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Wednesday Edition THE NB ALL THE OFFICIAL NEWS OF WALLOWA COUNTY IN THE "n-R ALL THE NEWS WHILE 11 IS NEWS TWICE AWEEK NEWS RECORD ELEVENTH YEAR. NO. 104. ENTERPRISE, WALLOWA COUNTY, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 1910. CITY OFFICIAL PAPER TwiceaU)eek RECORD Wants Cent a word single insertion, 1' i cent a word 2 insertions. Special rates by month and year. ; Dressmaking and plain sewing. Sat isfaction guaranteed. Miss Llda Flowers. ' 103bm. FOR SALE. Thos. Blegmund left on Babe at, Ri leyi & Riley's the Wonder Washer. Fullblood White Langshang eggs for setting. $1.00 per 15. Mrs. J. D. Struble, Enterprise. ' lOlbm MONEY TO LOAN State Funds loaned, 6 per cent. John P. Rusk. Atty. State Land B'd. Joseph Farm loans at 7 percent. Call or write First Bank of Joseph. 68btt WANTED. Lumber. Anyone having lumber of any grade In any amount for sale, or who has timber he intends to saw soon, and wishes to contract the lum ber, call on or address W. F. Rankin at Haney planer In Enterprise, Agent for W. R. Klvotte. 26b4 Housekeeper .wanted to keep house for man with two children. Call on or write Ted Johnson, Enterprise, Oregon. ' 97bln r LOST. Black fielder's mlt, between Carter's aud town. Please leave at this office. Tuesday, one email, brown, . ladies purse. Finder may have one-half of the money, and leave purse at post: office. NMrl 8TRAYED. Two black work horses, 1 .branded 7A on right stifle,, the other wMh white spot on left side. Information leading to recovery will be thankfully received. J. L. Fine, Enterprise, Or egon.. lOObm' BIDS WANTED. Bide will be received for the con struction of a two story and base-, ment store bulging by the undersign ed up to 1 o'clock p. m. Thursday. April 21. Plans and specifications can be seem 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 ol the successful bidder. Right fa reserved to reject any and all bids. 96b3 FRED .8. ASHLEY. . NOTICE OF ELECTION. Notice ia hereby given that the city eleotloni for the purpose of elect ing " a mayor, two councdlmen, one cltv 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. V W. E. TAGGART, 102w2 City Recorder. NOTICE OF EIGHTH GRADE EXAMINATIONS. The Eighth Grade Examinations will be held in. the several school districts, May 12 and 13, 1910. J. C. CONLEY,, Supt. of Schools. 8ome War Expanses. The Napoleonic wars cost England $1,320,000,000. Tbe war of 1870 be tween France and Germany cost $3. -800.000.000 The Crimean war cost $1,700,000,000, and tbe civil war in tbe United States exacted a toll from both ides of over $0,000,000,000. Tbe Boer war cost England over $1,000,000,000. and the struggle between Russia and Japan cost more than twice that sum. Mew York American. , THE MARKETS : Portland. Wheat Track prices: Club, $60 $7c; blustem, 90c; red Russian, 85c. " Barley Feed and brewing, $24. Oats No. 1 white, $28 per ton. Hay Timothy, Willamette Valley $18020 per ton; Eastern Oregon $23; alfalfa, $17; clover, $18. Butter Extra, 29c; fancy, 29c; ranch, 20c. Eggs Ranch, candled, 25c. Hops 1909 crop, 13 16c; olds Bomlnal. ' Wool Eastern Oregon, 14 17c pel jpound. - ' , Mohair 3233c. ' 8eattle. 1 ' Wheat Bluestem, 19090c; club $3 86c; red Russian, 12 83c. Oats $27 per ton. . Barley $23 per ton. Hay -Timothy, $22 23 per ton; al falfa, $1$ per ton. Butter Washington Creamery, 33c; ranch, 28c. Eggs Selected lecal, 26 27c Potatoes $10 14 per ton. TWO KILLED IN RAILROAD WRECK ENGINEER'S LIFE IS SACRIFICED FOR PASSENGERS. ". ' ' BURLINGTON TRAIN DITCHED Engineer Gordon and Fireman Meyer Crushed to Death Under Locomotive. . NORTH YAKIMA, April 25. While running at a speed of 30 miles an hour past Selah station, six miles northwest of North Yakima, the Bur lington passenger train No. 41, over j the Northern Pacific railroad, . was wrecked Sunday. Engineer William Gordon, of Ellensburg, and Fireman Meyers, of Pasco, were instantly kill ed, and R. Pratt, of Seattle, a mall clerk, and William Brogan, of Seat tle, mall weigher, slightly injufsd. " That many passengers on the heav