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About The Coos Bay times. (Marshfield, Or.) 1906-1957 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 28, 1909)
WR Sl VW U-WPf1 '"!" ;i (fotffi WANT ADS.. IN "THE TIMES" ARE THE REST MEANS OF GETTING WHAT YOU WANT WHEN YOU WANT IT. TRV THEM AND RE CONVINCED. SUCCESS FOR THE DEALER AND SliOl' PER IS A LITTLE SECRET THAT ONLY THE ADVERTISING COL UMNS WILL UNFOLD. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS VOL XXXII. Established In 1878 as Tho Coast Mall. MARSHFIELD, OREGON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1909 EVENING EDITION. A consolidation of Times, Coast Mail i q-i anil Coos Bay Advertiser. '0, y' MinMBMmtmii i i,i,g ..wyupppPPHi mmM mun SEMR BELL ID ELIJAH 111!! PLAN NEW CONTEST Want to Try and Holdup Work of Port of Coos Bay Commission. ATTEMPT TO GET OTHERS TO JOIN Capt. W, C, Harris of Commis sion, Discovers Move ,ln San Francisco. Capt. W. C. Harris -of the Port of Coos Bay Commission returned to day from San Francisco where he has been for the past two or three weeks investigating the dredging question for 'the commission. He is highly pleased with the success of his trip and believes that he secured much information that will be high ly advantageous tD the Port of Coos Bay Commission. "While In San Francisco, I was that the jetty project be urged requested, to meet Capt. Cloodall of the exclusion of the bar dredge, the Oregon Coal and Navigation I The meeting was fairly well at Company and had quite a conference tended. Dr. J. T. McCormac presid- BAR QUESTION PlfflDT NNOU NOES BIG DEALS IS DISCUSSED Send , Committee to Confer With Engineers and Oregon Delegation. Dr. E. Mingus, Peter Loggle and J. W. Bennett were last evening re commended to the port of Coos Bay as a committee to be appointed to confer with the Oregon delegation and the United States Engineering Oflice In Poitland with a view to se curing the federal appropriation for improving the Coos Bay bar by means of jetties instead of the bar dredge. Just prior to the close of the meeting, a motion was adopted that it was the sense of the meeting to with him relative to the Bay," said Captain Harris today. "I was sur prised when he informed me that he had a letter from J. W. Bennett as attorney for Seymour Bell and Eli jah Smith and their companies, In quiring if they -woulU not join in a suit against the Port Commission. Capt. Goodall informed me that his ed and a half a dozen different speakers reviewed the situation, speaking in a vein timilar to the views c.Miressed at tho previous meeting. The report .of the special commit tee appointed by the meeting ot a week ago to confer with the Port Commission was adopted after some Oakland Electric Line Man ager States That He Has Secured Part of Smith Company's Holdings Here. W. W. Purely, general manager and chief enginesr of the Oakland and Tidewater Railway, announced today that he had closed a deal for one-half of the C. A. Smith Lumber Company's "reserve," tho. tract be tween' Broadway and the Waterfront and Central avenue and Mill Slough. He stated that he had secured the half adjoining Mill Slough. Be sides this, Mr. Purdy states that he has secured all of the right of way bn this end of the line to the city limits, making seventy-flve per cent of tho right of way for the entire line from Oakland to Coos Bay that he has signed up. t He announces that he will leave Saturday for the North and east to close some deals for the construction of the road, and expects to have the project underway within a short time. He is not ready at this time to give out the details concerning the route by which he will enter the city. 'Mr. Purdy had a long conference with C. A. Smith yesterday relative to the line, and it is understood that Mr. Smith offered him a big bonus providing he has the line in opera tion to Coos Bay within eighteen months as Mr. Purdy -expects. Be sides this, Mr. Smith informed him that he would pay a big price for a ticket over the line from Coos Bay to the Southern Pacific main line if he could use It within eighteen months. REPORT THAT SOUTHER! PACIFIC E0.C.SN. IN C PR OW OR R Rli NAME ST S company would, not have anything discussion. Some thought that Its to do with any such a. proposition, that they were highly In favor of the Port Commission -and believed that the men who compose