COTTAGE GROVE LEADER
VOL. XVIII
COTTAGE GROVE, OREGON, SATURDAY, JULY 14, 190«.
same story.
Mrs. J. T. Allison came in on
the local Monday night.
NO. 13
180G, and in advauce of opening by
the Secretary of the Interior is not
authorized by the act will confer no
Band Boys w ill Have 0 tiinq a! New
Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Coffman
rights and will be trespass.
port.
spent Sunday in Walker.
“ Settlement aud entry under the
It. Purus Powell of Moumouth
Miss Ethel Cottle spent Sunday
Geo. Mitchell, the Slayer of Creffietd
act will be within the jurisdiction of
Mrs. Creffield a..»I Esther Mitchel
writes
to
find
out
if
any
of
the
band
j
How Homestead Claims in Forest Re the Secretary of the Interior, who
and Monday visiting at New Era.
is Killed by His Sister.
Conspired and Manned for
1 boys will join to make up a baud to j
serve are Handled Under
will issue npprooriate instructions.
Mr.
and
Mrs.
Harlow
of
Star
Geo. Mitchell s Life.
play at Newport this summe.’. The j
New Law.
were
visitors
in
town
on
Saturday.
H O M E O F T H E C LA IM A N T.
Esther Mitchell shot and killed 1 boys will be furnished transporta- j
tion
and
their
board
while
there,
j
Geo.
A.
Steel,
treasurer-elect
of
‘
‘
Homestead
claimants are re
her brother Geo , the slayer of
Mrs. Creffield confessed having
Frank Edmund Creffield, in the and there is a chance for a pleasant bought a pistol with the deliberate Oregon has filed his bond of $5,ooo.
There is considerable misunder quired to live upon and to cultivate
or graze the land embracad in their
Union depot at Seattle at 4:2o time for them to have a nice outing j intention ot killing Mitchell and
Chas. C. Conner and Misa Alice standing in regard »0 the proper claims. The Interior Department
expense.
Thursday afternoon, as her and her and at no ______
procedure
to
homestead
agricultur
after
her nerve weakened
Esther Huff are to be married at 4 o ’clock
brother Perry were going to the
al land included In a forest reserve excuses temporary absences when
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i Mitchell offered to do it, and even Sunday.
train to take them to Portland.
under the provisions of the act of rendered necessary, but they must
Griffin and.Veatch Co. are going planned to follow him to Portland
Miss Ida Barrett returned on Congress of June j i , t9o6. The be the exception and not the rule,
The three brothers, G eo., Parry to have a monster sign on the east | cVen if necessary to ask him for the
and Fred were together iu the de wall ot their store before long.
necessary funds to go, in order that Monday night's local from a short following information and instruc and fhe land embraced in the entry
business trip to Portland.
pot when Perry noticed the sister
tions bearing on the subject have must be used for tho home of the
Dr. (J T. Hockeit is spending she might get the chance she
claimant to the exclusion of a home
standing iu the room and went up his vacation at Youcalla and Dr. wanted.
The council expects to collect been issued by the Forester to the elsewhere. Lands tnav not be ap
and spoke to her, and was joined by Best is attending his work while he j With such a confession, neither about
Forest
Supervisors
thronghou
the
000 from property holders
propriated and patented under the
the others and Geo shook hands is gone.
I woman can hardly hope to evade for street improvements on 4th and west
with liis sister without either speak
‘ ‘No claims can be initiated for homestead laws if entrymen use
the prison as Mitchell did. The 5th street.
I lie freight men take the weather
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ing, they then started for the traiu,
agricultural land in forest reserves them merely for grazing headquar
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most abie physicians have examined
to heart and bear a d e -r ,
Arrangements have been made j uuti[ it is classified as chiefly valu ter . during a few weeks or months
Geo. and Perry walking in front : especially
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both women and declare them sane,
against the weather
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for the payment of the Willamette able for agriculture, listed in the each year and maintain their homes
and Fred aud the sisb i behind. I elded i giudee
\
except upon Holy Kollensm.
Valley
University debt, so that the I local Land Office and opened by elsewhere.“ —Oregonian.
She had on her arm » capo which *>ro'’ '
The Seattle Judge who presided
institution
will bo able to go ahead I the Secretary of the Interior, in ac
her brother offered t" carry for her.
