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About Lane County leader. (Cottage Grove, Lane County, Or.) 1903-1905 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 20, 1903)
| M O V f. 0 «fM N . teSfestsraariEt ISS? ifult» o»»1»“» ' raln«* Xane Gountp Xeaber. ’OL. XV will her« Und apporti no »h er« eis« «Horded ln Ore gon. The Lender will give you the news and facta con cerning this favored locality NO. 31 COTTAGE GRO VE, LANE C O U N T Y , O REG O N , F R ID A Y , NOV. 20. 1903. U tb, I called on Capt. Martin, chief est danger of “ freezin g" ou a much n o t e s or in t e r e s t ; | of detectives, and notified him of all higher silicia slag than, so far as we j G A T H E R - E D j the circumstances of the cuse. He know, has ever been done iu copper \ FROM A L L SOURCES looked over his records and inform-I matting. ed me that no report of any robbery Second: This is done with the Bernard Trvgstad was down from | Am ong the prominent miners from com plete separation aud saving of had been filed in his office by Mr. Bohemia this week transacting busi- j the Bohemia District who were trans- Gettiugs prior to bis death; that he the matter without rehandling of | acting business in town this week might have been drugged and rob oess. dirty slag, ow ing to the low specific Walt Cochran came down frora 1 were: Andrew Brund, president Bo- gravity of the slag. bed, and ashamed to have the matter made public, as is frequently the Bohemia to look after business mat hemia Mine Owners Association; This will be clearly understood Ed. Jinks, vice-president; Geo. Cox, from the analysis of the slag of tbe case, thus securing immunity to the ters in town this week. Cottage Grove Man Passes offenders. He told me to write to director. Mr. Brund has been day's run: Silica, 59 p ercen t; Feo,I Was Prominent in Busi Jas. Hart and son-in-law Jan. spending a brief season with his fam you and ascertain what train Mr. ¿ way in San Fran 11 per cent; Lime, 23.5 per cen t j ness, Society a n d White came down from the Crystal ily at his Sinslaw home. Gettings left on; what train he ar The slag wag at all times hot, mine this week to spend a few days cisco Nov. 10th Lodge Circles. rived here in the city on; where M. W . Warner came down from bright and very fluid, never pastry with their families and look after bu he put up and who bis friends Bohemia W •dnesday. He has been or stringy and the running ef the siness matters. were. A* you can probably answer actively engaged in mining in the furnace gave no trouble or uneasi W. H. Berg, the well known as- district for several years and says ness from start to finish, the tuyers the first question only, I fail to see what the police can do in the mat sayer, was down from the Crystal that the recent storm was the most with 12 in constant use, keeping ter as I can give them no informa Consolidated mines this week and severe in bis knowledge considering bright. a few days in tbiscity looking that the winter season has only just The stacks were charged full to W as Married Only a Week ome Suspicion t h a t he tion and no clue to work upon, and spent if I could, I doubt very much if after business matters. opened. He says the snow is from the top in the primary and within ago and Was Visiting Was Drugged And they could accomplish anything. Cbss. Thornton who has been two to five feet deep and that more twenty inches of the top of the sec I am satisfied of one thing, that spending the fall in the Bohemia timber has fallen than for many ondary stack. The complete com W ith Relatives. Then Robbed. bustion of tbe fuel was vervmarked he lost his money before he went to mines where he was employed on years past. the whole of the carbon and bydre- this cheap “lodging house at 705 some of the extensive improvement F . J. Hard of the Vesuvious, Ore lloseburg, Or., Nov. 18.