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AGE GROVE. OREGON.
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lumbering <oiui»aul»s.
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th<* rich H<*■
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NO. 48
COTTAGE GROVE, LANE COUNTV, OREGON, MARCH 20, liHJ.i
UNTY SEAT DEPARTMENT
TELEPHONE LINE TO LORANE
Spec'al Correspondent Discusses Local
Topics. Eugene’s Rapid Growth.
To be Built by Subscription. Fund Already
Subscribed. Boy Lost in Mountains.
t a xe s galore
furnished him and is yet the same
II absorbing thing the post ¡‘leek, cringing, cowardly semi
in town has been the pay imbicle, that he has been from the
of taxes. The 3 per cent re- beginning, and the opinion o f those
Iti) those who paid before t b e , Best acquainted with such matters
jot March seems a great stim- *9 that 11 T.yons ever conceives the
he. lias been
for
______ and incentive to early pay- idea that
given for killing
Mr Withers,
« f l it -
based
le a l ■ •! Monday at the Sheriffs that idea will not be
conception
W m a and learned from him that as upon an intelligent
near as can be asertained, there o f the enormity of his crime,
have! been psid about ♦150,000, or of the truths o f the precepts of i
estimating tbe amounts that have the Bible, but will rest upon some
beetupaid at Cottage Grove, June- irrational conclusion that has often,
lion,' and Florence. Thus leaving too often, for the good o f society.
but little of the 1902 taxes yet to cling to the red handed murderer,
be paid, Is not this conclusive as he took his last leap into eternity
L IT IG A N T S IN T H E F IG H T F O K C H A R L E S L . F A I R ’ S M IL L IO N S.
| probably to reulize at the bar of
evidence o f prosperity?
Charles L. Fair left about $6,000,000, and heirs o f his wife now claim that he died
judgment that heaven is tbe abode
first in an automobile accident in France and that all his property was bv will left to her.
I THE NEW POST MA8TEK
Fair’ s heirs are Mrs. Herman Oelrichs and Mrs. W . K. Vanderbilt. J r „ his sisters. Mrs.
1
only
o
f
those
whose
hands
are
clean,
Next to the payment ol taxes, as
Fair’ s principal heir is her mother, Mrs. Hannah E. Nelson, who claims that she was made
a topic o f interest is that o f the, and have answered the immutable
to believe that Fair survived his wife and settled her claim against the estate for a com
paratively small sum. T o set inside this settlement is the object o f the present suit.
change that is soon to take place ^ w of justice, tnat requires every-
in the post office here.
one to be dealt with according * to i
James S. Page, the gentleman i the “ deeds done in
In the body.’’
who awaits liis commission from
W ashington, as postmaster o f Eu- anyone similarly situated consola-
genejis a native of Ohio, is ob years tion ot a taith in the belief ot for-
o f age, lias been a resident o f Eli giveness, though false in his last
gene since 1879 and lias been en hours, the faith that forgiveness
gaged the while in the niercliantile may be obtained even under the
business. Mr Page in response to gallows as the thief on the cross
a question asked him indicated to ; was forgiven.
me that he would employ la d y '
STILL GROWING
clerks in the.post office, and also
I presume it is generally known
stated that he did not have to pass that Eugene has taken a second
Carnegie offers Grants Pass $5000 into the
penitentiary
but was
examination of the civi. service growth— lias expanded, so to speak, for a public library.
pardoned so that it could be said
board. Mr Page is well and favor by spreading her wings as a hen
St. Louis fair commissioners are that he was never in that institution.
ably known throughout the county across her chicks, and taken in
said to be working agaiust Lewis
The selection of the name “ Ida
and it is believed will give general Fairmount and College H ill, and i __,
,
t .. -
ho” for one of the 13,000-ton bat
satisfaction. Dr McCormack's ad adding thereby some two miles o f , aDl
al a PProp n a ions,
ministration of the office cannot be territory and more than 800 in— j Arrangements have just been tleships xvas made by direction of
imprcBed upon however.
habitants, together with some half completed to make tbe State fair the President as a compliment to
Senator Heyburn, the Republican
W SINES» OF T H E OFFICE.
a hundred thousand dollars worth I this fall the best on record,
,, _
,
_
I Senator from that state. President
The amount o f business that is o f property. Well, 'tis so, a n d 1 j j le T> ..
