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The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1909-05-05
FRUIT CROP NOT HURT.
Indications Point to Heavy Yield in
Vicinity of Milton.


Milton-Fears that the fruit crop in
the Walla Walla valley had been injur-
ed by the frosts several days ago have
been generally dispelled by the careful
investigation of the orchards and vine
yards in this vicinity. In some places
near the state line Strawberries and
prunes were injured some, but the dam
age is not considered to be of great vol
ume. Apple orchards, which were in
full bloom at the time of the frosts,
were injured in no way.
Indications now point to heavy
fruit crop in the vicinity during the
coming season. Although the peach
crop will amount to but a small per-
centage of its usual volume, other
fruits will be harvested in bountiful
quantities. The careful pruning,
spraying and cultivating of vineyards
and orchards have had much to do with
the excellent crops which are now as.
sured in the year 1909.
Shippers and warehouse men are
making preparations to handle large
quantities of all kinds Of fruit. The
first strawberries are expected to be
on the market within two or three
weeks and from then until the apple
crop is harvested, Milton and vicinity
will present scene of lively activit,
in the fruit business.
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1909-05-05
Hold TO MANCHURIA
Japan Refuses to Withdraw Gar.
flSOn From Chinese Territory.
PEKIN GOVERNMENT DEMANDS IT
Takes Advantage of China's Inability
to Defend Herself to Gain
Desired Foothold.

Victoria, B. c., April 29.-News
was brought by the Shinano Maru that
Japan is preparing to enforce her hold
on Manchuria. An agitation is under
way for a stronger policy toward
China" The japanese Herald of Yo-
kohama says the impression is gaining
ground that Japan, taking advantage
of the difficulties, diplomatic and do
mestic, confronting China's executive,
is trying deliberately, but none the
less relentlessly, to force that country
into diplomatic quandary. Japan,
appreciating China's weakness, in mil
itary, naval and financial matters, is
prodding her into acquiescence in COM
pacts derogatory to China's future well
fare, and the present concessions will
but whet Japan's appetite for more.
In the meantime China is reported to
have demanded the withdrawal of
Japan's garrisions and policemen along
the Antung- Mukden railway. Consul
General Koike in Mukden refuses to
entertain that demand, in view of ar
ticle of the Pekin convention, on the
ground that the Antung- Mukden rail-
road is branch line of the South Man.
churian railway. China does not ac-
quiesce in the consul generals conten-
tion. This new difficulty may delay
the construction sof the Antung- Mukden
line.
Commenting on the situation, Jap
anese newspaper says:
Japan will maintain the footholds
which she legitimately acquired in
Manchuria. Japan will not necessar-
lily feel aggrieved if the Manchurian
question remains unsettled, but it will
be extremely inadvisable for China.
If China fails to resume the negotia-
tions, japan will proceed with her en-
terprises in Manchuria according to
her own control.
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1909-05-05
JAPANESE GO EAST.
Declare Persecution is Driving Them
From the Pacific Coast.

Chicago, April 2s.-Chicago is ex-
periencing an unprecedented invasion
of Japanese. 1t is said that a single
lodging house at Fifty-frst and Clark
streets, is the headquarters for 700
new arrivals, whereas three months
ago, it is said, there were only 200 in
the whole city.
The newcomers are artisans, domes-
tic servants and laborers, all strong
and vigorous. They assert that they
were driven by persecution from Cali
fornia and other Pacific coast states.
Others, it is said, are to follow them.
T. Takahatchi, whose forefather
helped lay the cornerstone of the mi
kado's palace in Toxic, and who makes
his living as teamster for teahouse,
at 1907 Clark street, declared that the
at present rate of immigration, there
will soon be more Japanese in the East
than in the West.
These who are coming this way
now," he added. "are used to manuel
labor. They will not confne them
selves to work in private families,
hotels and clubs, as did most of their
predecessors. They are tending toward
trade unionism."
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1909-05-05
WORK OF NATURE.
Scenic Beauty of A.-Y.-P. Grounds
Not Work of Man.

