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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1907
Page
2
A $1,000,000 gift to establish a fund for rudimentary schools for southern Negroes was announced in Philadelphia. The donor is Miss Anna T. Jeanes, a Quaker from Philadelphia.
For sale 460 acres adjoining city units Pendleton 260 acres in wheat will cut two ton per acre price including crop 12000 easy terms water on every quarter. Also stock ranches in Cames Prairie for sale a hotel at Pilot Rock cheap wheat land in large or small trades suburban homes with fine orchards E T Wade
A Portland man believed to be Frank Howard dies near Chehalis Washington after falling from a road. Hubbard-Billott buys Ellamar copper mines in Prince Edward Sound for 1 million dollars from Ellamar Mining Seattle. Andrew Johnson of Yoncalla Oregon robbed on a train near Grant Pass of 1200 check and 1 dollar sixty cents. Rev E M Hill, formerly Baker City pastor, heads to Portland to join Taylor Street Methodist Church. John Jacobson of Astoria, 43, commits suicide at St Marys Hospital by leaping from a window. County Attorney James E Murray orders Butte sheriff to close slot machines as gambling wanes with new city leadership. Pocatello mayoral race shifts to wine rooms and slots, but new police chief McManus keeps town closed. C Herbert Moore wins Spokane Republican mayoral nomination by 3345 to 2116. Floyd L Daggett nominated Democrat without opposition. Kennewick freight wreck destroys lumber and injures four. three identified as George Gray, John Geyard, William Clark. fourth remains unknown. Southern Pacific seeks land near Eugene for car shops and terminal, aiming to make Eugene a division point for Kla math extension and main line.
Daniel Meehan 60, a noted miner from this section, was electrocuted at 4 pm Saturday in the Dewey tunnel a branch of the Trade Dollar mine at De Lamar. He touched a live 460 volt wire while passing a pipe through a rise and could not release it. Help arrived within five minutes but he was dead. He leaves a wife and five children in Indianapolis.
Co captain Winslow reports $126 000 appropriation by Washington will fund Snake river improvement between Riparia and the mouth under U S engineers. Low water expected to aid the season and maximize results, scows to remove rock obstructions from Riparia to the mouth. Dredge Wallowa may operate from June if federal approval is secured. Norris Row circus expands to 45 cars, three sections of 16, Pendleton show May 9.
G and Roddy with a 20 man crew arrive in town to promote a May 8 circus. The Norris and Rowe advertising car displays a full bill posting plant and special excursions will run to draw crowds. An Excur sion Car No 2 and a force of men focus on promotions as railroad and contracting agents have visited.
The article critiques Wilbur’s claims on the Quimby manuscript tradition connected to Mrs. Eddy and Phineas P. Quimby, questions the authenticity of a magazine facsimile, and notes Clarence T. Schoeberlein’s suicide at 22 in Medford Oregon. It also reports on an Earth American Inter-Colonial railroad traffic investigation revealing thousands of government freight cars on United States lines and the effort to recover them.
Women as well as men suffer kidney and bladder trouble says an old advertisement for Swamp-Root. The remedy claims to ease urinary symptoms and improve vigor, offering sample bottles and a pamphlet from Dr. Kilmer & Co. of Binghamton New York.
A pharmacy proclaims strict adherence to prescribed ingredients and exact compounding. It assures pure drugs, timely prescription fulfillment, and reasonable charges, contrasting with careless rivals.
A liberal supply of pure beer and soda waters is promoted for home use as a tonic for the sick and convalescent. The ad touts scientific brewing with pure water, malt, and hops and offers two dozen bottles delivered to your house for $1.00.
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