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About Malheur enterprise. (Vale, Or.) 1909-current | View Entire Issue (April 21, 1917)
SATURDAY, APRIL 21, l9i7. PAGE TWO THE MALHEUR ENTERPRISE Advertisers, Correspondents, Readers, Notice. Beginning with this issue, the Enterprise goes to press earlier in the week, in order that the paper may reach as many parts ol the county as possible before Sun day. This change will work a hardship on the manage ment and force of the Enterprise, unless the advertisers assist by setting their copy in the first of the week, and the correspondents and others send their news in as ear ly as possible. We must have "live copy as early as Mon day. It will be appreciated if correspondents, advertisors and others will send in their "items or copy so as to six Months, $1.00 reach us not later than Wednesday. The forms will pos itively be closed Thursday night of each week. This move is made in order to better serve our many readers in the outlying districts, and we believe that it will prove a ben efit to all of our advertisers as well. GEORGE HUNTINGTON CURREY, Editor Jfflaljeur enterprise GEORGE HUNTINGTON CURREY Editor and Owner MALHEUR COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY AT VALE, OREGON Entered nt the Vnle, Oregon, Post Office as Second Class Mail Matter Subscription Rates in Advance Ono Year, $2,00 Advertising and printing prices given on application Saturday, April 21, 1917. "Few love to hear the Sins they love to act." Shakespeare, Born April 23, 15G4. fta Jta Pta Pa oi You who are talking against the road bond, think of this. For years Eastern Oregon has been paying for the roads the stato has been building In the Willamette valley . The new highway plan provides that at least GO per cent of the post road money shall bo spent in Eastern Oregon. Further, Mult nomah county, which pays 40 per cent of the automobile license and one third of the mileage tax will not receive one cent for road construction. Read the officials argument in the state pamphlet which Srctary of State Ben W.'Olcott will send you in a few days. Also read the road bonding argument in this issue of the Enterprise nnd you will see that the funds for this proposed $0,000,000 bonding plan havo already been provided for in other laws. To issue these bonds will not increase our taxes one pen- ny, and will give the state a fund that wlil enable the Highway commission 'to render a lasting service to the state. There are many several million acres of $100 per acre land in the state of Oregon that will not bring over $10 per acre at the present because of EDITORIAL COMMENT InnV nt rnnsnnrinllnn fnr1!tina i r m n "lnf ClrtnA ffinla iwill liiinn fViio BdNDS WILL BUILD ROADS AT NO EXTRA COST TO TAXPAYERS. PLEASE 'M If you don't got your paper $ regularly, please drop a line to tho editor, as in that way only can we find out the trou- bio and take steps to correct $ same. It is our aim to make sure that each subscriber irets his paper promptly, every W. week. We will not ston vour paper unless you order jt with- it: out notifying you of the fact, so please let us know when- ever you miss a copy. Kmmmmmmmmmm m m m m w. up to its proper valuation. The citizen who is against bonding the state for roads from general principles, and who bases his conclusions from the theoretical standpoint, who argues that bonds are bonds and a thing to shun at all times, and says he is "agin" bonds as completely as tho standpatter is "agin" all change, and tho anarchist is "agin" the government, has a great deal of hard facts to overlook. No great industry has ever been developed, no war of liberty ever waged, no railroad over built, no irrigation project ever constructed, no rural credits plan ever enacted that was not made possible by the issu ance of bonds plain, cold, interest bearing, gold bonds. Tell Walter M. Pierce, C. E. Spence, W. II. Strayer and other politi cal grandstandors, as" long as they borrow money under the rural credits acts, that their anti bonding stampede looks like a whirlwind to you and won't get them anywhere. fca Psj Pa pi la Less than 10 per cent of the tillable land in We Need the Help. Reports are coming that consider ible opposition is being developed ngainst bonding for the State High way. It is feared that Malheur coun ly will not get its portion of fcatls if tho bonds carry. Whether this be true or not, ono thing is sure no sec tion ever secured anything without striving for it: Sit down and opn-isj 'ivery public improvement or do noth ing and you may rest assured you not nothing. The State is going to spend a lot of money on highways whether the bonds carry or not and those counties that oppose this meas ure stand a mighty good chance of "Holding the Sack" while the other DO YOU KNOW THE POSSIBILITIES OF MALHEUR