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Pull Newt Service For All County Commnnitlat Urfaat Circulation In Wjery Section Of Malheur County -Best Medium Por All County and Outside Advertisers. YOUR CO-OPERATION Suggestions and Support are Solic ited to Help Make The "Enterprise" a True Representative of Vale, and Malheur County. Send a Sulwcrip tion to Friend Whom You Wiah to Welcome to Thia Country The Enterprise ia Absolutely Independent. Treata Everyone With the Same Fairness, ia Always Brogresalve, and Urge Your Activity in the Develop ment of Milheur County's Great Pos sibilities It Is Your Paper and is Working to 1 elop Your Community. Let all the Malheur Towns and Settle ments Work Together for a More Prosperous and Better County. ADVERTISE IN TBjS 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 (ft The Enterprise By cause They Want to Read the Beat Reviews of Northwestern and World Newa; the Most Thorough Reports of Southeastern Oregon Irrigation, Ptack, Farming. Oil. Mineral and Community Progress, the Lataat . ,-ket Quotations; all Filings In the V,Vd Office, Vale District; Mal heu. jnty Official Notices; Real Estete transfers; County Seat Newa; Correspondent Letters The Home Newspaper, Read in Every Nook of Malheur County VOL. X NO. 36 VALE, OREGON SATURDAY, AUGUST 2, 1919. SUBSCRIPTION $2.00 PER YEAR BUILDERS ARE TO RUSH MILL Contractors on the Ground To Erect Three and One Half Story Flour Mill and Elevator. Representatives of the Glasser Con struction Company arrived in Vale Thursday and will begin the con struction of a large and modern three and one half story flour mill and grain elevator on the east side of Main street just south of the Oregon Short Line depot. The contractors have assured Manager A rmington thnt the building will be completed in time to have the machinery installed and actual operations under way in October. The company has made arrange- I ments for use of the National Nitrate Company warehouse and is ready to i handle the grain production of the "ntire south eastern Oregon. Several ranchers have already contracted ' their crops and the company is pre pared to furnish sacks in any quan tity. The new mill will have initial cap- I ecite of 150 barrels per day and will ! be of great benefit to the entire south eastern Oregon section. In ad- dition to establishing a ready ond President Wilson Tuesday sub prompt market for all grains, includ- j mittcd to the senate the special treaty ing wheat, oats, barley, and rye, and ; th France, by which the United Sto and the making of flour here at haane, j tes Pledges itself to come immediately saving the freight charges on the i to the aid of France in event of an wheat going out and the flour coming ' unprovoked attach by Germany. The j back, it will furnish the'farmers and I treaty is almost identical with the one stockmen with mill feed of all kinds signed by great Britain and France. This will result not only in a saving President Wilson asked for ratifica-1 to the present - grain ranchers and tion of the special treaty along with j stockmen but also will stimulate a I the treaty with Germany, much larger production of grain and j A continuation of discussions on j develop the profitable dairy industry j the 'eague has marked the Senate ai well as encourage the wintering of : week. The president has seen- num thousand more sheep and cattle in erous of the members in private con- the Malheur Valley. WHAT IS A GOOD TOWN "Growth" in a community in the 6ense of becoming bigger should not be the see-it-all in the horizon of the future. The mere counting of noses is too often considered the chief end in civic progress; but if the pop u.ition of Crane were doubled in one year, says the Crane "American" it would not necessarily mean that we were twice as good a place -in which to live. If a larger town or city necessarily means a better city, then the large "I ces would be the best for living purposes; but this is not the case. There a gre.it many people who pre fer the smaller communities; and there are great many metropolitan centers that are loaded down with evils. As Crane grows larger let there be a continuous and concerted effort to make it better in every pos sible way. RAPID RECLAMATION OBJECT OF NEW BILL Chamberlain of Oregon and Smith of Idaho Propo-.e Government Aid To Districts States would be set free to proceed with the rapid reclamation of arid, cut-over, swamp and overflow lands for agricultural purposes under a bill i wnicn has been introduced in the sen ate by Senator George E. Chamber lain of Oregon and in the house by Representative Addison T. Smith of Idaho. Briefly described, this bill author izes the United States, through