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Newspaper
Eugene Weekly Guard
Location
Eugene, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1902
Page
7
The piece questions expensive long term education for Indian boys at Carlisle and other schools. It cites a government order to warn students about painting faces and barbaric dances. It argues such schooling uproots these youths from homes and leaves them ill suited to live among whites or Indians alike.
A Portland freight and passenger agent publishes monthly bulletins listing products and ceiling prices along the Southern Pacific. Buyers are linked directly with producers, cutting out middlemen. Hints of shipments of cheese milk and potatoes to California illustrate the scheme’s reach. The Astoria Budget notes Portland Telegram editorials on silver coinage and currency expansion shaping prosperity, citing increased gold output and higher per capita circulation.
A young man of about twenty, who had been terrorizing farmers on a Portland road for a month, was arrested after confessing to most of about sixteen robberies. He admitted taking roughly one hundred dollars from the loot, with forgetfulness noted for a few cases. The Oregonian telegraph notes the suspect’s words and the notable spree.
Judge Frener of Portland gives seven years at Salers to a colored youth for complicity in a ten thousand dollar Hotel Portland diamond robbery. On the same day suburban highwaymen received ten and twenty year sentences. The sentences may deter further offenses.
The Oregon Railway and Navigation Company plans to spend about a million dollars on repairs and improvements this year. The railroad taps the wheat belts of Eastern Oregon and Washington and continues a four year policy of steady modernization.
The text questions the motives of Hill and Harriman in merging Northern transcontinental lines. It suggests consolidating interests may primarily benefit stockholders by elevating transportation charges, despite presidents’ protests. The public is cast as likely to view consolidation as self-serving rather than a public good.
Reports state Neeley, arrested in the island case of postal peculations, confesses the $60,000 found in his possession was given by a stranger. The stranger may still be at large and handling other money packages. Neeley faces twenty years in federal penitentiary.
A plaster ceiling in a Pendleton school room collapsed Wednesday, pulling the lath stripe from the jet and scattering plaster. No injuries occurred as students were warned in time and evacuated before harm.
Avoer McKinley seeks six thousand dollars as attorney fees from a railroad company. He claims one associate attorney rendered professional service and was appointed because his brother was president. He argues payment was expected had the brother not been assassinated.
The match of nations shows how swiftly powers react to insult as tensions rise. Each side leverages diplomacy when an apparent affront occurs, with strong words replacing force while awaiting measured response.
Fragmentary OCR notes claim a price around 60 and a large sum of 72,200 tied to a diplomatic term and a conflict involving Mise Stone's ran om. The text mentions telegraph pews and a carrier battle after a rancoe vies the leotore platform.
Portland reports a small outbreak at the city pest house with 22 cases reported Friday morning. Most patients are transients, recently arrived in Portland, showing initial symptoms of the illness.
This morning records show a sharp fall in temperature during the night reaching freezing points in the valley. Local observers report unusually cold air and a rapid onset of frost ahead of sunrise.
A garbled local note lists residents and visitors in Eugene and nearby towns. It mentions Glen A J Babb in despair, various trips to Baker City Portland Roseburg and Seattle, and arrivals of officials, editors, and clerics with brief travel and event references.
A man recalls a arranged consent to marriage with his grandfather Sir John Halbrooke. After the grandfather marries the widow and dies, the will forces a union to inherit £70,000. He rebuffs the marriage, then later, fate returns as a distant cousin rekindles a love he once rejected, amid a life of roaming and conflict.
The text indicates a frigid day with temperatures around five degrees below freezing at evening and twenty degrees below freezing by morning. It mentions risks to water pipes, vegetables, and tender plants, urging people to take precautions as promised.
Fragmentary OCR item touts a salve named Backlea or similar with grandiose claims to cure skin eruptions sores aches and more. Ends with an elusive dealer reference to W L DeLapo's and a dubious hour.
Twelve men entered the pigeon shooting contest near Jecceelly with fair reports of scores. A schoolteacher named Jordan is mentioned in connection with the event and local reactions describe punishment or complaints.
In a torn romance scene, Colonel Halbrooke confesses love to Helen who reveals she is his grandmother. The revelation shifts tension to inheritance and consent. Helen’s insistence leads to a proposal where the fortune and union hinge on acceptance by both. The tale ends with marriage and a transformed estate setting.
A fragment recalls Cardinal Newman daily 9 to 2 or 3 study, his table bearing Gibbon with notes by Guiset and Milman, and a copy of Athanasius once Bossuet’s. He valued a Greek poet or philosopher, claimed no Latin writer taught him, except Cicero’s rival, Cleero, and noted Augustine’s absence in shaping his style.
Fragmentary text recalls world events linked to Black Thursday and a large Cold Day period. Mentions of Rogland, Faris, and Derby hint at unrest and fear of a pretender’s arrival. References to England, 1755, and a rise in panic in New likely point to historic disturbances and commemorations.
A stranger recounts a Colora do prospecting tale where a magnetized stone trapped a burro and gear, forcing three men to free the animal with rocks and then continue to Denver. They later sought the mine again with a new party, but failed to locate it.
A compact, reflective note on skipping passages in text. The piece muses on dissolving paragraphs and the urge to bypass content as if entering a sanctum. It contrasts mysterious existence with the act of skipping to avoid unfathomable detail.
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