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About The Coos Bay times. (Marshfield, Or.) 1906-1957 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 25, 1910)
"J- ' "' TT-if" (fatti States ADS. NEWS MIEN BUSINESS IS BLOW, Al vpnTlSK. TIIAT IT PAYS IS BVL nPVCKI) "V SUCCESSFUL I1U8I Jg HOUSES EVERYWHERE :t GET IT WHILE IT IS NEW BX READING THE COOS MAY TIMES. ALL THE NEWS AL.J THE TIMH TERSELY 10LI) t: :: :: c: :: MEMBER OP ASSOCIATED PRESS Bag Established lii 1878 ns Tlio Const Mail. VOL. XXXIII. if FIRES IN COOS COUNTY FiRF SITIIATIRM IS MDRF IIOPFFIII riAIRVVIi l F RKRRY HINTV l"" " - ..- W.W....W.. .V IIIVIII. IIW -I Wh. WMIIM lhl-H WWIIIII WWWIHIII BUT NONE YET VERY SERIOUS Greatest Damage Reported Is at McDonald-Vaughan Logging Camp. SEVERAL HOUSES ARE DESTROYED. Stage Driver Makes An Excit ing Run Through the Burning Forests. 4 COUNTY KlHi: SUMMARY. Flro near Empire dot. not on- 0 dancer that city. Forty men flKhtlllg it. Blacksmith shop, machine 4 shop, tix hoiisoB nnd railroad bridges burned nt Dnulcls Creole. Two lioiiBos reported burned at I'nlrvlcw, whoro bad pro Ib burning. Kufus Howo mnkoa exciting drive on stage through big Ilro ncnr Dora. 4 Judgo Sohlbrodo llghtB firo to no hoinuatend on South I Slough. Fire reported to bo burning i ncnr the Iloeclc logging camp nt . Smith's llnslu. A, II. I'owors reports that no O icrlous dnmngo hns boon dono to timber. . Generally bollovcd tlint Iho fires throughout the county will not spread to green timber. O- Fires nro reported In mnny illfTor-, cnt parts of Cooh county, but nono nro really very serious bo far. Tho most, damage was dono nt tho MoDonnld- VauRhn,, logging rJimn nt Daniels Creek, whero biilldiugrt were burned. Sen-rul lioiibca in dlffoiont localities bavo been burned, but so fnr tho dam- oko Is not grent. Tho County Flro Fielders' Association hns nlimit ana hundred men nt work fighting tho , wv, uiiii rnucuors in an pnns aru.niK mm uio muni uw doing what they can. It Ih generally believed thnt tho flres will not burn In the green tlmber.n ml thoro will not bo any grent timber loss, I.OGGKHS RURNED OUT. Six IW'tldoiiccN nt Daniels Creole Ave Ri'htrciyi'ri.' Jack Lapp, who returned thla nftor noon from Daniels Creole whero ho took Mr. Vnughnn of tho McDonnld Vaushnn camp, reports thnt tho flro there did n good deal of dnmage, moro than wns at first roported. A number of tho houses which woro oc cupied by loggers employed In tho camp were burned. Tho houseB nro oned by th0 compnny, hut the occu pants nil lost to somo extent. Dan McCny lost everything In his houso. Georgo Terry nnd H. lilnko woro botli burned out, nud each lost about hnlf I their household effects, Ed. Law renc0 lobt ovorythlng In his houso. A houso occupied by several Greeks wnh aUo burned and tho contents lost. William Cross wns nlBo burned out. Three of tlio trucks used on tho railroad were burned nnd tho black smith shop and tho machine shop nt tho McDonald-Vnughnn camp woro destroyed. About 1,100 feet of tho railroad nnd treaties wero hurnod and the rails nro warped so that tho road for a time cannot bo used. Tho rail road extends from Goos River bnck Into the timber whero tho logging Is wing done. 1HUVKS THROUGH FIRE. Ihifiu Howo Has An Exciting Expeil enco Near Horn, Kufus Howe, tho driver of tho noseburg stage, had quite an oxcltlng wporlenco coming Into Sumner last night. He had no passengers, hut "rrled a wagon load of mall. Beyond Dra, near tho Enston place, there w a fire In tho timber. Ho thought that ho could get through all right, bt nfter he started he found that the lire was on both sides of tho road and tho flames leaped cleaivacross tho road in place. Howo was driving a 1'alr