THE GATE CITY JOURNAL
VOLUMK XXIV. NO. 27.
NYSSA. OREGON, FRIDAY. AUGUST 20, 1926.
SURVEY STARTED « « « OWïHEE
Among the re/ent class reunions
was that of the class o f 1861.
Rev.
Walpole, Mass., is president o f the
all the other offices, being the only
l M U M i ™ «JEC iraC EED IB S S j
R. J. NEWELL IS GOVERNMENT
ENGINEER IN CHARGE OF
NEW PROJECT.
$500.000 TO BE SPENT NOW
County Statistics
SIDELIGHTS.
I TRANSCRIPT
OF
COMPLETE
RECORD GOES TO SECRETAY
OF THE INTERIOR
at Amhurst College
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.
Edwin A . Adams of
Sheriff C. W. Glenn to State of
class and also holds Oregon— S V4 SE M, and NW'ASE'A
surviving member. Sec. 10; and SW ’ASWVi Sec. I l
ls
40.
6— 17— 26.
$3,769.48.
*1-30 PER YEAR
POINT
WAY TO PROFIT
ITÚ.
Admiral Peary was the first to declare that Dr. Cook
Fred L. Sheets et ux to J. J. Sara-
OFFICIAL
lied about reaching the North Pole.
Now Capt.Riiser- zin— SHSE14 Sec. - 22— 19— 46. 7— UNION P A C I F I C
-MAKES SURVEY IN EAST-
Larsen, navigator of the Norge, says that Peary didn’t 27" 26." *$ ^ .00. " < q . c . Deed).
EBN OREGON.
U. S. A. to Carl E. Archer— SE)4-
reach it either.
If this sort o f thing keeps up we may
IrHgati<m ^utricf,* from ‘the U m f " (b,e £ in
j formation until after the election t h e m
i approving the contract with the U
£ ° do” bV ,f anyone got there, especially as none of NEVi and WASE14 Sec. 7; WV4-
N W 14 and NWV4SW14
Sec. 17;
brought the pole back as proof.
NE14 and N ^ S E tt
Sec. 18— 16—
DAIRY SECTIONS PROSPEROUS
1—6— 26.
Congressman Bloom of New York declared in a speech 43.
John Robertson to T. G. Murch
project, "were" confirmed '1 by that the United States produces 60 per Cent of the
ison undivided H in t e n t in SE% - Railroad Agriculturiat Recommends
Commissioner Mead Has Directed the'
that $ 200,000 Be Available for
Judge Dalton Biggs in the district
Warmsprings Drainage.
court the lattcr part of the week
World’s COtton, 6 5 per Cent of its oil, 7 5 percent of Its
corn, 80 per cent of its automobiles and 8 5 per cent of its
moving pictures, although we have only 6 per cent of
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i a transcript o f the complete rec-
|ord, with the court’s order, has been {he WOrld’s land and 7 per cent of its population.
Per-
(From the Malheur Enterprise.)
! forwarded to B. E. Stoutemeyer, at-
The Vale, Oregon Irrigation pro-
haps
these
are
some
o
f
the
reasons
why
the
rest
of
the
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" torney for the reclamation service,
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ject is to be pushed and funds which
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were appropriateli by congress will
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be available at once, acording to in- j
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Alonzo B. See, critic o f modern education, says that
formation rceived by R. J. Newell,
to make women normal again after four years in col
Secretary of the- Interior, Hurbert
o f Boise, government engineer in
inferiority complex, the
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work. This is the final step nec- lege studying psychoanalysis,
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charge, who was here tLo latter
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part of the week. The advice was j eSS“ ^ before actual construction up- hereness o f the there, and the wentness of the gone, is an
received from Elwood Mead. Com- ° n , the 0wyhee:
,arBest recla' utter impossibility,
missioner of Reclamation.
ma^ ° n projert ,n ° rt>B° n’ can pro'
Iceed.
Hugh Dillman, form er after, who recently married the
Commissioner
Mead will direct
As there were no objections filed
widow
of Horace E. Dodge, one of the world’s wealth
that $50,000 be paid over to the dis- with the court Bt the hearing or
tn ct and that $150,000 be made before there :an be no appea) from iest women, says that he still loves the stage, but feels
that one has to work too hard for what he gets out of
available for
immediate use in the court.g decision.
building a drainage system, this,
It is expec.ted that Secretary it.
