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Twiced'Week Wednesday Edition TH NEWS ALL THE OFFICIAL NEWS OF WALLOWA COUNTY IN THE N-R ALL THE NEWS WHILE 11 IS NEWS TWICE-A-WEEK NEWS RECORD ELEVENTH YEAR. NO. 102. ENTERPRISE, WALLOWA COUNTY , OREGON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 1910. CITY OFFICIAL PAPER RECORD :t1 Cent a word single Insertion, 1' cents a word 2 Insertions. Special rates by month and year." - FOR 8ALE. Thos. Slegmund left "on sale at Ri ley & RUey'8 the Wonder Washer. Fullblood White Langshang eggs for setting. $1.00 per 15. Mrs. J. D. Struble, Enterprise:" - lOlbm MONEY TO LOAN Slate Funds loaned, 6 per cent John P. Rusk. Atty. State Land B'd. Joseph Farm loans at 1V percent. Call or write First Bank of Joseph. 68btf WANTED. Lumber. Anyone having lumber ot any grade in any amount (or sale, or who has timber he intends to saw soon, and wishes to contract the lum . her, call on or address W. F. Rankin at Haney planer In Enterprise, Agent for W. R. Kivette. 26b4 Housekeeper .wanted to keep house (or man with two children. Call on or write Ted Johnson, Enterprise, Oregon. 97blm . " ' ' lost. . ' Black fielder's mlt, between Carter's and town. Please leave at this office. STRAYED. " . ' ' Two black work horses, 1 branded 7A on eight stifle,, the other wWih white spot on left side. Information leading to recovery will be thankfully received. J. L. Fine, Enterprise, Or egon. '.' lOObm- BIDS WANTED. . Bids will be received (or the con struction of a two story and base ment Store building by the undersign ed up to 1 o'clock p. m., Thursday, April 21. Plans and specifications can be seen at the store of the un dersigned In Enterprise, or at office of. the architect, A. Elliott,' at Jo seph. Bond of 30 per cent, of cost of building will be required of the successful bidder. RIht is reserved to reject any and all bids. .; 96b3 - FRED 8., ASHLEY." notice of Election. ', Notice is hereby given that the city election for the purpose of elect ing a mayor, two councdlmen, one ' city recorder,' one city treasurer and one city attorney, will be held at the office of W. E. Taggart from ' 1 o'clock p. m. to 6 o'clock p.' m., Tuesday, May 3, 1910. - W. B. TAGGART, 102w ... City Recorder. " .' 8tung! "'. He stood at a street corner and men tally kicked himself. "I went Into a drag store Just now." he told .a policeman, "and I asked a bold female clerk for some cold cream . for my wife. She handed me out this quart Jar of the stuff, more than my wife can ase In ten years, and charged me a dollar for It On the way out I saw a stark of twenty-five cent Jars of the same, thing. Do you think a man clerk would ever play a customer a trick like tbatr "No, I don't" said the policeman. "Why don't yon take It backT ' "And bare her look at me the scorn ful way she would T Don't yon ever think It. 1 wouldn't-go Inside that . store again for $50." Newark Newa . -- Fires In Holland. Fires of any size are so scarce In Holland that tbe city of Rotterdam, with a population of over 400,000, has practically no Ore department, while .the prevalence of canals offers an ever ready water supply, to fight any fires which might occur. , the markets Portland. : Wheat Track prices: Club, 95c; bluestem, 9598c; red Russian, 90 92o. : v. ' Barley Feed and brewing, $25. - 0taNo. I wh, $2$ per ton. " Hay-Tlmothy. Willamette Valley, $1820 per ton; Eastern Oregon, $23; alfalfa, $17; clover, $18. Butter Extra, 33c; fancy, 2830c; ranch, 20922?. Pgga Raneh, Bandied, 25c ' Hops 1909 crop, 1518c; "olds, nominal. Woot Eastern Oregon, 1417o per pound. . ' - Mohair 28 29c. ' 'V ttlt. , Wheat Bluestem, I395e; club, 9 C 90c; red Russian, 85 88c, 1 Oats $17 per ton. Barley $2$ per to. 1 Hy Timothy. $23 2$ per ton; al falfa, $1$ per Vm.- Butter 'Washington Creamery, 35c; ranch. 