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On brätle 10 Pages 10 Page A L O C A L P A P E R F I T F O R ANY H O M E -P R O G R E S S IV E . N E W SY . IN D E P E N D E N T Bohemia Gold Mining District and Thirty Saw Milling Enterprises Tributary to Cottage Grove. Dairying, Fruit Growing, Farming are.Profitable COT TAGE GROVE LEA D ER B O H E M IA N U G G ET C n n a n i i d s t s d U m i s r * 4 iqhm 1 ^ C o » .o lU * U d j 9. 190®. ELECTRIC LINE 10 THE GROVE Rights of Way Already Secured to Creswell C O T T A G E GROVE, OREGON, T U E S D A Y , A P R IL 16, 1912 of such a road, as they will extend it up the sw ale to the n atu ra l pass through the m ountains an d ex ten d it into th e I.oraue valley. T h e road from E ugene to C res well will be easily constructed, as it is only a two and one-half per cent grade. A line such as this would open a large am ount of country, an d it is hoped that the project will be carried to a success ful term ination. from Eugene LOCAL. COUNTY. SIATE AND GENERAL NEWS OE INTEREST Springfield Saloon Trouble Starts Recall Proceed ings— Death of Two Notable Characters Railroad Work at Eugene. BUILDING ACTIVITY Will Plant 50 Acres to Potatoes Cal Y oung bought a carload of seed potatoes from Frank Blair la st week an d shipped them to Saginaw , where he will have 50 acres planted on his big farm there. H e furnishes the seed, th e lan d an d the motive power and V au g han Hill will do the work an d they will divide the crop. T his is what is know n as the Jones farm. Industries. VOL. XXIII. NO. 5a GRANGE FAIR PLANS PERFECT South Lane Farmers Will Compete for Prizes School Exhibit ACTIVITY AT THE COMMENCES EARLY Banker Darwin Bristow, w ife' An advance of 26 cents per It has been know n th at surveyors and little daughter, of E ugene, pound is offered on the forthcow It has been some years since the and rights-of-w ay agents have been were guests for a few days last ing hop crop. unexcelled products of south Many New Bungalos and Cottages week at the home of Mrs. Bristow’s engaged in active operations be It Has Become One of Western Ore L ane’s orchards, fields, forests and l.orane has a new and strong brother, Attorney J. S. Medley, of Already in Evidence as Well tween C ottage G rove and E ugene gon e Big Producers and mines were exploited to the public th is city. baseball team equipped with new and I.oraue during the past winter, As Tw o Big Bricks iu a local or district fair and rec Dividend Payers. suits and will no doubt put up a I T he rem ains of the late G eneral hut they have beeu very retieeut ognizing the great benefit to be j Fred D. G rant, sou of the great good stiff gam e of ball this season. in regard to giving out any in fo r A lready a num ber of modern civil war hero, will he laid to final Roy O strander, the well know n Andrew Nelson, electrician and derived in a com m unity from m ation concerning the project up- búngalos and cottages are loom ing rest with m ilitary honors at West barber, has gone to Coos country, o p erato r of the big electric power such exhibitions, the Cottage 011 w hich they were w orking and up in Cottage Grove regardless of Point. His death was sudden and where he contem plates engaging in p lan t of the W est Coast Mines in G rove G range with com m endable also as to the prom oters of the the fact th a t the advent of the unexpected. the barber business either at the Bohemia district, spent the public spirit has decided to hold a prospective electric lines. H ow building season is not due for at A lready on account of Saloon Coquille or Baudot!. past week in this city after a suc local fair this fall and has taken ever, the som ew hat hazy atm os least 30 days. A m ong the new trouble at Springfield recall p eti up the m atter in a system iualic phere surrounding these operations com m odious homes we note the tions are being circulated in our It has been determined th a t New cessful w inter’s run. He says the and business-like m anner, which big plant is running like clock was considerably cleared up last fine new búngalo of C apt. Bert K. sister city for the recall of M ayor York is the most crowded city in is a guarantee th at the exhibition work, and further than th a t the week by the following an n o u n c e Lawsou in east Cottage Grove; t h e ! Stevens and couttcilmeu M athews (th e world. Blocks 200x300 feet and atten d an t features will be a ment of the Eugene