TWICE À WEIK OVAED. EOCENE. OR. THVRSDAV. »0T. H. 1H0
TWO
I
First International Humane
Congress Meets In Washington.
SSÏS AÏÎÜRNEY SEVERENCE
Th. tc Ml a Uli«’ aiKlI*'»’
Eugene theatre SatuH-ij n k
hi nr Fortft. r Mayor Ro*«
.1
waukee, Win., discuss The
1»
F<
rr<
st.
of Prohibition ” MaJer 1.
Jr F E Selover. John Nesi
and
I r Kdmunson occupied tn« pluf-
form with the speaker, who nt s in-
troduced by Mayor Forrest in •» brief
address-
Pres« nt In the i audlece
R
many prohibitionist :s. Includi'
large delegation of M c. r
In-
workers. There were i lei i al
terrupti«>ns by metnb«rs of the ■ud
ii o w u
lenee. and some feeling
lie Inter
when Mr. Rose declined
t ng «»*
rupt.d. saving that the I
his and that he proposed h discuss
th* question in l>i* own i wav
•ak*r had sh »Wil i y
After the
statistics that the <onsump-‘
auor was in’ n'MMh'ic hi
*• 4
«fforts of the prohibitionists, o'
lady asked why the liquor i.i - r«’»
oppoaed prohibition if eonsuuipu« n
of intoilcants was being lncr*i ■“ •”
it Mr Rose responds to tli s
.
tlon. r. whom he
iV
by stating that the quality o the it
nuor sold under the prohl j HIon r.
aline »as bad and poisonous, and
that manufacturers aud d*ul< rs pr«--
ferod not to be engaged in an illeg
al business.
.. „ ,.
At on* stage of the address the
member« of the W C. T I hissed
some of his remarks, and the »P-««-
er reproached them sharply
members of the order left the hall at
the conclusion of the meeting, sing
ing their "Oregon Dry" songs, Inter-
spersed with the prohibition cam-
«
Rainy River, Ont., Oct .10.—The terrible results of Friday,
Saturday and Sunday s forest fires are beginning to be realized
by the disheartened and homeless thousands. Today searching
parties were organized, and went south to relieve the suffering
and pick up the dead. It will be days before all the dead can be
reached, owing to the great trees which have fallen across the
roads and hamper progress.
In some places the refuges are without food, and in one
homesteader's shack, three miles from Beaudette, thirty persons
are sheltered, but have nothing to eat. Terrible tales of suffer
ing are coming in and acts of heroism are reported from every
Rainy
direction. 1 In ____
, River one hundred fire wardens have been
‘ . With all
sworn in and are fighting the fires in groups of ' ten.
their suffering the people are hopeful.
Special trains arrived this afternoon at this place over the
Minnesota and International railway, carrying food and supplies
A company of the National Guard of Minnesota will take charge
of their distribution, and the burned district will be placed under
martial law.
If Winnipeg. Man., Oct.
i
MUSEUM
------
St Paul Oct 11—Attorney Severance concluded his u:\ni
menu today m the ease in which the government io looking to
dissolve the merger of the Union and Southern Pacific railroad
and allied lines. Severance’s effort. were directed to prove by
the evidence that actual open competition existed between the
Union and Southern Pacific prior to consolidation, an ! that
since the merger rates have gone up and service has dc’.c ior-
ated, showing by the record the testimony of several witn •sea
that the Union Pacific interests control transportatio?i . ,-ili
ties in all states through which it and its allied lines
Severance pointed to Oregon t
i c of the states thus con
trolled. The combined interest: surrounded thia atute and
fought every independent endeavor to enter tho interior, he de
dared.
‘It was only recently,” declared Severance, “that a road
was projected and partly built into Central Oregon, and the
so-called Hill interests have since begun an invusion of the
state, but not with the consent of these non-competing roads
that surround the state like a fence.”
“Does any sane man believe this great state would remain
undeveloped, as it is, with thousands of American fumv-rs go
ing annually to Canada for alnd3, if there was not a vital rea
son?
“The reason is that the Union and Southern Pacific, work
ing together, have ordered that Oregon shall not be developed
until they are ready, that they will keep their hold on trans
portation monopoly until forced to relinquish it. It is one of
the shames of this situation that the legislature of Oregon was
forced to^nact a law authorizing the state to build and main
tain a railroad of its own.”
