STATUS OF THE BLOODHOUND
C*urt of Kantaa
Do You Comply With the j| •upreme
the Animal's “Testimony"
R u le , That
Butter Law?
rating of the bloodhound In Am
erican criminal Jurisprudence la not U n lik e T h o s e o f K a n s a s ,
settled It appears, despite the able
and exhaustive opinion derogatory to
N e b r a s k a a n d O k la h o m a
the dogs rendered by Judge Sullivan
th e D ro u th
S c o u r g e Is
when on the supreme bench of No
braaka.
If not, read the following law and have your Butter Wrappers
nicely printed, with your name and weight of butter thereon.
CAUTION!
C H A P T E R 17«, SECTION 3.
“ It shall be unlawful for any person, tirin, association or cor
noratiou to sell, offer or expose for sale, any short weight butter ; I
Jrithin
bin the State of Oregon. All butter sold or exposed or offered ! 11 ;
sale in rolls, prints or squares within the t ate of Oregon, shall I ’
for sale
plainly marked: ‘ Eight ounces, full weight,’ sixteen ounces,! |
tef
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“ twenty-four ounces, full weight,” or “ th irty-tw o'’
f fflll [weight,’
WCltfL
ounces, full weight,’ and ever roll, print or square sold, offered or
exposed for sale shall contain the number of ounces marked there-!!
oj'and any person, firm, association or corporation violating any ; ;
of ¡he provisions of this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misde- ! !
meanor and upon oonviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of ! !
ootless than $25.00 nor more than $100.00, or by imprisonment; ;
n the county jail for not less than six months; or both such fine < »
end imprisonment.”
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The Journal can furnish you with good parchment Butter!
Wrappers, printed according to law, at $1.25 for the first hun
dred and 25 cents for each additional 100. This includes stock
and printing. W e are printing for the best buttermakers in this
valley, and would like to add your name to our list of satisfied ! !
customers.
You can send your order by mail with the amount. Write
plainly and state the size you wish.
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That opinion was so favorably re
garded and was shown such respect
by courts In other states that Its char
acter as a precedent seemed to be
fairly well established. But now an
opinion of precisely the opposite im
port has been handed down by so near
a tribune as the supreme court of
Kansas The ruling Is that the "testi
mony" of bloodhounds Is something
that may be properly considered, es
pecially In connection with other evi
dence concerning the competency of
which there Is no dispute.
The court refuses to set aside a ver
dict of murder against a man convict
ed solely on the evidence of shoe
prints and the trailing of footsteps by
hounds. The dogs took the trail from
the tracks around the body of the
murdered man and followed It for six
miles to the home of the man, who
was then accused and later convicted.
The shoe tracks around the body and
the home of the man accused corres
ponded with the shoes he wore. It was
contended that If the trailing by the
hounds were eliminated from the evi
dence the evidence from the shoe
prints alone would not be sufficient
for conviction on a capital charge,
but the court held that the “testi
mony” of the hounds was competent
to corroborate that of the prints.
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largest In the world and It Is esti
mated that 5,000 persons are employed
In the manufacturing and othe rwork
Incidental to this trade. The value c f
the Imports Is said to be »3,500,000 to
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Wanted— 75 Prune Pickers jj Nyssa
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For the M iles C annon Orchard. W ork to begin
about A ugust 17.
Seventy-five Prune Packers at
the Nyssa warehouses.
Register now at t u
Malheur County Bank
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K n ow n for its strength and service.
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OREGON
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Office between Second and Third
on Main street.
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THOS. JONES, MANAGER
PIONEER BLACKSMITH SHOP
C O O K , Props
General Blacksmiths
Wagon W ork and Horse Shoeing
ow W o r k a Specialty
U n k n ow n H ere.
A drouth of nearly two weeks in
the states of Kansas, Oklahoma
and Nebraska is drawing to a
close in the lurid haze of a blaz
ing sun and the utter absence of
moisture on which plant life is
accustomed to feed. The sons of
the patriarch who went forth from
Israel into the land of Egypt to
buy corn and to return to the pa
rental tree that the lives of
the family and the stock upon the
place might not perish bnt in a
measure tide over the untoward
conditions that confronted the
husbandman of that day of stren
uous want and the widespread
failure of all vegetation, are today
exemplified in the fearful condi
tions that now abtain in the
above named states. For it was a
faminine of long and trying de
mands upon the resources of the
slender stock of provender held
in store by the Children of Israel.
The same conditions confront the
people of Kansas, Nebraska and
Oklahoma at the present time,
with the added horrors of a scarc
ity of water for man as well as
beast. The heat for the past two
weeks in the above named states
has burned up vegetation, has
dried up the springs of water and
forced farm life toward localities
where water is available.
The
sacrifice to the farming interests
of these states is beyond estimate.
