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About The Coos Bay times. (Marshfield, Or.) 1906-1957 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 1, 1911)
,iww.m i im'i I'H'ij.iu.wjwpjinjMi"-"-'nc'MW" t- "iwwOfmwff "TWiffllP i u. liili iiiiipjppjpww'ipi . ,YAG$! A'iiYOir ) Hi lfc ADS. NEWS WHEN BUSINESS 18 BLOW, Al VBKTISK. THAT IX PAYS IB EVI DENCED BY SUCCESSFUL BUSI VICSS HOUSES EVERYWHERE :: GET IT WHILE IT IS NEW HIT READING THE COOS UAY TIMKS. ALL THE NEWS ALo THE TIMK TE11SELY lOLH t: :t :t t :: MEMI1KR OF ASSOCIATED 1'HESS Established In 1878 ns Tlio Const Mall VOL. XXXIV. MARSHFIELD,OREGON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1911 EVENING EDITION EI&HT PAGES. A Consolidation of Times, Coast Mall nnd Coos Hay Advertiser. No. 16. ypmHiiTmw'Hitnwnpnww ji if i hi vjRsH 3583 WxmtB LOUIS W. HILL IS OPTIMISTIC Railroad Magnate Says 1, 500,000 People Are Com ing to Oregon. nniirr.AN'n. Ore.. Feb. 1. Al though lie tUtl ot venture to sponk authoritatively on tlio futuro con Etructlon work Hint niny bo done on the Oregon trunk south of Bend, L011U W- I1111 w,1" lloro tlm otMcr ilny fc.iltl that that portion of tho state eventually will have to bo dovol- opi il Mr Stevens hns chnrgo of tho work In thin country," ho snltl, "nnd I don't know what IiIb plnns nro. A number of routes lmvo boon survey ed south of Hend, however. One or these provides for n terminus tit Mcd ford. Tlmt lino will lmvo to bo built. Another lendH to Klnmnth FnllB. It Ih probnblo that an extctiBlon will rench that plnco too, In a Bhort time. "Hut when It coiiicb to entering Cnllfornln I bollovo that our Byatom will drnw tho line. Wo expect to develop Oregon, but don't boo any reason why wo should go to Cnllfor nln." Mr. Hill Ib even moro onthUBlnBtlc oer tho devolopmont of thta stnto tlmn Is hlH father. Ile.snyB tho peo ple of Oregon nro not doing enough to exploit their wonderful ndvnntnges. Ho wants the LeglBlnturo to.mnko an appropriation for advertising pur poses nnd with thnt end In view will visit Snletn. That Oregon can become tho homo of 1,500,000 nddltlonnl people In tho next ten yenrs wnB his unqualified de claration. This enn bo nccompllHhed, he paid, through proper publicity methods. Whllo the stnto showed n henlthy growth In tho Inst ten yenrfl, he contrasted It with thnt of some of tho Cnnndlan provinces that hnvo advanced in population 700 nnd 800 per cent. "Why, Oregon hnB moro to offer Its settlers than any atnto In tho Union. Its resources nro not limited to ono lino. It has Brent advantages In every lino. If a man oxpressoB his wants, Oregon can tnko caro of him. Tell thoso things to tlio pcoplo of tho Enst and wo will bring thorn out by tho trnlnlond. Tho morchants should join In tho publicity campaign, and In tho development of tho atnto by tho extension of trndo Into tho nowly bottled districts. Railroads Foresee Growth. "Tho railroads will not bo behind tho procession. In fact, thoy will try to keep Just n llttlo nhead, for wo enn anticipate tho coming of tho Bot tler. From tho Inquiries wo nro re ceiving In our EnBtorn ofllces right now I know positively thnt thousnnds of families will flock Into Central Oregon ns soon ns tho Deschutes Valley lino Is complotod. Thoso nro tho kind of people you wnnt In this Mate, not tho tourist who trnvols In the parlor car, but tho Immigrant who loads his household goods, his livestock, his fnrm mnchlnory nnd his family Into a boxcar. The recent snlo of tho Mnlhcur Canyon rights of way hold by the Hill Interests to tho JIarrlman system Is not significant, ho said. Such a transfer does not necessarily preclude the use by tho Hill roads of any lino that may he built. Ho expressed an Inclination toward Joint ownership of. lines through sparsely settled dis tricts. Tho parollel tracks through the Deschutes Valley are unnecessa ry, he pointed out. The money spent In building tho second lino could havo been used to much better advantage In now