East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-07-18
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(colored) will build $4,000 church
in Portland. to be completed by De-
cember 1.
William Derfelt, Wallace miner.
was killed in the Frisco mine by a
falling rock which crushed his skull
He was AZ years old, leaves a wife
and five children, and had lived Dt
Wallace IS years.
At Vancouver, Wash, Private Jo-
seph Unash of company F, 14th In
fantry, suicided by hanging. He. was
a member of the machine gun squad,
and had an excellent record as to
character and soldering.
Edmund Craft, John C. Donnelly,
A. p. Giles and associates will build
n 23-story building in Tacoma, just
north of the Union club. 1t will cost
100000. The ground plan is for
a building 165x20O feet
The Washington state board of
control has issued a can for bids to
be opened at Olympia August 10 for
constructing the sl25.oOO recitation
building for the state college at Pull
man, authorized by the last legisla-
ture.
Leo Furlong, aged II years, and a
man named Davis, beat and rocked
Chinaman at Troutdale until he
died Warrants are out for both on
charge of murder. Furlong is
hard bat and was born and raised at
The Dalles.
At Lebanon, Linn county, ". How
ard pleaded guilty to selling liquor
in violation of the local option law.
and was fined $3.50. Howard conduct
ed a blind pig. Howard threatens to
retaliate by filing complaints against
some Lebanon physicians for vloating
the liquor law, and an interesting sltu-
| alton Is promised.
Present indications are that the
| Sunday closing crusade, started by
City Attorney Campbell, of Hoquiam,
| Wash, will soon result in closing the
towns throughout the county. There
| is great stir at Aberdeen over the
question now. Slot machines are
once more under he ban and nave
been turned to the wall
Nicholas ]. Kent, assistant post
master of Butte, Mont, who disap-
peared three weeks ago, was short in
his accounts, according to state
ment by Special Inspector Paisley 1t
was thought at the time of his flight
that Kent was demented. There Is
no clew to his whereabouts The
shortage probably will reach $4,000.
At the Butte, Mont, racetrack, H,
Remus shot ]. II. Brannan in the
groin. The men had quarreled, but
at the time of the shooting Brannan
vas unarmed and there were no pre-
llminaries. Brannan may recover.
Remus is in custody. He was barely
saved from mob. Both are wealthy
horse owners and racetrack follow
ers
The friends of H. E. Nicolai IN
Sunnyside, WASH, have engaged the
oervices of a private defective from
Spokane to endeavor to locate the
missing man. The first thing the de-
tective did was to have the reward Of
fered put up in the bank. There had
been talk about $4,000, but the hc-
tual amount, when scraped together
was $3.50. As soon as the reward
money was put up he left for the
Sound.
While working on a Canadian Pa
oific grade near Phoenix, B. c.,
Hindoo picked up a piece Oh rocf
and threw 1t down into hole tina
was being filled. Undoubtedly tn,
rock either contained port of an nu
exploded charge of dynamite, or els
the rock It struck upon did, as al
explosion followed which badly hur
the Hindoo and A. Haig, the foreman
of the gang. The Hindoo's numbe
on the company's books is 13.