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16 PAGES VOLUME IV COTTAGE GROVE, OREGON, FRIDAY. NOV. 5, 1909 BIG MEET Many Lumbermen Will Invade Cottage Grove. DATE SET FOR NOVEMBER 20 Local Lumbermen and Citizens Gener ally Will Tender Manufacturers of Two States a Cordial Reception.—A Large Gathering Promised. returned to their home in Woodland, Washington, on Saturday, after hay mer Groat has lost all of his family since the advent of last September, ex cept Ernest Robert, three years old, who accompanied his grandparents to Washington. Mrs.- Groat passed- away at Vancouver at the age of twenty-two after an illness of only four days. Mr. and Mrs. Groat had gone thither to care, for his mother, who was suffering from pneumonia. Taking his three children, Mr7 Groat returned to Cot tage Grove. One week later Violet Viola, aged four and a half years, died on September 29 after an illness of four days, and again on October 24 death called Daisy Belle, leaving to, the mourning husband and father but one offspring as the result of his union. It is, indeed a deep affliction, and one in which only those who have passed through similar trying ordeals can truly -sympathize with the bereaved. MAKES MATTERS PLflllt IK Health Officer Makes Demand La Follette Says Government is Upon Property Owners. in Hands of Big Cinch. CONNECT WITH THE SEWERS TRACES HISTORY OF BUSINESS Typhoid Fever Likely to Result From •Rockefeller and Morgan Are the Pow Present Unsanitary Condition.-Dr. ers Behind the Throne, Being Dicta Oglesby Makes Report in His Official tors to. Leaders in Both House and Capacity. Senate. NUMBER 6 the present rate, under the Aldrich bill, there is no hope for the consumer. me House is controuea Dy cannon, and the Senate by Aldrich. A few men at Washington were' struggling for good citizenship and a square deal. Extehsive Campaign is Outlined The way is clear before the citizens of by Engineer Lewis. this country. The great question is neither the trusts nor the tariff, but a question of honest men. Better send a MORE WATER FOR FARM LANDS man who is ignorant to. Washington, if he is honest, than an educated rascal. His appeal to his audience to study Rainfall in Willamette Valley Averages Two and One-Quarter Inches During the issues and vote intelligently was Three Snmmer Months.—Lecture strong. He told them that he had an Tour Planned,': ambition for good government and he was bound to accomplish his ideal. Dr. W. W. Oglesby, city health com The Oregon and Washington Lumber Senator Robert Marion LaFol'lette of missioner, has issued his monthly re Wisconsin opened the Cottage Grove Manufacturers’ Association will con Bear Kill Sheep, A campaign of education to cost port ior October, in which he dwells at Lyceum Course last Tuesday evening vene in Cottage Grove on Saturday, Ernest McReynolds, whp has a ranch froin $5000 to $8000, to be participated considerable length on typhoid fever at the Christian church. On his arrival on Cedar creek; reports that black in by paid lecturefsand every newspa November 20, and from present indi and its causes. He claims that our 'here the noted gentleman was met by a bear are killing goats by the score in per in the Willamette Valley, is being cations the gathering will be one of water supply contains coli bacillus, as committee of citizens, consisting of that neighborhood. the. largest held by the organization for He has lost planned , by the Oregon Conservation shown by investigations, and he advo Mayor R. B. Job, Mr, A. B. Wood, twenty-eight thus far this fall, and his Commission and State Engineer Lewis, some time past. Secretary A. B. Was- cates a pure and uncontaminated sup manager of the Oregon & Southeast neighbors have suffered similarly. tell has issued a circular letter to the with the avowed purpose of making ply for city use. He also demands ern railroad, Mr; Fred Conley of the membeys throughout the territory, the valley, the most thoroughly irri "that property owners connect- with the , Commercial club, and Rev. S. C. which comprises two states, and in all DEAJH OF MR. BROCK. gated section of the West, says the WORK IS RESUMED. sewers^ and points out that typhoid Adams, manager of the Lyceum Course; probability- the lumbermen will come Oregonian. Long and Busy Life Brought to aClose fever is attributable almost wholly to in “gangs,’’hence it is up to the manu Southern Pacific Tie Plant Curing a The -Senator spoke for over three hours A drawing prepared by Mr. Lewis on Saturday. this cause. His report- follows: facturers Or Cottage Grove and the ■ on matters political. shows the comparative rainfall in var Large Number of Sleepers; Cyrus ' C. Brock, who came to Cot “There is probably- no serioug dis section tributary theretq, whether He first reviewed the history of. the The tie “curing” plant of the South eases which is more readily and certain development of trade in this country, tage Grove from Pittsburg, Pa., two ious parts of the United States during members of the association or not, to the months of June, July and August. attend the meeting and thus show their ern Pacific Railway