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About Malheur enterprise. (Vale, Or.) 1909-current | View Entire Issue (March 29, 1913)
X Core -of. Ike "Mew Empire of the Wat?. Oil, Irrigated Farm and Fruit Land: Tho Banner live Stock County cf Tb Vvltzi Iders of bnalness; mercantile, atate, hotel, restaurant, news novelty, drug and druggists' lee, the barber, the batcher, sker, fnr dealer, blacksmiths, -es, pool halls, feed stores; we t none; do well when they ad e in the Malhear Enterprise. L. 4. NO. 19. . VALE, OREGON, SATURDAY, MARCH 29, 1913. - PRICE 5 cents - : 1 i 1 The Malheur Enterprise De liTered to your home or mailed, $2.00 per year, In advance. The Leading: Paper of Malhear County. 30DY WANTS 000 STATE JOB UST BE EXPERT ;..ian Draws $3000 Irivate Secretary of Governor West as JL RATES LOWERED Railroad Commission Is- Order for all Railroads to s . Their Tariff Schedules wing Reduction on West iid Shipments in Oregon Agricultural Progress in the United States and Germany C LEM, Ore., March Aside from ' ' o additional judges of the state ne' court, the four most import . Ices created by the recent leg- -e were filled by Governor West ! eek. .'. ie were the three members of idustrial accident commission be corporation commissioner. ' embers of the industrial acci t.' conjmlssion are Harvey Beck :. and W. A. Marshall of Port I ! end. C. D. Babcock of Salem. I c.Xwith, who for years has- been r .'. er of the Portland office of the V.V.' i, Fargo Express company, will rrrt sent the employers. Marshall, formerly editor of the Portland Labor fms, will represent the employes. IT.'; sock, formerly a newspaper pub- V..'. r and for the last two years head i! V. corporation department in the of th secretary of state, will ent the state at large. The po i i pay salaries of 13600 a year. ,.h Watson, private secretary to ' vernor, was appointed corpora J., , Smmissioner and will have the !t task of putting into effect ' ilue sky" law, which is expect 'j a terror to questionable and ill corporations wanting to do 1 is in this state. Miss Fern I stenographer to the Govern- c ', . promoted to the position of ; ' secretary and consequently aw the biggest salary of any ' i in public employment in the (' ' . Her salary will be $3000a"year, ' ' i Is the same as the salary of t! j.r corporation commissioner. Cth laws go into effect 'June 3. TLe workmen's compensation law pro vi..!o8 a schedule of compensation to bo paid employes in hazardous and semi hazardous industries for every sort cf accident. The maximum pay ment allowed by the law is $50 a r.rr.th for life for a widow and her t."oolgrowera in Oregon who have 1 .:3 fighting for the last five years f .r a lower freight rate from Eastern C -;.on points to Portland won a sig r.il victory last Friday when the ttits railroad commission ordered all t9 railroads in the state that had r..t already done so to file tariffs re-I-rcing their freight rates on west t ouni shipments in Oregon equal to ta redactions already made by order 1 AV. BU. PER Showing How Germany Has Increased the Yield of Wheat by Planting Fields to Sugar Beets and Other Hoed Cronsi One Year in Four. AV. bu. PER 11 I I I I I I I I j I I I Prepared by Truman O. Calmer, y I j Wathlnfton, D. C. w Compiled From Flfuree af I he Year Rook, of the Department ef . SC Agriculture and the StalUtkal Vear Booklet the Oerman Empire. V Bushels of iL3- WHEAT , 7rT Harvested Per Acre V TT 1879-1909 AL UNITED STATES ?r 7 Vf 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 f-- f-A , u'. L Ui-X-t- : I -v I I I v 1 I I 1 I I I I t I I I I 1 I I 1 I I II li 1880 1881 1282 1883 1884 1885 1885 1887 (888 1889 1890 1891 18921893 1894 1895 1896 1897 189S 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 19( PER CENT INCREASE 18791909 77.0 1 O 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 -Z a: UJ o 14.4 1 3 1- WHEAT HARVEST JN 1909 UNITED STATES GERMANY 46,723,000 ACRES, 737,189.000 4,523,516 ACRES 138,000,000 BUSHELS. BUSHELS. (Continued on Page 2l 1 m r D'-owss-s-.