— W. C. Sawuul E. G ettings, an old fam- Mission St., for no uian would go to work in the district returned home camons being consumed in the form gon and Colorado aud Riverside of gas in the secondary stack, no Hilderbrand, for teu years a promi cbaracter about this city, and such a place if he could help it. this week. mines in the Bohemia district, and smoke whatever being at any time nent merchant of this city, com m itt i honored veteran of the war of I cannot understand how a mnn Frank D. Wheeler secretary of vice-president of Oregon Miners As visible, even when an extra charge ed suicide at Reuo, Nev., this m orn i rebellion, left Cottage Grove for of his evidently respectable character _ Francisco Oct. 18, 1903, where should not have at least one friend the Crystal Consolidated Mining Co., sociation for the Bohemia miuiug of bituminous coal was fed into the ing. He failed in business here a j expected to spend the winter. in this city to look out for him. or went up to Bohemia this week to primary stack. district, came down from the camp month ago and it is supposed to superintend the work of taking their I few Jays ago a letter was receiv- to attend his funeral. I have re- j Yours Very Truly, have preyed on his mind. He left W . H. A d a m s , by J. R. Cooley announcing his quested the undertakers to send an new stamp mill into the company’ s Monday to spend a few days in this ltoseburg only a few days ago to see Managing Director. her peculiar death in the Ca’.i- enquiring persons to me, but thus mines and putting it into operation. city and Portland looking after bu J ohn W il l ia m s . bis father at Reno, who wired the siness matters. Mr. Hard reported nia metropolis, Nov. 10, 1903. far no one has showed up. T. J. Hendricks of the Thunder Consulting Engineer. Gettings was a native of Ten- news of his sou ’s death. He leaves I send enclosed a Certificate of Mountain mining district is a guest considerable snow in the district, and after serving through death of the late Samuel E. Gettings a bride of only a week, a son by a of his uncle, J. M. Sherwood of this several slides in the new Champion NEW F L U M E C O M P L E T E D . civil war with the army of the issued by the Health Dept, of this city. Mr. Hendricks is a practical I road and considerable obstruction former wife and a sister at Roseburg. irth, he went to California, from j city, which is the legal proof of his mining man and came here for the ! from fallen timbers, as a result of D o r e n a L u m b e r C o m p a n y ’ ! P la n t N o w He belonged to the Knights of lich place he came to Cottage death, and which will be required j purpose of looking over the Bohe- the recent Btortn, but said that otber- C o m p le te d . Pythias, W oodm en of the world, |(irove thirty years ago. He was an in settling up his estate. mia mining district. He is a wise the camp was flourishing and a Elks, aud United Artisans. Tbe ist, upright and hard working » j also send sworn claim of A. W, brother of R. J. Hendricks editor of great deal of development work is W. L. Houston of the Dorena body will be brought to Roseburg , aud had a comfortable home I Martin A Co., undertakers of this the Salem Statesman. Lum ber Company made the L e a d e r i being prosecuted. for burial. i this city and a small amount of ■ city, for the burial expenses. As I a pleasant business call while» trans Mr. Hildebrand being of a cheer eney in the local bank. He w as; wrote you before, bis burial ex acting business in town Monday. ful disposition aud always inclined i bachelor and about 67 years of penses w i l l b e paid by me Mr. Houston reports the big fiume to look upon the bright side of the The follow ing letter is self- from the city treasury, and I had al for floating ties, lumber aDd timbers affairs of life, it was not anticipated ready put in the demand with the from their mill to the new Bohemia, tiplanatory: All the Booth-Kelly Logging On Newly Patented Smelter Cottage G rove railroad now com that his recent business reverses Board of Supervisors before I learn after years of success would so com - San Francisco, Cal., Nov. 17,1903 ed from you that deceased had any pleted and says that offices and of the Improved Smel Camps and Mills Will pletely wreck bis ambitions and other buildings will soon be erected I think you will admit that -Ur. J. R. Cooley, Cottage Grove. estate. drive him to dispair, therefore his at their aiding and that they will Dear S ir: In reply to your it is only right that this city should ter C o m p a n y . Suspend WorK rash act comes as a great surprise then be ready for active milling «ter of the 14tb, inst., requesting be reimbursed for the outlay as the to bis many friends. He built u p operations. They have already been Her particulars of the death of the soldier left sufficient means to defray Portland, Oregon, Oct. 30.—To the an immense trade at Roseburg, but Eugene, Or., Nov. 17.