Category:Daily Eugene Guard (1903)

From Lane Co Oregon

THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 2-11-1903

MAN ARRESTED AT SAGINAW FOR SELLING MULES NOT HIS OWN Chief of Police J. S. Stiles went to Saginaw on yesterday afternoon's train for the purpose of arresting one Mose Getts for selling a span of mules belonging to another party. He arrived with his man last night and placed him in the county jail to await A preliminary trial this afternoon. 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 Eugene to dispose of. After selling the articles the men struck a bargain for the mules and sold them to Albert Goracke, a clerk in H. M. Manville's second hand store, for $10. Hartwig has not yet been caught. The prisoner was brought before Justice Wintermeier this afternoon at three o'clock and pled not guilty to the charge and was examined.

THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 3-7-1903

THE MARCOLA MILL Last Monday the Fischer Mercantile Co. started its new mill at Marcola, according to the Springfield news. The property has been undergoing some extensive repairs for a month past and up to the present time some very large additions have been made. Thirty feet have been added to the mill, and a fine large engine has taken the place of the old one, and a new gang edger has been added, so that when everything has been adjusted properly, this mill will turn out 30,000 feet of lumber in 10 hours. 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 EUGENE GUARD 4-3-1903

SON OF GEORGE H. KELLY KILLED IN ACCIDENT Little Mike Kelly, seven year old son of George Kelly, who resides at 755 High St. was killed this afternoon at 3:30 o'clock by a heavily loaded hay wagon running 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 St. at the intersection of High Street, he clambered up 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.

THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 4-13-1903

BIG SAGINAW SAWMILL TO BE MOVED 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 Saginaw on the railroad are being dismantled, and the machinery is being moved away. Hereafter only rough lumber will be handled there and a force of 13 or 15 men will be all they will need at that place. They offer for sale all the lumber in their big shed there.

THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 4-15-1905

A BAD MAN FROM LANE COUNTY Roseburg, April 15.-

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 EUGENE GUARD 5-1-1903

BOOTH KELLY COMPANY NEEDS MORE RAIN FOR LOGGING 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 Springfield is not able to run full time, and fears are entertained that sufficient logs can not be secured to keep the mill in operation until next October. The company has a drive of 3,000,000 feet in the river now, but these will last but a short time, but there is also about 8,000,000 feet in the Little Fall Creeks Lost Creek and Winberry, which cannot be moved until rains come to raise the water in those small streams. Last year about this time it was possible to run logs in the streams, but this year it is not. 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 Springfield mill is not able to run as it should. The keeping of a large force of river men for a long time waiting for water is some expense to the company, but the men are kept at work in the vicinity cutting more logs, so that their time is not completely lost. There are now 12 logging camps along the Willamette River cutting for this one mill where the logs can be run on almost any stage of water, but before they can get logs enough to keep the mill running full time it will be late in the season.

THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD

MR. BOOTH INFORMS THE HARRISBURG BULLETIN OF NEW SAWMILL The matter of a mammoth and record-breaking sawmill to be established here at Harrisburg, by the Booth Kelly Company is now determined. The mill will be built. This information comes direct from the Bulletin from R. A. Booth, general manager of the company. Mr Booth was here Tuesday accompanied by Mr. Klovdahl, a civil engineer, who with the assistance of Surveyor Riggs of this city, will survey the site for the new structure, and will also run lines for land purchase for the purpose of doubling capacity of the water ditch.

THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 6-13-1903

MOHAWK LOGS FOR CORVALLIS

A Corvallis dispatch of June 12 says: A large drive of logs is due to arrive at Corvallis about the 15th of July. They are the property of the Corvallis Sawmill Co., and are now in the Mohawk river. Harold Strong, representing the company went to Blodgett a few days ago to arrange for a shipment of logs from that point daily. He will return today and proceed immediately to the point on the Mohawk from which the drive will start some time this week. He will spend a few days fishing, and will be on the ground to see that no time is lost in getting the logs started. The drive consists of 3,000,000 feet of fir and 1,000,000 feet of hard wood, and several months will be required to convert the logs into lumber.

THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 6-29-1903

CHARLES VANDUYN ARRESTED AT COBURG Saturday evening Constable Smith arrested Charles VanDuyn at Coburg on a charge of obtaining money under false pretenses at The Dalles. VanDuyn had arrived that day from Sumpter on a visit to relatives. The amount alleged he obtained is $50. 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 EUGENE GUARD 6-30-1903

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 EUGENE GUARD 7-6-1903 (Monday)

SON OF I. E. EARNEST KILLED IN ACCIDENT NEAR MARCOLA

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 EUGENE GUARD 8-22-1903

THE SAGINAW SAWMILLS The Booth Kelly Company is advertising to sell one of their sawmills. The mill in question is the Saginaw mill No 1, which was put out of commission some time ago by the company. It is a small mill of about 35,000 feet capacity and having no further use for such a small concern the company deemed it best to sell,-- that is, a greater part of it.

