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THE EUGENE WEEKLY GUARD
AN INDEPENDENT PAPER
CHARLES II. FISHER. Editor and Publisher
Published every Thursday at Eugene, Oregon.
Subscription price, 11.50 per year, if paid in advance; 12.00 at end
of year.
Entered at the Eugene, Oregon, postoffice aa second-class matter.
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THURSDAY. DECEMBER 10, 1908
PREMIUM PAPERS
We are again efferlng either the Oregon Agrieulturist or American
Farmer free to every subscriber who pays his subscription to the Weekly
Guard one year in advance For the free offer of silver and kitehea sets
lee advertisement on this page
You may have them while they last..
Address GUARD PRINTING COMPANY. Eugene, Oregon.
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though it is not shared by the friends of the missing chief of po
lice, says the Berkeley (Cal.) Reporter. One of two things is
certain—Biggy fell off the boat when in a drunken stupor, or
else he has fled the country as some suspect. In either case En
gineer Murphy, who was in charge of that police launch, can ex
plain the mystery, if he will .
By order of the New York park authorities, so the newspa
pers tell us, a census of the squirrels in Central Park was taken
the other day. Many years ago squirrels were so numerous in
Central Park and their number increased so rapidly, that it was
necessary to shoot a large number every year to prevent
them from becoming nuisances. It was ascertained by the cen
sus that the number of squirrels had greatly decreased during
the last two years, so much, in fact, that it will be necessary
to restock Central Pork with squirrels next year. Two reasons
are given to account for this decrease in the number of squir
rels. The squirrels are fed so liberally by visitors that they have
practically abandoned their way of living like wild creatures.
They have become lazy and inactive and enervated by their op
ulent way of living. The result has been that the squirrels do
no'. n<dr at all or, if t1 cy do. they raise much smaller families
that heretofore. Another cause of their decline in numbers is
that hundreds of them are run over and killed or crippled by
auto mobiles every year. The squirrels have become fat by over
feeding and are no longer able to avoid automobiles going at a
rapid clip. All this teaches a powerful lesson, as it illustrates
how unavoidably luxury and hyper-civilization will lead to race
suicide. The families of great wealth in the United States and
elsewhere, but more so in this country than in Europe, are rap-
dily gravitating toward extinction. Their complete extinction
can be prevented only by the infusion of new blood, not the blue
bloou of aristocracy, but the healthy, strongly pulsating red
blood of vigorous manhood.
President E J. Ross, of thv Washington State Dairyman s
Association, and numerous other members of that organization
will participate in the convention of the Oregon State Dairy As
sociation in Salem Thursday and Friday of this week. Electric
power has been installed in the exhibit hall for working exhibits,
and handsome cups are to be given as prizes, appropriately en
graved. and assurance of dairy and creamery exhibits are com
ing in to the secretary daily. Salem people have arranged a
splendid reception for their guests. Oregon dairymen will be
well represented at the Washington meeting in Chehalis next
week.
Collier's Weekly, which is credited with being able to look
about as far into the interior of a millstone as the next person,
advises everybody to bulid at once, whether they have the
money or not. That paper s ays: “If you intend to build soon,
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do it now. Borrow, if ncc ■ssnry, whatever, under your
circumstances is a prudent a mount. Money loans at the lo\ <
rate for years; labor is a little less costly than it has been to:
years—much lower than it will be for a long time to come. The
materials for construction .especially lumber, are very cheap.
Flooring, in most localities, is 20 per cent below its price a year
ago, and hardwood may be had for the former cost of soft wod.”
The editor of the Visalia (Cal.) Times says: ‘ To a man up
a tree it appears that Biggy is not dead, but has just dropped
out of sight, and that it will appear that way until his dead body
is found.” And this is the opinion of a great many people, al-
Afraid of Ghosts
Junction City, Dec. 8.- At the an-,
nual cijy election held here yester
day. the following were elected coun-
cilmen:
Fred C Peil, Forrest G.
Miller and Earl Jackson.
There was very little interest man
ifested in the general result.
Dr.
Ruff was defeated for re-election by
only six votes.
The last annual message of President Roosevelt, printed in
today’s Guard, as is usually the case with the chief executive's
state papers, quite lengthy. It treats all the principal subjects
A marriage license was issued this
—especially the topics relating to corporations and labor, in the morning to Charles W. Pettijofan
exhaustive, argumentative fashion that has characterized the and Miss Flisia B. Shackelford, both ;
of Marcola.
