Daily Eugene guard. (Eugene, Or.) 189?-1904, January 13, 1903, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextToday's News Today. DAILY EUGENE GUARD. Today's News Today. VOL.21. TUESDAY EVENING EUGENE, OREGON, JANUARY 13 1903 BIO SALE NOW Muslin Underwear 9 cts and up. Ladies' Jackets 1-2 price. ST" Great Bargains In Every Department. Don't Miss This Sale. ON CATTLEMEN BIG LOSERS A Hundred Thousand Cattle Dead, a Million Starving on Plains. TUESDAY EVENING NO 42 Coal Will go on the Free List Gould Residence Afire -A Baseball Pitcher's Sensational Suicide. TO TRANSFER THE CONTRACT OREGON LEGISLATURE When You See Our Ads Don't Delay for You Can . FinJ VALUES HERE. HAMPTON BROS. Bonboniere Bakery Notice I jra In the bakery business at No 640 8 Willamette street, which a good maDy people know, thanks for tkeir patronage. My bmln.'Bs l 1 1 make a flrst-olaeB article, charge a reasonable rrliaml treat njy customers courteously. If my goods are not Jot is represented, bring them baok and tbe money will ba cheerfully refunded. Telephone and Free Delivery. F. B. DUNN. SUCCCStOR TO DUNN BROS' DID YOU EVER HEAR OF Canned Roasting Ears? "Corned Cod" TbT n 'he da went thing io caned goods, eiiht choice roastioj ears in & cat. Id cans ta choice pieoea of corned codfish ready for the table. Insures yon bntiu Head Hire in cotton sacta to sell at 25 and 50 cento per sack. ptoogcJeui unbroken rice. GEO. T. HALL & SON. Call and Examine the large and varied stock of Holiday Goods. Yerington's 9th Street Drug Store C LI t a . a nazeiwooa iv.estaurani BaKery. i 'on font ""I vlguis, UUUVU UUUU3. jjyoij First class. ward & Abshire, New Propietors. Hayi Day & Henderson Why? '11 soil you a Bed Room Suit for $12.50 that other dealers ask $15.00. tenion tables $4.00, others aek $5.25. Map,. Bed Room Suits $14.00, other dealers ask $16)0 for. Because we make them in our own factory Educing Stock Bargains in Groceries, Feed, Granite ware, etc, this month faanVfford to miss them. J tou"try Bac,,n 9 to 13 cents. LC. SKELLS. B; Scrlppi Ntnu Asioolatlon San Francisco. Jan 13. Winnie B Marcer.the Ditcher of the all American baseball team, now playing in this city, suicided at the Occiden tal hotel last night. Marcer fastened a rubber tube to the gas jet in his room, placed the loose end of the tube in his mouth then turned on the gas, inhaling it till he became unconscious. When found he was alive but died without regan;ng consciousness. Gould Residence Afire. ," By EciLejs vw Aiaoeiallou New Yokk, Jan 13. A fire broke out in George Uould s residence at an early hour this morning. While little damage was done to the building, the losi on paint ings and hangings will reach $50,000. Spain May Exhibit. ByBerippaNeae Awoolatlou Madrid, Jan 13. The Council of Ministers have under considei ation today the question of making an appropriation of half a mill ion dollars to make a dis tinctive display of Spanish art and manufactures at the St Louis Exposition. It is urged that articles of Spanish manufacture will find a large market in the United States if once intro duced, while they will not suffer in comparison with other nations in the estima tion of Spanish-American. Princess Stephanie Protests. Br Bonppa Henri Aeaoeiahon; Viknna, Jan 13. Princess Stephanie, daughter of King Leopold of Belgium, tele graphed fiom Mentone this morning denying the truth of ieDorts of differences be tween herself and husband. The Princess characterizes the rumors as not only sen sational and impertinent, but lacking the least foundation in truth. Free Coal for Coal Trust. erlDM Kewl Ajaoolatlon Washington, Jan 13. Ihe House ways and means com- ing decided to report a sub stitute to the Hill bill. A rebate equal to the tarin imuosod will be allowed on all kinds of coal imported from all sources for one year from the date of adoption. This virtually places coal on the free list, as it is not probable that with free coal once the country would sub mit to anv tax being im posed on it at any time there after. Terrible Cattle Loss. Br Sorlrpa Kawa mooutlon C'lTiMRERLAiif. South Da- V-ntri Jan 13. Stockmen all over the Dakotas, Wyoming or.,1 Eastern Montana are " ,larwnrlnnt, on aCCOUnt 01 . 