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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1905
Page
6
Eastern Shasta County in California endures a grasshopper plague causing widespread damage. Foreclosure actions loom as International Packing Company faces a 3 977 000 dollar claim. A mix of crime and personal tragedy surfaces with notable cases and rumors across the nation.
A summer term opens at Washington State Normal College Cheney on June 21. Willamette Valley Chautauqua meets Gladstone Park Portland July 11 to 24. A heavy cyclone damages crops in eastern Idaho near Spalding. Wardner mine injury to Hubert Flynn from falling rock. Washington railway commission board fight over secretary post pays 32000 yearly. Spiritualist gathering July 8 to 30 near Oregon City with leading US speakers. Spokane arrests planned for marrying out of state during divorce probation. Washington postmasters salary changes include Olympia Toppenish Walla Walla Waterville Wennatches and Cosmopolis adjustments. Portland spiritualists claim 20000 believers in spirit communication across churches.
Portland June 22 Fifty one slave girls and several workers were fleeced out of 1 to 300 by a scheme run by the Prudential Investment and Security Company, with offices in Seattle and claims of California legality. Attorney Ernest Brand says the firm resembles the Tontine Diamond operation, now shut down by state action. Victims ranged from Portland to Seattle and San Francisco, with initials of 1000 taken from servant girls and laborers. Portland agent F Wo Winn admits involvement and claims not to know of fraud, while California treasurer reports no deposit of claimed 5000. The company is said to be successor to Empire and Fidelity Trust firms.
Joe the gold en eagle killed Amelia during a courtship clash at the Central Park menagerie. Keepers subdued him, and he faces life confinement in a cage with vultures, the predators he now fears. Their separate cage is only wire apart, raising fears of retaliation.
French prefects ordered inventories of art treasures across all prefectures. Estimated value reaches 31.2 billion francs or about 490 million dollars for reliquaries paintings tapestries and similar items with a later figure possibly rising to around 1.2 billion dollars including altars stained glass and related pieces. instances cited include a Beauvais tapestry value of 160000 a Rheims cathedral reliquary at 40000 and the Becket chasuble and stole once offered to 3500000. Also Empress William held religious services on the Hohenzollern before visiting Hamburg races. San Francisco surface street railways sold to an eastern syndicate for 7260000.
A list of hotel guests at the St George includes visitors from Los Angeles Portland Seattle Tacoma Walla Walla Denver San Francisco Colfax Saint Louis Chicago and Salt Lake among others. Names such as J A Haran Mullen H D Maynard and A Clark family appear with numerous others from across the West.
Lewiston man Bornzac complains to the district attorney about being charged 76 for spectacles deemed worth 3 50 by Dr Stewart an oculist. Deputy Moser to prosecute under Oregon groes fraud statute. Reed Optical Concession run by Water Reed promises refunds after faulty sales at the exposition. many others report overcharges and fraudulent misrepresentations by unnamed men posing as oculists.
La Grande seeks to mark a milestone as Engineer John Gardner of the O R & N in La Grande marries next Wednesday. With Gardner's marriage the local Bachelor’s club will be reduced to one single member, Mr. Grant, the roadmaster of O R N. Once a thriving group of railroad men, the club now loses several members to marriage, leaving Grant to handle dues and fines alone.
Industry notes show over 6000 cords piled at dumps along the railroad, with 2000 cords at Kamela and smaller totals at Allen's Spur and nearby locales. Demand dim, choppers few, season nearing end as lumber firms Pacific National and Lumbermen's National Bank of Tacoma consolidate with $200,000 capital. Wererhaus era and James J. of St. Paul hold interests.
Pendleton resident Mrs. C. C. Hendricks testifies of lasting relief from backache and kidney weakness after using Doan's Kidney Pills. She bought them at Brock & McComas Co. drug store and recommended them to others. Sold by all dealers. Price 60 cents. Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo N Y, sole agents. Remember the name Doan's.
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