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Vol. 37 EUGENE OREGON WEDNESDAY No 13 APRII. -.0 1901 The Water Line of Vladivostok, Russia’s Important and Well Fortified Siberian Seaport, Which the Japanese Have Been Menacing by Both Land and Water. BIG FIRE i THE NEW BUTTON i I LESS SUSPENDERS I : : : EARLY THIS Something that every’ man should know about, “married or single.” This suspender fastens to the trousers with a clasp and securely holds. If you are shy a button come in and let us shew you how this difficulty can be overcome. They cost no more than other makes - 5Gc. MEN’S SHIRTS A line that CAN NOT be duplicated in Eugene. All ti e new embroidered and pleated bosom effects. Coloring to suit the most particular. g Special Prices On Oxfords. Come in and see what we have for COMPANY $1.25 and $1.50 They can not be duplicated for twice the price. Agenbs for Lhe Standard Patterns I HAMPTON BROS See our Windows. : : J W. KAYS’ FURNITURE CO ] Enbalmers and Funeral Director I Djy & Henderson, Undertakers and Embalmers. Cor. Will ard 7. CHAMBERS, H E. ANKENY President. Vice President. OARWIN BRISTOW, Cashier. CHAMBERS-BRISTOW BANKING CO. . : FIRST t « Of Eugene, Oregon. iatai Bank Paid Up (Cash Capital OF EUGENE. 900,000. <aid uo Cash Capital - $50,000 Notes and mortgagee bought. Money loned on approved security. Interest . $50,000 paid on time certificates of deposP. . urpius • • 5E EUGENE, OREGON. *' GENERAL BANKING BUSI-1 aaae don* od reasonable terma. | siRdrafte on Chicago, San Fran . and Portland Oregon. n of exchange sold on foreign . °°ntee. Deposits received subject I cck or certWcata of deposit. AceEections enUueie.1 to us will receive prompt ntten'.Um I T G HEN^FIGFB V-nrMfn* S B. EAKIN, Vie*’Praeidei.t P E. SNDDGK4HS caen lev. I. H pOTb.R '------- «••uersl banking bm-iueM treuaacte«!. A MeUiaitRt Rocky Mountain Tee rkiggeis A Buy Medicine fir Busy People. Brfa<£ Golden Enith xua-skau Tifar. for In4- f and kkWipy Tre uh|o. Pimplen. Erzenvu Impair0 B m II îx .. ?.. - Lc . I.J.L and RnnkfU'hp Tt’s Rnckv MnnntnWi T«* a in | h < iOfNn. C’-tiis M bOK. G*oi‘*im- by FTo<.L!<rcB THro Cux; —Wi< VW rveai r-»o c a• i prnnt r A I MORNING PRICES RANGING FROM 50c UP : : Se'-iral barns and outbuildings in off and volunteered to tell how the i the neighborhood caught fire and Are started and all about it if they SUICIDE OF A would have been destroyed but for would let him go. The men may LITTLE GIRL the chemical engine, which did some hare had a hand in starting the tire i good work and proved its value. The and will be held on suspicion. whole fire department is to be com NOTES OF THE FIRE. mended on its excellent work. After It did rot take long for a large Eleven Year Old Child at Silver [ an hour’s work the tire wae gotten crowd to assemble at the lire. The I Lake Takes Strich- 1 under coutrol and finally extinguish streets nearby were crowded with ex ed. cited people. I nine. None of the buildings were insured People are not particular about and none of the losers held Insurance their dress when going to a Ore. It A letter was received this weak by excepting J. M. Muthersbaugh, who was impossible to recognize your T roy Laundry and carried a policy of $1200 on the fix friends (Currin Cooley from Silver Lake giv- at the fire this morning, es details of a remarkable trag tures and machinery of the Troy pecially some of the women. 'one I___ 10,1 Blacksmith Shop laundry. man Btartei out last night with only edy which occurred at that place last I The origin of the fire cannot be ac- ! bis underclothes od , and carrying week iu a family well and favorably counted for, but it is the general be-' an umorelia, but was stopped by a known at this place, where they for Destroyed merly resided. The principal in the lief that it wae the work of incendia-; friend aud geut home rles, with the intention ot exciting: Property owners in the district tragedy was the little 11-year-old tne neighborhood and robbing the I where the tbe fire flre occurred say they can cau- diugbter of Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Martin who colly aud deliberately suicided residences. not afford to carry insurance on their Ten Thousand Dollars Worth of buildings on account of the heavy by taking strychnine. She had been NARROW ESCAPE FOR CITY. at school all day and appeared bright Property Went Up in Smoke It is apparent to every one that had insurance rates. and cheerful and returned home In Camp It was a close call for J. R. —Other Buildings the weather conditions been different the evening apparently in good spir build- ball's barn. The sides of the the biggest fire in the blBtory of the Damaged. its. However, she prepared aud took tng were badly smoked, but the chem city would bare resulted and nearly a dose of strychniue, of which she ical engine saved it. Mr. Campbell ’ s 1 every Jtuildirg in tte business dis- immediately informed her mother, This morning shout 2:45 o’clock I trict might bare been wiped out. en ben bouse was ruined and the roof of who, upon questioning her daughter fire which broke out in the blacksmith hie dwelling house came near catch tailing a terrific Joss. Had tbe weath as to her motive in taking tho poison, shop of Johnson A Bnrbacb, on Olive er been dry and had there been any ing Are several times. was informed that she had no motive, street between West Eighth and West F. L. Chambers kindly treated the wind at all, the whole row of fram® and no cause whatever for the rash Ninth streets, destroyed the two wet and hungry firemen to coffee and buildings on West Eighth street, to act could be given. The child died be large two-story buildings belonging gether with numerous barns and resi doughnuts at the Hazelwood after fore assistance could be obtained. to John B. Coleman and part of the their wo-k was done this mcming. dences, would have been destroyed McFarland blacksmith building. The The explosion of a box of rifle cart I'he case is a most strange and pitia aud the flames would have crossed the ble one. It is the supposition that total loss was io the neighborhood of street to Bang’s tig livery barn. In ridges during the lire made a scatter- the child did not realize what she was 810,000. One of the Coleman build ment of the crowds in the vicinity of that case the flre would have easily doing.