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About Bohemia nugget. (Cottage Grove, Or.) 1899-1907 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 6, 1907)
f BOflEMffl a" fiItoriel Socl.tj Devoted lo the Mining, Lumbering and Farming Interests of this Community. VOL. IX COTTAGE GROVE, LANE COUNTY OREGON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6,1907. NO. 40 RAILROADS ENJOINED A Victory for Lumbermen in Initial Fight Each Firm or Corporation Required to Give Bonds on the Basis of its Cut for 10 Hours Cottage Grove Mills Among the First. At a session of the United States District Court held at Seattle, Wash., on Oct. 31st a decision wu handed down by Judge Hannaford for tlie District of Washington which was afterwards entered ss of the same effect by Judge Wolverlon of the District of Oregon holding that the various railroads which had issued a tariff raising the pres ent east bound rates on lumber from C to 10 cents per hundred were enjoined from putting the ne.v rates into effect as tr as collecting the extra rate was coucerned until the matter bad been finally passed upon by the Interstate Commerce Commission. This was considered a great vie tory for the lumbermen iu their initial fight. The order also enured the various lumber associations who were interested to put up a bond of $250,000 to protect the railroads in case the raise iu rate was declared . valid. It is understood that only parties who agree to pay their proportion towards the expenses of tho suit and also furnish a satisfactory bond will bo made parties to the suit and participate in the benefits of the old rates on lumber into affected territories. Tho amount of bonds required of each firm or corporation shall be on the basis of its mill cut for 10 hours as follows: 100,000 nr over a lioud of L'0,(H)0 r.o to hin.ouO lo.ooo :i5 to r.o.oiM) 5,000 io to :ir.,ooo 2,500 jo or under l,oo) It is intended to file a list with tho court of all parties filing such a bond and only theso parties will ship under the old rate uutil the cose ij finally adjusted by the In terstate Commerce Commission un less the outside parties take a simi lar action ou their own account us h a been taken by tho various as- io. "ualiouH. (Vttage flrove lumbermen are amoiig the first to file bonds and heavy" .shipments will contiuue. His Dear Old Mother. "My lar old mother, who is now elRhty-lhree years old, thrives on Electric Hitters," writes W. J. liruu hiiii, of '.Dublin, (in. ".she Iiiih taken lliem for iiliout two years and enjoys tin cxeiJh'iit appetite, feels strong and sleeps well. Tlmt's the way Electric llltters affect the aged, ttnd 1 ho same happy results follow in all i-nt.es of female weakness and Keneral dehillt.v. Weak, puny children too, urn jjreatly strengthened by them. (Jiinrituteed also for stoiuneli, liver a.ud kidney troubles, by Ilcnson's Phnrnincy. fiOo. President Roosevelt will proclaim Oklahoma a state on Saturday Nov. 1G. The president mode this announcement this Wed. to Gov. Kraut., who brought to Washing ton a certified copy of the new con stitution. The advance of Oregon and the Pacific Northwest in live stock will be splendidly illustrated at the Horse show in Portland on the 7th, 8th and 9th of this nioi'th. En tries have already surpassed expec tations and a large attendance is HUticipated. I FARMERS MAKING MONEY Farmers of Rural Districts Have Bank Accounts Due to Prosperity. "I'd like to hnvn it lot of theso croaking pessimists just take n little romp around the great State of Orcgo" with me fin a couple of weeks, and I'll wager yon won't I hoar n peep out of them about hard times or adversity after that," said Stato Dairy and ( 'ood Commissioner J. W. Ilailoy today. "I get pretty close in touch with conditions on my vat ions trips of inspection and there is universal prosperity. Peo ple are contented, because, they a;c too busy mukiiig money to be any thing else but contented. J'hev nro optimistic, because they have had good crops ami record-'.ireok-ing outputs in nil Iiik.-h. "Look at the i till 11 x of t.uw, rich blood into our fanning commuui- jtis iih 11 result of the cheap colo nist MteH ;iiid the continuous re ports of unparalleled piosK-tity thai have been spread abroad. O10 gon is getting a rapidly growing rural population (hal is frugal, thrifty and industrious They are decent and law-abiding, and thev develop the rc-oiui cs of the ngii cultural distiicts abundantly and rapidly. "With the if 1 .4 . 