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About The Leader. (Cottage Grove, Lane County, Or.) 1895-1903 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 29, 1902)
-URNISH TIMBER MUST KEEP OFFICE HOURS. Land Decision of Importance Rendered by Secretary of Interior. RUSH FOR LANDS TRANS-MISSISSIPPI CONORESS Convention Whose Object Is to Help the W est Meets In St. Paul. W O M A N 'S D R E S S R E F O R M . . O h i o P h y s i c i a n H e a d s a C r u sa d e f o r a S im p le G a r b . jrt^on and Washington Fir for Lewiston, Idaho, Ang. 22.— Word Rumors of Railroad to Coos Bay I Dr. Clara W. Bruce, o f Cincinnati, 8t. Paul, Aug. 21.— The Trans-Misaii- j O., has set out to reform woman’s has been received from Washington Panama Canal. i sippi Conimmercial congress is now in | taste In the matter o f gowns. If she suc Cause Excitement. that the secretary of the interior has j session here. President John Henry ceeds, according to reversed the commissioner's decision h e r expeetationg, Brnith of Balt Lake City, called the in the case of Robert J. Little vs. John STATE SCHOOL LANDS ALL BOUGHT there will be j convention to order. There are repre W. Hradbury. many persona in sentatives present from the entire Coast Shipping will Also be Much the land who will This is the case in which it wae al Also Many Other Tracts Along Proposed Western section of the country. In Hcnclittcd. Though Other Supplies arise and call her leged that Mr. Bradbury made and Route Establishment o f Forest | outlining the work of the congress for Mill Uo by Atlantic Koute. blessed. hied a timber and stone entry in the Reserve Will help Prices. ” Wbat I propose the present session Presient Bmith sai d : local land office after the hour of clos- lo do,” she says, In "T h e object of the Trans-Miasiasippi He« York. Aug. 25.— Referring to mg on the 18th day of last January, Salem, Or., Aug. 21.— The eager e x p l a i n i n g her which was Saturday. Monday morn Congress is to crystulixe the opinions be fact that the construction of the scheme, “ la to in ing S. J. McFarland offered scrip ap ness with which idle capital is seeking of the Western country in regard to the •anaiu* canal will necessitate the trans plication for the same land embraced augurate a plain, investment in property that promises to matters of national legislation and to lation of hundreds of cargoes of con- in Bradbury’s entry; the register of g r a c ef u 1 gown, advance in value is shown by the sales IIS CLAMA SHUCK. without trimmings. tructiou material, food supplies for the local land office rejected the scrip of state school lands in Coos county j bring them before congress in such a Bo Some women tell me they pay more rkinen, etc., the Journal of Com- application as being in conflict with which have followed the announcement j way as to effect the greatest good. the entry made by Bradbury. From far as I know there is no particular for the trimmings o f their dresses than lerce says: this action McFarland took an appeal that a railroad w ill be built to Coos topic for discussion, other than what for the dresses themselves. Then when Panama and Colon are foreign portB, to the commissioner, and filed affidavits Bay. Immediately after the report may be brought up in individual dele we adopt a gown we will stick to that style and will, stop the foolish prac nd there is nothing, therefore, to pre- that Bradbury’ s application was re- was published showing that the rail gations. “ An effort will he made to bring tice o f throwing away good clothe* be ent foreign shi|K>wners from conipet- ceived alter office hours. road w ill probably ha constructed, about at this session a consideration of cause they happen to be a little out o f The commissioner sustained the ac- g at low rates for carrying material. there was a rush for cheap land in that the difficulties of the West. There ie fashion. . is said by a representative of the tion of the register. "In fact, we propose to make our vicinity. Within a few days every now a mining-congress, a livestock con snama canal interests that the mate- Commissioner is Reversed. acre of vacant school land within 35 gress, an irrigation congress, a good plain, simple gowns fashionable. W e id required in the construction of the An appeal was taken to the secretary miles and more of Coos Bay had been roads congress, ail operating in har are forming a league and y ill have la(l will certainly exceed ♦10,000,000. of the interior, who