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About The news=record. (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Or.) 1907-1910 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 13, 1910)
H.(.rruf ,M Twice'Q'Week Saturday Edition T I HE ALL THE OFFICIAL NEWS OF WALLOWA COUNTY IN THE NH ALL THE NEWS WHILE II IS NEWO TWICE-A-WEEK NEWS RECORD T TWELFTH YEAR. ENTERPRISE, WALLOWA COUNTY, OREGON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 13, 1910. CITY OFFICIAL PAPER NEWS RECORD CHINA TO HAVE ARMY OF 23,000,000 FOR WARFARE. Compulsory Military Service Gives "Awakening" Formidable Aspect. The announcement of the forthcom ing establishment of . universal com pulsory military service in China baa a formidable sound. - The man who Is about to become secretary of war In the Chinese cabinet and who quakes this announcement as a forecast of the policy which be will adopt gives us a significant reminder of what such a system may theoretically mean. Germany, with a population of 60, 000.000, has a standing army In time of peace of more than 600,000 and a war strength of 3,765,000. On the same basis China, with a population of 400,000.000, would, have a. peace standing army of 4.000.000 and a war strength of more than 23,000,000. Such an army, composed of first class fight ing men, would be overwhelming against any other nation In the world. If not against any conceivable combina tion of ' nations, wherefore a super ficial pessimist might argue that the end of all things for the non-Chinese world was in sight The meaning of the awakening Is to be that China will at least be strong for self defense and that therefore she will be able to demand and to exact the same respectful treatment 4hat other nations enjoy. That may be unwelcome- to those who have assumed that the most popu lous country of the globe would always remain a helpless miiBS, which others might bully, exploit and plunder at will. . The awakening of China has been Inevitable, and It has been and Is a part of the most ordinary coittmon sense for the world to recognize that fact and to prepare for Its realization. It Is within the power of the rest of the" world to determine to a consider able degree what shall be the1 charac ter and the purport of that awakening. KUSE WINE Z89 TEAKS OLD. Garmany'a Most ' Calabratad Vintage Kept at Breme. . The most celebrated of all the wines of Germany is known as rose wine, and, according to a French contemporary,-it Is jealously preserved .in the town ball of Brnnes1' ' --v ' - The wine has been In the vaults since 1621 when the conscript fathers bad six great vats made at Johannisberg and six others at Hoekhelmer. Each received the name of one of .the apos tles. It Is an unwritten law that as soon as a bottle of wine Is drawn from the vats a similar quantity of the same vintage is put Into the tun;. consequent ly they are always full. Each'of the tuns or vats In the town unit ui oit-uie cuai uriKiiinuy Lta nuu their capacity Is 204 litres, or about fifty-seven gallons. Our French statisti cian comes to the conclusion that each time a bottle of this. wine Is drunk it softs'' asaii A' -3 i i Good We are going to have the biggest and best fair ever held in eastern Oregon. Big exhibits of farm produce, live stock, everything grown and produced in Wallowa county will be displayed. There will be all kinds of amusements, horse races," daily contests of all kinds, lots of music, danc ing, street carnivals, something doing every minute. A weeks vacation of pleasure, education and amuse ment. -'.You will be there, all of your folks, every body else and all of their folks. Now Here is a Good Tip We have secured the agency for the larg est Tailoring Company in America -THE ROYAL TAILORS . The fall line is now ready for your inspection, we know how to take 3'our measure, and guarantee you a perfect fit. No deposit required. We take all the chances. We are out after this business and are going to get it . W. J. FUNK a CO. i THE QUALITY ST0SE i . iiwB-gmCTMraT;'frOTagiBrrTT-T"-aa represents a sum of over 50". ' During the war of 1870 the French -occupied the town,, and the officers, braving the anger of tte council of Breme, made free with their precious wine, and It was said that the town of Breme paid more to France than all the other towns In Germany. At the time of the crown prince's