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V - Oregon Historical Battel? TWICE-A-WEEK SA TURD A Y EDITION CORD TWELFTH YEAR. NO. 86. ENTERPRISE, WALLOWA COUNTY, OREGON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1911. CITY OFFICIAL PAPER. ENTERPRISE NEWS-RE ABOUT 100 KNIGHTS fEi SIXTY VISITORS ENTERTAINED WITH MINSTRELS, DEGREE WORK AND. BANQUET. About 100 Knights of Pythifes at tended the annual district convention embracing Union and Wallowa coun ties, held In this city Friday night, February 24. The 100 were each and all filled with the true fraternal sDirit and everyone had a fine time, or else was an adept at seeming to have one. Later on each and all were filled with chicken, pie. cake and many other toothsome things but that la another- story. This fraternal feeling, the splen did work of the degree team selected from the members of the four visit ing, lodges, the good entertainment at the opera house, and the crowning cap of all, the delicious supper, were the big features of the convention. Sixty-three visitors were present from La Grande lodge, from famous Blue Mountain lodge of Union, Orion lodge of Elgin and Kinsman lodge of Wallowa. These visitors were first entertained by the K of P minstrel show at the opera house, repeated that evening In compliment to the vial tins' Kniehts. At 10 o'clock the Knights repaired to Castle Hall and after a social hour, the rank of knight was conferred on Esquire A. C. WeaV' r of Enterprise lodge. The work of the selected team was of the finest order. Adjournment to the banquet hall followed and 100 Knights did yoeman work for the nonce, In showing their bearty appreciation of the sumptuous tot chicken supper, prepared and nerved by the Ladies Aid of the Methodist church, in the manner and (Continued on last page.) " WANTED. Woolgrowers Coyote Bounty Script, cashed by Geo. Baker, Enterprise. 85a Men. and teams wanted) to haul lum ber. For particulars Bee the E. M. & M. Co. 70btf. Correspondents for this paper im all parts of the county not now rep resented. 81b3 MONEY TO LOAN iate Funds loaned, 6 per cent. John P. Riwk. Atty. State Land B'd. Joseph FOR SALe! Al Piano for sale. Enquire at this office. 83btf. " Matched team of horses, .Well broke and true to pull. See Carl Roe or W. I. Calvin, Enterprise, Ore. 83btf I will sell all or any of my town prop e ty at reasonable prices. W. W. Zureher, Enterprise, Oregon. 40btf Bee. 36, 3 N 44640 A. S E Vt sec. 22, W NW seo. 23,SW4 6W sec. 14, 3 S 46280 A. tiW J. S. Cook, Bums, Ore. California Homes. Best dairy and fruit farms la Turlock-Modesto Irri gation district. Write for exact des cription of desirabit places, and my low fTe rates, Edward Fowler, Overlook Jersey Farm, Ceres, Calif. 79r8 CHURCH SERVICES. Baptist: State Secretory Rev. Fred C. W. Parker preach both morn ing and evening'. Sunday school at 10 a. m. Christian: "The Great Compensation will be the subject of Mr. Crockett's discourse Sunday night. There will ha iha uniini snndav school and preaching service in the morning. Methodist: The pastor will preach Sunday morning on the theme: "Self- Triumph Through Self-Forgetfulness." In the evening the subject will be Abraham" Lincoln. AU invited. Presi dent Homan of Willamette Univer sity will preach In the Methodist church Sunday morning, March 5. Revival meeting at the Christian church In Wal'.owa closes tomorrow night. Wallowa Presbyterian church has extended a ca'l to Rev. J. E. Youel of Union to succeed Reverend Maynard, who resigned eome time ago. Reverend Johns of the Wallowa Methodist church has closed a re vival meeting at Flora. Practice what you preach, your printing done at home. Get ATTEND CCIi Ti CITY AND COUNTY BRIEFS. County court meets next Wednes day. Miss Elise Holmes went to Wallowa Saturday, to visit relatives. Herbert Hedges has returned to Lostlne from Oklahoma where he spent the winter. 'Illness of debaters is causing post ponement of the high school debates between Enterprise and Joseph, and also between Lostlne and Wallowa. E. D. Howe of Boise, Ida., was lu town the first of the week looking over the field here with the view of starting a first class moving picture theatre. Principal H. H. Brouson of Wallowa has suffered a relapse and Is again confined to his home by pneumonia. Miss Jean Williamson of this city is supplying his place in the schools there. The Sun says a petition Is 'being circulated there asking for a special election on saloons. The Sun prints an article favoring the running of saloons by the city. The Joseph, Her ald publishes a similar article. Oliver Wood, one of the many pros perous farmers of near Lostlne, was In the city Friday, and deft his