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VOLUME VI, NUMBER 8.
VALE, OREGON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 50, 1915.
Price 5 cent
HARNEY MAN
IS BITTEN BY
AJAD DOG
Dog had been Bitten by Coy
ote with Rabies nearly Six
Weeks Before.
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Charley Roper, a pioneer rancher of
the Harney country, was bitten by a
mad dog a few days ago at his ranch
near Harney City, so the Burns pa
pers report. '-
He was taken to Burns and a tele
gram forwarded for the Pasteur treat
ment, which it is hoped will arrive in
time to save the life of the patient.
The dog, which was a pet of Mr. Ro
per's, had been bitten by a rabid coy
ote, but had been kept in confinement
for three weeks, and was believed to
have passed the time for taking hy
drophobia, when it suddenly "went
(mad" and bit its master before it
could be killed.
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Vale. Trading Co,
Establishes Branch
Store at Riverton
JUNTURA COUNCIL
TAKES ACTION TO
PREVENT RABIES
The town council at Juntura has
passed an ordinance in compliance
with the request of the county court,
requiring all dogs to be muzzled or
AAA "fi emu uiueiniK -"c mursiiai u
vwvjestroy all dogs not thus restrained.
Billy Jones, the stockman and bank
sr, is reported to have had a very nar
row escape from being killed by a
3teer affected with the rabies.
I Don't get the idea that the whole
ffamily is as aristocratic as the daugh
ter may lead you to believe.
The Vale Trading Company has just
completed a large warehouse and
store building at Riverton, the new
town at the end of the construction on
the Oregon Eastern.
The building is 40xG0 feet with a
basement extending beneath the en
tire building. E. Dillon, of this city,
was the contractor, and he has just
returned home after completing the
work.
The new store will be known as the
Vale Trading Company Branch, and
will be under the management of S.
Timbrell, formerly manager of the In
terior Warehouse and Grain Company
of this city. A complete line of gen
eral merchandise will be carried,
which will be shipped in carload lots
and unloaded directly into the store
rooms, thus saving the interior custo
mers every possible shipping expense.
Mr. Timbrell is one of Vale's most
popular and energetic young business
men, and will no doubt be equally pop
ular with the people of the interior
country. He has let the contract for
the construction of a new residence at
Riverton, and Bob Nichol will have
the building completed in a few
weeks, when Mrs. Timbrell will join
her husband at their new home. Mr.
Timbrell has rented his home in Vale
to Mr. Williams, from Jordan Valley,
who comes to Vale to embark in the
abstract business.
PRISONERS TO SALEM
Sheriff Ben Brown left for Salem
the latter part of last week with three
prisoners, Meldrum, Spencer and Cox.
Joe Goodyear, of Jordan Valley, ac
companied him as a special deputy for
the occasion.
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CHRONOLOGY OF CHIEF EVENTS OF THE WAR TO DATE.
Progress of Past Week.
January 18 Russia in third successive victory destroys another
Turkish corps in Caucasia.
January 19 German air fleet raids Sandringham and other towns in
England, doing damage near the King's palace.
January 20 Great Britain resorts to conscription in South Africa.
January 22 Russian advance in Transylvania reported checked by
Austro-Hungarian forces.
January 24 German cruiser is sunk and two others damaged
while attempting raid on East English coast.
EARLIER EVENTS OF THE WAR
Austrian
result of
June 28. 1014 Grand Duke Francis Ferdinand, heir to
throne, and his wife assassinated in Sarajevo, Bosnia, as
Pan-Slavic propaganda.
July 23 Austria sends ultimatum to Servia.
July 28 Austria declares war on Servia. Russia mobilizes against
Austria.
July 31 German demands that Russia demobilize Belgians and
Germans order mobilization.
August 1 Germany declares war on Russia.
August 3 German troops enter Belgium.
August 4 Great Britain sends ultimatum to Germany demanding
respect for Belgian neutrality. Germany declares war on France and
Belgium. Great Britain declares state of war exists with Germany.
August 6 Austria declares war on Russia.
August 7 French enter Alsace.
August 10 France declares war on Austria.
August 12 Montenegro declares war on Austria. Great Britain
announces state of war exists with Austria.
August 15 Japan sends ultimatum to Germany, demanding that
she withdraw ships and evacuate Kiau-Chau, China.
August 17 Belgian capital moved to Antwerp.
August 20 German army enters Brussels.
August 23 Japan declares war on Germany.
August 25 Austria declares war on Japan.
August 28 British fleet victor in sea fight in Heligoland Bight,
Germany losing cruisers and torpedo boat destroyers.
