(Broke
C O T T A G E G R O V E , OREGON .
I.ucalr«! on the upper W illam ette River
III u tile* south of Dot t laud ou sou th ern Pa­
c ific am t «Megon A South KaMeru K ailrnad*.
l’opu iaiiou .*500; tw o liauk»: public au«l high
sch o o l*, live ch u rch e s, w ater, lig h t au«t sew ­
er sy stem s c re am e r>. Hour m ill: tw o b ric k
\arils, saw m ills; wooti w ork facio iv . m atch
fa cto ry , steam lattutlry and th e L « ^ d B « r .
BO H EM IA ^ 5 8 2 ® / * ^ “
C M »o llá «la é J tn u irr 9. 1909
Throws Her Little Daugh­
ter in Lake Also.
railways— not that they think the
rates just— but they submit for
the time lieing to the interstate
commerce commission's order.
No application for a temporary
injunction against the order will
be made, but nevertheless the Child Reach«* the Shore and Spreads
Alarm, But Mother Drown*
railways expect to bring suit
urging that the rates are unreason
Burial at Eugene.
able and asking the determination
of the courts to that effect.
“BOHEMIA’’ SHARP HAS
SIX LARGE BLOCKS
A BIG KICK COMING
FOR COTTAGE GROVE
Eugene Register Makes the Discovery Quoted as Saying Smelter Reduced
of a Flourishing Little City
Price $10 Per Ton. When he
In South Lane.
Said 10 Per Cent Per Ton
"B oh em ia" Sharp, the old miner,
While Kugeue is growing so that
people who go away for a few days I is justly indignant regarding an
have to lcxik the second time when interview published by the Huge tie
they return to see whether they are Guard and reproduced in the last
at the right town, she is not the issue ot the Leader. In this in­
only town that is growing. We terview Sharp was quoted as say­
hear from a prominent citizen of ing "th e smelters have lowered
Cottage ('.rove that six new brick their price Sin a ton and the rail­
blocks are lieiug planned for con roads have offered a rate which
struction this fall at that nlace. amounts almost to a similar saving
All except one of them will be two to the m iners." Here is where
stories and most of them will have "Bohem ia” has a justifiable kick
double stores on the lower floor. coming for lie told the Guard re­
The one-story building will lie an porter that “ the smelters have
immense affair, about CX) by 12(1 lowered their price in tier cent per
feet on the ground, and it will lie to n ." instead of $10 per toil,
used for a feed and produce store which was indeed a bad blunder,
and a general commission business. especially when it is understood
Cottage ('.rove people have great that the smelters have only lieeu
faith iu the future of their city charging from $4 to $4.50 |ier toil.
and are showing it by the money Now that we have set this matter
they are putting into good build­ aright on liehalf of the Guard and
ings. It looks as though l.aue Leader we trust that "B oh em ia"
county is to have several good will bring in the cigars, shake and
sized towns lieside the county seat, forget it.
COTTAGE GROVE PEOPLE
1000 S am p les
F a ll P a tte rn s
T a ilo r M a d e S u its
AT
WheelerThompson Company
Hâve it for Less.
aud Mrs. Dave Marklev of Cottage
Grove, and four years ago re
sided here with his wife aud little
daughter, he having built and oc­
cupied the cosy cottage adjoining
I Joe Miller’s residence ou the north,
j Marklev and his wife seemed
happy and appeared to get aloug
j iu a most congenial maimer, in
fact he seemed particularly devoted
iu his attentions to her, therefore
her tragic actions resulting iu self
destruction and attempt upon the
life of her little daughter is a shock
to their many relatives ami friends
in Cottage Grove.
H I' RIAL AT KPGKNK.
The remains of Mrs. Markley
arrived Monday night from Seattle
and thè funeral was held from
Gordon’s undertaking rooms at 2
o ’clock Tuesday, conducted by
Rev. <4. C. Wright, the Women of
Woodcraft, using their service at
Seattle, July 25.— After throwing the grave. Mr. Markley’s parents
her 7-year-old daughter from the from Cottage Grove were among
break-water at the foot of Lake
those ill attendance at the funeral.
