VOL. 3
CLEVER JOB
OF BURGLARY
While Farmer Sleeps his Purse
Containing $ 6 5 is Taken
From Under His Pillow
The home o f Frank Jackson,
six miles north of Cottage Grove
was entered some time last Wed­
nesday night and a purse con­
taining $65 was stolen. This act
was committed while Mr. Jack-
son was asleep, the purse being
taken from under his pillow,
where he had put it when retir­
ing, without awakening anyone
in the house. No clue as to who
stole the money has been found
but it is evidently the work of
some one who watched Mr. Jack-
son put the purse under the pil­
low, or knew of a transaction
which brought him that sum of
money that day. Officers along
the line have been notified of the
theft.
GAM E W ARDEN AFTER
OW NERS OF HOUNDS
E. C. Hills, deputy state game
warden made a hurried trip out
o f Eugene Saturday night upon
word from Dorena, ten miles east
of Cottage Grove, that the game
laws were violated. He return­
ed with a year old deer which he
has now at his home and exhibit­
ed on the street, which he claims
was run down by a dog owned by
Bake Stewart, of Dorena. He
states that the law provides for
a penalty of from $25 to $500 for
allowing dogs to run deer, wheth­
er directed by the owner or not.
The young deer was badly bitten
by the dog before being rescued
by residents in the community,
but will recover. It is alleged
that the running of deer by dogs
has occurred in other instances.
Mr. Hills today sent notices to
John Trunnell, residing on Row
river at Red Bridge, and to
Chester Gillen, near London,that
their dogs have been seen run­
ning deer, and that the dogs
must now be kept tied.—Eugene
Guard.
Of all the notoriously fool laws
some sections of the present
game laws are about the limit.
With such orders as the one issu
ed above how is the stockmen or
farmer with a bunch of sheep or
goats back in the foothills going
to protect his stock from the rav­
ages o f coyotes, wolves, cougars
and wildcats? If a farmer takes
his hounds out to try to tree a
destructive cougar or cat, or
chase a coyote out of his neigh­
borhood and his dogs should per­
chance come upon a deer and
give chase to it the farmer is lia­
ble to a fine of from $25 to $500,
or is ordered to keep his dogs
tied up. This renders sheep,
goat and calve raising in the tim­
bered hill sections practically im­
possible. This freak law should
be killed or amended at the pres­
ent session of the legislature.
COTTAGE GROVE, LANE COUNTY, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY
OREGON LEGISLATURE
NOW IN SESSION
Salem, Or., Jan. 11—W. Lair
Thompson of Lakeview, was
elected president of the senate
and Ben Selling of Portland was
chosen speaker of the house at
the opening of the twenty-eight
biennial session o f't h e Oregon
legislature here today. Both are
republicans.
Interest centered in the con­
test for speakership between
Selling and Allen Eaton of Eu­
gene, both sides having waged a
spirited campaign within the re­
publican party. Selling received
37 votes to Eaton’s 22. Thomp­
son had practically no opposition
in the senate, W. I). Wood of
Hillsboro receiving three votes
to his 26.
Hare, of Hillsboro, nominated
Selling, and Allen, of Salem,
nominated Eaton. Porter,
of
Roseburg, seconded Eaton’s nom­
ination.
After the vote was announced,
Eaton made a complimentary
speech and moved that Selling’s
election be made unanimous.
Eaton and Hinkle escorted Sell­
ing to the chair. He made no
speech. Selling it is said will
treat Eaton kindly and give him
a good committee appointment.
SENATE OFFICERS
President—W. Lair Thompson,
Lake County.
Chief Clerk—John W. Coch­
ran, Multnomah County,
Assistant Clerk—John P. Hunt,
Marion County.
Calender Clerk—James Church
Clackamas County.
Reading Clerk—Frank Motter,
Multnomah County.
Sergeant-at-arms—W. G. D.
Mercer, Lane county.
Doorkeeper—Roy Corey, Bak­
er County.
Mailing Clerk—J. I. Moreland,
Hood River County.
