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About Malheur enterprise. (Vale, Or.) 1909-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 21, 1918)
WE ' WISH EVERY RESIDENT OP MALHEUR COUNT A MOST JOYFUL CHRISTMAS-MAY YOU ENJOY PEACE AND GOOD WlLL Tfl of -J-rjfiPMING YEAR --- T f- Full News Service For All County Communities Largest Circulation In Every Section Of -Malheur County Beat Medium feor All County and Outside Advertisers. . YOUR CO-OPERATlON, Suggestions and Support are Solic ited -to Help Make The "Enterprise" a True Representative of Vale, and Mulhnir County. Send la Subscrip tion 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 .It is Your Paper and is Working to Develop Your Community. Let all the Malheur Towns and Settle ments Work Together "for a More Prosperous and Better County. ADVERTISE IN THE ENTERPRISE, The Only Paper That Circulates' Throughout the Whole of Malheur'" County. It Has More Readers Be cause it Prints, More Reading Matter. People Pay for The, Enterprise Be cause They Want to Read the Best.. Reviews of Northwestern and, World News the Most Thorough Rfcporte of Southeastern Oregon Irrigation, Stock, Farming, Qll, Mineral and Community Progress, the Latest .. Market Quotations; all Filings In the U. S; Land Office, Vale District; Mai hcur County Official Notices; Real Estate Transfers; County Scat News; Correspondent Letters . The llome Newspaper, Read in livery Nook of Malheur County, ! VOLUME X, NO. 4 VALE, OREGON, SATURDAY, DECEMPER 21, 1918. SUBSCRIPTION $2.00 PER YEAR. ... .: r- rmt r r t r i - sstv NUMBERS ENROLLING IN XMAS ROLL CALL. Eurly Reports If Followed Up Bring Large Membership In County. Will Regardless o wether or influenza the Christmas roll call of the Red Cross is" meeting with a ready Te sponse and hundreds of the little Red Crosses are being worn on coat lapels in the county this week A booth was established in the post office and opened for business Mon day morning. Two women have been in charge each day and very few have refused to give their heart and their dollar for the cause. The first day netted moie than 150 members ia Vale,. C. G. Daley Was, the first to en roll and he .placed seven stars' on his flag, one for a sonin .service. About three fourths of the business houses had 100 per cent flags uj) to Friday and it is the aim of committees to make it "unanimous" and have every business house display a 100 per cent enrolled flag on Saturday night. To Finish By Monday. . Saturday a canvas will' be made of the city and .every home not showing, stars for cach'iadult member will be solicited. AHTropbrts will be finished up by Monday and anyone delaying joining until vafter then will not be, credited in the Christmas Roll Call Rapid Work Reported Ontario and Nyssa workers send in encouraging reports and say the work is-humming in the Snake river ter ritory. Two Ontario ladies the first of the week secured 80 member3with in a -two block' area. . Reports like this are tho .ones that mean Malheur county Red Crossfolks are in earnest. Reporting In " From many parts', of the county come reports that the people are re sponding splendidly -to the call and that Malheur county intends to do more than her part in helping Ore gon to a perfect mark in the drive. Juntura has already sent, in a report' 'that they had enrolled more than, 100 during their, first few days. On. ac- co'unti of poor phone -and mail corf nections a large part of the county's reports will not be tabulated until late the coming, week but thairrnan. Mrs. R. E. Wca:nt 'has received mes sages from all points of the county .that workers are sparing no efforts, to bring. Irt every possible member ship, -v'lho keynote of the campaign is don't wait to be solicited, volunteer yqur heart and your dollar. The Ite'd Cross mercy organization will go on forever war or no war and your year ly dollar will help thousands who meat with misfortune or disaster. Right now it will help our. boys until the;' ire safe at home. HEAVY FINES IMPOSED Boollegers Captured After Auto Race Other. Court. House Oases During Week. Santiago Goichoechea and John It uriaga were fined $400.00 each and 'relcived of about twenty-six cases 'of booze in the justice court this week The men "were captured after a sen sational race across the. desert be tween Joradn Valley and McDermitt, by Major Deich of tho Military Police and Sergeants John T. Corcoran Por ter W. Benidect and Robert W. Smith, Tho cars carrying the officers and - bootleggers met on the desert and the official? ordered the boot leggers to halt, theyresponded by giving their car full speed ahead. The officials Minsk and taking an occasional shot at the car ahead finally punc tured one tire. The pursued kept on fnr manv miles Until finally the rim gave way and their car disabled ,thcy gave up. ' . Two Get Small Fines - Brrt Weidenheimer and D. H. York were ulso