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VOLUME IV COTTAGE GROVE, OREGON, FRIDAY. JAN. 21, 1910 in procuring'an education or to do spec ial work along some line. It is as a means to the transforma tion of woman from a sphere of help lessness to one of self-reliance that the Woman’s clubs have created this schol Committee Calls Mass Meeting arship loan fund, from which loans are made, without interest, to young wom for Next Thursday. en, the only conditions exacted being satisfactory proof of the applicant’s worth, integrity and industry and her pledge to repay the loan when she has AN ENTHUSIASTIC GATHERING secured a paying position. In the three years the federation has been doing this work eleven beneficiaries have been Cause is Right and Just and Must Pre aided and seven have completed their course of study/. Most of them are vail the Sentiment of All—Some making payments on their loans. Facts and Figures Regarding County Division. KANSANS GET TOGETHER. NESMITHTOTHEfRONT On Tuesday evening a number of cit izens convened with the Nesmith coun ty committee; arid at that time it was decided to call a general mass meeting for Thursday evening next at the Ar mory. No inconsiderable enthusiasm was manifested at the meeting Tues day evening. Several were present from the territory proposed to-be taken from Douglas county, and these were among, the most enthusiastic favorers ¿-the proposition. It was shown that to these people great benefit would ac crue from the formation of Nesmith county, inasmuch as it now requires three days, to go to the county seat at Roseburg by team and return, whereas under proposed conditions the trip to the seat of justice could easily be made in a single day. Then, too, the remoteness of that sec tion from Roseburg makes it impossi ble for the county court to give it pro per attention in the way of roads and bridges. Mr. J. G. Alien,-a member of the Douglas'county delegation pre sent, advanced numerous logical reasons why a division should be had, quoting figures to substantiate his statements. Several others ably supported the meas ure, among them being M. B. Stone of the Siuslaw ¡country. It was decided to hold a general mass meeting of all interested parties at the Armory in Cottage Grove on Thursday of next week; at .which time some de finite action will be taken to further the undertaking: It is needless for The Sentinel to urge a large attendance on this occasion, as1 its importance should call out every citizen of Cottage Grove, and scores .from the territory included in proposed Nesmith county. The fact that the opposition is but luke warm, and will probably remain so throughout the campaign, it realizing that our cause is worthy and must pre vail, should not deter us. from putting forth every possible effort to attain the desired result. Let there be a large at tendance next Thursday evening. This question is of vital importance to the people' within the boundary of the proposed new county, as well as to the entire state of Oregon. To the former it means recognition, and some thing in the way of improvements for money paid in taxes, while to the state it means greater development of the entire territory within the two counties lias they now exist. At present this sec tion is far removed from either county seat, and comparatively little attention is given it. The people want an oppor- , tunity to spend their own money for the betterment of their condition; for the transformation of illy kept roads into passable highways ; for the con struction of bridges, and for various purposes to which it is now annually contributed without receiving material benefits, The territory asked for, and embraced in the proposed county of. ¡Nesmith, is directly tributary to its center of population, more than ninety per cent thereof residing within a rad ius of fifteen miles of the center of pop ulation, while under obtaining condi tions many persons desiring to visit either of the county seats must travel from forty to sixty miles at consider able loss of time and at large expense. The total area included in the pro posed new county is 1956 square miles, of which 630 comes from Douglas, and the aggregate population is about 8,- WO. It takes from Lane county only about $6,000,000 taxable property, leav ing it $22,000,000, and from Douglas ¡only $2,000,000, leaving it over $25,000,- 1000. This would give Nesmith county ¡approximately $8,000,000 of taxable ■property, and yet, if the statements of I other small counties in the'state are ■dependable, sufficient to place it upon I a prosperous basis. The new county I would have a revenue annually of about 1535,000, and with fixed salaries of offi- ■cers at $4,500 would leave a handsome ■sum for public service. To Increase Loan Fund. I January 26 is the “red-letter day” ■¡for the Oregon State Federation of ■Woman’s Clubs. It is the day set apart ■by the Oregon federation when every ■(lub in the state is expected to do some- ■thing to increase the fund which is be- ■'- lent to young women to assist them A Texas man writes the Scientific Aiherican giving particulars of the re markable success he has achieved