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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1909
Page
2
Infants die in Chicago from heat while Cape Colony sinks artesian wells. Mercury lamp blue rays sterilize water. A Wellington Colorado family drowns fishing. Grand Duke William ill. heir is 15. Zeppelins, anti trust cases, cholera in St Petersburg, and Taft era power plays fill the page.
Vienna reports Edward H. Harriman, the American railroad magnate, must avoid labor and maintain complete quiet. Dr. Adolf Struempell diagnoses incipient paralysia and prescribes home meals in his room and limited daily exercise. Mrs. Harriman stays by his side as treatment aims to relieve symptoms and stabilize his condition.
Paris reports a German inventor Seeger created La Funda a sling style game on a wooden swivel frame with a bag and rubber bands. Players sling a tennis ball high catching it at will claiming it safer and as healthy as diabolo.
A brief violent wind storm swept over Great Salt Lake damaging the Saltair pavilion and a launch as crews fought waves. No injuries were reported though one boat was wrecked on the pier and rumors of passengers fleeing.
London July 6 A Covent Garden market experiment watches motor delivery of vegetables and fruit from Worthing over 60 miles. A van carried a record load of pears cucumbers and other produce arriving an hour before the train shipment with no damage reported.
Salvador Talamantes, a laborer, nearly suffocated when he sank into a liquid asphalt barrel while trying to free a railroad trestle. Four men pulled him out after he became buried up to his nose. Deputy Constable Miklaus Hotz assisted in the rescue.
Captain Bowen W. Bartlett of Brigus Newfoundland and Herbert L. Bridgman of Brooklyn have bought and equipped a steamer for a voyage to Etah North Greenland Paerys base about July 15. The mission aims to return Dr. Frederick A Cook and to take north Mene the young Eskimo who visited the United States twelve years ago.
A shaky report from Capetown claims an entity in Capetown Cape Colony may buy Rhodesia for a sum near ten million pounds. The note cites a source in Bulawayo and hints at a high stakes deal with regional implications.
Oregon forest land board froze the sale of 2 820 acres under the Carey act project on the Deschutes until a board visit to Eastern Oregon for inspection. Credit concerns loom over Deseret Irrigation and Power, while J G Crawford of Heppner notes J E Woolery estate pivots to Portland firms planning 1 000 colonists, amid hoped-for better Morow county crops due to cool spring weather.
Dallas Salem Falls City and Western reports tracklaying near completion with grading to two miles of West Salem. Steel laid to Eola area nine miles from Dallas. Few bridges, no Willamette River bridge. launch service links Marion county. Gasoline passenger cars to be used on the new line.
Oregon City reports substantial improvements at the Chautauqua grounds with fences and pumping facilities under way. The Gladtone church party will operate the grounds restaurant and Rev. W H Selleck of Salem will respond to the welcome from Congressman Hawley.
Ashland Commercial club will petition Governor Benson's state board of geographers to rename the water source and scenic site known as Siskiyou Peak to Mount Ashland. A resolution approving the request passed at a recent club meeting.
The Harney Valley Improvement company assets known as the Carey lands are canceled and 59 000 acres near Burns will be opened immediately to public entry. It is expected that every acre will be taken rapidly.
Salem receives two six inch guns from a battleship promised as fair attractions. They will be mounted on the state house lawn after the fair. The Oregon delegation in Washington arranged procurement, costing Salem only freight fees.
Enrollment at Monmouth summer normal school opens with 80 to 100 on the first day and 30 to 50 more to enroll next week as Professor L R Travers begins his course. Prospects are for the most successful session yet at this place.
William Stewart sold his 170 acre farm and orchard two miles north of Jacksonville for 85 000 dollars about 500 dollars per acre to Wisconsin parties. A second tract of 213 acres near the area was also listed for sale this week.
Crawford Wallis files actions against the Eastern railroad to collect a $10,000 penalty under the railroad commission act. The suit follows the commission order after Lyons depot inadequacies prompted a decree to build a new depot, which the company avoided by using old freight cars.
