THE EUGENE GUARD
Privale Water System.
HERMANN
THE PLUM
Was
Renominated for
Congressman This
Afternoon.
Lawrence
Name
Harris Withdrew His
from the
Race
Sickroom Precaution*.
SOME REGISTER
POLITICS
SECURES
and
Binger Had a Clear
Field.
(Special diepatch to the Guard.)
Salem, April 13.—The congressional
convention was called to order this
morning by Secretary C. B. Winn.
Senator Geo. C. Brownell was elected
temporary chairman, and Gale Hill
secretary. The usual committees were
appointed and the convention ad
journed till one o'clock.
The platform endorses Roosevelt’s
administration and the Oregon dele
gation in congress. It commends the
industrial and financial policies of
the Republican party a.- nroductive
of most continuous prosperity at
home and the greatest commercial
expansion abroad.
It was understood at • oou that
Harris’ name will be wit' ’'awn after
presentation by Lane con 'y and the
nomination of Hermann be made by
acclamation.
HERMANN THE MAN.
The convention met again at one
o’clock this afternoon. Speeches were
made by Ex Governors Geer and Lord
and by L. T. Harris. After the com
mittees on order of business and cre
dentials reported, Marsters nominat
ed Binger Hermann for Congressman,
and E. Hofer seconded it. Five oth
er speeches were made. Mr. Harris
withdrawing from the race, the secre
tary was instructed to cast the ballot
for Mr. Hermann.
Walter L. Tooze, of Woodburn, was
named as chairman, and Gale S. Hill,
of Albany,as secretary of th« congres
sional committee. J.U. Campbell, of
Oregon City, and J. M. Keene, of
Aledfcrd.were elected delegatee to the
National convention.
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The Eugene Lumber Co. is con-
st.ucting a priva’e water system for
use at the mill. They are erecting
an 18,000-gallon tank on the north
►ide of Skinner’s B itte and laying a
three inch main from the tank to the Would Have Tom Cai.ey and
I
mill, atfordiuga fall of ISO feet, which
1
! vi-t-tul J .ip.
Friends Belting if Sheriff Fisk I
will give plenty of force for tire pro-
Heart <1
■ .rid nervous prostra-
ection.
is Nominated for Sheriff.
tratlon uro ai.uosi unknown among
I the Japan s 'll.li immunity Is attrib
uted to the equau.uiiiy and cheerful
With its animus as protuberant as
ness of the race.
the note on the face, this morning's
Register has a half column scare-iu-
A Pretty Hard Cornet.
advauce article as to what Tom Bai
In 1583 the corps pique (a corset)
Eugene, Or., Apt il 13, 1904.
ley and friends will do if be is not was a hard wooden., mold into which
Brooks, L L.
nominated for sheriff at the Demo the wearer was compressed and suf
Brown, W A.
cratic county convention In Eugene fered from the splinters of wood that
Davidson, Frank.
next Friday. Of course, the wish is penetrated the flesh. It took the skin
off the waist and made the ribs ride
Kilgore, Mrs. Bessie.
father to the thought wilh the Regis up. one over tbe other.
Kisor, Mrs. Eva.
ter.
Martin, Sev O.
. Really, though, it seems more like
Mediivval Hthiuette.
Nelson, W B.
the writing of a child than a man,
One of the books on etiquette pub
Rhodes, Miss Jessie.
this giving credence and circulation lished during the fourteenth century
Scbrell, G. G.
to a report that the dei d sheriff was advised the man of fashion to wash bls
White, T H. (2).
going to step out of the way for M-. hands every day and his face "almost
Wiley, C K.
Bailey, all the time presuming, we as often.”
J. L. PAGE, P. M.
suppose, that in such a case the ro<n-
Clearing H oumcb .
ination would have fallen, like ripe
The messengers of the London bank
fr . t’ri’i the *ree, unto M . Bail y. ing houses used to meet at a certain
The I.jgi.-ter does not consider it alehouse, and there make exchanges
worth while to take into considera of paper. Their employers observed
tion the wishes of the delegates to the this and held a meeting to discuss the
matter. This meeting resulted in the
convention.
founding of the Loudon clearing bouse
Then, too, just think of the cor in 1775.
dial support Mr. Bailey would get
Eugene Will Play Several’ Games
Mintife ParaMite*.
from his friends, the Register people,
- in -
It would take three and one-fourth
Po.-L’.ind With
in case he were nominated! How
they do love Mr. Bailey just now thousands (3,250) of tbe little vege
Vancouver.
