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T \ V h i : - a - vv ! : i : ö < ( VOLUME 44 4 EUGENE, OREGON, MONDAY EVENING, JAN 23, 1911 Judge Blair, Undaunted by Death Threats, Continues To Punish West Union (0.) Vote Sellers. Danville, IU., Jan. 21.—City Attorney Frank Johns has con fessed to baying votes at tho last election and will go before the grand jury and tell all he knows about the alleged bribery and corruption. Sheriff Shephard admits to buying votes, but says he will testify before the grand jury, as it would be impossible to se cure a jury to convict any man who bought votes. Later information was given out that both officials denied the report of their confessions. ATTORNEYGENERAL OPPOSES COAL LAND BILL Wickersham Appears Before Committee on Public Lands CENTRAL HEATING COMPANY TO PUT IN ELECTRIC PLANT ♦ Th« Eugen« Heating and ♦ Eluctrlc Powor company, ♦ which »win* tbu central boat ♦ ing plant In the middle of th« ♦ block bouuded by Willam ♦ ette. Olive, West Eighth and ♦ W«m Ninth struels. I h prepar ♦ ing to Instali an electric light ♦ plant in the spring to furnish ♦ lights to the buildings sup ♦ plied with heat by th« com ♦ pany and others. If deemed * advisable. Th« steam for th« * operation of the cugine for ♦ th« dynamo can be obtained ♦ from tlie heating plant at no ♦ extra cost. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ « i,» Washington. Jan. 20.- Tile execu- tlvu council of the Federation of Labor Imlay decided to grant a char- tor to the Western Federation of now Miners, on the same basis as la that granted to th« United Mine Worker« of America. The latter threatened to wlthdr.iw from the American EUGENE WINS DEBATE Federation, unless the Wintorii Fed erutlon was admitted. FROM LEBANON AND LOSES TO JUNCTION ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ J.ffirmative Team Victorious J ♦ At Home. Negative Meet ing Defeat Tile Eug«'nc III1 h school debating t«'nni eon fstlug of Bertie Lombard. Dale Humbert and An«l«»raon Balter, won th«' first debate for th«' regents’ cup In Eugi tie l.'.st night b> a two to oti«' vol«' The <|iiestlon was wh«'th«'r tin educational test would I m * deslr- nbl«> uh a means of restricting Immi gration Eugene aupport«'«l th«* af firmative Another Eiig«‘iio team supporting th«* tiegatlv«« at Junction City, how-i <<v<-r. lost there, and Junction In turn lost th«' sum«' side of the same ques tion at I «'banon. The affirmative1 and the li< me t«'alll won the «lebate In nil three cities last night. Th«' l.ebnnou t« utn her«' was composed of two girls and a b« y, being Miss Ka therine Kirkpatrick, Miss Minnie Wetiell and Frank Doolittle. The Eugene team at Junction wm com posed of Junies McCallum. Wultot Dinmt and Henry Chezetn. Jr. The decisions nt Junction and ut Leban on wer«> unnnlmoiis. Nprlugficld W ins Th«* Springfield debating team won Its first debate at Cottage Grove last night by a unanimous vote Tho qu««etlon considered was th«' value of th«- labor unions. The Springfield team was compos<'il «>f two girls and on« boy. Iielng .Miss lh"ssl«' Hutchin son, Mlns Mildred Conpeubaver and William Barties. TOOTH FOUND IN EAR OF LITTLE GIRL Han Francisco. Jan. 21 Taken to the hospital with a severe earache today, Viola Bowtie was relieved of n tooth, which In some manner had been placed In her ear. The girl re called having pulled a loose tooth during the night but did not recall where she bud placed it afterward. Fifty Years Ago Today. Jan. 21. 