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TWENTY-SIXTH YEAR. NO. 52.
ENTERPRISE, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 1910.
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ceuts a word 2 Insertions. Special
rates by month and year.
WANTED.
Violin puptla. MUa Pearl Humphrey,
graduate of Notre Dame Academy.
CaU at J. L. Browning's. 24bm
LOST OR STRAYED.
Two pigs, sandy with black spots.
Finder communicate with C. E.
Funk, Enterprtoe. 19btf
MONEY TO LOAN
Slate Funds loaned, 6 per cent. John
P. Rusk. Atty. State Land E'd. Joseph
Farm loana t 714 percent. CaU nr
write First Bank of Joseph. 58btf
FOR 8ALE.
Wondar Washer at Riiey's. 27b4
Fresh cow and calf; also surrey,
team aud harness. Inquire at M.
& flour' mill, Enterprise. 27b2
Lots In Troy towuelbc for sale at
$20 and up. O. R. & N. railroad
is now maklag final locallon suxvey
ju Grand Ronde river between
lioxidowa and Snake river. When
road 1 buflit 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 lota In
souhteast part of town. Will be
sold for $2000, the actual cost of
lots and house, if taken soon. In
quire at this office. 27btf
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 &
Corkins, Enterprise, Oregon. tf
CANDIDATES ATTENTION I
Nominating petitions for county
aud district candidates before the
primary September 24, for sale at
this office. Nicely bound. Complete
sats only $1 at office op by mall.
Free Roads Across Reservation.
PENDLETON. After several years'
fight, the stockmen 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
ing to an order Just received by Ma
jor Swartslander, the local agent,
from the department of Indian affairs
at Washington. The order specifies
that the roads shall bn 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
stook across the reservation and to be
responsible for any damages Inflicted
by their stock.
THE MARKETS.
Portland.
Wheat Traok prices: Club, 86c;
bluestem, 96; red Russian, 85c.
Barley Feed and brewing, $24.
Oats No. 1 White, $32 per ton. ,
Hay Timothy, Willamette Valley,
$1819 per ton; Eastern Oregon,
$2022; alfalfa, $1314.
Butter Extra, 33c; fancy, 33c;
ranch 23c.
Eggs Ranch, candled, 23c.
Hops 1909 crop, 1013c; olds,
nominal.
Wool Eastern Oregon, 14 17c per
pound.
Mohair 3233c.
v Seattle.
red Russian, 90o.
Wheat Bluestem, 94c; club, 92c;
Oats $33 per ton.
Barley $24 per ton. '
Hay Timothy, $22 per ton; alfalfa,
$14 per ton.
Butter Washington Camery, 33c;
ranch, 22c. ,
Eggs Selected local, 82c.
Excursion to the Setsehore,
On Tuesday, August 23d, the O.
R. & N. Co. will operate a special
train excursion to Portland In con
nection with their steamers to North
beach resorte. This special train
will leave La Grande at 8:00 p. m.,
arriving to Portland at 7:15 a. m.,
Wednesday, August 24th. Passen
gers have choice of ateamera leaving
Portland aa follows: The T. J. Pot
ter leaving at 8:30 a. ro. Wednes
day and Thursday, or the steamer
Haasale leaving at S:00 p. ro. Wed
nesday ,and Thursday. ..Make . your
reservations for sleeping care now.
Ask the agent for further particulars.
IDAHO SETTLERS FLEE
FROM JFOREST 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 Burzinsky and wife are
missing." The settlers who escaped
say the Burzinsky home was one of
the first in the path of the flames,
and the fact that the Burzlnskys have
sot been eeen 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 hope that
the effect might produce rain to check
the devastation by forest fires, Is
said to have had a result, for rain
bas been falling for the first time In
two months. The fall bas 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 Stites, 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 purse-snatcher who had robbed
and beaten three women last week,
has been Identified as that of Earnest
A. Frazier, 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
SOUNDED BY TAFT
BEVERLY, Mass. President Taft
has decided to accept the invitation to
address the national league of repub
lican clubB at Carnegie hall, New
York, on September 30. ,
There Is likelihood taat this will be
the president's one speech of the cam
paign, and, as he will be surrounded
by a political atmosphere, it is proo
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-
1 tween members of the Spreckels fam
ily was fired with the arrival of. the
well known American ship Lyra from
Ypnkers, N. Y., bringing -to the Fed
eral Sugar Refining Company sugar
amounting to 10,000,000 pounds.
