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The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1910-07-30
City and County
Brief News Items

Japalac, varnish stains. nnseed oil
1T Burnaugh G. Mayfield's
j. T. Bircher made a business trip
% Lostine, Thursday.
Plumbing, plumbing fixtures, pipes
and fittings, ct Keltner's.
A. R. Murray returned Thursday
rom business trip to La Grande.
Rollien Dickerson, principal of the
Joseph schools, visited the summer
lsormal Wednesday.
All phone orders for bus to and
from depot promptly attended to.
White Front barn. Home phone. 97P
j. D. Cornelison of La Grande re-
turned home Thursday after few
days visit with his father-in law, ].
A. Bookout.
Joe Clemons. game warden of wal
iowa and Union counties, went out
20 Elgin, Friday, on official business.
Doors and windows and all kinds
Of builders hard ware at Keltner's.
Mr.. and Mrs. McKnelly went to
Hot Lake, Friday, for brief so
journ. Mr.. McKnelly is the New
York Life agent who has been work
ing in this county for several weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. R. Slavens OF
Portland, who are here visiting Mrs.
Slavens' sister, Mrs. o. NJ. Corkins,
and family, went to Wallowa, Thurs
day, for a few days stay
Little Joker" squirrel traps kills
hundreds. Try it. Price 35 cents.
Mrs. T. M. Henderson and child of
Pendleton, returned home Thursday,
after visit with her father, T. B.
| .yells of Joseph.
C.. r. Eberhard, receiver of the
U. s. land office at La Grande, who
nas been camping. at the lake with
his family, was in town Friday greet
Ing his many friends.
DR.. w. L. Nichols, osteopath, sue
cessor to DR.. Moore, has office hours
all day Tuesday, Thursday and Sat
urday, in Enterprise. Office over
the bank. 21atf
s. Cray and family and Mrs. Will
son went to Lostine Friday to at
tend the funeral of Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Clark's seven-year-old daugh-
ter Margaret, who died early Thurs
day morning after AN Illness of two
weeks.
Something new-Kirsh curtain rods
and PORTER poles for the first time
In Enterprise. Come in and see
then at F. s Ashleys.
w. B. Hambelton & Son have
bought the Red Front blacksmith
shop OF G. H. Vest and reopened
he same. This is one Of the best
known shops in the county, and Mr..
Hambelton's proficiency in his trade
equally well known. He asks and
win no doubt receive his share of
the work.
]. ID. Woodell came in from Union
county. Thursday, on business trip.
He says the grain made a good
yield on the Woodeel farms. and
faN grain over Grande Ronde val
ley Is turning out better than ex-
pected.
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1910-07-30

heart OF New Orleans old Trencn
quarter The street was not very long.
and he did not know to where 1t led.
Owing to the early hour the shutters
of the houses were still closed. but
one house seemed to be an excep-
tion. for his quick. searching eyes
noted on his right half open draw
ing room window with its gently fap-
ping curtain.
He had dropped into a quick walk
in order to gain much needed breath
ing spell. but now as the hue and cry
of his persistent pursuers became more
insistent he again broke into a run.
In few moments they would turn the
corner and sight their quarry. Almost
at the same instant another chorus OF
cries came from the far end of the
street toward which Kirby was has
tening. He incontinently halted. real
izing that the enemy. familiar with
the neighborhood, had divided its army
and sent one contingent around his
flank to head him off. He was. trap
ped. for 1t was impossible to advance
or retreat. Louder and louder sounded
the cries from front and rear. An
other minute and the short street
would be choked with the meeting
mobs.
Without hesitation nor caring where
1t would lead, Kirby accepted the des-
perate and solitary chance that was
offered him. Hastily returning to the
house with the open window and as
rending its steps. be leaped high In
air, caught the overhanging balcony.
drew himself up, leaped over the elab-
orately scrolled railing and. pushing
aside the gently bellying curtains.
stepped quietly into the room.
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1910-07-30

those days lynch law was only too
common. and he knew what to expect
al the hands of an infuriated. ignorant
and unreasoning mob And In the pres
ent instance all explanation would
The San Francisco call., 1910-12-09

