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About Bohemia nugget. (Cottage Grove, Or.) 1899-1907 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 18, 1903)
) I : i BBOS h Roaaaaaaacnaieavaaaaii M 05 NKAT J011 rtlLNTtNO B TlltC AllVKUTIHINU MKDIUM 5 M a ita w w w m EBBaaEaBeBaBaaBoaiM Devoted to the Mining, Lumbering mid Farming Interest of tli C li ininity, to Oood Govcrnmeiit, and Hustling for a Grub Stake. COTTAGE GROVE, OREGON, FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 18, 1903! . VOL. 17 NO. 34 BOHEMIA NlJCiGtFT .J 3L 85" s" JLn&k JL v a mm TBS AGAIN. Jlo Answers Kov. Wnllncc'nCoiiimiinl. cation nt l.nnl Week. III! QUOTI1S Tllll llltll, I! I!ASII.Y. A wilier in lust week's Instic of the Nugget asks In tuinwer to the 'Olmrvei" communication, "Who ever heiud ol a statue law fur the government of the conscience?" "All Sunday laws I for the gov crntiicirt of huinnii conduct, human action, not conscience." Now, let us take the writer to nouie l.irge, modern manufacturing plant. Notice how the belts and pulleys ply with lightening speed How the mighty wheels and ponder aus hammer do their appointed duty as if possessed ol animation. The engineer stands at his post Ol duty. HU eye now glances at the steam gauge and then at the maze of activities of the wheels and belts and appliances, After u while someone unbeknown to the euif i ueor turns the Valve in the steam supply pipe. Instantly all the varied machinery comes to a' standstill. Thti engineer stand in allurement, lie asks, "Who is interfering with my Heam supply, and uelore any one can say anything, Hro. Wal lace says, "Oh be quiet my friend, 110 one is Interfering with your steam supply. Oh 110, all they are doing is to control and legulatc the action of the machinery the ma chine conduct if you please. A man with a thimble full of brains ought to know that." I.et us take a trip to the present seat of disturbances in Turkey. Here is it Christian. Acoiuauyuf Turkish soldiers come iixn him. They cry, "Great is Allah, and Muliauiet Ins prophet! "How to the signs of the crescent " The Christian can not do it IIU en lightened conscience tells him not to. The Turks do not slay him at once. They let him- starve in a dark dungeon. We come by the dungeon mid ask, "Friend what are you doing litre?" "Suffering for conscience $1 "therefore" the reason for their respective seperatuesK to Caenar the tilings which are Caesar's and to God the things which arc God's, Now, I restate my premises which Ilro, Wallace says arc false, that all Sunday laws conflict with the Individual conscience to wor ship when, how and where he pleases or not at all If he pleases. It is most palpably evident that if tlicy interfere with the individual conscience they also Interfere with the Individ'ial conduct and action, or vice versa, as has been shown Here is the "why not" I am asked to state human laws cailiwt right fully be made to govern human conduct in regard to his Gull, 011 Sunday, Monday or any other day. it is to lie Iclt where the Creator himself leaves it to the aacrod re cesses of the Individual conscience to worship, I testate it, when, how anil where he wills as long as he does not overstep the cqttut right VI. 5, The King recognized this fact anil he set him over his king dom, Through Daniel's noble stand the King recognized more, he saw and admitted the distiuc tion between the laws of Daniel's God and the claims and laws ol himself as n ruler herween man anil man. Daniel's example shows that the duties of a man as a citizen do not clash with his duties as a church member when right hws arc en acted. For he said to the King, "I have not done ought against you, oh, King," and the king knew that he had not. Daniel was not at fault, hut the law was, and to the honor of this king It is recorded that he abolished this obnoxious law. A man may be an infidel and nt the same time he a good citizen; a man may be a church member ami be a better citizen, but a man who mixes and Interchange the duties of his conscience toward his God and his, of his neighbor. God's agencies, church with those he owes to the ersuauslou, prayer and the wordjstute, serves neither the best inter and spirit alone can enlighten the lest of one or the other, human conscience Here is the In the State of Arkansas an hon doiiiaiu of the chutch;whenever sbe'iisl and excellent citizen was ar leaves thit domain she seeks her retted under the Sunday law of that own Klory and not Christ's. Hu- j state for quietly and iinosteutloiislv man laws and the laws of Christ's