0(1(1,00(1 out put in the dairying industry for the salo ol butter, chese, milk and cream last year aloi-e, wn find every farmer interested in that class of industry with pockets full of 1110 ley with large bank accounts. Diversified farming, such as dairying, fruit growing, chicken -inisiug, etc., is at tracting more people into Oregon than is the grain-growing industry. At lesst, I tdiould say thai 11s a re sult of my oil hand observations and the $14,0110,000 of lust year will be increased fwin '2.ri to .'10 per cel t, the exact figures I can't, give, for l'.loT, making the total production from dairying in the state for this year between $17, 000,000 and $1, 000,000. "You go out into the farming communities of Oregon and talk panics and hard times nnd they ' ill laugh at yon. They haven't got time for pessimists and, furthermore the fanners arcu't worrying any about the banks either. They are just as confident as tho people of Portland are, that tho situation will work itself out all right nnd iu short order." Telegram. Fruit Growers Meet. Twenty-five of tho most enthusi astic fruit and vegetablo growers in this section, say tho I'ugeno Regis ter met at the Commercial Club rooms yesterday afternoon and the question of incorporation and the amount of capital stock were dis cussed fully by all interested. It was agreed to make the capita! stock $5000 and enough has been subscribed already to insure tho in corporation of the association. In two weeks there will be an other meeting at tho same time of day and at the satno place when ar ticles of incorporation will be ready and tho stock will be ready to issue, officers elected and the association launched into existence. It prom ises to be the most important move over made for tho fruit growers in this county, They will virtually make a market for the fruits and vegetables grown hero and will do much to give this section a big rep utation. The Register predicts great things for it. Horses for Sale. Five head good work horses for Male. S. K. IUislok at the Harnett place near Bohemia. H RAILROAD TIME CARD To Take Effect Next Sun day, November 10(li The Northbound Local Will Leave Cottage Grove lor Portland About 11.15 a m Arriving There at 5.30 p. in Important cIihiil'ch of time on he Southern Pacific lines in Ore gon will become effective November 10 The Shasta Impress, a through 1 1 .nil t Sun 1'iancisco from Port land, will be taken off the Califor nia run and will operate between Portland and Koseburg only. No 12 will leave Koseburg heie . liter daily at K:"0 a. m., arriving t Poitlund at o lio p. in. Tiuin 11 w II h-ave Portland at H.15 a. ra., the H.une time as at present, arriv ing at Roseburg at .rt..'IO p. m., 15 ininutis later than at presen. The train will cirry no diner, but 20 minutes will be allowed at Albany for bin' h Although the new ar rangement offers daylight service between Portland and Koseburg, one standard Pullman will be at tached lo the train and seats in the car will be sold on a parlor-car ba sis, allowing passengers to have Pullmau accommodations when de sired. Train No. 1 1, also a California train, will leave Ashland at 0 a. nr., instead of 10:10 and will reach Portland the satno day at 11 p. m. instead of 11. .'10 as at present. This train will do local work between Ashland and Koseburg. My this arrangement the north bound liver will reach Koseburg about '2: p. in. No change is an nounced in the southbound sched ule. Tin hu-a1 trains will not run smith of Koseburg. Hard Times in Kansas. The old days of grasshoppers and dl'oill li lire almost forgotten III the prosperous Kansas of today ; although 11 cil i.en ol ('odell, Karl .Shnnibiirg, has not yet forgotten a hard timo he encountered. He ways: "I was worn out and discouraged by coughing nl.'lil and day, am. could tlnd no re lief till I tried Ur. King's New Dis covery. It took less than one bottle to completely completely cure me." The sii lest and most reliable eongli and cold remedy and lung and throat healer ever discovered, tiiiaranteeil by I'enson'n I'liiu inac.v, ."0 cents and tl.nil. Trial bottle free. To the Public. J. H. Hoyt, ami wife, who were recently brought here from Eugene, by Constable Moral), on suspicion that Mrs. Iloyt was the ouc wanted for securing the $480 fiom an In dependence lady through hypnotic intluence, proved themselves entire ly inuoceut of the charge, but we are informed that the report has badly injured their business aud the officers here have been asked by Mr. Iloyt to assist them iu clearing up this matter. In justice to Mr. Iloyt ami wife, we take pleasure in publishing this statement. It is to be regretted that this mistake was made and we trust that with this announcement nud explanitory let ter furnished Mr. Iloyt by tho offi cers nt this place, that they will ex perience no further trouble. Lsue county and Southern Oregon papers ploase copy. Independence Town Talk. WANTED Wood choppers to eontraet for 1-00 cords of four foot cord wood. Ad dress l V, Cooi'i:n, Jllnek