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About Malheur enterprise. (Vale, Or.) 1909-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 23, 1919)
Fnll News Berries For AH County CmmunUUriit Circulation U Etery Jctlon Of Malheur County Best Medium fat All County and Outside Advertiser. YOUR CO-OPERATION Suggestions and Support are Solic ited to Help Make The "Enterprise" True Representative of Vale, and Malheur County. Send a 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 Taper That Circulates Throughout the Whole of Malheur County It Has More Readers Be rause It Prints More Reading Matter. People Pay for The Enterprise Be cause They Want to Read the Best Reviews of Northw stern 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 I'. S. Land Office, Vale District ;Mal heur County Official Notices; Real Estate Transfers; County Scat News; Correspondent letters. The Home Newspaper, Read in Ever .MM.k of Malheur County, VALE, OREGON SATURDAY, AUGUST 23, 1919. SUBSCRIPTION $2.00 PER YEAR VOL. X NO. 39. COUNTY WILL SEND DELEGATES Owyhee Project to be Represented at Convention of Governor's Com missions at Salt Lake Last Tuesday evening the Malheur County Development League held a meeting nt Nyssa which was attended by delegates from Vale, Ontario, Nyssa and many county precincts. President R. D. Lytle presided and Secretary W. S. Pinney recorded "the meeting. A resolution was passed calling the attention of the highway com mission, to a bulletin board in Salt Lake City which notifies tourists that the roads thru Eastern Oregon are almost impassible, thus diverting nin ty per cent of the travel north thru Washington or South thru California. Freight rates were discussed to some extent and it was decided to ask the county court to expend that part of the county roads bond money effecting the strictly county roads, especially the Nyssa- Jordan Valley road. tt was decided to send a delegation of three to the convention to be held Boon probably in Salt Lake to consider the various proposed bills effecting reclamation and land settlement pol icies of the government and to re commend some definite code of act ion. The Governors of each of the irrigation states will send three com missioners one of whom from Oregon will be Representative P. J. Gallagher of Malheur and Harney counties. The League decided to send three dele gates to represent the Owyhee Pro ject. CITY WATER PASSES TEST Board of Health Puts Stamp of Pur ity on W'ater Sample Sent The State Board of Health reported the water sample which was sent from Vale's new well last week "ab solutely free from contamination and safe for domestic purposes." Chem ical analysis of the water proved it to be 16 per cent purer than that ot the Willow Springs. The report was received Wednesday and the same afternoon the eneine started work forcing water from the well into the city pipe line. Watei users over the city soon noticed the increased pressure. Kessler Buys Garage Vale Trading Company Sells To Kessler and Woodward This Week. The Kessler Garage changed hands again this week, the former owner, A. J. Kessler, buying the garage from the Vale Trading Company, to whom he sold it last year, when .expecting tc enter the service. Associated with Mr. Kelsser is Clinton B. Woodward, a well-known Vale man, who has been in charge of the business department of the garage since it was purchased by the V. T. The new management of the Kess ler Garage need3 no introduction tc the public, Mr. Kessler having been engaged in the business in Vale for a number of years, and is recognized as one of the best experts on automo biles in this section of Oregon. The garage will feature the same make of cars, the Chevrolet und Scripps Booth, and plans are being made to conduct the business along the same line as when Mr. Kessler first estab lished the business in Vale. BUSINESS MEN DISCUSS Interest Grows in Experiment Station City Water is I)isrused by Tuesday Lunchera The report of the State Board of Health on the water from Vale's new well was discussed at the business men's luncheon Tuenday. Leonard Cole was chairman, filling the place of C. W. Nelson who was unable to be present. Mayor Wildhuber inform ed the diners that tests proved the water fit for use, and the excellent percentage of purity was suffii-ient to start pumping it into the city sys tem at onre. Want Experiment Farm Dr. Brown, ciy lie.illh officer, add ed that further teats would I mud from time to lime, thul continued evidence of the water' standard IhiiMit It obtained. W. J. I'lniuy of Expect Many Entries Community Exhibits Warming; Up Malheur County to be Represent ed at State Fair Reports coming from various com munities in the county are to the effect that there will be a great deal of good natured rivalry in the com munity exhibits this year. All of the progressive communities in the county are coming through with a fine collection of exhibits. This feature of the Bhow is very attractive and of much