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About Malheur enterprise. (Vale, Or.) 1909-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 11, 1913)
MALHEUR ENTERPRI32 Wishing You a Happy and Prosperous New Year At the beginning of thia the New Year, we wish to thank the public for their liberal patronage during the ; past year and of what we value more, their confidence and good v.".!. We realize that our interests are mutual, and that which helps one helps the other. In extending our thanks for your patronage during the past, we pledge ourselves to exert every effort to merit a continuance of the pleasant relations that have existed during the past year. Accept our best wishes that the New Year may bring to you happiness and prosperity. UNITED STATES NATIONAL BANK VALE, OREGON M. C. HOPE, President I. W. HOPE, Vice-President J. P. DUNAWAY, Cashier B. W. MULKEY, As't Cashier T. W. HALLIDAY, Director GEO. E. DAVIS, Director The New Town at the Harper THE Jones Mercantile Company of Westfall, Oregon, wish to announce the open ing of their big new store in the above town on January 13,4913, with a large and well chosen stock of General Merchandise carefully selected to meet the requirements of their numerous friends and patrons in that sec tion. An early call is solicited. The goods are right, the prices are right and the treatment will be similar in every respect to that on which our well known business at Westfall has been built. i 1 The Enterprise "Live Wires" DOBBIN LAUDS WOOLGROWERS AS GREAT MEN Sweep Entire Field SHEEP RANGE INFESTED BY BIPEDJYOTES Flocks All Too Often Fare Dreadfully at Hands of Night Prowlers Who Fire Lead Into Livestock With Long-Range Rifles, There by Escaping Apprehension E. P. Cranston, vice-president of the woolgrowers association, made the following timely address last week before the Vale convention: Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Oregon Wool Growers' Associa tion: In submitting to you my views and convictions regarding the malici ous killing of sheep, I venture to say that I have given the matter as care ful investigation as possible in the time I have had. And I find that we have on our atatute books a law pro viding that anyone convicted of ma liciously injuring or killing any do mestic animals, including sheep, are subject to a fine of from $50 to $1000, and from three months to one year in the county jail and from six months to three years in the peniten tiary. In addition to this there is a standing reward of $1000 to anyone for the arrest and conviction of any person committing this crime. Regardless of this fact, and of the additional fact that many depreda tions of this nature have been com mitted, resulting in great loss of sheeo and injury to their owners, there has not been a single conviction for any of these offenses in the last eight years, to my knowledge. You may ask why there are no con victions against such outrageous con duct by a cowardly class of criminals who would resort to the maiming and killing of innocent animals for the purpose of their own satisfaction or possible nefarious gain. One par ticular reason, it occurs to me, ia that when these outrages are com mitted they occur in isolated places where, perhaps, no one ia near, ex cept, perhaps, a herder or camp tender, or sometimes both, and then it is sure to be in the night time. Prediction Rare Indeed Long range gun being used in shoot ing up a band of sheep it renders it practically impossible except through concerted action on the part of the woolgrowers, to be able to furnish the necessary testimony to convict any person even though arrested for the commission of this offense. And while these crimes are numer ous, very, very few are apprehended and convicted. Mostly all persons committing other forms of crime are sought Jout, con victed and punished, and it teems that this convention, by concerted ac tion, could devise ways and means to mete out proper punishment to these two-legged coyotes who infest the range, taking out their animosity by killing dumb animals. You may speak of the injury dore to our flocks by the animal called the coyote but one of these two-leeged individuals can do more damage to a flock of sheep in one night than all the coyotes on the range would do in a season. I Ordinary care prevents depreda tions by the range coyote but such care as one man in a camp can exer cise can never prevent these midnight prowlers from commuting their dep redations. We cannot expect others than mem ber of the