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1 THE EUOBira DAILY GUABD, BATPBDAY, MARCH 13, 1809 THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD UVAUU I'KIXTINO OO., 1HC Chailen H. Flatter Published every day of the week, Sunday's excepted. Address all com munications and make all remittances payable to The Eugene Guard. Vugene, Oregon. Subscription Ku Daily Delivered by carrier, per week f -15 Delivered by carrier, one month 50 By mall one year (In. advance) .00 One month BO Bingle copies 05 Weekly Guard, per year 1.50 Advertising rates maue knowp nn application. AKents for The Guard The following are authorized t take and receipt for subscriptions or transact any other business for The Dally and Weekly Guard: Crnswell J. L. Clark. Cnburg George A. Drury. All postmasters are authorised to receive and receipt tor subscrip tions to the Ually ana weeniy uuara. the streets, a saving of several hundred dollars monthly, and be productive of revenue or savings to the taxpayers from many sources. This is a plain statement of the facts in the case, and to the intelligent taxpayer and voter it should be sufficient to show that the city of Eugene is not only financially solid, but in the hands of a practical, business administration, whose only sin is that the interests of the taxpayers are placed above those of a private corporation. COTTAGE GROVE FRUIT GROWERS' ASSOCIATION " HOLDS MEETING Evaporator Will Be Placed on a Paying Basis Other Notes MKM1IU1I OK ASHOC'IATKD l'KKHS Entered at the Eugene. Oregon, postofflce as second-ciass matter. SATURDAY, MARCH 13, 1909 . MOTH Klt'S HOXO. . I heard a song a song that thrilled my heart. Though J have heard fair Pattl and the rest Of all the world's great singers, On the 'bream Of a young mother In a gypsy's cart, There lay a black-eyed . ; without art, untrained as In the wild birds' song at best. Was that sweet voice 'ac crooned toe child to rest, And soothed my pain, coding my heart's hot smart.' No songs of earth nor of the heaven above. Nor melody, nor human v.ice, nor bird, Nor Instrument that mortal ever heard, Was like that mother's voice attuned by love, The angels tarried In their flight to hear The simple song; for, tones, ueaven was near. Henry Coyle. 4 REISNER JUGGLES THE FIGURES ' In a recent issue of the morning paper appeared the follow ing: ' From Frank Reisner, treasurer of the city of Eugene, we get a few figures that may be of interest to our readers. On March 6 he had figured up some balances and found that the outstand ing warrants on the city general fund were $143,167.96, and there are outstanding sewer warrants to the amount of $6621. 65. In addition to this, the city general fund owes the water .fund, from which it was borrowed, $42,700.14. There are now unpaid assessments for street paving $94, 278.18, and in addition to this there is $9510.85, which the county court has allowed for paving its share of the Park streets but the warrants for which are still in the hands of the county clerk, as he will not give them up until the court decides who is, de jure, treasurer of Eugene. The unpaid sewer assessments .mount to $3619.07, and the unpaid street assessments for grading and graveling amount to $3944.17. . The city has still left unpaid of the old issue of sewer bonds, which bear 7 per cent interest, the sum of $5000. There are later sewer bonds out to the amount of from $22,000 to $24, 000, on which the city pavs $880 interest annually, and this last issue is held by local oitizens. Then there is the $300,000 water bonds, of which $200,000 are outstanding and bearing interest. From these figures taxpavers can get some idea of the ctiy's finances. Our readers will also notioe in another column that the treasurer has lust made a call for warrants which will amount to over $10,000. i 1 The publication of this statement has attracted the attention of the state newspapers to the extent that Eugene is being re ferred to as a city hopelessly in debt and over-boomed. This will not help us abroad, but little the knookers who compose the corporation party in Eugene care, so long as it serves their sel fish purposes