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WKMBQ. &vfaxvi& ftttim xxm ONTARIO, MALHEUR COUNTY, OKEUON, THURSDAY, JULY 24, 1919 no. :m m SIGNED SO WORK CAN E MAYOR It W. Jni:s i I ixi.s HKiNATI'ltK FOI.I.OWINO DtaV OMMOM at OOVXCtL mkkt- MO TIKWDW IVKMMi RF.IFOT KFI.HKVH Mil. I. CLAIM HADE FOR 5 PER CENI tlty Attorney Aihlscs Council Tlml Rnglncei at Most I III Vol lie nor for More 'I Inn Reasonable Vee for Work AlremR Perfnrniei' Mayor It. W. Jones yesterday morn In signed Hie contract with Mm War mi Construction rompany for tlM street pavliiK awarded that firm al the meeting of the City Council loot veek I(,,ri icninilves of the eon trartora aro expected here this week in contract for gravel nnd other inn terlal no Hint ork can atari In a few days, or tt .'ie outside within tun weeks. Thla action whs not liken however CONTRACT until after a Hioro discussion of lhe.onflng t0 Ir, w'llllamii which li Is engineering i h atlon M fir as It ll f believed contracted I In a volred the use of tho plans and spe right with tho flrat mud dog which Ideations of lul C. Kelsey whos- ',ii,ad. serv ces were dispense I with by Hi. ll Tlnl ther0 ,aV(, (e.n no ,!,, .oiincll In n roooltJOM psised prior ( rMg d believed to be due to the i the lion i diction j precautions taken by the city author Wnr'eil Kiitim I re. It'.es enforcing an ordinance i iiili Mr. Kelse lad ben anked by Ike. hi' ncll to so unit his nll for services endered to mite for UN paving, and tno Council waa aatonitl ed to n ceire from ' lm a sta'.emi nt claim n, I n full five t,tr cent ' the paring c rtract, or more than ; nOO. Tho statement il i demand. ! lit hum n ale payment of ono-tr id of thl i mi unt l'e council promptly re .iited hla bl In Into llld COUIUll man Cockraiu and W. M Laxon Informed Mm Ml "'tlscy 'vas wan I a, outs de Claim Held I sYWsMsM ile. "Tho city, no doubt, will hare to pay Mr. Kelsey something for the plana and specifications he has drawn." said City Attorney P. J Gallagher, when asked for a legal opinion by Mayor Jones; "but It Is my op'nlon that It will not hare to puy any such tlgure as he ask In that bill. "The city can proceed and use theae specifications. They tre not his property, after they were placed on file and could be secured by any one for the payment of the custo mary fee. At tho outside the clt would uot have to pay more than one-thlrd. and with the offer that tho city hr.s for rnglneerlug service It would save money at that. Mr. Kelsey Is trying to bluff the c ty, and after ronaultatlon with other attor neys my advice I to let him go to It and sue the city If he wants to. We have got to a point now where li 1 necessary to put the matter straight up to hlhl "I would make him an offer to settle to avoid the iiocess ty of a suit and If It Is possible settle with him. but at no such figure as that which he has sent In here " In discussing term that might be i reeelred the offer of a place on the offered Mr. Kelsey suggestion ran ' University faculty, all the way from $60 to 600, vttk Mr i,,,,,!.,,. oame 1o Ontario in Mayor Jones in favor of the .mailer July. 1117, from Perry, Mo, wh.i. figure. It was died that Mr Kelsey he ,,ad beeu Uperinteiident of s. hool offered the city plans and spec' flea for tiree years following a two yer Hons for the water tem, luvolvlim ,erra M aUperlntenduut of schools at far greater work for only $400 and Almo. Cuh, after his graduation that was taken as a measure of what ! frow ,he diversity of Missouri he might receive In this case. During the past year Mr Da ... Following the action of the i'oui. completed his work for his mu-ier . ell Mr Kelsey de. tared on the street degree In education following l I that the city would pay him In full terms of summer school work at the five per cent of the contract, appar- Missouri university The step he ently Intimating that he 'ntended t sue for that amount. Wll.MF.H linv I K HACK AFTF.lt HI.M.M 1. OF OVKK TWO FA Its Wilmer who with Everett Staples was the first Ontarlan to be cal'ed to the colors 'n the great war is home Staples who was a fellow member of Co. I of the old Second Idaho discharged from the service o few weeks after the organize ion x called, so that Sergeant Boyer, su far