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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1905
Page
2
Reports from a railroad camp near Pikeville Kentucky describe a dynamite thawing accident that killed four men and injured four others. The chaotic blast underscores dangers in early 20th century mining and construction work.
The county of Clatsop carries a debt of 70000 pounds. Hatchery records show 6,000,000 Oliverside 3,000,000 Chinook and 1LA8 any ateslhead salmon hatched at the Yaquina hatchery during piast season. Mrs J W Hartman recently committed to the insane asylum from Josephine county. Robert Lee Ghormley of Portland cadet at Annapolis Naval Academy named lieutenant commander, with a fine record. Fretting at the Columbia mouth to be rebuilt after a recent storm. Barlow toll road open over Mount Hood earlier than usual. E G Roberts of Spokane named chief of construction for the International railway from Spokane to Canadian Pacific line. Mr and Mrs William Rich and son Robert aged 26 returning from California to Baker City, Oregon, when Robert became violently insane at Roseburg and committed to the asylum there.
209 acres near Pendleton offered at 12500 dollars. Half creek bottom land adapted to alfalfa with upland tillable, a good house and barn, farm implements and stock on site included. Plentiful running water. Two miles from Pendleton. E T Wade & Co Office BE Building.
W S Mayberry of Milton and Antelope principal plans a summer expedition to Crook County caves in Oregon. He previously explored lava beds along the Des Chutes and intends to thoroughly map subterranean passages, rooms, and chambers that reportedly extend for more than a mile, with surface holes leading to vast lava caves and underground waterways.
Theodore Waters describes a 19th century scheme where Kempton formed a Community of Interest among beggars in the Park Row district. The group allocated strategy spots, appointed lookouts, used roundsmen to monitor earnings, and ensured legal representation for arrests. At peak there were about thirty members before police cracked the operation and jailed the gang.
The New York Tribune describes an immense asphalt lake in Venezuela where a dark brown semifluid layer sits beneath 3 to 6 foot banks. Workers haul sections about twenty five pounds each, four feet deep, to shore, load into tubs on tram cars, and feed an aerial tramway to a wharf on the Guano River for weighing and shipment to factories for refining and barreling commerce.
A long list of individuals and spouses from numerous cities including Portland Spokane Seattle Chicago Milwaukee The Dalles Walla Walla Pomeroy Emmett and others is presented with scattered initials and nonstandard spellings. The fragmentary OCR provides no clear event, action, or context to determine purpose or outcome.
A Honey Grove Texas colonel praises Electric Bitters in a letter claiming the remedy cured him of liver and kidney troubles and dyspepsia. The note endorses the medicine as the best on earth, sold by Tallman & Cin druggists with a bottle price of 40 cents to 1 dollar, and lists Seattle distribution details.
An advertisement touts Dr Kilmer Swamp-Root as a great kidney liver and bladder remedy. It claims it cures kidney trouble and protects vital organs, offering a free book and a sample bottle by mail from Dr Kilmer Co in Binghamton New York.
The piece rebuts the view that osteopathy is mere rubbing by detailing its methods of realigning bones, loosening muscles, and correcting spines and ribs with precise techniques. It cites eleven years of practice, four thousand practitioners, ten colleges, and recognition in twenty seven states, noting endorsements by notable figures and lawmakers.
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