at home. It is in line with the policy pursued when the sale of the city bonds were "knocked" to the extent that nearly $30,000 of premiums were lost to the taxpayers. Mr. Reisner's figures are, like most of the. campaign matter advanced on that side, intended to fool the ignorant and un thinking voters. He does not say specifically that the city is in debt the full amount that appears on a casual reading of the list some $621,142 but leaves it to be inferred, although a schoolboy of average intelligence should know than many of the items given as indebtedness are in reality assets of the city. Going carefully over the list given by Mr, Reisner, they should be segregated substantially as follows: Debts $143,167.96 42,700.14 6,621.65 5,000.00 22,000.00 $219,499.75 $123,352.23 Assets 94,278.14 9,510.85 3,619.07 3,944.17 $123,352.23 Balance. . .$ 86,147.52 Regarding the $300,000 water bonds, there are msold $100,000, and $47,000 in the treasury, a total of $147,000 in round numbers, represented by money in the city treasurer's hands or bonds still unsold, the city having used $163,000 of the total bond issue of $300,000 in the purchase of the water plant, correct, merely seeking to explain their significance. , Of the remainder of the city's debt, $86,147.62, there should be deducted the $47,000 in the sewer and general funds. This leaves an actual city debt of $39,147.52, outside of the $300, 000 water, light and power bond issue.' ' . The Guard will not vouch for the exactness of Mr. Reisner's figures, as published in the morning paper, but assumes they are correct. For the $163,000 in bonds which have been issued and soltl the city has the present water plant, which will take care of the interest and pay dividends besides,, as is already evident from the record made since it passed into the hands of the city. The remaining $147,000 of the bonds, when sold, will be sufficient to install the municipal power plant, which will reduce the ex penses of the water system, now largely increased by the exor bitant charges of the Willamette Valley Company for furnishing power to operate the pumps. It will also enable the city to light O The Fruit Growers' Association met Wednesday evening this we?k for the purpose of electing new officers and to discuss the business of that Institution for the coming reason. The general Idea in management will be changed, and "the plant will be placed upon a paying basis. The past year the plant did net mate- If the platform of the candidates opposed to Mayor Matlock and his associates is as sincere as the professions of their news paper organ are, it will be given little consideration by the vot ers. It will be remembered that the morning paper opposed the gravity water system and printed "our platform" daily, for two weeks, advocating a municipal pumping plant on the MoKenzie river, urns plan is now being carried out by the city aaminisira- tion, yet the" same paper and the crowd of obstructionists it rep-1 riaiize as was anticipated, and the resents, are opposing it just as vindictively as they did the pro-' ndtvIerend This TeX ZoT posed installation of a gravity system. Therefore, the only rea sonable conclusion that can be reached in the premises is that the scheme is to oppose anything and everything that tends to destroy the monopolistic hold of the Willamette Valley Company upon the city of Eugene. The promises and pledges made in each campaign by these corporation allies have the sole intent of fooling the people into voting against the men who have a defi nite plan for relieving the public of its burden of monopoly and are honestly endeavoring to carry it out. Looks like the opposition candidates, were trying to steal Mayor Matlockf's thunder. If they really mean what they say why not let the present administration go ahead with the work? Hon has a good market to look for ward to and they will make an ef fort to secure a3 much fruit as can be handled by the dryer. The otfi cer3 elected were: John Spray, president; Ben Lurch, treasurer. Bert l.awsbn, secretary. J. I. Jones, manager. Dute Changed1. The Callapooia Poultry Associa tion of Cottags Grove met