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TWENTY-SIXTH YEAR. NO. 51.
ENTERPRISE, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 1910.
COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPE
1
Cen a word single Insertion, 1
cent a word 2 Insertions. Special
rates by month and year.
WANTED.
Violin pupils. Miss Pearl Humphrey,
graduate of Notre Dame Academy.
Call at J. U Browning. 4bm
LOST OR STRAYED.
Two pigs, sandy with black spots.
FUider communicate with C. E.
Funkntorprta 19btf
MONEY TO LOAN
State Funds loaned, 6 per cent. John
P. Rusk. AttState Land B'd. Joseph
FarnTloans V. 1b percent. Call or
write First Bank of Joseph. 68btf
" FOR SALE
Wonder V.asher a Rl.e.v J. -'i
Fresh cowandcaU; aiso surrey,
team and harness. Inquire ait .M.
& M. flour mill. Enterprise. 27b2
Lota in Troy townaibe for sale at
$20 and up. O. R. & N. railroad
la now making final location survey
on Grande Ronde river between
Roadowa and Snake river. When
road is built Troy will be the larg
est town and chief trading center
of the entire North Country. See
or write H. E. Merryman, owner,
Wntrnrle Qreeon. 27btf
New 8- room house and 3 lots In
soahteast part of town. Will be
sold for 2000, the actual coat of
lots and house. If taken Boon. In
quire at this office. 27btf
LOST.
Lrp robe, on road between Galloway
homestead and Baker & Smith livery
barn. Finder please return to barn.
CANDIDATES ATTENTION I
Nominating petitions for county
and district candidates before the
primary September 24, for sale at
thla office. Nicely bound. Complete
seta only $1 at office or by mail.
THE MARKETS.
Portland.
Wheat Track prices: Club, 86c;
bluestem, 96; red Russian, 85c.
Barley Feed and brewing, $24.
Oats No. 1 White. $32 per ton.
Hay Timothy, Willamette Valley,
$18 19 per ton; Eastern Oregon,
$20 22; alfalfa, $13 14.
Butter Extra, 83c; fancy, 33c;
ranch, 23c.
Eggs Ranch, candled, 23o.
Hops 1908 crop, 1013c; olds,
nominal.
Wool Eastern Oregon, 1417o per
pound.
Mohair S233c.
Seattle.
Wheat Bluestem, 94c; club, 92c;
red Russian, 90c.
Oats $33 per ton.
Barley $24 per ton.
Hay Timothy, $22 per ton; alfalfa,
$14 per ton.
Butter Washington Creamery, SSe;
ranch, 22c.
Eggs Selected local, 82o.
BRIEF NEWS OF THE WEEK
Accessible coal of the best Alaskan
fields, even at a half cent a ton in the
ground, is worth more than most of
the coal lands In the Eastern states,
is the statement contained in a bulle
tin issued by the geological survey.
The United States department of
agriculture is using this year on the
national forests over 10 tons of tree
seed. Moat of this seed has already
been planted or sown.
One-third of the babies in Iowa un
der 1 year old have died this summer,
according to statistics collected by
the Iowa state board of health. - Cho
lera Infantum, Infantile paralysis,
poor milk and improper care are
given as causes.
- The armored cruiser Lion, the larg
est, fastest and most powerful cruiser
in the world, has been launched by
England. The cruiser will have a dis
placement of 26,350 tons and will be
driven by turbine engines of 700,000
horsepower, giving her ah expected
cpeed of 28 knots.
Russia's scourge, the cholera, con
tinues to spread with alarming rap
idity. Figures furnished by the Cen
tral Sanitary Bureau show that in the
"week from July 24 to July 30, there
were 15,244 cases of cholera and 6944
deaths.
Reports to the weather bureau show
that practically the entire western
country, from eastern Wyoming and
Colorado to the Pacific coast states,
and from' the Canadian boundary to
Mexico, is experiencing one of the
worst droughts of the last quarter
entury.
WANT TROOPS TO
FIGHT FOREST FIRES
jTaft Asked to Send Regulars
Into Northwest Woods by
Timber Interests.
