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Newspaper
Eugene Weekly Guard
Location
Eugene, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1910
Page
8
Senator yn of Minnesota and Representative McCall of Massachusetts were elected chairman and vice chairman of the joint congressional committee tasked with probing the Hainger-Pinechot controversy. The chairman said charges from a responsible source will receive careful consideration.
Commissioner Bailey rebutts claims of cattle neglect after Eugene Humane Society moved to prosecute him. He says he acted to save cattle amid heavy snows and high water that hampered feeding. Halley cites widespread losses in eastern Oregon and notes Bailey believed feed adequate, with Hart Brothers reporting thinning cattle.
Creswell public schools face crowding with plans to relocate grades to upper floor space in Hawley block while the high school uses upstairs hall. Third and fourth grades move to Miss Richardson and Miss Bracey takes seventh and eighth grade. No change in primary. Attendance rise may require enlarging or rebuilding this summer.
At the bride’s brother house 224 Blair Street Eugene on January 19 1910 at seven p m the ceremony conducted by Rev Cobb of Bible University joined Miss Jennie L Spencer and Mr Luckey Joulah They left on the midnight train for a honeymoon to California and Mexico The groom is a pioneer jeweler in Eugene and the bride is a well known local resident
We extend heartfelt thanks to friends and neighbors for kindness and aid during Mollie’s illness and after her passing. Special thanks to the Royal Neighbors and to M. W. HM. SCHWIND AND FAMILY of Marcola Oregon for their support.
St Louis January 22 with over two hundred deputy sheriffs and special agents in pursuit bloodhounds were put on the trail of four men who robbed Missouri Pacific train number four near Eureka thirty miles away. Post office Inspector Dickson said loot may reach ten thousand dollars and investigators expect the robbers to be tracked toward St Louis. Rewards totaling five thousand two hundred dollars had been offered.
In New York on January 22 Judge Hough sustained the demurrer by Attorney John H. Stanchfield and quashed the indictment against August Heinze in the Mercantile case. The ruling ends the charges in this Mercantile matter.
Judge Hough held that John P. Fernaler, an expert accountant, could not attend the grand jury room in any capacity other than as a witness, saying his presence in that room would prejudice Heinze's local rights and affect the integrity of the proceeding.
North Eugene residents form the Northwest Eugene Improvement Club to push western city limits extension. J Morris serves as president with A W Lewis secretary and E E Quimby treasurer. A committee led by Young, George F Cooner and Mark Velmine will study proper methods to secure corporate action for expansion. Meeting at the Commercial Club’s promotion department room is planned for Friday evening with talks on street openings sewer work and city beautification.
At the annual meeting H Eakins was re elected president and T C Wheeler cashier. The board for the new year includes Herbert Eakin T C Wheeler Oliver Veatch N W White and J H Hawley. The bank reports prosperity with two semi annual dividends declared and reserves of 17000 plus 5000 in undivided profits.
Prof. A le Briggs, longtime mathematics professor at O A C and former Drain Normal school president, has been elected superintendent of Albany schools and will assume duties within days. He brings extensive public school experience and a record of notable character.
William Kyle and Sons filed a circuit court suit against W L Phelps and R W Huff seeking 356 61 on a promissory note. Williams and Bean represent the plaintiff as attorneys.
Witnesses in the Hermann conspiracy trial connect Binger Hermann to a scheme to create the Blue Mountain forest reserve using school lands. Testimony identifies figures in Washington as orchestrators and notes ill gotten gains from timber and school land schemes. The defense objects to linking Hermann without stronger evidence as the ninth day closes.
Spokane reports a man known as James F Logan, likely Frederick Johns, on trial at Colville for Mrs. Agnes Jansen’s murder admits to that crime and two others. He says he broke Jansen’s neck in anger and burned the body, and that he killed RE Shively in Spokane, shipped the body in a trunk, burned it on a farm, and also killed the real James Logan of Maple Falls while admitting forgery.
