25 Sep 1905
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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1905
Page
1
The assessor announces county total property value at about $10.84 million, with exemptions leaving $10.18 million in taxable value, the highest in the county. He attributes the rise to higher prices and new property, noting multiple sectors’ gains and a 2008 equalization projection. The article also lists major property categories and ends with a note on the National Fine Roads convention in Cincinnati on September 25.
In a letter to the editors, Roosevelt states a firm view that seven consecutive years equal two terms and no one should serve longer. He emphasizes determination not to seek renomination and cites his record over the past years for context.
Marshal Coffman and a police force crackdown on street loafers after eight. Nearly a dozen arrests since last week target boys aged 12 to 14 drawn to the merry go round. Some offenders jailed locally until deemed punished. Mark Catching Kay McKnight among two held in a police court today. Indeterminate jail terms given based on behavior. Also two drunken youths, William Aibald and Alex Devineon, received actual sentences.
The Karas State bank liquidation follows a failure at Clinton Mo and another bank collapse at Tinton Ma. The Fiduciary Trust Company as assignee states creditors will be paid in full though the double bank failure disrupted local finance.
In a federal court proceeding of the Intertrade-earth commission, the Packers press for a lower rate amid tensions with rivals. The opposing side demands further reductions while accusing each other of doubts and misgivings, with tensions boiling over as both sides seek favorable terms.
Portland Day events at the Lewilandark fair include a round trip excursion to Portland with 8:50 a m departure, daylight return, sleeper accommodations, and a $6 ticket valid 10 days. Livestock show final runs September 29 with Portland Day planned for September 30. D KE Coombs Bring 61 head of fat cattle from Ukiah for shipment by W F F.
Information from the county shows Louie Dubold once owned a 100 acre Minnesota farm valued around $10,000 and buried there after Typhoid. In New York Albany union printers secured the eight hour day as employers signed an announcement with the new clause.
Frederick Be Gariton pleaded guilty to grand larceny and then to bigamy after a wife testified she married him in 1794 under the name Charles A. Parker and later learned he had another marriage. The court heard testimony, but no verdict was rendered on the larceny charge before the guilty plea to bigamy.
A garbled report from June in Alaska recounts Frank Hewilll and others in a strange incident. It mentions a mare, a trappers group, and a woman who died as others faced peril in a wooded setting. The text is fragmented and obscured.
A scrambled market brief notes the wheat market in the United States with prices and futures near steady. It also mentions Equitable Wheel and a New York report on economic conditions, plus deaths and a troop of assorted world notices from Tokio and Philadelphia.
An afternoon accident east of Nicelty left an elderly man bruised and carried from the scene after a wagon tipped over on Nitn white delving down Barnhart Blvd. Dr J McFaul rushed to the location about two miles north of here as authorities investigated the shoulder injuries and possible severity.
Fire swept through Butte destroying twelve business houses and many other buildings. High winds hampered efforts as investigators consider an explosion in coal tank storage as a possible cause. Officials revised damage estimates from two million to about one million, with several injuries reported and widespread smoke and debris.
Seattle Sept 25 A new town on Cadavi bay to be named Roosevelt. Alaska Railway company plans an all water level route and mine railway to move coal and copper to tide water from Copper River country. Promoters backed by New York bankers sent a five man reconnaissance party led by D A McKenzie and J Jamieson to inspect routes. they sailed May and reached Valdez June 16 before returning to Seattle with country resource findings.
Baker County assesses 1905 total taxable property at 4,224,020, up 299,085 from last year’s 3,925,?. increases due to new property and extension of the C. H. & NS. line. Tax rate hoped to be reduced to about 0. nothe.
A night rail collision near Baton involved a passenger train and a local towed by the Short Line. Engineer La Rose ignored orders, the train struck the local, cars overturned, and passengers suffered injuries including O M Harper and Miss Lucy Walker. Freight cars ignited and a sectioned operation followed as crews worked through the aftermath.
Col Judson, longtime industrial agent for the O R N and a tireless reformer in agriculture and horticulture, died in Port ne after a sudden paralysis following bronchial trouble. At 62, he directed improvements in dryland farming, sorghum, and pasture methods, influencing Oregon farming and irrigation policies. Funeral plans await the arrival of his two children in St Paul and Omaha.
President Roosevelt sails to Bridgeport aboard the Sylph to join his eldest son Theodore and travel to Cambridge where the youth will enter Harvard. Meanwhile Berlin records 246 cholera cases with 85 deaths as two new cane-related fatalities are reported in Prussehau.
Three men died in a Northern Pacific wreck near Arlee Montana Saturday night. Identified as J. W. Salor of Thallard Washington Charles E. Fottebe of Dayton and Jon Harrington of Spare Operator Carter alleged to be responsible for the Aigaster Wax dixa pyr rou.
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