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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1905
Page
2
Our line of men's and ladies shoes rivals school footwear in strength and price. The calfskin products boast light, soft materials, extension soles, and durable stitching touted to resist ripping, with descriptions of pliable kangaroo varieties and flexible sigeng stitches for lasting wear.
Western South America endures yellow fever as a Gentile Union bakers strike looms in solidarity with Jewish bakers. Valparaiso Chile reports five hundred and fifty deaths with at least seven noted. Plague cases appear in Taltal Chile as U.S. news notes a parolee ex-railroad figure Cole Younger promotes an electric railway from St. Louis to Kansas City. Warrants target four Denver Western Bank officials for deposits while insolvent. A wireless telegraph station rises on Mount Tamalpais to contact Hawaii. Four thousand of ten thousand International Structural and Bridge Workers strike against American Bridge Company. In Minneapolis a woman named Miss Mule Craneh dies after drinking sea water at a dance. Riverside College in California reportedly has a one million dollar endowment and potential investors eye expansion to rival Vassar and Wellsley. Fort Sheridan marks new army marksman records with George Spyer and Frank Baker achieving 892 and 59 hits. Fort Monterey ties with these scores as leading teams.
Moscow plans a $20,000 opera house as northern Idaho's finest. Forest fires rage on Jubilee mountain and near Nelson in Canada. A Juli aetta farmer yields 4712 bushels per acre from 80 acres of wheat. A Tacoma asylum patient died by self harm after welfare measures were removed. A Spokane mixed style title bout saw Gotch defeat McMillan in three straight falls. Walla Walla penitentiary produced grain bags sacks and burlap with 742 average monthly convicts. HarringtonWA votes on waterworks bond after a prior narrow April defeat.
Kansas surveyors estimate the year’s corn output around 276,000,000 bushels, about 3,000,000 more than the prior high. The 20 year average is 456,000, bushels, with late crop ripening needing two rains. Wheat acreage stands at 5,828,048 acres, similar to last year.
Dr N G Blalock and Charles Whitthey of the Lewis and Clark commission presented a financial report to Walla Walla county commissioners noting $2500 spent on the Portland exposition exhibit and $1500 of the $4000 appropriation unspent. They said $1600 remains and plans call for using nearly all of it to ensure a strong showing during Wallin Walla week and Walla Walla day.
Pendleton Oregon August 5 1905 notice is hereby given that the board of equalization of Umatilla county will meet at the office of the clerk on the last Monday in August to remain in session six days and publicly examine the assessment rolls correct errors in valuation description or qualities of land or other property all interested must appear if lands or property are assessed twice or under another name or beyond its value the board shall make proper corrections
I C Robnett, leading merchant of Central Point, reports the cheapest electric rates in the state. The company supplies West to Central Point, Medford, Gold Hill and Jacksonville from the Gold Dam power plant. Fourteen candle power lights cost 1 a month for five lights and 1.50 for ten lights, with 15 cents more per ten lights. The city pays 4.40 a month for sixteen 22-candlepower lights. Robnett, a former Linn county youth from Albany Democrat.
Publicis aroused to the curative merit of Electric Bitters for stomach and kidney troubles. Mary H Walters of Columbus Ohio writes she suffered fever and ague and sleepless nerves before using the remedy, then found relief and cure. price 50 cents at Tallman & Co. A note reports property destruction by lightning in Indiana this season.
The Weston Leader editorial laments the closure of the Eastern Oregon State Normal School, praising Weston residents for raising over eight thousand dollars and urging continued backing despite a four to one vote against the school. It notes hopes for revival or reallocation and calls on the public to press for the appropriation while condemning potential abandonment of Weston’s plant. Also reports timber fires in North Idaho and a 50 man crew fighting spread with optimism for quick containment.
Special Agent J M Munson of the State Land Board, visiting Boise, asserts fires devastating northern Idaho forests are incendiary and likely started by miners and prospectors. He notes much land is mineralized above timber and portions have been patented while others await patent, giving miners motive to burn for mineral wealth.
William W. Karr, clerk at the Smithsonian, faces a grand jury in September over an embezzlement scheme alleged to involve $46,000. Treasury experts trace a growing shortage as Karr is said to have covered tracks, with $400 government funds repaid by bondmen. The fund, run for the bureau of international exchanges under congressional direction, was nearly exhausted before year end.
The Presbyterian church will not hold a Sunday morning service on August 13, offering only Sunday school at 6:45. Evening activities include a young people meeting and a service preached by Rev Ry J Diven, with Mr Diven also preaching at the Flaptter church morning service. First Christian Church lists Sunday School at 9:45 a.m. and morning service at 11, with Miss Fraker singing. no evening service. Prayer meeting is set for Wednesday evening.
Sunday school starts at 10 a.m. with BH. BE. Coon in charge. At 11 a.m. Rev. J. B. Oliver from Dearborn, Michigan, and Detroit conference, will preach, possibly evening service. Oliver related to T. D. and F. M. Oliver of the city. Epworth League meets at 7 p.m. Evening service at 8 o’clock led by Robert Warner. M. BE Church South holds Sunday service at 11 a.m. led by LB. Barl with sermon on Poverty at the Gates of Wealth at 11 a.m. and again at 2 p.m.
Ig Com at Totse Henry Humphrey, noted as a premium Boise valley farmer, displayed growing corn from his ranch. He left several sample stalks with W. G. Messeramith, with stalks 12 feet long and ears on nearly every stalk. Observers compare the yields to Celdeny tt claiming 75 to 100 bushels per acre. Messeramith also showcased six foot tall sheaves near 100 bushels per acre, highlighting superior Idaho farming know how.
The Lehman Springs stage begins service Saturday June 20 and runs to October 1 carrying passengers from Lindsay's stable on Cottonwood Street to the mall. Data from the last three years shows June 9 1905 arrivals in New York from Europe at 1,032,994 with 423 deaths aboard.
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