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A REAL NEWSPAPER. ALEUT CONCISE, INDEPENDENT, SINCERE. (&am mm?& A PAPER OF THE PEOPLE. BY THE PEOPLE, AND FOR THE TEOIVLE. MEMBER OP ASSOCIATED PRESS VOL II. THE DAILY COOS BAY TIMES, MARSHFIELD, OREGON, FRIDAY, MAY 29, 1908. No. 278. JU mm U. S. NAV y TORPEDO FLOTILLA SPEND A FEW Destroyer Perry of Fourth Tor pedo Boat Flotilla, Now at Empire. FOUR OTHERS EXPECTED SOON. Are en Route From San Fran cisco to Rose Carnival at Portland. The torpedo boat destroyer Perry of the Fourth torpedo boat flotilla of the United States Navy, unexpectedly sailed Into Coos Bay late last evening and came to anchor at Empire. The Perry is still at Empire and will re main there until the four other ves sels of the flotilla arrive. The others, consisting of the destroyer Preble and the torpedo boats Fox, Davis and Farragut, spent last night at Eureka in Humboldt Bay. The Perry, which is tho swiftest of tho flotilla ran ahead of the others. A message was sent to the others today but no response had been received up to late today. The flotilla Is on route from San Francisco to Portland where It will bo one of the attractions of tho car nival there. The visit to Coos Bay was unannounced, the officers being Instructed to visit several ports en route and familiarize themselves with tho coast and the ports. Unless something unexpected oc curs, a few days will be spent on Coos Bay and all of tho flotilla will run down to Marshfleld. This trip up the bay will probably bo made tomorrow If the other vessels of the flotilla arrive tonight. Scores of North Bend and Marsh field people went to Empire today to see tho destroyer Perry. It is likely that the Marshfleld and North Bend Chambers of Commerce tonight will make some arrangements for a recep tion of tho men and officers of the fleet if it is found that they can re main here for a day or two longer. As tomorrow Is Decoration Day and a holiday, and a large number of the business houses of Marshfleld and North Bend will be closed, there will bo ample opportunity for any cere monies that may be determined upon. DENVER GETS NEXT PRESBYTERIAN MEETING Seattle Withdraws Invitation for Hon ors at General Assembly in Kansas City. (By Associated Press.) KANSAS CITY, May 29. Denver was selected for next year's General Assembly of tho Presbyterian Church of tho United States of America. Se attle withdrew from tho contest, the voto being almost unanimous In fa vor of tho Colorado city. FUNERAL AT NORTH REND. Swaneo Swanson, tho fisherman who committed suicide on his house boat near Porter several days ago, was burled from tho North Bend Undertaking parlors yesterday. The Rev. B. F. Bongtson ofllclated. In terment was in tho Odd Fellows cemetery at Marshfleld. COOS RIVER WOODMEN ATTEN TION. There will be an Important special meeting Saturday evening. Tho Buf faly BUI will start from E. Hod son's landing at six o'clock p. in. sharp and return immediately aftor meeting. H. GEDDES. THE BEST INDEX TO PROGRES SIVE CIVILIZATION IS GOOD ROADS AND GOOD SCHOOLS. DO NOT FORGET TO VOTE IN FAVOR OF THE OREGON UNIVERSITY AP PROPRIATION RILL, MONDAY, We will store your goods for lc cubic feet. Bay Side Paint Co., North Bend. TO COOS COUNTY VOTERS. T. J. Thrift, Democratic candidate for assessor of Coos county, bases his candidacy for tho offlce on his past record. Equality and a fair deal for every property owner. DAYS IN COOS BAY WAINWOIGHT REAR ADMIRAL Commander of Second Division of Fleet Given New Honors. (By Associated Press.) SEATTLE, May 29. At the Puget Sound Navy Yard, a yel low flag floats from the mast of tho battleship Kentucky, small pox having developed on board. One sailor Is confined with the disease and others show signs of It. . (By Associated Press.) TACOMA, May 29. A two-starred pennant Is now flying from a truck of the Georgia's mainmast Indicating that Richard Walnwrlght, command ing the second division of tho At lantic battle ship fleet, Is now an act ing rear admiral of the United States navy. Walnwrlght will receive his commission as a full rear admiral In July. JULY RAGING CARDJS OUT Program Announced For Spe cial Meet on Coos Bay July 3 and 4. F. P. Norton and other well-known horsemen of Coos Bay have just com pleted the program for a special race meet In Marshfleld July 3 and 4. It Is expected to make It one of tho best meets that has been pulled off In this section of the state and it will probably only bo eclipsed by the card of tho