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C O TTA G E G R O V E. OREGOX
j : r i ’u i.is iiE D e v e r y f k i d a y :
'
W. C. CON NEK, Bailor and l*ru|»rletar ‘
Entered ut the Cottage Grove j»osi­
li ft in- 11.1 aecond-elasa matter.
Sl'B.SCKl**TION BATE*
One Year
.
.
.
.
- fl.so
bix Month«
•
.75
Three« Mouth«
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-
-
-
«50
If paid tn advance but if not so paid a
uniform rate of 93.00 per year will be charged.
A dvertising rate« made known on application
OREGON & SOUTHEASTERN
Railroad will Make Many Improvements aid
Complete the Line to Warehouse.
1 9 0 3 [ L U R C H ’S
While other towns in Southern
The compauy has completed ar­
rangements for an extension of their
F R I D A Y , M A R C H 27, 1903 Oregon are spouting and booming
the prospective building of new terminal facilities in this city, and
some $8000 will be expended in the
The Missouri legislature has made railroads, Cottage Grove is fortu­ arrangement of the yards here and
chicken stealing a felony. Thus, one nate in already having its second necessary buildings to handle the
by one, the special privileges of the railroad under con traction , with business of the company. During
colored man are being swept away by about 15 miles of track laid and no the summer spurs will be built to
tne inroads of race prejudice.
question of the rapid completion ot various timber belts for the pur­
One by one the secrets of the femi­ the line to the Warehouse, 2ti milee pose of facilitating the handling of
nine toilet are exposed. The presi­ toward the great Bohemia mining this immense and growing business.
Mr. Hengen i^nd Mr. Pearsons,
dent of the Milliners National associ­ district
Mr. G. B. Hengen, the secretary assistant secretary and treasurer of
ation says that the white ruch in a
widow’s bonnet means she is looking and treasurer of both the Oregon Se­ the company, are in Portland now,
curities Co. and the O. & S. E. R. and will purchase a st" **n shovel
tor another husband. The elder Wel­
ler’s warning should always be heed­ R. Co., was here this week and i and dump cars, which will oe used
great deal of interest has been at for tne purpose of ballasting the
ed.
tached to his visit at this time, and entire roadbed.
Every nleans will
Our chief, Mr. Conner, has been speculation has been rife as to the be employed to put the road in
away at Rose burg all this week on purposes of his presence and the first-class condition, and Mr. Hen-
important business, and the getting probabilities of the completion of gen states positively that the money
out of this issue of the L eapek has the Oregon and Southeastern rail­ is now on baud to completely carry
devolved on the foreman, who is a road, which means so much to Cot­ out all these improvements and bet­
rock-ribbed, brass collar democrat, tage Grove, its future development, terments. The Oregon & S. E. R. R.
and the temptation has been very and the influence it will have on the Co. is strong financially and already
great to play a joke on “Bill” and opening up of the mines and timber more than $250,000 has been spent
make this edition a democratic sheet resources tributary to this point in the work accomplished and out­
The I ieadeb is indebted to Mr. standing contracts.
to the core, but probably the retain­
A contract was let to Ed Cole this
ing of a good job with a good man is Hengen for information and state-
ments which will inspire confidence week for 10,000 ties, and other
better than this joke might prove to
in those who are contemplating a contracts are pending for ties suf­
be.
number o f enterprises which are ficient to complete the road to the
Nebraska has set an example for dependent on the completion of his Warehouse.
All of Cottage Grove and the peo­
the other states to follow. Both road.
It can be stated positively that ple of the country round about can
houses of the legislature of that state
have adopted a resolution declaring the road will be completed to the justly rejoice and feel proud of the
for the election of United States sena­ Warehouse before the next snow fact and this assurance that the O.
tors by popular vote, and calling for a falls, and Chief Engineer Wood has A S. E. will be pushed to comple­
convention oi statos to amend the received instructions t,o push the tion during the coming summer, and
federal constitution regardless of the work at once and keep it under the public confidence in the good
action of congress, as provided in the headway until trains are running purposes and ability of those in
A Complete Sesame oí the Week’s
constitution fixing the methods of to the Waiehouse, by which time control of the affairs of the company
Happenings.
adopting amendments. The dilatory the wagon road leading from the is as strong as the' Rock of Gibrai-
action of congress has doubtless pro­ Warehouse to the mines will be ter.
