Professional Directory
AND
Business Cards
ysic ans and Surgeons
Physician and Surgeon
C. T. HOCKETT, M. D.
Independent 1'lione.
Office up stairs in Hank Hldg.
Hotels.
When Passing On The Lewis
ten Road, Stop At The
Sled Springs Hotel.
'' Plenty of Stable Roor...
S. B. CONNER. Proprietor.
Attorneys-at-Law.
THOS. M. DILL,
Attorney - at - Law
Office First Door South New
Fraternal Building
ENTERPRISE, ORE.
J. A, Burleltfl)
Duiiliil lloyd
Burleigh 8c Boyd
Attorney s-ai-Law
Will practice In all the Courts of
tblsBtateaiid before the Interior
and Its o Aloes.
The most careful attention
given to all business entrusted
to our care.
Enterprise, Oregon.
D.W.SHEAHAN
Lawyer
ENTERPRISE, OKKUON.
All business and correspondence at-
t inded to with dispatch. Practice in the
State and Federal Courts and Interior
Dapartment.
W. B. APPLEGATE,
Notary Publit .
Collections made, Real Estate
bought and sold and all business-
matters attended to. Call on 01
write me. Paradise, Oregon
Miscellaneous
We have purchased the Joseph
Mercantile stock of hardware,
Tinware, Granite Ware and Dish
es and are selling them at a big
reduction. Come now for bar
gains. HUNSAKER & TAYLOR.
Joseph
Oregon.
R. I. LONG
Civil Engineering and
Land Surveying.
Hydraulic and Irriga
tion Engineer.
Enterprise, Oregon.
H. E. Merryman,
Mining and Metallurgical
Engineer.
V. S. Deputy Mineral Sur
vej or.
All Kinds of Surveying.
Office In Bank Buildinj with Miller
I & DePue. H.mc Phone.
ENTERPRISE, : OREGON.
WESLEY DUNCAN,
Stock Innpector for Wallowa
County.
JOSEPH, OREGON
Jhe JHsWs Jvecord
AX ISDKPENIlKST NKW1"A1'ER
Formerly the Wallowa News, established
Marili X, lsyj. New scries Leua
April :'.0, 11)07.
Published every Saturday.
:it Kriteiprise, Oregon. Office Eas
Siile Public Square.
Telephone Home Independent No. 31.
The Enterprise Press,
Publisher
Kntereil at the Kntcrprise podtofflce a:
Kiiconcl-cliisH mutter.
KrnsnuiTioN hatks.
One year 1 1.00; three months 50 cents
t.'uHh In advance.
NOTH: Under the new postal resula
tlons, HiihHi-rlpUoiiH to a weekly news
paper miiHt bo discontinued at end ol
a year or pay one cent postage on
each paper. Tills means In practlca
working, a cash basis. Every sub
scriber of the News Record will be no
tified the first of the month in which
his subsri iplliin expires, and if no re
newal is received by the lust day o!
that month the name is taken from
our lists.
COUNTY ADVERTISING: RATE: Regu
lar subscribers may have a second
copy sent outside Wallowa county foi
$1 a year.
SPECIAL ADVERTISING NOTICE.
Resolutions, curds of thanks, obituary
poetry, and notices of entertainment'
the object of which Is p') 'unlary gain
(outside pure news nio ition) ur
churned 5 cents a line.
SATURCAY, DECEMBER 12, 1908.
TWICE-A-WEEK NEWS RECORD.
Beginning with the new yeir the
News Record wl'l be published twlce-a-weak,
the first number being dated
Saturday, Jan. 2, 1909. It will ap
pear regularly thereafter on Wednes
days and Sa'urdays of each week,
going to press on Tuesday and Fri
day afternoons, ai long as the pres
ent mall schedule continues.
In addition to balng Is3ued twice
Instead of once a week, there are a
number of other changes and, we ba
lieve, Improvements, not all of which
can bo announcad at this time. One,
however, is the addition to the Satur
day edition of a colored magaalna
and comic supplement.
