Professional Directory
AND
Business Cards
Physicians l and Surgeons
PhyHlcian and Surgeon
C. T. HOCKETT, M. D.
Independent Phone.
Office upstairs in Bank Bldg.
Hotels.
When Passing On The Lewis
tcri Road, Stop At The
Sled Springs Hotel.
Tien ty of Stable Roor...
S. B. CONNER, Proprietor.
Attorneys-at-Law.
THOS. M. DILL,
Attorney - at - Law
Office First Door South New
Fratern.il Building
ENTERPRISE," ORE.
J. A, BurlelKb
Dim lei Boyd
Burleiqh 5c Boyd
flttorneys-ai-Law
Will practice In all the Courts of
tills State a hd before the Interior
and Ita offices.
The moid, 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
$75 AGUE
ANOTHER BARGAIN
160 acres on
Alder Slope for
$3600
W. E. TAGGART,
ENTERPRISE.
OREGON
Longest Train on Elgin Branch.
So far as It Is within the niemor;
of pioneer railroad men in this city
Bays Friday's LaQrande Observer, tic
train from Elgin last evening was th
longest of any In the history of tlu
road. Conductor J. C. Gulling I
backed ly others who have worked
on the Elgin branch for many years
that last .night's 40 loads have m
precedent. The train from Wallowi
was augmented i i size at Elgin untl
40 carloads wore Included tn the long
chain of cars. Nearly 10 per cent o'
the cars were one deck sheep cars
For that reason the pull was not at
. great as niuny others have been but
for length of train It stands as a
record In the history of the road
This In a measure demonstrates the
enormous business done on that road
and proves Its standing as a feedei
to the main line.
Dig Fir at Imbler.
The worst fire in the history ol
Imbler occurred Wednesday mornlni
of last week at 2 o'clock. The
planing mill plant of Plnkerton &
Shanks was completely destroyed,
loss $5000, and 13000 worth of lum
ber owned by the Suimuervllle Lum
ber company buine.l.
Linseed oil and lampblack for sheet
marking at Hartshorn ft Keltner's.
Jhe JteWs Jlecord
An independent newspaper
Formerly the Wallowa News, established
March 3, 1890. New series begai
April 30, 1907.
Published every Thursday,
at Enterprise, Oregon. Office Eas'
Side Public Square.
Telephone Home Independent No. 31.
GALLOWAY & H EATON - Publisher
Entered at the Enterprise putnoiiice at
second-class matter.
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One year f 1.50; three months 50 cents
Cash In advance.
NOTE: Under the new postal regula
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COUNTY ADVERTISING RATE: Kegu
lar subscribers may have a secon
copy sent outside Wallowa county fo
1 a year.
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1903.
MCST RELIABLE ELECTIOr
FORECAST.
New York stale Democratic an
Bryan wins; Republican and h
.oses. This Is the gist of the fore
cast of the presidential election
made by the New York World fron
l general poll of tha doab.ful states
by that newspaper and about 2'
Hhers '.Jiroughout the country. Th'
vVorld claims large gains for Brya
in all the so-called doubtful state
axcept New York, while the revise
poll shows Republican losse3 in Nev
York stalie above the Bronx.
Newspaper polls are not Infalllbl
by a long ways, but tha World usv
illy guesses as near as any paper.
The World glvej five cause3 lead
ing to the belief that the contest fo
he presidency 13 in doabt. They are
"The Injection Into the canipalg
n some of the western states of a
nsldlous and disturbing religious fac
or which is working against the Re
nibllcan candidate.
"The tendency of the labor vote t
reak away from the control of al
)artle3, a3 Illustrated In the uprlF
ng spread of the Socialist cause
joth In the east and the west.
"The inability of both the Repub
lean and Democratic parties to In
diligently approximate the dlstrlbu
Ion of the vote to be cast by ai
irmy of unemployed estimated ii
ound numbers at 1,400,000 voters.
"The Inability of both the Repul
lean and Democratic managers to ai
lcipate the distribution of the co
jred vote In sUt93 where it has a'
ways been classl'lad as Republican.
