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About Malheur enterprise. (Vale, Or.) 1909-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 11, 1913)
m mm a. Cre of the "Hew Umpire of the West" il, Irrigated Farm and Fruit Landi .mi.,. i i i i r i iiiiHIHMI I iiiiiiiimi ii.hiiiiI t.T iiii"H imlJ r In iiiwiuw ipmn ; ihe banner Live Mode County of the unitea otatco . T.iMerf beslnees; mercantile, B.Bil?ftI kotel, reetaurant, newe aa1 h brber. the butcher, WJ f- dealera. blacksmiths. ' halls, fd storea; we Jnion: d well when they ad Sfitah Malheur Enterprise. VOL. 4. NO. 47. "T'S Si' ' P', of Malheur County. VALE, OREGON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1913. PRICE 5 cento VALE HOTSPRINGS 'WILL BE DEVELOPED A Quarter of a Million Dollars will be Expended in the Construction of a Splendid Hotel and Sanitarium. Water from this Big Subterranean Hot Reservoir will be Piped into the City and Utilized for Heating Purposes in Business Houses and Residences. Jordan Creek Reservoir Will Cover 50,000 Acres. We are informed by Wells Bros, that work is progressing with great speed on the Jordan creek dam. This dam will not be of great height though it will form a reservoir that will hold water for 50,000 acres. The land under this project is of the beit and rumors are out that it is not til taken. Wells Bros, are greatly pleased with the outlook in that section and think they have one of the best enterprises in the west. HIGH SCHOOL ENTERTAINMENT Tbe vaie mgn bcnooi'wiu give an entertainment Friday, Oct. 17, for the benefit of the atheletic department, foot ball in particular. There is great interest being shown in the foot ball practice srames and some first class tal ent developing. Vale will be able to make a creditable showing in any of the contests that they may be able to bring off. It is hoped that the people will turn out in numbers to help the boys along. The program will be a first class one in every particular and will be of music, recitations and minstrels. r. High School Notes. The tools and equipments for the manual training class, arrived Monday, and the class began work Tuesday, with Mrs. Grace Dickey in charge. The first work of the class will be the construc tion of three work benches for use by the class. Coach Barrett, formerly of the Cali fornia state football team, has been se cured as coach for the Vale High School football team, and is now en gaged in trying out the students for places in the team. The new text books for the physio! ogy ana hygiene class have not yet ar rived. ENTERPRISE SEES ONTARIO Unity of Action Among the Business Men is Shown in Work Accomplished. EASTERN CAPITALIST IS INTERESTED Says that this Great Flow of Artesian Hot Water, with Its Demonstrated Medicinal Qualities, is the Most Wonderful Natural Resource to be Found in America or Europe. Its Development will quickly Double Population of Vale. 18 Investigation shows that Ontario not only a progressive town, but that she is fortunately situated. The estab lishment of trade at the upper railroad points of Harper, Juntura, and River side and probably later at Hamman, will unquestionably draw considerable retail business from Vale and Ontario Vale will have the Bully creek project to fall back upon and the advent of the Beaver River Co. will afford her pensation tor sucn loss as may Meanwhile Ontario has a bridge corn- occur, across are GLEN THAYER MARRIED. Glen Edward Thayer and Gladys Thomson were united in marriage Tues day by County Judge McKnight. Mr. Thayer is the son of the well known Malheur rancher, Otis Thayer. Miss Thomson, the daughter of J. 0. Thom son. FORREST JONES WEDS Forest Jones, of Juntura, was united in marriage to Miss Nettie Alice Col lins, of Greeley Colorado, by County Judge McKnight, Tuesday afternoon. Mr. Jones is a son of William Jones, the Juntura and Westfall banker and Malheur county merchant. M iss Collins came from Greeley, arriving at Vale Tuesday accompanied by her mother. A license waa immediately procured and the couple wedded. NEWELOTCCO. NOWJNVALE The Vale Electric Company Takes Over the Vale Light and Water Company. The Beaver River Co. line in operation Nov. 1 will have their under a new firm name. The new company will be known aa the Vale Electric Co. E. A. Boyd will be the general man ager in Vale. This company will sup ercede the Vale Light and Power Co., H. R. Waldo, Trustee. W. A. Robs, for aome time with the Vale Trading