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TO
THE DAILY
Mr.
J. C. Goodale, of the
THE DAILY
MABEL MURMURINGS
The number of hogs have diminished and the
larders are replenished of late.
Bob Fields has been repairing the house on
his claim, and last week he moved his earthly possessions thereto. Can it be possible that Bob is going to live
a bachelor's life? Alfred Drury
visited his daughter at Lewisberg last week. A petition has been circulated and
readily signed asking that the mail on this route be increased to three times a
week instead of the two as we have now.
This is a move in the right direction and one that will be beneficial to
the people along the Mohawk. The county
papers would then reach this office on Saturday; now they won't get here till
Monday.
Mrs. Pike died at an advanced age, at the
home of Mr. Arnold, her son‑in‑law, Monday night of last week. The
deceased has been an invalid for several years, and during her last illness she
was almost devoid of reason. The remains were
interred in the Isabel
graveyard Tuesday. Thus the old land marks are falling and ere a few more years
those who viewed
This week closes out our correspondence
from Mabel. For the past, four months we have endeavored from week to week to
report the constantly murmured chain of murmurings and in so doing to have been
fair with all and impartial to none.
THE DAILY
HARD DRINKER
frothing at the mouth. It is said that he drank over fifteen bottles
of whisky in two or three hours time.
THE DAILY GUARD 1‑14‑1892
Last Friday a man named, Hatfield, from
McKenzie river. He went out
hunting and did not return when searching parties went out to hunt for
him. They found his tracks in the snows
and also where he had slept one night, having cut some fir boughs to make his
bed out of. He had plenty of cartridges, a gun, a small axe and a few matches.
The search has been continued daily until last evening, and it was intended to
continue the same today. Since writing the above, we have learned that Hatfield
has returned to his home at
THE DAILY
MOHAWK ITEMS
Will Casterline, who has been working for
Mr. Skinner the past winter, is staying with Mr. George Drury and attending school. A very wise move, Will.
The mail comes three times a week now, but
no more to the satisfaction of the citizens than before, as they all wanted
their mail on Saturday instead of Friday.
Mr. A. Wilson is preparing to erect a new
residence on his premises the coming summer.
It will add greatly to the
appearance of their place, as
their present house is hardly viewable from the road.
We learn that Mr.
The other Mohawk teachers are employed as
follows; Miss Rena Spores at Cottage Grove, Miss Clara Stafford at Lorane, Miss
Kate Drury at Star and Miss Anna Drury at Thompson. THE DAILY
ISABEL ITEMS
I will endeavor to give a few Mill Creek
and Mohawk items, as I think they are both deserving of, praise.
Mr.
C. Cole contemplates building a new store and I.O.O.F. hall this summer,
as we are in need of both greatly.
Mr. Franklin is making a drive of 10,000
ties down the Mohawk. Logging is all the rage on Mill Creek. The Mill Creek
Lumbering Company, is going to do a good business this summer. Messrs. Wood,
Whipple and Lilly Bros are on the way to the mouth of the Mohawk with a drive
of logs from upper Mill Creek. They are
driving them with a flood dam 18 feet high. Another dam will be pushed to
completion at once,Henry Franklin engineering it, which will be 24 feet high
when completed.
A. L. Montgomery say's he is going to
drive a million and a half feet of logs to market early this fall, "if he
doesn't get too fleshy", as he has 500,000 feet cut. He is fitting out one of the best logging
teams on the river.
Mr. Irving Lilly lost a valuable horse out
of his logging team a few days ago.
Mr.
Harshberger and Beebe Smith are busy filling an order for 5000 ties.
Mr. Hank Martin, a responsible land
locator went up Mill Creek the other day with a man to locate. He was from
This will be on of the greatest on the
coast in another year without doubt. The timber is said to be the finest yellow
fir on the coast and the easiest to get out. There is talk of a large sawmill
going up at the mouth of Mill Creek. But it is no
surprise, as it is one of the best places for one in the
county, as the backing will last for years.
THE DAILY GUARD 6‑29‑1892
MOHAWK ITEMS
The hoodlum element still exists in our
land on last
Saturday night some person or
persons removed a burr from the axle of Monroe Hill's wagon which was left
standing near the road loaded with lumber.
They also unloaded a part of the lumber and scattered it in bad shape. It is already pretty well known who the
parties are and Mr. Hill says he will
prosecute them.
THE DAILY
George Drury has improved his lots by
setting out some maple trees around them.
John Holt is the new nightwatch at the mill, and as it is the
nightwatch's duty to fire up in the morning, John thought he would try it, so
went to work about 4 o'clock and when found at half past six by some of the
workmen, he was all in a lather and only had about 10 pounds of steam. He tried to raise steam with all the drafts
open, see?
For the last 10 days a flock of from 1500
to 3000 wild geese have been making the night hideous with their squalling, in
coming to and going from their roosts, which is located in a pond about a
mile,south of town. Several of our
hunters have gone out after them, but owing to the dark nights have failed to
get many. The old mill shed has been
overhauled, and now instead of the buzzing saw the hum of two monstrous planers
can be heard. Will See expects to
open up his new store about the 1st of January. Last Thursday the engine in the
new mill broke and causes quite a delay in the work for a day or two.
THE DAILY
Our blacksmith, Mr. Cox, left for
intends to keep a boarding
house.
Old Mr. Canterbury was taken to the poor
farm Tuesday, and Rev. Tillman has sold his meat shop here to Henry Philippi,
who will continue the business at the old stand.
We understand that Rev T. has purchased a
shop in
Mr. Jackson will move his family to
John Cochran and Tom VanDuyn shipped a
fine lot of butchered pigs to
It is told as a fact that a certain man
entered the
postoffice, threw down ten
cents and asked for five 2‑cent stamps.
Five bright new Columbians were passed out to him which he promptly
pushed back with "you can't bunko, me Mr." The postmaster insisted
that they were good, but he refused to receive them, and would not be satisfied
with any but the old style. Counterfeit dimes, composed of antimony and tin are
said to be in circulation here. We
haven't seen any, but heard of a man that saw a $2 bill raised to a $10.
With no church in town, and everybody
moving out, and no one coming in,
THE DAILY
A FORMER
Friday's Salem Journal; J. E. Baker,
manager of the Goodale lumber yards in this city, was yesterday arrested by
constable Beach of Woodburn, on a charge of forgery.
It
seems that last spring Mr. Baker signed the name of his employer, Mr. Goodale,
to a bond for Messrs Plumber and Ault, who were erecting a building for
Cochran, Ford and Mack, of Woodburn. When the work was finished the contractors
were in debt to the Woodburn firm about $800, and now an effort is being made
to hold Mr. Baker, he having signed his employers name without power of
attorney. This he did in the best faith,
as he is in the habit of thus signing on liens, checks, receipts, contracts,
etc.
Every bank in town honors a
Goodale check signed by Mr. Baker, and this attempt to make him trouble is
largely a bluff. Mr. Baker was placed
under $200 bond by Justice Johnson yesterday, which was duly furnished. This
morning the constable called for Mr. Baker before he was up and insisted upon
taking him to Woodburn before he consulted an attorney, where he was again
placed under $800 bond.
THE DAILY
THE
This mornings Register has the following
concerning the Spores bridge over the
"We are informed by parties who came
over the road yesterday that the bridge across the Mohawk, near the Yarnell
place, is in a very dangerous condition, so that it is unsafe for teams to
cross. Our informant states that the
foundation has settled so that the bridge leans about 18 inches out of plumb at
the top. The settling has loosened some of the braces, and
the whole structure seems in danger of
falling at any time."
There is likely some mistake about the
matter, as Judge Fisk informs us that no notice has been received by the
county court of its unsafe
condition. He also informs us that
the bridge was evidently built
slightly on a slant, and that in nothing out of the ordinary has happened it is
in no more danger of falling at present than when it was first built; about
two years ago, however, to prevent it
slipping any further in the way it now leans, strong rods and braces were put in. If anything serious affected the bridge, or
it was in a. dangerous condition it is
very probable that the county court would
receive immediate notice as the road is traveled considerably and the public can not afford to
long have the road in an
impassable condition,
especially when knowing that by informing the court it would be speedily
mended.
THE DAILY
MOHAWK
Myron B. Wood, of Mill Creek, was
arrested this morning by deputy Marshal George Humphrey, of
THE DAILY
J. C. Goodale's mill is running steady.
Mr. Charles Powers has returned from
THE DAILY
MYRON B. WOOD CONVICTED
Myron B. Wood was convicted yesterday in
the
This is the first conviction for this
offence in this district in seven years.
On
16 south, range 1 east. He never paid anything on the land, and in
October, 1893, allowed his pre‑emption to expire.
On
THE DAILY
Last night about
The following property was destroyed in
Mr. Holt's barn; 2 buggies, 400 bushels of oats, 50 tons of hay, 30 of which
belonged to William VanDuyn ,
one stage hack, 6 sets harness, 2
saddles and other minor articles used about a livery stable. In the barn two cows, some
chickens and four head of hogs were burned up. Mr. Holt's loss will probably
amount to $1,500; insurance $1,000 in the Norwich Union. It is thought the fire caught from a
defective flue, although nothing is positively known about the matter, as when
it was discovered the barn was all ablaze. A fire had been built in the stove
in the evening to heat water for washing
harness.
Henry Phillippi's barn was also destroyed.
Loss about $150; no insurance. By hard work the residences of Henry Phillippi
and Mr. Holt and the large railroad warehouse were saved from
destruction, although the
roof of the warehouse caught fire a number of times. Sam Holt, a son of the
proprietor was sleeping in the room from which the flue led. He knew nothing of the fire until his father
ran from his residence near by and awakened the young man barely in time to
escape with a pair of overalls on. His
trunk of clothing and other possessions in the room were destroyed.
We understand Mr. Holt will rebuild
and continue the business. The light
from the burning building was plainly visible from
THE DAILY
THOMAS J. EVANS, A
Thomas Jefferson Evans, an old and well‑known
resident of the
home,yesterday evening about
While they were cutting up and playfully
hallood or screamed several times, Mr. Evans heard them from the house and,
thinking some trouble had befell them, hurried to the scene, greatly exerting
himself in his efforts to reach them. Arriving, he found the girls all right,
and sitting down on the bank of the creek, threw his hands to his breast with
an exclamation which indicated he was suffering great pain. He afterwards got up, remarking that they had
given him a terrible fright. The party
then walked to the house. Reaching the porch, Mr. Evans stepped upon it, then
suddenly threw his hands to his breast and fell to the floor dead.
Thomas Evans was born in Edgar county
Illinois,
Parrish. He served through
the Rogue River Indian war under Captain King and during the Civil War was
employed by the
The funeral will be held tomorrow at the
Isabel cemetery at 11 a. m.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 10‑1‑1895
UP THE MOHAWK
A few days ago Deputy Game Warden
McClanahan made a trip up the Mohawk, at the request of a citizen who made complaint
that the saw mills in that section were dumping all their sawdust into
the stream. Mr. McClanahan found that every mill in that
valley was violating the law, but as they promised hereafter to forbear, no
arrests were made. However future violations will be
prosecuted.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 3‑21‑1896
BURGLARS AT COBURG
Country stores are robbed very frequently
these days. The last one occurred at Coburg last night. It appears that
burglars broke into the general Merchandise store of VanDuyn Bros.
sometime during the last
night by breaking open the front doors.
They went to the rear portion of the store
and started to drill into the safe, but probably became scared, and gave up the
job. As a precautionary measure the
burglars had opened the rear windows which had been nailed down.
The money drawer
was broken open and the change, amounting to three or four dollars was taken:
Nothing else was missed.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 10‑28‑1896
DEATH OF EDITOR CARTWRIGHT
Today's Albany Herald; The sad
intelligence of the passing away of one of the brightest and most highly
esteemed young men of Linn County, was brought to us yesterday by the following
telegram: Harrisburg, Oct. 27 ‑ John E. Cartwright died at
2:30 p. m. He was sick only
six hours. The doctor pronounced it chronic poison from printers type.
Mr. Cartwright had established the
Harrisburg Review upon a firm basis, had recently married, and was considered
one of Harrisburg's best business men.
His loss will be most sincerely mourned.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 10‑31‑1896
BURGLARS PENETRATE
W. M. VanDuyn's
Tracks about the building indicate that
the deed was
committed by two men. An
entrance to the store was effected by removing two panes of glass from the sash
in one of the rear doors. Tools were procured from J. C. Goodale's blacksmith
shop with which a hole was drilled through the outer door of the safe and the
combination broken. The lock on the inside door was broken and access was
gained to the safe without the use of explosives.
Mr. VanDuyn had left no money in the safe
and the burglars got nothing for their trouble.
They removed the books to an adjoining room and tore up some papers, but
so far as can be ascertained did not molest anything else in the store. A
partially rolled cigarette
was left in the building.
There is no definite clue to the would be
burglars, though the store and safe were
doubtless broken into by local talent.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 11‑10‑1896
TWO BOYS DROWNED
Last Sunday afternoon two small boys of
Mr. Vansycle, fell off of a foot log at the Mill Creek Saw mill, in Mabel
precinct and were drowned. The entire
community were out searching for the bodies yesterday, but were not successful
up to last evening. Our informant could not give us any particulars of the
unfortunate affair neither
the ages of the children nor the initials of the father.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 12‑29‑1896
THE GREAT COYOTE HUNT
May 1st 1897: Embracing territory
commencing where the state road forms a junction with the Eugene road north of
Doak
Zumwalt's, thence up the
north fork of the Coyote, crossing over into Fox Hollow, and on across to Camas
Swale, and on north to the Willamette river; thence on down the river to the
railroad; following the railroad to Eugene, thence on out west to the Cantrel
Lane; thence on across to the Coyote; thence on to the place of commencement.
We the undersigned agree.. to be on hand,
rain or shine, providing there are 250 names or more enrolled, on or before the
10th of April 1897. The Guard will notify from time to time. If
said 250 names are not enrolled by the 10th of April, 1897, said hunt
will be declared off. There will be a committee appointed to select grounds to
drive to. Proceeds will be disbursed according to the vote of the crowd.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 2‑22‑1897
A TWELVE YEAR OLD
George Shaub, aged about 12
years had the whole top of his head crushed in by a kicking horse.
Shaub is the stepson of Lafe Hendricks.
The family resides in Coburg. One of Mr. Hendrick's daughters left this city on
last night's overland train for California. The family accompanied her there
and were all away from home when the accident happened. It is supposed that young Shaub went to the
barn about
THE DAILY
SERIOUS ACCIDENT AT
Last Tuesday Mr. Hopkins, who lives on the
John Diamond place, at
It was found that his left foot was badly
mashed and his leg to the knee badly bruised, although no bones of the leg were
broken. Dr. Kuykendall dressed the
wounds and reports the patient now
getting along nicely.
THE DAILY
William VanDuyn, the dry goods merchant,
visited
Tuesday afternoon one of the cylinder
heads of the big engine in the saw mill blew out, and was shipped to the Albany
Iron Works for repair, but luckily they are still able to run with one cylinder
until the other is repaired.
Will Goodale is home from Mill Creek where he has been getting out
shingle bolts for his father's mill.
THE DAILY
DAYS WHEN WHITE SETTLERS OF
From the Salem Journal‑ " I met
Charles Spores, a son of Met Spores, who lives up on the Mohawk, above
neighbor was Eugene Skinner,
after whom the town was named. He thought he was the only white man in the
county until some indians told him that a
The journal man should have got that other
pioneer story about Uncle Elias Briggs, who took a donation land claim where
Springfield is built; going over to the McKenzie one morning early after he had
been made aware of the presence of a camp of white people on the bank of that
stream, nearly three miles from his claim, he found the old pioneer, William
Stevens at work on a cabin.
The story goes that he vehemently
expostulated with Stevens for "crowding" him; and that was in 1847,
when the only white settlers within the present borders of Lane county were
Skinner on the present site of Eugene, Briggs and Stevens in Springfield
precinct, Spores near Coburg, and Bristow on Pleasant Hill; but the old pioneer
had a horror of being Crowded.
THE DAILY
This morning about
The barn of Henry Phillipi, situated just
north, caught fire also and soon succumbed to the flames.
Mr. Phillipi's residence caught fire a
number of times and it was saved only by hard work of the citizens who turned
out to help. As it was, the residence
was badly damaged.
From
insurance, but the amount is
not known. The cause of the fire is unknown.
THE DAILY
Workmen who live near the mill heard two
distinct
explosions, but did not
attach any importance to the same and no investigation was made at the time, so
that the matter was not discovered
until this morning. So far as could be
learned no clue to the robbers has been discovered.
THE DAILY
UNCLE JOHN DIAMOND OF
The Albany Democrat has been raking up
some pioneer history, and mixed up our friend Uncle John Diamond with past
events. From Linn Co. records it appears
that the boundary between Lane and Linn counties was the McKenzie river,
instead of a line about 6 miles north of the point where the
The Democrat gives the names of election
Judges of "Spores" precinct as follows:
Spores M. Wilkins, Isaac Briggs and John
Diamond. The name of this last precinct
and the names of the judges prove that the southern boundary of the county at
that time was the McKenzie River This election was just a little bit irregular,
or we would now consider it so. If an
election should be held now in the same way, the probability is that some
unsuccessful candidate would ask to have
the vote of the Spores precinct thrown out.
Uncle Johnny Diamond, who is still living on his old claim near
follows:
I do solemnly swear that I renounce all
fidelity and
allegiance to all foreign
princes and states, and declare my intention to become a citizen of the
JOHN DIAMOND
There is no doubt that Uncle Johnny
exercised the right of an American citizen in the case above while he was yet
an
Irishman.
Old age has dealt kindly with John
Diamond, he is 82 past, and the old man yet delights his friends with his
cheery cordial disposition and presence and undimmed mind. May his days yet be
long in the place he has seen grow from a wilderness to a land of homes blessed
with all the conveniences and luxuries of modern civilization.
M. Wilkins and Isaac Briggs, the latter
the original owner of the Springfield Water Power, and located on a donation
land claim of which the site of
THE DAILY
It is reported that the company has
secured the refusal of the George H. Armitage farm, four miles north of Eugene,
or as much of it as may be necessary for use in erecting mills,
creating and building canals
and booms for the retention of
logs. R. S. Booth of the company and A. H. Tanner, of
BRANCH RAILWAY
Looking over the proposed millsite on the
Armitage farm, in company with Messrs Tanner and Booth, were R. Koehler,
manager of the S. P. Oregon lines and M. Valk in charge of their tracks. The Booth Kelly Company
desires a line of railway to tap their new mill and connect with the main line
of the S. P. and the Woodburn branch. In this connection it is understood that
the S.P. considers the matter very favorably and will connect either at
THE DAILY
THE ENTERPRISE
The mill has a cutting capacity of 100,000
feet of lumber a day. The consideration
for the plant, which includes only the machinery, was about $8000.
THE DAILY
BOOTH KELLY LEASES COBURG
SAWMILL WITH OPTION TO PURCHASE
The Booth Kelly Lumber Co. today closed up the lease of the Coburg
sawmill, owned by J. C. Goodale, for the term of twelve months, with the option
of purchasing the same at any time, at an agreed price, during the life of the
lease. This property
is a valuable one on account of its
adaptability for holding logs
safely during the winter months. It is estimated that with a moderate expense,
10,000,000
feet can be stored in the
ponds.
The Booth Kelly Company takes possession
of the mill June 1st, and will immediately operate the present mill to its
greatest capacity. In the meantime they will purchase new motive
power, and all other machinery necessary to do first‑class and rapid
work.
Logging contracts will be let at once. In
a few days we hope to be able to chronicle more enterprises of the company. It
is a great thing that men representing so much capitol have located in
THE DAILY
MEMBERS OF BOOTH KELLY CO.
VISITING THEIR RECENT PURCHASE
Members of the Booth Kelly Lbr.
J. F. Kelly, Z. S. Collier,
Hechtman, Herbert
Flelshhacker, San Francisco, F. H. Buck, Vacaville, R. A. Booth, H. C. Kinney,
Grants Pass. Members
of the party speaking to a "Guard reporter today said the object of the trip
was merely to inspect the timber on their recent purchase on the Mohawk and
Mill Creek. They left by private conveyance this morning and will return
to this city tomorrow
night.
THE DAILY
CONSTRUCTION OF THE MOHAWK
RAILROAD DEPENDS ON THE MOHAWKERS
For a number of years the people of the beautiful Mohawk valley have
prayed for a railroad with little or no hope of being rewarded. At last they can procure a railroad if they
will only be liberal. Will they do it
?
A railroad to that valley from the main
line of the S. P. R. R. will enhance the value of every farm lying within it
from $5 to $10 per acre.
During the winter months it is a great
struggle for a two horse team to draw a light loaded wagon to
If
the people of that section will give the proposed railway a right of way, it
will be built at once, as will also large mills in the neighborhood of Isabel.
Thousands of dollars will be distributed among the people of that section.
Mohawk has it in her power to procure this
railroad or to lose it probably for years and years. Now is the time to act. A month from now will
be too late.
THE DAILY
THE BOOTH KELLY COMPANY ASKS
FOR THE RIGHT‑OF‑WAY The Booth Kelly Lumber
Company some days since purchased‑‑ from the S. P. R. R., timberlands in the
upper portion of the Mohawk precinct amounting to perhaps $150,000, and since
that time they have purchased from other residents in the same belt amounting
to quite a large sum. They also secured the right of Lane Co. to improve the
After fully examining the
Committees from
conveyances to interview the
owners of property through which the line runs, to sign right of way contracts.
In four days every foot of the right of way should be obtained. The railroad estimates
that the building of the road alone will cost $200,000, which includes bridges
across the
THE DAILY
SOME INCIDENTS OF THE EARLY
SETTLEMENT OF
Skinners wigwam was at
Skinners butte, now
In 1846 the venerable old patriarch Elijah
Bristow settled on a ranch about twelve miles southwest of Eugene and built the
first log cabin in Lane County, which was in the fall of 1846. This house was
built of hewed logs and the floor and loft
were made of boards sawed
with a whip saw that Uncle Elijah brought with him across the plains. The saw
was used by himself and his wife in sawing out these boards. A few years after this Mr. Bristow and others
built on this place the first log school house in
preservation and ought to be
purchased by the Lane County Pioneer Association and preserved as relics of the
past. Uncle Elijah Bristow in after
years gave several acres and deeded it to school and church purposes and named
it
It was in April, 1848, that a band of
Klamath Indians came into the vicinity of
Mr. Ferguson says that a force of
seventeen man was raised. Seven of them going from between
beautiful butte, someone in
the crowd, Mr. Ferguson thinks it was Mr. Bristow, proposed that they name it
Butte Disappointment, which has ever borne that name.
Mr. Ferguson in company with Joshua
Herbert, ascended the butte and on top of which they found a level place of
many acres in extent. This was in April 1848, and Mr. Ferguson thinks they were
the first white men that were ever on the butte. Some of the crowd returned to the
log cabin of Mr. Bristow and after resting a while, all returned to their
respective wigwams. They were never troubled with the Indians again in this
part of the valley.
THE DAILY
THE BOOTH KELLY COMPANY
WRITTEN UP IN THE
From the Salem Statesman, June‑ 28‑1899
‑ One of the largest business
concerns of Oregon is the Booth Kelly
Lumber Company which owns a box factory at Grant's Pass, four or five miles
in Josephine county, sawing mostly sugar
pine, and the three mills, two at
Saginaw and one at Coburg, Lane county sawing fir timber. This company is
turning out about a million feet of
lumber every four days. It is the
largest shipper over the Southern
Pacific lines in
Two representatives are employed at
satisfactory, though the
freight charges are enormously high the
But this will give the Southern Pacific
connection of its Springfield Woodburn branch and the main line, saving a good
deal of round‑about and profitless hauling.
The work of construction on this sixteen
mile feeder will begin July 1st, and the road will be in operation in four
months from that time. The big sawmill
of the Booth Kelly Company on the Mohawk will soon thereafter be in
operation. Part of the machinery will
come from the
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 7‑21‑1899
HE BUYS CHITTIM BARK
Fridays Albany Herald,. Dr. J. A. Lamberson, of Lebanon, was in the
city yesterday, returning from a trip to Eugene, where he made extensive
purchases of chittim bark from dealers in that
city. The Doctor has been engaged in buying and shipping Oregon
medicines, including grape root, saparilla and chittim bark, or as it is known
by its medical name, cascara sagrada, for a number of years and also
manufactures the various oils and extracts at his laboratory in Lebanon. His
principal business at present is buying all the chittim bark he can, but he
also expects to ship a car load of pine pitch in a few days. His activity at
present is occasioned by the San Francisco syndicate trying to keep the price
low and the doctor is buying all bark in sight and not allowing the cheap bark
to get on the market. He is paying $60 per ton for bark at Lebanon, Albany and
Eugene, and has 88 tons in the Albany freight house for shipment. He is a small
trust all by himself and has succeeded in cornering nearly the entire output
from the upper valley.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 8‑26‑1899
BRANCH RAILROAD UP THE MOHAWK
The branch railroad of the Southern
Pacific from Eugene through Springfield and up the Mohawk to Isabel, is now
assured, and the Booth Kelly Lumber Company, prime movers in the
enterprise, will by this
means secure rapid transportation for
the marketing of their product.
The Booth Kelly Company
purchased from the O & O
R R, one block of 20,000 acres of fine timber land on Mill Creek and the
Mohawk, afterward 10,000 acres, and other small lots, aggregating nearly 40,000
acres of land in this section.
With possibly a few minor exceptions, the
route of the road will be as follows:
From Eugene to Henderson Station on the S.
P. main line, thence across the Willamette river, either above or below the
steel bridge, to be determined in few days upon engineers report of foundation
for piers; thence to Natron track and along same three miles to Gorrie's farm,
where new track will again be built; thence across the farms of Messrs Henning,
Beard, Comegys, Ebbert and Vitus to a point where the McKenzie river will be
spanned 50 Ft. below the Hayden Bridge; thence along the Mohawk to the Spores
farm where a bridge will be erected across said stream 350 feet below the wagon
bridge; the next crossing will be just below the mouth of Mill Greek, which
stream will be ascended to the old mill site, the present terminus of the road.
The branch will be about 18 1/2 miles long.
The right of way and the ties will cost the Booth Kelly Company app.
$23,000, the cost of the former alone exceeding $12,000.
Several sections of land have been secured
at the terminus, Isabel, and here the company's mill, store, hotel and other
buildings will form the nucleus for a thriving village, having as its start a
steady pay roll for 300 men in regular employment. The Booth Kelly Company mill at
commenced sawing ties for the
new line, and the bridge timbers will likely be furnished from this point.
Work on the railroad and the new mill and
buildings will be carried on with all possible speed. It is expected the trains will be running to
the mill and that the mill will be in
operation by
The work of erecting the buildings at the
mill site will be in charge of George Kelly of the firm., They will include the
main mill, stores hotels, dry kilns, planing mills, bunk houses, cottages, etc., and is of itself a task of no
small importance. For this work about 75
Mechanics will be required for several months.
The mill at Isabel owned by C. Cole is
getting out the lumber for these buildings.
LOGGING OPERATIONS
The Booth Kelly Co. was recently granted a
franchise on Mill Creek and will use it for logging purposes. The logging will be operated by flush dams of
the time.
As the timber is consumed it is the
intention to extend the road further along the Mohawk. The company estimates they have enough timber
on hand to last 50 years.
Trains will run on the branch daily except
Sunday. Members of the company have been
in conference in this city today and sent out an order for new machinery, which
is expected to arrive soon. The order includes six boilers for the mill, having
a capacity of 500 horsepower, and two boilers for the planing mill having a
capacity of 250 horsepower; also four planers capable of smoothing down a stick
24 by 30 inches, 100 feet long.
Machinery for the dry kiln will guarantee the drying of 50,000 ft.‑
of lumber in 12 hours.
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BOOTH KELLY COMPANY MEETING
WITH GOOD SUCCESS IN SECURING RIGHT OF
WAY
The Booth Kelly Co. are busily engaged
securing the right of way for the railroad that will bring out the timber
wealth of the upper
C. Cole, of Isabel, was in Eugene today,
and informed us that from his sawmill, one mile below the mouth of Mill Creek,
to the site of the proposed Booth Kelly mill, three miles up Mill Creek from the mouth, the right of way has
practically been secured.
FOUNDATION ORDERED
The order for the foundation timbers has
been placed with Mr. Cole's mill.
Our people will probably more fully
realize the extent of this industry that is certain to become a very important
factor in the development of Lane County for years to come, when we tell them
the ground plan of the mill is 60 x 180 feet, and that this order all for
foundation and floor, figures UP 75,000 feet of lumber. The Booth Kelly Co. are making preparations
to take out millions upon millions of feet of lumber.
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CONTRACTS FOR GRADING BRANCH
RAILROAD WILL BE LET
The Southern Pacific expects to have all
grading and bridges finished by
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TWENTY FREIGHT TEAMS
Several millwrights arrived from
Twenty wagons are already engaged in
hauling freight to Coles. Various
supplies are being hauled today including one carload of nails and one carload
of cement to be used in
constructing the
buildings. The first carload of
machinery is expected to arrive
tonight. The mill will be completed by
January 1st. A number of contractors are
expected from
The contract for grading the railroad will
soon be let.
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THE BOOTH KELLY CO.
Today W. E. Brown and wife deeded by
quitclaim the mill and all rights and privileges owned or vested to construct,
enlarge, maintain and operate mill race running to the mill; all of the J. C.
Goodale sawmill property at Coburg, together with the sawmill, planing mill,
blacksmith shop and offices situated on the
premises, together with all tools, implements and machinery now on hand;
also office safe; all supplies on hand for the mills and shops; also all
logging tools, ropes and supplies on hand, to the Booth Kelly Company for the
sum of $15,000. The
mill has been remodeled and an electric light plant is being placed in to
permit the mill to run night and day. It
is expected that it will saw 100,000 feet of lumber, per day, when it starts
up.
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STEEL BRIDGES WILL
It is expected that before Saturday night
the contract for grading the Mohawk branch of the Southern Pacific Railroad
will be let in
B. K. BUILDINGS BEING ERECTED
About fifty men are at work in hauling and
erecting
buildings at Coles for the
large Booth Kelly sawmill.
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FORREST
Malor L. D. Forrest and Attorney A.
C.Woodcock have just received a new contract to furnish the
They have ordered a portable engine and
will use a cable in the woods hereafter. This contract will give employment to
a large number of men.
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He will first grade the road
where the branch leaves the Natron line, and the crossing of the
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THE MOHAWK RAILROAD
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COBURG ITEMS Nov, 1, 1899‑
Henry Philippi had the misfortune to lose a valuable cow last week, she having
someway become fast in the mud in the mill pond, and was not discovered until
it was too late to save her life.
Someone spread the rumor among the
"rising generation" that Sam Mathews had taken unto himself a wife,
and an a matter of course, they proceeded to make the night hideous about the premises,
but the rumor being false, Sam soon dispelled the musicians, causing great
consternation among them.
Mr. Teeter and daughters have purchased
the hotel, and took possession Monday.
It is rumored that
Some one evidently took electric lights as
a danger signal, and reported that diphtheria was prevalent here. The report has no foundation. We haven't the diphtheria, smallpox, scarlet
fever, or anything else, except a sawmill, and neighboring towns need not
boycott us on account of it, as it is not contagious.
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WENDLING TO
Altogether there will be about a dozen
boilers of different sizes, used in the mill.
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LOGS LOST AT
William VanDuyn was in Eugene today,
and informed us that through faulty guy
ropes the boom across the river at that place yesterday forenoon swung around
and could not be replaced on account of the rise in the river. He said that men with the drive estimated
that between 500 and 1000 logs passed down the river.
If this estimate is correct this will be a
heavy loss on Forrest and Woodcock, the owners, as the logs would easily
measure 1500 feet on the average and were worth $5, once safely in the
Coburg race.
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We have a new station agent again,
Mr.Pearson the former agent being called to
It is said that a number of young men in
town came out of the billiard hall with considerably less cash than they had on
entering. It is to be deplored that such
an establishment finds support here.
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The mill hands had a short lay‑off
last Thursday, owing to a breakdown, but repairs were made in time for work to
begin the next morning.
Robert Carey our former station agent, has
a position as night operator at
Frank Taylor now runs a stage from
George Drury has returned from a visit to
his father on the Mohawk. The Eugene Register had an agent over here Saturday
"doing the town" for their daily. He tried to convince us that it was
better than the Guard, but having a mind of our own, we failed to see it that
way.
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MOHAWK BRANCH RAILROAD
About 20 men arrived at
THE MOHAWK CASE; LEWIS NOT
DANGEROUSLY WOUNDED
Dr. W. L. Cheshire arrived home this afternoon from Mohawk, where he was
called to attend Alec Lewis, who was stabbed
yesterday by Marcellus Arnel,
in a fight resulting from some past
trouble. Dr. Cheshire reports Mr.
Lewis's condition quite bad, but the wounds are not considered dangerous. On the right shoulder is a cut six inches
long, on the left arm across the
elbow is a cut four inches long, and in the back, on the left side, in a
stab between two ribs which fortunately failed to reach any vital part. Mr. Lewis is now resting easily and will get
along all right.
Sheriff Withers arrived yesterday with Mr.
Arnel and the examination will be held before Justice Wintemeier. The advance stories about the trouble differ somewhat, Arnel claiming he
did the cutting in self defence and Lewis claiming he was attacked by Arnel and
his,father. As only the three were
present, the examination may not result in much satisfaction in clearing up the
matter. The fight evidently resulted from trouble over a beef contract held by
Arnel with the Booth Kelly Company.
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We had a railroad wreck right in town last
week. The engine was pulling loaded cars
out of the lumber yard when, on reaching a slight curve on the switch, a box
car, which was loaded too heavily on one side toppled over, leaving the wheels
on the track. The section men with the
very efficient aid of the pile driver, now at work at the McKenzie bridge, righted the car during the day and reloaded
the lumber. We may be a false
prophet, but we believe what
we say, when we give our opinion that it in going to snow. The walks are icy and the pumps are freezing.
A little snow and we would call it winter today.
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The train was wrecked for the third time
in the last few weeks, last Wednesday night.
No one was injured.
Workmen have been repairing the breakwater
at the wagon bridge across the McKenzie, but have suspended the job until the
road settles a little.
The body of John DeLaney, who died in the
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The population of
We are sadly in need of hotel
accommodations and a public hall. This town would support two or more fraternal
societies as well as several social clubs if only we had a suitable place
to hold the same.
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FROM
The Booth Kelly Company shipped 105 car
loads of lumber from here for the month of January, and about 90 up to the 16th
of February. These car loads ran from 10,000 feet and upwards to the car.
A source of curiosity to the visitor here,
among other things, is the Booth Kelly Company's pack train, which delivers
supplies to the sawmills four miles up in the mountains. A string of horses are packed with
provisions, beef, machinery, wire cable, or any old thing used in a logging
camp or saw mill. They are then tied in a string, each to the other's tail, and are skillfully piloted by a
gentleman who leads them through the straight and crooked way, through mud
holes and brush, where no wagon could follow.
They make a trip every day, and a worse mud bespattered outfit than
these old steeds and said gentleman could nowhere be found.
Miss Ethel Menton, of mill 2, had the
misfortune to lose her purse here near the depot a few days ago, containing
$11. It was found by Frank Kennedy and
returned intact.
That's right Frank, you will receive your
reward in heaven for that!
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THE
The
The boom is strengthened and
protected by wings.
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There in a movement on foot to erect a two
story building here for public purposes, the ground floor for a city hall and
the upper story for a lodge room for fraternal societies. It is a laudable enterprise and should
receive the support of our citizens.
Vern Hines of mill 2, had the misfortune
to sever two toes from his right foot with an axe while sniping the end of a
log today. He took the south bound local
for medical attention.
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WENDLING
He has trade a contract with the Southern
Pacific for a telephone line connecting
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Many improvements are being made on the
mill property here. A new
blacksmith shop and a dry kiln are being erected. The old planer is being torn down. The
millpond is being cleared of rubbish, and will be enlarged to meet the demands
of the growing business of the Booth
Kelly Company.
Frank Taylor had a narrow escape last week
while hauling logs from the pond. A lever gave way throwing him about eight
feet against a timber. He sustained
quite severe injury by the fall, but is able to be about now.
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MOHAWK VALLEY RAILROAD
superintending the
construction of : railroad up the Mohawk valley from‑
The Mohawk valley road is to be connected
with the Southern Pacific at
The
plant of Mr. Bays is now under attachment and work on the road
suspended.
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practically no payments while
here. It is most unfortunate, as Bays has unquestionably lost money on the
contract, and even the workmen do not question his honesty, or willingness to
pay, if he could secure the money. Virtually everything has been attached.
Attorneys Thompson and Hardy and L. Biyeu have over $1000 for collection, and
are doing a work for charity in trying to get something for the men.
The Southern Pacific should see that these
laborers receive their pay. It is a duty
the company owes to the men who have built their road. It is believed that this
will be brought about, and that the men will receive what is justly due
them. It has been
reported that Mr. Bays has given up the work, having sank all he had in this
job, every phase of which has been disastrous to him. About 20 of the men went
to
the laborers will remain here
in the hope of securing work of some
kind, and will also be on hand to give what aid they can in the collection of
claims.
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will at once move his
supplies here, including 100 teams. He expects to complete the work in 60
working days,
beginning Monday.
The grading contract on the Mohawk
railroad has been let to Archie Mason of this city, who will commence on the
work at once. Mr. Mason shipped and carload of flour yesterday from
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CONTRACTOR MASON PUSHING
The material for the railroad bridge
across the McKenzie is expected to arrive at any time. The first shipment
consisting of nine carloads of steel has left the
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JOHN HIGGINS STRUCK BY
FALLING
In company with another man Higgins was
working about two miles above the mill, and stopped on a log to await the
falling of a tree which they had just chopped down. Turning he saw that the
limbs would strike him, and started to
run along the log out of danger, but he
was too late. The limbs hit the man
between the shoulders, knocking him down, and an ax which was sticking in the
log cut his arm quite severely.
Higgins was about 40 years old, and so far
as is known at the mill, held no family.
He came out from the east several months ago.
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IRON FOR THE
Archie Mason the contractor received
another carload of horses today. It is
reported that he expects to receive 60 Japanese, to arrive by this evening's
train, to be turned loose on construction work.
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WENDLING SAW
The Booth Kelly Co. has a contract for
10,000,000 feet of ties, for the S. P. R. R. The large mill at Wendling is at
work on the contract now. Put out 90,000 feet Saturday easily and expects to
cut from now on 100,000 feet each day. A platform, 700 feet long
has been laid near the mill to load cars from; twenty cars can thus be loaded
at one time.
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MEN KILLED
The boiler which exploded had not been
used for about three weeks, and the water gage had become stopped up. The men built a fire under the boiler and
went about some other work. The result
was that enough steam was generated to blow the
boiler sky high, which it did literally. The boiler was one used to haul
logs to the mill and was across the lake
from the mill about 500 feet distant.
When the explosion occurred the boiler was lifted into the air, carried
across the lake and lit on the roof of the mill, falling from there to the
platform, where it now rests. The other
boiler alongside was not injured. The men were terribly
injured. Frederickson, the man killed
outright, received a large fracture on the skull, and beside was virtually
mashed all over. Anlauf, who died about
recovering was injured in the
chest and burned over various parts of the body, besides having his right arm
fractured.
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CONCLUSION OF SAGINAW BOILER
EXPLOSION
REPORT OF THE CORONER'S
JURY
We, the coroner's jury, having been
summoned to investigate the boiler explosion, deaths and injuries occurring at
the Booth Kelly mill No. 1, find that said explosion occurred about 10 a. m.,
and was probably due to overpressure; and that Otto
Fredrickson was killed
outright by a fracture of the skull.
Otto Anlauf was injured by a stroke on the head, from the effects of
which he died about 14 hours later, and Herman Rudolph was injured on chest,
burned on various parts of body, and
received a fracture of the right am, all due to said explosion.
Coroner
Not since the explosion of the boiler in a
harvest field in the west and of the county in the summer of 1896, has a
disaster of such proportions occurred in
Lane Co. and the sad accident has cast a gloom over all who know the
unfortunate men.
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MORE PARTICULARS CONCERNING
(
The boiler that blew up was an old boiler,
but was
considered safe and had been
fired up for putting another one out of the way, which had been condemned. It was stationed at the opposite
end of the mill pond from the mill, about 450 feet distant and when the explosion
occurred the boiler which weighs about 5,000 pounds, was blown across the mill
pond in the
direction of the mill, a
distance of 330 feet before it struck, then bounded 100 feet further up the
hill, and now lay in the mill.
The cause of the explosion in practically
unknown. There were four men working around the boilers, all engineers, and the
only one who escaped uninjured was Mr. Harry Wynne, of this city, who says the
last time he noticed, the gage registered 60 pounds of steam. The machinery in the engine room is a
complete wreck and was valued at about $3,000.
However the Booth Kelly Company, we understand, had expended about
$10,000 experimenting on this log pulling station, before they got it so that
it could be successfully operated. At last report the unfortunate Mr. Rudolph
was resting as easy as could be expected and there is some hope for his
recovery.
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GRAWFORDSVILLE
E. S.
Marsters, who resides on his farm near
Crawfordsville, heard his
chickens making a horrible noise Thursday morning at
Mr. Marsters remained under the trees with
his dogs until daylight, when he took deliberate aim and brought down a
yearling cougar. A little later he fired
another shot into a tree nearby and brought down another cougar, about the same
size. They measured about
five feet. Mr Marsters prizes these
young fellows very highly; says it has, cost him about $20 worth of chickens
and turkeys to raise them.
Judge Potter and Dr. L. A. Paine returned
from
The doctor fumigated the places
thoroughly and left
instructions for
disinfecting. The gentlemen went from here to
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pontoons moored in the river
by steel cables fastened to the banks on either side above. Work will be commenced on the bridge Thursday
of this week. The material, nine
carloads, has already been delivered in the
The first bridge across the Mohawk, a span
of 100 feet, is also at
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THE MOHAWK RAILROAD
Archie Mason is crowding, work on the
Mohawk railroad and has now raised the
wages of common laborers to $2 per day.
It is stated that the steel rails will probably not be laid before
the 15th of September. the grade will
not be completed for several weeks
yet. The track will be ballasted with gravel taken from the river at the
Amitage place. The workman on the McKenzie bridge are now building the pontoons
for the false work to rest upon. It will
take several weeks to complete the structure.
The poles for the telegraph line from
The mill at Wendling is cutting about
80,000 feet of ties daily. The railroad
company this week accepted 40,000 of the ties. They will all be shipped to
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The McKenzie bridge on the Southern
Pacific Mohawk branch was swung from the false work Wednesday, and will be
ready for trains in a few days ‑ This bridge is a single span steel
bridge, being the only one of its kind on the Southern Pacific lines in
Oregon.
The grading on the road is nearing
completion, it being estimated that about 15 days work will complete it. The track
laying gang, consisting of about 100 men, will arrive and
commence work in a few days.
it is thought that trains will be in operation to Wendling by August 15th.
A report is current that the Natron
terminal will be
abandoned, not using track
east of the Mohawk Junction. Instead,
the trains will make their terminal at Wendling. There is no news
concerning a railroad bridge across the river at
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THE MOHAWK BRANCH
RAILROAD
The grading of the
structures along the line,
and when these are done, track laying will be put through with vigor. The town of
A post office has been established at
Wendling and a daily stage from
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OFFICES OF THE BOOTH KELLY
CO. TO BE LOCATED IN
company. He informs us
they will be located in
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TRACK WILL BE LAID TO
WENDLING BEFORE AUGUST 5th
Track
laying on the new steel bridge across the McKenzie river will be
completed today. The construction train
in charge of W. R. Bullis, will commence work Thursday, the 12th, and surfacing
the roadbed and track laying will be rushed.
The intention of the track laying outfit is to complete one‑half
mile of track a day. If this is done the
track will be laid to Wendling before August 5th.
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NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE TO
The Mohawk bridge is now done excepting
the painting, and a crew of painters are now at work on the same. A work train is now being
employed on the branch, surfacing. Work
will be commenced on the first Mohawk bridge soon. All the timbers are now framed.
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DAVID KAUBLE WOUND AROUND
SHAFT AT
employee they rushed to where
the unfortunate man was, but found life extinct. According to testimony of Dr.
Cheshire, who went with coroner G.W. Griffen to the scene of the accident, the
injuries were terrible. All the bones of the cheat were broken, and the
sternum mashed in several pieces. All the ribs were crushed in. The right arm was torn off at the
elbow and badly mangled. The left arm was almost severed at the shoulder, the
bone above the elbow was broken in two places and the forearm badly crushed and
mangled. The right thigh was broken in two places, and the right leg broken in
several places. The left leg was broken in several places and the foot
crushed. A small fracture of the left
temple was found and the neck was broken.
Aside from Dr. Cheshire the following
witnesses were
examined, all being employee
of the company, and working near Kauble when the accident occurred:
A. C. Wheeler, W. T.
Hawthorne, Carp Gray, Herbert Jones, Geo. W. Catching. Their statement is that Kauble must have gone
below to throw a belt to save stopping the engine, and was caught on the
belt. It was done so quickly that no
one saw him drawn around the shaft.
Kauble had been cautioned several times to
not throw a belt in this manner, and was not required to do so. It was evidently a case of carelessness on
his part, made so by long use of machinery.
Mr Kauble had been working in the mill at
89. In the Woodman he carried
$2000 insurance. It
is a singular coincidence that Mr. Kauble
was killed within 10 feet of the place where a sister , Mrs. Sam
Skinner, was killed about 15 years ago when the sawmill was owned by Hiram
Smith. The following is the coroners Jury
report: We, the
undersigned jury called to investigate the death and cause of death of David
Kauble, find that the body before us in the remains of the said David Kauble and that he came to his death by
being caught and crushed on a counter shaft on the lower floor of the planing mill
belonging to the B. K. Lbr.
W. M. VanDuyn (Foreman)
H. A. Macey
E. P. Coleman
H. C. Owen
M. L. Hendricks
Benjamin Feeder
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CHARLES
A telephone message to the head office of
the Booth Kelly Lumber Co. in this city about
Wendling brought the news of
the accidental death of Charles Holt, a 15 year old boy in the employ of the
company, and a request for the
coroner. Coroner G. W. Griffin started
for the scene of the accident at once,
accompanied by Dr. W. L.
From information received at the head
office of the company it is learned that Holt was found dead a distance from
the mill lying under a sled with which he was using to haul water. Holt had
been away much longer than usual and some of the other workmen started to look
after him. The boy had been in the habit of riding on the front of the sled,
and it is presumed that the horse started suddenly, the boy slipped and fell,
the sled ran onto his body in which condition it was found.
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THE MOHAWK BRANCH
RAILROAD
Reports from the Mohawk branch are, as
usual, not
encouraging. On account of lack of rails no steel has,
been laid during the past few days, but
nine carloads of heavy steel rails arrived last night and were taken to
the front at once.
Twenty‑six carloads of
rails are expected to arrive this week. The fencing crew will commence building
the fence along the right of way this week and will finish the work on the..
Mohawk line before quitting. There are
17 miles of road to fence yet. Mr.
Freeland the engineer in charge says the
road to Wendling will be ready to turn over to the operating department
about September 25. This means that the road will be graveled and in first class condition at that
time.
NEAR WENDLING 8‑23‑1900
Lumber will be hauled out on railroad car
by September 1st. The tracklayers on the
Southern Pacific branch railroad from
Track‑laying has been delayed by a
strike. Forty men of the experienced track‑laying gang went on a strike
last Saturday and quit the company employ. The remaining force lack experience
in this line, delaying the work to a considerable extent.
The Southern Pacific give out that the
lumber output will be hauled out as soon as the track is completed to Wendling
but passenger and mail trains will not be put on until the roadbed has been surfaced and graveled.
Roadmaster Walt has assumed charge of the
Branch road and has been examining, the same during the past few days in order
to get an intelligent understanding as to the needs thereof.
Conductor Bullis has been
superseded by Conductor LaForest, recently promoted.
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LUMBER CAPITALISTS
Messrs G. X. Wendling, of
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ACCIDENT AT WENDLING
Glen Anderson, who has been engaged in
felling trees for the Booth Kelly mill at Wendling, met with an accident this
morning, about two miles from the mill.
A large tree which he had felled struck a
smaller one, breaking the top of it off. This tree struck
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The Southern
Pacific Company expects to have regular train service to Wendling, the terminus
of the Mohawk branch, by November 1st.
The train has been used in hauling ties, rails, act, and has now been
converted into a gravel train, and last
Wednesday commenced hauling gravel to ballast the road with. The gravel
is obtained at the Armitage gravel pit, three miles south of
Early in the spring a bridge will connect
the line between
Wendling will then go via
this connection. All
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The mills here and at Wendling are
temporarily happy
again. Friday, Saturday and
Sunday no cars arrived for loading. The yard here was completely cleared of
cars on Saturday, but last night's train brought eight for Wendling and six for
This will relieve matters for
a day. The railroad company is now furnishing coal cars of the Gondola
type. These are hard to load and can be
used for ties only, and even they are a scarcity. It is reported that the Wendling,
train has not arrived at
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THE RAILROAD OVER THE RIVER
DOING BIG LUMBER BUSINESS
The Booth Kelly sawmills at
The car famine lasted but a few days, not
as long as the annual car famine, and no further trouble is anticipated about
cars. Apart from lumber shipments there
is practically no freight moving on the across‑the‑river road.
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ACCIDENT AT WENDLING
Sam O'Brien, an employee of the Booth
kelly Lbr.
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THE MOHAWK BRANCH RAILROAD
The Mohawk branch of the Southern Pacific
Railroad from
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ACCIDENT AT
James Miller, an employee of the Booth
Kelly Lumber Company was the victim of an accident today near mill No 1, about
five miles from Saginaw. Mr. Miller was felling a tree and in falling it struck
a sapling which rebounded back, the top striking Mr. Miller across the
spine. Information received at the head
office of the company in this city, states that the unfortunate man is
paralyzed from the hips down, indicating that his spine received a severe strain or a break. He is about 35 years of age, and has been
employed by the company for some time.
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THE MOHAWK BRANCH
The Mohawk branch of the S P R R between
A special recently went over the Mohawk
branch and from observations Messrs Kosher and Fields think, by slow running,
the road will be all right for regular trains. On the 15th the pay car also went over the
new branch. The filling of the high
trestle east of
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THE
Complete arrangement to have been made for
the establishment of the Booth Kelly company's
Hospital in
conference between a
delegation of employees from the various mills and the company held this
morning, an agreement was reached
in the matter and the hospital will be open and ready to receive patients by
The plan decided on is this in brief Each
employee of the company is to pay a stipulated sum monthly for the maintenance
of the hospital and when one becomes ill or injured he receives medical and surgical treatment free. A board of managers to be selected jointly by
the company and employees will have entire control of the hospital and will
handle all sums contributed by the men for its maintenance.
Aside from the central hospital to be
located in
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THE MOHAWK BRANCH TURNED OVER
TO THE OPERATING DEPT. OF THE
Manager Koehler and
superintendent Fields, accompanied by other S P R R officials, returned to this
city early this morning after an inspection of the new Mohawk branch. It was
formally decided that the road would be accepted by the operating
department.
It was also decided that for the present
the Natron mail train will not run to Wendling as the track is not in fit
condition for Passenger
coaches to run over. The operating department will ballast this road,
commencing at once, and as soon as
the roadbed is in proper condition the terminus of the mail train will be
Wendling instead of Natron. The company has experienced considerable trouble in
finding gravel to ballast the road, but for this fact the road would have been
in proper shape some time ago. This difficulty has now been overcome as the
company has now found a good gravel bed on high dry ground, about a mile north
of
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MARCOLA THE NAME OF THE
STATION EXPLAINED
The following from the Sunday Oregonian concerning the change in name of
the
interesting: Marcola, the euphonious name of the station
on the new Wendling branch of the Southern Pacific, is made up from
the name of the wife of a
prominent settler there, Margaret
Cole. It is a happy combination,
uncommon enough to be
distinctive and beautiful
enough to adorn a novel or attract home seekers. It is the custom of the Southern Pacific to
respect local preferences in naming
new stations, due regard being had for the utilities of the case. For example, it would be
confusing to give a new
station the name of an old one in the same state. Indeed it is undesirable to give a new
station the name of any other station in the
system. It is also advisable to
have short names. Not long ago the Southern Pacific revised its station names,
cutting off the plurals, villes, burgs, and other useless parts, wherever
practicable. Thus comes Marcola, rather
than Marcolaville or Marcolaburg. The shorter names save ink and time and
reduce the number of errors. The other station names have been the result of
combinations, but none is more pleasing than Marcola.
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DEATH OF PIONEER P. V.
CRAWFORD
P. V. Crawford died shortly after
six of whom now survive. They are: H. P. Crawford, a farmer of
Crawfordsville; Mrs. M. A.
Dunlap, of Waltsberg
Mr. Crawford will be interred at
Crawfordsville by the side of his wife who died
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BOOTH KELLY LUMBER CO. SUED
FOR $25,000 damages
A
suit has been commenced in Lane county circuit court wherein George W. Vaughan,
father of John L. Vaughan, a minor, asking for $25,000 damages from the booth
Kelly Lumber Co. for injuries received
by the young man while in the employ of the company.
The complaint, which was filed with the
county clerk today states that John L Vaughan, aged 18 years, was employed by
the Booth Kelly Lumber Company as hook tender with the company's logging crew near Wendling. That said
occupation is hazardous and dangerous and that the company was fully aware of
the fact. That the young man was ignorant of the danger and unfamiliar with the
work. That on the 16th day of October,
1900, while engaged in this work, the young man was struck on the leg by a log
and injured in such a manner that amputation of the leg was
necessary. The plaintiff asks
for a judgment of $25,000 and costs of the suit. L. Bilyeu and Thompson and
Hardy. appear as
attorneys
for the plaintiff.
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YOUNG
The particulars of the accident are not
obtainable. The only information received
is that he had became entangled in the shafts at the mill and was quite badly
bruised and mangled. The young man will be brought to
and placed in the company's
hospital in charge of Drs. Paine and Kuykendall.
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CONTRACTOR T. L. GILLIAM
LOSES 2,000,000 FEET OF LOGS
It is estimated that Thomas L. Gilliam has lost 2,000,000 feet of
timber, between 2,000 and 3,000 logs since he commenced on his last Mohawk
contract for the Booth Kelly Lumber Company. The waters have been quite high
and the booms have been unable to hold the logs. However, it is expected that a large number
of the logs will be recaptured between
misfortune.
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SMALLPOX AT WENDLING
Dr. L. A. Paine visited Wendling Saturday
and brought back the information that several cases of smallpox in a mild form
exist there. Dr. Paine informed a Guard reporter today that the
disease was first brought to Wendling about December let by a man from
No deaths have occurred from it yet but one
or two cases are quite severe and may result seriously. Dr. Paine says the disease is in just such a
form as it was out west of
Dr. Paine will return to Wendling tomorrow
when all the employee of the Booth Kelly Lumber Company will be
vaccinated.
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MOHAWK ITEMS BY A
Everything quiet at Ping Yang at present.
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MOHAWK ITEMS BY HAY SEED
Mrs. Max Jackson of Ping Yang has a new
wheel. We hope the lady won't have any
trouble in learning to ride it. Walter Sharp is carrying the mail again.
Charley Hayden can find his lost cat
by inquiring at Mr. Fawvers. The party
who spoke of Ping Yang needing, a missionary is off. Ping Yang don't need a missionary, but the
people that live around Ping Yang do, and we hope they may be able to have
one.
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THE BOOTH KELLY COMPANY'S
INCREASING BUSINESS
George H. Kelly of the Booth Kelly Lumber Co., one of the largest
manufacturing concerns in the United States, operating some 20 mills and owning
perhaps the choicest timberlands in Oregon, is in the city for the purpose of
purchasing some engines and making other preparations to increase output of
their
mills.
Mr. Kelly purchased two donkey engines
this morning and is negotiating for another. He says that it in the purpose of
his company shortly to work night shifts at the mills at
mentioned, day and
night. This will mean an increase in the
working force of 250 men, 200 at Wendling and 50 at the
There being some difficulty in procuring
experienced mill hands, it may be several weeks before the operation of these
mills with full night shifts can be begun. The larger part of the
output of the Booth Kelly Lumber Company goes to
repairing, which is
considerable of an item in itself. The Booth Kelly Lumber Company
owns 100,000 acres of the best timber land in
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MOHAWK NEWS
Smallpox at Wendling will soon be a thing
of, the past, the quarantine will be lifted next week if no more cases are
reported.
Walter Boggs was thrown from his wheel
last Sunday,
dislocating his left
wrist.
Last week this residence of Andrew Cox on
Parson Creek was destroyed by fire
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MOHAWK ITEMS
Otto Darelius has nearly completed his saw
mill on Parson Creek. Mrs. Jackson, of Donna, is suffering from injuries
received in a fall from her
bicycle. C. Cole's brother and family from
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A SERIOUS RUNAWAY
Shortly before
frightened and started to
run, throwing Mr. Reninger to the
ground.
He alighted on the back of his head and
the fall rendered him unconscious. He was carried into the store, and Dr.
W. Kuykendall was summoned and
attended his injuries. The fall was a very hard one, and it will be some time
before Mr. Reninger will entirely recover from the effects of it. His wife being in town, he will remain here
until he is better able to be moved home. The team ran down the alley to
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southwest corner of the
building. The organ, the desks, and all other furniture and apparatus were
blown to atoms, the floor and
sleepers of the building were
completely splintered, the sides of the building were blown out and all that
remains Is the roof with part of the frame work to support it.
This is the fourth attempt made to destroy
this school house. First an attempt was
made to burn it; about three years ago dynamite was used and the building was considerably damaged,
the benches, etc, destroyed; and again about a year and a half ago dynamite was
placed on the organ and exploded but not much damage was the result. This time however,
the fiend who is so bent on demolishing the building was more successful than
at any previous attempt.
The Ping Yang school house was built some
six or seven years ago at a cost of $400 or $500, it being about 25x30 feet in
dimensions and a good building for its class.
It contained about $75 worth of apparatus. Just before it was built the district WAS
divided and there was considerable trouble over the location of the new
building.
One faction wanted it in one place and
another wanted it somewhere else. It was finally built on its present site, but
there has been constant dispute in that locality over the matter ever since its erection.
The sheriff was notified of the explosion
this morning and he will look into the matter and do all he can to find the
guilty party or parties. Suspicion points to certain persons as the perpetrators of the crime, but no
tangible clue of their guilt can be obtained.
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A BIG CONTRACT AT
WENDLING
The Booth Kelly Lumber Company has just
closed a contract with J. M. Eddy, the contractor and builder, for the erection
of 20 five room cottages at Wendling.
These cottages will be occupied by the company's employee, and Mr. Eddy will
immediately put a force of men to work on them. They will be one‑story in
height and will be neat and convenient structures. They will represent an outlay of about $8000.
Mr Eddy has several contracts in
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BOOTH KELLY COMPANY WILL
OPERATE THE SPRINGFIELD PLANT
The Booth Kelly Company which now owns extensive lumber mills at
Saginaw, Coburg, and Wendling, in this county and which is one of the largest
shippers in the Pacific Northwest, has
gained control of the sawmill at Springfield owned by Rufus Mallory,
Senator Joseph Simon, O. A. Dolph and Henry McGinn, of Portland, and which has
been operated by H. A. Skeels & Co. for some time past.
This afternoon in this city, contracts and
agreements were signed which give the company an option of 40 days on the mill,
which practically means an outright purchase. When the title, which is
pronounced perfect is examined and other minor details are attended to the
company will take full possession of the mill.
After taking possession, the new owners
will make extensive improvements on the property. They will double the capacity of the mill,
which in about 30,000 feet per day at present, making a capacity of 60,000 feet
per day. After these improvements are
made the Booth Kelly Company will be able to cut the immense amount of 325,000
feet of lumber per day of 10 hours each at their mills in Lane county.
We are glad to announce the change in
ownership of this mill. It will mean
much for the town of
incidentally to
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The Booth Kelly Company began work today
on extensive improvements to their
improvements a company store
will be inaugurated. Seven
carpenters arrived today and commenced
work. Several more are wanted, as
it in desired to rush the work.
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PIONEER THRESHER
Gimple Bros. have the oldest
threshing machine in
everyone who has ever heard
it, and it may be heard any day a few miles west of town as it is busy rolling
out the grain as it has been for over a quarter of a century.
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DEED TRANSFERRING
trustee, transfer to Booth
Kelly Got the Springfield sawmill property and lands connected therewith,
mention of which the Guard has made before, and a large number of acres of land
in and adjacent to Springfield heretofore held by the grantors. The price named in the deed was $9000.
The deed as it reads, conveys to the
company all lands and premises which the sawmill, machinery, water power and
ponds are situated on, and all lands and premises used in connection therewith and for lumber yards, ect. Also the Springfield water power and all
water rights and powers and privileges pertaining thereof; all ditches, dams,
gates, ponds, and all rights of way; rights to take earth, brush, timber and
gravel; right to enlarge said power by cutting and constructing
additional channels; to erect
additional dams, gates and levies for the purpose of increasing said water
power and all the other rights and
privileges connected with said water power.
The company has already taken charge of
the property and we are informed that next year extensive improvements will be
made.
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THE
We have been reliably‑informed by
railroad officials that the building of a railroad bridge at
exception that it will be a
three span bridge. The bridge will be removed from the main line, having served
as a crossing of the
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WOOD SAW EXPLOSION
A wood saw engine, while at work four
miles east of
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JOHN STINNETT DROWNING VICTIM
AT BOOTH KELLY
Last evening the news was received in
Eugene of the sad drowning of John Stinnett, an old employs of the Booth Kelly
Company, which occurred about three miles above Wendling
yesterday afternoon about
The unfortunate man was engaged as head
hook tender at one of the donkey logging machines on Mill Creek. At the time of
the accident the crew was flushing a jam of logs. Stinnett was standing on a
log at the edge of the stream when the water in rising set the log to rolling,
precipitating him into the stream. The water in the creek is very swift,
especially during the flushing process, but with seemingly herculean strength,
the man succeeded in swimming down about 150 yards and clambered upon a log near the shore. Again he was thrown off and again he swam
about 100 yards and succeeded in grasping some brush along the bank, but before
assistance could reach him he was once more swept away by the turbulent waters
and this time sank and was drowned. The body was recovered about an hour after
the drowning occurred and taken to Wendling.
Mr. Stinnett was aged about 28 years and
leaves a wife and family. He was one of
the oldest employee of the company, having been with them ever since they
commenced operations in
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YARNELL RAILROAD WRECK
November 13.‑ The
Wendling train due here at 6‑p m last night was an hour late caused by
the train being ditched near Yarnell's.
Four lumber cars were ditched and damaged considerably. The engine and head cars were cut off and
came on in, and engineer, train crew and section men returned and worked till
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The constant downpour of warm rain has
caused the rivers and creeks to rise rapidly and is a great blessing to those
engaged in logging.
Before this rain set in the streams were
lower than they had ever been before and it was impossible for the loggers to
float logs to the mill. Last evening the Booth Kelly Lumber Co. flushed a jam
of about 800,000 feet of logs in Mill Creek above Wendling, and this morning
another lot of about 400,000 feet was floated down.
Tom Gilliam had a huge jam of 3,000,000
feet in the Mohawk which was expected to be started down today, and probably
dynamite would have to be
used to give it a start.
A number from
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BOOTH KELLY LUMBER COMPANY
PURCHASED
John F. Kelly, president of the B. K.
company this afternoon stated to the Guard, that he thought the company would
not operate the mill, which has a capacity of about 25,000 feet of lumber per
day, but that he would be able to give out for
publication in the near
future, something interesting in regard to the property. Mr. Kelly stated that
the report that 3000 acres of timberland in the cascade mountains were included
in the deal is untrue.
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PIONEER UNCLE JOHNNY DIAMOND
DIED AT COBURG
Another of the honored pioneers of Oregon and Lane County passed away
this forenoon at 9 o'clock, from typhoid fever, after an illness of a couple of
weeks, at the age of 88 years, 5 months, and 18 days. We refer to that noble
old gentleman, John Diamond, of
Mr. Diamond was very popular with everyone
acquainted with him, for he was a perfect gentleman. He had no relatives in
He has a number of relatives in
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JOSEPH HUGHS OF COBURG NOT
LOST
The people of
mountains to die.
He went to the mountains, but not to
die. He was found to be very much alive
in a cabin on his claim about six miles from
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REPORTED THAT BOOTH KELLY
WILL REBUILD AT
The Booth Kelly's sawmill here closed down
Wednesday, the supply of logs having given out at that time. The mill will remain idle for an indefinite
period.
It is authentically reported that the
company intends to erect in the place of the old mill this summer, a fine new
up‑to‑date mill with a capacity of 60 or 70 thousand feet of lumber
every 10 hours.
The old mill has been in use many years,
and the machinery is pretty well worn, and it has a capacity of only about
30,000 feet per day. It is expected that the new mill will be ready for operation before another winter.
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R.A. DUFF
hospital, suffering from
injuries received while
working on the log boom.
The unfortunate man fell off of a log into
the water, and in coming up to the surface, his head was caught between two
logs, mashing his nose, fracturing his upper jaw and causing concussion of the
brain.
He was taken to his lodging house and Dr.
D. A. Paine was called, and the injured man was brought over to
well as could be expected
today.
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THE BOOTH KELLY COMPANY (From
the Oregon Timberman)
The Booth Kelly Lumber
A new planer has been ordered for the
logging engines now employed
by the company in their logging operations.
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BOOTH KELLY TO ERECT BIG
For the past two or three days, the Booth
Kelly Lumber Company has had surveyors at work locating a site for a large new
sawmill at this place. The new mill will
be located Just south of the S. P. depot, and will have a capacity greater than
the Wendling mill which is 150,000 feet every 10 hours. The new on will probably have a capacity of
200,000 feet.
It
is stated that the mill will be rushed to completion. The old mill here is now sawing out timbers
for the new plant. The erection of this
mill means that there is now no doubt of the railroad bridge, and connecting
branch being built this year.
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President Kelly and manager Booth of the
Booth Kelly Co., are out of the city today, and the above could not be
verified, but it in certain that the mill will be built. In our interview with
Mr. Booth at the time the company purchased the military wagon road grant of
over 1,000,000 acres, he stated that one or more large mills will be erected
soon and this is one of them.
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The Booth Kelly Company have a planing
mill here on the track, with a sawmill six miles up in the timber. Lumber is carried down in a flume. Their mill
at this point has a daily capacity of 85,000 feet of lumber with a planing mill
capacity large enough to handle the stock that requires its attention. Their
timber planer will surface timbers 20 x 30, which is a recent addition to their
plant. The have a shingle mill near the factory, and are prepared to furnish
fir and cedar lumber and shingles. L. M. Freeman is foreman of the plant; F. L
Kennedy superintendent of the planing mill, and Henry
Jerrot, superintendent of the
sawmill. These are experienced and practical men, who turn out stock that is up
to date.
The Booth Kelly Lumber
Company have a water‑power saw mill here, which has recently been repaired
and overhauled. The capacity of this
mill is from 25,000 to 35,000 feet of lumber a day. E. C. Martin is foreman of the plant, and G.
W. Catching millwright for the company.
The only information as to the mill at
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A SMOOTH STRANGER WORKS W. M.
VANDUYN AT
a worthless check, and all
through a pretty scheme that
would catch the most cautious
man. It happened on May
30th, a stranger driving into
the little sawmill town in
a buggy. He put the team into the livery stable, then
talked lumber to the mill salesman. Country stores keep open late, and as Mr.
VanDuyn was getting ready to close his place about nine o'clock in the evening,
the stranger made his appearance,
professing satisfaction at finding a place open where he could make some
necessary purchases while on the road home.
Then he got a dollars worth of nails, a washboard, ladies shoes, and a
few small articles, in all worth $4.95. He then produced a check on the
Farmers' and Merchants' Bank of Junction City for $37, signed by G. W. Overton,
a substantial, farmer living 16 miles below Coburg, for payment, professing to
have no other money. Mr. VanDuyn thought
nothing was wrong, and seeing, the check was indorsed with the name of W. S.
Cookwell, in which name it was drawn asked him if that was his name, to which
he responded in the affirmative. He then paid him the balance of $32.05 The check was presented to
the bank which informed Mr. VanDuyn that Mr. Overton had no account there, and
the check was probably a forgery. Mr.
Overton on being informed, disclaimed having signed it.
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BOOTH KELLY TAKES POSSESSION
OF
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The flue of Y. H. Skinner's residence
burned out last night and caused a great deal of excitement. Considerable
damage was done by axemen cutting through the ceiling, thinking the garret of
the house was on fire.
The mill dam of the Booth Kelly Company at
this place is undergoing repairs. Quite a large hole was washed through last
night, perhaps caused by muskrats, and it will take several days to repair the
washout.
George Moore the night foreman at the
planing mill, had the misfortune to cut his hand quite badly on one of the
planer knives last night.
O. L. Parsons is circulating a petition
for a saloon in this town, also a remonstrance is being circulated against the
saloon.
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BRAKEMAN NOWLES DEAD FROM
INJURIES RECEIVED AT MARCOLA
Word was received here this morning from Portland that J. G. Nowles, the
S. P. brakemen who fell under the wheels of a freight car at Marcola on the
morning of the 4th and had both legs so badly crushed below the knee that
amputation was necessary, had died at the hospital Sunday evening about 6
O'clock, not being able to survive the
shock of the operation. His wife was with him at the time of death.
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BOOTH KELLY
Two days ago work on the new Booth Kelly
Springfield
sawmill was commenced. It will be located on land owned by the
company near the S. P. depot, and will be of about 100,000 feet capacity per
day.
According to George Kelly it will be
completed in about six months. The new
plant will be operated by steam and will be fitted throughout with the latest
improved machinery. When asked what
disposition will be made of the old mill at
They furnish material for railroad
construction to the following lines; Southern Pacific, Fremont and
Western,
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partially completed next to
the butte on the south, far enough away from the mill to be safe from fire in
case of accident. Adjacent to the north a mesa house with sleeping quarters
will be provided, while the
engine and boiler rooms will be built on the south. The pond, which must at one
time held the logs required to operate the mill for the spring and winter seasons,
is laid off east and south of the mill, extending to the butte on the south,
comprising twenty‑five acres.
Machinery will be supplied the mill
capable of cutting 150,000 feet per day of 12 hours, or 250,000 feet if run to
its full capacity of 22 hours, allowing probably two hours for making changes
of workmen and the two meals in middle of shifts. Two
railroad switches will be built for the accommodation of the mill; one
along the mill structure directly on the north for banding the bulk of the
products the rough and unfinished lumber, lath, ect. The other around the edge of the hill by the
shed that will hold the finished lumber.
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BOOTH KELLY LUMBER SHIPMENTS
LIGHTEST FOR MANY MONTHS
The month of August was a comparatively
light month for the shipment of lumber by the Booth Kelly Lumber Company ‑
The
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BOOTH KELLY COMPANY FIGHTS
This morning about 3.30 the entire crew of
man working for the Booth Kelly sawmill at Wendling was aroused, and summoned
to fight fire on the company's property five miles up the river. The crew
hurried to the scene of the fire and found some of the best timber belonging to
the company being girdled by the
consuming elements. They
surrounded the fire and cut a trail, trying to confine the blaze to a certain
area.
The work is of the hardest kind and
the company pays extra wages
to its men for fire fighting.
No word was obtained this afternoon as to the success of the fighters,
but it in to be supposed that they are fighting with all energies and sending
few messages.
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ACCIDENTAL DEATH OF A SQUAW
Thrown From A horse, Dragged
And Kicked, And Dies All Alone
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SAWMILL ACCIDENT THIS MORNING
AT
Frank R. Jones, an employee in the Booth
Kelly Co's
His part of the work was the pulling of
logs from the pond to the mill floor and placing them convenient for the sawyer
and his assistant. He had pulled a log
onto the skids, across from the saws, and in attempting to turn it the
handspike slipped, throwing him towards the saw. A fellow workmen caught the
falling man just in time to save him from falling on the rapidly turning lower
saw, but he fell so his left foot came in contact with it, the smaller toes
being cut off the wound angling towards the and of the big toe which just
escaped injury. Mr. Jones was brought
here and placed in the hospital.
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W. M. VANDUYN OF
COBURG, Sept 23.‑ W. M.
VanDuyn has sold his stock of merchandise to F. B. Sackett, of Jefferson, Mr.
Sackett has taken possession of the store and we bespeaks for him the same
success that Mr.VanDuyn has enjoyed for the past 17 years. George Drury will
remain chief clerk for Mr. Sackett. Mr.
VanDuyn and family are moving to
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DEATH NEAR MOHAWK
Mrs. Harriet Cowgill, an aged lady of
Mohawk, was thrown from a buggy last week while driving and received such
injuries that she died yesterday morning at the home of her daughter, Mrs. N.
M. Van Buren of Mohawk. The occupants of
the buggy were hurled to the ground by the breaking of the front axle. The
deceased was 76 years of age and a well beloved old lady whose unfortunate
death is a shock to her friends and relatives.
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MOHAWK ITEMS
Columbus Cole has sold his sawmill and it
is being moved out of the valley.
The Seventh Day Adventists have left the
valley, but leave many people as believers in their faith. They expect to return within a few months and
establish Sabbath school.
Pete Darelius who has been sick the past
month is slowly improving.
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BOOTH KELLY MAKES TIMBER
PURCHASE
The long expected permission to announce a
large timber deal which has been on the table for some weeks between Amos L.
Hyland of
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As will be seen by the transactions among
the courthouse items the Booth Kelly
Lumber Company, has secured right‑of‑way for a flume which they
will build from Gettings Creek to
MOVING THE
In our article concerning the moving of
the Saginaw mill property to Gettings creek, in yesterday's Guard we should
have stated that there are two mills near Saginaw owned by the Booth Kelly Company, and that the one to be moved
now is the one east of Saginaw, which has been idle two years. The two mills are of about the same capacity,
we are informed. The other mill will be moved next year to some other part of
the company's holdings.
