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About Eugene weekly guard. (Eugene, Or.) 190?-1910 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 15, 1907)
EUGENE * J EUGENE, OREGON, THURSDAY AUGUST 15, I907 Vol 41 BOILERMAKERS’ strike BRAKEMAN CONFESSED TO OFFICIALLY CALLED OFF AWFUL CRIME SUICIOE COMPACT re our hi shall trv Los Angeles, Aug. 14.—The night ,bift ot boilermakers employed in the Angeles shop returned to work night, acting under instructions - president Payne, who had re- llived from San Francisco an acceut- of the offer to return to work, pi-sident l’ayne wired all striking huilermakers on the Pacific division n( the Harriman lines, notifying them . the settlement of the strike aud ordering them to return to work In case telegraph wires can be de nuded upon to transmit this mes- it is expected that all members of the trade in the Pacific division will be at work today. today swore In a jury to hear the re bating charge against the Chicago A- Alton road in connection with the Standard Oil trust's big fine, but postponed further action uiftll' Sep tember 3 to investigate the report that the --------------- government promised the Alton road imniunia.v. Atty.-General Bonaparte will ex- amine the transcript of evidence and if his investigations shows that the Chicago & Alton have kept faith the —----------- grand jury will not inevstlgate fur ther. + + + + + + ♦ ♦ + + ♦ ♦ + + ♦ « Associa cl Press by Phone.) Boulder, Colo., Aug. I I.— John W. Beeves, a brakeman employed by the Colorado & Northwestern Railroad, has confessed to being responsi ble for the destruction by fire and dynamite last Saturday of the Colorado & Southern station, killiug five and in juring 50. He was saved saved from mob violence by a ruse on the part of the offi cers and lodged in jail. ♦ + ♦ + ♦ ♦ ♦ & + ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ¡S CARRIED OUT Guard Special Service. Denver. Aug. 14.—Eva Collins and Michael Donahue carried out a sui cide compart tat a restaurant at an early hour this morning by drinking carbolic acid. The man died imme diately, but the woman ma recover Sidney Stowel suicided two weeks ago because the same woman jilted him. ARBITRATION TO PAPER MILLS ÁRE ROLE AT DENVER AGAIN COMBINED FRANCE WILL KEEP (Associated Press <45 Phone.) FAITH WITH POWERS Denver, Guard Special Service. Aug 14.— agreement Appleton, Wis., Aug. 14.—A mer ger of all the print paper mills in (Associated Press by Phone.) Wisconsin, Minnesota and Michigan, Parols, Aug. 14.—Government of (Associated Press by Phone.) representing $80,000,000, will be ficials decline to discuss the possi Guard Special Service. closed by John Hanrahan, of New bility of France being compelled to Chicago, Aug. 14.—Judge Landis York. overstep the Algeciras convention, has been made between the trainmen of all roads entering Denver that all differences are to be «arbitrated by representatives of the employers and the switchmen, yardmen and train men. STRIKE CRISIS WILL WILL FIRST BEGIN ABOUT AUG. 20 ON SMALL'S ACTION TO UH E—Kill its MH HAISE prune GET SEVEN nies are concerned. Their wires are paralyzed, extending in all directions. CENTS A III SUFI. The Postal is in somewhat better shape than the Western Union, but neither company is moving an appre ciable amount of busiuess. Thi> West Hop picking in Lane county will ern I’nion has been almost entirely begin in some places about Alignât cut off from communication with tbe 20, while at others not much will ba south since Monday, and conditions done until September. on the wires to the East are but little Most of the hop owners around better. ________ _ Hartsburg will commence picking The Postal succeeded in recover- i about August 20. The crop this year Ing Its Los Angeles wire today, but will compare favorably with that of the congestion was so great that all last year, although there are some business was accepted subject to in hops that do not look as well. definite delay. Lower down the valley picking will The Western Union accepted busi not begin until in September, and ness to all points under the same con growers are already scouring the ditions. Very little business Is being country for pickers. transacted on the stock exchange to While it is yet too early to pre day, and what little trading was done dict a scarcity, it is evident that showed declines. there wtll he no surplus of