Co., will act aa business manager in securing new business. There are a number of applications for pumping plant power, a number of fanners, who are located between Vale end Ontario, aending a committee to confer with Mr. Boyd. It is expected that there will be a large number of houses wired and a greatly increased revenue derived from this branch of the business. Having power night and day will timulate business and the new laundry will be one of the first to benefit from the introduction of regular power. MRS. A. W. TROW QUITE SERIOUSLY ILL The wife of Msyor A. W, Trow, of Ontario, i very tick with te4 ( typhoid fever, Great cars U tflvvft Ur to the Payette bench and there some 5,000 acres of new land coming into bearing next season, being four, five and six years old. They keep the road from town to the bridge in splendid condition at all times giving the expected customers ease of travel to and from town. The Ontario-Nyssa ditch is making a garden spot of that section the trade of which will probably be devided with Nyssa. Mr. Greig informs the Enter prise that the actual cost last season just passed, was $2.60 per acre which includes a heavy expense for damage done by a cloud burst. The Ontario Commercial Club have magnificent quarters in the new city hall, occupying the entire upper floor. The leading citizens claim that the town cannot progress without this important body. This building has but little ornamen tation on the outside, though present ing a neat and pleasant appearance; the money having been expended on the interior which is excellent for the pur pose. This building and the new library, under construction, add much to the general appearance of the town. The use of oil on the streets has prov ed an improvement over water both in utility and expense. While times are certainly quiet in Ontario as well as all over the country, there seems to be no good reason why they should not improve; and there as well as at Vale the people will make the town. WATSON MAN ENTHUSIASTIC. Miller Page, from Watson, called at the Enterprise office Saturday and left with the editor a sunflower 16 inches in diameter, soma of the finest looking potatoes yet brought in to Vale and some of as fine corn as any country can boast of. "We have a fine country out there," said Mr. Page, "and in time will have large numbers of hogs to sell every year. Corn has made a splendid growth and matured well this season, though it has not been what could be termed a good corn year; there being no really hot weather, and nights were invaria bly cool. "Now that we know that we can pro duce good eorn there will soon be a change, instead of relying exclusively nn ranee cattle and hay we will turn out more hogs and finer cattle than ev er before." Watson needs a better road to Vale. They have a long ways to travel in a roundabout way and it does Vale no good to have it this way. There was a petition circulated last year to have a change in the mail route, but the Vale Chamber of Commerce did not pUBh the matter. What might be done by a lit tle attention to the needs of those who would like to trade with this town would be a surprise. Mr Papa ia much pleased with. Vale, bending her energies under the stress of quiet times, is preparing for a brilliant future. A town with a pop ulation of 1000 at the time, which had the confidence in the future to put in a water system conveying the water 12 miles and at the same time inaugurate a sewer system, at a cost of $100,000 is destined to come to the front. Arrangements have been closed that will devejop the hot springs into a prof itable and useful resource. These springs have been famous for many years. Steaming out of the ground with such force that they could be seen for miles, and with medicinal qualities unsurpassed by any of the great and famous springs of the old or new world, they have lain practically undeveloped for 50 years. The present owners have done what they could. They have erected a good brick building containing a big plunge, a dozen bath rooms and a laundry. However, it takes money and plenty of it to put such an enterprise on its feet. The requirements of the country in its development prevented and prevent the present owners from pushing along this improvement. They have now an opportunity to en list eastern capital with them and Mr. Geo. Franklyn Willey has agreed to take hold of the matter and push it to completion. The springs will be utilized to heat the town and furnish hot water for household purposes. The water comes out of the ground at a temperature of 216 degrees F and is therefore 46 de grees greater in heat than the Boise springs. There will be a fine sanatarium erect ed with all modern improvements. In fact the building will be rather a fine modern hotel than a sanatarium. The grounds will be improved and the pub lic will be advised of its whereabouts and quality. "There are numberless uses that such a natural resource can be put to," said Mr. Willey, "and I am confident that there is no better spring in America than this one lying unused at your doors. It should, and I think soon will, heat the town of Vale. Its medicinal qualities, shown by the late analysis, indicate that it ranks with the best either in Europe or America, and 1 have seen the most and best of them. "What are my plans? Well, I am hardly ready to take the public into my confidence. I came out here at the in sistance of my friends to look into the resources of the country, more particu larly oil. All reports and surface indi cations give me a good opinion of the field and I am confident that exploita tion by capital will prove the field an excellent one. I should greatly like to take hold of the oil proposition but there are some matters that seem diffi cult to handle. It is more than possible that I may be able to help the field along to our mutual benefit and if mat ters shape themselves right will look further into the field when I get back. "Business should look up now that the tariff is out of the way and currency legislation will help. Meanwhile, mere ly as a suggestion, I rather think that there are more oil locations than wells, and that to get foreign capital into the field there should be a more united ef fort than at present indicated. "A burying of the hatchet and -a strong pull together will result in won derful things being accomplished. There is nothing like concentration. I am much surprised that there is no com mercial body here to get together and talk things over. It will surprise you to find the many resources that can be found by meeting and informally dis cussing the days work and planning for the morrow. The world moves with great rapidity and the race now is to the strong and the swift. Think and act; those are the two money getters." Mr. Willey left Tuesday for the east and will meet some of his party in Chicago and with them will proceed to New York. LOUIS OVICH CAPTURED AT NYSSA Austrian Charged with the Murder of His Fellow Countryman, Jake Zupan, Near Juntura, Wednesday Night of Last Week, Arrested Saturday Evening by Town Marshal at Nyssa. Fugitive Fled Through Mountains Afoot, and Without Food. h 1 vr t 'i I tW I I ':ft $ n Louis Ovich, from pictures sent out by Sheriff Kerfoot Criminals seldom get away from Malheur county officials. Ovich, who killed Jake Zupan, made preparations for a getaway, but owing to the rapid work of Sheriff Kerfoot and Deputy Ben Brown, in getting a photograph of the murderer scattered over the coun try, immediately he was recognized and captured at the first place he appeared. His photograph had been taken when he was forced to testify in one of the former cases before the Malheur coun ty court. Follows the story of his capture: Louis Ovich, who shot and killed Jake Zupan at Juntura the night of Oct. 1st, was captured at Nyssa Monday even ing, and is now safely lodged in the county jail at Vale. Harry Goahert, son of S. D. Goshert of the Nyssa Hardware store, recogniz ed Ovich from the pictures and descrip tions sent out from the sheriff's office, and while the fugitive was in the bar ber shop having his hair cut, young Goshert hunted up the town marshal, H. D. Holmes, and showed him the Austrian. Holmes made the arrest and notified the sheriff. Ovich states that he has walked all the way frhm Juntura, making his way through the mountains at night, and hiding in the daytime. He passed through Vale Sunday night, and walk ed to Nyssa, intending, no doubt, to take the boxcar route out of the country. Ovich is only 25 years old and haa quite a boyish appearance. His victim is said to have been only 20 years old. Railroad Service is Improved on the Vale Line. N. J. SINNOH ON JUTETAX Oregon Congressman Busy in Interest of the Oregon Farmers. ROSEBURG MEN TAKE LAND "H. D. Master and D. R. Shambrook . of Roaeburg. Oregon, were in town early in the week looking over the country with