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About Wallowa chieftain. (Joseph, Union County, Or.) 1884-1909 | View Entire Issue (April 3, 1902)
( Lntj Official Paper.- City Official Riper..- i : ! THE REPRESEXTATIVE NEWSPAPER OF WALLOWA COUNTY. sin - XVIM.N0.il' kytliii A .fa k Store' 1 A ax Iadi of waj Respectfully yours, E. M. & M. CO. Siiriiiff i I -. T7T7 " ""'J ENTERPRISE. OREGON. APRIL 8. 1W2. DEMOCRATIC TICKET NOW IN THE FIELD Nominated at the Con vention Wednesday. WHOLE NO. !),: t,, t. .. , uievans si Ine Democratic war horses assem- nr .ri. ; T. i- i t ' , . .. , .Marks jus. Tnos. Rich Jr. con. cha. tary. edi oln led in convention at 10 o clock, on Wednesday, in the court room. Foter O'Sullivin was elected temporary .rmsn, and W. C. Wilson, secre- After the Appointment of the credential and order of business committees, the couventiou adjourned until one o'clock. The only contest on organization was in the fight for the nomination for sheriff, involving the seating of of one of the sets of contesting dele gates from Imnaha. After dinner the committees report- and Chas. Johnson and C. V. Line- were seated from Tninnhn Trio other precincts were represented as follows: ExTEitriiiSE J. A. Rurleigh, II. Miller, J. D. Woodell, W. W. White, S. P. Weaver. Joseph Peter O'Sullivan, Thos. Winston, O. T. Prout, John McClain, FiiAiKiE Cheek J. S. Scott, Dan Hunsaker, by J. H. Scott, proxy. Wallowa W. Biedlcr, J. S. Smith, John Landman, Fred Minor, George Hedricks. Lostjxe J. B. Pace, C. J. Allen, J. W. Cook, C, R. Elliott, R. E. Heskett. Floka Sam Applegate, Frank Johnson. Tkout Cheek S. A. Hart, Frank Wright. Pise Cheek--Jas. Daugherty, S. T. Tippett. Fahk Thos. Marks, Frank Gillas pie. Parapise W. C. Wilson, Wm. Applegate. Lost Pkaihie Willis Wright, Wm. Fordney, Peter Fordney, proxy. Grouse .Fleming, by Peter Fordney, proxy. Promise B. F. Miller, Walter Col pitts. Divide S. A. Blevans. I.mnaha Two sets of delegates were elected. One composed of J. S. Horn ar and L. J. Booth, by Horner, proxy, the other, Chas. Johnson and C V. Lincoln. The first order of business was the election of four delegates to the state convention, which resulted in thee lection of J. S. Smith, of Wallowa, J. A. Burleigh and A. Wade, of Enter prise, and Peter O'Sullivan of Joseph. The first nomination was that of sheriff for which H. C. Cramer, J. M. Brakely and S. E. Combes were nomi nated. On the ballot being counted, Cramer received 20, BlakeJy, 15, Combes, 2, blank, 2, which gave 'the nomination to Cramer. J. A. French was nominated by ac clamation f'.r clerk. For commissioner Willis Wright ef Lost Prairie and Thos. Willett, of Wallowa were nominated. Wright received 23, and Willett 16 which nominated Wright. For assessor J. II. Hayes of Wal lowa, J. II. McCubbin of Lootine, B. F. Miller of Promise and S. A. Hart of Trout creek. On the first ballott the vote stood, Hays 17, McCubbin, 3, Miller, 2, Hart, 13, which nominated Hayes. For treasurer there were three can didate.", Henry Miller, W. S. Burleigh and George Voris. The first ballott stood Miller 13, Burleigh, 16, Voris, 9 blank 1. The second ballott stood, Miller 22, Burleigh, 16, Voris, 1, which nominated Miller. D. L. Reavis was nominated by de clamation for surveyor. J. W. Barnard of Joseph was nomi nated by acclamation for coroner. He was also nominated by the Renub- g I licans a week ago. i lie nominations ior justices, con stables and supervisors are as follows: Paradise J. A. Eddlemon, justice, Wm. Cattron, supervisor. Wallowa G,?o. Miller, justice, J. A. Landman, constable and Jas. Wright, sup. Lost Prairie Lon Knight, eup. Garden of Eden Geo. M. Pidon. Grouse T. H. Valen, sup. Eli Smith con. Lafayette Wilson, jus. Pino Creek G. L. Daugherty sup. Lostine J. H. Fisher, sup, B. P. Childers, con. Divide J. H. Huffman sup. Prairie