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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1911
Page
2
H B Cole, 75, was injured when he fell from a wagon, breaking four ribs. The accident occurred as he was traveling with a load in Whitman County.
Homer Hardy was seriously injured in Eugene by a discharge from a gopher gun he received from his father. The charge struck him in the abdomen and he lies near death at Eugene Hospital. He believed the gun was unloaded.
A shipment of 24,000 eastern brook trout arrived in Marion Stream through Houser Bros and Representative Hawker. The fry, in excellent condition, will be consigned to Battle Creek and expected to thrive. In Bend, Mrs. Tom McGrath of Bend is believed to have died by her own action.
A fragment notes a benet event highlighting a yearling named Helfer as a focal point. The item suggests community interest and fundraising context, with no additional names or dates clearly legible. Further details are unreadable in the surviving text.
Believed suicide after parasol mingagine and poison bottle found on riverbank near here. Body not recovered, and no further trace located as Sunday passed. Local authorities investigate disappearance of the woman.
Mrs H W Col fing and Dr Gould with her young daughter were thrown from a single buggy west of Rockford when the horse upset the rig during a turn. Both women sustained bruises.
Henry Tipton of Lewiston Idaho was struck by the Genesee train near Uniontown and severely injured. Brought to Pullman on the noon train. Dr. Else said the injuries were not necessarily fatal. His wife, also of Lewiston, was notified.
Pasco Washington reports a new newspaper will be started in the city. Businessmen inform that discontented workers from the recent election campaign will not be satisfied with prior treatment. Mr Lake, editor of a Ru xville paper, is expected to run the Pasco venture.
Hood River residents learn that Thomas Waldie married the Brakden daughter during the Portland rose festival and the ceremony was held in Washington City, making Vancouver Ward a Gretna Green for locals and Portland visitors.
A de mented man was seized four miles north of Estopia by Deputy Harfung of Connell after being seen along the Northern Pacific tracks and nearly nude. His only worn item was a woman’s skirt stolen from the residence of Dun Darey two miles south. He will be examined at Paseo.
In Kalispell Montana a ferocious grizzly preying on stock was trapped in a thicket. J Nelwon, armed after reporting the danger from Frants Meadows, found Mrs Kapp using a sapling as a crowbar to kill the animal and end its misery while berry picking nearby.
In Wilkesbarre Pennsylvania a thief forced a bakery window, opened the shop, sold bread cakes and pies at cut rates, pocketed the proceeds, then vanished. The store owner Wt. Meekman and his family were away. the burglar remains at large.
A town welcomed three baby boys within 24 hours while in the past two years more than eighty girls were born. The crowd of newborn girls caused anxiety about birth-rate imbalance, but the trio of boys significantly shifts the pattern, easing local nerves.
Ethel Thiede five year old daughter of Mr and Mrs E M Thiede of Redding was drowned in the Sacramento river at Castella near where Flora Chauncey also of Redding had been drowned earlier this week. The girl fell from the bank while playing and her father nearly drowned while attempting the rescue.
A letter from Camp Mars Oregon dated July 22 1911 describes Albee Man and companions surveying and building a government trail from Porcupine Ranger Station toward North Powder lakes. They plan a tunnel at their site near eight thousand feet elevation and expect to stay six to eight weeks to finish work ahead of the Round-Up.
A vintage advertisement urges readers to use ZEMO and ZEMO Soap to treat hives prickly heat eczema pimples blackheads sunburn and other skin troubles. It offers samples and a 32 page booklet via five Zo stamps to B W Rose Medicine Co St Louis Missouri and mentions Penliton Drug Co as distributor.
Instant relief for summer akin trouble with D. B. D D prescription for eczema. Get a 25¢ trial bottle today and prove its merits. We recommend it for summer itch. Tallman Drug Co.
The Orpheum presents a varied lineup including The Honor of the Fing and The Hilden Mine, with a western tale of Uncle Sam’s troops in Texas, a mining drama, a lively Kalem comedy The Jollier, a Moravian drama The Oppressor, and Gaumont’s Jimmy the Fox offering humorous deception and a final confession.
A newspaper film program reviews multiple attractions including The Crusaders a romance set in the Holy Land with love and fate thwarted and later restored Elginor and a jailed rival. Also Mary Jane kisses a horse thief in The Reporter a stirring western. Scaves in Our Navy a war catalog piece and The Pillars of Society a moral drama. A Sure Cure a western dash comedy and The Dude Cowboy a western satire also appear along with other acts.
A Cosy program for Monday and Tuesday blends path om western drama and light comedy. The aged musician writes a famous opera that could save him and his son from hunger but dies before the curtain. His boy conducts to a triumph, earning adoption by the manager The Savage Nestor. A girl rescues an Indian then returns him to safety as trouble looms.
Leaster Chamberlain age 16 accidentally shot himself through the left forearm with a 22 caliber rifle at the home of rancher Max Sitton east of town. He ran two miles to a neighbor to call his father. The wound is not serious.
The Pendleton Common Council invites sealed proposals to furnish 40 tons of Rock Spring coal delivered to the basement of City Hall Pendleton Oregon. Proposals will be received by City Recorder up to 5 pm July 26 1911. John Haitley Jr Acting Recorder.
Notice in district court Oregon that F E Fryer was adjudicated a bankrupt on July 17 1914. First meeting of creditors set for August 5 1911 at 10 o clock in the morning at the referee in bankruptcy offices Pendleton Umatilla County Oregon. Creditors may attend prove claims appoint a trustee examine the bankrupt and transact other business. Dated July 24 1991. THUS FITZGERALD Referee in Bankruptcy
The Pendleton City Marshal lists two stray animals: a bay mare about 900 pounds branded 10 on the left shoulder and a gray horse about 1000 pounds branded N on the left shoulder. If unclaimed by owners within ten days, the animals will be sold at public auction at 2 pm on July 26, 1911, at the City Pound Oregon Feed Yard, with proceeds covering costs. TOM GURDANE City Marshal.
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