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About Eugene daily guard. (Eugene, Or.) 1904-1924 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 28, 1908)
rax'Bcoiunr wAsvr at Uo, : monbat, dbombdi as, mv EUGENE GUARD PRINTING CO., INC. Chillies H. Fisher Published every day of the week, Sunday's excepted. Address all com munications and make all remittances payable to The Eugene Guard, Eugene, Oregon. Subscription Delivered by carrier, per week Delivered by carrier, one month By mall one year (In advance) One month Single copies Weekly Guard, per year Advertising rates made known Agents for The Guard The following are authorized to take and receipt fer subscriptions or transact any other business for The Daily and Weekly Guard: . Creswell J. L. Clark. Coburg George A. Drury. All postmasters are authorized to retelve and receipt for subscrip tions to the Dally aad Weekly Guard. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS MONDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1908 GOING AHEAD BY GOING INTO DEBT Since consolidation, eleven years ago, the debt of New York City has nearly trebled, and it is now rather over two-thirds as much as the funded debt of the United States. The Increase of more than four hundred mil lions in indebtedness since consolidation provokes some dolorous prophecies that the metropolis must be .running headlong to ruin. Generally speaking, when the railroads are piling up Indebtedness It is a sign of progress. It means that they are borrowing money on long time at low interest to make profitable improvements.' Since 1898 their debt has Increased four billions, but the money has been well laid out, for average dividends on railroad stocks have doubled. Every one realizes that if the roads are to keep up with the needs of the country they must constantly ' absorb fresh capital, go Into debt more and more. In the first half of this year they issued half a billion of new bonds. Public debt, however, is commonly put in quite another category and for no good reason. Its benefits are seldom capable of mathematical calcu lation. To build bridges, roads, hospitals, libraries, waterworks, scores of schoolhouseB and so on, New York has borrowed so many hundred millions at about three and one-half per cent. Over against the fixed charges you cannot set down the education of six hundred thousand children at so many cents per head per annum, and strike a bookkeepers' balance. The balance Is there, however. It Is Bafe to say that any city that hasn't gone Into debt hasn't lived up to its opportunities of usefulness. Saturday Evening Post. This editorial from the Saturday Evening Post expresses The Guard's views better than we can do it ourselves. The reason ing will apply to Eugene, or any other city. Money actually ex pended in public improvements is never wasted,' but increases the value of all the property in the city. Taxes may be raised, but rents go up in proportion, and the property owner is able to meet the increased outlay. Property values increase and the realty market becomes more active. Find a town where there is no bonded indebtedness and taxes, are low and you will find a sleepy community, sluggish business, low rent and realty a drug on the market. , ; Eugene, up to the time of the issue of the $160,000 of bonds for the purchase of the water plant, had a very small bonded indebtedness; more bonds should be issued, especially for a city hall. We ought to have such a building, erected at a cost of not less than $75,000 or $100,000 a monument to the civio pride and enterprise of the citizens that would attract strangers and homeseekers who wish to invest or locate in an up-to-date city. The present shack used for a city hall is a burning disgrace and a reflection upon every resident of Eu gene who has countenanced its use for such a purpose for so many years. , - The street improvement work done in Eugene the past two years has proven that such expenditures pay. Taxes have not materially increased in that time, and rents of all classes of buildings have practically doubled. It was the best investment the property owners ever made, What we want to do is keep up the present program of im provement, publio and private, until Eugene's example will be the model for every growing city in the Northwest. It is almost that now let's make the position we are aspiring to sure during the next two years. Don't be afraid of debt if the money realized from the sale of bonds is actually expended in publio improvements. EUGENE'S FAME ABROAD The