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Newspaper
Eugene Weekly Guard
Location
Eugene, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1909
Page
2
Advertisement offers Oregon Agriculturist or American Farmer free to subscribers who pay for a weekly guard subscription in advance. An advert for silver and kitchen sets, available while supplies last, from Guakod Printing Company in Eugene Oregon.
The Pendleton Tribune reprints a letter by A Welch of Willamette Valley Co alleging municipal power efforts fail in Eugene, then counters with facts showing higher pump bills, lower city costs, and underlines that municipal ownership has generally succeeded in Oregon towns like McMinnville. The piece accuses Welch of deliberate misstatements and calls for verification of costs and contracts.
The mayor argues the water and light department profits support the city, criticizes press manipulation by a corporation, and urges rapid Willamette Valley railroad development. Lane County must push public works like the Siuslaw project to prevent stagnation and grow Eugene toward a 20,000 population with broader transportation and industry.
Work on the new Osburn hotel will begin within a few weeks with completion rushed. The five story brick building will house 125 rooms plus offices dining room kitchen grill and other apartments. Stockholders elected W J Warnock M Svarverud W F Osburn W E Brown Gee T Hall Sr Fr W Osburn treasurer C P Barnard secretary and John Hungicker as architect. Moving two residences off East Eighth at Pearl will start after April 1 with excavation to follow.
The Oregon State Journal notes Dan J Moore, Portland hotel man, grew up in Eugene with his mother and sister Nina. The family faced hardship living on Olive and 11th, then moved to Portland where Moore became a prominent, influential civic figure in business and politics.
The Warren Construction Co crew began excavating for bitulithic pavement on Pearl Street this afternoon. The project will pave five blocks on Pearl Street, plus a block on Olive Street between West Tenth and West Eleventh, with more streets to follow as orders come from the city council. A rock crusher site and a new location for the mixing plant are still unsettled, and Eugene will be under W M Church supervision with J H Shewry overseeing southern plants.
At Horta on the island of Saniguel in the Azores on March 30, an erroneous rumor claimed a steerage passenger assaulted ex president Theodore Roosevelt. The Associated Press dispatch confirms no incident occurred and the party received an enthusiastic reception. The Hamburg’s next stop is Gibraltar.
The passage reflects how Lincoln and his supporters regarded him as a monumental credit to the nation, portraying him as the greatest man in the world.
The Allen Fruit Co loads a car of dried prunes for shipment to Chicago. Mr. Allen travels east to oversee market development for the cannery and evaporator product line.
In Denver on March 30 the jury found John Cradlebaugh of Wallace Idaho not guilty in the murder of Frederick W Walton. Cradlebaugh claimed unwritten law and self defense as the basis of his defense. Mrs Cradlebaugh testified about her relationship with Walton in the effort to save her husband.
Four inmates from Lane, Clatsop and Umatilla counties, Branton Colgar Spaulding and Letheridge, worked in the prison kitchen planning an escape from the basement butcher shop. Kept under guard as they crawled from the window, Branton fatally slashed his throat with a butcher knife after a guard alarm and warden intervention.
Francis J. Heney seeks court approval to appoint a thirteenth juror in the Patrick Calhoun graft case. The juror would not participate in deliberations unless one of the twelve cannot complete the trial, aiming to reduce mistrial risk.
Seventeen men were sent to Wenching today by a local employment agent to work in the Booth Kelly mill and logging camps.
Children sickly and mothers seeking comfort are urged to use Mother Gray’s Sweet Powders for Children to break up colds feverishness constipation teething disorders headaches and stomach troubles. Sold by drug stores 25 cents a package. Trial package offered to mothers who write to Olmsted LeRoy New York.
Died at Pleasant Hill on March 29 1909 Miss Jane Mitchell aged 57 funeral held at Pleasant Hill church with interment in nearby cemetery sketch of her life to appear later At Delta Col Sunday March 25 1909 John E Saunders son of Pascho and E Saunders of Eugene died of lung trouble aged about He left a wife three children and siblings George a brother was abroad when death reached him W Polders Andy Heitzman E Mink of this city have sold the Wm Ness farm five acres planted in hops The Richest farms in the county sale terms private Heitzman will conduct the farm.
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