the commis sion are representative men." The aboye news is not surprising on the Bay as it was reported some time ago in The Times, Seymour recommendation of the appointment of a committee of three to 'confer with the United States Engineers and the Oregon delegation ought to specify who should appoint the com mittee. Francis H. Clarke urged that the committee by all means represent Bell and Elijah Smith held a con-j the Poit of Coos Bay as he said that ference with L. J. Simpson and en-1 00(jy ha(j i,een organized for taking deavored to have him join in a light 'care 0f such matters, and had, and on the commission. He refused point "blank, saying that he wanted to see Coos T3ay developed. According to the story told, It is claimed by Messrs. Bell and Smith that they can lenock out the present commission on the ground that Gov ernor Chamberlain neglected to sign the bill as was required to make it emergency legislation. They claim that Instead of sighing It, Governor Chamberlain merely filed It -with the secretary of state to become a law In the usual manner, that is becom ing effective ninety days after the adjournment of the legislature. They claim thnt the Port of Coos Bay Commission v.' as appointed be fore the ninety days had elapsed and consequently that the appointments of the commissioner by Gov. Ben son and all the acts of that body are null and void because they were made under the measure before it had become a law. They do not con tend that the law Is now valid but merely attack the commission and even if they -were successful in their attack, all they would gain would be the delay Incurred while a new commission was being secured, Mr. lU'iinutt Sct'ii. Mr. Bennett was seen in regard to the matter and said that he had been employed In regard to the mat ter last month and had written sev eral letters which be read to the re porter and which he said he would give for publication unless his clients objected to trying their case In the paper as well as In the courts. TELEGRAPH WIRES DOWN. Service Out of Coos Ray Interrupted Again Today. The Western Union's wire be tween here and Roseburg, went down about noon today. In conse quence, Tho Times only received a small portion of its regular Asso- was entitled to a greater standing than anyone else or .any other on Coos Bay. Finally R. O. Graves moved that the meeting recommend to the Port of Coos Bay the appointment of Pe ter Loggie and Dr. E. Mingus as two of the committee to confer with the engineers and Oregon delegation. L S. Smith moved that J. W. Ben nett be fhird one. No other names were suggested and the recom mendation carried. Henry Diers wanted the meeting to go on record as to just what the Bay wanted that is whether It was in favor of the jetty project or none at alL Peter Loggie said that he thought that Coos Bay could make a show ing like the one Portland made a few year, ago relative to an emergency' appropriation to save the jetties at the mouth of the Columbia. The Columbia then secured an appropria tion of $400,000 and Mr. Loggie said lie thought a committee could show the Rivers and Harbors com mittee of Congress that it was ne cessary to do something to save tho Coos Bay jetty. Finally the report of Col. Roessler on the Coos Bay improvement was rejid, Peter Loggie having a carbon copy of the original report. In It, Col. Roessler referred to the bar Arid Soil Boosters Refuse to Change Title New Of ficers Elected. i (By Associated Press.) BILLINGS, Mont., Oct. 27. .In spite of the efforts bf the railroads and every land agent interested in boosting dry farming to have the name of the congress changed, the Dry Farming Congress today declin ed to change its name by a vote of 372 to 148. The following officers were ' elect ed: President, F. W. Moudell of Wyoming; American vice-presldeut, Frank C. Bowman of Idaho; H. B. Hemlng of New Mexico; and R. W. Thatcher of Washington; foreign vice-president, Geo. Harcourt of Al berta; W. R. Motherwill of Saskat chewan; Senor Vlada of Mexico; Laszto Goyer af Hungary, and Dr. Tlieo Kryshtofovltch of Russia. LILY WASHES OFF THE SPIT WILL MEET JEFFRIES Black Pugilist Wants to Per sonally Assist In Drafting Terms of Fight. (By Associated Prss&.y NEW YORK, Oct. 2S. Jack Johnson arrived hero today reiterat ing his willingness to make a match with Jeffries under fuir conditions. A bJg crowd of the