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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1912
Page
3
Spokane residents debate whether Spokane should be spoken with a long A or short A after Indian authority Edward S Curtis declared the A should be long. Locals resist, calling outsiders tenderfeet, while ortho graphers push for the long form. A arbitration board is suggested to settle the quarrel.
The federal council of churches in Chicago heard about an Indian village with 262 inhabitants and 6 percent professed Christians. Only twenty church members supported three churches while 48 Christians were not church members, distributed among nine denominations. A young man was mentioned.
Secretary Stimson told the National Rivers and Harbors congress that free granting of valuable water rights to private industries should end and that taxpayers must share in the benefits. President-elect Poin dexter scheduled to speak this afternoon.
The case, used as a typical example, notes that under two years of maze belonged to any of the three churches. It reflects church conditions in many small towns and aligns with reports from state federations seeking remedies for such conditions.
Stockton Calif December 6 Fully 50 000 sacks of onions grown in San Joaquin county will be discarded into the river this year due to low prices. Rowers and commission men defend the action citing heavy yield and many culls. Growers are offered 10 to 60 cents per sack depending on quality. They say it costs 10 cents a sack to dig and the crop loses money at 80 cents once rent and production are charged. Only calls or unmarketable portions are being dumped.
Between 30 and 50 carloads of potatoes per day are being dug in the island district. Tubers are quoted at from 40 to 80 cents per sack according to quality. Growers declare that thousands of acres of spuds will not be dug.
Mrs. Peary Asher, nee Moore, files for divorce in Malheur county circuit court accusing Huston Asher of cruel and inhuman treatment. She alleges he planned to trade her to Manuel Smith to take her husband’s position, a move that led to her decision to leave. Married August 9 1911 in Ontario Oregon, she remains there.
Spokane, Wash. Dec. 6. Of 60 students in the mid winter graduating class at Lewis & Clark high school, 43 plan to attend college. Washington State College and the University of Washington will draw many, with one headed to Oxford, England, and others to colleges in the east and west. The old trend toward law and medicine has shifted. seven will study agriculture, five engineering, one medicine and one law.
Seattle December 6 Federal Marshal Majoby began an inquiry into the shooting of Henry Hooker a nonunion laborer at the Renton coal mines Booker was struck by a bullet that pierced his hotel room wall.
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