THE EUGENE WEEKLY GUAR D. THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 1909
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CORPORATION MISREPRESENTATION
The means by which the private corporations which control
public utilities maintain their hold are based largely on de
ception and fraud practiced upon the public through subservi
ent publications, sometimes dignified by the name of newspa
pers. This fact is established at the present time by a letter
published in the Pendleton Tribune over the signature of A
Welch, manager of the Willamette Valley Company. It seems
that the Eastern Oregon city has a municipal ownership fight on
hand, and that the East Oregonian, one oi the ablest and most
independent daily newspapers in Oregon, which is fighting for
the right of the people to furnish themselves light and power, as
well as water, having had successful municipal ownership of the
water plant there for years, cited the contest in Eugene. Just as
is the case in this city, the Willamette Valley Co., or rather
the same corporation under a different name, is fighting the in
stallation of a municipal light and power plant in Pendleton,
and have apparently subsidized the morning paper, which
is also similar to the Eugene situation. In reply to an editorial
in the East Oregonian Mr. Welch wrote a letter which the Morn
ing Tribune publishes and we reprint in full, as follows, ad
dressed to the manager of their Pendleton f^lant:
‘ Portland, March 24.—Mr. F. W. Vincent, Pendleton, Or.—
Dear Sir:—I have yours of the 23d and fully agree with you in
the matter of editors. Now, the fact in the Eugene matter is
this: That we sold the city of Eugene our water plant last July
for $140,000. The Willamette Valley Company has no interest
in the plant at the present time. At the time the city took over
the water plant we entered into »'contract to do the pumping
for 1% cents per K. W. The fact is that the city has had to
raise the watpr rates over our old rates to make the water
works pay the bond interest and the pumping bills since they
took it over. Now, then, they have raised the cry that if they
had their own power plant to do the pumping with that they
eould save money. In other words cur pumfinig bills are from
$230 to $700 a month, and they are going to put in a plant out
on the McKenzie river for $130,000 according to their estimate.
A correct estimate would be nearly $300,000, and run it into
Eugene to do the pumping with. Now you can easily figure it
out for yourself whether the city can save any money running
their plant at these figures, even if the plant could be put in for
$137,000—their estimate of it. The idea is to spend the $130,-
000 that is now in the treasury of the water fund. The fact is
they had an authorized issue of $300,000. After purchasing
our plant, fixing the defects, and after they had .made several
extensions, they have this nearly eaten up, all but $130,000.
‘‘I suppose you know that many of the municipal water
plants in the Northwest are now for sale. For instance, Hills
boro, which purchased its own gas and light plant four years
ago and havein it now $48,000, will sell for $20,000 of any
body's money»and If you have not got the money they will trust
you for the biggest part of it. Now, these arc facts. You can
print them and they will be backed up.
"Yours as ever ,
‘ A WELCH,
"Manager Willamette Valley Co.”
IN DEM CASE
Both the unwritten law and self-
' defense were urged in Cradlebaugh's
defense.
Mrs. Cradlebaugh herself
went on the stand and told of her
I relations with Walton in the effort
ito save her husband from the gal-
lows.
Railway development the Willamette valley muit have. In
no other way will it be possible to care for the thousands of home
seekers who arje crowding into Western Oregon. Small farms are
dependent for profit largely upon good transportation and mar
ket facilities ,and these we sadly lack. The Harriman system,
MORE DETAILS
the Oregon Electric and Welch roads all seem to be playing the
old game of delay, refusing to recognize the right of this section
OF PRISON BREAK
to its share of railroad construction, and merely doing enough
work and making such promises for the future as will hold the Carefully Laid Plan of Con
field against possible invasion from other companies. This dead
victs Frustrated by
lock must be broken or there will be an inevitable stagnation in
Officials
the progress of the country. Eugene faces this condition and all
Lane county is concerned in it. We must have more electric or
Salem Or., March 30.—The
four
steam railroads, and that is why the Siuslaw project has been convicts who made an unsuccessful
to break out of the peniten
undertaken by a company of local business men. We of Lane attempt
tiary yesterday were John Branton, I
county are able to build this road if we set about to do it, and it convicted in Lane county for assault?
will mean much for development of our industries and the profit with Intent to kill, and regarded as
one of the most dangerous convicts
able occupation of the thousands of newcomers who are crowd In the penitentiary; J. P. Colyar, al
ing into the country; it will make a large city of Eugene. Better so from Lane county, serving a two-'
year term for robbery; C. H. Spauld-i
than anything else, it will break the railroad deadlock and force Ing from Clatsop county, serving a
other roads into action in order to hold the business of this terri term of two and one half years for
larceny front a dwelling and L. P.
tory. Is not this enterprise worthy of the consideration and co Letherldge, from Umatilla county,1
operation of the Commercial Club ,as well as every progressive serving a term of three years for ut- 1
terlng torgei evidence of a debt.
citizen?
