BQI4EMIM
. 9 m
I
I
i
. w m m
NUGG
Devoted to the Mining, Limbering and rnrming IntereBtiiof this Community.
COTTAGE GROVE, LANE COUNTY OREGON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 1906.
0 of u
VOL. VIII
NO. 14
BOHEMIA MIN
ING NOTES
And General Mining New
(lathered from iixchanges.
The O & S K railroad In building
mile of wire fence to protect Hi
right of way through the old IUke
Htewtrt'a placo, commencing work
on Monday.
Tom I'arker says that Iiih miiiA is
getting there in Kreat shape and
that he in really pbnvd. At
present the ledjfe in nome 1H f n-fi-
iu width and increasing.
The Oregon Securities Company
expects to begin to ewr'te the null
on ores from the Munic mine -in-tnenciug
alout the firt of Mny.
Theae ore will be trun -1 t 1 fi r
the new train lire constructed hint
.summer. Mr. A. H. VY- ol ih at
present in the cant and wlum ho re
turns it ia expected llut work will
be pushed much more r -i 1 1 y .
CouNtderable interest itttitchoM to
the ponding in vcHliiiaiion liy fed
eralageutaof the alleged fraulu
lent acts of tho deputy surveyors
and other officials in the mining
districU of Nevada. The charges
are grave and sweeping It would
be entirely unwise to prejudge t lie
the result of the invcutigalion now
belog made, but the legitimate
roiniDg interest can wedl find a
satisfaction in the fact that the
strong arm of the fe leral fovern
haa been extended to gather in
Ihei alleged wrong-doers. Min
ing World.
The Mining and Scientific Picas,
which baa been publlahed at Sau
Francisco, loat its records, library,
notebooks, manuscript and plant,
but was fortunate to have saved its
latest subscription list through the
foresight or caution of the manager
in having a copy of it at bis home.
Kditor Kickard at Uerkh-y, says:
"As the earthquake occurred at
C:15a. m., and the fire in Sau
Francisco prevented people on the
aid of the bay from reachiug their
offices, moat of us were spared the
horror of scenes that sear the mem
ory. We are fortunate, therefore,
as compared to many of our citi
zens. And for other reasons. Our
plant baa been demolished; but thia
journal is built on nothing oo
ephemeral as paper, and on nothing
o cheap as machinery ; it is based
upon the suppoit of many thous
and readers and subscribers who
ara never less likely to withdraw
their support than at a time of mis-
I ;JJ
fortune. Tim goodwill of the Miu
ing and Scientific I'rons ia locked
up in no s'i f cor. fined to no print'
ing room; it cmnot I" shaken by
un cartlnpiiike or consumed b.v fire.
Aud, gentlemen, our fib-nds, there
iaauother something Hi it is not
destructible) by physical inisfurtuiie
or financial adversity, and that is
the spirit that gives life to the
printed word."
HollefMu.l UaKopI Up
J. M. Isham. A(.;eiit: Mr. liar
riuiaii wired me this morning as
follows: "Oakland pier 2.1 to J. I'.
(l'5neii, iVitlluiid Having gone
over the situation iu K.ui Francisco
lam deeply impressed with th nc
cessitv of uninlei i upted forwarding
f fi od MufT, with wliicli to Ired tlm
two lit.U'lrol thousand liotnlivs
p ople. Ti e situation is well or
ame I ;iti tl)i I'nited States
(Jiiarlfi mast r Drpmtux ti - is rc
en viui; and iit i ibu1 in;; through
lis eluor i Is mid through the vari
ous uc;l P 1 n-1 :iSoC!iitiutiS nil Hlip-
plies as fiivt us they arrive, nt f lie
fuel should l maiie public in all !
ipniter" that it will it-quire con- J
tinned ell. nl on the part of uvcry- j
one to keep supplies coming. I'bc
railroudn ai ol couikc hatidlini; all
Mich supplies without charge, arul
llmpMiple must n h olid to calls
for relief.
(Signed;
l'lease givt;
IC. II. Hiiriinwin."
thiM with; piil'hciiy
J. V. Hi ion.
Mis. 1M Wilnon was greatly re
lieved on Sunday night about two
o'clock to get h telegram from her
people iu Sin Francisco Unit they
were all safe. Monday morning
he got a postal card. They are
being cared for til Urn honm of Mr.
Lang, ininngcr of tho Witland
Urcwery at Howard alreet and
arc all right, but lot practically
everything and if necessary will
conio lmro.
A Western Union Telegraph op
erator from San Franciaco went
through Monday moruing iu his
j.h.11 Nlevvra in . t'oriiaiul II mii
that they were sending messages
from tho office and did not know
the building was on firo until some
one ahouted fire and it was then
too late for all to have themselves.
