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About Lane County leader. (Cottage Grove, Lane County, Or.) 1903-1905 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 9, 1903)
I*'« ai OREGON. for three |ÎT**É t & ^ Ä ,U coini»¿iuU**. û to the rí« l» H'>* V|{an;wa> jiiul tlu* "-“ i" I H a n e C o u n ty X e a b e c. | l XV INVESTORS ftnë HOMESEEKERS will here timi «»pport uniti*--* m*»»here eUe afforded uraeil iuOre gon. The Leader will give you the new» and facta eon* cerniug this favored locality NO. 25 COTTAGE GROVE, LANE COUNTY. OREGON, F R ID A Y , OCT. 9. 1903. r0reg°n & S o u t h e a s t e r n road Co. for Their I m m e d ia t e Use. RUSH WORK 1 But Six Miles of Bohe- ; tically new and u first class machine with full equipment. It was taken out to the Company’s gravel bed be- ' tween the Mushy Creek bridge and ! Cottage Grove to-day and will be put into operation at once, tbecorn- | pany beiug euger to ballast up their roadbed not heretofore ballasted, before tbe winter rains set in. This new steam shovel is a valuable ac quisition to the O. k S. E. Railroad. W . C. T. U. Convention. The annual convention of the Womans Christian Temperance Union of Lane County, convened at Saginaw on tbe afternoon of Sept, 30. President Mrs. Eva C. Wheeler presiding. A. D. LERO Y. Discoverer arvd One of the Principal Owners of the LeR oy Mines in the Famous Bohemia. Mining District. A. D. Leltoy, the supject of this sketch, was born in Wiscon sin 3s years ago. Twelve \ears ago he went to California lu company with his brother, J. F. LeEoy, where they engaged in mining operations with the Northern Placer Cotnpauy for a period of about three years, and the brothers were successful in locating the famous Consinee mine and also the Great North ern placer mine for this company They came to Cottage Grove and commenced prospecting in the bohemia district in 1893, and were successful in locating the Laura group of mines, now known us the LeRoy mines, and also located the Judsou Rock mines. The LeRoy has one tun nel of 1000 feet and numerous crosscuts aud smaller tunnels, aggregating some 2500 feet of tunnels on the entire property. Air compressors have been installed in the LeRoy mines. The company has a great deal of valuable ore on the dump aud Is contemplating installing a reduction plant at no far distant day. The company consists of Messrs. J. L. LeRoy, pres ident; A. D. and J. F. LeRoy, directors. The unnual stockholders meeting was held in this city Thursday, Oct. 8, and much business of importance concerning the mines was considered. The annual re ports were received and read, which were very favorable and decided ly gratifying to the stockholders in this valuable property. The opeuiug devotional« were fol lowed by department reports. Discussion on the needs and moth ode of the work closed tbe session peneral Manager Pearson, o f the Evening session was introduced In icon A Southeastern Railroad, is in usic, scripture reading and prayer. back from San Francisco, The recitation “ He dident think,” L g procured a steam shovel for by Miss Beulah DeSpain, told why V on tbe new line. He was in so many young men fall. »1 a short time a g o trying to Rev. Boyles, pastor of the C. P. jure one, but, failing in ‘ be at: church of Cottage Grove, gave a tpl, he went to the south and stirring address upon a few phases r was successful. The company of the temperance problem. He Mil & shovel iu the East, but it mentioned some pointed facts; the £ lost somewhere in transportation majority of women and girls at re din order to continue the work ligious and temperance services, iu i Fall, one was required in a contrast with the great excess of men and boys in prisons and re (company is very anxious to formatories; the inconsistency of |e the line built into Bohemia temperance workers fighting the Tfall, but on account of the de- brewer and then helping harvest N O T E S o r IN T E R E S T lin procuring the shovel will hops to make beer; Temperance peo G A T H E R .E D ¡ably not be able to complete ple should deal with the enemy as FR O M A L L S O U R C E S 1 nearer than six miles from do soldiers in war, “No aid or com mu. This point can be reach- fort to the enem y.” Herbert Leigh, the well known Co., by the Ladd’ s Metal Co., was I by tbe time the rainy season Thursday the White Ribboners mining man and nssnyrr was in town commenced Tuesday and he predicts i on, but beyond it there is met iu early session. Reports of Wednesday. that the new smelter will prove a Lderable doubt, as tbe season departments of Evangelistic, Sun G. B. Hengeu, who with associates i Breat « “ «««*» an‘l »» w il> revolu- |building has nearly closed. It day School Literature, Medal Con uted that in event the road test, Lumber men aDd miners. Treas recentlv bought tlm Star Kroup iu itlo,,,zo 8'“ eltlnF « P e ^ n s on this kmlt this Fall it will have to be urers report showed all bills paid Bohemia, writes saying a mill will COIL^- Tbe LeRoy Co. were unable be erected on the propel ty in a short to s "P 0 ca' l ° 0^ ° f ore to H*e stuel- Hover again next Spring, as the aud a good balance on band. ^lfne ter for test purposes ow ing to the Bind removed earth will not be Reports from Unions gave evi recent equinoxial storm and the ¡nditiuu to support the road dence of active work. I. 13. Hammond, of the Hammond scarcity of freight teams to convey a the Spring comes on. ore terminus of the new The president’ s address was a gen- Manufacturing Co., is at Bohemia | would require at least two- j eral review of the year’ s work. looking after the completion of the railroad from their mines. • of tbe original cost J o rebuild Three Institutes^Jiaje been Gyr gPli Securities Com- F J. Hard, one of the most prom- in cake it was rushed j j f atio:;ftl' anti State lecturers . have ~panv property^ , , I inent mining men of the Bohemia »hit this time, aud the result , vjsitetl local unions inspiring them Perry Ely the edtlor-postmasUr ! ,jgtrict spent Friday in toivureturn- Id be entirely unsatisfactory to ■ ,iu j iucreasing tbe member- of Kelso Washington arrived iD jiug to the mines Saturday. Before tempany aud the patrons. For l y Much etIort ba8 becn Put this city Tuesday and on Wednes- rmon the work will be rushed i f(jrtb in tbe Master’ s name aud He j day weut up to the Bohemia district I going he announced that be had re cently consummated a deal, wherein it the rainy season comes on aud only can count the gain. j look after his nitutn interests, he became ownet of the entire Stocks ■ iu tbe Spring it will be pushed; Election of Officers resulted iu the | wblcb are verv promising, ,V TIarh w property. Mr. Hard pur Migir to completion. follow in g : President, M m . E v a; (toad taps one of .the rich est;, I Craig Wheeler, Cottage U*ove; i Late reports are to the effect that chased from Stocks,. Hurlow aud Hush ibuir interest in the Stocks A itigsections iu the state, and is j cores.)omliug secretary, Miss Lkzie the first heavy mins » " d real sto. «stimalde value to the proper- 0 * r(l_ Cottage Grove; recording ! of the season visited the high nitiln- Hallow mine, hist Spring, which is opened up. The com pany hop- st,clBlal.’v Mrs. Mary O. H o w c jd e s o f Bohemia this week. How- 1 situated on the slope of Fail-view Ito reach the prosed terminus at i treasurer, Mrs. Louis H. Johnson; i ever the fine fall seeson has enable Mountain. This property joins the ¡famous Vesuvius, to which Mr. Hard J «rehouse in Bohemia before vice-president, Mrs. Louis H. John-j the miners to get ic their su p p lies!' p,ut their properties propefT.es in first class L” - ^ titW'last year, aud he has (tier, but the plans have been ann « and put a deal with David uted by the failure of tbe new A debate upon the Question shape for a winter’ s work. f Finn, of this city, and I. C. Tbomp- a shovel to arrive and inability “ Should wives have an individual WiiliAm W. Frost, representing, son, of Massachusetts, for their in *urj another to take its place. purse?” brought forth a lively and the United States census office, | terest, which gives him entire con STEAM spoVKl. ARRIVES humorous discussion. Jadges de Washington, D. L ., returned recent trol of the tnifie, which is under de i Wednesday m orning tbe new cided in the negative. ly from a tour of inspection of the velopment at the present time, and With thanks to the hospitable Bohemia Mining Distridi. He isen- has large bodies of ore on the dump. i shovel arrived by *he through kU from Cultfunnia and was plac ladies of Saginaw for their excellent thusmstic over the district and pre C. L. Johnson and wife, of Salem | is-.the yards of, the O. A S. E. and bountiful lunch the conference dicts that it will he a world-famous who have been taking an outing at at this place. It is prac- closed. camp at no distant date. the foot of Hardscrable Mountain in t Road to be Complet e d This Year. MINING V Pearce Jo h n so n The ’ largest and lie s t U p - T o - Date G rocery S t o r e ih C é s t i i ire Grove Gan fill LyjcpW)i# small order* promptly : Foiintrv produce, Wiifjtit and strid* : ¡Special at tention given to orders from the Bohemia mines .’ .' •' P H O N E M A I N 45 Corner Main and River St*—Wes* end of Bridge J Chas. Roberts, Douglas countv’s | Bohemia, and pushing the work on geDial surveyor, arrived in this city the G oldeuR tda, C. M. k M. Co., Tuesday and on Wedn»sday went property t passed through the Grove unto the Bohemia mines to survey ion their wily home Wednesday. Mr. and fix the boundaries of the Chinn*’ Johnson is Secretary of the above pion mine for the Oregon Securities {com pany and reports thiugs lively I Company Mr floberts expects. To in the eutire camp. ¿ T h e Golden be employed several days in accom- Rule Co., is pttsl.tug their deveiop- I (dishing this work He favored the meut work w i t h , vim nnd deter- Li «.«E with a pleasant call. ' ! »«ination to succeed with the others and exflhots to seem e the patent on Affx Spare and D. Hamblin re. jtlieir entire holdings of 15 claims turned to this city from the Bohemia .1UI| mill-site • during tbe winter, mining district iiou lay, where they fins is a Salem corporation and is ; have hr eft «pending tbe season, | i^ k e d up with eastern capital. ]«ihtiing development aDd assess , (^i,ite a number of the stockholders ment work on their properties, j officers, that reside in Indiana, They report that their claims are visited tbe camp during the prospecting decidedly well and that dimmer aud are tb ri^ gbly well they are well pleased with the out- phased wi^h the management of the look for tbeir claims becoming ' W l pftny ¡^ d their investment, most good paying investments. of them’ takiftg additional blocks of <■ , ,„ „ i the stock. M f. Johnson informed Chas^Bruneau, v' io re ur ‘ . i tbe L eader that iu his opinion Bulle tins city I m > nm would wonM soon goon rival r ^ - - , _w«k i ^ K a „ y f ' i a i . y è 1 j mia Cripple Creek Alasfn, was formerly owner o^ tue . ven in its palmy days/ Helena, mines in Bohemia. He is now largely interested iu the Pott- P A T JENNINGS’ RICH S T R IK E ! land, Alaska Oil Co., which owns some good oil lands in Alaska. Mr H e c le a n s u p $ 2 2 .0 0 0 o n *Ke R e c e T r e c k Brunenti informs us that he haslake- T K I s T i m e In s t e e 4 o f in H i s M in e s . lv located sotn# very promising (!«»1 deposits iu the far north. He ex- p ortland, Oct 5 .— It is not often pects to confine bis operation to tin- ^bat B $50 chance investment will north for an indefinite period. nej a maD $2*2,000, nor is it often side information will g o on record ! with many other turf romances. .Seveial months ago Mr. JeuniDgs was iu Chicago on busiuess, and b e ing a lover of horses, ^uite nuturally weut to the races. He mixed with tbe crow d, and dually fell in with a horse-owner who had a hard-luck story to tell. He was broke, and bis string of horses were not eating regularly. He was sure be bad a win ner in Mansard, but it took money to get him into shape and to feed the rest of them. The owner of Mansard only wanted $22. The story interested Jennings, and he du g down into his pocket and gave the man $50. The owner, of Man sard told Jennings at the time that, when tbe time was ripe, he would send Mansard out to wiD, and when he did he, the owner, would fix mat ters so that Jennings could beat every poolroom in the Northwest. How well the owner of Mansard kept his word was proven for he beat every poolroom from Salt Lake to San Francisco. At the track the odds opened at 4 to 1, and when Mansard went to the post be was quoted at 5 to 1. Jeuniugs' winning on the horse is, by many thousands o f dollars, the largest amount ever won by any one ou a single race. There was noth ing dishonest about tbe deal. It was simply one