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About The Coos Bay times. (Marshfield, Or.) 1906-1957 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 31, 1907)
WE WISH ONE AND ALL A HAPPY NEW YEAR AND PROSPEROUS ALSO Btt PROFITABLE INVESTMENT Advertisers get good returns from muiouiiconiciits placed In The Daily Times. KEEP WELL POSTED On the current events cf tbo world's iroRrcss by rending Tfcw Daily Times. MEMBER OP ASSOCIATED PRESS VOL. II. THE COOS BAY TIMES, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1907. No. 15T URGES! BUILD 3T HOTEL $! &8f 4, ,TrTT.-gTO3iMi"iMCTTg'HLmgnCTJMJirP ILL ATTEMPTS LUES OB OUT PEniBOfiE CASE 1Y HUH! WITH THE YEAH GO TO JURY FRIDAY UffiE IN WORLD lorth Bend Man Makes Awful Effort at Suicide at Bandon. WAS DRINKING HEAVILY Was New Comer und Had Ilccently Taken Charge of Rooming House Was ir. liaiiclon Several Days. (By Associated Press) BANDON, Dec. 31. J. G. Hill, said to bo from North Bend, is in a pre carious condition in this city ns the result of an attempt to take his own life, at the end of a prolonged drink ing bout. The attempt was made In a room which Hill ocupied in the Pa cific House, the frenzied man trying to cut his abdomen with a sharp knife. Dr. Houston is attending to the victim, who Is very weak from loss of blood, and there is some doubt as to his recovery. Hill is said to bo from North Bend, where he conducted the Our House restaurant. It is said he left his wife in charge of the place about two weeks ago and disappeared. Since his arrival in Bandon he has been drinking steadily until it is thought his mind became temporarily deranged. Inquiry at North Bend failed to elicit much information concerning Hill. It appears that he Is a new comer there and is not very well known, except that he had recently taken charge of the place known as "Our House," and his wife is s.till in charge there. PRICKS LIFE'S EMPTY BUBBLE THOROUGHLY New York Woman Dies From Effect of 14 1 Needles Swallowed With Suicidal Intent. (By Associated Press) d. imtt!w vnnic. nee. 31. Mrs. Mollio Desmond, who attempt- ed to commit suicide eighteen months ago by swallowing a package of 144 needles, died to- day after twenty-five operations had lesulted In the removal of all but a dozen needles. An autopsy will be performed to de- termlne whether she died trom needles penetrating her heart or peritonitis. LEASES SHINGLE MILL A Washington Man Takes Possession Of Coqiilllo Enterprise. COQUILLE, Dec. 31. The Senti nol says: J. A. Reeves, of Port Augeles, Wash., has leased tho shin gle mill of Larson & Co., of this city. Ho has taken charge and Is waiting for high water to subside to begin oper ations. Considerable repairs will be made to the mill in the way of strengthening the log haul and sever al of the machines which are too light for tho work. It is the intention of Mr. Reeves to pay no attention to the shingle mar ket but to saw and pile up his out put until the market takes on a bet ter tone. He informs us that 05 per cent of the shingle mills in the state of Washington are now closed down and that tho price of shingles will have to come up in the next few months. Somebody may be "calling you up" through a want-ad today. -TlnrHbUfr 'p1 Tinning at rea sonable prtte at ICrimw'a Prominent Methodist Divine and a French Statesman Pass Away. (By Associated Press) NEW YORK, Dec. 31. Bis- hop Edward G. Andrews, of the Methodist Episcopal church, died at his home in Brooklyn this morning. Aged 82 years. (By Associated Press) PARIS, Dec. 31. Jean Fran- cols Edmund Gulot Dessaigne, Minister of Justice, dropped dead of appoplexy during the 0 morning session of the senate. EX-MAYOR OF TACOMA 1)1 (By Associated Press) :ad SANTA CRUZ, Calif., Dec. 31. Louis D. Campbell, former mayor of Tacoma, was stricken with a heart failure hero Sun day evening and died in a few minutes. Accompanied by his wife and daughter he was about to take a car for the capitol. . LUMBER PRICES TAKE A TUMBLE Latest Quotations From Minneapolis Mills Indicate Reductions from August List. (By Associated Press) MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. 