The Gate city journal., August 21, 1913, Image 1

T he G ate C ity
COVERS THE FAMOUS EASTERN OREGON FRUIT BEL7
XI
NO. 18
N’W SA, MALHEUR COl’NTY.OREGON, THURSDAY AUGUST 21. 1913.
IVELY TIMES
OWYHEE
iig
Idanha
R NOW
chard Has
nence
t 15th
Been Sold
) e e p W e ll Water
»Cannon,Already Own-
■ er of Seventy Acres, Is
: hard
the Lucky
Purchaser—
I Harvesting B egins.
PERSON Miles Cannon Tuesday pnrcbas-
IN BRIEF
H. D. Birdsall was an Owyhee
visitor last Friday.
Webb Otis is helping Mr. Mc­
Creary with his plowing.
The Ladies Aid met with Mrs.
J. 8. Pinkston this week.
N. B. Matthiessen was over on
a short visit last Thursday.
The little son of Mr. and Mrs.
Wm. Putz was sick this week
Mr. W. E. Edwards is over from
New Plymouth to put up his
clover.
Mrs. Walter Pinkston's sister,
Miss Johnston of Caldwell, came
la«t Sunday for a visit,
Mrs. Myra Parker and Herbert
Walters were early Monday morn­
ing passengers for Ontario.
Miss Edna Blodgett of Nyssa
has been secured as teacher by
the board of directors of the War­
ren district.
Mrs. Overstreet entertained a
number guests Tuesday after­
noon in honor of her mother, Mrs.
E, C. Scott.
$1.50 PER YEAR.
NYSSA
FAMOUS HORSES
Double-Tracking and
Enlarging 0. S. L.
Bridges Begun.
Headquarters at Nyssa—150 Men Will
Be Employed Many Months—Fat
Payroll For Gate City Assured.
5o PER COPY
Pendleton, Or., Aug, 18.—At
the Pendleten Round-Up, Sep­
tember 11, 12 and 13* will be seen
in action one hundred head of the
most famous bucking horses in
the world, including Angel, Long
Tom, Rambling Sam, Whistling
Annie, Hotfoot, Whirlwind and
other*; Sharkey, the farnons Bel­
grade bucking bull that has never
been ridden to exceed seven sec­
onds. Loving Louise, the unex­
purgated original bucking milch
cow, two bucking buffaloes and
other Round-Up slock. These are
the property of the Round-Up and
represent an investment of more
than $12,000 and iure used no
place iu the world except at the
Pendleton Round-Up.
Other
places giving wild west shows ad­
vertise that they have secured
some or all of the Pendleton
stock. But they have not ahd
cannot. Even the long-horn
Texas steers arfe not sold for beef
until they are too. old to give the
bull-dogger and roper a run for
their mouey, and in the meantime
they wax fat in the Round-Up
pastures.
Old Pioneer
Joins Silent
Majority
•• A
J . J. Thomason, Dies at
His Home Near
Nyssa
After a Lingering Illness
—Leaves Many Friends
James Jasper Thdmason, a
As we go press, eleven men, the advance guard of a con­
|the noted Idanha orchard, lo-
well
known and highly esteemed
struction
crew
that
will
enlarge
and
double
track
the
O.
S.
L.
I two and one-half miles from
pioneer
of this section, died at
bridges
of
this
vicinity,
are
in
Nyssa
arranging
camp
and
mak­
, for a cash consideration of
his
home
near Nyssa Wednes­
ing
ready
for
active
woric.
The
men
state
that
at
least
150
men
» ••••<
hooo. The orchard consists of
day
after
an
illness ol several
will
be
employed
on
the
work,
which
it
will
probably
take
a
year
licrea of bearing prune trees
weeks. Deceased was a father
to complete. This means a large and steady monthly payroll,
1 is in a high state of cultiva-
of Mrs. W. B. Hoxie of this city.
This year’s record-breaking
which, injected into the arteries of trade in Nyssa, will keep
Although advanced iu years,
and Mr. Sanderson’s new
things humming until the coming of the greater prosperty which
nobile go to Mr. Cannon
being ut the time of h is death 72
will follow the commencement of construction work on the High
dr. Cannon had previously
years,
5 months and 18 days old,
Line.