development. , Olml to See Ilnnley. "You old rascal, how are you any way," exclaimed a red whiskered nan, wearing a slouch hat and a broad smile as ho playfully slnpped a broad-shouldered, breezy Western Pe of Indlvldunl with his overcoat, In tho office of H. A. Jackson, assis tant general freight agent of tho Great Northern Railway, tho other day, The speaker and overcoat bearer "was Louis W. Hill, son of J. J. Hill, and president of tho Great Northern, nlle the man whom ho addressed ''Bin- Hanley. the well-known F D DOMED Parent of Matt Kjellman of North Bend Killed By Train In Minnesota. Matt KJellninn of North Bond yos terdny received word of tho death of his father, .lolin KJellmun, who wiih killed by being struck by n train at his old homo In Hector, Minn. Tho nows of tho nccldont ennio by telegraph but owing to tho wlrcB being down to Coob Ilny, It was greatly delayed. Tho inoHsnge wnB sent January ill, having been taken by tho 'operator nt Roseburg nnd sent by stage from there .to Coob Ilny. Although too Into to attend tho fu neral, Mr. KJollninu will lcavo on tho Rronkwntcr Saturday to assist In straightening up tho estate. 1Mb mother died sometime ago. Ills fnthi or wns 7 1 yenra old but wnB hnlo nnd henrty. TO BE HELD PUBLIC Oregon Much Interested In California Case Involving Water Front. SALEM, Ore., Fob. 1. A decision by Judgo Galloway In tho case of tho Yaqulnm and Alsen Day tide lands, claimed by tho Corvallls & Eastern Hnllroad haa been 'uphold In n Cnllfornln enso, according to n com munication received by Governor West. Governor We'st days thnt Judgo Bordwoll of Los Angelea In tho suit of tho Peoplo vs. tho Southern Pncl flc, Into whoso hnnds certain tfdo Innds woro Issued nt various' times slnco 18G5, holds to tho doctrlno of tho non-nllon nblllty of tho pcoplo to securo tltlo to navigation Innds. "Such nllonntlon would bo nn Infrin gement tirfon tho nnturnl rlghtB of tho Indlvldunl and subversive of tho purposes of organized government," states tho opinion. Innsmuch nB tho Ynqulnn nnd Al sen nay cases havo not been decided In the Supromo Court tho Governor considers this opinion of vltnl Interest hero. TELLS OF Hlfl DEAL. MIclilgnM Men" iluy Coos County Timber. Tho Eugeno Register anyB: "From William Portor, who recontly return ed from n two months' trip to tho Middle West, wo got the details of thnt $700,000 timber denl In which ho wns Interested with John F. Wood- wnrd, formerly of Cottngo Grovo, but now of Portlnnd. ' The denl consisted of the snlo of 0,500 ncres of good tlmbor land, tho most of It In Coos county, but somo llttlo portions In Douglns. Tho nc tual consideration for tho entire tract wns nbbut 1700,000, nnd the pur- chnsers were F. G. Snnborn and oth ers of Michigan. Mr. Porter and tho Hnynes Co., of Port Huron, Mich., owned or controlled enough of tho pbol to bring In $500,000 of tho purchase money." rancher of Burns, Ore., one of Hill's advisers nnd a companion on tho trip through Central Oregon last year that resulted in tho Increased Interest of tho railroad man In that section. The two had not mot for a long time and their greetings were like thoso of school boys. They started at once to recall ex periences of that eventful Journoy and each declared that ho had more fun then than during nny other simi lar period of his life. Mr. Hill announced that he has ar ranged to tako .anothor trip Into tho Interior of tho state In the coming Spring or Summer, nnd insisted that his friend "BIU" will have to bo a member of tho party. ARE GLAD SAN Coos Bayites Rejoice Over Gol den Gate Winning Panama Exposition Will Boom En tire Coast. Tho newB that San FranclBco hnd won tho l'nnnnm Exposition caused much elation on Coob Day. Evcry- body hero wnB hoping for San Frnn IcIbco'b victory, both from n sym pathetic nnd mercennry standpoints. i "Tho holding of tho exposition I will bo a big thing for every point on tho const nnd Coob Day will en Joy as much or moro of tho benefits