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Daily Edition (&Q&B Hag WWXB USE TIMES WANT ADS Member of Associated Press. VOL. I THE DAILY COOS BAY TIMES, MARSHFIELD, OREGON, KM DAY MAY 24, 1007. No. 275. ANOTHER PLAN FOR ROSEBURG COOS BAY ELECTRIC RAILROAD A committee of promi nent Rose burg citizens in the interest of tho Coos Bay and Roseburg electric railway are expected to arrive here S iturday. It is all important that tho citi zens of Coos Bay have a definite business policy. So far tho inter ests of Roseburg, Myrtle Point, Bandon and Coos Bay cities have been assumed to the identical. Thoy are not. E. W. Harriman is building a rood hero from Drain and not from Roseburg. The heaviest grade on this lino is four-tenths of one per cent nearly a uator level. One engine will huul as many cars via of Coos Bya as six ngine8 now pull over the mountains, via of Rose bi rc', It will cost E. II. Harriman millions more to build this nearly water level road than it would cost him to build a road with the same grades as those on the Oregon and California road. With the completion of the Drain road and the construction of the road down the coasttwe will bo on tho main line horn Portland to San Francisco and Roseburg on the sidetrack. Not only this, but a lino is sur voyed and tho money for the con struction assured from Natron to Ontario. This line when con structed will make Coos Bay the seaport of "the greatest area of undeveloped land west of the Rockey mountains." Without a railroad within 100 miles Malheur and Harney connties raise one third of the live stock in the state of Oregon, With a railroad this "inland empire" will grow more wheat than is now grown in the entire state, the Willamette Valley not excepted. ' It is in Ilurriman's power to bring all the wheat and farm pro ducts uof the "inland empire" to Cooe Bay and make this tho sea port of Central, Southern and East ern Oregon. E. H. Harriman' now owns and operates a railroad from hero to Myrtle Point. Is it good business policy for the business men 'of Marshfield and North Bend, while Mr. Harriman is expending millions of money building seven tunnels to make t.hia mnin line, for the citizens to Pl start out to parallel tho only bit of a road we have got in the Coob country? It may be popular at this time to take a slap at E. H. Harriman. It may suit President Roosevelt to pluck a handful of tail-feathers out of tho Harriman bird to further Taft's presidential boom but, at this writing, tho peo ple of Coos Bay are not so much coucerned as to who will be the next President as we are as to whether this will be the Seaport of all of Oregon south of the Colum- r, ua river. I- That there is urgoht need lor railroad communication from hero to Roseburg now no one will dis pute. The enterprise of Douglas County citizens to make this their seaport should be met more than half-way. But it is well to consider existing conditions. There is a steam road built and now operat ing and capable "of handling all the traffic as far as Myrtle Point. Would it not be tho part of wisdom for tho present to sup plement what Harriman has done and is now doing rather than at tempt to drive him out of business, in this section. If the citizens of Coos Bay will meet tho people of Roseburg half way and direct all their efforts to building an electric line from Myrtle Point to Roseburg it can bo done, for it can be done for nearly half tho cost that a line can be built all the way. JJy building from Myrtle gPoint we will be working for Harriman and not against him: 'And -he will ap preciate it. If after we have shown our good will he refuses to make reasonable rates to interchange freight and passengers we can either go to State Railway Commission and compel him or we can then get our bristles up and parallel his line. Bnt let's treat Harriman like a' man and refuse to join the excur sion gang. Until J. J. Hill started io build to Portland the Portland dailies look a fling at him while they handed boquets to Harriman. But since Hill camo and under President Roosevelt's lead every little man is trying to lift tho big stick to swipe him. Lets be decent and receive E. W. Harriman with a ghd welcome to Coos Bay. He can do more for us than any liv ing man. By my chief reason for opposing the paralleling the present railroad to Myrtle Point, is because we can get ten times the results with the money in another way. With less than one-half the money that an electric road from here to Myrtle Point will cost a canal can be built connecting the Coquille River with Coos Buy. Then daily steamboats from Myrtle Point, Coquille