« Eugene Guard TO REPEAL TAX LAW. LANE COUNTY ASSESSMENT. VENEZUELAN doubled fiuin its previous day S ih h v ist liquidation Bent slocks to lowest pointfor many months. HISTORIC VESUVIUS. Brokers were tl >©ded with The 1902 l^oll Shows 5L279.SQ2 Increase Over selling orders, Yesterday’s dispatches brought Southern 1‘iwific which lost the news that tbe people about the 1901—Twenty-Two Per Cent. Section Limiting Local <> 3-4 yesterdav went 3 j»oints base and slopes oi that terrible old Germany Will Not Ad lower today, from 60 3-4 to volcano, Vesuvius, are apprehensive Tax for Libraries i>4 1-2 in the two days, ft of danger from eruption. vanee Into Interior — had scored a loss ot 1 3-4 the They have good reason. 1 bis Should Die. The fo lowii g j. » anmmary of the Lane t u.ity h i®eHpru» nt dax before yesterday. roll for 19t U most celebrated volcano in the as equalli - board of equal iitloi ; Maintain Blockade I nion Pacific showed a world rises from tbe eastern margin M MHK4. VALVE. loss of 2 1-2, a decline of 7 Acree of tillal Is laud*................................. llS.fiJO M,437,0M‘ of the Bay ot Naples, in the midst Acree ot non- tiliable land...... . 1-8 in three days, closing at l.oy^.don 2,070,585 ot a region that has beeu densely ! Then Eugene Might Get a Fine Improvement« on deeded or patented l*ude 47H,120 Wail Street Panicky This Morn, 94 3-4. Town and city lota.............................................. 5HI.S55 populated for more than twenty Library From the Hands Improvements on town aud city lit-.......................... mg Vinsruela Seizes Rail­ Loans were practically un­ 775,74" Ilu| rovemeuts on litid» t o < e- . e 1 or pateuted ........ oenturies. Henae it has served as 34,575 of Carnegie—Petition obtainable, though as high ax Mlles of railroad bed.......................................... way and Telephone M. so 277,1X5 a type for the popular conception Milaa of teleg aph »nd l leghou linos.... 15 per cent wax freely offered 1A'.41 10. ISO Ready. Lines. Rolliug stock............................................................... of a volcano, while its history has 7 A«» •7,105 for money on call. tSteaiui ’*i-, -tttlouary en» ae* 'iuo amnufiiciur tig supplied a large part of the infortua« inaebtuery........................................................ Toward« noon the market Eugme en|oys the distinction of !>». 04,7- 5 L a G vayaa , Dec 12 rbe rallied, «howing surprising tion on which geological theories ing the only city out «de of Portland in M«re»t wmeotH, ivugou», oiriuigre. « phone lines the owi>er«liip of is about four thousand feet, yet it l»w yet .be b not «ati.-fled with re­ H u»«n : i faro tur>, WHtcOto, irweiry, ate ¡HS.175 sults. Tne I gisla’ure pttew-d u law Hur».« anj maw- ....................................... y.aa ita.» which is vested iu citizens of CONTESTINO THE varies several hundred feet accord­ permitting municipbl.ii-s to tax tb >m- Cat I. ........ S6Ó,. »> Germany or Great Bii'ain. ing to the effect of successive erup­ selves to tbe extent of 1-5 of a mill St eap and route.......................................................... SS.7SU 7 -.5 ». r’rt-sidenl Castro justifies lO H«U 6 un FRED WALD WILL tions, taking off a point in one (atsxituatu) for th. «Upp irt t f no one Swine................................................... libraries. the seizure on the ground ot place, maybe building up in Gm«» value of al property «7 877 W Poll mod and Eocwnu are only th. Exemptions.......................... 8B7.ÒSS uiilitaiy necessity. another. axruRDAY DECEMBER SU Citi.