Eugene weekly guard., January 10, 1907, Image 2

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consideration pleasant, happy and enjoyable ball
‘------- ; those under
they atte:
at the Wycoff ranch
clamor for money from legislature- position, by purchase. If possible, and 'Among
are President E. D. Ressler, of the
on
New
Year
’
s
night, and we all ex­
that
falling
by
bribery
of
trusted
em
­
at recent sessions for higher educa­
State Normal School at Monmouth,
tend our tl. k ; to our hostess, Mrs.
ployes,
secret
railroad
rebates,
in
­
AN INDEPENDENT PAPER
and
Professor
Duulway,
of
Stanford
tion has resulted in too great a dis­
Emma Wyc ’, for her energies dis­
parity in th am >unt now going to the timidation of dealers handling other University. The Oregon Agricultu- played, her endeaver and efforts she
GUARD PRINTING CO., INC.
is
a
misfit
in
one
way.
ral
College
higher Institution of learning and the company products, and all else fail­
Pubi!, h-i»
Is maintained under the bestowed upon us in helping to cause
ing, to put the competition out of That is, it
to us the occasion of pleasantness,
published every Thursday,Eugene,Or. meagre salaries of the public school
name of an agricultural college while
teachers. A careful readjustment of business, selling oil at a loss in order in fact it is to a large extent a lit­ and leaving us in a state of mind
Subscription price, $1.50 per year the Appropriations in the name of to bankrupt the opposition. Discuss­ erary school, competing with the where some time in the future we
if paid in advance, $2 00 at eml of education is one of the important du­ ing it all the saintly John D. Rock- Stat University and state aided nor­ could recall the occasion with sweet
year.
1 efeller, with Uriah Heep mock hum­ mal schools. The waste of money ap­ recollections.
Entered at the Eugene. Oregon, ties devolving on the coming legisla­
propriated by legislature in the name
ture. Besides the eleemosynary in­ bleness, says he "bears no ill will to
postoffice as second-class matter
of education is illustrated in solic­
stitution of learning at Salem, the any one. and it is a great thing to itors from one state aided state in­
Agents for The Guard.
ÙÎ
(Special Correspondence.)
stitution going over the state trying
The following are authorized to state Is carrying a university, four think that this is so by the grace
Pleasant Hill, Jan. 3.—The basket
take arid receipt for subscriptions or normal schools and with the govern­ God." Were he living on hardest to turn prospective students from
transact other business tor The Daily
social at the Edenvale school house
fare like some of the men he has put 1 one state aided institution to an-
ment a state agricultural college "
and Weekly Guard:
on the 22d ult. was a success, the
I
another.
Cottage Grove- -W. C. Conner.
Albany, Or., Jan. 3.—That they
lout of business, instead of the pos-
program excellent, and the sale of
Creswell—J. L. Clark.
THU YEAR THAT BEGINS TODAY. sessor of hundreds of millions, he
are seeking only the same blessing
baskets netting about $25.
Coburg—Geo. A Drury.
Kill the Printing Graft.
The new year opens bright with might not talk so airily of the
The football banquet at the W. O. j which descended upon the apostles
i Salem Journal.)
THURSDAY, JANUARY 10
promise
W.
hall on the evening of December who went forth to preach after the
dif-
all
makes
a
|"grace of God.” It
Everybody knows that the print- 25th was one of the events of the
Prosperity has become a settled ference.
con-
ing and binding grafts of Oregon season. Covers were laid for eighty- ascension of Jesus Christ is the
OUR PREMIUM OFFERS
condition throughout the country and
worked
i
tention
of
the
religious
fanatics
who
have made individuals who
Notwithstanding lhat the Guard
four, the menu and decorations were
Those Mexican soldiers should be them enormously rich.
The
hns been enlarged and the cost of the fear of recurring financial panics
are
holding
foith
in
Albany,
elaborate, and altogether it was an
This has been a standing outrage occasion long to be remembered by name Tongues of Fire” comes from
publication materially Increased th! has almost been banished from the gilt-edged risks for life insurance.
