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SUCCESSOR TO THE WESTERN OREGON VOLUME IV ELECTRIC LINE COMING Mr. Moffat Says Road Will Be Extended Southward. COTTAGE GROVE ON ITS MAP COTTAGE GROVE, OREGON, FRIDAY. OCT. 22, 1909 east, have devised a way of bleaching ordinary $1 notes, and of reprinting them, raising the amount to $10. Thus the original paper manufactured by the treasury department is used. However, the workmanship'on the $10 note plates used by the counterfeiters, is declared to be crude. Examinations of £he counterfeit notes under a micro scope will show marks where the bleaching process has not been com pletely successful. IDEAL FOR WORKERS OF WOOD Cottage Grove Presents Grand Opportunities for the Establish ment of Manufactories of a Varied Character. NUMBER 4 father of the Wisconsin idea—the res toration of government to the people— which was not destined without a bit ter struggle. But “Bob” La Follette is nothing if not a fighter. Wè have University of Oregon Attacks seen him in battle array, liis set jaw, blazing eyes, and figure instinct with Faith of Oar Fathers. energy are in themselves convincing evidence that his cause is just and right. His battles/ both in state and DENIES DIVINITY OF CHRIST nation, are unparallelled, and he will live in memory as the most splen did type of fighting citizen this genera .Professor Quotes Freely From Des tructive Critics, infidels ¡and Deistic tion has given to the commonwealth. Every intelligent student of civic re Writers in Lectures at Oregon’s In stitution of Learning. form and political purity should hear him upon his visit to Cottage Grove. Prof. H. C. Howe, of the English.de Messrs. John Bell and Bert Canton partment of the Oregon State Univer wine of Eugene having leased the C. sity, seems to think that he cannot earn C. Case building on Main street have his salary by adhering to his defined been'busily engaged during the past duties, and. launches into realms of week fitting it up for an "electric thea theology. After making the assertion tre, which will be opened to the pub that there was no foundation for, the lic tomorrow afternoon. I*t will be doctrine of the immortality of thé soûl known as the Star Theatre, and will in the New Testament, and finding him have a seating capacity of 200. The self rather hard-pressed by some- of his screen will be large, and their aim will hearers, he, announced that he would be to give entertainments of a high give an hour to discussion of the vital. character. Both gentlemen have fam Christian, doctrines on Monday and ilies, and they will take up their resi Wednesday, evenings of this week: dence here. From his lectures The Sentinel in The Margaret Iles Company is book ed for the Armory October 28, and fers that he denies the Divinity of will doubtless be ‘greeted by a large Jesus, claiming that he is no more di audience, as it is unquestionably one of vine than any other man; The doctrine the very best attractions on the road. of the Atonement, as taught by the Manager Johnson is endeavoring to church, was branded as “repulsive.” bring here only the best to be had on He did not use the bible, but quoted .freely from the destructive critics, circüits .of this importance. from ..infidel and deistic writers. Strauss, Renan and. Paine seem to be HOPE FOR A BIG TIME. among his favorite authors. Woodmen of the World Arranging for When asked how he accounted for the Grand Session. the fact that the philanthropic work of Although the head camp session of account was done by those who believe the Woodmen of the World will not be in the “Obnoxious Atonement.” he in held ùntil next July, the Portland mem sisted that he could cite many that bers of the organization are already were uplifting humanity an were deny making arrangements to tender their ing the Atonement. When presssèd to fellow lodgemen a hearty welcome. give the name of some such society he There will be forty-two drill teams, mentioned the Phillip Older’s society of among, others the crack team of this New York. But the learned professor city, in Portland during the session, could neither tell the date of its Origin, and the parade of these alone will make its headquarters^ nor where literature a long procession. The committee ex of» its good works could be found, nor pects to welcome 5000 Woodmen to Port an instance of its philanthropy named! land at that time. A campaignfor new He begged for time to study up on that members is being launched, and the point. committee-expects to beat the "Mount It is said that only last year Profes Tabor initiation, in which 200 candi sor Hôwë required one of. his mixed dates were initiated in one night. Mr. classes to read from a French novel; Reidt had charge of the work at that the character of which was so. ‘.degrad time, and again he will be the man be ing that it is not read in the lowest hind the ax. It is hoped to initiate a society, and that the head of the class of 1400, and this will be one of French department petitioned Presi the big events of the head camp ' ses dent Campbell to put a stop to the fur sion. Mr. Reidt will appoint commit ther reading of the book in