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About Lane County leader. (Cottage Grove, Lane County, Or.) 1903-1905 | View Entire Issue (May 15, 1903)
y. o< «• COTTAGE GROVE. OREGON. Tin* headquarters for three great lumbering companies. Only gateway t<» the rich Bo- lieniia gold mines, and the Mark Butte cinnabar mines Harte County Xeaòer. I VOL. XV — NO. 4 COTTAGE GROVE, LANK COUNTY. OREGON, MAY 15, ITO? THE BOHEMIA COUNTY SEAT MEW STAMP MILL FIRST BILL GAME l'll'B« uniouut of ore oil the dump at the Nemo mine before the season close*. \\ oi k is being pushed just us vigorously ou the Peekaboo auu innujr other mines bordering ou the Champion basin where the erection n f (he big stamp mill and the build ing of the ruilrond and ungou road ' has given the mine holders of that vicinity a renewed incentive to act of ive development work and the oper Eloped W ith His Wife's ation of their mills. Active opera tions are bciug commenced in the Sister Commission various other mines of the district ers Adjourn. and scores of good prospects are be ing opened up. This promises to he a tanner season in this great j mining district. glories of Monday night would bo repeated on the following night, but the bold house breaker selected A marriage license was issued another part of town and plied his Tuesday to J -I Bryan aud Miss profession in a manner characteris [ Maude Thompson. tic of the work of the former night. It. M. Pratt and .Sherman Heller Ho wore as formerly, a pair of new have let the contract to John Eddy rubbers or overshoes, a fact demon ! for the construction of tbeir lug liv strated by his encountering another ery stable ami blacksmith shop on j freshly painted floor at the home o f the lot west of the courthouse lodg Geo. Eweu, which he entered and at Champion Basin Center ing house. The building u ill cover Have Infested, the City this which place he extracted about $4 the whole lot, 80x114 feet. The M i n i n g Activity in cash from Mr. Ewen’s trouser W eek and Several contract price is $2,500. I pockets. and Operations Robberies Result Ouly a few hundred feet distance Miss Nina Ostrauder has resigned , from this place he entered the resi- her positiofi as operator at the Pos ! dence of Geo. Leo through a pantry tal 'Telegraph office. She has made window. Here he feasted on bread many friends during her service iu and honey, a bountiful supply o f ROYAL FLUSH MINING COMPANY. j the office and they will regret to j which he found at hand. Ha then This week has witnessed the hear of her resijpiatiou. Mrs. Car- The Royal Flush Mining gauization of the Koval Flush Min- Roseburg and Eugene En j tit Holsinger, of Albany will take They Operate Without Ap i visited Mr. Lea’s bedroom, secured his trousers, and extracted a little her place. Miss Ostrauder, it is Company Incorpor i*’.e Company to operate in Bohemia more than $3 from his purse leaving gage in an Interest parent Fear. But at ^ J * district. It is n clone corporation stated, will return to her home at $1.04 iu the purse— supposedly iu ed this W eek j consisting of four well known local Cottage Grove. ing Contest. Little Profit payment for his feast on bread and ------------ residents and mining wen, with a honey. Upon leaving the house The count\ commissioners’ court in the Bo- caP'ta* $5000 equally divided and The center of activity A short time ago Mrs. John Wick which adjourned Friday evening af One or more of the professional the purse was left on the pantry ... fully paid and no stock for sale henna mines this season promises to tt „ „„ . . . . . . ham, whose husband was an ein- ter u three days’ session made sev burglnrs and all round crooks who window sill. , , 1 1 he company own six full claims The residence of Rev. C. H. Wnl- be the Champion Basin in aiul about “ Monte ~ ' Rico ridge aud have spleudid ploye in the Booth. Kelly nulls at eral appointments of judges and have beeu plying their profession which is located the valuable min- timber and water supply for all Springfield and who is li9r hus- clerks of electiou to take the place all along the line from Ashland to lace, in the same vicinity, was also this place, struck Cottage Grove ; eutered, but nothing wns taken from ing properties of the Oregon S e c u r -m' u‘ n8 purposes for fifty years to band’s seuior by ten years, sent of those who have moved away from Monday evening. It was no doubt the reverend gentleman’s home, the their several precincts. The judges itica Company, and in which basin |to,u''- Supplies will he at once money to her buxom young sister