c C? C CURES OaOaW. BLOOD POISON facture of recent year«. They even go so far as to assert that ! the new steel will give Great Britain a considerable lead, at least bo far as quality is concerned, for some years to come. The AN INDEPENDENT PAPER announcement, which was made by Professor Arnold, of Shef- CHARLES H. FISHER, Editor and Publisher •* s’..“ • ~ "“T" pa:.J .n advance. $2 st .nd ! Held University, had reference to the production of a new tool r0ar steel, whicL is stated to possess from three to seven times the ¡nulling .»dur..«, or lb. b«.t-knowa blgb..p..d .led. .nd -------------- —r-w------------- ----- —----------- - ---------------------- which has the further advantage that It can be water-hardened. AgvaM tnr The Guard | THE EUGENE WEEKLY GUARD The following are authorized lu take and receipt for aubacrlptlona or tranaaci any o ATLANT 4, Qg. fendants from publishing in the and aay mad "We don't patronize’ list the name of the Buck 8tove and Ran;e Co., of St Louia Ti Tiiisia Herbert Hume Wedderburn 5 per ’ANOTHER OFFICER IS The opinion 1« modified to the ex-1 cent Anna Kendall. Portland. 7 par, tent that there should be eliminated , cent Anna Craig. Berkley. 7 per ADDED TO EUGENE’S from the decree the restriction of the cent Florence Vial. Portland < per, labor organisation and other defend­ cent Lillie Atkinson. Mabel Lange- j POLICE FORCE ants from "mentioning writing or Della Weatherbee, Oakland, o referring" to the buaine»« of the per'eest' “ach;”c P. Huine and Helen Buck Stove Range Company, or its T Hume, 5 per cent each; Mary A customers. Hume, Wedderburn. 16 per cent. After the meeting of the city conn, Other points of the decree were af­ There are no bequests to charity In firmed. the document, which was drawn at cil last night Mayor Matlock ap- pointed L. Bonney an regular police- Wedderburn two years ago. man with full pay, making five regU. WILL OF ROBERT D. HUME lar officers. These are in addition to the street commissioner's force wb0 WIL RAISE SUNKEN are all sworn in to do police duty. DIVIDES NEARLY $5,000,000 will be on the streets from REBEL TORPEDO BOAT 12 Bonney o’clock at noon until after the 12:32 train arrives at night. He will assist Chief of Police Farringt n dur. San Francisco, March 10.—The ing the afternoon with his work be­ will of Robert D. Hume, of San Fran­ New Orleans. March 11.—That ar­ cisco and Wedderburn. Or., who died rangements have been completed to sides attending to his dutl-s as dog in January at his home at the mouth raise the first torpedo boat of the tax collector, and at night he will of Rogue River, disposes of between I confederacy from the bottom of Lake have a regular beat with the other 1400.out) and $500,000 as follows: Pontchartrain was announced at the I three night oficers. While the chief To the widow Is left the San Fran­ meeting of the confederate veterans | of police is gone to his meals tae cisco home at 94 4 Chestnut street, | last night. The boat is lying near new officer will be on the streets. The new appointee has served and all the personal property of the the Spanish fort where it went down testator therein. In addition she is i years ago. It is proposed to place many times as special officer and for given all of the personal property In the vessel on the lawn of the confed­ several years past has held the posi­ the Pled month home, which stands erate veteran soldier's home in New tion of dog tax collector. He I» a good officer and will doubtless give In her name, together with all stocks Orleans. satisfaction. and bonds of which he was vested * -- - - - __ _ at the time of his death, and $30,- 000 In cash. To Mrs. Harriet Neal, R. D. Atkin­ son and Mabel Langevin, of Oakland, : BORN ; DIED Helen T Hume and Edith Hume, nieces, of St. Helent, and Robert Hume, a nephew, he leaves $5000 in In Eugene, March 15, 1909, to H. At Coburg, March 14, 1909, from cash each. The balance of the estate, after paying these legacies. U lumped stomach trouble. Oscar Durst, aged E. Powell and wife, a daughter. 64 years. The funeral was held Mon­ and divided as follows: In Eugene, March 14, 1909, to J. Joseph W. Hume, San Francisco, day. with interment in the Coburg I. F. Carlson and wife, a daughter. 