the secretary of the interior, to enter into co-operation with any state irrigation, drainage or protection district which enjoys full taxing powers under state law, for the irrigation, drainage or protection of land against overflow. Any district of this character may request the co-operation of the gov ernment, which may be agreed to by the secretary, who is authorized to prepare an estimate of the cost of the necessary works. This estimate may include the interest on such estimated cost that would accrue during the time required for the construction of the works, not, however, to exceed four years. Bonds, bearing interest not exceed ing four per cent, may then be voted by the diatriet for the amount of the estimate. They will be deposited in the United States treasury when an equal amount of United States certi ficates of indebtedness, bearing the same rate of interest and running for the same length of time, will be is- sued by the secretary and sold to the ' investing public from time to time ' as money is needed for construction, Such construction is to be under the' authority of the secretai y of the in- j terior. The work will doubtleaa be done under the immediate supervision , of the reclamation sen ice The a New Serial Starts Begining this week the Enterprise is publishing Booth Tarkington's lat est and best novel of American life, "The Magnificient Amberson's". It is not the policy of this paper to publish the ordinary cheap, trashy novels journals use but we ore glad to be able to furnish our readers with good stories from the pens of America's proven authors. Booth Tarkington has written some of the best novels and short stories of recent years and the "Magnificient Ambersons" was awarded the prize for the best story of American life written during the yerr. Begin the story with the first chapter which appears in this paper, and after you have finished reading it send in your honest should like tp know criticism, we if the story pleases our readers and if they would like more orthe same high class nov els. DISCUSSIONS STILL CENTER ON LEAGUE League Remains Much Discussed Question In Senate Chicago Riots Call Soldiers ference but it is still evident the Republicans have not changed their minds as to accepting the treaty un der its present terms. To Sell Foodstuffs Tuesday the house adopted a resol ution requesting Secretary Baker to place on sale all surplus food products held by the war department valued at about $120,000,000. Tho disposal of goods will be car ried on thru the postmasters of th' country altho a detailed program ha.1 not yet been given out. Riots in Chicago Race riots which centered in Wash ington D. C. last week are this weel "ging in Chicago. The negro ant' white agcxessnr's using weapons free 'y in mixups. Friday the death lis' vs placed at 30 and soldiers wev lied by Governor I.owden to patro treets. The arrival of troops some hat quieted the situation. Wires Given Bark Government control of telegranr and telephone properties ended Thur day at midnight. Orders for thei) ! Ior a UItr Program tor some date in return to private owners were issued August and the proposed "card" ln Wednesdav bv Postmaster General I eludes beside a boxing and wrestl- Burleson. OLD LANDMARK MOVED Fourth Time Old Building Has Been Taken to New Field Was For merly Store at Glensville The old store building on the lots just north of the Court house was this weej to rn down and moved by Mr. Kennedy recently of Duluth Minn, who has purchased land near Vale, and the lumber will be used for ranch buildings. Interesting is the story connected with the building for in the early days it was put up for a store building at what was then called Glensville up Willow Creek, by the late 'Uncle Billy' , Glenn father of Arthur and Frank Glenn of this city. Later the build ing was moved to Grove and from there to Vale where it was occupied by various businesses until it was sur- : nl anrenl I if t hn m fivi niiidari i Liiuinoaia 1 i .i. . i - Th k(Ml" u- tA 1 uim nil. liv uiu iuiiumg et v tho weather well and when torn down many feet of firm lumber were trans ferred to its new home on the ranch where it will serve for many more years. Dr. Bartlett Visits Dr. Carl J. Bartlett, formerly of I Vale, who has been connected with a clinic at Baker since his return from France made a professional trip to Vale Monday. Every bride is entitled to a houae as much as she is entitled to a rnf. 1 mount of bonds that may be issued , for any one project shall nut exceed $25,000,000. The government will col- j I eel the interest and principal when : due on the district bonds and pay the j interest and principal on the certifi- rates of indebtedness. ! Crash