proportionately than nny othor point IS TO BE FLOATED Southern Pacific Is Placing $50,000,000 Bond Issue In France. NEW YORK, N. Y., Fob. 1. From nn authority It Ib learned thnt n powerful group of French baukB is negotiating to supply tl)o Southern Pnclllc with J50.000.000. No otjlclnl announcement is expected for several wcoka, but alrondy tentntlvo nrrnngc menta havo been mndo for tho flota tion of tho loan. Tho security will tako tho form of bonds. Tho Hnrrl mnn bankers would not con'flrm tlio forolgn statement whon aeon yester day, Indeed tho Impression created was that no financing -hnd yet been put through. No clntm la nmdo that tho lonn has been finally signed nnd scaled. Hut that tho negotiations will bo cnrrlod to a successful conclu sion Is confidently anticipated. Tho amount proposed, $50,000,000, Is tho 8nmo ns thnt plnccd In Paris tour years ago, Qovernment Engineer in Inter view Says Coos Bay Is to Be Great Seaport. Concerning Mnjor Morrow's visit to Coos Bay, tho Oregonlan prluts tho following: "Commercial possibilities of Coos Bay mado a fnvorablo impression upon Major J. J. Morrow, United States Englneor, who returned Sun day from that port on tho steamer Broakwator. Mnjor Morrow, who hnd gono to Coos Bay to Inspect tho dredging thnt Is being done thoro un der tho direction of tho Government, snld thnt what tho port needed most was a railroad, and whon such a thing Is provided Coos Bay will bo ono of tho important seaports of tho coast. "Ono dredge Is now being operated Inside tho harbor, Major Morrow said, and another dredgo Ib to bo built. With these dredges at work It is ex pected thnt a channel of 18 feet will bo dredged to n mile above Marshflold by another year. "What do you think of tho futuro possibilities of Coos Bay as a port?" the Major was aBked as ho stopped from tho gangplank of the Break water. "It's a good place, but It needs n railroad," ho replied. "Whon a rail road Is built Into Coos Bay It will bo an Important seaport. It has many commercial advantages, and I was very much pleased with what I saw there." "Are you going to make any re commendations favoring Coos Bay?" wns tho next question put to him. "There are no recommendations tp make. Tho government has appro priated $350,000 for building dredgps nnd $120,000 will be provided for working them." DIG LOAN MAJ.MORRDW'S VIEW OF' BAY MSCO GOT IT GLADYS GAGE outside of San Francisco," Bnld one man today. "Coos Day is so well advertised In tho oast, middle west nnd south thnt hundreds who come to tho exposition will tnko ndvantnge of tho proximity nnd low rates to visit this section. Consequently It Is up to Coos Ilny to start right In nnd get rondy for It. Aside from be ing prepared at ' home, preparations should be mndo to hnvo tho lnrgest nnd fluent exhibit possible nt San Francisco. Tho preparations for tho exposition will also attract hundreds nnd thousnnds to tho const In nd vnnco of tho ronl opening of It and T expect to see things booming from now on." ROSEBURG YET Western Union's Line to Coos Bay Still Out of Com mission. Coos Bay Is still without tele graphic communication with tho rest of tho world. Dcsplto tho anticipa tions thnt wlro service would bo re stored Inst night, there wna nothing doing todny nnd Into this afternoon It wnB still uncertain ns to when tho lino would bo ready for business. This morning's atngo brought In n numbor of messages that woro Bent by wlro ns far ns Rosoburg nnd mnll cd from there to tho Marshflold of fice for doMvory. In consequence of tho lack ol wlro aorvlco The Times Is without Its Associated Press service Through tho courtesy of tho Roso burg Rovlow yesterday, Tho Times wna enabled to securo aomo of tho principal nows of tho day, Including tho action of tho Houso of Represen tatives In voting to designate San Francisco as tho official alto of tho Panama Exposition. TAX PROTEST C. A. Smith Company Decides Not to Contest Douglas County Assessment. ROSEBURG, Ore., Fob. 