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Wallowa County Official Paper. Enterprise City Official Paper. m Authorized Paper for Pub lication of Timber and Homestead Notices. VOL I, NO. 47 Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon, Thursday, March 19, 1908. r NEWS RECORD znts By and For - allows County Readers WANTED. I'OliTV TIIOI SANU IliUMiS ll.-.iriles Bar. I. W. J.Kcxit &co., pnterpiiKe, Or. F03 SALE. 1:1 MliiT (OrNTElt. Holit'. ninety IJi-ned (tienp. Inquire ut Xewx Ki-to.d oilier. PIAXO: Flmt-i-lais. ui,ri-i( -nii l, Kinitjii: piano fin sale cnetip for ci-li. SU-h ur wrii fun Hun.HkiT, Jimi'iih. Ore. it ri.M,THv"S;v.iM,r. it, ,.t ',.,. 1, ! oueot my Funim. It. 1). Sanftml, mile 8. w. j of Knteriirise. mi M.YDKNDaI.K HTAIXION, .full blo xl, r H Jenix old tiexl May, itood height, weluhl nnd lolor. In h ft n -t .olt. -Also fnlMtload ,lnm y. Hull, coming Jl .venr old. His mo'hti ltiut I Tinl nf II quirt to a milking. He is li (In. I class hull. No lwnnls willl .-iilier miimiil. ' Km-fuitlicr information iiuiulreoi' H.Velirn. IUM, Ijidriiurie, M:e. H."d CLKAX SKKU ltYK, delivered -uiywhere In' Jiiitorprlsc (ur 1 per cu t, ' 1. tJ. Cunnkk, Enterprise. , 37f LOD'.E DIRI'ITORY. I. O. O. F. Knterprie l,odire, No. I5I. Kincrald Ketiekuh Lodge, No. V). K. of P. Enterprise od0, No. 4. ' Jaunltit Temple, No, 7, I'ytlilan 'i- Sisters. . Masonic l'.ntorprlse Chapter, So. .10, Koynl . , Arch Allisons, meets llrsl and third TuoHilnysof each mn 111 in liomplc ...!' Hall. All vMtinit Roy a! Arch Mn ''. Sons welcomed. .1. B. Ui.mhtraii, llleh Priest, D. W.SHEAHAN, wretary. WuUnwi Lodge. No. K2, A. V. & A.M., meets second and full it h Sat- ( ; urdn.vH of enoh ninnxh In Mnwrnlc t Hull. Vliliinf Mlmotih u't'lcouiptl. I . C. H. Zuuchkb, W. M. , . C. KOA1MAN, Sei-retary. '. ' Wallowa Valley Chapter, No. .10, 1 , . (), . H., ineotH first and third Satur-1 day of cnph mouth. In Mnxonic " ' all. 'Viflting HtaiH ure always wel- ' come. 0 1.1 vb Lock wood, W. M. DAKfKt, Boyd, Sec. -M. V. A.-Kuglf Camp, No. 104117, M. W. A. , Heals First and Third Thursdays in . eneh month in new Fraternal hull. Visltlnif Nelslibori AlwayR welcome J. (t. Rknnie, Consul. ' T.'M, DILL, Herk. , Aneroid Onriip, No. 8512,. R. N, of A. V. O. W.--Eiiterprise Tamp, No, 535, W . of W. Almotil Circle, No. 278, t. of W,- .; STAMPS ON PAPERS. ' All papers not paid up will have to be stamped after April 1st. The postal department made this order to go Into effect January 1st, but afterward ex tended It to April 1st. fel ' 'I RESOLVED " I X . .. ' KmW$mfo' that if vou wish to march . -vV XfeAi''-' ALONG YOU MT BE CLAD , jj ' sWmIr IN THE InATiTffT. THE- 4 ' C Wm BETTE-Pv VOUR APPAREL. . Jg . . ,. 1dbfSf& THE SWIFTER WILL DE ' IThtPW'Sr K PROGRESS, . ti ft ''- - ' " ; fSSX- ' BVSTER BRWN 3 . Tg COPT'SHT MK.eTTHte;JTT.iDownco CHICAGO. . ' J) WE CAN HELP YOU To MARCH ALONG INd YOU OUT IN IN MATERIALS NOT MADE. WE HAVE RER. WHAT TROUBLE- YOU HAD TO SEASON -BETTERS 75C TO $3.90. PLENTY OF THE SHORT PRICES. ' , . " RESPECTFULLY, W. ONE-THIRD TAXES T County Out Over $533 By Uawisj M: Total Payments Now Exceed $20,000. lv tor over 820,000 worth of taxes bail been made out by Charlie Prow an 1 Arthur Pace in the sheriff's oflice bv Wednesday noon, nnd great I stacks of letti rs containing remit tunees, I the accumulation- of four days, wer.t still to be gone th'ough. thu counter I payments having taken up nil thu tin t The teeeipts the oust week were as follows: Wednesday, March 11, f 1728 ; j Thursday, $1181; Fridav, U28; Satur I day. f2!IU4; Monday, $1331; Tuesday, $9H5. rho first four days reported in last week's News llecord gave n total of 10,117(1, niiikiui: u crmd total to Tuesday ni-ht of fll),338. Monday was the last day of the 3 per cent discount allowed on complete payment on or before March 15. The dint'ohiit wil cost the county about 5500 for which the votinty receives no n turn whatever. Kven the taxpayers who ure most deserving of a reduction ate not benefited as tlie greater part of it jroes to non-resident property own ers, and to those who are most able -Ho pay. New Syltii Tiled. II. C, Mires vs. V. J. Rawson, Debt. Emma J. Churchill vs.' Naocy . J. Laphani. 