The parched lands and shriveled
vegetation is an admonition that a
home in this area is and has al
ways been subject to the devasta
tion of a horde of locusts and
grasshoppers, the ruthless and
unbridled foroes of nature in the
cyclone’s fury and the yet more
destructive periodic visitations of
drouth in all its withering af
fects upon life and property val
ues. In Oregon, and especially
so in the great Snake river valley,
there are none of these drawbacks
to be overcome in the settlement
of our lands, in the peaceful en
joyment of a competence accum
ulated by thrift and enterprise,
nor in the great possibilities of
climate, soil and accessibility to
market. Oregon offers to the dis
heartened farmer of Kansas. Ne
braska and Oklahoma an avenue
of escape from his discouraging
environment. Crops here are not
dependent upon the caprices of
nature, the vagaries of storm
clouds nor the aerial unrest and
atmospheric revulsions that are
clearing houses of storm centers
and cyclonic force.
When ‘.he
rays of an August sun are suffi
ciently powerful in their intensity
to cause the ignition of a oar of
coal it is about time for the sons
of men to seek the shades of the
tall timber. When streams and
rivulets dry np and the udders of
wells refuse to give forth the wa
ters of life, then it behooves the
denizens of such districts to gin!
up their loins and gat »hern to a
more congenial and a more pleas
ant clime
i JULIUS CAESAR IS
BADLY MALIGNED
than brains. The A m erican, in
about two feet o i 19-em space,
in ch ron iclin g the presence of
“ Scotty,” says:
In tne language of Julius
Caesar, "H o o t Mon, how hath
the m ight fallen” and
once
more a sample of financial p rof
ligacy is brought to us in a
most forceful manner. On the
farm of Dave Madison of W eiser
Flat we now find the man wield
ing tbe sm ooth end of a pitch-
fork who once worried for fear
he would never be able to spend
all tbe m oney be had.
W hose
nights were a torm ent filled
with sudden wakings in a cold
sweat caused by a dream where
in be was made to die with all
tbe money in the world unspent.
Busily engaged in distributing
feed to the chickens in the early
m orning or humped up over u
tin pail receptacle and in d u cin g
the m ild-eyed cow to give down
her milk, we find the man who
once hired a whole train to co n
vey him from the m etropolis of
California to that of Illinois.
A nd all this on $2.25 per.
A ccord in g to the m an’s story
this is “ Death Valley Scotty.”
He is the man who sntered the
region unconquered by man
and brougnt from tbe most des
olate part of it more gold nug
gets than a man could lift all at
once.
H e is a man 55 years of age
and at this tim e weighs 135
pounds. H e is about 5 feet 9
inches, ligh t com plectioned and
blue eyed. Does anybody know
h im ?
ANNUAL MEETING
OF STOCKHOLDERS
A nnouncem ent is made that
the annual m eeting of the stock
holders of the OwyfTee Ditch
com pan y will be held on the
second day of Septem ber.
The
statement is also given out that
matters of im portance will com e
at that tim e for ‘ consideration.
Th e num ber of acres supplied
this year with water is given as
6400, a decrease of 1100 acres
from that furnished du rin g the
lust season. Many have made
inquiry as to the details of the
m ethod pursued in d erivin g the
necessary revenue for the sup
port of the system, and for fur
ther enlightenm ent on the sub
ject the follow in g is taken from
the Ontario A rgus of last week:
“ Th e revenue is derived at
present from a 5 per cen t as
sessm ent on all stock and a
charge for users of water taken
out and the result ia a great un
certainty for the directors to
contend with each year in re
regard to |the funds available,
the revenues fallin g below the
requirem ents for upkeep and
and the m eeting of the paym ent
of bonds. M any of the stock
holders
are also w ondering
what will happen when the ad
ju d ication of the water o f the
Owyhee river is m ade; where
will the rights o f those who
have not used water com e in,
the law requ irin g the beneficial
use of water to be valid.
"Su ggestion s have been made
THEIR APPETITES WITH THEM that the assessments he levied
t'/t Pounda of M oat and 12 Q uarta of on all
S tro n g D rin k P o r C apita
ta Fron eh Record.
Frenchmen are pretty able trenches
men, but the following account of a
meal made b j eight Norman peasants
■urpaaaea expectation*. According ta
the Medical Journal, a graaler with
•oven of his friends undertook an ex
pedition to gather fagots.
Among them they should hare man
aged some 400 fagota, but 37 repro
■ented the sum of their work, the
•mall total being accounted for. poa
•Ibly by tho luncheon which the octet
devoured. They managed to consume
30 pounds of meat, S quarts of pure
perry, 10 bottles of assorted wines, I
bottles of champagne and • quarts of
Ider brandy of an alcohollo strsngtb
of «5 per ce n t A roast gross, placed
AougbtfuIIy among tha rations, was
sot required.
This luncheon represents an aver
age of 3H pounds of m eat sad U
quarts of milk, none of It weak, per
capita during tbs I t hours occupied
by the expedition.
