A EUG :NE BOY hbout atn ■yunces caused by tramps cal. The Variag was now sinking with be good service ana comforts for tb Legging, One lady reports that as considerable list, as was also the mer people, advancement to keep pac many as five tramps came to her chant ship. We expected to see the with the age and not altogether profit bouse iu oue day, only rm of whom Korietz also sink when jost at 3:57 a getting. This is oue of the comini would work for something to »at, loud report was beard aud we saw issnes iu Pendleton.” I bis seems to be the ti i.e cf year the Korietz was blown up by 1 1 in­ Why not Eugene own its own water when the bobos -tome north again. and light system? This would pay Wayne Osburn Gives Thrilling terna ■ explosion. 1 never expect to Some aetiou should be takeu to stop see such a sight again. We were all every cent of our city taxes, besides Description of Destruction of on the quarteideck looking at her I this begging, for no one cares to we would have a cheaper rate for light feed a good for nothing tramp, and and water. when it took place. A column of Russian Men of-War. I honest men are not tramping these smoke went straight up in the air Let us figure and think a little. several hundred feet. ... We The city of Eugene is paying for its were only a few hundred yards from water 81000 a year to tbe water com­ (Daily Guard March 28) From letter to Mr. and Mrs. F. W. bei and it is a wonder that we were pany, and 83,600 for its street lights — not struck w.tb flying shells. . . . that is 84600 tbe taxpayers are paying Osburn: The Variag commenced to burn at out for light aud water. That amount Ever.ii» )i ive happened so fast dur will pay the interest on 8100,000 a ing * ' • «r 24 hours that I could about this time, and after sundown year, which would be ample to put in write bo ik on It. 1 have seen to see the flames leaping up aud to stupe turned, naval battles, men-of- hear the ammunition about the decks Dallas College Had Won in a water aud llcl.t system for the city. Tbe city could pay the interest on war blow ■ > up. nieu of war sink, the being exploded is a sight I shall al­ Basket Ball. the bonds, and save enough each year dead a;id ujl li >ur ported in boats. ways remember. The bauds on the Irilliant Reception this Afternoon for a sinking fund to pay the 8100,000 etc., etc., etc , Vei •y. I say tha' ships clayed the Russian nat'oual air witbin twenty years. Besides the in Honor of Miss Archibald, of enough exeitemont ff.M furni lel ur as the Variag slowly sunk, and at 6:01 Daily Guard March 28 yesterday to make up for a yeui p. in. she rolled over aud sank, ac­ The Dallas Observer, in speaking of light rates could be largely reduced Boston—Other Social remaiuing here with no excitement companied by a loud noise caused by the Dallas-Corvallis Lasketbail game, aud tbe water rates, too. The city ought to own tbeee plants. The wbatevei. L'ow.vei, 1 am going : me water rushing in. As we stood I ends with the following: Events. (here it was bard to realize that that little ton ta»i. The ouiy cause of regret among the profits from them would pay every i was the end of the 82,500,000 cruiser, cent of Ibe city tax. Night before last /.alias people who visited the game the Japa w Daily Guard March 28 landed their troops aud the transport- ou board of which just a few days be­ is the rough aud ungeutlematily treat got out 'lie men < f wur pulled oui fore we had dined , . . aud now ment to which they were subjected as Mrs Dr. Sheldon entertained thia about six u..les. The Pompey cun. at the bottom of tbe sea with the the train was leaving Corvallis. Not fternoon iu honor of Miss Archibald body of the officer whom we all lovid r ...tent with stealing the signal lan­ alougci .c if Boston. The rooms were tastefully at 7 a.m. to coa1 ue, ano the same time a Japanese policenai so dearly, Count Nireod. Such are tern ou the train, cutting the bellcord lecorated in evergreen, potted plants br< ugl.t a n te for the captain from the fortunes ot war. nd candles. Mosdames Sweetser, aud piling cordwood under the car Soon after tbe Variag went out of tho . .u A la...... so . l anding tin- Stafford, Washburne, aud Hyde aided wheels, a band of hoodlums lined up sight the merchant ehip broke out in Jap: he hostess. Misses Crawford, Ban- along the track, and as the train be- ■>e sq mJron,inlorming him that flames and burned all night until 2 tard, Dodge, Gray and Cleaver aided i - v:-ted between Japan