31. Lumber urlces are clown. Nearly everything in the Northern Pine list is cut. Re ductions fiom the August list range from one to three dollars. H0QUIAM MILLS TO RESUME OPERATIONS Will Start Up Immediately After January First to Fill r. Flood of Orders. HOQUIAM, Wash., Dec. 31. One of tho best New Year's greetings to reach tho people of this city is the news that the mills of this city will resume operations immediately after the first of the year, running full time. Large orders have been placed with different mills of this city, aud the manufacturing plants will con tinue working until spring. War Department Announces That Present Force Remain In Nevada. WASHINGTON, Dec. 31. The war department has decld- ed to retain the present force of troops In Goldfiold with the ex ception of some officers who will be dispensed with by the consolidation of nine companies into two. Renew your hunting licenses at the GUNNERY. All hunters' licenses expire Tuesday, Dec. 31. When you want reliable Hard ware go to Milner's. Renew your hunting license t the GUNNERY. AH hunters licenses expire Tuesday, Dec. 31. TROOPS STAT III GOLDFSELD Attorney for Defense Seeks to Submit Case to Jury Without Argument But Senator Borah Objects. (By Associated Press.) BOISE, Dec. 31. Pettlbone In court today showed so plainly the effect of his illness that Judge Hilton, of the defense, announced that ho had priTin nvor nil tVio tpstlmnnv and as the state failed to connect the defend ant with the crime charged in the indictment it had been decided to offer no further testimony and submit the case to the jury without argument. Senator Borah asked for a recess in case the murder proposition of the defense might be considered. Judge Wood granted the request, af ter a brief conference with state's attorneys. Senator Borah stated that the suggestion of disposing with argument could not be settled until the instructons of the court had been examined. Judge Wood then an nounced he would have his Instructions ready by Friday morning and ad journment was taken until that time. The case now hinges entirely on the nature of the instructions of the court. If the court instructs that proof of conspiracy itself is sufficient, provid ing the state has presented satisfactory proof that the defendant was a member of the conspiracy and that the killing of Stuenberg was an inci dent thereto the case will be argued. $3,000,000,000 IN OREGON TIMBER That's What Government Reports Show mid Supply Will Last 150 Vears. Standing timber In Oregon amounts to 300,000,000,000 feet ac cording to Charles E. Fields of Port land, who has been consulting United States government reports on the matter. This timber, at the present rate of consumption, not allowing for the! ages. He claims t.uu u rouBu u growth It will make, will last 150 I fault of his own the defendant Inter grow ui f , d t00k clmrge of the logging years," .ur. v ium a.a. v.-, , .i ...111 InrrmP n Camp I1C mill UEIU uubiicu, ti.vs.Mj .. he rate of nu'lln the years go by, but even then then fa ,.,, the value of standing timber in Oregon Is so vast that there is not money enough in the whole United States to buy it at present prices, based on $12 a thousand feet. "The timber of the state is worth $3,000,000,000, or about the sum total of the national debt at the close of our Civil war. Very few of us stop to think about this, and it is only by hunting the government fig ures that a correct estimate can be made. "But we have other tilings up sides timber that run Into uouars pretty fast. There was a time when we thought clover could not be raised in tha Willamette valley at all. Last harvest we raised 1,500,000 pounds, which at 11 cents a pound, wouiu run mi to $1G5,000. Yet clover Is only an incidental source of revenue. I am not figuring today on livestock, dairy products, grain or gold." Governor Chamberlain Says He Has Grown in Popularity and Will Be Nominated. PORTLAND, Ore., December 30. "Bryan is certain the be the Demo cratic nominee for president. ' He is the choice of the great body of Demo cratic voters and in my opinion no other candidate will go into the con- ,i., .m, nnvthinc like tno strength that Bryan will have," said Governor George E. Chamberlain in a recent interview with a Portland newspaper. "If Bryan is nominated, what do you think of his prospects of elec tion?" "Splendid," replied tho governor tno liToF Hoioras "He has grown wonderfully In popu-J Watson prescribe for the currency Ills larlty and in the confidence of tho of tho nation, people. Since Roosevelt's