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About Wallowa County chieftain. (Enterprise, Or.) 1909-1911 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 27, 1910)
TWENTY-SIXTH YEAR. N0. 23. ' i lf,i ENTERPRISE, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 27, 1910. COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER wants rninincT MONEY TO LOAN Slate Funds loaned, 6 per cent. John P. Rusk. Atty. State Land B'd. Joseph Farm loans at 7H percent. C&M r write First Bank of Joseph. SSWl WANTED. Immediately, respoisible men and women1 of neat appearance to solicit subscriptions for the Overland Month ly. Pleasant profitable work. Splen did commission, valuable cash prizes. Permanent employment, for hustlers. Give references, address Circulation Manager, Overland Monthly, 773 Mar ket St, Sou Francisco, Cal. 77s4. Lumber. Anyone having lumber of any grade In any amount for sale, or who has Umber he Intends to saw tooi. and wis lies to contract the lum ber, call on or aldress W. F. Rankin at Haney planer in Enterprise, Agent for W. R. Klvette. 26b4 The Overland Monthly wants an energetic, capable man- or woman In Enterprise to act as County Mana ger In Wallowa County, to conduct a subscript ion campaign. Good pay, nArmfl-nont AmrJni-mAiit avnanlonnA unnecessary. References required, j Outfit and instructions free. Address I immediately, -Circulation Manager," Overland Monthly, 773 Market St., San Francisco, Cal. 77s4 FOR SALE. 40 acres or Umber on Alder Slope. 1250.00. Terms. C. E. Vest. 69bm FOR RENT. Three large bad rooms for rent; with or without board. Mrs. Carl Roe . 74t3 Send in your order for Potters Spray Fluid. Ben and cheapest on the market. Addres? Wallowa Nursery Oo.. Wallowa, O.ejon. 7Cb2 Strained Honey 12c a pound a Funk's. Aeu Jiesolutions r As the old year passed out and the new dawned upon us many of us made new reso lutions, resolving that we would improve by looking at the errors of the past. Now, then, if you have not been trading with us the past 3'ear 3'ou do not know what you have missed in the way of saving money. Take our prices all through the year and you will find to your own satisfaction that we are as cheap, it not cheaper, than any house in the valley. The public knows that we have been all torn up repairing and en larging our store. Many carpenters and workmen have been busy for the past ten weeks getting our building in good repair, so that trouble is about over, and we ex pect to "give more of our attention to our many customers than we have been able to in the past. We have quite a large stock on hand that must be sold in order to get room for our spring stock, so come early and get our prices and we feel quite sure that j'ou will be satisfied with our merchan dise and also our prices. Thanking you for past favors, we remain, Yours Respectfully M H K m M s Enterprise Mercantile & Milling Company H m m m H M :reniiiiwiHtmwiiiiii RATES TO UULUIHU OREGON If! SPRING REDUCED FARES WILL BE IN EFFECT FROM MARCH 1 TO APRIL 15. Portland, Jan. 25. Completion of the Natron-Klaniath line of the South ern Faclfic within the coming 18 months Is promised bv Judge W. D. FeroKm, counsel for the Hairlmau road, ,who says that at the end of that time trains of hies company m ill be runsidng between Portland and San Francisco over the new route, which will have & maximum grade of 1 par ceat. Vork is going ahead on 65 miles of the new route now and the remainder will be completed as bJj.i as possible. The building of the Natron line will not only open up a large .new territory that la without railroads, but will give a low-grade trelght line that wUl eliminate the iheavy grades of the Siskiyou moun tains. The budgat for new equip ment fox the Harrlman ltae3 in this terri'uxry for the yesr 1910 has been made upand 13 in exce3s of the m'jiiey asked in any previous year for roMUig stock. The budget calls for over $2, 000,000 for new fre'ght and p&sscugei cars and locounoives. Colonist Rates. Low one-way colons-t rate3 from ail parts of the Eat to Pacific Coast terminals are ofered by the rail roads from March 1 to April 15. The opportunity fo bring thousands of new settlers to Oregon is a valuable one and coanm'r.lal organizations ot che state ,wiil take advantage of it jo the fullest extent. The attractive literature saot out during the past year and the wide publicity given all parte of Oregon have bean fruitful of results and in- 5 UKUrSWSBftEXCKEUUZCESU" j quiry about this stite was