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About The Leader. (Cottage Grove, Lane County, Or.) 1895-1903 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 19, 1902)
n a t io n a l Cottage Grove Leader. Is. Y . W O O I .K Y . P u b lis h «? «-. DEATH LIST INCREASING. NEWS OF OREGON Thirty-Eight Known to Have Perished In the Lewis River Country. ir r ig a t io n con gress . Tenth Annual Convention Meets at Colo rado Springs In October. Denver, Sept. I B .- T b « tenth Nation Items of Interest Gathered from All Parts of the State. THE STATE FAIR Opened with Attendance Doubfc al Irrigation C on gre« will 1* 1>«1J « That of Last Year. Colorado Springs, 0«do., O ctober« to #. C O T T A G E G RO VE OREGON. The American Forestry Association will VISITORS SATISFIED WITH SHOWING t C T \ A T M r C Charred and lifeless bodies of 38 people COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL DOINGS iueet at the same time ami plaie and forestry will be given proper attention. have already !>een found, and all be- Few Lakes and Sideshows, but Plo,^ a The basis of representation in the _________ lieve that there will la) more to follow. Good W holesom e Entertainment A Brief Review of Improvements, Growth I congress will be: . General Review of Important Happcv.ings Many settlers and an unknown num and Development Along All Lines Address by Governor liecr. The governor of each state and tern- of the Past Week in Brief and ber of campers from outside points are Throughout Our State. I tory to appoint 20 delegates. Comprehensive Form. missing. The burned district was The mayor of each city of less than Salem, O r., Sept. 1 « .-Opening ^ j settled by perhaps 500 people, most of j The fall run of salmon at The Dalles 2d 000 population to appoint two dele- at the state fair yesterday was a gnst Russia is preparing to evacuate Man whom were prosperous, while many I is exceptionally good, the fish being K*The mayor of each city of more than success. The attendance for the initial were well-to-do. Nearly all of the of a Urge size. churia. Kelly, of Company A, I 25,000 population to appoint four dele- day was larger than for years, Explorer Peary has been heard from £ « « ^ h .y ^ a n d X i/S Í - Captain H. L dent Well rung stated that the gan,„. O. N. G ., at Oregon gates. ^ of commissioners. rn Labrador. tllreB well stocked with cattle. What Third regiment, ceipts for the day were double those of City, has resigned. Senator Thomea R. Bard, of Cali- wag a we©k a«o the beautiful and fer I two delegates. Each chamber of commerce, cominer- the opening day last year. Petowya, a Umatilla Indian woman, fornia, is aeriotialy ill. tile valley of the Lewis is now a hot The grounds are well supplied with : rial club or real estate exchange, two has just died. She remembered C a p -________ and silent valley of death, covered pro A heavy froet in Ohio did coo aid exhibits. I.inn, J.ane, Polk ltj miscuously with the blackened bodies tain Clark well. She was 113 years delegate), erable damage to late crops. old. i Each organized irrigation, agricul Washington counties have ireiliub:» of both man and beast. stock association, two displays of their resources in Seventeen men lost then lives by an ^ one p]ace the irons of a burned Extensive preparations are being I tural and live pavilion. The art and manufacturing explosion in a Norfolk, Va., mine. wagon, the roasted remains of a team made for the carnival and district fair [delegates Each aociety of engineers, two dele- departments are largely represented E’ ire in coalbunkers at Stockton, of horses and the dead bodies of nine to be held at The Dulles September 30 There are not as many fake sho«, people tell the tale of an unsuccessful Cal., resulted in $200,000 damage. gl*Each irrigation company und agricul midways and entertainments as usiaj attempt of a party of pleasure seekers to October 5. Yaqni Indians are again causing to escape. and only good wholesome entertain! Hoppickera in a number of \\ ill*™* tural college, two delegates. While fleeing from the serious disturbances in Mexico near Hames they were stopped by a big log ette valley yards have struck for « 