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A J L O C A L P A P E R F I T F O R A N Y H O M E — P R O G R E S S IV E . N E W S Y . IN D E P E N D E N T
Blackbutte Quicksilver. Bohemia Qold Minin? Districts and Thirty Saw Milling Enterprises Tributary to Cottage drove. Dairying, Em it (¡rowing, Farming are Profitable
C O TTAG E GROVE LEAD ER
B O H E M IA N V C G E T
C on solid a ted Ja n u a ry 9. 1909.
CONTRACT LET FOR CONCRETE
PIER FOR MAIN $ 1 F T BRIDGE
CO TTAG E GROVE, OREGON, T U E SD A Y , AU G U ST 30. iqro.
KANSAN’S ANNUAL
PICNIC WEDNESDAY
ROW RIVER
FOREST EIRE
REV. SUTCLIFFE CHOSEN
ENCAMPMENT ORATOR.
Industries
VOL. XXII. NO. 19
HOW CRESWELLS YOONG
ORCHARDS ORE M ED
Local Kansans will meet in their
An invitation has been extended
i first annual picuiv in the city park
to Kev. Robert Sutcliffe, pastor of
I tomorrow, Wednesday.
An of-
the Methodist Episcopal church,
* ganizatiou of jayhawkers
was
by Apjiomattox Post, G. A. R. to
•N
effected in this city one year ago
deliver the annual address before
with fifty members and quite a
the f.aue Countv G- A . R. En
City Rock Crusher T u r n in '^ * . Crushed Rock for number
Schmitt Brothers Are Awarded the Big Contract
have identified themselves Hard Fight to Save Mills
campment to be held in Cottage
with this association since that
(«rove September 15, 16 and 17th.
the Warren Construction Company and
Considerable Fine
Covering a Period of Five Years— Have
i time. Native born or a residence
It has been the custom o f the eu-
¡of at least five years in the Sun-
| campment officers to extend this
Paving Will Commence Soon
Timber Burned
a $10,000 Working Plant
i flower state makes one eligible to
invitatipn to some outside speakers
membership in the local organiza
of note heretofore, but so ' well
tion. On Wednesday a fine bas
I pleased were the local veterans
The city council met in adjourn ed to draft plans for a dvke to di ket dinner will be served at the
One of the most important deals 10 tens, whitewashing trunks,
The most definite information with the memorial address deliver
ed session Monday evening. A vert the overflow of the river at noon hour after which at) interest
ever
made in Creswell was made pruuiug, summer spraying, fall
ed by Rev. Sutcliffe on last Deco
petition asked for sewer on Bridge times of freshets at the dam, and ing literary and musical program that has been received here con
ration
Day
that
they
were
uiiaui-
recently
when the A. C. Bohrustedt spraying, cover crop of vetches
street and the city engineer was Councilman l.awson and Engineer j will lie rendered to which all Kan cerning the forest fires in the Row
mous iu their choice of him for Orchard Company let a contract to for fertilizing, sowing land plaster
instructed to survey the line and Nichols were appointed a commit sans and their friends are invited, river district, east of here, was
lor fertilizing.
their orator ou their big animal
Schmitt Brothers to do the orchard
brought iu from Piston by Mrs.
an ordinance ordered drawn cov tee to secure estimates for (he
county reunion, the other county
Third year— Same as second
work.
E. S. Moldermau, wife of Forest
ering this improvement.
work for five years ou the year.
Posts to lie guests of Appomattox
STAMP
MILL
INSTALLED
Ranger Holderman, who with a
The finance committee was in
The hid of Elledge X lluhltell
Company’s holdings iu and around
Post at their annual meeting.
Fourth year— Plowing, hoeing
for construction of a concrete pier structed to advertise and secure
IN THE SAILORS’ GULCH force of men has been fighting the Kev. Sutcliffe has accepted the in- Creswell.
around trees, cultivating 10 times,
fire for some time at the Wicks saw
at the east end of the Main street bids for the bond sale recently vot
This does not mean that the
whitewashing, pruuiug, summer
I vitation and it is an assured fact
bridge was opened and read and ed at the special city election
I.ewis Hartley has completed mill and logging camp, across the I that the old veterans and their A. C. Bohrustedt Orchard Com spraying, fall spraying, cover crop
was as follows: For concrete pier amounting to $45,000 altogether. the installation of his one-stamp river and only a short distance
pany releases its supervision of the
of vetches, sowing land plaster.
