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About Cottage Grove leader. (Cottage Grove, Or.) 1905-1915 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 28, 1907)
COTTAGE GROVE LEADER roads coaid do this they should be obliged to show the interstate com merce commission that such an ad PU B LU H K D KYK KY SATURDAY. vance of rates was necessary or BY THK LEADER PU BLISHING CO reasonable and obtain the permis sion of that body to make the a d Kntered at the Cottage («rove postofflce as sec vance. T his amendment to the ond-dans matter. rate law ought to be passed by con gress early next winter. T he law SUBSCRIPTION RATES Dne Year - $1.50 should deprive railroad traffic man Six Months .75 fhreee Months .50 agers o f the power thus to throw I paid in advance but If not so paid a «nil rin rate of 92.00 per year will be charged. an industrial blight over a whole Advertising rates made known on application state and region, simply because their masters need the money, or CLUBBING LIST seek to force a division of tne pro T he C o tta g e d r o v e L eader for one year, and an y o f the fo llo w in g pu bli fits of the big millmen. The rail cation for on e y e a r, for the price «et road men are very quick to shout opposite * “ confiscation” or “ bankruptcy” New York Tribune Farmer........... $1 75. Toledo Weekly Blade................... 1 75 and “ ruin” whenever a little re Portland Weekly Oregonian......... 2.50 Portland Weekly Joiirna1. ......... 2.00 duction in rates is proposed any Portland Semi Weekly Journal..... 2.25 Han Francisco Call............... 2.50 where; but they can iullict these San Francisco Examiner................ 2.50 Sunset Magazine, San Francisco.... 2.00 consequences upon a large area of Out West, Los Angeles.............. 2.50 Town and Country Journal — 1.75 country and thousands of people Northwest Poultry Journal........... 1.75 Pacific Homestead . ...2 25 without the least compunction what ever. SATURDAY............ SEPT. 2 s, 1907. T he people of this country must wake up and make the railroad If the opinions of many of the owners and managers know and un lamberme u are correct, samples of derstand and acknowledge, and act which were published in the Journ accordingly, that they cannot do al last week, the proposed raise of this sort of thing; that the transpor rates on lumber will result injuri tation business is not a private, but ously, disastrously, edeu amount a public business, which they and ing in many cases to o tragedy, to a not the railroad people have a right great number of people T he big ' to regulate. Until this is done the lumber manufacturers are not the railroads will do whatever they only ones concerned. If the trouble please ami no more, utterly regard ended with them the general pub less of the people’s inlerests or lic might be disposed to pay little rights. attention to the matter. But the With all the pretenso of regula trouble only begins with tbem tion and reform that lias been so Hundreds nnd thousands and teas loudly made, there has been ami is of thousands of people beyond and no regulation or reform worth men behind them must suffer. tioning and w o n 't be until there First are the smaller millmen, has been an e itire and radical re owners of several hundred mills adjustment of the basis of relation throughout the state, who in conse ship between the people and ihe quence of lack of cars or of this railroads. The whole conception freight raise will have tosbut down of the functional uature of a rail Many would have to do this, have road is entirely misconstrued by *be railroad people, and until they are indeed done so already, because of taught what a railroa 1 really is, nnd the oar shortage, so the freight made to act accordingly, the people question becomes temporarily, and, will continue to suffer from all sorts as to some, immaterial. But sup of impositions, overcharges, neglect posing caro were supplied, many of and tyranny.— Portland Journal. these mills would still have to shut A local newspaper is absolutely down or reduce their output one necessary to any community. It is half or more (which they could not the home paper that keeps the do and run at a profit), because of people of the community in touch the raise in the freight rate. This with each other by giving them the means loss, injury, disappointment- news of their own neighborhood hardship, and in some cases finan and county, says an exchange. cial ruin to these men. They went They keep the local pride and pro iuto the business under certain con gressive spirit aroused and in vari ditions, having no reason to sup ous ways are worth more to a com pose that the freight conditions munity than a community ever would chango adversely. But the spends on them. The daily paper railroad companies arbitrarily raise with a large news service and the rnte and change the whole bus quicker facilities may, in some in iness aspect of these hundreds of stances, overshadow the weekly, men. A prospect of success is but the weekly home paper fills a changed into a prospect of failure; place in the hearts of the peoplo where they read profit they now that a daily cauuot fill. It comes read loss; what yesterday spelled to your home as an old tried friend, fortune now spells ruin. while the daily enters as