Plague Threat Hits Orleans County Orchards
In Orleans County New York apple orchards suffer a deadly blight as a plague decimates fruit trees. No remedy has halted the ravages yet, highlighting agricultural distress across the region.
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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1903
Page
3
In Orleans County New York apple orchards suffer a deadly blight as a plague decimates fruit trees. No remedy has halted the ravages yet, highlighting agricultural distress across the region.
A series of short items from Oregon and adjacent regions reports a steamer launched on Snake river near Wewiston, 5000 sheep shipped from Hacker City to Brockten, and carnival closings at Albany and Salem. Other notes include a monument for the Second Oregon regiment using native granite, six Chinese admitted to the U S after arriving on the Indrapura at Astoria, a sawmill accident near Vancouver H C, and a Seattle abduction case where Mary Kelly, the mother, took her child from its grandmother amid ongoing divorce custody. The body of John G. Van Dyke was found in the Hogue river near Medford after drowning Sunday.
A detailed hotel arrivals list shows guests staying at Hotel Pendleton and nearby properties in Portland Seattle Walla Walla and The Dalles. Names include M Gilbranson W Coffin W Marshall M Williams MM Gallen and wife Miss Cornell and others from Portland Spokane Seattle and New York. Also notes misprinted lines about a local business and a 100 reward offer from Cheney & Co Toledo for a counterfeit or failed transaction.
Imperial Council of the Mystic Shrine hosts an annual meeting in Saratoga July 7 to 10, 1902 with reduced travel fare by O R and N. Tickets go on sale June 24 to 30. Additional Pendleton Fourth of July excursion offers one and one third fare round trip within 200 miles, sales July 3 and 4, return by July 6. Also ad for Acker's Blood Elixir curing chronic blood poisoning with money back guarantee.
The Ogle stock farm offers 5000 acres with about 250 head of cattle, ample water, grass, and timber. The range has never been sheeped off and everything is under fence. It can grow all day required. For details call on or write to Bentley.
Article notes Pendleton as central to a vast commercial territory covering Washington, Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Nevada, Utah, and beyond. It lists resident drummers and their companies, highlighting Pendleton as a headquarters for travelers serving small stores and towns across a developing western region.
In Ridge on June 3 the right arm injury from a fall is noted. Over the past three weeks six horses and one saddle were reported stolen near the Gurdane vicinity. Chris Nelson lost two horses and a saddle, with four more fine work horses taken from A J Cummings’ pasture north of Pendleton. William Glassen of Pilot Rock is healing slowly from a buggy fall with a wounded wrist.
Farmors near completion of haying as J B R Howard travels from the mines to visit friends. K Hovt trims a barn for John Richardson of South Canyon. Jack Martin, formerly of Holdman and son of Forest Grove, is in town for harvest driving a combine for R J Harp at Purcell box store, a runting order with a full line of goods.
Baker City reports ex-Sheriff J. B. Huntington case ended with a hung jury after eleven jurors favored conviction and one favored acquittal. The panel told the court at 3:20 PM yesterday it could not reach a verdict and the case was dismissed for the term, moving to the November term.
A faded ad promotes Kilmer’s Swamp Root as a cure for back pain and kidney trouble. It claims to ease lame back, bladder issues, and catarrh with Dr Kilmer’s formula, notes hospital use, and offers a free sample by mail while listing bottle sizes and where to buy.
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