— Senator Samuel E . Gettings, will state the funeral expenses, which I did Improved Mineral Smelter Com filling a good many local orders and owing to speculative buying he ac Booth today announced that the pany, Portland, Ore. are turning out a fine grade of lum- after my letter to you of the not know at the time of his burial. cumulated such a heavy stock that G entlkm kn : At your request, an d ber. _ Gnat., I went to No. 765 Mis- I will expect you or Mr. O. O. Booth-Kelly Lumber Co., would it could not be worked off in time I give itreet, the place of his death, Vtatch to see that the fifty dotfars I close all its lo g g in g camps in this under instru ctions from the Ladd to satisfy creditors, hence the crash. A F in e T u r k e y . I county next Saturday. In an inter- Metals Co., Mr. John Williams, our liodfound it to be the cheapest and are sent either to Mr. Martin, the He was married only last week at consulting Metallurgical Engineer, I poorest kind of a lodging house, a undertaker, or myself, at the proper i view he said. W ilbur McFarland received by ex Roseburg to Mrs. Lizzie Gegax, a ‘ ‘Yes we have ordered all our undertook the construction of and I resort of only the most destitute. time. press Saturday one of tbe finest tur very estimable lady of that city, I think it proper to state clearly, camps closed Saturday and I can the test of a furnace for smelting I enquired o f the clerk if he knew key gobblers ever brought to Cot which occasion it was generally sup not say when they will start again. ores, on the design and under the lujthiug of Mr. Gettings’ finances that the only effects left by Mr. Our business is nearly ruined on ac patent of Messrs. Blanchard & W il tage G rove. It is of the Bronze posed would tend to relieve his I or associates. He replied that he Gettings were a telescope basket variety and was purchased of A. T. mind of his late financial disaster, count of lack of cars for shipment. liams. I thought Mr. Gettings was very poor containing some clothes, a knife, a Beidler, who resides near Oakland, but it did not, it appears. Strange I don’ t care to discuss our future The furnace is oorrect in prin ci bunch of keys, his pension certificate, lot he would n ot have come to such piane, for they are indefinite, uor do | j(ll| nll(j successful in practice, as Oregon. Mr. McFarland has been to relate the former huaband of Mrs. I I place, and that he had no friends, aud a letter from you. There was I care to say aoy tiling as to the | wju Neei, from the follow ing data raising turkeys both for the market Gegax, who was a well known rail I and associated with no one for the no money, watch, or chain; nothing effects this move will have on the The trial run of the furnace was aDd breeding purposes for some road conductor, committed sucide I t*o or three days that he had stop- of any value. The chief deputy business of this community. ’ made on Oct. 24th. Turned on the time past and is constantly im prov by shooting, at their Ashland home coroner wished me to charge of the 1 ped at the house; that he bad a very Wendling and Saginaw mills are blast at 8 a. m., delivered air to the ing his big birds. He has come to some three years ago the result of I bad cough and he (the clerk) effects, but I declined to do so, tak now closed, and Mr. Booth stated f uruace at about one ounce pressure, the conclusion from experience that brooding over ill health and finan J thought it was a case of eonsump- ing only his pension certificate, that the Springfield and Coburg Had slag running at 10a.m . and very turkey raising may be made as prof cial reverses. I non, and that on the morning of the which was my warranty for burying camps would close at Christmas if good melting heat, in both stacks at itable in the viciDity of Cottage 110th, inst., be was found dead in his him. Mrs. R obert J. Burdette, wife o f the car famine is not released. The 11. a. m., slag being hot, bright and Grove as it is at Oakland, which in Very Respectfully, I bed, and the coroner duly notified. closing of the camps and mills will fluid. The seooudary stack was dustry has become one of the fore the famous preueber and humorist, E dwahd A. Bum s. I His funeral was advertised in the leave from 1100 to 1300 men idle. running so well that at 11:15 a. m., most and most profitable in that sec has been appointed a special police Room 40, «06 Market St. I daily papers but no one attended and from that time on. it took two tion of the country. W e observe man at Pasadena, Cal. She is a I wcept myself, who read the G. A. SPRINGS I N C O R P O R A T E D charges to one of the primary. From that a number of other farmers of member of the recently organized kegining Soci y for the Prevention of Cruelty lB. burial service; for I don’ t like to Mr. Gettings left this city with a thiB time to 4 p. m. when we started this vicinity are also realize the fact that there is to .