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Blfl TS 'IMMENSE COMPARED TO COST PUBLICITY EXPENSE B.RINGS 10 . .. . .. i . i TO 100 TO UNfc in v.vu ONIST RETURNS. pendlture In advertising for colon lets haa produced colonists' invest ments' In Oregon that make thel cost of publicity seem slight. Reports came yesterday to William McMurray, general passenger agent of the O.-W. R. & N. Co., showing in de tail how $K worth of advertising of a town's rsourcees either by the town or Portland commercial bodies, or the railroad, has led to investments of $100 to $1000. The reports showed that most of the incomers are remain ing, that nearly all have found Ore gon's resources rather understated than overstated. Fifteen Thousand Have Come. The colonists rates on the transcon tinental lines began March 10. They will end April 10. About half the time has gone. There have arrived in the state, in round numbers, 15,000 peo ple. They are broadly divided into three classes, namely, capitalists, la borers, and homeseekers. In the third class are included the large number who come as "scouts" for people back east. They come to "spy out" the country, to report on resources and opportunities when they return. L4t- tio has been written or said concern ing this class, but they are to be the leaders of the colonist movement an other year, and that they should be given full opportunity to find out all concerning Oregon, and that they should be warmly welcomed and well treated, la conceded by all commer. clal bodies. To learn the real value of the col onist movement, Mr. McMurray had written to a representative of every town along the, Harrlman lines, ask ing for information. It came, a great sheaf of personal letters. A carload of farmer-folk had come all the way from Medford, Okla., to La Grande and very one of them lo cated; Locate on Farms. To The Dalles came families from Colorado and they located on farms. Three families from Texas did the same- thing, taking more than 300 acres of fine fruit and grain land, each. A family from Des Moines, Io wa, bought 80 acres of fruit land ; thirty other families were various ly located. A small colony of Ger mans came direct from the old coun try and took laud to raise ducks, as paragus and poultry. They said they had made good at this sort of thing under the kaiser. The correspondent from Salem said the colonist movement reminded bim of a snowball that starts rolling high on the mountain and gathers speed and size as It proceeds downward, until It becomes an avalanche. The colonists with whom he had been talking had been attracted Oregon ward, not only by the publicity, but by the exhibit cars. They were peo ple come to take up small tracts of land and there, build homes.. About Salem, said the writer, only one fourth of the land was under culti vation and only one-twentieth of it producing as it should. From Eugene came news that the homeseekers were locating on small tracts, that 60 to 100 people were vis iting the city every day and that ex pressions of satisfaction were continu ously heard. In the matter of a welcome, Eugene seems to have it on all the other towns of Oregon. The Commercial club there has a ladies' auxiliary, and like the .women everywhere vher ever the work is worth while they are extremely busy. They take the addresses of all visitors; they call on all newcomers; get acquainted, see If they are satisfactorily locat ed, and make the- welcome thus con tinue over several months. The re sult is that those who come stay. "I am surprised and delighted with the colonist movement of this year," said Mr. McMurray. "It is exceedingly profitable to Oregon. From now until the colonist rates go out of effect! the dally arrivals will be greater and greater, "I want to re-emphasize the- necessity for warmly welcoming all. My reports show that.Oregon is draw ing population from nearly the entire world. The places that had been the objects "of Colonist movement" are now being deserted.' But those 'who come to Oregon and are, properly Introduced to the climate, the soil and the re sources, and, above all, the people, will not leave." - Tercentenary Of King James Bible Throughout the British empire prep arations are completed for the fitting observance of the tercentenary of the authorized version of the Eng lish Bible. In England London will bo the center of the; celebration, which began March 26 . with special thanks giving services in all the church. es. The Bible, its history and his torical sketches of the origin of the authorized version of the English Bible v formed the text of every ser mon Sunday. The churches of ev ery denomination in Great Britain 160 acres 3 miles from town, 160 acres home-! stead adjoining, horses, cow, machinery, etc., $2600. : . ' 720 SlCreS about 500 acres irrigible; 550 acres tillable; 250 acres in crop $35.00 an acre. 1 77 1 -2 acres on Slope, 160 acres tillable, 140 can be irrigated. $9000. t . , ? : " - Residence Lots $100 to $400 ' Business Lots $IOOO to $4000 Dwellings $4 O to $5000 Best and Cheapest Fire Insurance, Burglary Insurance, Surety Bonds, Abstracts W: E. TAGGART, Maa- ENTERPRISE, : : v.