East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-01-16
NEWS OF MILTON
PETITIONS CIRCULATED
FOR PARDON MOSES TAYLOR.
Contract Awarded for Extension of
Water Main-New Bank ut Free
water Will Open Next Week
Schools Reopened, Diphtheria Be-
ing Ellminated-McQuary Building
Is Completed-MissT Troy Has Been
Graduated in Spokane as Nurse
VIII Kirk Has Appendicitis.

Milton, Jan. 16.-Moses Taylor, the |
near Weston, was in the city yester-
day circulating a petition among the
people which will be sent to the gov
ernor asking Taylor's pardon from
the penitentiary. The sentence of two
years for Taylor was affirmed by the
supreme court. 1t seems that the
petition is being freely signed
throughout this entire section.
Taylor was convicted of the crime
of attempting to fire the wheat field
and barn of James Banister, for which
it was alleged he had hired two men,
and he was also accused of having
asked them to thrash Banister, who
was Taylor's brother-in-law, and who,
Taylor claims, was mostly the cause
of a separation between him and his
wife. One of the men Taylor tried
to arrange with to do this work was
one Of a gang who claimed to be on
to the scheme, and merely hired by
him to find out what was being at
tempted. The other man was named
Palmer, and Taylor now carries Is
affidavits with him, which he claims
were formerly issued against this man
for deeds committed in the past, and
it is claimed that these affidavits show
that Palmer has spent most of his
time heretofore in the Idaho peniten-
tiary He recites in his petition that
it was the testimony of Palmer which
convicted him, and that he does not
deem it just that he should be pun
ished on testimony of an ex-convict.
Awarded Contract.
]. F. Campbell has been awarded
( the contract for digging a ditch for
an extension of the water main on
Mill street. This ditch covers 1000
deep. The contract price is 5 cents
per linear foot.
The Bank of Milton will in the next
( 10 days open a bank at Freewater to
be known as the Freewater Branch of
the Bank of Milton. The bank will
occupy Mrs. Wright's building on De-
pot street until the bank building is
erected by the company early in the
spring. The building will be a hand
some brick.
| The public schools were opened
yesterday morning after being closed
| two weeks on account of diphtheria
in the Milton and Freewater precincts
Editor c. F.. Brown and family, who
were under quarantine for some time
have been released, and it is believed
that the disease is entirely stamped
out.
Rev. Harry Baker Smith, pastor OF
the Christian church of Milton, is as
slsting in a series of revival meetings
at Hood River.
]. E. McQuary has completed the
erection of a frame office building one
door south of his hotel in this city
He has rented the building to DR.
Ruckman who will use it for a denta
office.
Miss Ida Troy, daughter of Mr.. anC
Mrs. A. E. Troy has returned from
Spokane, where she has been takint
: course for trained nurse. She ha
, received her diploma, and expects t,
, nurse in Milton and different parts o
Umatilla county.
T. C. Frazier, city treasurer, has is
sued the following financial state
{ ment for 1906 Total receipts
4. $91O115. OF this $3721.S4 was re
= ceived from the electric light system
{ and $1S9S.0S from the water system
{ $66.75 was collected for fines. Tota
e disbursements were $9040.07, 800
t for electric light extension and $2065.
e 54 for salaries. The bonded indebted
e ness of the city is $4,000 and tn
a floating Indebtedness is $4,000, bear
ing interest at per cent interest.
Il VIII T. Kirk, a former student G
/, Columbia college at this place, an
e a graduate of the business departmer
e is reported quite Ill with appendicitl
e at st. Luke's hospital, in Boise. M
Is Kirk has been one of the editors {
the Payette Qdaho) Independent fo
a some time.