Second Southern Oregon Dis trict Fair in Marshfleld, August 2C to 29, inclusive. Many of the horses that will participate In the fair races will be here in training and will be entered in the events of July 3 and 4. Eight races have been arranged for with good purses. In race No. 2, as Bhown by the program below, tho entries will close Juno 10 and the feo will be $25 each. Entries for all tho other races will close at 9 o'clock, p. m., July 1, and the fee will be $5 for each horse. Four or more must bo entered for each event and If not, the board reserves tho right to reduce the purse. The board also reserves tho right to postpone the races In case of rain or bad weather. Tho local track Is being put in good shape and the course will be In fine condition for the July meet ing if tho weather is at all favorable. The program for tho two days fol lows: Friday, July S. Race No. 1 Trotting and pacing, free-for-all, one-half mile. Best two out of three heats. Purse, $50. Race No. 2 Running, three- eighths mile dash. Special for horses named Gold Beach, Verosaz, and Head Light, etc. Entrance fee $25 each, and winner to take all. Purse $125. Race No. 3 Running one-half mile- dash. Purse, $50. Race No. 4 Running flve-eighths mile dash. Purse, $50. Saturday, July 4. Race No. 5 Pacing and trotting, free-for-all, one-half mile heats. Best two out of three heats. Purse, $50. Race No. C Running, three eighths mile dash. Best two out of three heats. Purse $50. Race No. 7 Running, one-half mile dash. Purse, $50. Race No. 8 Running, three fourths mile dash. (Stallion race), Purse, $50. Tho men In chargo of tho races have organized with F. P. Norton as president; C. W. Carleton, secretary; TEN DIE FROM Warmest Weather Prevails in Pittsburg and Vicinity That Has Ever Been Known This Early in the Summer. (By Associated Press.) PITTSBURG, May 29. Owing to tho excessive heat, ten persons have PROMINENT BROKERS INDICTED Leading New York Speculators and Federal Employe Ar rested as Result of Cotton Statistics Scandal of 1905. (By Associated Press.) NEW YORK, May 29. Theodore Price for many years one of the most prominent operatives on the cotton exchange was Indicted by the federal grand jury today on charges growing out of the sensational exposure of tho sale of government statistics as to cotton crop conditions In advance of the Issuance of the Information to the Vestibule of Chicago Edifice Gives Way Under Large Congregation. (By Associated Press.) CHICAGO, May 29. A cemented vestibule In the Lutheran church of Our Lady of Vilna gave away last night as a large congregation was leaving. Thirty persons were thrown into the basement and a panic re sulted. None, however, suffered worse Injuries than cuts and bruises. I E Big Slump in the Prices of May Grain in Chicago Pits Early Today. (By Associated Press.) CHICAGO, May 29. Bears In tho grain pit of tho Board of Trade in tho early trading today forced down the prices of May deliveries of wheat, corn and oats from two to two and a half cents a bushel. For several days, James A. Pat ton has had absolute control of the corn mar'ot, havjnR effected a cor ner and forced tho price upward at the rate of four and fire cents a day. It was said that Patton stood to make a few million on the deal. Tuesday's trading was the most excit ing that the Chicago grain pits havo known since the corner In wheat by Joseph Lelter several years ago. Whether today's slump was tho re sult of the shorts settling with the Patton crowd Is not known. One re port Is to that effect and another Is that Patton tried to carry things too far. W. S. McFarland, treasurer, and A. J, Jackson as general manager. Miirclunont Racing. Tho program for tho annual races at tho Marchmont course at Wedder burn has just been received here. The meet will last six days, August 17 to 23, Inclusive. There will bo four events each day. The running events are the most numerous. Tho entries for all races there close tho night previous to the day tho event Is to bo pullod off. W. E. Thresher U secretary. MESSIAH full rehearsal Monday night, at Opera House, everybody ex pected. No rehearsal this week. MANY HORT IN CHURCH PANIC 1 HEAT TODAY died here since midnight. Many have been prostrated. The heat Is the most intense ever known In this section this early in the sum mer. The humidity is intense and a dead calm prevails. Business has practically been sus pended. public. Price Is charged with con spiracy to defraud. He was released under $7,000 