COTTAGE GROVE LEADER
C O T T A ! ¡K O R O V E , O R E G O N , S A T U R D A Y , J U N K 8,
VOL. X IX
PETITIONS INVALID
THROW NAMES IN WASTE BASKET
STATE AND COUNTY
1907 .
SALARIES FOR POSTMASTERS
EXCELLENT SHOWING
NO. 8.
WEST COAST MINES COMPANY.
The New Company Which Takes the
Begiuuing July 1 several Oregon
I postmasters will have an increase
Place of the Oregon Securities.
Í
iu
salary.
Ashland
comes
up
to
News of Interest In a #2200, Corvallis to $2100, Dallas to Of Cottage Grove Post- The West Coast. Mines Company
Secretary of State will Not
$1700, Hood River to $2200, Jack
Condensed Form
is the name of a new nuuing com
Office Receipts.
Roseburg, U r., Ju n e 1.— Attor
File Petitions.
sonville to $1400, K lam ath Falls to
pany just incorporated under the
ney Orcutt and A1 Creusou, who
laws of Oregon, and iu substance
$1800, I.aG rande to $2400, Leba
represented the Douglas county
takes
the place of tlie Oregon Secur
non
to
$1400,
McMinnville
to
$2100
LARGE INCREASE OVER LAST YEAR ity Company that has been oprrat
MANDAMUS PROCEEDINGS BEGAN. settlers who wish to purchase rail AS TAKEN FROM OUR EXCHANGES
Marshfield
to
$2000,
Medford
to
road lands, have returned from San
ing several years in the Bohemia
$2000, Newberg to $1600, North
Mining district.
Francisco and state that they called
Bend to $1400, Oregou City to The New Post Office Building and T he story of the old company
C. H. Walker Says That Linn County upon Mr. Eberlin three times be A Resume of the Week's Local Hap
has been often told and the details
fore they finally were adm itted. penings of the State and County $2200, Portland to $5000, Prine- How it Will be Equipped With and
Grange was Treated Unfairly by
objects of the new company
ville
to
$1(100,
Roseburg
to
$2200,
The chief clerk informed them that
Briefly Told.
are
as
was given iu the Nuggett
all Modern Devices.
the State's Attorney.
St. Johns to $1500, Tillam ook to
Eberlin knew who they were, where
some weeks ago. The new name,
$1500. The only towns going back
West Coast Mines Com pany” have
they were from and their mission,
and that it would do no good to see If you want to see the beauty of were H untington from $1200 to It is generally conceded that the been selected, and the officers and
Despite tbe argum ents and au him . Mr. Orcutt persisted and was
rem ainder of the directors will he
$1100. W asco trom $1400 to $1100,
thorities to the contrary, subm itted finally adm itted, when after h ear nature, get up at 5 o’clock in the and W eston from $1000 to fourth pulse of tlie business oi a town is elected at a m eeting of the company
I reflected by the business of tlie to be held in New York city early
by Attorney Tillm an Ford, for the ing the Dames of the settlers read, m orning. T hen the air is the class.
i post office and if this be accepted this m onth, part of the directors
petitioners, A ttorney General Craw he invited O rcutt to throw them in purest and sweetest, the birds are
have already been decided upon.
ford has rendered an opinion, hold the waste basket. They were left bursting their throats and the dow Live Stock Interest to be Recognized. an correct Cottage Grove is in a T here are one million five hun tred
I very healthy and enviable position. thousand shares of stock in the uew
ing the petitions for the referendum on file, however, in the railroad ers are sending out their perfumes.
(Special Correspondence)
Try
it
once,
and
see
bow
it
affects
On inquiry we learn th at tlie re company; tig h t hundred thousand
of the State University appropria agent’s office.
Portland, O-’egon, June 3d, 1907. ceiptu
you.
As
for
the
Argus
force—
of the sale of postage stamps shaies have been disposed of in se
tion bill invalid, on the ground of
Trem endous interest is being de
em ing the property holdings of the
insufficiency of title. A t the re Oregon Girls Not Pleased With New “ please go ’way and let me sleep.” veloped in the convention of the for the month of May 1907 exceed Oregon
Securities Company and
— Hillsboro Argus.
by 20 per cent the same period paying accrued
quest of George J. Pearce, oi Sa
debts of die former
York City.
