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COTTAGE GROVE, OREGON, THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 13, 1913
Arrives to Prepare
Bossy Cows! Keep
FAR FROM CIVILIZATION; HEMMED IN
for the Rush
Off Parkings!
Volum« No. XXIV Gottng» Grovs L t i d t r
Volum s No.
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MILITIA MEN MAY GO
TO MEXICO
Believing flint within n few months
it will be Impossible to get a good lo­
LOCAL COMPANY ONE OF MOST cation in the city, II. I*. Schmidt lias
arrived from Florence and ia opening
AVAILABLE
up a restau ran t on Knat Main near the
Luts Inspection Careful and Thor­ Southern i'ariflc depot. He saya be ia
getting in early to lie ready for the
ough in Anticipation of Pnasl-
busineas th at ia certain to tie here
within a few months
He ha* rented
ble Hurry Call to
the entire building formerly occupied
Boundary.
by Die Home restaurant.
In ruse of intervention in Mexico,
which ie not im probable at any mo­
m ent, the Oregon N ational (iuar<l ia
more than likely to he called to the
front and lllh i'e „ C. A. (!., located at
C ottage Grove, ia considered one of the
moat available bccauae of the reputa­
tion of ita members as riflemen.
The annual inapeclion held Friday
waa a very careful and thorough one,
orders that it should he havii g been
laaued from W ashington. Of 69 mem­
bers of the company, -til were present,
aeveral going to considerable expense
and inconvenience to attend.
Five
were unable to attend on account of
aickneas.
Captain K. W. Collins of the Const
A rtillery Corps, U. S. A., inspecting
ofttcer, was highly pleased With the in­
spection and hia report will he th at the
fom pany is drilled up to a high degree
of efficiency, fully accoutered and
ready to take the field at a m om ent's
notice. For th at m atter, all the com­
panies in Colonel Hammond's command
rank high in m ilitary tactics and are
so thoroughly equip|>ed that in cane of
being called out to protect American
interests in Mexico, the troop* would
go into the fray as infantry.
"W ar rumora are flying thick and
fast and the Coast A rtillery Corps mav
receive order* a t any lime to mobolize
for an invasion of Mexico,” said
Colonel C. C. Hammond a few days
ago.
"M ilitary authorities estim ate
th a t the lltst occupation of th at trou­
bled realm will require 250,000 men.
Of thia number fiO.OOo regulars and
150,000 N ationial G uardsmen will be
available for m ilitary duty.
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RAILROAD BUILDING
UNDER WAY
Oregon A Southeastern Commences
Extension at Both Ends
of Its Road.
BY SNOW; OLD MINER PASSES AWAY
Old Man Long, Odd Character and Well Known in
Bohemia Minin# District, Dies at Cabin of Neighbors
A pair of »hues sent all the way from
Thomas, Okla., by parrel post, were
received tills week by V. Gotf with in­
structions to half sole them and have
them ready for delivery when the
owner arrived. The shoes were called
for immediately upon being repaired.
Disaton, Ore., Feb, 13.—(Special to health for some time and a week ago
The Sentinel.
Fifteen miles from the made an attem pt to g et to Cottage
nearest wagon road, trails buried 10' Grove, but found him self too weak to
feet deep with snow und 30 miles from rntke the trip. He gradually grew
civilization or medical aid, Old Man | weaker. Unable longer to care for
Long, a well known character in the , himself he went to the cabin of hia
Bohemia mining district, but who was nearest neighbors, Fred Rarey, Wm.
so much of a recluse th a t even his given Flake and Jack Schideler, where he
name ia not known to hia acquain­ died.
tances, died at the cabin of neighbors
L ittle is known of Long's relatives
on Steam boat Creek 30 miles south of except th at he has two daughters.
here several daya ago and has been One is thought to be a Mrs. Ford liv­
Roads Getting Better.
buried in Hie mountains because of in- ing near S eattle. He was about 70
. ability to get the body out.
years of age and belonged to Union
A fter several weeks of dry w eather,
Long had lived in the diatrict a num­ l<orige No. 49. I. O. O, F ., Union, Ore. the Cottage Grove roads are drying out
ber of yeara doing placer mining and ! The coroner of Douglas County has and farm ers coming into the city report
traveling much improved.
