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About Cottage Grove leader. (Cottage Grove, Or.) 1905-1915 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 1, 1911)
«T» H l» *« * The till £caòcr Arcade Theater Hlfth-CI&ss Motion Pictures Up to D ite V au deville Change Program Every Night The Arcade High-Clats Notion Theater Pictu res (¿ »•(•• D a te V a u d eville Chance Program Every Night A L O C A L P A P E R F IT FOR 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 B oh em ia Ooltl M in in g D istric t and T h ir ty S a w M illin g Enterprises T rib u ta ry to Cottage Grove. D airyin g, F ru it G row ing, F a r m in g are Profitable B O H E M ÌA NVGGETL E A D E R i C . . « , " 4 . W d Januar» 9. 1908. BOOTH-KELLY L Springfield Loses Its Big Saw Mill and Power COTTAGE GROVE, OREGON, TUESDAY, AUGUST i, 1911 Head of the Ironworkers LOCAL, COUNTY AND STATE NEWS OF GENERAL INTEREST POSSES* Booth-Kelly Company— Sawmill and planer, $200,000; insurance, $10 5,000, 5,000,000 feet lumber, loss $50,- (XX). 5,000 cords slabwood, loss $15,- 000 . Oregon Power Co.— Fuel bin, loss, $7,0(K>; insurance $5,000. Fuel machinery, loss, $10,000; insurance, $8,000. Transmission, loss, $1,000. Storeroom with three big trans formers, $.16,000. Noted Insurgent Leader. General I'aocual Oiozro. who coin rnanded the iusurreeto forces .*fT the capture of Juarez, is oue o f the young est and boldest of Madero’s lieuten ants. liecause of his brilliant work in the field he has been acclaimed the hero o f the Mexican revolution. Be L. A. Ralston aided materially fore his success at Juarez he had a I in supplying local news for this ready proved his worth as u soldier. issue of the Leader in the editor's Since the war began last Noyembei absence to Coos county. He pos he has been tbe leader of the revolu lion’s most spectacular achievements— Geo. Knowles and wife returned ed as “ fighting editor.” Sunday evening from a three Frank Snodgrass, city marshal, the victories at Guerrero. Cerro Prieto weeks visit at Florence and Map- is enjoying a vacation and to kill and Malpuso. The son o f a small ranchman outside lelon. time. Kugene, July 29.— In Almost less time than it takes to write it, Booth-Kelly sawmill at Springfield, one of the largest lumber plants in the state and I.ane County’s big gest factory was destroyed by fire which started alrout 6:20 last even ing and raged all night, although the plant itself was destroyed in a very few minutes. Between 125 and ISO men are thrown out of em ployment and a payroll of between $10,iM)0 and $15,01)0 a mouth stop ped. The whole city of Spring- field was threatened for a time, but the wind blew away from the business district and no buildings outside the mill yards were dis- troyed. The loss is estimated at between $250,000 and $.100,000 and the company carried $105,000 insur ance on the plant. Besides 5,000,- 000 feet of lumber destroyed with the mill, 5,000 cords of slab wood to be used as fuel for the Oregon Power company’s big steam plaut adjoining the mill were destroyed. The transmission wires leading from the power plant and supply ing light and power to the cities of Springfield, Kugene, Albany, Cor vallis, Brownsville, Halsey, Har risburg and Juiictiou City, were burned off soon after the fire start- ed and those cities were in dark ness a part of the night. V O L . X X III. Frank M. Hyau of Chicago, preslile.it o f the International Association of | Bridge and Structural Ironworkers. Is In the public eye Just now’ liecause of recent eveuts In connection with the Los Angeles Times explosion. A l though no susplclou rests against him In the affair, the tusk o f defending the McXuiuurus will fall largely on til» Mr. and Mrs. G, B. Hawkins shoulders. Mr. Ityan has been president o f the are spending the week with their Ironworkers' union since 1SRV>, when lie daughter, Mrs. Walter Houser at succeeded Fruuk Buchanan. Buchan Roseburg. an Is the man who elimiuated the lute Equipment. » hank M. BY AN. Sum l ’urks from activity In the affairs o f the uulon uud raised the standard of the organization to a higher plane than tt had before attained After four years of office Buchanan declined re election, and since then President Bynu has conducted Its nfTuirs along the lines established by bis predecessor. In a recent statement Hyau said that u four years’ conflict with the National Erectors' association had depleted the resources o f the union nml called on organized labor for funds. The iron j workers' union Is affiliated with the i American Federation of Labor and the building trades department of that or ganization. They a splendid time is ru tiling the locomotive ou . the