a stranger. tO T T A C E GROVE . • OREGON 1). C. Ireland, in Moro Observer: W e can show a list of over 8,000 miserable failures in Oregon of men who have swindled D. C. Ireland out of small sums of money since i8<>6, at a time when the list was opened in Oregon C ity. The O. Man has decided to turn the list over to the Oregon Historical soci ety when he dies, as an undeniable evidence that honesty is evon the best policy. Printers Made Error. Railroad traffic agents of the Harriman line claim that it was by an error of the priuter that the east-bound rates on Oregon lumber to Salt Lake 'erritory «ere raised iu the recently published shedule of the Marrimnn lines. It is al leged that freight officials of these lines did not intend to increase the rate from Portland or Willamette valley points to Salt I.uke common T h e total gate receipts for the points, and General Weight Agent State Fair, President W U. 1 Miller is quoted as saving that Downing announced Wednesday | steps will be immediately taken to amount to $20,000 approximately, correct the error in the published as against $ 18,000 last year, or an iucrense of $2,000. T h is is exclu schedule. Tho present rate of lb cents per siye of the receipts from concessions 100 pounds to Salt Lake will he and grandstand, which were also continued, and this rate will apply large, and will bring the grand to all mills in the Willamette valley total lo nearly $00,000. as well as all Portland mills. The W hile burning weeds iu a stub increased rates0.1 lumber from Ore ble field on his farm opposite Shady gon to Missouri river, Mississippi Point, on the south Umpqua river, river and Chicago territory will, it two and one-half miles south of Rosehurg, James Sheffield, one of is said, be advanced November 1 ns the oldest pioneers of Douglas scheduled. county, met death from suffocation by smoke. Before aid reached the body it was terribly burned. Silk Creek Items. Mr. W. X. Wliceler and wife and | Send the News. baby visited friends in Lynx Hollow the last of the week. Everybody should nnd most Mr. Leonard Dusenlierry and people do advertise. It pays. Every family who have been visiting friends body knows it pays. It pays every - here the past week left Thursday for body, at all times nnd in all lines. (¡rays Harbor. Wash. Miss Amy Owens got up a surprise A ll bright business men know this nnd the reporter decided, after see party for Mbs Lena Burcham Satur day evening. There were a good ing the results of it, to advertise for; many present and all seemed to en items. Several such “ ails” have joy the occasion very much. appeared in these columns and the Mr. Dusenberr.v has bought the old results have been just as expected Derrick place, known by some as the — highly satisfactory. People who Jim liarret place. Messrs Prank nnd Oscar Wheeler, U. formerly kept their news items closely guarded and said never a L. I'aap, Clyde Babcock and A. E. i Owens returned tho tirst of the week word about them, now assist the from the Kosedmrg cniiipmeeting. Leader reporter and add to the in H. M. Damewood and wife were terest ot the paper by telling of the called a w ay Tuesday by the sudden happenings in their community- It death of Mrs. Dainewood’g brother. is a little thing to do, so far ns the Mr. Aaron Kelley. The bereaved time nnd trouble goes, but it ¡ b a fnmllv have the sympathy of the en tire community. greatly appreciated help in the Franklin P. Wheeler left here Wed newspaper office Let everybody nesday to take charge of an eight send us an item or two from their month’s school 111 Astoria, Oregon. neighborhood and see vvhat an in The Misses Helen and Amanda Fes teresting paper »e will give you in ter ami Lima Itureham visited Miss Amy Owens Tuesday afternoon. return. Mrs. Elliot who has been very sick is Improving in health. Bidders For School Lands. Mbs Winnie Dresser returned to her home in Lynx Hollow Sunday, One hundred and two bids were after a very short visit to friends received and opened by the State here. Land Board on Sept 1<>, for the Tiie cheerful face of Hamilton Fox purchase of nn aggregate o f 10,000 was seen in our neighborhood Wed acres of indemnity school land, sit nesday and his merry laugh sounded as gay as ever. uated in different parts of the state Miss F,Stella Hunter, who has but final action will not be taken charge of our district school attend upon them until Clerk Brown, of ed the teacher's institute at Eugene the land board, will have had lime this week. to segregate, compare and group them in order that a better under Astoria Budget; At the present standing of them nny be arrived time the dairy business is very pro at. T h e prices offered range from fitable and prices for the products the minimum of $5 per acre, as are high. Milk brings I2 cents fixed by law, to as high as $85.50 per gallou, butter fat 30 cents per per acre. T his land w is reserved pound, butter the “nrae, and cheese or withdrawn irom sale by virtue of ¡ d like proportion. Dairying is the act of the legislature. A s in rapidly becoming one of the most dicated by tho high prices offered, important as well as among the especially the $5 perncte bid, much most profitable industries iu this of the land is covered with a wealth section of the state, nnd the annual o f fine timber and