TwiceaWeek Wednesday Edition TIE NB com ALL THE OFFICIAL NEWS OF WALLOWA COUNTY IN THE NH ALL THE NEWS WHILE II IS NEW8 TWICE. A-WEEK NEWS RECORD TWELFTH YEAR. NO. 31. ENTERPRISE, WALLOWA COUNTY, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1910V CITY OFFICIAL PAPER ws RE Cent a word single insertion, 1V4 cents a word 2 insertions. Special rates by month and year. - WANTED. Violin pupils. Miss Pearl Humphrey, graduate ot Notre Dame Academy. Call ait J. L. Browning. 24bm LOST .OR. STRAYED. Two pigs, sandy with . black spots. Finder communicate - with C. E. Funk, Enterprise. 19btf , MONEY TO LOAN State Funds loaned, 6 per cent. John P. Rusk. AttyJ State "Land B'd. Joseph Farm loans ef. 7V4 percent. Call or write First Bank of Joseph. 58bf! FOR 8ALE. Wonder Washer at Riley's 27b4 Fresh, cow anid call; also surrey, team and harness. Inquire at M., & 11. flour mill, Enterprise. - 27b2f Lota In Troy townelte for sale at $20 and up. O. R. & N. railroad is now making final location' survey on Grande Ronde- -river between Rondowa and Snake river. When road is butlit Troy will be the larg est town .and chief trading center of the entire North Country. . See' or write H. E, Merryman, owner, Enterprise, Oregon. 27btf New 8 room house and 3 lots in souhteast part of town. Will be sold for $2000, the actual cost of lots and house,; it taken soon. In quire at this office. - 27btl - LO ST. Lap robe, on road between Galloway homestead and Baker & Smith livery barn. Finder please return to barn. WANTED TO TRADE. Horses, sheep or town property .to trade for farm land. See" Enter prise Real Estate Co, Wagner & Corklns, Enterprise, Oregon. . tf CANDIDATES ATTENTION I Nominating '.petitions for county and district candidates before the primary September 24, for sale at this office. -Nicely bound. Complete ts only $1 at office on by mail. : Free Roads 'Across Reservation. ', ' PENDLETON. After several years' fight, the stookmen of Umatilla coun ty, assisted by the county court and the business men of this community, have secured free roads across the Umatilla Indian reservation, accord r ing to an order Just received by Ma jor Swartilander, the local agent, from the department of Indian affairs at Washington. The order specifies that the roads shall be taken over by the county coart, maintained as coun ty roads, and that stockmen shall give bonds' not to consume more than a certain length of time in driving their stock across the reservation and to be responsible for any damages inflicted by their stock. THE MARKETS. Portland. . Wheat Track prices; Club, 86c; bluestem, 96; red Russian, 85c. ' Barley Feed and brewing, $24. . i Oats No. 1 White, $32 per ton. Hay Timothy, Willamette Valley, $1819 per ton; Eastern - Oregon, $20022; alfalfa,' $13014. . ' ; Butter Extra, S3c; fancy, 83c; ranch, 23c. . Eggs Ranch, candled, 23c. ; Hops 1909 crop, 1013c; . olds, nominal. ' ' :-" 1 t Wool Eastern Oregon, 14 17c per pound. ' ' " Mohair 3233c. " " Seattle, red Russian, 90c. " Wheat Bluestem, 94c; club, 92c; Oats $33 per ton. ' Barley $24 per ton. Hay Timothy, $22 per ton; alfalfa, $14 per ton. . " Butter Washington C&amery, 33cj ranch, 22c. ' " ' '. Eggs Selected local, 32c. . ' : Excursion to the Seashore, On Tuesday, August 23d, the O. R. A N. Co. will operate a special train ezcnrslon to Porta and in con nection with their steamers to North Beach resorts. - This special train Fill leave La Grande at 8:00 p. m., arrivtrg in Portland at 7:15 a. m, .Wednesday, August 24th. Passen ger have choice of steamers leaving Portland a follows: The T. J. Pot ter leaving at 8:30 a. m. Wednes day and Thursday, or the steamer Hassale leaving at 8:00 p. m. Wed nesday and Thursday. ; Make : your reservations' for sleeping cars now. Ask the agent for further particulars. IDAHO SETTLERS FLEE FROM FOREST FIRES Elk City District Fiery Furnace. Wallace Saved by Heavy Downpour. .. SPOKANE. Settlers on the Big Creek of the St. Joe River in the Coeur d'Alene district, Idaho, are re ported to have been driven from their homes by the ravages of forest fires and Joseph BurzinBky and wife are missing.' The settlers who escaped say the Burzlnsky home was one of the first in the path of the S&tnea, and the fact that the Burzlnskys have not been seen or heard of leads to the belief that they have been caught and perished. - . At Wallace, Idaho, hundreds Of pounds of . dynamite, hung to limbs of trees on the high, points surrounding the city and exploded in the hop that the effect might produce rain to check the devastation by forest fires, is said to have , had a result, for rata has been falling for the first time In two months. The fall has been very heavy. Loss Is Immense. Information comes from Dayton, Wash., that the forest fires in the Wenaha reserve are under control. The fires have raged ten days and burned over a large area, destroying several million feet of timber. It Is said to be the most serious that has occurred in the Blue Mountains for a number of years. A special from Stltes, Idaho, Says the forest fire situation in the Elk City district is the worst in the his tory of that