August 31 St. Petersburg becomes Petrograd again.
September 3 French capital moved to Bordeaux.
September 5 Great Britain, France ind Russia sign agreement to
make no peace save together.
September 7 German right wing, under Von Kluck,. after having
approached within a few miles of Paris, begins retreat from the
Marne,
. September 21 German submarine U-9 sinks British cruisers
Chesy, Hogue and Aboukir in North sea.
October 9 Antwerp capitulates to German forces.
October 16 Germans enter Ostend, on English Channel. British
cruisers sunk by German submarine.
October 17 Four German destroyers sunk by British cruiser in the
' North sea.
October 20 Japaneses occupy Ladrone Islands in Pacific ocean.
October 27 British super-dreadnought Audacious, third in tonnage
and armament in British navy, sunk by torpedo or mine off northern
cost of Ireland.
October 29 Turkish warships bombard Russian ports and sink gun
boat; Prince Louis of Battenberg resigns as First Sea Lord of British
navy because of Austrian birth.
October 31 Turks annex and invade Egypt. German submarine
sinks Briti-h cruiser Hermes.
November 1 British squadron defeated by German fleet off Chil
ean coast.
November 3 Great Britain and France formally anounce state of
war with Turkey.
November 7 Tsing-Tau, German stronghold in China, falls.
November 10 German cruiser Kmden destroyed by an Australian
cruiser Sydney. German cruiser Koenigsburg bottled up.
November 20 British battleship Bulwark blown up and sunk near
mouth of Thames from explosion of own magazine.
December 2 Austrian arm ocupies Belgrade.
December 7 Germans occupy Lod!, Poland.
December X German commerce destroyers Scharnhorst, Gneisenau,
Ieiptiis ami Nurnberg destroyed off Falkland Island by British fleet.
Cruiner Dresden escape-.
December 14 Servians recapture Belgrade and inflict decisive de
feat on Austrian.
lecember li German fleet riiU east roust of England. Wattle
pool, Scarborough, and Whitby bombarded. Eighty-four jterkun,
ni'istly civilian, killed.
!ecernber 25 Seven British warship ami the ame number of hy
dro anlant raid German naval lusu at (uxliuvin and ei e.
Dwemliir liH- United State demand of Great Britain and allii-4
tar improvement of tieutment of American caitfoe.
Jsimuiy 1- Iliiuh l.ttUlt-ntiip i'oimidalilu uik in Kngluli Channel
by Get man sul.inui ine.
Joiiuaiy It lUisslaiit ilifint Imu Tutklsli miniu in l'uru.
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APPLICATIONS
TO LEASE LAND
INOREGON
Those having Idle Lands are
Invited to List Them for
Leasing.
PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 26, 1915.
(Special) The farm land bureau of
the Oregon State Immigration Com
mission is receiving a good many in
quiries in regard to the possibility of
renting good farm land, and nearly
all these inquiries come from practi
cal, experienced farmers who are not
at this time financially able to pur
chase land. The Bureau is now plan
ning to add this rental feature to its
other work and would like, as soon as
possible, to make up a generous list
of such offerings. No fees or com
missions of any kind will be charged,
and in all cases the reliability and fit
ness of the applicant will be carefully
investigated.
Farmers and land owners through
out the state wh have land for which
they have no present use, and who
would like to derive an income from
such acreage, are invited to write to
J. W. Brewer, manager of the farm
land bureau, at Portland, for blanks
on which to list such holdings.
If present plans do not miscarry,
Oregon will in a short time be listed
among the important sugar-producing
states of the Union. While Eastern
Oregon has been more or less active
in the raising of sugar beets for a
number of years, it is only recently
that the movement has extended to
the Willamette Valley and the coun
ties in the south end of the state.
Approximately 5,000 acres have been
signed up within the past few days
in the vicinity of Medford and Grants
Pass, an acreage sufficient to warrant
the erection of a beet sugar factory.
A corporation backed by Oregon, Cal
ifornia and Utah capital has been
formed to carry through the project.
Coos and Curry counties have rais
ed a fund of $5,000 to meet the ex
penses of a comprehensive display at
the Panama-Pacific Exposition this
year and within a few days the ma
terial will be shipped to San Francis
co and installed in the Oregon build
ing. Of interest to all wool growers in
this and adjoining states is a move
ment recently inaugurated to estab
lish a big wool warehouse in Portland
to handle the clip from all flocks in
this territory, thus eliminating the
speculator and broker who have here
tofore cut deeply into the annual re
ceipts of the sheep men. Under the
new plan all wool will be graded here
and the producer will be advised ex
actly what his wool is worth. It is
estimated that this plan will net the
woolmen from 3 to 5 cents per pound
over former prices.
