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F COTTAGE GROVE LEA VOL. XVIII pheasents, quail, grouse or Oregon GAMEWARDEN’S Native Pheasant in liis or her pos at one time. ANNUAL REPORT session A license upon trout fishermen should be required. The fund aris State Game and Forrestry Warden ing therefrom to be used in provid ing and maintaining a trout hatch Baker Makes Report to Governor ery. This fund could be enlarged by placing all moneys collected as fines for violation of the trout law to the credit of the said fund. Salmon trout should be taken with the hook and line at any and all times and seasons ot the year. Ten days should be given to all hunters to dispose of game taken in open season. Non-residents who pay the ten dollar license for hunting should he permitted to take oue days hunt out of the rate. Define what constitutes under the game law a non-resident. Provide for the sale of all deer hides that now are or may be in the possession of the game warden or his deputies. Repeal of law protecting Beaver. The limit of one days catch of trout is now oue hundred and twenty-five per day. This should be changed to not over fifty. Warden Baker has turned in the following report for the year ending Dec. ist, 190C: r e fo k T. Violation» of the game laws of the State of Oregon during the year lqol! have been less than for many years past. Hunters have generally paid more respect to the law than for merly and they have also taken more interest in seeing *he game protected. Oregon is now regarded by sportsmen ot other states as one if not the best game state in the Union. Each succeeding year brings more hunters from other states to Oregon who are always well pleased wilh their success in hunting and fi hing. Deer— The protection afforded the deer of Oregon during the last j FINES AND V IO LA TIO N S OF LAW. year has been goon. The license During the year I904 persons money has been the means of em ploying a great many deputies who were convicted of having violated have been active and successful in the game law- 34 shipments of game w ere made preventing the unlawful killing as well as securiuii many convictions. to points outside of the state, Elk The law prohibiting the through permits. killing elk expires September FINANCIAL STATEMENT. 15tb ly< 7. The Oregon elk , . b- nrotocted lor teu years Appropriation for salary $ 1200.00 of game warden or longer. . China I’heasants— These fine Appropriation for expen- ses of game warden 5OO.OO game birds, the pride of Oregon bird shooters are the most difficult Appropriation for services and expenses of depiuty to protect of all Oregon game. 2600.00 game wardens Hunters often seen shooting them out of season will canceal them and Total 4 ‘ 2 oo . oo when caught by a Deputy Game Warden will have none in posses Balauce on hand from Hunters license 1905 IO325.I5 sion. The late cold rain in June killed thorn by the hundreds dur Received from Hunters 19521.00 license i 906 ing this year. Reports made to this office show that the hunters 29840. i 5 Total were successful generally in taking tholimit without much trouble but 34O40.15 Grand total this occurs in the best hunting dis EXPENDITURES. tricts- 1200.00 Oregon (¿uail— Oregon quail are | Salary game warden 391.11 very plentiful this year and are fast j Expenses becoming a favorite bird in many : Expenses and services of 2 7557.84 deputies localities. Oregon Native Pheasant— The Ore- ^ Estimated expenses and gon native pheasant have in the | services of deputies for 1500.00 last few years increased greatly and 1 Nov. 1906 3397.20 in some localities they are quite I Balance on hand J. W . B a k e r , Warden. plentiful. ’ Grouse -Grouse are more abuu-| Warden Baker states that dai t than for several years espoci- j some papers have claimed that the ally along the foothills and on the ' amount received for licenses and small mountains. Not found in j fines should all be used iu the year the valley. received. He differs with them, Bob White— These birds are iu- and states that practically the bulk creasing very rapidly where ever \ of the rsceipts is in the fall, while they have a start and in a few years the expenses must go on tne year they will extend all over the Wil- I through, consequently part of the fund must be held for the first of lamette valley. Ducks and Geese.