Guard Printing Co makes a special thoughts of the people.
A week ago a band of the fero­ on the taxpayers of the state.
those who were so fortunate as to be the cloven tongues of fire which ap­
Everybody knows that a competent
offer to every new or old subscriber
peared on the heads of the apostles
has cious Yaqui Indians attacked and de­
An awakened conscience
present.
superintendent of this work can be
All who will pay one year In advance
J. D. Wilson and Professor Parker, as they tarried in the upper room, as
aroused the American people to a stroyed a Mexican village across th»
for the Weekly Guard at only $150
hired for $2500 a year.
of Woodburn, spent several days in ■ related in the Bible in verse 3 of
The superintendent of printing of
a year will tie given their choice of I sense of political corruption in high Rio Grande in Sonoma, murdering
this neighborhood last week. Mr. chapter 2 of the Acts.
the Twh-e-a week St Louis Repub­ | places of a chara<ter formerly over- ten women and children and carry­ the national government, with a hun­
These statements and others de-
Wilson and family resided here for
lic or the "Oregon Agriculturalist," looked and condoned. The movement ing off three women captives. After dred times as much responsibility,
many years previous to going to j scriptive of the origin of this strange
absolutely free for one year.
■ sect were vouchsafed yesterday by
for political reform
promises to two hours of murder, plunder, riot has a salary of only $3500.
Woodburn.
The Republic is one of the largest
The present system is giving a pre­
closed
her Mrs. Reese, the Oauland. Cal., wo­
grow and expand and bear fruit In and arson they retired, and fifteen
Mulkey
Miss Eva
and best family papers in America
mium to swell the printing and bind­
school at Enterprise last Friday. man, who came here from Salem to
and the "Oregon Agriculturist” Is i the betterment of all branches of gov­ minutes later soldiers from the fort ing.
She has gone to Portland, where she lead the local band of fanatics. She
one of the best and most practical ernment.
but two miles away put in an ap­
When put on a salary there will be
will accept a position in a real estate stated that their receiving of the un­
farm, fruit and stock papers in th
Locally as a state. Oregon seems pearance. While the Yaquis are said no temptation to lobby for swelling
office of her brother-in-law. She was known tongues is only parallel to the
West
to be entering an <-ra of great de­ to be human tigers in ferocity and big jobs of printing and binding.
accompanied by her nephew, W. J., Biblical story of how the apostles
Subscribers, old or new, may take
As-all know, an industrious lobby­
velopment. in which Lane county is deadly shots with the rifle, there is no
¡who
will visit for a time in the me- all began to speak in different lan­
tlielr choice of either pajier as a pre­
ist can swell these jobs 200 per cent
guages and went forth to preach to
a city blds fair excuse for the soldiers not meeting
sharing,
j
tropolis.
mium.
by judicious padding in the legisla­
M. M. Gilbert and family have re­ the nations, understanding the ton-
progress during the enemy.
Those who failed to get the prom­ to make
Only an approaching ture.
turned to Walterville. after spending gues with which they had been gift-
ised premium magazines will be giv­
with extensive public railroad work train scared the In­
ed.
the holidays with relatives here.
en their choice of either of these pa­ land private improvements planned
A Colossal Joke.
dians away.
The strange rites in which the>
Rev.
Emmons,
late
from
Iowa
and
pers In place of the magazines with­
(Albany Democrat.)
for early tarrying out. Among these
indulge is merely the “receiving of
an
old
schoolmate
of
Dean
Sander-
out further cost by sending their
One of the most colossal jokes ever
A press dispatch says Professor
i son , of the Eugene Divinity School, j the "Pentecost,” according to Mrs.
numes and uddresses to this office. the building of a street and inter-ur­
perpetrated Is that Jonathan Bourne • has been engaged as pastor of the Reese's explanation.
