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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1904
Page
1
City council adopts fines and licenses for Dixie Carnival week on street vendors and tent shows. Measures set distances, permits, and a 80 dollar revenue target while restricting booths in front of businesses and schools and including fire protection plans and a new hose cart proposal.
Council members discussed delaying action on about 600 property owners who failed to connect to the sewer system by the grace deadline. Inspector Withee will report next Wednesday, and the council may proceed only if district complaints arise or unsanitary conditions are noted. The plan is to address cases individually as complaints come in.
New York bankers and large retailers have launched a campaign against track gambling among workers. A department store found gambling among clerks and cash girls via a hand bookmaker who took wagers as low as 10 cents. A firm issued a circular warning that even being at a racecourse could justify dismissal. Salt Lake City resident Johe B Williams, 24, son of a railway official, died by suicide at home following insomnia. He used a rifle to shoot himself in the head in an easy chair. Good soap is made from Florida soap toe parts.
Delegates at the Prohibition Party convention in Indianapolis nominate Silas C. Swallow of Pennsylvania for president and George W. Carroll of Texas for vice president by acclamation. The platform sides with total prohibition, urges strict law enforcement, initiative and referendum, and broad social reform including divorce reform and ending polygamy. Delegates raise about $16,000 in pledges, with notable contributions from J. H. Ames and Clara Crowhurst.
Florida plans for the Democratic National Convention in St Louis with the Turpentine Operators Association. The Florida delegation will travel from Jacksonville tonight on a historic Southern Railway special train and establish headquarters at the St Nicholas hotel.
Tokio reports Oyama to command Japanese forces after Port Arthur falls and Liao Yang evacuees. An ultimatum to Kuropatkin may follow to avoid bloodshed, with copies to the powers. Dispatches from Che Foo and Rome mention Chinese ambitions, Russian naval actions near Gensan, and Kronstadt explosions. General Blönsel notes Japanese torpedo boats in Port Arthur with no damage to the Russian harbor.
The O R N and Pendleton group arrange a Fourth of July excursion to Walla Walla with extra coaches. Departs Pendleton on the Fourth and returns at 11 PM. Regular Pendleton fare is 1 40. excursion rate set at 1 for large crowd.
London June 30. Japanese Minister Halyard reports that six Russian torpedo boats entered Gensan port today and fired 200 shots. They sunk a steamer and sailing vessel and damaged a town with four reported wounded. Three other ships left the harbor and disappeared.
Walla Walla dispatch states A Armstrong of Wynochee, sentenced to death for the John R Patton murder in a Wenotee valley work camp, will not be hanged as execution is stayed. The warden received notice from the Chehalis county Superior Court clerk granting a stay of execution.
Washington reports official records for the fiscal year ending today expected to show a spike in Porto Department revenue. Receipts are estimated at 144,100,000 dollars nearly doubling from a decade ago. Rural free delivery expands to over 26,000 routes serving more than 12 million people nationwide.
Movement to concentrate government business in the new Baker City federal building grows, with possible consolidation of Burne and La Grande land offices and a transfer of Portland land pieces. Pendleton favored for the district judge, Baker City for post office and land office, as Eastern Oregon narrows its land holdings and reduces overhead. Also notes cattlemen visiting, a new stenographer, and 80 tons of butter stored in Pendleton. Edwin Knight of the London Post reports a courier killed in China.
Grand jury probes new boodler case after Charles Guthe's confession. Six delegates named, including Charles F. Kelly, face possible collusion findings. Col. Ed Butler, linked to bribe schemes, indicted on compounding a felony and aiding escape.
The Missouri Democratic State Convention opened with Cockrell the favored candidate for president as Folk and Parker factions gained little ground. James A. Reed presided as temporary chair and hinted at Parker and Hearst, while Hearst and McClellan drew mixed reactions. The gathering in Joplin, Missouri, moved toward Jefferson City for final decisions later in June.
The body of a stylish woman, strangled and tied, was recovered from the Mississippi River at St Paul. Identification later matched Ruth Leachout of Minneapolis, with her parasol, purse, and hat found on the river bank. Authorities believe foul play was involved amid reports of prior domestic tragedy.
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