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Newspaper
La Grande Evening Observer
Location
La Grande, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1910
Page
8
Notice states Ordinance No 464 took effect July 30 1910 requiring all garbage receptacles for restaurants hotels stores and homes to be tightly covered and all swill garbage to be hauled in covered wagons or receptacles. Stable manure must be deposited in screened receptacles. Police chief ordered strict enforcement for public health.
Anna Victor acts as complaining witness against C. W. Smith arraigned before Justice of the Peace Williams. Smith bound over to the grand jury on $1500 bond after preliminary hearing. he cannot meet the bond and is jailed. Victor, about thirty, formerly Bartemess housekeeper on Elm Street, seeks divorce. Alleged assault occurred last Sunday night at Elm and Jefferson corner. victim says she was badly injured.
The July cattle market closed strong with good quality cattle while hogs surged at Portland Union Stock Yards. Totals for 414 receipts: 6849 cattle 6928 hogs 1148 sheep 81 horses and mules. Compared with last year cattle down 785. hogs up 5004. sheep up 1336. horses and mules up 10.
Strong demand for top cattle at six dollars, July hog prices near ten dollars, lambs at six, and wethers at forty four dollars highlight a shift toward grain fed beef and expanding milk cow trade. Portland Union Stock Yards will test cows with free government inspections, while leaders from Milines and Harriman lines join the Fat Stock Show. A monster submarine upheaval near Washington is reported with tidal wave indications, confirmed by St Ignatius College on Aug. 6.
Washington reports a great upheaval with a tidal wave thought to accompany the disturbance. Prof. Lorn dorff, seismographer at George, notes the event as recorded in early measurements.
James F Wall a La Grande high school football coach and La Grande Investment Co abstractor left Wisconsin on June 7 heading for La Grande and has not been heard from since. Employers and friends fear foul play as practice nears and the freshman class recruitment begins. A return note from relatives says he intended to visit Northwestern Wisconsin and his alma mater at Madison.
A fragment notes the phrase can be depended upon in connection with Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy and its claimed effect on bowel symptoms, reflecting historical advertising language and consumer trust in patent medicines.
In La Grande a long legal fight over the Turner Oliver property sidewalk and fence on Fourth Street ends with a supreme court decision upholding the lower court and forcing fence and sidewalk removal. Oliver petitions rehearing alleging Justice McBride was absent at Pendleton oral arguments.
A blaze at an old wooden hotel and an employment agency in Jamaica Long Island on August 5 killed five men and two women. Two others are dying and a score injured as stairways failed and escape routes vanished. Dogs barked to alert rescuers and many fled by jumping from windows.
In St Louis on August 5 Robt T Kennon recently divorced from his wife the daughter of the late Congressman Dearmond shot himself in a hotel. He left a note accusing General Harvey Clarke of the Missouri National Guard the husband of his former wife as the cause of the trouble.
Boston august 5 Joe Gans famed pugilist dying of consumption will be brought home tomorrow if he can stand the trip.
Springfield report states the Lorimer bribery probe grand jury adjourned at noon after reviewing inquires and returning no new indictments. No reconvening date was set.
In early life Mrs. Roger A. Pryor recalls that visiting authors rarely came to Charlotteville Virginia. Frederika Bremer stayed a night with Baron Schele de Vere and a chosen group awaited her arrival. The door opened and the guest announced Miss Bremer was tired and must sleep.
A writer in the Undertakers Journal laments diminishing ceremonial grandeur at noble funerals during Queen Victoria era. He cites escalating costs over decades, noting royal funerals once cost £1250, then £700, £820, and a later bill under £75 for a noble death in the West End.
A brief remark attributes to Euclid the reply to King Ptolemy Soter that there is no royal road to learning. This concise exchange has endured for about 2,200 years as a memorable statement on the pace of education.
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