She says the
I
Leduc,
of
Nantes,
has
produced
liv
­
ban
electric
railway,
already
begun,
So far we have been unable to com­
in the East claims that he did not Christian church of this place. He apostles of the Bible times received
pel the Eastern publishers to keep I | h most notable, while of scarcely less ing plants from artificial seeds. Sul-
spend a dollar to get the senatorship. recently held revival meetings at it the same way. This Pentecostal
their agreement In regard to the : Import Is the almost certainty of the i phate of copper and glucose were
Great Annanias!
Springfield, which resulted in more blesing was lost for several hundred
magazines, and feel the disappoint­
beginning of modern street paving combined in seeds or pellets and 1
than
fifty additions to the church, years, she says, because of a divis­
ment as keenly as our subscribers.
LORANE ITEMS.
; planted in a liquid bed composed of
and is at present holding protracted ion and wrangling in the churches,
The Weekly Guard Is still clubbed A splendid postoffice building and ex­
and the sect is now gettin.'; back to
with the Semi-Weekly Oregon Jour­ tensive Improvements at the state gelatine, ferro-cyanure of potassium
services at Jasper.
(Special Correspondence.)
Biblical principles.
nal, at $2 25 a year for both papers.
The
W.
O.
W.
held
an
informal
so
­
university may also be added to the and sea salt. It is asserted that real
Lorane. Jan. 3 —Nearly all of Lo-
Ubbe Peters, the German farmer
Mall all remittances and communi­ list of achievements that the coming living plants are produced in this
cial gathering at their hall today,
rane's absent boys spent Christmas
who received his "Pentecost” in a
cations to
the
male
contingent
making
needed
year will witness.
way. The seed germinates, sprouts at home.
improvements on and enlarging the I wierd seance last Friday night, still
GUARD PRINTING CO .
Everybody enjoyed the school en-
But after all, as a community and and develops into a plant resembling
Efforts of his
Eugene, Oregon.
the
picnic grounds, the ladies serv­ clings to the faith
aa Individuals, upon our own efforts seaweed. Every function of a natu- tertainment and a vote of thanks ing an oyster dinner as their contri­ friends to induce him to leave the
is due the teachers for such an ed­
band have been unavailing. Peters
depend largely whether the new year ral plant is fulfilled by these cre-
bution to the general good.
THE HIGHER EDUCATION.
ucational treat.
says he knows the teachings of the
Miss
Allie
Whitney,
a
graduate
will
be
"happy
and
prosperous.
”
atlons,
which
are
amenable
to
the
The Albany Dully Herald discusses
Our young people, assisted by Mr.
sect are ‘‘from the Lord” and that
effects of light and warmth exactly Davis, dressed the Christmas trees nurse of Portland, who has been
a subject of great Interest to t he
he is being careful to "avoid fanat-
spending
several
weeks
at
Los
Ange-
|
OPEN RIVER ARGl MEN'T.
like any other garden growth. If and for beauty and artistic arrange­ les, Cal., visiting the family of C. S. j icism.” So far as known he is the
people of Eugene ns follows:
ment
they
will
be
remembered
as
Here
isanother
convincing
argu-
The Corvallis
vegetable life can be scientifically
the
well-known Lane only local citizen to be given "the
among the best ever had here. A Hunt, a former
off here yester-1 gift of the tongues,” though many
Herald to task on H HtUtlUIMUlt to the merit In favor of an open river. The produced, why not the animal?
short but pleasing program was ren­ county man, stopped
visit with her i others who have been attending the
day
for
a
few
days
’
»ffert tbat the appointment of Pro­ Portland Journal of yesterday even-
dered before the distribution of pres­
We
all
know
that
thousands
ol
Mennonite mision believe in the
Ing
says:
Whitney.
mother,
Mrs.
W.
M.
fessor E D. Ressler, of the Mon­
ents. Santa Claus seemed to have
Buchanan and teachings of the Salem “tongues.”
