Cottage Grove leader., September 15, 1906, Image 1

COTTAGE GROVE LEADER
COTTAGE G R O V E , O R E G O N , SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15 , 190 «.
VOL. XVIII
LAND FRAUDERS
CÜNVICTFD
Heney Wins Again, by Conviction of
Mays. Jones and Soren­
son.
work on the Christian Church
LANE COUNTY
building.
Mrs. Clark has not yet sworn out
SECOND
a warrant against the deserting hus­
band and in the meantime lie is
living here with this other woman. State Fair Exhibits of Lane County
Experts on the Ground.
iliar with the contract that our
Government euttii-d into about 3 o
or 4O years ago with tho Southern
Pacific railroad to buil 1 a road from
Portland to San Francisco. The
railroad was built and the company
received as a bonus oue-half of all
Win High Place.
the land on either side of their
road for 29 or 3 o miles. However,
For the first time in the history the government held a string to
of Lane County’s exhibits at the this transaction. Tho railroad was
State Fair, the comity has got to sell this land to bona fide set-
above fifth or sixth place, this year
settlers, not over 160 acres to each
being awarded second place, under settler, and not to exceed $2.50 an
the able management of E. M. acre. This the company did until
Warren. Mr. Warren has been at
about four or five uars ago, when
work for months gathering to­
our locality commenced settling up.
gether the materiul for the display Then they took their lands off the
and had with able assistants with
market aud they are not available
him.
now at any price For that reason
There is no reason why Lane our prospectors are not protected or
County should not have stood for-1 justified iu prospecting within 30
ward before for the recourses ot miles of the railroad. Why? Be­
the county, and the agricultural i
cause it they strike a trace and fol­
products are sufficient to give her a
low it up, they nre apt to discover
si
i.ig equal to the best. The that it is on railroad lands. We
present showing will be an incen­
have over i 5,000,000,000 feet of
tive for future display.
timber, of which the city of Grants
Pass is in the center, and uoarly
one-half
of the timber within 30
MINING IN
miles ot the railroad belongs to the
SOUTHERN OREGON ¡Southern Pacific 1 ulroad, and our
timberiueii cannot secure it at any
price. The motive of our Govern­
Address Before the Oregon Develop- ment, in entering into this contract
was good, but the contract is being
ment League at Salem
abused.— Telegram.
Wednesdav.
Mr. Armstrong, a Montana miu-
ing engineer and expert looked
The biggest battle of the land over the Kelsay property this
fraud cases, outside of that of the v,eek. He is much pleased with
late Senator Mitchell, has been the showing of the ore, but kept
fought and won by the government most of bis thinks to himself. lie
through Special Prosecutor Heney, spent considerable time iooking
in the conviction of State Senator around and will be heard from
Franklin Mays, Willard W. Jones ! again.
and Geo. Sorenson, who were de- \ Mr. Dixon of the Booth-Kelley
dared guilty of conspiracy to de­ Company came dowu to look over
fraud the government of public the copper ore on the Kelsay land
lands in the Blue Mountain reserve- last week, and was much surprised
The jury was out onlv about 8 at the ore being brought up.
The shaft is being sunk as fast
hours and returned the verdict of
as possible and the value is in­
guilty.
The farther
All three were re’eased on bail creasing rapidly.
and have 90 days iu which to file a down the shaft goes, the purer the
bill of exceptions. With the cou- copper becomes, and the more
viotion of the three the cases of sheet copper is found. Mr. Wood
other defendants look more serious has some samples from the shaft
that bend almost like a rolled
than ever.
The Blue Mountain Reserve has ; sheet, of the metal. Prospects are
been a great bone of contention, i very brig lit.
and now that the three principal |
men have been through the mid, Weatoer Bulletin Sept. 10. 1906.
the cases will be ground om more
The long drought was broken by
rapidly.
raiu which began in the coast
counties Wednesday and gradually
Deserters Come to Cottage Grove.
spread to include the greater part
Sisters Marry Brothers.
W. B. Sherman, of Grants Pass,
Tuesday the Portland Journal of the state. The rains were
heaviest
in
the
coast
counties,
spoke
on
“
Mining
in
Southern
In the marriage of Miss Anna L.
printed a story of a woman heart­
M heeler, daughter of Mr. aud Mrs.
broken at the perfidy of her hus­ where they were accompanied by Oregog.’ ’ In part he said :
I am not a mining man, but a M. W. Wheeier of Gowdyville,
band, whom she said eloped and strong southerly winds; as the
raiu
area
advanced
eastward
the
lumberjack.