« now supportihg khetta libraries. At the b«ginaiug of LhM Chrir. an Both puce, ha»» f> a jd .lw tax en»ir< ly era and for many previous centuries inMde-iui.ee fur go-1 w*> k and have no eruption had taken place, »rid l ean compelled to do ctaer things fir the vol can .o miturv of th» luoality t ie -opp .rt is well Informed on all phane« ot th. «ub Villages about its base. jecl of libraries—atidre»«Md tbe meet­ In the year 63 volcanio energy ing in regard to bis fkvoiite theme. He first began to manifest itwill, t ol- has etudlxi th. loo-l aitualtou thor­ minating in 79 in a calamity that oughly and is deeply Interested in Ore­ after the lapse of nearly nine eeD gon’s welfare. Hu stated that a movement was on hundred years still stands out foot to procure a repeal of the seci ion prominently as one of the g eat or the library law limiting tbe muni­ calamities of human history. Oa cipalities in tbeir tax levy. Ibe the 24th of August of the i> ter Woman's Federation of Clubs bee year the disturbances oultnin- eo taken up tbe matter and peti ions are in a tremenious explosion. wc sooo to be circulated »«king the repeal With all the wealth of this oouoty letters from the younger Pliny ti and city it ut only possible to secure the historian Tacitus give ad ac­ tbe piltaaoe of 1^4) per annum fur tbe count of the terrible event. The support of the pubiio liD.ary in Eu­ continuous earthquakes were so gene. t he limit of l-o mill tax sisoexclDdee severe that chariots rolled abo it oi Oregon from the generosity cf Carnegie. themselves oa level ground, » hila He demaude 10 per Cent of the total ths dust filled the air eo thi kly amount of the gif’.« to be raised by tbe that there was to>al darkness for city to which be gives. This limit toree days. The oities ot Pompeii kept Poriland from r»diving a fine and Herculaneum, and 3lai><«. library at bls h.nds ae the tax ouly permitted Portland to raise t8*'00 w‘ eu about Vesuvius’ base, were buried filJ.tlO'i was needed. »o deeply that for centuries even The Fortnightly Club of this city de­ their sites were matters of c in­ serves united praise for the work t.'iey have been able to ae iompiieta with the ject are. means at hand. They have bad c >o - For nearly fifteen hundred y iare trol cf tbe Pubiio Library here and the great volcano relapsed into have made it a valuable addition t> feeble activity. Then after »series Eugene. Let us work for more an of earthquakes lasting six mo.Hhs restricted scope tor tbe ladies. another grand cataetrophe oocurred. On the 16 ih of Decern tier, 1631 the v licano threw out v»st clou 's of ANOTHER GAME dost and stones. Clouds oi 8 -am IS ASSURED condensed and mingled wita the* dust, forming muddy streams that swept far and wide oyer the fer.iie Athletic Council is Favorable to plains. Streams of th 8 tn ad the M A. A. C..U. 0. reached the sea at twelve different Christmas Game. points. Eighteen thousand 1. ves «ere lost at this time. Yeaterday tbe atbletio oonncll Sinoe then the volcano has never and w fl on!' f rqaailxud >y t'lulouMiy Honrd of Equtii r,»( Ion ............... 1 noreaae from 1901.................................................... .. - Luck in Thirieen. H od ER Skip worth writs* from Ti c-'-n, Ar «ma. a« follows: *'Ple»«e tend tbe (ictso. Cool eights and werm day» here but hot from 10 a tn to 8 n tn. Tbe run eh net bri«h(l/ all day. Good nr tod high priceseeem to prevail here ” By Henri« tn Wald, of Albanv, A NIGHT ATTACK. The Deadly Grip of an Invisible Hand. The climax of some of the most weird ghost stories is reached in the choking grip of an unseen hand upon the throat of a sleeping victim. We are constantly proving that the most fantastic stories may have some basis m actual fact. It is so in the ease of the strangling grip of the invistbl. hand The man who has hail a night attack of severe bron­ chitis, knows the