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0nfmi0 Atm. m The Ontario Democrat xxm ONTARIO, MALHEUR COUNTY, OREGON, THI'Kxday. FEBRUARY l7. 1910 NO. 13 MESS MEN ENDORSE PROPOSALS EOR PAVING utovm or si mrAcma to rr l MiKHTAKKN IH OM.V QURR. hom oh which onmom DIFI'KIt IfflTRlWililnT PETITIONS NOT VET STARTED Property limine Would Not Object If II- "i. r- .. Willing to I-.. Higher Kent Pave, Don't Talk Put log Sin s M.miii.I, i Ontario business men arc almost unanimous In their desire to have nt least the business section of he city paveu Thla la the ronclualon the Argua drawa from a series or Inter Wewe with property owner ami liu--ifleaa men, on the proposition latin- . d by J It lllacknhy at the Coiiun-r clal club meeting laat wnt-k. Not all of the business men, nor nil of (he property owner could be aeen thla week, and effort will he mad"' in Interview othera next week and the week following ao that a rmnpi. alve review of tho general upln.on of the community can b secured mi thla Important iiues-tinn Iton't Talk Paving, I'ave. One of the flrat expression of opin ion waa that secured from Hammd ('room, manager of Alexander aid: "In a talk with Mr Alexunder nr the telephone lat Saturday I drtrt him that there waa talk of paving Ontario hualneaa aoctlon, and 'iu Immediately aald 'Don't talk f Ing down there, Pave.' That In wl.ai I believe, and all the men to whom I have talked feel the aini raj ubout It " It Ought to Ih Dime. "Die bualnea district ought '. be paved," aald Frank Kader of da rter Hroe "Of course I have no perty on Oregon atreet, hut l lleve that paving woulil help on tarlo " "Wluil klnrt of paving do thev I' poee laying?" waa the question II Hoyer aked, and then he com in n-1 ; "I have considered the puvlng j i . (Ion for Home time. Iiut not lutel),1 have been too buy I'avlug wmilrt j be a good thing, and I believe ,i -iiuulrt be Investigated thnmlv what can he done " An Awful ;.mmI Thl"g. 'If the property owners want It. It would be an awful good thing. " wis, Toggery Bill's Idea of the suhje t Frasrr I niletrrinliirrt "I have not conaldered the in enough to pas ao opinion on the suh- Ject." said E A Fraaer Hlmul Hate IU-.ii Done Heroic. "Oregon atreet should have been paved yeara ago," aald H I. Peterson of the Ontario Furniture company. "The city cannot afford to tand bMk and let It neighbors surpass It In general appearance and comfort of it street Not only Oregon street, but the streets leading to the business districts ahould be paved. There ho been enough money spent keeping the streets In repair to have paved the street twice In the past ten )curs ' If II. m, i , u ill Htand Hals "If the renters along the street are willing to help meet the cost of the Improvement by paying higher reuls, paving Is alright," aald W K Lens, one ot the heaviest of owner of pro perty fronting on Oregon strret. "Pav ing is a luxury, uot u necessity." he continued, "but If the renter want It and are willing to meet the cost that cirti be figured out on the frontage they occupy, It might be cousiuVn .1 I Am fur It "I have not thot much u)ut ii. but I am for It." aald President A I. t'ockrum of the First National Bank "1 would like to see much of the cliv I paved aa we can get this year ' Willing if Oothers Are "If the others are willing, I will not hold back,' said I. Adam of Km Ison A Adam, "the present street Is not bad, and It costs money to keep pavement clean, but If the rest of the folka want It, it is alright with me Did Not See Moore The Argus was not able to see T H Moore, who has perhaps more pro perty fronting on streets that might be ptved than anyone else, but those who have talked with Mr Moore aald that they understood he was in favor of paving some 30 blocks and had al ready outlined a proposed paving district i JORDAN VAI.I.KV MRU CHARG1 D WITH I lt I N HI I X II I I Hnlph Webster, Silas Sliclton anil Anilirose Klnrlngc of Jordan Valley wore arrested by the authorities- of the South end or the county lam KH and charged with the larceny ot un steer trom Fred 1'iiituer Uebster