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Newspaper
Eugene Weekly Guard
Location
Eugene, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1901
Page
5
The opinion argues that if new territories are acquired by treaty and placed under U S sovereignty, the Constitution becomes the supreme law there. No branch may suspend constitutional provisions to accommodate emergencies. Government powers cannot dispense with constitutional requirements in any territory under U S jurisdiction.
A will made in Oregon City years ago leaves property to two minor McNamara brothers with a clause that if either gains a bad reputation by age twenty one the other inherits all. One brother has a reform school past and jail time in Washington and Multnomah counties and now faces larceny charges in Hillsboro.
A novel one hundred mile dash on Lake Erie saw two steamers line up from Cleveland to Erie. The winner led by one minute thirty four seconds as the craft measured 324 feet with 78 foot beam and 320 feet with 70 foot beam. The report notes the contest lacked the lively Mississippi river tradition of a spectator man on the rod to hold the safety valve.
Dispatch from Los Banos California notes a prairie fire scorching twenty thousand acres of grain in the central part of the state. A high wind drives the flames toward the plains while the region experiences unusually dry conditions for the season.
A Portland lawyer will challenge the state barber law arguing the title uses the word barbering not found in dictionaries and thus fails to describe the Sunday prohibition. The suit contends the term’s lack of dictionary backing undermines the law despite clear legislative intent.
A cautious observer praises King Edward for contentment with the inevitable and for allowing Parliament to rule without protest. The king is noted to have a talent for arranging court functions and details, with a suggestion that a competent man could be hired for the role for a few hundred pounds annually.
A maniac caused a notable disturbance in the Vatican yesterday while Americans repeatedly overestimate gains in city state and national ventures, only to discover their errors in the end.
An engineer ignores warnings from digestive distress as he hears only noise from machinery. The ad praises Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery for stomach and digestion issues, claiming it cleanses the blood and restores strength. A Montana farmer testifies to weight gain and resumed labor after using the medicine and Pleasant Pellets.
Louis Renninger of Marcola was knocked unconscious when his wagon team bolted while unloading wood at E Mic Ingham's department store. He was treated by Dr. W. Koykendall and will remain until able to travel home. A bicyclist, AM Hendricks, narrowly escaped harm as the wagon wrecked a wheel and damaged the wagon.
A fragmentary inventory from J. BR Yares lists One Wood's mower, seed wheat, two Oliver Chilled plows, two wagons, blacksmith tools, steel barrow, wood barrow, several harness sets, Sve Poland China hogs, nine horses weighing 1200 to 1500 each, cook stove, half interest in a bleeding outfit, two buggies, two milch cows, and other unspecified items.
Saudera Eugene offers top cash price for chittim bark and wool Bring supplies to Ax Billy's store for valuation and payment by the buyer's office located there
All grades of lumber for sale at El mira. From $250 to $10 per thousand. Hemlock Bark Wanted: 85 MIEPHENs Crow Ore Hemlock Bark Wanted. Wanted 500 cords of hemlock bark, $10 per cord. Inquire at the tan nee W W Haines & Co Universal Star Estate Acorn and Jewel stores and ranges. All guaran teed at Griffin Hardware Co
The item lists multiple sales and farm offerings. Goats aged 1 to 5 years are offered, with inquiries directed to CM Siemens in Eugene. A 156 acre tract near a depot combines cultivated land with pasture and timber, plus a $1200 house, two barns, a 10 acre fruit orchard. Also advertised are 200 penned goats by J H Hawley near Cottage Grove, and a Thoroughbred Chester White horse for sale by E Circusbeck Crewwell Oregon. A door and window screen business is promoted by F L Chambers near Eugene with emphasis on quality.
June 4 1901 reports good grain prospects and a successful Children’s Day program. Visitors from Portland and local teachers are noted. Ora Read ends Evenvale term and visits Cottage Grove while Carl Baughman wraps Trent school. A damp but lively picnic precedes Senator Mulkey’s after noon treat. graduation slated for June 15.
For sale the land belonging to the estate of J Keeney deceased comprising 576 acres of fine farm and pasture land with improvements. Located about three-quarters of a mile from Goshen, six miles southeast of Eugene. Administrators J M and B F Keeney at Jasper Oregon. Call on J B Keeney residing on farm or write to the administrators.
F L Chambers appoints 19 agents with firms Wheeler and Scott in Cottage Grove C F Hurlburt in Junction City A Bond and Son in Irving Hazelton Brothers in Creswell and P L Bristow in Pleasant Hill Genuine Oliver extras to be bad only at those locations.
N E Palmer of Kirkman Illinois reports a terrible gasoline stove explosion injuring a woman. Doctors failed to heal the running sore, but Bucklen's Arnica Salve cured it. Advertises salve as infallible for cuts bruises skin diseases and piles. 25 cents at W L DeLane Griffin Hardware.
Eugene Camp of W of W will conduct annual memorial exercises at the Christian church this Sunday evening. Rev M L Roce will deliver the address. Camp and Circle meet at 7:80 at the hall and march to the church. Public invited. Com features garden seeds at F L Chambers.
The undersigned seeks to rent a fifty acre farm with plow land and ordinary buildings, with or without picture lands, with option to purchase later. Respond to F. W. Lorane Oregon.
Sixty acres of land ten acres cleared remaining pasture. Good house, out buildings and fence. Also 160 acres rolling brush and timber land. Land lies near Pleasant Hill. Call Wm Wooten Pleasant Hill or address L A Crane Wendling.
For sale an 80 acre land tract fifteen miles west of Eugene in Notvailey. Partly improved with good spring water and timber near a school. Price 275 cash or 325 on easy terms. Address H F Laxcenoun Kiowa Colorado. Our Keen Kutter carpenters tools are best in market. See Griffon Hardware Co.
Ed V Price & Company of Chicago operates in Opetalia room 7 beside Lane County Bank with JM Howr and Kent listed among contacts.
Estimates offered for carpentry and building work at Gronnes Enowarps Cometock Or. FL Chamtere reports a large graniteware shipment priced to attract customers. Leghorn Hatching Eggs offers Brown Leghorns at $1 for 15 eggs. Lanterns sell for 4 cents. Contact F L Chambers and Bowp & Son for seed, feed, care and beds in Irving Oregon.
James A Ebbert reports Palouse wheat yields running over 15 bushels per acre with low prices. He sold 25 000 to 39 000 bushels of wheat while away. Farmers at three years back with interest. only high prices may save them. He plans to reduce wheat, sow clover and raise sheep.
Mrs W K Havi land of Armonk NY touts Dr King's New Discovery as life saving after a near fatal whooping cough and bronchitis attack on her daughter and recovery for a niece with advanced consumption. The ad extols infallibility for coughs and colds, offers 50c and 1 bottles guaranteed, and free trial bottles from W L DeLane. It also urges readers to buy fishing outfits from F L Chambers and miners outfits from Griflo Hardware Co.
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