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7i-> i/strtst C r r\ (E0ttrnjp (S a w Ü w ttto l Volume VI COTTAGE GROVE, OREGON, THURSDAY, JUNE 2ft 1912 * I Number 40 W ILL NOT H AVE BOOK SH OW ER GETS A N N APO LIS A PPO IN TM E N T I ELECTRIC RIGHT-OF-WAY AGENT HAS BEEN IN GROVE Looking for Ground* for Location of Depot and Yarda on Last Side of Southern Pacific Railway Track* Glud to Get Back. Mr«. Antoinette Ohcrg o f Lincoln, Nat»., arrived hint week foi a viait with her mother, Mra. J. It. I.ewia. She will viait hero until her husband geta located In Portland, when they will make that their future home. Mr«. Oberg aaya she i« Kind to get hack to Oregon and never want« to go Kaal again to live. EXHIBITS EXPECTED TO OVERFLOW GRANGERS FEAR FAIR BUILD INGS NOT ROOMY ENOUGH Indication« Are That Exhibitor« W ill Have to Make Early Any doubt u« to whether the Oregon Klectrie ia considering hii early entry into Cottage Grove wav dispelled thin week by the presence o f a man who ia undoubtedly interested in securing a right-of-way for that company. Wiiile very secretive »U n it hi* inten tion« there Menu« to ! m > no que«tlon hut that he w m n picking out a tentative aite for depot and yarda. lie secured price« on several piece» o f property Huitahlc for the jiurpose on the East aide o f the Bouthen I'aciflc track*. The fact that the presumed agent took particular paina to obscure his real purjxme, makes it almost certain that something la in the wind, and acveral rem ark« dropped lead to the belief that the Oregon Electric sent him here. Work ia now progressing rapidly on the Electric above Albany ami every effort ia l>eing put forth fur an early entrance into Eugene. Woman’* Glut» Does Not Believe Lee Roy Woods, Jr., W ill Enter U. Results Would Justify Action. S. Naval Academy. There will la.- no tiook shower for the public lihr«ry unit'«« taken up by some one outside o f the W om an'« Club, this action living derided upon at the laat meeting o f the club. A majority o f member« seem«-«l to be o f the opinion that the reaulta would not iuMtifv the work and trouble neces- sary to arrange and carry out a shower. The Library Hoard ia. however, anx ious to receive any hooka which citi- ¿cna rare to donate. It ia requested that any contemplated donations be made at once, a« the list o f hooks to be purchased is now being made up and it i« desired to avoid any duplica tions. Those who have any sugges tions to make aa to books they would like to have in the library are urgently requested to make such suggestions , I ,mrn * * -v ‘ 1 Lee Roy Woods, Jr., received notice this week o f hia appointment aa a ea- del at the U. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, the appointment living made by U. S. Senator Chamberlain. Pro- j viding that he suce«afully pause« the entrance examination he w ill take up bis atudiea at the opening o f the fall term. Drowned Man’s Body Found. The body o f Thomas Wells, who was drowned at the McKenzie fish hatchery two weeka ago, was recovered Satur day below W alterville, 15 miles from the acene o f the accident. Drivers on the Booth-Kelly log drive found the body lodged in a log jam. Mr. and Mra. I). W. Bennett and Mrs. Johanna Hansen o f Portland are visiting at the J. S. Medley home. Application« for Choice Funeral of Thoc. H. Meadon. Conceoaion«. The granger* expect from prevent Indication« that the fair building« will not be aulllriently large to contain «11 the exhibit* to be made at the indu«- trial agricultural fair to !>e held under the auapicea o f Cottage (¡rove Orange September 6, 0 and 7. Arrangement* are being made to *erurc acveral large tenta If neeeaaary. The work o f putting the building» in repair waa completed Tue«day and everything la now ready for the placing o f the exhibit«. II. K. M etcalf haa been »«-cured a« poultry judge WILL CELEBRATE THE FOURTH OF JULY • - Cottage Grove w ill celebrate the Fourth in Riling atyle, auttieient fund» having been rained for the pur|xi*r. The celebration haa lieen placed in the hand» o f the niHili* company and the program will be arranged during the coming week. Wedding invitation» - The Sentinel. The funeral o f Thoa. H. Meadon, notice o f whoae death waa published in The Scntinol last week, waa held Kn day afternoon from Veatch’a chapel, Kev. W. J. Gardiner conducting the services. Interment was made in the local cemetery. None o f hi* relative*, who live in New York atate, were able to he preaeht. The miners o f the Bohemia district were well represented ami the floral tribute* were numerous. Mr. Meadon died June Hlh o f pneumonia, after a short lllneas, at the age o f 66 years. He was an optimistc character and hi* cabin door was alw ayt open to all. I.liK kov w oods , jr. “ Aside from the two or three columns under the heading ‘Tales of the Town,’ in which news, paid readers and display ads. are run together, your paper is one of the neatest and best arranged received in many months. W hy not eliminate the news items from this department entirely ?” I f he did not think as others did, he asld, " I ’ m from Missouri, you'll have to show m e ," from which fact he got the name o f "Show Me Tom .” His army record waa as follow s: Enlisted under Capt. Benjamin F. Dex ter, Go. L, 15th Regiment N. Y. En gineer Volunteers January 4. 