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About Malheur enterprise. (Vale, Or.) 1909-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 20, 1915)
.11 Core of the "New, Empire of the West" Oil, Irrigated Farm and Fruit Land The Banner Live Stock County of the United States "OOME TO S$ n A II IF? V S3 y ii i vi i i hi ii ii i i: cvr- ii ii hi ii i xroi ii i i lUTirjii h ic uvvi'i n v ke wrii7Ti v umi v l lmjrrnTimixm t s S fig fOI.UME VI, NUMBER 11. VALE, OREGON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1915. 1 , ! I 1 '111 1 ifale Basket Ball Team is Pennant Winner. AMPIONS LEAGUE 1W EVERY GAME I PI AVPn IN CFRIPS luniLi; Ail vuixiuu hampions of IdahOregon League would like to I Tackle Boise :l s The Vale High School basket ball km has won the championship of j) Idaho-Oregon league, defeating eiaer. Ualdwell, fayette and Unta j teams without losing a game of i series. Vale; had one more game to play th the Weiser team, but that team d played Vale and lost, and had al- lost to the other teams defeated by le ia the series, and it was a fore- ne conclusion that Weiser could not against the champions, so the ire Was forfeited by Weiser to Vale, i eitding the series and giving Vale (i championship of the League. IfaleJ has one of the fastest basket il teams in the West, and an effort i been made to secure a match with i Boise team. Now that the Vale ws have nailed down the champiop- p o the two-st.'to league, it may- thai the Boise teiru will give them eame: Price 5 cent OLD TIMER VISITS VALE Fred J. Kiesel, owner of some of the most valuable lands in Malheur coun ty, and one of the stockholders in the United Slates National Bank of this city, was here from his home in Og- uen the first of the week. As head of the old Oregon Forward ing company at Ontario in early days, Mr. Kiesel was one of the pioneer merchants of Malheur county, the firm being Kiesel, Shilling & Danil- son. Mr. Kie el was one of the original promoters of the Owyhee ditch, and was personally connected with the construction of this, Malheur coun ty's first big irrigation enterprise, and which is still one of the most impor tant canals in the county. Though aging considerably, he is a wide awake advocate of everything that makes for the upbuilding of the great inland empire of which Malheur county is the hub. FEDERAL AID F0RG00DR0ADS ; NEW MANAGER P. h. Crane, an experienced dry pds and clothing man from the it, arrived in Vale last week to te- charge of the dry goods and ithing department of the Vale T-rad- f company, assuming his duties Z:)nday.. Frank Sasser and family went to WIdwell Wednesday for a few days If Mr. Beatty, from the Wild Horse bntry, was in the city on a business p Thursday. IAS POCKET IN -COLUMBIA WELL I At the Columbia oil well, of the In l pendent company, a gas pocket was netrated by the drill Tuesday. This the first gas pocket found in that ill. The work is going steadily for ird there, and encouraging letters at htuid from the east in regard to girting other wells. The owners of the Alaska well have "dcred from Pittsburg 240(f feet of vr and heavier casing. They are wn 1,400 feet. The casing in use is hardly heavy enough and there is great danger in continuing its . The new casing is now due at iy day. For the last 200 feet every bailer is brought up oil in small quantities. e owners are greatly encouraged id full of confidence as to the final itcome of their venture. CCIDENTAL SHOOTING NEAR f BURNS Dick Spence was shot through the -ft lung by E. E. Owsley at a logging mmp in the mountains last Saturday gl.t mid the victim has been in a ra rer critical condition at the Cummins tepital since. He is some improved this time and his physician consid- he has a good chance to recover. 5 The Times-Herald knows nothing of te particulars of the case but is in-a-meJ the shot was accidental. Urns Times-Herald. HE RABBIT DISEASE lJtmnies Beating Bounty by Dying of Disease. j Word from the Harney country in jo 1h effect that in many place the til l.il are becoming no urarce thut 1 t;.- i.ot pay to hunt I hem fur the ''. i y. hioniu iluvMktt U killing tlirni ttf id Uiye iiuinl.t i , Tl.u vill .o yU. j,w L, I lie far Ni iu lit llif lui t rri gnu rutty. If liu ill. -in mi Mill ,.t of ll.t ,.(, i '! t will v r. fi I. I I't J'l)li. .g l.iunl) l I v l ,l ) I iml.il j v lll.l.H WASHINGTON, Feb. 18. (Special to the Malheur Enterprise.) That public opinion is overwhelmingly in favor of Federal Aid to good roads, is conclusively shown in the final re port of the Joint Congressional Com mittee which has spent more than two years studying this general subject. In 1913, Hon. Jonathan Bourne, Jr., Chairman of the Committee, sent to a large number of newspapers, commer cial organizations, farmers' unions and granges a circular letter asking them to ascertain the consensus of opinion in their communities on this question. Replies representing 100,000 indi viduals came from every state in the Union, and since the requests for opinions were made without discrimi nation, and without knowledge as to the views held by the persons or or ganizations addressed, the responses show with reasonable accuracy the at titude of the people throughout the