COTTAGE GROVE
PUT OUT
OF BUSINESS
manufacturers.
WASHINGTON M I U .S SHUT I »OWN.
t h ir d t e r m
W . O. Miles, president ol the
Southwestern Washington Manu
facturers’ Association of Centralis,
and president of the Globe I.umber
Company of Globe, Washington, is
iu the city and he report.) the fol
lowing mills closed along the line
of the Northern Pacific. Stillwater
Lumber Company’s plant at Little
Falls, with a capacity of about 100,-
i 000 feet daily: the Chehalis Lumber
CANCEL LUMBER ORDERS Company’ s plant at Littell, with a ROOSEVELT'S POPULARITY
daily capacity o f about 80,000; the
Wisconsin Lumber Company’s plant
Men Familiar With the Situation Say at Littell, cutting daily loo.ooo; the
Senator Bourne Offers $ 1 .0 0 0 Cash
H. H. Martin Lumber Company’s
the Attitude Tow ard lLum berm en
Prize for the Strongest and Best
plant at Centralis, with a daily cut
is Outrageous.
Written Argument
o f 75,ooo; the Salzer Lumber Com.
j pauv’ s plant at Centralia, with a
fills Close Down on Ac*
count of Advanced Rates.
SITUATION
Unique Step to Test Senti*
ment of Country
mess success and public tranquility
could possibly occur at this time,
in my opinion, that the substitution
of certainty for uncertainty regard
ing the Presidency. It would be
worth hundreds of millions of dol
lars to our material interests. The
business world would profit incal
culably by the assurance or reas
surance such a certainty would
bring. The administration’ s poli
cies are accepted and approved.
Only tbe knowledge that Roosevelt
will continue at the helm is needed
to inaugurate anew an era of pros
perity on a safer and souuder basis
than ever before. Call it a third
term or a second elective term, as
you like; the exigencies of the times
demand tbat he servo tour years
more. It ¡ b a patriotic duty which
he owes to his country. He cannot
shirk it, it he would, without mak
ing self greater than coun; ry and
forfeiting the respect aud public
confidence he now holds. He will
not shirk it once the people make
heir wishes known. Now is the
time for them to be beard.”
Tbe car shortage, cancellation of! dai,y . outl)ut o f 75.ooo; the Mutual
orders due to the proposed advance > '® b e r Company’s plant at Bucoda
Washington, Oct. 20.— Hon. Jon-
with a a aauy
daily cm
cut oi o f « 8o,ooo;
and the
the j athan Bourne, Jr., of Oregon,
m freight rates to points Fast of wllu
0 , 000 ; ana
the Rockies and tbe danger of tbe i «'um auer Lumber Company’s plant i United States Senator, has taken a
new rate becoming effective arc at Tem,1°. 'Vltl> a daily c«t af 5o,- j unique step to test the sentiment of
three fectors that are gradually but 000 . Mr. Miles is quoted as bar-1 the country on the Presidential sit-
surely putting the O iegou an d ing said that he intends closing his , uiition. Through the National Mag-
Washington sawmills out o f busi null down unless relief in some azitie, of Boston, Mass., he lias of
form or other is furnished soon.
fered a cash prize reward of $100(1,
ness, says the Portland Journal.
The Portland rani», too, are feel open to the Atuericau people, for
IMPORTANT CHANGE.
During the past few das « dozens of
ing
H
10 effects o f the attitude of the strongest and best written ar-
sswmills in the Willamette valley,
along the lines o f the Southern Pa the railroads, and prices today are » gumeot in support of bis following As Announced by T. H. Vail. Presi
dent of the American T. T. Co.
cific and equally as many along the lower than for several months past. | assertions;
“ First. That the sovereign people
Northern Pacific in Southwestern
Some Fifteen Years Ago. and uot Theodore Roosevelt, the An important change in the pol
Washington have been forced to
individual and public servant, will icy for thirty years of the Bell Tel
discharge their employes and shut
decide who shall be bis successor.
ephone Company has been made
their doors.
T wandered to the grog shop,
“ Second. That Theodore Roose known.