Mr.
and
Mrs.
Jas.
Ilves
are
lost
annually
by
accident
"The
new
freight
tariff
which
goes
forgotten no one, and a happy crowd
mouth Normal, to succeed Professor
No arrests heve yet been made for
into effect today on the O. R A.- N. In the United States, but few will be dispersed to the several homes to daughter, of Eugene, and F. C. Dru-
Gatch
president of the State Ag-
ry and bride, of Mabel, were guests the egg-throwing which ushered in
Co ‘s lines between Portland and the prepared for the statement that in dream of Christmas dinner.
ricultural Gollege, might tend to re- mouth of the Snake river makes
the new year at the "Tongues of
Mrs. Maggie Doak is home from at Robert Drury’s Christmas.
Fire” chapel. Members of the sect
luce the frlutlon between the state sweeping reductions of the freight four years past more people were
REGULAR.
Eastern Oregon on a visit.
I say that they know- some of the mem­
university and the Agricultural Col- rates as fl result of the operation of killed in this country than in the four
Miss Edna Ward came home to !
bers of the gang which plastered the
lege
Professor Ressler ami I’res- Hie Celilo portage railroad and the years of civil war; that we are kill- spend the holidays.
+♦++♦+▼++++++++♦+
walls and the people as well with
runnlug
of
steamboats
on
the
upper
♦
|
ling
twice
as
many
every
year
as
per-
Mrs. I. P. Inman and dauughter ♦
Ideal Campbell, of the university,
DIEI).
* fresh eggs as they knelt in prayer at
Coluni bia No changes of any Impor- Isneu of French and English in the accompanied by Earl Atkinson, re- ♦
work
harmoniously together
In tiuice have
♦
+ i midnight Monday night They asked
been made to Snake river
school matters, and this fact was of- poiuts, a territory that has not yet three years of the Crimean war; fhat turned to Eugene last Thursday by ++♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦+♦♦♦♦ local officers yesterday for the arrest
I
way
of
Cottage
Grfove,
where
they
(Thursday’s Daily.)
! of several local boys, whom they be-
fered for what it Is worth In favor tieen invaded to any considerable ex­ there are more killed and wounded had accepted an invitation to par­
Mrs. Mary E. Bowder, wife of Ja­ . lieved implicated in the affair, and
on
our
railroads
every
year
than
the
tent
by
the
steamer
lines.
The
rate
of the appointment of Mr Ressler
take of New Tear’s dinner with old cob Bowder, died at her home on the
I
I were told to present their evidence
The Gaiette answers with the declar­ reductions to river points as far east entire losses in the Boer war of three j friends.
northwestern outskirts of Eugene I | to the city attorney.
ar Waitesburg and Walla Walla are years; that we have fatalities and
Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Addison return­ January 1, 1907, aged 74
ation that President Gatch and Pres­
years.
of tremendous importance to the pro­
ident Campbell are both gentlemen ducers and shippers of the Inland casualties enough every year to keep ed from Roseburg, where they went I Paralysis was the cause of death, she
HARRISBURG PERSONALS.
I to spend Christmas with Mrs. Addi­ having suffered a long time from
Whether or uot these educators are empire, as a saving of hundreds of a war like that we had with Spain
son's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bishop.
that malady. The remains were tak­
hundred
years, or
Miss Effie Gooding visited friends
gentlemen ha« never even by impll thousands of dollars annually will be going twelve
There was a watch meeting at en to Woodburn for interment.
in Junction City the last part of last
the
result
to
the
people
in
the
move
­
twelve such wars a hundred years.
nation been offered as an Issue by
the Cartwright schoolhouse.
week.
