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About Cottage Grove leader. (Cottage Grove, Or.) 1905-1915 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 7, 1908)
i If Y o u L ik e THE LEADER B o o st fo r it. If not. S en d y o u r C r it ic is m lo th e P a p er. A d v e r t is e In * THE LEADER, j r h . l la W h a t B r i n i . Y> B u s in e ss a n d g iv e s s P a p er L ife . ft- >*-i»>sss>SS 8 SSSWS Ç g T T A G E G R O V r ^ L E A D K I « J C o n s o lid a te d J a n u a r y 9 . I 9 0 H EUGENE 10 PORTLAND C O T T A G E G R O V E , O R E G O N , F R ID A Y , F E B R U A R Y 7,19 0 8 Salem and take in Silverton, Scotts Mills, Oregon City, and other points into Portland. It is estimat ed that the cost of this great elec tric system will exceed $5,000,000. GOVERNOR'S LIFE IS THREATENED A. "K I.C U E N T E R P R IS E Cottage Grove Relatives or Friends of John Branton A . Welch of Portland, is repre 4 senting the capital behind this road, Would Force the Governor to Pardon Him. and is the same individual who se Order Placed For The cured the franchise for the present Oregou Electric line running into Portland, Jan. 111.— A special dis teuds treonntet John Branton, pris Salem. He is a man who “ does patch to the Oregonian from Trout- oner iu the Oregon penitentiary, Ties for Road. things” as evidenced by his action dale states as the east-bouud Union with the authorship of the anony when that franchise was granted to Pacific train was leaving Portland mous letter threatening the life of him. He promptly pushed the depot toQight, Dr. Charles Chamber Governor Chamberlain, unless Brau WILL TAP A RICH COUNTRY rights o f way and started construc lain, son of Gov. George E. Cham ton is pardoued by Feb. 20. There tion of that litre iu January 100 (i berlain, was handed an anonymous is a strong belief here that Brauton Mr. Welch took out the franchise letter demanding that his father wrote the letter himself aud that it now held by the Portland, Eugene pardon John Brauton, now iu the was addressed and malle 1 in this Will Build From Eugene to Blue & Eastern company, in his own Oregon state penitentiary, before city by Branton’s 15 year old River and No Doubt to Cot name, and recently assigned the Feb. 20. It threaten« that if the daughter, Blanch. tage Grove same to the new company incor Blanch, the 15 year old daughter governor refuse he will meet the porated for that purpose. The new fate of Governor Stunenberg of of John Branton, is attending road will be rushed as rapidly as Idaho, arid former Sheriff Harvey school here, as is also her younger Salem, Feb. 2.— The Portlaud, possible, umler his direct supervis K. Brown o f Baker county. brother. Blanch is evidently in Eugene & Eastern electrio railroad ion, lie having heretofore released 1 Branton was sent to the state’ s possession of more knowledge rela company. through it» iocal repre himself from the Oregon Electric i prison from Cottage Grove for at- tive to this letter than sho wishes sentative, F. tV. .Water«, yesterday interests for the purpose o f uuder - 1 tompting to kill a man for his life to disclose. The letter written to placed it, hrst order for delivery of taking this huger work for the Eu- ; insurance. A brother of Brantop’s Governor Chamberlain’s son threat *ie« for the city svi,t<-m of electric gene /i Eastern. was hanged at Eugene about 10 ening his life, was sent to the post- street car« l'ho order'calls for ile- years ago. The letter is dated Jan office by Blanch Branton. She W EST HAS HAD ENOUGH livery auii distribution within ten uary 29, and post-marked Cottage handed two letters to one of her RECOMMENDS T K. C AM PBELL days. A similar franchise was Grove. Hand-writing on the en schoolmates to mail last Thursday. granted at Albany and work will velope was a woman’ s. The letter One letter was addressed to Dr. Albany, Or., Feb. 2.— While commence there the same time it is was printed, and was a labored at Chas. Chamberlain, Portland, Or., making an address liefore the f.inn carried on here. tempt to create the impression the and the other to her father, Jolru County Council, Patrons of Hus A N I M P O R T A N T l.IN K writer was illiterate. Branton, Salem. bandry, in this city yesterday, Os John Brauton was sent to the A reporter called on Blanch this The advent of tins new line is an wald West declared he would not penitentiary two years ago for try evening and asked her for informa other link in the great net-work of be a candidate at the election iu ing to kill a man named Fletcher, tion relative to the threatening letter electrie roads . meting at the Capi 1910 to succeed himself as a mem near Cottage Grove. sent to Governor Chamberlain. tol City. No im d ever projected) ber of the State Railroad Commis Claude Brauton, brother o f John She said: “ I saw the report in the through til»- valley lias the scope) sion. He spoke in favor of the re- nnd importune of the Portland, I election of Commissioners Camp Kugeue A Hasten!. As planned, it bell and Aitebison at the coming will not only give another line to election in June, but asserted he the