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THE GATE CITY JOURNAL VOLUME XXIV. NO. 49. NYSSA, OREGON, GENERAL TAX’ LEVY FOR M A L » IS 19.9 MILLS OWYHEE Mr. and Mrs.' Wm. Tombs have moved to the C. C. Hunt ranch where Mr. Tombs will work for Mr Hunt. m U FRIDAY, JANUARY 21. 1927. E <LM PER YEAR i M H A N D G U i County TIE H I C K OAILWAY BUILT “1 “si! mm Statistics FRANK W IG H T AT Real Estate Transfers Recorded. Sheriff C. W. Glenn to J. C. Bart lett-Lots 28 to 32, inclusive, Block i i 6, Villa Park Add. to Ontario. 1-8-27. We are glad to report that George STATE ENGINEER MAKES RE-j $4,770.38. INCREASE IN GRAZING FEES Huffman, who is still in the hospi L. Gerlinger et ux to Geo. T. Ger- APPEALED AND PRICE LIEF RECOMMENDATION tal at Ontario, is much improved and lin ger-W * Sec. 16-31-41. 6-8-25. TO LG1SLATUTURE FORECASTS CONDEMNED expected home soon. $ 10 . 00 . Geo. T. Gerlinger et ux to Lamar The Owyhee P. T. A. met at the 1927 TAXES SHOW SLIGHT IN Salem— Recommendation for the LEGISLATURE TO BE ASKED TO Tooze-SEK4, SV4NE*4, NWK4NEÌ4, Frank McKnight, prominent sheep school house Friday P. M.. A very CREASE DUE TO FORECLOS ACT IN HERRICK and W H Sec. 16-31-41. 12-27-26. man of the county, represented Vale beneficial talk on health by the P. reorganization of the “sick” irriga URE SALES at the 30th annual convention of the CASE $i.oo. (Q. c. Deed). T. A. County Council chairman of t e districts and for changes that ______ I Lamar Tooze et ux to Geo. Ger- Oregon Wool Growers association Health, Mrs. M. M. Greeting was would empower the state engineer and the securities commission to ex linger et ux-SEtt, SH N E % , NW14- which adjourned in Pendleton Sat much enjoyed by all present. ercise a more effective suprvision urday. Mr. McKnight returned Mrs. A. Stewart and daughter over reclamation projects are con home Monday. Myrtle of Ontario were week end — —“ | William Peutz et al to Lou De- At election o f officers, K. G. War guests in the Chas. Bradley home. tained in a report to the legislature, Town Levies Are Affected By Tax Miss Alta Bradley accompanied them made by Rhea Luper, state engineer. Senator Davis And Representative Goede et al-Et4EV4NE14 Sec. 32-20- ner of Pendleton was re-elected Any Plan of reorganization he says, Foreclosures And Reduced president; Ernest Johnson, Wallowa, McGowan Will Ask Memorial To d®- 3-20-1923. $1.00. home. must be acceptable to both bondhold Valuation On Rolls Oregon Men At Washington I Geo. W. Hart et ux to Edward first vice-president; ■ Wm. T. Mahon Duncan Freazer moved his sheep ers and settlers, but the state must Hart-Lot 10, and SE A4 SW A4 Sec. ey, Heppner, second vice-president; to the Chas. Bradley ranch last not be called upon to assume -the ---------- ' 31-20-41; Lot 1, Sec. 1-21-40; and Ben Taylor, Mitchell, third vice- liabilities of irrigjition districts. Taxes for the year 1927 show a week. George E. Davis, senator for SE % SE 14 Sec. 36-20-40. 1-10-27. president; and Jay H. Dobbin, En Mr. and Mrs. Fred Klnigback and slight increase generally over Mal Like the Oregon Irrigation congress, Grant and Malheur counties, and $10.00. (Q. C. Deed). terprise, national committeeman to heur county, according to findings lamily were dinner guests in the Luper recommends creation of Archie McGowan, Burns, represen- Geo. W. Lattig to Geo. W. Culp- go to national convention at Butte Frank DeBord home in Payette of the county court and the report irrigation department to assist the tative of Harney and Grant coun- EV4W^SF.ViSWVk Sec. 23-16-47. 