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THU EUGENE WEEK LV GUARD VOL. 43 EUGENE, OREGON, THURSDAY EVENING, NOV. 2 5, 1909 NO. 48 1 FLOOD DISTRICT MANY CITIZENS OF UNITED STATES ARE IN PRISON ; Weather Is Cooler and Most of the Streams Are Re ceding President Zelaya Arrests All Who Refuse to Pay Cherry, Nov. 24.—One hundred and sixty-eight bodies were found eariy today in the lower vein of the St. Paul Tribute IS NOT GUILTY I Jury Clears Young Woman Who Killed Her Faithless ** Lover Boll. NEW PENNSYLVANIA STATION. NEW YORK, NEARING COM PLETION. uho W «I.4 tell she O!)M ( » W iier own answrm! of her uHor- I A* thr now trrmlnnl of the Pennsylvania railroad. In the honrt of New nt*»r* completion property values In the n<*ighiH»rb<M<d arc Increasing ultti luipM and bound*, »nd the effect 1» felt far out on Lxmg Island, whence th<* tunnel train* will carry vaxt a mile* of paMKcngcr» to and from their mhurhan h< Till« the mo«( gigantic terminal enterpriae ever undertaken wh bring trulti* under the Hudson river from the west and connect with Long Island »l*o by •ube under the east river The terminal station will In* th«* most Im d«*rn structure of It.« kind ever built, combining every known fu lity f<»r til»* and comfort of paKaengera and the rapid handling of trains. took th« e death of v • • I tenth of May I told him again, and 1 said: ‘Joe. we had better get 9 funeral. married right away.’ ” Te notilo-u Without a show of shame, the girl told how she knew of her condition, and then -fated that rhe asked Mrs. Ih-nny, at the behest of Joe. what would relieve a girl In her condition. | The court ordred this part of the testimony be stricken out. The direct statement of the girl was not lengthy and was confined to main facts, that is, the stat*....a; that Joe Armes promised to marry her and then refused. “It was all because he refused to Portland. Nov. 24 The flood .itu- ation in Oregon and Southern Wash ington tc-iay show« considerable im-| provement. The weather is somewhat colder end the volume of water in the rivers is decreasing, especially I In thq upper Willamette valley. The! crest flood has passed Eugene, but th« water Is s ill rising at Albany anil Portland. The crest I- expected to reach this city Friday. The lower locks in this city are flooded but the damage in not great. T,e river is still full of debris which is sweeping toward the ocean. In Southern Washington the streams are still running bank full but the danger of a serious flood is apparently over. keep his promise ” she said. “That was the cause of the trouble between us, and it followed the trouble about Kenison and Joe Ruth.’’ She stated that she had been engaged to marry Joe Armes since August 1. 1906. Big Sale of Women s Suits and Coats $24.00 S22.00 $20.00 weight, fine tailoring, fit and In these coats you will find style, warmth. light I finish, with the price reduced on every garment, Wednesday morning you can buy any coat which was sold for $ 9.00: $12.50: $14.00: $15.00: $18.50: $20.00: $25.00: $30.00: sale sale sale sale sale sale sale sale price price price price price price price price will will will will will will will will be be be be be be be be S 7.20 S 10.00 Sil.20 SI 2.00 S 14.80 SI 6.00 $20.00 S24.00 HIGH JINKS IN LYMAN GAGE GOTHAM BEGIN TODAY WILL BE MARRIED Of these fine suits, or we'll pick one for you. In either case you'll get a good cne: something that you'll like, with the right taste. We'll serve you well in Fine clothes: all-wool, perfectly tailored. No other clothes are made as these are; they have the correct style and DAVID smartness of model you want Suits, $18 to $30 Overcoats, $18 to $30 This store is the home of Hart. Schaffner & Marx Clothes. The Hat That’s it We are nble to SATISFY the man who wants a dependable hat at a me We always show such a customer a Gordon, and it don’t take much ersunsion to convince it is his kind of a hat. They c st only $3.00. always have the John B. Stetson for the man who wan s the “best on earth.” each. 94.00 to 8M.OO DE ARMOND. Prominent Democratic Congress- man who was burned to death yester day in a fire which destroyed his Missouri. organizations have completed pre parations to feed the city's poor, and none will go hungry. All the theatres will offer special matinees for the amusement of the well to do and the big hotels and restaurants are pre pared for an unprecedented rush on the part of the large population, which can’t or won’t dine at home, Down in the Bowery there is a deep gloom, The defeat of Tammany in the recent election has led the leaders to draw their purse-strings tighter than usual, and free food and “booze", will not be so much in evi dence along the famous thorough fare as In past years. Judge Gaynor, the mayor-elect, has shown no dispo sition to lighten this load of woe. "I guess we will have to hit the Salvation Army,” is the sorrowful cry of the Tammany followers. And the Salvationists do net provide li quor refreshments of a kind suited to the stomach of the Bowery. Hence the gloom. Hence the woe. LOEB WILL TAKE MORE OFFICIAL HEADS Remember, Gordon Hats. S3.00 EUGENE SPRINGFIELD COTTAGE GROVE Warships are Ready. Washington, Nov. 24.