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Newspaper
Eugene Weekly Guard
Location
Eugene, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1910
Page
12
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Washington reports indicate House insurgents will attend the Republican caucus to discuss committee assignments including the Ballinger and Pinchot investigations. President Taft says both sides agreed to a fair caucus and a bipartisan committee will be appointed. A separate resolution accuses the Wells Fargo company of large dividends while the post office lacks a mail monopoly. Washington also notes a possible shift of Inauguration Day to the last Thursday in April pending state ratifications. Mondell declines to sponsor Taft’s conservation bill, offering to introduce it by request instead.
Washington on January 14 arraigns the express companies over rate hikes and service practices. The briefing notes regulatory scrutiny and calls for improved shipping relief amid rising freight costs.
New York suffragists will travel to Albany to press for voting rights with a strategy of aggressive lobbying. Mrs O H F Belmont and Mrs Clarence Mackay will lead from headquarters in the capital, while an anti-suffrage lobby urges voters to restrict rights. A statewide constitutional amendment must pass before women vote.
Births include Mr and Mrs John Dyer's son born January 10 1919. Died January 13 1910 Clara Jensen daughter of Simon Jensen aged 15 years 9 months. Services at Dane Church Saturday 11 a m. New Rebekah officers listed with names and roles. Charles Witham born March 1 1857 died January 7 1910 at residence near Corvallis interred at Odd Fellow cemetery. He married Annie B McGee April 27 1882 with four children surviving plus six siblings.
A Cologne Gazette dispatch from Constantinople reports Turkey holds 12,000 troops ready for Crete. The Porte protested European powers over the Cretan assembly oath to King George and adoption of a Hellenic code. Britain and Kuwait said measures were being taken to stop further similar acts.
Roseburg Oregon January 17 15 years of continuous service end as Captain Harry C Slocum of Company D resigns to Adjutant General Finzer Major F W Haynes Quartermaster of the Fourth Regiment also resigns for private business reasons His resignation accepted for Haynes and pending for Slocum who plans to transfer company property to First Lieutenant F G Stewart Also J E Thornton Captain of Company H Ashland resigns from service All members noted for prior service with Second Oregon Regiment in Spanish American War.
The Postal Telegraph and Cable Company through H. M. Smith of Chicago plans to buy 26 000 telegraph poles for shipment east from San Francisco to build a new overland route to New York, competing with the merged Western Union and Bell system. A second large order will follow for a two wire line from San Francisco to Portland and Seattle. C. W. Copen of New York and J. G. Blake of San Francisco, with Smith, are in the area as purchasing agent and superintendents.
The German government cabled its reply to Washington regarding the U S tariff memorandum. It does not accept several American wishes especially on meat imports, but hopes the response will be satisfactory and is all the German government can offer.
Pittsburg January 15 authorities found Laura White sixty five read of poverty in a room five blocks from the door with a body half eaten by rats. In a trunk the police recovered bank books and a will leaving about one hundred thousand dollars to local charities. The deceased reportedly held real estate in Indiana Montana and California.
Secretary Ballinger repudiates allegations of extravagance wrongdoing and favoritism as Representative Hitchcock presses the inquiry before the House committee on expenditures of the interior department. The testimony prompts an independent investigation, while a separate Ballinger-Pinchot conference report is adopted unanimously by the House.
The Eugene Board of Trade held its annual meeting to elect officers and directors. The gathering approved the organization's new leadership and discussed plans for the coming year.
Professor Emil Theodore Kocher receives the Nobel Prize for Research in Medicine. His work advances thyroid surgery and antisepsis, marking a landmark achievement in medical science recognized by the Nobel committee.
Wednesday evening January 12 the board unanimously voted to incorporate with R M Day Dr L L White and W M Renshaw as incorporators. Officers elected for one year are R M Day president Alf Walker vice president E J Frasier secretary and manager. Directors named are E L Campbell R M Day and Dr L L White. The board aims to foster manufacturing by expanding correspondence with potential factory locations to balance a growing city.
Denver reports the National Livestock Association rejects claims of beef shortages. President H A Jastro and Vice President Murdo Mackenzie of Trinidad Colo deny a looming lack and oppose campaigns urging mass cattle sales. They cite $200 million in yearly beef exports and say prices reflect consumer choices, stressing better cattle rather than more.
Report from Portland to The Guard says cattle on Bailey ranch above Thurston near the McKenzie River are starving and exposed with no feed, while Tom Carney and others report no hay bring received for days. Humane Society probes. Bailey disputes nationwide feed crisis claim.
Superintendent Stockton plans an Old Favorite Song concert in April to fund a first class stereopticon for public schools. Voters are urged to submit song titles with authors and composers, voting ends Saturday February 5, and the program will feature the most popular choices.
Marshfield January 15 One body from the wrecked steamship Czarina washed ashore this afternoon but could not be identified. The storm has not abated and other bodies will probably be found later.
Crescent City California January 15 a lumber laden schooner believed to be the San Buena Ventura went down near the Rogue River mouth in Oregon with all on board. The crew were sighted in the rigging shortly before the vessel sank after sailing from Eureka a few days earlier.
Special to Daily Guard Cottage Grove Jan 11 George Rains longtime barber turned miner and logger killed himself at his West Cottage Grove home around 2 30 pm after drinking bootleg booze and telling friends he would end it all He left a wife and four children two boys and two girls and died soon after slashing his throat before placing the razor back in its box and pocket observant at the scene state
At a special stockholders meeting in St. Louis the Missouri Pacific Railway company voted to authorize a 175 million dollar bond issue with convertible five percent fifty year bonds and allowed existing stockholders to subscribe up to 36 percent of their holdings. They also authorized purchases of up to 25 million par value of Iron Mountain bonds and the whole or part of several Gould property railroads and lines including Carthage and Western Joplin and Western and others listed.
Born at General hospital in Eugene on January 14 1910 to S G Spicer and wife of Marcola a son weight 8 pounds 12 ounces. Mrs George N Hanson and child ren arrived from Kansas City to join Mr Hanson employed in the Dodge department store. The third municipal census of Buenos Aires reports a population nearing 1 285 000.
London Jan 15 David Lloyd George in a closing campaign speech declared the British navy invincible and warned that if the German fleet attacked Britain it would be at the bottom of the ocean in a few hours. Harrison arrested for assault on Gard ner, a Eugene teacher, pleaded guilty and was fined 20 dollars after Gard ner whipped Harrison's daughter.
London January 18 completed returns show Government Coalition Liberal 79 Laborites 17 Irish Nationalists 27 Opposition Unionists 99 net gain 30. Eleven Nationalists including William Redmond and three Unionists elected unopposed bring total to 222 of 650 seats. Unionists lead with 99 versus Liberal and Labor 96. Nationalists 27.
Officers of the Kentucky Trotting Horse Breeders Association in Lexington report a prosperous past season and bright prospects for the year. Secretary Wilson has been busy planning future stakes attracting attention. Lumbering in Cottage Grove shows strong outputs with Oregon and Southeastern mills shipping 7.5 million feet from Oct-Dec, and with Southern Pacific mills totals exceeding 10 million feet in the last quarter of 1909. Fresh radishes from the garden appear at a Gold Hill home as a notable hill of fare.
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