man, pern objected to the In
In inn In I he Hi'tima of the vol ofi
mph,i of the i iida not reprer'm.
' I in tin- (oniureuee, but they I
'n. 'mine. I I the union heada th.it
tie four I roMinrhooda were fight hu
for every railroad employe through
out the country aa a matter of prin
ciple.
A li Qarretaon, prealdent of the
Order of Hallway Conductors, noil
fled the manage that the time for
parleying waa over, unleaa the rnada
were prepared to present a niotllfled
proposition Wdiiesdav
H O Drane la home from a trip
to Portland and la boosting hard for
another exoutsltvt to Smith's Fern
If there are enough people Interest
ed another trip will be made about
the 20th of this month Tell Drane
about It If you are Intereated.
BOND ELECTION OE THE
IRRIGATION
Voters In the district under the
WarmMpringH project on Tuesday
will determine the most important
question presented to Hie people of
Hi's vicinity for years. At that tunc
thev hIII vote upon the quealon of
bonding Hie district for ?;.o,nuo fur
Hie construction of u reservoir and
the extension and enlargement of the
present distributing service.
If, as it Is generally believed, an
affirmative vote is given for the
bonds IS, 000 acres of hitherto un
irrlgated lands will be uddud to the
productive urea of this section und
20,000 acres . I present partially ir
rigated will be immeasurably nn
proved and pluced In a position to
raise crops to their full capucity
The one outstanding development
in connection with this project fl
corded during the past week was Hie
examination of the feasibility of tin
work and the des.rubility of the
bonds as a financial proposition, by
E. C. Hopson of Portland. Mr.
liopson, who for years was with the
United States reclamation service as,
"engineer in charge," of the various
irrigation projects iu California,
Oregon and Washington, ig one of
the most eminent Irrigation engineers
In the country.
Is the Beet In the West.
After a thoro investigation of the
Warmspriiigo piujovi Mi Hopsou
gave it his unqualified approval. "It
is the beat Irrigation project in the
West," he Is quoted as saying
"Recently I have investigated five
irrigation projects for which bonds
are to be voted and uone of them
compare with the Wartusprings,
Both, as an engineering and finan
cial undertaking it is all right," he
aid.
At the present time Mr. Hopson
lining eugluoer for several of
Hie largest bond bunking concerns
on the coast and his visit here was
for Hie purpose of gathering data
for these companies who will be In
HOLD UP MEN MAKE
CRAB AND GET AWAY
llelniil. Auk 4 Ma li'd bandit'
this afternoon riiiiled the llurroiir.lis
Adding Machine oompanj pgj a u
nnl fun Mil I In i ni' i I . urroiid
er Hie money !ii' OKI Thre
gunmen parilclpaii'il m Hie rail. Of
ficials h Id that $4 T. i wn atoll II
The police dlspatl In .1 I of de
tectives In the pursuit
The Imndits attacked Hie Itni
rnitghls hunk messenger at the nn
tier of C4UM and Amsterdam I1MM
outs de (if Hie iifflces and soicd II. e
couipany'H payroll funds The ruh
hnra alio! fluiird Cooper hut the ex
tent of he Injitrlea are unknown li
Is the iiKisI sensational daylight Imld
up In Detroit's history
The rohhers rode In a Ford auto
mohlle nnd attacked the messenger
as lie alighted from the pay car
They fired a fusllarie of shots from
automatic shntguna and pedestrian-i
fled ii panic The gold in five boxes
Hie hauilitM tiuirkly tranferred to
their own machine leaving the sixth
money hox Thev fled down Cass
avenue at a terrific apecd. The po-
lice are halting and searching all
Portia tills afternoon.
IN LOCAL RAILROAD CIRCLES
W. II Young, the engineer In
I charge of the construction work on
the Oregon ft Kastcrn. came In Tues
day and went nn to Ban Francisco
for a vacation lie aaya the work la
coming along flue and that the road
i will be completed inside of thirty
days. In a short time they will be
running trains into Crane three times
a week.
There la a lot of work being done
In the locul railroad yurda
About
thirty men are here Changing the
I',,.. .,t i.i.nin. .-, hk. .a i
"-'- .,. uvn watn . .,11.1
switches
The signals are all being chang
ed to give the switching crews more
room and the new lines will give
room to store the extra trains laying
here. A separate crew Is working
on the signals.
