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About The news=record. (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Or.) 1907-1910 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 3, 1908)
Professional Directory! i f n Business Cards Physicians and Surgeons Physician and Surgeon C T. HOCKETT, M. D. Independent Pbone. Office up stairs in Bank Bldg. DR. C. H. DRAKE Veterinary Surgeon and Dentist. Office at Red Front Livery Barn. ENTERPRISE, OREGON Hotels. When Passing On The Lewis tcr, Road, Stop At The Sled Springs Hotel. Plenty of Stable Roon:. S. B. CONNER, Proprietor. Attorneys-at-Law. THOS. M. DILL, Attorney - at - Law Office First Door South New Fraternal Building ENTERPRISE, ORE. J. A, Burlelch Daniel Boyd Burleiqh 8c Boyd flttorneys-ai-Lav Will praotloe In all the Courts of tblsBtateand before the Interior and IU offloes. The most careful attention given to all business entrusted to our care. Enterprise, Oregon. Miscellaneous WESLEY DUNCAN, Stock Inspector for Wallowa County. JOSEPH, OREQON BEST RANCH In Wallowa County 2 MILES FROM ENTERPRISE CSTC PER U I O ACHE ANOTHER BARGAIN 160 acres on Alder Slope for $3600 W. E. TAGGART, ENTERPRISE. OllEUON. r 1 COME TO WHEAT'S ami call for your choice of . EDISON RECORDS and hear it played on the most perfect f sound reproduc ( ing instruments. The complete Edison Cata logue oi records at E. B. WHEAT'S JKWEI.ERY STORK. Jhe JteWs Jlecord . . AN INDEPENDENT KRWHPAPRR Formerly the Wallowa News, eBtabllshec March 3, ls9. New series begar April 30, li)07. Published every Thursday, at Enterprise, Oregon. Office Eas. Side Public Square. Telephone Home Independent No. 31. GALLOWAY & H EATON m Publisher! Kntered at the Krrterprle poHtuffice at second-cluHH mutter. SUBSCKII'TION HATES. One year f 1.50; three months DO cents Cash In advance. NOTE: I'mlnr the new postal ret; u la tlons, subscriptions to a weekly news paper must be discontinued at end o a year or puy one cent postage oi each paper. This means In practica working, a cash basis. Every sub scriber of the News Kecord will be no tlflotl the first of the month In whlc) Ills subscription expires, and if no re newal Is received by the last day o that month the name Is taken fron our lists. COUNTY ADVKrtTISINO RATE: Regu lar subscribers may have a secom copy sent outside Wallowa county fo $1 a year. SPECIAL ADVERTISING! NOTICE. Resolutions, cards of thanks, obltuan poetry, and notices of entertainment the object of which Is ps'urtlary gal' (outside pure news me.tion) ar Charged D cents a line. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1908. Everybody jn the valley rejolcei last week that the threatened de lay of the railroad was averted. I is an exhibit of the right kind o. public spirit when men lay asld what they consider their just claim: in the Interest of the general good. The Pendleton East Oregon lan re ports that now when that city 1: ready to go after an abundant ant pure water supply It finds that prl vate corporations have gobbled ev erything In sight. Last week 10,000 more Inches from the Umatilla rivei were filed upon, and 20,000 Inchei from McKay creek. Pendletor through Its delay Is going to have a hard time to secure a water sup ply. The report of Surveyor Merryman printed elsewhere lu this paper, clar ifies the road proposition as far ai It relates to practicable routes fron Troy and Grouse to this valley. The beat routes are out of the questior on account of their cost. ' Improve ment of the grade of the exlstinj road is recommended In the report The Initiative of whatever actior. may be taken lies with the peoplt of that Bectlon most directly Inter ested. The purchase of a chemical fire engine by the council Is to be com mended. The utility of such ma chines is attested by their use In cities where every other form o' fire appnratus Is owned. Even with a first-class water system and ar abundance of fire plugs, the chemical is likely to save its cost sever al times over at the first flr In r mercantile establishment, by puttlnf the flames out with the minimum damage to stock. The council should next provide suitable places for the hose cart and engine, and the clt teens, especially the younger ones form companies that efficient use may be made of the apparatus on hand. The cost of installing and main tenance of a water system, If It It run in a buslne-is-llke manner, will be puld by the wator-users lu pro portion to the amount of water they uso, not In proportion to the amount of property they own. This Is equal ly true whether it is a city-ownef' or private owned system. No matter who puts up for the first cost, th cltUens who use the water must paj in rates Interest on the original In vest moii t, cost of operation, main tenance and extensions, and a sink Ing fund or profit that will wipe out the Indebtedness or provide for re newals that will keep the plant "a good ns now." A city water system Is a mutual plan for water users tc secure that nelejsity of life at cost, and to assure them that the supply will be ample and pure. A voluntary committee of cltUens at least one of whom had not be fore bean in favor of the Whltmorc springs as the source of supply foi the city water system, made a vUl to that place one day last week and found a stream gushing from the springs at least 