region. Under the in fluence of the high winds prevailing In the mountains for the last two days and nights, the forest fires are burning with redoubled fury.' Oregon Man Is Victim. ' SACRAMENTO. Cal. The body of the man shot to death by Patrolman George Maley in the belief that he was a puree-snatcher who had robbed and beaten three women' last week, has been Identified as that of Earnest A. Frailer, whose mother and father live at Lebanon, Ore. The Identifi cation was brought about through the receipt of a letter at the address at which Frazier was- living, from a girl in Westfalls, Ore.' The letter is in the hands of the police. KEYNOTE WILL BE SO U N DEDB Y T AFT BEVERLY, Mass. President Taf t has decided to accept the invitation tc address the national league of repub llcan clubs at Carnegie hall, New York, on September 30. There Is likelihood tnat this will be the president's one speech of the cam palgn, and, as he will be surrounded by a political atmosphere,' it is prob able that politics will enter largely into what he has to say. The, speech may prove to be the keynote of the campaign, for Mr. Taft will give a resume of what the republican party has accomplished since his adminis tration began and what it hopes to ac complish. ; Threatened Sugar War On. SAN FRANCISCO. The first gun In the contemplated sugar war be tween members of the Spreckela fam ily was fired with the arrival of the well known American' ship Lyra from Yonkera; N. Y.a bringing to the Fed eral Sugar Refining Company, sugar amounting to 10,000,000 pounds. . Wounded Mayer Improved.' NEW YORK. Mayor Gaynor is progressing favorably toward recov ery from the bullet wound in his neck, according to all Information ob tainable from hospital physicians. No symptoms of blood poisoning have V- pvared.'and the danger of unfavor able developments is hourly becoming less. - " - 'Pray for Mayor Gayner. . . NEW YORK. In tbe churches of every, denomination in New York Sunday prayers .were offered for the recovery of Mayor Gaynor, who was shot last week. ' Pruning the Grape. In pruning tbe grape cut back to tbe third bud. as It Is usually the first entirely perfect bud produced. SENATOR WESLEY L JONES One of the Investigator - ef Senator. Goro'a Bribery Charges. FARMERS OUST MIDDLEMEN Field-to-Consumer Idea Is Growing In Indiana. ',.'.. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. Within the next 30 days the most comprehensive efforts that have ever been made to organize Indiana farmers Into devoted Belf Interest will be inaugurated and paid organizers will be at work In all parts of the state. Steps have already been taken to raise a fund for the disposal of mil lions of dollars' worth of grain from a central depot in this city and ele vators and other buildings are to be erected from which agents of the farmers are to sell their products di rect to shippers and consumers. The plan is much the same as that adopt ed by the brewers In Kentucky and other states, and farmers interested In It believe It will be quite as suc cessful. ... BELGIUM WORLD'S FAIR DESTROYED BY FIRE BRUSSELS. One of the costliest conflagrations in European history wiped out the Be'gian Exposition Sunday night, entailing an enormous loss, estimated at a late hour at $100, 000 000. So far as known only two persons are dead and two score in jured. The White City of the world's fair, as the Belgians have called their 1910 exposition, early in the evening was a mass of flames, and now' is smouldering ruins. A spark falling Into inflammable material in the tele graph building, burst into flames, and, driven by a high wind, swept rapid ly In all directions. - Bands of thieves engaged in pillage and a soldier was stabbed .while at tempting to arrest three men whom he found rifling a jewelry exhibit The aggregate loss will be enor mous.. The diamond exhibitors are heavy losers. Exposition International. The. exposition was universal and International, and opened in April of this year, to -continue six months. Prominent on the programs were special exhibitions of various kinds, special agricultural and horticultural shows, congresses, conferences and artistic and sportive feats. Special games and competitions also received attention. The exposition covered an area of about 200 acres, a large number of which was reserved for foreign sec tions. Beside . the buildings, areas, fences, . kiosks and various otber things, the grounds contained railroad terminals, connecting with the Bel gian State Railway. " Indians Would Become Paupers. . SULPHUR, Okla. Witnesses testi fied before the congressional Indian land Investigating committee that If the Indian lands In Oklahoma were sold and the $30,000,000 proceeds were turned over to ths Indians In cash, the state within ten years would be flooded with paupers. 