P F. Dunne, for the Southern Pacific, will argue for the
railroads.
10.—Terrific Rainy River and the Lake of th?
prairie fires are burning today eight Woods on the north, to twenty-five
miles south of Fort Francis, Ont.,
miles east of Winnipeg along the line and
from Spooner and Beaudette.
! of the
Canadian Northern railway,
Minn., on the east, to Warroad.
and
are
traveling
westward
at
a
rap
I
id rate. Many persons in the track Minn., on the west, whp is not ac
of the fires are fleeing from the aw-, counted for, is almost certain to be
ful flames and it may be possible the dead, as there was little chance for
death list attending the forest fires] escape. For a distance of fifty miles
1 along the border will reach one thou from Beaudette and Rainy River
1 sand. Probably this is too high an west to Warroad woods, was a mass t
pftAt" one time, referring to “boot
estimate, but there is no one who is of flames. Beaudette is only a char
Spooner is wiped out.
! familiar with the situation who will red remnant.
One of the <no«p important meetings to be held thia year will be the first leggers,” the speaker said to the
place the figures at less than two Cedar Spur, Graceton. Pitt, Swift American International humane conference, which will be eocdocted by the prohibitionists:
hundred up to five hundred. Every! and Roosevelt, hamlets, are destroy- American Humana association In Washington from Oct. 10 to Ilk It will be
• Yes. and they are your friend*.
settler in the district bounded by the ed completely.
You
Prohibitionists produce the
under
the
honorary
presidency
of
President
William
H.
Taft,
and
many
flron»-
I
■boot-leggers, and the hjlnd pigs .
Inent speakers from all over the world are expected to address tbs meetings. and the speak-easys’ and all the
This Is the first attempt which has ever been made to hold an International lawlessness connected with the li BIRTHS WERE 33 AND
conference which shall embrace both departments of anti-cruelty work. The quor traffic."
DEATHS 18 IN LANE CO
anti-cruelty crusade for animals began in the United States throngh the ef
Applause greet cl this and similar
forts of Henry Bergh In 1866. The first society for the prevention of cruelty ¡statements- He told th* story of the
DURING SEPTEMBER
to children in the world was organizes! In New York city In 1874 by Henry failure of prohibition In 17 state«,
T
Bergh, Elbridge T. Gerry and John D. Wright During Its exlstepce {he New aud its recent defeat in Maine, Ala
Dr. Prentice Makes Public His
York society has received 252,062 complaints, Tnvofvtng the custody ofrlo.24.''. bama and Georgia.
Harvest
of
Druiikenii*«*-
__
_
children;
122,623
cases
were
prosecuted,
resulting
In
l'Kl.'.Mrt
convictions,
and
Monthly Report—Conta
i
100.877 children have been rescued and cared ?or. The average number of
Mayor Rose e read, from the U. 8.
gious Diseases
on American
.
children’s cases handled by the New York society 1« nearly 16,000 a year. Iaiat census report of 1909
citie«
to
sho.v
number
of
arrests
for
year the anti-cruelty societies In the United State« expended fii*re than $1.000.-
Kan.,
_
Following Is the report for S.p-
000 and cared for 175,613 children and i.'Ms.oj,? niTmals. William Olin S ill- drunkenness. Kansas City,
’• •
had 1 for 56 population; Topeka. 1
man. M. D.. president of the American Humane association, the national or for 44; Wichita. 1 for 29; Portland. tember <>t County Health Offlcei
I
J
Warroad, Oct. 10.
Prentice:
1». —Men who re
Washington. Oct. 11.—Forester ganisation for the anti-cruelty cause. Is a many sided man of ninny accom-
There Is a big black bear out In
Births—Cottage Grove. 2 malea.
< turned from Beaudette, on a railway Graves today received the following plishments—physician, surgeon, philanthropist, antiquarian, medical author, Mr 1 for 10: Lewiston. Me.. 1 for
13;
’
and
Fargo.
N.
I)..