I when they think they see a prospect table parasites which grow on the
I of he and hts friends causing trouble human hair to cover tlie white center
of a nonpareil "o.”
Salem, April 12.—In making’’ the in case he is not nominated!
change eo that Vancouver could play
Again, what has the dead sheriff's
Iron hm fi Medicine.
Iron is a food to all atuemic persons
on the Portland grounds when tbe promise, if he did promise,to do with
Browns were away from home, the di Sheriff Fisk’s candidacy, and bow and must not be regarded by them
rectors of the Oregon btate League can it be figured out that Sheriff Fisk as a medicine only to be taken tem
found it uecessary to make several is under any obligation to refuse tbe porarily, for in most cases it is neces
sary to persevere in taking iron for a
other changes in the schedule, that is nomination if a majority of the dele period varying from two months to
as to dates, but the number of games gates say be is their choice?
five or six years.
Don’t call the dead in question in
which each team was to have played
Letter List
CHANGES IN
THE SCHEDULE
WIRELESS TELEG
RAPHY AT THE
university :
A System Put in by John Platts
and Joel Ware, Two
Students.
THEATER OF HOSTILITIES IN MANCHURIA AND KOREA.
A wireless telegraphy system has
been put in at tbe university for ex
perimental uses by tbe students of
tbe department of physics. Tbe length
Is short, but it appears to work well,
and is giving satisfaction. Tbe send
er is in tbe basement of Deady ball
and th* reciever 's in tba mechanical
building. Two students, John Platts
and Joel Ware, put tba system In.
LOCATION OF
NEW HYDRANTS
Fourteen Additional Fire Plugs
Will At Once Be
Put In.
Counciman F. M. Wikina, chairman
of tbe committee on fire and water,
and Fire Chief W.C. Toran went over
the city this forenoon for tbe pur
pose of determining upon the location
of fourteen new fire hydrants which
will at once be put in by tbe city.
They decided upon the following cor
ners :
East Eighth and High streets; East
Tenth and High; East Seventh and
Oak; East Thirteenth and Mill: East
Thirteenth
and Patterson:
East
Twelfth and Ferry: West Tenth and
Lawrence; W.st Eighth and
'.ir.g
ton; we9t Sixth and Washington;
West Fourth and Washington: We.t
Fourth and Lincoln; West Third an i
Lawrence; West First and Lawrence.
When these are put in there will t-e
56 hydrants io different parts of the
city.
Besides these six more are
about completed, and will be put in
and teu more have been ordered.
Tbe city is rapidly growing on the
outskirts where there Is little or no
fire protection, and these new hy
drants will be the right thisg.
I the effort to secure political advan
at home and abroad under tbe old tage! Tbe grave is silent—it may not
schedule remains practically tbe answer.
same.
Owing to a difference as to tbe sal- i
ary question, Edmondson tendered
has resignation as manager,which was
accepted.
He will now confine hie
efforts to making good for a place
upon, tbe team. For the present, at
least, the management of tbe team
Eating Station for Bangs’ Stage
will fall back upon G. W. Irwin and
Line Destroyed Last
tbe board of directors.
Tbe new schedule adds one morel
Thursday.
game to tbe season's playing all i
around, and Salem will bare 47 games |
Last Thursday about noon tbe
at home, ana 40 abroad; Eugene, 46
at home and 41 abroad; Roseburg, 411 bouse at the eating place of Bangs’
at home and 46 abroad, and Vancou stags line at Meadow, known as tbe
ver 40 at home and 47 abroad Also Tailman place, burned to tbe ground.
under the new arrangement Vancou-1 The b>aze was first discovered in tbe
ver will play four games with Salem roof and it is probable that sparks
on tbe West Side Portland grounJs, | from tbe chimney caused it.
on June 9, 10, 11 and 12, tbe Browns' A part of the contends of the bouse
being away upon that week, end they were removed, bnt tbe fire had geinad
will play with Eugene upon tbe same, such headway before it was discovered
grounds July 14, 15, 16 and 17, end that it was impossible to get anything
four games on tbe EaS’ Side grounds out from upstairs.