Worked in Prison Kitchen.
The four convicts worked
in the
prison kitchen at the
penitentiary.
The morning paper tells about the wonderful progress Eu Branton was a butcher, Colyar a
and Spaulding and Letheridge;
gene has made in the past two years, and therein it departs baker
were cooks. They were taken from
from a fixed rule of action and tells the literal truth. And during their cells every morning at five
’clock and worked at their several
these two years the affairs of the city have been administered o
duties in preparing the morning meal
by Mayor Matlock and the councilmen who are in accord with for the convicts.
working in the kitchen in
him, their judgment and careful attention to public affairs con the While
early hours of the morning the
tributing greatly to the growth and prosperity that has come to bars were cut with the butcher knife,
was planned to make the escape
Eugene. Gwe us two years more of government in the interest it
from the butcher shop, located in the
of the plain people and we will have a city of 20,000 people basement of the north wing of the
prison. It was owing to the fact that
here. If we turn the government over completely to the Wil the
tampered bar was detected by J.
lamette Valley Company—but there is flo use talking about it. P. Keeton, a guard, that the attempt
to cut out was not successful.
The people of Eugene are too wise to be fooled again.
Last Wednesday evening the bar,
partly severed, was discovered
by
Keeton in making his rounds of In
spection.
He reported the matter at
once to Warden Curtis and Sui>erln-
tendent James.
Having
no other
means of discovering the guilty pris
oners the prison officials decided not
to repair the severed bar but to take
extra precautions against the break.
When the break occurred this morn
ing the prison officers were prepared.
Prison Autliorities Prepared.
Guards were stationed at the gate
where the convicts were compelled
to emerge from inside the walls, oth
er guards were behind the walls and
Work on the new Osburn hotel will
The work of excavating for the in the upper windows of the prison.
going to |
begin within a few weeks and It will bitulithic pavement on Pearl street Almost immediately upon
lie rushed to completion. The build was begun this afternoon by the War their stations this morning, the at-'
ing will be five -lories high, con ren Construction Co’s.
crew.
The tempt to escape was made. The bar,
structed of brick with pressed brick city's steam roller Is being used to i which had been wholly severed since
fading and will cost approximately draw the plow through the hard sur Wednesday, a small part at a time,
>100.000, with furnishings to cost face of the gravel street. The work was pushed aside and the c nivicts
>25,000 In addition.
There will be was begun on Easy Sixth and East crawled forth one at a time, all the
time being watched closely by the
125 r. onia in the building in addi Seventh streets, there
being
five
tion to the
office,
dining
room, blocks on Pearl street to pave this guards.
There 1- a slight trench outside the
kitchen grill aud other apartments.
year.
barred windows of the basement. In
A meeting of the stockholders In
Besides this street, a block
this trench the convicts quietly con
the enterprise was held last night Olive street between West Tenth
an<l directors elected as follows: W. West Eleventh and one or two other cealed themselves as they emerged
When all had
.1 Warnock. M. Svarverud. W. F. Os short stretches are to be paved this front the window.
burn, W. E. Brown. Geo. T. Hall. Sr. year, and by the time these are com-1 came forth they jumped out of the
F. W. Osburn was chosen as treas pleted It Is probable that orders will trench simultaneously and made for
urer and C. P. Barnard as permanent have been made by the city council the open gate in the wall, which had
just been loosed by the guards tak
secretary. John Hunxlcker wub chosen to imve other streets.
as architect.
The
mixing
plant,
which
was ing the trusties out to work.
They had l.irdly made the move
The work of moving the two resi moved early this spring from a point
dences off the lot to be occupied by on Lincoln street abutting on
the until the muzzles of four guns were
They were com
the hotel at the
corner
of East railroad grounds to a point on the trained on them.
Eighth and Pearl streets will begui city’s land back of the butte, is ready manded to go back through the wall.
Immediately after the first of April for the “dope." The matter of a new This was done so that their Identity
and soon after that excavation for the location for the rock crusher has not could be learned by a closer exam
hotel building will begin.
yet been settled and as yet no steps ination. The tuner doors leading to
the butcher shop in the basement had
have been taken to move it front its
I been carefully locked
by
Warden
present location at the west end of
| Curtis, so that escape that way was
the Butte.
I ini possible*.
