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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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 (
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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
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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)
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