Cottage Grove leader., November 16, 1907, Image 1

COTTAGE GROVE LEADER
OLXIX
(RESTED
FOR BIGAMY
T R Y I N G TO H E L P OREGON
Oregon Senator Gives His Views of
Late Financial Stress
INTERESTING
R. R. NEWS
Washington, Nov. 11 —The Treas­
ury D epartment is receiving de
B. Parmenter of1 Walker m ands from all parts of the coun­
try for aid. Secretary Cortolyou
has made large deposits in New
Has Too Many Wives
York, believing he could thus best
relieve the country generally by
ONE WANTS D IV O R C E enabling New York to relieve the OPINION OF RAILROAD MEN
balance of the banks throughout
tlie country.
I am doing my utmost to secure Mr. Hill's Agent Now in Portland
ms He Thought She Was Dead
assistance for Oregon. The Presi­
Suit to Recover Road Between
_Hn eld Soldier Between 6 0
dent and Secretary Cortelyon are
Marshfield and Myrtle Point.
and 70 Years of Age.
anxious to render the earliest pos­
J. J. Hill May Build Road
to San Francisco
David B. Parmenter, an aged
firmer residing about three miles
from Walker Station below this city,
and well known here, was arrested
by Deputy Sheriff C. 0. Hammond
on the charge of polygamy and
taken to Eugene Tuesday and
placed in the county jail to await
bis examination before Justice of
the Peace Bryeon.
The fact that Parmenter had more
than one wife was brought to light
through the filing of a divorce suit
•gainst him on the sixth of the
present month by Mrs. Sarah E.
Parmenter, wife No. 1. She al­
leged in her complaint that she left
borne in July 1906, and went to
Tscoma where she has been stay-
; with her daughter. On Octo­
ber 21 Parmenter was married in
Eugene to Mrs. Louisa A. Bowen.
Mrs. Parmenter No. 1 heard of the
marriage and came to Eugene and
began divorce proceedings. The
drat marriage occurred in Vermont,
•Vorember 12 , lfifig.
Parmenter states that he did not
know lie was committing bigamy,
or polgamy, thinking bis first wife
dead. He says that when she left
for Tacoma the doctors said she
conld not live more than two weeks
longer, and that shortly afterward
he heard that she bad died.
Mrs. Parmenter No. 1 and Mrs.
Parmenter No. 2 have both been in
Eugene since the beginning of the
divorce proceedings, No. 2 not car­
ing to live with the man after find­
ing out that she was not his lawful
wife.
Parmenter is between GO and 70
years of age and is an old soldier,
belonging to the G. A. R. He is
well-known among the local mem­
bers of that order.
When Parmenter was Arraigned
before the justice of the peace he
waived examination and was bound
over to the circuit court in the sum
of $ 400 . He furnished bail and
will he at liberty until the time of
bis trial, which will occur about
tbe first of December if the holiday
period ¡a over by that time.
MINE O W N E R S M E E T
An Interetting Meeting of the Bohemia
Mine Owners Association
The regular meeting of the Bo­
hemia Mine O w ners’ Association
was held at the Bohemia post office
last Friday evening.
T here was a
kood attendance; P resident F. J.
Herd in the chair, Cbas. Ottosen
•cting as secretary pro tem. After
Aguiar business an election was
held for the office of Secretary,
which office was not filled at the
annual election held last m onth.
On counting the ballots R M. Cline
was found to receive th e highest
,f)te and he was declared elected,
ft was decided to adjonrn until the
iBd Friday in June, 1908 .
After adjournm ent Jo h n Lin-
queat, one of the contractors at the
'rauvius, treated those present to
•ereral selections on th e grapho-
f*400*' that frequently aids in
'hanging the monotony of long
«wenings in camp.
Farmers remember Now. 27th.
sible relief. While I am unable to
specify a definite time, personally 1
am hopeful of securing additional
Governmental deposits within two
weeks and Irelieve the acute stage
here in the East has passed and
that the situation will daily im­
prove.
