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About Lane County leader. (Cottage Grove, Lane County, Or.) 1903-1905 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 25, 1903)
m rriGE GROVE. OREGON. |bead'iu*rter* for three L lumberiiiK c om p an ies. r**t«way to tue rieh Bc>- 1 mine«. Hint the Bitte elmi i m » milieu Xane Counts Xeaber. INVESTORS I N HOMCSCEKEIS will here find opportunities nowhere el*e afforded in Ore gon. The Leader will give you the news and facta con cerning this favored locality COTTAGE GROVE, LA N E C O U N T Y , O R E G O N , F R ID A Y , DEC. 25. 1903 ! SPECIAL | Cn.MiNAL Law relating to penittn* tiary executions is amended so that crimes committed prior to the taking effect of the new law shall be pumished according to the law then in force. Lii.iHTi.Ks—Bills passed in both houses for Adams, Gold Ray, Beaver Hill, North Bend, Marsh field, Lebanon, Cottage Grove, Athens, Lostine and Dallas City. G ame —Probition of the killing of elk prior to September 15, 1904. L ewis and C labk F air .—Joint me morial adopted urging Cougress to grant the appropriation asked for. The Celilo Canal bill passed the senate Wednesday afternoon and the bouse a little later. It carries with it a $100,000 appropriation. NO. 36 passage at this special session of the the sawmill plant which is also to be Legislature returned home Wednes equipped with live rollers, while the day having fully accomplished his engine now in aze will supply mission. He arranged with R epre pow er.for the new planers. Am ong sentative Edwards of this county to the new machinery to arrive this iutrodnee the new charter bill in week was a large lath and bolting the house and it was passed without machine w bicb will be installed in objection Tuesday. It was intro the planer sheds. The installation duced in the senate soon thereafter of this additional machinery will and was just as speedily passed and give this enterprising lumber com was then remanded to the governor l Legislature Con Read and Adopted at Citi fur his signature, whou it immedi Long & Bingham Co. R e pany the largest aud most modernly equipped lum bering plant in South 1 Monday and E f ately becomes into full force and zens Mass Meeting Last Lane county. The company has se ceives N ew Kiln Dryer | operation by the provisions of an cured large bodies of timber along Ifected Organization Friday Evening and Motive Power ] inimergency clause which the char tbe line o f the O. A S. E. railroad ter hill contained. There is every where their log gin g camps are es probability that the govenor will tablished, from which points logs | affix his signature to this and sever are delivered to tho mill in this city, | al other important charter bills in train load lots. Ample railroad I which were also passed, at a very- yards have beeu provided about the> y Emergency Bills ar>4the company will soon he W ill Become in Full Force early date. The passage of this W i ll Increase Capacity of new charter bill at this special legis in shape for extensivo operations SOME BILLS INTRODUCED. itssed-Adjourned Sine | lative session means much for Cot and Effect W h en Sign- tile Company S B ig M ill and fully prepared to baudle the I tage Grove, and will busten badly The Jones bill in the bouse is \ ed by the Governor ill Cottage G-rove large volu,ue of business promised Die Wednesday needed improvements in this city at “ ___ during the coiuingyear. The L eader aimed to cure the car shortage evil, least fifteen months. The Mayor, . , ! congratulates thib progressive ooin- from which Oregon has suffered in- The citizens mass meeting held in city couucil and its committee on i special session of tbe Oregon The Long ,t Bingham Lum ber |inlly UpOD it« energy and enterprise. calcuable injury the past season. drafting the new charter is to be I Company of this city, of which Dr. ------ -»•«- -------- |nture convened at Salem Mon That bill is modeled after the the opera house last Friday evening T im b e r O rd e r Is R e v o k e d , kith Geo. W . Brownell, presi- Texas act, and imposes severe pen- was largely attended by the tax pay- heartily congratulated upon the E. A. Lawbaugh is president nnd timely, efficient nnd expedient man I of the Senate and L. T. Harris alties for failure to furnish cars I ere and citizens generally of Cottage ner in which relief is being -ecured j treasurer; I. H. Bingham, manager! within a reasonable time. 1 Grove, who listened attentively to and E. A. Page, secretary, received W ashington, Dec. 21,— Secretary le t of t lie h o u s e . Organisation Kepresentive Hutchinson, of Mult- i the reading of the new amendments i' f° r !h e ul,-v 10 ,be provisions, and direct from Indianapolis, Indiana, Hitchcock has com pleted the prepa- it once effected by declaring nomah countv, introduced the most to the charter which were adopted j through the , assage of tl is new this week a new National lumber ration for the evidence in the laud Various committees of the last drastic measure to prohibit gam- j by the vote of the people one by one t-hai ter. kiln which is now being installed in Hand cases. -------- -• • •— — |ar teamon as Mtisfaetory lor bliug in this state ever placed before | subject to final action or passage In the new building provided for it ad- Commissioner Richards of the B r o w n e ll's R e s o lu tio n , joining their saw mill iu this city, by . geueral land office today revoked during the special session the Oregon legislature. The bill | the legislature at f hi» s| rial sessum. w en -. j “ Whereas, O re g o n will hold an a large force o f men. The new order suspending the timber lln rules governing the former is an exact copy of the Washington | if possible. The amend ueuts were 8*one entries in Oregon, Califor- Ins were adopted. Governor law which has effectually stopped ! co, lined principally to extension o of f election previous to the one which steam lumber kiln is 22xHH feet nnd the incorporate limits of the city, I will name our uext President, there- will liave a eapacitv of 20,000 feet of