1. At tho request of tho appellant, mndo known In a lottor to District Attorney Geo. M. Drown, representing tho re spondent, Judgo J. W. Hamilton, In tho Circuit Court has dlsmlssod tho appeal of tho C. A. Smith Timber company from tho decision of tho Douglas county Board of Equaliza tion, sustaining Assessor F. L. Cal kins, valuation on the Smith Com pany's timber lands In this county. in a letter to Mr. Brown, tho at torney for tho appellant explains that the appeal was based on tho under standing that other ownora of Doug las county timber would Join tho Smith Company In resisting assess ments. None of these, howovor, did so, and tho Smith Company decided to withdraw from tho suit rather than battle alone. The Smith Company owns 36,000 acres of timber in Douglas county, and on this Assessor Calkins placed a valuation for 1910 of $448,400. Tho average rate per acre of thlB valua tion Is $1.86 higher than tho assess ment In 1909. Tho company claimed, In Its potltlon to tho Equalization board, that tho 1909 valuation was a fair ono and should not havo been raised In 1910, because, It contended, tholr holdings did not Incronso in value. In denying tho petition, tho board said that the assessment was proportionate with that placed on the timber holdings of other corpora tions. The Ladies of tho EPISCOPAL GUILD hope tp give a DANCE FED IlUAIlY 13, at the Odd Fellows Hall, W IS WITHDRAWN m Daughter of Sheriff Gage Suc cumbs to Long Illness at Coquille. COQU1LLE, Ore., Feb. 1. Miss Gladys Gage, daughtor of Sheriff nnd Mrs. W. W. Gage, died nt tho homo of hot parents hero Jnnunry 2S nft or n llngorlng Illness extending over n porlod of three yenra. She Buffered from n complication of Ills. A few months ngo, she underwent nn oper ation nt .Marsh field but It failed to glvo pormnuent relief. Miss Gngo wns twenty yenrs old nnd her onrly demise Is grontly re gretted by n host of frlonds. Tho fu neral wnH held Monday afternoon nt tho Methodist church South, the Rov. T. G. Bunch, pastor of tho Mnrshflold Sovcnth Day Adventlst church olll clnttng. John Denetos Didn't Have Ap pendix Removed First Time As He Thought. John Denetos, a. Greek employed by the Smith-Powers Logging Com pany, this morning underwent nn operation nt Mercy hospital for ap pendicitis. Tho operation wna suc cessful nnd this afternoon ho wna re ported getting nlong nicely. Operations for nppondlcltls nro not ao rnro aa to bo Importnnt flow's but In Denetos' caso It is different for this wns tho second operation for nppondlcltls that Denetos undorwont. Some! tlmo ngo, ho wna stricken w(th appendicitis In Cnllfornln nnd un derwent nn operation there Ho thought It wns removed, In fact ho ppld for having It romoved. Howovor, tho romovnl of tho np pendlx didn't offect n euro. Ho wna troubled with tho old pains thnt tho doctor had told him wns duo to np pondlcltls but not hnvlng nn appen dix, ho could'nt hnvo nppondlcltls. Flnnlly ho wont to a Marshflold physician tho othor dny. Tho symp toms wero thoso of nppondlcltls nnd tho locntlon of tho pain In tho prop er plnco. However, Donetoa mnln tnlncd It wasn't appendicitis becauso ho wna without nn nppondlx nnd showed tho scar to provo It. Dene tos' condition grow worse nnd fln nlly It wns thought that perhaps ad hesions hnd followed tho first oporn tlnn nnd so It wns decided to opornto to effect n euro. Immaglno tho surprlso of tho sur geons whon thoy discovered thnt Do notos' nppondlx hadn't beon removed at all and that ho hnd a rathor se vera caso of It, tho nppondlx bolng bndly kinked. Of course thoy romov ed It. Donotos hns not yot been In formed of tho odd ense. KEPT UMIIKKLLA THIRTY YEARS Fnliliful Old Storm Shield of Dr. James A. Miilllcan, Lent Onco Ton Often, Is Stolen, CHICAGO, 111., Feb 1. A faithful old umbrella which has shielded tho family of Dr. Jaifiea A. Mlulllcan, 6149 Greenwood avenuo, from tho storms of thirty yoars, wns stolen. During tho rain on thnt day tho phy sician