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PUtt IIP l& lon 2 'OLUME IV ie Sentinel Holds Publicity Campaign Is Conservative. ACTIVITY HAS ITS REWARD ry of Misrepresentation and Over booming Cudgel of Knockers to Defeat the Commendable Under takings of Progressive Men. That this is an age of “booming” is COTTAGE GROVE, OREGON, FRIDAY. DEC. 17, 1909 misrepresentation, or dash'cold water upon commendable efforts, but get into the campaign with an enthusiasm that will rebound to the good of all. We have not become such expert “boom ers” that we are likely to over do it. Suggestions alone the line-to those at the head of the campaign Will, The Sen tinel is sure, receiye thoughtful consid eration. The past year has been a remarkably successful twelvemonth for Cottage Grove. It is estimated that fully $150,- 000 has been expended in the erection of buildings alone, and industrial and commercial enterprises have enjoyed augmented prosperity. The population of the city has increased; the surround ing territory has been more largely de veloped than during any previous year since the opening of the country to set tlement; extensive municipal bettei- mentshave been projected and are now being consummated; bank reports show a. healthy gain, and combined with these civic pride, the very foundation of the making of a city, has increased a' hundred fold; New acquisitions~to the community are in prospect. Hun dreds of inquiries as to this section are coming in, and there is strong possibil ity of directing a large proportion of the tide of immigration to this valley. But the chronic knocker can drive ten. away while the “booster” is securing one. It has been said of many com munities that a few funerals would be necessary before they could came into their own; do not let Cottage Grove be classed among these. If a man does not like a town there is abundant room elsewere, and the sooner he goes hence the better off will be the whole com munity. Southern Pacific Official Gives Many Notable Improvements The Sentinel Tip. Made Past Year. NUMBER lì making a bid for your trade, to which thev are entitled. The Sentinel has time and again urged upon the people of this community thé advantages to be gained by building a fence around the home dollar, but at this season it de sires to emphasize its previous argu ments. Our merchants are prepared to supply your wants. Marshal Snodgrass’ Captive Makes Strong Denial. ONE DOLLAR PAYS FOR IT. TALKS PASSENGER SERVICE BARNS NOW SHELTER STOCK Ten Trains Pass Through Cottage Taxpayers Vote to Create Special Fund Grove Daily, the Shasta Limited for Betterment of Highway Lead .Being the World’s Most Ex ing to Cottage Grove—News clusive Human Carrier. From Lorane. Mr. W. H. Jenkins, traveling passen- ■ger agent for the Southern Pacific, was in Cottage Grove on Saturday look ing after the interests of his company. In conversation with a representative of The Sentinel regarding the prospects for getting a new depot for Cottage Grove, Mr. Jenkins said his under standing of the situation was that bet ter depot facilities would be afforded this city after its streets had been pav ed. The Southern Pacific feels that this improvement should be made first in order that all grades be established; not that it would concern the structure itself, but rather the cement walks Which would be put around it. These should be in keeping with street grades. Grants Pass and Ashland, where new depots are to be erected, provided these improvements and then urged that they be given new passenger stations. Regarding the present arrangement of the train service, he had interview ed quite a number of representative people along the line, and found ihat there appeared to be satisfaction. The only probable change from the present schedule might be to have the former Cottage Grove local leave Portland one hour earlier. This is under considera tion. There are now five passenger trains each way through Cottage Grove, three going through to San Francisco, one to Ashland and one to Roseburg. The Shasta Limited is probably the most exclusive train in the world, and as such recently received favorable mention from the Railway Age, pub lished in the East. The Shasta Limit ed makes only one stop for passenger^ between Portland and San Francisco, a distance of 773 miles. The average number of passengers carried on this train since the Seattle exposition is ap proximately one hundred. Its running time between Portland and San Fran cisco is fifteen hours. Two locomotives are used in the mountain districts, and during the recent snowstorms three were used. The Sentinel May Be Sent Abroad for this Sum. In order to extend its scope of use fulness the management of The Senti nel will send this publication to new addresses outside of'Lane"county for a period of one~year for $1. This rate, which will obtain until January 1 only, is made in order to induce residents of this immediate locality ? to send The ‘ Sentinel to relatives and acquaintances 1 in the East, and elsewhere, with a view ’ to informing them of the opportunit s > here offered as a place for home and I profit. It is the purpose of The Sentinel