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About The Coos Bay times. (Marshfield, Or.) 1906-1957 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 11, 1909)
atones WANT ADS. SUCCESS foil the dealer and bhoi' per is a littl" secret that only the advertising col um,s will unfold. ,jf "THE TIMES" ARE THE UIST MEANS OF GETTING WHAT VOU WAXT WHEN YOU WANT IT. TI!V THEM AND BE COXVIXCEI). MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS VOL XXXII. Established In 1878 as The Const Mnll. MARSHFIELD, OREGON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1909 EVENING EDITION-EIGHT PAGES A Mn""00sn trrZV Wo- 129- (falS lag Fffl-1E LUES STORM ON Twenty Sailors Rescued From Gale That Swept Lake Erie This Week. PROPERTY LOSS IS OVER MILLION Four Vessels Destroyed, One ' Aground and One Badly Damaged Is Toll. (By Associated Press.) CLEVELAND, Ohio, Dec. 11. The terrific storm which passed over Lake Erie Wednesday night and Thursday reaped a harvest of death and laid waste more than one mil lion dollars worth of property. Late reports show 59 lives lost, 20 sailors rescued, four vessels destroyed and one aground and one badly damaged. ICARAGUA TO United States Rushes More Marines to Central America to Settle- Turmoil. (Dy Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, D. C, Dec. 11.-- A conference believed to he full of significance was held this afternoon in the Navy department, 'Secretary of the Navy Meyer, Assistant Secret ary WInthrop, Rear Admiral Waln- wrlght and Assistant Secretary of State Wilson participating. The conference had to do with Nicara gua affairs. An explanation may be made later in the day. When the seven hundred marines aboard the Dixie arrived in Colon they will find awaiting them orders to proceed Immediately to Panama and go aboard the transport Buffa lo. This seems to Indicate some movement of consequenee on the Pa cific coast of Nicaragua Is in con templation. SEND MORE MEN. Transcript Will Take 700 Mora Marines to Colon. (By Associated Press.) PHILADELPHIA, D. C, Dec. 11. Tho transport Prairie, which went aground In the Delaware river on December 2, was floated today. (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, D. C, Dec. 11.' Orders have been Issued to the Prai rie to take on board seven hundred marines and proceed at once toCo Ion. Gasoline Schooner Formerly Running Into Coos Bay Nearly Lost. ASTORIA, Ore., Dec. 11. The tar tug Wallula saw tho motor schooner Gerald C flying signals of distress near the whistling buoy, and rapidly drifting in toward the break- era- She was taken in tow and brought in over a very rough bar, GERALD C; HAD NARROW ESCAPE en " was learned that her en- with the Jowelry department ex es had broken down and her sails pects to leave soon for his old home -nea away, and that within an. , ur Bbe would have been a total l08a with all on board. She left here 00 Sunday afternoon for Ttllnmnnlr. W'tU a full P,- -!, --.. vHt,u Ul iiClUtt LOST IN THE GOUT IS TWO SCALDED or EXPLOSION 6 Smith Mill Employes Injured This Morning When Ex haust Chest Bursts. Ray Saubert, a helper, and J. B. Cody, a roll case tender, were severe ly scalded this morning when the ex haust chest at the C. A. Smith mill bursted. The men were standing near the chest when the accident happened, just prior to beginning operations at 7 o'clock, and were enveloped in the saturated steam. Their arm, face and chest were badly scalded. They were taken to the hospital where they are being attended by Dr. Dix. While the injuries were very painful, It is believed that both will quickly recover. Tho accident resulted in the mill being closed another half day. An effort will be made to get the plant in operation this afternoon. Yester day, the mill was closed down as a "--'U of the cross head blowing out. Erick Sulheim Victim of Acci dent In Archie Phillips' Logging Camp. Erlck Sulhelm, a young man from the Coquille Valley, had his right foot amputated near tho ankle at Mercy hospital In North Bend this morning as a result of an accident at