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Devoted to the Mining, Lumbering and Farming Interests of this Community.
VOL. IX
COTTAGE GROVE, LANE COUNTY OREGON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1907.
NO. 4
HUGO
T. K. CAMPBELL
Of Cottage Grove Is Chair
man of the Railroad
Commission
SiiU'in, Ore. Fob. 2s. Tin t ail
road cnniminMion met just before
noon today in its first official hch
mom, h iid elcrUd T. K
chairman.
Campbell
Tli' siii.ih1.hs looked ove r 11 pile-
of nppli.-atioiiH for tin- drikship and
secretaryship, ordered 11 ih-w carpet
for tho Iirndiiiaitcrs and wiut to
luncheon.
Tin1 coinniis iou will not appoint
u Hi cictaiy until it lias had time to
conaidiir the quahlii at ions of tlm
various applicants. Tlm commis
sion wishes to find an eastern Ore
gon man for secretary, if possible,
owing to tint fact that no member
of the i oiiiiiiisMiuii is Iroiu that part
of the state. Mr Illinium-, who
was a leader 111 tlm line for the sec
retaryship has withdrawn bin appli
cation. Pel Imps the i,od h'-aiing of the
commission will be at Portland,
where most of the complaints origi
nate. The healings will bo similar
to thosi' of the interstate commerce
commiKsioii mid Washington rail
road commission. Journal.
Block Signals.
Two carloads ol apparatus for
the block signals which tho South
ern I'acitii- Company will en-el
along the main line at Eugene and
other points Bouth of hero arrived
thin morning ami were unloaded.
The block signals are for the pur
pose of prover.tiug train collisiot a
and ore in general use on Eastern
railroads, but something now on
the coast. The signals operate in
such manner that whenever otio
train enterH a certain portion of the
track, or a block, u semaphore
further on, given a signal for any
othor train that may be comiug in
tho opposite direction to stop.
(1 uard.
Western Oregon Lumbermen's Asso
ciation. 1'roliminary mooting pursuant to
a call Untied dy the Cottage tlrove
Commercial Club. Tho following
persons met nt the rooms of the
Club, Saturday, February 2rd, t
2:00 p. nr David Alexander, V. I
Dunn, Albert Stocks, II. J. De
I.atinay, J. II. Chambers, M. A.
McKibben, T. K. Campbell, W. II.
Kenny, V. T. Hankins, Klmer
Doolittle, Wrn. Skidmore, J. C.
Stowart, T. II. Koscnburg, C H.
IJuikhohler, lulmund I. Sheldon.
Upon motion duly seconded Mr.
ICdinuud P. Sheldon wan elected as
temporary chair 111 an and Mr. i II
lloHonburg an temporary secretary.
Mr. Sheldon thou addreHaod the
perHons present and urged tho noe
cesstty of local organizations refer
ring oHpocially to the success of
much organizations in I,inn County
and Marion County, Oregon.
Mr. Chambers spoke in favor ot
tho mills getting together for the
purpo.io of taking targe orders
through the Hocrotnry He referred
also, to the lact that the organiza
tions would bo of value in ascer
taining the financial standing of
buyers and would give its mem
bers a cIoho touch with the market
aud would distribute a good doal of
general information pertaining to
the lumber business.
Mr. M. A, McKibben spoke iu
lavor of organizing at once and de
voting thoir attention for the pres
ent to the proposed I5.00 rate which
the Southern Pacific Company are
threating to put into effect through
out the Willamette valloyjall present
signified a general desire to organ-
izo at onrc a local association
which would meet nl least once each
inotitli to lain up mattars pertaining
to lumber business in tho district
covered by the association.
I'pon motion duly seconded, n
committee of fiyc was appointed to
work toward the restoration of tho
$3.10 rate in tin Willani'.tto valley.
The committee is as follows: J. If.
Chambers, W. 11. Kcuncy. W. T.
Ilttiikius, M M. McKibben. F H.
j Kosenburg.
I I'pon motion dulv seconded a
committee of three wan appointed
" ow 1 constitution for the
association and present it toother
' wib nominations for officers at the
next meeting t the association
Ti com nut tt is as follow": M. A
McKibben, T. K. Campbell, J. J.
Keiim-y .
Upon motion duly seconded it
whs resolved to adopt tho name,
'Western Orison Lumberman's
A hs' i a 1 ion .
I.' poii motion duly seconded 1 1 j -meeting
adjourned to m.-et again
1:00 p. m , I 1 i . 1 a y , March 1st.
North Fairview Gold Mining Company
Elects Officers.
Annual meeting of the Nutth
Fairview Mining company -,tok-holders,
whose holdings are in the
I'.ohemia d indict, was held iu I'u
gene at tho ofhVe of that corpora
te S5 North Willamette Htieet.
