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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1889
Page
3
A brief notice announces the New Year item can be bought at the business for 10 cents a copy, with wrappers for mailing if desired and postage details referenced.
Mixed notes from Pendleton include a sale of court-house block lots to local investors for 8000 as property values surge in the city. Reports cover delayed trains, theatre and church events, medical recoveries, and plans for a larger depot and portage railway amid regional growth and transportation upgrades.
The Pendleton era details a tangled tale of Charles Hastings Moore and a woman known as Lilietta Smithers who vanished from the city. Moore, once a stock exchange banker in Caldwell, faced debt and fled to South America, later returning with his companion. A banking suit in Pendleton seeks recovery of about 2700 dollars tied to notes and alleged defrauding, with Moore denying kinship to the Hastings circle and claiming a new surname.
At the January 17 1881 Pendleton council meeting officials reviewed claim payments and ordinances. Topics included a street grade amendment and town dues to town scrip, plus a plan to outfit two stationary hoses for the fire department and a request for land for a bank site.
A dense string of personal names and locations including Portland San Francisco Walla Walla Despain Juniper Brainerd and Idaho appears, likely misread from an old newspaper page listing individuals and towns with scattered affiliations and partial addresses. The fragment offers no coherent event or narrative.
An unsigned letter to Louis Prope Ina, printed under the column of the Americans Lithographer HW A Littewan of Kosten and Alexander Melville of St Louis argues for free trade and the single tax. They claim free trade goes beyond abolishing customs houses to ending all taxes on productive goods and abolishing land monopoly. The piece urges abolishing taxes and supports the single tax on land values as a solution.
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