Company, at La ly preventable than typhoid fever, yet which started with the partnership, years-ago to make.Oregon his future The Willamette valley is accredited tham resumed operations on Monday, home, died at the residence of Mr. and unfortunately there are few which appreciation of the visit. followed by the corporation, the com with an average of "two. and a quarter The following- is the circular letter after Waving been practically idle .for cause greater loss of human comfort, bination, .and then by what he termed Mrs. Philip Hohl on Saturday last of inches. more than a fortnight for want of ma efficiency and life every year. This is issued by the secretary: “The Combination of Combinations.” paralysis. The remains were shipped It is argued that Government experi “Oregon Washington Lumber Manu terial. The company’s ties bought in chiefly due to popular ignorance of or '.The corporation naturally has to go to East for burial on Tuesday, being ac ments during the past two or three facturers’ Association, office of the Southern' Oregon are here treated with indifference to the measures which can the legislature for its chaster and. to companied by his daughter, Mrs. D. J, seasons show that for certain crops secretary, Portland, Oregon, October a solution of chloride of zine under an^, should be taken to prevent it. Ty municipal authorities for franchises. DuBruille and her daughter, Miss Gail. irrigation., in the Willamette Valley is Deceased was a native of Pennsyl necessary. Admitting the necessity of 26, 1909.—To the members: Pursuant heavy pressure to prolong the life of phoid is emphatically a filthy disease It" would have been proper had they to action of the stockholders at month the sleepers. The output goes to Cal and pathologists arg practically entire stopped here, but the next step was to vania, having been born in a hamlet irrigation, a number of reasons are ly meeting October 16th, when motion ifornia and Nevada principally, few of ly agreed as to its cause. The whole prostitute the aims of legislation. Not bearing the family name sixty-one given by Mr. Lewis why a campaign prevailed that the November meeting the treated ties being used in thissec- problem of the prevention of typhoid satisfied with this, they next have a years ago last April. For many years of education is first necessary. of the association be held at one of the tion. The plant has a. capacity of 4,000 fever may be summed up in one sen combination of the trusts in such a he was a prominent attorney in Pitts First—Land values are so high that cities in the Willamette Valley, the di ties per day of twehty-four hour, and tence. Keep human excrement out of way that a few men, two in fact, can burg, where he practiced law for more capital cannot be found to purchase rectors have decided to hold the meet under ordinary circumstances two water and away from food. The meth manipulate to crush whoever they than a quarter century; He took an arid resell the same when irrigated, active part in politics, and stumped because the public is not awake to the ings of the association on November crews are employed. During the past od of conveyance of typhoid fever will please. 20th at 3:00 p. m. at Cottage Grove, two. months, however, the supply of of course, follow according to the meth As a proof of this, he said that in the state on several occasions for the ¡value of irrigated land. Lane"county, Oregon. — ties has been curtailed oh account of od of the disposal of human excrement. the Congressional Library at Washing republican party, of - which he was a Second—A canal cannot be dug upon “To be brief, when a manji-contracts ton he found a book called, “The Di member. Mr. Brock had no political anticipated profits from the sale of “Cottage Grove is a thriving little city "a higher price demanded by producers.- of 3,000 people at the southern end of There are thirty-three men employed typhoid he has acquired it by drinking rectory of Directors of New York aspirations. At one time he was af water to adjoining lands, because capi the Willamette valley, 144 miles south at the plant. Mr. Charles Adams is in or swallowing with his food a solution City,” On-inquiry he found that all forded an opportunity to gain a seat tal will not invest without., some defin of the bowel discharges of some other' the large cities have such a volume. on the bench, but declined.' He had ite security. of Portland. Has a population of 3,000 charge of the work. member of his species containing ty Ip studying these lists of names he ¡practiced in all the courts, but refused Third—Irrigation and drainage dis which is rapidly increasing. Cottage CHILD SCALDED To DEATH. phoid bacilla. The connection between- fdund that all the industries have for criminal cases. Mr. Brock had a splen tricts cannot be formed until over 50 Grove is a junction where the Oregon & Southeastern-railway joins the main Falls Into Tub of Boiling Water While the soil and the drinking water -is . so their .directors ninety-seven men. did library, valued, it is said, at about per cent of the - land owners are awake obvious that it needs