ily loaded train were not injured was due to the presence of mind of Engi neer Gordon, who lost his life in the effort to save those under his care, when he shut off the steam, threw on the air brakes, and even placed the emergency brake In the 400 feet the train ran from the time It struck the open or defective switch. Conductor Churchill, who was tak ing tickets .in the day coach, . says when the engine left the track the train was going at the normal speed of 30 miles an hour. Suddenly the air brakes were set, the engine whis tle gave the short distress blasts, and a second later the crash came. . The engine. No. 280, pulling the train, had left the main line, and gone Into the switch just east of Selah, jumped the track and been dumped over an embankment about five feet nigh. Forced hy-th. .momentum . of the heavy train, the mail car had swept by the overturned engine and been turned about a quarter, over, and the baggage car had followed. Both cars were badly damaged. Ap parently, after giving the warning signal. Engineer Gordon had attempt ed to get from the cab, for his body was found between the boiler head and the tender. The body of Meyers was found pinned under the tender, his arms outstretched. : : . . STORM LOSSES IMMENSE West Must Go to Rescue of East, as Fruit and Vegetables Are Ruined. CHICAGO, April 25. Western and other fruit-producing states , will be called upon this year to supply all of the Middle Western states, In ad dition to their regular business, for so fruit, with the possible exception of strawberries and a few late grapes lll be grown in six or eight states. Thirty million dollars Is a rough estimate made of the loss In this year's fruit crop by the co'.d tem peratures and blizzardous condition which obtained through the Upper Mlsslssplppl Valley and extended as far east as Ohio. Unofficial reports are that Kansas hat suffered a loss of $8,000,000; Iowa, $8,000,000; Michi gan, $5,000,000; Wisconsin, $1,000,000; Illinois, $4,000,000, and Indiana, $2, 000,000. ' Trust Must-Show Books. TRENTON, N. J April 25. The State Supreme Court this afternoon, affirmed the decision of. Supreme Court Justice Swayre In which the National Packing Company and other beef packing concerns were ordered to bring their books within the State of New Jersey for the purpose of ex amination by the Hudson County grand jury. ' v John Kllng Goes Back to Chicago " CHICAGO, April 26. After several weeks of delays, John Kllng, the catcher of the Chicago Cubs, whose reinstatement In organized baseball was recently announced by tbe Na tional baseball commission, actually started to Chicago from Kansas City. COMMISSION WILL MEET Matters Pending Involve Transcontl nental Freight Traffic, WASHINGTON, April 24-A potn ft'e conference will be held by mem bers of the Interstate Commeroe Com mission Thursday and Friday. These days have been set aside by the com mission for the consideration of the Pacific Coast cases heard 6y"the com mission on its long trip last autumn. The cases involve not merely freight conditions local to the Pacific Coast, but questions affecting the transconti nental traffic in its entirety. The cases " include the rehearing of the Spokane rate matter, the Portland and Seattle back haul cases, the San Prancteco cases, Including rates- Into the lntermountain territory and the Reno rate case. i Tennessee Has Snowfall. : NASHVILLE, Tenn., April 25. Flurries of snow were intermittent here all day Sunday. So far, the damage in Tennessee from the present cold snap has been slight. Acid Drunk for Medicine. SEATTLE, April 25. Marlon Mor rlson, aged 12, died Sunday as the re sult of drinking carbolic acid from a bottle she thought contained medicine. EMIL SEIDEL Emil 8eldel, the Socialist mayor of Milwaukee, who has come out strong ly for abolition of the slums and the tearing down of tuberculosis-Infested tenements. Milwaukee Is the first great city In .the United States to elect a Socialist for mayor. HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST CONDENSE? FOR READERS Eulogies on the late Representative Cushman, of Washington, will be held May 31. 