metropolis but will tap the up would not he a candidate when his per valley clear through to Huge lie own term expired. and on into the great Blue Riyer The Leader was issued this veek from its commodious new mining districts. The entire line REV R. C. GRACE quarters on the corner of Main and Fourth streets opposite the under contemplation by this com Oregon Hotel and First National Bank. The new home of the GOES TO CALIFORNIA I pany "ill be about 200 miles long. : Leader is 2Gx70 feet, hap two stories, is well lighted and makes Already a city system at Eugene one of the best arranged and most convenient country printing The following letter to the Leader and an extension from there to! offices to be found in the state. from lfev. Grace, formerly o f this Springfield has been built and is in) The plant has also been greatly improved by the addition of city, is »elf explanatory: operation, at a cost o f over $10 0 - j new job type, and a 2 -horse power electric motor drives the Corveta, Okla , J a n . 80, OS. 000. Tlie permanent surveys from presses aud greatly increases the printing capacity o f the office. Cottage Grove Leader :— You Salow to Eugene have been made The Cottage Grove Leader with its new office and equipment and have been a welcome visitor to me and the engineers are finishing pro its improved news service, can consistently boast of being ono of and to my family, but if you still files and maps of the field work. the best country papers in its class now published in the state. j wish to come to see me you must It is expected that the earning The Leader invites its readers and mauy friends to visit it in come to Fort Bragg, California, as spring will see the city lines in A l its new home. we start at once for the West. My bany and Salem finished, when the health has failed here in Oklahoma. work of connecting Salem with Eu God bless you and your readers. gene will he commenced. The Branton, now in the state peniten papers, aud that is all I know about R. C. G r a c e . route through the valley touches tiary, was executed in Eugene in it.” all important towns and will tap an May, 1898, by Sheriff Withers, tor Asked if she sent tl.e letter to Last of the Series. innuonse territory for passenger the murder o f a man named Linn- mail by one of her schoolmates, sho and freight traffic. When finished, The Wilbur Starr Concert Co. Linn. Branton and a third man replied. “ Yes, it was handed me to the new road, now parliully built, will give their splendid musical en were bringing some cattle across mail aud that is all I know about will tic one of the largest, most e x tertainment at the Christian church the Cascades. Linn had some it.” pensive aid complete interurhau Wednesday Feb. 12th. Their sing money, which Branton coveted. He •‘ Who handed you the letter?” lines ever projected in the state of ing and instrumental work is un killed Linn and cremated the body “ I don’ t know.” Oregon. The line to Portland will surpassed and will please you be in campfire. His fellow conspira ‘ ‘Where did the letter come either take the west side o f the yond a doubt Don’ t fail to hear tors confessed and when Branton, from?” Willamette river or pass out east of this talented company. unsuspectingly returned to Eugeno, ‘‘ I don’t know anything about Leader in New Quarters he was arrestpil. T H E BICANTON WMEELER-THOMPSON CO. Leading Clothiers F or Quality Price and Style — IN— men s and Boys’ Clothing We have no Competition LETTER. Portland, Or.— Dr. Charles Cham berlain, sir. You are hereby noti fied to have your father to pardon John Branton out of the peniten tiary and you keep this secret be tween yourself and father and don’ t let Branton know anything of this. He is a good man and is invseiit of any crime. He was convicted on perjured evidence aud in a pred- udic court And we demand his pardon by the 2<»th of February this year. If this is not granted you and your father will both of you be dealth with the same ns Stuenbnrg and Brown were We dont want to kill any one but it is no worse to kill a man than it is keep a inosent man in prison. Any way from his helpless little child ren. So you tako warning and save yourselves and let Branton go to his children. W e mean jtr»t what we say. C o m it y o n J u s t ic e . PAKISTAN SACK Call and be Convinced MORE ABOUT TH E LE TTE R . VO L. X IX . NO . 