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Newspaper
The Echo Register
Location
Echo, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1909
Page
2
A roundup of national and world items notes Missouri crop damage from heavy rains, gas explosion deaths in a Trinidad mine, the Adler mission steamer missing in the Arctic with 19 aboard, and Sugar Trust verdicts. Other items include weather and flood damage in Nevada and Nebraska, rail delays in Colorado, Fourth of July accident tolls, land fraud conviction, suffragist appeals, burglaries, balloon injuries, and heat deaths in Chicago.
Francis W. Cushman representative from Washington died in New York yesterday morning after a brief decline in health. The announcement came to Congress on the day not in session. his body will be brought home by a sergeant at arms representative. Senator Piles was with him at the end.
A lone gunman robbed Assistant Cashier B C Olson at the Bank of Commerce, wounded Cashier J L Lyon, and fled on a bicycle with a small sum. Deputies and citizens hunted the bandit as bloodhounds joined the search. the satchel with money held only $15.
Oregon state items report La Grande's $160,000 municipal water project nearing completion with 18 miles of pipe, irrigation funding flowing back to taxpayers, and rising real estate values in Union county. Other notes include school superintendents meeting June 28 and rail and lumber rate concerns across the state.
A detailed list of district prices across Portland markets for grains fruits vegetables and livestock. Wheat and corn values lead with several regional figures including Willamette valley and Eastern Oregon rates for hay and butter eggs pork veal and wool show wide spreads. Cattle and hog prices, poultry and poultry items, and various orchard yields round out the commodity snapshot.
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