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VOLUME XXXV COTTAGE GROVE, LANE COUNTY, OREGON THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1924 I way. Tho engine nnd tender jack- knived in such a way as to leave ‘ spaco in which they were saved I from being crushed to death. Th«* | Iramework of the engine prevented Interesting Events in the Lives I timbers from fulliug outo them aud of Those Who Laid Sturdy Foun ' but for the blinding steam from the Standard Oil Company Tanker Is Although Family Are at Home, Ford Crashes Into Wall and Window Incidentally, Arrest of Man Wanted dation for the Present Generation I burst steam pipe they might have of Confectionery When Destroyed by Flames But Nothing Is Saved; Loss Is ‘escaped almost unscathed. Motter for Alleged Misuse of the fell under tho engine, Braud re- Following is a continuation of Estimated at $30,000. Driver Steps on Gas. Driver Escapes Injury. Mails Follows. mained in the engine cab. The tho reprint of biographical sketches death-dealing steam prevented from Cottage Grove Leader of Men Are Cawght Under Debris them from seeing tho openings Tho Standard Oil company’s January 7, 1899: Tho E. W. Eyanxon home and Tho west plate glass window of The act of running away from large barn at Lorane were com Howe’s candy factory was wrecked [ an officer when the officer was through which they might have es large delivery truck was completely “Uncle Bume” Veatch. and Blinded and Cooked pletely and Mr. Howe, who destroyed by fire at Anlauf Mon destroyed by fire Thursday was washing „ caped. i not looking for him resulted in a Harvey Clayburne Veatch. one of The home was one of the | the sidewalk in front of the build- I fine for speeding and revocation of L. W. Peters, who arrived at the day afternoon when a freak bolt the few li\ ing early pioneers of last, By Rushing’ Steam lumber docks of the Peters & Mos of lightuing set fire to the gasoline i his vicinity, was born Nov. 10, finest in this section of the state I mg. sustained injuries to Ills left i h s ojM rator’s license for Ralph Incidentally, Ralph 8. and Hot Water. by lumber company a few hundred that was being transferred to ih • 1828. in White county. 111., moving and the same was true of the barn, >;do and left leg and foot Monday j Milne. feet away just in time to see the tank at the service station at the tq Iowa in 1845. Early in the into which the winter's feed hud forenoon when a Ford sedan driven , Tower, wanted for investigation in I :->p s ructuii of ,he bridge falling Anlauf camp ground. spring of ’53, having „ _ joined the been placed. The garage and gran by Ole Cushman, an employe at 1 connection with alleged misuse of The lightuing passed over tho emigrant outfit known as the Ogles ary were saved. the city rock quarry, failed to the mails, was placed under arrest into the river, but who were at make the turn at the Eighth and j and Deputy Sheriff Frank McFar- head of Clyde Leonard, driver, who Although the family 1 hear the crash, hurried to by and Knox train, he started for He Oregon. This company, captained home, tho flames, , which had en Mam streets intersection, climbed i land sustained a fractured jawbone was making the tiunsfer. ! city with Stroud and on thought his head had been sot afire by William Oglesby, reached the veluped :i large part oi if the house onto the sidewalk and crashed iuto ! m an automobile crush that 3truud Escapes Fatal lujuries by [ way notified members of a crew to go to tho scone of the ac and was endeavoring to extinguish Williamette valley September 8 when discovered, spread 11 with such the window’. Mr. Howe was struck followed. Climbing Through Window But Deputy Sheriff Van Svavcrud and cident. Although they were but what he thought were flames in of that year without any incident rapidity that only a trunk and tool and thrown several yards and his Is In Serious Condition. injuries are such that he is obliged Constable John Marsh, of Eugene, a short distance away the road i*is hair when he observed that the of note ami wintered at what is chest, were saved. The loss was estimated at $30,000, to uso crutches. gasoline being funncled into the now Sodaville, in Linu county. In in coinpany with McFarland und men had not heard the crash. tank and the gasoline running from the following February, coining to only partially covered by insuram.e. Mr. Cushman said that he stepped Postmaster Elbert Smith, of this Engineer S. R. Brand and Brake- Steam Pi events Rescue. the spigots of the tank wagon wire