MALHKUR ENTERPRISE. DIRECTORS J. W. RICHARDS G. V. OAK J. F. f"LYNN L I. BROGAN HARRY FLYNN S: M. STEWART Union Land, Loan & Trust Co., inc. TEN THOUSAND. ACRES of Choice Fruit Land in the Willow River , VaHcy,, near the new Town of Brogan. Home Office y - VALE, OREGON Wale Realty and Investment Co. T. A. BARTON Undertaker Undertaking Rooms, A street, three blocks east of U. S. Nat'L Bank of Vale. Phone No. 4 DRESSER & YANDELL Have Purchased the Livery Barn Of Wade and Wade. Service Is The Best. . Prices Are Moderate. A. C. Dresser, ' J. C. Yandell, Proprietors. Fruit, Farm and Stock Ranches . , . . Oil Lands . . Acreage, City and Residence Lots Harry R. Garrett Office: Hunt & Carey Building, Vale, Oregon I T. T. Nelson I I Funeral Director and Licensed Embalmer VALE Oregon REBECCA GIRLS TO ' GIYEXMAS DANCE What is expected to be one of the moat pleasant affairs, if not the most pleasant, is the dance to be given under the auspices of the Rebecca girls of Vale on Christmas eve at Hunt and Carey's mew hall. The young ladies who are dancers amongst the Rebeccas, and who will in consequence, be the chief hosts of the evening are Misses Ethel Thayer, Mabel McLaughlin, Mary Glenn and Maude Glenn. The dance would have taken place on Christmas night but the fact that Christmas will fall on Saturday caused the date to be advanced by one eve ning. The young ladies are entering enthus iasticaly into the work and promise i most enjoyable time. r Malheur is Sportsman s Paradise Vivid Account of a Shooting Trip tn Eastern Oregon, told by J&ajor L H. French, of New York, in a Utter to his sons. 1 I S. D. Taylor G. M. Roberta Physicians & Surgeons Vale, Oregon Dr. C. C. Burrow DENTIST Vale, Oregon W. W. LOONEY Physician & Surgeon Vale, Orenog UNITED STATES NATIONAL BANK OF VALE IT IS THE PURPOSE OF THE OFFICERS of THIS BANK to ei courage sane living and con servative investment; to assist our customers with advice and aid them t,o get ahead; to extei'd such help as is consistent with safe, sound banking ; to lie of ut-e and materially aid in the upbuilding of our town and community. We offer to ihe pub. lie our experience in financial affairs, the facilities and strvices of a strong, carefully managed bank. United States Depository J. L. COLE, President T. W. r 1ALLIDAY, Vice-Pres. L. J. Hadley, Vice-Pres. ELWOODL. CLARK. Cashier W. J. DOUGLASS, Assistant Cashier J. R. Weaver, Assistant Cashier ESTABLISHED IN 1901. T I Christmas will soon be here I have anticipated some of your wants Gent's 3-piece Combination Suspenders, Sleeve holders and Garters, Mufflers, Sweaters, Ties. A nice assortment of Four-in-hand Ties to select from. House Slippers. Cigars, 25 in box. Ladies' Juliette Slippers, Sofa Cushion Tops, Center Pieces, Purses, Handkerchiefs. Also plenty to select from for the little fellows. Come Early before the stock is picked over and sizes broken PAUL G. FREEMAN GENERAL MERCHANDISE VALE, OR. Vale Bakery and Candy Kitchen Bread, Confectionery, Pies, Cakes, Doughnuts, Candies Chocolates Fresh Daily A TRIAL SOLICITED PHONE No. 1 Vale Lumber Co. LUMBER. COAL. CEMENT. windows, noons, WINDOW-WEIGHTS, RUIWEIWID ROOFING, BUILDING PAPER, LATHS, PLASTER. Complete Building Supplies. Vale Hot Springs Conceded by medical men of the whole North west to be the Greatest Health-giving Resort on the Pacific Coast. Bathing in these waters means vigor and strength, and the day will come when they are sure to be the mecca of the health seekers of the west. Their chemical properties are composed of all the elements needed for the re freshment of jaded humanity, and for the curing of every ill. C. D. GAY, Prop. J. I. MESSENGER. VALE HARDWARE CO. General Hardware ( it v Ltoves, Ranges, Pumps, Crockery, Tinware, Paints, Oils, 1 Guns, Ammunition, Blacksmith Supplies 1 ale, Oregon, j Empire Lumber Company .Lumber, Coal and Building Material of every description Complete stock of everything needed Rock Springs Coal M. E. Til A YER, Manager The following letter was written by an Eastern man now in Vale, and' al ready heavily interested here, to his three sons, aged respect'vely twelve, f jurteen and sixteen years and all god shots. The editor of the Enterprise was privileged to see it, and found it so in teresting that he requested and secured permission to publish it, without names : Vale, Oregon, Nov. 11, 1909. Dear Boys: I have just returned from a ten days' trip in an automobile ! wun inree other men. The trip was primarily to see some men about land which they own and which I have suc ceeded in getting possession of. Inci dentally, the trip took us into a aplen- did shooting country, more than 150 miles from any railroad, and we had few. days of the best sport I ever had in my life. The trip was a hard one on account of the fearful roads, the bad accommodations at the so-called hotels, because of the machine frequently breaking down and because we went to bed late and got up at three o'clock mornings. . we leu vale at noon