Tbe bouse was built at a cost of
wltb Salem July 7, 8, 9. 10.
Wilner, Califf, Aricks, Lucas, Bil J1000. It was insured in the Fire
yeu, pitchers; Krietz and Suess, cat men's Fund Company, through Geo.
'“'«•»-a
chers; J. Kennedy and R. Kennedy, F. Craw’s agency.
Chas.
Fowler
occupied
the
’
house
_at
•■itchers and outfielders; Si Davis,
Rube Sanders, outfielders; F. Bayn, the time of the fire.
pitcher and outfielder; F Nebring,
first baseman, and Ward Lee, out
fielder all showed up yesterday after-
,-SA___
neon and warmed up for abont three
Sealed
pr
opr.-a
ls for the construe-
hours on the diamond.
Edmond,
son, having a sore bard, could not tf'.n of salk' and driveways on the
1 ulversity campt - (either of gravel
participate, except at the tat,
Cryderman, reputed to be a fast or crushed rock will be received at
pitcher and infield player, arrived the steward’s office in Villard Hail,
regon, until Hatnrdsy,
last night, and Mahaffey, pitcher -nd 1 ug«
first baseman. aud Fay. shortstop, April 3kh, 1X4, at 3 p. m. Form of
I rop Sal- may I Lad, and flans aDd
came in.
specifications seen at tbe steward’s
cftl’e. The richt to reject any or all
c AHT or«.'; <?«.,
bids is reserved.
L. H. JOHNSON,
Igaatv-
University Steward.
i
HOUSE"BURNED
AT MEADOW
NoTice to Contractors.
<
fit
When there is a contagious disease
In a house all the linen which has been
used by the sick person or which has
even been in his room ought to be thor
oughly disinfected before being sent
to the wash; otherwise there is great
danger of the illness being carried to
others. It should be v. r i g out In a
solution of < .oolic
I al water.
The Hone In Britain.
The first cultivated rose is said to
have been planted in Britain A. D.
1552. The damask rose w*as brought
from France in 1573, the moss rose
about 1724 and the China rose some
fifty years after. Wild roses are, how
ever, natives of all parts of Britain.
Snake Katina Goats.
The famous snake eating goats of
India devour the most dangerous rep
tiles and have absolutely no fear of
the poisonous vermin with which the
country abounds.
The Jaws of the Hattier,
The rattler's Jaws can unhinge when
he has to tuck away an exceptional
morsel of food like a grown rabbit,
and. like his harmless competitor in
tbe consumption of food, his body can
expand to four times the regular size.
Tibet.
Tibet, "the roof of the world.” Is a
tableland three times as large as
France.
Ilndwon Buy.
Hudson bay
the third largest in
closed marine area In the world, being
next in bize to the Mediterranean sea
and tl •• Caribbean sea. American
v from New Bedford are prac-
tcal.y the only people who have (re-
•ii. ...
the bay for the past sixty
years.
The Coffee We Drink.
It Is estir.. rted that the people of
the United Mates drink 1,500,000,006
R. .1ODB of coffee in the course of a
year.
Iodine.
lbs only source of Iodine is the ni
trate of soda refineries of Chile, where
it occurs as a waste product The gov
ernment having a monopoly of tbe ni
trate lndnstry, permits but a small
amount of the iodine to be marketed In
order that an exorbitant price may be
maintained.
-Worth of the Eqnator.
Ten-elevenths of the world's people
are north of the equator.
& he Tlazed\
Trail
By STEWART
EDWARD
WHITE
Ccp/ri/Ar,
1902,
by
Stitoarf
I
«udi flat fashion that a head of water
Should send them out.
