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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1912
Page
3
Pendleton residents enjoy a busy week with extended family travel to Portland and The Dalles, auto trips to The Dalles and coast resorts, and numerous visits in Portland. Local dances, social gatherings, and theater showings are noted along with several residents returning from or preparing for trips and university engagements.
The Orpheum presents an extra good Sunday program with four full reels of top American pictures. The feature is On Her Wedding Day by Vita.
A Sunday program features films including Modern Portia Lubin in a tale of a man who loses memory, passes as John White, becomes a lawyer, and is reunited with his family. Also shown are Who’s to Win a Vitagraph comedy and Missionaries In Darkest Africa Kalem with Gene Gauntler and Rob ert Vignola. The Passion Flower Edison romantic Bermuda tale.
Friday and Saturday feature a hand colored lion picture Attacked by a lion set on Africa’s desert edge. Two lions feed on a bullock while Arabs raid a ranch. A rancher on horseback fights and shoots a lion as troops arrive to save the ranch. Also The Myth of Jamasha Pass a ghostly mystery from Sterras. Jim's Atonement a sensational Western. Cupid's Victory a lively Nestor western comedy.
Five spectators were injured when a large cannon backfired and a musket discharged during a Tacoma stadium showing of The Conquest of Mexico. Three were seriously hurt and two slightly. most seriously injured was C Richter of U S 8 Ore ign, with facial burns. Jon Teledico suffered neck burns and arm lacerations while George Vigher bore extensive facial injuries.
Anco Truck Haul It advertises fast service for furniture and plane moving on short city trips or transfers to the country. Contact Main 339 for bookings. Penland Broad?
Special correspondence from Hermiston Oregon reports Mark Teel of Echo and Dale Hinkle of Hermiston leaving Echo with surveying gear to map the Teel Irrigation Ditch. It diverts Camas Creek water into Butter Creek for about 20 000 acres south of Hermiston between Echo and Butter Creek. The party, led by Teel with W B Hinkle as chief engineer, will survey until September 15 then resume on lower lands.
Porterville merchants through their association pool claims against Southern Pacific totaling about 4160 over alleged illegal long and short haul rates. A single member holds the claims which are assigned to the California Adjustment Company awaiting a test suit outcome. Claims range from 42 cents to 872 dollars, many stemming from San Francisco to Los Angeles rates.
The advertisement touts Ballards Snow Liniment as relief for back pain from hard work in bent positions. It claims penetrating action with a price of 2½ cents, 25 cents, and 1.00 per bottle, sold by A. Koeppen & Bros.
In Price Utah John F E Brown was acquitted of murder of James Be Bois. Jack Dubois brother of the slain man drew a revolver in the courtroom but a deputy sheriff disarmed him before he could harm Brown.
During summer months mothers of young children should watch for any unnatural looseness of the bowels. Prompt attention at this time may prevent serious trouble. Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy can be depended upon. For sale by all dealers.
Governor Marshall orders Plymouth lawyer Adam Wise to file actions in state courts to recover large tracts of land in the Kankakee valley from St Joseph county to the Illinois line. Defendants include Ulinders, Indiana land companies, and Northern Trust Company of Chicago. The suits involve hundreds of landowners across two states.
In Mason City Iowa Mrs Edward Spence Thompson fatally shot her husband and then herself in a busy shopping street. Police report the act arose from the husband joking with his wife as shoppers looked on.
Miss May Malone aged twenty attempted self harm at a grave in Redding by drinking carbolic acid. Workers nearby heard her screams and alerted help. She was given an antidote and pronounced out of danger.
The rising demands from foreign countries for Argentine beef threaten to deplete local cattle stocks and jeopardize supply for domestic needs. Officials warn that export pressures could leave the nation with insufficient meat for its own consumption.
Henry Rhode a 26 year old farmer east of Echo died last evening at 6 o clock from typhoid fever after a weeklong illness. He was the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Rhode and funeral arrangements were not yet made. The Fourth of July celebration by Echo firemen drew many visitors with music by Hermiston and Echo bands. The day featured a grove program led by Will M. Peterson, an old fashioned barbecue, a 6 to 4 baseball win by Echo over Stanfield, horse and foot races, hoses cart contest won by Hose company No. 2 for $10 prize, dancing until 2 a.m. and several visits from residents and travelers.
The Los Angeles Limited, eastbound on the Northwestern railroad, struck an automobile three miles east of Geneva Illinois, killing two men and a woman and fatally injuring a third man. The vehicle is said to belong to an Iowa merchants touring party.
An advertisement touts Ely’s Dream Balm and Ely’s Cream Balm as a cure for catarrh. It claims rapid head clearing, reduced discharge, and relief from pain, fever, and odor after days of use. A fifty cent bottle allegedly yields a complete cure, with druggist purchase urged.
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