1 r area losses 01 cui, more in proipect. Prr.minrit stockmen es- fimntn the loss of cattle from January 1st " -. . rfl9r.ii fullv one hundred thousaud head. And, they assert, the worst is yet to come as fully a million head are starving now. City Lights will bi Furnished by a New Corporation. Council Notes. rue uuy uouneu met last eveni- g with all (ba member, present, Tbe uausl routUe ol busineas was iran-iao ed. The street committee reported 10,. 763 fwt of lumber used last mom bin tbe oonstrootloD of cross walks. The h.tlth oommittee reported 80 (amillas quarantined for contagion. Tbe bill prepared by the city attor ney for presentation to the legislature asking a obange in tbe boundary liuue ol the olty to Include Fatrmiiuut and College Hill was read and ordered for warded to the legislature. FIRE CHIEF'S REPORT. W C Yoran, as fire ohlef, submitted bis annual report to the couuoll: Tbe department now bae a rueruberMilp of 173 divided among Ave oompaules. The expanse for 1902 was reported aa btiug 1280. There have been 8 serious or de structive Ores and seven alarms of no oonsequenee. Tbe report was referred to tbe fire and water oommittee. LIGHT CONTRACT TRANSKEHKFD. The important part of tb session was tbe granting of the right of tram-ferrlug the oontraot to light tb city to a new corporation wbioh proposes to operate from Springfield. The petition wa from '.he present company, the Eugene Electrlo Lfgiii Cisa'pti'.". This ruesol that this oompany will enlarge lulrciici. power and station, move its bae to rnittf fiS Bprlngflsld and operate ou much Nrg er soale than heretofore New oapltal will be lntroduoed. The power will be furnished by the Bootti-Kolly Company at Hpringfleld, as tbey control the power tbere. Tbe petition was preeentsd by A O Wood- onok, attorney for the oompany, and an ordinance was Immediately lntroduoed granting the prayer and the oontraot will be immedlatdly transferred to the new company, whlob will be known a the Eugene & 8prlugflld Electric Light and Power Company. TAX LBTT FIXED. An ordlnanoe was presented fixing tbe tax levy for the year at 8 mills di vided as follows: - General purposes, 5 mills; street, 1 1-5 mill; sewer, 1 mil1; library, 1-6 mill. The total olty tax for this year will b. 86 mills as oomptred with 38 mills last jeir. BIWlSRS. The Recorder was Instructed to ad vertise for bids for constructing sewers as to specifications on Pearl and Elsv- .Dtb streets. Senate Docs a Rushing Business Introducing Bills. Milt Miller Introduces Flat Salary State Officers' Bill .-Mum-mey Gets Clerk, ship. Guard NpeoLl Service. Salem, Jan 13. A Lane county man, E 11 Mummey, was remembered in tno dis tribution of clerkships today. According to the House apportionment Lane county was allowed one afcDointment. This the Lane delegation be stowed on Mr Mummey. He held the clerkship on the same mode of appointment at the session of 1901. The Senate rushed businoss today, twenty-four bills be- introduced. Several resolu tions were introduced and re- Li' p.'ppnale com- callins for the ap pointment of spocial com mittees to investigate . state offices and the affairs of a'ate institutions. Senator Milt Miller of Linn county introduce 1 a flat salary bill for state officers. ELECTRIC LIGHT ENTERPRISE Reorganization of the Old Company Booth-Kelly Peo ple Take an Interest. THE WHITE DOVE IS ON HAND Oregon and Washington End tbe Three Year's Quarrel Over Athletics. Tbe white-winged dove of peace baa visited tbe State Universities of Oregon and Washington, and tbe fierce ai h lello war recently waged between these Institutions haa come to an end. Already arrangements are being made for a fooiball game tor next season to be played In Seattle during lb month eV November. Tbe bone of contention between these schools has been traok etlilrtios, the three annual meets being produc tive of muoh barsbnese. Oregon and Washington are tb leading Institutions of their kind In tbe Psolflo Northwest and are natural rivals In all department of etudent en terprlie. Contents between these I istl tut Ions should be made tbe moat im portant athletlo eteate of the year In this region, and It Is hoped that differ ences may be ssttlsd on tbe Arid of sport In a olean and friendly manner. Tbe pipe of peace ought to be passed around and everybody given a good and lasting smoke, as euob fsjiabblee as bav hitherto existed shoold have no plao in oolege sport. YesteMay'e Orecoolan print thle and adds, "No Flowers." with SOCIAL REALM. This afternoon the friends of Mlxs Ureoe Elizabeth Farrlngton gath.red