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
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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,
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