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Volume VI í lbit (Slsitìmt (Brmtr Battitoi COTTAGE GROVE, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 25, 1912 FREIGHT BUSINESS PROVES STUNNER Sometimes a fellow takes a ,ftumble to himself1’ and discovers where lie has ’’fallen down” •* « TT *«•* V? S. P.’S ST AT K MK NT STAKTLKS Weather Makes a Hit. COUNTY SKAT. Frank and Jauiea linker of Sioux Number 18 LAST OF UMPQUAS AFTER 1480 ACRES Elegant Piscatorial Display. PETITIONS FOR LARGE TRACT The first display of ita kind ever OF TRIBAL LANDS. City, Iowa, apont WeiJneaday and given in the city is the piscatorial dis of laat week here visiting play in the window of the Metsan Allottments of Aborigines Claimed Cottage Grove Krelulit Business lb Thursday their uncle J. II. linker und said they Shop. It certainly is an attractiv e and ; $101,200; that of Eugene Only had never before seen a country like Kansans Wili Congregate. Local Musician Is Flattered. interesting exhibit and has caused by the Only Living Descendent $ ò ò,9 3 1. this, with such a clim ate. They dis The KaiisariH are going tu bave a big Miss Esther Silahy this week re much comment. All varieties of gold ! of Two Races. liked very much to return to Iowa ufter lim e Monduy night in W. O. W. hall, ceived a Mattering offer to go to Ash and silver finh are represented and the j ] T h e .’ r r i / l i t liuaini'it for the Southern reading the w eather reports. They wlien Die K hu mu s society will iiold its land and take charge of the choir of arrangem ent is peculiarly pleasing. Jake Fearn, the only living member I'ncitic station ul (!u Uui(i) (¡r o v e in had la-en through W ashington, but said mid w inler dinner and program. All the First Presbyterian Church. She The flowers used in the display are of the Umpqua and Calapooya tribes, nearly twice that of Ku|(ene, tin* county this country hud them ull skinned. Kansarla are inviteli tu attenti, accorn- appreciated the recognition of her paper white nacisis and cylamen. haa petitioned the governm ent for pos aeal, which ih a Hoinewliat startling punied by a basket fillcd with musical ability, but could not accept session of 1,480 acres of governm ent condition to residents of Lu n c'a big- “ eats ” tin offer land contained in allottm ents made the lient rtly. Indians in 1888. Of this acreage 480 T h e figure* lire from the Southern Violets and Primrose» Hardly Af acres is in Lane county, seven miles Coburg Hustler Nabs First of the northeast I ’acitic C o . ’a statement for the year of Cottage Grove, and 1,000 fected by Winter Weather. Eligibles. enilllig Ju n e 'III, I'M I, ami were aecureti acres in the Yoncalla valley, three It's hard to make Mowers stop grow Two of The Sentinel’s list of eligi miles east of Anlauf. an the result of an inventiaatioii made mg in the famous, fertile, fruitful li y me In tie r il of Die Co m m e rc ia l club ble» were nabbed off this week by Co- Special Government A gent E. M. W illam ette. Just to dem onstrate Interditeli in atari Ina a movem ent for burg and Lorane women, thus demon- G arber and Binger Hermann of Rose- this, Mrs. liavid (iibsiin sent The Sen a new depot at thin point. strating that the local girls will have burg were here yesterday taking testi- tinel u pretty hni|net of violets und to hurry if they are going to compete mony in proof of the allottm ents and T h e llaurea aerili to indicate that the ; primroses this week thul were picked the outside hustlers. | in support of F earn ’s title to the land. (¡r o v e la certainly entitled to a new in the open garden. They were picked NUMEROUS SOUL-STIRRING PRO- WOULD-BE BENEDICTS BESET with Dennis Cooler was grabbed off by Mr. Hermann represented the claim- hulldlna bill it la not li ke ly that a on tin- north side of the house at that, POSALS RECEIVED. BY LEAF YEAR GIRLS. Mrs. Arabell Leonard of Coburg. ant. move will he inaitelo yet one until auch and look pretty good to Oregonians They were married Monday a t Eugene. The testimony will be forwarded to tim e aa Oie fre igh t buaineaa of thin when they read of the b itter w eather Leap Year Girls Are Nut Slow to GordoaD.Watta haaboan taken by I tb a departm ent o f the interior and if a r d i m i rcauina normal condition. String of Eligibles Published In pre railing in the east. Select from List of Would-Be Last Week’s Sentinel Causes Fur Miss Lottie Henderson of Lorane. T h e Southern I'acilic'a Htatement for F earn ’s claims are recognized the land huaineaa ending June IMI, lìti I, la aa Benedicts.