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ü * ° ' O. L¡b¡ r»ty (fijrfíage SPREAD OF HOG CHOLERA IN LANE CONVENTION City Officials From NO. 6 COTTAGE GROVE, LANE COUNTY, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1914 VOL. 3 T op to Bottom of Ticket Re-Nom inated by Acclamation The annual city nominating convention was held in the ar mory Monday evening. Mayor J. H. Chambers was chosen as chairman and Recorder J. E. Young as secretary. The chair man announced the purpose of the meeting and stated that nom inations for mayor were in or der. M. P. Garoutte placed the name of J. H. Chambers before the convention for mayor and there being no other nominations Mr. Chambers was declared the unanimous choice of the conven tion for the nomination. For treasurer, Herbert Eakin’s name was presented by Geo. Mc Queen, and he was declared the nominee by acclamation. For recorder, J. E. Young was placed in nomination by Frank Garoutte, and his nomination was declared unanimous. Candidates for councilmen in the three wards were nominated by citizen voters of the respect ive wards as follows. Ward 1, T. C. Wheeler Ward 2, Ewen Walker Ward 3, C. B. Hayes. These three gentlemen are the present incumbents whose terms expired.at the close of the year, each of whom however, was no minated to succeed himself, as was also Mayor Chambers, Trea sure Eakin, and Recorder Young. This was indeed, a high com pliment to these worthy and pub lic spirited gentlemen and was a gratifying endorsement o f their administration o f the affairs of the city, Mayor Chambers hav ing already served two terms and some other members of the board having served much longer. They have been conservative, economical, yet have made as many public improvments as the means at their command would justify. It is gratifying indeed to note that all factionalism and partyism has been relegated to the scrap heap in this city and that our citizens all work in per fect harmony in a common cause —the upbuilding and advance ment o f Cottage Grove and com munity. Pays to A dvertise. Rufus “ Rattlesnake” Edwards, who formerly prospected in the Bohemia mines, was married at Medford Sunday to a Miss Mary Wenzicker of Evansville, Ind., which engagement was brought about throught an advertisement and correspondence. They will reside at Medford. Edwards is well known in Cottage Grove. Carload o f Mantle Brick. Unless farmers co - operate quickly with the county and state authorities, the epidemic of hog cholera in the county may gain a firm foothold, is the belief of the county agriculturalist, R. B. Cog- Ion, who with Dr. V. W. Knowles, a veterinarian from the department of agriculture, is con ducting a campaign against the spread o f the disease. He urges the ranchers to report all cases of sick hogs to him at once. He also suggests that all hogs which die should be burned at once for the germs may be carried far and wide by birds, dogs or by hu man beings.—Guard. THANKSGIVING DAY IN COTTAGE GROVE Thanksgiving day was ideal and our people made the best of it As usual family reunions and sumptuous dinners were the features o f the day, secret or ders, churches and generously inclined citizens seeing to it that those with a scanty larder were all well provided for on this day in Cottage Grove. The football game between the Cottage Grove High School and Drain for which the local band furnished music, enlivened the afternoon, the game resulting in favor of the visitors, who had the advantage of weight, by a score of 13 to 3. A number o f the churches held appropriate and interesting ser vices in the evening, and the "1. O. O. F. and Encampment mem bers with their families enjoyed a pleasant social at their hall, where a program and banquet were features o f the evening, followed with dancing and a gen eral good time. The military ball at the Arm ory was well patronized in the evening, the music was good and the management succeeded in providing"a good time for all those who attended. The business houses were all closed from 10 to 5 o ’clock. DO YOU ENJOY A GOOD HAND CONCERT Those who enjoy a good band concert and believe that a live band is a good advertisement for a town should vote for the band maintenance measure at the city election December 7. It will cost you but $1.00 on a valuation o f $1,000. It will cost the average voter about 50 cents a year. H*w The Money W ill be Spent In the event that the band maintenance measure carries, the fund provided will be used as follows: Salary o f director, per month .............................. . $ 60.00 Hall rent, per year_______ 100.00 