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THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD Vol. 30. EUGENE, By request Armstrong Armstrong have decided to stay another week. Business very fine. SKIRTS Cut and Fit Free of Charge ISIT Our Dress Goods Department.

It is the largest and most complete this side of Portland. All popular weaves can be found here, both foreign and domestic. We would call your attention to our line of Cravenettes---the most useful of all dress goods for winter skirts. Prices from 80c to $2.50 per yard. All desirable shades.

Armstrong Armstrong have cut and fitted between twenty-five and thirty skirts during the past two days and in every instance have given complete satisfaction. Each skirt is BASTED---there are no pins to fall out. Note Our Specials 100 Children's Umbrellas each 50c 100 Ladies' Umbrellas, steel rods, each $1.25 100 Ladies' Umbrellas, steel rods, each $1.50 50 Pairs Ladies' Silk Gloves, elbow length, per pair $1.50 25 Boys' Knee Pant Suits, per suit $1.75 50 Men's Suits, per suit $10.00 50 Men's Cravenettes, each $12.00 Copyright 1905 by Hart Schaffner Marx HAMPTON BROS. OREGON, SATURDAY EVENING OCTOBER 20 1906 No 235 SAN FRANCISCO STRICKEN BY GALE FIVE HUNDRED DEAD ALONG FLORIDA COAST Property Loss Estimated at 000-- Great Damage Done Along Coast- Fears Enteriained For Safety of Vessels at Sea -Survivors Being Picked up by Ships Tampa, Oct. 20.

-Great damage cured to governmnet lighthouses on the eastern southern coast of Florida. Tenders were smashed or washed away. Fears are entertained that disaster has resulted to ships at sea. Ten barges of loaded workmen gaged in railroad extension work at sea during the storm are not reported lost. A steamer picked up the survivors of one barge of Bahamas saving forty -nine out of a hundred fifty one survivors.

Thirty were killed when the houseboat crashed, during a storm, against the steamer Jennie which rescued these men. Other ships appeared to have saved 8 large number and proceeded on different courses. Jacksonville, Oct. is estimated five hundred are dead along Flordia as 8 result of the storm. Property loss is placed at $1,000,000.

Washington, Oct. -Cables from Havana today state shipping is conriderably damaged, twenty -five lighters were sunk. Washington," Oct. telegraphed Magoon: "Through you I desire to extend to the people of Cuba the profound sympathy of this country on account of her misfortne. I hope the disaster will not be a8 great as reported, especially regarding The president also sent sympathy to the governor of Florida, offering the aid of the government.

New York, Oct. hundred dead and a property loss of 84,000,000 is a conservative estimate of the results of the storm along the Florida coast. Between thirty and forty are dead in Havana. The total loss is 100 dead in Cuba. INTERESTING TELEGRAPHIC BRIEGS BLEACHERS COLLAPSE.

Syracuse, Oct. -During the Syracuse Colgate game the bleachers colapsed injuring forty. Father Donigan, of St. Johns' church prob ably fatally hurt. WORLDS PRESIDENT.

Boston, Oct. Carlile was elected world's president of the W. C. T. U.

She is now president of the English branch. BIG PACKING TRUST. New York, Oct. 20. -Wall street is advised that an English company organized, will control all packing houses in America with balf a bilion capital.

Armor will dominate concern. SEATTLE WINS. New Orleans, Oct. 20. -Seattle's company team Knights of Pythias won first prize of 8.500 in drill and Capt.

Case of the company won medal 8 a most efficient officer. WAS FALSE RUMOR. Milwaukee, Oct. president of the Northwestern denies reports of extension to the Pacific coast. STEAMERS COLLIDE.

New York, Oct. 20. -The steamers Etruria and Minnehaba collided today, the former being still at anchor. INDIANS TROUBLESOME. Washington, Oct.

20. -The Ute Indians have started north and settlers are suffering from depredatiors. BIG WIND STORM BRINGS DEATH AND PROPERTY LOSS Walls of the Grand Opera House Blown Down Burying Fourteen Workmen---Other Walls Fall Burying Workmen Beneath Tons of Brick and Debris---Hnndreds of Lives of Laborers Endangered While Going to Work---Great Clouds of Dust and Mortor Filled the Air San Francisco, Oct. 20. -The wind this morning blew down the walls of the grand opera house on Mission and Third streats.

burying 14 workmen. One body has been recovered. The walls of the Pacific Mutual Life building on Montgomery and Commercial streets, also blew down and four were buried beneath tho ruins. One body has been recovered. A thirty-five mile gale blew over San Francisco this morning, knocking down the wails left standing by the fire, burying a number of workmen, several of whom were killed, and endangering the lives of hundreds of persons on their way to work.

A force of twelve men employed clearing up the ruins of St. Patrick's church on Mission street, near Third, had just gone on duts when the wind, which was blowing hard all night, increased in force, knocking down a thirty-foot section of a forty foot wall. Several workmen saw the wall toppling and gave warning, all escaping except three, who were buried under tons of brick. The fire depart- KANSAS CITY HAS SERIOUS CONFLAGRATION Kansas City, Oct. Masonic Temple and twenty or thirty residences are ruined and several deaths reported, the rasult of a fire today, following an explosion at noon of gasoline in a booth of a street carnival in progress in the business centre.