1- on January 24 and 25. of Assessor Andrew H. Graham. Saturday. They also called in On colonization o f all projects. ties, will request the Oregon legis- 8-27. $1.00. (Q. C. Deed), Resolutions to be submitted to tario and V a b enroute. Last year the general tax Including lature to adopt a memorial to the Geo. W. Lattig to Geo. W. Culp- Secretary of Agriculture Jardine on “ There are 44 active districts in Mr. and Mrs. Gei. Schweizer and high school was 18.8 mills and this Oregon congressRontot delegation EV4WHSE14SWK4 Sec. 23-16-47. 1- his western visit were passed, set- atate ” 8aya Lu«* r: “ of whicb 29 year the two amount to 19.9 mills., daughters Evelyn and Nellie Jean tbc have issued bonds which have been urging them to insist upon a “ com- 8-27. $1.00. (Q. C. Deed) ting forth why the association The increase of 1.1 mills is caused j a n ^ t ^ r T T l ^ certified by the secretary of state. mon carrier” clause in the contract Ray Johnston et ux to State o f ‘ thinks the forest grazing fees **'— * ■ 1 ..H .: Mrs- Ruth Share of Caldwell Idaho Qf ^ ^ pyobably 13 are in a sound through tax foreclosure of lands between Fred Herrick and the for- O regon-S W K N W * Sec. 2-22-46. 12- should not ^ raispd jn this 8tate. and by reducing the valuation, but 1 " eL re Sunday quests in coiidition and able to work out their eat service. 28-26. $3,000.00. Approval was given the Fordney- the actual amount o f money to be Schweizer home. John W. Welch et ux to Wm. H. McCumber tariff bill and congress Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Overstreet and own Prob^ m®- Nine with bond is- The “ common carrier’’ , privilege ______ raised is less than it was last year. NE%SW*4, was urged not to stand for any is important to development of the W oodw orth-E liSW ’A _____ ___ son Robert and Mr. and Mrs. Mau- 8Uea total,nK *1.711.00« City Levies rice Judd and son were dinner worked out without losa *° the cred' John Day country. It is pointed and SWI4NEV4 Sec. 35-17-41. 1-3- tinkering with it. City levies show a similar in guests in the Frank Morgan home >tors if takcn over by some 8tron® out that Burns and Grant counties J7^ $l ,000.00. Resolutions also were passed urg- crease in millage on account of fore- Elsie Boyer to Laura Lathrop-SW- .. . . . . . . , financial agency with a guarantee arc dissatisfied with the repeated (4 Sec. 26-13-38. 11-13-26. $10.00. 'P* ^ a88<*'at‘° " to study a plan closures and consequent reduction ^uaday . .. . . . _ . „ • The special meeting o f the book to the 8ettler8 ‘ hat they would be extensions of time the forest ser Barney B. Goul et ux to Mary F. ^ the °f rde,;ly of the valuation. The lnciease ) c|ub at Mrs p Mor„ ans was well protected against the payment of vice has given Herrick. If the o r Sec. 11-16-47.1t0 P ^ e n t price fluctuation. A tran- city levies was greater in Ontario aUen(jed Specia| *M tl of the more than their proportionate share ignal contract had been carried out, G o u l-E * S W * S W (4 j sient livestock tax bill to replace this year, with Vale second and Nys- | ^ ^ ^ H ^ ^ of the cost of the indebtedness. Of logs would now be rolling out of 1 11 27 $10 00 . . . TT j the law found unconstitutional in sa third. Malheur County to Lewis Hyde- . . . , . . , , . ... . ** J. P. Dunaway of Nyssa and Mrs. these distrlcts ei* ht are Probably Bear valley over a railroad into r , , . _ . . . this state was indorsed and will be A segregation of the Vale millage Lots 18 and 19, Block 3, Riverside «. Hickox insolvent, and will require financial Burns. presented for passage in the state shows 47.7 city tax, 18.8 general tax, Add. to Ontario. 11-3-26. $39.74. Mrs. C. C. Cotton entertained at reorganization involving loss to cred- legislature at its present session. Timber, a millsite and logging 1.8 roads, 27.8 special school tax— \ Barney B. Goul et ux to Charley cards in honor o f her brother and ¡tors.” An appropriation o f $15,000 was roads have been secured but nothing amounting to 96.1 mills. The in I. Barker et al-Lot 1, and WHSWV4- , . , , . .. wife Mr. and Mrs. Walker of Horse asked o f the state for the biennium can be done until Herrick completes crease is due to foreclosures in the 1 SW14 Sec. 11; and north 35 acres of to be used by the Oregon experi his road from Burns to Bear valley town and not to the slight increase | Shoe Bend on Tuesday evening of SE14SEVL Sec. 10-16-47. 