NYSSA MAN
TAKES STATE
PREMIUM
E. H. McDonald, who took the
sweepstakes ribbon at the Malheur
County fair for the best butter exhib
ited, has had further honors thrust
upon him. His creamery is equipped
with a Minnesota Home Creamery
Churn and other machinery made by
the Minnesota company of Minnesota
and he has just received a substantial
check from that company as the first
prize made by any user of their ma
chinery in the entire state of Oregon.
This company gives prizes to usera of
their machinery in each state, and Mr.
McDonald scooped in the one coming
to Oregon without an effort.
The prize was won in competition
with Tillamook, Coos Bay, and other
famous dairy sections, and Mr. Mc
Donald is justly proud of the honor.
He believes it is another evidence that
as a dairy country Nysa can hold her
own with the best of them. Nydsa
Journal.
SECURES HOMESTEAD
NEAR JAMIESON
II. Mathew, who recently purtbaa
I a reliiiiuilimeiil in Diy (tub h in
tli JttinivKoii country, w in Vol
JliulUy klui plovlilud In Mist If mih
yooil ua-liiig nmlltr for lb hot yiui
by onUiliif lli null. ly I'ltu In! .m..i
HI ll ll III fclUlttl,
Mi Miliv rout fioiii Witt.liii.tf
Ikii, I"' ud in i'i of H'k
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READY FOR
ACTION
Now is the Time for Prompt
Action, if we are to Se
cure the Warm Springs
Project.
DITCH OWNERS HOLD
KEY TO SITUATION
They Must Indicate Their
Desires in the Matter in
Order to get Results.
It has come to a turn in the matter
of irrigation in Malheur county
where glittering generalities are of no
avail. If the citizens of Vale, Onta
rio and Nyssa want the Warm Spring
reservoir, and system of distribution,
it is up to them to present their case
to the powers that be in Washington,
and to present it in such a way that
they may thoroughly understand the
situation.
The several ditch companies hold
the key to the situation. They must
at once indicate their desires and
whether they will enter into some ag
reement with the department putting
their land under the system. There
must be no further delay. The funds
now available will revert to the gen
eral fund of the treasury June 30 and
then must be appropriated by con
gress for specific projects.
A large sum is now in the hands of
the department for immediate use.
The climatic conditions are unequalled
in Oregon. This fact is capable of
demonstration by showing the prod
ucts from the various districts under
the system.-- There is no beter fruit
land in the state. Instance- premi
ums taken by Malheur fruit where-
ever exhibited. Corn has been dem
onstrated a great and complete suc-
ces. There are 100,000 acres wait
ing on this system. It means pros
perity for the three towns of Ontario,
Nysa and Vale as well as the entire
county. Failure to secure this proj
ect means another long wait. It is up
to the people who control the situation
to send representatives to Washing
ton, not tomorow or next week, but
now. If this is not done and we fail
to get the assistance which is our due
and which the powers which are in
control are willing to give us, we must
make no complaint.
The old history of the project is of
neither use nor value. Secretary
Lane cares nothing about past reas
ons. We care nothing about the past
reasons for failure. The question is,
what can be done now. Let the "dead
past bury its dead," and let us go for
ward from the present and secure this
project.
BOYER BUILDS
A NEW HOME
Constable J. S. Boyer let the con
tract the first of the week for the con
struction of a five room cottage, in the
eastern part of the city, opposite the
C. A. Gilham residence.
The main structure wil be 32 by 42
feet with porches on each side. The
foundation will be of concrete three
feet high, and a cement basement will
extend beneath the main building, this
however, will not be excavated till du
ring the coming summer.
Mr. Boyer expects to have his new
home completed and will move into it
in a short time.
PETROLEUM
SHOWS
, , m
Alaska Well at Vale Brings
Up Oil in Every Bailer
Much ado wan made over a Knowing
of oil at the Tenino well, Washington
state. At the AU-ka well, on mile
north of Vale, u fur belter knowing I
daily in etl'lenttt. I'l 'Helically vary
duller of mini blinti Up a good khuw
log of pvlioleulii.
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mil. ii, I. wittl ly ll.u ikivjtoiloftf Ion
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SUGGESTIONS
BY THE COUNTY
AGRICULTURIST
Advises Building Silos Is
Ready to Assist Any Who
Ask for Advice.