WILL NOT MOVE MILL NO - 2 Mill No. 2 of Saginaw, which was to have been moved to a new location on Gettings Creek and the work preparatory to moving the same was well under way, will remain where it is at present. R. A. Booth was at Saginaw yesterday and ordered the work stopped. There is still considerable timber in the vicinity of the mill and it will be some time yet before it is moved to a new location.

THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 9-7-1903

BEFORE EUGENE WAS FOUNDED EFFORTS WERE MADE TO LOCATE "COUNTY SEAT AT SPRINGFIELD 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 Oregon. Several of the immense crowd, as he viewed it, were not 21 years old, he being one of that number, but they voted regardless of age or previous conditions, nobody objecting. He voted for W. W. Bristow against L. M. Rigdon, who was elected because he wanted to have the county seat located at Springfield instead of at Skinners Butte, now Eugene. Rigdon favored the present site of Skinners Butte, while Bristow first choice was Coryell Point, on the South bank of the Willamette at the mouth of the Coast Fork, about five miles east of Eugene, a beautiful site, and his second choice was where Springfield is now, another beautiful location, which was the place favored by Vaughan.

A BUFFALO BILL

"Tom" Vaughan was a regular Buffalo Bill, in the early settlement of Oregon. He was not afraid of anything in the shape of human or wild beast and did about as he pleased, but had many good qualities along with his rough speech and manner, and wielded a strong influence in building up and shaping the destinies of Oregon. He has many friends who wish the old pioneer many happy and successful years among the scenes of his boyhood in the beautiful Willamette valley.

THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 9-26-1903

THE COBURG BRIDGE CLOSED The big bridge across the McKenzie this side of Coburg is now closed to travel, and many think the only way to 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 Coburg school house. People going from Eugene can take the lane at the old Bogard brick house about half way between here and Coburg, and follow the lane till the river is reached. At that place the water in not quite hub deep, and is a very good fording place.

THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 9-28-1903

ALLEN BURRILL HIT HIMSELF WITH A SLEDGE AND DIED FROM EFFECTS On September 17th, Allen Burrill who was employed by the Booth Kelly Lumber Co. at Springfield, accidently hit himself on the leg just above his ankle, with a sledge hammer. The blow was a severe one but did not cause more than usual concern. It did not even hurt him for a day. Pain soon began however, and upon examination he was found to be afflicted with the deadly gangrene. 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 Eugene from Kansas three years ago.

THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 10-27-1903

B. K. SPRINGFIELD MILL ALSO CLOSED DOWN The Booth Kelly lumber Company's big mill at Springfield closed down Saturday night for some time. This makes the company's two largest mills now idle, the one at Wendling having closed down several days before work was stopped at the Springfield mill.

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 EUGENE GUARD 11-12-1903

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 7 o'clock for Marcola, where the coroner was to hold an inquest over the remains. Young Thompson was a cripple, one arm being withered away and it was practically useless. The arm gave him constant pain and he often remarked he wished he were dead It is no surprise to his relatives to hear that he had taken his own life. He was aged about 20 years, and was a quiet steady young man. The lifeless body was found yesterday afternoon about 2 o'clock hanging by a rope from a rafter in a neighbor's barn. The young man had prepared a regular hangman's knot put it around his neck, climbed upon the rafter and jumped off.

THE DAILY EUGENE GUARD 11-28-1903

COBURG BRIDGE FINISHED The county bridge over the McKenzie river near Coburg has been rebuilt and is now completely finished. The bridge in an entirely new structure. The new piers have 100 loads of rock in each. The bridge was raised 26 inches and a 100 foot covered span added to the south end of the bridge. While the bridge was closed for several weeks private parties were running a ferry boat just a short distance above, charging $1 a team for ferryage. These individuals it is understood cleared over $400 in three weeks time, and on this account Mr. Taylor reopened the bridge while it was being rebuilt, every 30 minutes teams being allowed to cross. The travel over the bridge is very heavy. Mr. Taylor says it exceeds 100 teams a day. 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 EUGENE GUARD 12-18-1903

THE HARRISBURG SAWMILL

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.

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