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About Bohemia nugget. (Cottage Grove, Or.) 1899-1907 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 20, 1907)
BOHEMIA NUGGET BOHLMIA NIKKILT PUBLISHING COMPANY. Mute nil phfcko payable to Nt(tft Tub. Co. Krlcred lit tti postortlr ( foltafre UroTe, 0 vkii a rnl cl mml mmtpr. sri'.St IMI'TION ItATKS. (! months $1.00 1 year $1..0 Is months f:00 If paid in advance. Clubbing Pates. The Uohemhi N'upget one year rvlth liny cmo of the following puli Mentions one year for amount net opposite: Piictlic Monthly $2.00 tVeeklv Oivitoiilan (Portland) -'."0 Wwk ly .1 on rim I ( Portland ) f 'J.00 lailv Mining Itivoni tlcnver) $".r0 Weeklv Mining Record ?2"5 I'm-llic Homestead 2.." Northwest Poultry Journal $1.73 Thl phiht is kcnt on Me bv THK AMRRI ' AN MIMSii I'UXilKKSS, Chamber of Com meroe ItuiUlinv. L'enver, I'ulo., lahar our rpa-it-nt ill be wi-lro-ne lo the use of the lead ln iutera from tho Mirioim iiiiuinit aeotinua ol 'he West, .1 M-ientitie library and miner1 ex- dibit. rllH PA I'KR Is kepi on ft if at E. ('. Drake' A Ivortlstng Aftnfy, n ano 6.1 Marruanta h thanfra, San Kraneiwo, California, where con. trarta for advertising ran be made for it. Wednesday, Nov. 20, 1907. Cottage Grove is going right uheatl, holiday or no holiday. No one haa suffered; we are favored with cheerful, solid business men that "knoweth in whom he has placed his trust." No serious in convenience has bsen experienced here. Improvements are the talk of the dny. Even the ladies are taking a hand with the slogan, "a clean city, a pure city, an attractive city, a big city." No city in the state can boast of a greater pros perity than is shared by our man ufacturers find farmers or a class of merchants and bankers with stronger financial standing or great er faith in one another and a grand harmony iu the building up of our small city cf great and unsurpassed resources and possibilities. FARMERS' T A n n rp n IV X : u y u Z2 HELD UNDER AUSPICES OF Two hundred and thirty new people found homes in Oregon every day from September 1st to October 31st as a result of the colo nist one-way tickets and through the help of the newspapers the pop ulation and wealth of the state has been enormously increased. The exact number of tickets eold as re ported by Mr. William McMurray, General Pasaenger Agent on the Harriman lines, for I9O7 was 13, 753. For the same time in I906 it was 8890, an increase of 4863 or about sixty per cent. This of course does not include tickets sold to Oregon over the Canadian Pa cific, Northern Pacific, Great North em, or any other roads whose tickets come around by way of Puget Sound. The Oregon Devel opment League has made the colo nist rates the chief feature of its work. The Portland Commercial Club circulated 400,000 leaflets with this low rate its central feature, and probably no advertising ever done by auy state in the Union has ihowu better results. The rates will be on again during March and April 1008. Vll llCl IVUIIIII III UVMIV AND THE CITIZENS OF Cottage (Grove LANE COUNTY, OREGON. Wednesday, Nov. 27, AT THE ARMORY Sessions at 10 a. nr., 1:30 and 7:30 p. m. Qff fiiarfc Relating (o FRUIT, DAIRYING, JUUJCUS, FORAGE PLANTS, DRAUGHT HORSES and the HOME, will be presented. Stereoptican Illustrated Lecture feature of Evening Session Good Speakers! Good Music! Everybody Welcome! All Come and have an enjoyable and profitable time land Commercial Club Thursday and Friday was very decidedly the best attended and most practical good roads meeting ever held in this state and was considered by visitors as equal to any similar meeting yet held west of the Rocky mountains. Railroad News. A canvass ot the business houses, wholesale and retail, as well as the factories, proves that business has gotten back to normal conditions. Many report an increase over last year. There has not been a failure on a suspension of a single business house or factory in this city. The people of the state can depend