and Sheltoii when urruiKnert by n.i .tlorney It v Swugier. iieio... , mint) Juuge R II ii'Mt at Vale oh Monday admitted their guilt, ana said they deposited the curcuea 01 Hie animals with Llorlugu, who rag to have appeared In Ontario t him week Hi arraignment HUNTINGTON CANTEEN FEEDS SOLDIER BOYS Organization to Which Ontario Ms. n anil Vale, With Ollor Towns tlong (I.H.I,. Help Support ! II or Work Done The Onlurlo ( liuplir A 1( ( eel veil IIiIn week a Ii II. t from 1 1 the olflclal of the Huntington Canteen which I aided In Its work liy nnii rio, Nyssa, Vale and Baker in I and Numpii. Caldwell I'arnia, I'.iv etto and Welser In Idaho, telling or the reception given the boys of lit" 1st Coast Artillery, when th-- I there two weeks ugo The lettor, written on a paper u a;. kin, follow! Tho Sixthy-flfth Coust Artllli r.. boys are home, we entertained tin in liiMt night, one train with 4tin onn , rl ami men at inlrttilgbt, the second sec tion with 470, Including the ban I came In un hour luter Thl unit g made up entirely of Iduho, Oregon, and Washington hoy, they will he I discharged from Cump Lewis and will soon be home HOMRI Tl..y illiln t talk of anything else, th-p- 1 wasn't a chance to ask them a m 1 tlou about what they illrt, so we let It go and handed them ,it two tkOkM ami clilcken satirtw Iches, one Minus and piece ot perfei l- good cake. with orange, apple und coffee. Kvery town they visited din no; Monday gave them a PM ' D H atlSR I v V. 1.1.1. k.MiVA..' Ill )' . i.. I Miiu of Ontario's cltltens, who ! years ago were friend of Mr. Minnie , Johnson Clevlnger paid their last tri bute to her at the f unreal MVTWM . which were hold at Payette laat Sat urday afternoon, uniting with i of the dlaeased from Iturnn und l'a- tte -s Mr clevlnger who wa Minnie Johnson of Prairie City was well known, as were all of her family, in the early days of Malheur county She was born at Salem 60 years ago and moved with her parent to Prairie City where her mother still lives Twenty-six years ago she was married to O W Clevlnger ot Payette and t year later they moved to Burns where Mr Clevlnger has been one of the leading merchants for u quarter or a century Bealde her husband and mother Mrs Clevlnger Is survived by onn daughter, Mrs Asal Walter of Burns and one son, Uerry, 14 years old also of Burns The body was brot from Hums lust Friday and many old time friends attended the last service which rai held at the Presbyterian church gg der the direction of the Naiari-'O Pastor of Hums interment era made in the Payette icmetry besld that of Mrs Clevlnger' daughter, who died In babyhood MOHK KOl.DIF.lt Hills (OMK IKIM1 I HOM AHMi MKRVK C During the past week llenr day and Don Piatt have been add i to the colony of returned service nn-n in Ontario Casiduy who was a mem ber of the first group of volunteers to leave Malheur county has been stationed at Fort Sam Houston, Tex as since May 1917 Piatt left On tario laat July and reached the East ern coaat before the waa ended INCOMETAX MEN ARE HERE TO HELP YOU Malheur Count) folks (.Inn Assist line In Arriving at Solution or Their Tnvpiulng Problem Karl y I'nyniont I rgiil. Messrs Payne anil R Immlcr IXl t In- Internal Hew nu. 1 1 purtnient at the Council Chamber ot the City Hall thl week equipped with Information, arttlse und blank necessary for Un making of Income Tax return They are here to help you comply with the provision of the law. to nv you time, money and trouble that would result from nn Inaccurate g turn These return must he made before March K.th and this Is the last chance to get the advice and an alntance of the agent sent forth by the department to aid you H you do not come under the pro vision of the law, tell your friends who do of the presence or thee men In Ontario, tor they will be here onlv until Saturday night and leave Mon day for Vale where the) will he loco- ted for three days, next week, anrt o j from there to Hunt. Appeal for Furl) Puinn in I'ncle Sinn ha . ho iniinv Immcdl ate bills to pay that a special app .1 M been made tor the payment or