ano gau to move,threw mud upon the pas- President Campbell of the Opin­ t mis nis mp-ning. moming. With the moon com n serving. The invited guests were: seugers by the handful. ion That It is a Great Oppor­ • e two Russian ships, ing up, the sniy burning, the lost Mesdames Washburne, Luc: mi a, Kuy- Variag and Kcreitz would be given Several persons standing on the tunity for Eugene, wreckage of the Variag and Korietz endali, Straub, Howe, McMurphy, platforms wer • struck by rocks, and until noon m leave, aud if they did ■nicking above the water and the Jap­ )eCou, Sweetser, Zeiber, Aukeny, nut leave bv that ttiHt time ttiey wmiln many suits and overcoats were ruined anese torpedo boats running in and toney, McCormack, Glen, Young, Editor Guard:—Those who really be destroyed .vhik at auvboi.gabei by the volley of mud that was thrown while out, i* showed that war, grim war, ’attison, Wann, Scarbrough, Adair, all other sbi|8 must g' t out ot At every street crossing from the de­ enjoy tbe advantages of a good library was in our midst. Smith, Burden, Shafer, Abbot, Os- tbe way . . pot to the north end of town this 1 can best appreciate, prrbaps, the ben- Well. Hiere was Do you wonder that when the day iorne, Wold, Williams, Wheeler. Liv- quite a lot of excitement in the bar disgraceful performance was repeated ■ etits to be derived by the general was ended I put it dowu as the most irmore, McGinnis,Willoughby, Dunn, bor, as you can imagine. All lh< and when tb° train reached the public from easy access to a well se­ exciting day J hare yet en"nt? lawthorne, McAllister, Potter, Rob- m-ii-u! war 'u the harbor began t< suburbs many of the passengers who lected collection of books The li­ Several weeks ago 1 -eut the music nson, Kelley, Jobuson, Lilley, Grif- gel eleu.u ,p and we thought iba had been unable to crowd into the brary is the heart of a university, au'l menu cards of our dinner on In, Whitson, Fuller, Prentice, Chns- perhaps we would have to get un coaches were plastered with mud and it is hard to think of any satis- bonr I the Variag, and also showing □au, Lowe, Wilkins, Booth, Wood- from head to foot. The excursion­ I factoiy elucational work being done derway with the collier alongside. the picture of her. I saw her while rard, Inhgam, McLean, Hendricks, ists were so surprised aud astonished without au abundance of good books The Kusiesu boats were flying in »he was building in Philadelphia in Snodgrass, Sanderson, Dunn, Calk- The public st such a display of ruffianism in a readily at command. every which direction endeavoring 1900; I have been ou board her there; ns, Stafford, Boynton, Y’oran, Gray, to get tbe foreign captains to inter- town where they had gone as friendly schools of Eugene must ba e a 11- 1 have been on board her here as a Jearborn, Miller, Campbell, Cooker- visitors that they could not realize 1 brary sooner or later; probably tbe ceue uud protest, aud 1 think a pro guest and been dined; 1 ha e jeeu her test whs sent out to the Japauese. accptetauce of the Carnegie gift by ‘he ine, Pattison, DeBar, Allen, Bean, what bad happened. go out to battle, and 1 have seen her Cmmons, Preston, Schwarzchild, Tol- Fortunately our captain was not Thia surprise gave way to ludlgna city is the surest aud best way to ob­ KO down. I oin thus Bay that I have asked, nor did he enter into it. He □ ie, Travers, Hyde, Gamber, Profes- tion when it was recalled by many tain it. The new library could easily men her in her infancy, known her in cr Carson, Misses Pattison, Kerns, said he would do nothing but keep p isseugers that among the rowdies be made to serve tbe schools as well her middle age and have seen her die. tbe general public. strict neutrality, All the merchant were a large number of young men IcCormack, Hendricks, Stinson, ielley, Leach. As to the expense of maintenance, wearing the caps aud uniform of the «hips ran up the liver to get out or college. No blame is attached to the the fraction of a mill of additional range At ubouc 10 a. m. the Variag good people of Corvallis, to the tax is not large, aud will steadily and Koreitz commenced to clear ship Mrs. Fannie Whiteaker entertained college team or to the college faculty grow smaller as the wealth of the city for action, aud you should have seen tinnier of university and high fur the disgraceful conduct of this increases. The average taxpayer will the woodwork that went overboard, cbuol stu lente at her home on West it was really pitiful, band of young toughs, and the Ob­ probably eave more in tbe lessened At about 1:3l) Ihariieltou street. It was after the tbe two K issiai.s started out and server has one word of suggestion to amount of bis book purchases each ty. 1 .