clioking and gasping Which follow the paroxysm as if some hand was tightening on the air passages, lad the victim was slowly suffocating Bronchitis can be cured. Coughs and tuny troubles generally can be cured by the use of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. "I wrote tc yon for advice and you advised me to take ‘Golden Medical Discovery ' and ' Pleasant Pellets,' which Fred and Bertha Wald, of Eugene, AciHt o« M’ oxavr , Dec 12, -A fire originating in the basement of the Hole! iii ipath al 1:40 o’clock inis morning destroy­ ed the building Uig'-lher with its contents The lose w ill approximate two hundred thousand dol­ lars. By Rending 18 ml lew Win Spirey, oi Walton Furnace, Vt„ got a box of Buchten’« Arnica Kaiv. ihat wh- by cured a borrii,I« fever «ors on blu leg Nothing al*« Oould, Positively ourv- b ut««., tabu», ulcer«, erupt loua, beili» Germany's Wailing Hand, barn», corúa aud pile». Only 26c. Co* tag» Gmve leader: The Eugene By Bcrippa Htw, A jia - cik I Ion High School rooter« were daiete*. At Uunrantevd by W L LleLauo, drug, lewd half <-f the wore might be at­ giut. B kslin , Dec 12— The tributed to them. I did, and to my surprise got well,” write. Mr. Joseph A. Valleroy, of Forman. 11L (Box j). "Had what the doctor, called urmchitis. and whenever I would taka odd would suffer grewtly ; but siure taking two bottles of Dr. Pierre’s Golden [irorpectu of Clearing tbe deficit wb<«b Medical InW'-rerv and nee bottle of bis ■ Pleasant Pellet» ’ hare beeu cured of uor »hiidi'Vt ihe management ol I that terrible trouble. Before taking your MonopoLits hare no heart, no Univereity eis« n tbe «ebeone w don'. Aa an example evidence vna «tawed with fhmr and peronietv s medicine I weighed Itu pound« ; cow I Weig h I JO.’ given helnre the ooai strike cem- gyantwl for tbe gerne. TUB FaTaL KtH>. Tue Alutnol wdl na«e a ourt io th« oflfebion ywaterdey that a hoy who Thousands of pemple die every yemr Imeap. Born ol leg in one of the co*, or or» Ze gier, Brwltoy and othen» will oo i i of con»unyitkio. I very one of tbo« thousand- m.gbt h«’« cured tbe ooogb tpi* nothing from ths com pan j for th» C briet»»* •» irvsg». Tbe«*» or lung trou ..« which enoed fateiiy. it, but ¡■«tend wliea return»! to 4 owk » e-ivii f< tbe itarvl There • no ccaqfh, however trivial, tlio* does a<» ' a e 10 tt the gwm'd osi mo- work the company took his wape» D.ck Bmltti. Proi.ly if h» toxi h*eo tko«. Whe» baoachius ttovelopf, t!i» rt ' \ \ o o « o post.MIi'« erf a couch ewl'-ag in <'"»• to pay a debt owed by hie father. U «oe< ' > ? 0 Of course in investizetions like nis garne. H >we«*r, tne ü O will pot o It w no time > o»e -ago are " “"A the worst come» cut. Still this a fln- t--. ’ '*'1 I t i 'i:‘ e une. Ai 'l - n-ro o. an « • o The need ixf » -vme kse "g *" ’'•« *° n 0,4 00 j must be about the limit for down­ vh :. h hop.M f ir » «ict iry »ad it HO --tne 0 ra' w* ae afii.med nod euei astme» Th»« » toe -toa« ; er- hu tirely > 11 f t11• ¡1-tltMi. right meanness and selfishness. ■» en ae rer for several years with bronrbiti«, account of tbe port«*« ot the ” < » t* sun* • — ,f sum h and fer i'.e w akne«« catanl known, i{ J d I n< t thin ; As I« well Was ar ad ■"* In a certain town in Indianaabg force regar rnti’4 1 .____ 1 nry ie running night and day fl res *»re r lot ad qas’e f> r ne, h«l a terrible cough, was abort tne puipw of gf nding corncobs an 1 shipping < • loo. Itii n a- d nervous I began using tee to draft a new law to r ut I* « medicines and have taken m-a'.—iotnewhere. And the p«o- ■»<’ r k.nca last Mar. have taken ,e .. gi-laiuts. Senator Bo - li pie eat it under some “he»lth-iuod ties - -jf — each ----- -— kind, --- ‘ . Golden ..