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THE GATE CITY JOURNAL VOLUME XXIV. NO. 33. PARENT-TEACHER NYSSA. OWYHEE OREGON. FRIDAY, OCTOBER I, 1926. «LM PER YEAR Owyhee Project HARPER RANCH TRACTS . SPEED TRANSIENT LAW Plans in Detail TO BE SOLO OCT. 3RD DECLARED VOID BUI NO CONTROL 07182117 Mrs. Gladys DeGoede and son, John of Coadville, Utah arrived Wed- (From New Reclamation Era.) j nesday for an extended visit with her j parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jess Kygar. The proposed contract, after c e r -! The Harper Ranch, one o f the The O. K. K.K met with Mrs. T. M. OREGON MOTOR ASS’ N GIVES DECISION WILL AFFECT SHEEP I preliminary recitals, defines largest properties in Oregon owned THAT RANGE IN EAST FIRST MEETING OF YEAR WILL I Lowe on Thursday. A good attend CAUSE FOR MANY AUTO I “ old lands,” “ new lands,” and “ su p -' by the Pacific Livestocl Company, ERN OREGON ance is reported. They will meet in BE HELD IN ONTARIO pit-mental lands of the project. Old has tieen divided into sixty-three ACCIDENTS October with Mrs. J. W. Kygar. lands are lands which have been re farm tracts, ranging in size from 11 OCTOBER 2ND Mrs. S. D. Bigelow is working at ceiving their water supply by pump- to 92 acres, all with free water right. Sage Brush Springs on the place “ In my observations of automobile I C,ircu‘t JLud^ C’ H- McCulloch has m g frora Snake River, but which It will be sold at public auction by owned by Mr. Wayne Mills. Mr. T. drivers I am reminded o f many L f r°,^ * * regon transient ive- wm recejve their water supply f r o m 'j ' . " r “ T?...""' reininuea oi m any, gtock ,aw unconstltutional and void, Owvhee oroiect after it is con- L’ K,nK- sales manaKer ior Miller M. Lowe went up Sunday with sup urivers, i am hush leagues who have been tried ,on j on the ground that it deprives the structed( an(J ‘ „ „ „ the i \> &■ Lux, on Sunday, October 3rd. which wil, use plies. Word has been received that th e. out for places on the big leagues and owners of this class of property of ject cana, amJ reservoir systems I Everf tract has been priced according Problems Concerning Malheur Coun State President of the P. T. A k will have failed as tht, term indicateg, to quality of land, will be sold on in the pitcher’s box," the constitutional guaranty that all New uAd ty’s Most Valuable Production be in attendence at the County said George O. Brandenburg, gener taxation shall be equal and uniform wU, re]y upon the project exciusively I It™ » , and according to Mr. King, The law as it stands provides that for thejr water 3uppiy and irrigation | evprJ’ tract will be priced so low aa Council which meets in Ontario on al manager of the Oregon State Mo To Be Keynote sheep, cattle, etc, shall be assessed s>r3tem. Supplemental lands have to insure speedy disposal. Saturday the 2nd. She will look tor Association. “ In practically all in the county where they are located their cana, system constructed at over the work and see what the A free barbecue at noon is one of instances with the pitchers, they on March 1st and pay taxes thereon (he nt ti but wlll obtain The Malheur County Council of the county is doing in the way of educa- the attractions promised buyers and were sent back to the “ sticks" on bu per cent o f the valuation—and Oregon Congress of Parents and tion. through lack of control. Wonderful on 40 per cent o f the valuation, in stored water from the Owyhee pro visitors at noon on the “ big sale Teachers will meet in Ontario Sat- Mr. and Mrs. Walter Pinkston The construction charge of day.” A good milch cow will be giv speed they had, but no control. Now any county where they may be graz- ject. urday, October 2, beginning at 10 A. were Caldwell visitors Saturday. you get the point. . Too many auto eed later in the year. The law spe the old lands is to be $15 per acre en to one lucky purchaser. Many in j Mrs. Pinkston brought her sister, drivers have wonderful speed but cifically mentions that it applied to less than the construction charge for teresting particulars are told In the Mrs. Laurence Davis home with her the new lands. Outline Program lack control.” advertisement which appears on page stock from outside the state, as well Construction Provisions The morning session will be given for a visit. In analyzing the phiyse as applied as Oregon livestock. six o f this issue o f the Malheur En- Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Bradley and a, . A The contract provides for the ex- iailnIj „ over to business and the reports of to auto driver, “ Wonderful speed, About 80,000 head o f Washington dUure by the Unit„ d stat<?9 o f a terprke. daughter, Ruby were Boise visitors but no control,” Mr. Brandenburg delegates, with a short talk by Rev. sheep were affected by the law. , „ . the first o f the week where Miss v J