He naively adds, “ I have found that there is more
money being on account * a half Work-3 approval wiI1 soon ^ forth. money to he made in other pursuits.”
Particularly in
interest in the Warmsprings reser- coming and tbat this faU wi„ 8ee
the pursuit of a rich widow.
voir which the government acquires work started upon the road leading
Cow and Hen as Good Business
SWV* Sec. 35— 29—38;
SH N E *.
on Oregon Farms.
and E%NW14
Sec. 2; N % N W tt,
and
SW ^N W V i Sec.
1— 30—38.
8— 13—26.
$1.00. (Q. C. Deed).
’’There is no reason why Eastern
Geo. M. Hope et ux to M. G. Oregon, like some sections of Idaho
Hope—a 1— 3rd. interest in SWV4- and Western Oregon, should not bo
NW*4 Sec. 20 -18— 45.
8— 10—26. supplying its just share o f dairy
$ 10 . 00 .
products for northwest consumption;
Martha Ellen Fields et vir to E.J. accordingly, there is no reason why
Powell— 2 tracts o f land each 138 Eastern Oregon farmers- as dairy
feet by 45— 4 feet near Block 66, men—should not be reaping tha
Greens Add. to Nyssa.
7 16— 26. large profits which would be made
$260.0«.
possible if Eastern Oregon did this.
This applies to Malheur county,
MARRIAGE LICENSES ISSUED. too.’ Thus spoke C. C. Gignoux,
Deo E.
Moore and Catherine assistant supervisor o f agriculture
for the Union Pacific when he visit
Hornquist.
8— 9— 26.
Alva T. Amidon and Velma Eva | ed towns o f this part of the state
j last week.
Belisle.
8— 14— 26.
Unsurpassed Dairy Section.
"The dairying possibilities o f this
section of the country are unsur
passed anywhere in the Northwest,”
under the contract.
to the Hole-in-the-Ground damsite.
Again the practical joker has gotten in his deadly
said the railroad agriculturist.
Survey Started.
| Judge Biggs wil hear the petition work.
Paul Bethamen, head of 9 family and a weaver
“ Regrettable though it is, Oregon
C. C. Ketchum, in charge o f a of the directors of the I’ayette-Ore-
of W est New York, N. J., woke up in jail and asked why
has slipped from her former posi
party o f surveyors, started work gon Slope and Slide districts ask-
The joker said, “ You’re in for murder.”
tion in the amount of dairy products
this week at the head of the ditch j ¡ng confirmation o f their proceed- he was there.
Bethamen hanged himself.
The police
produced
or
manufactured
here,
near the Froman place above Har- ings and election this week. These A little later
during the last year or two.
Twen
per. The main canal will be survey- districts are a part of the Owyhee docket showed that he had been arrested
for nothing
ty-two cars o f
Minnesota butter
ed at once, so an estimate on the project, although now they are ob- more serious than intoxication.
were shipped to and sold in the
cost of the ditch can be determined taining water by pumping from the
northwest in 1925, most o f this being
and the biulding contracts let.
Jack Jones, roughneck member of the British parlia
Snake river.
consumed in Oregon.
It seems to
R. J. Newell has advised the
ment, recently interrupted Lady A stor’s speech by call
me, therefore, that where the po
Warmsprings district that a crew AUTHORIZE SURVEY ON
ing her a liar.
Asked by the speaker to withdraw the
tential dairing possibilities are as
o f engineers will be brought in
CENTRAL OREGON HIGHWAY
ugly remark, Jones said:
“ All right, let us call it ‘term
great as here, your farmers are
shortly, to begin construction of the
Warmsprings drainage.
They w ill: On Wednesday the State Highway inological inexactitude.”
passing up a mighty big thing, es
be on the ground inside o f two Commission advised J. E. Peck, en-
pecially when one considers how
For ways that are dark the heathen Chinee has no
weeks, Mr. Newell stated.
gineer in charge of survey work on
dairying has made other sections
taxi-driver, according to a
Aside from the money set aside th« Central Oregon highway that a thing on the Niagara Falls
and other states prosperous.
