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mmB NEWS WALLOWA COUNTY' NEWS RECORD ADVER TISERS GET RESULTS. THAT'S THEIR WORD, NOT OURS. FICIAL PAPER. ENTER PRISE CITY OFFICIAL PAPER. ';; VOL. 2, NO. 23. ENTERPRISE, WALLOWA COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1908. WHOLE NOm-. RECORD Notices In this column are charged. 1 cent a word one Insertion, or 3 centK a word 4 Insertions. Minimum chffrge 15 cents. Cash with order. j,- FOR SALE. A 20,000 Sawmill, In good order. Has 35 H. P. engine, gang edger, all belting, saws, etc., ready to run. Is a bargain at $1,100. Write to Star Planing Mill, Elgin, Oregon. CATTLE, 100 head, from yearlings up to 5-year-old cows with calves, and Including 1- and 2-year-old steers and a few 3-year-old steers. J. H. Whitmore, Enterprise. Ranc'- 10 miles north of Enterprise. 12tf LODtiE DIRECTORY. i n n r enterprise lodge, No i.u.u.r. las. EMERALD REBEKAH LODGE. No. 119. K. Of P. 94 ENTERPRISE LODGE, No. JUANITA TEMPLE, No. 7, Fythlat Sisters. MA 001110 ENTERPRISE CHAPTER, III null NIU No. 30, Royal Arch Masons, meets first and third Tuesdays of each month in Masonlo Hall. All visiting- Royal Arch Masons welcomed. J. B. OLMSTED, High Priest. D. W. SHEAHAN, Secretary. WALLOWA LODGE, No. 82, A. F. & A. M.. meets second and fourth Satur days of each month in Masonlo Hall. visiung jnaunn weiuvmuu C. H. ZURCHER, W. M. W. C. BOATMAN, Secretary. WALLOWA VALLEY CHAPTER, No 60, O. E. S. meets first and third Sat urdays of each month, in Masonic Hall Visiting Stars are always welcomed. OLIVE LOCKWOOD, W. M. DANIEL BOYD, Secretary. i 1 EAGLE CAMP, No. 10497, M. .Yl.A.W. A Meets first and third Thursdays in each month, in new Fra ternal halL Visiting Neighbors always welcome. JAS. W. RODGERS, Consul. T. M. DILL, Clerk. ANEROID CAMP, No. 3642, R N. of A Wfl Ul ENTERPRISE CAMP, No. .U.Vl. 535. W. of W. ALMOTA CIRCLE. No. 278. W. of W. DATE ON THE LABEL. The label on your paper gives th month and year your subscription ex pired or will expire. The new post al law require subscriptions to weekly papora to be paid up to with in year. Advance Butter Fat Price. . , The Wallowa Valley Cream com pany advanced the price paid foi butter fat to 27ft cents, beginning October 1. ma JLEEP I J NOT REFR.E.SrlINtj VNLEJ.S WE KNOW THE MoRNINC .5UNJHINE WILL BRING VS JOY. RE-ST WELL AND YOU WILL WORK BETTER. WE CAN JELL YOU CLoTHE-S, ALL KIND5 OUTER AND UNDER, WHICH WILL PLEAJE YOU So WELL YOU WILL HATE TO TAKE THEM OFF AND WHEN YOU PUT THEM ON IN THE MORNING YOU WILL NOT BE A .SHAMED TO GO To YOUR WORK. A CONTENT MAKING - - .SUIT FOR $1 4.00 A .SHAME DEFYING - , . JUIT FOR $22.50 A PRIDE INSPIRING - ' ' - .SUIT FOR $25 MEN' -5 NICE, NEAT-FITTING UNDERWEAR AT $1.25, $2.50, $3.00, $3.50 AND $4.75 A .SUIT. -LADIES UNION UNDERWEAR AT 65C, 90C, $1.35, $1.75 To $2.50 A .SUIT. LADIEJ' -SEPARATE UNDERGARMENTS AT 45C, 70C, $1.15, $1.25 TO $1.65 EACH. MUCH SUGAR BEET LAND IN WALLOWA F. G. TAYLOR OF LA GRANDE MADE TOUR OF VALLEY LAST WEEK. There is enough land iff this val ley, particularly adapted to the rais ing of sugar beets to keep severa factories going if it was all eowt to beets, said F. Q. Taylor of 'the Amalgamated Sugar company while in Enterprise last week. Mr. Taylor In company with L. E. Jordan of the O. R. & I. company rode over considerable of the Slope and Prairie Creek and met a num ber of farmers. His special mis sion was to see If the farmers lr. here would consider the raising o. beets, and later on a representa- tVe of the company will come In and make contracts. It Is hoped to. se cure a thousand of acres of beets it this valley. Mr. Taylor says where beet cul .re lg followed on scientific princl- pies It proves a very profitable croi for the farmer. Statistics gathered by the U. S. department of agricul ture show the average net return! In the whole country Is 49 per acre. In the Grande Ronde some farmers went Into beet raising on too large a scale at the start, sowing hundreds of acres, much more than they coulc attend to properly. . The be3t results are secured by the farmer, said