negro's admirers were at the depot to welcome him and George Little, his manager. "I hope to meet Jeffries soon, tho sooner tho better," said Johnson. "I never felt better except for a boil on the back of my neck bothers me some." Johnson said his manager would meet Berger .and arrange for the meeting. He says he will be there HrnHrm 5i nn or nprimfint and stated to meet Jeffrfes. "Jeffries and I can Gardiner Mill Company's Schooner Not Badly Dam aged By Accident. (Special to The Times.) GARDINER, Ore., Oct. 2S. Tho Gardiner Mill Company's schooner, the Lily, which was driven on tho North Spit of the Umpqua bar a week ago, today is tied up to her wharf at pardiuer and her cargo Qf freight Is being taken off. She was Just six days getting off the spit. The Lily Is not badly damaged, her damages consisting of the loss of her rudder and a slight leak from her sprung center board. As soon as the cargo is taken off, she will be put on the sands and repair ed, the damages being such that they can be easily repaired here. It will not take long to repair her and she will leave soon with a cargo from the Gardiner mill. . m in ,- r r EARLY T BELIEVE RLIffiriR Places Little Credence In Re port of Southern Pacific Deal Two Railways. "I don't believe thero is anything in the report of tho probability of the closing of a deal whereby the Southern Pacific will acquire the O. C. & N. holdings here," remarked F. S. Dow, agent of tho M. F. Plant, that company's steamer, who return ed today from' San Francisco. "I am quite confident that the property has not been sold and that It is not on the verge of being sold as the rumor has It." Mr. Dow, who has been in Califor nia for a couple of weeks with his wife on a business and pleasure trip, says that business conditions thero are rapidly improving nnd that ho believes that tho old era of pros perity on the Pacific coast is return ing with a rush. "Everybody down thor6 thinks that Coos Bay will have two rail roads within a short time one the Southern Pacific and tho other the steam road now underway. They seem to bo confident of It and look for great development hero within a short time.'1 Rumor That They Have Closed Or Are About to Close Big Deal. LARGE HOLDINGS 0ll COOS BAY DACE MIS HIS PRISONER elated Press service. Manager Schetter hopes to have commttee, Messrs. Diers and Loggie that he recommended it because the present commerce of the Bay did not justify the expenditure of $2,700,000 for jetties. However, he pointed out that there is bound to be a big In crease in the commerce of Coos Bay. Relative to this, Henry Diers and Peter Loggie pointed out that Col. Roessler's first report had been for the jetty Improvement alone but that the Rivers and Harbors com mittee had decided to scale down all recommendations of the local en gineers for appropriations and had sent a special committee around the country to do the "trimming." This service reestablished by tomorrow. Best FLOUR $1.35. HAINES. Try Times' Want Ads. C?.' said, had scaled down everything and when at Portland they took up I the Coos Bay project, the chairman (Continued on page 4.) do more in five minutes to settle this matter than all go-betweens can do In a day," said Johnson. . Jeffries was delighted when (lie learned Johnson had reached this city and said he was ready at any time to arrange terms. YOAKAM THE Sl'EAKER. i By Associated Press ) DALLAS. Tex., Oct. 27. -B. F. Yoakam, chairman of tho board of directors of the Frisco-Rock Island Railway, was the principal speaker at tho state fair today. MASQUERADE HALL at Suranor hall, November C. Have you lost anything? Try Times Want Ads. Steamship Arrives From San Francisco With Good Pas senger List. The M. F. Plant arrived in early this morning from San Francisco after a fairly good trip up tho coast. She had a good passenger list and a fair cargo of freight. The Plant will sail at 11 o'clock Friday for San Francisco. Among tho incoming passengers were tho following: Geno Smith, Mrs. A. Lund, Mrs. M. Robert3, Alma Gustavson, E. F. Morrlsey, Geo. E. Peoples, K, J. Hromada, J. Mlrrasoul, E .A. Ander son, Capt. W. C. Harris, F. S. Dow and wife, Miss A. Scren, R, C. Gray, H. Winter, Mrs. Smith, Mrs. J. W. Flanagan, Miss L. Nyland, Sophia Selen, Sam Lando, Alex Dawson, Sol Israel, Mrs, Mlrrasoul, Mrs. E. A, Anderson, T. McCarthy, .Mrs. A. Kork, J. Lemanski, Chas, Selen, L. Kork. TWENTV