The amphithester of the Alaska
Yukon-Pacific exposition has been ac-
complished partly by human efforts,
but for the most part the work has
been done by nature. On the high pre-
cipitous shores of Lake Washington,
looking across a succession of bays,
and snow topped peaks of the Cascades
are brought clearly into view and this
forms the back ground of the amphi-
theater stage. Three sides rise from
the floor and these have a stately up
ward slope; only in the development of
these natural seating places has it
been necessary for work to be ex-
pended.
About the TERED sides of the amphi-
theater chairs rise one above the other
and in the vast forest theater 10000
people can have comfortable and
slightly positions. Surrounded at the
back and sides to towering trees of
Douglas fir and massive cedar, the
place seems to have been created by
giants of old for spectacular events
it is so fashioned and designed that
open air acoustics produce results
which could be generally looked fol
only within the walls Of structures
built with this property always il
mind.
1t was in this spot that the frs
shovel of earth was removed in the
building of the Alaska Yukon-Pacifi'
exposition. Without any work of pre-
paration, rs, 900 people were easily &C
commodated within its borders. Dur
ing the course of the exposition thu
amphitheater will be the scene of man!
interesting events and with its arrange
ment as now perfected will afford tn
grandest out of doors theiter in exist
| ence.
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1909-05-05
WAR VERY COSTLY.
Next Session of Peace Conference
Will Hear Interesting Report.

Ne<t session OF FedCe SOnIeTenCe
Will Hear Interesting Report.
Chicago, May 3.-Amazing statistics
will be presented to the National Peace
society, which convenes here today, by
Benjamin F. Trueblood, secretary of
the American Peace society. In re-
port compiled for distribution among
the delegates it is asserted that 49,
900, 900 persons have sacrificed them
selves in wars since the beginning of
authentic history.
"This vast number of Victims" says
Mr.. Trueblood, sis about equal to all
the people who inhabited the globe for
the last 600 years, allowing three gen.
erations to the century and $50, 900, 600
estimated population of the world at
the opening of the Nineteenth century
as the average population per genera
tion.
"The usual estimate of the number
of men lost in the wars in the Nine
teenth century, including those who
died of wounds and diseases, places il
at Ia, 900, 900. Of this number the
Napoleonic campaigns are responsible
for about six million.
"Losses in the American Civil wal
have been variously estimated at from
800, 900 to 1000, 900 men. The briei
war between Prussia, Austria and Italy
in 1866 entailed loss of as, 900 men. ,
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1909-05-05
Maniac After Fallieres.

Monte Carlo, April 29.-A man nam
ed Verdier was arrested here today by
the French police. He declared that
ne was an anarchist and that he had
come to Monte Carlo for the purpose of
killing President Fallieres, of France,
who is visiting here. A revolver,
loaded with jacketed bullets, was found
on Verdier, as well as letter address,
ed to the prefect of the department of
Alpes maritimes, in which the man ex-
planned the motive for his contemplate
ed crime. The police believe he is
insane.
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1909-05-05
FRUIT MEN ARE ANGERED.
Accuse Inspector Taylor of Circulat-
ing False Reports.

Accuse Inspector Taylor OF Circuiat-
ing False Reports.
Central Point-Fruit men of this
section are indignant over reports al
legged to have been circulated by County
Fruit Inspector Taylor to the effect
that the crops in many of the orchards
in his jurisdiction are totally ruined.
These gentlemen declare emphatically
that the story is without foundation,
and that it had the effect of damaging
their properties, in the most promising
section of the Rogue river valley.
Steps will be Immediately taken for
a full and complete investigation lead
ing to the discovery of the indentity of
the author of these false reports, and
if circumstances warrant it, it is said
Mr.. Taylor's removal from Office will
be demanded by the orchardists.
Fruit men report but few trees af-
fected by recent frosts, and in almost
all cases the frost has but tended to
lessen the cost of thinning the fruit.
F. H. Hopkins, owner of one of the
largest orchards on Rogue river, and
whose orchard has not been protected
by smudging or otherwise, reports no
appreciative damage, as do Edward
Hanely, William Stewart, ]. w. Mer-
ritt, w. H. Norcross and other orch
ardists.
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1909-05-05
Ex-SULTAN A PRISONER.
Abdul Hamid May Lose Fortune as
Well as Freedom.

