Wednesday Edition NEWS4 ALL THE OFFICIAL NEWS OF WALLOWA COUNTY IN THE NH ALL THE NEWS WHILE H IS NEWS TWICE. AWEEK NEWS RECORD TWELFTH YEAR. NO. 47. ENTERPRISE, WALLOWA COUNTY, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1910. CITY OFFICIAL PAPER Tu)iceaWeek THE (ECORD Cent a word single Insertion, 1 cents a. word 2 Insertions. Special rates by month and year. . . , LOST. Green , gold brooch, of intertwined snakes with topaz setting. . Lost on ' road between town and Honmn's. Re ward fV return to G. E. Odte at News Record office". 4orl Letter addressed to Mr. , Ed Maag, Eureka, S. C Finder please notify O. J. Roe, Enterprise. - ' Open-faced go'.d watch on fair grounds. .Reward- for return to C. S. Bradley, Enterprise. - 45b2 , LOST OR STRAYED. From old1 Sullivan, plaoe, now known, aa the S'.ubblefleld farm, one flea bitten, gray horse, about 9 or 10 years old ; .has scar on shoulder; shod all around. Lett night of Oct. 3. $5 reward for return to place. Amalgamated Sugar Co., by S. Story. Enterprise, Oregon. ' 47b WANTED. i Wanted, three young ladles to join the Junior class of nurses. Apply to Superintendent of Nurses, Grande Rondo Hospital, La Grande. Ore: FOR RENT. Residence property' and business room for rent,' available now. E, M. & mTCo. 21tf MONEY TO LOAN State Funds loaned, 6 per cent. John P. Rnsk. Atty. State Land B'd. Joseph FOR SALE. I will sell all or any of my (own prop e ty at reasonable prices. W. W. Zurcher, Enterprise, Oregon. Wbtt Lots In. Troy townsite. Your choice at one-third off .during fair week arid, until October 31, making pric es from $15 up, to "$70." Special sale limited to 25 lots." H. E. Morryman, Enterprise, Oregon. Will be at Troy October 6, 7 and 8. 42b4 Two lota Id Alder View addition to the city of Enterprise. Beautiful lo- cation. A genuine bargain. Wm. H. McF&tridge., ' ' ' 87bm . NEWS OF NOTED PERSONS - - - Virginia Harned-Soihern,' the well known actress, has filed suit "for , di vorce against Edward H. So1 hern, the , pronilnent'actor. In the district court at Reno, Nevada. ' 'f . -; - No pardon will be grnnled to John . R. Walshformer Chicago banker anl capitalist, who Is serving a five-year sentence in the Leavenworth Kan.) penitentiary for violation of the bank ing laws.- C N. G. Broward, ex-governor of Flop Ida. and recently elected to the Unit ed States senate to succeed Senator Taliaferro, died suddenly. ' FOREIGN NEWS BITS . - w. Disorder bordering on anarchy grlp3 Honduras. The anti-foreign outbreak in Amapala Is rapidly extending over the almost disrupted republic. Great agitation lias been caused by latest interference of the Russians' In Finnish "affairs the absolute prohl bltlon of the importation of firearms ' and ammunition into Finland. j The yellow fever 'outbreak which : threatens" to become an epidemic will be a big setback to Italy. It .has al ready injured business and it is fear ed that travelers will avoid the coun- , try until tlhe danger is over. . ; Organized capital and organized la bor in Great Britain are marshaling their forces for the greatest Industrial struggle that England p iraapa the world hna ever seen, i THE MARKETS. Portland. ' Wheat Track prices: Club, 85c; bluestem, 89c; red Russian, 82c. Barley Feed and brewing, $22. . ;' Oatt No. 1 White, $28 per ton. ' i Hay Timothy. Willamette Valley; $19 20 per ton; Eastern Oregon, $2022; alfalfa, v1516. Butter Creamery, 36c; ranch, 24o Eggs r.ancn, candled, 35c. Hops 1910 crop, 1012; 1909; yomlnal; o'ds, nominal. , Wool Eastern Oregon, 13l7c lb;; VaUey. 1719c-lb. i Mohair Choice, 3233c lb. ' 8eattle. Wheat Biuestem, 90c; Club, 84c; if red Russian, 82c. t Oats $27 per ton. r .-".