8almon Pack Below Average. SEWARD, Alaska. Reports re ceived here are that the salmon pack In the Bristol Bay district and also at Karluk and Uyak. Kodlak Island, will fall far short of the average. PRESIDENT PLANS LEADERSHIP CHANGE New Political Move May Retire Speaker Cannon and Sen ator Aldrich. BEVERLY, Mass. Everything that happened the past week around the summer capital conspires to the be lief that the administration is prepar ing to clean house, and that a com plete political readjustment in circles close to President Is in progress. : Athough he is not to retire until after March 4, 1911 and Senator Aid rich confirmed to President Taft dur lng his recent visit his intention to do so the readjustment plans now . In progress' apparently treat whatever influence Mr. Aldrich may have had with the president' as a thing of the past. - The elimination of Mr. Aldrich, ac cording to close political observers, is soon to be followed' by the retirement SECRETARY BALLINGER. of Secretary Ballinger from the cab Inet The retirement of Mr. Ballinger is said to be fixed for September 15. Move Against Cannon Planned. The third move in contemplation is said to be directed egainst Speaker Cannon. It is not admitted In Beverly that Mr. Cannon will even be a can didate for the speakership. Reports have reached Beverly that ths recent results in Kansas and Iowa were due largely to the activity of Speaker Cannon in Kansas, to the charges against Senator Aldrich and to doubt in the West as to whether he actually Intended to retire. Senator W. Murray Crane, of Mas sachusetts has been one of the active forces in the new political movement. It was he who went West to see Secretary Ballinger and It was he who also went to see Senator Aldrich t Warwich, R. I. Hereafter, Senator Crane's movements will be watched with particular Interest. TO ELECT 3S GOVERNORS Greatest Number Elected at Same Time In History of Union. WASHINGTON. At the coming fall elections more states will elect governors than ever before In the his tory of the Union. For the first time Oregon is to join the list of common wealths electing their executives in November. J. . A total of thirty-six governors are to be elected this fall. Thirty-two win be voted for 'at the general elections In November. ... Three states Ver mont, Maine and Arkansas will vote for governor next month, and Georgia will elect Its executive In October. Warrant Out for Detective Burns. SAN FRANCISCO: -Another echo of the famous Perrin-Benson-Snell liti gation reached the federal courts when a complaint was filed charging William J. Burns, the graft prosecu tion, sleuth, with subordination of per jury. The complaint is based spon the re cent Indictment of Charles P. Snell by the federal grand jury for perjury. It is charged against Burns that he Induced and persuaded Snell so to tes tify falsely. A Heavy Watch. A watch carried by the Einteror , Charles V. In 1530 weighed twenty seven pounds. BRIEF NEWS OF THE WEEK The world's largest masonry span Is nearlng completion as part of a bridge in New Zealand. It Is 320 feet long by 20 wide, and 147 feet high. Tbe official call has been Issued for the 'fifth annual session of the Dry Farming Congress, to meet October 3 to 6, at Spokane, Wash. The striking cloakmakers In New York City number more than 80,000 men and women, according to a brief submitted to the supreme court by their employers, who seek to have the union restrained by a permanent In junction on the ground that the work ers are maintaining an Illegal combi nation In striking against the open shop. A phase of Asiatic Immigration that U beginning to attract attention Is the increasing number of Japanese wom en that the transpacific liners are bringing to San Francisco. Many of these women are of the coolie class. Following the announcement that 20,000 Filipinos were to be imported to the Hawaiian islands as sugar plan tation laborers, tbe organization of anti-oriental labor leagues has begun at Honolulu. NEWS OF NOTED PERSONS President Samuel Qompers has an nounced that the next annual conven tion of the American Federation ot Labor would open in St. Louis, Mo., on Monday, November 14. Colonel Roosevelt completed the conservation and political speeches he Is to make In the West, particular ly before the national conservation congress In St. Paul on September 6. Mrs. Margaret Emerson McKlm was granted a decree of absolute di vorce from her husband, Dr. S. H. McKlm, of New York, at Reno, Ne vada, after she took the stand and told of alleged cruelty on the part ot her husband. James Whltcomb Riley, Hoosler poet and "human Interest" philos opher, who was recently stricken with a slight attack of paralysis, Is report ed better and out of danger, n.James, J. Jeffries, former champion prizefighter of the world, has gone into the laundry business. Not that he Is advertising, but $50,000 of the money he received for the Reno fight he loaned to a Los Angeles laundry company and took a mortgage on the concern for the amount. The oldest member of the United States senate In point of years is Sen ator Cullom of Illinois, who will be 81 years old next November, General B. J. Viljoen, who com manded one of the main divisions of tbe Boers In the war with Great Bri tain, and who is now a rancher In the Mesllla valley of southern New Mex ico, has been offered the post ot as sistant minister of native offices In the South African protectorate. CRIMES