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The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1909-09-24
Located at the Argus Office.

No. 90 lots on Main street
IN business center; II good locn.
tion.
No. 2l-20 lots, one full block,
all lcvclcd and street graded.
Will sell in part or al at panic
prices.
No, > leo acres ~ miles
from ra rondIown; with Z room
house; stable for six horses: 20
tons ol hay; = grannrics; ull ont
buildings; deep well; cuts iC0
tons OF hay; 1000 bushels grain.
with good water right in Owy.
hee ditch; n family orchard; II
snar,
No. 2l-l00nd 20 acre tracts,
nicely located, mile from town,
with good water right; fine fruit
and berry land; on easy terms
these are choice pieces; come
and see.
No, 37-lGO acres - miles
from Ontario; all good bench
land, with perfect water right;
good house and outbuildings +;
berry patch; partly in cul.iva-
ton $40 per acre.
No, % lots, with Groom,
brick house; good cellar ID
deep we'll.
No, 2l-5 lots, with a 7.roon
brick house; deep well and good
cellar; shade trees.
No. 2S--onc block. all fenced
and l-room house, 3 blocks from
depot; cheap.
No, 3l-lG0 acres, q miles
from Nyssp, close up to main
ditch on bench; all in culliva.
tion; 80 acres alfalfa, balance H.
bcets and grain; . acres orchard
+-room house, stable, sheds, deep |
well one OF the best ranches H.
county; pays $4,000 !
year; this will be sold cheap.
The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1909-09-24

". 35-lO0 urres, mile.
rom Ontario, all fenced, will
omc uudcr Government Pro-
sct, lays good 10 irrigatc, Price
90 per acre.
No. SO acres all under cul.
ivnlion. with good water right
u Owyhce ditch; will scll in IL
or 2O.ucrc tracts; one.huli down
b dance on easy tern $.
No. 33.-j-room house, oi O.
mli block from postollicc, ON
Nnin street; biggest snap OF tic
season.
No. $3.50 acres, 3l miles
rom Ontario, ~ acres in culli'
alton I acres in orchard, lois
II berries OF all kinds; good
rouse and barn aud all out.
buildings, with a perfect water
'ight; this is choice and will go
quick.
No, 2G-SO acres, all good
Sandy soil, 30 acres in cultiya.
ion, II good little orchard, water
or - acres, lots OF small fruit;
heap and on easy terms.
No. 27-220 acres | mile from
a good thriving town on Il, Il +;
n cultivation; small o'chard,
house, with water; will sell all
n will cut it up in lO.2O-l0
lcre ira is, on good terms,
No. 90 lots in north part
of city; close to school; nicely
located; cheap,
No. 30-l-room house; , lots;
good barn; 3 blocks from Onta-
rio school.
No. 3l-l0 lots, one block
from Main street with good
livery barn; doing good bust
ness; cheap.
No. 3G-rwo l0-acre tracts;
me 5-acrc tracts adjoining town
ii Ontario, with water right;
heap,
The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1909-09-24
DR.. COOK ARRIVES
IN new YORK CITY
Tremendous crowds Cheer Returncl
Arctic Explorer.

New York, Sept. Ell have
come from the Pole. have brought
my story and my data with me. !
have not come home to enter into
arguments with one man or many
men. but I am here to present a clear
record Of u piece of work over which
I have a right to display n certain
amount of pride.
II am perfectly willing to abide by
the final verdict of competent Judges
ON this record THAT must be the last
word and that alone can satisfy me
and the public.
Furthermore. not only will my
report be before you in black and
white, but will also bring to Ame-
rica human witnesses to prove that
I have been to The Pole"
Such is the substance of the first
message Dr Cook brought home In
person.
Brooklyn's reception to Dr Cook
had all the elements of a riot except
violence. From the moment th
steamer bearing Dr. Cook tied
To her landing aud the explore.
flankod by miliiiamcn aud police,
fought his way into an automobile.
until he lefi the Bushwick club for
tho Waldorf Astoria In New York,
the snrglng crowds taxed the capa.
city of the police.
Along the fve miles of avenues
through which the explorer passed,
mounted police were continually
aghtIng n way for Dr. Cooks car,
when thny were not sicmming the
masscd thousands. who seemed Il
have only one object to break loose
and embrace Dr. Cook
Among the first To greet Dr. Cool
upon his arrival. was Mira Cook ana
her two daughters. The crowd,
gave prolonged checra M they wit
messed the anectionaie meeting.
Crowds Welcome Commander I'rnry.
sydney. y. s.. Sept 2l. The are.
tic ship Roosevelt. having on board
Commander Poary. reached here To
day. Crowds Hwarmed the street,
and the waterfront To welcome him
All manner of water craft from
yachts Ia sailboats moved down N,
hay when three blasts from the whis.
tie were heard. the signal that the
Roosevelt was approaching,
Peary announced that he viii ne
cept no invitations 10 receptions aud
public functions until the question
OF the discovery of the Pole has been
decided by scientific authority
The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1909-09-24
GOV. JOHNSON'S
CAREER IS ENDED


