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About Eugene daily guard. (Eugene, Or.) 1904-1924 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 7, 1908)
r : :Lx Ml' , : U 1 Sol ll I a q b i 5 !J y i Z T, H a: Sr- cr sr I QCQ Q. p . lJ. A & f 1 z .3 3 "3 33 : V'l 5 ltt i - THE EUGENE DAILY GCARD. Kill DA V, AK-IST 7. IttO o o G THE EUGENE DAILY GCARD. KIlinAV. Alt-l 'ST 7, IIMXt i , -- o o I YOU PAY A HIGH PRICE . FOR almost everything you buy, including me commun necessities and the expensive luxuries, from foodstuffs to automobiles. The one marked exception is lumber, which can be bought cheaper today than for tmany a year past and is retailed in Eugene in many instances for less than wholesale prices. This means that your dollar will buy more now than at any other time and this 'is therefore the time to spend it. The $tfo4CdSy LuiniJber C0 1 4 East 8th Street, Eugene, Oregon. A I . . ........ . . pi., i.u.. i .i mmtm -ill - a EUGENE PEOPLE ON A LAUNCH LOST IN FOG iiKsrmrnoN ov nujiit npknt AT SKA WHITTKM II Y A MKM HKH OK KKiKNH 1MUTV LAY OX KHC'K IW VKSSKd DI'KINC XltillT WITH I .IKK PltK-SKllV-Kits KOlt PI I, LOWS (Special Correspond Mire.) Newport, Auk. 7. Thinking that mi r friends fu Kukoiio would be Inter ested in hi'iiriiiK nf our txnrltMict on ttm Ptii'lfie on Tuojulny aiul TuoHiliiy night of AtiKUHt 4, on tin gumiUiu liiuiu'h "The Ho.ho." thought wt' would 8onti a hrti'f dt:itTtiitlou to Tho tillHnt. Wo, Mrs. Itutlfton, Mrs. SlKinan. IVnrl I'lirtwriKlit. Nellie (jitlniby and Mr. and Mrs. Kd llmt'Hon. with about fifty other aMMiKers. left Newport at 9:30 lu the iiioruttiK and went to Seal Ilm-k8, twelve inllea outh of Newport. Tire rnek were Murk with and sea llmis. nnd by the time the men Kt within firing dmtauce they began nhootlng at them. They killed eight sea lloim and brougtt one bark to Newport with them. A large whale wan also tieen Hone to the launch, but It left m soon a the men began firing at It. The raptaln served lunch at noon to those that were able to eat. but many did not oare for It, an the ride on the sea made them too nW-k. Ilv the time we were r. ady to start back the tog was so dense tllat the inpiain was afraid to rross the bar. so he anchored the l.iunch there lin 111 I o'clock Wedn'sd.i m.rning It was so cUmo down In the cabin ihst our party, with a man and bis wile, didn't go dowu. as r. was but very little better, mi we lay down en the deck, with life pit -ers for pll lows, the floor of the deck for our feather bed. and a ttirp.iuiin for a cover. The wind blew like a h"irl cane all night loot sn.l the log was o dense that one could almost cut It ; cherish the memory of their virtues, I with a knife, and of course, with that feel that something of a prophetic and being Beuslrk, everything w-ast sense drew them on; that the voice very pleasant (?). Although while 'of the wilderness, mountain and we wore anchored there there wasn't trackless stream whispered of an the least danger, still one couldn't (empire that was to b eand called them help thinking of "home and mother." to a work that demanded only s;out We slept (?) by the waves rocking hearts and true manhood and woman the boat and the roar ot the sea 11- hood. Of all these honored pioneers ons. . who have passed beyond, none has The crew lifted the anchor about left as a heritage to his decendants 4 o'clock Wednesday morning, and I the memory of a higher character as when we got about two miles out we, a citizen and a neighbor, husband met a steamer and the life-saving and father, than Knoch Wimberly. crow out looking for us. The fog The funeral services will be held cume down upon us again, but by . at the family home In Hoseburg to tho aid of the steamer and Ufe-sav-1 morrow. Ing crew we were towed into port. J . All Newport was pretty anxious nnnriT nrnriiirn about us and so we were greeted i (jUUfl nLULllto wnn waving- oi nnnnKcrcniois nnu shouts of Joy upon our return from the "briny deep." The day beforo wo visited the haunted lighthouse of the Pacific coast and mot Mr. Brlggs. Mr. Mesh ROAD PETITIONS (Continued Krom Page One. I ley and another gentleman whose Kugene to Mapleion. providing that name we did not learn, all members rotk In suitable nuitntity can b? se of the life-saving crew, unit they told cured at a reasonable figure. The us that If we fell Into the Pacific they court will at once Investigate this would save us. but llttla did we matte.'