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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1912
Page
3
The Shasta Limited northbound train derailed early yesterday miles south of Grants Pass due to a soft track, with baggage, mail and one sleeper car leaving the rails. No one was hurt as Elk specials slowed the line and orders kept trains cautious. the train was moving about 15 mph at derailment.
Pittsburg women who led a ten day meat price protest consider repeating the fast to push prices down. The move follows their noted boycott which met with broad local attention and impact on the market.
Penland Bros advertises rapid city moves and country transfers for furniture and belongings. The note offers short trips and flexible hauling by calling Main 839 for service.
Special correspondence from Stanfield Oregon on July 9 notes the election of teachers for the ensuing year including F D Carruth Jessie Eriesly Anastacia Chesik Eva Dumas Ruby Hazelett Mable McComish and married pair R A Holte and Mrs. Holte. The report also lists local visits and early Furnish project construction with multiple residents and visitors noted around town.
Tracy Cox of Whitman College tackled and strangled a coyote in a hand to hand encounter at his home in Walla Walla Washington. At about 9 pm Mrs Anna Schell heard a disturbance in the chicken coop and sought help, Cox arrived and saved her from the animal.
H Hulzberg a Petaluma man employed by Great Western Power was killed near Schellville when a derrick hoisting a pole fell on him. He was 24. This marked the third tragedy in the family as his father and sister had previously died by their own actions in the area.
Dinuba reports Oross district oranges gaining fame in Eastern markets for their deep red color. Limited output has raised prices by 50 to 75 cents per box above prevailing levels. Expert observers attribute the color to high iron content in the soil.
Leopold Ellers a Heligoland native and naturalized US citizen was found guilty of espionage by the imperial supreme court and sentenced to four years in a penitentiary along with six years of civil rights loss. Aged 32, he lived in America 1902 to 1908 and allegedly sought Heligoland defense plans for Britain.
The National Guard of the Pacific Coast will encamp with the regular army at Grays Harbor in Washington and near Monterey in California. Brigadier General Robert R. Evans, head of the militia division, will inspect and review the force per a War Department order.
More than 100 Yaqui Indians were killed in a clash with Mexican troops at Potas Yaqui valley Sonora. A score of soldiers were wounded. The Indians retreated into the hills as reports arrive.
In Newport Rhode Island the steamship Commonwealth rammed the U S battleship New Hampshire near the naval training station in fog. No casualties reported but passengers were shaken. Official inquiry to determine fault is pending as commanders offer differing accounts of anchor positions.
Reports from Madrid and Lisbon warn of a royalist invasion of Portugal by Manuel sympathizers. Lisbon authorities allegedly cracked a republican plot to banish the current government and install Alfonso Costa, former justice minister, in power.
Greenwich Conn July 9 Richard Harding Davis the author and war correspondent wed Elizabeth Genevieve McAvery known as Bessie McCoy a dancer yesterday afternoon The writer whose Chicago divorce was granted on grounds of desertion recently remarried confirming a second marriage to the noted dancer in a quiet ceremony.
At a stockholders meeting the Trust Company of North America and the Commercial Trust Company ratified plans to merge. The Commercial Trust Company ranks among the largest in the country with capital of 1 million dollars and deposits near 11 million, while the Trust Company of North America holds about 2.906 million.
Growers statewide inform San Francisco traders they may halt pulling onions if price rises do not occur, risking about 100000 sacks of onions this year and disrupting market supply.
The U S department of agriculture notes a Uruguayan proposal to establish a rural credit section within the Bank of the Republic. It would lend to rural banks or farmers associations to fund loans on land and mortgages, with an initial capital of 500000 dollars.
The National forest reserve Commission controls thirty thousand acres in New Hampshire for a forest reserve. The tract lies on Mount Adams and Mount Jefferson in the Presidential range near the Connecticut headwaters. Price paid was 240000 dollars, eight dollars per acre. This is the second large tract under the act authorizing land acquisitions for conserving navigable streams. The first purchase was thirty six thousand acres in Northern Georgia. By year end the commission plans to spend two million dollars more on such lands.
An advertisement touts Chamberlains Liniment as ideal for sore muscles from exercise or injury and also relieves rheumatic pains. Sold by all dealers.
Frank B Kellogg of St Paul government counsel in the Standard Oil Trust dissolution case will deliver the principal address as the Ohio State Bar Association opens a three day session in Cedar Point The association counts 900 members with Frederick D Taft as president The remarks focus on The Judicial Recall and underline a caution about timing in arrival.
An old advertisement claims Jayne's Tonle Vermifuge restores stomach and intestines to natural function, treating dyspepsia and indigestion without digesting foods itself. It markets the tonic as a natural appetite builder and strengthener, with a long history of praised use and wide availability through druggists.
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