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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1905
Page
2
A new photograph souvenir invention mimics an envelope design. It uses two sheets of letter paper and four sheets of views to form eight pictures per booklet. Four series offer 32 views, sealed like a letter and mailed with stamp on the cover.
Wool trade set to roar from Pendleton to the Inland Empire with a first sales day on May 22 and sales through early July. Shearing progresses in many counties as merchants and stockmen brace for prices, with Oregon grain season looming and Umatilla county’s 5 million bushels ready for market. Wool buyers and markets vary by region, with activity centered along the Snake River in Washington and Idaho and in Eastern Oregon ports.
Frost damages fruit east of the Mississippi. Alaska plans a splendid fur exhibit for the Lewis and Clark exposition. W A Clarks lumber yards in Butte Montana burned. Passover begins April 19 and will be observed at Portland Jewish synagogue. Port Arthur captured mines used to threaten Russian fleet. Odessa Jews flee Russia fearing Easter massacres. Portland election sees 100 declarations of candidacy for mayor and nine petitions filed. Italian government seeks Pierpont Morgan for return of Ascoli cape stolen from Agcola cathedral. Jeanie Kintop found murdered near Kettle Lake Minnesota with evidence of rape. searchers vow to catch perpetrators.
Major Langfitt, Portland government engineer, says Celilo Canal work should start within weeks once right of way corrections reach Washington. Total project cost about 4 million dollars with 230000 allocated for headwater rock wall and a gate. Eight mile canal, contracts pending right of way approval. Snake and Columbia river work pending funds. Also notes Three Mile rapids contract near half finished and Miss Hannah Scheuerle drowns in Riteville in a despondent act.
Conrad Platzoeder, active in Pendleton since 1899, sells his meat businesses to Pendleton Meat Company which now runs the Umatilla meat market at Court and Johnston and will take Farmers' market next Wednesday. The Pendleton firm, with experienced butchers and stockmen, plans to raise cattle and serve the public with fresh meat at moderate cost. Farmers' market moves across the street to the Miller Grocery site and opens in a few days after a brief transition.
At the Prager theater last night the Dreniel and Trumilten vaudeville troupe gave a fret performance marked by strong balance acts and gymnastic stunts. The show ran short due to a faltering moving picture machine that was expected daily.
The performance, a continuous vaudeville act, will be repeated tonight with a changed program. Due to limited advertising, a very small audience attended last night’s show.
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