Eugene weekly guard., October 08, 1908, Page 4, Image 4

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Our Carload of Pianos, received direct from the factory September 8th
are going rapdly
If you intend joining the procession of Piano Purchasers this season and take advantage of the greatest
opportunity ever offered in Eugene, now is your chance.
We carry the world's greatest makes-the
Weber, Chickering, Hinze, Schumann. Haddorff, Hobart M. Cable, Kimball, and a score of other makes.
We have the finest line ever carried in Eugene and at lower prices than ever before.
Commercial Club Block
Opposite Methodist Church
Eugene
a paying
patronize
the pres­
have no
advanced
eurred to
San Francisco, Oct. 5.— Leading
cities of the Pacific coast, represent­
ed by their executive officers and re-
spetlve commercial
organizations,
are arranging today for a unity of
action on all national legislation af­
fecting the Interests of the three
states bordering upon the Pacific
ocean.
Portland. Seattle, Tacoma.
Spokane, I.os Angeles, Oakland and
San Francisco participated In the con­
ference.
> I be-
in the
money
1 have
ground
t of the outcome of the
election
yesterday,
N. Harbaugh, from the
this forenoon tendered
HULIN PIANO-HOUSE
STEVENS
they did not, any one acquainted with
these facts would not wonder at the
longing to let go. This should not
be. Reasonable criticism Is not only
Unr«a
tolerable, but justifiable
condemn
sonable and malicious
able.
The spirit should be to help, not
to hinder. The rule by some Is that
as soon as a good man is inducted
Into office, to make it as disagree-
We all
able for him as possible,
should remember that the office of
mayor and the city council is with­
out pay, but with plenty of work, and
all good citizens should lend a help­
ing hand. They need It, they de­
serve It and should have it.
With best wishes to all. and for a
better Eugene, the city I have se­
lected to not only live in. but to die
in, I most respectfully bid you fare­
well as a member of the “city dads."
Respectfully,
I. N. HARBAUGH.
Washington, D. C., Oct. 2.—Rear
Admiral Charles M. Thomas, who
commanded the great Atlantic battle­
ship fleet during the period that
elapsed between its arrival at Mag­
dalena Bay early last spring and its
departure from San Francisco in
May, was placed on the retired list
of the navy today by operation of the
age limit.
The naval career of Rear Admir­
al Thomas dates back to 1865, in
which he was graduated from Annap­
olis. Since the time he has been
mostly in active service, but has
served In the Naval Academy and
t e Naval War College and In the
coast survey work at different times.
In 1899 he commanded the Lancas­
ter, in 1900-1901 the Brooklyn, in
1901-1902 the Oregon and In 1904-
1905 was commandant of the naval
training station at Newport. When
the Atlantic
battleship fleet left
Hampton Rpads last December on Its
trip around the world Rear Admiral
Thomas was In command of the sec­
ond division and when Rear Admiral
Evans was taken ill on the way to
San Francisco Rear Admiral Thomas
succeeded to the chief command of
the fleet.
W. O. Heckart has Deen awarded
the contract to build the Hovey two-
story brick at the corner of West
Eighth and Olive streets The con­
tract price Is near 113.000. The en­
tire lower floor of the building will
consist of one store room and the
upper story will be divided into liv­
ing rooms with all the modern con­
veniences. The West Eighth and Ol­
ive streets sides of the building will
be faced with white pressed brick.
Albuquerque, Oct. 3.—Spo­
kane was today selected as
the place for the pext Irri­
gation congress.
The Chas
K. Spauiaing Co. of
Newberg, have purchased a yard at
Albany, formerly owned by P. W.
Spink, and a new shed 24x100 feet
is being erected, and preparations
made for handling local business in
good shape, This company is mak-
Ing a drive of twelve mlllion feet,
from the McKenzie river, of pulp
logs.
About half of these
and fir
I
logs will be delivered at Oregon City
and the balance will be converted
into lumber.
