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COTTAGE GROVE. OREGON, SATURDAY, JUNK 1, 1907.
VOL. X I\
REPORTS ADVERSELY
Eugene Canal Proposition
too Expensive.
R
DOUGLAS
AND COOS ELECTRIC
RAILWAY CO.
The Electric Road is Assured. And
Articles of Incorporation Have
Been Filed.
SCHOOL YEAR ENDED OFFICERS SELECTED
NO. 7.
TAKES HER OWN LIFE
Mrs J. C. Christy at Drain tnds Her
Invalid s Woes With a Bullet.
STATE AND COUNTY
Commencement Exercises For the Fourth of July Drain, Or., May 28.— Mrs. J. C. News of Interest in
j Christy wife of the well known
Celebration.
at Christian Church.
Condensed Form
tesideut engineer o f the Southern
There is no longer any doubt
about the Electric road. Indeed,
AN ELECTRIC ROAD RECOMMENDED j if any one bad so little faith in GREAT PROFUSION OF FLOWERS.
Roaeburg and her people as to be
lieve the project would be allowed
to drag and fall through, they cer
Committee Advises That the Project be tainly did not understand the tem Three Young Ladies Graduate from
High School and Nineteen Pass
per of the men who have utldertak
Abandoned— Electric Road Built
eu this great work. The commit
From Eighth Grade.
for Less Than Half
tee of five sent to Coos Ray only
last Wednesday have accomplished
the work intrusted to them and are
Immense audiences attended the
At a meeting held in Eugene on home this evening happy in having
Saturday, the following report was performed the trust given into Annual Commencement exercises
of Cottage Grove Public schools
presented by K. M. \\ ilkitis, chair their hands.
Mr. Frank EL Alley, a member ' at the Christian Church, Thursday
man o f the committee appointed to
investigate the feasibility o f build of the committee, called up the and Friday evenings of this week
The church was beautifully dec
ing the proposed Kugene-Corvallis News at 2 p . 111 . today trom Looking
Glass, where they took dinner on orated for the occasion, the ros
canal:
“ W e have carefully investigated their way home, and gave a brief trum being a perfect bower of roses
the scheme as a commercial enter statement of the condition of affairs and flowers o f every description,
prise also the cost of digging such in relation to the work accomplish with the class flowera and class co l
ors in profusion.
a waterway with locks necessary to ed.
The high school graduating class,
Organization
wae
accomplished
best serve the purpose for hauling
and temporary officers elected as Misses Ethel Moore, May Sprouse
the products of the country.
and Ethel Storms, held their exer-
follows:
“ W e have looked up the history
President— L- J. Stimpson o| ! cises Thursday evening, eacli nutn-
of about fifty canals built in the
j ber being well rendered and greatly
Marshfield.
United States.
Vice-PresideBt- H on . A .C . M ars- ! enjoyed by the large audience
Sixteen of them are less than “25
! present.
ters, ot Rosebnrg
miles in length, and have cost near
Strange,
Principal,
Secretary— L. H. Hazard, o f Co- ! Professor
ly two million dollars, each, and I •••
the
young
ladies
with
■ presented
quille.
are a constant source of expense.
Treasurer -James Flannigau of j their diplomas, aud they were the
“ About twenty canals are water North Bend
recipients of many baudsome floral
I pieces.
ways which have been built in the
The following is the pro
A committee of six, one commit
West, uot for h ailing the products
gram as rendered:
teeman from each o f the original
o f the country so much as for irri
committees, was appointed to ar- 1 Invocation
Instrumental duet— “ On the Knee
gation and mining purpos-s.
ranee further detail» o f organiza
l'ourse” ..............................................Rlake
“ The average length of these tion.
Vernie Itrown and Mabel Rosenberg
canals is 39 miles, the average
Selected
The name of Douglas & Coos Vocal solo.......
Mr. lshain
width 43 feet and the average depth Electric Railway Co., was decided
Instrumental
solo-
“
(iranil
Vais#
being six feet- Now these last men upon, and articles of incorporation
Brilliante”
. P. Chopin, Op In
tioned approach more nearly wh t have been forwarded to the Secre
Mabel Veatch
this proposed canal would be, so we tary of State.
