Eugene daily guard. (Eugene, Or.) 1904-1924, December 29, 1908, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextBE EUGENE - " - HL " GUARD KVGELVK, OREGON, TCKSDAY KKMSO, DECKMHKR SO, 1008. NO. SOft. THOl EVENT?!?! iff! TWifi SAND ECRETARY DUNBAR 10 FEES HE COW IT REQUIRED REFUND an Lgoi, -Dec. 29. On the I tie state . has no right the fees and perquisites 'lie defendant under the krred'to'ln the complaint, jjelendant accountable to Wetore, the supreme k opinion written by Jus frerersed the decree of llim Galloway of the cir jud dismissed the suit of Vjjlnst Former Secretary F L uunoar, wuiuu wu impel him to reimburse if the amount of fees and tollected by him during is of office and converted I OK. f.ni,iht hv the state. Jon of District Attorney J. H. McNary, substituted for J K bears, and a decree was obtained from Judge Galloway against Dunbar for the sum of $103,926.41 collected as fees for filing articles of Incor poration, Issuing notarial commis sions, recording trade marks, copy ing laws and journals, issuing ap pointments of commissioners of deeds, other commissions, agents' certificates to fire insurance com panies, licenses to life Insurance agents, annual licenses to life Insur ance companies, requisitions and warrants of arrest, registering titles in, insurance matters, issuing power of attorney, issuing certificates of authority to insurance companies and filing statements of mutual fire in surance associations. The largest Items in the list of (Continued on Page Eight.) r PROFESSOR BELL AND HIS AIDS IN AERIAL EXPERIMENTS. Alexander Gruhum Bull, the used Inventor, la a most ardent believer In the practicability of aerial navigation and hopes to improve the means of flight already discovered and demonstrated by the Wright brothers. It wna with this Idea in view that be planned his tetrahedron and provided, wttb his several youthful aids, for a series of elaborate experiments at Baddeck, Nova Scoria. The tetrahedron Is an absolute novelty in aerial craft and comprise, In Its application to heavier than air flying machines, boom absolutely uw Ideas. , AWFUL TALES OF OEAIH TRUCTIDN CUE DES FROM P V Rome, Dec. 28. The Tribuna estimates the total casualties in Calabria and Sicily at between sixty and seventy thousand. A dispatch from Palermo says the dead at Messina, as a re sult of the earthquake and tidal wave there yesterday, is esti mated at twelve thousand. Scores are imprisoned in the ruins owing to inadequate means of rescue and must perish. Other dispatches from Messina place the dead at even more appalling figures. The Tribuna publishes a telegram that the losses aggregate 75,000 persons. Ig January Stock Reducing Sale j has been our custom for years past to hold a gigantic January Sale, we will make so exception this year. lie annual sale will be a money-saving opportunity for the people of Eugene and surrounding country, and for us it dice our great stock and enable us to better handle the spring goods when they arrive. From day to day different will be added to the list on sale, making the last day as interesting as the first. For lack of spaoe we can tell you tafew items. The better way is for you to come to the store and look around. It will pay you. TENS OF THOUSANDS DEAD Domestic Department CALICOES, 5c. tad 8c Calicoes; every piece In stock during this sale, at, the ri fie I FLANNELS AT REDUCED PRICES -Heavy Twilled Outing Flannel, the yard ,JJC i-4c Outing Flannel, light and dirk colors, the yard c SDALE MUSLIN CHEAP MO yards Lonsdale Muslin, 36 inches wide; the yard Be : SHEETING 4 Sleeting during this sale, the yard 4 meeting during this sale, the yard. -,c Underwear Deportment DREN'S UNION SUITS .. "y Fleeced Union Suits for Children, each EN'S VESTS Rite or Ecru Vests or Pants for women, each -,c EN'S UNION SUITS y fleeced Union Suits for Women: perfect fitting, eacn..uc Art Department f covers; laundry bags, etc . P fancy and Scrum Pillow Covers, sale price. Lithographs and all other, at the ,linA L High Art Japanese Pillow Covers, with Marine ana JJP Tews: sale price, each .;"' or art canvas: Pd 50c Laundry Bags, made of fancy creton w f "Ice, each '. Notion Department JNS AND FANCY GOODS SPECIALS pt ': Mirror, Brush and Comb wis- - ... $1.7.". the set . . . . r . .si.imi 0 .Mirror and Brush Pet. special. Vires'.' Post Card Hand Mirrors. Twiae Mags. P"" 1 ". Pin Cushions, etc.. all at half-price. tot and Suit Department ? COATS FOR RAIN AND COLD WEATHER fi? M M.00 Cravenette Coats for XlfM on sa ( $, . f EN'S SHORT COATS ALMOST GIVEN AWAY ti'M to20.00 Short Brordcloth nfhey last. ea. .:. . or. each ,K,d n;ate- ' VitiI: " ' V-.' nndt of a varwi. ., , at l. iuier u""r. ,,!. this . . worth frrtm ! Crt tr, 11U.UU. U"" sat" v.v "v:, or . . i.;. I" h - .u.uU onort "aaon's goods, but Dress Goods Department DRESS GOODS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS SALE Every piece of Dress Goods in this big stock will be cut In price during this stock-reducing sale. It makes no difference what the price was now you can buy for less. 25c Dress Materials will be .sold at 200 40c Dress Materials will be sold at 32c 50c Dress Materials will be sold at -40c 75c Dress Materials -will be Bold at. ............ . 60c $1.00 Dress Materials will be sold at 80 c $1.25 Dress Materials will be sold at. --$1.00 $1.50 Dress Materials will be sold at $1.20 SOME MATERIALS WILL BE SOLD EVEN LESS 86c Wool Suitings. 45 Inches wldo; ull dark colors; salo price. the yard n,r,c 50c Plaids and small Checks, dark colors for winter wear; make good school dresses; the yard !1'c 1.25 All-Wool Plaids, 42 inches wide, In bright and medium colors: the yard H7r Japanese Goods WOMEN'S LONG KIM0NAS ,,;, (15 00 Quilted Silk Klmonas. black, blue nnd pink, with silk lining; excellent home or lounging robe; January sale price, each H 0 JAPANESE CREPE 25 Japanese Crepe In dark blue, light, blue and lavender, with suitable figures; special, the yard CHILDREN'S COLLAR AND MUFF SET White Collar and Muff Bets, from 1.26 to 7.00, at half prlec: sale price ..)..,.-. TRIMMING "BRAIDS , , About 500 yards of colored Trimming Dralds In almost overy conceivable coloring; worth from 20e to 35c; sale pries, yd.lfic WOMEN'S CORSETS FOR ALMOST NOTHING K and O and Royal Worcester Corsets, worth regular from $1.00 to $1.60: this Is a broken line; cloBlng out at. each, .gftc Clothing Department MEN'S SUITS ALL REDUCED This is .he tin:e voti have h- :. w.ltlr.r for h. n you could buy lh-it suit at a bargain price. Come before the week Is gone Ihe earlier the better, as you get more to nick from, beran-e thev will surely go fast at the prices we name on them. Are you ready Read: o nfl $10.00 Suits you now can buy for $ o.UU $12.50 Suits you now can buy for $10.00 $15.00 Suits you now can buy for $12.00 $20.00 Suits you now can buy for $16.00 $25. DO Suits you now can buy for $20.00 $30 00 Suits you now can buy for ' $24.00 VrTE TIIK HAVfNt; I THK PIIK K BOYS' OVERCOATS AT A SAVING OF ONE-HALF ,BoV Oveia,s of good material, well lined : .1 1 "l" worth from $3.60 to $10.00. at . Priced at. each $!.- to S.VCXI Rome, Deo. 28. Premier Oiolittl has a tologram from Dop uty Felice at Messina confirming the reports of the complete de strnotion of Messina by fire following the earthquake. The dep uty says the dead at Messina may be counted by the tens of thousands. OYER GOMEZ Battle Takes Place at Macuro. on the Venezuelan . Coast Port of Spain. Trinidad, Ioc. 29 Thero has been fighting at Mr.curo, on the Venezuelan count, between the. adherents of former President Cas tro and the crow of a micboat work ing In tho Interests of the new presi dent, Jutin Vicente (tomes. About 10 men were killed and as maay wers wimuiled. The Umuex party was obliged to withdraw temporarily, but later returned and resumed the engagement. KING AND QUEEN TO THE RESCUE Naples, Dec. 29. King Victor Emmanuel will at onoe pro ceed to Calabria and Sicily to assist in the work of rescue. Queen Helena has refused to allow her husband to go alone to the scene of the disaster, and sonsequently both left Rome this afternoon for the south. COURTROOM , FLOOR GIVES WAY Over a Dosen Persons Are More or- Loss Injured ' llaltlmore, Doc ID. The second floor of the two-story building at Kl llott City, Mil., full today during the MOUNT ETNA BECOMES ACTIVE Catania, Sicily, Deo. 29. Mount Etna today showed oonsid erable activity and added to the panic of tho poople, The direc-1 tor of the local observatory says the mountain's activity is di rectly connected with the earthquake of yesterday, which wrought such havoo in Calabria and Sicily. FOREIGN TOURISTS L0STE LIVES Palermo, Dec. 29. Refugees from Mossina say that one hundred foreigners were in the Hotel Trinacria and all lost their lives. The hotel was completely obliterated. It was patronized almost exclusively by tourists. APPALLING NEWS ' REPORTS ARE COMING TO ITALY'S CAPITAL r' Dresses pHalt Price Hampton Bros. tA-SM. Willamette SC. ....