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About Eugene weekly guard. (Eugene, Or.) 190?-1910 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 20, 1908)
TI HJ EUGENE WEEKLY GUARD NO. K HX IM B lu URD conditions GERMANY MAY STOESSEL WILL HEAR DANGER TO CONTINUE III MANY STATES CREATE NATIONAL Ii NIAGARA FALLS ♦ OIL MONOPOLY IS EXPLAINED ♦♦ ♦ Chicago, Feb. 19.—The bliizard here of yesterday is still in progress today, though the fury of the storm is passed. Snow was piled in deep drifts by the wind and traffic on all March 19.—The imperial roads is delayed, while there have ’is considerili« the poaalbll- been many accidents to pedestrians One man was killed by a freight train and two, exhausted, were res- cued from sure death. G*rB / well as the Standard’s Rus- Roumanian holdings. The r to being considered along with t^udy of the possibilities of cre- X$ a mon<2^ly_ln “_lcohot » HUIT PARDON FGR CHESTER THOMPSON 1 From Other Points. Kansas City. Feb. 19.—A fall of 2 Odegrees in temperature was regis tered over Kansas and Western Mis souri during the past 24 hours. Milwaukee, Feb. 19.—The blizzard continues but slightly abated todav. There is a foot of snow in Milwau kee and vicinity. St. Louis, Feb. 19. freezing weather and a snowstorm, driven by a gale, prevails. There are deep Walla Walla, Feu. 19-—A move ment It on foot to secure a pardon drifts of snow. L Chester Thompson, acquitted of Detroit, Feb. 19.—Tile blizzard in he murder ot Judge Emory, of Seat ie on the ground of Insanity, and the lower portion of Michigan con •ha is confined in the insane ward tinues, Deep snow greatly interferes , the penitentiary. A commission with traffic. to examine the young man will be L. T. Brown, oí Mapleton, it. in asked for under the terms of the gene on business. Graves law ALWAYS Washington. Feb. 19.—At the in stance of the American Civic Federa tion Dr. W. J. Spencer, the British .scientist, who was commissioned by the geological survey of Canada to In vestigate the Niagara Falls problem, appeared before the house commit tee on rivers and harbors and present ed facts to show the effect If the re quest of the Ontario Power Company for a franchise to use 40,000 cubic feet of water per second would have on the falls. He said such a with drawal of water and the necessary changes In the river would result in the recession of the Horse Shoe and the lowering of Lak ■ Erie, l^tke Hu ron and Lake Michigan by three* feet. The damage resulting to harbors and canals by the lowering of the water one toot w uld aniouut to $ 12,000,- 000. ♦ ♦ ♦ St. Petersburg, Feb. 19.— The court trying General Sto- essel for the surrender of Port Arthur retired for de liberation at noon, ordering Stoeaael and the other defend ants to appear February 20 at 11 o’clock, when sentence is expected to be pronounced. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ +♦♦++*♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦+ STANDARD O”ders Satisfaction Carelully Low Filled Prices As For Soon as Cash Received An early selection of wool mater ials for the new spring gown will New Dress Goods call for trim mings which harmonize ana to secure the most choice weaves and newest color- orings. The Dress Goods Department is particu larly interesting and very attractive to those wishing to get the first glance at our new spring fabrics. They are the product of t<»reign as well as domestic looms. As such weare anxious to show you'throughtheentire line which consists of fancy Mohair, Wool Taffeta, checks, stripes and plain eolers. Prices range from the yard 50c to $1.50 embellish the garment as Dame Fashion hi$ de creed. We are ready with the newest creations designed and manufactured in the fashion centers of the world are here ready for your inspection Filet Nets or Waists in Copenhagen, brown, navy, cream, ecru, white and black, yd 75cto $2.50 Filet Bands, Persian effects, the yard___ $2.25 New allover net, cream, ecru and white the yard ___________________ 75c to $2.50 .N. I.XHIES’ SKIRTS AT 1-2. Ladles' 13.00 to $7.00 wool Skirts, blue, black and gray; Friday and Saturday, From............... »1.50 to NU1..TO corsets at 1-2 Ladies’ Corsets, regular 11.00 and $1.50 quality;' Friday and Saturday, . . 50c to 75c < MILDREN'S COATS XT 1-2. I long Coats for children: regular $3.00 to $6.50 grade Friday and Satur- day . . . . «1.50 to »3.25 L.XDH S’ .1 XCKETS LESS THAN 1-2. 112 50 to $15.00 short Coats; red. black and tan; Friday and Saturday, each.. »2.50 ♦ 4 4 i ♦ «liicago Wheat Market. Chicago. Feb. 19. May. 92 3-8; Claud Swan and his Alaskan team July, 88 1-8; September, 86. of basketball players closed their The Salem Statesman says Com- tour at Chicago, after playing mercial street is to be paved, How best basketball teams between many Xunerals first? asks tile Port- Pacific and Chicago, winning land Journal. games and losing 8. Mail Friday and Saturday the fol- lowin goods are yours for one half the former price. One dollar will buy two dollar's worth of goods. 