of mules. Tho animals did not "5fd much urging and for half a (Continued on page 4.) BURNED 0 E Southern Oregon Fire Dam aged to Extent of Eight Million Dollars. (Spoclnl to Tho Times.) ROSEDURG, Ore, August 25. With approximately 100,000 acreB LARG ARE burned over, tho forest Ilro condl-,luul teJVrV"8 ?g?" n "n,ch , " I vel to-dny owing to the nbnto-!Crcck mom of tho winds, coupled with thocan nnil nriccl, Austrlnn woodchop- inccwnni jniiors or tlio troops and;,)Crs woro buriiod to denth Saturday. hundrodB of civilian volunteers. Tlio-Th0B0 IIIon WCro worhlng fnrther up only bad flro reported to bo still rag-tll0 crcolt tllnn tho thlrty uniinns al Iiib Ih at Prospect, on tho mlddlo fork 'lutlIy r0ported dead, of Iloguo River, In tlio Crnter I.nkoj reserve, this wn communicated to t1i ITm tifiim riianrvn In RniiHinnulti.,t I I)ouglaH county, but will bo under', i control within the next twelve hourH. Total loss in Oregon estimated nt ?8, 000,000. DRV WEATHER RECORD. , ., ,.,., ,, y Has l.ul But Little it 'lii'i i Xliitifliu llounhis Conn Rnlu Ui Two Months. Tlio Rout-burg Revlow sayn: "Observer-Win, Dell, of tho United States Weather Flurcau, by rerjucst hns fur nished Tho Review with tho follow ing data regarding previous dry sen hoiih nt tho Rosehurg stntlon. Slnco Juno 22 of this yenr, n period of 02 ilnys. only .03 of nn Inch of rain bus fallen here. This dry record hnB twice, been exceeded horo. In 1005 jtlio dry period lasted from Juno 27, to September 11 a total of 7G days, with hut it truce of rainfall In August and tho niuno In Soptembor prior to tho 11th of thnt mouth. The longest' dry period over recorded horo wns in 1S00. when It extended from Juno 0 to August 20, n total of 81 dnye. Diir-!ThQ of rnln In Juno nnd tho biuiio In Au gust. At tho present tlm0 wo still lack 10 dnyb at equalling tho 1S90 record. ON COLUMBIA Property Damage in Northern Oregon Will Reach One Million Dollars. (Dy Associated Press.) i roKiuwu, uru.. .. -". ., The flro situation In Northern Oro- gon and along U.e northern bank of tho Columbia River Is practically un- changed from yestenuly. The high winds still prevail and tho only hope Is a light ono contnlued In" to-day's E E BURN forecast of "possibly showors. IJio AoVt,lu Tho itnllnna were nbout ono property damago of tho fires of es- Iuindrca ynrls ftbovo tho lumber tordny and to-dny, excluslvo of that jnck8 suddonly tho flnmes enmo up to timber, will run well up to-wards tho canyot TJl0 two iun,ber Jacks a million dollars. Scoros of farmors ' 8ftW tnom and rnn for R croek ,n hnvo lost their homes, outbuildings lWnjcu tnoy submerged themselves, and crops, while tho people of half aTne jtajlana becamo panic stricken, dozen moro villages hnvo lost tholr j tr,0(1 tQ cmb tne wag of tho can. belongings. Some nro aesuiuo. Tho Hroon tho Dig Washougai er, a few miles east of Vancouvor, has swept across to tho Llttlo wasnougai, and so far haB beon held there. If It crosses this river It will bo In tho vicinity of Camas, which yesterday was threatened by another flio. Proobstel is moro seriously men aced to-dny than yesterday and thoro Is llttlo hope of saving It. Shanghai, a settlement In tho samo district, wns burned put. North of Vancouver, the Ryan and Allen sawmill nt Holssen wns burned. Nothing has beon heard from tho six men reported hemmed In nt Wild. Boy camp, and It is fearod nothing over vJH bo, An unconfirmed report to-dnyMvfthat Amboy Is threatened. Near Hosiunson, a bwbu Ish settlement has, been wiped out, and sixty families are homeless and destitute. Another flro is raging on MARSHFIELD, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, 1910 EVENING EDITION. i ' . : . 