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VOL. 3
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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.