GREAT ACTIVITY
AT MORMON
BASIN MINES
Large Stamp Mill is Being
Erected at the Rainbow
MineSplendid Ore Also
Showing at the Hum
boldt Mine Making of
Great Camp
At Mormon Basin there is an in
creasing mining activity consequent
upon the carrying on pf the plans of
the United States Smelting, Refining
and Mining company in equipping of
the Rainbow mine with a new, com
plete and modern mill and cyanide
plant of 100 or more tons capacity.
The mill is to be Tube type, such
as is in use in the Transvaal and by
the great Treadwell mine in Alaska.
One Diece of the machinery is said to
weigh 14 tons.
A large force of miners is employed
at the mine and during mill construc
tion the payroll will be considerable
increased.
At the Humboldt mine, owned by
the Oregon-Idaho .Investment com
pany, there is also great activity and
development is going on under the most
favorable prospects, the ore bodies
showing splendid values and perman
ency.
That Mormon Basin camp in North
ern Malheur county is to be the big
eamp of this section the coming sum
mer ia conceded by all.
INTERIOR COUNTRY
VERY PROSPEROUS
(DELEGATES TO
REPUBLICAN
CONVENTION
TRACKLAYING
STARTED ON
IDAHO-NORTHERN
Tracklaying on the Idaho Northern
extension started Monday morning
from Plaza. The big track laying
machine, which has been undergoing
repairs lor two weeks, ani a crew
of 80 men, are laying about two miles
a day. From four to six carloads of
ties are arriving every day and it is
not expected that there will be any
mora delays.
CANDIDATES OUT
$58,288 FOR RACE
Candidates for nomination at the
primary nomination election in April
expended a total of $58,288.95, accord
ing to a compilation of the expense
statement which has been completted
by Secretary Olcott.
There were 124 Republican candid
ates who gave as their expense $52,
188.66, and 58 Democratic cadnidates,
who expended $6102.30.
These figures do not include any
county offices nor candidates for the
Legiaature of those representing joint
districts.
COUNTY COURT
PROCEEDINGS
In the matter of the petition of C.
, D. Davis and others for tho vaca
tion of that certain road extending
from the northwest corner of section
15, township 18 south, range 46 to the
southeast corner of said section ; peti
tion granted and road ordered viewed.
A contract was let to C. A. Gilham
for $200 for transcribing the chattel
mortgage tndex.
A county road was ordered viewed
and surveyed as the result of the pe
tition of W. J' Finney and 26 others,
road extending from the section line
at the northwest corner of section 30
tp 19 south range 47 running north
six milts.
Petition of R. B. ThomBon for
county road was also granted and road
ordered viewed and surveyed.
A remonstrance was filed on May
1st in the matter for a county road
as petitioned by Oto A. Kosnick and
others commencing at the northwest
corner of the northeast quarter of see
to! n 32 tp 17 south range 46
A county road was ordered opened
as far as the quarter corner on the
east boundary of section 20 tp 17
souto rsnge 47 but no further.
An order was made vacating
pant and approving new plat of
unincorporated town of Annex.
"What in the name of Jehosaphat
do you fellows do with all the stuff
that goes into Harney county," was
the exclamation of a man at Bend
who had been watching the auto official Count Completed at
trucKS loading lor Burns aay aiier
day and then only malting a small
hole in the piles in the warehouse
awaiting transportation; while the
merchants of Burns were burning
wires with demands or a "huTy-up. "
The Burns man to whom the ques
tion was addressed answered the Ben-
dite thus: "Shucks, man, you don't
see-only a small part of the stuff that
mm m-
goes into Harney county, tsena is
only one avenue of importance into
our country. There is Prairie City
on the north, Vale and Ontario on the
east and Winnemucca on the south,
from all of which point teams' are
constantly hauling stuff to meet the
demands of Harney county citizens.
Nobody starves to death in Harney
county, my friend or goes without
something to wear."
