T h e A C o tta g e Q ro ve live country weekly that gives you what you L e a d e r JITNEY COMPETITION want to read. TERROR TO TROLLYS Published Every Wednesday at 406 Main Street Subscription price:—$1.50 per year. Six months 75 cents. Display advertising, 15 cents an inch; locals Sets, a line. W IL L IA M C. C O N N E R , Editor and Manager. The new jitney busses are sap­ ping the life-blood of streetcar and taxicab companies. Thousands of unemployed mo­ torcars and unemployed owners who are in debt account for this new development in traffic. I f it proves profitable to haul passengers at five cents in com­ petition with street cars the days of trolly cars and rail tracks on streets are numbered. Traction companies are laying off men, and report declines in earnings in some cities o f the coast as high as $1000 to $2000 a day on account o f jitney bus competition. In the five largest Pacific Coast cities losses to traction companies by jitney competition are • estimated at $7,000,000 a year and gross earning tax in these cities are falling off. The traction companies have paid out enormous sums to help pave the streets, just as the rail­ roads are taxed to help build hard surface roads, only to find it develops their worst competit­ or. RESUME OF WORK OF J s p r À y ^ STATE LEGISLATURE Prohibition Bill, Passed CRESWELL GETS PAINT FACTORY A BIG BOOST FOR THE LOCAL CANNERY um n Ï r A C H y e a r th is b a n k p u b lis h e s ♦ L ¡n th e lo c a l p a p e r s 3- Every farm er that has used a By ■ieed drill will tell you that a House, Most Important M easure to Date. Salem.— The moat important work accomplished during the fourth week of the present session of the legisla­ ture was the passage by the house of the prohibition bill. With only two dissenting votes, those of Kuhn and Lewis, the bill of the Comsslttee of Industries.— Mining COTTAQE QROVE, One Hundred, as amended by the Lumbering An Ideal house committee on alcoholic traffic, Farming, Fruit Growing pas^c-d the house. As it passed the HOME TOWN house the bill permits the importation for home consumption of two quarts THAT LORANE-CRFSWELL COUNTY ROAD. of spirituous liquor or. 24 quarts of malt liquor in each successive 28 days. About twenty times during the past 20 years, Cres- Perhaps the next act in importance, well or Eugene have been going to take the business o f viewing the situation from the angle of economy, was the killing by the the Lorane valley away from Cottage Grove by building house of the bill for appropriating a county road from those points into that va’ ley. A $460.000 for irrigation and reclama- tlon purposes. rock road has been constructed from Cottage Grove to The house also acted on the subject the Summit of the low coast range mountains, which of workmen's compensation. The bill will probably be continued on down the mountain into passed provides a series of amend­ ments to the present law, reclassify­ the valley next summer. The fact that the distance is ing the Industries and graduating the only 12 miles from Cottage Grove, 1G to Creswell and rates in proportion to the risk. It also about 20 to Eugene, does not help the project o f our is intended to prevent accidents by offering rewards to employers who in­ neighbors on the north any, and the further fact that stall safety devices and providing pun­ automobiles easily make the run from Cottage Grove at ishment for those who do not. Appropriation bills before the houso any time from April 1st up to Christmas demonstrates and senate total $3,563,854. This in­ that this is not such a bad route, over which Uncle Sam cludes recommendations of the joint also has a daily mail service. With 4 or 5 miles more of ways and means committee, which probably will be adopted without macadam on the west side of the mountain autos can change, but the same cannot be said make the run from Cottage Grove to Lorane the year for several of the other measures. Al­ ready bills carrying appropriations ag­ round. However, it behooves our citizens to assist and According to reliable informa­ encourage in every way the completion of the rock work tion Creswell is to have a paint gregating almost $500,000 have been consigned to the wastebasket. on this road which would have a tendency to discourage factory, the operation of which Although the senate has passed a the recurring road agitation of our northern neighbors. will start this spring or summer. bill abolishing the Oregon Naval Mil­ it seems now barely possible that However, it is a well known fact that Eugene with its A. Vatuone, o f San Jose, Cali­ itia the organization may be permitted to pull with the county court has succeeded in placing rock fornia, is promoting the enter­ live in a changed form, for a bill was on the Eugene-Lorane road and will about complete this prise and has organized a stock Introduced in the house by the com­ company known as the Oka mittee on military affairs, providing work this season, Cottage Grove being unable to secure Paint Company to handle the for its reorganization, and consider­ the county rock crusher to Complete our part o f the road project. This adds another in­ able sentiment exists in favor of it. Senator Garland’s bill, -providing