____ Med- ■ all probobtilty, pre-eB* atd nine1-»«*- I te.; ; aw.»err' »r-* ' F»»-fxne Prescnp- name or in combination. FIRE COMMIT­ TEE TO MEET Disastrous Spokane Blaze. W 9-n,7tó ♦ 1,27M,»W German government makes ollicial announcement today that the decision ot President < astro of Venezuela to fight will in no wise change Ger­ many's attitude regarding the occupation of Venezuelan territory. Germany will not advance into the interior, neither at­ tempt U» capture Castro. She will merely maintain an effective bi icaude, by which means it is I'»ougi t Venezue­ la will be brought to terms. the Heirs. H.nritffta W.ld, wbi> rvtlde« at Al- bsny, yretarday fii«d a petition tn the Ciuuly oourt, m»i»te«tllip the pnper re» oetilly tllad hh the will of ber father, Frederick Wald, Uvi*vn«vtl, say- the Oregonian. This liKtruiuent wax ottered for pro bate by Cui Flem-ler, whole the prluoi- pal lienettidarv under II. Miea Wald, in ber iwllllton, allottee that her father left property In Oregon valued at |2r>00, and In Montana worth Wl, and tliat •he and her brother Fred, and enter, Hertha, who ivo In Eng. ne, are the h> Ire. Hlie ehargee that her father waa under the influence of Flereler and w«e coerced, III Iliienoeti and dictated to by 111 tn to iXii-ute the will. 1 he petition aUo aaye that the document Hied In a earbon oopy, and not the otigltial, and that her father kept the original and read h over, and, altar ooniprnhindlng ita content* fully, destroyed it. It 1« aeked that the purported Will be de» dared void. Ml-» Wald 1» represented by Hon L T Harrl», ut Eugene, tion' TV«- in.rove went seemed slow at first but am itaproving fuat lately. Have not coughed for tliri*. month» Mv frien-is ail speak of my looking so much better I een cured of lung dis­ herited ease. by the use of Dr. 1'ierce’s Golden the death of her daughter, Medical I Recovery f>eiier- ally mention the gain iu Mrs Charles Fair, is critically flesh which accompanies ill with little prospect of re­ the cure. Sometime, this gain is only implied, as in covery. the case of Mrs. Miller, The Cuban Treaty. who watt "vwy tliiu," and Hy «crlpp» M»wa A««ocl»tlBn whose friend» tell her since using the " Discovery ’ how W ashington , Dec 12.—The much better she i. looking. commercial treaty between It is implied too in the change from a woman who Cuba and the United States con Id only be on her feet but a short time — to s was signed here today by the w-man w ho can do all her accredited representative« of own housework and can on« hundred and fifty quarto of the two countries. fruit. But in many eases, Sandwich Island Cable. as in Mr. Valleroy’^ the gain in weight is explicitly Ry -tuipp» Must« A«ii»iM’li*Uuji st.it«! : " IE-fere taking yonr medi- io. I weigh«. S an F hancisco , Dec 12.— l»o pounds ; now I weigh I jo " There'« proof positive of cure, when loot flesh b> The laying of the ocean tele regained and when weakne«. w changeu graph cable that will connect into strength. “In 1900, mv busband had neuralgia the United Slates and the and also a iwowre cough,* write. Mre. Sandwich Island« was quiet­ Betti. E Payne, of Kiel, Okla. "For nearly three vears hut rough wua so bad ly begun this forenoon when h. could not lie -low. «1 night. He got the cable ship Sil vertow u no reltuf fn-m t> • doc'ors we employed, commenced paying out wire so we purchar.« I two Ix.ttte. of Dr. Pierce'» Goh leu Medical I Hsoovery. Af­ from the immense ends thai ter th. first lour dvswt we could sue that Presi­ his cough ore berter. awl he rested fairly fill the ship’» hold. well timt night. Tlio d-xtor thoMgbt it dent Mackay of tbe cabl<- com-un ’« , o-— I it write, lire two lot- t»« of ‘ t'-ol Ln Mwb.