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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1906
Page
5
A local page lists items from car and home goods to services. Kaiser loses a dog named Fergy with community notices mixed with ads for lawn mowers, millinery closings, piano sales, housing rentals, stoves, telephones, and travel tips. Addresses include Main Street, Willow Street, and Hotel Oregon, with miscellaneous offerings from unions and merchants.
The Telluride Power Company has started digging for its 81 million irrigation and power plant project in Idaho. The Montpelier Examiner notes hiring is underway as crews move dirt to prepare, with initial work including driving a tunnel through a mountain near Soda Springs to access water.
Every woman loves pretty things in jewelry cutting and silverware. We have on fine rarity both inexpensive and genuine article side by side in our stock offering a unique opportunity for selection. L Hunziker, Jeweler and Optician.
From Hear river to the power house an immense pipe and tunnel reroute water cutting a long U shape. A canal from Bear river city to Bear Lake will store floodwaters for summer use. Construction begins with labor costs over 1 million, benefiting the valley.
In North Yakima the wool market shows signs of recovery as London gains lift eastern demand. Buyers loosen up yet keep prices firm with sold lots at 19 to 26 cents per pound. Notable sales include 29,000 pounds sold for 200 cents and 60,000 pounds to Portland Woolen Mills at 23 cents. Local growers like Ernest Berg predict higher rates, while talks of a broader rise in the US market persist.
Mrs M M Churchill departs for Yakima to visit relatives. Effie Smith and Elva Turner arrive from Walla Walla. Fred Shoemaker sails to Portland for a week’s visit. Hendersons of Pilot Rock visit. D Brownell returns home from city business. Robert McGee heads to Tacoma for summer with daughters. Gilliland, county judge candidate, seen in city. H Alexander, US land inspector, in town from La Grande. I W Romig, Baker City attorney, in Pendleton. Mrs A L Stinson from Salem arrives from Milton. Mrs A Lawrence from Milton leaves Portland for home. M A Rader travels to Portland for Made In Oregon convention. Glenn Bushee, US marshal, in town on official business. W R Graham returns from Portland with niece Hazel Owens. J McCabe, W C K general manager, leaves for Walla Walla after wool salon. Dan Smythe heads to Heppner for 1400 sheep. Major Edwards, reservation agent, leaves for Lander and midwest points. Mies Bosele Thornburg returns to Lexington to resume Pendleton Business College. Co L Park begins stenography job at Wilbur. wife to join Saturday. J Ky McGillivray, former Sunday school worker, now Utah mission is on business trip to Goldendale. A W Kimbrell, county surveyor, travels to Spencerford for private surveys. Richard V Holder, Northwestern Railway general agent, in Pendleton for wool sales. E J Miller, traveling agent, assists with wool sales.
The San Francisco Idaho and Montana railway was reorganized with Donald Grant of Chicago named president. Eastern capitalists join the directorate. Construction on the Winnemucca division will start before July 1, and the line is planned from Butte to San Francisco via Boise.
The Standart Oil Company has absorbed Vacuum Oil, formerly sued by the attorney general. The move aims to avert further proceedings and curb price increases that affected independents. Also noted is a push by Dr Withycombe to abolish the state land office and land agent, praising past actions under Governor Chamberlain that allegedly saved land value for the state.
J D Hughes of a thin city sold head of range horses to an Alberta buyer last week. Average price per head reportedly 1200 dollars. Horses shipped Saturday morning. For rent ad notes a nicely furnished room house for three months or more at X, this office.
An excerpt from The Tribes of the Northwest Plains by EB Curtis recounts a survivor’s perilous near-mistaken memory of the Little Bighorn battlefield. The survivor, Curley, is quoted as an often-bullied witness whose account is questioned by many seeking proof of the tragedy.
The article discusses a potential liberal shift in the Vatican after the death of Jesuit Father Martin and highlights Spanish influence through Merry del Val Cardinal Vives. It notes uncertainty over a new Jesuit general and mentions the Winged Victory of Samothrace, exhumed on Samothrace in the Aegean Sea, once adorning a Greek ship prow.
The Dalles Chronicle notes Waren county total registrations before closing books stood at 8815, about 12 more than two years prior. Also mentions the St Agnew Insane Asylum collapse in St Jose California from the earthquake, resulting in 11 employees and 7 patients dead.
Six hundred head of Montana cattle passed Pendleton this morning bound for Tacoma via the O R & N as part of 12,000 head from Big Hole Basin shipped in two months. The lot, averaging about 1300 pounds, was driven 65 miles from Red Lodge to the shipping point. Most Big Hole Basin cattle went to Chicago and Omaha markets, with about 3000 head heading to Seattle and Tacoma via the Northern Pacific. High altitude hay and feed scarcity kept the basin delta tight, with farmers importing cattle for feeding purposes.
After the quake and fire the mayor ordered saloons shut and the San Francisco Chronicle praised the city’s decency. The paper noted a drop in violence and crime, argued reopening should include strict liquor licenses, and criticized Oakland for reopening saloons.
The editorial urges increased taxation to fund police crime control against saloon linked violence. It argues the public will protest tax funding for crimes claimed to be caused by saloons and asks the board of supervisors to assign the cost to the occupation responsible. At Benevon Astoria a boy Becker struck at a large snake, missing and injuring his sister’s foot. medical aid was summoned and recovery hoped.
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