now reverses purchased, Borne of the land may mony, but separately. The idea that badges something similar to those worn addition to the food supplies. This the commissioner and holds that the prove to be of no value as a means of better tesults could be obtained from a by the W. C. T. U. W e will let people Material will consist very largely of "general circular of July 11, 189« income, but in the desire to get what concentration of tnese, is becoming know that we are not bound down by mient, granite, lumber and machinery. (page 2.18) under the head of registers ! there was of value men took all there more and more widespread, and it will the conventionalities that now oppress lumber will undoubtedly come and receivers, directs that: ‘ They was to he had. The land cost them receive careful consideration at the the human race. Membership lu the irgely from Oregon and Washington, will bo in attendance at their offices, but $1.25 per acre, so the loss could present session.” league will be free, although each j will not he a matter of much con- keeping the same open for the transac- j Addresses of welcome were made by member will have to buy her own not be great in any event. Buying has rn to shipowners on the Atlantic tion of business from 9 a. m. till 4 p .m . also been active in Curry county, and Mayor Bmith and Governor Van Bant, badge. »an, as it will be carried hy the ships " ‘ Applications for entry cannot be piactically all the vacant school land and the convention then took up the “ When 1 first made my plans public the Pacific, but in the case of cement, received hy the register or receiver out | has been taken. work of oiganization. I told how to make a nice, pretty, serv me and machinery, the items will be of office hours nor elsewhere than at I In anticipation of the creation of the iceable gown for $1.25. That was o f great importance, and communica- their office.' JAILED FOR CONTEMPT. large forest reserve in Eastern Oregon, dimity, and 1 find that It Is possible to 08 have already been sent to the gov- “ While there is no statute forbidding j all the schoi land in the area covered rnaky quite a handsome dress for even onient at Washington with a view of them so acting, there is no statute by the proposed reserve has been Peter Power, of Northern Pacific Merger less. 1 think that I will he able to get ling if some way cannot be decided authorizing them to act. The regula bought up. Borne of it is said to be Fame, Detained In Ludlow Street. up a gown that w on't cost more than ion whereby this enormous carrying tions for their conduct not in contra timbered, and will be worth what it New York, Aug. 21.— Peter Power, GO cents, and certainly not more than vein mt can be confined to American vention of Btatute have all the force of cost on this account. That which is law. If it is optional with local officers not valuable (or any other purpose will who is complainant in the case against 75 cents, and will be nice enough for lips. to receive or decline applications, there become of value the moment the re the Northern Pacific, and who Ued to anyone to wear. "There would be many more happy a nti - t r u s t r e s o l u t io n s . is given opportunity for them to exer- I serve is created, for then it can be used Canada to escape a 70-dav sentence for cine favoritism and partiality, which as reserve serin in the location of lieu contempt of court, lias returned to New marriages If men weren't afraid they couldn’t afford the expense o f dress Mississippi Congress on Record for might lead to grave mischiefs, the in lands. York, accompanied by his counsel. He ing their wives as expensively as they jury of many, and give occasion for More Stringent Laws. General W. H. Odell, who returned immediately repaired to the Uniter! are required to do nowadays. Recent grave scandals against the integrity of a few days ago fiom a trip through States marshal’ s office, where he was gt. Paul, Aug. 25.