43 vch-pe of I he letter threatening the life of Governor Chanihi-rlain|leaves no doubt that thu letter was sent by one of the daughters o f »John Bran j ton. The prison authorities have in their possession envelopes ad dressed by one of Branton’s child- 1 ren and the bandwriting corres- j pouds very closely with that on the j threatening letter. As the hitter ! itself was printed with a pencil, and New Smelters For Coos not written, it i« impossible to de- and Josephine. teiiuine who inspired or wrote it. Governor Chamberlain will pay 110 attention to the letter nti - prob ably will take no step» toward pun CONVENIENT FOR BOHEMIA ishing the person who sent it. He does not take the threat seriously, I but like men who engage in other) A Short. Easy and Cheap Haul From more or less dangerous occupations, the Bohemia Mines Over to ho assumes this us one of the risks Tidewater. of Governorship. He is losing no sleep over it. The Almeda Mining Co. ol Jose AT BLACK BUTTE phine county have let a contract to the Willamette Iron and Steel Co. G. 15. Dennis has returned from of Portland, for a one hundred ton Black Butte, ' where the fires were smelter o f the latest design. This started for the first time last week smolter will cost $60,000 and will in the soo-t'Ui daily capacity quick lie a water jacket, copper convertor silver smelter which lie and his and will treat the ores of Galice brother own at that place, says the creek. This is the second smelter •Spokane Review. As the turimee for Southern Oregon. As soon ss is new it "ill require three weeks to the Drain Marshfield branch of the get it, lipated sufficient to treat ore. Southern Pacific is completed • To heat it too quickly would endan smelter for treating Bohemia con ger the walls, which are still green. centrates and ores will be built at Tiie ore from this mine is to be) or near Marshfield. It will be built treated by a different process than there in order to do away with the is used bv any other quicksilver fumes aud also to get cheap ooal mine iu the world. The process is and cheap rates- on coke and flux an invention of William Dennis, ing ores from other districts. The brother of G. B. Dennis, and one of distance from Cottage Grove to the the owners of the mine. It com Tacoma «nrelter is about 270 miles pletely reverses the method of feed as against 88 to Marshfield or North ing fuel to the furnace fires, and Bend, while, if the smelter ie locat has the merit of extracting practi ed at Gardner it would shorten this cally all of the quicksilver from the route by 25 miles. QUICKSILVER SM ELTER ore, whereas none of the old pro cess will extract more than (55 per while the capacity of the smelter was sufficient to prove the scientific cent. Instead of the wood lining laid at principle correct, the economy of it tho bottom of the furn ace and Hie was not established, hence the smoke and llaun- rising through larger smelter is something of an aud above it, the fuel is placed at, | experiment, the top of the furnace and th e 1 Work in the quicksilver mine ha* | been in progress for about six years tlaines are drawn down through by currents »1 ni: induced by elec- and iqOO.OOO has been expended in tiic fans. This i-roales a wood gas, its development. It has not been which ignites ami is drawn into an a big financial success under the adjoining compartment of the fur old smelter process. A shaft has nace where it pas es through the j been sunk I 7 OO feet and a drift ores, creating an intense heat. started on every 100 foot level. Mr. While the furnace is forty tcet high Dennis says that 1,000,000 tons of and nearly as wide and has a capa ore are blocked out. Sixty men are city of four and one-half tons of employed at the mine. wood at one time there is no smoke I This mine is located 18 milea stack. A vent for the 11011 -combust south-east of Cottage Grove. ible gas is open at ono side of the furnace near the ground but not a SEED POTATOES. particle ol smoke can lie seen to es cape. showing that the combustion A fine lot of Burbank seed pot is perfect. | toes for sale. Apply to Beidl The n e w process w is thoroughly ; Bros. Cottage Grove, Oregon. tested on a twenty-ton lurnace, but) 42-8t* it ” •She was told that it was only in j justice to horsoll that she tel! all I she knew about it, hut she firmly ) declared that that was all she knew j and could not honestly tell any I more. The inference is drawn that ! her father is the author o f the letter j or some member o f the B,-anton family sent her to mail it, and her j attitude is only to shield the author ' of the letter. Blanch has been attending the public school here for a number of years and she is an exceptionally bright and industriou« girl and is held in as high regard as any girl cou fl Ire under the existing condi tions It is the general opinion that , Branton is the author of the letter, a» its makeup spelling and sentences seem to correspond with his other famous letter writing There are few if any sympathizer» of Branton around here, ami people were sur prised to learn that he was allowed ! eo much liberty as a trusty at ih,- t«-nitentiary. The following from Cottage Grove appeared in Tuesday’s Oregonian: g o v e r n o r is n o t w o k r i k p . Cottage Grove, Feb, 3 .— Evidence Salem, Or., Feb. 3 ,— Examina (has been uncovered here, which tion of the handwriting on the en- j SPECIAL SALE SH OES Ilarjgains in Footwear which inn not be duplicated any where. Many of our best brands of shoes included in our Sacrifice Sale. \ Family FRESH STOC K • : Groceries BEST BRANDS L O W E S T PR IC E S K x a in im our China »V (ilass- ware. Heavy, serviceable liloves, Shirts, Overalls, Sus penders, Socks and other w o r k clothes for I.umbcrmcn, Lo w ers and Miners. TINE H A N D - M A D E L O G G I N G S H O E S S 4 .0 0 T O * 7 .0 0 S- S- PEARCE B R O S.