ÜolAT»ity • •• •*..«. I THE EUGENE WEEKLY GUARD 0 EUGENE. OREGON. THURSDAY AUGUST 9. 1906 Vol 39 VERY COLO BLOODED FILES BONO ANO MURDER COMMITTED ACCEPTANCE AT COTTAGE GROVE SILK VALUES Electric Railway Franchise Accepted and S5.000 Bond Given to In- sure Construction ot Line-Wil Begin Work Some Time This Fall The Greatest Silk Values We Have Ever Offered Fane Silks Less Than the CosG of Production ^E HAVE on hand several patterns of this season's fancy Siik Waistings. The fabrics represent the very finest quality of Jap Silk and are regularly sold at nearly double the price that we are offering. These patterns contain 4 yards each of hige grade silk.polka dotted in blue, red, green, white and pink. The quantity is limite d so do not delay if you are needing an up-to-date waist. The regular price Is $4.50 a pattern and for a few days only we offer you your choice O O of tthe lot for the small sum of _ 9 or 62J4c a yard ■ A. Welch, managei of the Willam­ ette Valley Co., was in the city today from Portland today, coming up on last night’s train and returning north this afternoon. While here this morn ing he filed with the city recorder the company’s acceptance of the elec­ tric railway franchise as gtanted by the city council July 10, and filed the required boud of foO'tl to insure the beginning of work on the line within six months. The compauy had thirty days in which to tile the acceptance and the bond. Only two days re­ mained until the time would have expired. Mr. Welch told a Guard reporter today, as he did another representa- tive of the paper in Portland a few­ days ago, that just as soon as the new water and gas systems here are coin pleted work on the trolley line would begin. He thought it would >>e till or 70 days before the other work is done. The new reservoir on the butte, he .»aid, will be completed within a very few days. The workmen this morn­ ing began to put on a lining of six inches of cement and I when thia io finished and th« floor ÍH i lsiii * I'M wall will *>e closed voir will be ready ft company will recelv for excavating a t ig river from and whiMl ÌI I Special to Daily Guard. were then eecorted out of town by Cottage Grove, Aug. i>.- A deliber the marshal. They were very impu­ ate ami cold blooded murder occurred dent and the older boy had a larg® one mile south of this city Sunday revolver strapped on his side, the evening at about 7:110 o'clock, win n younger lx y carrying a revolvei con­ an old man, giving l.is name as Wil- cealed som< where on his person, liam Powell, was shot down by two which the officers overlooked, but boys who were said to be escapes which he displayed to some boys nut Special to Daily Guard. from the Washington state reform . side of town with the threat to "tlx" Washington, Aug. 8.—Bids weie school. * Marshal Underwood If he was met opened today on the sites offered for The old man, though mortallv outside of the city. They spoke of the public buildings at Eugene, Or., woumled, lived until 8 o'clock this in'ended burglaries and various and the following sites were ottered: rs. W. bander«, Olive street, morning, and remained rational un­ crimes with every one whom they con­ til midnight, diire- tween Salem and Chemawa is pro­ gressing rapidly and that cars will be in operation between the two points early in September. He expects the entire line Jo be in operation early next summer. WATSON CONVICTED. Portland, Aug. 8.—After being ont sixteen hours the jury In the case of Charles A. Watson, which has tieen on trial in the federal court since Monday, the charge being perjury in connection with defendant's final proof on a homestead entry, this morning returned a verdict of guilty, recommending Watson to the mercy of the court. The maximum (>enalty is five years’ imprisonment and a fine of *2000. The evidence showed that Watson had not resided on the claim which he is alleged to have taken up at the instance of the Butte Creek Com­ pany, to which be assigned it. The ease is important only as a connect ing link in the prosecution of the land company, its president, H. H. Hendricks, having already tieen con­ vict- I on the «barge of subornation of perjury. HUP CROP WILL BE LIGHT. The Guard learn.» from reliable iiirces that it ia loginning, to apfwar that the Italic county hop crop will be considerably shorter thaw year than generally expected. One of the lieat informed hop men in the state who, resides here, says he has ex­ amined ‘Jit or To yards in the coun ty and find» that from some cause or an­ other the yield will not tie up to last year's. Even in the yards that are perfectly cultivated there appears to tie a shortage. One well-known grower says the burrs on bis vines are falling, caused, he thinks, by the dry, hot weather, That seems to be the only plausi bl* explanation given for the apparent shortage. handcar, arriving here at town about 10 o'clock in the evening, The old man was taken to the office of Dr. Hockett, who alter a careful examination in which by probing the course ot the bullet was located, announced that the wound was fatal anil death must result in ten or tweiv« hours. The doctor did all in his power to relieve the old man’s sufferings while the flame of life was flickering, but at millnight the wounded man lie came unconscious, expiring soon af­ ter daylight. The old man said ho was 70 years old, a tinner and umbrella mender by trade; came to thia country from England when 20 years old, enlisted ill the war of the ri'bellioi. and fought four years with the army of the Po tomac. Near the dose of the war he was court mart ¡ailed and discharged in disgrace upon the charge of striking