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About Lane County leader. (Cottage Grove, Lane County, Or.) 1903-1905 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 13, 1903)
U. • "¡T L ^ rU n tnt ihre« B» rómpanles. «** * 52 ! , tithe rteh Ro- W j ^ m l n e . . «n.l the g J j S i rimmUr mil.«. oi U, Xane County Xeabec. INVEST08S M i NMISKEKERS will her« find opportunities nowhere els« »(lorded in Ore gon. The Leader will give you the news and facts con* cernlng this favored locality L.XV FIENDISH logging camps and a number of them were drinking heavily. JAMES KERR KOBbtn AUAIN. MINING n o te s or in t e r e s t ; G A T H E R .E D FROM A L L SO U R C E S Chief of Police Stiles was working up a case of robbery against Bunn ,,„H . . C- Marcus has located and was about to effect his arrest Gold Coin” claim in the Bohemia just completed the Crystal Consoli dated Company’ s road from the wheu this other and more serious mining district. Cbntnpiou road to their mines, of charge was preferred, says the Guard. More than a million dollars' worth which road construction work Mr. It seems that last Thursday night Meadows had full supervision. He Bunn and an old man by the name m taken out of the copper mines at reported considerable snow in tbe im Bunn Arrested and Butte, Mont, every week. of James Kerr, residing at Wildwood district and tbe most severe storm several miles east of Cottage Grove Convicted for Attem pt Alex Pugh has filed proof of labor raging that bas ever been experienc were drinking together in Eugene,’ on the ‘ Gypsy Queen” and ‘ Gypsie ed in tbe camp so early in the sea to Rape Little Q-irl. and by Friday morning the old man Girl mining claims in tbe Bohemia son. He reports considerable dam was so drunk that he knew next to mining district. age to tbe new Champion basin i nothing. He and Bunn were seen John Petersou foreman at tbe wagon road resulting from slides I t*own on North Jifferson street and Musick mine during tbe past season and cave-ins and says some little | the old man could scarcely stand. came down from the Bohemia dis time will be occupied in repairing | Some women living in that neighbor trict Monday. He bns tendered bis the damages. He says activity con :jit Year - Old Cottage hood saw Bunn lean Kerr up against resignation as foreman at tbe Musick tinues in tbe mines and that there a fence and go through his pockets. and has accepted a position under is plenty of work for everybody. He then made for the brush on Skiui Grove Girl Object of G. Meadow, in tbe Oregon k Color uer s Butte and disappeared. A “ Dozens of capitalists who g o in ado mines, tbe property of F. J. his Foul Designs telephone message to Chief Stiles Hard & Co. to the Bohemia mining district brought that officer to the scene emerge there-from saying “ Eureka,” Herbert Leigh, the assayer and | says Dr. VV. W. Oglesby, president Jim Bunn, a well known Eugene with a wagon and Kerr was taken enough I “ 1WD« expeH arrived in this city of tbe Golden Slipper M inning A :ter who has figured more or down town. When Bober en 1 Tuesday and returned to his home Milling Companv, of Cottage Grove, conspicuously in the police and to tell his story he said be had lost in the neighborhood of |G0, most of at Eugene from a several weeks who is at tbe Perkins H otel in this jjce courts for some time past, which Bunn no doubt secured. At trip to Bohemia where he has been city, said Saturdays Telegram who last August com pleted a any rate he was spending money looking after his mining interests, j “The Bohemia country is thriving in the penitentiary for burg- freely at Cottage Grove and he was He reports work progressing in th e a n d as a result Cottage G rove is y, is now in a fair way to be sent never known to have more than a various miniug properties regardless ^growing rapidly. There have been j 60 new dwellings erected in Cottage -,k to the penitentiary for a much few cents at a time on his person. of the recent severe storm. ; Grove during the past six weeks, BUNN rOl'ND GUILTV. -ger term. Frank Wheeler, secretary of the i and the indications are for the erec Bunn was arrested in Cottage Tbe trial of Jim Bunn, the brute Crystal Consolidated Mining Co., tion of dozens more. " Satur.d7 afternoon charged ; wb‘o7ttem “pmd “tTcnminally a ^ u h started up to the mines Monday, “ We have timber, mines and agri th attempted rape upon Ethe Bar- liuie Elhel Bartel« at ' Cotta but on reaching the warehouse be cultural country back of tbe town, ,tbe eight-year-old daughter of | Grove Saturday, began in the found it convienient to remain over and all combined we expect to make d Bartels, of the meat market circuit court Tuesday. a short time at that place while tbe Cottage Grove tbe leading city of of Bartels k Yeatch. first genuine snow storm of the sea A number of witnesses, including Constable B. K. Lawson took the little girl, her mother and the son was spending its fury in tbe the Willamette Valley in the near nn down to Eugene Sunday morn • children with whom the little girl high altitudes of tbe district. Mr. future. “ The day of impulsive spec tad turned him over to the sher- was playing at the time of the at Wheeler went up to the company’s ulation iH past,” continued Dr. vho lodged him in the county tempted assault, were examined, property to ascertain the prospects Oglesby, “ and for that reason capi tal is more careful of its investments. Constable Lawson is quot- and their testimony was enough to for getting their new stamp mill in This condition makes the growth of witfa the follow ing story of the convince any jury ever empanelled to the mioes which arrived at thia Bohemia permanent and real. There place lust week, lours beiug enter empted crime and arrest. that the fellow was guilty. is little of the ‘ boom ’ atmosphere in tained tlmt so tar udvnnced is the Bunn bad been drinking during The jury went out at 1 o’clock Lane County, but Vatber a steady dty, but was not so drunk but Tuesday afternoon and in a few season that it will be impossible to growth, which makes a g ood found put the mill into the camp until be knew wbat be was doing, minutes rendered a verdict of ation for future building. “ There spring. met the little Bartels girl on the guilty is something doin g every minute, ~i and offered her money to ac- On Wednesday Bunu was sen j Gill Meadows came down from activity all the time, aud progress is ny him to a nearby shed or , enMd to ten yeara in the peu. the Bohemia mines Monday having the watchword of the camp. They remained there some jtentiary. This is the highest Bunn did not carry out his ! peuaity for tLiu offence. Before idengns but the testimony given pronouncing sentence Judge Ham , tyte little girl at the preliminary ¡iton stated that inasmuch as Bunn « “ ■nation before the justice of the : ^ Herve,i a previous term in the pate« was enough to convict him. | peniteutiary and after being given leaving the shed, Bunn und the his liberty bad been given u chance lillle girl started for the brush on to do better but had neglected his Q o m p l a j n t s He river. At this juncture the opportunity »ortunitv and sank • ** sunk worse in the I began to cry and they were mire of crime, he would this time by some ladies who inforra- be given the full penalty of the Fred Bartels, brother of the girl, law. •bo ran and overtook them and held C ard o f T h anks. until Constable Lawson arriv- EN YEARS IN PEN NON-PROGRESSIVE afe NumeTOUS AgaillSt the S. P. Co. Because Shippers Can not Secure Sufficient Cars. The undersigned desires to express The Southern Pacific has not kept bis heartfelt thanks to all those who kindly assisted and administered pace with the growth of business in to the comfort and care of the Oregon, say shippers who cannot family during the late illness and getcars. Merchants and manufac death of a beloved wife aud mother, turers at Portland are thoroughly and to the Woodman lodge and cir stirred up over the matter and are from cle do I especially extend thanks ’ in a mood to demand redress many acts of kindness in [ the Legislature. Hail the fellow succeeded in carry- for their They aver that their business is font his foul purpose he would our sad hour of bereavement. J. M. E mebick . | curtailed and that they have suffer- ■>• been strung up w ithout any | ed heavy financial losses for which "mony, ns the town was full of I they threaten to sue tbe railroad «min miners and men from tl 0 . Bead the L e a d e r ’ s ads. I company. They declare that rail • ¡ transportation by tbe Southern Pacific is stagnant, not