Wes CavineKS. "You have a great country, said his ! Mr. Shambrook. "and in the near fu- . . . . . i f it fine products snd is jusiiy proua oi vne country that can produce them. John E. Johnson was in town the past week from Drewsey where he is build ing a big ditch for the P. L. S. Co. tuie will be heard from. There is a large amount of guod land locked up by the big companies which works as a brake, but they will likely let go af- (Continued on Page 6) NEW COMPANY MAY SINK WELL Alaskan Capitalist to Enter Vale Field. BULLY PROMISES PLENTY OF WATER The diversion dui on Urn Hully wa .rojcl Is nrii. raH'V is itvw up M.ly w ti 11 uk lU' lv pw !' "' As 'ii a they ra-h iheotilli-t '"t i lUre ill U imi Uit-r fru aWr, a . U,. ovurtuw is viry lar. 1Ur -im J'uM hut that l'" ' who sis it' d! ! (' M While the rumor cannot be confirmed with certainty, It is still extant that company headed by James Frost, the Alaskan rapitalUt, will put down a prospecting well in the near future. There was an Oklahoma etpert h-re during the summer an4 um hirroiu ii,iUU'ii It is Bujl the nw roin I'sny is atoiiijr Uj work, hhould prove suil,i.U aifl the WilUy Uv lsit up () O'.tsii" will In l"l' tf I M!Uuf. this Inur tll, ENTERPRISE COMBINES The Malheur Enterprise is pleased to announce that it will combine with the Semi-Weeklv Portland Journal. We will furnish the Enterprise and Semi Weekly Journal to one address for one year for $2.00 if taken before the 1st day of December, 1913. We have carefully compared this pub lication with others we have received and think our readers cannot do better (Continued on Page 6) Washington, October 2, 1913. (Spec ial) Congressman N. J. Sinnott of Oregon made the Democratic majority in the House of Representatives sit up and take notice this week when he call ed attention to the discrimination against the farmers of Eastern Oregon in the duty on grain bags in the Under wood bill. In hia brief speech made during the four hour debate on the conference re port he brought out the fact that while most of the things the farmers pro duced had been put on the free list the jute grain bag a necessity in hia dis trict had been required to pay a duty. He said that the House and Senate had turned a deaf ear to the protests of the farmers, and members of the grange of his district who had petitioned them for free grain bags and listened to the plea of a single grain bag manufacturer in the city of Portland, Oregon who wanted a duty on jute grain bags. He said that although it waa proba bly a forlorn hope he could not forbear stating that free sacks to the farmers of Oregon, who used between 18,000,000 and 25,000,000 yearly, might afford them aome relief in these daya of De mocracy which had taken from them nearly all the protection they had here tofore enjoyed on the things they rais ed to sell. Developing further his ideas on the grain bag question Mr. Sinnott said to day to an Enterprise representative: "If the products of the farm are to be free, sacks and other articles need ed by the farmer should be free. The present Underwood bill is more favor able to the manufacturer of grain sacks than the Payne Aldrich bill, because under the new bill the manufacturer of grain sacks gets his burlap free. The differential under the Payne-Aldrich bill was only b, in the Underwood bill it is 10. "Another thing worth noticing is the discrimination in favor of the cotton farmer and against the grain farmer on the Pacific coast. By making the burlap free the farmer of the South gets the covering for his cotton without paying any duty, because the burlap is simply wrapped about the cotton. But by putting a duty on the burlap when it is made into a wheat sack the farm er of the West is forced to pay a duty on the covering for his produce, while the cotton raiser gets his free. This seems to me an added injustice to the fsrmers of Oregon." PAROLE OFFICER VISITS YALE W. F. Snodgrass, parole officer from Salem, was in Vale Tuesday, leaving Wednesday for a trip over the state looking into matters concerning prison ers asking for parole. From Mr. Snodgrass the Enterprise learns that there were 147 on parole that have earned $7700. Since 1911 there has been lost of the paroled a total of 72. Of those paroled there have been 23 violations. There have been 38 returned of which 37 were for drunkenness. Mr. Snodgrass is strongly in favor of a federal prison for all transient and second term criminals. By