The work in Eugene this year will
As soon as he had crawled back
be In charge of W. M Church. J. H
Shewry. who was superintendent here 1 through the window, Branton used
■ the butcher knife, the only weapon
The following concerning Dan J. a part of last year. Is now general j with which he was armed to cut his
sii|>erintendent
of
all
the
plants
south
I throat and died before the warden
Moore, the well-known Portland ho
tel iiiaii. Is from II. R. Kincaid's Ore of Portland. Besides the one in Eu could get to bint.
gene there is one being operated at
gon State Journal of this city:
Salem, one at Medford and
others
Mrs. Dan J. Moore, wife of the
will be located at Albany and Rose
well-known hotel man of Portland,
burg. these cities having ordered sev
died a few days ago at Good Samar
blocks of streets paved this sum
itan hospital.
Mrs. Moore had been eral
mer
seriously III for many weeks, and
had gradually been losing strength
after an operation performed In the
hope of saving her lite.
♦
San Francisco, March 30.
♦
Dan Moore, manager of the Dan-
♦ — In order to lessen the pos «
moore 1: otel in front of the big Heillg
♦ sibility of a mistrial in the ♦
theater and other hotels, is an ex-
♦ case of the Patrick Calhoun ♦
am pl, f » hat energy and good judg-
♦ graft case. Francis J. Henev ♦
me nt can do.
Twenty-five or thirty
Ponta del Gorda. island of ♦
will make an application to e
San
Miguel.
the
Azores.
years ago his mother and Dan and
♦ ♦
the court to qualify a thir ♦
Joe. bovs In their early teens, and
March 30 - While the steam ♦ «
teenth juror, who will not
♦
their sister. Nina, a few years older,
er Hamburg was at Horta a
♦ ♦
♦ participate in the delibera ♦
lived in Eugene In a house where
sensational rumor to the ef ♦
lions of the jury unless one ♦
Manvlll e now reside* on the corner
fect that a steerage passen
♦
of the twelve is unable to ♦
O’i\s • and 11 th str< els. along with
ger had attempted to assault
♦ ♦
♦
Mrs. Mt core's married daughter. .Mrs.
ex President
Roosevelt was
♦ ♦ serve to the end of the case
Heath,
Mrs
Heath
circulated.
The
Associated
♦ ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦••♦ e
ejected
her
mother and the childr en, and they
Press correspondent, howev ♦
were furnished ahe ter for a time in
er, Is able to state positively
♦
ptr
a ¿hanty at the ao uth end of Olive
that uo such incident occur
♦
red
•tree), where the <
♦
les now live,
The party were given an
The bova did chon
♦
r worked out
for a few dollars a
enthusiastic reception here. ♦
nth, or what-
The next stop will be at Gi ♦
ever they could get. and the girl did
house wc rk for Mrs J. H. McClung
braltar.
♦ «'Hit DREY WHO IRE »1« hl.Y.
Mothers who value tbeir
and others and with a little aaalat-
♦
a are frem the neighbors the family
fort and the welfare of the
was
considered
by
Lincoln
and
m. tagad to exist until they moved
hia honld never be without
P< wde
to I’ortlaud. where Dan has become admirers as a great credit to him M th«-r Gray s Swept
when
he
became
president
and
the Children, for use throng
a very useful cltiien, prominent and
greatest
man
in
the
greatest
«Moos
They break up < (4
c
influential In politics, business and
rlfth
const ipat ion.
society
We write this not to dis try In the w< -W.
dÎM rders. headache and
parage him or his family but as a
The
Alien
Fruit
Co
Is
today
THEBE POWDERS NEV
load- troi ’ es
compliment to him.
We consider
his rise from such a hard and un ng a car of dried prunes for sbip- ER FAIL. Sold by all drug i
ment
to
Chicago.
Mr.
Allen
Is
now
In
Don't accept any snbstitt
favorable beginning greatly to his
A
credit as the railspltttlng. flat boat the East, looking after the market I trial package will be sent FREI
for
the
pn
iiat
of
the
cancer
y
and
a
•her who will oddress Allei
ing aaJ extreme poverty In early life
evaporator.
| Olmsted. LeRoy, N Y.
WORK ON NEW
In this letter, written to be published for the benefit of the DAN
corporation in Pendleton, Mr Welch absolutely misrepresents
the facts in order to deceive the people of that city. That seems
to be a favorite method of corporation campaigning—telling the
people of one community how complete a failure municipal own
ership has proven to be in another community and making their
statements absolutely without regard to the real facts in the
ease
Mr Welch, for instance, tells Pendleton people that Eugene
has had*to latse water rates tn ortber to pay running expenses
and interest on bonds. This is absolutely false, since every one
here knows water rates have not been raised, and that the plant
is already paving a good profit' in spite of the exorbitant charges
of the Willamette Valley Company for operating the pumps.