1 Wisconsin's State Board of Forestry has joined hands with the Federal Forestry Service In getting a compre hensive statement of facts as to forest tax conditions in that state. President Taft has ordered the re moval of United States District At torney John J. Boyce and United States Marshal Dan A. Southerland, of the first division, Alaska. As a result, of sensational testi mony before the House committee on the District of Columbia regarding the conduct of affairs of George Wash ington University, ' there may be a Congressional Investigation. Albert Wolter, a degenerate youth of 19 years, who gloated over lew4 pictures and was "craiy" about wom en, must die in the electrio chair for the murder of Ruth Wheeler, a pretty 19-year-old New York stenographer. President Taft has signed the first of the proclamations providing, a re classification of the lands in the Na tional forests, which will throw 4,000, 000 acres out of the forest reserves and make them available for home stead entry. . Senator Johnston of Albama has In formed the Senate tfiat a movement for the Importation of Australian beef had been Inaugurated In New York s a means of meeting the trust prices. He said it had been found that the foreign meat could be sold at a rate of 6 cents a pound less than the domestic product. Government employes are much perturbed over reports which Indicate that the hookworm disease, dread foe of all work. Is approaching the Na tional capital. . In Virvinla. only a short distance south of Washington, It was found In one school that 7 of the 9 pupils harbor hookworms. -. - -. . There Is now only eight state In the Union which Mr. Tft failed to visit officially and these will have the pleasure of meeting the President before many mpnths have passed, They are Wyoming. Nevada. Oklaho ma, Michigan, Florida, West Virginia, Maine and New Hampshire. He will have been perhaps the first of the Presidents te visit every state in the Unloo during his Incumbtncy, WEZLER IKES FULL CONFESSION SLAYER OF MOTHER-IN-LAW TELLS OF CRIME. - DID NOT INTEND TO KILL Prisoner Says He Desired to Per ', suade Mrs. Schulz to Aid Him in Getting His Children. TACOMA, Wash., April 25. Charles J. Wezler, the Portland novelty ad yertlslng solicitor, captured in San Francisco and brought here to an swer for the brutal murder of Mrs. Frederlcka Schulz, has made a com plete confession to Sheriff Morris and Prosecuting Attorney McMurray. Mrs. Schulz, mother of Welzer's di vorced wife, was shot to death April i: on a lonely country road leading from Gig Harbor to a sister's home near Artondale, whither Mrs. Schulz had been lured by a fake letter sent her by Wezler. Suplclon was at once directed by the family to Wezler. Prisoner Weeps as He Talks. j Weeping hysterically while he talked, Wezler Insisted that he did not Intend to kill Mrs. Schulz. The family, he said, had threatened his life If he came to their house. He says he sent the decoy letter only to get Mrs. Schulz out where he could talk with her In safety,' and that he wanted her to bring her daughter Emma along, believing Emma's good Influence would help persuade the mother to aid him to recover his two children. ' ' . ' He walked along the road a mile or more talking with Mrs. Schulz. Wezler says she demanded he pay his divorced wife $3000 alimony and that then everything. .. would -: be-all right, otherwise his wife was going to Alaska and Mrs. Schulz was going to take the children. When she re fused to recede or argue further, he says he lost all control of himself, drew the revolver and shot her. BRANDEIS ACCUSES TAFT Claims Balllnger Was Cleared on Re - port Pre-Dated. WASHINGTON After' attacking certain statements In Attorney-General Wickersham'8 summary of the Glavis case before the Balllnger-Pln-chot Investigation Attorney Brandels, threw out a broad suggestion the doc ument had been dated months earlier than It had been prepared to make It appear that Taft's letter of vindi cation of Secretary Balllnger had been based upon alleged facts 1 contained