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' T V'WffHiiJHHM. 1 I'ljjiij "JfiflW d000 MERCURY was Iho Roman Divin ity of Commerce nnd Gnln nnd tlicy used to say: "A Mercury is not carved, out of ANY piece of wood." Meaning much Iho Mime as when A VIC say that a business Is not successfully advertised through ANY sort of me dium or methods the REST being essential. mm?& "HE THAT will not bo ruled by the rudder must be ruled by tho rock;" and the merchant who does not "believe" in newspaicr advertis ing is his own worst enemy. Tho experience of successful business men all over the country confirms tho fact that newspaper advertising pays. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED l'KKSS. VOL II. THE DAILY COOS BAY TIMES, MARSHFIELD, OREG ON, MONDAY, JUNE 8, 1908. No. 286. lag II w RIVER FLOOD DANGER GREAT FOR Topeka and Kansas City Men aced by Rapidly Rising Waters. BREAK IN BANK ENDANGERS PROPERTY. Kansas City Prepares For Duplication of Disaster Of 1903. (By Associated Press.) TOPEKA, Kas., June 8. At noon today a break In the Kaw Bank, five hundred yards wide at the Big Bend, in the river, a mile and a half west of North Topeka, occurred. Water Is two and a half feet deep in many homes and the danger is great. (By Associated Press.) KANSAS CITY, June 8. The Kaw continues to rise and the Indica tions are that It will be out of its banks within twenty-four hours. Hundreds of families in the low lying districts are maving to higher ground. Business houses are mov ing stocks to the upper floors to save them in the event that tho disas trous flood of 1903 is repeated The weather bureau takes a gloomy view of the situation. STOKM IN KANSAS. Humor That Many Were Killed and Injured at Philllpsburg. (By Associated Press.) KANSAS CITY, Kas., June 8. An unverified report that many were killed and Injured at Philllpsburg, Kan., in Friday night's tornado, has reached here. The wires are down and tnere are no immediate pros pects of ascertaining the facts. FLOOD IN MONTANA. "Water is Receding But Loss of Life nnd Property is Great. (By Associated Press.) BUTTE, Mont., June 8. While the flood waters have entirely disap peared from Butte and the immediate vicinity, train service cannot bo re sumed before Wednesday on any thing like normal shape. The Ore gon Short Line Is making its sched ule, but the Great Northern and Northern Pacific are badly tied up. Five hundred passengers at Garrison on the Northern Pacific now face actual want. A courier from Ana conda reports that passengers there are subsisting on two light meals a day. The total dead In Montana, on ac count of tho flood, is estimated at eight with many outlying districts unreported. T "Two Negroes Are Killed At Long View and Rangers Are Asked For. (By Associated Press.) DALLAS, Tex., June, 8. Two ne groes were killed on the street of Long View today. A race riot Is said to be imminent. The governor has been requested to send rangers to that city. Tho outbreak today followed bad blood that has existed there for some time, the white residents claiming that the negroes are getting too bold. The negroes are prepared to fight and are said to bo well armed, and a pitched battle is not unlikely unless the rangers reach there ln time to avert It. I'reparo For Dance. Tho decorat ing committee of the Marshfleld High School Alumni Association, Is busy today decorating tho I. O. O. F. Hall for tho annual promenade Wed nesday evening. Tho decorations promise to surpass anything hitherto m KANSAS CITIES DEATH LIST IS GROWING Nebraska Cyclone Killed 25, Injured 50 and Did Over $500,000 Damage. (By AssocrasB rress.) OMAHA, Neb., Juno 8. Reports from the scene of Friday's storm in southern Nebraska Indicate that con ditions are worse than first reported. Tho death list will doubtless reach twenty-five, while over fifty were In jured, some dangerously. The money loss may reach half a million. Of the eight Nebraska towns dam aged Geneva, Fairfield and Carle ton are the worst wrecked, but Franklin, Hebron, Byron and River ton on the Nebraska side and Court land, Philllpsburg and Scandla also suffered. Indictments Against Vice President of Defunct Port land Bank Dismissed. (By Associated Press.) PORTLAND, Ore., June 8. Three charges of larceny against G. H. Hill, the vice-president, and one of accept ing deposits after he knew the Title Guarantee and Trust Company was Insolvent were dismissed on motion of Assistant District Attorney Haney In circuit court today. One of the larceny charges Is Identical