Constantinople, April 29 The for
mer ruler of the empire, Abdul Hamid,
will be kept prisoner in a large house
with walled grounds on height over
looking Salonica, it was learned to-
night. He is not to be put on trial, as
has been widely reported, for he is
considered above the law. 1t was
thought wise to keep the deposed sultan
in European Turkey, remote from the
capital. His household will be admin
istered upon generous scale and his
life will be safeguarded, as he earnestly
besought when notified of his dethrone-
ment.
The Constitutionalists want to get
the great sums of money that the ex-
sultan is supposed to have abroad, not
only because the government needs it,
but because it is desirable that he
should be deprived of the resources for
another coup d'etat. Speculation
places Abdul Hamid's wealth at any,
where from $25, 600, 900 to 5000, OO0,-
600.
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1909-05-05
REcHAD is SULTAN.
Turkish People Rejoice Over Down.
fall of Abdul.

Constantinople, April 28.-The reign
of Abdul Hamid II ended by his de-
position and the accession of his
brother, Mehemmed Rechad Effendi, as
Mehemmed V. The name is varia-
tion of Mahomet, it being considered
inappropriate to assume the precise
name of the prophet.
Mehemmed V is the thirty-fifth SOW
ereign of Turkey, in male descent of
the house of Osman, the founder of
the empire, and the twenty-ninth sui
tan since the conquest of Constantine
pie.
The firing of 101 guns announced to
the waiting people that new sultan
had been proclaimed.
The ceremonies connected with the
transfer of power were simple. The
newly chosen ruler came from his pal.
ace in Galata through streets linec
with troops and cheering thousands anc
took the oath at the war Office. He
then proceeded to the parliament anc
later went to the Dolma Bagtsche pal
ace as head of the empire, where for 81
many years he had been practically I
prisoner.
Martial law was relaxed and the peo
pie gave themselves over to the cele
bration of the victory of the Younl
Turk party and the end of Abdul Ham
ids reign. Many buildings were illu
minated and thousands of rounds wer
joyfully fired by the soldiers. Genera
good humor prevailed everywhere.
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1909-05-05
New FIGURING Mill at Baker,

Baker City-Contractors are busy
removing dirt for the foundation to the
new Touring mill to be erected by G..
B. Stout. Surveyors for the O. R. &
N. have located switches and sidetracks
for the mill. The foundation will
probably be finished within two weeks,
and there will be no delay in erecting
the mill building. Sterns & Ayers
have the contract for excavating. Dur
ing the past few days Mr.. Stout has
been looking over the country to see
how much wheat has been planted. He
is pleased with the acreage sown, and
also the attitude that ranchers are as
suming toward the new mill.
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1909-05-05
lcicles on Orchard Trees.

Kansas City, May 3. - Freezing
weather, with the temperature in
Western Kansas going as low as 20 de-
grees above zero. still prevailed in the
Southwest Saturday, according to the
local observer. 1t covered most of
Missouri, all of Kansas, the greater
portion of Oklahoma and extended into
the Texas panhandle. On many Kan
sas fruit farms ice three quarters of an
inch thick formed and there is not much
prospect of fruit crop this year.
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1909-05-05
Freewrter Values Soar.

Freewater-Landv values in this dis
trict are constantly increasing in value.
Two sales have been made this week,
one consisting of 23 acres, a part of
the Ragsdale tract, for $725 an acre,
the other being part Of the Brown
ranch, at Babcock crossing, for $70O
an acre. The Pleasant valley country,
which year ago was sagebrush land,
has been put under cultivation, the raw
lands having been sold for Sl25 ar
acre. Now this same land is selling
for $500 an acre. The school, which
was built three years ago, has had tc
be enlarged, aud the contract for the
addition was let this week for 81, ,O0C
addition.
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1909-05-05
Coos to Seek Publicity.