tranaient is meant those from other states con victed in Oregon. "There is no reason," said Mr. Snod grass, "why Oregon ahould be taxed to suitoort a criminal resident of Idaho or any other state who has been caught on the Oregon side of the line. It should be the duty of the government for two reasons: First; He is a federal or interstate criminal and all atates should help care fir him; and, Second! This would remove confirmed criminals and their influence from among the first offenders." . A RUSH FOR FAT LANDS OF MALHEUR Vale has a railroad service. Passen gers may now reach their destination without undue delay. Traveling men may come to Vale, get through and leave for other points without unnec essary waiting. Heretofore, if the main line train was late, an entire day was lost, aa there would not be time between trains. The service is a better one than waa expected, but as soon as well under stood the company will not regret hav ing established it. Passengers may now connect with the Juntura trains and all around con venience will result. The complaint that passengers have heretofore made about standing on sid ings will cease and the interior of Mal heur county will be far better served. All talk about people going elsewhere to trade is mere buncombe, insofar as the change in service is concerned. Vale residents may now go to Boise and return the same day. No more will go than heretofore. That people can go to other towns and buy a few dollars worth of goods saving carfare both ways and spend a day away from home is not worth considering. Interior points will gradually patron ize those stores nearest them, but there are always compensations that will make up the loss. Ontario and Vale will do their share of the business. Aa a fact the change with the improve ments up country will be aa favorable to vaie as to untario. There is always competition and the personul factor which has to be consid ered. Its a world of the survival of the fittest. Progress will come and competition must be met. Ed Hamilton, of Alexander Co. 'Any thing like progresa cannot hurt. We can meet any competition in any town. Whatever helps one will help us all." Leo Schmidt: "I had no complaint to make. The service was always all right. I have no complaint to make now, the service suits me. My busi ness is always all right." T. T. Nelsen: "Progress is what we all want. I am not worrying about business. We will get our share of it under any conditions." C. E. Hammond, Dealer in Parma Pumps: "Its too good to be true." J. iVI. Keency, proprietor Hotel Drex- el: "The register speaks for itself. The banks and merchants now get their mail early in the morning and have until the afternoon train to ans wer. In fact could answer much of the mail on the morning train. There seems to be some mix up on the pony mail but this will doubtless be straightened in short order. ONTAWWELL is TAKEN OVER G. F. Willey, the New York Capitalist, will Develop the Prospect Thorougly. Hi pUiiiU r was w of the U1 If not the Ul tht the hx el UimI oftUs lis iriviitel since its tahhihrnunt In Vsk tt ttiihu tUUi bi'is I sir lv rli it. Tliers aie Urge numbers of ioiU from the wcsUru pari of the That there will be aomethlng doing in oil in Malheur county is now certain. George Franklyn Willey closed a satis factory deal with the Ontario people whereby he will eventually take over that well. s It is more than possible that some thing will be done with aome of the Vale wells in the near future. There are tentative deala made with two of the Vale wells and probably will be others in line when Mr. Willey returns from the cant. Upon closing the deal for the Ontario well Mr. Willey expressed himself aa greatly impressed with the spirit of unanimity exhibited by the well owners at Ontario. The gas pressure at the Ontario well impressed Mr. Willey and he ia now confident that something can be accom piished as gas will answer every pur uose and, in his opinion oil will k m eventually produced. Mr. Willey will re turn Jn , about CO MALHEUR FARMER. MILKS 23 COWS Mrs. It. J. I'eniiiniiton called at the EuterpriMi oltue Saturday netting but. Ur wrspi'Mis pnnUd In accordance wilh ths rtfulstloiis of the state Urd snul . ,k. iT.u ,..tikl tomi.iiAff I. .W . alia Isle and Washington U sending i j',1(1nKlon Vss a n.Hk rsm h lxut t Ury-e UI Kstioii of .omkrt nt , Ihi v,tw )( ,), Malheur and the i ouitti Mist hs I'i'.lui I U Ul milk!.- i'l lis big liuin