The barn and contents alon •* were on the foot feed when he intend<* l city, hud been to Black Butte Fri this locality, he located his home li'iin Elmer Motter sustained fatal Dave Haskins, who chanced to be .scalds and Fireman V. S. (Buster) near when rhe accident happened, aflame. There was no way of ex- stead and lived there until 1895, valued at $20,000. A set of books, to step on the brake. He agreed day on business in connection said to have been valued at $1000, tinguishing them and tank to make good all damage. wapon, with tho alleged misuse of the when, after selling the greater por Stroud sustained scalds that caniv was the first to respond to the had just been unpacked in the Mr. llowe had stooped over to mails. While tho party was re- near | proving fatal in a disastrous cries for help from the two men' service pump and service tank were tion of his property, he moved to house. burned almost beyond repair. shut off the water which he had turning, a cur wns overtaken which nnd has since resided in this city. wreck on the Oregon Pacific & Conductor The blaze was a spectacular one. Tho fire was thought to hav* been using, the faucet being at the was being driven by Milne and in On Christinas eve, 1845. he mar Eastern railway Thursday after- under the wreckage. Nelson Durham, who rushed forward Eighth street corner of the building. which Eddie Valentine nnd Ralph noon, when tho engine _ _ from the rear end of the train as with the flames shooting high into ried Margaret Jane, eldest daughter started from a defective flue. of the log- The Eyansons cimie here seven Ho chanced to glance to the rear Tower were passengers. Tho car of S. B. Knox. The following year ffing train went through (he Walden the sudden stop told him something the air. years A store building was saved by the southern Oregon Indians became ago from Seattle. They are just in time to see the car about and Milne and Valentine figured bridge, completely wrecking the 90- was wrong, w’as next. He was ae living driving the truck away from in temporarily on another ranch to rain him. In the instant ’ s time in a recent alleged infraction of hostile and after the first scar» toot span and pulling three loaded companied by John Skilling and Two hundred fifty among tho early settlers in this which they own near the one upon that he had ho hurled himself part the liquor laws, the two mon being logging ears with it into Mosby D.’na McCargar, passengers. Mem front of it. gallons cf gasoline and 90 gallons which the homo was destroyed. way around the corner of the builu now out on bail, nnd as the car community had subsided to some Crock. The train was traveling bers of the road erew, who had ing and this act alone saved him was passed Rvavorud asked Me extent, he inlisted under Captain towards tho city and the engine, been notified by' Peters, arrived of kerosene were burned. from instant death, The car st rad Farland whether he thought it Mr. Leonard was not injured, A Buoy to assist in subduing ___ „ the YOUTH ESCAPES MANN ACT which was at the head of the train within a few minutes. from Rogue Bi ver and Cow Creek red new’ truck has arrived CHARGE BECAUSE OF AGE died tho outer brick wall of the would be worth while to search the but backing, had passed almost over The steam was blowing through building nnd would have crushed car fur liquor. McFarland replied tho bridge when the accident hap the wreckage with such force that Portland to take the place of the skins. A few months later, under Marguerite Olson 18, and I a * Roy Mr. Howe* against the wall, The in tho negative, saying that if they pened. This was the last bridge to none could make their way through ono destroyed, which was valued the command of Major Martin, he at about $8,000. Mullen, 17, wore taken into custody fact that the car straddled the wall had had any they had gotten rid of fought in tho decisive battle be crossed in reaching the city. it to rescue those being cooked by Monday night nt the Woodson auto k’ pt it from ramming its way into it by that time. The car contain Cow’ Creek Canyon, where the I The work of clearing away the it. Conductor Durham made four ing the officers continued on its camp north of the city by Night the store and wrecking it. nns wero put to rout. His t debris of the wrecked bridge, en- attempts before he could get in way but the other ear immediately Officer Frank McFarland, who took pany was lucky in that it gine and logging cars started th“ far enough to shut off the oil turned around and sped