municipality owned and operated water
distributing systems for our cities and
towns. the plan of consolidation would
here find complete justification.
Tho management of WharveS and
docks, the bringing of ship and rail
together, the symmetrical and system
attic development of the wonderful bay
in our midst-these are municipal func-
tions of the highest order.
With Capitalization in matters of
general administration there must be
decentralization 10 the extent of pre-
serving the traditions We wish to de-
wise a system of municipal administra-
tion which will keep alive the splendid
traditions of these places. Even the
names should he preserved as deScrip-
tive of the territory.
Under the borough system of gov
ernment we must find a way so that
these cities can preserve complete local
autonomy of those matters which are
purely local.
This union seems to be foreordained
of God. The law of attraction that
draws us together rests upon the fact
that we are already one people with
common pursuits and common civic
destiny. We should become in name
what we are in fact, one city-the
greater San Francisco. Let us not in
our blindness seek TO keen these people
longer apart. What God has joined to-
gether let no man put asunder.'
The San Francisco call., 1910-12-09
A. II. ELLIOT POINTS
OUT GREAT SAVING

A. III. Elliot of Oakland told of the
advantage that would accrue to the
cities and towns of Alameda county by
the consolidation of all the cities about
the bay He characterized the move :
ment as one conceived by modern prog
ress. He told of the propinquity Of
Oakland, Berkeley and Alameda. which
are separated from each other only by
an ina ginary line in some street or in
the estuary.
consolidation he said, proposes a
plan which can produce better results
on less expenditure of money In the
field of business a thousand examples
could be cited showing how waste is
eliminated and proficiency increased nv
the consolidation of business enter
prises.
I'VE have heard no one claim that
from an economic point of view the
consolidation of Oakland, Berkeley anfl
Alameda would not be a good thing
The unnecessary county government Is
huddled on the backs of these three
cities. We have enough governments
on our side of the bay. 1t is eniovah1e
but expensive. Oakland has made a
good attempt, but Berkeley and Ala
media are both waving their little hand
kerchiefs at the city across the bav
confident that they have better chances.
Oakland and San Francisco are con-
tiguous The bay does not separate
but rather binds them together. Every
The San Francisco call., 1910-12-09
SETH MANN DWELLS
UPON GREAT BENEFITS

Seth Mann's view of the general ad-
Vantages to be derived by San Fran
cisco from the opening of the Panama
canal covered thoroughly the trans
portation problems that have been puz-
zllng the west for years. He explained
IN detail and with the conviction of
long study how the opening of the
canal would operate to deveIon San
Francisco and the inland valleys of
California. To benefit properly from
these changed conditions he asserted
that a greater San Francisco, was neces-
sary on the principle that ! 900 men
with single purpose can attain more
than one man, no matter how energetic
or willing.
The tabled labors of Hercules are
stories for an idle hour, and the pyra-
mids OF Cheops the play of children, -
said he, compared with this modern
marvel of national power.
In three years the canal will be an
accomplished fact and in four wears
the ships Of the world may pass in
safety from sea to sea, and San Fran
cisco viii be $500 miles nearer to New
York in continuous water transports
ton. San Francisco must put her house
in order if she is TO welcome the ad-
Yantages which viii soon be knocking
The first and most important advan-
tage is the controlling effect upon
transportation tariffs between the At
lantic and Pacific coasts. Second
steamer service from Europe will bring
intelligent white labor needed in the
COuHlfg. II VIII DflnE imports TO go
east which now come here through
New York. Third. will be the restora-
tion OF the American merchant marine
which viii fiji this harbor with Amer
lean built ships. Fourth, will come
the development of our splendid inland
waterways. the drdeging of the Sacra-
mento and San Joaquin rivers so that
navigation into the center of these
fertile valleys will be open the year
round"
Mann then took up the railroad
tariffs to san Francisco and showed the
necessity of open competition through
the canal eli argued against railroad
ownership of steamships and quoted
President Taft's recent message sug-
gesting that railroads be prohibited
from operating steamers through the
canal Such competition. he said, would
reduce rates % per cent and would as
sure a great future for this city.
He forecasted an effort on the part
of the railroads to keep high rates from
San Francisco to cities east in the
Rockies and interior This. he said
would allow the railroads to continue
to ship TO Reno from New York be-
cause the high rate from San Francisco
10 Reno, added to the water rate, would
be greater than the transcontinental
rate. Thus, he said, would be closed to
US the great gate of the canal.
Such water competition of a healthy
nature would aid, he believes, in pre-
venting the disastrous car shortages
The San Francisco call., 1910-12-09