in potato raising, which may prove of in terest to many readers of The Sentinel. The potatoes he prefers for forcing are of the Early Rose variety, the vines or stalks growing 6 to 8 feet and but seldom blooming or having balls. The Triumph is said to make a crop quicker than the Early Rose and tp stand the dry weather better. Mr. Ford believes in “intensive” culture, or the higher fertilizing and increased labor on a small piece of land, rather than little labor and fertilizing on a large tract. He sprouts his potatoes to the size of English peas or marbles before plant ing and then raises a crop in from four to six weeks, all of large size, without a peck of small potatoes to an acre. He writes: “There were forty seed the size of peas planted to every double hill. I plant my potatoes in the water furrow and leave a balk 4 to 6 inches wide, and .when the potato seed is dropped on the balk a part of the seed fall on each side of the narrow balk. I cover with two furrows of turning plow. I make my rows three feet apart; the hills 18 inch es apart in row, which makes 140 hills across an acre and 70 rows to the acre makes 9,800 double hills of potatoes to the acre, or 19,600 single hills. As you will see, a hill of 40 seed potatoes goes across the balk, making {he hill cover some 18 inches, or half the ground. I never plant less than 20 and have plant- Former Residents of Sunflower State Organize an Association. Former residents of the state of Kan sas met at the office of Attorney Coun ter on Monday evening .and organized a Kansas association, the object beinb to bring together former residents of that commonwealth for “social affilia tion and fraternal statehood ties.” A temporary organization was effected by the selection of officers as follows : W. C. Counter, chairman; W. C. Conner, secretary; I. H. Spriggs, treasurer. Various committees were appointed,' as follows: A. C. Spriggs, W. C. Counter, L. A. Ralston on rules and regulations; Jas. Hemenway, and W. C. Conner, on hall and decorations.; Mesdames W. A. Hemenway, D. B. Chamberlain, J. H. Spriggs, F. C. Ral ston, W. C. Counter, A. H. King and S. A. McKay, on entertainment. The association is planning a recep tion to be held in this city on Saturday, SUES TO RECOVER DAMAGES. January 29, in commemoration of the Marcola Man Gets Intoxicant for Near- admission of Kansas into the union, Beer and is Arrested. An unusual suit for damages is .that ARRESTED EOR THEFT. Of. Mart. Endicott against the, Mt. Charles White Taken to Eugene and Hood Brewing Co. of Portland, which Held to the Circuit Court, has been instituted in the circuit court, A man who gave his .name as Charles in which Endicott seeks to recover $10,- White was arrested in Cottage Grove 000. Endicott alleges, that in April, 1909, on Monday at the instance of Sheriff Bown, and taken to Eugene on the the brewing company sold him. a quan charge of robbery, it being alleged tity of “Nymph tonic” or near-beer, that he took clothing and money from representing that it was non-intoxicat Emil Blackburn, Whose home is at ing. He sold it to his customers at Brownsville, but who has been, in Eu Marcola, and was later arrested,, con gene several days. Blackburn, who victed arid sentenced for violating the. has been employed- Junction'City, local option law, it haying- been found went to Eugene a .tew days ago arid that the near beer contained enough al bought himself a new outfit of cloth cohol to place it under the ban of the ing, having about $15 left. He' fell in law. He was fined $250 and was sen with a penniless stranger Saturday and tenced to a term of 30 days in the coun that night Blackburn let the stranger ty jail. Endicott states in his com- share this bed in a room in a lodging l'airit that he suffered great humilia house. When morning came the new tion and disgrace, being compelled to friend was gone, also Blackburn’s hew serve the term in jail and that: his suit,'his overcoat, his new shoes, and business was entirely—destroyed, and all of his cash. The officers were told had to -be abandoned on account of the of the theft and Sheriff Bown located prosecution.^—Guard. a man at Cottage Grove answering the SENTENCED TO PEN FOil LIFE. description given of the thief by Black burn. Convicted Murderer Meyers Handled Without Mercy by Burnett. TABLEAUX A FEATURE; George Meyers, Who shot and killed Program for Entertainment at Com Officer Eckart and was subsequently mercial Club Tonight. convicted of murder in the second de Following is the program for the en- gree in the circuit court of Marion tertainment at the Commercial club to county two weeks ago, has been sen night, mention of which-is made on the tenced to life imprisonment in the pen first page of The Sentinel: itentiary at Salem by Judge George H. Male Quartet. Burnett. A stay of sentence was grant Tableaux—1. Priscilla. 2. John Al ed to February I5 in order that Meyers’ den and Priscilla. attorney may prepare an appeal. Reading—Miss Ethel Moore. Tableaux—1. Seven. 2. Twenty-sev KLAMATH FALLS GOES DOWN. en. 3. Seventy. Nesmith Basketball Team Defeats Vis Reading—Mi. H. B. Brehaut. itors By Score of 26 to 17. Tableaux—1. Weaker -Sex Under the Miscroscope. 