He crawled through a small hole
aii'l escaped. Two of the men got
to the top floor, nnd were about to
be burned when a soldier shot theiu
to death.
Not Inbound trains aro loaded to
the guards, most of them refugees,
aud about one third of them free
passengers. I-.vcryone 01 thcmircom. He rushed witn the res 01
steins to hav" their nerves almost the people to get out, and as the
shattered nnd are iu a bad physical I building become still again they
condition. I went back to their rooms, dressed,
Aftotbcvs Bttcnticm!
We are showing a line of boys cloth
ing creditable to Portland ranging
in prices from $1.00 to $8.00. The
new styles, single and double
breasted, also the Buster Brown
Hose. We have also 40 styles in
Mens Suits.
REFUGEES
COMING NORTH
Great Train Loads of Stricken
Ones Coming North for
Shelter and Succor.
The Southern Pacific railroad is
hauling free many train loada of
people from San Francisco, who
are without any money, and are
looking for a place to stop and get
a fresh Htart in lif.
Sunday, Monday and Tuesday
iiiorniiit; tliit train loada each
morning pussed through, on their
way to 1'ortlMii'l ami the Mist, in .
talking with a i.umhcr of men on
the train Tuesday rtioriiini; ley i
mil I "We have not got a cent hard-
ly and nothing but the clothes we j
have on our back-. No pl-.ce to ;
wotk toearn more. What we want
is a job and a place to get started
"gain, wlu rever it be " This was
from a number of young men from
every class. Some have money in
Sun Francisco banks, but cannot
get any of it for some time at leant,
and iu the meantime must live
All of them aro hungry. While
the people all along the line are
generous, jet they have not provi
ded enough to feed all.
The sight of the train loads of
people going through from the
Mouth looking for a resting place or
friends, many of them only partly
clothed, in all kinds of garments,
and unwabhed, huogry and ex
hausted is enough to break ones
heart, All that the people can do
to relieve theiu is not enough. For
the people of the town to have hot
coffee and some eandwitches at the
train would be a great bleasing to
these people. Find out when the
next train comes- through with i
thou and give something for them
to out. I
D&n Thorn' EiMfltno In th Eithx-
quk
Dan Thomas, a son of I. R.
Thomas of this city, who has been
working m the Taasenger Auditor s
Office of the Southern Facmc at i
Sn Francisco got home Sunday j
morning, after passing in safety '
through the great stroke. He was
living with his sister Mrs. Dyer in a
four story wooden building at 70O
Fllis Street between Polk and par
kin Streets, and had their rooms on
the third floor. When the first
shock came he was thrown from hisiv 1 . ?'
bed, and the plaster foil all over his JJJ "Jn- "L brok
Wit
un kJ kj) iyj kD
lighted a goa atovc, and cooked
breakfast, and left the house about
nine o'clock. He thinks that they
were the only fnmily of the 00
families in the building that had
breakfast that morning. They got
! to Van Ness Avenue about noon,
and about 1 o'clock reached the
Craveyard and staid there until
about 11 o'clock p. m. when a
gentleman walking by recognized
Mrs. Dyer and invited her to oc
cupy a room at his house only a
short distance away. They camped
out in that room until the next
evening, and then started to get
away, and got to Fort Mason, where
a government boat took a great
company of them around to the
ferry, and from there they went to
Oaklaud. where his sister ia now
'stopping with friends. He said
'both nights in the graveyard it was
t.riol.i n Av nnrl that the aicht
a, t,.tv Qver on lbe
errv to OakUrxl wuh one of the
;raniJest je fcVer extet to see. It
WHS aH ,j M Bs dav tLe !iKLts were
rt,cU,(, ot) lbe 'boats and in tLe
.. ,t.ft .,,. ... humintr fr.r
two or three nults ana withal its
terribleneas it was u biautiful sight.
: When he got ready to leave Friday
morning the mob canned Lira oil
his bis feet to the first section but it
waB too crowded and lm got off and
came on the sccoul c-coud. Dan
was very thoughtful, tor as soon as
they had gotten in safely to the
graveyard, he thought they would
be short of thingn to eat and went
to a bakery and got several loaves
of bread and other thiogs and were
comfortably fixod for two or three
days without anything else.
He fays the Southern paciGc ot
' fice must have all been destroyed
j with all its records. The house
j where he lived was destroyed,
I quite early by the tire. The eol
idiera were on duty within two
j hours of the first shock and by 8
j had thiDgs well in hand. He
saw many tuat were Kiwea Dy
the earthquake and fire, and a
great many that were badly hurt.
