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About Wallowa County chieftain. (Enterprise, Or.) 1909-1911 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 13, 1910)
us flsieihii I in ilill ' TWENTY-SEVENTH YEAR. NO. 8. ENTERPRISE, OREGON, THURSDAY, OCTOCCR 13, 1910. COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER Wants Cent a word single Insertion, 1 cents a word 2 Insertions. Special rates by month and year. LOST. Green gold brooch of Intertwined snakes with topaz setting. Lost on road between town and Hainan's. Re ward for return to O. E. Odle at pwa Record office. 45rl letter addressed to Mr. Ed Maag. Eureka, S. D. Finder please notify 0. J. Roe, Enterprise. Open-faced gold watch on fair grounds. Reward for return to C. S. Bradley, Enterprise. 45b2 LOST OR STRAYED. From old Sullivan place, now knotfu as the Stubblefield farm, one flea bitten gray horae, about ' t or 10 years old; has scar on shoulder; shod all around. Left night of Oct. 3. $5 reward for return to place. Amalgamated Sugar Co., by S. Story. Enterprise, Oregon. 47b1 "wanted. Wanted, throe young ladles to join the Junior class- of nurses. Apply to Superintendent of Nurses, Grande Ronde Hospital, La Grande, Ore. FOR RENT. Residence property and business room for rent, available now. E. M. & M. Co. 2btf MONEY TO LOAN State Funds loaned, 6 per cent. John P. Rusk. Atty. State Land E'd. Joseph FOR SALE. I will sett all or nny of my own prop e ty at reasonable prices. W. W. Zurcher, Enterprise, Oregon. 40btf Lota in. Troy townsite. Your choice at one-third off during fair week and until October 31, making pric es from I1& up to $70. Special sale limited" to 25 lota. H. E. Merryman, Enterprise, Oregon. Will be at Troy October 6, 7 and 8. 42b4 Two lota in Alder View addition to the city of. Enterprise. Beautiful lo cation. A genuine bargain. Wm. H. McFetrldge. 37bm NEWS OF NOTED PERSONS Virginia Harned-Soihern, the well known actress, has filed suit for di vorce against Edward H. So'hern, the prominent actor, in the district court at Reno, Nevada. No pardon will be granted to John R. Walsh, former Chlciigo banker ani capitalist,' who is "serving a five-yeai-sentence in the Leavenworth (Kan.) penitentiary for, violation ot the bank ing laws. N. G. Broward, ex-governor of Flor ida, and recently elected to the Unit ed States senate to succeed Senator Taliaferro, died suddenly. - FOREIGN NEWS BITS Disorder bordering on anarchy grips Honduras. The antioreign outbreak in Amapala is rapidly extending over the almost disrupted republic. Great agitation has been caused by latest Interference of the Russians In Finnish affairs the absolute prohi bition of the Importation of firearms and ammunition into Finland. The yellow fever outbreak which threatens to become an epidemic will be a big setback to Italy. It has al ready injured business and it is fear ed that travelers will avoid the coun try until the danger Is over. Organized capital and organized la bor hi Great Britain are marshaling their forces for the greatest industrial struggle thai England p jrhaps the world hits ever seen. THE MARKETS. Portland. Wheat Track prices: Club, 85c; bluestem, 89c; red Russian, 82c. ; Barley Feed and brewing, $22. Oats No. 1 White, $28 per ton. Hay Timothy, Willamette Valley. $1920 per ton; Eastern Oregon, $20(5)22: alfalfa, V1516. Butter Creamery, 36c; ranch, 24c Eggs Ranch, candled, 35c. Hops 1910 crop, 1012; 199 Nominal; o'.ds, nominal. Wool Eastern Oregon, 1317c lb.; Valley, 1719c lb. Mohair Choice, 3233c lb.- ' . Seattle. - Wheat rBluestem, 90c; Club, 84c? red Russian, 82c. -Oats $27 per ton. Barley $21 per ton. Hay Timothy, $26 per ton; alfalfa $19 per ton. Butte Washington Creamery, 36c; ranch, 22c. Eggs Selected local, 40c. ITEMS OF INTEREST THROUGHOUT OREGON Chronicle of Important Events cf Interest to Our Readers. To Find Wider Use for Wood. Portland The forest Bervice of the department of agriculture and the Or egon Conservation association are co operating in a study of the wood us ing Industries of Oregon. The idea is to assist In the develop ment of markets for local woods which may be suitable for various purposes, but whose use has been little known. As soon as all the data has been col lected and compiled a publication will be issued Jointly by the Oregon Con servation association and the foreBt service for free distribution. Lumber Men Sued. Portland Suits aggregating 153, 078.36 were begun here In the United States court against J. D. Hamaker and associates. The demand Is on ac Sount of timber cut from non-mineral lands of the United States, and is baBed on a value of $22 per thousand board measure, the price of which the material is said to have been sold at Bonanza In Klamath county. GOVERNMENT URGED TO TAKE OWYHEE PROJECT Salem. State Engineer John H. Lewis, Is using his utmost efforts to prevail upon the government reclama tion service to take over the Owyhee reclamation propect in Malheur coun ty, which his been thoroughly organiz ed by private interests, but is about to be abandoned by them. The govern ment has made application for a per mit to appropriate 480,000 acre feet of the waters of the Owyhee River, also other waters