"The complete absence of an lssu
f general value or vote-getting po
ency to elthe'r side."
The World goe3 on to show tha
Mr. Taft must carry New York state
he chlefest of the doubtful states
o win by a margin of two votes. I
le carries it, his election is assured
3ryan to win must carry New York,
Ohio, and Maryland or Nebraska o
tVest Virginia, Which would glv
llm 248 votes, or six more than 1:
lecessary to elect him. If he cat
.les New York, Indiana, We3t Vii
;lula and Nebraska or Maryland, and
yet loses Ohio, he may still be elect
id by six votes. Under any comb!
nation he must carry New York ti
A'lll.
:AUSES OF POPULAR APATHY
Measured by the amount of dts
usslon, there Is not a tenth of the
nterest taken In this vicinity it
he preildontlal. election there wa
n the June election, even allowing
or the county seat question at the
atter. The reasons are too hard
0 Btate exactly, there being sc
nany of them, most of a negative
sort.
The one that" probably account!
'or the greater part of the apathy
n this county is the one said by the
New York World to deaden Interest
u the campaign all over the United
States, and that is the utter absence
of a vital issue.
There is the same difference be--weeu
the tariff planks of the two
Jartles that there is between twee
1 ledum and twesdledea. Bryan quot
?d the Republican plank In a speech
t Des Moines, and the Omaha Bee
and Portland Oregonlan, Republican
organs, attacked his utterance as
'economic twaddle." So the Repub
lican tariff plank by the authority
A those two graat Republican news
papars, is twaddle. Democratic or
sans admit the Democratic plank is
a straddle.
You can't expect people to ea
thme, rave or t3ar their hair ovet
he issue between a twaddle and b
itraddle.
The Republicans would "regulate"
he trusts and the Democrats would
bu3t" them. Rejulatlon, tried fo;
2 years, has be3n a total failure
Nobody belleve3 Taft will succeat
.vhere Roosevelt failed. And as fo
rust busting, It Is as futile as wen
he machine breaking mobs In Eng
and in the early part of the nine
eenth century.
Neither old party hai so far pre
;ented a solutim of the trust evi
md the people know it.
As for panics and hard times, ev
"ybody but the few blind partisan
,ho believe everything seat fron
mrty headquarters, knows a panic
:ame a year ago, and It was no
toosevelt or the Republican party'.
ault, and If Bryan is elected and the
)re3ent stringency continues or In
Teases It will not be his or his par
y's fault.
Locally, the only issue spoken ol
s guarantee of bank deposits. There
ieems to be considerable Intere3t ol
ui-t out (t La Grande in that issue,
f it excites much attention in the
Cast the papers don't reflect it. But
t is going to make hundreds of
honsands of vote3 for Wm. J. Bryan,
iust the same, probably enough in
dose and doubtful state3 to decide
he result.
The Injection of oil Into the cam
algn was overdone. So much was
ipllled it bespatsred big men ir.
oth parties and stilled the tern
est.
With guaranteed bank deposits, the
i'armers and Traders bank at La
jrande would not have closed its
loors, there would have b3en no run
n the bank as the depositors would
lave had no fear of receiving tholi
noney. The expenses of a receiver
ihlp would have been avoided anf
ery expensive litigation of various
tlnds. And above all, there would
lave been an Inspection that inspect
ed, and the stealing of Scriber would
lave been stopped years ago.
Falling markets either indicate Taft
s likely to be defeated or that his
election would be bad business. (P
i. If you are a Taft man, just sub
itltute Bryan's name for Taft's In
he foregoing paragraph. This if
he warranted, reversible, puncture
proof argument that never did noi
lever will win a vote.)
Guesses on this county range from
100 majority for Taft to a small plu
rallty for Bryan, according to the
;ues8er. Wallowa seems typical o'
he whole country. The silent vote
was never so large as this year. As
-hey say in sport events: "It is
wybody'8 race and may the best mar.
win."
The kind of business that requires
a trip to outside points, will increase
enormously now that the railroad is
completed to Enterprise.
