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About The Coos Bay times. (Marshfield, Or.) 1906-1957 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 1, 1909)
--' IN THE 2IMES WaEstAds. GK1 wnAT vou II uwi nwj. WAJfX WHlfin VOU WANT IT. FIVE CEXTS PICK LINE PER 1AV. V1 Successful Jtusf- T experience neM ho,,scs largo cities aWcc testing nil advertising methods are now iibiti; tho d.iily papers exclu sively. MKMBFR OP ASSOCIATED PRIMS. VOL. MARSHFIELD, OREGON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1909 -EVENING EDITION No. 173. . JgMilHUTI LEGISLAT ORT F3W-S I 0!IS it ha al w oo 0 I IT AFFEC TED Declare That They Will Enact Anti-Jap Laws Over His Protest. TO KEEP ORIENTALS. FROM GETTING IN A. M. Drew Says Sec. Root Takes An Unwarranted Stand Against Them. (By Associated Press,) SACRAMENTO. Cal., Feb. 1. A. M. Drew, author of the bill pro hibiting aliens to hold land in this state In speaking of President Roose velt's letter on the subject said: "After a cursory reading of the let ter I am determined to stand for the bill as It has been amended. As to the President's views, I take no ex ception, but do believe that Secret ary Root in the letter -enclosed by the President, takes an unwarranted stand against all legislation proposed against the Japanese, My object In Introducing the land bill, .1 may frankly state, was to keep the Japs from getting a foothold in Califor nia. I shall make every effort to have my measure preventing aliens owning land passed through tho legislature." Grove L. Johnson, author of the bill prohibiting Japs from being members of corporations and provid ing for their segregation, said tho President's letter, has no more ef fect on me than Water on a duck's back. I have not changed my mind In the least as to the wisdom of enacting anti-Jap laws." Federal Judge Takes a Hand In Noted Street Car Fight. (By Associated Press.) CLEVELAND, Ohio, Feb. 1. Be cause of the inability of the street railway system to pay operating ex penses under the three-cent faro sys tem, Judge Taylor in the federal court today ordered the faro in creased to five cents on all lines ex cept those whose franchise specifical ly provides a three-cent fare. Pa trons of the five-cent lines get trans fer free and the patron3 of three cent lines will pay two cents for the transfer privilege. v Speaker McArthur's Vote Se cures Favorable Action On the Bill. Illy Associated PresB.) SALEM, Ore., FeU, 1. By the narrow margin of one vote, Speaker McArthur voting for tho affirmative; a favorable report by the committee tin elections today on a bill making It a nusdemeanor to take a pre-election pledge was adopted. The bill Is aimed at Statement No. 1 in use at the last two elections for United States senator and which resulted In the forced election by a Republican legislature of Governor Geo, E. Chamberlain, a Democrat, to . the United States Senate. The adoption of the report means that the bill will take Its regular order and come up for a third reading on the final pas sage. Tho merltB and demerits of the bill will be threshed out on the floor RAISE RATES I'M ifi3 r w Aisn II yLL I? LLmlfJ V u So; Kt & b ub W f a I W Mr ! SI BLOW ST " h H Iris iR ' BF' i ROOSEVELT TO WEED OUT 0SELES5 BILLS Oregon Legislature Almost Swamped by Crop of Would-Be Laws. SALEM, Ore., Feb. 1. The influx of bills in the Oregon legislature contirues and a weeding out pro cess will shortly be instituted. As yet, only a few measures have pass ed both houses and unless a sifting committee Is appointed, it Is de clared that much essential legisla tion Is liable to become burled. Bills Pass House. The following bills passed the House: Applegnte and Buchanan Increas ing salary assessor o' Douglas county from $1,200 to $1,500 per annum. -Reynolds Taxing legacies of $500 and more to persons not direct ly related to person malting bequosi. Bean Giving circuit court power to parole persons convicted of a mis demeanor. Muncy Extending power of em inent domain to drainage dis.ricts, Couch Removes limitation cf six months in which suit3 may be brought against judgment debtors. McCue Expedites closing up es tates by providing that undistributed proceeds thereof shall be deposited with county treasurer. Persons en tlt'ed to such funds are given tsn ynrs In which to establish proper proof