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EU-ENE OREGON FRIDAY JUNE 15 1906
6%c Apron
* * Gingham 5c
12’^c Dress «8
* Gingham 10c
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Is success achieved. No shutting off between seasons here
The public is always ready to buy if the prices are right
Na month in the round year holds as many bargain sur
prises for you as the very month of June
Note the
offerings for the next few weeks and prove by investiga
tion that we state facts
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Percal h..
Faacv Dress
A large assortment oi double
width Percales in pretty
shades of blue, red, gray
and black. Both stripped
and figured effects, worth
8. per yard.
Our price
for a few days
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GINGHAMS
In plaids, checked anl
figured effects; double
width.
Suitable for
children's dresses, boys'
waists and women’s
garments» 12J^c grade
reduced to
13 yds lor $1.00
Ribbons..
No. 60 all silk Taffeta Rib
bon in blue; pink, black,
white and red. Very ap
propriate for the hair, neck
or millinery uses and will
stand the hardest of wash
ing.
25c quality
I Sc
wreapers
Fitted with Velvet grip fast
eners. Colors blue, pink,
red, black and white; plain
and frilled elastic 25c grade
The largest and best
assortment in the city
19c
Mohair Silting
Percale wrappers, dark
colors__
Lawn and Dimity
wrappers
Wrappers made fo nur
ses’ gingham.........
Black’-Satteen wrappers
52 inches wide, in navy blue
¿nd jet black- Just the
thing for Eton and Shir*
Waist Suits. New stock
regularly sold at 85c.
Our price for a short
$1.00
$1.25
$1.50
$2.00
(Sizes 32 to 46)
65c
Summer Dress Goods
Every Man
Big Reduction in this
Department this week
That has trouble in losing
buttons from his trousers, or
rips, we would advise him to
buy the Dutchess Trousers.
We pay 10c for every button
that comes off and 51.00 for
every rip.
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All
All
All
All
10c Wash Goods now
I2!4c Wash Goods now
15c Wash Goods now
20c Wash Goods now __
Albany, Or.. June 13. —At a eon
vention of the assessors of Western
Oregon, held in this city, it was de
cided to more than treble the as.~e
mi nt of the Southern Pacific Railway
Company. A rate of 819,000 per mile
was accidedupon, whereas heretofore
the average assessment has been but
8G1OO,
Tlie assessment is to be divide!
between rolling stock and roadbed.
Tlie assessment of rolling stock is to
be 83000 a mile and roadbed 816,000.
It was decided to assess the Wood
burn Natron branch at 88000 per
mille and the west side road will be
forced to pay at the rate of 810,000 in
Polk and Benton counties.
From a rate of from 875 to 8UXI tlie
rate of the Pullman company is to la-
raised to 84o0 per mile.
Tbs present rate cf 820,000 per mile
in Multnomah county will remain un
changed.
ôc
10c
12>ic
15c
Ottirr Lawns and Dimities reduced in proportion.
HAMPTON BROS
Stores Springûc’ ’ and Eugene.
EUGENE CHARTER ACT
REPEALED LOCAL OPTION
A suit to enjoin the county court
from making an order declaring pro
hibition to exist in Eugene and de
freeing that the recent election on
prohibition so far as it effects Eu
gene He invalid and of no force and
effect, was filed in the circuit court
this afternoon by William M. Ren
shaw and Alf Walker, the well known
liquor dealers, conducting the Hotel
Snieede bar. Woodcock A Potter are
their attorneys. The grouud upon
which the injunction is asked is that
the local option law was repealed so
far as it applies to the city of Eugene
by tlie enactment of the charter of
Eugene.
Philadelphia, June 13.—For 40 min
The attorneys in the case state that
lltes tlie pulsating heart of William
this one is exactly the same as tlie
Wyatt was held in the hands of phy
one at Marshfield two years ago in
sicians in the Pennsylvania hospital
which Judge Hamilton decided in fa
on Saturday, while l)r. Richard Hart,
vor of tlie plaintiffs, knocking out
hospital surgeon,sewed six stitches in
prohibition i.i that city.
the organ and then replaced it in the
The complaint a» filed this after
man’s body.
noon recites in part as follows:
Wyatt, who at first was thought to
“That the aforesaid charter of the
have been fatally stabbed, Is reported
city of Eugene whs enacted l»y tlie
as resting comfortably today.
