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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1907
Page
4
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Two days brought ten ships to Portland harbor while Postmaster Minto pegged the city at about 175000 residents. Observers say Portland already nears 206000, signaling immense growth and future commercial power as rail lines extend inland and the Columbia water grade fuels trade.
The article notes Thomas A. Edison turning from commercial aims to a life guided by science. It explains the distinction between creating to sell and pursuing knowledge for humanity’s benefit, highlighting Edison’s financial independence enabling deeper scientific work and future contributions.
The speaker notes Edison still regards electricity as mysterious and hints at a long future of discovery. He reflects that even after a decade of active life, an old man like Edison perceives a vast, unexplored field in electricity and contemplates what the world may understand in 400 years.
The legislature considers splitting the normal school appropriation from the general bill to test public sentiment. Lawmakers argue Oregon needs two strong normal schools and urge each school to prove its value to the electorate as sentiment crystallizes.
The Oregon Senate showed a favorable stance to corporations. It defeated measures opposed by business groups while Beals' timber tax bill sought taxes on timber barons based on their holdings, and Friteman's bill would tax public service capital earnings, targeting railroads with an assessment of 70 million dollars. Sethamier's land grant bill aimed to tax land grants that escaped taxation for six years.
Representative Overstreet of Indiana insists railroads flood Congress with faulty letters and telegrams protesting the pay cut for mail carriers. He vows railroad demonstrations won’t deter his service and laments press lack of united support for the committee. Tom I Johnson’s Municipal Traction Co shows a three month net surplus of $171,686.86 with stock value rising to 7. The Umatilla Ranch Co plans to expand the Echo flour mill to 600 barrels daily, signaling west end growth.
Will Open Colville Indian reservation in Washington half of the lands in Okanogan and Ferry counties near Spokane after the Idaho draw. About one and a half million acres will be offered, expanding producing settlement land by over 2,500,000 acres across the two states.
The Canadian Pacific Railway company has completed a Montreal contract with the Netlish Columbia benevolent derottalion of Lendor for colonization of 169000 acres on the Esquimalt and Nanaimo railway land on Vancouver Island. The purchase and related costs totaling 509000 have been funded. Sir Frederick Holden’s name is linked to the project.
Cora Linn Daniels in McClure's reflects on nature as a remnant of personal day and the vast universe. The narrator sees herself as the real being behind appearances, choosing study over transient contact, embracing struggle yet cherishing an inner flame that outlasts planets.
Petroleum V. Nasty and David Rows Locke claim to have assembled ten great poets from different centuries in a posthumous collaboration. The piece parodies classic lines by Alexander Pope and Sir Walter Scott, transforming familiar female verse into a humor piece about woman agency. The mix reads as fragmented, with altered famous lines reflecting Nas ey s humorous intent.
Frederick J. Haskin notes the close friendship of writers Mary Murfree known as Craddock and Will Allen Dromgoole. Murfree faced gender bias at a Boston dinner planned as a stag event, while Dromgoole received a friendly invitation from James Whitcomb Riley that she explained and apologized for.
The London Post speculates on Hiawatha running a race at 141 feet per second, translating to 218 yards a furlong and about seven seconds for the distance. It suggests a 145 yard head start for the current record holder and analyzes feasible speeds.
Professor Greenhill analyzes Hiawatha’s speed from a mythic bow and arrow scenario. Assuming airless conditions and one arrow per second, arrows fly for nine seconds, giving initial launch speed about 114 feet per second. Optimal firing angle of 46 degrees yields the maximum horizontal arrow velocity.
A humorous verse references Mabel's muff and a billet doux. In political news the Indiana legislature passes a S cent maximum passenger fare and sends it to the governor, with opinions split on a signature. The piece humorously notes public sentiment with crosses and halos imagery.
Canadian towns launch municipal campaigns against profanity as women clubs and city officials unite to curb swearing in streets stores and public spaces. The Montreal Star argues profanity is vulgar not witty and signals loss of temper while restrained speech marks true power.
The source urges every man woman and child in the United States to read the Cromwell biography as it embodies religious and political freedom, the core American ideal celebrated by President Roosevelt.
The European plan offers first class rooms with steam heat en suite baths and a large new sample room. Modern conveniences include telephone and fire alarm connections to the office and hot and cold running water in air rooms. The hotel is described as one of the Northwest’s most up-to-date establishments.
Rooms available for one dollar and one fifty per block at the front depot. See the large electric sign advertising the rates.
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