- i . OREGON la Grande Iron Works. D. FITZGERALD, Proprietor. Foundry and Machine Shop. - Casting1 and Ma chine Work done on short notice. , Wf'LSO MANUFACTURE FEED MILLS " . Sawmill break down jobs promptly attended to : GIV?- US A TRIAL and, In fact, all English speaking countries, will Join In the observance of the English Bible's birthday. The celebration will not be confin ed ; to London. In the course of the week meetings will ' be ' arranged in leading provincial centers in Scot land and Ireland, similar to the large mass meeting to be held in the Royal Albert Hall "on "Wednesday.-; The celebration will continue for several weeks and will reach its climax and conclusion on the Sunday following Easter. Will Interest Many. In connection with the interesting celebration the authorities of tte British Museum have arranged an ex hibition of a historical character which will attract the attention and hold the interest of the thousands of Bible scholars who will visit London during the tercentenary celebration. The exhibition will be divided into two sections, manuscripts and print ed books. The manuscripts ' will Il lustrate the progress of the Bible from the very earliest times, start ing with examples of thes Hebrew and Greek originals, and golngon to the Latin Vulgata, which brought the Bible "into England. There will also be numerous examples of early Eng lish manuscripts, produced at vari ous intervals down to the time when the art of printing was introduced. There will be about thirty examples of biblical manuscript illustrating the various periods mentioned. The printed -or book section will start with a. copy of the first example of a portion of the Bible printed in England, this being Tyndale's New Testament produced in 1526. Other examples of printed works will show all editions produced in 1611, when the special committee appointed seven years before by James I, to revise the Bible for all time,-produced the result of its labor. There will also be specimens of some specially inter esting additions of the authorized ver s Ion since that date. The exhibition will include a speci men of practically every Bible in the jiuseum, excluding, however, mere translations into foreign languages of the authorized version. Several copies will be accompanied by documents Illustrating their history, and the lan guages and dialects represented In the whole collection will include Hebrew, Greek, Syriac, three dialects of Egypt Ian, Latin, Anglo-Saxon and English1 of the middle ages, Tudor and Elizabeth an periods. r It was in 1603 that the Puritan wing of the Church of England petitioned James I for the revision of the Book of Common Prayer. Ta bring about a f.'nal settlement of the matter, which caused considerable dissension among h!s subjects. King James summoned conference of learned men. theo logians and Bible students, which con vened at Hampfon Court, In the king' presence, on January . 14, 1604. It was during the four days of that confer ence, which clearly '' showed the di vergence of opinions; regarding the existing English texts of the Bible, the Great, the Bishops' and the Gen eva Bible, that James conceived the Idea of ordering a new version, of the Bible, hnceeforth tq be accepted as the only authorized version. He dismissed the conference, however, without disclosing) his plan. On July 23, of the same year, he called the same scholars together once more and charged them with the task of making a new version of the Bible based upon the Bishops' Bible from which they were to deviate only where absolutely necessary. The fifty-four scholars of which the conference con slated, organized themselves into six subcommittees and with all the avail able material, from the original Greek and Hebrew manuscripts, Bishop Ul- fila's Gothic translation and later Lat in, German, French Italian and Span lsh translations to the English Bibles of Wycliffe, Tyndale, Coverdale and the Geneva Bible at their disposal began their task which was not com pleted until seven years later. The ex act date of the completion of the work is not known, but It was at the begin ning of summer. 