28 Inches wide and 12 Inches deep. In the party was a Portland salesman of fire apparatus HtAlllbb AND uRANDEUR I OF THE Word Picture in Sunset Magazine Pays Glowing Tribute to The f Switzerland of America Poetical Dessription of Wallowa Lake and Canyon. Advent "Bon Blow" writes the following jeautiful description of Wallowa can on, lake and valley for the Septem er number of Sunset Magazine? In northeast Oregon there Is a val ey peaceful. The mountains lift iround It on all sides and through t, whispering, tinkling, clear and ;ool, there winds a ribbon of a riv ;r bora of snows that whirls and jubbles into pools where lurk the lalmon and the trout. There is lie lang of steel-shod wheel on steel aid ties, no scream of locomotive et to echo and re-echo through the urple canyon denlis, but day by lay a swarm of human ants, Indus rlous, Implacable, unthinking, toil ng o.i'.y for the weary wages of the ay, builds up, tears down ant1 .nooths a pathway there that com nerce may be served with steam ind steel. The valley is Wallowa and its peaceful fields He broad spread un lerneath a summer sky that rivals Naples In Its blue. Along Its lengtL lot tiny settlements with houses nea ind new and through it runs a mere hread of a road where once each lay, each way, there swings a six lorse stage from Joseph Into Elgin tnd the world. Par at the valley's iastern , end and cuddled by the .'owder river mountains lies a lake t waters are of crystal, cold as Ice; ts surface mirrors all the peaks that ift around; its depths hold spotted "out. that wait the lure. Sixty miles rf.st lii Idaho the Seven Devils moun alns lift, grotesque, satanlc, serrated iugge3tlve of the pictures that Dore lrew for the place where souls are lamned. And at the lake is Joseph, named or the famous old Nez Perce chief aln, Joseph, who made his last stand here before the whites. The valley vailed In by Its lift of peaks, wat lis until slow-moving prairie schoon irs that had crawled across the Ialn to barrier mountains found the ass, and the Anglo-Saxon, lord o. ill the world, laid claim to it, bap ized it with his blood and took it night his right, for his children and he children of his children to build ipon and make the west that Is tc e; At Elgin is the end of Bteam. A ranch road of the Oregon Railway & Navigation company threads through he Grande Ronde valley from La Jrande and there yields to the stage hat yields unwillingly, for day by lay the silver-ribboned stretch o: les goes on and on, until before i. . i . ue eariy snows Degin to crown the Highest peaks the way of the Wal ... x ... . . .. " O " . w uio.ui J CI1U till he little furred and feathered people if purple-shadowed canon and em irald hill will shiver at the shriek oi tome new demon born of man that ihrills their wild. From Elgin the itage way climbs a hill for seeming mdless miles. Behind, below, the 3rande Ronde valley, hamlet flecked luroads out diminuendo -until i teems the playground of some fairy jeopl that have clustered there ant i' -'It their tiny homes. With mall In boot and women with he driver, place aux dames, the tage has right of way and takes i jrandly, swinging past slow freight ars with their lanellnc mmmtain jells. Four horse, six horse and Jight horse team, two wagon cou pled, loaded with the goods and wares of all the world, climb weary grades, slide down the slopes, creep alowlv n ,,n,n .,... .w ' .u eamP; but7as them ailThe " S wings on until the curtain drops up- who has had some experience in water systems and a great deal of observation of the same. He was enthusiastic about the quality of the water and ita abundance, which he said was ample for a city of 10,000 people. The water was perfectly clear and its temperature was 44 degrees. While all thla sounds en couraglng, R should be the policy o! the council to make doubly sure. It will do no harm to again have the flow measured by an engineer and Us purity tested by the state board. Any other possible sources of sup ply should not be overlooked. If En terprise Is going to Invest a goodly sum In a water system, too much care cannot be taken ; that the very best to be had Is secured. The Ones That Profit From the Portland Journal. The towns and counties that sent out the attractive literature and had it well distributed are getting the immigration, all right VALLEY PEACEFUL j of Railroad. on the beautiful Grande Ronde, and then from where the rim rock breaks a sheer 1000 feet, the way into the west fork or Wallowa canon, purple deep and whispering with all the thousand voices of the wind-swept pines must be essayed. The road leads winding down, eul boldly in the sheer that frowns above. . The brake shoes scream upon the wheels, the tires grow hot. the horses gallop down the last long slope and thea the portals of the canon proper rise In buttressed strength. A long low bridge spans brawling waters there, the road leads in anions che pines, and then beneath a sheet aplift of somber height a tiny sta tion in a tiny clearing dares the- wil Jerne3s. One long, lone pine lifts ap like some Gargantuan plume above the house. The horses, knowing well that they have reached the end of their day's tfork, neigh shrilly and with bang ind clatter the stage sweeps grandly jp and stops. The driver, autocrat Jf fleeting time and story