Slirp (F
Vuluiii«
No.
XXV
INCORPORATED
(Srmi?
WITH OOTTAOB OROVE LEADER AUGUST 1, ISIS.
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COTTAGE GROVE, OREGON, WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 2, 1914
Number 49
BUNGALOW FOR Shrivelled Trees Given Away REV. FAGAN ACCEPTS CALL
300.000 FEEIOF ANOTHER
EARLY MORNING
WEST MAIN ST.
TO ALBANY
Now Bear Fruit Profusely
LUMBER EOLI OF
FIDE DESTROYS
FORESI FLAMES
BOLDON STORE
Hhrrmun Godard bu» recaivad u con
Iriirt for it m odarn bungalow on W est
If liny further proof ware naaa»»nry
M1« in HI real. T h a nuina of Ilia |ier»on Hint this is un extriiordinnry peurb
fur whom it in to ba built bn» not bean year, Win. Lunda»» bn» thut proof in
inii■ b* public.
four thraa yenr old tree».
Dangsrous Tiro un Llttlo Itlvsr Nsar
Blark Butto KxtlUKuUlieil Only Aftoi
llnxl Fighi by Warden Bruuibauali
wtth C'row of F.litht Man
Five Conflagrntion» in Prog-
reta al Same Time
Mr. G odurd bum ul»o recaivad tha con
Iruct for coiiMtructing nn niblition to
Ilia llorann »rboid bouaa.
LOCAL WOMEN ON PROGRAM
AT EUGENE
Mr». K II W ood» und Mr». I.. II. lb*
M|«nin of th i* c ity nre on the program
PUr# un BmlUi Kivar Controllai! Iiy nt the two di!v» ’ Naa»ion o f tha county
Warilau Bliortrldge nini Craw Only W C T. I ”, being held in Eugene. Mr».
Aitar Monili of Flglitiug Havaral Wood» i» présidant of tin* county union
nml comi Ur t » tba «camon. H er subject
Minali Pira* Reported ou Row Kivar
i», " Lum berm en nnd M in e r» .”
Mr«.
D rH p n in i» president o f the Inani union
In t(n> tifighliorliood of 2,IMMI acre» of
nnd spank» d u rin g Inani p ré sid a n t» *
tlio furoai renar ve w»rc loirni’il ovar In
hour.
Ilio n*. l’iil Uri'» in G i i * Lon d on ro iin tr)'
l'ro b n b ly 24MI.IMNI or lini,(Min fa ri of lini
EXH IBIT' BUILDING
IS READY FOR
FALL FAIR
bar » a ra ileatfoyed.
Tb a ra wara Ava fin*» in } * r * Irradi ni
■ma lim a, lln* mo»t avrioiM being <>« l.il
tèa K iva r iinnr llln rk Multa.
Pira
Wnrilan Prnnk Brumbautjh unii n arai»
of a itili rni'ii b a ia ut ln»l auarao*|ad in
goti mg Ib i» nini unofhar »ninttar Ara
umlar control.
P ira W nrilan M. 1*. N h o rtrid gc hit» Fruit and Vegetable Committee Accept
»Uri*anlail ni ge ttln g thraa lira» Ulular
Ing Exhibit« and Putting Them Into
control in Ibi* « im a ta rrilory. T h e firr
Cold Storage -Colt Show and {letter
un W ilnon (’rack, w kiah I* « lill b u rn ìn g
Babi«« Context Will Be features
»orna, rcquircd « n in n ili’» fig b tin g »Itti
craw» rn n gtn g fruii* Ibraa tu n i* man
The obi high »rhtMil building is ready
A la m i 5l mi «aia« wara liurnad ova r in
for the opening of the grange fair Hep-
tha ibraa Ara» bundlad by Ma. Mhorl
• ember 17. All ’Vyit 1» now neces»ary
rnljjr and ubim i 100,IMMI tea! o f titubar
to make the fair a auree»» is for the
dantrovad. Ila doan noi k n i w axnatly
grower« to bring in the exhibit«.
