East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-12-14
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NORTHWEST NEWS.
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The county Jail at Eugene is being
lined with steel an eight of an inch
thick. Recently eight prisoners. IN
Guiding two murderers, escaped.
Luther Bearskin, full blood Ban
mock. shot and killed Frank Ramsey
and Mrs. Charley Ingataur. also Ban
nocks. on Bannock creek, near Po-
catello.
Six thousand cattle are being full
fed In klamath basin for the winter
and spring markets, and 10000 fat
cattle have been shipped from the ba-
sin since last spring.
The safe in the electric line depot
at Post Falls, Idaho. was dynamited,
the robbers securing $50. No one
heard the robbers at work and there
is no clew. The safe was blown to
pieces.
Josiah Collins, in a special report
made by request to the Seattle Cham
Der of Commerce, says the Grand
opera house of that place is death
trap, and only sudden fire and
crowded house are needed to prove 1t
so.
Judge John H. Scott, present. OF
the Oregon Good Roads association,
has announced that the next meet
ing of the association will be held at
La Grande on December 10 and 20.
He is arranging a program and ex-
poets to secure a number of speakers
for the occasion.
At wallowa, Fred Maxim, linemar
for the Merger Telephone company
fell from a pole and sustained inter
nal injuries from which he may die
He is from Enterprise. Dr. Clyde
Mount of wallowa, was struck on the
ankle by Makin's climbing spur, cut
ting bad cash.
According to the Washington state
railroad commission 199 persons were
killed and 1853 injured in railroad
wrecks in that state during the pas
two years. These figures do not IN
clude the o. r. & n. during the yea
ending June 80. 1905, as the compan!
failed to report for that year.
Apportionament of the Unite'
States per cent land sales fun
among the counties of Oregon, wa
made by Secretary of State Dunba
December 13. The total amount ap
portioned was s22,4Ss.56, made upol
the basis of three ten-thousandths o
a cent per acresupon 60,957,76O acres
J. K. Ashley, who has charge OF
large crew Of surveyors at work 10
the proposed electric line runnln
betveen Wallace and Spokane, bega
to run a line from Cataldo TO wal
lane December 12. A franchise WI
he asked at once from Occur d'Alen'
Construction work will begin In tn
spring.
John McKerrall a confessed hors
thief who was shot last spring dui
ing a running fight with Yakima IL
dams. will be a cripple and sem
paralytic for life on account of bein
shot in the head and leg. He Is qui
young man, and was given pen
tentiary sentence which was suspend
ed during good behavior.
The interstate commerce comml
sion will meet at Spokane January
10 hear testimony concerned wi
the demands Of Spokane commerci
interests for readjustment Of RI
tariffs. and particularly for the te
minal rates allowed coast points =.
is not known when the commissi
will sit in Portland or the sound.
DR.. August c. Kinny Of Astor
declares the whole jetty system is
failure at the mouth Of the Column
and will continue to be as long as t
scheme is carried on along the pre
ent lines. He shows that the wal
on the bar is 24h feet deep no
whereas in 1892 1t was 27 feet de-
In 1892 there was four miles Of je
completed, while now there is
miles.