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Swagler received three gun shot wounds from a gun in the hands of John Hanlon v; of Jordan Valley on the stairs of the court house Tuesday morning about ; 10.30 The grand jury was in session J in the court room at the time of the ' shooting and a number of peopLc ' were., in the court house. Attorney ,Swagglcr had been talking with Wil liam Jones hanker of Juntura at the -''foot of the stairs and being in a hurry ran up stairs, approaching the top he was confronted by Hanlon who opened fire with a 32 automatic re volver. Three shots were fired all of which hit the district attorney, one -entered the inside muscles of the Teft leg, one hit the - right side and glanced downward coming out thru the hip while the third badly shattered ' his right wrist. At the time the third shot was fired Swagler fell backward from the seventh stop where he was caught by Mr. Jones and other by standers and carried into the County Clerk's office where Dr. Brown made an ex- . amination and cared for the wounds. Sheriff Lee Noe was "'sitting in his1 .office and hearing the shots stepped tout to the hall, where ho saw Hanlon with the gun in his hands, "Did You . : Do That", he inquired of Hanlon, '.."Yes" the assailant answered and handed the sheriff his gun. He was -immediately . placed under arrest. Other witnesses to tl)e affair. were Bob " Terry of Owyhee and Commissioner Frank Vines. There were also other .people in the lobby at the time the "shooting took place. Mr. .Swagler Was removed from the ' court house to the Drexel hotel where . the wounds were dressed. Mrs. Swngler und' daughter Tone were called from Ontario and came up with Erbie 'Hayes immediately af ter the shooting Doctors Weise and Payne were also called. The wounds " were found to be very painful but not serious. The wound in the wrist being the most serious. At the present time Mr. Swagler is. resting easily and expects to be able to return to . his home soon. Blamed for Non- Indictment ' The motive for the shooting dates back to a theft case during last July, when Hanlon claims to have been rob bed of $450.00. He swore out a com plaint against a parly by the name of Ambrose who was tried' in justice - rni'rt at Jordan Valley and found not guilty. Hanlon then sought to have the case brought into the circuit court arid conferred with District At torney Swaggler during the county fair at Ontario, but due to insuffic- .- t - ency 6f evidence was advised to drop the case 'or take up a new clew as nothing pointed to the guilt of Am- brose except that Hanlon claimed to ' ' , have been robbed while staying there. Hanlon then took the matter up with State Officials and Swaggler finally decided to bring the case before the grand jruy and Sheriff Lee Noe sum moned witnesses for the January ses sion. When it became apparent that (Continued on Page Six) MUST IRRIGATE NEW LANDSJF POSSIBLE Busy Year Ahead for Chamber of Commerce Irrigation of Great Interest At theregular meeting of the Vale . Chamber of Commerce last Monday .evening plans were laid for mucfi act ivity for the coming year. Among the importane'matters the discussion . -developed was the problem of the .'city water system; securing state co-operation in road building; the irri gation of the Owyhee and Bully creek ".bench lands; and the securing of ef fective publcity for Vale and Malheur ; bounty. . President A. W. Reed pointed out 'the necessity of every one taking an -ivn intenwt in the Chamber of Commerce this year, G. F. Wjldha- i.n td o unanimous discussion - to the effect that the surplus water ' ci i by the Warmsprings dam I !fihould"be used for the watering of the ' -bench lands, and any additional costs! fp.d legal nuestions must be disposed j of in order to bring this about, ine " urinciole object is to get as much land irrigated in the Malheur basis as ppasible from the Malheur River "water. SOUTH SENDS NEW FIGHTERS NORTH. 5en.Edward j. gay GOttCv CARLOS BEE Two now southern fact maao ineir appearance li on gress. The upper is Senato. Ed ward J Gay of Louisiana1, who succeeds the late Robert Drous sard. Lower is Carlos Dee of San Antonio, Tex., a brotlier-ln-law of Postmaster General Burleson, and of tho historic military famlh of Bee, from South Carolinu Hi3 uncle. General Bernard Doe gave .General. Jackson tlio nlcknaino of "Stonewall." ENGINER WILEY SPEAKS AT LUNCH Engineer Wiley Shows Low Cost of Warmsprings project Compar ed to Others at Luncheon The feature of -the last Tuesday Businessmen's luncheon was the talk of Engineer A.' J. Wiley", chief en gineer of the Warmsprings . Project and the foremost reclamation engi neer in the Northwest. Mr. Wiley compared the cost of water storage under various projects seating that the