1864, ami waa discharged June 13, 1H65, by spe cial order No. 142, H. <>. A. P. Re- enliated in Co. K. 2»*th Infantry August NEW FREIGHT RATES FAVOR ANNUAL SCHOOL ELECTION IS 21, 1866, serving full time and dis PEACEABLE ONE INDUSTRIAL A C TIV ITY . charged August 21, 1868, at Baton Rouge, La. Enlisted again December 26, 1H72, for flve years and waa dis Preliminary Adjustment W ill Give Expected Fight on Director Does charged at Fort Lyon, Col., December Not Materialize.— J. K. Barrett Southern Oregon Same Advan 26. 1877. Beats H. J. Shinn tages as Portland.— Go In He was grunted a pension from For Clerk. January 11, 1910. to Effect August 28th. SOUTHERN OREGON IS JONES AND BARRETT BENEFITTED i REELECTED Bound Over to Grand Jury. W h o R r c r lv r » A p p o in tm en t lo A n n a p o ll« |*)u>li> t>y A im u lru iia In criticizing a cojry o f The Sentinel, The Inland I Yin ter, oj Chicago, the recognized authority an tyfx>graphy, says: Paul Carter and Jesse Croft, who were taken before Justice Itryaun at Eugene last Thursday, charged with lewd cohabitation, have been bound over to the grand jury. This ia one o f the couples whose conviction in police court was noted in The Sentinel last week. It ia understood that Wm. Hohl, one o f the parlies caught in the raid last week, had disappeared previous to the issuance o f the county warrant. The case o f Elma Carter, the 14-year- old daughter o f Mra. Carter, who was taken before the juvenile court as a result o f last w eek’ s raid, was post poned a week. Auto Shop Opened. H. A. M iller has opened an automo bile shop in connection with his ma chine shop. The repair work w ill he in charge o f W. A . Cooper. A com plete line o f supplies w ill be carried and the shop w ill also be the agency J. T. Smith Nearly Meets for the M axwell car. Mr. M iller’s With a Most Serious Accident ability as a machinist is already well known. Mr. Cooper is experienced in I’ reaence o f mind and quick action in the automobile ami gas engine line. the nick o f time barely saved J. T. Smith from the lo «« o f hi« arm in an Some Fine Berries. accident at the Cottage Grove Manu K. Hull was in this morning with a facturing Co«', plant a few days ago. box o f strawberries, an even three Smith was working on the resawer. dozen o f which Ailed a quart box run A button was off his sleeve. A puff o f ning over full. Mr. Hull said he didn't air caught the dangling cloth, blowing have many large ones, at that, the last it Into the cog wheel. He saw the few daya not being the best o f berry cloth alowly fee«llng into the cog«, weather. drawing the arm closer and closer to W ill Play Roseburg. the dangerous wheels, and quickly A baseball game has been arranged threw off the belt with his other arm. The machine came to a stop just as for Sunday on the local grounds with The hand the arm waa going into the machine. the fast Roseburg team. A few seconds delay in throwing the will be out and a fast game ia prom- belts would have meant the loaa o f the ised. arm. I f the cog wheels had not been "T h e Shop” where good printing is slow ones his action would not have done—The Sentinel. been quick enough anyway. Aa it was, the flesh o f the forearm waa caught in Gets Lots of Babies. the meshea and the 'machine had to be W hile in Creawell yesterday Photog backed up to rrleaae him. rapher Armstrong took a picture o f The flesh at the injured point waa the Annual Baby Convention given by pretty badly chewed up, necessitating Mra. Henry Melton. There were 40 medical attention and a ahort vacation. babies in attendance, and the picture, That the injury was not more serious which is an excellent one o f the sub is due to Mr. Sn\ith’ s presence o f mind. jects, shows 36 o f the faces plainly. Loss of Arm Is Averted by Presence of Mind u J. I. Jones for director and J. K. Barrett for clerk was the result o f the school election Tuesday. This is Mr. Barrett's sixteenth term and Mr. Jones' second. The expected opposition to Mr. Jones for director did not develop. He was placed in nomination by Dr. D. L. Under the new rates, Cottage Grove Woods, the nomination was seconded will have the same advantage in rates by Elbert Bede, S. B. Mores and J. S. Medley and nominations closed. The as Portland. clerk cast the unanimous vote o f the From Miaaouri R iver points such aa | meeting for Mr. Jones. Dulutb, St. Paul. Omaha and Kansas For clerk H. J. Shinn was nominated City, the new class rates w ill be the by G. M. Hail and J. K. Barrett by W. same as the present terminal rates, a J. Gardiner. B arrett’s nomination reduction running all the way from was seconded by Dr. D. L. Woods and $1.23 at Ashland to 46c at Eugene on that o f Shinn by Mrs. C. W. Caldwell. first class freigh t and other ciasaea in The counting o f the vote showed 88 proportion. fur