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About Eugene weekly guard. (Eugene, Or.) 190?-1910 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 16, 1906)
THE MATCHLESS AND UNMATCHABLE Embroidery Sale At the Pon Ma che Store. Two Days t FRIDAY AND SATURDAY > Two Days Oniy. (-------- 16th a-.d !7th.--------- > Only. ON THE TYPHOID EPIDEMIC BUSINESS J. M. Eddy, of the Oregon Coast A The regular monthly t Citizens of Eugene met with the Eastern Railway, the coni|>auy that city council will l„. the council Saturday members of evolved from the Willamette Valley si.i»*s the usual grist of night and discussed the typhoid fever XY7 - HAVE imported on our own account direct from St. Ga!!, situation. D. E. Yoran, president of Electric Railway Co., organized by to i>e tiauaactxd ti e typ W. J. Wilsey and which has recently will be discu-.-id ami it W $ •■"—land, 500 pieces Embroider es, 36 yards to the piece, the Merchants' Protective Associa made announcement of a big system that »evrtal ordinance, eighteen thousand (18,0u0' yards, at a price which enables us to sell tion. and Allen Eaton, for the same fine, wide embroideries for less than half of regular prices. The organization, presented resolutions, [ of railroads along the Oregon coart lietteruieut if health patterns are strictly new, and different from the ordinary patterns and both demanded that immediate and east through Or» gon via Eugene, the city will be pamed. Mayor W ilk i: - ’■ ri...,t, action lie taken by the city to clean was iu the city Sunday on his way you !xe everyone have on tale. You ' ■ it to yourself to make an exceptional effort to be pres this morning that uu« up aud see that disinfectants are from Pol tlaud to Coos Hay. Mr. Eddy has s[ieut the last two nances to be introduced»jj ent at the beginning ot this sale merely to satisfy yourself by undic- nsed; that a plumbing inspector and putaHe evid ace—the goods and prices themselves—that we arc right ci»y hfalth officer l»e appointed im weeks iu Tillamook and Vasuiiigt&u compel the L uiversity of now givint yxzw you •> a chzncg to suvc ----- ,ronx g third to onc-hji. ci wnit 11VXV mediately: that the water company counties, securing rights of way for thoritiea to connect the “ . . o. ’ ainarily ' ... have to ---------- -1 — 'J-. — .. from any other sto C you will pay f for E* Embroidery be forced to flush »ewers aud dead end the line ami ba» been eminently sue- sewer with the eit.vsewet. He found the people along lull the sewage from every water mains: that all laws for health ce.-sful. in Eugene. Here i a chance lo save m ney given to everybody! aud cleanliness be enforced without I the proposed route very eiiluu, iu»lic I the campus empties into regard to |iersona) influence or star.»! over the proposition, and he thinks i The millrace, which i, Regular 15c to 20c Err.brcideries, the yard 9c ing. The resolutions wert- uuaui-j there will be uo obstacles in the way i stream and unhealthful or rapid construction turough tbo»e flows through tlie city ln Regular 30c to 35: Embroideries, the yard 12c mosuly adopted. • counties. Judge Walton deceiared that the tilth from the university „ Regular 45c to 75c Embroideries, t ie yard 1 3c Mr. Eddy »ays that as soon, as the is thought by a great nan, only way out of the situation was a lights of way tor the coast line are! has a great »leal to do wit Matson made a ¡»ersonal canva- municipal ownership plant, aud to go Not, Cne Yard Will Be Sold Eeiore or After This Sale I II Drl tl " infected district-. In the vi to the Mohawk or its branches for secured similar work will begin on fever in the city. At These Prices, As This w Cur Customers’ Other measures will be , water. Mayor Wilkins said that the cue east ami west Hue, beginning at ! ch .ity ut Pearl hi . ! l'x»»-.;txi - i - Ben. fit Sale, And Not» Ou~s. .ound many cases. In the home- Mohawk water was not fit for a hog Siuslaw and extending lengthwise | the council tonight aud 1 w .ere the patients resided they n.-<d to drink, and besides, it did not run through the county, through Eugene j everything poartble to I city xvuter and iu adjoirit - : '• - enough water for this purpose. Th and via the McKeuize i ute ovi r the I typho mountains. Construction body. I where they u»ed well water th».... were Paine also bore the mayor out in bis t a.