TI HJ EUGENE WEEKLY GUARD
NO. K
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B lu URD conditions
GERMANY MAY
STOESSEL WILL HEAR
DANGER TO
CONTINUE III MANY STATES
CREATE NATIONAL Ii
NIAGARA FALLS
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OIL MONOPOLY
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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-
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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.
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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.
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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
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«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.
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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
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FAVORABLE REPORT
ON FRENCH TREATY
Quality
Specials at
PRESIDENT GIVES
JAPANESE AGREE TO
COMMISSION VIEWS
AMERICAN DEMANDS
ON RAILROADING
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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,
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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tion shall be made and are preparing,
He classes
failure
of *'>> re,“h 52 ieet
eliminated. l-~
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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:
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