Mr. Taylor, whe plants from 20 to 30 acres, or wha he and his family can attend to eas ily with the extra help sent by the factory during weeding and thlnnln; time. Beets do not wear out the soil and where alternated with pota toes may be raised indefinitely. The La Grande factory secures extra help, Japanese when white labot cannot be secured for the laborious work of weeding and thinning. Mr. Taylor says S000 acres will fur nish enough beets to warrant a fac tory. In this connection it is ap propos to quote from a letter to T. M. Littleton of this city, who wrote a friend back In Ohio who Is In the business: RETSOt-VED THAT IT IS SUCH A DELIGHTFUL. FEELING -To CO TO 3ED ATMCHT KNOWING THAT YOU HAVE SOME LOUEl-Y THINGS TO PUT ON iM THE Morn inc. one feels 50 And so COMFORTABLE BUSTER BROWN' I r- L.0.?taTtit.MtTomitMiu.tMtas..Jb A OltlftBTFUW f HUM RESPECTFULLY, W. J. FUNK & CO. '"Now as to your sugar factory proposition. You will need a plenti ful supply of pure water, limestone, coke, coal or oil for fuel and mos Important of all an assured supply of beets. And it takes lots of beets. There have been so many mistakes made in the East In locating facto ries where people after a few years refused to take hold of a proposition of this kind. You should be sun that you can count on ten thousani acres of beets within five miles o the railroad and within fifty miles of the factory not for one year only, but witty suitable rotation with other crops. "I think the best and wisest waj (Continued on last page.) Death Of Pioneer Wallowa Citizen John H. Standley Passes Away lr Napa, California-, Hospital, Last . Sunday. John H. Standley, a resident ol Eastern Oregon since 1862, and a pio neer citizen of this county, died lr a hospital at Napa, Calif., Sunday, September 2, aged 81 years." The re mains were brought to Wallowa foi Interment, where the funeral was held Thursday, under the auspices of the Masonic lodge. The deceased was well known lr both this and Union counties, anc was held In high esteem. For the last two years he has not been in good health and for some years has spent the winters In California. Mr. Standley was unmarried and leaves two brothers, Marion F. and James H., a sister In California and one lr Missouri. A deceased sister, Mrs. W. H. Hoffman, was the mother of Mrs. J. H. Dobbin of Prairie Creek and ot! Bert Hoffman, editor of the Pendle ton East Oregonlan. Mr. and Mrs. j; H. Dobbin of this vicinity attend ed the funeral; Expect Big Buiinesa, The La Grande papers quote Super intendent Buckley as antlclpatlnt big business on the Wallowa exten sion. The increase In traffic is" ex pected to be so large that it wll! warrant the erection of a new stone depot in La Grande. con fidemt i mi ASSESSMENT WILL EXCEEMWOOO INCREASE OF QUARTER OF MIL LION MAINLY ON RAILROAD AND TIMBER. The assessed valuation of Wallowa county for 1908 will reach $6,500,- 000 Is the estimate of County Assess or S. F. Pace, who with his deputy. Arthur Pace, is making up the roll preparatory to the meeting of the county board of equalization the third Monday In October. This Increase, Mr. Pace thinks. will come mainly from the railroad, non-tillable land (timber and school land) and cattle. Mr. Pace of course cannot give the exact figures yet, but years of experience have taught him a thing or two about assessment rolls, and he usually hits it pretty cjose with his estimates made before the total ing of the columns. Last year the total assessed valuation was in round numbers, $6,242,000. This year there will be an Increase of ovet a quarter of a million of dollars. The increase on the railroad will not be anything like what It will be next year for all the construction work in this county ha3 been done since the first of last March. In 1907 the railroad right of way was assessed at $54,300, This year the O. R. & N. will be on the rolls for approximately $200,000. The increased number of cattle will mean some additional revenue for the county but It may no more than offset the falling off in sheep. The number of swine and horses Is about the same. There