arrested for having liquor in their possession and were fined J25.00 each. LIEUT. BROWN RETURNING Leavinf Washington Shortly and Will Probably Arrive For The - Holidays . Lieutenant Frank J, Brown who left Vale early last summer enlisting his services in Uncle Sams medical corps will probably arrive in Vale soon to visit with home folks, ueutenau: Brovn has been stationed at Washing ton P. O. in one of the big army medical camps Lockley Puts Pen In W.S.S. Drive Fred Lockley Writes of Irrigation Con gress and War Saving Stamp Campaign. Last week end Malheur County was honored by the presence of one of 'the best known writers in the northwest, namely Fred Lockley who .has just lately returned from the battle fields of France where he administered cheer and comfort to our boys "over there" and where ho wrote .many in spiring and interestinjr articles relat ing to the war. Mr Lackley is per haps the best informed historian of the pioneer generation in Oregon. Ho is.now heroicly working to put Oregon overithc top in the W. S. S. campaign and thus entitle this state to a 100 per cent banner for ''going over the lop" infevery war drive. Mr. Lockley wrote the following comments of his visit. On Friday and Saturday of the last week there was held at Ontario an irrigation and drainage school. In teresting lectures by expert engineers and jrrlgationists and instructive talks by those in attendance mado the two day session a profitable one. (Continued on Page Six.) WINS NEW PLACE aptrhn' Robert Duncan Will Have' Charge of Greene Park at Camp Lewis pamp authorities at Camp Lewis have -taken over the affairs and ad ministration of Greene Park" the am usement .zone for soldiers, Major-General' Joseph D. Leitch terminated the license of the Camp Lewis Amuse ment Company and revoked authority given the company to operate by Major-General H. A: Greene, a year agp. Captian Robert M. Duncan, the Gen- ral announced, will administer the affairs of the park. General Leitch in a statement giv ing his reasons for Army control, said: "Greene Park has been taken over by the army for the reason it can be operated more economically and ad vantageously for all concerned with- jut intermediate civilian control" Captain Duncan enlisted from Vnlo last spring attending the officers train ing school at tho Presido. Mrs Dun- an and baby are with him at Camp ewis. , ' Dies of Wounds 3rogan Boy Wounded in France Dies At Base Hospital Nurse Writes Family. . Clarence Howard son of Mr, and Mrs. Andy Howard of Brogan died ."rom the effects of wounds received n battle at a French base hospital October 14, 1918. He left his home at Brogan in November 1917 and was fcnt immediately to Long Island and sailed for England about the first of the year going to France from Eng- rid in two weeks time. News of his Jeath -was sent by Adjutant General Harris. Private Howard was born at Mit chell, Oregon January 18; 1893. He ia survived hv his narents. three sis ters and two brothers, Mrs Rhoda Mcintosh, 'Buhl Mrs Floyd Arnold, Nampar Mrs D. L. Harrington, Wei- ser; Simson Howard, D,eitrichj and Ted Howard who lives with his par ents. He was. well known over the county having lived at Brogan with his people for some time. Nurse Writes The following letter was written by hig nurse to the mother and shows the care received by the wounuea over there. Base Hospital, Somewhere in France Dear Mrs. Howard: You no doubt have been Jnformed about the death of your son in the hospital, but I know thero are many things that yu would like to know and I want to do all that I can for you at this time, Your boy came to us several daysi ago with shrapnel wounds. It did not seem serious at the time, but Gas Bacillus complications set in, and in spite o all the care of nurses nnd doctors he passed away at 11:30 A. M; October 14. I wish you might have been herd to see the tender care that nurses and doctors gave your boy. No one ever had more tender care in his own home.' He did not suffer much (Continued on Page Six) HUGH THAYER ILL Vale Boy 111 at New York Ciy Late Advices Say Condition Improved. Mr. and Mrs: Otis Thayer received a telegram this week from army of ficials at New York city to the ef fect that their son Hugh was seriously ill. They immediately wired for par ticulars and the return telegram stated that his condition was somewhat im proved and satisfactory for the pre sent. The nature of his illness was not stated. Lettecs received from him tho day before the telegram made no mention of illness and stated that he was expecting to join a bunch of fly ers who would make flights from Bos ton to New York. Improving Ranch F. H. Townley of Watson has been hauling lumber from the Home Lum ber company yards in Vale this week to his ranch on the Owyhee where he is adding a new farm building. DITCH AND DAM WORK Construction Camps Under Full Way Election of Directors Set for January 14th