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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1906
Page
6
Portland Oregon hotel advertisement for the Hotel Portland presents American plan rooms at seven dollars per day and up. It highlights headquarters for tourists and commercial travelers, special rates for families and single gentlemen, and a modern Turkish bath. Manager H. C. Bowers invites inquiries and room showings.
Umatilla and Alba notes report a successful basket social in Means hall raising 61.34 with baskets up to 9.25. Over 600 horses rounded up at Switzer's grove. many to be sold or branded. Individuals travel to Idaho and Spokane for homestead hunting and eye treatment. local jails and buildings see rapid progress. 115 degrees noted. picnic at Switzler's grove a success with races and prizes. launch transport issues and a Hannaford return trip praised.
Sam Jones extols Captain Crawford as a versatile speaker, blending circus, western show, poet and preacher. Crawford, known as Jack, is praised as backbone and endurance. Many Oregon residents plan to attend the Chautauqua this year.
Senator Levi Ankeny returns from Washington reporting the approval of Yakima valley irrigation schemes the Tieton Sunnyside and Okanogan projects with 2 5 million dollars allotted and an additional 196000 for Yakima Indian lands he also notes opposition to the Palouse project and warns funding may be insufficient to complete the work with engineers projecting at least 6 million needed.
A Southern Pacific scheme aims to train young men for section foreman roles on Harriman lines. With 20 qualified applicants, an expert foreman will lead extra crews from Bakersfield, offering a library, baths, dining car, and other comforts aboard a boarding train. Selection favors strong, sober farm youths with basic schooling. Similar plans are set for Union Pacific and other Harriman lines.
Washington railroad changes lower rates for mail shipments and grain handling. Minimum charges shift to 160 pounds at class rates, with multi class shipments anchored to the highest rate. Grain hogs move to fifth class in carload tests, reducing class from prior levels. officials project a $425,000 annual revenue effect.
Readers told Hall's Catarrh Cure can cure catarrh with a $100 reward for any proven failure. An ad cites Toledo firm F. J. Cheney & Co. and urges purchasing their pills. Nearby, The Callahan sawmill at Patton Valley burned in a fatal accident, with $4000 in lumber destroyed and no insurance.
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