IE, Core of the "New Empire of the West" Oil, Irrigated Farm and Fruit Lands The Banner live Stock County of The United Side: QTFlCIALfy f DYEIITISINS MEDIUM VOL. 5. NO. 11. VALE, OREGON. SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 1914. PRICE 5 cents SPEEDER WRECKED 0N0. E. Four Men in Wreck, Three of Whom are Badly Injured. AIL NARROWLY ESCAPE II. C. Smith of Hotel Drex el Cut in Head and Se riously Hurt. Sunday afternoon, there being some fuse needed at bridge 7 on the Oregon Eastern R. R., the speeder was taken out and Francis Hagg driver accompa nied by H. G. Swiith, chief clerk for the Drexel Hotel, F. H. Eisenhard and William Baxter started out for a pleas--,. ore ride as well as to deliver the fuse. Rounding a curve well out on the line the speeder hit a rork that had rolled nto the track and the speeder was ditched and the riders scattered over . the country. Eisenhard suffered a bro ken arm; Francis Hagg, a badly strain ed knee and Smith, a bad cut on the head and a serious shaking up gener ally. Baxter went into the air and landed on his feet without a scratch. Think ing the others were killed he ran three miles for help and is very sick and sore from exertion. Mr. Smith will be laid up for some .'time. ELBERT HUBBARD IN LOS ANGE LES EXAMINER The chief business of the old-time philosopher was to philosophize. To philosophize as a business is to miss the highest philosophy. z To do a certain amount of useful , work every day, and not trouble about either the past or the future, is the highest wisdom. - The man who drags the past behind him, and wears his future for a bustle, spread the present out thin. ' The highest philosophy consists in keeping your health, preserving good cheer, and doing that which is useful. Health is the most natural thing in the world. Nature is on our side she is trying to keep us happy and well, because she needs us in her business. When we disobey the laws of health we suffer; when" we obey them we are well And bo here are a few simple facts about health things which we should all know: I Ninety-nine people out of a hundred 'who go to a physician have no organic disease, but are merely suffering from some result of wrong living. This dis ability we call a functional disorder. Functional disorders continued may evolve an organic disease. Most individuals who have a disease re suffering from the evil effects of medication, the medicine having been taken to relieve a functional disorder. Many diseases are the result of med ication which has been prescribed to ." relieve and take away a beneficent and warning symptom on the part of Na ture. " And on these points all physicians are fully agreed. ;-- Tht people you see waiting in the lobbies of doctors' offices are mostly suffering through poisoning caused by an excess of food. ' Nature is forever trying to keep peo ple well, and most socalled "disease," which word means merely lack of ease, is self-limiting, and tends to cure itself . The one theme of Ecclesiastea is mo deration. Buddha wrote it down that the greatest word in any language is "Equanimity." William MorriB said that the finest blessing of life was sys tematic, useful work. Saint Paul de clared thst the greatest thing in the world was love. Moderation, Equa nimity, Work and Love you need no other physician. But to put it in another way, here's the recipe: (Continued on Page 6) NOW GIVE IN YOUR THREE THOUSAND DOLLAR INCOME The income tax law is now in full force. Advices have been received from the Internal Revenue office at Portland that blanks are now to be had upon application to that office. Returns must be made and filed on or before March 1. The penalty for failure to make proper returns within the time specified is $20 to $1000, with various penalties for fraudulaent re turns and refusal to make returns. Section one of the instructions reads: This return shall be made by every cit izen of the United States, whether re siding at home or abroad, and by every person residing in the United States, though not a citizen thereof, having a net income of $3000 or over, for the taxable year, and also by every 'non resident alien deriving income from property owned and business trade or profession carried on in the United States by him. MALHEUR CO. MAY HAVE IT Prospectors of Malheur county as well as elsewhere should be on the lookout for "Carnotite" which carries Uranium oxide and is now the most pro lific source of Radium. "Carnotite" is