Register: new liuugalo of P hotographer ' an ^ H enderson. J. A. W ebber of | •« the most crowded districts con- com pany was satisfied with its operations iu Bohemia, Mr. Nelson | co“ P>e,e success, creditable to th e “ For the purpose of interesting Motiroe on F ourth street and th ere the Metropole hotel is said to be j tain from 2500 to 4800 persons. order and this productive section would say little, it being a well some railroad in the building of an by the neat, new cottage of Ernest back in g the movement. Miss Flora Phillips has gone to Oregon. T he city know u fact th at this successful of favored electric line from E ugene, business Bisby, w hile work on the fine m o d Miss Clara Barton, founder of Tillam ook to remain indefinitely m ining com pany has never sought schools iu which an A gricultural men, who are interested in property ern bun g alo for Mr. an d Mrs. the A m erican Red Cross, died at with the family of her Foster P hil publicity, but seems content to Industrial Coutest has been in a u between here and Creswell have Chas. A dam s ou Perkins A venue her home in Glen Echo, M aryland, lips She will continue her studies keep the big stam ps dropping and gurated will co-operate in th is lo secured the greater part of the is progressing, Mr. an d Mrs. Friday of pneum onia at the age of in high school at th at place, and the gold bricks moving to th e m int. , cal fair movement and the school right-of-w ay for the line from E u Adams now enjoying their honey, ‘X) years. She was honored by all anticipates the change of clim ate T h e tim e is not far distant when disp,ay win be an interesting fea- gene to Creswell. Deeds for th is moon in southern C alifornia. A nations, her life h av in g been de will prove beneficial to her health. other properties in Bohemia will tu re of ,h e ex h ib it‘ T he tim e for right-of-w ay are being m ade to 1*. large new addition to the Beatty T he rains of the early part of voted to the alleviation of suffer I holdin* the local fair win * * “ * at E . Snodgrass, vice-presideut of the cottage in W est C attage G rove was ing brought either by war or pesti last week developed Friday into a become regular producers. some convenient date prior to the S upt. Hogue of the W est Coast F irst N ational han k , as trustee. recently com pleted by contractor lence. rather un u su al cold wave, snow Mine in Bohemia returned from a county fair th at the G range may Surveys already m ade are for W . F . H art. Sam M cKeruou has being in evidence th at m orning ou F. B. Phillips inform s the L ead trip to Kelso T hursday and retu rn com pete iu the county contest at th e line to leave E ugene along com pleted a neat cottage near the the hills bordering on the Row the E ugene fair. A lder street to the south and brick yard. W alter W oodard has er th a t the couuty court will se» river valley. Ou th is sam e d ate ed to the mines Friday. It is said T h e G ran g e will offer a cash cure additional laud for county he shipped a good sized gold th rough the pass just east of Spen also com pleted a neat hungalo and six inches of snow fell at K lam ath I prize of $5.00 for the person get road purposes along the river ou brick to the San Francisco m int cer butte into C am as swale to C res moved therein in South C ottage Falls. when he cam e out from the m ines ting the largest num ber of blue well, and thence on to C ottage G rave. T h is promises to be a year the Spray place east of this city j ribbons. Orvil Spear and wife are ridiug where the road was washed out recently. G rove.” of great b uildin g activ ity in Cottage T he following were elected of- new Crescent bicycles. Mr. and last winter. Tw o or three stone T h e Creswell Chronicle story is Grove. ■ in ui-i , | ficers of the fair: Superintendent, bulk-heads will be bu ilt there this Mrs. Spear have charge of the as follows: W. C. Johnson bad a pair of sum m er to prevent further des household of Alex and John Cooley, J. W. Wilson a Knight of the Gripsack ;(Jeo_ A tkillsoll; wgeWtllXy i F . H. Right-of-way has been secured large dorm er windows built in the Phillips; treasurer, M. M. W heeler. for the construction of an electric place of the one small one in the truction to the river b an k and the esteemed pioneer farm ers and On Monday m orning our esteem Follow ing superintendents of large laud holders ju st outside the line from Eugene to Creswell, so m ansard roof of