the first Instsllment of income taxes on or before Marrh 1 1, the date pay ment I due Thl appeal ha been Issued by Secretary or the Treasury Carter OIuhh. thru the nrtbe or M!l ton A Miller, revenue , nllector inr Oregon DOG POISONER AT WORK HERE AGAIN First inline ha nil I loin Htrwhn II) Acllon of OiMier Authorities 'oiislilerlng plans rm Cnlcb ing ( r tin I ii .1 Hob", one Councilman Hugh Al ten's pet dogs was the first canine to suffer this year from the annual visitation of the dag poisoner wln.se depredations huve puzled author. here for several years. That Boh Is not in the canine heaven now is due solely to the fact thai Mr Allen secured (he services of Dr A. O. Moore In time to rem,. the poison, which wus Htrjchnlue Just what to do In the muttei I puzzling the authorities who are de termined this year to solve the mys tery The) are particularly ok -graveled at the fact that the persons who are engaged In this injurious work have not waited until the city can get a man to round up the stray dogs of the city and get the mlnos .'..utised If It is merely an ill will at dogs that are useless the author! ties assure the dog poisoner that tlnn will take rare of them, and the oth r dogs that are licensed, the city must to keep faith, protect, and will do so Clarence Wood of the Allen Sh ,e company made a trip to Hiversldu and Warmsprings this week. Information Concerning the 1919 Thrift and War Stamp Campaign Thrift Stamps of 1919 are tu.Uutlal with toe ofhs 191 Thrift Stumps bought in 1918 may be xchangert for War Savings Stumps or the new Issue on the sUm, ,,fMH as last year No new Thrirt card Is necessary War Savings Stamps (issue ol 1919) for the I ol the public are somewhat smaller in i . than the 1918 Issue, are blue n, color und carry a portrait of Bcnjamltic Krunklin, the great An can advocate of sensible spi-mlnu- Rfseept In uppeai.iine i.,, Wur Saving Stumps of the new i nun ai. uiichungei! Dwii those of last year They cun be pureh i ed from the same agem les which sold the 1918 Issue They cost 14 dltlonul each mouth throughout the (iovernment will pay you $a 00 tor sue This represents interest on your lunniy at 4',. comfioin.di d iiuurterly Was Savings Slumps (issue of 191S no not huve to he c,ihoii in converted lo the new Issue s The (ioveriiuient will pay j you IVO0 tor cu h one you hold on card is filled or not New turds aro noccasary ror your 1919 War Sa' i Stamps Do not paste the new blue stamps on )our old 1918V S card Ask for a new curd when )ou buy your first slump of the new issue Maximum Holding In udrtitl n to the uinount bought during 1918, you may purchase a maxinum of 11000 worth of Wur Sav- iuga Bumps during 1919 You c ay purchase this maximum for member of your family GET BUSY" SLOGAN FOR OWYHEE PROJECT Huss leeiiiiK nt Njnjgfl Lssn Satiinln- rt.lresseil b) .liiilge Will K. King, IH'terini"es nn Action. Willi the endorsement ot thfl Rl I it i nmtnlttee on Irrigation on Tims ilny or the Dane plan for bttlldlni prU.,ll.. ....1.. I ..-I.. pinLi'fii u j uv.in, mill n,iiiiii;i. . ting ui e hundred million dollar I'm Hint purpose, hope of booHteni loi the Owyhee Project bine reached a high point At Nyssa last Saturday a mass meeting of those Intern t, sj in the project was held Judge Will I. King aildresMeil the meeting for tn'iiv ly two hours explaining in det.iid JltSl what I needed to lie rtoll" Those who heard him were enthusl astlc over the message he rtellverert It was the sense of the meet in that. Immediately the government makes provision for new projects that a committee go forward to i d Ington anrt remain on the nii rati the Ojrwhee project Is assurcrt Those who attended the meeting from on tarlo were K II Test. M tin I .1 It Mlackahy. W 9 Human. II I. I'oorinun, and T W t'ltiKett, M I Judge Will It King SURPASS QUOTA FOR ARMENIAN SUFFERERS Ontario District, lin lulling Ijistcin Porlloii ot (oiini), North of Vts sit, N...il, .S.IOO Oversubscrib ed With More Coioliig. In spite of bad weather, and the fuet lilal several of the school (IIh- trleth assigned to Hie Ontario territory were worked by l'aotte, Welser and Nyssa cotnpiitteeii, and the further fuel that the Ontario churches hid previously sent In sew rai hundred' dollarH, this section surf. '"hire Judge Dulton Bigg ror trial. (fuota In the drlvo lust week ) lu but turned Hie tables ,,u i kg Up to last Saturday night Hie eon and Sbeiilt I.e.