1
for
5
popu
female; Coburg, 3 females; Doren». th* l-ong Toni country somewhere
<| motor car. report the dead in the telegraphic report from Supervisor writer and lecturer. He was born in 1856 in Normansviile, N. Y.
lation. These figures got so ridicu 1 male; Divide. 1 female, Eugene with 32 22-callbr* bullets In Its bid*
district back from the track will Marshall of the forest reserve at J
lous in exposing the claims of prohl-, and vicinity, 7 male», M females; Sun lay !>r. M M Hull and bls wife
I reach 150. Refugees are coming in Cass Lake concerning the situation]
bition as a reform movement that Junction City. 3 male*. Elmira. I fe drove out to the duck preserves In
I. every hour and report having seen, ] in Minnesota:
some of Its disgusted adherents got male; Marcola, I male,
mule, ! i female; th* Long Tom bottom sud »|>«nt th*
many bodies in the devastated coun-, ‘ The reports today give oiie thou-i
up and went out.
Saginaw. I female; 8pringfleld, 3 day there Just as they were eating
try.
Towns Char in Minutes
s*.n* “s
number of burned and;
CoRsiimption and Revenue«
miih'S, 1 female. Total births. 33 - their lunch nt noon they heard th*
o
, missing. The area burned is .-»stimat-1
Mayor Rose showed how consump Males. 16 females. 17.
p. m. Saturday
at 25>poo square miles. The fires
baying of a hound close at band and
’ At 8:30
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. a tornado'eJ
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tion had increased the past few -
Deaths—Cottage Grove. 3; yellow they were Startled to see a big brown
I of fire struck Beaudette and Spooner are still burning.”
years
with
the
increase
of
so-called
; jaundice, paralysis, eclampsie; Co bear coming at them close at hand
and within three minutes after the;
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dry territory 12.611.000 gallons of; i burg. 1 ; drowned, Eugene and vl- Th* bear saw them and climbed a
first alarm every building was ablazej
Town in Panic
spirits
and
300.000
barrels
of
malt'
I’lnlty. cancer, convulsions 3, cerebral
Beaudette. Oct. IL—This town is
■j and within half an hour they were
liquors., In Oregon with
21 dry, ; hemorrhage, pneumonia 2, enteric tree nearby. By that time Dr. Hull
heaps of ashes. Tlje people of these under martial law. and three thou-
had recovered from his surprise and
counties,
internal
revenue
receipt«
|
! fever, malnutrition 3. heart disease, began to crack away at Bruin with
two towns had just enough time to san(j refugees are gathered here,
had
increased
$37.000
over
any
pre-]
ituberculosis. Total. 18; Males. 15; his little rifle, the only Weapon lie
F get out of their homes with what with the town in a panic.- Relief
vious year. The above Increase was females, 3.
they had on their backs. They were measures are being carried out rap-
I hud. He only had th* ■hort curt-
«•'' loaded on a passenger train that was ¡¡jjy,
for the year ending 1910. He show
Contagious diseases
Cottage
c standing at the depot and taken to
ed how all the principal dry cities of Grove, 1, typhoid fever; Eugene, 3 ridges and they had little more off«wt
Searching parties are out, and are]
Massachusetts had abandoned prohi i dlptherla, 2 typhoid fever; Junction on the bear than to tickle Its bld*
Rainy River, Ont.
finding bodies in every direction.
bition during the past year.
The | City, 1 typhoid fever. 1 scarlet fever, Dr. Bull says he aimed at th* bear's
The whole country east of here Is Refugees tell frightful tales of their:
Starkville.
Oct.
11.
—
The
tedious
inai the
tue luinanu,
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____ .
That
Portland, Eugene
head a number of times and Is sur*
speaker
showed
how
the
liquor
traf
. Springfield, 1 diphtheria.
on fire. Roosevelt, Swift, Williams experiences.
Eastern railway intends to build its work of rescue was delayed by the
that the bullets »trip k, but there was
fic
was
paying
over
$200,000,
00O
of
and Cedar Spur are in great danger.
—
1
valley electric line over a different presence of the deadly after-damp,
1 not enough force to penetrate a vl-
the
national
revenues
and
ov*r
$86,-
All the women and children are be
Relief Arriving
route than at first planned is evident which has accumulated In great
Miss Ethel Barringer, of Albany, tai spot.