a yellowy powdery or 'waxy mineral found in the SAND STONE of the high plateau between the Rocky mountains of Colorada and the San Rafael Swell of Utah. That this is where it is now found is no cer tain indication that it may not be found elsewhere and is no indication that Uranium Oxide or Pitchblende may not be found elsewhere. From a bulletin of the U. S. Geologi cal department we quote the following: RADIUM ONCE EXTRACTED CAN BE USED FOR GENERATIONS The effort of the Federal Govern ment should be, and Secretary Lane states that he believes that it will be, directed to the promotion of all mining of radium ores in Colorado and Utah, in any and every way conducive to the protection of America's interest in the product. Early exhaustion of these deposits in the sense that we speak of exhaustion of other mineral resources is something which need not be feared. The radium once extracted from the ores becomes available for continued use without appreciable losa and be comes a permanent addition to the needed supply. The same radium that is placed at humanity's service to-day may be used by our children for many generations. A prominent feature of uranium and vanadium production during the year was the change in method of payment by American buyers, who no longer paid for the vanadium content in the ore but bought it on the basis of the uranium oxide content alone, though they received payment for the vanadi um abroad. However, the miner re ceived more or less compensation in a higher price for the uranium oxide he Bold. Prices varied greatly and returns to the Survey show that the price per pound for contained uranium oxide ranged from $1 for ores carrying 0.6 per cent uranium oxide to $4.60 for one lot carrying 3.15 per cent uranium ox ide and 4.82 per cent vanadium oxide. The demand for carnotite at increas ing prices caused a large amount of pros pecting, and the carnotite-bearing area was shown to extend from the Paradox country westward into the Dry Valley region of Utah, lying between Monti cello and the La Sal Mountains. Far ther west and south deposits of carno tite were found on Crescent and Trac hyte Creeks, in the Henry Mountains, and also southwest of the mountains. The Progressives are worse calam ity howlers than the most hide bound standpatter in the country. Every thing is ruined unkss they are put in power. Colonel George W. Goethals has been appointed first governor of the canal zone. It is expected that Col. Goethals will construct the Alaska rail road for the government. Book Shower--4 Spellin Skule' The third annual book shower for the benefit of the Vale Public Library will revive the merriments and prsdira merits of ths old fashioned "jllin kUW, It will be hrld under the auspices of lis I.sdie Civli Club st ths Guild Hull t i-ht j't'lui'B, Wednesday svninf, I it.iosry 4. 1 vy on I invited to rolnjele in ti.S Spelling inslth ii S I'm ll be s n ic Ui I one "IU Ins i,i it.sn", 3! i.L-fs' sWss-i twnUiA S lef number and fine assortment of books, largely due to ths former shower and It Is huxl thst this one will be a rec ord breaker. Ths ladiss srs asked to dress In ths costumes of "ys olden tyinst". Tlisrs will be music, s ly by uiils of llitfli H'IkmiI snd refreshment will be sri. Admission, one )k, r Ms sqalvs lent In issh, lbs Uu- hbisry will Is iled H al evening t'i lUl l may Hm II. s tlwrf, RUSH FOR THE IMA ;ur COUNTY DRY LAM)S Enlarged Homestead Act Enables Settlers to Increase Their Valuable Holdings. NEW INDUSTRY ADDEDIN VALE Vale has a new industry which should prove profitable and a convenience to cigar dealers throughout the county. Messrs Neuens and Sheffer have start ed a cigar manufacturing business. They have already made over 1.000 and have plenty of orders in sight. They are using fine tobacco with best Sumatra wraps. The business should be well patronized. MILLARD NELSEN WINSLAURELS When the youth of Vale starts at anything something happens. Millard Nelsen heard of a poultry show at Boise and taking his beautiful Golden Wyandottes under his arm he hied him to that Idaho city and seized upon the five dollar first prize and a silver cup sweepstake. There was nothing to it. The Vale birds under the skillful management of the young man outclassed everything in sight and shows what industry and good sense in management will do. Now that the state is offering prizes it is likely that Vale will be heard from in no uncertain tones. Millard is proud