to • publish from time to time, as has been i done in the past, articles descriptive of ■ Western Oregon, and Southern Lane > county in particular, and if. publicity is 1 of value a few hundred additional cop • ies of his paper distributed weekly throughout a section which already has • an eye on the coast country, should be 1 instrumental in accomplishing good. No matter how persistently The Senti nel may exploit our advantages and re sources upless its circulation reaches beyond the limitations of its compara tively , small field, much of its labor will have been in vain. We, therefore, urge every public-spirited citizen of the community to subscribe for at least one copy of The Sentinel to be sent in to some other locality or state. In mak ing this proposition we recognize the fact that it is a losing game, but hope that suffiicent good will result to more than remunerate us in the end. We have the interest of Cottage Grove at heart, and purpose doing our share to bring it into its own. All roads lead to The Sentinel office—bring or send your dollar. CONSIDERED DESPERATE MAN Articles in Blake’s Possession AUeged to Have Been Purchased from Fel low Lodger at Seattle. Evi dence Shows Otherwise. The Lorane valley, ten miles west of Robert J. Blake, the desperate crim- Cottage Grove, shows a large number inal arrested in this city, several weeks of permanent improvements made dur ago by Marshal Snodgrass is on trial in ing the past year. The older residents Portland. The peace officer of Cottage of this rich section of agricultural ter Grove and Warren McFarland are in the community has its knockers; individ- ritory have become imbued with a spir Oregon metropolis to give testimony. lals who are apparmitly satisfied, like it of progress, and many changes have Blace is supposed to be the principal in UcCawber, to sit down and wait for been effected, while still others are in the burglary of postoffices' and railway iomething to turn up. Cottage Grove contemplation. For instance, the num stations at Jefferson, Creswell, Irving is no exception. During the past fort- ber of barns erected during the twelve and other points in the state, and Mar- liglit a considerable amount of discus month now rapidly drawing to a close shal Snodgrass is confident that there ión has been indulged in relative to is an -indication of progress. S. F. is a preponderance of evidence against nisrepresentation in presenting the Jackson, Jerry Pipes, W. I. Coleman, him. The Portland authorities consider .¡aims of this particular locality to the G. W. Sanderson, W. C. Billings and him one of the most desperate charac- iiitside world. This has been termed M. Gillispie have built barns of a sub ters captured in several years, and they ‘overbooming, ” if such a thing is stantial order, and are housing their marvel over the fact that the marshal unong the possibilities. The writer’s stock this winter, some of them for the who made the catch was not killed in ixperience has taught him that such first time. Mr. Jackson’s barn is one the fight. expression? of opinion do not emanate of the largest, the - demensions being Blake was arrested by City Marshal rom individuals who are found in the 50x50, with 16-foot posts, and having a Snodgrass of Cottage Grove, after an oremOSt rank of boosters, or those capacity for 100 tons of hay. W. I. attempt to draw a revolver on the offi vho are even possessed of advanced Coleman’s barn is 36x50, In addition cer, in a desperate hand-to-hand strug deas of progressiveness. It is, indeed, to these, Mr. Sanderson has erected a gle in the shadow of a boxcar, where lamentable condition when our fel- pretty bungalow costing about $2000, Blake attempted to hide when the mar iwrran is inclined to discourage honest . SERIES OF BIBLE READINGS. and Mr. Mahoney has built a cottage shal was placing a gang of “hobos” Sorts in behalf of the general eh on his ranch, as has also Bert McBee. under arrest. He is believed to be the ancement of a community’s material Church of Christ Holding School of In Wm. Lynch who less than a month ago most desperate criminal recently cap struction at London. reliare; and not satisfied with a com- purchased the Norris place has a small tured in Oregon. After being remand lon every-day growl sends forth To the readers of The Sentinel: You house completed, and will add thereto ed to jail at Portland, where he waived irough the public press charges of mis- are informed that the Church of Christ next spring. Mr. Lynch is from Kan preliminary examination, Blake at epresentation that must necessarily of the Pacific Coast is engaged in an sas. tempted to establish the time-honored rove detrimental. to a spirited cam- effort to encourage the reading of God’s The farmers of'the valley built more defense of an innocent purchaser of the ign for the betterment of obtaining Word; and in order to do this the differ fences during 1909 than during the past articles found on him, and which have inditions. decade, and all are of a substantial ent churches are employing competent been identified as having been lost in A careful comparison of community teachers- at various places to