Archie Phillips' camp of the Smith-Powers Logging Company on South Slough. His foot was caught between two large logs In the chute and was crushed to a pulp, the sole of the shoe being split and the 'bat tered flesh crowded out through the aperture. Sulheim is a young man and his parents reside on a ranch In tho Co quille Valley. The accident in camp occurred this morning and Sulhelm was quickly brought to North Bend by Mr. Phillips personally. E. H. MORRISSEY BUYS CARLETON JEWELRY Omaha Man Secures Business In Miu-sliflcld and Assumes Charge Today Is Experienced Man. E. H. Morrlssey, a son of Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Morrlssey, t who arrived here a few weeks ago from Omaha, has just concluded the purchase of J the G. AV. Carleton Jewelry Store on Central avenue. He assumed charge of tho store today and the Inventory of the stock to close tho deal will be made at once. Mr, Morrlssey Is an expert Jeweler and for some years has been Identi fied with all phases of tin business, the manufacturing end, the retailing and wholesaling of it. That he will meet with success, his friends feel assured. Mr. Carleton owing to his numer ous otner interests iejt mat, ub could not give his jowelry store tho required attention and so decided to sell It. Ho will retain his shoe bus- iness. Mr. Hadley who has been In Michigan. REMEMBER the ONE-HAM? RE DUCTION SALE still on MRS. J. II. SOMERS, designer, Coos Building. LOSES FOOT j BETWEEN LOGS TlfEO VICTIM San Francisco Police Claim That Highbinders Were Im ported From Orient For the Last Crime. (By Associated Press.) OAKLAND, Cal., Dec. 11. The list of dead in the bloody Tong war Leader of Striking Railroad Men Announces Willing ness to Settle. (By Associated Prwss.) ST. PAUL, Dec. 11. The striking switchmen are willing to arbitrate to bring the strike to a speedy and peaceful end. This was the declara tion of D. A. Hansberger, third vice-president of the Switchmen's Union of North America, who Is tem porarily in charge of the strike headquarters. RES. G. L HALL Medford Divir Assume Pulpit of Marshfield Bap Church In January. Rev. G. L. Hall, for two years pas- ter of the Baptist Church, at Med- SWITCH TO ARBITRATE NOW ACCEPTS CALL OR A Will ford, Oregon, has accepted tho call ... , ... . ,,,.,,. m throughout Oregon this week center tendered him by the Marshfield Bap tist Church and will reach here soon ed generally In the fight at Oregon after January 1 to assume his new City to save the home of Dr. John duties. His letter of acceptance has McLoughlln, Its first settler, whose just been reeclved by Alva Doll of character was bitterly assailed an the committee appointed by the lo- onymously. By a majority of 78, a cal charge to secure a new pastor. 'proposition to remove the old home Rev. Hall filled the Marshfield pul- 0f rjr. McLoughlln from Its present pit a few weeks ago and later gave ste jn orier to make room for a a lecture on James Whltcomb Riley, business building was voted down. He is a brilliant young man and hasj Pendleton cast the biggest vote In been unusually successful in church her history, re-electing Mayor E. J. work and the local church's mem- murphy by two to one over Dr. E. bers are feeling elated over securing r, Swinburne. It was purely a bat- nim. i After expressing regret at his pro- posed departure from Medford, the Baptist Mirror of Medford says: Our Pastor Closes His Work. Our church has been officially not- ifled by Rev. G. L. Hall that this Sunday will be his laBt with us, as our pastor. Rev. Hall has been a good pastor and friend to us and we all feel sorry to see him leave. "Mr. Hall Is what would bo called ncense on baseball games was snow a self-made man. Every qualifica- ed umier at Grants Pass. Hero tho tion which he possesses for his novel spectacle of a state represen work ,was obtained by his own tativo contesting for mayoralty hon- hands. He has earned his own way ors was afforded when Representa and from the time he was 12 years tlve J c smith beat Senator H. D. old he worked