T he G ate C ity J ournal
COVERS
NO. 13
THE FAMOUS EASTERN OREGON FRUIT BE LI
X^SSA, MALHEUR COUNTY. OREGON, THURSDAY. JULY 17, 1913
NGINEERS
He Liked Nyssa.
‘Pcop!eInvit<*d to Turn
t and Help Exterm inate
H R. Warner was in the city
Monday looking the situation over
as regards a business location.
Mr. Warner is from Weiger and
was uuablo to find a vacant build
ing for the purpose. There being
nothing vacant at this time is a
good commentary on the trade
here, though uot an evidence of
live property owniug citizens.
Went His Way Rejoicing
A young inau named Tilton
called into Dr. McReynold’s office
•Long Ears—Fun Com- Wednesday to have a small piece
of metal removed from his eye. It
i at 2 O’clo ck .
is perhaps unnecssary to add that
the job was performed with neat
ness and dispatch by our worthy
pressing invitation is ex- medico and the young man went
¡to Nyssa people to take on his way rejoicing.
in the big rabbit drive on
East Side next Sunday,
nencing at 2 o’clock. The
eared pests have raulti-
! to such an extent they are
^joiis menace to the crops
Chas. Sweeting, formerly of Ne
esettlers of one of Nyssa’s
rapidly developing tribu- braska and lately employed at the
sections and the people Wpde ranch in the Kingman Kol-
are anxious for a big ony, was examined by Drs. Mc-
Reynolds and Payne for insanity.
j so that the whole bunny
He was found suffering from a
can be exterm inated, if
mild form of that trouble and
'Me. Lots of fun for every- committed to the Pendleton asy
butthe rabbits is protn- lum. The examination was con
and refreshments will be ducted before Magistrate Boydell
id at the corral immedi- on Wednesday and the asylum
after the drive.
authorises were notified.
In several ways Sweeting show
^rations will commence at
igar homestead, two and ed an unbalanced mind. An al
miles from Nyssa, and most total lack of memory as to
:over Whitley Bottom. The names of even those with whom
tion of East Siders will be he was well acquainted was no
ticeable, also the belief that he
ud to instruct the city had been poisoned in some man
in the gentle a rt of knock- ner. A cure is expected.
jack rabbit in the head,
Purchased Holsteins.
the fun will commence,
Smith
and Canham have pur
is is a splendid opportun-
chased
the
vanGilse herd of Hol
r Nyssa people to show
steins and will care for them on
friendliness to th eir neigh-
their acreage near town.
Mr.
ind at the same tim e do Smith is an efpert chreso maker
i a good tu rn by help- and knows the value of the dairy
wipe out a pest which is cow. About $2000 is the value erf
ling crops in one of the the herd. Cheese will be made at
i sections of the Snake the ranch in case the dairymen of
entailing a consequent
this section do no^ furnish suffi
trade to Nyssa business
cient milk to run the big plant in
town steadily. From 2 to 7 cents
per pound for butter fat has been
Working on Oil W ell.
paid in excess of creamery prices.
■ork will be resumed on the
Visiting at Nyssa.
soil well, some euterpris
citizens of that town having
N J. Minton and family are
abated ¥1000 toward the cx- down from Boise in their big au
Sixty thousand dollars to, the family staying at the
-been »unk in the enterprise, Brown home while Mr Minton is
■ was started tive years ago, looking after his last investment
'be Democrat says the indica in Malheur City-
te some will keep dig-
The Bodfish store was the latest
. until the long looked for purchase. Mr. Bodfish is now the
t is found.
owner of a two-thirds interest m
the big opera house block on
Main street in Nyssa and SO a-.res
of improved land adjoining tbe
east s i d e s o l d towusite on the north.
ADJUDGEDINSANE;
TAKEN TO ASYLUM
ORCHARD ON
bi8 real estate deal was closed
E. G. Johnson pur-
^ 280 acres south of Nyssa
near Apple Valley of W. C.
-barn. Nearly the entire
‘Re is in apple trees and will
be subdivided into small
1 and »old to home builders.
: tract was originally part of
Unnon farm, one of the first
i-oved places on the east side
'be river.
Vr. Johnson it very successful
■be investments made in this
bbe valley and haa materi-
b*lped thia section by his
8 in developing orchard
$150 PER YEAR.
5« PER COPY
WORKING
WarVeteran
Figuring Out Prob
able Cost of Irrigat-
ingDistrictLands.
$425 Carload
for Prunes.
The Westlake fruit farm, owned
by Arthur Richard, has sold -itsj
eutire crop of prunes to the Earl j
Fruit Co. of New York at a mini-1
mum price of $425 per carload, f .1
o. b. Emmett. This is au advance
of $25 per car over last year from
the same firm. This advance,
however, is contingent upon the |
freight rate of $25 per car charged
between Emmett and Nampa be
ing eliminated.