and arrived in Westfall that night and I wrote you little note; The following day we ran as far as a little stage station called Bu chanan, and there our aacommodation was very wretched, and the alkali wa- r hadn't agreed with me and I was p-etty sick. The route was through the most mountainous country I have ever seen, but it was very picturesque; the valleys were invariably fertile, and comfortable farm houses were to be 8 jeq everywhere, but two-thirds of the cjuntry was so mountainous that it was of no use for agricultural purposes, and the roads were straight up and down. The auto was a big, six-cylin-dar Winton, nd, while it went fairly well, when the roads were decent, it did not 'seem to have the power to climb the fearful grades in the. deep mud. This country is, for the greater part of the year, as dry as a bone, and the dust is fearful, but wben it rains the dust is immediately converted into deep tnud and one has a demonstration of how rich the soil is and what gumbo a little rain turns it into. The following noon brought us to Burns, and here I again wrote you a little note. The afternoon we left Burns we ran to the Narrows, a liitle town consisting of one store, one saloon and a hotel, and we spent the night the "P" ranch. This is a ranch con sisting of 3bO,tXH) acres, on. which you can drive forty miles in a single . direc tion without leaving the one property, and it occupies the whole of the valley of the Blitzen River. Frederick Rem ington has several times visited this ranch and made a good many drawings of cowboy subjects, bucking bronchos, etc. The whole valley is dotted with cattle, of which they have over 25,000, and the ranch house is the most pic turesque I have ever seen. It is one of those big rambling Southern looking places, with big fire-places in all of the rooms; and around the house are a great number of poplar trees. They have tremehdbus barns and stables and fine breeding stock. You would bo especially interested in their magnificent kennel of wolf hounds which look exactly like the big white longhuired Russian wolf hounds which you occasionally see. They have great speed but little intelligence.' The "P" ranch has about sixty of them and they use them to run down coyotes. We arrived at the ranch after dark, the automobile limping in on three cyl inders. We had an especially bud time on the last part of the trip because the prcHtolite tank gave out and we had nothing in the way of searchlights, ex cept a lantern in front of the radiator. This is not the best light in the world for a dark night and a mountainous and Strange country. They were expecting us at the ranch and hud a first-class dinner waiting for us. The dinner con sisted of duck and goose and baked ap ples and vegetables, and was exceed ingly well cooked. We had good, clean, comfortable beds to sleep in, big airy rooms, and you may be sure we appreci ated them after what we hud been get ting along the road. The following morning we were up betimes, and, after concluding our bus iness with Messrs. A. and H., we mude a tour of inspection of the ranch, build ings and stock. Right in front of the ranch house runs a litte stream, out of which they catch unlimited numbers of very large speckled trout ; we had some of them for dinner that noon. At the ranch were, in addition to the men whom I have named, Messrs. C. and I)., who were both interested in the ranch and were exceedingly fine men, both of them being Harvard graduates. In our morning walk I shot four California I quail, which are somewhat larger than ) a common Hob White and have beauti ful crests on their heads. I After the noon meal we got into the i I automobile and went down the ranch ! road for a few miles where the foreman s'de, stuck his nose under the coyote a id seemed to. throw him up in the air. When he came down it wu in the mid dle of the pack and it was all over. In a'xut a half hour we struck another c yote, which lasted only ten minutes, a d then we rode back to the auto. I e ljoyed the run very much and only w shed you could have been there to enjoy it with me. We ran back to the Narrows that af ternoon and settled down to three days' shooting. The first morning: we rose at 3 o'clock and went in the auto about six miles to Harney Lake. , About one thousand yards back of the lake there is a row of sand dunes about forty feet high and on the top of these dunes we planted ourselves and concealed our selves behind sage brush. Daylight was just coming and before long swan, and duck, and goose commenced to fly over, going from the fields, where they had spent the night, to the lake. They flew fairly low and we had a good op portunity to shoot I had never seen wild swan before, and I was very much impressed by the dignity and magnifi cence of their flight. They really weigh only about thirty pounds apiece but when they are flying they look as big as ostriches. My first shot brought down a magnificent swan which fell al most at my feet. Two