up on the newspapers of Portland giv ing them the facts and before they get these facts they can depend up on any news contrary to the above statement being merely rumors. The words of Mr. Theodore B, Wilcox, president of the Portland Flouring mills, in an address be fore 1H0 business men at the Com mercial Club Tuesday night, when he announced: "The Hurry is over. Will be in the market buying wheat and paying gold for it tomorrow," met with a more enthusiastic recep tion than any remark that has been made in this city in many years. The Oregon Good Roads Associ ation which convened at the Port- That James J. Hill is makinS ef forts to construct a railroad line from Portland to San Francisco was made certain in the minds of rail road men with the arrival in Port land several days ago of 11. . Gra ham, who is in the Rose City for the purpose f instituting suit to recover possession of the Coos Bay; Roseburg & Eastern Railway & Navigation Company, operating a Hue of road about 30 miles long be tween Marshfield and Myrtle Point. Mr. Graham lives in New York and was general mauager of the Coos B iy road in 18!)8, when J. D. Spreckels' Bros. fc Co. took force tul possesHi'on of the railway with a squad of men armed with Winches ter rifles, to satisfy a private debt owing the bi sugar man by Gra ham, amounting to j5"23,000 due on a promissory note. ' fOI,l) TO SOI'TIIKRN I'Ai'IKir The road was placed in the hands of a receiver and was Anally sold last year to the Southern Pacific railroad The receiver was dis charged last July and Mr. Graham at once commenced to get busy to gain possession of the road. The nature of the action which he will bring is to start a suit either' in the United States circuit court or the state circuit court at Marsh field for an accounting of the rail road's condition and lor the restore ation of possession of tho line, with all ot its corporate property. Mr. Graham and his attorneys have not decided in which court to institute proceedings, the only reason for taking the suit into the state court would be to have the action lie nearer the facts than they would in the federal court in Portland. I'AKT CI- TI!.SS 'ONTIN JCNTA I, LINE Graham contends in defense of his action that ho was never given a day iu court by .Spreckles. lie! claims that the big San Francisco capitalist swooped down on tlie company's ofti cm at Marshfield while ho was in New York and drove all the ofli'-c employes out of the build ing nt the muzzles of Winchesters, lie says that he realized the futility of bringing Sprfcklcs to au account ing at that time and waited until now in order t foitify his position. Railroad men look upon Gra ham's propose'! action (is an at tempt on the part of Hill to gain a strong connecting link in a line from Portland to San Francisco. Tho Coos Bay, l!-oburir A' Eastern IJail'.vay it Navigation company ex tends up to the head of Navigation on the Coquill" ii"cr and runs through one of the richest valleys in the country. It is in reality the small prut of a transcontinental system that is considered one of the! most feasible yet broached for tlie j advancement and development of I the Pacific cast. j That the line is one over which i tho Hill and Harriman interests will' fight to the last ditch is further at tested to by the fact that the com- pany h on a paying basis. Another jthing which premises a hard fight i between I he 'dg interests is Gra. ham's dislike for Ifaninvui and Sprecklcs. Of the latter, the for cible seizure of the road is hafficient to show the enmity existing be tween the two, while Giahain is said to have developed a dislike for the Southern Pacific man for sever, al reasons. An incident of the Graham Spreekles feud is recoiled in tho hearing of the Inter;, tate Commerce Commission which made a small in vestigation of tlie Coot Bay line last spring! Commissioner IYane wns listening to the evidence) and asked Mr. Graham if ho did not re-. gard Spreckles intentions honest. '. Mr. Graham