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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1906
Page
3
Marlon county adopts a plain of assessment basing taxes on cash value. Property owners face higher valuations but proportional levies. Experts argue honest cash value with economical governance yields fairness despite initial hurt to homeseekers and investors.
The country’s railroads plan a joint push to build a grand passenger station in Kansas City at an estimated cost of 20 million dollars. Industrial agents report large-scale emigration from Holland and other European countries toward California, Colorado, Oregon, and the West. A charter for the New York Oklahoma and Pacific railroad is leased in Oklahoma with 20.44 million dollars in capital to run from Mowers Arkansas through Indian Territory to Folcom New Mexico. A zinc ore tariff increase prompts a Monterey zinc and lead smelter by an American syndicate. The Minneapolis and St Louis Railway aims to raise six million nine thousand dollars in gold notes to back the Minnesota Dakota and Pacific Railroad extension west from Watertown South Dakota. Chew and London capitalists back a plan to link Lake Superior’s north shore with Hudson Bay by a 650 mile route opening a new timber and mineral corridor.
California Prune Wafers advertised as the great tonic cathartic a universal cure for malaria biliousness constipation nervousness catarrh of the stomach bad breath oily skin sleeplessness wind and all liver stomach and bowel trouble. Tallma & Co. 622 Main St. Pendleton Oregon.
Six thousand tons of flour to Vladivostok will be shipped from Portland this month by a tramp steamer. The cargo, supplied by the Portland Flouring Mill, marks the first direct Portland to Siberia shipment in over two years. The voyage should take about 36 days, departing in late March, with ice at Vladivostok melting to reopen trade.
Pittsburg March 2 The 1905 report from Pressed Steel Car Co states nearly half of U S railroad orders were all steel or steel under frame. The all steel passenger car gains favor while freight cars lead with forge and plant expansions at Allegheny and McKee’s Rocks. Output goals lift to 9 cars daily at McKee’s Rocks after additions and retooling.
The Congregationalists will hold a rally at Plymouth Church to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the American Board of Foreign Missions. About $1,000,000 is to be raised to fund gospel work abroad. Prominent attendees include Minneapolis board members and city and church leaders.
Dr Walter Brinckerhoff of the Harvard Medical School leaves Boston for New York and Washington to finalize plans for a United States government leprosy research hospital in the Jeffers settlement Hawaii. He will arrange the hospital’s planning, equipment, and staff, departing in about two to three weeks.
H L Stanley of Bruno credits Dr King’s New Discovery with curing his wife after five years of coughing and lung bleeding. He reports improvement after one bottle and full cure after twelve. The medicine cures worst coughs and colds, money refunded, available at Tallman & Co and Brock & McComas druggists. Trial bottles free.
Lewiston March 2 It is reported that Northern Pacific will henceforth accept liquor shipments to Nez Perce reservation points. The change follows a federal ruling that the treaty prohibition clause was unconstitutional. Freight rates cited: beer 38 cents per 100 pounds and whiskey wine 60 cents, far below prior costs.
A vast deal in Ruby Valley last week saw 700 Belmont stock farm horses from the Raymond estate sold to a North Dakota buyer. W H Raymond as administrator arranged the sale with Hart of North Dakota, paying 32 50 per head, with most horses shipping north immediately. The Raymond string is well known statewide and nearly all were sold except those lower by Mr Lane.
The article warns of widespread deaths from consumption and criticizes temporary palliatives. It promotes sun exposure, fresh air, good diet, and a cod liver preparation Vinci as a guaranteed cure by Brock & McComas Co. and E. J. Murry of Portland acquiring the Klamath Republican.
Postmaster General Cortelyou cites 1900 to 1906 data on railway mail clerks fatalities and injuries, noting many deaths occurred in pre 1903 wooden cars. He details steel car construction costs, weights, and safety improvements under revised post office specifications from 1904, plus coverage of car totals and retirement plans.
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