p r o p b s s io n a l
LANE COUNTY LEADER
. C . CON N KK, P u b lis h e r .
FKJhr TlPThb BITTER END.
C onference B etw een President M itchell
and G overnor W ith o u t Avail.
OFF TO PANAMA
u
c a r d s
.
R. J. E. IlOSMER
PHYSICIAN 4 SURfiEON.
Denver. Dec. 9.— President John ColOffibijQ Soldiers Start
From
I PlfWMM of tu« Eye, E»r »nd H at* .re Spec
Mitchell, of the United Mineworkers
Cartagena.
laities.
of America, and Governor Peabody had
I o m c . In the Alltion 4 M»d«en Building.
a conference lasting three-quarters of
SUPPOSED TO BE THREE THOUSAND
an hour today, and tonight the settle
__
ment of the strike is as far distant as
I
j R . B. R. JOB
A
G
enera
Invasion
o
f
the
Isth
m
u
s
is
ever.
O cncral R eview o f Im portan t happen ings
Mr. Mitchell informed the governor
P lan ned—C ruiser A tla n ta D isp atched
of th e P a st W e e k In B rief and
PHYSICIAN 4 SURGEON
that the strike will continue to the bit
to S c en e of W a rlik e M ovem e n t.
C om prehensive Form .
ter end, and the governor just as posi-1
All calls promptly attended.
tively informed the strike leader that I
Office, Main St. next door to Leader office,
The Panama canal treaty has started he will tolerate no violence, but will
Colon, Dec. 9.— A rumor is in circu
rte n e . No. 114.
COTTAGE GROVE, OR.
on its way to the United States.
lation
here
to
the
effect
that
3,000
sol
order out the troops at the first provo
diers have left Cartagena for the pur
Japan has postponed the meeting of cation.
While the conference came to naught, pose of invading the isthmus. No de-
the diet in the hope of receiving an
both Governor Peabody and President tails are known, and the rumor cannot
answer from Russia.
Mitchell expressed themselves as be confirmed tonight.
It probably I £ T . ANDERSON, M.
Both houses of congress entered upon pleased with the interview, each say- had its source in Port Limon, Costa
_i
regular from special session without ing he ha<l a better conception of the Rica, where it was brought by steamer P h ys ic ia n and S u rg e o n
any notable transition.
Surgery anil Female disease» A Specialty. AU
position of the other.
Mitchell re- from Cartagena. The only possible calls promptly attended to.
Dowie alleges his assets are four fused to discuss the conference other means of approaching Panama is by
Office In Sherwood block; Night call» »*
New lira Drug Store. Phono 106 Main.
times his liabilities, and makes an than to say that his talk was very narrow and difficult mountain passes
through the Indian country.
The
pleasant.
offer to settle with his creditors.
After the conference Mitchell left for United States cruiser Atlanta is now
Secretary Shaw estimates that the
Chicago to attend a conference there in off the Indian coast,
entire appropriations needed for gov-
the interest of the Illinois miners. As
The Unite«! States cruiser Dixie will
•nuMBt o n lor 1906 \ n i 11 b i $694,602,-
to his return to Colorado, he is unde- tomorrow’ land a company of marines, Q E N T I S T
146.
cided.
Speaking of his talk with who will go into camp at Empire Sta-
O R . H . M. P C T R I 2
The steel trust will reduce expenses Mitchell, Governor Peabody said, to- tion, near Culebra Cut.
The battle-
a hundred thousand dollars a year by night:
, ship Maine is coaling near Bocas del
AU Work Warranted.
dismissing a number of “ Carnegie’s
“ The conference was very pleasant, Toro.
pets.”
although productive of no result. At :
------------
Office Fin« Door West of Sherwood House.
its conclusion, President Mitchell
Am erica Is on th e A lert,
Minister Lifton, of Canada, declares
stated
so
far
as
he
can
see
there
is
no!
Washington,
Dec.
9.—The
dispatch
that country is loyal to Britain and
regrets its infantine attitude over Alas immediate probability of settlement of of the cruiser Atlanta to the Gulf of
the strike.’ *
Darien is of great importance and in-
ka decision.