Rochester, MINI, Sept, ell Gov,
ernor John A, Johnson. three times
elected Governor Of Minnesota and
a candidate for the Democratic nomi
nation for the President ~ the
United States, and looked upon by
many as the possible Democratic
standard bearer In 1919. died at 81
Mary's Hospital this morning follow,
Ing an operation last Wednesday.
The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1909-09-24
VIM. Plughof
...WE HAVE TIlE.....
Bargains in Real Estate
& Farm Property
FARM LOANS. INSURANCE

Do YOU want to make MONEY? Why not invcs
II land here now in Malhcur county, where prices ar.
,lways going higher No risk No chance Come in an,
ak it over. Our lit comprises most of the choic,
nnds ia the Mahcur and Snake River Valleys If we d,
ot have the exact piece of land YOU desire will try
'btaim il for YOU
Personally acquainted with all portions of Malheur
County, and inform intending buyers ntelIigeny
AND WE WILL DO r.
The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1909-09-24

Mrs. Johnson was with her hus-
band To the last.
Governor Johnson was a forceful
representative of the best type of
American manhood ny sheer force
Of will by unlagging perseverance
and by stubborn adherence 10 what
he believed To he right, he steadily
raised himself from the low estate
In which he was horn until, at the
last, he stood before the people of
the Nation as a man Of great mental
capacity, of strict moral integrity
and with high ideals of civic and
political aims and ends.
Governor Johnson was horn at s..
Peter. MINI, July 2s, 1861. His
parents were Swedish immigrants.
His father, Gustav Johnson. was
blacksmith.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-03-23

pliments neatly written out the card attached.
 Anita very sweet and gracious-not to say condescending-to the boys She talked pleas antly to them when they called, sought for topics of conversation not too abstruse their limited iEtellects, and made lemonade for them whenever her mother reminded her to do so. Still it was not happy time, and there special wrench ing of heart-strings when she returned boarding school. The sizing-up of the summer terse and uncomplimentary.
 She's stuck up,'' Harry said to Will in great disgust, "she thought of her clothes than she did of us.'
 "I wonder if she'll change back like she used to be!'' Tom meditated sadly; then membered with a sudden rush joy that they were going to have ducks for dinEer-and ceased to consider the good bad possibilities of Anita.
 But the next summer a greater surprise yet. for Anita didn't come home at all. Instead she went to visit a school-friend, and then abroad. Such doings The boys really did not know whether they approved or not.
 That January Anita seventeen They were all ing forward to being seventeen after hard and absorbing work, that last year before CO., Eddy!)-and very little brain power spared for Anita and her affairs.
 Still they were all glad when they heard that she was coming home the next summer, and when the dey and hour arrival came they went cheer fully the station bloc, just they had always gone whenever she was to be welcomed back since they babies together.
 Such a lovely Anita descended from the Pull Such a charming, dainty. bright. happy little fgure!-not trace of the priTn young lady who had froisseed them all horribly yea1s before.
 Instead she all snaies-and even some sparkling tears. and her feet touched the plat
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-03-23