Washington yesterday eveniug,
Mrs. Tressa Markley,
wife of
Norman l\. Markley, an attorney,
committed suicide by leaping into
the lake.
The little girl crawled out of the
the water aud after more thau an
hour of climbing up the steep hill New Mining Locatien* Great Cherry
she reached the home of Arthur
Pack at Cannary— Planning
L. Mottinger, where she told her
tor Seattla Exhibit
storv. Half an hour later a party
of searchers headed by Mr. Mott­
Threshing
has
commenced
inger found the woman's body in around Junction and this city.
the lake a short distauce from
Alexander Luudberg, of ( Iresco,
where she had leaped from the Oregon has filed a notorial com­
breakwater. After lieiug dressed mission iu the clerk's office.
in dry clothing the little girl was
Plans aud specifications for the
taken to police headquarters. She gravity water systein lietween
arrived there but a few minutes lie- Ritchey creek and Lugene will lie
fore her father, who had during ready for the contractors in thirty
days.
the afternoon and evening made a
Dean Sanderson and family left
search for her and her mother, and
Friday to spend a short vacation
not realizing that she had lieeu
camping in the Bohemia mining
robbed of her mother, but still con­ district. They will goby rail to
scious of the fact that souiethiug the end of the line and then go
terrible had happened, the child farther up by team
was not in the least bewildered.
Chas. Destel has filed locations
She told a clear story of the affair on two mining claims iu the Bo­
to Police Captain W . F . Lawscher hemia mining district, which he
names the “ Morning Glory” and
and to her father. The attempt of
“ C rater" aud Irving Christy, J ,
the mother is believed by her hus- W . Maehane and J . K. Griggs
band to have been the result has filed ou the "S u n set" near
of temporary insanity. It was Springfield, iu the Springfield min­
the second
attempt she
had ing district.
COUNTY SEAT AND
COURT HOUSE NEWS
and Cottage Grove promises to lie
It costs more for a dull merchant
at the top of the list from its pres­ to brush the dust off his goods
ent rate of growth.— Kugeue Reg­ than it would to advertise and sell made that day to end the life of
both herself aud daughter. In the
them.
ister.
morning after her husband left the
house she had turned oil the gas,
but sensitive nostrils of the child
had detected the odor of escaping
gas and had turned it off before
W a s h in g t o n , July 2b.— I'pon to test the reasonableness of the any damage was done.
application of the defendants in rates ordered by the Commission M T T X .K G IR L , T R U A I I K R S T O R Y .
the Pacific Lumber cases, the In­ in a suit to lie brought for that pur­
"M am ma and 1 walked a great
terstate Commerce Commission has pose or iu suits which may develop
extended the effective dates of its out of reparation claims by sliip- many miles to d ay ," said the little
orders from August 15 to October ers who have been shipping under girl. "A fter papa went away in
15. This action was taken upon the advanced rates. This does the morning I smelled the gas and
the showing made uixm the carriers not include the case involving rates papa had cooked his own breakfast
involved that owing to the immense from the Willamette Valley via and gone down town. 1 .got up
number of rates involved, it would San Francisco, on which the South­ aud found the gas turned on but it
lie a physical impossibility to check ern Pacific has already filed a j>e- was not bunting. After mamma
up the rates and print and file the tition iu San Francisco asking an and 1 got up and dressed she took
new tariffs before August 15, and injunction against the Commis­ me out for a walk. W e walked a
long way and then we got ou the
also upon their assurance that, if sion’s order.
Mount Baker park c a r line and
the exteutiou was granted, they
went
along the lake aud around
woutd not apply for an injunction
Lumber has advanced SI .(X) on
to restrain the Commission's order the thousand in Portland. Get there for aliout an hour until it was
almost dark, and them mamma
from becoming effective.
busy, ye builders, and place your
threw me into the lake and then
They expressly reserve the right orders now.
juinjied into the w ater' too. I
touched liottom and found it was
not over my head. I fouud a place
RAILROAD GIVEN TIME FOR APPEAL
L
COTTAGE GROVE, OREGON, FRIDAY, JU L Y 31, 1908.