Wounded Mayor Improved.
NEW YORK. Mayor Gaynor Is
progressing favorably toward recov
ery from the - bullet wound in bis
neck, according to all Information ob
tainable from hospital physicians. No
symptoms of blood poisoning have ap
peared, and the danger of unfavor
able developments is hourly becoming
less.
Pray for Mayor Gaynor.
NEW YORK. In the churches of
every- denomination in New York
Sunday prayers were offered for the
recovery of Mayor Gaynor. who was
shot last week. "
Pruning th Grape.
In pruning the grape - cot back to
the third bud. as It Is uHUully the first
entirely perfect bud produced.
SENATOR WESLEY L JONES
One of the Investigator of
Senator Gore's 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
self interest will be inaugurated and
paid organizers will be at work in all
paru 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 tbiB 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'glan 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 other
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 the Indians In cash,
the elate within ten years would be
flooded with paupers.
Salmon 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
tall far short of the average.
PRESIDENT FLANS
LEADERSHIP CHANGE
New Political Move May Retirs
Speaker Cannon and Sen
ator Aldrich.
BEVERLY, Mass. Everything tha!
happened the past week around the
bummer capital conspires to the, be
lief that the administration la pin-paring
to clean house, and that a com
plete political readjustment la circles
close to President is in progress.
Athough he is not to retire untP
after March 4, 1911 and Senator Aid
rich confirmed to President Taft dur
lng his recent viKlt 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 Balllnger from the cab
lnet The retirement of Mr. Balllnger
is said to be fixed for September 15.
Move Against Cannon Planned.
The third move in contemplation Is
said to be directed against Speaker
Cannon. It Is not admitted in Beverly
that Mr. Cannon will even be a can
didate for the speakership.
Reports have reached Beverly thai
the recent results In Kansas and Iowa
were due largely to the activity ol
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 ono of the active
forces in the new political movement.
It was he who went West to see
Secretary Balllnger and it was he
who also went to see Senator Aldrich
at Warwich, R. I. Hereafter, Senator
Crane's movements will be watched
with particular Interest.
TO ELECT 36 GOVERNORS
Greatest Number Elected at Sam
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.
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 far Detective Burns.
SAN FRANCISCO. Another echo
of the famous Perrin Benson Snell 1R1
gatlon 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. Sne'.l 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 curried by the Emperor
Charles V. lu 1530 weighed iweuty
seren pounds.
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BRIEF NEWS OF THE WEEK
The world' largest masonry span
t Hearing completion as part of a
bridge In New Zealand. It is 320 feet
long by 20 wide, and 147 feet high.
The official call has been issued for
the firth 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
I beginning to attract attention is the
Increasing number of Japanese wom
en that the transpacific liner ar
bringing to San Francisco. Many of
these women are of the coolie class.
Following th announcement that
20,000 Filipinos were to be Imported
to the Hawaiian islands as sugar plan
tation laborers, tuo organisation of
anti-oriental labor leagues has begun
at Honolulu.
NEWS OF NOTED PERSONS
President Samuel Gompers has an
nounced that the next annual conven
tion of the American Federation of
Labor would open In Bt. Louis, Mo.,
on Monday, November 14.
Colonel Roosevelt completed the
conservation and political speeches i
he is to make In the West, particular-1
ly before the national conservation
congress In St. Paul on September 6.
Mrs. Margaret Emerson McKIm
was granted a decree of absolute di
vorce from her husband. Dr. S. H. i
McKIm, of New York, at Reno, Ne
vada, after she took the stand and
told of alleged cruelty on the part of
her husband.
James Whltcomb Riley, Hoosler
poet and "human Interest" philos
opher, who was recently stricken with i
a slight attack of paralysis, is report
ed better and out of dangor. I
James J. Jeffries, former champion
prizefighter of the world, has gone
Into the laundry business. Not that I
he Is advertising, but $50,000 of the'
money he received for the Rono fight
he loaned to a Los Angeles laundry
company and took a mortgage on the
concern for the amount.
The oldest member of the United
States Benate In point of years is Sen
ator Cullom of Illinois, who will b 81
years old next November.