minutes later i couple of Canada geese (such as you saw at Birds Nest) came along and I was waiting for us with a half-dozen cowboys, some spare saddle-horse and a pack of hounds. We left the auto,, mounted the horses and galloped off across country, following the hounds, which ranged wide in search of coyotes. Within fifteen minute they started one. imI it as a magnificent Sm tacle to see the m fly eloig after the Unit. We followed as IhuI we could, but couldn't quite keep up with the hound. AfU r Uut twenty minutes they rsn into i bun and the leading hound r.ui along. got one with each barrel. The second of them only had a ' wing broken and fell on the lake side of the sand dunes. As he was walking away and was al ready too far away for me to shoot him from where I was, and as I didn't want to lose him, I thought I would run down to the bottom of the sand dunes, shoot him and bring him back. I started down the steep side at a good lively pace but it was so steep that my body went faster than my feet could go. I lost my footing and turned four or five complete somersaults, landing in a heap in the soft sand at the bottom, with both barrels of my gun full of aand and sand everywhere on the whole gun. I got up and shook myself and then did a fool trick instead of carefully cleaning the gun of sand before breaking it, for some incomprehensible reason I broke it at once and then couldn't close it. I tried in every way I could and finally took the thing apart, all the time walk ing after my goose. Three times I tried to put it together and as many times took it apart again to clean it. When I finally got it together and shot my gooBe, I was a half mile from the place where I had been shooting, and, in the meantime, great numbers of swan and geese had been flying over so close to me that they almost knocked my hat oft. I never had such an oppor tunity in all my life before, and there I was with a gun that wouldn't work 1 By the time I got back to my shooting station the rest of the party had gotten back but hadn't killed a thing but one duck. I had one swan, three geese and four brant. The brant is a bird that must be a species of goose, pure white (with black tipped wings) and about two-thirds the size of a Canada- goose. That evening we shot again and I got a few brant and one goose. The next two mornings I returned to the Band dunes, as I had the first morn ing, but neither of the last two days was favorable and I got almost nothing. The first day the sky had been cloudy, the wind blew hard and the result was that the birds flew low enough to be within range and kept moving about, while the other mornings were still and clear, and the birds flew a mile high. The second night we decided to go to Lake Malheur, some twelve miles away from the Narrows. I forgot to tell you abnut a boy named E. The first night we got to the Narrows he was standing in the dining room in the ho tel and I asked him where we could get a man to guide us to the shooting, lie replied that he knew it very well, and would be glad to show us himself. He was a bright boy of fourteen years, but had the asthma and was very thin ly and poorly clad. He assured us that he knew all the places where the best shooting could be found, was anxious to go, was himself a good shot and had killed twenty-two swan in one day. He had no gun. I took him to the store and bought one which he used so well that some days later I gave it' to him for his services to us. In addition to the gun, I bought him a sweater, a pair of boots, and some other needed things. On one of the afternoons at the Nar rows I took it into my head to visit the little school. The teacher waa a spins ter and seemed a good deal flustered at my presence, but the dozen or more youngsters were not in the least abash ed and went through various stunts for me without the least evidence of em barrassment. I introduced myself to tne teacher, told her I was deeply in terested in educational matters, and begged her to have the pupils keep right on with whatever they were do ing. What she did was to rail out her moat forward class and put them through their most practiced pares. When the infant class had done some simple sums in mental arithmetic, the ttacherdrew a line on the blackboard and said, "Who can divide this in halves forme!" After a young hopeful had accomplished this difficult feat site bad ' another of her infant prodigtea divide , the line,' by chalk lines. Into four qnr jUrs. At this stage of the game I cre ated some consternation by asking, I "Who ran make the line into Ave quar ters T" The teacher blushed violently 1 end ..1-1, "They hswii'l had that yet." but I persisted and finally triumphed by finding a tow-head who added one quar ter of the line's length to the end of it Before I departed I gave the teacher three d llars to be disti ibuted in prizes as follows : One dollar for the best be haved boy, and the same for the best bahaved girl, for the following two