< leap year party, the young they were cneered by all the ships. A Stranger Within Our Gates managers cf the scuool. Polk county year than bis part of tbe tax will latth-s turiting their friends, The Not that they pays annually something over 8700 come to. Especially will this be true necessarily sym- guosts were: Misses Alice Merriman, Advises the Taking of all pathized with liusisa but they did in taxes for the support of the Agri iu families in which the children are Helen and BerthaJMcKinney, Victo­ cultural College, and we would advise fond of reading. To many children sympathize with those ’two beautiful that Can Be Got from ria Mitchell, Neva Perkins, Lillian ships going out to fight ten ships. that a part or all this money be on the other Laud, not able to pur­ Carnegie. Woods,Lula Currin, Mazie Eddy, Jea- Even after they started out we could spent in training a number of ths chase booke, the library will openj^a sie Paddojk, Messrs. H. G. Moulton, world otherwise wholly inaccessible. not believe that there was going to students to be gentlemen. Francis Galloway, Cloan Perkins, Tbe rapid growth of libraries in Such a course of study is badly tea tight until promptly at 11:50 (Daily Guard Match 28) Carl and Marion McClain, Paul a. m. wlieu the Rusisatia were about Editor Guard :—Possibly the citizens needed in the O. A. C. curriculum, every state iu the Union is oue of the Stauffer. 5 miles away, the Japauese fired tbe of Eugene would be pleased to read and the people of Polk county, es- most hopeful signs iu tbe develop­ first shot at the Vsriag. The Japan­ what a cosmopolitan citizen might peciallj those whose clothing was ment of popular education. The li­ ese were so fur away we’could not see have to say concerning the prospect ruined by mud aud whose arms aud braries are the high schools and uni­ Miss Veda McCullough was ten­ them, but th. v used their largest of a munificent Carnegie library, bodies were bruised by .flying stones versities of the working men. No oue dered a pleasant surprise party last guns, The Rns-mns commenced to Some towns ute born great, others and missiles will cheerfully pay their need despair of liberal culture who evening at hei home on East Four- has access to a good library. One of return the Are aud then the; Japanese have greatness thrust upon them, in part of the expense.” (tenth street by a few of her girl commenced an aw'ul.cannonade. The travelling about 1 notice "that all of friends. The occasion was her seven­ The editor of the Observer wa» the surest ways to build up good cit­ shots wet“ even heardj nt ¡Seoul, 50 the Western tawus were born without among the visitors and received a'bad izenship is to provide the largest cp teenth birthday. Numerous games miles a vav iwere played and refreshments were auy public library, therefore, if blow on the arm with a rock. He is portunity for tbe use of books. The city has an opportunity to do a The Russians headed then 2 away Dame Fortune seeks to smilo a great fully justified in giving vent to his ¡served. Those present were: Alba from the Jans an ) then'IiHck Jio'.vurds library upon Eugene let us modestly indignation, and we regret that the large thing fnr the schools and for Calloway, Grace Ju.iy, Florence UN. Mind you, all this waa^in plain bow cur beads ami accept it. Let us visitors did not reseut the insuil tbe general public at a small expense Downing, Louise Hanson,Cleo Mcore, The burden will after all be a light sight nud we saw it all ¡..everybody hope it will prove an antidote fo- the by giving tit for tat. Emma Lackey, Grace Tiffany, Ruth oue ou the heaviest taxpayer, an i had tils eves glued on that light, ev benighted heathen who insist upon Wood, and Mrytle Lyons. almost inappreciable ou the man ot erytbiug taking place witbin a few drinking poor whisky, and the dis­ modest means. Piactically every miles uf us. pensers thereof. Miss Cora Wold was pleasantly sur­ family will receive more than an About 12:30 the firing censed a While we acquiesce iu what Rev. prised at her home, 658 Patterson I 'equivalent in the use ot the book they (the Rnssmne) were getting in Wooly hath state dfrom a seutin. i.enl.,1 street, la-t evening by about twenty p.aced at its disposal. After the !