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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1913
Page
8
Mrs Raymond Robbins of Chicago president of the National Women's Trade Union League told the fourth biennial convention that investigations show close ties between wage levels and social evils. She cited commercialized vice impacting day workers and urged a training school for women trade union organizers and education for children on workers rights under state labor laws.
In Bakersfield California on June 3 a man was murdered. His wrapped body was placed on a sage brush pyre in the desert near Caliente. Authorities do not know the victim’s identity as a four man search is underway for the killer.
A body was found by a Southern Pacific section hand half a mile from the tracks, the head crushed and bleeding, atop a recently burned sagebrush pile. Authorities believe a slayer fled toward Los Angeles on a passing train.
Washington June 3 Ambassador Chinda of Japan notified Secretary Bryan that Japan had accepted in principle the proposed universal peace plan. Signatories would refrain from hostilities for at least nine months while claims are reviewed by an International joint commission. Details remain unsettled and no commitment to the plan’s specifics has been made.
An honest farmer works the land and earns his livelihood through lawful means, while a thief takes to obtain goods without permission. The contrast lies in integrity, legality, and respect for others' property.
Miss Hana Storie underwent an appendicitis operation at St Anthonys hospital this morning. Attending physicians report she is rallying well this afternoon. The appendix was badly affected but no complications are expected.
Red Wings Bound Over and Wille Jordan and Julia Walker held for grand jury on larceny allegations with bonds set at 350 and 750 dollars. A library summer schedule announced with new hours. Umatilla school building praised as fireproof and modern with reinforced concrete. Compromise verdict in Sebastino case finds him guilty of larceny from the person. sentenced to one to five years. Burglar bound over to grand jury Frank Miller and Henry Geers under 500 dollars bond for burglary and receiving stolen property.
The article notes four marriages and licenses issued to Handram, Wheeler, Wels, and four others amid a new health certification law. It reports a street assault on a Chinese worker at a restaurant and a divorce suit against Bernard Sherry by Mary Sherry alleging cruelty and infidelity including a California rodeo trip and a woman named Rosa.
London E D Morel told the Congo Reform association executive committee that Congo has improved enough to justify recognition of Belgian annexation by Britain. He said Leopoldian policy is abandoned, outrages and tax removed, natives free to trade, and a responsible government replacing despotism. Genclum has invested over 4,000,000 pounds in four years.
Winnipeg reports four freighters employed by Grand Trunk Pacific builders were drowned when a scow laden with supplies broke apart in the Grand Canyon near Tete Jaune cache. Seattle notes an anti hatpin ordinance passed in council banning pins beyond 1 1/4 inches from the crown with penalties up to 100 dollars or 86 days. Chicago mentions a mother scolding her 18 year old son after a pocketbook theft, demanding he earn the money and keep bedtime. Cleveland covers teens studying infant hygiene with real babies at Stering school, bathing eight month old Mason Parsch. Portsmouth describes a submarine fleet exercise off Isle of Wight ending in collision with a submerged sub, slight damage to the battleship Irresistible. Washington reports Rep Barton proposing a special committee to report a bill for government armor plate plants. Attorney General McReynolds will review the Union Pacific Southern Pacific merger plans.
A surge of marriage license applications occurred at the county clerk’s office as a new rule requiring medical examinations for all applicants took effect. The unexpected rise reflected compliance with the new law rather than increased romance.
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