laud clerks who officiated ut the last part of the same gang which recent- ' intruder evidently remaining but a this solid company will put in n * shipped to the property nud devel- iu Florida aud urged her to make election will'd« duty at the coming ly gave Roseburg so much trouble few minutes. large electric sixty stamp mill this ° l’UieDt work will be begun aud them a visit. The sister put in an special congressional election. and a little later ransacked several Dr. Hosuier’s residence near the season, one with a capacity sufficient kept 6 ° 'n8 indefinitely. This prop- appearance about one month ago residences at Drain, and seemingly, C. P. church was visited evidently to handle all the ore from their var- ertJ is saitl to be amoug the best iu and quite soon thereafter a mutual The Guard sprung a great seusa- are working tbeir way north. by the same party in his midnight ious mines, among which are the tlu) camp at its present development infatuation was awakeued between tional story recently about Biuger About the first place visited in maraudings, who however, ouly se- Champion, Helena No. 1 and 2, aud auJ tlje owners look forward to uu- the guest and Mr. Wickbaui. This j Hermauu robbing the government this city was the home of the west, cured a few dollars in change iron» tbe Music mines. This company coverin8 seveiai large and rich infatuation had increased by the | out of ¡1000 acres of land nhcu he side druggist, J. P. Currin. But the doctor's trousers, now has n strong force of men at i The incorporators aud sole end of one short month to such an | was iu the Roseburg land office one man was seen by Mr. Currin There is evidently a small gang of work putting iu a large dam, to sup- ° " 'ner8 are Alex Lundberg, presi- extent that the couple resolved up about 3(1 years ago aud for which who was awakened by the fellow’ s 1 professional crooks working thein' ply power for their big dynamos as ,lent; J°hn Lindquist, mining man- on an elopuieut and accordingly took they declare he was fired. The efforts to pry open a window aud way north nud the officers of tho well as their saw mill plant, which ft8el'l John Crowley, treasurer; an unceremonious departure to the Register pertinently remarked: gain eutrauce to the house. towns north of this place will do has been ordered and will be in- Micheál Goetz, secretary. Tli£ i north early last week. There is “ They forgot to add that for such After beating a hasty retreat from well to keep an eye out for them. stalled and put in operation as soon P'esideut and mining manager are now a very angry wife in pursuit of sculduggry the people at once sent BURGLARS AT BRAIN. ns it arrives, a force of men hnving two of the oldest aud most practical the pair. The happiness of u home ; him to congress for 12 years to do the Currin home the fellow next vis the mill frame work nearly com- miners of the camp and will devote j is destroyed, marriage vows are penauce for the deed and then be- ited J. W. tiow dy’s residence aud D r a in , May !) — Burglars entered pleted. This mill is being erected a11 of their energies on the property, j broken, aud a loving wife has been I cause he was not sufficiently puu effected an entrance through a front the residences of J W Spalding and window. Mr. Gowdy sprang from to supply lumber and timbers ex- ^ ts believed that another year’ s robbed of her husband through the ¡shed President McKinley appointed [John Linch here last night about 12 his bed just as the burglar wns in o’clock, and secured about $15 from clusively for the compauy and not systematic work on this Royal Flush charms and fascinations of her sis him commissioner of general land tho act of entering his room and group will show up results that will j the pants of the former and nbout ns a commercial enterprise. ter. The dreadful truth of the situ office from which, for good behavior the bold intruder made his $20 from tho latter. They also tried It is now ant cipnted that the ex j lie most gratfying to the owners ation did not dawn upon the for he was allowed to resigu after he out of the back door witbout t S®1 u*' I to break into tho resideneo of L M. tensive electrical machinery will he and redound much to the future saken wife until two days after her had served two years longer lliau ing auytlnug. Perkins but were discovered by Mrs. here by the time the dam is con : greatness of Boben.ia district. faithless husbaud and ungrateful he wanted to. Oh Biuger, you are The next place visited was the ---- ------------ ( Perkins and frightened away. They