From Lane Co Oregon

Daily Eugene Guard (1897)

Contents 1 February 1.1 February 22 2 June 2.1 June 3 2.2 June 30

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[edit] February 22

A TWELVE YEAR OLD BOY AT COBURG IS THE VICTIM OF KICKING HORSE A horrible accident

occurred at Coburg last evening. 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 5 O'clock to attend to the evening chores. When the family arrived home about an hour after that time they found the boy lying on the barn floor. He had been kicked by a family horse, which had always been considered perfectly trustworthy. The top of the unfortunate lad's skull and brain was crushed in. He was still breathing and was carried to the house. Hope of saving the boys life is considered very doubtful.

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[edit] June 3

SERIOUS ACCIDENT AT COBURG

Last Tuesday Mr. Hopkins, who lives on the John Diamond place, at Coburg, met with an accident that came near losing for him a limb. He was cutting a fir tree about two feet in diameter that lay across a gully, and it falling, before he looked for it, precipitated him to the ground and against a tree on the down hill side of the log, which followed him up pinching him against the tree, threatening at any time to roll over him. His little son at once ran for his mother, who in time started for Coburg for assistance. On the way she met Thomas VanDuyn and some other men and they at once proceeded to liberate the man from his painful position. 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.

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COBURG ITEMS

William VanDuyn, the dry goods merchant, visited Eugene on business Tuesday. Wednesday morning J. C. Goodale shipped two car loads of lumber to the Utah Lumber Co. The mill is now running at full capacity and was at this writing over 600,000 feet behind with their orders from Utah, California and points in Oregon, three car loads of which go to the reform school at Salem. 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.