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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-09-08

be found in our cooking vessels, and
that in striving for healthful, clean
utensils We have lunconsciousl', pro-
duced a class of goods that was re-
sponsible for the Inflammation of the
appendix. Still, in these days we
hear little of the deaths from yerdigris
poisoning that Were fairly common In
the days when the old copper kettle
was in general use. In France the
copper kettle continues in general use,
and there are more cases of yerdigrls
poisoning there than here.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-09-08

Popular Mechanics for September
surpasses previous issues by the addi-
ton OF 10 pages of reading matter.
Reading like q Jules Verne serial. yet
every article and every Illustration au-
tholitative, the complete record of de-
velopment In the mechanical and sci
entitic world for the past month sup
plies material for 40 stories and 161
pictures, every article written so you
can understand It," and every illustra-
ton telling story of its own. For the
increasing numbers Interested IN aer-
onautics, there is an account of recent
fights of Zeppelin's airship, with a
picture of the big machine; a new
view of the wreck of the Morrell air.
ship; an illustrated account OF the
Chicago balloon race; description OF
gycroscope motors for airships; a. pic
ture of the Delagranse airship and ac-
count of the record breaking 11-mtle
fight; and description of a flying
machine with spiral helices. A leading
feature Is an article on the largest
building in the world, located at New
York, having 1S.500,000 square feet of.
floor space and office accommodations
for 10000 persons. In an article on
submarine mines, the methods of CON
troll are fully explained. The state
ment that Edison is responsible for the
character of modern drama finds elu-
cidation in an article on stage light
ing apparatus, explaining how all the
myriad delightful effects are produced
Italy is building big boats of cement
and the result of her experimentation
is Interesting in the extreme. Other
feature is an article on the largest
Russian dead" "Fireboats in Action"
and many others--160 Washington ST.,
Chicago.
The September American Magazine is
fairly alive with good reading, Charles
Roman leads off the number with THE
Wonderland of Delrum.'' 1t is rec
ord of the personal experiences OF the
author who, within the past year. lived
through IS days of delrium in a Wash
ington hospital. Octave Mirbeau's
character sketch OF Emperor william
is equally interesting. No such frank
picture Of the emperor has ever been
published in America. Other articles
of interest are George Fttch's humor-
Gus description of the divorce colony at
Sioux Falls, S. D., "Mr. Dooley's'' re-
marks on Big Game Hunting, and Ray
Stannard Bakers personal conclusions
as 10 what we ought to do about the
negro. In addition to these are articles
on "Handicaps" by DR.. Luther H. Gu
lick. and "Harnesstng Socialism" by
Ernest Poole, The Socialists, it APP
pears, have developed an extraordinary
ana undreamed of facility as political
organizers They are managing the Y
promotion OF their propaganda as Mark
Hanna would have managed it ii he
had ever been converted to Socialism.
The interpreter" gives his personal
recollections of three great generals and
an x-president-Grant, Sheridan, Sher
man and Cleveland, D. Henry begins a /
new series of stories. Other contribu-
tors OF fiction are: Mary Stewart Cut
ting. w. j, Locke, Marguerite Campion.
Mary Heaton Worse, G: w. Ogden and
i1arrey Bowman.-The Philips Publish
ing Co, Sn Fifth avenue, New York
City.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-09-08

You seem to need rain very bad
"" Yes" answered Farmer Corn.
We've done our best, but 1t doesn't
do any good. We've given one sun
day school picnic after another, left
the rockin' chairs an hammocks an
Bicycles out over night an painted all
the buildings fresh. But none Of the
things that used to bring rain seem
to work any more!"-Washingt
Star.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-09-08

New Aunt: 80 YOU are six years
old, Edith. How old do you think |
ann" Edith: II don't know. We
haven't got that far in rithmetic Yet"
-Harper's Bazaar
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-09-08

Miss Jolly-Eddy Blank is an awful
flatterer' You can't believe a word he
says, But i always like to meet him.
kathleen--Must be a casefof mutual
admiration. I've heard him say the
very same thing about you.7--St. 144; u
Times.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-09-08

Gwilliams--Have Il good rest at that
summer resort up north?
Stiint--I did, but it was pretty hard
on he girls They had TO walk nearly
mile to mail their picture postcards.
Chicago Tribune
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-09-08

How was it that they had such an
all round family stew
Il think 1t was all cooked up before
hand. "-BaltImore American.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-09-08
Bess-O, I thought he was.
Dick-So did philadelphia Press.

do you think people will take kind
ly TO your ideas of reform p
~ don't know answered Senator
Sorghum. "Onc trouble about being a
reformer is that there are so many diff
ferent king of reform wanted that
your audience is necessarily limited. -
Washington Star
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-09-08
JUST FOR FUN.

