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About The Cottage Grove sentinel. (Cottage Grove, Lane County, Oregon) 1922-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 14, 1910)
2Parts®fyp VOLUME IV USES THE BLUE PENCIL Mayor Job Rises in His Might and Vetoes Lighting Bill. SOME FACTS AND FIGURES Aldermanie Body Will Doubtless Pass the Ordinance Over Chief Execu tive’s Head — Council Unani mously in Favor. Mayor Job has vetoed the ordinance authorizing the mayor and recorder to enter into à five-year’s contract with the Cottage Grove Lighting company notwithstanding the significant fact that the bill passed the aldermanie body unanimously. The mayor gives as his reason for vetoing the bill that certain rights are withheld from the city, and furthermore the municipality is not in néed of the proposed service, both of which arguments may be sound .and loigeal in the opinion of the chief executive but not so with the six aider men who voted for the adoption of the ordinance, otherwise there would have been dissention to the measure upon roll call. So far as the municipality’s rights and privileges are concerned the ordinance has nothing to do; it simply authorizes the mayor and and recorder on behalf of the city to executed a con tract with the company. That contract would guard the rights of the_city. There may be other reasons for the mayor using the blue-pencil, but. if so The Sentinel is not advised of their na bruttai2Pans (KnttagF COTTAGE GROVE, OREGON, FRIDAY. JAN. 14, 1910 for apples. With the same care ingrow ing and marketing the territory sur rounding Cottage Grove would become as famous as any locality in the coast country. MW HUMS ARE CUT TAKES HIS OWN LIFE WORKING HUGE SCHEME. Governor Benson Issues Order George Raines Slashes Throat Cottage Grove Elks Purpose Building Beautiful Temple. The Nesmith county Elks have a scheme on foot, which if successfully carried out, Will mean much to this mun icipality, and while it may be a viola tion of confidence to make it public there can no harm come out of.it, for the reason that numbers tell. Cottage Grove purposes increasing the member ship of the Lane county lodge from this city sufficiently to give it a balance power in a show-down vote, and when it comes to the erection of an Elks’ home at Eugene the Cottage Gyove members to a man will cast their bal lot in favor of this city as the site, and carry the measure, thus making lodge headquarters here instead of further down the valley. Cottage Grove hasn’t the required population for the institution of a lodge here, and won’t reach the necessary proportions for probably at least a cou ple of years, and hence this scheme was invented by Winters Wallace, a baby Elk, to attain the desired result. The Eqgene fellows have been unusu ally kind to us—we are not unapprecia tive of their attentions—and it may ap pear ungrateful in thé face of these facts to perform any stunts that may be considered low down and crafty, but we are out for an Elks’ lodge in our own Nesmith county, and have just got to have it regardless of consequences. There can be no compromise. Covering Corporations. With a Razor. HAVE FAILED TO MAKE GOOD HAD BEEN IMBIBING FREELY Four Hundred Corporations in Oregon Exercises Deliberation in Committing Have Not Made'Reports to Secre the Act.—Bids His Friends and Ac tary of State for the Past Two quaintances Good Bye and Then Years as Required. Tak,es Razor Route Hence. NUMBER 15 bility that the bridge will be ordered erected if in the judgment of the court the expense will not exceed $4500, and there is no danger of such a stucture being washed away by high water. The court is favorably inclined toward the proposition, realizing that it would prove of vast benefit to a large number of people who travel through the Row BOHEMIA IS LOOKING UP. Considerable Development Work Done During the Last Year. The year just closed was one of the best for substantial improvements in the Bohemia mining district in the his tory of the camp. While many claim holders having simply worked out their assessments in order to hold the pro perties until “something turns up,” others have-gone forward with develop ment work, and still others are produc ing the precious metal. Several of the properties have been sufficiently devel oped to warrant an installation of mod ern machinery and the introduction of scientific mining, and the outlook for the camp to come into its own was never brighter than at present. The Kelso Gold Mining & Milling Company of Kelso, Washington, is in stalling stamp mills and other machin ery, which will be in operation within the ensuing month, when its working force will be trebbled. The company has taken in two carloads of machinery and supplies, and erected a large build ing on the properties. J. S. Brund has installed a stamp mill which is in suc cessful operation, and has but recently opened some very fine free gold shoots. The Vesuvius Mining company besides making improvements, has done con siderable valuable work