maximum of a million dollars toward right A. O. Broyles of Ontario about his Ruby underwent an operation for pointed out that the lack o f control These from the project. If sales sheep paid full taxes in Wash work among boys. Lunch at the throat and nose trouble. She is at was due to too much speed in most ington and then were obliged to the construction of a storage reser are made at prices above this value, voir on the Owyhee River, known as plus the amount paid toward the instances. When a car gets to a noon hour will be served by the lad home again and feeling fine. pay on 40 per cent of their valuation certain speed on ordinary traction as in the Oregon counties where they the Hole-in-the-Ground Reservoir, a construction charge, such surplus is ies o f the W. C. T. U. in the base The Kingman Kolony P. T. A. re distribution system therefrom con to be divided equally with the pro found on our highways, it is be ment of the Ontario High School. port a good time at their meeting are grazed in the summer. sisting o f certain tunnels, a main yond control, and with our highways Music will be furnished by the On- on Friday. A basket ball game be- The law directs the assessor to canal and branch canals, laterals and ject. This is on the theory, believed crossed by intersections, and vision to be correct, that the project ex tario High School Orchestra under | tween their school and Big Bend in required in connection penditure caused the increase in obscured frequently by turns, there levy and collect a tax in the county structures the direction of Miss Frederica Ker which the Bend team carried o ff the is ever a warning to be issued to the where the stock is transient, before therewith, and such drainage works honors was followed by delicious re the tax rate for the year has been as may be found necessary or desir value, and that the project is there shaw. fellow with wonderful speed and too fore entitled to share in the profit. The afternoon session will begin freshments served by the P. T. A. little control. Even on a straight fixed, when his only guide is the able. This expenditure is expressly It is the policy of the reclamation members. rate o f the previous year. This contingent upon the requisite con at 1:30, the program being opened away, a car becomes a hazard beyond laws to spread the benefits o f the Mrs. W. E. Lees, her mother and makes possible a rate different from gressional apptjjpriations being with the sisging o f “ America” by a certain speed, as blowouts, or a expenditures from the reclamation son, Fred and Mrs. Pogue all of On that levied on other property thus made. dozen mishaps to the mechanism of the audience, led by Miss Catherine fund as widely as possible; and it tario were callers in the W. W. the car will result in a • ‘¡ ¡X L that"will l v*°,at,»K the fundamental guaranty In the construction of the canals Conway, with Miss Frederica Ker Smith home on Saturday afternoon. would be contrary to this policy if ' of equality and uniformity. the Government is to utilize, so far i I not only endanger the lives o f the shaw at the piano. Rev. V , n t Mesdames Enos and Eachus of | affect many as practicable, the easements reserv a project were to be constructed 1 occupants of the car but o f those in | The decision will Ritchie will give the invocation, af . for the benefit o f a few large land e.r»-s Judd and Mar-I range in the ed to the United States by the act of the immediate vicinity of the un-1 thousand sheep that ter which there will be a vocal solo t. owners. The reclamation laws, olony and Mrs. I lucky one. ' summer in Eastern Oregon every Congress o f August 30, 1890 (26- by Mrs. H. L. Peterson. The princi F. therefore, prohibit the furnishing of ¡•ail were guests Stat. 391), or by subsection P o f sec Strict attention to the path o f the j year, water to more than 160 acres per pal address o f the day will be deliv at : luncheon at the tion 4 o f the act of Congress o f Dec motor car is another item that re single ownership. All large land- m in Payette on ered by Supt. H. M. Broadbent of home ember 5, 1924. Any other right of ceives too little attention. Many owners who care to do so are given T h u rsiitoj Baker. way needed is to be secured by the drivers, traveling at a good rate of the privilege of selecting the 160 Mr. and Mrs. Oce Schweizt-r and The meeting promises to be a most district. speed have a habit o f looking every acres which they desire to have Ir interesting one as problems of vital family and Andy Hanson took in where but down the path o f the auto. Upon the completion of the con rigated from the project water right. the' Fair at Caldwell Friday. Mr. importance concerning Malhoui struction program the Secretary is If one must look into the eyes of The remainder of the land is excess Hanson went on to Emmett. County’s