The Misses Nettie and Jessie Addi­
this paper and the Irrelevant state ment of tonnage in and out of the in­
Cora Belle Veatch died at Grants
Miss Kittle Baber is visiting this
terior country
Never before in the
The difference between the raw son returned to their school work at Pass, January 1, 1907. Cora Belle
Bient may give rise to suspicion In
vlnelng an illustration been afforded and manufactured material is strik­ Cottage Grove theis week.
week
near Coburg with her sister,
Parsons was born in Eugene Febru­
some minds that the Corvallis paper of the efficacy of water competition
Mrs. Elvin Taylor.
"
Ue
fishpond
social
given
by
the
ary
23,
1866,
and
was
married
to
R.
ingly illustraated by foreign ship­
would keep In the background the In regulating rail rates.”
Miss Lena Boggs, of Eugene, spent
ments of wheat and flour from Port­ I Louies' Aid was quite an enjoyable W. Veatch on March 2, 1884. Four her holiday vacation near this city
real question of the conflict arising
Open the Willamette river to free
i affair, which added a neat sum to children were born to this union, of
with her father, L. Boggs.
from the overlapping of the purposes navigation ami it will m.-an vast sums land the past year. The wheat ship­ their treasury.
whom three are still living, Marvel,
Pearl Widener, of Eugene, came
Maggie, Lizzie and Lottie, who range
of the state aided schools Instead of of money In the pockets of producers ments aggregated 5,432.000 bushels
down last week to spend a few days
valued
at
$3,877,000,
an
average
of
in
age
from
21
to
15
years.
The
de
­
ea< b oue following out a prese rllied for all future time through the ■ re­
ceased united with the Cumberland I at his home in this city.
«•arse and accomplishing a spedtii duction of freight rates on the 1 mi­ 70 cents a bushel. The flour ship­
Mr. and Mrs. J. Bucknum, who
Presbyterian church some eight years |
ments, estimated as wheat, aggregat-
purpose, without friction with the roads
(Special Correspondence.)
ago and has since lived a Christian have been visiting in Coburg for the
d 673,000 bushels, valued at $2,-
other state schools
Vida, Jan. 2.—The old expression, i life. Besides her husband and three past two weeks, returned home to
Solicitors for
751,000,
an
average
of
$4
a
bushel.
"we
won t go home until morning,” ¡children she leaves a host of friends | this city the first of the week.
oue state school should not try to
EOll AN OPEN RIVER.
Miss Ruth Gilbertson, who has
became
a reality last night for those both in Cottage Grove and Grants I
It
looks
as
If
our
millers
should
i
turn prospective pupils to their own
I here should be no cessation In the
who attended the New Year's ball Pass who mourn her untimely death. | been stopping in Eugene for some
merely to swell the numtier of enroll- movement for an open river to Eu- strive hard for foreign markets. It
given by Mrs. Emma Wycoff and son
time, spent last week in this city.
Bient just to make a showing
If a gene
At the shippers' and produc- would besides benefittlng them ben­ at their home, well known by­ the
Miss Mabel Lane returned to Eu­
Isaac H. Tyler died at his home at
student desires to prepare for a lit­ er* meetlug in Albany January 10, efit the country through retaining the name of the Wycoff ranch. The ball Coburg January 2, 1907, of neural­ gene Tuesday, where she is attending
erary professional pursuit or to be delegates from this city should see by-products bran and shorts.
was a grand success from the begin­ gia of the heart, at the age of 66 school, after spending her holiday­
ning to the end The strain« of mu- years. 2 months and 15 days. The vacation at the home of her parents
come a teacher, he should not be that the movement 1s endorsed.
7 hat was a good law providing sue of a dreamy waltz which floated deceased was born at East Landaff, near this city.
asked to attend the Agricultural Col- 1 ane county's delegation in the leg­
for the conveyance of the Insane to down the ball room at 6 o'clock p. m. New Hampshire, and came to Oregon
Merle Morris, of Eugene, came
lege
Nor should the university or islature should secure the passage of
asylum by asylum employes instead *as the announcement to the happy from Oregonmhowmx. ,
.a tdorfm down Sunday afternoon to spend a
normal s< b. Jis try to turn from the a joint resolution memorializing con­
of by sheriffs or other persons desig­ dancers that the ball had begun. from Minnesota in 1891. He leaves I few days visiting relatives and
Agricultural College a prospective gress to make an appropriation for
The night was one of pleasantness, a wife and three sons, as follows: A. j friends in this city.
nated by the several county courts.
and greatly enjoyed by all. The mu­ E. Tyler, of Chicago; A. 1. Tyler, of
student who aspires to tie a farmer the carrying out of the project.