sub scription at this office, the ninth new name added to our lists in four days. R. McCrae, the genial landlord of Wallowa's leading hotel, was among the K of P visitors. Mrs. McCrae accompanied him and they were guests of Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Haney while in the city. The Old Time orchestra, that play ed for the dances in this valley years ago when settlers were few and far between, played for the dance in Jo seph the night of Washington's birth day. The orchestra is composed of the two Roop men, the two Hamilton "boys," "Charlie" Vest and "Joe Ol msted. They have consented to play for one more dance, at Joseph March 1, and that will be their last pub lie appearance together. REV. G. ERNEST GOES TO w. .. CENTRAL POINT, OREGON. Rev. Gifford Ernest and family left Saturday morning for his new charge, che Christian church at Central Point, four miles south of Medford, Mr. Er nest preached a trial sermon there some weeks ago, and the church ex tended him a call, but he hesitated about accepting It as the weather was quite foggy while he was there and he was doubtful about: the climate be ing suitable for his health. Since then physicians who arej familiar with the year round conditions in the Rogue River valley, have assured him on that point, and as he received an other and urgent request to come he decided to make the; move. The church there Is In a flourish lng condition, and the town is a rapid ly growing one. Enterprise friends of Mr. and Mrs, Ernest sincerely hope they will find' all things to their lik ing and that they will be prosperous and happy. They will stop a day In Eugene on their way to Central, Point. GRAND JURY AFTER US. The grand Jury, during a lull wait ing for witnesses during the recent session, visited this office in a body and inspected the moat completely equipped country newspaper plant In regon. They eald It was worthy of the best county in the state. Mrs. P, T, Lak was the guest of honor at a reception given at the home of Mrs, E, B, Knapp, by the Missionary society of the Presbyter- Ian church. Friday afternoon. The affair was a cleverly executed sur prise. Mrs. A. J. Boehmer accom pan led Mrs. Lake on a round of fare well calls finally arriving at Mrs, Knapp's to encounter a house full "of friends. A short program Included a character sketch by Miss Nanne Heaton, dramatic reading Mrs. A. Weaver, several beautiful selections on the auto-harp by Mrs, 0. W, lyatt and a humorous reading by Mrs. T. M Dill. Light refreshments were serv ed. The only thin to roar the de lightful afternoon was the regret ffllt by ail the ladies that Mrs. Lake would soon depart. Dr. Mabel Williams, Osteopath. Dr. Mabel Williams, a competent and thoroughly equipped osteopath practitioner from Los Angeles, is in charge of Dr. W, L. Nichols' practice while he is recovering from bis in jury. She is in Dr. Nicbour office Jn Litch bulldlne from 8:30 a n. to 2:30 p m., Tuesdays, Thursday and Saturdays. Other days of the week at Joseph. 86a3. -:- TRUXTON KING -:- A Story of Graustark GEORGE BARR McCUTCHEON BY Cepyright, 1909, by George Barr McCutcheon Copyright, 1909, by Dodd, Head Company Truxton King, a millionaire's son, sets out in search of ad venture. Where better could he look for stirring events than in faroff Graustark, where the age of chivalry yet survives in all its romantic opportunity; where rules Prince Robin, the most precocious boy monarch 'in the realm of fiction; where the reds of Europe plot his murder in ' mysterious underground retreats; where gallant Truxton King and brave Uncle Jack" fight val iantly for the preservation of the prince and the love of beauti ful princesses; where American pluck and manhood are pitted against foreign intriguers, and. where honesty and courage are mightier than the sword? Read of Prince Robin, son of an Amer ican princess; of Olga Platanova, the girt with the dread mission ; of Marlanx, the Iron Count; of John Tullis, the American bul wark of a foreign throne; of lovely Loraineand of daredevil Truxton King, and then you will under stand why an American lad is Prince of Graustark and an American author prince of story tellers. CHAPTER I. TRUXTON KZHQ. I was a tall, rawboned,' rangy young fellow with a face so tanned by wind and sun you bad the impression that his H" skin would feel like leather If you could affect the Impertinence to t,ent it Dy tne sense or touch. His clothes fitted him loosely and yet were graciously devoid of the bagglness which char acterizes the appearance of extremely young men whose frames are not fully set and whose joints are still parading through the last stages of college de velopment This tall young