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/ T he G ate C ity J ournal II.IIM K X X I I NYSSA, OREGON, FRIDAY, NOVEBER 26, 1923. N O 1- Eagle Shot Near Vale IVKK SEED INDUSTRY TURN ' fiNG OUT SUCCESSFULLY LO IS NOW RUNNING HIGH |e>her-' Working On Dr. W. S. flla ll’s Ranch And Yield Run ning From 8 to 10 Bu. Eagles are seldom seen in this locality but last Sunday H. E. Young, formerly ofVale, shot a large and beautiful eagle near Henry Gulch, about two and a half miles east of town. Mr. Young was hunting in the vicinity when he noticed the large bird flying near and brought it down. It is very very beautiful and a good siz ed bird, measuring over six feet from tip to tip of its wings. Mr. Young took the eagle to his present home in Ontario when he returned that evening and expects to have it stuffed and mounted. SHIP THREE CARS LETTUCE THIS WEEK A b ro a d W ith M r . Lakn ess -By J. A. Lakness- We left Christiania by rail this PRESENT WEATHER IMPROVES morning at eight o’clock. It was QUALITY OF LETTUCE nearly midnight when we arrived, by auto stage, at Grotli. We chang ed from train to stage at Otta at four o ’clock, and we have traveled nearly two hundred miles by rail, and about ninety miles by auto. Latest Market Report» Say This morning we were at sea level. At $2.75 A Crate And We are now at an elevation ol Steadily Advancing about four thousand feet. Norway Lp not all mountains. The first hun Three car loads of excellent head dred miles this morning took us lettuce were shipped out of Vale thru a level country. Not much un this week by the lettuce growers o f like our prairies. We went thru this vicinity, according to L. Gilbert Norway’s farming district. Here who is managing the shipping o f the every foot o f soil is made to produce product. to the limit. Intensified farming With the favorable weather con in the true sense. Here dairying is ditions o f this last week the quality o f the lettuce is still improving and the chief method used in getting the work is making rapid progress the maximum in ‘ ‘dollars” out of at every step. Next week Mr. Gil what the soil produces. The farms Big bert expects an increase of several are uniformly well improved. cars over this week’s shipment. clean barns and attractive dwellings Prices on head lettuce are high. dot the landscape. It is more like a Latest market reports were to the big garden for the farms are much effect that head lettuce was worth smaller than we are used to. ?2.75 per crate and the price stead We are traveling along “ Mjosen” , ily advancing. These quotations are made according to Percy Purvis, Norway’s largest lake. At the upper leading lettuce grower o f this lo end of which we enter the valley of cality. Ranchers who have a big Gudbransdulen. This is Norway’s lettuce acreage are indeed optimistic most historic, as well aS prettiest as prices for their crop are a good valley. Thru it Saint Olaf and his deal higher than they expected. army marched in the summer of The crew at the packing house ten hundred and twenty-one, teac.v and those engaged in hauling and and preaching the Christian Relig shipping worked four days this last week. Mr. Gilbert says the work ion. The people generally accepted will probably be a little slack some the new faith with little opposition. weeks owing to the uncertain growth Let us observe the station of “ Hun- of the lettuce, and then again they dorp” , as the train stops. It was will probably work every day if here that a chieftan named “ Dale- there is sufficient produce hauled grudbran” refused to accept the new teaching, arguing the old gods had made a strong and mighty race, P.-T. A. COUNTY COUUNCIL and that his own wooden image of WILL MEET IN KOLONY the war God “ Thor” came to life Those interested in Parent-Teach During the argument a warrior er activities will be interested to gave the image a mighty blow with know that the Parent-Teacher As his club, breaking it to splinters. sociation will meet at the Kingman Kolony school house Saturday, Nov From the ruins rats and mice ran ember 17, according to Mrs. F. C. for new shelter. There was no fur ther argument as to who consumed Fry, secretary. the food and “ Dalegrudbran” acce ed Christianity for himself and his OREGON SLOPE household without further formal The first meeting for the year of ities. As we proceed upward the valley Park Improvement club, which was to have been held Thursday, Novem narrows. The hillsides slope gently ber 8th, at the home o f Mrs. C. toward the river, along which we Welcher, has been postponed on ac are running. Big barns and farm count of the busy season. The date houses become less and less frequent. of the meeting will be announced The old-fishioned, quaint log houses Orville Merrick o f Caldwell re tho rapidly disappearing, come more When we turned home the first of the week and more in evidence. after having spent the past two leave the train at Otta we are in a and amidst high months with his aunt, Mrs. Milton narrow valley Lauer. He expects to enter college pine-clad hills. On the train today we" have had in Boise. Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Mattison were for traveling companions two inter esting persons. One . a professor o< guests Sunday of Weiser friends. Mary Margaret McVcker who has social sciences at Kiel Universty and been quite ill the past week, is im the other a minister who is doing missionary work among railroad proving. Walter Mahoney and family left workers. Both men are highly edu the last o f the week for Nampa, cated and well informed concerning where they expect to make their the vital problems now confronting the old world. The conversation has home. Mrs. Newton Draper and children been exceedingly interesting and o f Tamarack are spending a few highly instructive. We proceed up the valley of days with the former’s parents, Mr. “ Ottadalen” by stage. We are soon and Mrs. John Matteson. L. L. Culbertson left for Rupert in the midst o f mountain sceneries. Wednesday to resume his school From the very roadside towering work after spending the past two mountains rise to dismal heights. weeks with Mr. and Mrs. Otto C. The almost perpendicular walls were scoured clean o f earth by glaciers Miller. E. Frost left for the East Monday years ago. From the edge o f everlasting o f last week with two carload of snow, roaring water falls foam his apples. In Mr. and Mrs. C. C. McVicker were down the steep precipices. crevices here and there white snow Weiser visitors Friday. Mr. and Mrs. P. M. Boats enter lightens the otherwise dark and tained at dinner Sunday in honor . f gloomy walls which guard man’s the 16th birthday anniversary of approach to the mountain region ‘‘Jatunheimen” (Home of George Davis. Covers were laid called for W. L. Davis, Mrs. D. R. Davis, Giants). Against these giants the Miriam and Lauise Davis, Gertrude old Norse Gods waged constant wars. It was not only honorable to die in and Mary Boats, the honor guest, battle, but it promised a sure en and host and hostess. trance to “ Valhalla” (Heaven)— a Mount Washington, Oregon, was festive hall where festivities never scaled August 26, 1923, for the first ended and where the supply - of ail time on record. Six boys from never ran out. Bend, Oregon, after many hours The stage leaves at seven thirty o f arduous work, reached the top in the morning, so we will have most pinnacle. None o f the boys in time for about six hour’s rest befo a the party were more than twenty- we go on further over the divide one years o f age. At one time a and down towards the long narrow member of the party lost his foot arm o f the Atlantic Ocean called hold and clung desperately to the fjords. face of a perpendicular cliff, with News from Washington. Jail Is an 800-foot abyss yawning beneath him. A tube, containing their names fiHed with bootleggers. Wire doesnt the story o f the climb, and small say what bootleggers did. personal effects, was left at the top Who is this man Ford we see so to substantiate their claim. They slid down the dangerous part of the much aixuit in newspapers? Is he pinnacle by means of a rope which a presidential candidate? PRICES STEADILY ADVANCING [(From Malheur Enterprise.) Jhreshing of Vale’s clover seed began last week on crops that been grown east o f town and ! yield is surprisingly good, run-1 Malheur County Real Estate Tran»- nround eight to 10 bushels per, ferg Recorded During Week at present. o f Oct. 20th to 27th ^though the raising o f clover Lee R. Shaffer to J. H. Rust-NE% nr market is practically a new in this locality it promises j NE * Sec. 30-10-47. 2-26-23. $10.00. me a leading one as it is Ontario National Bank to J. H. ■T,g not successfully. The t h r e s h Rust-NEViNE(4 Sec. 30|19|47. 10-11- ,.n Dr. S. W. H all’s ranch1 23. $1.00. (Q. C. Deed), of .own at present and the j y Rust et ux to Drue Anderson has been very good. They e x- N E i4 N E % Sec j o |1#147. 9|19|23. io finish m that vicinity next j 1 1 ' 1 and will then move west of $3,250.1)0. where there is considerable Goldie Starks Moore et vir to acreage. Harriett V. Toler et vir-NVi Sec. rwo varieties of clover were I 12-27-30. 10|18|23. $10.00. Jwn, red clover and alsike, but i Andy Masonholder et ux to Ed it ¡s considerably more acreage ward Kopp-Undivided Mi interest in >hc former variety. | SWVtSWVt Sec. 14, and NW14NW f in/ tv Z u e S r r haVe be,:n |V. Sec. 23-26-46. 