ball. He Is also charg ed with bribery. It Is reported that other persons were indicted with him. (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, D. C, May 29. Theodore Price, Moses Haas and Frederick A. Peckham of New York, and Edwin S. Holmes, Jr., former as sistant statistician of the United Stntes Department of Agriculture were today indicted by the grand jury of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia on charges of conspiracy growing out of tho cotton scandal of 1905. JURY SYSTEM Philippine Commission Rejects New Plan of the Island's General Assembly. (By Associated Press.) MANILA, May 29. Tho Philip pine commission rojected the Assem bly's bill creating a jury system, the plan of which provided for 25 per manent jurors for each province to serve on all jury cases. The conrmls- slon held that the plan is not an ideal one because it was feared that tho appointment of the jurors swould be come a factor In politics. ITOli WILL IETAFT Ohio Congressman to Present Latter's Name to National Republican Convention. (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, May 29. Whll no formal announcecmnt has been made, It may be stated definitely that Representative Burton of Ohio Will present the name of Secy. Taft to the National Republican Conven tion at Chicago for the nomination for president. Tho Taft forces are confident that Mr. Taft will be nom inated on tho first ballot. Mr. Burton is one of tho best known of tho progressive republican members of congress. Ho has al ways been a strong adherent of Presl. dent Roosevelt and an opponent of the Foraker forces In Ohio. Ho Is a graduate of Iowa college at Grln- nell, la. Ho was candidate for mayor against Tom L. Johnson In Cleveland recently but was defeated. Ho has been chairman of tho House com mittee on waterways. TWO REAL BARGAINS. 160 Acres of bench land, six miles from Marshfleld and ono half mile from Coos River. About 50G acres clear. House and barn, all $1,100, 1-3 cash. Balance 5 years C per cent. 1G0 Acre farm on Coqulllo River, all bottom and low bench land, CO acres In cultivation. Fine bearing orchard of C acres, balance of farm fenced and In grass. This Is tho best thing to be had for the money. Price $0,000. Come and see me for further In formation. J. 1). McXEIL Rooms iiOWJt-3 Coos Building WILL buy your good potatoes, Sco F. S. Dow W 1 CHICAGO PRIEST AND LAWYER ARE THREATENED WITH DEATH LAND DEALS Announced That Government Will Attack Some of C. A. Smith's Holdings Here. PORTLAND, Ore., May 29. The Portland Telegram says: "Troubles will not come singly to C. A. Smith, the Minneapolis lumber millionaire, for now that the Gov ernment is preparing to cancel the patents to tho $1,000,000 worth of timber land In Linn County which Smith is alleged to have acquired by fraud, preparations are being made to cancel his holdings in Douglas and Coos counties. How soon action will be taken to recover the lands In Coos and Douglas is not known, as the Linn County lands are now receiving attention and will probably be dis posed of first. There are still many months before the Government loses the Coos and Douglas holdings through the statute of limitations, and this gives the department ample time In which to act. There are, approxltnntely, 40 quar tersectlons which Smith secured In Coos and Douglas. There Is from 10,000,000 to 12,000,000 feet of tim ber on each of these quarter-sections, and each quarter-section is worth from $20,000 to $25,000, so that tho value of the timber lands Involved runs In the neighborhood of at least $1,500,000, and this, together with the Linn County lands, will make Smith stand to lose $2,500,000. When Smith secured these Coos and Douglas lands he paid at the rate of not to exceed $5.25 an acre. Now these same lands are valued at $125 an acre, and In some Instances a great deal more. This gives a slight idea of the manner in which Oregon timber lands have Increased In value during the past few years. S. A. Putor, who Is the acknowl edged authority on Oregon timber lands and how to steal them (as per his book, "Looters of tho Public Do main"), declares that Smith got the Coos and Douglas tracts through the same methods that were used to en gineer the deal of the Linn County property. Smith, according to Puter, obtained the lands through his agents, who manipulated mortgages among the members of Smith's tim ber syndicate. The representatives of Smith, it is alleged, went into tho highways and byways and induced