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Newspaper
Eugene Weekly Guard
Location
Eugene, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1907
Page
1
Residents awoke to a scorched scene as the Du Pont powder mill exploded causing extensive property loss and dozens reported dead or seriously injured. Authorities opened an official investigation while a vast search for victims continued. property damage totals topped half a million dollars with the town and company losses rising.
Albany reports a large earthquake detected at nine o'clock on a seismograph at the state museum with the shock continuing at 10 15 in full force. Washington notes a violent quake recorded by the weather bureau starting after nine and ending six minutes later. Baltimore records a Hopkins seismograph reading the strongest since the San Francisco quake lasting about two hours with similar intensity.
Jesse Holaday 82, a California pioneer who with brother Ben Holaday ran the pony express mail service across the western plains, died yesterday at the Lexington hotel in Chicago. He owned substantial Chicago real estate and is survived by a son and three daughters.
Wallace Sweet, born in 1545, arrived home with his son after a summer journey through central Eastern Oregon. He traveled Military road there and back McKenzie route, noting fourteen horse remains on the latter. He believes Crescent Lake will become a resort and claims about three thousand people visited this summer. He praises Lane county as superior, and notes his Point Terrace home with a ranch and gas station amenities.
At Chicago the Ninols Central proxy battle between Harriman and Fish grows tense as disputes over a three member committee delay the meeting. Judge Hall revises orders allowing Harriman forces to vote 286 731 shares under conditions that may affect the election outcome. Fish remains confident despite proxy shifts and uncertain tally as stockholders prepare for a press open meeting.
Immaculately dressed as a gospel minister, Allen J. Lawrence entered the Indiana state prison at Michigan City yesterday and said he escaped in September 1906. He described wandering through Kansas and Nebraska before returning.
A revival meeting near a prairie schooner drew a wandering missionary into Methodist evangelism, adopting the gospel work and finding success. A man named Lawrence from LaPorte, Indiana, sentenced in April 1904 for attacking a girl, claimed innocence after escaping, and took the name James W. Hamen. He said his conscience troubled him and returned to prison to serve the remainder of his term.
Maniio Oct 16 He Preforally opened the Philippine Assembly in the national theatre at 11/15, in the presence of a large crowd.
A state financial trend shows the treasury nearing five million dollars with a quarter million gain in three months. A London Times dispatch cites a reported cancer cure at a New York hospital after an electrical treatment, with no details on the patient or verifiable sources.
Portland October 16. Contracts for the Eugene depot will be let within thirty days. Manager OBrien says the depot and other improvements will cost 25000 dollars. After Eugenes depot is under way work will begin on the Albany depot with completion targeted for next spring.
The will of J. H. Teeters who died near Cottage Grove in October is filed for probate. The estate valued at about 2500 dollars is divided: one third to his wife and one third to son Shelby L. Teeters. the remainder split among sons Shelby L Jas C and G W and daughters Ellen Mitch ell and Laura M. Doolittle. Shelby L. Teeters named executor without bond.
Governor Chamberlan is expected home Friday after a trip to the East. In Newport a six year old girl named Wanda Longest, weighing 24 pounds, is credited with catching a 40 pound silimon on a local fishing trip.
On October 16 authorities arrested Mrs Anna Maljas her husband and Chris and Matt Zimbola after a attempted extortion of twenty thousand dollars faced from J Grier manager of the Homestake gold mine.
Cincinnati on October 16 reports one man killed and many injured when an Elberson avenue streetcar left the track and toppled a 26 foot embankment at Mount Hope. Six are listed as dangerously hurt and about 25 others suffer lesser injuries among the passengers.
Five striking operators are re-employed by Western Union in San Francisco while two applicants are rejected, restoring staff after a labor walkout that paused service.
Chicago Wheat Market quotes show December at 1.0478 dollars and May at 1.1014 dollars. The report from Chicago dated October 16 notes futures levels for the new crop season.
Ferfinnod Pinney Earle, a young Monroe New York artist, elopes with his wife to France taking their two year old son. He declares an affinity with another American, Sulfa Kuttner, while planning divorce in France to secure wealth for his son and himself. The tale unfolds amid rumors of marriage and social schemes connected to a £400 fortune.
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