To the Editors of the Enterprise,
Vale, Oregon.
During my recent trip to the Mid
dle West, I was impressed by the
number of silos which had been con
structed during the past few years.
In many sections which produced only
grain for market a few years ago,
the farmers are today feeding most
of their crops to livestock, utilizing a
large proportion of the corn crop in
the form of silage.
All of the fanners who were inter
viewed expressed themselves as well
pleased with the results which they
obtained from feeding silage. Not
one of them had ever experienced any
bad effects from the use of silage.
I made special inquiry on this point
as some farmers have stated that
stock are injured by eating silage.
Whenever injurious effects have fol
lowed the use of silage it can general
ly be attributed to a poor quality of
silage resulting from using corn that
was not at the proper stage of matur
ity or from a silo which was too
large in diameter, so that the silage
was not fed rapidly enough to pre
vent fermentation.
The silo has come to stay on the
farms devoted to dairying or beef
production in the sections of this
country where corn is grown success
fully.
Corn is well adapted to a large por
tion of this county, as was shown in
the Pomona Grange Corn Contest last
year.
Why not plan to build that silo this
year and secure the profits from the
best possible use of the corn crop ?
The county agriculturist of this
county will be glad to give you any
assistance within his power regarding
the planning of a silo or the selection
of the best and most economical type
of silo for your needs.
Call on him for information about
silos or any other agricultural sub
ject in which you may be interested.
His office is to serve the needs of the
people of the county and the only way
that he can render you assistance is
through you giving him a knowledge
of your needs.
W. R. SHINN, ,
County Agriculturist.
What has become of the old-fashioned
man who regarded a bootjack as
an essential piece of household fur
niture ?
Scanning the epitaphs teaches us
that a tombstone can tumble without
crushing truth to earth to any alarm
ing extent.
NINE STATE
OFFICIALS OF
IDAHO INDICTED
The grand jury now investigating
the looting of the Idaho state treas
ury, has found indictments against
nine more of the state officials for
complicity in the big steal that made
the Gem State's surplus a deficit.
The indictments Include the attor
ney general.
It is now believed that State Treas
urer Allen, who plead guilty and went
immediately to the pen, was made the
goat, and that others expected to se
cure his pardon as soon as possible, if
he refuod to "squeal."
Some men are patient enough to
sit around and wait for history to re
peat its performance.
COMPENSATION ACT
TO BE AMENDED
(Special to the Enterprise)
SALEM, Ore., Jan. 27 Uepreenta
live Schuebel is preparing a bill to
amend the workmen, compeiustion
act, pal at the 1911 Ion. The
bill will provide for more rlaIS-a
lions of Industries than are contained
in the present ait, with s view it re
ducing I he burden on tlx lnduUi
In which the haisid U hot great. Il
will U rvtU for wslUi.g pilJ
ut UU Wk, and fuMha' pluvM
llist will (! lojwiy ! fr fwi
Ill o.ll tlisll MIS I'M
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Ex-Sheriff Kerfoot
to Become the City
Marshal of Ontario
The announcement is made that
City Marshal Lee Noe, of Ontario,
will accept the place of chief deputy
under Sheriff Ben J. Brown, and that
Ex-Sheriff D. H. Kerfoot will take the
place of Mr. Noe as city marshal at
Ontario.
Mr. Kerfoot held the office of mar
shal at Ontario for a number of years,
and it is stated that the city authori
ties there have made the salary an
object to him in accepting the place
again. '
Mr. Noe is an official of much abil
ity, and is a man who makes friends
wherever he is known. As chief dep
uty in the sheriff's office, Mr. Noe will
be a reliable assistant to the sheriff
and a popular official with all who
have business with the sheriff's office.
He will take charge about the first
of March.
VALE TEAM
WINS ITS FIRST
LEAGUE GAME
Basket Ball Team of Vale
High Takes Game from
Caldwell's Fast Bunch.
BAKER CITY FIRE BUG
MAKES CONFESSION
A firebug touched off a restaurant
at Baker City last week and burned
some $20,000 worth of adjacent prop
erty. The incendiary was run down and
arrested. He made a confession, say
ing his boss agreed to give him half
the insurance money if he would burn
the building. The insurance amount
ed to $300.
The first basket ball games between
the teams of the Idaho-Oregon league
were played last Friday night, be
tween Caldwell and Vale in this city,
and Ontario and Payette at Payette.
The Caldwell delegation was com
posed of W. L. Tiernan, coach, A.
Breshears, center, W. Wilson and R.
demons and K. Miller, forwards, B.