-caue . tl y’li'id case». In »om< Lome- lie assertions, aud further stated that work, it is said, will leg.ii as soon a» :.m . ,i i.ia'iy i- tic ' ’ four ■-• - there was no question of the present ail rights of way art ».cuied. water b*iug contaminated with ty Some are of tue opinion lliat this is C\n WATi.ix TO BLAME phoid gert'-s. He lielleved the flltei -imply a ‘‘wildcat” or “hot ail” ' “On ourte.-n: street." he contin was the only safeguard aud system for scheme, but the Guard has knowu tor ued, “I found five cases of typhoid in Eugene. Frederick Knox wanted in; -everal weeks past that some ox the one house Toe place was modern and mediate action aud talk of municipal btaviesl capitalists iu the country are old junk shop » o the K. A. Booth i the i»oi se was clean and sanitary in ownership later. “The lietter the day 1 ack ot it and that sexerai million! James Turner, city street pro.-erty at the corner of East Elev every lespect but they use! city wa- the better tte deed.” let woik be dodars have liven s»'t aside tor the enth a: »1 Mill rl.eet.-. wi s re.tried to • ’er. The ajdoiniug house was old ami commenced Sunday uud save as muck construction of tue uue-. Financial shiner, has been appoints! Spector by Mayor WilldH | the health cou.u ittee with power to ' ulthy and looked to lie unsanitary. suffering and death as possible. He iuterests in Portland endorse the liis work this morning, g) act. They used well water there ami all the lielievei’l that whoever had caused the profioBitiou us a genuine one. speet every back jard in th Tlie b“l of Engineer F. C. Kelsey inmates were well aud hearty. Ou dea»l end to exist on the present sys se ■ that sanitary condition for 8225.75, balance due for surveys 1 Mill street three case» were reported tem should lie ¡»rosecuted for criminal | all 1 w ieri» they 1 n it the i for tht* municipal light and water ' to me by Dr. Bennett and all of them negligence. owners will be comp lied toi plants, was pi t seated by Councilman used city watir. Between the rail Attorneys Bi'yen and Ness were o' I at HI er. All closet- xxithinI Matlock. way track and the river I fcajhd three th" opiuiou that the only ic'iedy is • I a »» 'A i-r ma n w ill , .,v.- to cases were reported to me by Dr.Ben- iu takiiug the water supply out of UNIVERSITY SEWER. The meeting of the city council last1 nectei with tie sewer and it uett ’ and all ot them used city water. the control of a corporation. Coipor- As predicted in last night's Guard, night was an interesting one and was rio» I 1 "t t II" I 'it » nf thow <4 i Lewis R. Assalina. manager of the I found three eases iu houses where atious weie money makers aud where I [ Singer Sewing Machine Co. 'suffice pre-i rihed limit will lie t» attended by a large number of citi- an ordinance was passed authorizing City water was used. the health of the city is concerned ' zens interested in the health of the the construction of a 12-inch sewer on “What was astonishing to me was the money matter should lie elimina in tnis city, died from an epileptic aild new» ones dug. city, for it had lawn rumored about the south side ot East Eleventh street that in nearly every instance the pa tit Saturday evening abi ut 0:3 ii John M. Gowen.-, a brott ted. from the university to the High street the streets tb it some warm discussion | o ’ clock. ■ of Chief of Police S;il»a. ■ tient ha»l been drinking city water, E. Schwarzschild called atti-ntiou upon the sul.ji^ts of tht water supply »ewer and doing awa.v with the uni aud where there were no cases of ty The man was seized v.ih tl 1. Toriii r's place as .-to'i-t con, to the ’act that over a year ago be , versity sewer emptying into the mill and the typhoid fever epidemic phoid well water was used. I imme predicted this very outcome iu the while standing in front III the I Ilice while he is performing hilM would be tad. And the spectators race. —-------------- —I diately secured a plat of the city xva- article mentioned iu the Guaid. lie in the Titus block about 5:30 o'cliwk. 1 CURB ORDINANCE. were not disappointed, either. t'er system and found that where »’end saw then ai.d fully understood the i He was taken to his room in the A petitbm from the Fortnightly The curb ordinance was passed, A ends iu the water system existexl the llotfman House and Dr. F. E. Selover Club demand! that the city imme uniform curb^for all streets excepting typhoid cases were found. This whs cause. was called and everything doi.e to Councilman Calkins asked the majc diately Mcure ii supply of pure water the principal business stieets is pro especially true on Pearl aud I ak . save his life but in vain. if it was a council rtieeting. His honor \ nurilsT of the B th-K^ and one .rom a number of citizen» re vided for. This will leave 34 feet of streets aud in the district between The deceased was aged 2d year.