2. Why She Didn’t Got The Nesmith basketball team took Klamath Falls into camp on Wednes the Place; 3. A Word to the Wise. day night by a score of 26 to 17. It Reading—Mrs. F. D. Wheeler. was a good clean game from start to Sunflower Chorus. finish. The local team has expected to Goodnight- encounter something unusually hard in LITTLE INTEREST IS SHOWN. the visitors, and had spent considerable timé in practice work prior to the con Baseball Fans Fail to Get Together at test. Meeting Called for Wednesday. The town team defeated the high The baseball meeting called for Wed- school team the same evening by a nesday'night failed to received the ex score of 24 to 11. pected repsonse from the fans, and an Colonist Business Heavy. adjournment was taken until tomorrow Figurés furnished by the Harriman night, when a meeting will be held at The Sentinel office. If Cottage Grove lines show that they handled 70 per is to play the national game the coming cent more colonists travel in 1909 than seaspn it is time to organize. All who in the previous year. During the nine are interested in baseball should attend ty days that the colonists rates were in this m'eetng. It is purposed to form an force in the spring and fall, last year, association to finance and manage the they sold 30,476 tickets from east of the Mississippi River to western points. team for the season. Of this number, 18,256 came to the Northwest. The Harriman lines, are Two Spies In Camp. Two representatives of the Anti-Sa perfecting plans now to bring in an loon League have been in Cottage even greater number of settlers during Grove a portion of the week, making an the year 1910. investigation of local conditions along Fair Treasurer’s Report. the booze line. Their coming was Mr. B. Lurch, treasurer of the Fair heralded here before their arrival, so association, has handed The-Sentinel a if there had been anything doing, op statement of that organization’s finan portunity would be afforded to elude cial condition, together with- receipts the spies. and disbursements. The total amount ■New Cottage Grove Directory. Representatives of Polk & Company have been in Cottage Grove this week gathering data for a directory of Lane county. The work will be far more complete than the One previously pub lished by the company. of money received is $787.43, of which amount $33.98 Was turned over- from the Fourth of July fund, arid $31.04 was donated by the Merchants’ Protective association. These sums made it possi ble to meet the deficit, as the disburse ments reached $787.43. ed 60, and the 60 will every one makes as fine potatoes if we have plenty of rain. I also give my potatoes fretiliz- ing with liquid manure every rain. It takes from 60 to 75 potatoes to make a bushel, never more than 75. It have kept the same seed for 26 years and have potatoes both sweet and Irish the whole year round. “By sprouting your potatoes you have eating potatoes in less than one-half the time it takes under the old style of planting. It takes from four to six weeks to sprout the seed potato to the size of peas; the sprout room I keep warm by a small charcoal fire in a bake oven. One barrel of charcoal will’be plenty for the whole time. I put my potatoes into old barrels or small box es, so as to get them warm easier than in a big heap and bunk. The smaller the boxes, the easier and quicker they will sprout. When the potatoes get large enough, I knock off the hoops, take down the staves, and there are thousands upon thousands of small po tatoes from the size of a bird’s eye to that of peas and a few the size of mar bles ; the whole mass is held together with small roots. ’I take a hand bar row—not a wheel barrow—and carry the seed down the row, and the third person breaks of as many as you wish -—not less than twenty to forty—and let them fall on the balk in the water furrow and give two ploughings. My sprout house has double walls and is filled in between with sawdust, also overhead, and has double doors.” TIMBER MONEY RETURNED, Porter Brothers Buy Timber at Sher iff’s Sale’ But It is Redeemed. The equity of redemption on some of the timber lands taken in execution on the judgment obtained' by H. C. Ma hon against M. B. Rankin and sold by the sheriff to satisfy the judgement ex pired yesterday, but O. M. Rankin and Howard Rankin, administers of the es tate of the said M. B. Rankin appeared in court yesterday and paid in the sum of $11494 to redeem said lands to the estate. The judgement was originally given for $42,740 and $134.80 costs and the supreme court affirmed the judg ment,, It is the largest judgment for a real estate commission ever given in Oregon and with interest amounted to about $50,000. The entire judgment was satisfied in full some two weeks ago with Mr. Mahon by the administra tors arid whether he took part of the timber as part payment or whether it was all paid in cash, except what was paid into court yesterday, is not known. It is known, however, that the lands redeemed yesterday were not all of those taken on execution. The timber was bought at the sheriff’s sale by J. P. Porter of Porter Bros., of, Cottage Grove, and the amount taken into court on redemption yesterday will be turned over to him.