The
h o » tu uà li t a r n lo r y * M b iira rd ova r in
rommittee« in rharge have rereived re
tha lira» bundlad bjr M i P rq nib a u gh ,
|Mirts that indiente that the exhibit»
bui i-at tinteti*» It Ut lim ili 2500 urrà»
will be much more extensive than they
Il in proball)«* tbu! n! la uni SIM.’.IMJO faal
have been nt either of the previous M
of liio b a i » a ra danlroyail oli thut largì*
hibitinn*. A large amount of fruit and
un nrrrage,
vegetatile» has already lieen rolleeteil
Havarnl Ara» oaaurrad In tha Kow
by the fruit rommittee and put into
Itiv a r co untry d u rili# tha |ia»t waak
rnld storage.
Clint Htewart, John
lin a w a* « n i o f Ih * rtver nana K o »
Under and Oliver Veateh are the mem
K iv a r |«o»loltiaa und »un «**tingui»h*d
ber» of thi« committee nnd will cure
by VI u n irli l»nva llrilinbn U|(b und rraw
for perishulde produce.
liafora II g u in n l tnuah heudw uy.
T»o
All exhibits must tie at the building
or ibraa »muli Ara» oaaurrad nonr i k r
before 3 o ‘clock Thursday, Heptrmber
m mith of Taalaa» C rack und ut lan»t
17, the opening day.
una Ibrautanad lo <!i*»troy una or two
Two special feature* of the fair will
building».
be the colt show Friday afternoon and
Tha origìn of nll tha Ora* i» noi
knoMii bill it i» Iboiight tbul una »un the better babies contest Saturday
»al to alanr «orna lumi und tbul ona or afternoon.
At the meeting of the fair board Inst
Iwo riiugbt nrcidanlly frolli »lanhing»
week
a »port» committee wn* uppuinted,
limi wara being burnad.
consisting of G. M. Mnrksbury, H. !..
Muekin und Curtis Veateh.
Ex Benator Pulton V i«iu Ilare.
K x Nanntor C. \V. Pulton, Mru. Piti
ton nnd M i. unii Mr». F re d e ric k Pulton
o f A l t a r i * ^wara in tha city T hurnd oy
n flaru ou n for u «bort tinte und vixitad
ut thè homo of M r. und Mru. Herbert
K .'k in , lincia nnd n unl o f Mr». P rril
a rirk P u llo n , w bo wn» M i»» Hurbnrn
P.ukin bafora bar ninrringt*. Mr». P oi
ton visitad tha K u k in fn m ily frai|uantly
bafora bar inarringe,
Hunting Be anon Re open*.
The hunting senson, cloned by pro
rlnmatinn of Governor West, re opened
Tuesday, no further proclamation hnv
ing been issued. The woods are in n
more dangerous condition than when
the senson closed. The extremely dry
ness of the brush makes hunting diffi
cult and it is not lihely that much hunt
ing will be attempted until nfter a rain
The Hentinel is u live wire. If you
don't believe it, tnke hold of n copy.
GROVE RIFLEMEN WIN
TIBBETTS TROPHY
AT CLACKAMAS
Sixth Oo. Team Is Composed Entirely
of New Men and Usual Number of
Honors Are Not Brought Home.
Private Tennis Distinguishes IUmself.
The Hixth Company rifle tenm did
not carry off the usimi nunihrr of honors
nt the recent state shoot nt Claekamns.
L. C. Tennis, however, won the Na
tional Kifle Association matches and
carried off the Tiblieits trophy. This is
the first time this trophy hna been put
up. Private Tennis was alee success
ful in securing a pince with the artillery
corps in these contests.
The reason that the Cottage Grove
team did not carry off more honors was
because it was composed entirely of
new men. The crack shots who have
assisted before in bringing home the
honors were nimble to go this year.
The team was composed of Lieutenant
Woods, Corporal Palmer, Privates Hull
and Tennis. Merle Heovell was captain
of the team, ('apt. J. C. Johnson attend
ing as range officer.