. think that the next day th.'y would Another Improvement talked of Is ho out after us. i the reduction of the grade at Beech- Slnce It Is all over we w.-uldn'tier Uock, a dangerous point on the have missed It for anything, btcause 1 itiad, by blasting away a large por we got to see all kinds of things und tlon of the rock In the roadway. Tho many comical sights, and there -vns road extends over this rock, tnere be no respecter of persons In a time like j Ing a heavy grade on each side and that. ! at one side there Is a sheer precipice ONE OF THE I'AKTY. j of many feet leading to the swift wa- iters of the Sluslaw river, it Is plan- IIONOUH) PIOXKKK I nvli 10 h'"sl awll' enough of the rock OK IHl (i'l.AS l-Ol'NTY I " ,mf1,,, ,h" ,r,""1 ?' Ihl" iti.'ti ih.vmyii' ' ,"'s ls decided upon (. omtni.-ioner I AS.NI-.S UMiiMij (,rl ( wl1 ,,,.!,,,,, ,h(1 K0,.k ((t Lovelace The great trotting stallion, I dard and registered. 1 he sn many famous trotters and pi now on the race track of the Northwest. $25.00 by season. $35.00 to insure. Tyler B. A young Wilkes Sta'fc much promise. Standard registered. $20.00 to insurd A Grand Percheron draft, istered). Color, dapple we-io-tit. 2300 nounds. ThecW . , B---r r- . pion Percheron at the last Oregon State r air, where ne' two cups, four gold medals, several banners and blue bons. G. R. PRICE, Manap Veloce Kincaid Rickel, Owne! Eugene. Oregon Kincaid's Barn, Thirteenth and Charnelton StH News was received bv The Guard this morning of the death at Hose-( burg of Knoch Wimberly, one ot the oldest and most respected pioneers' of Douglas county, after a lingering Illness covering ninny months. The deceased leaves a widow nnd the tol-' lowing son;, iind dallgbtei-s: Ira WtuilM'rh . a merchant of Drain, 1.. thinks It can be done fcr $ r.oo. MAKltlKD. At the r. It. parsonage. August li. VHl. by Itev. .1. V. Spre.'her. the. WlmberU. publisher and proprietor I p:ist r. I. eon K Sullivan, of Portland of t he Koseburg Itevlew . Mrs t'luirles and Mis Kdna Ktr. of Willwood 01e. 'tiger, ot ilr.mta Pass, and Klnier The will res de at '..'.'I Ka: s -ceii-.ind Klxa Wiuiberly of Koseburg, all:enth street. Portland lilghh respect.'d In the communities In which tbei reside. Mr. Wimberly 'a long llfo. largely spent In Douglas county, gaiaed him the universal esteem of hit neigh bors and those with whom he came Prue night at the t". ran I tonight. I I.Kl n Eugene Poultry Storl All orders for live and dressed poultry filW promptly. If possible send in your orders for frys one day in advance of delivery. Chicken feathers for your summer cushions 5c per pound. 1 02 Fic Ml.v. c. nu.MaifiH ' H If ItAII.WAY i I.IXKMAX IS K1I.1.KI) AUTOMOBILE FOR HIRE Five piut'ttt'cr cit lor hinc inv turf jjv or nn!'.t GOOD DRIVER CALL BLACK 1231 Q Straddling the top arm ot a ir. leol electric pole at the mouth of the a1 ley near the llayne building on Stire street, lleorge A. Iloss was in--t.u ly . '.ectroeuted by ree.-iv r.g .i!"nit .;tio :ts through his bod he men and women jdi.y afti rnoon at 4:;'.". fraught 'V-th danger iloss was a hneuian In the eii.p'.ov of the Port. .ml. Railway, l.ig!.; an.) I i '"r Company. He hud ben o: k- ii on :h, ..uiie pole on v lueh h.. In contact In the alfalrs ot an active life that was siamped witn the vir tues ol terltng Integrity and pioneer simplicity His death calls atteii ion once more to the rapid thinning t the raiik ot the sturdy first set tiers ot Orcgo' ho, in t tie ,1a and baidhip. f undt-d Iichuh and n ared t.lllill:e lo follow It tlnir tootstcps an,! like up their work 'ieie the l ll ! , : in It les of age com oeo. l them l.i la It asid- l'osi!lx d . .! a i!ie , ill of the M .Id'' ih.it j ,1 :.... I Hi i Oieers to ti e ild,-i (. ; o v ball a elitui go. llld 1 l - .ie.ith par ll.lll.liillg In,, . 11,. ,1 M.-.l lo belter illall ' !o f Ibe ounger g-i i,. an opporfiriiv t t.-cy did, at d w '. i t , i his r. .ir es-.i an ot : .ml ii a ii mi 1111 ia,MnBanBi ,. itv ATTBTI'1' (rr-ts all f"0-',' market, and as cb of meat as was e blockJuky. tcnl"' ' ly flavored an.i .,,. . t vmir l"r ' sirloin steaks from flat liotieor'1' cut up meats for 'J well as to ' " so that they wt'l as well as tendor n " . Our prices are JJroders' J