- NtM ml gave fhes. milieu here hart ftifi.ul over the a! officials u taste or what tin I ItMJBMt or $1080 uislgncrt thi: I i cImii others by depositing them he rltory, ami still had one district on hind the bars ut Sheriff Noe l.nn : Dead Ox flat to In-ar from and also hit? house This was lull I par! of some of the local rarkgfl reppfd tlM high Jink ptoirani tor II b. .n mole mining to them In view of the condition of Mi" roads, and the general situation in the country dlmrhti tin- loeal emu mittee Is extreme!) proud of the lll.l II ner In which the people responded to the appeal "OHADI ATI: MIS" HOSIS FOB PRRTT1 DAM IMi Ptlt II At the Wilson bull last I evening the young men, who wlu'.e they were in school here were no hers of the Nut club mini urn 1 their friends at a taMtaf pail) A large gathering or young ptopla iiicluiling beside Hie Ontario bov and girls the visiting busk. players trom Numpu und a tKBbei of Payette's younger set MjOJrt dancing program la in January unrt one cent ud- your On Junuur.v I 4), the each War Saving tagftB ot (Ills ls- January 1, 1913, whether )our RIH RFNIl POIINTRY PI AN m2SSiJEL MtAI bUIWlUNIir .KlMtdu III'. II SCHOOL TIAMS WIH HOTH OAMn I HOM NAMI'X The Inst basket ball Karnes of the season were plnyeil last 1'tlilav eve nlng at the old Opera House The rtmlhlc header nrnveil n rranil llniiln 191 8-19 banket ball season for the local boy and girls won hod games by decisive scores Tin- Nam pa boys and girls team put up loud fights but could not locate the Inn kets with the accural) of the In. .1 players DOKOKIES STAGE BIG CEREMONIAL AT VALE Count) oilli lals t anguish In .lull I nder Hentenee ol Kit"garoo Court Hilt Carload or lalll ill Is, si In Initiation. With Hie Vale hand In Its hi t form leading the way 4U l.aOrande, linker and Wallowa members or I. a (Irande Teniie, Dramatic Order 1 Knight of KhoritHHen Invmb d ' oinitv seat last Saturday tuoriiliiit for a big ceremonial session hell there that afternoon and eveulin llefore the cereiuonles ended Ih most hilarious enlertalutneut M I In Malheur county, 46 Vale and Ontario Knights or P.Whla hart been added to the Dokoklaja lin ' work was perronnert under the ill I rectlou or Marlon Davis, oi I'n'i. (Irani! Vlier; und (loo Maker ol Wei Iowa, (Irund Muster or (Vrcmonli It reifulred a hull cur load of eiiiilp ui'iit to stage the trial ot I inembors. To in urn Hie afet) of the i Isllorii, Coiinly clerk Arthur M Mumli mt escoiised in the Count) Jail dniia arrival of the visitors, and Hies turn on their urrlvul were hint In a legal holiday anvway, till Vg -Itself over to having a guort time with the visitors, for delivering u midi oine to the fin sis ui the i l! Wildhaber was chained to a tc, lihoiie post iii front of hi lunik and mil iit-lt.il to listen lo nihln' on the nibject of speech making and other things At six o'clock llo llokllkle. 'he rs or the Vale Lodge k or P)lhlu, and the Vain band gl down to a big httiKiuot ut the Dreieli Among the new Dakokles are Jurti.'" Iialion Biggs, unrt I W Mct'ulloeh of Ontario liistrlct Attorne, It W Swilgler piloted the vl,los from On mrlo to ale, uuil ha the effects of the trip viCTom LOW Will staht ON APRIL .!: Telegruphn reports of change In ill for financing 1 1 ineiit have proilurert a feeling ol ii'i certaintv In the minds or our citizen. ii ending to u statement Issued h J K 1. vnci,. Coveinor or the 12th lederul Id-serve IH-tried We I, IIV. ,.,,Vi USSlll.inie l,l.l thai u populai luon will In -1 J r i .1 for subsci ifdioti 01 AprilZlst. unrt thutthts will salable loan. ' In mini .void, a loin that will he atllucllve 1 1, the investor whether in the form ol ii-iiii, bonds Obviously, there ale ifelall-, whh'l cannot vet be decldert, ami announce inentH wbli Ii cannot be Ii i .i ' 1 ougress bus legislated Let us not be confused b) on limn ary discussion, but let us keep otlf liilurts rixert on the fact (hut our Government icinircs the money to complete the srofk it has undertaken ; The attempt industrial revolt which collapsed III Seattle, owing to tin firming of Hie Muyor, Is evident thai Hun propaganda Is still active Tie war ' will not I. ov.