— The Trans-Mies- ly I have been Interviewing a lot of the land department.” Crook, Klamath, and Iaike counties, taken into custody and later on con lippi congress, before adjournment, The decision is an important one, says that practically all of the timber fined in the Ludlow street jail. Hia eligible youug bachelors on the subject. ilthe lollowing resolutions tegard- in that it finally establishes the rule land in those counties and in Grant, counpel attempted to prevent the com The men I talked to make good sal that applications for entry of land Malheur and Harney counties that has mitment of his client by producing an aries, from $18 to $28 and even $30 trosts: a week, but even they don’t feel able u market value lias already been taken. order from the referee of the Northern "Whereas, the trust system has been cannot lie made out of office hourB. to afford the expensive dresses that General Odell says that very prosper Pacific case to attend the hearing to- d is a menace to our Republican in- they know their prospective brides SOUTH AFRICAN BLACKS. ous times are prevailing in the counties d a j, but the marshal refused to disobey itutions; and, named, and that there is every reason Judge Lacome’ g order to confine him have been accustomed to. "Whereas, if allowed to continue to I “ Many women, too, are In sympathy n combinations in restraint of trade Upon Their Attitude Depends to a Oreat to expect a rapid development of that for contempt. with my plan, and 1 have received Extent That Country's Future. part of the state in the next few years. tlieelimination of com petition, the j many letters o f encouragement. They SUBSTITUTE FOR COAL. ilhof the entire country will he London, Aug. 22.— Mail advices re The irrigation of arid lands and the are coming to see the folly o f spend titrated in the hands o f few; ami, ! ceived from Johannesburg indicate that draining of swamp lands will add to ing all the money they can rake and Whereai. the said combinations ara the negro problem is growing more the producing area thousands of acres New Yorkers Experimenting on Peat from scrape together for something that does the New Jersey Lowlands. olitad to destroy the ambition of acute and is causing the authorities which are now almost valueless, but them no practical good. Ill other wordg, of the country, it being well infinite worry. To quote the words of which will then yield largo returns lor New York, Aug. 21.— Suceesaful tests »her are renTTZlng the foolishness or foremost African authori ouLLivwtion. a th a t ,h o w u ib itio u a n d Qliu oi ‘ have just been made of the turf or bog trying to put up a $10,000 front on a of the you: g men of this country ties : of the New Jersey lowlands around $1,000 Income. I’ in certain that If they NEW SEAL ROOKERY. remade it great, therefore be it "O n the question of the natives de j West New Y’ ork to ascertain whether could once he rid o f the worry to “Resolved by this congress, that the pends the whole future of the new it ran he used as a substitute for coal which they subject themselves year In lident of the United States lie urged colonies — whether the Boers will Lately Discovered by Captain McClellan as fuel for the winter season. Borne and year out through this same folly in Aleutian Islands. Wall the power vested in his office loyally accept British rule or continue large samples were dug up and taken they would never return to I t" tbs end that the growing power and in a state of sullen resentment. It was found Washington, Aug. 21.— Captain Shoe ; to a blacksmith shop. nenoe of the trusts may be de- Among the immediate dangers native maker, of the revenue cuUer service, to burn readily on the forge after it V I C T O R I A 'S T A C T . attacks on Boers returning to their has received a report from Captain had once become dry. oyed, and be it further It turned to a farms and attempts of the natives to 'Resolved, that if, in the wiedom of Charles H. McClellan, commanding ruddy glow and seemed to hold its fire M a d e K i n a E d w a r d K n e e l a t N t> p o le o n 's T o m b . national congress, the laws now on assault white women are threatening the cutter Manning, recording the dis well. serious conflicts between Boers and There is an almost unlimited supply statute books are insufficient to covery of a new fur seal rookery on A biography o f Marshal Canrobert press this growing evil, that other blacks. Under the old regime the Bouldyer Island, in the Aleutian group. of this turf, or “ Jersey p e a t," as they has been published recently In Paris. retribution lor Lieutenant BerthofT went ashore with a are beginning to call it in the vicinity Not the least Interesting part o f the e stringent and efficient laws be crude but simple assaults on women was shooting on boat’ s crew. He found a rookery of of West New York. dily enacted. ’ ’ work Is that which refers to the ex sight. Now, however, there ie no fur seal similar to those found on Pry- traordinary popular demonstrations OOOD ROADS