Arrow Rock dam cost four and three quarters millions which makes a cost of about ?24 per acre foot of storage while the Warmsprings dam will cost aboilt $317,000 and will store 170,000 acre feet at a cost of only two dollars per acre foot of storage He stated that the Warmsprings project contemplated the delivery of 3 acre feet of water and could amply supply 40,000 acres. He also announced that Secretary Lane had recommended the construc tion of the Owyhee project and through the Government would build that in the reconstruction program. Project Engineer J. H. Lewis and Shattuck Edinger Company told of the progress of tho "construction work. C. C. Mueller urged that more in terest be taken in the monthly markpt and sales day, and C. M. Rohincttc told that, a meeting would soon bo called to organize tho work for the third Annual Chautan.ua assembly. Wes Caviness was called upon to review the irrigati6n development sit uation and fortold the actual realiza tion in the Warmsprings construction of what had been golden dreams 'for years. T, W, Claggett invited Vale to send a delegation to the meeting in Ontario that night to consider ways and means to secure government construction of the Owyhee project. Chairman Currey appointed J. P. Dunaway as chairman for the lunch eon next Tuesday. Trotsky is Director Boisbeviki war minister, has been pro claimed director and has arrestod Nl colai Lenit.e on a charge of forming a coalition wjth the Mensheviks (rad ical minority), according to a Moscow dispatch received Thursday by the Gothenburg Gazette. Germany needed none of her well known dyes to make the flag that she finally hoisted- GRAND JURY TURNS IN EIGHT JNDICTMENTS January Grand Jury Returns' Eight True Bills Many Cases for Circuit Court. The Grand Jury for tho January term of the circuit Court filed their report Wednesday evening after be ing in session three days and reported eight true bills and two not true bills. It is understood that several of the true bills are in regard to use of water and another is the charge against Hanlon for" the shooting of Dis tiict Attorney Swagler, altho the in dictments have been made public. The grand jury consisted of Saxon Humph rey foreman, J Branson, Ward Can field, Dan Murphy, Allen D. Kyte, C. O. Powell and A, A. Wright Among the cases that mil come be fore Judge Dalton Biggs the present term are J. B. Duncan Vs C. J. Kelly set for January 14. Samuel J. Bean vs R. N. Stanfield set for January 13. T. H. Beverly vs P. O. Duncan set for January 13. P. S. Butler ve E. L. Gibson et al set for Wednesday the 15. M. N. Fegtly vs Charles A. Hackney set for January 13." Ed C. Warner vs W. H. Thompson set for January 17. J. M. Smith" vs N. C. Kries set for January 14. A. A. Bil ycu vs Dick Tensen set for January 15. County Court Meets. The first meeting the new county court was held the past weok.commis sioners Frank M. Vines and John Weaver meeting with Judge E. H. Test. Bills were allowedand other routine matters disposed of and the new members of the court acquainted themselves with many of the county nc-eds and conditions. Children Make Offering The children of the Methodist Sun day- School " raised "Something over $0.00 for the Armenian and Syrian relief work as a result of an offering given in lieu of a Christmas candy treat for themselves.. Dies at Ranch Wm. Southern a young man about twenty years of age died at the W. E. Boyd ranch Wednesday of this week of influenza. He was buried Thursday afternoon in the Vale ceme tary with a short burial service. BARASSOCIATIONMEETS Elects Officers and Prepares Program Next" Tuesday in Metuory of 'Justice Moore and Webster i At the annual meeting of the Mal i heur County Bar Association last Monday the officers for the ensuing vear' were elected; Former Circuit Judge Geo. Davis, president, H. C. Eastham, Vice President; W. W. Wood, Secretary, Bruce R. Kestcr, treasurer. A memorialmeeting of the associa tion was set for Tuesday, next the 14th, to pay respect to the late dis tinguished jurists, Frank A. Moore, of the Oregon Supreme Court, and Ex I judge, Lionel R.Webster who have 'an swered the last und great call. The committee on arrangements for the memorial meeting is composed of Geo. W. Hayes, W. II. Brooke and II. C. Eastham. The program for tho meeting fol lows; C. M, Crandall, presiding; Euo logies on Judge Moore, by Geo. E. Davis and J. W. McCulloch; Cornet solo by C, B.Tapp, Euologies on Judge Webster, by Geo. W. Hayes, and Judge Dalton Biggs. The meeting will be held at 8 o'clock in the Circuit Court' room, and the public, generally, is cordially invited to attend. NEW OFFICEUNDERWAY O. W. Colonization Company Sales Offices Rapidly Approaching Completion Workman have been busy the past few days tearing out the