E. C. MACY
The governor added that when he terest in connection with the rumor
A party of Colorado nonunion miners asked Mitchell if he had any sugges- from Colon of the departure of Coloni-
were ambushed near Trinidad. Of five tion to make the latter said he believed bian soldiers lor the Isthmus of Pana
DENTIST
only one escaped to give the alarm. if a committee oi the miners could meet ma. This is about 180 miles east of
The sheriff with bloodhounds has gone with the operators and talk over the Colon, and the cruise in those waters
to the scene.
situation, a settlement might be will enable her commander to keep in Dr. Snapp’s Building.
close touch with developments in the
An epidemic of diphtheria at Stan effected.
Colombian situation originating in and
ford university has put 12 in the hos
about the vicinity of Cartagena, from
FAVOR TO RIVERS.
pital.
which place it is rumored the soldiers
F O E bt
Pope Pius is trying to secure more S e creta ry Sh aw M a k e s R ecom m en d s- are to march on the isthmus. Naval C J ohnson
tlona for N orth w est.
cordial lelations between France and
officials decline to say whether the dis
EBY
£
the church.
Washington, Dec. 9.— Among esti patch of the Atlanta to the Gulf of
A T T O R N EY S A T LAW
The British consul finds the outrages mates submitted to congress today by Darien is the result of any intimations
Oregon.
in Congo Free States fully equal to the Secretary Shaw are recommendations of warlike operations on the part of Co
Cottag* Grove,
first reports.
for the appropriation of $500,000 for lombia; they content themselves with
expressing the opinion that it will be
The wages of something like 14,000 continuing the improvement of the
in possible for Colombian troops to
miners at Birmingham, Ala., have mouth of the Columbia river, the same
amount for the Willamette and Colum march overland to Colon or Panama be J H. KINO
been reduced.
bia rivers below Portland and $300,- cause of the impossibility of the coun
A tto r n e y -a t-L a w
More creditors of Dowie have come 000 for The Dalles-Celilo canal. Other try to he traversed. Nevertheless the
to hisr escue and it is thought he will estimates are:
departure of the vessel is regarded as
Special attention given to Collection*.
yet come out all right.
Willamette and Yamhill, $90,000; significant as indicating the intention COTTAGE GUO VE,
OU EG OH.
Secretary Hitchcock refuses to rein Coquille river, $30,000: Coos river, $2,- of the officials of the United States to
be
on
the
alert.
To
the
Colombians
in
state Asa B. Thomas as receiver of the 000; Clatskanie river, $500; Columbia
river below Vancouver, $10,000; Co Wash ngton the reports from Colon
La Grande, Oregon, land office.
lumbia river at Cascades, $80,000; prnudueed a mystifying effect. They
E. YOUNG
Senator Foster, of Washington, has Upper Columbia and Snake, $10,000; will not say whether they believe the
introduced a bill giving the Puyallup Coos bay, $00,000; Tillamook bav, rumors or not. “ Perhaps it is so; I do
Indians the right to sell or lease their $10,000; Puget Sound, $30,000; Ta not know,” said one of them tonight,
ATT0RNÎT-IT-L1W
lands.
he shrugged his shoulders.
The
coma harbor, $5,000; Olympia harbor,
•ffio« on Main Street, West Bid*
New Whatcom, $36,000; Colombians believe there are 3,000 or
Speaker Cannon gave the best house $2,500;
harbor,
$30,000;
Willapa more soldiers at Cartegena and at the
committeeships to old members, and Grays
C « t u g t Q r o w , O r.
Oreogn got only minor positions. river, $5,000; Okanogan and Pend various points along the seaeoast avail
O’ Reille rivers, $7,500; Cowlitz and able for such a purpose.
Washington fared but little better.
Lewis rivers, $7,000; Rental tempo
Edward L. Wentz, the young Phila
DEMAND R E L E A -E OF PROQRBSS.
$24,000;
M IS C E L L A N E O U S
delphia millionaire, who has been rary Portland postoffice,
missing since last October, has been Salem Indian school, $108,850; Puget
Russia T h reaten s Seizure of Japanese
found in a demented condition wander Sound navy yard, $329,600; submarine
V essel on Fu rther R efusal.
cable, Sitka to Fort Liscum, $321,580.
ing in the mountains of Tennessee.
The appropriations asked for aggre
London, Dec. 9— According to the j^OBT. G R IF F IN .
Martial law has been proclaimed at gate $624,605,146, as against $589,189,- Hakodate correspondent of the London
Cripple Creek, Colo.
