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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1905
Page
2
The Golden Rule Store advertises school shoes as shelves are stocked for the upcoming school season. Advertises early buying with prices claimed to be lower than ever, featuring kid laced styles with leather counters and extension soles in various sizes and lines.
Stanford scientist warns Popocatepetl could erupt within two years while the American Bar Association backs federal supervision of insurance. A Hickory Run couple report 33 children from 18 years of marriage, a Japanese hospital transport sinks after collision with a British steamer, and a bank employee fugitive in South America faces a large fraud. Legal actions involve J.T. Morrison’s estate and Lancaster damages. Pine and timber sales on White Earth Reservation delayed, Royal Arcanum turmoil eyed, carpenters gain wage raises, and swindler Frank Punchon released. Wishhoff serial marriages plus a New York dentin arrest are noted amid a Mulberry Hill naphtha disaster.
Qhelin Wisconsin votes 7000 bonds for a new school house while Palouse reports amber winter wheat failure. Stevensville Montana suffers near total business district fire. $100000 loss with low insurance. Astoria and Clatsop County populations rise about 25 percent since 1900. W. A. conference to meet at Sea Side September 6 to 12 with many young women expected. A Benton Montana tragedy as 7 year old Herbert Lewis killed by shotgun blast from brother. Columbia River Methodist conference has 150 churches. four new mining-camp churches formed but later abandoned. Great liner MinnesotA tonnage reaches Yokohama ahead of schedule. Washington hardware dealers form Dever Mutual Fire Insurance Association of Washington in Davenport. Davenport area rail line rehabilitated. new warehouse and wheat storage planned. 50,000 season wheat output projected. Bellingham plants estimated at 289,700 casks.
The notice describes 200 acres of level land offered under fortigation with alfaifa, suitable for farming and orchard development. It notes good conditions and an improved Weil orchard and town site with road access, indicating a land package for sale or development. Local land office references and site details are implied.
H A Faxon deputy sheriff and former Republican sheriff candidate buys the Dave Wright place two miles south of Pilot Rock. He recently sold his Mackay Creek property to Leslie M Spicer whose death occurred in Portland. The new farm will be cultivated to about 109 acres more than currently farmed. Purchase from Knotts brothers at 10 dollars per acre includes a house a good well and a barn.
About 200 harvest workers will lose jobs by next Thursday as twelve crews finish northern and eastern parts of Umatilla County. The season ends within ten days on the reservation, with machinery moved to storage for winter. Several crews finished yesterday north of the city, including Perkins Brothers and Nelson and Halley, while others wrap up over the next days. Local crews across Missouri Gulch and Pilot Rock areas complete heading and threshing duties, with final runs expected by early next week. The county marks what may be the most successful harvest in its history, ending without interruptions as trucks move grain to warehouses. The article also rebuts a rumor of a robbery tied to Pilot Rock residents, clarifying no such person lives there. See Withee for engines and pumps.
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