4 4 4 Waslngton, Feb. 19,—After hear ing Secretary Root in explanation of the new proposed French arbitration deal today the senate committee on foreign relations ordered a favorable report upon the treaty. Courtesy One Half ¿Price ♦ FAVORABLE REPORT ON FRENCH TREATY Quality Specials at PRESIDENT GIVES JAPANESE AGREE TO COMMISSION VIEWS AMERICAN DEMANDS ON RAILROADING : IN MOST RESPECTS 08 WAISTS The complete line of new spri waists are ready. Among them arc some of tne newest ideas of the world s fashion centers. The prices are LOW CASH PRICED They range from $1.20 to $2.50. Ready To Wear Garments Ecru Net Waists, silk lined. great values, each . . . .»5.00 HsrtSauffrcr| HjndTi I- -rCj Youve a Standing ’is Invitation Silk $6.00 Taffeta Black mercerized sateen Petti X coats, each ........................ glJMl Fancy Hose, to come here and look over our fine clothes; you don’t have to buy any of them; but we’re pretty sure you'll want to if you see them. They're Hart Shaffner and £ _____ Marx Clothes, I that’s about all you need to know about the qual ity and the style: and as for the fit if ’* they don * ’* t rather you fit, we’d take them, wouldn’t XfThey’l! fit all right and They’ll you’ll say embroidereü lace foot, the pair ........... 25c Long sleeve, light weight Vests, each .......................................... 25c Girdlç Corsets with Hose Sup porters, each 20c heavy ribbed 15c wide ribbed trippie knee Hose, the pair Suiting The most appropri for the wash d Hampton Bros Where Cash Beats Credit Hose boys. -The pair ........... to $30.00 Petticoats, all colors, each................ »5.00 X desikes commission TO MAkE EVERY Tokio, Feb. 19. The memorandum of the Japanese government’s reply to the United States ou the subject of emigration was handed to Ambas It Is under sador O’Brien today. stood that Japan agrees in general terms to a number of the sugges- tions of the American government and assures further restriction of em igration by practical prohibition ot la borers. 'Die reply bears every evi dence that the Japanese g vernment will be unsparing in its efforts to avoid further coniplicatlous on tiie emigration question, but the govern ment is facing powerful oppodtiin EFFORT TO PREVENT NERIOI'N TUOI BLE from the emigration companies, which are behind the proposed resolu tion in tile diet to censure the foreign policy ot Viscount Hayashi. BETWKKM BOARS AND THEIR UII'UIlLh TODAY Washington, Feb. 19 X rumor Is current that the stale department it about to address a protest to Japan against h *r attitude in Manchuria. I Is admitted that complaints have been made to the department that Ant' 1- can trade is suffering In the Orient, but it Is believed that other causes tha* Japan's attitude are principally responsible. MRS. JULIA A. BEAN, STATE DEATH RATE ONLY 9 PER 1009 PIONEER, PASSES BEYOND 44444444444444444- <• ♦ ♦ ♦ 4 + + + + New York. Feb. 19. Str- vere declines and low price* in railroad stocks was a fea ture today. Gould shares be ing especially weak. Missou ri Pacific, which closed yes terday at 34. dropped to 214 1-4. Western Union broke from 46 to 4 1 1-4. Several other stocks ran oft sharply. 4 4- Washington, Feb. 19. President Rosevelt has sent a letter to the in terstate commerce commission in 1 which he has indicated the import ance of the commission's action in re spect to the limitation of tho boons of labor of railroad employe*, and points out the ixtssibillty of serie** differences arising between railroad 1 companies and their employe* wxtb respect to wages and hours of talm it Is understood the letter of the Portland, Or., Feb. 17. Oregon’s Dil l» TOHA Y AFTER AN II.I.' death rate during 1 907 was approxi OF LONG l»l ’RATION — mately nine in every 1000 Inhabitants <1111. DREX ARK AMONG according to Dr. R. (’. Yenney, secre tary of the state board of health, in STATE’S MOST PROMINENT his annual report, which has recently IZENS been complied. The low rate is looked upon as a remarkable show ing, and i|t is believed that it is not Mrs. Julia A. Bean, an early Ore- gon pioneer, died at her home in Eu gene this afternoon at 1:10 o'clock after a long illness. She would have been 70 years of age on tile 2 5th of this month had she lived until then. Mrs. Bean, whose maiden name was Sharp, was born near Newmarket Harrison county, Ohio, February 25 1838. In company with her parents Mr. and Mrs. John Sharp, she started across the plains for Oregon In 1 849, but on reaching Missouri they pur chased a farm and resided there three years. In .May, 1852, they started for Oregon again, taking the Harlow route. Although " _ they were hamper- ed by sickness on the journey aud were snowbound for a time, they ar- riv<*<l safely In Oregon City on No- ' veinber 1, 1852. Spending the win ter in the Chehnlem valley, they took up 11 ranch in Washington county in the spring but the land proved worth less and they came to Lane county In the fall of 185«. The subject of this sketch was married to Obadiah It. Bean In Yamhill county. Or., on Oc tober 2 1, 1853, and to them 11 chil dren were born, as follows: Robert S., Judge of the supreme court of Ore gon; James R., an express messenger running out <jt Portland; John XV., a W. MORSE. JOHN W. prominent physician