and Bandon can come to Marshfield and North Bend. Wo then will have water communication that will forever regulate freighi rates. An electric road will be sold out as eoon as Harriman wants to buy it. The strip of land that separates tho Isthmus Slough on the Coos Bay sido, with the Beaver Slough, on tho Coquille side, is but half a mile wide and, I am informed, is only 86 feet deep at the apex of the divide. Mr. Albrigh, a Civil Engineer familiar with the character and topography of the ground, tolls me that it will not cost over $250,000 to build such a canal, and put in Hood gates to regulate the overflow. That the waters on tho Coos Bay side and Coquille river are very nearly level is evident for the ocean tides reach within two miles of Myrtlo Point. Mr. Peter Loggie, President of tho North Bend Chamber of Com merce, suggested in the Times that Coos county would bo justified in guaranteeing the interest on a million dollar of bond to build the electric lind. If Coos county could contribute $1,000,000 to an electric line she certainly could raise $250, 000 for a canal that would do her ten times as much for tho property of Marshfield and Noith Bond as the electric road. Here are tho figures C. A. Smith now pays the C. B. R. & E. Ry one dollar per thousand for hauling his logs from the Coquille river to the Isthmus slough. The capacity of the old Dean mill is 50,000 feet in 10 hours. They are now run ning two shifts, cutting 100,000 feet a day. It costs tho C. A. Smith Company $100 per day to rail their logs. Not only this but there is the cost of loading them at tho Coquillo river and unloading them at the Isthmus slough. If a canal were bui t Mr. Smith could tow his logs for less cost than it now takes to load them on tho cars. Tho interest on $250,000 the estimated cost of a canal at 5 per cent., is $34.60 per day. So OF THE TARIFF IS - New York, May 22 The National Association of Manufacturers went on record today In favor of the revis ion tarrlff and negotiation of more treaties. A debate prececded this voto on the report of the committee on tariff and reciprocity. Tho committee based Its recommenatlons on, tho poll of three thousand members of the association of the total number re plying 55 per cent declared for im mediate revision while the 30 per cent expressed "Hands off sentiment" Eight per cent believed the time for revision had not . arrived and the other 17 percent- expressed indlf fere'nee: Four hundred members and guests were present nt the banquet at the Waldorf. Astoria tonight, and the balcony boxes were filled with women President Van Cleve of the associat ion spoke briefly, saying he desired to contribute a slogan that, "Ameri canism must rule America." This association" he said, "Has no fight with labor unions except as Ameri can citizens should fight the sort of labor, unionism which tries to dictate in San Francisco. C. A, Smith would save $65.40 every day if he would build that canal and pay for it himself. With this showing it is reasonable to ex pect that Marshfield and North Bend citizens could easily raise $50,000 for such a project. ;Co quille and Myrtle Point, to get dj rect water communication with this $200,000,000 bay would, no doubt, contribute $25,000, Coos county would then appropriate $50,000 and the State of Oregon ought to appropriate dollars for dollars, or $125,000,000. Here we have the $250,000,000 raised. With the canal completed no sawmills would ever think of being located anywhere in Coos county except on Coos Bay. It is cheaper now to ship from this port than Bandon, 50 cents thousand because this harbor has a lower insurance rate and is less hazardous. The saw mill interests are only in their infancy here. C. A. Smith said in the Times that there is five times as much timber within a radius of 75 miles of Coos Bay as Minneapolis cut in the last 50 years and yet Minneapolis is known as tho "saw dust city of tho world." If there is five times as much timber here then wo ought to have five times as many mills to cut it. Minneapolis, in its palmiest lum ber days, had 13 mills, we then ought to have 5 times 13 or 65. But say that we have only 13. No, I am willing to drop I because of that hodoo number and make it an oven twelve. Twelve 260,000 feet saw mills on Coos Bay would eat up 3,000,000 feet of logs eyery day. To ship these via railroad as Smith does now would cost $3,000 a day. Tho interest on that $250,000, that a canal would cost, is $34.60 per day. Here you have tho canai propo sition in a nutshell. Nothing has been said of the Commerce outside of tho lumber business. Tho products of tho