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Al ^\\t (Cnttag? (ßriw j&tttfttfl Volume VI C O TTAG E GROVE, OREGON. TH UR SDAY, M ARCH 14, 1912 PIONEEROF1852 DIES IS PERFORMING AT AGE OF 82 ITS DUTY Hundreds of Copies of Sentinel Are Sent to the East Every Month. CROSSED PLAINS W ITH OX TEAM IN EARLY DAYS. Joseph Peterson Taylor, Who Took Up Donation Claim in Willurnette Valley In Early 50’a, Dlea at Ripe Old Age. JoHcph I'vteraon Taylor, aged 82, Marly Oregon pioneer, who settled in the WiHarriott« valley in 1852, died Saturday at hia homo about seven miles south o f Gottuge drove. The funeral waa held Sunday at the Taylor & l.ane cemetery. Joseph Peterson Taylor waa born in Burlington county, New Jersey, July ‘¿7th, IH.'MI. Ilia parents, Henry W A aud Charlotte Taylor, moved to Phila delphia the same year and lived in the atate of Pennsylvania for about three years. They moved from there to iliKhland county, Ohio, where they reaided for eight years; moving from Ohio to southwestern Missouri. On April l'J. 1852, they started across the plains with the party known as the Hazleton train. The trip was accom plished with the usual suffering and death of part of the members of the party. They arrived at Foster, <fre- gou, September PI, 1852. During the winter o f 1852-53 Mr. Taylor located the donation claim where he still re sided at the time o f his death. He was the oldest in the family o f ten children, three of whom are still liv ing : Jeremiah Taylor, Mrs. Jane Ga- routte and Mrs. Mary K. White. He enlisted in the Rogue River Indian war in 1855 and took part in the battles o f Cow Creek and Rig Meadows. He was married December '¿4. 1858, to Mary AngePne Small, a native of Georgia, who crossed the plains with her parents, Harvey and Narcissa The llrst cure of n newspaper is to advertise its home community. That renders nf The Sentinel believe that it la doing this work well Is evidenced by the number of copies that are sent every week to eastern friends. Neiirlv llfty extru copies ure secured every week ut The Sentinel office for this pur|>ose. Seventy-five were sold one week recently, and there is no telling how many of those mailed to suhsrrih- era are sent uwuy after being read. That there are a large number there is no question. That thoae in the east believe The Sentinel it« a good ad. is evidenced by the complimentary letters written hack, several of which have been pub lished. Number 25 HANDY GETS $2,250 MAKES VERY QUICK TEAM WILL BE ORGANIZED HAVE BEEN MARRIED FOR INJURIES DELIVERY FOR 59 YEARS Ideal Weather Sunday and Base Ball Enthusiasts Hold Success ful Tryout. RECEIVED AT J. H. CHAMBERS GROCERY ORDERS M ILL RECENTLY. DELIVERED IN JIG TIM E. Sued for $50,000, but Jury Cut« Grocery Wagon Tries to Climb a Amount Down. Technical Much Expert and Testimony Ia Intro duced in the Case. Tree, With Diastrous Results to The Load.— Rig Demolished; No One Hurt in the Accident. In his suit for $50,000 damages for peculiar peraonal injuries alleged to have been received at the J. H. Cham bers sawmill Oct. 4, 1911, when his clothing became entangled in a roll and a large patch of skin was torn from the abdomen, a jury in district court awarded William H. Handy $2,250. Defendants asked for ten days’ time in which to appeal. " T h e Shop" where good printing is The case attracted considerable at done The Sentinel. tention herause o f the nature o f the injuries and lasted two days. Much expert and technical testimony was introduced and both sides fought hard for victory. Handy claimed that he waa perma nently injured and incapacitated through neglect o f the company to PERJURED W ITNESS IN LAND properly protect the machinery. PERSECUTED MAN TO GET RIGHTS ERAUD CASE CONFESSES. Defendants rlaimed that plaintiff waa not permanently injured and that Human Interest Story Hangs About if he had been it would have been be H. H. Hendricks, Eormer Cottage cause of hia own carelessness. Cottage Grove will have a base ball team this summer. This decision was reached at the tryout Sunday and an organization will he completed thia week. A meeting will be held Friday night in the Armory, at which all fans and enthusiasts are requested to be present, Weather conditions were ideal Sun day arid many candidates for positions got out to play with the sphere and hammer it around the diamond. The tryout demonstrated that there is plenty o f material right at home for a cracking good team. Two challenges for games have al ready been received from Portland as a result o f the news of the proposed organization published in The Sentinel last week. An unusually quick delivery o f gro ceries was made at Herman Venske’s house Monday afternoon when the rig driven by Arthur Monroe tried toclimb a tree in Mr. Venske’s yard. The rig was standing in front of Ostrander's house when the horses be came frightened at a baby buggy arid a'arted off on the run. As the horses came to Venske's they were again frightened by lume school children and turned into the yard, coming up against a tree as the horses tried to pass it on opposite sides. The wagon was badly smashed up and groceries scattered all around the place. Otherwise no damage was done. No one was in the rig at the W ILL START BUSINESS ON FIRST time of the runaway. DAY OF A P R IL The accident occurred after 5 o ’clock, and many good housewives waiting for groceries for supper were somewhat Local Postal Authorities Receive discommoded. POSTAL BANK WILL BE ESTABLISHED Classy job printing The Sentinel. Grove School Boy, Victim of Pur-1 Unexpected Orders to Prepare for Establishment.