hoe the longest record of any On- tarlan In the great war Previou, to that he aaw service on the border during the Mexican trouble, thus hav- , ing spent practically three years . wearing the kbakl. ' HISIIOP .1. T. McOH III is VIHITOIt III I.I OVKH Moll Id Rtl J I". MoQfOth, bishop r tho diocese of linker City WOO In On tnrio Monday mill Tuesday of lilt ""'' 'k. Ill1 iiiiiii' Muiidiiy evening aud returned i linker' TOOOdOf evOOJOf T'i. object of IIiIm the Blahop'i (IM vIhIi to Ontario was to olTlr ate at the professions of a InHH of winters lit Hie Holy Rosary hospital Fol lowing tho ceremonies Hie Hlshop whk Hie guest of Rev. J. II. Moloney of this city and Hcv. I' J Htnck of Vale. Tim Rlshop plans on a more formal visit to Hie members of th" Ontario pnriitli In Hie near future. ANOTHER DOG GOES MAD AND IS SHOT Canine of City all Wearing Wire Muzzles None of Victim of First I Itnbltl Canine Develop lllm I'r i . Minimis Prevent .Spread. For the second time in three weeks Ithe authorities wsre compelled to dispose of a mad dog The latest victim of the rabies was the dog be. ' l muizllng of all dogs Fred llrlnnon was named tpeaHI officer lo enforce this regulation and nl ready a wholesale restraint litis been put upon the activities of the city's .mine population. Itaiicher com ing to town, too, havo co-operated by keep ng their dog tied, while many have kept their dogs at home, this and the demise of unlicensed ntnl unmuzzled dogs has reduced the uum ber of those animals materially. SCHOOL HEAD ACCEPTS PLACE ON U FACULTY II. It. IoiikIm-s Temlei-M Resignation as Superintendent of Hi I I - I I' i. 'I Professor of KecoodsWJ I .In. nl Ion at I. of o. II It. IX) ug lass who has beep au- peilnieiid.-ni of the Ontario Publ I School for the past two ears this week tendered to the school hoard "" "'"" ' - - uiuieiy lie oiu hum so inai ne migni accept an offer made him by the re gents of the I'nlverslty of Oregon to take professorship of ccondary ed ucation and superintendent of the teachers' training school st the uni versity. Advice of Superintendent Douglass' resignation came In a telegram to President W. J. Weese of the hoard Tueaday from lilue Mountain Springs where Mr Douglass Is spending hla vacation following a series of lecture be delivered at the Culvers ty Summer school It was while there that he ha Just taken to enter active In struction of prospective teacher i one to which he has looked forward to duiing Ills work as school admin istrator During hi two year in Outario . Mr. Douglaas has made a number , of Innovations In the school work here, Including the Introduction of the supervised study methods and other advanced educational aeao. At the same tlmo too he has taken an active Intereat lo public affairs, served as a director of the Cummer eial elub and last year was asslstan' director of the County Fair A. W Nelson of the Cudahy Pack Ing Co. is spending the week with his brother, Sidney Nelson, of this c!ty. COUNCIL DETERMINES TO CHANCE EMPLOYES Overtime for snwi Sprinkling Re sults III Removal of street oiiiiiiIm sinner Plan Resilience nl Pump ing Plant. Recause of tho appenrnnce of claim for over-time In sprinkling streets the City Coune'l Tuesday night determined on a change In the position of Street Commissioner, an I the Street and Alleys committee was Instructed to wecuro a new man for the Job. The council too considered numer ous complaints concerning water service charge, and complaints con cern 'ng defect Ire cross walks. The street committee wns Instructed to have the cross walks repaired. In order to reduce the cost of op oration at the pumping plant It waa suggested that by building a resi lience at the plant where innn Id lire It would be possible to secure one man to take charge of all the ! pumpnKi jumi Is done at the pump- )n ,,,, of rrggt'oii systems In I ,,,,, nrclion. In fact members of the Council have been approached by men who made Just that proposition to them. The water committee chair man waa Instructed to Investigate the possibility of thus solving the iiump'ng problem The question of a clt) engineer to supervise the paving work wee dis cussed at length but no action waa lnke1 prlllimK u,e receipt of repllm to communications sent out asking ,ulo offlclala for recommendations on mwll rapable of handling the work, OWN YOUR OWN HOME Commercial Club lynchers Told ol Numerous Cases Where in. Has I...