THE GATE CITY JOURNAL VOLUME XXVI. No. 51. PEDIGREE PIG NYSSA, OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY JURY USI DRAWN FOR JANUARY COURT $1000 FROM ONE PIG JANUARY CLEARANCE SALE Suits and Overcoats HEN SETS DURING DECEMBER BRINGS THREE STRAGGLERS TO W. J. HUFFMAN RANCH Twists, Worsteds, Cassimeres $JO,75 $2¿i-50 W i t h a F e w a t $ 15 ‘ P Dollar Shirts Odd Trousers Plain and Fancy Broadcloth All sizes, styles and mater ials to make your coat do double duty CLEARANCE SALE, $1.00 $1.95 $2.95 $3.85 Mackinaws, Stag Shirts Leather Vests Reduced to a point where cost is not a question B oys’ Blazers Men’s Take your choice Slipons & Knit Coats $1.95 $2.85 53.85 ALEXANDERS Finest of Men’s Stores Ontario, Oregon .......... □ TRAIN WRECK SITUATION IM PRESSES UPON PORTLAND WRITER NEED OF CROSS STATE LINE WOULD JOIN BURNS LINK Publisher Believes Cross State Road Would connect with Burns Road Bctween Vale and Nyssa * with the Bums branch at a point that Santa would leave them one next about half way between Nyssa and year too. Vale.’’ Rev. Brown o f Boise the Sunday hool missionary will meet with the ■eople of Oregon Trail in the school house Sunday morning at 10:30. All Mrs. J. W. McLing of Salt Lake who would like to see a Sunday City is visiting with her daughter chool in the community are invited Mrs. Emmett Gifford at the Appel to e present. It’s a good work, come ranch mt and help. The L. F. Edmundson family have Dwight Smiths who have been liv- gone to Oklahoma to make their :ng in Owyhee are moving to Nyssa future home. this week. Rex Brumbach, Culver teacher, at Bill Glenns are moving to the Bill tended a conference at the Univer- ersity of Idaho at Moscow during Ward place in Oregon Trail which holidays. He was a delegate from they recently purchased. Three months late and five months early for this locality, a turkey hen hatched out a number o f birds and brought three o f the little stragglers into the farm yard at the W. J. Huff man ranch near Vale on the morn Tau chapter of the T. K. E. frater nity at O A C. ing of December 29 Mr. and Mrs. Howard Hatch and When it came to setting earlier in the fall, the turkey hen had been! Herman Jones have retunied from discouraged by Mrs. Huffman, so a holiday visit in Portland. Mr. and Mrs. L. Eachus were re she stole her nest out. It was under cent arrivals from Salt Lake, having a weed a quarter of a mile from the spent a holiday visit with their house. All during the month of daughter. December the plucky little mother The new park directors recently kept her nest warm, warding off elected are Burt Roberts, Ernest zero weather several days and nights. Mausling, Clint Allen, John Lewison, She hatched out quite a number, Will Schütz and Leo Lewison, secre although she reached the house tary. with only three hungry little mouths The newborn child o f Mr. and Mrs. to feed. Elmer Walker died Tuesday week. Perhaps she grew weary o f so i , ni„ ht iMrs Walker seems to be better after many cares. Last Thursday night . . , . . . , . • ,, „ a serious illness since the child’ s she deserted her babies, flew up on birth. the roost for a good night’s rest, only to find the three little turks STRIKE ARTESIAN WELL frozen to death next morning. NEAR JAMIESON Hatching season in this loaclity An artesian well flowing 270 gal is in May and June: In a few in lons of water an hour has been ob stances mother hens will raise one tained at a depth o f 327 feet on the I lock of birds and then attempt to C. P. Ragsdale ranch one mile north iet again in the fall, but never later o f Jamieson. This makes the second than in September. Growers say recent strike of artesian water in that in California turkeys have been i he Willow River Valley reported by known to hatch out in the winter Brn Jones, driller, the first strike months. having been made on the Ivor Wil Maybe, Mrs. Turkey thought this liams place at Brogan. was California. DISTRICT ATTORNEY BLODGETT OFFICER NEW ORGANIZATION Newcomers— District Attorney E. M. Blodget of Mr and Mrs. Murray Brown, photo graphers of no little repute through Malheur county * u elected a mem- out this section, moved to their farm mer of the executive committee of under the Warmsprings project near h eastern Oregon Officers associa- Vale from Payette last week. They* ion, which was recently formed for are going in for dairying and turkey j ’’ andling joint problems in law en- raising and will take pictures as a I o ermrnt. The