— Some of the Reg ulations for Depositors. chased Testimony. A United States Postal Savings bank V ancouver , W ash ., Macrh 7, 1912 H. H. Hendricks, who lias been under will be established in Cottage Grove sentence for years for alleged aubor- j April 1st. The local authorities unex CHAS. H A LL, M a n a g e r A r c a d e nation of perjury, is not guilty, and ; pectedly received such information this Cottajfe Grove, Oregon the tale is one of peculiar human in- i week, with instructions to prepare trroat. The witness upon whose testi- ! themselves for taking charge o f the Dear Friend Chas.— Received copy of your letter head mony Mr. Hendricks was convicted, 1 work. today, and they are certainly "w m e class.” Nobody now conscience stricken, has confessed The postal hanks have been more but Charley Hall would have ever thought of anything that he was paid for such testimony, successful than the government at like that, and I have never seen any better or more und Hendricks will have lifted the , first anticipated and have already done artistic printing turned out of a New York Shop. Send cloud that has been on his name since much in dragging money out o f old the famous land fraud cases in 1905, socks and other hiding places and put a few of the letter heads and earn my everlasting grati (Continued on page 7.) at which time a score or more o f citi ting it into circulation. As the money tude. JACQUES JACKSON. zens of Cottage Grove had indictments is re-deposited in state and national The letter heads were designed an staring them in the face. banks, the postal banks do not in executed by The Sentinel, ‘ ‘The H. H. Hendricks was at one time a terfere with the business o f other Shop" Where Good Printing is Done resident of Cottage (¡rove, where he 1 banks, in reality merely acting as a attended public s c h o o l, worked at farm government guaranty o f deposits. Accounts may be opened and depos EXPLAINED BY STATE SCHOOL 1 labor and earned enough money by honest toil to attend the University of its made by any person of the age of SUPERINTENDENT. Oregon, from which he became a 10 years or over in his or her own name graduate. While there he cooked his and by a married woman in her own Eulogized an One of the Greatest own meals, his means being too limited name and free from any interference Lumber Man Takes Exhibit on Ore Leaving Snow Four Feet Deep, Victories for Education in History tu afford anything different. (Continued on page 7.) gon Excursion Special. ilia brother, 1>. A. Hendricks, is Willamette Climate Pleases. of State of Oregon. now a resident of this city. A piece of Cottage Grove fir accom Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Burnett arrived panied the Oregon excursion train to Tuesday from Earlham, Iowa, to make Some o f the criticisms of the county (Continued on page 7.) ’ Frisco Tuesday, and every member of Cottage Grove their permanent home. school inspector law were answered the excursion, as well ss many T c s i-1 Mrs. Burnett is, a sister of N. E. by Stute Superintendent Alderman dents o f San Francisco, will be made Compton. They have rented a house during his recent visit here. He says ' ? to realize what a fine quality of wood in the city for the present. They re the ayatem has been productive of the Cottage Grove fir is. port leaving 47 inches of snow in I wa. wonderful results elsewhere and pre \ 'V , j? The sample was taken along by L. Fences were hidden with the fluffy dicts that it will prove the same here. \ S. Hill, o f the Brown Lumber Co. s’ ulf and roads blocaded. The ¡salu The system wns adopted hut a few The piece of wood is an especially good brious climate o f the Willamette has months ago, hut he said that good re sample ot the average fir o f this sec greatly pleased them. sults car already he seen. «¡ti tion. and was finished by the Cottage Taking it home to Lane county. R. C. Von Lehe and Henry Schrepe Grove Manufacturing Co. County Superintendent Baughman said of I a ? Seuer, Minn., arrived Monday A lurge number o f citizens o f the on the colonists fares and are looking there are 1H0 school districts in the city were down to see the Oregon over land in the vicinity and visiting county, and ho found on Inking office Special go through. that some of them had not been visited relatvea. THE