WARM SPRINGS
DISTRICT ON THE 15-TH
the market for the bonds after the
election next Tuesday.
In viw of the fact that for the first
time In recent years the bond mar
ket has become active and moeny Is
seeking investment, the report of Mr.
Hopson will be of material assist
ance In the sale of the bonds. In
fact those Interested feel that his
report assures the sale.
A. W 'I'm, of this city, with
whom Mr liopson spent a portion
ol Tuesday going owr various phases
of the project declares that the con-1
summation of the sale of the bonds
und Hie completion of the reservoir
and laterals, means more to Ontario,
Vale and lenity than uny event iu
recent years.
According to the plana of the pro-1
Jectors one-half of the sum realized
from the bund sale will be spent for
the reservoir while the balance will ,
be used to enlarge the present later- j
als, where needed, and to extend
others to the lands now without wat
er rights.
To complete the work will require
some time. If an Immediate sale
of the bonds can be made, and tin
work started this fall, sufficient work
cau be done to put water on all the
lands In 1918 The cost for this per
acre will depend upon the ditches at
present reaching the various portions '
of the district
Get Out to Vote.
Everyone Interested should vote,
for the completion of the work
means the salvation of many of the
ranchers, say those who are in a po
sition to know what the work means,
to the community
The voters will cast their ballots
in the five divisions as follews: No. I
1, at the Grove school house; N'o 2.
at the Star school house; No. 3,
at the "Old Mill;" No. 4, at the Mal
lett school liouae and N'o. 5 at the ;
residence of C. E S. Wood iu SQCttOB
13, T. 18 8, range 46 E.
Nil. HUGHES HAS SOMETHING
TO SAY WHEN HE TALKS
Is Not Only Critical But Constructiv
In His Arguments--A Man
For Red Blooded Men.
Chicago Charles K Hughes told
nn audience that crowded Chicago's
great Coliaeum Tuesday night li
hall where he waa nominated for the
presidency -what lie would do If
elected president of the I'nlted State
Hughes charged the present nil
ministration with waste. extrava
gance and vacillation lie declared
that It had not kept the country out
of war, tiul that It had fought an
'""" nl""H ar ,n Mexico nnd had
withdrawn from that war ignomln
. I'" charged the admlnlstra
t,on wlth "vn" brought the country
"""',l '" participation In the
Kuropean war than the country
would have been had the admlnls
tratlon "alood for American rights "
He declared that It waa no more
possible to expect tariff protection
to American Industries from a dem
ocrat than It would be to "get a re
vival aernion out of -a disorderly
liouae."
The nominee assailed the admin
istration alao for Ita appo!ntmenta to
office, and declared that If elected
he would appoint to office only men
who were well qualified
Democratic expenditures for rlv
era and harbors were attacked by the
"o.mner. propose inui we suaii
stop this pork bUBlneaa." he said "I
propose that we shall have govern
I meiit In a businesslike way. We
won't have any more if I can atop
It on these 'kiss me and I'll klaa you'
appropriations In congress
The nominee said he stood for a
I "businesslike budget" based on facts
"I do not want any hot air In
mine," he added.
The democratic party, Hughes
said, was approaching the Idea of a
protective tariff "like a skittish
horse to a brass band " In 1912, he
added, "the democratic platform
I had said In effect that a protective
tariff waa unconstitutional.
"They say In effect now that the
I European war has changed the con-
1 - it iiiit.ii of the United States." he
continued "Do you think they are
converted? Don't you trust them a
little minute with protecting Ameri
by Frists
1 aHSm " fl lAslEEHIa sB slaw
CHARLES EVANS HUGHES.
can Industry They haven't got It
In their bones."
Hughes reltcrati'd much or Ills He
trolt speech regard ng the admlnls
tration's Mexican policy.
"It had no right," he said, "to
loiiunlt this country to a course of
conduct whlrli landed Mexico In nn
nrcliy, left our rltisens a prey to the
ravngea of revolution and made our
name a word of contempt In a sister
republic.
"We have allowed, our worda to be
oaten up by hesitation, by delay u .
have somehow or another convinced
the world that our talk Is cheap.