great Coquille basin and Douglas county would pass through it. Had a canal been built last winter, connecting Coquiilo with Coos Bay, would Orvillo Dodgo have went to Washington to urge an appropriation for tho mouth of the Coquille river? No, emphati cally no. Ho would have joined Mr. Peter Loggie and worked for Coos Bay. That is what tho canal would do for Coos Bay, Georgo Wallace Williams. REVISION IS COMPLETED An Increase of Forty-eight Pupils is Shown Over Last Year. LOSE A DISTRICT jlVvntj.two Sthooir CluIHrcn In Pint It. Are Counted In 4 North Ueiid. Theflgures showing the school cen sus of District No. 9 have been com piled in Judge Hall's office and Bhow the following results; the total Burn er of children between tho ages of six- and twenty, male and female, Is CIS an increase ot forty-eight over the census taken a year ago. This Is a total of 308 males and 310 fe males and does not include the child ren in Plat D which Is now a part of the North Bend District. At the time of-taking the census the dis trict was included In tho Marshfield district. There are 10 males and 11 females in Plat B. " One peculiar feature of the census is that last year 285 males and the same number of females were of school age, while this year there Is an increase of two females over tho total number of males. The census was .taken in February, but the work of compiling the figures' has just beeu completed. ROLL OF HONOR. Following is a list of .sub-, scribors'to the Marshfield Pub-'' licity Fund. Tho amounts op posite the names are tho monthly installments for the period of ono year. J. E. Oren, $50 50 10 10 10 15 10 10 10 10 10 b 10 10 15 15 15 10 10 10 10 5 Dr. J. T. MoCormac, I. S. Kaufman, F. S. Dow, Robert Marf-den, Edgar Wheeler, Herbert Lockhart, Merchant Estate, C. W. Tower, P. A. Devers, Jim Banes, W. U. Douglas, McCllland Invest ment Co. I. S. Smith, Anson Rogers, S. Rogers, Title Guarantee and Abstract Co. W. P. Murphy, J. H. Milner, Dr. E. E. Straw, D. W. Small, J. M. Norton, Pioneer Hardware Co., Magnes and Matson, John Preuss, J. M. Blake, Flannigan &. Bennet Bank F. S. Lamberton Mrs Emma Nasburg Claude Nasburg C. A. Johnson Bradley & Traver C. A. Moffett C. A. Nicholson P. Metzcrlow John Bear Going & Harry J. L. Brown F. E. Allen J. W. Tibbets J. T. Thrift Merchant Brothers E. Mingus Hall & Hall W. A. Toyo Dr. Leslie Helming &. Company 30 10 10 10 30 5 10 5 5 3 2.50 2 2.50 2.50 10 2.50 2 2 2 10 5 2.50 2.50 1 1 1 W. B. Curtis Saturday's SunscniiiEns M. A. Sweetman 2.50 B. M. Richardson 2.50 J. W. Ingram 2.50 McNeil & Ferguson 5 II. S. Tower 2.50 Monday's Sunhcuiiiwts Father Donelly 5 E. L. C, Farrin 5 Frank Sacchi 2.50 First National Bank 30 Henry Hohon 250. Seymour Bell flat 50 A. Condron flat 20 SECOND VENIRE DWINDLES DOWN AND JURY NOT SELECTED WrfWVVNW People of That City Make Efforts in Portland to Secure Steamer Manzanita IS WELL FITTED FOR RUN Vessel Can De Hemod-lcd To Carry ;i()0 Tons Orlgnally Ituilt Lighthouse Tender. Coquillo people are endeavoring to secure a steamer to run from the river points and Portland. Tho fol lowing from the Oregonlan will bo of interest. Mr. M.. L. Bingham of Coquillo has returned to Portland and has re newed his endeavors to interest local merchants in the establishment of 8 steamship line between Portland and points on tho Copuille. Mr. Blng ahm has been negotiating with own ers of tho steamship Manzanita for the purchase of that craft with a view to putting her on tho run. No definite agreement has yet been rech ed between tho Columbia Contract Company and Mr. Bingham. Early In March Mr." Bingham ar rived in Portland from Coquillo River for tho purpose of lnterestlrigjocal men in the Coast 'country. He was nrenare'd at that time to put sovcral thousand dollars In a steamship en terprise provided tho balance could be obtained from this ond. Tho pro ject was taken up by tho Chamber of Commerce and by tho Board of trade. No definite arrangements were made and Mr. Bingham returned to his home for the purposo of perfect ing plans at Coquille. On the former visit of the gentle man from Coquille he partlcally ne gotiated for tho purhnjso of tho gasoline steamer Anvil. This fell through and the vessel has since been sold to other persons. Yeterday Mr, Bingham spent a large portion of tho time in loolclng over tho old Man zanita and In confering with her owner. The Manzanita is thorughly overlauled. It has been the intent ion of the owners to place her tow ing rocg barges from Skamokawa to Fort Stevens. Tho Manzanita would make a splendid vessel for the Coquille Riv er run. She is a craft of 450 gross tons burden, is 152 feet long, 2G feet beam and 11 feet In depth of hold. With a little remodeling she would carry better than 300 tons of freight. Tho Manzanita was built for a light house tender and for years operated out ot Astoria. The night of October 6. 