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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1901
Page
3
The article describes a large irrigation and water transport project with reservoirs totaling 41 800 000 gallons capacity and a 77 000 000 gallon combined capacity, plus details on school facilities at Bishop Scott Academy and La Grande, with management changes at a local team. It ends with a testimonial for Electric Bitters as a health tonic.
A garbled OCR fragment lists numbers and color terms in a scattered sequence. The readable bits include references to counts such as 5 and 75x and color descriptors like White or colored, but no coherent event or action emerges.
Within a week three young men holding public office have absconded. Ex County Treasurer Whittlesey, a Seattle business figure, is found to be short about 27 808 dollars for the first term and likely more for the second term. Medical ads and patent remedies fill the remainder of the piece with unrelated notices.
Frank P. Wellman a cattle rancher from the San Jacinto Mountains Calif was killed by his wife Clara A Weil in self defence according to the coroner verdict The incident describes threats and a fatal shot to the heart as he reportedly threatened to harm her and their child Mia Chas Applegate of Alexandria Minn reports a consumption cure by Dr Kings Now Discover while local ads promote groceries a bakery and a cattle sale listing hundreds of cattle and terms of sale with half cash and one year balance
City council notes grading and paving of Main Street with crushed rock completed at costs well below bids. Total for 4220 feet came to 2677.65 with lower per front foot rates on several sections. The work, supervised by C A Barrett, is praised for efficiency and saving dollars, with a future levy and clay coating planned. The new Baer & Daley store opens at 72 Main Street, offering a full clothing line in a renovated, well lit space.
In Bingham Springs Aug 9 report, two visitors Jack Beckwith and Charles Marsh camp above Fletcher's mountain and try to boil beans for days at high altitude. Beans remain hard as bullets until returning to hotel where reminder that high altitude increases water boil point leads to better cooking. Arrivals listed from Portland Walla Walla and Chicago locales.
About 300 people stay at Lehman Springs with more arriving daily. Bear dogs reach camp as locals joke about freed meat. Visitors include La Grande and Heppner locals, and a 40-person party from La Grande is expected next Saturday. Fred Hartman leads bowling with 56, Evelyn Starkweather tops women’s with a high score, and Margaret Donavey plans season at the Springs. A Monday horse race entertained campers, enriching a sheepherder’s pockets with a quick roping of a cayuse.
Baer and Daley establish a new Pendleton firm with Max Baer and J W Daley as partners. Baer brings 14 years in Pendleton retailing and Daley with extensive clothing experience across 25 years. They recently returned from New York with new stock and plans to begin business promptly.
Three of the new freight locomotives arrive for operation at La Grande shops with others on the way. The engines are designed to haul heavy ore trains on the upgraded main line in Oregon, where track is laid with 80 and 100 pound steel to cut transportation costs.
Athena Oregon reports farmers jubilant over this year’s returns with two top yields. Brown Hodgen averaged 57 bushels per acre and 62 pounds per bushel, while W E Potts harvested 101 acres at 5 bushels per acre. Local notes include arrivals, visits, and a theft case involving A J Davis.
At a public meeting the Athena city council heard a communication from Mrs D A Richards administrator of the late D A Richards estate. She plans to erect a brick library building on Main and Fifth streets and donate books to the city. The building would serve as a public reading room and library named Darwin A Richards Memorial Library.
KE L Smith returns from a countywide combine harvester inspection covering Adams to Wallala and Cold Spring to Juniper country. He notes grain yield around 40 bushels per acre and praises WL & OC railroad area wheat. Advertising mentions Chamberlain remedy and One Minute Cough Cure with local sales outlets.
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