0 The following are delegates by virtue merit is allowed bv the management the border. There are more campers this year and that had fallen across the read. The cents per box. The increase wan given of their res|iectiie nttiooB: The duly accredited representative every indication augurs well |or It, A locomotive boiler exploded on the team was burned on the spot, and so in most ease*. success of the exposition. The victor, Pennsylvania railway, killing one man fierce was the fire that none of the nine A robber knocked the North Fork of anv foreign nation or colony, the persons were able to get more than a Northern Pacific agent insensible and governor of anv state or territory, any appeared pleased with the show, I0d and seriously injuring two. were complimentary in their remarb. few steps from the wagon. then went through the office de*ks and member of Hie United Mates senate Reports from Pekin say that Boxers Many people saved their lives by The fair was formally opened Ian and house of representatives, member are again becoming troublesome in jumping into the Lewis river, the cash drawer, but got very little money. of anv state or territorial commission, evening with exercises in the niniir There is no clue to the perpetrator. various parts of the empire. water of which, in some places, was all members in good standing of the hall at the pavilion. The Fourth np. The Mt. Angel college opened its National Irrigation Association. meat band, of Eugene, which isa. Twenty-five villages have been swept warm from the intense heat of the gaged for the week, played two appi» away and H.000 people drowned by ; surrounding flames. ADout «0 people, 16th year with an attendant e that priate opening selections. PresiA overflowing rivers in India. who were camping at Trout lake, near promises well for the coming season. OIL OUSHER STILL BURNING. Wehrung presided and introduced ( Colorado scientists have advanced the base of Mount St »W en*, were The new stone building to be used by the college is rapidly nearing comple Beaumont wTII Endeavor to Smother It ernor Geer, who gave theaddrwij the idea that many of the forest fires saved by taking to the water on in 1 provised rafts of polos and logs. About tion. w elcom e. The response was made t* with Steam. are set by meteors falling in the heavy HO sections of the finest timber land in Dr. James Withycombe, of Corvallkl Two masked men entered the O. R. pine forests. Beaumont, Tex., Sept. 18 — Tonight Cowlitz county have been burned over, it N denot at North Powder and at t h e , This year’ s state fair not only iJ . afll . , ^ . and much of it destroyed completely. point of a revolver co m p ile d the agent one large gusher is at ill burning, fend sects more for the visitor to Metj$[ Crusade against Sisters’ schools is It is estimated that the property loss to open the safe. T icy secured $300, j jng a volume of tlame high in the air. profit to himself, but more for hint b again on in France. in this county will not be less than after which the agent was hound and Efforts made this afternoon to extiie enjoy in the way of light amnsemat' New York Republicans have decided ,000,000. Three hundred people gagged. gttish the flames were not successful, te endorse Roosevelt for 1904. j Lave been left destitute anil homeless, TUNNEL THREE-FIFTHS DONE. All holdings of the Necanicum but more boilers have been sent for, President Roosevelt his invited .eve- at lea-t 38 lives have been lost, Spruce Lumber company, including and the plan of smothering it with Great Subway of Rapid Transit ral senators to confer with him on the Many Burned in C|arkc County, the sawmill, box factory and several steam will again lie tried. Manv of Under New York. tariff question., Vancouver, Wash., Sept. 1 7 . - A thousand acres of timber tributary to the oil companies have lost their pump New Y ork, Sept. 17.— After an Colombian insurgents are waiting for mlmber of deaths in the Rock creek the Necanicum and O’ Hanna, have ing plants and have wired orders (or arms, when they will attack the Iath- .