1-11-27. last week. r, , ■ v « * a ment station in an effort to find and turns it over as a common car in actual money to be raised which $ 10 . 00 . ways and means o f ridding the Mrs. Chas. Fisher moved to the XO I ilK (' ¡C l rier. amounts to $712.50 fer city and W. J.Palanuk et ux to Melvin Ed Skinner sheep camp Saturday - flocks from the ravages of disease Want Action $323.48 for special school tax. Hansen-SHSE14 Sec. 4; EV4NE14 Beginning Tuesday, February 1, Herrick, said L. Woldenberg of Sec. 9; and WHNW14 Sec. 10-17-46. to lambs and breeding ewes. Ontario’ s millage was likewise where she will be employed as cook. Mrs. Herbert Stewart was a school and continuing until Tuesday, March John Day, in an article in the Ore An appropriation o f $$45,000 also affected by foreclosures, raising it 10-21-25. $10.00. visitor Friday. Miss Pauline ac- 1 5 | the last day for filing federal gonian, bought government timber from 66.5 mills last year to 73.6 Alex Lochead et ux to Loraine J. was asked to be used by the state companied her hon$e for the week income tax returns, deputies from in Bear valley at $2.80 per thousand. mills for 1927. * Kinney-south 15 feet o f Lot 16, all livestock sanitary board in co-op- end. the office o f Clyde G. Huntley, col- When Herrick received the con of Lot 17, and north 10 feet o f Lot eration with the work o f the bio- Nyssa will pay 66.3 mills this Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Smith went lector o f internal revenue, will visit tract, James W. Girard resigned 18, Block 1-10-27 1 l°g ’cal survxey. Congress was urg year and Jordan Valley 72.8 mills. 26, Ontario. to Payette Friday taking a load o f the principal cities and towns of from the forest and later Frank ed to apporpriate an additional $2,- Road And School $2,800.00. turkeys to market. the state for the purpose o f assist- Klobucher resigned. With Herrick U. S. A. to James C. Jones-E%- ' 5°0.000 to further aid in rodent con- The general tax for the county is Miss Ethel Wagner o f Ontario is ¡ng taxpayers to prepare their re- these two former forest officers or NW14, N E ’4SE14, and Lots 1 and 2, tro* and P « dat°ry animal work in affected by a very slight increase a week end guest o f Wanda Hite. turns and compute their taxes. ganized the Malheur railroad. This Sec. 35-19-39; Lots 1 and 2, Sec. 2- the 11 western states, und the sec- in special road taxes which will [ Mr. O. R. Hite and Mr. Jess Ky- Deputy collectors will be in Vale was followed by a telegram to the 20-39 10-2-25 retary was ordered to get in touch amount to 1.8 mills, while it was j gar having reached the ripe old age on February 12-14. Burns committee from the forest ~ Catherine Williams et vir to The with Oregon's delegation in congress 1.7 mills last year. | of fifty years on Saturday last, Ontario, February 15-17. service to eliminate the common car Sunshine Home for the Aged-NM ,-_for this PurPose- The practice of the A11 the school districts in the ! their relatives and friends deemed Burns, February 9-10. rier clause. During 1924 Chief For SWVi, and WHSEV4 Sec. 15-16-46."Hepartmcnt of agriculture issuing county show a slight increase in | it fitting to hold a party in their Huntington, February 18-19. ester Greeley was advised that Her 11-20-26 $10 00 predictions on the future price o f millage. honor, but the gentlemen proved ---------------------------- rick was doing nothing. A fter 1925 Winniefred M. Poorman et vir to w° o1 and livestock was condemned • t0 b< . by < t!' Xati° n that they were not so aged after all COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS | the forest service directed that Her- Dessie May Flaherty-Lots 16 and 17, 88 harmful. Further creation of S8,598.