From tlie Grat tre« his
ing rapidly removed to places of sa
. the fact that
_ _ its crew of surve
------ ?y-1 quantities In several chambers of the 000,000 ot the city revenues.
Rainy River, Ont., oct. 11—Relief
after a visit In Eugene of a fé» day», bearahlp climbed down and ran up
i fety. The Canadian Northern rail is arriving for the stricken people ■ from who
Mr.
Rose
cited
the
September
elec
have been working on * the
mine. Tho fans are working, but
returned home on the noontraln to another tree, nil the while Dr. Bull
v
way has stationed trains at every sta at Beaudette, Spooner and Rainy Ri-1 ors v_______ :____
the summer have not been able to keep th* mine tion in Maine as a repudiation of day.
I plugging small pellets of lend Into
I
tion and is doing everything in its ver districts, Six carloads of sup- McKenzie line during
state
prohibition
and
assured
the
and who
dim
«utj returned
tciuiu-'A to
vv, Eugene
... two o “ clear of the deadly gases. Coroner audience that prohibition would now
Ills body and the dog barklug and
power to relieve the situation.
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_ ___
_
’i investigation of'
plies have arrived from various three
weeks ago.
and began
wo king Gullfoyle ___
says ’
his
One woman. Katherine Jasper, points and money contributions are west from the city,
democratic humanity that wan mad* for bette snapping nt Its heels, The perform-
•
i have
_ ... —
n
run a line! in«
the nfiiian
cause nr
of tnp
the accident
will be of] be resubmitted under
me* continued and several moro
fought her would-be rescuers with a being received.
directly west from the end of West, the most thorough, and he has Issu-] rule and be defeated at the polls the tiling« than drunkenu'-aa an I vu
climbed until finally th»
the same love of God that gm isil
butcher knife and perished in the
Eleventh street for a distance of five , ed summons to a largo number of next election.
animal
ed Into the
the vision, Is the It 'U Ise that
home of her employer.
Trades Oppose Prohibit ion.
♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦A or six miles, then turned north and persons connected with the mine,
disappeared
river
2000 in List Missing
”To all right minded and liberal | arousing the 1 rts i I r<>n . e. <
on down the valley. This is the crew I The bod'es of the first two v!c-
of His people < < rywiu •• to tn n h
thinking
people,"
said
Mr.
Rose,
The missing include some 2000 res
surveyors
mentioned
by
The
Guard
|
Ums
of
Satorday
’
s
explosion
were
BORN
born
■ It ■
"the attitude that has been main a conquering r rmy ug ilnst bum
great »port,
idents of Beaudette, Spooner and
_____________________ t at the time they started out as-brought out this afternoon, and tained by the labor organizations of ty's greatest foe. and may ever
every < tie
h » h"
Pitt, some of whom are dead, but •♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦■»♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦«
iad a larger
their
appearance
indicates
they
were
thought to have been «orking on
of
us
look
up
to
Him
and
s'iy.
'Lo
rd.
most of them are safe in Rainy Ri-
un an !
killed by the force of the explosion the union has deep significance. Ev
would lluvo
Three miles south of Eugene on | some other railroad proposition.
ver and the adjacent towns on the
ery labor organization in the United what will you have me to do?' "
for h.s ft If».
rather than by the fire-damp.
The
survey
was
made
in
a
straight
October 10, 1910, to S. P. Jensen I
Canadian side of the line.
more bodies were later found States, that haB taken action In re
line bordering on the Crow road un on* Nine
thousand feet from the entrance] spect to the question of prohibition,
Many homesteaders and farmers and wife, a son.
til the church five or six miles out
are in the brush for a distance of his family recently arrived from Ful is reached, when it turns north and of the mine, and must be carried! has declared its opposition to prohi
100 miles east and 20 miles south. lerton, Neb., burned to death west the stakes are seen on the west side over the deadly wrecked passage bition. and your own state of Oregon
is not behind, because in truth, the
Of these nothing can be learned for of Spooner.
of the connecting road between the way.
Word from Washington that a organized trades of this state have
some time as searchers do not pene
One servant of Albert Berg, of Crow and Elmira roads. Beyond the
Did you ever stop to think of the many wsts In which ■
special car carrying government by resolution placed themselves upon
trate the smoking forests.