—The navy department is ready for any develop ment growing out of Nicaraguan af fairs. Over time work has resulted, in putting the troop ship Prairie in condition to sail any moment after Thursday with 400 marines. If nec essary this number can be increased to 700 cr SOO within a few hours. Al though the navy department dis claims any knowledge of the inten tions of the state department, it ia known to be in hourly expectation of orders for the dispatch of the Prairie and they could not be in the least surprised if other vessels were or dered to the Nicaraguan coast. French Students’ Masquerade Aged Financier Will Take Bride Will Provide Unique On Thanksgiving Amusement Day I You Can Take Your Pick dium price. New Orleans, Nov. 2 3.—A cable gram from Panama todays says that Edgar S. Harris, of Columbus, Ohio, ”n American commercial traveller, touring Central America, declared that several Americans were in jail, at Managua and other places in Nic aragua. arrested on orders from President Zelaya. Every American in business in Nicaragua, who refused to contribute to the war fund levied by Zelaya was, arrested and thrown in the prisca, Har-ts says. A few ar oi.ci Americans bought there way out of prison by paying the tribute demanded. New York. Nov. 24.—Thanksgiv ing Day will be ushered in by the French students’ organization of New York, who will begin their twenty fifth annual masquerade ball at Ter I race Garden this evening. The ball will continue throughout the night and the customary highjinks will probably be exceeded. It was at this annual festivity that a visiting Rus sian notable distinguished himself a few years ago by drinking wine from a lady's slipper. Other exploits, quite as daring and original are indulge! in by the thousands of department store salepeople, chorus girls, clerks, manicurists, buttonhole workers and ether gay Bohemians of the metropo lis. and joy is unconfined. Handsome prizes have been offer ed Broadway show gir.s in a compe- tion for the most novel costumes. For many days the stage beauties have been cudgeling their brains to decide what—or w*at not—to wear, and the effort of this mental effort is likely to be stunning, to say me least of it. The French students are not alone in preparing for Thanksgiving. The Salvation Army and al! the charitable We pluce on sale our entire line of W omen's Suits and Coats at prices which will nients nad pay more? Wednesday luornln 09 garments for winter wear, perfect in ev ery way. When we place before you garments bearing tbe "WOOLTEX” or "LA VOGUE" label, we show you the garments 1 Ike the ones worn by the best-dressed women of America Will you buy the best at red uced prices, or will yon buy inferior gar- «bow a great savluK These are all new 19g is the time the sale opened. Hampton's Is the pince. $50.00 Suits, sale price.. S40.00 $30.00 Suits, sale price. $40.00 Suits, sale price.. S32.00 $27.50 Suits, sale price. $35.00 Suits, sale price.. $28.00 $25.00 Suits, sale price. THE ESSENTIALS OF COAT COMFORT. COMBINED WITH ECONOMY IN PRICE mine. The rescuing party found fans improvised from tool boxes, and messages written cn pieces of slate. The bodies were a tangled mass, completely blocking the staircase leading to the second vein, and some were also scattered through the ve.n .where they dropped before reaching the stairway. The black damp was the cause of death. There remain 21 miners unaccounted for. There was no evidence that the men made any attempt to barricade themselves from the black damp. Many of the for mer workers in the mine protested angrily after they discov ered that the men would have been safe from the deadly fumes had not the ventilating fan in the mine been reversed shortly after the discovery of the fire. HAMPTONSS The best for All wear. Dutchess Trousers New York. Nov. 2 4.—Col lector Loeb announced today that more heads must drop In the house-cleaning going on in the New York custems house. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ San Diego, Cal., Nov. 24.—Lyman J. Gage, former secretary of the Treasury, aged seventy-three, is tc have a Thanksgiving,present tomor row, according to reports. The gift is the hand of Mrs. Ada Ballou, beau tiful and charming and young enough J to be the ex-cabinet member’s Revolution Grows. daughter. Mr. Gage has lived here for some New Orleans, Nov. 2 4.