at her home and erjnyed a very r ieafr ant afternoon. Tbe occwlon wits the tb birthday of Miss Oraoe. Refresh, meats and game made th boars of from J to 6 pas very qulokly. Tl.s fol lowing were the guests present) Ulady Wllklne, Gladys Redmond, Merle Llll Orllla and Essie Zlmmer, I.uoli Dunn, Louis Green, AogellaMarquam Mildred Rttlck, Lone Bellman, Merle Stewart, Deane Marshall, Maud Wll llama, Melba WlllHsme, Kuoy and Eva Cummlngs, Alta Kay, Cleon Carroll and Martha Anderson, Noticing In tb olty oonnoll prooerd lngs last night that th Elsotrla Light Oompany had prooured tbe oontent of tbe oity to transfer their city oontraot to a new oompany the Guard learns the following frot: Owing tt th rapid growth of Euganeandth lnorasd demand for servlo the company .Mods It.nsosssary to make large additions to tb plant. While all details are not yet worked out sufficient headway hae been mad to warrant tb statement that th oom pany bus been organized with sufficient oapltal to absorb tb present plant and pat In a largo transmltsion power plant at Hprlugfisld capable of furnleh- ng light and power for theneed of Eogene, Falrmount and Borlncfleld for several y.ars to oome. A larire amouut of fuel will be nsoss- sary to furnish power for tb oontev- plated twenty-four hour eervlo. The eleotii light people bav associated thsuiaelve with tbe Booth-Kelly Oompany, and contracted for tbe saw dust and rlabwood ueoessary for fuel. The current wlli be guuerated at th Hprlngfield station, while the preieut eta'lon in Engene will probably be maintained as a distributing point fur this city. The present stockholders rutnl'i their Interest in tbe new com pany, and with tb new stockholder will continue the buslnees. While the Rleotrlo Light people arc giving splendid serviceable new align- mi twill add greatly to the Interest of Jw.eue and our adaocnt commoal. ties. It's your own fault if you don't let us save you money. I W Kn;c Furniture J. TT. Idy Company. REMAINS OF THE OREGON STATESNAN The body of Representative Thomas H Tongue led Washington last night on a special car, and will arrive lu Portland Saturday morning or afternoon. It le accompanied by Mr Tonga.' family and by a committee from each house of Congress, Including Represen tative Moody, of Oregon. The funeral will be held on Sunday at Hlllsboro, and will be arranged by Mrs Toukuc, Resolutions of regret at Mr Tcugut's death were passed by each house of Congrsss yesterday, and both adjourn ed In respect to his msmory. Trip of Inspection. A party of railroad offlolalt paaeed through Eugene this morning oa aa Inspecting trip. Tbe party oontalned Manager Koehler, Superintendent Fields, Roadmaster Johnson and oth era. This trip Is an annual trip of lnsp;e tinn made all over Vie Houttiern Pa cing's lines. ' AFTER INVENTORY eesSiAisLE.. o4" I" VB r. JI w-w f Continuing During January and February ' in Gains Through Our Stock S .W!i5.UnI V1 ' m,ny cUl8 n" wV" determined laLliTTL" "ulor February 15th The., odd. ani'" will be n flloeed out at auch prluue a-, will iusuro thlr .needy departureV S Domestic Department In thle department we bavt tuo 1 manrFlanneW: 1. ..ullu ,?lnnu- t0 - w mmuy jBiKutiBt CIO, All our lc and lajc irjannellettes at Sia All our 100 and 12 e OUUng Flannel, at 0 All our cotton and wool hlank.tc reduced 2B per cent rtT,a1f!OCe,,181nohorM,1 1l worth 12 cent. during tble sale ,u J t 7io- Ladies' Garment ta 0b,,d"""t M'' da and Department lJl Tailor Made Suits at less than Half Price, ... ' ' 'T.SSS $1.00 and $1.95 Mlatec' inltssold up to 13.60 at 9Bo Ladies' Jackets and Raglans at about Half Price. PAr?Y Pi0?8. DElARTMKNT-3ofa (rushlone, the regular 60 oetit kind at n .B8o CLOTHING DEPARTMENT Men'. 112.50, fit (0 and J15.00 suits at, 88.B0 Men' iH.60, t!8.00aud 120.00 suits at 9 1 2.0O All Our FURS Continue to sell at HALF PRICE. Watch for our Great Torchon Laco Sale f Tuesday, Jan. 20 art , asis, Keep your eye on this space. J. U. Green & Son. lot iai a ty BIG WRAPPER Sale For this week we will close out our Flannelette wrappers, and we don't mark them up to mark them down again We deal square and treat all alike. $2.50 Wrapper for $1.98 and so on down. Just as easy to buy a $3.00 wrapper for $1.98, but we don't deal that way. Ooneral discount on moit everything in the store during this week. Watch for Annual Clearance Sale Announcement. FRANK E. DUNN. I? oc