-'saissss-s.iasi'.sas-s.a piMiii nn na-ai w HE ENTERHRISE brings to a close the series of ar ticles on sugar beets, with this issue, by giving the truth as to the much talked of difference between cane and beet sugar. The article published in this is sue is from the pen of the great est beet expert in the United States and may be relied upon as being correct in every particular. The direct benefit, in cash, from the culivation of sugar beets is very considerable, while Germany and France have dem onstrated that the indirect bene fit resulting to the soil and in crease of other crops is incalcul-, able. The cane sugar refiners are us ing every possible influence to have the duty removed from for eign sugar in order that they may control the industry, and by destroying the beet sugar indus try, may put the greatest of our necesities up to the highest pos sible point Chemistry : It is not uncommon to hear a housewife declare it to be im- make augar. Others clfiim that beet sugar is not as swejt as cane sugar and hence more of it is required to render given a degree of sweetness. Some claim to be able to distinguish beet (Continued on Page Two) i possible to preserve fruit or to confectionery with beet BVLLY CRK PROJECT NOW UNDER WAY 30,000 ACRES OF RICH MALHEUR LAND UNDER CONTRACT NORTH PACIFIC FRUIT DISTRIBUTORS ASS'N COMPLETE PLANS Which Will Greatly Assist Fruit Growers of the Northwest in Disposing of Their Crops North Yakima, March 22. The trustees of the North Pacific Fruit Distributors today announced that an agreement will ' be completed for the formation of a selling and dis tributing agency for strawberries, cherries, peaches, pears, prunes, and apples, all the fruit in caiload lots. The organization, which is nearly complete, will be ready in a few days to sign contracts with the affiliated sub-central organizations in the nine districts designated at the meeting in Spokane in December, included in Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Mon tana. The. sub-central organisations are MS STILL HOLDING CARNIVAL I MEXICO re the Country has Time to Recover From One Re bellion Another is Started. There Seems to be no End to Aspirants to the Mexican Presidency to sign contracts with individual growers and local organizations. There was absolute harmony and un animous action on every step taken. The trustees are now perfecting the selling plan and may finish tonight. They have agreed to remain till it is settled. Clark of Wenatchee is president; Robbins of North Yakima, vice president; Davidson of Hood River, treasurer, and Sampson of Spokane, secretary. INCREASE IN PRICE OF MEATS IS EASILY ACCOUNTED FOR So Says Arthur G. Leonard, of the National . Housewives League iclal: The situation remains t as usual in revolution-ridden :o. The Huerta regime still i sway at the city of Mexico i in the north there Is a new it rebels, burning and killing as tomary. '.ere the numerous generals come is impossible to guess; there een an army of officers destroy- past two years, yet the supply i unlimited. latest is that the state of So is asking admittance to the Uni tates. as a territory; this would :hose who are furnishing arms the United States, a more dim 'ob, being farther removed from aln lines of travtl. pearances now indicate that : is some truth In the story that r is being fomented by our sliatt, as Intervention or awtex is about the only hope of genu-tt-ifketion; the present stUtiipt i' H"nurs Into tbe boui.drlil t UhlteJ tit ite hiving Hie "'tt nf aiuiilr I'snsuis tvuy, Mtjevlt (rile4 ll.rwugl fwih, i ( IU I', 4 do villi IUI iU I ti 4 U fvi(lli seems certain that no one there is popular enough or strong enough to keep the peace, and such a thing as abiding by the result of an election is hardly worth considering. The population of the copper cen ter at Cannanea is rushing for ssfty towards the border, and the smelters are closing down, th administration being greatly worried over the possi bilities of forced intervention. One thing has been overlooked, and that is; intervention would unite the Mexicans Into a homogeneous msss to resist the United Ststes, and there might be a resulting pesce thst would be . permanent, without the United Sates continuing long in pos session. One thing seems certain; that if there Is not peace soon there will be an impatient lot of rspitelUU in Eu rope as wsll as the United Slates. J. D. ROGERS JOINS BENEDICTS "Sui.i.y" JliM nMt I' Uk0 unto Mii.m If s wife, bsvlotf Uen ui.U.J in iisrrUtfs it Mr. tlusn ;i U.ftli yd. lie li ide ei'4 ivim iu sii i,M-yil i r. liu(t dwriKf ti sWi.li j) , Chicago, Marchl 26. The increase in the price of meats throughout the country is easily explained. For the period since January 1, as compared with the same period of 1912, there has been a total decrease in the receipts at Chicago of 646,000 meat animals of every type, amount ing to an aggregate of 200,000,000 pounds. This wss the answer made todav by Arthur G. Leonard, of the National Housewives league. ' "The high prices are due to the shortage and the shortage is due to the wiping out of a large amount of the range country and its division in to smaller farms," said Leonard. "The shortage has been increasing for the Isst seven years and it will take a like period to build up the cattle raising industry so that any material reduction in prices will be possible. During the past year the decrease in the supply hss amounted to one