Music and lights, per year. 100.00 The first two months salary tor a director may be used in the purchase of uniforms, which are badly needed. The Cottage Grove Manufac turing Co. has just received a carload o f fine mantel and fire place brick in assorted colors which will be a great conveni Band P roposition to City. ence to contractors and builders If the band maintenance is here who have been unable to voted the band proposes to give get such supplies at home here a free concert once a week dur tofore. - ing fair weather and for any non- profitable rally or celebration for At T V B oyal the benefit of the city the band will play free upon request of the “ Kathlyn,” a fine serial com city council or commercial club. plete in each number and one of If you can’t boost, don’t knock' the best ever produced at the Ladies votes appreciated. Band Committee. Royal theater, next Friday and Saturday. You will be pleased with it Usual prices. Some snow in sight on the hills the first of the week but none in Flavel offers free factory sites. the valley. HUFF JURY DISAGREES Unable to Reach a Verdict are Discharged and Case is Closed Against Defendant The case o f the state against William D. Huff was tried Fri day in the circuit court. He was charged with the display o f a gun during a controversy over some furniture. It seems that some furniture was being remov ed from his house upon which payments had not been complet ed, and there was some question as to which should tie taken. He contends that he fired the gun in the air to attract the attention of the officer whom he believed nearby and not to threaten or shoot any one. The case went to the jury late Friday. After sev eral hours deliberation the jury failed to agree upon a verdict and was discharged, Mr. Huff returning home to this city. DRIEF STATE AND INDUSTRIAL NEWS Roseburg will build a munici pal feed bam. The North Bend Manufactur ing company has orders for doors from England. Seven vessels loaded at St. He lens last week taking 6,000,000 feet of lumber. Governor-Elect Withycomb says there will be no fancy trimmings during his term. Baltimore has received an or der for 3,000,000 pair of heavy shoes from Russia. Owens Bros, of Eau Claire, Wis. are planning to build a saw mill on Bear Creek. The EBtabrook company of North Bend and Bandon is getting out 70,000 ties per month. The cost of school books is to be investigated and an effort made to reduce cost to the people fifty percent. Coos Bay sent nearly six mil lion feet o f lumber to the San- Francisco market the last two weeks of October. Marketing eggs direct from producer to consumer by means of parcels post shipments will soon be undertaken by a number of Oregon poultrymen. The most expensive lumber produced in the United states is boxwood which sells at $1,300 per 1000 feet. It is the favorite material for wood engraving. Governments at war in Europe have ordered thirteen me chanical grave diggers for use upon the battlefields. Chicago machine shops will fill this order. WILL OPERATE FIVE STAMP MILL SOON A five-stamp mill, to be oper ated by a 12-horsepower gaso line engine, will soon be in oper ation in the Gold Leaf mines in the Bohemia mining district, if the weather does not become too inclement to take the new engine in to the mines from the railroad at Red Bridge at this time. Everything is in readiness for starting up the mill as soon as the engine is installed and a fine lot of ore Is in sight The own ers of the property are John and Fred Bartels and Messrs Miner and Fowler of this city. 1200 MEN WILL WORK ALL WINTER Friday’s Guard said work on the Eugene and Coos Bay rail road to Gardner will be continu ed with a force o f more than 1200 men, all through the winter, in or der to lie ready to lay rails early next year from the Siuslaw to Coos Bay, according to W. W. Fountaine, who with H. P. Hoey, both assistant engineers, return ed last night from a trip of in spection over the new railroad between Eugene and Marshfield. Mr. Hoey left immediately for San Francisco. Grading is already more than 85 per cent completed over the whole distance o f the road along the coast between the three rivers, and within four or five months the entire grade will be completed, according to the en gineers. RED HOT SCHOOL MEETING AT EUGENE The abolition of the office of city superintendent * of public schools and the elimination of his salary of $2700 a year from the pay roll, the combining o f the positions o f clerk o f the dis trict and stenographer at a sala ry of $100 a year, the abandon ment o f domestic science and manuel training