Enlerpilso Is advancing by leap)
and bo mils. Probably no town 1 r
Oregon Is growing and Improving Ii
every way moro rapidly than tin
capital of Wallowa. Certainly no
own has a brighter future. In mak
ing thesa changes, the News Record
feels It Is only keeping pace with
the tow.i and county , Tho changoi
Involve a large additional expensa,
but we have fult'i that the change)
will meot wlih favor and the patron
age will warrant the venture.
The price of the paper will neces
sarily be Increase!, but paid In ad
vance subscript bus at the present
rate will be accepted until after tha
changes go Into effect.
Senator Jonathan Bourne seems
to be nearest the throne both of the
outgoing nud Incoming national ad
ministration. Roosovelt's public dec
laration recognizing Governor Cham
berlain as the senator-to-be from
Oregon was an awful slap at Fulton,
while tho nppointmcn.t of lluurne s
private secretary, John C. Young, as
postmaster of Portland over Fulton's
choice, present Postmaster Jllnto,
was auo' her straw showing which
way tho fe.leral wind is blowing.
The lining up of President Roose
velt nnd Presidentelect Taft on tho
side of stateirent No. I makes it
practically unanimous by everybody
worth while.
Duy them early. Rend the adver
tisements, in the News Record, and
then go at once, so you can bo
cheerful the dnv before Christmas.
REAL ESTATE CEAL.
If yo'.t have faith In the future of
Enterprise you can make a good In
vestment in a half block In Enter
prise by applying to Couch & .Mc
Donald., Wallow a, Oregon.
Where All the Children
Stop and Look
H OMAN'S
THE PLACE
Ami there's the place to get Christmas presents for
OKI and Young. Hooks for big nnd little children,
Toys, Mocks, Noise Producers, Things bright and
shiny; Candies, Nuts and Fruits.
See the Tomato Sets Beautiful Tree Decorations
PRENTISS HOMAN Enterprise
DENATURED ALCOHOL.
(Oregon Agricultural College Press
bulletin, by C. E. Bradley.)
On June 7, 1906, congress passed
a law removing the Internal revenue
tax of J2.07 per gallon on grain al
cohol which had been properly de
natured or rendered unfit for drink
ing purposes by the addition of cer
tain materials such as wood alcohol,
benzine or pyridine. It was hoped
that by the removal of this tax alco
hol could be obtained cheaply enough
to compete with petroleum for light
and fuel. The demand for such alco
hol can be readily seen when we
note that approximately 3 million
gallons of gasoline are consumed
daily In the country and that the
Increased demand for It, due to the
development of the modern explosion
motor, has doubled Its price In the
last ten years. Indiana and Ohio
oils contain only about 5 per cent of
gasoline and the per cent of the
lighter distillate of California and
Texas crude oil Is very low. The
supply of gasoline therefor seems
to be limited but the demand is In
creasing. Alcohol, It has been dem
onstrated can meet this demand,
furthermore the annual consumption
of kerosene In the United States ap
proximates 1 billion gallons, three
fourths of which are probably used
j by the farmers. Since one gallon of
aiconoi is equivalent to z ganons oi
kerosene for lighting purposes 375
gallons of alcohol could be used on
the farms of this country each year.
This would require for Its production
140 million bushels of corn, or 5 mil
lion acres an increase of 5 per cent
over that now grown. If made from
potatoes this 375 million gallons ot
alcohol would require 450 million
bushels or 5 million acres an in
crease of GO per cent over that now
produced. The present consumption
of alcahol amounts to but 16 millions
per year.
Ethyl or grain alcohol is a natural
product formed by the .fermentation
of various kinds of sugar through the
agency of yeast organisms, Slncfc
starch Is readily convertible Into su
gar by either natural or artificial
means, materials which contain no
table quantities of either starch or
sugar may be utilize.! for making al
cohol. The more Important sources
of alcohol are the cereals, potatoes,
molasses and fruits. In France alco
hoi Is cftiefly made from the sugar
beet. In Germany from the potatt
and In America from corn. A bushe
of corn will yield approximately 2V.
gallons of 9 per cent alcohol; I
bushel of po'.atoe3 of a gallon ant
a bushel of apples 1-3 of a gallon.
