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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1913
Page
8
In Washington the heat finds senators drinking from water coolers and old bottles as aides depart seeking new jobs. A senator praises the water, unaware it is just faucet-sourced, revealed by a laughing page. The scene mocks lavish comforts and shows even senators misread their own surroundings.
Twelve thousand five hundred dollars from the Andrew Carnegie Library Commission is now available to meet payrolls for construction of La Grande Oregon’s Carnegie library. The letter to local officials confirms immediate start of construction at Fourth and Pennsylvania as tool houses are moved.
The project will be opened to contractors and bids advertised for that. All these necessary details may be finished by the time the city has cleared the space.
In St. Petersburg the police suspend the annual conference of the parliamentary group of the constitutional democrats. The group plans to protest the police intervention and address the Duma president Kokovteeff, premier, while local branch central committee members attend the gathering amid widespread indignation at the action.
In Los Angeles on July 8 Charles Watson an itinerant English printer was badly beaten by a mob believing him to be the man who attacked a 5 year old Negro girl. Watson says mistaken identity and was jailed on a statutory charge after rescue. Robert Funke an electrician identified him and helped bar the mob until police arrived.
Senator Lane asks the secretary of the treasury to loosen regulations on denatured alcohol to aid farmers. He argues current rules favor large corporations and waste surplus potatoes and apples, blocking use of the law to remove revenue from denatured alcohol.
News notes from Pendleton report Mrs. William Williamson dies in Lancaster New York at 70. Mrs. Will M. Peterson returns from Walla Walla to attend ill father D N McDonald. Gardner FE Dudley buys a catapult engine for harvesting and plowing. he leases 1400 acre ranch from Mrs J J Roulstone for six years. J H W Farley sues James B Sharp in Ontario for 99 50 promissory note. Knight family reports sunstroke of Ralph Knight 19 at A Ruppe ranch and recovery at home.
Mrs Dean Tatum receives a Tacoma friend letter from a Ta coma visitor who attended the Round-up last fall and called the wild west performance at the Montamara Festa a frost. The Tacoma audience saw the Round-up as good advertising due to the contrast.
Police seek Harold Carr a young colored man in the city accused of passing numerous fraudulent checks. Carr left a note to his father saying he was in bad. Officials have a likely route of flight and are pursuing leads.
Keefe, Jr. former secretary of the local commercial association and of the Round-up, is spending the summer at his Boston home. After leaving Miller & Draper minstrels, he and his partner were booked for a month in vaudeville before returning to his old home.
Superintendent Frank Hays led a force of workers to clean the big reservoir after recent rains. Mud and sediment had collected on the bottom and walls, requiring about three hours for a thorough scrubbing before the water was turned back on. The water commission cleans the reservoir roughly every three weeks.
Lester Cronin cannot report for duty for several days after an injury from a motorcycle crash Sunday afternoon. Returning from Bingham Springs he encountered a wind storm near Cayuse. his disordered goggles caused him to try adjusting them with one hand, the cycle hit a rut and toppled. He sustained a cut over the kneecap and is ordered to stay off his feet.
A new Pendleton Commercial association leaflet is ready for distribution by Secretary Rittier. The neat small folder fits an envelope and features a panoramic Pendleton view on one side and concise facts about Pendleton the Round-up City and the Highest Town of Its Size in the West on the other.
Roy Jacobs was badly injured this morning when his horse slipped at the corner of Alta and Thompson streets. The animal shied at boards, fell with him, causing facial injuries and a broken fore leg. He was taken to Arlington lodging house for medical care.
District Attorney Frederick Steiner learned of an affair at Athena where a resident, Fred Carden, recently divorced, ran amuck with a butcher knife. Citizens exercised discretion, avoiding tragedy. Details remain fragmentary about the ensuing events and outcomes.
A man accused of drunken anger threatened with a knife after forcing shoppers from the street and dashing into a meat shop to arm himself. He was arrested and faces a preliminary hearing before Judge B. K. Richards on a charge of assault with a dangerous weapon. Two library donations were received at Pendleton Public Library, The Church and the Young Man's Game by Rev Fr Milnes and The Report of the Committee Appointed Pursuant to House Resolutions 429 and 544 to Investigate the Concentration and Control of Money and Credit. The report includes diagrams about Morgan Co and major houses in the money trust.
James M. Cornelison, a Umatilla county minister, admits the marriage and children details in a Oregon wife Lavara Cornelison divorce action filed in superior court in Walla Walla Washington. He asks dismissal and taxes costs on his wife, denies insults and high alimony claims and says his wife abandoned him to sue for divorce.
A clipped note on page one states Lamar played a game to save Ed Lauterbach and carries a formal apology for public officials unfairly besmirched. The remark reflects deep regret and intent to correct past impressions.
A Seattle girl Miss Baker arrived yesterday to visit the McDonald sisters and their cousin Miss Casey. The group, all Pendleton high school alumni, included Houser son of a Court street meat market owner Hinderman former varsity football captain, and Rugg son of Mr. and Mrs. George W. Ruge driving his father's car. The Cadillac sustained minor damage with fenders and windshield broken. a ferry will lift it back onto the road for repairs.
Washington reports the first day of the new fiscal year showing total government assets near 2 billion with liabilities including gold and silver certificates totaling about 1.725 billion leaving an approximate treasury balance of 250 to 275 million. Secretary McAdoo will issue daily budget style statements indicating surplus or deficit progress and will continue this method after the 1918 year end.
The government held $1,086,727,000 in gold and bullion, spent $41,741,000 on Panama Canal construction, bringing canal expenditures to $2315,229,000, with $179,628,000 from the general fund and the rest from bond sales. The year minted 337,497 coins, $30,058,000 of which were gold. National banks totaled 7492, with outstanding circulation of $737,065,050.
Christiania Norway June 11 The Storting unanimously voted in favor of universal suffrage for women married and unmarried All men and women over 26 are now enfranchised A number of women who fought for rights since 1886 attended A deputation of women asked for a hearing Gina Krog spoke thanking the House for enfranchising mothers sisters wives and daughters Mr Aarstad said the Storting enfranchised all Norwegian women in recognition of their work and for national welfare
Lord Sydenham told a Royal Asiatic Society meeting that after five and a half years in India he found British apathy toward Indian affairs worrying. He warned that ignorance risks danger and urged learning Anglo-Indian history to grasp Britain’s responsibilities to India.
Lord Sydenham urged wider awareness of India among Britons to foster mutual respect and support. He warned of reluctance by young Britons to pursue Indian careers despite India's needs and praised India’s history, people, and culture as compelling reasons for service.
Freda Rasmus sen, 17, drowned in the Sacramento River near Deckers Island after a fight with an undertow as her mother, Mrs. Rasmussen, watched helplessly. Freda vanished in the current and search was begun for her body. Rasmussen, a soap manufacturer, and her husband were mentioned in connection with the incident.
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