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About Malheur enterprise. (Vale, Or.) 1909-current | View Entire Issue (April 21, 1917)
You Should Attend the County Good Road Meeting in Vale Next Tuesday, April granize a Red Cross Chapter at the Vale Chamber of Commerce Rooms Saturday, 24 School Rally and Visit of the Governor for the Flag Raising at the Court House Thur sdiiyv April 26 MeetinrttfOr- April 28 Carnival atlBrogan Saturday, May 5 Pomona Grange at Arcadia School House Saturday, April 21 Come THE BEST DEVELOPER Of a Community Is a Wide Awake And Representative Newspaper. Your Suggestions and Cooperation Are So. licitcd To Help Make The "Enter prise" A True Representative of Vale, and Malheur County. Send a Sub scription To Friends Whom You Wish To Welcome To This Country. The Enterprise Is Absolutely Independent, Treats Everyone With The Same Fairness, Is Always Progressive, and Urges Your Activity In The Develop ment of Malheur County's Great Pos sibilities. Let All The Malheur Towns Work Together For a More Prosper ous and Better County. ADVERTISE IN THE ENTERPRISE The Paper That Is Read In Every Nook of Malheur County. It Has More Readers Because It Prints More Reading Matter. People Pay For The Enterprise Because They Want To Read The Best Reviews Of North western and World News; The Most Thorough Reports of Southeastern Oregon Irrigation, Stock, Farming, Oil, Mineral and Community Progress The Latest Market Quotations; All Filings in the U. S. Land Olllcc, Vale District; Malheur County Official No tices; Real Estate Transfers; County Scat News; Correspondent Letters From Every Section in the County. VOLUME VIII, NO. 21. VALE, OREGON, SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 1917. MALHEUR COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER. SUBSCRIPTION, $2.00 PER YEAR c..i r. "v -nbvitp" "y fluffs & wmmsmimy &ws mewses? WITHYCOMBE COMING FOR FLAG RAISING Whole County Will Assemble to Raise Official Flag over Malheur Cburt House April 26 County Judge George McKnight Thursday afternoon received a tele gram from Governor James Withy combe that he would be in Vale next Thursday, April 2G; to assist in the official flag raising over the govern ment of Malheur county. The county court has ordered a 120 foot steel flag staff which is now be ing erected on the court house square in Vale. Also a big 30 by 15 foot American flag has been ordered. Tho County Judge will declare a school holiday and with the assistance of Fay Clark county school superin tendent it is expected that all of the schools in the county will be in Vale for the patriotic rally. Details of the program have not been definitely set, but it is expect ed that the. Ontario high school cadets, tho Nyssa Boy Scouts, the Little Pa triots in tho flag drill from Valley View and a May Pole dance by the Vale children will be among the fea tures. Judge McKnight lays especial em phasis upon the fact that this is to be a county wide demonstration and every community in the county is ex pected to turn out enmasse and join in the salute to the first official flag over the county of Malheur. This flag is probably the largest that will fly in the breezes of Oregon and will be the pride of every citizen of the county. HOME TALENT WINS PRAISE Guild Play Given at Rex Proves Treat wto Listeners Catchy. Songs Given by Chorus. Once again home talent triumphed, when Thursday evening at the Rex theatre the Guild ladies were spon sors for a clever little play entitled "When" Love Holds the Key." The local people fitted their parts perfect ly and gave a splendjd performance. Especially fine was the feature song and chorus, "Here Comes Tootsie" with Miss Lela Jones and chorus of six young ladies. The electric carni val float with Miss Hewett as Queen, used in this song was pulled on the stage by little Jack Brown, Anna Hewett and Ettana Hewett. Anoth er song which attracted attention was "Bachelor Days." Miss Jones and Miss Hewett also' appeared in a specialty dance song, "Way Down Yonder." The Cast for the play was: Miss Gwendolyne Hartley , Miss Wildman Mr. Maulstyke ...i Mr. Hewett .Mr. Perkins Prof. Williams Miss Flora Kemp Miss Jones The members of the chorus were, Misses Maurine Jones, Vina Mueller,' Helen Mueller, Miriam Chester, Flor