—Register. BRIGGS GOES TO ALBANY. Former Cottage Grove Educator Suc ceeds A. M. Sanders. Professor A. L. Briggs, an instructor in mathematics in the Oregon Agricul tural College and formerly superinten dent of the Cottage Grove schools, has been elected by the Albany School Board as superintendent of the Albany public schools, to succeed A. M. San ders, who died Friday. There were 11 applicants for the, position. Professor Briggs has> been principal of various public schools in this state and for four years was president of the Central Oregon State Normal School at Drain. He will take charge of the local schools as soon as he can be re lieved of his duties at Corvallis. APPEARANCES ARE IMPROVED. The Wheeler-Thompson Company Make Important Changes for the Better. The Weeler-Thompson Company have been making some noticeable improve ments in their store during the past week. The shelving and fixtures have been entirely remodeled and buillt over into the latest designs of mission work and stained in dark flemmish brown. The incandescent arc light has been replaced by the new Tungston arc, and on the heavy cornice on either side of the room is a row of incandescent lamps. This is now one of the most up- to-date and best lighted stores to be seen in the Willamette valley. Adventists Are Coming. The North Pacific Conference of Sev enth Day Adventists will meet in Port land from February 10.to 20, inclusive. The sessions will be held daily at the East Portland. Seventh Day Adventist church, East Eleventh and Everett streets. A large number of delegates from all the Adventist churches in Ore gon, Washington, Idaho and Montana will attend. Elder George. A. Irwin, vice-president of the general confer ence, which includes all the churches NUMBER 16 of this denomination in-the world, will be in attendance, as will I. N. Evans, the treasurer of the, general, confer ence. Besides these, there . will be in atten dance Elder C. W. Flaiz; president of the North Pacific Union Conference; Elder . .George E. Landgon, vice-presi dent.; Professor M. E. Cady, president of Walla Walla College and educational secretary of the union conference; El der A. J. Breed, in charge of the relig- ous liberty work of the union confer ence ; arid Elders K. C. Russell, presi dent of Montana Conference; J. M. Willoughby, of Idaho ; F. M. Meilis, of Washington ; F. S. Bunch, of Oregon and Elder Langdon, of the Upper Col umbia Conference. This is the most important gathering of the Adventists in the Northwest un til two years- hence. The general con ference meets once in four years.. The plans for the entertainment of the de legates are in charge of Elder F. W. Martin, superintendent of the Portland district, in which there are six churches. MANY MINOR MATTERS. General City News Gleaned Here and Tliere by The S.entinel Reporter. The person who left a horn handled umbrella at Masonic hall Tuesday night may have the same by calling at The Sentinel office. Marshal Frank Snodgrass left for Roseburg last night, where he .report ed for work as a brakeman on the Southern Pacific.' After making a “run” he will return to Cottage Grove, and await a, steady position. Mr. Snod grass will leave the marshalship when he gets a call. The Odd Fellows and Rebekahs held joint installation last Saturday night, following which a splendid supper was served. The attendance was large, and a most enjoyable time had by all pre sent. F. F. and H. S. Fargo, of Portland, have bought the 400-acre farm on the Scherer estate, on the Oregon Electric line', 24 miles south of Portland, for $75,000, and will proceed to cut the tract up into five-acre fruit farms. Attorney J. E. Young was at the county seat on Wednesday. Mrs, A. C. Barrett of .Eugene visited relatives here this week. The family Of J. L. Green arrived here from St. Lawrence country, New York, this "week; Mr. Green located three miles south of Cottage Grove last fall. ‘ Attend the mass meeting at the Ar mory next Thursday night. Get into the game and stay to the finish; Now is the time to have your buggies and carriages repainted. R. W. Waters has a first-class carriage painter, See Mr. Waters for prices; W. H. Lacey of Baltimore, Md., has accepted a position, with R. W. Waters. Capt. J. C. Johnson has been notified that the annual inspection of Company E, will be held in this city on Friday, February 18. The inspection will be made by officers of the Regular Army. Mrs. C, C. Hazelton is visiting friends at' Creswll, her former home. INCOME TAX MAY BE VOID. HUNGER HIKES DEATH Many Cattle on McKenzie Ranch Without Food. GNAW BARK FROM TREES State Dairy and Food Commissioner Bailey Said to Have Shamefully Ne glected Beasts, Forty of Which Succumb—Story as Told. Reports from the McKenzie valley say -that 150 head of cattle owned by State Dairy and Food Commissioner Bailey, who owns a ranch on the Mc Kenzie, have been neglected shameful ly and that the beasts are forced to the extremity of trying to eke out subsis tence from fence posts and gnawing bark from trees; Upwards of forty head