¡trapping.
He had been in failing been notified of the death.
$40,000 HIGH SCHOOL
(STALKED
CRUSHED UNDER CAR
AT BROWN CAMP
Shoes Come by Post
for Repairs
Would Probably Be Erected on
Ground Now Occupied by East
Side School Building.
A school election will be called for
the pur|Miae of voting upon the erection
of a new school house. The decision
to rsll the election wss reached a t the
recent m eeting of the board of d irec­
tors, hut it lias been found hat it ia
necessary for the election In be peti­
tioned for.
There is no question about the need
of a new building, but there is some
difference of opinion as to what kiad
of a building should be erected and
where it should be located.
Residents on the east side o f the
railroad have long wanted a building in
th at part of the city, but it is probsble
th at a m ajority of tsxpsyera favor the
erection of a high school building on
the property at present occupied by the
East Side school, the present building
to be moved south on the school prop-
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guson, E xeter, Calif., to Rev. M. O.
Brink, Red Bluff. Calif. :
"B y ro n ’s Troubadours in E xeter Feb.
I. Best audience in town for years. U % j
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Applause was te rn lie. Encores on
most numbers went ss high as three,
four, five and six times. People of
town generally pronounce them the
{ A cedar tree felled 58 years ago a pioneer who has passed away. The
musical wonders of the age.
j was made into fence posts a few days wood is still sound and the two score
»go by (). I’. Adams, who ia now nearly posts made this week are as good as
85 yeara of age, is a pioneer of the those made out of a part of the tree
d r o v e country and remembera when over a half century ago when the Grove
the tree was felled by Jam es Shields, country was a wilderness.
The Oregon & S outheastern Railway
has commenced extension work at both
ends of its line. A t the east end an
extension will be built n mile and a
half from Disaton Into the forest re­
serve where the U. S. la g g in g Co. of
thia city recently purchased a large
tra c t. At the west a spur track wilt
be built from its yards in the city to
th e J . H. Chambers mill at Latham.
Inter-Denominational Census Shows
J . II. Chandlers and the Brown Lum­
224 Who Do Not Profess to
ber Co. will both be out of logs within
Be Christians.
a few weeks, and both extensions will
be rushed. Work in the mountains
The religious census of C ottage Grove
will be delayed som ewhat on account recently taken in connection with the
of snow.
union revival m eetings by an inter-de­
nominational
com m ittee, shows the fol­
Mrs. Cochran Sprains Ankle.
In stepping from the sidewalk to the lowing re s u lts :
....4 2 5
crossing on W est Main S treet Friday Number of fam ilies visited
Number of Christians who are mem­
evening, Mra. S. E. Cochran severely
bers of local churches or relig­
sprained her ankle. Her son Horace
ious societies ss follows:
assisted her in g e ttin g home.
A d v e n tis ts ................................. .........30
B a p tis ts .................................. . ......... 56
Catholics............... f , ................... ........ 23
C hristian S cisnce..........
.. ......... 10
Church of God or I’enticostal. .......... 9
Disciples o r C hristians............ ..........105
M ethodists.................................. ..........154
I’rcsby t n r i a n s . .... ........................... .......... 74
Thrilling Tale of Adventure on
Number o f C h r i s t i a n s w h o are
Tree Felled 58 Years Makes Good Posts
CHURCH MEMBERS OF
GROVE 620
Camp Biscuits Bring
Disaster to Animals
Windberry Creek
Oscar Woodard returned this week
from W indberry, where he spent s
couple months with his brother Albert
on the la tte r's homes tead. The cause
of hla refurn is clouded in mystery.
