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r SMSmXwFJM jUV ' s ?!... , ,,.fVF!ft ff .r M NEWS (lTOtt TRADE rtitR npr ,T WHILE IT IS NEW BY HIDING TIUS COOS HAY TIMES. IoCAIiAXl TELEGRAPHIC NEWS STIMULATE -YOUR BUSINESS U GOOD SYSTE.MATIC ADVERTIS ING. SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS HOUSES DO SO. v m COXCISB' """ MEMBER OP ASSOCIATED PRESS wm a VOL. Ill liTiilEL BURNED TO DEATH Might Central Girl In Marsh field Telephone Exchange the Victim. CLOTHING CATCHES FROM STOVE'S FLAME Dashes Across bireei wiw Burning Clothing Falling From Her. Inez 'T'Oailei, night central girl in the f 'c f the Coos Bay Home Telephone C nipany, died about 9 o'clock this morning from burns sustained from her clothing catching fire from an oil stove used to heat the exchange rooms at night. The accident occurred about 4:30 o'clock this morning and the girl lingered In until about 9 o'clock. The girl was burned from head to foot. SUP eviuenuy maue huilu a struggle to extinguish the flames before starting for aid. In the cor ridors of the building, the railings are blackened from the flames from her clothing Burning pieces of her clothing fell from her and blacken ed the steps of the stalr3 and the railing and as she rushed from the building, she must have been a liv ing torch. Several physicians were called to attend her but al! they could do was to administer drugs to alleviate her suffering until death released her. This afternoon at 4 o clock, Dr. R. E. Golden, county coroner, will hold an inquest at the Temple and Wilson Unclei taking parlors. Alone nt Time. She was alone in the telephone exchange loom and the first intima tion of the accident was given others when she dashed down from the new quarters of the company In the First Trust and Savings Bank build ing and across the street to the sec ond floor of the Gow Why building where she and her mother reside. She screamed frantically for help as she ciossed Broadway. Her screams awakened Mr. Humphrey who rooms just above his second-hand store in the Gow Why building and Miss Josephine Cordes tsho resides with her father, R. C. Cordes, acioss the corner. Miss Cordes went to the window and saw a person dashing across the streets with her clothing afire. She imme diately called her father and brother and they quickly proceeded to the scene. Meantime, M!f McDaniel had reached the door of hor mother's room. It was locked and Mrs. Mc Daniel was asleep It was some mo ments before the mother was awakened. Meantime Mr. Humphrey and Mr. Cordes reached her and ttey quickly threw a quilt around her and extinguished the fire which had practically burned all the lower Part of her clothing. Bhe was- suffering intense agony, but her first thought was of the of fice and she asked Miss Cordes who u formerly a telephone exchange operator to go there. Miss Cordes and her father went up to the office and found the room filled with moce but there was no fire. The 'l stove had been smoking badly a"d Mr. Cordes picked it up and fried it out. Miss McDaniel was conscious for "metime after she reached the room, "i (jon.t know how lt nal). pened. The first thing I knew was "at my clothes were all afire," was D0U all she could murmur about nw the accident occurred. prsons who have investigated the natter say that i is likely that when e first lighted the stove that there as not much oil flowing through , w'cket and that she probably rned u Pretty high to make it go it h g6t 8nr hPat from lt Then ns burned, the oil began to flow more fin ii and" th 'ames reached and ay caught hfcr dress, the little 0Te ti,.i . . ' . vvvwKBeen placed between (Continued on page 4.) Br AN OIL STOVE WA1TE SELLS BIGJL1GS Luce Land Company of Min neapolis, Gets Big Tract Near Roseburg. ItOSEBUItG, Ore., June 7. What Is unquestionably the largest deal of Its kind ever consummated in Douglas county was closed in Rose burg, when Frank B. Walte sold his holdings In, the Sutherlln Land and Water Company for a price approxi mating $350,000 The buyers are the Luce Land Company, of Minnea polis, reputed to bo the biggest colonization concern In the United States. The company was represent ed in this deal by Its