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ENGINE EXPLODES KILLING THREE RIVER AND HARBOR WORK CAUSES RIVET TO CONE UP Washington, Nov. 12. — General I (From Friday's Guard ) « The ra’n sto:in that inr'- 1 A edues Andrew MacKemie, chief of the en- ' day aud the night before hu» brought gineers, has reported to the secre the Wiliamettv rirer up buv > ral feet, tary of war that $16,052,4 31 be re the gauge at the budge ngl. tering G quired to complete the engineer feet above 1 w water u.uik when the work upon the fortifications project daily reading wu* made by Ljeal ed by tile board convened under the Uia her Observer Br'gg- , irly tins president's order of January 31, General MacKenzie states murniiig. Before the rain •gau the 1605. river was ut a low stag*', between two that the following amounts, among aud three feet abuvu low via' r mark. others, can be profitably expended Down tbe valley considerable dam during the next fiscal year in river age was dune, caua< d >>> swollen and harbor work: Columbia River, between Dalles streams. A portion of tbe .Southern Pacific bridge actons the bunliam riv and head ot Celllo Falls. *7 50,060. Canal at Cascades, *105,060. er at Jefferson wus wailed cut, de Columbia and lower Willamette laying ull trains. Tue btidge was be iug rebuilt und wa.- 1. see ire. Until it rivers below Portland, *150,600. Mouth of Columia, *1,000,000. is replac.d by u tm pcrury structure, trains will tak, tbe West Side line via Albany and Curvall -, making tbe arrival of the southbound several hours late into Eugene. The total ruiufall iu Eugeua for the 3ti hours daring the stji iu was 1.11 inches. TRAIN' 11TUATION. REAL ESTATE TRANSFER». Tbe Albany Democrat of jesterday Charles and lieleu Milton tu Her- gives the tiaiu situitiju as follows; bert Roberta; lot 8, blk •> Kelsay 'a Railroad business at .Albany is in a ad to Eugene 9150. chaotic state, caused by the waters ot John and C A Corbitt to A J Stew tbe Sautiam. art; lot 3 and w 10 feet of lot 4, blk lhe washing out of the fuise work 3, Shields' ad to Cottage Grove. RECENT PORTRAIT OF AN EMINENT JAPANESE DIPLOMAT. of tbe JeflerBuii bridge Las cloue it. «2400. The cut Is from the latest photograph of Raron Komura, taken since hi» With the false work went down 175 W J Warnock aud wife to N A feet of steel work being p it tip for a Wbiteaker; lot 6 aud fractional lot 7 arrival In London as Japanese ambassador, He will be remembered as the keen diplomat who conducted the peace negotiations for Japan last year new bridge, aud is lying uu the but in blk 8, Packard's ud to Eugene. Komura 1» a self made man, having been a poor boy who managed to work h'.j turn ui ibe liver, the rushing waters $3000. way through Tokyo university, where he showed so much ability that his held high office in his government from the Caeca les pouring over it. Dexter Carter and wife to Del government sent him to Harvard. He has for many year*. There is 175 feet ot open spaye to be Guiiey ; 12 acres in sec 1, tp 20, s r fili.'d before trains can ruu again, w. $100. aud it will lu impossible to do any J E Martin aud Carrie B Martin thing until tbe watei goes down, so to Minnie Wiscarson; property iu mure ful.-e woik can go up. and neat Irving. $150. The bri ig ■ ore* tue South Sautiam. I Charles Mittal and wife to llatacbel | on the Woodburn run.I, al o went Roberts; lot 8, blk 2, Kelsay's ad to down last night aud the Nation train Eugene. $150. caiue iutu Aluauy tur orders, It will John Corbitt und wife to A J Stew du a loeul business until a cioBaing art ; lot 3 anil west 10 feet of lot 4, blk can be made. 3, Cottage Grove. $2400. The local truius are doing truusfer Eva C Wheeler and husband to business ut Jettersou with a stub Booth Kelly Co; undivided half int in from Portlau The Lebanon train ltk) ucres iu sec 22, tp 22, s t 2 w. has ruu 45 hours straight «itb only $1000. two hours sleep fur the mi ti. The TIMBER CONTRACT. ovcrlutids use tiro west side nud Cor Frank Crabtree to the Brown Lum vallis and Eastern. lar Co; all tbe standing growing and Young Portland, Nov. 12.