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About Cottage Grove leader. (Cottage Grove, Or.) 1905-1915 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 27, 1908)
r C O T T A — — OB M O V E . (Stato OREGON Located on the upper W illam ette River 144 miles south of Portland on Southern I’u cU k and Oregon & South P.asteru Railroads. Population MOO; two hanks, public and high schools, five churches; water, light and sew er Systems;creamery; Hour m ill, tw o brick yards; saw m ills; wood w ork factory; match factory; steam laundry and the L s a d i s r . IN0USTI1K8 tel» I1S0UICB1. t'.reat forests of timt>er tributary to Cottagre («rove; fifteen saw m ills; three shingte mills, wit Inn a radius o f IS miles. Headquarters lor {Bohemia gold mines and Black Butte " “ icksilver mines, valleys and foot-hills . « . . i . l » 11 adapted to fruit growing, farm ing and W |A S ( k » l f t k l o O * a * » I rying. Por information regarding tto this at country subscribe for the I H M f W E E K L Y AND SE M I-W E E K LY vgamawxtj*™* i C o u o llis lt d January 9, 1908 COTTAGE GROVE, OREGON, TUESDAY, FIRE FIEND WIPES OUI THE BARMAN. H E I M STORE Loss, Stock, About $25,000, Insur ance 14,000—Building Insured for $2,000— W ill Rebuild. and will be equipped to demon strate the l>est methods of packing fruit. Had weather will not inter fere with the the arrangements, as coaches will be carried, and if necessary they will be thrown o|ieu for holding lectures. The itinerary of the train is as follow's in this county: Saturday, November 7— Junction City, 3:50-5:30 p. m. Monday, Novemlier 9— Cottage Grove, 8:30-10 a. m. liugene, 10:50 a. m. 12:30 p. m. Spring- field, 1:20-2:50 p. m. Train will consist of seven cars. First car will contain sample grains, grasses and machinery. Second car will demonstrate buddiug, grafting, spraying, fruit packing, also show fruit pests. Third car will be devoted to dairying, showing separating and aud testing machines. Fourth car will have cows in model stalls and milking machines. One sleeping car; one business car; one day coach. Lectures will be given from the train. was visited by fire might then spread to adjoining quite a destructive fire Monday buildings. However, the walls stood and seem to be little, if at evening, but which through the all, damaged. efficiency of the volunteer fire de The Bartels millinery store in partment and our excellent gravity the old wooden building adjoining, water'system, was confined to the seemed to be in the most danger two story brick building in which and it was early vacated by its oc it originated, the building lieing cupants together with the large occupied by the Garman, Heinen- stock on hand. The Garman, Hemen’vay Co. way Company, located a!>out the center of Main street in the very were advertising a big closing out heart of the city. The fire was sale, it having been announced by first discovered about 9: .VI in the them that they would close out evening, soon after the store closed tlieir stock and retire from business by Miss ‘ ‘Jimmie" Blair of Hotel in this city by January 1st. The BO ARD O F E Q U A L IZ A T IO N Oregon, located on the opposite sale was announced on great cloth A D JO U R N E D S A T U R D A Y corner, and If. 11. Vealch, who sigus spread across the front of | A ll the protests against the as was seated in the hotel conversing the building and it was probably with a commercial traveler, ran to due to tjiis fact that the fire was sessment roll for 1008 have been the city hall near by and turned in not observed earlier by those pass filed that the board can take cog the alarm. By this time the fire ing by. The company occupied nizance of, for the time elapsed which seemed to originate upstairs, both the first and second floor of Saturday afternoon at 5 o ’clock. in the rear of the building, from the building and claims to have The biggest surprise is that tlje some unkuowu cause, had spread had something like a $25,000 stock S. P. Co. did not file a protest qn to all parts of the building, on on hand, which is practically a the assessment of their roadbed both floors. The east side fire total loss, but which was in aud rolling stock, which was as sessed at $28,000 per mile on the company responded promptly, as sured in the sum of $14,000. The building was the property main line, or $10,0(H) per mile their hose cart was only one-half of a block away, but the west side of O. O. Veatch, on which he more than last year. Their timber company encountered the partially carried $ 2 , (XX) insurance. Mr. holdings were assessed the same as torn down bridge on Main street, Veatch will at once replace the last year. There were a few pro which is being rebuilt, and was wood and sheet iron front with a tests, however, which are practical delayed 10 or IS minutes. As modern brick front and replace all ly as follows: 1J. R. Kincaid is soon as the hose was played on the the interior wood work and mod cited to show cause why his tract fire under the heavy pressure of ernize the building in every par of 19 acres south of the university water it bad a telling effect, and ticular as it occupies a prominent should not be raised; W . II. Field, when the second company got and valuable corner lot on