-r until the Huns have been given the bill and hvn begun paying Then, ttnd then only 1 will they realzlu defeat and error PFNTIONN HIINt; Clllt III Ml l I OH I'OHMATION Ol UNl'IRU HIGH SCHOOL DISTHICT TO KHF.CT SCHOOL AT ADRIAN LAND SALES SHOW VALUES Iti i in ns I i. nn IMg K, nd Clover Crop Nhotv Character of latnil If Ott) -hM Project Is I ttt II t . Thriving Town Will Hesnli Por the iiuifioes ui learning tho plans of tlto prnposed Malheur Countv Development l.ivag'le, V. V. Hlckox of Hie Big lleiirt District stopped In On tarlo Wednesday and declared that lit any such movement the Big Bend ami Kingman Kolong certainly wanted lo tnke a part. "Itlght now, " siilil Mr lilckox," the I pli' of the lleurt ale plnillllni on Improyements. A petltlM I out now for Hie uniting or School Dlstrhl No. 46 and 47 in the Dig Mend and CI In Kingman Knhiny, into a Com munlty High School District, ami tol tii" in .nrance or bonds lor tho erec tion u( u suitable building to I. standard state high si i I "And that I not all u pel II Ion Is out in have the I'nsl (lull Ii . named Adrian, w here the High School will be erected H plans deyelnpn an we hope they will. "Vr are looking ror result from the movement In revive I lie Owyll"e i'loject, und lire glad to see On tario and Vule Joining with Nya 10 help put It oer. "If that project develop It will add nils of acre to the developed i the count) It will greatly Increase the prosperity of our Mtttlon ror some (1,000 acres or the land und er the project lie right next to the llend It will mean another thriv ing community ror Malheur MM and iiiHtead or being tributary to Ida In piiint i.ii mess will remain In tl i mint) I mil id-turns lairge l nv n nie do lint seem In re I 1 1 II I III Hie Mend Is some of the land Iii the count) Aas M alliie of w hat flu land will tB I Q KuberU lllllde enough llolll the clov er eed taken ufl six acres to buy u rine bit- triicior Somo of Hie ram b ers untied $276 pei a. in Iroiu their lov.i s,,d. mil ibei were not the , tons, either Hi'' best proof ol the value of Hie laud is l Im way in which (he people who li Hi re buy up their neighbor. tuinhe:, .iiiv lime an) ot lloin want to i II, an I -it rood prices, loo Km ample I told ui) much in King Kolony last rail to John Vauilm pool and Hen hoi Ho- Judd ranch in Illy ll.-iul I nil I'illsbury sold hlr ranch 0 Huberts and N S I'helail solrt hi- ranch to ll.uvcj Match The price at which the last ranch sold is ail Indication ol what land In linn SJ IS VUlllfll Ut h) tinea who know wliut It c.u, ,i,, I,, aetuullv farm Ing ll Mr Hutch puld fill per acre ror tin land and on top of that price has to pu) Dn ror a govern ineni water right Ii It any wonder that the pi i, pie are looking lor the opening oi the Owvloe Project where we unci rtaiirt the water right will I more Ihati . VOI NU MHKKPMAS KKTURMN lo ONTARIO Willi RRIIHf. lollowiiig wa i iken from a irg, I i daiu t.-ii ,,f tf,H mar riage ot Mr ami R M .1 Joc Mr ami Mri Joyc- nturi. last Sattirrtay ami rn ,i the Moor" Hotel tor the bilaine ol the winter I he Pitt i,i, , p i nays i huriuiiigi) appointed weddlag was soleiuiiui d v iiioriiing a! 1 I o'cloi k in St Aim Itouian Culho lie church v. ton Miss Anna Veronica loyce he. aim- ll. mil. of Martin Jeremluh Jciyci of Jiitiluru. Ore lo v Father Hiij-geii) pi i forim-d the cere moii) I i. binle was attended by lier sister, Mrs M J Hurley us- mauon of honor und thl hi nh inulds wore Mis Slellu ( 'onroy or ('levirtunrt. hi i Ml, Katherlne c Hrowii of Lake Forest, III lb -itrici t oi,i,ey wa Mower girl M J McKlroy served at Mr Joyie h best man and the ushers i .eul J J Cool, who has Just (Contlntieil in