plainly of the dreadful dirth of interest in life, when that life could find no wider center than the clothing and feeding of eight babies, whose in- telligence yet in a very embryonic state of development.
 But Time was soon to rectify all that When Anita had two candies her birthday cake she had already been entered in the census as one of the nine hundred citi ems If her place of birth. When she had five candles she one of three thousand. Then there was an enormous boom of western emigration and the little girls twelfth birthday her living in city-a city of paved streets, tall buildings, fine parks, and all other modern advantages. No would have recog- nized the sites of the chapel, the storing skins and the blockhouse; would have recognized the bluffs or the river; and no one would have recognized Anita and the seven boys.
 Of course they had all grown. Twelve years has always produced tremendous changes in babies. John had grown fast that his mother very nervous him, he being her only child. Eddy had grown mainly widthways; Tom and Dick were taller than Anita; Harry and Will were shorter tkan she was; Francis George (whose ,na.her was poet) just her height
 But tEey still celebrated their birthdays to- eether, Anita always leading off January And iust as Anitas hood had set the fashion in hoods in days gone by, now Anita's style of birthday celebration always set the style of all the other birthday celebrations for that year. When Anita testified 10 the number Of her years by circle of Sugar cats instead of candles, Tom (whose fete came next) testified 10 his by a circle of sugar dogs I,5dy followed with sugar elephants and 90 for that year.
 The next year Anita had the requisite number of big pink roses and Tom followed with red roses, and Francis George (whose mother all ways liked to produce a novel efect), who had lowering spikes Of hoIlyhocks.
 Ufon the foiIonin year Anita suddenly aban-
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-03-23
ANYIA

v MIST begin little back-about seventeen II or eighteen years back.
 The missionaries up the river first and Fl bc't chapel; then the fur-traders came next
 and built a shed for storing skins out of the rs~- soldiers and built, first a block-house then a stone fort; then came the law and the stcamboats; and then the settlers-the first towrspeople
 They were young married people mainly, people whose lives and plans had been uprooted and whirled abroad by the There was quite a colony of them men of all professions with pretty s~eet-fsced girl-wives, each seeking their fortune as some one put it.
 In January ofsthe following year Anita came. and along throagh the twelfth month succeeding Came the seven boys Anita and the seven boys were the most important of all the arrivals, for they the first white children born in the young slate.
 Anita and the boys were of course inti- nate friends from the first minute of their spective adsents. Their first teeth and their first A.eps were civic events, their last long clothes ard their first short clothes were cherished heir looms later When Anita's great-grandmother in boston sent her the newest thing in velvet hoods the mothers of the seven boys all met in solemn at tte residence of Anita's mother and 'tool the pattern off, that all the eight babies might be hooded alike. They also strap-slippered alike, white embroidered-caped in the second yeas-they all brthdayed alike one and somewhat pathetic, too. for 1t spoke very
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-03-23

doned her cake and gave dancing party with a German and the date and her age done in gold the back of the programmes Here was innovation, but the other mothers nobly to the occasion-or occascns-and seven dancing parties each with German and a pro- gramme attached, all took place in turn.
 The next year Anita went away to boarding school and thus terminated all the happy series of events which had r-ettily and pleasantly chained the lives of the eight together. Of tt inevitable and of it sad, but que voulez-vous?
 The boys stuck together less, went to school IaiIy. shot snipe in twcs and threes in the snpe season, played football Gall but John, whose mother preferred that he shouldn't-he being her only child)), played ten his, played all of things and grew up assidu ously.
 When Anita came home the next summer she great surprise 10 her old comrades
 .'Why, she's pretty!' Harry said to Will in most utter surprise
 ''How awful old she seems,' Eddy confessed to Dick as they returned from having made especially awkward call the especially composed young lady.
 "I don't like her much as I did," Tom thought but not aloud
 Francis Georges mother had him lose time in sending flowers with his name and com
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1909-07-14
THE MYSTERIOUS Mr.. RAFFLES
Will View This City in His Automobile
Tomorrow
Will Make His Introductory Appearance at the Crystal
Airdome" Thursday Evening.
5000 Reward is Offered By the Guthrie Daily Leader
For His Capture