Barrett and 37 for Fhinn, after From Chicago and N ew York the which Judge Shinn announced that he rates will be cut proportionately but hHd voted for Barrett and moved to not to aa great an extent as from Mis make the latter'a election unanimous, souri River. which motion prevailed. While the reduction in the case o f A tax o f 5 mills for maintenance Southern Oregon points is quite mater o f the schools and 1 mill for repairs to ial, a matter o f much more conse furnaces was voted. The tax is 1 quence is the removal o f the discrimina mill less than fo r last year. tion against those points in favor of Portland and other terminal points be Anything in printing—The Sentinel. cause in the future the class rates from Eastern points w ill be the same Trying to Catch the Band Wagon. aa to Portland. This has been brought The Leader haa taken to copying .about by advancing some o f the rates The Sentinel's method o f advertising. to Portland but ail o f the class rates Must be afraid o f the steam roller. to Southern Oregon points are m ater Clear the track ! Toot ! Toot ! ! ially reduced. The special commodity rates have and manufacturing enterprises in the not yet been fixe«!. but under the Com Southern Oregon country, as they will mission's ruling these rates should be have an independent source o f supply no higher from Missouri R iver points at no disadvantage in freight rates. than to Portland hut they may be From the Atlantic seaboard the coast slightly higher from the Chicago, Pitts will still have an advantage in freight burg and New York territory. The rates because of w ater competition, railroads have, however, appealed to but the interior may still enjoy what the supreme court o f the United States ever advantage there ia in that compe from the-Commiasion’a order, which tition also. There can he no question but that the new class rates from Eastern points which w ill be effective by Au gust 28th at the latest w ill pemit a wide expansion o f business in all lines in Southern Oregon, encourage the lo cation o f new industries and the ex pansion o f old ones. may delay the adjustment o f the commodity rates. The effect o f these new rates w ill be that the interior cities w ill be able to purchase goods in the Middle Weat at exactly the same freigh t rate advan tage as the terminal points. This w ill tend to build up the jobbing trade of the Middle West and the commercial INJUNCTION THREATENED: DOES NOT MATERIALIZE Citizens of City Highly Incensed by Proposed Action of Rockolite People - Contractors Commence Work The injunction proceedings which the Looking Over Country. Rockolite paving people have threat Edwin Salton o f Noonaocket, South ened to bring against the City o f Cot Dakota, visited last week with the tage Grove to prevent the construction fam ily o f Mr. and Mra. Geo. Salton. o f streets on contracts recently let to Mr. Salton is looking over this section Ambrose & Birdsell, and which highly o f the country with a view to settling. incensed citizens o f the city, may not He expects to spend some time in Ore materialize. The contractors started gon and w ill return to his farm in work Tuesday without anything having South Dakota in time for threshing. developed ami the seething cauldron o f public opinion seems to have subsided. The Rockolite people claim that under the speciflcations for the paving | for Weat Main, North Pacific Highway and the North end o f Sixth Street, it can not be put doyvn without infring ing on patents owned by the Rockolite DEMANDS OF RAILROAD WORK people. In what they claimed to be an at CAUSE IMPROVEMENT tempt to protect their patent rights, as soon as the contract waa let to their competitors at a lower bid than their But It W ill Be Some Time Bofore own, the Rockolite people, according Mill Owners Recuperate to the best evidence obtainable, im From Last Year’s mediately took steps to try to get pro Losses. perty owners on each o f the three streets to assist them in gettin g in junctions against allowing the work to Lumber conditions in the W illam ette proceed. Many o f the property owners V alley are considerably better than at along the street and other citizens o f this time last year, due largely to the the city were greatly worked up by the demand created by extensive railroad prop«sed action, the talk even going construction work, but they have not ao far aa to suggest tar and feathers reached a normal eondition as yet, nor for the members o f the company who are they expected to this year. were in the city. This was followed The losses sustained by operators last by a mass meeting Friday night, at year were heavy and it w ill be some which the company was excoriated by time before those losses are recup prominent citizens in scathing lan erated. guage and the proposed action de Prices are yet low, necessitating a nounced as malicious and most repre lower wage scale, but so far nodifficu 1- hensible. Much feelin g was stirred (Continued on page 7.) up by the statement that in speaking o f the street committee o f the City Council