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About The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 17, 1916)
V m (MwcU 'Arm. . m vol. m ONTARIO, IIAI.HHI K OOUNTT, OJU-OOW. THURSDAY, AUGUST T. 1016 f '! I I 1 . . . I i -- 1 WCMBKR IW Warmsprings Bonds Carry By Big Majority JiAiL ELECTION RESULT AS CRlAKST FORWARD STEP TAKEN IN YEARS Eleventh Hour Opposition Whf Te ff ot Active Caused Sur prise Total Vote 86 For Bonds to 23 Against On tario Division itfcj'r 11 to 11 Vale Cast 29 to None Against. Sees Big Results From Rond Vote Hy a vote o( 8 for to 2.1 against, the . Wnrtniiprlnf bondii carried at the if. nun held on Tii4BJJ. .JThls re- hum is declared on every huna to be the blggeat forward taoJfekon In Miillieur county for years, the rilOTMT IIAHIKH HY ELIMINATING TRAVEL That Infant Ho paralysis la traveling weatward waa Indicat ed thin week by the development of seven caaes In Billing, Mon anft When the attention of Dr. W J. Weeae waa directed to thla re port ho aald, "There la but one moans of protecting the children from thla disease, namely by preventing contact. The parents of this section should not travel to the east with their children." Th doctor, added, however, that the scourge usually lasted ' but two or three months and disappeared iind now must have ' about run Its course. , tin portance of which to Ontario, Vale unl the ranchers of the valley can not bo over estimated, according to1 the moat reliably Informed students iif the local agricultural situation. ' While the general result waa fore- casted correctly an eleventh hour op- position appeared, which for a time gave some concern to the advocates' 'of the bonds. Perhaps the most surprising result of the ballot waa the vote In what Is known aa the Ontario district, which waa cast ni the ('. B. 8. Wood ranch In aectlon IS. There the vote waa tie, 11 for to 11 against. i ii. m ii- at Yale. In contradistinction to the rote there was that In the Vale division where there were 29 votes for the bonds to none against. In the sec ond illHtrlct above Vale the vote was 14 for to 8 against; In the first dis trict above Vale it was 18 for to two against; In the Mallett district the P. J. Gallagher Tells of Big rote was 12 for to two againat, show-1 . n --, sv, T- Ing the general approval with which1 " - w w.o iutoi- the obligation was approved by the iOT Thinks Big Problem property owners. Solved. "It la Impossible to estimate the full Import of what thla election means to this region, said A. W Trow, when the result HARNEY COUNTY NEVER BETTER --.rMWM . M 111 aaMafc' - B " HcftS GOVERNMENT EXPERTS COME HFRF TO INVESTIGATE MALHEUR DISTRICT S. Fortier and W. G. Sloan Relate Beneficial Results Ob tained in Twin Falls Region Declare Local Drainage District Well Formed and Want It to Serve an Object Lesson for Oregon. MOKK I 4. u-. I.KHH , Tor the purposo of making a u.m- VOBAOOO Mom. iimiimss Plte oiatninatlou of tho Malheur If UM men putrouljcd the .l)rBnI district, 8. Portier, clilef of flower stores more and the cl- ,th Irrigation Investlgatlun office of gur stores less, thero would be ,"l department of public roads, with morn happiness In this old world,'1 declare, Hev. D. E. linker in his sermon to tho con gregation at the union service last Sunday evening. The ser vices were held at the Methodist Kplscnpnl church Preaching on the theme, "The Symphony of Life," Rev. Ilak er averred that there never waa a tllme when run time amuse ments as well as rag time music headquarters at Washington U. C, ana W. Q. Sloan, drulnage englneei for the Idaho and Oregon district ar- 'rived in Ontario Tuesday evening. On Wednesday they started on a tour 'of the district on which they will prepare a rpporl. The drainago board work under the supervision of U W. Cage, who has charge of the expenditure; of the 1180,000,000 which during Hie next five years will be spent for pub- lands. The solution of the road pro- I I 111 111 illltlilll.il tlu as Inn St... u.l..ll. I ""- wviiiiiiiH ssi-iw wig Villi mJIUimii A. W. Trow, President of Ontario Commercial Club, Who Declares That Beneficial Results of Vote for Warmsprings Bonds Can Hardly Be Measured. fONKLHTINf. OAME LAWS MAY PI'KMHH I Hoi 111 I TO HOY I.VMI llliiM lllltlll P. J. Oallagher returned last Sat- waa known, urday from a Ions trio throuaii cen- "It means that nearly 40,000 aire. Ir.i rr.