pound of meat per capita eaeh month." On a specisl train, direct from Ksnsas, bringing their household fur niture and a car of thoroughbred stock, there arrived at Vale on Sun day, March 23, S. F. Gholson and family, L. A. Gholaon and family, E. W, Stearns and family, U. Ger man and family and Lewis Torey, tl persons In all. Ttey have come to Mslbeur county In search of a lorstlon and will spend suine tints In Invoatlg stlon around Vale, hoping to find something thst v.111 suit lUm, Thsy iperleru eJ some tuUi elh r on tte trip but are particularly tell filteard ftltu the li ef Ibe t tut it siJ lll tri'V valuable sdlitimi lu ll. f,Kjlsilii ft Milhtur DIVERSION DAM BEING BUILT Active . by Operations Started Wells Brothers This Week One hundred teams will soon be at work on the Bully creek project and dirt will fairly fly on the main canal. Woik will commence on the Lam berson dam sometime in July. C. A. Ashford, formerly with D. M. Brogan on the Willow creek pro ject, and also on the Solomon ditch, near Nome, Alaska, will be engineer in charge of the work. Wells Bros, have the contract on the diversion dam, and will com mence work this week. They have established their camp, and are get ting in supplies. Monday severs I teems left Vale loaded with men and supplies. GIRLS EMPLOYED AS THREADERS OF B0LTS Strike for Living 'Wages and Better Working Con ditions. Many of Them Received Only Twenty eight Cents Per Day, the Highest $8 Per Week New York, March. Two hundred girla employed In the Oliver Steel and Iron mills wentjon strike recently. They demand a livl-g wsge. One thousand girla are expected to welk out. .These girls are employed at thread ing bolts. They are paid 6 cents a thousand. . Tr elr demand Is for an additional t rsote a thousand The sinking girla declare that It la ttot p4eible for any girl t earn more than M a te k, Ki.n.e girla are li only V4 vents a day, the strikers as sert. Tlresdiig Ulla la beavy woik tvt . u, tiui.lly lle beid ate Isolated. A Hirst many it SM lle !,'') Iltfsedlr 4 Mia ' trii on their hands. With hands- bound up the girl, say it is hatd to work fast enough to make a decent wage The police assert that many girls go from the mills to the resorts. One striker called the names of eight of her companions who "went away" within a year. This girl said she would not dare to testify publicly of conditions created by low wages be cause she said father, who is a fore man, would be discharged. DRILLING TO START AT GREAT WESTERN OIL WELL IN 10 DAYS The Casing has Been Repaired and the Cementing off of Water is Well Under Waj at the Work steadily progresses Great Western oil well. The casing has been drawn and re paired and the management is now engaged in cementing off the water, which will probably require ten days to set, after which drilling will com mence. . There is some tslk that work will be commenced on the Eastern Oregon well In the near future, but nothing definite Is known. It is regretabie that this work cannot commence at once, as the time seems ripe for great things in that line. Oil men claim that intelligent management is all that Is needed to exploit these fields, and are confi dent of the final outcome. UTAH CONSTRUCTION CO. GETS CONTRACT Portland, March. The contract on the Western division of the Oregon Eastern has been let to the Utsh Con struction Co. of Salt Lake. Grading is expected to commence in a hort time. Complete connection will be made in 1915. There is a growing opinion that the O. S. L. will meet the O. E. at Vale, branching out near Nysas. Tbla would give the O. S. L. entry into the rich country now being put under cultivation by the Bully crenk project now under construction. Engineer Uvborn Informs us thst President Farrell and Chief Engineer lioecbe will be In Vale shortly (IOCS FAY DEBTS AND BUILD HOMES I'r, James Wlthetoinbe, director of the Oregon r'lperintent Htatlon si Corvallti, Is authority fi the state ment made at a latent meellrg, that the bog hss paid more itU, built more bomes and bought lnoe Mhee and .ho book for fat melt and li.dr ll.lldrell then ty oil.tr Oi.s I'lu 4al la Oiagon, CAMPAIGN OF FLY ELIMINATION BEGUN BY CIVIC IMP. CLUB "Swat the Fly" Dance at the Opera House on Monday Night a Success The "Swat the Fly" dance given under the auspices of the Vale Civic Improvement club, was a success, though somewhat unfortunate in that there was an important lodge meet ing and a special attraction at the Bungalow. The funds realised will be used for the purpose of eliminating the fly from the precincts of Vale, and with the promised assistance of the coun cil will prove a blessing to the residents. The "Civic Club" is a great factor in city improvement; they have es tablished a library of