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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1906
Page
8
Our old Court street location will be vacated and ready for new occupants on September 1 as we begin moving to our new Store on Main street Detwork. The old floor space measures 20 by 85 feet.
Police court heard 13 defendants with mixed charges from roughhouse at a noodle joint to public drunkenness. Several cases involved fights with Chinese and Irish patrons, a laundry assault, and a judge criticizing a man who insulted a passerby woman. Damages sought total 2100 dollars in a separate irrigation company dispute filed by three plaintiffs against Bruneau Land & Irrigation promoters. Injunctions issued against company leaders B. F. Olden T. B. Long and M. Wickham.
In district court an injunction suit targets Bruneau Land and Irrigation Co over a major land fraud claim. Plaintiffs Ira Sellenberger J E Clos and N V Newman, residents of Ransom Kansas, allege fraudulent representations led to their losses, with attorney Frank Martin presenting the complaint.
Pendleton and Umatilla county await the government good roads train to build a mile of model road near Salem. The object lesson road near the fair grounds progresses rapidly with the first two layers of rock laid for over 1200 feet. Farmers commend the permanence of the method as it undergoes tests across climates. George Lingentelier of Milton brings a large musk melons load to Salem, underscoring irrigation successes and a growing melon trade.
Mise Ela Willis of the Peoples Warehouse has returned from an extended visit to the central and eastern states. She traveled to Denver St Paul Minneapolis and Milwaukee enjoying a delightful trip. She has been away about three weeks. The weather was very warm across the central states and the Pacific coast.
About a hundred Pendleton residents who had camped in the Blue Mountains arrived home this afternoon on a delayed train. Weather was cool on the run since the rain, and many were permanently abandoned. The hot weather of the 1980s now seems over, and most remaining in the mountains will reach home within a week or 16 days.
An ao remit of the railroad blockade left several scores of travelers stranded in Pendleton last evening and today as washouts at North Fork halted trains. The company funded living expenses for those cared for, listing passengers including P. L. Krase Payetta John Hall W. L. Evans Portland Sophia Keck Mrs Verna Poole and children Nopert Boyle George W. Eyre Dayton Charles Louvelle Dayton Forest Reeder Ft Louis M. E. Titan Mabel Titus Mrs L. M. Foster Sparta Wash Anna Davis Portland Lawrences Hillsboro Velma Roadman Jesse Stubbs Leavenworth Kan J. A. Randolph Arotin Wash D A Bandy Walser R. M. Breton W. E. Burke J. M. Bearly Portland John Gary Ora Gary Katharine McFarland Eva McFarland Home Mollie Hale Janeaboro Mrs S A Ranger Dayton Anna Rose Oda Springs Orpha Dyer Covington J F Alexander and wife Colorado Surinnees Helen V Dyer Covington US Reeds Ida Wells Cleveland Mr Mrs AL M Stoddard Portland J H W Childers Elgin F L Wagner Springfield Ore Phillip Constantine Spokane HH M Roade Washington DC EB W Leser and D C HM Odebott Iowa James Holland Lewiston F T Stanfield Cheyenne Milburn Bishop Hermann Wall Denver F Countryman Milton.
Several hundred trunks grips and salt cases stored in baggage rooms at the O R & N depot after a washout at North Fork. One carload of baggage from No 2 was moved here last night and baggage from Spokane over the Blue Mountains had collected today. No baggage was transferred at the washout, only mail and passengers.
After considerable searching the Athena school board has selected Mr. Perryman as principal for the coming year. Perryman has taught in Washington state recently. Other staff include Ottimer Chnnon, Mrs. Amy McDaniels, Miss Mabel Gibbons, Miss Carrie Sharp, and Miss Tillie Bisenger.
Alfred Murray of Indian was jailed today on a removal charge for taking liquor on the reservation and drunkenness. He resisted arrest and threatened to use a shotgun, signaling a possible double charge when his case goes to court. The Hacnelora club members returned from Hideaway Springs after a two week encampment.
Athena Mayor Pramondon appoints citizens to attend the National Irrigation Congress in Boise on September 4. Delegates include Representative C. A. Barrett Fred Boyd T. J. Kirk M. L. Watts and A. B. McEwen.
An advertisement touts Hostetter's Stomach Bitters claiming it has cured hundreds of stomach, liver, and bowel troubles over the past years. It urges readers to try a single bottle as a remedy for their own ailments.
An 19th century style advertisement touts Hostetter's to prevent and relieve cramps diarrhea bile cramps and various ailments including biliousness heartburn costiveness dyspepsia indigestion female troubles and malaria with tonic language and broad health claims.
Samuel Hough died at his Prairie City family home, Grant County, aged 79 years and 20 days. Born Prescott Canada July 12 1833, he served 11th Infantry and was discharged September 15 1866 near Fort Leavenworth. He lived in Hamilton County Iowa from 1868, moved to Grant County in 1870, and spent the last 26 years in Prairie City. Survived by wife Catherine Ann Manwarring and ten children, including Hattie Holdren, Amy Oaks, and Samuel Hough of Bellevue Washington.
Viola Ferry and Milton Hough of Prairie City are mentioned in an obituary fragment. Besides his wife and children, two brothers and one sister survive him.
Teaurhely Jim Beardaly barely escaped a waterspout that struck the dry canyon above North Fork. His creek camp near the Wilbur water tank was flooded, provisions swept away, and he fled to higher ground. A hunting party including J W Maloney M A Rader Charles Brown Wayne Maloney and Donald Rader plans to reach the John Stray river headwaters tomorrow, traveling through the resort area in the south county for two weeks of hunting. Meanwhile, Toronto carpenters strike for 26 an hour and union recognition, halting work nationwide.
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