1905, she collided with tho dredge Columbia at tne foot of Coffey Island and was sunk. She afterward raised and sold to Daniel Kern, of Portlana for $13,500. Mr. Kern Is ono of the principal stockholders of tho Col umbia Cantract Company. Before tho holo in her hull was repaired and work on her recon struction commenced, an offer was made by a Puget Sound Company of 120,000 for tho steamer. This was refused. It was tho intention of the Seattle concern to place her In com mission as. a salvngo boat in tho straits. Free Room Directory The Times desires to stato that anyono wishing to ob tain rooms call at its office any day during tho week. Quito a number of desir able rooms havo been listed And wo will be very glad to direct all inquriers. Thoso having rooms to rent will pleaso list them at tho Times Office PORTLAND BOAT FORGOQUILLE Progress of Moyer-Haywood Trial Seriously Hampered By Failure of Talesman to Qualify COUNSELS CLASH I)iutow Accuses Dudley of Improper Questioning And Judge Wood Asserts Authority. Boise, May 23 Net result of thla day of tho Haywood trial, was a practical weeding out of tho tales men of the second special venlro entitiled to statutory exemption and partial qualification of the ono Juror. Examination of tho venlro has not proceeded very far but It shows that recreation of Interest In tho Steunen berg murder and ro discussion of tho facts established and disputed, is, by natural process, dlsquallflng many citizens for jury service In tho caso" Indicates that tho publicity given to the examination of tho talesmen has widely Increased tho popularity of tho caso and Is being used as a means of artistically avoiding duty in the case. Sixty men of the second special venlro presented themsolves when Judge Wood ascended tho ben 'i thl3 afternoon and when it wa3 a.noanc ed that the court would hcci- tv,"ity three of the sixty marchel f-.r-.-'-l. Judge Wood said ho would accept only those excuses which clearly panic within the statue and when ho made .good his announcement tho baud of" petitioners molted away a number of the excuses woro flatly denied, nlna temporarily do nled, and six woro granted. Tjhjl other three petitioners did not bother to present their petitions. Then began the attempt to fill seat, numbor nlno made vacant by tho releaso of Juror Colo on account of illness. Tho first fivo talesmen had opinions that would require evidence to change and they all went dowi. on challenges of th state. Early In tho examination, Clarenco Darrow for tho defense asserted that James H. Hadley for tho stato was seeking to lead tho talesman up to qualification by Improper questioning Judge Wood overrulled his objection but ho continued to address tho court Hadley bristled and for a few mo ments thoro was promiso of a scrini ciplent row and tho examination wont on. Next tho clerk successively drew tho names of four talesmen whoso petitions for excuse had been temp orarily denied In ordor to give tlmo for them to get ynyslclans certifi cates as to tho illness to themselves or wives, nnd It was agreed that thoy should be passed until tho court finnally decided on tholr application. Tho tenth and last talesman cal led was Henry Curtis, farmer, and ho gavo every Indication of quali fying. Senator Borah led him over a long examination that showed him free from opinion or bias and to bo quite open minded. Just as tho stato passed him for causo and ho went into tho hands of tho defense for tho examination the trial adjourned until tomorrow. What amounts to roughly 1-3 of tho new venlro has boon ex hausted this afternoon and some of tho men who watch tho trial believo this venire will ,not fill tJio ono certain, and ten prospective vacan cies In tho jury. TO HOLD IMPORTANT MEETING TONIGHT Of moro than usual Importance will bo the meeting of tho Marsh field Chamber of Commorco In tho office of tho Investment and Sec urities office at 8 o'clock tonight. It will bo of vltul Interest to all tho membora not only because mnttei-3 looking toward tho election of offi cers and reorganization generally will be handled but tho publicity fund will be discussed. Contributors to tao publicity fund are especially urged to bo present as aro also members ot tho committee recently appointed to co-operate with tho Chamber ot Comtnerco In dis persing the same. .-Jmamtmmtumimuamk s- -y.ifr.fHtn i IJS.-UHA- .-- . T-Qr