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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1911
Page
3
Seated stoves, gas ranges, cookware and glassware listed for sale with a large stock of new and second hand goods. Fine pawn broker business with $1000 worth of unredeemed pledges outstanding, trunks, suitcases and blankets. Complete plumbing shop includes tools, machinery, fixtures for sale and leaseable building. Come in to see that they mean business.
Salem reports Supreme Court decision in J J Caviness v La Grande Irrigation Co with a modification by Chief Justice Eakin. The opinion questions riparian rights and access, stating the ownership and access rules for water use on non navigable streams may allow appropriation, threatening established riparian rights. Also filed: police seizure of counterfeiting paraphernalia in Portland tied to Yost Weatherby and possible Seattle link, with ties to the Duffy-Reagan gang.
To Portiana or California, take Northern Pacific via Pasco and 8 P. & Ry, leaves 1:30 p.m., arrives Portland 8:10 a.m. Lee W. Adams, agent at passenger station, for through tickets and all arrangements.
Victoria. Dr Frederick Starr of the University of Chicago reports discovery of Buddhist statues and carvings in a deserted subterranean temple on Corea's southeast coast. Fifty years after, he brings 40 negatives supporting theories of Buddhist influence in Yucatan and southern Mexico and links the origin of Nara and Kamakura Buddhists to monks from this temple.
Train schedule note shows Northern Pacific departure at 1 30 p m toward Bendokane with arrival at 9 55 p m Tickets can be obtained from W Adams Agent Pendleton.
The steamship Willesden from Honolulu reported a strange vessel 200 miles off Cape Flattery on Christmas Eve. The unknown ship ignored signals, forced a course change, and was eventually lost to view. whether it was a phantom or a real distressed steamer remains unresolved.
Freewater instructor Dre J Chapman and Miss Rather L Walline married Tuesday by Rev C Co Kimball at the Methodist parsonage in Walla Walla. Chapman a prominent rancher and educator teaches in the Copeland district in Watt Walla county. Mrs Chapman recently came from Cambridge Maine and is a teacher.
Theodore Roosevelt said he plays no part in New York politics and has not been asked to support any governor candidate next year. He announced during a trip to Portland Tacoma and Seattle that he is not in politics. Earlier he held a hour conference with Darwin P. James Jr. of the Young Republican Club of Brooklyn.
Advertisement for Dr Kings New Life Pills urging immediate use at first signs of constipation billousness or inactive bowels to prevent indigestion jaundice or gall stones. Claims pills regulate liver stomach bowels and boost health with a 26 cent price at Koeppens.
Salem Ore Replying to a Stanfield school officer W T Reeves State Superintendent Alderman declined to pursue a statewide petition from school children asking President Taft to influence the Oregon to lead the Paniumea canal procession. He says Taft has shown willingness if reelected and the move should wait until after the election.
Mrs Kate Sterling 64 a Maryland native filed as Seattle city council candidate She has taught school a quarter century holds a life teaching certificate eligible in any state She is Seattle’s first woman to file for office and aims for one of three year terms at the general election on Tuesday March 6.
Fragmentary text indicates tickets routed Northern Pacific with connections at Paseo to through trains. Mentions W Adams as agent in Pendleton and a vague reference to Christmas and accidents or crimes.
Abe Attell and One Round Hogan square off for ten rounds as the main event at the Madison Athletic club. The bout was delayed after Attell fought a doorkeeper at the National Sporting club and injured his hand. Burns heads to Pittsfield to face Paddy Sullivan in a ten round bout. Nelson travels to New Orleans to meet Jack Redmond in a twenty round bout. Moore meets Bill Allen in Rochester in a ten round featherweight bout to open the Olympic club card.
Tyrus Cobb, once a baseball wonder, announces his departure from show business and hints he may not join the Tigers when spring training opens. He cites a nervous strain and eye pain from stage lights, saying he cannot stand the pressure any longer and needs rest. The piece also advertises Hood's Sarsaparilla for various ailments.
Leonard Huntly, a two time worker at O W R N shops, was arrested on a concealed weapons charge after officers found a holstered gun. Huntly says he carried it legally for protection while the police dispute that purpose. The matter goes to Police Judge Humphrey for decision.
Roy A. Cramer of Kansas City opened a Warrensburg post office safe that stood for a week with a nitroglycerin charge. He neutralized the explosive with a chemical solution and proved it harmless by firing a dynamite cap at the door. Several thousand dollars in stamps and money remained undisturbed. No one else dared attempt the job before his arrival.
Drugstore ad promises refund if Pazo Ointment fails to cure itching bleeding or protruding piles within six to fourteen days. Product priced at 50 cents.
Bishop of Chekalensk appeals for aid amid famine in Orenburg and Turgai districts. Crops are down, children in Ufa fed on acorns, while government blocks private relief and Zemstvo aid. Syzran police ban local press on famine coverage as aid efforts are restricted.
The text notes famine not officially registered, with Pirogoff Medical Safety and Imperial Economic Society barred from aid. Ekaterinburg governor seizes Economic Society subscriptions. Yearly crop deficit exceeds 40,000,000 tons and Russia faces high mortality. It cites Russia death rate 390 per 1000 vs France 211 and Germany 181, plus low 50 year survival and child mortality comparisons across nations.
Signora Arturo Cas anceva, formerly Countess Ghezzi Raveno of Alessandria, Italy, lectures in New York on international marriages. She criticizes American courtship norms, praises freedom for American women, and warns about a proposed correspondence school of matrimony.
Washington Secretary of the Interior Fisher told President Taft that final passage of the Sherwood pension bill as passed by the House would raise the government's annual pension outlay to about 275 million dollars. Taft has not said he would veto if it reached him, but close associates believe he would.
Seattle license clerk Claude F. Gage reports daily letters from women seeking husbands and addresses of eligible men. One note comes from an eastern-educated girl, another from a housemaid, and another from a woman suffrage officer in Oregon. Gage says he may assist by matching available suitors, though two men listed already show differing prospects: a 42-year-old redheaded landowner with three kids, and a country pastor hoping for advancement but lacking funds.
White House statement after a conference with Taft and delegates Payne Hill and Senator Smoot signals the president will press a protective tariff policy on the wool schedule and related issues. Democratic leaders favor revenue tariffs, raising the likelihood of deadlock and no major tariff legislation being enacted this session.
In Los Angeles high schools a boxing ban faced resistance from two enthusiastic female students Miss Lauretta Davin and Miss Fern Powell who continued training despite the edict. Dr Everett C Beach, the city high schools physical director, argued instructors should not create a generation of feminine fighters and warned that a broken nose could damage a girl’s social prospects.
Superior Judge Buck denied both sides a divorce due to insufficient evidence. The judge noted the couple would not likely live together again and indicated that proper papers would lead to an allowance for Mrs Moore once submitted.
Rev Duncan Wallace of Dunivary Presbyters rectory in Fresno was severely beaten by a man who had insulted him. The assailant, refused a bed, reportedly attacked after words. Wallace, once a professional football player, remains under care.
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