East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-09-12

SoaSh Stalhoh At 'JoHB creek, 10 an
association of farmers, the animal
bringing $4,000. The officers and
members of the association are: Ros-
coe Shaw, president; Fritz RAIDER, sec
retary-treasnrer; Tom Harryman, ].
w. Caldwell and Linn Conger, direc>
tors; Charles Conger. groom.
Vandais made a practice of shoot
ing off glass insulators from the n.
L. & w. company's power line in the
Narhes valley and for weeks the line
was short-cireuited at irregular inter-
walls and for much of the time. De-
tectives finally proved the guilt Of
two boys. and their parents settled
for $500 each-nominal damages and
the cost of hiring the detectives.
An assignee has been appointed for
the Golden Eagle department stores
of Portland. The liabilities are said
to rnlge between $4,000 and $780,
900. The management claims that the
assets are fully sufficient to pay all
claims and that the suspension is only
temporary. About $4,000 of the
Golden Eagles paper is said to be
held by the defunct Oregon Trust &
SavfHgs bank.
While the American cruiser Chat
tanooga was at Hakodate, Japan, re-
Gently, four of her men narrowly es-
capped injury at the hands of a mob
Two had to swim to the cruiser. The
other two were rescued by the po-
lice. An investigation showed that
one of the sailors had made an un-
provoked attack on a Jap storekeep-
'er, and the japanese who had at
tackled the sailors were exonerated.
Prof. Elwood Mead, who was elect
ed to the head of the department of
irrigation in the University of Cali
fornia.. is expected to come west soon
and take charge of 'the work. A
short time ago the British govern
ment made Professor Mead an offer
of $4,000 year to take up investi-
CATION work in Australia. He will not
accept. as other private interests and
his position at Berkeley are preferred
by him.
Johp G. Gustave Burghoffer, an
eccentric and very wealthy curio and
art collector. was found dead in a
studio adjoining his place of business
in Chicago. He had lived recluse
for SO years, although he was a very
active, up-to-date man professionally
and in business. In 1871 his wife de-
serted him, taking their 2-year-old
sIn, and has not been seen since. 1t
is thought Burghoffer had no other
relutives.
r. ID. Bradshaw, the largest bee
owner in the Payette valley, Idaho,
sold a car of comb honey this week to
firm In Spokane for $2779 cash.
The car held 1131 cases, of which
937 We're classed as No. 1, and sold
for $3.50 a case, and 1874 were classed
as No. 2, and sold for s2.25 a case.
Mr.. Bradshaw says that he will have
nearly 10000 pounds of extracted
honey which he will dispose of in
the local market.
Shipments of fruit from North Yak
ina saturday made a total of 26 cars,
which establishes new figures for
single days business from this station.
Not only that, but after wiping out all
established hikh-tide marks on Satur-
day. the shippers clung to their task
and added seven as a Sunday consign-
ment On top of that again. all are
at work now with full gangs, and pro-
pose to get out their average of Is for
the day for the week.-Yakima Re-
public.
The mystery surrounding the mur-
der of Mrs. Lennie Bond two weeks
ago, comely young widow, and her
5-year-old son by load of buckshot,
fired through window into the bed
in which they slept, has been uncov-
cred at Millerton, La. 1t is declared
that Benjamin Baucum, 20 years old,
son of DR.. James Baucum, go years
old, a prominent physician, employ
ed a negro, Green Cooper, to kill the
woman, who was 35 years old upon
not being able to persuade his father
not to elope with her.