-r.n whirl. .,.,.- i.i... i.,... .i,.. of land have now a complete ,.,., r.u.w valley and Denlo country Hla'",' ft 8e,t6mber wh" l M' right It mean, that the water which ,rp was made primarily for the pur- """ "' P'a0e ,h' M,n,D d' ' hitherto has every year run. useless puse of looking after the interests of."0" " elobr ' to the sea, yea worse than -iseless, i, clients In regard to aeveral water! '" or(,er ,0 "" straight on the mat whlch has destroyed the banks and I suits that are pending In the Harney """ " ' understood that some of the wasted property will now be atored county courts but he had time to ''"' sportsmen are contemplating to be spread on lands now barren and look around and slxe up the general ek'n' decision from the federal Local sportsmen are in a quandry , At the hospital Saturday local sur over the conflict between the federal 'geons performed an operation which and Oregon laws governing the shoot- gave relief to the four year old son Ing of migratory birds. The Oregon of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Colley. The laws permit the shooting of these gritty little chap, who prior to hla birth, had suffered from a broken serve to raise abundant crops. I situation In the Inlaud Empire. Tithe most Important forward "Harney county Is perhans in a bet- step that has been taken for Malheur ter condition thla year than It has valley In years." said Attorney J. W been In many years past, certainly in Met ullocn. And this sentiment, variously expressed was heard every where on Wednesday. " The Warmsprings project, which lias been declared the best In the and atate authorities and In the mean time are going to avoid trouble by staying out of the field. West from every view point Mill con aerve the spring flow of the Malheur rler liy Mm building of a dam MfftM lli.' tiiiuit Ii of the canyon four tulles from Kiverside. The opening Is hut Mr t'lerf is building a fine rock 300 fitt wide ami the dam will lie burn cm the site of the huge struc uliout II fill In height When coin-'lure tha' was burned lust fall pleted the storage will cover l,M4 I he lute Bnow In the Bteen moun- acrea ..r tba Pad fie Lin Stock eon tains have kent tha . mil .... Doner snspe than In any year since J. II. Jeuklns, the sheepman of I have known the country," said Mr. Princeton in Hartley county, was In Oallagher. "The I" ranch and all Ontario Tuesday In his new Frauk of Ita tributary ranches will cut lln car. His family accompanied enormous hay and grain crops, as him. will all of the Harney valley ranches. I Prank Clerf, on the Alvord ranch will harvest 4000 tons of fine hay, as well as a lot of grain and alfalfa.' ankle which resulted In a turned foot, underwent an operation by which the inured member waa re-broken and the foot straightened. The little fellow came thru the or deal In good ahape and he will now lie able to use the foot and enjoy life with his playmates an evidence of the advanced surgical science occupied the time and attention ' Ho roads In the states having puhllo of the public more than they do today. He urged the deeper con sideration of life's realities. of drainage problems the engineers who visited Ontario this week will consider all the needs of this region. Want Malheur to He Model. Messrs. Portier and Sloan are not alone Interested In gathering data for their report on the local drain age situation, but they want the pre liminary work so performed that when the district la finally complet ed It will be a model for the entire SEE JOYS DEPART Vacation Days Coming to state of Oregon Close 1916 17 School Term In speaking of their work In solv- to Start Sentflmbftr 4 ln tno IMMmm of the ir- 1 .I..I.J H.UK. .. . !.. .- . .i-u idiiuui ui mo vvvsi lo uie Argus, Mr Portier, tuid. Course in Music Added. Miss Kuby Waldron, who was op erated upon at the hospital recently is convalscing and will soon be able to return to her home. Spent But Four Bits In Repairs In 2000 Mile Trip I ) ; 1 1 1 ' ranch In a thus furnishing witter for the entire valley during the crop growing season. Cost Not i.i.