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V O L. X X III.
C O T T A G E G R O V E . O R E G O N , TUESDAY, J A N U A R Y 2, 191
N O . 37
said Dr. William T. Johnson, of MARRIED PEOPLE'S
for this combination of counties, MANY INQUIRIES
LUMBER BUSINESS
the Corvallis hospital. ‘ There is
it is necessary to add the popula­
no more smallpox here than in
CLUB MEETING
of the new county to that of
LOOKING UPWARD other
ABOUT OREGON
IN POPULATION tion
towns in the valley; not so
the old county from which it was
much, in fact, as in a numbei of
The first meeting of the married
formed. Thirty-one counties and
Portland, Or., Dec. 12<St>eci.il
I! low we give a Telegraphic others.”
People’s Club of the M. E. Church
The population of Oregon is
the one combination of counties in
The cases have been so extreme­ was held at Phillips’ Hall last
672,765. Compared with a popu­ the state increased ill population Eyes of eastern people have In-en repnrl announcing a freight reduc­
fixed on Oregon during the past tion pit lumber, and there reports ly light that for a time it was Wednesday evening proved an en­
lation of 413,526 in 1900, this rep­
during the last decade. The rates
resents an increase during the last of increase for the 31 counties two weeks. The governors’ spec of 'ub tantial improvements in the doubtful whether it was really tire success in all particulars.
ial, carrying an exhibit of the state demands for lumber afloat, which smal!pox and not some lesser epi­ '1'here were present about one hun­
decade of 259,229, o r 62.7 percent
range from eight-tenths of 1 |>er products, has been Visiting til
dred and fifty persous and all had
are causing some improvements all demic.
During the same period the total
cent ill Union county to 135 per prillcipal c¡t¡es of the country am! along the line, and we have reason
a good time.
population ;'f continental United
cent in Crook county, and the ab ,1RS a ttr,cte(1 ,,rt..lt attention evi rt-
The first of importance oil the
to believe that by the lime spring
States increased 21 per ceut. The
solute increases of the same coun wllele Oregon lias been favorgd opens that there will be demands
Trains Soon for Lakeview
program, and by no means the
growth of the state was a little
ties from 41 in Wheeler county to* with nlore ¡.„eiesl than any other that will cause all the mills in
least, was a dinner prepared by the
more than twice as rapid as during
Trains will probably be running ladies, after which came a series of
1-3,094 in Multnomah county. S(a(e; judging from the great null) this section to start upon lull time
the preceeding decade, 1890-1900,
l'Ue combined counties of Hood I
of inquiries asked of those on
Th ,„iil of th- llto.vn I.umber to bakeview by late winter or early toasts, Elbert I'ede acting as toasts
when the rate of increase was .10.2 River and Wasco increased 11,153, j . her ard
Spring, as rail connection has been master, the first of which was by
K Co. has start <1 up and will run on
per cent.
or 84.5 Tier cent. One county in I
been conpleted with that city from ,7r” f‘ ‘ p'l'17vaiice “ The Pastor and
At
the
Chicago
band
Show,
t<M
,
t\v
a
tlii;-is
,t
pres
tit
The
Oregon was organized as a terri­ the state, Grant, showed a decrease !
Alturas, Modoc county, California. W ife.” The next was by Rev.
this
state
has
played
a
prominent\Yr
—
U,
a
1.a
I.muhe;
s
unti
up
tory 1848 and appears in the Fed­ namely, 341 or 5.7 per cent. Nine
A woiideriully rich eouutry will be Sutcliffe—The women
of The
las aa.so st 'rted,
eral census reports for the first time unities and the one combination part. Oregon Day, December 17, ¡ the o . ,v S I
opened up to the outside world.
Church.” Mrs Wheeler —The
was
marked
by
a
very
large
at
laud
iv
•
muli
and, lias anders
in 1850. The total population of counties show a higher rate of
That Oregon Creamery men need New Comers," which was respond­
wheels tur aiilg
(13.294) reported for I 8 .S 0 includes increase than is shown for the states tendance of interested people wli jthajl will keep
not
take second place in the man­ ed to by S. b. Mackin. During
1201 returned for that portion whicli as a whole, which, as before stated, were eag**r to learn more of < >r< - ! f<,• ,im
ufacture of dairy products was au after program Mrs. Sutcliffe and
goti.
At
St.
Paul’s
band
Show,
,j•¡l
telegram mentioned i ads stated on undoubted authority at
was taken in 1953 to form Wash­ was 62.7 per cent
daughter rendered a piano duet
which o|>eiis this week for 1 1 days, ' ,|S |((,|
ington territory.
Each decade
the recent convention of butler and which was highly appreciated by
The total laud area of the state
since 1850 the state has shown a is' 82,507 square miles. The aver­ | ( )regon will also he represented b
Seattle, Dec. 26 An aiinounce- cheese makers in Portland. Prof.
rapid growth, the lowest rate of in age number of persons to the square ] delegates and an exhibit. These ment was made t< av of freight John Sollie, of Albert bea, Minn, alb b. A Ralston gave a splendid
crease for any decennial period be­ mile in 1910 was 3; in 1901) and ! big features will do much to point reduction of 10 cents per Infinite 1 siiief ?udge of the exhibits, said reading and Messers Uinphrey
ing 30.2 per cent for the decade 1890 it was 4.3 and 3.3, respective­ land hungry people to this state, on shipments from western Wash­ he was surprised at the high qual­ and Mackin gave a vocal duet ill
Mrs.