You
for drainage on the Vale project, survy was authorized from Harper visitor who arrived at night and asked to be driven to
heard o f no banks going broke In
there is three hundred thousand *° Namorf. Location of the new the Imperial hotel.
Wisconsin.
O f course not,—but
A fter a quite lengthy ride he was
dollars available whh.1, will be spent road from Vale' to Harper ban just
there i* a reason; Wisconsin's dairy
safely dropped at his destination and paid a fee of $4.
in constructing the main canal, and been completed.
projects are valued at 245 millions
Next morning he asked the distance back to the station
of dollars annually.
The yearly
bids for that work will be let, when ; A t the July meeting of the corn-
value o f Oregon’s dairy products
surveys, now in progress, are com- mision in Portland, a definite loca- and was told that it was just across the street.
will not exceed two or three mil
pleted and full engineering data tion by state engineers was ordered
Vain Americans who seek to trace their English an
lion dollars.
available.
The
commissioner ex- on the Central Oregon from Bums
pects to be able to let the first canal to Drewsey and from Burns west cestors may always secure a highly flattering list of
The Cow And Hen.
contract during the coming fall.
j through the section known as the forebears by applying to one o f the numerous “ pedigree
I "Because their worth has been
Grass Butte cutoff.
! proved so many times, I never hesi-
peddlers,” of London, who make a business of manu
•HOLE-IN-THE
GROUND
DAM (ate t0 recommend the cow and hen.
The route as proposed would run facturing family trees to order.
The British recently
WILL COST OVER SIX
from
Vale
to
Harper, Juntura,
| It is mighty commendable foresight
warned American visitors against these swindlers.
MILLION.
Drewsey and to Burns, from there
on the part of the farmer who sur
to Lakeview and on to Alturas, Ca,
rounds himself with something which
For marrying four women without a legel separation
will assure him a good living, just
ifornia. It would join the Oregon
from former wives, Carl S. Wynne was given nine years
Washington.— The
highest
dam
] as a sideline, and then goes in for
Trail at Ontario and would offer a . ,
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i
highway 500 miles shorter from by a Chicago judge, who said, “ I m going to tuck you a- ever designed by the reclamation making money from the rest o f his
W. C. Snyder, government hunter Yellowstone Park to San Francisco, way where women will be protected against you for a service is to be built on the Owyhee farm.
irrigation project, to be known as
for Malheur county, again heads the
“ For instance, almost any good
while.”
the “ Hole-in-the-ground” dam, but
CLOSE
WATER
HOLES
list of hunters in the state, by the
When we speak of a well dressed woman nowadays we work on the structure cannot be cow will earn for her owner about
usual, big margin.
In July he
$15 a month; and 200 to 400 hens
TO HOMESTEADERS
are referring to quality and not quanity of clothing.
commenced u.itil there is a further
worked 31 days, taking a total of
will produce enough eggs and meat
appropriation
by
congress.
The
Geo. W. McKnight, register of the
31 predatory animals.
One bob
If feminine apparel keeps on shrinking in quality dam is to rise to a height o f 355 to support (through sale and con
cat was
killed, twenty-one
adult U. S. Land Office , has received in
I( the far
those dress designers are going to have to go in for feet, six feet higher than Arrow- sumption) the family.
coyotes and nine pups.
The next struction from the Department of
mer raises a few good hogs and a
rock dam, which today Is the high
high mark was made by Carl Pitcher the Interior, to the effect that under tattooing.
number of sheep, with alfalfa for
est dam in the country.
in Lake county, who took a total of executive order of April 17, 1926, all
their feed, he will be independent In
The old-fashioned youth who used to rock the canoe
“ Hole-in-the-ground” dam, which
lands
within
one-quarter
of
a
mile
18 predatory animals.
Bill had him
no time.
Ten to fifteen fcood dairy
crossing wili impound 695,000 acre feet of
o f every spring or waterhole locat now has a nephew who spins over the grade
beat by near 100 per cent.
cows could pay from $150 to $225 a
water, is estimated to cost slightly
ed on unsurveyed public land, has without stopping to look or listen.
month.
Pigs could profitably run
The July report from the Bureau
more than six million dollars and
been wihdrawn from settlement,
after the cows.