oia, I tnb, Idaho, W yoming, M oti- pberlain presented liis message, gambliug m that state. lumlier per day. The new planer ! tana an,i W ashington, which have i was read iu joint sesbion and Au organized and desperate effort broader anil more explicit provisions fore, be it “ Resolved, That we, members of shed forms an extension to the lum been held up pending the investi- feference only to the regulation j was made for adjournment of the for street and other improvements, i new tax law. Many hills have legislature Wednesday night ami increase of the bonding limit for the Legislature and o f the R epu bli ber kiln aud is 40x136 fe t which Rations. There is no doubt, but what there (introduced and the following was successful. This was iu ortlei the city from $20,000 to $100.000, can party for the State o f Oregon, completes a shedded floor space of iu cuucusassembled, heartily indorse 40x221 feet. More platform space | ,vi11 “ ow l,e a renewal o f t i m b e r l a D d I been passed. i to suppress the bill making gam and other minor amendments in re tho firm course pursued by our fear lias also been provided ami the two 1 homestead entry operations and bling a felony and also to suppress lation to inumciple elections, etc. A less President, Theodore Roosevelt, additional new boilers of 100 horse- \ many new claims will bo located in HILLS MADE LAWS. new clause, thorough and exhaustive, the bill for railroad traffic regulaj relating t'> the construction and amt hereby and iu harmony with pow er each are being incased by the j this part of the state this season, »Phelp* law i« repealed; th e' tioo. The Hat snhirv hill, phtcn.tf niaint liuam-e of a sewerage stslern the North Pacific Coa-t demand liis brick masons and will soun be reiuh nine law. with minor chin.««*, i* «tate oflWr* on flat Hilary. lor the city was also introduced, reuominatiou aud hereby pledge to stenm up. The additional 200 Neil Regan, of Bohemia, is in tho leuucted; the ¿*00 exemption ^mothered. At iiudin-lit Wed net - read and unanimously adopted with him the unanimous support of the horsepower engine is expected to city. He will spend most o f the session adjourned Ini tHxea is restored; difficulty jdoy the special much satisfaction on the part of the Republican party o f the State of arrive daily and will he used to drive Winter in I’ ortlnnd, is r now only history. I to Rpcorder*fi f»-es is removed. siue die and 'M Oregon.” people. The motion to ndopt the resolu- Quite a sensation was sprung on —1— the meeting and a lively debate pre-1 tion was responded to by a rising cipitated by the presentation o f a | vote and continued applause, in petition to the meeting providing j joint session. or praying for the insertion of a lo No M ore C a r F a m in e s . cal option clause in the newly adopt ed charter. Rev. O. H.Feese, Rev. It is announced that the Southern F. E. Billington and Rev. Boyles Pacific R. R. Co., will undertake to championed tbe measure, assisted see that Oregou's industries d o not by Attorney A. H. Kiug and Thcs. hereafter suffer from a car famine. Medley. It was opposed by Atty's. The people along the line of the J. S. Medley, J- C. Johnson and his Southern Pacific iu this state are ab honor, the" mayor, by the latter solutely dependent upon the road simply on the grounds that this for the removal of their products to movement had been undertaken at the market, and while the producer the eleventh hour and that its adop- suffers materially from such condi- ! tion would necessitate the changing I tious as have existed throughout T h e l a r g e s t an<l l) e s t I of all the clauses iu the charter rc- the great timber belt for the past lating to the licensing of saloon's, four months, it is certainly true We have the best etc., and in order to get the new that they have suffered no greater stock of groceries in charter properly before the special |088 than the railroad company. To town for Christmas legislative session, the timelimit was eripple the industries along its lines purchase Every in C o t t a g e drove inadequate to thus alter the charter j means simply that capital will witb- thing you want for and insert the proposed clause. The | ,iraw from tho district and g o onto your Christmas din C a n f i l l la r j r e o r s m a l l <>r^*r * measure aud petition was defeated j tbe Great Northern or Northern ucr is here, a n d p r o m p t ly : C o u n tr y l » r " in a rising vote. Pacific where they prevent car fam- your marketing will Mavor R- M. Veatcb ably presided mes, consequently one can hardly j be made easy and In tu ir lit a n d » » I d : a t over the meeting and Prof. Briggs believe that it is contrariness on the highly satisfactory te n tio n » r iv e n t o o r d e r s f r o m acted in the capacity o f reading part of tbe Southern Pacific and tbe if wc get your orders th o B o h e m i a m i n e s . . • • clerk and secretary, assisted by fa(,t that they are endeavoring to Recorder, J. E. Young. A commit- j prevent the recurrence of the pres- j O u r o w n fr e e D e liv e r y » W " tee consisting of B. M \eatch aud , ent condition would make one l>e- Cbarles Burkholder was elected at [leTe they mean to d o the sq u a re, the conclusion of the meeting to thing in the future.— Ex. 1 carry the newly revised charter to ■----- ----------------- Salem and urge its passage at Chinese have no use for American ; the special legislative session, vhicli law— they are a law unto themselves. Those who lost by the fire at Port- j convened Monday. land Wednesday night declare they j v i w , h a k t e b r\SITED b y u s M A i r n . will kill the Chinaman in whose j Mayor K. M. Veatch who carried kitchen the fire originated, audj . We*t end of Bridge Coiner Main and River St the newlT amended and adopted j »horn they bold responsible for the. SHORT SESSION LEGISLATURE ACTS INSTALLING PLANT A M erry Christmas Pea r c e @i Johnson GOOD THINGS For Christmans U p - T o - D a te G rocery S t o r e PHONE M A I N 45 Under charter to Salem Sunday to urge its ¡fire. Odd: F e l l o w s Hall