28c Etta Selected local, $627e. Potatoes $1014 per too. MORE EQUITABLE TAXATION ASKED COMMISSIONERS APPROVE RESO LUTIONS PASSED BY SOLONS. SYSTEM CALLED OBSOLETE Mr. Galloway 8ays General Property Tax Does Not Cover Conditions - Many Classes of Wealth Escape. SALEM State Tax Commissioners Galloway and Eaton approve Senate Joint resolutions Nos. 23 and 17, passed by the last session of the Leg islature, and designed to provide the means of a more equitable assess ment of .property. - J Commissioner Galloway, dlscusBlng the present, constitutional require ments, said: - "These provisions of the constitu tion required and established what is known as the general property tax. This system of taxation was tolerably adapted to the economic ar.d Indus trial conditions of half a century ago, but it is too rigid to permit equitable taxation of widely varied forms of property oftoday and too limited in its scope to reach many classes of private wealth that fairly should bear a part of the public burdens.". -. Mr. Galloway declared that - the amendments proposed by the last Legislature, and which are to be voted on by the people at the coming election, are well prepared to pave the way for genuine tax reform In Oregon. With tbe ' constitution amended as provided by these ' pro posed amendments, the Tax Commis sioner called attention' to the fact that it will then be possible to enact laws providing: : For the classification of subjects of taxation; for exemption of certain property from taxation; for separa tion of the sources of state and local revenue that the burdens of taxation may be more equitably proportioned; for separate classification and taxa tion of forest lands, water . powers and other natural resources, that' con servation of the same may be pro moted: for the apportionment of state taxes among the counties according to equitable rules. ?' Coos Land Contests 8ooiu MARSHFIELD The tlrst oi a ser ies of land contests in which Coos County men are interested will be heard April 26, and other cases ot the same nature will follow. 'About 50 men from this city and other parts of the county have "homestead clalmB in the Fall Creek country In the northern part of the county and they are all contested. Some of the home steaders are located on land on which the Northern Pacific scrip has been placed and "It will be a question whether the scrip or the homestead claims' are to stand. ' Others of the homesteaders are located on land which is c'.almed by the Southern Pa clfic on the old railroad land grant but which the homesteaders claim Is outside the limit ot the grant and that the Southern Pacific has never placed indemnity scrip upon It. '.', . Railroad Company 8ued. ROSEBURG The State of Oregon vs. the, Southern Pacific Railroad Company la the title ot a case tiled in the Circuit Court ot Douglas Coun ty. Through Attorney-General A. M. Crawford, of Salem, Attorneys Fuller ton and Orcutt, of this city, the plain tiffs ask $10,000 damages for (allure of the railroad, company to construct a spur at Edeabower within 60 days after being notified to dp so by ths Oregon Railroad Commission on Feb ruary 1. ' Lne Is Rushed t Hmey, VALEDetermlned on being the first railroad into Harney County, the Harrlman Interests Jumped Into Vale with a force of 100 railroad laborers and started construction work on the Oregon' ft . Eastern, the survey for which extends westward crns tbe tat (reus this point to a connection with the Natron-Klamath line at PdelL .-. - Ql Strike Is Imminent PALLAS Drillers at. the well of the Oregon Oil 4 pipe Line Com pany near here have encountered a large vein of salt water St a depth of 1300 feet This, it is believed, will prove here, as elsewhere, a forerun ner of the discovery of oil SAMUEL L. 3LEKENS Samuel L'. Clemens, (Mark Twain), "the noted humorist, who- recently re turned from the Bermudas, where he went to recover his health.. He Is suffering- from a severe attack of heart trouble, and owing to his ad vanced age his recovery is doubtful. HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST CONDENSED FOR READERS Wall Street tickers announced that J. Pierpont Morgan, now in Switzer land, last week celebrated his 73rd birthday. t The American Cereal Company, re puted to be the largest cereal manu facturing concern in the world, is to build a large cereal mill on Puget Sound, probably at Seattle. . ' Damage to fruit In Salt Lake Valley from frost will aggregate $600,000, The apricot crop has been almost en tirely