jhotiug corn in his field 011 Sunday kingdom are separate and distinct. , His conscience d'etated that if lit The laws in Christ's Kingdom is to wished to serve his God aright. h forgive the transgressor 'Seventy j must keep the seventh day Sab times seven;" human law would hath, "Six days shall thou labor" fall sliorl of its puriHise and stultify .So after having kept the seventh itself were it to do so. In the distant laud of Chaldea, by the quiet river Ulai.'you might sec a man at the open window. In the early mnruiuK" hours he lifts his eyes up to tlte hill from whence coiueth his help. At the heated noon hour, he for a little while leaves the perplexing trials and many burdens of his provinces ami bteathes n silent prayer to his Maker, never mgarding that a day holy, he worked on the first I hoeing corn in his field. Hut a nar row, warpted Christian came sneak ing through tlte corn, under the ad vice and instigation of some so called ministers of the Gospel as appeared later from the testimony. The man was arrested and fiuded jsoiiie twenty-one arrests were made under the law. Some of these people were forced to work in the chain y nine. Oh, what a travesty film Winter Goods Are Horel BflBBBBaarl IK WL. . I MINING NOTES. lently, while the balance, sis ami one-half feet, is base of good quality. When considering that this is purely a surface showing, one con easily understand that it is gratifying to the owners. The property is abundantly supplied with water and the proprietors nre now arranging to do steadj and systematic development work. In the event that they find free milliner ore in sufficient quantity, of the quality already uncovered, the boys win put 111 an arrasira tuts tall. Tim LiROY. law had been passed tlm. 110 one ion Chi utianity. To the honor of should ask anything of anyone for I the people ol the State of Arkansas thirty days, save from the King. In , be it said that when they saw how the cool of the evening when the , day's wJtk had been done you iiiigui see tins same man walk to the open window, turning his face toward the hills of Zion whence the gentle zvphcrs brought him solace, hope and encouragement for the re establishment of the laud he loved so well. Did Daniel know the law that this law iuterferrcd with the indi vidual conscience to worship where, how, and when he pleases, the law was repealed in 1888. The man who wants to keep trie Sabbath does not need the law to help him. Our neighboring sister .state, California, lias 110 Sunday law. The law they had was repealed because the people saw that it interfered with the in- hwywplies. lint 1 that had beau pasted? Ask him if I dividual conscience; that is, it was, llrorWnllafc wlllnot have it thus, lie iwys, "Oh no, my friend, the Turks do not care a fig nbotit your conscience. All they arc doing is for the government of your con duct, your action. Whut n questiool What is luck 1 tight to worship when, how and of alt human action? What is the! where he pleated Ask him if this main spring of all human activities?! matter should not be left with the Where is t lie source of life's stream majority. Ask him it human laws ns it glides through the years? Is 1 have any right in the premises. Here is Ins answer in Itisactiouatid that law that none should ask any-ins was often used by some tnulevol thiqg of anyone for thirty days ex- I ant person, as a tool with which to ccpt of the King, under penalty of I persecute their cooscientiousibut to death, interfered with his conscience I them distasteful neighbors. Yet, or with conduct and action. Ask htm I wheu'Mr. Wilbur T. Crafts, secre II it interfered with his God given tary of the National Reform Associ ation, was asked where he had seen the best Sabbath observance, lie an- Christian It not the conscience The con science feels itself iiosscssed of swered, "Among the people of California". "Who art thou that judgeth an other man's servant? To his own conduct, for they speak louder than ! master he standetb or falleth.-Kom. certain duties toward the fellow- words, "He kneeled upon his knees. XIV 4. man. This couscicnceness calls 1 three' timet, a day, and prayed, and Most people keep the first day of forth certain action and conduct 1 gave thanks before his God, ns lie, the week. Thousands keep the toward the fellowman. These it is; did aforetinie." His conscience seventh dav. "One man estcctueth right and proper to regulate by human laws. The enlightened con- told him to pray when, how and lone day above another; another where. His conscience in praying 'estceuicth every day - alike. Let science feels itself also possessed of 1 in Daniel's case was equal to and every man be fully persuaded in his certain duties toward God. Out I stood in direct and natural relation own mind." (Mark it, in his own of tills consciousness spontaneously ' to his volition li pray and his mind.) Horn. XIV 5. We do not come up certain actions and I volition to pray was equal to his need to bolster up the Sabbath of conduct. 