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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1911
Page
9
Sioux Falls reports a planned large roundup in the Bad Lands region where hundreds of homesteaders and small ranchers will hunt wolves and coyotes. The aim is annihilation or removal as stock losses have risen. roundup methods mimic past cattle drives with mounted hunters and wolfhounds over a wide area.
Governor West says the governors' special cost a few thousand dollars and delivered at least a million dollars in advertising for western states. The trip drew massive crowds at stops, with officials welcoming the governors and local papers producing special editions. The tour promoted settlement protection under the Carey act and the organization of western governors to push western interests.
Mayor elect Joseph Cauffiel nominates Rev William Alfred Shipman retired Lutheran minister as chief of police declaring the city needs a leader who will clean up the town in a rational practical way. Shipman has criticized police methods toward delinquents and has sociological experience in the area. The mayor pledged no grafter or politician on the force.
A Georgia railroad passenger train leaving Macon at dawn misrouted onto the Savannah track due to a switch error. The engineer stopped ten miles past the junction, avoiding a head on collision with a second train. The trip resumed to Augusta about one hour late.
In Paducah Kentucky two women were seen removing chrysanthemums from a vase at Grace Episcopal church altar between services. Citizens later reported the flowers missing. Separately, someone entered the church and drank all the communion wine.
Ohio mother Mrs. Arthur Vandersall of Kenmore bore ten children in nine years, including a triplet pair of girls and a boy. One triplet reportedly arrived with a tooth. The trio are said to be healthy as Mrs. Vander sall previously delivered twins a year earlier.
In Eugene, a young man killed by a freight train Sunday morning was identified as Bert Boyd, 24, an escaped convict from Salem penitentiary. Authorities matched tattoo details to Boyd, who fled Saturday night with fellow escapee Charles Fox. Boyd had relatives in Peoria, Illinois.
The Vienna ruler Franz Josef is said to be dying with the end momentarily expected after a relapse last night. Police seized and burned newspapers publishing pessimistic condition reports. In Denver, snow covers the Midwest and mountains with heavy livestock losses from the recent storm and continued zero temperatures.
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