class. tees and start the work at once. Can There are citizens in Cottage Grove didates will be brought to the city who believe that an institution sup from all the 220 camps in the state. ported by people of a great state, ought not to tear down religion even if SUFFERS SPRAINED ANKLE. it does nothing1, to build it up. The Brakeman Falls From Train While, in a Sentinel believes that such teaching Tussle With a Hobo. Claude Blair, a brakeman on the Cot will have a tendency on the part of tage Grove local, met with a serious many parents to send their sqns ' and daughters to the denominational col accident on Saturday night while mak-_ ing his regular run from Portland. A leges unless the University of Oregon does something to Square itself with hobo was riding on the platform be hind the tender, and thinking perhaps its tax-paying constituents. 8LASTINGATTHE ROCK That Cottage drove iS an ideal loca mand, and of superior quality för tion for wood-working institutions of building purposes. It takes a.very nice various characters is at once made ap finish. parent by the almost inexhaustible The Noble Firs, sometimes called supply of raw materials „ at its very Larch, are the giants of the forest, Cottage Grove’s continued growth threshhold. The only mystery is that and . grow from two to three hundred George B. Moffatt of New York, tong ere this capitalists have not feet in height, and three to eleven president of the Oregon Electric Rail is evidenced by the fact that another Sought this favored locality for the feet In djametér, with rough, dark plat will be opened near the city park. way Company, is now in Portland» con safe investment of their wealth in gray bark, which reaches a thickness summating plans for proposed exten-. Aiderman B. K. Lawson, who there manufactories of this» kind. The pe of several inches; wood, reddish brown sions of the company’s lines, and gives owns s'ix acres of land, will divide the culiar adaptability of the woods found to nearly white, close grained, com assurance that Cottage Grove will even tract into twenty-six residence lots as on the sloping mountain sides and in pact, light in weight, hard, strong and tually be given the road. While it is soon, he says, as the municipality the valleys of this region for the manu elastic. Lumber from this wood is of not certain how soon the work will be gets crushed rocks for its streets that facture of thousands of articles of high commercial value, and will in ’done, Mr. Moffatt said in an interview he may make modern improvements commerce should attract attention, and crease rapidly in price because of the that the present plans of the. company before placing the property on the bring to us a tin-pail brigade number growing scarcity throughout the tim is to ultimately extend the main line market. It is Mr. Lawson’s intention ing hundreds, if not thousands. And' bered sections of the country. It as far south as Roseburg, and to send to grade and macadamize every The Sentinel believes that if our re takes a high polish', is used extensively out branch lines to the most important thoroughfare in the plat, making 30- sources in this direction were intelli for inside finish; furniture and for fuel. points in the valley. The company’s foot streets, a park of eight feet on gently made known to the world this Red Fir is the most abundant, most line that is now being operated to either side, and sidewalks six feet in end could be attained. Capital is ever useful tree in the Pacific Northwest. width. Shade trees will be set out im Salem, Mr. Moffatt said, is proving seeking new fields for investment ; the In fact one of the world’s greatest even more profitable than has been mediately upon the Completion of this timber resources of the eastern states trees, is the Red Fir. This tree grows work, and each dot sold will be im hoped for at the time it was construct; have practically, been depleted, and in great abundance here, and adds ma ed. One thing that may cause delay is proved ready for building. These ad other locations must be found for the terially to the wealth of the country. the scarcity of labor, which exists here vance improvements will necessitate successful prosecution of numberless It reaches a height of over three hun at Resent. And then there are the an expenditure of something over $2,- businesses requiring the very woods dred feet, and two to fifteen feet in rights of way to be secured, and if the 000, but will be money well invested. found here in such magnificence diameter; heart wood, red; sap wood, company meets too many obstacles in LUMBERMEN TO MEET HERE. and in such great abundance. Furni nearly white, hard strong, difficult to ~ _ getting them, it will have to delay ture of almost every description, wood work, but etxremely durable. This work. It is the policy of the company Oregon-Washington Association Con en ware,; cooperage, veneering, willow timber is used for construction and venes In Cottage Grove Next. tp make its extensions piecemeal, com ware, buggy boxes, baskets, and dimension timbers, ties, piling, lath, pleting about 50 miles at a time and . At a meeting of the Oregon & Wash a thousand