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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1906
Page
6
The Hotel St George offers European plan with steam heat throughout and rooms with bath ensuite. A large new sample room is featured while telephones and fire connections link to the office. The hotel touts modern conveniences and a top standing among Northwest hotels.
Pendleton hotel rooms updated with en suites and modern telephone and fire alarm systems. An advertisement promotes safe travel in a rickety era, urging repairs for carriages and offering Winona and Winean Bugsy goods, Winona wagons, and Fairbanks-Morm gasoline engines with irrigation and mining machinery services.
Hot weather largely spared grain with late spring sowing in good shape though fall wheat partly damaged. District school closes after three months. Cholera infantum sickens two year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Rayte but improving. Milan Lafin recovering from accidental gun injury near tollgate. Hunters increasingly careless, cattle shot reported. Vanderpool and Kilgore health improving. Community updates include anxious recovery hopes, harvest near, and local travel notes. Moorehall Bros. of Portland begin concrete foundations for new brick roundhouse in Umatilla. Hannaford out of commission due to leaking plotters. Norma to replace at Riparia. Mountain Gem stopped for river passage.
Welser forest ranger Faye J B Lafferty reports a communication from the upper country about a range war. Notices threaten to drive out residents before July 25 or have homes blown up. Rustlers clash with stock raisers as tensions rise and leaders remain unknown. Bloodshed warned if authorities do not act.
Pennsylvania sends the largest irrigation contingent to the National Irrigation Congress in Boise on September 4. A Department of Agriculture report notes irrigated Pennsylvania meadows double or triple yields, with 22 farmers in Lancaster, Berks, and Lehigh counties showing hay yields rising from about half a ton to two tons per acre. The state will compare western methods with its own irrigation results.
J M Cardiff, a longtime Sain Nematino businessman now a major Imperial Valley agriculturist, says Southern Pacific will hire 1000 Mexican laborers for Colorado River flood control. He cites 2500 workers already at work and talks of a Yuma branch line and a 15 foot high levee. He praises flood relief, notes a seven foot drop in 20 days, and reports barley, melons, grapes, dates, and bananas as thriving crops with private plans expanding plantings.
The McKeen motor car builders in Omaha begin work on an order for 20 new cars. Harriman backs the project with strong advertising push. Cars will be distributed widely, with priority given to promotional use, as factory crews shift from No. 8 to fulfill the order.
The Interior Department rejected all bids for Okanogan irrigation project storage works as excessive. The lowest bid was Matthew F P Zindorf of Twisp. Government day labor to build the main canal, engineers estimate cost at 70000. Unrelated note remarks on truth telling being unpopular due to unpleasantness.
An old time medical ad asserts sweet breath follows a healthy stomach and perfect digestion. It claims Kodol for Dyspepsia relieves sour stomach and heart palpitations, urging readers to try it after meals. Tallman & Co. sells it.
A Jefferson quotation asserts that loving liberty means desiring freedom for people in other nations as natural and as justifiable as supporting rulers to keep others in despotism.
A line from the New York Press hints at a victorious, affectionate scene as a couple discuss carrying a baby and winning in a walk. The dialogue showcases a playful domestic moment centered on parental affection and anticipated success.
An advertisement promotes Dr. Ploren and Pierce Golden Medical Discovery as a blood nourishing tonic for nerves and vitality. It contrasts with alcohol-based tonics, claims lasting strength, and notes no alcohol content with ingredient list and endorsements. It also offers The Common Sense Medical Adviser free with stamps and mentions Dr. R V Jeevor Buffalo New York.
The Union Pacific maintains a bandit chasing car with top sharpshooters and riders at Laramie. The outfit, led by Tim Kallher and Jo Fefers, deters train robberies and has kept the railroad crime free for eight years.
The Lee brothers dipped 6000 sheep from W G Ayre of Durkee, Oregon, heading for Saunders of Salt Lake, the world’s largest buyer. Ayre, Eastern Oregon’s top individual owner, reported wool clips this season near 900000 pounds stored in Roaker City warehouses as Tacoma's population shows steady growth in the latest directory.
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