Tho first order of business pro
cedure was that of election ot direc
tors which resulted as follows.
T. W. Harris, president; Alf
Walker, first vice president ; J. W.
Kays, second vice-president; Her
I crt I.eigh, secretary nnd general
manager; Jas. F. Powell. Darwin
Hristow, 11 stork holder, whs elected
treasurer of the company.
Kepoils from the various sources
of the company's general alTairs
showed thst progress highly satis
factory to the owners of tho prop
erty had been made throughout the
past season. Hasing their action
upon the present exceedingly flat
tering outlook the now directors
formulated plans for extensive and
general development on 11 scale
heretofore unprecedented in the
history of the mine, but thoroughly
justified by virtue of the splendid
showing made.
Dr. W. E. Best Charged With Practic
ing Medicine Without State
License.
Yesterday Medley k Johnson and
C. A. Hardy, attorneys for the de
fendant, filed a demurrer to the
complaint. In tho case of tho state
of Oregon vs Dr. W. 1?. Pest for
practicing modicino without a li
cense on the ground that the law is
iu conflict with the constitution of the
State ot Oregon, in that, that tho
term of ofllee of the State Poard ol
Medical ICxaminers is fixed by the
act creating it, at five years and the
constitution provides that the Leg
islators shall not create any office
the tenure of which shall be longer
than four yeais. Judge Young took
the matter under advisement to re
port at one o'clock. On the reas
sembling of tho court at one o'clock
Judgo Young announced that the
demurrer had been sustained. The
caso will now go to the Circuit
Court which convenes iu Ivugeue
nest Monday,
New Millinery Firm.
Miss Helen Mcdee has purchased
from Mrs. Martin her interest hi
tho Voguo millinery store and tho
Ormnamo will hereafter bo kuown
as Misses Harms & McOee. The
young ladies are now iu Portland
buyiug their spring aud summer
stock. They will return about
March 1st.
Holmden's for candies,
Cottage Grove Coing Right Ahead,
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Oregon towns and cities that ure
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n(.i..niri rni.lillii In fill I F I f 1 F I lll'lr
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M.iyn an) wiuuii .- -
united pull together on all liii' H j
that are calculated to advance ma
terial prosperity.
For years Cottage drove ha;
bourne tho name far and wide as
the best town of its size in the
state. Such a reputation is gratify
ing indeed, lirst, btcuuso what
everybody says must be true and
second, because it is true.
No city can have better founda
tion upon which to build than good
opinion of people everywhere. It
,s the kind of capital not measured
by dollars and cents and is an asse t
mote vaiuame man gout and val
uable storms.
Today, traveling men who sell
gtwids from their
houses all over
Oregon freely declare not only
while in Cottage but everywhere
occasion gives oportuuity that J
( -ullage Move is one of the best
business towns iu the west for its!
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size. V isitors too, praise it for
hern ty M its environment and read
ily in the siris ol the limes a groat
and lotions future ahead for the
metropolis of the upper Willamette
valley.
The billions of feet of uiagnifi
neni limber lying at its doors, the
magnificent water power, as yet un
touched that runs meirily by the
city laughingly to the sea, its fruits
and its forms, hops and grain,
mines and dailies, and all the nat
ural resources (hat furnish the very
foundation upon which to build a
great city are ut our command.
What more could we nk then we
now possess as a basis upon which
to build our hopes, our fortune and
our metropolis of power a ml wide
spread inlluonce.
Put with all these things at our
command the city will not build
itself, neither will tho good words
from tho outside keep our torch
Khiuiug afar to beckon and to wel
come others to a citizenship with us
in tho ait of city building. The
real power behind the battlement
in building a city is tho people
themselves a united people, work
ing together harmoniously actu
ated by the higher aim that put
aside petty bickerings over trivial
things which array ona faction
ugaint the other to the detriment
of bojli, instead of cementing to
gether iu a bond of union, the
mutual helpfuluess of all iu the one
set purpose of developing the coun
try and building a city that is the
pride of its inhabitants.
It is the "give a little here," and
"take a little there," and get to
gether everywhere that makes
things go as they should in every
community.
This is tho spirit which has gov
erned Cottage Orove in the past
with what results, its fame both at
home and abroad testifies and we
must not only contiutte that spirit
but cultivate it iu still broader
sense, giving of our time and iu
tluenco iu behalf of things that
make for the common good of all iu
the highest seiiBe of tho word.