and one other articles of lumber, doors, flooring, masts, spars, getting it in operation before another ington Lumber Manufacturers’ associ every day use might be profitably, furniture, barrels, railway cars, ship extension is made. Extensions have ation, held; in-Portland on Saturday, made in Cottage Grove and shipped building, veneering. It is admirably been planned and surveyed form Salem the question of "holding occasional meet to every section of the country, trans adapted for the construction of agricul east, south and west to various points. ings “out of town” in order to give the portation facilities of the best being at tural implements, excepting those re It has been intimated that the first valley lumbermen a better opportunity command. It may be interesting to quiring great tensile strength. The branch to be built will be from Salem to participate in the work, was discus The Sentinel’s Eastern readers to pitch is used in the manufacture of to Albany, and that it may extend to sed and'met with favor. It is probable learn minutely of the magnificent tim balsam, turpentine and pyroligneous Eugene, and possibly Cottage Grove, a that the next session of the association ber resources of this immediate section acid. distance of twenty miles further. will be held in Cottage Grove, this city and we therefore append detailed ex Our Hemlock is a large tree, a hun being headquarters for many millmen. planation of the different kinds of dred to pne hundred fifty feet high, FORCED TO BORROW CARS. Tributary to Cottage Grove are thirty- forests most common here, and their and two to eight feet in diameter, with Heavy Passenger Traffic on’Southern one sawmills, the larger proportion of adaptability to various uses, One of rough, thick bark; wood white or red Pacific Railroad. which number being within ' twenty! the most common and valuable trees dish brown, light,' hard, straight grain I So heavy has been the passenger miles. From this will be seen the im-1 growing in this country is the Lovely ed,'*'tastejess, odorless, tough. The [traffic over the Southern Pacific lines portance of the lumber industry in this Fir. It is a slender graceful tree, run Western Hemlock furnishes superior ¡this season that it has been forced to section, and the appropriateness Of the ning from one to two hundred feet in finishing lumber. It is valuable for [borrow equipment from other roads in association in meeting here. One of height, and one to three feet in diame flooring, joists, scantling, lath, siding, [order to satisfactorily handle the in the principal resources of southern ter, with a smooth, white bark, heart ceiling, boxes turned stock, newell and creased business. The Cottage Grove Lane county, of which Cottage Grove wood ’ pale brown, sap wood nearly panel work, wainscoting, wood pulp. [local came ip, on Sunday with cars bor is the center, is its extensive forests of white, hard and close-grained. Lum The bark is used in tanning leather. rowed from, the Astoria & Columbia standing timber. There are quarter ber from this species is in splendid de- Concluded on twelfth page. [railway, and although plush was ab Sections that carry 22,000,000 feet of sent from the seats and the varnish merchantable timber. The grade of bedimmed by age,' they answered the this timber is excellent, running as purpose, anjj under the; circumstances high aS 54 per cent clear. ¡satisfied the traveling public. The The citizens of Cottage Grove will Cottage Grove local is of great con extend a hearty welcome to the visit Prices Paid for Paving in Var Lena Rivers First Attraction at venience to.the people of this .section, ing manufacturers of lumber at the ious Nearby Cities. the Local Playhouse. as well as traveling salesmen, and that approaching meeting, which will prob it is being well patronized is gratify ably be held about the middle of THE WARRENS HAVE A CINCH NEW ELECTRIC SHOW READY ing. This train . takes produce from November. the farms along the 144 miles it trav MAY BUILD PLAYHOUSE. erses to the Portladn market. Arfiv- Bitulithic' and Asphalt-Concrete Con Senator Robert LaFollette Will be First [ng there late at night it makes it pos Oklahoma Man Coming Here With sidered Most Durable Pavement's Number in Lyceum Course Series of That End in View. sible to ship fruits and vegetables to for this Locality—Comparison of the Entertainments.—Other Coming At that point fresh for the opening of the W. E. Gilkey of Bartles vi 11s, Okla 'Two. Relating to Cost. the man was one of the escaped con tractions. OBSERVE ANNIVERSARY, markets at 3 a. m. homa, is'considering the advisability of Inasmuch as Cottage Grove contem ■ “Lena Rivers” attracted a fair-sized victs, he was delegated by Conductor Entertain Friends to Celebrate Tenth erecting an opera house in Cottage plates paving its' principal thorough audience to the Armory on Monday Veatch to bring him into the car. A GETS A LARGE ORDER. Year.