East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-09-13
GENERAL NEWS.


School opened yesterday and 141
pupils were enrolled, as against 122 on
the opening day last year. The pros
poets are good for an enrolment of
ESQ pupils this year.-Waliowa sun.
AT Cornerstone, Arkansas, a man
named Alexander shot and killed n
negro. The next day negro named
Louis Franklin shot and killed G. A.
Butler. mistaking the latter for Alex
ander. Franklin escaped.
at Prinevlle on a charge of borse-
steallng, escaped. Davis, seemingly
well behaved, had been allowed to
work on the court house for wages,
and no one had the slightest idea he
would attempt to escape, as the case
against him was exceedingly weak.
The store of ]. NJ. Martindale, which
contains Cleone postoffice, Multno-
nah county, was robbed of $3.50 in
gold, $50 in stamps, $3.50 in pennies.
registered letters, postoffice books
and papers, and, in fact, practically
everything in the non-burglar-proof
safe.
All the fingers of his left hand but
one gone and his abdomen pierced.
Arthur Johnson, 12 years old, lies at
the Portland Sanitarium, victim of
dynamite caps, with which he at
tempted to play at his home on 49th
and Division streets, Portland. He
Will recover, but had a narrow escape
young man named Davis, in Jail
Ward F. Brown of Star, Idaho, fell
from a trolley car at Boise, receiving
a fracture of the skull and brain con-
cussion which killed him almost in
stantly. He was 81 years of age. He
was perfectly sober, but attempted to
board car on curve while it was at
full speed in the outskirts of town.
John Harter OF Akron, Col, was
killed by his runaway team on Sep
tember 10. The same day his step
son was killed In a runaway near
Yates Center, Kansas. As neighbors
were taking Harter's body home the
team drawing the wagon in which the
body lay ran away and E. w. McIn-
tyre, the driver. sustained a broken
leg
Chief Engineer G. w. Boschke, of
the o. r. & N. company, who visited
Baker City yesterday with General
Manager ]. P. O'Brien, stated that 1t
was almost certain that the railroad
to the town of Joseph in wallowa
county, would be opened up and in
running order in about four months
from now,-Baker City Democrat.
and was badly burned.
CnDt pol.o, A.
has notified Midshipmen Clarence C.
Riner of Cheyenne, wyo., and Oscar
G. Salb of Jasper, Ind, that their
designations are desired by the navy
They are two fourth
class men who were charged with
"Frenching" from the
academy limits at night and meeting
chorus girls at late suppers.
Peter Fordney and Joe McClaran
were out in the Flora country last |
week where Mr.. Fordney was buying
horses and mules. Mr.. Fordney
bought one span of mules that
weighed 400 pounds each. In COM |
pany with Charles Smith of Lostine,
Mr.. Fordney expects to start to Cali
fornia some time this month with
shipment of horses and mules.-Wal-
Iowa Sun,
The Wasco News boasts that Ed
Caseberg of that neighborhood, thresh-
ed SS7 sacks of barley in one day
with an 1S-foot combine. Now comes
James Dyer of Mayville, this county,
and asserts and proves by disinter-
H.
sacks in one day with the same sized
machine. If anyone can beat this the
Record will be glad to publish the
facts.-Arlington Record.
A 100000 shortage has been dis
covered in the accounts Of the state
tax commissioner of New Orleans,
and the police are searching for
Charles e. Letten, chief clerk to
State Tax Collector John Fitzpatrick.
who Is charged with the defalcation.
This is the third defalcation in six
months in the Louisiana tax depart
ment. The two previous shortages
totaled nearly 100000.
Jesse Carey, a young man who re-
sided in Canyon City, Grant county,
was kicked to death by horse Sat-
urday afternoon at the James Wick
izer ranch in Izee. Both hoofs of the
animal struck the young man in the
pit of the stomach, and death result
ed in a few hours. The deceased was
a native of Whitman county, WASH
ington, and was buried by the local
Woodman lodge, of which he was a
member.
For As years George Palmer, a
farmer of Sullivan county, New York,
went unshaven, and his beard reach
ed his knees. It was his pride and
joy. Recently he went down to New
York city, "likkered up" went into
a barber shop, mumbled some in
structions and went to sleep in "a
chair. When he awoke he was
smooth shaven. Now he is suing
John Reisler, proprietor Of the shop
for $4,000 damages.
The warrants against Ex-Governor
w. s. Taylor Of Kentucky have been
suspended and he. will voluntarily re-
turn to Kentucky to testify in behalf
of Caleb Powers who is soon TO he