-r. rASH RE" ATS f l' WT Writ-' a he Best $3.00 Hat on earth is a Gordon Rome, Dec. 29. The dlsaater In the province of Calabria and the la land of Sicily today assumed stagger ing proportions. Messina alone re ports twelve thousand victims and It Is feared that this Is only a partial list of the dead and wounded. , Ke ports from other towns give es timates of dead from five hundred up to several thousands. Regglo Is Iso lated and It Is Impossible to get word from the stricken city and the Hence (Ives rlsa to (earful appre hensions. ",, Vandalism of th worst kind Is prevalent and looters are shot on sight. The officials In msny plarei are among the victims aad much dis order prevails. Holdler; are station ed at many points and are doing good work at renctte ana In retraining the peopl'? wl;o are 'panic stricken. Martial law will hv d"''lared M-lna spent the night In hor ror, fire sticreedlug the earthquake, nnd many riurageotm sct were per. f .rm-d by noldlers and citizens alike. Toward morning several of tho wornt fire were extinguished after the fin est palaces, chnrche and thestres In .Veninn were heaps of ruins. The Miniver of Marine at f p. m. received a wireless message, eatlmat Ing the dead st Metnlna at fifty thousand. No news from lleggle. A tidal wave at Khlosto wss 25 feet high. The Minister of the Inte'for re ceived s telegrsm from Messina say ing thst seventy Kngllaa travelers snd thirty Germans were burled In the ruins of the Hotel Trlsncrla. (ruction wrought by the earthquake was 82 feet high. Italian, Ilrillnh and Ktmslan war ships are aaalatlng at various ports. (Meiaina was (leHtroycd In 17K3 by an enrthqiiake. Forty thousand persons III that city perished.) ( it.i:i liKi i ;ki:h IVK NO DKTAIIJt. Palermo, Dec. 29. Railroad com munication with Meiwlus has been restored and a tralnlnad of refugees came In today but maddened by ter ror, were unable to give any account of the catastrophe. Alt agree thst Menalna his toeon destroyed and thst the victims number tens of thous ands A tralnlosd of doctors, mines and hospital equipment has gone from hern to Messina. The refugees deelsrs thst the en tire country around Meaalna Is devas tated snd telegrsph reports coming from all parts of ithe Island of filclly add to the horror of the altustlon. IteKKio Is described as a vast sep ulchre. ' i CHARLES N. FOWLER. t'litiKrvMiiiiih IMinrles N. Fowler it the Klfth New Jersey dtstrlt t Is ebauv man of the liotiae coiiiiullteu ou baus lug uud currency. beurlng bernro Juotlee Wollenhorst of William Maiigood, it negro, rharg ed with murderous asaault.' Over a rtor.eii perMius suffered broken legs and arms, among them being the following: Jutli Wollenhorst, the prisoner, e(-Jtidge J. T. Rogers, fttals) Attorney Martin Beck. Colonel Win. H. Powell, William Hall and Cbarle Jones, reporter for the United I'reas. Ths- trial hsd Just conimenee4 when the floor collapsed. ItMit.KVH I'OI'I I.ATIOV IS IHXTItOVKI). iHiiulnn. Dec. i!i.--A Kpeclal dla pnteti rrotn t'anxora xnva flint only a few ihiiimul out of tlie entire popu lation f Ites'lo ee;ii.M death or In jury. Martini law will lie lil.Mt ut.f; in the earthquake zone. The popula tion of ItejcKlo wan f fty thousand. ItKI.K.IDI H OIIDI IIH inn m iim: oit. THREE ARE KILLED, ONE BADLY HURT Knlghlatown, lad., Dec. J. Three were killed and one seriously Injured In a head-on collision be tween two freight trains on the Hie Kotir near here today. WINTHR0P BECOMES ASSISTANT SECRETARY Wahltigt"n. Ilee. 29 H-kman Wlnihroti, of MwwaehiuutltH. an t ant w'.'ri'iiiry of the treaaury, tnday arrepted the office of first asalatant of stste. Is'tidon. Dec. l. A special dis patch from Rome aayt the I'ope haa been notified that the entire relig ious communities of Messina snd Regglo, Including blahops, priests, monks, snd nun, hsve been wiped out by ths earthquake and fire. DKVAHTATIO OF DIHTKKT MIM.OTE. Messina. I)e-. 29. The fvsats tlon of the entire district Is &,r or lens complete. No psrt of the pro vince of Regslo de Calabria escaped, but the dla'urbanre wss the moat se vere along the shores of the straights of Messina where the (itles of Mes alna snd Reggie are situated The tidal wave which completed the dp- One Thousand lrmA. Monte Leon, Calabria. Dec. 19. The town of I'slml is practically des troyed, ss Is slso llscnars. The dead number one thousand, snd It Is Im possible to eatltnate the number In jured, o AMUtanrp stxl Hyutntliy. o o The President, through the alste depsrtrucnt, hss e!nt to King Victor Kmmanuel of Italy, a dispatch es- prHiilng the horror and sympathy of the American people over the dls sater which has befallen southern It sly snd Hliilr. Malta, Dec. 29. Three Brltlah warships sailed for Menslna today to render every asslstauce possible to surveyors of the disaster. A number of other British vessels are ready on the scene. Paris, Dec. !. The Mlnlater of Msrlne hss ordered severs! French war veasels to oceed to M..islns. I(r Crowa Is st Work. Washington, Dec. 2.-The Ameri can National Rd Cross Society to- n.tf leUtrrsnhic reaucsts to ! all Us bran'sk-a for relief fundi to be applied to TTie eartnquaKe sutierers of flonthero Sicily. -30c to $3.00