% “ s t . r ntax; 6 7 ,1 4 0 ^ conn"- ™ !* ‘° * ?“ * FOK M AU1EUR LEGISLATORS rick w„uld have to do a certain and north half of Lot 18, Block 121, Parks or Bame reserves restricting 7 nanenn, , i nni(v « v folks how they danced in the long, ------- - amount of work every three months Ontario. 3-18-25. $1,500.00. grazing also was condemned. ty; 30,278.97, school; 3,949.43, h- , About sixtv were present In Tuesday’ s report of the Oregon . . . . ...... . . . .. . . CUY MILLAGE HIGHER COMI CARRIED IS M , » - STATE WOOL MEETING “ Income Experts brary; 11,979.94, sinking; 21.458.58, ----- i i — j _. ni ftAi ro --------- market roads; 24,091.53, general , roads and 10,414.97 for high school. «r be f.ned $50,000. If H|rrick was ever fined, Grant county never re- Marriage Licenses Issued. GIRLS HAVE CHANCE , . ------ _„ ______ — TO WIN SCHOLARSHIP ceived its share o f the money, as Gerald Averill Palmer and Joyce serts Waldenberg. Margaret Baxter. 1-11-27. j ■ Nyssa high-school girls are to be Extensions Made To Herrick Complaints Filed In Circuit Court, j given an opportunity to win a uni- Extensions were made to Herrick J. C. Gordon vs Frank Shumway versity scholarship through compe- and he was finally given until Sep et ux. 1-16-27. Foreclosure tition in a national meat story con- tember 15, 1926, to complete the Mortgage. $7,156.59. ______ i test, according to formal announce- (From the Malheur Enterprise.) Judd as superintendent of the Sun- member of the following commit- grade to Seneca. It was not com | ment o f the event which has just day school, Mrs. JClingback was elec- tees: Automobiles and roads, In i- pleted. He was given until decem- | been sent out to home economics The Vale union o f the W. C. T. U. gation and drainage, Livestock and ber 15, 1926, to complete the rail I teachers by the National Live Stock was well represented at the county tc< ° 1 er p ace._______ road, but it is not yet completed. Mining. ■ and Meat Board- Several scholar conference held in Nyssa on Tuea- p r i l l f l i p p p T ilim He was given until January 1, 1927, beinK offered, it is said. dav, held at the Methodist church. rrlA l j . A S r J -! I K I r M MALHEUR ITEMS IN REPORT ta log. There is no logging. He i l l I L U IIU H U ! I l l n l l l It is the fourth annual contest to be An inspiring talk was given by Mr. 1 t i l l U n i i L U I ! IILU STATE GAME COMMISSION was given until March 1, 1927, to ---------- sponsored by this institution o f re- Messenger, superintendent of Nyssa complete his sawmill at Burns. There Were several items o f in Far from each other and from 8earch and ada« t io n . schools, dealing with the education j There was not a spadeful of dirt terest to Malheur county in the re and rearing of young people. Vale j mea Oregon are some of the lands to To eomPetf ’ 8 *tudent mu8t turned. i ...ui-i, t ___ i „ „ „ „ „ i „» a sorty or theme on some phase o f port from the state game commis delegates say it was very fine. Mus Aside from Herrick’s slowness in ‘ „ . , . . . . the subject of meat or the live-stock sion received this week. There were ical numbers on the program were j (From the Malheur Enterprise) ',|v_rv ■ .. , „ n . q „tti - industry. The stories are to bo also enjoyed, as was refreshments [ The January term of court came less arrests for violations of the building the road and keeping his contract, what concerns Harney and n .n »r»m m l of the ' Ufate judfged by a committee o f home games laws in 1926 than there were served at the close o f the afternoon to a close Thursday