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Pfofessional Directory
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Business Cards
Physicians and Surgeons
Pbyslolan and Burgeon
C. T. HOCKETT, M. D.
Independent Phone.
Office up stairs lu Bauk Bldg.
F.Q. HEWETT, M. D,
Physician And Surgeon,
L03TINE, OREGON.
Attorneys-at-Law.
J. A, 8arlatcb
Daniel Boyd
Burleiqh k Boyd
fittorreys-ai-Law
Will prmctioe in all the Courts of
tblsBtateand before the Interior
and Ita offices.
The most careful attention
given to 'all business entrusted
to our care.
Enterprise, Oregon.
Hotels.
When" Passing On The Lewis
tcii Road, Stop At The
Sled Springs Hotel.
Plenty of Stable Root-.
8. B. CONNER, Proprietor.
, Wra, Mcllroy and Compiny.
Farms, Timber Lands Acreage,
Lota, .Residence and BUHlnese
Proxrty For Bale. Timber Id
eating a Specialty
ELGIN. OREGON.
Iifonafitioo Concerning Eighth Grade
Final Examinations.
1. Dates: 'a) January 23, 24. 1908:
(b) May 14, 16,1908; (o) June 11, 12,
1WB.
. Program:
a Thursdays Arithmetic, Writing,
History and Civil Government.
, b Fridays -Gramniar, Physiology,
Geography and Spelling.
t. Sources of Questions:
Geography State Course of
,; Htudy, Redway and Hinnan's
Natural Behoof Geography,
b 8 palling Eighty per cent, from
' Read's Word Leawius, and
L. twenty per cent frum muu
script in Language.
C Writing Specimens of penman
ship as Indicated in copied mat
ter and from manuscript in
Language.
C Language Buehler's Mod" n
. English Grammar, no dlagra
mlng.
Civil Government United States
Constitution,
f History Liat of toplos from His
tory Outline In State Course of
Btudy and Currtnt Events
Notice: Teachers preparing classes
for examinations will please notify
county superintendent SO days before
examination aooordlng to law.
J. W. Kerns,
County Superintendent of Schools.
Ideas For
Wedding Gifts
The dictum of Fashion's decree
says wedding presents of plate,
silver or gold, should always be
engraved.
i
Nothing baa nor probably can
Uks the place of silver plate as
suitable gifts at weddings.
At E. B. WHEATS Jewelry
store la Enterprise Is a large and
varied line of beautiful silverware
and M.r...Wbet Is an adept in
the art of engraving. .
The B. B. A Z. Co. have only a few
Ladles and Children! Coats left. Call
and get one at your own price. Closing
Bala.' 'fTc '.!"' -' .
Candidates cards at the News Record
Beeneatest work, qu ickest delivery
AM IXDVEMDINr HKWaFAna
Formerly the Wallowa Wewn. KatnblUhcd Marh A, 189& Vw eriM began Aprlt SO, 1901
Published every Thursday at Enterprise, Oregon
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One year $1.60
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Regular subscriliers may have aH many ropies an they deaire sent nuts'de of the
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Editorial
THURSDAY,
Washington and Lincoln.
February nan the honor of being the birth month of the two great
est men that America bun produced and two of the greatest in all the
files of titn. Washington and Lincoln! What one couritry can point
to two names in its history that rank with America's immortals?
All the world l.ai conceded Washington's place, and all the world,
except n few small -bores here in the United States, concede that in
equipment both of mind and heart Abraham Lincoln ia the peer of
any man in all the annals of history.
A s imple of the small-liores is a fellow named Lovell, of Pendleton,
who made an address in Portland on Lincoln's birthday r d eaid in
substance that he whom J.tmes Russell Lowell called "'the first and
greatest American," wa6 not a stat sman, nor a lawgiver, nor an orator,
nor a publicist, n r a soldier of the first rank! He ;ve Lincoln credit
Of being unrivalled an a ''humanitarian" and that whs all.
The Pendleton.man has rend history to little purpose. or else has
not read it at all. The renins that detected and corrected Seward's mis
tikes, and unerringly pointed out the true course amid the shoals of
European hostility, not a great statesman? Th genius that drew and
promulgated at just the right time the moat momentous act since the
adoption of the constitution, not a great law-giver? The genius that gave
forth the Gettysburg address and the Seor.nd Inauvural, not a great
orator? The genius who spake the words that formed the rallying
point for the growth of the Republican party, not a great publicist?