1-14-22. $1.00. lud on the Trent Johnson ranch, ^ T1 , . . « , i • „ . . ___ . ____ Caroline Palmer et vir to Edward probably being the biggest acre- — _ ,. . . , .. . . . . Other ranchers who have go 1 Eopp-Undivided Mi interest in SW p<? are J. H. Russell, 20 acres, D. */4SW% Sec. 14, and NWM/NW*.4 pClure, 60 acres; Billie Reed, ‘20 Sec. 23|26|46. 1-27-22. $1.00. and Dr. Hall about 40 acres. N. C. Maysonholder et ux to Edward threshing erew expect to be Kopp-Undivided Vi interest in SW firing on crops around Vale for >/.SW)4 Sec. 14, and NW ttNW y* next three or four weeks, but Sec. 23-26-46. 1|19|22. $1.00. of course depends on weather Etta E. Mullinix et vir to Edward Edition*. Kopp-Undivided V » interest in SW i4SW>4 Sec. 14, and NW14NW14 Sec. 23-26-46. 1-14-22. $1.00. Sheriff H. Lee Noe to Farmers & Stockgrowers Bank, and assigned to J. A. Harsh-Lots 1, 2, 3, SWV4NEU SE % N W i4, and E%SW>4 Sec. 0- IKES TRIP EAST AFTER AN 19-45. 1|30|23. $4,060.42. (Certificate ABSENCE OF 5 YEARS of sale). Sheriff H. Lee Noe to Lee Charles Miller-60 acres in Sec. 15-16-47. 10- n ty Assessor Visits New York 26-23. $697.85. Washington, Pittsburg And James Rolen et ux to W. B. Niagara Falls Rutherford-Lot 1, Sec. 6; Lot 4, and SWV4NWL4 Sec. 5-14-39; S W k SW(4 Sec. 32-13-39. 9|1|23. $800.00 <m .oalheur Enterprise.) Irow G. ;,h.iin, County As- U. S. A. to Otelia Troutwine-SE k.ui. returned from New York K N E fc, NE24SEV» Sec. 10; W14NW A iy. Mr. Graham left 14 Sec. 11-40-43. 7-8-21. |h’ October 8th,in company Maynard Redmond et ux to Frank |th his sifter, Mrs, George Frazer 1 her family, who embarked for C. Bramwell, Supt. NW'ASE'A Sec. Hand at New York. They took 32|20|46. 7-6-23. $1.00. Sheriff H. Lee Noe to Western I Chicago, Pittsburg, Niagara Falls Loan & Building Co.-Lots 3 and 4, Id Washington D. C. on the trip, •“ ■"his is the first time I have been Block 9, Eldredges Add. to Vale. 10- kt since nearly five years ago,” 26-23. $1,003.81. l i Mr. Graham, ‘'and there is a Alex B. Hodges et ux to N. C. Added change. The textile indus- Kries-Lots 2, 3, 4, and SE14SW)* |es are booming in the east and Sec. 19-21-38. 10-17-23. $1.00. " *a practically no unemployment Marriage Licenses Issued. the farmer is as bad o ff as the Alfred Griffin and Pearl Hartle. ltd farmer, if not worse, and his 10-27-23. |r> question is a problem. 1T would much rather live out Complaints Filed In Circuit Court ke than hack there,” continued Mr. Payett-Oregon Slope Irrigation f 1 m, ‘ ‘We live so much more District vs. H. Lee Noe, Sheriff, rial lives than does the down and Malheur County. 10-22-23. To kterner. One begins to notice the set aside order of County Court. p'erence as soon as the train pulls Snake River District Imp. Co. vs. st from Chicago and the feeling ^>ws as it draws near the coast.” J. W. Weimer et als. 10-27-23. Fore closure o f liens. $1,653.29. Petitions Filed In Probate Court Estate o f Katharina Peichel. 10-22- 23. N. Fegtly Visits Ranch At Wat Notarial Commissions son And Reports Optimistic S. F. Taylor, Ontario, Ore. 10-22- Conditions 23. Articles of Incorporation N. Fegtly returned to his home |re Monday after spending the Bar L Bar Sheep Co., Matt Mor rekend on his ranch near Watson, gan, J. T. Updike and Ed. R. Coul l reports the country surrounding ter. 10-24-23. atson looking very good for this ‘ son of the year. The range is vered with grass, cattle are look- r unusually good and sheep are k'dnig on the range. Some o f the lockers are busy gathering their lm crop which is also very good .TEMS OF INTEREST ABOUT L.r year. THE BOYS AND GIRLS. I LI A HER REN BROUGHT I " ' ALE FOR MEDICAL AID The next big event in club work ors. Ella Ilerren, formerly of to happen is the Judging Contest al Ms city, was brought to Vale this the Pacific International Livestock | ek in a serious condition. She Exposition, held in Portland, next been ill only two days before lit pneumonia semed to be develop week. There will be at least 25 ing and t was thought necessary to teams from Oregon, Washington and ring the sick woman to Vale wh -re Idaho and Montana competing in he could have proper care. She is the Club Judging. 19 o f the teams ’ home of her brother, M. J. will be from Oregon and the rest plights. from outside states. On Wednesday evening o f last A total o f 450 animals will be ex- 4°ek Mr. and Mrs. Slaght motored mororo-i j Rj^ited by club members, including Rye Valley where * n e i T S l l I o n n I ____ 1 „ i L « » . 