— Dunks and the next year. geese are ns usual plentiful. I am The report will be well illus of the opinion that the sale of both I trated with cuts and is eagerly of these birds should be permitted looked for by eastern hunters and under certain restrictions, espoci- j sportsmen. ally as to the number esch man Mr Baker is highly pleased should be allowed to sell. with the showing for the year and ha» good reason to be so. it 1; com men n a n on «. The law requiring each man to take out a license should remain i East Side School Boys Win. upon the statutes This is the true | The Basket bail game between principal of game protection, those ; the Boys of the East side school who enjoy tho hunt -‘should pay and those of the Eighth Grade, the bill” and by this system the Wednesday night was very interest people who do not hunt are not ing and was a very good game con - forced to pay taxes for game pro sidering It was the first game o f tection. the yeaa, The score at the end of Provision should be made for the the first half was 12-8 in favor of printing of Hunters license and the the Eighth grade. In the second county clorks should be allowed a half the Eighth did not score, while small fee for issuing each license. the East side boys made 10 points, This expense should be paid out of making the final score i 8 - i 2 in the game fund without decreasing favor of the East side. The game tho same in any way and to do this was clean and free from any squab I should recommend that all fines bling. The boys will do much bet collected for violation of the game ter in later games. law be placed in the game fumE By KIOHTH OI1ADB t e am . so doing the only appropriation necessary would be the salary and Marvin Jordan, center; Clay expeuses of the game warden. Mosby, right guard; John Cooter, Aside from this the game protec left guard; Jessie Lewis, left for tion would be self-sustaining. ward; Chas. Comer, right forward. A reasonable bouuty should be e a s t s id e t e a m placed upon the cougar, wild cat and timber wolf. Elmar Hastings, center; Robert The law shouid lie amended mak Sherwood, left guard; Chester ing it an offense against the game Baker, right guard; Bud Lincoln, law to have in possession when un left forward; Allen Baker, right lawful to kill or take any protected forward;*Umpire, Albert Griffin. g line of Oregon (except for scien Referee. Albert Zerull. tific or breeding | urposes) or any part or j arcel of the flesh of either The Sugar Trust was fined $iH,- *,ame dead or nine. 000 for accepting $20,ooo rebates Making it unlawful for any per from the New York Central Rail son to lijve more than t“0 China road Co. COTTAGE GROVE, OREGON, SATURDAY", DECEMBER 1, 1900. NO. 33 region, and, Whereas, the said lockago fee tskes one and one-half cents from the sale price of every bushel of wheat exported from the region and is in effect a toll of 2*^ cents on every sack of potatoes, 2jJ eents on every sack of sugar, 2j4 cents on every sack of salt, 4 cents on every hale of liav, 5 cents on every bale of hops and 5 cents ou every barrel of flour with proportionate exactions on every other article shipped in or shipped out of the Willamette Basin, a section of country 2oo miles long and 50 to 75 miles vide aud supporting a thickly settled citizenship; and Whereas, government engineers have rei orted that a new and mod ern canal and locks can he built by the general government at the said Willamette Falls at a cost not to exceed $500,000, a sum that would be saved to the people of tho terri tory by reason of lowered freight rates within three to five years, therefore he it Resolved, that tho Benton County L'iti/.ens League of Corval lis, being the commercial body of the city, hereby petitions the con gress of the United States at its coming session to appropriate such sum as may be necessary to pur chase the present lo :ks and canal at the Willamette Falls, or to build a new canal and locks there, to be maintained and operated under the direction of the general govern ment with provision for freight to be allowed to pass through such canal locks without charge by which the said Willamette shall be come a free and open river to the great advantage and benefit of a vast rich and populous territory, and for the granting of this peti tion your petitioner will ever pray. The score of the first half was RAILROAD Multnomah 4, Oregon 