THIS WEEK IN HISTORY.Byline: The Register-Guard 1877: "Mr. Geo. B. Dorris, President of the Common Council, has had handbills printed offering one hundred dollars reward for the arrest and conviction of any one who shall commit the crime of arson within the corporate city limits of Eugene city. ... Eugene has never been in so much danger of being destroyed by fire as at present," The Eugene City Guard read. 1907: Reports of the Lorane Bandit bandit: see brigandage. being shot turned out to be wrong, but the mystery of his identity seems to be solved with William Kohn being arrested in Drain for robbing the post office. In addition to confessing to being a fugitive from Ukiah, Calif., he confessed to being the "person who created so much trouble and for whom the citizens of the Lorane country in Lane county hunted so faithfully." Kohn said he was shot at repeatedly and that "either the persons hunting him were badly excited and scared or were very poor shots." 1937: Melting snow and torrential rains sent the Willamette River Willamette River River, northwestern Oregon, U.S. It flows north for 300 mi (485 km) into the Columbia River near Portland. Oregon's most populous cities are in its valley. The Fremont Bridge, a steel arch with a main span of 1,225 ft (373 m), crosses the river at Portland. to flood levels on this day 70 years ago. The river set a 10-year record and "continued to disgorge its roiled waters to flood wider stretches of low lands, block highway travel, maroon maroon, term for a fugitive slave in the 17th and 18th cent. in the West Indies and Guiana, or for a descendant of such slaves. They were called marron by the French and cimarrón by the Spanish. many farm homes and greatly hamper business activity." A whale estimated to weigh between 50 and 60 tons washed up on the shore south of Florence. Sightseers and others took the whale's jawbones and had cut away much of the whale's blubber to use for shoe grease and other purposes. Siuslaw forest officials were unsure of what to do with the rest of the carcass carcass, carcase 1. the body of an animal killed for meat. The head, the legs below the knees and hocks, the tail, the skin and most of the viscera are removed. The kidneys are left in and in most instances the body is split down the middle through the sternum and the vertebral but would likely dynamite dynamite, explosive made from nitroglycerin and an inert, porous filler such as wood pulp, sawdust, kieselguhr, or some other absorbent material. The proportions vary in different kinds of dynamite; often ammonium nitrate or sodium nitrate is added. it. 1977: The Eugene Youth Council took up the case of nine young people who have leveled allegations that police have been unfairly harassing them during a crackdown crack·down n. An act or example of forceful regulation, repression, or restraint: a crackdown on crime. Noun 1. on youthful loiterers on the downtown mall The Downtown Mall in Charlottesville, Virginia is one of the longest pedestrian malls in the United States. Located on Main Street, it runs between 2nd and 5th Streets. It is laid entirely with brick and home to an array of restaurants, shops, offices and art galleries. . Some commission members mused "that the time may have come when Eugene needs a downtown recreation and counseling center to get the out-of-school, unemployed teenagers off the mall, where they are dabbling increasingly in dope, prostitution and petty crime." City officials are discussing with a California consulting firm Noun 1. consulting firm - a firm of experts providing professional advice to an organization for a fee consulting company business firm, firm, house - the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments; "he worked for a a proposal to give downtown Eugene a major new shopping area extending diagonally from west of The Bon Marche, at Charnelton and Broadway, to 11th Avenue and Willamette Street. The proposal includes The Bon and Sears staying downtown and possibly expanding. 2006 (left): The Legislature wrapped up an ambitious agenda in a six-hour special session on April 20. They held the shortest special session in history, beating the eight-hour, 40-minute record from 1981. |
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