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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1888
Page
3
A sprawling Portland Pendleton update shows business activity and travel, with Demmett arrival hints, Miners near Green Horn Mountain, tax and treasury actions, and street projects. Shifts include hotel renovations, fencing displays, and civic steps like the county debt call, court house brick deliveries, and new lodge inaugurations.
Two taxpayers in the Nolin School district called yesterday evening to correct a published sum about A L Cook pot being employed as a teacher for winter. They say Cook was not hired because the majority did not want him and no qualified replacement has been found. The district remains without a teacher as new hires are awaited.
Regular correspondence from Walla Walla dated Sept 19 covers late mails, local funerals, court cases, and town developments. Updates include the Young case, depot and freight yard work, gas and electric expansions, county fair planning, local politics, and street conditions.
County Surveyor Arnold and party returned after twenty two days surveying the line between Umatilla and Grant counties. They found the 4th parallel about 07 chains south of the township line between 6 and 7 south, retracing 18 miles eastward and confirming the North Fork of the John Day bridge lies within Umatilla. The Grant county surveyor Neal was praised and harmony reported among crews.
A roster of arrivals lists numerous individuals and firms from cities including Detroit San Francisco Portland and Chicago. A local note reports a locomotive trapped under wheat near Mosier recovered nearly intact and to be hauled back onto the track. Oregon lines see engine shortages and Pullman car orders delaying rolling stock delivery as the Washington Idaho project nears Rockford Farmington with grading and track laying advancing.
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