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About Wallowa County chieftain. (Enterprise, Or.) 1909-1911 | View Entire Issue (April 21, 1910)
(Eta TWENTY 8IXTH YEAR. NO. 35. I ENTERPRISE, OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 191X COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPEH W dlJLXIb ' Bisnnr rnitiTimr Cent a word single Insertion, cents, a word 2 Insertions. Special rates by month and . year. FOR 8ALE. Thos. Siegmund left on sale at Rl leyi & Riley's the Wonder Washer. Fullblood White Langshang eggs for setting. $1.00 per 15. Mrs. J. D. Struble, Enterprise. lOlbm MON EYTO LOAN State Funds loaned, 6 per cent. John P. Rusk. Atty. State Land E'd. Joseph Farm loans at 7V4 percent. Call nr write First Bank of Joseph. B8W! WANTED. Lumber. Anyone having lumber of any grade In any amount for sale, or who has timber he Intends to saw soon, and wishes to contract the lum ber, call on dr address W. F. Rankin at Haney planer In Enterprise. Agent for W. R. Klvettf. ' 26b4 Housekeeper wanted to keep house for man with two children. Call on or write Ted Johnson, Enterprise, Oregon. 97blm LOST. -"" Black fielder's mlt, between Carter's and town. Please leave at this office. STRAYED. Two black work horses, 1 branded 7A on right stifle,, the other wMi white spot on left side. Information leading to recovery will be thankfully received. J. L. Fine, Enterprise, Or egon. lOObnv BID8 WANTED. Bids will be received for the con struction of a two story and base ment store building by the undersign ed up to 1 o'clock p. m., Thursday, April 21. Plans and specifications can be seen at the store of the tu derslgned In Enterprise, or at office of the architect, A. Elliott, at Jo seph. Bond of 30 per cent of cost of building will be required of the successful bidder. Right Is reserved to reject amy and all bids. 96b3 FRED S. ASHLEY. NOTICE OF ELECTION. Notice Is hereby given that the city eleetiom for the purpose of elect ing a mayor, two counollmen, one city recorder, one city treasurer and one city attorney, will be held at the office of W. E. Taggart from 1 o'clock p. n. to 6 o'clock p. m., Tuesday, May 3, 1910. W. E. TAGGART, 102w2 City Recorder. Stungl He stood at a street corner and men tally kicked himself. "I went Into a drug store just now." he told a policeman, "and I asked 8 bold female clerk for some cold cream for my wife. She handed me out this quart Jar of the stuff, more than my wife can use in ten years, and charged me a dollar for it On the way out 1 saw a stack of twenty-live cent Jars of the same thing. Do you think a man clerk would ever play a customer a trick like thatr "No, 1 don't," said the policeman. "Why don't you take it back?" "And have her look at me the scorn ful way she would T Don't you ever think It. 1 wouldn't go Inside that tore again for $50." Newark News. Fires In Holland. Fires of any size are so scarce In Holland tbut the city of Rotterdam, .with a population of over 400.000. has practically no Ore department, while the prevalence of canals offers an ever ready water supply to fight any fires which might occur. THE fi.ARKLTo Portland. Wheat Track prices: Club, 95c; bluestem, 9598c; red Russian, 90 82c. Barley Feed and brewing, $25. Oats No. 1 white, $28 per ton. Hay Timothy, Willamette Valley, $1820 per ton; Eastern Oregon, $23; alfalfa, $17; clover, $16. Butter Extra, 33c; fancy, 2830c; ranch, 2022c. Eggs Ranch, candled, 25c. Hops 1909 crop, 1518c; olds, nominal. Wooi Eastern Oregon, 1417c per pound. Mohair 2829c. Seattle. Wheat Bluestem, 93 95c; club, 19 90c; red Russian, 86 88c. Oats $27 per ton. Barley $23 per ton. Hay Timothy, $2325 per ton; al falfa, $18 per ton. Butter Washington Creamery, 35c; ranch, 28o. Eggs Selected local, 2627o. Potatoes $10014 per ton. ilVIUKt tqUIIADLt I TAXATION ASKED i COMMISSIONERS APPROVE RESO LUTIONS PASSED BY SOLONS. SYSTEM CALLED OBSOLETE Mr. Galloway Sayi General Property Tax Does Not Cover Conditions Many Classes of Wealth Escape. SALEM State Tax Commissioners Galloway and Eaton approve Senate joint resolutions Nos. 22 and 17, passed by the last session of the Leg- j lslature, and designed to provide the ' means of a more equitable assess . ment of property. Commissioner Galloway, discussing the present constitutional require , menu, said: ' "These provisions of the constitu tion required and established what le known as the general property tax. i This system of taxation was tolerably adapted to the economic and Indus trial conditions of half a century ago, but it Is too rigid to permit equitable taxation of widely varied forms of property of today and too limited In its scope to reach many classes of private wealth that fairly should bear a part of the public burdens." Mr. Galloway declared that the amendments proposed by the last I Legislature, and which are to be voted on by the people at the coming election, are well prepared to pave the way for genuine tax reform in Oregon. With the constitution amended as provided by these pro posed amendments, the Tax Commis sioner called attention to the fact that It will then be possible to enact laws providing: For the classification of subjects