• too close towards us. Tlie Variag an stall ipoiut, we must recollect ; that ot her university triends. The even­ brsry baa once come into use, then cbnre-l at 1, exhibit Ingjn’l ist to port, ail hands are playiug the same game ing was passed with games aud candy Some two dozen prune growers of will never be a complaint made h mid the Korietz am h rad at 1 :2 . as Brother Carnegie to gain our There is considerable complaint pulling, which was thoroughly enjoy- We could not see much effect of the wealth. He takes all the profit the Laue county aie in Eugene today for tbe cost of maintenance. from among the residents in town ed by all. P. L. CAMPBEL1 . shots except a smokestack was gone. traffic will bear, aud then seeks a wel­ the purpose of organizing a Prune Growers ’ Association. The meeting All tlie foreign nieu-of-war, including come relief from a surfeit ot or an us, sent boats with hospital flags fly­ embarrassment ot riches by donating was. called to order this afternoon at ing, and doctors, to the Variag. In libraries to all well behaved towns in 1:30. and C. M. Densmore elected temporary chairman. Mr. Shepard,ot h I iou ’ half an hour our doctor came Uncle cium's dominion. Suppose our back mid told us ot the awful scenes income, like our more prosperous Hie Salem Pruue Growers' Associa LORD KITCHNER Will Make Season of i J4 From March 15thtoJuiy 1st aboard tlie Variag. Five or six big brother C., shouli attain the colossal tion, was present and explained th. shots had made the ship to lie in a proportions of two or three million »erkiugs of bis association. The ai Number 32935 n ternoon was spent iu discussion aud sinking <•'edition; there were forty dollars per month,their let us remem Record 2:25 c woumied ou the docks amt tliirtv bet tire poor towns that are minus an up to press time no permanent organ Trial 2:19 1-4 izatioti had been effected. kit! 1. My friend, Count Niered illuminating library ami follow Car­ Sire Zombro 2:11, son of was killed instantly on (lie bridge. negie’s j, . d example in spite of the I McKinney, 2:11 1-4. We all li id to shudder wheu we ethics that cause our conscience to le First Data SARAH BEN­ I thought of the destructive effects ot volt incidentally. TON (dam of E.ia Madison modern warfare. Here was a shi| A CONSTANT READER. 2'12 1-2 May Day trial which lied only been tired on fo 2:16 1-2, Lord Kitclner about a half hour,and then nt a rang 2:2(j\ by Albion, son of Gen. Benton. of 10,000 yards, and yet had cause: Second dam BESSIE (gran- great damage. Castle and tlie docto dam of Ella Madison 2 ;12 1-2, went back to the Variag with supplh Harry Madison 2:27, Eugene, Mardh 25, 1901. Tuesday, March 15th, at the home of medicine, bandages, etc. Cast I. Julia M., trial 2:13 1-2), by Ed. Guard: — The following item is Inca, son of Woodford’s wigwagged back that ttie Kussiain of Isaac Hughes,Dallas, Polk county, clipped from tbe Pendleton paper: Mambrino. were al aiidoui'.ig the Variag and v< two happy hearts were made one. Third dam LAWSHE From the East Oregonian. The contracting parties were J. T. sent several boats over in charge oi MARE, by Tenbrock, (thor­ Miss Rosa “ The muuici|Bl water system owned lliiglies, of Dallas, and Brooks and Dowling. 1 was on dutj oughbred). Lord Kitchener is a black aud of course could not go. All oi Cruzan, of Dexter. At 11 a. tn. a few by the city of Pendleton returned the, stallion, foaled in 1897, 16 ♦ he Varing's boats were di strove I. s intimate friends and all the Imme people profit of 87,663.61 for the yesr'j hands high, weighs 1220 dial«' relatives of the groom zere as ­ llk'J.HU increase in profits of 8992.10! ii ,’ 11 i j went in the boats of tbe for pounus He won a prize in sembled in ;he parlor itid «lile Miss over 1902. This company is the fruits the show ring at the Oregon ot municipal ownership if put lie; Maggie Hughes played State Fair, last year, and also El' th' B'.ue Rib*, n at the Dis­ utilities. No ci»y in the land - i i 1 i | march il e young couple, trict Fair at Eut:ene, Oregon, ever sell, t arter or give aw i a 1. .n , ch Wilber 11 che and Ml TJ nd indi- d him f those MISTREAT AT CHEMULPO VISITING COLLEGIANS Corvallis Toughs Threw RS. SHELDON Mud and Stones. ENTERTAINS U. OF 0. PRESIDENT ON LIBRARY MORE LIBRARY DISCUSSION LANE COUNTY PRUNE GROWERS LORD KITCHENER WANTS MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP Wedding Beils. iaae gon, 11 i II r ì K I tb m j ■i* ,i r i .cugent. Ore.