oft retold. aescenos and mingles with the com mon throng, and then all you have heard, all you have dreamed, of din ner at the Canon House conies true. The valley where the fierce old chief exacted tribute that was paid by white man's blood is peaceful now. The Powder river mountains wall li to the south. Piled peaks lift pointed up and rise in serrated battlements that grow until one towers over all che mountains of Oregon, oat tops Mount Hood. The roadway to the lake is evei Jp. The lake itself is hid until one cops the hills that girdle it and when the view breaks forth it mirrors al :he glories of the hills beyond, the peaks that rise above, striped black by canons, patched by lurking snows. The water, cold as ice, is clear as crystal lense. The bluish waters o Avalon are not as clean. No boats with framed plates of glass are needed to look down Into Wallowa's depths. There Is no water vegeta tlon there. The rocky bottom 50 feel below looks five. The faintest splash of oars conies magnified by echoes from the fai hillsides and at the southern end :here Is a roaring as a waterfal. comes down from where the snows He deep but yield before the ardm of the sun. Beyond the waterfall that foams through tangled thickets to the lake, the mountains rise. Peaks In per I . "6 11 Ward llft the Seven DevIIs In con i torted piles. To south tha Hoi jpective stretch dwindling on Tc io Houm tne chain n mountains breaks and forms a frame for two vast peaks that pinnacle the sky and pierce the clouds. The place is one of beauty, little known be cause of difficulty of access, and Its people lovingly with something o. the soft accent of Dixieland, call i; "YVull-ow." , The sunrise on the lake Is gray and grand and pink. The evening is a glory of the west. The shadows creep out from the shores and stripe me peaas reflected on the bosom o the lake. The night comes on and ill the thousand whisperings of the wood, the coming and the goings ol the little people of th Wim hoo-i It is a paradise untouched as yet, un umrrea Dy man, but when the rail road comes Its glories still- will be and one who finds hi ' ni. ua j urande, where Grande Ronde valley lies beiow 7h uu , Val'e? 8 bel0w th0 h,lls. ca do no bettei ii'w 'thVvL" n, 1" LA GRANDE MACHINIST ASKS $50,000 DAMAGES The largest damage suit in the history of Union county has been filed by Charles E. England against the O. R. & N. railroad, who sued for $50,000 damages, says the Ob server. Charles England was a car repair er and was badly cut and bruised about a year ago. while working on the rip-track In the local yards. He was run over by a box car, sustain Ing frightful Injuries to his foot and leg. He spent several months In the hospital and has only recently return ed from Portland where he spent months in suffering while slowlv re covering from the cutting he recelv ed at La Grande. Much interest centers in the case aa the amount of damage money ask ed for is higher than usually de manded. The attorneys for England are H Daniels of Portland, and Bennett & blnnot of The Dalles. The last two are prominent attorneys who conduct most of the damage suits against the E. mi. & M. CO. Has purchased a complete line of Clothing, consisting of all the latest styles and patterns of the day, Baught, Brandegee, Kincaid and Wood, Utica, N. Y. In order to make room for this stock of clothing we will give to the people of Wallowa county some of the great est bargains that we have yet offered, and especially will we do this with our cash cus tomers, always giving them a good cash dis count, and we will do more as we want to cut down our mammoth stock of merchandise before the railroad gets to Enterprise. We will give bargains in every department of our large store and we will give the same cash discount in other departments to all those spending their cash with us. x You know by the past that we will treat you right, so come to the E. M. & M. Co. for greater bargains than ever before. Respectfully. THE ENTERPRISE M.&M.G0. ENTERPRISE BEST OF MEATS Highest Market Price for Hides and Pelts PROPRIETORS PHONE HOME 115 J.D.WALCK Real Estate Dealer Mitchell Hotel Block Red Front Livery and Feed Stable First Class Accommodations Best of Hay and Grain & ONE BLOCK SOUTH OF . HOTEL ENTERPRISE FIRST-CLASS RIGS CAREFUL DRIVERS ARE SPECIALTIES OF THE Horses Boarded by Day, Week or Month Good Care of all Stock. BEST EQUIPPED STABLE JJV THE COUNTY One Block East of Court House. J- O. SHA0KLEFORD, Proprietor. "Cartful Banking Insures tht Safety of Deposits." Depositors Have That Guarantee at WALLOWA NATIONAL BANK OF ENTERPRISE. OREGON CAPITAL $50.C00 SURPLUS $45,000 We Do a General Banking Business. Exchange Bought and Sold on All Principal Cities. Geo. W. Hyatt, President W R Hoi.,,-, n u, Geo. 8. Craig. Vloe President Frank A. bSvS" fill CaH.?ie;hier DIRECTORS aC"iW,. -W-H""w.I!.2-SA.H,,I. SECOND-HAND STORE RODGERS BROS., Proprietors Ixalers in new and second-hand goods. Bicycles and Bicycle Supplies. Bicycle and Gun Repair Shop. Furniture made or Repaired, Screen Doors and Windows made to order. Give us a trial. Our ptice are right and all work guaranteed. MEAT MARKET ALWAYS ON HAND. INDEPENDENT PHONE 20 NOTARY PUBLIC JOSEPH, OREGON BOSWELL & SON PROPRIETORS. 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