only at Port land, but in tbe country. And while they are unable to fill con tracts and farmers are unable to dis pose of their grain, bay, potatoes and such like, warehouses along tbe line are bulging, markets are vacila- tmg and both buyer and seller are in the speculative gamble. Shippers point out that competi tive points on tbe Willamette River don’t suffer from tbe car famine. Thev assert that tbe railroad com pani moves hops and prunes promptly because transportation of such products is more remunerative The largest and best A Portland merebaut bought 300 tons of bay in Yamhill County last November, but did not get it all to Portland until last July. Tbe north west Door Company basen’ t been in C o t t a g e Grove , able to get a car ou tbe Southern Pacific for three months. A ween till large or small orders ago Wolf A Sons were working on prom ptly : Country produce a deal for a Southern shipment of oO carloads of potatoes, hut lost the bought and sold : Special at- business for lack of cars. Anotbe tention given to orders from firm of potato dealers bad an order the Bohemia mines • from Arizona for 2Ó carloads, but couldn’ t ship. Meanwhile pro- free Delivery wagon Our own ducerà in other parts of the country dealers who prefer ■re -.P iviD R _ Oregon potatoes, says the Oregonian \ lumberman of th e ’t alley whose Duntsto p .j roll amounts to <6600 s'-ii a month The would-be rapist was at once ;~en an examination before Justice Viughn and bound over to tbe cir- it court. There was considerable feeling in tags Grove over tbe attempted but no dem onstration was Pearce Joh n son Up . To - Date Grocery Store Can PHONE MA I N 45 Corner Main and River Sts—5ft end of Bri has been unable to sb.p only 12 loads in the past year and is de ing tbe advisability of going ou of Tha price of timothy hay is ♦ 13a hav I« very ton at Portland. The bave been! 1 «carse, and consumers able to get only a bale or two at a time. Tbe scarcity and tbe high price are caused by scarcity of cars. A large part of tbe bay used in Port land comes from Eastern Oregon, over the O. R. k N., which manages 1° supply cars as they are needed. A local firm bought 36 carloads of bay in Yamhill County three months ago. It bas been able to bring only two car loads to Portland. Tbe firm is Everding k Farrell. Another firm, tbe Stephenson Company, some two months ago, contracted with farmers for ubout 125 toDH of hay, puyiug $600 down. The firm has moved only two car loads of the hay, those two cars be ing all that it bas secured from the railroad iu tbe past 40 days. As common carriers, tbe Southern Pacific should be compelled to sup ply sufficient cars. Tbe Legislature might save tbe country from losing so much money hereafter from such diliatory shipping methods as bos characterized tbe Oregon division of the Southern Pacific during the parft season. Let this important mutter especially to tbe industries of tbe country and to tbe general public be made one of tbe campaign issues next spring. reception at tbe opera house Satur day evening by the local team and ite friends. M eat M & rk e t F ir m D is s o lv e * . The meat market firm of Bartels k Veateh was dissolved this week by mutual consent, Marion Veateh retiring from the firm. Mr. Bartels will continue the business at tbe ^ A tte m p tin g ^ B r e a k a old stand and will go right on sap-1 “ & plying his many patrons with the j Log Jam OH Coast Fork best fish, fowl and meats to be Last Wednesday found in this part of tbe country. He will soon move bis stock pens to the newly acquired site near the railroad bridge north of town where be bas erected a modern slaughter bouse. Mr. Veateh has not vet decided as to what he will turn his Fell into the Turbulent and. attention and energies. AT THE ROUSE MILL Y o u t h f u l H o r s e t h ie v e s C a p t u r e d . Deputy Sheriff H. T. McClallen on Tuesday night brought in from Riddle youn g Harvey Bice, the 17- year-old horse thief, who with his older brother, Bert, eluded Deputy Sheriff Parrott near town Monday. The two horses afterwards stolen by them from Jeptba Green and M. Morrison, o f Broukway, were also recovered by Mr. McClallen. The older boy, Bert Bice, was also caught sight of near Biddle Tuesday afternoon, but escaped in the brush, although several shots were fired iu his direction. The boys previously Btole two horses atYoncalla, but left them at Elk Head. They are be lieved to have likewise taken horses in Lane county, releasing them after riding some distance. Several of the Bice boys have served terms in the reform school and Bert very re cently completed a term in tbe pen itentiary for larceny. Their parents live iu the mountains several miles from B iddle.