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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1907
Page
8
Saturday January 26 marks the last chance this year to buy bargains as our Inventory begins February 1 and stock will return to original prices. Hold Fast laundry soap is advertised in four dozen bundles.
Neagle Bros. forced to accept a note payment in wood valued at five dollars per cord, though the maker sought to pay with legal tender. Five carloads of coal ordered by F. S. Judd were confiscated en route from Wyoming, leaving Pendleton short. Dry wood commands record prices on Meacham mountain as shortages deepen, with mountain chopper efforts to expand supply next season.
The Eagles band, led by B F Driscoll, will present a series of Sunday concerts at Eagles Hall, starting this Sunday evening. The program promises high quality band music and aims to become a featured annual event.
Funeral for Conrad Kohler is expected Tuesday with services at the family home on West Alta Street under Knights of Pythias auspices and led by Rev Sprattler of the Lutheran church. Kohler, born September 30 1865 in Poznan Germany, lived in Berlin and Minneapolis before moving to Pendleton. He managed the Golden Rule hotel and later a bottling works on East Court Street. He married Minnie Grote of Amnora Nebraska in 1889. no children. He leaves a substantial estate and a brother Rudolph Kohler in Minneapolis. Burial to be by Knights of Pythias and German Lutheran church authorities.
Smallpox and a diphtheria case were reported from the north end of the county. Roy Wallace lives on the Walla Walla river near Milton, with Sibyl McKnight also in Milton. Dr D J McFaul says all smallpox cases are mild and not causing major concern. Six cases are prevalent around Milton. no other cases in the county.
Funeral services for Claud Inman will be held at 9 a.m. tomorrow from the Catholic church with burial in Olney Cemetery. Burt Inman arrives from Connell Washington. the boy, 16, died after a Milton school football accident when a playmate jumped on his back, wrenching his spine.
A Umatilla Indian mass meeting at Chief No Shirt's home decided to investigate the jail burning of five tribesmen at the agency jail last Sunday morning. The group will press the Indian commissioner and review the police orders next Monday, with potential jail abolition if officers acted beyond authority. Friends of the deceased are arriving from Yakima and Lapwal for the trial and a potlatch to distribute the dead men's effects.
A derelict Columbia river steamer Mata C. Hover, stuck in the Wattuta gap near Umatilla rapids, was saved by a rancher who boarded in a rowboat after securing a line. Owners claimed 910,000 salvage. the rancher kept possession with armed men as authorities may resolve the dispute.
California legislators face a hard battle over an anti race track gambling bill. Emeryville as an institution draws strong opposition from track advocates who vow a desperate fight. Thomas H. Will Homa of the New California Jockey Club signals widespread alarm and lobbying intensifies to block efforts to close the Emeryville track to gambling.
The passage warns that cold days strain a weak or impoverished system, causing weakness and potential serious illness. It urges proper attention to build up and fortify the body to endure the hardship.
An early advertisement touts Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a sure preventive against chills and colds and as a cure for dyspepsia indigestion costiveness biliousness female weakness and malaria with bold claims typical of patent medicine promotion from the era.
The Pendleton division roadmaster post for the O R N has been brought back from Umatilla where headquarters sat after the general roadmaster position left two years ago. H Connell has resigned to join Northern Pacific. G H Sullivan succeeds him and has moved headquarters to the O R N depot building in this city.
The funeral of H. H. Augustavo of Walla Walla who died in Los Angeles this week was held in Walla Walla this afternoon.
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