T he G ate city
VOL. XXL
NO. 29.
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IS CHOSEN
journal
$1.50 PER YEAR
NYSSA, OREGON, FRIDAY, MAY 11, 1923.
TIME CHANGE IS EFFECTIVE
SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 13
IRONSIDE WANTS CHANCE
TELEPHONE LINE
MOUNTAIN TIME
FOR RAIL
ROADS IN THIS COUNTY
Other Time Presumed to Change In
Conformity to Avoid Unneces
sary Confusion
OWYHEE
and reports that lambing
gressing satisfactorily.
is pro
WOULD CONSTRUCT TOLL LINE
TO BROGAN
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Elliott and
Dr. and Mrs. Payne of Ontario family called at the Bigelow home
were business visitors on the Owy Sunday evening.
ESTIMATE OF COST TO BE
At two o’clock Sunday morning, hee Thursday.
Warren Fenn is improving his
SECURED BEFORE FINAL
May 13, railroad time in Malheur
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Glascock and farm by the addition of some fenc
ACTION IS TAKEN
county will advance one hour, or to children visited at the Newbill home ing for hog pasture.
mountain time, according to an or near Ontario Friday, bringing home
Viola and Thelma Glascock are
der of the interstate commerce com with them their little daughters
visiting their aunt, Mrs. Nellie New
Plans are well under way for the
mission just issued.
who have been visiting there.
bill, near Ontario.
constructon o f a telephone line to
It is to be presumed that time in
Thos
A.
Welsh,
deputy
assessor
Mrs. Klinefelter, primary teacher, connect the upper Willow creek
NEWS FROM MISSOULA SAYS the entire county will be changed to
of Big Bend, was visiting the places finished her school here last week
country and the Malheur city dis
MILL WILL PROBABLY
conform to the railroad time to “ on his beat” in this vicinity Thurs
and left for a visit with her mother trict with Vale.
avoid the inconvenience which var day.
BE AT BURNS
in Portland.
The commercial club is interested
ious cities in southern Idaho have
Miss Cherald Green, of Nyssa, was
Mrs. Wm. Peutz has been suffer in the project and would assist the
found during the period that the
That important developments are “ railroad” time and the "city” time a guest of Bernice Fenn last week. ing for the past week with a severe fanners n the northern part o f the
Owing to illness Gerald DeBord ly sprained ankle.
county to get a direct connection
at hand for Southeastern Oregon is has been an hour apart.
was unable to take part in the inter
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Klingback and with the county seat. A meeting
indicated by the following dispatch
Bith Ontario and Vale will change
scholastic athletic track meet in On family and F. L. DeBord were busi was held at Ironside last Saturday
from Missoula, Montana:
time with the railroad. Other com
James W. Girard, logging engin munities have not been heard from. tario Friday. Kenneth McDonald and ness visitors in Ontario Wednesday. at which were a large number of the
Andrew Hite is visiting at the ranchers of Upper Williw Creek. T.
Elba Pullen won first in jumping
eer of the district No. 1 forestry
Both Ontario and Vale will change
home of his son, Rudolph, and fam T. Nelsen, Percy Purvis and Lloyd
organization, has resigned his place [ was the “ daylight saving’ time dur and running respectively.
Fred Snively was down Monday ily.
Riches attended on behalf of the
here and will leave for Oregon to ing the war. It will be effective
Mrs.
Margaret Schweizer and commercial club and preliminary
day to take charge of railroad loca throughout southern Idaho and to from his home up the river calling
Ontario, were plans were discussed..
tion, construction and logging opera Huntington, where the railroad will at the George Glascock home where daughter Anna of
he delivered an Australian Shep also week end guests in the Hite
At first it was considered best to
tions on a tract o f national forest change to Pacific time.
herd puppy.
home.
connect a line from Brogan to Mal
timber in the Malheur forest, con
People living within this zone
Wayne Mills and son Thomas of
E. F. Pratt and son Louis came heur City and thence to Ironside.
taining 890,000,000 feet of yellow should turn their time pieces one
Thursday
from
Ironside, The Ironside people would rather
pine, recently purchased by Fred hour ahead before they go to bed on Portland visited Friday and Satur down
day in the Lowe home enroute to spending the night at the DeBord construct a direct toll line from
Herrick, Idaho operator.