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SAMUEL M. STIERS
Samuel
Stiers, residing in the Fall Creek country in the vicinity of
Wednesday.
Word has been received here that while at
work in the Trent Lumber Company's camp at Mabel, his life was nearly crushed
out by a huge log rolling over him. It seems he was driving a
four‑horse team when a
log in some manner became loose and rolled down the hill, striking the team and
driver, killing two of the horses outright and would have killed Mr. Stiers had
he not been between the horses some way. As it was his life was despaired of
for awhile. His injuries were very bad.
he was hurt internally and several bones were broken. Dr. H. F. Ong, of
Wendling, attended him.
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LOGGING IN THE WINTER TIME
The Booth kelly Lumber Co. is taking
chances this winter in the matter of
driving logs which nobody heretofore has been willing to take. It had a drive
on the Mohawk which was turned into the McKenzie yesterday, and is being driven
to the
The running of logs in these streams in
the winter season is attended with much danger which loggers have chosen heretofore
to avoid. Should heavy rains fall and
suddenly raise the water to flood stage, it would be almost impossible to boom
the logs to their destination, however the drive can be made much more quickly
and with less expense than in the summer.
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A
MOHAWK, Dec. 31.‑
Mohawk will soon have another sawmill. Mr.
Briggs, the enterprising sawmill man and former manager of the Hyland mills at
three‑quarters of a
mile northeast of Donna with a store and lumber yard on J. Huddleston's place.
Such an enterprise should receive the approval and hearty recommendation of the
Mohawkers.
THE DAILY
It seems that Getts and O. C. Hartwig
borrowed the mules from a man by the name of Durman to haul some furniture and
other things down to
THE DAILY
THE MARCOLA
Last Monday the Fischer Mercantile Co.
started its new mill at Marcola, according to the
The mill is located just three miles from
Marcola in a vast and almost unlimited amount of timber. The lumber after it is cut in transported to
Marcola station by flume.
THE DAILY
Little Mike Kelly, seven year old son of
George Kelly, who resides at
at
over his head, crushing his
skull and almost instantly
killing him.
The details of the accident are
harrowing to the extreme.
Little Mike
had been accustomed to taking
rides on passing wagons
and today as a passing hay wagon
was going along 11th
on the side of the load. He lost his hold and fell in
front of the rear wheel of
the vehicle, which passed
entirely over the little boys
head crushing it into an
unrecognizable mass.
Some playmates gave the alarm and he was
taken to his home but a block away, where he ceased breathing but a few minutes
later. The mother is prostrate with
grief at the accident. No blame is attended to the driver. whose name could not
be earned. He professed to bystanders that he did not know that there were any children about his
wagon and did not know that the awful accident had happened until alarmed by
the cries of the boys playmates.
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BIG
COTTAGE GROVE, April 13.‑
The Booth Kelly Lumber Company's big
sawmill east of Saginaw has about sawed out all the good timber within reach,
and is soon to be moved to Mosby Creek and the mill on Gettings creek, will
send out lumber in the flume to Saginaw. The companies big planning mill at
They offer for sale all the lumber in
their big shed there.
THE DAILY
A BAD
N. T. Bridges, an employee of the Booth
Kelly Lumber Company in Lane County, who came down to Roseburg a few days ago
to visit his family, apparently became dissatisfied at something while playing
cards at C. L. Reed's saloon last night, and holding Bud Thomas, the dealer, back with one hand, raked
in all the cash in sight with the other.
Then despite Thomas' struggles he forced
open the drawer in front of the dealer and took out a loaded revolver, with
which he kept everybody at bay until he had pocketed every cent that lay before
him. When this was done he emptied the
revolver of its contents, throw it on the table and walked out of the saloon
unmolested.
It is estimated that Bridges secured about
$160. He has since not been seen.
THE DAILY
BOOTH KELLY COMPANY NEEDS
MORE
The Booth Kelly Company is just now in a
position where it is very uneasy about the shortness of rainfall. The reason is that on account of scarcity of
water in the mountain streams the big new mill at
The logs are in the creek, supplies of
provisions are in boats for the men on the drive, and the men are kept right at
hand ready to start the moment the logs will move, but there seems no prospect
of their being able to move. Without these
logs the
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MR. BOOTH INFORMS THE
THE DAILY
MOHAWK LOGS FOR
A
THE DAILY
CHARLES VANDUYN ARRESTED AT
Saturday evening Constable Smith arrested
Charles VanDuyn at
VanDuyn claimed that he intended nothing
wrong, that he had given a friend a check for $50 and had at the same time
telegraphed to his brother in
Sumpter for the amount.
The officers however claim that he did
not telegraph. Chief of Police of The
Dalles arrived Sunday and took the young man back.
THE DAILY
Booth Kelly Logging Crew out
On Strike
The force of about 80 men employed in the
Booth Kelly Lumber Company's logging camp near Leaburg on the McKenzie, quit
work yesterday on account of some difficulty with the bosses of the camp, and most
of them are now in Eugene, a part of them having arrived last night and more
coming down today. One of the strikers
informed the Guard that there was nobody left except the two
"Bosses".
THE DAILY
The ten year‑old son of I. E.
Earnest, who resides near Marcola, is dead as the result of an accident last
Friday
afternoon. He was running a hay rake with two horses on
his father's place and while raking close to a fence ran a wheel into the
fences breaking the tongue of the rake and frightening the horses. He
endeavored to control them but with the unwieldy rake jumping he could do
nothing. The horses started to run and
the boy was thrown to the ground with the lines entangled about him. He was thus dragged to his death never
regaining
consciousness. The funeral
was held on July 4th and interment was made in the home cemetery.
THE DAILY
THE
The Booth Kelly Company is advertising to
sell one of their sawmills. The mill in question is the
WILL NOT
Mill No. 2 of
mill and it will be some time
yet before it is moved to a new location.
THE DAILY
BEFORE
Thomas Jefferson Vaughan, of Coburg,
who distinguished himself in the hold‑up
legislature of 1897 by getting up on his "hind feet", making a speech
in favor of organizing the house and proceeded to business, was in Eugene a few
days ago taking in the circus and comparing the town with what it was, or
rather was not, when he first knew the place where it is now, says the Oregon
State Journal.
AN EARLY ELECTION
He said he attended an election at the
lower end of Skinners butte in 1851, when all the voters had assembled to elect
a member of the legislature. There was
just 41 persons present at that election, and he thought it was the biggest
crowd he had ever seen in
A
"Tom" Vaughan was a regular
Buffalo Bill, in the early settlement of
destinies of
He has many friends who wish the old
pioneer many happy and successful years among the scenes of his boyhood in the
beautiful
THE DAILY
THE
The big bridge across the McKenzie this
side of
cross the river is to go up
to Deadmond's Ferry,
several miles out of the way.
An easy ford has been discovered near the
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ALLEN BURRILL
He was brought to the Pryor home at West
Eighth and Lawrence streets, the following Sunday and he died Sunday
afternoon Sep. 27. He was aged 30 years, 1 months and seven
days, and leaves a wife and three children, Frank, Mabel and an infant child.
The family came to
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B. K. SPRINGFIELD
company's two largest mills
now idle, the one at Wendling having closed down several days before work was
stopped at the
The reason given for closing down the
latter mill is lack of logs, and the reason as given to the Guard for the
closing down of the Wendling mill is lack of cars to haul the lumber away. A number of prominent loggers have been in
the city since the Wendling mill closed down, and say that this is the
beginning of a long period of idleness among the loggers employed by the Booth
Kelly Company, and that the Wendling mill instead of commencing operations
again within 10 days an stated by the company
officials here, will not
start up again for many weeks and perhaps months. They do not state the reason
for this, but one thing which they claim points that way, is that all the men
in the logging camps adjacent to Wendling have been laid off.
THE DAILY
JOHN THOMPSON HANGS HIMSELF
ON THE MOHAWK
Word was received last evening about five
o'clock that the body of John
Thompson, a young man
residing with his father,
Johnson Thompson, on the
Mohawk, near Marcola, had
been found dead. The young man had hanged himself.
Coroner King and the suicides brother,
Walter Thompson, left here last evening
about
The lifeless body was found yesterday
afternoon about
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The county bridge over the McKenzie river
near
The entire cost of the new bridge will
amount to less than $1400 and on account of delays in lumber and high water the
cost is from $150 to $200 higher than it would have been had all circumstances
been right.
THE DAILY
THE
Harrisburg Bulletin, Dec. 17: R. A. Booth,
George Kelly, Attorney A. C. Woodcock and Surveyor Simon Klovdahl, of the Booth
Kelly Lumber Co., are here for the purpose of closing contracts for their
sawmill site and right‑of‑way for floating logs to their mill here
when in operation. Mr. Booth stated that
the present intention of the company is to build a sawmill on the Davis site
and have it running some time during the coming summer, provided they can
obtain the needed rights‑of‑way to reach their mill with floating
logs.
THE DAILY
A DEAD BEAT STOPPED
J.
C. Rane, an employee at the Booth Kelly mill,
after getting his monthly pay check last evening, packed his few
belongings and proceeded to shake the dust of
Marshal Humphreys was at once notified and
with the
assistance of the Eugene
Marshal and the
Telephone, the would be dead
beat was spotted at
Tourist laborers should either be made to
pay board in advance, or the Booth Kelly Company hold their board money back.
This is quite a frequent occurrence and should be prevented in some way. ‑
THE DAILY
BOOTH KELLY NEEDS WORKERS
The Guard has obtained information through
persons of the Booth Kelly Lbr.
From the same source the Guard learns that
the company has a fund of $750,000 which it will soon expend in the operation
of its big milling and logging systems. It is stated that one or more
additional mills may be erected. The company holds large tracts of fine timber
in the Mosby Creek and Row river countries above Cottage Grove, and it may be
that it intends to erect a mill in that vicinity. About two years ago it was announced that the
company would build in that section, but the
depression in the lumber market came about that time and the project was
temporarily abandoned.
The lumber market has picked up
wonderfully in the
last few months and every
sawmill of any consequence in
the state is now rushed with
orders. A man brought down from the
The Booth Kelly Company's operations have
always been a great factor in the prosperity of
THE DAILY
MORE
A few days ago the Guard printed an item
to the effect that a ledge of gold‑bearing quartz had been found near
Fischer's mill in the vicinity of Marcola, but later printed a communication
from a well‑known citizen of that place that assays of the quartz showed
no gold at all. In contradiction to the letter the Guard today received a
report from a reliable source that the Hyland brothers, who operate a sawmill
on the Mohawk had found a 32‑foot ledge, and assays of the rock taken out
showed that it contains from $1.50 to $7.50 worth of gold per ton. This would
indicate that the find is worth something, but it is not learned whether the
property will be developed or not.
THE DAILY
UP THE MOHAWK AFTER A CRAZY
Deputy sheriff Bown is up the Mohawk after
a supposed crazy man by the name of Gusty.
H. E. Phettyplace who resides at Thurston, last evening telephoned to
Chief of Police Stiles that there was a man there who was acting strangely and
was thought to be insane. The Sheriff's
office was notified and Mr.Phettyplace was asked if he could keep him there
overnight and bring him to
THE DAILY
Fred Long, a young man employed at Fischer
Bros. sawmill at Marcola, was killed at that place last Saturday. The crew had been putting logs in the race
and Long was down the embankment when two logs began to roll toward him. One of the proprietors of the mill saw the
situation and called to Long to lookout, but the warning came too late. The logs caught the unfortunate man, both
passing over him and crushing his hips in a horrible manner. He was conscious
and said,"all this suffering in awful, awful, I wish it had done a good
job and killed me." He died a few hours after the accident, bleeding to
death.
Long came from
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MOHAWK
The Jeremiah Yarnell farm of 687.14 acres,
excepting the S.P. right of way through the land, was sold this afternoon at
referees sale to J. E. Yarnell for $6200.
This farm lies in the Mohawk valley and in
said to be one of the best in the county.
THE DAILY
BOYS KILL A BIG BROWN
Orby and Tom Lowell, residing north of
The boys were out hunting on
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 3‑20‑1906
FIFTY SCANDINAVIANS IMPORTED
BY B. K. CLIMB OUT OF
The guard yesterday told of the Booth
Kelly Lumber Company, importing over 100
Scandinavians from Chicago to work in the sawmills in this county. It
seems that all of them did not reach
here. The following is from the Portland Telegram:
East Portland population was added to the
presence of 50 Scandinavians Saturday
night, when that number escaped from an O. R. & N. train. A party of 120 were going from
Chicago to Eugene
to enter employment of the
Booth Kelly Lumber Company, and on reaching the East Side depot of the line
decided to leave the car. Instead of choosing the usual route, they went
through the windows, and the last seen of them was as they disappeared in the
darkness. The rest were transferred to the Southern Pacific immediately on
reaching the Union Depot and taken to Eugene on a special.
Two weeks ago arrangements were made with
the Danish and Swedish consul at Chicago for a crew of men. It was stipulated that the Booth Kelly Lumber
Co. was to provide transportation, and the money expended was to be repaid on
installments from wages earned at the plants in the vicinity of
Eugene. While enroute to the city, some
of the laborers talked of taking French Leave here, and it was evidently agreed
between one‑third of them that it would be a good move. Five of the crowd got off at Pendleton and
said afterward they missed the train, but this story is not believed. It was
the intention to ship men regularly in order to provide sufficient help to
avoid closing down the mills, but experience with the first crowd spoils the
plan.
OTHERS SKIP OUT
It is reliably reported here today that
those who reached Springfield have all, except three, skipped out after eating
off the company for a day or two and without doing a stroke of work. This in
proving to be an expensive experience for the
company.
It is said that in order to hold their men
better, the company will at once advance wages.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 3‑23‑1906
GOOD SIZED B. K. CREW ARRIVES
FROM PORTLAND LAST NIGHT
L. B. Hill, employment manager of the Booth Kelly Co. arrived up from
Portland last night with about 20 men whom he had secured in that city to work
in the company la logging camps. The
men are a good looking lot as far as the ordinary sawmill hand goes. Upon
their arrival on the 9 O'clock local, they were taken to the Encore
Hotel, where they were given a nights lodging, and this morning were driven in
special vehicles to Fall Greek to be put
to work in the logging camps there.
Since a band of Swedes, who were brought out from Chicago at the
company's expense, left without doing a stroke of work because the wages were to low, the company,
it is said, have made a material advance in wages and no doubt will hereafter
be more successful in holding men. The
men brought up from Portland last night by Mr. Hill are all of the better class
of workingmen and will prove of benefit to the company.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 4‑25‑1906
LOGGER INSULTS WOMAN
A young logger by the name of W. R. Park,
employed in the Hyland logging camp, was fined $25 by Police Judge Dorris this
morning, charged with using frightening language to a woman. Last night about 9 o'clock young
Park accosted Mrs Henry Kissinger on West Eighth street, near the post office,
and asked her to take a walk with him. She ran back to her husband, who was
going in the opposite direction, having just left her at the postoffice and told him of the circumstance.
Kissinger caught up with the fellow and proceeded to give him a good basting.
Chief of Police Farrington heard the disturbance and ran to the scene. He
pulled Kissinger off Park, and took the latter to jail. For the past several
nights a number of girls and young women have been insulted on the streets by
men and Park may have been one of the guilty parties in those instances.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 4‑27‑1906
BIG LOG DRIVES IN THE RIVERS
The Booth Kelly Company now has two big log
drives on the way down from the camps to the mills. One of them contains 6,000,000 feet, and is
in the McKenzie at the mouth of the Mohawk, on its way to the Coburg mill, and
the other is now in Fall Creek at the Unity bridge on its way to Springfield. It consists of 8,000,000 feet.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 5‑24‑1906
ORDER PLACED FOR THREE
SAWMILLS
Southern Pacific Company
Purchases Machinery For Its Plants On Mohawk
The Southern Pacific Company has placed orders with Tatum and Bowen, of
Portland, for the machinery for three of the sawmills
which the company intends to
erect on its timberlands in Lane County.
Each of the mills will have a capacity of 40 thousand feet of lumber daily.
The work of clearing the ground for the
first mill to be erected, which will be near Marcola, has been completed and
the structure is now ready to be erected. It in expected that at least one more
mill will be erected on the Wendling branch this summer.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 5‑25‑1906
S. P. LEASES
contract specifies that
construction work on the spur shall begin within three months from the date of
signing the papers.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 5‑26‑1906
L. P. FAWVER KILLED IN A
MOHAWK
L. P. Fawver, employed at the Mohawk
Lumber Company mill near Donna station, was accidentally killed yesterday
evening between 5 and 6 O'clock. He was working on the trimmer when his
clothing caught on a rapidly revolving
shaft and he was whirled around the shaft a number of times. The clothing finally gave way and he fell to
the floor and was dead. Every effort was
made to revive him, but in vain.
No bones were broken and but few bruises
shown on the body, the death resulting from internal injuries. Mr. Fawver was
aged about 53 years and was a well known
resident of the Mohawk
valley. He leaves the following
children: Mrs. Lucy Steuben, of Marcola; Sam Fawver of Harrisburg; Maude, Edith, Archie and Sylvia
Fawver of Donna.
The deceased was a member of The Woodmen
of the World, holding insurance in that order.
The funeral will be held Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock and the remains
interred in Baxter
cemetery.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 5‑29‑1906
COBURG VOTES ITSELF TO BE A
MUNICIPALITY
Coburg is now a city, the election
yesterday having gone heavily for
incorporation. The vote was: For incorporation 85; against, 20.
George A. Drury is the first mayor, and
the selection in a good one. Mr. Drury
has resided at Coburg many years and is one of the town's most prominent
citizens.
He will fill the office with credit to
himself and the people of the new city. The councilmen elected were as
follows: B.C. Bond, John Harden, H. F.
Bucknum, John Matthews, Thomas VanDuyn and Lea Jarnigan,‑ Recorder,
Lester Stacey ‑ Marshal, Robert Ingram ‑ treasurer, G. B. Brentner.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 5‑30‑1906
S. J. JONES KILLED AT
WENDLING
S. J. Jones, employed at the Booth Kelly's
mill at Wendling, died about 11 o'clock last night from injuries received at
2:30 O'clock yesterday afternoon.
Jones was working on the lathe machine
when in some manner a slab flew out and struck him in the pit of the stomach;
He was taken home and lingered in agony till eleven o'clock at night when he
expired.
The unfortunate man was aged 40 years and
leaves a wife and seven children. He had been working at the mill about seven
months, going there from Saginaw. He was
a member of the Odd Fellows and Woodmen of the World, carrying insurance in the
latter. It is said that he carried a total life insurance of $5000.
His body was taken to Cottage Grove for
burial.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 6‑4‑1906
GEORGE DRURY OF MARCOLA DIES
George Drury, who departed this life May
11, 1906 was born near Sheffield England June 21, 1830, and came to America in
1845, settling with his parents in the state of Wisconsin, where they remained
until the year 1854,when he moved to Minnesota,
where he engaged in farming.
He was married to Miss Catherine Pfremer
July 4, 1858. In 1863 he enlisted as a
private in Company K, Sixth Minnesota Volunteers and served in the war
of the rebellion until its close. He was
discharged in Fort Snelling in 1865, returning to his farm, where he lived
until the fall of MI. Coming to Oregon that year he purchased a farm in the
Mohawk valley, where he resided until a few months before his death, when he
decided to visit his old home in Minnesota where he died. His wife died Jan.
14, 1898. Thirteen children blessed their union with seven yet living, who are Geo. A Drury of Coburg, Robert L. and Marion J.
Drury of Marcola, Mrs. Minnie Fischer of Marcola . Mrs. Lizzie Broadwater and
Mrs. Mary Broadwater of Preston Minn.
and Mrs Anna
Ogg of Minneapolis.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 6‑12‑1906
LUMBER BUSINESS LIVELY ON THE
MOHAWK
Phillip Workman, a well known citizen of
Mabel, in the Mohawk valley, was in Eugene yesterday. He says the work of putting up the Southern
Pacific Company's sawmill near the Arnel place at Marcola is being rushed and
preparation for building a second mill to be located two miles from the first
one are being made. He thinks the other two announced to be built by the
company will go up soon.
Mr. Workman says the sawmill and timber
business is very lively up the Mohawk. The big Wendling mill is running it's
its full capacity and the Hyland mill at Trent Siding is rushed all the
time. He predicts that many more mills
will be built in that country within the next few years.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 6‑13‑1906
THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC CO. WILL
BUILD FLUME ON MOHAWK
The Southern Pacific Co. is preparing to
build a long flume from its second sawmill to be erected in the Mohawk to
Wendling branch railroad for the purpose of carrying lumber from the mill to
the cars. To the first mill, which is
now being erected near the Arnel place, a spur will be constructed but the site
of the second mill is near a good stream of water, which can easily be utilizes
for fluming purposes. A deed conveying
the right‑of‑way for the flume from R. A. Neil, of Yakima county
Washington, through whose land it will extend, was filed for record with the
county clerk yesterday after‑noon. The land in question lies in section 17, to
16, south of range one west.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 6‑18‑1906
MEN AT
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 7‑ l,‑1906
MANY EMPLOYEES OF BOOTH KELLY
CO. QUIT
A report from Springfield is to the effect
that quite a number of the employee of the Booth Kelly sawmills at that place and at Wendling
and a larger number of the employee of the logging camps up the Willamette and
McKenzie rivers have quit work because of the existence of prohibition in Lane
county. It is said that many more of
the mill hands will quit tonight when
they receive their pay.
It is a well known fact that a large
number of loggers are drinking men and those who think they cannot get along
without liquor are not going to work where they can secure none. These men quitting may inconvenience the
Booth Kelly Co. to a
considerable extent, but the
company is now paying good wages and may be able to secure a better class of
men to fill the places of those who quit.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 7‑5‑1906
LUMBER BUSINESS ON THE MOHAWK
BOOMING
C. Arnel was down from Mohawk yesterday.
He informed the Guard that the Southern
Pacific sawmill No. 1, which is being erected near Marcola will be completed in
a short time and it in expected that the mill will be sawing lumber in about
three weeks. The mill in being built in a first‑class manner and the
machinery is of the best.
The work of clearing the site for mill No.
2 has been completed and some of the timbers are now on the ground. A cook house has been erected and everything
is in readiness for active building operations at once. Work has not yet begun on the third mill.
Mr. Arnel says the Booth Kelly Company's
big mill at
Wendling is running on full
time and putting out lumber in immense quantities. The Hyland mill is also
running on full time and is overcrowded with orders.
The price of lumber is steadily advancing,
and all the mills in the county are kept busy filling orders. The San Francisco fire is partly responsible
for this big demand.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 7‑7‑1906
MANY LOG DRIVES UNDER
WAY
The Booth Kelly sawmills, logging camps
and drives will all resume operations next Monday, after the usual Fourth of
July shutdown of a weeks duration. A
full force of men will be put to work again, and the absence of those who quit
because the county went "dry" will not be felt. A reporter called at the Booth Kelly office
this forenoon and was given several interesting logging items as follows:
The Spalding logging Company's drive of
6,000,000 feet, coming down the McKenzie, is now at the mouth of the Mohawk.
Three million feet of these logs consists of cottonwood and maple, and the
other 3,000,000 feet are fir. The
Spalding company furnishes logs for several mills down the valley.
The Booth kelly drive on the McKenzie, for
the Coburg mill, is now a short distance below Major Forrest's place, which is
about 22 miles from Eugene. There are 7
million feet of fir logs in this drive.
C. L. Williams drive of 3,000,000 feet for
the Eugene Lumber Co. has reached the head of the millrace, between here and
Springfield, and will be in the boom at the mill within a few days.
The Booth Kelly Fall Creek drive of
7,000,000 feet for the Springfield mill is now at the Unity bridge, 18 miles
from here. Hills Bros. drive of
7,000,000 feet for the Springfield mill is between Hyland's ferry and the mouth
of Fall creek.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 7‑28‑1906
W. J. WYCOFF DIES FROM
INJURIES RECEIVED AT MABEL
Wesley J. Wycoff, who was injured in the
Hyland Lumber Company's sawmill at Mabel Tuesday by being struck on the head by
the flying crank of a windlass, and a part of whose brain was removed by the physicians,
died at the Eugene hospital at 1:30 o'clock this morning. He did not regain consciousness after the
accident.
The body will be taken to Leaburg tomorrow
and buried in the Greenwood cemetery. He was about 45 years of age and
single. The deceased was a well known resident of the McKenzie valley,
having resided in the vicinity of Leaburg for thirty years.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 8‑8‑1906
MOHAWK
Constable Plank left this morning for the
Mohawk country, armed with a warrant issued out of Justice of the Peace
Bryson's court for the arrest of Edward Lewis, aged about 18 years, son of John Lewis, charged with assault with intent to
commit rape upon the person of Bertha , the ten year old daughter of Frank
Spores, residing near Donna.
Mr. Spores came to town last evening and
swore to the complaint. According to his
story his little daughter was going along a tramway in that vicinity yesterday
when Lewis jumped out of some brush nearby and carried the girl into the brush
with him.
Just then a car came in sight along the
tramway and Lewis ran and left the girl where he had taken her. The constable arrived here with his prisoner
late this afternoon and took him before
Justice Bryson. He was lodged in the
county jail, his examination to be held in two or three days.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 8‑10‑1906
HYLAND BROS. SAWMILL AT MABEL
BOUGHT BY T.R.YERGER OF LOS
ANGELES
A deal was consummated in Eugene today
whereby The Hyland Lumber Company's sawmill near Marcola, a large amount of
timberland and other property
passes from the hands of Earnest E. Wilbur H. and Ira D. Hyland to T. R. Yerger
of Los Angeles. The sale was engineered by H. O. Mahon, the well known timber
and mining broker of this city, who has been working on it for some time past.
The consideration is $60,000.
Mr. Yerger is now in Eugene and will take
possession of the property immediately. When seen by a Guard reporter today he
expressed himself as being very well pleased with his purchase and thinks there
is a bright outlook ahead for a splendid
business.
Included in the deal is 2300 acres of fine
timber
land, all contiguous to the
mill, and two miles of
tramway, leading from the
mill to the Wendling branch
of the Southern Pacific
railroad. The mill which is located three miles above Marcola, has a capacity
of 40,000 feet of lumber every day, and is equipped with modern machinery
throughout. It was built only a few years
ago and has been making money for its owners ever since. The three Hyland brothers above mentioned
purchased the Plant a year or two ago from their brother, N. G. Hyland, who
with his father the late Amos D. Hyland, built it. Mr. Yerger will make his home in Eugene. He intends to make a number of improvements
to the sawmill, but to what extent is not determined, as he is not yet
acquainted with surrounding conditions.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 8‑11‑1906
SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY WILL
BUILD FLUME
Papers were filed in the county clerk's office today
granting the Southern Pacific
Company the right to construct and maintain a flume across the premises of the
following residents of the Mohawk valley: John D. Burns, C. and Mary Cole, J.
T. and Nellie Whitmore, C. and M. J. Arnel and William and Josephine
Cries. This flume is to be used in
connection with the company's sawmills, which are now being erected in that
vicinity.
The land in question is in township 16,
south of range one west.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 8‑13‑1906
BIG FOREST
Forest fires are burning in the vicinity
of Mabel, above the Wendling Mill, and near the mouth of Winberry Creek, on
Fall Creek. Both are near B. K. timber, but so far no great amount of damage
has been done. Both fires started about
the same time Saturday evening. A
veritable army of men has prevented the fires from spreading to the green
timber.
The fire up the Mohawk destroyed several
hundred feet of logging road and chute belonging to Renninger and Button, but
aside
from this no damage has been
done, as dead trees and underbrush have
been the fuel for the flames.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 8‑13‑1906
LATER REPORTS OF
Renninger and Button's log chute, which
was 4000 feet long and which was recently built at a cost of nearly $4000, has
been almost entirely destroyed. It had
been in use only three days. The firm had 15,000,000 feet of logs yarded in
that vicinity and the fire has spread over them entailing a big loss, the
amount being hard to estimate, but it is thought to be in the neighborhood of
$7000. The fire started near to 12
o'clock Saturday night, supposedly from one of the donkey engines, but the
engineer states that before quitting work he put out every spark of fire. The
alarm was given and soon a large number of men from the Wendling and Hyland
mills were on the scene doing their best to stay the flames, but with little
success. The Eugene man say it is about
the worst fire they ever saw. The roar
of the flames could be heard several miles and the heat felt hundreds of yards.
The loss on the logs falls on Renninger and Button, as they
had not yet delivered them to
the mills.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 8‑15‑1906
TWO ACCIDENTS IN SOUTHERN
LANE
Harvey LaJoie, the 16 year old son of
Henry LaJoie, residing near Walker, was accidently shot in the right leg with a
pistol Sunday. He had cocked the pistol
to shoot at a squirrel and placed the piece back in his pocket without
unlocking it, when it discharged. Drs. Kime and
Hockett removed the bullet, which had lodged under the bone back of the
knees. The wound is not dangerous.
Fred Jones, a young logger working for the
Chambers Lumber Co. at Dorena, had a bad accident about ten o'clock Tuesday
morning. He was going up the log chute
and stopped to cut a young maple out of the way, but his ax caught in another
tree and descending struck his right
foot completely severing the big toe and the two toes next to it, and badly
cutting the fourth. He was brought to town where Drs. Job and Oglesby dressed
the foot, sewing the toes back in place. (From the Cottage Grove Nugget)
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 8‑25‑1906
Mr. and Mrs. Milton Bally and son Ray
arrived on the evening train from Carlton Tuesday night. Mr. Bally informs us
that he will go to Marcola and in partnership with Carl Fischer will build and
operate a sawmill which will have a capacity of 20,000 feet per day. The machinery has been ordered and is
expected to arrive in a few days.
The work of building the mill will be
started in a few days (Springfield News)
SCIENTIST CHURCH OF COBURG
INCORPORATED
The First Church Of Christ, Scientist, of
Coburg, filed articles of incorporation with the county clerk today. The
incorporators are; Mrs.A. Y. VanDuyn, Mrs. Mary Zachary
and Mrs. E. J. Deffenbacher,
trustees; Mrs. Ella Macey, Mrs. Clara Naylor and Mrs Arabella Leonard,
directors.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 9‑1‑1906
COBURG NEWS ITEMS
F. R. Sackett is moving into
his new store. Dr. Jarnagin left Tuesday morning for a months outing at his
island near the coast.
Dr. Best of Cottage Grove, is
in charge of his practice while he is away.
At the regular meeting of the council last
Monday evening the resignation of Marshal Ingram was accepted and James Evans
was appointed in his place.
Vernon Brentner returned from a hunting
trip on the hills east of Coburg at noon today. He was gone overnight and could
stand it no longer.
Billy Woods the night engineer at the mill
left for Portland this morning. He goes
by wagon, taking his family.
The Booth Kelly people are installing a
new loading crane to use in loading cars with timbers. There seems to be plenty
of time to put it in, as they are receiving only two or three cars a day. There
were no loads taken out yesterday.
Notices are out announcing that the night
crew will resume operations again
September 3rd. It will seem good to hear
the customary noise when one wakes up at night.
H. W. Mahon, a member of the militia from
Eugene, who has been working at this place for the past year, returned Tuesday.
He reports a good time at the encampment, and says that the maneuvers were
instructive for the boys. The only thing
for which
he feels sorry is, that on a
chicken ranch where there were about fifty chicken houses, there was not a fowl
to be found.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 9‑4‑1906
DONKEY ENGINE BURIED
Fred Hills in well known in Corvallis,
having graduated from O. A. O. in the class of 05. His home is near Springfield, Lane county,
and his father Jasper Hills, logs on the Winberry, a tributary to Fall Creek.
Last Week a fire broke out in that section
and swept onward at a fierce rate. It consumed a lot of logs that meant money
to Mr. Hills, and it finally became apparent that the donkey engine and the
rest of the logging paraphernalia would be destroyed. That was no place to get
out with the machine, and the owner decided to bury it. All hands fell to work
and the donkey engine was soon
underground, and the fire later swept on, doing no harm to the outfit. All of which tends to prove that
"necessity is the mother of invention." ‑ Corvallis Gazette.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 9‑7‑1906
C. Cole Sells Store And
Devotes Time To Selling Town Lots At Marcola
C. Cole the veteran merchant of Marcola,
has sold his general store at that place to J. D. Fields, Robert Gano and Frank
Trueman, proprietors of the Ax Billy department store in this city. They will
take charge October first,and one of the three members of the firm will conduct
the store.
Mr. Cole has been in the mercantile
business on the Mohawk for the past 30 years. He will hereafter devote his
entire attention to the sale of lots in the townsite of Marcola which he
owns. With the advent of the Southern
Pacific Company's new sawmills in that vicinity, quite a town is expected to
spring up there.
SOUTHERN PACIFIC SAWMILL IS
IN OPERATION 9‑10‑1906
A. Wilcox, who formerly conducted an
employment bureau here, but now employed as millwright on the S. P. Company's sawmills
near Marcola, spent Sunday in the city. He reports that mill No. 1 is now
operating steadily, having started up last week.
The frame work of mill No. 2
is up and the plant will be rushed to completion. An engine has arrived for mill No. 3, but no
work has been done on the plant. As soon
as mill No. 2 is completed, work on mill No. 3 will begin. The company will erect a 4th mill somewhere
in lane county.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 9‑13‑1906
COBURG NEWS
Coburg, September, 12.‑ Ed Cooper
had the misfortune to have the ends of two fingers of his left hand cut off in
the gearing of the edger Saturday evening about ten o'clock. Hugo Hallin, who had three
toes cut off by a truck running over his foot two weeks ago, is at work again.
The funeral of William Allingham., the old
pioneer, was held Sunday. The Odd
Fellows service was used.
The mast for the new loading crane at the
Booth Kelly mill, is now in place. It is
about seventy feet high.
J. D. Wigle has his house enclosed and
says it can rain now if it wants to. There are several new buildings going up
in town, and there will yet be a scarcity by the time the fall rains set in for
good, and people come to work in the mill. A good rate of interest can be made
by building houses to rent in Coburg.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 9‑15‑1906
THE DEATH OF CHARLES BRIGGS
AT MARCOLA
Charles Briggs, head sawyer in Fischer Bros. sawmill at Marcola, died
this morning at 6 o'clock of jaundice, following typhoid fever. He was aged about 50 years, and leaves a wife
and one son, besides two step sons. He
has been employed in the Fischer mill for the past two years, coming from
Myrtle Creek. He was a good workman,
honest and industrious, and will be greatly missed by his employers. The funeral will be held Monday morning, with
interment in the Dexter cemetery.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 9‑21‑1906
COBURG NEWS
F. B. Sackett has sold his stock of
general merchandise to M. C. Bond, George A. Drury and Lee Jarnigan, all of
Coburg. Mr. Bond is at present station
agent for the S. P. Mr. Drury has been with Mr. Sackett as clerk since the
opening of the business under Sackett name, and Mr. Jarnigan has owned and run
the city drug store for three years. They are all tried business men, and we
expect them to do a good business. They
will take possession as soon as an invoice is taken.
Harry Coleman brought in another bear
yesterday. This makes three for him this
week. Clive Taylor and wife returned from a trip up the McKenzie river this
week. They had been gone for about a
month. It will be remembered that Mr.
Taylor had his leg broken in June and when he left on his trip he was just able
to get about on crutches, but a few days before he returned he walked two
miles, killed a deer and packed it to camp.
The Christian Science Church is going up
quite fast. Mae Burns is doing the work, with the assistance of Mr. Hoeflin and
son.
Sidewalks are beginning to appear in all
parts of town. The people are responding
to the calls of the council quite readily.
Professor Maxwell, who will have charge of the Coburg schools the coming
year, is in town getting his house in order for the reception of Mrs. Maxwell.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 9‑27‑1906
Marcola Sep. 27.‑ R. Kohler, of the
Southern Pacific Co. has been here the past few days looking after the
company's business and inspecting the work that has been done on sawmill No. 2,
which the company has erected in this vicinity. This mill will start up in
about two weeks. Work has been started on mill No. 3 with a large force of men
and they expect to complete it in
much quicker time than they did the other two.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 10‑4‑1906
Southern Pacific Co. Asks
$10,000 damages
The Southern Pacific Company today
instituted suit in the circuit court against Earnest E., Ira L., and Wilbur H.
Hyland, doing business under the firm name of Hyland Lumber Company, to recover
$10,000 damages for the alleged nonperformance of a contract to deliver to the
plaintiff 50,000 first class red or yellow fir sawed cross ties. The railroad
company alleges that on or about January 4, 1906, the plaintiff and defendants
entered into an agreement in writing for the purchase of the ties; that on or
about September 13,1906, the defendants delivered to the of the ties, but have
refused to comply with and carry out the plaintiff 27,753 terms and conditions
of the contract. The railroad company alleges that it has been damaged in the
sum of $10,000, and asks for a decree against the defendants for the sum,
together with costs and disbursements. The Hyland Lumber Company
until recently conducted a sawmill up the Mohawk, selling out to a Mr Yerger of
Los Angeles.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 10‑4‑1906
COBURG NEWS
School began Monday with the usual amount
of disturbances among the unwilling small boys.
The new firm of Drury, Bond and Jarnagin
has taken up the responsibility of the business formerly owned by F. B.
Sackett. M. C. Bond had the
misfortune to step through a hole in the depot floor last Saturday. A badly
sprained leg was the result, which necessitated his asking for an assistant
agent at the depot to help with the
work. The new man came this
morning. Spriggs Bros. have opened a
blacksmith and wagon shop, three blocks east of the Booth Kelly office.
The marshal is now busy in putting in
crosswalks.
John Macy is moving into his new house,
which has just been finished. The old
one will be occupied by one of the young men of Coburg after he gets his double
harness.
The wood saw is busy in town these days,
getting the work done before the weather gets any wetter.
Superintendent Bassett is in Portland,
where he is
undergoing an operation on
his left eye.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 10‑6‑1906
MARCOLA GIRL ELOPES WITH
OLDER
Sheriff Fisk returned last night from The
Dalles, where he went to bring back Floyd Dubois, charged with the abduction of
14 year old Mabel Conrad from Marcola about a week ago. He brought the girl
along and they were met at the depot by her mother and step father, who at once
took her in charge.
The Dalles Chronicle tells of the capture
of Dubois by Sheriff Chrisman and his deputy, E. R. Wood, as follows:
" The officers kept their weather eye
open all day and finally about 10 o'clock last night saw a girl of the
description given standing about the Umatilla House corner. She soon crossed
over and further up the street was met by a young man. Believing that they had secured a clew the
officers followed them up third street to W. A. Johnson's corner, then on to
Fourth and up the grade leading to the bluff. There they were accosted and asked
where they were going. "None of your
‑‑‑‑‑
business" responded Dubois. "Well, we'll make it our
business", said the officers, and then he explained that he was taking the
young lady to the home of his sister on the hill. But that explanation wasn't
sufficient and the pair were taken to the sheriff's office, where Dubois was
put in jail. During the time that the sheriff was dealing with the man, Wood
got hold of the girl, who had given a fictitious name, and succeeded in getting
her to confess that she was Mabel Conrad and that she came to The Dalles with
Dubois Monday. She is a sweet looking
girl about 14 years of age and seems to have no realization of what she had
done, not the fate that awaited her in the hand of a villain, whom the officers
are convinced, from letters found in his pocket, is but a procurer for houses
of ill fame, in which he intended to place her. Dubois, who is 25 years of age, has
respectable relatives in this city, though he has always been a profligate.
THE DAILY
SPUR TO MARCOLA
The mile of railroad track from the
Wendling branch at Marcola to the Southern Pacific Company's sawmill No. I has just been
completed, a number of
transportation of the output
of the mill to the outside world. The
plant has been in operation for the past several weeks, employing 75 or 80 men
at the mill and in the woods. Thirty‑five or forty
thousand feet of lumber is being cut every day. Mills Nos. 2 and 3 are well under way, but the work is handicapped
by the failure of the company to receive its machinery on time.
THE DAILY
VERITABLE "HELL
HOLE" AT MARCOLA
Marcola is reported to have a "booze
joint" of the very worst description a perfect hell hole. It is claimed
that liquor is dished out over the bar by the proprietor of the joint until he
in totally unable to wait on his patrons, and then his loving and devoted
spouse assumes charge and proceeds to satisfy the cravings of those who are yet
able to navigate. It is also reported to us by a citizen of Marcola that his
seven‑year‑old son came home drunk and claims that he was given the
drink by this same degraded, law‑breaking degenerate. How can true
American citizens tolerate
such conditions of affairs when they are so conspicuous. It is said that this proprietor of this dram
shop has openly defied arrest. If the
reports that come to us are true, and no arrest is made, then the citizens of
Marcola are equally bad as the lawbreaker.
A coat of tar and feathers is far too good for such individuals. ‑Springfield News.
THE DAILY
LUMBER BUSINESS ON THE MOHAWK
IS PROSPEROUS
G. Arnel, the well‑known Marcola
resident, near whose farm the Southern Pacific Company's new sawmills are
located, is in the city. He informs the
Guard that Mill No. 1 is running on full time and cutting about 35,000 feet a
day on the average. One day though, Superintendent Whitstone put the machinery
through to its full capacity and cut 52,000 feet in ten hours.
Mill No. 2 has started to saw and is
operating steadily. The bridge across the Mohawk river for the lumber flume has
been completed. It is 52 feet
from the low water mark to the top. A full crew of men is working on Mill No.3,
which will probably be ready for operation in about two months. Mr. Arnel says the Booth Kelly Company's Wendling
mill is now working on full time, cutting about 100,000 feet a day.
Fischer Bros. mill is also running on
full time. Mr. Arnel recently sold 2,000,000 feet of saw
timber to M. S. Barker of Eugene, and says he has about 20,000,000 feet more
which is on the market.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 11‑13‑1906
F. M. SMITH OF MARCOLA FINED
$200 FOR SELLING LIQUOR
F. M. Smith of Marcola, who had pleaded
guilty to the charge of selling liquor in violation of the local option law,
was this forenoon fined by judge Harris $200.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 12‑12‑1906
MOHAWK LUMBER COMPANY WILL
HAVE FLUME
John F. Kelly and J. S. Magladry, doing
business under the firm name of the Mohawk Lumber Company, today filed with the
county clerk notice of the appropriation of 500 miners inches of the waters of
McGowan creek, a tributary of the Mohawk river for the purpose of generating
electrical power and for floating timber, piling, wood, and lumber. The point
of diversion of the proposed flume is at the mill dam of the Mohawk Lumber Co.,
the general course east and southeast along the north side of the creek and the
terminus at the Southern Pacific railroad, where McGowan creek crosses it.
These men have also filed on 200 inches of
water from Allison creek, a tributary of McGowan creek. The point of diversion of this flume is at
the junction of the two creeks, and the terminus is at the mill.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 12‑27‑1906
M. J. Arnel, of the firm of Arnel and
Evans, who has the contract for furnishing meet for the S. P. mills on the
Mohawk, was transacting business in Eugene today. He says that times are pretty lively in that
little valley. Mills Nos. 1 and 2 of the
S. P. Company are running to their full capacity and that No. 3 is well under
construction. No. 2 is situated near the head of Cartwright's Creek, about
three miles from the town of Marcola.
The lumber will be flamed to Marcola from this mill, the bridge across
the Mohawk for their flume having been completed last week. It crosses the
river on the old Evans place a few hundred yards above the town. Mr. Arnel
predicts that Marcola will be the busiest little lumbering town in the state
next summer. People are arriving daily
to make permanent homes in different sections of the valley and the price of
real estate, especially in the town of Marcola, is steadily on the increase.
The Booth Kelly mill at Wendling is
undergoing repairs during the holiday season, but operations will be resumed
early in the year. The Hyland mill still continues to grind away and the
Brookmeyer and Mohawk Lumber Company's plants will start up at the close of the
holiday season.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 1‑11‑1907
COBURG BUTCHER FINED FOR
BEING DRUNK
William Fay, a butcher of Coburg, was
fined $40 by police judge Dorris this morning for being drunk and
disorderly. This is the heaviest fine
imposed in the Eugene municipal court for such an offence in many years.
Fay came to town yesterday and proceeded
to fill up on soft drinks then he went to Barnard and West's stable last night about
12 o'clock to get his horse
and go home he became very abusive to the stableman and created a big
disturbance. He was placed under arrest
by officers Corner and Purdy and taken to the city jail where he deposited $40
with the officers to insure his appearance in court whereupon he was released
and allowed to go home. L.L. Walker appeared for him this morning and entered a
plea
of guilty, and the Judge
placed the fine at $40, remarking that it would have been $50 had the deposit
been that much. He sent
word to Fay that if he is found in town again he will be arrested upon charges
of resisting an officer.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 1‑23‑1907
HARRISBURG BANK CASHIER IN
SERIOUS TROUBLE
Arrested On Complaint of Miss Avis Tantom
who Says He Promised To Marry Her
A press dispatch from Albany
says:
John L. Norwood, cashier of the bank at
Harrisburg, and one of the leading citizens of that place, was arrested
yesterday afternoon on complaint of Avis Tantom, a girl about 19 years old, and
a daughter of William Tantom, of Harrisburg, who says Norwood promised to marry
her.
Norwood was released on his own
recognizance, and will be arraigned before Justice of the peace Levi Douglas at
Harrisburg today. Because of Norwood's prominence in the business and civic
affairs of Harrisburg, the arrest has caused a sensation in this county.
Norwood's friends maintain that the charge has been made with ulterior motives.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 1‑24‑1907
JASPER WILKINS DIES AT HIS
COBURG HOME
Jasper Wilkins, one of Lane County's foremost citizens, died at his home
near Coburg last Wednesday evening, January 23, 1907 at the age of 56 years, 2
months and 21 days. The cause of death was tubercular peritonitis, from which
he had been ill for some time past, but had been confined to his bed for only a
few days. Mayor F. M. Wilkins, of
Eugene, Amos Wilkins of Coburg, and Mrs. S. D. Holt, of Eugene, his brothers
and sister, were at his bedside at the time of his death. He also leaves an aged mother, Mrs. S. Y.
Wilkins of this city.
The funeral will be held Friday at 1:30 p.
m. from the family home to the Coburg cemetery, the services being conducted by
the Coburg Odd Fellows.
Jasper Wilkins was born November 2, 1850,
on his father's donation claim, ten miles northeast of Eugene, near
Coburg. He received his first schooling
in Linn county, walking 4 miles to
school; afterward attending school at the VanDuyn schoolhouse near
Coburg, three months out of each year. In the fall of 1870 he entered the
Christian College (now
the state normal school at
Monmouth), remaining there that winter.
The summer of 1874, Mr.
Wilkins spent about the head of
Crooked River in Eastern
Oregon, a chain carrier on government surveys for J. M. Dick of lane Co. In the
spring of 72 he
received the nomination
for
county surveyor and was
elected by a 108 majority. For several years after this Mr. Wilkins looked
after the farm, did survey work, etc. Mr Wilkins was a delegate to the
Republican state convention in 1880, 82, and 86.
On Feb. 1, 1888, Mr. Wilkins married Miss
Carrie A, Seavy of Lane Co., and their home was blessed with four children. Mr.
Wilkins was elected to the state legislature in 1890, by a 112 majority, and again in the next election by
a 350 majority.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 1‑31‑1907
Harrisburg, Ore., Jan. 30.‑
Five boys are held at the city jail for
alleged violation of the curfew ordinance.
It is said that they had been in the habit of skating on roller skates
in a large room on the second floor of the Mendenhall building until about 8
o'clock, the curfew hour, and then would turn out all the lights but one, which
they would place on the floor so as to give the room the appearance of being
deserted, and would then play cards until midnight or past. The marshal, hearing of this, mounted the
stairs last night and on becoming satisfied some of the boys were in there,
again descended and preceded to the jail, a short distance away, unlocked the
door and returned. He Knocked on the
door, and on being admitted he requested the boys to accompany him, which they
did.
It is said two boys made an exit by way of
a back window, reaching the ground by way of a porch post, thus giving the
marshal the slip for the time being.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 2‑6‑1907
SPRINGFIELD JUNCTION TO HAVE
DEPOT
J.
b. Eddy, right‑of‑way agent for the Southern Pacific Company,
appeared before the county commissioners' court this forenoon and announced
that the company intends to erect a depot at Springfield Junction, formerly
known as Henderson Station, but in order to do so it is necessary to encroach
upon the county road. It is proposed to
build the depot 440 feet west of the box car that is at present doing duty for
a depot, and it will be located south of the track. The road that will be affected by the building
of the depot is the one leading up to Laurel Grove cemetery.
Mr. Eddy also presented a petition for a
telephone line to be built along the county road between the company's sawmills
Nos. 2 and 3 on the Mohawk, and for the privilege of building a lumber flume
over certain county roads between Marcola
and Mabel and Marcola and Wendling.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 2‑13‑1907
BAD
The fuel shortage is having its effect on
the operation of trains on the Wendling branch. A Eugene resident had occasion
to make a trip to Wendling one day this week and made a few
observations; The train was
an hour late in leaving Springfield, because steam could not be raised sooner
with the green slab wood obtained at the Booth Kelly sawmill. In making the
return trip the train ran very slowly, and finally came to a dead standstill and could go no further,
the steam gauge registered only 30 pounds pressure. The fire was stirred up and
after a wait of half an hour the train resumed its journey. It is said that
this experience has been quite frequent lately. Green slab wood makes very poor
locomotive fuel, but it seems to be the only kind the company can get for the
Wendling branch.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 2‑18‑1907
S. P. GETS READY TO OPERATE
SAWMILL FLUMES
The S. P. Co. filed papers today wherein,
Rose Baxter and J. L. Renninger and wife agree to give the company the right of
using
the waters of the streams on
their premises in sec. 13, 23, and 24, Tws. 16 S. Range 2 W. in the Mohawk
country for fluming and other purposes, annual rental to be $10 in each
instance. The water is to be used in the operation of the Co's flumes which are
to be built in connection with the 3 new sawmills in that
location. The agreement
provides that enough water shall be left in the stream for domestic purposes
and that 24 miners inches of water shall be left at such times as the owners of
the land make known their need for irrigation purposes. The agreement also
gives the company the right to cross the lands with telephone lines.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 2‑28‑1907
COBURG
There are very bright prospects for the
establishment of a glass factory in the little city of Coburg within a few
months. The matter has been talked over a great deal during the last few weeks,
and the project has now reached the stage when
publicity of the plans of the
promoters of the enterprise can be given.
The promoters are A. A. Stoneburg, a well
known farmer residing near Coburg, Gus Mathison, recently from the East, and
John Hedburg, who has resided at Coburg for the past three of four years. They have prepared articles of incorporation
of the Mathison Glass Factory, with a capitol stock of $100,000, and will file
them with the county clerk in a short time.
They claim to have ample capitol to back them.
Land for the factory has been secured, the
citizens of Coburg donating it, thus showing their faith in the promoters of
the enterprise. The plant will be
located in the southern part of the town, in Jarnagin, an addition, near the
railroad, and only a spur will have to be built so that the factory's product
can be loaded on the cars.
Mr. Mathison left a few days ago for Ohio
to make
arrangements for obtaining the
necessary machinery for the factory and to obtain material with which to
manufacture glass. Upon his return,
the work of erecting the necessary
buildings will begin. The main building, will be 48 x 90 feet in
dimensions, and there will be several other smaller structures. The plant will
employ about 40 men at first, but it is the plan of the promoters to increase
its capacity so that it will require at least a hundred men to operate it.
The principal reason Coburg was chosen for
the site for the plant is the cheapness of fuel at that place. Thousands of
cords of good wood are burned and thrown away each year by the Booth Kelly Co. sawmill there, but hereafter it is
the intention of the promoters of the glass factory to utilize that fuel that is
now wasted. Contracts have already been
entered into with the sawmill people to furnish the new factory a certain
amount of wood each month, and the price to be paid for it is said to be
ridiculously small.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 3‑1‑1907
MARCOLA NEWS
Marcola, Feb. 28.‑ The
S. P. Company lumber yards at Marcola were begun yesterday.
The Jap cook house on the section burnt
down Sunday morning. Charley Piquet,
who was running the log haul at the S.
P. mill No. 1, received a broken knee last week by being struck by the limb of
a tree.
The railroad company has had to put on a
coal burner, as they are unable to obtain wood between Coburg and
Wendling. Our ten‑cent
jewelry man left us last Saturday, as he had obtained most all the dimes that
Marcola people were willing to give him.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 3‑13‑1907
ALBERT McPOLAND KILLED BY
FALLING
thinking he was getting out
of harms way, but the tree fell in a different direction than expected, and
young McPoland was crushed beneath its limbs. He was about 25 years of age and
formerly lived at Springfield, where he conducted,the Oregon Hotel until about
three months ago. It is said that he was to be married in a few days to a
Springfield girl.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 3‑19‑1907
WENDLING
Constable Plank went to Wendling this
morning to arrest Fred Shepard, a sawmill hand here, for assault with a
dangerous weapon upon John Downs on March 14. Downs and Shepard became engaged
in a quarrel with the result that Shepard became enraged and struck Downs
across the face with a board. The latter
is now in the Eugene hospital receiving treatment for his injury, which, while
not serious, is very painful.
The constable is expected down from
Wendling, with his man tonight. He will
be tried before Justice of the Peace Bryson tomorrow.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 3‑21‑1907
ANOTHER SAWMILL
Marcola, March 21.‑
Mr. Spencer, of Linn county, is clearing off the ground near
Marcola upon which to erect a sawmill to saw up the timber purchased of Mr. Cole.
The S. P. mill No. 3 will start as soon as
the knees for the carriage arrive.
A new donkey engine for S. P. camp No. 2
arrived last week. They are working on
the dam at S. P. mill No. 2, as it is not properly built.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 4‑24‑1907
MARCOLA HOTEL TO BE ERECTED
The bids for the erection of O. Cole's
three‑story frame hotel at Marcola were opened at the office of the
architect, John Hunzicker, in this city last evening. There were only two
bidders, Garrison and Mummey,
of Eugene, and John R. Chezem of Springfield, although more were expected. The
Eugene men were the lowest bidders, the figure being $3,256, and they were
awarded the contract. Mr. Chezem's bid
was $3,300. The work of erecting the
building will begin at once, and will be
completed sometime during the summer.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 4‑25‑1907
COBURG GLASS FACTORY BUILDING
NEARLY COMPETE
George A. Drury, ex‑mayor of Coburg,
was in the city last evening and called at the Guard office. He says that the roof of the Mathisen Glass
Company's new factory building is now about on and it will not be long until
the building is completed. Some of the machinery for the plant has already
arrived from the East, and the remainder will arrive at intervals during the
summer. The main building is 48x90 feet
in dimensions and it has required 50,000 shingles to cover it.
It is the plan of the promoters of the
enterprise to have the factory in operation by the first of July, and they will
employ about 40 people at the outset, although the number may be increased to
75 within a short time.
The Company recently elected officers as
follows:
J. D. Pirtle, president; John
Hedberg, vice president; A. A. Stoneberg, secretary and treasurer.
The directors are:
J. D. Pirtle, John Hedberg,
A. A. Stoneberg, Gus Mathisen and Fred Johnson.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 5‑2‑1907
MARCOLA LOGGER KILLED BY
DRINKING JAMAICA GINGER
Jack Burnett, the young logger who was
taken from Eugene to Portland one day last week, having been brought down from
Marcola, where he was working
in S. P. logging camp No. 3, died in the hospital there two days after entering
the institution. When he was
taken to that city it was reported that the man had typhoid or some other kind
of fever, but it now developed that in the absence of liquor he drank a large
quantity of Jamaica Ginger, resulting in his death. This information was obtained from an
intimate friend of Burnett's who was down from the camp yesterday, and who
received word of his death soon after it occurred.
Some loggers will obtain liquor somewhere
or somehow, and if they fail, sometimes, as in the case of Burnett, will drink
almost anything that is strong, hoping to quench their thirst. It is said that Burnett was not the man's
real name, and little or nothing is known of his relatives. He appeared to be
fairly well educated but told little of his past life. He was aged perhaps thirty years.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 5‑28‑1907
SUNSET COMPANY BUYS HYLAND
SAWMILL
The Hyland Sawmill property at Mable, on
the Mohawk, which was purchased last
August by T. R. Yerger of Los Angeles, today changed hands again the Sunset
Lumber Company being the
purchaser. This company was
incorporated at Portland two or three months ago and has had this purchase in
view since. H. C. Mahon, of this city, is president and general manager:
E. O. Samuels, of South Bend,
Wash., is superintendent and I. W. Lane, of Texas, is secretary and
treasurer. The company is well financed
and will operate the plant to its full capacity. The property that has just changed
hands consists of a first class mill with a capacity of 40,000 feet of lumber
every 10 hours, 2300 acres of fine timber, a provision store with a $4,000
stock, two miles of tramway from the mill to the railroad, docks for loading
the lumber on the cars, logging outfits and everything that goes to make a
complete plant. The mill is situated at Mable post office, three miles above
Marcola and two miles from the Wendling branch of the Southern Pacific
railroad. A steel rail horse tramway conveys the lumber from the mill to the
docks at the railroad.
Mr. Yerger, from whom the new company
purchased the plant, came here from Los Angeles last summer and has operated it
since, but seeing another business opening at Portland that would be a profit
to him, sold out at a good advance over the price he had paid for the plant.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 5‑31‑1907
MARCOLA NEWS
The train has been from one to five hours
late the
last week, but to make up
they bring more cars to haul
all the lumber.
A new donkey engine for S. P. camp No. 3
arrived yesterday. J.B. Cox, the
blacksmith of the S. P. camp No. 3, has resigned and will move to Springfield
to build on and improve his lots.
S. G. Squires is building a new barn.
The relatives of the late Austin Root have
put up a monument this week to his memory.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 6‑5‑1907
YOUNG
Harry Hanson, aged 17 years, was the
victim of a serious accident at the Southern Pacific Company's sawmill No. 3 at
Marcola yesterday afternoon between 4 and 5 o'clock.
He was working about a saw while it was
not in motion and it suddenly started up without any warning being given, with
the result that the boys left arm was sawed off near the shoulder and the
scapula sawed in two. He was at once
started for Eugene, the company surgeon there binding up the wound as well as
possible, however, before he left. He
arrived in town between 8 and 9 o'clock last night and was taken to the Eugene
hospital, where Dr. Paine, assisted by Dr. Kuykendall, dressed the wound.
He is getting along very well today
although he is still very weak from shock.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 6‑5‑1907
MARCOLA NEWS
Mrs. Groshong, the cook of S. P. camp No.
3, has resigned on account of the foreman not allowing them to keep dogs in
camp. The building of C. Cole's
new hotel at Marcola will begin soon, as the material is being put on the
ground. The flume from S. P. mill No. 3 has begun to grow under the supervision of Abe Tidd. S. G. Spicer has the
frame work of his new barn all up.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 6‑14‑1907
JOHN
W. L. butler shot and killed John Ford at
Wendling this afternoon at 1 O'clock and immediately afterward gave himself up
to the constable there, who will bring him to Eugene on this evening's train
and place him in the county jail. News of the killing was received in Eugene
shortly after it occurred, and the Guard
telephoned for particulars, but owing to the fact that the line was in very bad
order it was very difficult to hear anything. However, after having the
conversation repeated through the Springfield office, a meager account of the
killing was obtained.
Ford and Butler were both employed in the
Booth Kelly logging camp at Wendling.
Ford's wife secured a divorce from him at Oregon City about a month ago, and he
came to Eugene and secured employment of the mill company at Wendling. A few days ago the woman arrived in Eugene
and in company with Butler who is said to be from Portland, went to
Wendling. There Ford saw them and
trouble ensued, resulting in the murder. Ford was on the train at the time
Butler entered the car where he was sitting and fired three shots at him at
close range, all of them taking effect.
Ford died in a few minutes. Butler then gave himself up to the
constable, who handcuffed him and will take him to Eugene there to be turned
over to Sheriff Fisk. There is great
excitement at Wendling over
the affair. Ford is the man, who with
the woman that was the cause of the shooting, then Stella Ridgeway, was
arrested in the Siuslaw country over a year ago for lewd cohabitation. He was
committed to jail for the offence on February 8, 1906, and liberated upon
marrying the girl on
February 15. They went to Portland and the next heard from
them was when Mrs. Ford was granted a divorce at Oregon City, the Guard
printing an account of the case at the time.
Ford was seen here a few days ago, as was also his divorced wife. Ford's
body will arrive here on the same train which is carrying the
constable and prisoner. Both men are about thirty‑five
years of age and Butler is single.
LATER REPORTS INDICATE BUTLER
SHOT IN SELF DEFENCE
The stage carrying Butler and the Ford
woman arrived in Eugene at 4:40 this afternoon and Butler was turned over to
Sheriff Fisk. The later details of the
crime differ from the first reports in that Butler, it seems, killed Ford in
self defense. Butler had entered
the train to come to Eugene when Ford, in a drunken condition, followed him and
began firing. Two bullets struck
Butler in the left arm, inflicting flesh wounds. Butler then opened fire on
Ford, killing him. He denies that he had
given Ford any just cause for attempting to take his life.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 7‑2‑1907
LOGGERS TAKE THOUSANDS OF
DOLLARS TO PORTLAND
A large number of loggers from the Mohawk
country arrived in Eugene last night, and more will be down tonight on their
way to Portland to celebrate the 4th of July.
Each man has from $50 to $200
in cash and they declare they will spend every cent of it before returning. One
bank alone cashed over $15,000 worth of checks for the loggers yesterday. On account of prohibition in Lane Co. every
bit of this money will be spent in Portland, whereas in former years it was
kept in Eugene, and surrounding towns. The loggers are all free spenders and
create prosperity wherever they do their trading.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 7‑3‑1907
DR. J. RANDOLPH
A very pretty wedding took place at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. D. Smith at Marcola Ore when their youngest daughter, Ada,
was united in marriage to Dr. J. Randolph Barr, the ceremony being performed by
Rev. Edward Gittings of the Leslie M. E.
church of Salem.
The ceremony was witnessed only by
immediate relatives and intimate friends. The bride was attended by her
sisters, Mrs. J. H. Barr, Jr. and Mrs. Willie C. Barr, while the groomsmen were
J. H. Barr, Jr., and Willie C. Barr, brothers of the groom.
The guests were; Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Barr,
Sr., Mr. and Mrs. D. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Dugan, Mr. and Mrs. Curtis
Hayden, Mr. and Mrs. Walter E. Smith, Mrs. M. S. Gum. Mrs. D.B. Kennedy, Miss
Lola E. Barr, Dr. W. H. Pollard, Mr.
Alvin Clearwater, and Misses, Vera
Edwards, Essie Nicholson, Anna Hills, Lucy Ramsey, Edna Mcpherson, Alice
McCornack, Alta Dodd and Ruby Edwards.
The bridal couple will reside at Wendling where they will be at home to
their friends after July 8th.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 7‑15‑1907
THE COBURG GLASS FACTORY
The Matheson Glass Company which for some
time has been erecting a glass factory in Coburg, expects to begin blowing
glass August 1, and thereby start the first glass factory in Oregon. This concern
expects to employ about thirty people at first and to make every kind of glass
except plate. As glass in the West is
twice as high in price as in the East, the company should be a success, and
upon this fact the company intends to enlarge the plant, as soon as it is
practical. J. D. Pirtle, who for eight
years has been a resident of Coburg, is at the head of the business end of the
enterprise.
The men who will run the actual process of
manufacturing are Norwegians, most of whom are almost directly from
Norway. They bring with them all the
skill that European artificers possess, and claim to have the best glass blower
in America in the person of Gustav Matheson.
These men have been blowing glass since their childhood and claim to
have learned much in advance, of the methods of Amerisa's, manufactured in the
Eastern states. This superior knowledge is demonstrated by the cost of the
present plant at Coburg, only $6,000, while an American plant in the East would
require the sum of $30,000. There are in
the plant one smelter, four coolers, one temporary kiln, besides the necessary
apparatus. The smelter is something new
to this country, being constructed to burn wood. The expense is only $2,000 for the furnace,
though the others in the United States that do the same work are valued at many
times that sum. The smelter is being
constructed by two of the workmen themselves, since the form is so peculiar
that an American mason would have to be shown every step. The furnace, the
proprietors claim, is the only one of its kind in the country. It also has such efficiency that it will make
glass six times as cheaply as those used in the East. One reason for this is that the fuel‑wood
is so much less expensive. The ingredients that will go into the glass will
come from California and Oregon. The
sand will come from the southern state, while the rest, as lime, will be
purchased where cheapest. The reason
that the factory was located at Coburg was on account of the abundance of wood,
the waste from the Booth Kelly sawmill being contracted for. The building which covers the works is a
large, barn‑like structure, which was put up to cover the works until the
property is proven a success.
The men who will do the blowing are
largely of one family, and seem to be of the very best class of immigrants.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 7‑18‑1907
MARCOLA WILL HAVE
Marcola in to have a fine new school
house, to be built this summer.
Architect Hunzicker, of this city, has begun the plans for a four room,
one‑story wooden structure which the directors of that city have
ordered. It is planned to have the
building completed by the time the fall term of school opens. Marcola has grown
during the past two years from a hamlet consisting of a store and a half dozen
houses to a flourishing town of several hundred people, and the old schoolhouse
has become inadequate.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 7‑23‑1907
THREE MEN HURT AT MARCOLA IN
Marcola, July 23.‑
Friday, George King, who was employed at
the S. P. camp No. 3, was struck across the back by a line, hurting him
seriously. He was taken to the hospital in Portland.
Charley Anderson, a timber faller employed
at S. P. camp No. 3, received a seriously sprained ankle the same day by jumping
from a high springboard.
John Jacobson, also a timber faller
employed at S. P. camp No. 3. was struck on the head by a large limb, making
three large gashes in his head. He was
unconscious for about an hour. Dr. W. H.
Pollard of Marcola, was called to dress his wounds, and reports the skull not
broken, but it may turn worse.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 8‑3‑1907
COBURG GLASS WORKS TO START
The glass works at Coburg did not start as
expected on August 1, because some of the machinery was not done. A hood for
one of the furnaces and some wheels are being made here in Eugene and held back
the opening of the factory. All of the workmen from the East are not expected
to arrive until Monday, which will also held back the initial blowing until the
middle of next week or perhaps later.
The factory promises to become an
enterprise of importance to Coburg, and is said to be the first one west of the
Rocky Mountains.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 8‑5‑1907
MARCOLA VERY
The third flume into Marcola, from
Southern Pacific camp No. 2, will be finished within a couple of weeks,
according to the estimate of the foreman.
They are now at the crossing of the Fischer flume. Several months have been spent upon the work,
which has entailed considerable expense.
The flume is fifty feet high in some places, the end of it coming into
the same yard as the one from No. 4, they entering from nearly opposite
directions.
The hotel which has been constructed by C.
Cole will be ready for opening in about ten days. The building is a
three‑story frame
structure, containing 32 rooms. W. C. Seelye will be manager of the
establishment, which has been greatly needed in the thriving town of Marcola.
W. W. Coffey, who has been working for the Sunset Lumber Co. of Mabel, had his
head split Saturday, and came down to have the injury dressed Saturday
night. Just a year ago he received
serious injuries from which he was laid up for many weeks. Garrison and Mummey
today began construction of a new four room school house at Marcola. The branch
of the Axe Billy Department store at this place is also having a new building,
erected. George Sabocski is finishing a five room cottage, and several other buildings are reported as being
built at Marcola.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 8‑15‑1907
S. P. MILLS HAVE $30,000
YEARLY WASTE THREE MILLS AT MARCOLA HAVE WASTE OF $100 A
Because the Southern Pacific Company has no
right to sell timber, lumber or wood to the public, at least $100 worth of
slabwood or timber is being wasted each day, at the three S. P. mills near
Marcola, says G. F. Hurd, of this city, who has just returned from Marcola.
Some time ago a man offered the company
$100 a day for their waste timber, but because of a legal reason the timber is
burned. The company has use for a great deal of timber, but all that is sawed
must fit the company's expressed purposes, and that which does not goes into
the burner. In this way much waste timber that could be made up into lathe,
various sizes of lumber, and much slab wood is a total loss so far as supplying
the big demand for such things is concerned. Mr. Hurd believes that such waste
is criminal, for since twenty‑five
cords of wood, counting all the waste, good as firewood only, in burned at one
mill alone each day, the conservative estimate for all three mills is fifty
cords a day, worth at least $100, $20,000 a year is lost in wealth to the
country.
BIG DONKEY ENGINE
The Southern Pacific Company has just
brought to camp No. 3 a big combined donkey and traction engine. The outfit has
4000 feet of wire cable for hauling logs, and a return cable 9000 feet in
length.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 8‑22‑1907
FISCHER BROTHERS
Marcola, August 21.‑
Fischer Bros. have got their mill
overhauled and have resumed operations once more.
Dave Hill, who was hurt at Fischer Bros.
mill is not
improving very fast.
Munroy and Garrison are progressing nicely
with the new schoolhouses. The two old schoolhouses are for sale.
Mr. Tidd has nearly finished the flume
from S. P. mill No. 3.
The S. P. bought a team for camp No. 1,
paying $600,
and have got a new road
donkey for camp No. 3. Mr.
Gilbert has been engaged for
principal of the Marcola
school.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 9‑5‑1907
MARCOLA NEWS
J. S. Churchill, the bookkeeper of the
Fischer Bros. Lumber Company and
Postmaster of Marcola, has handed in his resignation as bookkeeper.
Ralph Buchanan, employed at the Fischer
Bros. as ratchet setter, was badly hurt last week by striking his head on a
brace over the carriage track.
As Abe Tidd has the flumes of the S. P.
Company complete, most of the crew have gone to Portland to get work.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 9‑9‑1907
COBURG GLASS PLANT IN
The glass factory at Coburg is now in full
operation with twelve or more men employed. It is turning out lamp chimneys at
present, but later other articles will be manufactured and a larger work force
employed. This is destined to be one of the principal industries of the
county. A ready market for the produce
of the factory is found and as the fuel is cheap, the plant can be operated on
an economical basis. The owners of the plant are old hands at the business,
being employed in glass factories in Norway.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 9‑13‑1907
TWO MARCOLA WOMEN ARRESTED
The proprietor and an inmate of a house of
ill fame at Marcola were arrested by constable Plank, charged with selling
liquor in violation of the state law.
Those arrested are Mrs. Allie Cruzan, of
Fairmont fame, and Mrs. Pinchnott, one of the inmates of her house. There have
been many complaints to Deputy Distinct
Attorney Skipworth in regard to Mrs. Cruzan's house at Marcola, and her arrest
has been contemplated for some time past, but it has been difficult to secure
the consent of any one to appear as witness against the place. Besides the sale
of liquor at the house, it is said there are nightly carousals there which
greatly disturb the peace of the community.
The two women will be brought down from there on the evening train.
There are two cases each against the
Cruzan and
Pinchnott woman.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 9‑21‑1907
FATAL PISTOL DUEL OCCURS AT
MARCOLA
One man killed, another mortally wounded,
and a third slightly wounded is the result of a shooting affray at Marcola
about 3:30 this afternoon.
The affair was between Charles Crowley and
Bert Nunn, who met at Price and Weber's store and emptied their revolvers at
each other. Crowley died soon after receiving his wounds and Nunn is said to be
in a very serious condition. A man named Ireland, who it seems, was a
bystander, received a wound of a minor nature.
Crowley who was a single man aged about 30 years, lived at the house
kept by Mrs. Alice Cruzan, who was tried and
convicted in the Justice
court in Eugene this morning for selling liquor in violation of the local
option law. He was known as a bad man and apparently had no means of
livelihood. Nunn was a respectable
citizen, a man of family, and has been working at one of the local camps at
Marcola for some time past. He was a
witness against Mrs. Cruzan in her trial this morning, and on that account had
trouble with Crowley. It is said that
Crowley made threats against Nunn several times during the day, and while they
were on their way from Eugene to Marcola
this afternoon. Nunn was shot
through the abdomen and it is probable that he will not recover from his
wounds. It could not be learned how many shots entered his body, nor where the
shots fired by Nunn entered the body of
Crowley. It was first reported that
Crowley had not been killed, but afterward it was learned that he expired a few
minutes after the shooting. Nunn will be
brought to Eugene on this evenings train, and his wounds attended to at the
Eugene Hospital. It is probable that "Crowley's body will be brought down
on the same train for the inquest.
Mrs. Alice Cruzan, keeper of a
questionable resort at Marcola, was fined $250 and costs in the Eugene Justice
court today for selling liquor in violation of the local option law. Her trial came up at 9 O'clock in the forenoon and the
courtroom was filled with witnesses and idle a spectators. The jury that had
been chosen the night before consisted of the following. P. D. Newett, G. E. Kress, W. W. Hains, A. O.
Jennings L. L.
Cartwell and Samuel Taylor.
The state examined a number of witnesses, including the two detectives who have
been testifying in other cases during the week, and several citizens of
Marcola. The defense offered no testimony at all. The jury returned a verdict
of guilty without leaving the jury box.
The defence waived the time for sentence and Judge Bryson imposed a fine
of $250.
Mrs. Cruzan's attorney, J. M.
Pipes immediately filed a notice of appeal to the circuit court, and the
woman's bond was fixed at $400. Mrs.
Pinchnott, who was arrested at the same time and on the same charge, is not in
the city and cannot be found.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 9‑23‑1907
BERT NUNN DIES FROM WOUNDS
RECEIVED AT MARCOLA
W. G. (Bert) Nunn, who was shot by Charles Crowley in a pistol duel at
Marcola Saturday afternoon, in which Crowley met his death, died at the Eugene
Hospital at 1:55 this afternoon. The
wound was a very bad one and the physicians from the first gave no hope of
recovery. The bullet entered his right side, passing directly beneath the
liver, and, and came out on the left side, just under the stomach, barely
missing both of these organs. The
intestines were not penetrated.
Nunn's family was at his bedside at the
time of his death. While it was
considered that death was inevitable, it came sooner than the physicians
thought.