SCRIBER'S 'STEALINGS
LARGER THAN EXPECTED
J. W. Scriber, cashier of the Farm
3rs and Traders bank of La Grande,
-hat closed its door last 'week, was
irrosted Friday charged with wrong
.'ully appropriating $12,525 of the
bank's funds. He waived examlna
-Ion and was released under $15,000
bonds. It Is understood the bonds
were placed within his reach so he
could be free ta help in untangling
he me3s of false notes, entries, etc.,
and to save as much of his persona'
fortune as possible which he says
will be turned over to the bank.
Even the sum of $12,525 may not
cover the entire amount of his steal
Ings. His forgeries date back to
1903, and all the bank inspections
since then failed to discover a single
trace of his wrongdoing.
The sureties on Sertber's bond are
O. F. Coo'.ldge, Julius Roesch, J. E
Foley, w. B. Sargent, F. L. Lilly and
Mrs. T. N. Murphy.
The label on your paper gives the
month and year your subssription ex
pired or will expire. The new post
al laws require subssriptions to
weekly papers to bo paid up to with
in, a year.
COST OF CONSUMPTION
AND TYPHOID FEVER
Washington, Oct. 11. Prof. Irving
Fisher, the eminent political econom
1st of Yale University, who In one
of his papers belore the recent In
ternational Tuberculosis congre33 in
Washington declare! that consump
tion costs the people of the United
States more than a billion dollars a
ear, ii preparing an exhaustive re
port for the National Conservation
commission, which will contain not
only these figures but similar data
m the economic los3 to the country
.'roni all other preventable disaases.
Prof. Fisher 13 a member of the
"latlonal Conservation commission
md for many years has bean carry
ng on studies along the3a line3. The
commission recalvel letters from
ihysicians all over the country urg
ng it to consider the bearing ol
mblic health on the economic e'fic
ancy of the nation In its efforts tc
iscertain the resources of the coun
ry.
The commission from the besin
ilng has contemplated reports on the
sconomic aspecU of several phases
if the Conservation movement which
iffect the duration and effectiveness
f human life, but Prof. Fi3her has
indertaken to prepare a comprehen
,lve statement of the whole subj3ct
jf the relations of public health t
the general field of conservation, and
especially as to the wa3ie from pre
ventable dissasss and unnecessary
deaths.
Dr. FUhsr 13 profe33or of political
economy at Yale University ant
chairman of the "Committee of One
Hundred" of the American as3ocla
tlon for the Advancement of Science
which has for a long time been car
rylng on propaganda for the Increase
of national health through the elim
ination of preventable diseases. This
Committee of One Hundred Is com
posed of physicians and men engaged
In active sociological work In ever,
part of the country, and the results
of their investigations and expert
ence are all available to Dr. Fisher
3d that hl3 report ought to be the
most thorough -going and complete
summary of the situation ever made.
At the Tuberculosis congre33, Prof
Fisher declared that 138,000 persons
die of consumption every year. Th'
cost of medical attendance and the
loss of earnings before death average
at least $2,400, he said, while if tc
this is added the money that might
have been earned with health, the
total loss In each case is about
$8,000. He pointed out, also, thai
the disease usually attacks younf
men and women just at the time
when they are beginning to earn
money and cut3 off their earning
power for about three years on ar
average, before they die.
This subject of the economic value
to the country of a general raising
of the average health came up in
the governors' . conference at the
White House ia May. Dr. George
M. Kober in his speech on the "Con
servation of Life and Health by -Im
proved Water Supply" at the confer
ence presented flgure3 which showed
that the decrease in the "vita
assets' of the country through ty
phoid fever in a single year is more
than $350,000,000. Typhoid Is spread
by polluted water largely, so that the
death rate from this dlseasa can be
directly reduced by the purlficatio:
of city drinking water. Dr. Kobei
n.i.if.ed statistics to show that the
Increased value of the water to the
city of Albany where the typholt
fever rate was reduced from 104 ir
100,000 to 26 by an efficient fUtra
Hon plant, amounts to $175,000 f
year, of which $350,000 may be con
sldered a real Increase to the vita
assets of the city. Census bureau
figures' show that the average annua"
death rate from typhoid in cities with
contaminated water supplies was re
luced from 60.1 per 100,000 to 19.1
by the substitution of pure supplies.
