Eugene daily guard. (Eugene, Or.) 1904-1924, December 31, 1908, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextEUG EXE BALLY GUARD H L 35. KIGBXK, OREGON, THVBSDAY EVBXINO, DKCEMI1ER SI, NX. NO. HOT. FT T, LEAVING BURTON CLEAR FIELD blnmbus, Dec. 31. Definite announcement that Charles t had withdrawn from the senatorial race in the "interest isrmony, was made today. The backbone of the Taft Birth will be delivered to Burton as the successor of Senator FORAKER ALSO DRAWS OUT Columbus, Dec. 31. Senator Foraker at noon' issued a fcment formally withdrawing from the senatorial fight. This fes the field practically clear for Burton. K CASHIER ACQUITTED, BUT ARRESTED AGAIN rett, Dec. 31. Chris Olson, the Ir cashier of the Scanrtla bank, closed several months ago. fed with publishing false stata- of the bank's condition, was red not guilty by a jury in the lor .court today. He was imme- ) re-arrested n the charge or iy and embezzlement on com of the bank's receiver. WILL NOT CALL ON ROOSEVELT TO GIVE EVIDENCE JACOB MAYER OREGQNPIONEER DIED OF OLD AGE v- V One of the Northwest's Most Prominent i Merchants and Masons Wiihington, Dec. 31. Senator HaUadttng as chairman of the com mitttt bn appropriations. In charge of ike Investigation of the -methods of tie secret service.. snld today he had intention, so far as he know, of smimonlng President Kqosevelt before the committee after bis retire- mea on the fourth of March, as in- THKODOKE E BL'KTOX. Who now has a clear field In his candidacy for United States senator from Ohio. timnted In some.or the published reports. CHICAtitf W1IKAT MAHKKT Chicago, , IVc. 31. December, $1.04 7-S; May. $1.07 T-2; Julv. 9S 7-S; September. 95 3-8. ONE HUNDRED AND TEN !0RE PORTLAND THOUSAND E IE IS OF NOW OFFICIAL ! DEATH LOSSES! THUGS ARRESTED BY OFFICERS ; Officers Keller and Kienlen Rome, Deo, 31. The official estimate places tho dead in' Continue to Round Ud vuiuona, ana iasiern aicuy ai iiu.uuu, dui mere is reason 101 Portland, Dec. SI, Ijacob Mayer, a pioneer of Portland of 1S75 and a member of the whulesale dry goods t ir in of Flelshner, Mayer & Co., of this city, the largest wholesale house in the Pacific Northwest with branches In Spokane and Seattle, died today of old age. He was one of the best known Masons in the Uni ted States and the oldest on the Pa cific coast; was the Pacific coast .rep resentative to the grand lodge of England, appointed to that honorable position by King EdwardM Knglnnd, when the King was Prince of Wales. He was born in Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, May 7, 1S28. believe this may be greatly exceeded. No news has yet been re ceived of the Americans thought to be in the devastated district, excepting Rev. David Sossums, of New Orleans, and 'daughtor Alice, who are safe at Rome. Ambassador Griscom is about to start from Rome for the south to endeavor to secure information concerning American travelers. City Desperadoes The Farmers' .and Merchants' bnnk of Conuillc has been organized with a capital of $25,000. Chester It. Allen, im of James Al len, at Strlngtown, au employe of tho Condor Water & Power Company, of Medford, was killed near Phoenix yesterday afternoon by a shock from the electric wires on which he was working. ; jtfg January Stock Reducing Sale As has been our custom foryears past to hold a gigantic January Sale, we will make no exception this year. The annual sale will be a money-saving opportunity for the people of Eugene and surrounding country, and for us it 111 reduce our great stock and enable us to better handle the spring goods when they arrive. From day to day different bods will be added to the list 01 sale, making the last day as interesting as the first. For lack of space we can tell you only a few items. The betterway is for you to come to the store