man in the panama bat and gray flannels was Truxton King, embryo globe trotter and search er after the treasures of romance. Somewhere up near Central park, In one of the fushlonabte cross streets, was the home of bis father and his father's father before him a borne which Truxton had not seen in two years or more. It is worthy of pass ing notice, and that is all, that bis father was a manufacturer; more than that, be was something of a power in the financial world. His mother was not strictly a social queen In the great metropolis, but she was what we might safely call one of the tlrst "la dles in waiting," which Is quite good enough for the wife of a manufactur er, especially when one records that her husband was a manufacturer of steel. It Is also matter of no little consequence that Truxton's mother was more or less averse to the steel business as a heritage for her son. Be It understood here and now that she intended Truxton for the diplo matic service, But neither Truxton's father, who wanted him to be a manufacturing Croesus, nor Truxton's mother, who expected bim to become a social Solo mon, appears to have taken the young man's private Inclinations into con slderatlop. xoung air. ivmg believed In ro mance. He grew up with an ever la creasing bump of Imagination, cob tlguous. to which, strange to relate. there was a properly developed bump of Industry and application; hence It Is not surprising that he was willing to go far afield In search of the things that seemed wore or less worth while to a young gentleman who had suf fered the 111 fortune to be born in the nineteenth century Instead of the sev enteenth. We come upon him at last-luckily for us we were not actually following him after two years of wonderful but rather disillusioning adventure In mid Asia and all Africa. He bad seen the Kongo and the Euphrates, the Ganges and the Nile, the Yangtseklang and the Yenisei; be had climbed moun tains in Abyssinia, Id Slam, in Tibet And Afghanistan; he bad shot big game in more than one jungle tnd bad been shot t by small brown men In more than one forest, to say nothing of the little encounters he bud bad In most nnoccidental towns and cities. For twenty days be bad traveled by caravan serosa the Persian uplands, through Ilcrat and Meshhed and Bo khara, striking off with b's guide alone toward the sea of Aral and the east ern shores of the Caspian, thence throuslutba Ural foothills to Ua.obl Roman highway that led down" Into the sweet green valleys of a land he had thought of as nothing more than the creation of a harebrained flctlonist. Somewhere out In the shlmmerlug east he had learned, to his honest amazement, that there was such a laud as Graustark. At first he woulil not believe, but the English bank in Meshhed assured him that he would come to it if he traveled long enough and far enough Into the north and west and lf be wre not afraid of the narasnips tnat most men abhor. Thi dying spirit of romance flamed up In his heart His bleod grew quick again and eager. He would not go home until he had sought out this land of fair women and sweet tradition. And so he traversed the wild and danger ous Tartar roads for days and days, like the knights of Scheherazade lu the times of old, and came at last to the gates of Edelweiss. Not until he sat down to a rare din ner in the historic Hotel Regongetz was tie able to realize that, he was truly in that fabled, mythical land of Graustark, a quaint, grim little princi pality In the most secret Docket of the earth's great mantle. This was the land of his dreams, the land of his fancy. He bad not even dared to hope that it actually existed. And now it becomes my deplorable duty to divulge the fact that Truxton King, after two full days and nights in the city of Edelweiss, was quite ready to pass on to other fields, com pletely disillusioned in his own mind and not a little disgusted with himself for having goue to the trouble to visit the place, Where were the beautiful women he had read about and dreamed of ever since he left Teheran? On his soul, he bad not seen! half a dozen women in Edelweiss who were more than passably fair to look upon. True, he had to admit, the people he bad seen were of the lower and middle classes the shopkeepers and the shop girls, the hucksters and the fruit vend ers. What he wanted to know was this: What had become of the royalty and the nobility of Graustark? Where were the princes, the dukes and the Villi am Ton a htodred dollars Ton it." barons, to say nothing of the feminine concomitants to these excellent gen tlemen? One dingy little shop In the square Interested him. It was directly op posite the Royal cafe, with American