ary of the city in which is located the
county seat of the county. Thus the
city and county could not be formed If
it reduced San Mateo county or Marin
county below 10000 Inhabitants, or in
case any line thereof came within five
miles of the exterior boundary of Oak
land, Redwood City or San Rafael 1t
will be necessary probably to do both
of these things.
1T is the general opinion of those
who have given the matter considera-
tion that before any legislation can be
enacted the constitution must be
amended so as to remove these diff
culties. Such an amendment can be
adopted at the coming session in 1911
and can be voted upon by the people at
the general election in 1912, and we
will then be in a position to enact the
necessary legislation at the session of
the legislature in 1913
"A general law should be framed SO
that territory around the larger cities
may be merged into one government.
The question as to the formation of
such government should be left to a
vote of the majority of the persons
residing in the territory proposed to
be consolidated. An enabling act to
provide for the financial difficulties of
the consolidation could be passed in
1913. A charter could be framed and
adopted Immediately after January /.
1915, so that the opening of the canal
will find us united, the fifth city of the
United States, 100000 strong.''
The San Francisco call., 1910-12-09
WOMEN IN CHARGE
OF COLLEGE PAPER
Feminine Staff Gets Out One
Issue of the Daily PalO
Alto
[Special DnpaicA to The CAN


STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Dec. s.
For the first time since 1903 the women
were given charge of the Daily Palo
Alto for one issue and this evening
the college paper was issued entirety
by them. The woman who had charge
of the paper was Miss NJ. NJ Hayes
of Los Angeles. II. who has been con-
nected with the paper since her fresh
man year. Assisting her were Miss
Lois Baker, '13, Of Los Angeles: Miss
Virginia Moore, -. Of Los Gatos: Miss
II. D. Campbell. II, of Palo Alto: Miss
III. Park. II, of Palo Alto; Miss l. NJ
Woodhead, II, of Los Angeles; Miss
NJ. Driscoll, '13, of Pasadena; Miss NJ. l..
Gilbert, '13, of Sausalito, and Miss c. NJ.
Green. II. of Pasadena.
The Uvernian Princess is the title
of. the opera which has been chosen
by the junior opera committee for the
class production to be given next
semester. The opera is entirely a stu
dent production, the music having been
written by Miss Mary Herdman. II. and
]. II. Mcdonald. II, and the 1ibretto
by ]. III. Forbes, rs
In the cast IA principals and a large
chorus are necessary. The first part
OF the play is laid at Stanford during
the festivities of junior week and is
made up of a quad scene and a prom
scene.
The main story is the story of the
capture of the heart of Ashley Moore
Stanford athlete, by Adelaide Arme-
stoy, princess of the imaginary Uver-
MIA and graduate of Smith.
The San Francisco call., 1910-12-09
ROSEATE FUTURE SEEN
BY M. II. ROBBINS JP.

NJ. H. Robbins Jr., president of the
Merchants association, acted as toast
master. Prior to his introduction of
the speakers he made the following re-
marks:
No one can become prosperous while
he really expects. or half expects to
remain poor. No city can become great
until its people realize it's possibilities
and the destiny in store for it. We
tend to get what we expect, and to
expect nothing is to get nothing. While
to expect great things is a long stride
on the highway tO attain them.
is on the road to success and great
ness, what can result save great
achievement? The weaving of the web
must follow the pattern.
Opulence and prosperity can not come
in through poverty thought and failure
thought channels. They must first be
mentally created and believed.
The earth is full of resources which
we have scarcely yet touched. The fact
is that we live in our own world; we
are creations of our own thoughts. We
build this world by our own thought
habit. We can surround ourselves with
an environment of abundance, or of
lack, of growth. or of standing still.
We do not expect half enough of
ourselves, or of the place in which we
live We do not demand the abundance
that belongs to us; hence, the incom-
pleteness of the fulfilIment of our mis-
sion in life.
The building is first completed in
the architects mind, in all its details.
The contractor simply places the bricks
and stones and other materials around
the idea. We are all architects. Every
thing we do in life is preceded by some
sort of a plan. Let us set up a new
image-a new image of our city and
it's future; an ideal of plenty and
abundance; of beauty and of growth.
When we learn the art of seeing opu-
lently, instead of stingily; when we
learn to think without limit: how not
to cramp ourselves by limiting our
thought we shall find that the thing
we are seeking is seeking us and will
meet us half way
The limitation is in ourselves, and
not in our city. True prosperity is the
inward consciousness of absolute unity
with great and expansive ideas; of
possessing an ABUNDANCE Of all that is
good for US; a wealth of personality
and character which no disaster on land
or sea could destroy.
Then let US look on some of the
tangible things which are tending 10
make the future San Francisco one of
the greatest and most progressive
municipalities in the whole world and
hasten it's coming by looking forward
to it, believing in it. and talking con-
vincingly of its merits 10 those we
meet. and we have no conception OF
how soon we shall open our eyes and
see its realization
Our subject for discussion is The
Future San Francisco"-some of the
benefits to be derived from the complet-
ing of that stupendous undertaking.
the severing of two continents and the
opening of the Panama canal.
The San Francisco call., 1910-12-09
PROGRESSIVE CITIZENS
AT SPEAKERS TABLE