A license was Issued
president's utterances on the same topics for four years past, I yesterday afternoon to Delbert L. i
of Drain
and
Mias
Irene
He presents no new ideas, and it is safe to say the message will Guard,
Foote, of Eugene.
receive little attention. It is too long for the average reader to
Kennedy's Laxative Cough Syrup
peruse it carefully.
stops the cough and drives the cold
The Albany Democrat says: “This week the Eugene- city
council passed three more paving ordinances. It proposes to be
the paving city of the coast. Already a wonderful result has
followed. Prices are soaring in the city. Residence lots well
POPULAR VOTING CONTEST
out are said to be $2000 to $3500, business lots in the air, rents
The Guard will inaugurate another popular voting contest, away up, board higher than ever and everything in proportion.
which will result in the sending of a party of at least nine young The final result will be watched with general interest. Can the
ladies from Lane county to the Seattle-Alaska-Yukon eyposi, city, one of its size, stand the pressure?”
tion, giving them the trip of their life wtihout a cent of expense
Some wiseacre has remarked that the town that is too bad
to them. One year ago The Guard conducted a voting contest of
for good people and too good for bad people, is likely to go to the
this kind and in the end gave more prizes and was more liberal
bad for good. Which is doubtless correct. It takes all kinds of
with the winners in all respects that they had reason to expect. It
people to make a town and we must put up with a certain per
will be the same this year, and the publisher gives his guarantee
cent of bad in order to get the good. The thing to do is to keep
that the advance promises will be made good—and more, too.
the bad down to the minimum and the good up to the maximum.
Mr. Murdock, who has been specially engaged to manage this
contest, is thoroughly reliable and we can recommend him to
Morse, the banker who robbed depositors of his institution
the people of Lane county as one in whom they can place the
of several million dollars, declares that he would as soon be sen
fullest confidence.
tenced to prison for life as for fifteen years. The eminent finan
This contest will simply give those young ladies who are
cier is quite correct and we agree with him in every particular.
willing to make a reasonable effort an opportunity to enjoy a
Let us make it life, by all means.
vacation that they could not procure in any other manner, since
the exposition management has assured The Guard that its party
There seems to be some doubt as to whether Andy Carnegie
will be given special attention during their stay in Seattle.
ha3 outgrown the steel business or the steel business has out
grown Andy, but there is none about the $300,000,000 in steel
PIONEER LIFE ,
trust bonds that Andy has salted down.
The Guard has received with the author’s compliments a
copy of “Pioneer Life.” The author, Uncle Sam Handsaker, is
well-known in Lane and Douglas counties, where he came as a
pioneer in early days. His bcrok will be but another of the many
contributions the author has made to the well-being of his fel
lows. It tells in simple style the true story of pioneer experi
ences in crossing the plains, in fighting Indians and in the hum
ble log cabin.
To us who have come at a later day and who may have
been tempted to criticize the stage of development we found,
this and similar books are an explanation of the difficulties
found and overcome, conditions unknown to us.
The book is well bound in cloth and is sold by the author at
the price of one dollar a copy.
ELECTION AT JUNCTION
CITY YESTERDAY
Many suggestions have been made as to what should be done
for our ex-presidents, but nobody seems to care a continental
about doing anything for the ex-candidates. This doesn't seem
to be exactly a square deal, somehow.
Eugene has spent $227,000 in one year for street paving.
Where is there another town of 10,000 on the Pacific coast
that can equal this record?
If Eugene keeps on plugging for a new hotel it will get
there before long. Keeping everlastingly at it brings success.
RICH STRIKE OF
GOLD ORE AT
BLUE RIVER
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j. i II. Commings, a well
known miner of Blue River,
was In Eugene this forenoon
on his wav to Portland. He
stated to a Guard reporter
this morning that a
rich
strike was made last week at
the Hawkins claim,
which
probably eclipses
anything
ever struck in the district.
The find was made In an old
tunnel that had been worked
for several years.
The ore,
said Mr. CuniiningF, runs ov
er $50 to (he ton and when
the rock Is crumbled with the
hands great strings of gold as
long as one's linger are ex
hibited.
The owners are
Jubilant over their find and
expect to strike still richer
ore further In t'he tunnel.
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Take DeWitt's Kidney and Bladder
Pills. They are antiseptic and soothe
pain quickly. Insist upon
DeWitt's
Kidney and Bladder Pills. Regular
size, 50c. Sold here by all druggists.
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In Eugene, December 7. 1908, to
Rev. and Mrs. D. H. Trimble, a son.
This is the Case With Many Eugene
People.