1890-1900. The most rapid rate of ly. The - average number jier where agricultural opportunity ington to Denver territory. 'Phis ity of cheese and butter he found a very pleasing mauiier
Compton
then
gave
a
reading
awaits
them.
growth was naturally during the square mile for continental United
is one f the deep l cuts ever made here, lie said the butter shown
A northwest dairy stock exhibit on forest products mid lumbermen would rank with any he lias judg­ which was highly appreciated.
first few years in the history of the Stales as a whole in PM0 was 30.9.
The hit of the evening was a
lias been suggested in connection say it will increase ihc red cellar ed in New Pork and the eastern
state, the population increasing
darkey
quartet by Mesdames Bruud
Harney
county,
with
9,933
With the annual state dairy con shiilgle matabet from 10 to 20 per states.
threefold from 1850 to I860 During
Hart, Conner and Cochran, who
It is planned to living cent.
the three following decades, 1860- square miles, has the largest area, ; ve„^0„
showed their taste and skill in ap*
animals here for display
1890, the population of the state and Multnomah county, with 451
Railroads also announced a re­
Ve y Pleasant New Year Party
plying the burnt cork as well as
square
miles,
has
the
smallest
area,
|
and
,he
IIla,laReuient
of
the
P<>rl- duction ranging from 10 to 20 per
increased more than fivefold, the
choosing a song and rendering it.
percentages of increase ranging Multuoniah county, which contains | ,aml L-niol, Stock Yards has nlTer cent on fir lumber from the Pacific
What proved to be one of the |
---------- ■ .
the
city
of
Portland,
has
the
high-
ed
j],e
use
()f
the
foams,
show
ring
from 73.3 to 92.2. between 1890
coast to Nebraska points.
most enjoyable New Year parties' Whi!e s)ave Scandel Astounds France
est
density
of
any
county,
namely,
am,
pells
for
exhibition
purposes
and 1910 the population more than
ever given in Cottage Grove was j
Gossip About Smallpox.
doubled. The uumercial increase 501.7 persons per square mile. | n ¡s thought such a show could be
um liitnrJro/1
participated 1 ii>
iia lm
by I two
hundred aurl
and 1
llatuey, bake and Malheur coun made of interest to the dairymen
Paris, Dec. 27.—Nineteen prison­
during the last decade was nearly
thirty
four
guests
Monday
after
Corvallis,
Ore.,
Dec.
JS.
-
Til
ties each average less than I tier- jO r e g o n , Washington, Idaho and
ers accused of being iuvoled in the
one and one-half times the entire
i
northern
California.
rumor that Corvallis might be noon at home of Mr. and Mrs. F. most sensational white slave scan­
sou per square mile.
population of the state in 1880.
Great advances in road building quarantined on account >f small I). Wheeler, l>v the Women’s Club.
dal here in many years were ar­
A comparison of the rates of in Oregon Gets Share of Forest Money throughout this state are simni hr -jinx is malting but ridiculous gias
Prof. Waterhouse presided at the
ranged today iu the court of cor-
figures of county judges. In 1895
crease for the state with those for
'I'he staite of l )regon will leceive Oregon had 35,000 miles of roads kip,” says Dr. H. S. Perniat, city piano, while vocal numbers were | reclinns. 'They included Victor
continental United States, shows $35,612.30 from the government as
and spent $800,000 in repairs and health officer. “ We have not had rendered by Mrs. Waterhouse, Mr. Flachon, a former editor and close
that during every decade coy
its share in the receipts for the year construction. Iu 1910, with 40,000 thirty caiscs altogether, and they Kiaiter, Miss Silsby, Mrs. Shinn friends of former Premor Briaud;
«red the growth of the state om the forest reserves. This in­ miles of roads, $2,000,000 was were carefully quarantined and and daughter, Miss Shinn.
Gaston Alard, a rich manufacture'
was more rapid than the growth of formation was communicated to spent.
Refreshment4 were served all af­
everv precaution taken against the
er.and Madame Guiltuau, who is
the country as a whole. The pop the governor’s office yesterday from
Southern Oregon cities are’look spread ol the disease. The main ternoon, the booths being presided
ulation of the state in 1910 was Washington. I). C. Warrants will ing forward to a network of inter- means of contagion wat- the city over by the Misses Flo Phillips, Ivy alleged to have conducted the
white slave agency which supplied
urban electric lines that will great
somewhat more than fifty times as
be sent for this amount within a ly facilitate travel and inter com public sclu ols, and since the vac­ and Fern Molcome, while Eleanor rich men with child victims.
large as in 1850, while the popula
few days.
munity life iu that section of the cination nf the school children the Wheeler and Ester Hill attended
The defendants also included
tiou of continental United States
The money represents a propor­ state. Plans are announced of a I disease has b -u well under control, the door.
se Viral mothers, who admitted they
in 1910 was slightly less than four tion of the recepits for the fiscal trolley line from Grants Pass to j "At the a- ege there have been
The dining loom was decorated
hud sold their children, some of
times that in 1850.
year ending June 30, 1911, from Ashland, linking all the intermedi­ I but five .-t a cuts ailTecled by the in the club colors, laveudar ami whom were only 11 years old. A
ate
cities.
