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About Eugene weekly guard. (Eugene, Or.) 190?-1910 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 29, 1906)
y € Vol. 39 No. 84 EUGENE, OREGON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER. 29 1906 The Store That’s Doing the Business DEMANDED Friday and Saturday 60 LADIES TAILORED SUITS, sizes from 32 to 42, Gray Tans. Brown and Black prices ranging from $12.50 to $20.00 per suit, your choice fot $7.75 Ladies’ Cravenetts^ $12.50 grade for____ _______ ___ . $ I0.00 Ladies Cravenetts, $10.00 grade for ___________________ $8.30 Ladies’ Cravenetts, $25.00 grade for____ ____________ $19.00 Big sale on all Furs. We carry the largest stock in the city. Gordon and Ferguson make. 100 Cushion Tops, with backs, regular 50c. grade, sale a'e price 39c each 100 Doll Bonnets________ ¡Oc each L nv”; • -, r Gents’ Department 25 Overcoats, 54-in long, $8.00 grade for----------------- - $6.50 25 Sweaters, white Oxford, red and black, $5.00 grade $3.50 50 Boy's Sweaters, all colors, for 50 and 75c each 100 doz. Men's Cashmere Hose for 25c Pr Watch for our Christmas Announce ment next week Copyright 1906 bv Hart Schaffner £? Marx HAMPTON BROS. ...CASH STORK-» KILLED IN MANY WERE KILLED MUTINY ÛN MORE WERE INJURED OF OIL KING OCEAN LINER IN ST. LOUIS FIRE » Demented Woman Succeeded in Get- tidg Check From Standard With Aid of RevolvarBut Paymsnt wa,. opped--Woman Lands in In- sane Asylum New York. November 2 8 Charged with threatening to kill John I) Rockefeller unless he paid her $1,000.000. Mr*. Rose Beauvois Hi nfleld, aged 40 years, was arrest 'd In front of the offices of the warrant Issued by a police luagi" Hate At the district attorney's of flee Mrs Hantield stud that her hu- band had been in the oil business atid had been ruined by the Standard Oil Company She is charged with having forced her way into the of flee of Rockefeller’s secretary Iasi Friday and threatened if he did not get her a million forthwith she would kill Rockefeller and burn down the building the company's offices is in it is charged that she displayed a re volver. Some one in the office mad out a check for $ I ,000,000, drawn t< Mrs Ilandtield's order and payable at the Guardian Trust Company., Sh. accepted it and was followed to the Trust Company's office, which In the meantime hud been notified not to cash the check. The cashier of the Guardian Trust Company made th' excuse that he had not a million on hand and told the woman to return Wednesday. in the meantime the warrant was issued. When arraigned the woman said she had tried to save Rockefeller’s If It took soul and would do it "blood atonement.” She had a re volver and said she was a "saint of (he sun, moon and water.” Her hue band is foreman of a trunk factory and never had any relations with the Standard. He said his wife had been acting queerly of late. She was sent to the hospital for oil orvat ion. Row Started Over the Passing of Fire Destroyed Salvation Army Hotel at Early Morning Hour. 02769646 Jumped From Windows and Two Are Dead and Several More Dying-Second Serious And Fa tal Fire Suffered By Salvation Army Within the Last Two Months Four men Nov 2 S to death and probably injured In a Are th« the 40 ; on bv th* noti lloW I to <loor Some Coal and Fireman Was Struck on Head Captain Evans and Otticers Subdued Rioters With Revolvers X.'w York. Nov 2s. One fireman wns killed and live Injured in a mu tiny aboard the Mallory liner San Ja cinto. »hi' h occurred on Monday The dead man was anted n Pleto Molar. a. and deuth resulted from a blow on the head Emanuel Con clorn wa arrested for the murder The mutiny occurred when the steamer was rounding Cape Hatteras It war. only at the from Galveston qolnt of their guns that Captain Evant and other officers of the vessel The row subdued the fighters started over the passing of some about u dozen persons coal and Tlie murderer and live were Injured other men were iirrested oil the arrt- vol of the vessel at this port. \<>TI loss the S Washlngton, Nov. 28. Senator Burrows, chairman or the committee <>u privilege« and elections, said to- diiv that 111- would cull up tlie case of Senator Smoot, of Utah, at the first opportunity lie added that he hop ed to get a vote soon, possibly before the holldav recess. GENERAL ELECTRIC CO M1Y 8JÍ0ÜT W. V. CO. The Guard is reliably Informed who the new owners will be Alioth that the Willamette Valley Company er man In dose touch with tile af fairs of the company says that a cor is about to sell Its electric, water Iteration with millions of capital Is and gas plants to the Portland Gen exepeted to soon take charge of the ccal Electric Company, and that th< lo< al plants, but w ould say nothing transfer will take place within th' further. The rumor that the Port next three mouths. Efforts io con land €(,> . IlHLjSiiU1 "JTlrm the report have been unsuccess field has been persistent and tile CARI NW’H Atti SER publicity to it for IS .MRS. STANHOPE ful, local officials of the Willamette Guard gives worth. th. larger Valley Company declining to make what It is New York, Nov 28. The Even a statement on the subject, but a concern lias recently purchased the Ing World says the woman who prominent employe of the company Salem electric plant and It may be gave her name as Hannah Graham however, Is authority for the state that It plans to own a circuit of and who failed to appear to prosecute I no nt that a change in ownership I plants as the Willamette Valley Com the singer, Caruso, Is Mrs. Stanhope, about to take place, but didn't know patty now does. wife of Adam Stanhope, the base- i ball player. It quotes Mrs. Stan hope as saying there was no ques tion but that the insult was offered by Caruso Intentionally. She did not know he was Caruso at the tlm< and did not want to make a com plaint, but did so because Police man Cain said the man had Insulted other women there that day and h wanted to lock him up. New York. Nov. 2 8. Charges thai St. Louis, Nov 28 The federal Louis F. Payne, when superlntendem grand Jury today returned two In of insurance, demanded $100,00< dlctments on a total of 72 count, from the Mutual Reserve Life insur «gainst the Waters-Pierce Company, ance Company under the threat of charging the company with having I'pper Sandusky, O., Nov. 28.