friends will have an opportunity to
A contract has been let by the j mill iij Sailor's Gulch in Bohe from Disston. The fire at that
according to plans and specifica
work, hut that Schmitt Broij. will
Fifth year— Same as fourth year.
listen to one of the best addresses
tions $470. For fill between pier Warren Construction Co. to the mia, and will commence operating point was caused by a spark from
do all the work under the Stipervis
In addition to the above work,
ever delivered before them upon a
and east bank $80. This was the city for the crushed rock necessary the machine this week. Richard the donkey engine used in the tim
I ion of Hon. W. K. Newell, presi the streets aud roadways in the
¡ similar occasion.
only bid but was considerable rea j for the paving of Main street and | White,” who assisted iu erecting ber for logging purposes, but was
dent of the State Board of llorti- orchard tracts must lie graded and
The various eucainpmeiit com
sonable and was accepted by the the city rock crusher is running the mill, was in Cottage Grove on kept under control until a high i
j culture, and his assistant superin cleared of all weeds: all feuces
mittees have the work assigned to
council. 'Pile work is to be com every day and teams arp deliver Monday and spoke very favorably wind sprang up Thursday at 11
tendent of orchard work, S. Shot- must be kept up and weeds aud
j them well in h an d ‘ and there is
pleted in ten days.
ing crushed rock at the Main street ,,f ||le prospects of this camp. In o ’clock and soon fanned the four
well. The contract covers all of grass kept mown around them.
ever assurance that the annual
Councilman Wallace, F.ngiueer intersections and on a vacant lot order to get the mill in Sailor’s fires along the belt of fire timber j
the orchard work and 'Schmitt
Schmitt Bros, have purchased
meeting this year will be one of
Tavlor and City Attorney Counter near the fruit drier where the pav Gulch it was necessary to cut and from Dorena, nine miles from tfiis
Bros, simply step iu and hire all the horses and equipment lielong-
: the most pleasant and interesting
were appointed a committee to ing company’ s big mixing plant work a trail one mile in length and place, to a point beyond Disston,
the tneu, furnish all the equipment ing to the A. C. Bohrustedt Com
ones ever held in this county.
prepare a map of Cottage C.rove at will I k * erected as soon as it ar nVer this the heavy machinery was into alm°st a solid mass of flames |
Cottage Grove citizens and busi and do all work necessary for the pany and will add more horses,
a cost not to succeed $10 to lie rives which will be within a few i taken with difficulty, block and 11 miles long and three wide.
cultivation and care of the or and will have $10,000 invested in
ness men will tio doubt co-operate
The fire fighters were powerless
filed with the county clerk.
chards, so that the company deals personal property to do the work,
days, when paving work will be j tackle being used to gel some of
with the old veterans to make the
The city engineer was instruct iu full blast.
the heavy parts up steep grades, (o check the flames, which were ' meeting here a most pleasant and with one firm instead of a large which will include 50 head of
number of people.
'
The driving wheel is five feet iu buring iu the tall timber, and turn-! memorable otur.
horses. They will have the care
The care which the Bohrustedt of over 1000 acres of land.
A Fine Fruit Display.
diameter and weighs 3500. By ed their attention to saving the
GOVERNORS PLEDGE
Orchard Company expects to take
______
the aid of a team this was rolled fiomes and property that were in j
Pipe Layinq Pushed.
In securing the services of the
SUPPORT TO FRISCO
danger, A fire was set out ut
_____ _
of the orchard tracts iu the future, Schmitt Bros, the A . C. Bohrustedt
Inp
the
hill,
a
frame
after
the
fasfi-
William Veatcli brought in
two miles this side of
j ion of a wheelbarrow having been Wildwood,
fortunate.
, ’
,
, ,
1 he ditch for the tnoimUin as well ns they have iu the past, Company were very
market basket filled with fitte fruit
Disston,
by
a farmer, to burn slash
can he judged better by the amount
The Governors' Convention on
1 made to keep it upright and for
from his Gowdyville farm home
ing the first of the week and al- j water «vptem horn U n ff creek to of work which is stipulated to be Work performed under the super
Conservation, in session at Salt
I steering purposes.
This piece,
vision o f Messrs. Newell and Shot-
last week which has been attract
Lake Citv, pledged support toward
| however, was among the least dif* though looked after, got beyond - Cottage Grove, a distance of 18 done on the orchard tracts each well must he done to as near per
ing lunch attention in the Leader
control ami when the wind raised, miles, was completed last week year, a list of which is as follows:
[ licult to handle.
securing from Congress recognition
fection as possible and iu Schmitt
office.