SURELY
HAD
KICK
stock equally, believing
that it w ouldjtend t-> increase
the acreage in cultivation, place
tbe com pany on a stable basis
so they will be in position to
care for the bonds when they
becom e due and meet cu rren t
expenses. A u otber suggestion
is to charge for all land in cu l
tivation whether watered or not.
This would divide the as
sessment up in buc I i a way that
it would not be burdeusom e on
anyone and would relieve the
man who ia increasing the value
of the ditch by improving aud
cultivating tne lauds under it
ami placing it equally on all the
stockholders.
“ It requires tw o-thirds o f the
stockholders to hold a m eeting
and twe-thirda o f the stock rep
COMING
resented to am end the by-law s.”
C ond u ctor** W o rd s M u st H a v e M ad e
D a r k C le u d s Settle A ro u n d
W * u ld - 6 o Paetongor.
H a was In an outlying part of the
Bronx. H e had an Important engage
ment In the lower part of Manhattan
and already he was late.
Finally a
trolley ear hove In eight and bore
rapidly down cn him.
He tfgnaled It, but In his dlamay
the speed waa not slackened
There
was a second of anxloue
thought—
■boukfl he or should he not Jump to
the oar— the speed wee great, but e°
wea the distance between car*.
And then came the back platform
of the car, and be »hot out hie arm.
clutched the hand rail—and the next
Instant ha waa standing on the plat
form, feeling as though hla arm hao
been yanked from Ite socket, hut wear
Ing a aetf-eattsfled »mil«
The conductor. Inside th* car. ptxIleO
'be bell and the car stopped.
“ HeyI Get off of h are!" shouted the
conductor. “ Thle Id a work ear
New York Press.
The Trimmer's Trick.
I took the trouble to watch a tii
tner All a basket with ordinary pots
toe«, writes “Tip" In the New York
Press
He took an enormoua potato
too big to sell to any wlae buyer. He
put thla potato on end with «Town»
■p In tho basket aad then he built
upon It a
kind of trcaUework or
bridge, piling en the line sized, nice,
round baking boye on top When the
customer
buy»
the potatoes are
poured a» quickly aa a flash Into a Mfl
bag and It le oaly when the housewife
gets home that she find the giant
sized potato nearly Ailing the ba*
Few people realize that Julius
Cae«ar was a Scotchm an, in all
Abstracta of title to all lands aml peradventure the lineal, collat
town lote in Malheur County.
eral or the heather-clad hag-
pipe ancestor of old A n d y him
P. J. P H IL L IP S
self. Y et we are led to believe
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
that such is the fact from au
Nyssa
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Oregon article in last' week’s issue of
the W eiser A m erican.
This
paper
further
claim s
that and eh» »teen» up when »ha cute up
O. B. W IL L S
“ Death Valley Scotty” is at the tbe Mg, fat boy for boiling Ae
m l«, the big onas have a great big
present tim e perform ing useful hollow heart and Insides aa black as
Proprietor of
farm labor at so m uch per, a man * hat. Nowaday* they are aell
Ing tomatoes and other truck n*
instead of tossing golden nug
backet* not In them
They take »
gets to kids just for the exercise nice big wad of paper and fill
*h#
T H E C IT Y
DRAY
such a diveraion affords an abla- basket to the top and the# pile la
produce and put on tlis prtea-
Nyssa
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VALE, OREGON
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W H IS K E Y
Clear anti pare is every
Rueful of wine o r liquor that
ion bay here, because we are
Hry particular ia toying
Iron) wholesale house* so that
may conscientiously sell
10 our patrons. Yon will like
Hie flavor and the strength of
I' nr ines and Liquors, and
After the first trial we shall
expect you to become a regu-
patron.
DRY FARMING
IN THE WEST
I n t e r e s t in g
to
O r e g o n ia n s
I'd like to see $30,000.000 ap
propriated for reclamation in W est
ern states.
I have come to see for myself
what are the problems and tbe
best methods in solving them.
I would like to see the Alaska
coal fields developed so the people
conld get the benefit of cheap
coal.
I d like to see the government
build railroads in Alaska
I am intensely interested in thu
levelopment of this western cou n
try
By Franklin K Lane, Sec
retary of Interior
N o t ic e t o T a x p a y e r s .
N o tice is h ereb y g iven that th e
board of eq u a liza tion >4 Malheur
County, Oregon, will m eet at the
,-ourt boose in Vale on the second
M on d a y , b ein g the Hih day of
S ep tem b er. 1913, (or the purpose
o f examining and equalising the
assessment
rolls
of
Malheur
county for the year of 191$.
LO U IS K H IL L .
aI4-4t.
Countjr ilU M o r .
While hog cholera is creating
ranch alarm in many localities ia
our sister state of Idaho there ia,
so far as investigation goes to
show, no ovideace of its pretence
in Eastern Oregon.
Let the GoMeo Role Store hare
your order for U dor-made slothes
You will be guaranteed atyle. fit
and workmanship.