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Newspaper
Eugene Weekly Guard
Location
Eugene, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1901
Page
8
The Pendleton scene lists F L Chambers promoting discounted mill-feed and plows, second-hand buggies, wagons, and a new branch store. It notes hops sales by FE Dunn, a Roseburg college funding pledge, and various local notices including a musical convention in Grants Pass, legal notices, and regional business updates.
Special dispatches report a British ambassador being summoned to England amid expected high level talks. Tin can makers form a trust valued at 50 million dollars signaling higher prices. Venezuelan revolutionaries are defeated with leaders captured. Cuba’s treasurer is replaced by a Cuban official. Prohibition campaigns persist in Europe and the Bloemfontein area. Boers attack Boksburg mines causing about 1.5 million in damages.
Junction City Oregon January 30 A residence owned by Mr Lizzie Thompson of Eugene and occupied by H V Johnson and family was burned this afternoon Estimated loss about 300 dollars with no insurance suspected to have started from a defective flue The house stood on the Thompson property and was a single story frame dwelling
Court House items show mortgages and transfers including A W Wallace et ux to H D Scott and F D Wheeler for block 21 in Long and Landers ad to Cottage Grove with 800, Charles W Sexton to Daniel Gaby for land in Lane county 8000. Circuit Court Mary Holliday vs W P Holliday a divorce filed alleging cruel treatment. one child custody sought. Grillo Hardware Co vs Fink transcript in favor of plaintiff for 67. Probate court estate of S K Peters deceased administratrix Dora K Peters final account. Marriage licenses William Whittaker and Misa Etta Cornell and John Iavis with Lula B Hunnicut and Lee Hoselton as witnesses.
A list of postal staff and customers remains at the Eugene Oregon post office. A one cent fee will be charged for letters issued. Callers are asked to specify when advertised. Signed by H F McCorsack Post Master.
An old advertisement warns against using harsh tonics like essomel croton oil and aloes pills and promotes Dr King's New Life Pills as a gentle remedy. It claims to cure headache and constipation and notes they cost 25 cents at W L DeLano's drug store.
In a thin forenoon incident near Bourne Mercantile on Willamette, Tom Gilliam’s heavy wagon team bolted southward at 11:45. The team rode the street center, forcing pedestrians to yield, travels past College Hill, scattering a few butter rolls. Tom pursued, recovered the wagon, and returned with some butter rolls to buy Met rolle.
Salem timberman J C Goodale mourns as his wife Mrs Jane Goodale dies at her home at Twelfth and Oak streets after two months of ill health including a typhoid malaria attack. About 50 years old, she leaves three sons Charles Pendleton William Tacoma James and a daughter Ida Stevens Eugene. Funeral planned in Salem tomorrow with burial uncertain between Salem and Eugene.
Education in Porto Rico is costly due to few pupils but will improve as ties with the United States grow and the system reaches our level. The note promotes Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a universal cure for dyspepsia, indigestion, constipation, and liver and kidney troubles, urging early use to avoid suffering.
Advices from Dawson and the Yukon valley report an extreme cold spell in Alaska with temperatures plunging to 68 degrees below zero at Dawson and 75 below at Forty-Mile on January 16. The seven day Dawson average sat at 58 below as dense fog persisted over the valley.
The list shows appointments at Stayton, Lancaster, Junction City, and Plemnant with names such as F A Ware, John Handaaker, EM Patterson, and LD Green. It details equipment and livestock including plows, buggies, milch cows, hogs, and a threshing outfit, concluding with J. R. Yarra.
An ad touts Bucklen's Arnica for skin ailments from eruptions to burns and ulcers, claiming a 2% death rate and guaranteed cures sold by W L DeLane. A marriage notice follows, reporting Millard F Fogle and Annie Abbott wed on Olive Street with a reception and gifts, both well known in Eugene. A mining partnership offer lists 1-6 interest for $250 in property near Helena, with ore, water power, and cabins in Oregon.
A historically reported note lists Lovell as absent while totaling budget allocations of 47 500 for the state legislature and 12 000 for Spanish War Veterans in a wartime era financial ledger.
Salem reports the university appropriation bill of 47 500 dollars per year, plus 25 000 for the state agricultural college, awaiting the governor’s signature and Senate concurrence. The measure also notes title release for a Salem post office site and related legislative actions across committees.
Fragmentary text appears to mix unclear names and phrases about a pleasant moment with a lemon prop and malaria references. No coherent event or identifiable entities provide a verifiable news item for a proper T and S.
The Southern Pacific Railroad issued many annual passes to members of the Oregon legislature. Railway officials fear new legislation that would remove the fellow servant defense, allowing injuries to be pursued differently.
A dated entry listing payments and personnel involved in forming a jury list for Walton precinct. Names include JL Atkinson justice, A E Whitaker, RE Robertson, GA Mail, L Boring, Jacob Gates, AJ Chapman, SA Adama, W W Oglesby, EJ Patterson, Win Fields, HD Edwards, J K Hill, Robt Schmutz, Ernest Nelson. Amounts show various small stipends and salaries, plus a pauper medical service payment to Paul Conrad.
An ad and local notices mix fashion advice with health claims for Electric Bitters, praising its claimed effects on digestion and skin. Nearby items report a Springfield marriage, a Mohawk river contract for Gilliam, a Lane county infant death, a farm tip, and local business notes from F L Chambers and W L DeLane.
Florence notes report the Siasian and San Francisco Lumber Co running mills at full blast after installing a new 5-horsepower engine retrofit, a dead bachelor Web ster found in Deadwood cabin, Joseph A Morria purchasing 7 Angora goats for his North Fork ranch, Marion Wheeler recovering from typhoid fever, De Cheshire and a revived be health, and J E McGilvary of Pacific States Telephone & Telegraph Co proposing a Florence to Acme Marshfield telephone line touching near life-saving station and lighthouse with 70 miles of cable and 1.5 to 2 miles required.
Mr J E Lilly of Hannibal Missouri recounts recovery from typhoid fever that worsened to pneumonia. He credits Dr King’s New Discovery for rapid relief and full recovery, calling it the surest cure for throat and lung troubles. Regular sizes 50 cents and $1, trial bottles free at W L DeLano's drug store, every bottle guaranteed.
In Salem this afternoon the bill by Senator Kelly would cede Linn county nearly all the Blue River mining district but be amended to place the line at the summit between the Calapooia and McKenzie rivers. Leading mines such as Lucky Boy Superset Treasure and Eugene stay in Lane county. some boundaries will be hard to determine.
In Roseburg on January 20 coroner’s inquest heard Jobo Bronti, a laborer once employed by Campbell & Alexander at Comstock, died by his own hand in the county jail. He had recently money sent to a friend in Eugene, was committed to an insane asylum, and after being locked up asked a fellow prisoner for a knife. Refused, he searched a cell for a weapon, found a sharp tin piece, and severed his jugular vein and windpipe, dying within minutes.
J Watts of Eugene Oregon announces an 80 day sale offering two dollar reductions on all spectacles and eye glasses priced at five dollars or more. Renewal holiday off on spectacles. January 24, 1901.
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