Washington on January 20 the government will not drop the anti merger suit against Union Pacific and Southern Pacific railways. Attorney General Wickersham has found nothing in his investigation to warrant such action.
Albany's chief of police has purchased a regulation police helmet and uniform. Eugene police officers have worn such uniforms for several years.
The White Automatic Incubator Company, after buying Harden planing mill on Oregon avenue, sets up a large factory and salesroom in Olive street block. It plans constant incubators and brooders with Saturday chick auctions and Thursdays hatch dates, plus furniture production matching incubator goods. A controlled blasting operation cleared rock into the river as planned.
Mrs Lovellen Hargis of Breathitt County Kentucky is said to be losing her mind after Beech Hargis, a feudist who killed his father, was sentenced to prison. The elder judge, Beech Hargis, left a fortune near $100,000 from business and land as the court upheld the lower ruling. The mother spent nearly all her money saving him from the gallows and now faces declining health and poverty.
A massive blast at Jasper Point two miles west of Jasper cleared the Southern Pacific right of way. About one hundred thousand pounds of dynamite in four holes was set off by Utah Construction Company experts. The rock was honeycombed over months and thousands of tons tumbled into the river. The powerful detonation, heard for miles, left the track nearly clear with no damage.
County Commissioners Edwards and Price toured a rock stretch above the Hordits bridge on the McKenzie River to inspect a washout on the south side. Price said 300 feet must be blasted from solid rock using giant powder to reopen the road after logs dumped into the river caused the damage.
Thurston Good Pasture reported to the Guard office that a recent freeze has nearly ruined the all-cown crops south of Spencer Butte. No wheat sown locally. oats and possibly var%en (likely hay or grain) ruined. a large portion of valley wheat may have suffered as well.
About 300 farmers gathered in Decatur Alabama on January 22 to threaten a lynching as they awaited the arrival of Delsa and Cilet Lang two white men charged with criminal assault on a local girl. The prisoners were arrested at Chattanooga.
J W Bailey ranch keeper reports cattle being fed at the McKenzie property. Bailey said the first feed occurred January 17 and that feeding will continue as no hay was available in the valley region.
The Portland Journal reports Harriman lines attorney W D Fenton announcing 65 miles of new track in Oregon will be completed within 18 months enabling trains from Portland to San Francisco along a route with at most 1 percent grade. The California North Eastern extension to Weed and Klamath Falls aims to double track and speed freight, crossing the Deschutes and Willamette rivers to Natron while maintaining Siskiyou lines for congestion relief.
The body of 71 year old William W. Buoy was found in his cabin eight miles east of Jasper. Coroner Gordon held an inquest and the jury ruled death from natural causes. Buoy, who lived alone on a hillside ranch, left four daughters and was an uncle of Eugene real estate dealer John Buoy. Remains were taken to Eugene for burial with funeral plans undetermined.
O M and Howard Rankin as administrators of the Rankin estate filed a mortgage to Merritt C Griswold for 11494.47 on 520 acres of western Lane County timber land. The lands were part of parcels sold years ago to Rankin through H C Mahon who sued Rankin for over 40000 in commission and won, attaching the lands.
A sufferer endured six months of eczema on the head and body. Intense irritation and itching, sleep elusive, drove him to the brink. After 24 hours using Cuticura preparations, he slept like a infant and showed rapid relief returning calm.
A 97 year old man describes eczema relief after using Cuticura Ointment and Cuticura Resolvent. He recounts months of intense itching, sleepless nights, and scalp irritation, with a complete recovery in a month. The letter praises the remedies and notes hair regrowth.
In Washington a conference with Chairmen Foss of the naval affairs committee and Representative Roorts of Massachusetts, President Teft urged a provision for two new dreadnought battleships. He called it false economy to spend less than two battleships annually. The report notes Hillman town has only a single 10 by 12 shack building.
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