Marshfeld-The Coos county cham
Der of commerce has decided to enter
upon publicity work which will in
clude advertising of the entire county,
the Coquille valley as we'll as the i'm
mediate Coos bay country. Plans are
being made for making an exhibit of
the products of the county at the Seat
tie exposition, and $4,000 pamphlets
will be printed to distribute at the
fair. Figures are being compiled to
show the shipments of lumber and
freight exports and imports of both
Coos bay and the Coquille river, and
all of the resources and advantages OF
the county will be set forth.
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1909-05-05
RESUME ADANA SLAUGHTER.
Destruction of City is Completed by
Turkish Troops.

London, April ga dispatch from
Mersina, dated Monday night, says:
1.-TWO Turkish regiments which
landed here Saturday proceeded to
Adana, where they resumed late Sum-
day night, the wholesale numbering of
Armenians and the burning of their
property.
Thousands were burned to death,
while those attempting to escape were
shot down by the troops. The destruc-
tion of Adana is complete.
"Ail the Armenian population at
Bakdjah has been massacred."
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1909-05-05
Borne to HIS Tomb.

Pekin. May 3.-The body of the late
Kwang Hsu, emperor of China, Satur.
day began the long journey to the
Western tombs, so miles away, for
final interment. The dowager empress
will not be inferred until the fall. The
procession started from the precincts of
the Forbidden City at IL o'clock. The
march to the tombs will take four days
and the entire route is to be over the
great highway especially constructed
for the passage of the imperial coffin.
The tomb cost considerably over ST.
900, 900.
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1909-05-05
Rate Hearing is Called.

Salem-The state railroad commits
sion, after an investigation on its own
motion of certain rates in force on the
o. R. & N. and Southern Pacific, has
ordered hearing on May IS, at IL A.
NJ, at Salem. In its order just issued,
the commission states that it has inves-
tigated the rates on wool, wool comb
ings, wool waste and has found suffi-
cient evidence to. warrant an inquiry
as to whether these rates are unreason-
able and unjustly discriminatory.
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1909-05-05
Smallpox Adds to Horrors.

Latakia, Syria, April 2S. = Five
thousand refugees are quartered here,
having come in from Kersal and other
points in the district north of Letakia,
where several thousand Turks from
surrounding villages have burned towns
and killed many Armenians. Several
smallpox cases have already been dis
covered among the refugees. There
are no soldiers at Latakia. Miss Effie
Chambers, one Of the missionaries at
kessab. is safe, news to this effect
having reached DR.. ]. M. Balph, who
is in charge Of the mission at Latakia.
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1909-05-05
Russian Advance Checked.

st. Petersburg, April 2s.-A dis
patch from Julia, Persia, says the Rus
sian expedition has encountered oppo-
sition, Kurds skirmishing with the
Cossack vanguard and compelling a
halt. The Russian Foreign office has
no confirmation of this but it is admit
ted that the troops are advancing
slowly and will not arrive at Tabriz
before tomorrow night. The consul at
Tabriz reports that the famine has
been relieved somewhat.
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1909-05-05
oregon STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST
WILL HOLD BERRY FESTIVAL.
Roseburg Plans Two Days Program
for May IA and Is.

Roseburg Plans Two Days Program
for May Ia and Is.
Roseburg- date of the proposed
strawberry festival to be held in Rose
burg has been set by the Commercial
club for Friday and Saturday, May IA
and Is. The two days will be given
over to displays of Strawberries. A
program for both days has been prepar-
ed. On the evening of the first day
the women will give musical.
The occasion will also be taken ad-
vantage of by the importers and raisers
of blooded livestock, and a large parade
of animals is expected.
The Ashland lodge of Elks, accom-
panied by members of that order from
different towns in Southern Oregon,
will visit Roseburg on Saturday, the
second day of the festival. The visit
ors will number about $50.
Douglas county strawberries are the
first in the market each year and thi!
fact will be widely advertised at the
festival. 1t is proposed to secure pho
tographs of the best displays and tn,
parades and use them in booster book
| lets.
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1909-05-05
STORM REACHES ATLANTIC.
Seaboard Cities Suffer Severely as
Hurricane Passes Out to Sea.

