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Newspaper
Eugene Weekly Guard
Location
Eugene, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1906
Page
2
The Eugene Weekly Guard is an independent paper published every Friday in Eugene Oregon. It lists subscription at 1.50 per year paid in advance and a 200 post office handling note.
The following are authorized to take or receipt for subscriptions or transact other business for the Daily and Weekly Guard J. L. Clark Creswell Geo A Crary Coburg Cottage Grove Conner. October 15.
The Guard at Coburg announces Geo A Drury as agent and correspondent. He will take orders for job work advertising collect accounts and handle related business. Patrons are urged to extend courtesies and may expect prompt careful attention to entrusted matters.
The Guard Printing Co. enlarges the Guard and raises publication costs but offers new or renewing subscribers a choice of a free year of either the Twice-a-Week St Louis Republic or the Oregon Agriculturalist if they pay a year in advance from August 1 1906. Existing subscribers can also secure the premium in September or later if magazines are not delivered.
The article argues irrigation is a natural practice not a rain substitute and praises its societal benefits. It notes irrigation directs moisture to crops, fosters smaller farms, and enhances rural community life, especially in Oregon, by linking neighbors and improving social ties.
Best examples of irrigation communities blend town and country life with neighborhood cooperation and farm independence. Water management teaches cooperation, enabling product sales and supply purchases. Irrigation advances may shape future civilization, giving farmers self sufficiency as moisture follows nature and crops demand.
A St. Louis Republic staffer in New Orleans quotes travelers and editors from Roanoke Atlanta and Alabama noting race tensions. He cites statements that the negro question looms as the only real issue, fears of peace breaking, and that liberty is mistaken for license. He warns the south sits on a powder magazine with outbreaks possible soon.
The Seattle News telegraphed from its Washington correspondent last Thursday noting good prospects for Washington hop growers but reporting a heavy shortage from European reports. The dispatch indicated consular officers of the United States in Europe observed a fall in hop production both on the continent and abroad.
Britain reports Germany short by over 126000 tons while Austria Belgium Kaussia France and England face similar shortages. The United States crop is up slightly by about 5 million pounds, but the European deficit ensures continued high prices and gives US hop growers leverage for high prices.
The Guard denounces the Willamette Valley Co plans for a 200 000 water and light plant at Roseburg and expansion of electric routes through Oregon. It warns of a transportation monopoly and warns Roseburg and Eugene officials to deny time extensions, citing delays, forfeited gas franchise, and alleged expansion toward a holding company. The piece urges public scrutiny and decisive action by city councils to counter the perceived threat to independent utilities.
State Senator Hedges of Clackamas faces editorials charging graft and urging law limits on free railroad passes. Meanwhile Frank Davey and Wall Timothy Geer attack politicians as corrupt. The piece mocks royal marriage rumors, pundits, and scientific figures, ending with a jab at sages’ laurels.
Chas Long buys Andy Graham's hotel and will run a strictly first class house. Mr and Mrs Garham may return to the valley after a rest. Eva Martha Bohlman wed John Cornilins Thomas of Wakonda South Dakota and the couple plan a trip before settling in Wakonda after the 30th. J Brand and son William push Farmers and Miners line to Hemia with mines joining for constant telephone service.
In Judge Sears court Bernard O Velguth the gun company embezzler pleaded guilty after withdrawing his former plea. He vowed to reform when released. The judge imposed an indeterminate sentence of one to ten years in the state penitentiary.
Mrs Susan Mary Buoy wife of Noah Buoy died at Schleef's hospital Cottage Grove October Std at 5 pm after a long illness. Born October 8 1848 in Cedar county Missouri she died on her birthday at the same hour of birth. Nugget Billee Taylor once of Eugene now in Marshfield opens a wool factory store after years in Salem and Newport.
Pittsburg reports Frederick Cole Fairbanks son of the vice president and Miss Nellie Scott have wed in Steubenville after parents objected. The couple met in Indianapolis a year ago while Miss Scott stayed with a friend. The marriage was performed by Dr Brodie. Warren Fairbanks says he knew nothing of the plan.
Indianapolis October 11 Vice President Wairbanks says he knew that Frederick was engaged to Miss Scott and did not object. There is no possibility of an estrangement because of the quiet wedding.
Carson Nev Oct 11 The United States land office reports no word on opening the Walker Indian reservation at noon Oct 29 with the general method to allot mineral and agricultural lands. Mining men fear rapid entry as Nevada law imposes no cap on claims. The reservation mainly holds mineral lands including gold silver and copper. Six townships are set aside for the Indians amid expectations of a big rush and potential trouble without a peaceful allotment plan.
Indianapolis October 13 Mrs Fairbanks sent a telegram to her son Frederick and wife in Pittsburg wishing health and happiness and inviting them home. She had remained at home during the elopement affair and after a northern Indiana trip returned to consider the situation before sending the message.
Washington Oct 12 Triplets appeared at the home of Joseph F Williams and each was given the middle name Roosevelt Theodore Roosevelt Williams is dead but his sisters are thriving There have been eighteen children in the Williams home in seventeen years Charles H Chick timber buyer of Battle Creek Mich in Eugene for months securing timber lands for himself Constantine Morton and Everett P Lewis is reported to have closed a deal for a large tract in the McKenzie country No details available but Chick promises the Guard full information once minor details are settled
The piece argues that electing judges by popular vote risks politicization and corruption when parties or a few leaders control the process. It urges longer terms, nonpartisan or diminished party influence, and public virtue to preserve judicial independence and trust in self government amid fraud and wealth misuse.
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