He had sam ples of coal which had been
found near A lb ert's claim and it was
first thought he had come home to or­
ganize a mining company and float a
couple million in bonds.
The Sentinel haa made deductions
and believes the real cauae to he some­
thing else. It was not the fear of cou­
gars, wild cats or other wild animals.
His complexion tells the story.
It
m ust be A lb ert's cooking th a t drove
him back to civilization. This conclu­
sion is reached p artly from hia own
story. One night a pan of biscuits
was set out to cool. In the morning
they were gone and hundreds of tracks
in the snow told the story. Following
the tra il till it crossed s creek the
boys found 10 grsy wolves and one
cougar who had sunk and drowned
while try in g to swim the strenm . The
hides netted $10.25 each.
Heeding the complaints of property
owners who have been |>e*tereri by
having parkings and flower gardens
damaged by obstrederous bovines, the
city council has instructed the city
attorney to draw up an ordinance pro­
viding a penalty for allowing animals
being driven through the city to de­
stroy or injure private property. A
i number of property owners taking
1 pride in the appearance of th eir park­
ings and yards have been put to con­
siderable expense and inconvenience
by having bushes and grounds tram pled
by live stock. Many property owners
have neglected their parkings and
yardB for this reason.
OREGON ELECTRIC RUMORS MANY HONOR MEMORY OF
FILL -----------
THE AIR
REV. C. ------------
H. WALLACE
Preparation of Store Building for Funeral Conducted Under Auspices
of A. F. A A. M. Is Largely
Occupancy Starts Story of
Attended Affair.
Extension Work.
The funeral of Rev. C. H. Wallace,
Rumors of immediate work on an
extension of the Oregon Electric to whose death occurred last Thursday,
C ottage Grove have been rife during was held Friday and was one of the
the past week. Sudden orders to re­ most widely attended of any ever held
move the Hour from the I>ong building in the city. There was hardly stand­
east of the O. & S. E. yards and pre­ ing room in the Presbyterian Church,
pare it for occupancy gave rise to the where the services were conducted by
belief th at it would be used as head- Rev. E. A. Ballis, assisted by Revs.
qarters by surveying crews and right- I G roat and W’ooley, the la tte r two being
of-way men. The owner of the build­ pioneer preachers and co-workers of
ing states th a t it has been made ready the dead.
Members of the A. F. & A. M., of
for occupancy merely because he be­
lieves locations in C ottage Grove will which Mr. W allace had been a'm em ber
over a half century, and I. O. O. F.,
m e m b e r s o f c h u r c h e s e l s e w h e r e 204 soon be in g re a t demand and he withes
of which he had been a member 47
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to
have
the
building
in
shape
to
rent.
Total church m em bers........... ......... 620
years, escorted the body to the grave,
The
opinion
prevails,
however,
that
Number of Christians not mem­
bers of churches........................... 116 when President Young, o f the Oregon where the full Masonic ceremony was
Number of adults not Christians . . ‘224 Electric, returns from the East an conducted. Interm ent was made in A.
Announcement o f an extension o f the F. & A. M. cem etery.
Number of children in Sunday
School ............................................ 328 line to the south will be made.
There is only one way to g e t all the
Number of children not in Sunday
Everything you can mention is in news of the Grove country. T hat is
S chool.............................................. 124
in The Sentinel.
The Sentinel
PRIZE FRUIT TREES GO QUICKLY
TO TEN GROVE LADS WHO
READ SENTINEL
The announcement in The Sentinel
last week th a t F ru it Inspector C. E.
S tew art had 40 fru it trees to be given
to 10 Cottage Grove hoys who would
plant them on th eir own or parents'
land and agree to take proper care of
them , caused a rush for the trees and
many applications were received th a t
could not be filled. Each boy got four
trees. The Sentinel had barely been
distributed when applications began to
come in. The lucky lada are Burrel
Prophet. Frank Jones, W ilbur Spray.