When questioned regard
Men thoroughly familiar with Tom, I stood before the bar, and
velt canuot decline a second elective ing tbe report that the West
the situation declare the attitude of drank a bowl of lemonade and
term or attempt to name his succes ern Electric Company, the concern
the railroads toward the lumbermen smoked a rank cigar; the same old
sor without making his own per that manufactures the apparatus
uoutrageous, especially since it is kegs and jugs were there, the ones
07 “ I^oTiBUcal opinions
used by the Bell Companies, would
charged that the roads are not only wo used to know, when we were on
ouut t0 tbe corabined w.sbes
hereafter sell telephones aud sup
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j Up, Tom, some 15 years
depriving tiw.™
them of »-—
transportation
the
round
and intelligence of the Republican plies to all buyers, President Theo
facilities for orders now being ago. T be barkeeper is a new one,
party and the electorate oi the na dore H. Vail, of the American Tel
placed, but also for orders for lum Tom, the one who used to sell cor
ephone and Telegraph Company,
tion.
ber that have already been cut.
rosive tanglefoot to us is smoking
“ Third. That Roosevelt’s hon confirmed the report.
Unable to make deliveries within now in H — alifax, the new one has
esty, courage, initiative, imagina
He explained that the idea had
the prescribed time these suwmill a plate-glass front, his hair is
tion, versatility, and tremendous been uader consideration for a long
men are caught with material on combed quite low, be looks just like
capacity for work, with heart and time, but tbr.t heretofore one diffi
hand which, perhaps, they cannot the one we knew, some 15 years
brain constantly attuned to the culty bad been that the Western
diapose of without great sacrifice. ago. Old soaks came up and called
people’s rights and commands and Electric needed more plant; its full
Willamette valley sawmill operators for booze, and dudelets staggered his insistence upon the enforcement energy being required to supply
in particular are said to have been in, and burned the lining from their raj|ier tban avoidanee of laws, and
the demands of tbe Bell Companies
placed in this disastrous position, throats with fine old Holland gin,
the protection of tbe rights of men alone. This obstacle to doing a
and they are finding their only re and women stood outside the door,
and property,have to an unparallel general business has been overcome
lief in shutting down their plants. their faces seamed with woe, and
ed degree gained the confidence of by the recent completion of verv
In consequence thousands o f men wept just as they used to weep,
all people; that, in the popular large additions to the Chicago fac
hare been thrown into idleness or some 15 years ago. I asked about
mind, Roosevelt, during his execu- tory of the Western Electric Com
forced into other fields of labor, the old-time friends, those cheerful tiveship, has demonstrated his abil pany, and hence it is now in a po
with which they are not familiar.
sporty men. and some were in tbe itv and determination to make good sition ta take care of outside or
poor house, and some were in the as tbe people's chief public servant, der».
POI,ICY IS OUTRAGEOUS.
! pen, and one— the one we liked the and not their dictator; that this
In reply to a question as lo the
G. M. Cornwall, editor of the 1 '
, ., ..
,
best— tbe hangman laid him low; confidence, being a brain deduction probable effect of this action on the
Timberman, of this city, Las just 1
the world is much the same dear and not a heart emotion, is impos revenue of the American Telephone
returned from a trip over the South- j
Tom, as 15 years ago. I asked sible of destruction except by his and Telegraph Company, Mr. Vail
ern Pacific lines in Oregon. Ho
about that stately chap whom pride betrayal; that by the selection of said that no considerable direct in
*ys the actual state o f affairs
marked for its own, be used to say any other man, business contraction crease was anticipated, but a great
among the sawmill men is appalling
I that he could drink, or let the stuff and restriction must exist during indirect advantage was looked for
and describes the action o f the rail
of tbe James H. the period necessary for him to from improved relations between
roads as the most outrageous pro- alone, he perished
.
,
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c«*ding ever porepetrated upon IJam8 out ,n ‘ Ma storm and snow, demonstrate lo the people’s satis- the public and all of the associated
ab, few survive who used the bowl j factjon j,jB ability and determina- Bell Companies, because there bad
white people.’
years ago.
j tion to make good, and therefore, been an entirely erroueons idea
Fifteen mills out of sixteen
New crowds line up against tUe j tllat barring death or serious ill- more or less prevalent that tbe
hive shut down at Lebanon,” said .
