Cottage Grove leader., July 17, 1908, Image 1

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C O T T A G E G R O V E . OREGON
Located on the upper W illam ette Kiver
144 mile* south o f Portland on Southern Pa­
cific and Oregon & South iCastern Railroads.
Population 2500; two banks, public and high
schools, five churches; water, light and sew
er systems;cream ery. Hour m ill, tw o brick
yards; saw mills; wood-work factory; match
factory; steam laundry and the L a d d e r .
BOHEM IA
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RECALL IJIW
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Medford Citizens Would
Oust Councilman.
ACCIDENT AT ANLAUF MILL
Proprietor of Shingle Mill Has Hie
Hand Nearly Severed From
Arm by Circular Saw
Medford, Oregon, July 15.— The
first recall petition in Oregon un­
der the new amendment to the
constitution adopted at the June
election is being circulated in the
first ward by prohibitionists for the
recall o f John 1). Olwell, council­
man. The alleged cause o f the
recall is that Mr. Olwell does not
now reside in the ward. The real
cause is thought to be that he
voted to license the Hotel Nash
bar and it is hoped by getting O l­
well out to elect a councilman in
his place who w ill favor a dry
city.
THE SWEET
PEA SHOW
NARROWLY ESCAPED BE­
ING DRAGGED TO DEATH
W hile mowing
hay Monday,
W alter Garoutte, of the Coast
Fork valley, narrowly escaped be­
ing dragged to death. li e was
driving a spirited young team to
the mower when a sharp crash of
thunder during the progress o f the
little storm that day, caused his
team to jump suddenly, throwing
Mr. Garoutte backward out o f the
seat to the ground. In falling his
feet became tangled in the lines
and he was dragged some distance
by the heightened team, before
Prize Winners in the Parade and
the lines finally broke and released
in the General Exhibit.
him from his perilous position.
Prizes Awarded.
He was some time in regaining
consciousness, but was able to get
home without assistance and aside
from being considerably bruised he
On liis return to Portland Mr.
suffered little from his exciting e x ­
R. I,. Scott, who judged the sweet
perience.
The mowing machine was con­ pea show and placed the awards,
siderably demolished by the runa­ gave the follow ing to the Oregon­
ian as his impression o f the show:
way, but the team escaped serious
“ Cottage Grove has had a sweet
injury.
pea show, and while it was her first
Impressions of Judge
Scott of Portland.
CREDITTO COTTAGE GROVE
ACTIVE SEASON IN
THE BOHEMIA MINES
“ Bohemia” Sharp, the pioneer
o f the Bohemia district, was in the
city this week, having arrived
J. W . K-kchey, proprietor of the down from the mines. He stated
A n lau f shingle mill, came very to a reporter this m orning' that
near losing his good right hand there are bright prospects for an
last Tuesday,
while he
was active season o f mining in the dis­
working
about the mill.
It trict this year, and already there
seems he was attempting to cleau is greater activity than was e x ­
the sawdust and rubbish away hibited at any time last year.
Mr. Sharp states that at least
from the saw while it was in m o­
two
mills will be put in on differ­
tion and in some way came in
contact with the saw which came ent properties this year, one at the
near severing his hand from his Mayflower property and the other
arm. I)r. Job o f this city was at the Great Eastern. Five miles
called and dressed the terribly o f road have to be built, however,
mangled wound
and thinks he before the machinery can be taken
can save the hand. l Tp to this into the latter mine, and this work
time the wound is healing very ; is being prosecuted with vigor.
1 Much other road work and many
satisfactorially.
improvements o f a different nature
j are being made in the district.