-I l amines Thru Iji.W of Hiiiihss Men AililreMs Meeting. L'ntesa Ontario awakes to tho sit uat'on and secures the construction of a number of residences the city Is going to suffer badly In fact P lias suffi red already from the scar city of dwellings, numerous families who desired to reside here having been forced to go elsewhere This was the message that tho member of the Commercial club re oelved following the luncheon Wed nesday even'ng, by Ontario men who hare had occasion to experience IMjasjgJUMO distribution of the water dwelling problem On the other hand the rluh m u were told how compel atlvely easy ll will be to remedy this situation if the city will avail of the co-operative spirit shuwn during the war In ill kind of public work Messrs J A Fennell and Floyd White of Bofoj wno were guest oi the nun lor mo Melllent of the supply At the same evening gave Informal tulk that ,,, loo a aasjlooj of rotating the lusplred the club to anion in direct- water has been Inaugurated ing that a committee be appo'nted The shortage In the system hss re to study the problem 'suited in spite of the fact thai a Mr While who ropresenta owners pumpnf .totlM wa built last year, of 70 Ontario lots, and also flnandal F(rH, tll pumpi fr(e last winter aud Interest told the club that a city noaaeaslns a much wealth at, does " Ontario, as shown by tho bank state- nienis Ims tin line. I lo seek outside meats, nas no noeu io seea ouisiue uppurt for a building program ilowivei he aaid thut f tin could not be flnanc .1 locull he would U a later date present a plan for xrecting a number of hornet, here. Mr Fennell gave the mni p an id. a of what It means to I ve in a iiy-beautlful He Inspired a Ioiik mg to Improve the nppe.ir. Uiitaiio. aud laid sires upon doln? little things to beautify the d'y and thus make it au attrad.ve hum 'own "Wlij, If you even compell. 1 1 paiutlng of telephone and elet- trie poles white, it would help Y !. -mid, "and that would lead to an- liier Itnprovem nt " The Coinmei dul club, the Woman's club ami othor organization could OOOOflsB lish these thing by constantly dt reeling attent.on to th-in ' The condition of streets and alleys, ' he lack of pride on the part of minj citizens wan lYaukly discussed by the membere aud many told of the need for Improvement. Mr J. W. Cunningham and daughters returned this veek to their , home in Portland after spending a month here. ONTARIO BOY LISTED IN MILITARY CAMP Donald J. Conklin one or .-umi Stu dents nl It. O. T. 0, at the Pirsd- din mi Snn I rum Iscn Do) ll en suit Training. Among the student officers at tho Reserve Officers Training Corps at the Presidio this summer Is Donald J. Conklin, son of Mr. and Mrs. i: D. Conklin of the Roulevard Young Conklin Is listed In the Senior Ad vanced Course which consists of stu denti' from universities nnd colleges where they have had previous mil itary training Conklin registered from O. A. C Five hundred young men represent ing forty colleges and schools of Mon tana, 1'tah, New Mexico, Arlzon-i. Nevada. Idaho, Wn-dCngton. Oregon and California, are enrolled In the Corps camp Fifty army officers nnd an tfjMl number of non-commissioned officers, who are assigned as Instructors and assistants In military training at ucatlonal Institutions, have been do- tailed to duty at the camp, which opened June 2 1 and will close on Ajgust 2 During these six weeks the cadets will be given Myiiematlc Instruction In rifle practice, tactic musketry and bayonet combat, which can be better taught at a military ramp than at their schools or col- leges, as well as In the tine points Of drill They are also given a car'- fully planned course of phyi. leal train log. Including games and athletic con tests A feature of the camp Is the week of target prartlco at the Fort Barry rifle range, where each cadet It i lulled to take the presrr lied Arm course of rifle firing From Hie eadets making the best scores will he chosen a team of fourteen to repre sent this i amp at the National Rifle Match at Caldwell, N. J , In