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Newspaper
Eugene Weekly Guard
Location
Eugene, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1909
Page
9
A contest manager announces a ten day incentive for candidates to work harder. For each Daily or Weekly subscription paid by January 20, votes are increased by half. Daily subscriptions for one year rise to 1600 votes and Weekly subscriptions to 760. After January 20 the regular vote schedule resumes.
An active fundraising and vote gathering push unfolds in Seattle as candidates rally supporters. With a special offer of increased votes valid until January 20, contestants seek to maximize votes to win the Bowens city lot or secure a chaperon for the exposition parts.
A countywide chaperone selection offers a $200 Eugene residence lot as a grand prize to the candidate with the highest votes and a chance at a Beattie to Victoria side trip. The Guard plans Seattle Washington Annex hotel accommodations and special courtesies. Ballots counted thrice weekly with districts listed and a February 27 vote close.
A fragmented list shows candidates Fiona Mille Jasper Alia Molter Creswell Mies Walah Martin Creswell Francis Neatty Ida Smith Creswell Miss Irma Howe Crewe Stella Howe Creswell Eva Rychard Martha Callteon Nettle Nelson Springfield Chesta Perkins Springfield Kate Van Doaye Cobure Wewgling We? Votes total 6,650 3,680 2,741 with precinct notes and partial names indicating local race progress.
Coburg district page lists numerous Miss titles and contestants such as Miss Corsa Gossett Miss Georgia Wood Miss Madeline Bettis and others with several entries tied to Coburg Wendling Junction and related towns. An offer announces a 16 day window ending January 20 at 6 p.m for various subscription options including carrier and mail rates.
In favor of Miss Address Not good after Jan 15. A brief, fragmentary note contrasts support and opposition tied to a post January 15 deadline, reflecting competing viewpoints and unspecified details.
A serious blaze in Linnton destroys the planing mill platform and lumber of Clark and Wilson Lumber Co. The saw mill is saved by heroic effort, preventing broader town damage in Linnton. Loss reportedly insured. Fire began in the engine room’s re saw and spread rapidly.
Eugene visitor E O Palmer browses Stuslaw country this week while Miss Fannie Colvin returns to Florence to resume school duties. North Fork district voters approve a five mill tax to improve the road between the schoolhouse at the portage and Minerva. McLeod district directors buy a site from William Brewer and plan to move their school across the river.
A Portland Telegram report describes an entire building as a seething furnace, with investigators believing the blaze originated from a hot box. Fire crews battled the flames as residents evacuated and local authorities secured the scene.
Special correspondence from Mound reports high water in the Siuslaw area with four inches of snow, visits among residents, and local business and property movements. The piece notes a New Year’s ball at Crow, names residents traveling to Eugene, land dealings near Conger Prairie, and boundary questions about water lines and county districts along the Umpqua.
Tiny classified ad notes an age eleven reference and promotes Bord Tea Company with a brief shout for attention. It presents as a fragment from an old newspaper page.
Salem Jan 9 notification of a refusal to stop the southbound Cottage Grove local at Irving the first station north of Eugene on the Southern Pacific was sent to the railroad commission by General Manager J P O'Brien with a hearing to be held O'Brien says Irving receipts from passenger traffic have averaged not more than seven dollars a month in the last three months making it impracticable to have the local stop there or maintain a depot and agent at that place
Wy Ferest Fase born December 1886 died January 6 1808 in Lane County Oregon. He settled seven miles west of Eugene with his father on a donation claim and later lived with his sister Mrs F Moes. He never married and left five siblings and other relatives and many friends.
J Hard refereed home today after a short trip to Cottage Grove. Local details note travel recovery and plans to resume usual duties soon.
The government of Canada will build a 500 by 150 foot exhibit at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition in Seattle running June 1 to October 14, 1909. The display will feature agriculture and horticulture, mining resources, and a prominent dairying and livestock section. Commissioner Hutchison notes work has been underway for months and the entire display will be assembled three months before opening.
Alaska building will host demonstrations of salmon halibut and cod prepared in diverse ways to showcase fishing industry as a major resource. Moving pictures and photographs depict fisheries, whaling, sealing, and fur exhibits, highlighting Alaska’s output reaching nearly 100000000 in value since purchase.
John Fralling of Tacr ma and others report a vast field of fossil mastodon bones unearthed in Alaska. The perfectly preserved skeleton, the largest found, was thawed by miners and will be exhibited with Alaska curios at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition. Fralling notes many such discoveries and presents a theory on northward mammoth occurrences.
At the Commercial Club in Drain Oregon on January 16 an adjourned meeting passed resolutions opposing the Cottage Grove plan for a new county from parts of Lane and Douglas. A bill to create a new county along different lines was also urged for the coming legislative session, with described boundaries and a goal of stronger finances once the Drain-Cove Bay railroad is rebuilt. The crowd remained large and eager to pursue the division effort.
The Oregon State Federation of Labor opens its annual session in Salem on Monday January 18. The convention will run for about a week as lawmakers are in session, likely shaping labor recommendations to be handed to legislators, with many calls for labor legislation expected.
BORN At Cottage Grove January 10 1909 to Mr and Mrs Claire Baker Albany a girl weight 10 pounds The article then shifts to a discussion of Alaska climate ancient mammoths and mastodons noting isthmus links between Alaska and Siberia and mass remains found in deep valleys The cold descent rapid burial by snow and ice and preservation of bones are described with speculation on past environments and megafauna migrations.
The coroner's jury at Cottage Grove found George Kerr 26 a Oregon native died January 11 1909 two miles NW of Clines place on Sharp's creek from a gunshot wound fired by Loren W Hunt. They said Hunt mistook his companion for a deer and had no intent to kill.
Washington reports Postmaster Barnes sent Senator Tillman a demand for 16.6 dollars for mail service used on Tillman’s frank. Tillman says the machine is government property and not his. He argues the postmaster can discard or hand it to the Senate sergeant at arms.
Snow covers the area with about eight inches depth. Jim Nichols shopped for hay locally. hay remains in strong demand after the storm. Charles Cornelius visits relatives in Linn county. T F McGlynn bought a brown mare for 140 dollars in Eugene. If any listing work needed, contact T F McGlynn. B J Owen returned from Eugene. reports a duller place in Ivison. Telephone line damaged near Crow due to the storm. J S Day, back from Eugene, is in better health. Walter Chastain’s old house burned recently. George Nichols remains in Ivison at work in his old trade. Mr Voop, renting Ab. Wden’s place, is busy cutting up for Ivison school.
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