r.owr s . general as at the present Silme. IV . Tvf1-?ipead intcre-t tn Oregon. It may, be expected that th state wSU receive a large immigra tion during the coming spring. Oregon people ehou ll do all they can (b add to this movement to the Pacific Northwest by arising- iu j.aac among tlieir friends in other parts of the country who are looking for new homes and information, should supplied them oa the opportunities here for newcomers and particularly those w.t desJie to engage in agri-cinl-aare, horticulture, stock raisin or j d:ij-yin. These line of endeavor are .rewalllng thos3 who are engaged to' them. j DOES .THIS MEAN YOU? j The men who borrowed ny scrapers I withtout leave are requested to return : same at once as I need them". This m the laat notice. 78bl J. E. PATTERSON1 H. S. Pupils Greet Victorious Team Debaters Returning From Elgin Gain Spefcial Welcome Social Held Saturday Night. The high school students tumeli out ea masse to tlhe train Saturday tto greet the victorious debating team Naming home from Bljrln and as the young orators stepped from the car ;.hey were given a noisy welcome and the entire school formed an es ai. for them to town. The victors report a fine tiine and hospitable treatment at Elgin. The member of the teim are Miss Julia. .Marvin, daughter of Sheriff and -Mrs Edgar Marvin, and Irl and Aaron Oim-. atei sons of Ju)lge and Mrs. J. B. Olmsted. Mrs. Marvin and Rev. Samuel Harris accompanied the team to Elgin. Mr. Harris coached the team during its work of preparation for the debate. Asocial was held at the high school Saturday night to honor of members of both debating teams. The high sejj'l girls furnished! refreshments and all had a Jolly time unUl a late hour. DEATH RECORD. W. H. H. Ogan, who filed on a homestead 10 miles east of town last June, and had already become a well known, figure in this city, died at the Hotel Enterprise, Mon day morning at, 9:30 o'clock, of pneu monia after a week's Illness. A son 'of the deceased, H. M. Ogan, and h!a wife arrived here Thursday and were with hiim wheni he passed! away. Mr. Ogan left Tuesday with his father's remains for the family home at Pittsburg. Hia wife remains here far it Is Mr. Ogan's intention to re 'turn at once and take up his re? dence here. W. H. H. Ogan was bora near Zaaesville, Ohio, 74 years ago. His home 'is In PI t3'Wirg, Pa., and fr over 40 years he ha8 been a travel ing salesman. He served tiree years in the Ovil war, a member of the 9th Iowa cavalry. He was a member of tie I. O. O. F., and man of high character. He leaves a widow and four chil dren. The latter are H. M. Ogan and Mrs. J. F. Alcorn of Pittsburg, Dr. M. L. Ogan and Mrs. Edward W. Updegraff of New York city. A MILE STONE IN THE CURATIVE ART I i Slip and partial dislocations of 'bonej, as a cause of disease and bone ; setting as the cure of disease const i ; tute the last chapter of medical history. It is fojnd under the des igaation "Ctoebpa hy," K to th, bet ; single advancement of the curative art that lias ever been recorded. Never Detpair. The most periluus hour of u person's life U when be is templed to despoud. The idsu iLut luseg bis cuurage loses all. There 1m uo more hope fur Liui : than a dead tii.-iu. But it mutters not ' bow poor be may be, bow much push ed by cir uuiBtauces. bow iuu;ti de serted by friends, bow luui-b lost to the world, if be only keeps bis cour age, holds up his bead and with un- , conquerable will deteriuiiies to be aud to do what becomes a uiau all will be "well. It is nothing outside of him that kills, it Is wuat la within that makes or not makes. Italian Greyhound. Tbe graceful Italian greyhound Is reputed to be tbe most symmetrical of all animals. TELLS OF PRESIDENT STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY HAS ARTICLE IN PORTLAND JOURNAL. The PortJand Jtninn&l has been run ning a eertos of articles on "Origin of Orogoa Coun Ues," by F. V. Hoi man, pi-eskleut vt the Oreg'oo Histoa-i-cai Society. The following ldecrlpt of this county appeared in Frl day's paper. WALLOWA COUNTY. Walfowa coroiity was created Feb ruary ll, iss7f by the state legis lature, itieaeral- laws of 1887, pt U2. U. comprise a pan of tiie eas ern portJan of the original Union county. U la the northeastern count v of Oregon. The name Is that of the beautiful Wallowa luke and its outlet the tVallowa river. The part, of Oregon which compris 3s Wallowa county in eanly days was Isolated, it was far from the asually travelled rWe of early -rave.lers, fur tra-e.8 and imiinlgraaus. k iies Booth and southwest of Lewla umi, Idaho, near which, to the east, southeast and south of the ClearwaM river is Lapwal, Uia reservation of the upper Nez Terce tribe. In October, 1S0:, and in May, 180C, .he Lewis anA Clark expeditibn was M the mouth of the Clearwater river, which Lewis and Clark called the .Cooikooskee. LewLston is situated lit the junctlUi of the Clearwater ith the Snake jiver. Wallowa coim y is a short distance SMth of Lewis uii. Lewis and Clark's expedition lid not go into what is now AVal ovva county. i In the .winter of 1811-12, AViljn j .rke Hunt and his party en route, jvcrland, to As o.