Volume VI ®ly? (Entlaß COTTAGE GROVE, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1912 MONSTER GRASS-FED VIEWERS LOOK AT BEATTY ROAD BOVINE KILLED (fa ri Number 19 ANOTHER LUMBER MILL TO START g |Q |y |j[^ Row River Lumber Co. To Begin Operations at Once. People O ptim istic Over Prospects of K stahliahm ent of H ighw ay. The county viewers lisvc been busy tills w rrk looking over Die proposed Beatty road from Cottage (¡rove to W alker, which erii'iMirages local people to believe that the opening up of a safe, convenient anil direct highway to Die laud which this will accommodate is gelling lo lie more tliun ii probabili ty. The subject was broil gbl up at the Commercial club Monday night, and Die opinion was expressed that by beurty i'ii operation with Cri swell and W alker the mud will be secured. COME HERE Another large lumber mill will soon be In operation again after a shut UNEXPECTED PROPOSITION AT COW T IP S SCALES AT 1,4<>5 down of several months. The Row POUNDS UVB WKIOHT. CLUB MEETING. River Lumber Co. has come to the con clusion that conditions are such that 1 Proof of Cottage Grove's Claim as it can resume operations in a couple Manufacturing ’Committee of Com of days. Finest Sto< k Country In thr mercial Club Evolves Manner in The continued resumption of busi Which J. I. Jones Mill Can Be World Is Proven l>y Href Killrd ness on the part of the mills means a Herr During thr Past Week. great deal to Cottage (¡rove, aa every Secured for Grove Immediately. i business in the city has felt the effect That th r territory urouirl Collage The big J. I. Jones mill may yet be of their idleneas. (•rove ih it HtiM-k fountry cipial to any moved to Cottage Grove from Diaaton In thf world wm uldy proven thn* week Sentinel want ads. inserted in news in the near future. During the paat when u fem ale critter weighing 1.7% columns are result getters. week the m anufacturing com m ittee of poundH mill raised enliridy on vetch the Commercial club evolved a new Kru was hrou|(ht III from th f John FLOWERS ARE IN BLOSSOM whereby the plant can be LATHAM GETS NEW DEPOT scheme Cooley ranch oni' and oni' half iiiilra moved here without a bonus of any raal of thla flty and Hold to II. I). SPR IN G W EA TH ER CAUSES BUDS kind. I.lnroln for close to I'm. SAYS COTTAGE GROVE CAN DO Mr. Jones owns 20 or 25 lots in the TO OP IN . Another rem arkable feature alioul southeast part of the city th at would LIKEWISE. the herf wan that from a gros" weight make ideal factory sites. The manu of 1,7% pound" It dressed to a net Rosea Getting Ready to Burst committee was sometime ago Member of Latham Commercial Club facturing w eight o f l.o n a laiunda, a rem arkably Forth in All Their Glory. instructed to see what could be done sm all percentage of loss in dressing. Says New Depots Are Not in aecuring just this kind of land. Mr. Busy Beea Busy. A form er atia'k man who haa aren Very Hard to Get. Jones oifered to sell these at $300 a thouaanda of ra ttle drenaeil in ttie ruat Spring flowers are Idosnomiog again, lot, or somewhere around $6,000 for the aaya that thla reronl haa never been Doit total area. This is about the amount At a recent m eeting of the Latham is those that ipiit blossoming at e<|ualrd In the corn belt to hia knowl all. Some pretty, full-blown crocuses of money Mr. Jones needs to raise to Oimm ercial club. K. M. Sharp was ap edge and that no aurh stock ever cornea Were brought into The Sentinel olflce pointed as a com m ittee of one to secure assist in the moving of the mill, and to 1‘ortland from the eaat. better depot facilities for the accom members of the comm ittee asked him Tuesday, and Felix Curriu report" Dial The aurreaa whlrh Mr. (iailr) ia hav- his rose hods are tilling out ready to modation of passengers and freight at if he would move the mill here in the 11 ik with alork-raialuK proves Cottaire that place. He imm ediately took the event that these lots were purchased, their gorgeous tieauty to the gen (•rove's i lium to bring an nleal rounlry i fling m atter up with the railroad commis thereby giving him that am ount of tie spring zcptirs 'ere long for that purpose. (iraln la hardly Those ex|H-rl in the business urr set sion of Oregon and Mr. Sharp reports money. The committee rejiorted at neeiled for the fattening proreaa, aa ting out their new rose hushes, and the that, through that body, the Southern the meeting of the Commercial club this case amply demonalratea. Pacific Co. has built at Latham as fine Monday night that he said he would, lovers of early garden truck ure pre When It fum es to raising grasses and paring lo put in their gardens. a combination passenger and freight but that the deal must be made within ruot rropa for ra ttle this rountry can't Felix C urrln brought in another thirty days. depot as there is on the line. be iM-aten. A special com m ittee was appointed A member of the Latham club says: bunch of straw berries, some picked Clover, velfh, alfalfa, corn, kale, from plants that have been growing uII by the Commercial club Monday to “ W hat is the m atter with Cottage rape and roots do well in thla aertlon winter, and be re|iortrd the honey An interesting and significant inci-*I,r'‘'e of them. The m anager said : Grove? It has talked depot for a long confer with a special com m ittee for and yield abundantly. Kale grows all hers out at work again. dent occurred after the cloae of the Thla apple sells for 10 cents. Well, if I time. B etter adopt L atham ’s m otto: the same purposes from the Board of w inter ami yields from 20 to .'pi tons an Trade to evolve some method of pur N orthw estern Land Prudtcta Show in ‘be apple growers can find enough Cre- 'We Lead While Others Follow .’ “ arrr. From one ijuarlrr o f an acre chasing this land. Bonding the city osuaes, who are willing to pay them St. I'aul out of which the western ap near Cottage drove a little more than for the purfiose or forming a corpora ple box comes tiium phant. A large 10 cents for each apple, it certainly one ton o f clover haa been prialuerd tion to buy the land were two plana concerns nolsxly but the parties in in measure of the success of w estern ap and twelve aerea reeently yielded i suggested. terest. But I really did not go to the ple shippers in securing the best m ark thirty-six tons at the llral cutting. C. M. Shinn, of the m anufacturing ets has been the attractive manner in show to look at the apples, but to look A lfalfa la aurfesafoily grown with committee, gave it as hia opinion that for a packing case which would hold a proper cultivation. As many as three CANDIDATES OUT WITH THEIR which the r (ro lu c t was placed before bushel, and failed to see one. i it wculd hardly take more than a year the rorauiner. The following letter eropa a year have I m ' i - ii rul without ir- BACHELORS STILL RECEIVING to fill this land up with factories. PETITIONS. was printed in the St. I’aul Dispatch Long years ago the Kast supplied us ri|(atlon. PROPOSALS. The importance of pay roils for the on December 21at, and represents the with apples, and they were mighty Your eastern friends would like to j city was expatiated upon at length by good apples. They came in barrels. average eastern er's impression regard know som ething atsiul the rountry you County Officers Are Attracting Most the capacity of the w estern apple They do today, in barrels of the same Leap Year Girls Are No Pikers members of the club. are living in. Send them a ropy of the Interest at Present. No Senators ing : size. and All Bachelors Will Be Bene Sentinel, 6c. , .. To He Elected in This District, box “ To the Rditor of the D ispatch: Wfien the W estern apples came on dicts.—Outside Maids Contesting but Three Representatives. “ 1 was at the Lan 1 Show and saw with Home-Guard Maidens. R. L. Gawley Purchases Some (Continued on page x . ) apples and apples. I asked for the Prize-Winning Chickens. Politics are taking on some life these Lovcra of G reatest N ational Gam e I days. Interest so far in this section Cottage Grove bachelors are being A pen of Fischel’s W hite Rocks were grabbed up rapidly. Some more pro brought from Aberdeen last week by G etting N ervous. 1 centering around the county ulfires. posals have been received this week. R. L. Gawley. He says they are prize I .over" of the g reatrst of national Friends of candidates are busy through Below are published those of which winning birds and he expects to exhibit gain»'», base ball, are getting peevish out the county getting Die necessary The Sentinel was able to get copies: them for a sight of a diamond attain. Young j petitions signed to put (heir names on the’r chicks at every Lane Chicago. Ilia., Jan. 26. 1912.- Mr. J. county and ster out playintt “ catch” just serve to i the ballot. show. predicts th at he will PR0FF.RTY OWNER ADVANCES HAS IDEAS ABOUT STREET IM W. G rant, care Sentinel, Cottage carry off many He foment the blissl of the fans. Senators in this district and the joint of the best prizes. Grove, O re.,—Dear Mr. G rant: En Mr. Gawley also brought ' STRONG ARGUMENTS. PROVEMENTS. No definite plana of organization ; district hold over this year, hut three a pair of closed find $1.50 subscription for The Indian Runner ducks. have hern made, hut it is a probability representatives are to be elected, I. It. that Cottage Grove may have a regular 1 Cushman, Allen Katun and W. M. Sut Drainage of the City an Important Present Manner of Making Street Sentinel, which, I understand must each application. A re you team again hia year. At uny rate ton, all republicans, having completed Improvements Declared Not accompany Item in Its Develop giving “ cut ra te s” on The Sentinel MONEY IS THROWN AWAY thrrw will be several school tennis. their terms. Mr. Cushman ia now eir- So Very Bad. ment. now? $1.50 is very cheap, when one j culalm g his |K'litions and Mr. Katun is considers all the advantages from its STRONG STATEMENT BY RESI Ins statem ent to the voters. COLONIST FARES AGAIN ' preparing Ed. S entinel: In your issue of Janu- pages the last two weeks, Kditor S entin el: Having noticed and Mr. Sutton has removed to eastern DENT OF 38 