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<>*’ o. LIBRARY A Local Paper Fit For Any Home VOL. 3 Progressive, Newsy, Independent. COTTAGE GROVE, LANE COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 13, 1915. NO. 48 HOUSES BURN IN VISITOR HERE WAS CAUGHT NO QUESTION OF LEGALITY 1,000 ANTLERS ARE 4 IONS OF BEANS 3 ACCIDENTS ON TWO MONDAY IN WAR ZONE OF ELECTION NIGHT COMING TO BIG 0. P. & l RY. IN LAST YEAR. 120 FLAMES HIGH JINKS ONE DAY THIS YEAR Jasper H u ff Residence Completely De stroyed; A. L. La Plant Home Suffers Man on Hand Car Is Hurled From Tracks and Is Uninjured, Cow Also Meets Up W ith Engine and Lust Thursday was hoodoo day on t'la Ü. P. & E. Railway. Three acci dents happened on that day, during the trip from here to Rujada and return. Just the other side o f the Walden bridge a Greek, who had been working at Rujada and was coming into the city on a hand car, ran into the en gine, head on. He apparently did not see the train at all. Man and car-were thrown o f f the track. The man was uot injured and the train did not stop. At Wildwood a cow duplicated the per formance o f the hand car and its life was the price paid. The train did not stop. The third accident was the breaking o f one o f the springs on the engine. The train did not stop for this either and the round trip was completed with- ^ t«t further accident. One o f the employes o f the road says that the killing o f the cow was im portant in that it firm ly establishes the fact that the train does run fast enough to kill a cow. Appropriate? Medford Suit: The Cottage Grove Sentinel reaches the heights ^of “ ap propriateness” in its last edition by placing an advertisement for a Sunday excursion square dab in the middle of the church announcements. K ills Two Big Rattlers. Joe Damewood is carrying around the “ tail pieces” o f two large rattler snakes, which he killed on Cerro Gordo while he and Mrs. Damewood were driv ing to their ranch. The rattlers were within a few feet o f the road. Both put up a hard fight. There were ten buttons on one rattler and eight but tons on the other. OREGON WOOD POPULAR AT FRISCO FAIR London Large Buyer o f niture Made of Myrtle. Other Exhibits Please. Big Loss; Firemen Do Heroic Work at Big Disadvantage. Is Killed.— Train Makes No Stops. Jack a Fur Oregon Building, San Francisco.— Jack London, famous author, just in from a fiv e months sea trip, eame to the Oregon building the other day, saw the exhibits, registered and under “ re marks” said, “ Fine and splendid.” To the one in charge, Jack said he could write a book about the Oregon show ing. Incidentally he remarked that he had been buying the Coos Bay myrtle wood furniture for several years, had $700 worth ordered at this time, and that he thought it the mos beautiful of all woods. Francis Wilson, world- famous stage artist, has come to the V building several times. He thinks the furniture made by the Oregon children, together with the dresses nnd other fea tures in the educational display, won derful in the extreme— but not more wonderful than that 75c luncheon served by the domestic science girls from the agricultural college. Mrs. Phoebe Heprst, the greatest o f the great in the bay region, is another charmed with the domestic science luncheons. Senator Ben Tillman, brandishing a cane rather than a pitchfork, saw the sights and said he would go back to Carolina the happier for having seen Oregon’s building and display. Teddy Roosevelt failed to get into the Ore gon building but dashed through the Oregon exhibit in the horticultural pal ace and was “ delighted” as a matter o f course. Is a Wise Dog. “ D ick,” a little black dog belong ing to E. 8. Rand, 630 Thirteenth A v e nue West, Eugene, is not to be fooled T often with the same trick, according to a story told by Willis Link, one of The Guard carriers. • J The boy states that the dog watches ™>r him every night, when he makes his delivery o f the paper at the Rand home. When he calls “ Guard,” the dog comes out to meet him and taking the paper in his mouth carries it into the house. To have some fun, for several nights, he passed the house for a second time and when he called, the dog came run ning out to meet him, only to be dis appointed when he was not given a paper The dog soon learned that he receives one paper each night and now makes no response to a second calL Fire at 11:30 Monday night complete ly destroyed the Jasper H u ff house on South Second Street, until recently owned and occupied by the J. T. De- Spain family. The fire was not dis covered until the house was enveloped in flames. The new house only a few yards south, owned by A. I,. La Plant, was in danger o f being completely de stroyed also but was saved by heroic work on the part o f the fire depart ment, the members o f which worked at a disadvantage because o f the fact that the fire