Harding and C. Brascamp, guards.
Vale team was an easy winner,
their whirlwind speed carrying the
visitors completely off their feet.
The score was Caldwell 11, Vale 17.
At the close of the first half the score
stood Caldwell 4, Vale 12.
The Payette game was won by the
Idaho team, the score being reported
Payette 40 to Ontario's 10.
JURISDICTION TO
JUSTICES OF PEACE
SALEM, Ore., Jan. 27 Representa
tive Jeffries, of Clatsop county, today
introduced a bill giving Justices of the
Peace concurrent jurisdiction with
Circuit Judges in non-support Bases.
A justice of the peace now has juris
diction over such a case only to the
extent of binding a person over to the
grand jury.The theory of the non-support
act, says Representative Jeffries,
was to force a man to support his
family, and he cannot do this while ly
ing jail, waiting for the grand jury to
act on his case. By allowing a Jus
tice of the Peace jurisdiction the ac
cused can be given immediate trial.
CHILD IS SEVERELY
SCALDED BY BURST
ING BED WARMER
The seven year-old daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. C. O. Thomas, of this city,
was very severely scalded Wednesday
evening, when a warming pad of boil
ing hot water burst in the child's bed.
The small daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Boswell, who was sleeping with the
Thomas child at the time, also suffer
ed some painful burns.
Prompt medical treatment was oc
casioned and both children will recov
er in a short time.
YOUNG LADY DIES
OF TUBERCULOSIS
Miss Ruth Wann, who has been liv
ing at the home of Ernest Adams,
east of Vale, for the past year, died
of tuberculosis on Thursday morning.
She had been ill for over a year.
The letters a man forgets to mail,
however, are less serioua than those
he neglects to burn.
School Department
Under Direction of FAY CLARK, County School Superintendent
Note In the rules governing the
Malheur County Declamatory Con
test, published in the School Notes
last week, it was inadvertently stated
that the judges "shall be residents of
Malheur county." It should have
read, "shall NOT be residents of Mal
heur county."
Mr. Maris, the Field Industrial
Agent from the State Department
will, in all probability, be in Malheur
county during the week of Feb. 22-27.
Mr. Maris gives a very interesting
tereopticon lecture illustrating the
various phases of industrial work of
fered by the State Department work
ing in co-operation with thu Agricul
tural College. Schools desiring this
work will please write to the county
superintendent at once.
Miss Katie Cahill, who has been
teaching in the Park school on the
Payette-Oregon slope, has Seen forc
ed to resign her position because of
ill health. Miss Cahill hai been one
of Malheur county s mod efficient
teachers and it will be a di '.Icult task
to find a teacher who can ctrry on the
work as Miss Cahill has done for two
years.
The editor of the Juntura Times has I
a good little editorial in ti e January
22 paper that every parent should
read. It is just as applicable to your
district as if is to Juntura. He ak
that Inhteaif of remaining at home
and critU'ixing the work done at
school, that you make youinelf a fre
quent visitor to that school, get your
information s to what is being done
at first hand and lhn if things are
not progriiig as they oliuuld, give
the toaclior the benoflt of your wider
i poilem and be a booolvr fur yuur
l liuul
near Crowley, in a newly organized
district, reports 100 per cent attend
ance while some of the others are re
ported as low as 80 per cent. While
a lower rate of attendance during the
cold weather is expected, a great
many parents and pupils are apt to
permit too much laxity in this par
ticular. A school cannot become
standard until an attendance of 92 per
cent has been attained.
The new text in Theory and Prac
tice for the June teachers' examina
tion is Strayers "The Teaching Pro
cess." This book has lately been add
ed to the list of books for Reading
Circle Work. Teachers wishing to
read this book may get the questions
and helps on the book by writing to
the county superintendent.
Pupils in the Brogan school who
were neither absent nor tardy during
the month ending January 8, 1915, are
as follows: Delcia Rouse, Cora
Rouse, Fern Rouse, Myrtle Logan,
Cecile Logan, James Clark, Pirl
Clark, Alvin Clark, Goldie Howard,
I-iabell Cole, Kenneth Lockett, Arden
Lockett, Carmol Lockett, Jesse Hyke,
Grace Clark, Myrtle Glascock, Ray
mond Glascock, Allan Schlottman and
Evan Allstrom.
Miss Mary Neal, of Follyfarm, has
taken the position in the Cord school,
lately made vacant by the resigna
tion of Miss McFarland.
Robert I. Carlton, who has taught
in Malheur county for a number of
year, will complete the year's work
in the Khuaville cltool.
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