COUNTY SUPERVISOR SCHOOL SYSTEM 1 r COTTAGE GROVE FIR AT FRISCO COLONISTS BEGINNING TO ARRIVE * for eight or nine years. With the tre mendous amount o f ollicc work it was a physical impossibility for one man to attempt to visit the schools. The county su|iervisors, it was ex plained, take the place of the county superintendent as far as viriting the country schools are concerned, and school ma'ams in the backwoods no longer feel that no one ia taking an in terest in them and their work. In fact, under this system an attempt is being made to keep the rural schools pretty nearly up to the city schools. Artistic job printing « The Sentinel. II II IIK ND K ICK K U w y v r Aln>ut Whom Tale llanir* Human WOMEN KNOCK HITCHING POSTS Have you got something kicking Can You Read Rapidly? Jim Craig’s G Minor Cords are in was sick but about a week. Deceased leaves six children, Lenore, Rynal and around in your way that you want to Then just time yourself and see how Bad Shape. John Wallace and three small children get rid of? A reader in the Sentinel long it takes you to read all the live Women of Cottage Grove have (low may sell it for you. news in thia issue o f The Sentinel. er, even though not allowed to vote. I by her second husband. Every line o f type In the entire eight The other day while Jim Craig was pages ia set at home. T o o t ! T o o t ! erecting some hitching posts on one of the side streets he was approached by | some of the Indies o f that vicinity, who interceded with the Honorable Jim to Macadam Roads Are in Excellent quit the job. Jim, having a large soft spot in his Condition for Travel; Others already large heart for the gentler sex, Improving Rapidly. just said "God bless you, ladies, to do *— ----------------------------- — your will is food fur my soul" and he The greatest thing that ever hap- j one surmised the purpose o f the work, Roads throughout the country are quit the job like a flea would a dead pened for Cottage Grove, is what the Such a road would be the greatest drying up rapidly ami many macadam dog. He will remove tho already set eoastto cost railroad through the Cala- faetor in the development o f the Cot- roads are now in an excellent condition posts as soon as the vibration of his G pooias, which is the latest railroad i tage Grove country that it could possi- fur travel, especially on high ground. minor cords subsides.________ rumor, would be. That a representa bly get. Freight rates would he so People from the country report that tive from the U. S. Land Office and a reduced that lumber could be put on Mistake In Announcement. the sunshine of the last week has done The recital which will take place at representative o f one o f the greatest the middle western market at a profit wonders and that a little more o f it the Christian church on the 22d will railroad ayatema o f the country have in competition with eastern lumber, will cause dust to fly. O f course dirt roads on low ground not l>e participated in by Prof. W a t e r - ; been going over several proposed factories would have an outlet, thous are a long waya from ideal yet, hut house's pupils as was announced. The routes in this vicinity is almost posi ands o f people would have to be put the writer took a trip up the Moaby recital in which the pupils will take tively known. When making the trip into the country to prepare the forests Creek road Sunday and a more pleasant part will occur in April. The recital through the mountain wilda they have for the market, produce would be g i v ride would be hard to imagine. The for the 22d will be an entire organ re- taken with them guides familiar with en an outlet, and these are only a few roed ahowa plainly what results can be ctial by Prof. Waterhouse, assisted by every foot o f the territory. The work of the things that would contribute to obtained from the proper kind o f road a chorus choir, A. C. Kinter and Mrs. has been going on for a couple months, the prosperity o f the best little city in but has been so quietly done that no the famous, fertile, fruitful Willamette. Waterhouse. work. ROADS ARE DRYING UP ‘ I'ersecuUHl Great Luck Selling Chickens. Classy job printing—The Sentinel. Ernest Purvance, who has been ad W ill Be Interesting Meeting. vertising ButT Orpingtons in The Sen The Patron-Teachers meeting on tinel, reports that he has disposed of chickens faster than he could raise March 22d will be one of nv re than them and had to refuse orders in order usual interest, and a special effort is being made to secure the attendance to save any birds for himself. o f parents. Desk blotters for sale.