Mrs C. P. Christenson, wife of in the Mitchell case, blames the jury
Dr. Oglesby was at the train on
Just as she turned the capo over to the bool;keeper for the J. IT. Cham- for freeing Mitchell, and giving the with its work, without any annoy cordance with the act of June n ,
him she drew from beneath it a re I her» mill at AFa is making a visit women a chance to avenge Cief- ance of such a kind.
t i9o6. Applications for lassifica- Friday to meet friends.
volver, which she took in uer right in Portland.
field’ s death.
Mr. G. B. Hengen of New York, tion and listing must be mailed to
A good many people are striking
hand and aiming quickly at Geo.
Where will the rango of this ter principal owner of the O A S E II R the Forestor, Washington, I). C ., for the hills these days.
United
States
District
Attorney,
shot him oebir.d the leL ear, kill
rible cult die. It would seem right and heavily interested in the Ore by tin) applicants, and will secure
C. Ross King went down to Yon-
ing him instantly. As quick as. Bristol has received his commission that the whole lot should be shut gon Securities Co. arrived from to them a preference right of settle
call on the afternoon t. lain Friday
Fred *aw the gun, he grabbed at it, from the president, and the charges 1 up fotevor by the government.
ment
and
entry
unless
the
land
was
Portland on Tuesday afternoon, and
on business.
but was too late, bat tie prevented against him were refuted.
immediately went up to Bohemia occupied by a bona fide settler
a second shot and the girl fell iu ! Portland is sure that in spite of
prior
to
January
1,
iqofi,
in
which
Frank Jordan haa 1 > <v h.v-h-r.
with A. B. Wood and J. A. Eade.
Miss Marguerite Jones returned
his arms.
case the settler has tin preference one f t'is w r. •
the Washington Railroad Commis
Ben Trygstad is now located in right.
The same policeman that had ar sion it will he able to control the Friday from Oakland.
anteed to do the job up iigtu.
Portland i ■ the wood and coal bus
rested Geo. Mitchell for killing | shipment of wheat, and that the
Miss Lulu Willard returned from iness, but writes that he misses his
Mt’ST ngsCRinR LAND.
Camp furniture, stools and cots,
Creffield, also arrested Esther. majority of wheat shipment* will New Era the first of the week.
everything
to make camp life com
camp
at
the
Oregon
Colorado
and
After being taken to the Police continu« to rome through Portland.
‘ ‘All application must give the
W. A. Wotherspoon, a real es says he will be back in the fall. He name of the forest, reserve and de fortable at Veatch A Lawson^s.
station she made the following
Tom and lla iry P irrcr to k up a tate man of Denver, Colorado is is much pleased with his business
statement.
Anybody who has a shady porch
scribe the land, examination of
“ I do not regret it. I am glad 1 big load of provision to the mine visiting his mother here, and says there, aid is looking t irward t> which is requested by legal subdi that can he utilized into a dining
did it. I tired once aud tried to this week. They are much pleased he is so pleased with Oregon and the day when the camp will be a visions, section, townshig and range room is in great luck these days.
lire another, but there was such a with the outlook on the property Portland in particular that he large camp among the large ones of if surveyed aud if not surveyed, by
Hammocks 0} all kinds at Veatch
loud noise made by the erowd I and hope to have a great mine thinks he will settle in the Ross the country.
reference to natural objects, streams
A L*Wson’ s. Let your folics nt
City.
don’ t know whether I fired again or some day.
or
improvements
w'th
sufficient
ac
Damewood Brothers had a new
home keep cool in the hammocks.
Messrs
LeRoy Wo ids and Roy
not.
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Congress before it closed appro box made tor the stage that runs curacy to identify t ie land.
ach am aspiring for high honors j priated $250i„ 00 ,or continuing the from the Red Bridge to Bohemia on
‘ I shot him in the head and 1 Welch
“ Only one tract o f land will be
G. O. McGilvray has been down
teaching laches to «wun. They ; woik of buiKlil)ff the Celilo canal. Saturday. The new box gives examined on the application of the to look over his new position, and
knew if I hit w here I intended to it
are expelienced and are thinking of In a few years that work will be
was sure death.
plenty of room for three seats and same person, but if it is rejected or rented a house and will move with
“ I intended to follow him to starting a swimming school, and no completed and vessels will be able a small amount of baggage and is withdrawn a second application will his family, so as to bo ready to
Portland if I did not shoot him, j doubt will win great lame in their to go from Portland clear up the strong and firm. Eby A Markley be considered for oth"r land. Ap commence his new work on tha 1 st
n.-w field,
here.