association to take any serious interest in our business or to assist ua even in bringing to punish ment parties committing these in juries. They will say it ia our busi ness, our money comes easy take care of it. So it relegates itself back to the proposition of our stand- , ing together for our mutual protection and the care of our stock. TeerGaf Ewm Tmtmi Many of you will remember a trana action in which Jamea Farley bought 1500 yearling ewea from Stanfield Bros., and on the third or fourth day while taking -theni to his range he found on waking up in the morning 200 of them to have been poisoned during the night. It is positively known that no other agency was brought into requisition except that of poisoning. I would suggest that it would be a better idea to have someone in the nature of a detective, not known to be in our employ, who could travel the range for no other purpose than seeking out and finding all such par ties, seeing to their apprehension, prosecution and conviction. More ?ood in thia way would be accomp lished than offering $1000 reward. I believe, by concerted action, on our part alone, that before long the time will come when these sheep killing outrages will be a thing of the past, for the sheep industry in Oregon is growing to auch proportion and is becoming such a benefit and source of revenue to the State and the people at large that such assist ance will he added to our actions as will bring these parties to justice in the most satisfactory way, stopping and forever ending these outrages. If you will stop to think, there are today in the State of Oregon approxi mately 2,400,000 sheep valued at over $9,000,000 and producing fully 18, 500,000 pounds of wool, and employing over 8,000 men in the care and man agement of these sheep, owned by five or six thousand individuals or firms, it seems to me that when these facta are brought to the people of the state they will lend their co operation with our endeavors and that we will receive the due assistance that only, as a matter of right and justice, belorgs to us on account of the position we occupy in relation to the financial industries of our great state. Many a Camp-Tender or a Herder, on Some Starry Night, Solves Problems of Government or Aids In Constructive Legislation; Sheepman a Homebuilder. NINETEEN PUPPIES AIREDALE IN UTTER Animals frequently astound their human masters, not alone by their tricks and guileless ways, but often times by their natures. Not the least of the latest of these oddities of nature is the litter of 19 pups just presented to C. W. Mallett, ex-county commissioner, by his Airedale mother; and each puppy valued at birth at $25, or $475 in all. Another queer occurrence in the an iroal world is the kitten (now almost a mature cat) which all during the summer owned a Fox terrier dog for its mother, and which the dog raised on canine milk. It belonged to J. M. Craig, editor of the Nyssa Journal. What Mr. Mallett wants to know, now that the skunk question has been properly disposed of, is whether any other thoroughbred dog can beat his litter of 19. He believes it to be a record. MERCURY 6 BELOW IN YALE. The first dip of the thermcmeter be low zero in Vale occurred early Mor- Jay H. Dobbin, president of the Oregon Wool Growers' Association, which met in Vale Jan. 3-4, in his addresss to the delegates, among oth er things, said : "The sheep is the greatest soil builder of all domestic animals; the greatest weed exterminator agricul ture has ever known ; the cheapest fire protection the national forests and other timber lands will ever have. "The flocks of the United States are furnishing mutton for 92,000,000 people, and two-thirds of the wool with which they are clothed. This nation may some day be called upon to entirely clothe her own people. This can never be done by destruc tive legislation. "It takes a man with the pbysiqne of an athlete and a general of no mean ability, having patience and tenacity of purpose, to gather a flock of 3,000 sheep from a mountainside, more rusged than the Alps of Switz erland, and drive them to the bed ground by bis tent, where with the aid of a faihful dog he protects them during the night from vicious var mints and starts them off to graze aain at break of day. "The herders and camp-tenders of the western ranges draw the highest wages paid to any class of agricult ural labor, as they should, consider ing the great service performed. Here as in no other industry does the high cot t of living come into promi nence. These