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About Eugene weekly guard. (Eugene, Or.) 190?-1910 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 21, 1906)
THE ENE WEEKLY GE EUGENE, OREGON, THUKSDAY, DECEMBER, 21 ¡906 A STUDY IN EVOLUTION. Half Price Sale CHINA GROWS MORE ACOTE PRESS OF FRANCE IS PLEASED Monday on Christmas Goods Rioting and Birgandage Is Resulting From Conditions of Starvation. Government Is Providing Work on Large Scale For Those Who are Destitute Adoption of Government Church and and State Separation Bill Cause ot Gratification to All Concerned American Catholics Will Assist Brethren Washington, Dec. 22 - Consul General Rodgers, of Shanghai, today cabled the state department "Klangpet famine conditions dally growing worse and brigandage and rioting in the adjacent districts are resulting, because of which a ver/ dangerous state of affairs is ant let pated by the officials. The Chinese government will probably provide work on a grand scale for the desti tute hordes, as immense numbers are unquestionably starving. The sickly, afflicted and old are left in the famine district and refugees con centrated in adjacent cities, where they are poorly provided for. ' Parts, Dec 22.—The entire Repub lican press expresses the greatest sat isfaction in the adoption by a vote of 413 to 186 of the government's bill amending the church and state aep- ■ ration law of 1905. The papers all dwell with special gratification on the fact that the various republican the gov In prehistoric day. w. nra told that Strang, looking, puffing, snorting dragon, groups unitedly supported flaw through th. air, which in our tim. ...m. to hav. .volvad Into th. .p..d ernment In the new step which it felt compelled to take, in view of the m.d autoiat. Walker in Pueblo Chieftain. intransigeance of the Vatican author ities. The opposition organs Indulge in a most venomous denunciation of the new measure. It isn’t often that you have the op- ? portunity of attending a sale of this kind on such seasonable merchandise as we will offer Monday at half the This sale at this time regular price is to demonstrate what cash buying for you Think proposition over and come down Mon- “A Surprise Sale” wont be ir. it for a New York. Dec. 22.— Mrs Alice L. McWithey and two children were burned to death in a fire which de stroyed their home at Pompton Lakes, New Jersey, today. It -will be more than a sur- month prise Sale ..Indian Baskets.. ..Dolls.. The largest and best assort ment of Indian Goods ever brought to Eugene. All sizes from the largest of clothes baskets to the tiny hand baskets. Prices Monday cut in two. Big assortment of dolls from the best doll makers in the country; they arejin- cluded in Our Half Price Sale Monday. ..Mittens.. Ladies’ and Misses' Mittens ARMY OFFICER SHOT BY NE6R0 knit from all wool yarn some thing that makes a very seasonable Xmas present, 25c values, Monday ... 10c GORDON ®> FERGURSON Makes, None are Better Men’s Smoking Jackets y2 Price Monday Fancy Suspenders, Ties, Arm Bands, Hosiery. Shirts, Handker chiefs, Mufflers, Suit Cases. Jewelry of all kinds, Gloves. Um brellas, Over Coats, and Clothing all make good Xmas presents Hampton Bros CASH STORE The protest continues: Philadelphia, Dec 22.— William 8 , "These secret clans do not heaitate Sinclair, president, and N. F. Mos- sell, secretary of the local branch of to assassinate United States govern the Constitutional League, today merit officials, They or« supported sent a lengthy message to President by white people and have very re- Roosevelt, denouncing his action in ■ cently seized and lynched a prisoner ibn mernbev-s-of the Twen-1 who was in the custody of the su CAR SHORTAGE CLOSES COAL MINES All reiQOve A V ' t n EKS . h-l IT , d »atro r r I of habog, j un.leij i .Ian' o FALLING SHAFT Carlyle, 111 , Dee. 22. The cage In the Breeze Trenton Mining Compa ny's shaft dropped early today, kill ing six men and Injuring one. An explosion occurred In the mine and the cage fell, burying all the occu- pants In the debris at the bottom of the shaft It Is believed that the miners were drowned in the sump at the bottom of the shaft If not killed by the fall The sump in this mine contained fif A. K. Knapp, of the firm of Knapp teen feet of water. Efforts are being k Nobel, has received a letter from made to reach the cage, but no hope P H Kyllo, of Blue River, says the Is held out that the miners are alive Oregon City Star Mr. Kyllo Is an experienced miner, and has been em w T h I’W'T ed make buiwerh AHE I'NIIEH AHHEHT ployed by the Crown Boys Mining k Milling Company to conduct their operations. He writes to Mr. Knapp that they have just started on the seend one hundred feet of the tunnel. The miner speaks In terms of much encouragement and says the mine Is a wonder and prospects fine • It is a fine layout for a smelter as the mine has a big ore chute. The rock is rather hard at present, but on the beginning of the second one hunderd feet ¡1 tends toward running into good stuff.’’ Mr Kyllo went on to say that the Crown Boys mine Is no doubt the best mine tn the Blue River district today, and chances are that the ore will show In great quality. Samples of the ore are ex pected now at any alme thn ♦>n ac- El Keno, Okla.,., Dec. 22. tain Macklin, of Cempany C, fifth Infantry, was shot by a man last night, but may There is no trace of the won ■assin and bloodhounds ar a trail. Macklin is positive I was a negro, but know« n< for the assault. Minneapolis, Minn., The Mississippi Valley Lumberman today states that a number of shingle and lumber manufacturers on the Pacific coast have under way steps looking toward an application for re ceivers for certain roads on the ground that the roads have forfeit ed their charters through Inefficient service. at 'A off Monday Help from ls.ulsb.iia. New Orelans, Dec. 22 An offer of imcunlary assistance to the French clergy from the Catholic clergy of Louisiana was mailed last night to I Cardinal Richard, archbishop of Paris. otwkt tnc WANT RECEIVERS FOR RAIL Furs COLORED LEAGUERS PROTEST TO PRESIDENT Los Angeles, Dec 22.