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,x ¿ ŒotW (briwr ^rntuu'l VOLUME XXXIV COTTAGE GROVE, LANE COUNTY, OREGÔN THURSDAY, JULY 31, 1924 LAMMERS MILL IS DESTM SYiUNEXPLALNED FIRE Woods Fire Starts on Mosby Creek From Old Burning and Spreads Over 200 Acree. The Lammers mill, owned by W H. Daugherty, was destroyed by fire at 3 o’clock Friday morning and other property of this section was endangered by woods fires during the past week. The Iuimmers mill was being op erated under lease by M. E. Lee, who had just brought in a new donkey engine and had been oper- ating the plant but one day. There had been no slab fire for some time and there was no ex planation of the fire unless it caught from the fire under the boilers, which should have been entirely out at the time the flames staretd. The mill building, machinery and two carloads of lumber weic a complete loss and it was with difficulty that the new donkey engine w*as saved. A large pile of’logs was saved and the flames were kept from spreading to the limber. The mill wras partially covered by insurance. A fire started Wednesday in an old burning near the Garoutte mill on Mosby creek and spread over 200 acres before gotten un der control. The underbrush on about 50 acres of timber was burned but it was thought that the timber was not injured. Homes and barns in the vicinity were endangered and many residents joined in fighting the flames. Fire Warden Dan Brumbaugh was ... in charge and 15 to 20 men were in the fire fighting crew. A line fence on the Charles .Hall place was destroyed. The fire fighters were twice aid ed by a sudden turn in the wind which turned the flames back from dry grass and underbrush, leaving a line as straight as if the flames had run against a wall. It was thought that this fire started from a snag which had been smouldering for more _ than a year and that * burning embers were picked up by a miniature whirlwind. A blaze in the woods near Hebron caused some worry to residents of that section but has been gotten under control. Serious fires are being reported from all sections of the county, some of them being in the na tional forests, but District Ranger E. 8. Holderman has had none with which to contend. He has had but one this year and had none for three years before. He says that those who use the forests in this section are the best to be found anywhere for exercising care with camp fires and he if proud of the record which he hat* made through their care. SPANISH WAR VETS MEET IN PORTLAND AUGUST 10 Lane county members of old company C, second Oregon volun- ters, who were in the Philippines are receiving notices of the third annual reunion of the Second Ore gon U. 8. V. to be held in Portland August 10, which is the twenty-fifth anniversary of the mustering out of the regiment at the Presidio, San Francisco. Plans are being made for an all day picnic in Laurelhurst park, according to word received here by the local veterans. It is announced that the veterans and their families are to take their own lunch and the committee will furnish hot cof- fee, cream and sugar. Ice cream will be furnished for the kiddies. A number of local vetrans are planning to attend. a EMPLOYES OF O. P. A PICNIC ON SHARPS CREEK The first annual pienie of the employe» of the Oregon ~ Pacific 4 Eastern railway was held Sunday on Sharps creek. More than 100 attended, including employes, their families and invited friends. A spe cial tram was run to Red Bridge, near which to the picnic wan held. A feature of the athletic program was a horseshoe tournament, won by B. F. Johnson, " ‘ ‘ manager of ‘ the rail- way. TWO MORE MILLS ENTER RANKS OF PRODUCERS Indications that the lumber busi nets is soon to be on a more even keel is found in the resumption of activity at several mills. The Anlauf Lumber company has resumed, after being down for more than a month. Wiese Brothers plan to resume within a few days and have installed a new planer and made other improvements. I MEMBERS OF SAME PARTY -I BOOST FOB DAVIS AND BRYAN AND CRYPTIC CAL It was a very much mixed party of boosters politically that passed through here a few days ago. Two members of the party. Governor Pierce and State Treasurer Myers, told of the calamity that would befall the country should Davia and Bryan fail to make the grade, while Secretary of State Ram A. Korcr, another member of the party, en deavored to ealm them and assured all listeners that there was no eauar for worry, that Cryptic Col wa» going to have things all his owa way. The three were or their way to Roseburg on official business. ^JJAY^ SHERIFF TAYLOR | Long Hidden Treasures Being Found in Abandoned Properties of Famed Bohemia A Pettine parties on