was at the edge o f the city limits and water hydrants were a con siderable distance away. For this reason it took some little time to get streams o f water playing on the fire and the length of hose necessary weak ened the pressure. But for the fact that the wind shifted the La Plant home would not have caught fire. Insurance in the amount o f $500 had been taken out on the La Plant home only three weeks ago. This will not cover the loss to the building. A large part o f the household goods were saved. There were but few household goods in the H u ff house. The cause o f the fire is unknown. Mr. H u ff lived alone in his house and had not been in it for several days. He had $1200 insur ance, which will not cover the loss. Mrs. La Plant suffered a severe burn to her hand while assisting in removing household goods. Oregon Cow Owners Plan Indi vidual Testing. A good many dairymen o f Oregon who are operating in parts o f the state not yet developed in this industry are planning to carry on cow testing in dividually with the aid o f the public schools. This is in line with the policy advocated by Professor 8. B. Fitts, Ex tension Dairyman o f the Agricultural College, who has just returned from a successful tour through dairy districts o f this kind. “ My suggestion to these dairymen,” says Professor Fitts, “ was that they should join con testing associations ns soon as the number o f cows sufficient for organization are secured in their lo cality, but in the meantime not to wait for organizing before beginning the work o f testing. These dairymen were shown how they could get a pair of scales and suitable record blanks and weigh the milk o f each cow at each milking and record the result. In this way, a comparatively exact record of production will be made. “ As to testing for percentage o f but ter fat, it is suggested that a Babcock tester be secured by the local school and that testing be done by students under the direction o f the teachers or other qualified persons. In this way, the butter fat content o f tne milk can be secured at a small cost and when this is compared with production >-ec- ords, each dairyman w ill know just what his cows are doing. They were also advised in this connection that un less the cow gives at least 200 pounds o f butter fat per year she should be eliminated from the herd and her place filled by a more profitable animal. “ With 200-pound cows , dairying should be profitable in the sections vis ited. Cows can be kept on pasture for six months o f the year at a cost o f $3 for the entire time. For the remaining six months, two tons o f hay at $10 a ton and a half ton o f grain at $30 per ton will keep the animals in good milk ing condition. Thus the cost o f keep ing the cow for one year averages about $38. I f she produces 200 pounds of butter fat at 25c a pound she is making a fair profit for her owner when the value o f her milk on the farm and her fertilizing value are considered. “ Women, as well as men, are deep ly intereated in this phase o f the busi ness and some o f them assured me that they would keep a record o f produc tion, and i f possible secure butter fat tests on the product o f eacn cow during the coming year.” Dr. C. M. Gardner, deputy state veterinarian, ia in the city on bin way to the roast country, where he w ill test dairy eows. He Bays he has 500 to teat in the count / between Florence and throughout the country. Some o f his Coos Bay. Sell that old cow. A Sentinel Want Ad. will do the trick on short notice. Buyers w ill be looking fo r you. Mrs. Beda Spence o f New Richmond, Wis<( and daughter, Miss Mary, were guests at the S. L. Mackin home the first o f the week, leaving Wednesday for San Francisco. Miss Mary was in Switzerland at the time hostilities broke out in Europe noil hud some exciting experiences in get ting home. She got out of the country by way o f Naples and omitted several stops which she had expected to -lake. The light globes were removed from the ship in which she traveled and at night everything was in absolute darkness. Mrs. Spence and daughter have been in Cunudu where they owu a couple sec tions o f wheat land. They report that the feeling there is strong between the Germans and those o f other nationali ties. Hood River Makes Great Apple Sale. The largest contract for the purchase of apples o f the season has just been closed with Hood River growers, who nave sold to O. Berghuish-Krak, The Netherlands conslu, ’ 100,000 boxes. The price paid was $1.50 per box. The ap ples will be shipped to merchants in The Netherlands next October. On Account of Misinterpretation of New Law Some Voters Thought School Levy Invalid. There bus been some doubt among some o f the electors of this school dis trict us to whether or not the recent election at which a 12-mill tax was voted was legal. The general under standing has