City and County
Brief News Itms
Oakes carriee a full Hne of Lowe
Brothers' Paint. 108tf
O. M. Corklns was a business vlfl
iioi In. Wallowa Wednesday.
Dr. W. C. Ketchum la visiting his
parents at North Yakima.
Victor Johnson went to La Grande
Thursday to meet hU nephew.
M. La r sen returned Thursday from
several day business vlsdt In El
gin. 'Jharles Carpenter, recently of Jo
seph, Is .employed as cook at the
Model cafe.
Mrs. R. M. Fay returned Thurs
day from a visit with her daughter,
at Fletcher, Ida.
Miss Mabel Wilson is camping
with a party of Union friends et
Catherine Creek.
Misa Audrey Combes wemt to
Hot Lake Thursday for a eojourn
of a week or more.
Miss Lottie Wallett of Albany ar
rived Thursday for a visit with Mrs.
Charles Giovanonnl.
E. V. Haskell, recently of Corval
11a, U employed in the office of
County Surveyor Merryman.
Miss FraDkie Hermitage who had
been visiting her sister, Airs. J. R.
Halley, returned to her home In
Union the first of the week.
Mrs. M. W. GooJman returned
home ' to Loatlne Thursday after
several' dayo' vialt with Mrs. J. S.
Wagner.
Misses Pearl and Alma Edwards of
Vale who are camping at the Lake,
v kilted Mr. and Mrs. L eater Imbler
1 tre this week.
Mrs. Ralph Pldcock went to La
Grande Wednseday where her hus
band had vne a weak previous.
They wlli make their home in .that
city.
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FOR. YOURSELF!
C. Hundreds of people in this town are
about ready to purchase a talking
machine.
' isons! Remember that there are "talk
ing machines " and "phonographs," but
' . only one Graphophone the
COLUMBIA
GRAPHOPHONE
C. Be sure to get in touch with us before
yyou buy. Complete .Graphophone out
fits from $20 up. Come in and listen.
Most people prefer to
buy "on time' and tKat
suits us. Terms are Easy!
Miss Grace Steel, who ta type
writing in the office or Smith &
Walek'at Joseph, spent Wednesday
evening with her parent la thle
city.
G. I. Ratcliff wnii hold a public
auction at his furniture store Sat
urday, August 27, beginning at 10:30
If you need furniture come and buy
It at your own price.
Mrs. A. G. Smith, in the list f
teachers securing certificates at the
4 examinations last weak, should have
bean credited wl'.h a primary certifi
cate Instead of a second grade.
I Tom and Ben. Morgan came home
Thuru3ay from The Dalles where
thay went to attend the funeral of a
frlen d. Roy Taylor, who was killed
by the upoetttog or a well drill.
j Mrs. A. E. Ivan hoe has returned
from her vacation spent In Portland
and various other places, and is a
gue3t of Mrs. J. S. Wagner untTT
I the opening of the Wallowa County
high school.
Miss Anna Richards returned
Tuesiday from several days camp
ing at .'!inam, accompanied' by her
friend. Mrs. L. F. Massee of La
Grande, whose guest she had been.
r. : :assce will also spend Sunday
here.
.'.:i3s Grace Wood has moved' her
millinery a'.ore to Us former loca
' lou four doors east of 'the postof
fice. Owing to her mother's 111-
! uess MIsa Wood was unable to go
away to trim as she had Intended,
but has engaged an expert trimmer
from the wholesale house who will
arrive shortly and a beautiful line
of Fall millinery goods will soon be
on display.
OPENING OF SCHOOL.
It Is officially announced that both
the Enterprise public school and
the Wallowa county high school will
open Monday, September 6. .
the daylight! Make compar-
BURNAUGH . MAYFIELD,
Agents,
ENTERPRISE, OREGON.
STREET TRAFFIC SQUADS
DUE TO ONE MAN'S LAEOft.
William Phelps Eno Credits With
New York's Achievements.