-. He replied it was not. but that the aiding in tL* . »i,d,x...>txru pal t ¿if the street plopi-r. be •<<».■--:o-k1 11 Hr»»H 7 can e here from Stockton,' Cal., tue the railway tracks und tUe river. council would meet Monday night and1 ¿1» r, ,l!v >* ♦> »>♦ POTYl« tend the annual n eeiiiif ti about a month ago, succeeding M. F. C.xUSr, OF CuN'TAGiON. ariaiige or ail lit cuwary precautions. pel the water c< mfany to act imme 1 h . »I- fri .in a « I i • '■ lu» Council Matlock desired to intro Pit: I: ley as manager of the Singer of “1 arrival at thx> conclusion that diately to leittr tiie safer sti| ply or filìcws: C. I). Daiibfr.tq fice. Mr. Piul.iey was intending •here was insufficient flushing of ti e duce resolutions for appointment of the |wtiti< in i would hold the city I '. N. I trig I • St I dead ends of the water pipe, and that plumbing and health oificer and to 'dartiug on a trip last today, but Bitind y. ot Fortlai : J. V I responsible tor damages, provoked waited another day or se, till some one comm» ttce work on a municipal water organic natter Lad accumulated, much discu.->-i n. The may or ordered 1 ! ... e . ■ else could be iqjoiuted to take .onuiiig a .avoiable media .or typhoid plant. the latter petition placed on tile, (’n- . <• MuJeriri. Cal. E l charge of the <■ flee. Supervising Some had a plan to purify the water Ijacilli. whereu|H>n Coui.cilu an Matlock ol • Vu x t I . (>1.< i- ei|d “The qveatiou before n e alter 1 ar at the pumping station, but Council Agent W. J. Byrne of Portland, ar- this evening jected in no ill certain terms Hiid rived today to attend to the matter. man Henderson said that the whole rived at this conclusion was, how did finally moved that the petition be re I 'te this afti'-c ■■ it ptipeiti The body of the unfortunate young tlie tpylioid germ» get into these river would have to be fumigatetl ferred to tie city attorney, to report ■ii be i* shipped i- i tonight f r 7?", ” ¡ng and rih , 'tal , man will O k- , , the . , fiancliisi- , do any good. pipes, 'lhe city well is located ou the at a meeting to. le called by the obtained 1 y the Fug ne I* A party of citizens, including Geo. banks of a millrace, which is nothing land, Cal., where he l as relatives. mayor. from the city to lay a si»* i Fisher. M. Svarv» rud, Councilmai more or less than a surface drain Discussion on other matters l eeame T. H. Garrett. Judge J. J. Walton. the 8. P. to.'» i: a . lit-1 heated at times and several enthsuias- Prof, -si r John Straub, Professor through the district which it runs. rence street to tie- i. - i» Water from this race sxxeeps into tlie tic s|M*ctat<>rs broke out with applause Joseph Schafer. PTofc.-sor E. H. Mc rix. -r I ’ yr I well. Professor Sweetser, biologist of <aud hisses at different times. < 1 rk. Ri< li'- v ay ti n cd Alister, Prof» »»or < i. F. Stafford and the state university, assisted me by p i- a e p>> party are a!-n til ROUTINE MATTERS. Professor A. R. Sweets» r, leave» heri taking | holographs of the filthy spots i i ■ r..i. ii. . y. J Report of tie street commissioner early tomorrow morning for Major sid» ration is given h - 81. Southern Pacific surveyors are at iloi.g this millrace, pig pens, cow sta showed that 17.11M feet of Itimler had L. D.Forr»-t's p'uce ou the McK< uzi» bles ami piles of filth. Mrs. I* lora Daminoti has begun a work today si tting the grade stakes The Eugene h’gh school» been us><l during the month. river, about twiigy n ile» above I - on Lawrence street for the new spur suit against Jeremiah D. Dammon *or team has returned from io 4 OTHER TGVNS INFECTED. A petition ivi a sidewalk on Stew gene, for the puigaise of examinii g to the Eugene Lumber Company's' d‘roree ""d tbe restoration of her Oregon trip, winni: lli't*« “Filth means (»acteria and liacteria art avenu»* from Wist Thirteenth certain ci'ek. n .-tream which Hows mill liack of the butte, and »« soon UH ,le be,ore ’*h>* carried !•'•>>• Flora ■ I i ■ 11 I 1 t -'OS»' means disease. This millrace was un street to Vest Rev» i tiitith »fleet was into the McKenzie river from the as teams and men can lie secured, K1"“'11- Th* y were marn.'d in Eu the Med.ord Athleti • Club n presented and it was announced t t south, with tiie view of utilizing t e doubtedly contaminated by water run which will lie in Jt dav or two. the'*"1» January '■ W"3> Mrs. Dammon evening, the Eiigei.»