>
If a want ad. in The Hentinel gets
you »onicthing you don’t wnnt, just put
in another ad. and get rid of the article.
Fire Heroes Risk Lives
For Clothing
Dummy
Friends of Larry Brumfield und l ’hil
Hnhl have n good joke on them ns the
result of the recent fire at the J. H.
Boldon store.
The men were doing
heroic work ill »living the stork when
they discovered what nppenred to be n
well dressed woman standing in a cor
ner where she would soon be nsphixint
ed with smoke. Not forgetting chiv
alry in even so exciting n moment, the
men rushed in, grasped the woman nnd
carried her to the fresh air, where she
glared at them blankly.
At first the
men were inclined to believe that the
womnn hud died standing erect. Heroic
measures were necessary to bring back
the spnrk of life. Grnsping the wo
man 'a arni*— No, they did not grasp
her nrma. They started to but could
find none. Then it dawned iipou them
thut they had saved a clothing dummy.
Messrs. Hruinfield nnd Hohl were not
the only ones fooled in n like manner
during the progress of the fire. An
other man using more profanity than
the occasion seemed to require was ml
nmniahed that ” n woman is standing
there.”
He looked Ht the supposed
womnn nnd shut up like n dam.
Alexander Churchill la Dead.
Mr. nnd Mrs. Shelby Churchill re
turned Friday evening from Coles Vnl
ley, Douglas County, where they at
tended the funeral of Mr. Churchill ‘a
brother, Alexander Hamilton Churchill,
o f Hopmere, Marion County.
Mr.
Churchill died in Salem August 2ft, after
an illness of severnl weeks. He was
well known in this city ns he had visit
ed here frequently.
He crossed tho
plains from Iowa in 1N54 nnd nettled
in Douglas County, where he lived until
a few years ugu, when he moved with
his family to Hopmere. He was buried
on the old homestead of the Churchill
fumily.
Kev Howard Pagan, who wax pastor
of the Chri»tian church o f this city last
Grain lx Llgtt.
The Hcott Chrlumun threshing outllt year, has accepted a call to Albany. It
bus completed the season ’■ run in the is understood that he will enter upon
Kow Kiver and Moaby Creek valile». The ilia new duties at once. Mr. Pagan was
The tree» wara given him by J. II. run wn« a fuirly good one but all grain given a leave of absence from the local
Bobbin whan ha w h n setting out bin was light on nreount of the unusual dry church for the summer and would have
orrhurd on his place on Knox Mill. The season.
returned here but for the offer from Al-
tree» were somewhat shriveled up, but
j bany.
Mr. Lnnde»» thought he would lie un
Confirms Report of Resumption
grateful indeed if he did not at least
W. H. Zimmerman, who is interested
pi ii nt trees thut were given him,
He with hi« brother, W. .1. Zimmerman, in
put the entire four Into the ground side tho West Count properties in the Bo
by side nnd only u few feat spurt at hemia district, left for Portland last
the reur of bin woodshed.
Protected Wednesday.
He confirmed tha report
The Burkholder W oods Co. has an ad.
by the shad they have grown to n of the contemplated resumption of
j in thi* issue stating that it is going to
height of about fourteen feat in tha operations at the properties.
quit business. Thi* firm w u established
thraa yenr» und nre weighed down with
1 some twenty five years ago and is one
fruit o f tha early Crawford variety.
Legni blanks—The Hentinel.
j of the oldest in the eity.
Next to
l.ureh’s it is probably the oldest. It
has been an important factor in the bus
I iness life o f the eity and the members
> of the firm,« particularly Mr. Burk
; holder, have always taken an important
I part in the affairs o f the eity.
Didn’ t Do Bo Bad.