AFTER ITO. Slayer of Jnpanese I'rinco Identified Today. (By Associated Press.) HARBIN, Manchuria, Oct. 28. The assassin of Prince Ito was Iden tified today as India Angan, former editor of a newspaper at Seoul. Ho headed an organization of twenty Koreans who had takon tho oath of killing Ito. RAINY DAY SNAPS at COOK'S GROCERY. See advertisement for particulars. Coos County Sheriff Returns tiom'e Without "Coon Skin Charlie." COQU1LLE, Ore., Oct. 28. The Herald says; "Sheriff Gago has re turned from Idaho, whither ho had gone a,fter Chas, M. Noll, known In these parts as "Coon Skin Charlie," who had been apprehended for pass ing forged checks, lepresented to havo been drawn by business men of Myrtle Point, but ho had no pris oner. As tho train gained the sum mit of the Blue Mountains and was pulling awny from Kamela, and gaining headway down tho descent, Nell gave the Sheriff tho dodge and jumped off. It was In tho night, and beforo Mr. Gage could get off the train, Neil had made his escape in tho darkness, "Mr. Gago Is offering a reward of $100 for lil apprehension." PLAN TO OFFE LARGE WR Indianapolis People Raising $10,000 to Apprehend Dynamiters. (By Associated Pres3.) INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Oct. 27. An effort Is being mado to raiso a leward of $10,000 to be offered for tho apprehension of the men who dynamited tho building Sunday night, being orected by Contractor Von Speckolson. Dr. Eliot's contention that thore Is no hell will nevor mako u hit with some Coos Bay people who neod tome place to which thoy can con sign their enemies. Have you loBt anything? Read the Times Want Ads. Causes Much Comment On Coos Bay Local Men Deny It. According to nn apparently well founded report on the Bay, tho Southern Pacific has closed Or nearly closed negotiations for tho purchaso of the Oregon Coal and Navigation Company's holdings on Coos Bay. The report could not bo verified ow ing to the absence of C. J. Mlllls, general mnnager of tho local South ern Pacific Interests. The deal does not como as a sur prise to parties who have been keep ing tab on the situation. The O. C. & N. holdings are una of the most valuable on poos Bay. Tho hold ings include the Llbby coal mines, the steamer M. F.T Plant and about 3,000 acres of hind, mostly coal land, in Coos county in addition to extensive holdings of waterfront and city property. The property will fit in well with the present holdings of the Southorn Pa cific on Coos Bay. The addition o tho M. F. Plant to Its steamer lines hero and the securing of the Llbby coal mines, tho principal competitor of the Southern Pacific's Beaver Hill mines, will bo advantageous. Tho Joint properties can bo managed and operated more cheaply, it is stated,, than they can separately. C. J. Millis left Sunday on tho Czarina for San Francisco and ru mor has It .that his mission was to close tho deal. It Is understood that experts hnvo been going over tho O. C. & N. holdings during tho past few weoks and It Is presumed that they repre sented the Southern Pacific. Henry Hewitt Jr., of Tacoma, and Seymour H. Bell were understood to havo their eyes on tho O. C. & N holdings as well as ono or two other parties but according to tho Informa tion obtainable today, tho Southern Pacific has "beat them all to It." Goodall, Perkins and Company of San Francisco, owners of the O. C. & N have been willing to disposo of the property for sometime past and numerous denls for It havo fall en through. Tho property Is under stood to havo been held by tho com pany nt between $2D0,000 and $300,000. Patrick Hennessey, superintendent of the O. C, & N. Company's Llbby mines, said thnt ho had heard tho ropoit but placed little credence in it. A TO GET BUOYS HERE Petition Government For Aids to Navigation at Harbor Entrance. Petitions will bo placed in circula tion In a day or two by tho Chamber of Commerce asking tho United Sta tes to place gas buoys at tho en trance to Coos Bay harbor, Tho placing of tho gas buoys which will bo lighted all tho time, will bo a groat aid to navigation and will greatly roduco tho delays occasioned by fog or darkness on ontering tho linrbor. Tho government maintains gas buoys on tho Columbia and at othor harbors and It is understood that the petJMon for thorn hero will undoubtedly bo granted. Best FLOUR $1 3C. HAINES. m mlflttm