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Newspaper
Eugene Weekly Guard
Location
Eugene, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1906
Page
3
The Eugene Weekly Guard is a weekly Friday paper in Eugene Oregon with a subscription price of 1.5 dollars per year paid in advance and 210 at year end. It is entered at the Eugene Oregon post office as second class matter.
The Daily and Weekly Guard announces authorized agents to take or receipt for subscriptions and conduct other business. Names include W. C. Conner of Cottage Grove J. L. Clark of Creewell Geo A Drury of Coburg. Dated Thursday October 24.
The Guard Printing Co offers a one year advance subscription to the Weekly Guard at 21.4 dollars and a free year of either the Twice-a-Week St Louis Republic or the Oregon Agriculturalist. Old and new subscribers can pick a premium paper or, if magazines were not delivered, receive one of the papers instead at no extra cost.
United Press reports Senator Hopkins of Illinois favors annexation of Cuba with Cuban consent as the permanent solution while Senator Spooner of Wisconsin warns against annexation without Cuban request and urges currency reform to prevent a bank panic. Spooner emphasizes elastic currency for national banks and decisive action by Congress.
National banks contend a graduated tax will curb over issuance and remove the retirement restriction on notes. The proposal aims to stabilize currency and finance public needs while phasing out earlier limits.
The piece critiques the Department of Commerce and Labor for resisting simplified spelling in its bulletin. It highlights possible word reductions and proposes a shortened rendition of a Detroit river freight paragraph to illustrate space-saving language.
John Inglis of Minneapolis, crop estimator and grain merchant, is quoted by the Commercial West about rapid Pacific slope development. He cites rising mining, lumbering, railroad activity, and agricultural growth in Washington, Idaho, and Oregon, with increases in corn, oats, barley, rye, and hay to meet local demand.
Announcement states the guard has been elected a member of the Associated Press. This implies the Daily Guard will not have improved pews service, though it previously provided patrols with satisfactory press reports. The Guard also ordered over-
The Guard plans a very latest improved Linotype machine costing 3500 to 5000, aiming to cast type in Eugene early November. The upgraded plant will be entirely new in all departments, reflecting thousands of dollars in investment to serve Lane county and uphold Eugene’s leading position.
The Oregon Text Book Commission, appointed four years ago by Governor Chamberlain, includes Harvey W. Scott and William M. Ladd of Portland, P. L. Campbell of Eugene, William M. Colvig of Jacksonville, and Charles A. Johns of Baker City. It will meet on the second Monday in July next year to review textbook selections and consider cost reductions, potentially prompting state printing of texts.
A letter urges Lane County to revive agitation for a beet sugar plant, arguing successful sugar beet culture in the Willamette valley requires irrigation. The writer contrasts Northeastern Oregon and Eastern Washington crops, suggesting irrigation could enable a beet factory, and criticizes the Register for lacking irrigation advocacy.
A young minister visits the county jail in Portland to preach to inmates. He greets the prisoners with warmth, saying he is glad to see them, but the crowd erupts in amusement and laughter at his opening remarks, drowning his attempted apology and explanation.
The Frewing Guard advances as a daily paper and will print a large special edition for general and foreign circulation, a credit to Lanes County and Oregon. Editor Geer of the Pendleton Tribune has long seen of politics and comes across as very sage.
The text argues that probabilities and indications in campaigns are unreliable and highlights public skepticism after past election outcomes. It notes Roseburg residents pressing for a special election on December 10 to decide a water and light franchise, with many supporting municipal ownership. It also discusses Cuba and the Philippines, favoring American development and home rule and urging decisive U.S. action on both.
A condensed column notes postwar reverence for Mrs. Jefferson Davis and her family, mentions King Thanh Thai of Annam and a grisly royal dietary joke, and reports on medical practice, US rail construction, and a monkey burial dispute in Gibson City Illinois. It also touches on tensions with the Philippines and Cuba amid a rapid montage of events.
The government will tighten enforcement of rural free delivery road standards and may withdraw service if carriers’ routes are not properly maintained. Teachers expect text book changes next January as book concerns promote new titles under the Daly law appointed by Governor Geer and reappointed by Governor Chamberlain.
Henry Hose confessed to strangling a public woman in Portland then cursed her before surrendering at the police station. In Houston, Nichola allegedly shot cousin Tankersly amid a controversial house dispute. Roger Y. Mills may replace Senator Haley in Texas politics. once a prominent congressman and author of the Mille tariff bill, his career waned in recent years.
The Denver mint works overtime producing silver half dollars but cannot satisfy demand. Officials note the circulating medium including gold and paper money cannot be expanded without limits, debunking ideas of unlimited free silver.
James J. Hill argues that America must rapidly expand shelter and work for a growing population, stressing that labor needs material and resources must grow together without exhausting them. He urges farming and soil cultivation as the main future resource and calls for improved methods and yields to preserve national inheritance.
Eugene Smith argues punishment should aim at public protection through reform rather than revenge. Detailing life or indefinite sentences, he asserts imprisonment must continue until the criminal is cured, as guilt is largely unknowable and release when unable to control self is cruel.
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