Changes in O R N officials shift Walter Guild to assistant superintendent
Walter H. Guild longtime secretary to Vice-President and General Manager J P O'Brien of the Harriman lines in the northwest will be appointed to the Oregon division as assistant superintendent. The move reflects the broader Hines plan to restructure divisions under General Superintendent and realign offices into operating roles. The timing depends on securing a replacement secretary for O'Brien and Guild’s successor is not yet named.
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O'Brien
Oregon
Guild
Walter Guild
Walter H. Guild
J. P. O'Brien
Harriman Lines
Northwest
Harriman
Charles Delano Hine
Union Pacific
Hine
Portland
Mr. Guild
Inc
Con
Eugene
Pendleton Mentioned as Possible Northern Terminal
Lake County Examiner reports Pendleton may become the northern terminal for a Lakeview railroad. The line aims to reach Lakeview then extend north, with Pendleton favored as the terminus. Construction chief Rice visited Lakeview to discuss broad gauging Amadee Junction with Western Pacific and line changes to reduce grades. Hanson returns to review costs from Alturas to Lakeview. The Northern California line plans to be in Lakeview before snow.
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Lake County Examiner
Pendleton
Lakeview
N.C. 0
Reno Gazette
Rice
Hansen
Hall Construction Company
Amadee
Western Pacific
Alturas
Hanson
Pendleton Local Notes on Prices and housing
In and About Pendleton items note wheat prices today including forty fold gains and blue stem. J P Walker rents the Hilton home on South Main and will reside there this winter. The ducks close season is over and hunters may slaughter. 653 hunting licenses issued locally. Two marriage licenses granted to Ocella Hargett and Besale Swezen of the county, and to Van V Bowman and Mary E Geissel of the city.
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Hilton Tome
J. P. Walker
Hilton
South Main Street
Ocella
Case Under Advisement in Allen Ditch Company vs Henrietta Mills
The case over dissolution of an injunction was argued yesterday and today. The court now has it under advisement.
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The
Allen Ditch Company
Henrietta Mills
Mrs Brown Improving After Desperate Day
Mrs J T Brown, once described as beyond hope yesterday morning, is greatly improved today and barring unforeseen complications her ultimate recovery appears near.
Boy of County Roadmaster in Critical Condition
The 14 year old son of County Roadmaster Dave Lavender lies in a Walla Walla hospital in critical condition after an appendicitis operation. Word today says his recovery is doubtful and the family awaits further news.
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Dave Lavender
Walla Walla
Distributed crews form gang to place tiles from tie train
Distributive teams from Gibbon Thorne Hollow Cayuse with regular crews arrived in the city to assemble a 4 man gang to spread tiles from the tie train serving the Pendleton district. Amy Harper sues for divorce from John W. Harper citing cruel and inhuman treatment amid drunkenness. residents of Freewater. Freight train ships 600 head of beef cattle to Seattle by Nate Raines after purchase from stockmen near Gurdane and Long Creek. about half secured at each site.
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Cain
Gibbon
Bradburn
Thorne Hollow
Utz
Cayuse
Pendleton
Amy Harper
John W. Harper
Freewater Country
Seattle
Sound
Nate Raines
Gurdane
Long Creek
Change in Conductors on Rail Lines
H G Farley formerly a Rock Island conductor takes the place of Conductor Menzies on the Pendleton Walla Walla run who is under a physician's care. Conductor H E McClure, previously on the O R N out of Walla Walla, is reassigned to the Colorado division.
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H. G. Farley
Rock Island Railroad
Menzies
Pendleton-Walla Walla Run
H. E. McClure
Walla Walla
Colorado
Fred Gordon Breaks Leg After Stage Accident Near Roseburg
Fred Gordon of this city is nursing a broken leg from a stage accident near Roseburg last week. His brother Chester Gordon, a well known sprinter, was present but uninjured and helped care for Fred and bring him to Pendleton.
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Fred Gordon
Roseburg
Chester Gordon
Pendleton
Local Train Tickets Won’t Be Honored After Sept 3
After September 3 local tickets will not be honored on O R & N train No 8 which passes here at 5 15 PM eastbound. Instructions posted at the depot by Agent E F Schuyler. The train will still stop at select stations between Portland and Huntington to pick up passengers bound further east than Huntington.
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E. F. Schuyler
Portland
Huntington
Prize Winning Team Here From Denver Drill Winners
The Prize Winning Team from Enterprise, Modern Woodmen of America, Denver, Colorado, that captured first prize at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition drill contest last week was in Pendleton for an hour or more last evening. The Spokane team arrived by train, then departed on the Salt Lake route to visit the Mormon capital to present exhibition drills and aid in initiating a class of 100 new members.