"I propose that we have a new
birth of American purpose and cour
age. We have no occasion to fear i
war In those assertions of rights,
which all recognise and only respect
us for maintaining Hut If we are
glib In speech, if we Indicate that we
are not ready to meet the full re
sponsibility that our words imply,
we are pushed n little further and a
little further, until some fine day
vents occur which arouse an Impla
cable resentment from one end of
the country to the other. This Is
the danger of war.
"This administration has come
nearer to landing us In war by Ita !
weakneas than It would ever have
come had It stood faithfully for
American rights and had let It be ,
known that they would be defended
"I believe that with our peaceful !
. purposes, our Just purposes, we have
i no occasion to ha drawn Into strife,
1 if we are prepared, if we are digni
fied, If we show that we mean what
we say.
Hughes spoke for nearly an hour
He entered a hall that was so Jammed
that even the ateel cross girders
were used for seats. The audience
cheered III 111 for five minutes before
he spoke. A brass band perched bj
a loft In the fsr end of the hall play
ed three stanzas of the "Star Spang
led Manner' during Hie denioustra
Hon, but Hie mils I was lost In the
volume of other sound
The nominee left at 10:4.. Tues
..
day night for si Paul
i
J. E. ROBERTS HAS
HEART FAILURE
i I Hoi. ii i . Hi.- publisher of the
Maiio in- Knterpi I droppi A dead
Sunday morning true heart trouble
He 4iis o it w it h a haul mil- part)
above Thorn flat in, wa
Million., , iiiil) uouiplalui . in" inn
being able to get Ills breath and the
next minute dropped and . d with
out a struggle
Mr Rofcettl had to ."d gBOUl all
his life In this section living for
many years In Harney county, later
In Vale, where he had it paper some
ivMiitv wars ngo. later about 1R99
in Ontario whore lie published -Hie
Mattock, which waa founded b
Judge d I, King, and was turned ov
er by Huberts to Judge Clement and
D i itovd Still later he was pu
blishing a labor paper In llolse dur
Ing the Haywood trial for the mur
der of Governor Stunenberg
In 1910 he came to Ontario and
organised a company, took over the
Optimist and rcchr stened It the
lieinorrat running It for several
months For the pnst few years he
has had the Vale Enterprise
Mr Huberts left a wife and sev
eral children, who are residents of
Vale and two sisters.
ORECON FARMERS HAVE MONEY
Salem, Ore Oregon fanners this
year will reap a profit of :il.380,KOO
from nine principal products ac,,.i,l
Ing to estimates compiled by C P
Huff, state labor commissioner. The
crop of wheat, corn, oats, barley, po
tatoes and apples will each exceed
l. 000. 000 in value
The h'ggest Item In Oregon's enor
mous harvest Is the wheat crop.
which will show a yield of 11,781,
000 bushels of winter and 4,000,000
bushels of spring wheat, or a total
or 15,781.000 bushels.
The estimated value of the entire
wheat crop of the state at the farm
on August 1, was 83 cents a bushel,
or a totsl of 113,097.230
THE AGRICULTURAL SIDE OE THE EAIR
WHERE YOU SHOULD GET IN AND BOOST
Everyone ha has anything I.. .in
with our Malheur County Fair Is
working and work.ug hard. Mal
heur county Is indeed fortuuate Iu
that It has a uuiuhei ot men who .in
so public spirited that they ure will
ing to give maiiv days of Hour linn
and uiuii) hours of their night to
make cm h ..u the In-.1 county fair
in Hie state. They do this gratis,
and all they ask is lli.it Hi,'
Ihc people show the same spirit und
I ' l' upport the lair in Hie ways that
they cm
This year Malloui nuinlv i- sliori
iu son- hi IBS li nil line, Inn
nun is only one ol the n.aiiv prod
t Malheur county Hung in
your hcM .Hiiiii.i. ..iii grain . youi
, vour i org, and v.nii
bles. Suve it iu big bunches for
this Is a big country, and we want
the strangers to know tli.it we grow
stuff iu generous iuantn
Go out iuto your grain fields and
select the best, culling it full length
Make tins grain, eg well as alfalta,
up into small handles und hung
heads down lu a dark dry gvtgvflg i
cure. Then strip the leitves from
the grain sheaves, and build up
bundles about six inches in dlametir
in- Willi rihlion und they ure
to show Treat alfalfa the same nay
except that the leaves must be left
on, even sprinkling the bundles
slightly after they are cured hetoie
handling to prevent loss of Iim
Put your vegetables up as though
you were intending them for the
fancy market Do not try to make
Hie li g overgrown freaks into prize
XhJUt stuff. 11 is the best that Hie
market Is looking for that is Hie
best show stuff.
