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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1905
Page
2
A new photo souvenir invention resembles an envelope when closed and holds eight different views in each four sheet booklet. It ships in four series totaling 32 views. To use, write a letter, moisten and seal the cover, address and stamp it, then the recipient tears off the perforated edge to reveal state views.
Frederick Nolf and Co operating a big book and stationery store continues to serve customers with a wide range of books office supplies and stationery items. The firm maintains a prominent storefront offering desks chairs and writing materials to local residents and businesses.
An English medical journal warns against religious revivals. A distillery buys a Methodist church in Waterloo North Carolina to use as a mash house. University of California defeats Stanford 72 1-3 to 42 2-3 in Meld meet. Pennsylvania allocates 20000 dollars for a statue in Capitol Square Harrisburg. Coal miners and employers in Hibbing Minnesota face a 2000 man lockout and barricading. Union Railway Company workers in St. Louis warned against visiting boat tracks with possible dismissal. Blanche Mitchell found guilty of murder in Logansport Indiana and sentenced to life imprisonment for killing Ella Swisher. Paris library houses 2,000,000 books and 160,000 manuscripts. Brigham museum and Imperial Library of St Petersburg around the same. Pierre Lacombe, 82, operated at Johnstown New York for appendicitis and recovered quickly. Jonathan Whitehouse, 92, dies in Norway Maine after hearing news of daughter’s severe illness. Rafael R Gavin says three months needed to take over Chicago traction lines for city operation.
La Grande plans fifty new residences this year while an additional one hundred sixty remain scheduled for construction. John P. Thompson, a farmer near Moscow, is Idaho state land approver and timber estimator. Yakima County sees many real estate transfers and rising prices. Coeur d Alene Bank and Trust begins a four story bank of Tenino sandstone. Spokane high school beats Cheney Athletic Club five to one in rain. W H Acuff wins Spokane mayoral nomination by 220 to 145 on Republican ticket. Stellacoom asylum to spend fifty thousand dollars on a tuberculosis patients annex. Carnegie Library at Walla Walla foundation and first-story stone work completed. due August 1 1905. Esquimalt naval station abandoned. auction of discarded naval stores April 14.
Weston defeats Pendleton 14 to 11 at Alta Street Grounds in a rough opening day contest. The Weston lineup showed room for improvement and needs practice and positions clarified, with a rematch slated for Weston on April 23.
Professor H. Cassar Ewart and colleagues travel to Chihuahua to verify legends of a large herd of striped horses in the Sierra Madre. He theorizes that modern coloring arose from interbreeding. cites indigenous accounts and Hampton Bradley’s 15 year-old report of thousands of striped horses in a fertile valley. Also notes a Texas penitentiary lacks printers.
Dr Arthur Korn develops a system to send photographs up to 500 miles via telegraph and telephone. Light varying on selenium cells alters resistance, guiding signals to a vacuum tube at the receiving end to reproduce a photo on graphic paper.
Reminiscences recount Elizabeth Wa-l-a-chee and Beardy the chief at Wallatoa near Walla Walla who aided survivors of the Whitman massacre. Elizabeth Spaulding, age 16, translated for the panicked band and urged mercy. Beardy survived amid threats to kill women and children, while other details describe the tense days after the tragedy and the fragile mercy shown. Debtors notice and a separate Montana explosive accident are also noted.
A sweeping price list highlights Bee Hive items across departments from crackers and brushes to lace curtains and parasols. It features belts, collars, gloves, embroideries, table covers, and men’s furnishings with dozens of prices and item counts.
Train No 41 operates as a mixed service at 1 40 p m with No 42 also a mixed train No 7 links with No 2 and No 42 connects with No 2 to coordinate transfers.
The Washington and Columbia River Railroad lists arrival times at 3 p.m. on Monday, Wednesday, and Bele day, 1 p.m. on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, with daily departures at 7 p.m. From Walla Walla departures are 9 p.m. eastbound and arrivals 11:35 a.m. westbound. For rates and accommodations contact ADAMO at Pendleton, JH Calderhead, G P A, Walla Walla.
Trains depart Pendleton daily except Sunday at 7:00 p.m. For more information call or write Adama Pendleton, LTON, Third and Morrison Biz. Portland, Oregon.
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