Iu building a city, the surround
ing country must not be neglected
for its development and its good
will is esential to any city's pro-
gress. j'.very agricultural pursuit
should command the interest of the
business men. It should be en
couraged and fostered and arouse
as much interest aa does the mer
chants own business for the farmers
and producer, whether In humble
circumstaucea or well equipped for
production ot the essentials that
makes city life worth living, each
has a share and a larger one than
we oftinies give him credit for, iu
the work iu buildiugup the city,
There should be no distinguishing
murk between the merchant and
'the firmer, the city chap and tho'
tiller of soil. Tboir interests should
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at all limes, 1e considered so mut
ual that if they were put into a sack
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, and shaken tho farmer would be as
ant to be the first one drawn out as
tho city man i 1if,lured in Ui0 roinic I"! "s an
These aro plain and homely 1 fistic clown, exalted by the poli
things to say, but they arose, ap. t'ns as a mighty "moulder of pub
plicableand essential to develop- j 1,c opinion," occasionally chastised
ment of any country that they need j b Rn'V natrons and sometimes re
to bo said over and over again in I "1 ''V delighted subscribers,
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order to impress their importance
upon the public mind.
We want a great city at Coltago j
!rove, we want a great county out
of I.ane, wo want thrift, wealth,
ivimfni-l liftnriitibLU nwl nrncnnrllV
iever3.m;jk an(I o'f tbc
coulilry aD(, to Rccomplish tuis we
must all stand together as one man
for the common good of all.
Died.
l'KOST Ixid Frost. Feb. 22ud
at Alca, age nine months, of pneu
monia, child of Mr. and Mrs. Fred
Frost.
SCRI VOXF.R I. H. Scrivoner,
an old time resident of Lane county
near Creswell, l-'eb. 23d of para
letic stroke, age r() yearB.
WILSON Mary J. Parnem Wil
sou was born in White side County,
Illinois, June 27, 1HC1. From here
she went with her parents to Prook
lyn, Iowa in 1HG4, was united in
marriage to H. K. Wilson Septem
ber 22, 18K7, joined the M. K:
church in the winter of &'M. Mrs.
Wilson has been in poor health
siuce May ioo and by the advice
of her physician came with her hus
band to Cottage drove hoping to
regain her health but' the driin
Monster had gotten too firm a hold
to be so easily shaken aud on Sat
urday morning, Feb. 23d at !.20
she passed into the City of Ood to
bo with the Saviour that she had
loved so well and had so faithfully
served. Mrs. Wilson leaves to
mourn her, a loving husband, one
son Carle V., one daughter, Mrs.
Uieck of Ournsey, Iowa, a father,
mother and three brothers, also a
host of loving friends.
Silk Creek
Last week we stated that Mr.
San'oorn from Canada had bought
the Werth place, later we fouud
this a mistake. Mr. Sanborn had
bought the J. H. KUiott place of A.
D. Owens.
Eugene Miller made a trip to
Cottago drove Thursday.
Mrs. Kendall and children have
moved into the place that used to
be owned by Melviu Damewood.
Mrs. McCord of Creswell was in
our vicinity over Saturday.
Miss Minnie Comer and Miss
Antoinette Purdick were visitors at
the Academy Friday.
MiHsHattie Wheeler or Cottage
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VjTOVO euluo uuv iiiua) nim uci
cousin, Oscar Wheeler, retualniug
on the Creek with frieuds until
Sunday evening.
Grandma Pabcock has been tnak
iug her daughter, Mrs. W. N.
Wheeler, a visit of Beveral days.
Mr. Mattyre made a trip to Cot
tage drove Saturday.
At The M. E. Church.
Mrs. M, C. Wire spoke at
the M. E. Church Sunday morn
ing aud eveuiug 011 General Mis
sionary Work, under the direction
of tho Womau'a Foreign Missionary
Society.
Jamos Sears came to the city Fri
day, after a short visit with his fam
ily will return to work for the Ore
gou Securities Co. Mr- Sears has
just finished a contract for the Le
Roy Miuing Co. aud reporte a fine
body of Base ore,
The Country Editor.
1-u op es mil btudatorv para
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W 'S
, nuicuie anu ucprccaiiorM, long nave
! bc tIlG Iot of t,ie co"Iltr' C(lir-
1 crr"rs W""C '"ey
could be read of all men and has
modestly sought a fair credit for
his merits.
"When you consider that the coun
try weekly is owned by its editor
and that the man who writes the
funny things about country papers
in tho city journals is owned by the
corporation for which he writes, it
doesn't seem so sad. When you
see an item iu tho city papers pok
ing fun at tho country editor for
printing news about John Jones'
new barn, you laugh and laugh
for yon know that on one of the
pages of that same city daily is a
two column story in regard to the
trimmings on the gowns of the
Duchess of Wheelbarrow, and it is
all the more amusing because you
know the duchess does not even
know of the existence of the afore
said city paper while John Jones
and many of his neighbors take and
pay for the paper which mentioned
his new barn. Don't waste your
pity on the country newspaper
worker. He will, get aloug."