and look around. It will pay you. Domestic Department 'ST CALICOES, 5c : - V 7e nnrt Re Calicoes: everv nlecein stock during this sale, at, the yard Sc UTING FLANNELS AT REDUCED PRICES 12MiC Heavy Twilled Outing Flannel, the yard 10c 6 Vic Outing Flannel, light aid dark colors, the yard 8c Lonsdale muslin cheap 1000 yards Lonsdale Muslin, If inches wide; the yard IKs 'IDE SHEETING 8- 4 Sheeting during this sale, tie yard 9- 4 neeting during this sale, Ike yard 22c Sic Underwear Department HILDREN'S UNION SUITS jOc Heavy Fleeced Union Suits for Children, each 2,-ic JfOMEN'S VESTS f iiti.ii. m ir i Tintr,nii nmmnn nnih . . . . i2,"(' wiULe ur CjUTU venio ui i uu i , WOMEN'S UNION SUITS Heavy fleeced Union Suits for Women; perfect fitting, eh..Oc Art Department ILL0W COVERS, LAUNDR. BAGS, ETC . 60c Fancy sod Serum Pillow Coven, sale price ....... oo 2 So Lithographs and all othenat the amine price, each. . 11.60 High Art Japanese, Pilif qoera, with Marine and Land scape views; sale price, each.- -J '" 25c and 60e Laandry Bags. " a'eton J 5: sale price, each i-c sum Notion Department lOTfONS AND FANCY GOODS SPECIALS $3.50 Mirror, Brush and Come seta, line goons; cum.. uj price, the set .r- - - i ',mi $2.00 Mirror and Brush S. special, each.... i; ' ' 'p..,, Dolls. Hand Mirrors. Twi Bags. Purses Pictures. Post Card Albums, Pin Cushions, etc- " at half-price. )oat and Sust Department VllSSES' COATS FOR RAIN AND COLD WEATHER . $5.00 and $9.00 Cravenettf Coats for Misses on , trm'wintVr' CaM. wide of' k'viHei; oT good mnte- h.i; worth from S3.50 to $10.00; during this January sate ai H price, or. .SI. 7.1 lo .-i.X) WOMEN'S SHORT COATS ALMOST GIVEN AWAY Dress Goods Department CHESS 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 v. hat the price was now you can buy for less. 25c Dress Materials will bo sold at 20o 40c Dress Materials will bo sold at 32c 50c Dress Materials will be sold at 40c 75c Dress Materials will be sold at 60c $1.00 Dress Materials will be sold at 80c $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, 4 5 inches wide; all durk colors; sale price, the yard 13c 50c Plaids and small Checks, dark colors for winter wear; make good school dresses; the yard tide $1.25 All-Wool Plufds, 42 Inches wide, im bright and medium colors: the yard H7c Japanese Goods WOMEN'S LONG KIM0NAS , $16.00 Quilted Silk Klmoims, black, blue and pink, with silk lining; excellent home or lounging robe; January sale price, each $H.OO JAPANESE CREPE 25 Japanese Crepe In dark blue, light blue and lavender, with suitable figures; special, the yard c CHILDREN'S .COLLAR AND MUFF SET , White Collar and Muff Beta, from $1.2 te $7.00. at half prlec: sale price , TRIMMING BBAIBS ' , , About 500 yard of colored Trimming Braids la almost ever? conceivable coloring; worth from 3s lo SSo; sale price, yd.lOo WOMEN'S CORSETS FOR ALMOST S0THING r. -and O. and Royal Worcester Corsets, worth regular from $1.00 to $1.60; this Is a broken line: closing out at. each. .itnc Clothing Department MEN'S SUITS ALL' REDUCED This is the time you have been waiting for when you could buy that suit at a bargain price. Come before the week Is gone the earlier the better, as you get more to pick from, bocauso they will surely go fast at the prices wo name on them. Are you ready? Read: $10.00 Suits you now can buy for $ 8.00 $12.50 Suits you now can buy for $10.00 $15.00 Suits you now can bny for $12.00 $20:00 Suits you now can buy for $16.00 $25.00 Suits you now can buy for $20.00 $30.00 Suits you now can bny for $24.00 VOTK TUB HA VINO IX THK I'lWK BOYS' OVERCOATS AT A SAVING OF ONE-HALF Hoys- Overmats of good materia!!, well lined; all good colors, worth front $ 60 to $10.00, at Priced at, each l.7 la tfl.00 Ibses' Dresses to 14 years, worth $1.00 to t6.00 at One-Halt Pri . 