WASHINGTON. Request has been
made for trqpps to protect national
forests In Montana and Idaho from
fires and to assist in extinguishing
the flames.
General Wood, chief of staff of the
army, has applied to President Taft
for an order authorizing the use ol
soldiers for this purpose.
The appeal for the assistance of the
army in fighting forest fires was re
ceived from the Western Pine Manu
facturers' Association, which called
attention to the danger facing the
woodlands in Oregon, Montana, Idaho,
Washington, and California, and ask
ed that troops be dispatch at once to
co-operate with the forest service in
saving the timber.
Secretary Wilson of the department
of agriculture, who is in the West, in
specting forest reserves, has instruct
ed the officials to employ energetic
means to check the flames, even
though it is necessary to incur a de
ficit In the money appropriated by con
gress to meet emergencies in the na
tional forests.
Forest fires on the national forest
reserve In Western Montana and
Northern Idaho and on the private
lands within them already have
wrought damage amounting to nearly
$500,000, according to estimates made
by officials of the forest service. The
flames have burned over an area of
175,000 acres.
HARVEY W. SCOTT DIES
BALTIMORE. Harvey W. Scott,
editor of the Portland Oregonian,
died in Johns Hopkins Hospital Sun
day Bhortly before 6 p. m. of heart
failure, 2 hours after a surgical oper
ation for prostatectomy.
He went off the operation table Sat
urday morning In strong conditions.
Sunday morning at 7 o'clock he began
sinking and in spite of the best stim
ulants known to medical science his
heart grew steadily weaker until the
end. He was conscious almost to the
last and the end was painless.
- To Oppose Uncle Joe.
INDIANAPOLIS. Ind. Six republi
can candidates for congress, if elect
ed, are planning to oust Uncle Joe
Cannon from bis Job as speaker and
elect Congressman E. D. Crumpacker
of the tenth Indiana district Resolu
tions were adopted Indorsing Crum
packer as Cannon's successor at a
conference of Indiana republican con
gressional candidates and state party
leaders. Six of the congressional can
didates present pledged .Crumpacker
their support.
PLEA OF POVERTY
MADE BY RAILROADS
CHICAGO. The railroads intend
to stand squarely upon the proposal
that they need more money to keep
pace with the growing demand for
transportation, and if they cannot
show this to the satisfaction of the
commission, then the day of govern
ment ownership of railroads will have
been greatly hastened.
- This statement was made by J. C.
Stubbs, traffic director of all the Har
riman lines and regarded as the fore
most traffic expert of the country. Mr.
Stubbs' declaration was made at the
conclusion of a conference between
the legal -counsel of the Western rail
roads and their traffic representatives.
The meeting was called with a view
of ' discussing the financial situation
and forming plans for presenting be
fore . the Interstate Commerce Com
mission in the clearest manner the
need of the railroads.
; Japs Will Study Flying.
' - BERLIN. The Japanese Military
Commission, which for several months
has been studying military conditions
in Europe, has arranged with the
company controlling the Wright aero
plane patents in Germany to buy a
number of Wright machines.
Isolate Germs of Leprosy.
HONOLULU. That Doctors Brln
Kerhoff and Curry and M. T. Hallman
of Honolulu have succeeded in isolat
ing germs of leprosy is announced.
This means, it" is said, the ultimate
discovery of a cure for the disease.
Governor Brady Ask Troops.
LEWISTON. Ida.-Oovernor Brady
t Orangeville eald he had petitioned
through the Secretary of the Interior
to urge the War Department to send
troops Into Idaho to fight forest fires.
The governor said troops are asked,
not only to work in National forests
but te protect state timber as welL
A Bismarck Incident.
It used to be the privilege of Aus
tria's representative at any conference
of representative of the German
states to smoke, the others refrnlniug.
This was supposed to be an acknowl
edgment of Austria's Mipreroacy. At the
first conference that Bismarck attend
ed as PruRsla's representative be be
gan to puff smoke across the confer
ence table as soon as tbe Austrian dip
lomat lit up. Thai" set everybody pres
ent to smoking ou equal terms, ami
Austria's supremacy got a blow.
