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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1906
Page
4
Fragmented OCR text shows Pendleton Postoffice notice to advertisers deadline 4:45 p m each day for copy for the upcoming issue. The text mentions Subscriptions and weekly mail details with various rates and departments across multiple lines.
The excerpt muses on doom and hope, measuring progress by kindness, resisting doubt, and finding truth in hardship. It frames life as ripeness and growth, using thorny experiences as stepping stones toward moral maturity and enduring treasure. Death is presented as a possible end, prompting contemplation.
Regietrar J. B. Herner of Oregon Agricultural College reports 635 students with potential enrollment near 1,000 by year’s end. Oregon’s small towns like Corvallis Avonmaur Drain Weaton report dormitory shortages as students sleep in hallways tents and cottages. Dormitories are urged at the college and Weston Normal, with state legislature pressed to fund new housing to keep pace.
An Australian government move could simplify public relief work by expanding a pension system piloted there. A commission studied an old pension law and urged adoption across the colony. In New South Wales 22,000 pensioners receive 32,500,000 per year and Victoria has 11,452 pensioners.
The article outlines pension limits and eligibility, noting a maximum pension of 2.60 from age 65 with total disability from 60, paid biweekly. It describes reductions for other income, penalties for intemperance, and magistrate oversight. It questions the U S per capita cost of indigent care vs. private charity reliance.
The San Francisco Argonaut outlines a government trap over Panama Canal labor policy. The eight hour law and Chinese exclusion clash with canal needs as bids call for Chinese coolies while the Chinese government pressures Washington. Officials face a tense stand between rigid exclusion and essential labor for public works.
Western range ranchers indicate most of the season's cattle supply has been marketed. Reports suggest that seven per cent of the cattle remain unsold according to sources in the Chicago Livestock World.
The report notes shipments from Moonland and Wyowing have begun, with many more headed from small ranchmen in North and South Dakota. Ranchers prefer to wait until stock is market ready, while competition among buyers grows. Early shipments hint at a large aggregate volume as cold weather may push more stock onto markets.
A prisoner in Leavenworth used twisted woolen yarn fibers, wetted and compacted, to saw through a three inch steel bar top and bottom. He created a string instrument to cut through the bar, aided by emery stone and crude handles. The warden witnessed the device in use and confirmed the breakthrough, noting guards must stay vigilant as yarn can become a makeshift saw for bars.
A compact anthology item presents lines urging self reliance and courage with a push for personal integrity. The text juxtaposes a Denton quote on parental direction with sharp social observations about ignored women, campaign promises, and corporate failures. The tone mirrors late 19th to early 20th century newspaper verse and commentary.
The long career of Hon William Pinkney Whyte of Maryland is chronicled noting mayor, comptroller, governor and three terms in the United States Senate. He has never tasted liquor or tobacco and has defended 60 alleged murderers with acquittals, riding ordinary trains and streetcars, while opposing Sunday politics and once voting against black enfranchisement in 1865.
Tenace Paderewski will visit this winter for seven charity concerts. He agreed to perform only once for charity during his brief stay, after previously pledging to organize a city benefit for the East Side male school training tailors and other workers as musicians. The note hints at a local shortage of pianists.
A reflective piece links aging and mortality with recollections of Raphael Shelly Keats and soldiers who faced death young. The prose muses on enduring youth in memory and art, contrasting with a lineage of early deaths. A local farmer near Corvallis sprays fruit trees, saving 2000 trees from wormy apples by hiring Cour Himes at $50 plus labor, aiming for a sound crop and better price.
European plan with everything first class and modern conveniences. Steam heat throughout and Noome en suite with bath. Large, new example room and bath. Telephone and fire alarm connections to office. Hot and cold running water in all rooms.
An old notices reads rooms offered for sale at one dollar and one fifty, advertised near the depot with a ble electric sign.
The Hotel Pendleton has been thoroughly updated with telephone and fire alarm connections in all rooms. En suite and single rooms are available as part of the refurbishment.
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