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Newspaper
La Grande Evening Observer
Location
La Grande, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1908
Page
8
Over the past week the O R and N reports relief in coal supply as Montana miners return to work, enabling more train traffic. The movement renews business activity and reactivates the local round house, though La Grande dealers are still unable to fill orders. Carriers continue to supply fuel for later traffic relief.
Sedalia Mo October 3 preparations near completion for the Missouri State Fair. Exhibits nearly installed and the permanent grounds improved with a first class track for the speed program. Officials anticipate unprecedented crowds next week as Missouriana gather to visit the event.
Pendleton druggist Thomas W. Ayers asserts the Gold Coin mine near Durkee will be worked again. The ill fated eastern Oregon property faced a lawsuit over tailings damaging Brown’s land, then a mill burned after a brief profitable run, with decomposed granite rock suitable for placer mining and a canal about one third finished.
In Rome during October and November a homecoming of Italians abroad will include a congress led by Senatore Titteni with the king as honorary president. Prominent Italians from North and South America attend, as a large colonization plan considers acquiring 25,000 acres of land in Texas or elsewhere to settle Italian immigrants with tools cattle and sods.
In the Willamette valley area most precincts once held many ring necked pheasants but they are now scarce. Officials attribute the decline to heavy shooting by local sportsmen during the first ten days of the open season.
An advertisement claims a guaranteed cure for asthma bronchitis and catarrh. It offers a full refund if the medicine fails and lists addresses in Seattle Washington and Cove Oregon with contact Morris W Knight in Cove for the next 26 days.
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