George Skinner, Pioneer of
Mr. Richards estimates his crop j
The Owyhee Irrigation pro viewed by Mr. Tallmadge, ia
this year at about 30 carloads, al- j Snake Valley, Meets For
ject is rapidly whipping into cheap storage and cheap power. though he has received boxing I
mer Comrades at^Historic
shape to commence installing He is confident that both fea material for 45 carloads, which |
Gettj sburg.
tures can be worked out on woulo make the total considera
an irrigation system. The en
such a basis that the project tion $12,750.
He may receive
gineers afe working out an out
can be made an assured success. more than that, as the contract of
line of the" system, which it is The reports he has from bis en sale provides that if the fruit shall
One of the survivors of Co. I,
reported will consistof a divers gineers indicate that the project sell at an advance of the price First Vermont cavalry, in the per
ion dam on the Owyhee river will be mapped out in tbe very agreed upon Mr. Richards is to son of George Skinner, a pioneer
and a storage system. It is pro near future so that be will then receive 10 per cent of the ad resident of this valley, has re
posed to make a combination of be able to work out the cost of vance. The output of the orchard turned from Gettysburg, Pa.,
where a reunion of vererans of
gravity and pumping systems, construction and enter into a last year was 30 carloads.—Em
both the union and confederate
mett Index.
the gravity canals to cover all, contract with the district,
armies was held.
the district lauds under tha
La9t Tuesday Rex M arquis,
The other members of Mr. Skin
2320 or 2340 contour and all Thus. Cauham, Jr., P. J. Phil-
ner's company, Jonah Stevens
the land between this point and lips, Thos. Glaggett, H. D. Gosb-
and Albert Cole, still residents of
the 2500 contour by pum ping/jert and Thoa Coward met Mr.
the Green Mountain state, were
found after a day of search
Thus making the pumping Tallmadge in Boise and dis
cussed
matters
in
connection
charge very low.
W. J. Turner traded his. Nyssa through the big camp where 70.-
Mr. Tallmadge, accompanied with the project. At th a t time property, consisting of bis tine 000 old soldiers of the North and
by F. Farmer, district engineer, Mr. Tallmadge promised to home and some vacant lots, for a South were assembled, and atter
P. J. Phillips, president of the make sufficient investigation.of 20-acre tract near Nampa. He Mr. Skinner had about .given over
hopes of finding any of his old
board of directors, aud Thomas the project to be able to submit recently traded a 200-acre ranch
comrades
in arms. Tin ir meeting
Cauham, today made an auto a contract at a stated price in on the Owyhee for Seattle prop was a sourse of intense satisfac
trip up to the Mitchell butte tbe very near future. He hopes erty and will remove there, tem tion to each individual. The bat
country for the purpose of view to have all these m atters de porarily at least, to look after the tle ground was tramped and rode
termined and a contract con rentals.
ing the dam site.
By the trade N. J, Minton be over in company und the happen
The main features to be summated before he returns to comes the owner again of the resi ings of 50 years ago retold. Mr.
Skinner- was one of the youngest
worked out on the project, as New York.
dence in which he resided during men enlisted in the war, being
the winter, Mr. Minton has only 18 years of age in 1801 and
made many large deals in Nvssa is still active and thoroughly en
his trip. All ordinary ex
real estate during the year past joyed
penses were paid by the govern
and is firmly of the opinion that ment and the Boy Scouts of the
Nyssa is the best point in the in United States furnish'd willing
termountain section, barring only and active service to the old regu
Malheur City, in which he has lars in camp.
Mrs. McDonald and Mrs. Meeting to Organize Will made heavy investments recently
Back From
Battlefield
TURNER TRADES
NYSSA PROPERTY
WILL ENTERTAIN
W. OF W. TO HAVE
BIG CAMP HERE
SOCIAL CIRCLE
Spier to Be Hostesses at
Meeting Next Thursday.
Be Held at Hotel Western
Parlors Friday.
A ttention, Rebekah’s.
Chinaman Runs Amuck.
You are hereby cordially invited
to attend tbe installation ceremony
of Yellow Rose Rebekah Lodge
No. 202.1. O. O. F., on.Thursday
night, July 24th. iti Odd Fellows’
hall. The D D. president of the
Assembly of Oregon will be the
installing officer.
District Attorney W. H. Brooke
held a preliminary examination
before Justice Z. G. Wilson at
The Social Circle of the Pres-
The work of organizing a local Vale Tuesday of Fred Huffman, a
byterian church will be enter- circle of the Women <?f Wood Chinaman, charged with shooting
laincd next Thursday, July 24, craft in Nyssa is progressing very John W. Brinkerhuff of Ontario
on the s|i#ucious lawn of the satisfactorily. More, than twenty at Vale on July 7. Hoffman,
have agreed to join the order and through his attorney George E
pleasant country home of Mrs.