Creek J. II. Soott sup. Joseph J. J. Standby, jus. Geo. L. Cole, con R. G. Winston sup. i ai k j . .. mevans surt B. II. Imnaha Chas. Johnson sup. Trout Creek S. A. Hart sup. Promise Perry Thompson sup. Enterprise J. 1). Woodell sup. 2. Oukes jus. W. D. Weaver, con. Union County Ticket. The Republican Convention in Union county last Saturday nomina ted the following ticket: J udee Sheriff Clerk Reoorder Assessor Treasurer Commissioner Coroner Jas, T. H. Gilham David Bay A. H. Gaylord I). H. Procter I. U. Lafferty John Frawley J. T. Galloway, II. Hutchinson J. C. Henry State Republican Convention. W. J. Furnish, Umatilla, Governor F. I. Dunbar, Clatsop, Sec. of State C. S, Moore, Lake, Treasurer J. H. Ackerman, Multnomah School Superintendent. R. S. Bean, Marion, Supreme Judge A.M. Crawford, Douglas, Atty. Gen. J. W. Whiting, Linn, State Printer The news from the convention was meager and hard to get up to the time of going to press, the only de tails learned was that Geer withdrew from the race before the convention in favor of H. E. Ankeny, of Southern Oregon, and the vote in the conven tion stood Furnish, 218, and Ankeny 92. For Joint Representative between Union and Wallowa counties F. D McCulley was nominated. J. Williamson, of Crook county, was nominated for congressman to succeed M. A. Moody in the congress ional convention on April 1. Boat for Snake. John F. Tuttle, the mining man, was an arrival yesterday from Port land. Mr. Tuttle brings the import ant information that a party will ar rive here in a few days from Portland to make a survey of the Snake river from Lewiston to the upper river min ing districts in the interest of Port land capitalists who contemplate put ting a boat on the river. In view of the local movement just started to ward the end of establish! tig an upper river boat service, the news of the movement of the Portland people comes as a surprise. Mr. Tuttle states that the party who make the survey will leave here about Auril 1, and will comprise two engineers and two mining men. The two former will make observations as to the prac ticability of the river for steamboat navigation, and the mining experts will make a critical examination of the ores of the various districts. The party r-.ill be accompanied by Mr. Tuttle, who is interested in the Ross laud group of claims, live miles above Imnaha. Mr. Tuttle has operated in the Imnaha district and is well an- , ' ' " ii-rt iiiKs, mcrciian' and rear, a well kept flower warden is loil'w..r nf r.i ...... ... , ,, , , ... ' .....! v. ii.nr, leacneiK, the only church in the city. Catholic i.olieemen il,.Mr r.,n,;i;..u i .... , "nr., nilll IIIIIKI. Ill of course. It looks as if it miirht hnv tbo el.il.1vmi i n, ....i.i: . . . . " " ' I'llLMIU KCIlOOl" tieen built a long time ao. Its larcro wear shot a size, the square towers at either corr.rr workers and some of (he welltodo iro -if t a, 1,1 11 .... h ' - w. aunt, ana u.e mellow j wit n hare feet. It looks strange to creamy color of its solid, cemented lone unuccustomed to the sight, to s d.l erenees in manners a(l customs of eotV.v and . piece of this cri:y to be looked for m a people of a clim- broad. At n.xm or u l.t.lo after, th.y ate so groat y at variance with any have hat they call breakfast, nun:, part of the I nited States. rioo, lt,,n, aiu, hum Mny There is the usual plaza of Spanish 'masoned with garlic and onioi.s. towns, here, a small park-like enelos- Dinner from six to ten at night, nc- ure with walks running through it ut ; cording to the occasion. Always sor.i. i... .