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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1902
Page
4
A January high tone call urges Pendleton residents to embrace compromise and unity to propel the town’s growth. Leaders stress the need to avoid factional fights, keep the city moving, and make Pendleton the Inland Empire’s leading town through cooperation and shared aims.
The East Oregonian reports two cases of unequal taxation showing how burdens of government fall unfairly. One case concerns Oregon locals, the other involves Colorado, illustrating similar tax inequities in different states.
A commission report criticizes Colorado taxes on mines and mining property as a farce arguing that nonresident owners dominate value while assessed at far lower levels. It notes railroad taxes tied to eastern ownership and asks for equitable rates to curb wealth concentration and cross state inequities.
The passage recounts satirical lines about Horace Greeley Doug las and car pet baggers, praising Lincoln and Twain. It ends with Mark Twain recounting a Lyceum Club intro mishap, where the president finally delivered a grand self introduction to the audience then proceeded with his lecture.
A Jan 14 Puget region style column features a chaotic mix of protests, dynamite freight car disaster near a Denver Rio Grande line, and a poetic lament on prairie life. It blends political clashes, temperance rhetoric, and a dramatic well explosion with gas and steam, ending in reflective verses on letters and enduring hope.
A San Francisco group paid 112000 for a controversial prescription claimed to cure Brights Disease and Diabetes. Initiated November 1, 1890, the trial involved 2000 doses and physicians. by August 2, 87 percent of cases showed improvement, 13 percent failed, with results published and available on request from Joan J. Fulton Company, Montgomery Street.
For sale by Taiman & Co and all first class druggists or by Frank Nau at Portland Hotel Pharmacy Portland Oregon. Price one dollar a bottle or six bottles for five dollars express prepaid.
James A. Howard offers 400 acres of productive wheat land ten miles northeast of Pendleton with school access, cash or unimproved land trade. Eight Pendleton lots at 100 dollars each on easy terms. 160 acres south of Pendleton for 800 dollars. 6 acres of orchard and frozen land near Milton with irrigation. 120 acre irrigated McKay Creek farm plus 2 acres bottom land, rest wheat land. 660 acres in a single block four miles from Pendleton, half cash, balance on time at 6 percent.
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