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Cottage G rove L e a ü t: XVII C* COTTAGE GROVE, OREGON. SATURDAY, JUNE 3 , 1905 . NO. 7 = 7 = Create the opportunity for the land centennial of the conquest of ^C O M M E N C E M E N T AT territory was tirst seriously cousia- less man to get a home acre, which he may cultivate himself and pro ered Portland had 100,000 inhabi- duce bis food by his own labor, and tants. It is a truth well known,, G A V E H I M S E L F UP. the social and industrial problstns but again worth glorying in, that / - ------- iRichards Kills Sister and Broth- Richards iu company with Skin- j With Music and Oratory and Thunder in two days a committee sold $242,- Beginning iune 11th and Ending which now conlront tne nation will be solved.— Maxwell’s Talisman. ner s hired man. then went to the 000 worth of stock in the fair cor pr-in-law and Surrenders to of Guns. Nation's Aid in Celebrat June 14th— Program as home of Frank Stafford, where he poration. This was a record with Officers. ing New Birth of Oregon. Announced. After Road Tax. was detained under guard of three out precedent— an eloquent tribute / men until the arrival of Sheriff to the broad-miudedness of western Road supervisor Veatch de From Daily Journal. Kugenc Guard, Fisk. men. And instead of diminishing, The program of the University of cided the laborers working in his Ten minutes alter the terrible “ To the westward a garden waa tne remarkable interest id the great Oregon for commencement week is district, on the railroad, should pay le of the foulest murders in the l y of Lane county was commit- tragedy took place the daughter of planted; and they called it Eden!’ enterprise has steadily grown unUl as follows: a road tax. These laborers are all It has been a day of history mak today the climax has been attainf-d the Mohawk valley, nine Mr. and Mrs. Skinuer returned to Sunday, June 11 — Baccalaureate Greeks aud don’t feel they should northeast of Eugene, this the house and telephoned to the ing. With the sounding of the The project was born of enthusiasm, sermon, Rev. A. A. Morrison, Vil- add anything to taxes of any des sheriff an account of the affair and noon chimes a new epoch dawned and no man who subscribed will be liard hall, 11 a m. ling about 5.15 o'clock cription, in the country where they liford Skinner, a well known asked him to go at once and arrest for the great Pacific empire. It is grudge his investment, 09- matter j Moaday, June 13 — Field Day, earn their money. g inly it makes, Kincaid |r, and his wife were shot ami the murderer. He aud Deputy not the epoch of pioneering, nor of what the outcome, if only Mr. • Veatch appeared before Field, 2 p. m., aud recital by John Richards, Mrs. Harry Bown left here as soon as hardships, nor of toil; it is the con known to the world the city that of school of music, Villiurd hall at 8 Justice Vaughn and caused sum aestly— a/country that p. m. Ler’s brother. The tragedy possible thereafter aud arrived at summation thereof, and a physical mons to be issued lor some one only wants inhabitants, since the |red at the farm residence of Stafford’s about 8 o’clock. Plac narrative of a nations growth. Tuesday. June 13 — Alumni busi hundred and fifty of them. Con The fair is open. Almighty has dope his part to make ness meeting and class reunions, stable Atkins began on the work TSarali Washburn, Richard’s ing the handcuff a ou Richards’ The gates of the Lewis aud Clark it the richest in sill America. ^r, where Skinner aud his wrists they took him back to the presidents house, 3 to 5 p. m. ; Friday afternoon as they were un j centennial exposition have boen Portland, the hostess, stands at r had been residing for some- scene of the murder. loading rails near the depot. They Coroner F. M. Day and Deputy thrown wide, that the nations of the open door receiving her guests. oratorical contest, for Failing and refused absolutely to have anything Beckman prizes, Villiurd hall, 8 District Attorney J. M. Williams earth might learn the grandeur, the From Greenland to Afghanistan the to do with the papers served or the A F A M I L Y ROW arrived soon and held an inquest sublimity and the mightiness of pro- gifts hayfe come. The banquet is p. m. constable, but doggedly kept on Inner and his wife and Rich- Wednesday. June 14 — Cotnmencs- over the