and obtain the amount of their allotment from tho state treasurer. At the expiration of that period, the funds escheat to the state. Bills Passed By Senate. Hart To Increase the number of Supremo Judges to five. Beach Persons taking crawfish to procure a license. Bowerman Permitting s ipreiie court to assign circuit judges for service In counties where the court work is congested. Soiling Prohibiting Injury or sale of property under chattel mortgage. Senator Abraham's Bill Slimiest. Senator Abraham of -Douglas, has the distinction of introducing the shortest bill of the session. Outside of the enacting clause, It contains just 24 words, yet it makes an im portant amendment to the criminal law, Imposing the punishment of man slaughter. This is the bill In full: "If any person shall, while hunt ing, kill another by mistake for a doer or other animal, such person shall be deemed gulity of man slaughter." Now Semite Bills. SInnot Contractors for painting, wiring, construction, etc., shall make scaffolds, etc, strong enough to sup port v;elght four times as heavy as oypeoted to bear, and shall pro'ect wires, etc. The bill provides that In actions for damages for Injuries or death, where this law has, been violated," there shall bo no statutory limit to the amount of damages the jury may award. Contributory negligence Is not to be a defense, but may bo taken Into consideration by tho Jury. -4 , Kellaher To remove the $7,500 limit to damages recoverable for causing death. This is tho bill lum bermen and other manufacturers have bsen fearing so much, and which, If passed, will probably put many of them out of business. For many years tho limit of damages In cases of this kind was $5,000, but two years ago It was raised to $7,500, SInnot Actions for libel and slan der to be b'ronght within one year. Nottingham Sheriffs to oonvey insane to the asylum. Bailey To limit hours of employ ment of females In mechanical, mer cantile or othor establishments to ton hours a day, but permitting them to work 12 hours a day the week before Christinas. Chase- To provide for making the President-Elect Taft and En gineers Approve Present Plans For Big Dam and Locks. (By Assoc'ated Press.) CULEBRA r. nma. Feb. 1. President-elect Talt and the engin eers accompanylrg him, reached hero from Panama today on a spe cial train and made a detailed ex amlnptlon of the fourteen miles of the Culebra cut. The fact that the existing plans for the lock and dam at Gatun are satisfactory to the vis iting engineers has created a local feeling of optimism and the fears of delay In the completion of tho work have been relieved. CHARGE IS DEEMED. (Bv Associated Press.) PANAMA, Feb. 1. Charges in CT BUST II iinsj "nni nuv bill Over 2,000 Applicants For Food and Clothing In Gotham Last Night. (By Associated Press.) NEW YORK, Tsb. 1. Swept by a biting north ves wind, New1 York City today experienced the coldest weather of the winter, the thermo meter ranging around zero. There were two thousand applicants for food and coffee at the Bowery Mis sion last night and hundreds, Includ ing many women, were cared for at other places. initial point of surveys of town plats and prescribing the manner of re cording same. Smith of Marlon To authorize a taxpayer to bring suit for an account ing or to recover funds misappro priated by public officials. At pres ent a suit against a public official to recover public funds can bo brought only upon the approval of a District Attorney, so that unless a taxpayer can get the consent of a district at torney ho cannot bring such a suit. The Smith bill will also pe'rmit suit by a taxpayer against county or city officers for the same purpose. New House Bills. Hatteberg Requiring branch lines of railroads to construct and main tain partition fences. Hughes Requiring that all bak ing powder sold in the siate shall be labeled as to its true Ingredlentn. Eaton Providing a tax on per sons "and corporations for water ap propriations in the s ate. This bid provides for the l.aslng of all unappropriated water of the state to prlvato parties or corpora tions for a period of 40 yeair. For such water a tax shall b p.!d o' the state of not less than 25 con s nor more than $2 por horsepower. Bryant of Multnomah Circuit judges not to draw salary unleaa no suit or action remains, or Is