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About Malheur enterprise. (Vale, Or.) 1909-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 21, 1912)
VALE, The Center of the "New Empire:of the West" Oil, Irrigated Farm and Fruit Land The Banner Live Stock County of The United States The Best Way to Boost This District is to Send Your Friends Copies of the Malheur Enterprise every week. Cti r " XTA AIT W V -Q The Malheur Enterprise De livered to your home or mailed, $2.00 per year, in advance. The Leading: Paper of Malheur County. VOL. 4. NO. 5. VALE, OREGON. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21. 1912. PRICE 5 cents XMAS IN VALE AND MALHEUR COUNTY, 1912 Business Will Be Suspended and the Occasion Duly Commemorated. FESTIVAL OF REJOICING i Special Services at Churches In ,V- Remembrance of Savior's Birth More Than Nineteen Centuries I Ago, Trees for Children, Holi day Everywhere for Everybody Christmas in Vale will be a day of general rejoicing. All the churches will give Xmas trees to their Sunday school scholars Christmas eve, Tuesday December 24, and there will be spec fal serv ices commemorative of the Savior's birth either the coming Sunday or the following Sunday the church observances being strung out so as to make the anniversary at once impressive and comprehensive in its scope. All houses of business will be clos ed Christmas afternoon, and most of the stores will remain closed all day ' on the 25th. The schools closed Friday, as reported ."elsewhere in this issue. The United States Land office, the loal bn'nks and the postoffice will be closed all day, the day will be a legal holiday wherever the American flag waves, .foe it in Malheur county, New York or the Philippines. . Announcement of the church serv ices appears elsewhere in this issue. XMAS TREES AT ALL VALE CHURCHES ON NIGHT OF THE 24TH A majority of the children of Vale will experience the annual delight tbis year of enjoying Xmas trees. It is, in fact, easy for every child in . Vale to participate in this pleasing privilege, as each of the churches ' will hold a Christmas tree celebration the evening before Xmas eve. So that, if there be no Xmas tree at home, there, will be one at whichever church the dear children elect to at tend. Children of Holy Trinity Episcopal parish will meet in the parish hall Tuesday at 5 o'clock and receive : gifts while the candles burn merrily on the green boughs of the tree. Children of the First Methodist church will be given a Christmas treat Tuesday evening, with a pro gram consisting of songs, recitations and tableaux. Gifts will be be atowed. . 'Santa Has the Grippe," a hu . morous Christmas cantata, will be presented by the children of the Sun day school at the Christian church next Tuesday evening . The charac ters are as follows; Santa Claus, Harry Beeler; Mother Claus, Mrs. C. C.Mueller; 10 fairies and 6 brownies; Little Nicholas. Jack High. ; Uncle t Ssm, Frank Mulkey; Columbia, Lois Cook; King of England, Clifford Har land ; Queen of England, Mrs. Cliff ord Harland; Emperor of Germany, Clifford Wilson; Empress of Ger many, Constance Brichoux; Christ mas Eve, Evangeline Kendall; St. Valentine, Millard Nelsen; Angels, Pearl Glover, ' Nettie Palmer, Iva Harland, Edna Misenhimer and Eva Judge Officiates at 294 Weddings During His Time During the 8 years in which he had bee n county judge, B C. Richardson of this city has united in marriage 256 couples, which added to the 38 couples he joined in wedlock as a justice of the peace, prior to 8 years ago, brings the total number of weddings at which the Judge officiated up to 294. "Just six more between now and January," declared Judge Richard son, and "I'll be satisfied." WILL R. KING IS BACKED UP BY WHOLE COUNTY Ontario as Well as Vale Adopts Joint Resolutions Endorsing Oregon Jurist For Important Position of Secretary of the Interior In the Cabinet of Wilson. (Continued on Page Two) The Ontario commercial club and the Ontario city conucil have passed resolutions strongly endorsing Judge Will R. King for Secretary of the Interior. These resolutions were adop ted unanimuosly and are conclusive evidence that this section regardless of party is strongly in favor of the man who managed Wilson's western campaign. Following are the resolutions adopted