partitions j in the Hope building and getting the rooms in snape ior me new saies offices of the Oregon and western colonization company. J, W. Dorsey is moving his cleaning and pressing establishment to the north half of tho building. Tho sales office will be in charge of B. F. Johnson who will arrive in Yale -the latter part of the month. The company at present have thir sales force busy in Willamett Valley and western Oregon interesting farm- ' i i 1 r . i. : . erp ,ana uairymcn in tue menu oi MaJfieur Valley. W1LEYIS PLEASED WITH WORK DONE Construction Camp Vill Work Toward River Engineers Visit Dam Site. Project Manager John H. Levis, Chief Engineer A. J. Wiloy and C. H. Smith engineer ,of the Ontario Drain age district made'a trip" to the Warm springs dam site near Riverside this week and report progress there ar. very satisfactory, and showings excel lent. The crew which now numbers 150 men are busy scrapping the sides for abutments and foundation of the dam. Engineer Wiley expressed com plete satisfaction in regard to the work. Engineer Smith expects ns soon as actual work on the dam is begun to be employed as engineer for tho District to supervise construc tion of .the dam. To Move Camp The ditch camp is expecting to move soon to. the extended Gellcrman Froman ditches and vill work from there towards the river in order to be in shape to deliver water to the pre sent ditches the coming year. Reports to Directors Engineer Lewis made a report at tho Directors meeting Tuesday show ing the cost of moving soft rock and dirt from the ditches already dug to be about G4 cents per yard. This is considered a very reasonable cost un ler the present conditions of weather labor etc. At this meeting tho Board also passed a resolution instructing Engineer Lewis to survey all irrigat able area under the projectand cross section all existing ditches in order to have a basis of value for the present ditches. The biggest problems n6w confront ing the district is hospital arrang- ments Contractors and' directors are working out a plan to take care of all deknesn and possible accidents which may occur in the camps. Election Tuesday. In the election of Directors for January 14 the following have file! petitions and their names will appear on the ballot. In district number I candidates are George McLaughlin and J. O. Tomson; in district number two, R. H. DcArmond, and J H. Rus sell; in district number three C, W. Mallett and Rex Marquis. Other Elections The other irrigation districts in the county will also hold elections on next Tuesday and candidates in the Big Bend District in which three are to be elected at large are; E. H. Brumback, Jessie Johnson and John Boswell. In the Willow-Alder district three directors are. to be elected at large the candidates being I. W. Hope, W. J. Pinney and John Boswell. The Owyhee district wiil also elect three directors. TO AID HUNTINGTON RED CROSS CANTEEN Will Help Huntington Canteen work Calls In all Knitting Work. Tuesday afternoon a meeting of members of the executive committee was called to consult with Mr and Mrs C. F, Babb of Huntington and Mrs. Patterson of Baker who were touring (Continued on Page Six.) ALABAMA BLOSSOM BUDS AT CAPITAL An Alabama blossom U bud ding Into Washlneton social af fair. It U the beautiful Eugenia Bankhead. daughter of Senator John II. Bankhead of Alabama, who hi junt made ber debut there. Her sitter, TulleaU .Bank head. Is In' the toioylel. SPLENDID SHOWING DURING ROLL CALL! County as Whole Makes Good Show ing In Membership Drive Vale Chapter has over 1300 names. - As a whole Malheur county made a splendid showing in tho call drive for Red Cross membership. On ac count of weather and health and health conditions the time for closing the drive was extended two weeks so that final reports from all parts of the county nre not yet diled. Chnir man of the Valo territory Mrs. R. E. Wcant announces that work here has bocn practically completed and reports sent in show 1325 members enrolled. Ontario's chairman Mrs. W. J. Pinney reports that territory will come clost to its allotment of 1000 when all re ports are in. Chairman and heipe'-'s in the cam paign were particularly impressed with the 100 per cent spirit of the auxilaries over the county. In many places workers made their territory on horseback in bitter cold weather to sell the tiny mercy buttons. The school teachers at Ironside and Miss Moore nt Mooreville were mentioned t .. . . , , , ., . -. ... picturesque nnd forceful figures ev- especially in this manner, as were . ' a m ! u i , , . , ., Jor .known-m America public life, died workers in other remote sections of thc,uj,.v. ' . . , - .. . . 