East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-05-09

NORTHWEST NEWS.


| y new company or National Guard
has been organized at Cambridge.
idaho, with 62 men enrolled.
Payette, Idaho, is trying to raise
5000 for Y. NJ. C. A. building,
and has SCOOP in hand for the pur-
pose.
Lewiston, Idaho, is discussing street
paving. 1t has reached the point
| where 1t is matter of selection be-
| tween kinds.
Fred Eberly was killed by a fall
ing tree in his own logging camp
near Port Townsend, Wash. His
home was at Quilcene.
Uniontown, Whitman county,
Wash, is to have a state bank. Lang
ley brothers of Cotton, are among
the principal promoters.
j. C. Wolf has been elected mayor
of Silverton. Every vote but five
was cast in favor of the purchase of
steam road roller costing $500.
Ernest Mcpherson, aged 26, of On
tario, Canada, was drowned in the
plunge at Greigson Springs, near
Butte. His father is wealthy manu-
facturer.
Near Manhattan, Mont, the west
bound Burlington flyer ran down a
handcar and was wrecked. Fireman
Harry Gilmore was killed, and 25 pas
sengers were more or less injured.
A protractec drought is causing
great loss in the upper Willamette
valley. All crops and varieties of
fruit are badly hurt. The prune-
growers are especially hard hit.
On Blue creek, 81 miles north of
Spokane, the Washington Powder
company has Just gotten its powder
mills in operation. 1t is expected to
turn out 40 tons of blasting powder
per day.
The w. o. w. for the sixth Oregon
district, comprising Lane, Jackson,
Josephine, klamath, Lake, Coos,
Curry and Douglas counties, are in
session at Roseburg, with 65 dele
gates present.
Holdup men at Kona, WASH, in
one evening recently robbed C. p.
Kelso of watch and a small amount
Of money, and E. H. Hinman of n
few dollars cash. Two arrests of
strangers have been made.
The ground is so dry in the hop
district around Aurora, Oregon, that
IT is impossible to cultivate the hop
vines, which are suffering severely.
However, there is no encouragement
on the part of the growers, and the
acreage of vines will be Increased.
At Pullman, WASH, large dwell
ing rented and occupied by college
students, burned. Loss, S2500, in
surcd for $500. The house was out
side the hydrant limits and an i'm
prcvised bucket brigade could do lit
tie. Several students lost personal
effects.
I Two hundred twenty delegates to
the district convention of the w. o.
w. are in session at Portland rep
rcsenting Multnomah, Yamhill, Polk,
! Washington, Marion, Linn, Lincoln,
Benton, Clatsop, Columbia and Til
/ lamook counties, which have an ag-
gregate membership of 10000.
Five miles from Rainier, Ore;
Frank GARDINER shot and killed II.
NJ. Twarthout, using a rifle. He then
walked into Rainier and delivered
himself up. Gardiner absolutely re-
fuses to make any statement, but 1t
is supposed he killed Fwarthout dur
| ing quarrel over the latter's wife,
who kept house for Gardiner on the
| latter's ranch.
Acting upon his own initiative
Mayor Rodgers of Salem, has order
ed two carloads of oil from Los An
geles, one of which, carrying tank
of 1880 gallon capacity, is now on
the road, for street sprinkling pur-
poses and 1t is proposed to apply the
fluid as soon as 1t arrives as tenn
porary solution of the dust problem
upon the principal streets.