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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1910
Page
8
Lambing season nears completion in Uma tilla county with a projected 95 to over 100 percent flock increase as ewes recover from a harsh winter. Stronger flocks and favorable lambing conditions push woolgrowers toward recouping feed costs, while coyotes see reduced numbers due to a new bounty law and ongoing hunts.
The obituary chronicles Stephen J. Brewer a Kansas Supreme Court justice later U S circuit court judge and U S Supreme Court associate justice. It notes his advocacy for women’s suffrage his education from multiple universities and his role in the Venezuela boundary commission and arbitration tribunal.
A. C. Koeppen & Bros. via Dr. Howard Company seek Pendleton area cases of dyspepsia or constipation to test a new remedy. They offer a money-back guarantee if unsuccessful and sell a fifty cent dose at half price, 25 cents, claiming permanent cures and broader health benefits.
At the regular meeting and rehearsal of the United Orchestra and Band this evening at The Eilers Piano House, the Pendleton Commercial association plans summer concert discussions and a definite proposition for final disposition. All band men and musicians are invited to be present.
A string of personal business entries notes Nordean of Weston and others from Stanfield Baker City Umatilla Echo Hermiston and Pilot Rock arriving for local dealings. Prof DeLong and Co M Richmond are listed among visitors while several residents plan return trips home from Pendleton or Buttercreek.
Albany Ore April 14 will host an improved waterway convention to mobilize Willamette valley towns for river improvements. The gathering seeks a 9 million dollar federal appropriation and invites Corvallis Brownsville Canby Dayton Dallas Estacada Eugene Harrisburg Hillsboro Independence Jefferson Junction City Lafayette Lebanon McMinnville Mount Angel Newberg North Yamhill Oregon City Salem Falls City Sheridan Springfield New Era Stayton Willamette Gervais Brooks Turner Hubbard Monmouth and Silverton to participate.
Denver March 24 state bank examiner Pfeiffer reports within seven days ten state banks have been incorporated with capital stock ranging from 10 900 to 25 000 each. He calls it a record in bank organization and a sign of Colorado prosperity.
Kansas City report shows Mrs Frances Swope Hyde arranged a fifty thousand dollar loan from a trust company to fund her husband Dr B Hyde's defense for the alleged murder of Col Swope with an April 11 trial date mentioned.
Seattle report shows cruelty and drunkenness led the base charge in all but fifty one of twelve hundred eighty one divorces initiated in King county last year. Figures turned over to Judge Frater for a campaign for better divorce laws note a twelve percent rise in decrees over 1908.
Seattle reports the murder of Stella McCormick, a young woman from San Diego, found dead in a resort room at midnight with a throat cut. Indications of robbery and a card on the floor identified her. police suspect jealousy involving a man she formerly lived with in the south.
Rumor swirls that Jim Jeffries fell from a cracker box at his ranch near Burbank and fractured his arm. The report could not be confirmed.
In Albany New Jersey March 29 the state senate voted forty to nine to sustain the charge that Senator Jotham P Allds solicited a thousand dollar bribe The charge by Senator Conger claimed Allds used influence to defeat bridge trust legislation Allds resigned from the assembly shortly before the vote. Oregon Whitman Eugene Ore March 29 Alf Belt pitched for Whitman but Oregon won 1 to 0 Henkle allowed six hits and Belt three safeties in the lone Oregon run.
France plans a large aerial force within months, with at least a dozen dirigibles and as many aeroplanes. Types include Wright, Farman, Maurice Farman, and Bleriot aircraft. Captaine Chaure and Lieutenant Vincenot dirigibles honor officers lost in a disaster. A national commission studies armament and tactics under General Lavroix.
Philadelphia report details Blenheim Bachelors' club president Harry Marris paying a $1000 penalty after falling for New York beauty Katelin Crane. The club, formed to promote celibacy, had proposed the fine for any member who defected from bachelorhood.
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