7 per cent; John S. Hume, Wedder­ O. O. F. cemetery. burn, 7 per cent; W. R. Hume and C. C. Hume, Piedmont, 7 per cent; SVR8CRIBE FOR THE GUARD S u I imc HI m * for the Guard, 50c a month It is noticeable that City Treasurer Reisner does not sign the platform of principles promulgated by bis associates on the tick­ i ---------------- et. “Pay out money only on orders of the Willamette Valley The effort to construct an electric railway from Eugene to Company” might be a sufficient platform for him, if we are al­ Jlorence is assuming more definite shape every day, and the lowed to make a suggestion. promoters believe that they will have no difficulty in carrying out their plans. The one thing they will require is the support, When one thinks about the bills of the tax collector in Ore­ financially and morally, of the people of thia city and the coun­ gon, and then realizes that the Washington legislature spent try through which the line runs. Eastern financiers are ready (10,000,000, as compared with something over $3,000,000 in to take up the project when it is presented in the proper shape this state, the conclusion must be that we might be even worse This means that surveys must be made, rights of way secured, off than we are. •nd ample evidence presented that the people of Lane county want the road and are willing to invest a reasonable amount of Though congress has cut off the $25,000 allowed the presi­ money to show their confidence in its ability to pay dividends. dent for traveling expenses, Taft is already mapping out a trip If this showing can be made it is beleved that before many that will cover the Pacific coast, Alaska, Texas and other parts weeks pass actual work of construction may be commenced and of the South. He has acquired the habit and likes it. And so continued until the cars are running between this city and Shis- do the people. law tidewater. There is no question but the building of this road will work There seems to be more general interest in the special ses- wonders for Eugene in the way of making it a jobbing centre, sion of the legislature than was exhibited in the regular meet­ because of the concessions in railroad rates that connection with ing of the solons. The uncertainty of the outcome is what is the ocean will force. Also it will develop the country to a great worrying a great many taxpayers. extent in respect to the lumber, fruit and dairying industries, making this city the centre of a vastly increased trade. Its ef- California has a new law under which a youth of eighteen, fects will furthermore be felt upon the entire county by hasten­ if caught smoking cigarettes, may be taken charge of by the ing the building of other electric lines through the valley, now in I , probation officer, and is subject to incarceration in one of the contemplation or actually in course of construction, like that of state s reformatory institutions. A mighty sensible law that! the Oregon Electric Company and the Portland, Eugene & East- i ern. Competition is always a great stimulus to the transporta­ Isle Royal, in Lake Superior, the largest fresh-water island tion corporations, and the lack of it has been a sufficient answer in the world, has been bought by the steel trust, but nobody to the question, What is the matter with the Willamette val­ seems to know what for, unless it is thinking of setting up a lit­ ley?” that has been a standing interrogation for the past twenty tle kingdom, to be held in reserve for future contingencies. years. The local businessmen who have a last taken hold of the It is now in order for the 1909 recipients of big loving cups 8iuslaw project are actuated solely by the desire to carry out a to organize a society, if they can find a hall big enough, and de­ great enterprise that is long overdue. They have awakened to termine the best method of keeping the plaguey things without __ FOR INDIGESTION AND DYSPEPSIA ------- - -------------- - < ------------ BKLIKVKS sour stomach , belching .’ etc . 5 the fact that the way to build railroads is to build them, and are I hiring a vault in a safe deposit building. E. C. OrWlTT m. COMPANY. CMICAQO. ILL. proceeding to expend their money and time to prove the truth 'or error of that theory. They ought to receive more substantial Automobile about the the cost Automobile owners owners who who growl growl about cost of of repairs repairs may may encouragement than lias ever been accorded to outside promoV find some comfort in the fact thftt the repairs on the battle,hip ers whose interests are more purely selfish, and entirely devoict......... Illinois, one of the around-the-world fleet, are to cost Uncle Sam of the sentiment that impels an enterprising citizen to labor and $2,000,000. sacrifice in order to build up the community in which he lives Best of work.. Don't fail to see the Manicuring and and enhance the prosperity of its people. pictures oe are putting out At last Captain-Congressman Hobson has a real fight on his G. S. Beardsley, M. D now at half price hands—it is to retain his seat in congress, which a 'gent” by ’. « Hair Dressing Physician and Surgeon i4 SUPERFLUOUS LEGAL VERBIAGE the name of Davis is out for. This will be glorious news in j llaHtlng Sisters folman Studio »• Register Blilg. 