Jgust 9th, 1913 gbt 70 acres of the orchard
and but small hope for his recov­
Rev. Carrick was out Sunday n i D D IT C C D A U /I
I he could not resist the teinpta-
ery being entertained for some
and
held services in the Kolony. K A D d I I o L K A W L
I to become the owner of the
time past, his death was a dis­
Itire orchard and also secure the The Sunday school is doing nicely . ix i L lftl TTQ A N H H I I ?
tinct
shock to his relatives and a
under the superintendency of 1** I i V L i 1! j O A l l * / U l E j
ht to the uae of the name
large circle of friends in the
inha," which has become fam- young Mr. Sheldon.
Snake and Owyhee valleys,
The
big
weinerwurst
fry
given
That
“finis”
is
being
written
on
Word has been received from
i among prune growers.
by
the
members
of
Rev.
Walker’s
the
tribe
of
jack
rabbits
is
seen
in
Luther Burbank, by experi­ among whom he had a high
|Mr. Sanderson retains extensive Grandpa Bradley that about Unity
Sunday
school
class
is
one
of
the
the
rapidly
decreasing
number
of
ence
and
accomplishment reputatiou as a neighbor and a
ierests in this vicinity and will and most Blue mountain localities
events
of
the
joyous
past
and
Wil­
these
animal
pests
in
haunts
that
man of sterling integrity, be­
leave permanently, although the huckleberry crop is very short, knew them in plethora but a son Bros,’ fat cat has come out of doubtless the best qualified man
sides
the widow, six children
owing
to
a
late
frost.
He
is
well
in the world today to make such
} ha* in view an extended visit
short time ago, but which know retirement and wears a happier
are
left
to m ourn their loss. At
and
hearty,
and
is
now
at
Mal-
¡England at some time in the
them no more. Much speculation smile than at any time since the a statement, says the great op­ the tim e of his death Charles
henr.
I distant future,
has been indulged in as to what announcement that the big feed portunity for our boys and Thomason was the only one of
Sylvester Pullen, the young son
ir. Cannon is now in Nyssa to
has become of the horde of these was to take place. Camp was made young men is in agriculture. the children still living at the
onally supervise the harvest- of D. P. Pullen, formerly foreman once common “varmints.” That on the west bank of the classic He points out that after the old home.
i of the big crop, which it is es- on the E. F. Pratt’s ranch, came
Funeral services were con­
Snake and the best of cheef pre­ young man has spent eight
111 « isted may reach 100 cars, The up on the Semi Annual to King- they have not migrated to other
years at hard study of medicine, ducted at the deceased’s late
localities is evidenced from the vailed. Those present were:
under
the
aus­
is already under way but man station, and is visiting with fact that throughout the valley
Ernest Wilson, Barnie Wilson, the law or engineering, lie has home
J. H. WULF,C
pl not be in full swing before Mr. and Mrs. Pratt until the next the same condition of a rapidly Obic Wilson, Will Howard, Claire Itiot made a success; he is only pices of the Masonic lodge
of Ontario.
Rev.
A.
R. .
day, when fully 200 pickers arrival of the modern leviathan.
disappeaiing race of varmints is Gibson, Blaine Gibson, Garhard preprred to commence the bat­ Carrick of the Presbyterian
1 packers will be employed.
Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Hioks noticeable. An investigation last Dorst, W. W. Foster, Harry
tle for it. Whereas, to add but church at Nyssa, delivered the
of Ellensburg, Washington, ar­ Sunday resulted in the discovery Cosho, Will Tentsoh, Arnold Cook,
one kernel of corn to each ear funeral sermon. Interm ent was
rived Wednesday morning on a that rabbitdom is afflicted with Sidney Burbidge, C. L. Walker,
Water at Coal Mine.|
grown in this country in a sin- made in the Nyssa cemetery.
visit
to
Mr.
Hick’s
sisters,
Mes-
John
Long,
Elsie
Gibson,
Miss
Mr. Thomason was horn in
some
fatal
malady,
contagious
no
i very dusty automobile rolled
gle year would increase the Georgia May 2, 1841, aud at an
dames
Parker
and
Walters.
Mr.