been that 30 days’ notice o f the election is necessary when the tax levy is raised more than six per cent over that o f the preceding year. In fact, The Sentinel recently quoted an authority on school law to that effect. It seems, however, that the law says that 30 days’ notice must be given when the tax is raised more than 0 per eent over that o f the highest tax of the two preceding years. The tax two years ago was 12 mills, so that but ten days ’ notice was necessary under the law to agaiu vote a 12-mill levy. Dis trict Clerk Harvey had called the toun- ty superintendent by phone before the meeting was held and received the in formation that there would be no ques tion about its legality i f the tax was not raised more than 6 per cent over that of two years ago. TAX COLLECTORS IN WHEAT GOES 30 BUS. MUDDLE OVER 0. TO ACRE; OATS & C. LANDS GO 50 BUS. Previous Assessed Value of $10 to $12 Crop Much Better This Year Than an Acre in This County May Have Last When Wheat Went as Low to Meet R ailw ay’ s Equity of $2.50.— As Nine Bushels.— Threshers Find Assessor Keeney for Higher Figure. Smut on Only One Farm. Community Mrs. G. F. Brumfield returned Sun day from Marshfield, where she had been several week* visiting her dpugh ter, Mrs. C. C. Carpenter, who is re covering from an illness. Mrs. Carpen ter is now able to be up and around. Miss Mae Armstrong and Joe Smith will teach the Shields school next sea son. Mr. Smith will have the upper The F. J . Ridings family has gone to grades and Mias Armstrong the lower. Marqnam for an extended visit. Times as Much as the Entire Pack Last Sheriff Explains New Law as to Tax Paying. S heriff Parker, whose duty it is now to collect taxes, makes the following explanation o f the new tax law regard ing payments and penalties: “ I f one-half o f the taxes on unv property for this year, that is, the 1914 tax roll, shall have been paid before the first day o f April, 1915 the second half o f such taxes may be paid ut any time before the first day o f October. 1915, without any interest or penalty o f any kind, but if the second half is not paid by the Cist day o f October, 1915, then a 10 per cent penalty, to gether with one per cent interest, shall be added. “ I f in case there has been no pay ment or no half payment made before September 1, 1915, then on that day there shall be added a 10 per cent pen alty aud one per cent a month there after. ” There have been so many chnngej in the tax laws o f the state during the past few years that there is confusion in the minds o f the taxpayers, but this plain statement from the sheriff ex plains the new law so that all may un derstand it.— Eugene Register. In the course o f his travels, Mr. Oli ver has made a hobby o f collecting forgeries. He has a collection o f clip pings almost as large as a bale o f hay, all o f them relating to famous cases of forgery that have engaged the attention o f Pinkerton men and bank officials reproductions of raised rherks are most interesting examples o f the fo rg e r’s handiwork. For instance there is a draft that was raised by a professional band in San Franeisro from $12 to $ 22 , 000 . In fact, according to Mr. Oliver, you can never tell, when you sign a check, whether all the people who will handle it are honest or not, so the only way to be safe ia to use The Todd Proteeto- graph System, the only sure method o f cheek protection. Mr. Oliver states that all other methods have been beat en and offers to prove it. Miss Clara McFarland o f North Yakima, Wash., is a guest at the home o f her sister, Mrs. W. H. Tyrrell. Miss McFarland ia engnged in thV needle- craft business and is a very successful business woman and her “ needlecraft shop” has a big patronage among the ladies o f N • *h Yakima. and Arrangements are being made for the reception o f the big drove o f Elks ex pected to assemble in Cottage Grove from all over the state on Sunday, Aug. 22. The local committee, o f which Wm. Luudess is chairman, are making ex tensive arrangements for the reception and entertainment o f the visiting Elks. The pow wow is to be held on Mosby Creek, about three miles east o f town. It is expected that this w ill be the most largely attended gathering o f the order ever pulled o ff in this part o f Oregon and that from 500 to 1000 mem bers o f the order will be in attendance. Miss Bessie Woods, who holds the chair o f psychology in Vassar College, arrived Friday from Kelao, Wash., where she had been in the hospital as the result o f giving a large amount of her skin for graftin g on the body of her sister, Mrs. Roy Welch, who was recently so seriously burned. Miss Woods will remain here about three weeks and then go to the coast for a few weeks ’ visit. The newspaper men watched Mr. Oli ver at work the other day and found it exceedingly interesting to see him change the amount on nearly