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Newspaper
Eugene Weekly Guard
Location
Eugene, Oregon, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1901
Page
3
A weekly digest covering global events and domestic notes. Highlights include civil appointments in Albay province, plans for a Suez transport link, fires and losses on rail and river routes, miners killed, Chilean Pan American ties, McKinley’s health and travels, Alaska’s large steamship launch, strikes and labor clashes, and various international political and economic developments.
Two woodchoppers employed by Smith Brothers near Republic Washington found coarse gold on Granite Creek two miles west of town. They sunk a four by seven foot pit to mine large nuggets, extracting nearly $100 in hours while ignoring fine gold. Smith Brothers staked two claims as excitement spreads. Two hundred citizens head to the creek as staking begins.
Opinions issued by the United States Circuit Court of Appeals sustain lower court rulings in two admiralty suits from the District of Washington and one from Oregon. Ravenscourt owners awarded 7,288.35 plus costs against American Columbia owners for a Puget Sound collision on January 22 last year while towed by the Tyee. Charles H. Newman, ship carpenter, had 12,000 for injuries reduced to 6,000 and costs due to permanent nature. Homer master and owners face collision with Blakeley in Seattle harbor, Newman employed on Blakeley. Columbia tug owners receive only 1,000 for pulling Grace Dollar off Coos Bay beach in August 1908. salvage claim denied due to ordinary tow danger.
Baker City May 16. Believed richest gold strike in Eastern Oregon uncovered in the Little Giant mine near Malheur City Malheur county Samples of ore shown in the city are rich in free gold so bright that an assay is unnecessary The ledge is about 12 feet wide and the ledge has been uncovered for 500 feet News of the discovery has caused excitement and attracted prospectors aiming to locate extensions of the rich ledge
News of state commerce and industry highlights in Pendleton and across Oregon. Cattle shipments to Puget Sound. fields and mine activity in Williams Creek Greenhorn and Mule Gulch. New bridges, irrigation ditch work, school and mill updates, and a July celebration renovar regional development.
Washington May 16 The lighthouse board found Captain Langfitts plans for 12 lighthouses too elaborate for the 400000 available. They revised the project and ordered extensive advertisements to secure reasonable contracts. The board preferred contracting the work over day labor under Langfitts supervision.
Salem May 16 report notes a beat hop contract filed naming George L. Rose to deliver 15000 pounds of hops to W H Ramsey of Seattle from the 1901 1902 1903 crops at 11 cents per pound.
Peter Larsen of Helena Mont president of the Bellingham Bay and Eastern Railway has purchased 10,000 acres of timber lands in Whatcom and Skagit counties from ex Secretary Al Hawley of Ohio and ex Senator Hawley. The consideration is 155000 with standing timber between 200000000 and 300000000 feet.
Washington May 16 The navy department directs Rear Admiral Kemp acting commander of the Asiatic station to send home the ships Concord Marietta and C tine in the latter part of the coming summer. This follows a policy to reduce naval strength in the east. Bennington Petre Ore n Newark and Brutus have already been recalled, leaving the Asiatic fleet at 42 vessels.
A dense listing shows prices for Wheat, Flour, Oats, Hay, Hops, Wool, Butter, Eggs, Cheese, Poultry, Potatoes, Meat, and Beef across regions with per unit costs. Additional short items note a Toledo judge on drunkenness, a fuel claim, Grey’s saloon plan, Rio census, Britain shipbuilding lead, Youngstown wage rise, and Denver physicians forming a cooperative for consumptives.
At Farmington near Fairmount West Virginia six miners died and several were injured in an explosion at the George's Creek Coal and Iron Company shaft on the Baltimore and Ohio line. A smuggled torch caused dense smoke to ignite gas or dust triggering the blast._surface damage minimal. rescue efforts followed as air was restored.
President McKinley cancels the planned northwest tour and will return to Washington as soon as Mrs. McKinley can travel. The illness has grown more serious with new complications despite prior hopes for improvement. Public and civic preparations along the tour route will be notified of the change. The president bears the strain with a selfless wish to fulfill the San Francisco visit as much as possible.
In Tooele County Utah gopher numbers exploded prompting a 5 cent bounty per tail. Enterprising residents and schoolboys hunted the rodents draining funds, forcing county officials to abolish the bounty and cancel jail construction as treasury funds vanished. The pest crippled farm income and emptied schools as tails paid out reached about $800 in days.
A Pekin dispatch to the Daily Mail reports Great Britain asks foreign ministers to accept a plan where China covers the indemnity from its own resources with special facilities for implementation. The proposal involves no rise in maritime customs.
An explosion at the Kalgan arsenal on May 17 injures one German officer and four privates. Three German soldiers are missing and presumed blown to pieces. German officials suspect Chinese involvement though evidence is scant. A full investigation will follow.
Postal notices report Corena Oregon moved seven eighths of a mile northwest with John H Kirk named postmaster. Garrison Oregon post office moved four miles west with no change in postmaster. A new post office was established at Funrman Washington on the Pleasant to Co route. Mary FE Funrman appointed post mistress.