Appreciating to the fullest extent the
Several humorous incidents were re moderate climate of the famous, fer
corded in connection with the recent tile, fruitful Willamette Valley, C. W.
firr. One happened to n couple of young Caldwell returned Friday from a trip
men who were going away on the night to Nebraska and Colorado. In Nebraska
train shortly after the fire. They were particularly he found the heat very op
togged up in their best and mueh of presive and says that for two weeks he
their elotbing appeared to be new. A thought he would die.
friend approached, looked them over
Mr- Caldwell found financial condi
and exclaimed, ‘ ‘ Well you didn't do so tions in the Middle West much the Die* at Age of 8eventy-five from Heart
bad at the fire, did you ?”
same that they are here.
Times arc
Trouble After Lingering Illness of
slow ut present, but with large crops
Several Months.—Four Sons and a
The Sentinel is u live wire. If you and the prospect of big price« the fu
Daughter Survive.
don't believe it, tnke hold of a copy.
ture look* bright to the grain farmer.
LONG ESTABLISHED FIRM
TO RETIRE FROM FIELD
Glad to Get Back to C. G.
and Comfortable Weather
MRS. ANN SMALL WAS
PIONEER OF THE
FIFTIES
M onied M en Com e Prepared to
D evelop Old Long Placer Claim
Mine Formerly Owned by Recluse and About Which
Considerable Mystery Hangs, May Become Active
Producer at Early Date.—Property Is Isolated.
The Bohemia district, long famous for
the quality of it* gold bearing quarts,
may become famous as a placer mining
section. A party o f men, reported to
represent considerable wealth, went in
to the district quiet’y a few days ago
to inspect the old I,ong placer claim
und it is understood that if the property
conies up to the representations that
have been made to them they arc reudy
to spend aoy amount o f money neers
snry in development work.
Very little is known alwut this pro
perty by miner* in the district. It i*
located quite a distance from any of the
active quart* properties and is reached
only by a trail which is difficult to
travel.
Old Mini Long, the former
owner, lived the life of a recluse and
died alone in his cabin in midwinter a
couple years ago without leaving any
clue, so far us is known to the miners
of the district, as to the value of hi*
property.
No attention was paid to
the property after the death o f the
owner until Mrs. Florence L. Harris,
only daughter o f Mr. Long, arrived here
from Los Angeles a couple months ago.
J. K. Cheatham, a mining engineer, nc
eompanied her.
When they returned
from the hills he said the property was
■me of the best in one of the best min
ing districts in the world.
W. H.
Davis of
Angeles, reputed to re
present considerable capital, urcompnn
icd the party at that time and said if
proper eo operation in the building of
roads could be secured, arrangements
would soon be perfected for going ahead
with development work.
When the
pnrty left here its members said they
would return as soon ns arrangements
for carrying the work forward could be
completed.
It in now thought that
these plans are about to materialize.
Under «1500 Exemption BUI Wbo Will
Pay?
(From The Tax Liberator.)
A rertnin amount of money is neces
sary to run the state, county, district
and eity governments of Oregon. This
money is raised by taxation. A tax is
a compulsory contribution to the gov
eminent. Everyone enjoys the protec
tion nnd benefits o f our government.
Everyone has a hand ill electing our
government officials.
Everyone has a
voice in saying how the government
shall he run, and how the tnx money
shull be expended, but all people do not
pay the same nmount toward maintain
ing the government.
In computing the amount of taxes
which each of us must pay, each per
son is required to pay in accordance
with his accumulated wealth. It mat
ters not what form this w< alth is in.
It matters not whether it is in houses,
lsnds, stocks, bonds, automobiles, chirk
ens, pigs or horses. Our taxes are fixed
by the nmount of oox wealth, as repre
seated by our possessions. There are
mnny abuses in our present taxing ays
tern, but this feature of it ie fair to all.
But all this is to be changed if I' 'Ren
and ¿he other advocates of the «1500
Exemption Kill have their way. Non
remember, this proposed law does not
giwaffiany exemption to lands. It ex4*
ompts every kind of personal property,
und improvements on land, but does not
exempt the land itself.
Now keep in mind that in order to
maintain the government a certain
amount of money must be raised. If a
person has a house and lot, the pro
posed «1500 Exemption Bill takes the
tax off the house, but it adds to the
taxes of the lot. The single taxers say,
“ Well, that is what we want— it makes
no difference.” That is not true, it does
make a difference. For example, if a
man has an automobile, and does not
own any land, he will pay no taxes at
nil.
