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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1902
Page
5
The Queen hotel on Garden street opens for boarders. The 36 by 80 foot two story building has 86 rooms, modern conveniences, electric lighting and bathrooms. Conducted by Olesen and Van Puymbroeck, former Queer Chop and Oyster House proprietors.
Earl McCarter and F. H. McCarter, once of this city, were seen in Oakland on their way to Spokane where Earl aims to locate. The pair spent the summer in San Francisco and Earl claims a brother, also named Earl McCarter and formerly telegraph editor on the Last Oregonian, is in Oakland buying a newspaper and making good money.
A Umatilla County Woolgrowers Association meeting at Pendleton Commercial Club with President Dougine Betts presiding. Delegates from nearby and Pilot Rock joined to reorganize under the State Woolgrowers Association constitution. Members praised range conditions, winter readiness, and the forest reserve and range allotment topics affecting sheep and wool.
The county court holds four special sessions to consider a petition for Helix incorporation. The hearing aims to set a date for a municipal election if a majority supports incorporation, finalizing the town status after months of discussion.
Weston reports a heavy early snow with more than six inches on Wednesday and temperatures around 20 below zero. The cold spell is the coldest of the fall, though officials expect moderation and better weather soon. The sun melted most of the snow by afternoon, leaving only ice and frost this morning.
James Harvey, a Northern Pacific lineman, was run down and killed yesterday four miles from Pasco as a freight train entered the city. The freight halted to allow a passenger train to pass and Harvey stepped onto the track, meeting immediate death.
Henry McReynolds has leased J. B. Despain’s Ukiah sawmill and plans to run the lumber yard in Ukiah after next spring, supplying lumber for Camas Prairie building. Despain shifts focus to Pendleton wholesale. Winter weather nears Pendleton with ice and frost dipping temperatures to six and twenty eight above.
An OCR fragment advertises toys and household items including Ping Pong pins, pompadour comics, ladies hair retainers, and pills. It lists enamel ware such as tea kettles and stew pans with prices, doll buggies in wood and metal, and wagons. Prices range from 25 cents to about 2.40 dollars, with various metal and cel luloid items mentioned.
Paris reports Captain Dazows ki of the Russian Imperial Guard was arrested for the murder of Helen Gore an American woman who came to study in Russia and became the officer s mistress. He gave conflicting stories claiming accidental shooting and then self-inflicted death. Her exact identity is not fully known though linked to a prominent family.
Clarence Mackey of Western Union notified Attorney General Able that the Pacific Cable Co plans a Manila Shanghai cable within a year. The main hurdle is securing a landing in China. Also notes the death of W. O. Thayer, a Portland pioneer blacksmith, on Wednesday.
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