Bess--You met Miss Borem through
NJ Stringer, believe l didn't know
he was a friend of yours.
Dick--He isn't
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-16

exists in mediumistic performances, there are instances in which the lifting of tables, the moving of pieces of fur niture, the raising of pianos, the blow ing about of curtains, the appearance of hands, heads and spectral figures may be accomplished by use of forces that have not heretofore been appraised by scientists. MT. Flammarion in his book, Mysterious Psychic Forces" which has just been translated into English, does not deny that all medi- ums may cheat at times but he asserts that they don't always cheat; and they possess real undeniable psychic powers" He has personally carried on many experiments and has con firmed his observations with tn camera. Inasmuch as he has, according to his statements, often seen a heavy table lifted to height of eight, 12 or even 16 inches from the floor under con- ditions where the only lifting that could be practised was due to the hands of four or five persons placed on its top, he has arrived at the conclusion that the levitation of objects by psychic power is no more to be doubted than the lifting of pair of scissors by the aid of a magnet.
 The astronomer maintains a truly Gallic scepticism regarding these evil dences of powers which the more cred ulous associate unhesitatingly with a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-16

has been fooled at seances where many of the audience saw the trick.
 There is at least one investigator into things occult whom even Professor Scrip ture would probably not regard as being necessarily by temperament and training an easy mark. This is Hereward Caring ton, formerly a professional sleight-of- hand performer in England and now a resident of New York city, member of the Council of the American Society of Scientific Research, and an assistant to Dr. Hyslop in certain of his work. MT. Darlington has been called "spook de- tective." It actually is detective work in which, for considerable part of his time, he Is engaged. He shares with Flam- marion the conviction that every medi- um, whether he has genuine psychic pow CT or not, is peculiarly subject to tempta- tions to use trickery. His interest in psychic affairs was aroused by the discov- cry that through his knowledge of leger- demain he was enabled to detect the more common forms of deception. Investiga- tion led him. however, to believe that among the mediumistic manifestations there are some that can be explained only in terms of forces beyond our present ken. His studies of individual mediums have led him now to Nova Scotia, now to the middle west, now to sittings with Mrs. Piper, who is living in seclusion near
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-16

world apart from our own. He merely understands that marvellous feats are accomplished with the help of forces which are not recognized in the ordi- nary text books of physics and chemis- try and withou expressing opinions a s to the future life or the existence of God he maintains that the soul exists independently of the body, with facul- ties that are still very little understood, and that in some instances the soul Is able to work at long distance with out intervention of the five senses
 One of the most frequent accusations brought against the conclusions of some of the very eminent men of science who have participated in the work of psy- chical research is that, being of a guile less and unsuspicious nature they are readily deluded. That is a charge made by Prof. E. W. Scripture of the psy- chological department of Yale university in recent article in The Independent Acknowledging, no doubt, the immense value to human kind of Sir William Crookes' studies in chemistry, many of which have revolutionized whole indus tries, MT. Scripture asserts that outside of his own domain of investigation SIT William is a man of childish mind. He throws out similar hints regarding an em- inent professor of physiology in a world famous American university who. he says.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-16

Boston. Of his newly published book, "The Psychcal Phenomena of Spiritualism," the first and. larger part is devoted to fraudulent examples Of spiritism while the secondary portion deals with those which he regards as undoubtedly genuine.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-16

Very entertainingly from the popular point of view, Camille Flamma rion, he who beyond perhaps any other writer has made astronomy interesting to the newspaper readers of two continents. has been looking into subjects of psy- chical interest for nearly 40 years and has become convinced that while un- deniably a large percentage of fraud
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-16
Saks' New Spring Oxfords