In addition to the improvments
voked this action on the part of the completed and ready to be used for
legislature of Nebraska. Two things trnnsportrtion of the ores of the to be carried out, as stated above, STATE AND GENERAL N EW S ITEMS.
the people of the United States want mines from the company’s proper­ it can be said with positiveness that
done and done quickly; election of ties to the railroad, a distance of the Champion mine and mill, proper­
The build­ ties c f the Oregon Securities Co.,
Albany citizens have organized a
United States senators by the people about seven miles.
and the immediate assembling of con ing of this wagon road means more have both been in continuous oper­ referendum league.
gross after the election, in order that than the average person would sup­ ation all the past winter, despite the
Mrs. Fannie Powell, a pioneer of
It will cost heavy fall of snow in the mountains, Linn county, is dead.
the will of the people may be put into pose at first glance.
$1000 a mile to be put in proper and there is now no likelihood of a
force at once.
Free city mail delivery will be
condition and this sum will of closing of either tho mill or mine,
inaugurated at The Dalles June 1st.
course
construct
a
pike
that
will
be
but
if
anything,
both
will
be
forced
Republicans and Democrats should
to the lim it of production.
The strike of the miners at Kes­
make H a particular duty to atteud fit for any purpose.
wick, Cal., is assuming a serious
their respective primaries called to
A B IG S U IT F T L 2 D .
phase.
select the delegates, who, through the
NEWS SUMMARIZED.
W K WANT
YOUR TRADE
Nothing startling about th at fact, as any
merchant would tell you if you should ask
him, hut in this particular case we fire go­
ing to concede something in order to make
you a customer, if you are not already trad­
ing with us. We understand th at everyone
desires to mako the dollars go as far as pos­
sible, and we intend to m eet you half-way
on this kind of a basis by giving you as good
or better values than you have ever secured
before. This includes all of o u r present
stock as well as the elegant new spring and
and summer goods which will be on the
shelves and ready for display soon. Be
sure to come in and look over the stock
P a s s in g o f 1. M. V eliteli.
After a lingering illness of sev­
eral months, Isaac Milton Veatch
died at the home of his nephew,
F.obert Veateb, in this city Friday,
Ma:ch 20, 1S03, aud was buried
Si.'.u.'dsy ia the Shields cemetery.'
Decs.used wee one of the old pio­
neers of this slate, having crossed
the plains from Iowa to Oregon iu
1853 ia the train commanded by
Wm. Cg'esby and O. B. Koox in
company with his brothers, Burn
and Vest Veatch. Mr. Veatch was
born ;'n T.’hite county, Illinois, Nov.
4, 1823, making him a few months
pact 76 years old at the time of his
de&.h. With his father’s family he
moved to Iowa in 1845, residing in
Davis county. At a camp meeting
on 1 ox river in that state in 1847
he was converted and joined the
Cumberland Presbyterian church.
When the Cumberland Presbyterian
church was organized iy Cottage
Grove in 1855, he became an active
member of the same and has con­
tinued aB such for nearly 50 years.
Mr. Veatch was married in 1867
to the widow Smith, daughter of
Silas Brown, with whom he lived
until her death in May 1901.
To
them were boru three girls anil two
boys, four of whom survives to
mourn his death, namely; Itobert
and Oscar, and Lucy Shields and
Sylvia Stratten.
Mr. Veatch was a plain, unassum­
ing man, but strictly honest and
upright iu all his dealings with his
'ellowman and was held in high
esteem by a host of friends:.
Du von w ant some fine
all wool underwear,
regular 1.25 to $1.75
goods at
75c
Ladies union suits,
just the weight, at the
suit
25c
All solid leather shoes
3 pairs for $ 1.00
e n u n tjr < vm vow tioua, w ill hnv<* uxx i n .
A s Others
at less than the other store
A Pennsylvania woman has just
M ajor K in u e y S e e k s to R e c o v e r
tluence in selecting the candidates for
S E E U 3
t h e In s t Shoes for ladles §t.4n 011%) n * *
presented her husband with the
th e K in n e y A d d itio n .
You pay for these goods $2 to 93.5#
congress in the First District. If
twenty-third child.