bar attached, and the contents of Its grimy little windows presented a pe culiarly fascinating interest to hiin. They were packed with weapons and firearms of ancleut deslgu. Once he ventured inside the little shop. F I tid ing no attendant, be put aside his sud denly formed impulse to purchase u nighty broadsword. On several occasions be bad seen a grim, sharp featured old man in the doorway of the shop, but it was not until after be bad. missed the Thurs day train that be made up his mind to accost blin and to have the broad sword at any price. With this object In view, be Inserted bis tall frame into the narrow doorway, calling out lustily for attention. "What la It?" demanded a sharp, an gry voice at bis elbow. He found him self looking luto the wizened, parchment-like face of the little old man. That broad Buy, you speak Eng lish, don't youT' "Certainty," snapped the old tnnn. "Why shouldn't 1? 1 can't afford an interpreter. You'll find plenty of Eng lish used here In Edelweiss since the Americans and British came. They won't learn our language, so we muut learn theirs." "What's the price of that old sword you have in the window?" Three hundred gavvos." , "What's that in dollars?" I "Four hundred and tweutx- U U CITY AND COUNTY BRIEFS Tell a town by the ads In the home paper. Universal rule. Frank Glllasple of Frulta Is report ed very 111. Miss Audrey Combes was a Wallowa visitor, Wednesday. S D. Keltner went to Portland, V'ednesday, on a business trip. Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Davldhizer of Prairie Creek are home from an East ern trip. Mrs. F. S. Ivanhoe of the County High school spent Washington's Birth day at her home in La Grande. The Joseph Farmers Union will hold a special meeting, Tuesday, Feb ruary 28. The Lostlne Farmers Un ion will hold an open meeting In the forenoon of March 2. Walter Evans went to Portland -Monday with a view of locating there. Hugh Riley has gone Into the saloon business in that city In partnership with his uncle, formerly of Lewlston, Maho. Miss Lessie Irwin, daughter of Mrs. W, H. Durham, who had been mak ing an extended visit here, left Wed nesday for her home at North Yakima. Wn. Mrs. Durham accompanied her as far as Pendleton. Heacock, the eye specialist of La Grande, spent Monday and Tuesday at the Hotel Enterprise and his tempor ary office was thronged with patients both days. He Is a genuine, passed the examination, optician, and guar antees all his work. Mr. aud Mrs. P. F. Lake will leave next Tuesday or Wednesday for Wen- i tehee, Wn., where they will make their home. They came here last sum mor, and he has since bad charge of the dry goods department In the E. Al. & .M. store. Both Mr. and Mrs Lake have made a large number of f i iends who very much regret their leaving. Mr. Lake owns property at Venatchee and goes there to look aft.e." his Investment. genuine, sir, and" 200 years "old. Old Prince Boris carried it It's most rare." ... "I'll give you a hundred dollars for It, Mr. er" he looked at the sign on the open door "Mr. Spantz." "I don't want your money. Good day." Truxton King felt his chin In per plexity. "It's too much. -I can't af ford It," he said, disappointment in bis eyes. "1 have modern blades of my own make, sir, much cheaper nd quite as goad," ventured the excellent Ur. Spantz. "You make 'em?" in surprise. The old man straightened his bent figure with sudden pride. "I am ar morer to the crown, sir. My blades are used by the nobility not by the army, 1 am bnppy to say." "1 say, Herr Spantz, or monsieur, I'd like to have a good long chat with you. What do you say to a mug of that ex eelleut beer over in the cafe garden? Business seems to be a little dull. Can't you r lock up?" Spantz looked at hira keenly. "May I ask what brings you to Edel weiss?" ho asked abruptly. "I don't mind telling you, Mr. Spantz, that I'm here because I'm somewhat of a fool. False hopes led me astray. I came hero looking for romance for advonture." "I see," cnckled 8pautz, bis eyes twinkling with mirth. "You thought you could capture wild aud beautiful princesses here just as you pleased, eh? Let nn tell you, young man, only one American only one foreigner, lu fact lias accomplished that miracle Mr. Lorry came here ten years ago and won the fulrest flower Graustark ever produced the beautiful Yetlve but he was the only one." "No. I'm not looking for princesses. I've seen hundreds of 'em in all parts of the world." "You should see Prince Robin," went on the armorer. "I've heard of nothing but him, my good Mr. Spantz. He's seven years old. and he looks like his mother, and he's got a Jeweled sword aud all that sort of thing. 