0 Bargain in Timber Land Owing to ill health I must go away,; and I offer for sale ray timber land at Elk Mountain 280 A -res Good Saw Timber Yellow Pine, Tamarack and Fir. Good soil,, living; stream. year round. 15 miles from Enterprise.. Good county road. $6 an acre. Easy terms. ; I" GRAVES, Enterprise, Oregon TAXATION OF LAND VALUES IN CANADA (From the Toronto Dally Star.) Edmonton may be called the home of th slnela tax. Thou eh the name cf Edmonton has been on 'the map for over a hundred years, the period of its larger growth may conveniently be dated from 1904, the year the city charter was granted. In the charter the principles of the single tax was adopted as the basis of assessment and taxation, that is, taxation on land values only, with no tax on improvements; and this being now the sixth year if its opera tion, It Is of Interest to Inquire how it works out,- and how the people like it. The single. tax Idea was modified by the addition of business and in come taxes, but the head of opinion here is towards taxation of land val ues pure and simple, and it Is prob able that In a few years time the bus! ness and income taxes will be discard ed. The people like the system. One hears no sentiment at all In favor of going back to assessment of building or improvement values;. It la simple and easy of administration and equit able "in "results. It ''prevents, or at least tends to prevent,' the holding of land vacant "for speculative pur- posts. Two ' pieces of land equally well located, one vacant, . and the other with a million dollar building on it, would " contribute, outside of the business tax, exactly the same amount to the city funds, so that one can see that the holding of the land vacant or with cheap, light rev enue producing ' buildings is not apt be a profitable venture for any eat length of time. Of course the ecent rise in land values has been so lapld and so phenomenal In ex tent that so trifling a thing, In-com parison, as taxation has hardly been given a thought, but taxation neces sarily keeps pare ' with rise In land values, and in the long run it will not pay to hold onto unimproved town sites. Outside the business center it costs no more taxation to carry improved, revenue producing property than It does vacant land similarly situated, and that fact alone must in the long run result in a compact, well built up city, and It Is as well a factor to ho taken Into consideration in the purchase of outlying lands In the corporation. The corporation, of Edmonton em braces now about ten thousand acres. It has a total assessment of thirty millions and a tax rate this year of seventeen mills on the dollar. ' The general assessment is based on land value only, fixed by the assessor. He guided in fixing this value by re cent sales, by his knowledge of the property, its location, etc., and In arriving at this he pays no attention to the character of the building or whether it has any building on it at all or not. The satisfaction ' given by the sys tem of taxation followed in Edmon ton has Induced other corporations to follow suit. ' . Strathcoma, the city across the riv er, with 5000 Inhabitants, imbedded the ."system Into its charter. This year that city, has progressed so far towards the pure single tax as ' to cut its business tax In half. ' The City of the" Plains, Regina, Investigated' and adopted the plan. The biggest city "of the west, , the young giant of the coast, Vancouver, has gone the full length, and this year adopts the single tax pure and simple, land values only, without business tax. The result there will be watched with the widest Interest. It is the first to go the whole hog,. and to go it on an extensive) scale.' Enquiries 'and delegations from many" "parts of Canada and 'from man parts of the United States as well, .have". reached Edmonton '"on 'in vestigation' bent.'anV the sy sterol may already be "said to have obtained a solid foothold In the west..'"" ," The' simplicity and ease' 'of 'admin istration of the system is" one of its chief beauties, 'It is much ''easier to compare ana; equivalate assessment 6t land "than" of buildings or person al property. . There are practically no appeals, made -from assessed, values as such. . . The whole business of the court of revision for the city is dis posed of In a sitting of an hour or two duration. Lame shoulder is nearly always due to rheumatism of the muscles, and quickly yields to the free application of Chamberlain's Liniment For sale by all dealers. Advertisers want your trade. Professional Cards jj Office i 107. THOS. M. DILL ATTORNEY-AT-UW In Litch building. Room Enterprise, Oregon. E. R. FLACK, M. D. C. V.S, Veterinary Surgeon and Dentist : : County Veterinarian. I Enterprise, Oregon. ' "Our baby cries for Chamberlain's Cough