much o f it is receipts of the dairymen in this dis first class agricultural land. trict from milk, butter and cboese But we have as yet viewed only The strongest assurance of the the edge of the disastrous results. There are the thousands of employes growth of many Oregon cities and and their families, 90 well as the towns during the last yeui is the families of the mill owners. These large increase shown in the school men must hunt up other jobs, in enrollment and these school child- many cases away from borne. For re" in each and every city, town tunately, most of them can find and village of the Stato are the best something to do, vet it is not easy advertising vehicle. Clot your ad for a man accustomed for years to vertising leaflets in their hands, to are about $15o,o0o. one kind of work to take up some go out in personal letters, and the Eugene’s Electric Cars. thing else, and probably at less result will be amazing, while the STAGE NOTICE wages, and perhaps separated from | cost of printing covers the entire T he electric cars were operated his family. If several hundred saw I expense. The boys and girls pay R. M. Ci ne, mail carrier on the on the streots today for the first mills in Oregon that wei e expected j the postage and do the work. Sharp creek wagon road to Bohe time and the occasion was a gala to run steadily shut down, even for mia post office, announces that on At least ten towns in Oregon ono for Eugene. Large crowds a few months, what a vast a g g re g a and after September 1, he will run have established permanent exhibit gathered on the streets to witness tion of loss, disappointment, suffer a stage for the accommodation of rooms at which good specimens of the starting of the cars, nnd just ing and evil it will cause. Did we passengers and express matter. fruils, vegetables and other products *x»ggerate in saying that the re as soou as A. Welch, general mana are shown. Others ate m aking a Stage leaves Red Bridge station ger of the Eugene & Eastern, and sults would he tragical? on the O. k S. E, railway, immedi temporary shewing on account of Tom Richardson, secretary of tho Bnt in ever-widening circles the ately alter the arrival of the train, the large number of colonists tak Fortlnnd Commer>'ial Club, nljglited evil results flow outward over the ing advantage of the low rates now Monday, Wednesday and Friday of Irom the Southern Pacific train and whole body politic, or body indus on, and in each instance it gives | each week, returning alternate took seats in the front car the juice trial. Men are able to buy less, the new-comers n place to concen days. n-!31-4t* was turned on and while the band and so the merchants lose trade. trate, where they aie assured a w el played and the people shouted the There is less demand for the farm How's This? come, and ns a result a large ma car whizzed up Willamette street ers’ products ntul he suffers loas. We offer Dne Hundred Dollars re. jority locate permanently. and on out Eleventh street to the ward for any r a s e of Catarrh that There is less money in circulation for everybody; some little tincture cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh The Commissioner of the Genera] U niversity of Oregon. The cars were decorated with •hire. F. .».CHENEY A CO, Toledo. O. of the blight reaches every mem Land Office has issued an order We, the undersigned, have known ber of the community. And all which requires the registers and re bunting and “ Oregon” pennants j F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and tbia because some tew lailroad man ceivers of nil United States land and were filled to the guards with lielieve him per'ectly honorable In nil agers decided to raise the rates on offices to prepare all applications to citizens of the city, including business transactions, nnd financially lumber. make entries and filings on public Mayor Matlock, the members o f the able to carry out nny obligations Now we say that no railroad pres lands when they nre requested to city council, officers of the Commer made by his Arm. \t At.niMi, K innan A M artin , ident, or manager, or other official, do so by the applicants. This or cial Club and the Merchants’ Pro Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. or combination of them, should der will insure greater accuracy in tective Association. Hall s Catarrh Cure Is taken Inter have a right to do this thus arbi papers of this kind, and be a sav On the return trip down town the nally, acting directly upon the blood trarily- No set of men should be ing to the applicants who have here- crowd stopped off at the Commer and mucuons surfaces of the system. allowed to have the power to bring , tofore been required to have their cial Club, where Tom Richardson Tertimonials sent free. Price 75 cents about such wholesale and wid«- applications prepared at their own was given an informal reception.— per bottle. Sold by nil druggists. Take Hall's Family Pill» for consti spread carnage- Before the rail* i expense. Guard. pation. ! GRIFFIN X VEATCHCO. D e a l e r s in. 51 (¡until llaiivure, Stores ami 1 % S ■ — ■ W«—*■ — — — We also handle >• M klmln of F a rm in g C ream Machinery S ep a ra to rs. S p o rtin g !j„ods (>uns And A m m un ition , E tc. 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