Will Organize W. H.
the preliminary meeting will be
E. H. McDonald, by Mrs. Mc held 'Friday afternoon in the Ho Davis, waived examination and
Mrs. Cotton Mather, a repre
was bound over to await the ac sentative of the Woman’s Home
Donald and Mrs. L. Spier. The tel Western parlors.
ladies extend a most cordial in The Women of Woodcraft, with tion of tbe grand jury under $1500 Missionary society of the M. E.
bonds, which he was unable to church, spoke at the M E. church
vitation to everyone to come headquarters at Portland, is an
furnish, and he was remanded to Thursday. She will organize a
and have a good time and Nyssa Up.t0-date fraternal insurance as jail. The affair occurred in the Woman's Home Missionary so
people Hre looking toward the sociation. admitting both men and Thompson restaurant where a lit ciety here.
event with pleasant anticipa women on equal terms. While tle girl called Hoffman a “Chink."
the principles of fraternity are whereupon he threatened to kill
tions.
Conveyances for taking par not lost sight of. it ia strictly a her, but she managed to get away
ticipants to the "gathering will business order, applying the latest from him. He then ran out, got
leave from the Presbyterian rules of economy and efficiency in his gun and returning met Brink-
its management. Dr. Minnie C. T,
D. E. Rivers, superintendent
church aud L. Spier s store at Love of Denver ia in charge of the erhnff in the doorway and drew
»i construction work on the
the
gnn
on
kim,
snapping
it
sev
2:30 iu the afternoon. Don't organization work here. A cor-
eral times and shooting him one. s < Iregon «fc Eastern railroad out
forget the date, and reinem er i ^ ¡nvitatiou ¡8 extended to any
of ” alc, states that the steel is
in the thigh. The gun was a cen
special invitation is extended to one ¡ntereeted to attend the ineet- ter fire gun and was loaded |»irtly laid on Alio Oregon A Pastern as
you.
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in g a tth e hotel. Dr. Love will ith rim fire cartridges, otherwise! far as milepost 50 and that the
M. E. Church Note»
give a short talk on the principles the affair would probably have ’ sli «1 gang will reach Riverside
resulted more seriously. as onlvlHI mile 81, ihe end o f the pres-
- Sunday. July 13
I,ockwood Will Inspect.
of fraternal insurance.
the center fire cartridges exploded.' ei t contract, in a short time.
10-30 a m .-Sunday School.
j - Civil Engineer Lockwood hat
Hoffman, who has ut Amaricen !■ tween the big tunnel and the
114X)a m.—Morning worship received tbe appointment of in
name,
is an American born China - 1 e. d of the line there will be 15
Harry Is Proud
nii.;i, “ A native son of the Golden In 2 bridge structures over the
Subject. "The Master Refiner." spector on the settling basin
Harry McGregor is about the West,” his pirthplaee Ix.-iiig San M d lie u rfiv e r lor which con-
bring constructed as part of th.
Text, Mai. I A
Francisco Ontario Democrat.
lr- i te will be let in a lew days.
8:00 p. m.—Evening service city waterworks. The concreti proudest mau iu tbe Snake val-
T ic river will be ciossed on
Sublect. 1 Your Introduction to wc/rk will be started the coming ley these days, the reason for
NOTICED ABROAD.
tem porary false work iu the
___ Text, Matt 11.
week tbe excavation having which is a wee daughter which
the c ^ Devil.”
Thursday at 8:00 P- m.-Prayer
cQmp,eted 0 n iy » small j the stork left at bis home early Wm Sexton, the Nyssa real es meantime.
II. rry Webb, a popular youne
meeting
„A these amount of water interferes w“ ith Wednesday morning. The lit- tate man, made a business visit to man
< f- Boise, will return homg
Yon are invited to atten.
^ wofk This
This i«
is being
being re tie lady weighs just seven and a .he county seat Thursday. Vale
touii.i row. He will be accom
Enterprise.
aervices.
.„nved
quarter pounds in her Ere cos-
panied by a special guard of
moved.
..
Engene Sharp, formerly a Nam
Strangers welcome
turne, and gives every evidence
honor
consisting of Everett
pa resident, who has been visiting
T
urner
and J. C. Wliiteaker.
his
parents
in
Nyssa.
Oregon,
is
Tbe MW»®™*“ 1
'w ° H ta rt »' *'»»¡“11 “P 10 *" bo"°r
1
he
tn
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will be made overland
•pending a few days with friends
M
1« X.bco.« B " £
M. , „ . Quality ^ , 1 “ “ P*™°“ *"*
speaks
1
inM
r.
T
urner’s
big touring car.
in
Nampa
-
Leader-Herakl.
whole Snake valley.
Wash., on Tbursiia.
Shoes.
weeks1 outing
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