Did you ever make some small success,
thoro be any principie at issue, and
R o s e b u r g , March 21.— Through
Aud brag your little brag,
Closing out a lot of
The Missouri Supreme Court has
there is, it is certainly a civic obliga­
As if your breathing would impress
his attorney, C A. Sehlbrede, Major returued a decision of guilty against
The world and tlx your tag
mens
pants at
tion of everv man, who is lit to vote, to
Upon it, so th at all might see
L. D. Kinney has filed a suit against the beef trust and assessed a fine of
The label loudly reading “ ME!”
participate in the primary. There is
the Roseburg Lumber Co., compris­ $5,000.
the seat of initial movement in poli
W. C. Connor baa taken charge of ing the Alexander & Campbell Co.,
tics, and if people mean nothing in and will lead the Lane County L ead ­ to recover full possession of K in ­
George Willis, aged 80, and Mel-
the primary, all which follows means er , we hope, along pleasant ways— ney's Improved Plat of the City o f vina Nash, aged 76, were recently
nothing, beyond a simple fight for Salem Daily Journal.
Roseburg. The result of the case married at McMinnville, May they
jobs But the voters ought to try to
rests on the court’s decision on the live long and prosper.
worth from .$2 to $3.50
W.
C.
Conner,
formerly
editor
of
understand just what is meant by the
character of the instrument by
The Golconda mine of the Sump­
action of those trying to control the the Roseburg Plaindealer, is the new which the Roseburg Lumber Co.
ter district has declared a dividend
primary when that action does mean proprietor and editor of the Cottage acquired possession of the property
and will disperse $15,000 among its
something, not wholly personal. Grove L eader which he baa changed on Jan. 14, 1903.
On that date
There are plenty of instances where in name to the Lane County L eader . what purports to bo a quit-claim stockholders April 1st.
Mr.
Conner
is
a
capable
newspaper
the simple minded voter supported in
The three per cent discount cn
deed was executed in favor of the
the primary, unwittingly, the very man and he will make a good paper Roseburg Lumber Co. on consider­ taxes has proved a drawing card,
of
the
L
eader as he did of the Plain-
program most repugnant to him and
Next Door to Benson's Drug Store
ation that said company assume the every county iu the state reporting
which was later carried out sucoess dealer.—Ashland Tribune.
indebtedness against the property heavy payments of taxes,
fully.—Ashland Tribune.
The Cottage Grove L e a d e r has conveyed, amounting to $8,909.16.
Salem is making elaborate ar­
changed hands. W C. Conner, for­ Among the creditors in this amount rangements for the entertainment
If you read the Leader you will
Subscribe for the L eader and get
John Paul Jones, traveling passen­ merly publisher of the Roseburg was the Roseburg Lumber Co. in
of President Roosevelt at that place keep posted
i all the local, state and general news
ger agent of the H. P. railroad com­ Plaindealer, has purchased the plant the sum of $3,942.09.
In this com­ from 9 to 11 o’clock on May 21.
pany spent a day in Cottage Grove of L F. Wooley and fitted it out with plaint, Mr. Kinney alleges that the
The President will only be in
late last week, endeavoring to impress new presses and muterial, and the
company has paid only the latter Oregon two days. If he had ever
our citlzous with the great Importance first issue is a vast improvement.
amount which was really all they been here before he would make it
of a live Board of Trade, Real Estate Weil, here is wishing you success,
were legally obliged to pay insofar two weeks aud wish he could ge*.
Exchange or some similar organiza­ Bro. Conner.—Medford Enquirer.
os Mr. Kinney further alleges that life.
tion, to a town. He found here a re­
The latest addition to tho Success’ the instrument conveying the prop­
cently organized Commercial Club,
The President has again sent in
exchange
list is the Lane County erty was really intended as a lein,
which is beaded by some of our most
L eader , of Cottage Grove, which has taking the character of a mortgage, to the senate the name of W. D.
active and energetic citizens and
Crum, colored, to be collector of
which organization will soon get down reeeutly been purchased by W. C, to secure the sum of $3,952.09 held
customs at the port of Charleston,
to business. Mr. Jones said three Couner. Mr. Conner for several years against the property by the Hose- S. C.
FOR PRICE8 ON
The plaintiff
train loads of emigrants recently left past was one of the publishers of the burg Lumber Co.