available Striking operators continued to help. Another question, too. that is leave the city today. worrying the hop grower at this stage of the game Is the price to be paid Operators Expect .Aid. for picking. Except In a few isolated Portland. Aug. 14 The local tel cases the ruling price heretofore has egraphers are confident oft he aid of never been above 50 cents for a nine- the railway operators, and are not bushel box, or $1.00 per hundred anxious to arbitrate. pounds, but there Is a question If the (Associated Press by Phone.) growers will be able to get their New York, Aug. 14—Both com panies are moving business, but the strikers are confident. Oyster Bay is watching developments, but Pres ident Roosevelt refuses to answer the request of the Chicago Board of Trade for intervention. + 4- + + *4- + + + 4- + 4-<- + 4- + ♦ Chicago, Aug. 1 4 The cli- ♦ max of the telegraphers’ ♦ strike is due tomorrow upon of President ♦ the arrival ♦ Small. The strikers claim ♦ that upwards of ten thousand + men are out Twelve thous- and more will be called out ♦ should President Small call ♦ the expected general strike. ♦ The strikers are claiming a ♦ victory, while the companies ♦ insist that they are moving ♦ the bulk of the business, and ♦ both sides are spurning arbi ♦ tration. The danger of the ♦ strike of forty-seven thousand + railway operators was in- ♦ creased today with the possi- ♦ biiky of involving the tele ♦ phone operators. President ♦ Gompers, of the Federation of ♦ Iaibor, today admitted his failure as an arbitrator in this instance. BICYCLE CONCERN IN RECEIVER’S HAND a > > > Move On!! U Move On!!b r * Everything and everybody on the move at this store. The prices are moving down—the people are moving in and goods are moving out In a word the Sale is a Grand Success We allow no accumulations. Come!—Not necessarily with buying intentions. We carry no goods over a season. Come!—watch the goods move out and your With price reducing events of the character neighbors save. of this one, we periodically reduce stocks you’ll catch it and you’ll save astonishing amounts as clean as a hound’s tooth. on every purchase. The Store That’s Doing The Business Buying here is a contagion— Come! Specials for Thursday, August 15th 36-in. Bleaehcd Muslin, - Spacial, 10c per yard Lonsdale Muslin 1 l^c per yard 45-in. Bleached Table Linen, Special. 25c per yard 5O0 Kimonas, all sizes and colors, $2.50 to 20c Summer Goods to close out At Half Price Ladies’ Sweaters, all wool, $2.50 For $1.75 25 Ladies’ all wool Eton suits, prices from $15to$25 - - - Half Price Ladies’ white duck and India linen suits, Half Price Misses’ and children’s black ribbed hose, all sizes from 6 to 9& Special, 15c per pair Corset Cover Embroidery, 30c grade, for 20c 25 bolts Ribbon, al! colors and regular 25c grade, Special at 19c the yard White Bed Spreads, $1.00 grade, for 75c Special Change of Ad Every Day this Week ONLY POSTAL WORKING IN SAN FRANCISCO Guard Special Service. San Farnclsco, Aug. 14.--The tel- egraph situation today Is worse than at an ytime since the strike was Inau- gurated. San Francisco might as well be off the map so far as the compa- (Associated Press by Phone.) Hartford, Aug 14.—Albert Pope was today appointed temporary re ceiver of the Pope Manufacturing Company, a 110,000,000 corpora tion. It is understood that the eni- barrassment was precipitated by the condition of various subsidiary com panics. SOCIALIST WRITER LABOR PARTY SERIOUS CHARCE FOR LEADER Boise, Idaho, Aug. 12.—Upon Guard Special Service. complaint of M. H. Sebern, probation- San Francisco, Aug. 14.-^-Chair officer, a warrant was issued by Jus man Eagan, of the Union Labor par tice Dunbar Saturday afternoon for ty. who was victorious in yesterday's the arrest of George H. Shoaf on the primaries, Issues a statement today JOHN A. JOHNSON. charge of statutory rape. The alleg favoring Mayor Schmitz's nomina ed victim is Miss Florence M Ab tion for mayor. He says Schmits ha* Governor of Minnesota, who ha« bott, a 15-year-old girl of Cassia endeared himself to the labor party. county who is attending school at Langdon has many enemies in the been twice elected to that office bv Boise. It la said the girl has made a party. He states that the latter wtll full statement of the offenses against not be renominated for prosecuting large majorities, though a Demo her The act charged in