To William Phelps Eno Is owing the
street traffic coutrol system which bus
so often attracted the attention of vis
itors to New York. But a few yrar
since blocks and Jains In the busy
tours were of daily occurren. e cn the
principal streets of 'the city. It re
quired not aloue minutes, but frequent
ly hours to dlseutangle the musses of
wagons, carts and carriages, even
street cars, by the police and permit u
resumption of traffic.
One of the favorite "stuuts" of hu- '
niorous writers iu the newspapers was
a description of the picturesque oaths,
habits and skirmishes of the drivers
and coachmen on these occasions. As
far as pedestrians were concerned, it
was frequently a life and death strug
gle for them to pass from curb to curb,
and It became a recognized duty of po
licemen to act as escorts for women
and children on the street crossings ,
Mr. Eno, a New Yorker by birth, of
Independent means and a lover of
horses, with personal experience of
the dangers of the streets, was attract
ed to the question of lmprovlug condi
tions and eleven years ago began a
systematic study of the problem. He
visited London. Paris and other large
cities, conferring with the police and
other city officials, made diagrams and
drawings and gradually evolved what
he believed was a practical working
system of traffic coutrol. Then he be
gan a systematic educational campaign
with the authorities of New York.
Step by step he gradually won over to
bis views the various officials having
control of the streets.
There being neither honor nor reward
for either the Individual or commis
sion, it was a long and thankless task.
The natural inertia of officeholder
who had nothing to gain by Improved
metnoas. and the traditional habits
and customs of the city departments
had to be met and overcome. Many
setbacks had to be met and indiffer
ence overcome, but they were over
come by patience and persistence, and
today New York city street traffic is
among the models upon which other
cities are looking as examples for effi
cient control.
The city authorities of London and
rnris, the latter city especially, have
asked Mr. Eno's aid in solving their
traffic problems, and he Is now in the
latter city trying to help them bring
order out of chaos, for the streets of
Paris have always been of all cities
the most congested and dangerous.
THEODORE PER GROSSE, EH?
Foreign Steamihip Companies May
Capture American Names.
At luncheon la New York a day or
two ago some men of the "shipping
world were discussing the subject of
steamship nomenclature, and it was
generally conceded that something
must be done abroad to prevent new
steamships from acquiring the names
of prominent American characters, cit
ies and politicians. '
' With the Martha Washington, the
George Washington, the President
Grant, the President Lincoln, the
United States, the Pennsylvania and
the Chicago, all owned by foreign com
panies, it was said that there was no
limit to the American names that
might be thrust upon the proposed
steamships- of the various foreign
lines running to this port.
It was suggested that the Hamburg
American line might call its new 45,
000 ton liner the Theodore der-Grosse:
the next creation of the Red Star line
might be the Hughesland; the White
Star the Loeblc, the Canard the Taft
onla, the Holland-America the Cannon
dam, the French line the La Follette,
the Scandinavian-American line the
Hellig Harmon, the Italian line the
Re di Gaynor, the Anchor line the
Grlscomalla, and last, but not least,
the American Hue If it ever builds a
new steamship the Oyster Bay.
Not For Himself.
' "It does me good to see a pompous
man get bis." said a stockbroker "I
have a friend who Just about believes
the Lord created the earth In seven
days for his especial benefit. He has a
fine borne on Long IslHiid. with a
retinae of servants, but bis wife in a
seml-lnvalld. and It falls to the lot of
Mr. Pompous to execute various com
missions for her In the city. The other
day she asked blm to stop at a cloth
ing store and get a couple of white
duck Jackets for the butler. I hap
pened to be with blm when be entered
the store. Striding majestically up to
a sallow little salesman, be said, with
much Impressive dignity:
" 'I wish to pun-base a con pie of
white waiter's coats.'
" 'Yes. sir.' aald the little salesman
What slae do you wearf
"Mr. Pompous got red' In the face
spluttered and gurgled, and then as U
fearing to trust himself lo speech torn
ed on bis beel aud strode from the
place. He left me at the next come
and has avoided me ever since.'' New
York Sun.
A Celebrated Goat.