value to the various communities of the county, particularly at this time when there are so many strangers in the county seeking to buy homes, and who will naturally be attracted to the commun ity that puts on a good exhibit at the Fair. Exhibit To State Fair Then, too, an exhibit will be sent from this Fair to the State Fair where it will be shown and the Oregon State Chamber of Commerce will then take it and place it on exhibition in the Oregon Building, in Portland, where it will be witnessed by a great many thousand people every year. It is very urgent that we have a good exhibit this year to go to the State Fair, because there are so many people naturally coming to Eastern Oregon attracted by the development work being done on the Warmsprings Irrigation Project, that it will be of great advantage if we could have this added advertisement in the State Exhibit Building in Portland. Livestock Exhibit Encouraged Stockmen who exhibit at the Mal heur. County Fair this year will be pleased to note that everything pos sible is being done to make the Fair grounds attractive and convenient The cattle barns have all been reno vated and the inside will be white washed, thus, showing the cattle up to much greater advantage. Additional watering troughs will be put in at convenient places, x The directors are now working on the plan of building a small show ring with elevated seats, so that the parties desiring to witness the show ing of the fine stock and hear the judges' statements regarding thp prize winners will have no difficulty in doing so. This will also attract many more people to the judging. MILL ENGINEER HERE Construction President f.ooks After Details More Grain Being Bought C. M. Glasser, pre.sideiii of the con 3lruction company of Spokane, whicl has" the contract for building the mil for the Vale Milling and Elevatoi Company, was in Vale the first of tin week, straightening out some matter .vhich had caused a short delay in tin work. Mr. Glasser is of the opinioi that the mill will be leady for use al .he time specified by Manager Ar mington. First Floo.1 Complete The first floor of the mill was fin ished Friday, and a larger crew of men are at work. H. L. Delong, a milling engineer of the Barnard-Leas Company of Spokane, was in Vale this week, arranging for the equip ment for the new mill. Mr. Arming ton reports a number of purchases of wheat and barley the past week. NEW FIRM ORGANIZED New Firm To Establish Modern Cleaning and Pressing Shop At Ontario. What will be one of the biggest cleaning and pressing plants in East ern Oregon and the biggest one be tween Baker and Boise is soon to be established in Ontario. Herschel Browne, who has had some experience ' in the work and his had charge of the (Continued on Page Eight) EXPERIMENT FARM PLAN the Oregon-Western Colonization Co. spoke of an interview with Cor vallia authorities regarding the ex periment farm, stating that they were very much in favor of getting the farm located. He added that there was no doubt but that sufficient land could be secured from the coloniza tion com puny, the state and interioi department, to assure its locution, and that the best location in hir opinion was between the Willow and Alder creeks nmr Vulo Attorney Lytle announced the De velopment I.e trut'a meeting, and laid empliugis on the fuel that there wa no reason for n buiinestk man win -a as uppointed chuli nir.n of :i luncheon not leing aide lo act, us lie rhould l:notV, at the time lie was uppointed tvlibllur or not he touM Le present. Indorse Project State Chamber of Commerce Past Resolution Favoring Construc tion of Owyhee Project At a meeting of the Directors of the Oregon State Chamber of Com merce in Portland a few days ago a resolution was passed by the board endorsing the Owyhee project, the complete copy of which is given be low. J. R. Blackaby, who was in- -fluential in getting the resolution passed, says that the organization is wide awake and alert to the develop ment possibilities of the entire state of Oregon. They are now planning a state-wide publicity campaign which will be car ried on at an expense of from thre to four hundred thousand dollars, hav ing as one of its purposes to bring into the state prospective settlers. , ."When I tell you that this is the only irrigation project in the state that the Board has endorsed up to this time, you will appreciate , its value. We have the promise of this large organization- to get behind this project and undertake to put it thru," said Mr. Blackaby. The resolutions follow. WHEREAS, the development of every part of the State of Oregon is one of the objects sought to be ob tained by the State Chamber of Commerce and. WHEREAS, the development of the irrigation projects in the various parts of the semi-arid districts of the State would be a lasting and material benefit to the State at large, and, WHEREAS, the. Owyhee Project located in Malheur County, Oregon, has been found by an examination thereof to be entirely