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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1904
Page
4
The Athena community in Umatilla County, a city of about 1,000, has spent over 35 per capita on public and religious improvements in two years. It has laid crushed rock streets at a cost of 4,000 and plans 5,000 more, plus two major church buildings totaling 25,000, all paid or pledged.
The excerpt speaks of strength and forward resolve in facing life’s duties. It emphasizes health and work, urging perpetual forward motion toward light and right. It contrasts past hardship with a determined return to a steadfast path.
The text notes average annual county office costs from 1885 to 1900 at 5060.75 with 1900 first year savings of 1848.50 under Mr Strain. It advocates east Uma tilla county representation on the county board, cites William Llord of Milton as a preferred commissioner, and urges irrigation reform to promote state water measures. The Morning Tribune mocks a gas plant claim and warns residents near the proposed site while urging practical irrigators for Oregon's arid lands and irrigation legislation. It also references Missouri politics with Joseph W Folk for governor.
The May World’s Work essayist William Thorp portrays Santo Domingo as a republic in name, with about 500000 inhabitants and 18000 square miles. Recurrent war drains male population, while women outnumber men and polygamy is common. Peasants survive precariously on subsistence farming as soldiers threaten their labor.
A witness recalls infant deaths due to maternal ignorance and lack of care, babies fed raw plantain to quiet them, and baubles killed by soldiers as fathers fought rebels. Fifteen women and children were slain in San Pedro de Mayoris as part of a broader 1900 effort to deter revolting men.
U S agriculture bulletin urges protecting eroding river banks by sloping banks, vegetating them with willows. A method by E Bayles uses green willow poles set on the bank with woven wire to anchor and root, stabilizing soft alluvial soil against caving.
The article accuses a form of socialism backed by tariffs and railroad discrimination, aided by the executive, of defying laws and robbing the people. It cites the claim that trusts own national works and will keep them until voters act at the ballot. It also mentions Mrs. Clara Cooley of Louisville, Kentucky, who drowned her baby claiming divine command.
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