On April 28. 1772. there died at Mile
End a celebrated gout. She bad been
twice round the world, somewhat of a
feat in those Uu.vs, once on the discov
ery ship Dolphin. .under Captain Wal
11s, and once on the Endeavor, under
Captain Cook. She was admitted to
the privileges of an in pensioner of
Greenwich hospital by warrant of the
lords of the admiralty, but before she
could avail herself of the honor she
died. Dr. Johnson wrote a couplet
which the distinguished animal for
some time wore round ber neck. Lon
don Opinion.: '
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AFTEIt tlghteen years of toil and
effort, battling with disapioiut
, mem, lethargy aud indiffereui-e,
of surniouutlng the insurmount
able and uow an.l again snatching
lack the project from the very Jans of
defeat, the greatest ai hievetuent' iu tha
already rich history of Pro Ineetown.
Mass.the pilgrim monument. Is uow
crowned with glorious suci-es.
Towering 347 feet alsive sea level, it
serves In clear weuiher as a Kulde for
vessels forty miles at sea. and from Its
higher observation piatfonu. just be
neath the battlement crowned arch of
the tower head, all Cape Cod bay, all
Cape Cod's Inner shore line of sixty
miles, with a wide expanse of main
land. Bay State coast line aud Atlantic
waters, lie In view.
t'nusual distinction has attended the
building of the monumeut. Three
years ago its cornerstone was laid by
a president, Theodore Roosevelt, and
another president. William Howurd
Taft, was the dedicator.
Over the south door of the monu
ment is a tablet of bronze Intended to
replace the oue which was above the
portal of the old town hull, destroyed
by fire In 1S77, and which bore this In
scription :
"In commemoration of the arrival of
the Mayflower In Cope Cod harbor and
of the first lauding of the pilgrims iu
America at this place, Nov. 11, 1020,
this tablet la preseuted by the Cape
Cod association, Nov. 8, 1S53."
Original Civil Compact.
The monument and this tablet serve
not only to commemorate the landing
of the pilgrims, but also the first dec
laration of civil rights made iu the
new world by English speaking people.
The text of this compact, the John the
PROY1NCETOWN, MASS.. AND
LANDING OK
Baptist of the great constitution of to
day, with the names of forty-one sign
ers, is found lu bronze In a tablet set
lu the concrete walk before the main
doorway of the town hull. It reads;
"In ye name of God. Amen. We.
whose names are underwritten, the
loyall subjects of our dread sovereigne
lord,' King James, by ye grace of God.
of greate Britaine, France & Ireland,
king, defender of ye faith, etc.
"Having undertaken, for ye glorle of
God, and advancemeute of ye Chris
tian faith and honour klug aud couu
trle. a voyage to plunt ye first colonic
in ye northerne parts of Virginia. Doc
by these presents solemuly and mu
tually In ye presence of our God. and
one of another, covenant aud combine
ourselves together Into a civil body
politick, for our better ordering and
preservation, and furtberau.ee of ye
ends aforesaid; and by vertue heurof
to enacte, constitute, aud frame such
juste and equall lawes. ordinances,
acts, constitutions and offices, from
time to time, as shall be thought most
meete and convenient for ye general!
good of ye colonies unto which we
promise all due submission and obedi
ence." Monument Worthy One.
The monument Itself is well worthy
of the efforts of the men whose pa
tience. perseveran.ee and devotion to
the cause made It possible. These
men. the members of the Cope Cod
Memorial association, began their ta
bors when the association was incor
porated by the Massachusetts legisla
ture In 1S02. The Incorporators named
In the act were James Hughes Hop
kins. James Gifford. Artemas P. Han
num. Howard F. Hopkins aud Joseph
H. Dyer, all of Proviuectowu. their
-tsoclntes and successors.
For uiauy years Cape Cod folk hud
hoped that Provincetown's claim to be
the first landing place of the pilgrims
might be made manifest by the erec
tion of a monument attesting the fact,
but no successful organized movement
was launched prior to the Incorpora
tion of the body named. Durlug the
first ten years of the corporation the
movement drugged, the fund for the
purpose reaching only $'..ri(K). but lu
I0O2 the Massachusetts ' legislature
agreed to give $2.".0GO for the pur
pose, provided the asso-iution should
have raised a similar sum withiu three
veurs.