—Shortly after done his (Murray's) sister. | dow n saw timber except hardwood s o’clock today Orlando S. Moray, Murray was extremely self possessed timler on 160 acres in sec 29, tp 20, s while making this statement and said aged 21 years, son of an east side r 2 w. $1. he had killed Whitney after plead- physician, shot and killed Lincoln C. ing with him three quarters of an MARRIAGE LICENSE. Whitney of Hubbard, Oregon, at the hour to right the wrong done Miss Napoleon J Blais, 22, and Verna .1 home of the latter's sister, Mrs. Murray. Sumner, 21 ; F G Stickles, witness Porter, at East Third und East Har In the room at the time of the POWER OF ATTORNEY. rison streets, then boarded a car and shooting were Mrs. Porter and her Aztec l.iiad and Cattle Co to Mau went to the office of Sheriff Stevens, young daughter, both of whom, when tier Moore. where he surrendered himself. realizing the intent of Murray, rush- California and Oregon Laud Co to In a statement to the police the ed between the men to prevent Mnr- New York, Nov. 9.—Gue woman Maurice Moore. young murderer said that he killed ray firing, but he pushed them aside d,., 1, one man in tlie hospital fiom Whitney because of the latter's per and fired a pullet into Whitney's MINING LOCATIONS. ► vei e burns,two perso s fleeing from J W Gibbs tiles notice of location of sistent refusal to right the wrong body, killing him Instantly. 'I ir homes in a panic and tii aisands “Scolly” Nos 1, 2 and 3, mining Il ' re pllsklUg U nil I, a* lllfcllt, was claims, lilue River district. tbe result of u series of incendiary STOCK BRAND. tires in the tsu blocks Lou:.de<i by Lucian L ('ruble files trand of two Sixtieth, Sixty Hint and (,'. luuibus holes, each about one-fourth of an and Wist End iiv , uues tally today. Inch in diameter, to lie made through Ecoies vt pel sous abuse lives were right ear of alii stock owned by him. endangered by fire were rescued by firemeu. NEWS FROM THE COUNTY CLERK’S OFFICE SHOT BY BROTHER OF YOUNG WOMAN HE HAD WRONGED FIRES CREATE EXCITEMENT lu all theie weie five fires between midnight and tbrve u'clo. k this morning, ail in flat hcueee, three oc cupied by ehilts and two bj i.cgroes. Must of tbe tenants were in bed when the tluuies Lruke out and e.-eupnd in tie scantiest cloth.rg Tbeie were many narrow escapes and dain g res cues. I lank Mu. ria, a vaudeville p< rforui er, La» be, u arrested on suspicion of setting the flits, Tile police allege that the tenants reported wti. n they fled from the different bouses tbe Hist person they met was Moti is. RAILROAD Blood Poisoning results from chronic constipation, which is quickly cured by Dr. King's New Life Pills. They remove all poisonous germs from tli*> system and infuse new life and vigor, cure sour stomach naiisia, headache, dizziness Htnlcolii, witli grip) ing or discoui fort. 25e. Guaranteed by W. L. Ileljitio druggists. Brownsville, Texas, Nov. I*.-A de tachment of Texan Rangers which was sent to Rio Glande City to in vestigate the assassination of Judge Welch, which occuried Monday night, were attacked by a body of armed Mexicans and a bloody fight resulted. Fred Ware, of Cottage Grove, and Alvin Stevens, commonly known »» Ashley, of Eugene, were among those indicted l y the grand jury this» week for the illegal sale of liquor, They were placed under arrest and we re ar raigned in tbe circuit court tills after noon. They both enter, <1 a plea of Topeka, Nov. 10. — Thousands of guilty and Judge iiarrie lined Ware acres of tbe uu.-t valualie farm lands $100 and Stevens $.'«•. it la said othei in Kansas, t gather silL a large at rest* a ill at once tie made. •mouut of laud located lu the towus aud cities of tl*o state aie given to tbe Missouri, Kansas .* Texas Kail way by a deciaiou of tue Kai.ms all pt erne court today in the esse jf that i Positively cured by these Little Pill«. railway against Watson. I They »bo nllcre Du- lu July, 1866, congress granted the Itrv.'a troa» P.vspcpt-la. In- Onion Pacific Railway «•on.j any'» | digvsUou and Too llearty Kalliig. A perfect fi rn- southern branch, now tbe Missouri, rity 6 r IMzzlik'ss. Natwe». Kansas A Texas, a right of way 200 browslness. F id Piste feet wide from Fuit Riley to ttie south In tho M<nilti, (Ynted liue of the state. Aftt-rwaid patents Trvnipkx Pain In tile side TORPID UVF.IL They were ¡»sued to private persons ,ot tbe laud through which tbe railrua i runs, regulate tbe Bowi ts. Purely Vegetable. without excepting the railroad right SMALL PILL SMALL DOSE. SMALL PRICE. ot way these persona have treated Genuin« V..n Bear the right ot way as beiug only one Fac-Simile Sig axire hundred feet wiJe and iu s< is in ■ fTTlE -------- ■ states Vai «able luqroi •• .i euta have ■ IVER ■ pills . e BOLDLY LOOT RAILWAY TRAIN STORAGE OF EXPLOSIVSE Rogow, Nov. 9.