This was even Lanier work than tne
other, for they bail not tbe floating
power of water to help them in the
lifting. As usual, part of the men
worked below, part ubove
Jimmy Powers, curly haired, laugh
ing faced, was Irrepressible. He bad
gered the others until they threw bark
at him and menaced him with their
peaveya. Always he bail at hts tongue's
end the proper quip tor the occasion,
so that in tile long run the work was
lightened by him. When the men stop-
ped to think at all they thought of
Jimmy Powers with very kindly hearts,
for It was known that he hail bad more
trouble than most and that coin was
not made too small for him to divide
with a needy comrade.
Thorpe approved thoroughly of Jim
my Powers. He thought him a good
influence. He told Wallace so. stand
ing among the sjieetators on the cliff
top-
"He is all right,” said Thorpe. “1
wish I had more like him. The others
are good boys too.”
Five men were ut the moment tug
glug futilely at a reluctant titulier.
They were attempting to roll one end
ot it over tlie side of another projecting
kig. but were continually foiled, becausi
tlie other end was Jammed fast. Each
bent his knees. Inserting bls shoulders
under tlie projecting peavey stock, to
straighten in a mighty effort.
It was a flue spring day, clear eyed
and crisp, witli a hint of new foliage tn
tlie thick buds of the trees. The air
was so pellucid that one distinguished
without difficulty the straight entrance
to the gorge n mile awn.v. and even the
West Itend. fully five miles distant.
Jimmy Powers took off Ills cap and
wiped his forehead.
"You boys.” lie remarked politely,
“think you are boring witli it mighty
big auger.”
"M.v God!" screamed one of the spec
tutors i n top of tlie cliff.
At the same instant Wal’aco Carpen
ter seiz 'd his friend's arm and pointed
Down the lied of tlie stream from tlie
upper bend rushed a solid wall of wa
ter several feet high. It flung Itself
forward witli the headlong impetus of
it cascade. Even in the short Interval
between the visitor’s exclamation anil
Carpenter's rapid gesture It bail loomed
In sight, twisted a dozen trees from the
river bank and foutneil Into the en
trance of the gorge. An in itant later it
collided wltb the tall of the Inin.
Even in the railroad rush of those
few moments several things bnnpened.
Thorpe leaped for n rope. The crew
working on top of the dam ducked
Instinctively to right and left and be
gan to serumble toward safety. The
men below, at first bewildered and not
comprehending, Anally und. ratoud and
ran toward tbe face of the Jam with
the intention of clambering up ft. There
could be no escape In tlie narrow can
yon below, tlie walls of which rose
sheer.
Then tlie flood hit square. A great
sheet of water rose like surf from ttie-
tall of the Jam; a mighty entaract pour
ed down over its surface, lifting tlie
free logs; from either wing timbers
crunched, split, rose sud i .dy into
wracked prominence, 1», ..-d beyond
the semblance of tliema. !vc.i. Here
and there single logs we-: even pro
jected bodily upward, as an apple seed
Is shot from between the thumb and
forefinger. Then the juui moved.
Scotty Parsons, Jack Hyland. Red
Jacket and tlie forty or fifty men had
reached the shore. By the wriggling
activity which is a river man's alone
they succeeded In pulling tliiuisolves
beyond the snap of death’s Jaws. It
was a narrow thing for most of them
and a miracle for some.
Jimmy Powers, Archie Harris, Long
Pine Jim, Big Nolan and Mike Mo
loney, the brother of Bryan, were in
worse case. They were, as has been
■aid, engaged In "flattening" part of
the Jam a I suit eight or ten rods below
the face of it. When they finally un
derstood that the affair was one of
earape, they ran toward the J »in, hop-
lag to climb out. Then the < r It came.
They heard the roar of tL<- wit rs. tlie
wrecking of tbe timbers; tt . aw the
Figs bulge outward in anti • tlr>n of
tlie break. Immediately ft
turned
and fled, they knew n.,t wlier.