ence Crandall and Violet Childers. Given Citizenship Papers. , Hans Hansen, for some time jani "tor at the school building, on Wed nesday was given his final papers, which made him a citizen of the Unit ed States, by Judge Dalton Biggs. The pupils of the eighth grade and teacher Miss Wildman and the high' school students under Professor Wil liams witnessed the ceremony. Condon voted 115 to one in favor of the state highway bond issue. NEWS OF VALE'S VOLUNTEERS AT VANCOUVER Wait for Mall and all Like Letters From Home Boys Take Turn at Waiting on Tables. (By Rolla Roberts) Vancouver Barracks,, Vancouver, Washington. Editor Enterprise, Vale Oregon. Some of us boys had our first experience as "kitchen police" today. Thank heavens, it comes only once a month. Yesterday was clean up day at the barracks. Scrubbing squads wero all over the grounds, cleaning lawns and buildings. The laundry of the regiment is done at the steam laundry in the barracks, and part of the amount expended for laundry is returned to go into each company mess fund. Mail comes in twice a day, and you should see the rush. All of the fel lows have their uniforms now. Bill Clancy and Emmett Kimball came in from Vale yesterday and are taking the examination. There are twenty of us here now and we are usually all together. Wc can go into Vancouver any time NO CHANGE MADE IN SCHEDULE; TRAINS WORKEDTOCAPACITY No Change in Train Schedules at Present-Railroads Heavily Work edBusiness Will Justify. The Oregon Public Service commis sion has decided that no order of change in train schedules effecting Vale and surrounding territory are justifiable at this time. Due tb the opposition of the Oregon Short Line officials to any change, it is probably for the best that at this time no ad ditional requirements were placed up on the railroad. The railroads are all working to capacity and are weeks behind in their orders. Besides they have been forced to meet the heavy expense of guarding their right of ways from tho plots of enemies. Con sidering the service rendered to the country in times like these, little lo cal needs must be postponed in de ference to tho greater issues before' the country. Vale certainly agrees with the com missioners that no crippling of the service given to any of the neighbor ing cummunities should be consider ed, and although we feel that we are certainly entitled to a better service, the matter must be dropped for the present. Before fall, with the con struction of the Warmsprings irriga tion district, and of the likely devel opment of the Vale oil fields there will likely be such demand for addi tional service that the company will be glad to extend same of their own free will. Following js the text of the deci sion: - ' v' Leonard Cole, Mayor of the City of Vale, Oregon, Plaintiff, vs. Oregon Short Line Railroad Com pany, a corporation, Defendant. Complaint by the City of Vale, Malheur,-. County, Oregon, ..through its Mayor, alleging the train service af- ( Continued on page 8.J MOCH ACTIVITY IN VALE OIL FIELDS Western Pacific Company Hive Shut Off First Water Drilling Again Utah Parties Interested. The big 14 inch hole at the Western Pacific Oil and Gas Company's well in Sand Hollow is now down to water depth and C. H. Cummingore, the driller has been busy placing the cas ing and shutting off tho flow of wa ter, reports T. W. Davidson. Last-Sunday J. C. Brandon, a bus iness man of Salt Lake inspected the operations of the company and stated to a representative of the Enterprise that the prospects looked exception ally attractive to him. Mr. Brandon represented a number of Utah capi- talists and business men and indicat- ed that they would purchase a large block of stock in the company, General Manager W. D. Meyers, Secretary Lee Savage and Assistant Secretary Walter Walker from the Boise office and Field Representative T. W. Davidson of Vale also were visitors at tho well Sunday. Walla Walla People Visit Scott Joseph and wife are in Vale this week from their Walla Walla home. Mr. Joseph is extensively interested in the Vale Oil Fields, and has spent much of his time on the visit at the wells in this locality. He is very optimis tic over the outlook. we are not on duty, but to go to Port land we must get a pass. The last car