THE BES of the worlds endeavo to pay tribute the queens of the earth in enticing apparel is always found at the Saks Store.
 We announce the first arrivals of our new Spring Ox- including the famous Wichart & Gardiner Beauty grace elegance, fit comfort all embraced in this show ing of dainty footwear.
 The WICHART & GARDINER come in Colonial style of patent Vcl vlc kid tan and Russian calf made and black high Cuban and high military heels; light soes-$3.5O and $4OO III o ~ ~
 The SAkS SPECIAL of kid patent vci; made and buttons and eyeets high Cuban and military
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-16

If you want the bes. advertisinx cuts try the Gawk, Age-Herald.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-16
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75C VaIues-Garments of real good quality material = Corset Covers of cambric with lace and embroidery front and back; Draw CTS of muslin and cambric-some deep ruffles of embroidery, others cluster tucks with stitched hems; short Petticoats with deep ruffle, cluster tucks and stitched hemS. These are 75c value garments in this sale at Soc.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-16

Gowns of cambric and nainsook, high and low necks and chemise effect, made extra full; Drawers of eambric and nainsook, some lace, others embroidery trimmed, all ex- tra full. Ghemise of cambric and nainsook, entire yoke of lace me- dallions and embroidery, made full lengths. Petticoats of cambric and nainsook; your choice at Sl.25.
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1908-09-24
Laying Track Mile
And Halt Per Day
RAPID Progress of Rails Towards
Enterprise-Time and Rate
Schedules Issued.

The laying of the rails up the val
ley is being rushed with all possible
speed. A mile and half a day is
laid when all conditions favor. but
there are many Interruptions on ac-
count of lack of material. A bridge
across the river on H. N. Williams
place will delay the advance a cou
pie of days but the track will reach
the Lostine station by the middle
of next week.
The Elgin branch train is now
running regularly to Wallowa, be.
ing due there at 1890 p. M, but is
hardly ever on time. Returning it
leaves Wallowa at LAS. The dis
tance is too great for mixed train
and gives hope a passenger will be
put on when the road is complet-
ed clear through.
The freight tariff from Portland to
Wallowa first-class is $1.53 per hun
dred, second class $1.90, third $1.O7,
fourth 92 cents. Car load rates on
grain, flour, potatoes, ETC., 24A
cents, lumber 26 cents, salt 46 cents
hay, ETC.. 24A cents, horses $76 per
car, cattle, hogs or sheep $74 pei
car.
At present box cars are being used
as freight houses at Wallowa but
the erection of depots Is being push
ed as rapidly as possible. Agent
Campion, late of Bingham Springs,
hos been ordered to Wallowa as
station agent.
The stage leaves Wallowa as soon
rs the mail is sorted after the arriv-
al of the train. 1t has been reaching
Enterprise between and o'clock.
1t is reported the company has
bought a 80 horse power Thomas
automobile, that will carry nine pass
engers, and that it will be in SER
vice soon.
Contractors Patterson and Mitchell
each have about a weeks work lef
on the railroad grade.
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1908-09-24
Price OF Butter
Raised To 80 Cts.
Wallowa Valley Cream Company
Makes Corresponding Advance in
Butter Fat Prices.

Following the Portland market, the
local wholesale price of creamery
butter has been raised to 80 cent!
pound and the Wallowa Valley
Cream company announces that tn,
price of butter fat will be advanced
accordingly.
This will be good news to thu
growing number of dairymen in this
valley. More good news awaits them
for President ]. w. Bickford of thu
w. V. c. company states that with
the completion Of the railroad thu
saving in freight on butter fat ship
ments, amounting to 11a to 2 cents a
pound the year around, will all go t.
owners of the cows.
Dairying is now one of the mos
profitable businesses in this vale,
and it is going to get better righ
along. An 80 acre farm with Al
cows, at the prices paid during thu
last year for butter fat, would ne
the owner easily $4,000 above all ex-
penses, or over $37 an acre and the
land being enriched every year.
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1908-09-24
BIG CROWD GREETS
EXCURSION TRAIN
TWELVE HUNDRED PEOPLE RIDE
ON FIRST PASSENGER INTO
WALLoWA COUNTY.