of taxation; for exemption of certain property from taxation; for separa tion of the sources of state and local revenue that the burdens of taxation may be more equitably proportioned; for separate classification and taxa tion of forest lands, water powers and other natural resources, that con servation of the same may be pro moted: for the apportionment of state taxes among the counties according to equitable rules. Coos Land Contests Soon. MARSHFIELD The first oi a ser ies of land contests in which Coos County men are Interested will be heard April 26, and other cases of the same nature will follow. About 50 men from this city and other parts of the county have nomestead claims In the Fall Creek country In the northern part of the county and they are all contested. Some of the home steaders are located on land on which the Northern Pacific scrip has been placed and It' will be a question whether 'the scrip or the homestead claims' are to stand. Others of the homesteaders are located on land which Is claimed by the Southern Pa cific on the old railroad land grant but which the homesteaders claim Is outside the limit of the grant and .that the Southern Pacific has never placed indemnity scrip upon it. Railroad Company Sued. ROSEBURG The State of Oregon vs. the Southern Pacific Railroad Company is the title of a case filed in the Circuit Court of Douglas Coun ty. Through Attorney -General A. M. Crawford, of Salem, Attorneys Fuller ton and Orcutt of this city, the plain tiffs ask $10,000 damages for failure of the railroad company to construct a spur at Edenbower within 60 days after being notified to do so by the Oregon Railroad Commission on Feb ruary 10. Line Is Rushed to Harney. VALE! Determined on being the first railroad Into Harney County, the Harriman interests jumped into Vale with a force of 100 railroad laborers and started construction work on the Oregon & Eastern, the survey for which extends westward across the state from this point to a connection with the Natron-Klamath line at Odell. V Oil Strike Is Imminent. DALLAS Drillers at the well of the Oregon Oil & Pipe Line Com pany near here have encountered a large vein of salt water at a depth of 1300 feet This, It Is believed, will prove here, as elsewhere, a forerun ner of the discovery of oil. BAlKUEL L 3LEMENS Samuel L. Clemens, (Mark Twain), the noted humorist, who recently re turned from the Bermudas, where he went to recover his health.. He Is suffering from a severe attack of heart trouble, and owing to his ad vanced age his recovery Is doubtful. HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST CONDENSED FOR READERS Wall Street tickers announced that J. Pierpont Morgan, now in Switzer land, last week celebrated his 73rd birthday. The American Cereal Company, re puted to be the largest cereal manu facturing concern in the world, Is to build a large cereal mill on Puget Sound, probably at Seattle. Damage to fruit In Salt Lake Valley from frost will aggregate $600,000. The apricot crop has been almost en tirely destroyed and peaches, pears, prunes and early apples suffered se verely. The use of smudge-boxes saved several orchards. Governor Benson has honored a requisition from the state of Washing ton for the return to that state of Aaron S. Lebb, wanted at Seattle for the desertion of his wife and two little girls. A unique device for life saving at sea has been Invented by J. C. Hall, of Vancouver, B, C. It consists of a rocket which can be shot from the deck of a wrecked ship to the land and which automatically forms a life line over which crew or passengers can escape without aid from the shore. - The committee In charge of the Fairbanks Mount McKinley expedition desires that the United States Gov ernment shall detail Signal Service men from the point nearest Mount McKinley to make a trip to the vi cinity of the mountain, and report whether an American flag is flying on the summit. President Taft has promised Rep. sentatlve Townsend to go to Monroe, Mich., on June 14 to attend the un veiling of a memorial statue to Gen eral Custer. Monroe was Custer's home when he enlisted, and the old homestead there now owned by the Government. The site will be used tor a Postoffice building. Held guilty on eight of the 14 counts which charged violation of the Federal statutes gevorning safety ap pliances, the Rio Grande Railway Company was directed by Federal Judge John Marshall at Salt Lake to pay a fine of $800 and costs. The Oregon Short Line was found guilty on one count of a similar charge, and a penalty of $100 was assessed against the company. Directed by Commissioner Dennett, of the General Land Offioe, six more special agents of the Department of the Interior for Oregon and Washing ton at Portland have been removed from office because of the million dollar appropriation for their salaries and expenses having become ex hausted. Until more founds shall be available through Congressional ac tion there will be but two agents op erating from the Portland and Seattle headquarters. The New York District Attorney's office has completed all preparations for beginning the murder trial of Al bert Walter