I have been in the Wednesday evcai.ig to J. E. Black-
came to Cottage Grove with an­
other woman. Mrs. Georgina M. winds subsided, and, although the timber business since I was big more a ha-?py event, was consuma-
Clark, wife of Edmund William sky for several days was overcast enough to draw a saw or swing an ted, which came near to being a
Clark, a painter and decorator of t and threatening, the precipitation ax, and for the past four or five double wedding. Just a couplo of
Portland, married some twelve w«s in the for.u of light showers, j years have been in Southern Ore- weeks ago a sister ot the bride of
When I tell you that there j Wednesday was married to a broth­
years ago in Alberta, was deserted that were heaviest during Friday gon
night
and
Saturday
morning.
They
1
are
over
3000 carloads of mining er of Wednesday’s groom. Tne
Aug. 3 jst by her husband, with no |
other explanation than that he was j were sufficient to check the forest1 equipment and provisions shipped marriage was not to take place for
going to leave with another woman fires and to clear the atmosphere of into Southern Oregon annually, some four weeks yet, but Mr.
and marry her as soon as he could t smoke. Clearing weather set in you will be able to comprehend IPaekmore, who lias charge of a
obtaiu a divorce. She states that Sunday, and Monday was a bright something of the magnitude of the large dairying farm near Jefferson
he sold their little home and taking ! sunshiny day. The temperatures business that we are carrying on in found it would be impossible for
his two year
Id son left, leaving J averaged lower than the preceding our camp, Wo have over 15 ,000 him to get away at the time planned
her penniless with three children, j week, due largely t> cloudy after - \ people who are getting their living' so ttie dntewas changed and a quiet
two boys Edmund, aged 10 years noons, which prevented the usual through the mining industry. You wedding occurred at the family
and Cyril, 5 years old and a datigh- j diuraal rise during the middle of can more fully realize what we are home Wednesday evening, Pastor
ter of eight years, all of whom have the day. TI10 clearing weather doing if I tell you that we ha%»e R. C. Grace of the Presbyterian
dynamite , Church performing the service. A
now been taken care of. The old - j Sunday was followed bv a cool over 50 carloads of
est boy told his mother where his j night, and frosts occurred Monday shipped into our locality annually, neat little collation was spread for
“ The copper industry is just in them, and the guests afterwards,
father was going and the mother morning in the high, level valleys
states that the woman was a Mrs. traversing the Bine mountains in ts infancy, and we have mountains and a jolly fine time was lftl.
Katheiine Alexander of Hibbert the northeastern portion of the of high grade copper - ore. We Their many friends wish them well
street. She can give no reason for ntnte. Tho temporaturea Monday huve reason to believe that the and speed their journey with good
this sudden infatuation, unless it is j morning were also dangerously copper camps in Southern Oregon wishes.
that Clark’s parents are fighting! near the frost mark in the Rogue . will soon excel any in the ■ world,
Clinton Baker, a young boy of
for a large estate, which they hope River valley, and it is probable aud Grants Pass is in the center of
some frost occurred in that section, ! ttiis camp. We have many liun- 12, was killed on a farm near Eu­
to claim.
When the story was read in Cot­ wliicb will be reported next week, dred stamps dropping to reduce our gene Tuesday by being run over
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quartz to pulp. During the winter by a disc harrow which he was
tage Grove several people at once
Sweetheart not bought for $25,- months our placer miners are using running. His employer, Mr. Pat-
knew that the couple were here,
living in one of the rooming houses, j 000 A New York boy, the papers as much water through their hy- tison noticed his team in a differ­
The little son of Mrs. Alexander say. has been offered $25,000 to draulic pipes under high pressure ent part of the field than the boy
told his name in one of the stores, cease his attentions to his financee, as now flows through the Wil- was working and supposed the
and Clark has introduced himself by a man who supposedly wants to | lainetto river. The largest docp horses had run away, and going
around town as a painter, and marry her, but will not accept the gravel dredge in the world is being over found the boy dead, as a re­
sult of terrible injuries. His home
stated that he thought of settling money. Good for him. He knows | operated in Southern Oregon,
| “ I suppose you are all quite fam­ was Junction City.
here, and secured some painting and the other fellow don’t.
