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About Eugene weekly guard. (Eugene, Or.) 190?-1910 | View Entire Issue (March 23, 1906)
nect as »oon as possible with the city sewer and that further contamination of the mill race from any source lie prohibited. The locality of the mill race and its use for boating makes this imperative. 4. That either a septic tank be con structed at the outlet of the aewer emptying nAar the mouth of the mill _____ race 04 that it be extended so as to effectually carry the sewage further Tiie members of the state board of , down the river so as to free it from tealtii who visited Eugene a few days,' t’n city aul prevent back low. j during the first part of this month to 5. That tiie city secure its water hrvestigate the typhoi I fever situa supply by sinking a well or wells of sufficient size across the river from tion, have reported as follows: the present well—the one nearest the Portlanil, March 1,1, 1906. To tl*u Imm.iable Mayor aud City river, and that the water so obtained Council, Eugene, Oregon: i lie subjected to an approved process of filtration before being furnished to the city, and that I’efore this fil ISUti, the undersigned members of the tered water is Used the reservoir shall Oiegoii State Board of Heulth visited be thoroughly cleaned and disiu- your city for the purpose of investi I feeted, and so constructed as to pre- gating the typhoid fever situation nn<’ | vent contamination from . urface water to make such recommendations as to : or outside sources. Tliat the city them si l ined best to temeiy the pres mains and iioiisc |iipes lie thoroughly tid ritual on and to guard against u flushed, ami that so far as relates to tature similar condition. ' mains and house pipes this process I m * Tiie board desires to thank tiie city repeated with filtered water liefore and county officials, the various liusi ; using. nt~s associations represented and the The decision of (lie board to recom citizens of Eugene for tiie uniform mend a well or wells in this place is reurtesy extended to them while in j based on the following reasons: Uu'ir city,and to compliment them on a. The only practical Miur«'e of the -zeal and activity and success with water supply at tiie present time must • hieli they have met the most severe come from wells. epidemic probably of any infectlus b. Very deep wells are uot practi disease that has occurred in any local cable. ity during the history of tile state. c. The location one aud one-third Alter a careful consideration of tiie miles east of tiie city, on a piece of entire subject the board submits the high ground, visited liy th«» board, is following us facts regarding the situa not thought suitable as a source of tion : water supply lor the reasou that the L That the source of tiie epidemic board believe* that only surface water has Isen through contamination of lean la» secured at this place. the city water supply, ami especially d. Water secured from the vicinity through the well situated at the power | designated by the board will consist bouse near a main sewer. It is the ' of water that has been filtered through belief <it the board tliat tiie contami large amounts of sand ‘ and grave!, nation of this well resuletd from which filtration process will ri-uder it seepage from the sewer, another practically a pure water. This to be possible source being seepage from billijected to a subsequent process ot the adjoining millrace, which is iu a filtration will produce a water supply ■iu»t filthy condition. absolutely pure and wholesome, under 2. That the well situated nearest proper supervision. river is also contaminated. Tliat 6. This will lie thequickest solution Uiis well exists in name only, as it of the problem and tiie n< ar advent bus direct communication witli the of another summer makes time a very vivar through a pipe, Htid that tiie important element. •ell so-called Is lint a culture ti. That tile water company construct ground fur bi cteria, more unsafe by these wells under the supervision of far ffnin would he the securing of tiie stut«^ engineer, and that the city water from the stream itself directly liealtli officer furnish the state board X Tliat tiie water system itself has of health with samples of the city been grossly at fuult in that numerous water at least once each month for ex div» I ends existed which wire not amination as to its bacterial Contents. fluslied iu many eases for years, and 7. That at the installation of a new Itud these dead ends furnished suit water system the old wells be severed •iau iiiudia lor the growth of diseusi absolutely from file new water system producing micro organisms. That so by filling or otherwise. Cir us tiie board was able to determine Respect fully submitted, Uiis condition existed through fault C. J. SMITH, M, D., af the owners themselves and also • President. through fault of tiie city officials in E. A. PIERCE. M. 1)., nut exercising the neee.