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J IE BEST WAY TO DAM THE SOURCE OE EAVORS IS TO ANTICIPATE THEM SlXT ADVERTISING in The T1MKS ' Put Viiiip Iti-nl I'.nlnln "In (Ecus N I" ADVKKTIHING lit The T1MIC8 III Keep the Income from Your I in-nUhcd Knouts from lapsing! YOU enn really help the family luvenues by renting n few furnished rooinsi mid. If you know how nnd wuoii I j i. so the classified columns 'mi iu:iy keep tluit ll'tlo extra lucomo as "steady bb n clock." Mnwx the Market" Kf f e c 1 1 v o I y J t Will pui 1110 incis nuom your Epcrty before the oyes of nil 'pos fclo buyers" In town. Anil If hro's one of them who ought to Fn It. you'll sell Itl HKMHKK OK AHSOW.UHR I'KKSW iL XXXV RstnblMitil in 1H7H ns The Coast Mail MARSHFIELD, OREGON, MONDAY, JANUARY 8, 1912 EVENING EDITION. A Consolidation of Times. Const MnlJ nnd Coos Hay Advertiser. No. 150 mm LICE UP BI STE issel En Route From Portland to Coos Bay Loses Rudder Off Bar. (USER BREAKS SOON AFTER AID IS SECURED ssscl Far Off Coast and Is Jhoucjht to Be Perfectly Safe. I'l c Btenmor Alliance, bound from irtlnnd to Co'b liny, yesterday lost lr rudder off Coob Hay and after idlng wireless culls for thirty-six iurs In n villi effort to secure help mm here, w,tB taken In tow by thu gnnii'i' Nome C lly en route from Sail FnnclHco to Portland. fKlve minutes after the Nome City Dt a Hue to the Alliance, the huusor roko. jThls wns the last word received vim her at about I o'clock this nft- fS-noon by Agent McGoorgo. Ilowovor the Alllnnre 1h several miles out nf sra, she Is thought to bo perfectly fo and It Is lalrly certain Hint tlio ime City will get another lino on her and tow her safely to Portland. ft The Nome City llrst picked up tlio Llllunco at l:l" this aftornoou. The Alliance lost her rudder early fandiiy morning and then rigged up ? Jury rudder, Capt. Lofstndt hoping tint would servo to bring lilin into art. In tho rough sens, the Jury jdder whb also torn away this inorn- About Ji o'clock Sunday morning. Cgent McOeorgo received a wireless roni Cant. Lofstndt nsklng that as- Istnnco bn sent nnd sent quick ns He Alllnnco wns slowly drifting dorownrd. Mr. McGeorgo cnlled for io tug Columbln to put out to nld tie Alllnnco but Cnpt. Hendorgnrd his slow In responding. An effort lien wns mndo to get tlio tug Oleaiier it Gardiner hut sho could not ho cached. Finally word was sent to io tug Klyhlum ut llandon to put kill to aid tho Alliance. From tho iptnln of tho Klyhlnm, It wns lonrn- Id that the (lleauer was lying nt Em pire Capt. Mageo of the Glonner wns llit'ii reached nnd It was too late for Mm t" go out yesterday and finally tie nut to sea this morning but wns tiuiihlo to locate tho Alliance, and late thin afternoon reported from the JmiKiiia that he had gone up tho boast live miles off shore and had hot Hlghted tho Alllnnco. Angry ut llciiilcrgiuil. The failure of the tug Columbln to go to the assistance of the Alllnnco piny possibly result In charges bolng nod againsi dipt, iiouuergnro ui Hint vessel. I Agent MeGeorgo Is highly wrought Iip over the affair. lie says it it nan nit been for the promise or expec tancy thnt tho Columbia would bo iblo to go to the assistance of tlio Ullance, ho might have got uiinthor (ug out to her sooner. YosuVrdnv, .Mr. McGoorgo states, that after the Columbia did get up stem to go. she went out nnd picked Bin i Minim Kchooner nnd Instead of lenvh'K her In the lower bay nnd pro ceeding to the relief of the Alllnnco, towed tho othor vessel up to the rnllrond dockH nt Murshflold. Mr. McOeorgo Is keoplng u cnreful record of the entire nffnlr nnd will iprobnhly Iny tho niattor beforo tho jovornmont authorities. Around town, tl'o affair Is attract ing much conimont. Thnt it vessel should huvo to