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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Nov 01, 1910
Page
5
Local items advertise moving pictures at the Pastime theatre and multiple small ads for services, rentals, supplies, and favors. Notices mention United Orchestra, chimney sweep J. C. Snyder, oysters at Hohbach's, and a furnished room rental on 201 W. Court. A foreign influence warning and a cannon breech theft incident are noted with brief details.
In France another treason affair disrupts security as would be gun secret theft risk rises. The culprits are described as soldiers near discharge, prompting alarm among military authorities. An unnamed suspect pattern parallels prior cases, underscoring ongoing risk and response.
In Altoona Pennsylvania a railroad officer opened an express car on train No 1 to check a report of a prisoner. A voice greeted him hello and he invited the unseen occupant inside. The officer entered and found he had been talking to a parrot.
Local notices list frequent visitors and arrivals in Pendleton from nearby towns and beyond. J S Taylor of Umentilla regis tered at the Bowmian. L M Bullock and wife of Umatilla were overnight guests in Pendleton. Mrs John Walker and Miss Jennie Walker of Athena guests at Hotel Bowman. Several officials and residents return from trips to Hermiston Stanfield and Portland with mentions of hospital visits and civic events.
Article discusses China produced coal cement fire brick and tiles entering San Francisco markets risking coast wide invasion from Seattle to San Diego. It notes a Chinese mining company with 2 000 tons coal 9 000 000 tons in sight and annual capacity near 1 957 200 tons, plus plans to export to the United States and Philippines. It cites Knabenshue in Tientsin predicting 2 000 000 tons annual coal exports from China and Manchuria in ten years.
A 13 year old homeless blind boy and his older blind companion William Karrias 40 set out from a New York City children's court after a morning of plea and aid. They shared meals at the court and the boy led Karrias to a streetcar before crying goodbye. Karrias planned to seek a proper home while the boy hoped for admission to a facility for the blind.
St. Petersburg report from ex-minister M. Yermoloff documents worsening peasant distress in Russia. Incendiarism has spread beyond landlords to peasants own property and to neighbors. Emigrants to Siberia and dissidents within communes face violent retaliation as new peasant farmers fear vengeance.
Singapore report of inquiry into municipal administration exposes venal practices among top Straits officials. Findings cite freely given contracts and criticism of the secretary, financial assistant, and assessor. Commission urges abolition of these posts and removal of public representation on the municipal board, leaving government nominees in charge.
Reports say railway whistle controls to curb a plague provoke public support overseas. Austria adopts dump signaling to start and stop trains, Belgium tests compressed air whistles, while Germany experiments with horns.
Paris police report rising crime with 80 dismaying cases in a month and a proposed bill restoring corporal punishment for attacks. Prefect Lepine argues law is enough and magistrates risk leniency, while public opinion doubts a return to corporal punishment for the Apache gang.
Bishop W. F. McDowell of the Methodist Episcopal church and Mrs. McDowell sail from New York on the Kaiser Wilhelm II to Bremen Germany. He will preside over Methodist conferences in India and other countries and preach to congregations in European and Asiatic cities during the coming months.
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