Main by his attorney A. E. Wheeler, wants the assessment on his 44 busy it was evident that owing to street. It lias again been demonstrated acres o f which Recreation park is the still night and the damp con dition of the adjoining buildings that the city may well congrat a part, reduced from $2600 to the fire laddies were going to be ulate itself upon its efficient vol $2000. The Palmer Co. asks to able to confine the fire to the big unteer fire department and ex have the assessment on their 2800 brick alone, the only apprehension cellent water system, which has acres of timber land reduced- It felt was that the walls of the many times proved effective pro is assessed at $10 per acre. The Drew Timber Co, wants a reduc brick would collapse and that the tection against fire. tion on the assessment on their laud not timbered, but which was purchased only to obtain right of way. There are other minor mat ters to be adjusted. The board will meet again on Monday. Cottage Grove SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY’S EDUCATIONAL SPECIAL COMING Arrangements for the Southern Pacific railroads’s elaborate “ edu cational special” have l>een fully completed aud the journey will be gin the morning of November 4, under the personal supervision*of R. B. Mdler, general freight agent. The trip planned for the "dairy on wheels” will cover most of the towns in the Williamette valley. On Itoard will be a corps of teach ers and members of the faculty of the state agricultural college, who will deliver lectures oh the best and proper methods of caring for milk and other dairy products as each stop is reached. This subject alone is considered to be of im mense importance, for the reason that butter manufacturers have re cently claimed that eastern butter makers are enabled to compete with the Oregon product on this market because of the fact that local dairymen do not take proper care of the cream. The train will carry a large uumlier of agricultural exhibits (¡HEAT REDUCTION ---------------------- I N . - SUMMED SHOES 25 per cent off. All lines of Ladies and Gents Oxfords Also fine stock of Children’s Shoes going at the same reduction. Best $4.00 Shoes now $3.00. Best $3.00 Shoes now $2.25. H O N O R É P A L M E R BUYS O R EG O N C O P P E R C LA IM S Medford, Oct. 23.— Honoré PalJ mer has purchased the group of claims owned by the Medford Cop per company in the Blue Ledge district, giving in payment a three- year bond for $10,(XX). He has also agreed to do a considerable amount of development work. The Medford Copper company is composed for the most part of local people and the group of claims that it has owned are said to be some of the finest in the Blue Ledge country. A consider able amount of work has lieen done on the claims, the prospects being of the best. HON. M. C. G E O R G E W IL L S P E A K H E R E Ex-Congressman M. C. George, will address the citizens of Cottage Grove on the issues of the cam paign from a republican viewpoint, on Thursday evening, Oct. 29, at 8 o'clock in the armory theater. Judge George is an able, inter esting and att entertaining speaker. His years of public life have given him a wide knowledge of political affairs and he is one of the state’s l>est posted men. Every voter in terested in the welfare of his country should avail themselves of this opportunity to hear him. The ladies are also cordially invited to hear his address. Best $2.00 Shoes now $1.50. = PEARCE BROTHERS. Phone Main 6 4 3 — Our own Delivery. With so many swell society women nursing and coddling dogs it does seem a little unjust to charge them with being utterly lacking in the mother instinct. WHAT IS AH INJUNCTION? Red Hot Discus sion of Great Question C. W . Post, president of the National Citizens Industrial Asso ciation, had the following red hot article in the Portland Journal of Oct. 20: It has been a struggle to get be fore the people the dangerous facts, the hidden underground facts, re lating to the plans for control of the lilierties and affairs of the common citizens by the adroit managers of the huge “ Labor Trust” known as the American Federation of Labor. These managers are seeking power even superior to that of the president of the I ’ nited States. "Nonsense,” someone s a y s . Well, let’ s have a look, When I first started publishing these articles discussing labor mat ters, nearly the entire list of p.-qiers published them, but there were a few afraid to print them although offered full pay. Afraid the labor leaders would boycott them, afraid the unions in their own printing department would strike and afraid on general principles. Here was a sample of the "muz zled press,” the subtle enemy of the common people. HONEST U N IO N MKN HELPLESS Let an honest union man raise his voice in protest at a union meeting and the ‘ ‘men of violent tendencies” cry him down with shouts to “ throw dat guy out de window” and if he don’t shut up he may expect to be violently and effectively shut up. Some day let us hope that organized labor will get rid of the present leaders and conduct the sale of its product (labor) in the peaceful legal man ner of business men who sell the ordinary products of humanity, and when they cannot sell their labor at a satisfactory