fill, Cw tt th "llcv Empire of the VestM
Oil, Irrigated Farm and Fruit Lands
The Banner lire Stock County of The Unltci Stated
mit business: mercantile,
hotel. re.tanr.nt, new,
Sf. drug and druggists'
"M-. the barber, th Datcher,
'tfS'r for dealers, blacksmiths,
t1' pool halls. fed .tore.; we
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VALE, OREGON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1913.
PRICE 5 cents
THE NAME "BARREN VALLEY"
IS AN EMPHATIC MISNOMER I
This Great Malheur County Mesa is Furnishing Homes and a Competence
' for a Large Colony of Homesteaders, who are Producing Fine Gar
dens, and Big Crops of Many Kinds without Irrigation
MAN
A BAD
IS UNDER
ARREST
JJOUT 15,000 BUSHELS
WHEAT THIS YEAR
fruit Trees and Shrubbery
Planted and Doing: Well
l D. West of Barren Valley was in
Ktn Tuesday on his wajr to Elk County
tunas, bis old home. Mr. West took
(homestead in Barren Valley last May,
id is well pleased with his location.
Hi has receiyed many letters from
Ixnsu friends relative to this section
i the state, and is taking back with
kin samples of grain grown in his Bee
ion by dry-farming methods. He in
feros us that there will be harvested
Ht year, in Barren valley, about
15,000 bushels of wheat.
On the McCoy homestead. Blue Stem
fill wheat averaged better than 40
labels to the acre this year. Some of
Its wheat heads had 5 to 6 trains to
Ike mesh. ... . '.
Garden Btuff grows well, and Mr.
fast says some- of the Barren Valley
fry-land gardens are to beat anywhere.
Is hopes to induce some of his old
lansas neighbors to come back with
kin, and help develop the Barren Val-
lej section. .
From his claim Mr West can count
15 bouses and tents on as many home-
stead locations. There about 100 set
tlers now in the valley and others are
dropping in nearly every day.
Many fruit trees have been set out
in addition to small fruits and shrubs,
and they grow rapidly. He thinks the
Dime" Barren" Valley is a misnomer as
itisproving to be one of the most fer
tile new sections in Eastern Oregon.
The soil is a deep rich black loam, and ,
it looks anything but barren where the
homesteader has been at work.
Water is found at a reasonable depth
in the valley, and excellent in quality.
A majority of the settlers are satisfied,
and are busy reclaiming the lands so
that they will yield returns. Several big
sacks of mail, find their way to the local
postofnee every week. Slowly but
surely the big county of Malheur is
settling up with an intelligent and in
dustrious class of citizens.
MORE JORDAN VALLEY LANDS TO BE
IRRIGATED-33,200 ACRES
Much Wanted for Alleged
Horse Rustling in Several
States.
Tract Along Jordan Creek
West of Town of Jordan
Valley is Selected.
The State Engineer, John H. Lewis
has filed in the local land office an ap
plication for the temporary withdrawal
of a tract of land along Jordan Creek,
west of the town of Jordan Valley,
with a view to the filing of a Carry
Act selection. The law provides that
upon the application of the State,
showing that a proposition to reclaim
the lands has been submitted to it, the
lands be withdrawn from entry for a
year to give them opportunity to com
plete the surveys, determine what lands
are irrigable from the proposed system,
and complete the selection.
The application filed by Mr. Lewis
shows that a proposition has been sub
mitted by Mr. Herbert G. Wells for
the reclamation of the lands. The list
includes 33,200 acres, located in town
ships 29 S., Rs. 42. 42:. T. 30 S., Rs.
41, 42, 43 and 44; Ts. 31 S. 41 and 42.
Elva St. Clair, was in town Thurs
day, from Creston, where she has
taken a 320 acre homestead.- Miss St.
Clair made entry on the land in the
local land office.
Mrs. E.P.Keineth, motherof Mrs. Ed.
Hamilton is in Vale on a visit with her
daughter and will make an extended
stay.
Edgar Luther Larkin in the Los An
gles Examiner, says that the incom
prehensible four words are: nothing
EXISTS BUT ELECTRONS.
Optimistic crop reports are not so
Plenty. The potato crop is 100,000,000
bushels shoat. .
The tariff bill is now a fact and the
country is ready for the trial.
PROMINENT MEN
VISITJUNGMAN
Malheur County's Improve
ment in that Section is a
Surprise to Valeites.
A party of prominent Valeites made
a trip to Kingman and the surrounding
country Sunday and came home great
ly impressed with the outlook for that
section of Malheuf county. The party
included: M. G. Hope, C. G. Holt,
Ben W. Mulkey, Frank Palmer, Mr.