Columbia for a Ibng distance.
did the work on a rush order, so plications received at Washington day o f September.
Mrs. Alton and Robert Alton, the
in the same mail frr the examina
I killed Geo. because he killed
Joo Baker says his summer shop that Joe could drive out Saturday
The Oregon Mineral Springs are
tion o f the same tract of land will
an innocent man, and because be wife and son of Dr. R. D. Alton of
night,
and
be
ready
with
the
wagon
,
, finest lo- for the regular run Monday.
be treated as simultaneous. Notice doing a rushing business these days.
has ruined my reputation by saying Livingston, Mont., who is one o f , at the Red _ Bridge lias , the
the partners in the firm of the R u s-' c'1110” ln Oregon and he does not
of all conflicting appb di ms will The business is steadily growing
that Creffield seduced m e.”
and Mr. Geer predicts a great fu
He will have his
be given.
Mrs. Creffield bought the revol se lft Rogers Co. arrived in this1 fmlss ,l w ^ ] \
Foresters
Picnic.
citv
on
Thursday,
The
same
day
forgo
ready
for
business
by
Sunday.
‘ ‘Areas known to have been oc ture for the springs. The camp at
ver and planned with Esther that
Great camp is prepared for For cupied by actual settles prfor to London is very lively, and the sum
the one that hud the first opportun Mrs. F. L. Mintie of Oswego, Ore., He expects to make a stake this
the lively business in ester Picnic Sunday. The Forest January 1 , 11)07, will bo examined mer visitors are getting a great deal
ity should kill George. She went came here and both ladies were met snmm#r
gunning for Mitchell but did not by Mrs. Fred Russel and on Friday I ° w,n am m j o e i n g the teams that ers expect an immense turnout to-; first and when such area* are found of good from their stay there.
morrow at their picnic. They have chiefly valuable far ml ” ¡culture,
have an opportunity to kill him, morning were taken up to the sum- ^nu to f^e mines,
Manager Herbert Leigh, Presi*
Tne new bank building is going got the grounds all arranged for they will be listed in order that the dent L- N. Rooney and Geo. Midg-
and Esther made a previous at mer camp above Dorena, where Mr.
tempt but could not get the gun and Mrs. Russel are so pleasantly ; up rapidly. The brick wotk is all and a troop o f Foresters \ ill go up occupants may make entry under ley a heavy stockholder of the
out to aim. Knowing her brother spending their summer, while Mr. completed, with the exception of j early and have everything in readi- J the act. The more fact that a per North Fairview Company, all of
would want to see her before she Russel gives his personal supervis- 1 the roof of the vault. The carpen-1 ness for the picoicnrs, so that their i son has settled upon the land, will them of Eugene were in the city
left she deliberately planned with ion to the Chambers Lumber Co. \ tors are at vvotk and expect to have comforts can easily be attended to. : not influence ttie decision with re Thursday and on Friday went up to
Mrs. Creffield how she would kill The camp is now quite a big family ; everything in sha; e by the i5th of | The railroad has granted a low spect ts its agricultural character. Bohemia to visit their property, and
him and succeeded. After her ar reunion, and a jollier time could n o t! August. The building is to be tin- ] rate, one and one-third round trip, I Sutlers must not expect to include to plau for fur'her work. The gen
rest detectives went for Mrs. Cref- be imagined than the party are hav- ished up in first class shape and all | and a great crowd is expected. G o 1 valuable timber land in the ent'i'S. tlemen were glad to be able to get
along and cool off.
! such things take time.
Settement mnde after January 1 , in the hills at this warm time.
field and she told substantially the ing
VICTIM OF
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CONFESSED
CONSPIRACY
CLAIMS IN
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Determined not to carry over a single SUIT===Watch our ad
And if you value your CASH we will SAVE it for you.
Prices w ill be on $10.00 Suits $8.75, $12.00 Suits $10.00, $13.00 Suits $11.00, $15.00 Cult;,
$12.00
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