Oregon Historical Socle, y
Tivice'Q'Week
Wednesday Edition
ALL THE OFFICIAL
NEWS OF WALLOWA
COUNTY IN THE NH
ALL THE NEWS WHILE
11 IS NEWS TWICE.
A WEEK NEWS RECORD
TWELFTH YEAR.
NO. 39.
ENTERPRISE, WALLOWA COUNTY, OREGON, . WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1910
CITY OFFICIAL PAPER
THE : NEWSRECOI?!D
"Wants
: Cent a word single insertion, 1
cents a word 2 insertions. Special
rates by month and year.
MONEY TO LOAN
Slate Funds loaned, 6 per cent. John
P. Rusk. Attj. State Land B'd. Joseph
Farm loans &. 7Vi percent. Call or
write First Bank of Joseph. 68btt
FOR 8ALE.
One mlllk cow, Jersey and Holafcein.
Good milker. Enquire of J. L Brown
ing at E. M. & M. store. 37b3 '
Two lots In AWer View addition to
the city of Eoterprl'ie. Beautiful lo
cation. A genuine bargain. Wm. H.
McFetrldee. 37bm
Good second-hand organ' cheap. in
quire at Enterprise Livery Barn, bm
Lots In Troy townslte for sale at
$20 and up. O. R. & N. railroad
la now making final location' survey
on Grande Ronde river between
Rondowa and Snake river. When
road ( built 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 a nous iu
souhteast part of town. Will be
sold for $2000, the actual cost of
lots and house, if taken soon. In-
FOR RENT.
WANTED TO TRADE.
Horses, sheep or town property to
trade for farm land. See Enter
prise Real Estate Co., Wagner &
Corkliis, Enterprise, Oregon. tf .
Ml S C E L LA NE O U B.
Instructlon in music. Private tutor
ing In modern and classical lan
guages. Jean, M. Williamson, A.
B;. Methodist parsonage. 39 r 2
Good wages, -working Modern Broth
erhood of America. Society stands
among the most prominent in, the
field. : Write me for terms and plans.
3111 W. 5th Ave., Spokane, Wash.
John J. Goa.r state manager. ' lc4
Wanted Cosmopolitan Magazine re-
1 11. ... m
tive In Enterprise to look after sub
scription renewal aimdto' extend cir
culation, by special methods which
have proved unusually successful.
Salary and commission. Previous
experience desirable but not essen
tial. Whole time or spare time. Ad
dress, with references, H. C. Camp
tell, Cosmopolitan! Magazine, 1789
Broadway, New York City. 37t2
Nominating petitions for county
and district candidates before the
primary September 24, for sale at
this office. Nicely bound. Com Die te
lets only $1 at office on by mall.
; Controller of the Currency Murray,
In a statement, asserts that every re
cent national bank failure could have
been averted if bank examiners had
reported actual conditions. He an
nounces that he will make a personal
Investigation of every district.
, 7 fees Yield 47 In Fruit.
HOOD RIVER. Dr. W. R. Colley
reports the largest yield of Graven
t tefn apples in the valley. He packed
251 boxes from eight 14-year-old trees.
It will be Interesting to know that the
fruit sold for $1.50 per box, or at the
rate of $47.06 per tree. At this rate
an acre containing 60 Gravensteln
trees would bring in a gross return
ot between $2500 and $3000.
R008EVELT ON
x 8TATEMENT NO. 1
"It has been stated to me since
my arrival here," said Colonel
Roosevelt today, "that rn, spite
of Senator La Follette's hav
ing carried the primaries In
fair and open contest, an '
effort will be made to beat him
in' the Legislature. I do not
for one moment believe this.
because any such conduct
would be from every point of
view an outrage that would be
a deliberate violation of good
faith.. -
"When, in Oregon, the Demo
cratic candidate for Senator,
Governor Chamberlain, carried
the primaries and It wa pro
posed that the Republican Leg
islature should turn him down,
I strongly and publicly took
the posiikn that such an act
would be one of bad faith by
the -Legislature toward the peo
ple, and I take the same posl
n in regard to Senator La
Fo'.ie'.te."