STORY OF THE TRAGEDY
For some time before the shooting occurred
there had been trouble between Nunn and Crowley, and Nunn had made the remark
that he believed it would result seriously some day. The fact that Nunn and Richard Harold, who
was also shot in the leg by Crowley, had testified against Mrs. Cruzan, with
whom Crowley lived, in her trial for selling liquor, aggravated the trouble
between them. When they reached Marcola Saturday afternoon, after having been
in Eugene attending the trial, Nunn and Guy Cruzan, son of Mrs. Cruzan, became
engaged in a fist fight. Cruzan was
knocked down and his face disfigured.
Shortly afterward Crowley came out of the Cruzan house with a revolver
strapped on his hip. Seeing Nunn in Webber and Price's store, he called out to
him to come out you _ _ _ I am going to
kill you." Nunn started out and at the same time drew his revolver. He had not more than reached the door, when
the shooting commenced. Both seemed to
begin shooting at the same time. After
both men had emptied their revolvers Nunn went into the rear part of the store
and sank to the floor. Crowley went around the corner of the building, reloaded
his revolver and coming back again shooting at Harold, who was back in the
store some distance. Two bullets struck
him in the right leg, inflicting only flesh wounds. After the
shooting Crowley retraced his
steps toward the "Cruzan home and
called to Guy Cruzan to shoot in the air and shout "Hurrah for the
victory". Young Cruzan did so, and soon afterward Crowley sank to the
ground and died about half an hour afterward. Several shots that Crowley fired at Nunn
barely missed Walter Price, one of the proprietors of the store who was leaning
on the show case at the time two shots entered the show case right under his
arms, another struck the counter, and a fourth struck a tobacco box near his
head. A piece of glass from the broken
show case struck him on the nose and he thought for a second or two that he had
been shot.
Upon examination of Crowley's body it was
found that he was struck by three bullets, one entering his breast very near
the heart, another in the abdomen and the third in the right leg above the knee.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 9‑25‑1907
CRUZAN PEOPLE ORDERED OUT OF
MARCOLA
The Guard is informed that a vigilance
committee has been organized at Marcola, among the best citizens of that place,
and if Mrs. Alice Cruzan and her followers, who were mixed up in the double
killing there the other day and who were largely
responsible for the trouble,
return and continue their residence there they will be ordered out of town, and
if they refuse to go they will be summarily dealt with. The citizens will use
no violence unless it becomes necessary to eject them bodily from the town.
As an indication of the feeling against
these people one of the merchants there refused to sell the daughter of Mrs
Cruzan and another girl a loaf of bread the next day after the shooting and
ordered them out of his store.
Mrs. Cruzan and her associates are in
Eugene today, having attended the funeral of Charles Crowley, which was held
this afternoon. It is not learned whether they intend returning to Marcola or
not. Of course they will be allowed to pack up their belongings there, but the
citizens will not tolerate their remaining there any longer than necessary.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 9‑26‑1907
The Fitzhenry‑Bean Lumber Company
today filed articles of incorporation
with the county clerk, the incorporators being N. L. Fitzhenry of Deerhorn;
Frank L. Bean, recently from Montana, and W. Schornig, a well known logger of
Vida. The Capitol stock is $10,000 and the principle place of business is at
Coburg. It is the intention of the company to at once erect a sawmill of about
20,000 feet capacity, on a tract of timber recently
purchased from Jesse Hopkins
about a mile from Coburg. There are about 18,000,000 feet in the tract and the
company has a contract to log it off inside of six years. The mill will be in operation by January 1,
1908.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 10‑9‑1907
COBURG WOMAN HURT IN RUNAWAY
This afternoon at 3:45 o'clock the street
car frightened a horse hitched to a buggy being driven by Mrs. Madsen, of Coburg, and a lady friend, and the
horse ran away. The horse ran east on East Eighth street to Oak, and north on
that street to fifth. Turning west on
Fifth Street the animal ran into a tree near the Charles Croner residence and
demolished the buggy, throwing the occupants to the ground. They were not badly
injured, but
received severe bruises.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 10‑12‑1907
SAGINAW SAWMILL CLOSES DOWN
INDEFINITELY
George H. Kelly and E. H. Cox, of the
Booth Kelly Lumber Company, visited the company's big sawmill at Saginaw
yesterday and ordered the plant closed down at once on account of the car
shortage. It is absolutely impossible to get cars enough to fill one‑twentieth
of the orders the company receives. The date of the reopening of the mill for
business depends on the car supply, and the final decision in the new rate
matter. If the proposed rate on lumber shipments from the coast to the East is
put into effect, the mill will remain idle for a long time to come, and it is
likely that the other plants of the company
will also close down. The mills at Springfield, Coburg and Wendling are
each operating a day shift, but are shipping very little lumber for the reason
that cars are so scarce.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 10‑19‑1907
SPLENDID LODGE INSTITUTED
LAST NIGHT AT MARCOLA
Mohawk Lodge No. 200 was instituted last
night with the best prospects of any Odd Fellows organization ever instituted
in Lane county, said W. V. Green last night at Marcola, when 46 new members
were initiated and seven admitted by card, making a total membership of 53.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 10‑25‑1907
S. P. COMPANY BEGINS MARCOLA
DEPOT
Marcola,
Oct. 25.‑
The S. P. Company has at last started
working on the depot at Marcola. The surveyors were working on the site
Friday. The steam wood saw that
cut wood for J. F. Volgamore has returned to Springfield.
Dave Neely hauled several loads of lumber
from John
Brookmyer's mill last
week.
School has not begun in the new
schoolhouse as expected. There was a
moving picture show in town Wednesday and Thursday night. There was a large
attendance and "The Montana girl" was fine.
There have been about two cases of typhoid
fever this summer at Fischer Brothers mill.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 10‑29‑1907
NELSON COFFEY INJURED IN
MOHAWK LOGGING COIF
Nelson Coffey, employed in one of the S.
P. logging camps near Marcola, was brought to Eugene last night suffering from
serious injuries. Coffey ran the donkey engine in the camp. The
cables pulling a log became twisted, and in trying to straighten them
his thumb was caught between them and he was drawn into the drums of the
cylinders on the donkey before the engine could be stopped. His chest was crushed, and other
injuries were received.
He is now in the Eugene
Hospital, and while he is in a very serious condition there, the chances are
for his recovery.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 11‑2‑1907
THE STRANGE CASE OF THE
HALSEY
There are some strange features in the
case. Hedgepath and his wife are second cousins. His mother‑in‑law,
who lived with the couple, is his guardian until next Monday, his 21st
birthday, when he will receive $104 from his mothers estate. His wife will
endeavor to secure this, as she is in ill health, with no means of support. The
strangest feature of the case is that this is the fourth member of the family
to leave by train from this place in the
same manner during the last two years.
The first to go was Mrs. Hedgepath's
father, monroe Miller, who eloped with her uncle's wife, Florence Allen, taking
Mr. Allen's 11‑year‑old daughter.
Then Vincent Holgate, who is married to
her aunt,
disappeared, and now her
husband has followed their mode of settling family infelicity.
When Mrs. Allen, who is mother of the
deserted Mr. Allen, of Mrs. Miller, Mrs. Holgate and the grandmother of Mrs.
Hedgepath, was interviewed on the subject she replied:
" My sister of Eugene
was treated the same way, but law, they can't hurt us we're above
reproach."
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 11‑12‑1907
CHARLES KING KILLED AT
FISCHERS
THE DAILY GUARD 11‑13‑1907
MARCOLA NEWS
The postoffice was moved last Saturday
from Fischers office to Price and Weber's store. Walter Price, the new
postmaster, has had considerable experience along that line and will no doubt
give good service to the public.
In spite of the wage cut of 25 and 50
cents per day made by the S. P. and Fischer Bros. mills, all of the hands
continue to work. Quite a commodious depot is being built at this place, work
beginning last Tuesday. Robert Whitbeck came down from Wendling and bought a
lot from C.J. Cole, paying $100 for it.
Robert Drury and daughters, Nellie and
Maude, after a few days visit with friends and relatives at this place,
returned to their home at Pleasant Hill.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 12‑12‑1907
TWO LOGGERS BADLY INJURED AT
MARCOLA
A. Almasi and J. W. Wheeler, loggers
employed by the
Southern Pacific Company at
mill No. 3 near Marcola, were badly injured yesterday afternoon about 10
o'clock and they were taken to Portland on the flyer last evening to be placed
in a hospital. Almasi and Wheeler were
working on a log chute when a log was being pulled down, when the log struck
something and whirled around, striking the men. Almasi's head and shoulders
were badly bruised, and he seemed to be hurt internally. He was unconscious at
the time the train left for Eugene at 5 o'clock, and it was thought his
injuries were serious.
Wheeler was caught between the log that
jumped the chute and another one, bruising him up quite badly, but no bones
were broken. The men were brought to Eugene on cots and kept at the depot until
the flyer came along about 7 o'clock and then taken to Portland.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 12‑14‑1907
BOOTH KELLY MEN PAID IN
Tuesday was pay day at the Booth Kelly
mill and $20,000 in gold coin was distributed among our citizens. Last month the company paid off their help
with San Francisco clearing house
certificates, but this month were fortunate enough in getting the gold
from their bankers in California. As the
crew at the mill has been considerably reduced during the past week, the
payroll will be correspondingly smaller next month.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 1‑3‑1908
ENGINE ON MOHAWK BRANCH TURNS
TURTLE
Yesterday evening about 5 o'clock a locomotive on its way to Wendling on
the Mohawk branch left the rails from some unknown cause and running along the
ties and tearing up the track for a distance of nearly 100 feet. It turned
turtle. No one was
seriously hurt, although
Fireman McCullough suffered severe cuts on his right hand.
Both the engineer and fireman jumped
before the locomotive turned over. The locomotive whose number is 2196, was
pulling a caboose and was on the way to Wendling after a number of cars of
lumber. As it reached a point near Yarnell Station, something went wrong with
the result as stated.
The Eugene‑Wendling, local passenger
train was at the Wendling end of the line at the time of the wrecks and it was
unable to make its run to this city. An
extra train was sent up from Albany to transfer the passengers for this city
and
Springfield.
A crew of men was put to work this morning
to repair the track and right the engine, but up to a late hour this afternoon
the train had not been able to pass the wreck.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 1‑4‑1908
THE SPRINGFIELD MATCH
FACTORY'S FIRST SHIPMENT
The Oregon Match Company is now running
full blast, and yesterday shipped their
first consignment to Portland, which consisted of fifty cases. Manager Duffie
informs us that they have orders for three hundred more cases, and are working
from eight to ten people steadily.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 1‑6‑1908
S. P. BRIDGE NEAR COBURG
COMPLETED
The southern Pacific bridge across the
McKenzie river near Coburg has been entirely completed and the crew and outfit
were in Eugene today on the way to Portland. The Eugene Coburg train brought
the work cars and other paraphernalia over to the main line and the first
freight train going north took them on toward Portland.
The bridge is a splendid structure and
replaced an old wooden one that did service for many years. When the recent financial flurry came on the
company ordered work on the bridge stopped, along with the curtailment of a
great deal of other work, but in a week or two afterward the crew was ordered
back to finish the bridge, as it was very near completion.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 1‑31‑1908
THE DEATH OF PIONEER,
ALEXANDER SEAVY
Alexander Seavy, a Lane county
pioneer, died at the home of
his daughter in Eugene, last evening at the age of 83 years, 9 months and
29 days. The funeral will be held at the
residence of J. W. Seavy at the corner of West sixth and Lincoln streets,
Saturday afternoon at 1 O'clock, with interment in the Masonic cemetery.
Mr. Seavy was born at Rockland Maine,
April 1, 1824. In early manhood he followed the occupation of a seaman, and
taking passage on a sailing vessel at Aberdeen, Scotland, in 1849 he came
around Cape Horn to San Francisco. From there he went to the mines in Trinidad
County California, and from there came to Oregon and started a store at
Althouse, then a prosperous mining camp in Josephine county. He was successful in this venture,
but sold out in 1855 and came to Lane county, taking up 160 acres of land
several miles northeast of Eugene and there engaged in stock raising. He added
to his holdings till at the present time the farm owned by him amounts to 1100
acres. He started to raise hops in 1883
and ever since then the Seavy hop yards have been famous all over the upper
Valley.
Through his marriage to Sarah A. Blachley,
the following children were born to Mr. Seavy:
William C., Thomas E., J. W., J. H. and J. A. who are farmers of Lane
county; Anna, wife of E. T. Bushnell; Clara, widow of the late Jasper Wilkins,
and
Sophronia, deceased.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 1‑31‑1908
SAW
The boy to whom it is alleged that
Brookmyer sold the tobacco is Archie Hill, the 15 year‑old son of Charles
Hill, residing in the vicinity of Spores. Brookmyer conducts a store in
connection with his sawmill, and it appears that the Hill boy has bought a
large number of cigars there and had them charged to his father's account. His father swore to the complaint against
Brookmyer, who has promised to be down on the evening train. It is the policy
of the Juvenile officers to enforce the law against selling tobacco to minors,
and other arrests way soon follow.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 2‑15‑1908
STAFFORD PAYS TAXES FIRST AS
USUAL
The tax rolls were open for payment of
1907 taxes this morning, and as usual J.
I. Stafford, of Mohawk, secured receipt No. I. The amount of his taxes this year was $128.04. George Yarnell, formerly of the Mohawk
valley, but now residing at Brickelton Wash, was the second to pay his taxes. The rush at the Sheriff's office was not great today for the
reason that the notices sent out by the sheriff telling each taxpayer the
amount of his taxes, have not all been received.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 2‑24‑1908
SERIOUS RUNAWAY ACCIDENT
OCCURS THIS MORNING
L. S. Hill, logging superintendent for the
Booth Kelly Lumber Co., and Fred Brockman, foreman of the Foss logging camp on
the upper Willamette River, were the victims of a serious runaway accident this
morning. They started out from Eugene in a buggy for the Foss camp, leading,
Brockman's saddle horse behind. As they reached Judkins Point, between Eugene
and Springfield, a freight train came
along and frightened the saddle horse, which became unmanageable, and
surmounted an embankment Jumped in between the two horses hitched to the buggy.
This caused the other two horses to run, and the occupants were thrown forcibly
to the ground and dragged a considerable distance. Hill's right leg was broken
just above the ankle and Brockman was badly bruised and scratched, but his injuries were not
serious. A telephone message was
sent to the Booth Kelly office immediately after the accident, and George H.
Kelly, and H. A. Dunbar secured a cab and drove to the scene of the runaway.
They brought the injured men to town and Mr. Hill was placed in the Eugene
Hospital. Brockman was taken to his home.
One of Hill's horses hitched to the buggy
was badly hurt by being cut with barbed wire, the team having run into a fence
along the roadside. The animal received
terrible cuts on one side of its body, and it is thought that its usefulness is
ruined.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 3‑2‑1908
MARCOLA HOTEL DESTROYED BY
Marcola, March 2.‑
The Marcola Hotel was destroyed by fire
this morning between 12 and 1 O'clock.
The building is a total loss and all the contents except a piano and two
or three chairs were burned. The
origin of the fire is a mystery. It caught in a room that had not been used for
some time, and as no one had been in that room as far as known during, the day
or evening, it is thought that the fire might have been of incendiary
origin. The building was erected last
summer by C. Cole, founder of the town of Marcola, at a cost of about
$4000. It was a three story structure
and contained 20 rooms besides the office, parlor, dining rooms, kitchen,
etc. The furniture was owned by B. A.
Seelye and was leased by Monte Miller, who had been
conducting the hotel only
about two an a half months. The building
was well furnished, the loss on the furniture being about $2500.
NARROW ESCAPE
The fire occurred at a time when everybody
in the hotel was asleep, and there were narrow escapes for some of the guests.
Many of them got out of the building with their clothing, but some had no time
to pick up any of their belongings, and were compelled to go out into the cold
night air with nothing but their night clothes on. Some of the guests lost all of their belongings.
Jack Littell lost $150 in cash and clothing; L. T. Brown lost $20 in cash and
much clothing; Dick Cleveland lost $30 in cash, his pension papers and
clothing, and the losses of others were perhaps as great. The loss to the
Landlord's personal effects was $500.
The building and contents were partially insured, but the amount of
insurance held is not learned today.
FORMED BUCKET BRIGADE
The town of Marcola is without fire
protection and there was no means of staying the flames except with buckets of
water. A, bucket brigade was formed by
the citizens, and by heroic efforts they succeeded in saving the business
district from destruction. The livery stable on one side of the hotel caught
fire several times, but by prompt action the flames were extinguished. The
Mohawk restaurant, on the other side, also had a narrow escape. Had there been
any wind at all the flames could not have been confined to the hotel building,
and the whole town might have burned.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 3‑5‑1908
FALSE ROBBERY AT MARCOLA
Constable Plank was called to Marcola
yesterday by a
telephone message saying that
the three men were seen in William Amos' store there the night before, carrying
away the goods in the store. The
constable went up on the afternoon train and when he got there he found that
the doors of the store which had been nailed up by him some time previously,
the store having been closed by attachment proceedings, had not been molested,
and none of the goods were gone. Five
different men swore that they saw these men in the store, and could not believe
that nothing had happened. The constable made an investigation and found that three men were engaged during
the night moving some things out of a building adjoining and placed them on the
back porch of the store to haul them away.
These five men saw them through the glass doors of both the front and
rear of the store, and it appeared very much as if the men were inside.
Constable Plank went to Marcola again this
afternoon to arrange for the sale of the attached goods.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 3‑30‑1908
WOMAN DRUMMER INJURED IN
RUNAWAY NEAR COBURG
Mrs.
E. M. Bower, a traveling saleswoman from Portland was severely, but not
seriously injured in a runaway near Coburg Saturday. She was being driven in a buggy from Eugene
to that town by George Clark, on of the Bangs Delivery Company's drivers. As
the buggy crossed the railroad track this side of Coburg, the bolt came out of
one of the single trees, which struck one of the horses on their heels and both
began to kick and run.
Clark ran the team up an embankment,
turning the buggy over and precipitating the occupants to the ground. Mrs. Bowers lower limbs were badly scratched
and bruised, but Clark escaped without injury.
He held on to the reins and the horses did not get away. Mrs. Bowers was confined to her room at the Hotel
Smeede all day Sunday on account of her injuries.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 4‑1‑1908
J. C. Goodale Dies In
California
Welby Stevens this afternoon received a
message from
Sawtelle California, stating
that his father‑in‑law, J. O. Goodale, formerly of Coburg, had died
there.
He was well known to a great many Lane
county people, having conducted a sawmill at Coburg for many years. He was the father of Mrs. Welby Stevens, J. C. Jr., Charles and William
"Goodale.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 4‑2‑1908
EDNA YARNELL DROWNED
The body of Miss Edna Yarnell, who was
drowned in the mill race yesterday afternoon was recovered at 10:10 ‑
o'clock last night, after having been in the water nearly 6 hours. A large crowd of University students and
townspeople searched until they found the body a hundred feet down stream from
where the canoe had been overturned.
Miss. Yarnell and Miss. Vesta Davis started
out in the middle of the afternoon for a canoe ride up the mill race. They went to the head of the race at Judkins
Point.
In attempting to turn around to come back
the swift current caught the canoe and upset it. Miss Davis, being able to swim, reached the
shore quite easily, She had hold of Miss Yarnell 'by the foot for awhile, but
was unable to keep her hold, and the latter sank to the bottom.
The unfortunate girl was born on her
fathers farm in the Mohawk valley and was raised there. She was aged 19 years
on the 30th day of last September. She was a beautiful girl, and had many
friends. The remains will be interred at the I. O. O. F. cemetery.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 4‑8‑1908
CHILD BURNED TO DEATH AT
MABEL
The two year old daughter of Rev. and Mrs.
Kinman, of Mabel, on the Mohawk, was burned to death at the family home
Tuesday. Mrs Kinman was at the barn milking a cow, her husband being away from
home. When she returned to the house she
was grief stricken to find the little girl dead, her dress having caught fire
in some manner. All of her clothing was burned off and her little body was
burned to a crisp. Mrs. Kinman ran screaming from the house and neighbors came
to learn the trouble.
It was thought that the child's clothing
caught fire from the kitchen stove, or that the child may have been playing
with matches, and ignited them.
The father of the child was sent for and
he arrived some hours after the tragedy.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 6‑13‑1908
COBURG
John McKittrie, of Coburg, was examined as
to his sanity this afternoon and committed to the asylum at Salem. He is aged 76 years and can neither read nor
write. He imagines that visions come to
him and forecast coming events. This
morning at Coburg he imagined that he was told where a lot of money was hidden
under a barn, and had a number of citizens worked up over the matter until they
discovered that his mind was affected.
Drs. Wall and Prentice were the
examining physicians.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 6‑15‑1908
CRAZY JAPANESE AT LARGE WITH
AN
One of the Japanese laborers at work on
the Southern Pacific depot yard improvements became violently insane this
forenoon about 11:30 o'clock, and Picked up an axe on the ground, made for
several of his fellow workmen, and would have perhaps killed one or two of them
hid not the others disarmed him before he could reach those he started after.
After being disarmed, the fellow ran down
the track and out through the southwestern part of town. When last heard of he was out beyond College
Hill, and it is said he stopped at the
residence of E. Wood on West Eighth street and secured
another axe.
Several of his fellow workmen are after
him and may catch him before he injures any one or himself. This Jap has been in a bad condition mentally
for some time past, and several times his
companions have had to take pistols and knives away from him. Dr.
W. Kuykendall examined him not long ago and pronounced him insane, but
no action was taken in the case.
Officers are assisting in the attempt to capture the lunatic.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 7‑16‑1908
FIRST SAWLOGS SHIPPED OUT OF
MOHAWK VALLEY
C. Arnel, one of the substantial citizens
of the Mohawk valley, is in the city from Marcola today. He states that the sawlogs now being shipped
from Marcola to the Eugene Lumber Company's mill in this city are the first ever
shipped out of that valley, although the lumber industry has flourished there
for several years, many mills having been established there lately.
The logs came from Mr. Arnel's place just
above Marcola, and the company has contracted for enough from him to make three
carloads a day, which is the average shipment for the next three weeks.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 7‑28‑1908
WIFE OF COBURG GLASS FACTORY
Mrs. Alma Marie Mathisen has begun suit
against Gustave Martinus Mathisen for divorce.
Mathisen is one of the builders of the
glass factory at Coburg, which promises to develop into an important industry
there, but which has been closed down for some time past.
Mrs. Mathisen, in her complaint filed last
evening, says they were married in Christiania Norway, on September 10,
1898. She alleges cruel and inhuman
treatment, as grounds for a legal separation, stating that her husband has at
various times called her vile and indecent names, has heaped indignities upon
her, and on one occasion after their marriage, he struck her. She also says he is a habitual drunkard, and
spends all his earnings for liquor. She
alleges that in June 1908, her husband left without cause or provocation and
has since continued to live separate from her.
F. M. DeNeffe is attorney for the
plaintiffs
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 8‑10‑1908
NARROW ESCAPE FOR SAWMILL AT
SAGINAW
A big fire raged in the woods near the
Booth Kelly sawmill five miles from Saginaw all day Sunday, and for a time the
mill was in great danger, but the company rushed a large force of men up there
and by hard work succeeded in keeping the flames from the plant and in checking
them so that all danger has now
apparently passed. The fire started quite a distance from the
mill and at first it was thought there was no danger at all, but the breeze
fanned the flames and they soon spread beyond control. Word was sent down to Saginaw and thirty‑five
or forty men were sent up to fight the flames.
They worked hard till late last night and were finally successful in
staying the progress of the fire, which was in a logged‑off tract of land
and no green timber was damaged.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 8‑24‑1908
FISCHER BROTHERS
A report states that Fischers Brothers
sawmill up the Mohawk will be started in the early part of September. The foundation for it is based upon the
statement of laboring men, who say they have jobs in the mill. The rumor could not be confirmed today.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 9‑10‑1908
ELECTRICAL STORM PLAYS HAVOC
AT SAWMILL
The territory in and around Saginaw was
subjected to the most destructive electrical storm remembered by the oldest
inhabitant last Sunday.
The bolts of lightening played havoc with
the telephone lines, trees and buildings.
Up Lynx Hollow every telephone was knocked out of commission, and in
many cases torn from the walls and destroyed.
The insulated wires melted and ran
out. The first place to receive damage
from the storm was the Saginaw boarding house.
Fortunately this was not occupied at the time or most disastrous results
might have happened, possibly loss of life.
A bolt of lightning struck the side of the roof, making a small hole,
going completely through the structure, demolishing the interior and making a
huge hole at least ten feet in diameter in the side of the building. The telephone was wrecked, being torn from
the wall, and everything metallic melted beyond recognition. It is at this place, it is thought, the lightning
followed the wires on its course of ruin.
The next place visited was that of J. F.
Neet, where the "juice" tore off a couple of boards from the house,
burning out the phone, and jumped to the local telegraph wires leading to the
home of J. J. Queen. Here it followed
the wires across the woodwork, tearing off several boards.
Two poles were shattered, and thus the
lightning went on its course up Lynx Hollow, hurling great trees to the ground
in splinters and destroying telephones.
Other houses were struck, but with little
damage. The lightning was accompanied
with reports like that of a pistol, and a number of the inhabitants were badly
frightened. Ed Queen had a telegraph
instrument which was pretty well melted as a result of the electrical visit. This was without doubt the worst storm that
section ever had, and none are hankering for another such experience.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 9‑18‑1908
S. P. SAWMILLS
C. Arnel, a prominent citizen of Marcola,
having lived there many years before anyone thought of building a town there,
was in the city today on business. To a
Guard reporter this morning he stated that the men in charge of the S. P. Company's
sawmills at Marcola have received orders to clean off the docks of lumber,
which Mr. Arnel thinks signifies that the company intends to start up the mills
again in the near future, ordering the docks cleaned to make room for new
lumber. Large shipments of railroad
ties, which have been on hand since the mills closed last winter are being made
every day. The only mill in the vicinity
of Marcola that is running now is that of the Sunset Lumber Company, which is
operating with a full crew, but the prospects are that a number of others will
resume soon.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 9‑19‑1908
MOHAWK LUMBER COMPANY'S
J. S. Magladry and John F. Kelly have sold
the sawmill of the Mohawk Lumber Co. to David and H. C. Auld, of Atcheson
Kansas, who will take immediate possession.
Included in the sale are 3000 acres of
land, all the lumber on hand and the logging machinery.
There are approximately 200,000,000 feet
of growing timber on the land that has changed ownership. The consideration is not given out for publication,
but it is said to be in the
neighborhood of $175,000
This mill was built about two and a half
years ago by Messrs. Magladry and Kelly
and has capacity of 35,000 feet of
lumber per day. It is a modern plant in
every respect, one of the best in the county.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 10‑10‑1908
BOOTH KELLY RECEIVES FINE
LOGGING ENGINE
A fine new logging engine for the Booth
Kelly Lumber Co. arrived from the Baldwin locomotive works this morning and
will be taken to the company's new logging railway above Wendling as soon as it
can be fitted up for operation under its own steam. The engine is as large or perhaps larger
than the S. P. locomotive that runs on the Wendling branch and has the
appearance of being very
powerful. It is a wood‑burner.
The Baldwin Co. sent a man along with the
engine to start it running. The new
railway being built by the company will be finished before the winter rains set
in.
About four miles have been completed. The road is as substantial as the S. P. Co.
branch and has the same sized rails.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 10‑16‑1908
HARRISBURG
Postmaster, C. L. Morris, had a thrilling
experience in the Cascade mountains Sunday and Monday of this week. He and Dr.
W. H. Dale, as a respite from the grind of daily business, went to the
mountains on a hunting expedition last Saturday.
Arriving at headquarters, they fixes camp
and went on a stroll for game, but without success. Next morning bright and early they had
breakfast and started for a hunt, Mr. Morris to travel on the east side of the
summit and the Doctor on the other side.
They agreed that they would return to camp
about noon for dinner. The doctor
arrived in on schedule time, but Mr. Morris failed to put in an
appearance. Dr. Dale fired signal shots at intervals and
searched the hills for some distance around without success. It was now growing late and he feared that
Mr. Morris was lost or the victim of an
accident, therefore he came out to the valley and gave the alarm.
In crossing the summit Mr. Morris was overtaken by a drenching rain and a dense
fog, which rendered it impossible for him to keep his bearings; hence he was
lost.
He traveled until 4 o'clock when he found himself
at the foot of Foggy peak, exhausted, "all in", numbed with cold,
drenched by the rain, and with but one match with which to start a fire. He succeeded in getting a fire but had the
most
miserable night of his
life. When morning came he started out
and luckily found a trail which led him
to Courtney Or. , which he followed, striking the valley at Mr. Warmoth's
place, and from there he telephoned his family.
Many searchers were on the trail before he got out.
BOOTH KELLY SELLS MACHINERY
IN HARRISBURG
The Booth Kelly Lumber Company sold all
the machinery in their sawmill here, excepting the water wheels, to Eli Perkins
and,
son, Thursday.
They will remove it to Coyote Creek, where
they are putting in a sawmill plant.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 10‑30‑1908
Dr. Atwood And Son Arrested
And in Jail
IN CUSTODY AT PORTLAND
CHARGED WITH MALPRACTICE IN
DEATH OF EUGENE GIRL
Drs.
C. H. T. Atwood and C. H. Atwood,
father and son, who have offices in the Allsky building, and who operate a
private hospital at Fremont station, on the Mount Scott car line, were arrested
last night about 6 O'clock in their hospital, by deputy Sheriffs Bulger and
Kelly on a warrant sworn out yesterday afternoon by assistant District Attorney
Fitzgerald before justice of the Peace Olson, which charges them indirectly
with being instrumental in causing the death of Pearl Lamb, a young woman from
Eugene Oregon, who died at the Atwood
hospital on Friday night following the results of malpractice.
The accused Doctors were taken to the
county jail, where they were kept in default of $1000 cash bail, says today's
Oregonian.
The arrest of Drs. Atwood was made a little earlier thin had
been anticipated owing to information which reached District Attorney
Fitzgerald to the effect that one of the defendants was preparing to leave for
Eugene for the purpose of destroying evidence obtained against them there. The warrant in this case does not charge the
defendants with manslaughter, but charges "indecent and immoral acts which
openly outrage public decency and are injurious to public morals".
The claim made by the Atwoods to coroner
Norden when the investigation in the case was first begun that the malpractice
was not effected by them, but by a Eugene physician, is
discredited by the
prosecution, which say there is evidence showing that the malpractice was
actually done by the Atwoods, and that the statement signed by the girl before
she died was made to protect the Atwoods.
"It will be a serious menace to the
dishonorable physicians of this community if we
secure a conviction on this charge", said Deputy District Attorney
Fitzgerald last night.
" It will mean that we can proceed
against many who
otherwise we might have to
pass by without hope of reaching. If the
Atwoods are convicted it will curtail a
great deal of the malpractice now being carried on in this city."
The attitude of the prisoners was one of
composure last night at the county jail.
" We believe that some enemy his
inspired this attack upon us, said the elder Atwood. " If the prosecuting officers of this
county are really looking for the malpractitioner of this community they might
have looked further than us.. During the past month we have refused to
take about 50 cases of this character,
which we know have been handled by others in this city. If we were in this line of work, why should
we have refused to do the work?"
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 11‑30‑1908
PIONEER WOMAN PASSES AWAY
SUDDENLY
Mrs. A. O. McGee, an early pioneer of
Oregon, died suddenly at her home near Donna Station, on the Mohawk, some time
last night. She had been suffering from
paralysis for the past two years and a half and was bedfast all the time, but
the day before she died she was in as good of health as usual. She was found dead in bed this
morning when the family arose. Mrs McGee
was born in Missouri about 72 years ago and came to Oregon across the plains in
the early fifties. She first settled in
Marion county, then came to Lane county, settling near Springfield. She has lived in the Mohawk for the past 35
years. She leaves three children, J. R.
McGee, at home, Mrs. Luella Yarnell of Salem, and Mrs. L. W. Walter of
Philomath.
The funeral will be held at the family
home on the Mohawk Wednesday at ten a. m. and the remains will be interred in
the Gager cemetery near Natron.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 11‑30‑1908
FATAL HUNTING ACCIDENT NEAR
COBURG SATURDAY
Saturday evening about 5 O'clock, Lawrence
Melvin Bond, son of a merchant of Coburg, aged 14 years, was shot and instantly
killed by Lee Smith, a youth of about the same age, as they were out goose
hunting. The killing was accidental, and "Coroner Gordon, who went to 'Coburg to
investigate the matter, deemed it unnecessary to hold an inquest.
Young Bond and Smith were in company with
George Smith, father of Lee, George Drury and Professor Maxwell. They were all along the McKenzie river
bottom, a mile west of the railroad bridge.
The boys were ahead of the others and suddenly noticed a flock of
geese. They crawled up to within
shooting distance of the geese and both
fired.
Bond fired a second shot and suddenly
arose, just in time to receive the full charge of shot from young Smith's gun
as he, to fired a second shot. The shot
entered the back of the head and death resulted two hours afterward.
Young Bond was a bright lad and was liked
by all who knew him. He was a pupil in
the eighth grade at Coburg. Young Smith naturally feels very badly over the accident.
The funeral was held today and the body
was interred in the Coburg I. O. O. F. cemetery.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 12‑14‑1908
MORE ACTIVITY PROMISED BOOTH
KELLY SAWMILL
George H. Kelly, manager of the Booth
Kelly Lumber Co., informs us that the company's big mill at Wendling, will
resume operations immediately after the first of January and will continue
to operate steadily thereafter. The plant has been completely overhauled
during the past few months and is now in excellent shape. New machinery has been installed and the mill
is now more modern than ever before. The
new logging railroad leading from
Wendling up the Mohawk valley for five or six miles, has been completed and all
that it needs to make it as good as any piece of railroad in the state is the
ballasting. The road taps a splendid
body of timber.
Logs from the tract will be hauled to
the mills at
Wendling, Springfield and
Coburg.
There is a general belief that the
Southern Pacific's mills at Marcola will open again in the early spring. If they do, it will mean that financial
conditions in this county will be better than new, although Eugene and Lane
county never were effected to any extent by the recent panic.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 12‑18‑1908
BROOKMAYER
MOHAWK LUMBER PLANTS
SHUTDOWN
John Brookmayer, owner of the
Brookmayer sawmill at Spores Siding, on
the Wendling Branch, while in the city today, stated that the mill will resume
operations immediately after the first of the new year, after a long
shutdown. He says he has a large number
of orders on hand and the prospects are that the plant will be kept in operation
steadily from then on. He sats
other mills on the Mohawk will also
resume operations about the same time.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 1‑22‑1909
Drs. Atwood Sent To Jail At
Portland
Drs.
'I. H. and C. H. T. Atwood,
father and son, were sentenced in the
circuit court by Judge Poland yesterday
afternoon to serve five
months in the county jail. They were
recently convicted of having maintained a nuisance in conducting the Atwood
Maternity Hospital at Fremont Station on the Mt. Scott car line.
Neither of the defendants were in the
court room when sentence was pronounced, being represented by their attorney,
W. B. Meacham. Neither were they present
when the jury returned its verdict recently, though the elder Atwood appeared
at the
courthouse less than an hour
later to inquire if the verdict had been returned. They both are out on bail. Their attorney asked for an arrest of
Judgement, which was promptly denied.
The convicted men have ten days in which
to file a motion for a new trial. ‑ Oregonian ‑
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 2‑1‑1909
EUGENE STREET DIRT WORTH
FIFTY CENTS A LOAD
The dirt and filth of Eugene's streets is
the best
fertilizer,in the town,
according to the man who runs one of the wagons which gathers up the manure.
"We get fifty cents a load for it,
and it is so well liked, that one man took two hundred loads of two and a half
cubic yards each."
The city does not get the money derived
from this source, but it goes to the
contractor who takes the dirt off the street.
Four loads a day, for the waste, gives an income of $2 from the streets.
One wagon is used constantly in carrying
off the sweepings of the bitulithic pavement, and part of the time two
are employed.
This waste swept from the paved streets is
good fertilizer, and while the price paid for it does not suite pay for the
hauling away, in London or some of the American great cities, the value would
more than equal the expense. Gardeners whose soils are worn out find the filth to be
especially good for their crops. In the
Atlantic states and in Europe the cost of
replenishing the ground
frequently equals that of cultivation.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 2‑23‑1909
"COUGAR" WANTED HIS DOG ON TABLE
Hugo Brehem, a farmer residing in the
McKenzie valley, commonly known as "Cougar", was fined 430 in the
police court this morning on a drunk and disorderly charge.
Brehem came to town yesterday with his
faithful dog, which had been with him on many a trip to town to see the
sights. The canine is evidently much
beloved by Brehem‑‑ at any rate he thinks it should have the
privileges the human race is entitled to in public eating places. Last night Brehem went into the "Dago
restaurant on West Eighth street and insisted on putting the dog on the table
and letting it eat out of the same dishes as he was. When requested to put the dog on the floor he
refused, whereupon he was escorted to the front door of the restaurant and put
into the street.
Brehem then went to Vincent's
restaurant(formerly White's), where he repeated
the performance. The police were
sent for and the dog and man were taken
to jail. Brehem, who was pretty well
under the influence of bootleg whiskey, made considerable resistance and it
took three officers to land him in the lockup.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 3‑8‑1909
DEATH OF TWO HARRISBURG MEN
Two prominent citizens have been called to
cross the dark river, Samuel R. Scott and W. N.
Bucknum. Uncle Sammy Scott, as he
was familiarly known, was a pioneer of 1853, first settling in Josephine
county, he represented that county in the last
Territorial Legislature of
Oregon. He was a prominent Mason. His life in Oregon was strenuously applied to the upbringing of the
state and the moral betterment of its citizenship. His life was full of good works and the world
is better by his having lived. He lacked a few days of being eighty six years of age. The remains were taken to Salem and buried by
the Masons beside those of his wife, who died there in 1872‑
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 3‑13‑1909
B. K. Springfield mill his
accidents
T. A. Rathbun, an employee at the Booth
Kelly mill at Springfield , was
seriously hurt Monday afternoon, and perhaps received one of the most painful accidents that has ever
happened at the mill during,
its operation, and those that witnessed the accident say that it is miraculous
how he escaped sudden death. He was
employed as an edgerman and was assisted with his work by R. P. Thurman who
reversed the roll causing the timber that was being run through the machine to
take a sudden backward shoot, and not being on the lookout Mr. Rathbun was
struck in the face a glancing blow which nearly ended his career for this
earth. As he was standing sideways to the machine the large board struck him on
the bridge of the nose, smashing that member almost to a pulp, he was at once
taken to the hospital and two large slivers were removed from his nose.
Had he been standing half an inch to the
right he would have been instantly killed.
Two months ago he was quite badly hurt by
getting the fingers on one of his hands badly cut, which placed him on the
disabled list for some time.
Arthur Kirkland met with an accident at
the Booth Kelly mill last Saturday that put him out of commission for several
days. He was walking under what is known
as the log slip, when a large timber struck him on the back of the head
inflicting a very painful wound and rendering him unconscious for in hour or
more.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 3‑20‑1909
FISCHER and BALLY
The Fischer Bally mill will positively be
in operation on the site recently
purchased in Springfield, within the next six months and that the work of
excavating on the new site will be commenced at once.
Springfield‑ Ed Dompier, our genial
west side blacksmith is again able to be without the aid of crutches, having
been
crippled last week by a kick
from his favorite cow.
We did not learn whether Ed was trying to
shoe the bovine or milk her. if the latter he got his just desserts, for its
the wife's duty to milk the cow and chop all the wood.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 4‑8‑1909
JOHN HUGHES CRUSHED TO DEATH
BY HUGE LOG AT WENDLING
John Hughes, an employee of the Booth
Kelly Co. at Wendling, was instantly crushed to death late yesterday afternoon,
by a large log, while unloading a car.
When he had released the chain that bound
the log it stuck to the car. He went to
the open side to remove the hinderance, and before he could escape, he was
caught beneath the log. The coroners
jury found that the death was purely
accidental.
From letters found in the pockets of the
man, it is thought that he has a sister at Fairfield Maine, and other relations
in Canada.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 4‑9‑1909
BOOTH KELLY LUMBER CRUISERS
KILL
On Wednesday, March, 31, George Willoughby
and Elmer Lee, Booth Kelly timber cruisers while in the woods about four miles
west of J. L. Palmer's ranch on Brumbaugh creek, found a hollow log which
seemed to be inhabited. On looking in
they found Mr. Bruin at home. Willoughby wanted to leave him alone, but Lee
wanted to kill him.
Upon careful examination the entrance was
found to be large, as Mr. Bruin could get out easily, so Willoughby watched the
bear while lee cut some logs from a fallen tree, and placed them in such a
manner as to partially fill the entrance, He drove some stakes to hold them
there and partially filled the two smaller side openings.
Two axes, the only weapons at hand,
weighing about one pound each and carried in their belts, were made ready for
use. Mr. Lee opened the fight by jabbing
Bruin in the eye with the compass staff.
Then a rush was made for the entrance, where the bear received a blow
from the axe. This only angered him and
he ran his big feet out through the bark and slivers in a way that made his
opponents feel anxious. He would gnash
his teeth and stir up such a dust they could not see him, and thus the battle
went on until Bruin threw himself on his back, biting and clawing at the small
openings, thrusting his head out far enough that Mr. Lee was able to deal him a
blow between the ear and eye, sinking
the axe to the handle.
Bruin turned, pulling the axe from Lee's
hand and landing it in the nest behind the bear, thus leaving them with but one
axe and the compass staff to fight the bear with.
Willoughby then proposed giving up the
battle, but Lee had to have his axe, and the only way to get it Was to kill Mr.
Bear, so the fight continued, Bruin getting more enraged at every turn. Finally he started out and Lee, seeing
the advantage, let him come until he was well out of the tree, and then called
to his partner, who was instantly on the spot, and dealt him a blow full in the
face, which ended the conflict. The bear
proved to be one of the largest the two men had ever seen.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 4‑16‑1909
PIONEER OF 52, JAMES MADISON
STAFFORD, MEMBER OF THE
LEGISLATURE DIES
J. M. Stafford, another pioneer of 1852,
died yesterday at his home on the Mohawk of Bright's disease, after an illness
of five months. He settled on the Mohawk, as soon as he arrived in the Oregon
country, and has been prominent in local affairs during his earlier life.
James Madison Stafford was born in the
state of Missouri, May 18, 1842. He crossed the plains with his parents in 1852
to Oregon, settling in the Mohawk valley, Lane Co., where he still resided at
the time of his death. He was married October 25, 1866 to Miss Sarah E. Fordham
of Albany, Oregon, who died four years ago.
Eleven children were born to them, ten of whom are still living. A son, Fred died Nov. 8, 1896.
In 1907 he was married to Mrs. Ellen
Guilliford, who
survives him. During his last
illness all the children were with him except Mrs. J. J. Finley and Mrs. F. Y.
Spencer of Mexico City. He was an
honored member of the Oregon Legislature in the house of representatives, serving
two terms, elected in 1885 and 1887, serving with integrity and honor. Funeral
and interment at Stafford cemetery, Mohawk, Saturday, April 17th, 4 p. m.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 4‑20‑1909
ABEL TROTTER DIES SUDDENLY AT
HIS HOME ON THE McKENZIE
Walterville April 19.‑ Abel Trotter
died Thursday night at about 10 o'clock at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Ed
Craig. The family had been to a revival
service at the Camp Creek church, and were accompanied home by the minister. They were kneeling at prayer before retiring
when Mr. Trotter suddenly expired; he was quite in aged man.
He leaves two sons, Walter and Warden, and
two daughters, Cars Crag and Mrs Hileman.
There was another death in our
neighborhood Easter Sunday. Frank Stormant, one of the pioneers of Lane,
county, died after a lingering illness.
Mr. Stormant was born in Jefferson Co. Ill. in
1842, and came to Oregon in
1853, making him one of the oldest settlers.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 6‑4‑1909
AUTOMOBILE CAUSES HORSE TO
Just before noon yesterday H. C. Perry,
who was driving to town, met with what might have been a serious accident. Just after crossing the‑railroad track
coming into town on Smith street, he met W. L. Wright's automobile and his
horse became frightened and started to run. When about halfway down the block the Douglas
machine came down Fourth street and turned into Smith, going west. The animal thought this was the limit, and
was doing its best to get away. Mr Perry
thought that if he could get his horse around the corner and away from the
eight of the machine, he could get him stopped.
However in making the turn, the buggy lurched to such an extent that he
was thrown out and struck on his head and shoulder on the sidewalk beside the
M. E. church.
Here the horse got entirely away and ran
to the livery stable with the front wheels still trailing behind him. Mr. Perry's scalp was cut about six or seven
inched.
He was carried to the hospital where the
wound was dressed, and he is able to get around and attend to the business
which brought him to town.
He started with nine dozen eggs and says
he got 75 cents for what was left and that was better than he expected.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 6‑7‑1909
F. SMITH DROWNED IN WENDLING
POND WHILE ALONE
F.
Smith, a logger, was drowned Saturday afternoon at Wendling in the Booth Kelly
mill pond. When last seen he was working
among the logs at 4 o'clock. he did not come to supper, and his wife at once
gave out the alarm and the searchers found the body in the pond. He probably slipped and was stunned, so that
he could not swim and save himself.
Smith is survived by a wife and
mother. He has lived in Wendling for a
considerable length of time. The burial
will be held in Laurel Hill cemetery. An
inquest was held over the body by the justice of the Peace at Wendling, the
jury bringing in a verdict of accidental drowning.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 6‑15‑1909
DONNA NEWS
A number of automobiles were seen in town
Sunday. The condition of our roads
probably accounts for their presence. The cigar and candy store recently put in
by T. ‑‑. Smith, of Marcola,
has changed hands, Mr. Branson being the
purchaser. Mr. Branson will continue to operate his store in
connection and will run a barber shop, something which has long been
needed. While working at the dock at
the Auld Bros. Lumber Co. the other day, J. Jensen had the misfortune to get two of his toes quite badly
mashed.
The Auld Bros. have started up their new
boarding house, with Mr. and Mrs.
Whitsel of Springfield, as proprietors.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 6‑16‑1909
COBURG
More trouble is being had between Booth
Kelly Lumber Company and a citizen of Coburg, over the alleged fact that the
water from the company's log pond encroaches upon private land. Today Fred Deffenbacher began suit in the
circuit court to recover $1,700 damages from the company on this account.
In his complaint Deffenbacher alleges that
he is the owner of 7 1|2 acres near the company's mill pond, and that the water
from the pond overflows upon his land by reason of the dam built by the
company, thus rendering the land‑unfit for cultivation. Hewitt and Cox of Albany, are the
attorneys for the
plaintiff
in the case.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 6‑17‑1909
O. Royer Killed By Falling
Limb Near Marcola
C. Royer, a farmer aged about 40 years,
was killed on his farm a mile and a half northeast of Marcola this morning
about 8 O'clock by being struck by a limb of an oak tree which he was felling.
He was cutting down the tree for cordwood
when a huge limb which had been loosened, fell without warning and struck him
across the small of' the back. He lay in
an unconscious
condition for some time before
he was found by the members of his family and about an hour after he was taken
to the
house he expired.
Royer leaves a wife and nine small
children, He had been residing in that vicinity only a few weeks, having come
from Myrtle Point and bought the place where he was living from C. Arnel. He was an industrious man and a good citizen.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 6‑18‑1909
MARCOLA BOOZE SELLERS
ARRESTED
Jesse Eddy, Pearl McDonald, Benjamin
McCollum and Mart Endicott were arrested
late yesterday afternoon at Marcola, charged with selling liquor, and were
brought to Eugene in an automobile. They
were arraigned and will enter pleas tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 7‑19‑1909
Fischer and Bally, who are building a new
structure near the railroad track running down the east side of the Willamette
valley will have the machinery moved from Marcola some time this fall and begin
to turn out their thirty thousand feet of lumber a day before the first of the
year.
The sawmill part of the structure will be
120x24‑30 feet, and the planing mill 90x30 feet.
The pond is dug, and the well drilled to
furnish water for the pond and engine.
The logs will be brought down from the Mohawk.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 7‑30‑1909
COBURG PEOPLE FRIENDLY TO
BOOTH KELLY
The Booth Kelly Lumber Co. Eugene,Oregon.
Knowing that at various times a few
individuals have sought to harass the Booth Kelly Lumber Company by demanding
exorbitant recompense for slight or imaginary damages, and in order that the
community as a whole may not be judged by the attitude of the few, we (citizens
of Coburg), take this method of attesting our friendship toward your company.
It is with pleasure, that by affixing our
signatures
herewith, we are enabled in
this slight manner to express our appreciation of the benefits derived by the
community through the presence and operation of your plant in our midst, and to
assure you of cur loyal support at any time in furthering the interests of your
company.
SIGNED:
T. Van Duyn,
J. D. Pirtle,
C. C. Smith, real estate;
Lester Stacy, jeweler;
J. G. Henderson,
H. C. Bishop, grocers
A. C. Harden,
J. H. Harden, general
merchandise;
N. J. Nelson,
E. Cook, hardware and
furniture;
Frank Bittis, confectionery
and cigars;
M. J. Skinner, post master;
M. E. Jarnigan, M. D.;
Herbert F. Buchaum, manager
Coburg Water Works;
I. A. Zook, Agt. S. P. Co.;
Cleek and Swager, bakery;
C. P. Clover, barber;
H. L. Van Duyn,
W. E. Shannon, grocers;
W. Bartholomew,
Ray Pirtle,
D. M. Skidwell,
H. E. Allingham,
J. A. Hanna,
H. F. Durkee,
George L. Hunt,
L. Ward,
C. W. Brown,
J. D. Wigle,
H. A. Daniels,
R. Jones,
Robert Catlin,
Vin Williams,
Frank Vaughn,
N. N. Mathews,
F. T. Mendenhall, M. D.
J. F. Wigle,
George H. Ditto,
C. Gray,
P. O. Bettis,
J. P. Green,
C. E. Tyler,
Dale Buson,
E. D. Sherwood,
J. L. Renninger,
Clive Taylor,
Clyde Sidwell ,
J. O. Wolfe,
R. N. Peters,
A. Lesley,
G. H. Barnard,
M. C. Bond,
Lea Jarnagin,
George A. Drury, Coburg
Mercantile Co.;
J. A. Higginbotham, hotel;
W. N. Tripp,
H. Frum,
W. A. Sidwell,
Dick Green,
J. S. Lusby,
Bert Harper,
W. Wilcox,
John C. Burns,
John Wilkinson,
Charles Powers,
Scott Wilkinson,
Leo Sidwell,
H. R. Nolleth,
H. L. Reid,
George Cox,
J. J. Dirickson,
G. F. Brazelton,
A. V. Betterly,
W. J. Hay,
A. E. Dyer,
L. P. Simonson,
Hugo Hallin.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 8‑24‑1909
THE BOOTH KELLY SPRINGFIELD
The Booth Kelly mill is now getting
fifteen cars of logs daily from Wendling.
They are hauled to the company's siding
and dumped into the pond. There are no
drives in the river this year.
The company has several men at work
cutting into the hill back of the planer to make more room for piling their
lumber. The dirt that is excavated is
used to fill in under the docks.
Several hundred feet of fire hose has been
received at the mill to replace the present which is quite rotten. This hose was put in scarcely three months
ago, but has been carelessly handled so that the new hose is necessary.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 8‑28‑1909
JOHN MATHEWS OF COBURG IS
SERIOUSLY WOUNDED WHILE HUNTING
Another man shot for a deer by mistake
lies on a cot in the Eugene Hospital, and the attending physicians are not
certain whether or not he will recover.
John Mathews, of Coburg is the unfortunate
victim of a friend's mistake this time said Virgil Clover is the man who fired
the shots. Mathews and Clover
accompanied by Enoch
Stewart, and a young man
named Beeson were hunting in the
mountains east of Coburg, and
about three miles from Donna, on the Mohawk branch of the Southern Pacific
railways The shooting occurred about three o'clock yesterday afternoon. The men had spent the day on the mountain
without success. Clover was alone, the
men having separated earlier in the day, and he had no idea that any of the
other men were near.
He suddenly heard the snapping of twigs
and saw a form moving a short distance away through the thick brush. He took careful aim and fired. His bullet
went true, but he was horrified to hear a human voice cry out in pain. Clover quickly ran to the man's assistance
and was greatly surprised to find that it was one of his companions,
Mathews. After Beeson and Stewart had
been summoned, the men rigged up a litter and started with the injured man for
Coburg. He was taken care of as well as
possible before they could reach a Jarnagin temporarily dressed the wound.
An ambulance was sent for
from Eugene, and the injured man was brought to the Eugene Hospital.
Mathews is about 35 years old and has a
wife and five children. He has been
employed as sawyer in the Booth Kelly
sawmill at Coburg. Clover is also an employee of the mill and is about 30 years
old. The hospital surgeons found that
the bullet had entered the right groin and inflicted a very serious wound. At a late hour this afternoon Mathews was
still in surgery.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 9‑9‑1909
JOHN W. NETTLETON KILLED AT
B. K.
John W. Nettleton, of Springfield was
killed this morning at the B. K. sawmill, when his Jumper caught and wound him
around a shaft under which he was working, whirling him against the ceiling and
heavy timbers, tearing him to pieces.
The accident, which is the most horrible in the history of the mill,
occurred a few minutes before 9. Nettleton's position in the mill was on the
transfer between the first and second saws.
He manipulated several levers which raise
and lower a set of rollers, which this morning did not work well.
He had evidently gone beneath the floor to adjust these, for when a few
minutes Fireman Frank Lenhart came by he noticed his absence, and seeing the
work piled up stepped over there and started to work the lever. At this point he heard a tremendous thumping,
and went under the mill to see what was wrong.
Seeing the whirling object on the shaft, which was revolving at 400 R.P.
he ran to stop the engines, scarcely realizing that the object was a human
being. As soon as the shaft stopped the
men made their way to where Nettleton's lifeless body was hanging.
It Was a most gruesome sight. The body bore the resemblance of one mass of
flesh wound around the shaft.
Mr. Nettleton worked in the plant since it
started seven years ago.
At the time of the accident Mr. Nettleton's family were all at the Yarnell
hop yard on the Mohawk. Word was sent them and they arrived about noon.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 10‑15‑1909
BOOTH KELLY BARN AT WENDLING
BURNED WITH WINTER'S HAY
Last evening about 5 o'clock the Booth
Kelly barn at
Wendling was discovered to be
on fire and was totally consumed, together with a large amount of hay and
grain, the winter's supply having been stored away.
The origin of the fire is not known. It
started in the mow and had gained such headway when discovered that it was
impossible to extinguish
it. The horses and harness were taken
out before the flames reached the bottom portion of the
structure.
The barn was large and was located only a
few rods from the company's store. Hard
work on the part of the sawmill force and the citizens saved that building and
other property. The loss is $2000 or
more.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 10‑16‑1909
ATWOOD'S WILLING
themselves to Sheriff Stevens
this morning to serve their terms of five months each on a charge of having
maintained a nuisance in operating a maternity hospital at Fremont. They were tried by a Jury in Judge Cleland's
department, and a verdict of guilty was brought in January of this year. They were sentenced to serve five months each
by Judge Cleland. The case went to the
Supreme Court and was confirmed early this week.‑‑ Portland
Telegram.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 10‑20‑1909
THE BOOTH KELLY MILLS FROM
THE OREGON TIMBERMAN
Booth Kelly Lumber Company of Eugene, is
operating its four sawmills, located at Springfield, Coburg, Wendling, and
Saginaw, steadily. Considerable
improvement in the equipment and general facilities of the plant is being
made. The company is conducting
extensive logging operations in the vicinity of their Wendling plant, their new
logging road being in operation. A. Mallett compound locomotive for use in
their logging operations is being built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works.
Operations at the forest camp, on the McKenzie, will continue, but no logs are
being put in the river. Operations at
the sawmills are being carefully looked after by A. M. Hagan, assistant to Manager
George H. Kelly.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 10‑26‑1909
DROWNS IN SIGHT OF HIS FELLOW
WORKERS
Edward McDonald, a deaf mute, aged about
30 years, was drowned in the McKenzie river, near the old Dutch Henry place
yesterday, while working on the Booth Kelly log drive. He slipped off a rock into about 20 feet of
water in sight of a number of fellow workmen, but he sank to the bottom and the
body was not recovered for over half an hour later..
Coroner Gordon was notified of the
drowning by telephone and that official left at once for the scene. He met the party bringing the body to town.
McDonald came here some time ago from Falls City.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 11‑26‑1909
PLANING
E. G. Hurst, who up to yesterday afternoon
was an employee at the Booth Kelly Lumber Company's planing mill at Wendling,
was shot in the right arm and the left hand yesterday afternoon by Al Seekatz,
foreman of the mill, but the injuries are not serious. The trouble arose over Seekatz discharging
Hurst from the mill. According to the
story received at the offices of Sheriff Bown and Deputy District Attorney
Skipworth today, Hurst and another employee of the mill named Wright had some
trouble between themselves, and Wright told the foreman a lot of things about
Hurst, reflecting on his character.
Seekatz, believing Hurst to be a bad man, discharged him yesterday
afternoon, Whereupon Hurst knocked the foreman down. Seekatz, who was armed with a
revolver, pulled the weapon
from his pocket and begin firing at Hurst, the first shot striking him on the
right arm, between the wrist and elbow, and the second shot grazing his left
hand. Another shot went through the coat
of a bystander, but did not injure him.
There was great excitement at Wendling at
the time, and there was a report in Eugene that the man who had been shot had
been killed.
Hurst came to Eugene this
forenoon and had Dr. Kuykendall dress the wounds, which were pronounced not
serious.
No complaint has yet been sworn out
against Seekatz, and Deputy District Attorney Skipworth stated this afternoon
that he did not know whether there would be one or not.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 12‑3‑1909
PAUL KING IS KILLED TODAY IN
LOGGING ABOVE WENDLING
Paul King, a young man whose home is in
Eugene, was
instantly killed just before
noon today while at work in the Booth Kelly logging camp about seven miles
above Wendling. Young King was working
on the line at the time of his death. He
placed the hook on a log which was on top of another, and gave the signal to
the donkey engineer to start up. As the
log started to move it rolled off the other one and on to King crushing his
body into almost a shapeless mass.
Life was extinct when his fellow workmen
reached him. The coroner will
investigate the death and will bring the body to Eugene The unfortunate man was
aged about 21 years, and has a mother who lives in Fairmont. He also leaves a father, who is now in the
East, and several brothers and sisters.
As far as reports are received here the
death of the young man was the fault of no one, and was only one of those
accidents that often occur unavoidably in all lumber camps. King had worked in the camp above Wendling
about three months.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 12‑4‑1909
MINISTER
Rev.
Levi Day, a former Methodist preacher living in Springfield, received a
bad fracture of the collar bone while working in the saw mill this morning,
when he was struck by a flying piece of slab wood thrown by the trimmers The
wood hit him full in the chest and chin.
The force of the blow knocked him to the floor, and his collar bone was
badly shattered. he was carried to his home where his injuries were cared for
by Drs. Barr and Pollard.
The cut at the saw mill was 145,000 not
170,000, as stated. Towards the end of the afternoon the logs became poorer and
less heavy timber was cut and the last three hours pulled the figures down, so
that the figures given for last friday were incorrect. The snow is disagreeable to the train
men. It is necessary to have several men
in the yard, constantly clearing it from the frogs of the switches, or they
would freeze together. The tops of the
cars were slippery and the signs for the engineers are whitened.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 12‑17‑1909
S. P. SAWMILLS ON MOHAWK SOON
RESUME
There is a general report that cannot be
confirmed that the three Southern Pacific sawmills at Marcola, will resume
operations shortly after
January 1, 1910.
The company has maintained these big and
costly plants in idleness for about two years, but it is thought by the people
of Marcola and others who have observed the actions of certain railroad
officials lately that they will not remain idle much longer. The company already has a force of twenty‑five
or thirty men employed at the mills and in the woods, and has during the last
few days employed Dr. T. K. Johnson of
this city, to act as company physician at Marcola. His duties begin next week. This indicates that a much larger force
often will be soon employed there, as the few who are already working could
easily be taken care of in a medical way by the local physicians, or those in
Eugene. Then again there are reports of
the
construction of donkey engine
sleds in the woods near the mills, which looks as if there is going to be
considerable activity in the logging camps soon.
When these three big mills and the logging
camps are in full operation, a thousand or more men are employed, which means a
big payroll and greater prosperity.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 12‑20‑1909
CHARLES JONES WHIRLS AROUND
REVOLVING WHEEL AT WENDLING
Charles Jones, a millwright, working for
the Booth Kelly company at Wendling, nearly met his death when he was caught in
a rapidly revolving cog wheel this morning.
His injuries, though only bruises, are
Quite severe, but not dangerous unless internal trouble is located. He was brought to the Eugene Hospital this
morning.
He
was working about some gearing on a revolving shaft when his clothes became
caught in some manner. Instantly he was
jerked off his feet and wheeled about.
The fact that his clothing tore saved his
life. Nearly every shred of clothing was
torn from his body. No bones were broken
and it is thought that there are no internal injuries.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 12‑28‑1909
COBURG, LIVE
About four years ago Coburg was
incorporated under the general laws of the state of Oregon. Since the incorporation was formed there have
been built a sidewalk at least on one side of every on both sides. Every lot in the Dixon and Jarnagin
addition
has been sold to persons who
have built and settled here for a home.
We now have a park, a beautiful addition
to the city, and it is being sold and will soon be included within the city
limits as a part of Coburg. The addition contains 143 lots and several acreage
tracts.
The business houses of Coburg have been
largely increased since the incorporation.
Several large places have been sold
bringing in several new settlers to this section.
The Booth Kelly Lumber Company are
continually improving their plant here and it is one of their best mills. The company employs up to 200 men at good
living wages and where economy is practiced some money can be saved, as many
who work here have bought, built and own their homes. For the laboring man we consider Coburg one
of the best locations to be found in the state.
Good men can always secure steady work at good wages. If you want a place where you are sure of a
good living come to Coburg.
Some of the improvements we need are a
better telephone system in the city. The
farmer lines running into the city are sufficient at present, but the city is
very poorly supplied. We also need a
better mail and train service and a rural free delivery. We realize that Coburg is somewhat in its
infancy and these higher improvements are not fast in coming. Yet there is
certainly no reason, with the improvements of the past four years, but what we
will have all the improvements other sister cities have within a few months.
With the amount of logs coming in, the
lumber going out, and the amount of merchandise shipped in, say nothing of the
wheat, cream and other agricultural products being shipped both in and out, and
the pay roll Coburg has, we will have one of the most thriving and busiest
little cities in the western part of Oregon‑‑ Journal.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 12‑30‑1909
SPRINGFIELD
The roads up the Mohawk, which are usually
good, are very bad. It takes the mail
carrier from six to nine hours to cover the trip, which is twice the time it
takes in the summer. The Christmas mail
bore heavily on these deliveries this season, and for several days the light
wagons were filled full of packages.
The Springfield streets are very muddy now. Main street might be improved if some of the
sand and water mixture could be scraped off.
HAY VERY SCARCE AT SPRINGFIELD
Hay is so scarce that it has been
necessary for a local feed store to ship it in from Eastern Washington. This is being sold at $22.50 a ton, a very
high price for this tire of year. The
farmers realize that they have no more than they need to last them through the
winter, and will sell none. Other feed
is also high. Shorts are hard to obtain,
and mixed feed is high. The Utah
construction Co. taking advantage of the fact that the farmers will not sell
hay, is making money off its
sub‑contractors by
shipping the hay in and selling it at an exorbitant price. Above Natron it retails for $2‑‑‑t
a ton. This is the same hay that can be
bought, shipped and sold in Springfield for $22.50. The muddy condition of the roads make it
impractical for the teamsters to buy it in the valley.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 12‑30‑1909
BOOTH KELLY BLACKSMITH
Herman Bucholtz, blacksmith at the Booth
Kelly mill, had his right eye seriously injured, both hands badly cut, his face
cut in many places, and has a deep wound in the fleshy part of his left leg as
a result of the explosion of gas in a closed cylinder head that he was heating,
in his forge yesterday. Two other men that were in the room with him miraculously escaped
injury from the flying bits of metal and coals.
One piece of the iron weighing several
pounds, flew across the room and imbedded itself in the wall. Bucholtz was repairing the cylinder head for
a logging firm up the river, and placed it in the forge to heat it. The head was hollow and some gas which had
found its way in, exploded when heated. Buckholtz was
standing
close to the fire with his
hand on the blower, talking with two mill hands when the accident occurred. The
report of the
explosion was so loud that it
could be heard all over the mill, even by the men working around the
machinery. The room was filled with
smoke, and the two mill hands rushed outside,
scarcely knowing what had
happened. Bucholtz was knocked down, and
they went right back after him. His eyes were closed and blood was flowing from
his face and legs. Three stitches were
taken in his leg. Unless blood poisoning
or inflammation sets in, his injuries will not prove serious, although they are
very painful.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 1‑4‑1910
COBURG
Clarence Alford underwent an operation for
appendicitis at his home yesterday.
The operation was performed by Dr.
Mendenhall, of Coburg and Dr. Scaiefe of Eugene.
Mr. Alford has been working for the mill
company here until Christmas, when he was suddenly taken ill. The patient is improving nicely.
SCHOOL GIRL INJURED
Ethel Sidwell fell on the frozen ground at
school yesterday morning during the first recess and was badly bruised up. She and three other girls were running down a
steep bank near the schoolhouse, and Ethyl, becoming overbalanced,fell,
striking her head on the ground, which was hard as cement.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 1‑18‑1910
BOOTH KELLY COMPANY WILL
DREDGE
The Booth Kelly Lumber Co. unloaded a big
donkey engine from the car here today.
The engine will be taken up to do some
dredging in the mill race. A number of
men also were sent here by the company to work on the race.
One of the mill teams will be used to do
the lighter work. They are preparing the
race for the spring drive which will Probably be quite a large one.
EXCITING RUNAWAY
A little excitement was started this
morning. when a team of horses belonging to the Booth Kelly Company, left standing in the street, became
frightened at the escaping steam from an engine and ran away.
The horses were standing by the company's
office. From there they ran toward the
railroad and bummed against a box car; one horse fell. Turning north they ran
over a switch and broke it off. They
finally stopped and were brought back by one of the men.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 2‑7‑1910
COBURG
Walter Smith of Coburg, was in the city
today exhibiting on the streets the pelts of two big cougars which he killed in
the hills north of Coburg Saturday.
Smith was out hunting when he suddenly
spied four of the huge cats in a bunch about 200 yards away. He began firing at them with his rifle and
succeeded in bringing down two of them and wounding a third, but it and a
fourth got away.
The Animals had been killing sheep in that
vicinity and often came down to the valley after their prey. Smith was offered
a handsome sum for the hides today but refused to sell then. He will have them mounted and use them
for rugs. The fur if in splendid
condition.
The Largest of the animals killed measured
seven feet tip to tip.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 4‑11‑1910
New Fischer Bally Mill
Running Steadily At Springfield
The new Fischer Bally sawmill will put its
first crew of men on this week and is now running steadily, receiving, eight
carloads of logs from the camps up the river each day. The force consists of 30 men. this adds
considerably to the payroll of this city, and it will probably be increased
before long. Its location could not be better.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 4‑11‑1910
The engine is the largest of its type in
this state, and is of the very latest pattern of logging locomotive, which
require the greatest flexibility for steep Grades and narrow curves, and great
power.
The engine is really a combination of two,
and it has four cylinders. The drivers
are 44 inches in diameter and the immense machine is equipped with the
Arragonett reverse gear, the
Westinghouse E‑T
equipment, and the cylinders are of the
Walsher‑Harte valve
type, which is the latest device known in railway Manufacture.
Rhodes is along to inspect the line to see
whether it will safely carry the weight of the monster. The track, which is ten miles long, is laid
with 60‑pound rails, which are heavier than the Southern Pacific Company
uses in Springfield.
There are 72 cars on the road, 26 of which
belong to the Booth Kelly Company.
It is said that there is enough timber
along this line to cut 300,000 feet of timber a day for 20 or 3O years.
SPRINGFIELD ITEMS
John Buchanan, the Fall Creek stage
driver, wishes there was no such‑thing as a Natron cut‑off, or
perhaps, rather, that the county road commissioner would force the railroad to
build a decent road.
The trip that used to be made in a couple
or three hours from Fall Creek, only a distance of 18 miles, now require six
and eight hours, according to the weather.
This is scarcely three miles an hour. The roads are still very bad, and the stage
does not arrive in the evening until 8 or 9 o'clock.
BIG LOGS ARRIVE AT SAWMILL
The sawmill Friday was handed a bunch of
big toothpicks in a shipment of logs from.
Wendling. There was one stick
that was 42 feet long and was five feet in diameter at the small end. It is from these sticks that the big bridge
timbers, which are in demand all over the world, are cut. The unloading force
had their hands full in sliding them off the cars. The heavy men could not be
seen when they got behind the car. The sawmill is again running after a ten‑day
spring lay‑off for overhauling,.
The new carriage has not arrived yet,
being delayed
somewhere enroute.
LOGS
Although there has been a remarkable
increase in the
population of Springfield,
there has been one unusually large decrease.
This is in the canine population of
the city. It was estimated that
there were 250 dogs in the city a couple of months or so ago, before the
license ordinance was passed. Now there
are fifty, because the city marshal is sure that there is not a yellow cur within
the city limits without a tag, and there have been fifty tags sold.
The city pound master has killed no less
than 50 of the animals, which number included nearly every known variety. Many owners sent their dogs to the
country or disposed of them rather than pay the tax.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 4‑21‑1910
It was through information furnished
Sheriff Bown by C.E Fero
that Anderson was placed
under arrest. It is said that while the
latter was intoxicated a short time ago, he became quite
talkative and spoke of the
shooting of Mrs. Renshaw's horse in such a way that he was suspected of the
crime. Anderson is charged with assault
with intent to kill and will be arraigned before Judge Bryson, of the Justice
court at 7 o'clock.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 4‑26‑1910
ODD FELLOWS CELEBRATING AT
COBURG
Over one hundred Eugene Odd Fellows are in
attendance at the anniversary exercise at Coburg today, 71 having gone over on
the special train and the remainder in auto‑ mobiles and carriages. The train consisted of three coaches and an
engine when it left Eugene, and while the cars were not filled here, they were
more than crowded by the time they left Springfield, for many of the three‑linlers
from that city boarded the train and took in the exercises. A round trip rate of 60 cents from, Eugene
and 50 cents from Springfield was given by the S. P. Company.
The program was as follows.
Opening song by all, "America"‑
Prayer by Chaplin J. D. Wigle‑ Address of welcome, Mayor George A.
Drury's Address of the day, F. G. M.
William Carter.
A basket dinner was served in the I.O.O.F.
hall. The parade was held at 1:30,
beginning at the I.O.O.F. hall, Proceeding West to Willamette St, north to
Locust, east on Locust to Harrison, north on Harrison to Van Duyn, west on Van
Duyn to Willamette, south on Willamette to Dixon east on Dixon to Skinner,
north on Skinner to McKenzie, thence to the depot grounds.
The march was headed by the band, followed
by the canton, encampment, subordinates and Rebekahs.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 5‑4‑1910
WENDLING LOGGER T.C. BELL
DIES FROM INJURIES
T.
C. Bell, the Booth Kelly logger, whose serious injury by being crushed beneath
a log was chronicled in yesterday's Guard, died at the Eugene hospital last
evening between 6 and 7 o'clock. The physicians at the hospital could find no
bones broken, but internal injuries were the cause of his death. He was aged 28 years and single.
He leaves a brother near Marcola, where
the remains will be taken for burial.
The lumber company appears to be in no
manner responsible for his death. 5‑5‑1910‑ An inquest over
the remains of Thomas C. Bell, who was injured in the logging camp of the Booth
Kelly Lumber Co. at Wendling May 3, and died at the Eugene hospital that
evening, as a result of the injuries, was held at the Gordon undertaking
parlor, this afternoon by Coroner W. F. Gordon.
The jury empaneled consisted of the following: George A. Dyson, A. L.
Smith, Karl Villa, Fred H. Robinson, B. B. McKinney and B. F. Crum. They found that no one was to blame for his
death. Six witnesses were examined and
the story of the accident was as follows.
Bell was hauling out logs by steam cable on
the, morning of May 3rd, when
he signaled to pull the logs had one end
against a big tree and instead of turning around and freeing itself from the
tree, as expected, the log very suddenly swung around and struck him in the
body, injuring him internally.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 5‑16‑1910
BOOTH KELLY RECEIVES HUGE
DONKEY ENGINE
Springfield, May 14.‑ The Booth
Kelly Lumber Co. will undertake a big job next week when it will take the
biggest donkey engine that was ever brought into the county over 20 miles of
mountain wagon road and across The McKenzie river to its logging operations at
Forrest Camp above Walterville. The engine has two cylinders each 11x13 and
weighs 44,000 pounds. The boiler will be
as difficult as the engine for the big piece of steel must go in one piece and
it weighs 11,000 pounds.
The road there is very rough and steep in
places and much blocking and building will have to be done. The engine is too heavy for any bridge and
will have to be taken across the river on a specially constructed ferry.
NO NIGHT SHIFT AT SPRINGFIELD
SAWMILL
There will in all probability be no night
shift at the mill this summer because of the inability to get logs enough. When the logs are sent down the river in
drives it is possible to have them in any quantity for the time being at least,
but when just so many are sent on the cars each day, there is a limit to the
capacity of the mill. The new carriage
that was recently
installed has increased the
output of the mill considerably for it is possible now to handle the logs with
much greater ease.
THE DAILY
FATAL ACCIDENT AT BOOTH KELLY
SAWMILL
G. H. Franklin, one of the millwrights at
the Booth Kelly Lumber Company's Wendling mill, was instantly killed about
It is reported that he was
cleaning out the conveyor between the carriage tracks before the mill had
started sawing, when the carriage was moved by the sawyer, not knowing that
The remains will be taken to
that place tonight for burial.
THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 5‑18‑1910
S. P. MILLS AT MARCOLA TO
The guard is reliably informed that at
least one of the Southern Pacific mills at Marcola will resume operations at
once and that the other two will be started up soon afterward. The new superintendent will be on the ground
next week, it is said, and shortly after that the plant will be started. When the three mills are in operation they
employ about 300 men. This is
certainly good news to the
people of Marcola and to the people of the county at large.
The payroll when the three plants are
in operation is $17,000 or $18,000 per
month. The report that the mills
are soon to resume has been spread
several times during the past two years,
but this time it is said to be
authentic.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 5‑21‑1910
GASOLINE MOTOR WILL MAKE
DAILY
A new time table will go into effect
Sunday morning, the schedule having been received by Agent Gillette this
morning. The only change on the main
line, so far as can be discovered, is that No. 18, the north‑bound
evening local, will arrive at Eugene at 4:45 o'clock instead of at 4:52 as at
present, and No. 19, southbound afternoon local will arrive at 2:05 instead of
2:04. The new schedule provides for
one round trip daily of the gasoline motorcar on the Springfield branch between
Springfield and Wendling, the trip to be made between the hours of 10:30 in the
forenoon and 1:40 in the afternoon, during which time the motor car has
remained at Springfield heretofore. This
will be a big convenience for the people on the Mohawk Branch and will better
the service on that line greatly, for heretofore, the mixed train is delayed
every day on account of so much switching to do at the various stations.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 5‑27‑1910
BOOTH KELLY COMPANY SUED BY
GOVERNMENT
Plaintiff Seeks To Cancel Patents To Lands
Alleged
Fraudulently Secured
Portland, Ore., May 27. ‑ Charging that men employed by the booth Kelly
Company, of Eugene, conspired with the owners of that corporation to defraud
the United States of title to five timber claims in Lane County, the second big
case against that timber company has been filed in the United States Court.
The statute of limitations having run out
against a criminal prosecution, Assistant District Attorney Evans will assert a
right to cancel the patents obtained by the locators of the lands After reciting the usual form of
complaint as to a
conspiracy having been
entered into unlawfully to obtain the lands under the provision of the timber
and stone act, the government charges that the Booth Kelly Company directly
solicited Edwin Jordan, S. A.
LaRaut, Alice LaRaut, Ethyl
LaRaut, and Lucy LaRaut to
secure the lands for its benefit.
After agreeing to secure the lands, it is charged, the entries were made
at the Roseburg land office and patents obtained August 4, 1904‑ The
government asserts its belief to be that the money made in making final proofs
upon the lands and in paying the sale price of $2.50 an acre was furnished by
the Booth Kelly Lumber go.
In May 1907 it is charged, the lands were
transferred to the Booth Kelly Company by deeds, and the fact that the present
record owners of the property recently had announced their intention to go upon
the land for the purpose of removing timber, hastened the action of the
district attorney in filing, the suit.
The lands are classed as
among the especially valuable timber tracts of Lane county. All of the defendants live in or near the
town of Saginaw.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 5‑28‑1910
OLD LANDMARK AT COBURG
REMOVED
Bud Simmons has just completed removing
the old VanDuyn store building which stood on the west side of Willamette
Street in Coburg. We are told that this
was one of the first buildings erected in Coburg. It was built by a man by the name of Sutter
and stood about 300 feet west of the last location.
Sutter used it as a business building for
several years, when he sold to William VanDuyn, who was in business in the
building for 18 years, during this time it had been moved to the last location,
and in 1902 selling to F. B. Sacket, who in turn sold to the Coburg Merc. Co. Sept. 19, 1906. Since the later date the building has been
empty nearly half the time, as the Merc.
Co. moved the stock to the new building across the street.
After Mr. Sacket sold the business to the
mercantile Co., the Building was occupied by a restaurant, and for a short
time, by the Brownsville Woolen Mills stock, then VanDuyn and Shannon occupied
it in a grocery and small line of dry goods business. Later Mr. Shannon purchased the VanDuyn
interest and moved the stock to Mr. Bucknum's building on South Willamette
Street. Since that time, which was about
three months ago, the building has been empty.
Mr. Simmons expects to use the building
for a barn and has taken it to his ranch northwest of the village.
‑Coburg Journal.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 5‑31‑1910
S. P. SAWMILL AT MARCOLA
STARTS UP TOMORROW
It is learned by the Guard, that the
Southern Pacific Co's sawmill No. 3, at Marcola will resume operations tomorrow
and as soon as the other two plants can be placed in readiness they, too, will
be started up again. These mills have
been idle since the panic in the fall of 1907‑ Before they closed down
Marcola was one of the liveliest little places in the state, but
afterwards the place became
like all other country communities and the people hoped and hoped for the
reopening of the mills, with a final realization of their wishes. From new on the little town will present its
old‑time activity and thousands of dollars will be distributed there in
wages every month.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 6‑1‑1910
The drives for B. K.
Springfield and Coburg mills
A crew of ten or fifteen log drivers left
yesterday for Deerhorn, 30 miles up the McKenzie, to run the Booth Kelly drive
of 3,500,000 feet of logs to their Coburg mill.
The drive is the result of a whole winters cut by the several camps on
the river.
The timber is very large, and many of the
sticks are five feet in diameter at the small end. It will take several weeks to make this run,
for the water is already very low.
About the tenth of June another crew will start the Willamette river
drive from Hyland's, some 35 miles to the Springfield mill. At present the Springfield mill is cutting
logs shipped from Wendling by train daily.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 6‑6‑1910
WILBUR VAUGHAN LOSES HIS DOG
Salem Ore.
June 3.‑ The Oregon Railroad Commission has a mystery to solve.
A few days ago a young and valuable female
Spitz dog was shipped by express, by L. J. Davenport, from Aberdeen Washington,
to Wilbur Vaughan, at Coburg, Lane county Oregon.
The dog was shipped in a crate with the
boards fastened down with long wire nails, just far enough apart to allow the
dog to breath. When Vaughan called for
his dog at Coburg, the crate was empty.
The agent could not explain this fact, but a few days later, it is
alleged, called on Vaughan and offered him an old bleary‑eyed decrepit
male Spitz.
Vaughan could not understand how his dog
could have aged several years and otherwise undergone such a remarkable
metamorphosis in such a short
time and refused to accept the dog offered him.
Now the matter has been referred to the Railroad Commission for
solution.
THE
Booth Kelly Company Active At
The Booth Kelly's mill here has been shut
down for about two weeks. The mill including the engine and boiler room is
being thoroughly overhauled. The five boilers were taken up and put on new
foundations, with one removed and a new 66 inch one put in its place. The new plan is expected to improve the
steaming, which has heretofore been one of the troubles of this mill. The supports for the boilers will all be of
steel and cement, doing away with the exposed brick, which has caused much trouble
heretofore.
Among other improvements are the enlarging
of the automatic feed for the furnace, an addition of two chipper saws, an
addition to the floating
dock, overhauling the small twin engine, the steam feed, the carriage, an
addition of 20 feet to each of the five smoke stacks and a new water
heater. Other work being done is
improvement in the electric light and water systems. The planer building is being leveled and
cement foundations put under many of the posts.
NIGHT SHIFT AT WENDLING
Many
of the Booth Kelly Lumber Company's employee left Tuesday Morning for Wendling,
where they will work on a night shift for a couple of weeks ‑ It is
unofficially reported that the company has a new order for 40,000,000 feet to
be delivered within one year if this is true the mills will be crowded to their
full capacity, and doubles a night shift will operate there
Obituary of J. I. Macy
John Irwin Macy was born
Later he was engaged in packing in
On
brothers and two sisters
living.
He was reared in the Quaker faith and
through his life clung to their teachings.
Brother Macy joined the I.O.O.F. on May,
28th, 1866, at Harrisburg Oregon, and had held continuous membership in the
lodge at that place for 44 years.
Funeral services will be held Sunday, June
5th, in charge of Rev. G. L. Burbank,
pastor of the Y.‑ E. Churches of Coburg and Harrisburg.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 6‑27‑1910
BIG
The Booth Kelly Lumber Company's big
sawmill at Coburg will resume operations some time this week after a months
shutdown they
shutdown. The mill has been thoroughly overhauled in
that time, and when it starts up again will be almost a new plant, as much of
the old machinery has been replaced with new and a number of pieces never
before used at the plant have been installed.
The little city of Coburg, which depends largely upon the company
payroll for prosperity, has been quiet during the mill's
shutdown, but after
operations are resumed it will be as lively as usual.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 7‑19‑1910
BOOTH KELLY COMPANY EXTENDING
LOGGING RAILWAY
The Booth Kelly Co. will build a couple of
miles of railroad to lengthen the eight miles of logging railroad that it now
operates out of Wendling, and on which it is operating its big logging engine
that was received a few months ago. The
two miles of track is not all in one piece, but consists of several spurs off
the main branch.
The right‑of‑way has all been
cleared and what remains to be done is the laying of the rails and the
grading. There are a number of small
bridges or trestles to be built. The
weight of the company's big logging engine requires a heavy line, and the rails
are the same that are used on the main line of the
Southern Pacific ‑ 75
pounds to the yard.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 7‑25‑1910
RUNAWAY ACCIDENT IN MOHAWK
VALLEY RESULTS IN INJURIES
Arthur Huckaby, an employ of the Eugene
Ice and Storage Co., and his family were the victims of a runaway in the Mohawk
valley Sunday. They hired a livery rig
and drove to Donna on an outing. Upon their return in the afternoon the horse became frightened at
something and became unmanageable. Soon
the buggy was overturned, precipitating the occupants with considerable
force to the ground. Mr Huckaby escaped
injury except for a few bruises, but Mrs Huckaby, the three‑year old daughter and little
baby were not so fortunate. The mother
was badly cut on the knee, requiring several stitches to close the wound ‑
The girl suffered a scalp wound over one eye, and the baby received .i bad
scratch on her face. The rig was near a
fence at the time it was overturned and the baby was thrown clear over it into
the field.
The buggy was pretty badly damaged and the
horse ran nearly to Marcola before it was caught. Mr.
Huckaby soon after the accident telephoned to F. M. Carter, his employer, and the latter sent two
physicians up in an automobile. After
the wounds had been bandaged the party was brought to Eugene in the machine.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 7‑27‑1910
TIMBER
The fire that last week burned dangerously
near Wendling, but that was thought to be under control, was fanned up again
the first of this week and is now burning fiercely over a large area.
All the Booth Kelly crews at
Wendling and in the woods nearby have been taken from their work and are
fighting the flames trying to keep them away from the uncut timber. The strong wind that has come up in the afternoon
every day this week spreads the flames faster than the men can control
them. They are
endeavoring to clear away the
burnable material before it in the hope that the fire will die out. The flames are so hot that it is impossible
to approach within several hundred yards of them. A. C. Dixon went to Wendling yesterday
and went into the woods to direct the work and learn the extent of the
fire. The company headquarters in Eugene
are on the alert for a call for help and a force of men can be shipped up there
on a moments notice.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 7‑30‑1910
SHUTDOWN OF SPRINGFIELD
The Springfield News of this week prints a
greatly
exaggerated story of a two
months shutdown of the Springfield sawmill because, as it says, of incompetent
management in the Booth Kelly office.
According to the statement made by A. M. Hagen and L. L. Lewis of the
Booth Kelly Company today, the shutdown will last nearer one week than two
months.
The mill has been closed several times
during the past few weeks because of a shortage of logs from Wendling. This shortage has been caused partly because
of forest fires that have taken part of the logging crews off their work. The coming shutdown is due to the big fire up
there that is now under control, but which during the past week has taken all
the men from their axes in order to fight the flames.
There is also the big drive coming down
the Willamette from Lowell that has been held up because of unusually low
water. If a sufficient rain should fall
that would raise the Willamette six inches, this drive could quickly be brought
to the mill and there would be logs enough to last all Fall. It is the unusually low condition of the
water in the river that his upset the plans of the mill company, for under
ordinary circumstances this drive would already be in the mill pond a‑id
the logs from Wendling would not be needed.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 8‑1‑1910
COBURG SAWMILL
The Booth Kelly sawmill at Coburg started
a night shift last week and will run it continually all summer and fall. The force at the mill has been increased from
85 to 165 men. This means much for the
little milling city of Coburg that has been growing very rapidly during the
past few years. With the arrival a few
weeks ago of the McKenzie log drive the mill has in the pond in unlimited
number of logs to cut, and with the closing of the Springfield mill because of
lack of logs and a large number of orders to fill, the night shift at Coburg
was necessary. The night shift at the
sawmill is not as efficient as the day force, for in the dark the men seem to
be more handicapped than in the day time.
There is also the cost of the lights.
For this reason the mills run night shifts only when necessary to fill
orders and when there is a supply of logs to warrant the two shifts. In order to handle the extra amount of cut
timber the Eugene
Springfield switch engine
will hereafter make a trip to Coburg every day.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 8‑10‑1910
DONNA NEWS
Donna, Aug 9.‑ The atmosphere has
become quite smoky. This condition is
probably caused by the forest fires that have been and are still burning in the
vicinity above Wendling. Oregon has been
almost free from smoky weather since the legislature enacted the law in regard
to starting fires.
We were misinformed in our article last
week about the Stafford school; we stated that the remodeling would cost about
$300. Instead of $300, when the work is
completed it will have cost the district about $1000, while the inside
furnishings alone will cost $300.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 8‑11‑1910
EUGENE MEN PURCHASE LEMON
STORE AT DONNA
Fred C.
Bean and John H. Hammitt of Eugene were the
successful bidders on the
Bert Lemon stock of goods at the Donna store at the constable's sale
today. Their bid was $650, which was the
highest offered, and the stock was knocked down to them. They will conduct the store hereafter.
This store was closed by Lemon's creditors
several weeks ago. Lemon is said to owe
something like $4000, and the $650 from the sale of the stock of goods is all
the creditors will get. This will be divided pro rata among them.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 8‑12‑1910
A good‑sized fire was raging in the
woods near the Southern Pacific sawmill No. 1, near Marcola, yesterday
afternoon, and a large force of loggers and millmen were fighting the flames to
keep them away from the mill. The wind
was blowing quite hard, and the fire was making lots of smoke, which could be
seen for miles around, but reports from there today indicate that it is under
control and the danger of its spreading to the mill has been reduced to the
minimum.
The fires in the Booth Kelly timber above
Wendling are all about out or are simply burning over logged‑off lands,
and there seems to be no further danger of damage in that vicinity.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 8‑22‑1910
COBURG NEWS
George A. Drury has been asked by several
of the leading republicans of the county to announce himself as a candidate for
the office of county clerk. There is not a better man in the county for the
office than Dr. Drury, but he has not
time enough to spare, being in the mercantile business here, to attend to the
work of the clerk's office.
Last Tuesday J. L. Pirtle purchased the
Coburg market and took charge Wednesday.
The city Council met in regular session
last Monday night, the most important Business transacted being, the reading of
H. F. Bucknum's ordinance on the question of' water for the city. Five foot sidewalks were ordered in along
Willamette Street in front of the Roach and Drs. Sarah Skinner's property. All parties are asked to nail all loose
boards in their sidewalks. Suggestions
were trade that street corners be labeled with boards at the corners.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 8‑25‑1910
MARCOLA
A telephone message from Marcola to the
Guard late this afternoon states that the fire situation there is about the
same as it was this morning and hinges upon whether or not the wind will
rise. It has been quiet all day. If the
wind does not come up the situation for Marcola and for the mill at Wendling is
comparatively safe. However word was
received there late this afternoon from Mabel that, that place, and the S. P.
mills are in imminent danger. The fire is burning in the logged‑off
portion of the Sunset Lumber
Company, not a quarter of a mile from the mill and is quite serious. Men are carefully watching, the mill. It is
hard to get word from there. The
situation there also depends upon the wind.
This afternoon, what little wind there was, was blowing from there and
lessons the danger. The fire can be
seen from Marcola stretching for many miles along the side of the hills and it
is working upward toward the divide.
Camp No. 2 of the S. P. mills, two miles from Marcola, is deserted and
the men are resting at Marcola from their work awaiting developments. A crew of about 50 left there this afternoon
for Wendling to relieve the men who have been working all night and are pretty
well exhausted.
Marcola is immediately protected from the
fire that. is approaching Camp No. 2 ‑‑ several large fields. If the fire does approach any nearer
Backfiring will be resorted to.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 8‑25‑1910
WENDLING WIPED OUT LAST NIGHT
BUT
The loss resulting from last night's fire
at Wendling is roughly estimated at the Booth Kelly office at $30,000. This includes the loss in Wendling alone, and
to the company's
property there. Besides this is the loss to the individual
workmen, a few of whom owned their own houses, and nearly all lost their
personal effects. The buildings that
were not burned are nearly all on the mill side of the river. On this side a couple of houses were burned,
but nothing else. The sawmill, planing
mill, the machine shop, all the yards and dry kilns and the Southern Pacific
depot still stand intact. On the town
side everything burned up with the exception of the store and three dwelling
houses. The bunk house and the boarding
house were destroyed were destroyed with the rest of the buildings. This is the official report given out from the
Booth Kelly office this afternoon ‑ in scarcely the twinkling of an eye
500 inhabitants of the thriving sawmill town of Wendling, on the Mohawk River,
were made homeless last evening. In the
morning, not ten hours before, the mill hummed its song in the woods, the ring
of axes could be heard in neighboring camps and the small city bustled about in
peaceful activity.
There was not the slightest cloud of
danger hovering over the homes, and the danger that had been distantly
threatened by the fires in the camps were matters of the past and almost
forgotten. As the morning went by a
breeze began to whistle through the big sawmill and it soon developed into a
strong wind. The men to themselves were thankful that the fires of the last
week were under control, but yet at the same time each man seemed to have a
premonition that did not develop into round form, but made him hope that no
fire would start.
But the fire did start, and in a place
that few had thought of. Wendling, is at
the mouth as it were, of a small and narrow valley. Up the curving distance of this ravine are located
the logging camps that are constantly moving further into the forests like the
steady progress of a huge snail.
Five miles above Wendling was a deserted
logging camp with its empty homes, the boarding house, stables and all trash
that was part of such a camp. Everything
here was dry, and round about this in the narrow valley were the dead slashings
which were also hard and dry. Here the
fire started. In an instant the greedy
flames wrapped themselves about the deserted camp, and rushed with the wind
down the creek bottoms.
No one saw it start, but five hundred saw
it coming. This was in the early part of
the afternoon. The mill men dropped
their work and under the direction of the foreman rushed at the onslaught of
the coming flames, but no Grecian hero could stop the progress of this fiery
demon.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 9‑12‑1910
COBURG NEWS
Fred Deffenbacker purchased a pack of
donkeys from a couple of prospectors who were passing through Coburg
Wednesday. He will use the donkeys, and
next spring will start on a prospecting trip in the Cascades.
The Coburg hop pickers from Kelsey's yard
returned Friday very much on the fight! It seems that the yard boss layed the
Coburg pickers off and let the balance work.
Well if that is right show us. Next year go to Seavey's. The first year of
the State Bank of Coburg's business has just finished with $94.67 above all
expenses, an excellent record. The
directors are exceedingly well pleased with the success and popularity of the
institution.
THE
800 ACRE
The Thomas VanDuyn farm of 800 acres, near
This is one of the best farms in Lane
county, and has been owned by Mr.
VanDuyn for the past 32 years.
The land on the farm is good for fruit, grain or pastures It will be cut
up into tracts suitable for fruit raising and placed in the hands of some live
salesman.
Mr. Rose owns a farm of over 2,000
acres in extent in the same vicinity, and Mr. Young also has property near
there. They are both brothers‑in‑law
of Mr. VanDuyn.
THE
WENDLING IS
Wendling, destroyed by fire only a few
months ago, in twenty days will be in the same condition that it was previous
to the terrible fires, or really in fact a greater town than ever before. The carpenters who have been rushing, the
work for the past two months, will be through by the last of this month and the
great fire will be only a matter of history.
At present the small mill town is alive with bustling activities.
Four contractors have their men rushing to
completion the employees homes. At
present there is complete, the lodging house, the store, the hotel and about
six residences.
Work has begun on the additional thirty houses
and they will stand complete within a fortnight or so. The cold weather is rather hard on the
families living in tents, and the completion of the houses will be appreciated
by those who lost homes in the fire.
The houses are all of the same pattern and
when they are completed and painted the town will have a very pretty appearance
in all its freshness.
The big sawmill is running full blast and
every available man is being, put into the woods. The whole atmosphere is one of activity.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 11‑16‑1910
LARGEST LOG SAWED AT
SPRINGFIELD
Springfield, Nov. 16.‑ The
Springfield mill yesterday cut the largest log ever sawed in the mill,
according to the
statement of old hands, when
a stick nearly seven feet in
diameter was rolled on the
carriage. As a matter of fact, there
were two logs of this size, for the stick that was shipped from Wendling had to
be out in the middle before it could be sawed.
One log measured 17 and the other 18 feet in length.
The total board feet cut from this one log
measured over 11,000 one stick cutting
5,512 and the other 5,800 board feet measure.
The big logs were cut into car material for the Eastern car shops. So large were the big, fir pieces that it was
necessary to cut the entrance
of the mill slightly as the logs came up the chute.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 11‑18‑1910
CARL FISCHER
Springfield, Nov. 18.‑ Carl Fischer,
one of the owners of the Fischer Billy sawmill, had a narrow escape from death
Wednesday, and he owes his
life to the quick presence of mind displayed when he plunged into the mill pond
ahead of a flying log.
He was helping to unload a car of logs
into the pond and one of the large logs caught on the edge of the car. In trying to dislodge it, he stood in front
of it and worked with his peavy. In an
unexpected manner the stick became free and bore down on top of him. Dropping
his bar he plunged headlong into the pond ahead of the timber, which struck him
after he Was in the water but did not injure him. had there been another log in
the pond he would have been mashed, or had he failed to leap it would have
meant instant death. This is the second
time, it is said, that Mr. Fischer has
escaped from a rolling log in this manner.
THE FISCHER BALLY SPRINGFIELD
SAWMILL
The Guard 11‑19‑1910
One of the leading industries of
Springfield, is the Fischer
Bally Lbr. Co., located in
north Springfield. although it has been located here only since last spring,
this mill has gained a reputation for prompt service that has proved to be one
of the secrets of its success. The
officers are as follows: President and manager, O. E. Fischer:
Vice‑President, J. E. McKibben;
secretary, J. E. Bally; treasurer, lo.. J. Drury.
All are men of wide experience in the
lumber business. Formerly they conducted
a sawmill at Marcola, but on account of the superiority of the location at
Springfield, with some reference to
their timber supply, they decided to move their plant to that place.
Mr.
Fischer, ‑resident and manager, is from Wisconsin, and has been in the
lumber business for ten years. Before
going to Springfield he had charge of the Fischer Bros. sawmill at
Marcola, and previously was
for some time with the Booth Kelly Lumber Co. He was in Marcola for about eight
years. All his associates are thoroughly
familiar with the lumber industry of the Northwest. The output of the plant is about 35,000
feet for ten hours of operation. The
entire crew of men employed is between thirty and forty.
The shipping facilities of the plant are
excellent as it is located on the Southern Pacific railroad, and has modern
loading docks. Most of the timber is shipped from the Mohawk branch where the
company owns several years cutting of timber.
The mill is up to date. In the process of moving the company virtually
rebuilt the plant, and as a result most of the machinery is new. Adjoining the plant is a planing mill designed
to take care of the output of the sawmill, and a modern dry kiln is operated. This is known as the Aweco kiln, a new
process, and has a
capacity of 15,000 feet per
day.
An extra furnace is attached, and the
steam that passes from the main boiler is reheated. The company conducts both wholesale and
retail business‑
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 11‑25‑1910
F. Y. Young, an employ in the Booth Kelly
mill at
Springfield, living at the
corner of Mill and 1st Streets in that city, owes his life to the fact that the
rollers in the planer on which he was working, were set for unusually large
timbers. In working about the machine
yesterday, his hand and clothing were caught Between the rollers and his arm
was at once drawn into the big machine.
The tension on the rollers had been loosened, and because of this fact,
the man's arm was not torn from the body.
When the shoulder was reached the body was not drawn
further. His cries attracted his fellow workmen and
the power was turned off as soon as possible, but not until the arm was badly
mutilated. Almost miraculously, no bones
were broken. The accident was the
result of the man's endeavor to measure some lumber behind the machine without
stopping it.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 12‑19‑1910
COBURG BUSINESS HOUSE CHANGES
HANDS
A. J. Hicks, recently of Heppner, Ore.,
arrived in Coburg Sunday evening and has purchased the stock of general
merchandise of W. E. Shannon. Monday
morning Mr. Hicks and Mr. Shannon at
once began to invoice the stock and Wednesday Mr. Hicks assumed charge.
M.
Hicks informs us that he will remodel the building somewhat and increase
the stock, Putting in a good line of dry goods, shoes, etc, and conduct an up‑to‑date
business.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 12‑26‑1910
COBURG
Last Tuesday H. R. Nolleth and George Cox
took a trip down the country to get some ducks which they were lucky enough to
get; and in returning had the experience of the season. It was very dark and the horse got into a
deep mud hole, which resulted in the dog at once jumping out in order to avoid
being tipped out. Out went the guns into
the mud, and then, George rolled out and was hanging by his rubber coat, which
Nolleth was sitting on. Finally, after dangling in the mud with his fingers and
toes for a short time. H. R. raised and
let him down so he might get to his feet.
After considerable trouble they got the
horse and buggy out of the mud and came home safely. ‑ Coburg Journal.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 12‑28‑1910
BOOTH KELLY COMPANY WILL
REDUCE WAGES ON JANUARY I
Springfield, Dec. 28.‑ Beginning on
January first, the Booth Kelly Lumber Company will reduce the wages of all its
employees 2 1|2 cents an hour. This
comes as a second reduction within the past few weeks, because the reduction a
short time ago from 10 to 8 hours a day served to diminish the wages
considerably. The lowest wage is now $1.55 a day while two
months ago the lowest was $2.00. This
reduction comes at an inopportune time for many employees and there is no
recourse open, for there is little other activity in the labor line at this
time of the year. The reduction follows
the shutting down of the mills at Coburg, Wendling and Saginaw, and although
this was expected to only be a temporary delay until the first of the year,
many of
the employees fear that it
will last longer than that. The laborers
here will accept the reduction, but it is not expected to last over 60 days,
for in this time the railroad work and a promising local building activity will
give employment to many men and cause demand for labor. The conditions of 'the lumber market is the
reason given for the reduction in the wage scale. The company is endeavoring to keep the mills
running, but is forced to reduce expenses in order to do it.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 1‑13‑1911
MOHAWK FARMERS JOIN WITH
OTHERS AGAINST PHONE RATES
Donna, Ore., Jan. 12.‑ The members
of the Mohawk Grange at this place, at their regular meeting on January 7, took
up the matter of raising telephone rates for switchboard privileges, and after
a long and thorough discussion, by an almost
unanimous vote, decided that
the $5.00 rate now charged, is more than the farmers ought to pay, and that
they were strongly in favor of a combination of farmer's lines for the purpose
of united action of some kind, to protect the telephone user. We look with alarm at the constant rise in
the charges for switch privileges, and it is safe, judging from the
expressions, freely given here, that the farmers in the Mohawk valley are ready
to do almost anything that offers a chance of escape from the excessive charges
of these buccaneers. I am informed that
several Mohawk farmers have refused to pay $5.00 and the general opinion is
that $3.00 per year would be about right.
There is something certain ‑ we will get no relief unless we do
something for ourselves,. Unless we do,
we will find those rates still
climbing up, as long as we
are willing to pay then they will be willing to raise the price. Now is the time to say no.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 1‑24‑1911
COBURG NEWS
Merchant A. J. Hicks is preparing to move
his stock of goods into the building purchased by Mr. Frank Skinner which now
stands beside the See and Chalouqka store. The new location will be, in many
ways, a convenience to many of Mr. Hicks customers as well to the business
trade of the town.
Mr. Skinner is having the building put in
first class shape for Mr. Hicks, and as soon as spring opens he expects to
build an addition to the rear thus making, a fine business house.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 2‑6‑1911
COBURG Business NEWS
Sometime during the first of the week, Mr.
A. A. Low sold his business to Mr. W. E.
King of southeastern Kansas. Mr.
King, is a baker by trade and will run a first class restaurant. He reports
that a friend, Mr. Marlow, also of Kansas, will come out here and assist in the
business or go into some other line.
Shortly after Roy Pirtle arrived in Coburg
the first of the week, he purchased the stock of groceries and goodwill of our
merchant H. C. Bishop. On the tenth of
the month Mr. Bishop and Mr. Pirtle will
invoice the stock and Mr. Pirtle will assume charge of the business. Ray Pirtle who his been with Mr. Bishop for
the past three years will continue with the new merchants at least for a time. ‑Journal.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 2‑13‑1911
GEORGE MACY FORMER LANE
COUNTY
The following is in account of the suicide
of George Macy, a former resident of Coburg and Harrisburg: Salt Lake Utah,
Jan. 30.‑ dead from chloroform, self administered, the body of George
Macy of Oregon was found in his room at the home of his
Mother‑in‑law
Mrs. M. F. Marsh, in this city today. Macy married Mrs Marsh's daughter Cecilia
at Cordova Alaska six years ago. It is
understood that the couple separated in December.
This separation , added to difficulties in
disposing of some telephone patents, preyed upon Macy's mind. He had been in Salt Lake but a short time.
His age was 44 years. He formerly was in business in Shaniko
Oregon.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 2‑16‑1911
ELMER YARNELL DIES SUDDENLY
FROM LA GRIPPE
Elmer Yarnell, died this forenoon at 10:45
at the Eugene hospital, after an illness of only two or three days, from La
Grippe. He was taken to the hospital
yesterday ,afternoon , and his condition was not considered serious. He was
taken by
ambulance from, his room in
the Smeed hotel. List night Mr. Yarnell became worse and the hospital
attendants and physicians realized that his condition was serious. He gradually
grew worse until the end came this forenoon.
Mr. Yarnell was aged about 47
years and had lived in Lane Co. many years.
He formerly
conducted a farm in the
Mohawk valley, but had lived in Eugene for the past few years. He built one of the sorority houses at the
University and owned much other property in the city and vicinity. He leaves seven brothers and sisters and two
sons, one in Alaska and the other in Boise Idaho.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 2‑20‑1911
MISTAKEN FOR DEER CLARENCE PHIPPS
SHOT DOWN
The same old story ‑ mistaken for a
deer‑ is the cause of the tragic death of Clarence Phipps, aged 17 years,
in the hills four miles northeast of Coburg Sunday afternoon.
He was shot and killed by Harvy Sutherland, about the same age,
about 2:30 o'clock.
Young Phipps Who was the son of Ira Phipps
residing on a farm two miles north of Coburg, accompanied by Rex Green, another
boy, left the Phipps home Sunday afternoon for a trip to the hills to hunt for
small game. Young Sutherland, son of G.
M. Sutherland, residing in Coburg, left home that morning to look at his traps
which he had set the day before expecting to catch small animals
overnight. While he was walking along in
the thick timber and brush during the afternoon after he had made the rounds of
his traps, young Sutherland saw something move about 250 yards in front of him,
and thinking it was a deer, aimed carefully with his rifle and fired. He was horrified upon approaching nearer to
hear young Green calling out not to shoot any more as he had killed Clarence.
The Sutherland boy ran at once to where
the Phipps boy lay prostrate, and found that his bullet had entered the
latter's head just below the left nostril and lodged somewhere in the brain. Death was instantaneous. Neither of the boys
knew the other was in the mountains, and young Sutherland says he did not know
any human being was within miles of him. The weapon with which the boy was
killed is a 32‑40 rifle of a late pattern. Soon after he had seen what he had done young
Sutherland
proceeded to Coburg, where he
told his folks and others of the tragedy.
A party of men at once proceeded to the scene of the killing, and
brought the remains of the young, man home.
The Phipps and Sutherland boys were well
acquainted with each other and were good friends. On that account there could
hardly be any suspicion that the killing was intentional, and the further fact
that the Sutherland boy was ignorant of the presence of the other two in the
hills would seem to preclude such
suspicion. The Sutherland boy takes the killing very
much to heart and declares that he will never again go hunting, or if he does,
he will be absolutely certain what he is shooting at.
A DIFFERENT STORY
The coroner returned from Coburg this
afternoon. He reports that the Sutherland boy tells the story that he saw
Phipps' dog, and thinking it was a coyote, fired at it, but that his bullet
went wild and killed his friend. The
inquest will not be held until tomorrow, and the body will be interred
immediately
afterward.
Rex Green, who accompanied young Phipps,
is the latter's nephew.
THE MORNING REGISTER
Wednesday, 2‑22‑1911
JURY CENSURES
Declare Shooting Act Of
Extreme Carelessness
DISTANCE IS 75 YARDS
JURY
funeral of the deceased.
The inquest was started soon after he
arrived at Coburg by impanelling a jury
which consisted of C. B. Allingham, W. E. Wilcox, Elmer Healy, P. L. Barber, C. H. Lewis, and Wesley B. Beeson.
The testimony of the witnesses was first
taken, and after hearing it the jury concluded it was somewhat conflicting and
decided they better go to the scene of the shooting to satisfy themselves fully
on the premises.
Teams were procured and the jury and the
witnesses went as far as they could with them and climbed the mountain the
balance of the way on foot. They found
the place where Sutherland stood when he shot, by the shell thrown out of his gun
which was still there, and paced the distance to where the young man, Phipps,
received the bullet fired and found the distance to be just 75 yards.
A man was placed where Phipps stood when
he was shot and he could not be distinguished at that distance by those who
stood where Sutherland shot.
The jury concluded it was important that
Sutherland should have known what he was shooting at before he fired the fatal
shot.
The report of the jury was something to
this effect:
We, the jury, duly impanelled
and sworn to inquire into the death of Clarence Phipps, 18 years old, etc., do
find:
That Clarence Phipps came to his death
five miles northeast of Coburg in Lane County, in the mountains.
That the cause of death was a gun shot
wound in the head. That the shot
was fired by Harvey Sutherland, who evidently took the deceased for a deer or
some other animal, which could not be distinguished at the distance of 75
paces, being the distance the deceased was from Harvey Sutherland when he fired
his gun, on account of bushes in the way.
We consider the shooting an act of extreme
carelessness on the part of said Sutherland.
This verdict was duly signed by the jury
after they returned to Coburg and made it out.
In the absence of the jury and witnesses
on the mountain the funeral service for
the unfortunate victim was held, it being conducted by the Methodist minister.
There was an immense crowd at the
funeral. The families of both boys are
greatly broken up over the unfortunate accident and there was much sympathy for
the bereaved parents.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 3‑9‑1911
SUNSET SAWMILL AT MABEL SOLD
TO
The big sawmill owned by the Sunset Lumber
Company, at Mabel, which has Been idle for a year or more and which has been
tied up on account of numerous financial difficulties, has changed hands and
will soon be operated again.
A new company has been organized in
Portland, known as the Coast Range Lumber Company, and the plant, together with
all the timber holdings of the company, has been transferred to the new
company. The purchase price given in the
deed, which has been filed for record with the Lane Co. clerk, being
$60,000. It is understood that the
company will also purchase a lot more timber and it is possible that the plant,
which is now 50,000 feet of lumber every 24 hours, will be increased.
H. C. Mahon, who was at the head of the
Sunset Company, is also connected with the Coast Range Company. The property has been bonded, the bonds being
placed with a Chicago firm, and the new company is now on a solid foundation.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 3‑17‑1911
SUNSET SAWMILL PLANT BONDED
FOR $350,000
A trust deed from the Coast Range Lumber
Company, which recently took over the Sunset Lumber Company's mill at Mabel, on
the Mohawk, made out to the Continental and Commercial Trust and Savings bank,
a big concern of Chicago, was filed for the record in the office of the Lane
County clerk today, to secure $350,000 first mortgage 6 per cent gold bonds,
which have been issued by the new company.
The deed is a bulky affair and cost $33 to record. It is in pamphlet
form, printed, and covers 42 large pages.
It is signed by G. W. Wentworth, president, and William T. Brown,
assistant secretary, for the Coast Range Company, and by John J. Abbott,
president, and Frank H. Jones, secretary of the trust company.
The deed covers all of the timber lands
owned by the old Sunset Lumber Company, together with the mill and logging
plants, recently taken over by the Coast Range Lumber Company.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 4‑6‑1911
Have Enough Now To Keep The
Mill Running 15 Years And Are
Securing More
The Coast Range Lumber Company, which
recently took over the holdings of the Sunset Lumber Company, including the big
mill at Mabel, on the Mohawk, is buying much timber land in addition to that
already owned by the old company. Yesterday afternoon a deed for the transfer
of 692 acres by John F. Kelly, of the Booth Kelly Lumber Company, and Mrs.
Theresa Jackson, his sister, to the new company, was filed with the county
clerk for record. The consideration given in the deed is $45,000. At the same
time several other deeds were filed conveying smaller tracts from different
persons to the company.
The company has bonded its properties for
$350,000 and now has ample money to operate on a large scale. All of the claims against the old company
have been paid off, and the work of taking extensive improvements in the
sawmill plant has begun.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 4‑8‑1911
20 RANGERS AT
Twenty forest rangers in the employ of the
Booth Kelly Lumber Company are systematically covering Lane county forests
where timber is owned by this lumber company and are burning up every bit of
underbrush, rubbish and slashings in order to prevent repetition of the
disastrous fires which swept Lane county forests last summer. The rangers of Booth Kelly company are working
under the direction of M. J. Skinner.
These
operations will continue up
to the first of June, when the fire season begins, and by that time, it is
thought that the forests owned by the company will be as clean as a park.
"More money for prevention", is
the slogan of the lumber company, and every effort is being made to eliminate
all
possibility of fires this
year. The work is being done with the co‑operation of the government
forestry service, and with the farmers, A. C. Dixon, manager of the company,
said.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 4‑17‑1911
CLARENCE GRUBB SHOT IN GUN
ACCIDENT
Clarence Grubb, a young man residing on
the Withers farm, on the Coburg road, north of Eugene, is confined to his home
as the result of the accidental discharge of a shotgun in the hands of a
companion, the shot striking his right ankle.
Dr. Scaiefe, the attending surgeon, says
there will be no serious results unless he finds that some of the shot entered
the
ankle joint, in that case the
limb may become stiff or it is possible that amputation may be necessary.
Grubb and his companion were out in a
field Sunday setting poison for gophers.
His companion had an old‑fashioned
shotgun and as he was passing through some brush behind Grubb, the hammer of
the piece caught on a small limb which pulled it back far enough that when the
hammer dropped the load in the gun discharged.
Grubb was taken to the house and Dr. Scaiefe called. He dressed the wound and left the patient
resting easily, but he cannot yet tell how serious the injury is.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 4‑20‑1911
B. K. LOGGER LOSES MONEY
A logger named Hodges, employed on the
Booth Kelly Company's McKenzie river, reported to the officers in Eugene today
that someone had stolen from him at the camp near Deerhorn something over $60
in money and a new pair of shoes which he had left in his bunk. Sheriff Bown at once began an investigation
and took into custody a young Englishman as a suspect, but as yet no evidence has
been found against him. It is probable
that the suspect will be turned loose, as Hodges says he does not believe that
this man is the thief.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 4‑21‑1911
BIG OPERATIONS HAVE BEGUN AT
MABEL
The Coast Range Lbr. Co. began operations
this week at Mabel, to rebuild its big sawmill to a capacity of 100,000 ft.
daily and to build nearly 4 miles of railroad. 65 men will be employed between
now and August 1st, on this work. Mabel
is to be given electric lights and a gravity water system. A reservoir
will be built 200 ft. above
the place and fed by pure Mtn. water.
New houses will be built for
the workmen. Already a complete
department store has been stocked. Mabel
will be connected with the Wendling branch of the Southern Pacific by a 1 1/4
mile branch, and a logging road is to be built into the timber owned by the
company on Shotgun Creek. This road
penetrates 20,000 acres
of timber, which is the best
in the county. About one‑fourth
of this is owned by this company, and is
expected to keep this sawmill running every day for fifteen years.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 4‑25‑1911
MAYOR BROWN OF Coburg RESIGNS
At the Coburg council meeting last Monday
night, Mayor C. W. Brown tendered his resignation. Mr. Brown said he had several reasons, and gave as
one that his wife's health was not very good, and that she desired him home in
the evenings.
A general remark on the street the first
of this week was that Mr. Brown had made a good officer, and his resignation
was a great surprise. The council elected
councilman Zook to fill the vacancy until the next regular election, when a
mayor will be elected by the voters. ‑Journal.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 5‑2‑1911
COBURG WATERWORKS TO HAVE
H. F. Bucknum was interviewed regarding
his new tower which he is constructing on his lot in the southern part of
town. Mr Bucknum is bound to keep his
business abreast of the town's other improvements. The modern tower and tank will be a great
improvement in the city's
water system. The tank will be 75 feet
from the ground, sitting on a steel tower whose base is 19x19 feet. The pressure received from the newly
installed system will be 53 per cent greater than the present system, and the
new tank built of California redwood, will hold 34,000 gallons of water.
Mr.
Cox, the Booth Kelly Company's Bookkeeper, while out shooting, Sunday
last, accidently discharged his 22 caliber rifle, the ball passing through his
foot.
He, in company with a few friends, had
just shortly left the club when Mr. Cox, in putting a shell into his gun, in
some way discharged it. Mr. Cox was carried back to his comrades and Dr. Jarnagin dressed the wound. He is back to
work since Tuesday. ‑ Journal.
THE, ROSE LUMBER COMPANY
Wednesday arrangements were completed
whereby William Sidwell became one‑third owner in the Rose Lumber
Company. We are informed that the
balance of the mill machinery is ordered and on the mill site except the big
saw.
Several men have been employed and the
contracts let for the falling, cutting up of the timber, hauling, in the logs,
etc.. In two weeks the mill will be in running shape.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 5‑6‑1911
WENDLING DEPOT ROBBED OF $160
LAST NIGHT
While William. Beede, agent for the Southern Pacific Company
at Wendling, was away from the depot at that place last evening between 6 and 7
o'clock, someone entered the depot and extracted from the till at the ticket
window a sum of money thought by the agent to be about $160.
Agent Beede left the depot about 6 o'clock
to go to supper. The robber or robbers had evidently been watching him and took
note of his departure, and while he was gone for an hour they did their dirty
work. They entered the depot through a
rear door, breaking off the lock. It was
then an easy task to locate the cash till.
They emptied it of every cent that it contained. The exact amount is not
known, but it is very close to $160 the agent says.
The sheriff's office was notified of the
robbery soon after it was discovered and Deputy Fisk was sent up this morning
to investigate it. A number of laboring
men have been seen around the depot during the day yesterday, but as this is a
common occurrence and as there are a great many there working in the mill and
looking for work, it would be hard to pick any of them out as the probable
thief.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 6‑2‑1911
GIRL DROWNED IN WILLAMETTE
NEAR COBURG
This afternoon about 2 o'clock Miss Ella
Clark, aged 22 years, daughter of William Clark, residing three miles below
Coburg, was drowned in the Willamette river near her home and back of the
Monroe Leach farm. She and Miss Edna
Riddle were boating on the river when their craft struck a sunken log and
capsized. Miss Clark immediately sank to
the bottom, but Miss Riddle clung to the upturned boat and floated down stream
for some distance before her rescue was effected.
The news of the drowning soon reached
Coburg and a large crowd of men and boys reached the scene in a remarkably
short time. Up to a late hour this
afternoon, they had not been successful in locating the body, although the
bottom of the river at the scene of the accident and for some distance below
has been thoroughly dragged.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 6‑13‑1911
MORE IMPROVEMENTS BY BOOTH
KELLY CO. AT WENDLING
Architect J. R. Ford, of this city, has
been engaged by the Booth Kelly Lumber company to draw plans for the erection
of a big addition to the company store building at Wendling and to build a
refrigerating plant to be used in connection with the store.
Mr.
Ford visited Wendling yesterday, returning home on the evening
local. While there he made measurements
of the ground on which the new buildings are to be erected and began getting
out his sketches today.
The addition to the store building will be
14x91 feet in dimensions and will give much more room for the increased
business there.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 6‑24‑1911
MARCOLA
Frank Smith of Marcola, is under $500 bond
to appear in the Eugene Justice Court Monday for trial on the charge of selling
liquor in violation of the local option law. Smith has been suspected for some
time past of violating the law. District
Attorney Bryson has gathered enough evidence against him to warrant prosecution
and had him arrested this morning by the constable of Marcola, who brought him
to Eugene on the forenoon local train from there.
Smith appeared in the justice's court this
afternoon and was placed under $500 bond to appear for trial in that court
Monday at 9 a. m.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 6‑27‑1911
MODERN WOODMEN OF AMERICA LOG
ROLLING HELD AT MARCOLA
The Modern Woodmen of America had a
genuine old‑fashioned log rolling at Marcola Sunday night. Forty tyros sawed and chopped their winding
way through the forest, stopping, only for refreshments at 11 p. m. Those eatables by the way, were of a class
seldom encountered, and all did justice in full and praised the Royal Neighbors
for their excellent way of entertaining the weary Woodmen. Thirty‑five
members from Eugene camp were on hand, and a large delegation from Coburg spent
the evening there. Camp closed at 5
o'clock next morning.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 7‑3‑1911
B. K. logging foreman routes
3 men
Three loggers came to Eugene to celebrate
the fourth and well along toward the early stages of the celebration, found
that they had made a mistake when they talked back to a foreman of the Booth
Kelly Company, lumber camp, from Wendling, in the Naylor cigar store on
Willamette street about 11 O'clock last evening and will probably be more
discreet in the future. It seems that the three of them were abusing a
young fellow who had worked in the
lumber camp at Wendling, and who had been in the Eugene Hospital with a broken
arm for several weeks. The hero of the
affair the boy's foreman at Wendling, happened along and
upbraided the trio for their
actions.
They then turned their abuse on the
foreman, and in the events that followed, one of the loggers picked up a chair
and with great force was about to bring it over the head of the foreman when
the latter caught the chair in his hands.
The three loggers then ran behind the store counter, followed by the
foreman, and each at a time were lifted over the counter and literally thrown
out into the street by the husky lumberman, with no especial gentleness. The three men decamped with their bruises,
and the police have not been able to locate them.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 7‑8‑1911
LOGGER MAKES GOOD VIOLIN WITH
JACK KNIFE
J. H. McCain, a log scaler who has been
working at the Booth Kelly mill at Springfield, brought to this city today a
violin which he made entirely himself with a jack knife. From a
woodworkers standpoint it is
almost perfectly made and as smooth and symmetrical as an expert could make
with tools.It also seems to be an instrument valuable for its musical
qualities, although Mr. McCain made it with no musical knowledge and with no
model other than his mental picture. He
is very handy with a jack knife and came to make the violin just to while away
the time. It contains several kinds of
wood which he cut from growing trees.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 7‑18‑1911
Forest fires of an alarming nature started
yesterday in the vicinity of Marcola and around the logging camp east of
Wendling. The whole crew of loggers at
the Booth Kelly camps No. 3 and 4, over
200 men, worked until past midnight in well directed efforts to save and
protect property, and were called out again soon after 2 a. m. by the fire
watchers, who feared further spreading into the camp works.
As it was, about 400 feet of the logging
chutes were burned out, and quite an amount of felled timber burned over. The crew have worked desperately to protect
their works and a large amount of their lines have been taken in, in time to
save them. There is very little wind,
but a sudden rising of the wind may yet cause sweeping destruction and possibly
the wiping out of Marcola in manner as disastrous or more so than the Wendling
fire of last year.
7‑19‑1911 DANGER FROM
The alarming forest fires in the Booth
Kelly logging camps, about 7 miles east of this point were checked by getting
into green timber yesterday afternoon and the force of watchers along the line
of fire ditches fought back all small starts into the possibly dangerous tracts
in the immediate vicinity of camp No 2. Superintendent Clyde went up to the
fire lines, accompanied today, by Civil Engineer Miles, and they put in the
greater part of the afternoon directing movements and assisting in saving and
protecting the logging outfits and properties.
One of the donkey engines was hastily moved out of the burning district. Several hundred feet of new chutes burned and
a large quantity of fallen timber was in the path of the fire, but no great
amount of loss is reported.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 7‑20‑1911
SWITCH ENGINE AT SPRINGFIELD
EXPLODES
Switch engine No. 2196, stationed at
Springfield, was wrecked this morning, in the Springfield railroad yards by an
explosion in the boiler.
L. R. Johnson, who was blown out of the
cab door, and only slightly bruised, as well as four other men who had been
working about the engine, had a narrow escape from death. The cause of the explosion is thought to have
been due to an absence of water in the boiler on account of the negligence of
an attendant to fill the boiler.
When the fire was built, preparatory to
taking the engine to Eugene for switching purposes the small amount of water in
the boiler was turned into steam so rapidly that the crown plate could not
stand the unusual pressure. The boiler
blew out at the cab end. The door was
blown off the fire box and pieces of boiler plate were hurled for yards. One piece weighing four or five pounds, was
hurled through the air and buried itself in a tree to a depth of four or five
inches, 75 yards from the engine.
A few moments before the explosion
Mechanist L. R. Johnson with a crew of men had been making minor repairs on the
engine. The other men had left and Johnson was in the act of stepping out of
the cab when the explosion took place. Johnson was hurled to the ground by the
force of the explosion. Had he or the other men been inside the cab at the
time. They would have been horribly mangled by the flying pieces of iron and
scalded by the steam. The explosion occurred at 7:15 a. m.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 7‑21‑1911
The new lodge being erected here by the
Odd Fellows is rapidly approaching completion and if present plans carry, the
regular meeting of the Mohawk Lodge No.200, I.O.O.F., Saturday evening, July
29, will be held in the new hall. Appropriate dedication ceremonies and
exercises are being arranged, to be participated in by the local lodge and its
auxiliary, Mountain Home Rebekahs and invited guests, to take place about the
middle of August. The present joint
membership here is nearly 150, the rolls showing 87 Odd Fellows and 57
Rebekahs. The new building stands upon
the site of the old hotel which was destroyed by fire and as it is centrally
located the ground floor will make a fine store location, and we understand it
has already secured an occupant, although it will be perhaps 60 days before the
finishing work can all be
completed. The hall to be used as a
lodge room is 40x45 feet, and the ceilings 14 feet with large and convenient
ante rooms and property rooms and a large kitchen off the 20x36 dining
room. The trustees of the local Odd
Fellows lodge, J. S. Churchill, H.M. Anderson and F. F. Hubbard are deserving
of much credit for the work in hand.
The Odd Fellows of Marcola organized in
October 1908, and the Rebekahs in June of last year, and they have up to the
present time had a leased home in the M. W. A. hall.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 7‑21‑1911
A new enterprise is being carried out here
by Duncan Bros., who deserve encouragement and certainly merit the success that
is coming their way. Nearly a year ago
they entered into an
arrangement with the Fischer
Lumber Co. and began manufacturing porch posts and fancy columns. Their factory is in connection with the
company's planing mill, using the same power, and gets its material from the
company. Already about 20 carloads of
finished work have been shipped to eastern points, some as far east as
Pittsburgh, Pa., and orders keep coming in so that the factory has its output
spoken for ahead all the time.
They are planning extensive factory
additions, the putting in of more improved machinery and employing a larger
force of skilled workmen. The present
output is chiefly in the smaller sized columns, and their new machinery will
equip them for making colonial columns and other larger patterns. They are now using three turning lathes and
one boring machine. We are informed this
is the only establishment of its kind in the state of Oregon. Marcola may justly boast of a very valuable
addition to its already well established reputation as a point of more than
ordinary industrial activity.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 7‑25‑1911
H. O. Hysom's farm of 160 acres near
Marcola, was sold today to W. J. Hennis, a recent arrival from Oklahoma, for
$6,000, and the new owner, who recently arrived here to reside has taken
possession of the place. Mr. Hysom and
family are expected to leave soon for their old home in Kansas, but their
friends are predicting that they will be back to Oregon in a year or so.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 7‑29‑1911
$250,000 Loss As Booth
Kelly's Springfield Mill Burns
In almost less time than it takes to write
it, the Booth Kelly sawmill at Springfield, Lane county's biggest factory was
destroyed by fire, which started about 6:30 o'clock last evening and raged all
night, although the plant itself was destroyed in a very few minutes. Between 125 and 150 men are thrown out of
employment and a payroll of between $10,000 and $15,000 a month stopped. The
whole city of Springfield was threatened for a time, but the wind blew away
from the business district and no
buildings outside the mill
yards was destroyed. The company carried $105,000 insurance on the plant. Besides
5 million feet of lumber destroyed, 5,000 cords of slabwood to be used as fuel
for the Oregon Power Company's big steam plant adjoining the mill were
destroyed. The transmission wires
leading from the power plant and supplying light and power to the cities of
Springfield, Eugene, Albany, Corvallis, Brownsville, Halsey, Harrisburg, and
Junction City, were burned off soon after the fire started and those cities
were in darkness a part of the night. About 3 o'clock this morning, connections
were made with the auxiliary steam plant at Albany, and a small amount of power
was then transmitted to this city, but not enough for all purposes. The big fire attracted thousands of
people who flocked over there in automobiles, livery rigs, bicycles, afoot or any
way they could get there. It was one of
the most spectacular fires in the history of this part of the state, and the
loss entailed is greater than at any previous fire in Lane County except in the
big forest blaze at Wendling last summer.
The night watchman who was on the planer side of the mill yard saw the
flames before they had hardly started, yet before he could run across the yard
he was met by the hot blast which entirely enveloped the mill.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 8‑11‑1911
Bryan Shirey, a 12‑year‑old
boy, was drowned yesterday afternoon between 4 and 5 o'clock in the Coburg mill
pond. He was swimming with a small
companion, a boy named Peters, when he found himself in water beyond his depth.
He could swim but very little and went down before the eyes of his companion
who could not aid him other than run to the mill, some distance, for help. A number
of mill hands reached the place a few moments later and several dove for
the body. It was nearly half an hour
before it was recovered. By this time life was extinct and the efforts to
revive him were in vain. He was drowned
in about 6 feet of water and only a few feet from the shore.
The boy was the son of Mrs. A. J. Leonard,
his father having died several years ago.
The funeral will be held in Coburg
tomorrow.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 8‑29‑1911
SEAVY HOP YARD WILL USE 700
PICKERS
Hop picking in the yards of Lane county is
beginning
generally this week, and by
the first of September and for three or four weeks thereafter, 3 to 4 thousand
pickers will be
employed. In one yard alone, that of the Seavy Brothers
on the McKenzie, five miles from Eugene, 700 pickers will be employed. This is the largest yard in the county, or in
fact the entire upper Willamette valley.
The crop in very heavy this year, and will average over 2,000 pounds to
the acre in the Seavy yard. The price
to be received for the hops this year has exceeded 40 cents and local contracts
have been made from that figure down to 20 cents. The quality of the hops all over the county
is
exceedingly good and
practically every yard is free from all vermin. There is said to be scarcely
any lice in the county. The red spider
threatened early in the season, but the growers
exterminated it. Hop picking is a
great social leveler, and persons of every type work and joke side by side in
the yards, and persons can earn from $2.50 to $3.50 a day.
At Seavy Brothers yard, there is a dance
hall, and other pieces of entertainment, and after working hours there is ample
opportunity for recreation.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 8‑31‑1911
YOUNG
Springfield. August 31.‑ An unusual
case was tried before Justice of Peace Totten at Springfield yesterday and
today when Alvin Hewlit, a young man living near Spore's Siding on the Mohawk,
was accused of disturbing the religious meetings of the "Latter Day Saints
or Mormons, which were being held in a tent at that place last Thursday, August
24.
The young man was arrested on the
complaint of the pastor or leader of the Mormons, named M. H. Cook. He demanded
a jury trial, and the jury, after hearing, the testimony all yesterday
afternoon and this morning and until two o'clock this afternoon, after being
out 10 minutes, found him not guilty.
It seems that several boys with their
young lady friends enjoyed the Mormon meetings to such an extent that their
laughter and their boisterousness severely vexed the "Latter Day Saint
preacher. Out of the several young
people Hewlit was arrested. He is 21
years of age. A dozen or more members of
the
congregation appeared against
him at the trial, which attracted considerable interest at Springfield.
The jury, which was selected with
difficulty, consisted of Welby Stevens,
Frank Lenhart, H. E. Pitts, N. W. Gay, W. F. Walker and J. C. Carsal.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 9‑27‑1911
WOMAN LIVED 49 YEARS AS A
Lebanon Cobbler Goes Insane And Her Sex is
discovered
Salem Oregon, Sept. 27‑ For nearly
half a century Ray Leonard was thought to be a man.
This woman's queer story came to light
last evening when she was brought to the insane asylum from Lebanon Ore., where
she has been known for the past 49 years as a man, and as a cobbler by
trade. Her sex was discovered when an
attendant at the asylum was giving her a bath.
She told the story of how she decided, when she was a 13 year old girl
in the state of Maine, to
masquerade as a man, that she
might help her parents more
effectively. She learned the trade of shoe making from her
father and has followed it since that time. Eight years ago her father died and
she has since been running the shop in Lebanon alone. Although violently
opposed to entering the woman's ward last night, she was resigned this
morning. The only thing she complained
of was trouble in lacing up ladies shoes which were given her instead of a
heavier masculine boot.
Miss Leonard is 62 years old, very grey,
and slightly bald. Mrs. Eugene Hume of
Salem, who formerly lived at Lebanon, says she had her shoe repairing done by
Ray Leonard for years and was astonished to find the congenial old cobbler was
a woman. She said Leonard was never very talkative, but spoke indifferently and
cordially when spoken to.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 10‑3‑1911
ZUMWALT FAMILY HOLDS BIG
REUNION AT DONNA
The second annual reunion of the Zumwalt
family was held Saturday October 30 at the Donna Grange hall on the
Mohawk. A permanent society was
organized to be known as the Zumwalt reunion. A. J, Zumwalt was elected
president; L. H. Potter vice‑president;
Mrs. F. C. Bean, secretary. A talk by A. J. Zumwalt on pioneer events was
greatly appreciated by all. C. W.
Zumwalt, William Potter and each sister present made some very touching and
interesting remarks. Of the sons and
daughters of Solomon and Nancy Zumwalt, seven are living and all were present
with the exception of Mrs. E. L. Warren.
Those signing the roll were:
Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Zumwalt,
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Potter,
Mrs. Mary Conrad,
C. W. Zumwalt,
Mrs. Ardella Walker,
Mrs. S. F. Hammitt,
Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Potter,
Mr. and Mrs E. O. Potter,
Mr and Mrs. William Seavy,
Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Zumwalt,
Mrs. Laura Frazier,
Miss. Lucile Frazier,
Mrs. B. F. Bond,
Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Bean,
Mrs. F. H. Barger,
Miss. Leone Barger,
LaVelle Barger,
Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Robertson,
Miss. Zura Robertson,
Eugene Robertson,
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Robertson,
Miss. Alice Robertson,
Dorris Robertson,
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Hammitt,
R.
G. Hammitt, H. K. Zumwalt.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD
10‑19‑1911
BAD ACCIDENT AT DONNA TARGET
SHOOT
Raymond Perdew was seriously though not
dangerously wounded by a glancing bullet from the rifle of Walter McCornack, at
a target practice of company C. O. N. G., at the range near Donna yesterday
about 4:30 p. m. Perdew and Captain George F.
Willoughby were manipulating
the target and keeping score in the pit when the accident occurred.
Perdew was sitting on the bottom round of
the ladder marking the scores, his left side being within two feet of the
target. McCornack who was shooting at skirmish practice, fired at the target at
400 yard range. It is not known what
part of the target this bullet struck, but it deflected and struck Perdew on
the wrist, severing the main artery.
The back of his neck was also slightly cut
and it was at first assumed that the bullet flew upward and then struck his
neck at a glancing angle coming down. A telephone message was sent to Kompp
garage and a car went out and brought in the wounded man. Dr. Selover dressed
the wound which, while painful, is not dangerous no bones being broken.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 11‑6‑1911
B. K. WORKERS
In the appearance of her son, unkept and
unshaven and with the cool gaze of a
stranger as he knocked at her door and asked for work a few days ago,
Mrs. C. E. Leiberg is convinced that the young man, who was graduated as a
civil engineer at the
University of California
several years ago, has lost his
identity. No sign of recognition could the mother draw
from her son when she told him that he was her own child.
" I am a logger," he said,
"My name is George Lewis and I am going to a sawmill where I am to work.'
Mrs.
Leiberg is a practicing physician, living 30 miles up the McKenzie River
from this city. She and her son are
staying at a Eugene hotel. The young man
was brought here after he had fled from the home of his mother when she
questioned him and vainly tried to impress upon him that he was Bernard Marvin,
her son by a former marriage.
"You are Bernard Marvin, my
boy," said Mrs Leiberg when she saw him.
The young man remained obdurate and declared that he was not a civil
engineer, but that he was a logger, and that he did not remember back many
months, but he thought that his mother was dead.
Mrs. Leiberg argued with the man, but he
finally became angry and ran away. She
is positive that she is not mistaken in the identity of her son. With her husband, who is Marvin's stepfather,
she attempted to follow the man and induce him to return. He was seen a time or
two in Springfield, but disappeared before he could be found.
After some time officers got word that he
was in Wendling, where they found him bucking lumber in the yards of the Booth
Kelly mill. He denies that he is a civil
engineer, or that he has ever been to college, and maintains firmly that he is
a logger.
Beyond a few months back, the man's memory
is a blank. When questioned about events
occurring before that time, he says he cannot remember. Mrs, Leiberg has come to the conclusion that
his condition is the result of a blow to the head, which caused memory loss.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 11‑13‑1911
COBURG'S $20,000 SCHOOL
COMPLETED
At
last we as citizens of district No. 43, are permitted to look upon the
completed last large stride of school improvement in our district ‑‑
the $20,000, 10‑room school house.
The several rooms were occupied Monday by teachers and pupils, and they
are nicely settled, with good light and plenty of room. Final arrangements were made on Saturday
last whereby Mr. and Mrs. Vern Wilkinson became owners of the John Burns place
on the county road east of the Church of Christ. They have made repairs and moved
in this week.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 11‑15‑1911
MABEL
Particulars of the accidental death by
shooting of Donald, the six year old son of T. B. McCloud, of Mabel, last
Saturday, have just reached this city.
The boy was killed with a shotgun in the hands of a boy playmate about his own age. As near as can be
ascertained the two were playing alone in the house and in some manner, the gun
was discharged while in the hands of the other boy, the full charge of bird
shot in one of the barrels entering the McCloud boy's side. Assistance was soon at hand, but it was seen
that nothing could be done to save the lad's life. A physician was sent for, but he did not get
there till after death had ensued. The
remains were buried in a cemetery in the vicinity of Mabel Monday.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 11‑18‑1911
LOGGER DROWNED IN CALIPOOIA
Brownsville, Oregon, Nov. 17‑‑
Ralph Newton, who was working on a jam, with eight others, on the Calapooia
river near
Crawfordsville, was drowned
Wednesday. Owing to the high water the
jam gave way and he was pulled down under the logs. his body has not been
recovered. He was employed by the
Calapooia Lumber Company.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 12‑13‑1911
Springfield, Dec. 1,.‑ Drs. Barr and
Pollard were called to Marcola Monday to attend William Bundy, who was run over
by a hand car. The car was running at
full speed, and Mr. Bundy and his companions were riding on it when an attempt
was made to apply the brakes suddenly.
The car jumped the track, throwing, Bundy off in front of it, and then
ran over him. He was
scratched up quite a bit, but
not dangerously hurt.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 12‑26‑1911
B. F. CARTER OF MARCOLA TAKES
CARBOLIC ACID
Last evening a telephone message was
received by Coroner W. T. Gordon from Marcola, informing him that the body of
B. F. Carter, the transfer and liveryman and boarding house proprietor, had
been found about a mile below town in a log cabin belonging to Nicolle Bros.,
and that he had committed suicide by taking carbolic acid.
Family trouble led to the tragedy. Saturday night on returning to his house from
his stables, Carter is said to have caught his wife in a compromising position
with a young logger named Frank Moreland.
Moreland always stayed at the Carter home when in town and it is said
that the husband did not suspect anything wrong until his unexpected entrance
Saturday. The couple Quarreled over the
matter Sunday and remarking to his wife that she could easily be rid of him,
the husband left the house. He was seen
around town as late as 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon. When he did not appear Sunday night or Christmas
morning, a party was organized to search for him, as it was known that he had
carbolic acid on his person, and fears were entertained that he had made away
with himself.
Tracks were finally found on the river
bank and being followed, led to the log cabin where the body was found. A letter on his person explained the cause of
the act. He laid the blame entirely on the logger and forgave his wife for her
alleged unfaithfulness.
Mr.
Carter was a man of means.
Besides his business interests at Marcola, he had a large farm at
Lebanon. He left four children, a daughter
and three sons.
Coroner Gordon telephoned to Jerry Walker,
Justice of the Peace at Marcola, to go to the cabin with witnesses and collect
evidence. Coroner Gordon visited the scene this morning. He summoned a jury and the testimony
indicated the facts to be substantially as stated above. The jury found that the deceased had come to
his death by carbolic acid taken with suicidal intent.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 1‑1‑1912
COBURG, LANE COUNTY, IS LARGE
SAWMILL CENTER
Coburg has 1,200 inhabitants, a new
$20,000 school building, a fine water system, and electric light continuous
service, in fact, all modern improvements.
Coburg is only one mile from the McKenzie river, noted for its fine
fishing and hunting.
The scenery along the banks of the
McKenzie is magnificent. The mountains
on the east side of Coburg are only one mile away, covered with fine timber,
wild fruits, and all kinds of wild game and small streams which abound with the
finest of mountain trout. Coburg has
a state bank, five stores that are doing a large business, a bakery, a hotel,
hardware and furniture store, restaurant, theater or public hall, moving
picture show, a large saw mill with a capacity of 100,000 feet per ten hours,
and gives employment to 100 to 150 men every day in the year.
Coburg's prosperity reflects the
prosperity of the
Willamette valley, which
embraces a large area of farm lands, that in productiveness will compare with
any in the world. The growing season
is long and the sunshine almost
uninterrupted. Low humidity neutralizes the effect of high
temperatures, and the nights are invariably cool. There is very little snow fall in the winter,
and the cold is never extreme. Electric
storms, blizzards, or destructive storms are left out of the reckoning, and in
recounting the products of the valley we give hay and grain first place. Along
the river are vegetable gardens. Vegetables include potatoes, onions, cabbage,
beets, parsnips, cauliflower, radishes and carrots and more. Radishes, cabbage and onions grow all the
year around.
One acre of carrots or beets will produce
from 50 to 75 tons. Irish potatoes
produce from 150 to 200 bushels to the acre.
Berries and small fruits produce abundantly.
One big blackberry bush will produce enough
for an average family. It has been
demonstrated that it is a good fruit
country, and orchards in this
section produce abundantly. It is the small tract of land that solves the
problem of success for most men, and nowhere will the small tract prove more
profitable than here. The valley around
Coburg consists of large farms and small ones.
A 600 acre ranch devoted to grain and hay, and a small farm devoted to
fruit and vegetables. We raise most all
kinds of fruits, apples, pears, peaches, prunes, cherries, plums, and
apricots. We also have some very fine
stock ranches, and the stock live on the range the year around without other
food than grass.
We also have a fine country for the
dairying business, and the farmers now have on foot a milk condensing plant for
Coburg. chickens and other fowls are
raised to excellent advantage and there are many here giving close attention to
the poultry
business. Eggs are always a
good price, the demand for eggs and poultry being far in advance of the
supply. Eggs are never less than 20
cents per dozen and as high as 45 cents,there is always a cry for Oregon eggs.
Chickens sell for 12 1/2 to 13 cents per pound; turkeys from 18 to 30 cents per
pound; ducks and geese from 11 to 18 cents per pound.
We also have some very good ranches for
raising, hogs. You can grow corn and
alfalfa and hog raising is very remunerative.
So much for the production of the soil of this part of the Willamette
valley, with such a variety of richness.
Coburg is the center of a large area ‑
the marketing and shipping point. Coburg
is not a boom town. Only a dozen years
ago, Coburg was a town of about 200, but it has grown steadily, and each year
there are new, modern homes being built.
We are only eight miles from Eugene,(the county seat), and an
educational center.
The heart of the business life of Coburg
is the Commercial Club, which is untiring in its efforts to attract new
settlers and capitol, and to further in every way the welfare of the town and
community. The Commercial Club is now
working with very bright prospects for a pike road to Eugene, and have it
promised this coming summer.
The Club is also working for a canning
factory, a milk condensing plant, a box factory, sash and door factory,
flouring, mill and a laundry. We want
more people‑‑ people with large and small capitol. We have the land and we want you.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 1‑13‑1912
Final arrangements were completed the
latter part of last week whereby Mr. J. D. Pirtle becomes Coburg's new landlord
in the hotel here. Mr. Higgenbotham has made a reputation among transient men
at least, as setting a good table, providing a good bed, etc.. Mr. Pirtle has
been in the meat market business and real estate business in Coburg and has
made his home here for about seven years. It can be said of J. D. that he is
enterprising. He believes in running business in the modern
western style and we advocate for the hotel business to receive some
improvements in many ways. We look for big business for Mr. Pritle and hope he
may have it. ‑‑ Journal.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 1‑15‑1912
COBURG MEN HAVE A SKUNK
Though there has been a great deal of
jesting done regarding the skunk farm for the past week, yet the ground has
been leased, fenced, and the proprietors have begun collecting the
varmints. Messrs. Latham and Kincart
are rather new in this line yet the
Mr K. has been on several
farms, and has a general knowledge of the business ‑‑ at least they
think they can make a success of the venture.
They expect to get fifty to sixty of the
animals and we are informed that they will produce about 1,000 every year. The herd will be bred for black with a short
stripe, the price being about twice that for the spotted, or what is known as
the white skunk. The revenue from
the enterprise will be realized from the sale of the fur. The price per hide ranges from 20 cents for
the lowest to about $4 for the best.
The proprietors are offering $1 for live
animals delivered to their corral, which is just east of the Coburg ball
park. Of course they want the darker
colored ones, if possible, but are accepting any color at present. Several have begun trapping the varmints and
Mr. Latham told the writer they expected to buy and trap at least 50 more
before the first of March. ‑ Journal
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 1‑15‑1912
COBURG BRIDGE MADE UNSAFE BY
HIGH WATER
J. A. Hanns, of Coburg , telephoned the
guard early this morning that the wagon bridge across the McKenzie river near
this city is in a dangerous condition for travel, made so by the high water
that prevailed during the latter part of last week.
Mr. Hanns says that he examined the
structure yesterday and found that the South approach was very weak on account
of several piling being washed out, and he advised the county court to close
the bridge to traffic until the damage can be repaired.
He thought that to cross with a heavy load
would be very dangerous.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 1‑17‑1912
Mrs. Sagers, who resides with her brother,
C. E. Myler at 817 Beech avenue, was seriously injured in a runaway at the
Coburg bridge this morning. Her right
arm was broken and she sustained several bad cuts and bruises. Mrs. Sagers was riding in a buggy with her
brother when the horse became frightened at something in the road and started
to run. Mr. Myler was thrown to the
ground before the horse reached the bridge, but Mrs. Sagers kept her seat. In the center of the bridge they met a farmer
with a heavy wagon and before he could get out of the way the horse and buggy
crashed into the wagon. Mrs. Sagers was
thrown forcibly out and the horse broke loose and ran on. The farmer picked the injured woman up and
brought her and Mr. Myler to town. Dr. Cannon attended Mrs. Sager's injuries
and found that her right arm between the wrist and elbow was broken. Curiously enough she suffered a similar
injury in a runaway at Seattle about six months ago. The new break is about an inch from the place
where the bone broke the first time.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 1‑20‑1912
Marcola Section Hand Killed
With His Own Weapon
While returning to Marcola from a hunt
near Spores Station yesterday afternoon, John Petroff, a bulgarian section hand
on the Wendling branch of the S. P., was shot and killed accidently by a
discharge of his own gun.
Petroff and several other countrymen of
his went to Spores Station on a hand car to hunt. During the afternoon they got on the car for
the purpose of returning to Marcola. After they had gone about a mile and a
half they saw a jack rabbit, and stopping the car got off to kill him. Petroff
was the last man to leave the car. As he
got off he grabbed the barrel of the gun and pulled it toward him. The hammer caught on the handle of the hand
car and discharged the weapon, the whole charge entering his abdomen and
inflicting a mortal wound from which he died in three minutes. W. F. Walker of
Springfield was notified and prepared the body for burial. The facts being so thoroughly proven, an
inquest was deemed unnecessary. Petroff
was 23 years old and single.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 1‑23‑1912
THE EARLY HISTORY OF
SPRINGFIELD (Springfield News)
The article appearing in the Register on
Jan. 11, and dealing with the old cemetery in south Springfield, is wrong in
several respects, and we were asked by Mayor Welby Stevens to make the
necessary corrections.
In an interview with Isaac Stevens who was
visiting the Welby Stevens home, the Springfield news correspondent secured the
following data.
In the summer of 1847, W. M. Stevens and Jacob Spores, accompanied by
their families, crossed the plains and arrived at a small settlement near Salem
about the middle of Oct.
Mr. Spores did not remain there long, but
came up the river and located on a claim north of what is now known as the
Coburg bridge. Mr. Stevens left his
family at the settlement near Salem and came on horseback to where Spores was
located. He rode to the top of the butte overlooking the part of the valley now
occupied by Springfield, and was so favorably impressed by its appearance that
he returned to Salem for his three oldest sons, and with their help built a
house and fenced three acres of ground.