most valuable production, to render the district a statement other occupants of his auto while land, and may receive water from Mr. Frank Morgan brought his its girls and boys, will be discussed. sheep down from Westfall this week|*alkln.g ’ he should temper his speed KE(LAM AT1()N CONGRESS WILL showing the total expenditures and the project only if the owner en the amount thereof repayable by the Mrs. t,ee Dillon, M..v. J. Edwin and has them on pasturff on l i , f i r e d to •“ * 8Uch ° cc“ ,on* ters into a contract for the appraisal K J * * nWry MEET AT HOOD RIVER ON district. If the contraction o f the Johnson and Mrs. L. J. Hadley are Pullen place on the Owyhee. \ m U 3 [ bc enJoyed’ ,4 *s i n d e n t up-' o f the excess land and for its sale OCTOBER 14, 15, 16 project is so far completed that the on the driver to either stop or forget Vale members o f the executive board The Oregon Trail P. T. A. held a _ within a fixed period at prices and delivery o f water may be initiated of the county council. As many as reception for their teachers at the tbe Pleasures o f such attractions upon terms satisfactory to the Sec Hood River valley will be host to some part of the district territory, school house on Friday evening and A mls^u'ded j auto at bl* h sPeed ls October 14, 15, and 16 to the six can are urged to attend. retary. If a large landowner should report a good crowd and an enjoy- j U H t as hazardous to the motorist as teenth annual session of the Oregon the Secretary may give notice to the refuse to enter into such a con- district to that effect, fixing a ten able time I *°° muc*1 sPeed with a lack o f con- Reclamation trac, he will not be entitled to water congress. An annual BEE MAKES WONDERFUL tative per acre construction charge 8 The' Lloyd Derrick family fr o m 1*™1 to the asPirin* twirler of the ^or more than 160 acres o f his land. program of important subjects for MILEAGE FOR PRODUCE for the land in such territory. The the upper Owyhee have moved to the ea^uea' . . . , . „ consideration has been arranged for It is a tenet of constitutional law construction charge is payable in 39 „ , , , | Wonderful speed, but no control,” The busy little bee, functioning as „ Pullen ranch for the winter. . .. . J r . ’ . . . . ... ’ this meeting, according to W. L. that the States may not tax Feder installments. „ .... , - „ t __„ ' i s an epitaph that might be written a transportation agency, is one of Powers, secretary o f the congress Omar Hite came down from Long .. . . . . al property without the consent of , . | on the stone of a great number of The Board Of Control the most efficient carriers in the „ .. and head of the soils department at Congress. In 1916 Congress enacted a iy as . W t^ , .. casualties that occur on the high- In order that the project may. be business. Everyone is talking o f the excep-| O. X. c. a law, known as Smith Act, which "W ith honey selling around twenty tionally hard freeze for this time of , ways annua y._____________ Revision of the irrigation district « P la te d and maintained by the wa- permits irrigation districts organiz five cents a pound, bees must fly 40,- year, some thermometers registering law to provide for refinancing to ter users after *Le termination of ed under State laws to tax for ir Watch For “ Bootleg” Potatoes. the construction program, a board 000 miles for every pound o f sweet as low as sixteen below the freezing safeguard settlers and investors will rigation purposes the land o f the In buying your winter potatoes be ness stored in the hive. Scientists, point. be an important feature o f the ses- of control is censlatuted, made up of United States, including entered lanu certain that the sack is stenciled studying bees, have discovered that I sion. Every irrigation district in representatives from the directorates upon which final certificate has not with the name and address of the _ . . . . . . . o f the contracting irrigation dis harvesting o f a pound of honey re been issued. An article in the O- grower or dealer and the grade o f , 0rego" “ bel" K asked t0 havf re' tricts. quires 20,000 round trips to the fields wyhee contract makes this provision the stock, warns State Market Agent ^ The district is to levy assessments and that the average bee travels two i ing up the revised law for introduc o f law applicable to the lands, within Spence. Potatoes that are sold in miles each trip. Translated into dol tion at the coming session o f the and use its taxing power in order the Owyhee irrigation district. This unmarked sacks are illegal and you to pay to the United Stat/s the lars and cents this makes the bee a legislature. enables the district to collect as- run a big risk of getting worthless very efficient carrier indeed. National authorities are being amounts coming due under the con