Girard Saturday night, May 12.
their ranch at Sage Brush Springs ranch. Mr. and Mrs. Pratt have there to Brogan and authorized H.
cruised the pine in this tract and
whither they were bound on a tour sold all their cattle, trading them C. Elms, A. E. Nichols and Ernest
recommended its purchase to Mr.
of inspection.
for a tract of range land on Juniper Locey to secure an estimate of the
Herrick.
-
Consideration
o
f
the
division
of
the
mountain.
cost o f such construction and re
The first part o f the work will
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Klingback and port back at a later meeting.
be the location and construction of FILED FOR RECORD WEEK OF school district was postponed until
the next board meeting owing to family and Mr. and Mrs. Lou de
J. A. Lakness, manager of the
80 miles of railroad, including a 30-
APRIL 28, 1923 TO
some misprint of papers which re Goede were guests to dinner Sunday Malheur Home Telephone company,
mile extension from the main line
MAY 5 ,1923.
in the DeBord home, the occasion has offered to give an estimate of
quired correction.
to Burns at a cost of $224,000, and
Mr. and Mrs. Oce Schweizer and being in honor o f Mrs. Klingback’s the cost and he will be taken over
a 50-mile tap line from Burns, where
Fred Woods et ux to John Sopher, family visited at the Bradney home birthday.
the proposed route within a few
the mill is to be located, to the
Lot 1„ and parts o f SW14 and Lot in the Bend Sunday.
days.
timber country, at a cost of $13,-
2, Sec. 18; also parts of SW14 and
Mrs. Charles Rachenberger, of
260 a mile. Then there wHI 1
hort
Lot 6, Sec. 7-20-47. 12-9-22. $8000. Boise, spent the past week as a
main-line branches froi
' 19
Mary J. Hallock to L. Belle Lees, guest in the Lowe home.
miles in lenghth into the
:r.
N % S% N W % Sec. 8-18-47. 3-18-22.
Prof. F. L. Bunch, of Caldwell, de
An all-steel mill of . J,000,000
$ 1 . 00 .
livered an address after Sunday
feet annual capacity is p.anned by
Augustin Ponson to Thos. P. school.
Mr. Herrick, probably at Burns.
McDonald, EV6 Sec. 1-27-39. 4-23-
Grandpa Hite visited his son near
For the first year’s operations, the
23. $10.
Ironside last week, also his niece,
initial outlay in railroad is approx
U. S. A. to Daniel A. Zehner, Mrs. Ike Powers, returning home on
imately $1,535,000.
Lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, SE*4NWA4, and Sunday. John Hite took him up in
S%NE>4 Sec. 6-16-40; SWL4NWH the car.
Mr. Girard arrived in Oregon on
Sec. 28-15-40. 11-2-20.
Wm. Peutz visited his sheep
Monday, in company with Fred
Daniel A. Zehner et ux to Tay camp at Nigger Rock the first of
Herrick, and Messrs Crane and
Wade, SONEL, E % SEH
Sec. 20; the week and reports the sheep in
Gray. They stopped at Ontario and
NW% Sec. 28; N E % N E% Sec. 29- fine condition with a good lambing.
were entertained at a banquet Mon-
15-40. 4-27-23. $10.
Mrs. Andrew McGinnis is visiting
da evening by the Commercial Club
Orlen Boston et ux to John Bos relatives in the valley.
there. Mr. Herrick spoke briefly to
ton, Adm., WHNE14 Sec. 9-19-44;
The four Hite boys left Monday
the effect that he was in southeast
also Lots 7 and 8, Block 6, Kelley’s for Long Valley. Mr. and Mrs. Ilite
ern Oregon for business and that he
Add to Vale. 5-2-23. $1.00.
and the younger children expect to SAYS COMMISSION HAS ONLY
intended going ahead at once to de
ULTIMATE AIM TO HANDLE
F. E. Locey et al to Ida B. Carey, follow the latter part of the week.
TO FOLLOW STATUTES
velop the timber properties he has
NW14NW14 Sec. 19; WV4SW14 Sec.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Klingback and
ALL CROPS FOR SELVES
AND GET ACTION
acquired. Mr. Girard spoke highly
18-13-41; NE14SE14 Sec. 13-13-40. family visited Sunday afternoon in
THRU ASSOCIATION
of Mr. Herrick and his integrity.