structed aud the road is completed | sister tied from Eugene. They left 1 corker, residence of B. L. Pickard^ Here Dorena Lumber Company. effected entrance to the first named into the mines from the Warehouse. the house ostensibly to tab- i short The justice court of the Eugene entrance was effected through a dwellings by crawling through win ft to the Champion l a . sin. nearly two Articles of ilicot porutfon of the l)or- stroll, but failed to ieti.,o. The back door which was left unlocked. dows. There is uo clue to the ident miles of the five now being com euu Lumber Company were tiled with anxious wife and sister remained ¡¡strict in the case of the State of county clerk ut Kugene Tuesday. Oregon, vessns A1 Hampton, L. H Mr. Pickard had just painted his ity of the robbers. pleted. The grade is an even, easy tin' l!cv. C. A. Wooley of Fnirmount, \V. j up all night, vainly striving to con Tracer, Frank Gilstrap, \Y. H. Kay, kitchen floor and tho burglar le ft, one from 4 to 5 percent aud when I h. Houston, ex-real estate ugent ot strue their absence into some feasi D. E. Yorau, nud C. M. Young, his tracks nil over tho room, which S ta g e H e ld U p. this road is completed, heavy loads Eugene, and ex-editor I. F. Wooley, ble form. The morning dawned, indicated that he was wearing a new ' of machinery and supplies may be of this eity and J. H. Gcoteli are- tlie hut still no truee of the missing | chargiug these meu with violating pair of rubbers or overshoes, the the Sunday closing law by keeping in corporators. Within 250 yards of the spot where hauled into the Champion linsin \ ' ones. The Eugene police were ! open a place of amusement on the eorrognted soles showing plainly in The principal office and place of hu- it was robbed last winter nnd with from the terminus of the railroad. called upon that day and immedi tho fresh paiut ou the floor ami also The Champion basin is surround | siness is Eugene and the capital stoek ately set to work to solve the mys j first day of the week, rendered its ou the steps and wnlk leading from the same diiver, J. A. Sawyers, tho ed b\> many other good mining | is $15.000 divided into us many shares, tery. It was quickly ascertained that I decision iu favor of the defeudauts. tlie premises, Mr. Pickard had laid Roseburg-Myrtle Point stage was properties owned by individual and alv >lllurilu’' 1 by Mi. Wocloy that Wickham and Miss Mnlliu had taken Acquittal of defendants was not held up at 1) o'clock Tuesday e' o ling local companies among which are R is their purpose to erect a sawmill the north bound traiu for Portland. j based on mere technical grounds his trousers ou a chair near the head of his bed and placed bis : of last week seveu miles this side of but on the plain unequivocal con— the Peekaboo and the Nemo. The 8 ,nit’’s eaflt of Cottage Glove on the j struction of the law. It is evident socks un them. The burglar evi Camas Valley. Two meu wearing FIRST LEAGUE GAME. former is owned bv \Y. E. Edwards, Uohell,i,‘ rai,ro“'1- " ll0“ ’ th<?>' j that the statute does not construe dently made a grab fo>- the trous white masks did tbe job and they Dave McFarland and O. Meadows, ,in'1 contro1 « >arK° «»mount; of The first league game of the ers, but iu his haste only secured secured $132,50 for their trouble, the latter being owned by Meadows valuable timber. He savs the new son was called at this place Satur ^ » aseba» “ id other athletic sports as the socks and hastily made his exit, j The U. S. mail was not molested, A Lutan. Mr. Meadows has been mi» will have a capacity of u out .in- day afternoon the contesting teams amusements which are designated leaving the socks at the foot of the The stage carried three passengers: spending the week in town putting uu0 r®et Per day and tln,,« ht 11 would being Eugene and Roseburg. Much I “ a tent ,LoW8’ »h®*»™“ '8- a” d ‘ »® steps outside. j F. Lee, of Cylon, Wisconsin; Win. . . . . ___ g .,. .K .... like. in a large amount of supplies for an be in operation sometime in June. enthusiasm prevailed, the directors Geo. Met/ueeu received a call at McGrath, of New Richmond, Win., Mr. Houston went to Portland Wed of the home team being all decked The old town is full of music lov active season’s work o h these p r o p his home from a bold intruder about aod H. H Scovel, of the Lloyd- erties. Both properties have beeu nesday to purchase machinery for the out iu plug hats aud ribbon stream ers who are in attendance at tne the same time, eutrauce to his resi- Scovel Iron Co., of Sun Francisco, mill and will immediately