1« and 17 McClung Bldg.. Japan. Front Suite Phone Main 47 Nth and Willamette 51s Willamette Street There is a bill before the Illinois legislature making it a valid indictment or information simply to allege that Richard Roe, on After reading the arguments of counsel on both sides in the GARRETT & MITCHELL January 8, 1908, in Cook county, Illinois, did murder John Doe.” Carmack murder trial, we confess astonishment that there was S. D. READ McLEOD Under the present law, aside from all the other preliminary and not some more shooting up in Nashville—between the lawyers. DENTIST Real Estate Brokers the tailor subsequential verbiage, it would be necessary to allege "that on 44 EAST NINTH STREET Over Hull's Grocery Register Building. Xo. .»1K \\ il hl mette Street the 8th day of January, in the year of our Lord 1908, in the Phone MiUu lox. John D Rockefeller must have had private information that county of Cook, state of Illinois. Richard Roe did then and there, there is oil in northern Alaska—he is financing an expedition FOR BEST Jesse G. Wells unlawfully, with malice aforethought, murder John Doe. a hu­ which is being outfitted to make explorations in that secton. Eugene Cleaning ATTORNEY man being, then and there being, contrary to the statutes in Teas, Coffees, Spices Register Building such cases made and provided.” And if any of this language and Dyeing Works Gives special attentiou to the ««- What a change! Mr Roosevelt announces that he will leave amination of abstracts, drafting will», was left out, and it should be proved that Richard Roe did com a controversy over himself to be fought out by the two college Everytliing or Chinaware in cleaning and nettling estates, conveyances and col­ Dyeing. mil the murder in question, and he should be found guilty, the professors who started it. Verily, all things are possible. Val> at 30 East Ninth Street. lections. Also to all pension matter». Corner Sixtli and Willnmette Sts. Phone Main 108. G. B. LOCKE, Mgr. conviction would be set aside, on the ground that the indictment Phone Main 122 ___________ had not specified the year “of our Lord," and therefore the In 1907, the latest figures available, the average monthly Eugene Electric Co. crime may have been committed in the year 1908 of the Jewish pay of school teachers in the United States was $56.10, while Wm G. Martin SHINN I. O. THOMAS or Egyptian or Roman era; or that John Doe, not having been professional ball players—but shucks, what's the use? Attorney-at ljw THE SIGN PAINTER Electric \\ irinp. Fixtures and Sup- specified to be a human being, may have been a chicken, or. if Win practice In all the courts. Of­ plies 77 Wesi Eighth Street. he was mentioned as a human being and not "then and there be­ Phone Main 5. EUGLNE, OR. fice Warren Building. 536 Willam­ The morning paper says that "the people of Eugene will take ette street, over Crescent store. ing," he might have been a corpse, or have been somewhere else, care of Frank Reisner's candidacy.” We thought he was in the , or at some other time. And so the crime having been imper- hands of his friends—the Willamette Valley Company. Smyths Trans fer Co Fish andPoultry OR. LULU MUNKERS MARQUAM fectly defined in the beginning, the mere fact that it was proved ww lims-—" ”■ ... * Physician and Surgeon to have been committed has nothing to do with the case, says an Former Senator Tom Platt says he will now devote all his at­ baggage stored free for ten days Market Residence 28 East Eleventh street. •xchange. ~ •• 1 •»- *• Office, Register building. Phone Rei tention to his express company. Humph! That's what a lot of Phone»—Main 38. Red DM2. Fish Revived Dnilv 6231. English jurists, practicing the modernized form of their laws, I folks said he did all the time he was in the senate. IHlMiFW IY. Prop. ' W H, SMYTH, Pr.M, SPECIALTY—Diseases of wotnt® I lion- M.,,n 2 t II2X M ,|| M „ 1WtH St look on our practice as a grotesque survival of mediaevalism and children « i ■ . _ -- i — ’ — ■ — — — ----- * 4 r Our own law scholars and the writers of law books tell us that Yoi, sir-ree, the world do move.” A resolution demand-1 it is not even good American law. But some of our judges, when ing the free coinage of silver at a ratio of 20 to 1 was defeated anybody says so. immediately get horriffod at this "assault on in the Nevada senate the other day. the courts.” It is not an assault on the courts. It is a mere »I broom swinging against some of the mediaeval cobwebs with It takes a thief to catch a thief.” Convict bankers in the which they have become encumbered. Western penitentiary of Pennsylvania have uncovered a heavy rRFFn? Srea'«« ’’ewspap.r will be .¡ven shortage in the prison accounts. The morning paper printed a garbled report of Engineer Kel I to e[ ery Meekly Guard subscriber sey's testimony in the injunction case, and proceeds to comment In the opinion of trouble experts, the new government of who pays the regular price of $1.50 a vear epos it editorially This is another instance of manufacturing a Cuba is busy sowing seed that is bound to produce a sizable crop straw man only for the purpose of demolishing the effigy in in the near future. m advance. Also to every Daily Guard righteous indignation If the morning paper would print a truth ±di'e~ «e « Altar«» Subscription, __J2L P f f A H rs GVARD PRINTING CO., tUCtNE. OfUCGOM