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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1907
Page
5
A jumble of ads offers lodging, furniture, building materials, and services from the Wonder Store to the Oregon Lumber Yard plus trades and rentals. A block of prose discusses Nez Perce and Umatilla people, citing legal or reservation tensions and a few named individuals tied to the tribes.
Three of the Indians burned to death in the Umatilla jail fire near Pendleton Oregon are identified by English names Nicodemus Stevens known as Noland Henry Cook and He-yume-pak-l-lipt noted by a Culdease correspondent on the Nez Perce reservation.
A kerward claim promotes Foley's Honey and Tar as a cure in yellow package. Koeppen Drug Co advertises refunds if no cure. Tomorrow funeral of Mayor W G Hunter of Inland City held at Island City under La Crande lodge after dynamite explosion. Three injured remain not in serious condition and will recover.
J. W. Clay who served as section foreman for the O R N at Coyote for a year has been transferred to Mission to replace foreman Huseby who struck a Japanese section hand with a monkey wrench weeks ago. Mr Clay was in the city today arranging to move to Minston.
William Whitesley, head of a leading London store, was shot by an assistant today and the killer then killed himself. The tragedy was reported by the East Oregonian.
Three indictments were returned by the grand jury against A Perard the sheepman. One alleges stealing 60 sheep from C A Johnson while two others accuse him of altering brands and lewd cohabitation with Jennie Doe. Perard pleaded not guilty through attorney Col J H Raley. Other cases await action as circuit court handles the state’s case against George Shill for living off earnings of a prostitute.
Members of the second Oregon regiment launched a drive to obtain back pay for service in the Philippines after the Spain American War. A Sugar Young camp resolution urged Oregon’s congressional delegation to secure the owed funds, with letters sent to Washington officials. About 12 western regiments will join, as the Second Regiment pioneered the effort, being the first to serve in the Philippines and the first to return.
Prof W H Bleakney of Pendleton academy will address the mid week gathering at the Presbyterian church on educational work. The talk titled Christian Education honors the universal day of prayer for colleges and academies observed nationwide tonight. All are invited to attend.
Conrad Kohler, 24, died this afternoon at his West Alt Street home from heart failure after months of illness. A longtime Pendleton resident, he once ran a boat building business on Bat Court and owned a nearby farm. Funeral plans await a Minnesota-based brother and a Knights of Pythias member group will conduct service. Claud Inman died at the hospital from injuries sustained in a football game two years ago with no definite funeral arrangements yet.
A long list of visitors and travelers is noted in Pendleton with Feink Nongle, Samuel Star of Helix, Fred Crawford, Julius Gurdarian, Io, E. P. Dodd, H. H. Gilbert, and others passing through or staying brief periods. Major and Mrs. Moorhouse head to Portland. Page Evans and J. C. Clay travel on business and trading trips. local residents and store staff are mentioned with several departures for The Dalles, Chicago, and Salt Lake.
D C Gurdane the Heppner marshal and brother of Chief Tom Gurdane is visiting after the chief’s recent injury. Koeppen brothers from Idaho and this city head to San Diego for a month or two to manage property interests. Oliver P. Morton of the reclamation service cites renewed activity on the ditch and upcoming reservoir work. W F Freedman of Blumauer Frank Drug Co visits Portland and La Grande, then Olympia, Garden City, and home of J W Tallman. Wendall, a Chicago banker, and Nissen and Son announce a spring stock shipment of hack s, buggies, plows, and barrows as they prepare for a stronger season.
Here from Chicago Mr and Mrs J A Wendall arrived this morning to visit Mrs Wendalls father Rev B Tallman and her brother J V Tallman but to meet her brother L L Tallman of Walla Walla
An advertisement praises nature sparing suffering and cites Newbro’s Herpicide as a cure for hair loss caused by a germ parasite. It claims the product stops hair destruction, permits natural growth, and offers samples and two sizes priced 50 cents and 1.00, with distribution by A. C. Koeppen & Bros in Detroit.
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