COUNT f? Malheur county is in cultivation. Less than fellow gets the plum. Eastern Ore- 20 per cent of tho total area of the county is. taxable. Malheur county contains more square miles than tho state of Massachusetts. There are ten counties in Oregon whoso combined territory is less than that of Malheur county's, yet each of these counties has more population. Mai hour county has as much uncultivated but tillable land as the total area of tho stato of Connecticut. This county is as largo as the whole of tho Will amctto Valley and contains over 10 per cent of tho state's area. This county is as rich as it is undeveloped. With an exceptionally low ratio of assessment, the taxable valuation of this county is about $1000 for each mon, wotnhn'hnd till Id in the county. But tho great and dornlnnt wealth of tho countV'lics in the, barren benches that will bo mado productive from irrigation, from the hill lands that must bo dry farmed, from the thou sands of acres of bunch grass range, from the nitrate, oil, Iron, gold and other minerals that exist in great quantities. The two most important development plans for this county are, first, irrigation, including the successful completion of Warmsprings, Willow-Al dor, Owyhee and mnny smaller projects. Of almost equal importance arc good roads. Tho county should stop forwnrd and assist tho stato and fed eral government in the construction of a complnto system of good roads throughout tho length and tho breadth of Mnlheur county. By tho proper proceeduro it seems possiblo Hint tho county enn ob tain moro aid from the stato highway commission than has as yet been promised. Considered as ono county wo havo been fortunatcd to secure a large number of miles of state highway under tho proposed bonding measure, yet considered from an aren standpoint no other section of tho stato has se cured so little, whilo in no other section would good roads accomplish as much. Wo believe that tho Highway commission can be mado to see these things, and that through their aid nnd tho raising of u somewhat larger road fund by tho county, that Malheur county can successfully construct a county system of graded, drained and gravaled roads that will connect cv. cry post offlco and community in tho cntiro county from Riverside to Ontario and from Mnlheur City to McDermitt. N Pn Pa Pu Pa Pa Germany, and tlio world, will find out that Uncle Sum understands the meaning of system before they settle with him. Ps Pa P Pa P Lay your plan to bo. in Vnlo tho week of Juno 1 8-23 for Malheur county's first Chautauqua assembly. Pn Pa ha Pa Pa There is going to bo a hot time in the old town of Brognn on May Gth. Wo nre going, nro you? Pa Pa N P Pu It is more virtuous to clean out tho rubbish piles now than to swat flies ail summer long. P Ps Pn Pa P It kind of slows tho inland towns down u bit, to hnvo so many of their live young men leave. Pa Pa Pii Pa Pa on has been contributing to the state road fund for years and received lit Mc or nothing in compensation. De feat the bond and you still get noth ing and help pay the bill. You can't ifford to do this. The only hope we have for better roads is to pass this measure and have confidence that the action of the legislature and the re commendation of tho Highway Com mission will be sustained. No one lucstions that the highways are nced- ?d, and will be of great advantage to us. Portland and southern Oregon must have these connecting links if tho tourist travel is to come their way therefore it is advantageous to them to assist in promoting the highways wo are so much interested in. Either ve bond for these highways in Mnl- leur and other eastern Oregon coun- les or go on over tho same impassa ble roads, or the individual counties must put up the money to construct ind maintain them. Which do vou onsidcr the moro economical, pay for hem yourself or have the state and cdcral government help. Better roads vill come ono wny or the other. fJhooso now. Juntura Times. "LEND A HAND" A Monthly Magazine Printed by the Inmates of the Oregon State Penitentiary at Salem. The little magazine is doing good work. Inside the walls it helps make life worth living, recording incidents of interest and offering prisoners op portunity to express themselves. On the "outside" it performs a useful function in telling people about pri son happenings and prison hopes. Tho subscription rate is $1.00 per year. The men who create the maga zine want to make it a little larger and better. They can do this if the income increases, and subscriptions are the only revenue. "No one makes a cent from the pub lication; it simply tries to be self- supporting and there is no profit in it for anybody," says G. P. Putman, se cretary, to Governor Withycombe. Subscriptions should be addressed to "Lend A Hand," Box 1 Route 6, Salem, Oregon. Pride