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VOLUME IV
COTTAGE GROVE, OREGON, FRIDAY. MARCH 4, 1910
made to the humane officer that a ranch­
er up the Coast Fork was neglecting his
stock, and that the animals were suffer­
ing in consequence. An investigation
was made, and while conditions were
not as bad as reported, the officer gave
notice to the rancher that he must pro­
vide better for his herd or pay the pen­
alty,' “in such cases made and provid­
ed.”
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NUMBER 23
into at the Oregon Colorado mine in the
Bohemia district, showing three feet of
solid ore and widening with each shaft
of work. This tunnel is in about 2000
—
feet, has passed through'several large
Candidates for Office Must Fav­
Indisputable Facts and Figures Showing Convenience Nesmith bodies of ore, and is now reaching the Immature Infant Discovered on
places expected to encounter the bonan­
X
or Public Improvements.
Would Ba to Residents Within the Proposed Territory.
za ore body of this vein. Opening a
Street at Daylight.
vein like the Oregon-Colorado vein at a
depth of 1000 feet, and showing such
ORCHARD SELLS WELL.
The history of the State of Oregon is volve. The tentacles of improvement values as are there insures an immense
SO DECLARE BUSINESS MEN
replete with instances in which new are extended and thrown out not unlike production for the company, and is of PLACED THERE DURING NIGHT
Churchill-Matthews Company Finds a
counties have been created. Why the spokes in a wheel, and the farther general importance to the Bohemia dis-
Ready Market for'Tracts. ,
should new counties be created at all? they are extended the smaller and wid­ tritt, showing the existence of veins in
Meeting to Decide Fair Proposition Re-
Mr. T. R. Phillips of Portland return­ Why not have the county government er apart they become. Therefore, the the camp at great depth. Word also
Authorities Called Upon to Make a
I solves Itself Into Indignation Meet-
ed to that city on Monday, after having administered from, one county seat, more hubs , there are the more exten­ came from the Vesuvius mine that an
Thorough Investigation and Bring
| ing, and Municipal Administra­
spent some time in the Lorane district with one set of county officials? Be­ sive and substantial are the improve­ increased showing of ore was being
the Guilty Parties to justice
tion Is Severely Criticised.
in the interest of the Churchill-Mat­ cause the people have been taught to ments, all of which results in building opened by the men at work there. The
at Any Cost.
Vesuvius
and
the
Oregon
-
Colorado
thews company. To arepresentative of believe in local .self government; be­ up and bettering the condition of the
The Sentinel Mr. Phillips says 400 acres cause they do not believe in being taxed whole country. It is as far from Eu­ mines are both the property of the
I The joint meeting of the Merchants’ of the 1000-acre tract is in readiness to without representation, and because gene, the present county seat of Lane Vesuvius Mines Company.—Guard.
The little body of an immature infant
Protective assocation and the Commer­ plant to frujt trees and that the work their affairs can be more economically county, to Roseburg, the county seat
BRIDGE GIVES WAY.
was
found on the sidewalk on West
will
be
inaugurated
as
soon
.
as
the
cial club Tuesday night, called to de­
administered thereby.
of Douglas county, as it is across the
Main street at daylight this morning
cide upon the proposition of holding a weather will permit, There are twen-
The framers of the Constitution of State of Virginia. How long will it Wagon and Heavy Load Is Precipitat­
by passing pedestrians, and a crowd
fair this fall, resolved itself into an in­ ty-five- workmen on the ground awajt- the state of Oregon contemplated, that, take the tentacles of improvement be­
ed to Bottom of Silk Creek.
ngnation meeting over the conduct of ing favorable weather. The holes for when any section of the country had an ing thrown out by these widely diver­ An engine weighing four tons, and soon assembled to witness the unusual
municipal affairs, resulting in the adop­ the trees are dug, and the work will area of 400 square miles and a popula­ gent hubs to meet, at the rate they are four horses, fell through a Silk Creek sight and to discuss the probabilities
of how it got there. It is said to have
tion of a resolution to the effect that no be rushed when commenced.
tion of 1200, it was capable of local self going, with the expenditure of most of bridge near the cemetery west of the
Mr. Phillips, whose father is super­ government and of carrying on and con­ the public funds in and around the vi­ city limits early Tuesday afternoon. had between three and four months ’
man be supported for office at the ap­
proaching election unless he pledges intending the tract and who is an ex­ ducting it’s own local affairs, as indi­ cinity of these respective county seats, The engine was a new one just pur­ growth. The head and body appeared
himself in favor of public improve­ pert fruit grower, says at least one- cated by Article XV, Section 6, of the and thereby build up and improve the chased at this place by Owjns & Son, to be perfectly formed. The city mar­
shal placed it in a cigar box and took it
half of the orchard has already been Constitution. The proposed county of conditions of the intervening space?
ments.
who operate a sawmill a few miles to the police station.
sold
to
eastern
parties,
and
that
no
dif
­
After considering the fair proposi­
Nesmith has more than five times the Not nearly so long as it will when an­ west of this city. Four horses were
There is a mystery surrounding the
tion, and concluding that the undertak­ ficulty will be experienced in disposing area and more than seven times the other county is established in this vast used in transporting it to the mill, and
ing would prove burdensome at this of the balance, or even twice as much population contemplated by the Consti­ area between these two county seat in crossing the bridge two of the horses find that should be ferreted out at any
Eime, it was decided to postpone the were it possible to provide it. The land tution of the State, having an area of towns, since it’s improvements will be­ reached terra firma before the full cost. The body had evidently been
exhibit until next year and then hold a as been sold in small tracts, five and 1940 square miles and a population of gin to grow and extend out in both di­ weight of their load was on the bridge, placed there during the night, but the
Nesmith county fair. Incidentally the ten acres, and the company will care over 8,000, yet within this territory the rections and the meeting will thereby when it went down with a crash, every source from whence it came should be
question of street paving was mention- for the orchards for a given time, if people have no representative in the be greatly faciliated and hastened. sleeper being broken square off near determined if possible, and the guilty
parties made to pay the penalty for
id, and it was like flaunting a red rag the purchasers so desire.
Legislative Departments of the State How many rock crushers and other the middle. Rev.W. J.* Gardiner had just their inhumanity, if nothing more.
before the gaze of an enraged bull,
nor in any department of the county machinery will be purchased by the tax­ crossed the bridge oh horseback, and
DRAIN FORGING FORWARD.
ffhe meeting was well attended byrep-
government, consequently they have no payers of Douglas county before they saw the drop, which for a time looked
WORK TO BEGIN SOON.
jresentative citizens, and for a time ali Water and Sewer Bonds Issued, and one to champion the interests of the will have one at Divide, the northern serious for man and beast. He soon
wanted the. privilege of the floor at
people or to whom they can address extremity of Douglas county, 50 miles spread the news and, men and teams, Survey for Railroad to National Forest
Other Improvements.
once. The present state of affairs as
Reserve Begins Next Week.
away from the county seat? How many with ropes and pulleys, from town were
The election at Drain authorizing the their grievances with any assurance
seen to exist, together with remedies,
will be purchased and worn out by Lane soon on the scene. There was much
that
they
will
be
heeded
or
acted
upon.
The
survey for the proposed railway
Svere discussed at no inconsiderable issue of $10,000 in bonds for a water
county before they will have one at water in the creek and it required good extending from the Oregon & South­
Local
self
government
is
the
ideal
length, the trend of remarks being that plant and $5000 for a sewer system was form of government, and the people of Vyildwood or even Dorena, in the east­ work and level heads to save the horses eastern into the National Forest Re­
Cottage Grove should forge forward held Saturday. The water bonds car­ any vicinity are better acquainted with ern part of what is’ now Lane county? from drowning, but within an hour all serve will be commenced next week,
Bong improvement lines in order to ried by a majority of 38 to 34 and the and better qualified to administer to the Will Diyide not get one sooner when tvere safe on land. The men in charge and following this construction work
keep apace with its public-spirited sewer system bonds by a unanimous wants and demands of the people than the county of Nesmith is created, being of the outfit were not injured other will be inaugurated and the line push­
neighbors. The sense of the meeting vote of 47. This is the initial step, fa- strangers, or person who have no spec­ but 4 miles from the proposed county than financially. Within two hoiirs af­ ed to completion as rapidly as possible,
was to the effect that the commercial voring a progressive policy all along ial interest in their welfare. Again, séat? And Dorena and Wildwood will ter the wreck preparations were being this preliminary work being necessary
Organizations of the city, the members the line in Drain. Th.e city has secured thè history of the State has been that, get one much sooner, when they are made to extricate the engine by the use before building operations on the big
>f which are deeply interested in the electric lights and money is on hand to where new counties have been created, brought within from 10 to 20 miles of of blocks and tackle. During the pro­ sawmill which is to cut 175,000,000 feet
progress and upbuilding of the'mupici- have the streets improved as soon as the tendency has been to build up and •the county seat than they will at pre­ gress of the work of extrication in its of timber can be instituted. There has
pality, should take an active part in the water plant and sewèr are complet­ improve the country, as evidenced by sent, when form 30 to 40 miles from the early stages several photographs of the been a slight unavoidable delay, on ac­
the election in April and place in office ed. The ladies’ auxiliary has adopted the creation of Sherman, Morrow. Gill- county seat. Eugene and Roseburg, interesting scene were taken by a local count of a death in the family of one
inly1 such men as favor a bettered a policy of clearing up the streets and iam, Wheeler and Hood River counties, respectively are but little interested in artist.'
of the investors, but the plans as out­
Lndition, tb” the end that instead-of yards around the premises and will in­ and thè effect upon the counties out of these outlying districts, but bring them
lined in The Sentinel spme time ago
MANY
NEW
MEMBERS.
raving muddy and ill kept streets, and augurate a movement to improve the which these have been carved has been within a radius of a few miles of their
will be carried out forthwith, and the
station
grounds.
ither lesser things not in keeping with
favorable. It is much more economical county seat and their appeals will not One Hundred and One Citizens Become construction of the railroad will be the
1 progressive city of three thousand in-
to administer the affairs of these coun­ been ma'de in vain, but will be heard
DECLINES TO PARTICIPATE.
first work undertaken.
Identified With Commercial Club.
libitants,- we be given paved thorough-
ties than it was the affairs of Jackson and ministered to. These outlying pre­
One
hundred
and
one
applicants
were
ares, and general improvements in all Cottage Grove Team Will Not Debate county when it’s Eastern boundary was cincts aré not of enough importance to
A New Townsite Plan.
admitted to membership in the Com­
Further in League Contest.
jarts of the town so far as possible.
A new townsite has been platted on <
the Oregon-Idahb line, or those of the people who administer the govern­ mercial club on Monday evening, as a
■ The present administration was cen­ The final debate of the high schools Grant and Wasco, .when they embraced mental affairs to these old counties and
the Natron-Klamath Falls cut off of
tred severely for its attiude regard- of this district will be held on March more than twó-thirds of Eastern Ore­ their appeals for relief are made in vain result ot the membership campaign in­ the Southern Pacific railroad, 35 miles
augurated one week ago. This cam­
ng city betterments, the speakers be- 11, but Cottage Grove will not partici­ gon.
and fall upon ears that are deaf to their paign will continue for thirty days, east of Eugene, and it is said the com­
ieving that it is acting ip this respect pate. The executive committee insists
The Bohemia Mining District is situ­ wants and necessities and it had ought
pany will establish a division there.
®ntrary to the wishes of a majority of that the subject shall be the one dis­ ated in both Lane and Douglas coun­ to be a relief to the old counties to get during which time it is probable that The townsite is half way between Port­
;hc taxpayers, and as an instance cit- cussed in breaking the tie between Al­ ties, 35 miles from Cottage Grove. rid of them and it surely would be a this number will be doubled. The club land and Klamath Falls. The Southern
ng the street paving proposition, in bany, Salem, and Eugene, and inas­ This is a flourishing mining camp and blessing to those benighted districts, members are enthusiastic workers in Pacific company has purchased 90 acres,
which 85 per cent of the property own­ much as these teams, or at least t wo contains several hundred inhabitants that have been so long neglected that this undertaking, believing that “many as ground, it is said, for terminal tracks
ers on Main street signed a petition re-’ of them, have already had a decision on and the mines have been the source they have dispared Of ever receiving heads are better than a few” in the and round houses. E. E. Hyland of
juesting that that thoroughfare be im­ this subject, the local debating team of considerable expensive litigation. any relief, except by the creation of a promotion of the objects which the or­ Lowell and a number of associates have
proved. The manner in which grading considers that undue advantage is be­ Roseburg, the county seat of Douglas county of their own, whose affairs will ganization has in view.
purchased a tract of land on the oppo­
On Monday next the Club will receive
md graveling had been done was also ing taken and has concluded to decline county, is 55 miles from Cottage Grove, be administered by people who have a
site
side of the main track of the new
;aken up and threshed out, and it was to debate. This does not mean that it and Eugene is 22 miles in the other di­ local interest in their welfare; who ap­ the new members, following which a railroad and have platted the town of
smoker
will
be
held
and
the
evening
fought out during this discussion that withdraws from the league, but that it rection. Litigants, witnesses and other preciate their necessities and who are
Oak Ridge.
property owners have refused to pay is conforming strictly to the constitu­ people having business either at Eu­ willing to listen and respond to the jus­ spent in social intercourse. Those con­
templating joining the club should get
' Colonel Hofer Hère Monday.
issessment for such work because of its tion, which has been violated by the gene or Roseburg, the respective coun­ tice of their supplications.
in their applications before that time,
On Monday night next, when the
tefectivenesS. It was authoritively committee of final resort.
ty seats of the old counties out of which The stimilus which would be given
as those, too, will be admitted Monday Commercial club will take into mem­
stated that assessments against prop­
it is proposed to carve the county of this territory, when embraced in the
night in order that they may partici­ bership more than one hundred citizens,
WILL SHIP TO SMELTER.
erties had been outstanding for seven
Nesmith, are required to come to Cot­ new county of Nesmith, from a com­
pate in the entertainment
Col. Hofer of Salem will be present
md eight years, the municipality car­
tage Grove, take the Southern Pacific mercial standpoint, should be an incen­
and make an address. The colonel is
ry ing’these accounts while yet it is un- North Fair view Company to .Operate train and go to their respective county tive to every commercial concern of the
Will Frame Mine Timbers.
one of Oregon’s best boosters, is al­
in Earnest.
ible to meet its current obligations.
seats, entailing upon such persons an state to use it’s influence for the crea­
The Sentinel was in error last week
There were no suggestions as to ele-
The North Fairview mines will re­ additional expense and the consump­ tion of this new county. By building in stating that the Botsford Lumber ways ready with his talents, time and
jible condidates for any office, but the sume operations early in May. The tion of time it would require to travel up a .new and flourishing community company, now erecting a mill near the money to give the state, or any section
lpammous sentiment favored getting company has developed three rich de­ an additional distance of either 22 miles there will be new and increased marks Southern Pacific track in this city, thereof, ajift, and The Sentinel hopes
ogether and further discussing the posits of free gold ore, and will begin to Eugene or 55 miles to Roseburg. In of trade, where- every wholesaler and would bring in logs from up the Oregon and trusts that every member of the
shipping to the smelter as soon as the case a hundred witnesses were called to jobber in the state will have an in­ & Southeastern for sawing at its plant. Commercial club will be present Mon­
natter.
weather will permit At a meeting of court from these mines, it would cost creased demand made upon them for The Botsford company will operate no day night.
ANOTHER RAILROAD PROJECT. the shareholders last week the general •the litigants 10 cents per mile each
School District Granted.
their commodities; new business enter­ saw mill, but will frame timbers for
expression of opinion was that the out­
After considerable controversy the
liessrs. Russell and Dennis Promoting look is pleasing, and in view of the rich way, and would therefore cost them prises will be inaugurated and estab­ mines, getting the timbers from the
$11000.00 to Roseburg and $400.00 more lished ; the population Of the towns and Brown Lumber company. Shipments county court and county superintendent
I Railroad, From Carlton to Coast.
showing a resolution was unanimously to Eugene than it would if the business country will be augmented; new blood will be made principally to Utah, and finally granted the prayer of the peti­
Messrs. Fred Russell of the Charn­ adopted advancing the price of stock to were transacted at the propose^ county
will be instilled into the community; when received by the mining compan­ tioners and anew school district will be
iers Lumber Company of Dorena, W. 10 cents per share after May 1. George seat of the proposed Nesmith county.
new people with new and better ideas ies will be ready to place in position, organized from territory taken from
1. [Dennis of the Black Butte mines, McQueen of this city is superintendent Those now residing in that vicinity are
will locate within the proposed terri- thus conveniencing the mines and prov­ two others in the vicinity of Cottage
md S. B. Linthicum are the incorpora­ of the mines.
57 miles from Eugene, one county seat, tory and the country will be greatly ing a! saving in freight.
Grove. It will be known as district
nts of the Carlton« and Coast Railroad
and 90 miles from Roseburg, the other, improved and bettered; progress and
No.
34, as the old district of that num­
Score the First Point.
¡ompany, with a capitalization of $50,-
Trains Will Run on Time.
and to reach either place, all have to prosperity will abound,' all of which
ber has gone out of existence, with
In
the
case
of
F.
M.
Hall
and
W.
B.
'00. It is proposed to build a road from
On accopnt of the lateness of trains very little prospect of it coming back
come through the proposed county seat will tend to the betterment and up-
larlton west through Yamhill and Till- Foster, respectively, against .the Ore­ of the proposed new county, from which
on the Southern’ Pacific a request has to life again.-—Register.
building
of
a
“
Greater
Oregon.
”
Com-
iriiook counties, touching at apointon gon & Southeasten railway, for dam­ they are not to exceed 35 miles distant. municated.
been made for a “stui/! train between
hé Pacific coast called Fairdale. The ages for personal injuries, Judge Harris To transact county business these peo­
Ashland and Portland, but jt is proba­
Invitation From Creswell.
Bible School Closes.
oad will be steam. The corporation is on Saturday overruled the motion of ple, in order to get to J Roseburg, one
ble that the cause of the delays will'be
The
Commercial club of Creswell has
granted full power in all matters nec­ the defendant to make the complaint county seat, havè to travel a distance Levi Geer, W. T. Jones, Geo. Bailes rectified shortly, thus making the addi­ invited the members of the Commercial
and
Bert
Baughman,
all
of
London
essary for carrying out the project. more definite and certain, plaintiffs equal to one-third the distance across
tional train service unnecessary. Gen­ club of this city to meet with that? or­
?he incorporators of the Carlton & thus scoring the first point.—Eugene the state, and to get ,to Eugene, the Springs, came to the city on Monday eral Manager O’Brien says the trouble ganization tonight, and it is probable
each with a wagon load of pupils from
loast railroad have .also filed articles Register.
other county seat, a distance equal to the Bible school at that place. The will be over during the present month, < that a large number will accept the in­
f : incorporation for the Carlton Con-
and that trains will be running regular­ vitation. President Hazelton • requests
one-fifth of the distance across the school has closed for the season and the ly
Many Scout the Forest.
by the fifteenth.
olidated Lumber company, with a cap-
all members who can conveniently do
The W. O. W. goat was in- action last state. Many of the mining properties pupils were on their way to their homes
tal stock of $200,000. It is understood
Partnership Is Dissolved.
so to attend the w meeting, leaving here
Friday when annual roll call brought in this district are situated in both in various parts of this and other
he new enterprise will take over the
The co-partnership heretofore exist­ on the late afternoon train. Col. Hofer
-forth axe wielders from the most re­ counties, necessitating the transaction states. .
’arlton Lumber Company, a large con-
ing between A. S. Powell and A. W. of Salem will address the meeting.
mote corners of this section. After the of much business, by some of these
ern, owning several mills now in oper-
Very Agreeably Surprised.
Shortridge has been dissolved by mutu­
forest was" thoroughly scouted, three people, in both counties and they would
lion.
_________ ____ v
g
Is It a Bad Omen?
spring sapplings were added to the have to cover the distance of 224 miles Rev. Robert Sutcliffe was pleasantly al consent, Mr. Shortridge continuing
The other night as C. S. Williams
Appealed to Circuit Court.
camp fire, and the occasion was cele­ in order to visit both county seats and surprised by a large gathering of mem­ the business. He has a most complete
return, when if that territory was bers of his congregation last Friday livery, and The Sentinel bespeaks for was passing the court house in Eugene
■The case of J. E. and C. E. Spray brated with a bounteous banquet.
merged into the county of Nesmith, as evening. They proceeded in a body to him an increased business under his the clock in the tower tolled out 13,
gainst George Lea, tried before Jus-
which—he being the chairman of the
Work Slav Be Resumed.
proposed, they would have to travel but the parsonage, having all manner' of sole management.
ice Vaughn in which a judgment was
committee to defeat Nesmith county—
More rumors are afloat that the Drain 70 miles in going ’and returning, a sav­ things to make the evening a pleasant
|ven plaintiffs -for $97, has been ap-
Walter
Mason
Reported
Dead.
one. He was decoyed into their pres­
is taken as a bad omen for Lane and
branch of the Southern Pacific is to be ing in travel of 150 miles.
ealed to the circuit court.
An unauthenticated report comes to
built this summer. It is said that the Public improvements commence at ence by being told that a marriage Cottage Grove from California telling Douglas counties.
Must Care for Stock.
contract has been let for a portion of the county seat and extend outward in ceremony was. being sought.
of the death of Walter Mason, a pneu­ Messrs. Tyson, Bisby, Griffin, Kenn­
Humane Officer W. E. Wilmer of Eu- the road and that the sawmill which a gradual manner. The county seat is
Makes a Rich Strike.
monia patient. A party by that name edy and j KimeJ rendered Morrision’s
ene was in this city on Saturday in his has been cutting ties for the railroad the hub around which county appropri­ F.J. Hard received word this morn­ was until recently a resident of this
“Meditation” most excellently in the
racial capacity. Complaints had bee has been ordered to resume operations. ations and county improvements re- ing of a new shoot of ore just broken place.
Methodist church last Sunday,
3