remains of Skinner and gress aud development, spread. The hospitable chamber is with their work. Ind his mother had b e e n hav- his wife. After the inquest w a s The northwest is paying tribute carpeted with 10,000,000 roses. The meut day, Villiard ball, 9.30 a. in.; The constable served a garuish- ] misunderstanding aud there completed Sheriff Fisk and Deputy j tins day to Portland while the g^fes have been torn from their university dinner to the alumui, meutou the time keeper for the eu bad feeling between them dormitory, 2 p. m.; and alumni bail, Bown started with Richards for j world pays homage to a land of Jlinges. Let all the world enter. amounts which will probably bring out a week. The trouble Eugene and arrived h> re at noou plenty. The streets are thronged armory, g p. in. Aud lie welcome! them to time. over Edith Richards, the He was at once locked up in the | with wonder-filled people, the build- liter of the murderer. She county jail. Sheriff Fisk says that iugs gay with flags and banners, Woodman o( the World's picnic. ’Memorial Day in Cottage Grove. A Living Erom One Acre. een staying there a week or the prisoner absolutely refuses to Nature ha« expended her warmest Memorial Day in Cottag and it seems that, for some The Woodmen of the World are In the Talisman for February, talk He is a quiet man, aged 56 welcome and subjected the elements Grove was well observed by all the Skinner and hi« wile, who years, and has eight children, the to her fancy. And Portland— in having a picnic today at Creswell. 1904 , we published an account of people. The members of the Jied one part of the house daughter over which the trouble toxicated with the ntArvels of a Following is the program; the experience of Samuel Cleeks, of I Grand Army were out in good force, 1 Richards aud his mother oc- occurred being the only one living dream realizod— is joyous— proud— Music by the band. Orltiud, Glenn county, California, another part, objected to the at home. He has been divorced triumphant Address of welcome, L- B. Gib who lived on a single ucre of laud those who were unable by reason of age or disability to walk, were con woman’s presence there, son. ¡for thirty yeais and not only made Where once wiy; a wilderness now from his wife for some time past veyed to the cemetery in carrages. st evening there occurred a Recitation, Ida Smith. a comfortable living for biinseif and blooms a | aradise Where a cen BUSI AL A T COBURG. A t 10 o’clook the procession pro kei, with the lestiii that ine Male quartette, “ Pride of the wife from that one irrigated «ore, tury ago was/ a vastuess ot wild ceeded by Cottage Grove baud, Isirable visitor leit the house Ball.” but was able to save an average of The murdered man was aged 46 I acreage— chaotic, uncultured, un started for the cemetery where the vent to the home of Frank years and his wife a year younger. \ disturbed by the implements of ac- Recitation, Rhoda Smith. four buudred dollars a year beside. ord and wif“ , who live a mile They were highly respected people quisitma, untrodden oy the foot of Quartette, “ W on’t you Be My Now comes the story ot a 1 ’ennsvJ- usual Grand Army ceremonies were down the liver. Sweetheart?’’ vunia man, who will try the experi carried out. C. J. Howard recitod aud prosperous While they lived I man -- there has arisen a mighty the memorable Gettysburg speech Address, Professor Sutton. 1 soon as he arose this morning on the place owned by Mrs. Wash- i monument of American energy and ment of making a living on a one- . . . _ . , .. , by Eber Browne deliver- Quartette, “jin gle ob de Bell on acre larni luer asked Mr. Washburn to burn they had a farm of their own heroism. And where, but three lie thinks; , , Lincoln. ,,,, farm m in Colorado, amt and he thinks J up the girl’s belongings aud in that vicinity. Their remains {years ago, there stretched a crude, de Cow.’ ’ he ounot only support his family of ed the Eulogy to the dead and l.v- May Pole drill, 12 little girls. I that he would take them to will be interred at Coburg, prqb-! uninviting waste, with the coming were three, but also start a bank account ». ..