Addrt ss ................................. .........................
take them as a basis of figures as
Dr. H. D. Sheldon, U . of O.
Mr. Alley, Mr. Marsters and Mr
to cost, etc. In order to get a Cobb have arrived home, while Presentation of Diplomas...................
Principal C L. Strange
clearer and better understanding of Messrs. Fisher and Booth were de
_
r
,
j On Friday evening the Eighth
the cost we will take one mile of tained
tamed at the Bay for a d
day 01 ^
(.¡r(lde c|ass. composed of nineteen
canal, representing 5280 feet in on private business.— Umpqua Val
splendid
young ladies and gentle
length and an average of 36 feet in ley News.
men held their exercises.
The
width and six feet deep and we
class regretted very much the ab-
¡have a total o f 42,240 cubic yards
senee of one of their number, Miss
to move.
Get a Small Farm.
Dorothy Funk, who was compelled
This engineers figure at 35 c a
What farmers can do on small to return to her home in the East a
yard as the cost of moving, but tracts of good, well tilled and pro
few days only before the close
owing to conditions which are favor perly utilized land is a subject that
of the
school.
Those on the
able we figure as a cost for moving, ought to interest multitudes of peo
program acquitted themselves cred
of 30 cenis per yard, which gives ple, and iu the course of a year a
itably and with honor to their in
$12,672 per mile for the excavation. great number o f these very inter
structors. Never before in the his
This does not include the first mile esting little stories are told in the
tory of the school has a better class
after leaving the river, as that Journal and in its exchanges
passed from the Eighth Grade into
would cost four times as much, or throughout the state. One old sow
the High school, and Professor Har
about $50,000 owing to the depth produced $203 worth of pigs iu a
vey, (heir principal, is justly proud
and the loose gravel underlying the year. A man with 1,500 hens made,
o f them, and it is to he hoped that
soil. In order to prevent this grav $ 3,000 clear last year.
Two men the class will live up to the class
el from caving in a concrete wall iu Freewater, one day last week,
sentiment,
“ Finished, to Begin
would have to be built which would says the Pendleton Tribune, picked
Again,” and at the opening of the
be very expensive. About eight $100 worth of strawberries each
school year in .September enter the
locks would be necessary which if from two acres o f ground.
This High School with the same deter
built of wood and stone would cost was one day’ s product ami straw
mination aud earnestness as has
about $4000 each or a total of $32,- I erries ripen every day while the
characterized it in the past, never
000 . Figuring on a basis of 35 season lasts.
Hood River straw forgetting that
miles we would have a total cost of berry growers expect to sell 75,000
“ The heights by great men reached
.$525,520.
crates, at from $3 to $5 per crate.
and kept,
“ Now these figures are below en Many orchards yield from $100 au Were not attained by sudden Might,
gineer’ s estimates and do not con acre a year up; occasionally one as But they, while their companions
slept
template anything but level ground high as $500 or $600 an acre.
A
and the waterway being dry under garden of vegetables carefully and Were toiling upward in the night,”
The following is the program,
the most favorable circumstances, scientifically cultivated anywhere
-no Humes and no rocks to be blasted around Portland will yield from each number of which was well ren
out. One engineer claims that 'lie $100 to $300 an acre clear o f ex dered :
channel would have to he twice the penses. On good alfalfa land from In v ocation .................Rev. .1. L. Beatty
Address of W elcom e. .Guy Whitlock
depth wherever locks were built. If lour to seven tons au acre can be I juration
.......................... “ inventions”
so then this estimated cost would raised, worth from $7 to $12 a ton,
Marvin Jordan
be increased one-thiid
or more if fed to stock, besides af Instrumental so lo ,..........“ Meditation”
Allie Phillips
“ In connection with these figures fording months of good parturage
Essay................... “ Louisiana Purchase”
we have investigated the question
These instances might be indefi
Kittle Itriinihaugh
of an electric railway to Corvallis,
nitely extended. W hat’ s the mat- O ration..............“ The Oregon Country”
and find it could be built for a little
Elsie Brewer
■ ler with people, that they don’ t get
C h oru s.......... “ N ym phs of the Ocean”
more than one-half what the canal
small tracts of land, cultivate them Misses Brewer, Dorward, Branton,
would cost and are of the opinion right, and get rich— or at least be
Hogate, Brumbaugh,. Perkins and
this woujri be a more practical solu
come comfortably well oft? From
Osmnn
tion of tiie transportation problem. 20 acres of right land, rightly used,
Essay.............................. “ Panam a Canal”
“ We have tried to get compara
William <iaroutte
a man in ten years can make suffi
live cost o f transportation by rail and
cient to ride up to the bank ir bis Instrumental solo *!Wedding o f the
W in ds” ......................................................