is reported to have.' said of the capitalist, "Well, he made a noiee like an houest man '' Singer, Xew Home, Wheeler & Wilson and Standard newlng mn clilnes at Vented & Lawsoim. KILLthe COUCH AND CURE the LUNGS WITH Dr. ting's New Discovery PBICE HIM r uuuna tnn una win OLDS Trial Bottla free AND ALL THROAT AND LUNG TROUBLES. GUARANTEED SAXISFAOXOKY OB MONEY REFUNDED. IMPORTANT TO YOU We have established a Class in j-our town and you can join this class at any time. We givo spec ial drills and our super ior drills are just what you must have if you de sire the best success. OUR STUDENTS SUCCEED We assist worthy stu dents to secure good po sitions. Do not say that you cannot learn to write Shorthand for You can in a Short Time Be Prepared to do the work the world wants done. Address ECLECTIC oiTcsponuciice School WILLAMETTE 4.1 ProfcRHiirn College of l.ilicnil Arfs. t in ie ix : t'LlHMlenI , i, Literary t. Sclenlille I!. s. l'llilisoihii'!d Ph. .. The College nT I lliei .d Al l main (f'llim t he follow inn Mel h , The t'ullei;i uf I ii.ilm v. O. II. The Tenehei V fnlleur. II. IM. Tho Normal S'lnml, IMplmnii. Tho Ore-run IiimIiIiiIo hi- the Aendeiny. Iiplunia. The School of Cuninieiee, 111 ploma. UNIVERSITY J Instructor. Affiliated Colk-Kcx, ( olli'K" nt Meilli-iiie M. I. t'olli-l r l.uw I.I,. It. ( 'ullei;o of Theology II. 1 1, Cull, p- uf Mil- le I). M. Tho AIIIIiii led ('ulle;i H are llnan emll.V Itoli'i-einlonl of (he Col lege uf l.iln'ii A rli. The School of Art, Ceitillenlo. The School of Art. In iiImo IImhii-5-dally independent uf the Col-g; h-ue of I.lheinl ArtH. I nt: i t i in. I i I'KliSIDl-NT JOHN Salem, Or , uini;i nk: II. COI.I-MAN, CROIl. If it's Up-to-date, THE TOGGERY has it. STYLISH and VI. 1,1.-1 I I "HSU cIuIIh-s .-ire ileiniiml-d liy nil nun uf in 1. 1 Ju. lament nnd THE TOGGERY U I he i.ice In -.-el y-nr Out lit from tlie crown uf vniir Ih-miI to the Mule of your loci. Tli i-4 wiirin wcnllier reinliiilH iim Unit Yc will iiinkc it cool (or oii if) on buy your St M- mi:k im)i:km:ar oi i s. If its Up-to.date, The TOGGERY has it. gnBwwfi 0fi&jm wp wnmw -"lrr tmm' riTTiii i ri ii r mriii Sodaville, Or. For Further Information CALL AT .NTQGKT OFFICK. o COTTAGE GROVE FLOUR MILLS CHARLES MATH I PAYS, Propr. Al l. KINHS OI GRAIN, FI:I;I, also KALIU) HAY. O O i TmTnniiiiirr'iiirwMiin "TnrMiirrnniiiiiTrMTTinwm'ii ! GRIFFIN & VEATCH CO. Dcivlors in h 1 r- UtIILl (11 ilflKJW are, Slovcs ami Ranges. j t Ye also 1 1 ; 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 till KIiuIm of Focrming Machinery Cream Separators, Sporting Ootids Guns svnd Ammunition, Kto Remember We Buy for Quality. Call on Griffin & Veatch Co. St Jlotherrt wifh lit I If ehililren lieeil no longer h'lir eronp, eolil i or whooping' eonuh. lice I ,n vn live (!oiif.-,h Syrup i i . i. . . . ,! ,i ii IUSICH HOOI1. 11 WOl'liH Oil llll- coin throii-rli Hie liuwcl i. eii's I hi; nhlc-nii. eleai'H the heii'l. I'or yonnu' and old. (iiiniiintecd. Secure ji linttle nt once. Suhl by New Mm Hni Store. A Significant Prayer. "Mny the Lord help you niuke llnclc len'a Al'liidi Snlve liiiown to nil," writes . I. H. .IciikiiiH, ol' ('Impel Hill, N. ('. J t iinlekly took the imiii out. of u felon for me and cuicd It in n won derfully Hhort time." liorti, on flirt h for nore-, Imiiiih mid woimdi. l!rK' nt lieiiHon'H riiurniiicy. He Fought at Gettysburg. avld I'aiker, ' of I'dyette, N. y who lout, ii Tuoi nt licit yKl)iirK, writon" "i :iecli ie r.ILtei H have done me moro uood iliim nny medicine lever look For several yeniH J hn Htonmell Iroiiblo and iiiihI out iiiue'h muiiev for medicine to lilt It purpuHc, tiulil I b(!. Kim tnkniK Klectric lllttci-.i. I would not lake !f.,()ii for what they liavo dono for ine." (iriind tunlo t'uv the nKm and for femalo weaknesKey. lireat (illeriiallvo nnd body bulldf r ; bewt of all for lame back and weak kiclnoyn liuiiranleed by lleiiHon'H riinrmaeyl io io J locate, th city (Irayman, forn careful ImiiHfei' of your lioiwe-. ln.ldelTfetM.