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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1905
Page
8
Coffee prices rise for low and medium priced beans as world supplies shrink by thousands of bags. Mother's Pride Coffee remains at five cents. Wheat prices fall while local stores offer fifty cent wheat for the same Crockery and Glassware value as a dollar elsewhere.
Eighty three carloads of sheep will be shipped from Meacham before September 30 with about 125000 head from Umatilla County and 100000 from Wallowa County. Lambs predominate as shipments head to Minnesota North Dakota Montana Wyoming Colorado Nebraska and Illinois. By Oct 1 an estimated 126000 head will have been sent from Umatilla and 136000 remain to be wintered in the region.
The Fraser presents the big musical comedy The Chaperones on Sunday evening September 24. The merry company of musical comedians promises an attraction that has generated much chatter with lively songs and comic acts.
A company of more than 60 performs Interpret ed in a fifth season with The Chaperones, noted for new scenery costumes and lavish production. Cast includes Marshall Ruth Lloyd Doris Goodwin Harry Ladell John Price George Lydecker Frank Wooley and others. Also news of Whistler reclamation office moving to 461 13 Washington Portland with Oregon operations centralized, Spokane and Seattle offices closed. Organizing Sunday Schools by Rev Richard Brown from eastern Oregon with Pendleton as HQ. Streckenbach Knowlton nuptials at Helix. Temple Chapel and Pleasant View services resume next Sunday at 11 and 2.
T. G. Halley milks 68 Jersey cows at Alfalfarm dairy on Wild Horse Creek and supplies milk to a city route and butter fat to Blue Mountain creamery. He plans to add more dairy cows as suitable stock is found.
B F Ogle sold his 2000 acre stock ranch in the southern county to Robert Stanfield for 18000 dollars and 118 head of stock plus a large amount of hay. Athena Presa is named in the deal.
Frank Rack deputy stock inspector for Umatilla county left for Athena to inspect a small shipment of work horses bound for Alberta.
Circuit Judge Ellis voided the last winter law taxing all sheep brought into Oregon from outside points. The ruling in Reecer v. Umatilla County finds the tax nonuniform as a per capita levy and a taking without due process. The decision settles a long running sheep tax dispute and is expected to influence other districts.
Prof McMinn completes an eight week tour with Liberal's famous band and returns to Pendleton to lead his orchestra this winter. He renews the lease on Masonic Hall, plans concerts and dances, and notes strong new music gathered in Chicago and on tour. He started as second trombone in Portland, rose to first trombone, and the group performed in Seattle, Spokane, Denver, Des Moines, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, and other midwestern cities before disbanding.
In police court this morning Acting Judge Brown heard six men, all but one charged with fighting or disorderly conduct. Ah Sing and Gung, two Chinamen, were found in a street brawl and each received ten dollars or five days. Jack Wilson received the same. A M Smiley and John Noble pleaded not guilty and have trials set for 2:30 this afternoon. John Jordan was the sole drunk, sentenced to six dollars or three days.
G W Buchanen of Clark and Buchanen experts, after reviewing Pendleton records, has returned to Pendleton for a new county contract. The firm now handles exporting accounts of all city officials across Portland departments, a mammoth task requiring a large workforce to finish in a reasonable time.
An unreadable OCR snippet mentions insistence on cleaning jats and a possible insanity assertion. It references an individual named Charles and a morning discovery near a location described as Ninevtdonthy hooky Lom maen. Details are garbled and uncertain.
An improvisational street performance led to the man being jailed. He conceived a plan to cleanse the city bastile, securing a short handled broom in fall and spending the forenoon scrubbing floors and other surfaces. He was moved to the county jail for safekeeping and will be examined by the county physician for mania.
Enterprise sheepman E R Bowlby arrives in the city to purchase cattle for feeding in Wallowa county this winter. Alfalfa costs about 3 dollars per ton in Crook county, making cattle feeding seem affordable.
California Sweets arrive in large shipments to Columbia Produce, with Merced county crops noted as excellent this season. Thursday Afternoon Club to meet September 21 at 2 pm at Mrs. James A. Fee’s home to elect delegates to the state federation convention in Eugene October 4-5. other business on agenda. secretary Mrs. Ling Sturgis reminds all members.
A. C. Ruby received a settlement on the stallion Partisan which died here recently. The horse was valued at 3600 though only 1000 insurance was carried. W. M. Huter, agent for the Pacific Livestock association, paid the amount today in this city.
Miss Carlotta Baumeister of Walla Walla, niece of Mr and Mrs R Alexander, will marry C M Thompson of Walla Walla on October 11. They will reside permanently in Walla Walla.
Baker City Herald reports street superintendent announces 1530 poll taxes collected, the highest total in city history. Charles Cunningham ships Rambouillet bucks to New Mexico and Pacific coast markets. F R Chase is acquitted in Portland police court of involvement in Mrs Kaspar Van Dran murder.
James Hackett of Prineville Land and Livestock shipped two carloads of Rambouillet ducks to Peter Leith in eastern Wyoming. The East Oregonian seeks correspondents in Athens Weston Echo Pilot Rock Holdman and Helix.
A marriage license was issued today to W. C. Kennedy and Dora B. Geiger, both residents of the city. George Duncan and C. A. Carter, involved in terrorizing Rump ler three months ago by firing guns in the streets, have been sentenced at Baker City to five years each in the penitentiary.
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