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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1907
Page
7
A May contractor offers estimates for masonry cement walks stone walls and related work with orders accepted at the East Oregonian office.
Joe Ziver, a longtime homesteader and meat dealer, is ordered to vacate seven acres near the Northern Pacific bridge after a government patent and ten years occupancy. Indian Agent Lipp leads a force tearing down Ziver’s buildings for noncompliance. Ziver plans legal action for damages with his attorneys. Route notes place this dispute in the Inland Empire exchanges context.
A careful examination found the blaze started spontaneously in rags soaked with oil turpentine and left on a saw horse by the painter. The officials concluded there was no arson involved in the incident reported by the Yakima Republic.
Local Pendleton notice praises Doan's Ointment as a cure for piles and skin itchiness with patient Rudolph Martin of 600 Mill Street recounting rapid relief after using the product from Pendleton Drug Co. The ad lists price at 50 cents and identifies Foster-Milburn Co. as U.S. agents. Also notes Weston Pioneer Picnic travel deals via O R and N Co with round trip fares and sale dates June 6 to 7, 1907 and return by June 9, 1907.
A Heavily damaged report states on last Monday A A Clark climbed to a church roof in Okanogan and deliberately shot George Godfrey who had raised his gun. The shooter then placed the gun in his mouth and fired a shot that killed him. bystanders removed his body as Ernest Allender sheltered nearby. Godfrey and Allender escaped unharmed and authorities took Clark’s body.
T A Davis recalls a remarkable incident of spontaneous combustion overheard yesterday morning while walking on Reed Street. He observed smoke rising from a rag pile on a saw horse, called his neighbor, and together they moved the saw horse as flames engulfed the rag. Davis asserts the outcome could have ruined a new house and a new mine would be lost if timing had differed.
The Baptist Young People's Union of America holds its sixteenth annual convention in Spokane Washington from July 4 to 7. R and N company offers round trip tickets at five dollars with sale dates July 2 and 4 and return validity through July 10. For details contact a local ticket agent or Wm. McMurray G A Portland Ore.
An ad claims Sexity Pilla cures nerve weakness in men and women with a Gull guarantee. It directs readers to a district store and urges calling or visiting for purchase, stating a price of $1 per box and six boxes for five dollars.
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