East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-12-11
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The steamship Kaga Maru has ar
rived at Victoria, B. c., from Japan
with a cargo valued at over $4,000, 900
of which silks comprise $4,000, 900
worth.
Charles Norman was engaged in
blasting stumps near Stanwood, near
Everett, Wash. One stump came
down on Norman's head, killing him
instantly.
An unknown man was found at the
crossing of Montgomery and Chest
nut streets. San Francisco. He had
fallen off a cliff 200 feet high and
! almost perpendicular.
DIR. Fernand Henrotin. aged so
years, is dead at Chicago. He was
president of the Polytechnic hospital.
and for the past 25 years has been ac-
counted one of the worlds greatest
! surgeons.
The Bulgarian government Is taking
steps to restrict emigration to the
United States. It is claimed that the
majority of such emigrants are peo-
pie of intelligence, thrift and indus
try and that they are needed at home.
A wonderfully large double vass
viol has been made and is intended
| for use in a Chicago orchestra. It
is IA feet high and its body about I
feet. The top part of the body is
8 feet 4 inches across, the lower part
5 feet.
There is little or no prospect that
this session of congress will make any
appropriation at all for the improve
ment of Astoria harbor. This does
not imply that much may not be
done for the deepening of the channel
over the bar.
Towboats carrying 100000 BUSH
els of coal left Pittsburg. Pa, Decem-
ber 10 for southern points, making
about 10000 bushels sent south in
two days. 1t is estimated that within
the last month over 75,000,000 BUSH
els were shipped south.
After a jury in the federal court
at WaIla Walla had failed to convict
him of Illegally fencing government
land, Chris Jensen of Walla Walla
county came forward and pleaded
guilty to the same charge. He was
fined 5000, assessed the costs of pros
ecution, and sentenced to one day In
Jail.
John ]. Kinneally, the socialist la
Dor candidate for mayor Of New
York in the campaign of 1905, was
drowned in Long Island sound off
Oak Point. Kinneally was employed
as shipping clerk by the New York,
New Haven G. Hartford railroad. He
was at work on float when he missed
his footing and fell overheard.
Five thousand cigarmakers at Tam
pa. Fla, went on strike, paralyzing
all business until their demands for
better street car and safer bridge
service en- route to and from their
work was insured them, The city au-
thorities got on a hustle and condi-
tions were radically improved at once,
the men returning to work on the
third day.
The so-called English walnut Is
not indigenous in the British isles at
all. On the other hand, it was intro
duced into England from Persia,
where 1t has been grown from time
immemorlal and where, SO far as
known, 1t had its actual origin. 1t
was introduced into California at San
Diego in 1S43, and nowhere else does
It grow to greater perfection than In
that state.
Five men are dead as a result OF
accidents in the plants Of the Illinois
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ber 10. One was burned to death by
falling upon a plate of .red-hot steel;
another was run down by a switch
engine, a third was asphyxiated by
coal gas, and two others were crushed
to death by pieces of falling steel. All
Of the men were Polish and Hunga-
rian laborers.
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