leaves Portland for tho barrtfeks at 12:15. Upon arriving at the bar racks late at night we must remove our shoes before ascending the stairs. This is to avoid waking the corporal, and catching the dickens. The army food is sort of monoton ous. They wait table by alphabetical order, tomorrow being Diven's day, and we look for some great service. Small squads of drilled men leave here every day for their stations. Frank Chester thinks he will be sent to Fort Leavenworth. He joined the cavalry. We are all beginning to like the army life. It is great to see so many soldiers drilling on the field, and to hear the sunrise and retreat guns. You can take a breath of fresh air here and enjoy it. We are all well, and feeling fine, but are just dying to see some of the old familiar faces and places at home. Tell all of our friends to write, for you don t know how we appreciate a letter from home. Red Cross Chapter Is to Be Organized To Organize Malheur County Red Cross Association in Vale next Saturday, April 28. Mrs. " Vernon Herrett has received authorization to organise a chapter of the American- Red Cross society in Vnle and all who are interested in this work, throughout the county are requested to be present at the' Cham ber of Commerce rooms in Vale at 3 p. m. on Saturday, April 28th, and perfect the chapter and organize for active aid work. URGES RED CROSS WORK President Points Out Necessity of Sin gle Organization to do Relief Work-Much Local Interest. Ontario, Nyssa, Brogan, Vale and other communities -of the county are planning to form local chapters of the American Red Cross Society as rap idly as tho details will permit. President Wilson, the, head of the American Red Cross, urges that all such activities bo centralized under this organization because it has been incorporated by congress to act in accord with the army and navy; be cause it has a trained personnel, with workers who know what to do; be cause its accounts nre audited by the war department and the funds safe guarded. "In order that the relief work which is undoubtedly ahead of us should bo made thoroughly efficient," says tho president in a message to the Red Cross, "it is most desirable that it should be coordinated and concentrat ed under one organization." President Gives Reasons. After pointing out tho reasons above summarized for making the Red Cross the organization for such work, the president said: "Recnt experience has made it more clear than ever that, a multiplicity of relief agencies tends to bring about confusion, duplication, delay and waste. Moreover, it affords tempta tions to dishonest persons to take ad vantage of the general willingness of the public to subscribe to such agen cies to defraud subscribers and rob the soldiers of the assistance he so much needs. Experience Best Teacher. "Wherever in the present war suf ficient volunteer aid has been render ed, either to soldiers or to non-combatants, it has been rendered under a well-organized central body. Experi ence is certainly the' most convincing teacher, and we should learn by these European examples how to conduct our own relief work with the most thorough efficiency and system. "With its catholicity and its democ racy the Red Cross- is broad enough to embrace all efforts for the relief of our soldiers and. sailors, the care of their families and for the assistance of any other non-combatants who may require aid. As the president of the American Red Cross, our branch of the great international organization, I most earnestly commend it to your confidence and support." Oregon City woolen mills will be operated by electric- power in future. SCENE FROM WESTERN Have you ever seen the oil rigs in operation, and looked over the surface indications about the Malheur county oil fields, where thousands of dollars have been spent in the endeavor to strike a flow of liquid that will be worth millions pf dollars. Have you noticed the "blow outs" and dug the shells and fish bones out of the oil sands, smelled the kerosene odor in county good road meeting next Tuesday V Road Boosters From All Parts of the County to Assemble in Vale Tuesday and Organize. 