--Sentinel. Plans for the part the association will take in the industrial educational Former Resident Dies. Word was received here this week of work this summer will be matured, the death of Mrs. Lorene Stockwell at and there will be a discussion in which Hornbrook, Calif. She was formerly everyone will be invited to take part. In addition to the formulating o f the Mrs. Mina Wallace, who lived here plans referred to. a program will be about 15 years ago. Particulars of death have not been learned, but she rendered. COAST TO COAST RAILROAD IS THE VERY LATEST RUMOR . ili •• , i R AY BAKER Cottage Grove Boy. Sold to Philadelphia. Farmed to Birmingham BAKER FARMED TO BIRMINGHAM Arrives at Practice Ground in Good MARRIED ON TH IRTE ENTH BUT HAVE GOOD LUCK. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Shortridge, Probably Longest Married Couple in Willamette Valley, Celebrate Anniversary of Marriage. Married on the 13th day o f March, 1853, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Shortridge of this city have spent 59 happy years together. A ft e r spending their young er days in the trials of a pioneer life they are enjoying old age in peace and comfort,¡contented as when they took one another for better or for worse, with their life work ahead o f them. Neither o f them were superstitious when they set the wedding day for the unlucky day o f the month, and they have not become so since. Mr. Shortridge came from Mercer County, III., in 1851, with the Miller train, one o f the largest to ever cross the plains. He went first to California and stayed there until starved out in 1852, when he came to the Willamette valley, his home ever since. While in California he saw salt sell at $16 a pound and flour at $2 a pound. Only a few pounds o f each would be sold to any one person. The poorest kind of a meal was a dollar. He says there was no high living in those days. Mrs. Shortridge was Amelia S. Adams, o f Louisa County, Iowa, and came across the plains with her par ents, long since dead, in 1852, the family settling near Jefferson. Death stalked abroad on the plains that year in every form. One o f the Adams hoys died of the cholera and was buried in the Platte valley. Mr. Shortridge and Miss Adams had been sweethearts back east and mar- (Continued on page 7.) BRINGS DOWN GOLD BRICK WORTH $6,000 CHAMPION MLLL CATCHING YE L LOW STUFF. Manager Hogg Reticent About Giv ing News Concerning Property, but Is Well Satisfied With Output. A $6,000 gold brick was brought down last week from the West Coast property oy C. T. Hogg, manager of the company. The brick was for warded to the assay office in Seattle. The West Coast people are one of the largest operators in the district, but are at present working only the Champion mine, from which this brick was brought. The mill on this proper ty has been running quite a bit of the time all winter. Mr. Hogg is very reticent about making any statements concerning the property and the length of time it took to accumulate the gold for this brick could not be learned, but it is believed by those who attempt to keep posted that another brick was brought down less than a month ago. Mr. Hogg did, however, state that he is very well satisfied with the output o f the proper ty. When the weather gets so that the Musick mine can be operated, it is ex pected that the output from this prop erty will be greatly increased. The ore from the Musick is sent to the Champion mill by an electric tramway. George A. Dorris, the asparagus king, was in the city today from hia farm above Springfield. He reports that he and bis family had the first mess o f 1912 asparagus yesterday, but he does not expect to begin cutting regularly till about the first o f April. He thinks the season will be three weeks earlier this year than last.— | Guard. 1 Shape for Work. i Ray Baker, who was drafted from Raymond last year by Philadelphia, has been farmed out to Birmingham. He writes that he reported for duty with the latter team Friday in fine shape for a good season's work. He says the other members of the team are a fine bunch of fellows. Ray Baker is a son o f Mr. and Mrs. Jack Rice Pays Fine For Attacking J. H. Raker of this city, and is well Warren McFarland and known here because o f his fast work Chewing Up Ear. with the local team in 1909, when he was a favorite with the fans. Jack Rice, who created a sensation Baker pitched for the Eugene team last week by the manner in which he in 1910, and was drafted by the Phila disfigured Warren McFarland, dog tax delphia team because o f his fast work last year with Raymond, where he was collector, as reported in The Sentinel, submitted to artest yesterday, after known as their crack twirler. Baker is only 21 yekrs o f age, but being in hiding for over a week and possesses a phenomenal amount of paid a fine o f $22.50 for assault and speed. It is likely that he will attract 1 battery. He goes to Eugene today on notice even in the big league before a county warrant. McFarland is recovering nicely from long. ! hia encounter. Don't forget to get something good E N V E L O P E S with blank return card at the market to be held Saturday at Kerr & Silsby’s store by the ladies of for sale at Sentinel office, 25c per hundred. the Presbyterian church. COSTS $22.50 FOR FUN