YEARS. ary 18, 1912, there appeared an article Do not consider me so immodest as Oregon and so is out of the running. read the article in your paper under entitled, “ Makes Good Suggestion,” to propose, for really, I w oudn't think the heading of “ Suggestion Concern RAILW AYS O FFE R BIG INDUCE 1 These three men were suggested in a county assembly two years ugo, and ing S tree ts,” I would like to say that signed “ T axpayer.” This article com- of such a thing. Oh, no! I ’m only Enough Money Wasted To Have M EN TS. of our present method of im- Macadamized Every Road in were named so as to geugraphi-ally I heartily agree with the w riter in plained Continued on page 2.) proving our city streets and the man what he said, but 1 am of the opinion represent the western, central and County if Properly Spent. From M arch 1st to April 15th G reat that be did not say enough. The drain ner of providing funds to cover the ex Presidential Candidate Will Speak. eastern parts of the county. As yet ----------- ly Reduced F ares W ill Be no one has appeared in the west to age of these streets and the city in pense of same. It condemned the sys Eugene W. Chafin. candidate for “ Enough money has been wasted on of taxing the cost for the improve in Effect. con test against Mr. Cushman, but in i general should be taken into considera tem ment of a street against the abutting president in 1908 on the prohibition the country roads of this state to have tion as well as the building of them. ' Kugene there are already two other property and recommended the levying ticket, will s|>eak in the Armory Mon- macadamized everyone of them. This The city is in a very bad condition at All the tranacontinental railways day evening at 8 o’clock. Admission >s p artic u larly true of Lane county, of a general tax instead. present, so far as drainage is con (< ontinued on page X. have joined hands in offering the usual of which I have been a resident for 38 cerned. During and since this last The only thing that is commendable free. apring colonist fares from the east to years. ” Such is the statem ent of at all in the above mentioned article sturin the west h ih ! south parts as well the west, and another great influx of Orrin Bennett, who lives north of E u as the south and east have to some ex is the fact that someone in our city has settlers is expected. The general gene, who was in the city Friday and opinon seems to tie that the railways Two T ins of D rug and P ipes Found tent been covered w ith w ater, a thing awakened to the fact that the streets North Road Declared To Be One on is a good roads enthusiast. “ It is not are in a deplorable condition and really that should not exist in h city like this. should make it plain to eastern people in C hinese L au n d ry . particularly the fault of the people, Which Work Should Be Done. that the weal can not at present use A dope joint was cleaned out at Ku If a few measures had not been taken need improving. The w riter claimed nor of the county and road district in his article th a t the present method The L o m e road proposition again any more latairers, that what the great gene last week when a U. S. inspector to stop out some of the river w ater we came before the Commercial club Mon officers, so much as the fault of the weal needs just now is people of small from Portland raided a Chinese lauii- (Continued on page 8.) (Continued on page X.) day night and the two roads, the north system ,” continued Mr. Bennett. and large means, people to make jobs I dry on Kast Ninth street in that city. ‘This country needs system atic road and not people looking for jobs. The One Chinaman was arrested for hav- Is Coming Back to the Grove Again. Wreck at Springfield Delays Trains. and the south, to this rich valley were * building under com petent and experi thoroughly discussed by those fam iliar west holds as great o|i|Hirtunities as . ing opium in his possession, two tins of A fter an absence of 15 years, Jake A partial wreck of freight train No. enced supervision. The people should both. All those who had traveled ever for investm ent, but at present | the dope, two pipes, lamp, and a dozen Wrhitney has w ritten from the east to 221 at Springfield Junction at 9 o’clock with both roads were of the opinion that ^a' e something to show for the money there arc already thousands of people em pty tins were seized. his cousin, John Nokes, that he can no Saturday morning delayed passenger the north road, while probably not be- spend, and this condition will in the big cities out of employment. Long Soon, the Chinese proprietor of longer resist the call of the W est and s a few hours. The northbound ing as good a grade, could be the more never prevail under the present system The colonist tickets are second class the laundry, was taken to Portland to will soon be in Cottage Grove again tram passenger was delayed five hours at cheaply completed, it being already of road building. and good for stopovers. Home of the appear in the federal court. The in preparatory to taking up his residence Creswell