COTTAGE GRÒ E LEADER
VOL. XVIII
CAR SHORTAGE
WORSE AGAIN
S. K Company Has No Cars For Its
Own Work.
In a talk with a Southern Pacific
employee ho states that while the
shortage of cars on the S. P. is very
bad now, it will probably ba much
worse within two weeks. There
are at least 5 ooo cars of lumber
alone tied up in California, en
route to San Francisco. At one
point there is lined up on the side
tracks eight miles of freight cars
loaded with nothing but lumber.
Not al ne is this shortaee inflicting
damage to the shippers but it is
hurting the S. P. The mills at
Marcóla that the S. P. is equipping
are shut down for lack of cars, and
not being able to get machinery.
In Southern California are pile
driving crews and bridge crews
that have been waiting for three
weeks for piling aud timbers to be
shipped from Cottage Grove, aud
these things the S. P. cannot help
even for its own work.
He states that the company has
been unable to get cars from the
big eastern railroads, when the car
factories were unable to turn out
new cars. The car factories are
crowded with orders for a year
ahead, and !ry a s it will it is prac
tically in possible to get cars.
When the cars can be unloaded
more rapidly at San Francisco so
that they are not standing on the
side tracks there, then there won’ t
be such a shortage, but as it is
everybody is losing by it. The
San Francisco disaster is to a great
extent the cause of the trouble this
year.
Saginaw Items.
Our school is progressing nicely
under the able management of W
E Green and Edith Orswell.
The mill shut down Tuesday on
account of a broken pump.
The dance at the hall Saturday
night was enjoyed by all who at
tended.
C. A. Smith returned home Tues
day from Eugene.
Mrs. Case and sister accompanied
by the Messrs. Vanlorne left for
Portland for a weeks visit.
Say Jimmie what is syrup worth.
CO TTA G E G ROVE, OREGON, SATURDAY. OCTOBER 13, muti.
tions. All the rest are laid. An
other crew is working near New
Era. It will be through there to
day and will move to Southern
Oregon. Another is in Southern
Oregon and one is at Jefferson,
where a very fine steel structure is
being constructed to span the San-
tiam, with the concrete foundations
going down fifteen feet below the
top of she gravel bar.
There are construction crews
every few miles all along the road
between Salem and Portland, aud
further south ballasting up the
track, putting down new ties, and
rails, strengthening the curves and
in general making a very much
better road bed.
It is expected that when all this
work is completed, better time will
be made by oil trains over the
main line of the road. The steel
bridges will all be finished by
Christmas, If the steel arrives fast
enough.
POSSIBLE NEW TRXIN.
The travel on the Cottage Grove
local is heavy.
There is much
time consumed in taking on bag
gage and express matter at the nu
merous stations. The trainmen
think a new train is being planned
to run between Salem and Portland
to make fast time. One that, will
not stop at all stations; a light train
that will get over the road in not
far from an hour and a half- Sa
lem Statesman.
Fine Presentation
Lee Willard with an excellent
company played the “ Count of
Monte Crieto” at the Opera House
Wednesday night. T h e small
stage worked a great hardship on
the company, who in spite of those
things gave one of the best per
formances seen here in many
months. Each member of the com
pany is good in his or her part and
with Mr. Willard in the part of
Monte Cristo the company is able
to do splendid work and deserves
full houses everywhere. The play
is a good one, full of strong parts,
which were well carried ont. Mr.
Willard and his company will be
welcomed here again and wo hope
under more favorable conditions.
NEW S
R°y P'ggs left Friday for a hunt
ing trip up the middle Fork.
The steel trust earnings will
amount to $150,000,000 for tho
Boles Bros, are pitting in a lot year 190t>
of apple crates.
The Farmers and Miners Tele
Mrs. R. C. Ross received a new phone Lme expects to be com
organ from Eiler sthis week.
pleted to Mineral by tonight aud
Contractor Taylor has been busy poesibly farther.
at work rolling the gravel on the
A Medford man received $3450
new roads the last few days, and for a carload of pears shipped to
they are now about finishsd.