all officer The inquest will lie held thia after­ noon «nd the remains interred at this place, probable under the direction of the local G. A. R. A pair of blan­ kets and 115 cents in change comprised the old man's worldly goods. He has a couple of sons and a daughter at Sail Francisco, bit he said the son» were profligate. OFFICERS PURSUE MURDERERS. The officers at points south have tieen furnished with descriptions ot the two young desperados and it is thought that they will soon tie appre­ hended and captured, but possibly not without resistnace. Marshal Underwood ia hot on their trail. COVERED BRAKEMAN WITH REVOLVER. Officers here were informed by a hobo that two Is.ys aged about 15 ami Ik were headed this way from Port and, from which city they were rout- ed by the police; that they wore tough cas s and escapes from the Washington reform school. Two boys answering this description were put off the blind baggage of the Sunday aoi.thound local at Saginaw, three miles north of thia place, by a brake man, who was covered with a revolver by the old -r leiy and threatened. 1 he brakeman notified th.^.ffirers ber.^ud urged the arreat of the youngatets, Isit declined to prosecute. Hence, while apprehended here by the mar ahal an hour later, they were only Mr. and Mrs. W. W, Harsbliarger kept under close eurvelMnce until have returned to Bickeltou, Wash. they could get something to eat and by the liKirniug. to lie in a more serious mood lumber at the teemed nervous, often looking arou' d mill ami will then sail to San Francis­ as his car caught the remarks made co and will be fitted with first-class about him and bis companion by gasoline machinery before she re*, those following behind. turns. She is named for »very state THE CAPTURE. on the coast—Wash Cal-O»e. O. W. Hurd's logging camp on Had- The boys were captured at Drain sail creek has ceased operations for about seven o’clock last evening by Marshal W inutt and a posse of dti the present. 'They are moving their sens. The murderers were seen com­ engines down to the river. The latgo ing down the railroad track and they road engine is to be moved to Hun- were at once covered with shotguns saker's camp at the mouth of Knowles and rifles in the hands of the posse. treek. It is not known yet what will 'The boys threw up their hands and I h < done with the other two engiuee. Nicolle A Fellman have bought th* submitted to arrestjwithoiit resistance. Sheriff Fisk arrived at Drain just timber on the old Lace place and will 30 minutes alter the jlioys were cap move then engine arrows the river as tured, he and Warren McFarland, of | soon as they clean up the timber <>u Cottage Grove, having fe.e u hot on Fred Bi ail's place. They their ttail for several hours. Lrn Tabor has resigned as manager set out from Cottage Grove In a of Wm. Kyle's store at this place, to buggy, and alternately walking ami • ake effect the first of next month. riding soon found traces of th« young His brothel, H. E. Tabor, will suc­ desperadoes and kept cn their track ceed him. till they reached Drain. I Fred Benn has just completed an­ Beeves and Saxon were brought other addition to his houst. bred back to Cottage Grove aud were ar­ makes one or two additions regularly raigned before Justice of the Peace every year. J. E. Young this forenoon on the charge of murder in the first degree. Several members of the Lane Coun­ ty Poultry Aaeoclation met In the They * were bound # over without bail to appear for trial in tbe circuit office of Hie si.retaiy, J, M. WT1 court, which convenes in November. Hams, this afternoon and fixed - the date for holding the first annual poul­ THE BOYS IN JAIL. try fait from December 1'2 to 15 in­ Sheriff Fisk permitted a Guard re­ clusive. It will t>e held in Eugene. porter to talk to the boys in jail tina B. F. Keeney was elected assistant afternoon. They were lolling in the secretary. Secretary Williams waa hammocks in their cell reading authorized to correspond with judges novels, and the first thing they said in older to secure one for the comiug as the sheriff and the reporter enter­ show. ed was that they wished they had some smoking tobacco anil that they they did the night before. They say would go crazy if they did not get it. they wanted to Is- caught and Reevee In speaking of the crime Reeves, who declared thia afternoon that he is the older, said that he did the wishes that he had turned and shooting. They were "jollying" the when the Grain posse had their Knn» old man, he said, about the meal he trained on him, ao they would hara was cooking when he * ecame angry killed him. and suddenly hinged at Reeves with a The Reeves boy says hie home ia iu knife. Before be knew it. Reeves Portland, where he has a father and said, he had pulled out his gun end a brother. Hi« mother ia dead. Th* fired. It was not until the man had Saxon boy ia from Texas, where his fallen to the ground and was groan­ parents lire. In speaking of them ing with pain th at he r.alizid wha the boy's voice choked and he would he had done. This happened als>ut - >V little concerning them. The boys eight o'clock in the evening. The started out from Portland Saturday Isiys say they ran through Cottage r.ight bound for California. They Grove and then south on the rail bail "hoboed" their way to Cottage road, going as fast a« they could till Grove, where they were put ot* the three o’clock next morning, when train. They aay they had no )«rtio- they became exhausted and slept in a ulai object in making the trip, only hay field. They awoke late and start­ to see the world and have good a ed out again, imt taking it easier than time. Ì 1 » I