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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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Hot Springs
Fine Health Resort
Sanatorium
Natural Hot Water
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$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.
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