100 Years Ago
Mrs. Alphiretta Meyer, billed with liquor violations this morning in justice court docket, pleaded guilty and solid herself on the mercy of the courtroom. With tears streaming from her eyes, the aged girl declared that what she experienced done had been for some others, that she was supporting an orphaned grandson, but technically she was responsible. She was arrested Sunday early morning.
Fined $500, with price of $10, and a jail sentence of one 12 months, which was suspended with payment of the fine. The offense is her next. Mrs. Meyer declared to the decide that she built household brew so that her partner would not have to drink Bend h2o. “He is effective challenging in the mill and the water will make him sick,” she claimed, introducing a instant later on a denial of getting ever offered any of the brew. Some of the liquor seized experienced been planted, she was assured.
With the arrest of Mrs. Meyer, and the confiscation of 3 quarts of moonshine, 12 gallons of beer, eight bottles of wine, and 40 gallons of fruit mash at her ranch eight miles from Bend, beyond the fish hatchery, what has appear to be known among the thirsty of this metropolis as the “tea back garden,” ceased operation yesterday.
It was a vacation resort, in accordance to its patrons, where by the beauties of nature could be liked at the same time that liquid refreshments were being freely dispensed to those people who arrived effectively recommended. Officers declare that tea was not served and that some concealed meaning have to have been connected to the identify popularly given the area.
Four Japanese terribly burned in explosion
4 Japanese part hands miraculously escaped demise, but were horribly burned and critically injured at 2 o’clock this early morning, when the gasoline speeder on which they have been hurrying to Redmond crashed into a box automobile, the gasoline tank on the speeder exploding. Foreman R. K. Tanaka, who had been using on the speeder, but who was not hurt so badly as the other individuals, was capable to summon rescuers from the crew which was doing the job at the wreck of the teach of box cars which had escaped from the Bend yard, smashing up when they strike…