Mr. Sharp, who has mined in
| the district for the past thirty
years, has some very valuable
properties from which he expects
W ord comes that F. I.. Stewart to realize a handsome figure some
and Miss Elizabeth Woods have day.— Guard.
completed filings and proof on their
timber claims near Roseburg, Ore­
Beer Publicly Destroyed.
gon, and that the party, which
consisted of Mrs. Roy W elch, Miss
T h e barrel o f !Kittled beer seized
W oods F. L. Bayley, F. L. by the city the evening before the
Stewart, and the latter’s father, S. Pioneers’ Picnic, was publicly de­
E. Stewart, have separated, the stroyed by Marshal Standish last
ladies having gone to Cottage Friday afternoon at 1 o ’clock.
Grove, Oregon, to visit with rela­
The judgment o f the court in the
tives, while the others are rusticat­ case, which was brought against
ing at Baudot!,“ down by the sea,” Bert and Edward Ilallier, was that
and where Mr. Stewart, Sr., will the beer was held for unlawful use,
also complete his filitigs on a tim­ declared forfeited and was ordered
Further pro­
ber claim. Th ey will remain at publicly destroyed.
ceedings against ilie defendants, as
the Oregon resort for about ten days
far
as the city is concerned,
before returning to Kelso.— Kelso have been dismissed.— Brownsville
Journal.
Tim e.
MAKING FINAL PROOF
ON TIMBER CLAIMS
John II. Ilartog, manager o f the
Commercial Club, returned to Eu­
gene Friday evening from a trip to
the Bohemia inities. Mr. Hartog
was much impressed with the rich­
ness of the properties in the dis­
trict, and brought with him some
fine ore from the Oregon-Colorado
and Vesuvius mines. He took
some good photographs of scenes
at the mines and will use them
some time in his advertising matter.
Mr, Hartog says there was no snow
in the district at all except in small
patches where thesuu never shines
011 the ground long at a time. He
took along some heavy clothing,
but had 110 occasion to use it. In
fact, he went without his coat and
vest most of the time. H e spoke
highly of the splendid work being
done on the roads leadiu g to the
mines.
F. J. Hard, daughter, I)r. Franc
Lucile H ard and Miss N ellie W il­
liams left Wednesday for a trip to
the Bohemia miues to spend the
summer.
one, it was a show that would do
credit to any city.
The show was given by the
women o f the Civic Improvement
Society to whom all credit must be
given, and it was a success from
all points o f view. The exhibits
were of the finest, and the judge
was very pleasantly surprised when
he entered the show room and
found such a large display o f sweet
peas of the finest quality not e x ­
celled by any others seen on the
Pacific Coast. The varieties were
all neatly arranged and classified.
T h e show was held in the Arm ory
H all, which was beautifully deco­
rated with roses, ferns and potted
plants.
In the afternoon a floral parade
o f decorated vehicles, bicycles,
horses and baby carriages was
given, all o f which were very cred-
table to Cottage Grove— or any
other town. In the evening music
was rendered bv the Cottage Grove
band and was followed by the
awarding o f prizes to successful
contestants o f the show and parade.
The attendance was large and
gratifyin g and Cottage Grove in­
tends this to be an annual event.”
Wheeler=Thompson Company
Have it for Less.
Q u a l i t y F ir s t A l w a y s ,
Q u a lit y L a s t
Our Great Sale is over but we
are still selling better goods for
less money than our Competi­
tors can show.
-
We Set the Pace
WheelerThompson Co.
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INDUST11IS A M U M 0 1 C U
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Oreat forests o f timber tributary to Cottage
«'.rove; fifteen saw m ills; three shingle mills,
within a radius o f 15 miles. Headquarters
for Bohemia gold mines and Black Butte
quicksilver mines valleys and foot-hills
well adapted to fruit growing, farming and
dairying. For information regarding this
great country subscribe for the "
CO TTAG E GROVE, OREGON, FR ID A Y, J U L Y 17, 1908.
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J. W. Ritchey Nearly Loses a Hand.
mmr
Ûre « is
Raymond Veatcli.
Largest display, second, souvenir
spoon, I reta Cooley.
Best boqnet, vase, Myrtle Veuske.
Best boquet second, vase, llild red
Hall.
p a r a d e p r iz e s .