1 Roy Ritner of Pendfeton, Julien A. Hurley of Vale, and Hon. Dalton Biggs of Ontario will brobably be the chief speakers at the good roads rally to be held in Vale noxtjTuesday, April 24. A musical program is being ar ranged and all is in readiness to give the campaign for better roads in Ore gon and Malheur County a grand sendoff. Nearly every section of the coun ty have promised to send delegates and a representative assembly is ex pected. Read page seven of this is sue of the Enterprise for a complete statement and argument of tho is sue to bo voted on at i the election of June 4th. ; STATE ROADS RALLY DATED Boosters From Over State to Meet in Portland April 28th and Inaug urate Final Campaign. The Legislative Good Roads Com mittee has decided to.,hold the state wide good roads rally in Portland, Saturday, April 28. Every organiza tion jn the State favorable to the road bond bill is invited to. send represen tatives to this gathering. Special re duced rates have been arranged.- CELEBRATE ANNIVERSARY Odd Fellows Will Hold Big Gather ingState Grand Chaplin to Assist in Ceremonies. Thursday, April 26, GrancLChaplin of the State Hubbard, willv be in Vale to officiate at 'the- Odd Fel lows ceremonies when they celebrate the anniversary of their lodge in tho United States. Awarding of Veter an Jewels will be one of the interest ing events at the evening lodge ses sion. MASONS MEET One hundred .were present at a meeting of the Masonic Order in Vale Wednesday night. Tho lodge met in third degree work which was given to C. C. Burrows. Many visitors from Ontario and Payette lodges were in attendance. Among the speakers for the evning were Master E. G. Bailey of the Ontario lodge, Dr. Prinzing of Ontario and the past mas ters of the Burns and Payette lodges. A good fraternal "mix" was enjoyed by the memebrs of the various lodges. In Justice Court. Compaints filed during the week with Justice of the Peace Robert Ly tic were, W. H. Bare, plaintiff, vs. Peter Hofer, defendant, for recovery of money and attachment issued. Da vis and Kestcr are attorneys for the plaintiff. ' Morfitt vs. Worsam is a similar case filed tnis week and H. C. East ham is attorney for the plaintiff. PACIFIC OIL AND GAS COMPANY'S RIG NEAR SAND HOLLOW the damp sands, climbed up the anti clines and turned over the clay shale that has been hardened and twisted by gas and seen the many colored gas stains on the under surface. It is worth anyone's time to make this investigation. And then if you can get permission from the com pany by all means get inside the der rick where the big drill is dropped and raised many times each minute. At Federal Land Bank Soon Ready to Loan Farmer Will Be Able To Borrow Mon cy Within 30 Days is Predicted Requirements for Loans Given Farmers in Oregon soon will have a chance to borrow money from tho newly-organized Federal Land' Bank at Spokane. Tho bank will be ready to make loans within 30 days. The interest rate for the Northwest territory has definitely been fixed at five per cent, and it is expected that tho first issue of bonds will be on a 4 per cent basis. Those interested in securing loans from the newly-established Federal Land Bank should know these facts: Any person without distinction holding lands or intending to pur chase lands in tho states of Washing ton, Montana, Idaho or Oregon,, who actually cultivates his farm or who hires such cultivation, may borrow on first mortgage on farm lands from the Federal Land Bank of Spokano Wash.. through a farm loan association, of which he must be a ncinbcr, formed by not less than ten prospective bor rowers in any neighborhood in any of the four states mentioned. Earning Power Is Factor. Borrowers may secure 50 per cent of the appraised value of the real es tate, and in addition thereto, 20 per cent on the insurable improvements on the real estate. The value of the land is to be fixed by the loan committee, and its value for agricultural purposes shall be the basis of appraisal, and the earning power of such land, its 'ocation, its adaptability for improve ment, and the general value of like real estate in the vicinity, shall be the principal factors in determining its value. Tho territory of an association may not extend across state lines. The territory of different associations, may overlap. It seems advisable that tho territory covered by an association be as largo as -may be convenient for o