1 lic.se lire not subjest to j action nnd conduct to pray, liy a human laws. In the discharge of' mathematical certainty two things these the individual is responsible i-cqual to one thing are equal to one to his creator alone. If you inter-1 another and to each other. Hence fere with these actions with this n law interfering with one must conduct, do you not luterlcro with ! most assuredly interfere with the the conscience? As long ns the in- other. The people tried to en dividual does not overstep the1 lighten Daniel's conscience by law. equal rights of his neighbor, he is ' More than this they tried to en responsible to none whatsoever save ' lighten it with the porteutions glare his creator to worship when, how, 1 of an oven made seven times lioter where or not at all il he so desires. ' fur his and his companion's special This right is God given. This I benefit. Hut his" caiibciencc could not he thus enlightened, nor can anyone else's, Daniel told the right man had before there was any human law. Human law gtew out of the varied relations of man to man and only these relation can obtain .and, must , never be lost sight of in all human laws. The relations of the individual's duties to his God and his fellow man are clear cut and distinct. Christ himself defines them clearly. "Render therefore mark the the Lord by human law. He is abundantly able to do that himself. All you and I need to do is to bring our own selves into harmony to its requirements. Uzzah thought that the ark ol the Lord would upset by Nachou's threshing floor. He put forth unholy hands to steady it and the Lord slew him on the spot for his teniciiiy II Sam. VI 7. Our punishment may and will be awful ns was that of Uzzah if we put forth unholy hands to bind the con sciences of men. Liberty of con science, of freedom of choice lies at King that in his duties to his God the very foundation of Christianity he could not miad the king's "tie- and the gospel. Without these maud. His laws had no tight on man could never have fallen and of the promises. Daniel was certainly course there could never have beeu n most excellent - ci iz.en. TJi'eil n gdspel or iilan of redemption, said these men, "We shall not flndj ' Westward the course of empire nny occasion against this Daniel, takes way". It was Ujft for Aracr except we find it against him con- ica to raise the beaco light 06 en ceauing the law of hisGod" Dan. tire separation of church and state. Clotliiiif, loaks, Shoes, Hats and New Dry Goods NOT TUB CHEAP STUPIM hut makes n limn or woman who went them look cheap. But the lattest styles. The best material and workmanship. Suits gloaks Dry floods Shoes fiats Our IloUman Rothchiltl Suits for Men $8.00 to $25.00. I Cloaks from $5.00 to $25.00. Shoes $2.00 to $5.50. Hats $1.00 I to $3.50. We have just opened our fall stock of Dry Goods. Strictly I the very latest in styles and patterns. I Garman, Hernenway Co. Lcaulcrs in illcvchaiilisiii. First Class Blankets and Robes of every de scription at prices that will please. Harness specially made and designed for winter use and heavv hnulinir. Call si ml see inc. FRED GALE, West Side. D. A. McMillan, of Bohemia, was in the city this week. A. W. Ziniker is down from his Mineral King group this week. Oco Patrick, of linker City, who Imnl.ccn proxpectliu? In Ilohctnln. for Home time, came out .Monday nnd Is off for a trip to .Southern Oregon. Harlow and Hankius have lo cated a couple of claims on Jackass Kidge, joining the Al Churchill property on the north, and assess ment work has already uncovered some rich base ore. Lowli Ilnrtly, manager of the Great I'.Astern, made a Hying visit to tlilx eity this week, returning to the dfatriet Tuemlay, He reports the Great Hast en! property looking One. In the last 80 feet of tunnelling, he state Hint they I have been in good ore nil the way. D. II. Chamberlen, who has been working at carpenter work on the heavy construction work for the Oregon Securties Co, for the past two months visited the city this week. He reports the company's work progressing rapidly their only draw back being the scarcity of skilled labor. The Evening Telegram has been publishing the photos of a number 'of well known mining ra. n of Bo hemia District, of late, such as G. ' B. Hengen, of the Oregon Secu rities; V. D. Wheeler, of the Crys ' tal Consolidated Mining Co ; F. J. Hard, of the Vesuvius; A. D. Le ' Roy of the LeRoy Mining Co.; and j H. V. Behne, formerly superinteud ; ent of the Helena and Star Con . solidated. 