C hester Anlauf, F letcher Harlow,
Jacob Myers, Kenneth Spencer, Hassell
McGee, Marion Huff, Fred Thornton.
HERE TO GET IN ON GROVE’S FIRE RESULTS FROM SPARK
LEFT IN BROOM
FUTURE PROSPERITY
A live spark left in a broom which
had been used to sweep up some coals,
nearly caused a serious conflagration
a t the Thos. Allen home late Sunday
afternoon. A fter being used the broom
had been put in a corner of the kitchen.
A few m inutes later the attention of
Mr. and Mra. Allen whs attracted by a
noise like crackling straw . The door
of the kitchen had been closed and the
smoke had not been noticed. The
broom had ignited, had set fire to some
clothing and badly scorched the wall
If you don’t read The Sentinel, you paper and wood work. A few pails of
never hear of half the things that hap­ w ater extinguished the flames with
pen around home.
dam ages of about $75.
" I t looks to me as if your city cer­
tainly has a b rig h t future, and I am
here expecting to make arrangem ents
to partake of a portion of the good
things in store for y o u ," said Dr. A.
J. Hendry of Marshfield, who was in
the city this week. " I am pleased
with your neat little city, its paved
streets and progressive appearance.”
Mr. Hendry is a dentist and will
make C ottage Grove hia perm anent
home within a year.
Bud Allen Meets Terrible Death
When He Falls From Log­
ging Train.
Bud Allen, an employe of the Brown
Lumber Co. a t its Rocky Point camp,
fell under the wheels of a logging car
this morning at about 8 o'clock and
was instantly zilled. The body was
horribly mangled.
Mr. Alien, with another employe,
was riding the car down from the
woods, where it had been loaded and
was being lowered by donkey engine
to the Oregon & Southeastern tracks.
He was riding the loaded car and his
assistant the trailer behind. No one
witnessed the accident, and bow he
came to fall from the car is a mystery,
as he was a very careful workman.
The morning was frosty and it is
thought possible th a t the brakes may
have been affected by the cold and in
catching jerk ed hint from a safe foot­
ing. The man on the rear car saw
him as the car passed over him and
brought the train to a standstill. Life
was extinct when picked up.
Mr. Allen had been an employe at
the Brown camps for four or five years.
He leaves a young wife a t S tar. His
mother, Mrs. Love Allen, and several
brothers and sisters live in this city.
I. H. Veatch was among the super­
visors who attended the convention at
Eugene Saturday.
C ottage Grove Leader No. 4 7
C ottage Grove Sentinel No. 21
GROVE CYNOSURE OF
MANY EYES
INQUIRIES INCREASING F O R
BUSINESS LOCATIONS
Certain Activity in Lumber Busi­
ness and Probabilities in Rail­
road Building Attract Atten­
tion of Outsiders.
A g re a t change in business conditions
in C ottage Grove before the end of a
year is certain. Everything points to­
ward healthful activity.
The news of the sale of a unit of the
Umpqua forest reserve to the U nited
S tates Logging Co. of th is city has
turned many eyes toward C ottage
Grove.
The prospects of a road to Lorane
this summer, to be continued to the
coast, the probability of the Oregon
Electric reaching here within a twelve-
month, have both assisted in a ttra c tin g
attention to this b rig h t sta r of the f a ­
mous, fertile, fruitful W illam ette.
Increased inquiries for business loca­
tions and m anufacturing sites, activity
in real estate, increased inquiries for
Grove farm s and ranches, indicate th a t
a stim ulus is being given industry.
The saw mill business will probably
do the m ost in increasing prosperity,
and extensive preparations are being
made for activity in this line. The
Brown Lum ber Co. is quite likely to
construct a new mill, J . H. Chambers
will enlarge his equipm ent, the J . I.
mill a t Disston will be put into opera­
tion a fte r an idleness of a year and a r ­
rangem ents are being made to operate
many sm aller mills th a t have been
idle. I t is also rumored th a t Bootb-
Kelly will resum e operations a t S ag i­
naw.