• liinals, and the appointment I see these old soldiers buried witk- C o m p a n y Will C o n d u c t t h e O regon to blow out, kept charging at inter to small gold watch and chain and M ineral S p rin g * S o u th o f was made at her request. I out proper respect. vals of 15 minutes, and tapping money in this industry. C ottage G rove. Upon receipt o f your letter of the something less than $¿00. every half hour. The area of each Articles of iucorj »oration of the stack aud hearth, 24 inches square. Oregon Mineral Springs Association Height o f stacks H feet, entirely of were filed with County Clerk Lee brick. The furnace put through 26 char Tuesday afternoon. T h e incorporators are Levi Geer, gee in all, amounting to a total of John Overholser. Dr. Geo. Wall, J. 6*40 lbs., and practically all of the P. Curriu, R. M. Veatch and B. C. work was done in five hours from Y. Brown, all well known citizens of 11.am, to 4, pm, including an inter Cottage Grove aDd vicinitv. The ruptiou o f half hour with no blast capital stock is $50,000, and the prin when lacing a belt, showing that tbe cipal place of business is at Cottage furnace was handling aud could easily run fifteen tons of siliciouB Grove. Have you enough to suit The object of tbe corporation ag charge, not including fuel, 24 hours. your ideas? Is it the kind The amount of fuel used in smelt set forth in the articles are to con ing was 540 lbs. bituminous coal you most admire? Is the duct and operate a health resort at decoration attractive? Is the Oregon Mineral Springs at Lon and 320 lbs, of coak, a total of 860 lbs, fuel, being less than 13J per The largest ami best c I o d . a few miles south of Cottage the quality as you prefer? Grove. The corporation has power cent of the charge. It is right to Don't von want a new set? to manufacture and sell mineral salts state in this connection that most of the coak was used in tbe secondary and to sell mineral water. stack, anil was used solely for the WILL IMPROVE RESORT purpose of carrying the burden of in C o t t a g e Grove | The Oregon Mineral Springs is a the ^ charge __________ _ and keeping it open, ami i comparatively new resort, but in the . not for the additional beat Can fill large or small orders i last two years people have began to j j n some ¡n8tance this use of coak promptly : Country pro«hue find that tbe water in the springs is j mjgjjt y,e found unnecessary. Tbe very beneficial for many ailments, fact of the heavy cast iron cover, W ig h t and sold : *l)0tia‘ and a large number of people were reinforced with iron bars j inches W e have sets orod d pieces. tention given to orders from camped there last summer. spuare on the top of the secondary The economical can afford tho Bohemia mines . . • • The L eader is informed that the stack, being completely melted when them. If you are partici!- new company which is composed of blow ing out the furnace, anil a full Our own fret' Delivery wagon lar, we like it. If you want a number of men of considerable I hour after the last pound of coak means will take hold of tbe property i bad been charged, proved that no art value, we supply it : : and convert it into one of the finest additional fuel was required in this resorts in Oregon. stack. In the two runs of this furnace. PLACE SALTS OS MARKET It is also stated that tbe mineral two things of importance metallurg- aalts from tbe springs will be put up ically have been proven, both of and placed on the market. It is which have an equally important proposed to procure machinery Dec-1 bearing on tbe commercial aspect of , st*— West end o f Bridge i essarv to reduce the water to salta, the question, Corner Main aDd River * ________________ and quite an industry will no doubt First: The furnace can be run spriDg from it. . ■uceeaafully and without tbe alight- j MINING vv FRIENDS NEAR ON BRIDAL TOUR j MILLS TO CLOSE OFFICIAL REPORT THINK Pearce J o h n so n ABOUT CHINAWARE U p - T o - D a te Grocery S t o r e V » p h o m a i n n e 45