1 daresay he's a nice little chap. Got American blood in him. you see." The old man retired to the rear of the shop and called out to some one upstairs. A woman's voice answered. "Mi niece, will keen shop, sir. while A young woman of the most astound ing beauty, attired In the black and red of the Graustark middle classes. I was slowly approaching from tbo shad owy recesses at tne end of the shop. Ills heart enjoyed a lively thump. Truxton King, you may be sure, did not precede the old man into the street He deliberately removed bis bat and waited most politely for age to go be fore youth. In the meantime blandly preserved tbo little prince. Tne col lision was from tbe rear, a broken rail throwing a locomotive Into the prin cess' coach. This provldentlul escape of the young prince preserved the un bro.l.eu lints of tbe present royal fam- SHEEP BITTEN BY COYOTE ARE DYING EARL COFFMAN LOSES 65 HEAD IN BUFORD CANYON, 45 MILES FROM HERE. Dr. E. R. Flack, county veterinar ian, returned Friday from north of Flora, where he was summoned by a phone message from Earl Coffroan saying that his sheep which had been bitten by a coyote a few weeks ago, were dying 30 already dead and 15 more showing symptoms of rabies. Mr. Flack received the message at 7 p. m. Wednesday and at 8 p. m. he was on his way to Buford canyon where the Coffman sheep are rang ing. He spent an entire day at the camp, and when be left 65 sheep had died. Doctor Flack pat the stock and Coffman's dogs under strict quaran tine. He also brought out the heads of several sheep to ship to) Dr. White of the state board at Portland. J. B. Hammond of the North End collected, the bounty on 13 coyote and four bob cat pelts at the county clerk's office this week. He was ac companied by Dale N. Estea of Troy who had bought the skins, and who shipped them together with others he had purchased to New York city. L. J. Selby of West Grossman brought in eight coyote and one large lynx pelt, Wednesday, all killed near his home In the new township. Expert Coyote Trapper Hammers ley says the coyotes are pretty well cleaned out In the Chesnlmnus coun try and he will go over on the breaks of Snake river where the pests are reported more numerous. If you want good teed . -earn and good treatment uoux o White Front Barn, 97btf gazing upon tbe face of this amazing niece. Across the square, at one of thp ta bles, tbe old man, over his hujre nmg" of beer, became properly grateful Il was willing to repay King for bis lit tle attention by giving bim a careful history of Graustark, past, present and future. The old man was rambling on. "The young prince has lived most of his life In Washington and Londou aud Paris, sir. He's only seven, sir. Of course you remember the dreadful nc cldent that made him an orphan and put htm on tbe throne with the three 'wise men of the east' as regents or governors the train wreck near Brus sels, sir. His mother, the cjorlmis Princess Yetlve, was killed and his father, Mr. Lorry, died the uext duy from his injuries. That, sir, was u most appalling blow to tbe people of Graustark. There never will be an other pair like tjieiu. sir. God alone llyT" "I sny, Mr. Spantz, I don't believe I've told you that your niece Is a most remarkably beau" "As I was saying, sir," Interrupted Spantz so pointedly that Truxton flushed, "the little prince Is the Idol of all tbe people. Under tbe present regency he Is obliged to reside In tbe prlnclpnllty until his fifteenth year, after which be may be permitted to travel abroad." Spantz was eying bim narrowly. "You do not appear Interested In our royal family," be ventured coldly. Truxton hastened to assure bim that he was keenly Interested. "Especially so now that I appreciate that the lit tle prince Is the lust of bis race." "There are three regents, sir. In charge of tbe affairs of state Count Halfont, tbe Duke of Perse and Baron .Tasto Dangloss, who Is minister of po lice. Count Halfont is a grandunclp of tbe prince by marriage. The Duke of Perse is the father of the unhnppy Countess Inpoincde. the young aud beautiful wife of tbe exiled Iron Count Marlanx. No doubt you've beard of him." "I remember that be was banished from the principality." "Quite true, sir He was banished in 1001 and now resides on his estates in Austria. Three years ago In Buda pest be was mar ried to Ingomede, the daughter of tbe duke. Count Marlanx has great Influence at the Austrian court The Duke of Perse realized this when he compelled his daughter to accept him as her hus band. The fuir In eomede Is less than "ub was BAXisiitD twenty-flve years IK IJ01. of BRe Tn0 lron Count Is fully sixty-live." "I'd like to see If she's really beau- (Continued on. p&ii 2.)