New York. His net profit on the
The Hiawatha Company holds car was $ 27 oo. 73 .
its annual meeting Saturday the
Byron Atkins and wife and Mr.
20th and a number of people from
Atkins sister have been visiting
out«ide will probably be present.
their father and mother Mr. aud
Jesse Griffin, a son of Robt. Mrs. A. B. Atkins.
Griffin of this place and Miss May
The Coast Fork Timber Co.
Honeycutt were married Wednes
hopes
to begin sawing very soon
day l>y Rev. Grace, and will prob
ably make their home on the East now. Most ot its machinery is on
the ground and is being rapidly
side.
set up.
The stockholders of the LeRoy
Geo. Lea has at last received his
Mining Co. held their annual meet
ing at the Grove on Thursday final payment on his water and
which resulted in the election of street contracts and is at peace with
the old board and officers. Consid- the city council, the work being
able work is planned for this winter accepted by them.
by contract.
The foundations are all in for the
Rev. F . L. Moore, former pastor addition to Bartels Meat Market
of the Corvallis Methodist Episco for the ice plant, but it has been
pal church but for the past two impossible to get either material or
years a pastor in Chicago, has been men so far to do the work on the
transferred by the conference to a walls.
charge at Puget Sound, Wash.,
Gladys Sigel of Portland, a neice
and it is understood the family will of Mrs. I). T. Awbrey, has been in
visit Corvallis friends en route to a Portland hospital for an operation
the new field.— Corvallis Gazette. for appendicitis. The operation
Geo. Lea has been introducing was successful aud she returns to
around town his son Irwin, who is her home today.
visiting him from Houolulu, where
The Brown Lumber Co. has put
he is employed as manager and up a big arc light on its dock and
chemist of the Honolulu Refining is stringing wires all around so that
Co. Mr. Lea expected to be here it can run a night shift if necessary
several months ago for a visit but and so the men will have good
was delayed and now has only a light to work by these short after
short stay.
noons.
FRUIT GROWING
A SUCCESS
Will Build Neat Home.
Mrs. Effie J. Whalen has just
purchased from Fingal Hiuds his
property about two blocks across
Cottage Grove Will Soon be Known the railroad on Fourth street, whero
she will erect a neat littlo homo,
As a Fruit Center.
Mrs, Whalen is lately from Michi
gan.
Those who have been giving
Little One Passes Away.
special attention to the raising of
fruit, state that within a few years
The Angel of Death took away
Cottage Grove will be known tho youngest of J. B. Protzman’s
widely for her tine fruit. Fruit of two boys Friday morning, while
the fiuest quality can be raised here tho mother lies at death’s door.
with loss effort than almost any Tho mother and little boy have
place. A t present there is not beeu -ick for some time, aud with
enough fruit raised to supply the this added trouble the mother’s life
local demand though every person is despaired of. With the mother
that raises apples, poaches, pears, sick, the littlo baby girl only a few
etc. is able to and does raiso as
old, has a hard time in spito
fine or finer fruit than any shipped of the care of n loving father aud
in here. With such a condition friends who w itch over it. Mr.
where it is not made a specialty Protzman and the sick rnothor are
there is every reason why a great prostrated over the loss of their lit
success might be made of it.
tle boy.
Farmer after farmer brings in
magnificent specimens of the finest
A San Francisco hardware dealer
kiods of apples, of early and late has sold iff,060 revolvers since
varieties, yet not enough raised so April. Ho bold have become the
as to ship.
footpads that almost every man
In the non use of this opportu carries a gun.
nity is one of Cottage Grove’s op
Mrs. Smith Trask and her son,
portunity that might make it a far
Bert, and her sister Mrs. Frank
more successful town.
Farmers your fruit would pay Stiller of Cottage Grove, visited
you better than your crops, if you their relatives hero over Suuday,
worked them right. Is it not A. B. Chidbourne and family.—
Drain Nonpariel.
worth a good effort.
Rev. Beatty, the newly appointed
Court House Records.
past->r of the Methodist Church ar
Warranty deed, Mae W Thomp rived on Friday afternoon with his
son onp II O Thompson SE
26 family and was welcomed at the
2 1 -4 $2000.
train by a delegation from the
Patent U S to Mae W Thomp church. The parsonage had been
put in nico condition and a hot din
son SE ) i 26 - 2 1- 4 .