This house was built during the winter of 1847, and was the first one
constructed on that side of the river, its exact location being two miles north
of Springfield, and his claim proved to be a veritable garden spot. It took Mr. Stevens and his sons the greater
part of the winter to finish the above mentioned task, and as soon as spring
opened the rest of the family was brought down from the settlement. There were ten children in the family, three
girls, and seven boys, at the time of the arrival, but early in 1849 a
daughter, Mandelia, was born, and she was the first white child to be born in
Lane County. The children were Harrison,
Ashley, Bee, Isaac, James, father of mayor Stevens, William,, and Charles; Mrs.
S. J. Armitage, Mrs. George Thompson, Green Linville and Mandelia, who died at
the age of five. Uncle Isaac is the only
son living, and Mrs. S. J. Armitage of Eugene, Mrs. Geo. Thompson of San Francisco, and Mrs. Green Linville of Lakeview, Ore. are the
surviving daughters. William M. Stevens
was accidently killed by a horse May 25, 1860.
He was in a corral trying to catch the
horse and was struck in the breast by a rail which was dislocated by the horse
in his efforts to get away. Mrs. Stevens death occurred in September 1879. During the famous gold strike in California
in 49, Mr, Stevens Sr. operated a ferry at the foot of the butte near the
present location of the Charles Rivett residence, and it was made of two canoes
lashed together. At the same time the two older sons operated a ferry on the
McKenzie, near where the Coburg bridge now is.
Their boat was made of boards cut by the old whipsaw method. In order to span the river they were forced to
make a rope of rawhide, which took five large hides in its construction.
During the first year the family were so
unfortunate as to lose their entire bunch of hogs. Feed was scarce and the porkers were turned
loose to feed on camas that grew in abundance over the ground upon which the
town of Springfield now stands. It was
thought that they became the prey of wolves and cougars.
Antedating the arrival of W.
M. Stevens in this vicinity was the
location at Pleasant Hill by Elijah Bristow and Billy Dodson. These two men came to that vicinity in
1846, but the Bristow family did not arrive until 1848, the same year that
Elias Briggs and T. J. Hendricks came.
The Briggs family resided at Pleasant Hill until the next year, when
they cane here and took up claims.
Elias took up the present town site and Isaac took the one adjoining it
on the east. Elias was the donor of the cemetery site which the News reported
incorrectly last week. The old grist mill which was operated by Messrs Briggs,
was built in 1854. These men also
constructed the mill race.
The lumber used in the construction of the
mill was sawed at a mill located near what is now called the Hayden
Bridge. This mill was built in 1853 and
was owned by Felix Scott, father of Rodney Scott, ex‑county judge. It was the first sawmill in Lane County.
To Felix Scott Jr. must be given the
credit for opening the McKenzie road, now leading to Eastern Oregon. The first grist mill was located over in the
Cloverdale country and was owned by Billy Jones. It also, was built in 1853. Mr. Scott Sr. came to California in 1845, and
the next year, he came through this locality, accompanied by Eugene
Skinner. They were on their way to
Yamhill county, but in going through, Mr. Skinner staked out his claim which
the city of Eugene now occupies.
While Briggs was the man who owned the
land upon which Springfield now stands, he was not the first to locate upon
this side of the river, as can be determined by the foregoing
statements, which are
sufficiently conclusive in themselves, but they may be corroborated by a perusal
of any authentic record of early history dealing with this part of the
state. We fear that our worthy
contemporary's rhetorical outburst relative to Uncle Isaac's pursuit of a wisp
of smoke was either a phantom, or the result of one of those often indulged
pipe dreams.
Isaac Briggs was a blacksmith, and at one
time had a shop, which was located in the vicinity of the spring, near Mill and
B Streets.
The first store was conducted by a man
named J. N. Donald, and the building, occupied a site near the corner of Mill
and Main Street. Mr. Donald owned what
is now known as Douglas Gardens, having purchased it from a man named Harper.
On the old plot of our city, first filed
in 1856, can be found descriptions of distances and locations as being so many
chains, links etc.. from Donald's store.
From Donald the mercantile business passed
to Dunn and from him to Stewarts and Rosenblatt and on down to H. M. Stewart,
who still conducts a similar business.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 2‑12‑1912
WENDLING COUPLE IN DIVORCE
COURT
Mrs. Hattie Fletcher instituted suit in
the circuit court today against her husband, Cammie Fletcher, for divorce on
the ground of cruel and inhuman treatment.
They have resided for several years at Wendling, where they were married
on April 17, 1906.
Mrs. Fletcher alleges in her complaint
that her husband during their married life had been of a jealous, crabbed and
cross disposition and has often unjustly accused her of being intimate with
other men, besides at one time threatening to kill her.
On account of these actions, she alleges,
she was compelled to leave him and come to the home of her mother in Eugene .
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 2‑15‑1912
THOMAS BROWNING SUES B. K.
FOR DAMAGES
Thomas Browning today instituted suit in
circuit court against the Booth Kelly Lumber Company for damages in the sum of
$7650 for an injury sustained while the plaintiff was in the employ of the
company at the Coburg mill. He alleges
that on August 22, 1911, while transporting lumber on a truck from one side of
the yards of the Coburg mill to the other, a part of the load of lumber slipped
off the truck and struck him on the cheek, breaking his lower jaw. He further alleges that the accident was due
to the carelessness and negligence of the company, going into detail as to the
alleged causes of the accident. William
and Bean are attorneys for the plaintiff.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 2‑27‑1912
WENDLING
The grand jury last evening returned three
indictments against J. W. Redding, of Wendling, charging him with violation of
the local option law. He was arrested
this morning and brought to Eugene. He
appeared for arraignment this afternoon, but his attorney, C. A. Wintermeier, who was appointed by Judge
Harris to defend him, waived the reading of the indictments and tomorrow at
nine a. m. set as the time for entering a plea.
Redding's son keeps a store at Wendling and it was at that place that
the old man is accused of the unlawful sale of liquor.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 3‑9‑1912
TRAIN WRECK ON MOHAWK BRANCH
TODAY
About 11 o'clock a. m. today several cars
on a log train on the Wendling branch flew the track between Marcola and Donna,
tearing up the track for several rods and necessitating the wiring to Portland
for the wrecking crew. An engine and caboose were sent up from Eugene and the
passengers transferred from the regular passenger and brought to Eugene on
time. This afternoon the same conveyance
hauled the passengers up as far as the wreck, where they were transferred. The track where the wreck occurred is torn
up considerably and it will take several days to put it in good shape again.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 4‑2‑1912
Hazel Dell Girl Beats Savage
Cougar Off With Stick
Monday afternoon, as Miss Florence Holt
was coming from High Prairie, she took a short cut across Salmon Creek to her
home. She had her little dog Rex with
her.
After climbing the steep hill on the south
side of Salmon Creek, the trail lies through a dense growth of fir brush. When she was about midway of this thick brush
the dog was attacked a few feet from the trail, when he suddenly set up a howl
as though he was being, killed. Florence thought perhaps he had found a steel
trap and got caught.
She ran back and ran into the thick brush
to where her dog seemed to be in trouble, and when she got to where she could
see, she was startled to find her dog in a death struggle with a full grown
cougar. She thought perhaps the brute had got away with some one's trap and
could not run. At the same time she saw that Rex was no match for the cougar,
and she must act quickly. She looked
about for a club, but the only one in sight was a dry limb which lay about
three feet from the cougars head. She
sprang for that and mauled the brute over the head until it was glad to drop
the dog and beat a hasty retreat into the brush.
Having saved her dog, Florence lost no
time in running to C. M. Dunning's, an eighth of a mile distant, and he took
his dog and returned to the place, and the dog soon found the cougar and put it
up on a log that lay six or eight feet from the ground. Dunning could not get sight of the brute
on account of the brush, and when it saw him it jumped and the dog soon put it
up a small tree, where Dunning got a long shot with a 25‑20, but as the
cougar was on the move he made a bad hit and shot it through the side too far
back to disable it, and it left the tree and made another run.
Dunning made another shot, but missed and
it took to another tree. He shot it
through the back of the shoulder, which still failed to disable it, and when he
went to look again he found that he had no cartridges, but he saw that the
cougar was going to jump, and he made a run for the tree. When it did jump, Dunning, dog and cougar
were mixed up until they did not know which was which, but Dunning got in a
blow on its head that settled the cougar.
He had only his gun to strike with.
He found he had a large female cougar and it measured seven feet from
tip to tip.
Rex, the little dog is somewhat
disfigured, but still in the ring. He
has a cut on his side about six inches long, one ear is split, and there are
four tooth marks on his jaw, a like number over his eye, and his neck is chewed
up considerable, but in a day or two he will be ready for another scrap. The parents of the little girl naturally feel
pretty proud of her, and begin to think she can take her own part, at least
with a cougar.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 4‑3‑1912
BAD RUNAWAY ACCIDENT AT
MARCOLA
Springfield, April 3. ‑ Drs. Barr and Pollard were called Monday to the
home of Sherman Adams near Marcola to treat his brother who was severely hurt
in a runaway accident, at a
railroad crossing on the spur
leading, to the sawmill between Marcola and Mabel. Young Adams was going to
work in the morning with a team and wagon, carrying a harrow on the wagon. Near the crossing the team became frightened
and ran away.
Adams was thrown out and had his foot
caught. He was dragged across the
railroad track and over the Mohawk bridge before he was released. He is suffering from a ruptured lung and has
one rib broken, but will recover.
EUGENE DAILY GUARD 4‑13‑1912
WENDLING PEOPLE CLAIM TO HAVE
BEEN VICTIMS OF SWINDLE
Wendling Ore., March 13,
1911.
To the Editor of the guard
‑‑ One of the
smoothest swindles ever perpetrated in this
locality, in the manner of
securing subscribers to a map of the United States, was effected by G. B.
Hockett during the closing days of March.
Claiming to be the owner of one‑half interest in the "Pacific
Northwest," and also one of the publishers of the map, he visited Wendling
and the logging camps of the Booth Kelly Company, securing more than one
hundred names by gross
misrepresentations, in most
cases, sufficient to fill a large volume.
With the greater number of signers he
adroitly concealed the fact that they were signing an order on the B. K. Lumber
Co. for $3.75. In some cases he placed the order the of $2.25 after the
signature, but pay day revealed the fact that $3.75 was taken from the
check. Hockett said the maps would not
be ready for delivery for three months or more, but a shipment of perhaps 75
arrived before April 10th, and three or more publishers are represented,
Hockett not included. In reply to a
letter of inquiry sent to the "Pacific Northwest," Mr. Phillip S.
Bates, the publisher, says‑. Mr. Hockett has no interest in the
publication in any way shape
or form.
EUGENE DAILY GUARD 5‑13‑1912
WILLIAM CHURCHILL, LANE
PIONEER OF 1851,
Mr.
Churchill heard Mr. Abraham Lincoln during his stirring campaigns in
Illinois, and until he was stricken with paralysis 10 days ago his mind was
clear as a bell.
It was noted in the Guard on the occasion
of his last birthday that he read the paper through a Magnifying glass and
discussed its contents. Even after he was stricken his mind ,was clear until
two days ago when he became unconscious.
Mr. Churchill was the father of nine
children of whom six with his wife survive him.
Mrs. Churchill has paralytic a for six
years. His children are John S. Churchill of Marcola; Mrs. S. L. Knox, of
Cottage Grove; H. H. Churchill of Santa Rosa, Cal.; A. P. Churchill of Bohemia,
and Mrs. Corinne Alley, of Roseburg,.
Mr.
Churchill was a member of the Christian Church which he joined in his
boyhood, and has ever been an enthusiastic worker. He lived for many years at Monmouth, where
his children were educated in the Christian College, now state normal, of which
institution he was long the treasurer.
He was a warm advocate of temperance and a loyal citizen of Oregon and
of the United States. He was entitled to
the designation of "old settler", as he was among the first dozen
families from the east that settled in the state.
EUGENE DAILY GUARD 6‑3‑1912
Hopkins Farm House Near
Coburg burns
J. W. Shumate who was out at his ranch
yesterday, reports that the residence on the Hopkins farm, two miles east of
Coburg, was burned to the ground.
The family was away when the fire broke
out, and the house and all its contents were burned. The fire broke out about noon, and its cause
is unknown.
EUGENE DAILY GUARD 6‑24‑1912
JOHN WALKER KILLED IN
REMARKABLE MANNER AT COBURG
John Dennison Walker, the year and a half
old son of Chester A. Walker and wife of Coburg, met death in a most remarkable
manner at the family home at 11 O'clock Sunday afternoon.
The family home is located near the
McKenzie river, and the child was playing on the rear step, his mother standing
in the doorway watching him. A crew of
booth Kelly loggers were at work on the river bank blasting out some driftwood.
They placed a top blast on a pile of drift, and set it off, little thinking
that there would be any danger to anyone, in fact, knowing that a top blast
seldom ever causes any damage to anything except the object upon which the
explosive is placed.
The charge was set off, and a piece of
driftwood probably a foot and a half long, and quite thick, containing a big
knot, flew directly toward the Walker house, 450 feet away. Before the loggers or anyone realized what
had happened, the chunk of wood struck the little boy on the head, killing him
almost instantly. The logger ran to the
house to render all assistance possible, but nothing could be done to save the
child's life.
The mother was almost distracted on
account of the
suddenness of the babe's
death, and her grief was pitiful to behold.
The Justice of the Peace of Coburg called
a coroner's jury, in the absence of Coroner Gordon, and held an inquest. The jury found that the death of the child
was about as herein stated, and that no one was to blame.
EUGENE DAILY GUARD 8‑5‑1912
WILLIAM Co.
Last Wednesday, William Co.man of Eugene
took a load of telephone poles to Harrisburg, and on his way back to Eugene
with only the running gear of the wagon, he was riding on the front bolster,
and he crossed a ditch near Clive Taylor's place, which is in a turn in the
road, his horses jogging along on a trot, the bolster turned, pitching him on
his head in front, of the wagon, the front wheel running over his head and the
hind wheel over his body. However he
managed to stop the team, and with a degree of pluck found in few men he
managed to get onto the wagon and drove the team into town where Doctors
Jarnagan and Mendenhall dressed his wounds. They found his head badly lacerated
with one large cut in the skull, and several bad bruises and three broken
ribs. He left his team and went to
Eugene on the train. A driver came for
the team Thursday.‑‑ Journal.
EUGENE DAILY GUARD 8‑5‑1912
COBURG TEACHERS HAVE BEEN
SELECTED
The new principal will be S. E. McCormick
of Idaho; The third and fourth grades will be taught by Mrs. S. M. Pate, who
taught fifth and sixth last year; The fifth and sixth grades will be taught by
Miss Ethyl McFarland, who taught the seventh last year, will teach the eighth
this year, while Miss Ralston will again teach the primary. A teacher for the
seventh has not yet been hired.
EUGENE DAILY GUARD 8‑8‑1912
MR. JEFFRIES WILL SPEAK AT
WENDLING
I take great pleasure in informing my
friends, that I have entirely recovered from my illness and am physically,
morally and spiritually a better man than before my operation. I now intend to give my entire attention to
the following work;
On Sunday at 2 p. m. I will talk to the
men only at camp 4 near Wendling, Camp 2 and 3 will join. My subject will be
the anatomy of man and woman. I have drafted on a chart, explaining to men who
participate in existing evils that are driving them to despair, degradation and
death, by the multiplied thousands. I will distribute literature from the state
board of health on this subject. AARON ,JEFFRIES at Y.M.C.A, Eugene.
EUGENE DAILY GUARD 8‑10‑1912
INTEREST IN COBURG SKUNK
Last Monday Len Latham bought out Mr.
Kincart's share of the skunk ranch, which is situated about a mile east of
town. Len is now sole owner of the ranch
and informs us that he has lost about 200 on account of them digging out, but
thinks he has it fixed now so they cannot get away; he has about 200 mostly
young ones. He is paying $1 per head as usual. He also informs us that he will
start up a feathery ranch in the near future.
EUGENE DAILY GUARD 8‑20‑1912
ZACK DENISON SUES BOOTH KELLY
FOR DAMAGES
Zack Denison, through Mrs. M. L. Canay,
his Guardian ad litem, today began suit in the circuit court against the Booth
Kelly Lumber Company for $2500 damages, which he claims on account of an
accident in the company's mill at Wendling.
He alleges that on June 6, 1912, while
working in the mill, the left index finger was crushed between two cogs which
he alleges were not properly covered, and which he says the company negligently
and carelessly left unguarded.
EUGENE DAILY GUARD 8‑26‑1912
COBURG
Last Monday evening, the Coburg City
Council gave
consideration to the electric
street light proposition. Mr. Harrington
of the Oregon Power Co. was present, and after
discussion, a motion was put,
to put in the lights if an
agreement could be reached
with the power co. The only question seems to be in the rate per lamp. With a
monthly expenditure of $50 Coburg should be very well lighted, and we trust a
satisfactory arrangement can
soon be reached.
DEPOT IS ROBBED
Last Saturday night the depot was entered
through a window on the east side, and a trunk was taken from the baggage room,
and carried some distance up the track, where it was broken open.
It was found the next morning
near the ball ground badly
disarranged and a suit of
cloths and a couple of pocket knives and a few small articles missing.
The guilty ones made their escape, and no
clue has been found to the identity.‑‑ Cob. Journal
EUGENE DAILY GUARD 8‑30‑1912
WENDLING LOGGER BADLY CUT ON
Claud Witt, a logger in the Booth Kelly
Camp at Wendling, was severely, though not dangerously, cut yesterday by
falling on his axe, the edge of which was upturned. He was badly cut on the
left arm below the elbow, but none of the leading arteries or muscles were
severed. His speedy and complete
recovery is expected. He was brought to
the Eugene Hospital yesterday.
EUGENE DAILY GUARD 9‑5‑1912
PIONEER
Springfield, Ore., Sept. 5. ‑ J. C.
Brattain, president of the First National Bank of Springfield, died suddenly at
his home at 1 o'clock today, aged about 65 years
Mr. Brattain had been ailing for a few
days but was not considered seriously ill. Shortly before one o'clock he
complained of being weak and
faint and lay upon the bed.
In a few moments he died.
Mr. Brattain was a pioneer who came to
Lane County with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Brattain in 1852. He was thrifty and prosperous and acquired a
large farm which was recently
incorporated into the city of
Springfield. He was one of the
organizers and principal stockholders of the First National Bank. He never
married.
The
Brattains were always prominent in Lane county affairs, his brother, Hon. Henry
C. Brattain, was once representative in the state legislature. Mr Brattain
leaves a brother W. C.
Brattain, who lives in the
state of Washington, and a sister, Mrs. Frank Smith, who has remained with him
a great deal in recent years. He also has two nephews in Lane county, Edward
and Charles Brattain, who live on Camp Creek.
EUGENE DAILY GUARD 10‑14‑1912
COBURG NEWS
Monday evening the installment of the
street lighting system was completed and the lights turned on for the first
time in several months.
Wednesday evening quite a change was made
in one of our business houses when George Co.man sold the butcher shop to Paul
A. Smith, who took possession immediately. George will work for awhile until he
gets the hang of the thing. Paul has lived in or near Coburg for almost all of
his life. He was unmarried about a year
ago and moved into town just last week. George will work on the ranch in the
day and stay here, in town at night. ‑‑ Journal.
EUGENE DAILY GUARD 10‑30‑1912
New freight tariffs are, being put into
effect by the Southern Pacific which will serve to give a large number of
producers and shipping points in Oregon a much better foothold in the
competitive markets in the Rocky Mountain, Middle Western, and even the Eastern
markets. Some of these reduced rates
have already been applied and the balance of them will be made
operative on November 4.
The new rate to Denver is $8, to Omaha $10
and to St. Louis and Chicago $11, replacing the following rates: From Yarnell
and Wendling, Oregon to Denver, $8.25, to Omaha, $10.25, and to St. Louis and
Chicago $11.25.
EUGENE DAILY GUARD 11‑9‑1912
MANY SAWMILL EMPLOYEES
Wendling Ore. Nov. 8. ‑ It is
getting to be a common thing in Wendling for the Booth Kelly Company's
employees to be hurt or killed. Last
Saturday four men had to be taken out to the hospital. One of the men, Mr. Bridge was seriously hurt
by one wheel of a truck going through the dock and tipping a load of lumber
over on him.
Mr. Simms was badly crushed between a car
and a post at the upper camps and two others whose names are not known to the
writer were badly hurt. Mr. Hays father
and brother of Hayden were up in a buggy to visit him last Saturday.
The large sawmill at Mabel has shut down,
and probably will not start up again until about Jan. 1.
EUGENE DAILY GUARD 11‑16‑1912
MARCOLA
Benjamin Weber, who was convicted in Judge
Bryson's court a few days ago of a charge of bootlegging, contrary to the local
option liquor law, was today sentenced to serve 30 days in the county jail and
to pay a fine of $400. He has begun his
sentence and will probably serve a good part of the fine, as he claimed that he
has no money.
At the time of Webbers arrest the officers
confiscated a barrel of whiskey and now have it in the sheriff's office(not on
tap though) There is a question as to what can be done with the liquor.
WENDLING NEWS
David Bishop, who shot himself at a
chivari about a month ago, is among us again.
The new school room at Wendling is nearing
completion, although the delay in the shipment of windows has retarded the work
considerable.
EUGENE DAILY GUARD 12‑5‑1912
DR. ATWOOD PAYS FINE OF $250
Dr. H. C. Atwood, one of the Portland men
arrested by the government officials two weeks ago on charges of violating the
postal statutes in using them for the purpose of furthering criminal practices,
was arraigned before Judge R. S. Bean in the federal court today, and he
pleaded guilty. He was fined $250. Some leniency was shown in the Atwood
case. There was only one count against
the man and because this was the first
prosecution made by the
postal authorities on this charge, it was not regarded as an aggravated
offence. ‑ Journal
EUGENE DAILY GUARD 12‑25‑1912
FORMER MOHAWK VALLEY RESIDENT
IS DEAD
Michael Sherman Workman, of Beaverton
Oregon , died at St. Vincent hospital at Portland, December 18, 1912. The cause of his death was carcinoma. His age was forty‑seven years. Interment was at Crescent Grove cemetery
near Beaverton, December 20. Mr. Workman was a former resident of the Mohawk
valley, where he is well known.
EUGENE DAILY GUARD 12‑28‑19 12
Mrs. John Deadmond Of
Springfield Shoots Man Twice
Springfield, Dec. 28.‑‑ Harry
Carsaw was shot through a finger and received a scalp wound over the eyes from
a bullet from a pistol in the hands of Mrs. John Deadmond, of the Deadmond
rooming house, about 3 o'clock this afternoon.
It is impossible to gather all the details of the story correctly, but
the
prevalent story is to the
effect that Carsaw went to the room of a friend in the Deadmond house and that
Mrs. Deadmond did not want him there for
some cause. He it is said, went into a
room and locked the door, and when the proprietress who did not know him,
ordered him out, he refused to do so, and refused to let her in. She, so the story goes, did not know who was
in the room and broke down the door, at which he began to abuse her, it is
alleged, and she got a pistol and shot him in the finger. He jumped through the window to the roof of
an adjoining pool hall, when Mrs. Deadmond took another shot and grazed his
forehead. He fell off the roof to
the sidewalk and was somewhat stunned. His wounds are not considered serious
and he retained consciousness throughout though somewhat stunned and sore
afraid. It is not known positively
whether he was drunk or not.
EUGENE DAILY GUARD 12‑28‑1912
Pioneer Mrs. Sarah Spores Of
Coburg Dies Two Weeks After Husband
Mrs. Sarah Phiena Spores, widow of the pioneer Henry Spores, who died
only a little over two weeks ago, died at the family home at Coburg, Friday
evening at five o'clock, December 27, 1912, at the age of 64 years and two
months. The funeral will be held at the
home Sunday at 1 p. m. with the interment in the Gillespie cemetery north of
Eugene. Rev. J. S. McCallum will conduct
the services. Mrs. Spores died just two
weeks and a day after the death of her husband, and their funerals will be
exactly two weeks apart. Mrs. Spores was
very ill at the time of her husband's death, and her death was not unexpected.
Sarah Philena Monroe was born near Canton
Ohio, October 27, 1848‑ At the age of four years she, with her parents
moved to Iowa, settling near Centerville, in Appanoose county. When 17 years of
age, in the spring of 1865, she and her parents
emigrated across the plains
to Oregon, settling near Coburg, making the journey in a few days over six
months. On February 6, 1868, she was
married to Henry Spores. To this union
twelve children were born, of whom seven are still living, four
daughters and one son having
preceded her. Those living are six sons
and one daughter as follows: Edgar, Elmer, Jake, Carson, Walter, Melvin, and
Ethel. Besides her children Mrs. Spores
is survived by one brother, who is 72 years of age, and resides at the old home
in Iowa.
Mrs. Spores mother lived to be 102
years of age, having died on February 11, 1911.
EUGENE DAILY GUARD 12‑30‑1912
GEORGE
George Hall, a logger employed by the
Booth Kelly Lumber Company in the timber above Wendling, was mistaken for a
deer Saturday and shot by M. C. Broom, another logger. He died 12 hours after the shooting.
Hall was out hunting with two companions,
Bert Cox and C. H. Green, and left camp
No. 2 early Saturday morning. Broom was
in another party consisting of himself, W. G. McAlister and F. M.
Armstrong. They left perhaps about the
same time from camp No. 4, but neither party knew of the other's presence in
the woods. About 11 o'clock in the
forenoon Broom saw something move in the brush and thinking it was a deer,
fired. He was horrified to hear a man
cry out in pain, and he and the other members of his party ran in the direction
from which the cry came. They found
Hall, with whom they were acquainted, lying on the ground in great agony and
with a bullet hole clear through his body. The ball had entered his back and came out through his abdomen.
The members of both hunting parties carried the wounded man to Broom's house
not far away, and Dr. Fanning, the Booth Kelly physician at Wendling was sent
for. When he arrived he examined hall's wound and declared that recovery was
impossible. His strength and vitality was all that kept him alive for twelve
hours. He passed away at 11 o'clock
Saturday night.
The shooting occurred four miles back of
Wendling, in the mountains, where deer abound in large numbers. W. F. Walker
the Springfield undertaker, who took charge of the body, was
deputized by Coroner Gordon
to investigate the shooting, and to hold an inquest, but after enquiring into
the shooting he
considered an inquest
unnecessary. It was plain to be seen that it was another case of "mistaken
for a deer" which have been so numerous during the past few years.
The unfortunate man was aged 26 years and
has a brother at Hubbard Oregon, where the remains will be sent tomorrow
morning on the Willamette Limited train for burial.
EUGENE DAILY GUARD 1‑30‑1913
Fred Barr, car repairer for the Booth
Kelly Lumber Co. at Wendling, was killed almost instantly early last evening by
being crushed between one of the logging cars and the mill dock. He was riding on the car which was being
moved by the company's logging locomotive, when in some manner it was derailed,
throwing Barr off and he was squeezed to death between the body of the car and
the timbers of the dock.
No one saw the accident, but the train men
found Barr just as he was breathing his last.
Several bones were broken. He was
carried to the company's headquarters and the physician was sent for, but life
was entirely extinct before he reached him.
Coroner Gordon was notified of the
accident last evening and went to Wendling this forenoon to investigate
it. He found that no one was to blame
and that the man's death seemed to be
unavoidable.
Barr was aged about 25 years and had been,
employed by the company about a month in the capacity of car repairer. He was a single man and is said to have come
from Portland where he has relatives, but they have not yet been located.
EUGENE DAILY GUARD 2‑8‑1913
MARCOLA TO INCORPORATE
The people of Marcola, the little sawmill
town on the Mohawk branch of the S. P. railway, about 15 miles northeast of
Eugene, want to form a municipality, and have taken the proper steps to
incorporate as a town. They have caused
to be published, a notice that a petition to incorporate will be presented to
the county court on Wednesday, March 5, at 2 p.m. The court at that time will
accept the petition and set a date for its
consideration. The petition sets fourth the fact that there
are 200 people residing within the boundaries described, fifty more than
required by law.
Marcola is a thriving village and contains
several Food stores, a fine school house and two or three sawmills, besides
having a number located in the timber adjacent.
Following are the names of citizens who
signed the petition. L. Emmons, Mrs. L. Emmons J. Z. Shultz, Ed Savage,
Mrs. E. M. Savage, W. R. Dickert, Mrs. Amy Dickert, Jerry Brown, Hattie Brown,
Irvine Christy, Alex Christy, Mrs. Hettie Slack, Mrs. Francis Garrison, Mrs.
Bessie Humphrey, G. W. Fredenburg, A. W. Dugan, H. M. Anderson, Claud Bevias,
F. E. Maple, H. H.
McDaniels, H. N. Anderson, M.
V. Endicott,C. A. Arehart, Mrs.
Arehart, L. M. Duguid, M. Price, G. G. Garrison, C. H. Slack, Eugene Nelson, G.
L. Humphrey, B. F. Webber, A. L. McAuly, C. D. Dupont, F. J.Walker, F. F.
Hubbard, L. C. Hubbard, Em Billings,
Nettie Neil, Sarah E. Vores, George V. Frazier, Martha Wallace, A. D. Vores,
Homer Frazier, John, Grawl, Rebecca Grawl, Mrs. Agnes McAuly, May Walker.
EUGENE DAILY GUARD 3‑1‑1913
WENDLING
Wendling, March l.‑‑ A very
serious accident befell one of the school boys, Harlund McFerrin, Monday evening. While playing over one of the dust conveyors,
he accidently caught his right foot in the conveyor and his whole leg was drawn
into it before the conveyor was stopped.
He sustained a break in the right leg just below the hip Joint and a
very badly sprained back. He is now
under the care of Dr. Fanning and is getting along fine.
EUGENE DAILY GUARD 3‑3‑1913
Mrs. Sarah jane Armitage, one of the
earliest settlers of Lane county, died at the home of her son, Frank L.
Armitage, on Lincoln street Saturday night at the age of 79 years, four months,
and 28 days. She took a cold a week ago
today and the cold developed into pneumonia.
Mrs Armitage was one of the pioneers of
1847, having come across the plains with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. William
Stevens, and settled in Lane
county, where she lived continually till her death. She was born in Ray county Tenn., October 4,
1833, and was married to George Henry Armitage Nov. 21, 1851. They settled on what is known as the Armitage
donation land claim on the road between Eugene and Coburg, and the station of
Armitage, on the Woodburn‑Springfield
branch of the Southern Pacific railway, was named after the family. Ten
children were born to this union, only three of whom are still living. They are Frank Armitage, of Eugene, S. C.
Armitage, of Portland. and Mrs. R. M. Henderson, of Denver. She also leaves a brother, Isaac F. Stevens,
of Eugene, and a sister, Mrs. Mary Thompson, of California. Mrs Armitage's husband died Feb. 12, 1893.
Mrs. Armitage was a faithful member of
the Presbyterian church and her life was always that of a devoted
Christian. The funeral service will be
held Wednesday.
EUGENE DAILY GUARD 3‑26‑1913
HARRISBURG RAT WAR ON
Harrisburg Oregon,March 26. ‑ War has been declared on the large
army of rats that have been overrunning this vicinity for the past year. Merchants and grain dealers have lost
heavily, whole droves invading the premise at night.
A bounty of 1 cent each has been offered
for each rat killed and prizes offered to the ones making the largest score.
The boys have been busy and already a change for the better is noticed. In some
cases nets are stretched through warehouses at closing time and about 9 o'clock
the trappers return and the rats scurrying to cover, are caught in the nets and
are killed with clubs. As many as 14
rats have thus been killed at one time.
EUGENE DAILY GUARD 4‑8‑1913
FATALITY AT MABEL
Alexander Haworth, employed at the mill of
the Coast Range Lumber Co. at Mabel, died in Springfield last evening from
injuries received in the mill yesterday.
He was drawn into the gears of the sorting
table and was pretty badly mangled. His left leg was broken in several places
and the flesh was torn from different parts of his body. A physician was summoned from Marcola, but
on his arrival he pronounced the injuries fatal. The injured man was taken to Springfield at
once and he died soon afterward.
Haworth was single and about 45 years of age. He leaves a mother in
Germany, but no relatives in this country.
EUGENE DAILY GUARD 5‑7‑1913
ATWOOD IN TROUBLE AGAIN
Former Eugene Physician Is
Charged With Manslaughter
Portland Ore.. May 7. ‑ Felony
warrant charging manslaughter was turned over to the police yesterday calling
for the arrest of Dr. C. H. T. Atwood, on complaint of Deputy Coroner
Dunning. The death of Mrs. Lizzie Garrison at St. Vincent's hospital,
yesterday brought about the
issuance of the information. The physician it is charged, attended Mrs.
Garrison, who was only 21 years of age, at her home, 257 Union avenue, and
performed an unlawful operation, from which she contracted septicemia. In support of the charge, Deputy Dunning went
to the house yesterday and exhumed the body of a child in the basement. It is
understood that Dr. Atwood is out of the city at present. Three times in recent years he has been
before the courts on charges of a similar nature, escaping one conviction by a
ruling of the supreme court. He was
among those charged recently by the federal government in a nation‑wide
campaign against the vendors of unlawful, medicines.
EUGENE DAILY GUARD 5‑28‑1913
MARSHAL OF COBURG FIRES AT
MARAUDER
The little city of Coburg was the scene of
a store burglary, an exciting chase and a pistol duel between the burglar and
Marshal J. Henderson at 2 o'clock this morning.
Entrance to the Nelson and Cook hardware
store had been effected and Marshal Henderson saw the burglar emerging with an
arm load of loot. Henderson fired and
the burglar shot once or twice back at him.
Henderson believes he hit the fleeing
criminal, as he fell to the
ground and dropped most of the things he was attempting to carry away. He left
behind two automatic shotguns, a leather gun case and some gold spurs and
bits. He took with him, probably having
them in his pockets, two good revolvers.
This is all that has been missed from the store.
EUGENE DAILY GUARD 5‑31‑1913
HARRISBURG FARMER GETS BETTER
OF SPRINGFIELD AUTOIST
T. C. Luckey, the best natured man in the
city, tells a good one of the business enterprise of a farmer living in the
Harrisburg vicinity, says the
Springfield News.
Tad was over in that direction a few days
ago with his auto and came to a cross road that looked more like a swamp than a
road. A farmer sitting on a stump close
by was asked about it and he directed our townsman to keep to the side and he
could get through as two other autos had passed that same day. Tad took him at his word and started through
but when well out in the middle the car began to sink and went down until water
poured into the car, flooding the engine and damaging things in general. The
auto owner saw that he was up against a fixed game so calmly asked the farmer
to get his team which was already harnessed for the occasion. The farmer hauled the machine out as he had
done for the two previous ones and calmly accepted his fee. Tad worked until the small hours of the
morning getting the water out of his engine so he could get home. This is only one of the pleasures of motoring
and must be accepted with good grace, but we believe that the farmer would
profit more in the long run if he would play the game square.
EUGENE DAILY GUARD 6‑23‑1913
SHOOTING AT DONNA
Alvar Rose, of Donna was in Eugene today
and swore out a warrant for James Chapman, charging him with having shot and
wounded Abe Kelly at Donna last evening.
Kelly was slightly wounded, the bullet grazing the skin. Rose was reticent and refused to talk
much. His story was in substance that he
and Kelly and Chapman were in a room together when for some
unaccountable reason the
latter jumped up and grabbed a rifle, ran outside, declaring that he would
"get them both ". After he got outside, according to Rose, he fired
through the door, wounding Kelly. Rose
said that Kelly was not badly hurt and he was not certain whether the injuries
complained of were made by splinters from the door or by the rifle bullet. He believed them to be from the rifle.
EUGENE DAILY GUARD 6‑23‑1913
75 PEOPLE GATHER AT HAMMIT
HOME ON MOHAWK FOR ZUMWALT REUNION
Mohawk, June 23.‑ The annual reunion of the descendants of Solomon
and Nancy Zumwalt was held at the home of Mrs. S. F. Hammitt in the Mohawk
valley Saturday, June 21. About 75
descendants of the family
were present. The day was spent in
shaking hands, renewing old acquaintances and talking over old times, and one
of the biggest and best dinners, which consisted of all the good things one could
think of, for which the
descendants of this family
are noted, was heaped on the long tables.
After all had done ample Justice to the
feast, a short business meeting was held, during which new officers were
elected for the ensuing year as follows; R. Robertson, president; Mrs. E. O.
Potter, secretary; W. B. Robertson, treasurer; Mrs. Clara Bond, Mrs. Kate
Zumwalt, and J. H. Hammitt, executive committee. The afternoon was spent in listening to
songs, speeches and music, during which Hon. A.J. Zumwalt, of Irving, gave a
very interesting talk on incidents while crossing the plains by ox team from
Missouri to the Willamette valley 63
years ago last April. The speaker gave a thrilling account of the "haps
and mishaps of" the trip, which gripped the attention of the younger
generation from the first word to the last. During the remarks an old worn and
weather‑beaten ox yoke was placed before the
speaker, which brought to the
minds of the other members of the family incidents of the trip and the
hardships. All the
surviving members of the
Solomon Zumwalt family were present. They are:
Hon. A. J. Zumwalt, of Irving; Mrs. Louise Potter, of Eugene; Mrs. M. C.
Conrad of Oakdale Wash.; Mrs. Ardelia Walker, of Eugene; Mrs. S. F. Hammitt, of
Mohawk; Mrs. E. L. Warren of Asotin Wash., and C. W. Zumwalt of Donna Ore.
After a few well chosen remarks from
retiring president E. W. Zumwalt the meeting closed.
EUGENE DAILY GUARD 7‑8‑1913
32,000 ACRES OF
EUGENE DAILY GUARD 7‑15‑1913
B. K.
The Booth Kelly Lumber Company has hired
several fire wardens for the season, to thoroughly patrol the respective
districts to which they have been assigned. The names of the wardens, their
places of residence and their districts are as follows. Lou Kibby, Wendling,
upper Mohawk district, C. N. Johnson, Marcola, Donna to Wendling. L. E. Meyers, Deerhorn, Hayden bridge to Vida. Ed Shultz, Fall Creek, Hills Creek and
Little Fall Creek. Dan Brumbaugh,
Cottage Grove, Row River and Teeters Creek. John Farmer, Cottage Grove,
Brumbaugh river.
EUGENE DAILY GUARD 8‑8‑1913
As soon as plans are drafted the Booth
Kelly Lumber Co. will begin work on one of the most modern sawmills in the
country on the site of the mill that was destroyed by fire in Springfield a
little over two years ago.
This announcement was made by A. C. Dixon,
manager of the company, last night. Dixon said: Having received advice that the
government has issued the last of the patents covering our O. and C. land grant
lands, which have been in litigation, we are ready to announce the prospective
building of a new mill at
Springfield, to take the
place of the mill which was burned in
July, 1911.
The mill will be supplied with logs
principally by rail from our camps above Wendling and will be built to cut at
least a little more lumber than the old mill did; that is, something in excess
of 30,000,000 feet per year. The mill
will be unique in a way, in that we do not expect to build any power plant in
connection with it, having
arranged a contract with the Oregon Power Company whereby we will furnish them
with fuel from the plant at Springfield and will buy electric power from them
to operate the mill, planing mill and electric devices for handling lumber in
the yards; also steam for the dry kiln, and other purposes were steam is
necessary. We expect to equip the mill with electricity to the furtherest
possible extent, and expect it to be as good, if not the best mill of its size
in the northwest, when completed. We do
not expect to build a large amount of dock in connection with the mill, but
what is built will have concrete base and will be substantial in every
way. Our plans contemplate the handling
of the bulk of the lumber by electricity, partly by if, mono‑rail and
partly on tracks placed on the ground, where the lumber will be conveyed by
cars propelled by an electric locomotive.
We intend to have our engineer lay off the
ground within the next few days and arrange for the necessary levelling and
excavation and will get ready
for the actual construction work at the earliest possible date, endeavoring to
have the principal buildings constructed before there is any considerable
amount of bad weather. The mill will be
sprinkled with an automatic system and every possible precaution will be taken
to protect it and property from fire.
The principal buildings Will be located further apart than previously.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 8‑12‑1913
PICTURE AGENT CHARGED WITH
GROSSLY INSULTING WOMEN AT COBURG
Charged with insulting numerous women and attempting to commit certain
crimes, one Patterson, an agent for a firm which enlarges photographs, was
arrested at Coburg this afternoon by Deputy Sheriff Tom Bailey and the
Constable of Coburg, precinct. He
was brought to Eugene by Bailey, arriving at 3:30 and the case is being
investigated by Deputy District Attorney E. C. Imme. It is alleged that
Patterson, while working at Marcola and in the Mohawk valley in that vicinity,
approached a number of women and made improper proposals to then and even went
so far as to attempt force to induce them to comply with his requests. It is said that a number of irate husbands
threatened him with violence, but he soon left the town and went to Coburg,
where he was located this forenoon by the sheriff's force and Tom Bailey was
sent over to get him.
EUGENE DAILY GUARD 8‑14‑1913
within the next ten days.
Bids for this work were opened by the
company the first of the week. Several
were tendered, and it took manager Dixon and other officials of the company some
time to decide which was the best. The
successful firm is well known in Portland and is entirely responsible,
according to reports received here. The
contract calls for the grading of the road only. The lumber company saws and lays the ties and
spikes down the rails.
When the road is completed it will make a
total of about 15 miles of first class, standard gage logging road in operation
by the company. Heavy logging
locomotives, built to climb steep grades, are in use and the company has a
large number of flat cars that are used to haul the logs from the woods to the
mills at Wendling, Coburg and Springfield.
The company has only during the past few weeks bought five of the
largest type of donkey engines manufactured for use in the woods, and with
these and the use of the new railroad, the logging equipment of the company
will be second to none on the coast.
EUGENE DAILY GUARD 9‑l‑1913
The first of the four huge donkey engines
recently bought by the booth Kelly Lumber Co. for use in the logging operations
in the mountains above Wendling, arrived in Eugene this morning from Tacoma,
having been purchased through a firm of that city. These donkey engines are the largest in
use in the upper valley and loom high above the ordinary machines now used by
the company. The extension of the
logging operations of the company above Wendling makes it necessary to secure
these additional monsters, but the old ones will be kept in use. The company's operations in the woods are being
constantly increased. The mills at
Wendling and Coburg are running on full time and chew up a lot of the sawlogs
every day.
RAILROAD
Abbot and Forrester, contractors for the
Deer Creek
five‑mile
branch of the company's
logging railway, have established a camp and have a lot of their horses and
machinery on the ground, ready to begin grading on the line in a very short
time. There is some pretty difficult
work to do, as most of the line extends along the side hills. The company will lay the track itself. It is expected that the grading will be
about completed by the first of January.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 9‑3‑1913
BOOTH KELLY
This patent, or deed is for lands
purchased from the Oregon California railroad Co. in the latter company's
government grant several years ago, the final papers of the sale being held up
by the government's land suit against the railway Co. to compel the railway co.
to forfeit the lands to the Government.
During the pendency of the suit, however, a bill was introduced in
congress and passed by that body, exempting the lands bought by the Booth Kelly
Co., and other large purchasers. This
bill was called "The innocent purchasers bill". All that was necessary for the lumber Co. to
do after the passage of the bill was to
pay the railroad company $2.50 per acre as required by law, and title is
now given by the government in the shape of a patent.
The patent filed yesterday afternoon
covers 70,006.22 acres and a similar patent filed a short time ago calls for
land in the amount of 1975 acres, making a total acreage of
71,981.22.
EUGENE DAILY GUARD 9‑6‑1913
LARGE HOP FIELD SOLD EAST OF
SPRINGFIELD
The sale of a big hop farm belonging to
Isaac J. Hays, of Springfield, and situated at the junction of the Mohawk and
McKenzie rivers, east of Springfield, in the best section of that beautiful
valley, to George E. Knight, was consummated today by the Great Western Land
Company. The consideration was an even
$20,000 and constituted an absolute cash deal. The new owner will take
possession in the early part of next
month.
The Hays farm is known to be one of the
best hop farms in the valley, being altogether 155 acres, with new residence
and splendid improvements otherwise, and this sale is considered one of the
best consummated in the vicinity for some time.
The Great Western Land Company a short
time ago sold to Mr. Hays one of the finest farms near Porter, Linn county, and
he and his family expect at once to take possession there.
EUGENE DAILY GUARD 9‑6‑1913
FRANK BENZEN IS INVITED TO
LEAVE SPRINGFIELD
Some of the citizens of Springfield formed
themselves into a vigilance committee
this morning and escorted Frank Benzen, who refused to support his
family, to the city limits and gave him 20 minutes to get out of town. He intruded upon their
hospitality for considerable
less time and still has 15 minutes residence in Springfield should he chance to
claims it, which is unlikely.
He, with his wife and three children, were
living in
a single room in the rear of
the old count Hood cigar factory at the end of the steel bridge. Deputy District Attorney E.
O. Immel, who went over to
see the man yesterday, said that the room presented the utmost squalor and
poverty and there was not a thing in the house to eat but a lamp half full of
kerosine oil.
Benzen would not work and when he got any
money he spent it for booze and the citizens became tired of witnessing the
suffering of his family. Matters came to an issue today when the
people made up a purse of about $15 and bought some groceries for the needy
family and told Benzen to figure in some other census report.
EUGENE DAILY GUARD 9‑17‑1913
BOOTH KELLY COMPANY RECEIVES
POWERFUL LITTLE LOCOMOTIVE
A powerful little 40 ton Shay logging
locomotive for the booth Kelly Lumber Co. arrived in Eugene direct from the
factory last night and was taken to Wendling this morning to begin operations
on the company's logging railways. This
locomotive will be operated on the higher levels where the ordinary
locomotives now in use are
unable to go on account of the
excessive grades. The gear action of the little engine
enables it to mount grades
that are impossible for the plain engines. The Booth Kelly Company is
constantly adding to its logging camps the best equipment to be had. After the
Springfield mill is completed
the logging operations above Wendling will be on a much larger scale than ever
before.
EUGENE DAILY GUARD 10‑2‑1913
COBURG BUSINESS CHANGE
Coburg, Oct. 2‑‑ William Rice
of Malloy Iowa has
purchased N. P. Nelson's
interest in the hardware store of Nelson and Cook. The new firm will be known as Cook and Rice.
Mr.
Rice will move his family
here from Iowa. Mr. Nelson will move to
his ranch north of Coburg.
EUGENE DAILY GUARD 10‑2‑1913
COBURG NEWS
MISS Ioma Drury was badly hurt by a fall
from a buggy last Monday evening. She Was unconscious for some time but has so
far recovered as to be able to attend school.
Rev.
F. B. Drake, who has had charge of the Methodist church here for the
past year, has moved his family to
Harrisburg. He is succeeded here by Rev. J. M. Crenshaw. Miss Byrle Eller is here from Monroe, the guest
of her friend, Miss Erma Drury.
POST OFFICE CHANGE AT COBURG
Frank Bettis, who has been our efficient
and accommodating postmaster for the past six years has resigned. An examination will be held Oct. 11 to fill
the vacancy. J. E. Fields, William Bettis and J. D. Wigle are applicants for
the position. Mr. Fields is a Democrat and Messrs. Wigle and Bettis are
Republicans. All these parties are Coburg's best citizens
and either will make an efficient and popular postmaster.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 10‑14‑1913
LARGE
Within the past few days the big farm of
767 acres of land north of Coburg, owned by Cal M. Young, Bird Rose and N.
Nirachel, has been sold to
John R. Fitzhugh, of Walla Walla Washington, for $75,000, the great Western
Land company making the deal. Included in the deal are 60 head of cattle,
farming implements and all the fixtures that go with a large place of that
kind. The farm is one of the best in the
upper Willamette valley. The three
former owners take as part payment 320 acres of land near Bend, some business
property in Clarkston
Washington, and a residence
in Walla Walla.
EUGENE DAILY GUARD 11‑4‑1913
$20,000
Mrs. Warren and daughters of
this city, today sold to Cal. M. Young and Bird Rose, their fine farm of over
200 acres adjoining the little city of Coburg, for ever $20,000. The great
Western Land Company made the deal, the negotiations having been carried on by
John H. Perkins.
This is one of the finest farms in Lane
county and is highly improved. It is the
intention of the new owners to subdivide it and place it upon the market.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 11‑6‑1913
COBURG MODERN WOODMEN
ENTERTAIN
Farrington's auto truck loaded to the
guards with officers and members of the degree team of Eugene Camp No. 5837,
Modern Woodmen of America went over to Coburg last evening. The event was a big
meeting of McKenzie Camp No. 7610, M. W. A., at
which a number of tyroes were
introduced to the goat, "Nancy".
After numerous stunts and the regular work had been
concluded, the members
repaired to the "Hotel Coburg" where "Mine host" Pirtle
with that big smile of his, which was undoubtedly put there to stay, welcomed
all to a splendid repast. The Eugene
crowd returned at one o'clock this morning, filled with
enthusiasm and fried chicken,
all being loud in their praises of the lavish entertainment provided for them
by the Coburg
neighbors
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 11‑15‑1913
VANDALS AT
Some miscreant or miscreants went through
Coburg Thursday night on a tour of destruction.
Several porch posts of business houses were chopped into two pieces and
others partially ruined. The
vandals also cut down several valuable shade trees and barked several
more. No clue has yet been found to
identify the parties and no reason can be assigned for their actions. Marshal J. I. Henderson is at work on the
case, and developments are expected soon.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 11‑17‑1913
WENDLING NEWS
The dam was completed Friday. The men have worked very hard on it and they
hope that it will now hold.
The Wendling school yard is being cleaned
up. The stumps are being, removed by Mr.
Sumner and Mr. Madison. They expect to have it completed by Monday.
Last Wednesday evening the teacher of the
intermediate room, Miss Hays, took her pupils on a long tramp, the purpose of
which was nature study. They did not
return until a late hour.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 11‑19‑1913
Marshal J. Henderson arrested Max
Robinson, aged 19
years, last Saturday on a
charge of malicious destruction of property.
The specific charge is to the effect that Robinson demolished a fence of
H. Macy's. Robinson and some other young
fellows are suspected of the work of vandalism that was done in Coburg last
week. Robinson was taken before Justice
Wigle where he pleaded not guilty. He
was bound over to the grand Jury and his bond placed at $300, which was furnished.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 11‑26‑1913
MABEL LUMBER COMPANY SUED
Alleging that his leg was Permanently
crippled when a log rolled against it in the logging camp of the Coast Range
Lumber Co. above Mabel, R. Wise today began suit in the circuit
court against this company
for $15,000 damages. The
complaint says that on July 1
of this year, Wise, while working for the defendant company, was injured and
has been in the hospital ever since, until a few days ago. He was engaged as "choker setter"
in the camp and a log rolled against his knee, breaking the bone and
necessitating the insertion of a silver plate to bring the ends of the bone
together. He alleges that the company
was careless and negligent in not having a foreman or hook tender present in
conducting this work.
EUGENE DAILY GUARD 12‑1‑1913
DONNA STORE BURNED
Fred G. Bean's general merchandise store
at Donna, on the Mohawk branch of the S. P. railway, was destroyed by fire at
an early hour this morning. The large
two story frame building and the stock of goods were a total loss, with partial
insurance. Mr. Bean and family were
away at the time of the fire, visiting relatives at Raymond Washington. People
living in the vicinity discovered the blaze issuing from the upper story of the
building some time after 6 o'clock and it had made such progress that it was
impossible to save anything in the
structure. It appeared as though the fire started in the
living apartments, but no one was in the building at the time.
During Mr. Bean's absence his former
partner John Hammitt, was conducting the store, but was at his home some
distance away at the time the blaze was discovered. Mr. Hammitt had only recently sold his
interest in the business to Mr. Bean. The building was valued at between $2,000
and $3,000 and the stock of goods probably twice that amount.
The building was owned by the Mohawk
Lumber Company.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 12‑6‑1913
320 ACRE MOHAWK VALLEY
One of the largest real estate deals that
has been made in this part of Lane county for some time was the sale of the 320
acre ranch on the Mohawk, eight miles east of Springfield, to L. A. Newman for
$22,500, Tuesday, of this week.
The large tract was purchased by O. E.
Swarts, proprietor of the Springfield Provision
Company, about four years and since he moved to town has been operated
by his son.
While there is but 100 acres under
cultivation, it is considered one of the best ranches in Lane county. Mr.
Newman is recently from Nebraska having been in the state less than two
months. He has looked at farms in all
parts of the country and says this suited him better than any he had seen. All of the stock and farm implements were
included in the deal except the pure blooded stock which Mr. Swarts will keep
for his own use. The price paid,
which is a trifle over $70 per acre, is considered a good price, in as much as
less than one third is under plow. The
deal was made through J. E. Kilborn real estate firm of Eugene. Mr. Swarts
seems well satisfied as he has made a nice little sum from his investment. Just what he paid for the land four years ago
is not known, but it was however,
considerable under $50 per
acre.
EUGENE DAILY GUARD 12‑15‑1913
MARCOLA NEWS
William Dial, who works at Wendling, had
his arm
broken Monday.
The Marcola band is growing larger and now
has seventeen players.
Norman Workman preached at Donna Sunday.
the teachers of the Marcola
reading circle district met at the school house in Marcola Saturday and held a
profitable
discussion of O'Shea's Every
Day Problems In Teaching.
All teachers were present except those
from Wendling.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD l‑l‑1914
Springfield is dry. The law that went into effect today and the
consuming ability of the New Year's crowd that swarmed the streets and saloons
of the mill city last evening, were equally effective in closing up the
town. It was the best "pull
off" since the last "wet" night in Eugene seven years ago last
June, according to one Eugene
man who suffered at the time. "It
makes me darn sore," said a barkeeper at Smith and Noble's, when asked for
his personal opinion of the calamity.
This was the general wail of the "old timers" and the saloon
men, who said they have not had a square deal.
Business on the last night was brisk.
Every saloon but one ran out of draught beer by 9
o'clock, and one place had to
resort to bottled "suds" as early as 3 o'clock in the afternoon. Two places sold between them 86 barrels of
bottled beer.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 1‑13‑1914
HYLAND TO HAVE A DEPOT
Salem Ore., Jan. 13‑ A depot will be
erected at Hyland, on the Wendling branch of the Southern Pacific, as the
result of effort put forth by the state railway commission. Word has just been
received that the company has ordered the material needed, and as soon as it is
received at Hyland the building will be constructed.
Some time ago T. J. Seufert, connected
with the lumber mill at Hyland, called the attention of the commission to the
need of a station at Hyland, and the matter was at once taken up
informally with the
company. The favorable action secured
will be of substantial convenience to a considerable farming section, as well
as the mill company employees and the lumber company.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 1‑15‑1914
MARCOLA SCHOOL IS
STANDARDIZED
Tuesday night marked perhaps the greatest
school rally and educational meeting ever held in Marcola. The event was the celebration of the
standardization of the Marcola schools.
The program and speaking was given before the largest crowd ever
assembled in the M. W. A. hall, there being 554 people present by actual count.
The programs opened promptly at 8 o'clock,
with music by the Marcola band. This was
followed by the singing of
"America" by the
school, led by professor Baker. The school program consisted of songs,
recitations, drills, etc.., given principally by the children of the lower
grades. Immediately after this ,
supervisor O'Reilly was introduced, and after a brief talk, he presented the
school with the standard school pennant, which was accepted with fitting
remarks by Charles Morrow, chairman of the school board.
After the program a banquet was held at
which was served the best of everything and an abundance of it.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 2‑20‑1914
NEWS OF MABEL
Mabel, Feb. 20.‑ Miss Ruth Earnest
met with a painful accident last Friday evening, while going home from
school. While crossing the railroad
trestle she fell and severely
wrenched the ligaments of the
knee. She is now confined to her bed and
will probably be unable to attend school any more this term.
Many new families have moved into Mabel
since the mill has commenced running again. The school is preparing a
Washington birthday program which will be given in the hall Monday
evening, Feb. 25. ‑ The Marcola band will furnish music for the
occasion.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 2‑23‑1914
SECOND
The main building of the new mill is now
practically
completed and work on the
planning mill and dry kilns will soon be started. It is expected that the plant will be in
operation by June 1, although there may be unforeseen delays which may postpone
the beginning of operations. The
company's mill at Coburg, which has been idle for the past three weeks, is
expected to resume operations
about the first, of the month. The 100
or more men who have been idle since it closed will be taken back. The Wendling mill is operating steadily and
the work of building the new logging railroad above there is progressing
slowly.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 2‑28‑1914
(STORIES BY COBURG SCHOOL
CHILDREN)
A
Once I was out playing in the woods alone.
I went to climb a tree to cut me a pool I had cut me one pool. I heard a noise when I went to climb the
tree, I looked around and I saw a bear
coming down the mountain, I picked up my pool and then the bear was nearly
there a stuck my pool down the bears throat and if the bear would run the pool
would stick in the ground and he could not run and I took my knife and cut his
throat and that killed him and then I came home, told pa about it. He said that was a good trick on him.
Henry C. Cole, age 10
I WAS ATTACKED BY A FIERCE
DOG
When I went to the county fare last year,
which was held at Eugene, I was attacked by a bare dog. We drove over in a buggy. When we reached Eugene the feed stables
were all closed. So we had to take our horse out to a
friends. When we got there they were
home. We stayed for dinner. Then they took us out to the fair grounds in
the machine. When it became evening we went back to their house to get our
buggy. These people were not home when
we went back to get our horse. These
people had two bare dogs. One was not tied up so it wouldn't let us in. It chased me out of the yard and tore my
dress. So we had to wait till they got
home.
Beth Allin
EUGENE DAILY GUARD 2‑28‑1914
SPORES FOUND GUILTY
Last
night the jury in the case of the state vs.
Frank Spores returned a verdict of guilty on the charge of chasing deer
with dogs. His attorneys announce that the case will be appealed to the supreme
court.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 3‑21‑1916
(STORIES BY SCHOOL CHILDREN
OF FISCHERS
MY TRIP
I once went up to Fischer's mill. I took Papa's dinner up to him one day. After dinner I rode on the locomotive up in
the woods to play with Carl Yancy. Carl
and I played on the logs all day. We
went down to the creek and fished a while.
Then it was time to go home. We
both rode home on the locomotive. Leroy LaPorte, Age 9, Third grade
I
Once upon a time, when we lived on a farm,
I was about 4 years old. We had a lot of
goats and sheep. And I fed them salt so much that I wasn't afraid of them. We had a nanny goat that wouldn't let the
little goats have any tity, so papa tied her up to a tree and she got loose,
and I said I'll catch her papa, and she butted me down the hill. It didn't hurt me any, but it scared me so
that I had to cry.
Joseph Henry Rogers, Age 9,
3rd grade
A HOPYARD
Once upon a time I went to a hopyard and
picked hops. I picked for three weeks
and earned eleven dollars. My father and
mother earned sixty dollars. I went boat
riding, and I went in swimming and I had lots of fun.
Lemmie Drake Age 12, Third
grade
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 3‑23‑1914
WENDLING NEWS
Charles Phillips met with an accident
while horseback riding, a few days ago. The horse fell on him and dislocated
his ankle.
The "Homesteaders Lodge" has
been organized in Wendling and has a membership numbering almost forty.
Quite a number from Wendling attended the
funeral of Dolf Lewis, held at Marcola Monday
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 3‑24‑1914
DONNA, NEWS
John Adams, foreman of the Mohawk Lumber
Company at
Donna, has been burning the
logged off land for the last few days.
John Roberts has moved the machinery of
the Cedar Flat mill to Donna.
The
next meeting of the Mohawk Grange will be
held at the home of J. R.
McGee April 4.
EUGENE DAILY GUARD 3‑28‑1914
(Story By, School Child,
Fischers Mill School, Dist 79)
A TRIP TO THE WOODS
One friday evening I asked papa if I could
go to the woods with him the next day.
And he said I could do so. I got
up early Saturday morning. Papa had to
fix the ax, and while papa was fixing it I got myself ready. We crossed three foot bridges. Then we walked
under a lot of vine maples, which was like an arch over head. There were other large maples which were
covered with moss. I saw a lot of
ferns. And the squirrels were running
about all over. I saw some wild ducks
fly up from the river. It was a fine day.
Papa cooked some dinner. And there
was an apple tree in the woods, and I got some apples and papa baked them for
me. Papa cut down two big trees. And they made a big noise when they fell. By that time we were ready to go home.
And when we got home mamma had supper
ready. And you bet I was hungry I had a fine time in the woods. And I will go again some Saturday.
Rose Zuber, Acre 7 years 3rd grade
A LETTER
FROM FISCHER'S
Dear Friend:
You asked about our school. We have a dandy little school of 22 children.
Our teachers name is Mrs. Morrow, she is a good teacher and has her hands full
has six grades a day. Our schoolhouse is painted brown and finished off with
green on the outside and on the inside white and finished off with brown. We have a big frame picture of George
Washington and also a library and a map Case with fine maps and also 7 living
plants and a bird house which one of the
boys made his name is
Leroy LaPorte he is in the
third grade and nine years old and did good, very good.
Your Loving Friend
Mary Landers, 5th grade
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 4‑18‑1914
DESCRIPTION OF A PEDDLER ‑‑‑
From Dist 79
Once there was a peddler who was tall and
slim. He had brown hair and black eyes. He drove a white horse and a little old
cart. He sold soap and salve. He would stand and talk about how good his things
were for hours. Sometimes he would forget to tie his horse up and it would go
off and leave him
Mabel Smith
age 12, 6th grade
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 4‑23‑1914
QUICK CAPTURE AT WENDLING
The
fourth arrest for bootlegging within a week was made last night when George
Watson, was interrupted by sheriff
deputies as he was opening a
wholesale business, ,according to J. C. Parker, Sheriff, who has the man in
jail and three and a half gallons of contraband liquor in his possession. The
man was one whom the officers intended to arrest with the other three Saturday
night, but Friday night he dropped out of town, and yesterday he appeared at
Wendling.
Sheriff deputies immediately notified the sheriff. The call came at 8 o'clock, and he left here
at 9 o'clock in an automobile, with Deputy Sheriff D. A. Elkins and J. A.
Devers, county attorney. They drove to
Marcola and from there finished the trip on a gasoline speeder. The arrest was made, the return trip to
Marcola on the speeder and the distance to Eugene in the automobile completed,
and the man was in jail by 1 o'clock this
morning. The arrest is one of the most prompt ever effected by local
officers at this distance.
Sheriff Parker returned in his automobile
this morning and obtained the unsold liquor, which totaled 28 pints. It had
been sent to Wendling in suit cases as baggage. According to the sheriff, the
man was arrested before he had sold more than five pints, and of this number
the sheriff recovered three. Three
different charges of violation of the
local option law will be pressed against the man, who was arraigned this
afternoon. George C. Watson,
captured last night by the sheriff at Wendling pleaded guilty in the Justice of
peace court late this afternoon on three charges. He was fined $250. The other
charges hang over him, and when his fine is paid or his sentence served he must leave the community.
This man has been doing business for some
time, declared J. A. Levers, District Attorney, today. "But the officers always get them. The laws are on the books, and these fellows
have to learn that this is dry territory, and that's more this is going to be a
dry state they might as well get used to it".
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 5‑4‑1914
COLUMBUS COLE
Another Lane county Pioneer, who died
yesterday, was
Columbus D. Cole of Marcola.
He was aged 72 years and one
month. He came to Marcola in 1874 and was the
founder that town, eighteen miles northeast of Eugene. The funeral will
be held at Marcola Monday. He leaves a widow, one
daughter, Mrs Nellie
Whitmore, of Bickelton Washington, a
brother, S. E. Cole, of
Eugene; and one sister,Mrs.
Elmira Rupert, of 751
Eleventh avenue west.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 5‑9‑1914
AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MY
by Fischer's Mill School boy
I was born in Norway, May 10th, 1901. We
lived in the same house about 9 years.
I started to school in 1908, and liked my teacher very much. Soon I was in the 4th grade then I had 4 or 5
teachers. I was going to start in the
6th grade when we moved to America. The first boat we went on was going from Norway
to England, with the boat then called Oalo we left Christ‑I‑And‑Sand
late at night. In the morning we came to Aslesand, then to Bergen. Next morning
we came to Stavenger, then we were ready to cross the ocean called the North
Sea. We landed at Hull England, then
crossed England with the train and came to Liverpool. Then we went on a big
American steamboat called the Adriatic.
There were a lot of people on the boat
from, many
different nations. The people danced on the deck and played
cards down below. I didn't sleep very
well at night but I wasn't sick on the whole journey. After eight days we landed at Boston. Here we went on a train to Chicago, then
right on to Minneapolis, then to Portland, where we met papa; it had been two
years since I'd seen him. The next day
we went to Eugene and next to Fisher's mill.
I have now been in the new world a little over a year and a half. I will
now have to quit because my arm starts to get tired of writing.
EMIL SATHER Fifth Grade
EUGENE DAILY GUARD 5‑20‑1914
COBURG TO OWN WATERWORKS
The Eugene Loan and Savings Bank was the
high bidder for the Coburg Waterworks bonds, at Coburg. The money will be paid at the city of Coburg
to purchase the waterworks, and
operations will began at
once. The amount of the bonds voted was
$13,350 and the waterworks system will be turned over by the present
owner, H. F. Bucknum.
The wells and pump systems now serve 1000
people and have been operated for several years successfully by H. F. Bucknum.
it is the plan of the city of Coburg to use all the revenue accruing to the
system to extend the waterworks as rapidly as possible and to create a sinking
fund to pay off the principal and interest on the, bonds. The revenue will be
used for no other purpose. The city of
Coburg wants to make this plant up‑to‑date in every respect and
will make several improvements. The rate
will be made cheaper, with better service and the plant will be operated at
actual cost.
Five other bids were submitted. The bonds were bought at par value. It is the
intention of Mr. Bucknum to build an
up‑to‑date
concrete business block in Coburg in the near
future.
THE
S. P. Railroad Improvements,
And B. K. News
Logging on the Willamette river will begin
within two or three weeks according to word received from W. H. Hyland, who for
six weeks has been preparing camps in which half a hundred men will be employed
for several years. He has ordered
sufficient cars to ship from
eight to twelve carloads of logs to the Booth Kelly mill at
sidetrack on the Oakridge
line two miles west of Carter at the point the logs will be shipped from Hyland
Camp to handle the loading operations. A
new station will be established at this point which will be called Clay
BIG
The Booth Kelly mill at
before the actual completion
of the logging camp, for it has thousands of feet of logs in the pond which
were there when the old mill burned and which have remained there ever
since. With the completion of the siding
at the lumber camp on the Oakridge line, two extra gangs have been transferred
to the ballasting work on the west side line between
where the ballasting has been
going on, as all along the west side line for several months.
BALLASTING
The double crew at present is working in
the Springfield digging, in preparation for the ballast. It will complete the excavation and this
preparation over the whole distance from Coburg by Wednesday, the actual
ballasting will then be
hurried. Three trainloads
of gravel have been received from
Corvallis in the past three days.
HYLAND STATION NEARING
COMPLETION ON THE MOHAWK
Other improvement work on the S. P. near
Eugene nearing completion includes a new station at Hyland, on the Wendling
branch, which has been erected at a cost of $850. At present a gang of men is
at work grading and filling in for the platform.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 6‑25‑1914
CONTRACTORS SUING BOOTH KELLY
COMPANY
The Abbot Forrester Co., railroad
contractors, and the B. K. Co., will air the differences resulting from, the
failure to complete the logging extension above Wendling last winter, again
this week, tomorrow and Saturday. The
$22,000 damage case opened this after noon.
The B. K. Co. is sued on the grounds that it abandoned its contract by
making too many
changes, on the other hand B.
Z. holds that it paid the
contractors $11,000 too much.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 8‑19‑1914
ARCHITECT HENSILL RECOVERING
FROM INJURIES RECEIVED WHILE RIDING WHEEL
After an almost miraculous escape from
beneath horses and wagon, which passed
over his body, Monday, Architect Y. D. Hensill was able to be at his
office today, although a cripple from the effects of his terrible
experience. Mr. Hensill states that he
was riding a bicycle along the road, one mile and a half this side of
Harrisburg, when he met a team being driven in the opposite direction. The driver was not inclined to give him a
fair proportion of the right of way, as the team approached quite near, he was
compelled to dismount almost directly in front of the horses. One of the
animals apparently became frightened and lunged forward, him, before he could
get out of the way.
Both the horses and the wagon
then passed over his body, one of the wheels crossing his abdomen. Mr. Hensill
did not regain consciousness until more than an hour had elapsed and he had
been removed by Dr. Dale to the
Harrisburg hospital. He does not know
the name of the man who was driving the team. His most serious injury was to
his foot upon which one of the animals stepped, pressing the steel core of a
shoe into the flesh.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 8‑24‑1914
WILLIAM HOFFNER, AT MABEL
FALLS FROM REAR OF LOCOMOTIVE
William Hoffner, living at Mabel, on the
Mohawk line 20 miles from Eugene, was not run over by a flat car late
yesterday afternoon because
his two legs stopped the progress of the car.
One leg was broken and both were terribly cut and bruised. He was also
bruised about the head and body.
Hoffner is a fireman on a freight
locomotive on the Wendling line. The engine had just left the flat car on a
steep siding, but the brakes on the flat car failed to hold, and the flat car
followed the locomotive. Hoffner went
back over the tender of the locomotive and intended to step from the engine to
the flat car when the latter came close enough, and then tighten the brakes.
He stepped too soon, or misjudged the
distance, and fell down between the locomotive and the approaching car. The car was going at such a speed that
Hoffner was unable to withdraw his body from the tracks before the wheels of
the car struck him. It was necessary
to back the car up before he could
be removed. Hoffner will remain in the hospital for several weeks, but will
recover.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 8‑28‑1914
BAND OF INDIANS REACHES
EUGENE
A band of fifty Warm Spring Indians from
beyond the
headwaters of the McKenzie
arrived in Eugene yesterday afternoon on their annual pilgrimage to the Lane
County hop fields. They came with 100 ponies, their wives and papooses. The ponies they will sell. The wives will
pick hops. The Indians wear their colored blankets and give a touch to the circus
day crowds that is each year becoming less noticeable.
These Indians will pick hops in the Seavy
yard this year. They are expert Hop‑pickers
and are able to earn much more money than the average white pickers. They will pitch camps on the McKenzie. After hop picking, the Indians will return to
Eugene for the county fair, which they attend each year, and at which they held
their annual pony races. Their appearance in the crowds on the street this
morning had a tendency to take the color out of the Professional Indians in the
circus.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 8‑31‑1914
HOP PICKING IN LANE COUNTY TO
BEGIN THIS WEEK
Three thousand hop pickers will be
employed in Lane Co. hop yards this week and next to harvest the county's hop
crop. Picking in some yards begins
today, but in the majority of them it will begin later in the week. The early hops have been picked and baling is
going on in most of the early yards today.
The James Seavy yard, the largest in Lane
county, picking will begin on Thursday. This yard requires a force of 600
pickers to handle its crops.
Picking in the Tom Seavy yard on the McKenzie will begin tomorrow. Seventy of
the force employed there this year will be Indians, who are already camped at
the
yards.
The Dick Hammitt yard is all picked; employees
at the Claude Hammitt yard will begin picking in the morning. The larger yards
are small communities during the hop picking
season. Many of them have
stores where groceries and some
articles of clothing can be
purchased, and several of them have dance halls, and other places of recreation
for the pickers. The yards are paying $1
per hundred pounds, or 50 cents a box.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 9‑10‑1914
HUBERT DEAN FATALLY INJURED
NEAR COBURG BRIDGE
Hubert N. Dean, the 20 year old son of Mrs. Carrie C. Dean, living at 11 Lawrence
St. died at 2:45 O'clock this afternoon
as a result of injuries received this morning when the woodsaw he was driving
passed over his chest. He retained
consciousness with 14 ribs crushed, with serious internal
injuries and up to the time
of his death was able to tell in detail of the accident. His mother and two brothers were present at
the time of his death. Dean was found
lying in the road near the Coburg bridge shortly before 11 o'clock this morning
by L. L. Lewis and M. D. Skinner, of the Booth Kelly Company, who were
returning from Coburg in a motor car. He had been lying in the road for more
than half an hour when discovered. He
was first taken to his home on Lawrence street from where his two brothers R.
F. Dean, and G. M. Dean accompanied him
to the hospital. Although the man was fearfully hurt, stimulants were
administered and efforts were made to save the man's life. The accident occurred while Dean was on his
way to the place of H. C. Holcomb, just across the McKenzie near Coburg. The tongue of the wagon dropped in the road,
frightening the horses which started to run. Dean was thrown forward and the
wheel of the heavy woodsaw weighing about a ton passed over his body.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 9‑12‑1914
Springfield News
The warm Springs Indians, who have been
picking at the Seavy hop yard, entertained
a large number of pickers last night with an Indian war dance. Today and tomorrow they will hold a general
roundup at the Midway ball park and Monday
they will return to their
homes at Warm Springs.
Fred B. Watke, proprietor of the
Springfield Provision Company, is having the interior of his meat market
painted, and repapered and is making other improvements.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 9‑17‑1914
Marion Adams, an employee of the Jim Seavy
hop ranch and formerly an employee of the Cox and Cox department store, has
accepted a position in the men's furnishing department of that store. He will begin his work next Monday.
A public dance was given last night at the
Jim Seavy hop ranch, north of Springfield.
The Clark‑Washburne and the Jim Seavy hop ranches located near
this city expect to finish Friday.
The Warm Springs Indians who
were picking at the Seavy hop ranch, returned
to their homes Monday.
EUGENE DAILY GUARD 10‑7‑1914
The largest log ever sawed in this city
was sawed yesterday at the Booth Kelly mill. It was thirty feet long and scaled
9,400 feet.
Governor West will talk to the people of
this city tomorrow night at 8 p. m. in the Bell Theatre.
Springfield News 10‑8‑1914
Tom Allen an employee of the Booth Kelly
mill, while walking on the logs in the pond
yesterday, lost his footing and just escaped drowning. Mr Allen was rescued by Arne Nelson, who was
working on the pond at that time.