AND MISHAPS i The first class British armored cruiser Duke of Edlnburg, with '750 officers and men on board went ashore In a dense fog striking on the rocks at St Catherine, Isle of Wight From July 31 "until August , 20,668 cases of cholera were reported throughout Russia, with 8679 deaths., One-third of the city ot Toklo Is flooded from constant rains. It is 'es timated that 2,000,000 persons in the surrounding country are without shelter or food and are starving. Con ditions In the capital are worse than during any great flood of recent times in Japan. Sweeping down out ot the sky with a sharp hiss, a small meteorite crash ed against a blind on the bouse of Al fred H. Rlckards In Montrose, Mass., and set tbe house on fire. Charged with having conspired to violate the Sherman anti-trust law in connection with ths alleged organisa tion of a cotton pool, in New York, Indictments were returned in the fed eral court against James A. Patten, the "cotton king," and a number of prominent brokers. Peaches Blossom Again. STOCKTON, Cal. Excessive heat has caused a phenomenon In the fruit world here that Is creating much In terest Peach trees laden on one side with green leaves and ripe fruit and the opposite side with as fine blosroms as were ever seen In April or May have set the wise ones guess ing. The oddity was caused by work men of the Central California Trac tion Company line burning the grass along the tracks of that line on the Cherokee Lane road of the lnterbur ban between Stockton and Lodl. ITEMS OF INTEREST THROUGHOUT OREGON Chronicle of Important Events of Interest to Our Readers Time Is Extended. SALEM. While August 14 Is the latest date at which candidates under the law can file nominating petitions and be permitted to have their cuts and arguments appear In the pamph let to be Issued by the state printer, ' but few petitions had been received by the secretary ot state. The secre tary, however, has decided not to In sist upon strict, enforcement of the law and candidates filing their peti tions between now and August 22, the latest date at which cuts and argu ments must be In the hands ot the secretary of state, will be allowed to have their cuts and arguments appear In the pamphlet. Any candidate filing his petlton after that fate will be too late, as the secretary of state must turn the cuts and arguments over to the printer by August 25. 13 Injured In A Trolley Crash. PORTLAND. Thirteen persons were more or less hurt when an elec trio car on tbe Oregon City line struck a string of freight cars In this city. The accident occurred on a ' long curve, the headlight shining on a tangent, leaving In ' the dark the freight cars, which were taking a sid ing. None of the passengers are seri ously Injured. CHASE WON BY POSSE Horsethlef Is Shot Dead, but "Pal", Makes Escape. KLAMATH FALLS. A posse In pursuit of two horse thieves came upon them near the Callahan ranch, 12 miles northwest of Dairy, and killed one, named Dumoas, but tbe other, named Kuhl, made his escape. '' A number of mules and horses were stolen from the country In the vicin ity of Sliver Lake and a posse was or ganized and pursued the thieves. They were trailed to Sprague River, where the trial was lost, but was found again near Williamson river. As the posse came over the moun tains near the Callahan ranch they came upon the men and called upon them to surrender. Dumoas attempt ed to get behind a tree, but before he could do so be was shot and killed. His companion succeeded In mak ing bis escape and the posse Is still in pursuit. The horses and mules were recovered. - Red Spiders Damage Hops. SALEM. S anding between two evils, a record breaking drought In the Willamette valley and an unpre cedented scourge of the red spider, the hop crop of the state of Oregon bas suffered Immensely the past week or 10 days and the yield, conserva tively estimated from the standpoint of both tbe 'bulls and bears," wlh fall approximately 6000 bales below that of last year. The yield of last year was about 84,000 bales, and the latest estimate tor this season ranges be tween $2,00 and 100,000 bales. STATE SEAL IS CHANGED Discovery Made Alterations Were Not Authorized. SALEM. Discovery bas been made that several parts of the present seal of Oregon are without authority ot law, as a resula of an Investigation made by tbe secretary of state's office, upon request of Elliott Woods, super intendent of the United States capltol and grounds at Washington. Mr Woods sent a request for a copy ot the present state seal In colors. On the celling of the house ot represen tatives In Washington seals of the various states are shown as prepared la 1857 and It Is desired to bring these down to date. Chief Clerk Corey Is at a loss to know just how to send the state seal for use .at the national capltol, as there are apparently some unauthor ised additions, as the teal now stands. China Depends on 8elf. PEKIN. The Chinese government bas decided to employ no diplomatic adviser In the future, a decision that has come as a surprise, and to some extent a disappointment to the forelgr communities of the Far East