Tuesday evening and in crder to ai?Hln secure the services of H. H. Collier of Ta coma, as jud.43 of their forthcoming second annual poultry show, were compelled to change their dates from the last week in December to the second weK In January. The new dates selerted are for Wednesday morning to Saturday evening, Jan. 12-13-14-15, 1910. This will enable all of the fanciers to get their birds up to full standard weight, perfect plumage end excellent show condi tion and should enable them to get some high scores. . Get Ilusy. . City Marshal Snodrass I3 In re ceipt of an anonymous letter which is spicy ar.d ?ensational and sug gests that if he don't take the tip and get buty he will bao his job. It alias 's t-at a certain young man's wife has left her country aboda and Is conducting herself In a manner net to the credit of .herself nor said city and It Is sugirs-.ted to the mar shal that he apprehend this obstrep erous young woman and send her ini nnA i, . ...... . nome tortnwtn. ine maranai is to eat and to wear, was preaching to a lot of rich fat-heads thi.king it over and win get busy consoling them. enough if he finds matters as re lated by this timid and somewnat ooscuro correspondent. Itasoball Team. The Cottage Gr've baseball fanf If the weather bureau was as good at guessing the weather as it is at makinig explanations of its failures to do so, it would be a' jim-dandy guesser. , The worst legislature is always in the next state. Even the Kansas City Star should have known that when it asked which had the worst. If the ancient advice were to be given now, it would be re vised to "Fill the public eye with good advertising and the public will fill thy purse." The preacher who said, "Genius is eclipsed by having plenty Everybody is on general principles always ready to kick on any old tax, but there's a lot of us -who will never kick on an in heritance tax. - Excepting the twenty-odd "insurgents" the maioritv of the Republicans of the new house are all singing "Two years mo' of Old Jo'." Maybe Fate chooses our presidents, as the Hartford Courant says, but if so, Theodore Roosevelt must be one of the aliases of Fate. "THIS IMTrJ TN" HISTORY." DAYLIGHT BURGLARY AT JUNCTION CITY Last Saturday Per ' sonal News March 13. 1621 Magellan discovered the Phll . Ipplne Islands. 16T6 Indians attaoked Groton,! i - . Mass. , 'jltesidence of J. C. Burns Robbed 1764 'Karl Gray, prime minister of England, by whom the first reform bill was carried, born. Died July 17, 1854. 1821 Victor 'Emnuuel of Sardinia abdicated. 1862 The Confederates evacuated their works at New Madrid, Mo. 1868 President Johnson asked for ty days' time to prepare hlf answer to the articles of Im peachment. 1874 Body of Charles Sumner lay In the capital at Washington. 1875 First iRsue of the Philadel phia Times. 1884 System ol standard time es tablished in America. 1895 Two Italians killed In a Den ver jal by a mob. 190i 'Benjamin Harrison, twenty third President of the United States, died In Indianapolis. Born In North Bend, Ohio, Aug. 30. 1833. t Two Million Bottles, of Perry Davis' Painkiller sold every year. Think of It! And every bot tle Is lessening suffering and help ing some human being to health and happiness! This wonderful husehold remedy stops the pain of sprains, burnB or bruises. It relieves rheum atism or neuralgia. It cures colds, cramps, colic, diarrhoea. There ought to be a bottle on your shelves Just now, ready for the first sign of trou ble. The new size bottle is 35 cents and there Is also the 50-cent size. Be sure your drugjist gives you Perry Davis'. "THIS IS MY 45th BIRTHDAY." Oustav A. Auclm-n. Dr. Gii9tav A. Anilreen. president or Augustana Collego at Hock Island, Illinois, was born In Porter, Indiana, March 13, 1864. He graduated from Auguslana College In 1881 and later studied law. Ha abandoned his plan to becom? a lawyer, how ever, In favor of a rnrper as an edu cator. In 18X6 he joined the faculty of Bethany College In Kansas and remained with that Institution seven vears. Krcm 1S94 to lson ho was an Instructor In German at Yale Uni versity. The next two .wars he spent as a student In Kttropt'an