ship it to ers in profusion. Mayor Chrisman grand musical festival. The feature deuce being effected through a win- These men were the victims of tho thorougiily prospected and show up the building site. shied the first ball over the home of Tuesday evening wa* the con dow. As far as can be ascertained hold-up. exceedingly well, several assays Senator Mitchell predicts that plate and the big game was on. The cert by tbe Portland Symphony nothing was taken from his place. convincing the owners that they have good paying ledges. Meadows Roosevelt and Cleveland will head game resulted in a score of 15 to lo Orchestra comprising 20 instru- Hon. R. A. Booth has been ap- TUESDAY NIGHT’ « BURGLARIES in favor of Eugen.. The game was mentalists in concert. Manv prom A I.utali will endeavor to get a ' the presidentigl tickets in UHM Little was thought that tbe bur- pointed a notary public. repeated between tbe two teams inent musicians from various parts Sunday aud they got down to a of tbe country are down ou the good deal better playiug. The game I program. The festival closes Fri 1 was called at 3 o ’ clock p. m. and day evening. ' resulted in a victory for’ the Rose- Hon. Binger Hermann and Col. burg team by a score of 5 to 8. The E. Hofer addressed one of the larg I lineup was as follows: est public gatherings ever assem- ROSEBURG | bled in this city to hear a political , EUGENE Bradley discussiou, at the court house Mon ; McFarland c H A V E J U S T ARRIVED Morrow day evening. Col. Hofer made the Loriiner P ss ! Whittaker S V Ramp opening address and confined him Gibson self principally to a discussion of lb Holland 2b Reizenstein ; national issues, but set forth many Starr All of the* l.itest Robinson j plausible reasons why Mr. Hermann 3b Russell tlress fabrics in all Hull | should be returned to Congress. Mr Johnson rf Chapin cf F Ramp | Hermauu was the new weaves received with a at a moderate ex If Yftii Leu wen 1 Harper choice patterns ! storm of applause and seemed at his pense if you will al nì.“« MARIE « ARE RETI HNS. | very best. His speech was able low us to fit you out And convincing and he made plain Miss Marie Ware, the èx-t*. in our Ilimd-Tailor- I and completely refuted every charge ; laud commissioner, about whom ed, Rea<ly-to-\War XX ; much has lately appeared in the i Pref®rred a8a' ut>t him by the oppo- ’ sition, especially as regards bis al Colored Clothing : : : : XX newspapers of tbe state, arrived in leged removal from tbe local land White Tho only difference Eugene from California Sunday XX office at Roseburg. It is observed I morning. She said she had noth Wash b e t w e e u Tailor- XX that there are a good sprinkling of ing to say (or publication regarding Made ( ’lotlies is the Hermann democrats in aud about XX land matters, but would consult price, and that is all this city, while the disaffected re XX with her attorney at Portland be- publicans are all falling in line in favor oftlie ¡roods XX I fore any statement was made. She agaiu. we offer . . . . went to Portland Monday for that XX purpose and to interview Judge Bel- XX Letter» Uncalled For Gentlemen and Ladies summer mderwear. iinger regarding charges preferred XX Tbe very latest in men’s hat*. Ladies, A list of letters remaining un against her. “ I was surprised" Misses and Childrens “ hoes. Men s and XX she ssiil, ‘’to learn that I was a fugi called for iu tbe Cottage Grove, b o y j shoes in light and heavy soles, vici and XX tive from justice, through the col Post Office: Persons calling for b o x calf, and miners’ shoes : : : : umns of a Portland newspaper tbeir letters will please state date XX while I was in San Francisco. Af of which they were advertised, Msy XX ter my visit in the Golden Gate city 15tb, 1003. The letters will be XX was completed I attended the fiesta charged for at the rate of one cent XX at Los Angeles aud then came di each. rect hom e." While in Eugene Miss Bonnot, Clara; Commer, Martin,2; Ware was cordially received by Fork, F. A .; Hunt, Geo. B. ; Mont friends, drove to tbe baseball game gomery, C. E. ; Rowley, O. B. ; R o First National BanK Building and appeared on tbe streets several berts, R. T .; Vest, John. C J. H oward . P. M. i times seeming unconcerned regard- Our Spring Goods GOODS Latest Creations for 1903 EaKin S Bristow ing the chagres her. INVESTORS and HOMESEEKERS will here find opportunities no»»here else afforded in Ore gon. The Leader will give you tiie news aiul fa d s con cerning this favored locality preferred against GET SMALL BOOTY You Can be Fashionable