—Some Show Experi ore in Society and Starts Demure will pe put on the m arket a t private sale. followa : ence in Inditing Love Epistles. Damsels to Writing Letters. Passenger Freight W. S. Rogers of Spokane was here Eugene rjn.7r.i t.-« «Odi «ni MARRIED PEOPLE'S CLUB 1 0 The list of eligible men of the city this week looking over the country. The list of eilighles published in last GOOD ROADS ASSOCIATION IS He wouldn’t believe that straw berries Cottage (¡rove 15,543.45 101,200.00 j HAVE BIG TIME. published in tlie last issue of The Sen w eek’s Sentinel has caused quite a stir Junction City «,67(1.23 lu,«o«.uu TALKED OF. grow here a t this tim e of the year until tinel Inis caused a great furore among among the leap year girls, and the re he saw them right on the vines. the leap year girls and they are falling 1 1 2 . 99 x 94 I7M.7.TÌ (m Men Will Do Alt the Cooking und quest on their part for copies of the Improvement of Highways Sur Will Carey of Prescott is visiting over on« another to he first in with The large passenger business at Eu the Women Will Be Expected •heir pro|Hjsals. Following ure given list has far exceeded the supply. As a rounding City Important Topic relatives in the city. He is head saw gene la explained by reason of its be the list will have to be greatly To Do the Euting. a few of which The Sentinel was able result yer for the Beaver Lum ber Co. of ing the county seat and home of the at Club Meeting. revised within a very short time. Sev to get copies : Prescott, but would like to make Cot university. of the eligible» have notified the One of the moat enjoyable festive Cottage Grove, Ore., Jan . lx, 1912.— eral Seninel that the advertising has pro Good roaJs was the most im portant tage Grove his home once more. occasions of the season in predicted f< r Dear Mr. K inter: Or may we venture duced desired result. Copies of topic brought up at the regular m eet Valentine night, Frb. 14th, when the to say dearest H arry run we express several the replies by the hoys ing of the Commercial club Monday men of the M arried People's d ull of the joy we fell U |am seeing your name are publiahtsj in received another column. night. the Methodist palish wMI hani|U ct the heading the list uf the eligible young The com m ittee appointed to look (Continut^d on page 8. ladies o f the club. The men will do men of Cottage Grove? No! N o' into the possibility of having some all the rooking and serving and prom N ev er! thing done for the I-orane road re Win Two More Games. the women that it will lie some For months we have cherished, in BUSINESS MEN OF CITY GET ise The local high school basket ball ported that the road west of the moun INTERESTING CASE BETWEEN thing real gissl. Some of the women TOGETHER. (Continued on page 8.) team had good luck again this week tain would be taken care of by a tax make the u|iell statem ent that if the LOCAL PARTIES. and won two more games, one from in th at district and that the county < men are half the rooks that they claim Every Buainebb Firm on Main St. to lie since starting to get up tills aup- 29 Lane Roud Districts Abolished. Oakland on the iulter's court, the score rock crusher, now on top of the moun- ' Hubbell & Smith, 0. & S. E. and being 33 to 12; the other from Drain tain,would probably be put into use on i Joins New Organization Which |>cr, it is funny thut they have never In order to increase the efficiency of on part of the road as soon as weath- C. H. Burkholder Have Separate road-huilding work in Lane county ln>en aide to induce them to try their Aim» to Promote Welfare of Cot hands at getting the breakfast these next summer, the county court, when 12 . the local court, by a score of 23 to that er condi'ions would perm it. The com- j Claims to Property Adjoining Cot tage Grove and Vicinity. it named road supervisors Saturday, The latter game was a close and ex m ittee reported that the worst part of tage Grove Mfg. Co.’s Site. winter mornings. elim inated 29 out