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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1903
Page
2
Reports from Ithaca Delaware and Bristol Mass cover typhoid deaths mining wage strikes and union demands. Jeffries Corbett boxing deal 20 rounds July involves a 26000 prize. Santa Fe rail leaders reach wage increases freight 16 percent passenger 15 percent.
Four volumes will be needed to hold the Journal of Lewis and Clark now ready for the press. De Fasso, the Portland Italian murderer, told physicians he was Mad not crazy when he killed his wife. Patrolman H. J Smith of Portland was assaulted by a band of roughs before help arrived. Sunday baseball is aired in Salem courts as citizens complain about players. Lake county sheepmen organize to fight the coyote and set a tax of 2 rents per head. Polk County Mohair Association meets at Dallas on March 7. There are 12,000 goats and lambing in progress. Portland police plan to suppress gambling in Chinese joints with wholesale raids. Blalock block in Spokane bought by M. M. Cowley to be a first-class hotel at $110,000. Oil drilling in Polk county yields a bed of pure salt at 500 feet. A $15,000 evaporating plant to be erected. A special committee of Judge Bean, C. A. Dolph and S. A. Friendly appointed by the governor to oversee $25,000 state university repairs at Eugene, including a $5,000 library addition.
A list of hotel arrivals includes R O Moore G S Youngman E B Cannan and others from Portland. also guests from San Francisco Weston Salt Lake Wallula Walla Walla Spokane Cheyenne and Pocatello with several entries, showing broad regional travel. Names include Thomas Duncan J M Martin M L Hanlin and L D Myers among many others.
An advertisement offers a hundred dollar reward for an incurable catarrh case with Hall's Catarrh Cure. It lists F J Cheney & Co as proprietors and includes endorsements from West and Truax and Walding Kinnan & Marvin Toledo wholesalers. The ad extols Hall's Catarrh Cure as blood and mucus surface acting and notes price and availability through druggists. Ball's Family Pills are praised.
In Pendleton two local signatories announce plans to buy about three hundred horses for the United States cavalry. They seek sturdy, well behaved geldings 15 to 16 hands tall, 4 to 8 years old, weighing 950 to 1160 pounds, in light sorrel to hardy colors, to be brought to a designated point for inspection and sale later.
A garbled notice urges purchases of matting, wood fibre carpet, art squares, rugs, lace curtains, pictures, wallpaper, sewing machines and other arts stock as a timely investment, noting a rush at Jems Falling.
L B Reeder former speaker of Oregon's house and Pendleton attorney shares to the Oregon Daily Journal that repeal of the scalp bounty act relieves taxpayers though sheepmen protest. He notes Governor Chamberlain's vetoes curb graft but warns warrants tied to Eastern Oregon hardship remain, with future redemption possible.
Alba March 2 weather mild by day and freezing nights. Ground frozen with little grass. snow melting in places. Mill company holding about 400000 feet of logs, sawing to begin in April. Tomilliland buys Bradburn place near Pilot Rock for 39000, 480 acres with 60 acres alfalfa. Mr Gilliland to move.
Florence Roberts closes the season with a much anticipated performance in Son dermann's drama Magda. The acclaimed actress, praised as the local favorite, delivers a refined artistic portrayal with striking gowns and faithful production details.
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