„„uv ’ 1 ,ug 8oldlf , r8 ., u’ »“ ‘ not.c . hymns , . Music by the band. It Stafford’s house, stating that ably tomorrow. Undertaker R. M. | of this holiday of holidays, a full- as the result of intensive farming on 18UUgyand h° «rave.s of old . , B and departed friends were decorat |d not want the girl to step her Day left here this morning about j grown Eden entrances the celebra- one irrigated acre. AFTERN O ON PROGRAM ed with flowers. ou the place again. Mrs. 10:30 o’clock to prepare the bodies j tor. Anthony P. Canny of Pottsville, Band concert at 1130, followed by In the afternoon exercises were tiburu gathered up the girl’s for burial. Pa., went to Colorado for his health. Tons of thousands have turned »p'lrii o f nl! kind' [lgings, which consisted of a He had but little money. His physi beld in the Methodist church, Rev. Entertainment in ball at night. CORONER’ S INQUEST. j ,t he 8 t ‘ le 8 ttnd a t , t h l 8 h ° “ r ‘ he f* S£ V; a hat box uud a bundle of cians in the east “’«rued him against J. F Strafford of .Springfield de w I ties are approaching a climax. But ling, and with them in his attempting to do manual labor, aDd livered the principal address. The A jury as follows was summoned of the multitude there was not one choir sang a number of patriotic Bs Skinner started for Stafford’s by Coroner Day; Frank Stafford, — no matter from what land he advised him to purchase just as songs. The Misses Stella and little land as he could possibly pro Marvin Hammitt, Jacob Nickleson, camo— who looked upon the ex ISHOT T H R O U G H T H li BA CK B. F. Huddleston,------Houston and quisite surroundings for the first duce a living trom, until bis out-of- Blanche Thompson and Mary Wil- door life and the invigorating climate hard recited selections and J. O. |e had gone no further than the J. H. Spores. time and was not enraptured. It is gave him strength to work a larger Howard one of Riley’s poems. A t to steps aw iv when a rifle The following witnesses were ex a picture that inspires reverence. Hcppucr, Ore., May 3 1 — Four farm. Mr Canny had read of the the opening Rev Stewart welcomed I was heard aud Skinuer was amined. David Albro, Lena Skin Whether viewed from the colonnade, the grand army men and their I to fall heavily to the ground, ner and Mrs. Sarah Washburn. from the summit of the grand persons were drowned and several experience of Mr. Cleeks in Califor friends to the church and Rev. others had uarrow escapes in a nia and he at once announced his They found that "Sanford Skin stau way, from the government's irds had fired the shot from a Grace spoke very eloquently at the Winchester rifle while stand- ner and wife, Mary E. Skinner, architectural masterpiece across cloudburst ou Rhea Creek, south intention to try the Californian’s close. 1 an upstairs window. The died from bullet wounds inflicted Guild’s lake, from a gliding gondo of here, late yesterday afternoon. plan in Colorado. He will utilize every foot of bis acre farm, and will it entered between the shoulder by John W. Richards. la in that shining sea or from a riv- The dead: Mining Notes. Mrs. J. R. Numemaker. ¡experiment largely with valuableJ les and came out through the The post mortem examination o f! er boat on the broad Willamette, it Ashland Tribune. Two children of J. R. Nume plants and flowers, rather than with j 1 st. He died instantly, Mrs. Skinner’s body revealed the ] is a sight that challenges the proud- Noah Coleman arrived in this city I vegetables, relying on the latter only liter becomiug satisfied that he fact that she was shot through the est boasts of Switzerland. The maker Child of O. Cox. to supply his table with necessities. Monday And reports a boom in mine 1 finished his first victim Rich- left wrist, through one leg. break pines, the firs, the rolling hills and The cloudburst took place at the He promises to add his one acre in the Sterling Mountain mining 1 went downstairs and entered ing the bones in each, then shot the distant peaks hold their heads |room where stood Mrs. Skinner through the body. As she lay on higher today— and to behold is to head of Cason Canyon, which tract to the famous spots in Colo district. He says the Sterling mine is bondod to San Francisco people. empties into Rhea Creek" at the rado. her daughter Lena, aged the stairway Richards placed the become a better American. California and Colorado are not It is understood the price is about ut 18, trembling with fear. The old pistol to her head and blew her The word failure, after such a Numemaker place, 