Salem Last Saturday-
Charles W. Ackerson
Leads in Race for Nation
al Convention With 11,
132 Votes
AUTOMOBILE TRIP
HAS SAD ENDING
Frank M. Eastman, a native son
of Boise and one of the best known
young men of the state of Idaho, suc
cessful in business and prominent in
social circles, died at 6:30 o'clock Sun
day morning at the Holy Rosary hos
pital at Ontario, as the result of the
injuries received Saturday evening in
an automobile wreck. A fracture
of. the skull and a shock which para-
uzed a number ol vital organs were
given as the cause of death. Mr.
Eastman remained conscious to the
last and a few minutes before he
passed away requested the few
friends gathered at his bedside to at
tend to his wants to go to bed and
rest. His last remarks were that it
was to be a beautiful day for the
trap shoot, which he had gone to On
tario to attend.
According to the other occupants
in the car they were nearing Ontario
and driving along at a fair rate of
speed, when suddenly on a new piece
of load, the front wheels sank into
a culvert covered with loose dirt, the
front axle lurched with such force that
the steering wheel was wrenched
from the hands of Mr. Teller and the
machine turned sideways, tearing off
a wheel, jumped 18 feet and skidded,
throwing the occupants out and land
ing some 40-feet away completely
wrecked and demolished.
The other members of the party,
who were injured and bruised, are
improving nicely. G. K. Hunt, who
received a fractured collar bone, will
be laid up or some time, but the
others are able to be out. although
lame and sore from the severe falls
which they received.
SUIT FILED
AGAINST VALE
LIGHT CO.
M. G. Hope and I. W. Hope, form
er owners of the Vale Light & Water
Company, this week through their at
torney, George E. Davis, started suit
Hgainst the Vale Light & Water Com
pany for the recovery of $3,100.77.
According to the complaint the present
ownere of the Vale Light & Water
Company have failed to make good
a number of notes and an overdraft
at the United States National bank
of this city and the same have been
sold to the Hope Brothers who now
seek collection.
The first note was made out on Au
gust 27, 1909 for $1176.22; another for
$500 bears the date of October 4, 1909:
still another tor $1500 with the date
of April 1909: a fourth for S500 on
April, 19 1909; beside an overdrafton
May 1912 of $424.55. The complaint
further states that only few payments
have been made and those were only
small ones barely paying the interest
due.
The suit besides asking for a judg
ment of $3,100.77 seeks attorney's
fees to the amount of $375 and also
the cost of the case.
Salem, May 4: Charles W. Ac
kerson, Multnomah; Thomas McCu
ker, Multnomah ; Henry Waldo Coe,
Multnomah; Dr. J.N.Smith, Marion;
Fred S. Boynon,' Marion; D. D. Hail,
Wasco; Daniel Boyd, Wallowa;
Charles H. Carey, Multnomah; Hom
er C. Campbell, Mulnomah, and A.
V.Swift, Baker ,and are the Repub
lican delegates to the National conven
tion, according to the National con
vention, according to the official-court
which was completed by the office of
Secretary of State today.
The delegates received votes in the
order named. Swift, of Baker, de
feated Phil Metschan, of Portland,
for tenth place by only 22 votes.
No further official figures were com
plied today except that it was ascer
tained that Olcott 's majority over
Fields for Secretary of State was
3184, Olcott received 35,088 to 31,904
for Fields.
THIS IS
GOOD
ROADS DAY
This Saturday has been named as
Good Roads Day by Governor West in
a proclamation which calls upon the
people of the state to pause in their
employment on this day and to give
careful consideration to the question
of good roads construction. In his
proclamation he says.
"Good roads are essential to the
growth and prosperity of our state.
Bad roads will retard our advance
ment by keeping without our borders
a class of citizens who would other
wise come to join with us in the de
velopment of our rural districts.
"The good roads question is fairly
before the people and it is importan
that the numerous bills which are to
be presented to them at the next
election again be brought to their at
tention, mat they may be given
further study and consideration in
order that a false start in road con
struction may be avoided.