7A p -es at present and MriV" Thelma' 300 he“ d of h° KS‘ 70 head b<‘e£ cat lerren returned with them. ! t,e* 36 or 40 he,d o i »beep and a ; few angora goats and colts. About Drug clerks went out on a strike 100 head altogether will be coming i Butte, Mont, so we bet there was I from Washington and Idaho and the could not be disengaged and still re Weeks and Ford are arguing, but mains on the peak. stamp shortage. remainder from Oregon. there is too much other footbball Will X-ray King Tut. What will news to read what they say. , Hounds lose scent of Redding, Cal. ; Society women painted a Hemp- COUNTY STATISTICS P E W M. GRAHAM SAVS VALE BEATS NEW YORK IEEP ON _GREEN RANGE CLUB NEWS NOTES gain robbers. Bloodhounds earn auto tire treads. yg> $1.50 PER YEAR AI0 TO VETERANS STANDS FIRST Expended $9,738,448 in Services to Mankind Last Year at Home and Abroad. Washington.—With a budget of $5,- 54S.077.81 for carrying out the pro gram of service during the current fis cal year, beginning July 1, the Ameri can Red Cross announces tljat this amount was $4.195,370.41 less than was expended during the fiscal year ended last June 30. During that year expenditures reached a total of $9,- 738.448.22. of which amount $2.605,- 696 09 waa devoted to relief of refu gees in Greece who had been driven out of Asia Minor. In announcing the budget for the year, the statement from National Headquarters empha sited the fact that Its extensive work at home and abroad depends almost wholly upon the nation-wide support of the organization through enroll ment of membership In large numbers during the annual roll call, which will be In progress from November 11 to November 29 under the auspices of the 3,600 Chapters In the United Slates and throughout the world These Chapters, It la pointed out, dur ing the last fiscal year expended of their own funds approximately J3.920,- 000 in work for the men who wore the United States uniform during the World War, so that the estimate of seme $15,000,000 expended during twelve months by the American Red Cross as a whole la considered con jirvatlve. ELIZABETH IH'KAY FOUND NOT GUILD . W. H. McKAY IS ACQUITTED BY COURT’S DIRECTION LEAVES FOR STATE HOSPITAL Jury Returns Verdict of Not Guilty On Grounds Of Insanity in Short Time With Elizabeth McKay leaving for the Eastern Oregon State Hospital for the insane, at Pendleton, Oregon Thursday, came the final chapter of the trial of W. H. McKay and wife, Elizabeth, charged with the murder o f their just born son by leaving it to die in a four foot square toilet on the second floor of the DrexeJ hotel on August 4th. Mr. McKay was acquitted by direction of the Court, Judge Dalton Biggs presiding, at the conclusion of the testimony and the jury after being out little longer than enough time to eat ¿inner, re turned a verdict o f “ not guilty” on the grounds of insanity, for Mrs. McKay. Judge Biggs made his order of committment and the attendent from the state hospital arrived in Vale Thursday for Mrs. McKay. The indictment for murder was re turned by the Grand Jury on August 29th, against both o f the McKays and the trial started on Tuesday of last week, the final verdict being S o ld ie r S e rv ice S tan ds F ir s t From July 1, 1917, to Jurre 30, 1928. brought in after a little less than the Amerli-an Red Cross spent nation five days of impaneling the jury, ally and through Its Chapters close to taking evidence, arguments and in $164,000,000 lu behalf of American sol structions. The jury, which was drawn from diers who served in the war and their families. During last year the figure the four corners o f the county, was alone mounted to more than $6.866, composed o f ten farmers and two 255, and for the current fiscal year automobile men. The spectators filled the court National Headquarters has set a ide under tho heading, “ Assistance to Dls room to “ standing room only” din abled ex-ServIce Men and W omen," ing all of the trial. $2,065,834.20. The Chapters will con tlnue to do their part, so that It may be predicted with confidence that again more than $5,500,000 will be dls Fred Currey left Saturday morn bursed in the large variety of services ing for Vale and Ontario. to the disabled men and women and Louis Delsple received a badly their families— services for which the Government cannot provide and which sprained leg and other minor in reach the Individual case with the juries last week when his horse sympathy and understanding only ac threw him. He was taken to the tual contact can Insure. This work Ontario hospital. , of the American Red Crees approaches Mrs. Barney Tillotson of Beulah the fifth anniversary of the Armistice, visited in Juntura last week. which ended the World W ar with only Many kiddies and grown-ups were slight decrease In calls