Among the guests at the speakers
table We're:
Paul Pinckney. secretary San Mateo
board of trade.
]. H wilkins, president Alameda
chamber of commerce.
E. S Rake, president San Rafael
board of trade.
L H Newbert, president San Mateo
board of trade.
Daniel Crowley, president Oakland
merchants exchange
c. c. Juster, president Berkeley
chamber OF commerce.
W. S. Mackay, president Oakland
chamber of commerce.
Seth Mann.
Prof, Henry Morse Stephens.
NJ. H. Robbins Jr., president Mer-
chants association
T. L. oddie, governor elect of Ne
vada.
A. H. Elliot
Edward F.. Treadwell.
Senator E. I. Wolfe.
Beverly Hodgehead. mayor of Berke-
ley.
William Noy, mayor of Alameda.
The San Francisco call., 1910-12-09
RACETRACK INQUIRY
PROVES ALMOST FUTILE
Books and Witnesses Missing
and Memories Faulty

NEW YORK, Dec. S.-BIissins books
missing witnesses. faulty memories and
the easygoing business methods of the
Metropolitan Turf association (the book
makers Organization) netted the mills
of the joint legislative committee onlv
meager grist of new facts today.
Isadore Kresel, assistant counsel for
the committee, tried to get John ].
Evans. treasurer of the Metropolitan
Turf association to explain the origin
of 100000 deposited 10 the credit OF the
association with the Mutual Bank. He
had HttI esuccess.
Evans admitted to payments OF S12. =
500 to attorneys, but said that il was
not for fighting the racetrack bills. but
to look after members of the associa =
tion who might be arrested.
The witness said that he never paid
directly or indirectly any money to
fight antI-racetrack legislation or to
influence any.
The San Francisco call., 1910-12-09
OBSTACLES ARE TOLD
BY e. F. TREADWELL

The technical obstacles to the con-
solidation of San Francisco and towns
about the bay were dwelt upon by
Edward F. Treadwell. He spoke upon
the subject Legislation Necessary at
the 1911 Session OF the Legislature to
Enable Consolidation by 1916.
THE proposed consolidation of the
bay cities into one metropolis presents
questions of some nicely from legal
and legislative standpoint" he said.
THE city and county of San Francisco
of municipal corporation, but is also
a county, one of the political subdivi-
sions of the state. At the present time
we have laws upon the statute books
annexed to an existing municipality,
but no law by which territory may be
annexed to a consolidated city and
county government.
granted by the state constitution for
the enactment Of such legislation as
mi ght be necessary
In 1872" he continued, there was
embodied in the constitution a brief
provision to the effect that city and
county governments may be merged
and consolidated into one municipal
government, with one set of officers
and may be incorporated under general
laws providing for the Incorporation
and Organization of corporations for
vision is subjected to scrutiny it is
seen that it authorizes the consolida-
tion of existing cities and existing
counties, but it does not, in words,
authorize the consolidation into one
municipal government of a part of sew
eral counties. Personally l do not
share in this narrow construction of
the provision
The next obstacle we ind is that the
constitution puts certain limitations
upon the formation of new counties.
At the last election the constitution
was amended so as to provide that a
county divided shall not be reduced
below 10000 population and that the
line of the new county must not come
within five miles of the exterior bound
The San Francisco call., 1910-12-09

