East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-07-30
GENERAL NEWS.

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| A few weeks ago the James Garren
ranch of 100 acres just west Of Ba-
ker City, was sold for $4,000 to Da-
vid Lee. A few days ago Lee sold It
to ]. L. Masters for $4,000.
Michael Steffans, a Wallace res
tauranteur, will build a 3-story brick
hotel in that place which will cost
$4,000. steffans recently made i'm
mense profits off mining specula-
tion.
r. II. Halsey, for eight years pres
ident of the Oshkosh, Wis. Normal
school and 13 years pervious to that
time superintendent of schools in that
city, was accidentally shot and killed
at Gogebic, Mich, by one of his sons
as the latter was cleaning a revolver.
Alleging the waste of her property
amounting to 100000 Kate Pohler,
a Snohomish squaw, petitions the
probate court of King county for the
removal of George w. Tibbets as
trustee of the estate, and the APP
pointment of w. E. Skies as admin
istrator.
Judge w. F. Bailey of Eau Claire,
Wis, while fishing got huge mus
kellunge on his line. During the en-
suing struggle the skiff upset, and
Bailey becoming entangled in the line
was drowned by the fish. Others cap
tured the fish, which weighed 67h
pounds.
Charles Peterson, a trusty. escaped
from the Boise penitentiary. He
took with kerosene which he rubbed
on the solcs of his shoes, and The
hounds were worthless. A few DAYS
later he was discovered by mere
chance, and identified by bee stings
in his face.
lone bandit with a winchester, |
held up two stages between UkIah,
CAL, and Upper Lake. In one stage |
were 10 passengers, in the other |
eight. The robber lined them UP and |
took all their valuables, and escaped.
The hold-ups were effected at inter-
walls Of about half an hour. ~,
William Maloney, young farmer
living near Kewanee, ILL.,, lies at the
point of death from strychnine pois-
oning. His father missed whiskey
from his bottle and put poison in the
flask to discover who was taking it.
His son came home late and drank
from the bottle. The father has been
arrested.
Earl Gerald of Salt Lake, stabbed
A. N. Mougin Of Seattle, on an east
bound train near Baker City. Mou-
gin was not badly hurt Gerald was
put under bonds to appear in the
circuit court at Baker for trial, and
Mougin was put under bonds to ap-
pear against him.
AT Wallace H. H. Romer, a bar
tender for Loop & Smith, was as
saulted and robbed by two men while
going home the other night. The
hold-ups got about 5000 worth of
loot. 1t included a gold watch, dia-
mond ring, diamond locket and some
They got away.
Near San Antonio, Texas, Charles
F. Pape shot and killed his sister.
Christina, because she insisted upor
marrying man he did not fancy.
Pape was placed in Jail and within
two hours was found dead, having
hung himself with strips of his cloth ,
ing. The Pape family is prominent
and wealthy
Within the past two months be-
tween 5000 and $500 immigrants have
been taken to Pittsburg by the United
States Steel corporation. They were
Magyars, Slavs and Rou-
manians' They are turbulent and to
certain extent dangerous, but be-
,ause OF their dense ignorance cannos
be organized into unions.
The successor to Senator Pettus of
Alabama, will be Ex-Governor Joseph
J. Johnston, of Birmingham. At the
state primaries last year, candidates
'or the senatorship were voted on and
senator Bankhead received the highest
number. He was therefore given the s
vacancy on Senator Morgan's death
Governor Johnston received the next ;
highest vote and will, therefore, be
elected to the second vacancy by the
legislature in joint session August Z.
Origin of Word "Hurrah."
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