LUMBER RATE MANDATE
MRS MARKLEY
TO BE GENERALLY OBEYED DESTROYS SELF
BY RAILROAD COMPANIES
It is officially announced by the
Northern Pacific Railway com­
pany that consideration given bv
transportation lines iu the recent
decision of the interstate commerce
commission ot| the question of rates
for forest products lias terminated
in the announcement by railway
lines that the rates recently fixed
by the commission will, as soon as
jxissible, lie put into effect by the
♦ 'r e a l forests of tim b er trib u tary to t'o tta g e
f> ro *t; frfteeu saw m ills: th ree sh in gle m ills,
w ithin a radius of 15 m iles. H eadquarters
for Bohem ia aol<t m ines and B lack Butte
~ I qu icksilver iniucs valleys and foot h ills
w ell adapted to fruit grow ing, farm ing and
•lairying. t o r m iorraatiou regarding th is
great country Milw tribc for th« U * 4 s r .
u
A two-acre cherry orchard iu
this county yeilded nineteen tons of
fruit this season. At the low price
of .i cents per pouud— the cannery
price— the little plot of ground re­
turned a neat sum to its owner.
The largest tree produced 675
pounds of fruit. Another good
argument in favor of more small
farms.
The biggest run on cherries that
the Allen cannery has had for two
years or more was finished Friday,
when the 150 men, women and
children closed up ‘XXXI cases of
the Royal Ann cherries aud enough
other kinds to aggregate 250 tons
output for the season of l ‘X>8.
The cherries have l>een in good
condition and came to the packing
plant iu quantities just right for
handling.
W . A. Wehrung, president, and
M. I). Wisdom, secretary of the
< )regon - A lask a - Y ukou - Pacific ex -
position commission, were visitors
in liugeite Monday and met with
the Ixiard of governors of the
Commercial Club
that
night.
They came to confer aliout a Lane
county exhibit iu the Seattle fair
and iu company
with G. W .
Griffin, chairman of the exhibit
committee of the Commercial Club,
where I could climb out and I did. I interviewed Judge Chrisraati in
I cried and called for mamma but j regard to the probable e x c u s e of
she didn’t answer, and I guess she l having Lane county properlv .rep-
must lie drowned. The hill was Ireseilte<^'
|
very steep down to the lake and it
was hard work to climb. J saw a
light and crawled toward it. T h e |
people there were kind to me and I
gave me dry clothes and then found j
m am m a."
Markley was half crazed with
grief when he rushed into police | This week grain harvest through
out the valley has formally opened
headquarters tonight. "W e have
aud it is expected that by Saturdav
only lieeu here a few weeks,
said „ ¡ ^ t a large per cent of the fail
Markley. "M rs. Marklev was not grain will lie iu the shock. The
very well in Kugeue, Or., where we season is a little earlier than usual,
lived. She was hvsterical at times I *he warm days having ripened the
,
.....
a , .
. .
grain earlier than was expected.
and a little fltghtv. I he doctor * „.T.
...
__._________
I I he season this vear has been
believed she would get over it and alaHlM i(ieal for the maturing of a
thought a change of air would do j good grain crop. Late spring rains
her good. I lived at Kugeue for gave» the crop a long growing
15 years. We were married nine season, and the warm sunny davs
which foliowe<l have matured and
years ago. Mrs. Markley was for-
ri|ieiied the graiti in almost perfect
mallv Miss Tressa Drew, a daugh- condition. From present prospects
ter of Mrs. M. J . Drew of F'ugene. the crop will be the best that has
I practiced law in Lugene and been harvested in a number of
thought some of starting to prac­ years. Some little grain was cut
last week, hut it amounted to only
tice here, although I had made no
a few acres in each locality, being
definite arrangem ents."
the earliest grain such as earlv fall
Attorney Markley is a son of Mr. wheat.