aminations by the , loan 'committee without excessivo traveling. No sum less than $100 or in excess of $10,000 may be borrowed by a per son, but persons holding real estate, or desiring to purchase real estate, either- in different Federal land bank districts, states, or farm loan associa tions, may divide their loans, provided the aggregate of such loans does not exceed $10,000. BIDS BELOW PAR State Rural Credits Loans Suspended Will Sell Bonds in East Bonds Bought by State. Salem, Or., April 17. Because all tho bids received were below par, the state land board today rejected all bids for ,the $250,000 rural credits bonds and instructed the clerk ,of -the board to immediately wire the board's attorney in each county to cease tak ing appliactions for loans. To take care of tho $250,000 of ap plications for loans already on hand, State Treasurer Kay advised the board that he will buy the bonds at par from tho trust funds of tho Btate industrial accident commission. The board has now approved loans (Continued on page 8,) bailing time the big barrel capacity bailer is lowered into the well and comes out steaming and covered with blue shale, or sand, according to the formation of the strata being encoun tered by the drill. It is a sight worth while and duo to the faith, the tech nical skill, and the tenacity of the op erators, and promoters, will their la bors be repaid and the industrial fu ture of Malheur county established. CLEANUP WEEK IS GENERALLY OBSERVED IN AND ABOUT VALE Observing Clean-Up Week Vale Peo ple Work With Will and Com mittee Feels Well Repaid. Saturday will bo the last day that tho wagons will gather up rubbish free of charge and anyone wanting the wagon to call can notify Mayor Kimball as early as possible Satur day morning or before.. All week the wagons have been hauling many loads to the dump piles and Vale citizens have, taken part in tho clean-up week with a will and there are mnhy spick and span yards as a consequence, Seed sales must have taken a decided leap also for much planting is being done. With a counle of davs loft let's all get in and do our sharo to make the clean-up thorough mid then let s sec to it that all summer wo kecr up tho clean-up campaign in our city. ALLIES FORCE GERMANS BACK Tho great ofensivo of the French army ngaint tho Germans from the bend in the line in France from Sois sons eastward into the Champagne continues unabated. Numerous now points of vantage have been taken prisoners and guns captured, and vio lent counter attacks put down with heavy casualties. In ' three days of fighting more than 17,000 unwound ed prisoners have fallen into the handR of tho French, together with 75 can non. Week's War Activities. Congress passes $7,000,000,000 war band bill. Need of, food and grain conserva tion may force national prohibition ns u-war jneasure.. , , , t Food prices have ndvnnccd 10 per cent as a whole during the past week, and some items hnve almost doubled. Roosevelt expects to havo Volun teer division ready to leave for France in four months. General Carranza in his address to congress Sunday night declnred that Mexico would maintain a strict and rigorous neutrality in tho world war. Arthur J. Balfour, British foreign minister, arrives in United States to discuss war situation with French and American commissioners. . Rumors of scparato poaco between Austria and Russia have been repeat ed. A renewal of effort on a nation wide scalo to bring state banks into the federal reserve system is to bo made shortly as part of n compre hensive program looking to tho fur ther mobilization of tho country's fi nancial resources. Entire country is responding to call for volunteers and conscription not considered likely at this time. TRY TO DESTROY BRIDGE Unknown Parties Place Bomb on the Bridge Across Snake Fire at Guard and Make Escape. Rumors persist to tho establishment of the truth of the report thntan at tempt was made last Saturday morn ing to destroy tho railroad bridge across tho Snake river at Ontario. Tho story goes thnt only the time ly action of Guard Rouch saved the bridge from being blown up by a bomb at an early hour in the piorning. The guard kicked tho high explosive into tho river from tho center of tho bridge. Tho fuso to it was sputtering. Whilo no definite