Kin mirage tin; children to bring
in their industrial club exhibits. l(e
iiieuilur that you were u child onii
mii ell, and probubly needed ni
courugen.eiil. and SO help Ho
their exhibit to the fair, and then
bring them all in to gag it.
The fair uiaiiugeuient iu working
hard to build an i dm itiotial fair,
PORTLAND LIVE STOCK
Light Run and Good Prices
for Most SluiT Hcitiff
Offered.
Tlnr. .ii,,. very guild 0,01-
lly ' Crohn that old at
$ii 7 . l"i . ' ,il in .11 I. nil, hr i ot
her steer, mto of feeder class and
were taken by speculators at prices
ranging from I on to $:, '.n There
was nothing Hint changed hands Sat
tiril.i x
With another heavy offering of
steers today buyers were ind .tied to
lake off some more. Trailing waa
slow In getting under way, but after
It got started it was mostly on a IS
to 2 "i cent lower basts The best
bunch went at 7 10 with oilier loads
of prime steers getting In at 17 00.
Hulk of today's steers as a rule were
pretty good and sold from $11 110 to
78. Ordinary stuff went at 15 00
to IS.7B.
There waa only a light run of
cows hero today Prices were about
steady In some cases a little lower.
A few head sold as high as $.'. ,'0,
while the hulk of sales were made
at from It nil to $5 00.
A fair offering of swine was hern
for Friday's market, about M)0 head
There was good demand It was a
strong, active market. A few bunches
sold at 19.40 and $9 .10 The balance
of stuff was from valley points and
real I ed $9 30 for the bulk. Only one
load made up the Saturday recelpta
In the bughouse and sold at steady
pile's
Today's market was one of the
strongest sessions for some time.
Trices were advanced 36 to 40 cents
on the hulk of stuff Tops sold at
II 75 and the bulk went at 11.70 to
11.75. There was a keen demand
from many buyers with the lightest
Monday's receipts for more then a
year here. Pigs sold aa high as
19.10. Portland's market Is now
uhout the highest In the country
ami offer good premiums fot t
exhibits I'll haps I hey an
spending all of the money as you
would -1 ii .1 it, hut remember that
tluv have no more cause to give
their time to nur fair than you have,
atld thai thev will wi'lcolne your
time ami labor to help l.uild the fair
as von want it built Tin) art of
fering premiums much larger than
most county fairs, and they must
i ' n fin i ii in.-, from Hie gate
receipts Therefore, in order lo
.1 i lug ulti'lnl.ilii I. it
I'pi'l I I lie fall not olllv In i lid
Dig III exhibit , but liv attending the
lair t! nn- ilnwii and
study t'e exhibits and talk with the
g n i
w u HOWARD
County Agnciiii tiral Agent.
CROP PROSPECTS oFTHE U. S.
Vushuigiiiii. Aug I The depart
ment oi agriculture lode) forex
"mediocre crop ol kbogl III.MtV
ouu bushels Of wheat Crop pros
pi ' I di'illlnil 10 . ,1)011, OUU bushkls
between July 1 unit August 1 l.ant
year's crop was 1 1,01 L',000,000 bu
h.-l ,
Other esliuiatus are:
Corn, 2,777.000,000 bushel'
year it was ,056,000.000
Oats l,ii74.000,UUO bmliels Last
year it .i I I I ...ooo.uou
Kye, j 1,900. 000 bushels.
Buckwheat 17,100,000,000 bus
While potato! -. Ill, nun, M bus
Sweet p., i.i 1 1, nun, nun l,us-
Tobucco, 1,917,000,01)11 pmi
Flux, 14,100,ut)i; pounds.
Ulie, I 1,100,000 bualx
Itice, 14,100,001 bush.
Iluy, I t, 100,000 hii I , I
Hnv, M.100.000 I.
I nil. in. 12.900,000 bales.
Sugar beets, 7.570,01)7 ton
Apples 71,000,000 barrels.
I'.-. iiieiiiill by