East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-08-29

pot at Forest Grove, was bleeding at
the lungs and died before physicians
arrived. Mr.. Clark had been in the
railroad employ for the past 25 years
and was we'll known among railroad
men.
Arthur Bouquet of Corvallis, lost
part of his left foot while trying to
board the train at Summit. If it had
not been for the quick work of train
man near by who rescued him, he
would have lost his life.
]. W. Goucher, at Sites, Ida, has
received letter from his son, H. H.
Goucher. who was thought to have
been foully dealt with. The young
man has been working near Spalding,
Idaho, for some time, and denies en-
phatically that he has been in danger
of his life.
A dispatch from Casa Blanca says
the French troops and Moors had a
sharp engagement six miles from
General Drude's camp, when party
of mounted Algerians had an encount-
er with the enemy. Reinforcements
of artillery dorve the Moors into the
hills. There were no French losses.
The local operator at Kahlotus,
WASH, who belongs to the Order of
Railroad Telegraphers. and who has
refused to handle any Western union
business since the strike, has receiv-
| ed orders that he may now receive
Western Union business, subject to
| delay.
Major w. A. Mercer of the Carlisle
Indian school, Carlisle, Pa, was in
Portland on a trip through the Pa
cific northwest. He expects to take
a number of Indian students from this
section of the country back to Car
Isle with him upon his return. He
has secured about 80 recruits in Ida
no.
The lid was down tight at Almira,
WASH, Sunday, August 25, both sa-
looms and all the business houses be-
ing closed. Someone desirous of
causing a sensation draped the doors
of all these places with crepe, even
the bank and newspaper office, which
are never open on Sunday, having
their black and white streamers.
Eight bonds for deeds by which
persons owning property in the Ne.
halem valley agree to give rights OF
way for the Pacific Railway & Navi-
CATION company's proposed railroad
were filed for record in the county
clerks office at Astoria. The bonds
are on condition that the road /:
completed and in operation before
January 1, 1910.
Josephine, IS months old daugh.
ter of ]. C. Rice Of Caldwell. was Sc
riously burned with carbolic acid
The child in some way secured a bot
tie of the acid and turned the con
tents upon the floor, spilling the acit
over her limbs. The stockings wer,
burned into the flesh but medical ali
was at once secured and the child Il
, much better.
C. F.. Mallory of Olympia, Wash.
was bound over for trial in the su
perior court by Judge Giles, charge,
with statutory crime against 13
2 year-old Freda Sloan. The complain
: was sworn out by the child's father
( william Sloan of Tenino, who IS ou
t on bail for shooting Mallory on tn
train in Tenino a week ago last Fri
day. the bullet striking Mallory II
the elbow.
g Not many days ago the owner .
{ about one-half acre of heavily loadet
2 pear trees in the Yakima section o
4 Washington, was offered $4,000 70
= the crop on the trees. He refused
y and by doing SO made $500 as he ha
y completed the deal whereby eastern
I buyer take the output for $500. TIL
h pears are the Buerre d'Anjou variety
q Fifty-four trees Weld enough to III
1000 boxes, worth $3.50 each.