WENDLING NEWS 10‑8‑1914
Wendling Oregon, Oct. 8.‑ John
Mathews, head sawyer in the Booth Kelly mill here, received a serious injury to
his right hand Friday when a log rolled on it, crushing his fingers, and the
bones in his hand. He was taken to the
Eugene hospital for treatment.
Donald Stolberg, who has been visiting in
Washington for some time returned home Friday.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 10‑17‑1914
MARCOLA HIGH SCHOOL
At the first meeting of the Mohawk High
School student body held Friday afternoon officers for the ensuing year were
elected as follows: President, Warren Price; Vice president, Miss Eva Titus;
secretary, and Treasurer,Miss Jennie Turner; correspond to Register, Miss Marie Dickert;
correspondent to the Guard, Miss Audry Leurs.
After election of officers the
constitution was read by Miss Helen McCornack and, a short talk was given by
the president. The girls of the high
school interested in basketball held a meeting last night, after school and
organized their teams. They decided to organize two teams. The captain of one is Miss Marie Dickert and
of the other Miss Eva Titus. The members
of Dikerts team, are as follows: Agnes Purcelle, Iva Titus,
Flora Smith, Pauline Duguid,
and Louella Cox. The second
team, includes Audrey Lewis,
Lottie McMurry, Laura Spohn,
Pearl Walker, and Mary Volgamore. They have chosen Myrtle Rose
for referee of both
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 10‑22‑1914
WENDLING NEWS
Wendling, Oregon, Oct.22,.‑ The Woman's
Christian Temperance Union met with Mrs. Alice Caskey Thursday.
John Mathews who injured his hand a few
weeks ago, has had to have his little finger amputated.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 10‑24‑1914
A VISIT TO MARCOLA
A return visit to Wendling gave me a
chance to see a number of the folks a second time. Up on the hill near the home
of Webb, Menasco and Bullock, I had, a little party with a
number of the children who
favored me with their stories on my first trip.
After Looking among the works a few hours
I took the
county road for Marcola. The
first man I met was C.
Stalberg who recently came
from the hoosier state and is
developing a bit of fertile
soil on the banks of Mill Creek. He
keeps some milk cows and is developing a family orchard. About the time for the dinner bell to
ring I came to the home of Dr. and Mrs. Paul Paschelke who welcomed me to their
home and I enjoyed a pleasant hour with them. If a man looking around desires
an interesting time, let him drop in on these good people in their handsome
country place. And another nice farm is
that of W. J. Hennis. They do general farming and milk eight cows. At F. N. Apger's place I found another of
those new homes just springing up out of the forest.
Plenty of work and a heavy
demand on courage, but how these little places grow up in a few years into
attractive homes. At A. L.
Mitchell's I found a coup of Indian game chickens. The head of the flock is a handsome and
valuable rooster. Near Marcola where Henry Huddleson's ranch is I found no one
about so I visited his neighbor G. H. Blakely.
He is past his
three‑score‑and‑ten
but he handles a plow like a youngster and he has a fine bit of soil in which
to spend his time. The Mohawk runs
through a corner and Mr. Blakely is
improving his little ranch.
After chatting a few moments at the homes
of H. B. Smith and W. J. Chapman I set foot for the first time within the
limits of Marcola. One of these days I
intend to find out more about the people, so I concluded to "go up the
flume" to the saw mill. The
Fischer's mill property, like ancient Gaul, is divided into three parts, one of
which the loggers inhabit, called the camp.
The timber is hauled from the camp to the saw mill on a logging
road. At the mill the logs are dumped
into the pond which raises the logs to within a few feet of the level of the
saw carriage. The lumber when sawed into
boards, dimension stuff and railroad ties is conveyed into the flume and
carried by water to the planing mill and
docks, a distance of about 2 1\2 miles
to Marcola.
The flume is a "V" shaped
trough, an equilateral triangle about two feet on a side down which water
rushes about one foot deep. This volume of water has sufficient fall to carry
the product of the mill, even the larger dimension stuff, with ease. As I went
up the side of the flume I met two boys, almost young men, riding down the
flume on a float of lumber. The sawmill
town consists of about twenty‑five houses and a store. The dwellings are scattered over the
hillside and many of
the mill workers have gardens
and a cow. Several of the houses are supplied with water carried in troughs or
flumes from
mountain springs and at a
number of the houses I noticed that the water had been utilized for irrigating
the garden. They are permitted, so they tell me, to fence up as much ground as
they want for garden purposes
or chicken parks. The planing mill and
docks are the last part of the property. Here the product of the saw is
received from the flume and sorted, worked into orders, shipped out in the
rough, or piled in the yards for future orders. I was told that the saw has a
capacity of about 50 thousand feet a day, but one of the workmen remarked that
it had cut as much as 75 thousand feet in a day.
Between the logging camps and Marcola are
several farms that are well adopted to stock raising and one of these I found
owned by D. W. Neely whose folks originally came from
Pennsylvania, and at another
I found F. Teal. He is clearing up and preparing to plant fruit trees on a fine
piece of new ground and he showed me some of the finest potatoes I have seen
this year, not the elongated Burbank, but a handsome potato. Mr. Teal enjoys
showing what he can raise here.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 10‑26‑1914
COBURG PEOPLE SUPPORT R. A.
BOOTH
The residents of the little town of
Coburg, seven miles east of Eugene, which was founded by the establishment of a
Booth Kelly mill, held a mass meeting Friday night, formed a Booth club, and
passed resolutions expressing personal confidence in the man whom they have
known for years. They proposed to extend
the membership of The Booth club to every one of the
600 persons living in or near
Coburg.
The resolutions signed by the members of
the club are as follows:
"We, the voters living in and around
Coburg, lane county, Oregon realizing that the old growth and the past success
of our city has been largely the result, directly and indirectly, of the
efforts of Hon. R. A. Booth, Republican nominee for United States senator, and
knowing, that our city and our country and state will be greatly benefited by
having a man of Mr. Booth's ability, integrity and honor in the United States
Senate, hereby join ourselves together for the purpose of forming a Booth club,
the purpose of which is to assist in placing our friend in office.
COBURG NEWS 10‑28‑1914
Mr. Jarnigan and Mr. Drury, local
merchants, have each Purchased a motor car.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 10‑31‑1914
THE TOWN OF MARCOLA
This town Marcola, is situated on the
Wendling branch of the Southern Pacific railroad, thirteen miles by the time
card from the railroad center known on the map as Springfield. An Aeroplane
would carry you there in a fewer number of miles to the northeast from the
county seat of Lane county, which appears on the legal documents under the name
of Eugene. Marcola has been and yet is somewhat of a town. I may have slipped a
cog in my enumeration machine, but according to my observations there are about
one hundred ten occupied dwellings in the town and
immediate Suburbs, if there
be any urban conditions in a town where almost everybody is blest with a good
garden, or at least enough good land to make a good garden. There are probably a dozen vacant
houses. I would like to mention some of the most attractive gardens,
but where there are so many, it seems better to generalize and say, Marcola in
many respects is an attractive place for busy people to live. Of course the
principal point of interest to the stranger, as it doubtless is to the
residents, is the planing mill with its surrounding dock and yard.
There are two hotels, good hostelries for
country hotels, so their guests say; and
two churches, the M. E. and the
Christian, and three general
stores. The post office is located in
the drug store, and the two pool rooms keep tobacco cigars and soft drinks.
In addition, there is a shoe shop, a
blacksmith shop, a barber shop, a photography gallery, a real estate office, a
tailor shop, a draying business, a millinery store or two, and a doctor of
medicine, the offices of the lumber company, The Fischer Brothers "down
town" and the substantial school
building almost under the
hill on the other side of the mill. The
old flume of the Southern Pacific mill is yet in part
standing, and some of the
buildings. A stranger mingling with
these folks for the first time finds them very much like other people. Some of us by nature have those social traits
that bring us into quick acquaintanceship, while others feel that the other
fellow needs watching and the stream of goodfellowship flows not at all. So goes the world, but in a general way going
about among these people one catches the spirit of their life problems. How
would you feel if when you called to collect a bill you were greeted with a
whole‑souled smile and a cheery
"I know what you hire after, money" and then have the giving
the greeting show the coin? Well I had that kind of experience several times up
the Mohawk. I am more of a hayseed thin a cit scientist, so I hunted up Joseph
Vogl's ranch and enjoyed his rooting out stumps fully as much as if I had the
digging to do myself. That's no joke, I thoroughly enjoy handling digging tools
when I can do just what I want with the dirt,‑ Try me sometime in a good
garden
I reached the M. J. Arnel ranch in the
midst of a gentle shower, Mr. C. A. Arnel, the father of M. J., is a gentleman
of 75 years and active, but the young man and I explored the farm. I wanted to
see his clover. He has 6 acres of clover which was sowed June 7, 1914, and it
has withstood the summer's drouth. It now has a fine foliage and the field is
uniformly covered. Besides this 6 acres sowed in June, he has the same number
of acres sowed the latter part of September. It has a good start and the two
sowings will give a fair chance to make comparisons to determine if spring or
fall sowing of clover is the better. Near the farm buildings Mr. Arnel has a
small field of about two acres which was sowed in May, 1913. It took well and
this season he mowed it twice and put up about 9 tons of clover hay. He has
decided to put all of his 152 acres of valley land into clover. He ranges about
50 head of stock cattle and carries on the business of slaughtering for the
surrounding country, marketing chiefly at Mabel.. A most interesting ranch on
which I saw a fine red shorthorn male eligible to register, and I was told that
there were 20 to 25 hogs roaming on the place.
OVER THE MOHAWK
Certainly I want to see H. C. Huddleson's
67 acres, half hill and half valley land. He also has clover, a sod of much
more than ordinary stability, I told him I thought it is surpassed by only one
other field that I have seen, and equalled by very few. He has a fine young
peach orchard, and smiles when he shows you what water he has to spare, not for
dairy purposes, but for irrigation plans he has in head.
A number of fascinating little ranches in
this valley, and when you look at N. R, Workman's place on the same side of the
creek, you get more interested. He is making improvements in the land and in
the surroundings, being about to drill a water well when I was there. Plenty of
water running by the house but he wants water for domestic use perfectly free
from surface water. Then Sullivan and his neighbor Briggs are working out
interesting places in the woods. And E. C. Rowland is also hewing out a ranch
in the woods.
C. F. Page has a fine little place,
fertile as any and is a promising state of cultivation. Among the good people
of Marcola I met R. M. Culp, another 75 year old man who goes about among his
friends an acquaintance with good cheer, and when at W. R. Bearden's I met F.
M. Frost who says he will be 92 on the 18th day of April next, but Mrs. Bearden
says the record makes him a year older. While I visited him he told me of his
father who was waylaid and murdered in Georgia when this veteran was only six
years of age. They lived in Kentucky and on the father's
returning from a trip into
Georgia where he had sold a lot of cattle, he was attacked and robbed and
murdered. The mother and three children came out of Missouri in 1834. F. M.
Frost drove a team from Dennison, Texas, to Forest Grove in 1879. He tells
interesting experiences of his residence in this state, and thinks Oregon is
not a farming state.
I met a man on this trip who told me he
had subscribed for a paper once when he was yet a boy. The subscription
resulted in a law suit, and he has never
subscribed for a paper since. He is older than I am.
At Marcola, principal Baker favored me
with permission to talk to his high school class. An earnest set of young
folks. I am sure it any one of the class got as much inspiration out of the
visit as I did, the call was mutually beneficial. My few minutes with the
second and third grades was a much prized opportunity to make certain
observations of child life.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 11‑5‑1914
PIONEERS,
Lane county today lost two pioneers, with
the death of Mrs. Josie B. Abrams, of 93 fifth ave. west, at 1 o'clock this
morning, and of Willard
McGee, of Snelling California. Both are
well known here. The death of Mrs.
Abrams occurred at the close of an illness extending over three years. The body was shipped today to Crawfordsville,
in Linn county where it will be buried upon the old home place beside the body
of her husband, who died in 1902. He was
one of the pioneers of the logging industry in this part of the state, and for
years his crews logged on the Willamette and McKenzie rivers.
The deceased leaves three sons, all
connected at present with the lumber industry. Todd Abrams is superintendent of
the Lebanon Lumber Company, Faye Abrams is superintendent of the Booth Kelly
mill at Wendling, and Cliff Abrams is also connected with the same company. The funeral will be held Saturday, November
7, at 1 p. m.
Word of the death of Mr. McGee, known in
Eugene for years as "Wid" McGee, was received by the local order of
I. O. O. F., of which he was a member.
He has been ill for more than a year.
He has not lived in Eugene for eight or ten years, but was born on the
Mohawk river nearly forty years ago, and lived here the greater part of his
life.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 11‑16‑1914
MARCOLA NEWS
The freight train which runs to Wendling
has changed its schedule, coming up at 2 p. m. instead of 10 a. m.
After drilling to a depth of twenty‑five
feet, Mr. Gordiner of Eugene, who is drilling a well for Mr. Volgamore of this
vicinity, struck bedrock, and has decided to move his driller to another location and try
again. A wind and rain storm struck
Thursday night about 10 o'clock, causing excitement throughout the town. It
lasted all night subsiding before daylight.
Three motor car loads of Marcola Woodmen
with their wives and children were in Eugene Monday night to see pictures of
the M. W. A. sanitarium in Colorado Springs. Among them were Mr. and Mrs.
Herman Mason, F. W. Titus and family, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Price, Mr. L. M. Duguid
and family; Mr. W.
Fisher, Mr. and Mrs. Cobb and
Mr. W. Trotter and family.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 11‑20‑1914
Marcola Electric Power
The Fischer Brothers are at work
installing an electric light plant which will be serving the business section
by
Saturday and by the end of
next week it will be extended to every part of town.
The 25 K. W. generator installed in the
engine room of the planing mill supplies the current. A new building will be erected adjoining the
planing mill and when completed the
machinery will be placed in
it. The mill has been lighted with
electricity ever since its construction.
The current will be sold on a flat rate by contract of one cent per kilowatt
per month. A. H. Willoughby of Eugene is
in charge of construction work.
EUGENE DAILY GUARD 11‑25‑1914
COBURG BANK CHANGES HANDS
Eugene Men Are Interested In Transaction,
Capitol Stock Of Institution $10,000.
A deal was completed last night whereby
the State Bank of Coburg was purchased by
Eugene and Coburg men. The purchasers are R. T. Wood of Glen Rock
Wyoming; George Drury, of Coburg; Samuel Smith, a retired Coburg farmer; A. H.
Pyrtle, a farmer living near Coburg; C. D. Rorer and B. B. Brundage of the Bank
of Commerce, Eugene. Officers of the
bank are Geo. Drury,
President; S. Smith, Vice
Pres.; R. T. Wood cashier and manager.
EUGENE DAILY GUARD 11‑26‑1914
COBURG
A Fairmont street car and a Ford motor car
driven by J. C. Ackerson, of Coburg, collided at Thirteenth and Alder streets
at 10:20 this morning. The damage to the
cars consisted of a broken fender on the street car and broken headlights and
wrenched axle on the front wheels of the motor car.
Mr.
Ackerson came over this morning to spend Thanksgiving with his son,
Luton Ackerson, who is a senior in the University. He was going west on Thirteenth and reached
the corner as the Fairmont car operated by motorman Brown turned the corner. Both the driver of the machine and Brown applied
the brakes and had nearly stopped the respective cars when they met. Ackerman thinks that the brakes were not
working well or the collision would have been avoided. The house on the corner stands near the
street and it is difficult to see the approach of cars on this curve.
EUGENE DAILY GUARD 11‑28‑1914
DEATH COMES AT SUPPER TABLE
FOR
Mrs. Anne E. Churchill, a native
Oregonian, and for 32 years a resident of West Springfield, died suddenly at
her residence last night. Death came
suddenly and without warning as she was sitting at the supper table with her
family. The meal was just over and the
members of the family lingered a moment in
conversation. Without any sound Mrs. Churchill suddenly put
her head in her arms on the table and passed away.
Death was due to heart trouble, but the
singular fact in connection with the death was that almost a year ago to the
night, just after Thanksgiving, she suffered a similar attack. She died at the age of 54 years, four months. She was born to Mr. and Mrs. Drinkwater, in
Marion county, at Sublimity, in 1856, She was married in 1874 to J. S.
Churchill, and after living several years on the Mohawk river, and for a short
time in California, located in West Springfield.
She
is survived by two daughters, Mrs. E. B. Doad and Mrs. Ollie Mcdonald, both of
West Springfield, and three sons, Carl Churchill of Pendleton; Howard
Churchill, of Springfield; and Raymond
Churchill of Springfield.
The funeral will be held at the residence
in West
Springfield tomorrow
afternoon at 2:30.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 11‑28‑1914
Dropping my grip at Marcola, I footed it
up the flume to Fischer's mill. On the
way up E. E. Hyland, Charles McFarland, and "Doc" Smith kept me
company on the "tow plank" I wondered why they called it a tow plank,
saying that back in Pennsylvania there was a path alongside the old canal on
which the mules walked to tow the boats, but I could not see why they called
this plank on that flume by such a name.
Hyland replied "I guess it's because a man's a mule to walk
it." Smith kept telling us before we started that E. E. could not walk on
high places, but he did. When we got
near the S. P. mill I left them in the care of Keeper McGee and went on to the
hills.
BACK TRACK
If I had taken my cue from two young
men whom I saw navigate the flume, I would have ridden back to Marcola, but as
one sailor went by McFarland he remarked that it was too
suggestive of wetness. Wetness on a raft is more pleasant in July
than in November. These young fellows
seemed to enjoy the trip down the flume and a millworker told me they could
make the trip afloat in about 25 minutes.
You can't "tow plank" three miles or more in that time.
AFOOT AT MABEL
Early on the frosty morning I went up to
the big mill of the Coast Range Lumber Co. at Mabel. There I found the new postmaster, J. M.
Shelby, getting ready to handle Uncle Sam's business. He will install the office in his store up near
the school houses.
On my way up I visited the ranches of the
Earnest's under the care of our old friend H. C. Preston, formerly of Columbia
street in Fairmont. Ray Earnest is at
work on the mill
and Russell and Ruth are in
school. Mr. Preston and Ray are planning
to increase their dairy herd and make other improvements on their large ranch
which has some fine land. Right
adjoining the Earnest lands I found the J. C. Hileman farm with plenty of stock
and large areas in grain. And Richard Hileman around the ridge with almost as
large a ranch given to stock, general farming, and hay.
As I passed up the creek I looked for a
few minutes in on Joel McCornack's farm where the annual round of Oregon
farming is going on.
MADE A MISTAKE
In making mention of Coast Range Lumber
Company's new mill I inadvertently misstated the facts about the machinery. The
big band saw and the edger run by steam and all the other machines by
electricity. An interesting thing about the big saw is that it is a doublecut
band saw. When sawing big logs only the advance cut is used, but in sawing
smaller timber the saw cuts on the return. A new saw is about sixteen inches
wide and has like teeth on both edges. When the saw is gummed down to about
twelve inches it is discarded.
HAD TO
At the store about noon I inquired for the
trail to the cook house. The young man
replied "right through that door", pointing to the office door where
for thirty cents I got a ticket and later found my place at a well‑filled
table where about ninety other much bigger men than I found ample and well‑prepared
food.
Any man knocking about would enjoy a meal
at that cook house.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 11‑28‑1914
WAR VETERAN MALE RECORD
ONLY TWO WEEKS TO LEARN TO
READ
Strolling around Marcola I met C. L.
Irish, an interesting gentleman, aged seventy. He is a veteran of the civil
war, I think it a good habit to listen to any Grand Army man. Mr. Irish was
taking the school census. I met him on
the "tow path". We naturally
began to talk school because while many men I meet on the street call me
"farmer", my country friends seem to like to call me "school
teacher".
This census taker is a good writer, and he
knows more than some people who make more pretensions to knowledge than he
does.
A SIGNIFICANT BIOGRAPHY
C. L. Irish was born in New York state in
1844. He was left an orphan when one
year old. At the age of seven he was "bound out" to a man described
as "a strict Presbyterian whose wife was a good Methodist". Both were college graduates. The term of this apprenticeship ran until he
was 21 years of age and the conditions were that he should be sent to school
six months each year during the first three years, and then three months a year
until he was twenty‑one. When
twenty‑one he was to receive a horse, saddle and bridle, or $100 in cash if he preferred the cash.
He remained with his master learning to
milk and do other farm work till he had served seven and‑one‑half
years of his apprenticeship. In that
time he had not been permitted to go to school a single day. Smarting under the injustice he ran away to
Indiana, where at the age of seventeen he "lied himself" into the
Union Army in company D, thirteenth Indiana Infantry.
THE KERNEL OF THIS STORY
When Young Irish entered the service he
could neither read nor write. While at
camp where the recruits were being drilled for service before going to the
front, he wanted to send a letter to his sister. In the regiment there were
several teachers, one of whom young Irish knew.
He went to this teacher and asked him to write a letter for him to his
sister. The comrade replied, "
where have you been you big lubber, that you can't read or write. I will not
write letters for you but I will teach you to write". By direction of the teacher the young man
got a pass from the captain and went to the town near the camp and bought paper
pens and ink and envelopes as the teacher directed him to do. When he went to the captain the officer asked
his purpose in going to town and on being told, he laid his hand on the boy's
shoulder and gave him the good word, incidentally telling him to avoid whiskey,
cards and bad company. The boy ran all the way to the store, and when he entered,
the storekeeper met him and anxiously asked if he was after the doctor. The boy went to the show case where the paper
and pens were kept and told him what he wanted.
His foolscap, pens, letter paper, envelope and
"portfolio" in
which to carry them, cost him $2.10. He returned to camp and hunted up his
friend who set him a copy and he went to work.
On his way back to camp he passed a house which was being roofed with
yellow poplar shingles and the young soldier asked the carpenter to give him
one for a writing board, which he cheerfully did, adding a word of
encouragement.
After his copy was set the young soldier
lay on the ground under the trees and practiced. He did not know the names of
the letters, but as he "followed
the copy" he asked for the names of the letters. As the teacher told him the names of the
letters he often took the learners hand and showed him the movement
necessary to make the letter.
The boy practiced his writing as
opportunity offered between his camp duties sometimes six, sometimes eight, and
even ten hours a day.
In two weeks he wrote a letter to his
sister. A letter which she read with
joy, and in her home back in the middle west, that hangs on the wall, a
treasure that money cannot buy.
LEARNED TO READ
Young Irish then subscribed for the
LaGrange, Indiana Standard to get the home news, for Harpers Weekly, to get the
war pictures, and for the Toledo Blade to get "Petroleum V. Nasby's" stories.
These papers followed him over the field
for thirty‑four months. In
Harper's the correspondence column
attracted his attention. Ladies
advertised that they would be glad to
correspond with soldiers in
the field. Irish carried on
correspondence with a number‑‑
possibly forty or fifty‑‑ during his term in service.
When going to the front he bought a Ray's
Third Part
Arithmetic and when he came
out of the service he had solved every problem in the book.
MALE MUSTER ROLLS
At the mustering out of his regiment this
boy who entered the service less than three years before, unable to read or
write a word, was selected to make up the muster rolls, not only of Co. D, his
own company, but of company A as well.
Company D had 147 names, and Company A had 198.
THE PURPOSE OF THIS STORY
I print this story, not because Mr. Irish
wants me to, ( I think Mr. Irish will be surprised when he sees it) but because
I think it a most remarkable item of history.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 12‑4‑1914
MARCOLA NEWS
The census of the boys and girls of school
age, living in the Marcola school district was taken last week. There was a total of two hundred and sixty‑eight,
one hundred and twenty five boys and one hundred and forty‑six girls.
The Fischer Brothers have built a new
addition to their dry kilns, which was completed last week.
EUGENE DAILY GUARD 12‑14‑1914
Marcel Arnold of this place took a herd of
cattle to pasture below Donna Wednesday.
The Eighth grade of the Marcola school
made an excellent record in the spelling contest Friday. Out of the eleven members of the class eight
made 100 per cent. The following are the names of those making 100: Mary
Volgamore, Laura Spohn, Pauline Duguid,
Lowell Cox, Agnes Purcell, Frank Briggs, Lawrence Briggs, and Iva Titus.
THE
SCHOOL CHILDREN STORIES FROM
MY LITTLE PET GOAT
Once I had a little pet goat and her name
was Flossy, a boy gave her to me.
She was just as white and pretty as the
snow. I had a bottle that I fed her out
of.
I fed her every morning
GLADYS MAYNARD
Age 11, Grade 4
THE
MARCOLA NEWS
Mr. Walter Price has bought the general
merchandise store of O. I. Circle and Company and is taking in inventory of the
stock of goods.
EUGENE DAILY GUARD 1‑12‑1915
MARCOLA NEWS
The road viewers were in Marcola last week
viewing a new road. This road will run on the other side of the Mohawk river and
will be called the Volgamore road.
The silver pheasants which were turned out
on Marsel
Arnold's place are doing
finely.
Mr. Hill, game warden, was here
Wednesday. He arrested several men for
hunting out of season.
Mr. Burns and Mr. Workman finished tearing
down the flume across Mr. Burn's place Thursday.
A bridge is being built across Cartwright
Creek which will shorten the distance to
the school house. The building of new walks in Marcola is now under way.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 1‑16‑1915
WAYNE YARNELL IS FINED $ 100
IN JUSTICE COURT TODAY
It cost Wayne Yarnell, of Mohawk $100 to
testify for Bake Stewart, a Cottage Grove farmer, who was cleared of a charge
of running deer with dogs. Stewart's
defence was that he didn't own the dog, despite the fact that his name was on
the dog's collar, and that he had kept him three years.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 3‑2‑1915
MARCOLA NEWS
T. R. Dickenson and H. M. Anderson have
opened the livery barn belonging to J. S. Churchill. They have grain and hay for sale at
reasonable prices, and also do general
delivery work. The Fischer
Brothers and Company are building a new office which will soon be completed.
The students of the tenth grade are
preparing a debate on the question, "Resolved, That steam is more
practical benefit to the world today than electricity."
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 3‑3‑1915
COAST RANGE LUMBER Co., AT
MABEL
The reopening of the Coast Range Lumber
Company's mill at Mabel and the re‑employment of 200 men this month, was
announced by H. T. Gatke, manager of
that plant, who was in Eugene
yesterday afternoon on his
way home from Portland. He also announced new orders obtained by this mill, one
of which he says totals a million and a quarter feet of lumber to local
brokers. The lumber situation appears to be better he states.
The big plant at Mabel on the Mohawk
river, twenty miles from Eugene, was closed down the first of the year, with
the announcement that it would not be reopened until the lumber market
materially improved. The planing mill
was not stopped, but 200 men were taken out of the mill and out of the
timber. They will be able to return to
work about March 15, according to Mr. Gatke.
While the mill has been closed extensive
improvements have been made. The old burner
conveyor system has been replaced with a more modern "long link"
system. Heavier steel has been placed on
the trackings about the mill and other remodeling done. This mill is one of the most modern in
the state, being somewhat similar to the model mill of the Booth Kelly company
at Springfield. It is almost entirely
electrically operated, and the lumber is hauled by an electric overhead
monorail system. The Fischer Lumber
Company, with a mill at Marcola on the Mohawk river, only a few miles from the Mabel mill, this week obtained
the contract to furnish 310,000 feet of lumber for the Salt Lake baseball park,
to be constructed at once for the new league team. This company is also making improvements,
including the construction of a new office
building.
EUGENE DAILY GUARD 3‑8‑1915
MARCOLA NEWS
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Huddleston have sold their farm near
Marcola and moved to Eugene to live with Mr.
Huddleston's mother.
C. H. Gatke has announced that the big
mill at Mabel will start work soon. John Lewis, J. V. Irish, W. J. Hennis and
K. R. Workman were selected jurymen from Marcola.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD
MARCOLA SCHOOL SPELLING
CONTEST
Following is a list of the pupils who
received 100 per cent in the spelling contest:
Maude Sutherland
Maudie Dial
Ronald Maple
Robert Neff
Ethyl Neil
Ruth Roowland
Elsie Whitsell
Helen Templeman
Fay Price
LeRoy LaPorte
Robert Van Orden
Clive Sutherland
Fannie Marcum
Leonard Briggs
Mae Queen
Laurence Briggs
Arthur Paschelke
Louella Cox
Pauline Duguid
Alsie Rogers
Laura Spohn
Iva Titus
Agnes Purcell
Mary Volgamore
Pearl Lewis
Odon Monjay
Sherman Maple
Wesley Frazier
Rose Emomns
Neva Workman
Alice Schwind
Catherine Bearden
Agnes Briggs
Edmond Hennis
Delia Wilkins
Martha Andreas
Wanda Dugan
Cleona Fisher
Nellie Dial
Ancil Page
Bennie Rogers
Alma Purcell
Walter Paschelke
Mary Landers
Cecil Evans
Troy Savage
Elma Miller
Edith Dial
Joe Queen
Gladys Van Orden
Hardy Queen
Pearl Findly
Goldy Gentry
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 3‑30‑1915
THREE MOHAWK BROTHERS CHARGED
WITH BURGLARY
John Wolfer, Jake Wolfer and Cecil Wolfer,
three brothers residing on the Mohawk river, were brought to Eugene last night
and placed in the county jail charged with
burglary. They were arrested
yesterday afternoon by deputies of J. C. Parker,
sheriff, and Springfield
officials, given a hearing in
Springfield justice court and
were bound over to the grand jury.
One of the men was disarmed by Deputy Sheriff George Croner at the point
of a gun, as he attempted to escape from the rear of the house while constable
Thompson, of Springfield, went to the front of the house. The man came running out the rear door with a
loaded shotgun in his hands. He
submitted to arrest without protest.
The men are charged with burglary of the
Andrew Fisher residence Saturday night. A quantity of jewelry and clothing
alleged to have been stolen was found in the home of the three men, according
to the officers who obtained a search warrant in the Springfield justice court.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 4‑15‑1915
THREE COBURG MEN NARROWLY
ESCAPE DROWNING
Three men drenched in the cold McKenzie
river, spent
twenty‑two hours on a
log in the middle of the stream, until rescued by a band of searchers this
morning. They were William Henderson, Lem Latham and Glen Ditto, all residents
of Coburg. The men are said to have
had a narrow escape from drowning yesterday morning at 10 o'clock when their boat
struck a snag in the swift river, capsized and threw them into the icy
water. They were washed against a log,
fast in the stream, and each was able to cling to this. One by one they drew themselves out of the
water, but none dared to risk themselves in the swift current to swim to shore
for help.
All day they stayed there. At night when they didn't return to their
homes, apprehension was felt and a messenger was sent to the field where they
had been planting potatoes. Their tools,
horse and their dog was found waiting, but the boat was gone. Searching parties were formed, and over
half the male population of Coburg, and many farmers living along the river
searched all night until early this morning.
A portion of the party returned at 2 o'clock this morning without any
trace of the missing men, and another
party started out at daylight this morning.
A launch was started up the river from Harrisburg to meet the searching
parties working down, and J. C. Parker, Lane county sheriff, was called to
assist. The men were found, however at 8
o'clock this morning, just before his arrival. The night was cold and they had suffered
from exposure on the log. Their return
to Coburg was heralded with an ovation, for all were well known, two have
families.
The men state that after they had been on
the log a while some matches carried by one of them dried sufficiently to use,
and that a small fire was made from some driftwood that had caught on the end
of the log.
EUGENE DAILY GUARD 4‑16‑1915
COAST RANGE LUMBER CO. AT MABEL TO HAVE PAYROLL OF $16,000 H. T. Gatke, manager of the Coast Range
Lumber Co. went to Portland today preparing to return early next week for the
re‑opening of the big mill at Mabel.
He is as yet unable to fix an exact date for the opening of the mill
further than he stated yesterday that everything is in readiness for
beginning. The reopening of this mill
means much to Eugene, Mr. Gatke stated today. "Our payroll was
approximately $16,000 a month last year.
Although the lumber situation is not very good, it is growing better,
and we have orders sufficient to warrant starting. "We will operate our mill to full
capacity, but we plan to operate for the present on one side of the woods
only." This will require between 60 and 80 men and these are already
engaged and we are getting together our
equipment ready to start on a day's
notice.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 4‑19‑1915
J. B. Duff Of Coburg Dies
J. B. Duff died Tuesday morning, April 13,
at his home after a brief illness. He
was born September, 5, 1849 in Richard county, West Virginia, He married Emma
Smith and lived in West Virginia until 1900 when he moved his family to
Oklahoma. In 1903 he came to
Oregon. Eight children have been born to
them, three of whom are living, they are Richard A. of Coburg, Lorane L. and
Walter S. of Portland. The funeral was
held Thursday morning at 10 o'clock, the services being conducted at the home
by Rev. Crenshaw of the M. E. church.
Interment was made in the I.O.O.F. cemetery.
EUGENE DAILY GUARD 4‑19‑1915
LANE COUNTY PIONEER
The burial of Mrs. America B. Cochran in
Eugene this
afternoon marked the passing
of another of the Oregon pioneers who crossed the plains by ox team and who was
well known
throughout the state. She died Saturday in Salem at the home of
Mrs. Woodson T. Slater, after a long illness.
The remains arrived in Eugene last night, and were buried today in the
Masonic cemetery. She was 84 years old.
She was born in Kentucky, August 16,
1830. On November 21, 1848, she was
married to David M. Howe in
Missouri. In 1863 the family crossed the
plains, arriving in La Grande in the fall of the year. Mr. Howe died in November, and the wife and
children were left to face a
trip through the wilderness alone. The
following year they crossed to Brownsville in Linn county, where the sons
obtained employment.
In 1869 she married Hon. R. B. Cochran, of
Coburg, senator from Lane county for several years and who at one time was
president of the state senate.
In 1877 Mr. and Mrs. Cochran moved to
Eugene, residing for years at the corner of Thirteenth and Mill streets. In 1888 they returned to the farm near
Coburg, and in 1894 Mr. Cochran died, and Mrs. Cochran moved to Salem to reside
with her daughter, Mrs. Slater. John M.
Howe, pioneer who died near Eugene less than a year ago, was the last of her
sons to survive. Four daughters are
living. These are Mrs. Mary P. Slater,
of Salem; Mrs. Sadie Gunters, of Salem; Mrs. Alcinda Keyes, of Seattle; and Mrs.
Julia Cochran, of Colfax Washington.
Hon. J. K. Weatherford, of
Albany, whom she adopted as a foster son
when he was a boy in Brownsville, also survives her.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 4‑22‑1915
Coburg and Eugene Men Drowned
In The Mckenzie River
Haggert Tronsen, the son of C. O. Tronsen,
residing at 107 Lawrence St. in Eugene, and Charles Cole, residing two miles
below Coburg, were drowned in the McKenzie river, when their boat capsized and
they were thrown into the river. At a
late hour today their bodies had not been recovered. Tronsen was a single man, aged 22, and Cole
was married and leaves a wife and several small children. The accident happened four miles from Coburg,
near the mouth of the McKenzie. The two
men were in a boat taking some cattle across the river. N. J. Hanson, uncle of young Tronsen, was on
the shore of an island pulling the boat across by a rope. As they were crossing, some of the cattle became
tangled, and Cole dropped off the rear of the boat to release the animals. At this point the rope on the boat broke,
leaving it adrift in the river. Cole in
his efforts to get into the boat upset the craft. Mr. Hansen made desperate efforts to rescue
the men. He could not swim, but he jumped upon a horse nearby and waded the
animal as far into the stream as possible.
He was able to recover the boat, but saw nothing of the two men. Using the boat, he crossed to the mainland
and called for help. A large number of
men responded and all day long they worked in boats and along the bank seeking
to locate the bodies.
A systematic search of the river was
commenced this
afternoon in which several
boats started out for Harrisburg, and motor boats were started upriver from
Harrisburg.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 4‑24‑1915
BODIES OF TWO MEN FOUND,
BODY FOUND IN THE McKENZIE
The body of Haggbert A. Tronsen, the 19‑year‑old
son of Mr. and Mrs. C. O. Tronsen of
Eugene was found in the McKenzie river today, and is being brought to Eugene
for burial late this afternoon. Tronsen
was drowned Thursday with Charles Cole, of Coburg, when their boat capsized in the river two
miles from Coburg.
The body was found this morning at 11:30
o'clock when it caught on a barb wire drag used by the searchers that have
worked almost continuously since the accident.
It was found on the south side of the river in an eddy in deep water
near what is known as the Simmons bar, half a mile below the scene of the
drowning, and two and a half miles below Coburg. The body of Charles Cole has not been located
up to a late hour this
afternoon, and the search
will be continued.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 4‑26‑1915
The Lane Co. court today discovered that
both the county and H. C. Veatch, of Coburg, who blockaded the county road near
Coburg were wrong. Mr. Veatch fenced up
the road and moved a shed into the middle of it in the belief that the county
road should run on the other side of his property. He claimed that in early survey had located
it there, although the road has been located in its present place for over
twenty years.
The county engineer discovered that the
county road belongs about 30 feet to one side of the present location, but not
where Mr. Veatch claimed it did. It is
probable that a petition will be brought asking that the position of the road
be formally changed to where the grade now is located.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 5‑4‑1915
BODY LOCATED IN WILLAMETTE
A dummy body directed the searchers in
locating the body of Lesten Craighead in the Willamette river above Springfield
yesterday afternoon. The dummy had been
prepared by E. O. Hills, to weigh approximately the same as the body of the
missing 17 year old boy who was drowned Sunday morning, and was placed in the
river at the point where the boy left the boat.
A float at the end of the string enabled
the searchers to follow it down the river to the point where it lodged. A search here with grappling hooks failed,
but one of the searchers caught what was thought to have been the body, but
which was lost before it could be raised. The dummy was then raised and allowed
to continue until it stopped again. The
body was found within a few feet of this point.
The funeral was held in West Springfield
today.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 5‑17‑1915
Booth Kelly Co. Loses Its Suit
Washington, May 17‑‑ The
supreme court affirmed today the decision of the ninth United States circuit
court of appeals in cancelling five patents to Oregon lands held by the Booth
Kelly Lumber Co. because of fraud in entry.
FOUR YEARS IN COURT
Portland, Ore., May 17‑ The
governments case against the Booth Kelly Lumber Co. first came up in the United
States
district court four years
ago.
It was charged that Stephen, Alice, Ethyl
M. and Lucy La Raut, relatives of R. A. Booth, who was then manager of the
lumber Co., and Edward Jordan had deeded lands, located in southern Oregon, to
the lumber company shortly after obtaining patents.
The district cancelled the patents of the
La Raut's, but upheld that of Jordan.
On February 24, 1913, the United States
circuit court of appeals cancelled the patent of Jordan also, and the case was
carried to the supreme court.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 5‑19‑1915
GYPSIES ROB SPRINGFIELD
Five Women unarmed, held up a lone man and
robbed him of $15.15 cents on the Springfield road last night, but the Eugene
police pulled a coup when they stopped a gypsy band passing through Eugene a
few moments later and held a sixteen‑year‑old girl hostage until
her associates paid over $15.15.
They protected vigorously, denied the
theft, and declared that the money was paid to the officers as a ransom only to
get the captured members of their party.
The gypsies camped in the northwest part
of the city last night and were promptly ordered out of town today by the
officers. They left.
The band is said to be the same which has given trouble all along the
road. Some horses were stolen south of
Cottage Grove, but they were later turned loose. Roseburg authorities had trouble with them.
The five women approached Dr. J. F.
Heindon, a resident of West Springfield, shortly after five o'clock yesterday
as he was wheeling a baby carriage in the road.
He is nearly 60 years of age. The
women insisted that he allow them to tell his fortune, and when he refused
rifled his pockets. They did not take a
valuable gold watch that he
carried. The Springfield officers
accompanied Heindon to Eugene and with the assistance of the Eugene police officers, rounded up the
band. One of the girls was promptly
arrested and held until the money was returned.
She stated that the band was headed for Arizona. There were seven wagon loads of them, all
Russian gypsies.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 6‑5‑1915
COAST RANGE WARRIORS AT
MABEL, THREE SCALPS IN
The Coast Range team of Mabel defeated
Coburg Sunday by the score of 21 to 2, Mabel scoring 26 hits to their opponents
4. "We have a team composed of well known players who could make good over
most any team in the valley, and a bunch of hitters that can't be beat",
declared George Dingle, the manager who claims to be in a position to know
after handling the Portland "Orioles" during the 1913 season, winning
twelve out of fourteen games.
"We have so far this season defeated Wendling, Fairmont, and
Coburg, all by large scores. The Mabel
team has changed its lineup since last month and now is as follows:
Catcher, J. Cunningham
pitcher, Harry Preston
first base, Bill Hifner
second base, Mose Gambell
third base, "Pat"
Owen Cassidy
shortstop, Roy Preston
left field, George Dingle
center field, Edgar Dowdy
Right field, S. O. Gatke
subs, R. Earnest
Sam Preston,
B. Fox
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 6‑8‑1915
MARCOLA TALENT PLAY
A local talent play will be given by
workers and friends of the Christian Church of Marcola, at Dorena next Saturday
night and at some later date at Marcola and Mabel. The play "Miss Topsy
Turvy" or "The courtship of the deacon", is a comedy in three
acts, and promises to be a good one. The receipts will be used to help pay off
a church debt. Following is the cast of
Characters:
Nellie Clarendon, Belle
McMurry
May Golden, Bertha Goin
Mrs Clardon, Cora Hileman
Miss Spriggs, Grace Goin
Lord Clarence, Charles C.
Irish
Frank Golden, Bert Mitchell
Deacon Jones, Carlton
Volgamors
Ned Snowball, Ira Goin
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 6‑16‑1915
FIRST WHITE WOMAN MARRIED IN
LANE COUNTY IN 1850
Mrs. Nancy Griffith, aged 83 years, the
first white woman married in Lane county, of Dexter, will reach the sixty‑fifth
anniversary of her marriage to William Norris Griffith who died in 1901. She has more than fifty grand children and
great grandchildren most of whom live in Lane County where she has been a
resident since her marriage.
James M.
Griffith, the son was a business visitor to Eugene today. He states that his mother, who has lived with
him for twenty‑seven years, reads the Guard every day and that she has
been reading it an long as he can remember.
The marriage took place at Coburg, July
14, 1850.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 7‑8‑1915
MABEL FOURTH OF JULY
CELEBRATION
The fourth of July celebration was a
decided success, music by the Marcola band being a special feature.
The Rev. H. C. Preston delivered an address.
The prizes for the races and
sports were as follows;
Boys race, under 12 years,
Oliver Barr, first, $1;
Leonard Young, second 50 cents.
Girls race, under 12 years,
Dora Page, first $1 ;
Hazel Miller, second, 50
cents.
Boys race over 12 years,
Ancel Page, first, $2;
Curtis Blakely, second,
$1.
Girls race, over 12 years,
Ruth Jorgenson, first, $2;
Hattie Hanaley, second,
$1.
Ladies race, Miss Knapper,
first, $3;
Mrs. Arthur Sautorie, second,
$1.50.
Mens race, 100 yards, Ray
Earnest, first, $3;
Mr. Lansinger, second,
$1.50;,
Sack race, Ray Earnest,
first, $2;
Percy Hews, second, $1.
Three legged race, Arthur
Lucas and Perry Hewes, first, $3; R.
Earnest and Lansinger second, $2.
Pie eating contest, Jim
Parris, first, $1.50;
Sydney Martin, second, 75
cents.
Ball throwing, W. Preston,
first, $1.
Horse racing, Mr. Van Norten,
first, $l0;
Alfred Piquat, second
$5.
Log rolling, Morgan Workman,
first $5,
Greased pole, R. Pierce,
first, $5.
The ball game between Mabel and Fairmont,
was very exciting and resulted in a score of 4 to 2 in favor of Mabel which
team won the $25 prize.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 7‑12‑1915
COBURG GRANGE TO TAKE CENSUS
OF MILK COWS
A record of all the milk cows owned by
members of the Coburg Grange will be kept, according to a decision reached at
the regular meeting of the grange, Saturday.
A committee of five dairymen was appointed to see the plan carried
out. This
movement is part of a general
movement being organized throughout the county.
Miss Cowgill, of the Oregon Agricultural
college, gave a canning demonstration, and R. B. Coglon, Lane Co.
agriculturist, addressed the Grange.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 7‑19‑1915
MOONSHINERS PROPOSE SALE TO
DETECTIVES
The change from a wholesale to a retail
liquor business, and a desire for a partner in expansion is held by the
officers to be responsible for the arrest of James Williams and Mark Broom,
alleged "moonshiners", now in the Lane County jail.
For years the two are said to have
manufactured their product in the McKenzie River mountains and sold it by means
of middlemen in the lumber camps of Lane county, in Eugene, and to several smaller saloons about
the state. Federal officers have been
aware of the still on the McKenzie and several times have made, it is stated,
vain efforts to catch the operators.
A very extensive system is believed to
have warned them, and the place in the mountains is said to be very
inaccessible. The manufacture is
believed to have been more or less intermittent, depending upon the activities
of the officers. The officers do not
believe that they have been peddling whiskey themselves until recently.
DETECTIVES GOOD CUSTOMERS
Two detectives employed jointly by J. M.
Devers, district attorney, and J. C. Parker, sheriff, are said to have been
such good customers of the near‑famous McKenzie White Mule brand whiskey,
that partnership was talked, and in the course of the transaction the property
in question had to be visited, a
requisite to conviction by
the government.
This happened last May. Then the original proprietors smelled
trouble, and the sale was off. The
federal officers had two detectives on the river at the same time. They had been there as fishermen, but missed
the still by about twelve hours. One
night they heard the stealthy sound of men crossing the river at night. The next morning they came upon the furnace
where the elusive still had been operated.
ARRESTS
After this activity on the part of the
officers relaxed in order to allay suspicion, until last weeks events, were
climaxed Saturday night with the announcement of Sheriff Parker that the men
were in jail, and that the site of the still, hidden in a pocket of the
McKenzie, had been raided that afternoon.
Broom lives in Springfield, where he has a
family. Williams has no definite home.
Neither knew that they were charged with anything but the sale of liquor until
Saturday night. For five years
"moonshine" whiskey has found its way into Eugene, say the officers,
and furthermore they claim to have known that it was manufactured on the
McKenzie river and the identity of its manufacturers all the time. For five years these two men are said to have
so terrorized the neighborhood that no assistance has been available, and the
mountains are wild and rugged. Three
furnaces, where stills have been, have been found on the north side of the
river, and one on the south side.
SENSATIONAL CHASE GIVEN
Broom was arrested early in the morning
hours before
daylight after a sensational
twenty‑mile chase in which Sheriff Parker in a motor car overtook him
before he reached safety in the mountains.
He was heavily armed, but submitted to arrest without resistance. In the vehicle was a five gallon keg of
Moonshine whiskey, it is stated.
"We can tell it is moonshine whiskey
because there is none other like it", said Mr. Parker. The officers say it has been sold as
"White Mule" whiskey, because of its kick. Broom was arrested early Wednesday morning
and Williams was arrested Thursday afternoon.
Neither knew the other was arrested until late this afternoon; nor did
the public at large, until after the raiding of the still today.
"We know they were doing it all the
times said Mr. Parker. The people on the
McKenzie have been terrorized. They know
where the liquor was coming from; they feared to tell. The still was not in a cabin, It was in a
little cave, deep in the brush, near the creek.
The furnace was made out of rocks and dirt, and was the same as the
other furnaces that have been found in different parts of these mountains, but
the still was always gone. "I know
of 75 gallons made on this still last month.
We have two confessions, and have the complete goods on them."
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 8‑14‑1915
MOHAWK BRIDGE
County Commissioner Harlow and County
Engineer Libby
yesterday afternoon made an
examination of the lower bridge of the Mohawk with a view to making plans for a
new structure. The timbers in the old bridge have rotted to the extent that it
will no longer withstand heavy traffic and the commissioners believe it is
becoming dangerous. Thursday, Commissioner Harlow refused to permit a thresher
to cross and made arrangements to have the ford put into condition for
temporary use. The bridge is a span of
about 80 feet.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 8‑20‑1915
COBURG CHILD SWALLOWS IRON
RING
Dale Thomas, four‑year‑old son
of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Thomas, of
Coburg, swallowed an iron washer, about the size of a quarter, which lodged in
his throat, Monday. The little fellow coughed violently and his parents tried
in vain to remove the obstruction. He
was brought to Eugene and operated upon in the Northwest Eye and Ear
hospital. He died at 1:20 o'clock this
morning. The body was sent to Walla
Walla, Washington, for burial.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 8‑20‑1915
FIRST ODD FELLOWS LODGE IN
LANE COUNTY IN EUGENE
The beginning of Odd Fellowship in Lane
County, like many other Lane County things was in Eugene. The official title of the Eugene lodge is
Spencer Butte Lodge No. 9 ‑ This number indicates that it is the ninth
oldest lodge in the state. It was
instituted July 21st 1860, with James Monroe, Enoch Smith, Garrett Bogart,
Isaac Swearington and James Phillips as charter members. It has had its days of shadow as well as
sunshine but on the whole it has shown a
good determination to keep abreast of things in Eugene.
It is said that it was part owner in the
first two story commercial building in the city, that then it grew up to two
stories, then it went to three, and then climbed to five; That it installed the
first passenger elevator used in the city.
It has maintained one of the two main cemeteries used by the
community. The oldest Odd Fellow in
Lane County is the Honorable B. F. Dorris, who has been a member for 64 years.
The Independent order of Odd Fellows
consist of 25 lodges in Lane County, of these 15 are known as subordinate
lodges and are for men only. Ten are
known as Rebekah lodges and are for men and women. The management of the latter however are
almost exclusively in the hands of the
women members. Some of the lodges and
membership are as follows; Eugene, 320;
Springfield, 130; Coburg, 111; Walterville, 54; Marcola, 81; Creswell, 53, all
subordinate lodges.
Rebekah Lodges and membership is as
follows: Eugene, 260; Springfield, 120;
Coburg, 71, Marcola, 49; Walterville, 19.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 4‑24‑1915
A house belonging to Ben King and occupied
by his family, on the Mohawk, was totally destroyed by fire last night about
midnight. King who is alleged to have
made a sensational escape from a posse last week after thirty shots had been
fired at him, is a prisoner in the county jail, awaiting the October grand
jury. He is charged with the theft of
grain sacks. Deputy Sheriff Thomas
Bailey left for the Mohawk this afternoon for the purpose of making an
investigation and bringing King's family, reported to be in distress, to
Eugene.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 8‑30‑1915
WENDLING
The Booth Kelly Lumber Company announced that
its Wendling mill will resume operations Monday, September 6, employing 125 man
in the mill and seventy‑five in the timber. The mill has been closed
since July 20 for repairs. The Wendling mill has been generally overhauled and
put into first class shape, A. C. Dixon, manager of the Booth Kelly Co., stated
today. "Since we closed down a force of sixty man has been at work making
repairs. We have built a new dam and
installed new saw husks, a new carriage, new trusses over the boilers, and
concrete foundations."
"We will start with a force of but
seventy‑five men in the woods, cutting only for the Wendling mill. We will not ship to Springfield from this
point, as the Springfield mill is being supplied from Coburg." The Springfield mill is at present working
one ten‑hour shift a
day.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 9‑15‑1915
ALBERT WALKER, FIRST MAYOR OF
SPRINGFIELD, DIES
Albert Shield Walker, first mayor of
Springfield upon its incorporation in 1885, and prominent in the civic and
social life of Springfield, died at his home here yesterday morning after an
illness of a year. He was 69 years of
age and had lived in Lane co. 62 years.
In 1868 he married Miss Sarah Higgins of Salem, who survives him. There are also eight children, Herbert E., W.
F., Ralph, Joy, Mrs. O. C. Woolf, of Albany, Mrs. H. F. Parsons, Jessie and
Grace, of Springfield. Mr. Walker was a
charter member of the Springfield Methodist Church, the Springfield lodge of
Odd Follows and Eugene lodge of Woodman of The World.
Interment will be made in
Laurel Grove cemetery.
Mr. Walker was born in southwestern
Missouri January 1, 1846, and when he was six years of age his people started
for Oregon by the overland trail. Returning immigrants, with tales of cholera
on the way, deterred the party, they returned to their home for the winter, but
in April, 1853, they again started for Oregon, and arrived in Lane county in
October of the same year. His parents William and Mary Shields Walker, took up
a donation land claim eight miles south of the present site of Springfield.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 10‑4‑1915
MARCOLA NEWS
The home of David Hill at Fisher's mill
near here, caught fire from an oil stove Thursday morning and was completely
destroyed. Mr. Hill's invalid mother was
carried from the burning building none too soon.
Marcola citizens were aroused from slumber
Wednesday night by a chivari given for Mr. and Mrs. Charles Irish, bride and groom who had just
moved into their new home.
Ora Wilson, Alberta Mathews and Mary Been
Wright, all Marcola teachers, took a weekend hike to Leaburg, on the McKenzie
last week. They went up the mountains on
the log tram from Wendling, then followed a seven‑mile trail through the
forest. They returned Sunday by motor
car and train.
Dr. Williams, who had been planning to
return home in England, has postponed his departure Indefinitely.
SPRINGFIELD NEWS 10‑6‑1915
Arthur Ham, who was quite seriously
injured at the Booth Kelly mill two weeks ago, both legs being almost broken,
returned from the Eugene hospital yesterday for a short time.
He is still very weak, but is able to walk
without
crutches.
COBURG PEOPLE COME TO
SPRINGFIELD
Recently a number of families have moved
from Coburg to Springfield, and as a consequence some of the vacant houses
about the city are being taken. The
majority of those coming in are employees of the Booth Kelly mill. When the mill at Coburg was closed down the
men were thrown out of employment but found work here.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 10‑20‑1915
FRANK SPORES ADMITS GUILT,
GRANTED PAROLE
Frank Spores, jointly indicted with Ben D.
King for the theft of 150 grain sacks from a neighbors barn on the Mohawk, this
afternoon entered a plea of guilty, and threw himself upon the mercy of the
court.
Judge Skipworth placed him on parole with
the understanding that he should report to the sheriff at least once every two
months. Judge Skipworth sentenced Spores to serve from two to five years in the
state penitentiary. Attorney L. Bilyeu
representing Spores asked
that he be paroled. District Attorney
Devers did not oppose such action. He
said that since the other defendant had been paroled and that Spores was in
much the same position as the father of a large family, including small
children, he would not oppose
parole if the court saw fit to grant It. Judge Skipworth informed the defendant
that any
violation of any city or
state law, no matter of what importance, would constitute a violation of his
parole and that he would be taken to the penitentiary without further hearing.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 10‑25‑1915
MARCOLA NEWS
A valuable cow belonging to Joel McCornack
was struck by the train coming down from
Mabel Thursday morning and killed.
One car was thrown off the track and traffic held up for a short time.
Apparently unable to wait until Halloween
a crowd of Marcola boys have been making things lively for the citizens here
for several nights past, by tictacking windows, wiring doors shut, and making
sleep generally impossible. Several
victims have declared that they will load guns with salt in preparation for the
next onslaught.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 11‑13‑1915
Report reached here today of the narrow escape
of Oscar Drury of Big Fall Creek, had from being killed by a bear while hunting
near Big Fall Creek bridge recently.
Mr.
Drury had
succeeded in treeing a bear,
in the spirit of sportsmanship, he allowed the wounded bear to get out of the
tree. As the bear reached the ground Mr.
Druy's dogs attacked the bear, but they were badly bitten. When the bear saw he had the dogs
sufficiently whipped, he
started off. Mr. Drury took off after
him.
The bear wheeled on Mr. Drury. He drew his gun, but found it empty. The bear seized Mr. Drury's leg, but
fortunately Mr. Drury had on high boots
and the bear was able to do little damage. Mr. Drury then took the stock of his
gun and started hitting the bear on the nose trying to break his grip. He was unsuccessful. At the time things looked most serious for
Mr. Drury, a companion arrived on the scene and killed the bear.
THE
Fire about
THE
W. A. Redmon Perhaps Fatally
Injured At B. K. Mill
W. A. Redmon was perhaps fatally injured
at the Booth Kelly sawmill in
Redmon and A. C. Travis were unloading
lumber at the mill to a timber slip. The
pile on which they were working is said to contain about 12,000 feet of lumber. The timber was wet. On the incline from the mill to the slip, the
lumber started to slide and pinned both Travis and Redmon between it and the
truck which they were loading.
Travis escaped with but slight
injuries. Redmon's nose was broken, his
cheek bone crushed, his skull cut and internal injuries are feared. He was brought to the
THE
NEWS OF BOOTH KELLY
A large force of men are excavating for
the foundation of the new refuse burner which is being erected by the Booth Kelly
Company. It will be one of the largest
on the Pacific coast when finished. The
shell of the burner will be cone shaped, seventy feet in diameter at the bottom
and twenty feet at the top and eighty‑four feet high. It will be completed about January 1. George Magill, an employee of the Booth
Kelly mill, while working in the slab department about nine o'clock this
morning, was struck on the head by a slab which flew from a machine, cutting
his ear severely. He went to the company
physician and had the wound dressed. It
is not of a serious nature.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 12‑8‑1915
OLD ARMITAGE PLACE IS FIRST
ELECTRIC
The first of a series of
"electric" farms to be established by the Oregon Power Company, has
been started by A. S. Moerly, manager for H. W. Bond, of Boise Idaho, on the
old Armitage, or Jack Rodman, ranch between Coburg and Eugene.
Two motors have already been
installed. The larger one, a five‑horse
power motor, will be used to grind the feed, to cut enslage to fill the silos
and to saw all the wood used around the ranch.
The smaller motor, which is one‑half horse power, will be used to
run the power milker, churn, vacuum cattle cleaner, power clipper and all other
similar farm appliances. Further uses for which the motors will be put to are,
the operating of a 1000 pound milk separator and pasteurizer, the pumping of
all water used about the ranch and for household purposes. All the ranch buildings will be electrically
lighted and current will be available for electric cooking, ironing and other
domestic purposes.
MARCOLA
Notice was received in Eugene today that
the United States general land office, in Washington, D. C., has affirmed the
decision of the registrar and receiver in the case of Mary Cole vs. William D. Monjay. This case involved part of the townsite of
Marcola and was originally started by Mary Cole to protect property which she
had sold. The case was appealed and today the United States land office affirms
the claim of Mary Cole. Monjay was
represented in the case by the firm Swafford and McGinnis. S. D. Allen and E.
O. Potter were attorneys for Mary Cole.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 12‑18‑1915
HAYDEN BRIDGE NEWS
Mrs Emmit Boggs' horse got beyond her control
Friday, running over a mile before anything serious happened. As they were passing the barn of L. T. Spores
the horse turned and darted into the barn before anyone could stop him. The men at the barn heard Mrs. Boggs calling
for help and had gone into the road to do what they could.
Little Mildred Spores who was standing in
the open barn door was knocked unconscious for a few moments. She was bruised quite badly but not
seriously. Mr. Cowden drove the
frightened horse home for Mrs. Boggs.
John
Spores has rented his farm to Francis Dowdy, and is moving to Eugene.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 12‑20‑1915
Marcola News
Claude Downing of Marcola, and Frank
McQueen, a homesteader in the hills above mabel, while hunting near Mabel
Friday, surprised a big cougar eating a four point buck it had just
killed. The dogs chased the big cat up a
tree, where the men shot it. It measured eight feet from nose to tail tip.
Mark, the youngest son of Mr. and Mrs.
John Volgamore, was thrown from a wagon Wednesday afternoon when the team he
was driving got beyond his control and ran away. He sustained a sprain that
will keep him indoors for some time.
The body of Mr. Redding, an aged man who
was formerly a resident here, and who died in the Springfield hospital
Saturday, was brought here for burial Monday morning.
F. F. Maple was confined to his home
Wednesday and Thursday with an attack of la grippe, Miss Hazel Whitmore took
charge of Mr. Maple's store and the post office during his absence.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 12‑24‑1915
Edward Bradley Killed In
Accident
Edward Bradley died at the Eugene hospital
at 3:30 this afternoon, as a result of injuries sustained this morning, while
at work at the Booth Kelly mill, at Springfield.
Bradley who is survived by a wife and two
children, has been working for the company for about two weeks. He was working today about the grounds of the
plant when a block of wood fell from a conveyor, striking him on the head.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 12‑29‑1915
SPRINGFIELD NEWS
The large wire cable which draws the log
carriage at the Booth Kelly mill, broke yesterday and the men were laid off at
5 o'clock. The cable was repaired during
the night by Mr. Wootten, the company's bely expert. The mill resumed operations this morning.
BLAST KILLS BIRD DOG 12‑31‑1915
Marvin Drury, who lives on a farm near
Walterville, reports the loss of a bird dog on Tuesday, while blasting
stumps. Mr. Drury set a blast in a large
stump and lit the fuse. He ran a safe
distance away and upon looking back saw his bird dog sitting peacefully on top
of the stump. He tried whistling and
every known means of coaxing him away, but all in vain. The dog was unmovable and in a few minutes
was soaring in mid air. The dog was picked up a few minutes later in
sections.
The concrete piers on the south side of
the new timber crane at the Booth Kelly mill were finished Wednesday and will
be allowed to set for about ton days before the superstructure is put into place.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 1‑1‑1916
Springfield News
Bart McKibben, of Wendling, was taken to
the Eugene
hospital Wednesday to receive
treatment for an injured foot. The
injury was caused a few days ago while he was working with machinery at the
mill.
Ivan Yancy, machinist for the Booth Kelly
Company at
Wendling, is in Springfield
doing some repair work at the
company's plant.
The Eugene Daily Guard 1‑10‑1916
MABEL MILLWRIGHT HERE
(Springfield News)
J. B. Campbell, head millwright at the
Coast Range Lumber Company of Mabel, spent the week‑end here with his
family. Mr. Campbell states the mill and
the camps will be shut down for about
two weeks to make extensive repairs. A large
force of men will start to work at once building about two miles of railroad
into new territory, and the mill will be given a general
overhauling. Business is
picking up with the company as they are overstocked with orders at this time.
CLEANING OUT SPRINGFIELD POND
A crew of about forty men worked all day
Sunday clearing bark and drift wood from the Booth Kelly mill pond. It was necessary to let the water out of the
pond as some of the water soaked bark had sunk to the bottom.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 1‑15‑1916
BOOTH KELLY
The Booth Kelly mill was closed last night
for an indefinite time because of log shortage caused by the heavy snow at the
camps above Wendling. It is reported
that the snow is about four feet deep at Camp No. 10, which is about seven and
one‑half miles above Wendling. The
mill will be given a general overhauling and some improvements will be made
during the shut down. The
Wendling mill was closed
several days ago and a large force of men is at work doing general
repairing. Officials of the company
state that they have plenty of standing orders.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 1‑20‑1916
SAMUEL TAYLOR OF COBURG DEAD
Samuel Taylor, aged 70 years, a resident
of Lane Co. for the last 32 years, died at his home in Coburg yesterday, after
an illness of but two days. Mr. Taylor was born in Iowa in 1846. He spent his early life in the East, coming
to Portland in 1880. Soon after his
arrival in Portland, he opened a grocery business, which he continued until
1884. At that time he moved to Coburg and
has been a resident of Lane county ever since, having been engaged in farming
the majority of the time.
In 1902, Mr. Taylor and family moved to
Eugene, living at eleventh and Lawrence street.
Three years ago, he moved back to Coburg,
where he has resided continuously.
Mr. Taylor was a member of the local J. W.
Geary post, G. A. R. He is said to have attended every meeting of the G. A. R.
held in Oregon since 1880. Mr. Taylor is
survived by his wife and two sons, Homer Taylor and Harry Taylor, all of
Coburg.
The funeral services will be held at the
family residence at Coburg, Friday afternoon, at 1 p. m. Interment will be made
in the I. O. O. F. cemetery at Coburg.
EUGENE DAILY GUARD 1‑22‑1916
OLD HOG BLOWS UP (Springfield
news)
What might have proved a serious accident
to the working men at the Oregon Power Co. plant yesterday just a few minutes
before the noon hour, resulted only in a bad scare to those working near the
old "hog", which had been pressed into service since the mill closed
down. The "hog" had not been
used for more than a year past, and is maintained only for emergency purposes
to grind the slabs into chips and furnish fuel for the lighting plant when the
mill is not in operation. In feeding the
large slabs into the "hog', which is of the old rotary cast iron type, it
became clogged in some manner and without any warning its weakened condition
from long service, gave way and the mammoth rotary contrivance seemed to break
into a thousand pieces. Bits of broken
castings, bolts and knife blades were hurled through the roof of the old
building in every conceivable direction.
Only by a miracle no one came in contact with the flying plunder and no
serious damage was done further than putting the "hog" out of commission
for all time to come and frightening the workmen to almost insensibility.
The accident will in no way interfere with
the operation of the Oregon Power Company's plant.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 1‑22‑1916
MARCOLA NEWS
A wendling logger here Tuesday reported
snow six feet deep at Camp 2 in the mountains, and the man coming down on
snowshoes for provisions. The log train
has made several futile attempts to reach the snowbound camps.
The body of Francis Frost, an aged former
resident, was brought here from Eugene Thursday for interment in the Marcola
cemetery.
M. J. Arnal has sold his house and lot on
main street to L. M. Duguid. Walter Trotter met with an odd accident in a
snowballing frolic with his
wife Monday. In a struggle to wash Mrs. Trotter's face with snow, he was struck
so hard by her elbow as to break one of his ribs. The Bally logging camp near
Fischers mill is to be reopened Monday after having been abandoned for several
years.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 1‑24‑1916
SPRINGFIELD NEWS
Tom Billings, head faller at the Booth
Kelly camp above Wendling, spent last week with his family here. Mr. Billings a short time ago cut the tops
from several trees about 120 feet above the ground. The trees are used to support a sky line for
hoisting logs. Mr. Billings states he
stood on a spring board two inches thick and six inches wide while sawing the
trees.
MARCOLA LUMBER
E. C. Martin, employee of the Fischer
Lumber Company, at Marcola, spent the week‑end with Springfield friends
and looking after his property interests.
He says mill operations are closed down, owing to the heavy snow, nearly
two weeks ago, but the planer has only been idle for ten days. As the snow is fast disappearing he thinks it
will be possible to resume operations by the middle of the week.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 2‑7‑1916
COBURG BURNS
BURNED
APPEAL FOR AID SENT TO EUGENE
Department in City Fails To Respond After
Receiving Report That Road, Owing To Flood Conditions, Was Impassable. A. C. Dixon, Manager Of Lumber Company, And
Residents Of Eugene, Owning Property In Town, Make Hurried Trips In Motors,
Fording Water On Way to Scene ‑
ESTIMATED LOSS
Dr. M. E. Jarnegan, drug
store building and stock $4,400.00 Vogt Bros. Confectionery
store....................$2,200.00 Building occupied by Vogt
Bros....................$1,200.00 Cook and Rice Hardware
stock......................$4,200.00 Building occupied by Cook and
Rice................$2,000.00 Postoffice building owned by M. J
Skinner.........$1,000.00 United States Government, postoffice
supplies........$15.00 Pacific States Telephone and Telegraph
Co............$50.00 Telephone building owned by Lock and
Washburne......$500.00 E. L. Tonnesen Feed store, including
buildings....$1,500.00 Hotel building, damaged, Mrs. Fred
Higgenbothem.....$500.00
.Total $ 17,565.00
Practically the entire business section of
Coburg, seven miles northeast of Eugene was completely destroyed by fire early
yesterday morning. The loss is estimated
at about $17,565.00 with $9,000 insurance.
Booth Kelly Lumber company's mill which is located directly across the
street from the burning
section, was not damaged by
the fire, the fire having been confined to the original block in which it
started.
The origin of the fire is problematical,
but according to Edward Crandall, night watchman for the Booth Kelly Company ,
the man who first discovered the blaze, the fire started from a defective flue
in the rear of the Vogt Brothers pool room and confectionery store. Crandall says at 5:30 a. m. he was on the
main street and there was no smoke.
Fifteen minutes later, he says he saw
smoke coming from the rear of the Vogt's pool hall.
CRANDALL GIVES ALARM
"I immediately ran three blocks
distant." said Crandall, " and started the town pumps, gave a general
fire alarm and
telephoned the Eugene fire
department." By this time the blaze had assumed such gigantic proportions
that nearly all the
residents of the town were in
the streets and assisting the volunteer fire department.
A fire tower, used to drain the hose
became a menace to the city. It was
thought the tower would carry the flames to other buildings. When the townspeople realized the danger, a
crew of men was put to work to chop the tower down. It was dragged to the middle of the street
and out of the path of the flames. A
drenching rainstorm, and the absence of wind, saved the entire town, including
the Booth Kelly mill, from being
completely destroyed. The water pressure was not great enough to
throw water on the burning buildings. A
bucket brigade was formed by the citizens and water was taken from the hose at
the curbing to fill the buckets.
Manager A. C. Dixon, of the Booth Kelly
Lumber Co., and people owning property in Coburg, were notified early yesterday
of the impending danger to the entire community. Many made hurried trips in
motor cars to the town over roads flooded with water. In many places the motor cars were compelled
to ford through pools of water. It was owing to the condition of the roads that
mayor W. A. Bell and Councilman B. F. Goodpasture, of the fire and water
committee, decided not to send the Eugene fire fighting apparatus to Coburg to
assist in extinguishing the blaze. The
only truck which could have been used was the large Knott fire engine. The excessive weight of this machine made it
prohibitive to attempt a trip to Coburg, it was stated.
DR. JARNEGAN'S LOSS GREATEST
Dr. M. E. Jarnegan, owner of the drug
store stocks fixtures and building, was the largest individual loser
yesterday. Dr. Jarnegan estimated his
loss to be $4400, none of which was covered by insurance. A file of prescriptions was saved. In speaking of his loss, yesterday morning,
while portions of the buildings were still smoldering.
Dr Jarnegan said he did not feel so bad.
"Things have been happening since the time of Adam," he said.
Cook and Rice, hardware dealers, were the
next largest losers in the early morning blaze.
Mr. Rice said the firm's loss would reach $4200. Some of the stock was saved by carrying it to
another building, but the blaze was so rapid in its destruction that only a
comparative small amount of stock on hand was saved. Edward Vogt, one of the proprietors of
Vogt Brothers, said his loss would amount to $2200. Included in this are the pool and billiard
tables, stock and fixtures. Vogt Brothers building was owned by Mrs. Lucy
Sodders, of Minnesota. The loss is
estimated to be about $1200. It was
insured for $800. The Vogt Brothers
stock was insured for $1500.
The building which Cook and Rice occupied
was owned by N. J. Nelson and the loss is estimated to be about $2000. This is partially covered by insurance.
S. L. Tonneson feed store, building and
stock, sustained a loss of $1500. Mr.
Tonneson said he carried $1500 insurance on his stock and fixtures.
M. J. Skinner, owner of the building
occupied by the
postoffice says he valued his
property at $1000. Partial
insurance was carried. The loss of the United States Government was
small, due to the quick work of Miss Vera Powers, acting postmistress, all of
the registered mail, stamps, money order blanks and cash, was removed to a
building across the street. Miss
Powers estimated the governments loss not to exceed $5. Most of the loss was
for report blanks and other
miscellaneous supplies
connected with the postoffice. Miss Powers enlisted the aid of Abe Coke and
other Coburg residents in removing the mail to places out of danger.
The Pacific States Telephone and Telegraph
company's loss was $50. The telephone
building was owned by Look and Vashburne and the loss on this structure is
$500. It was insured. A switchboard
valued at $600, belonging to the telephone company, was saved.
The hotel owned by Mrs. Fred Higginbotham,
and leased by L. B. Lock, was damaged to $500. Some of the damage was to the
furniture, but the majority was for the building. Slight damage was done to the
Oregon Power Company's electric lines at Coburg, but superintendent Burke said
today the company would not be able to determine the extent of the loss until
further
investigation has been made.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 2‑9‑1916
Springfield News Items
ROADS TO COBURG IN BAD SHAPE
Dale Mummey, local manager of the Oregon
Power Company and R. Jenkins went to Coburg on business yesterday. They started with a rig and experienced much
difficulty in an effort to reach the McKenzie bridge. From the Armitage place to the bridge there
were a half dozen flooded places in the road which were nearly deep enough to
swim the horse and at the bridge the water was so deep it was necessary for
them to turn back, leaving the horse at the Armitage farm. They walked the railroad trestle in to
Coburg.
The volunteer firemen at Coburg are
erecting a new bell tower in the south end of town. They started to work on the
structure yesterday. When the work is completed the town will be provided with
two fire bells which will be convenient in the event of a fire at night, after
the closing hour of the telephone exchange at 9 o'clock.
STEAM FEED BROKEN AT
SPRINGFIELD
At three o'clock yesterday afternoon a
large drum on the steam feed at the Booth‑Kelly mill broke. The company sent an order this morning to an
iron works in Everett Washington, for a new casting which is expected to arrive
here Friday night. The mill will
probably resume operations Saturday morning.
CLEARING AWAY DEBRIS
A number of Coburg citizens were busy yesterday
clearing away the debris from the street at the scene of the fire Sunday
morning
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 2‑10‑1916
B. K.
The Booth Kelly lumber camps, at Wendling,
will open Monday and the mill will resume work Tuesday or Wednesday, according
to A. C. Dixon, manager of the company.
The mill and camps have been closed during
the last month on account of the heavy
snows. Practically all the snow has
disappeared, but in some
places still measures over a foot deep. A 50 foot trestle on the Booth Kelly
logging railroad, recently washed away by the high waters, has been repaired
and trains will be able to reach the camp.
Several slides will have to be cleared.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 2‑18‑1916
MARCOLA NEWS
It is rumored that a new sawmill is soon
to be built in Marcola, to get its material from Camp 2.
The shipping crew of the mill here were
laid off Wednesday on account of a lack of cars. The shortage, it in said, is due to the fact
that thousands of cars all over the country are being used to carry war
supplies to the ports.
Work has begun in the Booth Kelly mill at
Wendling Wednesday after a six weeks lay‑off on account of snow in the
mountains. At Mabel a railroad is being
constructed back into the hills and the opening of the mill is postponed til
some time next month. William
Chapman is moving his family into Clay Sheldon's home in the north end of town. Miss Pauline Duguid has been out of school on
account of an attack of tonsillitis.