Guard has received a marked copy of the Hudson (New York) Morning Republican, in which appears.the following edito rial: Yesterday we had occasion to comment on and compare Greouinnd nnd Hudson. Since then our attention has been called to the city of Eugene, Oregon, which also has a population of about ton thousund. This city las raised and spent during the past year In advertising Itself and its lulvuiitugea I10.00U. The campaign hns been so successful that they have decided to raise and spend $15,000 during 1909. The work is done by the Eugene Commer cial Club, with J. H. Hnrtog as secretary, who Is the author of all of tho fine advertising done for the past year for Eugene. Ono of tho features of Mr. Bui-ton's work Is the issue of n monthly publication callod "Nobody's Magazine." which is ontlroly devoted to de doscribing the advantages of tholr bountiful elty nnd country. The follow ing extract Is from the "Nobody's Magazlno" for November: "Seven soliciting committees wore nppolntod. and although all con sisted of busy men, they reported at their first meeting, having $6860 signed up, and they had not called on half the people. At their lust meeting $14. 000 was signed up and over $1000 more In sight. "With more funds, more printers' Ink can be bought. The fund will be largo enough to supply you, kind render, with nil tho pictures you need to give you a faint Idea' of this part of Eugene has grown from to forest tlmo Hint Hudson has shown nn tiu-rense of about 700. .One of the latest "stunts" of this lively city is the organization of committee oi iuu to raise ou.uuu ruined $6800 the first forenoon. That was good news the Oregonian printed, forecasting the early construction of the Oregon Eastern railroad, acrosthe mountains from Eugene to Klamath Falls and Ontario. Every thing points to the beginning of work on this line during the com ing year and it will make Eugene the most important interior city in all the Great Northwest It's an off day when a British hunter of big game in Africa doesn't drop in at the White Hou ers ana to get a iree iuuuu. Castro may be thick-headed DAILY GUARD hates Dally - $ -16 60 ......... , .60 1-60 on application. the beautiful Willamette valley." to a city of 10.000 people during t?io tor a new v. si. u. A. Diillillng. Thoy to give Tddy a few point- about some things, bufjhe prob- ably understands that the meaning of the establishment of a new government in Venezuela is "You Thnan Pittahnrir hnnkfirR the city council should, if found than the men they bribed, but they will. , Sooner or later it may become necessary to make the pos session of more than $10,000,000 a bar to memberhsip in the United States senate. Maybe Andy Carnegie is enjoying the rumpus he has raised among the steel-makers it is CALENDAR OF SPORTS ' FOR THE WEEK Monday, Opening of annual college chess tournament of Cornell, Brown and Pennsylvania. Annual holiday week golf tourna ment begin Bat Plnehurst, N. C. Tuesday. Annual meeting of the American association in Chicago. Indoor meet and Marathon race In Pittsburg. Jem Drlsdoll vs. Matty Baldwin, 12 rounds, In Boston. New York Poultry, Pigeon and Pet stock Show, opens in Madison Square Garden. Wednesday. ' Jim Barry vs. Al Kaufman, 45 rounds at Los Angeles. Peach Cross vs. Young Loughrey, 10 rounds at Eeslngton, Pa. Thursday. Opening of annual show of Ameri can Motor Car 'Manufacturers In New York. v Marvin Hart vs. Mike Schreck, 15 rounds at Lexington, Ky. Friday. Championship Marathon ran un der auspices of Yonkers (N. Y.) A. A. New Year Handicap at Oakland; Rose Selling Stakes at Arcadia. Start In two-day endurance test of Quaker City Motor Club of Philadel phia. Third annual Tri-State champion ship shoot at Dayton, Ky. Saturday. Annual meeting of Intercollegiate Athletic Association In New York. "THIS DATE IN HISTORY." lecemler SO.- 1734 Robert -MacGregor Campbell, ("Rob Roy"), a famous Scot tish outlaw, died. Born March , 6, 1671. 1817 American Colonization Society which aimed to return free negroes to Africa, formed -in Washington, D. C. 1829 Georgia refused to permit the Indians to set up an Indepen dent government In that State. 1835 Patent for revolving firearm issued to Samuel Colt. 1837-7-Steamer "Caroline" captured i and destroyed at 'Niagara Falls. 1862 'Federal force captured at Fort Van Buren, Ark. 1871 Great fire in Little Rock, Ark. 1869 Charles I. proclaimed king of Portugal. 