Woltr, charged with having brutally murdered Ruth Amos Wheeler, a handsome girl of is years and with having dismembered and partly burned her body. The crime which was committed less than a month ago, was of an unusually brutal and fiendish nature and . ore ated considerable sensation at the time. Chinese IBS BURN mm GOVERNOR IS DEAD, OFFICIALS IN FLIGHT. JAP CONSULATE DESTROYED Famine Sufferers Inflamed Against Foreigners. Soldiers Join Rioters. CHANGSHU, China, April 16. All of the foreign-owned buildings in Changshu have been destroyed by fire, except the British consulate. All the buildings rented by foreigners have been looted. All foreigners have left the city. So far as known, no foreign resident lost his life. The governor of Huhan province, Wu Tchung Siu, and his son, were killed, and several other government officials fled. Six thousand foreign drilled soldiers are stationed here and a few of these protected the governor's house for a time, but soon all Joined the rioters. Famine Sufferers Loot. The riots began April 13, when the famine sufferers looted the rice de pots. A captain of police 'was wound ed trying to restore' order. Thou sands crowded around him and his assistants, and he was obliged to flee to the Yamen. The rioters followed and besieged the place all night. The following day the disturbances became anti-loreign. The Chinese In land mission and the Norwegian and Catholic missions were burned. The other missions were destroyed ' April 15. The missionaries attached to the American Episcopal Missionary Alli ance, the United Evangelical Church and the Wesleyan and Yale Scientists, numbering 41 in all, took refuge in boats. They left all their effects. The destruction of all foreign prop erty, Including the Japanese consu late and the British warehouses, fol lowed. The rioters numbered no few er than 24,000. EMPEROR MEETS ROOSEVELT Almost Royal Honors Are Accorded Distinguished American. VIENNA, April 18. Col. Theodore Roosevelt was received at the Aus trian capital in manner almost like that accorded a reigning sovereign. As a special mark of his personal es teem the aged emperor-king, Francis Joseph, received Col. Roosevelt In his private apartments at the impos ing Hofburg palace, Instead of in the regular audience chufnber. What is regarded as a significant sequel to the recent Vatican Incident was the unexpected call of Monslgnoi Belmonte Plgnatelli, the Papau nun cio, accredited to the Austrian court, In the full ecclesiastical vestments of his office. U is believed that Plgnatelli called at the Pope's bidding and that his mission was to express regrets of his holiness over the part played by Car dinal Merry Del Val, the papal secre tary, in imposing impossible condi tions in connection with the Vatican call, which resulted In the startling abandonment of the visit Three Men Rob Train, and Escape. BENICIA, Cal., April 18. After, looting the mall and baggage oars of overland train No. 1, between this place and Goodyesr, Sunday morning, three masked men, escaped, on the engine of the train. The train was stopped by a lantern signal as It slowed down on the approach to Goodyear. No estimate of the amount taken can be bad, but it is believed the robbery netted hundreds of dollars. There were ten coaches on the train, and the robbers locked each as they passed through, leaving the passen gers captive while they rifled the other cars. Walks 127 Miles to Court. PORTLAND Traveling 127 miles on foot from his wooded homestead in Curry County, in the southwesteri corner of Oregon to Grants Pass, where he was able to secure railroad transportation, Edward G. Gardner surrendered in the United States Cqurt here to answer the charge of having wilfully Bet out a forest fire Is. August of last year. MISS MARJ0RIE GOULD ($''' -v;Y'-': Miss Marjorle Gould, daughter of George Gould, who became the bride of Anthony J. Drexel, Jr., of Phllad.l. phla, Tuesday.. Miss Gould Is said to have refused numerous titled for elgners to wed an American. PROSECUTION WILL LAY FORJALLINGER Hearing of Secretary to Be Me Main Feature of the Inquiry. WASHINGTON, D. C.-The "pros ecution" in the Balllnger-Plnchot con troversy Indicated by the Congres sional Investigating committee that it was holding its big guns In reserve until Secretary Ballinger takes the stand. Attorney Brandels sought permls sion to defer the cross-examination of Frank Pierce, assistant secretary of the Interior, until after he had had an opportunity to quesUon Secretary Ballinger. Frank Pierce, first assistant secre tary of the Interior, who began his term of service in the department under Secretary Garfield, and who has testified at a previous session that Secretary Ballinger never inter fered with the conduct of the Cun ningham coal claims after he had turned them over to him, resumed his testimony at the session. He denied that he had told ex-Governor Miles C. Moore that be could have his pat ents without examination under the law of May 26, 1908. The witness said that Commissioner Dennett has so construed the law and had told Moore that he could nave the patents without a hearing. Edward C. Finney, assistant to the