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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1902
Page
8
The account describes Tracy's capture and a three hour stay with Anderson. Tracy then bound and hid in brush behind a house, later rescued by a posse. Anderson recalls Tracy keeping watch, alternating between surly threats and good humor, claiming he could escape anytime and that pursuers were fools.
A historical report portrays Tracy visiting the Gerald home and treating four women with gentle courtesy for four hours. He conversed with Mrs. Charles Gerald Miss May Baker and Mrs. W J McKinney and soothed Ada McKinney a frightened six year old child.
Tracy aided at the Gerald home feeding water to dinner, chopped wood, and flirted with Miss Baker as a posse encircled the house. A newspaper man passed by on the track, Tracy warned the women of the pursuing reporters, then left with mementos while claiming he had harmed no woman.
A Snohomish man recalls Tracy as a young ranch hand in Wyoming in 1896 and later in Utah where he robbed a store and earned a year in prison. Tracy escaped prison after seven months and vanished until a later Portland escapade. He was noted as an excellent shot and a bold daredevil before turning outlaw.
Tracy left at the Gerald house Wednesday a special message to newspaper men claiming Merrill treacherously attacked him, but he fired first after seeing Merrill attempt to kill him. He accuses the press of bias while noting that newspapers were first to arrive and the posse followed.
Salem dispatch reports Isa David Merrill, an escaped penitentiary convict, possibly held in South Bend Washington. Superintendent Lee received a telegram from Sheriff Rooney asking for an officer to identify the captive. An officer was dispatched to verify the identity.
County officials urged public attendance at a general meeting to voice views on granting a Washington & Oregon Electric Railway franchise. The court plans conditions to protect the county, seeking a bond guaranteeing road construction or safe handling of the project, with final decision expected tomorrow.
R B Stanfield of Echo registered at Hotel St George T C Reese and family at the Golden Rule hotel from Milton Mrs Norval Jones and daughter visiting her parents Mr and Mrs Cameron Miss Elsie Bushee home from Moscow where she worked at the Indian school Mrs W E Houston of Condon visiting relatives in town Judge and Mrs James A Fee of Pendleton visiting J M P Snyder’s family Mrs Joe Ell and sister Agnes Heitkemper return from Walla Walla Clay Gordon Milton attorney in town Wednesday Miss Myrtle Smith bound for Portland then the Sound Miss Etta Leach visiting sister Mrs William Kraseig returned home in Pendleton Younger Son’s grocery position filled by N Younger.
The article notes an estimated season output of 28 000 cords split among Kamela including Spring Spur 5000 cords Meacham including Murdock Nibley Spurs 15000 cords and Huron including Allen Porter Klondike spurs 80 cents cords. Timber available to Pendleton and Walla Walla is shrinking with hauls lengthening and prices rising. Japanese workers harvest steep ground at Huron Meacham wood is hauled several miles with fir tamarack at 2.50 per cord on board cars black and yellow pine 2.25, freight 1.25, local prices 6.50 to 6. The note ends with a remark that earthquakes occur more than volcanic eruptions.
Officials in San Francisco announced the Santa Fe’s purchase of 45 miles of track known as the California Western from Goffa to Ivanpah, Cal. The deal is seen as key to Harriman’s Oregon Short Line reaching Southern California. Railroad men expect a through route from Ivanpah to Los Angeles via Goff, Barstow, and San Bernardino under a traffic alliance.
The article notes U S sympathy and aid to England after the St Vincent disaster and argues sufferers with weak digestion need medicine. It promotes Hostetter's Stomach Bitters to cure loss of appetite belching flatulence indigestion insomnia and nervousness warning against substitutes and urging the genuine bottle with a private stamp.
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