WASHINGTON
MILLS START
Lnmber Revival is Anticipated
By Everett Manufacturer
W ho is Visiting Eugene
Eugene, Jan. 9— F. W. Sum­
ner, of Everett, Washington pres­
ident of the Sumner Iron Works,
one of the largest manufacturers
o f sawmill machinery on the
coast, is wholly optimistic over
the lumbering situation. It was
his company that built the
machinery for the new Booth-
Kelly sawmill at Springfield, and
also part of the machinery for
the Buck box factory in Eugene,
and he made the trip to Eugene
to look over these plants.
“ The lumber situation all over
the country is improving,” he
said today. “ The mills all along
the sound are starting up again
—most of them have done so al­
ready, and things are l>eginning
to appear normal.
“ The advance o f five per cent
in the freight rates has stimulat­
ed the railroad companies to
building again—for months they
had purchased little lumber, and
there is a general wearing off of
the scare. Every farmer has
high prices for everything he has
grown, and there is a sound bas­
is for a speedy revival of activity.
Up there we are even more de­
pendent upon our lumbering in­
dustry than are you here in the
valley. For you have your farm*
ing resources to depend upon.
COUNTY EXPENSES
14733615
Inauguration of Governor.
Dr. Jas. Withycombe was in­
augurated governor to succeed
Governor West Tuesday before a
joint legislative session. At the
request of the new governor, the
ceremonies were simple. In his
message he advocated consolida­
tion of state departments, de­
clared executive clemency will
not be used as in the past, urged
strict economy, a dry state and
law enforcement.
A PROFITABLE BUFF
LEGHORN EGG FARM
Lane county paid out more
than $100,000 more during the
last six months than it did during
the same period in 1913. This is
exclusive of the special road,
school, city and port funds, and
is shown by the semi-annual re­
port filed with the county clerk
by S. W. Taylor, county treasure.
The total expenditures, exclusive
of the special funds, for the last
half of 1914 total $368,688,95; the
figure for the same period in 1913
was approximately $240,812.17.
The increase is partly account­
ed for by heavier state tax, which
was $62,000 in the report and but
$43,910 in the 1913 report The
armory fund was a new item.
The increase in the general fund
during the relative six months
period was from $118,924.99 to
$126,736.
The Leader also observes that
the cost of the Lane county
sheriff’s office ranks second high­
est in the state. For the 9 months
ending Sept 30, it was $6,882.70.
Douglas sheriff’s office was only
$3,954.66, Jackson, Josephine and
Clatsop about the same. Linn
only $2,890.02 and Marion $4,144.
Warrant interest paid by Lane
for the same time was $3,744.85.
Looks like there is room for more
retrenchment in expenses.
C. F. Handy, after sorting and
culling his hens for the past
three years, has established a
strain of heavy winter Layers,
which are bringing him a good
profit, although feed is high.
He has a flock of 160 Buff Leg­
horn pullets, the best he has ever
raised. They laid 148 dozen
eggs during the month of De­
cember. The cold snap the last
of the month caused the output
of his yards to decrease slightly,
but eggs were the highest price
that month, therefore his re­
ShasU Limited Changes Time.
ceipts were about the same as
usual. His old hens are doing
Effective Jan. 15, the Shasta well too and will soon be at their
Limited No. 12 will pass through best. Mr. Handy make the poul­
Cottage Grove about 9:15 a. m. try business pay.
All of thirty minutes earlier than
The Mexican problem, like the
poor, we always have with us.
Subscribe for the Leader.
formerly.
13, 1915
DON’T TH INK THE
FRUIT CROP INJURED
Several berry and fruit grow­
ers have called upon the Leader
since the announcement was
made by the county fruit inspect­
or that the sweet cherries and
logan berries in particular, were
seriously damaged in this com­
munity by the late freeze, and
these local growers take a differ­
ent view of the matter, declaring
they can detect no damage to
their fruit buds and vines what­
soever. W. Nichols who resides
south of this city brought in
some logan berry vines Saturday,
some of which still retained their
green leaves and the buds were
green and perfectly formed and
no berry and fruit tract in this
neighborhood is more exposed to
the north wind and the weather
than Mr. Nichol’ s place as it is
located on the foothills overlook­
ing this valley and city on the
London road between the Boyd
and White farms. The writer
has about 20 10-year-old Bing,
Lambert and Royal Ann cherry
trees and an examination reveals
little or no damage to them. It
seems Mr. Stewart based his
conclusions regarding damaged
fruit and berries on what he
found along the railroad and riv­
er between Creswell and Cottage
Grove, where, it is said, some
damage to the berry crop and
cherries has resulted, but taking
south Lane as a whole we believe
the damage, if any, to be very
slight.
