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About Malheur enterprise. (Vale, Or.) 1909-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 27, 1915)
Vale, Centre of a Country WjftUjeCrgate Rcsourccs in the West..Natural Hot Mineral Water-Livestock-Irriffation r VALEREGON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 27. 1915. : SUBSCRIPTION. 12.00 PER VP 1 1 1 ' - - . ' . - VOLUME .VI, NUMBER 51 $2,200 IN NUGGETS OF COARSE GOLD Uppi Willow Placers Release Some of Their Hidden Treasure. NUGGETS WEIGH UP TO $1400 (Jold All on Bedrock with ;.v Deep Stripping Above That upper Willow creek will some dav make the Malheur country fa mous as a placer mining: region is , evidenced :by some of the placer mines that have- been opened up in late years."" -' It i's:tHffl'cut to get a line on the output, .of. many of these, as they are ' not fi sale and. those who are work ing them,"sa,y little as to the amounts of gold recovered. The Enterprise has made efforts at times .to get exact data on several of these;placer propositions without any -considerable success, but a recent re port" ff obi the ground worked by Ben Madhlesseii confirms our idea of this section, in that it indicates that if ex perienced, .miners would take hold of some-of these claims and put in dredg in ir' 'plants, rich returns would be shdwnv :'f MtT Matthiessen put in about six weed's work this season, handling some three- thousand yards of dirt, and re covered $2200 in coarse gold, running in -weigbt from a $14 nugget down to the size of a pinhead. Much of the work of opening up the claim was done last year, but owing to delays in getting in machinery and supplies on ly" six weeks work was done this year. ''The ' gold at this particular claim air lies on bedrock and there is some sevett yards of stripping to be done, bntr-this coarse gold proposition is oiily one of the many in the upper Wil low country, and some time an exper ienced miner, with the money to de velop the country will go in there and take' out an immense fortune of the bredous metal. . '"Rich quartz ledges must exist in the territory also, as the placers must i& ieu, ana mis cuarse gum uu nut. 'been- washed very far. ''The upper Willow country offers a rich field for both the prospector and the practical miner that is not found in. many sections of the west, and one wnicn we Deneve win not remain un developed very much longer. V. S. CURTIS NEW OWNER ' OF DREXEL Van S. Curtis, owner of one of the most valuable pieces of farm proper ty adjacent to Vale, has purchased the Drexel Hotel from Herrett Brothers and Smith, taking charge of the hotel Tuesday. Mr. Curtis disposes of his farm in the deal and will devote his attention to the management of the hotel for he present, although he does not ex pect to continue in that line of work, lie is an old timer in the Harney and Malheur country and has a large cir cle of friends and acquaintances, which will add to his prestige in the conduct of his new line of work. Young Man Loses His Leg Boarding Car Visitor Attempting to En ter Train, Victim of a Serious Mishap U :. Nyssa city dads have passed an or dinance making the speed limit eight miles an hour for autos within the city limits. Autos are also forbidden making a greater speed than four miles an hour when going over the street crossings when they are being .used by pedestrians. UNCLE BOB" RECOVERING Old Pioneer Beats the Grim Reaper at Own Game The many friends of that rugged old pioneer "Uncle Bob" Lockett will be pleased to learn that he has passed the crisis and is rapidly recovering from his recent attack of pneumonia. The fact that he is eight years past man's allotted three scores and ten, makes his recovery from the most dreaded disease with which physicians have to contend seem almost phenom enal. This is another tribute to the skiU'of DT: J.-C Bartlett; who has earned the gratitude not only of the immediate family of the popular old gentleman, but of his hundreds of friends throughout the county, who did not believe it possible. JVIAC STILES TAKES BILLIARD HONORS The first game in the pocket bil liards tournament for amateurs from Vale, Ontario and Weiser, wa3 play ed at the Moore Hotel last week, Mac Stiles for Vale winning the first ser ies and taking the $15 prize offered. The score was: Stiles of Vale 100, Bradshaw of Weiser 92, Henselman of Ontario 70. The next game will be played at the Pastime Pool Hall m Vale Dec. 1st. Any amateur player may enter the game without cost. There were about 125 people pres ent at the first game. Wesley Zuke, a young man from Portland, had his foot crushed under