The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1913-01-23
DEAD OK FLAT news
Correspondence.

oI fortIand, mas just completed Its
annual assessment work on it's hold
ipRs here.
Al the home coming of william Yost
ano his bride, humber of bis friends
showed their approval of his action
by turning out for a rousing charivari
After being critically Ill with
peritonitis for the last four weeks.
Mrs. Fred Emison is now gradually
recovering.
George X. Clark has moved from his
ranch in south jacobson. to the Max.
field place on Snake river.
Two men are killing rabbits for the
Portland markets. II the good
wishes Of the farmers count for any
thing they Will succeed far beyond
their brightest expectations.
Miss Emily reuksbury left Sunday
for New Plymouth. where che will
nurse case OF npoplexy. Miss
Teuksbury answered the call Of the
Dead Ok Flat few months ago from
CHICAGO. She purchased the Isabel
Waite --sy.. -....I and is homestead
ing 1t.
The Nernie school. after two |
weeks vacation II again running. |
There are about twenty pupils attend
NJ. Mrs Highly, the tegcher. has
nothir. bat praise tor the character
and department ot all her scholars.
She saws that though the record for
attendance is not of the hest, IL il
credituhle. considering the conditions
the children are Obliged to meet.
Some Of the pupils live as tar as two
aud halt miles from the school, Mrs.
Highly. il should bee mentioned, makes
n fiyo mile rlgc ov"r rough country
To Hul ifom her work
Some hold that even though the
greater part OF the snow IL escaping
as food water, there Is still ample
moisture in the ground 10 give young
grain good start In the spring.
There are many who predict a good
dry land crop for next season. They
are influenced by the knowledge that
hap hazard methods of drS farming
are fast giving way 10 more scientific
ones. The land in cultivation this
year IL greater by twenty-five per cent
than that of last aud this increased
acreage is largely due To the certainty
that the Flat Is to be watered in the
near future.
The food waters of North jacobson
gulch carried away two private road
way fills,
The coyote population is less by
thirteen as result of the efforts OF
G. p. Morgan. Singularly enough
MIR. Morgan has had no success with
traps. depending wholly upon his rifle
tor his splendid showing. While his
Is u work of nehetaction, he will not
20 unrewarded The scalps alone are
worth almost $50 and the pelts should
net him double that amount.
When some sportsman recently shot
A goose ia the Snow Moody project
ANAL. ne probably congratulated him
self that he had thereby earned the
tight to be called, like the Biblical
Zero of old, "a mighty hunter before
he Lord" The principal difficulty
IF this feat lay in selecting au oc
,asion when Lester Macomb. the
,wner of the goose. was absent. No
iouht the shooting was accidental.
the the bird was carried h
Iway. 4
MIS-. John Lowe, nee Miss Frances y
}elknap. will leave the first OF the i
week for her home at Bliss, idaho. !
Several homesteaders of this vicinity b
r,end to dig wells before the winter {
$ over. II. b. Daniels has already O
lug thirty feet. is neiRhbor, Fred $
linton, means to have IA we'll before 2
nriug. Another who hopes soon TO y