Charles, Thoa. Jones and Ferd Zutz.
The party are of the opinion that
Kingman will eventually be one of the
best towns in the country. The town
lite itself is of the best of land and
very foot under cheap water system.
It is surrounded by some of the best
nd in the country already developed
nd under course of development The
proposed High Line pumping system
a nroDoaad he Meaara. Talma? e and
others will irrigate 50,000 acres all
tributary to this town.
There was nothing but praie for
h Kingman Colony plantings and the
improvement of a couple of years
hows what can bo done by intelligent
and persistent work. The homes are
btautiA! with Lawns and flowers and
tr systems well laid out.
Truly Malheur county poaaesea many
t the meriU attributed U the garden
VALE YOUTH IS MASTER
OF HIGH FINANCE.
Vale has a youth who is on the road
to high finance and should later be at
the head of some manufacturing trust
like the sugar coterie.
This master of high finance purchas
ed several bottles of lemon pop from
one of the dispensers of such liquids,
with the idea of reselling, and gaining
a fair commission.
A short time after purchasing the
boy returned and stated that he thought
that a colored pop would sell better
and exchanged the lemon for ginger
ale.
In disposing of the returned lemon it
was found that the boy had sold it and
refilled the bottle with water and then
exchanged it for the ginger ale. Thus
Vale has an assured representative of
the captains of industry.
OBITUARY
Mrs. Jennie Lucinda Davis, wife of
Hiram P. Davis, died at their home
southwest of Vale, on Tuesday of this
week. Mrs. Davis has been sick all
summer, and the most of time has been
a great aufferer. She waa born in the
state of Iowa in the year 1866. At the
age of sixteen she came to Eastern
Oregon, and lived close to where Bro
gan is now located.
In 1885 she waa married to Mr. H.
P. Davia and has always lived close to
Vale.
Four children, a husband, two bro
thers and four sinters are the near rel
atives who mourn the loss of a mother,
wife and sister.
The funeral was conducted by Rev.
Helman Thursday afternoon, and a
large number of friends and neighbors
who were present waa an evidence of
the respect the departed merited in
this community.
She waa a member of the Rebekah
Lodge, and the order attended in a
body and aaaiated in the services. The
bereaved certainly have the aympathy
of the people of the community.
Mayor William Jay Gay nor, of New
York, died on the Steamer Baltic, Wed
nesday afternoon. His system waa
weakened by the wound received in
the hands of an Insane man.
Boiae and Payette valleys have ship-
pod 192 ears of prunea and peaches
to date this season.
J a nan sends ultimatum to China.
rwniMruU aiiuloirv and Indemnity and
punLhment of offender.
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QUIET WEDDING OF AN
IDAHO COUPLE
Today at high noon Mrs. Annie Brad
ley and Wm. Ball, of Parma, Idaho,
spoke the vows which unite them as
husband and wife. The gladsome cere
mony was performed by Judge Mc
Knight. The wedding was modest and quiet.
Both parties to this contract are well
known and highly respected citizens of
Canyon County.
The bride is a lovable woman, whose
kind deeds and loving kindness are ap
preciated by all who know her. She is
loved and respected by the best people
in her community, where she has lived
for twenty years.
The groom is a man who is capable
and industrious, he is full of honor and
integrity, he stands well in the com
munity where he has achieved an en
viable place in the popular esteem of
his neighbors and acquaintances.
May God, s choicest blessings eo with
them through life
VALE PUBLIC SCHOOLS
OPEN MONDAY
Public schools open Monday Sept. 15.
Professor Ruring wishes the people to
understand that those children who are
entering for the first time must com
mence on this date. Those who will be
six years of age on or before February
1 may commence now.
HOW HEWAS FOOLED
Held Up a Jap Restaurant, Got
a Box Full of Silver and a Wag:
Substituted Iron Washers for
the Loot.
Sheriff Kerfoot returned Tuesday
bringing Charlie Cook, wanted in four
states for horse stealing. The sheriff
captured Cook at Challis, in Custer
county, Idaho. Cook is an old offender
and well known in the west. He is
spoken of as a bad man by some, al
though it is doubtful if this appellation
is deserved, at least as it is generally
understood.
It is related that at one time Cook
held up a Jap restaurant and secured a
box containing a large amount of sil
ver. Desiring to make an opportunity
for proving an alibi, he quickly con
cealed the box under a broken side
walk and ran into a neighboring sa
loon. Meanwhile he had been watched by
another party, who immediately sub
stituted iron washers for the silver and
then stood guard with a gun, expecting
to get Cook when he came for the box.
