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Newspaper
Eugene Weekly Guard
Location
Eugene, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1909
Page
9
Descriptive auction notice offers 2180 acre stock and dairy ranch with springs creek and out range located 2 miles from Eugene. Features include a $10 per acre price, 10 room house, barn, outbuildings, fruit and shade trees, ground garden, and unspecified rate. Inquiries directed to M M al Gu office. tf
30 acre ranch with a five room house stable and outbuildings ten acres in crop good garden and 200 fruit trees of various kinds priced at 1700 plus three work horses three cows 17 goats six dozen chickens one wagon one hack one top bogey and farming implements stock and ranch 2200 inquire ER M Camp six miles west of Eugene al r.
Press reports identify a tall man registering at a New York hotel as J Z Peterson from Minneapolis wearing an Eugene hat with Mr D R initials on its band and a ring marked M W & C. He carried no local records. hat origin suggests recent visit. Local directories and tax lists show no Peterson entry.
Promoters of the Eugene & Pacific railway met farmers at the Kompp school house five miles west of the city to explain plans for an electric railway. The crowded gathering saw unanimous support to build the line through the area and a follow up meeting was set for Thursday night led by local farmers.
A new baseball club named Nesmith Baseball Club has been organized in Cottage Grove this week to compete for summer honors with Orville Knapp of Griffin Veatch Co. as manager. The picked nine consists of local players who have earned prior honors for Cottage Grove, and the paper wishes the Nesmith team success, hoping they win this season and Nesmith county in 1916.
Jay McCormick and Sid Smith pick a ball park site on the street car line on J. P. Campbell's land between Eugene and Springfield. The Oregon state league will include four to six teams from Salem Albany Springfield and Eu gene. Only local men may play though small salaries could be allowed to attract talent. Managers believe the league can be kept on a paying basis. Rev H S Champie left today for Toppenish Washington on business.
Classified notices advertise a furnished flat for rent in Eugene, a housewares store selling housekeeping items at Campbell Fellman Company on Eighth and One streets, a lost handbag with glasses and notes left at the guard office for a reward, a dramatic arts college partner search at 23 West 10th Street, and real estate agents Morrin & Son offering Gross Addition tracts and nationwide listings via the National Cooperative Realty Company network.
The injunction case against the city power plant concluded this afternoon. Key witnesses included F. C. Kelsey, superintendent, and C. S. Freeland. Kelsey defended the project as safe and feasible with an estimate of 131000 dollars plus a 10 percent variance, while Freeland questioned the need for a concrete dam to prevent possible log jams. Local residents described river banks and erosion, with testimony on channel behavior and potential river reversion to the old south course.
A stranger who died by his own hand in Cottage Grove has been identified as Emil Calanchini of Modesto. His father Peter Calanchini deposited funds with Wells Fargo to cover exhumation and shipping of the body to Modesto for burial. Undertaker Marion Meath will oversee exhumation and immediate shipment tonight, clarifying the previously mysterious case.
A highly instructive county teachers' institute gathered at Cottage Grove High School on Saturday under County Superintendent W B Dillard with many Western Oregon educators present. Notables included Homan of Willamette University and professors from Monmouth Oregon Salem and Creswell teaching advances in education.
A Benton county farmer killed a shepherd dog believing it to be a coyote and collected the bounty. He later admitted deception and faced questions over the claim and the trail of the payout.
San Francisco residents react strongly as an American girl announces plans to marry a Japanese suitor. The city confronts social norms and potential backlash amid inflamed public opinion and cross-cultural tensions.
An inquest in Cottage Grove could not reveal the deceased man's identity. The jury found the unknown man died by self inflicted wound after severing his throat at the city park. A pocket knife was found on the body and embalming efforts aimed to expose a name. He carried 101 dollars, turned over to the county treasurer, with burial expenses covered by the county treasury.
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