The first passenger train into Wal
Iowa county was given an enthusias-
tic welcome Sunday noon when the
excursion train of Is cars steamed
INTO Wallowa. A salute was fired,
the people cheered and the bands
played. The cars were loaded with
over 1900 people, mostly from La
Grande and Elgin, and an even larg-
er crowd was at the depot grounds
70 meet the train. Owing to the
lateness of the trains arrival the
town program was adjourned to the
park, three miles west, to which ev-
srybody was given a free ride. Af-
ter the lunch baskets had been emp,
tied and the dinners, helped out by
coffee and apples furnished by Wal
Iowa, had been disposed of, the En-.
terprise and Wallowa bands played
several pieces. An address of well
come was delivered by Leonard
Couch. C. T. Mcdaniel acted as
master Of ceremonies, and the re-,
sponse was made by j. d. Slater OF
La Grande. The train took every.
one back to town and a most enjoy
able day ended without an accident
to mar the pleasure.
Notes of Celebration.
1t was big crowd, variolsly es-
timated from 1900 to $500 people.
Outside of Wallowa residents, En-
terprise was by far the most num-.
erously represented between 800
and 400 people going down from
here.
Grandma McKennon of La
Grande, aged 81 years, can boast of
riding on the first passenger train
into this county.
1t was like an old settlers reunion.
The old timers of the two counties
had great time.
Ex-Governor Geer and wife, Col.
and Mrs. F. S. Ivanhoe, Judge ant
Mrs. Thos. Crawford. Carl Roe, edi-
tor of the Walla Walla Union, ant
many other notables were among the
excursionists.
The train passed. in the canyon
the last Wallowa county stage tt
start from Elgin. Billy Wright held
the reins over six horses. The ex-
cursionists gave the stage royal
cheer as they passed.
1t was great day and an enjoy
able one and not the least of the
triumphs was Wallowa's splendit
hospitality. They took care of their
many guests in good style.
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1908-09-24
OLD FRAME HOTEL
DESTROYED BY FIRE
BUILDING AND CONTENTS TOTAL
LoSS-FlERCE FLAMES RAF.
FILE ALL EFFORTS.

The Central hotel owned by ]. T.
Bircher burned to the ground We'd.
nesday night betwe en- and 8 o'clock,
together with most of its contents,
involving a loss estimated by Mr..
Bircher at nearly $4,000 which is
total as he did not carry dollar
of insurance.
The fire was discovered at about
S;15 by one of Mr.. Bircher's chill.
dren, and the kitchen and rooms
back of it were then mass
OF flames. Mr.. Bircher at the first
cry OF fire ran into the dining room
and was nearly blinded by smoke,
his hair singed and hands burned be-.
fore he could get out. The fire
started in or near the kitchen, and
as 1t happened the rear of the house
was entirely deserted long enough
chat the fire got so big start there
was no stopping it. The hose cart
reached the scene in quick time and
4 good stream of water was soon
playing on the flames that now en-.
1eloped the whole house. The voun-
.eer firemen worked hard and brave.
y and succeeded in confining the
lire to the one building.
Only small lot of furniture was
saved and Mr.. and Mrs. Bircher have
the sympathy of the entire commu-
lity in their loss. The boarders
.ost most of their personal effects.
frank Goodman reports that in ad-
dition to his clothing, $50 in curren-
" was burned in his trunk. Mrs.
c. c. .Mahaffey, who worked at the
hotel, had $50 in a purse under the
mattress of her bed. 1t was saved
by Rev. w. s. Crockett, after several
others had been driven out of the
room by flames and smoke.
The building was two-story
frame structure, the main part be-
ing built 21 years ago by j. A. Bur-.
leigh's father. who conducted hotel
here for years. The kitchen parl
was the first house erected on the
present site of Enterprise. Mr.. Birch
er bought the property year or so
ago with his savings from an I'M
naha fruit ranch. 1t Is stated he
will rebuild.
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1908-09-24
Two Train Loads
OF WallOwa Stock
Sixteen Carloads of Cattle Will Be
Shipped This Week-80o0 Lambs
October First.

Two long train loads of stock
will be shipped from Wallowa
county within the next 10 days, one
Of cattle and another of lambs. VIM.
Dlshman of Portland and F. Graham
of Elgin are now loading eight cars
of cattle at Wallowa, and e. l..
Wiley will load 10 cars Saturday.
These three lots make good sizet
stock train over mountain railroads.
j. II Dobbin and Falconer Bros
have sold their 5000 lambs to B. F.
Saunders of Salt Lake for 81 cents.
The lambs will be delivered at Wal
Iowa by October !, and will be ship
ped East, the bulk of them goinI
right through to Chicago.
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1908-09-24
COUNCIL PASSES
BOND ORDINANCE
PROVIDES SINKING FUND FOR
REPAYMENT-WEST FIRST
ST. SIDEWALK ORDERED.