Jtutte, Oregon. Newspaper Don'ts. 1 We do not know Miss Susan Glnspell, of Davenport, Iowa, but she evidently knows things and is deserving of a place on the roll of bouor in American newspaper eir clos. She recently gave the club women of her city some interesting facts in relation to tho newspaper business, aud iu eluded in her paper wcrosome very valuable don'ts that will meet the approbation of every newspaper man. They ought also to meet the eye of every person who has to do with the newspapers in an unofficial way and be tol- lowcd. Here they are: Don't come to the newspaper of fue Thursday with something that happened Monday. Come on Rf on day. Don't come at two minutes of 3 o'clock when the paper goes to press at two minutes after. The assassination of the president of tho United Sta'es would be resent ed at that hour. Don't ask a reporter to run a column ot reprint stuff which may serve your cause, but has practi cally no news value, and then when you have a good live story give it to the other paper. The reporter will not like that a bit. Don't go to the managing editor and ask him that a legitimate news story be kept out. It would be just as unreasonable and just as indeli cate as to go to the banker and ask him to give you mouey, or to the lawyer aud ask him to give up one of his cases. A newspaper is a bus iness enterprize. When you "ski to keep out the news, you ask' it to injure its own business. Don't blume the reporter if some thing you gave him or her does not appear. It is not the reporter's fault. The city editor is the court of last appeal, and he works on the principal of the survival of the fit test. The fact that your committee is going to do something may be very important lo you, but the fact that some girl drank carbolic acid is more knpoilautto the city editor. Don't say, "I can't understand why the papers make so many. mis takes." If you had ever been in the business, you would say instead, "I think it one of the miracles of the age that newspapers can do that amount of work under that amount of pressure and make so few mis takes," We doff our hat to Miss Galspell. She has earned the thanks of every newspaper editor by her clear enun ciation of many of the cardinal principles of tb6 relations between the editor and his occasional con tributor. Newburryport (Mass,) News. A Crimimal Attack on an Inoffensive citizen is frequently made in that apparently useless little tube called tho -'appendix." It is nenernlly the result of protracted eon stipation, following liver torpor. Ur. King's New Life Pills regulate the liver, prevent appendicitis, and estab lish regular habits of the bowels. 2r)0 nt Henson's Pharmacy. Occupation Tax at Springfield. At the regular meeting of the Commercial Club last Friday even ing the matter of a city occupation tax was brought up and thoroughly discussed. Several of our business men have been agitating an extra tax of the business men for some time aud after discussing thto,' sub ject at some length it was decided that a committee from the club meet the city council at its next regular meeting and urge the pas sage of an ordinance putting an oc cupation tax ou every busiuess man in Springfield. This committee con sists of Messrs Kestley, Page aud Rcihard. Times. 10 ucres in Gowdyvllle, fine Im provements price 12500. Fisuai. Hinds. HOLIDAYS CONTINUED From Day to Day Only, Until Farther Notice The Governor Upon Request of the Portland Banks will Continue the Holiday Season Circud Court ad journed until December 2. Upon request of Portland banks, Gov. Chamberlain continues the holiday season beginning Monday issuing bis proclamation from day to day only. "I have heard from a number of out-of-town banks," said Govenor Chamberlain, "and I am inclined to think that it will be the better part of wisdom to continue the holidays aay Dy aay, just as luey are in other states, until things get cleared up a little better in New York. A total of $10,000,000 is due Portland banks from eastern torres- poudents and this amouDt, once beaded westward will quickly lift embargo on general banking busi ness in the metropolis. Then the valley banks' obliga tions to mentain the financial tryst with the Portland banks will be at an end and they will be in a posi tion to pursue the even tenor of their ways. There has been much uncertainty in regard to court here on account of legal holidays and the prospect of these being coutimn.d from day to day leaves matters m an unset tled condilion. Couit was adver tised to open ou Monday morning and litigants and witnesses were 011 hand to attend to theiv busines be fore it. In order to settle the mat ter, Judge Harris called the bar to geather at lo;3o Monday moruiug and the matter of fixing a definite day