M. A. Arnel brought over twenty‑three
head of beef cattle from Camp Creek Wednesday.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 3‑4‑1916
SPRINGFIELD
The Wendling and Springfield Mills of the
Booth Kelly Company ceased operations last night because of the snow
storm. The mills will not reopen until
the snow has disappeared or the working conditions permit, according to L. L.
Lewis, general manager of the company.
The company camps at Wendling have been
closed since
Wednesday. Hyland'e camp on the Willamette, Nettle's on
the Mohawk, and Fischer's at Marcola, have also been shut down. Mr. Lewis said
today that there was a foot and a half of snow at the mill at Wendling, and
practically six feet at the camps.
Orders that have been placed with Booth
Kelly may be
cancelled because the company
cannot deliver the lumber, said Mr. Lewis. The Springfield mill will start as
soon as the weather conditions will allow but the Wendling mill will be unable
to start until the camps are reopened as there are no reserve logs. A shipment of logs, recently purchased from
Siuslaw district for the Springfield mill, was expected to be delivered Monday,
but the present conditions make the delivery uncertain.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 3‑9‑1916
Springfield News
COUGAR SHOT
W. L. McFarland was called over the phone
Tuesday afternoon by people residing near Hendricks park and was told that
cougar tracks had been seen near the park that morning. Mr. McFarland went at
once to that vicinity and after hunting for several hours, located his game
about one mile south of the Laurel Hill cemetery. His attention was attracted
by the strange actions of his dog and upon investigation saw the cougar
crouching in a small clump of rose brush near the edge of the timber. Mr. McFarland shot the animal and he said
that it gave one jump and disappeared in the timber. He traced the blood stains
to a thicket of underbrush in the timber and there lost the track. Mr. McFarland and R. Jenkins resumed the
hunt today.
HAYDEN BRIDGE
The recent heavy snowfall caused several
barns to collapse in this vicinity. One on Camp Creek about two miles from
Hayden Bridge collapsed, killing two cows.
D. T. Spores shipped another car of wood
to Eugene today, this making the fourth car this winter.
EUGENE DAILY GUARD 3‑14‑1916
WALTER SPORES OF COBURG, DIES
IN PORTLAND
The remains of the late Walter Spores,
aged 38 years, arrived in Eugene this afternoon at 5 o'clock, from Portland,
where Mr. Spores died yesterday following an attack of heart failure.
Mr. Spores had been a resident of Lane
county for many years, having resided on his farm near Coburg until about two
years ago. He is survived by one sister,
Mrs. Ethyl Albro, of Eugene; four brothers, Melvin Spores, of Washington;
Carson Spores, of Coburg; Edgar Spores of Harrisburg; and Elmer Spores of
Eugene. The funeral services will be held from the Gordon and Veatch chapel
tomorrow afternoon at 1 o'clock. Interment
will be held in the Gillespie cemetery near Eugene.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 3‑16‑1916
How would you like to have a position in
the county court house of inspecting all the bobcats which are brought into the
office and perforate holes in the ears of the skins to show that the bounty had
been paid? Suppose you had this position, and a man brought in a live bobcat,
and asked you to pay the bounty on the animal and before you could pay a bounty
legally, it was necessary that you perforate two holes in each of the animal's
ears.
Would you do just like Claude Lee, deputy
county clerk, did this morning? He suggested that the animal be sold to the
city park. He did not want to pay the
bounty. Lee Land, of Vida, came into the county clark's office this morning
with a bob cat and a porcupine, and both were alive. He said the porcupine had been caught by his
dog, while the bobcat he said had been trapped. "The bobcat was caught in a
trap", explained Mr. Land. When I
went to the trap I found him practically uninjured. I tied his legs and then took my coat off and
placed it over his head and mouth, so he could not bite. I carried him this way until I got a sack,
into which I placed him, and later
transferred him to this
box.
Mr. L. decided to place the animal at the
Home restaurant, at the corner of Ninth avenue and Oak street. He will endeavor to sell the animals to the
city.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 3‑18‑1916
BOBCAT ON EXHIBITION
The
bobcat which was brought in a few days ago by Lee Land is on exhibition at the
Beaver and Herndon hardware store for a few days.
Marcola News
Fritz Fischer and Lee Schroeder have
bought new Overland automobiles in Eugene.
A. J. Price and son Walter, will go to
Eugene Friday to bring up a new Maxwell, which the former has just purchased.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 3‑25‑1916
COBURG STUDENTS TO
In order to raise sufficient funds for the
building of a play shed, the students of the grade and high schools at Coburg,
will cultivate five acres for the growing of potatoes, according to professor
Alfred Skei, principal of the Coburg high school. Mr. Skei, who is in Eugene today, said
that no financial support has been given by the parents or the school board and
that the boys are determined to have a play shed. It in estimated that the shed
will cost $150 or $200.
The plan of the students is to cultivate
the land in the afternoon after school and on Saturdays and be prepared to have
the play shed constructed next fall.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 3‑31‑1916
MARCOLA WOMAN WHIPS AGED
A promise that she would get a new dress
is said to be the reason which prompted Mrs. George Walker, of Marcola, to
attack Henry Royer, aged 70 years, with a horse whip yesterday
afternoon, at Marcola. As a result, Royer is in Eugene today and
says a warrant will be issued charging Mrs. Walker with assault and battery.
It is said the trouble started when Royer
recently accused Mrs. Walker of taking some chains from his livery stable. It is said Royer, when he would meet Mrs.
Walker on the street would say "Hello Buck Chains" This situation
began to prey on Mrs. Walker's mind.
Yesterday she was in the humor for thrashing Royer when two transients
in town told her they would buy her a new dress if she would horse whip Royer.
She accosted Royer near the station at
Marcola and it is alleged she whipped him until she drew blood. Royer managed eventually to take the whip
from her. Then bystanders state she took
a club and continued her assault.
Mrs. Walker in said to be exceptionally
strong for a woman, as she has been driving a wood wagon all winter.
No complaint was issued up to a late hour
this afternoon as prosecuting Attorney J. M. Devers was in Cottage Grove on
business.
Today, the men who offered to buy Mrs.
Walker the dress, are said to have failed to fulfill their promise.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 4‑3‑1916
ACCIDENT AT PARSON GREEK
BRIDGE
What might have been a very serious
accident occurred Friday noon at the Parson Greek bridge near here when A. J.
Price, driving the new automobile he purchased last week, broke through the
railing and went into the water, a fall of about eight feet. In the car besides Mr. Price, were his
wife, his son, Alvin and little granddaughter. The car was considerably damaged
but fortunately the occupants were unhurt.
The river is several feet deep at the scene of the accident. Walter Price, assisted by Warren Price, came
to the rescue and with his little Maxwell, towed out the big new Maxwell.
OTHER SPRINGFIELD
Floyd Bartlett of this city sold a live
bobcat to the Washington park board at Portland a few days ago. The cat was caught during the winter by Lee
Land of Vida.
Henry Royer went to Eugene Friday to
consult Prosecuting Attorney Devers regarding the assault committed upon him
Thursday. The five members of
the Dial family who are suffering from typhoid fever, are reported to be slowly
recovering.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 4‑5‑1916
D. A. Holland Injured At
Wendling
D. A. Holland of B street Springfield, was
painfully injured Saturday morning. He was employed at Wendling driving a dock
horse and while moving a heavy load of 6x6 timbers, the right wheel of his
truck broke through the dock and about two‑thirds of the load fell off
the truck upon Mr. Holland, breaking him down in the back and bruising his
right leg about the knee quite badly.
This is the second misfortune for Mr. Holland since the middle of
February. While working at the same
place Feb. 22 he received a severe sprain in his hips which laid him up for
over a month. It is impossible to tell
the extent of his present injury. He is
at home in Springfield at present.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 4‑5‑1916
BOOTH KELLY SLIDE BEING
SLUICED AWAY
Ten thousand yards of clayey hillside is
being moved by the Booth Kelly Lumber Co. to relieve the pressure on one of the
storage buildings from a landslide at the south side of its Springfield
mill. The slide is being sluiced away
and deposited on a fill in the lumber yard, fire hoses and sluiceway giving the
appearance of placer mining. The hill first began to slip and give trouble in
December by causing the ground to bulge
up under the storage building and so twist it out of shape. The damage was inconsequential, but there
were possibilities of the hill moving in and the mill being forced to move out,
so that early in February, men under the direction of E. E. Martin, a graduate of the University of Oregon in
1913, began to move the slide. A centrifugal "By wash" pump runs 1000
gallons per minute along the foot of the slide, and into this stream the slide
is washed by three fire hoses squirting 600 gallons of water at 110 pounds
pressure. The mud is run through a
sluice box to a fill about a hundred yards away, where a workman keeps the
deposit leveled.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 4‑15‑1916
JAMES L. TOLLMAN DIES AT
YARNELL
James Lane Tollman, a resident of the
Mohawk district for the past twenty‑eight years, died at his home at
Yarnell this morning at 5 o'clock following an illness of several weeks. He leaves a wife and four children, Miss Mary
J. Tollman, Mrs. Charles Hayden, Mrs. J. Shannon and Ustel Tollman. Funeral service will be held at 10:30 Sunday
morning. Interment will be made in the Bexter cemetery.
Mr. Tollwan was a member of the Christian
church for
thirty‑one years. He was born in Indiana, October 11,
1855. At the age of six months his
parents moved to Illinois where he lived until he was 21 years of age. He then went to Kansas, where he lived until
1888, when he came to the Mohawk. He was
a farmer all his life.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 4‑21‑1916
MARCOLA NEWS
The body of J. L. Tallman was brought here
from Donna Sunday afternoon and interred in the Baxter cemetery. A large crowd attended. Rev. Norman Workman
conducted the funeral
services
at Donna.
Mr. and Mrs. Merle Cobb got a bad scare
late Saturday night, when the entire front porch of their store was
knocked down by a drunken man's lurching
into it. A horse hitched to the porch barely escaped injury in the crash. Edward Hamlin is building a new porch for the
store.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 5‑3‑1916
MARCOLA NEWS
William H. Beardon, aged about 60 years,
met with a very serious accident near Donna Monday afternoon. He fell from a load of loosely piled hay and
was picked up unconscious. Dr.
Southworth of Eugene, was summoned and brought the injured man home to his
family here. The doctor was unable to state Tuesday whether the skull was
fractured or not.
John Downing is enjoying his recent
purchase of a new Chevrolet automobile.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 5‑4‑1916
SPRINGFIELD NEWS
HOOKS MOTORCYCLIST
Robert McDonald had an exciting adventure
Tuesday evening with a cow. As he was
returning home from town about 9:30 he met the cow near his home on Mill
street.
He turned out for the cow, giving her
plenty of room, but the bright headlight, enraged her and she charged. Hooking
her horns on the front wheel she overthrew the machine and Mr. McDonald, who
succeeded in getting away, but sustained a
dislocated elbow.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 5‑5‑1916
Y. M. C. A.
The first Young Men's Christian
Association car in the state for loggers will be formally opened at the Booth
Kelly plant at Wendling, Monday night.
It is the forerunner of numerous similar cars which it is hoped to
establish in various parts of the state, according to J. A. Goodell, industrial
secretary of the Y. M. C. A.
The car, which is to be fitted up with all
sorts of
conveniences and games,
will be for the benefit of the men at
the mill at Wendling and at the two large logging camps in the vicinity. The plan is to move it from the mill to the
camps and back again by rail, remaining a week at a time at each of the camps
and at the mill.
D. G. Bennett, who has had experience in
similar cars in Montana and Washington, will be the secretary in charge. The equipment of the car will include a
billiard table, checker table, reading
table, victrola, reading matter and boxing gloves. Free stationary will also be furnished to
the men.
The car is fourteen feet wide
and sixty feet long. The car itself is
furnished by the company and the equipment was
purchased by the men, who
donated $200 in one day for the work. It
will be maintained partially by memberships purchased by the men.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 5‑10‑1916
SPRINGFIELD BOOTH KELLY NEWS
The Eugene retail yards of the Booth Kelly
Lumber Company are to be abandoned June 1, J. A. Griffin, manager, will
continue in charge of the Eugene retail business, with offices at the general
office of the company at Springfield. John Tomeeth, former superintendent for
the Booth Kelly, company, now
superintendent of the Weed
Lumber Company , arrived home
yesterday for a few days
visit with his family.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 5‑12‑1916
HAYDEN BRIDGE NEWS
W. C. Myers expects to cut 400 cords of
balm wood for the excelsior mill in Eugene soon.
W. C. Myers cut his right foot seriously
with an axe Monday while working on some new ground. Dr. Robham of Springfield was called and he
found it necessary to take 10 or 11 stitches in the injured foot.
Several teams are busy hauling lumber from
the Booth Kelly mill at Springfield for the church.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 5‑18‑1916
WENDLING NEWS
The
Y. M. C. A. was opened a week ago Monday night by a house warming attended by
15 appreciative men. Mr. Bennett was in
charge of the car and reports excellent attendance for every evening since the
opening. The car will have alternate
time between the camps and Wendling.
Tuesday and Friday afternoons will be devoted to the ladies and it is
hoped that they will attend and enjoy the privileges
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 5‑19‑1916
DONNA
W. K. Zumwalt fell from the top of his
barn last Saturday while taking down some rafters and received several bruises
about the head and a gash on his leg.
Dr. Johnson of Marcola was called and
dressed the wound and several stitches were required to close it up. Hardy is able to get around and is none the
worse for his experience.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Stafford were called to
the bedside of Mr. Baxter of Marcola who passed away Thursday morning. Mr. Baxter was Mrs. Stafford's brother.
A surprise party was given at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Spores Wednesday evening, in honor of their son, Charles
Spores. Quite a number of young people
were present.
Mrs. Leonard Stephens is visiting at the
home of her
parents, Mr. and Mrs J.
H. Kennedy.
The patron teachers meeting will be held
at the school house Saturday evening, May 20. The program is planned as
follower Song, "America," all; recitation, Elsie Hock; reading of
minutes, secretary; debate, "Resolved that a bachelor obtains more
pleasure from life than a
married man" Affirmative, George Hill, Lee Seavy, Frank Spores. Negative, John Adams, Alex Lewis, Frank
Rohne.
A ciphering match for all will conclude
the program.
Mrs Frank Spores and sons, Van and Fred,
spent Saturday night and Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Dan Spores of Yarnell.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 5‑23‑1916
MYSTERY SOLVED WHEN SKELETON
IS FOUND IN WOODS NEAR MABEL
Forest, After 18 Years, Gives Up
Dead, And Good Name Of Man, Once
Suspected Of Murder, Is Cleared
BONES
C. A. MORRIS, COMPANION WHO
STARTED WITH HIM FROM HARRISBURG ON HUNT EIGHTEEN YEARS AGO VIEWS REMAINS
A skeleton was found in the forest,
bordering Cash creek, above Mabel, 40 miles from Eugene, yesterday and was
brought here by sheriff James Parker yesterday afternoon.
Today it was identified by C. A. Morris,
of Harrisburg, as that of J. R. Bucknum, who was lost while hunting 18 years
ago. On November 18, 1898, the two
men left Harrisburg together. Bucknum
never returned. Morris was suspected of his murder, although he was never
charged with the crime. The theory was that they might have quarreled.
Following the disappearance of Bucknum,
who resided with his family at Harrisburg, where he was one of the owners of
the Harrisburg Sawmill company, a reward was offered for the recovery of his
body in the amount of $250, or evidence which would establish that he was still
alive. Large searching parties were
formed and for eleven weeks 36 men crossed and recrossed the territory into
which it was believed the missing man might have wandered. Morris was one of the searchers. For days and days, after the others had given
up hope, he hunted for the body of his friend.
For thirteen weeks, he continued
his search in vain. He wanted to
clear his good name. The gossips had
said that he must have buried the body, or it would have been found. He wanted the world to know what had become of Bucknum.
LOGGER FINDS SKELETON
Yesterday John Cocoll, a logger employed
by the Booth Kelly Lumber Company, stumbled onto the skeleton while walking in
the forest. He hurried back to camp to tell of his ghastly
discovery, a remarkable
feature in connection with which was the fact that the bones as they lay upon
the ground were in perfect human form, not having been disturbed by predatory
animals which are common in the region.
When Cocoll reached camp, the authorities
in Eugene were notified by telephone. The disappearance of Bucknum had always
been a mystery and it occurred to them that the skeleton was his. Throughout
the long search, the newspapers in this section of the state gave accounts of
the work of the searchers. It was a
topic discussed everywhere, and the announcement that a skeleton had been found
was immediately coupled with the incident which had been of such great interest
18 years ago.
Morris, who had been Bucknum's companion
on the day he disappeared, and who is now in
business at Harrisburg, was notified.
He came at once to Eugene, where he identified the skeleton by the
things his friend had with him on the morning they started to hunt. Conspicuous
among them was a beer check "Good For One Drink" at"George
Macey's". Macy was engaged in the saloon business at Harrisburg at that
time.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 5‑25‑1916
MYSTERY SOLVED WHEN SKELETON
IS FOUND
WATCH IS IDENTIFIED
Bucknum carried an Elgin watch. It was found.
Morris identified the time piece. It had stopped at 10 1/2 minutes to
10. The jeweler at Harrisburg, who had repaired Bucknum's watch at various
times, is dead. C. H. Madsen, a jeweler
at Cottage Grove, is known to have done some work upon it at one time. The
watch was sent to him today for further identification, by number if possible.
A Winchester gun was found by the
skeleton, which is perhaps the most conclusive means of identification. It in a
40‑65 very uncommon calibre. Bucknum, just before he started on the hunt,
Morris relates, complained because he could not get the shells to fit it. Seven
shells, one of them empty, were found, indicating that he had but few in his possession at the time
of death. In addition, Sheriff Parker,
in removing the skeleton, picked up a
lumbermans rule. Bucknum was actively engaged in the lumber industry.
GOOD NAME IS CLEARED
A sight which was ghastly in itself, brought
joy to the heart of Morris when he entered the sheriff's office today to view
the skeleton. He was convinced that it
was Bucknum's. There were no marks of
violence. He felt that after all these
years, his good name had been cleared.
Morris stated that on November 17, 1898,
early in the morning, he and Bucknum had left Harrisburg. There was 16 inches of snow on the ground at
the time that they entered the mountains to hunt... The following, day, when they
separated, the weather was "squally" and it was still snowing. He never saw Bucknum again.
His theory is that his friend lost his
way, and being without food, perished. The spot where the skeleton was found
yesterday is about three and one half miles from the point where the men had made
their camp.
That the body had not been found is
accounted for by the fact that it was located at an almost inaccessible point
on the bank of Cash creek, and, in recent years, had been almost covered by undergrowth.
Since Bucknum disappeared, his wife
died. He is survived by three daughters,
and four sons. One son, Delbert Bucknum,
is an employee of the Booth Kelly Lumber Company, at Springfield; The other
sons are: Lucien Bucknum, California; Herbert Bucknum, Santa Rosa California;
Claude Bucknum, of Emmett, Idaho.
Bucknum was a member of the W. C. W.
lodge. Among his effects found in the
forest was his lodge knife. Two dollars
and fifty‑five cents in money was also found, one of the dollars bearing
the date of 1898. There were no coins of later date.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 6‑2‑1916
MARCOLA NEWS
A large crew of men is busy dismantling
the machinery of S. P. mill No. 2, and loading it on cars to be shipped to
Portland. From there it will be taken on
and set up again in Tillamook county.
Modern Woodmen, Camp 9849, took in five
candidates for membership Saturday night. Kenneth Barber of Wendling, Bert Fox
of Mabel, and the three Willey(Wiltse?) brothers who recently moved here from
Natron. After the goat had been led back
to its stall the crowd enjoyed an oyster supper and general good times till
2:30 a. m. Walter Trotter is preparing to leave Saturday for Eastern Oregon,
where he will look for a homestead.
In spite of the unpromising weather,
preparations are going on for the big school picnic to be held Saturday in
Baxter's grove south of town.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 6‑9‑1916
SPRINGFIELD NEWS
Melvin Fenwick yesterday met with a very
painful accident. He had been using a
garden disc on his ranch east of town, and having finished for the day, started
to unhitch. A chicken ran in front of
the horses frightening them, causing them to run. Mr. Fenwick was thrown to the
ground, the disc, a 20 inch, 400 pound one, was drawn over him, causing several
bruises. Nothing but the soft earth
saved Mr. Fenwick from certain death.
George Spores of the upper Mohawk
yesterday afternoon purchased a Ford from a local garage.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 6‑9‑1916
MARCOLA NEWS
The removal to Portland of the machinery
and equipment of Camp No. 2, abandoned several years ago, is expected to be
completed by Friday. The bad condition
of the road from the camp has offered great difficulty as some of the machinery
is
extremely heavy.
Miss Mary Baen Wright went to Mabel
Tuesday, where she joined the Misses Maude Allen and Ruth Paris in a ten‑mile
hike into the forest above Mabel. The
party visited the place where the skeleton of J. R. Bucknum lay for eighteen
years prior to its recent discovery. One
of the loggers in the vicinity had just found two overlooked bones and buried
them on the spot.
F. C. Maple, the local druggist and
postmaster, took a jolly crowd of boys on a ten days trip to the coast
Saturday. All rode bicycles.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 6‑10‑1916
BOOTH KELLY EMPLOYEE AT
SPRINGFIELD MEETS WITH FORTUNATE ACCIDENT
A pair of baggy overalls last week caused Cal C. Burns, an employee of
the Booth‑Kelly Lumber Company of Springfield, to get a raise and a
vacation.
Burns is employed as a "monorail chaser" at the
Springfield mill, and it was his duty to tend the hook at the and of the cable
and release the lumber. Burns had just
signalled Bennie Skinner, the operator of the crane, to return for another load
and thinking to rest in the meantime he stooped over for some whittling
material. He was in this position when
the hook on the cable swung and caught him squarely by the "galluses"
of his overalls. Before Skinner had
noticed the predicament, Burns was dangling, like a spider 12 ft. above the
lumber pile. At this point the weakest
link, namely the suspenders,let go and Burns fell to the lumber alighting on a
tobacco can in his hip pocket. He was at
work again in a few days
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 6‑17‑1916
MOHAWK NEWS
Last Sunday there were five or six
separate brush fires in the McGowan creek basin and brush fires in the hills
and
mountains caused the smoke
that has settled in the valley. Farmers
are burning slashings and deer hunters are burning out the fern openings in the
timber, as the deer come to the smoke to keep off the flies.
J. B. Robertson has been running his
donkey engine for several days, yarding in logs to his mill. He expects to move his machine to Fischer's
logging Camp soon.
Frank Stafford, road supervisor for
district No.3 has quite a number of teams busy hauling gravel.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 6‑19‑1916
An automobile driven by Mrs. John Seavy
yesterday afternoon in making the turn from main to sixth street, skidded and
Mrs Seavey lost control of the machine which ran up the sidewalk and crashed
into the brick wall of the Oregon Power Company's
substation.
The fenders of the machine were twisted,
the lights broken and the wheels somewhat damaged. The machine was towed to the garage. A party of friends accompanied Mrs. Seavey at
the time of the accident which occurred about two o'clock.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 6‑23‑1916
MOHAWK VALLEY FREIGHT CROWDED
WITH
A special log train to handle shipments
for the Booth Kelly company from the camps in the Mohawk valley was put on
yesterday by the Southern Pacific company to relieve the crew of freight Nos.
245‑246, which had been handling this work. The new train
crew ties up in Eugene, and makes the run from here to
Springfield, leaving at
5:30 in the morning, and returning in
the afternoon when the log trains have been brought down.
These logs are brought from the Booth Kelly Company's camps beyond
Wendling; from Nettles camp a mile this side of Wendling, and from Fischer's
Camp at Marcola. Hyland Bro. Camp, recently moved from Landax on the Oakridge
line to Noti creek in the coast range, will be ready to ship about July 1. The
purpose of the special log train put on yesterday is to relieve the regular
Mohawk Valley freight, which had so much work to do it did not finish until
late in the evening.
The log train not only has to haul the
loaded cars to Springfield, but it has to take the empties back, and it has to
dump the logs into the pond by shoving the loaded cars onto an inclined track
alongside the pond. As the cars are
tilted, the logs are released and roll into the water.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 6‑27‑1916
WOMAN ATTACKED BY CHICKEN
(Springfield News)
Mrs. Nelson Kester sustained a very
painful injury to her hand last Saturday, when a chicken which she was trying
to catch flew upon her, tearing quite a gash in her hand with its talons. The wound required the attention of a physician.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 6‑27‑1916
GASOLINE LAMP EXPLODES AT
WENDLING
Friday evening Fred Shepard and Adolph
Weber were severely burned when a gasoline lamp exploded at Mr. Shepard's
confectionery store. They were attempting to repair the lamp while
burning when they accidently broke a piece out of the bowl by screwing a cap
too tightly. The released pressure,
forced the gasoline into the blaze, causing the explosion. Their burns were attended by Dr. Patterson.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 7‑3‑1916
Springfield News
Dr. William Pollard Saturday purchased a
new light Buick six. He will retain his
old machine to use in the country and to make long drives with.
MARCOLA
N. F. Newhouse of Marcola, last Friday
sustained a badly cut foot, when the axe he was using struck a small bush which
turned the axe, striking Mr. Newhouse with full force in the foot. He was brought to the Springfield hospital,
accompanied by his wife. Twelve stitches were required to close the wound.
HAYDEN BRIDGE HOGS
C. Meyers Saturday brought in a fine load
of hogs from his ranch near the Hayden bridge for the Swarts and Washburne
packing plant.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 8‑3‑1916
SEAVY FAMILY
More than forty members of the Seavey
family, one of the oldest in Lane county, assembled at the summer home of J. W.
Seavey on the McKenzie near Springfield, Sunday, July 30, for the fifth annual
family reunion. The reunion began with a
dinner, served on the lawn under the big cedar trees. Mrs. Clara Wassom read the minutes of the
last years meeting, concluding with a few suggestions suitable to the occasion.
A letter was read from J. C. Bushnell, a
pioneer, telling the story of crossing the plains, and of the hardships of
early pioneer times. Two of the younger representatives of the family, Dorthea
Bushnell and Seretha Wassom, gave a reading, which was followed by the singing
of the song, "Tell Mother I'll Be
There," by Seretha
Wassom and Dorthy and Wilbur Bushnell.
Those present were:
Rev. H. W. Davis
W. M. Blachly
A. E. Blachly
S. B. Simmons
H. R. Cooper(Corvallis)
J. C. Bushnell
T. E. Seavey
Herman Wilkins
Mrs. H. Coffman(Portland)
Alice Seavey
Mrs. Theresa M. Jackson
W. C. Seavey,
Mrs. W. M. Blachly
Mrs. Anna Bushnell
Mrs. Belle Seavey
Mrs. D. R. Cooper(Corvallis)
Mrs. W. T. Simmons
Mrs. M. Wilkins
Mitchel Wilkins
Herbert A. Stoneberg,
Walter Blachly
Master Dale Blachly
Hazel Seavey
Elizabeth Kelley Seavey
Mrs. Althea Stoneberg
Alice Bushnell
Alexander Seavey
Holey S. Seavey
Lorenda Stoneberg
Dorthea Bushnell
Wilbur Bushnell
J. D. Wassom
Clara Wassom
Johnnie Wassom
Seretha Wassom
Westa Wilkins
Lealand Cooper
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD
8‑4‑1916
LOST HUNTER'S GUN FOUND ON
MOHAWK (Springfield)
Carson Kendig of Brownsville, who was here
Monday night, has just returned from the North Fork of the Mohawk and reports
the finding of a gun which belonged to his father‑in‑law, John C.
Morgan. Mr. Morgan, who was lost four
years ago, was one of the best hunters and woodsmen in the state. The gun was found by some fishermen lying on
the ground covered with leaves near the bank of a creek. The search for his body, which is believed
must be near the spot where the gun was found, will not be made until Fall.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 8‑10‑1916
B. K. LUMBER
The Auto Truck carrying lumber for the
Booth Kelly Company from Springfield to Eugene in being run 13 hours a day and
is carrying enough lumber to load two box cars in that time in the endeavor to
relieve the shortage of cars that is so hampering the mills in their work,
according to A. C. Dixon, manager of the Booth Kelly mills.
Mr. Dixon states that never before has the
car shortage been so noticeable, and that it is becoming daily more and more
acute without the prospect of relief.
The chief source of
inconvenience from lack of
shipping facilities is the southern railroad lines, whose cars are being
employed in the moving of crops in the south, and with the carrying of sugar beets from California, says Mr. Dixon.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 8‑12‑1916
MOHAWK NEWS
J. B. Robertson commenced running his saw
mill again
Thursday after a shut down of
several months. M. S. Cassill of Yarnell
Siding will run the saw mill engine.
Victor Hammitt was hauling lumber from
Marcola to lay a new floor in the ware room of the Donna store.
H. W. Swafford loaded a car of wood to the
Eugene fuel company, Wednesday. The Mohawk Lumber Company has completed a new
intake to their flume at the saw mill dam.
M. D. Weatherman is very busy completing a
new barn at his place on McGowan Creek.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 8‑15‑1916
COOS RANCH TRADED FOR MOHAWK
PLACE
E. L. Roberts has traded his 296 acre
dairy ranch on the Coos river to J. C.
Gordon, a Newberg banker, for a 318 acre farm known as the Swarts place
on the Mohawk near Donna, and will move to his newly acquired property
immediately to engage in the stock raising
business. A consideration of
$8000 in cash and in mortgages entered into the sale.
Mr. Roberts has been residing near
Springfield on a rented place, where he has been experimenting to find products
best fitting to this vicinity. He
receives the full equipment of the Swarts ranch in connection with the
transfer.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 8‑24‑1916
MARCOLA PROPERTY SOLD
Martin Endicotte, Tuesday afternoon sold
his residence property in Marcola to Sid Savage, of Bend, the consideration
being $ 4000. Mr. Endicotte still
retains interests in Marcola.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 8‑25‑1916
Mrs F. B. Titus died yesterday morning at
her home on East Main Street, after an illness of nearly four years, aged 58
years, 11 months and 15 days. The
funeral was held this
afternoon at the Christian
church. Mrs Titus leaves, besides her
husband, three children, Mrs. A. E. Pratt, of Springfield; Mrs. J. E. Adams, of
Parker Washington, and Earl Titus, of
Marcola.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 8‑26‑1916
SPRINGFIELD NEWS
Miss Spores Has Accident
Mrs. John Spores, who lives above town,
was hurt yesterday afternoon, when the automobile collided with a wagon. Mrs. Spores was driving and as they were
going up the east approach of the bridge enroute to Eugene behind another auto
it stopped suddenly. To avoid a rear‑end
collision Miss Spores turned out and ran into the heavy wagon. The sudden impact, threw Miss Spores against
the door injuring her hip severely but
not seriously. The car was badly
damaged.
Mrs.
Guy Noble narrowly escaped drowning while in swimming in the river
Thursday afternoon. She got in a deep
hole and the undercurrent drew her down.
She was going down for the third time when the attention of Fred Knox
was attracted. In trying to get her
ashore she pulled Fred in, and Frakie DePue came to their assistance. With many struggles all three managed to gain
the shore. Fred Knox of the three, is
the worst off for their plunge.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 9‑9‑1916
SPRINGFIELD NEWS
George Revert, C. Bell, H. Ellison and H.
Jones, dry kiln builders of Seattle passed through here yesterday en route from
Wendling to Silverton. They have just
completed the building of four dry kilns for the Booth Kelly Company at that
place. Mr Revert was here two years ago,
when Booth Kelly Lumber Co. put in the new dry kilns here.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 9‑22‑1916
A. C. DIXON OF THE BOOTH KELLY CO. SPEAKS OF
" We kept the mill running at
Wendling as long as possible but were compelled to close because of inability
to get enough cars to send lumber to markets," said Mr. Dixon. "Five
hundred men are employed at the Springfield mill, but it will be closed tonight,
throwing all out of employment." "The industrial life of the
Willamette valley depends almost entirely on lumber. It brings the only payroll of value from
outside the state. When the mill at Coburg was closed the little town of 700 or
800 people went to ruin and property there became valueless."
"Our company now has on hand about
20,000,000 feet of lumber, about 800 cars. We have orders for 350 cars but
cannot ship because of having no cars.
Our storage space is filled and there is nothing to do but close down. As a means of relieving ourselves from
liability by not filling orders for lumber, we have bought in the state of
Washington 100 cars of lumber and shipped it east."
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 9‑25‑1916
COBURG JITNEY
I don't know just what effect the new
licensing ordinance of the city of Eugene will have on my business of bringing
Coburg people into Eugene to trade," says R. Jones of Coburg, who operates
an automobile more or less regularly between the two places.
"I do not believe I am operating a
stage line, for I make trips only on order. Sometimes I...make one trip and
sometimes two or three from Coburg to Eugene.
Now and then Coburg people want to come over in the evening, and often
there are no evening trips." "My
car is the only convenient way the people of Coburg have for coming to Eugene,
for the only train through Coburg to the south goes to Springfield at 4 o'clock
in the afternoon, and the return is made in the morning about 8.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 9‑26‑1916
SPRINGFIELD YOUTH KILLED NEAR
MARCOLA
Ole Carson, son of George Carson of
Springfield, was
accidently killed shortly
after 1 o'clock today at the Fischer Boutin logging camp, two miles south of
Marcola, when a limb of a tree fell on him and crushed him. Coroner Veatch was at once notified and left
for the scene to investigate the death. Mr. Carson was 27 years of age and
unmarried. His brother Charles Carson,
was in charge of the camp in which the accident happened.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 9‑27‑1916
ACCIDENT VICTIM TO BE BURIED
IN EUGENE
Funeral services will be held at the
Christian church in Springfield at 2:30 O'clock tomorrow afternoon for the late
Ole Carson, who was killed yesterday in an accident at the Fischer Boutin logging
camp near Marcola. The body was brought
to Walker's undertaking parlor in Springfield last night, and the body will
remain there until 1:30 tomorrow morning.
Rev. Mr. Hogan of Eugene Bible
University is to conduct the services and interment will be made in the I. O.
O. F. cemetery in Eugene. When
Coroner Marion Veatch reached Marcola yesterday
afternoon he found that the
fatal accident had been caused by the tightening cable of a log haul breaking
down a small maple tree, which struck Carson on the head. When the log had been hauled a short distance
it became stuck and when Carson did not signal the donkey engineer to stop,
other workmen investigated and found Carson dead. There was little outward evidence of the
injury. Besides his parents, Mr. Carson
leaves three brothers and two sisters.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 10‑2‑1916
Clay Whitacker Hurt At
Springfield Mill
While working on the carriage at the Booth
Kelly mill Friday, Clay Whitacker was painfully but not seriously hurt. When he was turning a log on the carriage a
slab came loose and struck him alongside the head and bruised one arm.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 10‑5‑1916
PARTY OF MEN
A score or more of Eugene and Springfield
business men visited the Booth Kelly camps beyond Wendling yesterday, and from
the top of Mt. Nebo had looked out over the 135,000 acres of timber land that
is being harvested by the company. Up
there in the mountains 4000 feet above the sea, a magnificent panorama of
mountains and valleys was spread out before the spectators. The guests of the logging company were
astonished at the magnitude of the operations they witnessed in the camps and
along the 25 miles or more of standard gage logging railroad, equipped with its
100‑ton Mallet compound engine, and its long string of logging cars. The logging operations are now being carried
on at camp No. 10, which is twelve miles east of Wendling, and near the base of
Mt. Nebo, where a new spur a mile long
is being constructed to reach present logging operations.
The visitors were given the
opportunity to see the big
trees come down under the axe and saws of the falters, and see the buckers cut
the trees into logs of suitable length to be taken to the mills at Wendling and
Springfield. Huge donkey engines snaked the logs out of
the woods to the loading skids, where other engines loaded the logs onto flat
cars.
The visitors were taken to the camp cook
house, where they were given a dinner of beans, roast beef, potatoes, biscuits,
and lemon pie. In the afternoon the visitors inspected the Y. M. C. A. car,
which is under the direction of Secretary Bennett, and makes trips from camp to
camp. There are between 300 and 400 men
employed in the mill and the woods about Wendling, and the output is some
250,000 feet a day.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 10‑10‑1916
SEARCHING PARTY FAILS TO FIND
BODY OF JOHN MORGAN ABOVE WENDLING
The searching party, composed of Carson Kendig, and Thurston Morgan, who
went into the woods above Wendling , to search for the body of John Morgan,
returned Sunday night without having found him.
John Morgan disappeared four years ago, when in company with Carson
Kendig and others. No trace of him had
been discovered, until two months ago when his gun was found. The search was put off until the vegetation
was thinner in the woods. The searchers spent three days and nights, but found
no trace of the body.
Carson Kendig was interviewed, and stated
that there would be a reward offered for the finding of the body. Thurston Morgan is a son of John Morgan and
lives at Astoria.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 10‑19‑1916
Marcola Man Enters Not Guilty
Plea
F. S. Gourley, of Marcola, entered a plea
of not guilty this morning to indictments charging with selling and giving
liquor to a minor, selling liquor to a minor, and allowing a minor to play pool
in a public place.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 10‑28‑1916
GASOLINE TRACTOR IS USED IN
LANE COUNTY
The gasoline tractor is now being used in
Lane County in a number of localities for various purposes, according to F. J.
Berger, of 659 Willamette street, who states that it has been found that the
expense of ploughing large tracts of land is reduced about one‑half by
the use of the tractor.
At present Mr. Berger has leased three
tractors to parties in the upper Willamette valley. One of these has been used by Carpenter and
Chamberlain, of Junction City, in making railroad ties. This machine was recently moved to a new mill
at Bear Creek but was found to be too small to handle the work, and so a new
two‑cylinder 25 horsepower Garr‑Scott engine has been
substituted.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 10‑30‑1916
HAYDEN BRIDGE NEWS
George Spores of Yarnell fell from his
gravel wagon while hauling gravel, falling on his head and shoulders, rendering
him unconscious for over two hours, though not seriously hurt. Miss Maude Drury is spending the week‑end
with her sister, Mrs D. T. Spores.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 11‑20‑1916
WENDLING
After deliberating about two hours, a jury
brought in a verdict in the circuit court of Douglas county, and late Saturday
afternoon awarded F. W. Howes, of Wendling, Lane county, a judgment in the sum
of $1050 against Dr. O. E. Patterson, of Sutherlin. Mr. Howes brought the suit
to recover damages in the sum of $20,000 from Dr. Patterson on the ground that
the
physician alienated the
affections of his wife. Five Wendling women testified on behalf of the defence
to the effect that Mrs. Howes' reputation for truth and veracity was bad in the
vicinity where she resided.
Doctors E. V. Hoover, and A. C. Seeley, of
Roseburg
testified on professional
matters. Dr. Patterson formerly lived at Wendling, but recently moved to
Sutherlin, where he is engaged in the practice of medicine. The verdict will be appealed.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 11‑22‑1916
Francis Piquet Crushed By
Tree At Mabel
Coroner Marion Veatch returned last
evening from Mabel where he had been called by the accidental death of Francis
Piquet. No inquest was held, as the
nature of the accident was clear. The
accident was caused by the uprooting of a fir tree some 40 feet tall when it
was struck by a log that was being hauled in by the donkey engine. Piquet was
warned of the danger, and he ran, stooping low, but the falling tree caught
him, pinning him to the ground, and crushing the body badly. Funeral
arrangements have been delayed, waiting for his sister to come from
California, but is believed
the services can be held tomorrow at Mabel.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 11‑28‑1916
MANY TURKEYS SHIPPED
(Springfield News)
The Swarts and Washburne Packing Company
this morning shipped to the Booth Kelly Lumber Company at Wendling six hundred
pounds of turkeys, and also to the Coast Range Lumber Company of Mabel who
ordered three hundred pounds for their employee
Thanksgiving dinner.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 1‑9‑1917
Mrs. R. M. Baker, owner of the Springfield
Hospital,
yesterday sold the
institution to Elwood Scott and daughter, Miss Hazel Scott of Salem. The new owners will take charge at once. Mrs. Baker erected the present hospital
building a little over three years ago, constructing a building 40 by 75 feet
in size and two stories high. It is
fitted with modern equipment. A separate
building as home for the nurses was built a year ago. Mr. Baker is a conductor in the employ of the
Southern Pacific Company.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 1‑13‑1917
MILTON BALLY OF SPRINGFIELD
18 SCALDED AT FISCHER BOUTIN
In the time in which Mr. Bally was
cleaning some of the ashes out of the combustion chamber and the time of the
accident the heat retained in the walls of the furnace heated the barrel or so
of water remaining, and created a small head of steam. Mr.
Bally had shoveled a quantity of ashes out of the combustion chamber,
and his helper was removing them from in front of the furnace door. The assistant had been sent to another part
of the mill, and the pile of ashes grew in size and blocked the entrance to the
combustion chamber, then as Mr. Bally removed the support from below the
"L" the force of the steam blew it out. Mr. Bally and Carl Fischer erected the mill
owned by the company at Springfield, about ten years ago, the company at the
time being known as the Fischer Bally Lumber Company. He is married and has one son, Ray Bally of
Springfield who is a high school student.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 1‑15‑1917
PETRIFIED BODY 15 FOUND AT
CEMETERY
A story to the effect that a body removed
from one plot to another in the Odd Follows cemetery had been found petrified,
was partially confirmed today by Coroner Marion Veatch.
"We had occasion a few weeks ago to
move a body to another place, and when Mr. LaDuke, the sexton had opened the
old grave he found that the original metal container rusted away, but the body
was so heavy that the rope used in lifting it out of the grave was broken. Four strong men had all they could do to
carry the body to the new resting place, and they had to stop several times on
the way to rest."
" I did not examine the body myself,
but Mr. LaDuke, the sexton, and his son, did so, and they said that it had
turned to stone. The body was that of a
woman who was buried in 1900 ‑‑ 16 years ago."
Professor Shinn of the university
expressed doubt about the story, but added that so many unexplainable things
happen in this world that he would not say it was impossible for the body to
become petrified. He stated that
ordinary petrification occurs only when there are limestones present, or some
other form of silica, and there is very little of this mineral in the vicinity
of Eugene.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 1‑17‑1917
JOHN W. KITCHEN, CIVIL WAR
VETERAN DEAD AT COBURG
John Wingfield Kitchen, a veteran of the
Civil war, and a member of J. W. Geary post, G. A. R. of Eugene, died today at
the home of his niece, Mrs. Alice Balch, at Coburg, aged 87 years, 4 months and
25 days.
Mr. Kitchen was born August 22, 1829 in
Indiana, and at the outbreak of the Civil war
joined the 50th Illinois volunteer infantry. He was incapacitated by sickness and received
his discharge, but on January 1, 1865 he reenlisted in the 36th Illinois
infantry and served until the close of the war.
There are no members living in his
immediate family, but in addition to Mrs. Balch, another Niece, Mrs. Emily
Stevens, lives at Springfield and still another, Mrs. Reimenschneider, lives at
Wendling. Interment will be made in the
Coburg cemetery.
MARCOLA WOMAN DIES
Mrs. Frank Burch died at Marcola on
Saturday, January 13, 1917, and the funeral was held at that place Monday
afternoon. Besides her husband, she
leaves four small children; two
brothers, Allen B. Wilkins of
Marcola and W. C. Wilkins of Leona; one sister, Mrs. W. L. Burch of Leona, and her father, I. M.
Wilkins of Marcola.
She was born in North Carolina, and was
31 years of age.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 1‑20‑1917
MOHAWK NEWS
D. A. Conley received a high pressure tank
power pump and gasoline engine by freight Saturday. The outfit was purchased complete through the
Chambers hardware Company of Eugene. H.
K. Chapman of Eugene will install the outfit for Mr. Conley and expects to have
it completed within the next ten days.
Mr. Conley is one of the up to date farmers of this community, and
believes in being up to date for conveniences and service, having built a large
new 13 room house and balloon framed barn in the past 20 months on his 130 acre
ranch of nearly all river bottom land.
Silas Lane of Bally Ore., has rented some
20 acres of river bottom land of D. A. Conley to plant to potatoes this season.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 1‑26‑1917
HARRISBURG BANKS
Harrisburg Ore., Jan. 25‑‑ A
deal of much interest to local business firms and to the people generally of
this community was consummated this week, wherein George J. Wilhelm, cashier
and largest stockholder in the First National Bank of this city, secured a
controlling interest in the Farmers and Merchants bank of Harrisburg. This latter
bank was organized here about six years ago, since which time there has
been two banks in this city. T. B.
Garrison of Portland bought the majority of stock of the Farmers and Merchants
Bank about a year ago, which he has now sold to Mr. Wilhelm, giving, this well
known gentleman the controlling interest in both of the Harrisburg banks.
A meeting of the directors and
stockholders of the Farmers and Merchants Bank is called for Tuesday, January
30, at which time a new board of directors and officers will be elected. For the present there will be no change of
importance in these local banking institutions, and Mr. Garrison will remain
with the Farmers and Merchants Bank for the present. The First National Bank was capitalized at
$25,000 and has a surplus of $18,000 and deposits of $181,313.81 as shown by
its recent statement. The Farmers and
Merchants Bank was capitalized at $30,000, and has less deposits, both being on
a sound financial basis.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 1‑29‑1917
OREGON HUNTER IS DEVOURED BY
HUNGRY WOLVES
Gold Hill, Ore., Jan. 29.‑‑
The finding of a man's scattered bones, his empty rifle and bodies of three
lean timber wolves Friday on Evans Creek, Jackson county, told a grim story, it
is believed, of a fatal struggle in which John Hammersley, a missing government
hunter, was torn to shreds by a pack of hungry wolves, but only after he had
killed three of the animals. News of the
discovery, which was made about a mile from Hammersley's camp by timbermen, was
brought here today.
In the clearing in the willows where the
bones were found the ground was torn up, giving evidence of a terrific
struggle. The hunters clothes were
ripped to shreds and his bones were licked clean. Indications were that the fight occurred not
long ago.
A posse which has been searching for
Hammersley believes the bones are Hammersley's as no other trace of him or his
pack of hounds has been found. It is
believed the hounds fled when the wolves set upon their master. Attempts to identify the rifle will be made.
VICTIM OF WOLVES LEFT LANE
CO. OVER 20 YEARS AGO 1‑30‑1917 John Bartholomew Hammersley, whose
skeleton was found this week near Gold Hill, Ore., where apparently he had been
killed by wolves, was a resident of Lane Co. at one time, according to N.
McLean, who remembers the man.
Hammersley, who was the son of George Hammersley, who lived on Camp
Creek for a number of years up to 1877, when he moved away. John, or
Bartholemew, as he was generally called, returned to that country 25 years ago,
and spent a year on Camp Creek, subsequent to going to Gold Hill. That bones found in the foothills of the
Cascades, on upper Evans Cr., in Jackson Co., are those of her husband, is the
belief of Mrs. John Hammersley. A party
to determine the identity of the victim will go to the scene tomorrow morning
from Wilmer, on behalf of Mrs Hammersley. John Hammersley, who was a government
hunter, employed to hunt and destroy predatory animals, left his home in this
city on January 2 to hunt a pack of giant timber wolves that were killing many
deer on the headwaters of Evans Or. He took with him 4 trained hounds and three
pack horses, and was to establish camp at Willow Flat, he having homesteaded
the flat and later sold it to a timber Co. Since leaving here on the second no
word had come from him. Mr. Hammersley
had been employed as a government hunter for several years, and had killed
numerous cougars and other animals. Last
winter he hunted on Grayback Mtn. in Josephine county, to assemble a number of
animals for a moving picture company and roped a number of cougars. He was one of the most successful hunters in
Western Ore. Mr Hammersley was 53 years old and was born in Baker Co.. He spent
his early days in Lane and Lake counties.
He went to Gold Hill when a young man and for several years edited the
Gold Hill News. He was the brother of Deputy District Attorney Joseph L.
Hammersley and Police Detective Thomas Hammersley, of Portland, and a brother‑in‑law
of G. A. Cobb, a local attorney.
REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF
THE
STATE BANK OF COBURG
NO. 34
at Coburg in the State of
Oregon, at the close of business March 5th, 1917.
RESOURCES
Loans and
Discounts...$29,677.78
Overdrafts, secured and
unsecured 55.27
Bonds and warrants 2,169.60
Furniture and fixtures
1,500.00
Due from banks (not reserve
banks) 1,839.03
Due form approved reserve
banks 3,902.98
Checks and other cash items
202.34
Cash on hand 1612.30
Total $40,959.30
LIABILITIES.
Capital stock paid in $10,000.00
Undivided profits, less
expenses and taxes paid 661.05
Individual deposits subject
to check 23,154.19
certified checks 7,144.06
Total $40,959.30
STATE OF OREGON
County of Lane ‑‑
ss.
I. R. T. Wood, Cashier of the
above named bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true to the
best of my knowledge and belief.
R.T. WOOD, Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn to
before me this 13th day of March, 1917. (Seal) GEO. A. DRURY,
Notary Public.
My commission expires May 25,
1920.
CORRECT ‑‑
Attest:
A. G. PIRTLE
R.T. WOOD
GEO. A. DRURY
Directors
THE EUGENE REGISTER GUARD,
Starting 2‑10‑1917
TALES OF PIONEER DAYS BY
THOMAS H. HUNSAKER
The incidents related herein are in a
great measure the history of like events all over the Willamette valley, and
many of the facts have been related to me by eye witnesses, whose truth and
veracity could not be doubted. The first person to get through the Cascade
Mountains by way of the middle fork of the Willamette of 1853 immigration was
Martin Blanding. He was In a famished
condition, and worn until almost unable to move. He was discovered by D. C. Mathews, when a
boy 13 years of age, who together with a Mr. George Penline, were engaged in
herding cattle for Mr. Riggs on and around Butte Disappointment. (Lowell in
Lane County is located at the foot of this butte). Mr.
Mathews found Blanding lying on the ground by a fire he had kindled to
roast a piece of meat cut from the hind quarters of a young colt he had killed
the day before. The meat was placed on the end of a stick, the other end in the
ground, and near the fire. And to show what straits the man was in, it is
said the colt was killed the night
before. Mr Blanding was so weak that he
found it a very serious undertaking to kill the colt.
He had a gun to shoot it with, but was too
weak to handle it with and degree of certainly. He camped this night at the
Gordon rock, a mile perhaps south of Lowell.
The next day he came about three‑quarters of a mile to the place
where he was discovered. Mr. Mathews saw
his fire while on the butte above him, and thought it was an Indian camp, and
wishing to inquire in regard to a couple of calves that had strayed, went to
the fire. When Blanding was informed
that there was a house and food nearby, he cried for joy. When taken to the house and food given him it
was very hard for those who entertained him to keep him from eating too
much. They knew this would be certain
death to him, so they fed him a little at a time and watched over him all that
night. It is hard to reason with a man
who has been out of food for two or three days, but when he has scarcely anything
for two or three weeks, you can't reason.
You have to withhold by force as was done in Blanding's case.
Blanding reported that there was a large
company of immigrants coming
behind and that they were nearly all out of food when he left them two weeks
before. This created quite an excitement
among the half‑dozen men that were at John Bargdel's place that night.
These men saddled their horses at
once(leaving a couple of men to look after Blanding), and crossing the river
went to Trent or Rattlesnake Valley as it was called then, and for a long time
afterwards. There were a few settlers there at the time, and among them were;
Dr. Wilson Fisher, William McCall, Samuel Boftman, Jonathan Morgan, and Henry
Morgan.
Henry Morgan lives at Lowell now and
remembers the cry that went out that night that the immigrants were coming down
the trail and were starving. These runners rode all night and with others that they picked up along, so
that the news was carried away in below Coburg by daylight the next
morning. Ox teams that had crossed the
plains a year or two before were brought
into requisition and the wagons were loaded with the scanty provisions that
were to be had and at once they started to meet the starving immigrants. Some had a few beef cattle which they drove
in to feed the starving people. Mr.
Blanding being a man of good education, made himself useful to the pioneers by
teaching school. Joseph Parker, Hon. Thomas Hendricks and many others went to
his school at Cloverdale.
The next day after the runners had gone down
the valley, Robert Tandy came riding to Daniel Hunsaker's cabin on the hill
side by the spring in Lost Valley. Mr Tandy stated his mission at once telling
that the immigrants were coming and he wanted a pack horse and a sack of flour.
It was now 4 or 5 o'clock in the evening and Mr. Hunsaker requested him to stay till morning
and he would go with him.
"No", said Mr. Tandy, I must go right on tonight. I must travel
as far as I can while it is light and camp when it gets dark. Mr Hunsaker saw at once that it was not worth
while to parley, so he went to the flat below the cabin where his horses were
grazing and caught a pack pony, brought it to the house and loaded it with a
hundred pound sack of flour. Then saddling
his riding horse he went with Tandy to show him across the river, as the rivers
had to be forded in those days, an fourteen hand horses were small to ford them
with. This was the first report Mr. Hunsaker received of the Immigrants, as his
home was a mile south of the road traveled by the "runners" or those
who carried the news.
Robert Tandy in company with six others,
namely Mr. Loug, a Mr. Clark, George Devine, Plens Noland, A. S. McClure, and
B. F. Owen, left the camp of this same party of immigrants north of Silver
river (or Creek) and came on west and across the Cascade range of mountains by
the Three Sisters. Then on down the
McKenzie river. They were 25 days
without provision or food of any kind except horse meat, berries fish and
snails. Tandy knew what it was to starve
and travel at the same time, and this reason, if he had no other incentive to
lead him on, would be enough.
The distance Tandy traveled can be made
now and over pretty much the same route in seven or eight days, with a team of
horses, and an auto would make it easily in two and one half days.
These men traveled on horse back when they
were not walking, but they had to travel very slowly and feel their way along.
On the Mckenzie from Blue River to where the big Deadening now stands, there
was a very heavy growth of large fir and a dense mat of underbrush to contend
with. The question has often been asked
why they did not kill deer and grouse, as the game was in abundance then. The
answer to that question is that they did not know how to hunt. All were very poor hunters, and they were
overly anxious to get through. They were
afraid that they would starve if they wasted time in hunting. They lived to get
through, and some of them
made good homes in the country they were seeking. Plens Noland's home was near Creswell where
he lived many years. Bob Tandy moved
around a good deal but always had plenty, he died a few years ago near
Eugene. A. S. McClure was in the
mercantile business for many years in Eugene City, as it was named at that
time. Thomas Clark, in old resident of Camp Creek stated to the writer that he
and his family and many others were in a
condition bordering on starvation. For
six weeks they were without a bit of
flour and lived on poor beef cattle they had driven across the plains and not
even salt to season it with. Traveling
every day they found great logs in the road, or rather a trail, with notches
cut in the logs where the wheels of the wagon would strike them and maybe some
bark chunks laid up against the log to give the wagon a little start to go
over.
He stated that the first aid that met them
was at Big Prairie, now Oak Ridge. When
on coming to their camping place late in the evening he found some men busily
engaged in making cakes of bread in a frying pan. These men laid a pile of cakes already baked
something like a foot high. The hungry
immigrants wanted to mush in and help themselves to the food they saw before
them, but "no" was the word of these sturdy men who had brought in
the provisions.
"Wait till all have come in for the
night, and we will see how many are in your company, then we will divide with
all as equal as we can," said the leader.
Strong men cried in their weakened condition, seeing the food before them
and having to wait. Finally all had
gathered in and from one pile of bread one foot high there were several piles
standing there close together, when the issuing out began, baking very late
into the night. Mr Clark stated no bread
ever tasted sweeter to him at any time in his life, and he had a fond
recollection of the occurrence while talking to me about 25 years afterward.
All lived to get to the land of promise,
especially of those who reached the Cascade Mountains, except Mrs Petty who
died and was buried at the mouth of Simpson Creek. We conclude that these
immigrants were composed of an exceptionally hardy race of people. When these
pioneers reached the valley, they scattered about in various places seeking for
claims on which to found homes. Many
were very much dissatisfied for when the haven of their aspirations was found,
they were destitute, with nothing to begin on. These trials made them very
homesick and if they had had the means to have returned to their homes in the
"States" (as they spoke of it), no doubt the following spring would
have seen many on their way back.
Necessity forced them to remain, and in the mean time they were led to
see the many advantages of their new situation.
To illustrate; Uncle Tommy Mathews often
expressed himself to his
neighbors in this way: "If I were only back and situated as I was before I
left Illinois, if I had it, I would give all the gold old Buck and Jack could draw"'. Buck and Jack were the two oxen he set great
store by.
The next thing, in order was to select
their claims and build their cabins of logs, which they drew to place with
their oxen, some peeled the logs, some hewed two sides, while some laid them up
with the bark on. They split out stuff
for the floor. A large fire place was
erected in one end of the cabin, where the women did their cooking and which
provided heat.
TALE OF PIONEER DAYS 2‑17‑1917
Elizah Bristow was the first settler in
Lane county. He located his claim on
Pleasant Hill and named the place and had it legalized by the first legislature
in Oregon. Mr. Bristow if I have been
properly informed came through to Oregon by way of California in 1845. He together with a Mr. Wesley Shannon (if
there were others we know not), came up to Oregon in the spring of '46'. They went down the valley as the first settlement
was in those parts.
After looking the country over, Mr.
Bristow turned south traversing over some of the country he had seen in going
north coming up the east side of the middle fork of the Willamette. He came to where the little town of Jasper
now stands. Here he forded the river,
coming out of the woods where John Shelly has had his home for the past 65
years. Here on this spot as I was
informed by Zilphia Rigdon, ( Mr. Bristow's youngest child) Mr. Bristow made
his choice of a claim. Looking south and
west of the low rolling hill where the graveyard is now located, noticing the
scattering pine and oak, Mr. Bristow rose in his stirrups and said, "That
place yonder reminds me of my old home in Virginia. Here I shall lay my claim, and here I shall
make my home and I shall call it Pleasant Hill." They now rode on to the
place selected, and on the ground where the graveyard is now located he built
his first house. This house stood for
several years and afterward Mr. Bristow built his final home, a half mile west.
James Howard, Felix Scott, Eugene Skinner
and William Dodson were the men who accompanied Mr. Bristow. In the year 1843, in company with a Mr.
Shannon he began the erection of a hewed log house. Having now fully decided to remain in Oregon,
he wrote letters to his wife, sons and some daughters, and gave them into the
hands of George Jackson, who carried them to his home in Illinois. Mrs Bristow broke up the home by selling the
farm and together with her sons and son‑in‑laws, and many others,
came to Oregon the following year which was 1848.
Mr. Bristow lived here on his claim for
many years, and saw his sons‑in‑law settled comfortably around him,
living to a good old age and was buried near where he erected the first cabin
on the ground donated by him for the public as a burring place. The first school house was erected here by
Mr. Bristow, sons and sons‑in‑law and even grandsons helped. This is district #1 of Lane county. W. W. Bristow taught the first school here in
Lane County.
Uncle Elizah was a gun smith by trade and
could sharpen plow shares and colters.
The neighbors would repair to his
smithy to get their plow work done and guns "fixed". Tools were very scarce and for an anvil Mr
Bristow used a very smooth boulder, and while he was working for you he did not
want his work
neglected, so if he was
plowing he would say, you take the lines and keep the plow going and I will do
your work."
Rebecca Fisher lived with her husband, Dr.
H. H. Fisher, whom we mentioned as being a settler in Rattlesnake valley when
Martin Blanding was found at Butte Disappointment. Mrs. Fisher was born in Ohio June 18, 1818;
she came to Oregon with her husband Mr. Pinkerton in 1852. He was killed near
Coburg by a tree falling on him. A short
time before this occurred, being in need of some provisions for their humble
household she started out on her pony for the store kept by Huddleston and
Ankenny on the bank of the Willamette river where the fine steel bridge now
stands. On her return home she was
unable to raise the ferryman at Spores ferry.
It had been raining very hard and the
McKenzie was swollen by the recent rains.
It was getting dark and it was stay all night in the rain, or use the
pony in place of the ferryboat. She decided the pony was good for the
trip. She placed the groceries in her
lap so as to keep them as dry as possible.
The horse waded in as far as he could wade, then swam the rest of the
way, landing where he could not climb out.
Here Mrs. Fisher caught hold of a bush and pulled herself up onto the
bank holding on to the pony's bridle with one hand. After getting her footing she laid down her
groceries and with both hands free she pulled her pony out, got on him and went
safely home. After Mr. Pinkerton was
killed, she married Dr. Fisher and traded their place near Coburg for one in
the Rattlesnake valley. Mrs. Fisher met
with many hardships, but she was
undaunted and very persevering, constantly at work, frugal in her habits and
when she passed away in the year 1897 she had all the necessary comforts of
life. Mr. Fisher died at Trent in 1884.
In the spring of 1862 after the high water
had subsided, William Clark, then a boy of 17 years, was sent by his father to
the farm on Camp Creek to look after the stock.
This chore completed, he returned
home; his parents lived in Eugene at that time.
He came to Mulligans ferry and after hallowing for an hour, and was
unable to raise anyone. It was now
growing dusk, raining and freezing as it fell, but instead of going back to a
house on the road and remaining until morning he decided he would coon that
ferry rope. He climbed up, got onto the
rope, one leg over the rope, the other hooked over his foot, and all went
pretty well until the middle of the river was reached. By this time his hands were getting sore
from the bite of the ice on the
rope. From then on it was up hill and
his hands were tender and cold. It was a hard fight from this on and a fight
for his life, and then he had to stop and rest several times and while resting
he had used about all his strength to keep from slipping back. With hands aching from cold, cut and bleeding
in a dozen places, he finally reached the frame where the rope was fastened and
got down safely to the ground. It was a
boyish experiment, but it was enough of that kind.
Abe Patterson related to the writer an
incident in regard to the pent up strain the immigrants were put to in crossing
the plains ever on the look‑out for red men. At a place near
Farewell Bend on the
Deschutes River, they had gone out and gathered up their cattle with intent to
make another days journey toward the "land of great promise", when lo
and behold they found themselves short of
five or six work oxen. They started back
along the wake to look for them, the way they had come. Isaac Barclay was one in their company and was a young man
and single and had no particular cares on his mind. The oxen were found about
10 o'clock in the morning standing with their heads under a juniper tree. Ike said, "Hold on, look out boys, the
Indians have got the cattle tied up and are waiting for us to come after them
then they will kill us. Now men be
careful and I will stand guard here and
the first Indian that shows himself, I'll kill him". But as it turned out no blood had to be shed,
as the cattle were under the tree to find shade for their weary necks.
TALE OF PIONEER DAYS 2‑24‑1917
The first white man to visit Lost Valley
and gaze upon its hidden resources was Elizah Bristow, the venerable patriarch
of Pleasant Hill and first settler of Lane County. It was some time during the year 1847 that
Mr. Bristow took his wife in hand and set out to follow an Indian trail that
led southeast from his home along the foot hills and across Rattlesnake valley
nearby where the Trent sawmill once stood.
Mr. Bristow followed this trail through the woods until he came out into
the prairie near the spot where Joseph Parker erected his new residence.
It was here and at that time that Mr.
Bristow carved his name on a small oak, so that those that came later might see
that he was on the ground first. At a
time after this, say about 1850, Mr. Bristow in company with his son, William
Bristow, came into the valley from the west side hunting deer which were quite
plentiful in those days but hard to stalk as they are at the present time. By traveling a mile or two in a direction you
were most sure to see a deer or two.
Father and son found themselves on a hill afterwards called Williams
Butte and it was at this time that the valley was named. They named it Lost Valley, and that has been
its name ever since. William, Bristow
always claimed the honor of first mentioning the name, his father agreeing.
NAMING BUTTE DISAPPOINTMENT
While standing there on Williams Butte
there arose a
discussion between them as to
which side of the river the large bald butte before them was on. It was finally decided that the river flowed
on the east side of the butte, they directed their course toward the butte when
they found that the middle fork of the Willamette flowed on the west side of
the butte.
Being disappointed, they named the butte
"Butte
Disappointment". There have been several reasons set forth as
to how the butte came to be named this particular name, but after weighing the
evidence very carefully and trying to be fully informed in the matter, we give
it as our candid opinion that this is the true solution. A little jealousy sometimes creeps in between
the first and second comers to a new country and when this is allowed to
prevail it often leads to falsification in historical points.
Now we have given the true history of the
discovery of our little Lost Valley and the true origins of its name as near as
ever will be known. I shall proceed to tell
you of the first settlement and the names of the first settlers and what they
did. The first persons coming into the valley with a view of making homes were
the Morgans. They came in the fall of
1852. There were Jonathan Morgan, Patsy Morgan, a widowed daughter of
Jonathan Morgan; William
Morgan a son‑in‑law of Jonathan and Henry Morgan, a son of Jonathan
Morgan. There was also at this time here a man by the name of
Gossitt. Henry Morgan hauled for him the
logs of which he erected a cabin. He
became afraid of Indians and abandoned his claim. John B. Hanna afterwards filed on it under
the donation act, and lived on it as required by law and secured a patent. Mr. Hanna traded his place to James Parvin
who lived there the remainder of his life.
AFRAID OF INDIANS
The Morgans, being afraid of Indians,
decided after building their cabins that they would not winter here, but would
spend the winter down the valley where there were more settlers, and come back
to their places in early spring. In the
mean‑time when they had moved away, a Mr. Redford came in and squatted on
Jonathan Morgans claim. Redford spent
the winter here and alone and the Indians gave him no trouble. In the spring when the Morgans came back they
found Redford here, and it required two yoke of oxen from the hands of Jonathan
Morgan to pry him loose.
Jonathan Morgan traded his claim to A. G.
McDowell for MoDowell's claim in Rattlesnake
valley. Thomas Barbre secured
Patsy Morgan's claim, and L. S. Hunsaker bought off William Morgan's
claim. These trades were all made during
the spring and summer of 1853. These men
last mentioned, namely McDowell, Barbre and Hunsaker, made permanent settlement
and secured patents to their land under the donation act.
AN INDIAN WAR
Before proceeding further with the History
of Lost Valley I shall tell you of a circumstance that took place there. Thinking the Indians a little to bold and in
order to intimidate them somewhat so they would not prove a disturbing element
to the settlers, Elizah Elliott, of Pleasant Hill lead a small force of
volunteers to Lost Valley. Henry Morgan,
who was one of the company, stated to me
that they met but few Indians, and these seemed to wish to hide.
Elliott fired his gun off in the air and
that was about all the shooting that was done. This, we think, is about the
facts of the case, as Mr Redford came in about that time, and wintered
alone. In my boyhood days I used to hear
about a great fight between Elliott's company of volunteers on the one side and
a large number of Indians on the other; that Elliott had won a great victory
driving the Indians into the mountains and had not lost a man, not even any
wounded. These stories were made up by
some wag and told to newcomers and they in turn had innocently repeated
them. Many stories are rife as to the
spot where the battle was fought and would have it that it was in the canyon
where Jack Adding built his house, on his homestead. Others said it was at the Parvin ford, on
Lost Creek, while the real facts as stated to me by Henry Morgan, who stated to
me that he was present and one of the company,
are that the place where they found the Indians, fired the gun, rallied
and returned home was on a spot of ground southeast of the Williams and
Williams store, near some large fir trees that once stood there, inside of the
present field of William Williams.
ANOTHER INDIAN SCARE 3‑3‑1917
In the fall of 1855 the settlers of this
quiet little valley were stirred up for about 36 hours by a report from John
Beason, who lived across the river near Butte Disappointment. Mr. Beason came
over in a great hurry and stated to the settlers that the Klamath Indians were
coming down the trail in large numbers with the purpose of attacking the
settlers. This news created a severe shock and there was running to and from
and huddling together for a while ‑‑ several families went to
McDowell's home, which was centrally located and there they spent the
night. Scouting parties were sent out
who soon learned through the aid of the
Molallas (Indian residents) that there were no Klamaths coming. These resident Siwashes were much afraid of
the Flamaths (as they pronounced the name), and these Indians said that the
Klamaths would be seeking for their scalps and not the white man's. This proved to be the last Indian scare of
any importance in this valley, but this did not end until the residents had
hauled enough piling to build a small fort, but it was never completed. The location of this fort was not far
from a large oak tree now standing in William Williams' southeast field, also
the southeast corner of his farm.
Nothing of special importance occurred
here till the spring of 1861. At the
home of A. G. McDowell and his "gude" wife Gallie, the stars and
stripes were first flung to the mountain breezes. Campbell Chrisman of the Coast Fork country
had been invited to be there and make a patriotic speech. For some reason unknown to the writer he
failed to come. Green McCarty being present, was invited to take the place of
Mr. Chrisman which he did with honor to himself and the satisfaction of those
present. Mrs. McDowell had made the flag
with the occasional help of neighbor women.
All the sewing in those days was done by needle and thimble, such a
labor saving device as a sewing machine was unknown here at that time. Some time after this there was a second flag
raising, but it was the same year. At this time it was at the residence of John
Stoops. This occasion brought out some
of the partisan blood that had been held in abeyance up to this time. These times were war times, but as we people
in Oregon were living a long way from the seat of action, we passed through it
without bloodshed.
I am now going to relate a circumstance
connected with this last flag‑raising which will go to show that the
partisan spirit was getting pretty warm and no doubt if it had been pushed much
further would have brought on a little war. During the night someone had
written on a board, "Hurrah For Jeff Davis" and nailed it to the Stoops
flag pole. It was soon discovered by
those who called themselves Unionists, and you might as well have held a red
flag before a mad bull and expect it to pacify and cool his rage. John Rigdon heard of it and as the saying is,
he went up into the air for awhile at least, then he begin to plan. The result
of his plans were that the sign must come down. He said "We raised our flag pole, we put no
taunting sign on it, we did what we have done in a spirit of loyalty to the
government at Washington and now the "ceseah" are taunting us. That
sign has got to come down or I will raise 500 men and take it down and if
resisted will burn Stoops out". Rigdon went immediately to Thomas Barbre's
and made request of him that he go at once to Stoops and request him to take
down the taunting notice. Barbre, for a
reply, stated that he did not care to go, to make this request of Stoops, as at
that time there was no good feeling between them, but was finally led to go in
the hope of a reconciliation and to save the neighborhood from
bloodshedding. Going immediately to
Stoops he made his business known, stating what he thought the consequences
would be if that sign did not come down at once and stay down , citing as a
fact that they placed no taunting sign when they had raised their flag
pole. Stoops for an answer said that he
had not placed the sign there and felt no obligations for its presence, but
finally stated that he would see to it that
it came down. Peace reigned once more in
our little valley.
Nearly, if not all of those that took an
active part in this escapade are dead and gone and their feelings will not be
rent afresh by reading the foregoing.
Many of the young and rising generation have not so much as heard of
these trying times we went through.
THE STOLEN ANVIL 3‑10‑1917
A short time after the flagpole episode
took place, there was another of a different character pulled off at McDowell's
place. There was some kind of rally to
take place at
McDowells, and to celebrate
the event as it seemed the
necessities of the case
required, an old anvil was brought into requisition. This anvil belonged to Anthony Laughlin and
was the only one in this neck of the woods.
Large rocks were brought to place on the anvil in lieu of the second
anvil. A young man was hidden in the
woods nearby watching every move and studying how he might thwart these people
in their efforts to celebrate. His
opportunity came in a way he least expected. Darkness had now come on with a faint moon.
He left his place in the woods, and if you
had been
watching, you would have seen
him creeping along the inside of a tall stake and ridered fence. He crept up, as near as he thought prudent, remaining very quiet as he
did not know whether his life would be worth a two‑bit piece if
caught. The firing of the anvil was now
to begin. Three or four men were loading
it and had placed a rock on it ready to fire, when they were called into the
house for some cause. "Here is my
chance," said the young man to himself.
Over the fence he went, picked up the anvil, carried it to the fence
where he had been hiding, threw it through a crack where the rider was raised
like an ell and followed after. Picking
up the anvil he carried it a short distance, threw it down behind a stake, and
covered it with dirt a friendly mole had thrown up. He had only the time to run the length of
three or four panels of fence, when out came the men to fire the salute.
There was a surprise awaiting them. The red hot iron was swung around to set off the
powder, when to their surprise there was no anvil there. Of course they knew at once that someone had
stolen their anvil, and of course it must be some partisan on the opposite
side, named by them "Cesesh".
These men ran up and down the road in search
of the man who had purloined their anvil, but their efforts came to naught for
the young man was inside of the field behind a fence stake drawn into as small
a comass as it was possible to reduce himself.
The hunters passed by him at a very close range, but owing to the
darkness he was not discovered. As soon
as it was thought prudent, the young man got out with all the celerity
imaginable. The old blacksmith was without an anvil for some time and said all
kind of hard things about the man who stole the anvil.
MORE EARLY COMERS
Now I will mention some of the early
comers who did not take the benefit of the donation act. James and Joseph Parker came in 1853, in
company with John Stoop, their brother‑in‑law. A few years later
they married and made their first settlement in Rattlesnake Valley. Joseph
married Caroline Rutlege, and bought the place now owned by E. P.
Williams. Here they made their home for some time, thence
moving to Pleasant Hill, where he remained a few years. Selling out there he came to Lost Valley and
bought the old McDowell place from William Osborn, and here he has resided ever
since.
James Parker married Phoeba Rigdon, made
his first home in Rattlesnake valley, and afterward moved to Cloverdale valley
where he has resided until‑his death a few years ago.
About 1869 Thomas Harris came to this
valley. His claim is now owned by John
V. Crall. This place has changed hands perhaps more than any other farm in the
valley. First Harden, then A. J.
Hunsaker, John N. Johnson, L. B. Rowland, George Coryell, Rube Oliver, then
Thomas Harris, who was the first to file and he received a patent under the
homestead act. Harris sold to Thomas Roney.
Roney died on the place and his heirs sold to Jonathan Vincent; Vincent
to John V. Crail, the present owner.