The genius whose "suggestions" for military movements, when followed,
always brought victory, and disaster always followed when disregarded;
tie civic commander in-chief of all the armies of the Union, of, whom
it was said by a great critic, "He was a greater strategist than any of
his generals," not a great soldier? And such is fame in one's own
country where Lo veils abound.
Next year is the centenary of Lincoln's birth. The News Record
believes a national celebration should be held, and would like to see
Oregon lead the movement..
One of the unpleasant surprises of the beginning of the campaign is
the Oregonian jo: ing ha nils with the forces of reaction Hnd political
corfuptionists in seeking to overthrow -tne election of United States
senators by the people and a return to the old bargain and sale way.
Thecomtitution of the United S ates prescribes that the president
shall be elected by electors chosen by the people. In reality people
vote directly for president; the electors are mere nonenities, pieces of
machinery to carry out the will of the people of their state. As far as
the election of United States senator is concerned, members of the'legis
lature should resemble presidential electors and simply carry , out the
will of the people. Statement No. 1 accomplishes this and the people
will see that only St itenent No. 1 candidates for the legislature are
elected.
Everyone Can Help.
Dnring the four months last yeur that the colonist rates were in
effect 27,215 people came to Oregon from the East, or 227 people for
every day of the 120 days. This was achieved, says the Portland Com
mercial club, by direct adver ising sending local papers, letters and
descriptive pamphlets to ' f rends. The colonists rates go into effect
again on March 1. If between now and then every citizen of Wallowa
county will send one of the descriptive slips to a friend in the East
many settlers will be induced to come. The? cost is practically nothing, A one
cent stamp will send the slip, and you mn procure the slips free from any of the
following, or they will gladly nmil the slips if you will send the addresses :
O. M. f'orkins, Enterprise. ,
Oregon Realty at Investment Co., Enterprise.
Daniel Boyd, Enterprise j
W. E. Tsggart, Entcrpiise.
Couch & McDonald,. Wallowa.
. J. P. Walok, Joseph. ;
The News Record, Enterprise.
Hustle vs. Patience.
The people of Asotin county are in downright ear net t about a railroad
Into the interior of the county. A promotor named McKean has secured thous
ands of dollura in stock subscriptions, to be paid in cash, material, labor or right
of way, from the land owners and other residents of the Cloverland and Anatone
districts. Tho representative men of the towns ot Asotin, Clarkston and Lewis
ton have guaranteed (300,000 to the first railroad connecting those towns with
Cloverland and Anatone. "
Strange to say that the news of the meeting that guaranteed this fund had
hardly reached KeYork before the order for resumption of work on the O. R.
& N. line from Rlpsria to Lewiston was Issued !
Our neighbors on the north know how to prick the construction depart
ment of the O. R. & S. into activity.
All things come to them who hustle while they wait. "
FLORA SIFTINGS
FTora, Feb. 3 Who cnuhrask for
nicer winter weather than, u ham
bad this winter? Justenoiiirh snow for J
good sleighing. It has been some'
colder now for a few da vs. v i
Clsud Cole isoarrviiitt the mail be
tween here and Paradl.
8. B. Conner, who baa been quite
low with pneumonia fevc, Is acme
improve! i in oeaitu.
term of school In the Mud eivk school
aiBtnoi Jan. i. went to I rn v Satunfav
to commence a term or school thet'e
today.
8. L. Coon of Aatitlii has been in our
community for ver da vs. Mr.
Coon was a resident of Prairie for
nuiuorr oi years.
('laud Myers who was brought up
from Troy a few days ago mi aoeount
of having typhod pneumonia fever is
Putilhiher
Throa mmiltiia All nufitu
Jage. Februarys
slowly improving. Mr. Myers had
been at work on the new bridge scrota
the Wenaha river.
The lit-rurv Is still In a flourlahlng
eomliili'ii ami everyone fakes an active
interest In it. There are also good
report fro u the Arko literary.
There ar a few oases of measles an d
mumps In our community.
Grandmt Union of Lost Prairie la
reported q-iite 111.