Lester Belding, the Portland wife
H GROCERIES
Ht. 1 aul for Portland, where they will Roseburg Plaindealer and under his says he has the money and lias of­
scatter to various parts of the state management it was one of the leading fered to pay off the lien and assume murderer, will hang today, Friday
und buy homes. Roseburg, Eugene, county papers of Oregon. Mr. Con­ the remaining indebtedness of $4,- He says he is sorry for his crime [
Albany, Salem and other towns are ner is a bright writer and rustler for 958.07, but this the defendant re­ and is seeking cousolation in reli- j
putting forth special efforts through business and the L eader under his fuses to necept and reconvey the giou.
their Board of Trade and otherwise management will be a live, newsy property. Wherefore, M i. Kinney
A referendum league has been I
to secure their full share of this im- paper that will be a big factor in the asks the court to declare the p ur­ organized at Medford and th ey !
porting
quit-claim
deed
to
the
mlgratlon “»d are meeting with suc­ upbuilding of Cottage Grove.—Mod-
property a morgage, so that he can state that a referendum vote will be j
cess. Cottage Grove should hasten to ford Success.
pay off the amount the defendant asked for on the Lewis and Clark
get some literature at Portland to
This fine compliment and hearty refuses to accept, and recover abso­ appropriation.
distribute among the e new comers welcome coming from our esteemed
lute possession of the addition.— lie-
D. M. Radley was given a judg-
is bringing splendid
ami attract their attention to this fav­ contempory, The Boh»>min Nugget, is view
ment at The Dalles for $5,382
• • . results f o r . .
ored locality. There is plenty of greatly appreciated. There is noth
against the Columbia Southern rail­
room.
G u n s W ith » H isto r y .
ing small in the makeup of that pa­
road for injuries received in au ac­
per’s management; “A copy of the
T o licccivi» R o w v v H I.
County Clerk Lee, says the E u­ cident on that road.
Lane County L eader , under the pro­
A six-year-old girl. Grace Cooper. |
prietorship and editorship of W. C. gene Register, is accumulating
Man-li 20 — The fo l- Conner, reached the exchange table of quite an arsenal of murderous wea­ was burned to death near Corval’is. !
Legislature the Nugget last Friday. Mr. Conner pons. He now. has three danger­ The child’s clothing caught fire !
I d January we old eight pianos
Cham be rlain s a former Cottage Grove boy. the I ous looking guns, two of which from a stove and before help could i
and
organs, h Pel 'run ry f o u r
ception and son of Ira Conner, one of the best | hare killed their man. These guns arrive or her clothing be removed!
pianos and three organs Yn ms
ent hoosc - men in Lane county, and in this in­ are held by Clerk Lee, subject to she was burned so badly that her }
egon.
month w e have already s o l d
stance the son is a chip of the old t the order of the court. Among tic hfe could nu .»t be saved.
Clackamas, Mock. Under his management the lot is the Smith A W esson will,
James J. Hill it is reported Willi
°"e
our «nest Needham pianos,
ter of Jai-k- L eader I s greatly improved—in fact i which Elliott Lyons killed Sheriff extend bis ;
and cveral
organs, besides a vast
id W tbung one would hardly suspicion it to he I Withers; also the C olt's "Old B et­ lines from Sc great northern railca d
amount >f mall goods
itative Har- the same paper. It comes out with | sey,” that killed Ben Tracy, the San Francis» cattle and Portland to!
A Southern Pa ““> by paralleling the
Tillauutok an
attractive
new head, g o o d , Junction City saloon keeper.
ific railroad through I
Gault of press work, neat nds and a good local j tine hammerlrss pistol that wa* tak­
PR O SPECTS a r e l o o m in g u p .
| this state and California. Two surveys
Josephine, news service. It will certainly be np-1 en from the body *>f Tracy is also
S I JT.
ft** «B direction« f,,r ♦»>,»... u . ,,
I
have
already
been
made
and
suV.mit-
i
of Lincoln, proclatfd by it-* patrons, and tho Nug­ in the possession of the cou rt
, , " anrt* w *«"<*. th Æ
V
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S
S
I ted.
This would ^ be - good thing 1
,
of get extends the glad hand of wel­
Now i-» a good time to subscribe tor !,or Yr*Kun »nd in fact the entire
come. ”
the L eader .
I northwest.
Cottage firove
Rubber floods—overalls, a good supply
$1.90
& felci
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