-.n The first step toward the comple tion of the work will be the sale of the bonds. It Is understood that of fers have already been made for the bonds. This is due to the fact that the cost of the work is not great in proportion to the value of the land, lentil of 87 feet, g 1 . i . ..r. lurnisliiuK an abundance To A. It Arnold of this city be longs the high honors for low cost alum, Ian.. f of wtUer ror ,.lt.ry I)liruoHe , ilt) touring trips. Mr Arnold accom laVlBI M'liiiesula all. I Nnrlh Da kola we hud nuine hard going on uc count of tilt) mud, tho otherwise the muds were good. In Montana we i.iund tho highways fine, as we did thru t tie Dud I.aiuls of North Hakn "We, Mr. Sloan, and I, have Just I'll III II lfl 14 1 nil III . '.tut lav r i,in .. . Tt. . --si . .-. I -w-g,.-.-, ... ... .......l.w g .w-i . ..- ... .... .- u7. ,r .. TOy ulM) dtalrlcl mMeU ,ncudui( 8i000 and girls of Ontari.d vicinity. Af creil oll ,he nort ,lde of lh8 Uolt ter three months of Joyful sport the river dbwirMMsaMteii, of ('aid youth of the community will have ! wu". -here the problem in h..nieli. to go back to school. Swimming l,,,"'r t0 lh,t ln M'hur county. and fishing will be but memories ror "'" UM ,,ve J'er" Mr '"" lias been In charge of the work la the Twin Palls district, and due to his work, which 1 must coimn. ml very highly the problem has been solved. There u vast areu of irri gated laud was threatened with de struction hy ground water. Mr. Sloan and his anoclatea have recent ly solved Ihe problem by drilling wells Into the lava rock ami liberat ing large quantitieH of water "lleslde getting rid of ihe .Ictrue- in the season Harney county farm- panled by Mrs Arnold and their 18 ers and ranchers will greet the new months old son, Russell, arrived in railroad witn an overwhelming ton- Ontario Monday from Thief Kiver ta. The most unpleasant roads we nage In the way of live stock, wool KUj Minnesota, in their uew car and Mruck, aside from the bad going in and grain shipments, the country is aeHplle ,(ie fact that the Journey was WyomiM. wn IM dMt deep roads prosperous which means that they 1934 mlleg long ,he ,,, of rep.,rh 1(iaho. Of sou were good will be heavy buyers of outside goods, WM only flfty cenU Md had ,, aol roBd9 ln ,daho ,00 after ie , dl4),H giving the railroad work both ways. iMeB kuowu to be a tourist the bill In Montana the hot plains were more jusi at present mere is a nine uncertainty about the future plans of, and also because of the nature of the, the railroad people, but the one great ground the work can easily be done I problem Is solved, there is steel in The dam which will be built first the valley, and this great wealth pro- will require an expenditure of about (360,000, while the bonds authoriz ed on Tuesday a total of 1760,000. The balance will be used for the en largement of present laterals and the building of laterals to hitherto un cultivated lands. The plana for this work have al ready been made after extenaive sur veys by botli state and national gov ernment engineers. Thesa surveys were most exhaustive and the speci fications were so fully worked out that detail costs per acre were made One of the facts most dwelt upon by the engineers was the easy ineth- would have been but two bits. noticeable. On the long Jaunt from the north- "The only stop we made for re ern Minesota city Mr. Arnold expert- palra was that to replace a hub cap eneed all kinds of roads, most good, Tills cap should have cost us but two some fair and about B0 miles of bad bits, but the garage highwayman saw (Continued on page two) Hiir.lii' ari In f nn n . I Inn -Ilk ttt. , . road between the entrance to Yellow- by our Minnesota license that we were outside world and markeln lrrigs .. .,,.. stone Park and Oody, W -lag. ;ioartst and doub ed the price so we nun. ax(i iui inci uwidiuuuidui mill follow fast. The oll altuation will ,., . ri.