'Die Unit i'll States senators from Flurida uml Alabama withdrew from the sellate und were followed l>y Jcffersou Dil- Vln of Ml-sUsIppi lu Ills speech vt withdrawal Senator Davis •ahi. "Each »Into ban sovetwlgn« ty In Its own rlglit," ainl Justl- Bed tho oeovsaioii of id* state. Twenty-five Years Ago Today. The meet M-usutteual parlia ment In the history ef Victoria’s reign wns formally opened by the queen III jiersen. The royal pugeant recalled medieval splen dor. The queen hinted at the use of force In Ireland. SPORTOGRAPHS t ♦ Boxing. Abo Attoll and Billy Allen, the Canadian feather, will meet In a ten-round non-declsfon affair at Syr acuse, N. Y., next Monday night. The return match between Tom my Murphy and "Knockout" Brown. liefore th«' Empire Athletic ('lull of New York, has been finally set for Wednesday night. Joe Choynskl. tlie veteran heavy weight boxer, will be the athletic <11- rcctor of th«' new $1,500,000 Pitts burg Athletic Club, to be opened dur ing th« next month. Tommy Houck, the Philadelphia bantamweight, and Kid Shea, prom ising Nutmeg state scrapper, have been matched to fight fifteen rounds at Waterbury, Conn., on Monday night. One of the beat bouts pulled off in New York In many moons is set for tonight ut th«' National Sporting Club, wlicre Digger Stanley, bantam weight champion of England, will pit his skill against Frankie Burns, i <’«>llcg«' Sports. Cornell and Columbia basketball fives will play today in New York City. Basketball games tonight In elud«' Princeton vs. Cornell in New York, and Yale vs. Pennsylvania at Philadelphia Yale vs. Cornell at the St. Nicho las rink. New York, and Harvard vs. Princeton at the Boston arena, nre th«- big hockey games to be decided today. Columbia will send a crew to An napolis again this year. May 13 hav ing bi'i'tt set as the date for th«' meeting of the ’varsity crews of th«' two institutions. Sam Wallach, n one-time box fighter, has arranged a wrestling meet between tho grappelrs of Clark House ami Columbia University, to be pulled off tomorrow. Racing. The next Important stake on the Tampa program is the Desota handi- cap, for $2.000. to be nin oti Mon- day backing n California horsemen are i Kentucky law. patterned after the l system, to create a stat te racing com- mission. The management of tho Marlboro, Mil., track, which had its first meet ing last full, will attempt to get dates following tho Pimlico session. Motoring. Electric«, commercial vehicles, and motor cycles will be exhibited at the Philadelphia show next w««ek A great exhibition of commercial vohlcltwi la planned for th«' Chicago show to be held at the Coliseum ear ly next month. Reports from Torouto stat«« that tho show to be hold in that city from February 25 to March 4, will be a record-breaker for Canada. Many crack drivers have already entered for the third Mardl Gras speed carnival, which will be held on the fair grounds course, New Or leans, next month. NO. 66 TAFT’S SECRETARY SUPERVISORS OF LANE CO. RDADS MARCH 41H ARE NAMED Private Secretary Will Hereaf Commissioners’ Court Appoints ter be Man of Cabinet Men to Look After the Calibre Highways Washington, Jan. 21.—Secretary Norton will retire to private life af ter March 4. or later, the president’s wishes being the principal factor in fixing the date. Th»- future s< cro- tary to the president will probably be a man of cabinet calibre, a man who could relieve the president of much deep departmental work and whose decisions would be practically a fi nality. ; nder a r> iig.niizatloi^ of » •<• u- tlve forces brought about during j Norton's short term at tho White Hous»», ail of the force with the ex- i ception of the secretary will practi- ’ cally be a permanent body. County commissioners' court has made the following appointments of ■•■I siiperviscrs in the various dis tricts of Lane county for the year 1911: Di st. 1- B. A Hingham, Coburg. Dist. 2 -Charles Neal, Vida. Dlst. 3 Dan Spores, Springfield, ■fey R. F. D. ■Dist. 4 -James W. Smith, Mabel. Dlst. 5—-Wallace Brownson, of Sprmglield, K. F. D. 2. Diet. 6 -S. C. Lewis, Panther. Dlst. 7 P. M. McPherson, Spring- field. Dist. 8 -John ¡I. Price, Thurston. Dist. 9 Jesse Wallace, Jasper. Dist. 10- W. B. Goodman, Crea- Hillis May Accept Washington, Jan. 21.