50c to 3 .u Hampton Bros. 55A-564 Willamette St.. WHERE CASH BEATS CREDIT The Best $3.00 Hat on earth is a Gordon HORRIBE SCENES ENACTED Portland, Dec. 31. Tho robbers, who last ntKlit held up and robbed tho mn-.oruiau and conductor of Rose City Park Car, and then stole tho car. are In custody, and have confessed 1 to the crims. They will be Indicted 1 this afternoon. The arreated men I give the names of Al Miller and llnr i man Schwartx. A frightful scene occurred hero today Mlllor tl"" ' oilJ amid the ruins of the customs house, whore bands of famished, ho room had occuplBa wlt!. persons were groping in the debris in tho hope of discovering i si-hwarts in a cheap lodging house. food. The first of the searchers who were suocossful were at- Srhwnrti thru a revolver into otfl tacked by the others with knives and revolvers, and forcod to r,,r Keller's tact and was shot In the ......... . . . .... , I arm tor his trouble, and was then divide their findings, and the struggle was fierce. Famished taken to the city prison whore he men threw themselves upon each other like wolves, and several I "'VhTarre.t, were made by police were disemboweled in defending a handflul of dry bones or a officers Koiior and Kieuien, the same Messina, Deo. 31.- few ounces of flour. One of the unfortunates was pinned to a plank by a knife, while clinging to his hand was his ohild, for wbom he had sought food. men who apprehended the three des perate saluun hold-ups lust week. STARVATION'S HORRORS ADDED TO MISERY OF THE SITUATION Rome, Dec SI. To the terrifying spectacle of death vauaed by Mon day's earthquake hav now lxen added the horror of starvation and fenr of tho spread of postVlence. As yet It Is ImnoHslble to obtain nny news of the fate of the little villages along the coast, many of whii-h are believed to have been entirely wiped out. In boiiib small towns, tho suddenness and completeness of the catastrophe was overwhelming. Of 14.000 living In I'nlml. only a few score nre alive to day and yfSterrtny: Twenty-two hun dred bodies were hurled there. Hcg Klo remains IsuHiited In ghastly deso lation and the railroads and roads Ihroughoat the surrounding country have bees .utnt-ly destroyed. The visit of Miu King and Queen to llenina Jvnd itegglo has aroased wldesprrvd einauslasm In splln of the auhrHrsnl mourning and distress, and the sovereigns wero saluted when ttuy disembarked by the firing o fun of Jsallan and forulgn warshlss at Messina. Troops are distributing j raunns wneruwr ponnuiu iu mniu get into umch with the stricken peo ple. Ths wators of tho straight of Vesalna lire -uoverod with ricmtlax both' of men, women and children, and all kinds of wreckage. patch from Palermo says It la esti mated that one hundred thousand persons have embarked on warships aud other vessels In the straights of Messina, or havo otherwise loft the devastated district, all towns and vil lages along the straits rapidly be coming depopulated as there are widespread fears of further convulsions. 111 IINIM) IIODIK8 OK MANY VICTIMS. Reggie, Dec. 31. As a precaution ary measure against an outbreak of pestilence, tile bodies of persons killed by the earthquake nre being burned nnd strong disinfectants are being strewn among the ruins of the city, 'Troops havo set up field kitch ens nnd are baking broad in the Stl'UUlS. ... . . . KNTIltK llKUIMKNT I'KOItAIII.V nltOWNKD. AGED INDIAN WOMAN KILLED House Burned to Remove Evi dence of Ghastly Crime Port Towusend, Deo. SI. A search of the ruins of the furm house of the lata Hdwurd Turner, a pioneer on the shores of Port Discovery Kay, which liui-ued last night, resulted In the dis covery of the charred body of bis ngi-d Indian widow. There wrt a deep gash in the head made by a li In lit Instrument, and the house wus fired lo remove evidence . of the crimo. The woman whs Inoffensive and