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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1904
Page
2
Campers depart summer mountain resorts in large numbers though camps stay open for a month. Lehman Springs stages and Meacham trains bring in returning visitors. Rainy season nears with early September showers, cooler nights, and less oppressive days. A Salem undertaker advertises half rates for hearses and funeral services during the dull season.
Voluntary observer H. F. Johnson reports cooler nights and pleasant autumn days in Pendleton with an uneventful week of routine data. No significant storms or extremes noted. conditions stable and typical for season.
Philip Doane and John Louie, two full blooded Indian men, disguised themselves as Japanese patrons in a local Ivy saloon last night. They were picked up by Officer Miles after they were seen loudly intoxicated.
The three Coeur d Alene reservation graduates were found by an officer with a schooner of beer each and loud predictions of Port Arthur falling to the Japs. They wore patent leather shoes, small Japanese caps and Chickies. one carried a Young Detective novel and the others two pint bottles of bad whisky.
Sheriff Shutt killed four head of horses infected with mange in Morrow County last Saturday to curb a contagious outbreak. Complaints grew as diseased animals ranged near Heppner, prompting the state veterinarian to take decisive action to eradicate the disease even if it requires killing all afflicted horses under the law.
Julius Stunkle was fined $5 in the justice court for slapping a boy named Denning who had accused him of lying. The incident occurred in a harvest field near town yesterday afternoon after a dispute over truthfulness. Stunkle pleaded guilty to assault and battery.
Dysentery is prevalent among Japanese section hands employed by O R & N at Umatilla, with many sent to Portland hospitals. Dr Cole cites climate change and poor water as causes, noting workers recently at Baker City had better water and cooler weather while Umatilla had hot weather and bad drinking water.
City Attorney Charles H. Carter returned from a three weeks hunting and fishing trip on Klickitat river in the Mount Adams country. I never found better fishing than I did this summer. Game too is plentiful. Carter was accompanied by Dan P. and Gus Smythe.
Father Boschi from Pendleton arrived in The Dalles on Tuesday to officiate for Father Demarais during a six week vacation necessitated by health reasons.
Livestock Inspector M S Lantz shares Dr. Hickok's interpretation that all sheep must be dipped before entering Nebraska, with an exception limited to Garrison Reynolds and Hunter Stephens shipments. The two consignments, totaling 26 000 sheep, must dip upon arrival under federal supervision.
Oregon school law requires boards and teachers to file contracts with the county superintendent detailing wages months to be taught and school start date. In Omatilla county the rule is not being followed. only three teachers have filed with Superintendent Welles though many schools open within two weeks. Welles notes lack of proper blanks as a reason and stresses the law must be observed.
Blachley and Greeley, jailed for nearly a week on robbery charges concerning Nixon, were released after Nixon disappeared. The purse Nixon reported missing was found discarded, and police ordered the pair to leave town as authorities suspect witnesses may have been induced to flee by friends of the prisoners.
State Game Warden Baker has ordered O F Steele to halt further violations of game and fish laws in Eastern Oregon. In a letter received last night Bresleignett vowed to begin enforcement at once, with noon actions planned. Steele stated the laws are being broken daily and that he will bring the guilty to justice.
E W McComas received two female dachshunds as a promised gift from his friend Br W Eyre of San Francisco. Eyre, a member of Gervin Eyre grain dealers, had pledged about two years ago to present him with a purebred animal. McComas had nearly received the promised dogs.
The text notes two superior dogs with a name rooted in German terms for badger and dog, praised for intelligence and kindness. It also mentions H. J. Schultz, a Dickinson sheep buyer, arriving yesterday, planning to return at the end of September for yearling ewes and stockers, preferring a coarse animal.
William Bollons received word yesterday evening that his father John Bollons died yesterday afternoon in Bellevue Michigan at age 75 from complications of a hernia. He had suffered for two years and been bedridden for four months. He was an extraordinarily robust man aside from his ailment.
John H. Hawlstone, a young Adams farmer, reports tending 600 acres of grain this summer with an average yield of 40 bushels per acre. He notes most district crops yielded well, citing a July sown field frost impact but returns of 32 to 36 bushels per acre.
George Froome retires from business after forced vacancy of his livery stable for a new brick block. He will auction all stock harness buggies and related livery goods in front of the stable on Saturday September 7.
Charles French with his mother Mrs. C. G. French and Miss U Ren came home from Camp Darker near Meacham station. He reported they were among the last to leave after about two weeks there. More than 70 people camped there and the fishing hunting and weather were favorable and cool.
Visiting Dr. Blakeslee and Dr. Lana K Blakeslee are joined by Mrs Blakeslee and Harold of Los Angeles. They arrived this morning for a few days in the city then plan to visit Dr Blakeslee s parents in Union before returning to Los Angeles for the September 12 school opening.
The first anniversary of Blakey O'Reilly's accession to the Eastern Oregon diocese was celebrated in Baker City with an eight o'clock musical program at St Francis hall and short citizen addresses. Many congratulatory messages were received.
Dr. M. S. Lantz inspected in Heppner this morning to oversee dipping of 100 thoroughbred bucks headed to New Mexico. The dipping follows an order by George G. Hickox requiring all sheep, breeding or feeder stock, to be dipped once regardless of infection status.
Mrs E M Smith was tried in Weston yesterday on a charge of conducting a house of ill repute and fined 20 dollars. J T Hinkle of this city, attorney for the defendant, said the case will be appealed to the state circuit court. Defense evidence claimed she was running a laundry.
R N Stanfield Asa Thomson and J B Saylor disposed of 200 head of fat beef cattle to Frye Bruhn Co Seattle and Union Meat Co Portland at two dollars seventy six cents per hundred. The animals are ready for shipment.
Mr and Mrs T P Lund thank kind friends and neighbors for their kind assistance during the illness and death of their beloved aunt Mrs Flora E B Cartright.
The Christian church in this place has secured Rev. Victor Dorris of Georgetown Kentucky to conduct a later revival. Dorris is reputed as one of the wiser men in the Christian ministry in the United States.
The Baptist church will hold a Sunday School picnic on September 9 at the rederivation Picnic grounds. All friends are invited with free transportation in header wagons and hay racks and a good program provided.
Capital congregation voted to grant Rev. G L Hall two weeks off but the pastor declined the time away. He will continue regular church services as usual.
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