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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1912
Page
8
The speaker critiques private price fixing and trusts, arguing for laws to restore competition and curb moneyed power. He warns that vast confederacies of banks and corporations threaten free enterprise yet can be checked by targeted civil and criminal laws. He urges a new, unentangled government and a campaign driven by the people's cause.
Newsy Notes reports Alex Manning, a police officer, improving at Lehman Springs after rheumatism. A stolen bicycle with Portland plates and two missing spokes prompts searches. Roy Temple buys a new Indian motorcycle from Lester Cronin at the Umatilla agency. John Van Orsdal predicts 50 bushels per acre on his Portland-area ranch. Pendleton depot adds a gong for trains, while FE L Bush from Hay Creek requests Ring-up dates for the Round-up. Mrs. Blakeslee travels to Portland and then Los Angeles for health and family.
Ed Conway was jailed for three days for drunkenness and five days for vagrancy after a police court arrest. William Jones, identified as Indian, also received a customary three day sentence in the same docket.
George Kemp allegedly stole a motorcycle and sold it to Wware Houseman in Cayuse. McDevitt identified himself as owner after officers questioned him and found the claim true. Umatilla Morrow county fair president G L Hurd notes state premiums funded by $2000 payment aim to boost exhibits and a new pavilion for next year.
The governor in Sea Girt discusses tariff revision and a tariff for revenue, urging gradual changes rather than abrupt action to avoid disturbing business. He addresses labor issues, Roosevelt criticisms, and the Republican split, while directing his campaign and receiving steady contributions from supporters, including small and large checks.
The governor and Mrs Wilson host a Beverly Oyster Bay reception for the notice committee and friends. A feature was the inauguration of Wilson Old Home Day by neighbors to raise Sea Girl public notice. Jersey guests camped near the Little White House and praised the governor, aiming to extend praise to Sea Girt and boost his campaign backing.
A Pendleton man killed an older man after a pursuit in a tent. The youth admitted the shooting claiming fear the man would harm him or take something. The victim, described as large with a heavy white beard, had spent much of the summer in Portland and Pendleton with relatives.
O D Teel appeared before the Umatilla county court to begin steps toward forming a public irrigation district under a new law. The plan uses Camas creek water to tunnel through the mountains and release into Butter creek, potentially irrigating 246000 acres along 35 miles, with limited existing cultivation but potential crop gains. Each landowner would have one vote in elections for officers and directors.
Home Week in New Hampshire will feature Hoy Scots signaling from top of Jock Rimmon Oak Hill and a southern elevation near Manchester to relay messages across the state. Frank W. Rollins proposed the plan to Boy Scouts of Manchester to station troops on hilltops and use rockets and fires to transmit signals statewide.
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