—The Cossacks far have been unsccessful in their suit of the revolutionist train lob- tiers, utimbering one hundred well armed men, who at niue o'clock last night surrounded thia station and threw bombs at the mail ear of the train while tbe engine was lieing cliauged, derailed tbe car, robbed it and fled with a sum of money -aid to amount to $650,000. 1'tie station master declares tue rev olutionists are hidden ill the neigh boring foieste and are excellently dis ciplltied, their commander giving or ders through bugle signals. When the robbery was completed tbe revo lutionists, transporting tueir booty n two wagon*, marched otr in mili tary order, singing revolutionary songs. The matter of the stoiage of gaso- liue and dynamite withiu the city limits in greater quantities than al lowed by law is receiving the atten tion of the city authorities. Street Commissioner Turner was directed to make an investigation at the stores where these explosives are sold, and found that the limit, ten gallons of gasoline mid 100 pounds of dynamite, is exceeded at several places. The city council will probably take some action at the regular meet ing next Monday evening. A storage house outside the city limits is badly needed. WORTH MILLIONS SICK HEADACHE CARTERS ITTLE IVER PILLS. CARTERS each «ide. • SHAFTER DIED OF PNEUMONA AR BAKERSFIELD TO FORM LAW FOR CURRENCY Bakersfield. Nov. 12.—At 9 a. ni. a bulletin was issued from the Mc- Kittrick ranch, where Major General Shafter has been stopping, that all hope for his recovery! s abandoned Shafter died at 12:45 p. ni. W ashington. Nov. 12 \ commit tee representing the American Bank er»' Xssociation .he and New York Chamber of Comerce met here today In an »ndeavor to frame a measure 1 here's grave danger from the plagtu for the consideration of congress, of Coughs and Colds that are so prev unless y >u take l»r. King's looking to the relief of the financial alent, N«n Discovery for Consumption, stringency. The suggested plan is Coughs and Colds. Mr-. Geo. Walls, to provide in a general way for ap of Forest City Me., writes: ‘‘it's a pointment by the president, with th” Godsend to people living in climates I approval of the senate, of a commis where coughs and Colds prevail. find it quickly euds them. Il pre sion of seven members, of w hom the vents Pneumonia, cures. I.agrippe. controller of m. • nev w III be one. gives wonderful relief in Asthma and Hay Fever, makes weak lungs strong • enough to ward otf Consumpti n. t , • e com no dee coiv mission Guarantee<i by W. L, Delano's drug I interstate over transportati n laws. .store. Trial bottle flee. Danger From Plague O : Young Nick or St. Nick? • •»»••••••••••••••••••••••• Heads or Tails For Uve ------ ------------------------------------- . (Original.] i- ’-»ss»--; Alice Wreu was a witch. It'» ,, In the ol '.en days, when New York was New Amsterdam, there lived on lar that when we apply the tiu one of the streets fronting tbe llud old woman we menu a hag. aU(J son river an old Dutchman named we apply It to a young gin ,Vp "2® Mice Wouter van Gaasback. W outer was something fascinating. San Jose, Nov. 12.—Three men ’ distinguished, like most of his tel lo*v young girl. She had no end of were killed and several persons in citizens, for the number ot breeches and was always trying to see how t jured by the explosion ot an engine he wore and bis thick skull. He was •he could go with any of them with^ on the southbound Sunset Limited a widower having an only daughter. beiug caught In a matrimonial on the Southern Pacific at Sargent s Anneke, who kept house for him. Un She did not draw them by her wii ‘ ’ like most of the Dutchmen of those there was no necessity for that station last night. The dead: Joseph Goodfellow, su days, Wouter would not touch schnapps she would agree to marry ’hem 0L i possible conditions. The Ctmseque perintendent of the Southern Pacific n /r would be smoke a pipe. In all New was that when she at last met a m’ Amsterdam there was not so