Right now in par
of Biological Survey and the Ore
Secretary
Mellon
says
that
we
have
thrown
o
ff
half
the rate at which it is built will de
sale or entry.
ticular, there is a big clamor for
gon State Sanitary Board, states
The order was designed to pre the French debt, and the French, not to be outdone, are pend altogether upon the liberality
good hogs in large market centers.
that a number o f reports reached
serve for general public use and willing to throw o ff the other half.— Philadelphia Record with which congress provides funds. With the living made by the 400
the office, telling of the presence of
Out
o
f
the
moneys
appropriated
for
•
benefit unreserved public lands con
hens, the revenue from the cows.
coyotes on various sheep ranges.
project last session nothing ,
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The case of the San Francisco girl who, three hours Owyhee
taining water holes needed by the
.
,
,,
,
. , hogs and sheep would soon make
"This is the usual time of year for
can
be
done
on
the
dam,
us
most
of
6
,
.
public for watering purposes.
after she had been married a second time, remembered
any rancher wealthy.
coyotes to become
conspicuous in
In accordance with this order all she already had a husband, is another evidence of what the amount will bo necessary to con
“ Too many farmers lose money by
asmuch as last spring’s pups are
struct a road to the site.
homestead entries made hereafter
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staking their all on one thing.
The
now nearly full grown and begining
a careless age this is.— BuffaloCourier and Express.
must be accompanied by duly cor
to wander in search o f food and
DRIVE STARTED FOR
effort
should be
diversified— the
roborated affidavit that no spring
Now we see that a woman is supposed to use perfume
new hunting grounds,” said Stanley
EASTERN OREGON NORMAL cow and the hen in the main- Y#u
or water hole exists, or if one does
can’t beat dairying and poultry
G. Jewett, leader of Predatory Ani
ry
to match her moods and emotions and we know one
exist, that it is not capable o f sup
Baker— Drive for a normal school raising at a combination.”
mal Control.
that
will
have
to
smell
like
a
fire-cracker
a
good
deal
ot
plying more than enough to care
in eastern Oregon has been started
the time.— Ohio State Journal.
for a family and domestic stock.
as the result of a meeting o f repre-
HUGE SURPLUS OF WATER IN
WARMSPRINGS RESERVOIR TOURIST TRAVEL ON THE
Speaking about eliminating fighting in the world, why entatives of the principal cities
held last Thursday at The Dalles.
JOHN DAY HIGHWAY GROWS wouldn’t it be a good idea to appoint Jack Dempsey pres C. L. Star, member o f the board of
H. G. Kennard, statewatermaster,
ident of the lieague of Nations?
normal regents, asserted that Ore
made a trip to the Warmsprings re
Whether it is the advertising or
There will bo a good fruit crop la
gon hail a teacher turnovip' o f 1,200
servoir last Saturday.
He found whether the tourists are telling one
yearly and that only 500 o f these the S. Gitelson orchards at Brogan,
that the reservoir contained 90-°°“ ; another o T t h e s e e n ic t e a u t y e r f the
teachers were supplied from within said Marvin Strout, manager, who
acre feet.
Crops under the P ™ * ^ John Day highway in Grant county,
was here Thursday. Prune picking
are practically matured, so there the highway is gaining rapid popu
the state.
will be at least a surplus o f 65,000 larity with automobile drivers, ac
E. B. Aldrick was elected tem will start on the 18th. Pears snd
acre feet at the end o f the irriga cording to Oliver Johnson o f Can-
porary president and W. E. North apples will follow about a weak
tion season.
There is an ample yon City, who with Neil Nevin, al
A mining deal, one o f the most j I the O. W. R. & N. and William of Baker temporary secretary of later.
In general the fruit crop at Bro
supply o f water for new lands under so of Cahyon City, was in town the important in the history o f the Mor-j »*»«•»«". thp discoverer of the pro- the executive committee; E. B. A l
gan will be smaller this year, due
drick,
Umatilla;
S.
E.
Notson
of
the Vale project.
mon
Basin
district
ami
one
that
of-
PCty*
first o f the week.
