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Newspaper
Madras Pioneer
Location
Madras, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1907
Page
4
Fragmentary OCR notes show advertising rates and application details dated 1904 at Madras Oregon. Mentions parties of the Actor Congress and postings of notices with prices like $1.50. The text is incomplete and lacks clear event context.
A violent thunderstorm over Madras yesterday evening dropped large hail for about ten minutes. The storm tore a narrow swath across southeast fields, damaging around 30 percent of grain in its path. Winds, rain, and roaring artillery-like hail felled stalks and battered crops from Little Plain to Agency Plain, with damage reported near Bert Dowhbrowe, Froenk Galloway, and Dr. Snook’s ranch.
Classified locals describe a gray mare about nine years old branded Clom right ear and left hip with a $10 reward and expenses offered for return. Also notes a black mare taken up with a white blaze and branding, asking owner to claim at Jin Lamson place near Haystack. Another entry advertises timber, wheat, and irrigated land for sale and land locating services by Van Tansy & Davis of Madras.
Rival railroad interests race for control of the Deschutes water grade from the Columbia junction to Central Oregon. Mount Hood Power and Railway plans join Oregon Trunk and Harriman surveys as engineers map routes east of the Cascades. Eastern towns expect growth as projects multiply and rails push toward the Deschutes valley.
A drowning tragedy adds to the year's deaths in the Columbia River as Ray Moore, son of Mr and Mrs Moore of The Dalles, disappeared while bathing near Regulsior docks. Eye witnesses say he slipped from the deck, surfaced twice, and could not be recovered.
Haywood, secretary of the Western Federation of Miners, was acquitted by a jury after eighty days of trial over the murder of Governor Steubenberg. The verdict split two jurors for guilty and eight for acquittal, with defense and prosecution presenting key testimony involving Marie Orchard and the inner circle.
Last Saturday July 27 opened a reserve area in Matules country to settlement. Much of the tract holds good timber and likely all suitable land will be taken by squatters. Settlement may begin July 27 to initiate entry, but land-office entry cannot occur before August 26. Settlers actually occupying the land hold a prior right akin to squatter rights on surveyed tracts.
In U S Circuit Court two Warmspring Indians Freddie Sumpta and Calvin Quealpama admitted taking liquor onto the reservation. Judge Wolverton fined $25 and ordered 60 days in county jail, the sentence equating to about 90 days behind bars since they could not pay. Oregonian.
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