circum block system: Samuel Gillespie, en who Inspired her with rt least i gineer of the train; Janies Bladon, spect a man. Van Gaasback's house was the third certainty, she had formed a habit fireman. The bodies of Goodfellow in a row of houses all standing with toying with lovers that made her,, and Gilespie were almost blown to their gable ends to the street, while in more reckless with this one. When Walter Trask proposed he fragments. the fifth lived young Nicholas Vesey, a The train was going at the rate of gay, light hearted young fellow and treated tlie same as the otheri' fifty miles an hour when the explo- the favorite of the village. Nick and lie was not refused outright ¡: Anneke grew up side by side and could was laughingly given a conundrum'- sion occurred. solve. If he solved It lie had won- r None of the passengers were seri- not remember the time when they had not he had lost. He coldly admit’ ously hurt, although a panic fol- not loved each other. But as to get that he had no brains for puzz’- ting the consent of the girl ’ s father to lowed the explosion and sudden stop their union, that was impossible. The and since the task was impossible > ping of the train. Not e old man would as soon have wed bls moat give up tte prs daughter to a cask of Holland gin as accustomed to Lave her suitors give • FIFTY IMMIGRANTS to the young Nick, who, if he wished up so easily, Alice was piqued, but KILLED IN COLLISION. to sit late at night nt the tavern mois Trask did not bite at any of the I, ■ Valparaiso, Ind., Nov. 12.—Fifty tening his clay, would not scruple to do she held out to biui she found no . out of 167 immigrants on a Balti so. Not that he was a confirmed tip portunity for revenge. Finally, when her eyes snapping with mischief. , more & Ohio passenger train which ster, for he was as abstemious as any told him she would decide for or man iu the town except Anneke's fa collided head-on with a freight at against him by spinning a coin, he Woodville, ten miles north of here ther. Nicholas had often applied to dared that that was a proposition ! - the old man for his daughter, always today, are missing and it is believed could understand and assented. Ta1 that bodies were consumed in the to receive the same reply. iug a penny from his pocket, be "Vas my dachter to marry a man tire which destroyed six coaches of her whether "beads” or "tails" me You that spends his nights trinkin’? “yes,” but she declined to use a-”, the immigrant train. go vay. You never git Anneke.” The passenger train was bound for Now, this was very hard on the lov coin for her decision except a si!-, - Chicego and the accident caused by ers—as hard as it was unjust. Nick dollar that she had long kept in the freight crew failing to observe was a carpenter by trade and during treasure box. She went for It. and shewed It to the applicant for ter their signals. A number of the in working hours a very industrious hand to prove that all was fair. Walter young man. It was rather his light jured were taken to Chicago hos looked it over and, seeing nothing i.n- hearted ways that prejudiced the old pitals by special a train. usual about It, handed it back to her. The train crews escaped with the man, who was as sour as Nick was “If It falls head up,” she said, “I am amiable. exception of one fireman killed. Im yours; If tails, I am not yours." One night Van Gaasback came home migrants consisted of Russian Jews, from attending a town meeting, and Going to a highly polished table, she Servians and Poles en route to the when he stepped at his own door he removed everything from It and set Northwest. was astonished. lie had built the the coin spinning on it. It whirled fir bouse himself and had put a door in :t a long while, then gradually settled down tails up. MISSOURI PACIFIC FAST unlike most of the doors ot that tiina. "Best two in three," said Walter. M \l*. TRAIN WRECKED. It was not cut horizontally in the "Anything to please you," she re Chicago, Nov. 12.