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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1904
Page
5
A week long sale offers six lots of undergarments including corset covers drawers gowns skirts and waists. Prices claim to be well below regular values with a corner window display drawing attention to items such as corset covers gowns and skirts at reduced rates.
A collage of notices and small ads lists shop openings and sales at Sullivan & Bond and The Boston store, clothing and accessories, beer at The Mint, and services like dry goods closings, a bellboy needed, and rooms for rent. Also noted are a fire in a nearby town leaving 3,000 homeless, a business sale on Court Street, and wool sorting jobs at Pendleton Mills. Local names include Rader, Get Bunny, Adam, and A. C. Rader.
Kinji Ohama, editor of the Portland Shimpo, stays jailed as friends fail to raise 300 for bail. The paper remains published with Ohama writing copy in his cell and dispatching it to the printing office. Fellow inmates say he has penned many columns about his experiences behind bars, though readers cannot yet decipher them. A new issue is expected soon.
Will M. Peterson from Athena is in town to file papers in the Taylor divorce case. The action has drawn courts’ attention for some time and involves more property than any prior divorce suit in Umatilla county.
Charles Cunningham, the central figure in the land conspiracy cases, left this morning to attend the opening of the federal court trial in Portland scheduled for Thursday, as hearings begin.
A long list of local and regional figures commerce, law, and politics visit Pendleton. Rev J W Comrandela, J A Materson, Sea C L Gist of Ukiah, Wiliam McBride of Athena, Bert Danner, C J Haseall, B Huntington of The Dalles, Mrs May Seeley of Freewater, Mrs M Morton of The Dalles, W Bollous, H A Green of Milton, Mr and Mrs F Statter, C F Thomson, Mrs Charles J Ferguson, Turner Oliver, Mrs C C Howard and Miss Zelia Howard, Dr M V Turley, Mrs S A Tausick, T H Crawford, Judge J J Ballera, George Burd, and J J Stubblefield are noted as visiting or passing through Pendleton for business, legal, or revival activities.
Dan B. Smythe accepts the Democratic nomination for district attorney in the Seventh Judicial District. The district includes Crook Sherman Gilliam Wheeler and Wasco counties, the largest in the state. Smythe, of Arlington, will campaign from The Dalles, leveraging personal popularity across the counties.
A rare lieu selection deed was filed in the county recorder office. Edward B. Perrin located 9 acres in Coconino County Arizona but returned the land to the government under forest reserve provisions to gain rights elsewhere. He filed May 4 on the south half of the northwest quarter section 19 township 6 north range 34 east in Hudson Bay country and sold his interest to William H. Gaston of Walla Walla for 400 dollars.
All alumni eligible for Pendleton Public School Alumni Association are urged to attend this evening at 7 o'clock. The meeting will be held in the rooms of the Commercial Association to perfect and finalize the permanent organization.
E J Sullivan wandered last night and was arrested for being drunk. He received a five dollar fine but could not pay, and faces three days in jail. The United States Steel Corporation has bought Clairton Steel Company for fourteen million dollars as part of a consolidation of steel plants in North America.
The woolen and scouring mills held annual board meetings with both reporting best financial condition and very flattering prospects. Boards elected E. B. Judd as president of the scouring Mills board and F. B. Clopton as secretary for the woolen mills. The St ate saloon has secured Pabst beer, serving bottled and draught. Pete Murray and Mrs Slater visit from Adams after a sister's death in Pine.
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