one point on Rafflos is this. When
the time comes to attack your possible
suspect. be careful what you say, and
how you say it. You must say the fol-
lowing words. "You are the myster-
ious Mr.. Raffles Of The Guthrie Daily
Leader" Also have on your person
at the time the latest issue of this
paper Ii you have attacked the right
party he will readily admit his iden-
tity end .he golden reward of $4,000
is yours.
In an interview with a representa-
tive Of The Leader Raffles said
Did II ever occur to you that So
per cent of the men in this city are
of the smooth faced variety?
Did YOU ever pause long enough
tC acqHlint yourself with the fact
that at least 20 per cent of the afore-
mentioned IS per cent were men of
ordinary build and stature? Really,
y ople should be more observing. As
you will shor ly discover, in Guthrie
there are no less than 10000 smooth
facei mon, all Of whom will bear a
remarkable resemblance to myself
That's how 1t happens that I can
successfully maint3in my incognlto
when the entire population is sure
they have me on the home run. From
now on every other smooth faced man
in town viii be trying to convince
mis- mos. intimate friends that his
name is not Chas. McGillivray: that
lie never at any time in his life
worked on The Daily Leader, and
that. above all. he is not the myster
ious Mr. Raffles.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1909-07-14
NEGRO SHERLOCK HOLMES
bAlKEO BY AUTHORITIES.
(By Associated Press.)

New Orleans. July 14-Frank
Walker, the negro detective, is in
dignant over the treatment received
at the hands of the authorities of
! aFayette. Walker has commits
sion from the sheriff of Oklahoma
county, Oklahoma. TO arrest Aft Hunt
er, who murdered Sheriff Harvey
Garrison. The BLACK sleuth" said
he had Hunter located at Lafayette
but was frustrated i'm his effort TO
capture him by himself being placed
in Jail and detained long enough to
permit Hunter to escape. Walker
proudly exhibited papers from the
governors Of four states giving him
authority to search for negro Grim
inals
He left last night for Baton Rouge
TO lay the Lafayette matter before
Governor Sanders.
Walker, who yled the negro
Sherlock Holmes was in Guthrie a
few weeks ago and secured from
Governor Haskell a letter of com
mendation of his work in apprehend
ing negro criminals
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1909-07-14
HOTELS COMPLYING WITH
STATE LAWS, SAYS MARR

j G.. Mahr, state superintendent
Of health, is here from Shawnee con
ferrng with the members OF the state
medical board in session in Guthrie
He states that hotels generally over
the state are complying with the ho
tel inspection and the nine-foot
sheet laws. He SAYS there is only an
occasional complaint against hotels
and that they are in better condition
by 100 per cent than before tate
hood He states that the Hotel Mems
association endorsed the laws and
will not fight them.
Dr.. Mahr commends the work be.
ing done by the state pure food in
spectors, and reports that the major.
ity Of the merchants are complying
with the provisions of the law. He
states that he will take steps the first
of next month to rigidly enforce the
law having given all persons af-
fected ample opportunity to become
familiar with the requirepents OF
the law
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1909-07-14
READY FOR BIC
SALE OF STATE LANDS

The school land commission late
Tuesdas afternoon appointed " II
Biddle. Democrat. and j J Irwin.
Republican both OF WeIston. as the
advisory board for Lincoln county 90
settle the differences between the
lessees i'm the recent appraisement
This is the first advisory board to be
appointed for any county 20 adjust
appraisements with the lessees. Lin
coin county has more indemnity
school land than any other counts
and has perhaps the strongest les
sees organization i'm the state.
The board selected the following
agricultural farm journals in which
TO advertise the sale Of the college
lands. Homestead. Little Rock, Ark.
Southern Ruralist, Atlanta. Ga:
Farm World. Chicago. Ill Progress
siye Farmer. Raleigh y. c.: Twen-
tieth Century. Omaha Neb Farm
and Ranch, Dallas. Texas.
Secretary Cassidy and John n
Shepler, chief of the safes depart
ment, will select the papers. daily
and weekly with general state cir
culation, county papers where these
lands are situated, and the daily and
weekh newspapers outside of the
state to extensively advertise the
sale of the college lands. The com
mission will perhaps advertise the
100000 acres of college lands more
extensively than the indemnity and
public building lands as there are
no preference rights on the college
lands and they are not as we'll known
as the other lands.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1909-07-14
MEMBERS OF CONGRESS
HEAR OMINOUS WARNINGS
OOIIiVeT and BGVeTidge HOnOTed
While Speaker Cannon
is Snubbed