1 It is announced that W. H. Russell, I j who has been for some weeks pros- I pecting the Geo. Long property txx Elephant mountain, has discovered I a rich vein of free milling ore, tliat 'nnd the near future will show man v 1 has been hunted tor for years. W. heavy producers iV. Hawley discovered very rich I "Our rich chute was found in the float on th.' property some years mai drift, wlich is being run to ago, and since then an effort has, strike the ledge 1400 feet deep, been made from time to time to dis- Samples from this show an average cover uie vein, out 11 was up to .Mr. of S14.67 per ton. and the bodv T. L. LeRoy. president of the LeRoy Mining Co.. was in the citv a few days this week and reports things moving very promisingly 111 mining circles throughout the state. Speaking of the LeRoy, he states that receut advices at hand from Foreman G. G. Graham are to the effect that the property is looking very satisfactory. A cross cut on the main ledge in 450 feet shows the ledge to be 27 feet wide, with an average assay of 14.67 per ton gold, silver and copper. In an in terview for the Telegram last Mon day, A. D. LeRoy, one of the officers of the company, said; "The excellence of the Bohemia District is causing much comment throughout the minitnr circles of Oregon. -Many of its properties are being extensively developed, and in every case good bodies of ore are being uncovered. Hundreds of men are already employed, nnd this number is being added to daily. The mines now doing extensive work," euid A. D. LeRoy. "arethe Vesuvius. Oregon-Colorado, Crys tal, Oregon Securities and the Le Roy mines. In the latter we encoun tered some of the finest ore in the district, but there is not a prospect 111 rue camp mat nas not good ore, QOOIJ APPOINTMENT. gram. The appointment of Mr. Hard , will meet with the general approval ot citizens here and miners in BO' hernia, Russell to make the strike. Work is going on with a vim at the Oregon Securities Co. The great trouble experienced is in the securing of sufficient hands to erowd the several branches of the work -along to' the liking ot the management. This week the com pany is advertising for twenty carpenters. The company now has 165 men at work on its own ac count, besides a large force em ployed by the Hamond Manufactur ing Co. on contract work, The whole world was blindly group ing itc wnv InivdrH this irnnl. The evil of Europe had been redened by T'le executive committee of the tbo blood ofmilliQMhrivhe had died.. Oregon Miners Associaticmjnet in miriiiH in ihpir raiiscinicps It the Boaid of Trade rooms and so wn s a gladsome day "when a few1 pointed F. J. Hard vice president f cMttvnrff ImiiMl men and women for the Bohemia District. The ac-, reared on the rock-bound cr.ast of t' wns taken in accordance with a New England, a civilization which petition from the residents of Cot had for its motto, "A kingdom with-1 ta8e Grove and Bohemia. The out a kin and a church without a general offices ol the association pope". The very acme of per- will be 111 the Oregonian building, fectiou. as near as anything htiinan Mr. Hard isa well known mining can be perfect, had been attained man and is secretary of the Oregon when Jhe Declaration of Iude- Mining Stock Exchange. Tele- pendence had been signed. "A new order of things whs inaugu rated, and it was declared that con gress shall make no laws respect Iiict omv rtifir)n nr the frpe exercise thereof." It was a L'ladsome day 1 petition r- i,n,i, ,ii oimrM, nnrl iIim st.itp- meut for thus both could best serve their , tiril,K worker for Bohemia inter-1 office for some time. respective purposes. It is the duty fs,s for.a number of years, and the Creek group, in of the slate to protect human rights; truitsotlns lahor are everywhere with which, as is self-evident, each appateut. As secretary of the Ore individual is endowed. There is 110 B" Mining Exchange, hehas been question of majority or minority a,,le to furnish much reliable data when it conies to religious con vie-', ? tll0e seeking it and to advertise tious. Those of a single person , ".le Iio,le,nla Is.'r'ct l" a very effi are as sacted ns are those of a na- cle.m ni" beneficial way. The ap tion. All other questions, as be- Ipointiuent is a good one, and will shows a width of 27 feet. On the fifth level we have 73 feet of ore between walls, and the last strike proves that the values increase as depth is attainedshowiug the per manency ,uf -the deposits. RAILROAD NOTES. I The plans for the Row river bridge on the O. &. S. E. are now j being perfected by Engiueor Wood, nml thi tvnrt- ff nniiet.tinlin.i ...ill W. W. Cochran, of the Cripple ibe i tuU swing a few days. t"r --- .!