The next to take land under the homestead
law was Lewis Coleman. He sold his claim
to C. M. Hamilton. Charles W. Walden secured a patent for the
claim now owned by Henry Smith. Samuel
McBee had squatted on the claim before Walden, but traded to Walden his right
for a small sum. H. S. Ward, the school
teacher, secured the place now owned by Mr. Gillett. William Templeman took up
the place now owned by Smith Carr.
Coming down the west side of the valley, we find Joe Addington on a
homestead about 40 years ago, this is about all except some of more recent
date. Among these we might mention a Mr.
Purisful, Dwight McGuire, Gold Dunten and Edwin Wegner. At the falls of Lost Creek we find L. C. Mathews setting on a homestead some 38 years
ago.
W. R. Parker filed on the home where he
now resides about the same time. Josiah
McBee was among those early claimants.
Samuel McBee took up the claim now owned by L. Mathews.
As we remember Henry Tilton took up his
claim a few years after these. Levi
Harper took a claim south of Tilton
about this time. Elija Bristow or Dock
Bridges, we do not know which, secured title to the Johnson claim. We may have omitted some, but think we
have about all of those who secured title
from the general government at Washington.
We now think of three more, these names
are among the late comers. Alexander
Griffin and Charles Chandler; William Keoster a little earlier.
NAMING LANDMARKS
Some one may ask the question, how did the
prominent butte or, the southeast side of the valley get its name?. Thomas Barbre gave me the facts in this
matter. A. J. Hunsaker and Barbre went
into the mountain gunning in June 1854.
On their return to the home of Mr. Barbre, in their conversation they
decided that a butte of such prominence should have a name and they decided that Pisgah would be very
appropriate. L. S. Hunsaker, hearing the
remarks and learning of their decision,
informed them that there was a Pisgah in the not far away
neighborhood of Pleasant
Hill. They then decided to name the
butte Mt. Zion, and the old butte has
born this name with remarkable dignity ever since.
We wish to record an occurrence which took
place during the early part of the night after Beason made his report, which
caused the blood to tingle and run cold in the veins of some for a little while
at least.
Several young men were at McDowell's and
they concluded they would walk out upon the hill nearby and see if they could
learn anything. They had hardly reached
the point to which they had intended
going, when they heard someone hallooing.
The first thought was that the Indians were signalling to each other,
and that they had been discovered, and that the Indians would be onto them
soon. No doubt many conflicting thoughts
ran through their minds, when A. J. Hunsaker, one of the number recognized the
voice as being that of his brother, Dan, when he said, "Boys that's Dan,
and I am going to him."
Dan as it appears, had not heard of the Indian
stampede, being away somewhere and when he got home he went to Barbre's, his
brother‑in‑law living nearby, and no one was found there so he came
out away from the house and began to hallo, thinking they were around somewhere
and would make their presence known, but they had gone to McDowell's too, and
Dan was left alone,
presumed to be surrounded by
a foreign foe but was at perfect peace with himself except that he was
lonesome. His brother Andrew, went to
him and they together repaired to Dan's cabin, where they remained during the
night. Dan being informed by his brother
of Beason's report and of the people gathering at
McDowell's, scouted the idea
of there being any Klamaths and thought
Beason was misinformed.
Will say however, that for years after
this the resident Indians and what were known as "friendlys" were far too numerous
for the peaceful nerves of the housewife.
She was often alone with two or three small children. Forty or fifty of these bucks would come
riding by at one time fantastically dressed in their barbaric style. It was no pleasant affair to one not used to
such things. Sometimes these Indians
would stop and beg for flour, tobacco or sugar.
The poor woman had none of these articles to give, thinking all the time
because she could give them nothing that this might offend them, and they would
wreak vengeance on her in her helpless condition. After a long time as it appeared to those
living here then, the Indians were all taken away to the reserve. A few however came back, and these were allowed to stay by request of a few of the
settlers as they needed them to dress their deer skins and make rails. Old Mose was chief among those that came back
to their old hunting ground. He had
a family consisting of wife, son and daughter.
When this old fellow thought or heard that the Indian agent would be
around searching for stray Indians he would hie himself away to the mountains and we would not see him for
two or three months. This fear finally
wore away as he was informed by friendly whites that they had asked the agent
to allow him to remain. Old Mose was counted among the honest
Indians; his credit was good at John T.
Gilfry's store at Cloverdale or with any of the farmers who dealt with
him in buying of buckskins.
FIRST SAWMILL BUILT
Dropping down to 1858 we find Blasingim,
Rutedg and James Eastep building the first sawmill. This mill was erected on
the ground now owned by Bert Parker and very near where the Dexter flouring
mills now stand. This sawmill derived
its power from the
flowing force of Lost Creek;
an old‑fashioned sash frame held the saw which did its cutting by moving
up and down. It was made to do so by a large crank attached to a water wheel;
to the crank was attached a pitman and this in turn to the sash in which the
saw was held. Of course at the present
day this mode of making lumber would be counted very slow. Two thousand feet a day was the limit. In those days it was thought very good and
much easier than whipsawing. This mill worked many years at this place, the
timber being mostly used up the irons and works were sold to Elijah Wilson, who
rebuilt it about three miles south on Lost Creek, where it was owned and run by various parties. The last owner was Captain Backus. The sash mills as they were known, belonged
to a past generation.
TALE OF PIONEER DAYS (‑COIITINUED)
While on the subject I will tell you how
Mt. June received cognomen. Mr. C. W. Walden was the man and he gave for
his reason that the snow was still on the butte the first of June the year he
settled in the valley. Walden named
Middle Creek for the reason he said "it was about halfway from his home to
the settlement." Being a Yankee he named the little stream that flowed by
his home, Yankee Creek.
FIRST CHILD BORN
The first white child born in Lost Valley
was Ilena
Williams, December, 23, 1853;
just two months after her parents arrived with the emigrants that came by way
of the Middle Fork. She grew to womanhood here; married a Mr. Whitbeck, and is
now living at Wendling in this county.
Ann Whitaker gives the name of Mary Spores as probably being the first
white child born in Lane County, being born in the spring of 1848 ‑‑
Since writing the foregoing we have learned the exact date of Mary Spores birth
as being November 17, 1848. Mrs. Kinsey,
states that her sister, Lenora Skinner, was born Sept, 1, thus you
will see that Lenora Skinner was the first white child born in Lane
County.
In the year 1871 Samuel Handsaker and
family came from Canyonville to this place and bought the ferry at Butte
Disappointment and grounds
herewith. This was not the first ferry
at this place; the first was placed here by the military road company; the
second by David Callison, and this was
the ferry William Handsaker bought and ran for many years. Mr. Handsaker was a thorough‑going man
and soon had a store and not long after, as we remember, a postoffice.
Butte Disappointment was the name given the postoffice. Later the name was changed to Dexter. This office continues to this day and Ida
Williams is the postmistress.
Butte Disappointment was the name of the
first postoffice in this valley and Samuel Handsaker was the first man who had
the right to write P. M. after his name.
This office was moved from place
to place. James Parvin was postmaster
several years and had the office and store at his home here. The second office was named Zion and Thomas
H. Hunsaker was the postmaster; the Zion office started in the year 1899. This office continued 10 years. Soon after the Zion office was started,
the June office was started on upper Lost Creek. This office had several
postmasters and was discontinued after some years. This office was renewed and given the name
Zion. Rufus Wood was postmaster during
the fall of 1913, when he resigned and
the office was discontinued.
INCIDENTS OF DAILY
At the first the early settlers real
necessities were few. The larger portion
of the emigrants took up claims and began to improve. The first thing was to get some house logs
together, invite the neighbors to assist with the "raising" as it was
called. All had houses to build, so help
was freely granted. The house up,
the next act was to make rails and fence in a garden spot, then a small field
for grain. The grain was out with a
cradle and as soon as it was dry, it was hauled to a central place, a round
corral was formed, the grain placed within and the cattle or horses were turned
loose on it to tramp out the grain. The
animals were driven around and kept constantly moving while the men with forks
would stir or change the straw‑‑slow work, you say? yes but there
was no other way known at that time.
When at last the grain was tramped out, the straw was separated from the
chaff and grain with forks, then the fanning mill was brought into requisition;
that is provided you had one or could borrow one; if not you did it in this
way. A scaffold was erected eight or ten
feet high, the grain was carried to the top of the scaffold, a large sheet was
spread on the ground at the foot of the scaffold; the grain was gently poured
out and a strong breeze carried the chaff away and left the clean grain to
remain.
The same amount of grain may be threshed
out and cleaned in a few minutes by one of our modern threshing outfits, but in
those days it required many days toil.
The grain for bread was now hauled to Billy Jones' grist mill at
Cloverdale.
This perhaps was the first
gristmill to grind grain in this country.
MALE SHINGLES EARLY
Shingle making was another industry engaged in by many early
settlers, especially those who lived near the cedar groves. A rancher would
make up a load of shingles, take them to
Corvallis and trade them for
groceries, or clothing. Shingles were in
good demand for many years at three and four dollars per thousand. Five thousand was the load for a two horse
team. Five hundred shingles were
packed in a bunch. Several days were
required to make the round trip to market, especially when oxen were used as
motive power. Time in those days was all
they had, and they went about getting ready for the trip, with as much pleasure
as one would now getting ready for an excursion to the lakes or sea shore.
Time rolled on. Reapers came to take the place of the cradle,
and the threshing machine in place of the horses for trampling out the
grain. Men began to be measured by their
wealth and not by their character.
OLD CABINS REMAIN
There are yet a few log cabins still
standing that were built in a very early days. One of these may be seen on
Uncle John Shelley's farm on Pleasant Hill. Mr.
Shelly, very recently informed me that he built this cabin in the fall
of the year 1851; that it had settled down and that he had added more logs on
the top two different times. This cabin
still stands in a good state of preservation just behind the present
dwelling. "Aunt Almira
Bristow", who died just a few days ago, lived in one of those ancient
buildings. It is a good and comfortable
building and has a large fireplace where all the cooking was done in the early pioneer days.
When Horace Greely ran for president on
the Democratic ticket some of the Democrats thought he was too big a pill to‑swallow,
so did not vote for president that year.
"Uncle" Tommy Harris when seen
coming from the polls, was asked if he voted for Greely. "Yes" he
said, "I am
like the little boy when the
preacher asked the blessing: "You can say what you please, but you can't
turn my stomach". A short time
after the election, Mr. Greely died.
Uncle Tommy was told of it and his laconic reply was ‑‑
"I knew one good
Democratic vote would kill
him." The old gentleman would then drop his under jaw, this was a sign for
all to laugh.
Now for the story of two young men who
left their homes in Lost Valley, August 21, 1872. Our mode of travel was
horseback and our objective point was the hot lake in Grand Ronde valley. With no pack horse, just a little flour and
some bacon, ground coffee, a frying pan and coffee pot tied in behind the
saddle made the full outfit, our blankets that we used at night for our beds
were our saddles. On the night of August
21 we camped at Rush Island. A man by the name of William Train fell in with us
here and made one of the company as far as the Deschutes when he left us,
taking the road to Pitt river California.
The 22nd we traveled as far as the John Hill place, known then as the
Little Prairie. On our way that day, we
passed the Sanford place at Big Prairie. Their home consisted of two log cabins
set in line with a shed roof to join them together. The Sanfords were cattle men, and here they
had an abundance of range. The next
place, and across Salmon Creek was Adison Black's home. He had settled there the year before in
1871. The place is now owned by Frank
Warner.
On the 23rd of August we started early
with the view of reaching the Rigdon place, which we did early in the
evening. Uncle Steve and Aunt Zylpha, as
they were familiarly called by their friends, were at home and ready to greet
us. This place was new. Mr. Rigdon had
sown some wheat to make hay. It was now
heading out but very green. Instead of
mowing it he plucked it roots and all, made a bundle, which, I remember was
worth 25 cents a piece.
We had our supper and breakfast in the
house. The Little Fine Opening, as this
prairie was called by the immigrants,
proved to be a good point to do business with travelers going to and from
Eastern Oregon. Uncle Steve and Aunt
Zylpha, as they were familiarly called by their friends, conducted this place
for 30 years when they sold it. This
place is still known as Rigdon Ranch.
August 24th we crossed the Cascade range,
the crossing was just south of Diamond Peak, one of the snow peaks of the
Cascade range. We reached Crescent Lake
at the eastern foot of the mountains at about 3 o'clock p. m.. There we found
Daniel Waldo of the Waldo Hills and his son‑in‑law, a Mr. Wells,
together with their hired man whose name we did not learn.
Mr. Waldo had a raft made of pine logs and
had been fishing. The hired man had walked around the lake that day and when
asked as to how far he judged the distance around, answered 35 miles., This you
will see was very erroneous, as the writer of these lines has been around this lake many times, not
only in a boat, but afoot as well, and 12 miles he would say is the extreme
limit of distance. Directly in front of
Crescent Lake is Pilot Butte, so named
by immigrants of 1853, this is a cone shaped butte, and it can be seen for many
miles round about.
August 25th was a beautiful day. When we reached the crossing of the
Deschutes, we turned north and followed the immigrant road, up to this time we
had been traveling on the Oregon and California military road which was new
then and in good repair. As we traveled
along the banks of the Deschutes we saw
several nice open places among the pines.
These prairies were covered with
a splendid coat of grass. We camped this
evening at Crater ford.
A Mr. Sanderson, who was hunting for
horses camped with us. He related to us
that he had undertaken to winter a band of horses here and that they had nearly
if not quite all perished in the deep snow.
August 20th we traveled some 30 miles as we judged. The most of the day we were in pine timber,
the road was level and easy going. Made
camp that night with the Dixon or Dickerson stretching out before us, a
splendid prairie with grass knee high on Paulina creek.
August 27th we found the country variegated with timber and grassy
prairies. We passed what is called the big meadows that day and
that night we made camp at Farewell Bend of the Deschutes. There was no company and it seemed very
lonesome. As the writer recollects, we
forded over to the west side of the river where there was fine grass for our
horses.
About sundown some coyotes gave us one of
their splendid serenades, which they kept up for perhaps an hour. August 28th we crossed the 30‑mile
desert and came to immigrant ford on Crooked River. Here the water was strongly impregnated with
alkali and it had a milky color.
LONE WOMAN TRAVELS
We had company that night in abundance ‑‑
six men and one lone woman, the men came into camp a short time after we
arrived. They stated to us that they had been to Boise City selling a band of
horses. The woman came about sundown
driving a span of mules hitched to a
buggy, one of the men helped the lady unhitch and set up her tent. She stated to this man that she was on her
way to The Dalles. We went fishing here
and caught a mess of chubs, the stream
being full of these fish.
August 29th we went to Prineville to get
one of the horses shod, this place consisted of a store, blacksmith shop and
saloon, the last named business was owned by Henry Prine, who was the owner of
the town site.
TALE OF PIONEER DAYS 3‑24‑1917
Prineville is situated on a level plot of
land lying between Ochico creek and Crooked River.
Some grain is raised on the Ochico, but
the main dependence of the country in 1872 was stock raising. After transacting our business at Prineville
we turned on our course and camped there ‑ alone at Willow Creek. We passed the place here where Henry Deadman
killed Meeker and his partners. These
men had
taken a drove of hogs to the
mines and were coming home with their money and were murdered here in cold
blood.
August 30.
We were in a prairie country with no trees of any kind, but rolling
hills with bunch grass. That day we
passed the Teal and Coleman stock ranch where lots of cattle were in sight.
August 31.
We were at Cross Hollows (now called Shanico). This country had a peculiar formation with
four deep hollows coming together like the letter "X" with the center
raised or even with the surrounding
country. Here was the stage road leading
from The Dalles to Canyon City This was a trading post and a stage stand, where
horses were kept. The country here was
like the rest we had passed ‑‑ all prairie and no timber in sight.
September 1. We were at a
place called Haystacks. This country was
all alike ‑‑ rolling prairie with bunch grass in abundance. My diary says this was Sunday evening and
with all a very pleasant day.
EVIDENCE OF PLACER MINING
September 2. We traveled some 30 odd miles
and reached the John Day river. We
camped on the west bank of the river. It
was raining hard and no shelter. On the
morning of the 3rd we forded the river.
It was still raining. This river
is dark and muddy, made so from the placer mining going on somewhere up this river. Leaving the John Day we traveled up Rock
Creek nine miles, thence over the rolling prairies to Willow Creek. Here we made camp at William Weigles place. This appeared to be a very fine stock country
but with no farming. We laid over here a day and we both traded horses with
Weigle and got new mounts.
September 5th. We left the Weigle
place on Willow Creek and came to Butter Creek, and camped at Tom Ayer's place. It was here a coyote pulled the frying pan
from under our heads and ate the grease and remaining meat out of it ‑‑
about as brave a thing as I ever knew a coyote to do.
Butter Creek is a very small stream and
the country around about the same as Willow Creek except they did a little farming there. We bought sheaf oats to feed our horses. Leaving the Ayers place September 6 we rode
to Pendleton, a distance of 35 miles.
This was a flourishing little town that had a hotel, livery stable,
stores, saloon, blacksmith shop, and a paper called the East Oregonian. We did
not tarry long here.
Sunday morning, Sep. 8th we were on the
Umatilla Indian reservations We saw many Indians and perhaps thousands of Indian ponies almost all colors. On the road we met a pack train, the first we
had ever seen. This train had been to
the Salmon River mines and was going to Umatilla Landing for another load.
They were then loaded with cow hides.
These great cumbersome packs scared our horses until it seemed we would
not get by. A little nigger boy was
riding a gray mare in the lead of the pack train and the mules, perhaps a
hundred, were following, ten or twelve
men bringing up the rear.
This Umatilla country was level along the
river and as pretty a country as we had ever seen. We could then see timber in
the Blue Mountains some 20 or 30 miles away.
We reached William Russell's that
day at 12 o'clock. Mr. Russell was at
one time a resident of Pleasant Hill. Mr. Russell like the rest of the people
here, was improving his home and seemed well pleased with the country. His home was one mile and a half east of
Weston on Pine Creek.
My partner went immediately to Grand Ronde
Valley, as he had some business to attend to there. We remained behind some
days doing some work teaming at Weston.
Our job completed we had an opportunity to go to Grand Ronde with
Dr. Literal and Enoch Russell. We crossed the Blue Mountains by way of the
Lincoln Road and found the snow 20 inches deep for several miles on the mountains. We reached Indian Valley north of Grand Ronde
late in the evening. We found a place to
stay with some bachelors.
VALLEY IS BEAUTIFUL
Here the country put me in mind of the
Deschutes, with lots of bull pine or lodge pole pine. The day after crossing
the mountains Enoch Russell and I went to the Hot Lake or near it where his
father Abel Russell resides. Grand Ronde
is a
beautiful valley 30 miles
long and 20 wide in the widest place, and level as a floor. But of course every place has its draw
backs. We soon decided that it was too
windy for us. We spent two weeks here
riding after cattle for Taylor Green, then
returned to Weston, where my
partner was making ready for our homeward bound trip.
This whole country was passed over by the
emigration, and I think now that the principal
reason for passing it by was the lack of timber and water for both
articles are scarce here. And again they had been traveling all summer long
through a country similar to this and they
wanted something better. Uncle
Abel Russell visited Grand Ronde with two of his sons in the summer of 1868, as
we remember. On his return to the
Willamette valley he stated to my parents that "We had left a better
country behind us, in the Grand Ronde and Walla Walla valley." We are quite certain that Mr.
Russell changed his mind as to this statement before he had lived many years in
Grand Ronde, as he soon sold out and moved to near Weston. It was here he spent the remaining days
allotted him.
It was now about October 10, 1872 and
having seen the country, my partner's business all settled, we turned our faces
toward our homes in the Willamette valley.
We traveled pretty much the same road as we came until we crossed the
John Day River. Here we took the
emigrant road that led toward The Dalles.
We followed this road to the Deschutes.
The country here and lying north toward the Columbia river is more
level, but water is hardly to be found, just a spring here and there. We crossed the Deschutes at Shearer's bridge,
thence turning southwest we passed
through Tygh Valley.
VISITS PIONEER BARLOW
We then traveled in a westerly direction
to Barlow's gate at the eastern foot of the Cascades. Mr. Barlow the man who
opened the Barlow Road in the
year 1846 was riding here keeping travel.
Mr. Barlow did not seem to be an old man at this time. his hair was
black, he was straight and seemed to get about as well as anyone. I do not
think he was much over 50.
The toll gate was kept at Foster's on the
Big Sandy which Mr. Barlow stated was 55 miles from his home at Barlow's
Gate. We were up very early next
morning, as there was no stopping place on the road until we reached
Foster's. We arrived at this place very
late in the evening, there were bad roads.
There was much corduroy or puncheon laid on the swampy places on the
road and these puncheons seemed to be floating about a foot high from the
bottom of the road. This made our horses
very shy about crossing these places.
TALE OF PIONEER DAYS (cont.)
We could not get down and walk, as the mud
and water would reach halfway to the knees, so we sat on our beasts and spurred
them through, hoping they would not run a foot through the timbers and thereby
break a leg. As we passed along we
noticed that there were two little streams that crossed the road that rose very
high in the afternoon when the sun would melt the snow on Mount Hood. During the night these would run down so that
they were not more than a foot deep, but in the late afternoon they were swift
torrents, being midside to a horse and very dangerous to cross. We had Mount Hood on our right all day and a
part of the time the mountain seemed quite close. The snow was quite visible through the
timber. There is a steep hill on this
road named Laurel Hill. The emigrants
found it quite difficult to go down. If
they had had it to go up they would have found it more difficult. As it was, it was bad enough. Trees had to be felled and chained to the
hind axle of the wagon in order to pass down with a degree of safety.
Leaving Foster's we came southwest,
crossed the Clackamas river on through Howell Prairie, Waldo Hills, on through
the town of Silverton. We visited a few
days at Turner with the Hunsakers and thence on home. Thus ended a splendid trip to two young men
in that early day. In conclusion will
say that these men are still living, but are no longer young.
Forty‑three years makes quite an
addition to one's years. I am pleased to
say for them that they have homes, children and grandchildren around them.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 2‑26‑1917
STAFFORD BRIDGE IS DAMAGED BY
Weight of snow that has fallen during the
last few days did some damage in various parts of Lane County. Sunday afternoon the roof of the Stafford
bridge across the Mohawk river, on the "Hill" road, a few miles this
side of Donna, collapsed, throwing the top chord out of alignment. This bridge was given minor repairs last
summer, and was to be rebuilt this coming spring. The bridge is closed to travel until the extent
of the damage can be ascertained.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 2‑26‑1917
SPRINGFIELD NEWS
Saturday morning while playing with a
rubber button, such as are found on hose supporters, little Forrester, the two‑year‑old
son of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Lemley, inserted the button in his nose. The child was hurriedly brought to the office
of a
physician to have the
obstruction removed.
There has been a crew of about eight men
busy at the Booth Kelly mill during the closed period, laying concrete forms
and foundations, for the installing of a new resaw, and in doing other
extensive repairs around the mill.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 3‑16‑1917
SAWMILL AT MABEL TO RESUME
The Coast Range Lumber Company's mill at
Mabel will resume operation next Tuesday, with a crew of 200 men, according to
announcement of Charles E. Gratke, manager of the mill, who was in Eugene
Thursday. Mr. Gratke states the logging
camps will start Friday, and the mill proper will get under way in a few
days. He adds that the company has a
large number of orders, and he expects the mill will have a long run.
The mill at Mabel is one of the most
modern in this part of Oregon, and has been operating intermittently for
several years past.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 3‑26‑1917
SPRINGFIELD NEWS
GIVES SKIN FOR GRAFTING
A young lady of this city voluntarily had
several strips of skin removed to be
used to graft upon M. G. Bally Saturday morning. Mr Bally lost every atom of skin on both
limbs from his hips to his ankles, about two months ago when he was severely
scalded.
He has been at the local hospital since
the accident. Several people have
offered strips of skin to use. Mr. Bally
is doing nicely.
HORSE DROWNS
W. C. Wooley who lives on East Main
street, unfortunately lost one of his horses Saturday. His two sons, Glen and William, drove the
team down to the river near the rock crusher after a load of sand and returning
from the sand bar the horses got into deep water. The heavy load and the harness drew them
down. The boys swam to the shore but the
horses were in the water for more than two hours until rescued. One lived but a few minutes.
LES FISHER HURTS ANKLE
Lester Fisher, on Friday morning had his
leg caught between two logs at the Booth Kelly mill, bruising that member quite
badly. It is some better now.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 4‑7‑1917
BOOTH KELLY MEN TO
All employee of the Booth Kelly Lumber
Company who enlist for service will receive their old jobs or better ones at
the end of the war, was the announcement made by manager A. O. Dixon this
morning.
"The company is encouraging its young
men to enlist", said Mr. Dixon.
"This applies to all branches of work; in the car shops, camps,
mills, and offices"
"Fight or work should be the slogan
for every able bodied man in the United States", said air said Mr. Dixon.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 4‑18‑1917
SKIN GRAFTING FAILS TO SAVE
M. G. BALLY'S
M. G. Bally, superintendent of the Fischer
Boutin Lumber Company's mill in Springfield, died last night as a result of scalds
received three months ago. His injuries
were received while he was at work under a boiler at the Springfield plant. He
had started to repair a pipe, and believing the water to have been drained from
the boiler, unloosened a joint of pipe.
A head of steam which had formed in the pipes burst upon him.
He saved his face and lungs by burying his
head in a pile of waste sawdust. His
body was terribly burned. A number of
his relatives and friends submitted to the removal of skin from their bodies
and this was grafted onto Mr. Bally's
body by the
physicians attending him in
an effort to save his life. His death is
attributed to the shock of the scalding steam bursting onto his body from which
he never fully rallied.
Mr. Bally was 42 years of age and was born
at Hoxville Ontario Canada. He had been
identified with the lumbering interests of Lane County for several years. He is survived by his wife and two sons, Ray
and Joseph Bally, both of Springfield. He was a member of the Independent Order
Of Odd Fellows and the lodge at Springfield will have charge of the funeral
services.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 4‑30‑1917
MYSTERY OF RED
Lumber men up and down the Pacific coast
have been in a state of wild excitement for several days and hundreds of
special guards have been placed on duty at their plants because of the reception of each of them of a
post card on which was crudely printed a
blood red hand, and the words: "Three days more, We mean
Business" The lettering was in pen and ink and the hand apparently the
imprint of a rubber stamp.
Every mill on the Pacific coast received
what appeared to be the warning of some agency threatening violence and in each
case, the managers immediately notified the authorities requesting protection
and vigilance to protect their properties from
possible harm.
SHERIFF PARKER NOTIFIED
Sheriff J. C. Parker received appeals from
virtually every mill in Lane county, including the mills on the Siuslaw. The mill owners stated that they were putting
on appraisal guards, but desired the authorities to assist them in taking some
precaution, and in reaching,
if possible, the source of the evil looking post card.
Today the mills received a second postal
card, also carrying the imprint of the hand, but in green. Across the back, the words, "One more
day. The last word," were scrawled in pen and ink. But this second notification was more
explicit and carried an explanation of the purpose of the cards as
follower "On account of the
publicity of the press and the condition of the times, and the conception of
the idea, I have decided to allay any possible misunderstanding and fear in the
public mind, so the three days have been cut down to one and will be mailed
tomorrow. Look for it."
This card is signed by C. A. Stewart,
Pacific Coast manager, of Clark Brothers company, dealers in sawmill
machinery. Both officials and mill men
condemned the method of advertising as a time when every nerve is strained by
the possible suggestion of violence.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 5‑2‑1917
Floyd Martin of Marcola Dies
Floyd Martin, the 12‑year‑old
son of Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Martin of
Marcola, was brought to the Springfield hospital last Friday evening suffering
from a fractured skull, the result of a kick from a horse, died Monday
afternoon at the hospital. The body was
shipped this afternoon to Marcola where services were held and interment was
made. W. F. Walker of Springfield was in
charge of the funeral arrangements.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 5‑4‑1917
SPRINGFIELD NEWS
W. W. Waite of Marcola yesterday morning
bought the meat market fixtures from the county market on West Main Street from
Al Montgomery and crated them and shipped to Marcola where he owns a market.
Workmen for the past three days have been
busy and nearly completed the tearing down of the old building on Mill and Main
street known as the Walker estate. The
building is an old land mark and one of the first to be built in the city. It has not been occupied for the past three
years.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 5‑9‑1917
PATRIOTS AT MOHAWK HAVE
A patriotic demonstration was given at the
home of Joseph betting Monday evening.
Mr.
Betting cut a flag staff 60 feet in length and before long the
neighborhood in general had discovered the fact, and their patriotism was so
aroused that the event was soon turned into a patriotic rally and the entire
population assisted with the flag staff planting and the raising of "Old
Glory."
A flag salute was given and patriotic
songs were sung. Several short talks
were given on patriotism and the loyalty of German‑Americans. Mr. Betting is a German‑American and
has shown his loyalty to the country of his adoption by his part in the
demonstration.
The ladies served light refreshments about
10 o'clock and with a closing talk from H. W. Gustin the gathering disbanded
and left for their respective homes.
WOULD DRAFT TRAMPS FOR ARMY
SERVICE
City Councilman C. P. Devereaux proposes
that all men found begging for food from house to house be drafted for service
in the army.
"Three husky individuals came to my
house", he said "and asked for something to eat. I was surprised in
view of the fact that farmers all over the state of Oregon have been making
appeals for workmen. They want big
strong men like these to help them with their crops. There ought to be a law to compel such men to
enlist in the service of the country".
Mr. Devereaux would form an organization in all cities and have all
tramps who asked for food promptly turned over to the recruiting officers.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 5‑17‑1917
Marcola Boys And Girls Start
Garden Project
The boys and girls of the Marcola High
School are doing their bit to help the nation.
They have responded to the call to plant. Superintendent A. I. O'Reilly has been
stimulating their interest with good marks on report cards, but he says the
initiative came from the
gardeners themselves. They have been
carrying on their work much the same as other schools of the state, but calling
a call for a survey of agricultural
resources of Oregon, a farm
and garden survey of the school projects was decided upon. The work of 35 students is
represented.
The reports show 16 1/4 acres of garden,
eight acres of corn, 15 acres of potatoes and 6 1/2 acres of beans. Gardens range in size from 24 by 24 feet to
346 by 252 feet.
The acreage tracts are being cultivated by
the boys in the school.
Superintendent O'Reilly gave
students time off from school upon written request from parents. The vegetables
grown in the school gardens are onions, lettuce, radishes, turnips, beets,
cabbage, tomatoes, cucumbers, carrots, peas, cauliflower, Kale, parsnips,
parsley, and spinach.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 5‑19‑1917
HORSES
Claud Hammitts team, while tied at the
Donna store Thursday, became frightened at the freight train and ran away. The horses collided with a telephone pole
before going very far, breaking the wagon tongue, evener, and neck yoke. The harness was damaged some but the team
escaped without injury.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 5‑22‑1917
Old Springfield Landmark
Being Wrecked
Workmen, under the supervision of Albert
Wauchmuth, are tearing down the old Mount Hood Saloon, which is owned by
William McFarland and is an old landmark, on the corner of Mill Street and the
race.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 5‑23‑1917
WENDLING NEWS
The Booth Kelly Company is building six
new houses, very neat and substantial, piping water to them and two at least
will be fitted with modern bath rooms.
They are about ready for the paint.
Ej. Adams, formerly an employee at the
Eugene cannery, is now working on the new Booth Kelly company houses here.
Al Lundeman a carpenter from Eugene who
has been working on the new Booth Kelly houses, had a nail fly from under the
hammer and hit him just above
the eye. The eye is pronounced in a very serious condition.
Springfield News (Register
Guard 5‑24‑1917)
Mrs.
Roy Palmer, who lives near Midway Park, while
returning home yesterday
afternoon, her horse became frightened at a steam roller which Welby Stevens
was operating, near the railroad track, on South Second street. The horse shied,
plunging the buggy into a
ditch, which caused Mrs. Palmer to pitch out upon her head. She became fastened in the wheel, and was dragged several feet before she
became loosened. Mr. Stevens picked up the injured woman, and
brought her to a local physicians office.
Mrs. Palmer was badly bruised
about the face and head and three stitches were taken in her upper lip.
THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD 5‑28‑1917
MOVIE OPERATOR AT
SPRINGFIELD, BURNED
J. W. White, proprietor of the Belle
Theatre, was painfully burned yesterday afternoon when a film in the projecting
machine which he was operating caught fire the flame spreading to the operating
and theater entrance. A comparatively
small crowd in the building at the time escaped through an exit on the opposite
side of the building.
Both of Mr. White's hands were very
severely burned and his face was blistered. He was removed to the
THE
MARCOLA SCHOOLS CLOSE SCHOOL
YEAR
There will be four graduated from the
exercises will be held in the
M. W. A. hall. The class will be presented by A. I. O'Reilly, superintendent of
the Marcola schools and the diplomas
will be handed them by M. Johnson, chairman of the board of education.
High School diplomas will be
awarded to:
Letia Harris
Jennie Turner
Those completing the eighth grade work and
who will
receive diplomas are:
Ethel Wood
Ida Whitsell
Edward Harris
Anna Page
Arthur Paschelke Earnest Sother
THE
WENDLING WAR REGISTRATION
LIST
Herbert Galvin Adams
William Bradford
Herschel Eben Bailey
Roy Clifford Brower
Joseph Walter Bly
Delbert Levi Bennett
Ralph Burgdorf
Frank Henry Burnett
Joe Henry Bolin
Derris Glenn Bennett
Arthur Winton Caskey
Ed Lee Cofer
Garland Harry Campbell
James Weaver Cole
Bertie Eugene Cox
Robert Gordon Campbell
James Weaver Cole
W. W. Carter
Louis Isaac Dompier
Oli Taylor
Burver Kenneth Duncan
John Henry Downing
Elvin Boff Deadmond
Charles Etchison
Toffolin Ermenegildo
Earnest Reason Endicott
Earl Ellison
Fred Honsley Fritts
Forrest Elmer Fritts
Arlie Andrew Fitzwater
Leslie D. Franklin
Guy William Fair
Victor LeRoy Gillespie
Percy S. Higgens
Fred Edward Harriman
Charles Clinton Hoeflein
John Hill
Robert William Hughes
Harry Goodson Hamilton
Joseph Henneman
Elvin Dellard Hickson
Henry Walter Howard
Walter Marvin Holt
Howard Humphrey
William Haward
Louis Walter Irvin
James Darwin Jeans
Elbert Cecil Jeans
Earnest Johnson
Marvin George Kloster
Bruce Edward Lansbery
Oskear Sigfrid Larsen
James Larsen
James Lewis LaJoie
Joseph P. Lawler
Paul Ervin Lansbery
Charles Elbert Libby
Roy Fremont Maxwell
Gordon Carel McCann
Louis Moscavich
Herman Hickman Mode
Joseph Parwell Maginnis
Lloyd E. Moore
Clarence Elmer Neet
Robert Russell Neet
George Theodore Nelson
Joseph Stone Phillips
Loren Russell Perkins
Gerald LeRoy Perkins
Steve Pascovich
Domenico Quaglia
Ralph Redding
Ray Leone
Robert Cooster
Roy Sourbeer
Clarence LeRoy Sutton
Arthur Stout
Charles L. Sigman
William F. Sayles
Leo Alva Silver
Frank D. Sperger
Charles Loyd Shultz
Robert Charles Stratton
Milton Giles Hutchinson
Fred Earnest Thomas
Jesse Winifred Tucker
Andrew Burns
Matt Vladich
Walter Hamilton VanOrden
Andy Vladiah
Albert Winifred Wooley
Wesley Walter Ware
Samuel Winstead
Julin Emery Wallace
Roy Thomas Waggoner
Boyce A. Young
THE
6‑23‑1917
DRAFT REGISTRATION LIST FOR
MABEL
John Anest
Nesuke Azuma
Y. U. Azuma
Harry Leslie Argetsinger
James Mike Agorastakis
Edward Beasley
Antonio Catanzurit
Charles James Christiansen
Oren Francis Duval
George Reuben Dingle
Reigh Taylor Earnest
John Bradford Fox
Robert Moulton Gatka
Frank Galse
Battisto Geddo
Sewall Charles Gatka
Edward Clow Handoaker
John Cleveland Hileman
Reyozo Hasuike
Henry Thorvald Jorgensen
Thorg Andrew Johnson
Elmer Marvin Johnson
Fred Eric Johnson
John Walter Johnson
John Fredric Kalberg
John June Kennedy
Posey Lacey
Mike Lagos
Edward Russell Leckley
Arthur Vivian Lucus Luigi
Boanno
Shimajiro Minetayo
Paul Earnest Martin
Frank S. Mc Queen
Jennosuke Matsuda
George Malos
John August Gotfried Magnuson
Floyd Selvester Morrison
John C. McQueen
Flans Almot Malberg
Earl John McMullin
Vincent Kohaco
Geovanui Nudo
Edwin Olsen Ostgard
Herbert George Brooks
Pennington
William Alfred Piquet
G. Harold Palmer
William Henry Paris
Robert Henry Pierce
Clayton Lester Pierce
Albert Amos Piquet
Donato Pietromonaco
Neffie James Rutley
Franke Ogle Riggs
George Samuel Riggs
Joe Romano
Pietro Romano
Harry Raymondg Stafford
Booker Worthen Snipes
John Harley Sullivan
Tadataka Teshima
Michele Varriano
George Eastman
Thomas C. Workman
Roscoe Henry Wilson
Earl Wayne Whitbeck
James Rose Windham
Louis Frank Zeller
DRAFT REGISTRATION LIST FOR
MARCOLA
George Washington Ashbaugh
Archie Gerald Briggs
James Howard Blakely
Solomon Abraham Banta
Ulla Davis Brandel
Millard Donald Cole
Loren Eugene Collins
John Condos
William John Darling
Claud Roy Downing
Jasper William Dial
Clint Frazier
Alva Frazier
Arthur Fairbanks
James Loren Fredenberg
Henry Olaf Gregerson
Louis Gower
Alfred Allen Gentry
Clark Wharton Howard
Clarence Edgar Higinbotham
Henry Holmes
Floyd Harris
Howard Hathaway Hymes
Samuel Lawerence Higinbotham
John Victor Irish
Fred Lee Jones
Henry Fausto Lyons
Frank Elmer LaJoie
Andrew Franklin Mode
Elmer L. Monjay
Henry Clay Mode
Thomas A. Morley
Clarence Lafler Monjay
Hermon Mason
George Mason
Fred McCornack
George Edman Pierce
Johnathan William Purcell
Alvin Andrew Price
Charles H. Paris
Robert W. Purcell,
Rudolph Reichenbach
John Robert Sowles
James Lee Schrader
Paul Henry Smith
Jess Lee Savage
Henry Schwind Jr
Edward Smith
Chancy Kirk Troxel
John Calvin Taylor
Carl Paul Templeman
James Perry Turner
Jesse Green Triplett
Leon Anton Vogl
John Howard Volgamore
Guy Houston Wiltse
Charles Lenord Wetzell
Frank Ellsworth Williamson
Wilbur Wiltse
Albert Lewis Wachsmuth
Samuel Ward Yockey
Carl Clifford Yancey
Irvin
DRAFT REGISTRATION LIST FOR
MOHAWK
Joel B. Cowden
Guy Cassill
Edward Dowdy
Wayne Everett Elliott
Homer Wiauer Gustin
Wilson V. Hawk
Herbert J. Hill
Raymond Johns
Harry Raymond Stafford
Alfred Raymond Sunderman
Lee B. Seavey
James Benjamin Stafford
Glenn W. Stafford
Roy A. Speelman
Ustle Venson Talman
THE
ALFRED DRURY DIES
EARLY SETTLER OF THE MOHAWK
VALLEY PASSES AWAY AT HIS HOME IN
Alfred Drury, an old resident of Lane
county, died at his home at
paralysis. He was aged over 69 years, having been born in
Settling in the Mohawk valley
in that year, he resided there continuously until about four years ago, when he
removed to
Miss Kate Drury. He also leaves one brother, William Drury,
in Idaho, and numerous other relatives.
The deceased was a veteran of the Civil War, serving in Company K, sixth
Minnesota
Infantry, from July 31, 1862
to August 19, was a member of the
Dunkard Church and lived a consistent Christian life.
He was a good citizen and will be sadly
missed by his many friends and a sorrowing family. The funeral will be held
tomorrow afternoon at the
family home with interment in the I. O. O. F. cemetery. Rev.
L. H. Trimble, Pastor of the
Humphery Memorial M. E.
church will conduct the services at the house and also the burial service at
the grave. While the deceased was not a
member of the G. A. R., the members of the local post will act as pall bearers
at the funeral.
THE
6‑28‑1917
MOHAWK RED CROSS
CONTRIBUTIONS
Charley Adams $2
Jonathan D. Adams $1
H. C. Auld $50
Mrs. Fannie Borger $2.50
F. C. Crenshaw $5
H. W. Conley $2
J. B. Green $1
Mrs. H. W. Guatin $2
Mrs. Mary Goodell $.30
W. S. Gillispie $2
J. R. Hayden $1
Mrs J. H. Hammitt $1
R. G. Hammitt $1
Mrs. S. H. Hammitt $4
George W. Hill $1
W. A. Heck $1
H. J. Hill $2
H. V. Hammitt $2.50
J. H. Kennedy $1
J. M. Kennedy $1
Abraham Kelly $2
Alex Lewis $2.50
Maynie Lewis $2.50
Chris Larsen $1
J. R. McGee $1
Evelyn and Donna Nicholson $1
F. A. Nicholson $1
J. C. Nicholson $2
J. B. Robertson $2
Mr. and Mrs. Roberts(E. L.)
$5
Frank Rohne $1
A. C. Sunderman $3
L. B. Seavey $1
Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Seavey $5
Glen W. Stafford $3
Frank Spores $1
Mrs M. F. Stafford $1
M. F. Stafford $4
Ray
M. L. Westherman $1
C. W. Zumwalt $1
Yarnell Man Has Good Cow
J. A. Cowden of Yarnell has a full‑blooded
four‑year‑old cow
which has the record beaten so far for
butter fat. Every day for a month Mr. Cowden had the
cream tested; the test was 6 1/2. Three pounds of butter fat per day, 90 pounds
per month at 38 cents. This cow brings the owner $34.20 per month.
THE
Friday morning Peter Neilson, who is
employed on the section crew of the S. P. had his foot badly injured when a
speeder loaded with ties, which he was operating, collided with another speeder
loaded with ties operated by Mike Bower, section foreman. Mr. Neilson's foot was caught between the
cars. The heel was badly lacerated.
Mr. Neilson was taken to his home
immediately where he is suffering much pain.
The accident occurred on the crossing on Third and
New House Near
Miss Margaret Morris who lives on the late
James A. Ebbert place, near
THE
RED CROSS CONTRIBUTIONS AT
MABEL
L. A. Teller $10
E. R. Leekley $5
Mr. and Mrs. F. F. Kenyon $5
J. D. Jeans $1
Jas. Francis $3
R. L. Garrison $3
A. Gatanagarito $2
H. G. Pennington $2
R. H. Pierce $1
B. C. Shuley $2.50
P. Lacey $5
C. H. Matteson $1
C. L. Pierce $1
Earl Banze $2
B. W. Snipes $2
C. W. Spiering $2.50
W. J. Ritter $2
Brad Fox $5
A. J. Taylor $2.50
James J. Cahill $5
W. J. Smiley $1
Vincent Monaco $2.50
C. Begoni $1
H. L. Argetsinger $2.50
J. B. Cordonato $1
Geo. Marella $1
B. Geddo $1
B. Neeland $2
R. R. Hughes $1
Peter Afthimas $1
L. Bonano $1
P. Romano $1
Amy C. Golluci $1
J. C. Haffey $3
Geo.
J. McCormick $1.50
T. B. Cowling $2
W. B. Brown $1
J. R. Stephens $5
John Bern $1
Gus E. Francis $2
Pete Nanoglos $1
C. Nudo $1
S. Schepani $1
D. Petremonoco $1
M. Varriano $1
Chas. Howe $2
James Beasley $2
O. Ridenaur $2
John Crusan $1
Percy Banto $1
Frank Howard $1
Geo. Augustine $1
Geo. Haynes $1
Charley Juckals $1
Thos. Cowling $1
Geo. C. Bozarth $2
Tom Davin $1
L. McCoffrey $2
Lee Bianco $1
C. Harlod Palmer $15
Sidney E. Johnson $15
H. H. Ritter $5
Chas L. Peters $5
Chas. Matlock $2
Fred Kalberg $1
Henry Jorgensen $2.50
J. H. Sullivan $5
A. V. Lucas $10
James Agorastakes $2.50
T. M. Martin $2.50
Geo. Malos $2
Tom Theodosis $1
Chas. A. Howe $2
John Anest $3
John Polales $2
W. Wilkinson $1
L. R Triplett $1
Ole Danielson $2
John Carson $1
Pete Ehn $1
Merle
Mike
F. E Johnson $1
F. Magnusan $1
Geo. Napper $1
Alfred Bush $1
E. Olsen $1
Thorg Johnson $1
Herman Johnson $1
Ben Ryberg $5
C. Groce $5
Wayne Whitbeck $5
J. S. Ford $2
C. A Brown
THE
7‑31‑1917
RED CROSS CONTRIBUTIONS AT
WENDLING
Ole Amundsen $5
Fred Braithwaite $5
Harry Lee Aman $2
David Albee $5
Clarence Alford $5
N. C. Adams $5
J. H. Pullen $1
W. N. Abeene $5
N. L. Barber $5
Delbert Bennett $5
Marvin Bailey $3
Phil Bishop $6
A. H. Bossan $5
J. H. Blakley $3
N. F. Pailey $5
Harry Braithwaite $2
Mike Byman $2
F. W. Blackburn $5
A. N. Boyed $10
Catherine Bearden $5
Thos. A. Billings $5
C. D. Bedell $5
O. Reirce $1
M. M. Bradford $2
C. H. Bennett, $4
Clayton Barber $6
H. R. Cook $5
Bert Calloway $2
J. B. Carlile $3
Cecil Carlile $4
M. Currier $5
Pete Comachia $4
Lou Crow $8
Chas. Carter $5
W. M. Cellars $5
Robert Campbell $5
W. W. Coffron $1
Walter W. Carter $1
E. L. Cofer $5
A. M. Caskey $2
M. P. Corbin $5
W. A. Cox $5
A. Z. Cofer $5
A. Clark $4
Edgar Dugan $4
Addison Dugan $6
F. Dorsey $5
J. F Dyer $5
E. D. Deadmond $5
W. H. DeNore $5
Toffalon Ermenegildo $5
C. I. Emroe $5
E. R. Endicott $15
Lewis Erickson $3
Clarke Fisher $5
T. H. Fritts $5
Toney Fritts $5
Leslie Fisher $5
J. Felereisen $5
Mrs.
Raymond Finnen $3
L. D. Franklin $1
W. Fisher $10
W. A. Godlove $5
Victor Gillespie $4
John Green $l
Harold Hunnicut $4
Hugo Halin $15
H. M. Harkins $5
V. R. Huck $5
Kenneth Hooker $2
Ralph Hooker $2
H. G. Hamilton $2
Frank Y. Hooker $5
Elvin D. Hickson $5
Arthur Hickson $5
D. D. Hooker $2
W. J. Hembaugh $5
William Howard $5
Henry Howard $5
J. H. Hunter $2
M. G. Hutchinson $2
Charles E. Hoeflein $7.50
Lou Irwin $5
Herman Johnson $7
A. Josephsen $5
A. W. Jackson $2
J. W. Jarvis $1
J. D. Jackson $16
P. A. Johnson $5
Press
Earl Knowler $5
Pete Kulbeda $4
C. O. Krriper $5
W. M. Kitz $10
F. K. Kintzley $2.50
Fred Larson $5
James Larson $5
Ed LaJoie $5
Carl Lansbery $5
C. F. Libby $3
George Long $5
Arthur Lott $5
T. C. Littrell $2.50
J. A. Langtry $10
N. M. Lassen $3
James LaJoie $5
Tom Murdock $3
G. C. McCann $5
John N. Mathews $5
Sam Mathews $5
L. E. Moore $5
John Murdock $3
Racy Matteson $12
E. B. Miles $10
Pete Mostachetti $1
J. E. Mundell $5
D. H. Mack $4
J. P. Maginnis $4
J. A. Nix $2
J. F. Nesbit $2
Robert Neet $1.50
Carl Neilsen $3
Fred Peterson $4
Clay Parker $10
Joe Parrish $5
Parrell Parker $5
Myron Perry $1.50
Harry Parks $4
L. R. Perkins $5
Ira Parks $4
W. I. Prons $5
George Puckett $2
Walter Post $2.50
E. E. Robertson $8
Oscar Rood $2
Percy Rossman $4
Bert Ramsay $2.50
C. A. Ridgeway $5
J. C. Root $4
Peter Rossmissen $2.50
Ralph
Richard Rathbun $2
Clarence Sutton $2
Jack Stephena $3
T. C. Sewell $5
A. B. Smith $2.50
P. Stokes $1
C. L. Schultz $5
Leo Silver $2.50
W. S. Stearns $1
A. D. Stout $10
H. C. Taylor $15
A. B. Taylor $10
Hezekiah Tucker $4
Jess Tucker $3
A. T. Terherat $5
Thos. Thompsen $5
Abe Tidd $5
Fred Thomas $10
Harry Vogt $5
Howard Volgamore $3
A. W. Wooley $5
Wesley Ware $5
Robert Watson $3
John C. Wood $5
George Wills $3
Jess Wildgrube $1
F. A. Wildgrube $2
W. Warner $1
Fred M. Wilson $7.50
R. L. Young $4
Boyce A. Young $3
Chas. Zohrn $5
Bob Hughes $2.50
Mrs. C. O. Stolberg $3
Joe Stuckie $5
J. T. Varney $5
Fred Shepard $3
Claude Young $5
J. S. Phillips $5
J. C. Mulvey $5
C. H. Stidham $5
Luella Hileman $5
G. C. Sumner $5
Sophronia Hoffman $5
Leonard Mathews $5
D. G. Bennett $20
B. K. Reimenschneider $5
J. M. Picklin $5
C. J. Chandler $10
Irving B. Dugan $4
F. C. Matteson $7.50
W. E. Parrish $5
J. R. Knowler $3
Geo. Godfrey $6
F. H. Snodgrass $20
Laster
L. S. Rankin $4
Luke Fisher $5
D. Crespo $2
Ed Post $5
George Young $2
Percy Higgins $5
Paul Lansbery $5
H. C. Bishop $5
Domino Coglin $5
Garland
Lomenica Morgl $2
Jno. Mathers $10
Charles F. Kupkufski $5
P. C. Little $10
F. A. Hills $10
Faye Abrams $25
F. C. Mattison $2.50
G. C. Sumner $5
N. S. Neilsen $25
H. Schuman $5
Dr. George J. Fanning $5
J. R. Knowler $2
Clifford Edwards $10,
Carl Anderson $6
W. F. Sayles $5
DEATH
Thomas Jefferson Evans 7‑23‑1895 Death
John E. Cartwright 10‑28‑1896 Death
Van Sycle boys 11‑10‑1896 Drowned
George Shaub 2‑22‑1897 Head crushed
probable death Mr. Hopkins 6‑3‑1897 Foot crushed by log Alec Lewis 1‑3‑1900 Stabbed by
Marcellus Arnel Vern Hines 2‑27‑1900 Cut off two toes of
right foot with axe Frank Taylor 3‑23‑1900 Lever threw him
about 8 feet against a
timber
John Higgins 4‑18‑1900 Death Hit by
falling tree
Otto Fredrickson 5‑3‑1900 Death from boiler
explosion
Otto Anlauf 5‑3‑1900 Death from boiler
explosion
Herman Rudolph 5‑3‑1900 Injured and burned
from boiler
explosion
David Kauble 8‑1‑1900 Death Wound around
shaft
Charles Holt 8‑7‑1900 Death crushed
under water
sled Glen Anderson 8‑29‑1900 Struck on head by
tree
Sam O'Brien 10‑30‑1900 saw cutoff portion
of muscle upper right
arm sawed
James Miller 11‑19‑1900 Back hit by sapling
rebounding
paralyzed at waist P. V. Crawford 2‑1‑1901 Death
Julian
2‑26‑1901 Entangled in mill
shaft
Walter Boggs 5‑7‑1901 Dislocated wrist
fell
from bicycle Louis Reninger
6‑6‑1901 Thrown
to round in
runaway
Williams 11‑7‑1901 Death from boiler
explosion
John Stinnett 11‑8‑1901 Drowned
Uncle Johnny Diamond 2‑1‑1902 Death
R. A. Duff 4‑22‑1902 Fell off log boom
crushed head between
logs
J. G. Nowles 7‑7‑1902 Death fell under
freight car wheels Indian Squaw 9‑13‑1902 Death thrown and
dragged
by horse Frank R. Jones 9‑22‑1902 Small toes cut off
by saw
Mrs. Harriet Cowgill 9‑23‑1902 Death thrown from
buggy
Samuel M. Stiers 11‑7‑1902 Crushed by log Mike Kelly 4‑3‑1903 Deathrun over
by hay wagon
Earnest boy 7‑6‑1903 Death dragged to
death by horses Allen Burrill 9‑28‑1903 Deathhit on leg
with sledge
gangrene
John Thompson 11‑12‑1903 Death hanged
himself
Fred Long 1‑6‑1906 Death crushed by
log
L. P. Fawver 5‑26‑1906 Deathcaught on
shaft
S. J. Jones 5‑30‑1906 Death struck in
stomach by slab George Drury 6‑4‑1906 Death
Wesley J. Wycoff 7‑28‑1906 Death struck on
head by crank of
windlass
Harvey LaJoie 8‑15‑1906 Shot in right leg
with pistol
Fred Jones 8‑15‑1906 Axe severed right
toes
Ed Cooper 9‑13‑1906 Ends of two fingers
cut off by gearing Hugo Hallin 9‑13‑1906 Three toes cut off
by truck wheel William Allingham 9‑13‑1906 Death
Charles Briggs 9‑15‑1906 Typhoid
fever(Death)
Jasper Wilkins 1‑24‑1907 Death Tubercular
Peritonitis
Albert McPoland 3‑13‑1907 Death struck by
falling tree
John Downs 3‑19‑1907 Struck in face with
board by Fred
Shepard
Jack Burnett 5‑2‑1907 Death drank
Jamaica Ginger
resulting in death Harry Hanson 6‑5‑1907 Arm sawed off W. L. Butler 6‑14‑1907 Shot and killed by John Ford
Alfred Drury 7‑11‑1917 Death Paralysis George King 7‑23‑1907 Struck across back
by line
Charley Anderson 7‑23‑1907 Sprained ankle
jumping from
high
springboard
John Jacobson 7‑23‑1907 Struck in head by
large limb
Ralph Buchanan 9‑5‑1907 Struck head on
brace over carriage
track
Charles Crowley 9‑21‑1907 Shot and killed by
Bert Nunn
W. G.(Bert) Nunn 9‑23‑1907 Shot and killed by
Charles Crowley Mrs. Madsen 10‑9‑1907 thrown out of
buggy in runaway Nelson Coffey 10‑29‑1907 Caught in cable on
donkey drum
Charles King 11‑12‑1907 Death injuries
received near
Fischer's mill A.
Almasi 12‑12‑190? Log jumped out of
chute striking him J. W. Wheeler 12‑12‑1907 Log jumped out of
chute striking him
Alexander Seavy 1‑31‑1908 Death
L. S. Hill 2‑24‑1908 Dragged in runaway Fred Brockman 2‑24‑1908 Dragged in runaway Mrs. E. M. Bower 3‑30‑1908 Buggy wreck in
runaway
J. C. Goodale 4‑1‑1908 Death
Edna Yarnell 4‑2‑1908 Drowned
Dau. of Rev Kinman 4‑8‑1908 Burned to death Mrs. A. C. McGee 11‑30‑1908 Death
Lawrence Melvin Bond 11‑30‑1908 Accidently shot by
Lee Smith
Samuel R. Scott(Pioneer) 3‑8‑1909 Death
W. N. Bucknum 3‑8‑1909 Death
T. A, Rathbun 3‑13‑1909 Struck in face with
timber
Arthur Kirkland 3‑13‑1909 Struck on back of
head by large timber John Hughes 4‑8‑1909 Death crushed by
large log
James Madison Stafford 4‑16‑1909 Death
Abel Trotter 4‑20‑1909 Death
H. C. Perry 6‑4‑1909 Scalp cut about 7
inches in runaway F. Smith 6‑7‑1909 Drowned
J. Jensen 6‑15‑1909 Toes mashed
J. C. Royer 6‑17‑1909 Death, killed by
falling
limb
John Mathews 8‑28‑1909 Accidently shot by
Virgil Clover John W. Nettleton 9‑9‑1909 Death wound around
shaft
Edward McDonald 10‑26‑1909 Drowned in log
drive
E. G. Hurst 11‑26‑1909 Shot in Rt arm and Lt
hand by Al Seekatz Paul King 12‑3‑1909 Death log rolled on
him
Rev. Levi Day 12‑4‑1909 Struck by flying
piece of slab wood Charles Jones 12‑20‑1909 Whirled around
revolving cog wheel Herman Bucholtz 12‑30‑1909 Explosion of gas in
closed cylinder head Ethel Sidwell 1‑4‑1910 Struck head on
frozen ground T. C. Bell 5‑4‑1910 Death crushed by
log
G. H. Franklin 5‑17‑1910 Death Crushed by
carriage in mill J. I. Macy 6‑11‑1910 Death
Mrs. Arthur Huckaby 7‑25‑1910 Cut on knee in
runaway
F. M. Young 11‑25‑1910 Arm mutilated in
planer rolls
George Macy 2‑13‑1911 Suicide chloroform J. Elmer Yarnell 2‑16‑1911 Death La Grippe Clarence Phipps 2‑20‑1911 Death accidently
shot by Harvy
Sutherland
Clarence Grubb 4‑17‑1911 Accidently shot by
companion
Mr. Cox
5‑2‑1911 Accidently shoots
self through foot
with 22
Miss Ella Clark 6‑2‑1911 Drowned
Raymond Perdew 10‑19‑1911 wounded by glancing
bullet at target
practice
Donald McCloud 11‑15‑1911 Death accidently
shot with shotgun by
playmate
Ralph Newton 11‑18‑1911 Drowned on log
drive
William Bundy 12‑13‑1911 Run over by hand car B. F. Carter 12‑26‑1911 Suicide carbolic
acid
Mrs. Sagers 1‑17‑1912 Arm broken in
runaway
John Petroff 1‑20‑1912 Death accidently
shot self
Mr.
John D. Walker 6‑24‑1912 Death hit in head
with piece of wood
from blast
Claud Witt 8‑30‑1912 Fell on axe
J. C. Brattain 9‑5‑1912 Death
Mr. Bridge 11‑9‑1912 Load of lumber fell
on him
Mr. Simms 11‑9‑1912 Crushed between car
and post
Michael Sherman Workman 12‑25‑1912 Death carcinoma Harry Carsaw 12‑28‑1912 shot through finger
and scalp by Mrs
Deadmond
Sarah Phiena Spores 12‑28‑1912 Death
George Hall 12‑30‑1912 Death accidently
shot by M C Broom Fred Barr 1‑30‑1913 Death crushed
between logging car
and mill dock Harlund McFerrin 3‑1‑1913 Caught leg in dust
conveyor
Mrs. Sarah Armitage 3‑3‑1913 Death(Pioneer) Alexander Haworth 4‑8‑1913 Death drawn into
gears of sorting
table
Abe Kelly 6‑23‑1913 Slightly wounded by
James Chapman Miss Ioma
Drury 10‑2‑1913 Fell from buggy R. Wise
11‑26‑1913 Log rolled against
knee breaking bone
William Dial 12‑15‑1013 Arm broken
Miss Ruth Earnest 2‑20‑1914 Fell on railroad
trestle
Charles Philips 3‑23‑1914 Horse fell on him and
dislocated ankle Columbus Cole 5‑4‑1914 Death
Y. D. Hensill 8‑19‑1914 Run over by wagon William Hoffner 8‑24‑1914 Flat car wheel
busted leg and
bruised both legs Hubert Dean
9‑10‑1914 Woodsaw
he was
driving passed over chest
(Death) John Mathews 10‑8‑1914 Log rolled on hand
crushing fingers Mrs Josie B. Abrams 11‑5‑1914 Death (Pioneer) Willard McGee 11‑5‑1914 Death @Pioneer) Mrs. Anna Churchill 11‑28‑1914 Death
J. B. Duff 4‑19‑1915 Death
Mrs. America B. Cochran 4‑19‑1915 Death (Pioneer) Haggert Tronsen 4‑22‑1915 Drowned, boat
capsized
Charles Cole 4‑22‑1915 Drowned, boat
capsized
Leston Craighead 5‑4‑1915 Drowned
Dale Thomas 8‑20‑1915 Choked to death on
iron ring
Albert Walker 9‑15‑1915 Death(First Spfd
Mayor)
Arthur Ham 10‑6‑1915 Both legs almost
broken
W. A. Redmon 11‑24‑1915 Load of lumber fell
on him, perhaps
fatally
Mildred Spores 12‑18‑1915 Knocked unconscious
by runaway horse Edward Bradley 12‑24‑1915 Death wood fell
from conveyor
hitting his
head Bert McKibben 1‑1‑1916 Foot injured by mill
machinery
Samuel Taylor 1‑20‑1916 Death
Francis Frost 1‑22‑1916 Death
Walter Spores 3‑14‑1916 Death aged 38 heart
failure
Henry Royer 3‑31‑1916 Attacked with whip and
club by Mrs Geo
D. A. Holland 4‑5‑1916 Load of 6x6 timbers
fell on him
James Lane Tollman 4‑15‑1916 Death
William H. Beardon 5‑3‑1916 Fell from load of
hay
Robert McDonald 5‑4‑1916 Cow attacked
motorcycle
dislocated elbow W. C. Myers 5‑12‑1916 Cut Rt foot with axe W. K. Zumwalt 5‑19‑1916 Fell from top of
barn bruises & gash
on leg
Mr. Baxter 5‑19‑1916 Death
J. R. Bucknum 5‑23‑1916 Death Lost in
mountains while
hunting 18 Yrs ago Melvin Fenwick 6‑9‑1916 Run over by disc
when horses bolt Mrs. Nelson Kester 6‑27‑1916 Attacked by chicken
gashed hand with
talons
Fred Shepard 6‑2?‑1916 Burned when gasoline
lamp explodes Adolph Weber 6‑27‑1916 Burned when gasoline
lamp explodes N. F. Newhouse 7‑3‑1916 Axe cut foot
Mrs, B. F. Titus 8‑25‑1916 Death
Mrs. John Spores 8‑26‑1916 Auto accident
severe hip injury Ole Carson 9‑26‑1916 Tree limb crushed
him (Death)
Clay Whitaker 10‑2‑1916 Slab came loose
hitting head
George Spores 10‑30‑1916 Fell from gravel
wagon knocked
unconscious
Francis Piquet 11‑22‑1916 Death crushed by
falling tree
Milton Bally 1‑13‑1917 Scalded when boiler
pipe burst later
died
john W. Kitchen 1‑17‑191? Death
Mrs. Frank Burch 1‑17‑1917 Death
John Hammersley 1‑29‑1917 Death ate up by
hungry wolves Les Fisher 3‑26‑1917 Caught ankle between
two logs
Floyd Martin 5‑2‑1917 Death kicked in
head by horse Mrs. Roy Palmer 5‑25‑1917 Buggy ran into
ditch bruised and
lip torn
J. W. White 5‑28‑1917 Burned when film in
projecting machine
caught
fire
DEATH AND INJURY IN THE EUGENE MQRNING REGITER
Booth Kelly & Wendling section
� L. H. Gigot 6�14-.l9O2 Death, fell off footlog into Mill Cr. during Log Drive.
Frank Gordon (B. T.) 3-22-1907 Stabbed by Robert Lane, drunken logger
� George Hall 12�31-1912 Accidently shot for deer by H. C. Broom
R. B. Mode 2�20�1913 broken leg from falling lumber
Ed La.Bert 2-20�1913 Hip & arm busted from piece of timber from carriage
Dr. George J. Fanning 11�23-1918 Speeder collision, bruises & cut across head
Frank Wilooxen 3-1-1919 Branding hammer struck head
� A. V. West & Wife 4�26-1919 drowned in Wendling swimming hole
Fred W. Shepard 7-12-1921 Beaten on head & robbed by thugs
H. L. Barnum 5-16-1924 Falling log fractured rt arm
H. B. Carney 11-26-i~24 Eye injury
James Paddock 11�26-1924 ~~iece of st,eel in eye
Edward Spa 1�17�1925 Fell from crane about 30 ft, condition critical
Charley Bruce 6-6-1925 Fire extinguisher blew up rendering him unconscious
Everett Willoughby 6-6-1925 pulled into resaw, bruised arm and hand
� Fred Thatcher 10-30�1925 Death, killed by blast of Giant powder
Mildred Domaschosky 5�27-28 Almost drowned, Orb Cummings gave first� aid
Erwin Byers 5�27-28 Broke right wrist cranking garden tractor
Melvin Fischer 5�30�1928 Badly bruised wrist in car crash
Riley Swafford 5�30�1928 Lacerated face, in car crash
Billy DeMacon 6�1-1928 Scalded while playing with toy steam engine
Billy Shackelford. 6-1-1928 Thrown from swing, severe bruises on nose & head
Roscoe Allen 9�14�1928 Eye injury while fighting forest fire
Boice Cook Sr. 4-4�1931 Sprained wrist & arm on timber sizer
Verne Bailey 4�25�1931 Busted bone in arm cranking his fathers car
Deb Metzger 4�27-1931 Broke leg in fall from railroad car
Clarence ?rickett 5�1�1931 Falling timber broke finger
� Dr. James R. Harvey 4�3�1933 Death
Buzz Estes 7�12-1934 Burns and ammonia gas, from ice machine
Darrel Stolberg 8-2�1934 Hand badly cut while chopping wood
Darrel Stolberg 6�15�1937 Shot in leg by Dominico Crespo
� Rol].o Wicks 6�15�1937 Death, shot & killed by Dominico Crespo
� Dominico Orespo 6�15�1937 Suicide, shot in head 32 cal pistol
MARCOLA S~X~TI0N
Robert Lane 5-15-1907 Internal injuries, broken jaw, trip line hit him
� Harry Hanson 6�9-1907 Left arm sawed off below shoulder (Death Later)
� Charles King 11�13.4907 Death, log he was riding jumped out of chute
� Tragedies On The Mohawk 6-16�1907 Several deaths on the Mohawk involving
William Butler, John H. Ford; John R. Cartwright, Fred Mundee; James H. McCabe,
young man named Zwnwalt; David Boggs, Dan Church, Mrs. Church; Ambrose Alt,
Joseph Smith; James Savage, Sydney Savage; John Richards, Sanford Skinner & Mrs
Skinner.
� Charles W. Crowley 9-22�1907 Shot to death by W. G. Nunn
� W. G. Nunn 9�22�1907 Shot by Charles Crowley (Later died)
Richard Harold 9�22�1907 Shot by Charles Crowley
W. V. Weight 10�30�1923 Fist in face by James Wilson
John Holstrom 1_10_19221. Drug by cow several hundred yards
Pauline Pollet 4-24-1924 Burned, lamp dropped in stairwell
John G. Pololis 7-29-1925 Speeder exploded
V. E. Hampton 11-21-1925 Fell from mill deck to R. R. tracks
Clarence Parmeeter 11�21�1925 Fell from mill deck to R. R. tracks
Henry Landers 1~~05-192~ Caught hand in edger
L. Landers 3�17-1926 Heavy tongs slipped crushing fingers
J. N. Mills 3�17-1926 Heavy tongs slipped crushing fingers
DEATH AND INJURY IN THE EUGENE MORNING REGISTER
MARCOLA SECTION
Vernon Spores 6-1�1 926 Struck over eye by crank from gasoline engine
Walter Bogge 7-31-1927 Fractured arm in car wreck
* Charlotte & Robt. Hoke 12�20�1927 Died in house fire
Mrs. Sam Eastburn 6�22�1928 Fell through trestle, both leg bones busted
Charles M. Irish 6�27�28 Skull fractured
Harve LaJoy 8-28�1928 both bones in Rt. arm busted while cranking car..
E. 0. Simmons 10-2-1 928 Burned by gasoline while burning brush
� E. L. Cries 11�13�1928 Death, fell in front of logging car
� Eugene Hood 12-3-29 Suicide, 144 calibre pistol
Dollie Hood 12-3-29 shot & wounded by husband Eugene Hood
� J. 5, Churchill 12�17�1929 Death
Vivian Queen 6-22-1930 Run over by auto
� Joe Saunders 8�29-1930 Dead, shot by Ray Sutherland
� Oscar Duley 8�29-1930 Dead, shot by Ray sutherland Police officers
Rodney Roach 8-29-1 930 Wounded by Ray Sutherland
Lee Bown 8-29-1930 wounded by Ray Sutherland
William H, McKelvey 12-9-31 Crushing fracture of leg in woods
� Jesse Wycott 2�21�1933 Death, hit by rotten snag
Vernald Fegles 8�29�1 933 accidently shot in foot
Walter Bogge 11-15�1933 Jugular vein nearly cut, water glass on donkey breaks
Elzie Riddle 11�30-1933 Eye struck by peice of steel from wedge
Leonard Bogge 12�1-1933 Broken ankle, logs rolled on him
Mrs. A. J. McKinney 12-20�1933 Head injury in car wreck
Verne Hi].eman 5-6-1934 Injured by horse at logging operation
Mr. Chancy 5-22-1934 scalp wound from 22 rifle fired by boys nearby
� Jimmy Green 7-6-1934 Death, crushed by lumber pile
Jim Cowling 7�15�1934 Motorcycle wreck
Ike Wilkins 10�7-1934 Back sprained & neck cut in car wreck
Dave Wilson 11-28�1934 Right leg cut while cutting meat
* Carl Landers 12-19-1934 Death, horse fell on him at logging camp
Earl Hall 1�3�1935 Sprained left ankle
MABEL SECTION
William Hefner (B. T.) 8�28�14 Fell from locomotive, broken leg, bruises
� J. R. Bucknum 5-24-1916 Death, lost in mountains 18 years ago
� John H. MoCubbins 9-13�1929 Death, burning tree fell and. crushed him
� Alvin Peoples 9-.13.-1929 Death, died later from burning tree hitting him
John Kinman 9-13-1929 Fractured shoulder, burning tree hit him
L. C. Casterline 9�13�1929 Fractured elbow & wrist, burning tree fell on him
Clyde Polley 2�2�1�1933 stuck needle in knee
Vern Hileman 5�6�1934 injured by horse at logging site
D8NNA SECTION
� Edgar Reynolds 7�17-1930 Drowned
Dick Riddle 7�17�1930 near drowning
� Theo Paul Robley 5�10-1933 Death, crushed by rolling log
MARCOLA, AS I HAVE SEEN IT, by Charles Irish, Father of Curtis Irish
Sometime during the morning of
Not seeing any soft drink Parlor, I went
to the Columbus Cole Store, where the Victory Theatre is now.
Mr. Cole was the only one in
the Store, and I asked if he had drinking water. He says , Quote, "there
is a pitcher of water on the shelf back there that I brought over from the
house this morning." I picked up the grimy glass along side and drank a
glass of that warm water. Then he said, pointing to a case of soda pop on the
floor, along side the counter on east side, quote, "I have soda pop but
seems like no body wants it."
I explained to him that I was
looking for a job at the S. P. Mill.
He said that the Office was
in a tent down the street a ways. I went to the Boarding House of Jack and Rose
Frost, for my dinner, which stood about where the vacant Lunch Counter is now,
east of Odd Fellows Hall, and J. S. Churchill, book keeper for Fischer Lumber
Co., was Post Master and Notary Public.
A combined Barber Shop and
Saloon, was operated by a Mr Smith, about where the present Assembly of god
Church now stands. There was no Depot here then, just a granite strip, and a maintenance box car set up on a tie
crib, north of where the depot was built later.
Some body had chalked up on
the side of the car, "Don't cry, little car, don't cry. You will be a
depot by and by.
Cole's wear house stood along
the side track, south of the present Depot.
A water tank stood up the
track a ways on other side.
In the middle of town there
was high wide walks on both sides of, what you might call a wide place in the
road.
Columbus Cole had planted the
town of
I was told that the S.P. rail
road was completed in 1899, and Henry Schwind Sr. was placed here as Section
Foreman.
He still lives in our midst.
The first Station Agent was
Leonard Humphreys, placed after the Depot was built.
Previous to that, the
Conductor sold the fare tickets.
Before the building of the
The S. P. Co., after
acquiring the right of way from the Coles, named the station Marcola, honoring
Mary Cole, wife of Columbus Cole. I well remember Mary Cole, in those early
days, with the dust from the road settled on her shoulders and straw hat. My brother Vick left
Fare one way was 60 cents,
and a Bicycle was faster than a train so he didn't arrive till afternoon, then
we went to the S. P. Office, where Mr. Young, the Supt. asked us to go to Mill
No. 1, up in the timber above Hyland
Siding.
A Bonneville steel power line
support stands where the mill pond was then.
The Foreman said he wanted both
us on the dam construction crew. The Bunk Houses could not be built until the
Saw Mill was
constructed.
An S. P. Tent had been set up
over on the McCornack farm, on Mabel road, where we could sleep and board. We
didn't like the looks of that lousy tent, so picked out a spot among second
growth fir, choosing 4 saplings at right angles to each other, and cut saplings
with our pocket knives, and tied up alan too, just like a Philippino, and
unrolled our bed roll in it. Rained on us once before those bunk houses were
built. Continued to get our meals at McCornacks carrying lunches. The Modern
Woodmen organized here, and built a Hall where the Cora Arnel home is now. The
Odd Fellows followed them and rented their Hall for Saturday night meetings.
(signed) Chas. C. Irish
THE END, MOHAWK VALLEY NEWS ITEMS RESEARCHED BY CURTIS IRISH