the wheels of a car at Ontario Mon day, while attempting to board a train. He was taken to the hospital where the physicians found it neces sary to amputate the foot between the ankle and knee. He and his traveling companion, Ernest Wells, also from Portland, were on their way to Vale from Pen dleton. Young Wells stated to the Enterprise that they had been em ployed in horse breaking on the Um atilla Reservation since the Round Up at Pendleton, and were on their way to Vale to find work in this line when the accident occurred. MAN SHOT; MISTAKEN FOR BEAR A. Fowler In Hospital As Result of Injury in Leg LARGE MALHEUR STOCK RANCH SOLD A hunting party on the North Fork of the Malheur river was unfortunate in having a bad accident last week, one of the party being mistaken for a hear, and the other members firing a volley at him from high power guns, but fortunately bad marksmanship saved his life, the victim escaping with only a bullet through his foot. One A. N. Fowler was the victim, he having become separated from his companions, and was mistaken for the big game they were hunting. He is now in the Holy Rosary Hospital un dergoing repairs. ! Among Oregon's divers and sundry freak laws, there is said to be one that makes it a felony for one man to mistake another for a deer and shoot at him, but perhaps when he is sup posed to be a bear it is different Anyhow, some one ought to pay for the, repairs on Mr. Fowler's pedal ex tremity, and he owes a vote of thanks to his comrades for their bum shoot ing ability. Receives News of Brother's Death in East Herbert Cole Loses Brother in hew York-Had Been Vale Resident Montie B. Gwinn Disposes of His Int erest in Malheur L. & L. Co. WEISER MAN CUTS THROAT Vt WVMAN ( Breaking a door down at the Onta rio Hotel Tuesday morning at 4 of New ! o'clock, George Hickman, of Weiser, j cut Mrs. M. M. Smith's throat with a i pocket knife. ! Both were from Weiser and the act was the result of jealousy, Hickman having followed he woman to Onta rio. j Hickman was held to await the ac ' tion of the grand jury on a charge of I assault with intent to kill, and Sheriff Assembly of New York a few years Brown brought him over and placed ago. , . ' him in jail. The woman is in a seri- He visited his brother in Vale five j 0U3 condition and may die, in which ..... - .. . 1 1 .;n 1 . . . - . years ago, and at that time, was at- , - t"rKe wm oe cnangeo. to nrsi Herbert Cole of this city received word a few days ago of the death of his brother,. Fremont Cole, York City. The deceased was an attorney at law and lived on Long Island, with offices in New'York City. He was at torney for the American Tobacco com pany, and was quite prominent in politics, having been speaker of the dieted with Bright's disease, which was ultimately the cause of his death. He was 59 years of age. degree murder. ALLEGED HORSE THIEVES LANDED In years gone by Malheur county, with its mountains and vast areas of unoccupied territory, made an ideal country for escaping criminals to seek safety in, but with Sheriff Ben Brown and his crew of alert deputies on the job, it is about the most un safe place for a criminal to head for that can be found in the West. This discovery was made by Jim Childers and his gang last week. They had surreptitiously negotiated a bunch of fine horses in Union county, and The sheriff's office at Vale was no- officials, who came and got their men tified that they were headed this way, : Friday. and Sheriff Brown picked up the trail j The gang had nine head of horses at the Weiser bridge, where they in their possession, four of which were crossed Snake river into Malheur identified as animals stolen at La county. Following their trail up i Grande and were said to be some of Moore's Hollow and across Willow i the finest horses in Eastern Oregon. Creek, he sent Deputy Lee Noe to Beu- j Jim Childers, the leader of the gang, lah and wired Deputy Al Roberts at ' is reported to be a regular in the busi Juntura to be on the lookout. ' ness of horse stealing, having served The latter soon got on the trail, time in Montana for similar offenses, and accompanied by a couple of as- but his two companions, who give their BURNS MAN TAKES LIFE Bachelor Farmer Commits Suicide With Gun P. H. O'NEIL '& SON PURCHASE Gwinn Will Continue Resid ence in Boise, Idaho. sistants, went out and captured the made the mistake of trying to make bunch on the Beulah road and they their get away through Malheur coun ty.' j were brought to the jail at Vale to ' await the arrival of the Union county names as L. Burke and Ray Ross, have not been recognized yet, nor owners