country. Ninety-seven per cent of the replies favored Federal Aid and three per cent were against it. Importance of Maintenance. The report emphasizes the import ance of maintenance and says: "lhe permanence or an improve ment depends largely upon the char acter of maintenance. The stone or gravel surface, as well as the founda tion of a highway,. needs constant at tention, similar to the care given the rails and roadbed of a railroad. It is the filling of the small rut, the repair of the small break, that prevents more serious damage. "In France, road patrolmen are em ployed to care for certain sections of highway. Their tools consist chiefly of a wheelbarrow and shovel, with which they repair every defect in its incipiency. "These men keep the roads In repair until the harvest season begins and then are left free to seek more profit able employment among the farmers of the community. A road kept in re pair until that time will need no at tention during the harvest period. The highway patrolmen, therefore, afford a constant supply of labor upon which the farmers can depend for part of their harvest help. "We believe a very similar system of maintenance should be worked out in this country." The report is printed as House Doc ument 1510, Sixty-third Congress. In its 315 pages will be found the most complete data ever gathered on this subject. Vale High School Secures a Popular Lady Entertainer The Vale High School has been most fortunate in sceuring a date at the high school auditorium for Miss Grace V. Bonner, the noted and popu lar entertainer in monologue, ventril oquism and impersonation. Miss Bonner not only entertains in a moat pleasing manner, but adds a lesson of truth and human uplift. Her entertainment is pleasing and pro vokes unbounded laughter, while at the same time philosophical truths are presented that will cause the au dience to think and feel the necessity for betterment of human conditions. Her impersonations are the clever est; as a ventriloquist she could make a fortune on the vaudeville stage; as an elecutionist she ranks with the best before the public. Everyone in Vale should attend this entertainment. To see the best en tertainer that has been brought to Vale this season. To encourage the high school in securing the best tal ent obtainable for entertainments at the auditorium. To show our boys and girls of the high school that we appreciate their efforts in bringing to Vale good, wholesome, humorous, intellectual entertainers of this char acter. The admission price will be 25c and 50c, and those who have heard Miss Bonner, assert that any single number on her splendid program is worth the full price of admission. She will be here next Thursday, February 25th. GOVERNOR SIGNS NEW BRAND LAW The new "Brand Law" signed by the Governor February 9 provides that the state veterinarian shall be State Recorder of Brands. Only one person or company shall have the same brand. The recording fee ahull be $1.00. All applications shall be held for t!0 days to make cer tain that brand is not duplicated. In case of two or more having the tame brand, that person or company having the brand on record with the county clerk the longunt ahull be deemed the owner of that brand, m: vni pi naltv hi it: am d 'i'h law Itpealinir lh death nlly HI Diiyuli ha lxeli lii. .y (jgy irii'-r aid w'.!'l l iiiuileir4 tan I. ik Willi liiin,iiH), t n mil i f ii.tl aU I RABBITS ARE DISAPPEARING Harry Anderson was in the city from Crowley early in the week, and says the rabbit pest in his immediate vicinity is almost a thing of the past. Mr. Anderson and his near neigh bors adopted the method of poisoning rabbits with grain soaked in a solu tion of strychnine, a description of which was published in the Enterprise a few weeks ago. "At our Crowley ranch," said Mr. Anderson, "where a short time ago there were thousands of rabbits, now one can seldom see one. I do not be lieve it has all been due to the pois oning, for they have disappeared too suddenly. "I have been told that along many of the streams large numbers of dead rabbits are being found, and the gen eral belief is that some sort of dis ease has attacked the jackrabbits and is putting them out. "This is in line with my experience with the jackrabbit," continued Mr. Anderson, "when they become very numerous in the country they are at tacked by a disease of some kind, which nearly exterminates them in a single season, and then for years you will seldom see one." $3 BOUNTY NOW ON Malheur County Nqw Ready to Cash Coyote Scalps OLD SCALPS CASHED AT THE OLD PRICE fhree Dollar Rate Applies to Animals Killed After February 4 The legislature having passed, and the Governor having signed the coyote bounty act, trappers and tarmers can now cash in their old skins at $1.50 and newly killed skins at $3.00. Tha act passed by the legislature makes the following prices on skins coyote pups or coyotes $3.00; bob-cats S2.00; gray or black wolf pups $2.50; gray or black wolf 35.00; mountain li on or panther $10.00. The county clerk advises that all rkins killed prior to Feb. 4 will be cashed at $1.50 and all skins killed since Feb. 4 at $3.00. With this bounty it is probable that the diseased animals