-sary super Vice President. vision of the same as guardians of the E. B. PICK EL. M. D. p«sv>4e*s interest and heulth. Also ROUT. C. YENNEV, that the wall r conqumy deserves the Secretary. leverest censure for maintaining a • ell and u-iiig water therefrom for •ketliiiution to the city ill a locality iu which tiie most superficial exuini nution must lu.ve disclosed tiie ver laiiity of the water lieiug luieuted from either tiie sewer or mill race, vr both And tliat the city officials J. D. Matlock, incumbent, has an live Is en negligent and deserving of •ensure in not muiutainiug, or at nounced that lie will lie a cundidatt least attempting tu muiutain a strict for re election as city councilman •upvt vision of Hie water system, tiie from the Fourth ward on the munic nut "i t iimile condition t lint lias ex isted ipal ownership ticket, to oppose J. at Eugene lieiug primarily the fault M.Howe, wli lu;s l <eu nominated by at till' water eoiiipaliy and tiie city of- the opposition. At tiie municipal ownership caucus Ociáis. held Saturday night by the voters of I That tig) •■per system is not ad tiie Third ward ,1. W. White, whose «píate Hiid tliat a large proportion of name lias previously been mentioned Sonses ar«' not eounect«'d with any by the Guard as being a candidate, ■rwer wliatevcr. Also tliat tiie sewer was nominated for councilman. •mptying into th»' river at th«' mouth «I tiie mill race is faulty in that It empties with gradual slope, almost at tight angles into th«' stream, which conditions interfere with its proper A h the next door neighbor of the outflow, prevents the sewage from being carried sufficiently down the late Gainey Matthew's, we would is-ar river la-low the city, and during high tribute to his splendid domestic and Acquainted water i« luickial up by the river tu neighliorly qualities. aueli au extent as to force sewage into with him most intimately, we can say bouses connected with it. That his heart was right, he talked right, Tiie father's kindnesses the sewage from the university did right. budding is emptied directly into the will be sadly missed iu that home. uiiilr u e, which is a slow, stagnant «ti am, fan t. bly situated for con The lumlier business demands the tain natlou. liest class of labor, aud that trained to its requirements, too. Good men I F.Ci EMENDATIONS. Ti e t>o ird r s'otninetids the follow are so much in euiand that in t nies like these w lien the luml er industry ing: 1. That the city exercise a strict ia flourishing, operation« are ham supervision of its water supply ami pered through lack of the necessary «ewage system under such conditions trained labor, lhe B«wth Kelly Com w Uiall lie authoritative, and if such pany think they have solve«! the prob authority does not at present exist lem by going East and bringing out a that immediate steps lie taken to ee- hundred and twenty five men. STATE BOARD OF HEALTH MAKES ITS REPORT I « J. 0. MATLOCK HAS BECOME A CANDIDATE Note and Comment cure it. tad until such ordinances •had be passed a.« shall give the city proper authority, that the city or uwmty health officer be called upon to immediately enforce these recoin mendationa. ?. That all honaea, wherever prac tieable, compelled to connect with the city aewer systsui at an early date, before the advent of the hot, dry season, during which time con lamination is more apt to l>e spread by files from open vaults, and that all • pen vaults t>e frequently and thor •aghly disinfected with chloride of Ins. X That tiie university tmildiug cou- Western Oregon is itself again with rain. We don't want snow—our peo ple thrive I est mentally and physical ly when the weather ia soft. Born To Archie B. Thompson and wife,at Cottage Grove, Tuesday morning, a girl. To Mr. and Mrs. Harry Brvhaut, at Cottage Grove, Wednesday morning, a girL IMPORT MILL HANDS FROM THE HEALTH RECORD OF STATE OF OREGON Births outnumbered deaths 4 t' to 273 in Oregon last month. Yamhill county made the best rec ord: Births, 19: deaths, ". Multnomah had 151 births to 110 deaths; Jackson, 20 toll): Lane, 23 to 8; Benton, 13 to 4 : Josephine, 13 to 3. In Coos, Lincoln,Marion and