SOCIALISTS CAPTURE
CHICAGO UNIONS
CHICAGO. Socialists captured the
meeting of the Chicago Federation of
Labor Sunday. At the close of a
three-hour debate they had matters
their own way and forced through a
motion to submit to a referendum
vote of all the unions of the city the
question of co-operating with the So.
clallst party or the formation of an
Independent labor political organiza
tion. The old party politicians were
swept off their feet by the flood of
oratory. "Jackpot" legislation was
said to be the only kind that could
be expected from either of the old
parties, and the whole debate cen
tered on the question of forming an
Independent labor party or taking ad
vantage of the organization of ma
chinery of the Socialists.
NEWS OF NOTED PERSONS
Hubert Latham made a flight from
Chalons-sur-Marne to Paris, a dis
tance of 87 miles. He made two stops
en route. His aeroplane passed over
the city at an altitude of 1850 feet,
circling twice around the Eiffel
Tower.
Joe Gans, ex-champlon lightweight
pugilist, who has been living in Ari
zona for his health, won the race
with death and reached bis home in
Baltimore. The pugilist, who is in
tbe last stages of consumption, want
ed to see his "mammy" before he
died.
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MI88 KATHERINE ELKINS.
A special from Rome says that the
hostility of the royal family to the
marriage of the Duke of the Abruzzl
and Miss Katherlne Elkins has been
withdrawn and tbe official announce
ment of their engagement will be
made shortly.
That this country is imperiled by
Its artificial and extravagant plane of
living is one of the' conclusions em
phasized by Beujamin Ide Wheeler,
of the University of California, on his
return from a European trip.
A train carrying Sir Wilfred Lau
rier, struck head on In a collision with
a freight train Saturday. Sir Wilfred
was slightly injured. A fireman was
killed. The accident happened near
Penae, west of Regina, Bask.
The Athena council voted down a
proposed ordinance prohibiting the
sale of near beer and spirituous, vin
ous or malt liquors that are not in
toxicating by a vote of 8 to 2.
The proposed frontier and wild west
how for Pendleton is now a certainty
and plans will be rapidly pushed for
ward to make the first annual occa
sion a great success so that the per
manency of the affair will be assured.
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MEN INVOLVED DENY
SENATOR'S CHARGES
Vice-President Mentioned as
"Interested," but No Direct
Evidence.
MUSKOGEE, Okla. The t: r.?aticn
al testlmon yof Senator Gove belort
the congressional committee investi
gating the charges of attempted brib
ery in Oklahoma Indian land deals,
which involved the names ti? Vice
President Sherman, Senator Curtis,
of Kansas, Representative McGulre,
of Oklahoma, and others, has result
ed In series of denials by all the
men involved.
Senator Gore testified, he had been
approached by Jake L. Harmon, form
er chairman of the Oklahoma state re
publican committee, who said that a
bribe of $25,000 or $50,00 had been
offered him to remove certain legisla
tlon pending in congress so that $3,
000,000 might be paid to J. F. McMur
ray, an attorney of McAlester, Okla.,
and his associates.
JAMES 8. SHERMAN.
Representative C. E. Creager, of the
third Oklahoma district, supplemented
the testimony of Senator Gore.
D. C. McCurtain, a Choctaw Indian,
son of the governor of the Choctaw
Nation, and an attorney for that tribe,
testified that J. F. Murray had of
fered him $20,000 not to oppose the
land deal.
Thus far, however, there has been
no evidence supporting the Gore
charge that Vice-President Sherman
was interested in the case.
Vice-President Free of Blame.
MUSKOGEE, Okla. When the
statement Issued by Vice-President
Sherman, emphatically denying any
connection with bribery charges, was
read to Senator Gore, the senator
said: .
"I have never charged, directly or
indirectly, at any time, that Vice
President Sherman had any interest,
immediate or remote, in the McMur
ray contracts. I did net Intimate be
fore tbe committee that he was im
plicated. I was compelled to state,
as evidence that Mr. Harmon had ad
vised me that the vice president had
such an interest. I made the state
ment under protest, as I have express
ly said, with great reluctance and re
gret. "I merely told the tale, told to me
by Harmon, and I was obliged to
do so.