llo off hero thirty-six ihours In distress without getting any aid, everybody declares Is deplorable. PATSY IN THOL'ULK. hloat Ilullt on Coos May llenortcd In Distress off Tillamook. A press dlspntch from Astoria to tho Portland papers Saturday stated that tho gasoline schooner Patsy, which was built nt North Bond, to take tho place of tho Ill-fated Osh- kosh which was lost on tho Coliini- Lbla bnr a year ngo, wns In distress soff Tlllnmook. Tho last seen of her ;wns Frldny night. An Astoria dls Jpntch snys: "Tho gasoline schooner Patsy of tho Klmoro lino, Astoria to 'Alsen, was roported In distress n mllo 1 otf Tillamook hny Into last night, nnd tho revenuo cutter Tahonin was or dered from this port to render the vossol nsslstanco. A strong enst wind was blowing off Tillamook bay nt tho tlmo of tho roported distress signals. This morning a wireless message received from the revenuo cutter Tnhomn states thnt sho arriv ed off Tlllnmook bay at 4 o'clock this morning, but had not sighted tho Patsy. It Is supposed tho Patsy has proceeded under sail on her way down tho coast. Tho Pntsy sailed from horo yesterday morning for Al sea. Last night H. H. Haradon, tho managing owner, received a mes sage from Tillamook saying tho craft was In distress Just outside tho II DISTRESS PICKED ANEfflOI GUI rue io end LIFE SUNDAY Alsx McKay Found Uncons cious With Throat Cut Will Probably Recover. Alex McKay, for years a lesldeiit of Coos Hay, was found lying uncon scious In a pool of blood on South Klghth si reel uenr Fliinugun street yesterdny morning. Ills throat wascut and he hud bled profusely. He war, rigid when found, nnd It wub llrst thought thnt he wns dead. i .1. L. Koontz nnd F. A. Sncehl (lis covered him nnd took him to tnu Sacchl homo where ho wns cured for mid tho wound dressed. Tho h.uu ucross his throat was mi ugly one Just missing the Juglm vein. '1 in razor Just touched the trachea but did not sever It. McKay had been drinking hard nud wiih In an alcoholic delirium when restored to coiiscIochiioss. La ter, ho suld that ho had no rccol lection of cutting his own throat nud In fuel .knew nothing nbout It. lie was talren to Mercy hospital w!iere ho Is getting fairly well rc,dny. He will rccovor. i McKay was staying it the lllanco hotel. He nrose and lef there about " o'clock Simdny murium'. lie wont down mid got his two razors nud no more was seen or hoard of him until ho was found ut about eight o'clock lying in the pool of lilooA. McKay Is about thl-ty-llvo years old. He returned roconll" from a n .. In !? I ft nri Tin titia worked at the Nolson Inn Works most of tho time for tin? last row years. Ilo and IiIh wife heraiuo es tranged u few yours nip. She died Homo time ago. McKay iu said to have been in poor spirits fir some tlmo. Ills llttlo daughter makes her home with Mr. nnd Mr J. jWhlo Mnd den. 4 rkad max is found. Corpse of t'likiinwii Discovered in Timber Near (nrdliier. ROSKIH'RG. Ore., .Inn. 8 A long dlstunco telephono cnll Informed Ts T. .lowott, county coroner, thnt the dead body of an unknown man was found about live miles up In the timber from Cnrdluor. The tele- phone connections wore poor nud tlie-j coroue" was iinnble to get moro iiiun the mere fact leclted uhove. Mr lewott will not return before next Monday or Tuesday from the scene 10 i.oi'omotivkk to tow ships tiiu()1'(jh canal ; WASHINGTON. D. C, .Ian. S. No Io-h (ban 10 big locomo llvoi will be required for bund Mni.' hIiIim In the locks of the Pananin Cnnnl, for under no clr cumBlnnros will n ship bo allow ed to nnvlgato tie locks under Its own powor. Two locomotives will tow each ship and two will bo fastened to the atom to act us brnkes. Tho cnnnl commlc pIou has Just nwnrded u contract for one locomotlvo to tho Gon oral Electric