—Manager Edison, of the Electric Company, has received a telegram from Bakersfield that the rewuers have penetrated the tunnel In which Miner Hicks has been a prisoner for more than two weeks, and that he will be brought out within a few hours. Illcks can already see daylight and Is encour aging his rescuers to greater efforts. Spokane. Dec. 22.—Twe men, giv ing their names aa Thomas Blair and Frank Havlln, were arrested here to day on luspicion of being the safe blowers who have been operating In this late recently. Jewelry and dia monds to the value of 2250 wer j found in their possession MAHTEH MECHANIC KIPP AND WIFE KILLED El Paao, Dec 22.- Master Mechan ic Kipp, of the American Smelter and Refining Company » «meltor hrre.and wife were found unconscious and ap parently dying in the wre k of their automobile. It is supposed they were struck by a Southern Par lite train mall exchanged between them WHITE ON BOTH olltl.H OE PONTAI. CARD 1 Therefore from the date of this or der, post cards conforming to the March 1 the new ruling on postal I provisions of the Rome «invention, cards goes into effect The order Is i when mailed In foreign countries and explained by Postmaster Cortelyou 1 fully prepaid by postage stamps, will in these words: "The universal po» be delivered to addresses In the additional tai convention recently concluded tn Cnited Staten without the city of Rome provides for the {charge for postage, and on and after admission to the malls, exchanged ! March 1, 1207, such cards bearing a lii-tween all countries of the postal written message upon the left half union, on and after October 1, l»07, of the front, the right half being of post cards bearing messages writ reserved for the address and post- ten upon the left half of the front mBrk. «hen fully prepaid by po«- of the cards, and as such cards ar* 1 tage stamps at the rate applicable to now admitted at the postage rate | post cards, shall be admitted both at applicable to poet cards, both to the I domestic and International malls of domestic malls of certain principal phis «»untry and treated as post countries of the nnlon and to tee cards GENERAL NEWH NOTES. A largn trac» of prairie land near El Paso, Texas, is gradually sinking, and a lake Is forming The water Is already three feet deep and seems to be increasing. Another portion of the crater of Mt. Vesuvius fell in Thursday, and caused a big eruption of sand. It was immediately followed by a num ber of small earthquakes. President Roosevelt Is exerting his efforts to have the break tn the Colo rado river repaired as soon aa possi ble by the California Development Company. Switchmen employed by the Northern Pacific. S. P Co. and O It g N. have been granted an Increase in wages Freight rates on flour and wheat between Pacific Northwest ports and the orient have been cut 11 per ton to Shanghai and 60 cents per ton t<> Hongkong and Japanese ports *» iK Ann»* Myert», r the mui- HENRY ANKENY DIED TODAY AT PORTLAND Promment Pioneer of Oregon and Resident of Eugene Passes Away After a Long Illness From Drop sy-Funeral Will Be Held Mon day Henry K. Ankeny, the Oregon pi oneer, whose home was In Eugene lor the past ten years, died tn Port land early this morning after a long Illness of dropsy. The news of hla death was received here In messages to several friends of the family, but no funeral arrangements have as yet been announced. Ills hosta of friends here and all over the state will be pained to hear of his demise. Henry E Ankeny was born In Vir ginia tn 1844, crossing the plains with his father and stepbrother In 1850 to Yamhill county. Oregon, For a time he was agent for the Wells-Fargo Company and engaged In merchandising. In 1866 he mar- rled Miss Cordelia Striker, of Van- couver. Wash He operated an ex press In the gold fields of Idaho, and later to the Frasier river gold fields, returning to Oregon in the early 70s. Later he operated the famous Ster «Ml HEMENTN ling mine tn Jac kson county for sev The approaching engagement of eral years and has been successfullv Gorton's Minstrels at the Eugene the and extensively engaged in banking atre Is looked forward to with pleas- During the past ten years he had re wre by lovers of this popular form of sided In Eugene. Mr. Ankeny's family consists f a amusement Gorton's Minstrels have long been regarded as one of wife and six children Frank E An the standard attractions which may keny. of Klamath Falls; Mrs. Johit always be depended upon to more C. Orth and Mrs. John Kramp, of than fulfill all promise«, and the ad Jacksonville; Mrs. Koacoe Cantrell, dition this season of .many new and of Klamath Falls; Mr». Alfred H. Inportant features Insures a per Miller, of Medford, and Miss Gladys formance of unusual excellence. A Ankeny, of Eugene. He waa a member of Eugene lodge street parade, unrivalled In Its mag nlficent and coetly equipment, will be No. 11, A. F * A. M , Eugene lodge given nt noon of Wednesday, Decem Knights Templar, and Portland Scot tish Rite and Mystic Shrine. ber 1«.