112 asked for the year ending in 1904, Daily Mail, another serious controversy
•f IflZ H G O N - 7»Y 7T KG R f
Repairing and Refilling Is Our Trade.
An international administration is and $606,286,900, the amount of the has arisen between Russia and Japan
appropriations for that year.
All work warranted.
proposed for Macedonia.
as a resnlt of the sinking of the Rus
sian steamer Tokai Maru by the Rus C o b M a in & 1 s t H t s ., Cottage Grove, Oregon
Herbert Spencer, the famous writer,
INDIGNATION AT BOGOTA.
sian steamer Progress. The company
is seriously ill in London.
operating the former vessel carries a
Seven large creditors of Dowie oppose President R o oseve lt's R ecognition of large percentage of the Japanese mails,
C. MADSEN*.
the move to declare him bankrupt.
Panam q Severely C riticised.
and is in receipt of a substantial sub H.
sidy
from
the
Japanese
government.
Ex-Congressman William M. Spring
Bogota, Dec. 9.— Secretary Hay’s
W atchm aker
er, of Illinois, and a Democratic leader, statement issued November 6, regard The collision is alleged to have been
is dead.
ing the action taken by President Roos due to the negligence of the Russian
steamier, and the Nippon company filed Watches G ocks and Jew elry
The simplest solution to The Dalles evelt in recogniizng the provisional gov a claim for damages against the own
At Lowest Prices.........
ernment
of
Panama,
in
which
the
sec
canal right-of-way muddle appears to
er! of the Progress for $75,000 and in
retary
declared
that
plain
duty
dictated
be purchase by the state of Oregon.
that the president should act as he had lieu of that sum libeled the Progress
In his annual report Secretary done in the circumstances, has just ami had her seized at Hakodate.
As the Japanese admiralty court has
Moody strongly urges a general staff for been published here and is causing gen
H. WILLARD
not passed on the question of liability,
the navy, similar to that at the head eral indignation.
CONTRACTOR 4 BUILDER
of the army.
The Bogota newspapers criticise it the Russian owners of the libeled
steamer protested against the seizure Estimates made and all kinds of carpenter
A forest fire which is raging in the adversely and declare that it is lacking
work executed and satisfaction guaranteed
of their craft and appealed to the Rus Contract work a specialty.
mountains northeast of San Bernar in logic and veracity. Government
sian embassy.
COTTAGE GROVE, OREGON.
dino, Cal., has already destroyed about officials say that since the senate failed
Baron de Rosen protested to the Jap
6,000,000 feet of sawed lumber and to approve the canal treaty no over
anese foreign office and questioned the
other property and is not yet extin tures had been made to the American
jurisdiction of the Japanese court, ami
guished. The loss will reach at least government beyond the declaration of
the Bogota government that it was pre declared that seizure was an outrage.
$ 100 , 000 .
*
pared to begin negotiations for a new Not receiving any satisfaction he again
A rch itect and A bstractor
The submarine boat Pixie has canal treaty at the earliest possible mo applied to the Japanese officials to re
stranded on the Virginia coast.
lease the steamer, and threatened, if
Abstract of title to deeded land. Pa
ment.
Elections for members of the elector- his request was not acceded to without pers prepared for filing on government
Emil Roeski, one of the Chicago ban
any further delay, to direct the Rus land. Blue prints of township maps
dits recently arrested, will plead hyp ial colleges, by whom a new president sian officials at Vladivostok to seize the showing all vacant lands for $1 each.
will be chosen, will take place next
notism.
Nipp in’s mail steamer touching at that Plans and estimates for all kinds of
Sunday.
Special designs for office
port and hold it pending the release of buildings.
The two Chilean warships supposed
fixtures. Notary public in office.
the Progress.
to have lavii sold to Japan were pur
Passed bv M ontan a S e n a te.
Douglas County Bank Bldg.
chased by England.