destroyed and peaches, pears, prunes and early apples suffered seS ferely. The use of smudge-boxes saved, several orchards." """" "-; ---'" Governor Benson has honored a requisition from the state of Washing ton for the return to that state of Aaron S. Lebb," wanted at Seattle for the desertion of his wife and two little girls." A unique device for life saving at sea has been Invented by J. C. Hall, ot Vancouver, B. C. It consists of a rocket which can be shot from the deck of a wrecked ship to the land and which automatically forms a life line over which crew or passengers can escape without aid from the shore. . ' . The committee in charce of the Fairbanks Mount McKinley expedition desires that the United States Gov ernment shall detail Signal Service men from the point nearest Mount McKinley to make a trip to the vi cinity of the mountain, and report whether an American flag Is (lying on the summit. .President Taft has promised Rep. sentatlve'Townsend to-go to Monroe, Mich., on June 14 to attend the un veiling of a memorial statue to Gen eral Custer. Monroe was Custer's home when he enlisted, and the old homestead there now owned by the Government , The site will be used tor a Postoffice building. Held guilty on eight of the 14 counts which charged violation of the Federal statutes gevorning safety ap pliances, the Rio Grande Railway Company was directed by Federal Judge John Marshall at Salt Lake to pay a fine of $800 and costs. The Oregon Short Line was found guilty on one count of a similar charge, and a penalty of $100. was assessed against the company, ' .' Directed by Commissioner Dennett, pf the General Land Office, six more special agents of the Department of the Interior for Oregon and Washing ton at Portland hare been removed front office because of the million dollar appropriation (or their salaries and expenses' having become ex hausted. Until more founds shall be available, through Congressional ac tion there will be but two agent; op erating from the Portland ud Seattle headquarters, The New York District Attorney's office has completed all preparations for beginning the murder trial of Al bert Walter Woltcjr, charted with having brutally murdered Ruth Amos Wheeler, a handsome g Irl of 15 years and with having, dismembered and partly burned her body, The crime which was committed less than a month ago, was at an unusually brutal and fiendish nature sod cre ated considerable, sensation at the Unit. ESE IBS GOVERNOR IS DEAD, OFFICIALS IN FLIGHT. JAP CONSULATE DESTROYED Famine Sufferers Inflamed Aoalnct Foreigners. Soldiers Join Rioters. , . CHANGSHU, China, April 16. All of the foreign-owned buildings in Changshu have been destroyed by fire, except the British consulate. All the buildings rented by foreigners have been looted. All foreigners have left the city. So far as known, no foreign resident lost his life. The governor of Huhan province, Wu Tchung Slu, and his son, were killed, and several other government officials fled. - Six thousand foreign drilled soldiers are stationed here and a tew of these protected the governor's house for a time, but soon all Joined the rioters. . Famine Sufferers Loot. The riots began April 13, when the famine sufferers looted the rice de pots. A captain of police was wound ed trying to restore order. Thou sands crowded around him and his assistants, and he was obliged to flee to the Yamen. The rioters followed and besieged the place all night The following day the disturbances became anti-foreign. The Chinese In land mission and the Norwegian and Catholic, -missions were burned. The other missions were destroyed April 15. The missionaries attached to the American Episcopal Missionary Alll- f iince, the United Evangelical Church and the Wesleyan and Yale Scientists, numbering 41 In all, took refuge In boats. They left all their effects. . The destruction of all foreign prop erty. Including the Japanese consu late and the British warehouses, fol lowed. The rioters numbered no few er than 24,000. EMPEROR MEETS ROOSEVELT Almost Royal Honors Are Accorded - Distinguished American. VIENNA, April 18. Col. -Theodore Roosevelt was received at the Aus