next meeting will be tide line. hold in Baker on March 12. j Court F ixes Tax Levies For County In 1928 Rev. Brown of Boise was in Owy- xo and Kingman Kolony holding classes for those wishing to take the Teachers training course as outlined by the American Sunday School Union. The class meeds this week in At the county court meeting here the Khngback home on Tuesday and Wednesday the following tax levies n the Walter Nichols home in the were made for 1928; general levies olony on Friday. *254,272.12, special school 154,368.28 Mrs. Chas Bradley who has been special town 58,173.81, special road <eriously ill is now convalesing, her 26,293.92, irrigation 223,199.53 iaughter Alta, who had been living drainage 43,982.73, Morton Island a Boise returned home Friday to be bond district 1,600, forest fire patrol v' th her. 189.70, which brings total levies and Mrs. Albert Rust who underwent assessments to *763,780.09. The Ontario city levy is 33 mills, n operation at the Holy Rosary lospital in Ontario is recovering an increase this year of 1 mill; Vale licely and expects to be at home the city levy 61 mills, increase 3.3 mills due to reduced valuations and city ater part of the week. .inprovement work; Nyssa 33 mills, The Misses Humphreys and Semer- increase 10.3 mills; Jordan Valley II ec of Fruitland are holding a series mills, decrease 1.1 mills due to cut >f evangelistic meetings at the Owy in their budget by the court to keep hee school house every evening be- within the 6 per cent limitation. gining at 7 :45. A cordial invita tion is extended to all. “ For days the Union Pacific de toured its trains through the Co iumbia gorge by way o f the North Bank road. The wreck at Oneonta was the cause. mission at the request of the Warm- Mesdames J. B. Smith and T M. “If the Union Pacific had an east Lowe wbo are members of the Ways springs board o f directors, is being and west extension through Central worked out step by step. Within a Oregon it would leave the present nd Means committee of the county P T. A. met in Ontario Saturday short time, directors expect the re main line at Ontario. It would cross with the Federated Club to lay plans port of the investigating committee the Central Oregon plateau where | for a service shop. Another meeting who made the economic survey. This ;nowfall is usually light. It would at a later date however was found negotiate the crossing of the Cas is the report that has been prepared necessary to complete the plans. cades either by common use with by W. W. McLaughlin, economic ex the Southern Pacific o f the Natron The Klingback family were dinner pert of the Department of Agricul mss or by its own route. It would, guests in the DeBord home in Pay- ture, and Dr. W. L. Powers of O. A enter Portland by way of the Wil ette Saturday. Rarely, if ever, Mr. LaFrener who was snow bound C, with the assistance o f Paul Ewing, lamette valley. would both the Coumbia gorge and for a week in Bend, Oregon, arrived Wm. Johnston, Dr. Stevenson. Central Oregon routes be out o f com to resume his school in Owyhee Sun Consider Settlement Means mission at the same time. The day evening. Mrs. Archie Cantrall State Engineer Rhea Luper was Union Pacific could proceed un tough in his room the days he was 68-hour Chicago absent. here Friday and Saturday to confer worried with the Christa Minton has been spending with the board realtive to a method train service promised for May. It could even run 66-hour trains with the past week with his brother and of settling with the bondholders and out heart failure,’’ said the Oregon family in Boise and is expected other creditors. The status of the Journal editorially . home this week. district was considered from every W. S. Brown o f the Malheur En Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Elliott took angle in a series of meeting that terprise agrees with the Portland Mrs. McCreary back up to the Owy were held. i writer that a railroad across Cen Now it will be necessary for the tral Oregon would furnish an alter hee dam site where she will resume ■ ooking for a bunch of men board to meet with the several bond nate route but he discredits the Mrs. Ted Simmos o f Nyssa is holders’ committee and the state statement that an east and west ex spending the week with her parents reclamation commission, as a con tension through Central Oregon ference has been scheduled for next would leave the present main line Mr. and Mrs. T. T Elliott of King- Tuesday