East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-08-05
GENERAL NEWS.

A Santa Fe Passenger train was
iitchcd at Red Rock. Oklahoma,
killing d. C. Mack. the engineer. Sew
eral passengers were hurt.
Governor Conner OF Alabama, has
signed the bill requiring all saloons
In that state to close at p. m. and
(S:30 y. m dn the larger cfties.)
A hail storm struck southern Brown
and northern Sphinx counties. South
Dakota, and. destroyed all crops with
in an area of 16o square miles. The
district Is the richest In South Da-
kota.
Kirk Jones, a notorious burglar.
was recently caught In Boston. He
Is wanted In many cities. He was
identified by a mangied hand which
resulted from gunshot wound re-
ccived In Portland. Oregon. many
years ago.
August st. Gaudens, aged SO years,
IL dead at Concord, N. H. He is
generally referred to as "America's e
really great sculptor" AS a matter
CT fact he was Irish by birth and
blood, though he had lived In Ameri-
ca from infancy.
Near Forsythe. Montana, Nels Oh
son, n well-known sheepman, fell off
a moving machine. by his team be-
coming unmanageable in the hay
field. Olson fell In front of the
sickle-bar and was almost instantly
killed by being disembowled. q,
The management of the Burlington
railroad, after 20 years of opposition,
has recognized the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers and has signed
the first wage scale with that organ
ization since the great strike of the
engineers on the Burlington in 1885.
West and Miller are drilling a To-
inch artesian well in the railroad
yards nj Ontario for the o. r. & N.
company. They now have the we'll
to a depth of 400 feet, the formation
being similar to that at La Grande,
where they drilled n well. If they are
successful in securing an overflow,
the city will have one drilled at once.
Four men lost their lives at San
Pedro, Cal, when 400 feet of tres
tie leading from the wharf OF the
Pacific Wharf & Storage company
collapsed without "A moments warn
Ing. The dead men were crushed by
a carload of rock or drowned In the
harbor -Four others who Went down
with them were rescued All were
Greek Iabouers. f
Held up by four men at Forbes
street and Sixth avenue, in the heart
OF the shopping district of Pittsturg,
Pa, about Q O'Clock in the evening,
J. H Zimmerman, aged "a years. of
Carrick. shot and killed one OF his
assaiiants, Edward Shields. The 9TH
er men fed, but one was arrested half
an hour after the shooting. He gaue
his name as JACK McCarty of Chi
-cago. .H @
& John Carlberg. a lineman. was
electrocuted while at his work at
Portland. The Portland Railway.
Light & Power company insists that
he died of heart failure and that he
did not get a shock that would kill.
Including Calberg, six linemen have
either been electrocuted at their work
or have "just died" as is claimed in
the Calberg instance, during the past
IA months in Portland.
The Alaska Lumber company of
Seattle has filed complaint with the
interstate commerce commission al
leging that the Northern Pacific and
connecting lines via Billings charged
It overweight on cedar shingles ship
peed from Edgecomb, Washington, to
Ell Paso, Texas, making excess
charges on one car $137. It is also
alleged that joint rate is effective
but that the railroads charged on the
basis of combination Of rates based
on delivery.