feasible and practical, and, WHEREAS, the Reclamation De partment of the United States Gov ernment has for a long time had the construction of said project under consideration. NOW, WHEREFORE, be it RE SOLVED by the State Chamber of Commerce, in council assembled, that (Continued on, Page Eight.) BIG RANCH SALES ARE MADE IN VALE Big Real Estate Deals Transacted Ranches Change Hands The largest real estate transaction that has taken place in Vale this year was completed Wednesday, wheh 220-acre ranch adjoining Vale, the property of Leonard Cole and Emory Jole, was sold to J. H. Russell, ofj Vale, and Dr. Frank Hall of Illinois.! Phis ranch has recently been occupied j.v Loid Crandall, and is considered a . try fine piece of property, the con- ' deration for the same being $24,000. The deal was made by the Warm- j springs Keaiiy company oi vuie. Buys Wicklund Place ' Chas. Horn bought Elmer Wick lund's place, ten miles up Bully creek for $2500 a week ago, and Wednesday resold the property for $2800 to Aug ust Simonet. N AS WATERS INDEX OF FEATURES Read This Index For Classification Of Newa in This Number Of Enterprise Page 1 and 8 Late Local, County and World News. Page 2 Five Years Ago, j Oregon State News Review. Page ,3 The Magnificent Ambersons (4th chapter), Real ( estate Trans fers Land Office Filings, Train Schedule. Page 4 County Newa Letters Page 5 Local and Personal News, Society Items, Hospital News, Church Pro grams, Classified Ads and Profeo sional Carria Page 6 Legal Advertisements i Pago' 7 An Unpardonable ! Sin Try a Classified Ad for Quick Re suits. LESS PRESSURE HIGHER RATES Must Provide Better Fire Protection or Stand Increase In In surance Rates. . G. H. Kroger, field surveyor of the Oregon Insurance Rating Bureau, has been in Vale the past week re- j vising the ratings of city property. While not making any increase at this time except as effected by new exposures Mr. Kroger has made a careful investigation of he water pressure and fire protection and states that his report will undoubted ly cause a general increase in fire rates unless some prompt action Is taken to fill the reservoir and main tain a sufficient supply of water and a good presure. While not an engineer Mr. Kroger is well versed jn the edequacy of I municipal water systems ana recom mended that in addition to developing a larger supply at the springs it woud be necessary to install an emer gency pump near the city of sufficient power to fill the reservoir and of cap acity to furnish a constant supply in case of fire. He indicated that if the city can remedy conditions promptly there might be no increase in fire rates. Pennington Property Sells A sale of farm property, wherein $18,600 was the consideration, was announced the first of the week, when the Willium Pennington ranch, six miles above Vale, was delivered to Dr. McBride, and Mr. Hambly, form erly of New Plymouth, Idaho. The Pennington ranch consists of 240 acres of land, and the deal was closed by Messers. Zutz and Carman of the Warmsprings Realty company. They also sold a piece of residence property consisting of a house and two lots, adjoining the school house, to Mrs. C. C. Romph of this city. FLOW BY l Pursue Bandiis Would Jail Profiteers Mexican Ban dits Chased Daylight Saving Over. Profiteers In foodstuffs, wearing ap parel, and other necessities of life would be subjected to imprisonment of from one to five years, with no alternative of a fine, under a bill in troduced Tuesday in the HouBe of Representative Foster of Ohio. Needs Big Army "The disturbed state of the world" demands that the United States main tain a large army, Secretary of War Baker told the Military affairs com mittee of the senate the first of the week, when he appeared before it in behalf of the army reorganization bill with an enlisted personnel of about 507,000. Pershing Coming Home General Pershing is expected to re turn from Italy next Friday and will start for home September 1, leaving less than 4,000 American soldiers in Europe. Pershing left for Italy Fri day night. Mexicans Take Prisoners Lieut. II. G. Peterson and Lieut. Paul H. Davis, army aviators held prisoners by Mexicans since liist Wed nesday, after being forced to land the preceding Sunday on Mexican soil, were released early Tuesday by the bandits, after the payment of $7,500 of the $15,000 demanded. Capt. Mat lack, of the 8th cavalry, who took the money across the border, paid half the money for the release of Peter son, and when Davis was delivered to him, he galloped away with the lieutenant without making the final payment. Later the full sum was delivered. The eighth cavalry, with the rescu ed airmen as guides, crossed the bord er Tuesday night it) pursuit of the bandits who held the airmen for ran som. Following their release early Tuesday the American cavalry troops were ordered to putsue the bandit band, which is believed to be hiding in the mountains. After 36 hours of campaigning in Mexico below the Big Bend border, the