his nice ho m e on road by freshets in th e river. ed tow nsm an J. W. Wilson, late departm ents were nam ed: Live city limits on the south. Mr. Spear th e Chronicle has been inform ed Cherry street last week. Now comes the report th a t ac tu a l W heeler-Thom pson Co., j stock, R. H. Mosby; vegetables, also holds the positiou of salesm an of the by F. A. Richardson, president of construction work has com menced took his departure for California j M. M. W heeler; grain, F. S. Cur- T he big two story concrete brick in the Powell & Cooper clo th in g the Creswell O rchard Co., who at E ugene on the Coos Bay b ranch where he has been assigned all of ¡ o h ; poultry, W. C. Conner; fruit, building of Cooper & Powell on store. was instrum ental in securing a of the Southern Pacific railroad the territory iu th a t state north o il'» - F. K ing; m anufactures, R. Y. the corner of m ain and second Fredie Sloan, aged 26 years was p art of the right-of-w ay, and who and from the fact th a t Vice Presi San F ran cisco in which to intro- i Porter; canned goods, Mrs. Ernest street is about inclosed and will be h as a blue print of the proposed dent C. J . Millis left P ortland drowned in the S antian river, near duce the goods of a well known j Scars an d Mrs. M. M. W heeler; one of the handsom est business road. T h u rsd ay for a w eek’s sojourn in Crawfordsville, W ednesday m orn glove, hosiery and pearl button | fancy work, Mrs. A. Dolittle, Mrs. blocks in the city when com pleted. T h e proposition is headed by P. I the Coos Bay country gives color ing, April 10th: Mr. Sloan is a coucern. Before leaving Mr. Wil- j Ben Crow and Mrs. Ju lia Ashby, T he foundation is com pleted and E . Snodgrass, vice-president of to the report th at construction brother of Mre. J . E. Damewood, son booked a large order for his Follow ing com m ittees were ap- the floor sills in place for the new th e First N atioual b an k of E ugene, work is to begin at once at th at of this city. Mr. an d Mrs. D am e line of goods at E ugene an d in ¡pointed: Finance, Hickey, Yan- Cooper brick adjoining the Law- an d w ith him in the enterprise a re ene of the survey the same as it wood left for the scene of the ac C ottage Grove. He contem plates cey, S m ith. Gronuds, |o h n V eatch, son brick, an d it is rum ored the other capitalists of th a t place. T he w as on the T illam ook-H illsboro cident T hursday, on the 4 o’clock m oving his fam ily to some con veil 'G . W . M cFarland, E d Adams, old Griffin corner opposite S p ra y ’s road will be about 101% miles in project. T he com pletion of this tra in . Mr. Sloan will be remember ient California town this sum m er | Bert McDole. A dvertising, S. B. will he the site of the next big length and the survey has been b ranch line to the coast will mean ed here by m any old frieuds h av or fall where he will establish I Mores, R. C. Andrews, com mercial building for Cottage m ade and the grade established as nearly as m uch to L ane as to Coos ing resided here a num ber of years headquarters. Mr. Wilson is ai »— ■ Grove. and attended far as the Ziniker place west of county from a com m ercial sta n d w ith his parents genial fellow who had the confi Grange Hits Proposed Single Ta x. school in th is city. At last ac tow n. point. dence and esteem of a wide circle counts the body had not been re T hose interested in the road own H arvey Thoren, the celebrated of friends here who will regret the covered . a trac t of 1500 acres know n as the W hereas, T here is a proposition w alker, who started out from loss of the family to this com m un Porter Acres w hich is located Hon. O. M. Kem an d son V ictor ity. before the people to shift the b u r U kiah, California, on M arch 5th about six miles south of E ugene. I den of tax atio u from personal to w alk to New York city an d re also son-in-l&w, G uard Corey, re T h e proposed line will pass through property ; and tu rn , m ade our* office a call last turned home S aturday April 7th, j th is property to Z iniker’s place from Portland in Mr. Kern’s fine W hereas, W e believe th a t method T h u rsd ay . He is av erag in g his Firem an Bert Aderton, who with w hich joins it on the south. A fter of tax atio n to be unjust, unfair 25 miles per day, this being the new five-passenger C halm ers 36, | E ngineer Bartlett, was killed by crossing a portion of the Z iniker j an d inequitable, and tim e he set out to m