Oregon has 97 cities, of which the national forests to which the
¡disease, and th v were quarantined white while the other rooms were
A fine country place on the bank at once I . to n, aa ! their a esilici! es lires edin green and red, Oregon dozen bankers and government offi­
Portland, the largest, has a popu­ state is entitled under an act of
cials have fled from France to es­
lation of 207,214, and Salem, the congress approved M ay 23, 1908. of Crooked River, Crook county, and cla.-s laioans thoroughlv fumi grape mid red liells predominating.
cape prosecution.
costing $50,000, is promised by
second city, a population of 14,094.
'This was an event that will be
Henry McCall, the sou iu law of galed, tliat otheis allighi noi be eia
it is alleged that Madame Guil-
There are also 5 cities having from
long remembered by all who were
The W. R. C. will iheet in spec­ Thomas W. Lawson, of Boston. daiigerel.
nieii sold the girls on a commission
5,000 to 10,000, 9 having from ial session at Phillips’ hall on Fri­ Mr. McCall, has brought too acres
l’eopleCorning iaa thè college in attendance, and many are the re­ basis, giving the mothers trifling
2,500 to 5,000, and 81 having less day afternoon. All members are and will make a beautiful home of for thè short course would be ruti­ grets of those who were favored
sums out of the huge amounts re­
it. This is one result of the visit
than 2,500 inhabitants.
urged to be present as business of of Mr- bawson to Oregon last Sum­ li ing no more risk of exp asure thau with invitations who were unable I ceived from the wealthy debauch­
Te cities Portland, Salem, lvu importance is to be transacted.
they would if they stai ed at houle,” to be presen t.
mer-
ees to uliom she pandered. The
gene, Medford, and Ashland show
\ prosecution ailleges that hideous or­
very high rates of increase for the
gies were conducted at Flachon's
last decade, ranging from 90.0 per
a villos iu the country, where his rich
cent in Ashland to 393.6 per cent
i associates used the little girls ia
in Medford. Baker City shows the
| revelry, outdoing the atrocities
lowest rate of increase, namely, 1
1 credited to Sodom in its wickedest
per cent. During the proceeding
I day.
decade, however, there was a mark­
Leap Year Party.
ed growth in the population of this
eity, the percentage of increase be
The Auiicitian Club entertained
iuiduight_ December 31 the year I 11 came to its close and
ing 155.9. It will be noted that a
their
gentlemen friends at Philip’s
instantly
the
year
1912
came
into
the
arena
prepared
to
take
up
high rate of increase in population
hall yesterday evening. A ban-
the unfinished work of the thrcnal of time Everv tiling moved
has prevailed in Portland since its
quit was served by the ladies in
along just the same, every one kept step in th gre at pi ace -irai of
incorporation, the percentages of
fine style, and at the proper time
progress just as though nothing hail tr.au ;• red that would either
increase ranging from 94.9 for the
the young men were invited and
retard or hasten the advance of time and - > it w a not a single inter­
decade IN‘>0-I900 to 18.9.6 for the
escorted to the Arcade Theater anil
val of space occurred that would indicate the i arting of tin great
decade 1860-1870.
given the benefit of the show.
endless chain and so it is with the
Oregon has 34 counties. The
The hall hail been beautifully
population of these counties ranges
decorated with evergreens, mistle­
from 2,044 ill Curry county to 226,-
toe and ( >regon grape. A fine
261 in Multnomah county.
The same great chain of high clas me a liatnlis -continues to stream
time was enjoyed by all iu attend*
out across the threshold of our doors iu the arm • of our army of
The following territorial changes
j ance, and the voting ladies proved
satisfied patrons just as it has iu th p
,v 1 1 ic 1 i we are very
have beeeu made since I90O. Part
themselves excellent entertainers,
thankful and at this time extend to the pit lie
ir F -t wishes for a
of Wasco county was taken in
and it is expected that many events
Prosperous and Happy New Year.
1908 to form Hood River county
of this kind will take place during
and part of Union county was an­
the year.
nexed to Baker county in 1902.
The Creswell Dramatic Company
Owing to the organization since
gave
another performance iu Arm­
1900 of one new county from part
ory Hall Friday evening. Owing
of another county, as shown above,
to the fact that there were other
the comparison of increase in pop­
entertainments in town at the same
ulation is made for only 22 counties
time the attendance was not what
and one combination of counties.
( it should have been, however the
The counties combined are Hood
company gave a good pet fcrinauc«
River and Wasco. In o'der to de­
] as usual.
termine the actual rate of increase
OREGON'S INCREASE
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WHEELER-THOMPSON
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