—-Charles D well. Dist. 11-1 Fred Hinson, Creswell. Hilles, assistant secretary of the Dist. 12— A. . T. Miller, Pleasant treasury, has been offered by Presi ■ k i \ dent Taft the position of secretary to Hill. "7 * Dist. 13—Chas. Sharon, Saginaw. the president. This information’ Dist. 14 W. 8. Chrisman, Dorena. came today from a reliable source. Dist. 15—Henry C. Coaibs, Lon- It was added that Hilus is consider UNtO* O don. ing it. Dist. 18—W. O. Cook, Eugene. Judge A. Z. Blair of Wes' Union. <>.. is going ahead with th« tiuiug of the hundreds of citizens of Adams coun- Dist. 17—George W. Kerr, Wlid- S. P. CO. MAY SOON ty who hive «on.«-««.•<! t ■ s< • - ;|. :r v< te« for in nv years. Tbs uuoiter of bribery cases !■ sure to reach 3.OOO, ' wood. Judge Blqir declares. Threat- time In-n made agnlnst his life, but they <lo not mem to worry him. Dist. IS—Walden Trotter, McKen- BEGIN EXTENSIVE WORK zio Bridge. Dist. 19— V. F. Hebert, Hazeldell, ELECTRIC POWER TOO . IN RAILROAD YARDS Dist. 20— Jos. Blakeley. Lowell. Dlst. 21— H. A. Howe, Creswell, Dist. 22— R. F. Scott, Creswell. HIGH: PLANING MILL TO Dlst. 23— H. Carter, Winberry. Springfield, Jan. 21.—Rumor has Dlst. 2 4—H. B. Bee. Lorane. it that representatives of the South- PUT IN STEAM ENGINE Dist. Jno. Smlgley. Crow. . ern Pacific company have been en- Dist. E. W. Mathews, Goshen. dcavoring to secure lodging for a Dist. -W. M. Mathers, Eugene, crew of 80 men front families living ♦ B<«cause of th«* excetslv«! F. D. near the depot. A man named Con- R. Dist. price charged for the electric ♦ 28 —C. O. Eichler, Mapleton. j cord, owner of a large residence ! near ♦ .«■■ . d hv the motor Dlst. 29- --D. G. Monkhouse. Ocean- the railroad grounds, declares that ♦ that operates the ma hinery view. the railroad men approached him, t the plant of th«« Eugene ♦ Dist. 30— Lafe Borin, Walton. . asking for accommodations I for a * Planing Mill compa».» on ♦ Dist. 31— A. P. Walker, Mapletou. I part of the crew. _ He was given to Lawrence, street, the com ♦ Dist. 32— William Mead. Reed. understand that they were to rebuild pany will soon Install a steam ♦ Dropped Automobile Tire Down Dist. 33— Chas. I.yons. Elmira. Extensive Lead of Rock Assay ♦ engine the Springfield yards. The Spring and thereby lower the ♦ Dist. 34— W. W. Sailor, Elmira ♦ field hotels, however, have not been D'st. 35— James Johnstone, Green- ♦ cost of operation. A big * Well to Save Drowning ing Well Exists Near approached by the advance men, who leaf. ♦ boiler for th« engine arrived ♦ seem to desi’-“ their purposes un c from Portland today and is ♦ Dist. 36—Clay H. Zumwalt. Irving. Man known. It is a popular opinion here the City Dist. 37— Wm. Summers. Paris. ♦ being unloaded at the mill. ♦ that ’ he company intends to erect The company officials say ♦ Dist. 38— Joe Trunnell, Eugene, Plttsburg, Jan. 21. — By dropping round houses, machine shops and Some day extensive copp -r m. < ♦ that hundreds of dollars a ♦ R. F. D. an inflexible inner tube automobile terminal yards on a large acreage may be operated within two miles of ♦ year can be saved b> substi ♦ Dist. 39—Ross Myers. Blachley. Eugene's city limits, or perhaps by ♦ tuting steam fur electricity. ♦ tire down a well last night. Margaret owned by them here. Repeated sur Dist. 40 ■* —Joseph - - — Hlse, Junction Sevier, aged 18. saved the life of that time the city will have expand For several years this plant ♦ John Wegzer, aged 45, who had fall veys of this tract have confirmed City. ed so that the limits will embrace ,,gi«'< n «« flat rate of $40 a ♦ en in and was drowning. The girl this during tfie past few months. Dist. 41— J. H. Moffett. Junction It Is probable, however, that if this City, the mines. ♦ month for electric power, but ♦ R. F. D. There are some very good copper ♦ for a number of months past ♦ discovered his predicament and tried crew of men arrives it is to follow up Dist. 42— J. croppings in the hills south of the ♦ the bill for the current has ♦ to summon help at the police sta the survey made by Engineers Bran City, R. F. D. E Murphy, Junction city, this side of Spencer's butte. ♦ risen as high as $140 per ♦ tion. but the employes were out on a don and Forsyth, who claimed to be Dist. 43—Albert Erdman. Elmira. and she saw the tube, rushed surveying the track between Natron Dr. J. Christie, a miniug man of ♦ month. ♦ call Dist. 4 4—John Jeans. Elmira. back and threw it in. The tube kept and Springfield Junction preparatory many years’ experience, who is de ♦ « the Dist. 45—Janies W. Smith. Junc drowning man afloat until the to rebuild it with the same heavy veloping a gold prospect in the Cas ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ tion City. police arrived. construction characteristic of tile Na cade mountains forty miles up the Dist. 46 ‘ — ~ W. D. Hughes, Eugene. tron extension and main line. Willamette, has been investigating Dist. 4 7— tlie copper prospectB in the nearby WOMAN SUFFRAGE PENSIONS TO BE Dist. 48— S. D. Campbell. Walker. hills for some time past, and ves’ter- Dist. 49— John B. McNutt. Wai- EXTENDING POWER PROPOSED IN ARKANSAS day followed a lead nearly all day GIVEN RELATIVES OF tervilie. for several miles. The lead. Dr. 50—Fred Wright, Walker. LINES INTO COUNTRY *Dist. Christie said, is about 25 feet wid«, Litlle Rock. Ark . Jan. 21.—Suf Dist. 51—Nason Harwood, Eu- NICARAGUAN VICTIMS and he thinks it extends for many frage for the women of Arkansas is gene. miles. He followed It across several proposed in Dills offered in the house Sprjngfield. Jan. 21.—The Oregon Dlst. 52—Nelson Signor. Spriug- New Orleans. Jan. 21. — Relatives farms along the foothills, through of representatives yesterday. Power company 'inemen are con of I.eRoy Cannon, who. with Leonard structing an extension of tile lieht field. thick brush and over rock, preci Dist. 53—Ralph Callison, Fall G. Groce, was executed by order of and power system east on Main pice«. There is a deal now on for President Zallaya, will receive a street for a couple of miles below th» Creek. the sale of one of these farms for IOWA IN FAVOR OF Dist. 54— W. H. Larimer, Lowell. large pension from the Nicaraguan about $30,000, and the prospective limits. . This is a thickly settled Dist. 55— B. F. Minney, Vida. SAN FRANCISCO government, according to Colonel city purchasers may have the develop farm section and the farmers will Dist. 56— Wm Culver. Springfield. Paul Mason, of New York, who has enjoy the modern facilities, es well ment of this copper vein in view. Dist. 57— W. B. Hawley, Lorane. Des Moines, Jan. 21.