wedding we further learn that he was allowed one bottle and one only. HAS MOTOR FLYING FISH. Combination Power Boat and Aero plane It Evolved. A "mechanical flying fish" that com bines the qualities of an aeroplane and the speedier motorboat Is the latest in vention, and Joseph H. Hoadley, pres ident of several corporations, Is the in ventor. He asserts that be has tried his in vention on Long Island sound and now desires to challenge any aviator to a 100 mile race for a side bet of $10,000 to $20,000. His machine, he says, can travel thirty-five miles an hour In the water or fifty-five miles an hour In the air. His aero-motorboat, Mr. Hoadley as serts, Is equipped with a 200 horsepow er silent englue. It Is necessary to at tain a speed of thirty-five miles an hour before taking to the air. The ma chine Is forty-one feet long and three feet six Inches wide. The planes carry 1,000 square feet of canvas. The tiller, which directs the machine upward or downward, Is In front with the aero rudder, which directs It to right or left. The air propeller Is at the stern and Is nine feet In diameter. The planes can be folded and the craft used as a power boat exclusively. CLOVER BLOSSOM IS RENTAL Michigan Man Arranges Cheap Lease For School. A clover blossom a year Is the rental charged the Flint (Mich.) school board for a ninety-nine year lease of the site of the Flint union" school. The owner of the land, Neil J. Berston, made the offer at the last regular meeting of the board; the only proviso being that use of the land for other than school pur poses shall terminate the lease. The board accepted, and It was de cided to make a ceremonious feature of the payment of the rental each year. The board is to elect one of its members every spring to pluck a clover blossom from one of the lots owned by the- school board and carry It to Mr, Berston or one of his heirs. .. ... 8alary Bill Attacked. SALEM. Alleging that the appro priation of $3600 provided by the last legislature as salary for the assist ant to the attorney-general Is uncon stitutional, and asking that the court perpetually enjoin the secretary of state and the state treasurer from making further payments to that offi cial, Daniel E. Powers, of Portland, has filed suit in the Marlon County circuit court. uiiaiiinuiiiaHuniDt ' News FINDS LIVING IN GREENWICH TIME Woman Earns $2,500 Annually In Queer Occupation. WATCHMAKERS ARE CLIENTS. Historio Hill Observatory Near London ' Sets Hours and Minutes For All ' England Caught Hallsy'a Comat In Wonderful Photographs In Raoant Appearances. When Halley's comet set all Europe gazing skyward recently no society beauty was more eagerly courted by enterprising photographers than was the comet by the. patient astronomers )t Greenwich, wbose photographic tele scopes were kept searching the heav ens to note the arrival of the periodic visitor on the sensitive plate of the camera. Nor wus the vigilance unre warded. More than one distinct Im pression of the brilliant object is now on view at the Royal observatory, Greenwich. .This success has revived Interest in this historic institution by the Thames, but few outside scientific circles know much of the history and details of the almost conventional group of buildings on That fair hill where hoary sage boast To name the stars and count the heavenly noat. ' 8tts Time For Britain. Yet probably no bill in the' world has had so strangely varied a history or played so Important a part In the af fairs of men. The granite line across the footpath on Its summit Is the me ridian from which the longitude -on every British map and chart is calcu lated. All England sets its time by the mean solar clock, and In addition to the dally and nightly observations of the heavens elaborate records are kept of diurnal changes In the temper ature and humidity, the direction and force of the wind, the amount of sun shine and rainfall, the earth's mag netism and 'a host of meteorological matters forming a science of dally In-, creasing importance and Interest..." ' There Is a large galvano magnetic clock fixed on the outside wall of the observatory and divided Into tweuty four hours. There are still many who believe this clock Is kept going by the sun. They do not know that the fixed stars are the real timekeepers from which Britishers check their dally progress. The sidereal clock, kept