canal, hut get nothing definite. It own automobile to make his depos
Thomas Campbell
seems from the facts gathered that
its. A box of strawberries cost 20 Essay “ The Awakening in the Orient”
the railways have the best of it in
Melvin .Ionian
cents. A good chicken costs from
cheapness, quick and satisfactory $1 to $1.50. A sow is a good start oration, f ....“ Fifty-ninth Congress"
Luther King
service.
er for a fortune. It takes from $5 Clou I I S ...............
“ In the Starlight"
“ In conclusion we have made no
to $10 apiece to buy ewes. A good
Brewer, Branton, Brumbaugh,
expense so tar— we were instructed , span ot mules the other day sold D Miss--
orw ard. Ilognte, Osinnn Perkins.
to have surveys made, but finding it for $700
Class M omen toes.........Jean Dorward
’
Valedictory.........
Blanche Branton
would be quite a heavy expense and I
Get a little (arm, and then nurse \ddre-* to class..........................
not feeling warranted in raising the
amount o f funds necessary to do it, love it, tend it carefully, get all Pres. \ L. Briggs, of Drain Normal
Tims ends one of the most suc-
this work, we now' submit our re 1 possible out of it without abusing!
port and leave the matter with this it; and be one o f the most indepen- cessful years in the history of our
. dent m«u on earth.— Portland Jour- schools, and Cottage Grove has
meeting-
every reason to feel proud for the
i nal.
L. L. W hitson ,
Mr. Stewart, of this city, owns excellent work accomplished, and
F. M. W il k in s ,
. and cultivates four acres near the the school board should be com
J. B ryan ,
edge of town, from which he mar mended upon retaining the same
W . C- W a s h b i rne .
Bv motion the report of the com keted last year $500 worth of pro- efficient corps of teachers under the
mittee was adopted and later they I duce. This year he expects to sell j principalship of Professor Strange
were continued in office to investi 1 at least $250 worth of Logan ber- and his worthy assistant Prof. Har
gate the matter of transportation 1 ries, besides other produce, and vey.
nd report at a meeting to be held there are plenty o f other four-acre
ne mouth later at the same place. tracts around Cottage Grove which
Latest style in visiting cards at
can be made to produce equally as
75
cts. per 100 at The Leader office.
The Leader leads— never follows. well.
a
Pacific on the Oregon Western
branch, being built toward the
coast, fatally’ shot heiself in a fit of
ROUSING CELEBRATION PROMISED despondency at the family home AS TAKEN FROM OUR EXCHANGES.
here at 10 o’ clock this morning. J
She had been in very’ feeble health
Kesume of the Week s Local Hap
Committee of Ladies Appointed to Ar for many months past and there
i was no hope for her recovery. This !
penings of the State and County
range for Libeaty Car and Select 1 was no doubt the cause lor her
tragic ending
Briefly Told.
Goddess of Liberty.
She leaves a husband and one |
I little son. The family moved to !
Drain one year ago from Texas.
Salem has raised the salaries of
The committee having iu charge
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its school teachers.
the Fourth ot July celebration, met
Mrs. McKinley Buried
on Tuesday night and selected all
Cauton Ohio, May 29 With
Bert Knox, a ten-year old hoy
tue officers lor the occasion except- sjmpje antj
— ,— ----- impressive ceremonies near Condon has not been absent
mg the Reader and Orator who tLe body of the late widow ot Pres- from school or tardy once in three
will be chosen at n meeting of the ident Wi,H»m McKinley was lain at yeats. That boy is likely to amount
committees next Tuesday
rest in the family vault in this city’ i to something:
Everything ,s progressing nicely tLls tnorniuB. No Hermon was
The Wholesale Liu »or Dealerr’
The committees are hard at work
, , R
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1
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noiesaie Liquor ueaiere
and the celebration nromises to be Preay ' oa’ ,v
.