The ordinance for the sale of wat
er bonds to the amount of $4,000
was passed by the city council in
regular session Monday night by the
unanimous vote of the four coun.
cilmen present, Boyd, Bickford,
Combes and Graves. 1t was ap-
proved by the mayor and is pub
lished in full on the editorial page
of this issue of the News Record.
The ordinance was drawn by City
Attorney Dill, and it received care
full attention from the council, which
made a few minor changes in it,
Previous to taking up the bond or.
dinance considerable other business
was transacted. Daniel Boyd re-,
quested that the street committee
view the ground for the extension Of
Depot street to the railroad tracks,
and determine what the city would
do toward fixing up the proposed
street. The vacation Of that part OF
Alamo SJTSeC luCluueu Wll0ln Ilt
depot grounds was referred to the
committee to secure data.
The recorder was instructed to or
der the chemical engine FORWARDED
by railroad from Elgin to Wallowa.
A certified copy from the secretary
of state of the articles of incorpora--
tion of the Enterprise Water CON-
pany and the dissolution Of same,
was read. A bill Of $3.50 for above
document was allowed.
Councilman Boyd of the commit
tee on a council meeting room. re-
ported adversely on the Fraternal
building basement, 1t being hard to
heat, no daylight and is damp. The
cost to fix it up is also considered
excessive. Committee continued and
w. H. Graves added to it. Other
rooms will be considered.
The petition for sidewalk on the
west side of West First street was
allowed from North to Garfield
streets.
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1908-09-24
LOSTINE SCHOOLS HAVE
ENROLMENT OF NINETY

The Lostine schools opened Sep
tember IA with an enrolment o.
learly 80 pupils and the following
.eachers in charge: Room l, Miss
0gburn; room 2, Miss Fleener; room
3, Mrs. Clark. The high school will
)e In charge of the same principal
rs last year. Prof w. Eugene Smith.
The pupils are taking up the work In
| manner that indicates very sue
sessful year,
The board has made several I'm
provements which are very much ap
)reciated by both teachers and pu
)ils, and it is hoped the parent
will find time to visit the school
frequently this year and that the
will see to it that their children
ire present every day and on time
100.
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1908-09-24
Laot Chance to Register.

County Clerk Boatman re-opened
the registration books Monday ant
will close them October 20 for thu
presidential election that will be helt
Tuesday, November 8. Only thos
who have not heretofore registered
this year need to register now. Th
same. notaries as last spring are au
thorized to register voters in out
lying precincts.
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1908-09-24
Taft and Sherman Club.

The Enterprise Taft and Sherman
club was organized Thursday nigh
with the following officers: Presi-
dent, G. w. Hyatt; vice presidents,
Daniel Boyd and Ben Weathers; sec
retary, Sol Keltner; treasurer c. NJ.
Lockwood. 1t will meet Tuesday
nights at the court house.
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1908-09-24

wood. At the corner is a frame
dwelling now occupied by Mr.. Lit
Teton. On the rear of the lot
fronting on West First is a two.
story frame building containing a
store room on one side, and the
other side is occupied by Thos. NJ.
Dills law offices. Price paid by Mr..
Wheat was $25O0.
Mr.. Littleton has bought the quar-
ter block just north of the Enter
PRISE Planning mill of w. f. Lewis
for $500.
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1908-09-24
"Skidoou Sacks of Mail.

The first lot Of mail brought II
by train to Wallowa included rec
ord-breaking amount for Enterprise
There were % sacks and pouches
thrown off the stage here. Besides
the usual heavy paper mail of Mon.
day, there we're many pouches o
circulars, catalogues, etc.
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1908-09-24
Gone After "Coyote Eilr".

Sheriff Edgar Marvin left Wednes
day for Salem to get requisition pa
pers for Coyote Bill" Cottingham
and Scott Clark, Jr., who are out oil
bail in .Asotin county on some
charge, but will be turned over t,
this county for trial on charges OF
cattle stealing.