several hun dred volumes and keep all of the principal magazines on their tables, TARIFF ON WOOL AND SUGAR WILL TAKE M LEAD Before the Extra Session of Congress Called for April Seven SAME OLD' CHESTNUT President Wilson Will Find Tariff Promises Hard to Keep. How ever Much He may Desire to to do. Sugar Trust to Main tain Powerful Lobby Special : Interesting to the repub lican holdovers, and to the people aa well, is the present tariff situation, the culmination of which will be reached when congress convenes in extra session. Having abolished the tariff board, which by treating each schedule separately, removed the tar iff from politics as far as it could be removed, the democrats have maneu vered the whole subject into its old position where trading can and will be the determining factor on all items: The wool man of the northwest can deal with the cotton man of the south. The powerful woolen indus tries will combine with western pro ducers and so on down the line: "You tickle me, I'll tickle you" will be the game. The woolmen of the west and northwest are likely to get the worst of it as their votes are not sufficiently numerous, and their old frienda, the wool manufacturers have -. turned against them, but they may strike back through a "pure cloth law" of the same character as the pure food law. While the sugar renders are put ting forth great efforts and maintain ing a powerful lobby in an attempt to have the duty on raw sugar remov ed, their position is so untenable and cause so unjust that it Is doubtful If they will get more than scant consid eration; The United States is pro ducing so small a percentage of Its own sugar, and. our relations with Cuba, Porta Rico, and the Phllipinis are such that to remove the duty would be an act of bad faith, and the result being to certainly annihilate the cane sugar industry of Louisiana together with the sugar beet Indus. try of the west, that it is doubtful if even a small cut will be made. President Wilson, will find tariff promises hard to keep, and however much he may desire to do so, be will find congress the same old chestnut. , Great efforts are being made to in duce Wilson to sanction the "Central Reserve Association" plan outlined in the Aldrich-Burton bill, but while they are desperately endeavoring to educate the public through the press, the entire plan smacks so strongly of more New York aentralization, that . the people will have none of it. No circus yet produced will equal the one scheduled to appear Jn Wash ington April 7, 1913. MOST DISASTROUS STORM MANY YEARS Sweeps Over the Middle West Leaving Death and Des truction in Its Wake. Thousands of People are Killed and Many More are Left Homeless Carrying death and destruction, tremendous blizzsrds hsve swept over the middle states, hundreds of lives lost, millions of property scattered to winds, trains delsyed, wires piled In hopeless tangles are the tales told by the Istest dispatches from Chica go, Omaha and other cities lying In the path of the storm. From Grand Islsnd the news comes that 1,000 persons have lost their lives at Omaha, and that the city is on fire all railroad and wire communi cations being broken; Nebraska, Kan sas and Indiana report hssvy dsmsge with but little loss of life though some of the pieces are out of commu nication with the outaide world arid later reports may confirm the present fears, thst the loss of life is grester thsh at first supposed. tust storms, severe eltrtrical dla turbancea, rs'n and ball swept over the entire middle west. Heversl.per Sons repotted killed at (Jlbjrg, III , sll pereoi'S killed si Woodbine, Jws, lbs mlnl'ig town St I'ertb, li d., I'isi Ib'slly tlelroyvd, but iu ie ol, I sUr fiom lmeie liditl mslst let bu tf Ills 11m it first reported, though the property loss seems to hsve been greatly un derestimated The wires bring news of an appall ing disaster at Dayton Ohio and the surrounding country, indicating the greateat land diaaater of modern timea, with a loaa of life of perhaps fifteen thousand people all told, with famine etsring 100,000 people in the fsce, before hilp can reach them. The Ohio River wss a raging tor rent from excessive rains to which wss added a huge wall of water from breaking of the Leadston Dam put ting upwards of twenty feet of water in the main streets of Dsyton. The Esrlton Dam also broke. Bodies are reported nesting by the lower towns in groups of ten or more, people are In trees on tops of houses and barns with no help in sight, boats rennot stein the current, and many are Uaet in raging swirls. The government U ruablng tents. Slid supplies to lit cel., a d nd litf ssversl oinsnls of reserves lo Hvi'l luoliig std ivrv wrdir, 'liuuh ndi l"i Ibe y (Continued mi leal !')