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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
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nv”;
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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.