highways in and near Eugene are going to Btop, declares Sheriff Frank E. Taylor. , Those who frequent roadways at ! late hours of the night, drinking whisky, carousing and entertaining women, are going to feel the hard hand of the law, opines that of ficial. A start was made when two men were fiued »100 each in Justice Jesse G. Wells’ court for posses sion of liquor. They were arrested near Eugene Saturday night in company with a single girl nnd another map ’» wife. The latter had taken her husband’s automobile un<l was using it for the “party.” Neither of the women was ar rested. The men gave their names as Henry Welch and Lee Ellis, ad mittedly fictitious. Both paid their fines. . Many complaints have come in, reports the sheriff, about the prac tice engaged in by many persons of “ganging up” on the roadsides, drinking booze and indulging in other pleasures prohibited by law. As many as 15 or 20 cars have con gregated in one spot for a “stew party,” it is said. People who live on these roads are tiring of it. Plainclothes men have been sworn «in and are making the rounds nightly now, says Sheriff Taylor, for the purpose of breaking up these illicit gatherings and providing peace and quiet for residents the country. NUMBER 4' 1 » 1 T'V • /• ■ i < -W-X « • Two of Oldest Workings of District Are Again Producing Free Milling Quartz of High Values and Activity in Gold Mining District Is Greatest It Has Known for Many Years AMERICAN LEGION IS AFTER MEMBERSHIP TROPHY Ivan Warner has been appointed chairman for this section of the county for the state-wide American Legion membership drivo which begins August 1 and continues for ten days. The American Legion in Oregon now holds fourth place for increase in percentage of membership during the year and an effort is being made to win the silver loving cup which will be awarded to tho state making the largest percentage of gain for the year. The result of the national drive will be announced at the national convention to be held this fall in Minneapolis. Two teams have been appointed for the local drive, the winners to be entertained by the losers. luine county, with two-thirds of its ex-service men members of the legion, has the largest percentage Once upon a time, many, many, of members of any county in the many years ago—before Bryan ever state. thought of running for president; far beyond the memory of the old eat inhabitant; possibly even before the ancient legendary Cottage Grove was the bustling metropolis of the Garden of Eden and the flippant flapper plucked her one piece eve ning gown from the fig tree which The drill at the oil well has run flourished on the western slope of Mount David; possibly before Adam into a structure containing consid erable gas. When the bailer is crunched the famous Spitzenburg, brought to the suifacc the water is there was a great upheaval of na boiling furiously but there is no sign ture some distance to the east of of heat. When allowed to stand for Cottage Grove. Great geysers of molten a few minutes the gas escapes and the water in the bailer drops sev scintillated in the sunlight; eral inches. David Olson, president earth trembled as though some en of the company conducting the op tombed monster struggled to burst erations. was greatly elated when his prison walls, Great masses of the gas showings developed and seething earth and rock were said that oil never fails following pushed out of the sido of the the striking of this kind of forma- earth. Centuries rolled onward. The tion. earth cooled and vegetation camo to cover the scars of nature. Yet BURGLAR CLAIMS HE WAS hundreds of centuries were nd- HUNTING PLACE TO SLEEP ded to hundreds of centuries bo fore man dreamed that in tile A man giving his name as Jack great upheaval a great treasure of coincident with the opening of trio Gordon was apprehended by Night gold, silver and other metals had Annie. Much quartz that ran al- Marshal McFarland Saturday night been forced to the surface of the most pure gold was taken froin it just as he was entering the Tourist earth and that the mountain peaks, and even with tho crude methods cafe through a side window’ from since named Bohemia, Fairview, of milling then in use a fortume ______ which he had removed the screen. Grouse and Grizzly had been set as wd» said to have been taken from He waived examination in Justice guardians of tho treasure. While the only shaft ever sunk on it. Young’s court Monday morning and in the past 60 years man has suc The Evening Star Mines conijMiny, was bound over to the grand jury ceeded in filching much of this, ho owned by F. J. Bartels, J. H. Bar with bail fixed at >1000, which he can only conjecture what secret tel» and