Booth-Kelly Lumber Com- ; I{oo8evelt had converaed with Sena
traiisrcted in the Eugene post otliee Eugene is entitled to put on
aud at
can be appreciated only partially, additional city airs, seeing her size pany s b.g logdnve was started ^ Heyburn 8averal tim
down the McKenzie river last week. | once foJrmed ft very great liking for
by stating that there are 10 at- is some 3 miles long by 2 wide,
Jas. Dick, a log driver, was him.
taehee- connected with the service, and contains betmeen 5000 and
drowned
at Myrtle Creek last
including two day clerks, and one 0000 inhabitants.
The Czar of Russia has decreed
Thursday
xvbile
attempting to break
' night clerk, in the office ; and six
NOT ALL AIRS.
religious liberty in bis dominions.
a log jam in the creek.
confected with the rural delivery
He has also granted a degree of lo
Hard work, push, and enterprise
depart men!, and one mail deliverer
President Roosevelt entertained cal self government and has taken
are characteristics of her people,
froi* the depot to the office. There
as
her s c h o o l s ,
churches, a number of prominent gentlemen steps to further throxv light on
are lour stages arrive and depart
.streets, sidewalks, mills, factories, at dinner at tbe White House re darkest Russia, and his subjects
daily with the mail for ns many
brick blocks, stores, hotels and resi cently, including Senator Chas. W. bnil tbe proclamations as the open
different points.
There are $100,-
Fulton of Oregon.
ing of a nexv era. The Czar’ s action
dences will show.
000fin money orders that, pass
is a long step forxVard in the
The sounds o f the builder’s tools
Grants
Pass
Woodmen
are
to
tMKlgli the office annually.
are heard from morning till night bave a street fair some time in June. world's progress.
.
I.YONS T H E ION IU .M NH I»
and has been for the last txvo years 1 The Pass is a good, rustling to xv n
The Oregon delegation has united
In l be matter of tho report that n every quarter o f the toxvn, new and the Woodmen there are wide-, in recommending John W. Knowles
was deeply convict« d about structures are seen everywhere. ! axvake and will no doubt make it a of La Grande for Register, aud As
wellfare and a belief o f Manx biioka have gone up and | success.
B. Thompson, of Pendleton, for
pard.
I have taken some pains many are in course o f construe-1
Reeeix’er, of the La Grande Land
Among the list of new Oregon
iii the fact bearing on tbe tion or in contemplation. The
Office. The only delay to nexv ap
subject, and I can state that the theater building that is under way corporations tiled at Salem we tind pointments has been the inability of
the
folloxving:
Lane
County
Elec
man bears up well, evinces no on the west side ot Willamette b e-
tlie delegation to agree on them.
sigrlof a break down, eats and txvecn fitli and 7th streets is to cost tric Company, Eugene; $100,000; Daly’s nomination for Surveyor-
sleeps as if no unusual fate awaited j some $35,000 and is to ho 100 feet L. A. Paine, J. F. Robinson, R. A. General was sent to the Senate, but
Bim® and he reads
the bible | front by 1(10 feet back and three Booth, F. W. Osburn, O. E. Smith. Dresser’s for Register of the Ore
and ot her reading matter that is | stories high.
Blanks are being issued by ad- gon City Laud office is withheld.
jutant-General Gauteuhein to enable
The California Legislature has
tbe old Indian War Veterans to sign appropriated $20,000 for the erec
and receive their share of the $100,- tion of a buildiug at the Lewis aud
0 0 0 recently appropriated by the
Clark Fair. The St. Louis exhibit
state in payment for their expenses is to be brought to Portland in its
and services.
entirety and placed in this buildiug.
