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Newspaper
Eugene Weekly Guard
Location
Eugene, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1901
Page
1
Vague readable text notes a political or local event with unclear names and places. Fragmentary phrases describe a voting action or decision with limited context and no clear date or organization.
Daily Guard argues for Eugene to stage a street fair inspired by Oregon towns like Roseburg McMinnville and The Dalles. EJ Arnold promoter of Roseburg carnival proposes balloon ascensions moving pictures and a merry go round to attract crowds at a cost not to exceed 500. The piece urges a public meeting, emphasizes harvest timing in October and suggests a modest start with annual growth.
Robbers tunnelled into the Selby Smelting Works vault near VaLuiio California and stole 330000 dollars in gold bricks. They escaped by boat aboard the small tug Neclne after using high explosives. The crime is described as one of the Pacific coast’s greatest robberies, with evidence of weeks or months of prior tunneling.
Special to the Gongle Pleasant Hill August 6 The two year old son of R E Williams was seriously injured today after a wagon ran against horses on a hill sending the child under the wagon. The leg was broken near the body and the boy suffered other injuries. Dr L W Brown of Eugene attended him.
Special to the guard Bakek Crry reports a dispute over a Saturday hold up at the Red Boy mine. Two miners Phil McCronell and Henry Hambbert were arrested. a third leader remains at large. Tracks from a captured man match the crime scene and lead toward a camp eleven miles away. The bullion and $120 were reportedly taken, though owners dispute details. Sheriffs say the bullion was in transit. owners’ brothers dispute the account. The public remains uncertain.
Special to the Guard reports Ira Hawley died at his Creswell area home at about 1 PM aged 85. A pioneer who crossed the plains in 1853, he settled at Divide and ran a stage station for over two decades before the railroad. Funeral to be at Divide with remains moved there. Hawley helped found Hawley’s addition in Eugene and later resided on a farm two miles north of Creswell. He leaves five sons M M of Moscow Idaho W D GM and JH of Cottage Grove and KR D of Creswell.
Smoke hangs over Eugene as a massive forest fire roars in the Coast mountains near Lake Creek west of town. The blaze consumes vast timber, prompting calls for government forest rangers to aid early in the summer and driving deer from mountains toward lower areas where hunters in Elmira expect a hunt in the coming days.
James Gearhart killed a large eleven year old rattlesnake near his Spencer Creek home after it hissed and struck at him. The incident occurred while several children played about sixty feet away near Mr Schlomberg's residence. Gearhart recalls a similar hunt years earlier when local residents killed hundreds of rattlers and noted several dens in the region. A second report notes Leila Horn, daughter of Mr and Mrs Jerry Horn, injured by a speeding bicyclist on West Seventh Street. The rider fled after striking her, with authorities not identifying the cyclist.
Mr Hervey Lounsbury of the Southern Pacific visits M M Douglas’s dairy farm near Eugene and reports on hog farming profit. Four shoats weighed 130 112 4 and 8 pounds sold after two months for 46.20 after feeding with skimmed milk and chopped wheat at a total feed cost of 150 dollars, yielding a net profit of 192 dollars. Douglas notes fattening shoats from 5 to 8 to 10 bushels of wheat with skimmed milk could raise weight to 3 to 220 pounds and make the wheat cost rise to 76 cents per bushel.
A scarlet fever case exists at the Brewster home on Washington Street. The Brewster daughter displayed symptoms, and a quarantine sign was posted at the house in the afternoon.
Andrew Lytle faced a murder charge for killing Emmett Eagan on July 21 at Der ham's sawmill. He testified recounting events and alleged Esgen’s rape of his wife prior to the killing. Judge Wells ordered Lytle held without bonds pending grand jury action on a mover charge.
An Opistos Albany Democrat reports Geo A Dorria of Lane county contract to sink a cool well on his property in exchange for one tenth of the ore. The paper notes it would not pay Dor any money for the contract.
Government land lottery winners file claims while thousands are deemed low quality and town lots auctioned in Hobart and Lawton. Reports from Pexiy China and Washington cover England not signing protocol, the Schley court shift, Union Iron Works hiring, cloak makers’ strike gains, queues removal, and mediating efforts. Local items note rail gauge scraps, Lucky Boy mine supplies, a game law arrest, residence purchase, and a wheat storage notice.
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