81 it in partition. O. M. Corkiue is attorney for the plaintiff. Committei to Asylum, J. II. Scott, aged 71 vtar, and an old-time resident of the tipper valley, was adjudged insane, Saturday, and will be taken to the st ite hospital for the insane at Salem. He is violent at times, and has homicidal symptoms. . ' Taket Out First Papers. U Bimoa Edward Porstrom, aged 21 years, a merchant of Joseph and a na tive of Fjellsta,' Sweden, bus filed his declaration of ' intention to become a citizen. He has been a resident of the United States since July, 1893. ' , ..Connty School Notes. Miss Nina" Miller, who taught the Colpitis rchool, north of Wallowa, the patt winte', has accepted the Noble school, district No. 19, for the spring term beginning April 6. , Miss Nona Mill ir, who' has closed a very successful term of school at No. 1 , THE LATENT MADE UP AND fun ir. I IV1IIU ATTIRE THE LONG GLOVES RECEIVE DM AT LAST. TROUBLE- YOU HAD To GET LONG GET A PAIR NOW WHILE J. FUNK & CO. parents, Mr. and Mrs. P. P. Miller, over on Aldm Slope. Superintendent Kerns wan visitjint the Lui-tiue und Lone l'ine schools hist week. Line l'ine is the nnnie voted tht school in the old 1'itce district. ;A. A. (Jieer i.-the teacher. , Triplets at Kejn&wick. Three girls were born Wednesday night to Rev. and Mrs. Prockimm. Two 0 the little drls lived until morn ing hen one passed away. The at tending physician reported the mother d ing well nnd there is every, indication that the one remaining daughter will live to bless th.i Reporter. home. Kei.newick ; Indoor Team To Co To LaCrande The Enterprise Indoor baseball team has accepted an invitation to go out to LaGrande and play two games Thurs day and Fridby of next week. The lxys are guaranteed f80 or not quite I enough to pay-the expenses of the trip. The Enterprise team has been play ing a very fast game and hope to make a good showing at LaGrande. The game at Joseph Saturday night resulted hi another victory for the En terpiise team by the one sided score of 48 to 11. The Joseph boys could do nothing with llilyeu's delivery, whilo Enierpriso batted the Joseph pitchers at will. Only six innings were played, A good crowd saw the game. Fifteen Enterprise ladies went up to Joseph in Shack eford's tallyho to help cheer the locals to victory. 7 Bids For Business Blocks. Sealed bids will be received at the First National bank of Joseph up to 0 p. in., Saturday, April 11, 1908, for the construction of two, one-story, party wall, brick or stone or brick and stone business blocks, one 25x50 feet for the First National bank, and one 25x60 feet for Dr. J. W. Barnard's drug store, according to pi ins and specifications at First National banki Right reserved to reject any and all bids.'' . . ' First National Bank ob Joseph. .,' 47t2 Dr. J. W. Barnard. ; Coach Horse Company. 7 The Jc.seph and Enterprise Coach Horse company will hold a meeting in the court room Friday, March 20, at 10 a, ni.. IN LIFE BY FIT FASHIONS r30TH( THAT : IS READY YOU REMEM GLoVES LAST YOU CAN. PRICES Lower Valley, 1 visiting he GLOVES AT SHORT m RUNNING TO PORTLAND Tr.ufc Repairs Coinplitcd Tuesday Nig!:t"E!g!n Stags Carrying No Passengers. Lit (frarde, March 18 The repairs on the O. ft. & N. track on the wei side of the Hltia mountains weie completed yterdoy nnd trains are new running j regularly through to Portland. lhe floods of Saturday night took out a large section of the trHck near Huron and later there were several land lides below Menchani. All west-bound trnfhV wa held up here from Sunday morning until late lust night. . "No Bottom" to Cricket Flat. The hottcm dropped out of Cricket flat this week, and the stage, freighters and Everybody else are having their troubles on the 12 miles stretch of road from the top of Wallowa hill to Elgin. Wednesday morning, V. T. Hell, kcal agent for the stage line, was noti fied to book no passengers for Elgin. The stage 1ms all it can do to carry the mail and express in a light wagon with six horses across Cricket flat. This embargo will probubly lust ouly a few days. The washout ou the O. It. & N. west of La Grande has , delayed Portland papers since last Saturday, and the bad roads have stopped passenger travel, bo for the time being Wallowa county is surely isolated can neither hear from nor go to the outside world and the world Is the loser. IMNAHA BRIDGE. L. Stumbaugh is a Die to get around again, after quite a siege of rheuma tism. . He is planning an improvement on his ranch in the shape of more orchard; la expecting about 300 trees soon. Born, to Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Sim mons, Saturday, March,. 