in Malheur county that are stiil in good standing and State Engineer Lewis has addressed a communication to F. E. Weymouth, of the recelainatlon service at Boise, Id aho, asking him to request of the de partment an investigation of the feas ibility of this propect under pres ent conditions. Mr. Lewis has also addressed com munications to both Oregon's senators and to both congressmen, giving them the facts and asking them to use their influence with the reclamation depart ment to take over the Owyhee project which embraces between 100,000 and 150,000 acres. Monster Rally Planned. Cottage Grove This city, which probably will become the county seat of the county of Nesmith, If that meas ure should carry at the election in November, is making preparations to nolo a monster raiiy ana oaroecue on October 16. At noon a barbecue will take place in the city park, and lunch will be served free. The Oregon & Southeastern railroad will run special trains. One -feature of the day will be that of the special eales of the mer chants, who have all consented to do nate 10 per cent of all purchases on that day to the Nesmith county fund. as it requires a considerable fund to dissemate information concerning Nesmith county throughout the state. PRIMARY COUNT STANDS Eugene Lane County will not vote on local option in the coming election because the petitions were defective and did not contain the number of sig natures necessary to get the issue on the ballot Of 567 qualified electors necessary only 377 will stand after the careful analysis of County Clerk Lee and Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Sklpworth. As Saturday was the last day that petitions may be filed, it will be im possible to change the situation and it will now be at least two years before the question can be brought up here again, as the law permits "a vote on this question only at general elections. Lost River Farmers to Irrigate. Klamath Falls Farmers living In the small valley between Lost River and Stukel Mountain, 12 miles south of here, are Jubilant over the approval by the secretary of the interior of their plan to irrigate their own land by aking water from Lost river. This dam iB to be built across the river to turn the water out of its own channel Into a canal, to turn the river from Its own course across the valley and let it empty into Klamath river Instead r Tule lake. : , VS. COLONEL Bryan Will Trail Roosevelt for One Week. Indianapolis Col. Theodore Roose velt vs. Col. William J. Bryan, is the program of the rival party organizers of Indiana for the week. The tormer comes first and will make a dozen speeches from a special train. Colonel Bryan will follow Roosevelt He will answer Colonel Roosevelt and will attempt to show that tbe'repub licana were extremely inconsiderate oi their own platform in bringing Roose velt to Indiana. Portugal Expelling Monk. Lisbon. The expulsion of the monks from Portugal has begun. No time jvlll be lost In driving them across the frontier. Several hundred nuns have been assembled and will be deported. Cardinal Neto, ex-patri-arch of Lisbon, the Bithop of Beja, and other prominent eccleaiasts al ready have been expelled. KING MANUEL. The Youthful Sovereign of Portugal Who Lost His Throne. Lisbon Though it Is but a short time since the first :hot was fired In the revolution that swept a king from j his throne, Portugal Is rapidly ap proaching normal conditions. No ser ious obstacle in the way of the new government is expected in the Immed iate future. The suddenness of the sweeping change and the ease with which the people adapted themselves to the new regime have had few parallels. Throw Record Broken. Cincinnati. The world's record for the long-uistance throwing of -a base ball that has stood for 36 years was broken at the field day between the Cincinnati and Pittsburg National League teams here, when Sheldon Le Jeune, of the Evansvllle club, of the Central League, threw the ball 426 feet, 6Vi Inches. 25 feet,' 10 inches over the old record. FOREST FIRES BURN MINNESOTA TOWNS Winnipeg Scores of lives have been lost in a great forest fire which raged along the Canadian border In the Rainy River country and in Northern Minnesota. The towns of Beaudette, Spooner, Gracetown and Pitt, Minn., have been wiped out 'and refugees from the burning district who fled Into Rany River report seeing many charred corpses a'ong the roadside in the burned district and ' the loss of millions of JlcJHars worth of property. The fire was entirely unexpected. In the last summer there were many great fires in this same region, but the fighters had about subdued them when out of the northwest of the Rainy River country there appeared a great fire which swept through the dried timber, carried in its onward rush by a heavy gale, and, soon be yond control, it caught the unwarned settlers In its path of death and de struction. The Canadian Northern railway es tlmates the loss of life between Rainy River and Warroad -at 40, all being settlers and their families. Honduras Asks for Aid. Washington Responding to an ap peal from the Honduras government to the state department, the United States gunboat Princeton was ordered to Amapala, a