trian capital in manner almost like that accorded a reigning sovereign. As a special mark of his personal es teem the aged emperor-klng, Francis Joseph, received Col. Roosevelt In his private apartments at the Impos ing Hofburg palace, instead of in tbe regular audience chifmber. - What is regarded as a significant sequel to the recent Vatican incident was the unexpected call of Monslgnot Belmonte Plgnatelll, the Papau nun cio, accredited to the Austrian court, In the full ecclesiastical vestments ol his office. , ' It is believed that Ptrnntelll called at the Pope's bidding and that his mission was to express regrets of bis holiness over the part played by Car dinal Merry Del Val, the papal secre tary, in Imposing impossible condi tions In connection with the Vatican call, which resulted In the startling abandonment of the visit Three Men Rob Train, and Escape. , BENICIA, Cal., April 18. After, looting the mail and baggage cars of overland train No. 1, between this place and Goodyear, Sunday morning, three masked men, escaped on the engine ot the train. The train wfcs stopped by a lantern signal as tt slowed down on the approach to Goodyear. Np estimate of the amount taken can be bad, but It la believed the robbery netted hundreds of dollars. There were ten coaches on the train, and the robbers locked each as tbey passed through, leaving the passen gers captive while they rif'ed the Other cars. Wslks 127 Miles to Court . PORTLAND Traveling 127 miles on foot from his wooded homestead in Curry County, In the southwestern corner of Oregon to Grants Pass, where he was able to secure railroad transportation, Edward O. Gardner surrendered In the United States Court here to answer the charge of having wilfully set out a forest fire is August of last year. CHIN BURN ram MISS MARJORiE GOULD w V - Miss Marjorie Gould, daughter of George Gould, who became the bride of Anthony J. Drexel, Jr., of Philadel phia, Tuesday.. Miss Gould Is said to have refused numerous titled for elgners to wed an American. PROSECUTION WILL LAY FORBALUNGER Hearing of Secretary to Be the Main Feature of the Inquiry. WASHINGTON, D. C The "pros ecution" In the Ballinger-Plnchot con troversy indicated by the Congres sional investigating committee that if was holding its big guns in reserve until Secretary Ballinger takes tbe stand. Attorney Brandels Bought permis sion to defer the cross-examination of Frank Pierce, assistant secretary ot the Interior, until after he had had an opportunity to question Secretary Ballinger. Frank Pierce, first assistant secre tary of the Interior, who began his term of service in the department undersecretary Garfield, and who has testified at a previous session that Secretary Ballinger never inter fered with the conduct of the Cun ningham coal claims a(ter he had turned them over to him, resumed his testimony at the session. He denied that he had . told ex-Governor Miles C. Moore that he could have his pat ents without examination under the law of May 26, 1908. The- witness said that Commissioner Dennett has so construed the law and had told Moore that he could nave the patents without a hearing. Edward C. Finney, assistant to the Secretary of, the Interior, testified in corroboration of Pierce and Clements. Attorney Vertrees questioned the witness regarding the letters sent In response to an inquiry from Senator LaFollette as to Secretary Ballinger's policy on restoring to entry water power sites withdrawn by Secretary Garfield. In those letters Ballinger was quoted as saying that the with drawal of water-power sites had been restored on recommendation of the Reclamation. Service. The "prosecution" put on Director Newell and Chief Engineer Davis, of the Reclamation Service, to disprove this statement, both testifying they had been ordered by the Secretary to order the restorations. Smuggler Is Convicted. EL PASO, Tex., April 19. George Olin, alias Snake Pool, who was caught with 700 cans of opium, was convicted of smuggling In tbe Federal Court OHn Is said to have had con federates at every port on the border and was one of the most adroit and successful smugglers of Chinese and opium in tbe