refusal toj - accept a nomination there is no Re- They tell you that "you will be a publican In sight who could beat Bry-j long time dead," but If you will pay an unless it should be Hughes. None J strict attention to tho laws of nature of the others have any real hold on and have your prescriptions filled at the people. Hughes Is a man who McArthur's Pharmacy, tho chances does things. Ho is quiet and, un-'are that you will live to a rlpo old aMiimlnir. but he is a man of strong' age! Always a competent druggist rhuracter and in my .Judgment would be the strongest candidate the Repub licans could put forward." SUES FOR $24,000 ON LOGGING CONTRACT Doernbecher Company Defends Suit for Alleged llrcuch of Agree ment. PORTLAND, Dec. 31. Alleging that he has been prevented from fill ing a big logging contract with tho Doernbecher Manufacturing com pany," A. D. Monroe has begun suit in the circuit court for $24,000 dam- nf,.0i,D,i n.omi.v de ,. ... i i.in n,l Monroe says ne umuieu mm .- contract on September 18, 190G, to furnish 4,000,000 feet of lumber per year for three years. The logs wore to bo delivered to a boom at the mouth of the Molalla river, thence to be conveyed to the Doernbecher saw- .,,, . A io i r-innirninns pountv 11111 Ut VUtlll-il, .. w,... - - Hfi savs he established a logging camp, furnished 1,5000,000 feet be fore February 2, 1907, and had 750, 000 ready for delivery, when on Feb ruary IS, he was stopped by the de fendant. Monroo was to have received $5 nor 1.000 feet on the deliveries and ! he claims his profits would have been $2 per thousand, a total of $4,uuu. Fresh Oysters. Received week'ly at Gem Restau rant, North Bene,. Served any style and open day and night. Also every thing else the market affords. Tom Watson Once Nebras- kan's Running Mate Says "Bryan Is Big Laugh. WASHINGTON, Dec. 31. Thomas E. Watson of Georgia, onco Bryan's running mate, and once the populist candidate for president, lunched at tho White House recently. LPter, when asked about national nniitics. Mr. Watson said: "William j j. Bryan is one great big laugh. M, Wntcnn lina mnflo 11UIJ11C 11 voluminous interview giving his Idea of the money situation, in which the American banker comes in for many hard knocks. Greenbacks in profusion is tho remedy tho president heard Mr. ' n charge at. McArthur's. JY Subscribe for The Tims. Tacoma Is to Have the Buildin ' Hotel They Will New Hostelry Planned for Chicago to Contain 1172 Rooms. Cost $0,000,000.' CHICAGO, Dec. 31. Tho permit! TACOMA, Wash., Dec. 31. This for the new La Salle Hotel, to bo city, with a population of only 100, erected at La Salle and Madison 000 Is to give tho world its greatest streets, was taken out recently, building. This building will be mora will represent an Investment of ap-' than twice as big as the maramotU proximately $3,500,000, and with ' Grand Central station being built lit the land, which was leased on tho i New York, will stand 24 stories higU basis of $2,500,000, the total will .and coyer a total ground area o run up to $6,000,000. A feature of interest, as showing tho sharp decline in tho price of building material, Is the statement that the present cost Is plnced at nearly $500,000 less than would have been the case five or six months ago. It is expected the work of construc tion will be begun some time between March 1 and May 1, and that 15 months will be required to complete it. The building will bo 22 stories high, with two basomnts, and it is said, will be tho largent hotel build ing in the world. It will contain 1172 rooms. MAKESNEWWORLD RECORD Texas Man Misses Target but Nine Times in 72,500 Shots. SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Dec. 30. A Toepperwein recently completed a . l.nt!r carina rllirlllir ten U IJS Kliuyi.l"b "- t ,. targets an(1 ....., ..,., n,,,,,, ,,rmV9 ti,0 world's . . mi.i i. !. i,o nrnHil'g misseu nine, mis ui "" - vecord in several different ways, both as t0 the number of targets shot at .xnd the number missed. Mr. Toep- ,,onvein closed the exhibition in a wi,lriwind fashion, shooting at tho flnal cs00 targets and missing only Tv,0,,nrwnin liRoil a 22-callber U11C. xwv-l'l'. "- automatic rifio and the blocks were two and a half Inches thick and were thrown into tho air at a distance ot i 20 feet from the point where the marksman stood. FEARS SANTA CLAUS CROWDS