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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Nov 21, 1906
Page
7
A dense page of local business ads and notices from Pendleton. Includes bank listing First National Bank of Pendleton, a furniture buyer Graham the Furniture Man, pawnshop Rowlsby, various attorneys, lodges, and service providers. Also classified ads seek agents, auto workers, and sales, plus real estate and employment notices.
In a wild Inland Empire clash near Holwe, August Stanke was killed and Lowe Javering wounded amid a long standing feud with Sime. Simmons fired on Stanke and Javering, then shot Javering in the back after he begged for mercy. Reports vary on who fired first and the sequence of events. The violent dispute echoes earlier confrontations and a fatal river accident tied to a collapsed bridge.
Jonn McKnieht, 17, was killed instantly at a Page and Mott logging camp on Domcett Creek when a log rolled onto him during shelling. He arrived April with his brother and had been employed there since. Bodies were prepared at Schreiber and Sidonfiden's undertakers and shipped to his home in Franklin, North Carolina.
Five men on the Selah bridge over the Nacher river at its mouth near the Northern Pacific line north of the city watched as the structure collapsed at 21 90 this morning. Timbers splintered, and debris blocked the span as onlookers reported loud cracking before the fall. Rescue crews began responding as alarms rang through Yakima.
Oxbow Project manager Ed J Winslow left for La Grande to negotiate for 17000 poles for the transmission line, requiring a double number of poles. Work on the Oxbow tunnel is set to begin around February 1, with Winslow and associates busy with preliminary tasks.
A testimonial extols Doan's Kidney Pills for back pain and urinary issues. F. J. Bicon of 116 Stonewall Jack presents persistent sickness, noting relief after six boxes bought at Pendleton Drug Store. Buffalo agents advertise 60 cents per box with Doan's name as sole brand.
Daily market report lists fall vegetables and fowl with prices for celery cranberries chickens turkeys ducks geese tomatoes sour kraut ranch butter oysters onions grand rondo apples and more. It also notes second class colonist rail rates from eastern points to Pendleton and Spokane with examples from Missouri Chicago Atlanta Baltimore New York and Boston and provides sale dates August 27 to November 26 and contacts William McMurray and E C. Smith for details.
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