men are generally pro vided with the highest quality of hardy food and warm beddings of the best materials All these articles take a high freight rate into the range country and in many instances are then hauled great distances on wagons and taken to their final des tinations on pack animals. "Few of the eastern congressmen know who the western woolgrower really is. Frequently the herders and camp-tenders of yesterday are the flockmasters of today. Many of the schemes and projects for the develop ment of the great West were worked out by some herder as he sat at noon time by some mountain stream, which he afterward harnessed for power or conducted through a ditch to the arid lands, finally making homes for thousands of sturdy people. "Many of the great problems of life and ideas of constructive legklation under which these schemes are prose cuted were evolved by some camp tender or flockmaster on a starry night as he led or drove a stubborn Subscribe for the Malheur Ent .w per year. Grande as the place for the next an nu.l meeting, the date, for which Will be later fixed and announced by the President and Secretary. C. ft . Humphreys, secretary of the UGr.., de Commercial Club. personaHy at tended the convention in an effort to have the sheepmen go to LaGrande next time, but whi.e ne faithfully and indefat.gably to this end, the wool interests of Wallowa county proved too strong for the seat of Union county, so Enterprise was chosen. The complete list of new officers is s follows: President-Jay H. Dobbin, of En terprise. Vice President E. P. Cranston, or Baker. Secretary - Treasurer John t. Hoke, of Medicsl Springs. Executive Committee Herbert Boylen, of Umatilla county; J. D. Billingsley, ' of Malheur county; James Rice, of Crook county; G. S. L. Smith, of Grant county; James Mahon, of Harney county ; sixth mem ber yet to be appointed from Morrow county. Member National Advisory Board Monte B. Gwinn, of Boise, Idaho. Delightful in the extreme was the entertainment provided Friday night for the visitors at the Vale opera house, at which the general attrac tion was a representaion of "Mose,' a college comedy in three acts, by the pupils of the Vale High School. It was the second time the students had given this production in public, and right well did they impersonate their parts. Before and after the play, and during the intermission, the Mendessohn Glee Club sang sweetly and melodiously with a chor us of more than 20 voices. So pleased were the woolgrowers that, immedi ately the last number had passed with the convention into history, some one jumped up and yelled fo three cheers and a tiger for Vale and its people. Never have heartier cheers been given in this city they came from the heart. Harvey's Saloon VALE, OREGON Is Headquarters for Fine Win JAMES HAKVEY.rroprietor, Notice From Headquarter Know all Men by these Presents- That I have complied with all rim. menta of law, and am therefn . IUUL at m Hi... ! led to retail Liauors. . of business, in the City of Vat .v!? Headquarters." ie. I wish to notify the wife, who U ' drunkard for a husband, or a friend k! is unfortunately dissipated, to ritt ' notice in writing of such cases. m I such shall be excluded from J TV of business. Let fathers, motheri . ti" 1 ters and brothers do likewise, and tU requests will be complied with f I pay a heavy tax for the priVilewrf retailing liquors, etc.; and I winttt distinctly understood that I ia4 sire to sell to minors or drunkard- ? the destitute. There are workintnt! and others, gentlemen of honor Z l means, who can afford patronim, f and it ia with them I desire to tridt f I would say to those who wih a trade with me and can afford itZ and I will treat you gentlemanly f courteously, but "Bitters" arenotwUt - D .. r 1 1 " ? cume. ivcnjiccu uny, JAMES HARVEY. Pm, 7-4t Shoe Shop! Boots and snoea repaired wtlk you wait. Sole-Leather, Shot Oik,' Nails, Etc. for sal W. H. McKAY In the Hub Store GREAT FREEZE RUINS (Continued from Page 1.) Santa Ana, Calif; 24 Riverside, Calif ; 18 San Gabriel, Calif; 24 Sacramento, Calif; 20 San Francisco, Calif., 32 Salt Lake City, Utah; 10 Denver, Colo., 20 below Sheridan, Wyo., 22 below Cheyenne, Wyo., 16 bjlow Pueblo, Colo., 2 below Amarillo, Texas; zero Santa Fe, N. M., zero Boise, Idaho; 2 Havre, Mont., 20 below Steamboat Springs, Colo. 46 below To Make Fancy Cakes IE '- Subscribe for the Enterprise. of extraordinary lightness, purity mi ; appetising flavor, you should bnyeol' Wigwam flour which ia half th bit' tie to the ambitious housewife in 1 ? baking. Suppose you try it once-jot to get acquainted with itsextraordkiuj ; merits? We know the satisfaction j will experience will surely make joqi regular purchaser ever afterwwk And the cost is little. $1.15 per Sack at all Grocers ( Vale Flour & Fetd day morning, Jan. 6, 1913, when the P8ck mule alonK a Ionel trail on the mercury touched 5 degreea below, for the first time thia winter. Friday morning the mercury dipped again, this time to 6 below. Vale Hardware Company UA YES & HUMPHREY. Proprietors Hardware Plumbing Sheet Meial Look in at our windows Come in and talk to utt THE VALE HARDWARE COMPANY s.m.