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About Malheur enterprise. (Vale, Or.) 1909-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 20, 1919)
ADVERTISE IN THE ENTERPRISE Tno 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- e: io l hcv Want to Kead tne Best U ".:Jt'9 of North esU-rn and v' News; the Most I horoiDrt- "tyJ Soui hcastern Ory Q. V . . .ation, Stok. Fam' J. mineral and Community , .8ress, the Latest Market Quotations; all Filings in the U. 8. Land Office, Vale District Mal heur County Official Notices; Real Estate Transfers; County Seat News; Correspondent Letters. VOL. XI. NO. 5. COURT DECREES DEATH TO BUNNY Poison Ordered W. W. Howard To Manage Campaign Committee Asked To Co-Operate County The county court has determined upon "a conty wide campaign to ex- terminate rabbits this winter. W. W. Howard, who as County Agent con ducted a similar campaign in .parts of the. county a few years ago has been employed to manage the poison ing and co-operate with the ranchers in the various communities. This work has its best effect while the snow is on the ground and any. dis trict wishing to ; participate in the campaign is requested to notify County Judge E. H. Test who will . arrange to send an expert to. assist in mixing the poison and direct the distribution. An appropriation of $1000 has been made by the county to carry on this important work. The poison has already been ordered and the court plans to looso no time in starting the campaign. To Sell Bonds. Monday the county will receive bids on the first $100,000 of road bonds authorized at the special elec tion last June. It is expected that these v bonds will bring a good figure and a number of bids will be re- j ceived from local as wen as outside , purchasers. The budget problem Is still puzz ling the members of the county court who have to figure how to make $2.25 do the work of $4.00 if the proposed budget should be adopt ed. However a numner of items have been excluded, including a j $10,000 appropriation for a county j poor farm. To Have County Agent At a meeting last Monday the court agreed to provide the $2500 asked by the Farm Bureau for the county's half of the expense for an Agricultural Agent. There remains a credit due the county for this work on former appropriations. The ex act amount . is not known but is be tween three and six hundred dollars. To this amount, the court will ad enough to make up the $2500 re quested, and the state will add $2500 making . $5000 available for salary and expenses of a county agent for 1920. NEARCAMP'S SHELTER STOCKMANJREEZES Well known Stockman Freezes to Death Within Short Distance of Camp's Shelter. Alexander Corrigall, well known as one of the most successful sheep accounts of firms operating under prowers of Malheur county froze to the law in this vicinity. Contractors ''.th within a quarter of a nvie of and all firms employing men to the shelter of his camp above West- .handle power driven machinery come f.l sometime last Friday night. An- under the provisions of. the Work ioui as to how his brother Malcolm 'man's Compensation Law automati- 3 faring in the extreme cold ically, while other employers can se--eUher the young man started out i cure the state insurance upon special foot for hi s brother's camp, arriving application. her 3 he found that his brother and j Auditor Meyer states that he is mm had not made camp at that finding a number of new firms in point as previoubly intended and so Malheur county which indicates the ttarted back for his own camp. His , industrial development in this sec body was found within a quarter of tion. Mr. Meyer states that many i mile of his camp in a sleeping farmers are operating under the law position tfs if utterly exhausted and numbed by the cold he had given up to the drowsiness preceedlng death by freezing. Ft" is supposed that he had started out from his own camp without eating as he planned to reach .the brother's camp early in the evening. . The deceased was born In Scotland in 1882 and was 37 years of age at the time Of death. In 1006 ne cam with his brother Malcolm to Morrow county' . where they lived for tw. years before coming to Malheur crxinty; Jle leaves five brothers and ore sister to mourn his ueath, all of w-'iom , 'Xpf ide in Scotland except ' '-rim Corrigall with whom he .