Miss Zuda Owens, who spent her
Not only is the handling of the unfor­ sic. consisting of the following in­
Coburg; H. M. Tyler, of Acme. Wash. holiday vacation with her sister near
Yet these things have been done amt
Tha' Is a splendid endorsement of tunates done far better, especially In struments.a violin, guitar and banjo,
The funeral will be held Friday, at 2 this city, returned to Eugene Tues­
it is to this Imprudent use of slate the Guard's position on this question
the case of the women Inkanc, but were played by
Professor Snapp, P- m., with Interment in the Coburg day afternoon.
money for higher education that the in Buuday’s Portland Journul.
it the cost for the last two years un­ Benj. F. Mlnnev, J. F. Minney and I. O. O. F. cemetery.
Mr .and Mrs. R. F. Baker and
Herahl calls attention The fact Is. rings clear and true.
daughter, of Junction City, were in
der the new- law is but $5(68, with two of the Wycoff boys.
the agricultural colleges of all the
The supper given by Mrs. Emma ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦+ ♦ ♦ ♦ this city the latter part of last week
"Why have they waited so long?” 314 conveyed, against $14.185
for Wycoff. our hostess, was one which ♦
♦
states In the Union but six are tech­ asks that paper.
BORN.
I the preceding two years, with 3 75 a king would have envied. It was ♦
♦ visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
nical Institutions, devoted solely to
♦
♦ E. Jones.
Nobody knows. but there will be conveyed.
a turkey supper, with oysters on the ♦ ♦ ♦
Mrs. C. A. Pryor, who has been vis­
♦ * ♦
the purpose the name implies, grad­ no more waiting
Unremitting work
side and many other good things
December 31, to Wm. Bushnell iting with her parents, Mr .and Mrs.
uates of course being required to pos­
Som.-
Sen».-
in
Th
is.
to eat. It was plainly evident that
aud ceaseivjs vigilance must be the
and wife, north of Eugene, a daugh­ J. J. Baker, in this city, for the past
(Grants Pass Journal.)
sess a fair English education
The program until the Willamette val­
Is was one that »as appreciated by
week, returned
to her home in
The
Albany
Herald
notes
that
Pro- all from the way in which they par­ ter.
average taxpayer does not under-
Springfield Tuesday.
ley is emancipated from the grasp | feasor Gatch, president of the Oregon
took of the viands to appease their
stand that it is necessary to maintain
Ralph Pierce, who is home from
December 31, 1906. to C. E. War­
of railroad monopoly.
Agricultural College at Corvallis. hunger. The last strains of music
an agricultural” college to turn out
the
O. A. C. on his holiday vacation,
ner
and
wife
at
Fall
Creek,
a
son.
I has served notice to quit at the end ebbed away Into nothingness near
went to Eugene Sunday afternoon
graduates with a literary finish. mu­
The Standard Oil Company’s rec- "f the •cho,as‘l<’
The board of <:15 a m . leaving the many dancers*
January 1. 1907, to H. B McBee for a couple of days' visit with rel­
alcians. orators and pcHtictana
ll». ord (. one of ruthle.aly crushing op-
» | to wend their way homeward, to re- and wife at London, Or., a 9-pound atives and friends.
l successor to the aged president. | call sweetly unto their memories the
daughter.
Mrs. Geo. E. Wilhelm, of Junction
THE EUGEKEWEEKLY GUARD
APOSTLES' GIFT
Tongues of Fire Leader Tells the
Origin of Creed and Defends It.