It was the third time that such a people of the state of Oregon and hy
delicate operation has been perform the legislative assembly of the state
of Oregon, and is entitled ‘Au act to
ed In this city. .
Wyatt was etLerlzed by l)r. Hart, reincorporate tlie city of Eugene, and
who made a long incision in the left to repeal all acts and parts of aids ln-
side, sufficiently large for the sur contlict herewith.' which said act was
geon to plunge bis hand inside and adopted and filed in the office of the
take out the man's pulsating heart. secretary of state of tlie state of Ore
He then placed the organ upon the gon, on the 18th day of February,
outstretched palms of two assistants, 1905, and went into effect and force
and there it lay, throbbing vigorous 90 days after the legislature adjourn
ly, as it 8> nt the blood through the ed, and said charter is now the duly
enacted charter of the city of Eugene,
arteries.
Examination showed that the knife and has been at all times herein al
luol inflicted a wound in the organ leged.
‘‘Section 120 of Chapter 11 of »aid
measuring an inch and a quarter in
length. Fortunately tlie injury had charter provides: ‘All rights vested
ot liabilities incurred under either
missed the arteries.
the act of incorporation of tlie City
of Eugene or the amendatory acts
thereof or any ordinance when this
act takes effect shall not thereby be
lost, Impaired or in auy way dis
charged or destroyed.'
‘‘I ut iu m ikiiij flu order for an
Boston. June 12.—Charles L. election as aforesaid—the election on
'ucker was electrocuted Ht 12:12 prohibition in the county- »aid coun
o'clock tliis morning for the mur ty conrt acted on said pretended pe
der of Mabie Page. He was officially tition,and said county court arranged
pronounced dead by the prison doc said form on sal«1 ballots and made
tor at 12;19.
Three applications of said canvass of said ballots after said
tIm current were made.
election and filed said abstract of
When Tucker arrived In front of sa’d vote, claiming to act under an
the death chair he drew from his act enacted by the people of the state
trouaers p.-cket a brief Statement, ■ of Gregou, providing for elections in
which he read. Tlie stater..was!
ftny county to determine whether
”1 hope that God will forgive me the sale <>; intoxicat'ng liquor« shall
for all tlie wrongs I have ever done in be prohibited in said county, togeth-
my past life. 1 forgive everybody who er with other provisions, and which
has wronged me. 1 am at peace with act is printed at page 41 of the gen
my maker.
May God have mercy earl laws of Oregon for the year 1905,
on my soul. ”
and which act was proposed by the
Tucker then sat down in the chair people by initiative petition and pro
and after the guards had adjusted the vided at the general election held
straps the warden raised his hand as a June 6, 19i>4, and by a proclamation
signal to the electrician, and the of the governor, dated June 24, 1904,
doomed man was electrocuted.
took effect on said date.
“That said act was duly repealed by
the |>eople of the state of Oregon and
by the legislative assembly of the
state, as far as the same applies to
the city of Eugene, by said city char
ter of the city of Eugene, enacted and
Washington, June l.X—Senator Mil adopted as hereiniieforae set forth;
lard, chairman of the canal commit and that said act. ss aforesaid, has
tee, spoke today favoring a lock canal no force or effect in tlie city of Eu
at an 85 foot level. He said the cost gene and had no force and effect at
would be less by over 8150,000,0011 the time of the filing of said pretend
ed petition and at the time of making
lhan the sea level type.
A San Francisco delegation seeking said order for election by said county
financial aid will ba given a hearing court, and at the time of said elec
tomorrow by the bouse committee on tion, and thereafter.
"And that all of sed a< ts and pro
appropriations.