-i-He! in the nheep business hT. His father and mother both died in Scotland several yean ago. SWORN CIRCULATION Full News Service For a' WALTER TAYLOR APPOINTED Local Boy named on University Com mittee to Raise $30,000 for Women's Building. Walter Taylor of Vale has been appointed by the student council of the University of Oregon to re present the Greater Oregon student committee in handling the local end of a $30,00 campaign the students are starting to complete the un uiiiaueu to uinen 8 xuuuing on xnc 1 Mr t ti . i i : . University campus The state has been divided for th purposes of the campaign into seven districts by the students of tne Uni versity, who have taken entire charge of raising the last $30,000 needed to finish the $200,000 building. The district including this county is under the direction of Mr. Lindsay Mc Arthur of Baker, with Mr. Tayloi working locally, WEEK'S NEWS REVIEW OF TIMELY EVENTS Big Packers To Quit Side Lines Will Push Jones Irrigation . Bill. ., Anti-Trust Suit Compromise. .As o "result- of the governments anti-trust action against Vie meSt packers which began last summer in the fight to reduce living ' costs, , a compromise has been reached where- by the packers will confine them selves to activities in the meat bus iness and quit side lines. -Will Push Jones Bill. . Apprehensive that the Mondell sol dier land reclamation bill may fail to become a law because of strong eastern opposition, western senator." have decided to push and the senate irrigation commite has favorably re ported the bill of Senator Jones or Washington authorizing approprra tons agregating $250,000,000 to en able the secretary of the interior to rush to .'completion existing irriga tion projects, and to take up and build such other new projects as may be found by him to be feasible and desirable. Investigation Continued. With coal production getting back to normal and rail traffic improving the immediate relief given by sett lement of the coal strike has been (Continued on Page Eight) I. A. C. AUDITOR .VISITS Industrial Accident Commission Au ditor Visits County Checking 4Jp Old And New Accounts. J. F. Meyer, auditor for the State Industrial Accident Commission after checking over a number of accounts in Ontario the first of the week ar rived in Vale Friday to audit the and would be pleased to explain its provisions to anyone desiring. Train Schedules Back. Settlement of the coal strike and the return of workers to the mines made its effect felt on rail lines UT...J .U -tl i . n tllQ TO CUJIVDUBjr TCIICII MU USUI VII V.iv , . . . . . . ,.. .j lifinancine of a church and workers main ana onncn lines were oruercu back on former schedules. Coming at this time the order means that the Christmas travel, mail and ex pro 6 may be bandied with some de cree of satisfactory service while under the strike schedules past few days work was leginnlng to look hopeleki to rail and postal emplpyees. The schedule now In ef- j Nyssa Man Here, feet on the branch line and the main . H. G. Monce, Nyi-. Orchandist line- trains is found on. another page rd burry man was in Vale on bus of thi wk Enter.ri. ' inen Thursday. " 2150. Anyone who wants All County Communities Largest Circulation In Ett Section Of Malheur 3t 3te Cljrfetmais TfT is the Christmas Time. Let us rejoice and give thanks to Him whose birth we celebrate, for the blessings of life, health and hap iness that are ours. Let us remember at this time our less fortunate brother and live in truth the words of the Master, "It Is Better To Give Than To Receive. Around many a home in this broad land the holiday season will mean the reunion of families and loved ones for the first time since father, brother, husband for help in its hour of trial. Let that many hearts are saddened at this holiday time with thots of loved ! which has been under way for the ones who have not returned, let us not at this Christmas time forget to f past two months, was completed this give comfort and help to the homes where sorrow has found its resting ; week and it is expected that a dis place. I trict manager or agent from the oil The editors of the Malheur Enterprise wish to express their best company will soon be on the ground wishes for a Merry Christmas and renders in all sections si n CONGRESS TO CABINET IN TEN MINUTES, "A bolt from the blue sky." Is the way Secretary ot Commerce Joshua W. Alexander, ot Gallatin, Mo., announces his rocent ap pointment to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation ot for mer Secretary David Redfield. Secretary Alexander was con gressman from Missouri, but Was at his home vlHiung when the call came front the White Houso for the -cualereuco and appointment. METHODIST'S BANQUET Church Members Enjoy Banquet On - Coldest Evening.. Dr. Tenny Gives Address. In spite of the extreme could last Friday evening a goodly number of Methodists and friends attended the get-together