Professional Directory
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Physicians and Surgeons.
Physician Surgeon
E. T. Anderson, M. D.
Enterprise, Oregon.
Physician and Burgeon
C. T. HOCKETT, At. D.
Independent Phone.
OTieo up stairs in Dank Bldg.
Attorneys-at-Law. v
J. A, Burli'lali
Dunlel Boyd
Burleiqh & Boyd
fittorqeys-ai-LaW
Will practice In all the Courts of
th in Htute and before the Interior
and its oIlk't'H.
The most careful ' attention
given to ull business entrusted
to our cure.
Enterprise, Oregon.
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EDITORIAL PAGE
Hotels.
When Passing On The Lewis
tcr( Road, Stop At The
Slel Springs Hotel.
Plenty of Stable Room.
S. H. CONNER, Proprietor.
Mlscollaneou s.
Wm. Mcllroy and Company,
Farms, Timber Lands, Acreage,
LotH, Residence and llusiness
Property For Hale. Timber Lo
cating a Specialty
ELGIN, - OU EG ON.
Town That Does Things.
Enterprise has earned the reputation as the "town that does
things."
True to the name of the town, ihe eititens have evidenced a liber
ality, progressiveness and stick-togeth r spirit that have put Enterprise
i the front rank of up-to-date municipalities in the Inland Empire.
Sums have been raised for public enterprises and results achieved
that cities of several times its size would have just cause for pride if
they had accomplished as much. The funds for depot grounds, court
house site and bonus, county high school site and honus, were no
small things for a town of a thousand inhabitants to raise and to raise
with the neatness and dispatch that excit d wonder, and admiration
of outsiders who were acquainted with the situation.
It is not to sing praises for past deeds these word- are written.
fhe facts are cited simply us an earnest of what Enterprise can and
will do in the great days to come. Indeed the era of larger and
weightier things is now upon this valley '
Heretofore competition has been confined to the valley. With the
completion of the railroad tlu! business nun faces new conditions, pos
sibly harder to master but with rewards proportionately greater.
In tliH past no communication with the great interior areas of the
county and the north country was thought of except by wagon roads.
The main trunk of the O. It. & N. will hardly be completed to Joseph
before feeder branches will be projected and eooner or later will be
built. At present Enterprise has an advantage, as easier grades lead
to this town from the east, southeast south, west, north and northeast
than to any oiier trading point. That advantage wtiuld vanish if
electric feeders reached out to the Imuaha or the north country from
some other point than Enterprise. Logging spurs may develop into
electric freight and passenger lines. Railroads, steam or electric, are
not always built on the "most feasible routes."
As the county Hetties up, the big ranches cut into smaller holdings,
the towns receive an excess of population, the labor market will war
rant and the local marke s require manufacturing enterprises. Then
comes the test of towns. In one, industries will flourish like a green
bay tree planted beside living waters; in another, every project meets
shipwreck. Why, no nmn knows except it be in the quality of the
citizenship But it is so general for industries to succeed best in towns
"that do things," that it may be set down as a rule.
And it is the rule, also, that the producing areas are tapped by
spurs run from towns that do things. -
The future, therefore, is very bright for Enterprise because it is
a "town that, does things."
Stone Mason and Gutter
Cut stone flues constantly on
hand for short order work,
also fresh lime.
L. J. Piseix, Wamowa,Or.
Ruggles & Lathrope,
The House
MOVERS
We will move your house, barn or
other buildings In aaroful manner
also put iu now foundations when
wanted.
If you are in need of any work In
our lino, call on or address us at
is an E. Z. Mark, and would be no match at all for the brass plated
confidence men, like Aldrich, Piatt, Bailey and a few others, who boss
the United States senate.
UnleB3 the Republican party in Oregon can offer 8omehpdy far
better than Muikey, it will be a walkaway for the Democrats with
Chamberlain or Lane.
Bridge at Troy.
The county court has awarded a contract for the building of a
bridge across the Little Salmon at Troy. It will cost a large sum but
will be money well spent. ' It will be "of great convenience to the people
in the fertile' northwest corner of the county, and give them a highway
to market for their productions.
The Grouse and Garden of Eden sections have been favored with
every bounty of nature and their only drawback is their isolation. In
time a railroad will be built down the Grande Ronde and possibly
down the Salmon. When that occurs those districts will at once be
come among the richest of the entire Northwest.
Senator Jonathan Bourne, Jr., of Oregon, is as fertile in expedients
to keep in the limelight as a star actress. His latest stunt is to offer
through a Boston magazine, a cash prize of $1000 for the best and
strongest argument why Theodore Roosevelt should be forced to swal
low his own words and made to run again for the presidency. Bourne
may not succeed in having Roosevelt re-nominated but he will succeed
in having Bourne talked about, and that's worth $1000 to a politician
rich as -Bourne is.