"Therefore, by virtue of the author
ity in me vested, I, Oswald West, Gov
ernor, do hereby set apart and pro
claim Saturday, May 11, 1912, to be
good roaas aay. And l urge upon
the people that they, upon that day
pause in their emplyment to give care
ful thought to the question of good
roads construction. And I earnestly
recommend that the voters of the
state, on that date, study and discuss
the different road bills which are now
before them for future action."
MALHEUR ENTERPRISE
TRACK MEETING
FOR COUNTY FAIRS
The meeting of the representatives
of Baker, Ontario, Caldwell and Boise
will meet either Thursday or Saturday
in Ontario to arrange the racing sche
dule if possible for the fall circuit to
be composed of these cities, says the
Baker Herald. Joseph Waddell said
this morning that he was in commun
ication with Caldwell and was assur
ed that their representative would be
in Boise and could arrange for the
Boise delegates to be present. The
Caldwell men said he thought that it
was much better to meet in Ontario for
the reason that there are several
things yet to be accomplished in that
city.
IDAHO WOOL PURCHASED
AT NINETEEN CENTS
Salt Lake, May 4. Kenneth
Hutchins, representing a Boston
company, announced here today
that he had completed arrange
ments for the purchase of the
wool clip from between 75,000
and 100,000 sheep held by the
Fremont county, Idaho, Wool
Growers' association. The price
to be paid is 19 cents a pound.
It is estimated that the clip will
run close to .750,000 pounds.
Fred Lenter, father and two sisters,
who have homesteads near Bonita,
were county Beat visitors on land bus
iness on Wednesday and Thursday.
It is understood that Mr. and Mrs.
Lenter, Sr., will take a trip to Cali
fornia soon.
Sheriff Dan Kerfoot, and Deputies
John Kennedy and George Carey, left
on Tuesday afternoon's train with
Prisoners Dan Murphy, F. Ferguson
and R. A. Calkins, who were sen
tenced to serve indeterminate terms
in the state penitentiary at Salem.
W. G. Terwilliger, one of the or
chardists of the Willow River Valley,
spent several days in this city this
week.
j axe Aaams, oi Nyssa, was on
Monday exonerated from his bond by
Circuit Judge Dalton Biggs. C. C.
Wilson was Adams attorney.
RESOLUTIONS
old
the
FIRST ISSUE OF CATHOLIC
MONTHLY MAKES ITS
APPEARANCE
The Catholic Monthly for Malheur
County is a new magaxine published
ia Ontario by Rev. Father II. A.
Campo who haa charge of the Catho
lic churches at Vale, Ontario and
Brogan. The fiiat number, which
came to this office this week, contains
nuraerous fine articles, as well as a
question box department In w Men many
questions are answered in his Issue,
and also some Interesting instructions.
The Children's Corner is enotUr
feature of the monthly publication.
The subscription piles vt the inonhly
Is on! one dollar per year.
WslUr Matthews of Ciniitett, Idaho,
!mi Jennie I'unit re united in nmr-
flags on Monday lit tl.! illy if
Cfcuoty Jut IUUn tUoii in
". kt uiiit;imt aid m. i, ki
Ilurbert D. Page and a number of
irrigation associates were in the city
Wednesday, having driven up from
Ontario in one of the H. N. Ford au
tomobiles. Mr. Page is interested in
an irrigation project which will place
water on land in tho aouthern part of
this county and into Idaho along the
state line.
A. R. Mcintosh, a real estate man
of Ontario, was in town yesterday.
County School Supt. Milligan of
Ontario, visited in Vale yesterday.
The ladies of the Christian church
gave a Ua at the home of Mrs. R, G.
Wheeler Friday afternoon.
The Civic Ipmrovement Club met
in a regular meeting in the Chamber
of Commerce Thursday afternoon.
Attorney C. C. Wllaon. of Nyasa.
was a county seat visitor Thursday,
Phil Ashford returned on Thursday
from Pendleton where the successful
ly Md the lawyers' lamination.
