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 %
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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.
R em em ber We Buy for Quality.
-
Call on
Griffin & Veatch Co.
\ EUGENE
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Or M ISS M. H. Hol.MSTRni.
S u p erin ten d en t of Nurses.
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