'People Living in Parts of Idaho Are Returning Home, But New Fires Reported in Other quarters. (I3y Associated PresB.) SPOKANE, Wnsh., AugUft 25. With eighty-six members of tho for est Borvlco known to bo dend nnd grave fears for a number of otherB, news )b anxiously nwaited from tho relief expedition Bent to tho rescue of Rnngcr Hulmnml nnd. his party of eighty-four men, who have not been heard from slnco Saturday. News Is beginning to conic out of the St. Joe country, but it is not encouraging. Tho Information to-day received Ih that forty-seven lire fighters are miss ing nnd probably dend. Near Avory, forty-four bodies havo been found, ton jnpnncBo nnd four negro sol- ,'" nro "" Arrlvnls from Dig t0.(lny rcort lhnt two AmorI. TRAINS BLOCKED. 'Hv Acfoclatcl PrMB.) i SEATTLE, Wnsh., August 25. In jformntlon received to-day from Ash 'ford stutcB thnt tho Pnclflc and Enst jom trnlns nro blocked by fires to nnd ifrom tho ltnlnlcr National Forest. Tho iflro l said to bo rnnnlng rnpldly nnd ' , ffom t - .. Snoqunmllo sny n strong wind la blowing nnd thnt tlio fires nro Bprend Ing. REPORT MANY DEAD. Wy Associated Press. SPOKANE, Wnsh., August 25. Slxty-llvo Amorlcnn men arriving from St. Joe country to-day roport forty-eight of their comrndoB Inirncd h nt , Crcok Snturday. A tho mon wow rccrllltClI , MUl0U,a. eighty-six dead. (By Aasnclntod Press.) SPOKANE, Wnsh., August 15. fn;t Uiat,lll)0Ut BUly.lta Tnen of tho forest sorvlco hnvo perished hns T Italian Fire Fighters in Wash ington Meet an Awful Fate. triv Associated Pro.) SPOKANE, Wash., August 25. 1 Chnrlea Mlllor nnd Wnrren Wheaton, i lumber Jacks who arrived to-day from St. Mnrloa district In Idaho, tells a t ron(ierln Btorv of witnessing doath of thrty Itn,nn flr(J flght. them hmWlcd shrlokinc. rayinB and cursing, while Ul(J fln) cnnjQ anA J)Ut t,,em t0 aeatu AU worQ worklng Jn a cany0n, flut,ng tll0 flr0 wJ,Cn wna coming yon and foil back. Tho flames enmo I T I mx-jtnen an(1 tll0 lumbor Jacks saw no moro until nftor the flro passed over. Nothing was loft then but n heap of charred flesh, Lewis River and threatens Lowls vllle, nnd tho people are fleeing. On Jlason prairie, in Cowllt? county, tho situation Is so serious that the peoplo havo burled their furniture and have fled. Tho flro on Cedar Creek in Clarko county Is threatening r two largo sawmills. Ovor two hundred men are fighting this Are. There will bo an OPEN AIR DANCF. SATURDAY, AUGUST 27TH, corner Central and Broadway. GOOD music. J. P. MORRIS nnd family yill leave on the Plant for San DIojgo, where they will spend tuo winter. been definitely established by reports to tho supervisor at Wallnce. Until Hanger Hnlmnn and tho flro fighters on St. Joo are heard from, and until fifty-five men under Ranger Kootkey belloved to bo on Clear Creek nro found, tho actual number of dead Are fighters cannot be known. Tho num ber of dend Is variously estimated from eighty-six to ono hundred nnd two, hut thnt eighty-six are dead is positively established. CREWS REPORTINO. (By Associated Press.) WALLACE, Idaho, August 25. Tho number of men Ranger DeblttB Hnrdy found on Sotzer Creek Is now reported to bo twenty-four. The num ber of foresters dend on Dig Creek is now forty-Bevcn. Tho two DIrd Creek crcwH under Rnngcr Allen nro snfe. Tho Rock Creek crew lost one man. Tho big pnrty under Supervisor Ferns la safe. CAN RETURN HOME. (Dy Associated Press.) MISSOULA, Mont., August 25. Early reports from the Are district.! nro of n decided roseate hue. At tho forestry headquarters assurance Ib being given thnt it Is quite snfo to return to tho homes along tho rail roads In tho Cocur d'Alcno districts. CALL FOR TROOPS. (Dy Associated Press.) SEATTLE, Wash., August 25. A