every check that was placed before him. With a few pen strokes “ Two Dollars” be came “ F ive Hundred,” right in front o f your eyes. A carefully written “ Sixteen” magically changed to “ Sev enty-six.” “ Eight Dollars” was trans ferred to “ Eighty Dollars” in a twink ling, and with only one sweep o f the pen. When a more pretentious piece of work is required, he adopts the old forger trick o f using acids with which everything thut has been written on the check may be removed— except the signature— and the amount, date, name o f payee, etc., rewritten to suit the forger. A recent case reported in the news papers was that o f a 13-year-old girl in Marysville, Calif., who confessed that she had robbed her guardian of hundreds o f dollars by raising checks bearing the guardian's signature. One o f these checks originally signed for only $5 is in the hands o f the authori ties. It was changed to $80 and ac cepted by the bank without detection. Portland Preparations Axe Extensive. Grain in this vicinity is showiug a much better yield than last year, when some wheat went as low as nine bu shels to the acre. Threshing is now in progress and farmers report wheat go ing us high us 30 bushels to the acre and oats us high as 50 bushels. The average yield is a little lower. The Scott threshing outfit has been run ning for some time nnd finds condi tions about as already stated. The first smutty wheat encountered v»«s on the Knox place, which was threshed Advertising Sunday. Tells o f Raising Countless Checks. A most interesting gentleman is R. E. Oliver who has been in our midst for a few days, engaged in demonstrat ing the gentle art o f forgeiy up-to date. Between Ashland.— Date Is N ext Sunday and One Grower Alone W ill Have Twenty County assessors in Oregon are con fronted by a situation which may re suit in the reduction o f the total .ip- praised valuation o f all taxable prop erty in the state by $30,000,000. The question is whether, in view o f the re- ent decision o f the United States su preme court, the Oregon & California railroad grant lands enn be assessed for taxation, and if these lands can be as sessed, whether the property shall be listed at the Southern Pacific railroad’s equity o f $2.50, or listed as they have been in the past ut valuations ranging from $5 to $20 un acre. The total valuation placed upon the Oregon & California railroad lands in Lane County last year was approximate ly $3,330,000. The aggregate amount of taxes levied against this land for 1914 was about $80,000. The average ap praisement o f this land has been be tween $10 and $12 per acre in this coun ty. To assess the lands for only the amount o f the railroad’s equity would mean a reduction o f more than $62,000 in revenue, while to leave them from the rolls altogether would cripple the county to the extent o f an amount equalling last y e a r’s levy, which was approximately the same us that for the year 1913. The railroad, however, has not paid taxes under either o f these levies, pend ing the outcome o f the litigation in volving tirte to the land, and is still unwilling to pay. John B. Eaton, member o f the state tax commission, was in Eugene recent ly conferring with County Assessor B. F. Keeney. He said the commission had asked the attorney-general for an opinion as to whether the lands should be assessed as formerly, or whether they should be assessed for the amount o f the railroad's equity in the land. In structions he said would soon be issued by the commission to assessors. County Assessor Keeney belieaes that i f these lands are taxable at all they are taxable for the whole amount. f a Members of Herd Expected from Every and Selling Products of the Farm. “ It seems that a disproportionate amount o f attention has been given to the productive end o f agriculture with but little attention to the selling end,” says Dean J. A. Bexell, o f the O. A. C. school of commerce. “ It really makes little difference how much is produced unless it can be sold or used in some other way at a profit. “ Just how to stimulate a demand and create both home and distant mar kets is perhaps the biggest problem. O f course it is too much for the individual farmer to maintain a salesman, but to train men who are experts in trade mar kets is the greatest movement in pro- giessive agriculture. Farmers should not forget that they do not have to create a demand for staple products since this demand already exists. The important thing is to find where that demand is—that is, to find tip- market. “ In the work o f studying markets and marketing problems it is possible to show some tangible results but too much must not be expected. It requires painstaking investigation nnd careful study to produce results worth while. “ Conditions have changed in reecnt years so that merchants do not now con stitute the home market. We are buy ing