of tfie 89 districts in citing one, with no feature plays. I the road this side of the mountain is However the feed may turn out, u A hoard of trade was organized Toes of wit und reason will follow that tlie county as being a need lens expense, Music was rendered during the game inside the city limits and also that A case that is attractin g considera day mg tit at a meeting of the business feast will make up for any lack in the culi especially in view of the fact that a by the Drain concert hand, keeping the p Road Supervisor Veatch would like ble attention locally was started here men of the rity held in the Commercial nary ' Cottage Grove to attem pt to get the ' Monday before Judge H arris, of the road engineer has been hired by the boys keyed up to the top notch. departm ent. rluh rooms. Every business firm on About county court to supervise all of road The Drain boys proved themselves a farm ers and others interested in the circuit court, who held court here to «0 couples are expected to he Main street la represented m the new road together at a mass meeting. construction and aid the supervisors. gentlem anly hunch and good losers. make it more convenient for the par organization, which haa for Ita purpose present. Jam es I.. Lam hirth, m anager of the The line-up of the Drain team was J. F. Spray reported that a 5-mill tax ties concerned. The "feed "roiiiinit tec* is rumisised as the boosting of the city, the promotion follows: It. S. Swengel, N ate Comp- Eugene street railway and electrical as follow s: Tracey and Clemo, for had been levied in the Row R iver dis The case is entitled “ H ubbell & uf inanufseturing and other industries ton, properties before tlie power and light w ards; Dixon, center; Cruson and trict, which would be used in construct Sm ith vs. the O & S. E. railw ay and J. H. Suneral, Geo. M. Hall, Wel and the securing uf sites fur m anufac come IIuId>• II. Frank II. Phillips, Will plants were sold by Al. Welch, has Craig, guards. ing about five miles of good road. H. B urkholder,” being a suit to turing pur|KHiea. The Cottage Grove lineup was as A request was made by the county C. been selected as the man to till the quiet to a piece of property It in freely predicted that an organ Johnson. follows: Woods, Atkinson, forw ards; commissioners to have Cottage Grove claimed title position. ______ The “ melody” overseers are W. A. separately the parties to ization of this character and an thor Ilogate, Dr. F. W. Kolduns, E. A. Medley, M atthews, Cellers, Guards; people endorse a plan to have the road the suiL The land by is all a small of James M. DeMoss Dies. oughly representative will he prislur- Sehrepel. Merle Scnvillc. Brumbaugh, Center. tax money of the general levy ex ground adjoining on the east the piece prop live of much gissl to t'le city. The ''s|M )rta’’ promoters are F. I). Jam es M. DeMoss, father of the De- The members of the concert band pended in the vicinity where collected. erty on which the Cottage Grove The following officers were elected : Wheeler, Moss musical family, died a« Moro, w ere: N. J. Rowland, J. R. Letson, This is what Cottage Grove has always President, Hen Lurch , vice president, F. King. (J. II. Tyson, J. A. W right, G. Ore., last week. The DeMoss family N. Dixon, H. Burkhardt, J. M. Cool, fought for, and a com m ittee appointed M anufacuring Co.’s p la n t, owned by Hubbell & Sm ith, is situated and used C. II. Burkholder; secretary, S. I. wus well known here, having made J. A. Leech. J. W. Edwards, R. Row to meet the county commissoners was by it for side track purposes. Mr. and Mrs. Applegate spent a few M ackin; treasurer, Godfrey (¡rater, this one of their regular stops for land, T. V. Edwards, E. Sciiad, J. L. instructed to tell the commissioners trustees. It. K. Lawson, 0 , J. Kern, C. days hi Cottage Grove last week, look years. John and Joe Wicks of Star Smeed, D. Gorsline, V. Hickethier, that such a plan would be more than If the title to the property is found to be in Hubbell & Sm ith or the O. mg after ini|sirtant repairs in the Cot are relatives of the deceased. W. Wallace, C. II. VsDennburg. Cool, G. Perkins. satisfactory. & S. E. railw ay it will leave Burk tage hotel of which they are owners. Mr. De Moss was a singer, a