, 11x1011 ton- | association of Astoria has gone on
one of the most successful ever held duol,nK a •s *i ° 11 ntualistic service I record in unequivocal terms osop -
m thU c i v
8UCCe8Hfl11 ever held
and pronouncing .he benediction ; po8e, t0 , he presence o f dance halls
11 luis ry.
before the casket was passed into ¡„ that citv
Following is the list of officers ! tj)e tQmb
| iu iu»i m y .
appointed and the ladies committee
w h ite and red carnations were
A Tillamook man • was attacked
appointed to arrange the Liberty
|1)e prin,,jpal decorations placed by.a vicious mill in his barn, aud
Car, and select the
‘ " Goddess
.............. of I.ib
"
upon the casket at the family home before he could get away from the
erty :
When the late president's favorite I inf," ialed «"'mftl he had four libs
President— Dr. D. L. Woods.
hymn, “ Lea-1 K in dly,” had been ''.ok. n, his bead badly cut and was
Chaplain— Rev. J. L. Beatty.
sung o v c the body ot bis widow, luaH'let* UP 'P'lte a bit.
Marshal— Ed. Tullar.
the funeral procession was tormed
A I,tnn county farmer had au
Vice-Presidents— Geo. W. Me- the relatives following the casket, auction, 134 articles being sold aud
Reynolds, Divide; Mites
Miles ritener,
Pitcher, after lhe(u r;dlUK p reM(|ent ROOSe- 500 people being present. The
Keynoias,
Though
Starr; Scott , ac son, I,orane,
e'> | velt, Vice-President Fairbanks, Sec- ! six months' credit was offered, cash
Geer, London; U din
Walker, retary Root and Private Secretary was paid for every article, ti
not a
1 1 o IL-or C t o t u x n ■
A 1 1 At i
It l r l r
Ilo
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Walker
Station; Allen
Kirk
Do
-1 I ]<ofil(
Imnjediatel
|„||()Wn,g 111 . note 1 being given, showing how the
rena; J D. 1 aimer, Moshy Creek; national officers were the secret ser farm, r has money under the new
Castle, Sagana, J. F. Hunt, j yj^e guards.
system of doing business, with
Wildwood.
Soldiers who stood guard over dairying and poultry around.
Ladies Committee— Mrs. Dr. Job, the tomb were among the saddest
Albany is to have a condensed
Mrs. J. T. DeSpain, Mrs. W . F. mourners, for each man had been a
Hart, Mrs. F. D. Wheeler, Mrs. F. great favorite with Mrs. McKinley. milk factory providing her citizens
will give a bonus of $ 10 , 000 .
B. Phillips, Mrs. L. H. Roseberg,
Mrs. C. H. Vandenberg, Mrs. J. C.
Forestry Commission
The school hoard o f Portland will
Johnson, Mrs. Dr. Kime and Mrs
Salem, Or., May 29. In accord save the district $¡ 10,000 next year
Herbert Eakin.
ance with the provisions of tit • act * ''Y buying slab wood for the city
The name of Thomas Jenkins
of the last legislature, Governor schools.
was added to the Sport Committee.
Chamberlain this morning announc
The senior class of the O. A. C.
ed his appointees to compose the j this >ear ¡ h the largest in the his
Oregon Forestry commission, with tory. Graduates Irotn all depart
himself and the liieotor of forestry ment numbering 6 6 .
of the Agricultural collego, who
\V B. Scott, formerly a merchant
Progressive Oregonians W ill Gather designated as members iu the act
and
postmaster at Jaspar, this
as follows:
in Convention at Portland.
county has bought the general mer
Upou the recommendation of the
chandise store of C. E. Drake at
Lumber Manufacture!« Vssocudiotl
The Oregon Development League
Leuburg.
of Oregon, Leonidas S. Hill, of
convention is to be held in Port
Congressman Hawley will deliver
Eugene; upon recommendation ol
land June 21-22. There will be a
the Oregon Forestry Associtiion, the Fourth of July oration at Cor
meeting of the presidents and sec
E. P. Sheldon of Portland and upon vallis.
retaries of the seventy commercial
recommendation of the ./United
Albany Herald:— Confirming the
an I industrial Irodies composing the
States Superintendonl >f Forestry announcement first made in the
League the evening of the 20. The
ol Oregon at Portland.