troops went into camp, having ridden continuously since crossing the (Continued on Page Eight.) TREADWELL VOICES P. L. S. CO. OPINION P. L. S. Attorney Gives Livestock Company Stand in Recent Injunction Suit "An attempt is being made to have it appear that the Pacific Live Stock Company is in some way blocking the Warmsprings project," said at torney Treadwell, council for the com pany who arrived in Vale Thursday from San Francisco via Auto. The company's position in this matter ac cording to Mr. Treadwell is as fol lows: "The district began to construct the dam without making any arrange ment for the purchase of the reser voir site from the company and othet owners. We could not be expected to stand by and see the ranch taken without compensation and we did not want the district to put its money into the dam and then be delayed on account of the fact that it did not own the reservoir site. Wrote to Directors "In March we wrote to the direc tors that if they intended to build the dam so as to flood the ranch we would be compelled to enjoin it until the ranch was acquired. In response to this the directors wrote us that the dam would be built in three sections and that the middle Fection, one hundred feet wide, was not to be built until the ranch was purchased and that we could rest as sured that the ranch would not be flooded until it was purchased. They also sent us a x blue print showing the construction of the dam in this manner and a resolution of the dir ectors approving it. "We relied on this agreement until 1 ite in July when we learned that the dam was being built clear across the river. There was nothing for us to do but to ask that they be en joined from flooding the land until it was paid for. On the hearing the engineers of the district explained that the plans had been changed and rdmittcd the agreement with us had been disregarded and the entire ranch would be flooded as soon as the river rises this winter. Must Buy Land "The court ruled that the ranch must bo paid for before it was flood el and mainly withheld the injunc tion for the present on condition thul the district deposit $200,0(10, stat ing that unless the price wus fixed and puid before tlfe winter flood an injunction would be granted. (i (iii'iiihi-J on Vice Eight.) Roads Reflect Prog O Highways and Bywaya of Easter. Oregon Reviewed by Enter prise Publishers. That this is the road Improvement age is well demonstrated by a tour thru Oregon, and the- ambitions and prosperity of the various counties and cities are pretty well reflected in the condition of the streets and highways. In nearly every county permanent road construction is under way. While some delays and inconvenient detours are necessary, a recompensat ing thought is of the improvement the new highways will be over the present dusty and chucky lanes. Highways Needed One is impressed with the vital need for building the fmir main Eastern Oregon state highways, one running north from Klamath Falls to the Dalles, the others running east and west and known as the Oregon Trail Highway, the John Day Highway and the Central Oregon Highway. Wil lamette Valley has secured a good start toward better roads and a lot of money is being spent on the Col umbia River Highway which will be the connecting link between Portland and all of the Eastern Oregon routes. So far the Highway commission has made no serious attempt to finance the road program for the east half of the State. Present finances includ ing the several million dollars pro vided by the various counties are go ing to be entirely inadequate to com plete the'atate road program as des ignated by the legislature. However the revenues from the new auto lic enses are exceeding all estimates and are sufficient to float and mature an addition bond issue sufficient in a mount to largely complete the state system. In order to issue many more bonds it will be necessary to pass a con stitutional amendment extending the bond limit of the state similar to the one passed last June affecting tht counties. Teams a Curiosity Speaking of the additional revenues from auto licenses reminds one that the number of automobiles in Oregon has increased in the last three years (Continued on Page Eight.) Older Girls Conference Conference at Alicel last of Month Wilt Consider Needs of Older . Girls of State. The Eastern Oregon Older Girls' Conference will be held in Alicel, Oregon, August 29, 30 and 31, Mrs. Neil Nivins of Canyon City being the director for this year's conference. "The call has never been so great as now to Oregon girls to train for service. It is not enough for us to gather and have a good time once each year. We must carry with us definite plans that will nuike our work 'home corner' better," said Mrs. L. M. Ormsby, state director of the girls' work in Idaho, who will be pres. ent to aid in carrying on the con ference. Mrs. Ormsby was the first director of the Older Girls' Confer ence. Delegates from the districts in Eastern Oregon