-r..,in-H -nrt .hnniH in. snd during all that time they slept . ... m .. ..i In their tent and camoed out ln Dio-.trlD ot nearly 2,000 miles iyi uuiuioi o iiii inv iv w in. auir - clpate, the future of Central Oregon need '"on, enjoying very minute will rival that of the richest sections ot tne d,'r of the United States." . "Had we not endeavored to see ev- ,n trouble Some of the big Mr. Oallagher la an ardent booster erythlng worth while," aald Mr Arn- c8" were ln -ua UP over the hubs, for Harney valley, and is banking old Tueaday, "we could have come on waa so deep in a hole that the -.is JtdaH by launching another thru ln ten days or two weeks, but uisgneto was Hooded and It took newspaper blant at the braad mtg.wt were not ln a hurry so took in the nearly a day to dry it out after they town of Crane. His paper, the Crane park and othe points of Interest. hua u hauled to a garage and applied American, will keep the outside The trip from the park to Cody, 60 While the trip occupied three weeks "f "ut rour " "" i"1 " nils I believe is some record for a "Coming down from the Yellow stone in Cody we found all kinds of an electric fan for hours. world well Informed of the oppor- miles Is equal ln many respects to the i Mr. and Mrs. Arnold will be in tunlties and developments surrounding country. of the Park itself. Tho the roads there town for some time before going out were bad It is a trip worth taking. I to their ranch west of the city. while the prosaic pastime of per suing "readin' ". "ritln1 " and rlthmellc' ", will occupy their at tlon. The board or dlrectora of school district No 8, have decided to open the schools on September 4th for the 1916-17 term. It Is the belief of those In charge of the schools (hut there will he a large increase in the attendance of high school student. It Is to be hoped that the boys und,,,v" WH"r ll""'1' 'M -" ' girls expecting to attend high Mhool '''' Thy ls l''"'""h.ih inn- k will make urrttiiK''ii.enis in coiMi,,. i,. ' " r"" -M lesa fir-l day ..f the Trst week, "'""'' 'll"'"l ll"- winter DtOBl for it l liupu-ihl.. f,,i ii ' "' IrrlKath.n chano laler in eier hecnne us efficient I ! ' '1 dtrecl Mill. I were Ihcy In I ...-in with purchased Iheir hhii iliillii,.- uiitflts the opening Of '.chnol and .lull wells l.ir ll. ranehsi .1 ll.e unturio high gggtnol Ua U M '"M '" viuhle reuutation anion, the sehool l,ll,Ml ",,ls ""' "1" ,l"' "' uf tlie state. It business ootm, emu e ami general science i besides the usual studios curried in curries a regular " '" "' i-S)rli uuriiiK me winter , ,. and prevent logging. The whole re sult Is a very fine piece of work "Mr Sh.,in e. i. -Main, an. I I con the high school curriculum Ail.le.l nr with him in his Judgment, that to the work of lust year will be a course in music lleeides this a reg ular line of work is carried on In pedagogy or teachers' training class. One thing to the credit of the Ontario high schoel: Kvery member of the class of 1816 has found honorable the people of Malheur county should go ahead with drainage plans as fast us they can. A Klghl and Wrong Way. "Of course in every such work there is a right and a wroug way la which to Droceed. The thins for the employment. In fact, one of the pecp, , .. COUIl(y lo do strong features of the graduates of to ,V(j(d te ,,,., of ,... the Ontario high school is thst It I ..- no oUucle haa never turned out a professional , lhe Malheur dutrlc, The OB, '""'' ' thing to do is to see to It that the The faculty members for the com- necessary preliminary aurveya ure ing year are: 'made. Including the location of the L. L. Culbertson, mathematics and water table, that is the first step history; Mame Berge, language and "The secoud step is lo mak care music; Everett Trousdale, science; fu pttUS lucluding slxe of drains, L. O. Davis, English; l.eona Hader, gr,de aud locution In addition at domestic science; I). A. Hiles, busl- a still later stage comes the tile. . in ness; E. O. Bailey, ..dugogy. j.. i.-nt uu.l reliublo contruclors aud ' finally the actual construction. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Mitchel of Bro-I "The cost of such service in dm gan are rejoicing over the arrival of I Malheur district will be from $10 to a son, who was born to them on Wed 1 nesduy at the Holy Hosary hospital. ril'ontliiped on pugu three)