—Two coaches middle. His astonishment came from plied. and spun It again. It settled seeing a cut door. Wondering bow ho and the sleeping cars on the Missouri down as before. Pacific fast mail from Kansas City could have mistaken his house, to “Best three in five,” he pleaded. were thrown from the track near which he could go at any time with h;s | The operation was repeated, and eyes bandaged, lie went out to the Eureka, Mo., today. E.even passen again the reply was “no.” street for a look, and bis wonder grew gers were injured. Walter begged for one more chanre to amazement when he saw that tbe house was the third in the row aud or best five In nine. She granted his RUNAWAY ENGINE must be bis. Collecting his faculties request, declaring as she did so that CAUSED Mi l II l> IMAGE. with an effort, lie went back into nis i another spin. If tails, would be a final Detroit, Nov. 12.—One man was yard and looked again at tbe door. It decision. She twirled tbe coin, and Walter asked to ex killed and several injured when a was cluing *. sure enough. His heart, tails it was. amine the coin again, but she refuse! Michigan Central freight engine ran which had never beeu known to beat him and took it away. away and crashed into ’he Third faster than forty to the minute, rose That afternoon Robbie, Alice's broth street depot, tearing down a large at once to sixty. Up went bln band to er. aged nine, came along whistling his head for a scratch, tbe only way section of the structure, and killing be knew to collect his faculties. Had ■The Girl I Left Rcir :d Me,” and Wv George R. Booth, of Detroit, who St. Nicholas been around changing ter agreed to give him a dollar bill If were in the parcel room, also injur the doors? Had lie ulso changed the he would exchange a silver dollar fir ing several railroad men who were locks? Wouter tried his great Iron j the one his sister kept in her treasure in the station. key. but it did not At. There was ' l>ox. Bobbie proved doubly com;: nothing for him to do put knock for ¡Die. He accepted Walter's bribe, but information, so, seizing the knocker, not being able to get into the box of- he gave a loud rap. A bead was 1 fered to divide with his sister if s’ae thrust out of a window above, and a would unlock It. Then he accepted a woman's voice asked what was want bribe from her to take her coin to hr lover and keep her knowledge of It 1 ed. "Is this my house?” asked the puz secret. Walter on receiving tbe silver dollar tested it to see if it were loaded, zled man. but found It an honest piece of money. “Your house? Who are you?” Then he brought a microscope «•» bear “Wouter van Gaasback.' “What's the matter with you. Wou on it and discovered that a Sue tile ter van Gaasback, to be coming to try had lieen drawn lightly over tbe bev New York, Nov. 12.—Mrs. Russel house at tbe dead o' night in this fix? eled edge on the head side. This call Sage will give away the bulk of the I can smell the gin on you even i'p ed it when spun on a smooth surface fortune of eighty millions bequeath here. And you opposing my son's to slip on this side and throw tails c; ed by her husband, to individuals marriage with your daughter because Walter bribed Bobbie to take It ba<» whom she considers worthy, who you call him a sot! Go hytue and go to the box and say nothing. Tbe lover's next object was to per through no fault of their own need to bed.” suade Alice to make a new dec:- - "This is the third house in the row assistance and are too proud to ask on the fall of a coin furnished by hir and mine,” said Wouter doubtfully. for it. It will not be given to en "It's the third one way and the sev | He expected a refusal, but was iu- dow churches nor to those writing enth the other. Y’ou must be awful ' prised nt a granting of tbe boou v begging letters. Mrs. Sage says she drunk.” j condition that Alice should l>e perm: will do all she can, however, for The window was put down with a ted to examine the coin. Walter sb -1 struggling churches and institutions bang. Wouter began to believe that he ed her a new silver half dollar. 8h- devoted to the care of the needy and had lieen stricken with some mental examined it and. handing It back, sa.-- “Tails you win; heads you lose." sick. malady aud without waiting longer Walter's face fell, lie bad tiled :■ went off to find a doctor u bo lived on coin so as to throw heads up N’t Bowling Green. No sooner had he gone than the ing to acknowledge the frat 3 bouse was astir. Nick Vesey took the tbe coin, knowing that lie must ■ door off the hinges and put up the door and he did lose. If Alice Wrenn bad known wbe that belonged to tlie bouse His moth er came downstairs, and, both bidding she wanted Walter Trask or not - Anneke good night, they shut tbe door might have acted accordingly, Owasso. Nov. 12.