The yield depends directly upon tin
sugar and starch content of the
material used and In general suga
will yield one-half Its weight o.
alcohol.
In the large distilleries it costs
about 17 cents to manufacture
and place on the market one gal
Ion of alcohol and the cost of the
raw material use! brings this ordi
narily to approximately 30 cents
Allowing for the necessary profit al
cohol will reach the consumer a
about 40 cents per gallon. But alco
hol at 40 cents can compete with ker
osene at 20 cents for lighting pur
poses since alcohol has twice the
Illuminating value of kerosene and ir
competition can never demand more
than one-half the market price of
alcohol.
For making cheap alcohol a cheap
concentrated raw product and a well
equipped plant are necessary. The
plant should have a capacity of at
least 100 gallons per day, the cost
of such a plant being In the neigh
borhood of $10,000. No such plan',
can operate successfully on wai.j
products alone especially If such rre
to be obtained for only a brief part
of the year, as for example waste
fruits. There must be some more
staple product as a basis with the
waste materials handled as a side
Issue. For a staple In the North
west we must look to potatoes or
sugar beets and damaged grain when
It can be secured, on which mate
rials together with various waste pro
ducts, a plant could be operated
throughout the year. The combina
tlon of a starch factory and an al
cohol plant esems also to be a feas
ible plan for obtaining cheap alcohol.
NORTH COAST R. R. j
RENEWS PILINGS!
ENGINEERS AGAIN ON GRANDE
RONDE RIVER BELOW MOUTH
OF WENAHA.
Th;re are persistent rumors that
something will be doing In railways
along the northwest and north border
of IWallowa county in the spring.
There Is no lpnger much doubt the
surveys from Walla Walla across
the mountains and down the Wenaha
or Little Salmon river to Troy, while
ostensibly by a Walla Walla trac
tion company, were really made In
the interest of the North Coast
road. And back of the North Coast
is said to be the Chicago and North
western, the great Vanderbilt prop
erty, with now over 10,000 mile3 of
trackage west of Chicago, gridiron
ing Wisconsin, Minnesota, the two
Dakotas, Northern Iowa and Nebras
ka, and extending as far west as
Caspar in central Wyoming.
It is believed spring will see the
Northwestern building from Caspar
to the headwaters of the Lemhi, in
eastern Idaho, and on across the
state by a water grade route down
the Lemhi and Salmon rivers to the
3nake at or near Eureka in this
county, down tho Snake to the
Grande Ronde, and up that river
to the Wenaha, and up that and
across the Blue .Mountain divide
at an elevatio.i of 2800 feet, giv
ing both the shortest route and
.east grade of any transcontinental
railroad.
The North Coast has already the
best pass through the Cascades, and
terminal facilities on Puget Sound
and in Spokane, besides the right of
way nearly across Washington. That
it Is laying plans for work east of
the Blue Mountains Is proven by its
renewals of filings along the Grande
Ronde as told In the following from
the Asotin Seitliel:
"Along with the report of a few
Jays ago that the Harriman system
Intend building and completing the
Huntington-Lewtston Snake river line
f railway during the next two years,
the paople should not lose sight of
the fact that only about two wesks
ago the North Coast Railway . engl
leers visited Asotin again, and went
on to the Grande Ronde river and
.-enewed that company's water fil
ings at two different points on that
stream, that were located and filed
ipon during the early spring, and the
same were place! of record. This
would indicate that things are to
be doing In this locality before long.
Then, also, the completion of the
O. R. & N. line to Enterprise and
Joseph, and the report that the work
is not to stop at that point, leads the
people to suspect that there may be
something doing along the Grande
Ronde river In the nature of railway
activity. Surely the outlook Is good
.'or this immediate portion of the
?reat Northwest, and we believe that
it is not going to be misleading
either."
Hood River Apples.
County Superintendent Conley left
two fine specimens of Spltzenberg ap
pies at this office of a shipment of
a couple of boxes he received from
he ranch in the Hood River valley
owned by him and his brother, G.