O. \ S. E. railroad. Ray C. O. Drydeu of Portland, arriv Baker is acting marshal. ed in Cottage Grove this morning Mr. and Mrs. K- (). Saltsmau to spend a few days with the Lead returned home from Newport last er. Mr. Dry.len is a first class week and have reopened their pop printer. ular Star restaurant and lunch K. F. Cottrell and Carl Hasseii- counter. They also have some plug, two young men of Seattle, well furnished lodging rooms in passed through Cottage Grove yes connection. terday on their way to Mexico City Clarence E- January, who was on motorcycles. arrested at Springfield on Monday Jas. Plaster, wife and son, are night on a charge of bootlegging, spending their vacation in Coos plead guilty to the charge before county. They have tiieir own Acting Justice J. G. Wells yester conveyance and are enjoying the day and was given a sentence of trip immensely. Mrs. Plaster is 20 days in the county jail, which selling her complexion preparations lie is serving. and hair tonics and says her sales A huge meteor was witnessed frequently reach as much as $25 a few nights ago by residents of and $.10 a day in the coast towns. the Mohawk valley. It appeared The Leader editor and Martin shortly after ten o’clock and by Anderson returned home from a its extreme brilliancy illuminated week’s business visit to Coos coun everything for several seconds. It ty Monday night. Coos is pros appeared near the zenith and grad perous and all doubts that the ually became larger until it disap coast country will not secure rail peared with a brilliant flash as the road transportation facilities soon breaking of balls of fire in a sky have been completely dispelled by rocket. Several who saw it believe late announcements. Coos will that it actually came to earth some soon have two railroads. One place up the valley, but it probab from Eugene and Florence and ly burned up with the flash before it struck terra firtna. oue from Boise and Roseburg. Had Government Shirts. A young man named Johnson was arrested here Tuesday by O f ficer Pitcher a c'l-rge of having government property in his poss ession unlawfully. On direction of Adjutant Finzer he was tried before Justice of the Peace A . H. King, and after he hadO old his story, was allowed to go, leaving the property in question and also a large revolver he was carrying. He claimed he had bought the shirts from a man in one of the park blocks in Portland. Miss Daisy Hawkins enjoyed Sunday at Newport by the sea. N O . 15 FOR COOS COUNTY Southern Pacific to Build From Eugene Over io Coast Country report KA NS AN S WILL H O L D SOME BIG CROPS IN T H E I R A N N U A L PICNIC T H E C O Q U IL LE V A L L E Y I @ 19U, by American Press Association The committee of the Sunflower! The Leader editor gleaned the of Chlbuanua, General Orozen bad nev er served in tbe anuy nor held public state organization of this city held j following farm item while at Co office. At tbe time of the uprising be quille City last Saturday: J. J. a meeting last week and set Aug i was a commission merchant 111 Uhl ust 21 as the day for their annual! Lamb who owns a fiue farm near hiinlma, where ho had established him picnic. The committee on general 1 Coquille and is an esteemed pion self seven years before at the age of arrangements consists of LeRoy eer settler, harvested 47 acres of twenty-one. Last summer when M b Woods chairman, Mrs. Geo. M. oats on his river bottom farm last dero was touring Mexico making speeches Orozco Leonine converted to Hall and Mrs. Delue Hemeuway. season, 9 acres of which yielded the cause. Soon ho was in the saddle The following sub-committees were 127 bushels to the acre, the re as the escort of Gonzales, tbe personal l>e appointed; Mrs. C. W. Caldwell,) maining 28 acres averaging 121 provisional visional governor of Chihuahua At Airs. Claude Cruson and 1.. A .) bushels to the acre. The balance the siege of Guerrero, Gonzales lost Ralston. Sports, A. L. Flynn, of the place seeded to oats and j his nerve and refused to blow up a Bert Richmond and C. L. Hoxie. barley yielded 118 bushels to the block of houses In which the federal» were Intrenched. Orozco jumped Into This is the second annual picnic acre. Forty acres of this farm was al the brench, blew up the block and cap held by the Kansayieople of this city and no doubt W large crowd so seeded to garden peas for a tured the town. Since then ho has will be in attendance. The com Portland seed company, which been the official leader of the revolu Mr. tionary forces of Chihuahua. mittee will get some good speakers netted the fanner $4,800. Armstrong, the photographer, and a good time is assured. It Lamb's farmer, If. L. Stephens, plows