Spooner.
latter they still follow the road, and
perfect oil heater is of value?
If
you want i<»slc< p
* ¡th your wln-
Death List Growing
____
..
i - it i juui win
Four land speculators from Dav it is said they extend in a straight mining experts and miners trained] i record as opponents of prohibition.
rinw nor« io —,1—••- ......
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rescue work had left Seattle was
The dead, as far as known, are:
"Have you ever found the prohtbi-
dow
open in winter, you can
get sufflcient I..-at fruin an oil heater
enport, Iowa, recent arrivals at line north for miles. It is presumed ¡1 I to
Katherine Jasper, aged 55, domes Beaudette, caught by flames while the survey is made along the side of the first news that has been recelv-1 1 tionists In the halls of the legisla-
while you undress at night, and then turn it < if. Apply a match
-......................... a r- a “
tic for Albert Berg, Beaudette.
_ ___ _ —
1— .U_------- •
out for homesteads on south side of the county road so that no man's ed here by the federal government j i tures in any of the states of the un-
in the morning, u hen y< u get out of
John Colvin, aged 4 5, homesteader Beaudette river.
'had intended to be represented In. I Ion. in an endeavor to secure legis
farm
will
be
cut
in
two
when
the
four miles from Beaudette, wife and
1 the rescue work at Starkville mine. lation that would ameliorate the con-
bed.and you have heat« bile you dress.
John Simmons, of Red Oak, Iowa,
three small children, two girls and timber ranger, caught by flames on road is built. Most farmers would be It is generally believed today that' i dltlon of labor? Have you ever
Those who have to eat an early
willing
to
give
or
sell
a
small
strip
none
of
the
miners
imprisoned
by]
a boy.
i found the prohibitionist seeking to
railroad track while trying to escape bordering on the road than to give
breakfast
before the stove is rsdiating
Six unidentified residens of Pitt, to Rainy river.
,, Saturday’s explosion are still alive. I secure the enactment of laws that
heat can get immediate warmth from
I Matson Berg and five members of j a right-of-way in the middle of their
Jfinn.
would
shorten
the
hours
or
Improve
Unidentified woman and boy, who his family, burned to death on out-] farms or across one corner.
an oil heater, and then turn It off.
the conditions in which the laboring
It is said the reason that the P. E.
were homesteaders near Pitt.
skirts of Spooner when house was' & E. is seeking another route to the
man is required to work, or to grant I
The girl who practices on the piano
Seven unidentified settlers on the destroyed. They were suffocated in
:
MARRIED
: him holiday» cr to Increase his
in
a cold room in the morning can
|
north
is
that
the
Oregon
Electric
has
track west of Pitt,
♦
♦ wages, or to ] rot*< t the children of
a big stone cellar.
chosen practically the route that the
have warmth from an oil heater while
"wo entire families, one of eight
John Rolin and family of eight, local company first planned upon. It] •♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦A**« • • tender y< .•< agiii't enforced em-1
members, and one of seven, lived ten from Pitt.
she plays, and then turn it off.
prohibitionist '
'would not pay both companies to! October S, 1910, at the home of ployment’ Has th*
miles east of Pitt, recently arrived
Severt Hagen. George Weaver, traverse practically the same territo-
The member of the family who
who
ap,.»
•!«
to
you
'n
any
Instance
from Grafton, N. D.
Charles Baker and Patrick O’Mara, ry, so the P. E. & E. is planning to th* bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs.' that you may rec .1' ever sought to
has to walk the floor on a cold win
John Trunne?, six miles west of Eu-
John Tulley and five members of of Arlington, Minn.
; make a detour to the west beiore g ■n<‘, by Rev. H. N. Mount, Clande raise t' e standard of Intelligence, or
ter’s night with a restless baby can get
'abor, b ' Tovldlng better
turning north, thus developing a W. Sprague and Miss Marguerite Amer ■
temporary heat with an oil heater, and
facB'
1
■
''
r
the
e'ucatlon
of
the
stretch of country that will not be Trunnell.
then turn it off. The
workin
man
or
h's
I'llldren?
1
an-
touched by the Oregon Electric.