Atlanta, Ca, May 3.-The storm
which for three days has swept east
ward across the Southern states, passed
over the Atlantic ocean Saturday. At
least 200 were killed and perhaps 400
injured. News of "a more deaths in
Georgia were received today.
At Savannah the storm tore throgugh
the old town, unroofed many houses
and destroyed much property.
Towns in North Carolina and Florida
suffered devastation. The casualty
list will be incomplete for several days
Property worth probably several million
dollars was destroyed.
The southwestern section of Savan-
nah was struck at IL 80 o'clock Satur-
day by severe storm which uprooted
trees, unroofed houses, tore down fences
and injured several people.
The McKane hospital for negroes
was badly damaged. A factory was
unroofed and one man badly injured.
The storm lasted not more than half
minute.
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1909-05-05
Settle Siletz Contests.

Washington = Representative Haw-
ley has made strcng personal appeal
to Secretary Ballinger and Land Com
missioner bennett to take up and
finally adjudicate the long pending sus-
pended Siltez homestead entries. The
secretary and commissioner assured
Mr.. Hawley that they would give Or
ders that these cases be expedited and
that, in deciding them, they will take
into account the conditions as he ex-
planned.
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1909-05-05
Judge Condemns Verdict.

Pueblo, Colo, April 29.-Ninety-
nine years in the state penitentiary
was imposed upon R. L. Whitehead by
Judge Hunter at Las Animas yesterday
Tor the murder of Wilder Lindsey last
July. In pronouncing sentence the
Judge intimated that he did not believe
the prisoner guilty of the crime, but
the verdict of the jury compelled him
to impose the sentence. Whitehead
maintained his innocence of the crime
to the last.
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1909-05-05
Lust for Gold Hits Coos.

Marshfield-The lust for gold has
struck Myrtle Point and the country
about. 1t is believed the mother lode,
which has long been an object of
search, has at last been discovered. A
rancher named Music brought speciI
mems to town and sold them, the first
lot for ST. so, and the second for about
500. They looked as though pounded
out in mortar from the quartz. Many
ranchers have caught the fever and are
prospecting.
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1909-05-05
Fine Cattle Sold at Echo.

Echo-A Portland meat company has
bought 20 head of cattle from Bennett
& Spike at $3.50, the highest price
ever paid in the Echo country. The
average weight as l. $50 pounds. The
heaviest steer weighed l.7SO pounds,
and brought the owners $500.
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1909-05-05
Warm on Trail of Mars.

Fort Worth, Tex, April ga mes
sage received here today from Professor
Robert W. Wood, of Johns Hopkins
university. practically agrees to the
of an observatory at
Stamford, West Texas, which will be
used in an effort to communicate with
the planet Mars.
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1909-05-05
LOCO Chinese En- Route.

vicvoris, B. c., May S.-There are
over 900 Chinese on the way to Vic
toria. The Empress of Japan is due
tomorrow with SIS. and the steamer
Ming Chow, of the Blue Funnel line, is
bringing over 500 according to advices
from Hongkong. The Canadian Pacific
is bringing 500 tons of raw silk from
Japan, valued at $3.50, 900.
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1909-05-05
Insurance Examiner at Salem.

Salem-Paul L. Wilson, of Denver,
expert insurance examiner, has arrived
in Salem to conduct special examina-
tion of the annual sttements of the in
surance companies doing business in
this state, preliminary to the publica.
tion by Insurance Commissioner Kozer
of the annual insurance report.
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1909-05-05
Jack London Sells Boat.

Honolulu, April 2s.-Advices receiy-
ed today from Sydney, Australia, state
that Jack London, the American au-
thor. who started on a tour of the
South sea islands, many months ago in
the sloop Shark, has sold the boat
there and gone to South America.
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1909-05-05
Ground ACQUIRED for Asylum.

Salem-The asylum board has pur-
chased from the Willamette Endow-
ment association FIVE acres of land
north of the asylum for $4,000. One
of the new buildings for which an APP
preparation was made by the last legis-
lature will be located partly on the
land just acquired.
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1909-05-05
palles Farmers Organize.

The Dslles-At a meeting here an
organization of the fruit and vegetable
growers was perfected under the name
of The Dalles Fruitgrowers associa-
tion. The association has been incor-
porated with a capital stock of SIS, 600.
1t is intention of the fruitgrowers to
build warehouse and cannery. Meet
ings will be held the first Saturday in
each month.