—The [owa arrived from Nicaragua. Some time ago a quantity of the as having available power for irriga Dlst. 58— Joel McCornack. Mar- rock secured from this lead assayed senate passed a resolution today fa tion and domestic purposes. A crew cola. $36.50 to the ton in copper and gold. voring San Francisco for the Panama THREE-YEAR-OLD BOY of a dozen men are hurrying the line Dlst. 59— F. P. Haslett, «leñada. defeating a concurrent but the copper predominated, This exposition, ' to completion. The light company Dist. 60— F. J. Hard. Bohemia. resolution passed by the house favor rock was taken from the best look- 1 is extending its power lines well into Dlst. 61— John Milliorn. Junction KILLS LITTLE SISTER ing New Orleans. I 1 Ing part of the lead. the outskirts of the city. West City. K If the rock proves to be that rich. Springfield. Springfield Junction and Dist. 62—Frank X. Gallagher. Irv- Des Moines. Jan. 21. — Little Clara or even half as rich all the way HURRY UP WITH North Springfield ail having recently ing. Corbin, aged six. was killed last through, it seems that it would pay been wired well beyond the city lim Dist. 63— W. H. Conors. Irving. night by her three-year-old brother, its. It is the purpose of the Oregon to develop the property. Dist. 64— C. Schneider. Lorane. YOUR SUBSCRIPTIONS who blew off the top of her head Power company to give the farming Dist. 65— H. W. Davis, Eugene. with a shotgun which his father had Dist. 66— ! M. D. Johnson. Mound. MAD COYOTES IN Lane County Asset Co. stock is sell left standing at the kitchen door communities the use of the electric as much as possible. Several Dist. 67 — John V. Jenkins. Crow. ing at the rate of about $100 per after his return from a rabbit hunt. power lines have been run several miles In Dist. 68— J. T. Tabb. Cottage day, but this is too slow. It ought EASTERN OREGON TOWN to the country from Eugene, and all Grove. to sell at the rate of at least $1000 are supplied by the Springfield pow Dist. 69—Curtis Veatch. Cottage per day. so we can push the work NEW CHAIRMAN er plant. Power will also be distrib Grove. Baker, Or., Jan. 20.—-A band of right along when the weather gets uted to farming communities along coyotes afflicted with rabbles charg fit for work. There is no watered Dist. 7 0— John F. Volgamore, of FOR REPUBLICANS the company’s new transmission line Marcola. ed Into the village of Durkee near stock, bonus stock or other "graft” here this evening. Several persons] In this proposition, it is square bus Dist. 71 —Elmer Carlile. Elmira. New York. Jan. 21.- The republi to Albany, which is now over half were attacked an<l mo y dogs bit iness. as tile name of our leading bus can state committee meeting today completed. Dlst. 72—W S. Barron. Ivison. Dist. 73 Thomas J. Neeley, Ma- ten by th«« brutes. inessmen connected witli the enter- elected William Barnes, jr., of Al Fearing that dogs would go mad, prise fully guarantees. pieton. bany. chairman in succession to Ezra RUSHING WORK ON and ’ the citizens armed themselves u"- Dist. 7 4—Charles A. Swaggart, of The Lane County Asset Co. has the P. Prentice, whose resignation was cattle oil coyotes and dogs waged shortest survey, 4 4 miles, with a city accepted. Eugene. BIG ELECTRIC PLANT until a late hour, resulting In the of 12,000 population at one end and Dist. 75—A. D. Hileman. Lorane. annihilation of every dog in the vil- a deep water outlet to the Pacific at Dist. 76—Bona Patten. Cottage PORTUGAL'S NAVY Springfield. Jan. 21. —In spite of Grove. lage. the other end, witli a prolific country the fact that its plant stands in a Dist. 77—Loren Edwards, Junc- all along the line. It li is been pro WILL BE REBUILT sea of mud. the Oregon Power coni- tlon City. nounced by experienced railroad men SPECIAL COFFIN FOR pany Is defying the Oregon winter! Dist. 78 "■ — W. H. Elliott, Eugene. the best small railroad proposition Lisbon. Jan. 21.