Oregon Development League June ed
lem, who presented the petitions New Y ork, June 2. — A New W e believe that more than 75 21st and 22d and large delegations in 1906 Our city, while not ex- 1 company. The am ounts worn raised
for filing, A ttorney G eneral Craw York paper today says:
per cent of the voters of Stayton are assured from all sections of the psriencing an inflated boom, is by selling four hundred thousand
ot preferred tiou cum ulative
ford will prepare the complaint by Fourteeu Oregon girls who were favor an open saloon properly con state ns a result of tbe low rates of building up quietly and surely. The j shales
seven
pel
cent stock at sixty cents
improvements
being
made
are
mini
-1
which mandam us proceedings will sent here to study New York are ducted, hut we doubt if 10 per cent transportation. An advance m eet
a share, and four hundred thousand
erous
and
perm
anent
both
in
beau
be instituted to compel the Secre greatly disappointed with the coun favor conditions as they exist at ing of the presidents and secretaries
shares ot common stock »t twenty
tary of State to accept the petitions try ’s metropolis. New York is not present, and the indications are of the different organizations com tifying our homes a u d .th e public cents a share, making the three
and place the question on the bal alt th a t they im agiued from the very plain that, if the saloon-keep posing the league will be held in streets and if the sam e good work 1 hundred and T w enty thousand dol
in tuis line is kept up during the I lars with which all right and title
lot.
full-page Sunday paper accounts of ers will not obey the law , and the the convention room of the P o rt summer we will have a city ibat of the Oregon Securities Company
In declaring the petitions insuffi- the largest city ot the W estern city- authorities will not compel land Commercial Club (second floor j
into the possession of the
attract the atteution of capi passed
ient. A ttorney G eneral Grawford hem isphere. The buildings along them to do so, the people at the 6th & Alder streets,) Thnrsday will
new
company,
leaving seven hun
all over the state.
dred thousand shares of treasury
H ands upon the m andatory decla Broadway are sm all, the women are next local option election will put night, Ju ne 20th at 8 o’clock. T he talists
new post office quarters will stock 111 the treasury and every in
ration of the law, which provides “actressy” looking, the men impo them out of existence.—Stayton hope of the league officers relative be The
fiuishpd
by July l, the new ! cum brance paid off.
that a full and complete copy of the lite enough to retain their i-eats in Times.
to this meeting is, that the active equipm ents for which are now on The plan for future developm ent
m easure and the title shall be put the cars while women staud, and A rticles of incorporation were men of Oregon may be able to unite
the properties of the companies
the way from the Pacific.Host Office of
upon the petitions and that it any ! tbe streets are dirty. Philip S. 61ed in Salem this week by the upon plans that will greatly add lvquipmeut
is
to
to former stockholders of
|Uu. of Indianapolis tlie sell
Oregon Securities Company
portion of the title or body of the Bates is chaperone of the party and M yrtle Creek Baptist cluircb; tru s to the population of the slate, and
they want of the seven hun
act is to be om itted there is no rule, also chancellor of the exchequer, tees, C- Ltuldington, J. W . Benefial agree upon some scheme which will Ind., tlie cost of which is $1600. It ; what
thousand shares of T reasury
provided by which a line is draw n | because the girls hustled subscrip and Jam es H arm an; location M yrtle secure the co-operation of the en is of the most mqdern style i dred
throughout, and will include all the stock at twenty cents a share, then
or designating w hat portion ot the j tions for his paper. Mrs. C. E. Creek; capital stock $80.
tire population of the state in get- convenience for a third class ot-j offer it to investors at a higer price.
Considering the reduction in cap
title or act may be elim inated. All i Redfield is the chaperone proper.
The steam schooner L eggett, now ing the full advantage ot the colo
It wilt have 500 keyless auto > italization from five million shares
of the questions involving the legal-1 Everybody at the M artha W ashing lying in Y aquina harbor, where she nist rates which begin September fice.
in tlie Oregon Securities Company
ity of the petitions will be brought ton hotel, w here the tourists are is loading lum ber for San Francisco 1st and continue until October 31st. niatic lock boxes, but no call boxes , to
the capitalization of the new
will
be
installed.