in tho not one man, though several were them to the county jail in Eugene BENSTON SEEKS DAMAGES day following the accident and the feed and keep the wreckage from opposite direction. This act arousing Tuesday. wounded. OF THOSE WHO SUED HIM construction of a bridge to replace catching afire. The steam pipe the suspicion nf the officers, they Tho girl gave her homo address In 1880 Mr. Veatch was elected the one destroyed is nearly com had burst and there was no way county commissioner on the demo as Vancouver, B. C., but said sho plot ed. F. T. Houston, merchant nt Sagi gave chase. The officers were in of stopping the deadly work of Operations ut the Anderson & tho steam and hot water which Hugh Proudfit, employed at the cratic ticket and served two years. had been visiting relatives near naw’, has filed suit in circuit court a Ford and the other men in a Middleton mill were brought to a blew with such force ns to tear a Anderson & Middleton logging camp He is an elder in thn Cumberland Yreka, Calif., Mullin said that he against the Credit Service company large car and tho latter probably have escaped except standstill because tho wrecking or hole in the dirt bank of the river. at Star, sustained severe injuries Presbyterian church and a member had no homo but had become ac mid, G. W. Ingram to recover $1313 would for the fact that there is no south the bridge shut off its source of It wras probably 10 minutes before in an accident at the camp Friday of the order of A. F. & A. AT. quainted with the Olson girl while ns damages and value of certain log supply. It will again be in the actual work of rescue could be forenoon. A 40-foot timber on a With tho exception of one son hi- working near Yreka. The couple goods attached and which, it is al exit from the Coast fork valley. family of seven children arc nil at first claimed they Mr ere brother leged, have not been returned. Ben- The officers continued the chase, operation within a few* days. ' The accomplished. When Brand and ground swing up-ended when the and sister. They had hiked from ston says in his complaint that on knowing that the other ear would first train over the new bridge Motter were finally pulled from front end snagged in a hole. living. California, picking up rides along August 23, 1923, the service com be caught in the pocket, and were was run yesterday. The rear end swung over the heads under tho wreckage, it was found able to keep it in sight with its There has been no satisfactory that a stream of cold water had of Glen Gillespie and 1 Stan- (Cottage Grove Leader, Jun. 7.1899.) tho way. The couple were turned pany began suit against him for occupants cheering and waving at loose when county officials received $599.18. lie says the attachment James M. Chapen. explanation of the accident. A also been pouring over them and ley Damewood, barely missing Janies M. Chapen was born in money from a sister of. tho girl nt was wrongful and without cause the officers. The road and chase coroner’s inquest was held Satur this probably saved them from im- them and striking j Proudfit ended at Black Butte, after some day but the jury failed to fix tho mediate death. on the head. He was knocked New York state August 8, 1822, Vancouver for the girl’s fare home. nnd by reason thereof he is dam six miles had been covered. No The boy’s youth saved him from aged in the sum of $193.85. Besides, blame. The members of the jury down with such force as to 1 cause moved to Ohio while a small boy, Considerable fuel oil .escaped into were C. V. Simon, Kelly Bran the bed of the river and it is eer a fracture of one hip and a fracture then to Missouri and from there being charged with a violation of he alleges,.he was compelled to pay liquor was found in the car. The officers had expected to fin<l an attorney $15o as fees. The goods, stetter, .Tack Eddy, G. E. Wood. tain that the fire under the boilers at the base of tho spinal column. to Iowa, where he lived until 1847, the Mann act. valued at $969.27, have never been Towe? here, but upon finding him C. IL Howard and B. F. Mulkey, must have been extinguished in Damewood would have been struck coming through what was t hen in Jhe car, they took him to WEST SIDE HIGHWAY IS returned, it is stated, lie seeks a all of Eugene. the crash of the engine or th«? had ho not seen the log coming thought to bo the Blue Bucket TO BE OPENED AT ONCE judgment in the sum of $1313, with tho Black Butte postoffice for and dropped to the ground. Gil route via Jacksonville, where they No Defective