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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1906
Page
2
Public notice for Oregon Life Insurance Company urging residents to keep funds in state. Mentions Fifth Floor Macleay Building Portland address, 286 Washington Street, and L. Samuel as manager. Promotional, no dates or events.
Washington Post reviews Senator Fulton of Oregon in his first Senate appearance as he pushes an amendment to the Doliver bill to let courts modify orders by the Interstate Commerce Commission when they are confiscatory. The debate features Foraker Bailey Spooner and Nelson in a lengthy exchange on whether fixing rates is a judicial or legislative function.
An old advertisement touts Irving’s Bachan Wafers as a vegetable remedy for scalding urine backache rheumatism nervousness loss of flesh sediment in urine renal calculus diabetes and kidney troubles including Bright’s disease. Sold by Tallman & Co. at 623 Main St Pendleton Oregon.
Report from lower Walla Walla river and Touchet country notes ditches under repair or on winter duty as irrigation needs shift. Water shortages in Touchet Mill Creek and Walla Walla threaten summer crops, prompting alfalfa flooding to yield three crops yearly, with winter saturation preserving moisture for summer harvests.
Alba Jan 22 There is 20 inches of snow with light nightly falls making feed stock easier and conditions improving. The Dixie ranch basket dance Friday night led by Ray Harpool drew sleighs and a large crowd to the bunk house. After supper, the women’s committee inspected for needy neighbors and found only a few old bachelors each gifted with baskets. W Scott’s boating pond work paused by deep snow. the pond will span 10 acres and reach 20 feet deep when finished.
Miss Dropnaids Reading Mme Marie Dromoh presents the Mercy Speech from The Merchant of Venice at the Fraser theater on Tuesday February 14. Listed as a premier Shakespeare reader, Mr Hanford and Miss Drofnah praised for their mastery of verse and stage presence. Franco McGirr reports lambing progress with sixty ewes and twenty lambs born since January four, noting February as the best lambing month.
For coughs and colds no remedy equals Kennedy's Lixative Honey and Tar. It is better because it expels all cold from the system by acting as a cathartic on the bowels. Atfordy Ime mediates relief in croup, coughs, colds, whooping cough, etc. Children love it, sold by Tallinn & Co.
More than 2000 delegates gather for the ninth annual meeting of the National Association of Retail Grocers of the United States. President Green outlines key issues including bankruptcy claim protection for necessaries, Dixon civil service bill, pure food law, premium settlements, and defeat of the parcels post bid. Debate on licensure for grocers and clerks faces opposition. convention runs three days with social events at Imperial hotel.
Whitman College elects David C. Graham captain for 1906 08 season as Hill departs to farm near Pendleton joining his brother in farm management. Graham, class of 1908, set the quarter mile record at 14 seconds against Idaho and starred in football as Whitman’s halfback.
We the undersigned have sold our lumber and fuel business and wish all who are indebted to us to settle at once. Please pay at the office of T. G. Montgomery in Pendleton or at the Helix Bank. Montgomery Pros.
A chaotic tally notes casualties on a 70 mile front with incalculable damage. Navy chaplain John Finger Wallace dies in Alameda aged 110, a Rooses freighter sinks near Tiptonville with no lives lost but valuable cargo gone. Coney Island warmth then global cold snap. A Japanese agent acquires 7.5 million Mingiang for Japanese plants, a Dale Ark. banker McFarland arrested for bank robbery with $4000 taken. A western Kentucky jailbreak hangs Ernest Baker for assault attempt. A Chicago saloonkeeper Walter Coareslatya killed by robbers. six customers forced to watch as masked men loot.
Joe Young received a six year sentence after shooting Kasper Van jPranhegin on January 22 in Salem. Portland pioneer Jack Woods was found dead in a dim room with gas on, death by suicide suspected. William Helmick, 16, accidentally killed himself while duck hunting near Independence. Postal receipts at W Klamath Falls reached 1098.11 in 1996, up 1 percent from 1904. In Coquille to Marshfield a pack horse fell 40 feet into a river and swam to the bank, later grazing on the far side. Benjamin F Hayden, 67, proprietor of Portland Fashion livery stable, died by suicide January 21, leaving 4000 in trust to Claude MacManters.
County Assessor Daggett reports issuance of recelpia for Lewiston tax districts showing total levy for 1900 at 297227.42 with delinquent roll at 37546.72. Delinquent taxes dropped this year while overall tax levy rose from 168000 to 250281.14, per Lewiston Tribune.
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