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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1905
Page
8
A fragmentary passage describes a woman loading a contraption named Excerpta Coffee Pot with a brown substance labeled Mothers Pride. She contemplates whether the nectar is coffee and questions if a fairy tale drink could be hers, ending with archaic exclamations.
The report recounts a violent alleged assault by Jim White on Abraham Lamb on Cottonwood street and the ensuing legal concern over liquor sales to Indians, with officials planning prosecutions. It also details the Furnish Warehouse wool baling season with record production, worker counts, and foreman appreciation, plus Pendleton Academy outreach and a police court drunkenness ruling.
Drunken Indians and other prisoners are searched upon confinement. General finds include a knife and a pint bottle for most, while one inmate proved better stocked with two pocket knives a fish hook a corkscrew and a quart bottle of whiskey.
The season of the nuisance is at hand as housewives battle persistent insects. Fly paper and insect powders are recommended for swift relief, with tempting sticky papers and poison variants sold as sure destruction to any insect.
The article reports on Wells resignation and the uncertain vacancy, noting Mayor Matlock’s hesitation to appoint a temporary member due to short term and potential influence from the saloon fight factions. Four old and four new council seats will exist after the next election, making the mayor the pivotal power in guiding policy.
A historic note on James Watt and steam power leads to a modern claim about a dandruff germ. Newhro's Herpleide is advertised as destroying the germ causing hair loss and restoring hair. Detroit agents Koeppen and Bron promote samples.
A vintage notice urges youth to open bank accounts with the institution to build habit and trust. It highlights 4 percent interest compounded semi annually and promises personal investment in teaching prudent savings. The fragment ends with a hopeful note about outcomes for savers and families.
At a school board meeting last evening the resignations of Mixes Pearl Wills and Mine Anna Lingcenfelter as teachers for the coming year were read and accepted. No replacements named yet but will be chosen before the opening of school. The board also discussed progress on the new school buildings, noting completion is unlikely by August 20 and urging contractors to finish promptly for the school opening.
Joe Williams, an Indian with prior offenses, was brought from Athena by special constable Louis Keene for allegedly stealing a saddle horse from a rack in Athena and turning the horse loose. Williams was captured and held for district attorney action amid motives tied to repeated similar thefts from both whites and Indians.
Three typical hobos, two white and one colored, wandered into the company depot in the city today. They claim to be 13 and have been traveling for two years, riding on top of passenger couches and cashing a colored cashier’s coins while a white boy fetched meals. They say they are touring the Pacific coast and have recently returned from Europe. Mrs. E. Baum and daughter Sadie return from Hamburg to New York on August 20, plan brief visits to New York and Milwaukee before Pendleton, and aim to reach home before school opens. Work starts noon on the Payette Idaho beet sugar factory as railroad siding is installed and contracts for next year’s crop are arranged.
Master mechanics from all railroads plan a protest to the state board of forest commissioners against enforcing a June to October spark arresters rule requiring three mesh arresters on locomotives. Railroads argue coal dust and small mesh would choke stacks and halt steam. Pacific Coast Co and Columbia Puget Sound routes back a challenge while opponents warn of train disruption and court resistance.
Bishop C J O'Reilly of Baker City will conduct special services at St Joseph's Academy tomorrow at nine o'clock. He arrived today on the delayed R N train and stays with Father Trivollli of St Mary's church. Pendleton residents discuss a Portland poisoning incident involving Mrs Kne par Van Dran, with investigators unsure of the perpetrator. Authorities suspect Joe Young, a saloon keeper who once tried to harm Kaspar Van Dran, though the poisoner remains unidentified.
Sam Kidwell and his father Josh of Seneca Mo visit cousin A L Box two miles west of town and plan to move to Oregon if a good place is found. Josh Kidwell is brother of James Kidwell, a Walla Walla stockman, who will visit soon. The Kidwells are farmers in Indian Territory near Missouri and seek a Umatilla county site. Frank Cameron, bartender at Westfall Malheur County, was killed Sunday night by Town Marshal Carry after a saloon disturbance. Pendleton reports record feed shipments as mills and feed stores operate at full capacity to meet high demand for baled hay, chop, and bran across the county.
A daughter was born on July 26 at High River to Mr and Mrs M A Peagie. A baby girl named Wan Born was welcomed. Another birth reports a daughter born to Dr and Mrs T M Henderson.
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