Timbers Found, escaping fuel oil would have caught questioning, with the result that he interest from August 23, 1923. As the debris was cleared away fir? and made a funeral pyre of lespie was standing in a slight de were troubled by Indians killing was placed under arrest. Upon The west side highway between pression, which saved him. some of the cattle. He _.. rr_2_ 2_. stopped for no defects were found in the tini- tho wreckage. their return hero they also took Corvallis and J Albany which has TENNIS TRIO FROM EUGENE a short time near this place but Proudfit, who is aged 23, is at Pat Brown into custody, tho two bers sufficient to explain the giv Durham’s Narrow Escape. a Eugene hospital, where he has in 1848 went to the mines in been closed all I summer, will be CARRIES OFF THE HONORS being parties to the same alleged ing away of the structure. Manv n few' days. This opened within been placed in a plaster cast. His California, where he remained one Conductor Durham frequently misuse of the mails. of those who visited the scene of will give a paved road the entire A tennis trio from Eugene On account of Milne being under the wreck after the timbers had rode the front end of the train but injuries are serious and he probably year. In ’49 he sailed from San distance to Portland. During the will be several months -in recov Francisco for Portland in the cele formed victoriously on the V’ at the time of the accident wa« in arrest for spelling. Deputy Sheriff been pulled from th’e river i- construction of this piece of road brated Hackstaff schooner and with ering. court Sunday afternoon with McFarland wns placed in tho Milin* f on nd timbers lying on the bank the caboose at the other end with it was shipwrecked off the mouth all traffic has had to use the racquet fans. In the trio ear. At almost the completion of that had rotted, but these were his passengers, being the only mem east side highway, with the in- I>ona 1<1 Young, J. I. Fischer of Rogue river. From there, most ber of the train crew not in the tho return trip, when tho Milne timbers that hail been used in the Trout Planting Season Nears End. convenience of a ferry at Hnrris- Mr. Baird. Those pitted ng car slowed down alongside th«» construction of tho concrete piers engine cab. The trout-planting season for the of the way on foot, ho piloted some bu rg. With all traffic using of the survivors to this valley. A few moments before the acci- Willamette hatchery near Oakridge then, were Dale Wyatt, R. S. T pavement to pick up a passenger by which the bridge was supported From the hardships incidental to tho ferry, there have been long Dwight Weir, “Pop’I Grannis it was struck from the rear by ami the timbers hail been left to dent he had been fn the cupola of ended Saturday when the last, of «luring tin* busy part of delays f such an adventure he made up his Elbert Bede. Young nnd Fii another car. McFarland sustained rot away because there w’as no the caboose and it was only be- tho fingerlings were released in the day. With a large part of the a fracture of one jaw. The other reason for removing them. They ca use of the fact that h* had streams around Oakridge. Between mind to settle on terra firnin and 1 raffic now using the west side defenter Bede and Warren I): selected the site of his present car, a Ford driven by a California i rty in a five set series at Eu 1-ad no part, however, in supporting sjone below to recover a cigar which three and four million fish were highway, there will not be so much tourist, was badly damaged. fche bridge. The bridge had under he ha<l been smoking and which hatched. This is a big increase home where he built th§ first house inconvenience in the use of the 01 Labor day, the number of g ever erected in this part of the had fallen from wii by each side being equal, the holder that over 1923, when the hatch was Milne and Valentine were not gone a thorough inspection only ferry for those who wish to go local •non Willamette valley, near the little • wanted for anything and would not he w ’ as not there at the moment three days before ami had been 1,772,000. A few’ more releases are town of Latham. His home was that way. within i a of the accident. . His chances for have been bothered by the officers pronounced good for several years. to be made from the McKenzie for a time like aa oasis on a desert match. except for their attempt to escape, By the irony of fate, the inspection injury there would have been much hatchery. County Tair Opens Monday. to those early travelers