OUT CHRIST Tacoma 1'mtor Asks Hicthpin to Help Relegate St. Nicho las. TACOMA, Wash., Dec. 31. "Santa Claus is overshadowing Christ in Christmas celebrations, and the idea of a mythical gift-giver is mado oo prominent In the church In tho land, was the romnrkoble uttoranco of Rev. C. E. Todd, pastor of St. Paul's church, Tacoma. Tho reverend gent leman was addressing the Methodist Ministers Association at Puget Unuiwl ITnlvorsitV Considerable dls pninn followed, and tho ministers presont agreed that Christ was over - shadowed by the mythical menu ci youth, and that tho church should en deavor to relegate Santa Claus to tno background in future celebrations of Christmas day. $1,000,000 FOR CITY SCHOOLS DURING 1908 PORTLAND, Dec. 31. Ono mol llon dollars will bo required to coi- duct tho Portland schools In 1908, nc-' cording to tho estimates mado uy the school board at Its last meeting To meet the expenses tho members will recommend to tho taxpayers that a bond Issue of $250,000 be authori zed as well as a tax lovy of 3 mllif Six new school buildings and ad ditions will be constructed noxt year ranging In price from $15,000 to $30,000. Teachers' salaries will ap proximate $500,000, nnd Janitor services will cost in the neighborhood of $40,000. Repairs to buildings are estimated at $18,000 for 1008. Call up Corthell tho carpenter and have that leak fixed. Phone 561. High grade sewlne niwhlne nd needles at Ullnw'B. g and Chicago Will Have the-. be' Whafes. Six Million Dollnr Structure Will Ire- cludo Hotel, Stores and 1 tail road Stations. more that 48 acres. The Imperial building, as it Is to be known, is to have a breadth of 20O feet and a length of 41G feet. It will stand at the odgo of a high bluff., overlooking tho waters of Puget Sound. A groat wing will reach out. to the water front. The landward end of the building will bo 175 feot below ground, so that only 10-stories will appear above the earth's surface at this end. Tho top floor of the Imperial build ing will bo occupied by a hotel; next will como department stores and. shons of all kinds: lower down there will be wholesale establishments; still lower manufactories and tho lowest level store rooms and freight hand ling departments. Four transcontinental railroads en ter tho building, the Northorn Pa cific on tho sixth floor, tho Harrimart lines, tho Chicago Milwaukeo & St. Paul, and tho Chicago and Northwest ern, which Is building to tho coast will also mnko passer Ker terminals Y5 ln tho Imperial building, ' Power for factories In i Pnwnr fnr rni'.rnrlns 111 tlio Imiieriai -- huilding will be generated by the Nis- qually river near Tacoma. 10,000 horsepower being required to run tho building. Street car lines will run through the building on tho sixth, eleventh and fourteenth floors by moans of nrcadeu tnorougniares. ino uuat ih. estimated at $G, 000, 000. IQCAL COLOR GETS AUTHOR . Uooth Taikingtoii Lauded in Jail. For Trying to Exterminate Police Force. INDIANAPOLIS, Hid., Dec. 31. Booth Tarkington, the author, is pon dering today on whether ho will "sea to a finish," a scheme ho bus hatched! to get "local color" for a now storj he Is to writo. While celebrating on Christmas, evo Tarkington fell into tho hauds of the police after a hot argument with, the bluecoats Tarkington became pugilistic in his dealt es and a fight ensued. The police won tho argu- , ment also tho fight. Tho author 1 was then taken to tho 3tatlon and. ; forced to remain in a con an nigui. When ho was called Into police court this morning ho asked that bin case bo continued until Saturday. The magistrate granted tho roquest and the author is wondering now whether he ought to fight it to a fin ish or plead guilty and pay a $10 fine. Ho is optimistic, however, an said this morning. "Say, I can writo a peach of a story out of this. It will mako me famous yet." BREAKS HIS NECK WHILE PLAYING AT SANTA CLAUS This Man Has Much Harder Luclr Thau E W Kniiiincivr Wlillo rin- persoimtlng Children's Saint. PITTSBURG, Dec. 31. JackBOQ Stilley, 50 years of age, a well-known resident of West Elizabeth, near bore, whilo stealthily trying to escape the eyes of the younger members of tho family nnd hide Christmas prosonta,. fell down a stairway and broke hlei neck. Ronow your hunting licenses at the GUJWERY, All huntpro' licenses expire Tuesday, Dec. 31, 4 M