in Portland. Board mem -it Ontario. “ This shows how little man Kolony bers plan to leave today. Mr. and Mrs Geo Brown of Adrain even the best posted residents of Sometime ago officials received i p ort]and know their Eastern Oregon “(pent Sunday visiting in Vale. a new map of the district prepared geography,” said Mr. Brown. “ Why Mr. and Mrs. Geo M cLafferty of by the investigating committee which should a great transcontintental rail Nyssa were dinner guests in the Con shows the several land classifications road run several miles out of its way rad Martin homo in the Kolony Sun in colored sections. About 14,000 just for the fun o f running back day. acres, out of the 30,000 acres includ again? The answer is, it would not. Mrs. C. C. Cotton invited in a few ed in the district, have been classi A glance at the map will show that neighbors Saturday evening to dem fied as very poor land and will prob the Central Oregon extension, when onstrate how well her new electric ably be excluded when settlement is built, will leave the main line at waffle iron worked. All said it effected. some point near Nyssa and connect worked fine and expressed the wish TURKEYS HATCH OUT In keeping with a fixed policy to start each season with a fresh, new stock we offer our present stock at Bargains most extraordinary. OW YHEE RAIL ROUIE THRU WORKING OUI GENIRAL OREGON BOARO GOING TO PORTLANO hand! The tale of a pig, and it all j Brogan, E. H. Brumbach, W. T. started in the ton-litter movement Ashcraft and B. W. Millsap of Big which was designed to start som e-! Dend; D. A. Clore and L. P Lumpee, thing. j Vale. One of these mortgage lifting pigs ■ In Ontario— lives in Oregon, just across the line Mr. and Mrs. Robert Madden and from Idaho. The tale of the Ore little son were guests of Mr. and gon pig is told in a letter to the Mrs. D. E. Masterson in Ontario on editor, as follows: New Year’s Day Their first New '‘ In March, a year ago (1926), Mrs. Year dinner was enjoyed with rela Karl Norvall of Vale, Oregon, made tives in Nyssa and in the evening up hermind to go in for pruebred pigs. they were guests at another festive She read of the prize-winning ton dinner at the Masterson home. litter o f O. I. C’s at the Oregon state fair at Salem and after corres farrowed there were 67. This fall ponding with the owner of the prize Mrs. Norvall has sold from this herd litter she purchased from him a 18 feeder pigs, and 440 fat hogs. gilt. This gilt’s dam was a litter “ In September another lot o f 50 mate to the dam of the prize winn babies came. Mrs. Norvall and her ers. Mrs. Norvall received also the husband were on a trip to Iowa at registered pedigree of her pig. the time and some were lost. Of She Kept the Sows these 50 Mrs. Norvall sold 25 wean- “ In May thjs guilt farrowed seven ers, keeping the others to fatten for splendid pigs, two males and five spring market. These, with seven sow pigs. She sold the two males at sows and two purebred boars con *25 each and kept the sows. stitute her winter herd. “ In addition to this, in a little over “ In November she bought a pure- bread boar from an Idaho breeder. a year and a half Mrs. Norvall has “ The first litter autved February realized from sales close to *1000 and 11. By March 5 there were 50 little all from one pig whose first cost was _,id when the Iasi fc>'t farrowed *37.50. A pretty fair pig tale.’ ’ Ore- and Maida, the original mother p ig ,1 gon Farmer. *1.5« 1'KR YEAR it Those who served on the grand jury include Kay Duncan and C. Smith o f Ironside, C. W. Madden and W. T. Downs of Ontario, J. B. Wood cock of Malheur, H. J. Kennedy and TALE OF LITTLE PIG THAT DIRECTORS LOOK FOR COM Saxon Humphrey o f Vale PROVED A REAL MONEY PLETE ECONOMIC REPORT IN Trial Jurors MAKER FEW DAYS Residents of the county called for the trial jury next week are Fred Currey, Juntura; T. M. Lowe, John Kakabeeke, F. C. Fry, C. E. Elliott and Gerrit Stam of Nyssa; A. L Chadwick, W. L. Turner, Robert Gil Mrs. Karl Norvall Tells Story of Conference Will Be Held With Bond christ, Bert Koplin, John Walters Mortgage-lifting Pig Through holders' Committees a nd State S. D. Dorman, John Forbes, J. L. Oregon Farmer Reclamation Commission Mackay, Paul Van Petten, Blaine May and C C Taylor of Ontario; Frank Grant, Ray Christensen and (From The Malheur Enterprise) (From The Malheur Enterprise) This is not a can-you-beat it story, Otto Meili of Dead Ox Flat; Frank Re-organization of the Warm- but beat it if you can. A thousand Vines o f Jamieson; Ed Oakes, W. 1. spings irrigation district started last dollars from one pig! And the or-1 Duncan, S A. Lofton, Ironside; Carl iginal (plus a few others) still on j Thomas o f Westfall, G H. Bridwell spring by the state reclamation com ON VALE FARM 13 1928. County Statistics Real Estate Transfers Recorded Timothy J. Toohey et ux to Cy rus G. Wareham, E liN E li, and SEY* Sec. 15; anw W liN E li Sec. 22 23-38. 