--i Barley $21 per ton. 4 Hay Timothy, $26 per ton; alfalfa l per ton.: v ' ;. O- ; ; . : Butter Washington Creamery, 36c; ranch, 22c. EgS Selected local, 40c ITEMS OF INTEREST THROUGHOUT .OREGON Chronicle of Important Events of Interest to Our , Readers. To Find Wider Use for Wood. Portland The forest service of the department of agriculture and the Or egon Conservation association are co operating in a study of the wood us ing Industries of Oregon. The idea is to assist in the develop ment of markets for local woods which may" be suitable for various purposes, but whose use has been little known. As soon as all the data has been col lected and compiled a publication will be issued Jointly by the Oregon Con servation association and the forest service for free distribution. . Lumber Men Sued. Portland Suits aggregating $53, 078.36 were Degun here in the United States court against J. D. Hamaker and associates. The demand is on ac- !ount of timber cut from non-mineral lands of the United States, and is based on a value of $22 per thousand board measure, the price of which the material is said to have been sold at Bonanza In Klamath county. GOVERNMENT URGED TO TAKE OWYHEE PROJECT Salem. State Engineer John H. Lewis, Is using his utmost efforts to prevail upon the government reclama tion service to take over the Owyhee reclamation propect In Malheur coun ty, which his been thoroughly organiz ed by private interests, but Is about to be abandoned by them. The govern ment has made application for a per mit to appropriate 480,000 acre feet of the waters of the Owyhee. RJver, also other waters in Malheur county that are stSI in good'' standing and State Engineer Lewis has addressed a communication to F. E. Weymouth, of the recelamation service at Boise, Id aho, asking hlmto request of the de partment an Investigation' of the feas ibility of this propect under pres ent, conditions. v -, - - " " Mr. Lewis has also addressed com munications to both Oregon's senators and to both congressmen, giving them the facts and asking them to use their influence with the reclamation depart ment to take over the Owyhee project which embraces between 100,000 and 150,000 acres. ,.' '" " . Monster Rally Planned. Cottage Grove This city, watch probably will become the county seat of the county of Nesmlth, if that meas ure should carry at the election in November, is making preparations to hold' a monster rally and barbecue on October lEu" At noon a barbecue will take place in the city park, and lunch will be served, free. . The Oregon ft Southeastern railroad will run special trains. One feature of the day will be that of the special sales of the mer chants, who have all consented to do nate 10 per cent. of all purchases on that day to. the Nesmlth county fund, as it requires a considerable fund to dissemate information concerning Nesmlth county throughout the state, PRIMARY COONT STANDS Eugene Lane County will not vote on local option In the coming election because tne petitions were defective and did not contain the number of sig natures necessary 4o get the issue on the ballot Of 667 qualified electors necessary only 377 will stand after the careful analysis of County Clerk Lee and Deputy, Prosecuting Attorney Skipworth. '., . : As Saturday was he last day that petitions may be filed. It will be Im possible to change the situation and it will now be at least two years before the question can be brought up here again, as the Jaw permits a vote on this question only at general elections. Lost River Farmers to Irrigate. Klamath Falls Farmers living In the small valley between Lost River and Stukel Mountain,. 12 miles south of here, are Jubilant over the approval by the secretary of the Interior or their plan to irrigate their own land by aking water from Lost river. This Yam Is to be built across the river to turn the water out of its own channel Into a canal, to turn the river from Its own course across the valley and let it empty into Klamath river Instead of Tule lake. .-,.":,- . v. . COMMONER VS. COLONEL! Bryan Will Trail Roosevelt for O Week. H Roosn Is thf anlzerp Indianapolis Col. Theodore Roos velt ve. Col. William J. Bryan, program of the rival party organ! of Indiana for the week. The former comes first and will make a dozen speeches from a special train. 