At
the
present
out in the suit.
stopping, agree that tbe girls are is to sail T hursday. She will carry T he Portland Rose Show and time the offic* is equipped with a company, titteen hundred thousand
C H. W alker, who returned late j so sensible, so well-behaved and so 825,000 feet of lum ber from the Fiesta is to be a great attraction total of four hundred lock and call slian s the price of tw enty cents a
Monday night from Salem, states [ interested iD ihe higher things of Curtiss Lum ber Com pany’s mill at and it will certainly be of much boxes, but the dem and is greater share, is really Mo higher than the
stock and capitalization
that the referendum committee of life that Mrs. Redfield m ust have Mill City to tlie Bay city.—Corval benefit to visitors from all parts of than the supply, several parties tj< — former
would
have
been at six cents a
the Linn County G range did not an easy time.
the state of Oregon, as any move ing compelled to patronize the gen share, Hint is, the new company
lis Times.
believe that the Attorney General
ment that brings 11s nearer to na eral delivery, hut a-t the peUcont in have the same property as the old
had acted with fairness to the pe Salt Water Found at the Depth of T hree Benton horses went by ture’s beautiful things does us good. crease of the past year another year company, aud at the twenty cent
boat to Portland Friday, having Dr. J. T- McCovmac, president
111 ic« per share in the new company
titioners in that after be had ver
600 Feet
may demand a further increase of the inline purchasing value is had
bally agreed to leave the m atter to Roseburg, Or., Ju n e 4 —T he con been purchased by W iley & Snow of the M arshfield Cham ber of Com boxes. This shows a healthy growth as
six cents were paid in the for
some disinterested attorney for de tractors who are boring the well on of J. W . Melville, who resides on a merce, spent two days last week in ot the city, tiie tuture ot which mer if company
w ith its capitalization,
farm
lie
recently
purchased
out
of
cision, he had then rendered an the Southern Pacific com pany’s
Portland stu d y ing tbe advertising only dejiends upon the energy and t he price asked is the same price
opinion himself against the referen property near the roundhouse in the R. Skiptnn place. An interest carried on by the league and the all-pull-together will of th e people paid for the common stock by the
ing part of the shipm ent is that the commercial bodies and also to de
Bond holders who are now the
dum petitions.
this city, made an unexpected dis three
• • •
principal
owners of the stock ot tlie
anim
als
are
said
to
have
Speaking in this relation, Mr. covery last Friday. For the past
cide upon plans which will result
A Dramatic Scene.
W alker said that while in Salem, m onth they have been drilling brought $900 and that for one or iu the greater advertising of the W hen at the .close of his ad dress company.
A system of deep devilopm ent is
A ttorney General Crawford and through a hard blue stratum , but them about $500 was probably paid. Coos Bay country.
on decoration day Dr. Bell asked if planned and all money earned by
Attorney Tilm an Ford and himself Friday the drill at a depth of OftO T he latter is a driving mare of Hon. John B arrett e address Ire- there were among tlie veterans pr< s- the mill, and that received from the
had had a conference, in which the feet, passed through this form ation, phenom enal parts. She lias a record fore the Portland Commercial Club ent any who had faken part iu ti.. sale of treasury «lock will ho ex-
peii'led as rapidly as possible in
Attorney General said that he would and into a Band resem bling seta of goiug to Salem, 35 miles in four on “O regon’s G row ing Influence in battles of W inchester or Cedar carrying
o u t the present arrange
hours
without
any
sign
of
fatigue
Creek,
tlie
two
union
soldiers
abide by the decision of any circuit sand, but considerably darker at
Natianal Affairs” was easily one of
ments.
'I’ll«
success of this com
Judge in the state as to the right of j this point. A very salty and brack or distress. .She ran cover 10 miles the very best developm ent speeches stepped to Ihe platform “ Are you pany and many others, lias it« in
willing to shake hands with a man fluence in interesting capital for
thp petitioners to file the releren- 1 ish water began flowing into tbe an hour on a country road with tbe ever delivered in Oregon.
ease
that
most
horses
can
do
six.
dutn petition on the university ap-1 well and soon reached a depth of
The success of the Live Stock who for four years woie the gray?” Bohemia.
She
is
but'five
years
old,
but
is
a
propriation.
Association is assure.!. T hursday Three hands were grasped and as
about 130 feet, or nearly sea level.
“ Having this clear statem ent of j The United States G eographical thoroughbred Alt.ainont, which ac morning at 10 o ’clock there will be the trio stood there, a concrete illus Lebanon C ritcron:—There is not
the Attorney General to go by,’’ survey places the exact m easure count» for her going ability, both a meeting in the parlors of the tration of a reunited Nortli and only a car shortage hut there is a
said Mr. W alker, “ Mr. Ford and ment at tbe place as being 464 feet ion the road and in tbe m arket. Tbe Portland Commercial Club to soli j South, the audience thundered its big shortage in mechanics, especi
i other two horses were an ordinary cit subscriptions for stock, and i approval. Many eyes iu tlie largo | ally am ong carpenters. A call
myself did not take any further a c -! above tbe sea.
from Albany this week for a
lion Monday. W e expected that j Drilling operations were at once span of draft animals.—Times.