—Th< showing the company Insolvent, and accepted rebates and discriminated coroner’s verdict Is that Mrs. Henry that President Frederick A. Burn In legal freight rates on shipments Harman and daughter, Mary, were ham had said that he had paid of oil. In violation of the Interstate victims of murder and suicide. He Payne $40,000, were made by As commerce law and the Elkins act. says that the daughter killed herself slstant District Attorney Mott today and her mother with morphine. It in the trial of George 11 Burnham was at first believed they were a- Jr., who was indicted, together with phyxiated by escaping gas In their Frederick A. Burnham, Jr , forme room. counsel for the Mutual Reserve Life Herkimer, N. Y , Nov.- 28.—The Insurance Company, and George D prosecution rested this afternoon and Eldridge, vice president of the com a motion to discharge Gillette was general news notes . party, for misappropriation of th' denied by th e court. Gillette went on the stand In his own de/ense. He Ex-Governor Frank W. Hunt, of funds of the company. testefled that Grace Brown jumped Idaho, Is dead at Goldfleld, Nevada. overboard. He was sitting In tb< He went there re- of pneumonia stern of the boat, and when he tried centi, to look after mining Inter- WHOLE FAMILY IN l-OISOM.I» BY WNENH to reach Miss Brown the boat upset. este. San Francisco, Nov. 18. It is of ficially announced from the South Pacific States Telephone A Telegraph Company that a new company Is to lie formed to take over the stock of the old corporation. The new com- paiiv's capital will lie $50,000,000 and it will Issue bonds and extend its lines lu California, Oregon,Wash- I Ington, Idaho and Nevada. INSURANCE OIL COMPANY OFFICIAL PAID IS INDICTED ON TO KEEP STILL MANY COUNTS H. L Plttock, of the Oregonian, when a young man paid $300 for i □lock In Portland. Now, v’ttoiu. an) thing on It of any value, belt.g <ov- cred wlth old shark« It Is worth $750,000, and he ha« been offered $20.000 a year for ninety-nine years for the use of the ground. The federal grand jury of Idah'» just before adjourning at Moscow. ' brought In a true bill against Will iam Dollar, a wealthy banker and I timber operator of Coeur d'Alene, his nephew, named Preston, of the ' same place, and a German named Sluwser, who Ilves near Hayden l^ke. In Kootenai county. The charge I understood to be conspiracy to de- fraud the government of timber Auburn, Nov 28 After a month’s Investigation, the physicians and chemists have determined that th' peculiar sickness of the family of William F Walt, a merchant, 1» due to arsenical poisoning Sufficient [wilson In the foodstuffs used by the family to produce death was found, but no proof to Indicate the author of the crime. Four members of th«' family and sevrai servants were among the victima. Mr Walt and his son are still very 111. A crowd of students who were unable to go to Portland today and calling themselves the "busted bunch.” cheered the excursionist- i with yells and song» at the depot ■ this Afternoon. »IX Marriage licenses were Issued this afternoon to the following Wm R. Pirtle and Hattie M Barnard; George E. Neet and Mary A Sharon; Wiley Maxwell and Clara B. Sly; Forrest C. Drury and Malva P. Buchanan; Chas. W Powell and Mrs Emm Roberts 01,1 »EST BAITINT PltEAt HER IN DEAD Cambridge, Ma»» , Nov. $8 —Rev I William A. Ifowc. a centenarian and the old-s* Baptist clergyman tn th. I world, died today at his home in this ' city. CALIFORNIANS NELL Nan Francisco, Nov. 18. A special dispatch to the Call front Sacramento sayH that the Mexican government has called upon Governor Pardee to atop the sale of firearms by citizens of this state to the Yaqul Indians now In rebellion against the Mexican authorities In the state of Sonora. There Is no state law covering ths matter, but the governor will its« every endeavor to stop the traffic. Hundred Miles of I astern Oregon to lie Built—Evidence That Klamath I alls I.ine Is Soon to lie Completed l>, Southern Pacific. Klamath Falls, Or , Nov 28. Ma son, Davis & Co., ot Portland, con tractors of the flrst unit of the Klam ath project, hnve Mmred the flrat big contract on the Klamath Kalla end of th'1 Oregon Eastern railroad, said to be for a stretch of 100 miles. Archie Mason, who has had personal direction of the work here. Is now on the way to Portland to confer with his partners and officials of the road. It Is stated, on what Is appar ently authentic Information, and ar rangement are being made for a vigorous winter campaign. Awarding of the contract Is evi dence that the intention of the maa* a • rnent of the Harriman system la to complete the entire line from Na tron to Klamath Falls during 1907, and mak the through route by way of Weed a realization as soon as the Hr., is finished to this point, which will be about August. The contract was given to the Portland firm some time since, bat It has not been made public for rea sons satisfactory to the railroad of ficials. Plans fur labor are well for mulated. IJirge quantities ot forage have been purchased In order to keep 4< h k now on the canal St work through the winter in this vicinity, and If the weather is favorable, much progress may be made. Considerable stone work is to be done, and will be let to contractors, It la understood.