1907 Alexander J. Cassatt, presl ' dent of Pennsylvania Railroad 'Company, died In Philadelphia Born in Pittsburg, Dec. 8, 1839. "THIS IS MY 73RD BIRTHDAY." William 1-). Chandler. William E. Chandler of New Hampshlro, for many years one of the most prominent members of the United States senate, was born In Concord, N. H., December 26, 1835, and was graduated from the Har vard law school and admitted to the bar In 1855. He was a member of the ! New Hampshire legislature from 1862 to 1864, and in the following year he 'became soHcttir and judge advocate of the navy. In the same year he was appointed first assistant secretary of the treasury, and re signed from that office in November, 1867. In President Arthur's adminis tration Mr. Chandler was secretary of the navy. He was elected to the senate In 1887 to fill an unexpired term, and was re-elected in 1889 and 1895. After his retirement from the senate he served as president of the Spanish Treaty .Claims Commission. Mr. Chandler Is best known, per haps, for the part he played In the presidential campaign of 1876, when, as was claimed, he went to Florida ! and selied that state, A Dangerous Operation. Is the removal of the appendix by a surgeon. No one who takes Dr.King's New Life Pills Is ever subjected to this frightful ordeal. They work so quietly you don't feel them. They cure constipation, headache, blllious noss and malaria. 25c at W. A. Kuy kendall's drug store. WILLIAMS' CAKIIOLIO SALVE WITH A It MCA and WITCH HAZEL The best salve lu the world for cuts. I bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, tei- , t,r- chapped hands and all skin eriu- ,u,us- -'ranieea to give satisfaction i!ni CoLnnv llCn GASOLINE WOOD SAWING. Call up or phone Main 32 or Far mers 61. R. A. Mazan. Some fine prizes to be given away N'ew Year's eve at tho masquerade bull. CASTOR I A For Infants and Children. j TtlB Kind YOU HaY8 Always Bought Bears the Signature of needn t come bacK again. charced with bribing members Of guilty, get a longer sentence we are not over-comment tnai certain that the latter are not. NOBODY'S MAGAZINE FULL OF GOOD THINGS Nobody's Magazine for December, like the town from which It comes, is all right, says the Portland Jour nal. It is bright and snappy, well ar ranged and up to date. Nobody's Magazine is published by the promo tion department of the Eugene Com mercial Club, and deals largely with the resources and advantages of Eu gene and Lane county, though It spreads its influence beyond to all of the upper Willamette valley. The current number, which is Just off the press, is especially to he noted for its many beautiful illustrations, which are well selected and well pro duced. They are of forest scenes, big trees, rivers, lakes, meadows and farms, while here and there are strik ing and picturesque points of Eugene,, Leaving the vicinity of Eugene va rious seaport scenes are depicted, while views are shown from different ones of the growing interior towns. The issue is a credit to the Commer cial Club and the men who made it. SAY WILLAMETTE LAND IS TOO CHEAP "We don't like the Willamette val ley because land is too cheap here and It does not look good to us at the price named. The above statement made by pros pective investors to a well-known Sa lem professional man on a Southern Pacific train yesterday illustrates to a great degree why some of the in terested Eastern homeseekers pass by the Willamette valley for Hood River or for Rogue River. We cannot figure out why the lands here are so cheap, when lands In the other sections are so high if they have the same qualities compar atively," continued the prospective In vestors. The professional man states that It has been his experience that a number of times the Willamette val ley has not received the same consid eration as other valleys because of the low price of land." Salem States man. This Is Worth Reading Lao F. Zelinski, of 68 Gibson St., Buffalo, N. Y., says: "I cured the most annoying cold sore I ever had, with Bucklen's Arnica Salve. I ap plied this salve once a day for two days, when every trace of the sore was gone." Heals all sores. Sold un der guarantee at W. A. .Kuykendall's drug store. 