4-5-22. $1,280.
the Bigelow home.
From Ontario the party went di
Murray R. Morton et ux to Rob
Prof. F. L. Bunch and family and
Branding the much heralded policy
rectly to Burns and then to the big
ert Hann, Lots 3, 4, 5, and 6, Block Miss Edith Moore o f Caldwell and of Governor Pierce as to the state’s
For the purpose o f “ promoting,
-timber tract in Bear Valley. No an
31, Vale. 4-30-20. $300.
also Mr. and Mrs. E. L Mac Laffer- attitude towards irrigation and drain fostering and encouraging the bus
nouncement has been made by any
Robert Hann et ux to H. G. ty, Miss Bernice and Gordon Mac age
development
as
a “ stump iness of producing and marketing
one of the party, other than con
Kennard, Lots 3, 4, 5 and 6, Block Lafferty were guests in the Pullen speech,” and declaring that the pol agricultural products co-operatively
struction of the railroad from Crane
31, Vale. 10-10-22. $10.
home Sunday.
icy of the state has already been de and purchasing supplies incident
to Bums is to begin within a very
John Acarregui et ux to Helm &
Bob Wallace left the first of the termined by law and should be fol thereto and for reducing speculation
short time. Mr. Herrick and his
Yturri, Lot 4, Block 7, Jordan Val week for Long Valley. The family lowed according to the statutes, A t and for stabilizing agricultural mar
party are expected to return to
ley. 4-30-23. $100.
will go a little later.
torney General Van Winkle cast a kets, for co-operatively and collect
Burns the last of this week.
J. H. Ellis to Sylvanus F. Hoyt,
Mr. and Mrs. William McEwen dissenting vote at the securities ively handling the problems of agri
Lots 4 and 5, Block 316, Ontario. and family and Mr. and Mrs. War commission meeting in Salem on cultural producers and for other per
4-9-23. $300.
ren Fenn were entertained at din Tuesday.
tinent purposes,” a number o f prom
Sylvanus F. Hoyt to D. M. French, ner in the Geo. Glascock home Sun
The Pierce “ declaration of policy” inent growers o f Malheur county
Mad Coyote Killed After Biting A Lots 4 and 5, Block 316, Ontario. day.
headed by County Agent L. R.
is as follows:
*
4-27-23. $200.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Miller and
Malheur City Child
“ It seems desirable at this time Breithaupt, are endeavoring to or
Burt G. Roberts et ux to Jennie family of Big Bend called at the
ganize the Malheur Producers Co-
The small daughter of Mr. and Phelan, West 15 acres of NE14SE14 DeBord ranch Monday. Mr. Miller that the irrigation and drainage se
Operative Association among farm
curities
commission
as
constituted
Mrs. Joe Kanyid of Malheur City Sec. 23-21-46. 5-1-23. $1.00.
is rounding up a shipment of hogs. the last legislature adopt and de ers of the county.
is being treated this week by Dr.
J. A. Smith et ux to Wm. B.
Mr. and Mrs. Willard Lynch and
The primary purpose of the pro
Weese of Ontario for injuries re Eaton et al, SEt4S5L4 Sec. 24-15- son visited Sunday with Mr. and clare its policy with reepect to ir
rigation and drainage development. posed association is to handle the
ceived from an attack by a coyote. | 42. 3-9-23. $17,500.
Mrs. Joe Wallace taking Earl Dean
“ This constitution hereby declares crop this year for the apple and the
The child was playing in the yard
the eldest son of Robert Wallace
that it favors irrigation and drain prune growers of the county on a
when pounced upon by the animal Complaints Filed in Circuit Court. with them for a visit.
age, also the law creating districts co-operative basis. But the associa
and was bitten quite badly in the
C. B. Henggler vs. Wallace Grif
Among those from Owyhee attend
tion agreement makes eligible for
face. The mother of the girl came fin et als. 4-30-23. Foreclosure of ing the track meet Friday were, Mr. which is necessary for the develop
membership “ any producer o f apples
to the rescue and killed the coyote mortgage. $1600.
e d lMrs“ o7e 'schwei'ze'r“ an7fam'iiy','
«* * • » ^ cu ltu r a l resources or prunes, or other agricultural pro
with a gun. The head o f the ani
Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Lowe, Mrs. C. I o f n™ *tate-
This commission is in favor of a ducts for which the association holds
mal was sent to Portland and dis
Rachenberger, Mrs. W E. Walters
development
of Oregon because It is a marketing agreement,” and it is
covered to be a bad case o f the
and two sons, Elba Pullen, Laura
necessary
in
many parte of the Wil- to be presumed that the ultimate
rabies.