Prineville surveyor Fred A. Rice completed a survey of a private irrigation project on the Ochoce east of town. It ranks among the county’s largest private schemes, affecting over 2,000 acres owned by T. H. Lafollette E. T. Slayton and J. S. Watkins. The canal will carry 1,200 inches of water over six miles at an estimated cost of $5,000, with construction to start after state desert land board plats are approved.
At an adjourned Milwaukie meeting a 20 year franchise was passed as drawn up without amendment. It obligates the company to provide water free for fire protection. Milwaukie will then have two water companies.
A fragmented price list shows wheat at various dollars per ton and per hundred, hay per loganberry crate and raspberry crate, vegetables with dozen and per pound rates, butter and creamery prices, poultry and veal rates, and cattle grades with top and fair values. Historic market notes include prices for creamery butter and rural staples.
The beef trust cites cattle scarcity and corn costs to justify higher prices. Retail butchers say working people cannot afford beef amid falling demand, while Corn and Patten’s corner push corn-fed cattle less profitable. East trust officials give vague statements on market normalcy.
Thousands of quake victims lie in Messina ruins as the Interior department reports to King Victor. Only summer pause delays digging, with 30,000 bodies recovered to date and an April average of 300 daily removals while 900 await burial due to grave-digger shortages.
Officials of the Santa Fe road believe a chance gold and copper find in ballast for the Belen cut-off may seed a rich mining district in the Manzano mountains Torrance county New Mexico The discovery near the ancient Gran Quivira site attracts many prospectors as claims spread The gold came from ballast sampled by a Chicago engineer after a staining chunk found in a deep cut proved gold rich with about 3 dollars worth per ton in ballast sampled for the line.
Reports say four people were killed and over 50 injured as a cyclone swept southern Saskatchewan. The Gainsboro district saw three deaths and about 60 injuries, with a child killed near Carrievale. The path crossed Redvers Carrievale Gainsboro and moved toward Pearson Manitoba.
J C McNeill Memphis superintendent at the National Educational Association council meeting charges the school system corrupts morals and fosters crime. He asserts the Present day schools are responsible for the faults within schools and for criminals. Denver July 5.
New York reports little chance of sugar trust prosecution before August when U S District Attorney Wine returns from Europe. The federal grand jury did not indict, leaving the Abtuing company case uncertain as of the latest dispatch.
Washington Republican Francis W. Cushman, 61, collapsed from pneumonia after ten days at Roosevelt Hospital following neck abscess surgery begun June 21. Born May 8, 1867 in Brighton Iowa, Cushman rose from railroad labor to law, then Tacoma lawyer elected to Congress in 1898 and serving his sixth term.
Bret Harte land experiences nightly shocks for over a week with June 21 tremor noted. Poker Flat residents report Mount Tees as the disturbance center and claim some quakes were quite severe. Earthquakes are rare in Sierra County.
The Isleton of the California Transportation company burned to the water’s edge at Stockton dock on July 3. Valued at $100,000, the steamer had no insurance. Fire started in the after hold and could not be reached due to dense smoke. City firemen saved tanks holding 5,000 gallons of crude oil.
Canon Hendon of Westminster Abbey and rector of the British House of Commons church told Victoria listeners that England is unarmed and on the verge of a national struggle. He urged clergy to preach sacrifices everywhere to secure an immediate and needed defense fund.
Governor Johnson of Minnesota spoke in Jackson on July 3 and urged that women join husbands in political life. He claimed women's presence improves atmosphere and politics would open where refining influence prevails.
A woman trapped for ten days in a railroad tunnel near St. Gall, Switzerland, was rescued alive. She survived by sucking moisture from her clothing as water occasionally dripped, sustaining her until help arrived.
A July 3 celebration for St. Peter and St. Paul in Guayaquil ended in violence as police were attacked by a mob. Troops were deployed but many soldiers joined the mob, leaving ten dead and eighty wounded in a pitched street battle.
London reports the cable steamer Calona sailed today carrying 1,600 miles of cable to Newfoundland to lay the Commercial Cable Company's new route. The operation aims to connect Newfoundland with the broader Atlantic network.
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