General B. J. Vlljoen, who com
manded one of the main divisions of
the Boers In the war with Great Bri
tain, and who is now & rancher In the
Mesllla valley of southern New Mex
ico, has been offered the post of as
sistant minister of native office la
the South African protectorate.
CRIMES AND MISHAPS
The first class British armored
cruiser Duke of Edlnburg, with 750
officers and men on board went ashore
in a dense fog striking on the rocks
at St. Catherine. Isle of Wight
From July 31 until August 6, 20,66$
cases of cholera were reported
throughout Russia, with 8679 death.
One-third of th city of Toklo Is
flooded from constant rains. It la es
timated that 2,000,000 persons In th
surrounding country ar without
shelter or food and ar starving. Con
ditions in th capital ar won than
during any great flood of recent times
In Japan.
Sweeping down out of th sky with
a sharp hiss, a small meteorite crash
ed against a blind on the house of Al-
fred H. RIckards In Montrose, Mas., j
and set the house on fire. . I
. Charged with having conspired to
violate the Sherman anti-trust law in i
connection with tb 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 beat
has caused a phenomenon in tb fruit
world here that is creating much in
terest. Peach trees laden on on
side with green leaves and ripe fruit
and the opposite aide with as fine
blossoms 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 or that line on the
Cherokee Lane road of the Interbur
ban between Stockton and Lodl.
ITEMS OF INTEREST
THROUGHOUT OREGON
Chronicle of Important Events
of Interest to Our
Readers.
Tim I Extended.
SALEM. Whlls August 14 Is th
latest date at which candidates under
th law can file nominating petition
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 th secretary of state. Th secre
tary, however, has decided not to In
sist upon strict enforcement of the
law and candidates filing their peti
tion between now and August 22, the
latest date at which cuts and argu
ments must be in the hands of the
secretary of state, will be allowed to
have their cuts and arguments appear
In the namnhUt An. ...t.HM.t.. fllln.
hi petlton after that late will be too
late, as the secretary of state must
turn th cut and arguments over to
th printer by August 25.
18 Injured In A Trolley Crash,
- PORTLAND. Thirteen persons
war mors or less hurt when an elec
tric car on th Oregon City Una struck
a string of freight cars ln this city.
Th accident occurred on a long
curve, the headlight shining on a
langent, leaving in the dark the
freight cars, which were taking a sid
ing. None of th passengers ar seri
ously Injured.
CHASE WON BY POSSE
Horsethl.f Is Shot Dead, but "Pal"
Make Escape.
KLAMATH FALLS. A posse' In
pursuit of two borsethleves came upon
them near th Callahan ranch, 12
miles northweit of Dairy, and killed
one, named Dumoas, but the other,
named Kuhl, mad bis escape.
A number of mules and horses were
stolen from th country in th 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 th 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.
Ills companion succeeded In mak
ing his escape and the posse Is still
In pursuit. Tha horses and mules
were recovered.
Red Spiders Damage Hop.
SALEM. S andlng 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 Oreu.i
bas suffered Immensely the past week
or 10 days and the yield, conserva
tively estimated from the standpoint
of both the 'bulls and bears," wll. fall
approximately SOOO bales below that
of last year. The yield of last year
was about 84,000 bales, and the latest
estimate for this sesson ranges be
tween 82,00 and 100,000 bales.
STATE SEAL IS CHANGED
Discovery Mad Alteration Wer Not
Authorised.
BALEM. Discovery bas been mad
that several part of th present seal
of Oregon are without authority of
law, as a resul of an Investigation
made by tb secretary of state's office,
upon request of Elliott Woods, super I
intendent of the United States capltol!
and ground at Washington. Mr.
Woods sent a request fur a copy of
th present state seal In colors. On
the celling of th house of represen
tatives In Washington seals of tb
various states are shown a prepared
In 1857 and It is desired to bring
these down to dat.
Chief Clerk Corey is at a loss to
know just how to send the state seal
for us at th national capltol, a
there are apparently some unauthor
ised additions, as the seal now stands.
China Depends on Self.
PEKIN. The Chinese government
has decided to employ no diplomatic
adviser la th future, a decision that
has come as a surprise, and to' soma
extent a disappointment to the foreign
communities of the Far Bast
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