price to one man, do as the farmer does who offers his wheat to another buyer and either sells it at the higest price the market will warraut or keeps it for a higher market but does not picket the mill, assault other farmers who prefer to sell their wheat, or blow up the mill whose owner cannot at that time buy at the price asked. The disobedient black man was at times driven with a whip, back to his work. T h e disobedient “ union” man lias, in thousands of cases, been driven away trom his work, with clubs, missiles, revol vers, and knives: assaulted, slug ged uttconcious, maimed for life, or murdered. Or perhaps his steps dogged for weeks, he and his family subjected to insults innum erable, homes destroyed and pro perty blown up. The most damna ble cruelty and brutality that hate could devise aud ruffian outlaws execute has been put upon Amen can workmen, who have dared to disobey the “ orders” of the Labor Trust leaders. There were above 5,000 citizens assaulted in one city (C hicago) during one strike ( the teamsters) and many men crippled for life. Some 12 or 14 were wilfully mur dered outright, and yet there have been but few convictions ami trifl ing if, any punishment. OCTOBER 27 , 1908 . trust expended upward of $150,000 to defend its members in the Haywood-Moyer trial, securing ac quittal by a frightened jury, not withstanding the fact that the judge who presided at the trial an nounced afterward that the testi mony implicating the members of the Lalior Trust in the deeds of violence was in his opinion true. W H A T ARK INJUNCTIONS “ Now what is an injunction“ some one asks. When it liecomes known that the trust leaders plan to have their sluggers waylay other workmen and assault them, or picket aud spit on aud insult or attack American citizens going to or coming from work, or plan to destroy some machinery, blow up a factory, mine or workman’s home or do any other act of violence or crime, the court estab lished by the people and for tlieir protection can issue a “ restraining order” or “ injunction” ordering these men not to do the acts they intend, until the court cau have time to inquire into the rights in the case, Every man with his mind set on revenge or violence, and every single inmate of every penitentiary in this country hates a court in junction like a mad dog hates water. What does the man who feais an injunction baye in his mind? I)o you believe he is seeking peace? No citizen who was at home or on the street on a peaceful, lawful mission has ever been troubled by a court order to prevent men from attacking property or persons. It has been common for labor leaders (? ) and a few politicians to say that courts have “ abused” the right to issue injunctions in lalior cases. After a careful search of the records Hon, Charles H. Little field made open request of Presi dent Roosevelt to cite one single injunction wherein peace intend ing citizens had been harmed and our estimable president was put In the embarrassing ixisitiou of hav- ingstated that “ abuses had ariseu” because some interested persons had so told him, but on demand for the cases, they could not lie produced. $1000 REW ARD I now again offer $1,(XX) in cash for evidence of a single ease ill the past five years ill labor disputes where court injunctions to protect persons and property have been apjiosed to the public good. No person can produce one. Why, therefore, should the lalior tru„t leaders so strenuously demand that the court be stripped of the right to issue injunctions to protect people and property. These leaders want to lie free to order the sluggers to proceed with their work and their dynamiters to blow up homes or property liefore the court can intervene to protect. That’ s exactly what is meant by the proposal to prevent any court from issuing n restraining order without five to seven days’ notice. That would give time to the in tending criminals to do their work and get into hiding liefore the court can protect those whom the sluggers intend to harm. The in dependent workingman's home could thus lie blow up and he taught the danger of disobedience of “ orders” of the lalior trust. It's a pitiable condition, that of workingmen, both union and non union when they dare disobey any labor trust manager's order, how ever impudent or tyrannous. Shall we nourish the further growth of such power centered in the hands of a few misnamed “ labor leaders” now seeking to tell union men that they must vote IM PU D E N T PRETENSE for the party pledged to enact any The La I Kir Trust leaders pro law these trust leaders ask looking claim peaceful intent and publicly to more power, if they will "d e decry violence. Such bare face liver the lalior vote?” assertions as that of the president o f the American Federation of The prodigal had returned’. Labor that “ Organized Labor isj “ Father,” he said, “ are you go one of the most potent factors for I ing to kill the fatted calf?” “ N o,” the preservation of peace,” is only responded the old man, looking interesting as an illustration of the the youth over carefulty, “ no, I ’ll extreme inpudence of these leaders with a most terrible record of let you live. But I'll put you to criminal procedure behind them. work plowing aud sowing and It lately became public that this train some of that fat off.’ ’ VOL. XX. NO. 28 ELECTION DAY IS NSW THE CENTER OF MUCH INTEREST Officials to be Elected in the V a ri ous States—The Several Presi dential Tickets in the Field One week from today there will be an election in forty-three states and two territories. In twenty- uine of the states a governor and other state officials; in the others minor states, officers or justices of the supreme court, and in seven, congressmen only are to lie elect ed. The states of the union with the exception of Maine, Vermont aud Oregon, will vote for memliers of the House of Representatives. The three states named have held their state elections and will vote only for presidential candidates in the coming election. In Arkansas and Georgia the state officials have been chosen this summer, leaving only the representatives in con gress and presidential candidates in the coming election. In A r kansas aud Georgia the state offi certs have been chosen this sum mer, leaving only the representa tives in congress and presidential candidates to lie voted for. The term of thirty-one L'uited States senators— twelve democrats and nineteen republicans— expire March 3, 1909. In a uumlier of the states the senatorial choice al ready has been made by primary. A National House of Representa tives is to lie elected— the sixty- first congress. The present House is composed of 233 republicans and 166 democrats, with two va cancies caused by denth, one re publican aud one democrat. Maine lias already elected four republi- cans, Vermont two and Oregon 2. The congressional situation at large is very mixed. There are between ninety and one hundred close congressional districts scat tered through the country, most of them in states now classed as doubtful states. These districts are close iu the sense that the re publican or democratic plurality in the last election was so slender that it would take but a slight change iu every voting precinct to bring a reversal of the political complexion. T H E N A T IO N A L T IC K E T . The national tickets iu the field are as follows, for president and vice-president. Republican: William H. Taft of Ohio: James S. Sherman of New York. Democratic: William J. Bryan of Nebraska; John W . Kern of Indiana. Prohibitionist: Eugene W. Chaf* in of Illinois: Aaron S. Watkins of Ohio. Socialist: Eugene V. Debs of Indiana; Benjamin Hanford of New York. People’s Party: Thomas E- Watson of Georgia; Samuel W il liams of Indiana. Independence party: Thomas L. llisgeu of Massachusetts; John Temple Graves of Georgia. Socialist-Labor: August Gil- haus, New York; Donald L. Mon roe of Virginia. WORK R E S U M E D ON NEW S A W M ILL B E IN G M O N R O E R A ILW A Y B U IL T A T S M I T H F IE L D The citizens of Monroe are feel ing better. For weeks they have been waiting the coming of the railroad, but work had been prac tically stopped on the line leading to that town. It has been re sumed, however, and it is now only a question of a short time until the road will lie completed into Monroe. The construction gangs have not been idle while Monroe has been waiting. They have lieen build ing a branch from the main line to the foothills west of Monroe, a distance of aliout six miles. The work on this was practically com pleted last week and the grading gangs are back again on the line to Monroe. This branch will be a good feeder, as it taps a rich timlier couutry.— Harrisburg Bulletin. Smithfield is to have a new saw mill. The building is already up and tbe engine were hauled aud machinery this week. Mr. Lmphrey bought the Mouut 320 acres of timber near that place, and Mr. Mouut is to deliver it at tbe mill for $3.50 per thousand. This mill will be equipped with a planer and moulder, and will lie in condition therefore to furnish all kinds of building material. I f a good article of finished lumber is turned out we do not see why the entire output cannot be disposed of at once. It will be the nearest mill to tbis place, and the lumber that has lieen ordered from other mills requires from four weeks to four months to get it.— Junction City Times. IN O U R - - ■ Great Sacrifice Sale W e Have noGompetion We arc ottering you Rctter C»oods for Less Money than Ever Before Offered. f 1 — - T ~ ” — 2<XS l*»irs 10-4 $ 'X) Cotton Blankets...............................$ 15ft “ 1Í-4 I 25 “ “ ............................... flD “ 12-4 1 50 " “ ....................... ........ 1 100 " 10-4 1 25 Comforts........................................... IV ) " 11-4 1 50 “ ............................................. 1 I V) “ 11-4 2 <X> ‘ ............................................. 1 50 “ 11-4 3 25 “ extra fine quality............... 2 65 85 15 500 Pairs Ladies’ Fine Cashmere Hose..'................... .$ VX) “ “ “ Fleeced “ .............................. 19 19 100 Misses* Cbion Suits.................................................. 40 100 Boys 75 rent I ’ nion S u its................................ ........... 100 " 2-piece I ’ nder “ per garment............ ............ 500 Suits lie n ’s Cotton t ’ nderwear.................................... 45 29 90 78 15 55 35 In Men’s Alt Wool Suits, Cravenettes and Over Coats we are Unexcelled. Wheeler=Thompson Co.