of Tacoma; Mrs. York capitalist whose banks Emma A. Lucas, of Aberdeen, Wash.; Multimillionaire who lias chrrrrg» ■< 1 and steamship companies are involved , Joseph II., died in 1897; Edward A., his legal resilience from New York lu» in tile paule. bookkeeper in tin* First National Taxus. bank of Eugene; leiuis E., a prom excelled by any other state in the Un inent attorney of Eugene; Frederick, president will be made public by yie a hardware merchant, of Eugene; ion. commission. To a certain extent the figures in Mary, died when a year old; Chester The president strongly deprecate» the report are Incomplete, for the O., a contractor at Aberdeen, Wash.; the making of an Issue between the reason that a number of the counties and Miss EBtelle A., living at home. railroad companies and employes in send no report of their vital statistics Mr. Bean died in the Siuslaw valley In the matter -of wages that can ba to the state board of health. As a 1899. Mrs. Bean wns a woman of noble avoided, and instructs the conimiasXon basis for the figures he has taken the character and was beloved by all who to secure all possible information ha carefully prepared statistics of four advance so that the res|Minstbility teen of the most populous counties of knew her. Her family has the sym- | may be placed, and to hold itself it* of friends In 1 pathy of a large circle the state from which regular month readiness to mediate on tre subject ly health reports are received, and in their sad bereavement. held Friday, The funeral will be which the death rate would naturally Great Strike Probable. be larger than in less densely populal- but the services will be private. Chicago, Feb. 19. A situation ed counties. which railroad man say may result it* The state has been unusually free a strike of the employes on the raft from infectious diseases during the roads in various parts of the country past year. has developed as a result ot the gen The only contagion was In Grafit , eral movement of railroads to reduce county, where they had 121 cases of wages of all classes of employes. Un smallpox, due largely to the county ion officials in all parts ot the coun Improperly handling the situation. 1 try have been notified by the rail Altoget her there were 315 cases of J ,1 Feb. 19. -The danger | rm ds that a reduction of wages and Cincinnati, this disease in the state. He said feet was reached in the revision of the working agreement that this is the most easily controlled line of 50 at noon and the rise con- must be made by March 1. The un contagious disease, and that through Ohio river Is estimated that the crest ions are determined that no reduc vaccination and quarantine it It iiirty may m be nil uiiarauuuu « j ’ tinues. It . r o • . * tion shall be made and are preparing, He classes failure of *'>> re,“h 52 ieet eliminated. l-~ . _____.. the -------- L--------- to resist all attempts to reduce th, the Grant county officials In pre-, Indianapolis, Feb. 19. The flood puresent scale. They will take the * venting the disease to spread as gross situation in Indiana is more serious matter into the courts under thd Erd negligence. Cold weather prevails and man act. One of every ten deaths In the state ¡today. there Is great suffering among the was du-’ to tuberculosis, a total of ' 445. Of the 558 cases of typhoid fe refugees. TELEPHONE COMPANY ver reported, death resulted In 103. | LARGELY INCREASES CAPITAL There were 406 cases of Hcarlet fe ver with 13 deaths, and 1313 cases of Chicago, Feb. 19.— The state of Il measles with 26 deaths. linois has given to the Chicago Tele phone Company permission to i»- BOILER EXPLOSION’ crease the company's capital <JT $20,- CAI SES GRE XT I» XM XGE «00,000 to $30,000,000. Pnwideut Arthur XVheeler says the purpose of ♦ Rochester, N. Y., Feb. 19. Lowell, Feb. 19. Elevon men wore — Charles F. Young, grand 4 this moke Is the bullding'and rebuild injured today, two probably fatally, chief ranger of the Foresters ♦ ing of plants and not for keeping by an explosion in the boiler room of America, died today at his 4 down dividend rates. of the Hamilton Corporation, a cot home of typhoid pneumonia. ♦ < ton manufacturing concern of this 4 city. The entire plant was tempora 444444444444*4444 rily shut down and 1800 operatives are out of work. An Eastern man wrote to the Sher idan postmaster, says the Sun, ask 4444444444444444 ing if it were possible to obtain the necessaries of life there and whether ♦ a man's life was safe from the bad 4 man and the Indian. To make him- FLOOD CONDITIONS ARE WORSE TODAY CHIEF RANGER OF FORESTERS IS DEAD Salem. Feb. 18. — The su preme court today affirmed a judgment In favor of W. H. Ireland against Albert J. Ward for the alienation of if feet Ion» of the plaln- rnuntv ♦ ♦ MRS. COLEMAN UNDERGOES SERIOUS THROAT OPERATION ammunition t r a four-inch gun, a Chicago, Feb. 19. Mrs. Jos'ph Gt cavalry cannon or two and a body- gu ed f iufautry, and then he might Coleman, whose nervous system oii- po--Ibly pa.-» through the dense fnr- lapsed after she had netted 857 4M« for charity. working da: ♦ . ntwtit moles ♦ ♦ + ♦ ♦ e, ♦ Of ♦ e:
