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VOLUME XXXIV PALMER IS CONVICTED OF MANSLAUGHTER; TRIAL IS BRIEF COTTAGE GROVE, LANE COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 1924 — —————— — ■ ’ | MURDERER CROSSED ICY | M’KENZIE PASS IN SINGLE i | ---------------- DAY IN MIDDLE ------ _ OF WINTER — .. Bend, Ore., March 12.—In his flight from the Law. Eldon Hutchin son, slayer of his girl wife at Kelso, Wash., performed a feat believed to have never been equaled before when he crossed the McKenzie pass from Eugene in a single day in the Killing Took Place Here on dead of winter. He wore no snow shoes, but wrapped his feet in bur January 10, When Ralph lap sacks to aid him in crossing the ice, snow and rocks of the rough Lammers Received Fa pass country. tal Injuries. Hutchinson reached Bend on Feb ruary 15. He said he was from California and that he was in search of a brother whom he believed to be somewhere in central Oregon. Hutchinson was dressed in or Witnesses Testify That Palmer Ad dinary working clothes when he ap plied at the Andrus ranch for work mitted That He Intended to and said that he had recently come from Eugene. He said he had a Slash Assailant. brother living in central Oregon. The stranger was employed at In what was probably the most plowing and other spring farm work remarkable murder trial ever hold and proved to be a good worker, in Lane county and one of the Andrus said. A short time after he briefest ever held in the state. went to work he began telling An Janies Palmer, 17-year-old Cottajje drus about something that was Grove lad, was convicted on a troubling him and hinting that he charge of manslaughter for the' had committed some desperate act. stabbing to death of Ralph Lam He spent much of his spar© time mers, aged 20, in an altercation reading the bible and talked about here on the evening of January 10. religion to Andrus. At other times The impanelling of the jury was | he mentioned outstanding crimes completed shortly after the opening that had been committed in the of court upon Wednesday of last northwest in recent months, particu week. All the evidence had been larly the Siskiyou mail robbery submitted and the arguments com murders and others in which the pleted at 4:35 of the same day and murderers had escaped. Andrus five hours later the verdict had i thought 4‘Carlton” might be one of been arrived at. The indictment had the D’Autreinont boys, but found been for murder in the second de that he did not in any way answer gree. the description. The expedition with which the The man’s remarks w’ere so vague trial was handled was surprising and contradictory that Andrus de and as it had been anticipated that cided that he was merely worrying there would be a decided difference over some small trouble and told of opinion among jurors as to the him so. At no time did Hutchinson degree of crime, with a possibility tell him enough to warrant his re of the favoring of acquittal by some of them, the arrival nt a ver porting the case to the authorities. Finally Hutchinson began saying diet within such a brief time also that he would have to go to Pendle Clime as a surprise. ton on business. Andrus needed him State’s Testimony Introduced. badly on the ranch and tried to per suade him to stay until he could get The state introduced as its first witness at the opening of the trial another man, but Hutchinson left George Lammers, father of the Monday. youth killed by the accused. He j testified as to the age and size of his boy, stating that he was 20, weighed 160 pounds and was 5 feet 9 inches in height, while the othei boy, testimony brought out, weighed j 175 pounds and is 6 feet 2 inches tall. Og<lpn Athlete Comes With Exten Lester Harrington, who accompa sive Repertoire and Promises nied Lammers in tho automobile to to Show Real Goods. the place where they caught up with | Palmer on the street and where the | fight occurred, and John Kitzmiller, Jack Reed, of Ogden, Utah, will who witnessed the encounter, testi be here March 25 to meet Ralph fied as to the scuffle. Kitzmiller Hand, local middleweight wrestler. was across the street. Harrington j Reed, who is athletic instructor stayed in the automobile and said j at Ogden, recently participated at he was not close to the combatants.; Oakland, Calif., in two matches with He said that Palmer rnn away after1 Al Karasick, of that city, who ad the fight, anyway he was not in vances some claims to being the sight when Lammers staggered ovor 1 Pacific coast middleweight cham to where Harrington was standing.| pion. The newspapers of that city Harrington denied that Lammers, j spoke of the two matches as being while in the pool hall, invited Palm-' among the fastest ever put on there. er to come out and fight. The first match went on hour and C. E. Frost, physican, who gave 25 minutes and it was said that the injured man first aid, told of the Reed exhibited his wares in a way nature of the wounds. Coroner Bran to surprise many who had long been stetter testfied as to the knife used following the mat game. He out by Palmer. classed his opponent in scientific Conversation Is Heard. skill and with his repertoire of John Spriggs said that he heard| fancy holds but his opponent had Lammers exclaim, “You damned greater endurance and when he ---------- ---------- , you ’vc carved me damped on a headlock his biceps with a knife,’’ and said that Palm-; held like a steel vise. It took five er replied, “Yes, that’s what I in of these, however, to put the Ogden tended to do.’’ He said he was man to tho mat groggy. Reed walking across the street nearby at | thought he got a raw deal in the the time. He said he did not wit first match and that he really ness the struggle. pinned his opponent to the mat William H. Dale, physician, of three times. Eugene, who attended Lammers at Local wrestling fans have long Mercy hospital where he died later, wished for a match between Reed stated that there were five knife and Hund and Jack promises that wounds. On» was across the head, it will be about the best thing the one across tho hip, one across the wrestling fans have paid admission chest, one into the heart and an to see. The two men will be evenly other directly into tho chest and matched, Reed expecting to weigh heart. One of the ribs was cut in in at 165 and Hand at 163. two, he testified. Hand takes on Gus Schneidau at Frank Erb, who was nearby, said Gold Hill tomorrow night. This will that Palmer replied to Lammers’ be their second meet. Hand won the exclamation that he had knifed him.! former one, a handicap. You ’re damned right. I intended | to.’’ FOREST OFFICIALS ARE TO Boy Hears Combatants. VISIT CLUB HERE TONIGHT Kenneth Williams, a ten year old j boy, who was also on the other side j C. B. Neal, of the Roseburg of of the street from the combatants,} fice of the forest service, and E. 8. said that he heard someone say. Holderman, ranger at Rujada, will “You stabbed me with a damned attend the meeting of the Cottage old pocket knife,” and then some Grove commercial club tonight in one said, “You’re damned right I their official capacities to talk over did.” matters of mutual interest between J. F. McFarland, who arrested I the city and the forest service. Palmer half an hour after the en-1 A sale of a large block of timber counter, stated that the boy was I in the Umpqua reserve will be made not at home when he arrived but j in May by the forest service. The that he arrived later. He »aid that city 'a intake will have to be re Harrington identified him as the moved to accommodate the logging man with whom Lammers was fight-1 operations but satisfactory arrange ing. McFarland said that he took ments have already been made with Palmer’s knife from him and that i the forest service for a new water the little blade was blood stained. shed on Dinner creek and for con He said that Palmer denied having struction of the necessary water the scuffle. line. Defendant Testifies. Palmer on the stand in his own ONE THIEF GETS «70; HOP FIEND SURPRISED AT WORK defense in response to questionings of his attorney detailed the events The home of Mrs. Lulu White on leading up to the fatal stabbing. Pahner declared that he did not south Sixth street was entered by a know Lammers intimately and that burglar Friday afternoon while no his first meeting with him was a one was at home. The loss of «70 in few days previous to the Oragedv currency and a watch was reported when Ij«fnmers accosted him on the to Marshal Pitcher. It was thought street and greeted him with ‘ ‘ Hello. that the thief was some local per Goof.” Palmer stated that he pro son. The office of B. R. Job was en tested against this but that there, tercd Sunday afternoon by a man had been no open quarrel. The next meeting of the bov« who was captured by Marshal was at the Buckhorn pool room the Pitcher and gave his name an night of January 10. Palmer de George Hayden. Mr. Job surprised dared that he entered the pool the man ransacking the office but room, purchased some candy and he got sway, being captured a few then was accosted again by Lam minute* later by the officer. It was mers who in a challenging tone thought that he was a hop fiend asked him to come into the alley iooking for dot* which he hoped to to fight. Palmer stated on tho find in a physician’s office. Noth ing was missing. (Concluded on page 8) JURY IS OUT ONLY FIVE HOURS JACK REEO IS TO MEET RALPH HAND HERE TUESDAY NUMBER 28 YEARS AGO BY MATTOX, MOONSHINER, MAKES TREE FALLS ONTO POWER LINE MRS. LOUISA M. THOMPSON WAS DESERTED WALTER A. WOODARD PLANS TO FATHER, MAN SEEKS PART OF ESTATE OF BROTHER | | Interfered With Briefly SENSATIONAL ESCAPE | Service and Is Two PIDNEEROF1872 ERECT SECOND MILL r ; ----------------------- * Men Narrowly Claiming to have beeu deserted Escape Injury. | by his father when but a small Other Prisoners Carry Him Out of ____ • Was Born on Plains While Parents child and to have known nothing of It Would Be Located on Flume Line Jail in Ash Can; Uses Legs of Present Mill and Have Ca Thornton Corners, March 18.— • Were Coming West; Husband the whereabouts of members of his i Pioneer Photographer. to Advantage. pacity of 20,000 to 40,000. family until recent years, Reuben j (Special.)—Electric, power service Hood Eayglsham, of Lyle, Wash., ■ in Cottage Grove. Springfield and Cottage Grove has probably lost Roseburg was interfered with for Mrs. Louisa M. Thompson, famil now seeks to be declared an heir of , Whether or not tho Cottage Grove one moonshiner for good through a few minutes Saturday afternoon iarly known as “Aunt Lou,” a resi his brother, Robert Eayglsham, low I country gets another good-sized saw I when a tree fell across the power the somewhat sensational escape of dent of Cottage Grove for 50 years, er Siuslaw resident, who met death mill in the immediate future de- William Mattox from the county ' line where it crosses the Premazzi died March 15 iu a Eugene hospital, in an accident near Swisshome No- i pcmls to a large exteut upon the place and Louis Premazzi and Mr. jail. The following account of the where she had been taken for an vember 28 last. He has instituted' lumber market, which is consider escape appeared in Bunday’s Eugene Davis, who were cutting piling, nar operation only a few days before. suit in the probate court. ably off at present, the price being The only heirs named in the or- | something like 25 per cent less than rowly escaped injury. Fortunately She had been in frail health for a Register: der appointing Mrs. Dora Fuson, of j for the men tho tree fell into an A new and clever method of es long time. The funeral was hold a year ago, while the cost of pro caping from jail was successfully other tree and gave the men an here Tuesday afternoon from the Cottage Grove, administratrix, were . duction, as compared with tho same tried Friday evening at 5:30 o’clock opportunity to escape. A portion of Christian church, E. R. Clevenger, Norman Eayglsham, of Salem, a | period, especially as regards labor, is by William Mattox, Cottage Grove the falling tree was broken off pastor of the Baptist church, offi brother; Tena Aiuidon, of Spartan, slightly greater. moonshiner, who was to have been when it struck the other tree. The ciating. Interment was iu the A. F. Mich., a sister, and Dora Fuson, of Walter A. Woodard has plans taken to the state prison Saturday lower portion fell against the power & A. M.-I. O. O. F. cemetery, where Cottage Grove, a sister. practically completed for a second Reuben Eayglsham alleges that he to serve a year. He secreted himself lines but slid off within a few’ the Rebekah lodge had charge of mill to be put into timber on the was burn at Holton, Mich., in 1872, Coast fork four miles from the in the large ash can that is kept in minutes. Had the whole tree fallen the services. , that his mother died in 1875 and with force onto the power wires the jail and two other prisoners Mrs. Thompson was born on tho city. It would bo located on the carried him in the can to the rear they probably would have been plains of Utah September 14, 1848, soon afterward his father left him flume which briugs the lumber from of the jail lot. When the prisoners wrecked. As it was the cities re while her parents wore emigrating with a friend, I. H. Barlow, at Hol the present W. A. Woodard mill, and Deputy Sheriff Van Svarverud, ceiving juice over the lines were to California from Missouri. She ton, saying ho would call for the located eight miles out, to the who was guarding them, returned to inconvenienced but a short time. was married in California November child soon, but according to the planer at Latham. Mr. Woodard had the jail, Mattox crawled out and 22, 1870, to Harry F. Thompson. complaint, he never called and later made plans to go ahead at once ran down the street. He has not Thoy came to Cottage Grove in the family moved to Deadwood, with the construction work but on NO NEEDLES IN KANSAS | been seen since. 1872 and Mr. Thompson, who died- Lane county, Oregon, without in account of the uncertain condition CITY AS GOOD AS THOSE ' Mattox’s escape was not discovered 29 years ago, was the town's pio forming Barlow. It was not until of the market he is not certain but until Saturday morning when Con I PURCHASED AT CALAPOOYA I neer photographer and one of its I many years afterward, it is alleged, that ho may wait until tho prico • - - ■? stable John L. Marsh went to the first storekeeper. They resided 12 j that the whereabouts of the older hikes an upward trend. The pres London, Ore., March 18.— (Special years at Latham before moving to i Eagy Isham were known to tho son. ent mill, which is one of the most jail to get his prisoner and take him to Salem, and the manner in which to The Sentinel.)—The Cottage ' what is now the west side of I Ln the meantime Barlow’ and family modern of its size in the state, is came west and settled at Lyle, cutting between 60,000 and 65,000, he escaped was not definitely Grove country has become famous Cottage Grove. Mrs, Thompson for many things, but a new one was had been a Rebekah for 54 years Wash., bringing Reugen Eagylshnm which may be enough for present learned until Saturday afternoon. When it was ascertained that sprung this week when C. II. Wood, and was a charter member of tho with them. conditions. Tho new mill would The plaintiff states in his com Mattox was not in jail, Sheriff merchant at Loudon, received an local lodge and was also one of the have a capacity between 20,000 and Stickels and his deputies searched order from Kansas City, Mo., for a first members of tho Christian plaint that he was never legally 40,000. high and low for a place where he package of needles. The woman church, of which she had been a adopted by Barlow and that lie is Work of electrifying the planer might have dug his way out and have who sent the order camped at Cala- member 30 years. She was aged 75 one of the rightful heirs to his mill at Latham, which has been brother ’ s estate which amounts to covered up the hole, but nothing pooya springs last year and said years, 6 months, 1 day. 1). P. Bur going on for a number of months, was found. The officers then came she had been unable to purchase in ton. former county assessor of Unc several thousand dollars. is nearing completion and this will Kansas City any needles as good as to the conclusion that Mattox, when county, was a brother. Surviving bo one of the most modern plants some of the prisoners were carrying those she had purchased at the Lon children are W. A. Thompson end of its kind and will be the only in wood for the night and when the don store. Mrs. Hattie Best. Portland, and W. olectrified mill operating in this ash can was being carried out. had F. Thompson, Salem. There are four section. Engraved work. The Sentinel. slipped out of the door and quietly grandchildren.___________ Ed Powell is putting in a small secreted himself in the living apart mill on tho Gilham place on Coast ments on the second floor, although fork and W. H. Daugherty is put Deputies Rodney Roach and Earl Commercial Club Committee Reports ting in a mill of 15,000 capacity on Humphrey wore standing directly in tho Tliuckrah place, also on Coast Highway to Be in Excellent front of tho entrance and declared fork. Mr. Daugherty has been inter Condition for Travel. that they saw no such movement. ested in a number of mills in this Deputy Van Svarverud, who ac section during the past few years. Mary is a wife who endeavors to companied the two prisoners, Harold keep posted on things political but instead of for the contractors. The Lorano-Cottag© Grove high-1 Smith and Phil Worden, with the who is not above discussing them Don’t you think they give their way, which was closed during the ash can to the rear of tho lot, said with her husband and being guided enemies an opportunity to ask em winter mouths by order of the that they merely set the can down by his advice. The following con barrassing questions about the rea county court to prevent its being or the ground. Sheriff Stickels said versation which took place one eve son for such favoritism!” cut up by truck traffic, was found “Yes, I suppose so, but their to be in excellent condition by a that the prisoners usually emptv ning a few evenings ago was their the can, but Deputy Svarverud said first on the Lane county recall enemies should not take advantage committee from the commercial club of one little instance like this.” he did not know that this was the movement. which made an inspection of the custom or he would have directed “Yes, some may have been a lit road Monday at the request of the District Attorney Will Tell of th© ‘‘John, have you been keeping Plundering and Illegal Ex Smith and Worden to overturn the posted on this recall business!” tie hard on them, but they have county commissioners. The members can and tho escape would have been done so many funny things where of the committee were C. E. Stew penditure of Funds. asked the wife. prevented. ‘‘I’ll say I have,” replied the contractors and money were con art, J. H. Chambers and C. A. Bar Blacksmiths in the shop across husband. corned that it seems to me that a tell. Clyde N. Johnston, district attor Park stieet from the rear of the They reported that they were able ‘‘Is it true that both Roney and school kid would know that cm jail lot told the sheriff Saturday ba Trussing questions would be asked, to travel on high the whole length ney, will address a publie meeting Sharp were elected u;>oii platforms afternoon that as soon as the deputy and the fact that they avoid keep of the new road, which wns opened in the armory here Friday night sheriff and the two prisoners hud which promisee* reduction iu taxes ing records which the law contem Saturday for light traffic. A part to tell the voters about th© plunder and greater efficiency in the con returned to the jail Mattox crawled plates gives their enemies tho op of this road is yet to receive a ing of public funds by Commission duct of the (Aunty’s business!” ers Roney and Sharp. ThiH is tho out of the can and ran as fast as he “Yes, of course, all candidates portunity to say that there must be finishing course of rock. Four soft home of Sharp and the recall battle could west on Park street. When things they don ’ t want to show in spots were renorted as in need of has raged hero with greater fury asked why they did not tell of tho for office promise that. Roney and tho records.” immediate repair. Sharp w;ere just like all others. If probably than anywhere else in the occurrence sooner they told the sher “ Well, most of these roads are Tho county commissioners had; iff, according to that official, that they expected to get elected they paid for with bond money and we asked the commercial club to make county. Exception has been tnken they presumed that Mattox was a had to promise to do things that don’t have to worry about paying a recommendation ns to how the hero to promotion of the recall move by the spread of scandal concerning prisoner whom ho wanted to get rid they didn’t. expect to do. ’ ’ for them right away.” road should be completed. After a ‘‘Don’t you think that they ought of and that he had taken that “If tho bond money were not spirited discussion the club refused the private life of Hharp. Mr. John to have tried to do the things they means of letting him go. spent it would be there to keep up to go on record on this point, but ston, in previous addresses, has re Mattox is not a small man and promised to do!” repairs on these roads, would it did recommend that tho road be ferred only to the public acts of “ They have tried but other folks the commissioners and his address the* sheriff and his deputies mar not!’’ completed at once and kept open. wouldn ’ t let them. ” here will bo confined to illegal and veled at the fact that he was able “Why, of course, certainly, but This road has caused considerable ‘‘What other folks!” to double himself up in such a why worry about that while there contention because of tho fact that extravagant expenditures of public “I don’t know just who but is bond money left to spend!’’ funds anil to inefficiency in office. small space. He is from Cottage many Lorane and Cottage Grove Grove, where he was arrested with everybody wants to get money from “ Well, John, you certainly are peoide allege that they have not Fanners’ Union Endorses. a moonshine still in his possession. the county and they just couldn’t getting liberal with money all of a gotten tho kind of a road which was He was sentenced to serve a year help spending it.” The county farmers’ union, at a sudden. I have heard you say a specified in the measure in which “ That may be true in a great on a charge of possessing a still thousand times that unless taxes the bond money was provided and meeting held Hnturday in Eugene, worm. His wifo was conversing many cases, but there are some were reduced you didn’t see how that tho court did not keep its endorsi’d W. W. Branstetter for cor- things that puzzle me. For example, with him through the jail window you were going to send daughter to promise made to a committee of 30 oncr, J. D. Mickle, incumbent, for only a few minutes before his es why did tho commissioners abrogate college next year. At the rate the from here and Lorane that they state dairy and food commissioner, that portion of the contract with cape and it is believed that she bond money is being spent, it seems would build the kind of a road the and Seymour Jonos, of Salem, for knew of his plans and was waiting the Warren Construction company to me it will be gone within a Cottage Grove and Lorano people public service commissioner. A num which provided that they should pay in a car in which he probably made ber of county candidates wero on- a penalty of $25 a day for failing year or two, then we will hear you asked for, which was a waterbound dorseti several weeks ago. his escape out of the state. howling about the 5 mill or 10-mill macadam. It is admitted by the to complete the Lorane-Cottage Smith, who is serving a four road tax that will be necessary to county commissioners that no roller months’ term on a charge of lar Grove highway at the time named keep up the roads and tho tax of has been used on the road, but the ceny of an automobile, and Worden, in the contract!” “I have never asked but I pre several mills that will be necessary commissioners claim that three resi who is serving a term for the sale within a year or two to commence dents of Cottage Grove and Lorane’ of liquor, will be deprived of their sume they thought tho contractors paying off the road bonds. I really instructed their engineer to disre j corridor liberty for some time as would lose money if that provision don’t sec how you can bo so liberal gard the promise to use the roller, j punishment for the part they took were enforced.” The three referred to have denied I “Do you presume the contractors some times and so stingy others.” in the escape, said the sheriff. *1 tell you, Mary, this recall that they gave any instructions J would have done anything for the county had it been found that the was started by tho timber people and that anything they could havej job could be done much cheaper because the county commissioners said could not have relieved the than the price agreed upon in the favor a timber cruise and we can’t court of a promise made to 30, that i —the doctor who answers a hurry the conversation referred to did not ! stand for this sort of business.” contract!” call with the greatest possible “How do you know that!” take place until after the road was “Certainly not, that wouldn’t be speod is more valuable than a “ Because that ’ s what Roney and put in its present condition, with I physician of equal skill who business. Business isn’t done that Sharp tell me.” the greater part of it completed, < drives up to tho pat iont’a door way. ’ ’ Inspirational Talks Made at Meet “How do they know!” and that they agreed with tho en nt his own convenience. Service “If it isn’t business for the con “They don’t really know, because gineer that rolling after ull the rock tractors to make it right with the ing Held for Promotion of counts. It is worth money. county when they happen to get n the timber people don’t get out had been laid would be n wawte of . Who is there who doesn’t agree County Y. M. C. A. money. juicy contract, why is it business in the open.’’ with this general principle! “Judge Barnard is for a timber for the county to be so solicitous A meeting of bnsiness men for about the profits of the contrac cruise also, isn’t he!” mid doesn’t it apply also to “Yes.” the purpose of promoting the county tors!’ ’ the buying of merchandise! “District Attorney Johnston is Y. M. C. A. movement was held “Oh, Lane county can afford to —the progressive merchant in Tuesday evening in the rest room, be generous once in awhile, can’t for a timber cruise also, isn’t he!” your own trading renter give« “Yes.” the business session being preceded it!” service along with the good«. “Assessor Keeney has taken up, by a 50-cent dinner served by the “Possibly you think so now but He has a selection of merchan members of the Mothers’ club. Sev during the campaigns when Roney the cudgels for the county commis Dyott Is President of New Organl dise continually in stock. You eral inspirational addresses were and Sharp were elected you were sioners, hasn’t he, and has gone into ration, Woodard Vice Presi don’t have to wait. When you made. No definite action was taken kicking about high taxes and ex the press to tell tho need of a dent, Ward Secretary. enter the store you nr© able but a committee will be appointed travagance in a manner to indicate cruise, hasn’t he!” to see the article itself in ' ‘ Yes. ’ ’ to attend a county mass meeting to that you meant it and voted for which you are interested* You “The timber owners haven’t said be held Wednesday night of next them on the grounds that they1 Tho newly organized Cottage Grove km * it with your eyes, and feel week in Eugene. would save your tax money. Now anything about recalling these men, Lions club was presented with its it with your fingers; note its Mr. Bocolopsky, Y. M. C. A. sec you are making excuses for them have they!” charter ut, a meeting held last night actual size, shape and color; “No, I guess not, although I' retary for Marion county, told of because they have spent it need at Hotel Osburn, Eugene. Melvin compare it with other goods at the work there end how young men lessly. The Warren Construciton had never thought of that.” Jones, international socretary, who I different prices, and, if it is “The recall candidates, if elected.' are being kept out of places which company spends more money an is on a tour of the coast, made tho what you want, take it away fail to inspire and in which they nually than Isne county doesn’t will go right ahead with a timber i presentation. A charter was present with you. cruise, won’t they!” absorb the things which lower their it!” ed 1«. the Eugene club nt the snin - “I presume so, although I had: “I presume so, but what lyis that morals. He also said a large num time. if you have questions to ask never thought of that.” ber of girls are being saved by the got to do with the ease!’* The Cottage Grove club has 25 you are given an explanation “Then you are willing to let th«* I appeal of the Y. M. C. A. work, “If they are a great big, wealthy members and the officers nr«1 ns ' on the spot. The answer given fully a third of those taking a corporation, why was it necessary to commissioners squander your road ■ follows: Guven C. Dyott, president; your first question may suggest ■land for Christianity being of the be so generous as to give them money under suspicious cireumstan j W. A. Woodard, vice president; another query. It is answered $7500 by relieving them of the peri res and you are cheerfully willing Worth Harvey, treasurer: A. N. gentler sex. within half a minute of the first Mr. Brady, editor of the Oregon altv thev would have paid on the to pay a heavy road tax, even I Ward, secretary; N. J. Nelson Jr., interrogation. No time is lost. Statesman, said that every boy has Lorane-Cottage Grove highway ex though it keeps our girl out of col- ! tail twister; Cecil E. Caldwell, lion You benefit from the dealer’s a right to be born free from the cept for the generosity of the lege, all because th© county com I tamer, a.i«1 H. L. Mackin, Hurry W. practical knowledge, from tho ravages of sin. that he has a right county commi winners! What will mimifoners (who want proof of ev-! Titus and T. G. Rudtell, directors. fart that he is on the ground verything said against them) havei to the firm guidance of parent* and this piece of highway cost!” Th«‘ selection of officers was made and ready at all times to see to “I understand that the eoat when tohl you that the timber interests| at a noon luncheon held Thursday nt ' a right to surroundings which will it personally that the article he permit his growing into healthy and completed will be over $17,000 the are after them, when you admit that I Hotel Bartell. has sold you gives satisfaction. the timber interests are not bother I mile. ’ * n oral manhood. “That is the nse-t pp^iwhe ing the other officials who want a 1 -the wise buyer will not forget Slight Prouts Do No Injury. Eugene Art Shop Opens Branch. piece of highway ever built by the cruise, and when you admit that that such matters have n dollars removal of the present com mission-1 There were slight frosts Humlav county, is it not! It seems to me Mrs. Caroline Brodie, of Eugene, and cents value and should enter and Monday nights. An buds had has opened a branch of the Eugene that the eon* rar tors were faring era would not stop the cruise!” into th«’ reckoning whenever a “A woman never ran understand | been somewhat backward, it is pretty well." It seems to me that the Art shop nt 300 Main street. price is being inn do.- From the thought there was no injury worth < Oregon Farmer. commissioners were hired to reduce politics. I’m going to bed.” (To be continued.) mentioning. Rubber stamp«. Th« Sentinel, tf taxes and to work' for the euuaty. LORANE ROAD IS SUBJECT OF MORE CONTROVERSY Mary Warns to Know JOHNSTON IU TALK ON RECALL HERE TOMORROW NIGHT APPEAL IS MADE FOR WELFARE OF YOUTH JF COUNTRY COTTAGE GROVE LIONS CLUB IS PRESENTED WITH CHARTER