with that on which J. Thorburn Ross was con victed recently In Marion county and sentenced to serve five years In the penitentiary and pay a fine of $576, 853. PRISON TERM FOR HANKERS. (By Associated Press.) PITTSBURG, June 8. For the embezzlement of $1,105,000 from the Farmers Deposit National bank, Harry Reiber and John Young, paying-teller and auditor, respectively were sentenced to serve ten years each In the penitentiary. E OF National Republican Conven tion to Pattern After Ohio Document. (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, June 8. Bringing with him a completed draft of the platform which he proposed to pres ent to tho Committee on Resolutions of tho National Republican Conven tion at Chicago, Wade Ellis, attor ney general of Ohio, returned here today and went directly into con ference with Secretary Taft. Messrs. Ellis and Taft are averse to making any statement regarding the platform but nevertheless it is definitely ascer tained that aside from tho enlarge ment of the tariff plank of tho Ohio platform so as to declare for maxi mum and minimum schedules and for a revision of the tariff at an extra session of congress Immediately fol lowing thcS Inauguration, tho plat form at Chicago will substantially bo the Ohio document. E. L. C, FARRIN has gone to Port land on business. DROPS GASES AGIST HILL DHrT PLATFORM LOCAL MAN FACES W. E. Clements Alleged to Have Made Threats and At tempts Against Life of Wife As Result of Jealousy. W. E. Clements will be placed on trial before Justice Pennock this afternoon on the charge of. having made threats against his wife's life. Clements is now in the city jail, hav ing been placed under arrest Satur day night by Marshal J. W. Carter In the nick of time, according to witnesses, to prevent a tragedy. One shot was fired but no one injured nnd Clements maintains that the gun's discharge was accidental. The affair grew out of family troubles, Clements, It is alleged, be ing very jealous of his wife who is scarcely more than a girl, being only about seventeen years old. While Clements gives his age as thirty-two, ho looks to bo nearer forty. They have been married about two years. The couple moved here from Wendllng, Oregon, about six weeks ago and are only slightly known here. Clements is employed at the C. A. Smith mill. According to G. W. Carlton, at whose home Clements and his wife have been rooming since they came to Marshfleld, and other neighbors, Clements was apparently very jeal ous of his wife and has refused to allow her to go out even with other girls or women. There have been frequent jars between the couple as a result of this. Mr. Carlton and the members of his family endeavor ed to keep peace between the couple and had decided not to allow them to remain longer at the Carlton home, a few days' notice having been given them that they might furnish and move to a cottage In the south part of the city. Saturday night, Clements and his wife walked down to their new RATIFY HARRI1N BOND UNION PACIFIC DIRECTORS AP PROVE OF ISSUE OF REMAIN DER OF $1000,000,000 IN SE CURITIES FOR IMPROVING, BUILDING AND BUYING RAIL WAYS. NEW YORK, June 8. The board of directors of the Union Pacific to day ratified the issue of fifty million dollars worth of first Hen and re funding mortgage four per cent bonds. This Issue Is the remainder of the $100,000,000 bond Issue of E. H. WSrf"VWW FEAR EL CROSS PLOT Lisbon Police Frustrate Plan to Assassinate Royal Family Of Portugal. (By Associated Press.) LISBON, Portugal, June 8. The nollce frustrated a plot hatched by the society of tho Black Cross to blow up with bombs the members of the royal family during the reli gious feast to be held June 18. Three notorious anarchists have been ar rested. SEC. GARFIELD LEAVES FRISCO FOR HONOLULU Head of tho United States Interior Department Goes to Hawaii On Olliclal Business, (By Associated Press.) SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., June 8. Secretary of the Interior James Gar field sailed today for Honolulu on offlcial business, on tho battleship Malno. Tho Maine and tho Ala bama aro on their return to Atlantic waters via Honolulu, Manila and Suez. ALL MILLINERY is being sold at Mrs. A. G. Aiken's at greatly reduced prices. C SERIOUS CHARGE home. Clements carried a revolver and tho way In which he toyed with the gun and talked frightened his wife. When they reached the cot tage, she refused to go Inside with him. Clements went In and inspect ed the interior and returned to his wife. The words that