-ii i ... ... .. .i . ... . ' ' 1 i.j;iiv iiiigns, niuM witn lautiful 111 '" meal With several roiirses, ami flowering plants, shrubs and trees, en- Hie.v get them cooked on theo closed by a low hedge of some tropical i K- stoves remains u mystery to a plant, and around this plaza the town j foreigner. Pie or cake in the Amei i is built, or at least was begun and on '" aec( ption of the word is unknown the four streets stravreles far out. most ! ' The great maioiitv of the better houses nearest to town ,)l,tl whites and negroes, co haiefoo'-' or the plaza, and the ends of the rows consisting for the greater part of wretchedly poor cabins, thatched with coarse grass, and unspeakably dirtv. At the cast end of the plaza separated from it by the street, and at its sides ed. The Porto liiemm null (i,nr.,v..i. ..J whites, although to an American the most of them do not look it, their complexion lire any where from a. good rich color to dark mulatto. In town, the better class, merchant, brick walls giving it a dignified iMid venerable appearance. There are but two, two story houses in town, one of the home of the Al calde, an thing but palatial in appear ance, and iv large, fine lookine cement ed brick, property of tbi Wrliinr 1 M merchant who has his store and ware house below, or on the ground floor, and his dwelling in the second story. re is oy lar ttie finest dwelling in the in the city, though there are several quite pretentious, though smaller, and of only one storv. All tb 1h.uk.. used only for dwelling houses and of the better class are raised from fuitr to six feet off the ground, upon brick or stone pillars, or square timbers, open beneath for the free circulation of air, and in the country foi the cir culation of pigs, dogs, goats and other animals. 1 he houses of the Porto Ricans every whero, extend right up tj the street, never a yard. lawn, or other enclosure but with the ubiquit ous veranda extending a .part of the way, or all the way around it. In front only, boarded or bricked down to the ground, a short Might of stairs. oftsu a handsome staircase at the corner leading up to the verandu. Concealed by high, brick walls, or light board fences, are the enclosures between the back of the houses con taining llowor gardens, fruit trees, and sometimes vegetable gardens. One curious feature uoli!"d at once, by the foreigner, is the absence of glass windows, not a pane of glass in this town, ami scarcely on the island. Only three houses in I'onoe, the larg est town on the island, with u popula tion of twenty six thousand, having glass windows. Windows there are and doors, plenty of them, but no sash nor glass. Every window and door has heavy wooden shutters open ing in the middle and swinging out ward, with ponderous hooks and bolts for fastenings at night or in case of storm. Almost as soon as the sun sets nil doors and windows are closed and the Porto Rican sleeps within, in perfect darkness iipd vitiated air, but in real or fancied security from thieves or malaria, or whatever it is that he fears. Often a tamily of seven or eight sleep in a mere cabin of a dwell ing. Some of the heller class have vrry well furnished bonnes but the poor, who are the very great ma jority, do with a cot bed or two. (1 k hammock made cf gunny sacks sewed w'iy ' business Santa Isabel i 1 . . . on cuumiy morning perhaps, young ladies passing, in In-aut ifully starched and ironed white or lawn dres.-s and ru tiled or embroidered white petticoat, a ribbon bow, or bright flowers in' their nicely done hair, when, one of them airly lifts her skirts, shows mom or less of a bare brown ankle, and rather coarse foot. Of course, in this climate it must bo more comfortable in bare feet, and probably would mora conducive to health, as well a comfort, should northern people, wbu live here, do us did Robert Lotii Stevenson and family at Samoa, w.mi one loose garment and go barefoote. l All the people smoke, men, women, and children, and very many, even women, chew tobacco. It is not all uncommon to se a uiil of two or fourteen passing the house will cigar in her mouth. The boys smoki