ake. H e had autom obile. T he trip home was I farm it runs through R u eg g er, ' | ,e e x P1^ ,0V of the 'ocom otive at m ade in about 12 hours w ithout W hereas, We believe th a t th e some pretty rough experience in Brothers’ farm of 827 acres for a Rice H ill recently, received his the Sierra N evadas as well as in incident regardless of the fact that method of single ta x would ham per I,. E . Stroud, who resided here d istance of a mile and a quarter education in the Cottage Grove the Siskiyous, h aving had to spend the roads were still a little rough our industries in almost every line public schools, d u rin g w hich tim e som ething like 14 years ago, re- I an d touches the corner of R. H . in places for autom obiling. Mr. an d vastly increase 'th e burden of a few n ights in the m ountain fast his father F . A. A derton, was en- turned to this city recently from : N ew halls’s place. From there it Corey served as chauffeur, he h av (tax atio n on the farm er and lan d ness am id a low degree of tem per Pleasant Hill to reside an d has strikes the county road west of the *a*ed in har,,06s m a k i"K la this ature. W hile in C ottage G rove he ing had considerable experience in opened a new restaurant in the ow ners of the country; Ralph Stone farm and comes east | C,,y- Just prior to th e time m ade a short visit with H. C. M ad autom obiling in Colorado before Therefore, Be It Resolved, by W alker building one door west of on th a t thoroughfare to town. ,his family moved to «oseburg com ing to th is city to reside. The C ottage Grove G range No. 443, sen, the jeweler, who is a co u n try Every acre of the right-of-w ay *om e years a « ° younR Adertou m an of his, w hich he enjoyed very Kem car is one of the handsomest S p ray ’s. H is specialty will be the we are unalterably opposed to was m arried to a C ottage Grove m eals served fam ily style w hich has been deeded and work on the such methods of tax atio n , and and finest in this city. girl whose parents conducted a m ucb. will no doubt appeal to all tran - road will start at once. T he deeds pledge ourselves to use all honor- restaurant near the depot and sient and home patrons. M r.. , , specify th a t the line is to be co m . i able m eans in our pow er to prevent whose nam es we cannot recall. A Stroud has secured the services o f ;__ t ____ .__ , __., pleted w ithin two years. Those 1 such a system being adopted in the widow and two little daughters Ralph Pendleton of P ortland to, at the head of the project state if j S tate of O regon; and survive th e u n fo rtu n ate fireman. preside over the culinary d ep art it is im possible for them to finance Re It F urther Resolved, T h a t a ment which is ample assurance the road to com pletion, th a t oth er copy of these resolutions be sent to th a t the public will get the best in j capital is ready to step in and fin our town aud county papers and to Floyd Ram p, th e well known the m arket, served in first class ish the line. socialist orator, was the prin cip al. H aving just returned from a tr ip : p a n ies are paying dividends on style when a visit is m ade to the the leading papers of Portland. It is understood th a t M ilwaukee, speaker at a socialist rally and I to A rizona copper country, F. J. „res th at are throw n on the dum p G. W . M cFA RLA N D, Master. new restaurant. H ard, of the Vesvius, Oregon-Colo W isconsin, capitalists who are I* * * he,d “ P h ^ P S haf'l rado and * other h * . ^ properties I r Z ^ f r V in ^ th l ^ e a . p i n t h e Bobmia district and A new steel bridge is to be b u ilt financing the fruit developm ent in last T h u rsd ay evening. T he party „ . . . .B ohem ia district, is very enthus- th a t Boh mi a will come uito her W ill W ard has dressed his new j across the W illam ette at Jasper, the Ixirane valley, are very mucb was wel represented an d the oc- iastjc a bout the future of Bohemia own just as soon as a proper p lan t interested in the project, and are casion was declared a most e n jo y -. as a future producer of cupper, for h an d lin g the ore can be p u t team up in a fine new set of Beals | this county, a t'a c o st of about $10,* Concord farm harness. 000 anxiously aw aiting the com pletion able one. I Mr. H ard says the A rizona com into the district. WEST CO AST MINE DEAD FIREMAN WAS COTTAGE GROVE BOY NEW COMER OPENS HOME RESTAURANT BOHEMIA COMPARES ftVORABEY WITH ARIZONA COPPER MINES .