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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1912
Page
8
Washington November 27. Anticipation builds for the Sixty-second congress as newly seated and returning members prepare for a lively session. Reports suggest potential sensational charges and investigations may enliven debates and proceedings.
Abe Skinner of Taylorsburg Ohio claims he laughed himself to death reading BIFF the Great American Magazine of Fun which he says keeps the family in good humor. The clipping invites subscriptions and praises the vividly illustrated publication.
Speculation rises over penalizing members who posted political statements in the Congressional Record after adjournment without leave to print. Observers predict committee action and possible rule revisions to curb the abused franking privilege and curb flagrant violations in recent years.
A deaf mute in Ohio handed a minister a $250 marriage fee. A wife ought to be worth that to a deaf man.
Weston man John Bemar hospitalized at St Marys Hospital for surgical treatment. Mrs Olive S Enright of Salem, a leading suffragist, visits Pendleton to attend Thanksgiving at Captain Charles Murphy’s home. Judge Phelps grants Edna P Smith a divorce from Benjamin P Smith restoring her maiden name Edna Bebeo. Represented by Hinkle and Warner of Hermiston.
W G Trill commenced a suit to recover 50 dollars plus interest and 25 dollars attorney fees from Edward Smith and J K Smith of Pilot Rock on a promissory note alleged past due. James A Fees represents the plaintiff.
John Todd of Fast Court street is recovering after a ride into a chute left him struck on the head by a scamling and knocked unconscious. Fear of serious injury has passed and he is now apparently out of danger.
A peddler’s license dispute led to arrest after a negative response. Judge Fite Gerald offered ten dollars or five days to a city guest. He elected to talk the marshal into leniency, brandishing his flats and threatening to “start something.” The chief’s approach prompted a surrender, a greenback payment, and departure. He now moves to avoid uncapped license requirements.
State Architect Pete and State Architect Knoighton, who drew the plans for the branch hospital and whose work has drawn high praise from inspectors, arrived from Salem today on business linked to completing the buildings below the city.
Shortly after seven o'clock a fire broke out in the dwelling on the old Eggerth place in the far west end of the city. The blaze practically destroyed the bullring and much of the contents. The house, occupied by Bert Leper and family, was outside the fire limits and doomed once the fire gain ed headway. The flames were visible to residents on the hills.
Assistant engineer George Melher has arrived to begin duties under Captain A Murphy who will serve as chief engineer at the institution. Melher, an old acquaintance of Superintendent McNary, has been located previously at Carson Washington.
The supreme court yesterday reversed the circuit court decision in the case of F. W. Paine and J. G. Paine versus the Milton, Freewater & Hudson Bay Irrigation Co. The injunction against water use is affirmed by the supreme court.
Pilot Rock files condemnation suit against W. J. Brown administrator and Sturtevant heirs to seize a strip of land within town limits for the water plant. Town seeks court to fix price after failed negotiations. James F. P. Neal of Freewater acts as city attorney.
Dr. M. W. Turley has moved his office from Hermiston to this city and completed a purchase of the Blakeslee residence at the Lewis and Grange street corner. Lavina and Lynn K. Blakeslee deeded the two-lot property to him for 4000 dollars.
Hose Company No. 45 reformed after a year dormancy sparked by a recent neighborhood fire. Meeting at Willow and Bluff streets installed Vandelay as foreman with John Kearney as assistant foreman Cook as president McAfee as secretary and Koch as treasurer. They vow to wage relentless war on all fires.
The Round-up directors yesterday sent the 1911 Round-up films to Dr. R. E. L. Steiner superintendent of the state asylum for the insane. He will show them at each state institution in Salem including the asylum and penitentiary. Inmates will be able to view the motion pictures at the institutions and gain some idea of the Round-up they missed.
L. P. Delk, a traveling corn doctor, attracted many coin offers from Pendleton residents yesterday afternoon. He tried selling his reputed salve to Chief of Police Kearney, who then questioned the claim and action surrounding the dispenser of the remedy.
Twenty dollars was paid into the city coffers this morning by two men who pleaded guilty to being disorderly and three other offenders went to jail for being drunk. One other, arrested for being disorderly, is standing trial this afternoon.
William A. Futter of Ukiah sold 240 acres near Ukiah to John S. Moore for 2400 dollars after recently receiving a patent from the U S government.
Echo Oregon November 27 special report notes women will vote in the December 3 city election. A mass meeting of 25 leading Echo ladies endorsed incumbent nominees for mayor councilmen and treasurer. The piece also covers local social notes and brief arrivals from nearby towns.
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