LATE TELEGRAPHIC NEWS SUMMARIZED
Items of General Interest Tersely Told for the Perusal
of the Busy Reader and Others.
Our Spring' Goods
HAVE
JUST
As this measure was passed after
consultation xvith Governor Pardee
*8 considered certain that he xvill
approve the appropriation. Gover
nor Toole, of Montana, has named a
St. Louis fair commission to collect
an exhibit for that exposition.
As
the Montana Legislature adjourned
xvithout making a fair appropria-
Governor Chamberlain has par-! tion, a project is on foot to raise
doned the Warehouseman H um ph-' $30,000 by popular subscription to
revs who was sentenced to the send that state's exhibit to St.
1 penitentiary for the theft of farmers' Louis. A fte r tbe St Louis fair it is
xv heat w hile stored in his warehouse. understood that this exhibit will be
; The convict was not allowed to go seDt to Portland.
Miss Fidelia Rigdon, aged 50
years, was committed to the asylum
Saturday by Judge KiDcaid. Tbe
patient has been demented for some
time anil was formerly in the asylum.
She has beed residing at Pleasant
Hill with her sister, Mrs Jas
Parker.
AR R I V E D
-Ml of the latest
dress fabrics in all
the new weaves
choice patterns ::
Colored
Wh i t e
W a s h
«
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INVESTORS and HOMESEEKERS
will here find opportunities
nowhere else afforded in Ore
gon. The Leader will give
you the new« and facts con
cerning this favored locality
W5
GOODS
K usin e»» C hange»,
Latest Creations for 1903
Gentlemen nn<t Ladies summer 1 mlerwenr.
The very latest in men’s hats. Ladies,
Misses and Childrens shoes. Men’s and
h< yj sbres In light and henvy soles, viei nnd
hox rail, and miner-*’ shoes
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Eahin ® Bristow
First National Bank Euilding
2ft
2 ft
2 ft
2 «
2 ft
2 ft
I. P. Inman, postmaster at Lorane and was still wandering about iu
was in town, Tuesday circulating a the mountains or had fallen a prey
subscription paper for the purpose to some wild animal. Mr. Gray
of raisiug a fund with xvhich to put and his little son went up on the
up a telephone linff between Cottage mountains bordering on the upper
Grove and Lorane, a distance of 12 Siuslaxv Valley Saturday morning
miles. The upper Siuslaxv valley hunting xvhen on reaching tho
has become quite a large aud im summit, the father directed his son
portant settlement and is greatly in to proceed down the ridge xvith tho
need of some direct communication dog to a certain large tree xvhere ho
The boy
with the outside world. For some would meet him later.
time past this locality has had a started to the point designated but
daily mail service, whith Cottage lost his bearings and wandered far
Grove as tbe distributing point, tbe back in the mountains. The fath
mail leaving this place at 7 o’clock er on reaching the appointed place
a. m. each day aud returning late and not finding Ills son, immedi
tbe same evening. Hoxvever, the ately instituted a search for him,
enterprising settlers of the pro but upon being overtaken by dark
ductive upper Siuslaxv country have ness lie returned home and tho
long felt the need of telegraph or next morning xvas joined by a large
telephone communication xvith the number o f his neighbors and a
outside world, oxviiig to the bad general search xvas inaugurated.
xviuter roads aud their isolation, All day Sunday the mountains
due to their geographical location, xvero traversed in searching for tho
the first range of coast mouutaius lad, but not until the shades o f
separating them from the upper night were falling was their search
Willamette valley
and Cottage rewarded by the finding o f the boy
Grove, their depot for supplies, and and his faithful dog, which had re
mained xvith him.
nearest railroad market point.