forest flro which broke out In tho Cedar Valley, .twenty-flvo miles enst of Seattle, lattt night got out of con trol. Chief Wnrden Simons said this morning thnt his men woro powerless nnd ho will call on tho Governor to order out tho militia nt once. Tho flres nro dangerously close to tho saw mill towns of Ilurjcston, North Bond, Tumor, Wagner nnd Knngloy. Tny lor, n town of 000 Inhabitants, Is also seriously mnnacod. Warden Simons hns telegraphed tho Wnr nnd Navy Departments nsk lug that the forts and warships on Pugot Sound fliu nil big guns at S o'clock to-morrow morning In hopo thnt tho dotonntlon will start a gon ornl rninfnll ovor western Washing ton. WILL PUNISH THE HFTEfiS Theodore Roosevelt Says He Will Not Show Any Par ty Distinction. (Bv Associated Press.) BUFFALO, N. Y., ugut 25. Theodoro Roosovolt pledged himself, to-dny to tho men of Buffalo to help them nnd nil sincere citizens to flght crookedness wherovor found. Ho spoko to tho Elllcot Club, whoro, ns a guest, ho was at brenkfast an hour after sunrise Ho mndo a plea for tho punishment of crooked nnd graft ing public ofllclals and tho election of honest ones In their places.' Rooso volt said ho thought It a duty to hunt out crooks and especially crooks In his own party. "I bollovo In pnrty government," ho said, "hut tho mo ment tho question of honesty Is In volved I recognize no party distinc tions." Nearly four hundred members of tho Elllcot Club and other citizens representing professional and busi ness Interests nnd a wldo varloty of political affiliations met Roosevelt when ho nrrlved. As noosevolt en tered tho banquet hall "America" was sung with tho accompaniment f the regimental band. Breakfast was ex peditiously served as thoro was less than an hour boforo tho time for Roosevelt's departure for Chicago. HANK WELLS nnd Leo Edwards havo gone to Curry county to hunt deer. Lyon Is coming Sunday, Aug. 28th. Send THE WEEKLY TIMES to Vour FRIENDS back EAST; 1.50 per year. A Consolidation and Coos THINKS IS Indian Police Near Klamath Falls May Have Killed For mer Coos Bayite. Al. Do Moss, formerly nightwntch at North Bend nnd Inter employed in the C. A. Smith mill nt Mnrshflcld, wua shot nnd killed ncnr Klamnth Falls on 'August' 13th by one of tho government Indian police, according to word received hero by Mnrsh.nl Cnrter through n press dlspntch nnd through word brought by n friend from Klnmnth Falls. Do Mobs' wlfo nnd child live nt Enstsldq, Mrs. Do Moss being employed In tho Coos Bny Steam Laundry, where Bho has been working to support her -family whllo her husband wns away. Marshal Carter Is endeavoring to secure further particulars or addi tional confirmation of tho story and hns written tho Sheriff nt Klnmnth FallB, but has not received any reply yet. According to the press dispatch, tho Indian police had been hot on the trnil of n bnnd of horso thieves who nnd been robbing the ranches In thnt vicinity for somo time. They flnnlly located a corral In tho mountains whero tho stolen horses woro kept. Ab they closed In on tho hlddon cor ral, somo of tho men locnted at It broko and ran. Ono was slower thnn tho others In getting nway and a bullet trom nn Indian jiollcemnn's rlflo ended his enreer. Ho wns a large, good looking chap, hut thoro wns llttlo or no menns or Idontlfylng him. After getting n good descrip tion of him, ho wns burled near tho scono of tho shooting. According to Marshal Carter, tho description of tho man killed tallies exactly with that of Do Moss and ho says that ho Is confident that it Is Do Moss. MrB, Annlo Do Mosb Is henrt broken over tho affair nnd Is endeav oring to nscortnln further particulars. Slnco Bho received tho Hrst word a tiny or two