Union County Assessment
, The total assessable property of
Union county totals $7,831,942, of wb ich
$1,348,000 is In La Grande. The O". R.
& N. is assessed at $821,510. Ihe mam
line is assessed flO.000 per mile, the
Elgin branch at 17000, and 16 miles of
unfinished erade (the Elgin-Joseph
extension) at $1,000 per mile. The
largest individual taxpayer is A. B.
Conley who pays oh $113,030.
Monej fell Spent
.G. C. Bolding, the well known fruit
and vegetable grower from the Salmon
valley, just between the Garden of Eden
and Grouse sections, was in town the
latter part of last week with a load of
tomatoes and other vegetables and
fruit. Mr. Bolding says the expenditure
of $500 authorized by the county court
on the six mile hill this side the Grande
Ronde will work wonders. At present
with the same team he hauls 3600
pounds from Enterprise to Troy, he can
only draw 1000 pounds up that hill.
Xow he has to break his load and make
two trips up the hill. When the cutting
and grading is completed he says it will
be easier to take up 1500 pou nds than
1000 pounds now.
Pendleton Business Men .
Cutting Off Their doses
ENTERPRISE,
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Tale of Four Towns.
It is not fair to say that the welfare and prosperity of any town in
this valley depends upon the downfall of any other town. '
It is not fair, in the first place, because it is not true. In the maii,
the future growth of each town depends upon the town itself and the
citirens thereof. In natural conditions no one lace has an overwhelm
ing advantage. Enterprise claims to be more centrally located, with
roads of easy grade leading here. Joseph has a beauty of location un
surpassed and is the inevitable terminus of the railroad in the valley.
Wallowa is at the gateway of the valley, is near great forests of timlr
and has no rival for the trade of the Promise country. Lostine is sur
rounded by fertile valleys and productive hills and has splendid factory
sites and power.
Thus, in respect to possibilities, the towns are on quite an even
footing. It is the cheapest claptrap to talk of one profiting by the
downfall of another. If tho county seat was moved from Enterprise,
it would only spur the live business men here to redoubled efforts.
They would hold their trade, and industries would be started to more
than offset the loss of the county Beat.
Wallowa has now knocking at her door an industry worth several
times the trade or prestige or population that would be gained from
being the county seat. An $150,000 mill with its big pay roll and a
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,"-b",ii nv.il uuiiici tuunu ia uuuui me uesi unnstmas
gift we can imagine for any town.
All the trade in tho valley, confined to two towns, would not of itself
add much to tho population of those towns. The county seat would
add no more to Wallowa than she would lose from the starting of new
towns just this side the canyon and at tho mouth of the Wallowa. In
short, Wallowa's real future is independent of the county seat ques
lion and depends upon the building up of factories. Enterprise's real
future depends upon tho growth of industries here.
Tho same is true of Lostine and Joseph. It is raidUhat no town
in the valley has the possibilities of all-the-year-round power as has
Lostine. Joseph has great water power at her very doors, and will
also be a noted snnuoer resort for all Eastern Oregon at no distant
date.
To sum up: Each of4he four towns must depend on itself and its
citlzenbhip for- its real advance. Let there bo town rivalry, that won't
hurt any of them, but to say that Joseph and Lostine depend for
prosperity upon the decadence of Enterprise is a libel on the citizen
Bhip of those two places. Therefore, the imputation ia not fair, sec
ondly, because it assumes Joseph and Lostine are lacking in progres
sive and aggressive citixenship.
Imlilcr; aIImI. Inland
' No. 81 City. Lit Oramlu, con- No. 81
noctlnir at La oramle
1:16 p.m. with train for ull 11:30a. ia.
polut emit and wtat
Low Rates.
Throuijh Tickets To and From All
TurU of the Country.
FOR FUhTHKR I'AKTICI'LAKS, ADDKKS8,
' . II. ll. We&therspoon, Agent.
Elin, Oregon.
The Calendar Candidate.
A fat-faced man with a heavy mustache and cockscrew curl pen
dent above hi right eyebrov is trying to boost his aspiration for the
seat in the United States senate now occupied by Charlie Fulton, by
sending over the state tmsll calendars omanfcnle-1 with his unctuous
countenance. Muikey is his name, better known as Handsome Fred, a
name bestowed when he was the SO-minute senator last winter. .