McKibben Bros., Cottage Grove,
have installed a small sawmill, to re­
place the one recently burned, on the
O. &. S. E. The plant is about ready
to operate. The power equipment
consists of an 80 H. P. Kewanee boil-
er and 70-H. P. H. S. G. engine,
Plenty of orders for mining timbers
are booked.
A. E. Shiria, of the Shiri amili
Drain, lias purchased the Mack Mill,
near Drain and removed it to Glen­
dale. The plant will be ready to
operate in its new location about the
middle of October.
Booth-Kelly
Lumber Company,
Eugene, will Install an 8-inch Berlin
resaw at their Wendling plant. New
sorting table and transfers to and
from the resaw will be installed.
Trout set works is also being added
to the equipment.
A. L. Woodard. Cottage Grove, has
received a drive of 700,000 feet of
logs down the Coast Fork. The
plant is running steadily.
C. Inman, Walterville, has install­
ed a 16-54 Kewanee boiler and 12x
14 H. S. & G. engine. The mill is run­
ning on local orders.
The Cera Gorda Lumber Company,
Dorena. has Installed a Seattle don­
key in its camps. This plant is op­
erating on a tie order.
Marcóla, will re-
Fischer Bros,
sume about the 2 0th of October,
Bert Andrus has commenced op­
erations at his sawmill near Moun-
tain Home.
Chambers Lumber Co.. Cottage
Grove, resumed operations October 1.
Disston Lumber Compan. Disston,
will begin cutting
October.
Brown Lumber Company, Cottage
Grove, expects to resume operations
Oregon Timberman.
November 1st
union of Lane County veterans, he
and J. C. Corsaw of Springfield—-
both aged 5 9 years—being the
youngest men of the 140 enrolled
there who wore the blue during the
civil war.
The schooner Mayflower went to
sea last Friday and the Washcalore
and Coquille left Saturday. All were
bound for San Francisco with car-
-oes of lumber from the Siuslaw
Lumber Co.
A large quantity of coal oil for
the light-house at Heceta
was
brought from Coos Bay on board the
Willamina and unloaded at Kyle &
Sons' wharf. It will be taken out to
Heceta by team.
The schooner Oakland arrived in
port Wednesday afternoon, having
been towed up-from Coos Bay by the
steamer Roscoe. Some excitement
was caused just when the vessel was
tying up on account of the report
started in some way that the boat
had plague on board, There pro”?d
to be no foundation to the report,
The schooner is now loading at the
Oregon & California Lumber Co’s.
mill.
Fred C. Bean of the Berger-Bean
Hardware Co., of Eugene arrived
here Saturday, having come down
the beach from Newport.
He left
Monday on his way back to Eugene.
Mr. Baker, a hotel-keeper of
Springfield, was at Mapleton Wednes­
day on business. We understand he
has rented the Mapleton hotel from
R. H. Clow and will soon take pos­
session.
Aubrey Bond came in from Heceta
last Saturday having given up his
work with the surveyors. He left
Monday for Eugene to enter the state
university for the present year.
Born—At Glenada on Saturday,
September, 26, 1908, to Mr. and Mrs.
Wm. Yost, a son. William is anxious
to know how long it will be before
the boy will be able to say “papa."
-West.
DeWitt’s Little Early Risers, the
famous little liver pills. Sold by all
druggists.
Manicuring and
Hair Dressing
GARRETT & MITCHELL
Christen
a bottle drop to the floor. The con­
tents were past saving, but as he
claimed ft was only gun oil, the ex­
planation was accepted. Later he
went down stairs and was gone for a
considerable length of time, and
when he came back he could not find
Washington. Oct. 3.—Formal ,s
his bed. After trying to get into ev
C1J
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.. ..............) nouncement was made today that the
ery bed ...
in the ........
room,
it is reported
Will at last gave up in despair and
tuberculosis congress will m
crawled off in a corner by himself..
in Rome in 1911.
The crowd are having a fine time,
and the picture of Jim and Will do­
ing the “cutta-shark” will be repro­
duced at the Gem theatre in the near
future.