1 Colonel Bryan will follow Roosevelt He will answer Colonel Roosevelt and Will attempt to show that the repuh- licans wern pxtremplv InnnnRirlerstA ni their own platform in bringing Roose velt to Indiana. Portugal Expelling Monks. Lisbon. The expulsion of ""the monks from Portugal has begun.' No time will be lost in driving them across the frontier. Several hundred nyns have been assembled and' will j be deported. Cardinal Neto, ex-patri- arch of Lisbon, the Bishop of Bcja, and other prominent ecclesiasts al ready have been expelled. KING, MANUEL. The Youthful Sovereign of Portugal . ; ' Who Lost Hit Throne. Ltebon Though it is but a short time since the first :hot was fired in the revolution that swept a king from his throne, Portugal is rapidly ap proaching normal conditions. No ser ious obstacle in the way of the new. government is expected in the Immed iate future. ' ; The suddenness of the sweeping change and the eaBe with which the people adapted themselves to the new regime have had fe'w parallels. 1 v Throw Record Broken. Cincinnati. The world's .record for the long-olstance throwing of a base ball that has stood for 36 years was broken at the field day between the Cincinnati - and Pittsburg National League teams here, when Sheldon Le Jeune, of the Evansvllle club, of the Central League, threw the .ball 426 feet, 6 IncheB, 25 feet, 10 inches over the old record. FOREST FIRES BURN MINNESOTA TOWNS Winnipeg Scores of lives have been lost in a great forest fire which raged along the Canadian border In the Rainy River country and in Northern Minnesota. The towns of Beaudette, tspooner, uracetown and Pitt, Minn., have been wiped out and refugees from the burning district who fled into Rany River report seeing many charred corpses along the roadside in the ' burned district and the loss ol millions of dollars worth of property. The fire was entirely unexpected. In the laBt summer , there were many great fires in this same region, but the fighters had about subdued them when oft of the northwest of the Rainy River country there appeared a great fire which swept through the dried timber, carried in its onward rush by a heavy gale, and, soon be yond control, it caught the unwarned settlers in its path of death and de structlon. The Canadian Northern railway es timates the loss of life between Rainy River and Warroad at 40, all being settlers and their families. Honduras Asks for Aid. Washington Responding to an p eal from the Honduras government to the state department, the United States gunboat Princeton was ordered to Amapala, a revolutionary hotbed, to look after American Interests. - , Lorlmer 8ult 8Herman. Chicago Vice president Sherman and United States Senator Lorlmer at at the same banquet board here on October 12 at the local Knights of Columbus celebration of Columbus Day. PACIrIG STATES WILL HOLD A CONGRESS California Governor Issues a Call for Meeting in San " Francisco. San Francisco Governor Gillette decided to issue a-proclamation for the holding in this city , of a Pacific Coast congress, which Is to be-attended by delegates from every part of the Pacific Coast and from Hawaii, who j will consider merchant marine legisla tion and the advisability of maintain ing a battleship fleet in the Pacific ocean as well as matters relating to the Panama-Pacific International Ex position and such other expositions as are to be held on the Pacific Coast. It is designed to uave a Pacific Coast congress every year, so that the needs of the Coast may be impressed on the congress of tne United . States. Invitations will be sent to officials and commercial bodies in Oregon, Ida ho, Washington, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah and Hawaii, as well as California. ' Governors, lieutenant-governors, senators, congressmen and" pre siding officers of the two executive houses of each state will be, invited to come as guests and they will be under no expense. The mayors oi cities on the Coast will be requested to attend the congress and to appoint delegates. COLORADO MINERS ENTOMBED IN MINE Starkville, Colo. At least 52 men are entombed in the Starkville mine of the Colorado Fuel & Iron Co., while, in the approaches to the mine, hundreds of their fellows, with pxy gen helmets, movable rotary fans and picks and shovels are striving simul taneously tq open the living tomb and to draw from it the poisonous gases with which it is at least partly filled. The men have been imprisoned and the rescuing parties have tolled since 10:50 p. m. Saturday, when an ex plosion, probably caused by coal dust, shook