- x> »J the walk had idreauy been built. water of the crick for a »'ity watt r ning into it from the river a mile and construction work wiU be begun and allege,, that reon a ter their marriage the score of 18 to 13. a hair almve the town at a point in A petition for a sidewalk on We -t plant. b.T !lll-»»:atl<l b. '111 H c UI-»‘ o C'U'I ................... . rushed to completion. < )f th" six or seven u.»i!vll The wattr of this creek is ice colti lhe stream where there is a swltt cur Seventeenth street rum St.-wart ave- and inhuman treatment i uid • it .1 I. -Is who have tl: ■ ! 1, limn ,i ti I. '1 1'1 1 uue to Willamette street, was not al at all times, is pure and abundant at rent. There are cases of typhoid along during ■ luring their married luurried life lite > -he wn» three of them are r •■•'eri't lowed, but the present sidewalk was all seasons of the year, Thia place the river above the city. Three were compelled to earn ■ •<» il»'<l to work tn »'»ri! her c~r. own Prof, n.vde i-al-o ri'i ovrrii» or<len*d repaired. would be an excell» nt s»mrce of a re|>xirteil from Spriugtit ld. three miles living and support herself and child. 11 J above, aud others scattered as lar up The street committee was author water supply for the city, and it is I».!:, ■. burg the -i ■ ■' •f“ C. ' M. Kis-iuger is her attorney. The city water cotnjiany and the ized to advertise for bids tor the city highly prctmlile that it will lie se as Cottage Grove. 2u miles distant. I. 4 “ri nt'' with In it - ■lll‘s lumber supply. riously considered when thematter of Owing to the uegligence of several of council, together with the business II. ithi i In >i -tenms 1' ■ 1UI'11 Deed of dedication from W. p a municipal plant is settled, and it the physicians in filing complete re men’s association, should consult and Such things have g ne Cheshire to the city was read, The looks as if th»> question will again he ports it was impossible to trace a arrange for a new source for a water even at footliall games. numlier of the cases. But undoubted supply. The present source of supply deed gives the city the right to enter taken up iu the near futuftr R. W. of Klamatb rx. n. Welch, weicn, or IMaiu»'"’ ly the river water ha» lieen contam is not satisfactory to the citizens, upon private property for the con The Mapleton people are sending was operated upon by Pt inated from these cases above Eugene. nor will the new location for the wa struction of a sewer. their «ppi*« to Eugene at'd CottHge Brown today for the “bu far in my investigation» 1 have ter statiou lie sati-Jhctory. "The water Grove where the fruit finds ready cer on the lower lip. remora CONTAGIOUS DISEASES. 5 cer on the lower lip. ound no typhoid gi-rms in the city company is now digging a new well a sale at good ] rices. County Jurtge Unrisni“ water or iu the millrace,but coll com County Judge Chrisman few fes*t from the river bank and a lit The ti»'H th committee iepert»d 13 Joe Morris Jr. has lieen »elected by reived word that Mart"» Violet Marie Veach, the iufan munis, has lieen found, and this is a tie further tip the river than the pres County Asaeasor Keeney ns his dep-(ter, committed to the in*® cases of measles, six of smallpox and ent location. between 90 and lik> ca.-es of typhoid. daughter of Geo. and Myrtle Veach. | -pecies closely allied with typhoid •ity t tl ■ —it g in this vieiu at Salei.i from Lan»' ' ! germs and indicative of contatniua- This new well is nearly on the site ity this year. Th»» mayor ard health committee i»f l>exter, was born January 21, 1906, Ia»r 2, 1904, was released FsM wetv> ai'h iviz d to aecure 4i»infe<ff- and «Had February 1. 114 d, at the age tiou by sewage. If this coli baoillua of the old Haiws tanxjyry and a lit The contract for carrying the mail li**». on a six months HR 1 is ill the water there is reason to be tle In-low it. This tannery for years ntita anil use tlieir judgment al» ut us of to days. The burial took place ■t between Alpha and Mapleton for four sence in the care of l'”r lieve that typhoid germs are there Lowell cemetery Saturday noon. was ths receptacle for all kinds of ing them. also. The remm they have not lieen dirty.grvasy hides and the location is years commencing July 1, 19ofi. has McAllister, at Creswell The little crib is empty u»tw. found yet i» perhaps due to the fact not practical at all. The people are been awarded to Elmer Lamli, of Al The little clothes laid by; MOKE ARC LIGHTS. The stockholders of the that very few typhoid germs exist in suspicions of the present location of pha. A mother's hope, a father's joy, I Lumlter Co. met in annual* A resolution authorizing the city to Married—At Indian Town on Wed any given quantity of water. For iu- the water company '»source of supply, .n IXath’s cold arms doth lie. day and will probably not R contract for more street anr lights un stam-e. you may hare a barrel of wa nesday eveuiug, February 7. 