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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1906
Page
4
The Oregonian lists notices and an appeal urging Umatilla County to redistribute large farms, promote roads and homes, and invite homeseekers. It calls for selling to newcomers to repopulate the county, replace depopulation, and restore post offices and schools.
The wonder of the west draws homeseekers from crowded states to vast western farms. Umatilla County offers 1000 to 4000 acre holdings with wheatland but lacks roads schools and town amenities. Proper farming, livestock, and diversified pursuits could turn Umatilla into a regional farming empire.
The Oregon Episcopal Bishop B Wistar Morris, serving 38 years as bishop, dies leaving a legacy of church growth across eastern Oregon. He helped found churches towns schools hospitals and other institutions, transforming a frontier region into a network of religious and social establishments. His work is praised as laying deep foundations for future generations.
A heated critique questions how men like Jack Matthews and Frank C Baker influenced equal suffrage defeat in Oregon. It urges pride in women voters and condemns campaign managers for limiting women’s political equality. The piece ends noting Dr N Freed Essig applied for a Pasco water and electric franchise.
A fragmentary meditation on qualities with a double life linking matter and light, solid and shade. It speaks of twofold silence and solitary beings, recalling fear, memory, and a nameless shadow that haunts lone regions, urging a cautious meeting with an unnamed force.
A bulletin lists regional events from April to July including the Pacific Coast Baptist conference in Portland and various church and lodge gatherings across Pendleton Walla Walla and San Francisco. It also details Oregon wool sale dates for Pendleton Heppner Condon Shanikon Tuto Fir Rock City Elgin with events scheduled from May through July.
A fragmented dawn scene in London shifts from blue and gold to gray as fog and shadows rise over bridges and St Pauls. The town wakes with clanging life as country wagons fill the streets and a pale, worn woman appears beneath daylight.
Portland Oregonian reports on Courrières mine disaster where 301% men survived entombment in foul air and darkness, subsisting on horse flesh. A later rescuer emerges after 26 days underground, finding lunch bags of dead comrades to sustain himself. The tale underscores life’s stubborn link between body and spirit amid tragedy.
Senator Teller asserts equal suffrage has not harmed Colorado or public morale and supports extending full political rights to women. He concedes some women lack public responsibility but argues more women than men act with high motives and that history will prove voting rights prudent. He urges ongoing progress in American politics.
The Dead Sea lies 1292 feet below the Mediterranean level, at 44 miles long and 5 to 9 miles wide. A rock cliff known as the Ridge of Sodom runs along the shore. Its waters are highly dense with salinity, specific gravity from 1.11 to 1.227, containing about 24 percent saline matter. Rain is rare and the sea’s dimensions steadily shrink, like Utah’s Great Salt Lake, according to Mining World.
A Prineville Review note argues for women’s suffrage with the stance that women should vote if they wish and that no sound argument opposes equal suffrage. It condemns anti suffragists as lacking a position while urging voting rights for women despite potential social tensions.
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