'nS,V his heme at Sagamore Hill al Z"1 SparS0,H!L oUock January 7. Leaders of the drive express their appreciation for the enthusiasm of workers and the hearty responsa of 0f blood through tho heart super citizens. J induced by n.number of maladies from Brogan Mrs Bert England 15P , which he recently had been a suffer- Jordan Valley Mrs' Jones 103 Riverside Mrs Van Wyngarden..,. 50 Creston Mrs. E. Rogers 23 Malheur City Mrs. G. Bodfish 71 Crowley J. Mt Orell 27 Mooreville Mrs. Moore.s 21 Bonita D. A. Zehner 8 Ironside Mary Loccy , 9G .Baulali Mrs-B. W- Tillotaon....j,?33 McDermitt Mrs. Joe Bankefier.... 15 Cake Mrs. Ferguson, 42 Jamieson Mrs. Ivan Oakes..., 10G Junturn Mrs. Hopkins 110 Harner Chas. Bush 10 Westfall J. A. Fairmun -.100 Rome Mrs. Casey...., 15 Grange - 32 Vale 401 Valo and Grango were covered by local workers under direction of chair man Mrs. R. E. Weant. NEW COUNCIL ACTS City Appointmants Conferred and New Council is Organized Faces Maay Problems. Thursday the new mayor and city council met for their first business session and took up the consideration of managing and financing the city's affairs. H. 0. Eastham was appoint ed city attorney; I. B. Quisenberry, water commissioner; Dr. F. J. Brown, city physician and health officer; while the place of city engineer was left unfilled until some need exists. C. W. Nelson was elected president of the council, and George Huntington Currey was appointod to fill the va cancy due to the failure of II. E. Young to accept a place on the 'coun cil. Mayor Wildhaber appointod tho fol lowing board of health, which is com posed of the mayor, the marshal!, the city physician, one councilmcn, C, W. Nelson, and one citizen, H. R. Dunlpp. Treasurer Bruce R. Kester present ed the required bond which was ac cepted. The water situation and city finances present very difficult pro blems and the interest and cooperation of the general public is demanded in order to solve them and got the city on a business like basis. TWO IN ONE FAMILY DIE Brother and Mister are Influenza Victums During Course of Few Day Miss Rosa Hart daughter of Mrs. Hart of this city died at the family homo Monday January 6 of influenza and Tuesday night just before mid night her broker Ed Hart died of the.same illness. Both are well known here being members of an old fumily, :Mr, Hart had been working on the Warmsprings conttruction work bo-' ' fore taking ill. The sister was buried iTuceday and th brother Thursday i . , , r"t ...111. aiiemoon in ine vaie cemeiary, witn short service at the grave's. Tho Kympathy of friends Is extended the bereaved fcmily in the loss of their children. li Theodore Rpcsevett" ROOSEVELT'S DEATH SHQCKSALL WORLD Former President Dies In Sleep Five Convicted in Chicago Lntcst News Summary. OYSTER BAY, N. Y. Colonel The odore Roosevelt, 26th president of the 'fTKe former president is reported to have died in his sleep from embolism -a blood clot affecting the passage 6r' During tho past 18 months the for mer president had been treated by tho foremost surgeons and mcdicil men of Ihe country. It is thought that the death of his youngest son, Quentin, who was kill ed in Frunco,n few months ago during "a-bnttle ill tKi,' alrlvithGTrffmn tat tle pilots, affected the former presi dent deeply and hastened his end. For upward of 30 years. Colonel Roosevelt was in the public eye in one rolo or another, and he was perhaps the best-known man of his day.A man of tremendous personality, his mag netism won him a host of followers who stuck to him through the ups and downs of his long and historic pol itical career. . Five Found Guilty Victor L. Berger, congressman-elect from Milwaukee and editor of the Wilwaukeo Leader, Adolph Gcrmer, editor secretary of the Socialist, of ficial publication of the Socialist par ty. William F. Kruso," national secre tary of the Young People's Socialist League; Rev. Irwin St. John Tucker, Socialist writer and lecturer, former director of the literature department of the Soclinlist party and author of "Tho Price wo Pay," "Why we Should Fight" and other anti-war phamplets; were found guilty in Federal Judge Landis' court Wednesday at Chicago. After five hours and five minutes the jury returned a verdict of guilty on chnrges of violation of tho Espionago law, by deliverance of public speeches nnd circulation of literature to cause disloyalty among tho military and na val forces of the U. S. Revolt Ncara Crisis Decision to use military forces to end the Spartacan agitations was reached at a council of wur held in Berlin by the central council of sol diers and workmen Tuesday night, ac cording to a Berlin dispatch reach ing Copenhagen by way of Frankfort early this week. Major Bell Diet Major Gen. J. Franklin Bell, com mander of tho department of tho east, died Wednesday at tho Presbyterian hospital in Now York City. His death was