proof has been se- ( Continued on pago 8.) POMONA GRANGE AT ARCADIA SATURDAY 21ST Will Discuss Road Issue, Food Supply and Other Matters at the Arcadia School. Saturday, April 21st, is Pomona Grange day for Malheur county. The meeting will bo held at Arcadia School house. A big meeting is expected for many important thing fire to be dis eased on that day. Tho big featui'o of tho day will bo a discussion of tho proposed road bond Issue of $0,000,000 to bo voted upon June 4th. There is general ignoranco concerning this law. Many who say that they will vote against it know nothing about it and fully ns many who say they will vote for it know just as little, It is an important question, and everyone should make a great effort to bo present. Sena tor Hurley of Vale will discuss tho law from tho supportors side, nnd oth er speakers will take the opposite stdo APRIL TERM OF CIRCUIT COURT NOW IN SESSION Grand Jury Report Brief Hearing of Arguments this Week Cases Set for Next. Judge Dalton Biggs convened the Vpril term of tho Circuit Court in Vale this week, hearing arguments ind domurc3 in adjourned cases. The iury cases havo been set for tho com ing week.- GRAND JURY REPORT In tho Circuit Court of the State of Oregon, for Malheur County. Wc, tho Grand Jury, duly impnn illod and sworn to hear all matters -"resented lo our consideration or vithin our knowledge, beg to report hat wo havo carefully investigated ill matters brought to our nttontlo'rt' r within our knowledge and have re urned ono true bill.. Wherefore, having finished our la- 'iors, wo respectfully ask to be excus- :d. Filed April 10th, 1017. F, M. VINES, Foreman. JAMES M. WEAVER ELBERT BUTLER, JR. LEVI A. WILSON CHAS L. THOMPSON A. SINCLAIR S. H. BENDER." CASES SET FOR TRIAL Following Arc The Cases Set For The 'Present Term' of Court Mostly Sttltsj J. A. Bowers vs. D. S. Linder, an action for recovery of money; C. C. Wilson & Riebeling are attorneys for the plnintiff and W. H. Brooke attor-r ncy for the defendant. Case set for MAIs!han vtC.' H.' Anderson, two cases for recovery of money. R. M. 'Duncan is attorney for tho plain tiff and Davis & Kester attorneys for defendant. Set for April 23, R. M. Smnll vs. Malheur county, damage suit to recover expenses for bidding on tho Big Bend bridge. Teal, .Minor & Winfree attorneys for laintifT nnd Davis & Brooke for de fendant. April 24. - C. F. Smith vs. Ontario Nvssa Irri gation company, a damago case. C. C. Wilson is attorney for the plain tiff nnd McCulloch & Wood appear for defendant. April 24. Mrs. W. D. Torrey vs. T. II. Moore, replevin case. R. W. Swaglcr attor ney for tho plaintiff nnd R. M. Dun can for tho defendant. Case set for April 24. Madgo L. McBrido vs. Ben Brown, replevin case. Leslie J. Aker for the plnintff and R. M. Duncan for defen dant. Set for April 24. Peter Zee vs. Valo:Oregon Irriga tion company, action for injunction and damages. C. M. Crandall attor ney for plainlifT and Davis and Kester for defendant. Set for May 3. Frank O'Neill vs. E. I. Brogan et al, n foreclosure case. H.- C. Eastham attorney for tho plaintiff and Brogan for tho defendant. Criminal Cases. State vs. John J. Co'ncclmo, charg ed with assault with a dangerous weapon. This defendant having been indicted by tho January grand jury. Set for April 25. Stato vs. .Too Rencon charged with Burglary, plead guilty to charge of larceny. No Word of Body. No word has been received by anx ious relatives of tho finding of the body of Winnie Ivers the rancher who was .drowned in tho Owyhee river ov er a week ago. ; .Ofi of tho question. Tho national food supply question, becnuso of our Nation being at war, is another feature of tho program. Tho Secretary of Agriculture Houston has stated that tho world is facing a serious famine. Parts of our own country are in danger because of tho poor condition of fall sown grain and tho shortage of labor and of tho high price of seed. Comu and help solve this problem. Music will be supplied by the King man Kolony Orchestra. This is a treat in itself worth going miles to hear. Some readings will nlso'be giv en. Tho speakers for the day, in addi tion to Senator Hurley are -District Attorney R. W. Swagler, and Super intendent of Ontario Schools, E. G. Bailey. W.W.Howard, -- County Agri. Agent.