Satisfactory progress is being made in all departments of the -Warm-springs project construction. The con tractors are making good headway at their camps at tho dam site and on the ditch north" of Vale. The dis trict directors and engineers are rap idly working out the many details of proceedure and clearing the future for undelayed construction. This week Project Engineer John Lewis left for a few days visit t6 Portland where he will discuss a num ber of matters with Clark, Kendall & Company, the bond buyers. A full crew Is working at the camp neai Riverside, and have nearly com pleted a permanent road from the OFFICIALS SIGNING WARM President R. E. Weant, Secretary C. Mueller signing the $750,000.00 of by which 32,000 acres of valley land CAPT. BARTLETT RETURNING Word Received ' From Former Vale ' Doctor That He is Bound, For Home' Homeward bound was tho jjist of a letter" received from Captain Carl J. Bartlett by J. P. Dunaway this week. The letter written November 15th stated that thero was no, use of mailing any answers for he intend ed to beat the mail to the States, and was to embark the following day. He stated that his wounds were healing in satisfactory condition but he still felt the effect of the gas, received when a piece of shrapnel broke the mask he was wearing while working in the front lines. New Baby Girl Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Williams who live near the school house are tho parents of a baby girl born Wednes day night, Dr Burrow attending. Mother, and babe are reported doing well. NOW UNDER FULL SPEED railroad to the dam site, and ateo have made considerable progress in strip ping the site, and stone quarry. Work has been started on the plant buildings At tho canal camp near Vale there is still need for a few fresno men and teamsters altro most of the teams have been kept at work tho past week The ditch has been opened and work is being done along n lino of about one and a half miles. January 14th is the date of the annual election of directors for the district, and to conform to the now state irrigation law tho district has been divided into three districts and thrcedirectors will. bo elected to suc ceed the present board of five mem bers. Tho directors to be elected will serve for one, two and three years. their terms to be determined by lot after tho election, SPRINGS DISTRICT BONDS M. G, Hopo, and County Treasu-r C. Warmsprings frrlgation District bonds will be irrigated, Next Luncheon Last Day In Year Plan Big Booster Meeting for Noon of Day Before the New - Year. At the last Business Mens Lunch eon it .was decided to skip Christmas week so the next luncheon will be held Tuesday noon, December 31. Robt. D. Lytle was appointed Chair man and a splendid program is being planned. The Drexel Chef promises a first class New Years "feed" and every business man, professional man, and farmer interested in Vale Is ex pected to attend. The word business man includes every man who works for a living or obtains three .meals a day -in any other way. Tho only requirement for sttendence at tho Tuesdays luncheons is an interest in the advancement and development of Vale and Mnlheur County. Tho next luncheon Jo be held on the noon beforo the eve of the" New Year is expected to sound the key note of progress for Malheur county during 1019. Many new and important mat ters, will be presented and an enthu iastic and profitable meeting is assur ed, VALE SALE SUCCESS Going Gone But Coming A gain Success of Vale MonthlyAuc tion Assured. .The first Vale Monthly Market Day and Public Auction Sale held Saturday December 14, was a decided success J. M. Swnnsoh sold -$3000.00 of live stock implements etc during tho after noon. Bidding was brisk, and most entries found ready buyers and brought excellent prices. Among the sales made were 15 mules, over 50 head of cattle a number, of horses, hogs rabbits, implements and numerous other articles. Altho the day was rather 'cold buyers at tended from many., outsldo points as well-as from nearly every ecction of the county. Ono of the noticable ef fects of tho sale was tho crowds that were on the Streets during tho day, making things appear extraordinarily active nnd lively. The next auction will be held on Saturday, January 11, 1919 and al ready a number of head' of first class live stock have been listed. Tho Jan uary sale is expected to double tho first market day in both entries and attendance. One of the most pleasing features about tho first sale Was the, general satisfaction expressed, by everyone, and the entire absence of any by bid ding. Every sale recorded was bona- fide and tho public should thank the men who are pushing this movement which will rapidly bring Vnlo to the front as the leading live stock center of Eastern Oregon. The men who are backing tho move ment nro G. F. Wildhaber, A. W. Reed, C. C. Mueiler andC. G. Griffin, all