with dismissal Grant counties most is the prospect ,, hrnurfit let economics authorities. Dr. Louise by the Nyssa union. They were o f the jury, after jurors were drawn in 1926 but fines were much larger. of having the common carrier clause ' ^ Stanley, chief of the bureau of voted capitol hosts. for the next term. The session was There were 11 arrests with fines at deleted by the contract. This clause „ , , . „1 , , home economics, United States De- $500 in 1926 and 16 arrests with Visitors from here were Mesdames unusually brief. s necessary if other timber men N° Va Scot,a- and partment o f Agriculture, who hM fines $300 in 1925. W. _ L. Posey, I, W. Hope, Ed. , Perkins Grbver of Huntington, < w . . . . been chairman of the judging com« In 1926 153 bounties were paid on are to operate and get their product Charles, A. W Gr.ggs, George El- ^ ^ ^ # char(re of op. into Burns. The Hankow inquiry came from mittee f|>r the three prevjous con . wildcats in Malheur amounting to dredge and Sopha Amens. . rating a distillery, was sentenced E. W. Barnes, who worked tor an Ame''lcan Prom,ne,»t ln the bus- tegta> wji] a(fajn gerve ¡n this ca- approximately $450. In 1926 one FARMERS’ PETITION SAYS | to one year in the state penetent- bounty was paid on a wolf in the years to have the timber developed, .ne*8. a alr* ere ,W ? anticipa es pacjtyj ¡t ja said, PHEASANTS ARE MENACE iary. Grover is the first offender sum of $25. The Boar() gives ag the reason Wildcat bounty was is now at Washington, D. C., and is locat,nK in ®regon durinK the eom- that has been sent from Malheur there to demand investigation in the 'ritf Vear' e 8a,d * pr erre 0 for this annual competition for A number of Vale farmers have county since the penalty for this o f discontinued November 1, 1925. Cou scholarships a desire to stimulate a gar bounty at the present time is name o f Grant county. To back up e near a 8ma 1 cltv circulated a petition seeking con- fense became a prison term. Harry Barnes and see that the common Desiring to get away from the greater interest in the study of also $25. troll o f pheasants in this dis Reed plead guilty to the same carrier clause is retained, the legis- winters o f Nova Scotia is the resi- home economics, a subject which is trict of Malheur county. The peti charge Friday and was also sentenc BILL WOULD GIVE VETS TILL lature will be asked to adopt a me- d,‘n^ ° f Charlottetown, on Prince considered of great importance to tion requests the state game cqjn- ed to one year in the penetentiary. Edward Island who wishes to bring jhe coming generations of house- 1931 TO ASK STATE AID morial during the coming week. mission to look into the situation as Ed. Riggins was tried on a liquor his large family to Oregon. He wives. It is pointed out that today the pheasants are becoming a men charge and was found guilty by the Representative Olson from Mult inquires concerning cattle raising education j8 playing a most impor- CHANGE IN PIONEER AND ace to the fanners. It further states jury Wednesday. nomah county Tuesday introduced a dairying, fruit orchards and poultry. tant part in the solution o f the VETERANS GAME LICENSE that something must be done, or the Ivan Wells plead guilty to a viola- bill providing that applications for J. J. McGill who came to Oregon housewife’ s many problems. More farmers will have to use methods ( tjon 0f tbe jiqUor ]aws and was bonus or loan by ex-service men of three years ago and settled on a than 10,000 girls competed last of their own. General sentiment sentenced to serve four months in Oregon may be made up to June 30,, A recent change was made af- farm near Junction City is so cn- year) it ¡„ saj(|, an<1 the contest di in town is in sympathy with the the county jail and fined $100. 