ITEMS OF INTEREST
THROUGHOUT OREGON
Chronicle of Important Events
cf Interest to Our
Headers.
Boulevard To Sea Is Plan. )
MARSHFIELD. Construction of a
boulevard and park from Marshfleld
to the sea w'.jf be approved by tlfe city
council if the co-operation of the prop
erty owners concerned can be se
cured. ... .The idea originated with
Mayor Straw to secure a strip of land
350 feet wide from the west end ot
the city straight through the timber
to Tarheel Point, and to build down
the center of the strip a fine roadway.
The land is owned mostly by ,tbe
Southern Pacific, the Southern Ore
gon Company and the Coos Bay Wa
ter Company, and these owners will
be asked to donate the right of way:
The road would extend through beau
tiful timber. . -
Chase Rustlers In Auto.
EUGENE. Sheriff R. Odell of Mai
heur County and Sheriff A. K. Rich
ardson of Harney County made on Im
portant capture of two alleged horse
thieves at Goshen, six miles south o
Eugene, after a chase of 450 miles by
automobile and railroad trains all the
way from Vale. The alleged thieve?
are Ivan Ware and' a companion bj
the name of Hamilton. They are ac
cused of stealing 60 horses from Wll
11am Isaacs of Sucker Creek, Malheur
County.. '
The men had 40 head of horses In a
corral at Goshen when arrested.
Pendleton Academy Sued.
PENDLETON. An attachment suit
has been filed by James Gwinn against
the Pendleton academy. Some of the
instructors of the lnstitut'.on who had
not been paid all their salaries trans
ferred their claims to Mr. Gwlnn, who
has filed an attachment against
Brown "Hall and the administration
building. "
SUBMARINE MINES PLANTED
FORT STEVENS.T-Great activity
In submarine work Is apparent at
Fort Stevens. The entire river mouth
has been carefully laid out and sys
tems of laying submarine mines so ar
ranged as to render it practically im
possible for attacking vessels to ever
safely pass by. These mines are so
constructed that their explosion is
completely controlled by electric, con
nection with the shore batteries. In
struments , on shore can carefully
track an approaching vessel, await
the moment It is over a group of
mines, touch an electric button and
instantaneously the approaching boat
Is reduced to a' mass of wreckage,
which is swallowed in a wild vortex
of foaming,, swirling water. The sub
marine mines are also .arranged . so
that they can be made to explode by
contact, a mere touch from the ene
my's boat sufficing to eliminate itself.
Charged With 8tartlng Fir.
EUGENE. J. H. Gregg, who was
arrested in the Cascade forest reserve
east of Eugene by Ranger Farrington,
charged w'th setting out fire In the
reserve, was given an examination be
fore United States Commissioner W,
W. Calkins and was bound over in the
sum of $2500 to appear for trial In
the federal court at. Portland. While
there was not any direct evidence
against Gregg, the government
brought out testimony that he was
present when the fire was started.
SAYS SQUATTERS SET FIRES
MEDFORD. That the recent for
est fires which prevailed throughout
the Crater national forest were set
out by dlscruntled squatters In the
forest Is the belief of M. L. Erlckson,
supervisor in charge. Mr. Erlckson
states- that he has evidence which in
criminates certain of the squatters
and states that cbargss will probably
be preferred in the near future.
"It was a most discouraging task,"
states Mr. Erlckson,- "to fight forest
fires, knowing that new ones were be
ing set on ail sides of you. One night
six were set in the neighborhood of
the fire at Cat Hill to my certain
knowledge. No effort will be spared
by the local office to secure convic
tions."' The troops which have been fight
ing the local fires have returned to
their barracks in Washington.
GLENN CURTISS.
Latest Photograph of Daring
j Aaroplaniit ' and. Invntor. .
30 PERSONS LOST
WHEN FERRY SINKS
LUDINGTON, Mich. Thirty lives
were lost when Pere Marquette ferry
No. 18, bound from Ludington to Mil
waukee, went to the bottom of Lake
Michigan. . - . '
The disaster was one of the worst
In the history of navigation on Lake i
Michigan. The oar ferry Pere Mar-'
quette No. 18, was the flagship of a
fleet of six steel car ferries owned
and operated by the Pere Marquette
Railroad Company.
The boat was valued at $400,000,
and the cargo, which Included 29 load
ed cars, at $100,000 to $150,000. The
total loss will exceed $500,000, which
.Is fully covered by insurance.
The cause of the disaster is a mys
tery. Among the survivors the conclu
sion seems to be that the car ferry's
after , water compartment filled
through an oper or broken deadlight,
which was followed at the last min
ute by a bursting of bulkheads. ,
Roosevelt Denounces Lawlessness.
COLUMBUS, O. Coming to the
scene of the street car riots which
kept Columbus In a state of disorder
for weeks, ex-President Roosevelt, In
a speech here, denounced in strongest
terms acts ot lawlessness and men
who committed them.
"Hush" Fund Discovered. .
NEW YORK. The charge that
thousands of dollars had been depos
ited to his credit by representatives
of street interests was made before
the investigation committee of the leg
islature against ex-Senator Goodsell,
of Orange County.
HAMILTON BADLY INJURED
Aviator Breaks World's Record, Then
Drops and May Be Fatally Hurt.
SACRAMENTO, Cal. Charles K.
Hamilton, the aviator, was seriously,
if not fatally, Injured when his Cur
tiss biplane, "Hamlltonlan," In the
presence of 20,000 state fair visitors,
crashed to the ground In the center
of the -race track enclosure within an
Instant after lowering the world's rec
ord for traveling around a circular
mile. He completed the e'reuit in one
minute flat during the three laps.
Hookworm In New York MJk.
NEW YORK. The hookworm has
been found In considerable numbers
In the milk and butter supply of New
York, by Dr. C. C. Carroll,, a Pennsyl
vania fracteriolcg'st, who is conduct
ing a series of laboratory experiments
here. .
''Spokane Case" Up.
SPOKANE. For the - purpose of
considering the final contention of car
riers and shippers in what Is known
is the "Spokane case,"' Interstate
Commissioner Prouty visited Spokane
Tuesday, September 13. It is stated
:hat Commissioner Prouty will only
;alce additional testimony and statis
tical data, reporting to the full cora
t'.ssion in Washlng.on by October 1.
rnla bearing will not affect directly
.he case before the commission known
is the "backhaul case," In which. Seat
is and Tacom-a are also Interested.
MINORITY REPORTS
QN BALLING
Csmocratic Members Join in
I One and Madison, Insurgent,
Presents Anolher,
'MINNEAPOLIS. Refusing to wait
.will all the members of the investi
gating committee could be called to
gether, to make report upon the
Baliinger-Pluchot-Glavis investigation,
the four Democratic members and one
Insurgent Republican prepared and'
gavq out reports finding against the
secretary of the interior.
The insurgent member Is Represen
tative Madison, of Kansas. He made
a report of -is own.
Suitor Nelson, of Minnesota, chair
man! of the investigating committee,
refund to bave-a part In the proceed
ing. J Three Republican members, ob
jecting to action In the absence ol
thosft of their colleagues who could
not pa present, absented themselves.
'Senator Nelson, after giving notice of
a meeting la Chicago September 13,
left -the room and the committee,
wM.-jli I: ad' been without a quorum
was ' v. Uhout a chairman.
.Absentees Issue Statement.
Tl,t Republican members who were
In li, ;ity but d!d not attend the
uioe 'i!, lsmied the following state
ment tiuflnlng their posit'm:
"Hi view of the refusal of a minority
of tlje committee Wednesday to postpone-ac.ion
until the members of the
committee known to be coming could
arrive at Minneapolis, and their evi
dent, purpose to attempt to make the
act! in of a minority the official action
of lie committee, without consider
ing tbeir refusal to discuss the evl
deucs at the former meeting, and in
view of the fact that at the former
meeting they promulgated to the pub
lic their decision of he case, which
had 'no validity whatever as official
uctlop, and yet amounted to a con
clusive prejudgment of the case as
far as' said' minoritywere concerned,
we Insist upon an opportunity for the
full membership of the committee to
decide the case whicn was committed
tn them by law, and we must there
fore decline the invitation of the gen
tlemen assembled to meet with them.