Remedy," writes Mrs; T. B. Kendrick of Rasaca, Ga. "It is the best cough remedy on the market for coughs, colds and croup. For sale by all dealers. COLONIST FARES C. T. HOCKETT. M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON I Office la Lltch building. Room !L 115. Home bid. Phone In office X and residence. l4- DR. W. L. NICHOLS. Osteopathic Physician 135-137 Litch BWg. Hours, 8 to 5 dally. Phone at residence and office. mvvw w- W. C. KETCHUM DENTIST - ENTERPRISE Office in Lltch Building. Room 121. Home Independent Phono. v it-t Averts Awful Tragedy. Timely advice given Mrs. C. W'H- loughby, of Marengo, Wis., (R. No. 1) prevented a dreadful tragedy and saved two lives. Doctors had said her frightful cough was a "consump tion" cough and did little to help her. After many remedies failed, her aunt urged her to take Dr. King's New Discovery. "I have been using It for some time," she wrote, "and the aw ful cough has almost gone. It also saved my little boy when taken with a . severe bronchial trouble." . . This matchless medicine has no equal for throat and lung troubles. Price 50c and $1.00. Trial bottle free. Guar- anteed by all druggists. DR. C. A. AULT PHYSICIAN. AND SURGEON Office In Bank Building. Horn phone both office and residence. ' J. A. BURLEIGH I ATTORNEY-AT-LAW ; : Office im Lltch Bulldlnc. Enterprise, Oregon. DANIHJL. BOYD ATTORNEY-AT-LAW .... rmcuci in an otate uourui &a Interior Department. Careful at- X T . . tantlnn ts nil tin tain aoa X From the Middle and Eastern portion of the United States and Canada to OREGON, WASHINGTON AND THE NORTHWEST will prevail dally March 10 to April 10 over the Oregon - Washington Railroad & Navi gation Co. end connections, the OREGON 8HORT LINE, UNION PA CIFIC and CHICAGO A NORTH WESTERN From Chicago at . .(21 W St. Loula 00 Omaha $&6 00 Kansas City 25 0 St. Paui J6 00 and from other eltlee correspondingly low. You Can Prepay Fart The colonist fares are westbound only, but If you have relative or friend or employe in the; Stat whon you desire to ring to this itat you can deposit the value of the fare with your local ralroad scent and , an or der for ticket will be telegraphed to any point deelred. Let the World Know Of our vast resource and splendid opportunities for' - a ' HOME BUILDING Call on the undersigned for good Instructive printed matter to send Bast, or give bim the addreee of those to whom you . would like to have such matter tent. - WM. McMURRAY, General Passenger Agent, Portland, Oregon. . V. SIIEAHAN & COOLBY LAWYERS - ENTERPRISE T PractlCM ' In Stilt ni1 FartarU 1f W. B. APPLKQATC Notary Public Collections made. . Real HHti sought sad aold and all business matter .. attended to. flsll on or writs ms. , ,.' PARADISL, OREGON Cartfin Banking Insurtt Hi Saftty $ DtpttSt." Depositors Havs That Guarantee at WALLOWA NATIONAL BANK OF ENTERPRISE. OREGON CAPITAL 150,000 6UKFLU8 160,000 Wc Do a General Banking ..Business. Exchange Bought and Sold on All Principal Cities. Geo. W. Hyatt, President Geo. H. Craig, Vice President W. R. Holme, Cutbiei A. J. Boehmer, Ami. Cashier Geo .S. Craio J. H. Dobbin D1BSOTOBS Geo. W. Hyatc Maxth A. Holkk W. R. Houns Stores that advertise goods at rlgbt prices. have the IN LATE WINTER AND EARLY SPRING Ws seldom feel JUST RIQHT At such s time tASPARIUi is the best and safest Blood Purifier, the most successful Srescnption tor spring humors and such iaorders of the blood as boils, pimples. pustules, blotches, sore nd cutaneous eruptions. Kasparilla la admitted to be the beat remedy for that lack of energy and the peculiar debility so prevalent during the close of winter and the otwoing of spring. For derangements of the di gestive organ it Is natural corrective, operating directly upon the liver and ali mentary canal, gently but persistently stimulating a healthy activity. Its beneficial influence extends, however, to every portion of the system, aiding in tbe processes of digestion and assimilation of food, promoting s wholesome, natural sppetite. correcting sour stomach, bad breath, irregularities of the bowels, con stipation and the long list of troubles directly traceable to those unwholesome conaiuona. jiaspanua aispeia arowsi Bess, headache, backache and despond ency due to inactivity of the liver, kidneys and digestive tract. It is a strengthening tonic of the highest value. THE BEST SPRING MEDICINE BOYT CHXMICAI, Co. Portland, Oregon Stop and Figure A reply to a letter cannot reach you in less than THREE days. Why not get your answer IMMEDI ATELY? Use the LONG DISTANCE SERVICE of the Home Independent Telephone Co. Offices in all parts of Union and Wallowa counties. 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