COTTAGE
CO TTA G E G R O V E , O REGON, SA T U R D A Y , F E B R U A R Y
VOL. X V III
LEADER
10 1907
NO.
44
castiugstliat can be manufactured
NEWS FROM WASHINGTON
Southern Oregon. Ralph Ackley, THE PRESIDENT GIVES GOOD AD home, where, heaven knows, the
work is simple enough.
at the navy-yard for four cents I
secretary of the Tilb’ tuook Develop­
VICE
“ But I also feci sho can do her Interesting Reading From the Na­ But it is a safe bet that castings
State Superintendent J. H Ackerman ment League has issued a personal
will be purchased as heretofore.
letter, which gives in a very hriet Writes a Letter to the Council ot best work in her home if she has
tional Capitol By Our Regular
Asks For the Help of County Su­
healthy
outside
interests
and
occu­
The American Indian is not
and
effective
way
the
resources
of
Mothers on Duties of Parents.
Correspondent.
perintendent and Teachers.
pation in addition, and I most
“ passiug" as rapidly as some
his city and county and the results
authorities would have us believe.
thinly believe that she cannot do
will certainly be gratifying.
“ In response to questions from Iter full duty by her husband if she Washington, D. C., F'eh. 4 , 190?.
(Special Correspondence.)
There are over halt a million In­
Many other points in Oregon are
“ The American people are be­
the Council of Mothers recently occupies a merely servile attituda
dians iu the United States today,
Portland, Ore., Feb. 11 . l^oT — at work and the commercial and in­
held at Newburg and the state con­ toward him, or submits to ill ’ reat- coming more like the French every 159.000 of whom wear civilized
Hon. J . II. Ackerman, superintend­ dustrial bodies of the-late should
vention to be held iu the Fall, the inent and that she is quite as bad a day; they take up the latest fad, dress in whole or in part. Indian
ent of public instruction for the get out their very best advertising
believe in the latest rumor, and
families living in comtortable mod­
mother if weak and foolish as if
state of Oregon, has requested the matter and into the mails without president says.
read the yellowest kind of journal­
“ For one of our topics why
hard and unloving.”
ern dwellings uumtier 28,000 and
Oregon Development League to delay.
would it do to speak of the place o(
ism with avidity.” This statement
70.000 of our American aborigines
The Portland Commercial Club
supply the details of its work and
the father in the home? Now and
LUMBERMEN AND SHIPPERS' MEET­ from a conservative Senator of the cau rend and speak English. When
especially the facts relative to the ladder! $2,480 to the fund with
United States is an extreme state-
: then people forget that exactly as
ING.
the Government first began supply­
colonist rates to each and-every one I which it is advertising the state of
nient, vet there is truth in his words.
! the mother must help the bread*
ing the Indians with houses they
of the county superintendents Oregon at. a dinnei last Tuesday
At
three
o’clock
last
Saturday
af­
! winner by being a good housewife,
Washingtonians do not have to
would take possession in good faith
night.
throughout the state of Ongon.
ternoon,
February
9U1,
the
Lumber­
so the father in his torn, it he is
look beyond their own horizon to
but the call of the wild would soon
The newspapers of the state are
Mr. Ackerman believes that the
men and Shippers’ meeting adver­
see evidences of this condition, for
worth his salt, must in every wav
prove so irristible that they would
splendid opportunity afforded the doing a gr ind work in calling at­
tised to be held in this city was
not a duj passes but what some
back up the mother in bringing up
stable
their ponies iu Uncle Sam’s
people of the Middle Wes' to visit tention to this opportunity to in-
called to order b y President Hinds
member of li e House or Senate of
the children.
cute little structures und live in
almost every point in O re/'
it ¡ta err ase the population and wealth of
1 of the Oomni/rcial C u b Secretary
the Government ot the United
“ After all the prime duties are
their tepees. It is claimed, how­
low rate of $25 should be put be­ t the slate, while the teachers and iu
Johns stated the obj ct of the meet­
•demental and no amount of force
•States breaks out with a stream 01
ever, that an Indian will not change
fore the schools an t that ill teachers s it > cases the preachers are mak­
ing
and
was
followed
I
v
T
.