CONVENTION. I legislation on the subject and the Kng- RURAL DELIVERY. byloff islands. Bouldyer is between that marked the state visit o f the late lish authorities are hesitating to enact the Arctic sea and the Pacific ocean, Queen Victoria to the French capital. non In the Lead in Number of Routes, laws until all parties concerned can fully 3,500 miles from Ban Francisco, Arrangements Being Made to Hold One In When the English sovereign, with her voice their opinions. The hesitancy to but etill within the United States Portland Next October. Now Having Forty-Six. consort and heir, went to the iDvalldea deal summarily with the natives is jurisdiction. Lieutenant BerthofT ap Portland, Aug. 21.— At a meeting of to look upon the tomb o f Napoleon I Washington, Aug. 26.— On Sept. 1, causing both Boers and Africanders in proached the herd closely enough to 1rs wid he 48 rural free delivery te n s e iiritation and encourages the observe that none of the seala had been the chamber of commerce arrangements the scene was one which seems to have ; were made with James W. Abbott, spe greatly Impressed the Marshal, who lites in operation in Oregon, 37 in blacks to truculent effrontery. branded, and there was no sign that cial representative of the department of thus describes It: "A nother phase of the problem is white men in search of seals had ever agriculture, to hold a good roods con Bshington and 12 in Idaho. Eleven ap "E verybody waa profoundly moved. the unwillingness of the blacks to lore- been near the island. The Manning vention ia this city sometime during Not a word was spoken. Each person pâtions from Oregon have been ad- go their lazv existence in the concen will continue searching to discover if the week ending Oct. 18. If possible, rsely acted upon, while «6 applica stood gazing at the coffin and wag lost tration camps, where thousands were there are other rookeries in that local the good roads train will be brought to nt *re now awaiting consideration. In thought. Prince Alljert was In front gathered during the war, and far more ity. The suggestion is made that these Portland, so that a practise! as well as JTh're have been nine adverse reports of me In the red uniform of a field serious is the fact that a great number islands may be one of the rendezvous a theoretical demonstration of the best ■Washington, and 30 applications are marshal; at his side stood the queen, of blacks in the country have managed of the seal during their absence from methods of roadmaking can be illus- p- awaiting consideration. Idaho and standing beside her was the Prince to secure arms. There is, therefore, PrybylofT islands. The discovery is ! trated to those interested. 117 requests yet to be considered. of Wales, dressed In his Highland the anomalous situation of unarmed considered important by the officials Jal free delivery will be inaugurated costume, with his velvet coat, his whites and armed blacks living in here, in view of the gradual decline of J IOWA COLLEGE BURNED. I'ntario, Or., on Oct. 1. Delay in purse o f fur, and the kilt; at the right proximity on outlying farms. Experi the fur seal in the Prybyloff islands — Vtlishing this route has been due to was Princess Matbllde, whose fea enced British colonials strongly favor Old Presbyterian Institution at Fairfield inability of the department to se- tures, so pure, standing out In the universal disarmament of the natives DORR A WASHINGTON MAN. Victim of the Flames. s consent for the discontinuance of light o f torches, recalled too vividly and prompt legislation making assaults l^postortice at Arcadia, and the star Ottumwa, Iowa, Ang. 21.— Fire of the features o f her uncle. A fter a on women a capital offense.” Manila Newspaper Publisher Found Guilty s supplying the same. unknown origin destroyed Parsons Col moment's pause o f reflection, of ab of Sedition -L ived at Day ton. lege at Fairfield, a Presbyterian insti solute silence, the queen with an ex BOER LEADERS IN HOLLAND CHOLERA IN PHILIPPINES. Dayton, Wash., Aug. 21.— Fred Dorr, tution founded in 1875. The loss ia pression on her face o f severity, calm told of in the press dispatches from $50,000; insurance half. ness and meditation, turned to the Kruger Said to Have Upbraided Oenerals Ith Authorities Attribute Its Spread to Manila as being found guilty of sedi I'rlnce of Wales, and, placing her for Giving Up the M ar. Eating of Raw Shellfish. tion in connection with the publication COAL FOR NOME. hands on his shoulders, said: ‘Go of the Manila Freedom, is a hative of Utrecht, Holland, Aug. 22.