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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1905
Page
9
General news item noting telephone rates will drop in New York City on May 1 by 20 percent for small users and 10 percent for heavy users. Also mentions Turkish embarrassment over troop transport, a $2000 medical suit in Switzerland, and various political and legal items.
The Palouse license rose to 760 at Palouse Wash while Ellensburg Washington forms a 60 member commercial club. Endicott shipped 600000 bushels of last year’s wheat as the town grows. Rev. Smith of Elgin Methodist had a shed fall incident with a crows fence near his church. Palouse long settlers say crop prospects are best for this season. At Fort Assiniboine a cavalry drill accident left George Hudson dead from a broken neck after his horse fell into a badger hole. Dr. Albert B. Craig, longtime Medical Lake asylum steward, died in Philadelphia from cerebrospinal meningitis after a brief illness. The government abruptly withdraws 700000 acres of timber land in Nez Perce and Latah counties from settlement. G. K. Berry pledges to settle 3600 Eastern families in British Columbia within ten years if favorable terms are offered for public land.
Nine quarter sections of wheat land in one body near Pendleton. Half in fine wheat stand, well improved with houses barns orchards and fences and abundant water. Eight miles from Pendleton price 5000 per half or 6000 per quarter. Eight acres half creek bottom land irrigated two miles from Pendleton price 1500. ET Wade and Bon offices B O Building.
Baker City capitalist W. J. Patterson reports in the Oregon Daily Journal that Japanese influence is growing in Hawaii and on the U S mainland. He cites nearly all sugar plantation labor as Japanese and notes Japanese banks stores hotels and other businesses expanding on Oahu. He warns restrictive action may allow Japanese to politically dominate the Sandwich Islands, while immigration to the United States increases to support homeland military needs.
Near Roseburg Leon G Vial argued with his wife at L G Dumbleton home and fired at his wife missing the shot hit Mrs Dumbleton in the abdomen. She may recover.
A long hotel arrivals page lists guests at The St. George including J. J. Dunne of Portland A. H. Greenberg Beattie J. F. Murphy of Seattle N. D Hopkins Spokane J. D. Gregan Adame and others like J. Posner and wife San Francisco I. M. Waters Adame Samuel Fowler Bakersfield R. Judean Portland B. Schell Walla Walla and many more from cities such as Omaha San Francisco Spokane Jamestown Beattie Beattie and numerous Portland residents plus occasional visitors from Seattle Copenhagen and Louisville among others.
An 13th century tale recounted in a Scottish history book describes the widow Countess of Carrick who seized a princely suitor. After abducting him to Turnberry castle, two weeks of imprisonment led to marriage under royal compulsion. Their union produced Robert the Bruce, seed of a famed patriot.
A woman comments that Mary is an old fashioned wife with strict duties to husband and home. She mentions Mary refuses invitations unless her husband attends, rises for breakfast with him, cooks his favorite dishes, and stays home in summer. The friend reflects that more old fashioned wives might be better.
A genuine Murillo depicting the Madonna and child from the Villlada family of Toluca was purchased by Sydney A. Witherbee of New York for 20000 dollars. The work was brought from Spain by an ancestor of the Villada family in 1060, now in Mexico City.
Kansas City march 24. The annual meeting of the Western Ice Manufacturers association opens today and continues through tomorrow. Leading manufacturers from a dozen states attend and the discussions promise to be of interest and importance to the trade.
The American Library Association will hold its national convention at the Lewis and Clark Exposition from July 2 through July 7. The gathering will bring librarians from multiple cities to discuss library services, cataloging, and youth programs.
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