over the but a complaint for speeding away He was thrown to the was made by Fred Motter, father greater. Coast Fork route to and from The annual Lane county fair ----------------------------------------------- from an officer was placed against of one of the men whose injuries floor of the caboose when the crash THIEf IS CAUGHT WHILE California. Mr. Chapen has no opens next. Monday and continues Milne. T Ih* paid a fine of $25 and came. | AIR AND WATER SERVICE | proved fatal. SEARCHING SAGINAW HOME gave family other than an only widowed to Thursday. Indications are that up his operator’s license for The injured men were rushed to AT THREE PLACES ARE The most plausible explanation sister, Mrs. there will be a fine army of farm Louisa Burton-Oliver, 30 days. that has been made of the accident the city to the office of Dr. Dyott, | WRECKED WITHIN WEEK | the mother of Saginaw, Ore., Hept. 8 (Rpecial)- products on display and the man Assessor I). P. Bur 4 ----------------------------------------------- < Tower and Brown furnished bn il is that one of the loaded cars where other physicians of the city ton and Mrs. Thompson of this ageinent has arranged an amuse The Harry Cotter home was en nnd were released Friday. They will jumped th«* rails and that tho logs gathered to give aid. Quantities Seldom do three accidents so cify. tered Sunday by a burglar. 4who be given a preliminary hearing be ment program that is expected to of opiate were necessary to relieve camo in contact with the timbers similar in character oecur in one was caught at work by Ben Cotter, fore draw a large attendance. United States Commissioner E. of the bridge, causing tho structure tho intense agony’ of all of them, place in so short a time as hap- Heavy rain is about the only son of Mr. nnd Mrs. Cotter, who (). Iminel in Eugene this afternoon. After first aid had been given, pened last week in Cottage Grove (Cottage Grove Leader, Jan. 7, 1X99.) to give way. 'I hr were at Roseburg for the day. thing that can prevent a successful Phillip Numbers. Conductor Durham and the engine they were rushed to a Eugene hos- with the result that motorists were Phillip Numbers whs born in affair and the management has man claimed he thought he k new • crew always gave an examination pital, where Motter died at 5:30 almost left without air and water 8everal Have Tonsils Removed, Fayette county, l’a.. in 1824 nnd taken tho precaution to insure the tho occupants of the house and to each side of their train before that evening and "Brand at 9 service. Mary Allen, daughter of Mr. red On Munday Ed Jenks’ de pa rtod hurriedly. Only a few gate receipts against rhin. is 75 years of age. After living entering a bridge to see that there o ’clock. “Mountain Goat,” with which he in Ohio during his boyhood days things of little value have been Mrs. Judson Allen, had her tonsils Both Brand and Mutter were travels to and from the Bohemia were no protruding timbers. This removed Monday. Two children of missed. .1 w ii hi h.id their tonsils re- had been done on the day of the scalded about the face, arms and mining country, became imbued ho concluded to go west nnd in «> | ----------------------------------------------- OREGON CLIMATE AND 1854 ranched his present home on shoulders and Motter was severely accident, so that if timbers came moved the same day and the aanrn with too much of the energy neces the Coast fork and then* located ROADS BEING BOOSTED Calapooya Springs to Have Track, scalded about tho abdomen. Stroud operation was performed Saturday in contact with the bridge they sary for the climb to the mines Three years I AHEAD OF CALIFORNIA’S A 40 foot, half-mile ha lf-mile race track, for the G year old child of Mr. and had to shift within a few moments was scalded on one side only and it and demolished the air and water his donation claim. ----------------------------------------------- <•> suitable for motorcycles or either Mrs. Clair Spray, of Roseburg. All after the examination had been was at first thought that his in standpipe near the Ninth street en later his wife died, leaving one Everywhere Oregon chmr.to nnd made bv the conductor nnd engine juries could not prove serious. His trance to Woodaoa Brother’s gar child, now Mrs. Melvina Howard. Oregon roads are being spoken of horses, is being constructed nt Caln these operations were performed at Mr. Numbers was also a pioneer condition grew’ worse the following age. Mr. Jenks, John Graber and W. crew. by tourists more favorable than pooya springs. It is