HARVESTING A
BUMPER CROP
VOL. XX. NO. 16
MISTAKEN FOR LOCAL RAILROAD MAN
IDEERANDSLAIN: NOTES IMPROVEMENTS
IN BUSINESS CONDITIONS
Jerome Renne Suffers
Fate Intended Animal.
A. B. Wood, manager of the O. and commercial world is already
& S. K. railroad compauy, during being felt out west aud with the
the course of a pleasant call at the latest decision of the great western
leader office Monday, remarked railroads not to appeal the recent
that the crisis in the dull period lumber rale decision of the inter­
had passetl and there is now a very state commerce commission, the
Ralph Moiburg. Sure He Sees Deer. perceptible change for the (letter sawmills aud lumber camps of
in commercial circles, iu fact, he western Oregon will soon lie run­
Fire« With Fatal Con­
says
hundreds of factories and i ning ou full time again, which
sequences.
foundries have resumed operations j will stimulate all other industries
in the east aud middle west, em­ aud every branch of trade and
ploying thousands of laborers at traffic. Mr. Wood takes a very
optimistic view regarding the
Tile mountainous district five
remunerative wages. This grad-j future of Cottage Grove and the
miles west of Creswell was the
ual improvement iu the businessj country generally.
scene of a deplorable tragedy last
Saturday which resulted iu the
death of Jerome C. Renne. at the
bauds of his nephew, Ralph Mos-
burg.
Mr. Renne, the hapless victim
of his nephew's misguided bullet, Mr. Manning Think* it the Work of Win* Governor's Prize In Militia
Local People— Quietly Work
Shoot at Salem Last Week.
was a one-artned mail, well and
ing on a Good Clue.
favorably known throughout the
Jas. Potts in the Team
country, he having served as
deputy assessor for some time.
In the «bseuce of Mr. aud Mrs.
The governor's trophy match,
Saturday forenoon uncle and Chas. Manning last week to O ak­ the most coveted prize iu the state
nephew decided to hunt for an land, some scoundrel or scoundrels militia rifle shoot, was captured by
estray from their band of cattle. entered aud ransacked their home the team composed of eight picked
Then followed the
deplorable — the Stouffer cottage at the lower men of the Fourth regiment in­
shooting of Mr. Renne by Mos- end of railroad street. Among fantry , by a total of 5.1 points over
burg, who mistook his uncle for the articles stolen was an almost all rauges. The aggregate of the
a deer.
new .12 calilier winchester, three Fourth team was 8.56, and that of
The incidents leading up to the pillows, quilts, an overcoat, pair the Third regiment team 80.1.
tragic fatality is best told ill Mr. of new pants aud suspenders, pair The teams were composed as fol­
Mosburg's statement to the coro­ heavy shoes, a lantern and other i lows:
ner’s jury. Mr. Mosburg related things. Mr. Manning believes the 1 Fourth Regiment— Sergeant Jas.
the circumstances as follows:
job to have lieeu executed by lo ca l1 Potts of Cottage Grove, Major
"W e left home to look for an "artists" and thinks he has a; Hamlin. Lieutenant Stewart, Cor­
estray and took our rifles for uncle pretty good clue, which we hope he poral Perdue, Private Shields, Cap­
said he had lately seen three deer has. If the guilty parties are ap­ tain Houck, Corporal Fergusou,
in Lynx hollow. W e separated, prehended they should be given Private l'isher of Roseburg.
taking eithei side of the canyon the limit.
Third Regiment— Sergeant 1 Iow-
and agreed to meet at a certain
ard, Corporal Kouiaine, Sergeant
point. I was finally sure that 1 . A I'nited States geologist says Schwarz, Corporal Rider, Sergeaut
saw a deer and fired, but was hor­ the Rogue river coal field is the While, Corporal Abrams, Captain
rified on approaching to find my most extensive one iu Oregon.