will be quickly exterminated. The loss has been mainly in valuable dogs" and live stock. Several thousand dollars in stock has been lost in Malheur county the past year. There seems to be considerable dif ference of opinion as to just what the disease is. While many examiners insist that the indications are posi tively of rabies, many others claim that the actions of a mad animal are not in accordance with the accepted notions of that disease. That the bite is fatal to stock and dogs and at least dangerous, if not fatal to man, is, however, acknowledged, and there fore their extermination is a commer cial necessity. Unprotected stock on the ranges during the coming season would suffer great losses. There being no bounty on these ani mals in Idaho, there is some risk that the Idaho trapper may profit by our large bounty, but not to any great ex tent. Anyway the coyote skin will in dicate that the coyote is dead. ' G. A. HURLEY RETURNS TO HIS VALE HOME. G. A. Hurley, formerly a newspaper man of Malheur county, and who owns valuable property in Vale, arrived here last week and. will perhaps again become identified with the business in terests of this city and county. Mr. Hurley has been in the newspa per business at Independence since leaving Vale, but recently sold his plant and states that he will devote his attention to other lines in the fu Loyal Order of Moose to be Organized Here J. A. Childcrs, deputy national di rector of the Loyal Order of Mooso, arrived in Vale Thursday for the pur pose of establishing a lodge in this city. Mr. Childcrs states that Vale takes most kindly to the Moose Lodge and an order will be established here. . "You may say for me," said Mr. Childers, "that Vale is the livt town I have found in the northwest, and I have visited all of them." The Moose Lodge is now the third largest fraternal order in the United States, having some 700,000 members. The lodge owns nearly one thousand acres of land near Chicago, upon which it has established a home for its aged members, for the widows and families left helpless, and where splendid schools have been established for the education of the children of members who may be unable to other wise secure the school facilities desired. THE COMPENSATION ACT IS MODIFIED The Workman's Compensation Act has been so modified that women working in canneries may work longer than eight hours per day. SCHOOLS ARE SOCIAL CENTER The Governor signed the bill intro duced by Senator Moser providing for the free use of all public school buildings as civic centers for civic use. HARNEY COUNTY VAQUERO SHOT As a result of a quarrel between two vaqueros on the I land Ranch at the Square Wells, Wednesday, Pat Mulcare was shot in the faco by G Crawford with a 22-caliber pistol. The wounded man came to town and it was found to be merely a flesh wound the ball striking the cheek bone and glan cing, coming out near the ear. ' Sheriff Goodman went out and ar rested Crawford and he had a prelim inary before Justice Patterson Thurs day afternoon which lVsulted in his being turned loose. It seems the complaining witness did not attempt to prosecute but rather excused his assailant. However, the fact remains that the man was carrying a pistol which is against the law and it was also admitted he shot the other fellow, in fact according to statements made by the victim, there were more than one shot fired during the fight. Burns Times-Herald. NORTH-CANAL GETS MONEY As the House of Representatives refused to pass any appropriation bill for any irrigation project unless said project was specifically mentioned, Secretary Lane recommended the North Canal Unit of the Tumalo Proj ect. Estimated cost is $900,000. The House appropriated $450,000 contin gent on the state of Oregon appropria ting a like amount. $1,176 WORTH OF COYOTES Since February 8 the county clerk has paid for 392 coyote pelts and 50 bob cat skins. This is a large number to come in in so short a time but prob ably a number of these were killed during the early winter and held until action was taken by the legislature. When a doctor doesn't know what else to saf he says: "Internal in juries." War always was rough stuff, but it is getting more like football every day; a twenty-yard gain is now con sidered an advance in either form of hostilities. KAISER REPLIES TO UNCLE SAM WASHINGTON, D. C, Feb. 17. (En terprise Corespondence.) C unt Von Bernstorff, German consul, dc livered a note to the United States, In which Germany offered to recede from hei plan of destroying enemy aerchant ships, if rstrictlons placed ty the al lies on shipments of conditional contra band and foodstuffs destind to the civilian population of Germany were removed. Otherwise, the note ai nounced, Germany proposes to put irto effect the original proclamation, ad ling also the strewing of mines in waters sur rounding Great Britain and Ii eland. Alleged arming of British merchant vessels is given by the German gov ernment as ground for attacking en emy merchant ships without search or previous visit. It was said that the note received by the ambassador from his foreign office was not a reply to the recent American note to Germany in regard to the war zone decree. A