U. oi 0. Xanc Counts Xeaber. AGE GROVE. OREGON. ivutluuartcr* for three lumbering <oiui»aul»s. p tow n ) th<* rich H<*■ (ol<t min-'H, ami tlm lutte cinnabar mine* xiv 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 « « 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 : : : 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 O U T Are tho new creations in II a t Styles a n (I JU S T .. I N .. Is the stock of these swell shapes a n <1 .shades :: fis m m m m mk 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 : : : : WE ARE SOLE AGENTS FOR THE C O R D O N H A T III’ Under Odd Fellows Hall