Lee,
Laura
Walker,
Mattie
Den­
doubt,
that
has
thinned
the
ranks
i Nyssa last Friday afternoon,
supply 5,000,000 bushele. One early age went to Missouri,where
[passengers were City attorney and Mrs. Hicks are returning of the long-ears to a point that nis, Beatrice Forbes, Maud Lar- im provem ent in the potato is in 1866 he was married to Mary
from
an
extended
trip
in
Yellow­
has resulted in its almost com­ gent. Crete Childers, Mrs. W. W.
|ilson. Mr. and Mrs Henry
u
already paying back $17,000,000 Elizabeth Stevenson. Six chil-
ds, Mrs. Andrulla Storts and stone Park,and have also been vis­ plete extinction in this immediate Foster, Ella Birdsall, Myrtle Bird­
dred wore horn to them , one
ing kinspeople at Twin Falls and vicinity. It seems that when Mr. sall, Goldie Adams, Mrs. Chris­ a year. Everything we eat and
of whom died iu childhood. The
erti in the huÄl' [illiam Jenkins, who had just re­
Rabbit discovers that he “has it" tensen, Evelyn Cheeley, Ethel wear comes out of the ground. wife of his youth died, and at a
ie De Laral «Itimi (
plied from an enjoyable outing Parma.
e World’« creuse* • the fastnesses of Stein’s moun-
Messrs. Kuppel and Kessl, of he hies himself to a badger hole Clark, Lulu Harris. Osa Cooper, With leas than half our popula­ later date he was m arried to
Clara Fleming.
tion raising things, should there Mattie Annie Norton, who sur­
B d They found the breezes of the Vale garage, brought several and there in the peace and quiet
il it the uni vendí
of
undisturbed
meditation
he
be any wonder that the cost of vives him. Of this union two
other lepmtoc wl ^ i mountain delightful and trout auto loads of land seekers from
Members of the Methodist
chilcreu were born, of which
Vale
to
Huffman
Basin,
where
is
,
passes
in
his
checks
for
alitim
i.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
i large and plentiful, their pis- vaie io n uniim u u o >
... ■
„f church choir had a big picnic sup- living has increased 58 percent Charles Thomason is I he cffily.
arable land which the The ìesult
To quote from one now living.
n who ht» u«ed «* 1 orial efforts being rewarded situated
situateti the
me nrnu.c
. is , that in . many
. of,
i per in Gibson s grove last Friday in 15 years?
“
er «tyle machio* « ►J i well filled baskets, a good secretary of the interior will short- these holes there can be found, v*
Mr. Burbank:
The several “deceased” rabbits, all ap-1 evening at which, so they all say,
' of the speckled beatuies ly throw open to settlement.
“ What 'h e world needs, ur­
,.,wu
! all previous attempts at having a
GROWING HOGS.
s take* the time •»
fing brought home to prove to land is, and has for some time, parently having died with
cream »eparateH
good time were left in the dizzy gently and now, is men who
' friends that the big ones do been about all appropriated by same disease.
Lust week C. M. Gillette sold a
i sen whit kind
can increase the forage from our
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I
«lways
get away. A side trip
In
some sections _ „ the state I distance. Besides the usual big
carload
of hogs at the yards bore
given or by
squatters
already.
present acreage so that 16 cents
i made to the John Day valley,
the depredations of these creatures
° f "***? / he ^
™
iu
Burley
for $8.25 pei hundred,
was Mr. Field’s home be-
___ ,
__ :_______ , furnished a liberal supply of the will buy a pound of the choicest
Mrs. C. E. Scott, who has been ,
i he knew what a good town living with her son, H- R- Scott, has assumed alarming proper-
Nyssa watermelons by sirloiD, as of old, instead of a the highest price ever reached for
tions, and the present epidemic1 amoUB
a carload lot in this section. It
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near Parma, is visiting her daugh­ may serve to put oat of commis­ Mr. Gibson. After these were pound of rump, as now.
is useless to say the hogs were
ter, Mrs. R. R. Overstreet. Mrs sion the whole tribe and solve a disposed of in the customary way,
“ What the world needs is not Kist-class. The 102 head averaged
W. of W. Elect Officer*.
miniature yachts were made out theory, or agitation, or college
Scott leaves in a short time for
M e ro th
181 ixmrids each, und brought Mr.
The first election of officers of eastern points to visit relatives, problem that has proven a tough of the rinds and some thrilling
nut to crack bv the farmers and
lore; there are plenty of t..ese, Gillette $1522.21.
to
visit
races were sailed on the Owyhee
* newly organized camp of the after which she expects
gardeners of the valley.