Helena. Dec. 9.—Only the upper
C am paign A g ain st S m o o t.
house
of
the
legislature
was
in
session
BOSEBURG
OREGON
Six hundred coolies sailed for China
New York, Dee. 9.— The officers of
from San Fran isoo on the steamer today. The body disposed of two bills, the national union of women’s organi
the first being the Hoffman bill rela zations, which was formed on December
Lothian a few days ago.
tive to the powers and duties of the su 3, in Washington, at a gathering of rep
Japan has demanded an answer from preme court on appeals, the other the resentatives from many women’s clubs
Russia to the former’ s latest note on bill providing for the submission to the for the purpose of protesting against
EAST A N D SO U TH
the Manchurian question.
people of a constitutional amendment allowing Reed Smoot to hold a seat in
—V IA —
An ex-Cuban official tells the senate prohibiting the employment of chil the United States senate, met today T h e
S
h
a s ta R o u te
committee that General Wood changed dren under 16 years in mines and mak and voted to retain a lawyer for the
—OFTHE—
ing
eight
hour’
s
a
day’
s
labor
in
mines,
case.
laws to meet bis own ends.
mills and smelters and on public works.
A form of petition against Senator
The Rritish cruiser Flora is ashore The Tudiciary committee w ill tomorrow-
Smoot was also decided upon. Speak
on Vancouver island and there is danger report back some important measures.
leave C otta <; e <» r o v * for Portland
ers are to be sent out to differnet sec rrains
and way stations at 2:14 a ra
12:55 p ra
of her being a total wreck.
tions of the country.
Portland
** tcW a m
¿30 pTm
Although a number of Western sen
High W a t e r In V enice.
Lv Cottage Grove
2:57 p in
2:06 p m
ators desire to see Secretary ! 1 itrhco; k
Ar Ashland
12:55 a m
12:35 p ra
Venice, Dec. 9.— As a resnlt of the
Jew s P o t to T o rtu re.
Ar Sacramento
5:00 p m
4:35 a m
removed, President Roosevelt will not extremely bad weather, with a violent
Ar »an Francisco
7:55 p m
8:55 am
London, Dec. 9.— A dispatch from
ask him to go.
wind which has prevailed lor some the London Daily Times correspondent
Pull man and Tourist Cars
Dowie will lie forced to take the stand days, Venice was almost entirely under at Tangier states that the scenes follow
and give the standing of Zion Ci*v. water for a few hours today. At the I ing the re occupai inn of Tcza by govern on both trains, t hair C ars , Sacra
It is claimed his wife took $7,000,000 piazza of the Cathedral of St. Mark the ment troops were of a character calcu mento to Ogden and and £1 Paso and
worth of securities with her to Aus flood rose to a height of four feet, while lated to shock the entire civilize»!
inside the cathedral the water was so| world. It is state»! that the Jewish to Chicago, St Louis, New Orleana
tralia.
high as to threaten serious damage. resiliente were terribly treated, that and Washington.
Dowie, the Zionist leader, has been
Gondolas had to lie used from shop door many were mnnlered. after being fear Connecting >t Sun Francisco, with leverai
forced into bankruptcy.
to shop door, until bridges were im fully tortured ; that their women were Steamahtp lines for Honolulu, Jipan, China.
Philippines, Central and South America
The United States stands ready to provised by the firemen.
outraged, and that their property wras
tender its good offices to effect a settle
At Albany and Corrali!* connection 1*
taken away by the officers.
with C A E Ry trains.
ment between Colombia and the new
R ussia R ecogn ize* Panam a.
republic.
I Independence Passenger dally, except Sunday.
*>t. Petersburg, Dec. 9. — United
Shovel W o r k s D estroyed .
COTTAGE GROVE
D»rwln Brtato".
Cottage Grove
Transfer Co.
First "
BANK
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. OREGON.
Dirtying anil all kinds
of hauling. Furniture
and Piano moving a
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Louis fair will be an exposition within been officially notified of Russia’s re-
__ cognition of the republic of Panama.
an exposition. Forty acres are reserved
for the islands and every one who has The signing of the ifecree was one of
seen articles from that island expresses the first acts of the czar after his re-
admiration at the richness of the ex- j turn here from Skiernicwic on Satur-
hibits cent.
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Pittsburg, Dec. 9.— The Hubbard lfc a. M. Ar
McMinnville L y | 3:0« p. m .
shovel works, one of the largest manu Il: A. M. I Ar..Independendence.L y | 2:06 p. ■
factories of the kind in the country, 11 46 a m . I A r-------- Corrali*......_ L r I i t* p.
was almost totally destroyed by fire to seo Agent Mr D T Awbrey at Cottage Orore
night. The loe« is between $200,000 station or address
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