0; second Oregon 8, Multnomah 4, final LEGISLATION half -ore Oregon 8, Multnomah 4. Petition to Congress. The Benton County Citizens League has issued the following pe tition to Congres-i for purchase of the Oregon City Ecks, in order that the locks may bo free to pub lic uso. The petition deserves the support of all the valley people and press. PETITION Whereas, the principle of toll aking as once applied to toll roads, toll bridges, and other forms of lo comotion and transportat' jn is a relic of primitive civilization and in the main has 'oug since been dis carded along with the flail, the grain cradle and kindred imple ments; and Whereas, toll taking as applied to water ways is even more out worn and outgrown in principle, and wholly out of harmony with the progress and requirements of the age; and, Whereas, a toll taking establish ment is maintained at the Willam ette Falls at Oregon City in the form of a canal and locks on which a toll of fifty cents per ton is taken on all freight that passes up and down the Willamette River, to gether with a toll on every passen ger, every horse, every head of cattle «r other domestic animal; and, Whereas, the said fifty cents per toe differential iu the lockage charge ou the river enables the railroad traversing the Willamette Valley to add fifty cents per ton to freight they carry to or from Willamette Valley points; and, Whereas, the said lockage fee by reason of the differential it affords, the railroads add from jgloo.ooo to 5200,0011 every year to the trans portation coat of the Willamette This is Oregon’s first victory over Eugene Dec. 5th. Help the Move Multnomah, and the college team ment Start. is consequently unusually over joyed. Next Wednesday at Eugene the Commercial Clubs and lumbermen start a move to help Oregon free herself from the car shortage situ ation. Be sure and attend the meeting. Tho movement menus everything lor the northwest. Your presence at the meeting will help. Conditions through the valley are getting dailv worse, no cars for the south, lumber piling up in the yards, aud mills daily shutting down throwing men out of employ ment at home, and forcing many mills to fall. The state must take hold, and now is the time to start. A New Candy Store. Mr. Holmden, lately from the East, with a long experience in candy making, has opened a noat candy store at the entrance to the bridge, where he makes his own candies of the purest materials, you will always find them pure, fresh and delicious. His salted peanuts are freshly roasted each day, and are as cheap as the ordi nary peanuts, you have to shell. If you look at his store you will have to buy some candy it is so tempting. Remember right by the bridge— Holmden. L, tie County Valuation $14.91 7,115 The assessed valuation of Lane Co. for the year 19o6 is 14,9 i 7 , i i 7 against 8,886,030, for 1905 a gain of almoat OS por cent. The South ern Pacific assessment for 1906 is 52,350,815, two and u half times as large ns the previous year. Wealthy Men Killed in Wreck. Railroad Pr. Samuel Spencer, with Phil lip Schuyler, Charles D. Fisher, and Frank T. Redwood, guests of : eneer in his private car at tached to a train at Lawyers, V a., wore run into by a freight Thurs- all killed, tho first two burned. A number of others were killed. Spencer was president of tho railroad on which he was k'lled. Ho "<> made candies at Holmden’s Frank H. Frew of Seattle, a son- in law ofD. Hamblin spent Thanks giving here. Prof. Harvey E. Inlow, teacher of tho Pleasant Hill school, has been visiting Profs. Harvey and Strange over the Thanksgiving va cation. The editor, who has a sweet Oregon Wins From Multnomah. to -»th, tried some of Holtnden’s In the big football game at Port candies Firday and said they can’t land Thursday afternoon, Oregon be beaten. It won’t hurt you to defeated Multnomah by four points. try them either. iti-THiM-naa M ere Goes F o r A \m Turkey or no Turkey. J LADIES FURS JUST 25c OFF FOR EVERY $1.00 SALE $12.00 furs for $8 00; $8.00 furs for $6.00; $6 OOfor $4.50; $5.00 iurs for $3.75; $2.00 furs for 1.50; $4.00 furs 3.75. W e liave about 25 small overcoat- which , i go for cash at half price also some special prices on several lo ' of shoes. W e measure you and make a suit to fit you 500 :riinples to choose from. Order now. M K tk L lJ a U W ÊÊRÊÊÊÊÊUam naiM Welch k ' a - Ü KM I Wood