very deep, harrows thorough Mrs. Kathrine Smith and daugh is kept busy duplicating orders, will be held in the city park and an invitation to all Kansans in the ly and drills in all of his grain ter Mrs. Howard of Eugene were which means pleased patrons. Ilis county and surrounding country is crops. The dairy product of the guests of Mr. and Mrs. G. II. T y pictures always please. Coquille is also immense. given. son last week. Herbert Leigh, general manager for the Oregon Mines Corporation, has concluded negotiations for the stamp mill and other machinery belonging to the Crystal Consoli dated group of tpines, and is af- rauging a deal, he says, whereby the Oregon Mines is to be consoli dated with the North Fairview. This would give the company full equipment and machinery for the operation of both properties. 1’ p wards o f $90,000 has been spent ou the Crystal consolidated. The items of expenditure are for mill, wagon roads and development. AS TO REBUILDING M ILL. There has been much specula tion since the burning of the Booth-Kelly company’s mill at Springfield as to whether or not said mill will be rebuilt, or^if it is reconstructed as to whether or not it will rise, Phoenix-like, upon the ashes of the old. The company is entirely non-committal on the matter: in fact it is highly prob able that no definite conclusion can lie reached until after a meet ing of the stockholders soo* to lie held in Detroit. Industries. This Closing Out Sale of High-Grade Clothing A t W heeler=Thom pson Co’s. Is a bona fide sale. If you want to save from $5.00 to $10.00 on a suit. Y o u can do it here. If you think $1.00 to $2.50 on a pair of pants is worth saving com e and see us. W e mean business. W e mean to discontinue our cloth ing department and shall close it out J * Regardless Of Price Ladies’ high-grade low shoes, $1.90 to $2.85 M en ’s “ “ “ 2.15 to 3.85 om e A n d See Us WHEELER THOMPSON CO. Portland, Aug. 1.— Immediate construction of a railroad from Kugene to Marshfield, at a cost es timated at $8,000,0Q0, was author ized yesterday by tbe Southern Pa cific Company through J P. O ’ Bri en, vice-president and general manager in this city. Preliminary surveys have al ready beeu made and six engineer ing parties are in the field locating the permanent line. Although the definite course through which the new road will be constructed has not yet been se lected, Mr. O ’ Brien said that the general route will be along the Siuslaw River, through the Coast Range to the coast, thence south to Marshfield, where it will con nect with the Coos Bay, Roseburg & Eastern Railroad, now operating a line thirty miles long from Marshfield to Myrtle Point. This road is also owned by the Southern Pacific Company. DRAIN PROJECT DROPPED. Construction of the road from Eugene to Coos Bay means the abandonment by the Southern Pa cific of its project to build to Coos Bay from Drain, 28 miles south of Eugene, at which place several million dollars was spent in prelim inary construction work immedi ately previous to the financial de pression four years ago. Part of the improvement used on the Drain line, it is believed, can be utilized on the new project. WHY THIS SUDDEN ACTIVITY? This sudden activity on the part of the Southern Pacific in connec tion with this coast railroad was no doubt brought about by the fil ing of $10,000,000 of Boise-Rose- burg-Coos Bay railroad bonds at Coquille City last Friday by New Vork and Philadelphia capitalists. The S. P. Co. has delayed build ing a railroad to Coos Bay just as long as (xissible, lint now, from the fact that another road promis es to invade the Coos Bay field the Southern Pacific suddenly awak ens from its prolonged Rip Van- Winkle sleep and gets busy. ANOTHER EXPLANATION. Portland, Aug. 1.— The Journal this evening says: Forced into tbe ojieii by the ac tivity iff two English syndicates, one planning to build to Coos Bay from Roseburg and llie other to follow the Siuslaw river, General Manager J. P. O'Brien, of the Ilarriinau lines in Oregon, has issued a statement that the South ern Pacific will begin at once the construction of a line from Kugene to Marshfield. The announcement includes an admission that the work already done on a line from Drain to i Marshfield was an expensive mis ta k e and will have to Ire aban doned. Several hundred thousand I dollars at least were expended in I surveys, grading and bridge con struction work on the Drain-Coos | Bay railroad, which was a favored j scheme of K. K. Calvin when he jwas general manager of the South ern Pacific Oregon lines Some .V) or 40 miles of work was jdoneon the Drain-Coos Bay line, ' ( o N f l N C E D ON LAST PAG E.) Vr-
