East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-09-03

capital stock is $65,000. Business
will be begun October Is. The Mer-
chants bank is the fourth institution
of its kind in Eugene.
The navy department has received
word from the Mare Island navy yard
that 1000 men are needed to complete
important work there. The arrival
of the fleet OF warships on the Pacific
cosat next year VIII make universal
demands on the station at Mare Is
land. There will be work for 1000
skilled mechanics.
Defending the honor of the girl he
had just married, John Pellettrorie, a
bridegroom OF 1g, was fatally shot by
her defamer in a little flat in New
York. His white white haired father,
fighting also for the good name Of the
girl, was killed instantly by a bullet
through the heart. Henry Green, the
murderer, is in custody.
AT Lyndhurst. N. j., George Cas-
sidy, a policeman, was shot down and
killed while endeavoring to arrest
two burglars who had been caught
in the act Of robbing a store. The
burglars were then pursued by a
crowd and rather than submit to cap
ture, one of them killed himself in
swamp. The other burglar es-
capped.
At Spokane, Harry Hill, a North
ern Pacific switchman, and Guy
Thompson, bartender, have been ar
rested on a charge of robbing box
cars on the night of August 90. Hill
is In a local hospital suffering from
a wound in the leg which he receiv-
ed in making his escape from the
car, where he was discovered by one
of the night police.
Louis Martin, a half-breed Indian,
who has been employed on the ranch
of ex-State Auditor Theo. Turner,
during the summer was run over and
killed by passenger train No. at
Bancroft, Ida. Martin is well known
around Pocatello and Blackfoot. hav-
ing heen a ball player and foot racer
of some note, and having played in
both cities.
The continued wet weather in Spo-
kane and Lincoln coupties, WASH,
has cast a feeling of gloom over that
section, and If there is not an imme-
date cessation of the rain untold
damage will result to the wheat crop.
Much of the crop is ripe and ready
for harvesting, but the ground is so
wet and soft that 1t is impossible to
get in the fields
An aged Scotch minister about to
marry for the fourth time was eX-
planning his reason to an elder: You
see, l am an old man now and |
Gamma expect to be here vera lang.
When the end comes l wad like to
have some one to close my eyes" The
elder nodded and said: "Awell,
meenister, | have had twa. of them
and both of them opened mine"
While the bartender slept, the Pa
cific bar at Ellensburg, Wash, was
robbed at late hour of S160. Up
TO late hour neither tne proprietor,
w. c. Reece, or the police had any
clue as to who committed the rob-
berry. Night policeman Shalt had
seen the bartender sleeping and awoke
him, then left him, but he again fell
asleep and the till was robbed.
George S. Ulmer, superintendent of
the California & Hawaiian Sugar Re-
filming company at Crockett, Calf,
killed himself at that place by shoot
ing himself through the heart with
a revolver. 1t was claimed that he
was demented when he committed
the act. Deceased, who was quite a
prominent clubman In San Francisco,
was a native OF Utica, N. Y, ana was
81 years of age.
Joseph L. Brismay dived from
boat in the harbor at Savannah, Geor-
gia, into perfectly clear water Is feet
deep. Just as he leaped an enormous
turtle swan from beneath wharf
and directly in line of Brismay's des-
cent. The animal was about two feet
below the surface and Brismay
struck 1t squarely with the top of his
head, breaking his neck. The turtle
swan away uninjured.
After having burned $4,000 In bills
in the streets of Webster City, Ia,
and throwing his diamond rings and
studs into the sewer Car Presley in
formed the guests In. the lobby of
the Park hotel that he was going to
die. Crossing over the city park he
called upon passersby to watch him,
then drawing revolver from his
pocket, pressed It against his head and
fired He died infmed In taiy