Dr. Kober cited estimates showing
that the average length of human
life in the slxteonth century was be
tween 18 and 20 years, and that at
the close of the eighteenth cen
tury it was a little more than 30
while today it is between 38 and 40
Indeed, the span of life since 1SSC
has been lengthened about six years.
Alamo Street.
NntloA la tiATAhv clvan that all thai
.7 " .: ""'i
portion or Alamo street commenc
Ing at a point 630 feet from the
line through center of Sec. 2, T. 2
South, Range 44 E W. M., thance
560 feet along south line of said AI
amo street, thence northerly at right
angles 60 feet to the North line o!
i.Ud Alamo streat, thenpe 555 feel
easterly along north line of said Ala
mo street, thence 60 feet south tc
place of beginning, will be ordained
vacated by the city council of the
City of Enterprise, In ten (10) days
after October 15, 190S, tha date o
thi first publication of this notice.
Fy order of the City Council.
W. E. TAGGART,
25t2 City Recorder.
All kinds of builders' hardware at
Hartshorn Keltner's.
ENTERPRISE
BEST OF MEATS
Highest Market
'rice for
ILides and Pelts
PROPRIETORS
Red Front Livery and
Feed Stable
First Class Accommodations
Best of Hay and Grain
ONE BLOCK SOUTH OF
HOTEL ENTERPRISE
PHONE HOME 115
J. D. WALCK
Real Estate Dealei
Mitchell Hotel Block . JOSEPH, OREGOj
Harness and Saddles
L BERLAND, THEs55BI!ig,9AANND
Will supply your needs in the Leather Goods line more cheaply and
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give ucriti ruiiniauuun tnnil un.v Miner iiemer III n miuwa ui'uuij.
Let hint tit you out lor the aeawi'n's work. Repair work a specialty. (
MAIN STREET.
R. I. LONG
CIVIL ENGINEERING and GENERAL UND MWYP i
Hydraulic and Irrigation Engineer
ENTERPRISE, OREGON.
MAIL AND PASSENGER
STAGE LINE
Wallowa. Appleton, Flora lo Paradise,
MONDAYS, WEDNESDAYS and FRIDAYS; and
From Paradise, Flora and Appletor. to Wallowa,
TUESDAYS, THURSDAYS und SATURDAYS,
Good accommodations, courteous treatment and reasonable ratei
Leaves Wallowa at 6 a. in.
E. W. SOUTHWICK, Proprietor
FIRST-CLASS RIGS
CAREFUL DRIVERS
ARE SPECIALTIES OF THE
in Twrmu ivm
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. C. SHACKLEFORD, Proprietor.
"Cartful Banking Insures the Safety of Deposits."
Depositors Have That Guarantee at
WALLOWA NA ICINAL W
OF ENTERPRISE. OREGON
CAHTAL toO.fOO
SURPLUS 145.000
We Do a General Banking Business.
Exchange Bought and Sold on
All Principal Cities.
Geo. W. Hyatt, Prwddent
Geo. 8. I'raig, Vice President Ki-nhu ,
DIKKl'lOKS
Geo. S. Craio Geo W. Hyatt i m ,
O. Pksxell . j ,;
SECOND-HAND Sib
RODGERS
Itealpre in new and cecond-hnnd
Supplies. Bicycle and dun
Repaired. Screen Doors and
a trial. Our price are ripht
MEAT MARKET
ALWAYS ON HAND.
INDEPENDENT
PHONE 20
I Li 111
BOSWELL & SON
PROPRIETORS
NOTARY PUBLIC
ENTERPRISE, OR-GON
BROS.,
Ht I "
gnnd. Bicycles ral ' i.
Repair Shop Furnlturr ,r ,i
Windows, made to order. ..,
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