The whole lot were Iasi fa|| pigs.
ditch. Dr. Sarazin’s automobile and at a cost of one hundred
omen of Woodcraft was held her home in California. H. R.
They
were wintered on alfalfa and
and
eighty
million
dollars
per
hesday and the following of- Scott will precede her to San
A flow ot water too great for furnished a comfortable means of
grain
and were pastured <>n alfalfa
annum
in
money
and
who
•rs were elected to serve the J Francisco, where he will engage the pomps to handle has been en­ transportation to and from the
and clover and given a light feed
knows
how
much
time,
they
picnic
grounds.
countered at the Nyssa coal mine
it term:
in business.
have succeeded in iiicreaaihg of grain during the spring and
Mrs. Lena M. Cassidy, guard*
“
and active work has been sue-
M.
E.
Church
Notes.
our crop yield only three per summer. Four weeks previous to
n neighbor; Mrs. Francis Bit-
The goose bone prophets say on
temporalily.
Larger
placing the hogs on th«' bogs on
Sunday, August 17.
captain of guards; M«ss the Owyhee that the winter will ^aQ)^a wjj[ j,,. ¡„stalled and work
cent.
market Mr. Gillette f«il them on
Last Sunday before annual con­
pizaheth Thom pson,clerk ; Mrs. come early, las» long and be a r(?gunu(j a9 goon as possible. Cap-
“ What the weald needs is grain, averaging 900 poinds per
kora Holmes, banker; Mrs Myr- hard one. The crows are here a
^yons deserves praise for his ference,
men who can do to agriculture «lay for the whole herd. '
10:30 a. m.—Sunday School.
Eight acres, five of «'lover and
|e Cowins, adviser.
month early; the docks came six ^ jn atayjng wjth the develop-
11:30 a. in. Morning worship. and to horticulture what Edi­ three of alfalfa, were all that were
The new camp starts off with
weeks before the usual time; the nient
thet property under ad- Subject. "The Forward Vision. ’ son did to electricity, Carnegie required to pasture th«- 120 hogs
good membership and pros- dovea left three weeks ago. at least
circaln,tance*
b ut he be Text. Numbers 27:12
verse
to steel, ami the Valide1 b llti, on Mr. Gillette's farm, and after
cts for a prosperous future.
8:00- "Soul Thirst." Text. Rev.
Inking them off he cm several
a
month
earlier
than
nsual.
All
jjeVtfg
h(,
,1H
9
a
gr,.at
mine
in
the
T t --------------------
, ,
,
, , lieve*
Hills and ilarrim ans to tian - loads of hay from the land. Not
Mr. and Frank D. Hall returned the weeds are loaded with seed.
se.il. making „„d that it will yet b 22. 17.
Thursday at 8:00 p. m. — Prayir portatiou — develop their effi­ only is this price a recor«l for the
edoesday from the Yellowstone particularly the salt bushes. One pr0tl||cing the black nuggets i meeting.
ciency.’’— H. H. Windsor in Minidaka project, but the coet of
ttional park, where they spent ajOwyheeite foretells the coming > t nhnmjanc,,.
producing this pork is probahly a
You are invited to attend these
■
the September Popular Me­ retxirdfor the l niw-d States. The
services.
Pie of weeks viewing the many: winter by the reappearance of a _ ------------------------- -
chanics Magazine.
Gillette farm is hamlle«i on • care­
Strangers welcome.
-enomena of that most wonder-1 pet cat which always comes
Mg.J«rush. the s.,u.rre|s kangaroo
business hnsis. During the
'creation of nature’s handiwork. ^ winter late in September, but rats and sand rats an ..II prepar­ Trade your wheat or oats or) A fine, big boy was born to Mr. ful
past two years it has turned off at
ai though emjoying themselves jjja8ter Thomas came home on the ¡ng for winter.
For
rolled barley to Hiosch. He pays and Mrs. Justin S. Lagesoo on a good profit finishe«! mutton ami
»mensely, they express them-
. Au|iU#t this year. The 0th> r reasons the w.-ather prnph- market price.
pork.—Burley Bulletin.
August 20th.
1 ve* »• being glad to get back to
^ rreatores of the sand and eto fortell deep snow this winter
me-Made I
pywa.
r S S A , OREGON
R COUNTY U
ON
BIG WEINIE FRY
WAS SOME EVENT Opportunity}^ Young
Men Is in Agriculture
low
Cream
Separat
J
C. CO.
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