of Aircraft Through Roof Collects First Toll at, r "vdaW& 3. The explosion and crash of the big dirigible machine through the skylight ot the' llllno? fci nnt in1 Trust Company at Chicago, resulting in 12 deaths and injuries to 28 other persons, marks a.; r In which railroad wrecks and boat catastrophes must make way with their limited fields or calami ties. Bank clerks and girl stenographers working in the seeming security of the great marble struc ture were crushed and burned before they could realize danger was near, as the airship plunged through the glass roof. These pictures show the Goodyear blimp before the explosion; the wrecked trust company after the Are; and pilot John Boettner of the air craft, who escaped by leaping with a parachute. Dentist May Locate Dr. II. M. Hanavan of Portland j was looking over the Malheur valley , the past week and is planning on opening a dental parlor in Vale soon. WARMSPRINGS MEN PURCHASE RANCH Warmsprings Board Members Joint ly Purchase Valuable Tract of Ranch Land Near Vale R. II. LeArmond and Geor,d Mc Laughlin both well known ranch ers of this section and members of the Board of Directors of the Warm- springs Irrigation district, purchas-' ed the Tom Harris ranch about seven miles from Vale under the Warm springs project Saturday July 26th. The ranch tract consists of about 120 acres of which is sown in alfalfa and grain. The consideration is re ported to have been around $10,00r Proposed Card Promoter McCabe is now arranging nig preliminary a ten round go be tween "Stoney" Williams of Butte and Ferrel Robinson of Canton, both fast 140 pound boxers, with the main event a wrestling match between "Bull Dog" McCarroll of Pendleton and "Crusher Jim" Wilson of Vale. Ontario Joins Fruitland Thirty-seven Ontario business men j have joined with an equal number of j residents of Fi nit land in the con tract for a summer Chautauqua at i Fruitland for the season of 1920. This ! was the result of the active work j of H. H. Tunny and F. Leslie Body I who were named by the Commercial j club to co-operate with the Fruit land committee to make this years' I ! effort successful. ! During all the Chautauqua week j I at Fruitland Ontario was well repre sented, and a particularly large crowd . j went over Monday evening. The I nwidi'i.' w siaaiw uvvil IdlKCI IUUJ number would nave been larger the evening not been so hot. Argus. A i Index ! Read This Index Far Clarification or News in Thia Number of Enterprise Late Local and World news 1 A 8 Editorial 2 Five Years Ago 2 Clippings From Our Exchanges . 2 j The Magnificent Ambersons Chapter 1 8 j I Train Schedule 3 ( Community News Letters 4 , Oregon News of Past Week 4 PerBonH, Newg Churches and Society 6 Classified Ads 5 Legal Advertismcnts 6 Land Office New 7 Cultivation of Corn 7 Our advertisers ate all reputable and well established firms; Read the news they have written this waek, on every page. ' 'jjj CONCRETE WORK BREAKS RECORD All Former Records at Camp Broken For Cement Work Engineer Manager Visits During the past week all previous records for pouring concrete have been broken at the construction camp on the Warmsprings dam' site at Riverside where th.. big dam is rap idly approaching completion. An av erage of 263 cubic yards of concrete were poured per day the past week, city council Wednesday evening At the working day being nine hours, lorney Robt. D. Lytle appeared before This schedule was maintained thruout the council and urged the immediate the week using 5288 sacks of cement. : enforcement of the state and city or an average of 0.84 bbl. per cubic ; laws requiring the cutting of weeds yard of cement, according to reports of Engineer Manager John H. Lewis who visited the camp last week. Dur ing the past month 4656 yards were placed in twenty four working days, or an average of 194 cubic yards per day. The estimate of the work for the coming month is that the past months record will be greatly exceed ed and completion of the big dam is looked for early in October. Water was turned out of the Neva da Ditch early this week and an ex- ocuted agreement between tne Nevada ; plan of procedure, the Council ap Ditch Company and the Board of Dir- j ointed a committee of H. R. Dunlop, ectors of the Warmsprings District j T. T. Nelsen and C. W. Nelson for has been received. Under this agree- the purpose of following out the sug ment as soon as the ditch is dry j gestions of the committee to sink a I enough work will be commenced oa its enlargement. The necessary pressure pipe for the ! Nevada and Willow Creek pumping ! units, various steel flumes for thi I Bully Creek crossing were ordered ! the past week. THY AKYTHING ONCE Pay Water Rent Do not forget