—The minister of weather and rushing the construc Dist. 79— Curtis Neet, Fall Creek. on the Pacific coast today. You ueed MRS. FITZPATRICK foreign affairs announced today that tion of its new 5000-kilowatt power Dist. 80— W. B. Wheeler. l eaburg this road, both as an investment for favorable bids from both American plant with the employment of all Dist. 81— -Elmer Lamb. Alpha. Grand City, Colo.. Jan. 21. ♦ your capital and to supply direct and and English ship-builders would per the men available. The whole tract Dist. 82—F. W. Williams, Junction —A special coffin had to he ♦ cheaper transportation for the pro mit immediate reorganization of the surrounding the foundation has been City, R. F. D. made for Mrs. Thomas Fitz ♦ ducts of the country. See Geo. Mel navy, Commercial Portugal is in ex- floored with lumber, but in spite of Dist. 83—W. H. Sallee, Alma. patrick, who was buried here ♦ vin Miller about your subscription at cellent condition, the minister de this fact a man narrowly escaped Dist. 84—Otto Morton. Creswell. once. tf death yesterday when he slipped off yesterday. She was 7 feet ♦ Clares. Dist. 85—E. R. Schwering, Spring the foundation and went up to his field, R. F. D. tall and weighed 350 pounds. ♦ Joshua Smith was drowned in the face in the thin, sticky mud. The Dist 86—Fid ward Byers, Junction mill race at Salem by driving a horse STRUCK BY SNOWBALL foundations hav«> been partially built I City. off the end of a bridge. and as soon as the concrete sets the, 87— L. B. Roseman. Eugene. MAN GOES INSANE brick masons wtll commence work. Dist. Dist. 88— Matbias Emmerk-k, of WOMEN MURDERERS If a motion presented before the The pit of the big 2000-kilowatt gen Waite rvllle. Medford city council by Mayor Canon Poughkeepsie, N. Y.. Jan. 21.— is being dug where the con-j Dist. 89— SENT TO PRISON wins the approval of the finance Made insane by pain from a hit. in erator Crete foundations of the furnaces committee of that body, the local po the eye with a snowball thrown by a forme«'ly stood, and the solid mater Granite City, Ill., Jan. 21.—Mrs. I lice force will shortly blossom out small boy. Herbert C. Potter, editor ial has to be removed by blasting ♦ Veronica Robstock and daughter. wearing the regulation "harness” of of a weekly newspaper, was today without disturbing the foundations ♦ ♦ FAIR WEATHER ♦ Anna, aged 22 years, were sentenced the city policeman. With a popula committed to the state hospital. of the big machines adjoining, which ♦ FOR TOMORROW ♦ to fourten years each In the peniten-1 tion of almost 10,000, the mayor Specialists say there is little chance run night and day to supply the up-! ♦ ♦ tiary for the denth of the daughter’s would have the police force placed of a cure being effected. per valley with light and power. Oregon—Fair tonight and ♦ ♦ Infnnt child, born on Thanksgiving on a more metropolitan basis. ♦ Sunday, except light rain or ♦ day. On December 31st the child A Twin Falls farmer raised 645 1 CHICAGO WHEAT MARKET ♦ snow In Northwest; somb ♦ was found In a brush heap by school The Coos county tax levy has been bushels of potatoes on one acre,which ♦ ♦ erly winds. children. Death was caused by placed at 18 mills. $120,000 is ap Is claimed to be a record in the Unlt- Chicago. Jan 21.—Close—May, propriated for roads and bridges. strangulation. ed States. 99; July, 96%; September, 93%. I : WESTERN FEDERATION GRANTED CHARTER ham guard COPPER MiKFSMAY BE OPENED HERE GIRL SAVED MAN’S LIFE