In my opinion, the present situa­
tion is in a gront measure due to
the exposures of the last there
years of the methods used by a few
financiers in certain insurance,
trust, railway and traction compan­
ies, by which public confidence has
been shaken. The fact that Roose­
velt is President and the implicit
confidence the people have in his
ability and determination to rectify
these evils has saved the country
from the worst panic ever known.
Tbe country generally is most pros­
perous and with Roosevelt at the
head the evils will be corrected and
legitimate business protected. Pres­
ident Roosevelt has been the finan­
cial savior, instead of the wrecker,
as some of the reactionaries would
try and make the people believe.
J onathan B o u r n e , J il
A GOOD SIGN
Work on the Oregon Railroad Will be
Resumed at Once.
One of the best signs of the
rapid clearing of the financial situ­
ation, is said to be the ordering of
resumption of work on the railroad
projects that were abandoned in
the Pacific Northwest two weeks
ago, says the Portland Journal. The
Harriman people have ordered work
resumed in a number of places on
new construction, and forces are
being reorganized.
Work will he resumed immedi­
ately on the Ihvaco extension, the
l’endleton-Pilot Rock branch, the
Lewiston bridge and the Coburg
bridge. It is said that the Harri­
man companies will gradually re­
sume work all along the lines ot
extension aud improvement laid
out before the financial stringency
began. I t is reported from Tacoma
that J. D. Farrel. general manager
of the Oregon & W ashington rail­
road, the Harriman extension to
the sound, has given orders that
bids must be let and work com­
menced on the Tacoma tunnel for
that line before December 1.
Similar action is expected in the
matter of the East Portland penin­
sula tunnel for this company. The
policy of the Hill companies in
pushing construction of the north
bank line to completion is having a
strong effect on all other construc­
tion work in this territory. The
plan of the Harriman companies is
to carry on their construction work
between Portland and Tacoma at a
rate that will complete this line
about tbe time the Columbia river
bridge of the north hank road is
I ready for traffic. The tunnels at
Portland and Tacoma for the Har­
riman extension will he the first
actual work to be started on this
That James J. Hill is making ef­
forts to construct a rnilroad line
from Portland to San Francisco was
made certain in the minds of rail­
road men with the arrival in Port­
land several days ago of 11. A. Gra-
lia a, who is in the Rose City for
the purpose of instituting suit to
recover possession of the Coos Bay,
Rosiburg & Faster 11 Railway &
Navigation Company, operating a
liue of road about ,‘i 0 miles long be­
tween Marshfield and Myrtle Point.
Mr. Graham lives in New York
and was general manager of the
Coos Bay road in 1898, when J. D.
Spreokels' Bros. A Co. took foree-
tul possession of the railway with a
squad of men armed with Winches­
ter ritles, to satisfy a private debt
owing the big sugar man by Gra­
ham, amounting to $523,000 due on
a promissory note.
SOI.I) TO SOUTHERN PACIFIC
The road was placed in the hands
of a receiver and was finally sold
last year to the ¡Southern Pacific
rnilroad The receiver wsr dis­
charged last July and Mr. Graham
at once commenced to get busy to
gain possession of the road.
The nature of the action which
he will bring is to stait a suit either
in the United States circuit court
or the stnte circuit court at Marsh­
field for an accounting of the rail
road’s condition aud tor the restor­
ation of possession of the line, with
all ot its corporate property. Mr.
Graham and his attorneys have not
decided in which court to institute
proceedings, the only reason for
taking the suit into the state court
would be to have the action lie
nearer the facts than they would in
the federal court in Portland.
PART OK TRANSCONTINENTAL link
CAN'T PAY WARRANTS
County Employes and Others Must
Wait for Their Money.
MAN K IL L E D A T Y O N C A L L A
FROM ALL
OVER STATE
While Attempting to Escape From
Employes of the county and all
Since the larger cities have been
those who have money coming to
driving the “floating element’’ from
them for work done for the county
| their limitB Yoncalla is being
or for supplies purchased by the
“blessed’’ with quite a lot of these
county have been crowding the
pests. Last Thursday several non­
court house asking for their war­
residents were on our streets and
late in the evening it was whispered
rants, but one and all have been
around that one of the “ wearies’’
sent away with the statement that
had made his brags that he was go­
their bills will have to wait until TAKEN FROM E X C H A N G E S
the comity court convenes and al­
ing to rob a certain individual in
the town; this of course aroused
lows their bills.