by the Ontario Commercial club and endorsed by the mayor and city council of Ontario: "Whereas, Will R. King of Fort- land, Oregon, is being prominently mentioned for appointment as secre tary of the interior under the incom ing administration ; and "Whereas, Mr. King is practically a native son of this county, having moved to this county with his father when a small boy, growing up among the people here and afterward spend- ng a number of years in this city in following the practice of law, in which profession he built up a large and lucrative practice exceeded by none in eastern- Oregon and gaining for himself a reputation as an able, conscientious and fearless advocate of the law; and, "Whereas, Mr. King has ably repre sented this district both in the state legislature and state senate thereby proving himself a fearless advocate of the rights of the people and a pro gressive and constructive statesman, and "Whereas, Mr. King was called from the bar at Ontario to the su preme bench of this state and there 1 jot h: P.-.W V A;, : T Six Inches Snow Covers Apex Of Cedar Mountain Six inches of snow on Cedar mount ain, between Vale and Cord, is re ported by D. C. Brichoux, who re turned here Monday with a party of Boise people whom he took in to locate on homesteads. The party traveled in Mr. Brichoux's car, which had some hard going over the wintry road. He said the summery weather in Vale made one feel good after ex periencing the boreal blasts of the interior. OREGON EASTERN RAILROAD CAMPS BUSIEST SPOTS IN EASTERN OREGON Hundreds of Men, Housed In Tent Cities, Racing Strenuously for Tunnel Mouth Frost King Bottles Up Operations For the Winter; Four Construction Trains Daily Haul Carload After Carload of Material Out to Little Valley. Ere VALE CITIZENS PLAN WELCOME TO WOOL MEN Delegates to Be Introduced Into Local Hospitality By Human Dip In the Hot Springs Plunge; Melody By the Mendelssohn Glee Club; Speeches; Banquet. (Continued on Page 2) Tent citieB, puffing locomotives, long trains of construction materials and hundreds of busy men mark the daily pi ogress of new railroad work from 10 to 80 miles west of Vale. All efforts of the engineering department of the Oregon Short Line are being focused on a race with old winter, for the men who are bossing the big job intend to finish the track to the tunnel, at Mile Post 37, before snow flies fast enough, and ice jams hard PRODUCING OIL WELL BEING SOUGHT BY FIVE COMPANIES OPERATING IN THE VALE FIELD; BAKER-MALHEUR COMPANY IS PUSHING WORK This week is the second in which active operations have have been re sumed by the Baker & Malheur Oil Company on their property about 2 miles south of Vale, and the steam drilling outfit is working daily. The operators have gone through one oil strata at a depth of 290 feet, and there is now 117 feet of water in their well. The water is greasy, a X. KEEP ICE OFF WALKS CITY COUNCIL RULING WATSON IS ANXIOUS TO GET QUICK MAILS 7 Direct mail service and direct tel ephone connection from Vale Is sought tf the people of Watson, with the 4) hone exchange at Twin Springs fcuj Cow Lakes, Uo. says lwtmntt i slniar of WaUun. who was in Vale 'Sliurday ta wake final proof on Iti i iiitn4 at Wslson, Ike Mistlar lll be ItUn up Ly the (. Uf of (Wiuwte at Ids meeting fcUMuJsy tilM, as l . ui. I :! ii.aii f vit lv MtlUur, "it UU l lo-f, t,w fu( a M' t lu tl W (! fl.l) V(IV,ltf ..i.i l," lwiMwlly a,.Ui4 Hi, .M smmm$ The citv council met aarain Monday night in adjourned session, listened to the first reading of an ordinance making it compulsory for all property holders in the city of Vale to remove iee or snow from their wslks within 15 hours of the time it falls, if st night or within 8 hours if it falls during the day. In the business district, the en tire width of the walk mut be cleaned off; In the residvntlal dirttrict, path wsy I feet wideinutt U cleared. The ordinance will I in full force and effect after lis Anal rmit very encouraging sign in an oil pros pect. The Baker & Malheur people have casing on the ground, and will now case off the water before drilling deeper. They have started their smaller machine on the necessary assessment work on their other land, but the company expects to continue work on the main well during the winter. Active oil companies