Recovering from Small Pox.
H. H. Harm es, form erly of this city,
has nearly recovered from an attack
of smallpox with which he was
stricken a t Portland two months ago.
He was on th e police force with Frank
Holderman, who died a week ago.
GROVELEADSCOUNTY
IN BIRTHS
Vital Statistics for Month of Janu­
ary Show Many Peculiarities
in Mortality.
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C ottage Grove leads the county for
num ber of births during the month of
January, the report of the county
j
health officers gives 15. Junction City
;
is
close w ith 14. Eugene, the largest
!
city, has only 11.
It will be noted th a t quite a num b er
of com paratively young persons passed
John B. Bales, Resident of Dorena away, adults whose ages ranged from
25 to 44 years. Ordinarily there is not
for 27 Years, Is Buried
such a large percentage of the young
Yesterday.
and middle aged who figure in the
John Bales, an old soldier and a monthly report. Following are the
resident ot the Grove country for 27 fig u re s:
years, died Monday a t Dorena at the
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age of 85 years and four months. He
had been failing for several years and
Sells Lunch Wagon.
had been seriously ill for a month or
David A lexander, who had the depot
more. Death resulted from old age. lunch wagon for eight months, has sold
Funeral was held yesterday, Rev. Barn­ his business to Jack Lewis, who was
h a rt officiating and interm ent being form erly employed by H. D. Lincoln.
made in Sears cem etery. Seven mem ­
bers of Appomattox PosJ, G. A. R.,
attended the funeral.
Mr. Bales was born a t Finley Bluffs,
Jackson County, Ind., Oct. 11, 1827.
He served 7 months in the Civil War
as 1st lieutenant with the F irst Mis­
souri V olunteers., being obliged to
leave the service because of being
stricken with pneumonia.
He was
m arried in 1865 to Miss C alitha M urril,
When a Chinaman says he will do a
who died in 1869. One child of this
union survives. Alvin of Missouri. He thin g he does it, and doesn 't w ait to
be told th ree or four tim es, and when
was rem arried in 1869 to Miss Naomi
Bridges, who survives and is 67 years of he say " d in n e r" he means dinner and
not supper or lunch or some o th er hifa-
age. The surviving children by the
lu tin fool society meai.
second wife are F. C., C. E., U. S.,
C. A. B artell, who has been the vic­
A rthur, Mrs. Zilla Land, Mrs. Mary
tim of more than his share of peculiar
England, Mrs. Anns Doolittle, Mrs.
things, vouches for the tru th of this
Minnie W agner, Miss Rebecca Bales,
story.
all of Dorena and vicinity.
When he recently tran sferred his
culinary departm ent from the C ottage
Hotel to The Oregon he told Louis
Fong, the Chinese cook : "H a v e ev ery ­
thing ready, and as soon as dinner is
over we w ill pack up and m o v e." B art
Through the C ottage Grove dispatch m eant six o'clock dinner, but the
which appeared in The Oregonian con­ chink’s social education is lacking and
cerning th eir 60th wedding anniver­ dinner to him comes a t 12 o ’clock.
About 5 o'clock th a t afternoon B art
sary, Mr. and Mrs. A. B. A tkins of
this city heard from a friend from was w andering around his new q u ar­
whom they had not heard for a number te rs preparatory to moving. Stepping
of years and received a present from into the kitchen to see th a t everything
relatives whose w hereabouts they did was cleaned up, he was greeted w ith an
not know. The form er was Mra. odor of cooking and an explosion from
Davison Gray of Ashland. The la tte r the Chinaman, who dropped his potato
were Mr. and Mrs. J . W. Perkins of paring long enough to ex claim : “ Why
Independence.
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OLD SOLDIER PASSES
AT 85 YEARS
HEAR FROM RELATIVES AN D
FRIEND THROUGH DISPATCH
TELLING OF ANNIVERSARY