7. 1908, an 8 pound daughter. Mother and babe, (ukewiso, the- father) getting along nicely. ' Mesdames Crawford, Wurnock, Bell and Denny, and Clove LIyd visited the school literary society Friday after noon. An interesting debate was de livered on the question "Uesolved thit Fire is more destructive than Water.' The affirmative side was sustained by Rowena Johnson, Perry Wurnook, Earl V uruock and Ellen Sprngue; the nega tive . by Mildred Hamilton, Lowell Matheny, Mona Matheuy and Elmer Warnock. The 'judges, Clevo Lloyd, Mis. War. iock and Mrs. Kenny, stood two to one in favor of the negative. March 10 A numbe' of men begun work today on the Deer Creek roud to the timber. Thone who went were Mr. Lewis, J. A. Denny, Ralph Spragne, Milton, J. M. and Clint Simmons, Geo. Calkins, Vesper Brumbach nnd Mr. Karnes. It seems 'he recent rains washed out the stage roud, downed the phone wires, etc Passengers on Mondaj't stage helped to carry mail, etc., aroui d the worst duces. Jack Johnson is try ing to rustle men to repair the road. Walter Jewell is working for L. C. Johueon. Bom, to the wife of J. M. Simmons, Saturday, March 7, a daughter; weight about 6 pounds. Mother and babe do ing well. Father has gone to work no longer "sits around all day." "Uncle" gane to work too. The rain it ruined pretty hard about Saturday night and Sunday, The river rising, grass growing, apricots bloom ing. ' Mr. and Mrs. L, C. Johnson returned Thursday evening from attendance at the deathbed of Mrs Johnsons sister, Mrs. Priscilla McKenzie. Many friends sympathize most sincerely with the fan ily of the deceased in their bereave ment'. In Memoriam. All the leading ITnion county and iininy ' other papers contain obituary i notices of the demise (which occurred I March It), in Union, Oregon, ul the i home of lii j sister, Mrs; S. A. I'uisel)! of W. II. McComus, associate editor of! the Wusco News. "Will" or "Willie" as he was familiarly culled by old friends, ' was the younger of the McComus brothers, once editors und proprietors j of the Mountain Sentinel, established by the elder brother, E. 8. McComus, ut Latiianilc, afterward owned and) edited in Union by W. II. Latur. Ow-j iugto ill health, ti e paper was sold and hp went to 1'sbon, Kansas, to visit. hi. brother John (who hna .inee pas-ed and especially Union, hud become home to him, and returning there-be ..been mi after the death of its editor, A. K. Jcnes the editor of the Oregon ! hcout..( Since it was sold, about seven ' yeurs ago, he had preferred (because of j the delicate constitution which so much Hindered the journalistic work for which he was otherwise so well adapted, so capable and which he loved) to work only as associate editor nud foremun, being a practical printer as well as a ready writer, and hud been for several years associated with the Haines Record, but for the past year and up to a few days before his death was with the Wusco News. Taken quite iil ut thai place word was phoned to relatives at Union. His elder sister, Mrs. S, A. Pursel, went at once to Wasco. Find ing him 8oii'ewbut better nnd at his earnest desire and accompanied and assisted by a kind friend of his (n Mr. Forbes of Wasco) she brought him home with her, "Homo to old Union," j as ho expressed it; for teing a single man lie Had -no settled home save as a hotel may be home. jThey arrived at her home on Saturday evening's train, A carriage was in waiting at the end of suburban or central railway, a room of her home warmed and lighted, a doctor in attendance, f i iends and relatives do ing all In their power to relieve his suf fering and make him comfortable; he seemed to rally for a time, but on Sun day afternoon told Mrs. Pursel he "would not be here tomorrow." HeJ left his nffairs all in her hands as she wohld do right. Ho passed into a de oline and at 9 Monday morning his spirit took its flight. Ho wus buried beside his mother in the. Union ceme tery, under the auspices of the Order of Washington, of which ho was an hon ored and loved member. W. H. McComus was a man of noble