12 Feb 1910
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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1910
Page
1
A fundraising effort reports close to 20000 dollars raised with G M Rice leading a $1000 personal subscription. The drive aims to finish the traction fund, with many subscribers yet to come as organizers push towards completion amid Saturday slowdown.
C. M. Fassett, president of the organization, said the 1911 gathering will visit Spokane, bringing a caravan of 60,000 big red apples and a score of orchards’ best fruit, plus attractively designed pieces to showcase progress in the Pacific Northwest since 1900 and urban achievements in cities and towns.
Seattle Feb 12 Two officers headed to Fort Lawton to identify a Black soldier from the 26th Infantry who last night assaulted Mrs Arguala of 114 Ellect Ave in a Queen Anne Ave assault. The attacker knocked her to the ground with a cape and fists before fleeing toward Fort Lawton with a companion.
In Algiers Blanche Plinchen fatally shot Senor L Dachot Bolivian consul while he drove to the pier to check on a suspected liaison. Authorities moved to hide the affair due to the consul’s high position, but officials later announced the case. Public sentiment favors the woman.
Mrs. Ponting of 2008 Leitla Avenue awoke about 4 AM to find an insane man in her room who stabbed her multiple times. She fled, retrieved a revolver, and the assailant escaped before police could locate him. She was hospitalized with serious injuries.
One of New York’s oldest institutions, the St Valentine’s Kettledrum, will be held at Sherry’s this afternoon. Proceeds go to the Samaritan Home for the Aged. The event features Mother Goose melodies, costumes, trained dog pictures, dancing, and sales tables. Noted social reformers Miss Gelow and Miss Pottlt will attend. the Hindman School in Kentucky is represented.
J. B. Kennedy arrived this morning at the railway station after traveling from his ranch near Helix, where he had gone the previous evening aboard the Northern Poelfle train.
Rasuli the famed bandit who terrorized Northern Africa and Tangier for years died today amid belief of a policy plot. He rose to power after forcing Sultan to appoint him governor of Tangier to secure American captive Ion Perdicaris's release. He later raided hills, kidnapping Walter Harris and Sir Clifford Maclean, with ransoms demanded and paid by governments.
In Marseilles a crowd besieged the French Trans Atlantic Steamship office seeking news of relatives aboard the Changy. The liner foundered off Majorca in the Balearic Islands. Only Marcel Morel and Eladez survive. Eighty seven passengers were aboard and 70 crew, with about 155 dead. Morel was hospitalized, his mind shattered by the disaster. The Lioka Passage in deep water was cited as a dangerous spot in the Mediterranean.
London reports two sailing vessels, the Mathilde and Martial, wrecked near Majorca. Crews' fate is unknown, and the incident is linked to the area where the French linchpin Chansey foundered.
The Pendleton forged check case centers on Waiter Peo, a Umatilla chief’s son confined in Canton asylum and jailed in Pendleton for a $275 forgery. Sheriff Taylor tracked him from Lewiston to North Yakima, where similar attempts failed. The article recalls other Indian forgery incidents, noting a pattern of adept penmanship and imitation among Indians.
Spokane February 12 Boomer a trained dog aiding its master John Brennan at a Northern Pacific crossing was arrested on a complaint by the Washington Water Power company for attacking street car conductors in an outlying district. The dog frequented a saloon near its post when off duty raising fears of moral decline. Brennan seeks council aid to save the dog from cremation while pledging the animal will not visit the saloon again.
A fog bound rail crash two miles from shore when the Berkeley Key route pier train telescoped the Oakland bound train halted for signals. Dozens were injured or fatally hurt, all Oakland residents, with Merritt Hospital treating Asa Bennett John B Diggs A B Thurston James Levy John Fitzemmons Joseph W Girard W R ApInton Barry Chapman Myrtle Hains Rogerts H F Stone and others. One man died in harbor hospital, another trapped in wreckage with severed limbs and multiple injuries reported.
Spokane capitalists organize Commonwealth Power & Water to invest 5 million dollars in developing power on the Spokane, Columbia and Snake rivers with irrigation plans and light for local towns. A second company, Railway Water and Power, forms with 2 million dollars to generate 45 000 horsepower within 30 miles of Spokane. Moody plans to offer 10 000 horsepower to the city at 14 dollars per horsepower to supply consumers through direct municipal sale. Commonwealth plans to focus on tributary district. entry into city cogeneration is not pursued.
Spokane announces E H Stanton & company will build a $1,000,000 meat packing plant on 25 acres in Spokane. Room for 400 skilled workers, steel and concrete abattoir with modern machinery for beef pork and mutton, plus a poultry dressing shop. Plant to be electrified and part of a broader meat operation with thousands of livestock owned.
Dispatches report Dr Jean Charcot's party reached latitude seventy south longitude 120 west within the Antarctic circle. Despite sickness among twenty, the expedition produced new maps and surveys of Adelaide Island Bridgeman Island and the Isle of Deception while camping on Alexander Island.
In Portland on February 12 the fate of Binger Hermann rests with 12 jurors after defense attorney Worthington noted exceptions to Judge Wolverton's charge. The trial began January 10 with the jury seated January 12 and testimony continuing. The crowd expects a verdict today or a hung jury after a scheduled 1:20 recess.
Philadelphia hosts its first full distance professional relay marathon at Fairhill Park this afternoon. Notable entrants include Pat White Pat Dineen for Irish Flying Deer and the Indian Al Rayne with Canadian colors, plus Mike Spring Tom Morrissey of New York among others. Managers expect the fastest time yet for the 26 mile 385 yard distance with a relay limit of 13 miles 292 1/2 yards per man.
Fragmentary OCR notes suggest a Mississippi belle marries a man named Chimiman. The terse line hints at wealth and potential consequences for assets if Georgia’s climate resembled Kansas in 605. It implies a historical march to the sea context through Sherman.
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