more com prehensive and detailed reply to the communication is expected soon. The British reply to the American note of protest on neutral shipping, dated December 26, was also received Besides entering a general denial that there had been any unwarranted in tcrference with legitimate shipments the new note contains a statement from Great Britain that the recent government decree taking over the flour and grain supply in Germany re quired added precautions on the part of the allies. UNION HIGH ASSURED Big Bend and Owyhee Dis tricts Organize. The $3.00 Bounty Does the Work Itttit. . VMm"Vi7W ; ' v'.,' I NMKl'liUK l A(iM,Sh Ml i JIM. H m; IM mi, (Olull IN lilt. f'i) H IXMMI TIMES DYNAMITER TAKEN NEW YORK, Feb. 18. (Special to the Enterprise.) M. A. Schmidt, ob ject of world-wide search more than four years, In connection with the dy namiting of the Los Angeles Times, was arrested here. Detective William J. Burns, who, with DetecMve Captaii WUUam S. Devy, of the New York po lice department, made the arrest, as sorted that Schmidt admitted his lden tlty a few minutes after he was taken Into custody. Schmidt was taken on a fugitive warrant. According to Burns, he it charged with being one of the three men who bought 1000 pounds of dyna rnlte with which the newspaper plant was ruined and 21 persons carried to their deaths. D. M. BROGAN HAS RETURNED D. M. Brogan, of the Va Irrigation Co., arrived in day morning and with hi p ceeded immediately to the dam for an inspection of t and the condition of the comp tion of the ditch. Mr. Brogan reports that the manufacturing centers but great fears are enterta the propoHfd declaration of will have a deadening effect duotrlun. e-Oregor .'ale Fri trty pro diversion mt work !eted por times in ire good ined that blockade on all In 1.10,1'OK ACT KIGNCI) The prohibition ai t ha I uen sign ml l,y the (iuviruor and (rfgii In I9ID will I a dry a a- nil, what U ll ill yet tiling In Oivgm T Tliat'i it. '11 1 l fi'li'ii'lum U llilviitufiad auuhinl t, Itiiiimii Wfia Ilia Kilgli I IJuih KkuU rfii, aiu iifwg II14I i in mil I'ltAv llama! I hiiih nf Mi hallway l al lli; I ,..' ..( ,U mi (i Wi! STANDARD HIGH SCHOOL TO BE BUILT Committee from Five Dis tricts will Make Esti mate and Report A meeting was held at the Kingman school house last Sf turday night for perfecting an organization looking to the establishment of a Union High School for the Big Bend and Owyhee country. Five districts are to be included, tha two districts of Big Bend, the King, man, the Warren and the Owyhee dis tricts, representatives being present at the meeting from all the district except one. All favored the establishment of the school, and there is no question now of its being constructed. The only debat able matter at this time is the amount to be invested in the building and equipment, as all agree that a stand ard high school is wanted. Miss Fay Clark, county school sup erintendent, was present at the meet ing to assist in promoting the first un ion high school in Malheur county. The organization was perfected and E. H. Brumback, of Big Bend, elected president and R. R. Overstreet, of Kingman, secretary. Three other members constitute the committee, one from each of the districts in terested. This committee will confer with tha people of the three districts, and make estimates as to the cost of tha grounds, building and equipment. At another meeting . to be held three week3 later this committee will report and a site will be selected and final arrangements made. The Enterprise .is informed that they expect to have a sufficient acre age connected with the school for ex perimental work in agriculture by the students, and that some of the more enthusiastic promoters of the union school have proffered to donate the necessary grounds for all purposes, Dffering as much as ten acres. 841H0GS DIE OF HYDROPHOBIA Noland Curry, who lives in tha Steins Mountain country, recently had a hog bitten by a rabid coyote, so tha Burns Times-Herald reports, and for the purpose- of seeing what the result would be, he kept the hog till it devel oped hydrophobia. The animal wrecked its pen, escap ed and bit 81 other hogs, all of which led of rabies afterward. These hogs were valued at soma 2,000, and Mr. Curry has decided not o study the results of hydrophobia in logs hereafter, but to put the infect ed ones out of the way as soon as poi-;ible. A VALENTINE PARTY. Friday evening of last week the Vale High School and eighth grade intertained at a Valentine party. A lumber of outsiders attended and all eport an enjoyable evening. Re 'reshments were served, valentine exchanged and the remainder of tha jvening spent in playing games and extemporaneous speeches. 1 52 HOMES SECURED U.S. Patent to 25,000 Acre of Malheur Land. IndU-utiiig the steady advancement of Malheur county, wn luai 11 from (g Llr June of tliu U. S. laud Ofttm, that tliure haa buen luj tinal proof no Urn 111 c. from Manli I, IUH to Full, I. IU1A, avurvKtaUiig about 6,((0 anus, 'Mil. a l l a I"'" Hi" '' ( lt u i.. v ill mli-'H. in Uud an-l will m ik a i"iifr.i.lii'r il'l levy i.ki u tiiiy tut lo !..i I. In., . m III 1 1. a lualil l.i ! 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