and selling at distant markets. Our beef comes from Omaha, our baked beans from Boston, and many other canned products arc shipped from dis tant markets. There is tremendous waste in that. We need to create a supply for our home markets and a market for our home supplies. “ Advertising must be useu in solv ing these problems. In order to sell your small products at home it is ab solutely necessary that the home con sumers be informed o f the fact that you have them for sale. In order to be successful this advertising must be definite and reliable nnd at all times backed up by the goods.” A colored girl 21 years old stood highest in this y e a r’s graduating class at the New York medical college and hospital for women. She is the first negro student since the college wss or ganized fifty-tw o years ago. The young woman, Dr. Isabella Vandervall, haa kern appointed interne at the ho* pital for women and ehildren at Syra cuse, New York. Subscribe for The Leader. Year.— Thirty Girls Are at Work.— 3000 Pounds Is Daily Output. There w ill be a most remarkable in crease in the business o f the cannery this year us compared with the busi ness last year. This is evidenced in the tremendous iucrease in the receipts o f beans, on which the plant is now running. While last year the total pack o f beans was but four tons, the pack this year will be about 120 tons. Frank Bales alone has 12*a acres and his crop is estimated at SO to 100 tons, or 20 to 30 times as great as the entire pack lust yenr. Thirty girls are ut work and the daily pack is about 3,000 pounds. Supt. Bales has made arrangements with a hardware store and a grocery store by which they will buy blackberry receipts ut the rate o f IV j cents per pound, cash, or 1*» cents per pound in trade. Those who prefer may leave their berries for sale by the cannery in the usual manner. A fte r the berries, w ill come pears, which are said to be a light crop this season. Chas. Bales, the manager, is a busy man. Over one-third o f the prison popu lation o f Montana is employed in the prison road camps, where there are neither cells nor manacles and where the only extra punishment for the un ruly is to return to prison walls. The honor system is a success, according to Warden Conley’s report to the national committee on prisons and prison labor. It is based on the same broad philoso phy in operation at Sing Sing, in Ore gon, and in many American prisons, that “ a man’s a man for a ' that.” Legal blanks— The Sentinel. FRUIT INSPECTOR STEWART IS UPHELD State and County O fficials Are A fte r ' Cases of Fire Blight Wh.ck He Found In Other Counties. Lane County’s fruit inspector, C. E. Stewnrt of this city, has in a way spread his work to other parts o f the state, although this was hardly premedi tated on his part. While traveling through the country he discovered fin- blight in Marion, Folk, Benton and Linn Counties. He even found it on a tree on the cupitol grounds, lie h al no nuthority to act, but reported t-> the state board o f horticulture und this board is insisting upon the eradication - o f the disease jn the places where ii was discovered by Mr. Stewart. Fruit growers und the authorities in the coun ties where Mr. Stewart found the die case at first vehemently denied that ii was firo blight. Tests have since proved the correctness o f Mr. Stew art’s diagnosis nnd he has but recently re ceived the following letter from Chas A. Park, president o f the state board o f horticulture: “ We are after the blight in Marion. Folk, Benton and Linn Counties anil I think we will be able to cover all of these this summer. The work is pro grossing nicely. I t ’s a big job on in count o f the blight in the underbrush.’ Benson Day at the Panama Exposition On Tuesday, Aug. 17, the State of Oregon is to be honored by the Panama Pacific Exposition through the observn tion o f “ Benson D ay.” The Portland Chamber o f Commerce is arranging to send all Oregrttiiaiis who desire to attend, aboard a specinl train or in private cars. This event is a distinct recognition o f the state more than it is o f Mr. Simon Benson, and w ill be attended b- representatives o f foreign government and o f the states of the Union. A ll county courts o f the state o f Oregon have been requested to appoint a special representative. The Portland Chamber o f Commerce requests that all commercial organize tions o f the state be represented. Reservations for accommodntions for a special train or private cars, should be made to F-ank E. Smith, secretary o f the Portland Chamber o f Commerce I f one hundred or more reservations are made, a special train will be run and the fare w ill be $26.75 per person with $5.00 addition for sleeper fare. I f private cars are used, the fare will be $30.00 with $5.00 additional for sleep er. Tickets will be good for thirty days. Train leaves Portland Aug. 10.