The animals in the show were burned to death. LATER REPORT. None killed, no animals lost. Besides masonic temple two houses and over block of carnival booths were destroyed. FIRE DESTROYS FAMOUS ABBEY Selby, Oct.

20. -Selby Abbey built in 1070 by the Normans was destroyed by fire this morning. Priceless relics were burned. W. R.

White, of this place, died in the Portland hospital October 17, 1906, aged 75 years, 3 months and 13 days. He had undergone an operation for catarrh of the bladder and 00 account of his age died from the effects. Mr. White was an old soldier and gave. the best years of his life in detense of his country.

He leaves one son and one daughter, M.s. J. H. Edwards, of Be lefountaine, and Virgil White, of Cottage Grove. Funeral services were beld at the residence of his stepson, Frank Parker, Friday morning at 11 o'clock.

and the remaina were interred in odd Felliws l'imes. John Frost died at Marcola Oct. 19, 1906, aged 58 years. He was A well-known resident of the Mohawk valley, and kept a boarding house at Marcola The cause of death was heart trouble. The funeral was held today with interment in the Baxter cemetery.

STOCK MARKET VERY WEAK IN NEW YORK Prices Broke Violently on Account of Rapid Decline or American Shares in London--Bank of England Blunders in Handling the Money Situation ment was called out and the unfortunate men were quickly dug from the debris. One man was taken out dead and the other two badly injured, one dying on the way to the hospital. The blow that kocked over St. Patrick's church wall also levelled the walls of the Pacific Mutual Life building at Montgomery and Commercial streets, burying several workmen, one of whom was killed. The wind was the hardest since the great fire, rendering conditions in the burned district extremely dangerou8.

Great clouds of mortar dust were blown through the streets, making it impossible to see half a block away and resembling a gigantic sand storm. Two additional bodies were taken from the ruins of the Pacific Mutual building, making a total of five deaths. One man was probably fatally injured in the Pacific Mutual crash. Two of the dead have been identified, one a Greek named Durant, living in Oakland, the other Peter Kahn. HEADQUARTERS OF REVOLUTIONARY JUNTA RAIDED El Paso, Texas, Oct.

local police under the direction of the Mexican co sul raided the headquarters of the revloutionary junta. Three were arrested including Augirre editor of socialistic paper, leader of the trouble. Letters and documente captured show the band to be part of the same movement which caused trouble at Douglas, Arizona, Eagle Pass, Texas, Nogales, St. Louis, and Juarez. ALBANY MORNING HERALD SOLD Walter Edgar Stahl have bought the Albany Herald from C.

A. Westgate, or, to be more exact, these gentlemen have formed a corporation which will take over the paper. The incorporation papers have not been filed but they will be toduy or Monday. It is the intention of the new owners to give the As. sociated Press service and add other news features.

-Salem Statesman. POLICE MAKE IMPORTANT CAPTURE raided San Francisco, shack Oct. a this morning captured four men, who the police are convinced robbed the Japanese bank and killed the manager and almost killed the paying teller. Evidence against them is almost conclusive. Baseball Yesterday's scores: Los Angeles, 4.

San Fresno, 1. Seattle, Baseball Portland, Francisco, Oakland, 2. The park committe of the council WAS out again yesterday viewing different proposed sites for at city park. New York, Oct. 20.

-Prices of stock market broke violently because of the rapid decline of American shares at London and the extromely weak condition on the street here. The impression generally prevails that the treasury would now ha. ten to aid the money market on the street. In regard to the Bank of England's manner of handling the money situation of four weeks past and of the vacillating blundering of it yesterday, drastic action will probably be the impulse of the men who are trying to remedy the error when seen too late. HURRICANE CONDITIONS AT CHARLESTON Charleston, S.

Oct. heavy rain is falling here and the wind is blowing a gale, the tide is two feet above the normal and several of the streets are now under water and the storm is rapidly increasing in velocity. It is feared this city is about to suffer from the hurricane which has been circulating in this vicinity for the past several days. PRESIDENT TO OPEN EXPOSITION Washington, Oct. was offcially announced this morning that the president will open the Jamestown triennial, with a speech, on April 26 next.

TO BUILD BETWEEN JUNCTION AND CORVALLIS Junction City Development League Holds Meeting--Will Petition S. P. Co. to Construct Railroad on Old Survey--Paper Being Eagerly Signed Died Died The Junction City Development League held an important meeting Tuesdav to take action in -egard to the building of the gap between Junotion and Corvallis. This line of some twenty -seven miles was surveyed and the right of way secured some twenty- five years ago and the action of the league was to take steps toward inaucing the Southern Pacific to build and equip this road.

Petitions were gotten up and well be circulated over the north part of the county, and also southern Benton county, setting forth the advantages and the need of this road. It is t. be hoped the Southern Pacifle will take action on this matter or else surrender this valuable territory. There is no strip of road in the state as easy to build as it is level the entire distance and from a railroad standpoint the cost of construction would be trifling. The petition is being eagerly signed and we think it is the proper course to pursue.

Anyhow, it will forcibly remind the company that our people mean -Times. The hop market has settled down to about 15 cents..