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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
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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
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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.
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Great Sacrifice Sale
W e Have noGompetion
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Less Money than Ever Before Offered.
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