on the wagon road between the Oregon-Colorado and Riverside properties, this being neces sary for handling supplies. Several continuations on tunnels as well as many cross-cuts are being made. In the Eutopian group, also owned by the Vesuvius company, high grade free gold ore has been opened. The North Fairview group has probably shown up as well as any property in the camp, two new finds having been reported re cently. The West Coast Mining com pany and Oregon Securities company have shippped several thousand dollars worth of gold concentrates. These properties have been producers for some time, but facts regarding the actual extent of the work done or the amount of the precious metal taken out is not easily obtained. * George Raines, a resident of Cottage Grove for about fifteen years, commit ted suicide at 2 o’clock Tuesday after noon by cutting his throat with a razor. The act was committed with delibera tion. Raines went to the rear porch, took the razor from an inside coat pocket, slashed his throat twice, re turned the razor to its case and his pocket, and dropped dead. The body was. found at 2:30 o’clock by Mrs. David Markley, who gaye the alarm. Coroner Gordon was summoned from Eugene and that official after an investigation into the circumstances deemed an inquest unnecessary. Deceased leaves a wife, two daugh ters and two sons. A sister, Mrs. Charles Wright resides at Walker sta tion. He owned a house and lot on Wall street. Raines was formely a barber here, but abandoned his trade and became a teamster and laborer and was engaged for some time at all kinds of work. He had spent the past DRAIN GETS VERY BUSY. six months in Washington and had not, provided for his family in any way dur ture. Roseburg Commercial Club Takes Ac- ing his absence, -On the deceased’s re The proposed contract, so far as The , tion at Instance of Neighbor. turn his reception at home, had not Sentinel can see, is .more advantageous been as cordial as he thought it ought There was big doings at Roseburg to the community than the presentone, to have been. He had been drinking Monday evening, when a delegation inasmuch as it provides for practically Quite heavily, and prior to his rash act from Drain induced the Roseburg Com two-thirds greater electrical energy at mercial club to take action in the Nes he had informed acquaintances of his a slightly less expense. Under the intention, but little was thought of it. mith county matter to prevent its for present agreement the city has seven mation. Roséburg is lukewarm on the Oregon Product Will Be Heralded bv He had importuned his wife, who is em arc lights of 1000 candle-power each, or Transcontinental System. . ployed at Wilson’s restaurant, for mon proposition, but naturally had to make 7,000 candle-power; sixty-five 32-can a showing to satisfy the committee, ■ All railroads oyer whose lines the ey that morning and being refused be dle-power and six 6-candlé. power in from Drain, which is hustling with, a magnificent inside finish for the recep-. came incensed and threatened to kill candescents, making 2176 candlepower, view to grabbing a new county at some, tion room of the International Bureap the entire family. Later he reconsid- or a total of 9,176, whereas in the pro future time, and named a committee to of American Republics will travel on eroi x.bade his children and friends posed contract thé city would be enti act in conjunction therewith. Long its trip from Portland to th’e National gooa-bye and killed himself. tled to 30,000 candle power in thirty The funeral services took place yes resolutions were adopted by the meet capital will join hands in giving this ares, or twenty-seven more than at ing, and ordered, forwarded to the Eu consignment of Oregon’s finest timber terday forenoon at 10 o’clock from the present, and 1056 candlepower in thir gene Commercial club with an invita widespread publicity in every state. undertaking rooms of Mr. Veatch, ty-three 32-candle power incandescents, tion to send a delegation to Roseburg Such announcement has been made by whither'the body was conveyed upon an aggregate of 31,056. on Feb. 19, to assist in balking the the representatives of the Harriman discovery, the Rev. Mr. Elkins deliver It is true that thirty-eight incandes VETERANS INSTALL OFFICERS. game. Eugene, however, will probably roads, the Wabash system and the Em ing a short discourse. cents would be discontinued under the not participate,'having, The Sentinel pire lines, which will carry the shipA Post and Woman’s Relief Corps Hold new arrangement, and a contract for GATHERING OF THE FANS. is unauthoritively informed, practical ment. Secretary: A. B. Wastell, of the Meeting on Saturday. five years awarded to the company, ly given up the fight. Oregon & Washington Lumber Manu and the enforcement, of the latter Appomatox Post, G. A. R., installed Local Baseball Enthusiasts Will Meet facturers’ Association, in whose cus agreement may have influenced the ve the following officers last Saturday Next Wednesday. MR. VEATCH