East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-08-28
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GENERAL NEWS.


The Baltimore & Ohio railroad has
issued orders that all employees who
drink liquor while on duty will be
discharged.
1t is reported in court circles that
the engagement of Prince George of
Greece and Princess Napoleon Bona
parte will soon be announced.
The Mathis Tangier correspondent
says that Mulai Hafiz declares he is
opposed to a holy war, but that the
leading caids are forcing him into
one.
Conductor Robert Gilmore and
Engineer ]. C. Purdy, with dozen
trainmen, were seriously injured in a
head-on collision on the Norfolk &
Western, near Portsmouth, o.
King Charles has granted amnesty
to all implicated in the recent agrari-
an revolt with the exception of 200
priests and those already sentenced
for murder. The number released is
5000.
The handsome $4,000 Y. NJ. C. A.
building at Walla Walla, located on
Spokane street, will be ready for oc-
cupancy September /. 1t will be one
of the finest buildings of the kind in
the northwest.
A man registered at the Saratoga
hotel. Chicago, as Charles Andrews OF
South Bend, Ind, and shot and killed
a woman registered as his wife and
then shot himself, dying within an
hour in an ambulance. en- route to
the hospital.
James Endicott, while digging a
we'll at Aberdeen, Wash, at depth
of 40 feet, was overcome by gas and
was unconscious when taken out. He
will recover. Since the scarcity OF
water people living on the hills have
been forced to dig wells.
A fire took place at the northwest
corner of Golden Gate avenue and
Larkin street, San Francisco, in which
nearly two dozen autos were Destroy
ed and a number of buildings were
gutted. The total loss is estimated
from 100000 to $4,000.
Ernest Rains, a miner in the en-
ploy of the Standard mine at Mace,
Idaho, fell Is floors down an ore
chute and was taken to Providence
hospital with a fractured skull. He
died shortly afterward. He was about
2S years Of age and unmarried.
The federal circuit court of appeal
of Macon, Ca, has ordered Colonel
John F. Gaynor, who is under sem
tence for Savannah harbor frauds. to
go to Indian Springs to benefit his
health, which is precarious. He will
be accompanied by deputy sheriff
The bar that has been operated by
Frank Clancy at the Meadows race
track near Seattle, has been closed
through the efforts of the First Pres.
byterian church. 1t will remain
closed until the case against 1t fol
selling liquor without license is de-
cided.
Hop picking is in progress in So
noma and Mendocino counties, Cali
fornia. There Is said to be a splendit
crop this year, when quality is con
sidered, but the yield, 1t is believed
will be slightly below that of las
season. Estimates place the yield o
Sonoma at about $4,000 bales.
Approximately $50 members of tn
building trades association of Gold
field, New, will return to work. Tn
plumbers won their demand for s
for an eight-hour day. They wer
obliged to sign contract to give o
days notice in case of another strik
or demand for an increase in wages.
A feature of the coming Lewiston
Charleston fair will be an exhibit o
tobacco grown on the Clearwate
river near Orofino, and which viii
be a part of the oroflno exhibi