The Wallowa Valley Strawberry is the Best on Earth mm My TWENTY-SIXTH YEAR. NO. 37. ENTERPRISE, OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY 5, 1910. COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPCH Cent a word single insertion, 1 cento a word 2 insertions. Special rates by month and year. Dressmaking and plain sewing. Sat isfaction guaranteed. Miss Llda Flowers. 103bm FOR 8ALE. Thos. Slegmund lefit on sale at Ri ley & Riley's the Wonder Washer. Fullblood White Langshang eggs for netting. $1.00 per 15. Mrs. J. D. Struble, Enterprise. lOlbm Well bred 2-year-old Jersey bull. In dcpeadent phone. F. A. Clarke, En terprise. 106bl MONEY TO LOAN Slate Funds loaned, 6 per cent. John P. RuBk. Atty. State Land B'd. Joseph Farm loans at 7 percent. Call nt write First Bank of Joseph. 68Wf WANTED. Lumber. Anyone having lumber of inv grade In any amount for sale, or who has timber he Intends to saw noon, and wishes to contract the lum ber, call on or address W. F. Rankin at Haney planer In Enterprise. Agent for WR. Kivette. 2Cb4 Housekeeper .wanted to keep house for man with two children. Call on or write Ted Johnson, Enterprise, Oregon. 97blm 8TRAYED. Two black work horses, 1 branded 7A on right etlfle,, the other, with white spot on left Bide. Information, leading to recovery will be thankfully received. J. L. Fine, Enterprise, Or egon. lOObnv NOTICE OF; EIGHTH GRADE EXAMINATIONS. The Eighth Grade Examinations will be held la the several school districts, May 12 and 13, 1910. J. C. OONLET,, Supt. of Schools. STALLION BOOKS. Indtopeneable records for owners of stallions, containing description of mares, dates of service, time of payments, and all necessary data, printed on good paper and, strongly bound in boards with cloth back, for sale at this office or sent post age prepaid on receipt of. price, $1. Doors and windows and all kinds of buUders hardware at Keltner's. . The Mark of the Hand. When the bund touches unytblng 11 leaves upon the object touched a rep resentation of that part which came in coutact with the object. This luipres slou is not visible to the eye. It is niade by the acid of moisture exuded from the skin. If you pluce the pulm of your bund Out on a sheet of blunk paper you wuy uot see the faintest truce, of the bund, and many people Will be augry ut the suggestion that there is Buy exudation their bauds are perfectly dry; tbey do not suffer from perspiration. Nevertheless If a nietul piuie covered with a certain chemical preparation be passed over the paper the representation of the band becomes Visible in great detail. The Mule's Intelligence. "Dat ol' mule knows dut plowlu' time has ooie," said Brother Dhkey. "Wen 1 gone ter de buru ter feed blm dis wawuln' he hud done kicked de do loose, jumped two wire ieuces au swiuiuied de millpou' ter de big woods. Wen you stops ter consider de few jid vautages de mule bez bad de iuielli geuce or mere nuiu cuu't bul half a candle ter bim!" Atlanta Constitu tion, v THE MARKETS Portland. Wheat Track prices: Club, 86 87c; bluestem, 88c; red Russian, 85c. Barley Feed and brewing, $24. Oats No. 1 white, $27 per ton. Hay Timothy, Willamette Valley, $1820 per ton; Eastern Oregon, $2225; alfalfa, $17; clover, $16. Butter Extra, 29c; fancy, 29c; ranch, 20c. ' Eggs Ranch, candled, 2324c. Hops 1909 crop, 1316c; olds, jjminal. Wool Eastern Oregon, 14 17c per pound. Mohair 32 33c. Seattle. Wheat Bluestem, 86 87c; elub, 82 84c; red Russian, 81 82c. Oats $27 per ton. y Barley $23 per ton. Hay Timothy, $2223 per ton; al falfa, $16 per ton. Butter Washington Creamery, 30c; ranch, 2lc. Eggs Selected local, 2526o. Potatoes Market demoralised. I THE DOINGS OF CONGRESS AND ITEMS OF INTEREST. BALLINGER ON THE STAND Secretary of Interior Vigorously Do fends Himself. Declares Glavis Is a Liar. WASHINGTON. Indignantly deny ing that he had been guilty of any wrong-doing, Richard A. Balllnger made a bitter attack upon his critics when a witness before the Balllnger Pinchot investigating committee, and characterized many of tue statements of his principal accuser, L. R. Glavis, as "willful and deliberate lies." Led on by his attorney, the Cabinet officer answered one by one the in dictments of those who would de stroy him. He referred with apparent pride to Theodore Roosevelt's oft-expressed high estimate of .him, particu larly the ex-President's statement when he was commissioner of the land office, that he had "secured a $25,000 man for $5000." Coal Land Action Defended. He defended his conduct In connec tlon with the Cunningham coal case? and said emphatically that be would take the same action now as he did when at the head of the land office, f he had the same record before him Passing from the subject of Alaskan jal lands, Balllnger gave a justlfl atlon of his attitude toward the re clamation service. His most Import ant denial was of the charge made by Director Newell and Chief Engineer Davis, that he misrepresented to the President that . the reclamation ser vice had recommended the restoration of the waterpower sites withdrawn by Secretary Garfield. By a vote on which Mr. Madison, the Insurgent Republican on the com mittee, was the only member to da part from others of his