,
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,
.„ r and call for crimson ink; new j nes9 president Roosevelt must and charges of these companies for their
Mr. Cornwall. ------------
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bar and cal1
H Pi,« k >
° *a^e
! hands are trembling as they pour
^ selected and elected fora services were based on a monopoly
J. T H.
Chambers’ mill has ceased op-
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o f telephonic instruments, while tho
the stuff they shouldn’t drink; D«1 seCQn(j elective term.”
Motion, ®nd at Dorena the mill of still the same old watch-word rings,
The prize will be awarded March fact is that the instrument is but a
the J. H. Chambers Lumber Com
‘This round’ s on me you know, 15, 1908, the contest closing one small part o f tbe plant required in
PMiy has discharged its employes the same old cry of doom we heard,
month earlier, and three judge*, giving telephone service.
'ml stopped the machinery. The some fifteen years ago- I wandered
It is felt that this action may
gentlemen of high standing will
Lumber Company's mill at to the churchyard, Tom, and there
upon
tbe
cause
it to be more clearly under
be named shortly to pass
^onealla is lying idle and so is the
stood that the Bell Company’s only
I saw the graves, of those who used arguments submitted.
Star Lumber Company’s mill at to drown themselves in reJ fermenti
Senator Bourne, speaking of this claim for patronage is based on
Drain.
waves; and there were women sleep- offer, said tonight: “ Frankly, my their ability to furnish the best ser
At Glendale the Glendalo Lum- ing tbere, where grass and daisies purpose is to secure discussion and vice at reasonable prices and not on
r Company has laid off half its
w who went and died of broken agitation resulting in conviction any instrument monopoly.
Mr. Vail explained that at the
and the Booth-Kelly Lumber heartB some fifteen years ago. And and crystallization of opinion. Con
of Eugene, has closed there were graves where children fident that the overwhelming senti- present time many inefficient tele-
w n its plant at Saginaw. It is s,ee for many a year, forgetful of ment of tbe country, regardlesa of j phone instruments are in use on lo-
also considering seriously closing the woe that marked their short, party favors tho renomination and ea[ aDd private lines, and tbat the
‘be Coburg and Wendling plants sad journey here; and "neath a fine reelection of Itooeevelt I take this Bell Companies desire to see these
onless conditions improve. From
monument in peace there ,ie
method of inviting an expression replaced by standard instruments in
on the subject The propositions order that it may make traffic con
in Oregon to the other there
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set forth speak tor themselves, and nections with the greatest possible
'"evidence of the greatest appre Woodmen Head Clerk Dead. tbe responses thereto, will at least number of properly equipped lines
henaion on the part of tbe lumber
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tend to disclose tbe popular feeling assuring proper service and trans
®«1 SS to the effect of tbe increase
John C. Lafshaw, head clerk of existing today. If the views which mission. For example: There are
,D Eastern freight rate, coupled ! the Woodmen of the World, died at I hold—and which are shared fully, thousands o f so-called “ Farmer
M'th the car shortage
I Denver Tuesday night after an lll-
Lines,” which will furnish valuable
c » of
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Mr. Lat- I may add, by men from every sec
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ness
short duration
feeders
for the toll lines of tbe larg
1 most iniquitous part of it g|,aw was near 00 years of age and tion with whom I -m brought into
all ls ncd only the proposed increase had been head clerk of the order, contact-are the views of the Amer er system when properly equipped
and maintained. This situation can
ican people, generally, then it u
10 r«es, but the withdrawal o f cars! with headquarters at
now be provided for through the
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to be made well to establish that fact and
*° «H orders already cut
Eastern A Pril’ ,9 ° 5' .
sale outright of Bell instruments
buyer*
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an
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appointment
dj appoi-um«:..,, IO .
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are not going to wait mdef-
once by I. I.
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head consul. tabliah it at once The earlier tbe and apparstus.
In answer to the question wheth-
be
filled
in
this
way
del
“',eb and orders are being can - 1 The office will
demonstration, the better for the
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*' witl1 the result that the m a-» until the meeting
c f the head camp conntry.
(C on tln u ed t o p a g e 2.)
‘Nothing more conducive to bus
*m l la l«ft upon the hands o f the lees8'0" in Portland, 1910.
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FROM ALL
OVER STATE
Items
of Interest in a
Condensed Form
TAKEN FROM EXCHANGES
market. In the vicinity of Hard
man they have just commenced
threshing aud P will likely be early
spring before many o f them have
deposited their last load in the ware
house.
