East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-01-14
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GENERAL NEWS.
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the First National Bank or Pull |
man. Wash, has increased its oircu-
lation from 100000 to $50,000.
McNeff Bros. last week bought $50 |
bales Of hops from Yen Lee, the Yak
ina Chinese hopgrower. at 12A cents. |
During December last Baker City |
derived $1005 revenue from the sale |
of surplus city water to farmers, and |
collected $500 in meter rents.
War Is being made at Vancouver, |
Wash. on saloonkeepers who sell |
liquor to minors. One man was fined |
for selling liquor to a 13-year- -old girl. |
Baker City will build a new bridge |
across Powder river on Washington |
street which will be the hest bridge |
IN the city. 1t will be a two-trnss af- |
fair with solid lava rock abutments.
The cornerstone of the first Episco-
pal church in Cuba was laid at Ha-
vana on January IL. The ceremony
was conducted by Bishop Knight.
Governor Magoon and nearly all the
other American officials at Havana
attended.
Robert l.. Ownes of Muskogee,
| democratic candidate for United
States senator from Oklahoma,
claims to have the pledges of 81 del
egates in the constitutional conven-
ton for woman suffrage to insert
such a provision.
Buenos Ayres statistics show that in
1906, from January / to December l.
209,767 immigrants entered the ports
of Argentina. The statistics for No
vember alone show 52,76T immigrants,
while the number of those who left
the country was 9467.
At Wilmington, H., f. II. Pope and
| Edward Schreiber were killed and a
dozen persons injured by the eXplo-
sion of a gas plant in Woodman han
during the progress of n card party.
Among the most seriously injured is
Father Dwyer, a Catholic priest.
At Caldwell, Idaho, George NJ. Snow.
charged by the Tranpers Flat Mining
company. with the embezzlement of
nSCOC0, waived a preliminary hearing
and was bound over to the district
court which convcnes March .. His
bond was fixed at $500, which he
gave.
u W2r is being made on unsanitary
b"rber shops at spokane, and also on
the filthy free lunch counters, by the
city hoard Of health An inspector
declares he found one shop wherein
400 men We're shaved i'm one day and
but 1S7 towels used on the entire 400
patrons.
George Terry, head Of the Shoshone
Indian council in Wyoming, was
knocked down with club and then
stabbed to death one night recently.
1t is believed to be the result of a
family feud. Terry was the half
breed son of Mormon Bishop Terry of
Utah, and was squaw man.
\ highbnders' war has broken out
8 in Oakland, Cal. between the Hop
Sings and Ping Hungs. Lee Book
4 Dong "A very wealthy Chnaman. was
I shot ana killed ana Lung Gee. Chin
$ Foo. Gee Gin ANA Lee Long were
, wounded in a pistol fight The row
{ started over All kco. a Chinese girl
living with Dong.
Rev. Richald Brown, missionary
] W ''-7''' % '1''ll wv Nll' NpllE ST.
= tional church. whose headquarters
e have been at Vale, Malheur county,
I for tn" pat year has left this field
=. for permanent pastorate at Living
d sion, Mont. at which point the Con-
4 gregational church is very strong nu-
: mericalN and financially.
Oscar ]. Kendall, who attended
. Francis J. Heney as body guard
y during the trial of the land fraud
VI cases IN Portland. and who has beer
attending tn" prosecutor in the same
capacity u .au Francisco since HeneN
: undertook the Investigation ana pros.
;, ecuton OF alleged municipal corrup.
- ton, is dead at san Francisco by
cerebro spinal meningitis.
,s Two ranchers, known as Rec
n brothers, who lived on the desert II
"A miles south of Arco. Idaho, wer,
h frozen to death the night uf Decem
# Der IL. They left Arco considerabl!
under the influence of liquor and los
+ their way in a blizzard. A section
90 foreman on the oregon Short Lin,
g found their bodies four miles from
Arco.
+ Charles Curtis, an eighth bloc,
't Pottawatomie, has received the eau
T. Gus nomination of the republican
u members of the Kansas legislature
d. for United states senator to succee
Is Benson. who was appointed to fill til
IN vacancy caused by Senator Burton
III conviction and imprisonment. Cur
UT tis will be elected senator, the nomi
nation being an equivalent, He ha