of the few good thiugs that go through ou tbe race track. The owners o f the horse had kept Jennings informed of Man sard’ s condition, and severnl days ago he wired the mining man on what day the horse was to start. The fact that tbe horse had no play in the books at Chicago, and the fact that he was an outsider, caused the wise ones to overlook him in tbe betting. Jennings had money bet at Ta coma, Spokane, Seattle, Portland, Salt Lake, San Francisco— in short, every poolroom that was open and taking bets in tbe Northwest, a to tal of $22,000. Mansard, in order to win, had to beat a bunch of good horses. It was a six furlong affair, with ten starters. Mary Lavana was the favorite, and she carried a l>ig lijinch of money. She did not show in the money at all. [Put Jennings formerly operated in the Bohemia M ining district and is well known here. He is a shrewd mining operator as well as a turf plunger.— En. ] Notice to M in ers. A meeting of the miners i f the Bohemia mining district will be held at Bohemia postoffiee < mi W ed nesday, O ct. 14, at 8 p. in., to con sider the election of n vine president for Bohemia to We Oregdfl a lin e * Association, and fo f the transaction of such other business as may prop erly come before it. A. L. M orris , Sec. Oregon Miners Association. Subscribe for tbe L eader anil get all the local, state and general news. BEATEN ANB James Kerr, Resident o f Row R iver Valley the Victim—Lost $500. SHOT IN THE LEG L. R. Palmer Accidentally Shot by a Boy While Hunting Sunday. James Kerr, an aged resident of the Upper Row river valley in the Bohemia foothills was in town Thurs day and to a L eader representative .related a thrilling experience with tw o or three thugs or robberB at his home last Monday evening. The old gentleman ,who lives alone, had just retired to his bed upstairs in bis little borne when he heard a noise as if someone had broken open the front door. He quietlv crept dow n stairs and in tbe semi-dark ness could trace tbe outline of two or three men as thev passed be tween him and the door or windows. They soon espied the old man and brutally assaulted him, knocking him to the fioor and rendering him unconscious for a short tune, after which they proceeded to rasuack the place, finally locating the old gentleman's treasure representing u sum of $540, the reward for much hard labor. Tbe robbers then made good their escape without ever uttering a word. Mr. K err made his way soon thereafter to the hom e of a neighbor, wbo telephoned the particulars of the affair to the officers at this place, aud although h diligent search and watch has been kept up since that time no trace of the robbers can be found.* . L. R. Palmer, a young man who arrived at this place from Pocatello, Idabo, about three weeks ago, met w ith a serious accident near G ow dy- ville last Sunday. In company with Wallace Thom pson, son of the pro prietor of the Central Hofei, he went j oat to Gowdyvillff to enjoy a little shooting. *Youug Thompson had laid hut shot gun down uu the ground and Palmer was endeavoring tu» shoot a bird out ..’P f a ^ree with a small rifle, wbqn Thompson in pick ing hia gun Rccidentally'diBeharg- •d it, (Jie full contents of tbe fehell striking * P a l« e r in th# calf of the left leg at close range, making au ugiy, gaping wound. The y ou n g man was attended by Dr. Wall as sisted by Dr. Job, tbe wouud was skillfully dressed and it is thought the injured4im b can be Baved. 4 Som e remarkably fine offerings jn Ladies Ready=to=Wear Skirts o f Silk, W ool, Mus lin, etc. T h is 1 o t com prises a most co m plete assortment, in cluding all sizes and All Styles of FINIS I N G and Trim m ing Price deductions are very noticeable and sale affords tare opportu n ities for bu y in g ; : J V L^Kov arrived in this city that a h orse(like Mansard « 4 -to -l Portland Tuesday. Mr LeRoy shot, goes through but both occur- from fro m » * ortia • r - J. Mining i I *.\ ed Kotnnlav Saturday anJ and Patrick JeDDIDgH, Jen i* president of the LeHoy weU-kll0wn Eastern Oregon min- [iter { ’¿ interests of h.s company • m g man, reaped this fortune. The ¡He inform ed— _ that the test of the new the manner in which be got hia in Smelter of the Improved Smelter U n d e r Odd F e l l o w s Hall i