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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
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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)
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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
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