universities. I'lHin his return to America he was chosen president of AuituiUiina Col lego. Recently he has been ensaurd In a movement among the Swedish Lutherans all over the country tc raise the endowment fund of .u;;us tana College to JiOit.uuo.1 It Saved Ills U-g "All thought I'd lose my leg." writes .1. A. Swonson. of jWnlertown. Wis., "as ten years of eczrma. that 15 doctors could not cure, hnd at Inst laid me up. Then Bncklon's Arnica saivo cured It sound and well. ' In fallible for skill eruptions.' eczema, salt rheum, bolls, fever sores, burns, scalds, cuts and piles; -25c at V. A. Ku.vkendall's drug store. . . "The 'Moore' you've had The 'Moore' you want." MOORE, The Carpet-Cleaner. Phono lied 66S1. The home of J. C. Burns was robbed In broad daylight Saturday afternoon. Mrs. Burns came up town and was .absent only about two hours and when she returned, she found the bureau drawers pulled ou and rummaged and everything about the premises overhauled. The boys had two hanks containing their sav ings of months. These were broken open and the contents taken One contained $8 and the other $3. The thieves also visited the barn and discovering a tool chest locked, thev l the ha9D an1 went through that. Nothing, however, was missed. It s presumed that the premises was visited by hobos tftid finding no one at home, entered In quest of money 8?..?otnln8 e,a8 was missed. It is difficult to Identify money and they did not promise to take any chances. A gold watch was passed unmolested Mrs. Bessie Strome was operated upon In the hospital at Portland Mon day and survived the operation splen- umiy ana is now out of danger. She has been afflicted for some time with a goiter and it was found that an op- J aiation was absolutely necessarv and X even then tlie results were conslrt- ered doubtful. Her manv friends t will be glad to know that she ha I found relief. Mr. Strome returned rrom Portland Monday cvoinir. Mrs. Alton Hampton of Eugene, i mm .luss uuey Vaughn, her cousin ot Seattle, were in the citv Tnesdav visiting .Mrs. Ceo. Young. Mrs Hampton and Mrs. Young are old Unie .elira-!a Irlends and school mates, and M!s Vaitchn was former ly a mini! of Mr3. Young's 111 Stan ton. Nebraska schools. Mr. and Mrs fcV.H FMrtmMW ! children of Albanv. and K. V. I.ee and family of Eugene, were the I guests of Dr. Ie and family over r Sunday. Ii was regular family reunion us all the members of the family were present. We learn :;at John Harnison has ! t-tHed his farm on the river road for SOU acres of l.rhd In Morrow countv. I '"'s land, we understand, Is near , that owned by the Hotel companv I of this place Jesse Miller and family of North Yakima. Washington, arrived here Tuesday and expect to make this place their permanent home. Mr Miller Is a son of E. 3. Miller. oorn To Mr. and Mrs. Browning, March 7, 1909 a ter. Times. : I fi'il ,'tjxjrJ!!3 Ear The Boyd Tea wagon ealli at ytrar uwr visa Dreamy roasted ooSm. Thoroag-hly gd(whlle green. No younfirauy coffees. A rich, aullev btt jr.n11 aotlea thi dlf fu.no visa jn taato It rips and vsry aa aabtaatal faUnass tf iarar that Wlaaga uahulnly toaa aed eoffae, flaahly toasted. uWaUh ft tU Wagon" BOYD TEA CO. 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Most of the old members will play and wi'h the new men, which have good reputations as . playersi Will elvo thn 111. , OPl!. , de:n, of nice coop ot ChlneL t" his farm. ,1, 5 Park them.-Vwt;j 1 This FORD C made the tria from Eugern to Junctlo 1, via. Irvinzia wt i FOUR MN as oassenrcrs. Therun w , ho-ir each way. Not an accident nor an incident oaJ tar, w 11H.L1 uamc in as gona as 11 went out. Will id prv.fl, heavier machine tqual the recori? B ememb-r this car fl Q tA Af ten be bought Ivre for ipJUiW Model T Fivi Passenger Touring Cat Ford Runabout, 2 passenger, $700.1 SEE CARS AT SALESROOM Phone Main 714 65 East 93 Lois In ditici Easy Terms Gross Ad Is situated close to the State University 1 ' and on the electric car line making it the most dest-aU part of the city . for a horre, easy of access a.id beautifully y, ituated;in-every respect Bify New snd ave Monoy FOR SALE BY THE REAL MEN OF EUGEI
