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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1904
Page
2
Ask anyone who has the best soda in town and they will say Schmidt's. The line for ice cream is long and the crowd gathers at the fountain. A sign above the door proclaims Schmidt's as the place for top beverages.
A varied roundup notes a Louis XVI snuffbox sold in London for 6.25 dollars, arrests in a Shasta express robbery are deemed errors, and bridge approaches in New York City cost 3.586 million dollars. Paris stores lose 200000 dollars in cash and gems from Mrs. Eddyn Gray of New Orleans. Oklahoma and Kansas wheat prospects improve with rains, while Bertram Nagelschmidt of New York receives a two year sentence for embezzling 18018 from a furniture firm and German societies. Newport News officials fight then plead guilty and are fined 350 dollars each. The British Chinese treaty allegedly grants immigration rights to South Africa and possibly applies to other colonies, stirring North American discontent.
Fred Helm drowned in the Nehalem river Tuesday. Seattle’s mercantile trading stamp ordinance declared sp wall. Four prisoners escaped Yakima county jail Tuesday morning by digging through the wall. Theodore Heep a starmhand attempted suicide at Forest Grove Tuesday, lovesick. Policeman Fred Seaman mortally wounded by a burglar in Havre Montana Tuesday. Multnomah county ships damages in Morrison Street bridge disaster. J M Fielder’s 18 months old bill drowned in Russell creek Tuesday while at play. John Church of Port Angeles appointed county clerk to fill unexpired term after W J Church killed in a runaway. 150 Japanese laborers in Grand Ronde beet fields arrive from Japan and are ineligible for army due to age and size. Mrs David Prine assaulted and robbed at her Prineville home. Coroner finds George Albert murdered near Bolwe City after days dead in cabin.
Four acres with orchard and house. Six acres with good house, 400 bearing fruit trees, alfalfa, and chicken yard. Independent water system. Terms. Price 9 1 1 0 0? 500 appears as 9500 or 39500. uncertain OCR.
Vineland once a desert outside Lewiston Idaho has become a famed irrigated district. Three thousand acres bought by Charles Adams seven years ago were flooded via ditching and now yield peaches cherries muskmelons and watermelons. Land values range from 60 to 1500 per acre with improved plots fetching the higher price. The district hosts plans for expanding orchard production and a crop forecast of hundreds of carloads, making Lewiston a center for high grade fruit in the Northwest.
To Our Friends and Patrons the Owl Tea House announces a sacrifice sale to close out its entire line of crockery glassware china cut glass vases lamps and related stock due to a five year lease ending and relocation plans. The shop will be closed Wednesday Thursday and Friday and reopen Saturday May 21 at 9 am.
Gerry Kimbrell went to Weston this morning to oversee terracing around Weston Normal School buildings. He started on the contract and will manage the project until completion.
A long hotel arrivals list shows guests from Albany Portland San Francisco New York Chicago Spokane Minneapolis and more with many names including W H Bell George M Gibson L L Lakin J W Johnson and Mrs Jennie Blackburn. A dated snippet from February 2 1903 notes Trib dental samples and a local sewer notice urges property owners to connect to the city system before July 1 1904.
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