are said to have died from hunger, and numbers of others are lying on the ground too weak to stand. The pasture in which the animals are kept, it is said, is barren of forage, and no hay is given them. Tom. Carney, who lives on a farm ad joining Commissioner Bailey’s ranch, is quoted as saying that-up to two days ago there had been no feed taken to the cattle as. he was on the place and saw none. He had heard of none being tak en since. Careriy. said many of the cattle had died from starvation, but as to the exact number he was un able to say, but thought there must have been nearly forty. The whole herd is in bad shape, Carney said, and had ab solutely nothing-to eat. It was expect ed there would be many more deaths at' once if something was not done, Bailey’s ranch consists of a “burn” in timber, and a logged-over tract. It was sown to grass at one time, but cat tle ate every blade long ago, together with’ what little native grass there /was on the tract. Other farmers arid- stock raises in the McKenzie valley and in the country at large are experiencing no great trouble in getting feed to their cattle; and there are no other re ports of stock suffering, although some farmers are short of. feed, and if .there is another cold spell there, might be considerable suffering. “I got caught out there in the Mc Kenzie valley, like many other farmers have this year,” said Mr. Bailey when told that he had been threatened with prosecution by a. Humane Society. “How could I forecast this abnormal weather condition any better than other farmers, who have been caught by the ¡dozen, just as I was. Does anyone think that I would turn out to starve from sheer cussedness, a band of stock that has cost me a big sum of hard- earned money? I have done and will continue to do all that I can io save the ahimails. ’ ’ FINAL ARRANGEMENTS. MAKING Definite Plans for Big Timber Opera tions Are Now Being Laid. Mr. A. B. Wood spent a portion of the week in Portland on business con nected with thé proposed timber trans action in the Umpqua Forest Reserve. Eastern investors interested in the big deal will visit Cottage Grove in the near future, when definite plans for ac tion will be laid. The work of laying a Y to connect with a logging road to the timber is practically completed, and the timber company will soon be gin the construction of a line three- quarters of a mile in length. It is prob It is a hopeful sign when the appro able that the contract between the in priations committee in congress lops off vestors and the government will be a few million from the budget recom signed within a few days. mended for fortifications. This coun Aged Rancher Dies Alone. try is. war crazy in a time of profound William W. Buoy, an aged ranchma-n peace.. The largest war ships afloat of Upper Hills Creek, eight miles east are being constructed,,«millions are be of Jasper, was found dead in his cabin ing expended, for naval equipment and Wednesday, by Jiis neighbors. There for coast, defenses. It is well to main was no indication that the old man had tain a creditable navy and to have suf met with foul play, or that he had kill ficient coast defenses, but there is a ed himself. The deceased was a pio recklessness about the matter that is neer of this section, having come to the most reprehensible. Coast in the early ’50s. Officers of the Highlanders. For Greater Publicity. Following are the officers of the Roy al Highlanders of Dorena, organized At a meeting of the Commercial club this week: C. J; Howard, past illus Monday night a commitee was appoint trious protector; William Reid, illus ed to look into the matter of establish trious protector; John H. Kirk, secre ing an exhibit of minerals, agricul tary and .treasurer; John Clark, chief, tural and horticultural and forest pro counsellor; Lulu Fisher; worthy evan ducts at some convenient place on the gel; Pearl Stewart, guide; Leo Wilson, ground floor and report at the next ses-, sion. Hundreds of people visit Cot warden; Harry- Shearer, sentry. tage Grove monthly who do not go to Man Falls, Ax Cuts Back. the club rooms, and it is with a view While Jesse Ivy, in the employ of the of giving the display more publicity Booth-Kelly Company at Wendling, was that the committee was appointed to working on a large log yesterday morn work opt some definite plan. ing, he was accidentally pushed off by another workman and as he struck the Tea cups and saucers 60 cents per ground below his axe fell on him, the set; 7-inch dinner plates 60 cents per bit striking him square in the back and set. These are in the new Turbin cutting a fearful gash. shape.—Kerr & Silsby. Attorney-General of Opinion Law Is Repealed by Implication. Attorney-General Crawford has writ ten the State Treasurer’s office thtft de cisions of the courts indicate that the law passed in 1907 providing for the levying of a two per cent gross income tax on the earnings of corporations was repealed by implication by charter of section 28 of the laws of 1909, which provides that .in fixing the valuation of the property of corporations the fran chise shall be taken into consideration. Chapter 28 is the tax code. ’