The reason for tbe county court A Resume of the Week's Local Hap- suspiciou, and coupled with tbe
pennmgs ot the State and County
fact that two ot the party left town
not meeting Wednesday, the time
late in the evening and returned
set, is because of the legal holidays
Briefly Told.
after nightfall showed conclusively
which have been declared by Gov­
that there wae a chance for some
ernor Chamberlain. According to
A Gold Beach man raised a 6 -
underhanded work.
the law the county court cannot
pound potato.
About miduight Marshal Lundy
meet and allow’ bills on a legal holi­
Five ships were being loaded at placed one “ weary’' safely behind
day and thus the transaction of
tbe bars and was taking a second
county business is necessarily de­ Rainier last week.
Two Myrtle Creek men raised one up to give him a free bed, and
layed until the holiday season is
175,000 pounds of dried prunes.
had reached the corner of Stearns
oyer.
A Milton flour mill is shut down & Cbenoweth’s hardware store,
The ones who have money due
when a scuffle took place, and as
them from the county, however, are because it caunot get cars.
the
man in charge was a powerful
taking the postponement in good
A Coquille valley man caught a
part and little camplaint is heard loo-pound black bear in a trap re- man, he succeeded in freeing him­
self from the grasps of the officer
It is believed that the holidays will cently.
be declared off within a few days,
Many hanks throughout the state and deputy and started to make a
and that the county court will be have paid no attention to tbe holi-i “ getaway” . Lundy called for him
to “ hall/* and was greeted by
able to meet early next week. Ac­ (-ays
1 “shoot, you 3 - 0 -b; you don’t dare
cording to the law the court is com­
A Norway. Coos county
to shoot „ It is said that the pris-
pelled to meet immediately after the
found 4o of his sheep killed, lie oner then started to face about and
conclusion of the holidays and
supposes by a panther.
acted as though he had hold of a
transact its business, or otherwise
A man who has a 4 -acre orchard weapon, whereupon Luudy fired at
wait over until next moatb.
When the holidays are over the and berry tract near Ashland netted him striking him in the right side,
killing him almost instantly.
county court house will he a very $1,300 from it this season.
As in all instances of this kind,
The Baker City Herald says Her-
busy place, as all tbe business which
is accumulating will have to be at- miston has announced its 25th there is a great diversity of opinion,
tended to. There are now a large ; building boom within five months j but notwithstanding all this, it must
number of circuit court cases wait-
The fruit crop arotiud Milton will be admitted that the public has to
ingin the county clerk’s office to j amount to 300 car loads, besides be protected, aud a policeman is
be filled. Circuit court will also large amounts shipped by express their only medium in cases of this
convene on the first day after the
Prospecting lor minerals, oil, coal, kind’ and wben U bccotnes his Pai“ '
holidays, when the adjourned term etc., is now being prosecuted in ful dut* to resorl to shooting it is
will convene. The regular term different sections of Klamath coun­ our opinion that he should he given
has been set for December 2,
ty.
j the benefit of all doubt and receive
' ’ "
! Myrtle Creek Mail:—Onions are the undivided support of all the
RAILROAD COLLIS ION I retailing at the local stores at 5 citizens until conclusive evidence
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1 cents each
This is no josh but the goes against him.—Courier.
Items
of Interest in
Condensed Form
j
The Cottage Grove Local Crashes Into 18,ra,8llt ROOds
; weighs nearly five pounds and any
u The L«banon paper mill plans to j one of a bushel weighs over two
! build a large brick mill building at
| pounds. He planted ail acre for
Waterloo aud utilize the magnifi-
his own use, but will have 150
Albany, Nov. 11.—The Lebanon
cent water power to operate the
train, consisting of a baggage car ^
i sacks foi sale more than he can pos-
and two passenger cars, was j P ant<
| sibly use.