president, E. Li. Myers, state senator of Nebraska, and M. C. Miller of Minneapolis. Both have been in Roseburg for several days past attending to the details of the transfer. The land Involved in this transac tion forms the tcwnslte of Sutherlln, the newly platted city near Oakland, and consists of nearly 8,000 acres, all under Irrigat'on. Included also is the electric light and power plant which supplies the City of Oakland with lighting. The land Itself, aside from Its excellent fruit growing and forming qualities, contains a 5-foot ledge of bituminous coal and the presence of oil is manifested by seep ages. The purchase from Mr. Walte represents G4 per cent of the stock in tho Sutherlln Company, thus giv ing the buyers controlling Interest. The remainder of the stock is divid ed between J. W. Perkins and Ed. Andrews. Mr. Waite retains for his homo 3,000 acre" adjoining the tract which he has sold. He still haB ex tensive land holdings at Lewiston, i Idaho, and at Coos Bay. Owner of the Alliance Wili Spend a Few Days On Coos Bay. Geo. D. Gray, head of the Oregon and California Coast Steamship Company, arrived here today on tho Alliance and will spend a few days hero looking after the interests of his company. He has been in Port land for several days. Owing to the Alliance striking a shoal in the lower Bay, she did not reach her docks until late today and Mr. Gray could not be seen this afternoon regarding his plans. The Alliance had rather a rough trip down. She had a good cargo of freight and a fairly large passenger list. She will sail at 1 o'clock Tuesday for Portland. Among the Incoming passengers on the Alliance were the following; J. H. Somers, Frank Goodwin, Everett Keokruff, S. W. Bagley, F. D. Tibbs, Mable Arnold, E. K. Tur ner, H. S. Klepp'ng, I. L. Wallace, Frank Paul, Frank Wolf, Sarah Whltty, B. J. Garrett, W. G. Wlllett, Mrs. Arnold, C. Atnold, W. Klep ping, A. H. Hale, C. L. Hays, Cole man Welsh, John Wilson, Mrs. Good win. A. B. WhUfr, M. A. Martin, M. Lunn, E. Clark, Mar tha Clark, G. V. Klepping, Miss Ma Atherton, John Rudai, G. B. John sen, P. B. Gallas,hor, Geo, D Gray j Senator Rayner asserts that ho never saw eu iujuj io " in Washington. Carry the news to Roosevelt! GEORGE 0. GRAY VISITS HERE MARSHFIELD, OREGON, MONDAY, E Fifteen Hundred Projectiles Discharged Among Crowd at Depot at Cracow, Poland Many Fatally Hurt. (By Asroclated Press.) LONDON, Juno 7. A dispatch from Cracow, in Austrian Poland, sajs five hundird were injured by SLAIN DURING ED TRIAL Fred. Mohrle, Accused of Kill ing, Assassinated In St. Louis Court Room. (By Associated Press.) ST. LOUIS, Juue 7. Fred Mohrle, on trial for murder here, was assas sinated in the corridor of the four courts by William Kane an ex-deputy constable today. Mohrle killed constable Sam Young in North St. Louis several weeks do. Kane was a former de puty under Young. The shooting was the outcome of a bitter political feud. SCHOOL ELECTION S J. W. Bennett Likely to Be Re Elected School Director In Marshfield. The annual school election in Marshfield will be held Monday, June 21. Tho official call will be shortly issued by Sec. John F. Hall, the school board having arranged for it Saturday. Tho term of J. W. Ben nett as a director expires but owing to the ability with which Mr. Ben nett has filled tho office and tho fact that he has long been an advocate.of the best possible school system as well as a general booster for Coos Bay, most of the patrons favor his re-election and it is likely that he wjll be accorded the honor by a unanimous vote. The election will probnbly be held at the old school house In the even ing. - ROSE FESTIVAL T President Taft Starts It From Washington and Sends Greetings. (By Associated Press.) PORTLAND, Ore., June 7. Beau tiful weather today ushered in Port land's third annual Rose ' Festival and true to the arranged program, President Taft sitting In his privato office in tho White Houso at Wash ington in the presence of Oregon's senators and representatives pressed tho telegraph key which inaugurated the week's festivities. Tho Presi dent's message to President Ralph W. Hoyt of tho Portland Rose Festi val was as follows: "I have tho