The display consists of
surrounded the resilience ot J: and the crew was discharged. The
First year— Plowing, subsoiliug, Bros, they have men who will see
o f the Panama-Pacific Internation
Graveusteiu, Wealthy and Bis
Bohemia Gold Mines Inspected.
al Exposition for San Francisco ill
Hunt and < <eorge Kerr, and 'E*e | pipe line would have been finished barrowing twice, digging holes, that instructions are carried out to
uiarck apples, Crawford peaches
hope of saving them was so small
1915, bv adoption of the following
but for delay iu the arrival of planting trees, whitewashing trees, the letter. They will have all
and Bartlett pears all of large size,
Dr. H. E. Smith of New Haven, that everything of value was re
pruuiug. cultivating 10 times, stock needed and every machine
resolutions:
fine color and excellent in quality. Conn., after having made an in moved to a place of safety. 1'or- the pipe, which has been a bin-
suiptuet spraying, fall spraying, required to perform the work will
Whereas, The completion of the
This fruit was grown on foot hill spection of the mining properties tunately the wind died down, mak dratice to the work from the v£\y
sowing cover crop o f vetches for he secured. Under their manage
Panama Canal will bring the Pa
land and was sprayed but once of the \yest Coast Mines Company ing it possible for the faithful fire outset. The \ineryt.au Light
fertilizer, sowing land plaatev for ment the high standard of work
cific States and the countries of the
this season. This is indeed a fa in the Bohemia gold mining dis fighters to save them. The other Water Cq., 0*e contractors, have fertilizer.
Orient into closer touch with the
done on the orchard tracts by the
done
,
vored fruit growing locality.
trict, returned to his home in the point along
the fire line, where the |none the
. jo.i . in . an
. exceptionally
,
Second \vai— Plowing two ways Bohrnstedt company iu the past
Atlantic Seaboard, eliminating
r
, . . . ,
. ,!
i short tune, and with a less number
East
last
week.
The
inspection
fire
started
is
at
Star,
a
station
on
.
■
’
Peaches measuring 10 inches in
fiiwing around trees, cultivating will be continued.— Chronicle.
four thousand rnjles from the dis
was in the interest of the Wheeler the Oregon N Southeastern rail -
work“ e"
tance by water lielweeu tfie Atlan circumferance and excellent in
road.'between Dorena and Wild- “ ««s s a rv wfiei, tl,« eon tract was
tic and the Pacific Coast States, flavor were presented to this office estate, which owns the cputrolllMK
A Charitable Act
interest
in
the
\Vest
Coast
mining
wood, all of tfiese places bping on j undertaken. Work on the reser-
DR. T. D. BANCROFT S
and marking the dawn of a new by Hamilton Veatch Saturday.
|
voir
on
Laudess’
hill
which
is
be
and unprecedented era of commer Mr, I'eatclj has a never failing j pr°p®rly- Aftei Dr Smjtfi's re- tfiett. 8: $. H. railroad, which is
A
(Jay.
or
two
since
we
are
told
,
GREAT LECTURE.
ing constructed by W. F. Hart, is
.
. .
cial development of the Pacific peach crop ou his Row river farm I " » « on condjtiqi}», a fiecisjQi) will building an extension to the gov
.
.
.
,
,,
,
.
;
by
a
passenger
on
the
train
that.
o f a quality equal to the southern E)e arrived at as to what will be ernment reserve, only about three going forward rapidly at\<J writ be |
slope and the great West: and,
Dr. T . 1). Bancroft, the noted
¡done with the mines in the future. miles beyond Disston, but the fire finished will,i.U 1’“ « P^sent week seeing the d a n g « that four or five
Whereas, The completion of this Oregon article.
j lecturer and personal friend of
did
not
reach
that
point.
«onftdently
expected
that
large
sAWfh»
o
f
whfcat
were
in
from
titanic project— the greatest engi
A. L. Woodard presented the
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j water will be coursing tfiroqgfi t,fio a (lie iu the stubble, which was Abraham Lincoln, delivered his
Improving Properly at Creswell.
neering enterprise in the history of Leader with two beautiful sjieci-
A large cougar stole into the, mains sometime datriiyg ,fie early CVidtutly set by the helper engine, address on the “ Assassination o f
the world— should, and is to be, mens of Spokane Beauty apples
Lincoln," from the view point of
Professor^?. K. Barnes, of Cres- tent o f f . L. Erankum near West-1 part of Sppfimthei-, the pipe now the passenger train stopped and
commemorated by a great interna last week which measured 14%
an
eye witness at the M. E. church
well, but recently of Coftage Gt°ve, on last week at miduight, seizefl¡being laid nearly to Dorena, or the whole train crew left the train
tional exposition; and,
incites iu circumference and with
Monday evening to a large au
fits
small
sou
by
Ifie
hgefi
of
hit*
'
within
9
miles
of
Cottage
Grove.