Uma tilla counties deaths had the 1 hand ; W heeler, Benton. Harney, Mal heur, Lake aud Morrow counties had uone of either. eases of typhoid fe- There were 218 2--------- ver, with 115 deaths, Laue county and Eugene lead with 19o eases, but - while Multnomah ouly three deaths, 12 eases and 4 deaths. Douglas had had 4 eases and 1 death, Gilliam 6 deaths aud Benton 6 eases aud 1 PROTEST will see tH. rights are protect^ far has made the the Eugene iuer,-|laut> ing. the county eo decision: if hut, Mentation to the S will, when they make the necessary The Eugene Merchant' Protective Booth Kelly Co. officials are worried Association met last night and placed over the shortage of labor. For some itself on record against the usurpation and block..'ling O. the county road by time past the several mills of the com the Southern Pucific Company’s high pany in Lane county have lieen run trestle and piling placed diagonally ning short-handed and now the pros across the main traveled thoroiighfljret pects are that th«* mills at Springfield Some on« enters L, and Coburg will lie compelled to do-«- near Springfield, lending to tiie county burg s meat shop in tf. dowu their night shifts. seat item the southern and eastern i ing on Willamette etrl K. A.’Booth, manager of the com portions of the county. ■ 1 ''f ' ' J ' 1 earr^ pany, stated to a Guard reporter to Th«- association diecmss'eil the situa 13325 cash register. day that the labor shortage is begin tion fully and unanimously agreed ! tuisiing. ning to be a serious matter with his that the obstruction was an impedi ! When he went to „ company and he thinks there is no ment to travel and should be removed. about 6:3o o'clock tbi. immediate relief in sight. With the Tiie association appointed a com : Brandenburg dixx,^ great amount of railroad work now death. mittee consisting of W. H. Kay. F. ' lock 011 the front <j„ going on in the Pacific Coast stall .» A peculiarity of the tuberculosis re E. Dunn and W. M. Green, who were and lhe prospects for a great eal port is that death» apparently out instructed to call upon the county broken off and that a,„ more as soon as spring opens, Mr. number the cases liecause many phy court and ask that body to have the tered tile place. Booth considers that the situation sicians neglected to comply with the obstruction removed and a proper which had been left looks exceedingly blue aud it might state law by reporting new eases. crossing and roadway built as is done turned off. The caej sat on the front mean a possible tieup of the com Thirty deaths occurred and 12 eases by railroads in other places. I and no trace of it pany’s mills. were reported. Ten eases and L TO TAKE OTHER MEANS. , The box in which it IMPORT MEN FROM THE EAST. deaths were in Multnomah county, 2 The association, thinking tliat the livered to the shop^ county court might possibly refuse The company has just brought out deaths in Umatilla and 1 in Cnion. purtenances to the tu Diphtheria supplied 37 ease«, and 3 the request, instructed the committee from Chicago over a hundred men were in the back roo» deaths. Nineteen cases and one death and has distributed them among the to see what further means can be used tested. Ther» was no several mills, but it is doubtful if were in Multnomah, Gilliam had 1 to have this roadway unobstructed cash Tegtsfct. Mr. Bn many of them w ill remain, as they death. Marion 1 and Umatilla 8 cases, and to fully investigate the matter. , ing taken ths day’s are all of the transient class picked up with uo fatalities. A BIG PETITION. with him. Multnomah had 1 of the 24 eases of in the lumber centres of the Middle It is said if the county court refuses The register was p West. Most of these are Scandina scarkt fever and Grant in. No deaths to compel the railroad company to time ago by Panl M resulted. Measles were prevalent, vians, aud are good workmen, if they give the county a good roadway cross opened the shop. He can be induced to stay with their with 119 cases and no deaths, 45 tn ing. projierly lighted, there will lie u #30 on the machine, and Multnomah, 12 in Umatilla. 