lent tho umbrella to E. A. Seek, 6352 Klmbark avenuo, and whllo tho latter was In a store somo ono stolo It. "Tho umbrella belonged to my fathor nnd has beon In tho family for moro thnn thirty years," said Dr. Mulllcnn. "It has been covered sev eral times. , "To persons who nro unnblo to keop tho snmo umbrella for moro than thirty days this may seem In credible, hut it Is true," concluded Dr. Mulllcan with n smile. Try Times' Want Ads. BAD APPENDIX, THOUGHT NOT FAVOR IDEA OF HUSHING WORK Coos Bay Must Hasten to Take Advantage of Opening of Canal. The Idea of hastening tho Impro vement of Coob Bay harbor, If tho Oregon Supremo Court dccldos tho suit of tho Bennott Trust company and tho Southern Orogon compnny In favor of tho commission, bo thnt tho $300,000 bond Issue mny bo disposed of nnd the money mndo available io meeting with much fnvorablo com mon t. "Coos Hay should rush everything thnt will hasten Its dovolopmont bo that It will bo In n position to tnko ndvnntuKO of tho benefits nccrulug to this coast from tho opening of tho I'nunmn canal nnd tho holding of tho Panama exposition nt Snn Francis co," said ono ninn this morning. "There Is no tlmo to bo lost, olthor. Tho cnnnl will bo open two yoara from this fall and two years rolls by mighty quick." Leefe'M VIouh Of It. Englneor Lcefe, who hns chnrgo of the government work horo this morn ing mndo tho following stntomont concerning tho dredging of tho hnr bor: "In your paper of Jnnunry 31, 1911, In an article entitled "Would: Rush Hnrbor Work," you stnto In' one plnco "Engineer Lcefo who hns chnrgo of tho government work horo now hns Informed tho locnl men tho cost of operating tho dredgo Oro gon will run between $30,000 nnd' $35,000 per year. "In tnlklng ovor tho subject of In ner hnrbor Improvements with boiuo of your prominent citizens It wna not my Intention to predict whnt tho cost of operating tho Oregon for a porlod of ono year would bo. "Aa a mnttor of fact, I bollovo, in tho casa of tho dredgo Oregon in ac count of such expensca aa superin tendence, addition to plant, ropnirfl nnd numorous Incidental oxponsos tho totnl cost of taking caro of tho Ore gon for n period of twolvo months will under tho prosent nrrangomont run ovor $35,000 por yenr. Just how much, I mil not nblo to stato. In any evont It would tako a dredgo similar to tho Oregon a numbor of yenra to expond $300,000 on Cook Ilny nnd If tho peoplo nro anxious to rush tholr work of Improving tho In ner hnrbor tho Idea of having sover al dredges on tho Ilny nt onco appeals to mo ns n good ono." NEWSPAPERS LEAD. Everywhere nnd by ovorybody I tho nowspnper being recognized aa the ono euro medium of Intelligent publicity. Even tho clrcua nnd ahow peoplo, tho grontest usora of blll bonrds, nro Inclined toward nows papera In preference to thorn, as tho following Chicago dispatch Indicates: "Tho Showmen's Association and tho American Bill Postora and Dis tributors of tho Unltod Stntes and Cunada parted company In tho mat ter of renowlng contracts and horo aftor othor mediums of publicity, In cluding nowspapers, will play a prom inent I,ar,t, ,n 1'ubllclty campaigns. Tho Showmen's Association lncludqs all tho larger circuses In tho country. Tho lnttor declined to ngreo on ait ndvanco In prices for billing tholr at tractions and declared that tho bill posters' demands for frcq tickets In addition to cash woro oxtortlonate." - n i "IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE" MONTICELLO, la., Fob. 1. "It paya to advertise," At loast, that la what Henry Morrlfleld, a farmer liv ing" near Bollovuo, now thinks, ns tho result of nn ndvertlsomont inserted In n Gnlenn, III., pnpor a short tlmo ago, Mr, Morrlflold beenmo tired or "slnglo blessedness" nnd resolved to find n wlfo by ndvortlslng. Mrs. Amolln Spurgeon of Gnleua nnsworod tho ndvortlsoment In person, nnd will become Mrs. Henry Merrlflold within a few days. Read the Times Want Ads. JiJMJJDMtiifMfllilttlil iiifJ-w,Afc-j