The Cottage Grove sentinel., February 04, 1910, Image 1

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COTTAGE GROVE, OREGON, FRIDAY. FEB. 4. 1910
TnDIPC^cogets busyonthe backpedal. Thatl
I I II II ii 11 San Diego, the smaller place, would be
I Ul IUU | overshadowed and cowed after San
NUMBER 18
believe the city should take the com­
pany up on its proppsition.
J. C. Johnson : The city should give
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Francisco announced its purpose to ob-
the company a new contract. The price
<
I serve completion of the Panama Canal
is reasonable and the contract period is
Many Minor Matters of More was generally expected on the Coast.
not,too long. •
Lad Loses Eye While Playing
> L.
i But the extreme Southern city has its
C. E. Stewart: I am not in it ; it’s
than Passing Moment.
fighting blood up. It has just issued a
not my fight.
With Bow and Arrow.
circular announcing that'San Diego will
Geo. M. Hall: I am in favor of the
have an exposition. Incidental to this
contract.
announcement the big California me­
B‘. Lurch : I think the company
PERT PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS tropolis is given a grueling that will
should have the contract. We need AGED LADY INJURED BY FALL
not pour oil on the troubled waters.
more lights, The people all over town
are entitled to lights. All the people
SIX WEEKS MORE.
should be treated alike, so far as possi­
Gleanings Here, There and Everywhere
Sam Cochran Has Both Feet Taken Off
ble.
By The Sentinel Rounders.—The
Ground 'Hog Says We Must Prepare for
. On Eugene-Springfield Branch of
H.
H.
Veatch:
So
far
as
I
can
see,
Cream of the News Condensed
Continued Cold Weather.
Southern Pacific.—London Boy
it seems that the contract gives more
for Easy^ Reading.
Loses Sight of Eye at Play.
Wednesday was groundhog day, and
The Sentinel, believing that the al- lights for the same money, and that lights for less money, and I can so see
the weather being fair the porker saw
no
reason
why
we
should
not
have
it.
his shadow. On seeing the reflection dermanic body acted to the best inter­ appéars to be the proposition, I say
Harry Wynne : I have not given the
You cannot improve a town too much of himself his hogship returned to his ests of the municipality when it author­ give the company a five-year contract.
On Saturday last the eight-year-old
matter any thought ; in fact the council
'or its own good. The more you im- hiding place and will not venture out ized Mayor Job and Recorder VanDen- We need more lights.
J. B. Protzman : I am not familiar does so little for the town that I give son of Thomas Geer of London met with
broVfc 'it the more people are going to again for six w.eeks. It is the custom burg to enter into a contract with the
an accident that cost him his right eye.
bant to come there. When a stranger of weather prognosticators to measure Lighting Co. for arc lights at $80 with the matter, but we need more its transactions scarcely any attention. The little fellow and a companion were
Francis
Beaulieu
:
I
beliéve
the
con
­
lisits a town, whether he contemplates the length of the cold spell from this per year and 32-candlepower incan­ lights in some places, for instance in
tract is ali right, and my opinion is playing with bows and arrows, shoot­
| change df residence or not, he always day, as indicated by the familiar rhyme: descents at $18 per year, the minimum east Main street.
ing high into the air and watching the
that
it should be entered into.
charge
to
be
less
than
is
now
being
J.
S.
Medley:
I
believe
there
is
pro
­
Ises his eyes. If he see’s the streets in “You must have on Candlemas day half
rapid
descent of the missiles. While
Frank
Jordan
:
I
don
’
t
want
to
be
lood condition, fine residences, good your oats and half your hay.” Mr. paid with arcs at $110 and incandes­ bably as much wisdom wrapped up in
thus, engaged the lad was struck in the
quoted.
cents
at
$30
per
year,
has
this
Week
the
Isix
councilmen
as
in
the
mayor,
Business houses, nice shade trees, and Ground Hog’s movements are closely
Oliver Veatch : Really I don’t under­ eye by one of the arrows, which pene­
■ell kept lawns, he naturally concludes scrutinized as he proverbially emerges interviewed a large number of busi­ and I-think it is presumptuous for the
stand
the proposition thoroughly, but trated the ball, lacerating it badly. A
ness
men
and
taxpayers
relative
to
the
mayor
to
veto
the
ordinance
without
Kat business conditions in the town are from his retreat, and if he is able to
if
we
get a better service, and the peculiar thing about the accident is
matter
in
question,
and
finds
an
over
­
beti
jr
reasons
than
the
ones
given.
Hood and that the citizens'are prosper- discern his shadow, as this year, he
company
is compelled to maintain the that there was not even a scratch on
Hs and enterprising. If he. is looking quickly receds for another long rest in whelming majority favorable to the
F. P. Phillips : All that I have heard
lights,
I
should say the new contract the eyelids.
proposed
contract.
Mayor
Job
vetoed
■or a location he will want to move in­ secure and comfortable quarters. Mr.
.tent 3 to show that the new contract is
Fred Kelly, while employed in a
would
be
better.
-
ft that town, and if he is not he will Ground Hog is evidently a sort ,of the ordinance, as stated elsewhere, for Way ahead of the old one. I favor
camp of the Brown Lumber company
ftention the place to some of his friends weather manipulating prestigiator—it the reason that the city was not given mor ! lights, and especially so for the
MINSTRELS TOMORROW.
on the Row River, met with an acci­
■no are and will speak a good word for has been good old winter time since he certain rights, and for the further rea­ sani money.
dent
in which his right leg was broken
son that the city does not need addi­
F igal Hinds: The mayor is doing Creswell Black-Face Artists Will En- by a swinging log. The Oregon & South­
ft It takes just a little extra work to scampered back into his hole.
tional
lights.
In
a
conference
with
the.
Sep the town and that little work is a
wro ig I in vetoing the light ordinance.
. tain at the Armory.
eastern train made an extra trip to the
SUIT TO ANNUL TITLE.
business men of the city some weeks If il v|ere my own business I would
■owerful factor in building up a city.
There will be big doings at the Ar­ city for a surgeon. £ About two years
ago, Mayor Job asserted that he pur­ not testate
■That Cottage Grove is becoming
estate a moment.
mory hall tomorrow night. The Cres­ ago Mr. Kelly had a leg broken in the
Claims Set Up That Land is Fraudu­ posed acting in the premises in accord­
Kon e pumkins” is evidenced by the
V. Cl
< London: I can’t see anything well Band’s minstrel performance is same manner. Kelly has a wife and
lently
Obtained.
ance with their views and Wishes, and wrong with the ordinance as passed by scheduled to appear in Cottage Grove
Motel (iregon register in a comparison
one child, who reside with him in the
Suit to annual title of 160 acres of fearing that his honor is not informed the coikicil.
JPskivwa'is for January 1909 and Janu­
on that date. And it promises to be the camp.
land
in
Lane
county
for
restoration
to
as
to
their
wishes,
and
those
of
other
ary 1910. Last month the arrivals
L. SJHill : I don’t think the com­ event of the season. Besides the splen­
Mrs. Altha Hatfield of Wildwood fell
lumbered 630 against 350 for the same the Government, has been begun in the taxpayers of the community, The Sen­ pany isasking anything unreasonable. did first part, which, The Sentinel is off a walk while going for wood the
United
States
Court
by
J.
R.
Wyatt,
tinel
has
undertaken
to
provide
this
in
­
month last year.
The tovn is growing, and needs more told by one who has witnessed rehear­ other day, breaking her right leg in
I The newly organized German Luther­ assistant United States District Attor­ formation. There' are, of course, a light. I
sals, far excels many professional black two places. She is sixty-five years of
C. Hl Burkholder : I haven’t any­ face shows, there will be one hour and age, but notwithstanding ’ the fracture
in church has rented rooms over Mad- ney. Although it is a civil suit, it is large number whom we have been un­
charged
in
the
complaint
that
John
able
to
interview,
but
enough
people
thing tl say on the subject.
len’s jewelry store, and will hold ser-
thirty minutes of side-splitting fun. is knitting nicely and she will be about
S. VJAllison : I can’t see any reason M’lle. Quitterman ; and her famous fe­ again within a reasonable length of
lices there until more suitable quarters B. Flynn, a traveling salesman of Port­ have expressed their opinion on the
land, in October, 1902, entered the land subject to prove conclusively that pub­ why wlshouldn’t have the lights. The male brass banS will be one of the at­
Ian be secured.
under
the timber and ?tone act, swear­ lic sentiment is favorable to the pro­ contra® looks reasonable and good to tractions, followed by old plantation time.
I Remember the ministrel perform-
Sam Cochran, 60 years old, an old
ing at that time that he was not acting posed contract, and also that more me.
Ince at the Armory tomorrow night.
scenes, in which the Southern male bridge carpenter on the Southern Paci-
as
the
agent
for
another
party
in
secur
­
lights
are
needed.
H. C Madsen: A five years’ con­ quartet is guaranteed to delight; the fic, lost both feet Wednesday in an acci­
I The Sentinel has a horn-handled um-
Irella belonging to some unknown per­ ing the title While, in fact, he was be­ The Sentinel, in its interviews, has tract At $80 for arc lights and $18 for ‘'dog watch” sketch; a Coon creek dent five miles north of Coburg. Coch­
lon. The rainy season being well over ing paid $175 by - C. O. Peterson, for solicited no information from the aider­ inciiniescents is all right, but I don’t courtship by McDaniel and Boyd; funny ran and a companion were going north­
the use of his citizenship to the land in men, their position having been perfect­ fayor a longer period. I think we
■e need it no longer.
songs and jokes warranted to be abso­ ward toward Brownsville bn a railroad
question. The entry was made, it is ly defined when every one of the six shWd have more lights.
J The claims of the Golden Rule Min-, allegcdy-bofowo
lutely., new, and .genuine, ^each,having velocipede; In the heavy fog they did
- JdEante* Er. ■ WarUj* cx . g
—
v;
-
am
iff
tavtffor
the trade mark blown in the ware.
■ng and Milling company in the Bohem­ time United States Land Commissioner ordinance. , The interviews follow :
not notice the approach of the north­
¡better lighting the city, even if it costs
ia district is being contested .on the
The
Creswell band will give a con­ bound Albany-Springfield train behind
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/> ’more moiey. I am also in favor of bet­
for Oregon.
ftround that it is more valuable for a
A. B. Wood: I think Cottage Grove/ ter stree te, even if they cost more cert on Main street tomorrow after­ them until it was almost upon them.
Even if the allegations contained in
noon at 3 o’clock, and invites the pop­ Cochran’s companion jumped clear of
■iinber than for mining purposes.
the complaint alleging fraud are found should either accept this contract oi
ulace to turn out and listen.
■ W. T. Kayser is now at Goldendale, to be true, neither Flynn nor Peterson make the light company a fair proposi/ iponey. ■
the track and rolled into the ditch un­
J. S. S ilsby: Any reasonable con-
■ash., where he is located temporari- can be criminally prosecuted as the tion, and not be unreasonable with pea
injured, but the old man was thrown
MUCH INTEREST IS SHOWN.
tract is a ! right; it should be binding
partly
across the rails and the engine
pie
who
have
invested
their
money
statute of limitations has run, barring
ftn both s ies. I haven’t studied up on
I Lauraut, the man of many myster­ them from trial.
here.
*
/ tie lighti ig question.
Second Commonwealth Conference to passed over both legs.
ies, will appear in Cottage Grove un-
F. H. Rosenberg: I don’t believe yr. S. B nson : I should like to see
Meet February 11 and 12.
COST AN EVEN $100,000.
ler the auspices of the Lyceum Course
DEATH OF MRS. WHITING.
that after getting people into the city ire ligl s, but we have elected men
Much
interest is taken in the Com­
In March 9. He is a magician of rare
!
admini
ter tne affairs of the city and monwealth Conference to be held at Oregon’s Exhibit at A. Y. P. Not So
Passes Away Unexpectedly After Hav­ to invest their money we should destroy
talents.
their property. The city should make its up to them.
Expensive, After All.
Eugene February 11 and 12. The fa­
ing
Given
Birth
to
Child.
•
I Eighteen hundred and twenty acres
a contract agreeable to both.
Property
to- the value of $13,730.30
culty
of
the
University
of
Oregon
last
?.
j
.
s
höll : I think we should have
Mrs. N. F. Whiting passed away at
■f Douglas county timber land has been
H. O. Thompson: The turn-down of mote liglts; it’s one of the best adver- year observed the semi-centennial of has been turned over to the ^Oregon
the
home
of
Geo.
Comer
on
Friday
hold to Ohio capitalists for $100,000.
this proposition with the light company
I The Visiting Nurse association has night of last week, aged thirty-three is too ridiculous to comment on. We tisqnents the town can have. Any one the admission of Oregon into the Union states board of agriculture by the Ore­
lore than $10,000 with which to fight years, and the funeral took place on need lights badly. I live on a street wold naurally say, after knowing the by a “Commonwealth Conference” for gon state commission to the Alaska-
■tuberculosis in Oregon, as the proceeds Saturday afternoon, the Rev. Adams where there is but one light in fourteen eolation that the contract is benefi- the discussion of subjects affecting the Yukon-Pacific exposition, according to -
welfare of the people of the state at the final report completed by the re­
|oiits Red Cross stamp campaign. This conducting the service at the house. blocks. I doubt if there is a plant in the cia|o tte city.
large.' The institution of an annual maining members of the commission,
M
KJrr:
-I
haven
’
t
been
here
long
The
immediate
cause
of
death
was
lis J2000 more than it was expected the
state furnishing lights cheaper than enolh p really consider the matter.
conference was recognized as a means which will be presented to the secre­
| total would be when the campaign clos- childbirth.
the contract calls for, figuring by kilo-
Cw.feeals: We should have town for the university to render distinct un­ tary of state in a few days.
led.
Mr. and Mrs. Whiting came to Cot­ wats.
The Oregon state insane asylum has
iversity service to the people of the
offies
that would do something.
I J. F. Spray' was in Eugene yester- tage Gi;ove from Collins, Montana, last
Dr. J. O. VanWinkle: For my part
December for the benefit of Mrs. Whit­ I think the city is missing a splendid - WE. [Counter: I know of no reason state. The success of the first confer­ been presented with a cold storage
| day, as was also Curtis Veatch.
r This year’s-colonist rush to Oregon ing’s health, her physician recommend­ opportunity. The contract furnishes why he city should not enter info a ence and the interest the many men of plant from the exhibit, valued at $2798,
conipt'with the light company on the public standing showed in the confer­ and when a few outstanding claims for
I is expected ' to give real estate sales- ing this climate. During the two additional lights at a cheaper rate.
ence itself was thought to justify the refunds of freight on exhibits return­
basishown.
I Bn* plenty to do finding places for months of her residence here her physi­
C.
C.
Hazelton
:
I
think
the
lighting
arrangements
for the second confer­ ed, have been collected, the state treas­
F|.
Conley
:
So
far
as
I
can
see
Item all. Hundreds of letters received cal condition showed marked improve­
proposition should be accepted. It ap­ theijs no good reason why we should ence to beheld there. Any one desir­ ury will be enriched to the extent of
lily throughout the western section ment, and although afflicted with heart
pears cheaper than the present con­ not [cept the offer made by the Cot- ing to attend from Cottage Grove may $3,150.67
in actual cash, $4.84 of that,
'
K the ktate indicate that people all trouble for about eight years every in­
tract,
the
number
of
lights
considered.
amount
being
what remains frqm the
secure
credentials
as
delegate
by
call-
i
taglrove
Electric
Light
Co,
They
Iver the world prepare for a journey dication pointed to recovery. Besides
appropriation and $3,145.83 re­
I
J. S. Spray: I can’t see why the havtoven themselves sincere jn a de­ ing upon F. H. Rosenberg, secretary $125,000
I Oregon. The immigration of 1910 is a husband, a son eleven years of age
presenting cash on hand collected from
city shouldn’t grant the contract. Look sire improve the conditions and im- of the Commercial club.
Ixpected to pass last year’s phenome- survives her.
other sources during the life of the ex-
at the park end of town; dark all the pro] conditions, along this and all
lal record,
ASSOCIATION FORMED.
hibit. All told, the state Will get cash
LOW COLONIST RATES.
time. A thousand robbers might reri- othaines, should be appreciated by
I Attorney J. E. Young transacted
Cottage
Grove
Making
Preparations
to
and
property to the value of $19,679.97,
dezvous
there.
There
’
s
only
a
couple
everitizen.
jusiness in Eugene yesterday.
Fifteen .Thousand Circulars Will Ad- of lighting bugs in that end of town.
so that the exhibit which so favorably
Play the National Game.
F[ Kurtz.; I dont’ care to express
I Parson’s sawmill has been sold to vertise Cottage Grove in the East.
H. Venske: The council should enter an. qion. Action is more necessary
The Nesmith Baseball association impressed the hundreds of thousands of
■Ivin McCubbins, who owns a large
The Sentinel has received an order into the contract. It’s all in the peo­ thasords.
has perfected à preliminary organiza- visitors to the fair in reality cost the
Inount of timber close to where the
J j Baker:. I am not paying any ' tion by the election of Lew A, Cates state little more than an even $100,000.
lew mill is now being constructed. The from the Southern Pacific company for ple’s favor—all gain and no loss.
15,000
circulars
giving
colonist
rates
att®n
to city matters at present.
president, Dave Griggs secretary, and
T. D. Wheeler : If the mayor, can
Bill will be ready to commence sawing,
Foresters Must Keep Mum.
R. Veatch: I have not given the ' Winter Wallace treasurer, the three al­ Perhaps the forest officials have been
■about two weeks. New machinery from - all eastern points to Cottage get a better contract than the present
Bill be installed so as to get out lum- Grove. The circulars .has an extensive one, I think it is in order for him to do matlmuch thought. If it gives the so to comprise the board of directors. talking too much to please their super­
cityire light for the same money, I Orvill Knapp will manage the team. iors at Washington; at any rate an or­
|r in the best possible manner.—Cres- write-up of the city and the surround­ so.
ing country. The company and the
The association is now in correspon­ der has been issued closing all sources
Bell Chronicle.
F. B. Phillips: I have been sick and beli'we should have the contract.
Commercial club Will give the circular am not well informed, but I am in fav­ WT Johnson: My opinion is tha+ dence with the otner towns in the pro­ of publicity for the service. District
teATH OF FORMER RESIDENT! wide distribution._____ _
the [position is better than the one posed league-— augene, Albany and Forester C. S. Chapman, who is known
or of a well-lighted city.
Evidently Working Orchardists.
B.
R.
Westbrook
:
I
think
the
city
we shave. I am favorably impress­ Springfield—and /it is probable that a to many in Cottage Grove, is looking
i Snl’Connor Passes Away at Salem
A few days ago J. O. Holt, secretary should give the company the contract. ed i[ the contract, and don’t think schedule will bi ' worked out in a few for an interpretation of the order, hop­
■ft
Aged Sixty-Six.
of the Eugene Fruit Growers’ associa­ According to what other towns are pay­ the yor should have used his veto days. It is the i lurpose of the associa- ing that the force will be permitted to
' Klefe . L O’Conner, formerly a res- tion, wrote to the editor of “Better ing, it looks good to me.
tion to sell stock to the amount of $500, give out items of news of value to their
powf
|®Hr '.ottage Grove, passe d away at Fruit,” published at Hood River, in re­ Jas. Hemenway: I think the con­ J Barrett: I haven’t studied over secure new grdunds, erect a fence and work without restriction.