banquet at the Odd Fellows Hall. The tabeis were laid in the banquet room and after par taking of the repast spread by D. A. " McFadden and his helpers the company adjourned to the main room where chairs were pulled up around the fire and Pr. Tenny of ' Gooding , College gave a splendid talk on the .... within the church. Mrs. Currey gavo a vocal number with Mins Whitford as accompanist and after a short talk by the pastor a eocial time was enjoyed by the tJ"W. fx J jM ' or the'11'9 ',c,'0,e departure to tneir homes. to "TALK" to all the people The Home Newspaper, Read in fcvery Nook of Malheur VALE, OREGON SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20,1919. or sister answered the country a" call us who rejoice with these, forget not Happy New xear to our iamuy oi of the county, state and nation. n n COAL SUPPLY LOW THREE CARS NEEDED Car Past Week Brings Temporary Supply For Vale Fires. Many Short No Suffering. The Vale Civic Fuel Committee con sisting of T. T. Nelsen, Leonard Cole and C. M. Robinetet took a fuel cen sus in Vale last week and by limiting orders for the first car received Tuesday to COO "pounds secured a wide distribution which prevented any suffering altho the diminished supply of many coal bins has threatened'' leave many homes without heat. - Only two cars have been received during the past month, The first to the Home Lumber and Coal Company the last to the Boise Payette Com pany. The last car was divided among over 100 applicants and it will require two or three additional cars to give the town a reasonable supply to go on. . With the miners back to work and the resumption of normal rail road traffic it is now considered likely that enough coal will be received from time to time to meet all neces sary requirements. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. During the closing days of the Big Prize Circulation Contest hundreds of new subscriptions ana credits on old subscriptions poured in so fast that it was absolutely impossible to keep our mailing list up to date. However this week all corrections have been made. It is quite likely however that a few mistakes or over sights have occurred in compiling the new and enlarged list. Loos at the date on your label and if you are not credited properly please notify) us at once. j Following your name on the label of your paper is the "key" or state ment of your credit. 7JunO means that your subscription is paid to the seventh day of June, 1920. Etc. All new subscribers should now bo receiving their papers regularly, If not kindly let us know. When you wish to change the nd dress of your paper please state in your notice the former post office as well as the new a?uress for this will save much trouble and prevent a likely delay. If we have your name mispelled please notify us a we wish to have our list correct in every detail. In writing please sljrn your name the same as we have It on the list or state what cnange should be made. Many peopie ttie careless about their signature and sometimes sign initials, other times nick names, some times the;r first name is full, and women frequently sign their given name part of the time and use their husbands initials at other times. As this causes c n ,n making proper chan(r,!g it may be that you are receiving two copies and wish only one. If so Diato Company mines at Harper was we will appreciate such Information, a busines visitor in Vale Friday stat Mail service has been notably p or ng that the new mill would begin in all parts of the country this full, grinding out the chalk mineral Jn a but if you Bre not getting your paper few days. Altho the building has not nifularly and promptly please let us been completed tome of the machln- 'know and we will. do our best to im- prove conditions of delivery. The. co-operation of every sub- scriber is requested to help keep our list correct, save any wasting of pa- per, and give the best service po-.s-, ible. In Malheur County should County Best M edinm For All County County. TANKS WILL SUPPLY BIG INTERIOR TRADE Oil Buildings Cover Acre of Ground And Have Ample Storage For Big Territory. The new oil station of the Stand ard Oil Comnanv. construction of to take charge of the new territory, The real work of the oil distribution will not start, however, until later in the spring. The new plant covers about an acre of ground and is fully equipped in every way to take charge of the vast amount of business from the surrounding region. Three large tanks, ten and one-half feet in dia meter, each having a capacity of 19,520 gallons, will hold all the oil, gas , and kerosene needed for the