WILL BUILD. tody the consignment has been placed, to, but it is improbabé. - ' ------- ------- ) ■ ' held a conference with Harriman, Wa The baseball fans of Cottage Grove •afternoon: W. J. Gardner, command Contract for Handsome Undertaking bash and Empire Line agents and a de will hold a meeting at the Commercial er ; E. D. Handy, senior vice-command WILL BLOW FOR NESMITH. Establishment Is Awarded. tailed history of the evolution, and man club rooms next Wednesday evening at er; G. W. Kelly, junior vice-command Cottage Grove’s Cornet Band Shows Mr. Marion Veatch has awarded to ufacture of the “inside finish;” togeth 7:30 for the purpose of effecting an or er; Geo. W. McReynolds, adjutant; D. Marked Progress. Roy Riggs a contract for the erect on er with a series of photographs, will ganization for the coming season. It L. Woods, Sargeant; R. Hull, chaplain; The Nesmith band, of which B. J. of a building 74x38 on Tennessee street, be distributed by the roads. An effort is proposed to form an association, and William Dickey, quartermaster; W. H. Corcoran is leader, is doing splendid between Fourth and Fifth, for use in is now being made to arrange the itin create a fund sufficient to fence the Harrington, O. D.; W. H. Harrington, O. G. work and expects to surprise the na connection with his undertaking busi erary so that this carload of Oregon’s grounds, furnish equipment and carry The Woman’s Relief corps, an aux tives in the not very distant future. ness. The architectural design will be matchless fir may be exhibited at prom the team until it commences earning. The members meet regularly on Mon of the bungalow pattern, and the struc inent cities enroute from here to Wash Officers elected from among the busi iliary, organization also installed officers ness men of the city would conduct the as follows: Cecilia G. Grim, presi day and Thursday evenings for practice ture complete'will cost about $2,000. ington, D. C. financial affairs of the association, and dent ; Laura McKerman, senior vice- Director John Barrett, of the Bureau and notwithstanding the fact that the There'will be a chapel 17x30 feet, a organization has bèen in existence on reception room 12x13 feet, a fartiily of American " Republics, is in corres together With a manager would plan president ; L. Salzman, junior vice-pres ly three months the aggregation pro room 12x13 feet; three stock rooms, one pondence with the local interests, which the season’s work and issue a schedule ident; Mrs. Ingram, treasurer; Alta Spray, secretary; Mary Dickey,' con duces the real stuff like unto profes 24x24, and two 12x50 feet, a work room are provided and manufactured the of games with the neighboring clubs. Cottage Grovfe has excellent timber ductor ; E. Fahrenwald, assistant con sionals. The attendance at practice is 12x15 feet, and a dead room 12x15 feet. lumber, and has notified Mr. Wastell The grounds surrounding the building that a conference with the architects here, which, with one or two additions, ductor, Jennie Hayes, guard; Sadie Mc exceptionally good. The band is composed as follows : B. will be artistically arranged, and there of the new building which is to be em will give it a pennant winning aggre Kibben, assistant guard; Annie Hoxie, gation, and The Sentinel urges a large instructress; Ellen Jones, Frances bellished with this fir has been had. J. Corcoran, leader ; M. Finnerty, first will be a drive around the structure. Secretary, Wastell is now trying to attendance upon the meeting Wednes Gray, Mary Queen, Arthina Handy, cornet; Dr, F. L. Ingram, second cor ARRANGE FOR APPLE SHOW. secure a car for the shipment, which day night, including all citizens who color bearers. net ; R. D. Kennedy, first clarinet ; S. After the ceremonies a banquet was will probably leave Portland within are interested in the national game. R. Smith, second clarinet ; L. S. Bisby, Lane County Plans to Promote This the next few days. Publicity work of Other adjoining towns are organizing, served, which was most thoroughly en alto saxophone ; H. A. Tibbils, tenor Great Industry. the railroads along the line will be sup and some have even signed players for joyed by the hoary veterans and their saxophone; G. E. Finnerty baritone Through lhe instrumentality and sug plemented by a general round-up of the the season, and it is time Cottage Grove lifemates. As * they sat about the saxophone; Albert Griffin, baritone; Harry Short, alto ; Chas. S. Hall, bass'; gestion of the Eugene Commercial club, lumber trade journals throughout the got into action if it proposes to play “camp fire” many reminiscences of war days were recalled. B. B. Groff, valve trombone ; Nelson 'fruit growers of this county will pro country, with a special story and pho- ball this year. Durham, slide trombone; Harry Kime mote an apple show the coming season tograhps. . This matter is now in pre Makes Money From Hay. at Eugene. Steps are to be taken to paration. BIG MILL MAY LOCATE HERE. and Roy Short, drums. Jesse Trunnell, who has