D. D. Coiiley made a flyingf trip to
Asotin the hitter part of last week.
Andrew Myers, who Has rented the
Conrad blacksmith shop, started
Tlttirwlay morning for Baker City after
some of his own tools. I understand
that Mr. Myers' family will follow in
th poring and tbat he will nut un a
shop of Mr own as soou as the weather
permits.
Ringer Machines and all the extras at
Aahle.v's.
OFFER RAILROAD .j
LARGE GUARANTEE
Bonus of $300,009 Pledged for Lines
. Into Central anJ Southern Asotin
County.
At a meedng of representative)
business men of Lewiston, Clarks-j
ton. Asotin, Anatone and Clover
land, held at Lewiston Wednesday,
February 5, it was found that
$300,000 could be secured to guar
antee any railroad tbat will bu Id
lines connecting those towns, this
sum being in addition to franchises
and rights of way through the
towns.
This committee of representative
men was appointed as the result
of a mass meeting held in Lewiston
several days prior and the members
representing the several districts
canvassed the situation in their
borne communities and met to
make their first general report.
The sum of $300,000 is to be
pledged as follows: Anatone and
Cloverland, $100000; Asotin, $50,
000; Clarkston, $50,000; and Lew
jston $100,000.
Snake Sber Eoad.
According to an article in the
Portia n i Journal, the construction
of the Snake river extension of the
O. R.;& N. from Huntington to
Lewiston, will be resumed March
1.. The company let out 3500 men
last October but kept men in
charge of all construction, camp
ana machinery on the ground.
Forty-three miles of the line
norm warn irom Huntington is
graded and partly ironed. The
company has been distributing ties
along the grade during the winter
Steel rails and bridge steel are
constantly being delivered at
Huntington, to be sent to the front
as fast as the rails are nailed down
on the new road.
' s SEARS & ROEBUCK IHOICTEP,
.The Boot and Shoe Recorder in a
recent issue contf ins the follow itic:
Regular retail dealers who complain
of tl.e competition of the bi mail order
concerns, base their complaints mostly
on the nnfair and misleading description
of the goods offered in the bulky cata
logues sent out. That thore is reason
for these complaints is evidenced by
the fact that an indictment was re
turned by the United States district
court for the southern dintrict of Iowa,
against the firm of Sears, Roebuck &
Co., of Chicago, charging fraudule:.t
use of the mail for misrepresenting the
character of the goods sold and for
warded by mail, and obtaining money
under false pretense.
The action of the grand jury is the
result of the activities of W. J. Pilking
ton, editor of the "Merchants' Trade
Journal'. of Des Moines, la., who for
more than two years has been at work
publicly and through the columns of
his journal in au effort to prove that
this inncern has been, and is now,
violating the laws of the country with
renpect to the manner of securing trade,
Tho indictment sets forth in detail
three counts, one of which was for the
i-ale of paint which the concern stated
in a certain letter contained white lead
and was mu!e in their own great paint
factory under the supervision of the
finest of pnlnt experts. The evidence
showed that the concern did not operate
a paint factory of its own, and that the
paint in question (which was Boot by
mail did uot contain white lead.
The second count referred to a ring
advertisement-by specific number in
the catalogue which was described and
illu.-itra.ted as containing four pearls and
four Kupphires, when as the ring as sent
by mail did not contain any pearl or
any sapphin s and was of generally
inferior quality.
i ne third count also refers to a ring
ilhistratid and described as containing
12 pearls and two i ubies. ',
The Sears, Roebuck & Co. concern
have directed a great business, ' and
report sales In 1900, all by mail orders,
to the amount of $53,000,000, no sales
being made in the city of Chicago.
They print and mail a 1.300 nao-e cata
logue, and deal directly with consumers
living in agricultural and remote set'
tions, celling all sorts of m rohardise
There U no doubt that they will make
a strong defense ard will depend on
their resources to w ear out I lie pros
ecution. FA1RVIEW FANCIES
Falrview, Feb. 11 Miss Pearl Hes-
kett came boqie from Wallowa Wei'
nesday after spending some time with
her sister, Mrs. Tony Sherod.
John Hennai) is teaching a term of
school in the Miller district.
W. C. Wolverton la quite sick, Dr.
Hewitt of Lostine tielng In attendance.