will be considerable Increase on timber land, as Mr. Pace holds up the valuation at $1000 a quartei despite the protests of the big tim ber companies. When Pace was first elected assessor, timber wat assessed at $320 a quarter. In 1905 he raised it to $800 and last year to $1000. As the timber companies thlnl. the rate Is too high, wouldn't It be a good idea for the county to have the timber cruised for valuation pur poses? This has been done In b number of counties in this state, and In every instance cruising has more than paid Its cost the first year. Take In this county. It Is of common knowledge the timber companies buy only the choicest claims. They won't look at anything that has less than a million feet, except now and then when a quarter section is in their path. Many of the claims have throe and four million feet on them. But take one million as a low average and the low valuation of $2 pe. thousand stumpage, that alone would double the assessed valuation am add at least $625,000 to the ta roll, as there are over 100,000 acre:; of deeded timber lands In this coun ty. The Crossett Timber company has to exceed 36,000 acres, the George Palmer Lumber company to exceed 15,000, and the Grande Ronde company over 13,000 acres. These are all foreign companies. The timber is held for speculation. or when cut will be shipped out of the county, and the only good Wal lowa county will ever receive frjrr her magnificent timber belt, the finest In all the Inland Empire, It the miserable, little pittance of tax. And even from that must be sub tracted the increased cost of lumber in the county. Lumber has nearly doubled In price since the timber companies have cornered the log supply, and the difference between the present price of lumber and what It was a few years ago Is what we are paying for the honor of hav ing Eastern capitalists buy up out timber. Doesn't it seem reasonable that those companies should pay a tax on the true valuation of thuli holdings? Farmers must on theli land and crops, stockmen must on their stock, merchants must on thoir wares and goods. POLICEMAN'S DIRTY TRICK. Trouble is In store for same bright mark on the Portland police force, if the rumor afloat here 1: correct. Last Thursday Sheriff Marvin of Wallowa county passed through Le Grande on his way to Portland after a much wanted man. Instruction! are said to have been telegraphed to the Portland police to hold up the man. Instead a patrolman tip- ed, Sheriff Marvin's hand and the i man got away. When Sheriff Marvin arrived la Portland, It is said, he was also given the wrong ,track bj the Portland po'.iee. However, Mar vin is on the man's track and may land him yet, despite the fact thai he succeeded In escaping from the state. La Grande Star of Tuesday. The details of the matter referret to in the above article, or the name of the man Sheriff Marvin Is after, will not be given at the sheriffs office today, Thursday. When Mr. Marvin left here la3t week it was seated ho was going to Salem foi requisitions for Bill Cottlngham and Scott Clark, Jr., who are at large on ball in Asotin county. Ben Weathers Is Named Postmaster President Roo.evelt Appoints Editor of Wallowa Chieftain As Nasby of Enterprise. ; Ken Weathers, editor of the allowa Chieftain, was appointed postmaster of Enterprise, September 23, by President Roosevelt. The appointment had been expected for tome time, as Congress, man Kllis had given assurance that he had recommended Mr. Weathers foi the office, and it was not anticipated there would be senatorial opposition. The tliunge in the officials of the local office was due to the election of Postmaster Hull as county treasurer. Under the ruling of the department he could not continue as postmaster and county treasurer both, and as he pre ferred the hitter oilice he sent early in June his resignation ns postmaster, which was accepted and in July, under departmental Instructions, his bonds men, W. W. White, J. M. Blakely and L. Uerfand, named an acting postmas ter to serve until Mr. Hull's successor as regularly appointed by the Presi dent. The