It C iHay of Sn Dieo, a ma-
i cbini5twl.o has ben working in
f San Francisco, aricr wnw wratcfc-
I in the earthquake, was here Sun-
J 1 1 1. : o n. I. Tn
, f
the shock and how he cot dressed
I and got out to the streets and how
in just a few minutes a fire broke
'out at 22nd and Mission etreets aDd
(that he ran there and that the fire
j department arrived and were able
I in a short tfme to get that fire out,
1 but that then a dozen fires were
visable in different places, all over
many places
the mkins were broken and that
one great one on 17th street was
Hooding everything. The fires
seemed to be caused by the cross
ing of electric wires. He was able
to send a message to his people that
he was safe Wednesday night, and
on Friday got over to Oakland
where he was fed and started on
his way north by a frieud. ne
said there was no need of any fam
ine the way things were coming in,
that of course one did not get so
verv much to eat. but enough, but
that the great danger was from
pestilence. The soldiers seemed to
arrive almost within a few minutes
after the disaster, aud good order
was maintained. In 6peakiug ef
how everybody helped each other,
he ssid he saw a man and woman
walking along with a truuk swung
from a pole, which rested on their
shoulders aud that though the
woman was slight, she was doing
her share. Everybody is being
kind to the refugees.
Riv, Ann H. Shw
The most noted of Woman's Suf
frage lecturers will .speak in the
Opera House, Friday evening the
27th. She is an exceptionally
brilliant woman and her lecture will
be a treat. In order that good
Beats may be bad, it has been de
cided to reserve any seats desired
up to that evening, at which time
all seats untaken ere free. Ten
cents only is charged for such seats
iu order to pay expenses.
Wntd.
Gentleman or lady with good
reference to travel by rail or with a
rig, for a firm of $250,000.00 capital.
Salary li,o7'2.oo per year and ex
penses; salary paid weekly and ex
penses advanced Address, with
stamp, Jos. A. Alexander, Cottage
Grove, Ore,
PRIMARY ELEC
TION RETURNS
Practically all Returns are in,
and Republican Nominees
Will be as Follows.
STATE
Senator, short term
-F. W. Mul
key.
Senator, long term H. M. Cake.
Congressman, First District W.
C. Hawley.
Congressman, Second Distiict
W. It. Ellis.
Governor James Withycombe.
Secretary of State F. W. Ben
son. State Treasurer--G. A. Steel.
Supreme Judge--Robert Kakin.
Superintendent of Public Instruction--J.
H. Ackerman.
State Printer W. S. Dunniway.
Attorney-General A. M. Craw
ford. Labor Commissioner O. P. Hoff
LANE COCNTY.
.State Senator I. H. BiDghara.
State Representatives Allen II.
fi-ifn, B. A. Washbuane. I. N Ed
warda. County Clerk. E. U. Lee.
Sheriff W. J. Warnock.
County Commissioner H. D. Ed
wards. County Treasurer R. E. East
land. County Surveyor C. M. Collier.
County Coroner Wm. T. Gor
don. Out of tHa KottU Into FlroRovarsod
Napa, Cal., April 20, IO06.
Friend Conner and Others: Have
been in such a turmoil and amid
such constant straining excitement
that I could not write until now.
Was broke and could not wire.
Misfortune seems to be on my trial
good and plenty, but I am still for
tunate to be alive and able to tell
it. I was in San Francisco in the
, I
v1
. J - - .. j. r n Ma mmt mh Win.. In
another such a hcrror I hope never
to witness. I think you can testify
that there are some thin- s I am not
afraid of, but I cn truti.fnlly say
that an earthquake is ret one of
these thinss. I had cono down to
the city Tuesday to gtt a ticket and
see my boy safely on his w ay home
Wednesday morning. We were
stopping at the Tremont House, on
Kearney street, in the fourth -!ory,
and, when the first dieturbunce
came I was instantly awakmed.
Realizing at once what the tni:tr
was, I tried to get out of the door,
but there was a lock on the door
that I did not understand and could
not open it For fully a minute (it
seemed an hour) I stood at ti e open
window looking out on th" roofs
and walls, of other buildings which
were swaying and Idling all
around, while the walls of my own
room were shaking and trembling,
plaster failing, and barely a l to
keen mv feet, expecting every sec
ond to be my last on this cm th:
Say, I came near going crazy in
that minute, standing tneie de
fenseless, hopeless amid a deufning
roar and a horrid rumbling, the
like of which I never before heard.