within one of the buildings of the observatory, Is corrected by observation of the stars every clear night, and every morning Derore 10 o'clock the mean solar clock is checked from it The latter Is housed below the time ball on the tower which dominates the bill and is In magnetic connection with the clock In the boundary wall, which has furnished the correct time to countless visitors to the hill since it was placed there In 1852. ' Woman 8slls th Tim. To this galvano magnetic clock. In the- wall comes every Monday a wo man who makes $2,500 a year out of the queerest occupation In England. She sells the time to London watch makers. Her name is Miss Belleville of Maid enhead. Eighty years ago the then astronomer royal ' suggested to ber father that If he took the corrected time on a certified chronometer every week be could no doubt find numerous clients. So be bought a famous watch made for the Duke of Essex, one of the sons of George III., and soon worked np a business with it When be died his widow Bold the time till she reach ed the age of eighty-one, and then she handed the business over to her daughter. When Miss Belleville visits Green wich at the beginning of every week ber chronometer Is corrected and she is given an official certificate. . From that ber fifty customers correct their watches and clocks. Radium in Turkestan. A new source of radium supply Las been discovered In Turkestan. Radium bearing uranium ore has already been obtained In considerable quantities. The native miners have found that cuts and other wounds which would take a long time to heal In other mines are very quickly cured by applying a small quantity of powdered uranium ore to the spot. Australia to Own Telegraph. The Australian government proposes a state owned telegraphic service to Great Britain. B. F. Mulkey Candidate. JACKSONVILLE, Formal an nouncement has been made by B. F. Mulkey of his candidacy for the re publican nomination for congress to succeed Representative Hawley. STREET TRAFFIC SQUADS DUE TO ONE MAN'S LABOR. William Phelps Ero Credited With . Now York's Achievements. To William I'helps Euo is owing the street trunk- coutrol system which has so often attracted the ntlentiuu of vis itors to New York. But a tew years since blocks and Jams lu the busy bours were of dally occurrence on the principal streets of the city. It re quired not alone minutes, but frequent ly hours to disentangle the masses of wagons, carts uud carriages, even street cars, by the police aud permit it resumption of traffic. One of the favorite "stuuts" of hu morous writers iu the newspapers was a description of the picturesque oaths, habits and skirmishes of the drivers and coachmen on these occasions. As far as pedestrians were concerned, it was frequently a life und death strug gle for them to pass from curb to curb, and it became a recognized duty of po licemen to act as escorts for women and children on the street crossings ,Mr. Eno, a New Yorker by birth, of independent means aud a lover of horses, with personul experience of the dangers of the streets, was attract ed to the question of Improviug condi tions and eleven years ago began a systematic study of the problem. He visited London. Paris aud other large cities, conferring with the police aud other city officials, made diagrams aud drawings and gradually evolved what he believed was a practical working system of traffic control. Then he be gan a systematic educational campaign with the authorities of New York Step by Btep he gradually won over to his views the various officials having control of the streets. There being neither honor nor reward for either the Individual or commis sion, It was a long aud thankless task. The natural lnertlu -of officeholders, who had nothing to gain by Improved methods, and the traditional habits and customs of the city departments had to be met and overcome. Many setbacks had to be met aud indiffer ence overcome, but they were over come by patience and perslsteuee, aud today New York city street traffic is among the models upon which other cities are. lookiug as examples for effi cient control. ' The city authorities of London and Paris, the latter city especially, have asked Mr. End's aid'' in solving their traffic problems, and he is now lu the latter city trying to help them bring order out of chaos, for the streets of Paris