pleasure of sending good wishes for the success of thf Rose Festival and hearty greetings to thoso participat ing In it." A varied program has boon ar ranged for the weok's entortalnment consisting of parades, civic, olectrical and floral exhibits together with a varied program of sports, ending on Saturday with auto racoB of .fifty and one hundred miles over Portland's wonderful road course, declared bo festest in tho United States. M 1 L OPENS JUNE 7, 1909. EVENING J the explosion of an army magazine there Saturday night. Three sol diers were killed, forty houses wrecked and hundreds of other houses damaged The magazine was struct? by lightning and fifteen hun dred projectiles were scattered among a crowd of people at a l all road station awu'tlng tho nrrival of a tialn. Mnny of the injured will probably die. S ARRESTED Attempt Made to Blackmail Prominent St. Louis Society and Club Woman. (By Associated Press.) ST.' LOUIS, June 7. An attempt to extort $2,000 from Mrs. Virginia B. Wright, prominent in St. Louis so ciety and club life, was revealed by the arrest of Jesse J. Felchllne, aged nineteen, charged with sending threatening letters to Mrs. Wright and demanding money, the pennlty for refusal to comply being death for a member of tho family. St. Louis Has Been Sailing Since Saturday and Where abouts Is Unknown. (By Associated Press.) INDIANAPOLIS,. Ind., June 7. All but one of the baloons that started in Saturday's r,ace have been heard from. Two of the baloons were fired upon by miscreants but no one was hit. Tho missing baloon is the St. Louis III, and It is suppos ed to be sailing toward the Gulf of Mexico. Tho Indianapolis won tho cup offered for the greatest distance In the handicap race for distance and also the cup for remaining in the air longest. The outcome of tho na tional race cannot be determined un til tho St. Louis III has been heard from. RElFS' Ex-Sheriff Callahan of Brea thitt County, Is As sassinated. (By Associated Press.) JACKSON, Ky., June 27. Ex sherift Edward Callahan, famous throughout this section of tho state for the part ho played in the numer ous feuds that have disrupted Brea thitt county for years, was shot from ambush early today and it is be lieved fatally wounded at his home in Crockettsvlllo, sixteen miles from Jackson.- Bloodhounds aro on tho track of tho assassin, and tho ex citement is Intense. ROW OVER CHURCH. Dispute Out Its Management Caused Shooting. (By Associated Press.) LEXINGTON, Ky Juno 7. It is leportod here that tho immediate causo of tho shooting of Callahan was a dispute over tho management cf a church that ho built and of which ho Is deacon at Crockottsville. Blood hounds were sent from hero to trace the assassin. 0 BALM I J N RAGE -AT INDIANAPOLIS i r EDITION WHARF COLLAPSES AN9 A LARGE NUMBER ARE DROWNED NO GRADUATION EXERCISES HERE Bishop Scadding Unable to Come to Deliver Address For the Event. Owing to the Inability of Bi3hop Scadding of the Episcopal diocese of Oregon being unable to come to Coos Bay this week as a result of Mrs. Scadding's illness. Supt. F. A. Gol den has decided that no commence ment exercises will be held this year. Owing to the fact that there was only one graduate, Miss Marjory Cowan, and as she was really a post graduate, had participated in tho regular commei cement exercises two years ago, it had been intended to have the commencement this year rather simple. Superintendent Gol den arranged for a musical program and an address by Bishop Scadding, but he has just received word that the Bishop cannot come so the pro gram has to bo dispensed with. Eighth Grade Kci rises. Tho pupils of the Eighth Grade who will be promoted to tho high school will have a banquet and re ception at the Odd Fellows hall Fri day evening. The program is now being arranged. Instead of regular Eighth Grade commencement exer cises, It has been decided to simply give the pupils promotion certificates and allow them to arrange their own celebration of the event. The Marshfield schools will close Friday. This week will be largely devoted to the final examinations of the year. STRIKERS WILL UlTJfl'CLDUD Italians Settle Up Accounts and Leave Town-Militia Still There. (By