the earth for a radius of seven miles, destroying the main entrance to the mine and sealed the hapless toilers within It, Because of the vast ramifications ot the mine and its connections with other mine-workings it is hoped that perhaps half the men may be rescued Bible Declared Inaccurate. Cincinnati That the scriptures arc so full of inaccuracies that to place any reference to the Bible In the con stltution of the Protestant Episcopal church would make it unreliable, was the statement made here by the Rev A. A. Morrison, of Portland, Oregon He made the assertion in reply to an appeal made by the Rev. J. H. Mcll- valne, of Pittsburg, to prefix a pre amble to the church constitution. The preamble was voted down. WOULD REORGANIZE ARMY Defense of 8eaboard Will be Principal Feature. Washington A comprehensive plan for an entire reorganization and re-as signment of -the federal military forces to be known as the Taft-Dlckin son military policy is to be submitted to congress when that body, convenes in December. It will mean a great deal to the Pacific Coast. , It is the purpose of the plan to mob lllze large commands at all strato-'o coast centers where batteries have been emplaced or are proposed. This will Insure the entire continental coast line sgalnBt attack. Geranium Big as Saucer. San Francisco. Richard Dlener, a gardner at Col ma, a suburb of San Francisco, where Croffotn used to hold his fights, who has been experiment ing secret'y with all kinds of (lowers In order to ascertain how to enlaige their size, has perfected a geranium six Inches in diameter, which has been pronounced by experts one of the most extraordinary achievements In' floriculture. Railroad Merger Argued. St. Paul, MInn.r Hearing in the ITn ion Pacific -uerger case, . wherein th government charges a g'gintk: c :n splracy to destroy railrosd coairntitio west of Kansas C!ty, bes sn here Men rtav. 3RIEF NEWS OF THE WEEK The supreme court of the United States convened Monday for its winter terras Owing to the lack of a full bench it is believed that few cases of Importance are likely to be argued or decided before late In the year. The world's championship baseball series between the Chicago club of the National League and the Philadel phia club of the American league will commence at Philadelphia next week. The Isthmian Canal commission re ports there are 36,867 employes ac tually at work on the canal and the Panama railroad, and of this number 29,950 are canal laborers. After sleeping continuously for 24 days, Julian Brice, aged 17, awoke, at Gainesville, tia. He was extremely weak, but became stronger after tak ing nourishment and physicians think he will live. Arch Hoxey, in a Wright biplane, flew from Springfield, 111., to St. Louis and established an American sustained flight in an aeroplane, by covering 104 miles. The members of the W..C. T. U. of Denver have started a crusade to com pel a married man to wear a wedding ring as does his wife. If the efforts of thecommercial or ganizations of the Northwest are fruitful in results, hundreds of thous ands of dollars will be saved to the people of Oregon, Washington and Idaho annually by placing the hog raising industry on a basis which will supply the home market. NEWS OF NOTED PERSONS "Never!" was the word used by Mayor Gaynor of New York, in refut ing the suggestion that he has the presidency in mind. William R. Hearst offers $50,000 for a flight in a heavier-than-air machine from the Atlantic to tne Pacific. Jack Johnson is now a full fledged registered automobile racing driver, The champion pugilist who aspires to steal Barney Oldfleld's Bpeed crown, has been listed by the American Auto mobile Association. In two communications addressed to the grand Jury, Mayor McCarthy of San Francisco, demanded that the body judge between him and W. R. Hearst by Investigating the charges recently made against his administra tion by the Examiner. r SENATOR LA , FOLLETTE. One of the meet Interesting bits of political information that has come to Washington In the past week Is a direct tip from Wisconsin that Senator LaFollette has repudiated Roosevelt as an ally, if indeed he ever recog nlzed him as such. Miss