a 200-acre exploit Lane county’s apples in the KLAMATH COMING WEDNESDAY. Efforts Being Made to Secure Industry ranch less than three miles from Cot FRACAS AT DIVIDE. general markets. That the orchards tage Grove, raised three tons of hay to Within the City. produce as fine quality of apples as the Spirited Basketball Game Promised Schoolmaster Answers to Parent for best land in the state is conceded, but the acre last season and sold his crop The big sawmill which will be con Witn These Visitors. Chastising One Of His Pupils. at a figure that netted him $40 per acre. the time has come when the practical The Klamath Falls basketball team structed within the ensuing few months He has 155 acres under cultivation, be There was a lively fracas in the usu- knowledge should be more generally to cut 175,000,000 feet of timber in the will meet Nesmith at the Armory next sides which he has more than 16 acres aly quiet and unpretentious hamlet of disseminated. Wednesday evening, when an excep Umpqua forest reserve may be located in apple and pear trees, two and three Divide last Saturday, when a patron of in Cottage Grove. Committees from tionally good game will doubtless be years old. Mr. Trunnell will raise bar Railroads to Be Built. the school at that place lambasted the pulled off. The visitors are said to the Commercial club and Merchants’ ley, wheat and oats this year, and ex The Bandon-Port Orford Railroad, schoolmaster, who had previously tak Protective association have been ap en occasion to chastise an offspring. which was promoted by Steve Hender have one of the most proficient teams pointed to confer with the company in tend his orchard. Chinese pheasants, The teacher was handled roughly, and son, and in which Coos and Curry peo in the state, and put up the real arti an endeavor to bring this about, and he says, are numerous on his ranch, carried off marks of the encounter, but ple took stock, is announced by Hen cle. The Nesmiths have been doing the matter is now under consideration. and are given every possible protec is still on the job. The board of direc derson to have been sold to men from some extra practice work against this Eastern investors in the gigantic enter tion. tors is with the teacher, it is said, and Seattle and Tacoma, He says work is time of need, and the contest promises prise are expected to arrive in Cottage A Few Days of Grace. this being the case the argument is to be started this spring. Henderson to be spirited from start to finish. Grove within a few days, when the pro Census Supervisor R. J. Hendricks During the evening the high school also states that Engineer Hood says the naturally in his favor. team will play a game' with a picked position will be thoroughly investigat of this district received word late last Drain line will be built this year. team from the city, thus giving a doub ed by them and Messrs. Wood and Cham evening that permission has been grant Must Improve Methods. bers, the local men interested, and ed to change the date for close of re le-header for a single admission fee. Elks Becoming More Numerous. I Mr. A. B. Whitney, who came to some definite decision arrived at. Plans ceipt of applications of census enumer ' Cottage Grove from Medford last fall, Dr. Ingram and* Ernest Lockwood • Chinese Cook Disappears. will also be made for the inauguration ators from January 25 to January,31. expresses the opinion that this sec- were among the Cottage Grove fel The cook' at Hotel Oregon uncere of work. This change is made in view of the i tion will come into its own as an apple lows who joined the Elks lodge at Eu moniously departed for another locality shortness of time intervening between growing , district when its merits are gene last night, making a total of fifty- sometime between Wednesday night Court Will Investigate. now arid the date fixed for the test, known, and horticulturists of exper four of the antlered tribe in this city. and Thursday morning, leaving Land The members of the County Court February 5, this year. ience take possession of the land. The The next victim will likely be Col. John lord Westbrook in the lurch. Several has signified their intention of person ^trouble here, according to'Mr. Whitney, F. Spray. There is a delegation now days ago it was noticed that the China ally visiting the site of the proposed If*you like The Sentinel, tell your -is that orchards are not' cared for as at working on him, and the probabilities man had taken his worldly belongings bridge across the Row river east of neighbor. If you don’t like it, please I Medford and other places in the North are .that he will come across in the not from the hostelry, and the move was town, and will probably make the trip drop in and tell us how to make it bet west which have (gained a reputation very distant future. not wholly unexpected. today or tomorrow. There is a proba ter. In an executive order Governor F. W. Benson has dissolved about 400 in corporated concerns dding business in the state of Oregon because