12, 23, 27 *10.00 Riverside Homestead Co to Port land Terminal Investment Co. 138 Lots in Outlooki (Riverside) and 42.64 acres in SE14 Sec. 27 and N li NEV* Sec . 34-23-37. 12, 5, 27 *1.00. Jane A Davis to George D Davis Lots 1 2 3 4 and 5, Block 215, Ont ario. 12, 31 27 *10.00. I. G Anderson to Robert E Long Lots 11 12 and 13, Block 16, Nyssa. 12, 23, 27.* 800.00. Charles P Lackey et ux to Melvin T. Walters et ux Lots 17, 18 19 and 20, Block 32, Ontario. 12, 28, 27. *1,600.00. Ameil Claude to Blanche Claude Lots 2 and 3 and art of Lot 1, Sec 14; and Lots 1 and 2, Sec. 15-26-43; S% N W (4 anw SW>4 Sec.12; N li - NW14 Sec. 13; S liN E li and SE14 Sec. 11; and N H N E li ec. 14-20-37. (this deed covers undivided % in terest only). 1, 4, 27. *10.00. Paul F. Erwip et ux to State of Oregon E liS E li Sec. 9, 20-42. 12, 21 27 *2,900.00. Guy C. Wise et ux to State of Oregon W liS E li and E liS W li Sec 32 13 39; NW14SW14 and S liN W li Sec. 32-13 39; Lot 3, Sec. 6. 14-39.; SMrSEtt and SE*4SW>4 Sec. 29-13 39; WV4NE(4 NE14NE14, and N li- NW14 ec 32-13-8 .912, 21, 27.» 2,000. R. C Enos et al to Geirge Brown Lots 14 and 15, Block 1, Adrain. 4, 23 27. *1.00. Arthur W. Ward et ux to H. J Ward N liS liN E H Sec 24-20-46. 9, 20, 1924. *500. H J Ward et ux to W L Glenn, N liS liN E H Sec .24-20-46. 12, 31, 27. *3,000 Rudolph A Kuner to J B. Swan et al, Lot 5, Bloc 8, Nyssa. 12, 21 27. $2000 Nyssa Realty Co. to Lon S Root Lots 17 18 and 19 ,Block 59, Greens Add to Nysa. 1, 5, 28. *100.00 M T Tarlin et al to Alfred Scott Lots 1 and 3 Secl9-28-46; and E li E li Sec. 24-28 45 . 11, 27. 26 *1 Frank Stubbs et ux to M W Greel ey, Lots 10 and 11 and 12 and Block 8,Teutschs Add to Nyssa. 4 28 27. Mr. and Mrs .Chas. Fisher had as dinner guests Sunday Mr and Mrs. * 1000 . Roy Taylor o f Ontario. M W Cheeley et ux to Dwight Mis. Harry Gorman was a Sun L. Smith Lots 10 11 and 12 Block day guest in the Fisher home atend- STeutschs Add. to Nyssa 11 23 27. ing church in the evening at the *1250. Owyhee school house with them. Edna Boyd to Maria Pagnagn Echanis Lots 16, 17, 18, 19 and 20, Block 10 Ontario. 7 6 27. *6500. U S A to Hutton B Syme SEU SE14 Sec 20; Lots 3 , 4, 7, and 8, Sec. 21; Lot 2 Sec. 28; and Lot 1 Sec. 29-26-43 8 21 1907 H B Syme to U S A. Lots 3 and 4 Sec. 21 and Lots 6 and 7 Sec 16- 26 Malheur county has a political 43 11 8 27. *3790. chaiacter, J. D. Billingsley, who is Anne E Syme et vir to U S A Lot atti acting considerable attention just I Sec 29; Lot 2 Sec 28; SE14SE14 nuw. A few weeks ago Mr. Billings Sec 20; and Lots 7 and 8ec. 21 2ft ley announoed that he would run for II 8, 27. *6,786. state senator from Malheur, Harney Marriage IJeense Issued and Grant counties. Walter Menrow Perry and Irene Mr. Billingsley is one of those Palmer.. 1, 7 28. men who puts his cards on the table nd takes the public into his confi Boys Experience Thrills— (From The Malheur Enterprise) dence and in a business like way bids While on return to the Oregon for the job. He is a strong candi college, several Vale date as he made a splendid record Agricultural thrilling last year as representative from this hoys lived through some experiences. Cleo Slaght was on the district. He is a very capable man, being a train going toward Portland that was successful stockman and business man wrecked. He escaped unhurt and of this county. He has never ming helped remove several injured per the wreckage. Dantan led in a selfish way with county or sons from state politics. He asks for the job Humphrey, George Thayer and Ray as a business man who has the time Moe who were returning to school ■ind who enjoys the opportunity to with several Idaho boys in a car, devote a month or so to politics. It made The Dalles safely. As the roads is very generally believed that he from there to Portland were closed will serve his district in an efficent by the snow slide, they were obliged and honorable way if given the to travel by train the rest o f th« BILLINGSLEY QUI FOR STATE SENATOR chance. wr ^ A*