country. He had head quarters hen, at Los Angeles and San Francisco. ' PORTL;.:.D Consumers' League of Portland Is making every effort to establish a "white list' ot shops in this city coming, up to certain high standards in regard to the working conditions of their women employes. SPRINGFIELD As a result ot a scratch received when building a fence, C. W. Finch of this city may lose his band from blood poisoning. The wound was made with a piece of dirty or rusty Iron. PENDLETON The body of Jack Peters, who mysteriously disappeared from home In this city eight weeks sgo, was found In a mlllrsce by a schoolboy. There was no evidence of foul play and the theory 'of suicide is accepted generally. HILL AND GOULD CONCLUDE A DEAL TRAFFIC AGREEMENTS MADE FOR INTERCHANGE OF BUSINESS. DENVER IS EXCHANGE POINT Gould Gets Access to Northwest and Hill Connections East to Pitts- ' burg and 8outh to Gulf. DENVER, April 18. At a confer ence of officials of the Chicago, Burl ington A Qulncy and the Denver ft Rio Grande's Western Paclflo lines traffic agreements were made by which business will be interchanged in Denver. This will give the Hill lines an outlet Into California and the Gould lines will have a connection with the Pacific Northwest The business of the Gould lines for the Northwest will be carried via the Burlington to the Great Northern and Northern Pacific lines. The arrangement will give the North Pacific Coast through connec tions as tar east as Pittsburg and as far south as the Gulf ot Mexico. The deal gives the Gould lines from St Louis, southern Colorado and New Mexico favorable traffic ar rangements with the Burlington and other Hill lines to Portland, as well as Seattle, and will mean much to Portland and the Puget Sound coun try, Is the opinion ot the railroad men. WILL ALDRICH RETIRE? WASHINGTON, D. C, April 19. It is reported here on good authority that Senator Nelson W. Aldrlch ot Rhode Island will retire at the eud of his present term, Marc"i 4. ' Fall ing health is believed to have been responsible for a physician's, order that the Rhode Island Senator aban don active service. It Is said fur ther that Aldrlch will retire Imme diately from his committees in order that he may give all time possible to the monetary commission of which he is the head. Charles Wezler Admits Identity. SAN FRANCISCO, April 18. The man said to be Charles J. Wezler, who Is wanted at Tacoma, Wash., on a charge ot having murdered Mrs. Henry Schulz, the mother of Wezler's divorced wife, admitted that his name was Charles Wezler, but said he was not the man for whom the' police were searching. "I am Charles Wezler, all right," he told the police, "but I had noth ing to do with the murder of Mrs. Schulz at Gig Harbor." When arrested at Ocean Beach for carrying concealed weapons, Wezler gave the name of Wagner. He was later Identified as Wezler by detec tives who saw him In the prisoners' dock In the police court TAFT FORGIVES HI8SING. WASHINGTON, D. C, April 18. Declaring he regretted the "hissing" Incident at the suffragette convention not because of personal feeling, but because it was being used in an un fair way to embarrass the leaders ot the suffrage movement, President Taft sent a letter ot reply to the apology sent him by the suffragists. Railroad to Farm. SEATTLE, April 19. To overcome the high cost of meats and farm prod ucts of every kind, including garden truck, eggs and milk and cream, the -Northern Pacific Railway Company has purchased and improved 270 acres of rich bottom land near Kent, In this county, and has established a dairy with a herd of 300 thoroughbred milch cows and 1S00 White Leghorn hens. Tbe company has also planted 400 acres of corn and garden truck at Paradise, Mont. Products of these Institutions are to be consumed en tirely by the dining car department ot the railroad. Hughee' Recommendation Adopted. ALBANY, N. Y., April 17. Giving heed to the recommendation of Gov ernor Hughes, the Senate has gone on recdrd In favor of a thorough In quiry into all allegations of Legisla tive corruption. It Is now up to the assembly to say whether the Senate example shall bs followed. ........ TTrr -m .