- 1 ne cut opposite tne Hunt nroD- erty is now completed. A gang of stxty-hve Itihans Creek group, situated Ridge, Bohemia, was in the city last week and the first part of this, and reports the property actine i, k, j: k., .i,- ti dam last week and this, and now nicely. He bad with him one of who- very liberally signed the finest specimens of free ore. the gradig is completed seventeen ition asking for his appoint- with pleuty of gold visible tothe,andone half mjies out, while the Mr Hard has been an un-1 eye that has been in the Nugget svvampjl)K is completed twenty j Returned from the Grizzly Mine. j Mr. and Mrs. Fred Byrne have I returned from a several weeks I visit at the Grizzly Miiie. Mr. j Bryne reports the Grizzly looking ! fine, the recent work showing the property getting better every day. tween man and man, are to be left to the majority. In conclusion let me say that in these discussions, I am not con sidering persons but principles. Any man s convictions publicly ex pressed are subject to open and frank criticism. It is only by hav- iiiB freedom of speech and press, freedom of thoucht. that we can mutually help and enlighten our- - selves. I have known many per- ' - "- sons who when they looked a little W&MM&MMMMSS deeper into the speciousness of the fob arcuments 111 tavor ot smiuiay laws, k, at once held aloof from them. The Suuday Jaws are often railroaded through with other laws that are good without people having a chance to consider them iu all its bearings. In regard to the writer's state-; ment In last week's Nijgget that I labored hard to make vice appear , the belter cause in my first commit -uicati'iuri "ay he cannot prove by I one line or one word in what I wrote. 1 do 1101 believe thus and , havt never labored to make it ap pear so. There are still some relies that we have Inherited Irom the church and suite combination of the old wui Id. We all ought to labor "for the iqual rights of all and special favots to none". 1 An Oiiskrvkr. I . . ......... 1 .... . W.UJ-..VV. ........ . 1 lie Lrlpplei milf nut .Hill till rtnrtner pttrli t,A 11 which Mr. Coch-! ,i nn-.ur mn. ran is inierestea witu u.u. noen-. Altogether the work on the O & sou, consists of eight claims. The g. E. is progressing very nicely, worn thus far engaged 111 by the.altllough the company !)as experi. owners, is prospect work, with the , elKe much trollbIe in ReUi' a view of finding ore shutes, and steam shove, to cotnpIete tlle ba. consists of open cuts and tunnels, , astJ Tne company raade ar. the longest tuunel being 70 feet on rangemeuts for one in the East some the Oliver Twist claim, which tirae since but thus for have not shows a splendid four foot vein of, been able t0 Ket it West Arrange. black manganese ore. The famous ; mellts are now raade however Mustek vein is said to run through that will undoubtedly result in the two of the claims of the Cripple earty completion of the balasting. Creek group, the "Cripple Creek" ' b and"'Lost" claims. In an open Last Thursday evening a car cut on the "Cripple Creek" claim, loaded with logs jumped the track the vein shows eight feet, a foot on the O. & S E. eiiroute to this and one half on the foot wall being 1 city and in a twinkle every log was free milling and panning excel-, afloat iu Row river. About the Tax Law. Speskinir of the UX law the Register says: "Wuitroofthe opinion that the tux law pueml at htt session Ills nicely into the old law without disuivptiniiy mil tlmt the tulk nf a special hcssIuh of the Iccislutnru is iinnm'snury. Tux levy will bo iiiiulo 011 the liKKl usi-eis-meat and tin' flute will not htck for tiimitcoH with which to carry on hust iiexK. Th I0(M levy will h niiule on the 1t)0t a.-xwHiient su Unit In oitler to innketHxt'M become due In the fa II here after we ahull puy taxes twice in 1004." Closing Out At Cost r l I , Window Shades- Crockery Mattings . Glassware, Tubs Carpets and Washboards Our Entire Line of These vioods Will Be Closed Out At Cost For Cash. Here is an Opportunity For Good Bargains. Eakin & Bristow.