undecid ed for period of CO 'day3 after final trial. Pntton Fixing pay of road super visors at $2.50 per day, and of county surveyors, lij counties of 20, 000 people at $,7.50 a day, and 10 cents a mile; viewers, $4; chain car- Irjeg, 2.D0. t . , Pa'ton County surveyors in coun ties of more than 20,000 people to have $150 a month salary, Carter -County courts to apnolnt fruit Inspector on petition of 25 resi dents and fruitgrowers. Bfilknap Creating Desert Land I Board and appropriating $5,000 for ra mm exponses and providing for reclama tion and disposal of such lands; board to copals of governor, secre tary of state and state treasurer. Lelnenweber Providing for os tabllshmont of private flan hatcherloa, subject to approval of Master Fish Warden. McArthur Creating a commission and appropriating $150,000 for an Oregon Historical building. Brooke (Request of W. M. Davis) Amending law on examination of (Continued on page two.) the American congress by Repre sentative Ralney of Illinois, against Domingo do Obaldla, president of Panama, and others, brought out de nials from the President and sixteen members of the national assembly who aver they were present at the meeting In the President's office where a contract for the exploita tion of the timber Industry along the Atlantic coast at Panama, was dis- , cussed. They say President Abaldla por any one else said or Implied that Chas. P. Taft, William Nelson, Cromwell or Roger Fernham were direct or Indirect participants In the business. President Abaldla has discharged a local government em ploye who published a pamphlet criticizing William Nelson Cromwell and President Roosevelt. House Committee Decides Fa vorable Report In Water works Matter. (Bv Associated Press.) ' WASHINGTON, D. C, Feb. 1. By a vote of eight to seven, the House Committee on Public Lands decided to report favorably the reso lution which grants the city and county of San Franqlsco the right to use Hetch Hotchy and Lake Eleanor valIej-3 In the Yosemlto National Park for a wnter supply for the city and county. Reached Here From 'Frisco This Morning After But Five Days Absence. The M. F. Plant arrived today from San Francisco after a- fairly rapid although slightly rough trip up the coast. It is claimed that the Plant this time made one of the most rapid round trips from Coos Bay to Frisco that she has yet made. She I "ft here last Wednesday at 4 o'cloclf in the afternoon and reached i forth T3end docks at 9 o'clock this morning. She had a good cargo of miscella neous freight but on'y a fair sized incoming passenger list. It Is ex pected that she will get out tomor row. Among the Incoming passc'n gers were the fqllowlng: Geo. Goodrum, C. D. Miner, Henry Geady, A. C. Ashcraft, Mrs. Ash craft, P. Mitchell, R. R. Dlnnigon, Mrs. Dan Roberts, Mrs. Turner and children, Fred. Messerly and eight een steerage. ALLIANCE IS LATE Stiff Head Wind Deliys Steamship From I'ortlaiul. Tho Alliance had not been sighted off the Coos Bay bar at 3 o'clock this afternoon, a stiff head wind having Impeded hor progress froxn the time she crossed out over 'the Columbia bar at 10 o'clock yester day. A wireless, message from her at midnight last night stated she was off Yaqglna Bay and fighting an eighty mllo wind. She will prob ably reqeh hero late this oroniuc or early In the morning. ' lnrnian cough s?rup for colds und co a Kb a at the 11KU CTCOSH. IF YOU WANT a now home In good location with 50x100 lot for $050, see SEXfiKTACKEX QUICK as thlu is no' a "keeper " FRISCO TO GET Hr nn in hn EEL S Ui3 IsLiuit I TLhm 0 irtul WRECK OF ILL AFTER FlillSi Has Parties Trying to Secure Proper! ,x Owners Consent But Mebts Opposition. Seymour H. Bell Is reviving his effor s to secure a franchise for an electric line through Marshfleld. He ha3 a number working to secure the consent of property owners on vari ous streets and just what his plans are cannot be definitely ascertained as he is now out of the city. It is stated by some that his latest plan is to secure tho permission to build straight down Sherman ave nue from North Bend to Marshfleld, then turn east on 'C street and con tinue to Broadway and thence south and around to the depot and perhaps to the C. A. Smith mill. At any rate, an effort to sreura the con sent of the property owners along 'C' street Is being made. The