been built to care for additional supplies. A pump house is located near the railroad side' of the plant and will have pumps installed to convey the oil from the cars to the tanks which rest on cement piers built at a height of ten feet above the ground. Other buildings are the office and the garage for the delivery trucks. ,AJ nine-foot fence - surrounds the com pany's property. The W. L. Hubbell & So., Con tractors, of Portland have had charge of the construction work, L. S. Ruthersuff, also of Portland being in direct charge of the work here. Despite extreme cold weather and delays in shipments the contract was finished on time and Mr. Rutheruff and his men left the last of the week for their various homes to spend the Christmas season before going on to their next job at St. Helens, Oregon. COLD SNAP BREAKS. Cold Slightly Moderates Citizens Glad of Break for Holidays Lqwest Temperature of Years After several continued days of cold when the thermometer hung around eighteen to 28 below zero Vale has experienced a slight break in the intense cold during the past three days. Last Friday night Is recorded as the coldest in Vale for many a moon, and on this date the thermometer registered 28 below, Citizens were busy most of the week thawing water pipes and warming up family jitneys.. Many other cities in Eastern Ore gon reported temperatures yarving from 20 to 45 below the same week end with heavy snow falls reported j the first of last week over eastern and central Oregon generally. Vale and surrounding territory did not re ceive as much snowfall during the cold spell as nearby sections where from two to three feet was reported. Willamette Valley towns have never recorded lower temperatures or more lasting cold than has been reported the past ten days. Portland, Van couver, Salem, Eugene and CorvallU all report much cold and snow. , Willamette river froze over for the third time in the history of the white man and steamers were caught in the ice flows in the Columbia, Weather predictions for Oregon and south eastern Oregon at this time are for continued warmer weather and probable snows or rains. To Ship Mineral Soon. Manager Newton of the American ery has been Installed and shipments on orders roust be started at once. The product of this company will be uxed for such purposes as insulat- Ing material, making sound proof walls, boiler packing with alntos, jetc. ADVERTISE IN THE ENTERPRISE. and Outside Advertiser, TAKE EXAMINATIONS Sixteen Members of County Teachers Force Write In Examinations This Week. Teachers examinations have been underway at the office of County School Superintendent Mrs. Hurloy this week with sixteen of the teach- esr writing. A similar examination is being held at Jordan Valley by Principal Louis A. Thomas of the schools there, the condition ' of the roads and the cold weather making it impossible for the teachers in the southern part of the county to take examinations at Vale. Those writ ing here this week were; Mrs. Norma Wells, Malheur, Sue Hicks, oreston; Mrs. Etta Highsmith, Kingman Kol- onyj Miss Crissie Sattgast, Kingman Conklin, Vale; Elsie Gibson, Nyssa; Mrs. Mary Noah, Ontario; Mrs. Mary Deal, Ontario; Miss Fern Linck, Ontario; Anna Anderson, Dead Ox Flat; Miss Rosselle, Dead Ox Flat; , Rene Adam and Jean Conklin, Vae; Elsie Gibson, Nyssa; Ralph Yoeman Brogan and Claude Senseman, Ontario. DEMANDS FOR SEALS EXCEED SUPPLIES Local .Supplies Run Away Below De- mands Out Side Points Ask , For More Seals. v ; Supplies of Red Cross stamps are running way below' demands thruout the territory being handled by the Vale district under direction of the Monday Study Club. .All the first supplies sent from headquarters, were immediately forwarded to out side points and the second shipment of supplies distributed to city work ers who have had no trouble in plac ing the little stickers in every home or business house solicited. The Vale district received about one third the number of stamps listed as its quota and could easily have handled the full quota if the materials had been reecived on time and in a suffi cient quantity. Reports from outside sections, and other cities of the Vale territory in dicates the same demand and the (Continued on Page Eight.) SHOTS ENDJISPUTE Colored Man Turns Gun on C A. Foiles in Ontario Business House. William Taylor, colored, of On tario, charged with assult with in tent to kill, is residing in the county jail awaiting action by the grand jury. Last Friday night while in a pool hall in Ontario he was accosted by C. A. Foiles who claimed that the former owed him a sum of money. A dispute arose