51 in work. No petition circulated in Eugene which resentative of the cos These men were taken to the mills Liuu, .5 iu Lane aud 2 in Coos. will be presented to the railroad peo have taken it out of the Friday, coming up from Portland via diaths resulted iu 6 eases of smallpox. ple by representatives of the Eugene because of failure to b the Woodburn-Natron branch on a —Telegram, Merchants’ Protective Assoeiation, payments. special train. and failing to secure redress in this Acting Chief of Poli« Mr. Booth says that the mills at As the courts will lie resorted to. making was notified of the bursi toria have tried the experiment of us the railroad «sompany and tiie county morning and has beetvi ing Greeks, who can be obtained in I court defendant» to show cause why a case, with a pretty pud large uumliers, and they seem to be a ■ thoroughfare of the county should lie! success, but it is doubtlul if the blockaded without giving a decent C1DD01M Cd Booth-Kelly people will resort to this Q, rAhhUl/ Fritz Cummings, a German aged roadway crossing to the citizens of class of lulior unless they are comiieU- about 50 years, waa examined as to Lane county. ed to. bis sanity before County Judge G. K. ' Chrisman Saturday afternoon and committed to the insane asylum at Salem. Dr. L. W. Brown was tLe ex - C. 8. Farrow hassoM amining physician. Cummings was arrested Saturday at 1 condncted by himself an,! Cottage Grove for breaking several | lenbeek to V. E. Coukkl A. G. Mathews, a well known citi store windows with a stick which he A press dispatch ns follows from tn», Oklahoma. Mr. Coidi zen of Eug< ne,a native of Lane court carried. This is the same man Olympia, Wash, concerns a former directors of the Aik ty, died at his home, 71 West Ninth w iio cri ated excitement at Roseburg Methodist minister of Eugene: Ban-k. lie has had about I about 4:30 Street. Sunday afternoon one day last week by breaking a large itii hot shot for “the wily schem- experience in the realists o'clock after an illness of several plate glass window in one of the er who dons the livery of heaven more ' migration business, x> tkti weeks from tpyhoid tever. banks there. effeetivelv to serve the devil.” the Hollenbeck Jc Conkle 1 Adeu Gainey Mathews was lioru at The man was uncommunicative and State Supreme Court today reversed _\g,,Ucy will lie one of d resided Plea.-aut Hill July 5, lsl.i.and nothing concerning his history could •he Spokane Superior Court which real estate concerns in b, in Laue county all ins life, 11 e was lie learned. had r«een in favor of Spokane's Dowie ■ Farrow wishes to a well-known stock buyer and in that “bishop,” David Mclnturff, of the vevy kindly fori capacity he made many acquaintances Peoples’ United Church. patronage it has gireii| and won many friends throughout tiie Mclntuiff with statements that be „ml asks fori county, lie leaves a sorrowing wife, could heal the sick and give happiness public patronage fur the two children, Mrs. Ada Hunuquud to the sad, organized the church and Mr. Farrow lias associ and Mi.-s Agnis Mathews, his pa secured a congregation, which con ---- with one of the largisti rents, Mr. and Mrs. Alex Mathews, tnbrtted to acquire a considerable tiou» in Alberta, vii:II all of Eugene: tive brothers, Henry of Mclnturff then sold the CoKuizatiou Co., which Mayor Wilkins informs the Guard property. Goshi n, Ephriam of Coburg, Bert of Pleu.-ant Hill, Ross of Thurston, Car that the city authorities will at once property and used the funds to estab 2<'.ùr<W0 acres of tine Unsi sou of Eugene, ami two sisters, Mrs. begin to carry out the recommenda lish a communist colony in Idaho. JW. rj. Calgary will be hid Anyone wishing infera Neliraksa Keeney, of Fossil, Or., and tions of the state board of heulth ill Ttondryx and others, formerly of the Mrs. Lei isey MeKinz’e, of Pleasant ■ •"ti pulling a purer water supply and church, brought suit to set side the that, country can obtain S better sanitation insofar as possible. deed on ground of fraud, and to force the office of tiie new ta1 Hill. Mcinturff to account for large sums beck i Conkle in theCbta Fraternr’.’y he was a men ber of Hel of money he had collected for the Engere. met lodge, Kn gi.ts of Pythias, and , church and put in bis personal purse. Eugene camp, Woodmen of tiie World. ; Tiie lower court dismissed the suit, ' The full' nd will be held at tile res holding that Hendryx could not bring idence Tuesday at 10 a. m., with iu- Carrie Erickson is suing F.riek Er the suit, as he hail lieen expelled from | terinei.t iu the Pleasant Hill come ickson for divorce at Portland, also the organization by the bishop, and tery. lie». J. S. McCallum, pastor of tiie Christian chinch, will conduct alimony and a half of 2nd acres of that the civil courts could not enter lami near Eugene. They came here into a determination of the ecclesi the services. from Kansas in 19t»3 and paid itiootl astical question as to the merit of lie Su’tLciu Iri'M for the farm. They have six