principles, of high ideals and aspira tions. The Portland Evening Telegram of the 11th inst. contains his photo and sketch of his life. He wus not what the youth of today would call a young man, having passed somewhat beyond the half century line, nor wus he;whut our best writers call old.. Hud he been blest w ith a robust constitution he prob ubly hud ' the intellect to nttnin to heights of great note in journalism. But like others of the human family he was the creature of circumstunces and they- wore- against -.him und' -whut is fame anyway? He did us best he knew under adverse circumstances and that is better than mere fnnie. Where are the fumoii9 people of uges past? Let this extract from his favorite poem reply: "The hand of the king tlmt the sceptre lintli home; , . , The brow of the priest that lhe mitre hath worn ; The eye of thu enge und the heart of the lmive, ' , Are hidden and lost in the doptlm of the grave. Theleuveaol the oak and the willow shall fade, : Be scattered uround and togutlier he laid: And the young and tho old und the low und the high, , Shall moulder to dust and together shall lie. That is Fume but let us hope there is rest-for tho weary, ' JfilSTKK Annual Stock Show. The annual horse and stock show will be held in Enterprise, Saturday, April 11. It will bo the biggest stock event ever held in Wullowa county. Owners of fine horses, cuttle, sheep und hogs, take notice. Committf.k. Candidates card at tho Ne8 Record office neatest work, quickest delivery. YOU CAN MAKE '$275.00:'- By buying a block of land in Gardner's addition for only The adjoining block sold a year ago for $600.00 THIS IS A SNAP THAT WONT LAST LONG DANIEL BOYD, Soc. Wallowa Law, Lapd T THIRDS VOTERS HOW REGISTERED Cooks Show 1245 Names .Wednesday ' Noon With Outlying Precincts To , Bear From. fho total registration for tho primary up to Wednesday noon was 1245. Tho total registralion for the election two years ago was 1583. That is conceded to have been a very light registration It is believed there are fully g000 voters in the county now and that the tctal registration for the Juno election'!. wilt reuch 1800. Following is the present registration by precincts. Joseph 189 Enterprise 248 Lostiue 102 Wullowa 228 Powwatka 8 Promise 45 Grouse 7 Lost Prairie 36 Flora 75 Paradise . 68 Mud Creek 20 Leap , . .... 33- Trout Creek 30 . Pine Creek 21 Butte 27 , Imnaha 42 Park 27 Divide . 2f Prairie Creek 47 ' ' ' ,. Politioal Notes. S. F. Puce has decided to be a candi date for re-election as assessor, and baa- out his petitions for the Democratic- nomination. Lewis J. Davis of Union, who ror cently entered the race for the Repub- iicun nomination lor circuit Judge, was in getting acquainted with Wallowa county voters tho pust ,. week. ' Mr. Dovis made a good Impression and looks and talks like a man who had the! goods. He is one of the leading at torneys of Union county. J. F. Batcp chaperoned Mr. Davis on his trip, or Davis cluioeroned Bater, it was hard to tell which. Anyway they made a full team und didn't do their cause any hnrm. .. .. Oi ly 14 registering days before the books close for tho primary. If you, don't register, you'll have your own troubles In voting. , The printing of the ballots has been awarded to the News Record job departi ment. It will take about 7000 ot white blue and samples to go around "at. the primary. ' BARTLETT BRIEFS ii.... .... . .. . . Bartlett, Murch 9-Miss Lola Klch man closed a very successful term ot school here March 2. ' ; Miss Bessie Friddles, who has been on the sick list, Is reported somewhat better. The literary at this place every Sat urday night Is a success. Large crowds and a good time reported by aii. r ; ; The sleighing will soon be a thing of tho past as the snow Is going very fast. Leslie Harding is on the sick list this week with la grippe. Mr. and Mrs. Davles were over from Eden visiting, Saturday and Sunday.' T. A. Bartlett had a crew cutting up his wood for the coming year. ( " Mr. and Mrs. Weldon Sliver enter tained a number of young people at a party at their place February 28. The time was spent playing games and dancing. It was an all-night affair and many sleepy eyes were seen at the literary next night. . w! Poww1! om earth) vt-n appointed mid !riw,l- portion-.!.'.1! lYur ; . jr.'. Hn 'rr.-('n