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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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,'
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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