Associated Press.) McqLOUD, Cal June 7. Tho Italian employes of tho McCloud River Lumber Company, who went on a strike aro settling their ac counts today and leaving hero. The tnto militia will remain a few days longer. NEW COAL MINE. Company Will Develop 1'iopeity Acros.) From Coqullle. The Coqullle Sentinol says: "Tho Coos County Coal and Land Com pany Is going ahead quietly on tho development of their coal properties across the river from this city. "Tho company haB a crow of ex pert minors at work di If ting on tho main vein and it is showing up us good coal as any on tho river. "The company controls about 480 acres of land, lying almost directly across the river from Coqullle, all of which Is coal bearing land and on which is a largo quantity of merchantable tlmbor as woll as be ing valuablo for its coal deposits. At tho present no plans havo been made to tho ond of dovoloplng any but tho coal values, hut mombors of tho company anticipate further developments in this lino nt tho noxt meotlng which will tako place some tlnio next week " "EASTSIDE" if a dinner. No. 280. New Orleans Excursionists Thrown Into Lake In Rush For Steamer. MANY ARE SAVED BY LIFE-PRESERVERS Sixty-Five People Thrown Into Water at Mandeville, La., Sunday Night. (By Associated Press.) , MANDEVILLE, La., Juno 7. By the collapse of a freight wharf upon which slt.-five people had rushed early yesterday evening to board the excursion steamer Marga ret, ten persons are known to be cTead and a rescue party Is search ing for the bodies of seven who aro missing. All were residents of New Orleans. Tho officers and crew of the Margaret rescued many from tho lake by throwing life-preservers to them. i "VM. PERKINS DEAD. Well-Know n Douglas Pioneer Dies 'at Di-.iln. DRAIN, Ore., June 7. William A. Perkins, a respected pioneer citizen of Douglas countj, died at his homo in this city at the age of 74 years. Ho was born in Tennessee, May 18, 1835, was married to Rebecca J. McReynolds in March, 1853, resided in Iowa, Missouri and Kansas, and in 1875 came to Oregon. Ho is survived by his widow and three sons, Leonard M., of Drain, and William T. and Ernest of Salem. One son, Milton, died here about 30 years ago. Mr. Perkins was prominent 'in public affairs, serving as a member of tho Oregon Legislature in 18S3, at one time a prominent Mason, and also a member of tho A. O. U. W. ABERDEEN MILLS CLOSED. 0ev !J,n00 Men Out of AVoik As Result of Strike. ABERDEEN, Wash., June 7. Following the hesitancy of striking mill workors to conclude their own offer of peace, mill-owners of Aber deen took tho bull by tho haras ana ordered a general shutdown of mills. Twelve plants are closed, and 3,500 mon aro Idle. The move follows tho failure of negotiations which have boon under way. Stilkers, through the mediation of Mayor E .B. Benn, offered to accept an Increase of 25 cents a day for yardmen only, and recede from the demand made for a general increase.- of 25 cents to all workers receiving less than ?3 a day. The mlllmen agreed to this, but tho strikers delayed two 'days to consummate the matter. No lumber or slabwood will be sold in the city. Tho latter is de pended on largely to supply heat for workmon's homes. No cargo ship ments will be made, either. The lumber trade so far as Aberdeen lf concerned Is at a standstill. Tho, mlllmon In a statement say they are. glad of tho opportunity to closq be cause of tho dopi-essed condition of tho lumber ninilset. CUT PROVES PATAU Myrtle Point Youth's Death Duo o Old Wound. The Myrtlo Point Enterprise say? Creedo Rose, nged 30 years, 3 month and 22 days, died at tho homo of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. I. E. Roso, of this city, Friday, May 28th, and tho funeral was hold fioni tho Brethren church Satuidny nftornoon, interment being In tho Myitlo Point conieteryft His sickness covered a period of about blx months. Whilo working on his homestead ho cut his foot with nn ax. Tho wound bled badly while ,ho was being brought to town for itroatmont and n woakonod condition resulted which left him an enay'proy to the dlseaso which resultod in his death, whlfh occurred on the niar riago anniversary of his parents 9 d