«1 I u-covary ’ cured corupany »ay« th» line wil bcm—uottaog *Uo did ” l>e in oj*araUon in time to Dr. Pier, e's < .video Mrdleal Msoov«ry ouren brrw' -ri - sorted rough., »eod Chriitmae greeting, to wwte and ble« » 01 «owristw» «nil o n ••-■»•«. All ootrew .OU th westerly,—[Ei> < ¡ land j oo-ir o ' : fi r .Hal. Address WaU Street Panicky. Dr. p. I : «, H -ffalo. N. Y. Sometimes a dealer tempted bv the Byrnwlppa Rew« AMOfln’l -• little more profit paid on the aale of leee «Mritarioua medi nee will < ffer th. cu»- Nxw Y ork , Dec 12.-Wall kun ■ > - ¿"j’nt aa good" u the "Dtkcoverv." It ia bitter for th» street showed very panicky dealer because it pave better, but it if conditions on the opening of not as good for you if you want the m-: ©ne that ha« cured othera, and tbe Btock exchange this fore­ which you believe will cure you noon it was the greatest rr will hrlp von excitement experienced for Dr Pierne’e Common Sen»e Medical months, and lacked but little Adv vr i I help anyone who «tudiea it to live a healthy and vigorous life. It of developing into a panic, to» fria ninth for plain people. It dra'-e in fact was on ; ' lia Kok the verge with the d.e 1 too»’ -i.trnnd tub ect» from ty, ikw-poinl ,' » ■ tmon o -ise. It thereof. - f • te'. trit.i in in plan Er uh, free ___ ’.a i he lie truth Over two million »hares ot "__ : ; jargon, _ :. This great work. from -oedioil ■ -- t* n at! are! large -toek were told, double the contami And yes­ P«|tr' »• I o'.er -oo iltostritiona, to aent »ales of yesterday, a -« to pay eipenae frrt sales were inure • tamps terday’s of m* for t e < a ,« ■!> :: I 1 I !:■ e, or -inly 21 than double those of the day « ta pal-rr cover», alampa fot the Addr-» I>r. R. M to» e, WaJo, N. Y. before, the latter having also Êersooals. hull» ciust O Dre U is on B A Hooih is III Rust-burg. Wni L hix I i r« I» down fr..m Cottage Oro«*'. Mi»* < lair« Dunn oi>iitli>u « to Im­ prove. .Mln Hallie Hurlburt returned to Junction today. Mr anil Mr« IfiH-cl) Col-'nian were over from Coburg natoy. Ci>niini“-lnner H 1> t*. Iwarda left to­ day on a trip to Wbr-> I r < "unly. J D Gteotilee, uf H... I u 11 wa, la th» gUH-c of I la uticfl«, CCC tl.uan. Ueo E Hinitti ami J J rii**tu|>«.»o, of Engeii., were r. g I «re ret I at Albany ho­ tel- yeeteiday. Frank H mmhi , wba rao a*ly bought farm property near I .era, I ft today for the Dak> t >s to gut lilt family. W P Wagiinn, brother of H D Wkg- unn, lorived thi« afternoon from Colo* ■ ado »11.1 i-fl* gu.-et of tala brother. C •i Le ader : C B Clement, n <>ur «treat« the fl ’«I of thia wwk. to h-n> J .»rnat: MlwtGnm • Th1. d .tera 1 rdyyv-Mdtnit: Mr B«n- ear. and »• ►- Lumto«*, wf Hugktnn, ar* gttoau. of »>■ ..a w.r'«4wi«btoJ, M m W A Uemuird. M m A A Feliie, of PoHhnrd, liek •pi-« u*.e n».t ether ihgAdU.», Mr* O d Ad»»« 6» -arne l to re iriutiiMd* th Portteu.8 ifeia »i <*aa«a. Fto B-«a<- l-’l Uil« raandaig far th» Ila. tew v >»)> y io arrange th« filial de- tilla tedeie lakl >g up lb« Mapleton- E iohi ne »tag» r u*e next Monday. Mr« J It Bean and MraOC Morgan, of Portland, who hove attended the 'u ieral i.f it.« late Mrs Cummlna re- nrne.1 Ui th-dr home- today, »lopping in Junction enroute. W K Fr»iler, r.f I* r land, ex-eberlfl of Multnomah cndu y, 1« litre LUylng neavy d'af hot»««. He ha» been here a numb«! ■>* Urn-» before buying bor-e* for tbe C rt army. John Eitoo and family, two aontoln- law »ni their («mill»« arrived thia •fieri e*u from Miaaourl and are at tbe horn* * f 'b-tr relat’vee, Jack Poill and famil . They wlU nettle her«. Mel id Journal: Mr« Cole-Nethel, r >ku >wn >e*eti«rof pariiamen- «. , will «' at tbe reaidrnoe of ’ » V rrr r »'«I Mr T l Ger I >e Ma­ in l-ehkei with« here in o< *•«»• UIU« to .li.ud lb. WulB.U a ClitbUMWl- lug tbla *>in>u< iteiurilay O O o