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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1903
Page
1
A speaker recalls misrule in the Balkans and calls for a Balkan federation to protect Christian subjects. He condemns Turkish repression despite the Berlin Treaty and urges funds for a religious school modeled after Booker T. Washington’s Institute, with aims to aid outreach and education in the region. The narrative touches on Prominent figures, political moves, and the role of international powers in safeguarding rights.
Fred H Drake former Pendleton boy and rising Oregon cartoonist spent Sunday with his parents on West Webb Street. He moved to Portland 18 months ago to work as window card and sign writer for Meier Prank, and he was recently elected a Retail Clerks Union delegate to the State Federation of Labor meeting in La Grande, departing this morning. Drake is illustrating humor sketches for A Slow Train Through Arkansaw by Thomas Jackson, an O R N brakeman, with a new edition soon issued including Drake's instructions.
The Oregon Supreme Court met in session this morning at 9 o clock to hear arguments in the eastern district docket. J B Killgore v Carmichael and several other cases were heard with 30 cases set for the term. Visiting attorneys from Union, La Grande, Elgin and Union counties attended the session. The term may last from a week to several days.
The battleship Indiana, stationed at the New York navy yard, plans a dinner and ball to honor its gun crew as the navy's best. Nearly 1,000 invitations were issued to New York friends for tonight. The Seventy-Five Regiment band will perform, and Director Fanchulli has composed a grand march for the event.
Lorain Ohio May 4 Father Walser, accused in the murder of Agatha Reichlin, remains in custody awaiting new evidence. Officials split on guilt with police opposing outside the churchman who spends long hours with his prayer book. He asserts innocence and regrets missing the funeral.
Grain market notes from Coe Commission Company manager W F Boulter at 120 Court Street Minneapolis dated May 4 discuss wheat and corn prices with gains and losses across markets. Reports cite weak foreign demand, cold damage to crops, and expectations of price support from cash demand, with Chicago and Minneapolis price quotes and opening and closing figures for wheat corn and oats.
The large electric engine at the power plant began a test run at 9:30 this morning after repairs from an accident two weeks ago. If the parts prove sound and adjustment is correct, light is expected tonight. otherwise no power until Tuesday night when the plant should be started.
The Modern Woodmen of America state camp convenes at The Dalles on Wednesday May 6 with delegates from every Oregon county except Multnomah. Eastern district delegates include Baker County Baker City Grant Yong Creek Morrow Heppner Umatilla Pendleton Union Island City Wallowa Flora Wasco and The Dallas.
J. C. Furman of Montana will move tomorrow 100 head of stock horses from Wallula to Havre. He has been in Eastern Oregon and Washington for two weeks and plans further purchases, saying Oregon horses are in demand wherever horses are used.
Western manager W B Grosskoff of the Coe Commission Company, headquartered in Spokane, is in the city today on a general inspection tour of the Northwest branch offices.
Captain Md wan Brady, a correspondent linked to the Star House scandal, died recently in Washington from Bright's disease, marking the end of a controversial figure tied to the affair.
May 4 reports say police in five city sections were called to suppress labor disturbances. Arrests were made as clubs were used but injuries were not serious. In Brooklyn, subway workers clashed with three ton union men, while Greenpoint saw 1400 jute mill workers attacked by nonunion men, both dispersing after fierce struggles.
Y B White of the United States Geological Survey arrives in Pendleton to arrange summer operations. He assumes charge of field crews and plans to establish Pendleton as headquarters surveying a large portion of the surrounding region this season.
Cumberland Victoria May 4. Miners at Cumberland coal mines declare strike in sympathy with Extension mine strike, closing all Dunsmuir mines. Men vow to disrupt coal transportation until action is taken.
Pittsburg hosts delegates from Chicago Detroit Youngstown New York and other cities at the Amalgamated Association of Street Railway Employes convention opening today. Grace Casey the sole woman delegate from Chicago reports 97 new local unions formed in the past year and a flourishing association.
A dynamite explosion in Salonica Sunday caused damage while an Italian woman alerted police to a suspected plot. Soldiers surrounded a house with five occupants. The suspect threw a bomb at the troops but missed, then he and one friend killed themselves. the other two were shot by soldiers.
Senator Hanna and John Mitchell mediated two major local strikes the Deering Harvester works employees and steam laundry workers to seek arbitration. Ten thousand people affected, with a conference planned and a potential panel of arbitrators.
In Montreal May 4 Doukhobours from Red Berry lake settlement on a spirit pilgrimage are barred from continuing and will be sent back to their villages by Northwear mounted pollen. Emigration agents reportedly broke into a meeting of delegates from Yorkton aiming to incite uprising. A nude meeting was noted and Yorkton leaders were forced to return home with men walking to Saskatchewan.
Marion Stockdale a well known Dixey Flat farmer near Walla Walla shot himself with a revolver on Tuesday morning. Found near the city limits by locals, he muttered I any thread of living. He left no wife and one month old child. Despite hospital efforts, his life could not be saved.
A petition will be presented to the county court to organize The Walla Walla Irrigation District near Milton on the Walla Walla river under the 1895 Oregon law. A four member board would manage water and allocate it to patrons to prevent waste, potentially sparking widespread irrigation in eastern Oregon if successful. The move, modeled on California’s Wright law, is awaited with broad interest nationwide.
W RK Logue who has led the Western Union telegraph office here for some time will depart for Portland tomorrow due to ill health He hopes a visit will restore his health and upon recovery he may return to company service J Kell will succeed him as chief night operator at Spokane and take over the local business
Roosevelt eats breakfast with cowboys at Hugo station, then arrives in Denver to a large welcome. He delivers a speech to a 2000 strong stockmen crowd, with city decorations, guard units, and a luncheon before continuing to Santa Fe and Southern California.
In Gerald Hatley’s court, one man was discharged and another jailed for five days after fines totaling fifty dollars. Ed Chapman and an Indian paid five dollars for disorderly conduct, Manuel Almeds fined four dollars for similar offenses, and Arthur Hicks faced twenty dollars for drunkenness. Jones McCormick received five days for bombarding officers with rocks.
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