well known business men of Vale and interested in tho development and pro gress of Malheur County. Oil Test Soon Oil Indications at Western Pacific Well Better Than Ever Test Expected Beforo Long. General Manager W. D. Meyer was in Vale this week from the Western Pacific Oil and Gas Company's well in Sand Hollow attending to business matters. Mr. Meyers has been suffer ing from an injured leg but is now nearly recovered. Conditions at the well are in good shape with" prospects never brighter. Several mishaps to gether with a cou ple of attacks of tho flu have prevent ed much progress the past month; but things arc expected to be restored to nnnle nto order in a fow weeks. If all indications prove themselves, it is expected that tho Wesn Pacific well will become tho long looked for de mpnateation of the Vale field soon after drilling operatings are resumed. Daughter to Visit Dr, R. D. Burrovy is expectinc visit from his daughter MIn Burrow of Portland during the holidays. Miss Burrow is one of tho fpremost kind ergarten teachers of the coast and has been in tho Portland schools several years. OPEN SALES OFFICES TOSELLCQMPANYLAND Colonization Company to Make Every Effort to get lands in Cultivation. W. P. Davidson, St. Paul Capitalist, President of tho Oregon and Western Colonization Company, while in Vale last Thursday made arrangments for the opening of a sales office in this city. Accompanying Mr. Davidson were W. J. Pinnoy who is in charge of the Company's branch office at Ontario, J. R. Heuring of Seattle and J. A. O'Brien of Pittsburg who will aBsist in colonizing the lands under the Warmsprings project, and B. F. Johnson, formerly Sales Manager of the company in frook nnd Harney counties, who will be in charge of the new Vale office. Mr Johnson is well known thruout central Oregon and was on the job as sales manager last year in Crook county where tho company sold every acre of their land that was under the Ochoco project in less than ninety days after water was guaranteed. The new offices will be opened in the Hope building, now occupied by J. W. Dorsoy. The building will bo remodeled and refitted to accomodate tho shop of the present occupant as well as tho new offices. Mr Johnson expects to have the new offices' open soon after the first of tho year. Mr Davidson while in Vnlo express ed himself as very confident of tho success of tho Wermsprings project and said that his hopo was to seo a prosperous family on every forty or eighty acres In Malheur Valley. ,Hc announced the plan of tho Coloniza tion company would bo to secure tho very best class of farmers and home builders. No difficulty will bo exper ienced in attracting plenty of land buyers, but the company will conduct quite an extensive snles and advertis ing campaign in order to reach the most substantial class of the land hungry. Mr Davidson intended mak ing a visit of several days in tho coun ty but was called away on account of tho death of his daughter. j It must bo remembered that it was thru tho offer of Mr. Davidson and tho backing of tho people of Vale, and many farmers, sheep und cattle men that a local subscription of nearly $400,000 was raised to buy the Warm springs bonds, which lead directly to tho actual sale of tho bonds and the letting of the contract. INFLUENZA IMPROVES Week Shows But Few New Cases und . Great Improvement of General Conditions According to doctors and nurses who have cades of Influenza in hand tho situation during tho past week around Valo shows great Improvement. But a few scattering new casos were re ported two of which are men 111 at tho tempory hospital in the old jail build ing. Tho general situation oyer the county seems to bo better and it is thot that the worst of ho epidemic and its reoccuranco has been passed. ' Schools which wero closed mado no effort to open for the fow days re maining before holiday vacations and this will in all probability stamp out the disease's spread from that source It is thought that by tho first of the thintrs will bo irenernlly read justed and schools and public places will be opened. TO ELECT DIRECTORS Willow Alder District To Hold An nual Election of Directors Second Tuesday In January. On Tuesday January 14 the Willow Alder Irrigation District will hold tho nnnunl election of directors. Tho pre sent directors are I. W. Hope, Mr, Fosselman and Geo. E Davis, it lo the hope of tho land owners under ti iHntrlel hotter known as the Bul ly Creek project, that construction enn be undertaken and completed dur ing the year. This will add an addi tion 20,000 acres of producing land to Malheur county's rapidly incrcaB ing accragc. Superintendent E. J. Carrillo in charge of the work for Shottuck Edinger construction, company, at tho Warmsprings dam was married in Valo last week end to Miss Ruth E. Straley of Montana. Judge Mc Knlght officiated at the wedding and the ring ceremony was used.