August, the succeasful oonteatanta receiving a transcontinental trip with all ex ; pensus paid by the Government WATER MASTER NAMED EOR OWYHEE DITCH A. 1.. Sproul uill Distribute Water to laiml Owners luiler Hlg Dlleli I l.. Inters of Water 1M ll IMS Punishes! To prevent leases to ranchers under ,, owyheo Ditch and necure au aupply on that big ditch Hie State Water Maater haa taken charge of! the distribution of the supply, and I the wsler Is being measured out to all the land owners under the ditch I To accomplish this A I, Sproule has been appointed deputy water master anil ua immcii over inn iumii were not repaired In lime fur tho -..--- ...... . -ji ... ..' JiiiiipiUM ieiJll u. lAji.iiiiM lit ili". ..i n.. .,..!,. .nH ... ika nvur' a f. KO ,)W t hat the pumping system could not work The degree of lous will, h tho ranchers have suffered from these causes Is variously oil muted but the lowest figure i ins Into many thousands of dollar Ml KOI D ul HMiihl. I Kllll'i H I'lU.m: I.AhF CAMP l.ltiil'Mls Frank Rader. Maor It V Jones and K C Vau Pelten who returned this week from the r rumps on 1'ay - ette I :...n thut dense tloiAl of smoke from numerous forest lires in rl.it region rover the lakes None of the fires are In the liumed ale vl- clnity of the l.ik. sj and iherefore the camper there are In no danger fiom the lire, the smoke is detra.'lng somewhat from the pleasure of their jstay Each of the i.-tuinid i ,e aiioni' report a fine time during their stay with lis). Ing good uud luiger crowds aboin the lake thsn ever before Director E H Conklin of the Coun- ty Fair made a trip thru the Nsa and Rig Ueud reg on Wednesday In the Interest of the county's annual ; exposition PORTLAND PllllisT coMKH TO OFiicltTK AT RKTRI i To officiate at the services of the annual retreat of the Dotnlncan Si ters nt the Holy Rosary he Rev. Skelly, O. P , came from POM land Inst week Ile wns here for t days and after the intent teluineil to his home In Portland on Tnesdnj Reside tho resident members of I the Dominican order who participate! In the retreat were Sister Magdellne from Kenosha, Wisconsin and Sis ter Josephine from llatiford. Call , fornla, both of whom eie raised in the Sisterhood here. ERUITLAND'S EFFORT After I'm. Ii.ein; Tickets for Tills Year's (liautaiiiiM on the Hench, Hiislni'MN Men Sign I i nil ImimC . I .lllll-lllltl e ( ..III! i. I Thirty-seven Ontario business nun ed-,''' Jolneil with an equal number of rea dents of Frulllar.d In the cm met for a summer CtMU0,M .' I Krulllnnd for the MOM of 1920 Tltln was the result of the a. tiui work of H. II. Tunny nnd K Leslie Bodl who wer-j named by the Commercial ; dub lo co-operate with the Fruit land rumm Ittea to agaJM Ihl ft ir' effort "" During all the ( h.iutntiiiti.i , m Krulthmd Ontario was well rep resented, and a particularly large crowd went over Motidn) OVOataf n umh.r would have buen lar- K,.r ,, the OTOOjOl not I n so hot CARNIVAL OF FUN IS K. C. PICNIC RESULT Haseball, Tug of War, Freak Hoxliu lU.uis, ltn.es of all Kind umi I sits i Rata Make Da) Memorable There were sll told more il.m. 2u0 present nt the Knights of Columbus picnic held Sunday at the l.ee Me coy grove by th Knl' lit of foluin bus and their families In fact It was a picnic of the members of the parish of the Hlesscd Haciani.tn staged by the Caseys with Jus Q Smith. Ueo Relhson and II II Tun ny as the goneral committee And If there ever was a hlg t. , that p cole was It, according to the repsr.s that spread I on lb' following day, and Judging b) IfcO tired dn -after appearance of pro ul hunt members The crowd gathered from Plymouth on the e.ist to Junturu on ,,B w(m, fri)IM Syui to the south j Ueu.l Ox on the north Fruit u,i a n Mm Olitalio ill were let. resented, too There were garnet for the hoy.. the girls, the women and, oh what . .. . . .. - ... .... .. I a nuneu lor inu nuiiiy ainieies . C Defree captained a husky hunch , that out pulled Tunny m tug ' wsr, deani. but lost to the huiiu- bum h tn . , .,- lluxlng bouts with the contestants " barrels and other stunts that Jill Sttilih hrot back In. in ( ump furn ished a hilarious afternoon I eryone, aud kept Fr Mulouoy busy : official referee It was dusk before the i.owd ills persod