TEXAS WILL VOTE
ON PROHIBITION
Plan to Submit Carries by Nearly
40,000 Votes.
DALLES, Texas. Official figures
tabled for tbe state democratic execu
tive committee show that tbe prohibi
tion submission proposition won a de
cisive victory In the general primary
election July 2. In addition to a state
majority of close to 40,000 votes, both
branches of the legislature are in
favor of submission by more tban a
two thirds vote, tbe count being 22
senators for, 9 senators against; 93
representatives for, 40 representatives
against.
Knights Templars Hold Conclave.
CHICAGO. The thirty-first trien
nial Knights Templars conclave was
What Chicagoans say the most spectac
ular, week of entertainment since the
World's Columbian Exposition in 1893.
When the parade of escort, opened tne
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conclave Tuesday, it is estimated that
GOO.OOO visitors were here.
Harrlmsn Line Quits Japsnss.
CHICAGO. William H. Avery, as
siMant general niansger of the Toyo
Klsen Kaltiha Oriental Steamship
Company, confirmed the report that
ihe Southern Pacific road and his
company had dec!dd to part com
pany. CASTAWAYS REACH PORT
Passengers cf Princess May Rescued
and Not On Injured.
JUNEAU. The steamer Georgia
brought the passengers of the wreck
ed steamship Princess May to Juneau.
The Prlnres May left Skagway, Alas
ka, southbound, for Vancouver, with
80 passengers and a crew of 8, and
struck the North Reef of Sentinel Is
land, and sandlrg in a smooth sea two
hours after striking. None of the
passengers or crew were Injured.
COMPANIES AGREE
TO NEW RATE BILL
BOSTON. A decision was reached
at the conference of attorneys for the
leading railroads of the country on
the new rate bill. This decision is be
lieved by the attorneys assembled to
be of the greatest importance to many
of tbe large Industries of the coun
try.
It has reference to the long and
short hauls section of the Hepburn
Interstate Commerce Act as amended
by the recently-signed Mann-Elklns
bill. The fear of the railroads Is thai
a narrow interpretation of the lan
guage of the section would prevent
them from making a lower rate oh
goods for export than for goods foi
domestic consumption.
Aftr considering the subject care
fully the conference authorized this
statement:
"It Is understood that the general
sentiment of the country Is that such
an Interpretation is cot Justified bj
the spirit or even by the letter of tht
act and there Is substantial unanlmjty
of opinion that no Disarrangement o;
our foreign business will result from
compliance with the scL"
May Repeat Boxer Upheaval.
VICTORIA., B. C That a great up
heaval In Southwestern China, similar
to the boxer movement In the North
10 years ago, is Imminent, Is the news
brought by the steamer Nlng Chow
from China.
CRIMES AND MISHAPS
The plant of the Diamond Match
Company outside of the city limits ol
Cbico, Cal., was blown up by an ex
plosion shortly after noon Saturday.
Two workmen were fatally Injured
and five others seriously hurt.
The police have abandoned the
theory that William L. Rice, the
wealthy attorney of Cleveland, O., fa
tally shot and beaten with a slungahol
was the victim of robbers. Instead
they are seeking a revengeful Italian
caddy boy whom tbey suspect of hav
ing carefully planned and executed
tbe murder.
Walter Michaells, editor and pari
owner of the Chicago Staats Zeltung
was drowned In Ocean Lake, N. Y.,
while trying to save the life of bis 8
year-old daughter. The child was
saved through the efforts of Mich
aella, who kept ber afloat until aid
came to them, but Immediately sank
before help could reach him.
- Paris witnessed a demonstration ol
lynch law in the heart of the capital,
when a mob lynched an "Apache,"
! stringing blm up to a lamppost after
the man had hilled a pedestrian while
resisting arre.it.
. Why Boiled Water Freezes Easily.
Water v. huh la bot of course cannot
freeze until it bas parted with Its beat,
but water that bas been boiled . will,
other things being equal, freeze sooner
; than water whlcb bas not beeo boiled.