Cook shortly appeared and the guardi
an fired but missed. Cook opening fire
with his pistol drove the other away
and, grabbing the box, leaped into the
Payette river and swam across with
the box of washers.
His feelings may be imagined when
he opened the box and found iron in
stead of silver.
After a tremendous battle the repub
licans elected Peters to congress in
Maine.
COURT HOUSE CROWDED WHEN
i BOARD OF EQUALIZATION MET
Protesting Taxpayers Irom Various Portions of the County, Demanding 1
rnmw lr.ni('ino TliwinrJ tho C mi ft TTnnat ATnnflnii. Htlnrtlinn
with Those Who had Come to Protest Mortgage Taxatiou I
MALHEUR COUNTY FAIR OPENS ITS
GATES THE COMING WEEK
0. 6. JOHNSON RAISES
GOOD CORN
Indicating what can be done in Mal
heur county O. B. Johnson, a brother
of engineer John E. Johnson, and
who is farming on the lower Bully
Creek brought in to the Enterprise
office some of the best looking corn
shown in any country.
Ears over 12 inches in length and 3
in diameter completely filled to the tip
with perfect grains and without a
blemish or worm.
This corn was grown on dry land,
and demonstrates that there is abso
lutely no use in sending to Nebraska
for corn or corn meal; that it just as
well be grown at home and thus gain
the freight and cost for home circulation.
Four sided peas have been evolved.
This prevents embarassment whe n us
ing a knife for a shovel.
MR. KINGMAN EXHIBITS
FINE GRAPES
There was put on exhibition .in the
U. S. Bank windows, a sample of Con
cord, Sweetwater and Seedless Sultanas
grown at the Kingman Colony .
The grapes are perfect and in per
fect bunches well matured shewing
that the soil and climate is capable of
producing the California product.
A Week of Splendid Enter
tainmentAmple Accom
modations for All.
TAX ROLL THIS YEAR
$19,000,000.00
Last Year's Roll Showed on
ly $11,000,000.00
THE FARMERS' COLLEGE
Don't forget the farmers meeting Monday. At the Chamber of Commerce rooms at
2 p. m. for agricultural subjects and at the Odd Fellows Hall for Domestic Science and kin
dred subjects. At the court house in the evening.
The college professors will be on hand to answer all questions, and give all an oppor
tunity to gain some kink in the business that will be of benefit to them in some department
of their work. Information will reach from chickens to cows and from seed time to harvest.
Give the College encouragement and they will soon come again.
TARIFF BILL IS PASSED::
l"W Oillf Mil a4 Ike aeiiale
Jw4ay by toe yf U IT, UN'
l Wi.s) a4 Mooter,
"tAtfijWa, Vvili f lt tUJeKmriU
TU runem bill will I" I " uj
4 peseed.
Mallei IUil eaUl t lw
COSTUME PARTY IS A
GREAT SUCCESS
The "Tacky" party given by the
Civic Culb was one grand success.
Everyone and his cousin and aunt were
there. There were some costumes that
would have taken a prize in a band
of Piute Indians, others that' would
have made the Gutter Snipe look asham
ed of himself.
Most of them would have filled a jail
had they been caught astray. The
ladies were dressed in more kinds of
costume than one would Bee on Welli
ngton street in Portland on a rainy
afternoon. We venture to say that
Fifth Avenue in New York never had
such an exhibition in its best day.
True, the East side might have found
a few to match the best.
At 9 p. m. the grand march waa
played by Mr. Wacker and the
the guests and membera of the Civic
Club presented a wild and wierd
scene. The Oregon Eastern was ably
represented by conductor Heaton in a
slashed skirt effect in red presenting
the sppearance of a charming Mias of
47 weighing 300 pounds. Attorney
Wheeler appeared partly clad in a
diaphanoua X ray gown and he is some
where In the sagebrush going yet.
Weary Willie was well personated
hv C. C. Mueller, ao well Indeed that
It seemed that it mint be natural.
Mabel McLaughlin represented some
thing or some one ao well the first
priie of a beautifully decorated pump
kin waa preaented her. Mrs. Itlgby
was rlad in a U year old gown
was "larky" to rrlelnty. Fifth
m a a ht : -
Avenue was well repreaiiui sy
yea a nix e of Krbie llaya, wearing
M,l skirt that cerUH.iy flW M
...ii
i.l. Hi. Turn June aitoukj !.