Toledo Leader: The Portland
Oregonian of Tuesday published an
editorial in which it devoted almost
a whole column to calling every
citiz.eu of Lincoln county a lazy,
shiftless thief. It was one of the
rottenest hunch of lies and insultB
ever handed out to an honest, law-
abiding and enterprising commun
ity of true American citizens.
A Resume of the Week's Local Hap-
Huzeidell
Correspondence
o f
Springfield News: Every oue is
penmngs ot the State and County
prosperous—more so than was ever
Briefly Told.
Threshing is still going on in
Langell valley in Klamath county.
The walnut harvest is quite an
event in portions of Yamhill county.
A Grants Pass brick plant finds
ready sale for the hundreds of thou
sands of brinks it turns out.
known before— yet wa are all work
ing for reform; that is, we want our
neighbors to refonn. There is noth
ing much the matter with us, but
our neighbors have faults by the
score.
Thanksgiving-Then and Now
Ot all the inoutbly talks that Dr.
Extensive additions and improve
Edward
Everett Hale has given the
ments are being made to the big
Brownsville cannery and preserving readers c f Woman’s Home Com
panion, none have been more de
factory.
lightful than that in the November
If Slayton c m Id have a dozen
issue on “ Thanksgiving— Then and
vacant houses today they would all
Now .”
With his wonderful power
find renters wilbin 24 hours, says
of reminiscencing, Dr. Hale talks,
the Mail.
rather than writes, to his readers
The Medford Tribune says thnt
011 tbe earliest New England
it is that town, without a doubt,
Thanksgivings iu their Puritanic
tbat is going to be the second city
setting, and then of our latter-day
in Oregon.
celebrations, still strong ol the old-
A potnto unearthed on Wild tinio flavor, yet preguaut with pos
HorBe creek weighed five pounds. sibilities in which twentieth-century
One bill yielded 10 pounds and steam cats and motors play a large
many others a few ponuiis ks?.
part. No oue could liavo written
Business conditions in Dayton so delightful a Thanksgiving homily
were never better and our mer but Dr. Hale.
chants all state that tbe volume of
trade lias greatly increased during
Quick W ork.
the past year says the Optimist.
A Prineville .nan is busy gettine
out 10,000 pieces of juniper to lie
used in the manufacture of novelties
such as com I > . backs of brushes,
etc., for :» factory iu Ilobokeu, New
Jersey.
Montana is contributing 20 or JO
families to Jacksonville and vicinity,
says the Post. A colony o f h >me-
seekers from that state will arrive
here witlun a few days and nil will
purchase h .»inn homes and become
residents o f this vicinity
From halt an acre of land R. E.
Davidson, who lives near Spring-
field. has picked ¡1,000 boxes of tine
strawberries since Mav 9 of this
year. The second crop has kept
coming since the latter part of
August.
From an eighth of an acre a man
near Drain dug 75 bushels of as
fine spuds as ever came out o f the
ground
This is at the rate of IIOO
bushels or $150 to the acre. Some
specimens weighed six pounds each.
Farmers in the vicinity of Hepp-
ner have just Rtnrted in to haul
ing their immense wheat crop to
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Forest Grove, Or, Oct. 23.— G.
Harvey Baldwin, of this place, was
married in Portland, Monday, to
Miss Birdella I .ene James, of O x
ford, Neb., Judge Calvin U. Gan-
tenhein officiating. The bride came
here from her home in Nebraska a
month ago and had been visiting
her unde, F. W. Emerson, of this
place. The groom fell in love with
Miss James at once, although it
was the first time he had ever seen
her. She was not aware even at
the Dst that he intended to p r o
pose. Mr. Hal I win accompanied
her to Portland Inst Monday on
her wav home to Oxford, and while
she was on her way to purchase her
ticket East, proposed and was ac
cepted. Mi»» James says when she
left Forest G.uve Monday to go
home she never thought of marry
ing.
Mr. Baldwin is a brick mason
and builder by occupation.
He
superintended the building of tbe
foundation ot tbe new ladies' hall
of Pacific University just finished at
this place. They will make their
homo at Forest Grove.
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1 Lumbermen
TAKE
NOTICE
W e have a large m
stock of hand-made
Logging
Shoes to
select from.
Prices: $4. to $7.00.
PEAR.CE BROS.
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