people to make entry on tho lands wanted, nnd for this accommodation to the millionaire the bogus entry men received from $50 to $100 each. Tho price paid by Smith was a mere drop In the bucket to what tho value of the timber Is today. When the suit against Smith for cancellation of the Linn County lands comes to trial, tho Government will have Its case fortified by many of tho bogus entrymen who operated for Smith through Frederick A. Krlbs and others. When tho grand jury, under Heney, first began Inquiring Into tho conspiracy to gobblo tho Linn County claims, tho entrymen re fused to tell the truth, and wero shadowed as they left tho train en their arrival in Portland to tho homo of Krlbs, where they wero coached as to what they should tell. After the first of tho entrymen was broken down for Heney by Puter, the rest made a rush for Immunity. Now that they havo told tho truth concerning tho transactions, and tho time has olapsed for prosecuting them crimin ally, they are expected to take the stand and tell all they know of the deal. This will establish tho case of tho Government, and with such a showing, tho land patents will prob ably bo canceled. Following the Linn caso, tho same tactics will presumably bo takon up by tho Government regarding tho Coos and Douglas deals, when tho entrymon will bo brought to Port land and placed on the stand. May Indict Him. Tho Portland Oregonlan says: "While United States Attornoy Mc Court Is exceptionally sccretlvo as to tho extent of tho Investigations that Letter Written in Blood and Wrapped in Crepe Sent to Them. ALSO THREATEN TO DYNAMITE BIG CHURCH. Claim That Threat is Due to Their Activity in Behalf of Billek. (By Associated Press.) CHICAGO, May 29. Rev. Father Peter J. O'Callaghau, head of the Paullst Order in Chicago, and At torney Francis E. Hinckley havo beon Informed through an anonymous let ter, written In blood and wrapped a crepe that they havo been marked for death and that St. Mary's Catho lic church, Wabash Ave. and Hub bard Court, Is doomed to destruc tion by dynamite. Tho letter was dropped In tho church's poor box. The death of the priest and law yer Is threatoned, it Is believed In lonsequonco of their efforts to obtain a pardon for Herman Billek, who Is under death sentence on tho charge of murdering by poison six members of the Vzral family. Father O'Cal laghan will lay tho letter before Gov ernor Deneen in the hope that It will induce him to pardon Billek. Billek was a fortune teller and Is alleged to have murdered the Vzrals for their life Insurance. Observation Car on Baltimore and Ohio Ditched Near Bal timore. (By Associated Press.) BALTIMORE, May 29. A report to tho Baltimore & Ohio general of fice says that an observation car attached to tho rear of the Chicago & New York express, east bound, loft tho rails near Garrett und turned over. Twenty passongers wore In jured. will bo made by tho grand jury now in session. It is possible that C. A. Smith, tho Minnesota millionaire tlm berman, may bo indicted criminally for the part ho Is alleged to havo played In securing from the stato several thousand acres of its most valuable timber lands. Since equity suits were filed Monday to annul the patents to nearly 10,000 acres of this land which Smith is alleged to have acquired fraudulently, it has been discovered that tho Minnesota mil lionaire on April 4, 1904, sent $381.00 to the Stato Land Board as principal and interest duo on 3C0 acres assigned by Frederick A. Krlbs to Smith. "Krlbs had petitioned tho board signed for the repayment of his pur chase money, with Interest, after Government cancellation, owing to the selection of a wrong base, No vember 28, 1903. But It developed that the part of the lauds figuring in entries made by W. E. Mills and Lulu Lylo, tho certificates of which had been assigned to Krlbs, had beon made on proper base. Tho result was that Krlbs was ordered to pay tho re mainder of tho purchaso price and perfect title to tho land. It was this money that Smith romltted to tho board aftor the land had been assign ed to him by Krlbs. "It Is alleged that this transaction between Krlbs and Smith constitutes a continuing conspliacy that falls within tho statuto of limitations, making a complete chain In tho transaction boglnnlng with tho appli cations by tho dummy ontrymon and loading up to tho patenting of tho land, which is tho final stop in tho al leged conspiracy." V. S. DOW wants good potatoes. Call for prices. TWENTY HURT IN ACCIDENT n