The government keeps up the
roads for him to use, but he pays no
contribution to the government.
But
remember this, some one must pay this
tax for him. Some one must make up
the deficiency caused by exempting his
automobile from taxation. Likewise if
a man owned no land, but does own
storks and bonds, he is exempted from
taxation ou these bonds up to $1500.
True enough, he will pay less taxes, but
some one in Oregon must pay more tax
es than they are now paying in order to
make up the deficieney_.e«used by this
saving in taxes. Somebody else must
pay his bills. Who is this somebody!
It i* the class o f people who have
most land and few improvements. That
class ia the farmers of the state.
The
situation is just this: The $1500 Ex
emption Bill makes improvements on
land und personal property stieh ns auto
mobiles, stocks, bonds, merchandise
stock, etc., pay less taxes. It makes
land pay more taxes.
Therefore the
people who have the most land will pay
the most taxes. The farmer has the
most land, proportionately, and he will
pay the most taxes proportionately.
This is entirely unfair. It takes all
classes of people to make the world, but
no class of people are as necessary as
the farmers.
Everything we eat and
wear originally comes from the farm.
The eity man works eight or nine hours
each day, but his brother on the farm
works from 12 to HI hours on his farm.
Why should the farmer be discriminat
ed against in the wny of taxesf Why
should he be compelled to pay double
his just proportion of the burden of
public expenses? It would be a most
terrible blow to the state if he were re
quired to shoulder all the tnx burden
that the $1500 Exemption Bill will
effect.
But this measure will never pass.
The people of Oregon will never wit
tingly vote the farmer out of the state,
nnd that ia just what wo would do if
we voted to adopt the vicious $1504) Ex
emption Bill. It would be the most fal
lacious thing we ever did. The cities
depend on the farms and what hurts
the farmer hurts everybody.
Mrs. Ann Small, a pioneer o f the
Cottage Grove country, died at I,oodon
Wednesday after a lingering illness
with heart trouble. She was aged 75
years. The funeral was held Friday,
interment being made ia the cemetery
on the old Small place beside her hus
band. The sermon was preached by J.
N. Hogue.
Miss Martha Ann Cooley was horn in
Virginia.
In 1A53 she moved to Cot
tage Grove with her mother, Christina
Cooley, and other members of the fam
ily. Four sons and one daughter sur
vive. They are John. Henry, Alex, Rob
ert and Nancy, all residents of Lon
don.
Alex and John Cooley were
brothers.
Currin and James Cooley, of Browns
ville, nephews of Mrs. Small, were here
to attend the funeral.
Woman of 74 Makes Fishing Record.
Mrs. Helen Silsby, who returned from
Newport Saturday with her daughter,
Miss Esther, holds the female fishing
honors at the resort for this season.
She landed a "'n-pound redsnapper.
Mrs. Silsby is 74 years of age.
ConnerTreats to Peaches
and Past Sins Are
Forgiven Him
Loea to Stock of Merchandise Estimated
at Between «20,000 and «25.000. Part
ly Covered by Insurance.—Loss to
Building Probably «6,000.
Cause of Fire Is Probably
Combustion
C. W. Parker, Who Carried No Inaur-
ance, Owes Escape from Damage to
Fact That He Slept In Building.- Re
moves Automobiles tn Night Clothes.
Fire which broke out shortly after 1
o ’clock Sunday morning almost com
pletely destroyed the Kees-Wallace Co.
stock of general merchandise owned by
J. H. Boldon. The Spray building, in
which the stock was contained, also
suffered considerable damage. Parker '»
Garage, located in the same building,
would have suffered severely but for the
faet that Mr. and Mrs. Parker sleep in
the building. Clad in his night-elotbes
Mr. Parker removed all his machines
from the building, together with con
siderable other material and supplies.
Two hundred dollars will probably
eover his loss. He carried no insurance.