of his birds and success and certainly he should be, for the Boise show is a big one and a bird that wins must have some class. Good for Millard and good for Vale. There has been a big rush for dry farming land the past two weeks in Townships 17 and 16-46. There were a number of homesteaders in that sec tion, which is in the hills back of Dead Ox Flat, who made a hit last season and demonstrated that the land there could be successfully farmed without water. Meanwhile the Secretary of the Interior put the country under the enlarged homestead act with the con sequence that every one who had taken a homestead rushed into the land office to secure a greater acreage. This ruling will be a great help to the county as it will attract the right kind of farmers and settle the countrv up with producers. There can be as good crops of wheat grown in this section as in the Palouse country or Pendleton. If careful ex amination is made it will be found that there are many places where dry farm ing methods will pay outside of these two townships. The Hollanders near Malheur are confident of success and look with pleasure on the snow that is deeply covering that section. Steve Dombey and wife were in town from that country early in the week and are very enthusiastic over the out look. A number from Washington state have taken land in the Sand Hollow country and will try that country out the coming season. Wes Caviness gives it as his opinion that there is a lot of land between Vale and Nyssa that will respond to dry farming methods. Barren and Sunrise Valleys have al ready shown that they can be easily made to produce with the right kind of treatment. All of which shows that the Enterprise has been right. BUSINESS IN CIRCUITCOURT Monday and Tuesday of the circuit court was occupied by the two cases of E. M. Greig, Receiver vs First Nation al Banks of Vale and Ontario. Cases in equity growing out of the failure of the Ontario Garage operated by H. N, Ford. D. K. WORSHAM GIVES ADVICE D. K. Worsham, of Malheur, has just returned from Chicago and is anx ious for something to be done to adver tise Malheur county in that city. "There is plenty of money in Chica go for investment in this country," said Mr. Worsham, "if our advantages were properly set before the investors. What this country needs more than anything else is organization and ad vertising. We have good land, good range, plenty of water going to waste, and undeveloped mining prospects, which would all be developed if we would only tell them about it. One man can do but little. The community can do much." Malheur County has 1,000,000 acres of irrigable land with water sufficient to Irrigate It. A BIG HOWL FOR TEN DOLLARS .B ' """' COUNTY COURT DEFENDS POSITION Shows in a Brief Statement of the Facts the Utter Absurdity of the Contentions of the Ontario Democrat in Its Attack upon the Court. To the Public: In the procedure of selecting a coun ty paper having the largest circulation to b designated as the county official paper, the Ontario Democrat, in it is sue of January 22 claims to hsve been willfuly robbed by the county court and that the judge thereof is a thief and the commissioners fools. We feel it a duty to place before the public the proceedings in full. At the regular term of court, and upon a dsy designated, and in the pres ence of sll parties Interested, the rouri proceeded to open the sealed envslope containing ths verified copies of rircu- ! Istion snd foun t follows : Ontario i Argus 762, Ontario Duinocrsl M0, Mal heur Enterprise 1172. Ids Demi ret ImmedisUly claimed fraud n. irinid if Kiven rssaon side time, would furnish proof of sin'. A flsr t ni.sulllng sll trll II mu lully scried Ihel a wt wo'ill be i)il, ami the iohiI gtenUd U l'"n vM lU Uins svJ Ut, yl Wi.ld In 16th day of January when it was an nounced a decision would be made. Upon this day named all parties again appearing, Mr. Gregg, editor of the Democrat appearing without witnesses other than himself, claimed to have found on the list of the Enterprise 225 fraudulent subscribers, leaving 107 ma jority for the Enterprise over hi en tire and untouched list. Mr. Gregg admitted in the presence of the court that some of his own list were dead and some had left the county- At esch of these hearing Mr. Gregg moved the court to swsrd ths Demo rrsl on Die lov showing of having the largest emulation. He sys in his "County Olnt'iul .Steal" article thst hi attorney sdvie him that It will Isk VllttllnroxM "4 i.t IVMI Im to I'love la iu In I )u i ifi uit louil, )el lle n.ui.ly nn I U s Ihitf fr not glv II I the isiiiw mi l l lntlk idiisl lkd lUin!il. 