Some editors say little money is
needed to start a country paper.
There bo those who claim that it
does not require any money -that
it can be done on nerve alone and
they produce evidence to support
the statement. True, some of the
editors who have tho least money
aud the purest plants are most
successful in their efforts to live up
to the conception developed by the
professional humorist, but it is not
fair to judge the country .editor by
these any more thin it would be
fair to judge the workers on the
great city dailies by the publishers
of back street fake sheets that exist
merely to rob advertisers or to
judge the editors of reputable mag
azines by the promoters of nause
oua monthlies whose stock in trade
is a weird and sickening collection
of mail order bargains and quack
medicine advertisements.
The country editor ot today is
far removed from his prototype of
two or threo decades ago. It would
be strange if an ae that gives to
ithe farmer his improved self binder,
to the physician his X-ray machine
and to the merchant his loose leal
ledger had done nothing for the
'town's best medium of publicity.
The perfection of stereotype plate
manufacture, by which a page of
telegraph news may bo delivered
j ready for printing at 11 cost of ap
proximately 20 cents a column, aud
the elaboration of the "ready priut"
or "patent inside" by which half
the paper is printed before delivery
pet as practically no expense over
the unpriuted sheets, have been the
two great labor savers for the
country editor. Thereby ho ia re
lieved if he desire, of tho tedious
and expensive task of setting much
type in order to give the world'B
general news aud the miscellaneous
matter that "fills up" tho paper.
His euergles then may bo devoted
to reporting the happenings of his
locality and to giving his opinions
on public affairs. Py his doing ol
these and by his relations toward
tho public iuterebts is he to be
judged.
After all, uu one muu in tho com
munity has so largo an oppoitunity
to assist the town iu advancement
as the editor. It is not because he
is smarter than others, not bocause
he ii wealthy, but because he iu the;
spokesman to the outside world.
He is eager to print all the news
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;inhts own paper. Does be do it?
1
; Hardly.
"This would le a very
newsy paper." explained a frank
country editor to his snbscribera.
Py the time all the items that
might injure some of his friends are
omitted very little is left."
"I wish you would print a piece
about our school teacher," said a
farmer's wife to me one afternoon.
''Say that she is the best teacher in
the county."
"Put I can't do that. Two hun
dred other teachers would bo ang ry.
You write the piece, sign it, and
I'll print it.
"What are you running a news
paper for if you can't please your
subHcribersV" she demanded and
cancelled her subscription.
So the country editor leaves oat
certain good things and certain bad
things for the very simple reason
that the persons most interested are
close at hand and can find tho in
dividual responsible for the state
ments. He becomes wi3e in bia
generation and avoids chastise
ments and libel suits. He finds
'hat there is no lasting regard in a
sneer, no satisfaction in gratifying
the impulse to say things that
brings tears to women's eyes, noth
ing to gloat over in opening a
wound in a man's heart. If be
does not learn this as he grows
older in the service, he is a poor
country editor.
His relations to his subscribers
are intimate. There is little mys
tery possible about the making of
the paper. It is as if he stood in
the market place and told his story.
Of cource the demands upon him
are many and some of them prepos
terous. Men with grafts seek to
use the paper. People with
schemes ask free publicity. The
country editor is criticised for
charging for certain items that no
city paper prints free. Tho churches
and lodges want free notices of en
tertainments by which they hope to
make money. Semi-public enter
tainments prepared under the man
agement of a traveling promoter
ask free advertising 'for the good
of the cause." Usually they got it
and when the promoter passes on
the editor is found to be the only
one in town who received nothing
for his labor.
It is characteristic of the country
town to engage in community quar
rels. These absorb the attention of
the citizens, and feeling becomes
bitter. The cause may be trifling.
The location of the schoolbouse,
the building of a bridge, the selec
tion of a justice of the peace or
some similar matter is enough. To
the newspaper office hurry the par
tisans, asking for ex parte reports
of the conditions. One leader is
perhaps a liberal advertiser. To
ofl'eud him means loss ot business.
Another is a personal friend. To
anger him means the loss of friend
ship. The editor of the only paper
in the town must be a diplomat if
he is to guide safely through the
channel. In former times he tried
to pleaso both sides and succeeded
iu making enemies of everyone in
terested. Now, the well equipped
editor takes the position that he is
busieess man like the others thai
he has rights, as they have and
he states the facts as he sees them
regardless of partisanship, letting
tho public do the rest.
Out of the publio disagreement
may come a uewspaper quarrel,
though this is a much rarer thing
than formerly. The old time coun
try newspaper abuse of "our loathed
but esteemed contemporary" is
passing away, it beiug understood
that such a quarrel, with personali
ties entangled in the recriminations,
(Continued to Inst page.