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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1905
Page
5
A cluttered page shows merchants touting Cleveland's Baking Powder and related domestic goods. Notices include rental listings, stage schedules, and travel promos with prices for excursions to Chicago, St Louis, and other cities, plus requests for customers to ask grocers for the product. Names such as F G Lucas and J K Smith appear alongside ads for shoes, furniture, and lodging.
Data lists weapon sale fines in multiple cities including Duluth Kansan City St Joseph Leavenworth Omaha Sioux City with amounts from 52.50 to 69.60. Dates shown August 34 and September 16 17. Mentions going limit 10 ways stopover in either direction and EB C Smith as agent for O R WN for particulars.
An agent for Pan-American Land & Colonization drew about 60 investors in a Jalisco Mexico farming project, taking sums including 1600 from Walla Walla area, with few certificates issued. Others doubt the venture. one investor reports loss and waning faith, while a separate fatal accident occurred at Heppner Junction involving a man named Thomas Davidson.
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Local items list D B Jarman of Athena visiting Pendleton tonight and others, including A Perard of Pilot Rock, A Pearson of Freewater, Prof R French of Weston, Nellie and May Stephens of Weston heading to Portland coast outing, and Delia Burton returning from Portland Long Beach. Also notes visits to Portland, Mil to n, and trips to the fall fair, with several families and others traveling to Portland, San Francisco, Ocean Park, and the Lewis and Clark fair.
Christopher Houser, 81, a longtime county resident from McKay Creek, died at his home yesterday from heat illness and age. He came to the county in 1884 from Illinois, survived by his wife who died nine years ago and seven children: Perry, Zoeth, Ethan, Mrs. Sam Walker, Mrs. A. J. Black, and Mrs. Mewenheimer, with two later deaths. Funeral is set for Pilot Rock tomorrow at 7:00 a.m.
Dr and Rose Rees return to Walla Walla after eight months abroad mostly in Europe aiming to practice dentistry in Spain for a while. The couple sought a year but the doctor found Spain’s conditions unsuitable for long stay, spending two and a half months at Gibraltar, a major fortress under a governor general and guarded by about 600 soldiers.
Seaward Sid�n is a densely settled area holding 25 000 residents with strict permit rules and red tape limiting residency. A Gibraltar–Spain buffer zone lies between rocky coast and mainland in a two mile wide strip. Middletown News reports sunk locomotive bids to rescue two engines from Pine Bush branch, where roadbed sank due to dry conditions. the line is out of service while a new track is built. Bones of mastodon reportedly found in early operations. summer visitors from New York are stranded by the pit requiring long detours.
A young man around 20 rented a steel rowboat, said he would bathe, returned with a small box, and an explosion occurred on Lake Coeur d Alene between 7 45 and 8. The boat wreckage and human remains were found downstream. Coroner Dr John Sabin and divers recovered a heart and hat fragment. identity remains unknown. Dynamite charges and wreckage washed ashore. authorities reported no known dynamite sales recently.
In Seattle, Federal Judge Hanford granted habeas corpus relief to Ernest Hutchinson, a trading stamp operator charged under a local stamp law. The court ruled the entire statute unconstitutional, holding Hutchinson unlawfully deprived of liberty and stating no one may be imprisoned under its provisions without violating the 14th Amendment.
Bishop Alexander Walters of the Afro American Council and Dr. William H. Steward issued a formal call for a conference to be held in Detroit on August 10. The notice was sent to bishops of Negro churches presidents of organizations and prominent churchmen and laymen urging action against recent race riots and to defend civil and political rights.
A State Senator from Lebanon inquired about the whereabouts of A. J. Dougherty after his daughter died there. Dougherty was reported to have last been in Walla Walla after visiting here weeks earlier. A farm hand, Mrs Edward May, allegedly sent to this country to work, is noted. A giant 675 pound loggerhead turtle found with a pearl barnacle valued at $500 was mentioned.
Victoria Aug 11 Dr W A P Martin reports China is modernizing its forces with a first class army and navy. A dedicated ministry of marine will use Japanese models and advisers. Tientsin will be the navy HQ with stations at Shanghai Chefu Hawking Chusan Tapeng and Mirs Bay. Existing forts at Tientsin and Nanking will be strengthened with six naval schools taught by Japanese and foreign instructors.
George W. Tinnahill of Lewiston arrives in Boise to file for a writ of habeas corpus in the circuit court of appeals on behalf of George Dick, an Omatiilla Indian imprisoned for introducing liquor on the Nez Perce reservation. He argues the lands are no longer under U S jurisdiction and that enforcing liquor laws on Indian lands is impossible, warning that a circuit ruling could lead to saloons and a county revenue gain of 25 000 dollars yearly in Alcentes.
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