others, now owners of the was qliable to furnish. hoards they yet zealously guard. Knott property, have resumed the When arrested Gordon said he That much in hidden wealth is operations which were discontinued was merely trying to find a place yet to be revealed is indicated by in the early 70s. The shaft fills to sleep. W’hen he appeared in the fact that two of the richest de rapidly with water and pumping is court, however, he did not urge such posits now being worked have been necessary in order that work may a claim. He admitted having taken unearthed in miners where opera- proceed. Th<* ore is sent down the from an automobile in Eugene a tion» were discontinued years ago mountain side by aaerial tram sweater found in his possession because it was thought _ the end of way to the stamp mill at the Eve which later proved to be the prop the pay streak had boon reached. ning Star. It is free milling and erty of Francis (Buster) Brown, of The Annie mine was one of the several bricks have come out ns a Eugene. first worked way back in the early result of this operation. Many more 60s. It was named after Annie will come as soon as there is water Oglesby, daughter of tho late W. W. with which to operate the stamp OVER »4000 IS SUBSCRIBED IN ADDED CANNERY STOCK Oglesby, pioneer of Cottage Grove mill. of 1853, pioneer physicinn of east J. R. Smith, an old time prosper ern Oregon, captain of volunteers tor in the district, has just reported Sufficient additional cannery the Battle of Willow Springs, the opening of a body of free mill stock has been sold through the at for many years prominent in the efforts of a commercial club com affairs of Lane county and claim ing quartz on the Shane »addle. mittee to insure the purchase of ant to the discovery of th'e Bohem He has not vet been able to de necessary additional machinery and ia district. The daughter is now terminc its extent but it seem» to be in the nature of a rich strike the operation of the plant at onee. Mrs. J. P. Graham, of this city. A year ago G. H. Warneex A total of M,000 has been sub Much rich ore was taken from service man, urrived in the Bohemia scribed to date and an effort will this property, which was one of district in the hope of regaining be made to boost the amount to les >5,000. Almoat the entire amount the largest producers in the dis his health. H< listened to the trirt, before work was abandoned. on Sailor’s of an old placer mine 1 has been taken by businena men of Within the past few months the old * abandoned but gulch, long before the city. ledge has been rediscovered on the reputed to ka' e provided a fortune 300 foot level and some >70,000 in for its owner. More to fill in time Hamline Alumni Meet free-milling quartz has been un than for anv other rec reason, bn covered in a vein two feet wide. searched for <hc old diggings, found Several Oregon and Californie alumni of Hamline university, St. A two-stamp mill is in operation them, wondered whether it might Paul, Minn., held a reunion Sun and a large percentage of the gold not pay to reopen them, irured the day afternoon on the Methodist content is bein'»’ caught on the services of ar engineer and was ad ramp ¿founds. Some of them were plates. This ledge has been opened vised that a resumption of of ra attending the eamp meeting which for 60 feet on the surface and can tion» probahi would be profitable wan eoncladed that day and others be reached from the old working- He is nov* erecting tho machim 'Fl came upon invitations issued by bv a croaseut of 60 to 75 feet, with which to resume work. 8. L Maekin, of thin city. Those showing how near a treasure may As ♦ he ntorv goes, the diggings aileading were the G. S. Beards lie to many other abandoned work were discovers/ as much as half a ingw in the district. ley and O. A. Hoaglun families. bv an old sailor who century Eugene; Vernon McCombs, Berke The owners of this property (for was said to h ive washed out some ley. Calif.; Dr. N. B Hickman, manr rears krvwn as the Noonday) >75.000 b**forc he came to a dip Salem; the Ed Smith family. Hants are John CoKman, A. W HrRi which con vine cd him that ho had Clara; Mr. and Mm. H. E. Nick well and E. C. T»rkwood, al’ of reached the on d of the hardpan up- erson, Portland; Minn Ardyn Lewin thia city. They have five claims. on which the gold lim for placer and the R. L. Markin family, of all being operated under tho name operations d that when he of the Annie mines. thia eity. reached this • dip he left for civiliza- The old Knott mine was ah»n tion with 1 his stake and dropped Hay It with printers' ink. operated hi the early 70». practically from sight. This was so long ago *--------------------------------------------------- > I