to pay your water rent before tenth. City Recorder .1. D. Rogers will be in his office in the Chamber of Commerce or Council rooms each day from 10 a. m. to 8 p. m. COUNCIL CONSIDERS WEEDS AND WATER Committee Appointed to Prospect For More Water Near Springs Must Cut Weeds At the adjourned meeting of the 1 he marshall was ordered to notify property owners that they must rid their premises of all noxious weeds am) keep the weeds off the walks and streets in front of their property. It was also decided to prohibit the mnrung of motorcycles, trucks and cria without mufflers within the city limits. After hearing the report of the Cit h.en's committee in regard to condi adions at the Willow Springs and con siderable discussion as to the best - I at the intake in an attempt to increase the water flow. i he emergency well in town will be ton; .deled in a few days and will be needed to supply the city while re pairs are being made on the pipe line. Kesslers Return A. J. KesslerTwife and son return ed home Wenesday after a month's trip thruout the Northwest visiting Butte, Montana, Portland, Oregon and the coast during the trip. "I am glad to get back to Vale", said Art as soon as he arrived. "Good old Vale Ifl good enough for me. Vale has the best people, the best spirit, the best future, the best climate of any city in the Northwest. And say boy, I never saw a real field of alfalfa on the whole trip like we raise in the Malheur Valley". Mr. Kessler thinks j in a total wrestling time of faur min thot the best medicine to feed the , "tea local knockers and agnostics is a little ' About 150 fans gathered in the Rex trip to the "outside". j theater at ten o'clock Saturday even- Mr. Kessler saw the big forest firei i ing to see tne handicap match sched at Missoula, Montana where the ! uletJ b R- R- McCabe promoter be smoke hid the sun for three days and ! tween Chester Camp, of Boise well where millions of monarchs of the hills were destroyed. COMMITTEE REPORTS FINDINGS AT INTAKE Committeemen Report on Water Situ ation at Luncheon Armington Says (lean Up Town then throwing Camp off his balance In opening the program of the secured a toe hold which he changed Tuesday Businessmen's Luncheon this quickly for a head scissors from week Chairman J. P..Dunaway called which he worked into a body hold on H. R. Dunlop as chairman of the with one arm pinned. Camp attempt Citizen's Committee appointe last ing to break the hold doubled himself week by the mayor to investigate the and was crushed under the weight of supply of water at the intake and the his onnonent. the referee awm-dimr condition of the pipe line. Mr. Dun- lop said that the committee had not formulated its report but he would give his personal views about the sit- I nation. T. T. Nelsen and Leonard Cole, other members of the committee, I confirmed Mr. Dunlop's report. There I fa ifti., minclw.., Lai , I..,. - t - ... 'i uul i ii. n u lurgv h- mount of water is seeping into sand hollow from the level of the intake I according to the investigations made i and the concrete wall that was once Everyone felt sorry for Camp who j undertaken should lie completed to (although entirely out classed by his , shut off this loss. Another matter ! heavier opponent was capable ofmak- that should be attended to is to lower I ing un interesting match had he not ! the intake 'several Teet so that it been injured at the start. Camp hat i would be nearer on the level with the ed to be forced out on such short time ; main supply of water. That is one of j as he said "I wanted to give the I the chief difficulties of the intake as j people a good show". Camp was j it is six or eight feet higher than it resting easily Sunday but had severly j should be. However the pipe line af- strained cartilage and some mighty j ter it leaves the ravine raises to with-1 sore ribs that will keep him off the in two feet or less of the intake level I mat for several weeks. so even at the present heighth of the I As a result of the match Wilson's head there is practically no getaway or fall in the first mile of the nine line. For the present time a motor and pump could be installed ut the intake and when a large supply of water has been developed the course of the pipe line could be extended down Sand Hollow for a mile or so in order to get a good fall at the head and to avoid the high points on the present route. Mayor Wildhaber commented on the situation and urged all citizens in terested to attend the council meet ing Wednesday evening when a de finite program would be determined upon. He suggested that an expert hydraulic engineer be employed to make a complete report on the many proposals presented by the citizens during the