Scott, Sergeant Royal.
uncle the victim ."
When young Mosburg saw what
he had done he rushed with all
speed to the home of S. J . Renne,
brother of deceased and gave the
alarm. Neigh Ivors then assisted
Mertin Karl, the young electric­ David Griggs, and Dr. Kime was
iu conveying the liody to the ian and general handy mau about
called and carefully reduced the
house and Gordon was at once the local electric light office, met
fractures and the young man is re­
summoned.
with an accident last F'riday even­ covering from the injury as well as
JURY KXONKRATKS MOSBURG.
ing which will put him out of ooiu- could lie expected. Hugh Curriu
Immediately upon his arrival lnission for some time to come. will fill Mr. Karl's place in the
Coroner Gordon empaneled a jury, With a uumlier of young men as­ electric light office during the time
who, after inquiring into the facts, sociates a trip was planned to Cres­ he is recovering from bis injury.
well last F'riday evening to attend
arrived at the following verdict:
A four
Eugene People Buy Big Saw Mill.
“ We, the jury, duly empaneled some social function.
horse
team
was
secured
at
a
local
and sworn to inquire into the cause
Purchasing the Corvallis lumber
of the death of Jerome C. Renne, stable and the Ixiys set out, but
mill two weeks ago from Allen &
had
hardly
left
the
barn
when
the
find that he is a white male person
Houy for $50,000, the Suuset Lutn-
aged 4.1 years and 7 months and leading team got over their traces
ber
rompauv Wednesday sold the
began
kicking. This is
that he came to his death July 25, and
mill for *6 7 , (KX>, clearing $17,000
when
the
lmys
began
to
empty
the
l'X)S, at about 10 a. m., from a
on the deal. The purchasers are
gunshot wound from the hand of rig, and Merrill liarl in jumping
Dr. T . W . Harris of Fmgeue, Glen
Ralph Mosburg, his nephew who alighted iu such a maimer on th e 1
Bassett, superintendent
of the
edge
of
the
sidewalk,
as
to
break
supposed he was shooting at a
Booth-Kelly mill at Springfield,
liolli
lanies
of
his
left
leg
lietween
deer.
<Signed )
and II. C. Mahon of ICugeite, pres­
the ankle and knee. He was I ident of the Sunset Lumber com ­
A r t h u r D kma rk st
W m . C. H ami lton
taken to the home of his tuiele, pany.
G: II. l’t'I.I.KN
L ucas Cowot m ,
W . K. N. vppkr .
Young Mosburg is inconsolable
over (lie affair aud the ueighlmrs,
while greatly pained aud shocked
Tba Kind that always Ptaaae th* H o u a e w if# ^ ^
over the untimely death of Renne.
deeply svmpathize with the lmy
over his sad affliction.
Everything for the W ork'
The bullet entered Reune’s right
rngman. Some fine Dress
side and emerged under the left
armpit, passing through the arm.
’ Shoes for old and young.
Death was instantaneous.
NEPHEW FIRED BULLET
RESIDENCE ENTERED
FOURTH REGIMENT
MANY THINGS STOLEN!
GETS COVETED MEDAL
M. F. EARL SUSTAINS BROKEN LEG
G
R O C E R .IE C
SHOES AND
CLOT.HiltG
Suitained Concussion of the Brain.
Chas. Sweet, of Lynx Hollow, j
8.1 years of age, while cutting some
rose bushes from the roof of his i
residence Sunday, while alone, fell j
to the ground, bruising the side of [
his head aud shoulder, rendering I
him unconscious. He was found |
by memliers of his family aud
neighbors at 7:.hi p. m. sometime
after the fall. Dr. VanWiukle of i
this city, was called and found the I
old gentleman had sustained con -1
cussion of the brain, but no fract
ures or
dislocations.
It was;
thought that he would probably re­
cover. Hoys above the age of four
score should be careful
climbing around oil housetops.
about
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