Sulm-rlptlons came in slowly during
the specified time, end the ussociutlou
fei'tTl fHlure "its the three year 'erm
uerr t! l!s i tit' . Then, when hope was
almost abandoned, the public, sudden-
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l.v awakened to the slj.Tiln ance of the
work, rescinded generously, and the
renuilu'.ug thousands were quickly
contributed.
This success was followed by a do
nation of $40,000 from the national
government aud additional benefac
tions, amounting to about $3,000. from
Individual contributors with which to
beautify the grounds about the mon
ument. -
The building of the monument was
Intrusted to a commission. In which
the general government, the common
wealth of Massachusetts and the
Memorial association had representa
tion. The cost In round numbers has
beeu $!H.000. The design, selected
from many submitted, Is by Wlllard
T. Sears and resembles the Siena
(Italy) town ball tower, built In 1301).
Euilt Tor the Ages.
Founded on mother rock, the shaft
has been built to endure through ages.
It has a foundation of re-enforced con
crete five and a half feet deep and ris
ing four and a half feet above the
earth surface of a pit excavated for Its
reception. That foundation Is sixty
feet squnre at the bottom, rising In
pyramidal fashion to a width of twenty-eight
feet at the top. Six thousand
six hundred cubic yards of sand were
excavated to provide anchor base for
the great foundation, the weight of
which Is 3.200.000 pounds.
From the foundation to a point 104
feet above the base the four sides
carry a width of twenty-seven feet.
Above that level a buttressed head,
with outswelled apex, extends fifty
feet farther lutb the air, furnishing an
open air battlemented observation
platform, from which In turn springs a
slightly narrower battlement, crowned,
four sided, four groined arch, with
added height of about thirty-eight feet.
The monument is of rough faced
granite, quarried at Deer lslev Stoning-
MONUMENT COMMEMORATING
PILGRIMS.
ton. Me., luld lu concrete, anchored
with steel rods that extend perpendic
ularly from the foundation to the mon
ument's crest, aud weighs about 11,
000,000 pounds.
What, then, is the claim of Province
town that it should set it forth In
granite and bronze on Its highest hill
for all the world to read through all
the cycles of time? It was at I'rov
lncetowu on Nov. 11, 1020, old style,
that the pilgrims on the "Mayflower
of a forlorn hope" first landed on the
soli of America. This is the fact that
the monumeut commemorates. After
thirty days at Provlncetown the pil
grims moved on aud established their
settlement at Plymouth, whose fame
encircles the globe, while there be
many who ask what and where is
Provlncetown.
Provlncetown was not ouly the place
of the first landing of the pilgrim fa
thers. It was there that the British
frigate Somerset, the scourge of Cape
'Cod bay, was wrecked during the Rev
olution. It was the home port of one
who led the Guerrlere a merry chase
of three days and nights and finally
Into touch with "Old Ironsides," re
sulting In the capture of the British
ship. It was, too, the borne port of
Bundry men who repeatedly ran the
gantlet of blockading British ships,
carrying fish and salt, home products,
to their compatriots of Long Island
sound; of others who helped man the
guns of the Constitution lu the war of
1812 aud of one who went down in the
Cumberland under the Iron beak of the
Merrimac, but fighting his gun to the
last.
Scene of Great Events.
Provlncetown was the scene of the
delivery of the Confederate envoys
Mason and SUdell to a British ship of
war and the town which furnished
rtearly 400 men 10 per cent of Its pop
' ttlation as Its quota for the defense of
the Union. It was the blrthpface of
Rear Admiral Dyer, who as captain
of the Baltimore participated with
Dewey In destroying the Spanish fleet
In Manila bay May 1, 1808.
The first settlement was made. It is
believed, about KiHO. The first record
ed birth ashore was that of Ephraim
Donne. April 1. 1000. The settlement
became a precinct of Truro June 17,
1714. The boundary line was estab
lished by the king's commissioners
Sept. 24. 1714. The precinct was made
a town and named Provlncetown June
14, 1727. At the opening of the Rev
olutionary war the population num
bered about 200.
FINDS LIVING 111
Woman Earns $2,500 Annually
In Queer Occupation.