1). . Aenton, II. K. Ivey of the
Oregon Short Line Co., and Dr. Bar.
ailii end Mr. Ilullrr of Nya, and
Hoj.l, Muitli ut the Malheur Val
ley braioli, were in ton yesterday
on a n titai ir in.
A iiuinUr tf li sie being lei (
l In the illy f sis by lis ( IvU m
lvii et I t'lwb,
"Whereas death has entered the
home of Brother H. A. Parke of this
lodge and removed from this earthly
tenement the spirit of his wife Ada
R. Parke to that home beyond the
grave, and
"Whereas Masonery teachea "this
life is full of mournful tragedies of
incompleteness, of fragmentary am
bitions and successes; and yet how
dear it is made by love I That alone
never fails to sstisfiy and fill the
soul. Wealth satiates, and ambition
ceases to allure; we weary of eating
and driking, of going up and down
the earth looking at its mountains and
seas, at the sky that archea it at the
moon and stars that shine on it,. but
nearer of the soul we love and that
lovea us, of the face that watchea for
us snd grows bright when we come,
or the home ties of affection and the
united family at the fireside; and,
"Whereas our brother and hia
children are thua bereft of their most
beloved member-the wife and mother.
Therefore, be it Resolved that Vale
Lodge No 142. A. F. & A. M. extends
to this brother its heartfelt sympathy
and condolence, reminding him that
Masonery ever teaches a life beyond
snd th it the patting is but of a brief
period snd the spirit still lives; and
be it further Hesolved that theef lies,
nluttons be spread upon the minute
of this Mge end a ropy be furnished
the paper for publication,
W, tf. I.A WltfcNl K
I) A. Hl IU r.Y
J, f, IHNAWAV.
tvliOlllM. i
Prof, and Mrs. G. A. Ruring and
little son expect to leave about the
middle of June for Blaine, Wash.,
their former home where they will
spend their summer months. They
will return to Vale in time for the
professor to begin his duties at the
beginning of the fall term of school.
Henry Teusch was in the city from
Nyssa on Thursday on a short business
trip. .
VAST AMOUNT MATERIAL COMING
(Continued from" Page 1)
conveniently near the river where the
horses could easily be watered.
Some time ago it was reported that
the railroad headquarters might be
moved two miles southwest of this
city on a section of land owned by
the Oregon & Western Colonization
Company but the change has not been
made as a reasonable lease could not
be secured. The new tract of land
which is now sought is owned by
Frank Peterie and lies on both side
of the railroad track, making it most
convenient for the use of railroad op
erations. During the past week construction
work at the various camps in the
Malheur canyon has been progressing
rapidy, especially at the big tunnel
at Mile post 39. The number of
freighting outfits, which have been
hauling supplies from this city into
the canyon during the past few days,
indicates that preparations are being
made to push all construction work as
fast as possible. On Thursday 22 six
and eight-horse freighting outfits
heavily laoded with tunnel timber
left Vale for the canyon. The long
string of freight wagons not only re
vealed to many residents the actual
activity already on the building of the
Oregon Eastern railroad but also
showed that railroad work was to be
rushed in earnest this summer.
TAXPAYERS ARE UP IN
THE AIR AGAINST COURT
(Continued from page 1.)
of $6,500 that the county might just
as well have purchased the Ontario
fair and called it square.
As far as can be learned the mat
ter of this large appropriation first
came up very quietly before the coun
ty court on September 7th of last year
when it was unanimously granted by
the county court although nothing was
ever heard upon the subject. Then
at the last term of court when the
Ontario delegation came up for an
order for the appropriation, the mat
ter was again brought up through
County Judge B. C. Richardson when,
as his shown, was the only member of
the court who voted against the appropriation.
The following orders which have
been placed on the county records are
self explanatory and show just the
manner of procedure and to what use
the large appropriation is to be plac
ed.
On May 3rd the following apropria-
tion was granted by the county Court
to the Fair Association:
In the matter of an appropriation
for the Malheur County Agricultural
Association.
Now at this time the matter of the
appropriation of $6,500.00 heretofore
made for the benefit of the Malheur
County Fair coming on for further
conaideration.