found for the other five hors es they had in their possession; ' 5. Edwards is Seriously III J. S. Edwards, who recently retired as president or the first National Bank of this city on account of fail ing health, is reported seriously ill at his home. It is stated that he will be taken to Portland to have an operation per formed Saturday. New Dairyman is in Vale Chas. Muttart, formerly of Auburn, Washington, but now a Malheur coun ty homesteader, arrived in Vale Wed nesday with a carload of horses and farming machinery. Mr. Muttart has been engaged in the dairy business at Auburn, and is considering a similar proposition here. Turkeys Weren't Injured Ike Lewis put on a Thanksgiving turkey shoot Wednesday afernoon, to give the hunters a chance to get a big bird. As the laws of. Oregon do not per mit the turkey to be shot at, the sports were compelled to be content with shooting at the bull's eye instead of the turkey's head. BURNS, Oreg., Nov. 25. (Special to the Enterprise.) John Eichner, a bachelor farmer living four mites south of Buchanan committed suicide Saturday night or Sunday morning by shooting himself in the head. He had had a sale Saturday afternoon, sell ing all his farm implements and stock and it is supposed that shortly after his neighbors left, Eichner placed the rifle o his head and pushed the trig ger with a stick. He was about 55 years old and has one brother living in the community. What caused his rash act is not known. MOTHER'S THANKS BY BART 188,514 ACRES AGRICULTURE LAND IS LISTED TO OREGON Portland, Oregon, November 20. Editor Enterprise: There were 29, 276 acres of agricultural land listed to 315 applicants in the State of Ore gon, and 3,805 acres listed to oz ap plicants in the State of Washington during the past year by the Forest Service. Since the passage of the forest homestead act, June 11, 1906, there have been 188,514 acres of agricultur al land listed to over 2,000 applicants in the States of Oregon and Washing ton by the Forest Service. Of the varied special uses to which National Forest land is put, one of the most interesting is that of the school house. There are thirteen school houses within the National For est of Washington and Oregon, and one in Alaska. The only churches thus far built on National Forest land ire two in the Tongasa Forest, Alas ka. No charge is made for this use of the National Forests. U is estimated that over one hund red thousand people visited the Na tional Forests of Washington and Ore gon for recreation purposes during the past year. In addition to thin, 25 perroite were Usued for ummr ... . . I 4j nome. making a total number oi permit of this character now in fore uri the National Forent of the two Ute, A tin fan rvnl v UiiiUrr I tU Mr. mid Mr. M.C.rty, lU nwly !, at Drel lli'tvl Wdiivly SAYS ENTERPRISE IS POPULAR Miss Alice Curtis, of Vale, is mak ing a tour of the county in the inter est of the subscription department of the Malheur Enterprise, and is meet ing with a most cordial reception at every point. She reported 48 new subscriptions and renewals for the first two days of her trip, stating that the Enterprise was popular with everyone and fully measuring up to the demands of the public for an up to date newspaper and a reliable official county paper. Besides being very energetic and efficient in any work she undertakes, . i i i .... I Miss Curtis is thoroughly rename aim trustworthy, nd the Enterprise does not hesitate to guarantee to its pa trons that any btalement of agree ment she make will be carried out to the letter. BAZAAR SUCCES The turkey dinner and Uuur yi Ointiuii I tt'lie A in i " oil ly the iluV of l.iM ih.y m.m tv,ii!niif tu-y " .t.k f. l ail l I'UMfiy u.,e. 'l,.H M..'l. II'.'" "' m'fjbWt X 5yf WHEN FATHER ETS "J I zr:M HOIE SAFE FROn - I 'J j-SWfi OEERHUMTINC,. ll I.I rH WH'TN WILLIAMS PV-J ' VV F JOT 6ALL SEASON tJ0M . FREEZES SOLip (( t BOHUNK IS HURLED THROUGH WINDOW A couple of bohunks engaged in a .Istic argument Monday on the U. S. National Bank corner, one knocking the other through the plate glass win dow of the bank, entailing a loss of $55 upon the institution. When arrested one bohunk had $1.15 on him and the o'ner was dead broke. One sneaked off before the marshal could get him, traded his mackinaw for an overcoat and tried to get out on the tra;n, but Marshal Powell caught him at the depot and put him on ice. There is no better indication of the " return of prosperous times than the j investment of large sums of money in land and livestock business, and there -is no better and safer country on earth than the great Malheur coun try to make such