Best decorated vehicle, cut glass sugar,
buggy decorateti with lillies, Mrs. Por­
ter, Mrs. Taylor.
Best decorated horse ridden by boy,
knife, Estel Herren.
Best decorated horse ridden by girl,
parasol, Belle Burkholder.
Best decorateti bicycle ridden by boy,
book, George Hall.
Best decorateti bicycle ridden by girl,
bottle o f perfume, Etta Stodacher.
Best decorateti toy wagon, pair shoes,
Harvey Holdermau.
Best decorated doll buggy, dishes,
Marion Hooper.
Best decorated baby carriage, Teddy
Bear, Mrs. Martin.
h o n o r a b l e m e n t io n
.
Those receiving honorable mention
and white ribbons for flower displays
were:
Roses, sweet peas anil other flowers:
Mesdames Lurch, Boyd, II. O. Thomp­
son, Joe M iller, Marion Veatcli, Lincoln
Taylor, E. 1). W heeler and Miss Mamie
Kime.
W IL D FLOWERS.
For the largest variety and best dis­
play of w ild flowers: Misses Flow and
Vernie Phillips.
W H IT E RIBBONS FOR CH ILD R E N .
Am ong the children receiving white
ribbons and honorable mention for bo-
quets grown by themselves were: Ger­
trude I lógate, Lester Comer, Orpha
Snodgrass, Victor Chambers and John
Hartung.
TIME NOW TO OCCUPY
RAILWAY GRANT LANDS
Portland, Or., July 10, 1908.
Editors Leader:— Right now is
the time for anyone honestly de­
siring to make a home out o f 160
acres o f the O. & C. railroad grant
lauds to move on to the same.
The government suit w ill be filed
in about three weeks, claim ing a
forfeiture to the United States, and
it will then be too late for anyone
to settle under the original acts of
Congress, providing for the sale of
the lauds to actual settlers at $2.50
per acre, by the railroad.
But the
government cannot get a decree
forfeiting to the United States any
particular 160 acres that may be
settled on in good faith prior to
the date the government shall file
its suit. On the other hand the
government suit is bound to estab­
lish the right of the settler to have
such tract o f land, providing the
government shall win its suit.
Any
person who w ill make
settlement before the government
suit shall be filed w ill win, if the
government wins, and w ill lose if
the government loses. A n y poor
man who really wants a home can
afford to take the chance. But
no person simply expecting to
make a pretense o f settlement,
without actually intending to ap­
propriate the laud as a real home,
should make the attempt, for he
would be acting dishonestly if he
did.
T h e application to purchase
these lands made by persons not
actually settled on the land amount
to nothing whatever.
You w ill remember 1 sent you
my brief on this subject last year,
and as I think the time has now
arrived when the people o f Ore­
gon can get some benefit out of
these lands, I have concluded to
call your attention to it.
Very respectfully,
A .\ V . L a f f k r t y .
Prizes and Winners.
CLASS ONK.
First prize, i,?, Mrs. Metcalf,
Second prize, i2
, Mrs. T. C. Wheeler.
Best quality, Mrs. Job.
CLASS T w o .
Yellow, vase, Mrs. Dtillrnille.
Pink, O live dish, Mrs. Metcalf.
White, fancy dish, Mrs. DuBrniHe.
Dark red, tea pot, Mrs. DuBntille.
Red, coffee pot, Mrs. DuBntille.
U v t ld a r , sugar, creamer, spoon. Mrs.
I DuBntille.
class
I
T hrkk .
First, nniqtt. display, jardinier. Mrs.
Gray.
Most artistic, lnnch cloth, Mrs. T. C
Wheeler.
class fo u r .
largest display, vase, Mrs. Metcalf.
largest display, cut-glass toothpick,
Mrs. Job.
c h il d r e n ' s d is p l a y
.