It ia ORDERED that upon the said
Fair Association depositing with the
Clerk, as a pledge, of this Court, stock
of the said Malheur County Agricul
tural Association in the sum of $6500..
00, that the Clerk be, and is hereby
authorized as directed to drsw war
rants in favor of the Malheur County
Agricultural Association as follows:
Warrant for $3,250.00 at the time
of the deposit of said stock as afore
ssid, and a Warrant for the sum of
$3,250.00 on the 15th dsy of April.
1913. The said stork so deposited by
ssid Mslheur County Agricultural As
soc! st ion may be redeemed st any
time st part value of said stock, to
gether with interest thereon at the
rate of 6 ht rent per annum for (he
lime and nune Is had by said Assoc.
at ton,
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S.
Our Mr. Alexander, now in New York, his
sage and his own instructions:
own mes-
NEW YORK, May 1, 1912.
Alexander Co., Vale, Oregon:
Closed a deal for a big line of fine Rochester Hand Tailored Suits as well as
for a lot of Hig-Art Fancy suits. Part go by express, due to arrive early in week,
balance freight. Give our customers the benefit in offering same at special re
duced prices. Signed M. ALEXANDER.
These exceptional offerings are made to all alike and
in addition to our
Regular Men and Young Men's Suits
All sale prices apply to Stouts and Slims as well as
Extra Sizes and Extra Longs
$12.50 and $13.75
Suits-Sale Price
I9.75
$20.00, $25.00 and $30.00
Suits-Sale Price
$16-$18.50
$15.00 to $18.00
Suits-Sale Price
$11.50
Buy Alexander's $2.50 Shoe
And Save a
Dollar
BOYS
YOU ARE IN
THE DEAL
You know who has the best short
pants suits in Malheur county
Every Boy's Suit Goes
At Reduced prices. In fact, as much as $1 to $3 off on
your summer suit. It will pay every mother to investi
gate right now and see what exceptional prices prevail
throughout this department ,
Alterations, Fitting and Pressing Absolutely Free
of Charge by Our Own Expert Tailor Regardlest
of the Enormous Difference in Price
ALEXANDER CO.
On the following day, May 4th, 1912
the following order was entered on
the county court record :
In the matter of an appropriation
for the maintenance of the Malheur
County Agricultural Association.
Now, at his time this matter com
ing on for conaiderstion, and it ap
peering to the Court that the Malheur
County Agricultural Association hav.
Ing deposited with the County Clerk
of Malheur County, Orcyon, the fol.
lowing certificate of Capital Stock :
Certificate No. 133 for ''0 kUr-.
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According to the provisions of an
order ofhe Court made on May 3
1912, which order appears of record
at 1'age 156 of Book "G" Commis
sioner's Journal of Malheur' County,
Oregon.
It Is Hereby Ordered that County
Clerk of said county be, snd he is
hereby authorised to draw his war
rant on the General Fund of ssid
County, on this date, for the sum of
$3250.00
C. W. MAIXETT, Co. Commissioner.
M. D. Kelley, Co. Commissioner.
B. C. RICIIAKDSON, Co. Judge.
(Dissenting.)
NEW CHARTER IS ClYEN
; SIX TO ONE VOTE
H'iililut'l 1 1 out r(M
I l.s '"-'li"a- ut aiw.(,.,,ll k it,,
!"" Uly liu.lls Uw
! up f i id,. ....i,.,, ,,t mJi,
enforced to the fullest extent of thj
law. The law provides six mile"
the maximum speed within thstity,
and the chauffeurs who tsve W
making 10 to 20-mile clips overw
city will be arrested for every of""1
from now on.
Vegetable peddlers, license csros P
for discussion but no action
taken. However it may result
In the passing of o ordinance provid
ing for an occupation tsx wbil'f"u
not only control pdJI,,r, b,ut "Vj
plsce a license on suction P1"7
lire sales put oo In IheVlty by
firms. The cbject iA '
would be to protect thejocsl U
men who pay Ukts u M
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