Freewater land sales and rail line talk in Oct.
Local notices report nine acres of fruit land sold for 3100 and four more acres for 400. Prunes and potatoes moved to Ione and local canning prospects discussed. Walla Walla Traction crews grade five miles to the state line. Short Line railroad rumors center on a route toward Salt Lake with Montpelier as a key hub.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walla Walla
Victor
Northwest Territory
Johnie Rice Ie
Freewater
Co. D. Hobbs
Mir. Freetag
la Grande
G. A. Hobbs
J. J. Rogers
Fred Hesse
W. S. Vandewater
Bert Putnam
Co. M. Cox
Mullen
Idaho
Dayton Wash
Johnnie Rice
Freewater Times
Charles Patterson
Sound
Johnnie
Geo
S §. Shields Fruit Company
Ione
Canning Factory
Meerrs
McLaughlin
Maxwell
Salt Lake
Montpelier
Paris
Brar Lake
Wiley
Vinh
Gome
Feee
Cache Valley
Tte
Wyoming
Utah
Montpelier Canyon
Star Valley
Women and Kidney Trouble Promises Relieve by Swamp-Root
An advertisement touts Swamp-Root as a remedy for kidney and bladder trouble affecting both women and men. It claims rapid effects, offers a free sample bottle, and directs readers to Dr Kilmer and Co in Binghamton for more information. The copy urges mentioning the paper when contacting the firm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Kilmer & Co
Binghamton
Dr. Kilmer
Golconda Mine Troubles Could End Soon
Golconda mine manager H H McCarthy says outstanding bills to laborers will be settled and operations may resume. Liens total about $4000. property owner C S Jackson in Portland, with McCarthy optimistic about reopening and deeper mining for high grade ore.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Golconda
Prevent
Baker City
McCarthy
C. S. Jackeson
Portland
Wos
Tur
Funda
Hendy
Jackson
Pheasants Hopeful Prediction as Portland Hunters Growl
W S LaFore of Turner contends China pheasants may vanish within three years if Portland marksmen continue to kill freely. He notes the legal limit is ten per day, but reports claim some sportsmen import illegal game and even carry home loaded pockets. A second item reports a dead man found in Snake River opposite Page station, identified by coroner as killed and dumped in the river with a crushed head and bruised face, body buried on the riverbank.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bosing
W. S. LaFore
Turner
Indig
Salem Journal
Portland
Snake River
Page Station
ORL & N
Franklin County
Joaquin Miller and the towel that saved a stage robber
In early Civil War Oregon a frontier town paper run by C. H. Miller faced a bold theft when Bud Kinsey, linked to a Santiam stage robbery, disguised as a lazy worker using the shop towel to smear ink. The pursuers tracked him to the printshop but Bud escaped, later fleeing north with a disguise and a horse, a tale intertwining frontier life, lawmen, and pioneer movement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joaquin Miller
Lane County
Oregon
Mabel
Redington
Sunset Magazine
Joaquin
C. H. Miller
Lifetime
Tony Noltner
Miller
Bud Kinsey
Santiam
Bud
Perfortion
Tom
Marin Miller
Hank Vaughn
Maddox Cage
Coos Bay
Ava Bud
Henry Stites
Delaney
Santium
Hudson Bay
Mt. Jefferson
Narth
Enormous September Fruit Shipments Reported
Pratt shipments from Yokimac via Northern Pacific Express show September fruit movement nearly double last year. Total boxes 22,794 weighing 36,507 pounds with grapes and peaches leading. September handled 6,394 boxes of peaches totaling 6,752 pounds and 12,114 baskets of grapes weighing 21,805 pounds from Yakima.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pratt
Yokimac
Agent Smith
Northern Pacific Express Company
Express
Yakima Republic
DeWitts Witch Hazel Salve Ad and Criminal Case
An old advertising fragment promotes DeWitts Witch Hazel Salve as effective for eczema and piles. It then alleges Tallman & Co as a notorious crook and predator, claimed to be captured and charged with murdering two Japanese bookkeepers in a bank robbery in San Francisco.
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Pendleton
Dence
Fale Water Advices
Peacock Milling Company
Los Angeles
Pwark MolIng Company Lettow
Montpelier, Idaho
Southweart
DFA
John Smith
Ben Holiday
Holland
Willamette
Tallman & Co
Alwayes
DeWwltt
Tallman & Con
Pabst Blue Ribbon
The
Pendleton Drug Co
Pendleton Drug Co. K
Blue Rapids
Kan
Henry
Pundheton Ice & Cold Storage Company
Aiu
Henneman’s
Great Eastern Store
American Collecion Agency
Anthony P.wilson
United States
Kansas Ave
Topeka, Kansas
Neagle Broad
Fairbanks-Morse
Gle Bros
Ukiah
Alba
Ridge
Nye
Pilot Rock
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