Julia D. Grant, grand daughter of President Grant, was married Sat urday to Edmund C. King, member of a well-known Toledo family and con nected with the Western Cooperage Company of Portland, Oregon. The Independence League conven tion of New York, nominated John J. Hopper, of New York City, a civil en gineer and contractor, and put Hearst himself on the ticket for lieutenant governor. ' Explosion Oue to Dynamite. Los ' Angeles The investigation committee appointed by Mayor Alex ander to inquire Into the cause of the explosion which destroyed the build ing end plant of the - Los Angeles Times on the night of October 1, re ported that the explosion was that ot dynamite. I 7 f I ; " ) '. OLD WISCONSIN MAN GIVES IIP LONG FIGHT Six Years of Warfare Is Ended When John Dietz Displays White Flag. St. Paul Old John Dietz, the fam ous defender of Cameron Dam, has been beaten at last, after a desperate rifle battle with the deputy sherilfs t his cabin on the Thornapple river In Sawyer County, Wisconsin, that laBted pearly all day. Deltc surrendered and brought to an end the stubborn resistance of the man whose stand for the last six years against what he considered an Injustice, has attracted wide-spread in terest ' The surrender did not come without death and bloodshed. One man is dead, four men and a woman are wounded and much property has been destroyed. The surrender of Dietz was dra matic. The alert lumbermen leaning on their rifles at the edge of the clear ing and gazing Intently at the windows of the log cabin, suddenly Baw the flutter ot a white handkerchief at the door. Then little Heaen appeared and advancing with the cloth over her head, walked to the edge of the clear ing, where she announced that her father was willing to surrender. Diets was wounded- while firing from the barn during the afternoon, when a bullet went through- a cracK and passed through his left hand. In the little cabin broken jars and dishes lay scattered on the floor, they having been struck by bullets, of which more than 2003 had been fired during the day. Bullets lay on tho bed, having bounded back after strik ing against the wall. It was a mir acle that the entire family was not wiped out. . , ... , . LOS ANGELES TIMES RELIEFTUND LARGE Los Angeles Funds for the relief of families left dependent by the Times' explosion may equal the amounts ap propriated for the capture and con viction of the conspirators. Banks have joined with the newspapers in collecting the funds, and it was an nounced that the total so far collected was more than $30,000. Seventeen of the 20 or more men who lost their lives in the explosion which wrecked the 'limes newspaper plant were laid to rest Sunday in graves ranged side by side in Holly wood Cemetery. One funeral service was held for all, in Temple audito rium, which was packed by 2500 men and women, while a greater crowd, un able to enter, stood outside in silence. China Welcomes NeW Era, Pekln. One hundred ot the wealth iest Chinese merchants, recognized as the most conservative class, gave a farewell banquet to the delegation of American business men, representing the Chambers of Commerce on t he Pacific Coast. The American speak ers referred to their amazement at their reception, which they charac terized as overwhelming throughout China, culminating In Pekln, where they had been admitted to the palaces of the Forbidden City, which seldom have been opened. CHOLERA CASES IN GOTHAM New York. A case of cholera de veloped In the steerage ot the Hamburg-American liner Moltke, which has been detained at quarantine as a pos sible cholera-carrier. Dr. A. H. Doty, health officer ot the port, reported the case with the additional Information that another cholera patient from the Moltke is un der treatment at Swinburne Island. This makes three cases of cholera that have actually reached this port. . To Hold Big Mining Fair. Sumpter The business men of Sumpter, In conjunction with the min ing men of the district, are making preparations for the noldine ot a min ing congress here on October 20 and 21. Invitations have been sent broad cast to the mining public, and indica tions are that a good attendance will be on band.