The house committee on agriculture ceeding», as aforesaid, by said county
recessed this afternoon and agreed court in ordering an election and by
upon the meat inspection bill, all »aid county clerk in placing said form
except as to who should pay th* cost on »aid bailóte and canvassing said
of inflection. The bill as accepted votes for and against prohibition in
provides that label* on canned goods ]>ne county, a» a whole, and partic
ularly as to tne city of Eugene, in
shall not bear th" late of canning.
The bill also provides for a maxi «aid LaOe county, were and are inval
mum fine of *1",
and imprison id and void and of no force and
ment for three years for the bribery effe-t. ”
The complaint alleges that the com
of inspectors.
ty court when it meets on June 15th
J. T. Brown he. i-een appointed t d- lar pro! ibltb n in the county
as regards Eugene stall be doing so
postmaster at Pendleton, Oregon.
DOCTORS TAKE OUT
LIVING MAN'S HEART
ELECTROCUTION GF
CHARLES TUCKER
Ladie? Hose
Supporters
time
SOUTHERN PACIFIC
Will PH TAX en
S!9.m A MILE
SENATOR MILLARD
FAVORS LOCK CANAL
unlawfully; that the plaintiff» will l*e
prohibited from conducting their
business and wrongfully and unlaw,
fully be prohibited troui carrying on
their business by the sale of intox
icating liquors and will wrongfully
and unlawfully de troy their tiade.
They pray for a decree of the court
enjoining and restraining tlie court
from making an order prohibiting I lie
sale of intoxicating liquor» within
tlie limits of tlie city of Eugene dur
ing the pendancy of the suit and
upon the final hearing that tiie court
lie perpetually enjoined tioni making
such order; and that it be decreed
that «aid election »<> field and all the
proceeding* connected therewith in
sofar as the same effect» the city of
Eugene lie declared to be invalid and
of no force or effect, and for such
other relief a» to the coutt may seem
equitable.
KNOCK OUT COUNTY PROH1B1
TiON.
Later in tin- afternoon a suit where
in T. C. Luckey and H. H. Anderson,
partner» in the saloon business at
Springfield, are the plaintiffs, was
filed seeking Q> enjoin the county
court from declaring prohibition to
exist in Lane county as a whole, on
grounds substantially mid in brief
as follows:
That the passage of the act granting
the charter to Eugene repealed the
local option law as far as it would
effect Eugene; that 275 names on the
local option petition for h prohibi
tion selection ill tlie county were
those of voters of Eugene, who were
not qualified or entitled to sign the
petition; that the numlier of legal
voters required to sign the petition
was 500, but that less than 4OO legal
voters’ names were on the petition ;
tha* tlie court in making the order
for the election rn prohibition did
no’ except and exclude Eugene from
the county as a whole.
The plaintiffs pray for a decree en
joining mid restraining the comity
court from making an order prohibit
ing tlie sale of liquors in Lane county
as a whole during the pendency of
the suit atpl upon the final hearing
that tlie court l>e perpetually enjoined
from making such mi order; and
that the election lie declared to b
invalid and of no force mid effect.”
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IS MADE PUBLIC
Cynthiana. Ky., June 13.—The con
fession of Curtis Jett, sentenced to
life imprisonment for the murder of
James B. Marcum and to death for
the murder of J. Cockrill, town mar-
shall, was made public today, it is
a wierd, uncanny story of the feud
ists of the mountain region. It de
clares that State Senator Hargis is
innocent, and points out Judge Har
gis and Ed Cockrill as the chief con
spirators in the murders.
DEPUTIES ARREST
NEGRO OPPRESSORS
St. Louin. June l.X—Under instruc
tions of the United States marshal
deputies armed with rifles thia morn
ing at Sikeston, Mo., arrested Charles
M. and W. B. Smith, charged with
forcing negroes to work their 2900
»«•re plantation under guani and
without salary.
Other mem tiers of
th" firm are being sought and the
marshal* expect to arrest a corp» of
Smith's guards.
Washington politicians an • Of the
opinion that Vice Pre «ida nt Fair-
lianki will I* nominated by tbe Re-
puMicaua to make the me«
i
agaiiist
Bryan for the presidency.
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