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Enterprise
Modern Woodmen of America
Denver
Col
Pendleton
Spokane
Salt Lake
WH Exploit Oregon Figures to Speak at Main and Alta
Bonville's Magazine representatives Francis McHenry and Clarence Partlow perform an open air entertainment at the corner of Main and Alta Street tonight. McHenry will impersonate and lecture on travelogues while Partlow operates stereophons and reels. They travel through the East lecturing on Oregon resources under the magazine's auspices.
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Oregon
Francis McHenry
Clarence Partlow
Bonville
Main
Alta Strepta
McHenry
Partlow
Kon
Pendleton Fire History Gift Honors Councilman Joe EU
Councilman Joe EU, ex fire chief, leads a new bound history of the Saint Paul fire department presented by Henry Develin. The event marks a notable addition to one of the nation’s finest fire picture collections. The St Paul firefighter scene accompanies a portrait of J. J. Develin on page.
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Joe EU
Pendleton
Saint Paul
Henry Develin
James Develin
St. Paul
Beattle
J. J
Hill Empire Builder and Early St Paul Fire History
Hill the empire builder and Bartlet Presley, former chief of the volunteer department, are highlighted in a history tracing St Paul’s fire service from its 1838 beginnings to February 25 of the current year. The volume covers firefighting history in New York and St Paul, with details on early volunteer departments.
Desertions from cruiser St. Louis exceed fifty
San Francisco September 1 reports that since arriving from Honolulu ten days ago fifty plus men left the cruiser St. Louis. Most are listed as absentees rather than deserters while the ship is a hundred men under strength. Alleged poor feed is blamed for the desertions.
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San Francisco
Honolulu
St. Louis
Smuggled Chinese Found In Box Car
Four teen Chinese are jailed in Tucumcari after being found in a box car bound for Kansas City. The car carried food and water for the passengers and federal officers seek to expose an organized smuggling ring operating from Mexico.
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Tucumeari
N. M
Mexico
Kansas City
Church gallery collapse kills several in Madrid church
A choir gallery collapsed at the Church of Calcede in Madrid during morning services, killing several and burying around forty under debris. Rescue workers are on site as survivors escape and crews search for victims.
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Madrid
Bank Robbers Sought After Minneola Bank Loot
Fifty Omaha men search for two masked bandits who held up cashier Nipp and looted the German National Bank at Minneola of fifteen hundred dollars last night. Bandits covered the cashier and two customers. Justice Conquers Love in Bellingham: Seattle restaurateur Schelle seeks warrant against his eloping wife A. C. Dorey. Arrested here Saturday they were taken to King county for prosecution. Deroy claimed four weeks of heaven and now hell.
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Omaha
Nipp
Minneola
Bellingham
Wash
William Schelle
Seattle
A. C. Dorey
King County
Schelle
Deroy
Death of Pioneer Woman Susan Welch in Pendleton
Susan Whittemore Welch, a longtime Pendleton resident and Oregon pioneer born in 1844 near Peoria Illinois, died at her daughter’s home after a brief serious illness. She crossed the plains at age eight, married E. Welch in 1855, lived in the Willamette Valley, La Grande, then Pendleton, and attended the Episcopal church. Funeral planned for Friday with Rev. Charles Quitney officiating. time to be announced. Survived by eight children: Laona Thompson, Charles Welch, J F Robinson, W W Caviness, William Welch, TH Johnson, Frank Welch, James Welch.
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Susan Welch
Oregon
Pendleton
J. F. Robinson
Susan Whittemore Welch
Peoria
Minois
Plains
Eugene
E. Welch
Willamette Valley
la Grande
Blue Mountains
Episcopal Church
Charles Quitney
Church of the Redeemer
Welch
Laona Thompson
City
Charles Welch
Ukiah
W. W. Caviness
Yale
William Welch
Mra
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Standard Grocery Co
East Court St
White House Coffee
Howard
Wm. E. Hanscom
Jeweler Suckessor
Winslow Hea
M. Heacock
Optician
Tallman’s
MT. Hood
Tallman & Co
Pendleton Dye Works
Illnois
ETZ
Be _ STOMAG BITTERS
J. A. McLaughlin
Jolly
Wilson
Roosevelt
Boston
Pendleton Academy
School of Commerce
Richard Mayberry
East End Grocery
Columbia Junior College
W.H. Martin
Pres
Milion, Ore
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