Company, nnd If It Is satisfactory 110 others will bo called for. nt a total cost for 10 of $108,010. A A,nVfj TDK WATKHFUONT. Tho aiondnlo nrrlved In yesterday from tho South nnd will lond with lumber nt tho Rnllrond dock. The M. S Dollar will probnb'y snll tomorrow noon, hnvlng tnken on nbout 2.000.000 feet of liinib"M' nt the Smith mill. She will tnko on tho lm'nnco of her enrgo, about 1, 000.000 feet, on tho Columbln river for Shanghnl. China. Tho Redondo, which hns boon on dry dock In Snn FrnnclBco undergo In'g repairs, will sail from there for Coos Ray Tuesday afrnooii whist'lnu buoy nt thut port, and to send a tug. "Whether or not tho Patsy was flying distress signals. Is not known horo. Mr. Haradon bolleves some thing went wrong with tho machinery for a tlmo hut thut tho trouble wns remedied and the schooner pro ceeded on her way. The craft car ries a good spread of sail, and as tho weather conditions outside nro not severe,' she would be In no parti cular danger. "All overland wires to Tillamook nro down." FIGHT I DEGREE Ml GHARGE Goldie Bestscott Arraigned Be fore Justice Pennock Claim Pneumonia Caused Death. Goldlo Ilestscott Is having her pre llmlnnry hearing beforo .IubMco I'en nnck this afternoon on the now churge of murder' In tho first degreo nied ngaliiBt l.or, following the death of Chns. Murray ns n result of the North Front street shooting scrnpo n fw weeks' ago. C. F. McKnlght I lighting the r.cw PORT. REELECTS MIW Port of Coos Bay Commission Holds Annual Session New Projects Adopted. The Port of Coos liny Commission held Its niinual meeting today when the old olllcers woro lo-olectcd for the ensuing year. They are: President I.. .1. SlnipBon. Vice-president W. C. Harris. ' Secretary Henry Songstnckeu. i Treasurer Dr. K. Mlngus. g'ou Is doing was shown by a report gun Is doing wns sown by n report of Secretary Henry Sengstacken on the special dredging It did for tho Port Commission between a point opposite Klrod avenue and tho C. A. Smith mill. The Oregon removed ri'1,000 yards of dirt outside the project at a cost of $3,180 or slight ly more than four cents per yurd. Ah the nverago charge for dredging on oven largo contracts Is about twelve t I'0'' '. tll "K vlng the Oregon Is making on Coos Hay Is plainly illustrated. The commission this morning took the final action approving the plan to have tho Oregon remove about 120,000 yards or dirt from nenr the Cold Storage plant to nenr Port or, widening nud straightening tho cliun nol. Tho commission also approved lOn glueer Robinson's plans for Improv ing upper Catching Inlet near Sum ner. About 27,000 ynrds of dirt Is (o bo removed nud one cut-off mnde. Tho estimated cost Is between $1,200 mid $1,500. The commission n'sn decided to have tho channels In Hiiyncs and North Inlet nurked by piling. Spar buoys wore ordered put In ut the mouth of South Inlet. Tho ordinance prohibiting the dumping of refuso Into tho hay, lakes or streams In this port district was passed this morning. HEAVY RAINS' SINCE FRIDAY lIearly Three Inches of Precipi tation Severe Storms at Many Points. It.M.NF.M.K TO DATK. Tlo totnl rnlnfnll on Coos Ray from Soptember 1, 1911, to 1:13 this morning wits 37.32 Inches, nccordlng to the official government records. i OLD OEFIGERS' With over three Inches of rnlnfnl' slnco Friday evening, Coos Rny line been oiijoylng one of tho good old fashioned showers that Is making up for the dollclency In preclpltntlou that has mnrked tho winter up tr date. Aside from being rather ills ngreeablo to get around In, owing to the wind that accompnnled It, It Wis done no damage In fact tho heavy rain has been welcomed by many of tho loggors who hnvo been walling for some months for a freshet to float out logs cut during the past season. Km mett Pierce, tho Smith-Powers Log ging company, tho Gould camp nhove Allegany and a numbor of over loggors have big runs to get out. While Coos Bay has been getting the heavy rains, central and eastern Oregon nnd less fnvored sections of the northwest have been experienc ing somo real winter weather, cold anj -In.