the warrant attorney. crat and though Minnesota is a is alleged to have been committed on in the Democratic primaries Gar July 9. but It Is said the girl confesses vin McNab defeated his opponents strong RepuNican state on nation that it was repeated a number of and the Kyan Republican ticket was al issues. Editor Henry Watterson times, once at least in a rooming ; successful, of the Louisville Courier-Journal bouse on State street where the girl , — ■ — was rooming, and also Shoaf and his mihi RS AND FRENCH is grooming him as a candidate for wife and little boy. It Is claimed that I IN FIERCE BATTLE] the landlady on one occasion caught « 1 the Democratic ¡»residential nomi 1 1 1 Shoaf in the girl’s room early in the ■ Tangier, August 13.—In a desper-1 evening when Mrs. Shoaf and the ate fight between the Moors and the1 nation in 190A. child were out at the Natatorlum. 1 French troops today hundreds of | Shoaf was correspondent in Boise Moors were killed and wounded. ' during the Haywood trial for the Ap There were 5000 Moors in the fight ! crops harvested at that price this peal to Reason, a Socialist publication and the loss was heavy. Requests , year. It is reported that Krebs Bros, printed at Girard, Kansas, and while for 13,000 reinforcements have been ; have decided to offer 55 cents per In Boise signed his name to many ar made by the French. box or $1.10 per hundred pounds ticles of an inflammatory nature con 1 ■ 1..................... claiming they cannot otherwise se- cerning the courts of Idaho and the Attorney Koelsch, after the complaint : f“”» enuu«h Picker« to harvest their officers of the state. His reports was sworn to, located Shoaf In Den- 1,nn,enB® crops. were highly unreliable and were of ver. The warrant was placed in the Prune Outlook, bo untruthful a nature that he was Prune growers are up against an criticised severely by even the repre hands of Under Sheriff Higgins and sentatives of other Socialist publica he Immediately sent a wire to the au- ¡equally serious proposition to get tions who were here reporting the thorlties at Denver to arrest Shoaf ; prime pickers, and if the hop season trial. Several of them denounced I and hold him uantll an agent could ¡laps over Into the prune season again him as a traitor to socialism In their . be sent for him with the necessary] as it did last year their troubles will know no end. In one sense tbe prune own publications. In the present case papers for extradition. — . -... - growers have a slight advantage In it is understood that the prosecution John Hunzlcker, the architect, has being asured the services of a num- has the assurance that several of j these Socialists have expressed a wil- , returned from an outing nea- Flor-1 ber ot »■“»«•• ”ho are religiously While there ”r otherwise opposed to the hop ln- iingness to come back to Boise to tes ence on Talltcoos lake he purchased a five-acre tract for tify against him. in harvesting the crop, but this class After considerable trouble County a summer home. Is vastly In the minority and affords I I very little consolation to the former, ; He, too, is up against the necessity ; of Increaaing the compensation to pickers, and it is «mderstood the pries to be paid prune pickers this year i will be fixed at seven cents a bushel, ; which is a raise of one cent over last I year, and two cents over two years ago. The average picker can gather from 30 to 50 bushels a day, mak« Ing a wags of from $2.10 io $3 50 while expert pickers earn even more. DORA JENNINGS HER INNOCENCE Guard Special Service. Grants Pass. Aug. 14.—Dora Jen nings died here yesterday. She af firmed the Innocence of herself and brother to the last They were BRITISH LIFEBOAT THAT SAVED THE SUEVIC’S PASSENGERS. charged with the murder of their fa- i ther. In tbe building of lifeboats the English people have been experts for She was awaiting a second trial in many generations. The Illustration shows one of tl>e latest tyi>e. built upon j the Jackson county jail. the most approved model and fitted with all the appliances for safety and succor. This particular boat is the one In which 184» passengerw were rescued The jury for the trial of Louie from tli* steamship Suevlc. which was wrecked during the winter in the ' Glass on the charge of bribery at English channel. Borne of the rescued pnsoeugers are seen in the picture. | San Francisco is being drawn.