sesments from such land and to stock. Those who sell first class tract. The district, as a whole, is brought to the convention to discuss sell same at tax sale if the assess T. J. HICKMAN INJURED obligated to pay to the United States Anyone wishing to buy or sell a stock want the sacks branded as the IN AUTO COLLISION pig at weaning time and lacking in- law requires. When sacks are sten- such subjects as irrigation economics, the full amount agreed upon, regard ments are not paid. The contract is to be confirmed T. J. Hickman has a broken collar formation on which to base the price ciled *be Purchaser is protected as land utilization, and selection and less of individual default in the pay of settlers. Among these in advance by the court. Every bone as the result o f an automobile may safely put it at nearly one-third responsibility is easily traced. Most financing ment of any assessments levied by _ ^ ^ will be Dr. Richard T. Ely, in charge landowner is thus given a chance collision on the highway near On of the market value of a 200 pound 0 c n la< e ,< ia v s ln8ls . ‘ ’ ’l kra' o f the national bureau o f research the district. Thus, what the water tario the early part o f the week. The stenciled stock, but com- . , users designate as “ joint liability” is to object, if the proposed contract pig. This relation of cost of wean ed . . and . , ., . , „ in land economics and public utili- is illegal or unjust as to him. In other car was driven by a girl plaints are made that some peddlers | tln provided for. ling to cost of market animal in Ore ! tics. It is understood that the car turned are ignoring the law. Grading rules j If the district is in default for this manner private rights are pro gon was arrived at through many in the road right in front of Mr. more than one year in the making of tected, and the United States and surveys and studies by the experi will be mailed to any one from the 1 INTERESTING NOTES Hickman, with the result that his Market Agent, 712 Court any payment to the United States, the district are given assurance If ment station animal husbandry de- State machine ran o ff the grade and over House, Portland. the Government reserves the right the contract is confirmed by the Slow-moving vehicles must speed parttment. The actual cost o f pro turned. He was the only one in up or get out of line on crowded to refuse to deliver water to the dis court that the carrying out o f the ducing the pig depends mainly on jured. highways of Pennsylvania, under or trict or to the landowners o f the dis agreement will not later be upset at the size o f the litter, but 30 per cent ders issued by the State Highway trict, and may take over the control the suit of a district taxpayer.-— of the value of the 200 pound pig has 82 CARS OF MALHEUR PRO Motor Patrol. Many accidents have of the irrigation system to make this Legal Division. been found to be a fair valuation of Real Estate Transfers Recorded DUCE LEAVE FOR MARKET the weanling. refusal effective; or the government Land Ownership And Flans For Sub Sherrif C. W. Glenn to Estis L. been attributed to the blocking of division And Settlement traffic by slow motorists. may reduce the amount of water de Morton— west half of Lots 9 andlO, The Owyhee project includes a- According to report o f County Bordeaux mixture 4-4-50 should An average-size tree with a livered to the district in proportion Agent W. L. Shovel, dated Septem- ^ appljed to apple trees before fall * 'x ^ ' F is^ r^ t^ u x t o 'c Va Pet- spread of fifty feet of foliage under [to the default o f the district in mak- hout 70,000 acres(without deduction for rights of way) o f irrigable new ber 18th fifty carloads of fruit were ,.aina ?tart to protect against rainy ten. Lotgt 18> j 9 and 20 BIock 137> normal conditions throws o ff five ing payment o f charges. barrels of water a day in the form After the United States turns land not at present under irrigation, inspected between the 1st and loth. | season infections with apple tree an- Qntarj0 10-1-1'1' $1 000 00 This shipment comprised prunes, thracnose canker and European can- of vapor. This is attracted to the over the operation and maintenance and about 41,000 acres o f irrigable Sheriff C. W. Glenn to C. H. peaches and apples, most o f it ker wkere present, xtf 1 / éViM, o oo i r <7. clouds and returns to the earth as of the project to the water users the land now in small district» which , Spicer-E% NE >4SW *4 Sec. 29-15-47, ^ annual notices of the amount o f the derive their water supply from the prunes. The apple crop had only be also Lots 22, 23, and 24, Block 21, gun at the time the report was made. | One-crop farmers using irrigation A compilation o f Confederate ree- operation and maintenance charges | Snake River by means o f pumping. Annex. 