-Vj- -TL'g x"t nff-lffS (Continued on page 2.) ay in irwuo - churge on the ground thnt Murrny's i denth wns due to pnoiimonln Instead of to the actual effects of the bullet llred by Ooldle Bestscott. This afternoon, Dr. Geo. 12. Dlx wns culled ns u witness nud testified that pneumonia caused death and that the bullet wns merely n contri butory cntiBC. Ho was still on the , witness stnnd nt 4 o'clock. ' Tho hearing may not bo completed this afternoon ns a number of wit nesses nro to be examined. i Goldlc Rcstscott Is In ntteiulntic-' nt the trial. TO RUSHIWDRKI U NEIfLl southern Pacific Lets Another East and West Contract Plans For Coos Bay. , Following the iinolllclnl an nouncement by the Southern Pncl Ilc thut It planned to make Coos Ray the principal seaport for Its Kant and West line ncross Oregon, comes the iiniioiinconieiit thnt tl o construction of tho new road Is being pushed vig orously and It niiiy not be long be foro the prophecy Is realized. Fol lowing advises relative to the nwnrd lug of contracts on the eiutern end of thu lino comes tho announcement of tho resumption of work onstwnrd from near Nntron, whore the line will connect with tho present South ern Pacific line. Concerning the hit-, tor, a Natron dispatch says: j "A tralnloud of equipment sent tr I the front by tho Utnh Construction , company mnrks tho resumption of I work on I he Natron-KIninntli rails cut-off. Clenrlng of rlglit-or-way begins at the end of the road ut Ouk rldgo, and, to It is understood bore, preparations nro to be completed for tho grading of nearly six miles moro of tho cut-off. , "Included In tho train were two , carloads of stock and ten enrs of ! equipment for the establishment or tho rump's mid for the operations to I be begun at once. . t "It Is stated Here Hint tuo new contract covoih from stntlon No. 2C10 to stntlon No. 2S10. a dis tance of 30,000 feet, or over live miles. This Is a llttlo over hair of i the dlstnure from Onkrldgo to Suit f Creek Hot SpringH nnd will end the, present work nbout four miles west j of thntjiloco. J "Tho Utah Construction company j nun wnius ul, nvo m-i'i h iik niuointt of equipment hero nil win ter, since the completion of the llrst contract on this undertaking, nud It i Is common report horo thnt the j Southern Pnelflc crfmpnny hns been shurlng In the cost of feeding the 300 hend of stock kept here uwnlt-. Ing tho resumption of work In the uprliig. &,efii$ismmvrtesztrKasxxcrr Naviqation on Upper South Fork Blocked Near Maze North Fork Jam. Two of tho worst log Jams thut hnvo occurred on Coos River In h long time nro now causing serious trouble 011 the north and south forks. The Jams nro tho result of tho rlso tu tho rivers from the fresh ets not being sufficient to enrry out the lnrgo number of logs to bo Ilont ed out. Tho Jam on South Coos River If nt tho Island nbovo tho Maze . About 2.000 logs nro piled up there. Thoy belong 'to Hoeck nnd the Simpson Lumbor company. .Tho river Is falling- thore nnd It Is likely that some donkey engines will hnvo to bo used to pull out tho logs, Yesterdny this Jnm sorlously Incon vonlonced nnvlgntlon on the South Fork. Roth tho Sunrlso nnd Express were caught above tho Jam and wll' not bo able to como down until the Jam Is broken. Tho logs In tho Jam on tho North Fork belong to Kminett Plorqo. This Jnm Is not ns serious ns the'ono on the South Fork. Freshet on ('oqullle. jRoports from Coqulllo aro that the Coqulllo