(¡strict, near Bell’ s mountain, have been sold to Minneapolis capitalists. new machines. An examination leads penditure of $21,000,000 and the mns of Panama railroad. ! been reported here. The fire was The consideration was over $ 100.(’00. to the belief that none of the wells fire of 24 human lives, the rapid The Venezuelan government has j driven by a high east wind, which Tlie company plane extensive improve have been permanently injured. it subway under construction in ments. There is a new problem to be con offered amnes'y to revolutionists who swept everything before it. city is, a-cording to the world, fronted as soon as the burning gusher is lay down their arms in 40 days. hire, according to the reports, swept There is a move on foot to divide This over a f?trip of timber in the not them Baker county by cutting off a slice of extinguished, and that is the control of three fifths completed. A conference arranged by Governor rt o f this col1nty, i l miles wide, for The gate valve lias tieen ment of the state of progress it1 the eastern portion, including tire Pan the well. Stone to settle the coal miners’ strike ■ d ^ a n g * „ ( 40 miles. The country handle district, which was annexed to melted off, and while it is probable on data compiled in the office o( in Pennsylvania, ended in a failure. ! ar0und the headwaters of Lewis river Baker county two years ago. A slice that this can be replaced it will be a Engineer Parson. ___________________ ____ _ known to be full of prospectors and of Maihour county is to lie added so difficult operation. Estimates of the The principal means of which will tie ntTPrrmTT'awwvwlv .............— .. *-■ bring Huntington nearer tire damage still vary, but there is a gene how much has been accomplish« Forest fires throughout N orth -' P°rle<1- p*---- — -.tucri remains to do «One thus making it the natural (¿CAtlon lor □¿Ufe that will cover the ioss. ' Th& S More than 20 families in the vicin amount ur . r,wli haffb west continue to cause widespread de the countv seat. has been but one fatality so far. pended. When the workmen vastation. I he property loss will run ity of Rocky creek are rendered home less. Measures are oeing taken among The fall fishing season has opened into the hundreds of thousands of dol last paid off $21,000.000 in TRAINS COME TOOETHER. the authorities and citizens here to and indications point to a large run lars. numbers had been disbursed, render speedy assistance to the unfor with prices good. Vanderbilt and Pennsylvania railway tunate fire sufferers. As reports say a Runaway Freight Cars Crash Into a Fast fifths of the $35,000,000 for; B. McDonald contracted to Forest fires are still raging in Clack systems have been amalgamated. The large number of people are left desti Passenger- Three Killed. tunnel. The estimate based on new combination will have a cauitaliz- tute for the time being by reason of amas county and much valuable timber Denver, Sept. 18.— Santa Fe passen figures is borne out by detailed ation of $2,000,000,000 and a mileage the destruction of buildings, crops und is being destroyed. ger train No. 008, known as the news on the various sections. of 30,000,miles. stock unless they are given relief soon, The postoffices at Glentena, Lane paper train, which left Denver this There have been only two : county; Luda, Coos county, and morning at 3 :50. bound for Colorado disasters to call attention tot Every electric line in Ottumwa, much suffering is sure to result. Tamarack, Umatilla county, will be Springs, Pueblo, Chicago and St. Louis, of life involved in the grest Iowa, has been tied up bj- a strike. Bad Fire In Montana. discontinued September 3U. coilid.nl with a freight train at Struby, ing. These cost the number of A. R. Shepherd, ex-governor of the Kalispell, M ont., Sept. 17.