East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-08-07
FRE[WATER ADV|CES'
MANY RESIDENTS HAVE LEFT
CITY FOR THE MOUNTAINS
Streets Look Almost Desolnte Because
of the Exodus-Clty Council Plans
for New Water System for Free,
water-Little Evans Girl is Injured
Personals.
(speclal Correspondence.l

Especial Correspondence.)
Freewater, Aug. 6.-The city looks
almost deserted, these days, so many
people having gone to the mountains
from here. Among those who are en-
joying the delightful mountain air are;
Mr.. and Mrs. William Hoon and Miss
Bertha Hoon; Mrs. Henry Lloyd Mrs.
l.. b. Mitchell and daughters, Cecn
and Constance; Mrs. n. w. Mumford
and daughters; Mr., and Mrs. j. w.
Muir, and Mr.. Fay Muir; Mr.. and
Mrs. j. f. Gulliford and son. a large
number have also gone just for a few
days. The family of j. NJ. Clarke
went up this week to remain a month.
]. S. Vincent is building a new store
a few doors north of the old store.
1t is 20 by 40 and will be used for
real estate office.
The city council at their meeting
this week, made plans plans for in
stallng water works in Freewater.
Many plans have been brought before
the council for some time past but
none of them proved feasible. The
scheme now is to build a reservoir that
will hold 100000 gallons, the water
to be procured from wells to be To-
Gated at the foot of the hill. G. II.
Sutherland Of Walla Walla and May
or ]. H. Hill have the matter in hand
and are perfecting plans and making
estimates which will be brought be-
fore the council at the next meeting,
If the water question is settled satis-
factorily, it will mean a great deal to
the city as many people have only
been waiting to see if the city is to
have water, before deciding to build
here.
Little Girl Injured.
Mrs. Fred Evans and her little two
year old daughter, Vera, went to Wal
la Walla today to call on friend,
who is i'll in st. Marys hospital. While
there, the little girl got away from
her mother, and out in the corridor,
and fell from the second story win
dow to the ground. No bones were
broken. but she was very seriously in
jured and will have to remain at the
hospital for some time.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hugh Murry have
moved to their new home they recent
ly purchased from ]. A. Bradley. Mr.,
Murray is manager for the Peacock
Mill Co., and has been living in Walla
Walla, since his marriage.
w. w. Baums of Sunnyside, has pur-
chased five acres of land from Brad
ley and Mitchell. 1t adjoins the ten
acres he already owns.
A. II. Hobbs of Dayton has been in
town this week. looking after his new
ranch, he just purchased from A. #.
Brewer. While here, Mr.. Hobbs
some apples through the Fruit
Growers Union and has engaged the
Rev. Mr. Ward, of the Ferndale New
Home Baptist church, to take charge
of the ranch until he can arrange his
business matters in Dayton, so he can
come down and take charge of It
himself.
Mrs. Cramer of Portland, and Mrs.
Fisher of San Francisco, were the
guests of Mrs. David Clark of Sunny
side this week.
T. ]. Cavanah who has been sec>
ton boss on the o. r. & n. at this
point over ten years, has taken
ninety days leave of absence from his
Job, and gone to visit with his rela-
ives on the Sound.
Mr.. and Mrs. Eli Romine of Tegoa,
Wash, are visiting with relatives in
Freewater, Walla Walla and Hudson
Bay. Mr.. Romine has resigned his pv-
;ition on the o. r. e n. at Tekoa
where he has been for over year and
Will go to Portland to live.
Fire Destroys Grain.
Fire yesterday afternoon destroyed
seventy acres of standing grain on the
5teen ranch on Dry Creek, as well as
,ixty-five sacks of wheat. The fire or
ginated from sparks from o, r. &
\. locomotive. Had it not been for
,igorous and well sustained efforts in
hundreds of acres of wheat
n the adjoining fields would have
oeen destroyed. The loss is in the
lelghborhood of $4,000 and is fully
covered by insurance.
w. w. Mumford and w. A. Fipps
nave bought out the interest of S. $.
in the William Saager ranch
ying west of town, the consideration
being $4,000. This gives Mr. Mum
Tort a tract Of twenty acres ON which
ne has 1900 young Winesap and John
lthan apple trees, seven acres of this
young orchard being utilized in the
meantime for strawberries, The Is
lcres Of Mr.. Fipps is in similar con-
lition. A few years ago a merchant
IF Milton owned this entire tract and
lot seeing its possibilities sold it for
| nominal sum.
The Peacock Mill Co. are busy at
bio tir,a chiunipg fIour in carload |