—Cottago Grove Leader. ings was occupied by Johnson & Bur- spread to tho business houses and it the laundry. bach’s blacksmith shop and Wood & As ne-ir sh can be learned the tire would have been impossible to check Bloomfield’s paint shop,and the other starter! on the outside of the black NEW MINING it. by the Trov Laundry. Everything in smith shop next tc the alley. People HOUSE BURGLARIZED. these buildings was lost. The south living in the vicintiy heard an explo end of the McFarland build¡Dg was Wbi e the fire was raging and ex sion and immediately afterward the partially destroyed aud^was occupied citement v as at a high pitch a man flames coaid be seen. by Tom Brown’s upholstering Bhcp entered the residence of A. G. Math and 8. B. Finnigan’s wagon and ews and burglarized the honse, bis blacksmith shop. booty amounting to a gold watch and Oregon Pacific Mining and Mill THOSE WHO LOST. several rings. While going through ing Company Incor Following is the list, of those who the bouse he met some of the board bold bad man by name of Toll I- A suffered loss by the tire and an esti ers and is an excited way informed porate, mate of the losses: 1 them the house was on fire and for ver came to town Saturday and late J. B. Coleman, two buildings, 82,- them to pack their clothes and get in the evening engaged in a light with The Oregon Pacific Mining and 600. out. In the darkness the burglar Bill Vaughan, coming out a little the Milling Company has filed articles of Johnson .t Burbach. blacksmith was not recognized, but was a strang worse for Ide encounter. Beth man incorporation with County Clerk Lee er with a good knowledge of his buei- w,re arrested and were told to appear The incorporators are J. E. Hard shop, fixtures, etc., 81000. before the recorder this morning. Wood A Bloomfield, carriage and ness, for he worked them cleverly. man, B. T. Underwood, E. F. Gray, paint shop, 81000. In this shop were Two men, who are very likely ho Tolliver fulled to put in an appear G. G. Graham, George Cox, J. W. two buggies belonging to B. L. Bo bos, were caught carrying off clothing ance. Vaughan appeared, but the Cox, J. I . Mill« i ¡.id '■ . M. ’ i-orge. gard, one buggy belonging to J. W. from Poindexter’s cleaning works case was postponed until tomorrow, The capital stock in 8600,000, dividea Hobbs, another to Dr. C. E. Loomis, and were arrested and thrown in as there were no witnesses against into that, many shares. The princl another to J. W. Clark, and | everal jail. The fellows tried to burn the Vaughan. pal otilce is at Cottage Grov“, with a other rigs belonging to different per stolen gcods, but succeeded in burn Wilhelm A bon have ju«t rceleved branch office in Han Francisco. sons in town. ing only an overcoat. All the other a car load of Racine buggies, the best The new company owns and control J. M. Mufhersbaugb, owner of Troy clothes were restored to Mr. Poindex made, and are giving a special sale several rich mining claim- in the I!o laundry, 82500; insurance, 81200. ter. One of the hobos tried to beg on them at th' ir Junction house. 'hernia district which it will operate. W. lu. McFarland,damage on build ing, 8500. Tom Brown, upholsterer, 8500. ¿4 S. B. Flnigan, damage to wagon shop and supplies, 8300. F. C. Potts,the cigar mauuafeturer, suffered a small loss of probably 875 or 8100 by having bis goods moved out of the building. DISCOVERED BY MRS. MATHEWS | The fire was discovered by Mrs. A. O. Mathews, whose residence is on West Ninth street, and who was awak i ened by tbe light ehlDing into her 74 in. Linen Satin Damask, regular 82.25, 60 in. Linen Damask, regular 40c, •» sale per yd bed room window. Her cries reached 60 in. Linen Damask, regular 50c, sale per yd sale per yd - - - 81.98 the ears of Policemen Croner and 62 in. Linen Damask, regular 60c, sale per yd i Regular 90c Napkins per dozen Eastland, who turned In tbe alarm. i 62 in. Linen Damask, regular 65c, sale per yd Regular 81.25 Napkins per dozen, The fire department was on the scene I 64 in. Linen Damask, regular 75c, sale per yd In a short, time, but the Are had al Regular 1.50 Napkins per dozen, 81 27 66 in. Linen Damask, regular 90c, ¿ale per yd ready reached such headway that If Regular 1.65 Napkins per dozen, 78 in. Linen Satin Damask, regular 81.00 looked as if tbo wbolo block was Reguiar 2.00 Napkin* per dozen, sale per yard doomed to destruction. The firemen Regular 2.50 Napkins per dozen, 2.07 68 in. Linen Satin Damaste, regular 81.25 fought like Trij»os ai d *uc«e«!ed In ; Regular 3.00 Napkins per dozen, 2.68 sale per yd keeping the Are confined to the build- 2.95 4 Regular 3.50 Na;.kins per dozen. 74 in. Linen Satin Damask, regular 82.00, ing® on Olive Regular 4.90 •' ’ :r. per dozen, I*he «fork in FIM prh ’ p 1 I hlorkorpWT) Prjffw* atgroi I Prx8varjp*rfj,nr'l r»1 r»f»f->Inrv K f H M ( \l ' ”- p r< *>f i eefc® * I Surprise Sale of Table Linens I THURSDAY, APRIL 21st I i :