duo to. heart disease. RETURNS FROM CONFERENCE State Teachers Meet At Portland to Discuss School Problems for Coming Year, County School Superintendent Miss Fay Clerk returned the first of the week from Portland nnd Salem where she attended the annual meeting of tho Oregon Stato Teachers Associa tion. A C, Hampton superintendent of La Grande Schools was chosen re sident for 1919, A number of Important legislative nieasurcg were considered and adopted by the assembly, on presentation by Georgo W. Hug, Chairman of the leg ialatlve committee, anfong them, being tho support of the Hoke Smith federal education bill, now before congress, oppropriatinff mora than $888,000, an nually, for the support of the public school of Oregon. At Salem Miss Clark assisted with work at the State Superintendent' office. COUNTY TO PUSH OWYHEE PROJECT Nyssa-Ontario-Vale To Boost Owyhee Project Government Appro-, .s, " priatlon Expected m A special meeting was (Hilled by the Commercial Club and held in the City' hall at Ontario it was decided last Tuesday evening to organize a county movement to push tho construction of tho Owyheo project and 'secure gov ernment assistance as soon as possible- A lnrgo number from Nyssa and Vicinity, Ontario nnd Vale were present and after discussing the gen eral situation it was decided that a permanent organization should be formed and immediate steps be taken to get the proper measures, thru-congress that would provide the U. S. Re clamation Scrvico with' available funds for tho Owyhee project. ' It was also planned that everything possible should be dono to keep the project in favor at Washington and a telegram was sent from the meeting by W. J. Pinney to Representative P. J. Gallagher urging iiim to secure resolutions of endorsements from the Oregon Reconstruction -congress held this week in Portland. Senator. J.' A. Hurley nnd Atty. R. D. Lytlo were also in dttendenco at the Portland conference and will assist Pat in put ting it over. Among those who took .part in the discussion were Judge Dalton Biggs; J. Boydell, E. W. Claggett; J. R. Black aby; W. J. Pinney, and Judge E. H, Test. It was decided to appoint , n committeo of fifteen, five each from Ontario, Nyssa and Vale to perfects a permanent Owyhee Project Promotion Organization nnd to gather informa tion as to possible means of secur- ing action,.Xrosident ..George K- JVj- ken of 'tho Ontario' Commercial Club -appointed as the five men to represent Ontario, E. H. Test, T. W. Claggett, J. W. Pinney, J. R. Blackaby and Cliff Boycr. Tho Nyssa delegation selec ted H. Walters, S. D. Goshert, Dr, Sar azin, Langley Brooks and Chas. Thompson. The Vale committee was appointed by George Huntington Cur rey and consists of Geo. W. McKnight, C. C. Mueller, A. W. Reed, G. F. Wild haber, and Mr. Currey. Judgo E. II. Test was selected to act as temporary chairman and to call the committeo together at an early date. Soldiers' Insurance Soldiers must mail premium with in 21 days from date of discharge to continue war risk insurance. Insurance may be continued for five years. Within that period arrange ments will be made to transfer it to other governmental insurance at peace time rates, which will not exceed rates charged by privato companies. During period of five years ex-soldier or sailor's dependents will receive precisely same security qgainst Occid ent or death In civil life of soldier that they would havo received hud he remained in the service. The Red Cross considers it vital that every discharged soldier continue his governmental insurance FLU REMAINS SAME NEW CASES REPORTED Now Case are Reported During Week Total Number Maintain .About Same. Influenza continues to make its in roads upon the health of the people of this section. Tho weeks reports show several new cases and there deaths, two of which occured -in .Valo and one several miles above Vale on a ranch. The number of new cases reported during the week about equal izes tho number of patients who re covered sufficiently to bo out again keeping the number of cases about tho same as it ha3 been tho qjiflt three weeks. j Altho thcro is no marked iMtifa of tho disease it Is well for the puVlir to keep In mind the general heath rules requested by the state health hoard and lend all cooperation poaSi hie to prevent increase of the disease and to stamp out the epidemic. At a recent meeting ho -hSUV Board ruled that Spanish Influenza cumo under tho quarantlnable diseases in Oregon and requested thnt the quarantine measures not only bo ob served by those 111 but by any persons, who were in contact with the patients, Tho health board ndvixes a quarantine during tho illness and for a period nftcr the fever loaves tho patient, avoidance pf crowds nnd the covering of cought and sneezes,