and there is a probability that we will not be allowed the dustry to Creswell and it is plan­ that county courts be permitted to re­ use o f the crusher until such time as Eugene has complet­ ned by the company to engage in ject all bids for bridges costing more the manufacture of paint on a than $500 and build them themselves ed its road into Lorane valley. large scale, says the Chronicle. was passed by the senate. Senator Laugguth’s bill making the John Beak, who is the local “ A city,” says the London Chronicle, “ is hard to representative for the Vatuone penalty for homicide in the second de­ kill;” and instances the fact that Paris has survived eight interests, states that machinery gree imprisonment in the penitentiary from 20 to 30 years was passed by seiges, ten famines, tw o plagues and one lire which devas­ has been bought and was shipped of the senate. It has a saving clause re­ tated it. Rome has been overswept with pestilence ten from Chicago February 1. It lating to persons already convicted of times, has been burned twice, and six times has been should arrive in about two weeks second degree murder. In a bill in­ troduced by the same senator which starved into surrender. Constantinople has suffered nine and the work o f erecting build­ was passed, the punishment for first- ings and installing the machinery degree homicide is life Imprisonment. conflagrations, four plagues and live sieges. This war will begin as soon as weather Under suspension of the rules, the has destroyed works o f art that are irreplacable; but it conditions permit. senate passed house bill 13, which pro­ cannot destroy man’s genious for creating anew. vides for a bounty of $3 on coyotes during the remainder of this year. The state is to pay half the bounty and the President Wilson has consented to an amendment to counties the other half. the ship purchase bill, which provides that no vessel is to Permanent insanity is made ground for divorce by a bill introduced by Sen­ be bought by the United States if such purchase would ator Langguth. It is provided that be­ lead to conflict with any one of the belligerent powers. The joint meeting of the fore a divorce shall be granted, in­ Nearly all the German newspapers criticise this course Grange and Cannery board last sanity being the allegation, it shall be sharpely. They virtually unite in calling it a backdown Saturday was productive of much proved that the defendant has been adjudged of unsound mind by a court before Great Britain on the part o f President Wilson. good several enthusiastic speech­ of this or another state five years or The Kreuz Zeitung says: ‘ ‘This tender consideration for es being made in behalf of this more before the suit is filed. It also be proved to the court in which Great Britain is the more remarkable insomuch as it in­ new and grow ing industry here, must and the grangers served a fine the divorce is asked that the patient jures America herself.” is incurable. dinner. A joint resolution authorizing the An important meeting of the superintendent of public instruction A law is proposed to bring farmers under the State cannery stockholders and all to annotate and publish the school Labor Bureau. Very much better to abolish the Bureau, friends o f the enterprise is call­ laws of the state was adopted by the senate. than have it interfering with farm labor. The people ex­ ed for Tuesday Feb. 16, in the What is regarded by many as one Commercial Clnb rooms. A pressed their disapproval of the 8 hour law at the last large attendance is desired as a of the most important new laws en­ election because it included farm labor, and they do not full report o f last season’s run acted is that repealing the free text­ book enactment of the last session. By want any substitute along these lines. is to be submitted. passing this measure the legislature has saved Itself a controversy. Pan Kellaher introduced a bill in tha The United States is now loaning money to Canada, WISE AND OTHERWISE. senate providing for weekly payments Russia, Argentina, France, Sweeden and elsewhere. of various employes, which Is said to Growing fast towards the distinction o f the banker na­ Fools oft times rush in and have the support of certain labor in­ terests and unquestionably will fill the tion. London six months ago would not have dreamed win while wise men investigate. halls of legislation with lobbyists. Many a woman voter will vote such a thing could happen. To facilitate the operation of the just as her husband says- after constitutional amendment passed by she has told him what to say. the people at the last election which By the j»eesent law the state game warden has au­ There is no better music than provides that only citizens of the thority to grant permits for killing or trapping wild ani­ increasing business. Let us be United States shall vote in this state. the band and furnish the music. Senator Moser Introduced a bill em­ mals in cases where they are destroying property. A school girl was told to write powering county clerks to strike from an essay o f 250 words about an the registration records the names of Poor old Mexico! Matters growing worse. One of automobile. She wrote: “ My all aliens. After