and earned money to Norton by OD votes. This Is Smith's put himself through school. He re-(thIrd time for mayor. He won tho turned to school at 17 and graduat- rst time by 02 and tho second time ed from a business course. Ho was oy C7. converted at the ago of 17 through! At Unjon eVery momber of tho the combined efforts of a band ofjI)resent administration who was up young men. s for re-election was burled In dofeat. "After graduation he took a posl- Tnjs included Mayor S. A. Pursoll, tion as bookkeeper In a lumber camp, wn0 j8 succeeded by L. A. Wright. This he soon resigned to work as alTi10 new council will bo nledced to traveling salesman for a tea and coffee house. Then he entered the Hall institute and at Sharon, Penn., and worked his way through. Also went to tho Bucknell Academy and graduated from this Institute in 1895. Four years later, ho gradu ated from the university in 1899. He then went to the seminary at Rochester and took his first pastor ate In 1900. Married In Rochester, N. Y., in 1902. He was graduated from tho Rochester Theological Seminary and ordained in 1902. "He was called to Pendleton by telegraph Jn 1903 'and bis work there was very good. Called to Med ford two years ago last April. Throughout his whole life after con version, Rev. Hall has been an earnest worker for the causo." OF TONG WHO between the Yees and Yicks was increased by one this morning, mak ing a total of eight. Early today, tho body of Yeo On, a member of the Yee family, was found in a hallway of a house in the heart o( China town with four bullet wounds In the head. There Is no clue but the po lice believe It Is the work of Im ported highbinders. Wright Aeroplane Loses Bal ance and Plunged to Ground. (By Associated Press.) BERLIN, Dec. 11. A Wright ae roplane with Captain Engelhardt piloting, lost its balance and plung-' ed to the earth near here. Engel hardt was unconscious when picked up. He is a pupil of Orvll Wright and, October 29, in a flight lasting 44 minutes and 30 seconds, he es tablished the distance record for German aviators. EGON TOWNS Results of . Hotly Contested Campaigns In Various Cities of the State. PORTLAND, Ore., .Dec. 11. In terest Jn munlclpal elections held tie between factions rather than par- ties there being no municipal issue involved. The anti-near-beer ticket won at Springfield, and a proposed, ordln- nnce prohibiting the traffic in this beverage was sustained at. Albany, Where Mayor J. P. Wallace was re- eiected. Albany also voted a ?40,- QOO city hall. A proposed ordinance imposing a a municipal lighting plant and to many Improvements. The result Is a rebuke lo tho extreme measures advocated by tho outgoing adminis tration. v Canby rejected a proposed water bond issue by 12 votes, Salem adopt ed several amendments to Its charter by a majority of 4 votes. Lebanon elected A,' N. Reeves mayor. HIIIb boro amended Its charter to permit a 35,000 bond issue to take up thp floating indebtedness. nOXING GLOVES, football's, dumb bells and Indian Clubs at MILNER'S. CLAUSEN'S Shoes for ECONOMY. SHAVING mugs, soap and RAZOR strops at MILNER'S. AERONAUT IS BADLY HURT HUNDREDS SEEK ERER OF S. ELLERBY Pleaded Guilty to Indictment and Four Years Sentence Is Suspended. Mrs. Jack Ellerby, under indict ment for robbing tho T. II. Barry homo at Empire, today entered a plea of guilty when arraigned be fore Judge John S .Coko in Circuit Court at Coquille. Owing to extenu ating circumstances, Judgo Coke stated after imposing a sentenco of four years in the penitentiary on her announced that sho would be paroled during good behavior. Tom Bennett will try his first case at this term of court, representing Tony Nussoll, formerly proprietor of "Tho Pup" saloon at NIrth Bend, who Is under indictment for selling liquor to minors. He entered a plea of not guilty. Mr. Bennett has de murred to tho Indictment. The old grand jury boforo being dismissed brought In an Indictment against "Klondike" Elliott, tho old prospector, who is charged -with shooting at Bastendorf, owner of Bastendorf's