-a, attempted to lescend the Sciake river. They start ad to tdeseend the Snake river In sanoes, but they were compelled f abandon, their canoes and proceed lown the bank of t3io river, some of he party being on the east side, the Khers on the west side of the Snuke .'iver. The who:e party nearly perish- d from hiuiger and other hardshlpb. iecambar 21, 1811, the party left the Snake river and proceed!l west-J ward -l!o the Columbia river, which -hey reached Jarcuary 21, 1812, at a poisnt not far south of the WaiJa Valla river. On the way from the Snake river to the Columbia, the ex iet route of the party is not descrfb id nor con it definitely be ascertaiu sd, but undoubtedly it was through vhat is now Walibwa county, probaJb y south of Wallowa lake. The only her or stream between the Snake iver and ttie Columbia which is wen Uoned by name, except Walla Walla river, It is said, "was called by the jatives Eu-o-tal-la, or Umatilla." dr ying's AstJoria, vol. 2, page 65), In 1833 and 1834, Captain Botine viUe and his patty were in what Is now Wallowa county. He does not mention, the name Wallowa. He Idoeu .nentlon the Imnaha river, wlilch he :alils the Immaliah, -end the Way-leeway, which is the Nez Perce name it the Grande IWmde river. The eastern and southern part, of Wallowa county were the habitat of ihe lower Nez Perce Indians, at the time of the beginning of the noted war with them, which began June, 1877, and ended in October of the ame year. Their chief was the fam ous Indian knWn atf Chief Joseph. To be certain of the meaning or origin of the name, I wroe A. C. Smith, now living at Enterprise, In Wallowa county. For many years he lived! with the Indians in that vicinity and speiUs one or more of the trUiai languages. He hai kindly written roe, sayinig that he hail learned frWi he Umatilla and the Nez Pence In 'llatis that 'the Wallowa river was named by the fact that, many gene rations ago, the Nez Perce Indians placad the first f ieh, trap ln that rive-; and the salmon failed, from some ovise unknown Ko them, to go into the trap and, after leaving the trap set in the river un'ii time to go into thpir winder ouor'er!, Ihey arrived et. viperstitiowii notion that some charnr hal intervened to prevent the fish from going in. And so, when they ent away, they left the trap stand ing ion .the rkver to be destroyed by HDL M A N WALLOWA COUNTY tiie floods, although In other rivers it had been the.r constant practice to haul the ui'ot valuable timber out of the river for the neat summer and to save them from destruction from the next spring's fToods. Thereafter the river was always called by them "tiiti trap," aa Indian word for which is W allowa. Wallowa county Is now bounded: On the north by the state of Wash ingtou on the east by the Snake river the boundary between the state of Oregon and IdatPo; on the south by lUiker county, and on the west by Union counity. Its county seat Is Siitorprlsa. Its legal ll2scrtitlon is as follows: "Commencing at the northeast cor ner ut the s' ate of Oregon on Snake liver and thence west on the Btate .jte to whjre It iivtersecta the Grande ttonde rivor; thence in a BOuthwesU fly diieotiVm up the center of aald (Continued on last page.) Through Service Seattle to Frisco Shasta Limited Makes Run In 34 Hours Protest Against Lefoan Bill. Seattle. Jan. 21. With Una Ind uration of a through service via the Oregon & WashlngJbn. and the 6outh 3rn Pacific railways, it is now possible to travel between Seattle and San Francisco in thirty-four hours. This is (fourteen hours shorter than the uiime formerly retiulred, when lit waa necessary to change cars at Port land The travelling public gain considerable from the new service and It promises to be deservedly papular. The fast train la known as the Shasta Ltaltod." The .woman s,if Prage forces of Washington are Jubilant In havlaig enlisted organized labor In support of tlieir cause. The State Federation Jlopted strong res'luiUoiis commend ing votes for women. Those In charge of the campaign declare they are gaining strength every day. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt has enrldhed the exchequer with a $500 contribut ion and extensive offices are being fitted up In Seattle, aa headquarters. Each issue of the official organ, con tains a pos'r Bupp!emenV"whlch re" ciplenits are requested to post la con spicuous places. Fruitgrowers of the Northwest are Interested In the protest against the tv.oiui bill now In Congress, which was adopted at the recent, convention of the Wash ington State Horticultural association. This measure was pre pared by the eastern fruit interests for standardizing apple packing boxes in a! manner unsulted tb the superior fruits of the Northwest. The box now in general use in tlito section la best adapted to Washington and Ore gon apples, and tiie growers are relucts ant to give it up for a substitute that will not permit them to make a satisfactory pack. A delegation will be sent to th national capital to oppose the passage of the Lefoan bill I Mount Rainier Is to be featured by the advertising matter of the Mil waukee railway this year, and It is predicted that before limg It ,wiil be trie goal of as many tourists aa Pike's Peak and other well known (western mountains. A handsome booklet of Rainier Is In preparation and It will be distributed extensively through the eastern and central states. PARADISE GLINT8. Paradise, Jan. 21. About 18 inches if the beautiful snow here now. W. C. Btraley sent several loads 3f wheat to Enterprise this week. Dave Mahon and wife have return ed to Paradise and are visiting rela tes and frieiJu at this place at present, D. G. Ralls and sbm Roy are saw ing wood for Dave Kuhn and Walter Applegate. C. A. Sturm, of Lost Prairie Is over today. i M lifer and George Miller of Washington are here visiting. Henry. Sturm sV.d a horse to Marlon Millor for $125. Grace Bernard is visiting with Maude Mahon at the home of the ;a.tr's parents In Paradise. Mrs. J. W. Fisher and daughter who have been; quite ill are better. Dalle Beach and Albert Wilson hauled out wheat to Enterprise last week. 1 Mra Abels, an oil lady wio lived at Flora, died today. - She waa 79 years old, '. i LARGEST RECEIPTS EVER FOR RECORDING DECEMBER BREAKS ALL REC ORDS IN RECORDER'S OFFICE COURT HOUSE NEWS. The December, 1909, receipts for recording In the office of County Clerk Boat man were the largest la the history of tiie office by over $50. The number of Instruments received during the month was 388, aud the recording fees amounted to $377.1)3. Toe total fees, recording, court aJid miscellaneous, for the month were $469.95. The tola! for the year was $4374.50. The salary'llac of the offlue waa about$2G00, so, it cam be seen the office paid its way and conatierable over The number of marriage licenses Issued Muring 1909 was 65. WllscVi Glvea Bond. Pete Wilson, In Jail accused of horse stoaliliig. gave a cash bond for $800 Monday and was given his liberty. Marriage Licenses. Jan. 22 Charles M. Smith, 21, laborer Union county; Lydla Thomp son, 18, Wallowa. Probata Record. Jan. 21 Will of Kate Mallory ad mitted to probate. The decedent was an unmarried .w'onian ai.d leaves personal property to the prob able vaiue of $1500. The will directs $150 paid to John G. Wray and hla wife, EJl'len Wray, and the balance 6f the estate to be divided equally be .Martha Wlililams and Cally Finley of Knight, Ky, and Nancy Fluley j Wallowa, John, G. Wray appointed executor with $3000 bonds. Circuit Court Orders. Boatrice DeVail vs. Thos. DeVall. Time for presenting a bill of except ions extended to Feb. 23, 1910. FREE PHONE TALK. S. D. Crowe, general manager of the Home Independent Telephone cfumpany ,was tiers from Friday till Monday. He Is properly proud of the new ctxpper circuit from the towns In this valley to La Grande. The Company's patrons are being sent a coupon which entitles them to 1 mlinute conversation over the new wire free. Harry Thomas returned to Enter prise last week and resumed hie po sition as manager for Wallowa county. Nearly Everybody Buys Bread at Riley & Riley's The Best Baker Ever in Enterprise Newest and Freshest Groceries Always Found Here Low Prices On Shoes and Gloves Cash and Highest Price Paid For Hides and Pelts and Everything the Farmer Has to Sell at Riley AND Riley's 3