these cor porations had not made the reports to the secretary of state that are required by law and had ijot paid their license fees for the past two'years. The ac tion was taken under the authority of Chapter 172 of the Laws oi 1905; and the concerns so affected are .now with out legal right to do business in this state. Their articles of incorporation are revoked and repealed by the order, and all powers conferred upon them by law are declared inoperative and Void. Many of the companies so affected are native to other states, but have been registered in Oregon, while others wpre incorporated under the laws of this state. A large percentage of the outlawed companies are mining con cerns, while others are maintaining active business. Just what the legal effeeft of this execuive order will be up on the operations of the concerns is hard to tell at this time, but many em- barrasing law points will doubtless be raised as-to the rights of the companies to issue checks, collect money or trans act other official business.—Salem Statesman. , TO GIVE FIR PUBLICITY. TERSE TOWN TOPICS Many Minor Matters of More Than Passing Moment. PERT PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS Gleaning Here, There and Everywhere By The Sentinel Rounders.—The Cream of the News Condensed for Easy Reading. The Sentinel this week published a picture of portions of the Lorane val ley, twelve miles west of town, taking it ftom Cottage Grove’s community booklet, in which many equally hand some illustrations appear. This valley is one of the most productive spots in the Pacific Northwest, and promises to become thickly populated within a com paratively few years. Here it is that the Chqrchill-Mathews company of Portland is planting a 1000-acre or chard, one of the views showing a part of the land that is now being prepared for the trees, which will be planted next month. Mr. W. C. Cunningham came down from Sharp’s creek on Saturday, after having been there for several weeks, building bridges. He says that a ser ies of six bridges has been constructed on this stream since last summer, in stead of ten, as reported. The Leroy bridge had been completed only two weeks when it was taken out by the re cent high water, necessitating rebuild ing it. The contract price of the struc ture was $225, and this was almost a total loss to Mr. Hogate, the builder, inasmuch as the bridge had not been accepted. ' • J. W. Flint, an employe of the Booth- Kelly Lumber Company in the mill at Wendling, is minus his right arm, as a result of becoming entangled in the ca bles while/operating a donkey engine on Monday. His arm was literally torn . off at the elbow. Mr. N. F. Whitney of Crookston, Minn., has opened a loan and collecting office in the rooms formerly occupied by the Union Mines & Development company. He will also do bookkeeping and typewriting. Of course, all of those blooded chick ens on display at Cottage Grove today at the opening of the second annual poultry exhibit of the Calapooia associ ation are expected to crow for Nesmith county, even to the hens.—Eugene Reg ister. 0. W. Wallace and E. A. Willson were in Eugene Wednesday night attending Elks’ lodge. Five new accession to the Presbyter ian church Sunday is reported by Rev. S. C. Adams. He also announces that the usual services morning and evening will be held at the Presbyterian church Sunday. A. C. Tolman of Lamont, Colorado, has been in Cottage Grove the past week looking for a location for a stock farm. He is a practical stock man. He is pleased with this country, and will probably take up his permanent residence here in the , spring. Rostein & Greenbaum’s wind up sale of the W. A. Hemenway stock positive ly ends Jan. 26. Through an oversight d in setting their add, we put in only * nineteen days more, but it should be “Only 12 days.” At a meeting of the Roseburg Com mercial club Tuesday ' evening, it was voted that a meeting be held there February 15, with representation frdm the whole of Douglas and also of Eu gene, to pass resolutions as to the cut ting off of the northern part of Douglas county and the southern part of Lane county and forming a new county call ed Nesmith county. SILK CREEK NEWS. Personals and Other Matters of More or Less Interest. The Silk Creek neighborhood had a basket supper at the silk creek school house recently, and had an enjoyable time. One basket was sold at one dol lar. Nine dollars and eighty cents Was realized, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Damewood visited their parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Dame-"' wood, last Saturday. Miss Ruby Slagle has been ill at her home on Silk creek for- the last week. We have had some very cold weather in this vicinity, It will be hard on the crops. Mrs. A. Mattheyer has been visiting friends in this neighborhood. Nellie Yearce and Mr.' Willcott visit ed his friend, Mr. Henry Damewood, last Sunday. Joe Damewood had his foot badly mashed by a large timber falling on it. He was working for the O. & S. E. Company.