passed between them attracted tho atten tion of Mrs. Foster who lives nearby and caused her to watch the couple. Finally a few minutes later as they passed up the street, she heard a shot and immediately notified Marshal J. W. Carter. Mr. Carter was just preparing to retire but hastened to the scene. Meanwhile, Mr. and Mrs. Clements went to the Carlton home and went .up to their room. Mr. Carlton had been notified of the gun affair and that Marshal Carter had been sent for. So, when Clements came down stairs a few minutes later, he was prepared for him. Clements talked In a peculiar vein but Mr. Carlton diplomatically talked with him with a view of keeping him downstairs until Marshal Carter could arrive. Marshal Carter arrived a few min utes later and placed Clements under arrest. Then Marshal Carter went to the room and found Mrs. Clements al most in hysterics. She was sitting in a chair, sobbing as though her heart would break and trembling with fear. On the bed, was Cle ment's coat and under it was the loaded revolver. Mrs. Clements claims that when the shot was fired, Clements pulled the gun out of his pocket with his. left hand and pointed It towards her. Clements denies this story. Mrs. Clements also tells of other times that Clements has threatened her and alleges that at other times he has also pulled a gun on her. It Is a bad family tangle, with widely differing stories, and all of them will probably be brought out at the trial this afternoon. Harrlman, the Issue of the first $50, 000,000 of which was ratified a few days ago. The action today Is taken as an In dication that Mr. Harrlman Intends to use the entire $100,000,000 at once In Improving, building and buy ing roads of and for the Harrlman systems. Kuhn, Loeb and Company plan to arrange for subscriptions for the major part of the Issue at home and abroad. Financiers are watching Mr. Har rlman's movements with great Inter est as most of them were afraid to endeavor to float any large bond Is sues at this time. RUFF TRIAL IS Hearing In Furey Bribery Case Goes Over Until June 16. (By Associated Press.) SAN FRANCISCO, Juno 8. Abe Ruef was arraigned today before Judge Cabanlss on tho charge brought by Heney of having bribed ex-supervlsor J. J. Furey In connec tion with tho park side trolley fran chise. Heney insisted on Immediate ly beginning tho trial on ground that he wished to get the testimony of ex Supervlsor James L. Gallagher In evidence at once, as there is danger of Gallagher being assassinated. Judge Cabanlss set tho date of the trial as Juno ICth. Gallagher has twice been the victim of dynamltt outrages. FRISCO BANKER IS PLACED ON TRIAL (By Associated Press.) SAN FRANCISCO, Juno 8. The trial of Walter J. Bartlett, charged with ombezzlement of securities of the Colon estate from tho California Safe Deposit and Trust Company, of which ho was vice-president, was be gun today. DBITED H EN ERY HOECK WILL START W CMS SAAAAWSAV 0: 8 Sunday's Ball Game Won Easi ly By Local Team Theile The Star. THE OPENING GAME. A hurry of feet in the crowded street, A craning of necks and a wonder ing throng; Clerks from the counters and show girls sweet, Pushing and shoving and racing along. Every one happy and kids fairly wild, Bubbles of laughter and murmurs of glee, Young men and old men and wo man and child What in the world do you think it can be? Not a great conqueror come unto town, Not a great potentate pulling with pride, Not even a hat with a tower on its crown And a brim full of feathers 600 yards wide! Greater than conqueror, greater than king, No wonder the people are wild in its gleam The season Is open, It really Is spring, Baseball Is ripe, and hurrah for the team! Exchange. The first game of the 1908 league season in this city, between Marsh- field and North Bend yesterday, proved largely an exhibition which gave Theile and Rutledge, the new battery, and opportunity to show their stellar work, but as It resulted in a score of eight to nothing In the home team's favor, tho local fans are moro than satisfied. It was lar gely a battle of batteries with Marshfleld having decidedly the best of It and with Pitcher Theile as the star. Ho had North Bend at his mercy all the time and apparently arranged a spectacular finish, allow ing North Bend to get three men on bases in the last half of tho ninth, and then personally assist ing in retiring the side in one, two, three order. This, Including his fourteen strikeouts, made his debut In local baseball all tho success that any fan or player