revolutionary hotbed, to look after American interests. . Lorimer Suita Sherman. Chicago- Vice-president Sherman and United States Senator Lorimer aat at the same banquet board here on October 12 at the local Knights ot Columbua celebration of Columbus Day. COMMONER I ..,Ti. PACIFIC STATES WILL HOLD A CONGRESS California Governor Issues a Call for Meeting in San Francisco. San Francisco Governor Gillette decided to issue a proclamation for the holding In this city of a Pacific Coast congress, which is to be attend ed by delegates from every part of the Pacific Coast and lrom Hawaii, who will consider merchant marine legisla tion and the advisability of maintain ing a battleship fleet in the Pacific ocean as well as matters relating, to the Panama-Pacllic International Ex position and such other expositions as are to be held on the Pacific Coast. It is designed to uave a Pacific Coast congress every year, so that the needs of the Coast may be Impressed on the congress of tne United Spates. Invitations will be sent to officials and commercial bodies in Oregon, Ida ho, Washington, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah and Hawaii, as well as California. Governors, lieutenant gov ernors, senators, congressmen and pre siding ofiicers of the two executive houses of each state will be invited to come as guests and they will be under no expense. The mayors oi cities on the Coast will be requested to attend the congress and to appoint delegates. COLORADO MINERS ENTOMBED IN MINE Starkville. Colo. At least 52 nen are entombed In the Starkville mine of the Colorado Fuel & Iron Co., while, in the approaches to the mine, hundreds of their fellows, with oxy gen helmets, movable rotary faus and picks and shovels are striving simul taneously tq open the living tomb and to draw from It the poisonous gatsex with which It is at leadt partly filled. The men have been imprisoned and the rescuing parties hare toiled since 10:50 p. tn. Saturday, when an ix plosion, probably caused by coal dust, shook the earth for a radius of seven miles, destroying the main entrance to the mine and sealed the hapless tollers within It Because of the vast ramifications of the mine and its connections with other mine-workings it is hoped that perhaps half the men may be rescued. Bible Declared Inaccurate. Cincinnati That the scriptures are so full of inaccuracies that to place any reference to the Bible in the con stitutlon of the Protestant Episcopal church would make it unreliable, was the statement made here by the Rev A. A. Morrison, of Portland, Oregon. He made the assertion in reply to an appeal made by the Rev. J. H. McH valne, of Pittsburg, to prefix a pre amble to the church constitution. The preamble was voted d jwn. WOULD REORGANIZE ARMY Defense of Seaboard Will be Principal Feature. Washington A comprehensive plan for an entire reorganization and re-as signment of the federal military forces to be known as the Taft Dickin son military policy Is to be submitted to congress, when that body convenes in December. It will mean a great deal to the Pacific Coast. It is the purpose of the plan to mob ilize large commands at ell strates ! coast centers where batteries have been emplaced or are proposed. Tbi will insure the entire continental coast line against attack. Geranium Big as Saucer. San Francisco. Richard Diener, a , gardner at Colma, a suburb of San Francisco, where Croffotn used to hold his fights, who has been experiment ing secret' with all kinds of flowers in order to ascertain how to enlarge their size, has perfected a geranium six Inches in diameter, which has' been pronounced . by experts one of , the mo9t extraordinary achievements j in floriculture. . Railroad Merger Argued. St Paul Vlnn lfA...in. 1H . V- yr j , ... wc-wu6.uh.clu , ion Pacific wnerger case, wherein th government charges a ggrsntic cor spiracy to destroy railroad competitioi. j west of Kansas City, began here Mon I dar. 5RIEF NEWS OF THE WEEK The supreme court of the United States convened Monday for Its winter term. Owing to the lark of a full bench it is believed that iew easel of Importance are likely to be argued or decided before late in the year. The world's champlooHhlp baseball series between the Chicago club of the National League and the Philadel phia club of the American league will commence at Philadelphia next week. The Isthmian Canal commission re ports there are 36,867 employes ac tually at work on the canal and the Panama railroad, and of this number 29,950 are canal laborers. After sleeping continuously for 24 days, Julian Ifrke, aged 17, awoke, at Gainesville, Ga. He tas extremely weak, but became stronger after tak ing nourlshmont and physicians think he will live. Arch Hoxey, In a Wright biplane, flew from Springlleld, III., to St. Louis and established an American sustained flight in an aeroplane, by covering 104 miles. The meirbers of the W. C. T. U. of Denver have started a crusade to com pel a married man to wear a wedding ring as does his wife. If the efforts of the commercial or ganizations of the Northwest are fruitful in results, hundreds of thou, ands of dollars will De saved to the people of Oregon, Washington and