Pendleton's Prospects Rise With Better Saloons and Dorms
A vision for Pendleton details attracting out of town youth by lodging and dormitory facilities, boosting business and attracting outside capital. It decries cheap saloons that draw minors and Indians, urging higher licenses and stricter rooms to draw respectable families. It predicts railroads penetrating the coast and Oregon becoming a gateway to the Orient and Alaska, transforming the state within a decade.
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Pendleton
Main Street
Sirenta
Western Pacific
Burlington
Northwestern
Pacific Sea “Board
Oregon
Orient
Alaska
Fate of the Indian in Umatilla County
A public-spirited critique warns that selling tribal lands near Pendleton risks turning Umatilla Indians into charity cases. The author urges preserving portions of the reservation for perpetual tribal support, questions reliance on white settlement, and debates the impact of citizenship and guardian protections on future landholdings and county burdens.
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Umatillas
Pendleton
Umatilla
East Oregonian
Umatilla County
Supreme Court
Pendleton Rejected Investment Over Saloon Density
A prospective investor passed over Pendleton after reviewing a city with numerous saloons and gambling dens. He planned a dormitory for Pendleton Academy but declined upon discovering 27 saloons and other objectionable establishments in town. The note reflects local licensing and social conditions influencing investment decisions.
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Pendleton
Academy
Salopta
New Zealand’s government ownership praised by traveler
An American lawyer in New Zealand extols public ownership including railroads telegraph coal mines and savings bank. He notes low fares and wages a £100 pension and 25 cent per hour minimum wage while arguing the nation favors merchants storekeepers and workers over plutocrats. He asserts equal freight rates for small and large investors.
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George Clark
New Zealand
New York
London
Suez Canal
Dties
Wellington
Petone
Telegraph
Mine Own, My Native Land of Grand Ronde Oregon
A poetic tribute praising the Grand Ronde region of Oregon. The piece invokes mountain splendor, sunset skies, and living greenery as a homeland's crown. It appeals for the area to remain a haven and symbolic queen of plenty, addressing Port Huffman Pendleton Oregon and dated June 22, 1906.
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Port Huffmen
Pendleton
Oregon
How to value horses by Arab hand measurements
An old Arab method estimates a horse’s value by length from dock to withers using palms, then from withers to upper lip. If the rear palms exceed the front, speed is limited. if the front palms exceed the rear, the horse may have great qualities.
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Tahme Ie Enmal
Gant
Palma
School savings boost to over seventeen thousand dollars
Public school children in Spokane showings of thrift with more than $17,000 on deposit, a result of the savings clubs started in classrooms. The program teaches loans of thrift and economy to help youths avoid later spendthrift habits. Separately, Dr. N B Poindexter, once a notable Seattle doctor, now runs a race track tour and operates an opium joint.
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Arokane
Spokane Chronicle
N. BD. Poindexter
Seattle
Lie
Rich Potato Land Prices Rise in Weld County
Wheat and potato markets show rising signals in Colorado. Last year the Greeley district yielded 15 000 carloads of potatoes at an average 32.5 cents per 100 pounds, the lowest in a decade, with a 45 cent low in 1896. Land values in Peckham and Highland Lake areas nearly doubled in two years due to better water supply, with good land trading at 150 to 200 dollars per acre. Denver notes new state railroad commission complaints from Eastern Washington businessmen about discrimination in rates and car supply, totaling 56 complaints.
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Greeley
Weld
Peckham
Highland Lake
Denver
New
Washington State Railroad Commission
Washington
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