An effort was
“ ¡" the intention of the purch- Heppner, Morrow; A. M. Zeveley of to the gerious shortage of water
made to count cars on the highway fers promise of »gain putting that
has experi
PROJECT OFFICE TO BE
camp on the map from a gold pro- »"ers o f the property to carry on Moro,Sherman county;
George H. Willow River Valley
last week, he said, hut the only
LOCATED AT BOISE count made was that a nnachine was during standpoint is the sale of the extensive development work in the Gurrey of Arlington, Gilliam; L. K. enced. Ameil Lanoir, one o f the big
Deschutes.
Re fruit growers, found it necessary te
Traf Sunday Hill group o f mine claims way of deep sinking and In the Oramh of Bend,
According to information received passing every three minutes.
to the reorganized Rainbow Mining meantime
determining the proper presentatives
for Baker,
Wasco, allow an entire 40-nrre tract to go
fic
on
the
highway
has
doubled
in
from Washington, D. C., this week,
irrigation.
These
trees
, company
for a consideration
of Proc*** for treating the ore.
Hood River, Malheur and Wallowe without
Commissioner Mead o f the reclam the past two years.
. . . y u i torn
At the Rainbow mine a crew of counties are yet to be chosen.
will bear no fruit, and they may dls
a
. . . . . . . .
Passing tourists say that John $2uOvOOO.
ation bureau has advised Senator
twenty men are working, three eight
as a result of the water shortage.
The Sunday Hill was more gener- hour shifts and the miu ¡g running REX MARQUIS STARTS
McNary’s office that the supervis Day can be commended for its camp
Mr. Lanoir has a good crop en
a
ing office for construction work on grounds, where laundry tubs and ally known as the Phelan mine. ono , hift on hjKh g rade ore.
watered tracts.
IN
SHEEP
BUSINESS
the Vale and Owyhee projects will showers have been installed for the It adjoins the Rainbow mine and is stop<> on thp 200 foot level Is being
the
visitors.— Central developed by several hundred feet o f workpd an<) j„ showing the same
This week Rex Marquis, success
be at Boise.
This has been determ comfort o f
A French Court has Just settled a
tunnel and shaft and equipped with bi), b grade values that were found ful farmer under the Warmsprings suit concerning ownership o f 14000
ine dfor reasons o feconomy. Vale, Oregonion.
in ypars past when the United Sta project, made a start in the sheep acres of land filed in the year 1372.
Ontario avid Nyssa each hoped to
The government of New South a small mill and compressor.
purchased
1500 It is estimated that lawyers' fees
be selected as headquarters.
The Sunday Hill was owned by tes Smelter company was operating business, having
Wales, Australia, has built more
He made during this period were sufficient to
W. H. Bohnenkamp, and Frank Har- the property and for several years head at McCall, Idaho.
than
1,000
homes
at
an
average
cost
It is now possible to buy air tick
ris, prominent business men o f La- reaped a harvest of gold production. the trip to McCall with J. P. Duna have bought the prperty twenty
ets in London for fifty-tw o different of $3,250, selling them to wo kmen
way Tuesday.
Grande, John Daniels, In employ o f Baker Democrat.
times over.
on
a
low
weekly-payment
plan.
European centers.
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COMPLAINTS FILED.
Andrew M. Wilson vs Henry L.
Hart et ux. 8— 11— 26.
Fore
closure o f Mortgage.
$400.00.
Ira M. Hopper vs Mary A. Klack-
ner et al.
8— 12— 26.
To Quiet
Title.
State o f Oregon vs Herschel M.
Browne et ux. 8— 12—26.
Fore
closure of Mortgage.
$2,2oi O'*
C. E. Amidon vs D. H. Burrows
and S. II. Ross.
8— 12— 26.
Re
covery on Note. $727.30.
Caldwell
State Bank vs W. F.
Howard et ux.
8— 12— 26.
To
Quiet Title.
The Fidelity
National Bank of
Spokane vs Egiracio Echanis et al.
8— 12-—26.
Recovefy
on
Note.
$5,643.75.
H. E. Young vs Ben Crummett.
8— 14— 26.
Recovery
on
Note.
$1.65.00.
OWYHEE 0AM TO
BE HIGHEST IN U.S.
MALHEUR HUNTER GETS
REST JULY RECORD
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LACK OF WATER HURTS
BROGAN FRUIT CROP
Reorganized Rainbow Mining Co.
Takes Over Sunday Hill Group