Idaho annually by placing the hog raising industry on a basis which will supply the home market. NEWS OF NOTED PERSONS "Never!", was the word used by Mayor Gaynor of New York, in refut ing the. suggestion that he has the presidency in mind. William II. Hearst offers $50,000 for a flight In a heavier-tban-air machine from the Atlantic to tne Pacific. Jack Johnson Is now a full fledged registered automobile racing driver. The champion pugilist who aspires to steal Barney Oldfield's speed crown, has been lihted by the American Auto mobile Association. In two communications addressed to the grand Jury, Mayor McCarthy of San Francisco, demanded that the body Judge between him and W. R. Hearst by Investigating the charges recently made against his administra tion by the Examiner. 6ENATCR LA FOLLETTC One of the meet interesting bits ot political information that baa come to Washington in the past week is a direct tip from Wisconsin that Susator LsFollette has repudiated Roosevelt as an ally, if Indeed he ever recog nlzed him as such. M iss Julia D. Grant, grand daughter of President' Crant, was married Sat urday to Edmund C. King, member of a well-known Toledo family and con nected w ith the Western Cooperage Company of Portland, Oregon. The Independence League conven tion of New York, nominated John J. Hopper, of New York City, a civil en gineer and contractor, and put Hearst himself on the ticket for lieutenant governor. Explosion Due to Dynamite. Los Angeles The Investigation committee appointed by Mayor Alex ander to inquire into the cause ot the explosion which destroyed the build ing and plant of tie Los Ange'.ea Times on the night of October 1, re ported that the explosion was that Of dynamite. OLD WISCONSIN MAN GIVES UP LONG FIGHT Six Years of Warfare Is Ended When John Dietz Displays White Flag. SL Paul Old John Dietz, the fam ous defender of Cameron Dam, has been beaten at last, after a desperate rifle battle with the deputy sheriffs at his cabin on the Tbornappla river in Sawyer County, Wisconsin, that lasted tfearly all day. Delta surrendered and brought to an nd the stubborn resistance of the man whose stand for the last six years against what he considered an injustice, has attracted wide-spread In terest The surrender did not come without death and bloodshed. One man la dead, four men and a woman are wounded and much property has been destroyed. The surrender of Diets was dra matic. The alert lumbermen leaning on their rifles at the edge of the clear ing and gazing Intently at the windows of the log cabin, suddenly saw the flutter of a white handkerchief at the door. Then little Heien appeared and advancing with the cloth over her head, walked to the edge of the clear ing, where she announced that ber father was willing to surrender. Diets was wounded while firing from the barn during the afternoon, when a. bullet went through a crack and passed through his left band. In the little cabin broken Jar and dishes lay acattered on the floor, they having been struck by bullets, of which more than 200) bad been fired during the day. Bullets lay on the bed, having bounded bac.k after strik ing against the wail. It was a mir acle that the entire family was not wiped out. LOS ANGELES TIMES RELIEF FUND LARGE Lot Angeles Funds for the relief ot families left dependent by the Times' explosion may equal the amounts ap propriated for the capture and con viction of the conspirators. Ranks have joined with the newspapers In collecting the funds, and it was an nounced that the total so far collected was more than $30,000. Seventeen of the 20 or more men who lost their lives in the explosion which wrecked the 'times newspaper plant were laid to rest Sunday In graves ranged side by side In Holly wood Cemetery. One funeral service was held for all. In Temple audito rium, which was packed by 2500 men and women, while a greater crowd, un able to enter, stood outside in silence. China Welcomes New Era. j Pekln. One kuadred ot the wealth I lest Chinese merchants, recognized aj t the most' conservative cUs, gave a fares-ell banquet to the delegation of American business men, representing the Chambers of Commerce on t be Pacific Coast The American speak ers referred to tbeir amazecaent at tbeir reception, which they charac terized as overwhelming throughout China, culminating in Pekln, where they had been admitted to the p&laeej of the Forbidden City, which seldom have been opened. CHOLERA CASES IN GOTHAM New York. A case of cholera de veloped in the steerage of the Ham burg American liner Moltke, which has been detained at quarantine as a pos sible choiera-carrier. Dr. A. H. Doty, health officer of the port, reported the ease with the additional information . that another cholera patient from the Ifoilk U un der treatment at Swinburne Island. Tbi makes three case of cholera that have actually reached this port. To Hold Big Mining Fair. 8umpter The business men of Sumpter, in conjunction with the min ing men of the district, are making preparations for the adding of a min ing congress here on October 20 and 2L Invitations have been sent broad cast to the mining public, and indica tions are that a good attendance will he on hand.