' A slight disturbance of water disposes
j it to freeze more rapidly, sod this is
the cause whlcb accelerates the freez
ing of boiled water. Tbe water that
, bas been boiled bas lost the air oatu
' rally contained In It, which on ex-
poxure to tbe atmosphere It begins
again to attract and absorb. During
this process of absorption a motion Is
necessarily produced among tts parti
cles, slight certainly and Impercepti
ble, yet probably sufficient to accel
erate Its cougcliitlon. Id unboiled wa
ter this dlHturbance does oot exist
Indeed, water when kept perfectly still
cod be reduced several degrees below
the freezing puiut without Its becom
ing ice. .,
ITEMS OF INTEREST
THROUGHOUT OREGON
Chronicle of Important Events
of Interest to Our
Readers.
Voters Give Worry.
LA GRANDE. Complications that
augur Illegal entanglements at tba
primaries and a general state of disar
rangement and disorder that will be
detrimental to hundreds of voters in
Union County are developing through
an unusual and unexplalnable apathy
on the part of qualified voters to res,,
later before the primaries. Not alone
will the voter be deprived of his suf
frage unless six freeholders Bra
forced to spend time and go to Incon.
venlences on the day of the prima
ries but prospective candidates are
going to meet an obstacle In Union
County that is going to work havoc
with every one of thera. The sltua
tlon is simply this there are not
enough registered voters properly to
sign the candidates' petitions.
Fraud la Charge; No Prosecution.
PORTLAND. Because of the lack
of a statute covering tbe alleged of
fense, there will be no prosecution of
the firm of Cooper ft Taylor, promot
ers of the townslte of Hlllraan, ac
cused of misrepresenting conditions
in selling lots. The matter was called
to the attention of District Attorney
Cameron's office by the "state attor
ney general, and Deputy District At
torney Garland, after an exhaustive
study of the subject, has decided
there is no statute on which a charge
could be based.
STATE WILL CARE FOR
WHITE PLAGUE VICTIMS
Tuberculosis Sanatorium Will
Be
Opened at Salem 8oon.
PORTLAND." I'lepiwttlomr- ror
opening the Oregon State Tubercu
losis sanatorium at Salem are com.
plete. Soon the doors of the most
completely equipped stats main
tained tuberculosis sanatorium in the
United States will swing opon with
welcome and promise of cure to white
plague sufferers throughout the
state.
Dr. C. 8. White, state health om
cer, acting for the state bourd ol
health Is now sending broadcast bul
letins giving information concerning
the sanatorium.
Growers Will Employ Specialist.
HOOD RIVER. At a largely at,
tended meeting of tbe Hood River
Apple Growers' Fellowship It wus
voted to incorporate the society un
der the co-operative clause of the
stats law . The purpose of the or
ganlzatlon will be to employ the best
orchard specialist to be secured and
have blm reside In Hood River valley
for the purpose of inspecting or
chards and to be on hand for any
emergency that may require the work
of an expert Each acre of orchard
owned by tbe members of tbe organl
zatlon will be taxed CO cents for tho
maintenance of the work. The head
of the agricultural departments of
tbe O. A. C. will be an advisory board
to tbe board of local directors.
OFFICIAL IS INDICTED
Justice of Pesos Charged With Falsi
fying Public Records.
KLAMATH FALLS. The grand
Jury bas returned an Indictment
against Justice of Peace A. D. Mil
ler, charging him with falsifying a
public record. He la now under
12600 bonds. It Is alleged that Miller
Btsrsd on bis records that on Goo,
L. Pries, a telephone promoter woo
was wanted Is San Francisco by tbe
police of that city, had a aesriog In
this city on the charge of conductics
a lottery while the trial was not aa
tuaily held at the time and place spe
cified. No data has been set for the trial.
The penalty for conviction in this
case will be not less than two, nor
mora tban twenty years In the peni
tentiary. Word has been received at the state
penitentiary that Albert Crawford has
been arrested at Wenatchee, Wash.
Crawford escaped from the state fair
grounds July 19, where he was work
ing as a trusty. He was sentenced to
serve two years from Umatilla couuty
iot