now in the Vale field, in addition to the one'rnen- tioned, are the Eastern Oregon, the Great Western, the Sunset and the Central, all with good properties awaiting fuller development. CIRCUIT JUDGE HAS BUSY WEEK Judge Dalton Biggs has been busy nearly all week in the circuit court listening to arguments, objections and appeals of counsel In the Willow river irrigation case, recently re ported in detail In the Enterprise. The court reserved his decision in the matter, and will probably be un able to render same under two or three months enough, to compel surcease of opera tions until spring. Nor is all the life and action confined to the construc tion camps up Malheur canyon, for everything which goes to Little Val ley and the camps between and be yond, must first pass through Vale. The Vale yard is about 3,300 feet long. It contains one main track and four long sidings five tracks in all not including spurs to the various warehouses. Besides the passenger depot, express office and freight sheds, there are the water tank, coal chutes, private and public warehouses, Utah Construction com pany offices, supply house and com missariat, and the offices and supply houses of the Oregon Short Line Oregon and Eastern engineering de partment. When the construction trains come in at night, or just as the locomotives are ready to depart - THE - ENTERTAINMENT1 COMMITTEE for the "front" in the morning, the great Vale yard and division head quarters resembles the New York Central yards at Eact Buffalo, the allied rsilroad yards at Blue Island, or those at Omaha, Portland or Seattle. Car after car of 75-lb. steel rails, Oregon fir ties, and structural steel, with here and there several cars of dressed beef, groceries from Ogden, (Continued on Page 2) Committee reports from the citi zens in chaVge were submitted to the joint meeting of the citizens and members of the Vale Chamber of Commerce held Monday night. The report submitted anent the en tertainment of the visiting wool growers at the convention of January 2-3-4, from the committee appointed by president Davis, is as follows: "Your committee met with Mr. Hoke, secretary of the Oregon State Wool Growers Association, and had him explain as fully as possible at this early date what would be ex pected in the way of entertainment. We find that the convention will be called to order by its president, Fri day, January 3, at 10 a. m., and that the regular hours for meeting will be from 10 a. m. to 12 m., and from 1 :30 p. in. to 5 p. m. each day. Some of the delegates will arrive on a special train from Ontario on the evening of the 2nd, if satisfac tory arrangment8 can be made with the railiond company. The transpor tation committee has this matter in charge and we hope it will be able to report without delay, as final ar rangement cannot be made until we know about the train service. In tbis connection, we suggest that the transportation committee also ar range for a train to leave here Sun day morning in time to catch the morning pony for Boise. The reason for this request will be obvious after we present to you our outline of the program. We suggest a program similar to the following: STRAWS SHOW DIRECTION THE 7CDUVDC DIAW Indirect Confirmation of Story In the Enterprise Comes From Burns. HILL LINE IS CERTAIN Porter Bros., Contractors Who Rnilt RAilrnnrl ITn T)psrriiitttt- Massing Horses, Grading1 Oat fits, Steam Shovels and Other Things for Trans-Oregon Road. The ' best railroad newa received here for a long time, says the Harney County News, of Burns, was a few days ago brought by a citizen who is intelligent and reliable, but he does not wish to be quoted for personal reasons. This man assured the News, that. Porter Brothers, the well known con tractors who had the principal work up the Deschutes river for the Hill line, have brought into Bend quite a number of work horses with the os tensible purpose of wintering them there, but when one considers that country will be recognized that no body would think of accumulating a lot of horses there for such a purpose. It is evident, then, that they are there for use and it is surmised that building operations on the Hill road. eastward from Bend through Burns will start some of these days with (Continued on Page 5) (Continued on Page 