■a® 1 Wednesday at the age of gard to John Sanders, the man who tract is all right and a good thing for it <gh to come to an opinion. It build a grandstlnd. Those subscribing
Booth-Kelly Officers.
years. Prior to moving to has been around among the friut grow­ the people of Cottage Grove. The seen me, however, that it is a bet­ for the stock aa$l per share will be re­
| KHt capital two years ago, Mr. and ers, offering to wash their trees with a council, I believe, should enter into it. ter psition than the old one.
imbursed at me close of the season , I The officers elected by the Booth-
Kelly Lumber company late yesterday
^MWConner were residents of this preparation to keep the pests away, he
Daniel Shaffer: The city should tie
Ahnd: ■ I think that Mayor Job from receipts from games; or if there
^^Vor four years, and during that having given the name of the editor as the company up on its proposed agree­ did own an injury in vetoing the are insufficien funds a pro rata divis­ afternoon are as follows: Frank H.
she formefl a large circle of reference. A reply has just been re­ ment. Job should do something for light We need several lights on ion to be ma le. The details are now Buck, Vacaville, California, president;
^^uaintances, all of whom will recieve ceived as fqllows: “Ido not recollect the city while he is in office.
being worked mt, and will be present- E. H. Cox, Eugene vice-president; A.
our ft.
C. Dixon, Eugene, manager; H. A.
Ke intelligence of her death with pro­ knowing .anybody by the name of John
ed
in a stort tl ne.
Ernest Lockwood: I think the con­ J.Chambers: I cannot see any-
Dunbar, Eugene, secretary and treas­
found regret.
Sanders. I never heard of any dope tract is a good one.
thirrong about the proposition.
LIQUOR HIRED INTO JAIL
urer, Board of Directors: Frank H.
that would c'ean up a tree by putting | J. W. Wilson: I am in favor of any­ Thepance authorized the mayor and
County-Court Allows Bridge.
Buck, E. H. Cox, R. A. Booth, J. H.
it on the roots.”—Guard.
Paper
Funneland
Kind
Friends
Keep
thing that will give us a better lighted recti to make a contract for lights,
The County Court yesterday granted
Danaher, H. A. Dunbar, P. S. Brum­
TwqLoggers Drunk.
Kansans to Picnic.
city.
andy should know hoW to protect
le prayer of the petitioners for a
by, and A. H. Vincent.
The
Kansas
Society
will
hold
a
picnic
By means[of an improvised paper
H. A. Miller: I haven’t thought the 3 interests in the contract.
[idge across the Row river, east of
Editor Lew A. Cates, the new “live
|wn the cost, as estimated, to be $6,- sometime during the coming summer, much about it, but anybody ought to Vs Wallace: If I understand funnel runni: from the outside of the
and although somewhat early a com­ be satisfied to get more for their mon­ the correctly I cannot see why Eugene jail|x> the inside, two loggers wire” in the Oregon journalistic field
Malob should veto the bill. The who had bei «1 arrested on a charge of at Cottage Grove, is putting out a
mittee, consisting of Jas. Hemenway, ey.
G. W. McReynolds, Mrs. Geo. Hall,
Two Expositions.
were enabled mighty fine newspaper. The Sentinel
I
F. D. Wheeler: As near as I can un- expjs less and the service greater. drunk and disorderly,
there will be two big National ex- Mrs. D. B. Chamberlen and Mrs. D, destand it, I think the ordinance should Thea demand for,more lights.
with the 1 ■nd assistance of their reflects credit on its home town and is
hitions in California for the year Hemenway, has been appointed to pass.
Driggs: I can’t see but that friends,
:
to i emain in a gloriously in- enjoying deserved success.—Albany
k unless San Diego or San Francis- make the necessary arrangements.
| Herald.
■
cd idition all day.
T. R. Parker: If we can get more theiact price is a fair, thing and I toxicated
Public Sentiment Favors Entering Into Propos­
ed New Contract for Lighting the City.
The Sentinel Makes Extensive Canvass and Pre­
sents Its Findings for Information of Mayor.
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