w riter Wm. Visitors from Drain w ere: Misses A com m ittee was appoined to lay 1 holder Visitor Drowned at Drain. no roadway to a piece of prop They enjuyed a visit with Mr. and of music, and the founder of the De Mackey, Hill, Tracey, Clemo, Burk plans for the orangization of a good j erty owned by him, and if decided for The body of Kav It. H artshorn, who Mrs. Phillip Hohl while there. Drain Moss Lyric Hard Concert company, hardt, Myers, Richardson, Whipple. roads association. Burkholder it will leave no ground for rnme to the weal a couple weeks ago Nonpareil, 1‘J th. composed of members of his own fam i Chadbourne, Francis, Kent, Kirkland, sidetracks for the m anufacturing com on u pleasure trip waa shipped hack ly, who have toured all English-speak Prof, and Mrs. Sprague, Mr. and Mrs. pany. The suit is, therefore, being to the family home in Oklahoma Tues ing countries. He leaves a wife and Fannan and daughter, Otis Newton, I very closely contested. day, being accompanied by K. 1). Hurt- Mr. Wilin, Roy Counts. five children, three of them grown. Are Dissatisfied With Winter Rigors The case has been postponed to se- shorn of Portland brother of the dead New (Question Raised by Defendants of East. | cure the testim ony of W’. B. Glass, now man. Deceased came to his death by in Referendum Case. Dissatisfied with the w eather that aick >n a hospital at Brownsville. He drowning in the Um|siua river ncMr Bringing out strongly a point urged has prevailed in the east and being im- was one ^ e original owners of the Drain. He was out on a pleasure trip in the appeul of the University of O re pressed with the display made at the property. on the ateam er Eva and had been visit gon referendum cases, the brief of the Omaha Land Show by the W illam ette J - C. Johnson is the attorney for ing in the engine room, when in leav defendant, which is just being com ing he o|M’iied a door to what he pre- pleted by A ttorney-General Crawford REPORT IN LOCAL PAPER MUCH STREET-NAMING DOCUMENT TO valley. A. E. Compton, of Omaha, an Hubbell & Sm ith, J. S. Medley for the uncle of N. E. Compton, of Burkhold- & s - K- and John M. W illiams for uuined waa one of the decks of the boat and his associates for submission to OVERDRAWN. BE PRESENTED. er-Wooda, has w ritten his nephew for Burkholder, and atepped into the river. The hisly the supreme court, will contend that full particulars and inform ation about Court Stenographer Calkins was up waa found at almost the point that he 1115 names on the petitions which this country. He says that he and with Judge Harris. fell in. Mr. Ilartahorn was a single were thrown out m ust he allowed even J. I. Jones Mill Will Remain at No Opposition to Its Passage An about others are planning to I-egal blanks a t the Sentinel office. man, aged 23. under what m ight he termed a strict Disstou Until Conditions Are Dif ticipated.—Has Hearty Approval look this twelve section over. construction of the statute. As a re ferent from What They Are Now. and Support of the Public. Mr. Compton is treasurer and head sult the petitions which were declared sheep buyer for Tagg Bros., a big invalid in the lower court by Judge The now almost famous street-nam Omaha live stock and commission firm. The report in s local paper last week must lie sustained, it is fur ordinance will come up at the m eet C. L. B arnett, of Iowa, a brother- DRUNKS DO DAMAGE ON SOUTH SILAS KNOWLES RELATIVE OF Galloway that the Jones mill was on its way ing ther contended. ing of the city council Monday night, in-law of Mr. Compton’s, has w ritten GEO. 0. KNOWLES. FOURTH STREET. According to the findings of the low from Disston to Cottage Grove, carry and it is expected that it will pass to have a house rented for him and er court, there w ere l.'l,(il6 signatures ing a retinue of factories with it, was w ithout argum ent. says he will be here the latter part of the petitons which, it was stipu somewhat overdrawn. Victim of Steamer Dixon Explosion on prepared after much la February. He is looking for land for Flag Pole Broken Down, Shade The mill is not coming to Cottage bor It on has the been lated, should deride the fate of both of the city engineering investm ent. Standing by Boiler at Time Trees Destroyed and Sidewalk