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Newspaper
La Grande Evening Observer
Location
La Grande, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1908
Page
8
The city will receive bids until 4 o clock August twenty second year 2908 at the recorder s office for quantities of select red fir and common fir lumber of various sizes and bevels, including yellow pine and tamarack, under Street Committee chairman N Monroe.
Westbound trains faced delays after a derrick wreck derailed near Weatherby. Train No 5 was five hours late, a wrecker from here cleared the track and No 1 endured hours of hold in Idaho. Reports vary on injuries or specifics as arrival to La Grande is slated for 5 05 this evening.
The county clerk reports sixty hunters have bought licenses this year, many issued in the last month. As midnight opens the bird season, locals plan to head to the hills, anticipating a day of rifle crack and grouse hunts.
The piece notes lower rates will begin in fifteen days and eastern to Oregon travel will surge via Harriman lines. Sleeper cars are being rushed east to meet the anticipated crowds, with the transcontinental railroad viewed as capable of handling the rush. An unprecedented westward migration is expected this year.
Tokio reports a secret cabinet and ministerial conference decided to postpone expenditure of 50 million dollars on the army and navy from next year until 1911. The move follows the wartime decision to spend the sum. Esperanto congress opens in Drie den with delegates from Europe the United States and Latin America.
Theatrical manager Tony Pastor was reported seriously ill on August 1 as Elmhoret, likely a distant reference, circulated in the era’s public notices. Details remain fragmentary, with no confirmed hospital or recovery timeline available.
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