ngo, sho hns doubted tho story until Inst night when Mnrshnl Cnrter nssurcd her thnt In his opinion tho man killed wob her husband. Do Moss came to Coos Bay from no ono knows xvhoro, and Intor was nppolntcd nightwntch In North Bond four or flvo years ngo, Somo months nftor his appointment ho xvns forced to resign as n result of troublo fol lowing a gun play. Thon ho enmo to Marshflold, whero ho remained somo timo and married his present wlfo, About two years ago, ho left for Pas ley, Oregon, whoro ho remained for nwhllo. Slnco his departure, Mrs. Do Moss hoard from him only nt In- Ifrequont Intervals. PORTLAND WINS A GAME FROM SAN FRANCISCO AND KEEPS UP RECORD. (By Associated Press.) PORTLAND, Ore., August 25. Yesterday's baseball scores follow: AT PORTLAND R. ' H. Portland C 11 San Francisco , . , -. 3 9 AT OAKLAND R. II. Oakland -i 7 Los Angeles 2 7 AT VERNON R. H. Vernon ,,.,...,..,,..,,, 2 G Sacramento , 1 5 Lyon Is coming Sunday, Aug. 28tli. i i COAST LEAGUE BALL SCORES of Times, Const Mail Hay Advertiser. No. 34. Entire West Side of Main Street Wiped Out Last Night. BUT LITTLE OF VILLAGE LEFT. Blaze Started in Livery Barn From Unknown Cause. (Special to The Times.) .. . BANDON, Ore., August 25. Flro of unknown origin Inst night .vlpeil out the business section of Dnlry- vlllc, south of hero In Curry county, I causing a loss that Is estimated at $50,000. Sovcrnl hoad of horses worn j burned In tho conflagration. No In ! Btirnncc, so far as can bo learned, wan .carried, bo thnt tho Iohb will b0 total. Ed, Rncklcff, who conducted n largo general storo nt Dnlryvlllo, In tho heaviest Iosor. His losu Ik esti mated at ?10,000. Tho two hotols, livery bam, postolllco and other hulld- lugs on tho west side of Mnlu ntroot , In tlio town weio totally wiped out. ! Tho blaze started in tho livery barn nnd tho cnuso is unknown. It had 'gained considerable headway when noticed and It was Impossible to got all tho borticH out. I Tho town had no Ilro protection, but every citizen was enlisted In a bucket brlgndo and It wns duo to 'their work thnt tho enst sldo of Mala street nnd whnt romnlns of tho town wbb saved, i At tho north end of Main stroot Is 'tho Bnwmlll. Noxt to this Is tho llv Icry stnblo whoro tho flro started. Next .was Pctor Hiigorson'B Roto!, a cot- tago belonging to Hngorsou, another small houso, n harbor shop, a wodd i working shop, Itackloft's storo, the poBtofllce, another storo and Richard ISoronson's hotel. All of theso build ings nro roported burned, This loavea i nothing In tho business section of the I city oxcoptlng n soft drink parlor and .a blnckHinlth shop on tho enst sldo ot tho street. COLO SPELL The Mercury Goes Down and Breaks All Records For Month of August. (By Associated Press.) COLORADO SPRINGS, August 2G. All jecords for cold weather In Au gust wero broken horo last night, when tho morcury wns 38 abovo. DENVER, .Colo., August 26 Not slnco tho keeping ot the official rec ords has such a degreo of cold been experienced as Inst night. Tho mer cury wns 39 abovo. IF. PLANT , IS I PORT Arrives To-Day From San Francisco With Passen gers and Freight. The steamor M, F. Plant arrived to-day from San Francisco. Tho fol lowing is the list of passengers ar riving: C. E. Gilbert, G. A, Ullom, J. M. Wado, A. K. Lovett, Mrs. M. H. Ty- roll, Mrs, Dart, Mrs, Taylor, Mrs. M, Lewis, Mrs. A. II. Woodln, Albert Woodln, P. Schullerstrom, Mrs. J. K. Schilling, Joo Schilling, J. Lmilmm, M. Holzmark, W. L. Dickjwn, Mrs. Dickson, E. T. Lnmpo, II. 'Bergor, J", Volnnte, Mrs. J. Volante. a White-' head, A. Fleske, IS 150,000 FIRE LOSS 0 1 winter. X fr-n jmii &&uitmfWito. uiUi .i. , j. - tW'&tffairjitJUjLdAi: MfliAttfci ':, . iW.V llfBEd 42