Neither the President nor tbe at torney general would comment on Mr. Brandels' Intimations, Former Register Testifies. Having come all the way here from Alaska to tell whether be had made the statement that an agent of "Col ter's had told him "It would be worth $5000 to $10,000 for him to come to Washington to testify," John W. Dud ley, the dismissed register of tbe land office at Juneau, took the stand and said that be had been misunderstood. Simple Services Over Mark Twain. ELMIUA, N. Y-, April 25. Services as simple as his wholesome life at tended tbe tributes paid here to Sam uel L. Clemens (Mark Twain), whose body was brought here for burial from his home at Redding; Conn., where he died last Friday. Church Ordains, Bryan as Elder. LINCOLN, Neb., April 15. In the Westminster Presbyterian church, midway between Lincoln and Fair view, W. J. Bryan was formally or dained and Installed Sunday as an elder of that denomination. - Babe Drinks Kerosene, WESTON, Ore., April 2$, The In fant daughter, 1 months old, of Coun cilman Frank Snider, is dead from the effects of drinking kerosene which she found in a cup on the table. . Patriotic Rose Premised. LOS ANGELES, April 27. Having a rosebush which produces a red and white flower, Park Superintendent Long, of Long Beach, thinks he can aiake It add a blue shade also, and thus he will have a National Tower. Mrs. "Hefty Green, ceTebrated for years as the richest and shrewdest business woman in the world, will soon retire from active business life and will turn over the handling of her immense fortune, estimated at $50, 000,000, to her daughter, Sylvia, now Mrs. Matthew Astor Wilkes. Commander Sverdrup, the famous Arctic explorer, will leave Norway this week with 14 men on the whaler Hvalrossen for' an expedition to Greenland's northwest coast and Baf fin Land in the hope of finding a new whaling territory. Commander Sverd rup will visit also Annatok and Etah, in order to examine the places In which Dr. Cook declares he left bis observation materials. The Dixon long and ehort haul amendment to the Elkins Interstate commerce bill now before the Senate will probably be defeated because the lumber Senators, who at first glance were Inclined to favor this provision, have become convinced that Coast terminal rates should not be robbed of advantages that come to them by reason of their water competition. DR. B. C. HYDE ' Dr. B. C. Hyde, chief figure In the 8wope murder case, now on trial In Kansas City. Dr. Hyde. Is accused of having poisoned Colonel 8wope, the wealthy uncle of hie wife and other members of the 8wope family so Mrs. Hyde could Inherit the Swops fortune. PARIS HEARS ROOSEVELT PARIS, April 23. Theodore Roose velt delivered his eagerly awaited lec ture on "Citizenship In a Republic" In the Sorbonne this afternoon. His au dience was composed of all the mem bers of tbe French Cabinet, students selected from the University of Paris, and many distinguished guests. In the course of his address he made reference - to the subject of human rights and property rights In tbe fol lowing paragraphs: "My position as regards the moneyed Interests can be put In a few words. In every civilized coun try society property rights must be carefully safeguarded. Ordinarily and In the great majority of cases hu man rights and property rights are fundamentally and, In the long run, Identical; but when It clearly appears that there Is a real conflict between them, human rights must have the upper hand; property belongs to man, and not man to property," Clark Joins Hill "in Work. CHICAGO, April 25. William A. Clark, former United States Senator from Montana, and James J. Hill are aid to have joined hands with a view to a combined railroad Invasion of Washington, Idaho, Montana and Cal ifornia, according to an article In the Record-Herald. Senator Clark Is said to be Inter ested with Mr. Hill in the construe tlon of the Gflmore ft Pittsburg; Rail road and lu the North Coast Line, which Robert gtrahora, of Spokane, is promoting. CORVALL18 The O. A. a nasehall iquad, including twelve men, left here