conduct character. The ' Churchill-Matthews the various robberies mentioned. wklets, and other publicity literature, these Bible Readings. The Chruch of Company is fencing its entire tract < f “I want the people to understand TWO PLAYS TONIGHT. Wished and given world-wide circu Christ at London, Oregon, twelve miles 1000 acres, A large amount of clear- that I am not guilty of the charges it:: by various cities of the Pacific south of Cottage Grove, is in a reading ing and brushing has also been done, Christian Endeavor Society Will En- brought against me,” said Blake. fell vest, reveals the indisputable fact at the present time, began on Monday and improvements are noticeable in “When Snodgrass arrested me at Cot tertain at the Armory. lai the claims advanced by Cottage December 6, with twenty-two pupils. every direction. A considerable num tage Grove he found twenty-seven books rove regarding its natural advantages, These reading? are conducted free of ber of additional acres of land have This Friday evening the Christian of stamps of different denomination on sresoures and possibilities, have been charge. All persons who wish to at been put under cutivation, and quite a Endeavor society of the Christian my person, but I had a right to them, ss brilliantly depicted than most of tend these readings may do so whether number of new orchards have be.en church will .give an entertainment at because I purchased them from a fel- the Armory, at which time two short lem. And let' it be said in this con- they belong to the Church of Christ or planted and others enlarged. Jow-lodger at1 Seattle. I never stole plays will be rendered. “His Old Sweet ection, the charge of misrepresenta- not, or if to no church. All are invit Mr. S. F. Jackson, who has about 900 anything in my life. on notwithstanding, that every state- ed to come and will be made welcome acres of land, with 200 under cultiva hearts” for which the cast of charac “I admit being a deserter from the ters is as follows : The Bachelor, Ed lent made is susceptible of the fullest with good board and lodging at $2.50 tion, set out six acres of new orchard United States Army at Fort Russell. I emonstration. The promotion depart- per week. this year, giving him a totalof about Finnerty; Kate, Anna Rhode; Blanche, left there on the night of June 22, My The work begins at 9 lent of the Commercial club gave care- o’clock a. m. and holds six hours, dis 1200 trees. He has an old orchard of Mary Willard; Elizabeth, Mrs. Cruzon; company was to go on a march the next il consideration to every detail , in missing at four p. m. The Old and 100 trees which has for years been Mildred, Lottie Beals; Clara, Mayme morning, and as I was a little bit dis greatly, appreciated by his hogs, which Kime; Jeannette, Grace Lily; Helen, gusted with Army life, I just walked onncction with its literature, and the New Testaments will be completed in a were permitte'd to help themselves. Jordan Lily; Tegia, Jessie Baughman; away. I went down to Cheyenne, entlemen comprising that representa course of twelve weeks. Reading the THE NEW POSTAL CARD. The past season, however, the crop was Mary, Mrs. Spear. re body are probably in better posi- Old Testament will be-completed about where I purchased a suit of clothes, and “An Interrupted Proposal” has the ion, after systematic investigation, to the middle of January. The New Tes Designs and Shapes of the Article to not large. Mr. Jackson raises wheat following cast: Mr. Stone, Menzo Fin then started for Butte. From there X and oats principally. The former crop udge of our merits than all the knock- tament Will then be taken up and com went to Spokane and Everett, and then’ Appear With New Year. measured up about thirty-five: bushels nerty; Mrs. Stone, Mayble Coffman; by boat to Seattle. The revolver I had ls and croakers this side of hades. pleted about the < middle of February Mrs. Ramsey, Elsie Coffman ; Miss Desigris for the new postal cards to to the acre this season while his oats For years we have heard that Seat 1910. Girls and boys of ten years old Stone, Jordan Lily; Mr. Steven How was1 the regular Army gun, and was ie, Portland, Los Angeles, Eugene, who can read well will profit by it. In be issued by the government have been went about thirty-seven bushels, which ard, Orville Spear; Mr. Tracey; Geo. issued to me the night I deserted. The iedford, and a host of other western structions in vocal music will be given approved by the Postmaster General is lower than usual. Mr. Jackson has dirk knjfe they found on me I used in Boyd ; Betty, Muriel Robinson. ¡ties were being overboomed; that a each Saturday evening at 6:30. Preach Hitchcock, and Cottage Grove may ex too much land, he says, and intends place of an ordinary jack-knife, which An old time recital will be given by pect a supply about February. The selling one tract of 480 acres. eaction would be the inevitable, and ing each Lord’s day at 11 a. m. and 7 all travelers need. At Seattle I stop the pupils of Mrs. Ora Hemenway in bat property investors, commercial cir- p. m. Reviews are given on Tuesdays cards will be furnished to the postoffice The taxpayers of