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Too many Eugene
citizens
are
handicapped with a bad back, The
unceasing pain causes constant mis-
ery, making
work
a burden and
stooping or lifting an impossibility.
The back aches at night, preventing
refreshing rest and in the morning
is stiff and lanie. Plasters and lini
ments may give relief but cannot
reach the cause. To eliminate the
pain« and aches you must cure the
kidneys.
Doan’s Kidney
Pills
cure sick
kidneys and cure them permanently.
Can you doubt Eugene evidence?
Mrs. R. W. Kirkpatrick, Mt W.
Seventh St., Eugene, says: "Hear
ing good reports about Doan’s Kid
ney Pills from people I knew, I was
led to get a supply at De Ratio’s drug
store.
From the gratifying results
which myself
and child
received
from their use I can conscientiously
say that Doan's Kidney Pills do all
that Is claimed for them. 1 deem it
a pleasure to give them niv endorse
ment.”
For sale by all dealers. Price 50
cents Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo,
New York, sole agents for the Unt-
ted states.
Remember
the name—Doan’s—
and take no other.
Mlles Carter, who was shot by W.
Mack, a street laborer, last week,
at Grants Pass, as a
result of the
latter's refusing to pay for a glass
< ‘"«’AGO WHEAT M \RKET.
: of “near-beer” he had ordered and i
1 drunk, died yesterday.
The
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Chicago, Dec. 8 —Dec. $1.03^;
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let pierced his lungs, Mack will be May. 11.08 7-8; July $1.01
tember 98.
charged with murder.
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| Sold by all druggists.
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Many people are afraid of ¿hosts. Few people
are afraid of germs. Yet the ghost is a fancy and
the germ is a fact. If the germ could be magnified
to a size equal to its terrors it would appear more - *4 S
terrible than any fire-breathing dragon. Germs
can’t be avoided. They are in the air we breathe,
the water we drink.
The germ can only prosper when the condition
of the system gives it free scope to establish it
self and develop. When there is a deficiency of
vital force, languor, restlessness, a sallow cheek,
a hollow eye, when the appetite ia poor and the
sleep is broken, it ia time to guard against the germ. You <■•
fortify the body against all germs by the use of Dr. Pieree’s Gold
ea Medical Discovery. It increases the vital power, cleanses the
system of clogging impurities, enriches the blood, puts the ,tom.
ach and organs of digestion and nutrition ia working condition J
that the germ finds no weak or tainted spot in which to breed
"Golden Medical Discovery” contains no alcohol, whisky Or
habit-forming drugs. All its ingredients printed on it,
wrapper.
It ia not a secret nostrum but a medicine or tso„
composition and with a record of 40 yean »f cum.
Accept no
aubstitute—there is nothing ‘‘just as good.” Ask your neighbors.
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People often ask us how we can sell goods of such great quality at the prices we do
And no wonder they are amazed at such unusual bargains. But in patronizing this stce
you are not paying three or four profits, as our “Mill to Man” method enables you to buy\
first-class article at factory prices. Therefore in buying goods at the Brownsville Woolen
Store you simply pay one small profit. Hence the reason we quote the following prices
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We have just received a shipment of Children’s Coats, and owing to their late arrival
we have decided to place them on sale at the popular price of.....................................
$5.00
These were made to sell at from $ 7to $9, but in secrificing our profit on this line it not
only enables us to close them out quickly, but insures to us many new customers.
Exceptional Bargain in Oregon Made Blankets
Fine grey wool Blankets, full double size,
worth $4.00..................................... $2.75
Extra heavy gray mottled wool Blankets,
full doublt size, worth $4.50.. $3.50
Fmo grey wool Blankets, full double size,
worth $4.50.................................. $3.50
Extra heavy gray mottled wool Blanket«.
$4.25
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Extra heavy gray mottled wool Blankets,
full double size, worth $7.00.. $5.00
591 Willamette St. Eug ene, Oregon.
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any time you desire. Do your shopping as early as posj
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Men’s fine Worsted Suits, Navy Blue only, worth $12.50...................... $8.50
Men’s Suits, made of warranted all-wool Oregon-made cloths, gray and
brown, worth to $18.00 ............................................................ $9.85 '
Men’s very fine Worsted Suits, newest models, worth every cent
of $20.00: go at..................................
$12.50
Men's Cravenette Rain Coats: warranted at $15.00 value, go at.......... $9.85
Men’s Overcoats, made of wool. Oregon-made cloths, real $18 values . >’9.85
Fine grey wool Blankets, full double sine,
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