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SAGE BRUSH
RECORD OF 1913
Enterprise Receives Tele
grams that Show the In
difference of Railroad Men
Toward the Best Paying
Station on Their Line.
ru-
1
Snecial to the Enterpriae It is
(
mored thai the Al to Co. haa contract
ed with the managers of Sagebrush
Annie for carrying the mail between
Ontario and Vale. Owing to the am
ount of switching to be done near Nys-
sa and Payette, the engine cannot get
the maila through on a four hour schetP
ule.
Passengers will be sidetracked aa us
ual. If they do not like St they may
walk. Their money is taken belon
they get aboard.
REAR END COLLISION
A jackrabbit ran into Sa gebrush An
nie as she rounded a curve. The rab
bit waa under full ' headway when he
hit the rear car and ia not expected to
live. Annie lost her breath.
ValeGreat excitement on the streets.
Oldest inhabitant Buffered a collapse.
Train arrived from Ontario only four
h ours late.
Wonder i express J at the success of
management in keeping the train back
for ao long. No one ever aspects to
live to see it again.
TIms following Ultftframa were dla
covered In the sarcophsgua of the edl
V of lb "toiUur GsaetUMr" appar.
null aat l.aiiMwi In n Unt !
ten that r and I h usntfr l
ume railroad Mg atiwe esllnii;
NaliM foiKi, llatu, , l
kA.iu lluoUwi (;tUr, li.l.wr,
NORTHWEST TOWNSITE
CO. BOOMS VALE.
We are in receipt of a Vale folder is
sued by the Northwest Townsite Co.,
which is a work of art and well illus
trates what others think of our city.
In fact it ia just such work aa th'i Vale
Chamber of Commerce, (now extinct)
should be doing.
The Northwest Townsite Co. are in
terested in Vale to a large degree, as
well aa in many other towns in Oregon
and Washington.
Geo. M. Bailey is President with
offices in Portland and Philadelphia.
DRY LAND RAISES OATS
When N. H. Suitter tells a dry land
story he brings the proof with him.
Mr. Suitter called at the Enterprise
office Friday with a sample of oats
rown without water on Pole Creek, a
tributary of Willow River. The oaU
were 5i feet in height, with heads 12
to 15 inches in length.
There were 58 stalka grown from
3 seeds. The people who are going at
dry farming in a careful aud scientific
manner are making a success of it.
Duncan McRae, from Riverside came
In Friday to find out how the assessor
treated him. Mr. McRae says that
other peoples troubles do not bother
him much, but "1 am at times sorry
for a poor eheep man because he can
not protect himself," said Mr. McRae.
Thv don't have a fhanc to scoot
arroas the border and titer fore get
caught every tun. '
The Malheur county fcir will be on
the coming week and it will be a suc
cess. The Ontario people are center
ing every faculty to make it the best
held and to prove to the people that
their judgment was not wrong in as
sisting them.
County fairs do more to bring the
people together and infprm them of
what others are doing than any other
thing.
Ontario is well provid-d with hotels
and accommodations for a crowd and
they have thrown open the grounds for
use of those prefering tents.
The management have provided a
fine program and good prizes for com
petitors in all of the fair events.
It is to be hoped that the people of
the .county will patronize the fair and
help to make it a grand success.
The Management of the Malheur
County Fair ia arranging for a Btock
sale to be conducted by J. S. Barnard,
Saturday, September 20. Thia will af
ford an opportunity for the exhibitors
to dispose of their stock when the Fair
closes and give to those who are in the
market for breeding stock a chance to
purchase.
THE WINANS BROTHERS
COMPLETE WELLS
Messrs. A. Winans and L. Winans
arrived in Vale from Sunrise Valley
where they are developing a large tract
of land. They have four wells com
pleted with a flow of water that they
cannot exhaust. These wells they will
case and put pumps thereon for the
purpose of Irrigating the land aa re
quired by the government.
Messrs. Winana are now preparing
to build Borne dwelling houses on their
property and will procure their lumber
from a mill about 65 miles from their
nronertv. Thev find the freight rate
too great to permit hauling from Vale.
As soon as these wells are in opera
tion and houses erected, work will be
commenced on other property and con
tinued until the entire tract ia under
cultivation.
TEACHERS' INSTITUTE
The Teachers Inctitute convened
Wednesday as scheduled and the city
waa filled with Malheur county educat
ors. The belated train brought some
80 visitors who were quickly bestowed
bv the committee and exerciaea aa in
dicated on the program were carried
out.
The meeting waa an earnest and
successful one from every standpoint.
It looks well for the coming year to
have ao great an interest taken by the
teachers in the discussion of their work,
and earnestness with which they took
hold of the matters before them.