- of Married Life; Grove, and is expected here in the near fare in the spring, arrangements for evening; Thé performance was pleas tussle ensued, during which Blair fell Teh years ago last Friday Mr. George Mr. Shortridge Will Ship Railroad Ties future to further his. investigations. which improvenlent are now being ing, and the old-fashioned love -story from the train, which was running at i to Colorado. For some time past Mr. Gilkey has made, it. may be interesting to know written by Mary J. Homies lost' noth thirty miles an hour, spraining one of McQueen and.Miss Bertha Griffin were | W. C. Shortridge, who has a sawmill been in correspondence with Manager that Corvallis has just awarded a $72,- ing in the telling. This emotional his ankles, and sustaining numerous united in the holy bonds of' wedlock, pne mile, north of London, has just re Conley of the ‘ Cqmmerial club in re 000 contract to the Warren Construc drama is the story of an orphan girl, bruises. He returned to Portland on and ‘twas but fitting that the anniver ceived an order from the Denver & Rio gard to the project. That a modern tion Company for bitulithic-hard sur “Lena Rivers, ” who with her grand Sunday. It will be some days, before sary of the 'event be appropriately ob served. Mr. and- Mrs. McQueen, Grande Railroad company for all the opera house would prove a paying in face pavement at $2.15 per square yard; mother, is taken into the home of he will be back on duty. therefore, entertained a ndmber of re ARRESTED FOR STEALING'. [ies he can furnish before January 1 vestment there can be little doubt. excavation 60 cents per square yard, wealthy relatives, where they are made latives and friends at six o’clock din kext, and he will forthwith set to work Few cities of the proportions and im and curbing sixteen inches deep at 40 extremely unhappy by the sneers of to get out at least 25,000. These will portance of Cottage Grove are without cents. These figures are -somewhat .Caroline, a cousin of Lena’s, who fre Former Resident Taken to Kelso on a ner, after which the evening was Serious Charge. pleasantly spent in- social intercourse. |e floated down the Coast Fork to Lath- a commodious and well appointed play lower than other cities have paid, but quently taunts, her with the shadow Thomas J. Boyd, formerly a Cottage The host and hostess were made the [m, and from there shipped to Grand house, and certainly we should not be this is explained by varying condiions. that hangs over her parentage. [unction, Colorado. Mr. Shortridge is in the background in this, or any other, A representative of the Warren com A guest at thé home is Durward Bel Grove printer, was arrested in Rose recipients of a number of gifts com burg at the instance of the Kelso, memorative of the occasion, and those [awing on an average of 15,000 feet of respect. __ pany gives the cost of paving in other mont, with whom Caroline is in love, Washington, authorities, on the charge present departed wishing their enter limber a day. This product is hauled but who prefers Lena. Later guests cities as follows: Ashland, $2.52 and PROTECTED BY HIS WIFE. of theft, and returned to the place of tainers a continuance of their happy |o Latham by wagon, and shipped east $2.42; Medford, $2.50 and $2.40; Eu are Mr. and Mrs. Graham, Mrs. Gra his alleged crime without extradition and prosperous journey adown thé tur-. Eugene Man Saved From a Thief Who lard. He has? in his employ eighteen gene, $2.25 and $2.20; Albany, $2.50, ham being the mother of Durward Bel papers. The Roseburg News says : bulent stream of time. Was Rifling His Pockets. men at. present, but expects to quite mont.- Mi-. Graham proves to be. the $2,25 and $2.18; Salem, $2.13 to $2.1.7; While in Portland Sunday night J. The Dalles, $2.03.; Twin Falls; $2.52; father of Lena, having married her “Boyd is well known in this vicinity, materially increase the force this fall. Shows Large Earnings, Hr. Shortridge has resided in this lo- S. Magladry of Eugene, and well known Nampa, $2.52. mother under the name of Rivers, and having been employed on the old Plain The; annual réport of the Southern dealer, under the administration of Ed in Cottage Grove, would undoubtedly tlity for twenty-seven years. The low price at the Dalles, was made, -never knowing that -she had died leav Pacific company has been received at have been compelled to borrow money possible ’because the company was ing a daughter, ’till he is struck by her- itor Conner. When the latter left for the railroad commission, which shows YOUNG MAN SUICIDES. Cottage Grove, Boyd accompanied him, from some brother Hoo-Hoo had, it not . given the use of rollers and rock crusher resemblance to her dead mother, whose that the net income of that corporation lad Railway Rebate Check From Cot been for Mrs. Magladry, who accom and laid a four-inch macadam base be picture he carries. His first marriage remaining there for some little time. in Oregon for the year .ending June 30, Since then he has been roaming around tage Grove on Person. panied him for the protection of her fore pressure, while at the other places he has kept a secret from his Wife, was '$2,971,393.67. The revenue for the northwest, working .wherever he I Seating himself on a pile of ties near liege lord and master. An unregister a four-inch base after pressure was and tell's Lena to remain silent until he the company in Orégon is $7,099,081.23. le railway station at Ashland, an tin- ed guest entered Mr. Magladry’s room required. shall tell his wife. His fatherly kiss could secure a position. ’ ’ Expenses including taxes, $4; 127.887.