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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1907
Page
8
Wanted notices invite 500 women to meet at Empire Tea Co., 220 E Court St, Saturdays all year to drink free mocha and java. Stampede of promotions offers coupons or premiums with purchases. Advertises 400 lb Empire Mocha and Java, 25 lb Mother's Pride and Climax, 2-quart pressed glass water pitcher sale and Saturday coffee day.
In a Prairie City Fourth of July oration Joaquin Miller revisits early frontier hardship and mining wars. He recalls minute men guarding a frontier road, savage attacks, and a long march home with wounded, noting the Indian wars and his own travels. He reflects on creed and church, praising Oregon as a fertile land and his own journeys and labor.
Sheriff Eubanks of Franklin county transferred Walter Dante to Walla Walla county Jail for safe keeping ahead of the Franklin county Superior Court session. Dante, 19, is charged with first-degree murder for a July 2 killing in Kahllotus, where a railroad crew dispute ended in a fatality. He was a cook. the other victim was a waiter. Dante had been bound over for trial.
Five thousand dollars worth of work mules and horses owned by various county growers are on sale at the Alta Home feed stables in Pendleton. This is the second large sale at the Alta home in recent weeks, attracting buyers from across the country. The stock includes 18 mules, all farce and well broken, and 30 horses, many excellent work animals, with some unbroke stock in the lot. Pendleton is becoming the chief horse market in the northwest and the sales are widely watched by buyers from the inland empire.
Superintendent Frank K. Welles reports a new School District No. 109 will be entered among Umatilla county districts. It forms this week from parts of districts 36 and 86 with portions of 6 attached to defunct district 54. The change affects three old districts creating one new district along the Columbia River in the northern county.
Taken to St Anthonys hospital last evening, Do W Irwin proprietor of the Delta, in critical condition with appendicitis. The World Advance Publishing company of Wenatchee has bought and aborted the Big Bend Chief of Wilson Creek. LL D McIntyre editor of the Chief has broken down in health.
The last and best wool sale in eastern Oregon this year was held at Elgin yesterday, selling 400000 pounds of Wallowa county clip at 18 to 20 58 cents per pound. Buyers Burke Green and Abbott, with others, will likely stay in Pendleton through summer. most will return east by next week. The wool was clean, of good grade, and those who held for the sale were rewarded. private sales had already moved much of the clip. Next year buyers aim to use the R and NW line into Willowa county to reach Joseph.
Washington announces a series of retirements and appointments at the Naval Academy and Navy Bureau. Rear Admiral Sands retires by age. Commander Charles J. Badger succeeds him as superintendent. Commander Dodger from Maryland, entered Navy 1960, becomes assistant chief of the navigation bureau. Commander Cameron McR. Winslow up from cruiser Charleston to chief of navigation bureau duties, previously naval aide to Roosevelt and heroism recognition in the Spanish American War. Winslow, with Secretary Root aboard Charleston voyage, is slated for promotion to captain.
Jurgen Mumm bought the Grant Elgin farm nine miles from the city. The 320 acre section in Umatilla county was acquired for 22 000 dollars. The land is described as one of the choice farms in the area with crops and land prices favorable.
The Washington division offices of the O R N were moved from Tekoa to Spokane. About 40 staffers plus four officers occupy the new quarters in the old passenger depot building with work set to begin immediately. Dispatchers, clerks, and operators arrive by special trains as arrangements accelerate.
Unknown thieves robbed O Andersons jewelry store in Albany Oregon taking two thousand pesos worth of goods and an adjoining hardware store lost fifty pesos in cutlery. The suspects fled in a two wheeled wagon with the loot.
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