9-13-26. $175.88. j In addition to the fruit inspected, water all need it at once whereas orda has been started by the War is to he given by the board of con- - There are 13,000 acres under tha U. S. A. t o . Morton C. Sells-N'A- Mr. Shovel went over thirty-two cars diversified crops in suitable rotations S(‘c 32-19-42 (i-24-26 '* ^Gpsrtmcnt, in compliance with an trol. The operation and maintenance, Owyhee Ditch, a corporation which o f potatoes and onions between the in one community permits a more 4 " Flelm & ac* Congress appropriating $70,- charges are to be uniform to all o f will receive a supplemental water Joseph Gluch et ux to 11th and 18th, in a week’s time, even distribution o f water through- supply from the works to be con Y turri-SW IiSW ti Sec. 2; SVfeSW’A, 000 for this purpose. The records the new lands and to all o f the old There were fourteen cars o f onions, out the irrigation season. An in- structed by the United States. and S ttS E tt Sec. 3; SEKN E'A Sec. „ 4. . . The potatoes and onions were con- crease of 50 per cent in crop pro- 9- and W '/iN W 'i Sec 10-32-45 9- *be Southern states. The land in the pumping district» Until the construction charges are signed to Anson and Malheur Pro- duction through rotation is made on 13 26 $526 46 (Q C Deed) ! ‘The English language, English paid the board of control Is to em- and under the Owyhee Ditch is in duce companies. the experiment station farms at Cor- Sherfff C W Glenn to John D l'tprature. and English character ploy a project manhger satisfactory general settled by farmers and 1» ■ ■ vallis where the oldest experimental 10 ld-b‘! have probably been more molded, to the Secretary of the Interior, and intensively cultivated. Of the 70,- Sec. Oxman-SE’A N E ’A ONTARIO TOURIST OFFICE plots iin Oregon are maintained. ( shaped and inspired by the English if the manager empToyed by the 000 acres, only 18,000 acres are pub 9-13-26. $80.00. Geo Bakopanos to Delbert A Rible than by any other influence, hoard is or becomes unsatisfactory lic land and about 5,000 acres State CLOSED BY DEPARTMENT DEAD OX DWELLERS The Eastern Oregon Land Thomas-Lots U 12 13 14 and 15 H ^rary or educational. Once this tA the Secretary the manager is to land. ACCUSED OF LARCENY fact is grnsped, the absurdity o f he discharged, upon the request of Co. is the largest owner o f paten The Land Settlement Department Block 173, Ontario. 8-9-26. $10.00. leaving it out o f the national system the Secretary. ted land. The other owners of Sheriff C. W. Glenn to P. R. Sears- o f the Portland and State Chambers L. M. Hicks and James Williams 9-13-26 ° f pducat'on for people o f English The district is to have access to patented land control area» to from 8-16-43. o f Commerce ia closing the gateway of the Dead Or country, were tried SW '^NE'A Sec. blood and English tradition becomes the hooks and records of the Bureau 160 to 640 acres. Generally the»» offices maintained during the sum- in the justice court Wednesday on a $80.00. obvious.’— Sir Harry ft. Reichel, of Reclamation, and the Bureau of lands have been in private owner mer at Ashland and Ontario and in charge o f larceny in a dwelling President of the University o f North Reclamation is likewise to have free ship for a considerable number of Bills Of Sale. the Municipal Auto Camp in Port- house. They waived examination access to the records of the district. years, and attempt from time to and were bound over to await action Juniper Sheep Co. to The Oregon Wales. ' land. . Speculation Restrained time to have been made to cul Bond was placed & Western Colonization Co. -1240 The arrival of the first automobile The departure of Arthur Foster, to of th<? grand jury In the endeavor to restrain specu tivate them by dry-farming meth in the sum of” $500 and they are be- sheep. 9-6-26. $16,492.50. j recently in a little village in the the Middle West this week marks ^ ^ co’unt jai, Joe Yraguon to Claudia Yraguon- highlands of Donegal County, Ire- lation in the land to be reclaimed, ods, but the low annual precipita the first step in the fall program ' B catttle. 9-25-26. $10.00. ¡land, was celebrated as a public the contract provides for an ap- tion is not sufficient profitable. On event. A holiday was declared and praisal o f the land without regard the Dead Ox Flat there still remain which holds promise of increasing The Ex-Kaiser of Germany is re- the already large number o f new ferred to in the new Berlin telephone Typewriting paper, regular letter, the streets decorated with flags and to any enhancement o f value on several settlers who are farming account o f the prospect of a water without the use o f irrigation. .size. Box of 600 sheets for $1.00.|bunting. pettier» finding homes in Oregon. directory as ‘His Majesty.’ BAKER S U P T . S P E A K E R DATES SET FOR ja EXTENSION SERVICE GIVES FARM ADVICE County Statistics