Mr Inman informed a L e a d e r rep
The lad had found a smalt stream
resentative that about $350 would and was following it down to the val
be required to construct the line be ley an«l had he not slice u in Led from
tween the two points and when at hunger and exhaustion would have
our offien Tuesday morning the soon reached the settlement. Asido
subscription paper showed nearly from being very huugry au*l xvornout
tbe full amount subscribed, the he was little the xvorse for liis severe
Cottage Grove business men having 30 hours experience. He xvas perfect
contributed liberally to help along ly cool and collected and stated that
tbe enterprise. The subscription he slept soundly Saturday night with
paper recited that any and all his dog under a big tree and had not
persons subscribing to the fund in been alarmed at any time The fam
the sum of $5.00 or more would ily had become almost frantic over
be given free use of the nexv system the boy’s disappearance and there
for an indefinite period of time, xvas great rejoicing xvhen he was flu-
practically becoiuiug a stock holder ally rescued.
in the line— hence, $5 subscriptions
W a n t3 4 G raves O p en ed .
were general. While this nexv line
will be a private enterprise, the fact
that its instruments will be rented In P h il a d e l p h i a , March It!.— The po
from tbe Pacific States Telepone A lice authorities have directed the
Telegraph Co., the hue will be con openiug of 34 graves, having se
nected xvitb the company's central cured evidence xvhich led them to
office at this place, which will give the belief that George Hussey, tho
all local subscribers to the old system negro “ herb doctor,” is responsible
the advantage of the nexv line mak for at least many of the deaths.
ing it practically apart of the main Hossey is in jail as an accessory to
the murder of William G. Danze,
or general system.
Mr Inman stated that xvork on xvhose widow is charged xvith having
the new liue would commence about administered to her husband sloxv
April 1, 19H3, and would he speedily poison furnished by the negro.
“ We do not know how many
pushed to completion
llo was
much gratified with the hearty poisons can be traced to Hossey,”
encouragement and substantial aid said a police official today, “ but
thus far xve have secured evidence
received at this place.
that has warranted us in directing
BOY LOST BET FIN ALLY H E S lT E D .
the openiug of 34 graves.
This
Considerable excitem ent xvas oc step xvill begin at once, and we be
casioned at Lorane last Sunday by lieve the result will show that As
the announcement, that a little sistant District Attorney Sboey was
eight year son of F. O. Gray lost not exaggerating xvhen he branded
his bearing on the following day Hossey as an arch poisoner.
JU S T
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Are tho new
creations in
II a t Styles
a
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JU S T
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Is the stock
of these swell
shapes a n <1
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P e titio n to P a rd on G ates.
R C Bosserman, ef Wendling, has
Governor Chamberlain has re
I purchased the grocery and confec- ceived a petition for the pardon of
I tionery stock of Mr Schley and took John H. Gates, who is serving a
\ charge of the bnsiuess this week. three-year sentence in the pen item
He is completely renovating and : 1 1 fey from this county, upon con-
refitting the place and will open a j xiction of forgery. Gates, it will lie
first class confectionery store nnd j remembered, was tried and convict
| ice cream parlor. He will also keep I ed in May, 1901, for forging Hon.
all kinds of mild drinks.
Just now H W. Corbett's name for $75. The
Mr Bosserman is selling out the petition was signed by many promi-
Schley gtock below cost.
See his ; nett people of Lf.ne nnd Marion
new ad in the L kader .
counties. W ood barn was Gates'
Jesse V. Thornton has purchased home toxm,t Here the petition was
tbe confectionery and cigar store | signed by all the business men.
of Frank Goodman and assumed j Gates had been'on a protracted
l charge Monday. Mr Thornton will 1 spree at tbe time of the deed and iff
I open an ice cream parlor in connec- addition to tlit* above had forged
j tion when the summer zephyrs be- the name o f Hon. J. H. Booth. His
j gin to blow.
1 work was of a bungling nature.
Nothin« newer anywhere ; You'll ho eor-
reet in stylo, and eeoiioiiiicnl in porno it"
you buy hero
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WE ARE SOLE AGENTS FOR THE
C O R D O N
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Odd
Fellows
Hall