A Big Tale of Gold at Sturgill Bar on Snake River
A Baker City correspondent reports a dramatic gold discovery at Sturgill Bar on Snake River. Last Wednesday night a cave exposed bedrock rising thirty feet, and Captain Ed Robinett led the diggers to uncover nuggets of many shapes. The party carried two quart pails of gold to Reed and Beezley’s house, with conservative estimates valuing the coarse gold in sight at many thousands and gold already picked up at fourteen thousand five hundred dollars.
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Baker City Democrat
Sturgill Bar
Snake River
Ed. Robinett
Capt. Robinett
Messrs
Reed and Beezley
Mass of Testimony in Malheur Ditch Cage Costs Mount
The Malheur ditch cage testimony, refereed by A Lowell of Pendleton, spans 2500 typed pages. Stenographer John Wheeler earns 15 cents per folio with about 750 for the first copy, plus $200 for each additional copy. daily rates total $10 for 174 days, with lawyer and court fees and total costs estimated to be at least $10,000 and potentially double that amount.
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Malheur Ditch
A. Lowell
Pendleton
John Wheeler
Prolific Sacaline Promises Big Yields For Stock Feed
Prolific Sacaline touted by Umatilla county farmers including Mose Taylor as a hardy large plant with ten foot height and spreading leaves. It reportedly yields 100 tons per acre, fattening stock better than alfalfa or clover, grows on rocky dry swamp or medium soils, and costs $20 per pound for its valuable seed. The plant hails from an island between Japan and Siberia and is gaining European notice. Also cited is a Huntington Herald call for Baker county papers to warn workers from neighboring states about coming to mining towns, which the writer deems unnecessary and harmful to laborers already seeking work.
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Umatilla County
Mose Taylor
Japan
Siberia
Europe
Huntington Herald
Baker County
Wild cattle band roams Coast Range 20 years
Hunters report a hardy band of wild cattle along Joe and Fawn creeks in the Coast Range, having ranged the Cascades for nearly two decades and surviving harsh winters. The fat spring game contrasts with lean valley stock. The note also seeks a loyal friend willing to back the speaker and help in times of need.
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Joe
Fawn
Coast
Cascades
Receiver Appointed in Creditors Petition
Wellington Clark appointed as receiver after creditor petition. Besserer to act as business agent. The action follows a formal filing seeking the receiver to safeguard assets and manage proceedings for the creditors.
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Wellington Clark
Besserer
Aimee
Drowned Herself and Babies Near Sumter Tragedy
News of an awful double murder and deaths by self destruction reached Baker City Saturday night. The tragedy occurred near Sumter, about 25 miles from Baker City, withSipala as the woman involved.
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Newa
Baker City
Sumter- 25
Prin, Sipala
Tragic Family Tragedy Near Pow der River
Early Saturday morning the bodies of Mrs. Ernest Maywaldt and her two young children, ages 2 and 18 months, were found in the Pow der river. They were last seen Friday afternoon and missing by 7 pm. A nightlong search uncovered the deaths. Reports say the mother, driven to despair by her husband's abuse and drinking, chose death with her children.
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Ernest Maywaldt
Powder River
The Value of a Friend. Simmons Liver Regulator Endorsement
Mrs. Jacob of this city asserts cure after five or six physicians deemed hopeless. Albert A. Wells reports the remedy Simmons Liver Regulator, sold by druggists in powder or liquid, to be taken dry or as tea.
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Inn
Jacob
Simmons
Albert A. Wells
Relief Note Offers Back Subscription Pay Up Advice
The Waitsburg Times urges readers to relieve editors by paying back subscriptions and being pleasant, framing it as sincere advice for easing the editor’s fatigue.
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Waitsburg Times
Brief Notes From The Region On Roads Cattle And People
Brevities from Wallula Weston and Walla Walla report road tax concerns cattle thieves near Wallula. Dr Cropp operated on John Rush in Helix. Three hundred attended the Odd Fellows celebration in Walla Walla. The county judge allows W. M. Steen’s widow and children 30 per month. Becomes a compact snapshot of local life with multiple names and places.
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Cropp
Walla Walla
John Rush
Helix
W. M. Steen
Shilohs Cure and Patented Poisons Advertised in Local Notice
The page promotes Shilohs Cure as a cough remedy sold for 25c and 25 doses per pocket size, touts Peter McIntyre as an added wool buyer, and advertises Cook's Dead Shot squirrel poison at 365c per can with a three for $1 guarantee. It also notes land-buying swindlers and reports the death of William Graham Sr. from cancer, plus weather and livestock concerns in Morrow county. It ends with endorsements for Chamberlains Pain Balm and Oregon horse loss statistics for the year ending March 31, 1895.
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Peter McIntyre
Cook’s
P. M. Kirkland
G. C. Osburn
William Graham
Porter Graham
Weston
Morrow County
Chamberlain
J. F. Pierson
South
Chicago
Ill
Osburn
Hunt Denied Claim Against Oregon and Washington Sale
Geo W Hunt will not receive 33340 from the Oregon and Washington railroad sale proceeds. Judge Bellinger dismissed the suit in a lengthy decision. Hunt claimed he advanced the amount to W Ladd and C B Right for interest on bonds handled by the Farmers Loan and Trust Co. The road was sold under mortgage, and Hunt demanded the unpaid interest.
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Hunt
Geo. W. Hunt
United States
Oregon & Washington
Bellinger
Ladd
C. B
Farmers’ Loan & Trust Co
Japs to Be Rewarded With Watches
The Japanese government plans to reward troops in the China campaign with watches rather than medals. The war office has contracted Swiss firms for a large supply, and the presentation will be made by the mikado when he reviews the troops at war's end. Germany’s watch on the Rhine is not involved.
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China
The
Germany
Rhine
Free Northwest agricultural weekly offer from The Press
The Northern Pacific Farmer, Portland Oregon, now in its twenty first year, is promoted as the Northwest's best weekly agricultural paper edited by Frank Lee. It promises 16 to 32 pages weekly with agricultural and market content and is offered for $1 per year in advance. New subscribers paying one year in advance to The Press receive The Northwest journal free for one year.
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Northern Pacific Farmer
Portland
Oregon
Northwest
Frank Lee
Granger
United States
Great Northwest Journal
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