and a heated argument on both sides fol lowed during which Taylor fired a gun he was carrying. The bullet entered Foiles' shoulder but did not do any serious damage. Witnesses allege Taylor snapped his gun several times after that to get a better shot but the gun for some reason refused to work. A crowd collected around the wounded man and in the excitement the man who did the shooting slipped away. Sheriff II. Lee Noe was immediat ely summoned from Valo and start ing from Ontario traced his man to Payette where he located him. Taylor made no resistance but came back to Vale with the sheriff where he was held until the first of the week when he was again taken to Ontario, this time for his preliminary hearing. He waived the hearing and is now in the county jail await ing action by the grand jury. New P. M. At Westfall. An examination will be held Jan uary 10th at Harper for Fourth Claes Paster Matter to fill a con Umplated vacancy at Wtfstfall. The notice states that the revenue for the past year at this office has been .186.00 Further information can be h whined from the Pot Office at Wevtfall or Harper. YOUR CO-OPERATION Suggestion and Support are Solic ited to Help Make The "Enterprise" a True Representative of Vale, and Malheur Cnnntv. Snd 3ntwHo- v,... i, I rm 'Loumrj. I lie Fnterprise is Absolutely Independent, Treats Everyone VNith th 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. SUBSCRIPTION $2.00 PER YEAR NEED BONDS TO INSUREWATER Election of One Director And Vote On Final $200,000 Bond Iaeua January 13th. Tuesday Januarv 13th in th to- set for the Warmsprings Irrigation District Election at which tim m. director will be elected Jn District No. 3 to succeed Rex Marauis. ore- sent director and president of the board. While Mr. Marauis has not consented to be a candidate for re election there has been no talk of any other candidate and it is consid ered likely -that he will be retained on the board. District No. 8 com prises the east third of the entir- district and no elections will be beld in the other sections for director as Geo. McLaughlin and R. H. De Armond hold over in oftfce. It is important that the bond elec tion carry, as additional funds must . be " obtained if the distribution sys tem is to be .extended to the ma lor portion of new lands which will ,b ready for water next season. The original estimates were cut from $360,000 U $200,000 which latter fi gure under the revised plans Is cal culated to be just sufficient to com-. pieie an necessary work. . SCHOOLB CLOSE FRIDAY, ' " Christmas Programs Mark Closing In Grades StudenU Rejoice at Prospect of Long Vacation. Vale Schools closed for the Christ mas holidays Friday afternoon and the students are granted a two weeks vacation, until January 6, 1920.. Christmas programs and cele brations marked the holiday closing' in the grade rooms and many of the parents and friends were in attend ance on Friday afternoon. The high school students welcomes the thot of a two weeks vacation period and al ready plans are underway for many jolly parties, sleighing and skating the coming ten days. Most of the out of town students and the teachers left Friday for their homes to spend the holidays with relatives. LEGION PIN GIVEN TO WOMEN MEMBERS Election Sunday Afternoon Ameri can Legion To Start New Year With Commander and Adjutant. At a special meeting of the Julian Lowe Post No. 35, American Legion to be held in the Vale Chamber of Commerce rooms next Sunday after noon, new officers rill be elected un der the recommended titles of Com mander, Vice Commander, Adjutant and Finance officer. The new standard constitution and bylaws as outlined by the national convention is expected soon and be fore long the Malheur County mem bers of the American Legion are ex pected to have a better working ot. fertilization than in the past as many important matters have waited for authorization by the national con vetition. Women Given Membership. For service rendered in time of war as a volunteer nurse, Miss Jean Conklin has received an American Legion membership pin and Is en rolled as a member of the Julian Lowe Post fy. 85. Miss Conklin waa among the few eastern Oregon young ladies who volunteered at the first call for nurses and waa sta tioned in the nurse training; school in Camp Lewis for about a yrat. Miss Conklin is now teaching in Vale schools. Mrs. T. M .Lowe received the pin nf her son Julian Iw for whom the post was nainJ and who gave hit life UU (he Afgrtin frUfit dilmtjf the last weeks of the war. Mrs. Mary McKnney received the pin of her husband. Ruby McKlnny wha (Continued on I'age Fight.)