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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1906
Page
4
A narrator recalls a philosopher who doubted a magician from the East. After a transformative encounter, the philosopher abandons scorn and embraces unity. The piece argues the East has enlightened the West, spurring irrigation, harbor, and commerce projects that unite the nation as one.
The Oregon land fraud saga unfolds as rancher T A Puttam testifies in the Hendricks trial in Portland. He details failed appeals to officials from Hall to Hitchcock, exposing a system of public land fencing by the Butte Creek company and a broad official conspiracy, then credits Hitchcock for uncovering the fraud and pursuing action.
The East Oregonian reports the county treasury has 65,326.79 in hand with no bank bid for depository services. Funds lie idle and the treasurer’s salary is paid from county expenses. The paper argues for earning interest at 3 to 4 percent, suggesting private business efficiency should govern county finances.
A reflection on cities valuing money over morality, praising invisible resources of character. The piece contrasts frontier towns eradicating gambling with a broader call to preserve virtue, hope, and peace, noting the comforting power of home and hearth across distant places.
The article recounts Hawaii importing three species of fish known as “Hi fish” from near Galveston, Texas to eat mosquitoes. About 450 fish were released in Honolulu in September, with three batches in different ponds and a fourth kept in captivity, aiming to eradicate pests. Authorities anticipate widespread stocking will eliminate mosquitoes in ponds and lakes across the Hawaiian Islands within years, aided by petroleum treatments where needed.
Oregon residents report women in Penton county join husbands and brothers in haying tasks. Aware of scarce men, women operate hay rakes forks and drive teams, loading hay and hauling. An OFALC graduate teacher from Heaton county drives a hog fork. Some men in town refuse work and fair wages.
Mrs John Bailey Miller owner of Saddlebrook farm and the old Jefferson estate in Hokokus New Jersey declares she will burn her priceless furniture bric a brac and pictures if a 15000 mortgage on the property is foreclosed by the Jefferson estate executors She notes a $25000 offer for the furniture and says removal to a field for destruction is her choice to avoid paying debts despite long collecting 15 years of treasures and family ties to Helen M Gould and Jay Gould.
The tribute notes tobacco as a friend to call up peace and consolation for workers in mines and forests, to ease the minds of those who labor and think, and to accompany the prisoners and exiles in their weariness. It celebrates tobacco as a companion to toil and thought.
Strickland W. Gillilan poem fragment speaks of tolled toil and distant sounds by the harbor. The speaker urges a kept laugh in the heart to sustain voice despite deaf accents and moans, contrasting sighs with the bell of laughter.
Mariners reported stretches of blood colored water at the north end of Vancouver Island and about 30 miles north, seen by the Celestial Empire crew who warned natives and faced superstition. Theories point to tiny organisms seeping into the sea turning the surface red.
Fragmented phrases mention Cosornium Bonthe Sewers in rivers Hilboards Mella Moequitons Pune and various vague groups. The text contains odd garbles and references to reformers automobilists and a “popular young man” who flirts with compliments in a slot plus mentions of a Farmers’ Magazine and generic social observations.
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