river was bank full there this forenoon but apparently the crbst of tho flood hud roached thoro. Tho water was then nt a standstill Tlio North Fork wns out of Its bnnkr nbove Myrtle Point. So far, tho flood has not bothored tho local railway The Times' Want Ads bring results i LOG JABN GOO HEM R l CDPPLE FILES COITEST T IN COOS COUNTY Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Liljeqvist May Start Vice Crusade to Stop It. L. A. Liljeqvist, deputy prosecut ing attorney, nrrlved here todny noon from Coqullle to hold the preliminary hearing of Ooldlo Ilestscott, churge.) with murder In the first degree. Siio Is accused of shooting Chas. Murray who died nt Morcy hospital a few weeks ago following the shooting af fray on North Front street. Mr. Liljeqvist says that there has been sort of n wave of crlmo in Coos county the Inst few months. Last week, ho Investigated live dlfforen' cases In which it stntutory offense wns charged ami he says the evidence In nil of them Is strong. Rcrt. John son, one of the pintles licensed, was bound over to tho grain! Jury nt Co qulllu Saturday and Is now In the county Jail nt Coqullle. Kllsworth Poole tiled tho complaint against Johnson. Mr. Liljeqvist Is thinking serious ly of Inuugiirutlng a vlce-crusado In this county. Ho attributes most of the crimes to tho resorts In tho vnrl ous parts of tho county. He wll probably have the hearty support of Sheriff Gngo In such a crusade hh Mr Gagn has expressed similar opinions In the past. Returned to Idaho. George Rnrton, the youth who wc? arrested In North Rend a few weeks ngo, then ovndcd Mnrshnl Andorso'' thore mid wns at liberty for awhile hut who was finally rearrested, wns tnken to Idaho Saturdny to nnswer tho churge of breaking Jail In Nex Perco county. Rnrton wnH freed onco oi hnheas corpus proceedings but Mr. Liljeqvist ordered his nrre.U again nud mennwlillo extradition pn pers woro secured by the officer from Idaho. Tho fdaho official left with Barton Saturdny. Coos Illver Trouble. Win. F. Foster, n young mnn work ing nt tho C. A. Smith mill, todin nppenrcd beforo .lustlco Pennock nnd filed charges of assault against hi' Btop-fnther, Andrew Stnnbiick who resides on Coos IMvor. Foster al leges that Saturdny iifternoon Stnn biick attacked and severely boat Mrs. Stnnbiick. llo claims that Los Smith nud wife. Mrs. Al Smith nud Dr. Horrfnll will give evidence tr substantiate the charge. Stnnbiick will probably hnvo his henrlng tomor row hi-fore Justice Pennock. ! f PETTOCASES Informants Must Furnisn Bond or Written Statements From Witnesses. Hoiiceforth It will tnko somothlng 111010 thnn merely 0110 mini's word to start an action against nny 0110 where tho offoiiKo Is mcroly n misdemeanor. This will npply to prosecution of al leged offenders against tlio game lnw as well ns other Weiises. Notlco to this effect wns glvon Jus tlco C. L. Pennock todny by RopiRy Prosecuting Attorney L. A. Llljoq Ist. Ho stilted thnt tho countv court hail decided to try to avoid the expenses of actions where there wasn't sufficient evldonco to wnrrnn' starting them. Consequently they hnvo ndnpted a rule that in tho fu turo, tho Informant must eithor fl1 a bond to cover tho probnblo cost of prosecuting tho cabo or furnish trc deputy prosecuting attorney with n list of tho witnesses and signed sta tements from them ns to what their ovldonco Is. Whother tho now ruling la tho re Hiilt of tho iiumorous gnmo law case that woro started a short' tlmo ngo nnd dismissed by tho grand Jury was not stated but It Is suspected thnt they hnd something to do with It. In enses of felony, tho Justices of tho pence will ho permitted to allow parties to file Informations without first submitting tho matter to tho deputy prosecittlng attorney. If you