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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1906
Page
8
A fragmented ad describes a final special on a three esprays of Mowers and a dainty pink decor set. It claims the finest English make with a former price of 810.15 and a removal price in a proportion, unclear due to garbled OCR.
After a 21 hour washout at North Fork the railroad through the mountains is opened and the first through eastbound No. 9 and westbound No. 5 passengers reached Pendleton by dawn. Lightning struck a MeKay creek ranch starting a 2 acre grass fire. Rural phones suffered outages. John Wry’s line got lightning protection. Threshers resume work as grain moisture allows, with little crop damage aside from potential smut in wet wheat.
Salvation Army officers announce start of fall and winter relief work. Request second-hand shoes or clothing via postal card to Box 743 Pendleton and offer to collect. They ask for referrals of alek poor or nerdy persons to receive aid. signed by HELLELETH and RUDEEN, Officers In Charge.
During a Saturday evening runaway between here and the agency two Indian women were badly shaken. One, the wife of Captain Lumpkis, chief of the Indian police, was thrown from the hack and her forehead and cheeks were torn. Dr T M Henderson attended her.
At a Wat evening meeting the school board contracted with W. C. Minnis to furnish wood and coal for the coming year. The wood purchase is 70 cords at 5.39 dollars per cord, finished and delivered, and 6 tons of coal at 6.94 dollars per ton.
A driver sustained a 64 stitch forehead wound described as resembling a railroad map of Tenols. Mrs Lumpkin remains in hospital recovering. The other occupant jumped clear of the train before it hit a wire fence.
A party returning from Bingham Springs reached Gibbon amid a late train due to a landslide. Hunger grew as they shared a makeshift meal in a nearby section house before the train finally arrived, leaving many with no food. Attendees included G. A. Hartman Jr and wife, Oliver P. Morton, Mr. Burford, Celestine Moorhoum, Lee Drake, John Hager, and W. H. Gray.
Umatilla County ships a heavy load of cattle and large wheat yields. A trio of steers totaling 4894 pounds, averaging 1410 pounds each, heads to Seattle's Frye Bruhn Co. The four-carload shipment includes 98 head with 7 from J. Cherry near Pilot Rock and 61 from Jomet Hawk and Frank Buckner. Nate Raines arranged the beef purchase for Frye Bruhn, transported by the W& SF tonight.
Otto Reiman, a Coombs Canyon farmer, recently purchased the first all steel thresher in Umpntilla County from Fred Weber on Court Street. The Coxe machine is marketed as fire resistant after Reiman lost two threshers to fire previously, prompting the purchase of an incombustible model.
The marriage of Noell Gabbert and Demaris Brown was announced for the evening at the bride’s parents home, Mr. and Mrs. W H Brown. Both are familiar in the community, with the groom a printer by trade and the couple having visited the city often.
Judge Burdett postponed the sentence of A J Gril for the murder of W S Penree to September 1, with a motion for a new trial to be heard on that date. Mee Pears, daughter of the Viet, is said to be an inmate of the Home of the Coot Shepherd in Portland. Read the East Oregonian.
A district fair commission plans a pavilion on vacant ground near the Kunkel implement store with a canvas over temporary framing. Headquarters move to Bowman building on Main Street with H C Willis as secretary overseeing exhibits including Umatilla County. funding via popular subscription aims to raise 4000 for expenses.
The grouse and deer hunting seasons begin tomorrow morning August 15 as many Pendleton sportsmen plan early departures to McKay Creek. A party including Jim Spence W A Brown W J Sewell and Will Hoch leaves tonight for morning grouse, while locals warn that young birds flood losses will likely keep grouse scarce this year. Nine hunter licenses were issued at the county clerk’s office today, bringing the annual total to 169.
August 1 contracts show A B Oine and S Bunningtern selling 40 000 pounds each to S FL Uhlmann of New York at 10 cents. McNote Crow also selling 60 000 pounds to the same buyers at the same price for the year’s crop.
An ad touts Dr. Pierce s Golden Medical Discovery as a forest plant based remedy that purifies blood aids digestion and liver function and relieves symptoms like coated tongue headaches and weak stomachs. It claims to cure indigestion biliousness and related disorders without alcohol or habit forming drugs and notes plain English ingredient lists while warning against substitutions.
On Sunday afternoon in Davenport Washington five well known residents Miss Winnie Jones aged 11 A Le Berget aged 37 Mia A L Berger 37 Roy Howard 28 and A L Inman 34 were drowned in the Spokane River twelve miles northeast of town during a rescue attempt after Ms Jones fell into a whirlpool. Mrs Berger attempted to help and also vanished with Mr Berger diving in after them, while Howard Pauline and Inman fought the current and disappeared. Pauline rode to raise alarm and police recovered Mrs Berger’s body. the others remained missing as explosives and efforts to raise them continued. All the news all the time in the East Oregonian.
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