( r.. f.u,, Tm, m., oj. r.M, Aai.w., ,a r.u.i..uh s.u GRANTS PASS SEEKS AN OUTLET TO COAST Grants Pasa, Ore., Jan. 4. Active construction work on the Pacific-Interior railway, the new Grant Pass Crescent City line, commenced today when Camp No. 1, located on Allen creek, two miles southwest of this city, was established. About a dozen team and 40 men will be employed at this camp, local laborers being employed as far aa they are avail able. The right of way ia purchased for 15 miles, and the survey is com plete to the coast, a distance of 92 milea, and other camps will be es tablished as rapidly as the engineers can work out the detaila. The city of Granta Pasa has aaked for bids for the 200.000 bond issue voted by the people toward the con struction of the first unit of the road, and has made a eaah appropria tion to continue the work until the bond are sold. How Filipino Capture Monktya. Tho FUlpiaoa catch monkey la a ery funny way. Monkeys aro ery fond of the meat of cocoanuta. They ar very laiy. though, about gnawing through tho outer bark, and will only do so hoo ory hungry. Tho Fili pino take advantage of this greed and Indolence by cutting a amaJl open ing through tho abolle, )ut largo enough for Mr. Monkey'a long thin band to penetrate. Whoa ho onco gota lntd ho gota hi hand full of do llclou dainty moat, aad hi band It naturally l4r bea la ihl act than hen It tarut through lb opou lug rindtng hi hand til ao( com out, tho monkey chatwra. and aroUU. and plainly ho b! Indignation at lb ay bo baa booa trapped, but aeter tbiablag el tuoaeatag bit bold i the (oroaout nioal aad withdraw log bl band a tiy a b mi i i there b u4. aa aaary ab;, ku Ik atl be l lb t.ue UV, twu. 04 Ube Hut filt way to headquarters for supplies "It may be asked why we engage in so strenuous an occupation. Why we do not give it up? "Caring for flocks and the growing of wool has been our life's work. In vestment in land and equipment makes voluntary suspension of this in dustry out of the question. Other business institutions in wool-growing localities will prosper or suffer in sympathy with that of the predomin ating industry. The great loss to agricultural labor can scarcely be conceived. The ultimate loss to the nation, by the curbing and crippling of so important an industry, would be inestimable. We simply can't quit." VALE AND MALHEUR COUNTY DO HONOR TO WOOL GROWERS (Continued from page 1) through Friday evening, when all of the visitors were taken up into the opera house and made glad with com edy and song; to the time of depart ure immediately after the banquet given at the Drexel hotel, every visi tor wa abundantly satisfied. There were few dull momenta, and business and pleasure were interspersed in ex actly the proper qusntitiea, making the sojourn in Vale an experience de lightful in the happening and plena ant to recall in the days to come. Frequent and emphatic atatemonta to this effect wore made by tho visi tor while in the city, and the fai t ia doubly attested by the last of tho r olutiona adopted by the convention (prin'od elhre in thi iu) io which thank wore extended to nany Val organiiatittna aiui poU, in-lud-lug tho ilalheur tuiterpri, the con. vonlion number of bu h nuk lg bi hn lcil on le by a ie boy b'ridty MM. All tftui h.iuu.UM ei ttttet. 14, Wut.g et.twlitc vw.u.i U tl.teii t II. Vtwfltfivaeii U'ie a-ljvwMi.il reUr-J) fUlot Hot Springs Fine Health Resort Sanatorium Natural Hot Water (- ' - tvm-'m-t-r " -' 5 $25,000 Natatorinm, Plunge and Batha In Connection, At Vale, Orel The medical properties of this water are equal to the famous hot springs of Arkansas Monday and Friday afternoons the big plunge will be open to ladies only a craving strong flavor, when you begin rough; high-proof, whiskey when delicacy and age no longer appeal to you cut out drinking. f iui K. 1 1 I. uu. 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