District No. 24 ped at a lodging house on. the water connection with this entertainment. les, laborers, and the populace gener- and Fridays at 6:30 p. m. These ex department by the government print have voted a ten-mill tax levy'for the front and was placed in the same room The selections are chosen from old-time lly of these respective cities would ercises are conducted by Evangelist ing office in accordance with a contract improvement of highways, the under favorite readings, and the dress and with a man who told me he had a lot of after. Has the prophesy of the con- Ernest C. Love of Forestville, Califor effective on January 1, 1910. On the standing among them being that the manners will be in keeping with the stamps to sell, and I gave him $5 for ordinary card, the head of the late ervative been fulfilled? Los Angeles nia, who is a thorough teacher and an road leading to Cottage Grove should times. Members of Mrs. Hemenway’s the layout. I intended to send them President McKinley will appear, as be principally benefitted by the amount as grown from ten to four hundred able preacher, A. B. East for the purchase of jewelry, which now, but a much better likenesS of the raised. The road leading to Eugene, class, Misses Dickerson, Moore, Van- I thought I could peddle.” housand inhabitants within a quarter Denberg, Pringle, Robertson, Pur- martyred president has been selected. it is said, has been getting the lion's Health Officer’s Rpeort. •n.tury; Seattle occupies' the proud When arrested by Marshal Snodgrass Dr. T. W. Harris, county health offi On the new small card, intended for share of the expenditures, and it is pro vance, Rosenberg, Hemenway, Holder Blake had on a suit of clothes which stinction of being .the foremost com man and Morrison. index purposes, and for social corres iere ial center of the Pacific North cer for Lane, has completed his month posed to equalize matters somewhat. Jlenry Young, of Jefferson, identified rest ; Portland has assumed proportions ly report. During November there pondence a likeness of President Lin The schools at Lorane are progress as belonging to him, paying they were SEEK BETTER SERVICE. stonishingto the most sanguine, while were 33 births in the county, 14 males coln will appear. The 2-cent interna ing most satisfactorily, and attendance stolen from the station after being re lugenc, Medford and other progressive, and 19 females. There were nine cases tional card will bear a portrait of Gen has increased somewhat over previous Citizens of Rural Realm Want Mails turned by express from a pressing es ide-awake, hustling towns have dou- of contagious diseases, two of which eral Grant. A pleasing innovation has years. Prof. Andrews is at the head tablishment. Blake says the suit is not Delivered at Their Door. led and trebled in population and im- were pulmonary tuberculosis, two of been made for the double, or reply of the high school, and Miss Bailey the one he bought in Cheyenne, but Another free rural delivery route out ortance. scarlet fever, four of typhoid fever, postal card. On the first half will ap teaches the grades. that it was obtained at Seattle to re of Cottage Grove, some fifteen miles The truth is, Cottage Grove is not and one of diphtheria. Twenty-six pear a portrait of George Washington, The Christian and Methodist denom in length, is in prospect, and if the pe place the' Wyoming clothing, which had rerboomed, and furthermore no mis- deaths were reported, 19 being males while the stamp on the second or reply inations are each represented at Lorane tition is granted will be of great con become worn on the brakebeams. ipresentations have been made so far and 7 females. Causes of death were card half will be a likeness of Martha with churches, but at the present time On the morning following the arrest venience to d considerable number of > its publicity campaign is concerned, as follows: No cause assigned, 3; dys Washington. The borders of the stamps both are without resident pastors. Mr. the marshal of Cottage Grove returned patrons. The proposed route is from trip outside of our own bailiwick entery 4; carsinomia of the kidneys, 1; on all of the cards will be diversified John Sutherland somethimes preaches Cottage Grove north to Saginaw, thence to the place of his encounter with Blake ould undoubtedly give convincing asphyxiation, 1; diphtheria, 1; tubercu in design. On all of the cards the at the former. He is row at London across the bridge to the Jones, Sears, and there picked up a bunch of keys, ‘¡dei ce that this statement is true, losis, 1; paralysis, 1; enteritis, 1; in-. words “Postal Card, ” requited by the attending bible readings. Kennedy, Harding and Conner farms, which have since been identified as be ie trouble is that those of us who testinal obstruction, 1; heart disease, universal postal union convention, will The place has a splendid store, con thence around the hill to the Harms, longing to the Southern Pacific and fit ive traveled little and made few com- i 1; puerperal eclampsia, 1; epilepsy, 1; appear on the borders of the stamp and ducted by W. W. Jackson, a gentleman Nelson, Stocks, Sears, Currin, Veatchs