Echo High 1s Again Victorious
Echo High School beat Hermiston 28 to 26 in the return basketball game at Echo city hall. A winter weather stretch includes 12 degrees above zero and a developing snow storm.
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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1911
Page
7
Echo High School beat Hermiston 28 to 26 in the return basketball game at Echo city hall. A winter weather stretch includes 12 degrees above zero and a developing snow storm.
University of Oregon address by Charles V. Galloway of the state tax commission argues Oregon needs more intelligent citizenship to steer Initiative Referendum and direct primary into proper channels. He cites election data showing laws can pass with minority support and calls for requiring a majority of voters to approve laws.
Jake Hunt, reputed 108, oldest Northwest Indian, lives on Yakima reservation farmland with a son 77. Estimates place his cash at about 7000, land value around 30000, and 1600 in gold hidden away. A former Klickitat village left only a church, a totem pole and burial mounds. Deer, bear and other game thrived before white settlers arrived. Hundreds of Indians gathered below White Salmon Falls for annual salmon runs to stock winter supplies.
Old Jake was famed as the liveliest buck at the tribe powwows that lasted a week or more. The ceremonies featured tomtoms, fancy dresses, painted faces, dancing, feasting, and feuds fading with time. He reportedly married seven times, but only a widow and a few children remain to inherit his property.
A Pendleton High School senior class member created an acrostic from class member names. The list includes Joh Nolte Arthur Jordon Etta Baker Lynn Livermore Grace Finnell Fern Warrison Brooke Dickson Vane Gurdane Dale CHressman Mollie McDill Nat EKimball Nellie ANibal Richard Devine Jresalfe Baker Richard Thompson Charles Milne Harvey McPherson Blanche Badley Emma Richardson Beatrice Brownell James Hartwell Clem McCoy Elmer Dahlgren Louis Anderson Ray Simpson Alfred Straughn Ida Cherry Ina Cherry.
The Spokane chamber of commerce raised a 10000 fund for the widow and children of John T. Sullivan, captain of the Spokane police, within 36 hours. Subscriptions from 1100 to 100 were received without solicitation, including a dollar from an elderly widow and a 10 gift from the Japanese Commercial Club. The money will be placed in trust for lifelong regular income to the family.
President W J Kerr of Oregon Agricultural College told short course students that Oregon’s population will exceed 1.5 million in the next decade and the state college will rise to over 4000 students. He said demand for agricultural and industrial help is rising and campus facilities are already inadequate.
New York January 16 Glenn Guernsey reports that Doc Cook rejects the gum drop lure story as an invention of an unknown reporter. He argues the confectionary yarn harms his reputation while praising his Northland quest as a vivid, if fanciful, tableau alongside Peary and other famed exploits.
The San Antonio & Arkansas Pass line reports a project from Houston to stop the railroad click by inserting creosoted wood blocks between rail joints. Known as the Weber joint, the device is patent secured and a factory produces the blocks. Tests show the clack of wheels over joints will cease, ending a longtime railway sound.
Katie Muller, companion of Albert Wolter under death sentence for Ruth Wheeler's murder, seeks to marry Wolter in Sing Sing's death house to legitimize their child. Authorities barred previous plans to use her as a witness. as wife she could not testify. She hopes the objection can be removed.
Dr Lin ner Blakeslee specialist in nervous diseases X ray and electro therapeutics Judd building Main and Court offices and phones. Dr A Mann dentist Main Street near Commercial Association rooms. Dr Thomas Vaughan dentist Judd building phone. Dr D E Nabb inspector ex veterinary board residence 916 East Court. F G Lucas livestock auctioneer Athena Oregon. China restaurant Ung Goey prop noodles and chop suey old stand Alta Street. East Oregonian building rentals and Hartman Abstract Co Pendleton real estate services. James Johngo president Co B Marsh secretary.
The board of street station and terminal of the Pennsylvania in Philadelphia plans to expand within two years with total costs around 6 million dollars for upgrades. A new capacious train shed with a low glass roof will increase daylight and ventilation, smoke escaping directly to the outdoors. Double track bridges over the Schuylkill River will enable more through trains, with no plan to reduce current through services.
A world famous Chinese Root and Herb Compound remedy, never before offered to the public, claims to cure Bright's disease, nervous debility, weak vitality, consumption, catarrh, stomach and lung issues, with guarantees of effectiveness. It targets weak kidneys and lists symptoms such as pale complexion, eye circles, loss of appetite, insomnia, night sweats, and more. Price one dollar per bottle. YORK & YORK CHINES E MEDICINE CO. 210 W Main St, Walla Walla, Wa.
Boots and shoes for U S Consul Albert Halstead of Birmingham report a Northampton manufacturer sent a sample order to a central states firm. It is the first shipment from the consular district in fifteen years, aside from a few special football boots. The footwear was made on American and American-type English machinery with American-style lasts now produced in Northampton. Some pairs invoiced at slightly under six dollars. He was as shy as a newspaper in praising its merits.
After reports of royal exclusiveness, King George and Queen Mary appear less aloof. The article highlights Lord Mount Stephens, once a rough boy from Scotland, as a notable figure in their circle.
Notice that all applications to graze cattle horses and sheep in Wenaha National Forest for the 1911 season must be filed at the office in Walla Walla Washington by February 15 1911. Full information on grazing fees and blank forms is available on request from Supervisor J M Sogmits.
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