TURN DOWN STATE'
CONSERVATIONISTS
ST. PAUL. Far Western delegates
to the National Conservation Congress
aver that they were not only barred
from the programme and discussions,
but also buncoed In the resolutions of
the congress. They say that the com
mittee on resolutions promised a
clause treating of conservation within
strict contltutlonal limitations and
that the clause was included In Chair
man 'Pardee's reading of the resolu
tions, but that it was omitted from
the published draft.
State conservation champions of
Washington, Idaho, Oregon, Montana,
Wyoming, California, Colorado and
other states are Indignant at what
they term bunco game and say It is a
sample of the whole programme of
knock-down-and-drag-out.
' Throughout the congress Plnchot
foes of state conservation were on
guard to squelch every attempt of the
Western champions of home conserva
tion' to defend the needs of the people
of their pent-up Western states. The
congress was ruled by an Iron band,
which made things go Just as Pinch'-'
partisans wanted them. Govcn
Hay, of Washington, said that he will
probably call a Western conservation
congress of governors and delegates
at Portland next spring.
L0RIMER GIVES UP CLU3
Senator Resigns From 8ociety That
Canceled His Invitation.
CHICAGO. United States Senator
William Lorlmer resigned bis mem
bership In the Hamilton Club of Chi
' cago, of which he has been a member
for many years. Senator Lorlmer's
resignation follows former President
Roosevelt's refusal to attend the club
banquet If Mr. Lorlmer was present.
Convicts to be Whipped.
AUSTIN, Tex. The last official act
of the fourth special session of the
Texas legislature was the signing by
the lieutenant-governor and the
speaker of the house of the lawmak
ing radical chacoi In the conduct of
the state penitentiary. hlpinTTn
the cases of convicts In what is known
as the third or incorrigible class, was
restored.
BRIEF NEWS ii" THE WEEK
A notable pa. u. n.sh leaders will
leave for America on September 17
on a tour which will take In most ot
the large cities of the South and West.
The chiof figure of the mission will
be John T. Redmond, the leader of
the Irish party.
What is said will be the largest
cheese, lu the world will be made in
Appletcn, Wisconsin, for the National
Dairy Show at Chicago, October 20.
The weight of the cheese will be 4000 .
pounds. It will be 15 feet in diameter
and four feet high.
Cigar smokers all over the country
are facing a famine. Every cigar-
maker at Tampa, Fla., the great man
ufacturing center of the velvety Key
West brands, Is on strike. The out
put from that great tobacco depot has
ceased entirely.
The goverenment is preparing to
build what will be the longest fence
ever constructed In the world. It will
extend from El Paso, Texas, to the
Pacific Coast, and will divide the
United States and Mexico, a distance
of over 1000 miles!
The secretary of the treasury has
designated J. W. Roberts to Inspect
sites offered for public buildings on
the Pacific Coast. He goes first to
California, thence to Oregon and
Washington
NEWS OF NOTED PERSONS
It Is announced that the Czar of
Russia has contributed $40,000 toward
the erection of a new Russian ortho
dox church at Passaic, N. J. The
structure will cost $120,000.
James J. Gallagher, who shot Mayor
Gaynor, will be Indicted by the Sep
tember grand Jury, which begins its
sessions September 20.
Attorney Lee O'Nell Browne, of Ot
tawa, 111., legislative minority leader,
charged- with bribery in connection
with the election of William Lorlmer,
of Chicago, to the United States sen
ate, was acquitted by a Jury in Chi
cago. Av'-"..S:-si"'1V.
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LLOYD W. BOWER8.
Solicitor-General Lloyd Wheaton
Bowers, life-long friend of President
Roosevelt, Is dead. Death came sud
denly, the result of a cardiac throm
bus, which ended an Illness of a
month, due to an attack ot bronchitis.
. Blind, feeble from Illness, deserted
by those whose friend she was when
they were needy, Clara Morrla, 20
years ago the Idol of applauding aud
iences, Is destitute In New York end
may lose her home.
THE MARKETS.
Portland.