departments as furbelows and fads and the nulli fication of the sliding scale which automatically increases teachers’ salaries, were steps of retrench ment advocated at a meeting of the taxpayers of the city o f Eu gene last week at which a levy o f 8.5 mills as asked by the board of education was cut and estab lished at seven mills, o f which 1.9 mills will be necessary for sinking fund and interest purpos es. The meeting was fraught with feeling and some of the speakers injected personalities into the discussions, Joseph Tuttle declar ing: “ I am not in sympathy with the contemptible practical polities which has been controlling our school board." Former County Superintendent of Schools, J. S. Stevenson op posed the cutting of teachers’ salaries. He favored the aboli tion of domestic science and man uel training in the schools and said these were things which John Spray has had all the boys and girls might acquire at damage to his brick caused from home. the recent fire, repaired and will soon establish a general commis sion business therein. He will buy poultry, eggs, grain, hay, F. M. Scott was up from Sag wool, etc. and handle both new inaw Monday and favored the and second hand farm machinery. Leader with a business call. He He will also sell live stock for says the carpenters have the big the farmers on the commission Saginaw bridge, which had set plan. Page woven wire fence tled down at the west end, about in place again and that the old will be one o f his side lines. piers will be replaced with There is a good opening for such ones. a business here and Spray is the The Leader 6 months 75 oents. right man for the job. WILL OPEN A NEW COMMISSION HOUSE A BOLD DASH FOR LIBERTY Eugene Jailer Bound, Gagged and Locked in Cell and Desperate Men Escape With the jailer bound and lock ed in the innermost cell, four prisoners carefully locked up the County jail at Eugene and escaped Monday evening. Scores of people saw them leave the jail and walk quietly through the business section. Fifteen minutes later the Sheriff passed and found everything in normal order. Five minutes lat er the cries of the prisoned guard gave the first alarm. The men are Forest Daugherty and James Clergy, to have been sentenced Tuesday for burglary, and Joe Thomas and Jas. Allen, hardened criminals, whom Mar shal Jas. Brown, of Cottage Grove, captured in the railroad yards here a few weeks ago with stolen goods. Every road out of the county is watched and gun play is expected before capture is effected. | The same men sawed into with a bread knife a bar on the win dow o f the jail less than two weeks ago, and were being kept in steel cages as a precaution. Their escape was cleverly exe cuted. The steel cage in the jail is divided into cells.' These cells are unlocked from a central con trol in a steel box outside of the cages. One man was allowed outside of the cage to prepare supper, and this man had pried open the steel box, broken the padlock holding the central con trol, allowing one confederate to come outside. The other two re mained in their cells to give a normal appearance, but the cells were left unlocked. The steel box was then closed, and when George Croner, Depu ty Sheriff, opened the jail every thing appeared normal. As he reached up to unlock the control box the confederate jumped on him from behind a door, the oth er men stepped from their cells and the four men attacked him. The struggle lasted for 12 min utes and was a terrific fight for the possession o f the officer’s gun. “ I got my hand on my gun and was slowly drawing it into position,” said Croner.” ” 1 was within one inch of shooting pos ition when another threw his hand over the hammer, seized the revolver and got away.” They also took the jailer’s hat and keys with them. OM L u d Mark RcaM vcd. The large fir tree standing near the sidewalk in the city rk and the big oak nearby th fell victims to the wood man’s ax Friday, at the order of the city council. The dense shade of these big trees resulted in a wet and muddy spot on East Main street the greater part of the year, hence the order issu ed by the city» council. The or der also includes the clearing of a strip 40 feet wide the full width of the park facing East Main street, in order that the sunshine may penetrate to the street and thereby keep it dry and more sanitary. This order will not injure the park in any wise. K Superintendent B. K. Lawson of the state penitentiary, accom- anied by his wife and B. K. unior, spent Friday night with friends at this place. They at tended the dedication o f the new Roseburg armory Thanksgiving day, y