—A dispatch time, and is a devout disciple of Mrs. from Port Limon reports a great Katherine Tingley, head of the theo movement of troops in Salvador sophical cult. He has persuade! his ports. General Alfaro was the head prospective bride to become a Theo- of a large body of troops and Bara sophist, it is alleged, and has pre hona is expected to arrive moment pared a beautiful home for her at I arily and it is said he will join Al Point Loma, the Tingley headquar faro. The revolutionists are in pos ters. session of Castillo Viejo. Mrs. Ballou is tai] and stately, with The predicted invasion of Salvador pale blue eyes, white skin and a by Nicaraguans may precipitate a mass of glowing red hair. She sings general uprising in Central America. and plays the piano well, and has the Many Americans have volunteered to reputation of being one of the most join Estrada, but were refused be fascinating women in the city. cause of the neutrality laws. The announcement of the engage ment was given out to local news Awaiting Details. papers by a strange woman whose Washington, Nov. 2 4.—Develop identity cannot be discovered. Mrs. Ballou is a daughter of ments in the Nicaraguan situation George H. Ballou, a prominent mer are awaiting details from Managua. chant of San Diego, who admitted that his daughter was to marry Mr. Gage. Mrs. Ballou's friends say that several years ago she married a Pitts burg man, who was a winter visitor here. The courtship was brief, but romantic. She told her friends that he proposed while they were on a sailboat becalmed in the bay at night. He d.ed soon after the wedding, and the widow returned here from Pitts- 1 burg, where they had gone to live. She resumed her maiden name. Lyman Judson Gage, who has earned a high reputation as a finan cier. was born in 1836. If he marries Miss Ballou she will be his third wife. He married Miss Sarah Ether idge of Hastings. Minn., in 1864; she died ten years later. In 1887 he mar ried Mrs. Cornelia Waeabu.n Gage of Denver, Col. She died in Wr.shington, at the age of flfty-eig'.t. Her hus band was se — c ary of the treasury and it was sa d th3 strain of her so cial duties at the national capital did much to break down her health. Retiring from business in 1900 Mr. Gage went to live at Point Loma, eight miles from San Diego. Cal. He was a member of the Society for Psychical Research, and the report spread widely that he had been con GIFFORD PINCHOT. verted to theosophy and would join Gifford Pincbot, chief of the forestry the colony founded by Mrs. Kitty Tingley, the "Purple Mother,” at service of the United States, who is I Involved in a dispute with Secretary Point Loma. of the Interior Ballinger over rhe prop er disposal of putdlc lands. N a wealthy 0. R. & N. RY. CO man who holds his office for tlie love of the work. He is a native of Con NOT STARVING necticut. a Yale graduate and is forty- four years old. Earnings From July 1, 1908, to June 30, 1909, Were $4,105,441.45 Salem, Or., Nov. 23.—According , to the report of the Oregon Railway A- Navagation company filed with th- railroad commission today, covering the period from July 1.’ 1908, to June 30, 1909. that corporation nett ed earnings of $4,105,441.43. During the same period dividends were de clared totaling $4,356,825, which was $251.388.55 In excess of the net earnings for the period covered. Despite these large dlvidenjs, ex ceeding the earnings by $250,000, the railroad company still enjovs a surplus of $8,696,844.91. The divi dends included 12 1-2 per cent on 240.000 shores of common stock, equaling $2.997,425 and 12 >4 per cent on the 110,000 shares of pre ferred equaling $1,356,825. The to tal as stated above, being $4.356,- 825. The company has 20 stockhold ers. among whom this nearly $4,500,- 000 ere divided. "lhe vice-consul at that capital. Mr. t’aldera, is presumably working on the case, but the state department has heard nothing from him. COFFEY OUT FOR FRANK BENSON'S JOB Portland. Nov. 23.—John B. Cof fey. state senator from Multnomah county, yesterday announced that ho will be a candidate for nomination f >r secretary of state. Mr. Coffey It i first aspirant for any public of fice to be filled at general election next November, who has flatly de clared he will go before the assem bly for its endorsement. It had been rumored for some time that Mr. Cof- f \v probably would be a candidate >r that, office, and when asked yes terday concerning his plans political ly he confirmed the report. : ♦ The first arrest in Salem for ex ♦ ceeding the speed limit for autos hap ♦ pened yesterday. Ellis Edmundson, ♦ a well-known local chauffeur, was the victim of the new ordinance. PROBABLY SHOWERS FOR TOMORROW Oregon — Probably show ers tonight and Thursday. : ♦ ♦