Washington, July i4-There are
persistent reports IN congressional
circles that President Taft has broad
ly minated to the tariff conferees
that he Will veto the tariff bin if it
is not restored to the trend and spirit
of the Payne measure.
Such reports are natural, and
they were apt to be spread about,
anyhow for any possible effect that
they might have upon the COnferees.
II is beyond question, however, that
the situation is of the utmost serious
ness.
Those members of the house who
will have to seek reelection in an
other twelve months have no Difficult.
ty i'm reading the meaning of the
honors that are being heaped upon
Dolliver, of Iowa Beyeridge, of In
diana, and the other Republican sen
ators who voted against the Aldrich
bill
The weighty Union League club OF
Chicago has invited Senator D0lliver
to be the chief orator and guest of
honor at the annual dinner of the
organization in February next This
is regarded with great significance
Dollivcr was one of the foremost
opponents of the Aldrich bill. and
he fought to the end for revision
downwards Il means something for
the Union league of Chicago thus to
single him out for honors. Speaker
Cannon halls from Illinois, and it is
not difficult to read in the invita-
lion a rebuke TO him
BeVeridge Honored
Then here is Senator Bcveridge
being feted and hon0red in Indiana
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1909-07-14
PROPERLY CHARGED TO
CONSTRUCTION ACCOUNT
Declares Expenditure Was
Necessary in Construction
Of Prison Wall

r. w Dick, warden of the Okla.
homa state penitentiary appeared be
fore the state board OF prison control
which was in session here yesterday
and made a verbal statement regard
ing the expenditures of something
like $50 900 of the construction fund
which resulted in an investigation
being ordered by the state board Of
public affairs
Warden Dick stated to the board
that in his opinion there is nothing
to investigate as vouchers for every
expenditure made of the cOnstruc-
ton fund are on file in the state
auditors Office and that every cent of
the expenditures We're properly made
against the construction fund
There was no maintenance fund, F"
said Warden Dick "and walls had
to be constru, ed farm machinery
bought and operated and grading
and blowing done with cOnvicts
While these oonvicts were being
used On construction work and there
was no maintenance fund available
their support including their cloth.
ing, very properly was chargeable to
the construction and equipment fund.
We had to buy mules and horses,
build walls and a temporary cell
house. including steel cages, and to
purchase $4,000 worth of construc-
tion machinery. These are some of
the things for which the money was
expended
Nh. Dick states that approximately
$4,000 of the construction fund has
been used in this way. Warden
Dick states that the board Of public
affairs can obtain all the information
it desires to satisfy its members that
the expenditures were properly made
II is stated that the board of public
affairs had 20. X d" most of the
vouchers representing the $4,000
expenditures before member of the
board was sent to McAlester 10 in
vestigate the matter Of how the
money was spent
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1909-07-14

Now, lust listen one moment. Il
comes sor OF natural with NEST peo-
ule to b" remarkably clever in the mat
ter Of remembering faces. They will
tell YOU with al candOr and sincerity
power tc recall persons faces whom
they have not seen for years: there
lCre they are especially clever in this
one particular accomplishment. and as
a result of this ability my capture IS
only a consideration Of a very short
time. BE that as it may, ! am rea-
sonably sure Of doing here the same
as in o,lcr cities, viz. making a sue
cessful campaign as the mysterious
Mr. Raffles All of which can be
taken by the skeptics Of this ci y TO
argue veil for the future happenings
(which are apt to come my way during
the time | am dallying in your midst.
All | ask the good people Of this city
10 do is 10 meet me face TO face at
THE Crystal airdome, Thursday
night. The management Of this
theater offer to the public two head
line ac,3--the greatest and most in
teresting ever presented here. pos
sibly for the last time in this city,
"Raffles' in his monologue. They're
after me-" and th4 Empire Stock
company presenting a very in eresting
and amusing four-act comedy entitled
wildcat" Come and laugh and be
happy. Come and get a line on
Raffles. get the reward. You are all
invited.
Remember, You are the Myster.
ious Mr.. Raffles of The Guthrie Daily
Leader"