from the cradle. And I have si en ; pretty young negro girl, almost while wearing lace trimmed pink shirt wai.t and white skirt, talking coquet tUhly to a trim young polioomun in crowd at market on Sunday murine turn away her head every other miti ute to expectorate from the quid tobacco in her mouth. Among welltodo class, most of the hou work is done by negro servants, the poor whites work side by si. I the fields and other places with negro, and they are in the school t gether, no repugnance being iiiunifo! ed; still there is a good deal of m , prejudice when it comes to those who call themselves the upper cla-s. There is a marked contrast to bit i uess methods in the north. In-,te. d of the rush Hiid vigor of the nirlii, there is the leisurely, easy mith.d which makes one wait impatiently while the salesman takes ten or (ifti .n minutes to wrap up fur one a litllo article, which over a noi tl.erii count, r would be handed you in three min utes. And one general merchandi,.. store in any litt town in western United States would contain every thing found in the ten or fifteen sho,. of Santa Isabel, and a hundred artitl. s besides of which these people never heard. And so with drug store. Any small drug store at homo would exhibit everything sold here in all t!.o pharmacies in town. It needs a hie importation of American vigor ai enterprise, to show these "way bad I-,,,,,. iu iiugi i i,c done m til.'. tl. but, th.v .1 . i ., ,, , . nammocit maue ci cunnv sacks sc attainted with the en tin. Sn.ik.. r v,.i.J " t, t. . . , , l together and suspended bv ropes. A region. "Ihe Portland people have i , , ., , plenty of capital," said Mr! Tuttle, i few cook,n "'eiiml and a bench, no "and will even invest tlOO.DW in the . tMt:a or chairs. They have no cook boat enterprise if it is shown that ! ine stoves known to A in. ..!.. Tl,.. the miles there is business to justify outlay." Tribune. such PORTO RICO By IMsi Sarah E. LETTER, Graves. things which the natives use as such are a very primitive affair, something the shape of an old fashioned dinner pot, or big iron kettle to boil meat and vegetables in. There is a grate and a draught. They make in it a fire of chare. un.l nr.f.l ii.,.;- Til" t .... Vlil.il Santa Isabel is about midwav be- meala nr.on it ,1,1, i :... .... ., - .. -v, .... ...on u v a linn;, mi- tween the east anl west points of the less so opulent as to own two or more, southern coast of Porto Rico and one but their simple meals do not require mile from the sea. with a population nnnu il.. n a- : of a thousand, or perhaps a little less, can needs for his gormandizing pro ,..,'11, F t.u i: ... B 1 with several reach of the surrounding country i eight or ten I should judge from what information I can obtain under the difficulties consequent upon not uii derstanding Spanish, is called the municipality and contains 4,200 in habitants. Governed by the Alca'do or Mayor of tbo city and a council of nine. Also there are six of the six hundred insular policemen serving on the island, detailed to this town. There are in addition, local magis trates in different communities about the country to keep the peace in their immediate neighborhood. On tl.n v. Ti.f i. ,. .. ...... iv..,...,B niimeuiaie neiguitoriioOd. On with no English speaking person with - pensities. Their bread is mi,U l.v m, . . , . ..... . - . ..j , uwiw turoc I'uuinu Berlll Ml im law 11 - in 1U limits except the teacher of the baker, baked in his old time brick ' biding and peaceable. I have hoard English in the mibl a school, mav be nv.n anM ut .k ,i . ...... I , v u' 'o maul - V. , , uie oi scarcely an arrest since I have been considered a t vnieal Pnrin Tlma j . ' ij . ,, ' """"" .oceiiu per ioai. nere, and Have not seen a drunken. jand would naturally present those Their morning meal is manly a cup person. 5 A i ! V