weeks; and fifty cents each for the boy and girl who should have the best kept hair and cleanest face and hands, And I also sent in to them two dollars' worth of candy. Before I left the Narrows I received a dozen letters from the chil dren. I have read only one of them, but I assume that they are all pretty much alike, and I enclose them for your perusal. Well, to return to Malheur Lake: We arrived there about noon and went ino thick clump of tulies (tall rushes) which encircle the lake. As we stopped the machine we heard a shot on the lake and I asked young E, who that could be ? He replied that it was Mrs. P, the "Lady of the Lake," as they call her. I pictured to myself the young and vigorous wife of some prosperous farmer, who shot because she enjoyed . it Three of the party, incjuding young E, got into a boat and started out to find Mrs. F. They intended to get her boat so the rest of us could get Into her boat and all be out on the lake for the shooting. I said to one of them as they left "Are you sure you can find the landing place?" as the whole bor der of the lake looked alike to me. As sjon as they left it commenced raining, and they hadn't been gone ten minutes before they lost their way and for three mortal hours they rowed hard and tried to find that landing place, wet to the skin and as cold as could b , and not a little frightened at the pros pect of remaining on the lake all night if not longer. The mud was so deep along the bor ders of the lake that they couldn't touch the bottom with an oar and hud no possible chanco to land, but by luck they met Mrs. F in her boat and she guided them to the binding place. When, they came on shore they were chilled 1 J the bone and in a state of collapse. We gave them some whiskey and some of the lunch we had with us,' and we gave the same to Mrs. F. t Mrs. F was the most pitiable spec- tacle I ever saw in all my life. She is a German, 65 years old, and, as I after wards learned, a grandmother. A wet handkerchief covered her thin gray hair; she wore a bedraggled and water- soaked cotton waist; a torn calico skirt and a pair of men's overalls; she had wet rags tied around her wrists, her . face and hands were blue with cold and the tops of men's cotton stockings hung and dripped over her coarse, low shoes. She carried a gun and dragged thirteen' ' muskrats and a swan ("mushrats, she called them) and it seems she makes her living by trapping them and Belling the skins. Instead of being melancholy, as her condition would lead one to expect, she. hailed tas as pheefully as could possibly I be, and in all the conversation we hud with her, she was as gay as a young girl just , announcing her engagement She insisted that we go to her house, warm ourselves and have a cup of cof fee and, as we were wet as could be, 1 and it was still raining, we decided we would take advantage of her offer. But when we tried to start the machine, at the first turn of the wheels, the beastly thing sank to the axles there it stuck. We worked hard an hour and then started for Mrs. house to get some lumber to try pry the thing out of the mud. It was about two miles to her shanty, which was a wretched affair, consisting of one small room with a miserable bed in one corner, no chairs, no windows and ' no floor. Notwithstanding her abject poverty, she was hospitable as could be and that was pretty hurd to bo under the circumstances. We hail first intended to get lumber and go back to the miichinc, but we were so wet and tired we decided to stay there all night. Mrs. F gave us the blankets from her bed, (which, however, I personally declined), anil placed everything that Khe poimcsHed at our disposal. We hud plenty of lunch which we had brought along in our pock ets up from the auto cor minting of meat sardines, crackers, pickles, cheese, and canned peaches, and these were supplemented by her eoflee, and we had a very good meal. We slept in a nearby haystack that night and were not very uncomfortable, although my refusal to accept any of her hlunkets, and the fact that my cape was too wet ti use at all, mude my slurp pretty cold. I thought it quite likely that I .would suffer from it but I didn't in the slightest degree. When wu arose the following morning and mude our toilet by shaking ourselves, we thought we had pretty poor prm-' t for anything to eat; but, fortunately Ma F had plenty of delicious milk and made us some very nice hot cakes. There wasn't anything else to eat except butter, and when she pnt that on the table khu apologized for Its not being suited. You know that I much prefer uuHulU-d butter, and this was as good as I ever ate. After breakfuft we carried lumler down to the machine, and after a couple of hours' hard work, got it out and re turned to the shanty with it. I tlu u insisted that Mrs. K put on hvr best clothes and routs with us to the Nar rows. Putting oi' htr lt t lolht'S con sisted of pulling on a poke Ixmnvt and (Continued on 'k fight) and for F's and