Friday, April 32, for a tour o! Ae Northwest. While away the team will play six games with Conference Colleges and two with Non-Conference Schools, SALEM Replying to a letter from Ed Wright, County Clerk of Union County, Oregon, Attorney-General Crawford has rendered an opinion to the effect that "the time specified when the division of the county Into election precincts shell be made Is dlreptory and not mandatory or Juris-4iUoaaLM Is 'x L If rf 14$, 3f' V 1 OF STATED IN BRIEF TELEGRAPHIC CHRONICLE OF STATE HAPPENINGS. SMITH NAMED IN LAND FRAUD Puter's Letters to McKlnley Most In portant Timber Case Feature. Krlb's Knowledge Shown. PORTLAND Throuch a series ol remarttable letters from Steven A. D Puter to Horace G. McKinley, ths Government succeeded in bringing Into the Linn County land fraud case the name of C. A. Smith, and showing , that Frederick A. Krlbs could not have escaped knowledge of the frauds through which the timber lands were acquired, and later purchased by C A. Smith and John H. Wllld. It Is considered by the office ol District Attorney McCourt that the prosecutor has at last secured an opening In the armor of the defense through which he hopes to obtain a cancellation of title of 33 quarter sections of land, now valued at $802,- 000. Puter advised McKinley that he had In the Linn County lands, and that the Minnesota millionaire was send ing his cruiser, Frederick A. Krlbs, to look over the property. s I It was shown by McKinley that the witness was arrested at Albany by Government officials, April 1, 1900, and that the charge was subornation , of perjury In connection with the Roseburg entries of the very lands which McKinley and Puter were try-' Ing to sell to Krlbs. ; Krlbs and Puter were shown to have reached Albany on April 1,' -... , . . . ley on bonds, and 'that the, next day the party went up to examine the claims. From many witnesses It has been shown that Krlbs afterward ac quired all the notes and mortgages securing the payments of money ad vanced by McKinley and Puter to nay for the lands and settle with the en- trymen at the rate of $75 to $100 each. The evidence is considered to be the most Important secured since the beginning of the trial, and will be used to . counteract statements from many entrymen who have gone on the stand day after day and asserted thai they had made no agreement to noil the lands before filings had been made and final nrnnfa inhmlH. Advice Offered Taft. SALEM The Oregon Railroad Commission has received copies of resolutions passed by the Nebraska Commission in the matter of the ap pointment of the late Justice Brew er's successor on' the United States Supreme bench. The resolutions set forth in effect that there are many men In the state Supreme Courts or In the practice of the profession who are "free from the prejudices and be liefs which are naturally, acquired oy one wnose life work has been de voted to defending and safeguarding railroad Interests," and asks the ap pointment of a man free from this kind of influence. The resolutions have been forwarded to President Taft and the Oregon Commission has been asked to approve of the resolu tions and lndlCBtA Ita nnnrnunl n h - - u, ma President. Plan for Jubilee Made. CORVALLIS The quarter centen nial of the Oregon Agricultural Col lege will be celebrated Tuesday, June 14. The day for commencement ex ercises has been changed from June 15 to June 18,' and tbe class day ex ercises nave oeea scheduled for June 11. This change has been made to avoid conflict with the meotlng of the Masonic grand lodge In Portland on June IE and 16. Excursion rates of one and a third fare will be In operation on all rail roads, within the state and special trains will run from Portland and other points with a special rate of one fare for the round trip. SALEM State Printer Dunlway has completed the printing and de livery of the 53d Oregon Report, and has printed the 64th Report up to the Index. The reports of the Su preme Court are now printed up to November, 1909, being much nearer up to date than at any time In many years. NEWS OREGON