All but Jimmy Power*
xtopped
■hurt in bls tracks and tiir>
os bal-
tercd old felt hat defiantly f i nto the
face of the destruction u
.g over
him. Then. Lis bright li.... . wing in
the wind of death, 1
to tlie
Ulf h'H
spectators standing hel;
1 d pur.i-
lyzed forty feet above '
It was an Instant's Ito--'
on the
arrested motion seen It
ish of
lightning anil yet to t
kers It
bad somehow tbe qun
. J'or
perceptible duration .’ •
’ them
tb' y Htarrd at the co
r n tlie
racing hell nt»ove ai
peace-
able river below.
1
Yef afterward, win n t'
mpt il
to p ■ all d anltely t!
■
>
km w it could have
a fr. e-
' nt tlie dam» <1 »mu tight and di I tion of a « cvoih I.
nek < >Ut IW'I
» Hint 'II «tart 1ti< 1 .
1 "So long, boys!” tb
Jitjuny
Th dam*
• firnt run a t 1 <
Powers’ voice. Tin n :
TliOipe
’
I
peed and tl
ut down Hr.
Lad thrown fell it
rou of
’ • >f • • f wat» •r flor. zu] I VI • • e» Jv»z] of t'
tortured waters and cf
oga.
•-« «»‘t inlnirl ••
roll IL ’
_
TBWRx
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CHAPTER XXVII.
j 11E rear had been tenting at the
III dam for two days aud was
III about ready to break camp
L.< when Jimmy Powers swung
iicros-i the trail to tell them of the big
Jam.
'l'en miles along the river bed tbe
stream dropped over a little half falls
into a narrow, rocky _ rge. It was al
ways .in.
...
. ot tor river drivers.
Tlie plunging of ilie logs head-on over
tlie fall 1 ,.i'. so - • . il out the soft rock 1
below that an edi!y of er.-nt power had
formed in the liitsin Here, in spite of i
all efforts, tlie jam 1 ml formal. The i
b<-tl was completely IliieJ. far alsive
tlie level of the fulls, by a tangle that
I
delied tlie Jam crew's best efforts.
The rear at once took the trail down
the river. Thorpe and Shearer and
Scotty Parsons looked over tlie ground i
Without delay tlie entire crew was |
set to work. Nearly a hundred men
can pick a great many logs in the
course of a day. Several times the Jam I
started, but ahvuys "plugged" before
I
the motion had become irresistible.
"We'll have to shoot." Shearer re
luctantly decided.
Tlie men were withdrawn. Scotty
Parsons cut a sapling twelve feet long
and trimmed it. Big Junko thawed Iris
dynamite at a little tire, opening tlie
ends of tbe packages in order that tbe
►team generated might escape. When
tbe powder was warm. Scotty bound
twenty of tlie cartridges around tlie
end of the sapling, adjusted a fuse in
one of them and soaped the opening to
exclude water. Then Big Junko thrust
tbe long Javelin dow n into the depths
of tlie Jam. leaving a thin stream of
smoke behind him as he turned away,
zigzagging awkwardly over the Jam.
the long, ridiculous tails of his brown
cutaway coat flopping behind him as
be leaped. A scant moment later tlie
hoarse dynamite shouted.
Great chunks of timber shot to an in
conceivable height. Entire logs lifted
bodily into the air with the motion of
a fish Jumping. A fountain of water
gleamed against the sun aud showered
dow n in tine rain. Tlie jam shrugged
and settled. That was nil. Tlie “shot”
liad failed.
The men ran forward, examining cu
riously the great bole in the log forma
I
tion.
I
"We'lHiave to flood her." said Thorpe.
So all the gates of tbe dam were
raised, and tlie torrent tried its band.
It had no effect. Evidently the affair
was not one of violence, but of pa
tience. The crew went doggedly to
work.
Day after day the dunk, clank, clink
of the peaveys sounded with tbe regu
larity of machinery
It was cruel,
bard work. A man who has lifted his
utmost strength into a peavey knows
that Any but the Fighting Forty
would have grumbled.
Collins, the bookkeeper, came up to
view tlie tangle. I.ater a photographer
from Marquette took some views, and
by the end of the week n number of
curiosity seekers were driving over ev
ery day to ace the big Jam. A certain
Chicago Journalist in search of balsam