bondsmen chose Mrs. W. T. Hell, who has filled the office to the satii-fuction of the patrons since then. After it became sure that Mr. Bell was elected county treasurer, Mr. Eis enbeis af Joseph. Bounded a number of bUiiiiutB men hero on the subject of he becoming Mr. Bell's successor. About the same time Mr. Wetliers came out for the place, and with the double hacking of local pride and his many friends, quickly was made the popular choice. WEDDING BELL3. Miss Versey Brumbach of The Buttea and Mr. I. S. Surber, a pros porous young rancher of the same neighborhood, were married at the Methodist parsonage, Sunday after noon by Rev. C. E. Trueblood. Tht groom's brother, Emmett Surber, was an attendant. The young couple have a hont of friends who wish them a long and happy married life. Coming to the Fair. La Grande business men are plan ing an excursion to the county fair at Wallowa on October 10. If DO agree to come a special rate will be made. Sold Out in California. F. II. Ilrownleo of Wallowa, whe went to California a few months ago to remain, sold out there slick and clean and has returned to thU PAIIIltu in II. If- L. , . . ,C. uaa uougnt a Smith Mountain claim. . DEPOT ST. which runs direct to depot and through Alder View Addition and Enterprise VILLA TRACTS is now open to the depot grounds. Visit this BEAUTIFUL RESIDENCE ADDITION and you. will be convinced we have the BEST LOTS in town and at the RIGHT PRICE. WE DON'T NEED MONEY Pay $25 down and take your own time to pay the rest. DANIEL BOYD Secy. Wallowa Law, Land & Abstract Co. AT LOSTINE STATION PROGRESS OF RAILROAD UP VALLEY GRADING MAY DE LAY STEEL GANG. Tracklaylng reached the Lostlne station grounds Wednesday night, and there is great rejoicing thereat In the pretty town down the valley. Bridges were completed across the river at Wt.llams' Tuesday night. From present indications the grad ers will be caught by the steel gang after all. J. M. Mitchell will not finish until next Monday, he stated In Enterprise, Thursday, and the tracklayers will be right up to his work by then If not before. Contract or Patterson Is having his troubles with the short piece of grade In the swamp on Murray's place, and un less he gets more teams and men will not finish in less than ten days, probably longer. Even at that the track will reach the Enterprist station grounds by the date, Octo ber 15, set by Mr. Brandon a moatb ago. There are two river bridges to be put in between Loatlne and Enter prise. The run from La Grande to Wal lowa and return is too strenuous for a mixed train, which Is late from an hour and upwards dally at Wallowa, and of course even farther behind Its schedule on the return trip. Automobile Stage. The automobile stage made its first trip Monday but broke a whea on the first trip down and laid ovei at Wallowa a day. It made three round trips Wednesday between Wal lowa and Joseph and carried a lot of passengers. It hits the pike a rapid gait alright, making the run between the terminals in a few minutes ovei an hour. Just the same Billy Wrl rht makes a round trip every day with the old reliable stage, carrying the mall, baggage and express. NORTH COUNTRY NEWS. From the Flora Journal. A Bon was born to the wife of V. A. Moore of Grouse, September 21. I). D. Conley, a flora merchant, and Miss Susie Botts of Lost I'ritirie were married at Lewiston, September 111. Isaac Binjramiin of Imlilcr and sifter, Mrs. A. D. Buzzard of Cove, urn .i t Country visiti ih. A Garden of Edo.i carre i i ) speaking of four horse to.. Ing produce up "Poewhatkej m i tain" says It Is a beautiful but dan gerous road. The wator8po.it and wanho it d.r. Deer Crek canyon and Gii.nl. Ronde roads stopped all travel f r r week down the former, aid ra.nir on the Shumaker hill road will no be completed for six weeks. Snake River Railroad. Car loads of laborors aro p.iuin through La Grunde bound for II nil Ington to work on the Snake rivm railroad. This seems to boar ou Harriman's statement made when 1 Oregon a few weeks ago, that wt on that road would be continued but ,,ot rushed. TRACKLAY f