property owners on 'C street are far from being unanimous to grasp the proposition because, some of them declarp, nel her thfij- or the city wlH derive any benefits and on tho other hand their property Is liable to suffer damage f-om the pronoed line being used largply for a logging road. The opponents of the plan declare that If the rond is built, it will mean that the Simpson Lumber Company will secure Its logs over It Instead of having them dump ed into the bay here and hauled down by launches. Even though the logging trains should bo hauled at night a3 Mr. Bell 13 said to be wi'l Ing to agree, they declare that the noise would make It an un-1eIrablo residence section along the line. Front street property owners who have Btood out against the electric line coming down Front street, de clare that Mr. Bell's .latest move Is merely a bluff to try and make them sign up for Front street. They de clare that they have not changed their minds about tho matter and will not sign up for Front street. Wm. Grimes and others are op posed to granting a franchise now, declaring that It will mean the bot tling up of the terminal rights here and may mean tho keeping out of a transcontinental line In tho near fu ture. Col. Grimes says that no fran chise should bo glvon for a local lino except on tho condition that the local lino shall be extended to Drain or Roseburg within a short time. M- GrImes Is now nway but will I probably return from Por. land this week. He has been attending the I Oregon-Idaho Development congress meeting at Salem and whs Jarge'y Instrumental In securing that body's Indorsement for state aid for a rail road to -Coos Bay. Three Masked Men Get Away With -$3,41 7 From ' Saloon. (By Associated Pretw.j GOLDPIELD, Nev. Feb. 1. Three masKfed men held up tha. Mor hawk saloon, one of the biggest es tablishments of. tho kind here, and got awny with $3,417 at an early hour this morning. They hove been captured. Twenty visitors In the place offered no resistance TUNOSTM.V JtATIO Tho Tun? ten Ineaadescont Is to tho carbon in candescent as $1.5 h to $3.d7. Apply this to your light bill. Coos 3a, w- nl :o:i)a-y 'r,mes' Bldg. nULbui rLAut H'eOLDHELD BRITISH STEM Clan Ranald Is Total Wreck Off Australian Coast Now. 3APTAIN AMONG LIST OF VICTIMS Eighteen Saved at Edithburg Few Details of Disaster. (Ry Associated Ppess 1 MELBOURNE, Feb. 1. The Brit ish steamer Clan Rana'd Is a tobX wreck near Edithburg. Tho captala and forty-six of the crew, mostly Asiatics, were lost. Eighteen were saved. But few details of tho disaster arc obtainable. It seems that tho vessel was caught In a storm and some of her machinery became disabled. Tho storm- did not abate until tho vcsrxfi had been carried on tho rocks. FAILS TO APPEAR. Bi'ougliton Iliiimk'iihurg Doesn't De fend Cleveland Case. (By Associated Press.) NEW YORK, Feb. 1. Uroughtoa. Brandenborg, a magazine writer wh was Indicted on the charge of grani larceny ns a result of his allege! sale to a newspaper of an article al leged to have been written by Grovcr Clevoland, falfed to appear In conrt today to answer the Indictment. life ball of $1,500 was declared forfeit ed and a bench warrant for Brandca- berg's arrest Issued. United States Supreme Court Sustains New York's Fight For Eighty-Cent Gas. (By Aspoclated Press.) WASHINGTON, D. C, Feb. 1. Petition for a rehearing of ttho New York gas case was denied, TUb company made Its petition for a re hearing on the ground that the dc' creo of the court is Inconsistent with. some of tho conclusions set ont la the opinion. Tho effect of the deci sion today Is to leave standlnc Judge Peckham's decision for elghty- 2ent gas. Lurn i HOT WhS LOST Many Orientals Killed In Fire Among Flower Boats at Canton. (By. Associated Press.) CANTON, China, Feb. 1. At least two hundred lives were lost ia a fire Iw'a fleet of flower boats. SLAVISH IS ELECTROCUTED. Murder of Xiw York Policeman Paja Death I'uiiulty. (Bv Ai(Konlnfi! 'rw 1 SING SING, N, Y., Feb. 1. Sal valor Governs! was o ec rocuted to day for the murder of two Ner 'York pollcprnf", April 11. 190S. wrrm I" I ' 1 v'.'1 reslstlsB su- rJt V ' ' ' c 7 " l-r d-l,, ?2.7S ..t. 4 s r DeUyprefl at " ' " ", Phono Condpnsary, Ntrth lierd. PEP PftPC P PM IS VV ID VU IM K T 0M bfiDL 10 iiQijri n innw UF liLt U iUUni T S CM fan jo b i W bur BBS -A..