26. Over 300 men and 210 head of stock are now working on the rail road within a few miles of Klamath Falls. We Sell on the positive guarantee that if it does not give sat isfaction we will return the entire amount of money paid us for it. We ask all those who are run-down, nervous, debili tated, aged or weak, and every person suffering from stubborn colds, hanging-on coughs, bronchitis or incipi ent consumption to try Vinol with this understanding. Vinol is sold in Eugene by the Red Uror- Drug Company. RUSTIC MOULDING SEINGLtS PQ5TJ, BOXES! LEN GOODMAN CHARGED WITH BURGLARY Alleged That He Broke Into the J Skating Bing and Stole Pic- j ture Machine Lenses Len Goodman, a youth who has I conducted a moving picture show I here and there for the past several months, was arrested last evening ly Sheriff Bown on the charge of burglary. It is alleged mat ne Drone Into the roller skating rink and stole from the moving picture machine there two lenses, the property of Cooper & McDonald, proprietors of the rink. The young man waa ar raigned before Judge Bryson, of the Justice court, and his examination was set for tomorrow at 10 a. m. CARMACK MURDERERS ARE REFUSED BAIL Nashville,- Dec. 28. Judge Hart ..afnaari 'hall tnifav tn Pnlnnal Hnnno. I, .. 1. 1 y ., ,-, .. T .. I. 71 CI Y. ' are charged with the murder of Sena tor Carmack. TRY THIS FOR DESSERT. Dissolve one package of any flavor ed JELL-O In one pint of boiling wa ter. When partly congealed beat un til light one cup whipped cream and six crushed maccaroons. Whip all together thoroughly and pour into a mold or bowl. When cool It will Jel lify and may be served with whipped cream or any good pudding sauce. The JELL-O costs 10 cents per package and can be'obtained at any ooi grocer's. Big Reductions MSttit Prices At this time of the year, following the Christmas rush. You will find it worth your while to in spect our line of Mich ael's, Stern & Co.'s cloth ingthe best make in the country today.. You will find that we have the real clothing bargains, when quality and price are both considered. Our line of gents fur nishings is complete and it shirts, underwear and neckwear we are sure to have just what you are looking for. ED. MANSON East. Ninth Street Manicuring and Hair Dressing Hasting Sisters Register Bldg. Front Suite GARRETT & MITCHELL Real Estate Brokers Register Building. Phone Main 108. Eugene Cleaning and Dyeing Works Everything possihlo in cleaning and Dyeing. Corner, Sixth and Willamette Sts. I'lione MiUn 1SS SHINN . THE SIGN PAINTER 77 West Eighth Street. Smyths Transfer Co Baggage stored free for ten day.. W. H. SMYTH. Prop. Phe Mai, M. Red 4012, Be careful of your hands! Yellow soaps will make them red and .coarse- and hard; a source of never-ending annoyance and humilia tion. Ivory Soap adds to their .beauty; keeps them soft and sweet and dainty. And so, we offer this suggestion : Use Ivory Soap for even so com monplace a purpose as washing dishes. pays. Ivory Soap 99l$o Per Cent. Pure. C.L.BEADLE Stone Mason Leave, orders at White's restaurant on West Eighth street or address al HALL SHUMWAY Plumbing and Sewer Work. Also general Jobbing in tin and sheet Iron work. Iron work promptly attended to. ' Carry a full line of plumbing fixtures PhoM Black 1S71. 7th and Oak Sts. Eli BANGS J. H. VEST BANGS LIVERY CO. Livery, Feed, Stage and Sales Stables Cabs Always Ready First Class Turnouts of All Descriptions i ..STAGES.. McKFNZIEST CEIeavrs Eugene at 5:30 a.m. S!rw$do not call at private residenc s. but will call (or boggape notiiiedi the (lay before. Livery Phone Main 2 1 . . T. H. Ellis.. CONCRETE CONSTRUCTOR Cement Blocks and Pressed Brick. ORDERS FOR SIDEWALKS GIVEN PROMPT ATTEND Phone Black 5521. Residence, 854 High St. Best of ivo,-k.. Don't fail to see the pictures vre are putting out now ut half price Tolman Studio 518 Willamette Street S. D. READ DENTIST Over Hall's Grocery No. 618 Willamette Street FOR BEST Teas, Coffees, Spices or Chinaware Call nt 30 East Xinth Street. G. B. LOCKE, Mgr. Eugene Electric Co. I. O. THOMAS Electric Wiring, Fixtures and Sup plies Phone Mnln 5. EUGL.XK. "R. Fisi? and Poultry Market Fish aaroired Daily W. H. RimSHWAT. Prop. rfcM Mala 23. Wt!Umett St GEO.K.MUNH0 "West Eighths,. Solefe , "Knts for th, pT, noted Detroit Ranges the be,t" ,A'Mt'uJ the market lo . A lull ut - -mi v ESS Pins. Sample, M hn'"K ee-nuliw. accept no ,L?S "" orders to the e "muhm 2 ""'TED liDICl CO., loi , L Sold in Eugene by y.j 's Samal-Pepsa KWotri. aognif. 11 VaMtam CIJ i we wine D.ll.i . . Sold by W. A. Kuyuou, S Cist. EUGENE-FLORENC STMS-I oauyiageleavtitugeBii(lBil tor Mapleton, close emxfa Sjl steamer lor Florence ml .ra, Clearance Sale! of Wall Pap now on it Preston &Ha!es Measure your room ml ihcy -.will tell you m - cheap it can be i IIIIHHH G. S. Beardsley.M. . j C..frtnfl Fhysician ano BA- ld ana n " juj IIWI1C " THE TAILOR 44 EAST XIXth Jesse G.W J ATTORNEY animation o j , settling toc,iH,,,1 Phone Malp 10, 1 outlaw d 1: Office. Kcs.- . ,J "gp-BCIALTT-W-" Mm .-- Attomer-- flce Warre. ette street. aJZ-7