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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
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ANOTHER BARGAIN
160 acres on
Alder Slope for
$3600
W. E. TAGGART,
ENTERPRISE.
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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.
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lar subscribers may have a secom
copy sent outside Wallowa county fo
$1 a year.
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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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