'I l. J'i !' MS not ln ti Ine .n.ii i LM Uur( S i' imous for which it offers no compro mise and makes no apology. Geo. W. McKnight, Judge, Melville D. Kelly, Commissioner. John F. Weaver, Commissioner. Government Construction of the Alaska railroad is looked upon a the entering wedge for government owner ship of railroads, by anti Bryanites, The administration, however, seems to L-onaider ths Alaska proposition along the asms lines a the Panama canal. "N4'ary but not attractive to pri vate capital." V li tor Mi'Rlo'K attack ths presi dent' message bt lug of no construc tive value In reflating Ihs trusts, lis wsila loud and long bsrsut ths big buslnens of lh t'ountry is to be sllowd to K) forwsrJ. Anything (list illM r ntlt mjMrlly I nbjei'tlunsl j ihs si Utfint prt'g-tessivs. Mltiur CoMidy I I lie aivlil i lit tji tijji In, iiid.i) In IIj I sit k4 RiUf FORMULA FOR GETTING RID OF THE RABBIT PEST Ray T. Jackson, representing the de partment of agriculture has been in Malheur county some time and is in vestigating the rabbit pest, giving the latest method of poisoning them Fol lowing is the formula: One ounce of Strychnin dissolved in M pint of water and pint of acid vinegar, add 1 tablespoonful glos starch dissolved in cold water and cook until clear. Take off and add two tea spoons baking soda dissolved in pint of water, stir and add teaspoon Saccharine. Stir the above mixture in eight quarts or ten pounds of oata and after drying add ten pounds of clean oats mixing well. This distributed in runways and trails made by the rabbits to and from feed ing places will soon decrease the num bers of the pest. Great cars should be used to see that the poison i so distributed that stock cannot pick up the grains Care of the vessels in which the poison has been cooked is necessary. ONTARIO OPENS NEWLIBRARY A meeting indicative of the value of concentrated work and persistent in dustry was shown Monday night at On tario. The Carnegie Library Association of that place held a reception attended by at least 350 people, in their new quar ters. Their beautiful building and the 2000 books with which it is started on its road of education and pleasure is the outcome of steady effort and is really the growth of a labor of love. Many years since the following ladies organized the Work and Win Club: Mesdames. L. Adam, E. A. Fraser, W. S. Lawrence, A. A. Brown, J. A. Lac key, G. A. Pogue und J. R. Blackaby. They put up $20 each, out of which has grown the fine building and 2000 books. The present library committee is made up of Dr. H. II. Whitney, Ed A. Fra ser, Mrs. E. M. Greig, Mrs. L. Adam, and Mrs. E. B. Clements. Miss Marie Pinney is the librarian. The cost of the present institution is $8,500 and Ontatio people are juBtly proud of the result. Vale ladies have in the meantime built a fine hall which they own clear of all debt and the Ladies Civic Club has accumulated a library of about 800 volumes which will later develop into a Carnegie library. The towns of Vale and Ontario have certainly a live popu lation of women who never get tired and never quit on doing something that will be a benefit to the community. SALEM CORRESPONDENCE . Salem, Ore., Jan. 26 An end was put to Carey Act Irrigation projects in this state, bo far as the present state desett land board is concerned, by ac tion taken by the board last week. The board adopted a resolution, presented by Governor West, which provides that no temporary withdrawals of land for new projects will be made, no further permanent contracts will b entered into where preliminary contracts exist unless an ironclad guarantee is forth coming that the lands will be speedily and fully . reclaimed, that no further extension of time be granted upon con tracts unless it can be shown that work is being carried on in a faithful, bus iness like and satisfactory manner and assurances can be given that the work will be fully completed at an early date, that all such projects should be handl ed only by the state and federal government. The policy for the board was adopted by the votes of Govenior West, Stats Engineer Lewi and Attorney Genersl Crawford, while State Treasurer Kay voted against it, and Secretary of State Olcott waa not present. Kay strongly opposed the resolution, as he said h waa against