knocked from the track and com - 1 The cattle buyers who have been I A box of fine grapes was left at
pletely wrecked this morning by purchasing Klnnml 1 county beef the Dallas Observer office by vlrs.
the Cottage Grove local running | «nd great difficulty in getting the M. J. Cosper- The vine on which
into it just as its engine had passed stock to market on account of the they were grown is over 30 years
the junction out upon the main ( shortage ol the cars.
old, and has spread from its arbor
jjne
An Irrigon man dug a crop of into tbe adjoining fruit trees to a
Tho engine just escaped. Con- potatoes on July 4th and the same distance oi fully 100 feet. It is
ductor Cummins aud the baggage day planted more on tbe same claimed that the vine bore fully a
man jumped just in lime, and also 1 ground, which he dug November 5 , ton of fruit this year.
the fireman outlie Cottage Grove both beiug fine, large crops,
Information from other nearby
local, the latter being bruised up
\ branch from a raspberry hush, points indicates that the hobo is be­
some. There were 2 ! passenger!, eignt
inches in length, was brought coming not only a nuisance but
in the last car of the Lebanon train, | ¡nt 0 tbe Jacksonville Post office, dangerous as well says the Glen­
none of whom was injured. The „pop which are 38 berries, some
dale News. Numerous thefts, fires
Cottage Grove train is said to have j rjp9i
SOme green and a few just and holdups are being perpetrated
been three minutes early, while tbe J shedding the blossoms
by this useless class and not only
Lebanon train was on time. 1 he
Qne ^ tg to raised by Jack S«r- this, hut assaults upon children and
collision happened in a dense fog. geDj Qf Bellevue, Yamhill county, women are reported.
Little damage was done the Cot-
tago train, though the engine was
disabled.
the Lebanon Train at Albany.
Graham contends in defense of
his action that ho was never given
a day in court by- .Spreckles He
claims that the big San Francisco
capitalist swooped down on the
company’« office at Marshfield while
he was in New York and drove all
the office employes out of the build­
ing at the muzzles of Winchesters.
He sayR that he realized the futility
of bringiug Spreckles to an account­
ing at that time and waited until
now in order to fortify his position.
Railroad men look upon Gra
ham’s proposed action as an at­
tempt on the part of Hill to gain a tween the two, while Graham is
strong connecting link in a line said to have developed a dislike for |
from Portland to San Francisco the Southern Pacific man for sever- j
The Coos Bay, Rosebure * Eastern I al reasons.
Railway
_____ & Navigation company ex ■ An incident of the Graham ;
tends up to the head of Navaga ion
{eu(j ¡s recalled in the:
on the Coqttille river and mns
of ,hp Ioterstato Commerce
through one of the richest >a e> 1 Commission which made a small in- j
in the country. It is in reality t ie 1
. ,jo|J of
of tt)e
the Coos Bay line
of *» transcontinental^ ^
small part 01
- - _
last spring Commissioner Lsne
system that is considered one of the was listening to the evidence and
most feasible yet broached for the asked Mr. Graham if he did not re­
advancement and development of | gard Spreckles intentions honest.
the Pacific « oast.
Mr. Graham is reported to have
That the line is one over which said of the capitalist, ' Well, he
the Hill and Harriman interests will made a noise like an honest man."
fight to the last ditch is further at­
Coquille Valley Sentinel: An-|
tested to by tbe fact that the com-
other summer has gone by and
pany ¡« on a pajuuf basis.• A»ot^
nothing has been done on tbe pro- j
thing which promises a hard fight posed Drain road, except the pur
between the big interests is Gra. chase of a few tons of hay at Drain
line.
ham’s dislike for Harriman and In the opinion of tbe people
I Let the le a d e r do your job work Spreckles. Of the latter, the for­ Coos county it will lie several more
We g u a ran tee good workman* ml cible seizure of tbe road is sufficient summer* before anything will
I good sto rk and m ost reasonable to show the enmity existing be- done.
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Wo nrint e v ery th in g .
Lumbermen
TAKE
NOTICE
W e have a large
stock of hand-made
Logging Shoes to
select from.
Prices: $4. to $7.00.
P E A R C E BRO S.