have anything to sell, trnde, rent, or want help, try a want ad. AG MAYOR WAVE OE GRIME iHEW'RULINGM ! ST I D Begins Action In Circuit Court Attacking Validity of Marsh field Election. VOID BALLOTS AND ILLEGAL VOTES CAUSE Cass Will Probably Come Up for Hearing Soon Recount of Ballots Expected. R. A. Copple has filed nu nctlun In the circuit court nt Coqulllo con testing the election of 13. K. Straw ns mayor of Mnndillold. In his potl Mnu, p.. declares thnt tho small ma jority In favor ol Dr. Straw ns shown on the face of the election returns wns due, ho believes, to Illegal votes and tho erroneous counting of Incor rectly mnrked or void ballots. As yet, no notice of the contest has been served on Mayor Straw. Mr. Copple will he required to furnlah bonds for $1,000 to guarantee thu oxpenso of Uio Investigation It will bo necessnry for tho court to mako. Tho law requires that au answor to tho action must bo mndo not lost than three days or moro thnn Bovcn days utter notice of tho contest Is sorved. The action will probably roqulro the opening of tho ballot boxes and tho recounting of tho votes. It will probably also roqulro -wldonco ns to whether the twcnty-olglit votes chal lenged by the Copplo forces at the polls nro legnl or not. If lllogal, their votes will bo caBt out. Tula v.ould probnblv result In the criminal Moscciitlon of tiny 0110 found voting illegally. Mr. Copplo tinted this afternoon that tho conteac was fllod mcroly for the purpose of witling for all time tho question thnt had beon raised nbout the outcome of tho election. "It Is simply to Insuro n squnro deal," ho said. "I believe I won nud the only wny to dotermlno It now was to llo tho contort " LOIED DEALER Mrs. Clara Richards Formerly .of Marshfield, Bride of Port-. i land Millionaire. Minny Coos county people will bo interested by tho nows of tho mnr rlugo of Mrs. Clara A. Richards to Robert D. Innmnii, tho millionaire lumberman of Portland, Inst Friday evening. Mrs. Rlchurds-Iunninn for mer'y lived In Mnmlillold, having at tended high sc tool horo. Later sho (might school In the Coqulllo vnlloy where her parents rosldod for a time. Then sho married and will ho recalled hero probably bettor as Mrs, CI urn Mauslleld. Sho wan an espe cially beautiful woman. Concerning her mnrrlago, tho Portland Telegram of Saturday says: "Robert D. lnnniun, wealthy lumbor mnn, member of tlio Port of Port land Commission, prominent clubman Mild prci""!t r of nmntour niitomoull Ing sports, permitted It to bo known generally lust night thnt he wns to be married to Mrs. Clara A. Richards nt 3 o'clock this nfternoon. Tho krldo is tho widow -of Albort Rich ards, for years in tho government servlco aboard tho lighthouse tondor Mnnzanlta. "Tho aiiiiouiicomont was that tho wedding would tnko place In tho home of the brldo's sister, Mrs. I, C. Clodfolter, 922 Tlbbetts street, nnd thnt Row J. II. Hnyd, of tho First Presbytorlnn c'Mirch, would officiate, None hut rclutives and intlmato friends of tho couplo was Invltod to witness tho coroniony. Whore they will spend their honoymoon aud when thoy will bo ut homo to their friends upon their roturn hnvo not been announced, "Only rolntlves nnd tho closest friends of tho contracting parties had nny knowledgo of tho romance until tho announcement of tho coming marrlngo. Lnst yenr Mr. Inuman was married to Mrs. .Maud Howard Bryan, but thoy woro d'vorcod flvo weeks Inter. The dlvorceo was mar ried Inst August to Count Kalmnn Cznky, nu Austrian nobleman, In Chi ngo," NOTICK. All mombors of tho Loynl Order of Mooso nre requosted to bo pro sent., tomorrow night. Ins'nlla tlonrof olllcors. 13ach Brothor Moose has tho right to Invito ono gentle- man nnd his lady triona, tor me banquet nnd dnnco. Uy UOHMIllJilS, ,j W MM 1 J