Of the addresses, of which all were
excellent, that of Dr. William J. Weeae,
of Ontario, entitled: "Hygiene aa ap
plied to School and Home" waa excep
tionally excellent in character and
showed careful study and knowledge
of the aubject.
Prof. Ruring has demonstrated his
fitness so ably at Vale that bla hand
ling of the subject: "Are Our Schools
Giving the Best Possible Education to
Our Children," was exceptionally able
and to the point.
Owing to the Illness of the county
superintendent, when most needed in
making preparations for the program,
it waa not exactly aa intended, but
quick action and earnest endeavor made
up for the omissions.
The programs were printed on beauti
ful naiMir and were a work of art.
Altogether the mealing waa on to be
lonir remembered and all were in excel
leat spirits and well satiaflad with their
work and with their treatment by th
oiiiherted t'itixeius of the city on th
Malheur.
tCt l..Ml '
hostilities and poll I maner, w hav
lttUiriiiifid Ui Ubliah a two train
Uluiii Ihililieur Slki WoolUXI,
Kervkt Ui i iiiiiiiieiic January I, A. I'.
3014. CigratulattoiiB.
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The storm broke over the heads of
the board of equalization Monday and
it now appears that there ia general
dissatisfaction with the tax roll that
far exceeds, and goes deeper, than a
perennial sore subject.
The people are getting to understand
that they cannot stand the heavy bur
dens, which are yearly increasing, that
public a (fairs bring to them. The state
ia far behind this year and that tax
promises . to be very heavy. All ex
pect to pay their share of the taxes
but are determined that they shall b
equally distributed. There is no ques
tion but much of the talk leada to
wards a modified single tax in order
that those who hold an enormoua
amount of land for speculation may b
made to stand their proportion of th
burden.
In this connection however attention
is brought to land that is above the old
high line survey and impossible of rea
sonable irrigation under any system,
some 350 or 400 feet above the river.
being taxed at $40.00 per acre.
That there ahould be an intimatft -
knowledge of the exact amount of land
that each farmer haa under cultivation
goes without Baying. This would en
tail considerable work on the assessor
and his deputies but is the only possi
ble solution of equality of assessment
as between the farmers. On the mat
ter of personal property, there still
exists the old trouble that only that which
is in sight is assessed and that great .
inequality in valuation is in evidence,
which is unavoidable when each indi
vidual givea in the valuation on hi
own property.
The present roll with the sam addi
tion for public service corporations that
was made last year will aggregate in
the neighborhood of $19,000,000 aa
as against $11,000,000 in 1912.
There seems to be complaint, gener
ally, regarding taxtation of mortgage
notea. Not so much the actual fact of
the taxation aa against the method
used to reach them.
One good that will result from th
agitation in this respect, is the clear
ing up of the books of the county clerk.
A large number of chattel mortgages
that have been standing unsatisfied
for years have been cleared up and th
noticea Bent out by assessor Hill will
hav the effect of clearing up many
more.
Concrete instances were submitted
showing th fallacy of judgment to
attempting to get oven a near correct
(Continued on Page 6)
FRUITINSPECTOR
YANTSA LAW
Some Orchardists Refuse to
Care for Diseased Trees;
Should be Compelled to.
J. A. Lackey, county fruit Inspector,
was in town early in the week attend
ing the equalization board. Mr. Lack
ey looks for a prosperous year in fruit.
The inspector is not pleased with th
working of the law regarding spraying.
"There Is great difficulty," says Mr.
Lackey, "in enforcing the proper ear
ing for diseased trees. When there is
one or two that refuse to abide by the
law and the requests of the authorities,
every orchard in the vicinity is jeop
ardised. The orchard lands ar ao
scattered that It would tak a big plant
and many men for th county to car
for th Isolated trees that need im
mediate attention, and therefor ther
should be a specific penalty that would
operate to Indue recalcitrant orchard
ists to properly rare for their treea."
"That there ar men who will not
listen to us is Strang and unfortunate.
It has, however been on of th main
troubles of all districts."
r.riiiiT iTT-T rnir-sat
COURT WORK IS LIGHT
TU week has Un taken up In th
trial tf rlvll rae.
Hiill vs. Ilouah, vei'lii t fur M.'Jill,
lluiu vs. I'svls, vhJUI fwr I'svls.
Oi'laiW f.i Ui.k vi sjle.atro,
verlirt fr UUrtbom.
Dreael I M.I vs. (J. W, O. (V, r
dirt for hotel,
He.e Hallux!, kerJll M oV
fieJit.