aud put out the fire with the aid of
Whereas, The city of Sail Fran their beaqtiful pinkish color attract js improving his property yyest of
dience. His graphic description
llight shirt and dragged him from
Hhe hose on the engine, near Di
cisco has signified its intention to ed much attention at the Leader ' town. The professor is a fruit
of
the stirring incidents in Kansas
his
bed,
but
his
cries
caused
the
The Leader acknowledges re i vide station.
j fancier and will give up profession
hold such an exposition in the year office.
iu the year 1856 was very interest
big
cat
to
drop
his
prey
and
run
ceipt
of
a
cçyupliuientary
season
al work for the pursuit ol his fa
1915, to be known as the Panama-
ing and he brought out much un
into the brush before Mr. Frank- tick«..! to the Portland Fair and
vorite vocation.— Register.
With the completion of one
Pacific International Exposition,
written history of facts incident to
Famous cities of the past— Rome
utn could get his Winchester itt Livestock Exposition to be held at wore block Ror.eburg will have 50'.,
,
, .
. . ,,
, ...
and has, with the aid of the citi Athens, Carthage and Reno.
,
”
'
¡the
breaking out of the great Civil
Vote for Nesmith county.
action
Portland September 5tlt to I'tth.
blocks
of
paved
streets.
zens of the State of California,
war. He asserted that he had
raised the sum of $10,000,1X10 to
slept in the tall Kansas prairie
defray in pap theexpenses of such
grass in company with the famous
exposition: now, therefore, be it
John Brown. When the war final
Resolved, That we, the (govern
ly broke out Dr. Bancroft was a
ors and the personal representatives
resident of the National Capital
of the Governors of the states of
and became a member of Lincoln's
Utah, Nevada, Idaho, Montana,
Kansas body guard known as the
Wyoming, Colorado, Washington,
"Frontier Guards," with quarters
Oregon, Minnesota and California,
iu the white house. Dr. Bancroft
in convention asse in hied, hereby
was present in Ford’s Tenth street
pledge our support to the citizens
theater ou the night of the assassi
o f San Francisco and the state of
nation of Lincoln, and his story o f
California in their laudable and
this great tragedy, as he saw it,
commendable efforts to secure Con
was most thrilling and impressive,
gressional recognition ill behalf of
as was also his narrative concern
such exposition.
ing the flight, capture and secret
burial of Booth. ’ At the conclu
sion of the lecture the speaker ex
Selling Part of Big Farm
hibited several interesting Lincoln
souvenirs including the old oak
G. W . Hawley, of Creswell, is|
latch to the Lincoln pioneer home.
negotiating with the A. C. Born-
$ 00.00
M en’s Beautiful Soft Gray Suits, $15.00 to
At the close of his lecture a neat
stedt company for the sale of sev- j
27.50
" Latest Patterns, N e w Brown Suits, $18.00 to
Liucnlu souvenir liooklet was sold
eral hundred acres of His farm to
at 35 cents per copy, the receipts
these large property owners, He
“ A ll W o o l Blue Serge
“ $20.00 to
25.00
from which Dr. Bancroft uses in
will retain the farm below tfie road
M en’s Pacific Logger and Chippeway I ogger, $7.00 to
8.00
defraying his expenses. He is a
and west of his upjrer ranch. Mr.
fluent and pleasing speaker and
Hawley is among the largest farm
his address was greatly enjoyed.
owners ill the Creswell section.
lie expects to attend the Kansas
When his present holdings are
picnic at this place tomorrow and
taken over by the new owners they
will be one of the principal after
will have taken up all of tfie best
noon speakers.
fruit lauds in that vicinity.
W h e e le r T h o m p so n
“Has It For Less”
Headquarters for Men’s Apparel,
Shoes, Hosiery, Hats and Clothing
....Just Arriving....
WHEELER - THOMPSON COMPANY
There is a tone of a dangerous |
alliance when Theodore Roosevelt,
Jr. hastens to congratulate the In
surgent victor iu California.
‘ E v e r w e a r ” H osiery F o r Men An d W omen
The little Tom Bowers place of
11 acres located about two miles
east of Cottage Giove was sold by
Veatch & Spencer recently to Mr.
Hickey of this city for $1,000.