Mr Welch says his company's bills for power range from
$250 to $700 a month, when the records of the city, which con
tain their own bills, will show that they have exceeded $700 and
never have gone down anywhere near the minimum imotini of
$230 named The bills rendered by his company are as follows
November. $467; December. $531.28; January. $843 20; Feb
ruary. $733.30. This is apparently a deliberate misstatement.
Next he asserts that Eugene's proposed power plant will cost
$300.000. when he knows that all contra ts for work have been
let. and machinery contracted for. and that the entire cost will
be less than one half the snm he names for the "lnfomsticn” of
the Pendleton people.
Mr Welch further states that municipal ownership is a fail
ure. and cites as an instance Hillsboro. Ore .on probably be
cause he assumes that few persobs are likely to know anythisg
about conditions there. We confess we do not. but will take
steps to find out at once. We do know that in every Oregon
town that we have ever communicated with on the subject mu
nicipal ownership has proven a success, and on our desk this
morning is a copy of the McMinnville Telephone Register, con-
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Your Kitchen
taining a report of the mayor on the condition of the city's water
and light plant in which he says:
‘ The water and light commission has earned a net profit on
the water and light plant for thé benefit of the city of about
$1000 per month uuring the present year.”
Hillsboro and McMinnville are towns in the same class, sit
uated in neighboring counties.
This letter of Al Welch's simply shows to what extremes a
corporation will go in order to deceive the people in the manu
facture of public sentiment whenever they can find newspapers
Denver, March 30.—The jury in
which can be brought under tbeir control.
the case of John Cradlebaugh, of
Here in Eugene we know all about this campaign of decep Wallace. Idaho, on trial for the mur
tion and misrepresentation— and in time the people of Pendleton der of Frederick W. Walton, who
. wrecked his home, brought in a ver-
will be more thoroughly informed on this particular point.
| diet of not guilty today.
SOON BEGIN
THIS YEAR'S
HAS BEGUN
J. MOORE LIVED
IN EUGENE AS A BOY
WANT THIRTEEN
JURORS IN CASE
OF PAT CALHOUN
STORY OF ATTACK
ON ROOSEVELT DENIED
It is wonderfully
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■
kitchen work on a
■
stove that’s ready
t
at the instant wanted,
’
and out of the way the
moment you’re done.
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It differs from all other oil stoves in its substantial CABINET TOP,
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family use—safe, con-
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Iwdoir. enterc
Lgj to rouse !
nying on a *«
m-idly anil 1»
¿tat’llle in
bis da U|
heartrending
eble strength
On his way t
by the i
he st« a 1
(¡.wo. and-
It eumlned it
pms quantity
Standard Oil Company
(Incorporate d)
brother, George, was just leaving
Colorado when he received the
1
news of his death. His wife wael
died
merly Miss Hattie Bushnell, of I
, ♦♦♦♦♦*♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦«♦♦♦ gene, His many friends will be
At Pleasant Hill. March 29. 1909, ed to learn of his dqath.
Miss Jane Mitchell, aged 57 years.
The funeral was held at the Pleas
w. Polders, Andy Heitzman andl
ant Hill church today at 11 a. m.
E. Mink of «his city, hav« purchu
with Interment in the cemetery near
the Wm. Nels farm on the riven
there.
A sketch of the lady’s life mile south of Springfield. TweJ
will appear later.
five acres are planted in hop« a
the new owners will continue tM
At Delta, Col., Sunday evening, cultivation. This is said to be one]
March 25. 1909. at 7 ‘clock, of lung the richest farms in the county. 1
i
trouble,
John E. Saunders, son of terms of the sale are private. I
'
Pascho
and E. Saunders, of Eugene. Heitzman will conduct the farm.
Besides’his parents he leaves three
brothers, two sisters,
a
wife aid i
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three children to mourn his loss. His1
:
s nobert
e de««11
jjtag on th
- front fallU
Hile. Stang
, running *
, The at
«ben be
person 1} '
desk. H*
with the
b. Still
drug, be If
Ible nightn
t went ba*
¡cally. OP«
order. to tif
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models in Spring Suits.
We desire to call particular attentioni
to those models especially designed to
meet the whims and fancies of the
young man of eighteen or twenty.
Our Mill-to-Man one profit only method
of selling enables us to give values that
are absolutely unobtainable elsewhere-
Prices are
$12.50, $15, $18, $20
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he was
bit morning t<
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