investments. The prices for sheep, horses, cattle and hogs have been going skyward for the past year, the ranges have been drawn upon for supplies both at home and abroad. Many of the great rang es of the West have been practically depleted of stock, and are growing rank with bunch grass which is un touched. And, while vast amounts of money are being invested in ammuni tion factories, little attention has been paid in recent months to the vast stock raising possibilities that have been opened up by the demands of . the warring European nations, but this seeming neglect of the greatest industry of the West was only momen- - tary, and from now on the Malheur country will see her vast ranges again rapidly populated with live stock of . all kinds. One of the most important live stock and land deals closed in the In termountain country for some time was consummated this week when Montie B. Gwinn sold his interests in the Malheur Livestock & Land com pany, with which he has been asso eiated for the past 14 years, to P. H. O'Neil and his son, Lewis B. O'Nell, of Los Angeles, originally from Faulkton, S. D. Last year Mr. O'Neil successfully negotiated for the interests of Charles II. Anderson and John S. Gary in this company. He has just closed with Mr. Gwinn for his interests, leaving but Harry L. Anderson and Joseph Howry stockholders and active part ners in the plant. The Malheur Livestock & Land company is the owner of 31,000 acres of land located in Malheur and Grant counties, Oregon. A total of 1200 acres is now in cultivation and an irriga tion system has been built to increase the cultivated area on which feed is raised for stock, to 2000 acres. Mr. Gwinn is one of the best known sheepmen in the intermountain coun try, and has as well been active in matters of a public and political na ture. He was secretary for some time of the Idaho Wool Growers' as sociation, and his name has been per sistently linked with offices of prominence. SPINSTERS' CONVENTION POPULAR AMONG VALEITES "The Spinsters' Convention," pro duced by the ladies of the Civic Im provement Club of this city, was as excellent a staged home talent burles que as was ever played in the Rex Theatre. Kvery member taking part in the farce was a star, and each went into the full spirit of the play with exaggerated earnestness, keeping the audience in a constant state of mirth ful convulsions. The popular Vale cornet band furnished the overtures. The leading characters were taken by Mrs. B. F. Farmer, who was pres ident of the organization, and who act ed her part to doll perfection; Pro fessor Makeover, Mrs. Bruce R. Kes ter, who with the aid of her Remod eloscope, operated by Miss Mueller, transformed a number of the members of the organization; Fay Clark, as secretary; and Mrs. Dan Eno, treasur er. . The following members of the club, each personifying an old maid, were the respective iiiemliem: MesdameH, (J. A. Kurir.g, L. J. Iladley, R. E. Fame, J. 1'. Jlouhton, J. F. Miller, R. (I. Wheeler, II. C Smith. Erliie HayeM, J. C. Kelly, Chan. Grabner, Miine. Ilie, Munifor.l ami Dr. Paul ine r'eam. The l,urleniiie opened with a upeeeh hy the pieoiiient, roll tail, minute, jimI the n-Mirt f the various roin nu' L i i, iuiIi pint l M'lf a hug Joke, V Tier a ili Lute on ill" iuxtion of iliea ii form, by Mi. lU'lUy and Mun Mini lti tiiitmiin into the i uiy i;f to iitw riiiinliun, 'ri''"'i Ml tttr i i. Members were chosen .by the pres ident to enter the RemodeloBCope and be made over, and the results were astonishing. In turn, Miss Lois Cook, Mrs. Dunlop, James Cook, Lela Jones, Ella Betterly, Maurine Jones and Frankie High emerged from the ma chine, to deliver vocal solos, recita tions, etc., the latter couple being a pair of "brunette" twins, who produc ed a singing and dancing sketch The vocal selections were excellent. Finally the president of the club, refusing to give her correct age be. fore entering, exploded the machine, and broke up the meeting. Mrs. Weant, secretary of the Im provement Club, reports the total net proceeds at $64.00. CHARGES BRIBERY IN MAIL CONTRACTS The Juntura Times charges the crime of bribery against government officials in connection with the recent mail contracts. It nays: "Vhii1 government representative deliberately attempt bribery, it's time fur a than, and if anking a contrac tor to Kairiltte a couple of thousand ilollum to M'ur another contract ixi't bribery, it coin awfully near it " Tb Tium U right. If an atUmpt h iwii nmJ.i to hold up a contractor fr a I'oiiu In outer to k1 a contract, Ibe faiU mitllit to l tumid In tu tl I'ini.l ! tflanl U'l) l wa vmMhs