2) EXCELLENT ENTERTAINMENT BY HIGH SCHOOL PUPILS IN AMATEUR PRODUCTION OF "MOSE;" PACKED HOUSE PAYS $109, NET PROFIT $85 3 f)ritma &torp By M. Elizabeth Pekley. (7JDDIE stood by the window looking out over the snow-covered field which aloped down to the timber lot. In ber dark, gentle eyea there was a dreamy, far-away expression, and the half parted lipa seemed to slightly move. A heavy step sounded behind bor, and ahe turned quickly, as though caught in aome act of wrongdoing. It was the son of the house, Albert, a bachelor of 40, who came noisily into the room. (Continued on Pairs 41 it might be said that the female of the species surpassed the male at the production of "Mose, " a college comedy in three acts, by pupils of the Vale hi;h school last Saturday night in the Vale opera house. But while the girls acted faultlessly, thereby des erving this special mention, it might also be said, and with equal truth. that the boya participating likewise excelled themselves in their portrayal of the rather difficult parta assigned. The opera house was crowded, to the doors. Standing room only could be bought after 7.45 p. m., and those who applied later than that hour for tickets had to stand up. It was an audience representative of Vale. The whole town was there, generally speaking, and dollars and delight commingled In making everybody feel good. Applause was frequent and de served, and everybody went home feeling that the evening had been a profitable one, both for pupil and public. The complete rant was published in last week's Knterprise, and all of -am ri j'ti iTi'TiTTM"-! i y-mrris inr 1 -wi-rnn-aaa these young men and women did very well, indeed; in fact, the entertain ment provided wan far above the av erage. Ushers were Miss Bertha Roberts, Miss Eloise Brichoux, Miss Evan geline Kendall and Misa Eva Ne!y. Miss Hill was pianist. Receipts of the evening were $109 MASONIC CEREMONY BY TWO VALE LODGES ON ST. JOHN'S DAY Joint installation of officers will be had by Vale Lodge No. 142, A. F. & A. M., and Golden Chain chapter of the Eastern Star the evening of St. John's day, December 27. The local Masonic societies have elected the following officers for the occasion: Masons Worshipful Master J. C. Kelley. Senior Warden H. A. Parke. Junior Warden V, B. Staples. TreasurerPaul Freeman Secretary J. P. Duniway. Eastern Star Worthy Matron Mrs. C. C. Boswell. Worthy Patron I. W. Hope. Associate Matron Mrs. II. G. Guild. Secretary Miss Ella Raymond. Treasurer Mrs. I. W. Hope. (Continued on Page 6) HARK, YE! ON THIS DAY, WINTER BEGINS Today, December 21, at the hour of 11:37 p. m. Washington mean time, winter begins. Incidentally, thia ia also the shortest day in the year. There was no snow in Vale until December 20, but aside from Ontario and Nyssa, Vale was about the only place in Malheur county where snow had not yet fallen up to yesterday. However, the frost king pays little heed to the calendar, at times, though during the winter solstice, from De cember 21, to March 21, there is more winter than at any other time in the year in these latitudes. WHITELAW REID DIES IN LONDON 272 PERCENT INCREASE AT VALE LAND OFFICE Total area of land in the Valer land district on which final proofs were made and final certificates Issued from March 1, 1912, to November 30, 1912, ia 18,790.43 acrea. The dis trict Includes small portions of Baker, Grant and Harney counties, besldo Malheur county. The proportion of the land whtrh is located in Ma h lurtou ity UspprosU matiily 15,000 acres. This is more for the 7 months than fur the entire year jrlorlo Menh I, 191. Ihe Imrease is due to the pesseue of Ihe tt-yesr liutnwttvad law, enabling Monday idgM, M whuh ii,. II.. r-un. I Willi I MjH VV IlEllll I II I ill I IM I .1 I IM I J 1 1 1 M 1 1 ""f antf y em In prove up at wife W, U it II..I M, Kl.'g. ell will tuiivei.esfsiii sM'Hy Atriy ! I II JUJLUA AkUlaV AS ASUkJ Al JLJ J I BJ J I 1 I , , MU,J iUiwi have lad U wail while In the Dull taplUl, ...W Mt DuDten'a i.in ( f Uo uYKMb.il iu final iofs ,in,...f Mm.Utf I il.U, ti l(ti reilvre l MI.lh IU wJii.sms ',1u f'"'e telumvl V.I- IM M FORSAKES CONCRETE JOB; WEDS, RETURNS Resigning his poniiion as concrete foreman with the Oreon Short I.inr sis weeks ago, II. 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