Meeting in Progress at Albany.
Not Many Local Converts
MS
City, accompanied by her friend, Mi««
Mae Mullett. of Ashland, were visit
ing their many friends in this city
Saturday last.
Mrs. Brothers, of Springfield ac
companied by her brother, J. Ward
of San Francisco, are visiting near
this city this week with the former’»
daughter, Mrs. Harvey Rogers.
Miss Musette Baker went to £tl.
gene Sunday afternoon, where she
has accepted a position in the local
telephone office. Her many friend«
hereabouts are wishing her all kind«
I of success.—Bulletin.
____________________________
(Special Correspondence.)
Elmira, Jan. 1.—The new year
came in white.
Joseph Stephens, of Noti, fell from
a barn he was building and was pref.
ty badly hurt recently, He is better
at this writirg.
Ira Inman closed a very succès«.
ful term of school at Fairview on
Friday, and his wife closed a very
successful term in the Inman dis­
trict the same day.
There were quite a few attended
the watch meeting at the Christiag
, church last night.
John Horn is reported sick at this
writing.
Geo. Gilson, of McMinnville, is
I town today greeting his old friends
and neighbors with a happy new
year.
There was a very quiet wedding
1 at Fred Shove’s last Sunday night,
when his oldest daughter, Nellie,
united in marriage to E. Keeler. On­
ly a few friends and neighbors were
present. The couple are going to re­
side at Springfield in the future.
Miss Mamie Pollock, of Eugene, is
visaing Miss Lulu Yates.
Miss Myrtle Linton, of Portland,
is visiting at J. W. Jeans’.
Elmira has a new store. Ros«
Huston has put in a bill of >ods in
the Barnum building.
All orders
promptly filled.
Clyde Lamb spent several days In
Eugene last week.
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
Wealthy men of Cuba are peti-
Honing for an American protecao-
rate over the island.
Columbia University, of Portland-
an Chemawa played a scoreless game
of football at The Dalles.
A trainer of lions at Toledo, Ohio,
was attacked and badly lacerated by
the animals in his charge.
There were 187 marriages in Linn
county in 1906.
A great snowstorm swept oYer
Great Britain and all Northern Eu­
rope the past week.
Aguinaldo, the leader of the in­
surgent Filipinos a few years ago,
has become a sucessful farmer.
The national assemblage of Persia
has adopted a constitution and that
country ceases to be an absolute
monarchy.
There is a strong movement to­
ward establishing a republican form
of government in Spain.
In a great game of Rugby football
the Stanford and Vancouver team«
played a tie.
TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS
The interstate commerce commis­
sion today began its investigation in­
to the block signal system of the Bal­
timore & Ohio and Southern rail­
roads, sitting at Washington.
Heavy rains and prospect of flood«
reported from all over the Willam­
ette valley. At Spokane, Wash., nine
inches of snow fell last night.
Morton Tower, of Marshfield, was
today appointed collector of custom»
for Southern Oregon.
Jack Phillips, a logger, was killed
in a row on the steamer Perdita, out
of Seattle.
The loggers, returning
from the celebration of Christmas,
indulged in a free-for-all fight.
LETTER LIST
Eugene, Or. , Jan. 3.
Anderson, Mrs. G. N.
Beaman, Henry.
Brauer, Richard.
Brewer, Preston.
Estes, Wnt.
Hodges, Miss Mary.
Hudson, Arthur.
Jensen, J.
Jones, Miss.
Kline, S. L.
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Longstaff, L. T.
McMickin, Don.
Moores, Dr. Charles E.
Naka, Fre’d S.
Neal. Mrs. J. M.
Poya, Fred.
Rhode, W. E.
Smith, E. M.
Smith, G. R.
Southard, Stephen R.
Sullivan, Florence F.
Turpin, John.
Wills. Joe.
Woodbury, Mrs. Leon A.
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