Wheat Track prices: Club, 85c;
bluestem, 91c; red Russian, 82c.
Barley Feed and brewing, $22.
Oats No. 1 White, $28 per ton.
Hay Timothy, Willamette Valley,
$19020 per ton; Eastern Oregon,
$20 22; alfalfa, $1516.
Butter Cicamery, 36c; ranch, 24c.
ranch, 24c. -
Eggs Ranch, candled, 30c
Hops 1909 crop, 10llc; 'olds,
nominal. '
Wool Eastern Oregon, 14 17c per
pound.
Mohair 32 33c.
8eattl.
, Wheat Bluestem, 94c; Club, 87c;
red Russian, 85c.
Oats $30 per ton.
Barley $22 per ton.
Hay Timothy, $24 per ton; alfalfa,
$15 pec ton.
Butter Washington Creamery, 36c;
ranch, 2Cc.
Eggs Selected local, 43.
ALASKA GOLD VALUED
AT $57500 STOLEN
Lead Pigs Are Substituted for
Ingots While in Transit
to Seattle.
SEATTLE. Gold bullion valued at
$57,600, part of a shipment of $470,000
from the Washington-Alaska Bank of
Fairbanks, Alaska, to the Dexter-Hor-ton
National Bank of Seattle, on the
steamship Humboldt, was stolen in
transit and lead substituted In the
strong box that had contained the
bullion.
The gold when it left Fairbanks
on a Yukon River steamer for Daw
son and White Horse was contained
In three wooden boxes and was in the
care of the Alaska-Pacific Express
Company. When the boxes were
opened by the Canadian customs offi
cials at Dawson the gold bars were
found to be as stated in the express
company's papers.
The boxes were opened again at the
United States assay office In Seattle,
and one contained pigs of lead, not of
gold. The seals of the box were In
tact when it reached the office, and
It was evident that the robbery bad
been committed by removing one .
end of the box. The gold was in
sured eagainst loss by the express
company.
It is supposed that the gold was
stolen on the Yukon steamer between
Dawson and White Horse, or on the
steamer Humboldt between Skagway
and Seattle. There would have been
small opportunity for robbery in the
essay office or in the short railroad .
run from White Horse to Skagway.
The gold weighed 250 pounds, and the
disposal of such heavy plunder must
have required time and preparation.
The gold waa in the purser's cabin
and it Is not customary on the gold
ships to take elaborate precaution
against robbery.
. Detectives, working on the case have
made no arrests, and say they have
no clew on which to work.
VALUABLE LANDS
WILL BE RESTORED
WASHINGTON. Under a plan of
co-operation outlined by Secretaries
Balllnger and Wilson, and now being
carried out by the officials of the In
terior Department and Department of
Agriculture, material areas of agri
culture, material areas of agricultur
al land, as well as a considerable
area of grazing land, Is to be elim
inated from forest reserves and re
stored to the public domain. Some
of this land has already been restor
ed; a much greater area Is expected
to be restored during the coming
winter, when reports on this Sum
mer's field work are collected and
maps submitted to the beads ot the
two departments.
Flirting No Cause For Divorce.
SEATTLE. "The act of flirting In
the abstract, without evidence ot con
sequent damaging complications, Is
not sufficient cause for divorce,"
said Judge Wilson R. Gay, from the
bench in the suit of Dr.. Leon B. Col
lier against his wife, Myrtle N. 'Col
lier. ROOSEVELT RETURNS HOME
OYSTER BAY, N. Y. After an ab-'
tence of three weeks, Colonel Roose
velt Is borne again, weary from his
Western trip.
Early In October Colonel Roose
velt will launch out again on a
shorter tour through the South, in
which be will make a campaign
ipeech for Senator Bevereldge in
Indiana. He has also promised to
speak for Senator Lodge in Massa
chusetts. POLITICAL NEWS
Caleb Powers is making a strenuous
primary campaign fight for the Re
publican nomination for congress in
one of the Kentucky districts.
Regulars under the leadership of
""Senator Thomas H. Carter generally
controlled various county Republican
conventions In Montana. President
Tatt was indorsed In some counties,
the Indorsement extending also to
Colonel Roosevelt.