F. Conley, formerly of Joseph.
Tom McCarty Here.
Tom McCarty, ex-supervisor and
well known miner and ranchman, was
greeting old friends In Enterprise
he first of the week. Mr. McCarty
in left the Snake river country and
io A" resides on his ranch six miles
e.ow tho Imnr.ha bridge.
ODD FELLOWS ATTENTION.
All members of Enterprise Lodge
No. 153, I. O. O. F., are requested
to be present at the se33loa of lodge
Saturday evening, Dec. 12. Very Im
portant business.
E. B. WHEAT, N. G.
GEO. W. MITCHELL, Sec,
NOTICE.
To owners of cows, horses, hogs,
etc.: You are hereuv notified that
Ordinance regulating running at large
of domestic animals will be strictly
enforced. D. W. CLEMENS,
City Marshal.
Ill Health it More Expensive Than
Any Cure.
This country lj now filled . with
people who migrate across the con
tinent In all directions se iking that
which gold cannot buy. Nine tenths
of them are, suffering from throat
and lung trouble or chronic catarrh
resulting from neglected colds, and
spending fortunes vainly trying to
regain lost health. Could every suf
ferer but undo the pan and cure
that first negleMed cold, all this
sorrow, pain, anxiety and expense
could have been avoided. Chamber
lain's Cough Remedy is famous for
Its cures of colds, and can always be
depended upon. Use It and the more
serious diseases may be avoided.
For sale by Burnaugh & Mayfield.
PHONE HOME 115
J. D. WALCK
Real Estate Dealer
Mitchell Hotel Block
MAIL AND PASSENGER
STAGE LINE
Wallowa. Appleton, Flora to Paradise,
MONDAYS, WEDNESDAYS and FRIDAYS; and
From Paradise, Flora and Appleton lo Wallowa,
TUESDAYS, THURSDAYS and SATURDAYS.
Good accommodations, courteous treatment and reasonable rates.
Leaves Wallowa at 6 a. in.
E. W. SOUTHWICK, Proprietor.
FIRST-CLASS RIGS
CAREFUL DRIVERS
ARE SPECIALTIES OF THE
ENTERPRISE LIVEUY AND FEED STABLE
Horses boarded by Day, Week or Month
Good Care of all Stock.
.BEST EQUIPPED STABLE IN THE COUNTY
One Block East of Court House.
J. C. SHACKLEFORD, Proprietor.
"Careful Banking Insures the Safety of Deposits."
Depositors Have That Guarantee at
WALLOWA NATIONAL BANK
1 OF ENTERPRISE. OREGON
CAPITAL $50,000
SURPLUS 145.000
We Do a General Banking Business.
Exchange Bought and Sold on
All Principal Cities.
Geo. V. Hyatt, President W. R. Holmes, Cashier
Geo. 8. Craig, Vice Presldeut Frank A. Reavis, Asst.. Cashier
directors t
Gko.S. Craiu Geo. W. Hyatt Mattie ... Holmes
G. Pennell w. R. Holmes
Red Front Livery and
Feed Stable
First Class Accommodations
Best of Hay and Grain &
OXK BLOCK SOUTH OF
HOTEL ENTERPRISE
SECOND-HAND STORE
RODGERS
Dealers in new and second-hand
Supplies. Bicycle and Gun
Repaired, Screen Doors and
a'trial. Our prices are right
A Short Talk
Over the Phone
may save a long
ride to the
Flora District
Home Independent Telephone Co.
I MILLIONS OF
I M m E Y
S AT LOWEST RATES. ON EASIEST TERMS.
Wm. Miller & Brother,
? SUITE 204, Wallowa National BanK Building,
3 Enterprise, Oregon.
NOTARY PUBLIC
JOSEPH, OREGON
BOSWELL & SON
PROPRIETORS
BROS., Proprietors
goods. Bicycles and Bicycle
Repair Shop. Furniture made or
Windows made to order. Give us
and all work guaranteed.'
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