K.
viol« lit abuse of soiu« tiling or some­
| and sagacity will make the average
his h juse, no matter how large the
in the state should not only inform ing it Iheir business to interest the
man a go«d citizen unless he be a Campbell with uti interesting ad* body. Onu tiling must be taken
family.
themselves of tha facts, but impart j citizens of Oicg m in inviting those
good husband and a father and un­ j dress in which he explained why into consideration, however, and
Washingtonians invariably look
those facts to theii »tudent-. This who live in the older sections of
the meeting had been called, and
that is the desire of some news­
rate ot $25 includes all Missouri the country to come out and make less lie is a successful breadwinner, the situ tion at Salem,
tor tho “ jo k er" in any bill brought
is tender and considerate to his wife
paper men to get a scoop on their before Congress, auil the purefood
River points. St. P ml mid 1 uMigu. then homes in the Hnuvi r state.
(ieorge Cornwall, C. H. Burk­
fellows. The wild stories of pend
and
Got
11
lo'.ieg
and
wise
(for
to
b«
ous territory; the rate from St.
law was scrutinized very closely,
holder and >). I! Hopkins were on
loving and weak and foolish is ut-
ing war with Japan, as an instance. but not until tuis winter’s session
Louis is $30 and f ou> Chicago #5:1,
motion
added
to
the
committee
on
teiiv ruinous,) in dealing with the
Soni« time ago several Japanese has the enemy shown his hand.
Still Some I efl.
and tickets will he em mm from
resolutions, after which the meeting
were
killed while attempting to roll
children.
March 1 to Ap-il 3.1.
The appropriation for the Agricul­
No better investment, fur the
adjourned until 7 :.’)o o’clock.
“
I
think
it
a
crime
for
the
our
seal
islands aud Japan did uot
Tnere is.an absolute hunger foi money, can be mild« than to take
tural Department’s execution of the
EV EN IN G s e s s i o n .
even ask for explanations. Is it
woman to shirk her primary duties,
information about Oregon tl.rough ■ no a timber c aim.
pure
food law is contingent upon
lb« expense is
The evening session was called to
out all portions of t V United St it s. 1 "illy $ 4 oo . or $500 audits soon as to H li rink from being a good wile order by President Hinds. T. K. reasonable to suppose that because the retusal of assistance from state
In addition to the Hint v thou'-anos ! yo’l secure a deed to til« land you and mother. Of course, the woman Campbell was chosen chairman and la few Japauese child re 11 were for- and municipal officials! This would
h dden to attend school with Amer- require at least #5,000.000 but the
that have been coming since Dec m can sell it for that many thousands. should have the same right as the C. P Jones, dr. Secretary
; icu.i children that a lleet of war­ amount carried is $t).r>o,ooo. I he
her, ft, 75 o inquiries have been There are still a ferv claims in this man to train her mind, to better
Telegrams and letters from Sena­
added within the last tw ei'c days section, eont l i ii i r .f r o m 2,000,000 | herself and occasionally a soman tors and Representatives at Salem dships would immediately sail to attitude of Congress in the matter
Coos Pay is especially active and to 2 ,Uoo.ooo feet not yet taken. It can and ought to follow some and a number of shipp.-rs in which (tonvenge the insult! A little com- it this provision goes through will
the results are paying them well foi will pay yon to take a claim if it special vocation in addition to they expressed their inaUFty to at­ i 111011 sense goes a long ways in this be to get a large amount of political
! world, and ii conducive to one’s capital out of the law and protect
their expense in time and money, does not contain over one million | (never in substitution for) her borne tend, were read.
; peace of mind. But then it does their ftieuds by refusing to appro­
'
work.
Corvallis receives more attention | feet. Better get in one before the
The following resolution« which
I not appear to take a largo question priate the funds to put it into exe­
“
But
just
as
the
highest
work
the
than any other poiut iu the Willam­ I timber law is repealed.—Drain Non-
to arouse a desire in the hearts of cution.
normal
woman
is
the
work
of
the
Continued
to
fourth
page.