only to be pointed Many of these men have very little $24,000. line of the S. P. Co. and there are from to the value of irrigation. Capital ad Mother is Busy Close By. •Broken in health he came west three opt and yet it is the .simple ^disreg-a-rd twenty-five to thirty mills within a The two-year-old daughter of Mr. óf this well established and indisputable wealth, Chauncey. M. De Pew, for in years-ago for recreation and rest. He vanced for such enterprises becomes a radius of twenty miles of which a num and Mrs. E. R. '"Black of - this city fell stance. In. fact it was. summed up lien upon the land within the district ber -.are members of this association and into a tub of hot water and died as a law of cause and effect which should that ninety-five of the directors were liked the country, and after, returning arid can readily be secured. the local Commercial club offers good result of the scalding. The little girl put Us on our guard, that we too may the tools of two men who control the to Pittsburg again came hither to take Fourth—No bon'd house or large con up his permanent abode. • The surviv hot be disgraced with an alarming facilities for entertainment. was playing in the kitchen where her prevalence of typhoid as some of our interests of this country, ’Rockefeller ing members of the Brock family are struction company will, in the face of “Messrs. L. S. Hill and F. H. Rosen, mother had been scrubbing the floor, and J. P. Morgan. present sentiment, attempt to organize berg of the Brown Lumber Co. are go and before the - mother noticed what Oregon towns have been. The panic of 1907 he laid at their Mrs. DuBruille and Miss Ida Brock, a project, getting the farmers to place ing to interest, everybody in the locality the child was doing she heard her “The next in virulence is bicillus coli door. He attributed their motive to Who is a stenographer in Millon’s Na a lien on their land for the cost of re to come to the meeting and they are scream and struggling in the tub of communes. As yet we have not pro be that, they considered Theodore tional iBank of Pittsburg. The wife clamation and drainage. In addition, enthusiastic to work up a big attend water. duced but one or two malignant results. Roosevelt as a menace to their rob and mother died about thirty-five years capital .will not invest in expensive ance." It is now up to the rest of the But our investigations are positive that bery. A panic during an administra ago. topographic surveys and investigations Tea Is Grown on Coast. membership to. get busy and arrange all of pur water contains coli bicillus. tion had always proved unpleasant for As the Cottage Grove local was pass in search of irrigation projects when for a big delegation to go -down from That- tea can be successfully grown “If we expect to maintain, our-record those in-office and they considered this ing. a point near the Coney Island re they are besieged by promoters having the A. & C., O. R. & N., upper Wil in Goos county has been clearly demon as one of the most healthy villages in a sure way to block any third term at sort between Eugene and Springfield all necessary data as a basis for in lamette valley and the Portland mills. strated by J. O. Stemmier of Myrtle the state we are compelled to bring in tempt. The panic was uncalled for yesterday evening a rock thrown vestment. Mr; Dixon of the Booth-Kelly Lumber Point. On his ranch near Dora he has pure water for city use. First and and criminal. The products of the through the window of a coach struck Fifth—The present tendency is for Co. will advertise the matter' among a good crop, of tea and has brought in best of all is the securing of naturally farms and mines for 1907' were far in a brakeman on the-cheek and inflicted each farmer to enlarge his holding, the mills on the Wendling branch and a supply of leaves, which he does each pure and uncontaminated supply of- excess of previous years. a painful wound. Some miscreant thus reducing population. If irriga we would appreciate very much the as year to supply his family table. The water. There is one that is within our Tariff for revenue was also branded evidently threw the- rock with- mali tion is necessary, as we assuhie, then ,» Continued on Eighth Page. sistance of our members by writing let tea is of the regular Japan variety. the sooner the farmer is convinced of as a means of robbing the poor. At cious intent.