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
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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
*»
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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«.