B. F. JOHNSON P L AY S | HORSESHOES USING HEAD | OF SNAKE FOR THE PEG <$>----------------------- --------------------------- 4k B. F. Johnson’s dexority as an exponent of that great national game, barnyard golf, stood him well in baud a few days ago in an cu counter with a rat tiesnake. Mr. Johnson, 8. M. Anderson and Hal Anderson, all connected w’ith the ownership and management of the Oregon Pacific & Eastern rail Middleton way ami Anderson & Lumber company, were making a trip over tho railway with their families in the “galloping goose,’’ one of the company’s motor cars, when a rattler crawled from be tween the rails ami took refuge in a pile of rocks. The party stopped and gave battle. When other mem bers failed to hit the reptile after firing several shots with revolvers, Mr. Johnson picked up a rock, and imagining it was a horseshoe and tho snake’s head the stake, he made a ringer—that is, it would have been a ringer had the rock been a horseshoe. The snake's head < was smashed to a pulp. It was thought several years ago that the rattlers had been cleaned out of this section, but the dry weather this year has brought a number out of the hills. A consignment of 25,000 yearling trout were place in tho tributaries of Row river Sunday. They ranged from 5 to 10 inches in length and were brought here from the McKen zie hatchery. Fingerlings to the number of 120,000 were distributed a week before to the streams of this locality and another like num bur is yet to come. The Cottage Grove Rod and Gun dub secured the fish and had charge of their distribution. The club Ims been promised some bass, crappies and catfish to be placed in the dead waters of the Coast fork and also a number of pairs of Hungarian pheasants to be put on a reserve. 1ERSEYBREEDEUSWANIC0UNIY By n nearly umimious vpte, Jer sey breeders of Ijino county, assem bled Wednesday of last week on the H. L. Plank ranch north of Eu gene at their annual picnic, voted to petition tho county court to pro vide tin agricultural agent “for Lane county. The motion was nmdo by Howard C. Dunn, secretary of the Lane County Jersey Breeders' asso- euition, after a talk by C. ~ D. Ror- er, president of the Eugene Bunk of declared Commerce. The banker that Lane county is badly in need of un agricultural agent. NEARLY THOUSAND VETS RECEIVE OREGON BONUS TILWMOOK ON THE RIND IS Tl BE PUT ON THE MAP Hoome of Cheese Has Splendid Ex ample of Benefits of Coopera tion by Producers. Tillamook on the Rind is to be put on the map. That was set tled when it entertained the edi tors of the state Friday and Sat urday. This was the first experi ment of the city in entertaining a stalo convention but it citzens put it over like veterans. Every wish of the quill drivers was attended to by a live wire Ki wan is committee and but few' things were left for the editors to wish for. They were stuffed with Tilllamook cheese, and enjoyed the stuffing after seeing tho way it was made. The editors were shown some of the greatest scenery on earth, the finest forests to be found any where, the finest sawmill on the coast, tho most contented cows in the world and the greatest ocean in captivity. The hosts made those statements and the editors were too full of cheeso to argue, _ even had there been any reason to do so. Tho editor of The Sentinel has in mind a figure running well into the millions ns the value of the annual cheese crop, but he isn’t certain whether the figure is the one actually given him or one he dreamed after spending a day be ing stuffed with Tillamook’s famous product. Tillamook has perhaps tho best example to be found anywhere on t he const of the value of coopera- tive production and marketing, All the cheese factories—-they call ’em creameries—24 of ’em—are in one cooperative organization. The creamery building and equipment must be those required by the head organization, although each factory or creamery has its own officers and management. An inspector for the head organization specifies what kind of milk may be received and just how the cheese must bo made. Tho result is a uniform article sob! under the Tillamook brand. Tho marketing of the uniform ar ticle is entirely in the hands of tho officers of tho head organization and there is never any lack of a market. The article has boon ex tensively advertised to produce this market. The uniform quality of the article—maintained through coopera tive production—holds a market when once obtained. Features of the entertainment of the editors were the annual banquet Friday night, luncheon Saturday at the boarding house of tho Whitney Lumber company at Garibaldi and a bonfire party and cafeteria dinner on Oregon products—including co pions quantities of Tillamook cheese —Saturday evening at Oceanside, one of Tillamook ’» several beach resorts. The bonfire party was entirely a social affair and several prominent story tellers of the state kept the visitors in excellent good humor. “How’s the party going, follow»?