—Guard. ters to personal friends among the val its value, the better. The tendency ley mill men without regard to their will then be to subdivide and sell, thus membership in the assocation, inviting increasing the population of the valley. them to attend. ' The plan of campaign embraces the “Those interested can readily figure making of a topographic survey map on taking in the Corvallis-Oregon foot The community booklet, setting forth Spring, a famous health resort, -twelve enjoys terminal rates on its lumber ex Barley runs more than 60 bushels; corn of the Willamette Valley showing all ball game at Eugene, Friday, Novem the resources, advantages and possibil ihiles southwest on the Coast Fork of ports and shares in all advantages that 40, and .potatoes over 200 bushels per reservoir sites, diversion points, irri gable areas, etc.; the employment of ber 19th. Train leaves Portland at 8:15 ities of Cottage Grove and the terri the Willamette river, and reached daily any locality possesses so fair as freight acre. a. m., arriving at Eugene at 1:59 p. m. tory tributary thereto, has arrived and by a stage line, the terminus of which -traffic is concerned. In the all-impor Hogs can be raised more cheaply in a reputable engineer to point out the Saturday leaves Eugene at 2:00 p. m. Manager' Conley, of the Commercial is the Black Butte quicksilver mines; tant matter of passenger transporta this territory than any where else in various irrigation and drainage pro jects, showing location of canals, arid and arrives at Cottage Grove at 2:57 club, which is responsible for the pub and the valleys of Row river and tion, Cottage Grove, is accorded distinct the World. with the rest of the party. Return lication, is busily engaged sending the Mosby creek, lying east.” advantages. From fifty acres in wheat an average giving preliminary estimates of cost; time is up to you and the S. P. Co. issue into those Eastern states where The opportunities for investment are It is estimated that tributary to Cot The vwalnut industry is attracting the employment of a good writer on “This meeting at Cottage Grove will it is calculated the most, good may be given consideration, especially. with tage Grove there is a much greater considerable attention in this section, irrigation for three or four months, offer an opportunity for renewing olp accomplished in the way of inducing reference to the lumber industry, railroad tonnage than can be found in it just becoming known that they will to go over the valley collecting data and describing the advantages and dis friendships and making many new ac immigration. The booklet is hand owing to the steady increasing values. any equal area on the Pacific Coast. do well arid thrive most abundantly. quaintances and the value of this pil somely illustrated with views in and “Timber can be bought,” says the. There are thirty-one lumber mills in It is not uncommon, to find a Jersey advantages of the scheme. The state engineer believes that by grimage cannot be over estimated. around Cottage Grove, showing the writer, “at from 50 cents to $1 per the territory tributary to Cottage cow that is netting $100 to $120 annu this time there will have been aroused We send-out this announcement thus magnificent timber resources of this thousand feet stumpage. These val Grove, all of which are within twenty ally. >arly so that everybody can frame his section; agricultural, horticultural and ues will multiply four-fold- in a few miles radius of the city. The monthly Sheep yield from eight and a half to enough enthusiasm so that no difficulty plans accordingly. Our regular notice stock scenes along the Coast Fork, and years at the present rate of increase. payrolls exceed $50,000.00. There are fourteen pounds to the fleece. An will be encountered in inducing the of the, meeting will be sent out one Row rivers arid in the Lorane valley; In the Lorane Valley coal of good com quarter sections in the vicinity, of Cot annual increase in the flock of 125 to next session of the legislature to make week prior thereto as usual. Bohemia gold mining camps; the quick mercial quality has been discovered, tage Grove that contain 22,000,000 feet 150 per cent is not uncommon. Angora an appropriation large enough to make ’’Will you please do your part to work silver mines at Black Butte, together while in Lynx Valley, three miles of merchantable timber. The grade goats yield four pounds of mohair to a reliable topographic map of the floor of the valley, as a basis for interesting up a big attendance? with other industrial scenes and pic north of Cottage Grove, large deposits of this timber is excellent, running as the fleece. A. B. WASTELL, Secretary;” of natural mineral paint have been lo high as 54 per cent clear. turesque spots. All grains, clover, vetch, alfalfa, capital. Mr. Lewis states that the The founding of Cottage Grove by cated; There are also promising aven It is estimated by timber experts corn, kale, rape and roots do well in United States geological survey doubt WILL BUILD NEW PLANT. less will contribute dollar for dollar Nathaniel Martin in 1867, and its pro ues for investment of capital in furni that there is sixteen billion feet of this section and yield abundantly. The altitude is 671 feet, is regarded with the state for such work. Calapooya Mineral Springs Company gress during an early period is briefly ture manufacturing, in wood-working merchantable timber in the area con Following the session of the Legisla touched upon by way of introduction, enterprises of various kinds- and in the tiguous to Cottage Grove. It will cost beyond the frost line, yet not so high to Come to Town in Spring. followed by much general information manufacturing of paper pulp from the approximately $7.50 per thousand feet as to be in the hot belt. There is an ture it is proposed