could wish for. Marshfleld's eight runs, few or none of which were earned, were scored in two Innings six In the fourth and two In tho eighth. The North Bend Infield went to pieces in the fourth and to put It mildly gave Gaffney bum support. In the eighth Inning, Marshfleld scored two again on a fluke. Flanagan throw ing to third to catch Cowan but struck the runner and bounced Into tho field, allowing ho and Dlmmlck to score. The fluke came after Gaff ney had weakened In tho seventh and allowed several to walk. G. Gaffney pitched a fairly good game for North Bend up to tho Seventh Inning had he been given proper support. In tho seventh, he gave out and passed several to first. Ho was succeeded In tho eighth and ninth Innings by Wilson who had been playing first. Wilson was also a trifle wild. There was a good turnout, In con sequence of the good weather, there being Just 549 paid admissions. North Bend was well represented. Tho crowd was lenient and did not land on tho players for misplays, ovldontly taking Into consideration that all of them had not had an op portunity to round Into shape yet this season. Tho rooters only got a start towards warming up and It Is anticipated, that they will bo In A 1 condition for tho game at North Bond next Sunday. All in all, yes terday's gaino demonstrated tho fact that Coos Bay will seo tho best ball this year that it has ever had and (Continued on pa go 4.) M Secures Site For Largest Wood Working Establishment In This Section. WILL USE SPRUCE TIMBER LARGELY. Well-Known Business Man Leaves For Astoria to Com plete' Arrangements. It Is reported that Henry Hoeck, who Is extensively interested In tho lumber business on the Columbia river and Coos Bay, has secured ono of the most desirable factory sites on Coos Bay, and expects to leave In a few days for Astoria and Portland where he will confer with his asso ciates relative to completing plans for one of the largest wood working plants on Coos Bay for the purpose of working up their spruce timber. Mr. Hoeck and associates have been for the last year quietly buying spruce and white cedar timber. They claim they have now enough spruce to keep a large box and wooden ware plant going for a good many years. When seen by a Times re porter Mr. Hoeck would not deny or affirm the above report but admitted that a very desirable factory site had been secured on the bay and that ho and his associates had enough spruce timber to keep them going for a good many years. Mr. Hoeck would not say who his associates were, only that they were Portland and Astoria men who were heavily interested in the lumber interests in the Columbia River territory. Upon Mr. Hoeck's return from tho north, the Times will bo able to give more details about this new Indus try. Mr. Hoeck Is a successful, lum berman. He now owns nnd operates several largo logging camps in Coos county. One contract alone will tako him five years to complete by delivering thirty million feet of fir logs a year to the Simpson Lumber Company. City Council Orders Sunday Closing Regulations Enforc ed There to the Letter. ROSEBURG, Ore., June 8. Smarting under tho caustic criticism of its administration, particularly as regards tho regulation of the liquor traffic, and taking It for granted from tho success of tho prohibition Issue at last Monday's election that tho town desired an era of radical "reform," tho city council, at Kb regular meeting ordered tho city marshal to enforco tho state Sunday closing law commonly known as tho "Bluo Law." That wasn't all tho council did. It ordered the im mediate abolition of private boxes In all restaurants and tho discontinu ance of a bawdy house familiarly re ferred to as tho "high board fence." Tho "Bluo Law," which was ordered enforced, is as follows: If any person shall keep open any store, shop, grocery, bowling alley, billiard room, or tippling house, for tho purpose of labor or traffic, or any placo of amusement, on tho first day of tho week commonly called "Sun day" or tho "Lord's Day," such per son, upon conviction thereof, shall bo punished by a fine of not less than $5 nor more than $50; provided, however, that tho above provision shall not apply to theatres, the keep ers of drug stores, doctor shops, un dertakers, livery stable keepers, butchers and bakers; and all cir cumstances of necessity and mercy may bo pleaded In defense, which shall bo treated as questions of fact for tho Jury to dotormlno when tho offon-s Is tried by a Jury. "BLUE LAWS" IN ROSERURG ttl II 1 I I l u n )