Regulated. America was "too proud to fight" a helpless and pitiful country like poor old Mexico, but as in the days of Washington she is not too proud to fight the foes of liberty and humanity. Nyssa Journal. Praises Volunteers. No finer young men could havo been lecured than the volunteers who left his week from Ontario and Valo to ioln the colors. As is nlways true the Soys who first answer the call arc the (lower of tho young manhood. And as is nlways tho case there are left hero till a few who without tho responsi bility for supporting n family could '.ho better bo spared. Ontario Argus. Closes Large Sheep Deal. Jas. F. Mahon, tho stock king of the Princeton district, was interview ing merchants here Tuesday, says the Crane American. Jim sayjs there is more truth than poetry in the report that he has disposed of his entire band of 4000 sheep. The sheep will be tak en over by A. L. Sproul of Ontario on April 10. The realization of the sale was $50,000. Mr. Mahon declares he is not' retiring from the lucrative stock game, but on the other hand will devote his spare time to raising cat- He for the makret. Incidentally wo might mention that Mr. Mahon is the possessor of one of the finest ranches in Harney county, comprising some 6000 acres of produc tive soil. He believes in irriagtion and has two large reservoirs for the conservation of water, one holding 3G0O acre-feet and the other 1280 acre-feet of water. WEISER MAN SHOT "Good" Jail at Huntington. A headline in a newspaper the other lay, "Prisons Are Bad," occasioned he Portland Evening Telegram to ask "Whoever heard of a good jail?" We ve got ono in Huntington. It has not been occupied for 10 months, and an old man is given a cot in one of the cells free of chargo to guard the jail in order that no ono not un der arrest will break in. Huntington News. Sheephrrdcr Shoots Kenneth Prouty, Six Times Expected to Recover Fields Claims Self Defense Weiser,,Ida. Kenneth Prouty, aged 21, lies in a hospital hero suffering from six bullet wounds inflicted Sat urday afternoon by George Fields, a sheephcrder, but will recover. Fields s in jail awaiting tho outcome of Prouty's wounds. Tho shooting took plac Saturday afternoon at the Prouty ranch, about six miles west of Weiser. Prouty's story is that Fields, who is an em ploye of the Butterfield Sheep com pany, had driven a band of sheep on to land belonging to Prouty's father and when ho went over to induce Fields to move the sheep away, the latter opened fire and shot him down. Claims Self Defense. It is understood Fields claims self defense, saying that he was grazing his sheep along when Prouty came over to him and ordered him gruffly to move his sheep off the land and "move them quick." Fields, it is said. claims ho tried to argue the qeustion with Prouty but the latter told him to "get out" and hunting around seized a rock to enforce his order. Fields then says ho drew his gun and opened fire. UNION PACIFIC INSURES MEN Railroad System Insures 250,000 Workmen for $250,000,000. Two hundred and fifty thousand workmen employed in American in dustries have had their lives insured by their employers, says Ballard Dunn in Leslies Weekly. This represents insurance policies to the total amount of nbout $250,000,000. The premi urns on these insurance policies aro paid by the companies for which the men work . This system of insurance for employees, paid for and maintain ed by employers, has been growing over a period of about five years, but has attracted little public attention, The whole subject was forced to the front the first of the year by the ac tion of the board of directors of the Union Pacific system, which took out insurance policies covering every one of its employees from sixteen to sev enty years of age who havo been in service one year or longer and who arc not receiving more than $4,000 a year in salary. Each of those who has been in the employ of the company for one year or longer and whose salary is not moro than $4,000 per annum is given a life insurance policy for an amount equal to his annual salary, payable to his beneficiaries upon his death. There is- a minimum policy of $500 and a maximum of $2,500. If an employee is permanently disabled before he reaches the age of seventy years, at which time, under the company's rules he is retired under its old age pen sion plan, his life insurance may be paid to him as an annuity thus be coming a sustaining fund. The plan also includes health insurance and in surance against accident. Under this feature employees who are compelled to remain away from work because of illness or accident are paid benefits to tho amount of one-half their yearly salary, the minimum basis for such benefits being at the rate of $5 per week. The total maximum payments for the period of incapacity may be as