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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1905
Page
8
Coffee roasters report all low and medium priced coffees rising due to a tight global supply of thousands of bags. Mother's Pride Coffee remains at Ihe. Wheat prices fall with no shortage nationwide, and fifty cent wheat buys as much as a dollar elsewhere, impacting crockery and glassware lines.
Captain G C Gowan of Londonderry England returned from six months in interior Alaska frustrated that territorial law barred shipping trophies. He hunted musk ox moose walrus polar bear seal reindeer and wild goat with a party, plans to lobby in Washington to permit carrying out trophies, and had hoped to present a walrus head to Walter Rothschild.
A. C. Ruby reports the death last night of two valued horses Partin and Partisan. Partin, a yearling, is valued at 3200 dollars. Partisan, a two year old Percheron stallion weighing 1850 pounds, is valued at 4200 dollars. Both belonged to Ruby, a noted importer of fine horses. Partisan died after a week of fevers and diseases while preparations to exhibit at the Lewis and Clark fair were underway. The horses were insured by the Pacific Livestock Association of Spokane.
John Wallatai, identified as an Indian, is in the county jail after a second arrest for bringing liquor onto the reservation. Earlier bail was posted awaiting transfer to Portland for trial, and a new complaint led to his re arrest by Indian police and detention by Commissioner John Hailey Jr. pending pickup by a deputy marshal.
J P Conder the state Sunday school evangelist for Oregon arrives tonight. He will conduct meetings at the Christian church through this week with sessions in the forenoons afternoons and evenings on Thursday Friday Saturday and Sunday. All are invited to attend.
H C Willis plans a weekly paper named the Promoter and has secured space on the Bowman building’s lower floor beside the Hardwick pawn shop. He expects the first issue in about three weeks. The wheat district around Post Falls Idaho reports a larger crop and all grading No 1.
Advertorial praise from Indies users of Newbro’s Herpicide claims quick scalp cleansing against dandruff and itch relief. It asserts the product cures dandruff by destroying the germ causing hair loss, preventing baldness and yielding an aristocratic hair appearance. Leading druggists carry it. samples offered by mail from The Herpicide Co Detroit.
Circuit court business will resume after a month’s suspension with Judge Flin slated to arrive tomorrow. Several defendants may plead guilty and be sentenced immediately while others await the October term. cases include Harry McCleary burglary watch theft and C P Davis larceny of ten thousand dollars. A grand jury action is uncertain and room readiness may delay October sessions.
Nine lodge groups including Knights of Pythias Elks Woodmen two Woodcraft circles Rathbone Sisters Maccabees Lady Maccabees and Artizany lose meeting spaces in LaDon block fire. Lodge room damaged by water plaster. Knights of Pythias vault burned with 39 50 insurance on 700 value. Temporary quarters scarce as TO. O. F. Hind ricks and Masonic halls fill. Milarkey and Music halls eyed for use. new Eagles hall due in November. repairs start immediately with occupancy hoped within one to two months.
Three members of Oregon's rifle team, part of an 18 man contingent, returned home via RB&N after finishing 21st of 47 in the national rifle shoot at Sea Girt New Jersey. Ser geant Gilbert Eugene, Sergeant Swartz Portland, and Private Fisher Eugene were greeted on arrival. They praised Sea Girt organizers and noted Oregon faced less practice time than eastern rivals. The piece also mentions Rancho Guadalupe, 13000 acres in Lower California, sold to 104 Russian families through a Los Angeles agency.
Bishop H C Morrison of New Orleans, leading six Methodist conferences, says a moral awakening sweeps the West from New Orleans to the Pacific coast. He notes more typhoid deaths in New York than yellow fever in New Orleans and describes a widespread effort to curb vice and improve morals across towns and cities. He is en route to Grant's Pass for the Columbia conference after visits in Milton and Billings, with a stop at the Lewis and Clark exposition in Portland.
The Echo fire department using a bucket brigade saved the Ariington hotel near Charles H. Miller’s store as flames consumed the mill property. Water shortage hampered efforts to protect surrounding buildings.
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