Largest display, first, chocolate set,
In the Rogue valley, in Southern
Oregon, F. H . Hopkins, in 1907,
made a profit o f $19,000 off 16
acres o f W inter N ellis pears—
$1137.50 per acre. In the same
valley L . G . Hoover bought 10
acres o f pear orchard at $560 per
acre. Fifteen months later the
crop brought him $9600. Eight
years ago J. L. Dumass set out
50 acres o f apples near Dayton,
Southeastern Washington. In the
summer o f 1907 he taught 50 acres
o f apple orchard adjoining his
property, at an investment o f $18,-
000. T h e apples he picked from
these 50 acres that seasou sold for
$16,000 and the total crop from
the 100 acres realized $.52,ox*, a
retuni to the owner of $40,000,
VOL. XX. NO. 14
THE SIXTH
NEW BRICK
WILL TRY DRYING
LOGANBERRY CROP
WILE APPEAL
LUMBER CASE
The Salem Statesman says: It
is believed that the question of
what to do with
loganberries,
which
has agitated the fruit
growers for Some time, is near a
solution. It now seems likely that
drying will coiue into general use.
W . II. Claypool, who lives on the
Liberty road, has erected a dryer
and has been ex|>erimeutiug with
the fruit, and it ap|iears to be a
success. Some of the berries left
at this office last evening by J. R.
Shepard were
perfect iu form,
Will be Built Jointly by N. H Martin
The Railroads Will Attack the Juris­
which cannot be said of raspber­
and Mike Kebblebeck ot
diction ot the Interstate Com­
ries after they are dried. Mr.
This City.
merce Commission.
Claypool reports that the berries
dry out about 75 per cent.
The raspberries dried last year
by
the growers itt this vicinity
Nattie H. Martin and Mike
Chicago, July 14.— Western rail­
brought the growers about 22 to 23
Kebblebeck, the former owner of
roads have determined to contest
: cents and it is hoped that the
iu the courts the decision of the
the Lincoln meat market building
logantarries w ill do as well. IIow-
interstate Commerce Commission
on the north corner of Main and
Fifth streets, and the latter, owner 1 ever, the whole matter is in a very in the now famous lumber rate
o f the building occupied by the unsettled state, and farmers are cases. This decision was reached
after several conferences held iu
Cottage Grove Electric Light Co. warned not to be too optimistic.
the office o f J. C. Stubbs, traffic
director for the Harriman lines.
The decision o f the commission is
said to be a “ straddle” and the
traffic men representing the rail­
roads do not hesitate to declare
that the body made a “ botch” job
o f it. The decisión is likewise not
altogether pleasing to the lumber
O liver Veatch of the Veatcli Southern Oregon offers no oppor­
interests o f the Northwest.
Real Estate Co., has the following tunities for diversified farming
The railroads proposed increased
interesting and conservative little that are not equaled ( i f not e x ­
rates of approximately 10 cents
article on our resources and indus­ celled) in Lane county and arouud
per 100 pounds on lumber from
trial possibilities in. the Cottage Cottage Grove.
the producing
territories o f the
Grove number of “ N obody’s M ag­
The lumbering and mining in­
northwest to the Missouri river and
azine,” published at Eugene:
dustries have in a measure ab­
the territory to the east. The
Cottage Grove is destined to be­ sorbed all other industries iu the
commission split the increase in
come the greatest fruit-growing, past few years, hence, diversified
some cases and refused to permit
dairying, poultry-raising and di­ farming has been greatly neglect­
it iu others. According to the
versified-farming section o f the ed. Still
the exceedingly
low
railroad men, the commissioners
beautiful W illam ette valley, fa­ prices o f fertile soil as compared
apparently undertook to perform
mous for its glorious scenery, mild with elsewhere, especially adapted
the functions o f traffic officials and
winters and ideal summers.
to the production of these various
thereby exceeded their jurisdiction.