;
pariel.
ette Valley, while Medford leads in
i professional politicians to save the
The newspapers are proclaiming
country. The morning dispatches that Cortelyou will overhaul the
| announce that Mayor Schmitz of Treasury department when he as­
San Francisco is coming to Wash­ sumes the secretaryship on March
ington to confer with the president. 4 , but the natives of Washington
It might be possible for a man un- are laughing up their sleeves at
| der indictment to so arouse the the suggestion. The ramifications
j public sentiment that he would es­ of the Treasury department are so
cape the results of his previous mis­ vast that employees in one room do
deeds 1
not know anything whatever of the
This same spiiit of morbid curios­ work of the division in the next
ity aud sensationalism in responsible room, aud to suppose that the new
for the interest taken in the trial of secretary will know anything but
Millionaire Thaw for the murder of what trained employees tell him is
Architect White in New York. A amusing. Government employees
young worthless snob allowed to detailed to important positions pro­
‘ Tome up” amid idleness and vice tect tlieuis.-lves in their positions by
is lauded as an angel or a vilaiu, as inindiug their own business aud not
the view point of the story toller letting even their own clerks know
dictates. Today he is insane, and all the ins and outs of the work.
; the m xt day a luw abiding citizen
Cortelyou will undoubtedly draw
defending the honor (?) of his wife, j Frank H. Hitchcock into a good
I a girl with whom he had lived for I po .„ ¡oll in the Treasury. He is
| some time hef' ie his marriage! Bah said to be slated for the Assistant
Is the Government in the grasp of Secretaryship now held by Shaw ’s
the st«»el “ trust?’ ’ It would appear private secietary, and that will en­
so. Some time ago bids were able him to step into a good posi­
opened for armor plate and an inde­ tion on the outside when the Gov­
pendent company made the lowest ernment can gi t along without his
bid. Senator Knox (lute of the services. A great many W ashing­
H
cabinet favor and “ the ouly pebble tonians place more reliance iu
on the beach” from Pennsylvania) young Hitchcock than they do in
made a special trip to Washington Cortelyou. They point out that
to convince the officials that the he has beeu the right-hand mau of
poor trust would go out of business, the ex-stenographer, and knowing
and that would inflict such awful that the sole duties of the Big Ones
hardships on the Government that are to affix their signatures to mat­
1 no one knows what would happen. ters brought up and explained by
Consequently the contract was di- their subordinates, the suspicion is
vitled between the two companies. that Hitchcock is the power behind
It rightfully belonged to the com- the throue.
| pany making the lowest hid, and if
The naval fight is being made in
they could handle half the con­ the House of Bepresentatives on
tract, they could deliver all the ma­ the river and harbor bill. The
terial. But then some one “ high people of (lie country would be sur­
up” would lose a good jon. There prised at the evidence submitted to
are too many of the senators and warrant an expenditure iiy tho Fed­
representatives who are kept in of­ eral Government in certain districts
fice by the influence of corporations the purpose of which is to hold the
whom they have favored.
present iucutnbent in his seat.
For years the minor officials of
Representative Adam Bede, at a
tin Governmant have been fighting dinner given by the Momus Club
to have a new naval foundry estab- recently remarked that the coat o t
lnhedat Washington. 'Tests have securing a nomination to Congress
i m inced many officials that the | was almost as much as the entire
Government can make their own pay for tbe term. When asked for
m i cheaper and better than can contributions to various charities,
be furnished by contractors, and be had told them that in order to
win n«t tb< same condition in tbe buy a seat lie would have to levy
ton lary business' It is pointed tribute on large corporations, and if
out that the Government is paying they paid his way he would be e x .
7 cents a pound for big steel |
(Continued to lust page,
^
ALL FOR OREGON
B u sy
We
are going to get Busier
c e n t o il'
15
p e r
25
p e r c e n t o ff
on any Suit
on any Overcoat in the house during
the month of February with cash
WHEELER-THOMPSON
GO.
the leading Clothier and Shoe House
[Successor to Welch & Woods.]
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