Huffman, Georgia Rust and Kenneth
general policy o f irrigation for the, aim o f the association will be to
Phil Schnur leaves work As Tax McDonald.
iamette valley as well as Eastern handle all agricultural products of
Deputy for Noe
Mr. and Mrs. Will Cathey and
Oregon for full agricultural and hor the members which can better be
family o f Vale were entertained at
sold in car-loads and co-operatively.
After conducting the tax collec
ticultural development.
An organization committee con
Faced Two Indictments For Alleged tion work and other office duties dinner Sunday by Mr. and Mrs.
“ Irrigation in Oregon has proven
W. E. Walters.
Land Fraud
of Sheriff Noe’s office for sever
to be a success in each instance sisting of A. A. Reed, C. C. Hunt,
Carl Fenn is helping Fred Kling
al years. Phil Schnur resigned from
where surrounding conditions have P. F. Countryman, A. A. Guttridge
Frank Hanna plead guilty to two
back on the farm this yeek.
his office the first o f the week and
been right and proper and the inter and H. L.Taylor, will see the various
indictments before the Federal court
ests of the settlers have been prop- growers in the county and secure
left Vale. Mr. Schnur has several
Frank
Newbill,
county
coyote
at Pendleton Monday and was fined
their membershop. It is the plan of
offers for tax experting work but j hunter, spent several nights in the erly safe guarded.
*501 and sentenced to 20 days in
the organization committee to sign
had not decided where he would lo George Glascock home last week,
“ The commission will consider
jail.
The
indictments
charged
up enough growers to make a pool
cate
when
leaving.
while
hunting
in
this
vicinity.
|
each
district
on
its
individual
merits
fraud in obfaining public lands.
of 150 carloads by June 1st. I f this
J. A. Byrne has been appointed
The
petition
for
dividing
the
giving
full
consideration
to
produc-
C. D. O’Connell was fined $100
new office deputy by Sheriff Noe. school district has created quite a * tiveness o f soil, possibility and is done, the apple and prune crop
for sending scurrilous matter thru
can be sold by the association this
stir in the neighborhood. A new \ probability of proper subdivision and
the mails.
year, it is said.
district
in
the
vicinity
o
f
Mitchell
settlement
and
the
ability
o
f
the
Witnessess for these two cases
Co-operative marketing, along the
Butte
is
proposed,
to
accommodate
farmer
to
make
a
financial
success.”
were summoned from Vale to Pen
right lines, is credited with being
*
dleton by United States Marshall E. B. Conklin Appointed Foreman the people who live up there, their j
only present outlet to school heinp | Favorable conditions now prevail the most important factor in the
•Clarence Hotchkiss as follows: J.
By Judge Biggs
either across the river or down th e1 in the dairy industry, due to better wonderful agrcultural development
Edwin Johnson, H. S. Sackett, Dep
The new grand jury was drawn Owyhee ditch bank, either way be- labor conditions and increased ex- of California. The results of it are
uty Sheriff
Phil Schunr,
Bert
i
by
H. S. Sackett, clerk of, the cir- ing impractical and dangerous in j port trade in the United States dur- to be noticed in Oregon particularly
Nichols. Thos. Jones, Judge George
ing the last year. Prices of dairy in Tillamook county where the Till
j
cuit
court, as follows:- E. B. Conklin bad weather or high water.
McKnight, M. N. Fegtley, Lee Steers
Rev.
James,
a
Nazarene
preirher
products average higher than last amook cheese has been placed npon
Paul" F. Moran, Orval Nichols, Sam
and Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Hunter.
the world’s market, without a peer,
Corliss, E. A. Frazer, Tom Coward in this community several years year, because o f the increase in the
through the association o f the
ago,
will
hold
services
following
buying
power
of
laboring
men.
Pro-
and
Charles
Thompson.
When Harold brought home his
cheesmakers of the county.
Sunday
school
on
the
second
Sun
- 1 duction
is
showing
considerable
in
Judge
Biggs
a
pointed
E.