12 miles from I ran out of the room, through brains out. day, is as foreign to the Lewis and this city The flood tore down the the only places in the United States $ 30 , 000 , the same to be determined Clark exposition as was retreat to canyon, devasted the bottom por in which a man can earn a liveli by a run of 100 tons g f tbe ore I gardeu to the home of a neigh- tions of the large sheep ranch of hood on one acre of ground, by in which is now ready to be crushed. Napoleon's drummer boy. Mr. McGee. Mrs Skinner The Blue Jay of that district is al Honey section boxes and separa Save by comparison the fair is Numemaker & Cox, one of the tensive culture and with irrigation. several attempts to escape so under temd to Colorado peopls. largest sheep firms in Morrow tors at Wynnes’ Hardware. The eastern and middle states can not complete. It is readier for the 1 was unsuccessful and was shot eye than were Chicago, Buffalo, County, and poured on to Rhea present just as good, if not better F. J. Hard went up on Thursday Omaha or St Louis, but there are Creek, doing little damage alter it opportunities for intensive farming, especially where laud is available in to Bohemia to look after his mining still counties« features to be made reached the larger creek bottom Mr. Numemaker remained in his small tracts near the larger cities. affairs. attractive, most of them within the exhibit palaces. The exterior house and did nut know ht:s wile beauty of the fair— the rose-lined had gone outside. Mr. and Mrs paths, the lawns and flower lieds— Cox had narrow escapes. Abo u are as perfect as man could make 200 meu have gone to the sceuet them, and nature’s part in the gar from this place, but full details Banner Shirt W aist dening, extending along the heights have not yet been received. to the left, is a work that awes. The Jeffersonian, a paper devoted There is a splendid historical ex cuse for this exposition, and Ore to the interests of the twenty gon rejoices in her privilege of so seventh ward of Chicago has this elaborately celebrating the achieve interesting item about our new pas “ Rev. ments ot Meriwether Lewis and tor at Cottage Grove, left William Claik. The history of the and Mrs. Grant Stewart United States is filled with the here Sunday evening last for Cottage achievements of its explorers and Grove, Oregon. A large number pioneers. It brims over with the of friends accompanied them to tbe spirit that makes reasonable, fear union depot It is safe to say that less, temperate manhood— a spirit no person has ever lett this commu that has accomplished the greatest nity leaving behind a larger number of God,s purposes and made nations of fast and loyal friends than Mr. Mr Stewart what they are. But the American and Mrs. Stewart I historian has told no story that has been pastor of the M. E. church equals in merit or romantic interest of this place almost four years His that of the great plan fathered by administration has been successful He leaves it out Thomas Jefferson and executed by in every feature Lewis and Clark, with their band of debt ami in a flourishing ami ] healthy condition, and with the ' of less than 40 followers. The toil of the captains is at an | love and esteem ol every one of its : end. The heroes are dead. But I members. His removal is also a j to Americans they have left the 1 great loss to the suburb, as be was; priceless heritage of American a broad man and interested himself1 valor and American individuality. in every worthy enterprise. A 1 Their spirits stand as sentine Mohair and Lawns. Also a large line of houes guardians of what is uppermost ini Shirt Waists. Best values ever shown. also suffered a «ever© loss. We all the American nature. It is well that Oregon and her join them m wishing them both Far West- sisterhood unite in such a celebra* prosperity and that tbe ern climate may speedily reatore tiou When the plau of celebrating the, them to health. ’ RDER ON MOHAWK through the top of the head w i t h i n P P N I N R au old Colt’s cap aud ball pistol. U ' C " m U She too, died instantly. OF UP EXPOSITION OREGON UNIVERSITY . ____ ANOTHER EASTERN OREGON CLOUDBURST IION PLAT SP R IN G L IN E LADIES! JU ST R E C E IV E D Just the Style You are Look ing for. ______ ~ L u rch Keeps the rvew Svirrv- mer Novelties Call and See Them .J Hemenway & Burkholder