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NO. 22
STATE FAIR
■ ■ ml as long as they are in control
of the government there will be
periodical outbreaks. Ameri­
CLOSES such
cans have vast intere . there, which
art 'rowing daily an 1 tinless the
Largest Attendance in History. With l S. government U ik
hold and
kec:> things straight, uot only will
Great Display.
thei. interests be jaapordized, but
the country will gradually jink
Salem has seen a great week back into its old state of non-pro
with the unprecedented attendance
gre-siveuess and constant turmoil.
at the State Fair. Never before
has such a great fair been held in
the state, with such a variety of
Two Violators Fined.
exhibits, and with such large rep­
resentations.
Every county has
State Game Warden J. W. Baker
contributed its share and some ve-iy who was in the city yesterday, re­
extensively. Lane couniy made an ported the fining of S. J. Moss, a
especially good showing under E. young man residing between Leba­
M. Warren.
non and Brownsville for violating
Tho farmers who attended have the game laws. Ho was arrested
gotten great good from the study of by one of the deputies, tried for
the livestock, the exhibits of grains, shooting pheasants, and fined $ i 5
fruit, etc. aud the women irom the and costs. He paid the fine. This
dairying, although yvith the advent prosecution and the fining of a
of the modern cream separator, the young man iu Benton county on
woman has less to do with the Monday for the same offense will
dairying part shan ever before.
show the premature sportsmen that
The raiu at the first of the week the law is to bo enforced.— Albany
just nicely laid the dust, and while Herald.
the latter part was a little severe,
yet it did not hurt much.
Paul Stensland, the banker thief,
nicely termed defaulter, is trying to
More Fines Come In.
escape punishment by the suicide
Gamewardeu Baker reports tho route.
following arrests under the game
English workingmen are said to
laws. In Multnomah county, the bo better off than American men,
Quelle restaurant was lined $100 in a hook by an Englishman, stat­
tor haviug China pheasants in its ing that they get 40 per cent more
possession. Sbeell and II. Hol­ for their labor, anil still England
brook were each fined $15 for kill­ has had to get Americans to do
ing pheasants and quail out of sea­ their big jobs on time.
son. In Linn county S. J. Moss,
and iu Burton county, Jesso Holmes
The Oil cases are being investi­
were fined $15 and $11 .50 for kill­ gate! in Missouri. Mr. Pierce of
ing China pheasants and in Curry tho Waters-Pierce Oil Co., a con­
county, Ira Stitt, and James Whita­ cern operating through the Middle
ker were fined $25 for killing doves Southern States, which w . k absorb­
out of season.
ed by the Standard Oil t ’o. stat'd
I on examination that his company
before the change Lad paid several
Another Plant in the System.
. dividends ot 100 percent. Pretty
Tuesday’s Guard publisned an high, eh?
article rtatiug that Manager Welch
\ fire in the Refining plant of the
“ f the Willamctto Valley C’o. state 1
that the surveys for the Eugene gloat Argo smeiter in De v e r re­
Springfield lino and the street rail­ sulted in the loss of ilia* pert of
way system would begin uext week, the plant and a $ 75 ,000 los-t'oougb
but that construction work would the escape of partiallv refined metal
The
be delayed until Inter. Work on mid the melting of bullion
loss
on
the
building
w
,s
some
$
3
oo-
from Cbemawa is progressing rap­
idly and the cars wi I bn running 000. The editor ha« been through
from .Salem to Woodburn by j an. 1 the smelter many times and in the
The ltoseburg Electri • plant has refining room many more times,
been bought to be used 10 connect­ tilluugh au acquaiiitaime with the
ion with the line to be bui t through superintendent and it seems impos-
. sible that any quantity of bullion
the valley.
could have been melted, for the
Cuba's Revolution Beyond It: - Con­ bullion as fast ns it is taken from
the great furnaces and poured into
trol.
, moulds are convey» , ,v< ' hot into
Again has the Cuban government great vaults with « d>
.ve t' fee1
shown herself incapable of ha idling or more thick in eve > l region,
her own affairs and it is alto “ her with several great steel doors clos­
probable that the U. S will have ing the ouo entrance. Iu those
to step in under the Platt amend vaults at any time are stored hun­
ment, which gave Cuba tier p
r dreds of thousands, even millions
to rule, and again assume conti
of dollars worth of gold and silver,
Cuba is built up of a people whos and how such a vault could be de
life and thought is of devolution, stroyed l»y fire is beyond belief.
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get to choose from a large stock?
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our e x c l u s iv e business. W e also m a k e Suits to order.
Our F all Stock is now here
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