much as $2,500. The payment of benefits under tho latter features of tho plan in no way affects the pay ment of the life insurance. The life insurance also covers those employees who may be retired on pension from and after the establishment of the plan, January 1st, 1917. "The object which the directors ex pect and hope to accomplish by this insurance," said R. C. Lovctt, Chair man of the Board of Directors of the Union Pacific, in announcing the plan, is to afford tho employees of the company the satisfaction of knowing, that so long as they are in the ser vice, some financial provision, al though comparatively small in some cases, has been made for them and their families against the misfor- unes of death, injury and illness. It is a measure prompted by good will toward the employees and their fam ilies, whoso welfare is borne constant ly in mind and whose co-operation in establishing the success of these pro perties is greatly appreciated." 1 Special Notice! Owing to the high prices and the scarcity of help, we are compelled to enforce the follow !: ing delivery hours on and after Monday, 16th. 1st Delivery at 8:30 a. m. 2nd Delivery at 10:30 a. m. 3rd and last at 4:30 p. m. Thanking you for past favors and hoping we can serve you better by our new plan, we are 4 Yours truly Vale Meat A. H. Chester, Manager tirtTttttTrrrrn-TTTTi Company ii Vale, Oregon rfiff'!"M',l"H'fff,H"H' 9 A. SPRING HOUSECLEANING And New Furniture for the Home go hand in hand.. War times mean war prices. Lay in your supply of new furniture (linoleums, upholstered goods, carpets, rugs, wall paper, etc.) now, as tho prices will never be as low as now. Come in and look over our stock. T. T.NELSEN, Vale, Ore. 5 Loyal Not Partisan. This is no time for partisanship in municipal, state or national affairs. The time for divided allegiance is past and the citizen, whether he be native or foreign-born, who is not loyal to the government is n traitor and an enemy of tho Republic. Nyssa Jour nal. Bend to raise $500,000 for Central Oregon railroad. ANGE ALFALFA land at low prices and on ten year terms at a rate of interestihat makes guying cheaper than renting or leasing. Stockmen should buy while the buying is good as range and alfalfa land is going to increase rapidly in price. OREGON & WESTERN COLONIZATION CO. W. J. PINNEY Agent, Ontario, Oregon 10 Almost New Sewing Machines, SJQ Standard Makes, Including the n $25 Singer, White, New Home and Minnesota PASTE IN DIRECTORY Vnle, Oregon, April 11th, 1017. New telephone subscribers and changjs not listed in tho present directory. II t.l-.. T.MI- T T tt - 1 nr... uitriwuy, elm ues. iNo. liio-K nnngea irom r . uarKiey. Boston, J. B. Res. No. 104-R Changed from No. 37-F-9. Bnlgcmnnn, R. H. Res. No. 9J-R2 i.ook's Auto Mvcry ore. No. County Treasurer Ofc. No. CrnndnU, C. R. Ranch No. Currey, George Huntington Ofc. No. $225 We moved recently to our new quarters in the Interior Warehouse Brick. It is now your move if you are interested in Bargains in FURN1TUI.E RANGES STOVES Bedding Desks Dishes Tools Harness Cooking Utensils All kinds of second JOflF" merchandise Johnson & Nordale Corner B & Bryant Streets Vale, Oregon Diven, Ernest Glenn, A. T. Gray, H. L. Green, Josephine A. Hanna, W. G., Prop. Ilanun, Walter Hansen, J, II. Harland, A. B. Johnson, The Percy M. Co, Johnson, Percy M. Johnson & Nordale King, Myru Morton, M. R. Pritchctt, W. F. Richardson, Jas. Rigby, John Robinette, Iko Siddoway, R. II. Vcnable, Janie Walker, Donald 1)8 33 07-R 13 04 Malheur Enterprise. Res. No. Res. No. 119-R Res. No. Cl-R Res. No. 55-W No. 30 Vale Meat Market. Res. No. 128-W Res. No. 49-W Contractor and Builder. Res. No. 57-R Changed from 07-R. Ofc. No. 124 Land Attorney & Real Estate. Res. No. 12G-R No. 143-W Second Hand Store. Res. No. 5D-W Res. No. 67-W Res. No. 97-R Changed from 37-F-12. Res. No. 102-R ! Res. No. 123 Res. No. 115-W Res. No. 29 Rooms No. 38 Alco Rooms No. 39-W City Bakery. John Rigby, Secretary. Warmsprings Irrigation Dist. Ofc. No. 117 Watklns, Grace C. Res. No. 108 White, Rev. T. M. Res. No. 134 Wells, C. W. Res. No. C3-R MALHEUR HOME TELEPHONE COMPANY Pastor of Christiun Church. BARGAINS IN READING MATTER Three Splendid Magazines and The Malheur Enterprise AND SPECIAL PREMIUM FREE By taking advantage of this offer you receive: (1) WESTERN FARMER 1 Full Year. The recognized nuthority in the Pacific Northwest on Agriculture. Western Farmer is read in over 70,000 farm homes in this territory. The biggest, best and cleanest paper of its kind in tho Northwest States wo recommend WESTERN FARMER to our readers. The regular subscription price is $1.00 per year; it is only by a most fortunate arrangement that we are enabled to include it in this club offer. (2) BETTER FRUIT 1 Full Year. 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