“ President Hal Hoss would ask. “Fine, that’s the stuff, now let’s have another by Kelly or Charley Rowland. ’' The Tillnmookers uro a live bunch. Yes, and for fear tho ed- itors might get hungry on tho way home, each was provided with a cheese. Nine huadred and twelve ex-ser vice men in Lane county took ad vantage of the Oregon state bonus, and <510 of these are members of the American Legion, according to figures George E, compiled by Love, commander of the Eugene post of the i Legion, Legion. Mr. Ixive has charge of the state wide member ship drive in this county and ob- ♦nined tho figures for use in the mine, showing tunnel house nt ex drive. tiemo left. Below Mill nt the Eve Representatives from the fivo | FEATHERED CHICKENS i.ing Star mine. Photos by Edwards. legion posts in the county, at Cot- | TRYING TO KEEP PACE WITH STEED OF FLAPPER8 tage Grove, Creswell, Bpringfield« Eugene, met ♦----------- —— ------------------------------ < that even hi» name hns b<»en for Junction City and with Mr. Ixjve Friday evening to gotten, but the name, ♦ ‘Sailor's That chicken» in this famous, fer gulch,” still sticks. complete plans for the drive, which tile, fruitful and favored section Warner has already learned that starts August 1. of the Willamette ere not in tho tho old sailor was mistaken when least nonplussed by the flapper ago ho thought he had reached the end HAND DEFEATS REYNOLDS ir. which they live, has been proved of the hardpan and that a» a mat IN MATCH AT REEDSPORT by the 4% month-old pullet» of ter of fact it took a dip of only M tm . E. Tompkins, which have threo feet and there is no telling Ralph Hand, Cottage Grove mid started laying. The chickens were for how great a distance it may yet dleweight wrestler, defeated Jack hatched March 10, started laying extend or what quantity of gold Reynolds, of Portland, in a match July 24 and have continqed laying may be found nostlud on it. He Saturday night at Reedsport. After regularly since. has already washed out n the match had gone 50 minutes, of small nuggets from Hand grabbed his opponent for a For 35 cants a little wantad will workings. merry go round, which is just what sometimos do tho work of a »5 a day Practically resident the name indicates, then slapped auctioneer. jne22p of Cottage interested him to the mat and tied him in one or i in the tight in a hammer lock Reynolds Bohemia district and their faith was unable to come buck. This that it is one of the greatest min war the first time Hand had ever ing districts of the west is just as tried a merry-go round on an op- strong as when millions were be ponent, but more and more ho is ing taken from the free-milling getting awny from tho toehold quartz at the Champion, Musick, with which he has won i so many Vesuvius, Helena, Noonday and mutches. He gets ’em to guarding others large producers. How much against tho toehold and then grabs has actually been taken from the ’em with something else. district will never bo known. In terior department depart meat report» reports have ac Eastern Oregon Dry. counted for >4,000,000 but much Eastern Oregon is very dry, ne- of that produced reached market through other channels nr the fact cording to Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Rin- that it came from the Bohemia dis a rd, who have recently returned trict was kept secret by the pro from a visit with a son and daugh ducers themselves, who have been ter at Baker. Mr. Rinard said that secretive about operations, prob where irrigation is possible the ably because they do not wish to crops can’t be beat but elsewhere crops are not of much consequence. develop a boom camp. Regardless of whether or not they Business, however, seemed to be are operators in tho district, prac pretty good regardless of the dry tically every resident of Cottage weather. Tie- mining industry in Grove is optimistic about the dis that, section is also gaining Load trict. Why millions are not being way slowly. taken out now Bad Check Man Bound Over. in the O. L. Pohl I, arrested last week on The a charge of passing bad checks, ha» been been bound over to the grand jury thnt t ore, with bail fixed nt >1000. One Annie year cheek for >6 was paMod here at claims. lends n on the, Eagle Cigar store. Pohl I had operated in Eugene for nearly a month. Earl Hill served as one of the wit nemos at the trial held Wednesday of lust week in Eugene. 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