city and town whose feet are washed
by the pay Sn9Tld De brought nader
government. Notwithstanding admit
ted extravaganza in San Francisco in
the past, the tax rate has been lower
than that of any city or town which
would be included in the proposed fed
GRAFTON.
San Francisco supports but one form
of government. All the other cities
and towns have a county government
city or town governments. They are
burdened with too many officials.
The property paving the largest
erty lying in the most congested busi-
ness section of the city. Property
spread over a small portion Of the
portion of the tax. Less of the taxes
are spent proportionately on the down.
town section than upon any other sec
tion. There are no parks, Fairgrounds
or municipal buildings in the congest-
ed districts.
The money is spent in the streets,
sewers and public imiproyemepts 4s that
property of both San Francisco and
Oakland would unite to build up the
greater San Francisco until we should
the best improved urban district to be
found in the world. When we combine
our invested capital, reduce our oper-
property we shall begin to realize our
strength and power.
The reduction in operating expenses
and the increase in efficiency over the
entire district are attractive to San
Francisco. The reduction in the num-
ber of officials alone would be a large
item San Francisco will benefit by
the general economy of government re-
sulting in favor of her citizens and
businessmen. The union will not only
result in political strength but in gov
ernmental economy. A confederati ton
Of all the cities and towns means re-
duction of tax rate. The following let
ter from Mayor Gaynor of New York
explains this:
December I, 1910.
Dear Sir: Your favor of NOvem-
Der 10 is at hand. All of the out
lying districts which were brought
in were financially benefited in this
way. that their tax rate fell from s5
on the 500 to about S1.75, where
as the rate in old New York went
up from about S1.50. to the latter
figure. Very truly yours
w. J.. GAYNOR, Mayor
Neither Oakland nor San Francisco
has as yet assumed the high duty of
furnishing its citizens with water.
Within the scope almost OF human
vision is a range. of mountains where
in is gathered the purest water that
must impound that water and bring it
down to our people. If the only thing
to be accomplished by a confederation
were municipality owned water sup
ply in the Sierra Nevada mountains and
The San Francisco call., 1910-12-09

Francisco bay. BY looking forward to
the accomplishment. he said, the ac-
complishment could be fastened, and
by study of the tangible things con-
nected with such upbuilding the up
building could be made sure and last
ing
Seth Mann reviewed the prodigious
work that has been accomplished by
the federal government in the digging
Of the Panama canal and pointed to
the benefits that viii accrue to San
Francisco and its contiguous territory
from the elimination of the project.
He laid the chief stress upon the effect
the opening of the canal will have
on the establishment of fair traffic
rates, upon the influx of European
white labor that viii result and upon
the restoration of the American mer-
chant marine.
PROFESSOR STEVENS VOICES PLAN
Prof Henry Morse Stephens of the
University of California won a spon-
taneous ovation of the most sincere
character by his address upon The
Consolidation of Cities on the Borough
System, With Special Reference to san
Francis co and the Cities of the Bay
Region" His summing up of the sit
uation evidenced a long and thorough
study of the problems presented, and
was a sound, logical presentation of the
facts, and at the same time an eloquent
appeal He decried the sentimental OPP
position that has developed as the only
serious protest against the proposed
consolidation. and pointed out that a
joining of the bay cities under the
borough system would be- in fact
consolidation and not an annexation.
A. III. ELLIOT SOUNDS APPROVAL
Edward T. Treadwell, counsel for
the greater San Francisco committee,
discussed the phase of consolidation re-
lating to the Legislation Necessary at
the 1911 Session of the Legislature to
Enable Consolidation by 1915" His
talk was addressed chiefly to the legal
aspect of the matter and to the material
and mechanical changes of civic gov
ernment tha would be required.
A II. Elliott of the Oakland city
council concluded the regular program
of toasts with an address upon The
Advantages to Cities and Towns in
Alameda County of Consolidation of All
the Cities Around San Francisco Bay"
He summed up in eloquent manner the
chief arguments in favor of the pro
posed consolidation, and showed the
fallacy of the objections that have been
raised by the opponents of the propo-
sition.
The San Francisco call., 1910-12-09
SPOKANE'S OFFICIAL
POPULATION 1O4, ,4Oz
Increase of 1883 Per Cent Over
1900 Figures Shown

WASHINGTON, Dec. S.-The popuIa-
tion of Spokane. Wash, is 1O4.4O2. ac-
cording to statistics OF the thirteenth
census issued tonight. This is an in.
crease OF 1854. or 1898 per cent over
36.S4S in 1900
The population Of the state OF Louis
lana is 1.656.3Ss, an increase of 274.-
763, or 1873 per cent over 1.3s1.S S25 in
1900. The increase from 1890 to 1900
was 263,03s. or 1913 per cent
The population OF Bismarck. ". D.. IS
5,443. compared with 1913 IN 1900.
Revised statistics OF the population
Of Tampa, Fla. shows its population to
be 37.7S2. an increase OF q. .943. or 1858
per cent over 1883 in 1900. A pre-
vious announcement gave the 1910
census as 3s,524.