— Forest It is estimated I The Telocasset ranch, consisting of a stiii'l town several miles south of m en tion«!. District of Columbia, died in Mexico. [ fires are raging on the north fork of the 1,000 acres, situated in Union and Littleton, and three members of the task will occupy another year il' Flathead river, on the Flathead reser The cold wave which struck Colorado Baker counties, has changed hands. passenger train crew were killed and The men in charge of the work has damaged the potato crop to a great vation. Ranchers have been fighting another perhaps fatally injured. Some the opinion that they have been f The purchasing price was $14,700. Hames for two days and they are now extent. of the passengers were badly shaken up nate thus far in reducing the pel beyond their control. They have sent The experimental station at the Ore ¡and bruised, but none were killed or life and lim b to the minimum, China is disturbed over the determ- for help, and men w ill immediately go gon Agricultural college is to make a say that after millions of people' ination of Russia to remain in Man- to the scene. The fire started in a practical test of hop drying to save a seriously injured. The freight when ascending a steep churia. been walking, driving and ridingK windfall, and spread rapidly over one larger amount of lupnlin, which is the j grade at Struby to let the passenger The Lake woolen mills at Bridgeton. of the best belts of timber in this sec active principle and marketable asset of | train pass, parted in the middle and cars for two years on the brinl excavation extending for milesll New Jersey, were destroyed by tire. tion, the exact location being near the the hop. ! 15 or 18 heavily loaded cars started the city and thousands of me j large beds of coal. It is gradually go- Loss $100,000. back toward the approaching passenger tieen employed in luzardoni ing east and south, and threatens de i train, which was drawn by two engines. ground work, the wonder is t f e a t Britain has secured an exten- struction to the timber in the vicinity PORTLAND MARKETS. The engineers tried to back out of the siou of reciprocity treaties pending with of McDonald lake, unless soon checker!. list of victims is not much larger. j way of the running cars, but did not the United States. | ________ It has been necessary to: Wheat— Walla W alla,61® 62c; blue- succeed. The crash when the two 3,000,000 cubic yards of Cascade Locks Narrowly Escaped. American generals who have been stem, 63>(i@>i4c; valley, 82(864 . trains met was heard for miles. Both and for months the contractor! witnessing the German war maneuvers f Cascade Locke, Or., Sept. 17.— E x Barley— Feed, $19.00; brewing $20. passenger engines were thrown into been using one and one-half cept for the hard work of the men of have started for home. the ditch and freight cars were piled | the town and a gang of Japanese rail- Flour— Best grades, $3.05(33 76 per dynamite a day for blasting, Mrs. W illiam M. Stewart, wife of j road hands, the Cascade Locks settle barrel; graham, $2.95@3.20. up on them. promised that New York will Senator Stewart, of Nevada, was ment would.have been swept clean by recover from its tornup oonditios Millstuffs — Brau, $17 per ton; killed in an automobile accident in San fire. VOLCANO AOAIN ACTIVE middlings, $21.50; shorts, $18; in a short time. Only t Francisco. Patties arriving from the Wind chop, $17. here and there remain to be ; The Beaumont, Texas, oil fire i s j ; mountain country, seven miles east of ^ O a ts— N o.l white, $1.00; gray, 95® Souffrlcre s New Crater Is Throwing Out and several sections of the tunal Volumes of Black Smoke. under control. The loss will reach here in Washington, state that a fire nearly completml. $260,000. It was caused by the care ! there laid waBte almost the whole coun- Hay - Timothy. $10® 11; clover a Kingstown, 8t. Vincent, Sept. 16.— [ try. A sawmill belonging to Joseph lessness of a watchman. loth WEEK OF COAL STiltt th“ ^ Bel* ire reP ° '‘ " Peters. okThe Dalles, was burned; aho $7.50; Oregon wild hay, $6®6 per r*, that Souffnere’ s new crater, which has The battleship Oregon, which has about 3,000 cords of wood, and most of ton. been quiet hitherto, is today throwing And Still No Sign of Weakenl«« been undergoing repairs at the Puget the settlers are homeless. Another fire Potatoes — Beet Bnrbanks, 60®65c out black smoke. The of the Contestants. Sound navy yard for the last year, has . . . . ----- old crater, near Stevenson burner) a large amount per cental; ordinary, 50®55c per cen which m the correspondent’ s opinion sailed for San Francisco. It is thonght Shenangh, Pa., Sept. 17 sweets. $2 00 of wood, and several farms were aho tal, growers prii-es; Ilnl all the work since May 7. and began the 19th week of thecosl^ she wi 1 be^orderej to Chinese waters. 