amending Representative the leading citizens of the distressed country says the Uncle bought a Ford. He was Schuebel's bill, merging all special riding in the country and it balk­ rich have become poor and the poor miserable. ed in going up a hill. My uncle funds into the general fund, so as to tried to make it go, but couldn’t, make the licenses and fees collected It is estimated that the government’s Grand Canvon although he spoiled a $25 suit by the state fish and game cornmis game refuge, in Arizona, now contains about ten thous­ trying. I guess this is about fifty sion constitute an appropriation for and deer. words. The other 200 words are that commission, the house passed the what uncle said as he was w alk­ measure by a vote of S3 to S, two mem ing back to town, but they are; bers being absent. Most of the valley towns are erecting big signs along not fit to write dow n.” To give-farm ers power to arrewt hunters who trespass upon their prop the railroad to attract the attention of the San Francisco erty Is the object of a bill passed by exposition tourists. the house. Under the present law a trespassing hunter is subject to ar Portland agent of the L. I The street car company officials seem to I k * suffering C. The Smith Typew riter Co. left one I rest, but the owner must obtain t from acute jitney itis. o f their latest No. 5, 1915 model warrant. Representative Fenwick, au­ typewriters on display at the thor of the measure, pointed out that by the time a farmer procures a war A new three-story hotel will help some in Cottage le a d e r office. There is a bar­ rant tbs damage is doue and the bunt gain in it for some one, eith er' Grove—referring to the new Cooper. er la gona. for cash or installments. Entered as Second-class mail matter in the post office at Cottage Grove, Oregon, under the provisions o f the Act of March 3, 1879. c ^ grain drill will save 25 per cent o f yourjseed and make your grain yield more. N ow as seed grain is high and [.the prospects aie that it will be higher next year, how can you do without a drill. Come and see Spray for right prices, right terms and the right kind of drills. M owing machine $10. Pony, saddle and bridle. Phone 3. Good brood mare for sale. A 3 1-4 wide tire wagon only $ 20 . One Jersey old. cow Registered sale. Herford three years bull _ for One Poland China boar, tered. regis­ Cow and 8 months old calf. heifer One good horse, buggy. harness and Good faning mill, price $15. A snap. One Oliver cast steel plow, inches. One good mare, buggy. harness 12 and One second hand spring tooth harrow. I pay cash and sell for cash or produce. Carload just in. of poultry suppli< s 1 pay cash for chickens, and hides. One chine. Standard Snap. eggs sewing Tw o last spring Jersey calves for sale. All kinds of poultry at cash prices. 2 3-4 good as new sale at a bargain. ma­ heifei supplies wagon for One steel roller, the kind that gets all the clods. Jersey cow 6 years old will be fresh in two months. One 3 1-4 John Deere wagon good as new. Moline Two horse Fairbanks engine at a bargain. Morse I want to buy your eggs, hides and pelts. It Also Has- — A Board of Directors that directs and it is a member o f the Federal Reserve Bank. T h e F irs t N a tio n a l B a n k Capital, ........................................................................ $25,000 Surplus and Undivided Profits,............... ................. ..... $60,000 “SAFETY HRST" 6 O. 1. C. pigs for sale. Wood for sale. — Five sworn statements called by the Comptroller of the currency, submits to two examinations by N a t­ ional Bank Examiners. chickens, One gentle pony 5 years drives single or double. old, One second hand sub-soil plow, just what you all need. Heavy horse harness and livery wagon at a bargain. de­ Storage— I have good dry stor­ age room for household goods. One yearling heifer Gurnsey and Jersey, one yearling heifer Jersey. Feed your cows oil meal and your pigs and chickens corn and save money. I f you want a good fat chick­ en see me. I am corn feeding some nice ones. Four-year-old cow will be fresh in a few days, also nine-year-old cow fre-sh now. Horse power drag-saw cheap. You can’t afford to use elbow greese. Let the horse do the work of four men. Registered three year old Jer­ sey bull. This is a good one and can be bought right. I also have in stock a full line of International Harvesters, w a g ­ ons and machinery. LATEST NEWS OF THE STATE SIMMERED DOWN baker City of a plan to establish in Smithson will be McMlnavtlle col­ Baker an orphanage and old people’s lege’s represeatatlve in the state ln- home by converting the Catholic hos­ pital to this purpose and applylug to ter-colleglate contest. Drain's new $6000 municipal light­ the state for the allotment of $8 a ing plant has been opened and (or the month for each orphan as provided by firot time in its history of 5* years law. Manslaughter was the verdict re­ Drain has electric lights. During the month of January 73,279 turned by the Jury which heard the jack rabbit scalps were taken in at trial on a charge of murder, at Pen­ the clerk’s office in Bums, for which ! dleton, of Richard Burke, Indian, who $3,713.95 was paid in bounty at 5 cents last fall