East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-08-24


The artesian we'll at North Powder
produces an intermittent flow. Dig
ging is still going on. The well is
now 24O feet down and the machine
is still at work.
Employees of the telephone office
at Fort william, Ont, struck because
an American girl, Ora Hudson, of De-
catur, ILL.,, was made chief operator.
Linemen threaten to strike in SYM
pathy.
The attorney General at Dallas.
Texas, has begun suit against the In
ternational Harvester company. al
leging a violation of the Texas anti
trust law, and demands penalties of
$1,100,000.
Fire destroyed the FIGURING mill,
water plant and heating plant at Mt.
Angel, Ore. In the mill were more
than 1000 bushels of wheat of the
1906 crop and about 5000 bushels of
the 1907 crop.
A four-story hotel is planned for
Eugene by James Sanford, local pio-
neer capitalist. The hotel will have
an elevator and all modern improve
ments. 1t will be on the site of the
block recently burned.
A test made short time ago at
the Nampa sugar factory on beets
grown by the company, sowed a per-
centage of Is. This is a high test, and
the company is satisfied that this
years crop will be good one.
Upon her return from an absence
of a few weeks from her home in
John Day, Mrs. Victor Mosier found
that her house had been broken into
and robbed of her clothing and bed
and table linen. Many things of
value to her were missing.
The attorney general has received
complaints from several citizens of
Drain questioning the right of the
board of regents to close the normal
school and asking his opinion. His
answer was that the board was act
ing entirely within its rights.
Sam Morgan, one of Grant county's
early settlers and a long time citizen
of John Day, dropped dead in his own
door yard. The aged man was strick
en- with heart failure, and lived but
few minutes after the fatal attack.
His wife heard his struggles just
outside the door and ran to his assis-
tance.
The mayor of Salt Lake City and
his new chief of police, Mackenzie,
have started a municipal house-clean-
ing crusade. They are rounding up
all suspicious looking characters in
the city, and each man is requested
to give an account of himself. This
is due to the many burglaries in the
city of late.
A Shanghai special says that there
Is a cholera outbreak in China, and
several Europeans have succumbed
thereto. Preventive measures have
been adopted in the foreign quarter.
Several Chinese and japanese towns
are affected but spread through
ocean steamers is regarded as improb-
able. !
william II. Hicks, paymaster of the
Textile Machine Manufacturing COM
pany in Philadelphia, was held up
by three highwaymen in the northeast
part of the city and robbed of
satchel containing $4,000. The rob-
bers were followed and one of them
captured, but the other two escaped
with the satchel. Hicks was shot in
the arm.
Mrs. Anie Bruce and her daughter
have been bound over to the district
court at Evanston, Wyo., on the
charge of murder in the first degree
for the alleged killing of their hus-
band and father, who died of strych-
nine poisoning. Bruce was leading
; Norman and had just returned from
a missionary trip.
william Wigglesworth, stockman
of Pyle's canyon, in Union county,
brought fine shepherd dog down to
Union for medical treatment. The dog
had encountered fretful porcupine
and came out of the melee In bad
shape. A local physician administer
ed chloroform and proceeded to pick
out the quilts, which numbered into
the hundreds.
NJ. b. Archiquette. leader of the In
dian band and disciplinarian of Fort
Simcoe, WASH, met with serious
and extraordinary accident. Archi-
auette dropped his gun while out In
the fields and the weapon exploded.
The bullet passed through his hand,
ripped along his forearm and finally
lodged in the mans backbone. He
may recover but is dangerously hurt.
]. H. Lutz, tax assessor for Lincoln
county, writes Attorney General Craw-
ford asking what action to take In
the private oyster beds in the Yaquinn