At the Hotel Griggs, in Eugene? awe-
es t't r ■' I e er.
“’I ’• < V~“ t st • of Oregon I h the
October lb. 1910. nt 3 n. m., Elijah'
ROOSEVELT TAKES
M r
Rose,
E. Otey and Miss Ellen Graham, both: form ’
“Her r< !«'ur< e i hnve only bee’i
ISSUE WITH TAFT of Junction City.
S mokeuss
*
t e nos-iblllttefl of her
scratt'
t
’
»
««
Hot Springs, Ark., Oct. 10.— ♦
r the horizons
At the city hall in Eugene, October future "re I’m
EAT
President Rosevelt took Issue ♦ 10.1910, George L. Stidman and Mrs. are broad, an 1 the only niirstfon that
Open Free to Men
4foofrfefy mnittltu and odorlnt
now
confronts
*
<
>■
citli'
i
within
with
President
Taft
on
the
sub
♦
Cottage'
both
of
Rebecca
Haines,
All men visiting Portland ihonld see thia.
ject of the reclamation of ♦ Grove, Judge R. 8. Bryson officla- her borders is whether er not he. as
it invaluable in its capacity of quickly giving heat. Apply a match and It la Im
MUSEUM st Aastomy end rallery of K'entitc woodor* Mil,
swamp lands In a speech which ♦ . ting.
the guardian of the rights of the
mediately at work. It will burn tor nine hours without refilling. It la aafa,
know tkywlf. LUi-iiM m -del» illMtritinf the mysterle« of
he delivered here today at the ♦!
state and of the Individual, will con
Bua, okowiM the body 11 boa'th and diaeiM. sod muy
amokeleaa and odorless. It baa a damper top and a cool handle. An Indicator
■ataral labjocU. Very laterMticf and InitracUre.
Arkansas state fair. Roosevelt ♦
always shows the amount ot oil In the font.
The Eugene Real Estate and In tribute to a condition that had main
declared the national govern ♦l vestment Company this morning re tained In Maine, and Kansas and Io
It baa an «ntomatlc-loeklng flam« spreader which prevents the
WE ARE SPECIALISTS IN MEN’S DISEASES
ment should do all it legitimate ♦ ceive a letter from C. Shaw, whose wa and Alabama and Georgia, and
wick from being turned high enough to smoke, and is easy to remove and drop
ly can to assist in draining the ♦I address
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W« Core Blood, Skin and Private Dlseaaea, Wasting Drains,
Is 150 N. Scechneve Road. In every other state where the In back ao that the wick can be cleaned in an instant.
lands.
The burner body or gallery cannot become wedged, and can bn quickly
Nervous Debility, Kidney, Bladder and Prostate Gland Dis
♦ Shanghai. China, stating tnat he saw quiry of prohibition has been prac
President Taft, in a speech to ♦ | the address of the company In "Bet- ticed.”
orders and All Ailments of Men.
unscrewed for rewicklng. Finished In (span or nickel, strong, durable, well-
the National Conservation con ♦ ter Fruit,” pttMCehM
a» II
aa 3 River.
published at
Hood
River, a fight as a love affair; love for the made, built tor service, and yet light end ornamental.
C0S8ULT OR WRITB US FREB. CURBS OU ARAB TBBD.
gress at St. Paul, September 6,
Or.,
and
asking
for
literature
from man who Is down and out; love for
If rm eaaaot call, write for FREE BOOK and aolf-eiimlaitiuo black Muy caana
said
he
was
opposed
to
having
♦ Eugene and this part of Oregon. He the helpless women and defenseless
rarrd at lion*-. Correapotidi nce confidential
the
government
do
this
work.
♦ says he expects to visit Oregon in the children who are under the shadow
Moure—» to ( dally; 10 to 12 Sundaya.
spring and is seriously thinking of] and blight of the liquor curse; love
W.
F.
Ixifelt
and
C.
H.
Huntington,
making his home In this state. If he. for the bright-faced boys, many of
p V rt ’ land . oreoo ’ n
of Spokane, are here for a few dnys Is satisfied with Eugene and vicinity,i whom will become victims unless the
on business.
he will locate here.
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Museum of Anatomy
OREGON MEDICAL INSTITUTE
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Standard Oil Company