for heating jury ces was dis cussed by several members of the bar. It was finally decided that Monday, December 2, would b the best day to cull the jury t igeather for trial cases. Judge Harris stated that court would have to convene the next duy following the last holi day proclaimed by the govenor and a formil adjournment would have to be taken until December 2, to comply with the statute. As soon as the "holiday" season is over Judge Harris will have to go to Albany to finish the criminal case he started there when inter upted by the governor's proclama tion. He will then go to Beuton county aud hold tho term of court in that county and will return to atteud to the business of the adjoin ed term and try what equity cases he can until the jury lernr convens on Mouday, December 2. 'lhejury and all liti pauta and witnesses will govern themselves accordingly. Register. Oregon Silurianism. The people of Oregon are them selves partially to blame for this condition; they have never made' a real effort to free themselves from their bondage. They have not the enterprise, the euergy or the nerve to build their own rsilrosds, steam ship lines or anything else that will relieve the situation. They haven't the courage to fores llarritnsn to build either by punitive measures, by beginning construction them selves or by subsidies and other ef forts to induce rival roads to enter. Oregon, with the resources of an empire, sits back to let outside cap ital develop her, content to reap the profit from the exertions of others without the risk. Tho money of her banks is let to Wall stieet or used to buy eastern storks nnd bonds, perhaps safe enough invest merits, but not calculated to benefit the state. Millions of dollars, drawn from Oregon, are invested ehewhere by Orogouians as well ns by Ilarriman, and with far less ex cuse. Oregon herself to blame. Too long has the spirit of the mosshack governed her. True, she is wak ing up, but it is the invider from from other states who is taking the initiative. Wails about the oppres sor excite slight sympathy. The Lord helps those that help them selves. Oregon is a victim of her own silurianism. She must at least show fight for her own rights and the spirit to help herself before she is entitled to sympathy from any one, and this she never has shown. Why should a state of a million people with millions idle iu its bank vaults, with the 1 ichest territory on earth within her borders, perpetu ally bewail her fate without mik ing an effort to free herself; why should a commonwealth cringe per petually and allow an aggressive speculator to strangle her growth? There is onjy one answer rouss backism still stalks through the land and silurianism stifles develop ment uot Hsrriman. Medford Southern Oregoninn. It is a well know n fact that persons living; iu the pine forests do not suffer from kidney diseases. One dove of Piueules at night . usually relieves backache. :!0 days' treatment $1.00. Your money refunded if not satisfied. .Sold by New Era Drug Store. Town Judged by i'.s Papers. A newspaper may boom a town through its news and editorial col umns. It may write items without number about the crops, tell of the enorpous potatoes, apples, cab bage, and so forth, grown in its neighborhood, but when all is said and doue, it is the amount of ad vertising that appears iu a coun try paper that appeals to the inves tor. To him it is the advertising columns that measure the business done in a town. They are the pulst) that be feels to see if the dif tereut businesses are prospering. He knows very well tht if the local merchants advertise freely there must be a prospect of a good trade with a good country to draw from, or they couldn't afford to do so. Our advertising in the Itemiz er is growing, it looks healthy; it tells the outsider that our commun ity is prosperous; it induces hitu to come and look over tho situation and finally he locates among us, thus adding another unit to our population. Merchants may never have looked at it. in this light, but every thinking man will readily agree with us. that when he in creases the size of his ad he is help ing to boost his town far more than when be pays the professional speiler, aud spends bin money for all kiuds of hot air literature that is looked upon with suspicion, and taken with a large pinch of suit. Polk Countv Itemize-. Goveruor Chamberlain has ap pointed delegates to the Trans-Mississippi Clmunercial Congress to be held at Muskogee, Oklahoma, Nov. 19th-'2'2nd. Hon. Arthur F. Fran cis, Secretary of the Cougress, re quests every commercial organiza tion in Oregon to name delegates and report to him immediately at Muskogee. Goto itogate, the city drayman, for a careful transfer of your house hold effects.