a representative o f the com pany had used vile, foul and obscene language. LUMBER CONDITIONS ARE BETTER During the meeting the representa tives o f the company, who were the city, were invited to attend and make explanations supporting their side o f the case. They evidently did not un derstand the invitation and were taken unawares. They failed to make any satisfactory explanation, but stated that it was their intention to hold up the improvement i f possible. It was hard work for the speakers to control themselves and give the guests cour teous treatment, and when they retired they had a pretty good idea that some thing was brewing. No definite action was taken by the meeting, but the opinion was pretty generally expressed that it looked as i f the Rockolite peo ple were taking an underhanded way to vent their spite on Ambrose 4 Birdsell underbidding them, and, i f that was the case, drastic action should be taken by the citizens. - The fact that any delay in allowing the paving to pjroceed might delay the work another year on account o f the shortness o f the season,(stirred up con siderable feeling. In an interview Saturday Mr. Heinecke made the statement that it was the intention o f the Rockolite peo ple to put Ambrose & Birdsell out of business, and while it was to be re gretted that Cottage Grove should be made to suffer, they had to make use o f whatever means came to hand. This statement was denounced in unmistable terms, and decried as an unfair way to attempt to protect patent rights. A t this time Mr. Heinecke was made to feel how deeply the citizens o f the city fe lt on the subject, and since then nothing seems to have been done with the proposed injunction. The o f ficers o f the company le ft the city the same day, but citizens interested hardly believe the attempt to atop the work has been given up entirely. In fact it is pretty certain that something is brewing at Portland. I f the company proceeds to protect its rights in such a way that it w ill not stop the work on the streets, the in tense feelin g will subside. In fact, many have signified a willingness to support the company in what appears to be a fa ir action. Trimmed by Oakland. In the game with Oakland Sunday Cottage Grove was done up to the tune o f 5 to 0. The score was partly due to the fact that the places o f several The rates from California have not members o f the regular team were yet been adjusted, but as the Com- taken by outsiders. misaion intimated in its tentative de Almost Unbelieveable. cision in January, follow ing which W. H. Fowler, who lives six miles there waa further hearing in Washing ton in March, it intends to order quite north o f Eugene on the river road, a heavy cut in the freigh t rates to and claims to have raised a strawberry from California points. This order plant which has on It 394 berries by actual count. Can you beat it? may be expected at any time now. CURLING IRON CAUSES PECULIAR INJURY In a way which she is unable to e x plain Mrs. James Atkinson met with a peculiar accident Monday which nearly resulted in the loss o f her eye and may yet mean serious injury. The injury was inflicted with a curling iron. A s near as Mrs. Atkinson can explain she had the iron, which had been o ver heated, in her hand and was shifting it around to prevent it from burning her hand. In some way the iron slipped and in attempting to catch it she struck it in such a manner that it flew into her eye, inflicting a painful and ser ious burn. It is thought that only im mediate medical re lie f saved the eye ball. Mrs. Atkinson was visitin g at H a l sey when the accident happened. Mr. Atkinson was immediately called and brought the baby back home with him, but Mrs. Atkinson was not able to be moved. She is expected home today. Nothing Like Willamette. Mr. and Mrs. John H. Hull returned Sunday from a trip to Portland. Seat tle, Tacoma and Cle Elum. They en joyed the trip immensely, but Mr. Hull says none o f the places visited com pare with the famous, fertile, fruitfu W illamette. Baby Contest at Arcade Is Attracting Attention Good Natured R iva lry Among Parents of Many Little Tots The baby contest at The Arcade ia stirring up much good natured rivalry among parents o f little tots and before the contest is over all the good look ing babies in the city w ill be pitted against one another in the contest for the two prizes to be given away to the two youngsters receiving the largest number o f votes. AH babies under two years o f age are eligible. When a baby is entered its picture is taken free o f charge at one o f 'he photograph galleries and all the pictures are thrown on the screen at the play house each night. Patrons receive vote coupons and vote for their choice. The prizes are on exhibition at Scholl’s and Madsen’s jew elry stores. Ten per cent o f the receipts w ill go to the library fund. Honk! Honkt The Bellingham Second Hand Store’ s ad which appeared in The Sentinel two weeks ago pretty nearly cleaned out the store on the article« advertised, ao the owners say. Honk ! Honk !