Warranty deed, J W Gowdy ner was awaiting them there. He
aud A J Gowdy to Hannah J Pal will fill the pulpit next Suuday and
mer metes aud bounds describing it is understood that there will be a
acreage near Cottage Grove $ i 55 . reception to him next. Wednesday.
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4-FOUR TRINIS IN WHIG! WE LEAD-4
Ladies’ Furs
Takes Another Contract.
Chas. Otterson, who with others
ran 500 feet of tunnel on the Ore-
gon-Colorado property in Bohemia
last year, has again taken a con
tract and is at work for the winter
on the same work, and is going
Henry Seifert hss gone up on rapidly ahead.
Mosby Creek hunting.
A Correction.
G- N. Castle returned Saturday
from Portland where he has been
D e a r E d i t o r : I wish through
visitiug his son Mac.
the columns of your paper to cor
H. S. Reeves father, mother, rect the misstatement in Inst week’s
was
brother and consin arrived this Nugget that Mrs. Haight
buried in the White cemetery.
week from Illinois.
This is not the White cemetery
John Wright and family left last as has been repeatedly staled in ihe
week for California where they go Cottage Grove papers, but is the
on account of Mrs. Wright’s health Taylor Laue cemetery, deeded to
which is very poorly.
the public for burial purposes by
ths original owners Charlotte Ta-
lor and Sophia L aie.
Is A Fine Train.
Yours Truly
In pursuance of an order from
M r s . S. J. G a r o u t t e nee J a n e
headquarters; the Southern Pacific
officials in Oregon are enabled to T a y l o r ._____ ___ ______
give the people ol the Willamette
Portland is to have a new pipe
Valley a much better train ser-ice
line
at a cost of $2,500,000.
than was possible up to a few days
Mayor
Tom Johnson of Cleve
ago.
Starting on Tuesday of this week land objects to the teachings of
the Cottage Grove local is made up Chicago University, and intimates
of vestibuled coaches, two of which that Rockefeller’ s interests in the
are modern chair cars, and the university influence the teachings
others of which are uew, and com of the school.
paratively luxurant. The ladies
Girard College in Philadelphia,
traveling on this train, to say noth which is one of the most notable
ing of the gentlemen can now find schools in the country, and which
a place to wash, with looking has an endowment left it by the
glasses to make theit toilet and great financier Stephen Giarard,
there are other conveniences that which endowment now is worth
are new to this particular service. o v e r 100,000,000, is known to be
The train boys say there will soon snpoorted by money made in the
be soap and towels provided and slave trade, as great slave prisons
there will be nothing lacking that have been found under the Giarard
goes with first class ttain service. mansion.
The lights are good and the cars
The great improvement works of
are roomy and handsome in appear
ance. They are much heavier than the railroads entering New York
the old cars. The members of the in the construction c f underground
train crews are proud ef their new tunnels, many of which are under
water, are causing many deaths.
cars.
The workmen in these places work
f a st e r tim e soon
in great cassions into which air is
The Southern Pacific is replac pumped dt great pressure to keep
ing every wooden bridge between j the water from entering. In com
Ashland and Portland on the main ing out of these cassions the men
line, with a s*eel structure. There must go from box to box in each of
are four ciews putting up the steel1 which the pressure is lower, until
bridges. One is working on the they get into a normal atmosphere,
concrete foundations at the M" 1 alla and even then a man lives but a
and this is the last of these louuda [ short time.
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LOCAL
NO. 2U
ALL NEW, NOT ONE CARRIED OVER, FROM.
1 to 20 Dollars
Mens’ Suits
— FROM—
$6 to $25
THE VERA NEWEST STYLE.
As we «ire exclusive dealers we take more care of this line than other stores.
It
we c.ant suit you in stock, we will take your measure and make one for you.
Our Shoe Sales
Continue for the reason that we carry the most com
plete assortment in our city ami we «ask you call in
on’t Forget Us
On UNDERWEAR and WORKING SHIRTS-Thc long armed ones
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