J. H. Bolion estimates his loss at
$20,000 to $25,000, partly covered by
insurance.
Mr. Hpray estimates his
loss to the building at $5,000, fully
covered.
People in buildings close to the one
in whieh the fire occurred removed
their goods to the streets and suffered
some damage in this manner.
The
flames, however, were easily confined to
the one building, which hat brick walls.
The cause of the fire ia unknown but
was probably spontaneous combustion.
Flames were discovered in the rear of
the store shortly after 1 o'clock by
Archie Thompson.
A passerby some
time before that said he thought he saw
a flicker in the store when passing hut
thought nothing o f it at the time, think
ing it probably an electric light.
Firemen were on the scene soon after
the^iarm was sounded and the chemical
engine was soon playing a stream that
seemed to quench the flames, but when
a draught was given by the opening of
all doors to remove the stock the flames
burst forth with vigor and the rear o f
the building was completely gutted be
fore they were gotten under controL
A part of the roof fell in and the
entire roof is praetieally a complete
Ions.
Fire Chief Woodruff’s plumbing shop
is but a few doors from the Hpray build
ing and many of the spectators were
determined to remove the stock to a
place of safety.
Mr. Woodruff was
kept busy between directing the fire
fighters and watching his store to see
that its contents were not dumped out
into the street.
Oeeupants o f other
buildings were not as certain as Mr.
Woodruff that the flames would be con
fined to the Hpray building and suffered
considerable damage in moving their
stocks and furniture to the street and
back again.
The invoices o f the Boldon stock
were kept in the store and were de
stroyed by the flames, so that the exact
loss will probably never be known. Mr.
Boldon states that it is his intention to
open up again at once with a new stock.
There might possibly be some ques
tion between W. C. Conner and The
Sentinel as to the former’s ability as a
newspaper man, but as to his ability as
a grower o f fancy flavored Charlotte
peaches there can be no question. While
on his way yesterday to put a few beau
ties in cold storage for the grange fair,
Mr. Conner could not resist the tempta
tion o f letting The Sentinel take a peep
at a few o f the best. The Sentinel
force was also treated to a taste and
all the mean fhings Mr. Conner has ever
said about any member of the gang are
hereby forgiven and forgotten— for the
time being at least.
Mr. Conner's orchard is more favor
ably situated than those of other grow
ers. It nestles in a coxy river bottom
where frosts do not molest it and be
has peaches many years when the trees
Supervisor Tullar and a crew of men
of others are barren.
have commenced work laying a mile of
gravel on the Hixth Street London rond.
Watering Trough on London Road.
An improvement that is appreciated The new improvement commences at
by those who use the London road ia the end of the macadam laid last yenr.
a watering trough put in at the moun The gravel will be put down a width of
tain spring three miles this side 6t Lon twelve feet. The dangerous turn at the
don. It is understood to be the work Mary White eorner is to be eliminated
and the road is to be widened at the
of C. H. Winecoff.
bridge.
MILE OF GRAVE IS
BEING LAID ON
COAST FORK
Cub Killed, Mother Wounded.
A cub bear was killed near the Dona
hue k Dubois lumber ramp Sunday by
Lee MeCaHfc and Gus Donnelly.
The
mother and another rub were wounded
but escaped.
The men have been
searching for them since but have failed
to locate them.
Falls from Ladder, Cracks B o m .
While he was picking peaches in his
orchard several days ago, the ladder
slipped from unde^r Warren McFarland,
throwing him to the ground. He struck
heavily with his left arm under him,
eraeking the bones in the forearm. He
continued at work for several days be
fore realizing that the injury waa ser
160 Plckara from Haro.
A hundred and fifty hop pickers left ious.
here Monday in special cars for the
Seavey hop yards on the MeKenxie near
There was a man who was wondrous
Eugene. The crowd was a cosmopolitan wise; he jumped into a bramble bush
and joyous one.
and seratehed out both his eyes. Then
he put a want ad. in The Hentinel and
Legal blanks—The Sentinel.
got them baek again.
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