n 1 s I N DEPEN DENCE ENTERPRISE, INDEPENDENCE, OREGON, AUGUST 20, 11MU . Independence Enterprise. Fl'HLIHIIKO EVERY Tltl'IWDAY, Enlrrwi at luiIeiwnJeuw.ptwiortlwaiiKKH'nd-ciMM matter. Subscription $1.50 Per Year. TELEPHONE M. KL'nsi'HiniON RATKS. Per year ' Hlx month sincl copv '.";. J LiH-al uolU'wareS cviiln )mt linn 8tral((lit abmiluleiy no mlnetion for any ivason wlmlavtr. RMe on display adverilsUiK nimlo known on appil catlou. "Coin" Harvey attributes the demo cratic defeat in 1890 and 11H)0 to bad management. We shouldn't wonder. If our recollection doesn't fail us "Coin" solicited the funds and held the purse strings for these campaigns. The Celtic, the new White Star Liner's steamer, is a wonder. She i3 the largest ship in the world, being twice as large as either the battleships Oregon or Massa chusetts. She can carry, feed and sleep double the number of people the biggest hotel on earth could accomodate. Such a vessel is nothing less than a floating island. Think of such a monster plow ing through the water at the speed of an express train! For years and years French has been the language in vogue in diplomatic in tercourse, but that language threatens to frlish. Jaoan has UK o j t taken the initiative and announced to th world that henceforth all their official language of diplomacy shall be worded in English. The giving way of French to English is but another phase of the sur vival of the fittest. Less people are speaking French, more people speak English. English will succeed French so rapidly as to soon make it the univer sal language between diplomats of nations The first money order ever received by this office from Canada was received this week in payment of a subscription for Kin? Tetherow. who is now located at Rossland, B. C. The order differs from the American order, in-as-much as it is the same size of a sheet of note paper, and neither contains the name of the postmaster issuing the same or to whom it ia to be Daid. Also the order is void if not presented for payment within twelve months from date of issue, while the American order only requires the issuing of another order from the postoffice de partment. ! A New Method. Congress has adopted a new plan for oneninff Indian reservations. The first x o - experiment was tried last month when the Kiowa-Comanche and Apache reserva tions were thrown open to settlement. The new plan consisted in setting apart sixteen days (June 10 to 26) for any who wished to file on land on either of these reservations to register their names and personal description and also show evi dence of their qualifications to enter pub lic land. 167,006 applicants were regis tered, but there were only claims for only thirteen thousand persons. The names thus registered were placed in wheels and drawn by chance. The name so drawn was numbered and the number represented the applicants turn to file, or in other words gave him the choice of land in the district according to his num ber. The lands were divided into the El Reno and Lawton districts and simultan eous drawings were held in euch district, until the 13,000 claims were exhausted. The drawing was begun July 29, when there were one thousand names drawn from the wheels. The first names drawn from the El Rono district were Stephen A. Holconib, ofTnuls Valley, I. T., and the first from the Lawton district was James R. Wood, Weutherford, . T. Miss Mattie II. Reals, of Wichita, Kan sas, was tho first ladies' name to appear and she drew the second number from the Lawton district. This will give those drawing the lirst numbers tho choice of lands adjoining the townsitos in tho El Reno and Lawton districts and which are estimated to be worth at least 25,000. The throe towns are Aradarko, Lawton and Hobart. Tho lands were thrown open to entry August (Hh, and the entries were made according to number. The purpose of this new method was to do away with the old time rush for the land and the at tendant litigation which always follows such openings. It seems doubtful if either of theso two objections have been ovocome in this case, tor' there were over thirteen peasons to each claim. And it seems that in the matter of litigation that a great many homeless Indians have taken advantage of the old law to "squat" upon this reser vation and upon lands which have been selected by those who drew numbers that entitled them to an entry of lands. There seems to be no method of preventing the hearing of these individual claims, as their rights are based upon settlement, and if the Indian is allowed to be heard there is no telling when the litigation will end. The Wood's claim adjoining the Lawton townsite has been jumped by -two hundred squatters, and so far four con tests have been filed against it. Beresford's Choice. Like many another man who has made a success of life. Lord Charles Beresford ; was the despair of the teachers of his boy hnnA Thnw i-nnortfld to his father tuat UVVX "J . v - vounc Charles would do nothing he di not care to do, and on the boy s thirteenth. birthday his parent formally announced that he must make his final choice of a profession. Collier's Weekly reports the conversation which followed "What is it to be, my boy the army, the navy, or the church?" "The navy, sir." "And why the navy, boy?" " 'Cause I'd like to be an admiral, like Nelson." "Pshaw, like Nelson! Why Nelson?" " 'Cause I want to." "But even if you were to join the navy, why do you think you will ever become an admiral, Charlie?" " 'Cause I mean to," was the blunt re ply. He had his wish and entered the navy. Oregon Notes. The water agate crop at Newport is of good size and quality. Across the Snake river, opposite Weiser, lives a farmer who uses gas from his own well as fuel. This is Ed Ashley, and he has a well some 1500 feet deep that he has bored. The expense was partly paid by donations given by the people who hoped artesian water would be struck. This is how it looks in Harney county: "When the old cows on the mountain range look down and see the big stacks of winter feed .that are punching holes in the atmosphere of Harney valley, the aforesaid cows lie down in the shade of a pine tree and laugh till their tallow gets all out of shape. And the little wether lamb that doesn't know anything about hay is sleeping away the summer that is giving him a big start towards 2.30." t 31112 IN PRIZES. on 01 .... 1 .. -1-1 I I KoiiiemUr, eorrwapondonoe from out ol me county omy arwpimi .. article and the credit named to the permm sending them in or dt signated ly tlm writer. The 100 credits only given (or those called for In thla ad. W e don I eaitHit onr correa - i...... ... n.-tf. .iun,,.w.rv iih other curreniKMiileiita or u It lor any other pur- V V Beginning August , MM, and ending OdoUr ill. at 0 . m,, lite Jmikfkniiknck Kntkbtkihk will give away nine ol the moat uenumiu irue. TOTAL VALUE OF PRIZES 8112 Correspondents Contests THE ONLY CONDITIONS. Fvitv H-r3ii M-mlhi. In . kii.T t ri.w. r.r.tlnliu lew. tlmn live it-m., t.lvli ... Hvi.l.ll'lt.r i.til.lll-U..ti, will U-eMxliL-1 wltli iwo iK.lm.; ov.-i t.-ii ii.-ru. Ilv. noinl.; ov.T lBlv.lt.11i.i.-ii ,''". An H.-IH worthy olii. .-jit. l.i-it.1 will I rr.lli-.J with Iwynty iioliit.. Om now yc.rly .iiliwrlbr-r entitl.. lit. i-rwii Mtlln It In tu .PVfnly flvv iHHiu A rimewwl iliirtv-livu until.. 1-wm limit yi'.r thittytlvo j.nnU. Ill , V. wmit wim-Hin.l.nit from nvt-ry vtrlnity ol ruin enmity .nn mr any ".. . V will lift it. . utKxl mrrf.iHjn.hml Iroin il.v Inllnwln, fltnn will l.-ro.lnwl will, on i.lnl.! ClnnHllur. Jlntlnr, l.mooli., r..lk. 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