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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1913
Page
5
Local ad items list rates and services with names and addresses for merchants and jobs. Includes meat markets, cigar notices, insurance, lodging, rental offers, and help wanted. Several households and businesses advertise sales, rooms, stoves, and cleaning works.
Strayed mares and horses listed for capture and return. Included are a bay saddle mare, a tall sorrel gelding, a bay yearling filly branded J W on the left shoulder, and a branded mare weighing 1250 pounds. Reward offered. Notify Claude Woodell, La Grande Oregon.
For Sale or Rent Wheat Farm 2044 acres Eureka Flat country four and a half miles north of Pleasant View. Nearly all cultivated and partly in wheat now. Pumping equipment cost 10,000 dollars. Land good with fair improvements. Possession at once. Price 27.50 dollars per acre. E. J. Chingren, Owner. 62 Ziegler Block Spokane Wash.
In Bogota on November 25 the Colombian Senate unanimously adopted a resolution protesting any endorsement of Roosevelt's stance on Panama. The measure condemns the ex-president and affirms Colombia’s government and people oppose Roosevelt’s views and support equity and justice under the law.
Ben Johnson of The Diller visits Pendleton to pay Pendleton a call. H. W. Cowan of Walla Walla stays at the St. George. Col. H. G. Newport arrives from Hermiston. J and Bunyan, Birch Creek farmer, conducts business here. Adam Noble, Pilot Rock farmer, is among city visitors. Col. Clark Wood, Weston Leavener editor, spent the night. Maude Ellis of Elgin and Burnice Scott of Joseph register at Bowman. Dr. W. J. Stapish from Walla Walla today. N. Stanfield, sheep man, westbound on local train. John P. McManus arrives from Pilot Rock for county business. F. McKenzie Hermiston JP returns after overnight stay. Edgar Averill goes to Hermiston to investigate hunters on refuge. Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Carson leave Summerville for Pendleton residency. G. W. Coutts returns from Canyon City amid horsestealing case scheduling.
A novice marksman from the Round-up Gun club earns a Turkey gobbler in a rookie contest then climbs to face top shooters Irvie La Dow Bill Hoch and Charlie Hamilton. He ends tied with Hamilton, wins a goose and duck, and returns home to a skeptical wife.
In a City Attorney letter, Chas H. Carter states outside surveying for land corners and plots beyond the pipe line to secure rights-of-way across the Indian Reservation and Forest Reserve is extra work not covered by the contract. He concludes such work should be paid separately.
In Pendleton a disputed fight saga centers on Dr Best who vows to stop prize bouts as unlawful yet later assists in a bout. His public role, limited to refereeing, raises questions about voter desire for a water board member with such a contentious, conflict‑tainted background.
On the Columbia near the Willamette mouth in Portland, Mrs. Terpenning fell overboard while her husband Cc A Terpenning tried to free the boat from shallow water. He jumped in to rescue her, but could not keep hold as the craft drifted and sank in the gathering dark.
Brady will travel to the river today to continue the missing person search and locate the body. Local authorities coordinate with rescue teams while family members await a conclusion to the investigation.
SEATTLE Nov. 25 Philadelphia was chosen as the convention city for the American Federation of Labor for 1914 by a vote of 10633 to 8462 for Fort Worth Texas Samuel Gompers was reelected president Insurgents were strongly steamrolled early in the convention and in the officer elections the only opposition to the AFL leaders reelection was a lone vote against Gompers who was again named president.
In San Francisco on November 26 Herbert Parker, charged with whitey slavery for placing his wife in a house of repute, was released on bail in superior court and immediately shot himself through the heart, dying instantly. The case involved Warren's Music House, phone 524.
Telegraphic briefs report Grants Pass filing a complaint with the railroad commission against Southern Pacific over a 46 cents per 100 pounds freight rate for carloads of 36 000 pounds. The city seeks 15 cents per 100 pounds for car lots of 20 000 pounds and over. Other items note crime ties to liquor in Portland, Idaho congressman seeks 20000 dollars for wildlife extermination, discovery of a hot cave in Paulina mountains, an unidentified barber cutting a man's nose, and a man breaking his leg after falling from a window in San Francisco.
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