1 J swept clean. A party arrived yester- ®2.25 per cental. which erupted September 3, is «till 1 day from the mountains south of here Butter— Creamery, 2 5 ® 2 7 }*c; dairy issuing white steam in dense clouds, The date on which Senator PI The mother of the sultan of Morocco dieted that the strike would 1 and report that a large amount of tim 17)k@20c; store, 12!*® 15c. is dead. which can be seen from Kingston over passed and the hope that ber on the forest reserve is burned, and Eggs— 22N^c for Oregon. mountain,. The craters into the people in this locality The Utah state Republican convert- that there is a big fire on the Bull Run Cheese— Full cream, twins, 12J4 and the Wallibon and Richmond dis- of that prediction has been tiiin nominated Joseph Howell for con- reserve. ® 13c; Young America, 1 3 H @ 1 4 iic ; fac tri. ts could lie seen yesterday. Cress. bv a feeling that the end » Mysteries of Railroad Time Cards. tory prices, 1® D ie less. The volcanic matter which fell at o f f . G. P. Burkitt has receiver] the Re How perplexing they are, those great Poultry— Chickens, mixed, $3.00® Richmond and Wallibon wa, finer than The reiteration by the coal publican nomination for governor of big folders, that tell so much about fell at Chateau llelaire. 4.00; hens, $4 5l)®5.60 per dozen that which . .. , — - — — ..Adm ire, during the week that no Texas. trains, distances, connections and ail H a i l S c per po-n d; springs, 11 ® * !h‘ " g the places are very near each would be made and the The meat trust is now a certainty. the other information travelers need 11 He per ponnd, $8 00®3.50 per doz- Thp„ a . . passed by nearly all the loal September 27 is the date set for begin to know. And how hard to grasp the en; dneks. $3.00(84.50 per dozen; tnr- i„ • " ,* f" r,her »ubsidence the United Mineworkers information they convey. None of us keys, " live, --------- - In Hal 1 1 bon in four different places ning operations. 13® 14c, dreesed, 15®18c per themselves to the strike and the local opinion is that t h e » subl sions are granted show that can read them intelligently, and some pound; geese. $4.00®8.00 per dozen. The transport Sherman, bound from can 't read them at all. snlencea on the coast line may aoount They have Mutton— Gross, 2'w®3c side is weakening. Manila to San Francisco, has been needed fixing, and that “ fixing” was per pound | fo , the sand-like substances . 3 dressed, 8c per ponnd. General G obin, in chsrp quarantined at Nagasaki on account of September 3. applied this month by the Northern state troops encamped in th* cholera on board. Hogs— Grose 8 t« c; dressed, 7®7t^c Pacific railroad when it gave the pub denies that be is preparing •* per pound. Passengers Drowned In Flood Captain A. A. Andrews, who twice lic a little time card that can be tucked Veal— 7(88 per pound. * ¡« « 1 ™ ,, Britiah India, Sept. i « . _ the troops at an early dsks- crossed the Atalntic in a 16-foot shell, away in a gentleman's veet pocket or in Beef— Gross, t»m«s, cows. 3 ® 3 die-steers I n Get one and see how has tieen pronounced legally dead by a a lady's purse. Beef— ma'1 train yesterdav 25 Leopold to visit Massachusetts conrt. He started on sim ple and helpful it really is to the 3H®4S, c ; d re .s e d .6 3 7 c per pm,nd. ' b r i d » ' ov^ * Brussels, Sept. 16 — It h his third attempt October fi last and traveler. It’ s little, but if diamonds Hops— 181817c: new crop 20® 22c flood, F ift'* ***" nn,lerm'ncil by that K ing Leopold will was sighted only once after that, and were as large as cabbages nobody would Wool— V aM ey.ltty® 1ft ¡Eastern Ore- etah, F „ T including United States next year. ’ then only about a week after he started. want them. g o n .8 « ,4 d 4 c w e r e d r o ^ n T " " ‘ Dd " Ulie" ’ the visit has been de8ni»lf February and March. Ka aura, Wash., Sept. 17.— Reports from the fire stricken district* o f Lewis river continue to grow worse. The W llllK . N I/VjilNvj3