have always been of all cities the most congested and dangerous. THEODORE DER GROSSE, EH? Foreign Steamship Companies May Capture American Names. - At luncheon In New York a day or two ago some men of the shipping world were discussing the subject of steamship nomenclature, and It was generally conceded that something must be done abroad to prevent new steamships from acquiring the names of prominent American characters, cit ies and politicians. With the Martha Washington, the George Washington, the President Grant, the President Lincoln, the United States, the Pennsylvania and the Chicago, all owned by foreign com panies, it was said that there was no limit to the American names that might be thrust upon the proposed steamships of the various foreign lines running to this port. It was suggested that the Hamburg American line might call Its new 45, 000 ton liner the Theodore der Grosse: the next creation of the Red Star line might be the Uugheslund; the White Star the Loeblc, the Cuuard the Taft onla, the Holland-America the Cannon dam, the French line the La Follette, the Scandinavian-American line the Helllg Harmon, the Italian line the Re dl Gaynor, the Anchor line the Griscomalla, and last, but not least, the American line If It ever builds a new steamship the Oyster Bay. BALLINGER BACK HOME ays Visit East Was Misunderstood; . Resignation Not Asked. SEATTLE. Secretary of the Inter, lor Richard A. Balllnger returned from his visit to Minnesota and Chi cago,wblch has been made the occa sion of so much speculation and gos sip. Interviewed, he said:' "My conference with Senator Crane bad no relation to any matter personal to myself not in the slight est degree. Let me tell you this: K I should resign it would be in order to leave me free to prosecute tboBo persons who have been Instrumental In the publication of libelous and de famatory attacks upon my character and It Is undoubtedly from them that the repeated stories of resignation emanate." His Wish. Tom-1 wish this K-u dollar bill was a ten dollHr debt. Dick - Heavens! Why? Tom --I'd neter get rid of It Cleveland Leader. HEAVY CAPITAL BACKSPEARSON Aspirant For American Railway Honors Big Promoter.. IMPORTANT MEXICAN FACTOR. English Capitalists Invest 1110,000,000 In Diaz Republio In Transportation Lines, Lumber and Other Industrial Features Lowell Civil Engineer Also South American Figure. The recent elimination of Dr. F. 8. Pearson from an important position In the American railway world through the liquidation of the holdings of the Farquhar-Peurson syndicate in Lehigh Valley and Rock island recently has Invited the attention of the financial world to the uctivlties of a Massachu setts civil engineer who In the last ten yeurs has gathered about him a group of financial Interests whose wealth runs iuto tbo huudreds of millions. Frederick Stark Pearson was born In Lowell, Mass., In 18(11 and received a technical education at Tufts college, In that state. He subsequently became an Instructor in chemistry in the Mas sachusetts Institute of Technology. While a young man he became Inter ested in the construction of electric light and street railway enterprises in Massachusetts and built up a large fol lowing among investors in New Eng land. Big Work. In Braxll. ' Dr. Pearson then went to Rio de Janeiro and San Paulo, in Brazil, where he installed electric light, power and street railway systems. In these en terprises be first became associated with English capitalists and built up a close connection with the bankiug house of Sperllu & Co., Perclval Far (Hhar, P. M. Home-Payne aud H. M. Hubbard, well kuown London capital ists. From South America Dr. Pearson ex tended his field of operations to Mex ico, where he built a very large hydro electric plant at the falls of Necexa river, near the City of Mexico. In this enterprise alone about $40,000,000 has been invested. Altogether Dr. Pear sou's associates have spent over $110, 000,000 in the republic of Mexico. It Is Dr. Pearson's entry into the railway world of Mexico a few months ago that brlugs him into special prom inence as a financial power. He and his associates now own the nucleus of what promises to be one of the great est independent railway systems In that country. It will form a new trunk line, reaching from the United States border to the port of Aglabampo, on the Paclllc coast of