to be semi the office of a local physician. day. however, and frequent reports H. Ostrander were in the car which sawmill man and in 1870 built the those of California anil the time circular at the ends, with long Only One of Crew Escapes. old mill known ns the Numbers straightaways on each side and is reached here that he had died. Hold a regular position by havirg Fireman Stroud, the only surviv Tho physicians at no time held climbed onto the sidewalk as Mr. mill. In 1873 he married Mrs. may not be far distant when Ore- to be located in the open space just ing member of the engine crow, out any hope that Brand or Motter Jenks pulled up to the curb /or Corisa Luckv. who was one of the gon will be the state the tourists south of tho hotel. The county an nd every week. said that they felt no jar such as could live more than n few' hours. the air and water senrice prepar earliest pioneer women in th> Wil come to see, while California will tractors and graders, which have [f tourist would result from a heavy log Both must have been severely atory to starting for Bohemia, lemette valley. Rhe camp W’ith her be merely a stretch that the order been secured for the work, are to has to pass through in Roni? time later in the week father in the early MOs. coming in contact with the bridge burned internally by breathing the In the arrive at the resort today. N. H. Dowens’ Chevrolet car fall of 1844 they reached Portland to get here or to get home, An Hnvs. the manager, plans to hove Walter timbers. They felt a sway, he live steam. climbed over the curb near the where at that time there was but item in the Times Record, Aledo, a motorcycle race then* Sunday. said, and then the engine crashed Engine Was New One. Main street entrance to the same one building and that a log cabin. Iowa, refers to a postal card writ through the bridge. He hung onto The engine which went through garage and the air and water Mr. Numbers retired from tho saw ten by residents who had passed the framework of the window’ of through both Oregon nnd California Nine Births; Five Deaths. the cab and ns soon as he cam? the bridge was a new oil burner stnndpiix* was demolished, Dowens mill business several years ago. on a western tour. The tourists There were 9 births and 5 death* to a realization of what had hap which had been in use but a few had cranked the car while it was wrote: “Arrived on California bor here during August, according to A GOOD NAME pened he climbed through the steam months. It weighed about 80 tons, in m?ar. Rubber stamps of every kind at der tonight. No rain. Good roads. the report < C. K. Frost, health Tn * standpipe nt Billie Hall’s to the window and out to the air. The engines in use before weighed The Sentinel live wire print shop. officer. Only two punctures. Oregon Of th? births, 3 were weights service station on Fifth street w ’ as about 60 and 70 tons. The Under the dome of the Ixmril All three of the men were in th? rnaie*1 and 6 were females, Of the of tradii in Manchester, England, ergine cab. but despite the fart include the tender. It is thought also damaged by being struck by Anything in the printing or allied stat? so far.” deaths, 1 was female nnd 4 were a rar. All the standpipes are agj.in lines can be secured at or through headed. “ Wallnces it will be possible is this inscription: “A good that the debris was piled over that vnur hnm« live wire print shop. males._____ California. ’ ia service.____ . name is rather to be chosen them, they were not pinned in any ______ (Concluded tn page 4.) than great riches.” Tho thought is considemblv more than mere sentiment. It is good business. A good name is recognized as the biggest individual asset a business ran can have. It is . th? very keynote of modern in dustry, Business today is done on such a broad scale—every merchant and every maniiffte turer has such a long list of enstomers- that it would not do tn have a reputation for “slip l>ing something over.” Advertising has stniidardize.l almost every article you buy. You don*t haw to bargain nnd dicker and haggle to know that hi are getting as good ns you ve. That ’a why it pa ya to read Rentinel advertisements nnd tn A pro buy advertised goods, be beet duct’s advertising is guaranty of its faith ul r»er forma neo nnd lasting ti nnd of it* definite value. The advertiser would not dare to risk his good name by advertbi- ing rn unworthy product. GASOLINE TRUCK 4 NUMBER 1 WHEN STROCK BY AUTO PROUDFIT IS SEVERELY INJURED IN WOODS ACCIDENT WHAT’S THE USE No Fifty-Fifty Stuff