When things evened up and got
still I thought all was over aud did
not then lealizo the awful damage
that had been done elsewhere, In
fact my boy aud I went back to
bed, but when another tremor came
a light one this time, you bet your
last peuuy I got up, dressed hastily
and got out to wnere 1 tuougm
there was safety, but when I saw
the streets, I knew then that if the
thing had occurred during the day
or early in the evening, no doubt
more than 30,000 or 40,000 people
would have been killed outright.
It could not haue happened at a la
ter hour or more opportune time
for the safety at life. The boy and
I went immediately down Sacra
mento street to Montgonery and
from that point, at about six
o'clock, three quarters Ot an hour
after shock. I counted seven fires in
the wholesale district. I did not
then evtn realize the danger or that
such awful things would occur as
those which took place iu a few
hours. My boy wanted to leave
town immediately, so we caught the
seven o'clock boat for Oakland
mcle, where I pUced him with some
people going on the same train as
, far as Pueblo. I returned to the
city by eight o'clock nd when I
reached the ferry, the entire whole
sale district was a mans of roaring
uncontrolable flames. I could not
to to the right, so I struck out for
Mission street, then to Howard and
within a few blocks was driven to
Folsom, and west I went, but it was
nine o'clock before I got to where I
could go around the burning dis
trict. I crossed Market at 0th and
later in the day saw even that
neighborhood, mechanics pavilion,
city hall and all go up in smoke. I
soon met some friends and to
gether we tramped and walked
miles watching the progress of the
fire, and saw whole blocks blown up
with dynamite in hopes of checking
the flames, but to no avail. It is
ncedleas for me to try to write yoa
the rest you have already read the
particulars in the papers, but of
one thin you can re&t assured the
newspaper accounts were not exag
gerated. No man's pen could tell
in detail the horrible awfulness of
the sad affair. In some respects it
was agrand sight and I would not
have missed it for anything yet I
would not take the chances and go
through the same experience again
for any sum. In the meantime I
had not heard a whisper of any
thing wrong at Santa Iloua. My
self and friend made our way to th
ferry in order to get a boat home.
TLey were all short of change I
j paid the fare of one, a dollar, to
Petaluma, bought my own ticket,
$1.25, and then gave one of the
boys my last cent with the promise
to send him more Saturday, and I
boarded the boat without a cent.
There I met one of our office crew
and he told me the first I knew of
the awful condition at home. ,
These are facts and the absolute
1 truth with reference to Santa Ros-
Not one business house waa left
standing in the town they all
went down in one great crash, a
mass of ruins and rubbish which
ignited from live wires and burned
up. Every print shop in town was
totally destroyed. Four people in
ur office were killed, including the
mm who worked in my place while
I was avay. The foieraaif re-
mained in the buildinf QdciTr2E7'
tvuBiv wt wscapea ltn & Tew slight
bruises. He jumped in tne aoor
wav between the press room and
composing room and remained there
while the walls were trembling and
' falliDc all around him. The press-
man ran to tue street, was caugni
by falling walls aad crushed to
death, while three carrier boys were
buried beneath the ruins and were
cremated in the flames which came
later. I lost all my baggage and
bad not one solitary thing left but
the rags on my back. Everything
was in confusion, desolation and
gloom was in the air, there waa
nothing to Jo and no prospect of
anything soon so I hiked out for
the nearest place where there was
no danger. There is nothing to do
here, but the printers are holding
me up until I can get my bearings
and determine which way to turn.
It will be bad for printers any
where in this section, for 900
of them are set adrift from San,
Francisco. I would make a blue
streak for Nevada, but I hate to go
ou the "pig"- Anyhow, I will be
here until some time next week,
until I can find or get in some corn
muuicatiju with the boys who were
in the city. Will write again.
Drop me a line. Regards to all my
friends and tell them, I'm glad I'm
alive.
Yeurs
T. J. Boyd.
Mr. Boyd was at one time con
nected with the Leader office and
has a wide acquaintance here.
Grant's Pa.s Mine Sold.
Grants Pass, Ore., April 18.
The sal of the Eureka mine, on
Soldier Creek, 37 milej west of
Grants Pass, was consummated this
week, the first payment, $3o,ooo
being made through the First Na
tional Bank Tuesday. The balance
of the purchase price is to be paid
in installments. It is understood
that $100,000 is to be paid for the
mine. The purchasers are John
W. Coileau and associates of Pitts
burg, Pa- The mine was owned by
a compauy ut Eureka, Cal. Tele
gram. Dr. Lowe the eye specialist does
not go from house to house, glasses
cannot be correctly fitted to the
eyes that way and no first class op
tician will attempt it.