petitions. The lower court held that Grove and if it did come the factories departm ent part and fills a long-felt want. Torn Up. of Accident. would not be started. O therwise the As already stated in The Sentinel the (Continued on page X.) news item published is about correct. ordinance carries with it a provision In conversation with The Sentinel, Silas Knowles, who was killed in the Residents of South Fourth street the num bering of all houses and A Cottage Grove girl, Nellie Hemen- were Mr. Jones stated that he would be for explosion of the boiler of the steam er greatly incensed last week by putting up of street signs at all cor way, is the originator of a leap-year ' depredations willing to sacrifice considerable to get ners. comm itted one night by Dixon oir Martina Island in «he Wil lam ette river near Portland last week, An all-men entertainm ent is being his mill located at Cottage Grove, but There was some complaint about the student-body dance at the U niversity a gang of about five hoodlums who are was a nephew of Geo. O. Knowles, of arranged by the men of the Methodist that the expense, which would probably proposed names for some of the ave of Oregon. H er plan requires the fair ' suppoased to have been drunk when Knowles & (¡raher. Mr. Knowlea, ac church that will take p la'e some time run close to $15,000, is prohibitive. of the university to invite and they destroyed the property. nues on the W est Side, but it is under co-eds companied liy Geo. Fisk of Eugene, w ithin a month or ao. The en tertain The city of Cottage Gr..ve may some stood call for partners, as well as to The Hag pole at the Goddard resi that this m atter has been satis secure the their dances. hrn(her-in-law of the dead man, went m ent will consist of a mock trial, a j tim e be in shape to help pay the ex factorily No boy may so dence was broken down, five shade adjusted. to Portland immediately upon hearing musical sketch and a pantomine mono- , pense of moving the mill, and then it much as walk across the floor unac trees destroyed in front of A. J . Stew of tho accident hut could do nothing loguc. C. E. Ilm phrey, W. C. Conner j may be poarible that it will be moved, At the annual meeting of the Lane companied by a lady. The adoption of a rt’s residence and about fifteen feet and A lbert Woodard have charge of but if it is moved, the m achinery will County Fair association, held at Eu the plan has caused many hopes and i of sidewalk torn up. The gang was towHrda recovering the hisly. The other victims of the wreck were the mock trial. M. II. Anderson, Ern- be exchanged for lietter and more gene last night, plans for a bigger and fears on the part of the eligible young going south and continued its depreda Captain Fred K. Stinson and Mate eat Purvance und S. L. Mackin have modern and it will hardly be the same better fair and race meet than ever men, as it is rumored that many co-eds tions along the way. next fall were diaeussed at length and are planning to " s ta g ” it. The affair Some of the residents claim to be charge o f the musical part o f the pro mill. A rthur Monical. “ It must have licen immediately gram . The women of the church are Tlie saddle tree, match, hoard box and heartily concurred in by «he assem bids fair to create a great deal of certain of a t least two of the party and are having some detective work pn-ceding the acrident that 1 saw SiI- greatly pleased to see the men of the paper box factories, which were to blage of officers and directors who have wholesome fun. church taking hohl of some of the work come with the mill, are not being con i figured so prominently in the success done with a view to prosecution incase (Continued on page H.) 1 of the past several seasons. Advertising pays—in the Sentinel. reparation is not made. they have usually had to shoulder. aidered at all. FLOWERS OUTDOORS IN JANUARY MORE EUGIBLES ADDED AND LETTERS FOR OTHERS MEN TO BANQUET WOMEN GROVE MAIDENS ARE TOO SLOW WANT BETTER HIGHWAYS BOARD OF TRADE IS ORGANIZED TITLE TO U N D IS VITAL POINT PARTY MAY COME FROM OMAHA 1115 NAMES PICKED AS GOOD MILL AND FACTORIES ARE STREET ORDINANCE TO NOT COMING YET COME UP MONDAY NEPHEW OF LOCAL MAN DEPREDATIONS INCENSE GROVE GIRL STARTS FUN MEN GETTING UP A SHOW j