Mexico, The Mexico Northwestern system will aggregate about 1,100 miles of truck as uow planned. The report that It will afford an outlet for the Rock Island to the Pacific coast of Mexico lends additional Interest to the project. In Mexican Manufaoturee. Besides his vast electrical and rail way Interests In Mexico, Dr. Pearson Is at the head of the largest lumber manufacturing enterprises lu Mexico. He and his associates own 3,000,000 acres of tlmbcrlaud situated adjacent to the Mexico Northwestern railroad. This Is said to lie the largest privately Cartfui Banking Insures the Softly of Diposits," Depositors Have That Guarantee at WALLOWA NATIONAL BANK OK KNTKIIPR1HE, OREGON CAPITAL J0.000 SURPLUS 155,000 Wc Do a General Banking. Business. Exchange Bought and Sold on All Principal Cities. Geo. W. Hvatt, President Geo. 8. Craig, Vioe President Geo ,8. Craig J. H. Dobbin 293 acres Alder Slope, $23,000.00 80 acres Alder Slope, $ 8,000.00 160 acres hill land, about six miles out, $2,000.00 320 acres, 12 miles out, $3,200.00 City Lot, $100 to 3300 Residence Property $60O to $3,000 Fire Insurance Surety Bond Live Stock Insurance W. E. TAGGART m Pionecr Beal Estate Mag- ENTERPRISE, : : : OREGON owned timber holding upon the conti nent. It Is estimated that there are 11,000,000,000 feet of pine lumber upon the tract. This 8,000,000 acre timber tract cov ers such' a wide expanse of territory that parts of It have beenbnly casually explored. It la a paradise for wild game, such as deer, bear and many other kinds of animals. Connected with the lumber manufacturing enter prise, Dr. Pearson and associates op erate large turpentine stills. There Is apparently no limit to the Industrial expansion of the Pearson interests In Mexico. One of their latest ' enterprises Is the construction of a steel and chemical plant In the City of Mexico which will represent an invest ment of more than $1,000,000 In gold when finished. CHINA BUYS AMERICAN GEMS. 8on of Secretary of Treasury In "Mo natical Seclusion." One of the largest transactions In American gems on record was made in Los Angeles several days ago, when a mining company of New York sold to a Chinese merchant for export to China 858,500 carats of pink tourma line, of gem quality, from the Mesa , Grande tourmaline mines In San Diego county, Cal. In size the crystals ranged from 100 to 1,000 carats each. In China the pink tourmaline Is sa cred and Is supposed to assure to the (rearer long life, health and prosper ity and a happy hereafter; hence In that country It Is the most prized of precious stones, outranking even the diamond. DAYLIGHT SAVING PROSPERS. Canada, Australia and Nsw Zealand Favor Plan. Select committees In the parliaments of Canada, Victoria (In Australia) and New Zealand have recommended the adoption of bills embodying the day light saving scheme. The staff of the Canadian Pacific railway at Montreal has adopted it. In Egypt for some years past business hours have dif fered In summer and winter. NILE OYSTERS ARE LARGE. Important Geological Diaoovery Made - In Egypt. Dr. Hume, heud of the Egyptian geo logical survey, says in an article In the Cairo Scientific Journal that gov ernment engineers constructing a bridge from Boulac to Ghezlreh while boring for the erection of the piers came across the remains of an old building on which were found clinging a large number of oysters of a giant species. Some of them have most perfect mother-of-pearl. They belong to what Is called the Aetherla nllotlca, and traces of this species are to be found all over Egypt, but above the present level of the Nile. Their existence In such places has greatly helped scien tists in determining previous courses of the river. The Nile oyster bos some interesting comrades In the Nile crab and the lanistes, a sort of snail, which differs from the ordinary snail in that It has Its spiral wound In the reverse direc tion. It remains to be seen whether this oyster Is of an edible nature. This discovery of pearl bearing oys ters is Interesting In view of the ex periments of the Eoudau government In the Red sea. Learn Dutoh and English. The pupils In the schools of British South Africa are to be taught both Dutch and English, using the former as an aid to teaching the latter. W. R. Holmes, Caitbier A. J. Boehmer, Amt. Cashier DIRKCTOKS Gko. W. Hyatt M attic A. Holm as W. R. Holm n