to employ some The Calapooya-Mineral Springs Com- such man as B. A. Fowler, president of value to the prospective settler, wood of the fir tree and waste products to prepare this timber for shipment in abundant supply of pure water. >any, formerly known as the London, written none too forcefully but withal of saw mills, with a-number Of-by-pro its crude form. This involves an ex Fully-ripened strawberries of the of the National Irrigation Congress to company, will erect a large bottling intelligently. The entire work of ducts, among which are alcohol, tur penditure of $1-20,500,000,00. tame variety have been picked in the give stereoptican lectures throughout riant in Cottage Grove in the early sixty-eight pages is devoid of flowery pentine and rosin.” The mining interests tributary to Cottage Grove district in January. the valley. ipi’ing. -The site has been secured. The state engineer, believes that the embellishments, the space being more The schqols, with their 800 pupils; Cottage Grove form one of its most Wild strawberries have been picked at The springs are located twelve miles usefully employed by unvarnished facts the churches, seven in number; fra valued resources. The Bohemia dis-, Cottage Grove in February. These carrying out of this campaign of edu :rom town, and the company’s increas- and beautiful illustrations. -Speaking ternal orders, some fourteen;-civic im trict' comprises an area of thirteen wild varieties bloom during November cation will result in so much enthus ng business makes the hauling of bot- iasm that the project will not be al ofthe geographical position of Cottage provements, completed and contem miles by nine miles. It is in the and December. ;les and cases back and forth from the- lowed to die until the Willamette Val Grove it is mentioned that “every tele plated; railway facilities, "telephone Calapooia range, a spur of the Cas Two hundred and eighty-six nice days ¡hipping point too expensive. At pres ley becomes the highest developed por service, climatic conditions, etc., are phone inessage, every telegram, every cades. Cottage Grove is the only gate in a year mak.es one feel that it does ent the company’s plant has a capacity letter, every pound of freight and all given proper attention, and form way to the district. During the last not'always rain in Oregon. The sum-" tion of this state through irrigation if only 1500 bottles per day. The sa every passenger who travels north or interesting reading for those desiring five years-more than $700,000.00 in free -mer weather is seldom above eighty and drainage. Until some such plan is lacity of -the proposed' new plant will south through the State of Oregon, information along these several lines. gold has been taken' out. degrees and the heat: is never oppres put. into execution it is claimed the >e approximately 4,000 bottles per day. valley will remain unirrigated, and SOME GLEANINGS. between the Cascade mountains and Large deposits of mineral paint have sive. file company has closed negotiations The population of Cottage Grove is been discovered four miles northwest This section offers exceptionally in the main, the farms will be too the Pacific Ocean, either by wagon or vith Mr. W.-Hendryx of-, Portland to railroad, passes through Cottage more than- 95 per cent American. while veins of good coal have been, -tempting opportunities for deer, bear, large to allow of rapid increase in the ilace its mineral water in all the lead- Grove.” Besides being the supply With a population of but 3000 people found within nine miles of Cottage grouse, pheasants and quail. The population. Successfully to carry out ig cities throughout the-Pacific coast point for various mining districts and Cottage, Grove has a service of 608 Grove. Oil appears in several places. streams are well-stocked with brook the campaign of education outlined, ountry. mining camps,. Cottage Grove is the telephones, the percentage of ,ttele Cottage Grove is frequently referred and salmon trout. To the big game Mr. Lewis estimates that from $5000 Death Cuts Wide Swath. principal trading center for a wide phones to each one hundred of popula to as the Petaluma of Oregon by those hunter is offered bear, cougar,’lynx, to $8000 should be raised • by voluntary Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Smith, who came stretch of surrounding country; the tion being greater than in any town who are interested in the poultry busi wildcat, and an occasional wolf. In subscription. 0 Cottage Grove to care for the three fertile Lorane Valley to the west, im of its size on the coast. one locality nearby three cougars and Apples, old and young, should be ness. hildren of Mrs. Elmer Groat after her portant for its dairying and horticul Cottage Grove is an important point of forty bushels per acre, while oats one or two black bears were- killed sprayed before the winter rains begin s'ath, which occurred in September, tural interests; Calapooia Mineral on the Southern Pacific System. It yieldj 100 bushels, machine measure.' during the year. to prevent anthracnose. Community Book Relates Some Interesting Facts