for service In pleasantly entertained with the the Interest of the welfare and re habilitation of those who suffered Frank Adam’s show Friday night. physical disability in the service of It was one of the best shows that has ever arrived in Juntura. their country. In the Interest of the enlisted men Barney Tillotson o f Beulah left serving In the Army and the Navy for Portland last week. He expects the budget provides $309,020 for the to be gone several weeks. current year. This Is obligatory un Miss Ula Gramse of Ontario who der the Red Cross charter, for the or is teaching the Beulah school this ganlzatlon must act In matters of vol winter spent the weekend at the untary relief and as a medium of com muuicatlon between the people and Guy Secoy home. Mrs. McCumber of Beulah was their Army and Navy. D o m e stic P ro gram E xten siv e calling on friends in Juntura this The domestic operations of the week. Mrs. Louis Delsole spent the American Red Cross comprise an ac curate Indicator of the continuing week end in Ontario with her hus calls for expansion In all the estab band who is in the hospital there. lished and authorized services. The Mrs. Jack Woodward visited with budget aggregates $4,638.449 70, as friends and relatives in Vale last against expenditures during the last year of $4.452,066 20. The abnormal week. Mrs. Oscar Rust returned the demands In the foreign field In the last several years, however, have first of the week after a few days largely subsided, and In consequence visit in Ontario. $906.628.11 has been set for the 1923-24 Mrs. John Walsh o f Payette, Ida., budget under foreign operations. On is visiting here daughter, Mrs. L. this amount $394,303.91 is set aside for Delsole. engagements which will close the Mr. and Mrs. Will Upson visited work for the refugees In Greece, for wboen amelloraG 'n 12,605.696 09 was their ranch at Otis Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Madden left expended up to June 30, when the American Red Cross withdrew, and last week for Ontario where they the work was taken over under the will visit friends and relatives sev control of the Greek government. For eral days. liquidation and completion of general Milton Davis o f Drewsey was in relief In ‘ Europe the budget provides Juntura Sunday. $100,000, and for American Junior Red Ves Williams and son Lee of Cross, projects, foreign and Insular, and assistance to Chapters listed un Drewsey were in Juntura one day last week. der foreign operations. Ready fo r E m e rg en cy C a lls The readinceee of the American Red Cross to answer immediately with ef fective service In cases of emergency Is an outstanding feature of Its pro gram that Is universally recognized. During last year $525.0011 was spent for relief In 110 disasters, which was $207,500 In excess of budget provi sions This year $400.000 has been appropriated for this service. Since 1181 the R d Cross has administered more than $20,000.000 In relief work following disasters. Other budget items in the schedule for domestic operations include $1, 282.524 20 for »■ rvice an I a utistance to th' 3.SKI 'h a p ters and their Branchea. 880,009 for assistance to other organisations. particularly stressing child health activities; $194.- •00 for Junior Red 'T o ss projects and service, f 10,824 20 'or assi'tance to Nurses’ Tralnlnf S,-hoots and for otb er actlvitl s $111.456 80. For supervt ston of service activities and general management of the entire American .ted Cross less thau 1225,000 la allotted Andy Robinson of the Independent Meat and Grocery Co. at Ontario was a business visitor here last week. Mrs. Roy Beede o f Drewsey was visiting her mother, Mrs. Minnie Pegg, last week. Deane and Mrs. Goodman spent several days in Ontario and Weiser last week. The Hallowe'en entertainment to be given Saturday evening Nov. 3rd, by the Altar Society is expected to draw a large crowd. A fourteen-story hotel for Negroes will be built this autumn at Atlantic City. The building is to be owned, operated and patronized exclusively by Negroes. It will be o f steel and reinforced concrete and will cost ap proximately $750,000. The United State Government is able to make prohibition a success among the Indians, according to the Department of the Interior. In two Joe. Babcock, man who sent Msh years. $130,734 in fines have been should stead (L. I.) church, but not with they find? They will find out if his! What’s in a name? Modesto, Cal., Hongg to America, has landed in collected from the nation’s wards and wife could shoot straight. San Francisco without a murder. rouge and eyebrow pencila. 97,938 gallons of liquor confiscated. has reduced taxes. “ i