—Bert Seeley, un knowing it. she permitted herself ta aud went home. der suspicion in connection with the In less than an hour back came Van drawn on in a game that t"f> c • murder of Edwin Garwin in West Gaasback with a doctor, who carue play. Walter, not feeling equai to u Haven last Wedneslay, was found with him to see If his own door was task (or being too lazy, consult!- dead in bed today and lying beside in position. Finding tbe door in Its professional gambler. Tlie gentles---• him was his young wife, also dead. proper place and Wouter recognizing gave Walter two silver dollars It is the opinion that the couple it as such, the doctor turned upon him left him feeling that he was quite for having taken too much schnapps ble of using them to advantage committed suicide. Edgar and Seeley had quarrelled and bringing him from a xvarni bed on ertheless be went home and si'1 good two hours practicing cb-i - ■ a fool's errand. a number of times and last Thursday Van Gaasback. who saw that unless one for the other. Edgar s body was found in the road The next time he went to see A the secret could tie kept his reputation near his home with a bulet in his would lie ruined, gave rhe doctor a he bantered her to let him make head. good fee to keep It and the uext morn trial witli a silver dollar of his J’"” ing before breakfast went to Mrs. Ve decide If the fates decreed that be Butte. Nov. It).—Ail large mining sey's and asked her what would buy to lose her. She consented, lie ’ corporations of Butte today posted silence from her. He was conscious ed her a new silver dollar, ami ’ , , uotice that beginning November 15th of having been perfectly sober, but amlned It. “Heads you win," she said, b.in -- . with two witnesses against him he wage, of all uudergtousd mtn would could not hope to establish bis case. It back. It api>eared to be a gen be increased from $3*50 to $3.75 a day. The good wor"an told him that her son coin that had uot l>een tampered » At Anaconda and at ¿Great Falls was pining for his daughter and bis She was ready to give him snieltermen were notified that all re daughter was pining for her son, who chances. . . Walter suddenly started and ceiving less than «3 a day would re had never been drunk in his life. If the old man would cease his opposition out of the window. Alice 1 ’> e ceive a similar advance. to tbe wedding she would agree not to same way. He changed tlie com. Chas. H. Chick. Constance Morton tell a single person in the village that its doubie. and every time it and Everett P. La » ¡a, of Grand Rap Y an Gaasback had made a beast of heads. Tie had won. ids. Mivh., who have been buying himself. The okl man, who saw dls- Alice tried to snatch the coin, large tracts of Lane county timber Itrsce staring him tn the face, was glad the struggle Walter got her a eery and too» a betrothal lands recently, have just added 2240 to purchase silence at tbe price. Nick Vesey became a great favorite she agreed to k< • ;> ’■ v. acres to their holdings, tbe deed har ing beeu tiled for record today. This with his father-in-law snd in time con- would tell her how he bad do fesse.1 bow he bad changed the doors trick. He produce.1 three tract lies in »ownship 17. 4 east, on Tbe old mm looked at him skeptically th« Upper McKenzie. Tbe land •nd shook his head. one a sport !'■ •''■ „ .. w as owned by tbe Washburn -........ * - < ■ >reg ■«-» t*. **-p "Naw1 e said, "it va« not you. It ■ spurious double taller The ' Timbet Co., i and * was purchased fur T*4 Nicholas.” haga been u-"I if ' ......... ..... ‘ • BERTHA D HURL» HELEN V. TURNER, MRS. SAGE WILL GIVE FORTUNE TO THE NEEDY SUSPECTED MAN COMMITS SUICIDE I Pubi Su of P year Ei post I Tb or c act < Wee W. J. G< •Dii Noi been cat ii Gua otfei AU vatic only cboi Kep ralis Tl and iea a is oi fain Wes Si tbei prêt Tl iaed tbei in fart and fir ' the ogre and as o Tl viti at * M cati L utt p«p, this Ion; tbe scat on t tbe com Tl moi ”qi full by pre| in t T *‘wi «ka cue 0)0’ T «vii aga wbi Veil rea, ity bu; 8 ter thr ard »ui' 1 •li aia mo of 1 da; ¡ill •U Io tin th K. be ari ♦> <i<j