WATCHMAKERS ARE CLIENTS.
Hietorie Hill Observatory Near London
8ets Hours and Minutes For All
England Caught Halley's Cemet In
Wonderful Photographs In Recent
Appearaneee.
When Halley's comet set all Europe
gazing skyward recently no society
beauty was more eagerly courted by
enterprising photographers than was
the comet by the patleut astronomers
of Greenwich, whose photographic tele
scopes were kept searching the heav
ens to note the arrival of the periodic
visitor on the sensitive plate of the
camera. Nor was the vigilance unre
warded. More than oue distinct Im
pression of the brilliant object Is now
on view at the Itoyal observatory,
Greenwich.
This success has revived Interest In
this historic Institution by the Thames,
but few outside scientific circles know
much of the history and details of the
almost conventional group of buildings
on
That fair hill where hoary bnaat
To name the stars and count the heavenly
host.
Sets Time For Britain.
Yet probably bo hill In the world has
had so strangely varied a history or
played so Important a part In the af
fulrs of men. The granite Hue across
the footpath on Its summit Is tuo me
ridian from which the longitude on
every British map and churt Is calcu
lated. All Englund sets Its time by
the mean solar clock, and In addition
to the dally aud nightly observations
of the heavens elaborate records are
kept of dluruul changes In the temper
ature and humidity, the direction and
force of the wind, the amount of sun
shine and rainfall, the earth's mug
net Ism and a host of meteorological
matters forming a science of dally in
creasing Importance and Interest.
There Is a large galvano magnetic
clock fixed ou the outside wall of the
observatory and divided Into twenty
four hours. There are still nmuy who
believe this clock Is kept going by the
sun. Ttiey do not know that tlu fixed
stars are the real timekeepers from
which Britishers check their dally
progress.
The sidereal clock, kept within one
of the buildings of the observatory. Is
corrected by observation of the stars
every clear night, and every mornlug
before 10 o'clock the mean solur clock
Is checked from It. The latter is
housed below the time ball on the
tower which dominates the bill aud
Is lu maguetlc connection with the
clock In the boundary wall, which has
furnished the correct time to countless
visitors to the bill slues it -was phiced
there In 18.12.
Woman Sells the Time.
To this gulvano magnetic clock In
the wall comes every Monday a wo
man who mukes $2,600 a year out of
the queerest occupation In England.
She sells the time to London watch
makers. Her name Is Miss Belleville of Maid
enhead. Eighty years ago the then
astronomer royal suggested to her
father that If he took the corrected
time ou a certified chronometer every
week be could up doubt find numerous
clients. So be bought a famous watch
made for the Duke of Essex, oue of the
sons of George III., and soon worked
op a business with It When he died
bis widow sold the time till she reach
ed the age of eighty-one, aud then she
banded the business over to ber
daughter.
When Miss Belleville visits Green
wich at the beginning of every week
ber chronometer Is corrected and she
is given an official certificate. From
that bur fifty customers correct their
watches and clocks.
CLOVER BLOSSOM IS RENTAL
Michigan Man Arranges Cheap Lease
For School. .
A clover blossom a year Is the rental
charged the Flint (Mlcb.) school board
for a ninety-nine year lease of the site
of the Flint union school. The owner
of the land. Nell J. Berston, made the
offer at the lust regular meeting of the
board, the only proviso being that use
of the laud for other than school pur
poses shall terminate the lease.
The board accepted, and It was de
cided to make a ceremonious feature
of the paymeut of the rental each
year. The board is to elect oue of its
members every spring to pluck a clover
blossom from one of the lots owned by
the school board and carry it to Mr.
Berston or one of bis heirs.
Radium In Turkestan.
A nw source of radium supply has
been discovered in Turkestan. Undlum
bearing uranium ore has already beeu
obtalued In considerable quantities.
The native miners have found that
cuts aud other wounds which would
take a long time to heal In other mines
are very quickly cured by applying a
small quantity of powdered uranium
ore to the spot.
Australia to Own Telegraph. -
The Australian government propose
a state owned telegraphic service to
Great Britain.