and the southbound three covered with crushed rock from here • rates to Southern 1’aciflr points are as spector also raided the noodle joint on where he left off. hours at Springfield Junction. Two to the top of the mountain, w here the 1 Yoncalla Maid May Beat Out. follows: Bristol, Tenn., $415.75; Chi Sixth street, but found no evidence of item sim ilar to the following runs Do you want something? A reader cars of the freight left the track and county rock crusher now stands. It ia I in An cago, $33; Milwaukee, via St. I’aul contraband dope there. the Yoncalla Times every week : the wrecker had ta be secured from understood the road district and Spokane, $,'<1.50; New York, $5*>; The governm ent had learned in Port in the Sentinel will get it for you. .. Rose burg. . . . . territory .. that . to rock . . the . road in . i ... A lbert Helliwelt, , one of . Cottage that proposes , St. l.ouin, #32; W heeling, W. Va., $41.- land that the dope had been shipped to , .w . a A. . . . . . . Grove a most young business Felix Currin Moves to Town. Cottage Grove people were from the top of the mountain to the ' men, was visiting . ... popular . this 75; Missouri River common points, Kugene so the inspector was directed Felix Currin has purchased the G. H. on Several with friends in the train bound for Eugene and valley this summer. such as St. I’aul, Atchison, Council to go there and And the goods. With Dyer place in the southeastern part of found the w ait rather irksome such a city last Sunday. lilulfs,K ansas C ity .l’eublo, St. Jo e,$25. Chief Bistol at the front door and the city and moved hia gooda and fam i short distance from their destination. The probability of there being an easier pass over the m ountain was Officer Chris'ensen at the rear, the in ly in Monday, although he saya he will brought up and it developed th a t there spector went through the house, *l>end most of his own tim e a t the Big Farm at Lorane Sold. was none th at could be used without Curious Puzzled by Seeing Front through trunks and every farm . Mr. Dyer left yesterday for Last week Mr. Charles Curran sold building an entire new road. One Hundred and Fifty Candidates searching possible hiding place of the drug. Ilis Bandon. Door Nailed Up. his 200-acre ranch near Lorane to Mrs. The recent report that was sent to Waiting for Degrees. efforts were rewarded by finding the W einhart of Eugene. The considera the papers from Creswell about an Considerable curiosity was exhibited All-Stars Win Game. Cottage Grove (¡range will hold two tins of opium and a dozen empty tion was private, but it is significant being unable to get over last Sunday by those who passed The another m onster m eeting Saturday, cans, together with the pipes and pe Kugene Co. C basket ball team went from the fact that the land lies in one automobile the Lorane road was spoken of and was Sentinel office as to the reason for the the session beginning at 10 o'clock. culiar lamp used by smokers of the down to defeat before the local All of the most valuable sections of the declared to be false made for some front door being open and the opening Stars team Friday evening to the tune county, near two large orchard tracts, purpose not apparent and Degree work will start at 11 and din juice of the poppy. on the surface. nailed over with boards at irregular in There were s large number of of 47 to 6. The game was a lively one, on»* of which contains 3,00» and the ner will be served at noon. tervals. Many thought there would lie There are still 150 candidates to re Chinese in the building, but only the but the local boys has the county scat other 2,000 acres of orchard trees. Promotions Expected. an auction sale Monday, others thought ceive degrees. These are the remain proprietor was taken. He wanted to Aggregation completely outclassed. The owners of these orchards are Capt. B. K. Lawson has passed his there had been a fire; anyway, every der of those secured in the recent furnish bail, but the Inspector said that The line-up of the local team was as planting more acreage every year and exam ination as lieutenant colonel and body took a peep in and found there momtiership uonteat, and if the w eath would be a m atter for the eourt to de follows: Joe Brant, Jack Lewis, for they confidently state that there will will probably receive hia commission was nothing but a coat of paint on a er ia propitioua most of them are ex cide and that bail would probably tie w ards; Klmer Hastings, cen ter; Fay be a railroad through the section of before long. Several other promotions floor that the air was being used to between $500 and $1,000. Allison, (’has. Beals, guards. are expected in the near future. country in a very few years. dry. pected to be on hand. in APPLE BOX TRIUMPHS OVER EASTERN BUSHEL BASKET POLITICS TAKING ON SOME LIFE GIRLS ARE ON THE JOB ALL THE TIME WILL EXHIBIT AT ALL SHOWS BOYS ARE TALKING BASE BALL METHODS OF ASSESSMENT DISCUSSED BY TAXPAYERS OPIUM IS SIEZED AT EUGENE GRANGE TO HOLD BIG MEET LORANE ROAD AGAIN DISCUSSED SENTINEL ATTRACTS ATTENTION