ting the switch locks and depot Yale irisons by personal observation and i apoplexy, 1; cystitis, 1; senile exhaus not, as now, as a separate inscription. who is popular in the community, and and intermediate farms, thence across locks of that system. Such keys were' The paper to be used is the best manu 1; meraBmas,l ; ptomaine poison irsonal knowledge of conditions are tion, ’ consequently he is transacting a lucra Currin bridge to the Mosby bottom, re taken from the cash drawer of the de 1; meningitis, 1; nehpritis, 1; in factured for the purpose. It will be tive business. rely to be unappreciative of the ad- ing, i pot at Jefferson when that station was of the bowels, 1, and car more attractive than the paper used in W. R, Hawley and George Sanderson turning to Cottage Grove by way of robbed. mtages and resources which we pos- tersusception 1 Mosby creek bridge and the Row river the present card and will “take ink” sent seven calves to Cottage Grove to diac insufficiency, 1. i Blake admits he is traveling under an wagon road According to a prescribed This section is in the infancy of its better than the paper now employed. market on Saturday, the former hav rule of the postoffice department a ru assumed name, and that he was christ A. O. U. W. Secedes. velopment; it is just beginning to ing six in' the bunch. ■ Butcher Bartels ral route must serve at least 100 peo ened Morton Mills by his parents in Venske Buvs a Farm. alize its worth and is throwing aside Rather than surrender its assets and Pennsylvania. “I have been away was the purchaser. Robert Venske of Wisconsin, who has ple, and if this can be shown it is prob i swaddling garments. Its real growth relief funds to the control and manage from home since 1899,” said Blake, or able that there will be no difficulty in (I development is yet to come, and ment of the officers of the Supreme been a guest of his brother, ’Contractor Mining Men May Meet. Mills, “and have not heard from any Venske of this city, for some time getting the service. , ose communities that are alive to the Lodge of the Ancient Order of United There is a movement under Way for a of my people for five years. I enlisted iportanee of fostering the vast move Workmen, the Grand Lodge of Oregon past, has bought 100 acres of land neaj meeting of the mining men of Oregon, in the Army in 1899 and was discharged Death of An Infant. Harrisburg for $50 per acre, and will' nt to the great coast country, and has severed its relations with the for to be held at some central location, in 1902. I again enlisted in 1909.” Jarold, aged three months, son of Mr. take possession within a short time. ■■tribute their full quota to exploita- mer body until such time as the Su probably Cottage Grove. Whether the Mark Comer, died at the home of Mrs. WBl Clean Up Well. n work, will reap the quickest and preme Lodge shall be willing to recede The farm is said to be one of the best matter will reach definite shape cannot in that section. Drake on Friday last after a brief ill W. W. Cochran, who owns a half in st rewards for their foresight and from its demand. Officers of the Ore be stated at this time, as thus far only ness. The funeral was held on Satur (¿prise. We of Cottage Grove have gon Grand Lodge assert that they have Want to Buy Court House. “feelers” have been sent out. The day afternoon, Elder Becker of Port- terest in the Cripple Creek group of nine claims, says the West Coast Mines ready hidden our light under a bushel been willing to assist in discharging The city council of Eugene has begun mining men believe such a gathering and officiating. company will probably make another 'long. While we have been dormant the indebtedness and burdens of other to agitate /the matter of the purchase would prove profitable., run in January, and will clean up some'- Mr efforts, neighboring towns less state grand lodges, but insist that if of the' Lane county courthouse by the Marriage Licenses, '■antayeously situated, have gathered the insurance policies it has issued to city for a c.ity hall. The council sug Read the Christmas Ads. Marriage licenses have been issued thing over $6,000 ip gold. This com ! golden harvest, and now aty the members are to be paid, when-the de gests that the county build a new court The attention of the reader is invited to Henry T. Royer of Eugene and Mrs. pany has its bins full of ore, and is now prentli hour we are endeavoring to mand comes for the money, the funds house on the ground occupied by the to The Sentinel’s advertising columns Mary T. Gray of Cottage Grove; also filling the shoots. ■opera te from our procrastination. that such members have paid in should county jail and present city hall, which today. Christmas time approaches, and to Clyde L. Kerr of Wildwood and Miss J> I. Jones will plant 1000 apple and ¿tus not talk of overbooming, of now remain in Oregon. belongs to the county. the merchants of Cottage Grove are Laura E. Gill of Cottage Grove. 1000 pear trees in the near future. • .* clearly demonstrated by the progres sive spirit exhibited by almost every city and village throuhgout the length and breadth of the land. And yet every