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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1906
Page
8
Advertises a Saturday sale from a tea and coffee department with a limited time offer of free items with each purchase. Lists gifts: glass cake plate, china creamer, china oneal bowl, and table tumblers. Promises home delivery, quality blends, and in-house extracts, spices, and baking powder. Includes a special jardiniere promotion at a discounted price.
Advertises cleaning and disinfecting articles at low prices. Lists items such as sulfur formaldehyde chloride of lime sulfur torches and candles carbone id turpentine ammonia ben fine whiting and similar chemicals. Offers to supply any quantity of these drugs on request.
A Tribune report on reservation trouble contrasts its wire dispatches with the newspaper’s own account. Major Edwards reportedly asked for cavalry to protect Indians and stockmen, but the Tribune later denied seeking soldiers, calling it yellow journalism. Police arrest Firstbrook after a drunken disorderly sentence.
James V. Sayre solicitor for the American DeForest Wireless Telegraph company visited the city to promote a nationwide wireless network. The western base will be Denver due to its elevation, and the system would lower ice costs by about 20 percent after establishment. Sayre previously worked for the Morning Oregonian and more recently for the Walla Walla Union.
A man arrested at the Rainier saloon by Officer John D. Brown faces a drunk and disorderly charge and alleged attempts to threaten a man named Jenkie with a razor. The prisoner, believed to be Firtbrook, received a sentence of five days on the disorderly charge.
Jane Elgin from Franklin County visits town. James Elgin, formerly known as the wheat king of Umatilla County, once ran a Fulton station ranch and helped found Farmers' Custom mill later owned by Fred Walters. After hard times, he recovered with Franklin County farming and reports excellent wheat outlook this year.
Washington April 13 Indians on the Umatilla reservation in Oregon demand a tax of $1 per head for all sheep driven across the reservation. Stockmen protest to the president and Secretary Altceock. Senator Fulton discussed the matter with the president this morning as the administration seeks a quick, orderly resolution. No soldiers have arrived yet. Major Edwards requests 50 troops to quell disturbances, but none have appeared.
A banquet will greet the meeting of the Umatilla County Development League in Pendleton tomorrow night. Arthur P. Stover of the government reclamation service J H Mc Murray assistant passenger agent of the Harriman Lines and several local speakers will respond to toasts.
Will milk many cows in Alba today while roads are bad from recent weather. Stockmen shift to range as dairying supports home markets and Pendleton trade. Surrounding country offers excellent pasturage and mountain water for dairy operations. Also reports a poisoned terrier in the city, with several dog poisonings blamed on a malicious offender and a hunt for the culprit underway.
An eastern soap maker scouts Umatilla county alkali tracts to secure options on rich deposits for extracting alkaloids. Secret plans target many small plots, aiming to ship alkali either in liquid form or in sacks to distant factories. If properties prove workable, a large industry could emerge near a major grease center, transforming alkali lands from farming liabilities into valuable sources for commercial lye and related products.
The Dalles Chronicle summarizes freshet conditions as unlikely to reach record heights this year. Observers note Columbia River rises but expect only modest flooding unless headwater snowmelt accelerates unusually. Lewiston saw a two foot rise days ago as the Columbia freshens, while Snake River levels receded briefly before climbing again.
An elderly woman in Arlington hunts for a Rock Creek Kilekitat County Indian neighbor who allegedly stabbed her husband three times in the chest last Friday. She vows to kill him with the same knife, driven by grief as authorities search for the assailant.
A fragment warns of spring illness and bodily discomfort from winter impurities. It suggests the liver stimulation and simulating digestive organs to counteract an unsettled, impure feeling. The text reads like a health tonic note urging action to restore balance.
An old advertisement promotes Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as effective for poor appetite flatulency dyspepsia indigestion comiveness female illnesses malaria fever and ague. The text urges readers to try it as a universal remedy with strong promotional language.
A one fare round trip rate is granted by the R R N for a game at Walla Walla next Sunday between Athens Yellow Kids and the local team. A train will run from Pendleton to Walla Walla at about 7 pm to bring Pendleton crowds. Regular Perdleton to Walla Walla fare is 1.40, round trip tickets sold for the price, valid Sunday morning and return Sunday evening or on a regular return.
H G Hawkins traveling freight and passenger agent for the Maple Leaf route, with Spokane headquarters, visits Pendleton for the first time. Previously the Port land office served the territory. now Hawkins will make regular trips and actively campaign for business in the region.
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