East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-09-11
GENERAL NEWS.
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The Northern Pacific will at once
build a stone depot 50x15Q feet AT
Wenas, 10 miles north of Yakima.
The La Grande Observer says that
the enrolment in the public schools
of that place the first day OF the fan
term which opened September >, was
III.
At Washington, d. c., Wellington
r. Herbert aged 2S, fired five shots
at his wife in a crowded room, she
and her sister were slightly wounded
lie then Shot and killed himself.
For the first time The Dalles high
school will this year have a CONNER
cial course. Stenography and type !
writing will be taught during the last !
two years of four-year course.
The present police force of Poca-
teuo is TOO small to cope with the
tough element of that place. Burg
laries and assault and batteries and
reckless use of firearms are common.
John A. Isham of Madras, Crook
county, died recently at Eugene while
on a visit at that place. He was 62
years old ana had lived in Oregon DO
wears. He lived in Walla Walla dur
nag 1872.
one woman was killed and four
other persons seriously injured in AL
legheny when large automobile
bearing the party struck curbstone
and threw the occupants against sew
eral telegraph poles.
Left to die by assassins whose iden-
tity is unknown, Albert Miller, ce-
ment worker, aged So, was found un-
conscious at San Francisco, suffering
from a fractured skull. He died sew
eral hours later at hospital.
Secretary Root returns from his
summer vacation much improved in
health. For nearly three months he
took physical training of Muldoon
the wrestler, at the latter's home in
secluded corner of Maryland.
Ebert Hause, committed at La
Grande as insane, escaped before the
attendants from the asylum could
reach La Grande. He bought an east
bound ticket and is supposed to be
headed for Texas. No serious effort
was made to apprehend him, as his
absence is really desired more than his
presence.
There is a well-developed suspicion
in and out of the sporting element
that Britt is gutter, as there Is lack
of proof that his wrist was really
broken during the fight with Cans.
| After the second round 1t was one
sided affair. Although Britt was on
! the aggressive to the last, yet he
knew he was beaten from the second
round on.
At Seattle, Miss Cora Callahan, dis
4 appointed in love affair, swallowed
carbolic acid and died in a hospital
She left two letters, one addressed tc
\ her parents in yakima, and the Other
to a friend, Pearl Applegate. In the
81 latter letter she said that before she
would die broken hearted over love
q affair she would die by drinking 10
4 cent bottle of carbolic acid.
4 During a heavy fog off the New
\ foundland banks, the French line
La Gacongene, bearing 100 passen
4 gers, nearly collided with bi
tramp ITelBHltT. lue NeSSSiS dSbuhi
4 ly scraped, the casing of the La Gas
congene's ports being torn off ant
1 many square yards of paint rubbe
off. The jar was sufficient to throN
z the passengers from their berths.
q Edmond F. Noel, who won the gov
a ernorship of Mississippi in the recen
a primary, is a native of Mississippi
Il and has been prominent in the poll
"a tics of that state for the past 2
y years or more. He served numbe
of years in the state Legislature an
is prominent as a lawyer. Althoug
AZ the platform on which he was sue
cessful in the recent primary wa
nv not radical or extreme in its mai
v, aspects, Mr.. Noel is pledged to
G. number of important reforms, nj
table among which is a state pre-
c. hibition law. Personally he is a
n. ardent prohibitionist and relentle
t. enemy of the liquor traffic in all Il
forms.