1931. ' fecting free hunting and fishing ll ami war voter tbu**“ *b c over his home that he rectors express the belief that even farmers. It has been said that the In the case o f Galo Mendieta vs. The bill provides that any person n t (ir rP 7J «fier the Writt's fre‘lu<'ntly to tbe department morp wil, pnroll for thp present con- farmers should be allowed to kill Fred Castro, for recovery on con- who hag received a cash bonus un- Z t f l l r . h ,™ „ e e l. *° nRmeB ° f hU ,0™ er test which will com . to a close on pheasants the year around, as it Is tract for the sale o f 139 horses, a ,jer the veterans’ state aid act and t ,f th“ year 11 b ame ** I neighbors whom he wishes to seek March 15 sary to make the application to th e' " . maren 10 . upon their fields that the game verdict was returned in favor of the who at the said time desired to loan „»ate „« e ,, -, e,mio.i,.e le th e |new homes out here. The contest has been most suc- birds thrive. plaintiff. Mendiato recovered $2,530 instead of eash bonus hue accepted ,, _ , , * _ i A New Year inventory of settlers CP8sf ui d)le to the fact that teach- and interest on his money. the latter by reason of misappre- thf rdint clerk’s office ' arriving during 1926 in the Grants pr(1 have found it especially valuable WELL KNOWN JORDAN VALLEY The ease State vs. Harry Repd and hension as to his right to elect a Pass district has revealed seventeen as a r|a, M project, says the Board’ s COUPLE GET LICENSE ______ A. McWilliams, larceny, was con- |oan may. upon refunding the cash farm families not prevariously re- utatement. The Art of glass-making was ported to the Land Settlement De- ---------------------------- On Tuesday the clerk’ s office Is-. tinued over to the April term of bonus received by him, with inter- practised as long ago as 2500 B. C. partment. These new farmers In Tombstone, Arizona, the only sued a marriage license to Gerald court. (est thereon from the date of receiv- by inhabitants of the Euphrates Val- made an investment o f over $55,- newspaper printed is called the Epl- Averill Palmer and Joyce Margaret1 The case C. F. Smith vs. Wiley ing at the rate of 5 per cent per an- who sold their products, mainly 000 purchasing about 200 acres o f taph. Baxter o f Jordan Valley. Mr. Pal- Frakes, appeal from justice court, num> obtain the lean If otherwise beads and weights made from glass land I 11 1 qualified.—Oregon Journal. was dismissed. mer recently returned from Salem, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Blacksmith artists in China make paste, in Egypt. So well pleased M. C. Sells vs. George Hart, r e -f where he has been working in a A late feminine fad in Paris is the landscapes and flowers out o f the there were the Egyptians that they soon During November. 1926, state office. Both young people covery on note, defendant defaulted. were only forty-one hours of Sun- imported the glass-makers themsel- j tinting o f the finger nails in bands same metal that goes into wagon are well known throughout the Jor-| Several eases on the law dock * ! shine in London. ¡vea. of three colors. 1 tires and horaeshoaa. dan Valley section o f the country. | will be tried next week. Nyssa W. C. T. U. Capital Hosts lon* had 8uch a ^ time ^ t they l e c t u r e , senate and house com. and nad suen a good time mat tn ey, ,, _ didn’t go home until morning. The mittees were named. Senator Geo. music was furnished by Mr. J. P. E- Davis « chairman of Irrigation and Drainage, a member of the En McGinnis and Claude Smith. Mrs. M. M. Maxwell and Mrs. H. grossed bills, Judiciary, Public build and Public Ward o f Nyssa attended Sunday ings and institutions lands committees. school in the Kolony Sunday. Representative J. D. Billingsley is , Owing to the resignation of Mrs. OREGON ATTRACTING flllrnil (In Nr MANY 8bips u rc AT JANUARY TERNI