past few weeks. Warren Armington, manager of the Vale Milling and Elevator Company complimented the people of Vale on the wonderful country back of the city, on the general progress! veness of the people und on the splendid fu ture that is opening up for Malheur County. However he shamed them for the general appearances of the town, calling attention to the ungrad ed and unkept streets, the rank growth of weeds in the streets and thruout the town, and the "shacky" appearance of some old barns and buildings scattered about town, lie , league wn.s formed lust week with recommended that the weeds be cut j Robert I). Lytle us president. Linn immediately, that the streets be im-Jua Marion counties urn now con proved, worn out wooden walks re- ; sidering the establishment of similar placed with cement, old houses fixed ; associations. up or condemned and romoved. "Vale Citizens of Vale first proposed the is alright, the people are fine but the formation of the development leugue, appearances are not whut they ought believing that better support could be to be. We become too satisfied," he afforded road issues now confronting said, "without real prosperity and for- the state. Malheur County ia the get what kind of impressions we are i terminus of several proposed road de making on our visitors." velopments, Including the Columbiu W. J. Pinney of the Oregon West- j highway, the John Day and Central em CotopJltttoa company announced Oregon highways. that President W. P. Davidson had a letter of the State Chamber of offered a forty acre tract for the pur- Commerce, Mr. Lytic says that com poses of un experiment station and Ufgad that the Chamber of Com metre get busy in securing same. Robt. D. Lytle was appointed as a committee of one to investigate th licving thut such a condition should necessary procedure und report lat-' not continue, the leugue will work for er. I closer cooperation between Kaatern Dr. C. C. Burrow was appointed to land Western Oregon op road matters, preside at the luncheon for the com-1 The Malheur Development lauffuo is ing week. It is hard for the chair- formed of representatives from MM h man to remind everyone each week, j of the 35 precincts of the county. Th Write "Tuesday is Luncheon" on your league has requested the state cuff or windshield or some place ' cham be i to urge the highway corn where you cannot overlook it and he 'mission to lend nil possibe aid t" the on hani next wnek locals formed association. WILSON WINS HANDICAP BOUT Wilson W ins Match Over Camp Mid dle Weight Cnable to Stand Against Local Man Any doubt in the minds of local fans as to the ability of Jim Wilson was speedily removed Saturday even ing when he defeated Chester Camp i of Boise, taking two straight falls Known and clever middle weight vs Jim Wilson of Vale who earned the title of light heavy weight champion of Camp Lewis. At ten fifteen referee H. H. Tunny of Ontario announced the terms of the contest to continue until midnight unless won by two falls in a less time. For two minutes the opponents wrest led in the air and altho Camp tried to take several openings to gain ad vantage on the mat, the superior strength of Wilson prevented. Wilson the first fall to Wilson in order to j save Camp further punishment. Time three minutes. Camp was unquestionably injured and suffered a great deal in the fif- ' teen minute intermission but insisted I on returning. However his strength !..,.. t : . I.. i iMli i i ua ciiiiii'iy gone aim r uson iook mercy on his condition by throwing his as soon as possible. Time one ! minute. "stock" rose a good many points and i he is recognized as a very capable light heavy weight and a man with whom no middle weight has any bus iness mixing. It has become known that this is the fourth decision in the last eight months that Wilson has won by crushing the ribes of his op ponents and from now on will be known as "Crusher Jim" announced promoter McCabe. COUNTY LEAGUE PLAN EXAMPLE FOR OTHERS County Development League Being Copied In Olher Parts of State State Chamber Aida (Editors Note: The following ap peared recently in a Portland paper mid is self explanatory outside tho re ference as to the date of organization, lbs Malheur County Development has been in exlstance several months and was the prime factor back of the special county bond election last June. Inaugurating the movement to de velop': various district organizations working for good roads, better com mercial conditions and the general up building of their particular sections, the Malheur County Development mercially and otherwise, Southwestern Oregon is more a part of Idaho and Utah than it is of Oregon, because of easier means of communication. Bo-