The section has attracted the at­ commodities, are continually ap­
It is, therefore, purposed to appeal
tention o f some o f the most pro­ pealing to the homeseeker and o f­
to the United States for an injunc­
gressive and enterprising
fruit fering inducements that will iu a
tion restraining the commission
growers o f Southern Oregon, to very few years cause every foot of
from
enforcing the rates pre­
the extent that they have pur­ the most desirable and fertile soils
scribed by it.
chased desirable tracts and are to lie occupied and producing to
The suit will bring to the front
planting apples, pears and various its full capacity, and bringing iu
important questions o f jurisdiction
other revenue-produciug fruits as return just as fabulous prices as do
iu so far as the commission is con­
they did ten to twenty years ago the most famous sectious o f Ore­
cerned, and will result in a judicial
gon
at
the
present
time.
iu Southern Oregon, prior to the
If you are interested in fruit­ decree as to powers assumed by
present fabulous prices o f laud in
growing, poultry, raising, dairying the commission.
that locality.
or diversified farming in a general
A fter years o f successful exper­ way, this locality is well worth
ience, they are convinced that your most careful investigation.
For Cottage Grove This
Season.
Western Roads Will Enter
the Contest.
CORNER MAIN AND FIFTH
IN UNITED STATES COURTS
j
COTTAGE GROVE THE
HOMESEEKERS MECCA
have plans about cempleted for a
fine, modern two-story brick 50x
9.5 feet to occupy this sitelv corner.
Contractors have figured on the
work and there is little doubt but
what the contract for this, the
sixth big brick for Main street,
since the first of the year, will be
let in a short time, on which work
will commence on or before Sep­
tember this year. The new build­
ing w ill probably be occupied by
Messrs Martin and Kebblebeck's
present tenents. Score
another
point for Cottage Grove.
A Jolly Party to London.
The following party left W ed­
nesday for a couple o f weeks’ stay
at London Springs: J. W . Owens
and daughter Ermine. Mrs. Chas.
Hadley, Mrs. Frank Hadley and
Miss W innie H adley, Miss Mc-
Hardy, Miss Grace Battie and
Miss Ruby
Farrington.
Th ey
went with a complete outfit of
tents and camp -equipage and go
for all the fun they can get out of
the trip. W ils. says he is going
to start a cooking school to give
the young ladies some much need­
ed lessons in domestic economy,
and he w ill lie the chief instructor.
That they w ill have a jolly time
goes without saying.— Eugene Reg­
ister.
Commissioner West a Worthy Official.
Rigged out in loggers’ shoes and
workittg clothes and armed with a
hatchet and other
tools, Oswald
West, railroad commissioner,
left
Corvallis at 2 o ’clock Friday on an
inspection of the Corvallis & East­
ern track and bridges, with a view
to
determining
He will
their
examine
every timber
and
condition.
every
bolt
“ IMPLEMENT” SMITH
CONTRACTING FOR HAY
E. F. Smith for many years a
rancher residing above Latham,
who sold out and went to C alifor­
nia, has become weary o f the
poppy state and has located in
Ashland where he is eugaged iu
the livery business. H e was in
Cottage Grove this week contract­
ing for hay and oats, the crops be­
ing light in Jackson county.
tie and
in every
A man recently bought a piece
bridge, tnakiug the entire trip on o f laud near Freewater for $1,000
and has sold it for $3,000.
foot.— Corvallis Times.
G ROCEHIEQ
The Kind that always Please the Housewife
SHOES AND
CLOTHING:
Everything for the W o r k ­
ingman. Some fine Dress
Shoes for old and young.
RIPE BERRIES
and early
VEGETABLES
Logger* Advance Price*.
The Portland Journal says; L o g ­
gers propose advancing prices 50
cents a thousand feet at once
They consider that the lumber
market has a chance for improve­
ment and are anxious to get on the
ground floor of the profits if there
are to be any.
GLASS WARE
CHINA WARE
Special Bargains and a
Large Stock to select!
from. Prices that please j
PEARCE BROTHERS.
Phone Main 643— Our own Delivery.
The Brownsville W oolen
fu lly in operation again,
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