children. the expulsion. gaug of Greek labo «-»*"j She states that he possseses an on- This was an errror, says the Su ed iu replacing the old rrii ' governable ami insane temper, and preme Court, which orders the dis i new 80-pOund steel r»Jl has brutally beaten their children to missal set aside and evidence taken. working in the eaderai such an extent tliat two of them are The Supreme Court held that while city, having reached tin J mentally and permanently rendered there is a divorcement iu this coun of the yards yesterday J State Printer J. R. Whitney is idiotic and weak minded as a result try of church and state, it does not will not be laid in theydl in town today renewing acquaint- of the dangerous chastisement inflict extend to thefts of the church prop til after the rearraug^ Fearing for erty. ances and shaking bands with old ed upon their heads. buildings aud tracks >1 friends. “Joe," as be is familiarly her life and that of her youngest thia summer. known, is a former Eugene boy, the daughter, Bessie, she went to Port Among the improves^ family having lived here for years. land, where she has been supporting those recently niM'-'n Th«» father was pastor of the old herself and her daughter. Guard, will I e to “Brick” church—Christian—for a sidetrack several bnndrw considerable time. west, so that it will ■' Mr. Whitney is a candidate for r- track at Lincoln street ! Domination as state printer at tiie J. W. White, who has b«?en nomina lie laid between the cotnir g Republican primaries, and Mias Jennie Johnson, daughter of ted for councilman from the Third the north sidetrack to very naturally asks the votes of bis Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Johnson, died at ward on the municipal ownership sively by passing train*- old Lene county friends. Amoug the family home on South Wiliam« tte ticket, cannot accept the nomination, o'her things lie pl-di.s hin.- if to ac street Sn day evening af g o'clock i’ntil a few weeks ago he resided in nr- aa »•:>, cept, it re-elected, any nducUou of from typhoid fever. She Had been ill Portland two years. To accept office SE huô ftlL-UÄl I' fees or compensation that the legisla six weeks. he must be a resident of the city a ture may make, eveu if passed during year. The deceased was born in Minnesota the new term of office He makes a August 22, 1887. She came to Eugene very creditable showing of the manner with her parents five years ago. Be- in which he has conducts«! the office. sides her parents she leaves two sisters W. Waddle today wildcat to J. D- ^*'7' and one brother. At the time she the Portland city !*•"*. was taken ill she was employed at the j Hotel Smeede and was a former high The Guard ia the only paper in Eu placed in the park school student. gene. or lame county for that matter, auimal is a year The funeral will lie held tomorrow that ha.- protested against the county came from the at 3 p.m. and the remains interred in court allowing the 8. P. railroad to will lie a valuul ie aiMi® the Masonic cemetery. Rev. T, E. I lock the county road by driving lection of animals 10 J. B. Ryan, secretary of th«» Dem ocratic state centra] committee, was Rockwell, pastor of the M. E. church, piling obliquely across the driveway near Springfield. The county court in Eugene Saturday contorting with will conduct the services. observed the obstruction and ordered Hon. J. D. Matlock, who has con it removed, but later on. being prom sented to make the race for state ised a couple of lights so the belated treasurer on the Democratic ticket. traveler could creep through the gap We wish ___ to extend ’ , Mr. Matlock has the first esaential without injury, the railroa«i was friends and of a candidate—he will run well at We take this means of thanking our home. And. barring the election of friends «nd neighbors for the sympa allowed to hold the fort aud blockade ns in our late here»’'1* the Republican candidate from Port thy and amManee tendered in our the main traveled road of the coutrty. teachers and pupil* F -igene has. however, a live organ iza- school for their fl land. we believe he will run much bereavement. MR. AM' ■ ti n. the Merchants' Protective Asset •bead of his party vote in the state. A. E. JOHNSON AND FAMILY. AND FAM11* f tation, which, with the aid of the WINDOW-SMASHER REAL ESTATE A. G. MATHEWS EXPIRES AFTER LONG ILLNESS SUPREME COURT DECiOES AGAINST MclNTURFF-in '7 • CiTY AUTHORITIES TO ACT ON REPORT STATE PRINTER WHITNEY HERE MR. WHITE CANNOT i ACCEPT NOMINATION Note and Comment Card of W Card of Thanks I lta.