Wallowa County chieftain. [volume] (Enterprise, Or.) 1909-1911, 1909-01-21
Telephone First
In Election News
Se-rs CT Hc~ 7=turns Were Gash
srec ~ N=s News Gathering
Agency

With tie presi ieutiaI election Two
mon ms past The excitement ATTEND
L1z thereon has died away Bur
there Ire stories and anecdotes cnn-
uscrsd w5rh Tie campaign rha- vii
not de TOR many yea-s-
Many ut these stories, and per
haus L majority. have % 10 with the
getting Of returns. Every us1rlI-
u5u-. every news getting agency and
every being xho Is directly concerned
n gsr--1g results gG election tay I1t
night l-e kspC On the 1u vIvs- Press
associations newspaper correspond
eu-s. news -teksrs and every other
news getting agency make supreme
effort % Dc first II getting results
before lie pU6Ec The extent his
competition reaches, TIE intensity Of
tie -iva--v a1t he ueI1s employed
70 Ez- Tie results first are hardly
ds1=vsa5Is % one xto has 1oL Il
-sccly CT 1ilrscc,v. be- l 2---le-
.pan--
N ne presitsn -iaI election Of 1905
his rivalry vas unprscsfsnC The
Utmost efforts were pur forth and IN
usually large expenditures ot money
we're made % score wha- n news
paper pa-La1ce are known as -bea-s-
II he Iacs campaign the plum for
ne mosr efficient. feasible and sa-
lstacrlry vav 0t ze-@g complete and
a1-h z1-c returns. went % Al 4gsn-
cv w1eh 4 few years ago vas coz
zste-ed mpracticabIe and TOO ex-
pensivz.
ThE aE=ncy vas ne telephone
some vsars ago ne reg5phone CON-
pa1tes gave o1- their bulletins direct
II t1e large cities. n he last e-ec-
1ou -aey gave them 70 The news
papers. Eho. 4 1ru- gave them -
he public over ne -s-ephoue or o.
zC-esnz. n TIE large cI-1sS sZTa
z-z-cuz and lines we're installed Il
newspaper offices Ei-hOU- extra
-1zrgz Ths completeness and ac-
c1-ac- Of he telephone companies
bulletins taken II conjunction with
lie smooth uaznzr n which LheE
handed -hs ezra rush Of business
have prompted he various neEspa-
gers -h-pUg1o1z TIE country. Eno en-
ioyet The benstt- Of the service. 70
give EberaI eredir % Tie telephone
companies.
The Philadelphia Times. 4 new sv-
ing paper Il expressing is apprec-
ia-i1u says. This Is The first tine
Ee have received anything without
paying t1r L since Ee have been n
business
Tie Baltimore World saFs- The
i,E- -zptor= zervtcs was perteer and
enabled Is 70 pur L more couplet=
extra CT he zrseC Z! sigac O'Clock
-141 ever before
Although ne bulletins Of he -si.-
. 7nous compa1y were tirs- AZ h4nt n
nearly every instance. he accuracv
Z Il he reports vas noC sacrificed 20
E 3oCaI1 Chis rssgI-. n so far as pos
siole every bulletin vas rtEfIE cen
soreL wildcat g1essez. prophecies
-aezt oU hzresa7. eCc-. were elini-
ua-et Consequently The bulletins
hat Z real valve
Department heads and -raefic otcic-
as Of ne tsI=ph1re companies are
=-a-=si a. The highly successful oU--
cone 0t rs rtgtt -=sc Of their SIS
-eu- L. r=s4I- ot The WORK l. Per
.o-uE1- z-4cAs Of letters are care
fully fled il eIecu1ve offices con-
p-uen-zr! 70 the efficiency Of ne
/ 0rgUzzz-io1z-
C-her tests Tie telephone has bee1
s15 lec-ed . would make interesting
ceadEg Fer instance. during thz
pea1z1- winning games a. Detroit Iazr
tzL ne CRY vas Baseball mad Dur
NJ ne Az- rEo weeks ot The season
he en-h1si4zu ot tAe fans was
o15oLng oT=- Ei-h every game The
g--uzz vas reached 0u the pen1Azr
Winning Tuesday. however. The -eE-
=Pho-= eZGGa1g=z we're teseig=d win
=1g gLries-
To prepare t0r the emergency the
leiepc1Ee companies organized bGlIe-
-as sI1ats whose 0nIy duties we're
. answer baseball inquiries The
arge uuuder ot young ladies' VINO