Brighton Beach, N. Y„ Oct. 3-
Twenty thousand people threw th«
high speed clutch into their laryiu-i
and let out a 40.000 lung-power yell
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur P. Stover, of i here when George Robertson of
Portland, were in Corvallis Wednes- 1 New York, drove his 50-horse?«-
day, says the Timos. Mr. Stover is Simplex across the line, winner in >
V as at the Long Tom farm sizing up record-smashing 2 4-hour automob;:»
was at the Long Tom farm sizinz up race. Nearly 50 miles behind hint
tt'o result of the artificial watering Ralph K. Mulford, of Brooklyn,
there. He is of the opinion that some brought his 50-horsepower Lozier
time in the distant future a great J in for the place, after a neck-and-
canal heading somewhere above Ell-! neck struggle with the big six-cvl-
gene, will carry water to this entire | inder Thomas car. which, handicap­
section and make it as productive as ped by a long series of tire trouble!,
it should be. Mr. Stover is not slow could not do better than third. The
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40-horsepower cr.
in voicing a protest at the profitless J Allen Kingston
and everlasting w’heat raising in this driven by Hughes, of New York, n
section. The land has been “wheat-] fourth place.
The four leader« covered 1177,
ed to death.” wheated so long and ,
continuously that, one can scarce1 1125, 1115 and 907 miles, respet-
The first three beat tin
raise an umbrella on much of it. If tively.
most of it was placed to clover, and | world's record for 4 hours, which
given a rotation of crops, i' would be I was 1107 miles.
In the twenty-third hour the Zust
restored In five years. Mr. Stover]
says Washington county
people car, with Harry Post driving, crash­
scouted the worth of irrigation, but ed through the fence of the back
are now coming around to it. An stretch, throwing its occupants near­
object lesson was a tract of irrigated ly 50 feet. Carl Brown, the me
clover from which the fourth crop Is chanlc. received a bad fracture of
now being taken. One crop without the right wrist, and possible internal
irrigation to four with irrigation injuries. Post was only slightly
ought to prove something. The mat­ hurt.
After the race Robertson was
ter of wheat raising in this section
suggests the following from a Mc­ placed under arrest f >r the killing !
Ffckett, the Pinkerton detective. »I m
Minnville paper, which says;
“Why are thirteen acres bringing died at the Coney Island hospital tba
a better income than two hundred afternoon from injuries received yea-
acres? Both tracts are well culti­ t.erday, when he was struck by the
vated; both excellent soil; both are Simplex car. The arrest of Robe--
three miles from North Yamhill; son is regarded as purely technical
Seriously Hurt in Race«
both have been cropped for ten years
Thomas D. Fickett, special officer,
past. But the thirteen acres with
less labor and less expense in taxes struck by car while crossing track;
and in the original investment have both legs broken and internal in>
averaged a better net income than ries; died at Coney Island hospital
Charles Gatenja, driver, avoiding
two hundred acres? Ten years thir-
teen acres—prunes; ten years, two crowd on track, ran through outsidt
broken, bruises im
hundred acres, grain.
Any limit Irail; wrist
shock.
here for grain raisers?
Go
Harry Block, driving second «
Preston Busbee of North Yamhi
when leaky tank started fire: set«*-
call him up by phone.
He
thirteen acres and the place is not ly burned about face and hands
Harry Cobe. driver; went throng»
for sale. When he desires he takes
his family to Southern California for inside fence; left leg injured.
the winter. It is not recorded that
the 200-acre owner can do so.”
Real Estate Brokers
Itegi«ter Building
Phone Main ION.
I olman Studio
Phystc an and Surgton
S. D. READ
DENTIST
Over Hall's Grocery
>. 51 m Willamette Street
Eugene Cleaning
and Dyeing Works Teas, Coffees, Spices
Everything possible in cleaning and
or Chinaware
Dyeing.
Oorner Sixth and Willamette Sts.
Phone Main 122
C^vvHi
GEORGE R. SHELDON
of th
»con*
Smyths Transfer Co
Baggage «tonti frw for ten
G. S. Beardsley» MT
< all at .30 East Ninth Mrert.
O. R. EtM’KF, Mgr.
McLEOD
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II EAST NINTH STREW