party, the committee again rtjected Attorney Brandeis' request that Attorney-General Wickersham should be required to produce papers which the "prose cution" contends would show that he antedated his Bummary to the Presi dent of the Glavis charges against Balllnger. Cummins Amendment Defeated. By the decisive vote of 5 to 29, the Administration Republicans de feated the Cummins substitute for the Crawford-E'.kins traffic .agreement provision of the railroad bill. The vote Is generally accepted as a test of the strength of the contending sides and It Is believed it presages -.he passage of the bill by a safe ma jority. Immediately after the result was announced Senator Cummins gave no 'ice of another amendment Intended o accomplish the same purpose. He had claimed for his. amendment that It would specifically require the ap proval "by the Interstate Commerce Commission of all rates under the traffic agreements, In advance of their taking effect, but he says bis substitute covered all phases of the ouestion. Tft Land Bill to Pats. The committee on public' lands of .the House, by a majority vote of two, has reported out the bill authorizing the President of the United States to make withdrawals of public lands in certain cases. The bill as agreed up en authorizes the President to make withdrawals for examination and clas sification to determine the character and value of lands withdrawn. Treasury at Mercy of Thieves. The astonishing statement was made by Charles D. Norton, assistant secretary of the treasury, before the house committee on expenditures In the treasury department recently that there was at present no law on the statute books by which a subordinate .n any of the various subtreasurles of the United States could be punished (or making away with public funds. McCredle's Bill Is Favored. Representative McCredle had a hearing before the judiciary commit tee to present arguments In support of his bill authorizing the States o( Oregon and Washington to adjust dif ferences over the boundary line where It follow the Columbia River, t&i tiI all hearlpf the committee NEWS FRO ill CAPITAL assured him the bill would be favor ably reported. Friar Land Inquiry Ordered. The House passed unanimously the resolution offered by Slayden, ot Texas, calling on the Secretary of War for information concerning the sale or leasing of land in the Philip ine Islands Uncle Sam's warning that there Is a counterfeit one dollar bill In circula tion comes home to the pocket of the average man. No cure con keep In condition Idle people wbo overeat, stay ud late at sight and live In unventUated apart ments. MRS. RUTH BRYAN LEAVITT Mrs. Ruth Leavitt Bryan, daughter of William Jennings Bryan, who was married Tuesday to Reginald Owen, of the British Royal engineers.. Mr. Leavitt, whom, she divorced, an nounces that he will attempt to gain possession of the Leavitt children. RESERVATION IS OPENED COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho, May 2. The Couer d'Alene Indian Reservation was formally opened to settlement to day. Hundreds of men are here wa.i lng to file and begin life on the.r holdings. Over 400,000 acres of land is in the area to be opened. Will Nagel Save or Kill Seals. WASHINGTON, May 3. Conserva tkm of the' Alaskan seal herds Is a matter to which Secretary Nagel, of the Department ot Commerce and La bor, Is giving close attention. Congress has given the Secretary discretionary authority and it will rest with him whether a certain num ber of the animals are to be slaugh tered yearly or whether sealing shall be Stopped altogether for a time. The lease of the North American Commercial Company, which for 20 years .has enjoyed the exclusive priv ilege of taking the seals, expired May 1. Cures Ills by 11 Days' Fast. BOISE, Idaho, May 2. Going with out nourishment for 11 days and as many nights, Mrs. E. W. Roberts, ot this city, has established a successful fasting record which has probably never been equaled lu the Northwest By so doing, 'she cured ' herself of nervous prostration and insomnia Eleven davs of fasting is the extreme limit gone by Mrs. Roberts, but she declares she has often fasted from three to eight days without the slight est Inconvenience. Ballot May Be Large. SALEM, Ore., May 2. Unless all signs fail the voters of Oregon will have their hands full.. at the general election on November 8. Besides be ing called upon. to select full state, district and country tickets, the elec tors of the state will be ated to pass upon from 25 to 30 measures submit ted in the initiative and referndum. Noted Rear-Admiral Dies. WASHINGTON, May 1. Rear-Admiral Philip Hlchborn, U. S. N., re tired, died at his home here tonight at the age of 71 years.