so faat had the day passed OOKH TO t AI.DWKI.I. TO TAKK POSITION IN STORK Til Kit 1 I Jaa. O. Smith who fur gotofol fool I jhas been employed In stores OOfO ll Onatrlo aud haa been prominent In , the activities of tho K of r, the or egou (tub aud Commercial club bus i resigned his pos Hon wlrli Abnan dor's and leave next Monday foi Caldwell where he ha accepted a po slllon with the Kahu iotblug Co CIOWIFTTK HTl'H THROWN I ROM WINDOW STARTS I lltl A cigarette stub thrown in. in a window in lie ( alter House eailv gootlOO After spending several days last Saturday morning set Lie to th going over the Willow River prop awning in front of the Style afcop urtlee of the lompany with Ivan E Owing to the early hour the fire was ' Oakus, resident agent hero, Mr Mar not detected at once and It was be tin left Thursday for Nyasa with yond hope when tho lire was dli l.augley Urookes agent for tho com covered ' pauy lu that sedlou DAM CONSTRUCTION OKKAT HTItCCTtltK AT ItlVEIt- SIDF Wll.l. COMPI-KTKD WITHIN TK MONTHS FROM DTF OF IIFOINNINU t'AN TORI WITKR StHN AVERAGE 250 YARDS PER DAY Knglneers Conllilent TJiat tVinrrete i Dam Will !. llnlshetl by Neptemliei itti umi I Imiu Cumpleteil fir October lit Assure Water In Spring llresklng all records thruout the world for the construction of arch dams of Its size the Shattuck-Edln-ger Construction company Is rapldlv nenrlng completion of tho storage dam of the WarmaprlugH Irrigation system nbovn Riverside The dam will he completed within ten months frm ,,, nrMn. of orjerRonH: or eight mouths less thsn tho record ol Ita nearest rival for speed honors This waa the word brot down from the ramp Monday by Knglueer E. J. Carrlllo, who Is In charge of the con struction work "We will finish pouring the con crete by September 30," said Mr Cnrrlllo. ba too Argus, "nnd by Or tolier U the work will bo completed At present wo have poured 8,600 1. 1 1 ls and there are but 11,000 more yards to pour We hnve at leant nchleved iiiiinllt production In I j hours wn poured 2Kf. yard', one day lust week, and we will eve 1 Hint record this week The avorago for Inst week wns 250 yards per day "With tho work progressing si this speed tho entire dam will be built In the next 40 days, barring delav, but allowing 16 days for that etc iin-iit we will still be finished by Di tcher 15 Can Store Water Soon. "Tho dam has alroadv reached a point where we can begin to store water for next year's distribution We could start this storage by Aug usf 10 This fuel alone will assure tiitiii.crs under the project that they will luce water for next summer. "Work Is progressing on the die tilluiliiig s)slein, tho there has been mote delay on that than on the stor uge reservoir llownver with tho problems of (he dam worked out more speed will he developed on tho canal, and the entire ostein Mulshed foi next year. 'The enulnccrn are now worklna ,, ,lMU. ,,. p ..,, ,hl, ilans for the illieritluu dam and that will he in, dei in!, eu ,,t un earl) dale .in. I will uot lake long to complete.' bRM Trouble sii.l,s Cue of the remarkable features ol the on.sti ui Hon of the .lain nt River able has been tho marked lack of la OOf Doubles This In view of the widespread strikes of all kind thru out the iiiuntry In all fields of en duavor Is the more remarkable, and haa of course been a material factor In the record for speed which has ,M M llllIl,l,,l With Mr Carrlllo ,,n lilt, trip to On titri.i huh K I' Newlou, luateiial man on the Job at Riverside While It. the ,iiy the .-rn registered at the yol,M. ITo OAMPINU OBOVNBOJ Aiti IIFCIIMIM. I'OIM l.tlt in suit r l i... ii,.in ..r the . ItlOOH appar ently do nul know it, the Ontario Coiiiiuei.ini club's auto iatnlUK ground, an bOOOBUaf popular The nuiuher ul i. impel. s who iilgbll make their almde Cure Is Increas ing I... i In. I, c it 1-1. on.. Ontarl i wouian on hi t n.i down town dl- c 'I eti OOfl to the grounds, and thai Is not the (urgent number thai gag I,,.,, roglgtOrOd II. Me for OOJ eifuing III Mini I V-. II It V OKI. I. ON l. Nil IOMPAW IHITN CITV Walter S Martin, of San I-' ran. a CO, president of th. K.i.i.in Oregon Land compan arrived In Ontario Monday from the Hay lit. to look after his property Interests in Hi I A