Pierce Eloquence Shifts Oregon Senate Debate to East Oregon Stakes
Salem dispatch reports Senator Pierce gaining a rising reputation for eloquence as he pushes bills including funding for the Eastern Oregon Experiment Station and school tax reforms. The session features party maneuvering, roll calls, and changes in senatorial support amid a broad slate of measures and multiple county charters.
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Salem
Mae
Wearsel Portance
T Legislative Assembly
Senate
Umatilla County
Phelps
Blakely
C.J. Smith
Walter M. Pierce
Union
Umatilla
Manstern Oregon Experiment Station
Associated Press
Pierce
Eastern Oregon Experiment Station
Pendleton
Freewater
Weston
Adams
Ciamoane
Squire Farrar
Marion
Union Pacific
Committee On Rail and Transportation
Arghinst
Noote
Rain Swells Walla Walla Foothill Soils Menace Farms
Heavy winter and early spring rains threaten Walla Walla foothills causing deep washes and gulleys that may ruin late plowing. Farmers fear summer fallows will be left bare and soil quality will decline as ground packs under repeated washouts. Albert Lake dies from injuries after a recent accident while Mrs. Rhoda Kern passes away in Helix.
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Walla Walla
Union
Peers
Bee
Sete Eean
Best Hat in Town Awarded to Dr Dell
A large crowd braved a storm for a band concert and old fiddlers contest at the opera house. Dr Dell won the best hat in town after fiddling favorites Leather Breed and Arkansaw Traveler drew thunderous applause and the judge Prof Henry declared him the winner.
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Hat
DR. Dell
Athena
Are
J. . Hawes
Walker
Guy McDowell
Will M. Paterson
Peterson
J.dr. Dell, A. L. Jones, A. Luna and W.J. King
Henry
Fan Ohne
Son
Arkansaw Traveler
Dr. Dall
Band Boys
Therm
Frightful Wreck on Eastbound Train Near Bingham Springs
A severe wreck on the O R N east of Bingham Springs wiped out An eastbound gar train near Meacham Creek. Engineer Patty and Fireman MC were killed. William Maxwell Posed injured. The engine plunged into the swollen stream as the track was undermined by a rock wall. The wreck left the car and smoker badly damaged with bodies recovered from the wreckage.
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Eaginonr
Milton
Bingham Springs
Ngineer Patty
Wiliam Maxwell
Dam Creek
Patty
Daria
Seven Thousand In Sight For New Church
The fund for the new Methodist Episcopal church in Athena is growing with $800 added since Sunday. Pastor Armfield reports $7000 in sight, with $500 from the Old Extension Board of Philadelphia. The community supports a stone and brick structure to replace the current wooden building.
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New Methodist Episcopal Church
Athena
Armfield
Pues
Extension Board
Philadelphia
Ablic
Federal aid in irrigation to spur western development
The Census Bureau reports federal support for irrigation projects will shift surveying and construction to the Geological Survey. It estimates reclaimable western lands, especially Oregon, will attract large-scale settlement, boosting population and economy as irrigation expands.
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Geological Survey
Washington, D. C
Oregon
Teal Survey
Fifty Seventh Congress
Washington
United States
New York
Atlantic
Maine
Florida
Pioneer Martha Mor of Weston Dies at 70
Mrs. Martha Mor, pioneer of Weston born in Missouri January 0 1888, died today at 8 a.m. at her sister Mrs. Sarah McDougal’s home in Weston after pneumonia. She first married James M. Lieuallen in 1851, joined the 1860s emigrant train, lived near Weston since 1868, widowed in 1888, remarried J. S. Morgan in 1890, and was a longtime Baptist. She leaves two brothers and several sisters. interment requested at Idaho with her first husband.
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Wenton
Martha Mor
Weston
Sarah McDougal
Morgan
Missouri
James M. Lieuallen
Plains
Andrew J. Killgore
Epee
F. Bulfinch
Thore
John Shaw
Ben Shaw
Lewis
William Ore
Anito Asters
Minerva Barnes
Idaho
McKay Post Office Burned and Divorce Case Emerges
Fire damages the McKay post office south of Bendon with goods and building burnings reported. Jay Hard the postmaster details losses as Mrs J Frank Day sues for divorce alleging threats to the defendant and notes in Pendleton police court.
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McKay
Bendon
Jay
Mra. J. Frank Day
Pendleton
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Unatilla
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