beach, during a squab ble over the lumber from tho wreck ed Marconi. Made Good Time Down Coast Despite Inclement Weather Sails Sunday. The Breakwater arrived In early this morning after a fairly good trip down tho coast desplto the inclement weather. It was sufficiently rough to give most of tho passengers a touch of Eeaslckncss, but consider ing the fact that tho rough weather delayed them at Astoria, tho Break water made good time down. She had a miscellaneous cargo. Tho Breakwater will sail at 9 o'clock Sunday morning for Portland and will take a big shipment of sal mon from tho Kylo Cannery. Among those arriving on tho Breakwater were tho following: J. C. Bridges. Mrs. BrldKes. J. Nelson, W, Dunham, M. Pendroff, D. Rease, C. JJ. Haywood, G. McCut cheon, R. Tcsmer, R. Mayer, J. C. Leo, C. Anderson, O. SovenBon, G. Schleppy, C. Fellows, W. McKonzIo E. Berg, J. R. Good, Lewis A. Go vlenno, II. G, Mooro, B. Young, TJ. C. Collins, A. J. Drows, Jno. Kelly, Mrs. Kelly, Geo. Colom, Theo. Sand, W. C. Arneson, MIsa Whlttlngton, C. Sllgo, K. R. Ellison, L. Van Horn, Mrs. Van Horn, R. Van Horn, J. C. Davis, Mrs. Holm, Miss A. Hoicks, Mrs. C. M. Connor, II. Connor, E. Connor, Wm. WInkleman, J. W. Cor, C. Encort, A. V. WIckman. TODAY'S AVI IE AT MARKET. (By Associated Press.1 CHICAGO, Dec. 11. Wheat clos ed as follows: December, $1.09 3-8; May, $1.09; July, 98 7-8c. (By Associated Press.) PORTLAND, Doc. 11. Wheat un changed. (By Associated Press.) TACOMA, Wash., Dec. 11. Wheat unchanged. ADD MRS ELERBY ... L;C .... Tho regular December term of circuit court will open Monday when a now grand Jury will bo im panneled. "' , I I GIVEN PAROLE BREAKWATER IN . ' EARLY TODAY ALLEGED IE CPO SAVANNAH F. Unknown Black Is Charged With Awful Crime In Geor gia City Yesterday. INTENSE EXCITEMENT PREVAILS THERE NOW Two Women Killed Outright and Third Has Slight Chance to Recover. (By Associated Press.) SAVANNAH, Ga., Dec. 11. Al though hundreds of armed men as sisted tho police last night to search for the negro believed to have murdered Mrs. Eliza Cribble, an aged white woman, her daugh ter, Mrs. Carrie Ohlander, and to havo fatally wounded Mrs. Maggie Hunter In the Grlbble homo In tho heart In Savannah yesterday, no trace of the fugitive- has been found. Mrs. Ohlander had been assaulted crim inally before being murdered. In tense excitement prevails. A large number of negroes havo been arrest ed. All the victims were cut or stabbed with a knife and then their heads crushed, presumably "with an ax. Mrs. Hunter has a slight chance to survive. The statement today of Mrs. Mag gie Hunter that her husband, J. C. Hunter, from whom she was separat ed had attacked her, led the police to rearrest Hunter who Is being held unde ra strong guard. GIRL FOUND SLAIN. Threats of Lynching Heard In Dc- trolt Today. (By Associated Prenn ) DETROIT, Mich., Dec. 11. Tho murder of Helen Brown, aged thir teen of 271 Third avenue, was re vealed today by the finding of tho child's hat and frozen body In Whltoman's truck yards. Tho child's face and head .were cut and battered thero was evidence she had been mistreated. Thero are mutterlngs. of threats of lynching if the murderer is caught. r keIeis KILLED TQOAY Son of Millionaire Cattleman of Trinidad, Colo., Slain at Lebeau, S. D. (By Associated Press.) LEBEAU, S. D., Dec. 11. Dodo McKenzie, a son of tho murdered McKenzie, a millionaire cattleman of Trinidad, Colo., was shot and killed at noon today In this city by "Bud" Stevens who was arrested.. Great ex citement prevails. EVERYBODY HEAR SHANNON. Steamor Flyer leaves for North Bend every TUESDAY and FRIDAY at 7 1. M. Round trip, 2 5 cents. A Great Stock of CIIRIST.MAS gift books at tho RED CROSS DRUG STORE. COASTER wagons at MILNER'S. BRASS CANDLE sticks at MILNER'S Buy your wlfo a set of IIAVILAND dishes at MILNER'S. CLAUSEN'S Shoes for WEAR. Get your CHRISTMAS SUPPLIES at F. A. SACCHI'S. He has tho FINEST LINE In OREGON. See his display. Kodaks make delightful' Xmas gifts RED CROSS DRUG STORE. EASTSIDE Is a Winner. M n