- Change of Ownership. lown man who had evidently hailed at tiiè Imperial hotel and was rifling- Oil macadam," says an authority, is at parting is seen by Durward;-who 65. Taxes paid to ' the state of Oregon costing from eight and a half to ten Mr. D. J. DuBrille has sold his in reach- $266,617.32. The total earnings grows jealous of his stepfather, and lom Cottage Grove, shot hirhself his trousers pockets when the faithful ■rough the head with a revolver, dy- wife nabbed the intruder, screamed for cents a -square, foot for pavement seven only the timely interference of Cousin terest in The Leader to his partner, W. of the Southern Pacifié; for the' year I instantly. Beside the body was. help and awakened her husband, who inches thick, with' rock at about 70 John prevents trouble and all ends hap Connor, who will hereafter conduct the ending June 30 were $21,066,550^83. ■business “on his own hook.” The Sen Dividends declared; $17,336,710.74;. lund an empty whiskey bottle, and on throttled the thief and called for the cents a ton at the quarry, thp cost de pily- pending on the amount of grading and The first- number of a series of enter tinel extends the hand of fellowship ' . _____ k person $67 in money, and a rebate police. Seven per cent was declared bn the distance from transportation; For tainments under the auspices of the to the new sole proprietor, and wishes leek on a railway ticket from Cottage preferred stock and six per cent oh thé Want Additional Room. this work oil containing not less than 75 Cottage Grove Lyceum course will be love to Roseburg. common. _______________ There is now under consideration a per cent asphalt or a carefully prepar a lecture by -Robert M. La Follette at him every success. plan to finish the. basement of the Pres Says It’s Splendid. Some Potatoes. List Only Partial. ed residum of Southern California oil, the Christian church, Tuesday evening, The Western Oregon, published by ■John Allen has sold to the Rees-Wal- byterian church, the additional room to containing 80 per cent asphalt and November 2. Senator La Fallotte is Elsewhere in The Sentinel today, is ■e company 120 btishels of potatoes be used for Sunday school purposes and not more than .02 per cent of organic too well known to need any introduc our friend Bath, has been absorbed by published’ a partial list of new build »aging nearly one pound each. by the Brotherhood. The work will matter, nor more than .25' per cent .of tion by The Sentinel. There is no I The Sentinel; publlished by Lew. A. ings erected this season and in course Bese tubers, the Mills'Prize variety, probably be undertaken by the Brother sulphur;. Asphalt-concrete pavement; stronger' man on the platform today Gates..' The Sentinel is a splendid pa of .construction,' and the showing is ■re raised on hillsides land without hood and thè room will be nearly as laid in almost the same manner as the than he, and he -has a hold upon the in per and has a good advertising patron- very gratifying indeed. We fully spacious as the main auditorium. The Warrens; has been had, royalties satis terest and confidence of the American I age.—"Newberg- Graphic. Btilizing of any nature®. realize that the list is incomplete, it -------------------- — Brotherhood is an organization of men fied,- for 15 and. 1,7 cents per square people enjoyed by few men. The being quite impossible for the ménage Look Out for This Ten. . Sustain Loss by Fire. K warning has been sent to banks either affiliated with the church or foot for pavement five inches thick, writer knows whereof he speaks when The Booth-Kelly Company sustained ment of The Sentinel to get-all, be ■ others to examine closely all $10 members of the congregation, and is With very light street grading. The he states that LaFollette has builded 'a loss of several thousand dollars by ! cause of the fact that his residence in Bd certificates of the series of 1907, rapidly growing in numbers. Meetings Warrens have, it is understood, stopped' his genius and his personality' into the burning of their well-filled stables Cottage Grove, has covered a period of Bek letter -D, aS a number of counter are held once'each month. the laying of this class of pavement every beam and pillar of the govern*- at Wendling. The horses were saved, only one month. We expect, however, feit notes are in circulation. Counter The best fruit exhibit at the Seattle without royalty, which amounts to ment of Wisconsin, which state has but thé winter supply of hay and grain to cover the matter more fully in some 'future issue. feiters, thought to be operating in the fair came from Oregon. bout one and a half cent’s , per foot. many times honored him. He is the was burnéd. President Now on the Ground Making ANOTHER PLAT PLANNED. plans for Contemplated Extensions. Work Will be Done iu Stretches of Aiderman Lawsdn Will Improve Prop erty When Crusher Arrives. Fifty Miles atn Time. COST OF STREET WORK THEATRE SEASON OPEN