CROW GRANGE PASSES
PERTINENT RESOLUTION
The Crow Grange is out with
strong resolutions opposing any
further appropriations by the
legislature for the Eugene ar­
mory. The resolution also op­
poses the appropriation of money
by the Lane county court to keep
a man at the Panama-Pacific ex­
position, declaring that those
who were instrumental in send­
ing a county exhibit there should
bear this expense. Another re­
solution reads:
In-as-much as there is a great
deal of dissatisfaction in regard to
the way our county affairs are
conducted, and whereas our coun­
ty court is dealing in county war­
rants, we believe this to be
a bad practice and tends toward
graft and extravagance.
If Judge Thompson really
wishes to do the citizens of this
county a favor he could do no
better than to resign from the
office of county judge. The re­
solutions continue:
Inasmuch as there is consider­
able dissatisfaction in regard to
the County Budget and many
think the levy too high, and
whereas, we believe it is unjust
to exclude the cities from three
mills, since we all paid for the
roads that have been built in the
immediate vicinity of these cities.
Therefore, we are opposed to the
extra Road Tax as advocated by
the Court And we would sug­
gest that many of the salaries
could be cut some as there are
many just as competent who
would do the work for much less.
G. W. H olland , Master.
N ettie E. F leck , Secretary.
NO. 12
THE FARMERS
INSTITUTE
Two Days Sessions Were Well
Attended and Proved In­
teresting and Instructive
A very interesting and in­
structive farmers institute was
held in this city Friday and Sat­
urday under the auspices c f the
local grange and was very well
attended. The sessions were
held in the Armory, except the
domestic science demonstrations
and lectures, which were held in
the high school building. The
opening address was made by
Prof. W. S. Brown of the Oregon
Agricultural College on the care
of young orchards. This address
was very interesting to many of
the farmers of this vicinity who
have a large acreage o f young
orchards in this district.
Prof. C. C. Lamb, of the poul­
try husbandry department of the
O. A. C. gave one of the most
interesting lectures of the series
when he told us of the care and
Marketing of Poultry Products.
In this lecture he points out
the inefficient system of market­
ing the egg and guarding against
unnecessary losses of eggs on the
farm which might and could be
avoided with proper care.
He also advocates a more di­
rect system of marketing the
product to the consumer instead
of allowing it to pass through
the hands of so many middle­
men. He pointed out the im­
portance o f regulation the feed
of the hen to make her a good
layer. Corn and wheat are the
best cereals to feed the hen be­
cause of the mineral qualities
contained in them.
Friday evening Prof. W. S.
Brown, O. A. C. horticulturist,
gave a very interesting lecture
on pests and diseases that affect
berry vines and fruit trees. He
used slides in his illustrations
and demonstrated very clearly
how the different insects work
on the bark of the trees and on
the fruit. Codling moth, anth-
racnose, crown gall, pear blight
and many other pests and dis­
eases were defined. Mr. Brown
told how to fight these diseases
and pests and recommended a
number of different spray solu­
tions for this work. Some of
these diseases, he said, could not
be killed but could be prevented.
Saturday afternoon was one of
the most interesting sessions and
was devoted principally to the
dairy and dairy stock, interesting
talks and demonstrations being
given by E. B. Fitts prof, of daily
husbandry of the O. A. C. and
R. E. Reynolds of the animal
husbandry department of the O.
A. C. About a dozen dairy cows
owned by citizens of this city
and community were brought
before Prof. Fitts on West main
street and were judged according
to the rules, in the presence o f an
interested crowd and the good
and inferior qualities of this dairy
stock was pointed out, the cow
receiving the highest score as a
dairy animal belonging to John
Spray.
L. P. Harrington of Creswell,
addressed the students at the
high school on agricultural topics
and Miss Anna Turley, of the
Home Economics, of the O. A. C.
gave lectures and cooking demon­
strations in the domestic science
room at the high school building.
This was for the benefit of the
ladies and these sessions were
well attended. The demonstra­
tions proved very interesting and
helpful, being on bread baking
and the cooking o f meats and
other eatables.