B.
Con-
report card marked 100 per cent he
Many of the growers are enthus
day
of
each
month.
j
crease
but
it
is
believed
that
con-
said: “ Mamma, aren’t you glad you i kiin foreman of the jury and at
iastic over the possibilities for suc
Fred
Pullen
is
down
from
Wm.
]
sumption
will
keep
pace
for
seasonal
the
organization
meeting,
E.
A.
picked out a good little b o y ?”—
cess of this kind n Malheur county.
Peutz sheep camp at Nigger Rock j surplus.
Frazier waa elected clerk.
Crane American.
MONTANA MAN TAXES CHARGE
OF BIG DEVELOPMENTS
HARNEY VALLEY NOW
COUNTY STATISTICS
ACTION NOT FORMULATE
WORDNEED ASS’NPLAN
ATTORNEY GENERAL BRANDS
GROWERS ORGANIZING MAL
POLICY STUMP SPEECH
HEUR PRODUCERS
LAW GIVES DEFINITION
CHILD INDANGER
NEW DEPUTY SHERIFF
HANNA PLED GUILTY
GRAND JURY CHOSEN
FRUITS FIRST PROJECT
IS
PARDONED
ILL HEALTH OF POISONER IS
6IVEN AS REASON
SOLD MAP TO GUARDS
HIGH
FINANCE IN
PRISON
BROUGHT FAME TO A
FORMER ONTARION
Al Chance, sentenced from Mal
heur county to 15 years in the pen
itentiary two years ago for embezzl
ing funds from the Boise-Payette
Lumber company’s line yard at On
tario, has been pardoned by Gover
nor Pierce. Advanced stages of tu
berculosis is given as the reason for
the gubernatorial clemency.
Officers o f the court in Malheur
county did not advise the pardon.
Circuit Judge Dalton Biggs ,who
sentenced Chance, has had, he says,
a number of letters from prison au
thorities concerning the health of
the prisoner. These authorities ad
vised Judge Biggs that Chance's
health was very bad, that further
confinement, in their judgmment,
would result in speedy death, and
asked the court’s advise.
“ I refrained from advising
the
prison authorities in answering the
letters,” said Judge Biggs to The
Enterprise Thursday afternoon. “ I
told them I considered they were
better able to judge the condition of
the prisoner and that, If in their
opinion, freedom
was the only
chance of saving his life, I would
not object to a pardon.”
Neither Sheriff H. Lee Noe, nor
District Attorney Robert D. Lytle
were consulted by prison authorities
or the pardon board, other than to
fill out the usual form required
from the officers o f the court when
the minimum of the sentence is
served.
Al Chance fled the country before
his crime was discovered in Ontario
but was arrested at Long Beach,
California and brought back to Vale.
After several weeks in the county
jail he entered a plea o f guilt and
was sentenced April 28, 1921, to 15
years in the penitentiary. Investi
gation showed he had served time
in the Kansas state penitentiary for
forgery several years before and
was pardoned by the governor of
Kansas.
After a few months in the peni
tentiary, Chance again Bprang into
the limelight by selling the “ map”
o f buried treasury to four different
prison guards. It is said he got
$1200 from the four. Two of these
guards took their vacation at the
same time and found the hoax when
they met on the location given on
the map, prepared to dig out their
SOIL ENGINEER TO
BE IN VALE SOON
PLANS FOR MALHEUR PROJECT
MOST COMPLETE
DRAINAGE TO BE PROVIDED
FOR IN ORGINAL PRO
JECT WORK
Soil Engineer Strahorn, soil ex
pert of the department o f agricul
ture, has been assigned to make the
soil survey of the Malheur project
and is expected to arrive in Vale
the frist of the week. He will con
duct a thorough test of the soils in
the proposed units o f the Malheur
project and report to Manager Bond
o f the Boise project.
Just what can be expected in pro
ject construction on th*> proposed
district, providing the reclamation
service does nothing by halves snd
when the project is completed, the
land will be ready for farmers to
put into crop.
The plans for the district includs
concrete lined feed canals and later
als constructed to evry four acra
tract in the district, steel headgates
and weirs, and a drainage system
provided for in general construction.
In some instances construction
costs o f federal projects has run
higher than private projects, but
when the non-interest bearing Cap
itol ia considered, the cost is invar
iably lower.