why alio was murdered la a mystery. Reasla. Dec,. SI. There is reason to believe cinr entire regiment of in fantry was drowned In the tidal wave nt I'alml. The budiea of three sol diers have already been recovered. BATTM!!!' rl.KKT M.IV ItKNDKll AID. AM It lUt 'AS tlATTOVW W11J, KIU TTAUAVS. New Ymrk. Dec. SI. -The United Btaies sejipty slilp Oultlc, will sail today for Messina with l.f.OO.HOO na vy ration for the Italian eartlfqilake sulferers. Tho rntlous were Intend ed for the Aimirlcnn fleet but the navy aeettrtmeat authorised their do. Ilmry te the destltiita Italtags and Blclllntsk GOVERNOR C0SGR0VE GREATLY IMPROVED Paso Itobles, 1h. 31. Governor elect Coagrove. of Wushloglon, III at the springs hero, baa greatly Improv ed, aud without doubt will reach Uiympla by January 11. ATTEMPTED TO ASSASSINATE .PREMIER". WmhliMaon Tree. 31. The matter nff rllimiti'KInu lh Americas battle- I AllK'HItTANH AICIO ship rieet ti. the stricken city of Mes-1 KAIITIiyi'AKE VIHTIMH. slaa and oilier taullan ports. Is now i under ronslrhiriitlon and a speedy de- Athur 8. Chenev, ('nnsul at Mes-i I arts, Dec .31. A disaffected r slcan fired several shots this nfier noon In the direction of the uf'lr of Premier Clemoiiceuti. No one was hurl and be wus arrested. rlslon In favor of such employment Is iniu. and his wlfo. an!Ctl. The Sixteen warships are i Chli ago: Mr. and Mrs. now making tlielr way tnrnugn me Hed Hea and sliuuhl reach Port Said nt the casters entrance of (Sues canal by Sunday. Owing to the fact that full supplies an coaJ and provisions must be secured, the fleet could hsrd ly rmrh ktesasna beture January 15. Wtth flfteea thousand thoroughly disciplined American ssilors and a splendid corps at roedhal officers and aurgeona, with svbundsint supplies of medicines snd food, It irtbelleved the Arserlcaa fleet would se a welcome visitor to tie. shores of Sicily, even a fortnight PHfI'I,R FIJKH FIIOM (ITniCKKN VIM.ArW Indon, Dec. 31. A special dls- O. Elger, 'In. Cliurles A. Uikuii, lasl Farber, T. A. (irtrrin, Jacob llniier, Miss Mail tia4tua Slenrittr. Phllarsilphla: Miss Mary Moss. Mbvs ! In Wood, Miss Frances Hiirkhis, Miss Jhtssle O. Drorklus. Miss KnUille Pagan, Miss lllanche Ksae, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Norris. Urookllnn, Mnss; Mr. Msrtbs C. Klttredge, Jtflwss Klhol and Clarissa JKUthaedgja, Klgui Be. BMVIr Hessnms. Prot rstant Kplaoopal lllMhop uf Jxiulslsns. CONTRACTOR BLAKE G1VE1 FOUR YEARS i 1 Ban Franrlsro. I). 31 K A. B. Illake. the conlrnclor ronv'cted of ut-ti-rnpilng to brllx- J. M Kelly. s pros IHtlve Juror In (lie Knef bribery ttl- , lo rote for acuultinl. was aruttjiic- I'd b Jude iJijnno ifiiluy to four y ars' hiiiirlsontuent In the penltuii itlary. IIAI.N (lit KNOW T(IOIUU)M"M WKATllXlt. Washington, Oregon Italn west and snow east tonight or Friday. Northerly winds. ldabo 8now tonight or Friday; solder southeast. Aihlaad k"old"7T,0 of "cliy light bonds st i 1-1 per east. The Tldlnas says la suod bayera audai 14000 on the deal. A Salem man wants a law to rua( hold-up msn. ' tt'l 1,111 It UltK.IIT MAKI-J4 UtSU KI.KillT. Mmsns, France, Dec. 31. Wilbur Wright broke all ae roplane records with a flight of two hours and nine min utes, covering 73 miles, of ficial record. He carried one passenger. I j JfWKPIf II. KOKAKKIL i Who withdraws from the race for ' re-election as flenstor from Ohio. 4 . Taipayers of Multnomah county nest year will be obliged lo pay tai-s to the amount of ov.tr 1 1.000. 01)0 greater than were collected In 11)03. Official flgnres for the city. Port of Portland snd School District No. I. together with reliable estimates of the other tai levying bodies aggre gate is. 73 mills, as against 11 1 mills for this year. Oregonlan. t ,v Y feff ' CP. TAFT. Who has announced bis wlthJvawal in favor of Uurton. - tri