Lane County leader. (Cottage Grove, Lane County, Or.) 1903-1905, May 01, 1903, Image 9

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Supplement
to
VOL. XV
HOW
Xaite County Xeafcct*
COTTAGE GROVE. OREGON, MAY 1, 1903.
FU LTON
V IE W S IT .
A. M . W h ite ’s E s ta te .
NEARING
No. 2.
C O M P L E T IO N .
Mrs. Ella White Thompson of
R e la tio n s b e tw e e n R o o sev e lt, Cottage Grove, presented a claim Tl,e ll|K Sm elter at Sum pter will
H itc h c o c k a n d H e rm a n .
for $480, and her husband present-
Soon be in Operation.
ed a claim for $8.50 against the
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Senator Fulton who is homo from estate of her brother, A. M. White, This Sumpter smelter is fast ap-
suicide last year, to proaching completion. The build-
Washington where he hAd an op­ J. who E. committed
administrator of the ing is about all enclosed, and the
portunity to investigate and did in estate. Young,
rejected both claims, machinery nearly all in place. When
vestigate the Hitchcock, Herman Dec. 20, Young
1902. On the petition of it is realized that this is the only
affnir, will enter the campaign to the claimants, the administrator was smelter of any magnitude in the
aid in the election of Mr. Hermann given ten days notice to appear be- state its importance is apparent,
the County Judge at the court The state in the future as a result
to congress. While in Salem the fore
house in Eugene for a hearing of will get a portion of the credit that
other day Senator Fultou, in the the
claim. On the day is due for the production of minerals
course of an interview published named, rejected
April 16 the administrator from the many mines in eastern
in the Statesman said:
appeared with his attorney J. S. Oregon. While no doubt a great
“Cur Democratic friends are Medley, and the claimants appear- percentage of the ores mined will
afraid it would be unsatisfactory to ed with their attorney, Jerome Knox, still be treated by smelters in Wash-
the President to send a man to aod L . Bilyeu. After hearing the ington and elsewhere, it is safe to
smelter
Congress who is in opposition to the testimony of the claimants and the assume that the Sumpter
administration, but it seems to mo administrator anil arguments of the will get its share if not all that it
to be a very strange way to satisfy attorneys and examining all tjie can possibly treat in the way of
the administration to send a man to papers and accounts, it was ordered smelting ores. The plant is not a
Congress who is in opposition to all that Ella White Thompson is entitled large one, but it is most complete
of the principals upheld by that ad­ to $102, for which payments to and thorough in every detail. Its
ministration, and turn down a man White are established by bank books sample mill, which contains two
who will stand for the policy of the and that the remainder of her claim crushers, two sets of rolls, three au-
amounting to $378 be rejected for tomatic samplers, with two belt ele-
dominant party.
“Mr. Hermann has always been the reason that there was no vators, is capable of handling 400
aggressive in his work for the state, evidence of such payment to White, tons of ore daily. The smelter fur-
but there is nothing in the claim other than her own statement, and nace, while arranged at present for
that hostility exists between Her­ a claim which has been rejected by 150 tons daily, can be increased in
mann and Hitchcock. They did not an administrator cannot according capacity to accommodate the
agree iu the work of the department to law be allowed by the court on amount handled by the sample mill,
so M.r Hermann resigned, but Mr. the unsupported testimony of the A smelter of about this capacity
Hitchcock made no charges of in- claimant. The claim of Geo. or larger is what is so much needed
competency or misconduct in the Thompson for a stove alleged to at this place or in the vicinity of
office, but their temperments simply have been loaned to White was re- the Bohemia mines and which we
jected for the same reason.—Journal, are reliably informed is likely to be
did not harmonize.
built between Cottage Groye and
“Some claim his relations with the
In c re a s e P e n sio n s.
Bohemia on the O. & S. E. railroad
President were strained, but on the
contrary, they wore known to be By a recent act of Congress Union at no distant day, in fact it would
most pleasant He was thought soldiers who have lost a hand or be no surprise should operations on
very highly of in Washington foot are to receive $40 per mouth; an ore treating plant be commenced
those who have lost an arm at or in this mining district this season,
generally.
Oregon needs a trained man in above the elbow, or a leg at or Development work has advanced to
Congress, and, if Mr. Hermann is above the knee $46 per month; those such an extent in Bohemia within
elected, he will be an active working who have lost an arm at the shoulder the past few years that a smelter to
member the first day be arrives in joint, or a leg at the hip joint $55 treat the great amount of ore now
Washington, and Oregon is expect­ a month; those that have lost one being turned ont of this mining dis­
ing a great deal in the way of ap­ band and one foot $60 per month; trici, is a crying necessity.
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propriations. These things can those that have lost both feet $100
only come from Republican support per month. The act also provides uMari0,n co“ntJ baa raade tbe Pur-
same pension for total disability cbaBe o t a” 18borae P°"er, tra£,‘'on
A Democrat could do nothing in a in the any
of the cases inetead of the enKine with wide flat wheels They
Republican Congress. The Re­
• stea™ road roll«r- X* « *
publican party is in power by a actual loss of limb. The com mis-
large majority and a Democrat siooer has ruled that a new applica- *2500- leM 20 P«r cent ,or caab-
would be opposed to every policy of tion for pension is not necessary in The penitentiary scandal has
the party so, how could he hope to these cases. The increase will be turned ont to be a fake. The wom-
get any favors for the state? The given from the old records. The an is growing corpulent and was
election of a Democrat would pension of veterans who are totally not as claimed. At least it is so re­
practically leave Oregon with one deaf has been raised from $30 to ported at the penitentiary. It is
representative short in Congress, $40 and that of survivors of the better thus. It takes a Democratic
and no greater mistake could be Mexican and Indian war from $8 to administration to solve such a prob-
lem.
made by the people at this time." $12.