anything that committed the board in favor of state and federal cooperation in reclamation work. He said he was opposed to the state tak ing any hand in any uch development enterprise. Following the adoption of this reso lution, the board voted down another DRYLAND SHOWING M ! X RESULT! Settlers Demonstrate Pro ductiveness of Unrnow-1 tened Soil. NO IRRIGATION NEEDED Alfalfa, Potatoes and Gar den Tmck Raised on Dry Land. (Continued on Page 6) That the dry farming possibilities of this section of Malheur county will be thoroughly tested the coming season, is a foregone conclusion. The men who are rapidly taking op the land as homesteads are staking their all that it can be successfully done, and each one realizes that culti vation through the entire season is the whole secret of dry farming. The bench lands nortlr of Malheur Butte, have had such a large measure of success during the past year as to cause all to get a large acreage ready for spring seeding. Mr. O. A Koshnick, who has 320 acres near the Butte, seeded 27 acres in alfalfa last spring, and cut two crops of A 1 hay, making two and one half tons to the acre, and the second crop was so heavily loaded with seed pods, that they caused the alfalfa to fall, and made it much harder to cut. Mr. S. A. Ball, living in the same lo cality had 15 acres with about the same result. His brother Albert had ten acres. This has convinced the entire popula tion on that bench that alfalfa will pay well, and 250 acres ready for seed is the result. Mr. L. Crocker, another neighbor, planted 3 acres to Kaffir corn and har vested 100 bushels of seed, and had several large loads of fine fodder. He aowed this broadcast, and harrowed it in, cultivating with a harrow. Mr. Ralph Griffith, who also lives on this bench, planted one half acre in po tatoes, and dug one hundred and fifty bushels. He sent several te the Mal heur fair that weighed six pounds each. Each resident planted all kinds of garden truck and raised all of it in abundance. Mr. Kosknick sowed three acres in millet, and pastured two cows and three horses on it all summer, and had plen ty of fine green feed when the snow covered it. He also set out forty choise fruit trees, and all but three thrived. Out of 100 raspberries, lost six, and all of his fifty dewberries lived. He &id that they were making as good growth as anything of tbe kind was doing in the valley. This has all been done without one drop of water, for it is all that they can do te haul water for domestic use, and the depth of from three to four hundred feet to the water underground is too big an expense for the settler now, so the one or two wells serve for them all. The upper Dead Ox flat project will reach them sometime, but the settlers refused to sign their lands, after the demonstration of the past season. , The next season will put this colony on the map, and with the added experi ments of the Washington colony to the southwest of Vale a few miles, we will probably hear of greater things being done with the rich bench lands, and will find large assets in our so callod dry hill sides. Little More Than Half -of ths of the farms in the United States aw operated by the owner. Ths number of rented farm increased by 324,000 the last ten years. The Department or Agricultvrb is preparing plans for farm bouses which will increase their convenience and not iocrsass their cost. California is Flooded from Sacra mento to Los Angeles. Damage has not been serioua to date. Exam. Papers are Excellent Mr. Olive SweiUer, who pxsmined the t-iithth itrad examination imners. is very much pleased with ths chsrsc ter of thu work. "The pspsr," sid Mr. HwuiUcr, "srs In s rises by tsm stives and fully SO batter thsn ths sins grile last yssr. "It i very urslifylng to us all to bs able to ret'ord to grtt sdvsmeinsnt, I'rt.g-ress i'f (hi kind show tudliHi rsre mi le sit tf sveryon ih ul MslUur lounly In lbs flout ibi tn ..i Itllwl.sl lint," A isi's m.sr swlfti "Vs, U'S school life is becoming mors strenuous and constant improvement iiecessiUU s constant rharitf. While there srs some who srs Inellnud to move bark ward to ths older and mors laborious method, lee number of sIu.IId and inure sbstruss Ui tiling, lh modern me thod It to t-rowd all work posiilUs into few short yvai, ulvlng student vs Italy; Uvlns them U 'erUlls Ister, ... . 4 lltevy UU u iitU, Urley, o( tu 4 Kslfs ins Usltisur i.mi t avttt I I t'i (Mtistiy, I . r I I i I t I p ( H 1 M ; 1