— The Washington, Aug. 25.— In their re- down on your knees before the tom b this city, where he spent his early Boston Company to Develop« an Immense Boer generals, Botha, Dewet and Dela- 7 ti the war department, the health of the great Napoleon.’ It was a fine boyhood as a clerk in his father’ s drug Vein at Cape Lisbon. orities of Manila attribute the j rey, accompanied by Dr. Leyds and exhibition of keen political tact, as He is a son of Dr. J. C. Dorr, Messrs. Fischer, Wessels, Wolmarans store. id of cholera largely to the eating Tacoma, Aug. 21.— A company of well as o f fine human feeling on the a pioneer of the Northwest and a gold and Reitz and others, have arrived here fraw shell fish. The number of hunter in California. Yonng Dorr Boston men have secured control of a part o f the queen." |hs in the archipelago has already from The Hague to visit ex-President went to Alaska in 1888, spent three ; 45-foot vein of coal at Cape Lisbon, I Kruger and consult with him on the A n E y e t o B u s in e s s . id the ten thousand mark. which will supply Nome and Behring South African situation. Large crowds yeais there, was some time in Aus The daughter o f an Illinois Congress , As man sea coast with fuel. j warmly applauded the Boers. The spec tralia, and later in China. The New Shamrock. man was sitting on her father's knee Rose Coghlan Badly Burned. jond n, Aug. 25.— The Asscciated tators at the station sang the Boer na- ager of a Britiah coalyard, he was ex t one. evening when she was a little girl, pelled from Manila when the war broke | tional anthem. Helena, Mont., Ang. 2 1 .— Rose j She had a new little brother whom she learns that, according to present The conference lasted for three hours. out. because of expressed American Coghlan, the actress, was severley in regarded with wonder, saya the Chi Ingements, contracts for the bnild- sentim»nt. Later he aided Dewey to I According to some reports it was rather jured here because she mistook a bot cago Journal, as children do regard the l o f Shamrock III will be signed enter the harbor. stormy. At the end of an hour and a tle of carbolic acid for a face lotion. latest usurper before they have learned 1 week. The contract will provide Jlte early launching of the next ' half the delegates withdrew, leaving Five Officers, Thirty Men, Many Chinese. She applied the acid to her lace in a to love him. generals Botha, Dewet and Delarey, to- llenger for the America’ s cup, thus "T o-d ay." said the Congressman, “ a Vienna. Aug. 21.— A pontoon convey dark room, and barely escaped destroy more time for toning than on- I aether with Mr. Krnger. Little is pub ing a detachment of infantry across ing her eyesight. Her face was badly man offered to give me a whole room licly known as to what look place, but burned before she discovered her error. ful o f gold for little brother. Shall I ^ hy previous competitors. it is understood that the generals found the Amur river near Pashkowa sank, ( sell him?” and five officers, thirty men and seven the ex-president of the Transvaal in Y. M. C. A. W orld's Congress. Herman Admiral Resigns. The child shook her head. ty Chinese camp followers were no way incline.! to acquiesce in British Christiana, Aug. 21.— About 1,000 Aug. 25.— Adm iral von “ But," said her father, “ think how drowned. dominion in South Africa andIstill foreign delegates, representing 31 na many nice things a roomful o f gold Itichs has resigned his post as chief clinging to the id « , of a united Month tions, are here to attend the Y. M. C. would buy! Don't you think 1 had P® of the navy. He has been sue- Petroleum In Yucatan. A. world’ s congress which opened to ; better let the man have him?” N V>y Vice-Admiral Buresel. Ad- Africa under the Boer flag. Mr. Kruger Mexico C ity, Ang. 21.— There is is even said to have bitterly upbraided day and will last until August 24. The II vow Diedrichs is the officer who "X o ,’ ’ answered the girl, thought mnch excitement in the Peninsula of the generals for giving up Boer inde Bn ronmand ef the German eqoad- Ynratan, where petroleum has been dis ' United States sent 38 official repre- fully, "let's keep him till he's older; pendence Later in the day the gene I sentativea. l n Manila Bay at the tim e Dewey I lie'll be worth more then." covered. rals returned to the Hague. Operating against the Spaniards. jug LIMBER i n d u s t r y w i l l boom