— Boeeburg Review. Swollen Stream—Body Not Y et Recovered. Chas. Davis, and old employe o f tbe Coast Fork Lum ber Co, was drowned near tbe com pany’ s mill, formerly known as the Bouse mill, Wednesday, while assisting in break ing a lo g jam in tbe coast fork river at that place. It appears that lie either fell or become excited iu the supposition that tbe jam was break ing and jum ped into the swollen, murkey waters o f the mountain tor rent and was swept away, the body having as yet not been recovered. He was a married roan and leaves a small family to mourn his death. He was held in high esteem by his employers and fellowlaborers who greatly deplore bia tragic and un timely death. THE RECENT STORM. Western Oregon and Washington was visited by a severe storm the early part of this week of some thirty-six hours duration, snow fall ing in the high altitudes, the valleys beiug drenched in a driving rain. M R . P E A R S O N S P R O M O T I O N . Some little damage resulted in this county, several small bridges being Is EtecteA A Director ot th e Oregon So. washed ou t and tbe mill men lost a cvirltles C o m p a n y . few logs and pilings, among whom was tbe Bootb-K elly Co., at Spring- A letter dated New York field. About Cottage G rove the loss City Nov. 5, and addressed to tne w a s r o r j nil “ Lit, IDG T d C IflC T i m b e r L eader , by John H. Pearsons, who Co., being able to save all but a few served as general manager of the of their pilings in Mosby Creek and Oregon k Southeastern Railroad their logs and pilings in tbe Coast Company at this place during the Fork. past season, mentions inadvertently Some damage resulted in the Bo a recent meeting of tbe Board of hemia mines from slides and wash Directors of tbe Oregon Securities outs. The new Champion basin Mining Co., operating in the Bohe wagon road is considerably abstruct- mia district, at which considerable ed with slides, but will be repaired business of importance was trans in a couple of weeks. Tbo new dam acted and reports concerning of the Oregon Securities Co., was operations tbe past season in the slightly damaged and its electric mines were received and were most power wires were blown down in satisfactory to all concerned. Mr. places, but uo serious damage result Pearsons received substantial recog ed. nition for bis valuable s.rvices of Tbe Oregon k Southeastern Rail tbe past season by being elected n road suffered slightlylrom tbo storm. member of the official board to su c The steam shovel was Hooded in the ceed Mr. Geo. B. Knapp of Boston, gravel pit near town and work was wbo was forced to resign on account temporarily suspended. Tbe long o f long continued ill health. T b e stringers and false work o f tbe new many friends of Mr. Pearsons here railroad bridge across Frank Brice will be pleased to learn of his pro Creek in the Bohemia foot hills wan motion. all washed out- THINK ABOUT CHINAWARE Have you enough to suit your ideas? Is it tho kind you most admire? Is the decoration attractive? Is tho quality as you prefer? Don't you want a new sot? F O O T B A L L SATU RDAY. Cotta«« Grove H lih School bur« High School. One of tbe liveliest football games of tbe season will no doubt be witnessed on tbe gridiron in this city Saturday, the contest to be | between the Koseburg High School team and tbe local High School team, which played a scoreless game at Boeeburg recently. Tbe two teams are pretty evenly match ed and this game promises to be one full o f vim and sharply contest ed as each team is determined to score this time and maintain ita laurels, neither team having met defeat thus far this season. The visitors will be tendered a cordial W e have sets or odd pieces. The economical can afford them. If you are particu- lar, we like it. If you want art value, we supply it : : U n d e r Odd F e l l o w s Hall