- The Admiral had been ill for two months, suffering from arterial sclerosis. Mothers' Day Proclaimed. OLYMPIA Governor Hay has Is sued a proclamation designating Sun day, May 8, 1910, as Mothers' day, and recommends and requests that It be observed as such throughout the state. no LEGISLATOR TELLS OF RECEIV ING LORIMER MONEY. DOUBLE PROBE PROMISED Confession Will Be Repeated In Chi cago. Springfield Grand Jury to Take Hand. CHICAGO. May 2 Chas. A. White Democratic Representative lu the 1111 nols Legislature, has confessed tha; he accepted $2000 for voting for Wil liam Lorlmer for the United States Senate and declares he took the bribe In order that he might expose the ras cality of the Illinois lawmakers. White says he was given $1000 in greenbacks by Lee Browne, the Dem ocratic leader, whom he met at the Griggs house in Chicago. At that time, White claims, Browne remarked that he could give White about as much more at a later date, and sub sequently, when the session closed, White received $900, bis share of the "jackpot." ' State's Attorney Wayman took Rep resentative Chas. A. White, of O'Fal lon, before the special grand Jury to repeat his confession of alleging that he received a bribe of $1000 for voting for William Lorlmer for United States Senator and later $900 as his share In a "Jackpot" or general legislative cor ruption fund. Tbe public prosecutor Intimates also that In the near future the down-state legislators mentioned by White In his charges will appear before the special Inquisitorial body. ' The legislative bribery scandal will have tbe right of way and when tbe Bpeclal grand jury gets through with its work White's astounding story will have been Investigated to tbe bottom The Inquiry will not be confined to Cook County alone, for In Sangamon County the regular grand Jury con venes at Springfield and State's At torney Edmund Burke declares that it will make an exhaustive inquiry into the corrupt deals alleged by White to have been transacted at the capital. Lee O'Neill Browne, of Ottawa, Democratic leader at Springfield, and Senator -Lorlmer, both emphatically deny the use of bribe. SEEK BIG FUND FOR FAIR SAN FRANCISCO, May 2. In a pri vate car, strung across the rear of which was a banner proclaiming It to be the private coach of the repre sentative "boosters" for the Panama Pacific International Exposition, to be held here In 1915, Governor Gillett and eleven other prominent citizens of California, left for Washington, where they go In an effort to have the gov ernment contribute $5,000,000 toward the fund necessary to conduct tbe big world's fair. ' Ex-President of Haytl Dies. KINGSTON, Jamaica, May 1. Nord Alexis, ex-president of Haytl, died here today. His death followed a brief ill ness. His health, however, had been completely broken down by the expe riences of the last year and a half, after he was deposed and sent Into exile. He was a refugee here since the revolution of 1908, and possessed considerable property In Kingston. Cattle Man Routed. LEWISTON, Ida., May 3. Tbe in vaslon of settlers has routed the cat tlemen from their last stand In Nez Perce and Idaho counties, and proper ty, horses and equipment to tbe value , of $250,000, will be put under the hammer near Grangevltle on June 20. The property offered for sale con sists of 2800 acres of the most pro- I ductive agricultural land on Nez Perce and Camas Prairies, homes to the number of several hundred and farm ; equipment sufficient to handle the big ; ranch. The cattle have been moved Into the B:'g Hole country of M In tana, . where the firm of Bales and Jones i has acquired 10,000 acres of fine pas ture land, and ' will make another stand against the settlers. He Had. "Goodness, John." said a Wafshing ton (Kau.i woumu to her busbaud, "your suit looks as if you bad been sleeping in it!" "Well," replied John, "why not? Isn't that tbe suit 1 wear to church?" T US 1 EXPOS RASCALITY Kansas City Journal. Monday witnessed the start from Denver of a svore or contesting auto mobiles bound tor re City of Mex ico on the' Flag to-Flag urance and reliability contest under the ruls of the American Automobile Associa tion. The chief object of the tour Is to open new terrttory for the auto mobile In the southwest and In Mex ico. Very Annoying. "It Is annoying to watch for a train that's late." "Yes, and it I even more annoying to wait fir a train that was discon tinued the week before."-Washington Herald. WILLIAM LORIMER William Lorlmer, recently elected nlted States Senator from Illinois. whose election Is alleged to have been irougnt about by bribery, a legislator laving confessed that he accented money for his vote.. Senator Lorlmer emphatically denies the use of a bribe. HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST . CONDENSED FOR READERS Harry K. Tbaw, who killed Stanford White, must remain In the Mattewan insane asylum, according to a decis ion In the Appellate division of the Supreme Court in Brooklyn. With a loss of 600, the Turks cap tured from the Albanians an Import ant position at Orbanleh at the north end of Kalchanlk pass, but tbe rebels still hold the pass. Both sides loBt heavily. Former President Roosevelt spent tbe week In visiting the northern cap ital cities of Copenhagen, Cbrlstlanla and Stockholm, In each of which elab orate preparations were made for his reception and entertainment, The Interstate Commerce Commls slon bas suspended consideration of tbe Spokane and other lnter-mountaln and coast terminal rate cases until tbe middle of May, as two members of the commission are obliged to be away from Washington. The Senate has adopted the Hay burn resolution creating a committee of five Senators to Investigate the administration of the third degree by Federal officers to extort statements or confessions In criminal proceed ings. Harry P. Flannery, president of the San Francisco Police Commission, wbo was Indicted by the Marin County grand jury for grand larceny In connection with a recent raid on a fake poolroom In Sausaltlto, re signed bis office. Tbe irrigation by private enter prise of 8611 acres of public lands In the Blackfoot land district of Idaho has been approved by the Interior De partment, Tbe area to be thus re claimed will be selected by the state as desert land, In accordance with the provision of tbe Carey act. Louis PaulMn, tbe aviator, received a check for $50,000 from the London Dally Mall as a prize for his success ful airship flight from London to Manchester. The Mall announced that another $50,000 prize would be posted for an aeroplane feat to be de cided upon later. Commander Robert E. Peary was entertained at luncheon Tuesday by the Royal Societies Club, in London, and on tbe following day received the gold medal of tbe Royal Geographical Society, before whom he lectured at the Albert Hall. Freight tariffs showing considerable Increase over the present rates from Western territory to the Atlantic sea board will be filed with the Inter state Commerce Commission, to be come effective June 1. This Is the first step taken by the railroads in dicatlng a purpose generally to raise the freight rates througouh the country to meet increased operating expenses. OF STATED IN BRIEF TELEGRAPHIC CHRONICLE OF STATE HAPPENINGS. LAND BRIEF IS COMPLETED Attorney-General Is Ready to Bring Oregon A California Land Grant Suits. PORTLAND B. D. Townsend, spe cial attorney of the Department of Justice, la charge of the Government's suits agalnBt the Oregon ft California Railroad Company to compel forfeit ure of its grant in Oregon, has com pleted the Government's brief and says that it will be forwarded to Judge Wolverton soon. In a resolution Introduced In the ' Senate directing Attorney-General to proceed immediately with the suits, at tention is called to reports that specu lators are obtaining money from per sons Ignorant of the situation. These speculators are reported promising preference rights to clients tiling ap plications to purchase lands from the railroad company Involved, In case ot judgments favorable to the United States, thus perpotratlng frauds upon such persons. Jt is Important to Ore gon that there be an early termina tion of the suits because ot the great acreage Involved, as well as for the protection of persons now being Im posed upon by speculators, and as the suits have not been prosecuted with diligence, and some not instituted at all, the present mandatory resolution Is necessary. The resolution was re ferred to the judiciary committee. Would Improve Coqullle River. MARSHF1ELD The people of Co qullle Valley are planning to organise the Port of Coqullle for the purpose ot improving the bar and tbe river. There has been formed by business men of tbe district, a port club, the members ot which will discuss the plana and start a campaign to present to the voters of tbe proposed district the advantages of adopting the port law. The club will circulate petitions asking that a special election be held to vote on the adoption of the law. The proposed port district takes In 28 or 80 townships In the natural watershed of the Coqullle river and comprises practically all of Coos County not included in the district of the Port of Coos Bay. Movement to Spilt Umatilla County. PENDLETON A movement was launched Monday which will have tor its purpose tbe division of Umatilla County. Tbe plan is being fostered by about 80 of , the leading citizens of the Freewater-MUton section. Tbe proposed county will cut off tbe northeastern corner of Umatilla Coun ty, Including the towna of Milton, Freewater, Weston, Athena, Vanslckle, Stanton, Kllllan Junction, Hillsdale, GrandvJew and Waterman, and the area will comprise approximately ISO square miles of the richest land la the county, the taxable property in which amounts to $13,000,000. Tbe population of the area Is about 8000. Railroad Balks at Taxes. EUGENE That tbe Southern Pa cific Company may attack tbe validity of tbe Port of Siuslaw is indicated by the company's refusal to pay taxes on the portion of its Congressional grant lands lying within the lines of that port. The company has paid one-half of Its taxes on all thla land except those levied for tbe port The amount Is said to be but about $3000, but It seems evident the railroad company will not pay until a test has been made. President Taft spent Monday in Pittsburg attending the Founder's day exercises at the Carnegie Institute-In the forenoon and speaking at the an nual' banquet of the American Repub lican Club in tbe evoning. The fol lowing day he went to Cincinnati to attend the May music festival in that city and to speak at tbe unveiling of a bust of Theodore Thomas. From Cincinnati the President journeyed to St. Louis, where he addressed a meet ing . of - the . National Farmers' Con gress called to discuss needed state and National legislation of import ance to those engaged in the agri cultural Industry. NEWS OREGON