Wm. Feaglna butchered a fine lot
ot hogs Mouday which he will make
into bacon..
Mr. Allen of Flora, aspirant for the
office of assessor, passed through on
bis way to Wallowa Saturday.
Our literary had a new president last
meeting In the person of "Doo" Lath
rope who filled the chair with satisfac
tion to all.
Mrs. W. T. Knapp was called to
Lostine to attend the fuueral of her
mother, Mrs. Bridwell.
Mrs. Wra. .Whltmore Is in Lostine
taking treatment with Dr. Hewitt for
stomach trouble.
Mrs. Bloom and daughter, Mr
Wolverton, visited with Mrs. Reynold
Friday.
Rambler.
Would Help Settlers.
A p-ovision of a bill tbat has
parsed the senate is in favor of the
poor man who wishes to take up
government land. It is to be
hoped the bill will become a law.
The provision referred to reads:
"No homestead entry shall be can
celed and no final proof shall be
rejected because of any failure of
the entryman named therein to
hereafter actually reside upon the
land covered by his entry during
the months of December, January,
February and March, or any por
tion of such months; provided,
tbat nothing in this act shall be
construed as to relieve the entry
man of the duty of residence dur
ing the months not named herein.
ANNOUNCEMENT
In announcing to the public that we ;
are about to engage in the real estate
business, we desire to state that we -have
perfected arrangements, both in
the East and in the various center5 on -the
Coast; by which we feel justified;,
in assuring our clients that we will
control a liberal share of the immi
gration which the remarkably low
rates offered by the different Trans
Continental railroads will bring to our
state.
We will make a specialty of farm sales ;
and would be glad if every man In ,
the county who desires to sell hid
farm, no matter in what part of the
county he may be, would talk with us
on the subject. ."'."V. : . 'l
If you cannot see us personally, write "
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The R. I. Long Real Estate Go.
ENTERPRISE, ORE.
Harness and Saddles
L. BERLAND, THra5!!i&ft"
Will supply your needs in the Leather Goods line more cheaply and
give better satisfaction than any other dealer In Wallowa county.
Let bim tit you out for the season's work. Repair work a specialty.
MAIN STREET,
ENTERPRISE
BEST OF MEATS
Highest Market
Price for
Hides and Pelts
PRORIETOR8
FIRST-CL-ASS RIGS
CAREFUL DRIVERS
ARE SPECIALTIES OF THE
ENTERPRISE LIMY AND. FEED STABLE
Horses Boarded by Day, Week or 3 nth
Good Care of all Stock.
BEST EQUIPPED STABLE IN THE COUNTY
One Block North of Court House.
J. C SHACKLEFORD, Proprietor.
MAID AND PASSENGER
STAGE LINE
Wallowa. Appleton. Flora to Paradise.
MONDAYS, WEDNESDAYS and FRIDAYS; ami
Froi Paradise, Flora and Appleton b Wallowa
TUESDAYS, THURSDAYS and SATURDAYS
.Ive. treatm enable rate..
E. W. SOUTHWICK. Proprietor.- "
and the period of absence permit-,
ted by this act shall be computed
to apply upon the period -of tH
idence reaoired under- exiiUui
law."
CaaYot Spell Them?
Here are the words in spelling In th
recent 8th grade examination. , They .
urely. are "catch" words and not a
air test, but most of the Wallows,
.-ounty boys and girls spelled then
correctly.
mucilage envelope comedy
piuleau peuiiiBuiB uuwriawr
quolh nt geranium raimwit . ' '
Iwgonia protestaut mortgag
veuillate Hubposua quinine
itryehnine physical , vebicls , '
eulogize hemorrhage
A credit ot 4 per cent was given for
each of the 20 words spelled correctly.
The other, 20 per cent was glvea on
Hpelliiig iu the manuscript on grant-.
mar.
Game Laws. '
Any person knowing of any violation
of the game or fish laws of the state, -or
of persons not properly keeping screens
ever irrigation ditches, are requested to
notify : Jo Clsmom. '
Deputy State Gome and Forestry War
den, Zumwalt, Oregon. " 42if ..
ENTERPRISE, OREGON
MEAT MARKET
ALWAYS ON HAND.
INDEPENDENT
PHONE 20