shot and killed Ed Kirkpat­ rick. well-known rancher of Umatilla a scalp. The oounty court has been asked county, in an altercation at a ranch to make an appropriation with which house dance. Burke pleaded self de­ to maintain a public library in Rose- fense. Prominent Norwegians in Minnesota, burg. The matter has beeu taken un­ North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa and der advisement by the court. A special train has been arranged Wisconsin are receiving invitations to for to bring the delegates from Port­ visit Portland en route to, or return­ land to the State Christian Endeavor ing from the expositions in San Fran­ convention, which will be held in Eu­ cisco and San Diego. More than 1800 such letters have been mailed out the gene February 19, 2$ and 21. The annual meeting of the Oregon last week by the NorwegiauAmerican Loganberry association was held at reception committee of Portland. The Walla Walla Swine and Cattle Salem and geod progress was reported n the advertising campaign started Breeders' association and the Walla hrougbout the east in order to widen Walla Meat & Cold Storage company are offering prizes aggregating $200 he market for loganberries. A potato starch plant costing from for the best pigs to be produced by 10,000 to $15,000 and properly con members of "pig clubs” to be organ­ ucted will during a season take care ized by the boys and girls of Umatilla f the cull product from about 6000 county in Oregon and Walla Walla cres, according to figures gathered and Columbia counties in Washington. Corporation Commissioner R. A. >y the state university school of com- Watson has received notice of the dis­ nerce. The Baker delegation of cattlemen, missal of the case of the National Mer­ who will attend the annual convention cantile company vs. R. A. Watson et. if the Oregon Horse and Cattle Rais­ al„ which was pending in the United es association, which meets at Prine- States circuit court of appeals at San llle, will leave Bakor with the lnten- Francisco. This case was brought to loo of securing the next annual meet- test the constitutionality of the act creating the corporation department ng for that city if possible. In the midst of the inquiry Into elec- in Oregon. Whether Jaaon C. Moore is to ob­ ion fraudB In precinct 37, Portland, ;nd before ex-Sheriff Tom Word him tain s 4Q-year leaae of Summer and ¡elf was summoned to the witness Abert lakes, said to contain salt de- itand, Mr. Word withdrew his election Jepostts worth millions of dollars, is :ontest proceedings against Sheriff Agency, which probably will be re- Thomas H. Hurlburt by taking a vol to depend on reports of R. G. Dun A company and Bradstreets Mercantile untary non-suit. With the present equipment in the celved soon, regarding the financial Monmouth training school only 48 stu­ ability of the New York man and his dents can be graduated from the Ore­ associates. As result of a river feud between gon normal school this year, accord lng to Principal Thomas H. Gentle. He Nval boat lines on the Coquille river, says that inadequate facilities are Captain O. R. Willard and Engineer cheating the students of the advan­ Elmer Willard, of the Charm; Captain Walter Panter, of the Dora, and Cap­ tages for which they have paid. The biggest land deal ever conium l i n Allen Panter and Engineer W il­ iam Panter, of the Telegraph, had mated in Umatilla county was an heir licenses revoked for a period of nounced at Pendleton. By the trans action all the holdings of tha Inland 20 months. The feud reached a climax Irrigation company in that county are ccently when the steamers Dora and 'harm collided, endangering lives of transferred to J. O. Story and asso he pansengers. An investigation by elates of Tacoma. Wash., for a con Jnited States Inspectors B. S. Ed­ sideratlon of more than $1,000,000. Announcement was made by Bishop wards and George E. Fuller of Port­ O'Reilly of the Catholic diocese of land immediately followed. ! j Pay 20 Per Celt More? I f using a brand of flour made by outside mills, you are paying more than your home mill charges for the same grade. Test our Flour and Compare Our Price with others. The Cottage Grove Flour Mills I also keep on hand a full stock of Page wire fence. This is sure the b£st fence on the market. Good three year old colt for sale. This is a fine heavy colt and will make a big draft horse. Please return your empty milk bottles. W e need them and will pay you five cents each for them. Second hand furniture for sale. 2 tables, hall tree, rocking chair, bread mixer, guitar, bed springs and sofa. Rar« Paper Carrgacy. Fred Gray has a government greenback of the 3-cent denomi­ nation which is a novelty today, and which was issued March 3, 1863. It has a picture of W ash­ ington on the face o f it and the figure “ 3 cents” in green on its back. Everything Kept Neat a n d Clean Our home cured meats are far superior to the cus­ tom cured article and cheaper. Have you tried them? Dressed Chicken Every Saturday or at any time on order Bologna, sausage, hamburger and lard all home made. Fresh and salt meats and fish in season. P R IC E S M OST REASONABLE CULVER BROTHERS PEOPLES MEAT MARKET Pore Homemade Lord Oar Specalty