Muikey hasn't "writ" his name vary large in public affairs in
Oregon, bo he must have a long pocketbook i! he expects to enter the
senatorial race. e would also judge he was rich because of the cal
endar dodge. A man must have money Jo burn or he wouldn't' waste
it on that antiquated gold brick advertising scheme. In short MulW
From the Portland Journal
Merchants in smaller cities and
towns throughout the' state and the
country are constantly complaining
of people in their vicinity who patron
ize mail order houses in Chicago and
other large cities. These" merchants
say that iu most if nob all cases tire
same articles or equally good ones
could be bought of them as cheaply,
and that they, who spend their money
arnuiul home, deserve the custom of
tho home people. We think these
complaints and representations are
reasonable and just. Assuming that
a local merchant carries a good com
plete stock in his line, and sells at a
fair profit, as he must to succeed, he
should yet his neighbor's trade. If
they enable him to do a profitable
business he in bis turn helps them
indirectly, and "the money is kept at
home."
But up in an eastern Oregon city
and perhaps in others certain mer
chants have agreed together not to
advertise in the local newspapers.
The East Oregon ian tells how at the
instance of local merchants It pitched
Into people a year or two ago for buy
ing things of travelling agents, and
succeeded is driving all these inter
lopers out of the country, but now
that it has been accomplished the
merchants have formed a' nou- ad
vertising organization. This is illog
ical and unfair, not only to the local
newspaper, but to Its readers, who
look in its columns for advertising as
well as other news. It is thus even
unfair to the merchants themselves.
There are newspapers and news
papers iu the smaller cities and towns
Those that haven't ambition and
energy and industry enough to publish
a reasonable amount of local news in a
readable way don't deserve any adver
tising. But these are the exceptions.
Most of the newspapers in the Oregon
country have done and are doing ten
times as much for the town and vicin
ity and their neighbors as the rest of
the people ever did for them.
As a rule, the local newspaper earns
Lin its community dollars where it
takes in dimes. It is forever boosting,
and praising, aud helping in every
Possible way. - It rejoices at births
aud weddings, and mourns at deaths,
It contributes freely In Bpace to every
good cause that 'comes along, and
there is always one ou tap. It is the
constant friend and helper of every
. i . . . . .
legitimate business man and every
decent person iu the town. It nearly
always puts the bright side out aud
looks cheerful, even if It is on the
verge of bankruptcy and hasn't a
Btlck of wood at home to start a fire,
rue euicor worics in one way or
another about 19 hours a day, for the
public more than for himself, and gets
"thank you" about as of tea as does a
dray mule. He will boom anything
from a baby show to a transcontinen
tal railroad, and Is begrudged a free
ticket. ' He stands up six or seven
day in the week tor good morals and
right living, for education and develop
ment and progress and enlightenment
and civio rignteousness, as no other
mau In the place does or can, and too
often is looked upon as a sort of
harmless molly-coddle who hasn't
souse enough to get ahead In this
world.
iu wbatever town there is a news
paper worth the name; the merchants
should be liberal patrons of it, and its
daily or weekly grind of good work
ought to be better appreciated. The
editor stands up for the home people
constantly and. often without hope
or expectation of reward except In
heaven, and the home people ought to
treat lilm decently and fairly. He la
the best friend of every decent business
man in the town, and to boycott him
is barbarism.
A. C, Miller went to- La Grande Sat
urday on a week's business trip.
Harness and Saddles
L. BERLAND,- THIAHDAEiSiiN0
Will supply your needs in the Leather Goods line more cheaply and
give better satisfoction than any other dealer in Wallowa county.
Let him nt you out for the season's work. Repair work a specialty.
MAIN STREET,
ENTER PRISE, OREGON
winter
Is In Sight
And it is up to you now to get ready
for cold weather, Our stock for Fall
and Winter is now complete except a few
items. ,
Examine our line of ladies' and chil
dren's Cloaks and Furs. New and stylish
and prices within the reach of all,
The best line of boys' clothing we
have ever shown.
Call and see the Silk Petticoat we are
sellingfor $5.00. " :
Ladies' outing flannel gowns.
Ladies' Fall and Winter Shirt Waists.
School Supplies of all kinds.
Overshoes and Rubbers,
Boys' Overcoats.
Cotton and Woolen Blankets.
Get one of those beautiful Indian
klankets before they areall gone.
Come into the store and we will tell
you all about it. ,
W. J. FUNK X GO.
ENTERPRISE, OREGON
Joseph h Elgin Stage Co.,
Incorporated
Tariff and Rate Sheet of Fares from Enterprise:
Effective on and aftor September 1. 1807.
Enterprise to Joseph fW Round Trip
lxwune-; 1 oo j 7c
" Wallowa 1.75 m
4.75
7.50 -
ii
it
n
oi.vno 1.1 O
" Canvon House 9. .sn
" Elgin 4.00--
Baggage allowance 40 pouuds for each full nkldfaiw v-rh.
rates same as old tariff. 1 Pa " -Excess baggage
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Mondays, Wednesday. and FMlylAu''
SSS? fr ImDah "n f StopoTer
F. E). McCULLY, Pres. E. W. RUMBLE, Mgr.