Secretary of the Interior, tesUfled In corroboration of Pierce and Clements. Attorney Vertrees questioned the witness regarding the letters sent In response to an inquiry from Senator LaFollette as to Secretary BalUnger's policy on restoring to entry water power sites withdrawn by Secretary Garfield. In those letters Ballinger was quoted as saying that the with drawal of water-power sites hB restored on recommendation of the Reclamation Service. The "prosecution", put on Director Newell and Chief Engineer Davis, of the Reclamation Service, to disprove this statement, both testifying they had been ordered by the Secretary to order the restorations. Smuggler Is Convicted. EL PASO, Tex., April 19. George Olln, alias Snake Pool, who was caught with 700 cans of opium, was convicted of smuggling in the Federal Court. Olln is said to have had con federates at every port on the border and was one of the most adroit and successful smugglers of Chinese and opium In the country. He had head quarters hen, at Los Angeles and San Francisco. PORTLAND Consumers League of Portland is making every effort to establish a "white list' of shops in this city coming up to certain high standards in regard to the working conditions of their women employes. SPRING FIELD As a result of a scratch received when building a fence, C. W. Finch of this city may lose his hand from blood poisoning. The wound was made with a piece of dirty or rusty Iron. PENDLETON The body of Jack Peters, who mysteriously disappeared from home in this city eight weeks ago, was found in a mlllrace by a schoolboy. There was no evidence of foul play and the theory of suicide la accepted generally. HILL AND GOULD IE A DEAL TRAFFIC AGREEMENTS MADE FOR INTERCHANGE OF BUSINE8S. DENVER IS EXCHANGE POINT Gould Gets Access to Northwest and Hill Connections East to Pitts burg and South to Gulf. DENVER. April 18. At a confer ence of officials of the Chicago, Burl ington ft Qulncy and the Denver A Rio Grande's Western Pacific lines, traffic agreements were made by which business will be Interchanged In Denver. This will give the Hill lines an outlet Into California and the Gould lines will have a connection with the Pacific Northwest The business of the Gould lines for the Northwest will be carried via the Burlington to the Great Northern and Northern Pacific lines. The arrangement will give the North Pacific Coast through connec tions as far east as Pittsburg and as far south as the Gulf of Mexico. The deal gives the Gould lines from St Louis, southern Colorado and New Mexico favorable traffic ar rangements with the Burlington and other Hill lines to Portland, as well as Seattle, and will mean much to Portland and the Puget Sound coun try, la the opinion of the railroad men. WILL ALDRICH RETIRE? WASHINGTON, D. C, April 19. It is reported here on good authority that Senator Nelson W. Aldrlch oi Rhode Island will retire at the end of his present term, March 4. Fall ing health la believed to hsve been responsible for a physician's order that the Rhode Island Senator aban don active service. It Is said fur ther that Aldrlch will retire Imme diately from his committees in order that he may give all time possible to the monetary commission of which he Is the head. ' Charles Waxier Admits Identity. SAN FRANCISCO, April 18. The man said to be Charles J. Wezter, who is wanted at Tacoma, Wash., on a charge of having murdered Mrs. Henry Schuls, the mother of Wezler'i divorced wife, admitted that bis name was Charles Wetler, but said he was not the man for whom the police were searching. "I am Charles Wetler, all right," he told the police, "but I had noth ing to do with the murder of Mrs. Schuls at Gig Harbor." When arrested at Ocean Beach tor carrying concealed weapons, Wesler gave the name of Wagner. He was later Identified as Wetler by detec tives who saw him in the prisoners' dock In the police court TAFT FORGIVES HISSING. WASHINGTON, D. C, April IS. Declaring be regretted the "hissing" incident at the suffragette convention not because of personal feeling, but because It was being used In an un fair way to embarrass the leaders of the suffrage movement, President Taft sent a letter of reply to the apology sent him by the suffragists. Railroad to Farm. SEATTLE, April 19. To overcome the high cost of meats and farm prod ucts of every kind, Including garden truck, eggs and milk and cream, the Northern Pacific Railway Company has purchased and Improved 270 acres of rich bottom land near Kent, In this county, and has established dairy with a herd of 300 thoroughbred milch cows and 1500 White Leghorn hens. The company has also planted 400 acres of corn and garden truck at Paradise, Mont Products of these Institutions are to be consumed en tirely by the dining car department ot the railroad. eon Hughes' Recommendation Adopted. ALBANY, N. Y., April 17. Giving heed to the recommendation of Gov ernor Hughes, the Senate has gone on record In favor of a thorough In quiry into all allegations ot Legisla tive corruption. It is now up to the assembly to say whether the Senate example shall be followed. .. ' -srr- . zra j t x I X ! Hi in Hi X 1 1 ?! ! ! n wimwmKMMrm