Herald some two weeks ago that
railroads have united on a one fare
Governor Chamberlain lias fixed tile Curtiss Lumber company in-
rate for the round trip from Pen
June 5, in bis office at Salem, as tended to put a .-.team schooner be
dleton and all points east, and from
lli« " , .late
Roseburg aud all points south.
" « c for
1 organization
„ the commission to meet j tween Yaquina bay and San Fran-
- , , and|'“
and ' effect
iHco to transport the lumber output
a rate of one aurt one third tares
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from near by points. Get exact The New Brick Mach me m Operation of tii« Mill Ciiy mills to the south
ern port, the steamer Leggett ar
particulars from your local agent.
rived in Yaquina Bay Wednesday
A
visit
to
the
tie'v
brick
vaid
ol
Portland to show her appreciation
of the Oregon Development League Mr. Gleason’ s yesterday morning evening and is now tied up at the
has organized the Portland Rose found the new machinery in lull up- wharf at Yaquina preparatory to
Show and Fiesta during the session eration. Mr. Glees 11 has quite a j loading lumber.
Tbe Curtis, cotnpan, are ,dleady
of the Convention, aud it promises sum ...vested in the plant but feels
ln ,
, , irl(„„is to the c a s t
to be one of the best attractions yet reasonably assure«! that the demand ,
for
tax bis 1 present and . expect
„ , to
,
.
,
given in the State.
. the brick wi
have
the steamer
abilities to the utmost.
1 1 « grim
,
...
..
, ,
.
, “‘
loaded m about two weeks at the
At a recent meeting of the Marsh er is the
celebrated (Jinkcr City
field Chamber of Commerce, ad machine made iu .Wellington, Ohio, least. The Leggett lias a capacity
dressed by Governor Chamberlain and is one of. the. standard makes, of 1,500,000 leet of lumber and is
on« ol I be largest lumber carriers
and Tom Richardson, $6,000 wa« and will turn out from J .i.oo > to
engaged in the coastwise trade. A c
raised for advertising purposes, and
000 brick a day .when they g«t
cording to report tbe Curtiss com
Marshfield will he heard from
everything to run smooth
At
North Bend has a great Commer present he is employing live rm n, pany intends to add another lum
cial Club, and among Hie members but expects to have to double that ber carrier to the Yaquina run if
the present facilities are found in-
of that Club, $300 was raised in number in .a short-time
The first
300 seconds to present u set of kiln of about 2 oo,ooo it all gov- adequate in handling the output ol
North Bend furniture made from well will be ready to burn about. the mills which have recently been
Oregon timber, to Governor Cham July 1, and from tben on during enlarged to a capacity of 125 ,000
berlain, and none of the subscribers the season he will burn about the feet per day.
were allowed to pay more than $5. same number every month.— Nlig
Subscribe fur the Leader.
The Portland country Club and gett.
Live Stock Association was organ
ized at the Commercial Club Thurs- j
day and among its incorporators
are many ol the leading financiers
and business men o f the metropolis
The purpose is to give a great an j
nual live stock show which will
have for its object the thorough
and complete development of the
live stock industry ot Oregon and
the Pacific Northwest.
Capital !
stock $150,000.
Next Saturday, June 1, the tour j
ist rates from all points in the Unit
ed States to all points in Oregon j
will be in effect. Tickets will be on ,
sale for a little more Ilian one fare
for the round trip.
Inform your
self through your local agent ami
write to your friends and insist on
their coming to visit you and see
the advantages your community
presents.
MAKI: A GREATER OREGON
!
Hinds will sell you any kind ol a
ranch trom 10 to 2000 acres. Call
and see his list,
tf
P E A R C E BROS.
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