will be present. Every group of girls from each town must have at least one adult leader to. whom they are responsible. Any girls or adults desiring to attend this year's convention should report to Mrs. B. F. Farmer, county director of the work and president of theSun day School Association, and arrange ments will be made for the trip. One of the first Older Girls' Con ference ever held in the United States took place 6 years ago in Oregon City when 341 girls from 16 to 24 years of age discussed the needs of Oregon Girls. The following year a conference was held in Eastern Ore gon in connection with the State Sun day School convention in La Grande and since that time two have been held every year in Oregon. VALE GYMNASIUM EQUIPMENT IS INSTALLED New Equipment Arrives for Vale Gymnasium Training Classes Start The first equipment of Vale's new gymnasium arrived this week, and was rapidly installed. The new equip ment consists of punching bag and frame, chest exerciser, dumb-betls Indlun clubs, volley ball, a number of puirs of boxing gloves, a complete tennis court equipment and marker. Manager McCabe stutes that the outdoor tennis court will soon be in j working order, but that it will be conducted separately from the gym nasium, because of the expense in get ting the grounds into condition. At prem-nt clasneH are ulreiuly working out in tho new gym, und new members bt-iiig added. Ilore equipment h BOISE WRESTLER ETC. DECISION O s J Wilson b. .ted by "Babe Brown, Who Takes Two Falls in Nine Minutes , It took "Babe Brown" of Boise, just nine .minutes to take two falls from "Crusher Jim" Wilson at the Rex Monday evening, winning a de cision in a match which has been the subject of much speculation the past two weeks. Interesting Preliminary The match, which was scheduled by Promoter R. R. McCabe, took place at the Rex Monday, before a pack ed house. As a preliminary, Kid Es terly of St. Louis boxed Jack Collins of Boise, for six rounds of two min utes each. The preliminary took the form of shadow boxing at the start off, but livened up in the last two rounds, when one of the boxers drew blood. Esterly's style of "hit-and-cover" and Collins' open boxing made the bout a peculiar combination. Es terly was awarded the decision on points. Brown Takes Fall Referee Tunny announced that the wrestling match would be for the best two falls out of three, and in case no fall wa3 made in two hours the decision would be left to the ref eree. The opponents seemed to be evenly matched, but when they reach ed the mat Brown surprised the crowd by securing Wilson in a body scissors hold, bringing his shoulders to the mat. This took him three minutes. Returning to the mat after the fif teen minute intermission, Wilson tried to get an opening, and once had (Continued on Page Eight.) SOLDIERS MAY CHANGEPOLICIES Discharged Soldiers May Be Reinata ' '- ted and Carry Insuranco in Civil Life Great as was the effort made to write insurance the Government is making as earnest an endeavor to have the more than three und a quarter million boys who now hold Govern ment insurance, continue it. Because the Government still makes the sol dier's best interest a matter of keen est concern, nothing is being left un done which might aid in hammering home the admonition:" Hold on to' Uncle Sam's insurance." This insurance may be retained at substantially the present rate, the lowest rate for insurance ever made, and at any time within the five-year period the present form of policy may be con veiled into any one of six standard policies such us 'are offered by commercial concerns. Under the law, insurance which has not been converted into permnnent form with in the five-year period will be can celled. The several forms of permanent insurance offered are: Ordinary life, ! twenty-payment life, thirty-payment ' life, twenty-year endowment, thirty year endowment muturing at the age of sixty-two. All expenses of the Bureau of War Risk Insurance are paid by the Government, which means that the premium rate of in terest is the lowest it is possible to devise. To be sure, the rate on the con verted policies will be somewhat higher than the rate now being paid for term insurance. It may be that many men just returning to civil life will not find it possible to pay an In creased rate of premium. Taking that into consideration, the five-year period has been allowed, and the Bur- (Continued on Puge Eight) on the way, and in anqthor two weeks tho "gym will be going full blunt. Dressing rooms were completed this week, finishing toucheB were put on the shower bath, a rubbing and mas sage table added to the equipment, as well as an electric mussuglug ap paratus. JUiys Jones Ranch . v. Among the big ranch duals recorded the past week was the purchase of the big ranch of Frank Jones at West full. The buyer was ('. W. Jenkins, formerly engaged in the mercantile business at Spiny, Oregon, and the coiibiileiaiion of (15,01)0 also puid for the rattls whu h hvlmigt-d to Jone.