1906, at ! and a new one must lie obtained. Go. little pilgrim, to thy home til the total nmnlier is 5o, at ?»'■ per th»» residence of the bride's father, several days. ter with only a few tpyhoi»! germs. Ou yonder peaceful shore ; The Guard has lieen informed that light, was |«x.ssed by a narrow margin, William Dick and Mis» Libbie Bar One hundred peraona may drink iron» Marriage Licenses were We miss thee here but will come a resolution will be presented to the the mayor casting th»* decidiug vote. ■ this harrel and only one become inoc ney, Rev. J. L. Burns officiating. — day to the following: Where thou hast goue Isxfore. city council at tonight's session ask The vote on the resolution stissl as Florence West. ulated with the disx'ase g»'rms. Elliott and Tena G. Mc&t ing that the present water franchise follows: Ay»»—Spencer, Bristow, “There is no donbt iu my mind at M. Kintzley and Gladys A- F' be cancelled and that the city council Horn, Beckwith. Mayor Wilkins. all that the city water at Eugene is take immediate steps to erect a sys An article in yesterday’ Mrs. Rhoda Marshal), aged 81 years No Calkin«, Matlock, Heudersou, cx»ntaminat»wi. The results of my in tem of its own. from the Portland Journal * died at the home of her son. W. F. Garrett. vestigations point conclusively to thia W The city election will undoubtedly that typhoid fever was also ® IVtitioii» for numerous lights at Marshall, in East Eugene yesterday fact." 1» waged on the municipal ownership evening al<out & o'clock. Besides her field and other towns. F. N. Smith, who wag different plaxes wer« then read aud was in charge of of formed that there are only !<1 question again, and it is believed by the Eilers piano sale in the Beckwith referred to a committw appointed son she leaves a daughter in Canada ..., — .u tux/ . typhoid in Springfield »nd 1 many that the matter will affect coun >_iLM --------- - building some two years since,, ia now 1 by th»' mayor to locate the additional and one in Kansas. She has lieen re The American Railway Associa ty candidates at the June election. siding here about four years, having traceable to the use of light» ordered. in the city and will dore out the en come here from Kansas. The fuueral tion's inspectors arrived in Eugene at Eugene. tire stock of the local branch of Eilers OTHER MATTERS was held this afteraoon at 4 o'clock, today in their special car and exam Professor Lyon», of the Drain Nor Piano House. Mr. Smith lias as A petition to abolish th»* present with interment in the Ijuirel Hill ined the local ^iepot employe» as to mal School, ha* l»een employed by sociated with him this time C. W. dumping ground near the rber was cemetery. Rev. C. A. Wooley con their hearing, eyesight and distinc the Eugene school board to teach Eng Simon, formerly in charge of the grated. tion of colors. Every one |«ssed the ducted the service». lish. Ij»tin and algebra in the high Eilers store in Salem, also Geo. Frazer examination very «uccessfullv. In Eugene, Feb. 8, 1;*"L A petition for the removal of the echooL and 3. E. Hievens. Nick) n and wife, a »on, *** pounds. Dr. Ralph C. Matson, -tate bacteri ologist, who was here several days la»t week investigating th«j typhoid tever epidemic. Las been interviewed by the Portland Journal upon the subject. Tiiat paper of Sunday says: Dr. R. C. Tenney, state health offi- . cer. and I)r. Ralph C. Matson, state • bacteriologist, »ay the t»4»h<»i'l tever situatiuu at Eugene is grave. Dr. Matson went to Eugene last Sat urday night and remained four days mukiig an investigation. He found 7o x'a-es ot tyhoid in Eugene and it» vi -iuity. most of them in the city. He returned to Fortlaud thoroughly ¡convinced that the water supply of the town is re»pil'».b!e for the epi I demic, as he traced the majority of j t *■ cases iu the city to thi, »ource. HEALTH IJ r 90 up con prie also ;hiVJ MEETING OF j r> u EPILEPTIC FIT flot Gs ga giv» if y P inc a Brevities. TEIP UP THE M’KENZIE HAD TO SUPPORT SAWMILL SPÜR HERSELF AHO CHILE Inveì r H Me fi k sol I ice, reuti Note and Comment Born r