Portland owes the perfecting of the audience were dimmed with tears came
few
good
carpenters to go there hut
at
the
sight,
which
was
a
spectacle
by m utual agreem ent the whole [ suspended and the strike reported Gene M. Simpson has over 250 organizations to the state at large,
question would be referred to some to the Southern Pacific officials, little China . pheasants already for evervone realizes that the great of dram atic intensity seldom seen. they coul.l not be found here. All
the workmen here had all they
prominent legal expert, and w hat who will investigate, as the con hatched, on his place in the western est success of the Lewis & Clark ¡ —Times.
could
do and weeks ot work ahead.
ever his decision m ight have been tract is for a looo-foot well, and it part of town nnd it is a busy time Exposition was the live slock show;; M íui I n has some of the liest resi
we were to abide by it. Im agine is not known w hether the company w ith Jene, as the little birds are that the greatest advertisem ent Ore dences in the city for sale on good Latest style iu visiting cards at
my surprise this m orning when I will continue the work or not, as difficult to raise uuless one knows gon received at the St. Louis Ex- j terms.
75 cts. per 100 at The Leader office.
read in the Oregonian that Attor their object in drilling the well is his business T here is such a de position was the tact that “ Loretta
ney G eneral Crawford had rendered to get a supply of pure water for rnnnd for these birds that fanciers D ” proved to tbe world by draw
an opinion contrary to our position use on tbe trains and engines.
get almost any price they ask for ing first prize that Oregon was the
in the m atter. W hat could have
them , as other states nre desirous 1 w orld’s best dairy country, and
caused him to back down on his
Dies at Harrisburg.
ot stocking their domains with the now with the location of both A r
verbal agreem ent with Mr. Ford R. A. Rampy, a prom inent H ar beauties.— Corvallis Ex.
m our and Swift, Oregon and the
and myself, I cannot say. However, risburg banker, died at his home Fire started from the sparks of Pacific N orthw est should go for
the I.inn County Grange will make in th at place Monday night at <’* the Jefferson sawmill last week ward in the development of ¿live
1
T he deceased was aged threatened the destruction of the stock and supply the Orient and
a fight to test the legality of the o’clock.
about
seventy
years
and
lias
resided
3
A ttorney G eneral’s decision, and in Oregou since 1852.
entire town, ft was by desperate Alaska, tlie best m arkets in the
Mr. Palm er will go to Salem to con
efforts that the blaze was extin > world.
fer with Attorney Ford concerning i
Eighth Grade Examination.
Tlie to u rist rates at a little more
guished.
3
ç
- r
than one fare for the round trip and
the commencement of mandam us The eighth grade final exam ina
proceedings The members of the tion for the public schools will be E ugene Business College will liegin i good for Oregon from all parts of
;i sum m er session .tune 1st. Bool;-, the United States went on sale Sat
Linn County G range do not believe held;
F IN E S T T R A D E .
|
keeping,
shorthan d, typew riting, lie- , unlay iu all ticket offices throughout
3
that the wishes of over six thou-1 May 16, 17; June 13, 14, 1907 moved to the Kankiu building. 7th the country.
nm
l
Willamette
S
ts.
Send
for
cata
sand voter« should be turned down Teachers who have pupils ready logue. Address W. .1 Hooker, Prill
the exam ination should notify
on a mere technical provision, and for
Attention Horsemen
me
of the num ber of questions | Eugene, Oregon. , - g _____ 7-3.
5
will carry the case, if necesaary to wanted
The Leader Job office has just
aud the name of the person
3
the highest courts.” — Albany H er appointed to conduct the examina
bought several new horse cuts and
For Sale.
tion at least 15 days before the date Surface sidewalk lumber cut to is prepared to print horse hills at
ald. ____
P E A R C E BR.OS.
for which the questions are wanted length >11. Better grade $13 at very reasonable prices. Horsemen
W . B. D il l a r d ,
Latest style of visiting cards at
Brown Lumber Co’s mill Cottage will do well to call before -lacing
T he Leader office at 75 cts, per loO. | td
*>-4 their order elsewhere.
County Superintendent- I Grove, Oregon.
Says Eberlin. Southern Pacific Land
Agent. When Roseburg Men Make
Tender for Timber Land.
PEARCE BROS. 1 f
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GROCERS
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