Manila dispatch reports detectives and police breaking up a Pampanga province band of American brigands who murdered and raped Americans, with leaders captured and others pursued. Some members posed as deserters or soldiers, one wearing captain’s uniform. Also notes Federalists’ decline, upcoming appointive government, and amnesty debates. fifty insurgents captured in Laguna area.
The Dirigo, Captain Hunter, arriving from Skagway reports no smallpox aboard. Southeast Alaska residents press for government action to lift quarantine affecting travel to Lynn Canal ports. A Juneau chamber of commerce meeting was in progress when Dirigo sailed. Canadian ships from Victoria and Vancouver face no restrictions, fueling complaints of discrimination against American commerce.
In New York on May 15 a trolley collision killed two of 26 College Point youths returning from a starlight ride to a hotel ten miles away. Five were hospitalized, four released after dressings, the rest bruised. the wagon rear struck by an approaching car. The wagon overturned. the trolley was damaged but 25 other passengers escaped injury.
Seattle May 16 The Seattle machinists strike is now reality with Vulcan Iron Works workers leading the walkout. About 250 men are idle as shops across the city desert their benches. Employers say nine hours versus ten and wage demands of 12 44 percent would make operations unprofitable.
New York on May 16 E L Chetwood confidential clerk at Brown Brothers bankers was arrested on charges of being short in his accounts by 20 170 He started as a messenger twenty years ago and for six years had worked as teller trusted enough that no bond was required from him
An adjourned shareholder meeting of Standard Rope & Twine Company in New York heard reports from the investigator appointed at the last annual meeting. The commission probes the Union Selling Company contract, finding it unfavorable and urging efforts to modify or breach it. The contract runs for two more years.
Private dispatches from Sitka, Alaska cite Dr Moore of Skagway and Dr Linhart of Juneau confirming a smallpox outbreak. They visited Indian ranch, Russian town, and Indian mission, noting 30 plus children ill at the mission and strict quarantines with guards at infected Indian areas.
Vancouver reports details from the Moana via Sydney of the Dido crew describing the murder of Rev. James Chalmers and Rev. Oliver Tomkins of the London Missionary Society at Debe near the Fly River. The missionaries and six native converts were killed after landing for a service amid tribal war warnings. Cannibalism followed. bodies were found with severed heads. Isai, a native missionary, corroborates the Dido crew.
San Francisco May 20 The large salmon combine plan collapses as the Alaska Packers Association refuses all cash offers from Pacific Packing Navigation promoters. President Fortman and Vice President Hirsch halt negotiations and claim they will not sell. Promoter McGovern says the combine will proceed without the association targeting roughly three million two hundred thousand cases of salmon annually, of which about one million come from Alaska.
Judge Baker in Chicago on May 20 upheld the legality of blacklists used by employers. A Libby Packing labeler and painter who struck in February with other young women found that firms may bar workers who quit without valid reasons. The ruling allows protective measures against former employees.
Edwin H. Conger, minister to China, spoke at the American Asiatic Association banquet in New York, urging a subsidy for American ships as patriotic policy. He praised China’s potential and lamented lack of American cable connections to Pacific possessions.
Chicago on May 20 Mrs Josephine Christensen wife of Tonie Christensen known as Dochelles died after 12 days of severe pain from burns suffered in the May 5 Marquette avenue fire in South Chicago. Her 2 year old child survived. Christensen refused medical aid to the end.
Hong Kong May 20 The viceroy of Canton signed a contract to remove the Macao barrier in the Canton river, built during the Franco Chinese war and long an obstacle to navigation. He also crushed native opposition to new dredging works, asserting they are necessary to the interests of it, creating a good impression.
Lyman J Gage Secretary of the Treasury loses wife after a nine week illness at her residence on Massachusetts Avenue Northwest Washington The immediate cause of death is heart trouble linked to grip complications She died with her husband her married daughter and the attending physician present and she remained cheerful and conscious to the end
San Francisco May 17 President McKinley reports marked improvement in Mrs McKinley while warning the crisis is not over. Doctors cautious but hopeful, with potential relapse feared. Telegrams pour in from across the nation as ambassadors send sympathy. Ohio launch tied to White House plans. Miss Barber and Miss Deshler to participate in ceremony.
The American congress of Tuberculosis and the Madico society met in New York for a joint session. A noted physician claimed no infectious diseases exist and argued fear spreads illness. He asserted smallpox is not contagious and not tuberculosis. A free annex for consumptives will open at the Home for Incurables.
In Philadelphia on May 20, Jacob Wynn and eight associates were implicated in the Father Riegel murder from Cheltenham. The jury found Wynn guilty of murder in the second degree as the priest lay dead on a Tenderloin doorstep. Witnesses testified Wynn bought poison and mixed it into the priest’s beer.
Grand Rapids May 1 Edwin F Uhl ex assistant secretary of state and ambassador to Germany under Cleveland died shortly after noon yesterday after nearly four years of illness. Born 1841 near Avon Springs New York his death closes a long public career marked by service in diplomacy and state affairs.
Washington May 20. The moots that have been weed between New York and the West Indies will be sold at public auction about July 1. Many New York businessmen urge a government transportation line between New York and Manila. This will not be done, but transports on the Pacific may make trips from Manila to New York if government needs demand it.
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