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SMUSWOULDBEGLADTOGETRIDOrOUR EXPERIENCE ATLESSTHAN ITCOST US 0TSSL'SLr i ':".. ,u,oi,i ,, the fact about your I ww '.- ' uo eyes of all "pos- Eipew "p. iij town. And II !' wi thorn who ought to B, S-iT - dons a ttnB MEMUEIt OP ASSOCIATED PRESS ijstflbllshcd In 1878 ., Tho Const Mnll WANT ADVERTISING In Tlio TIMS. Will Keep tho Income from Yon; Furnished Rooms from Lapsing YOU can really help tlw fatally tovcnuea by renting a fow furnlshod rooms and, If you know how anil whon to U8o tho classified column, you tnny keep that Uttlo extra lncomtt as "stondy as a clock." MMHKSMHMnHeBHBKar MARSHFIELD, OREGON TUESDAY, MAY 21, 1912 EVENING EDITION. ; MESON EXECUTED IN MASSACHUSETTS EARLY TODAY L Electrocuted for Mur- def of Avis Unnell at Boston. takf HODY TO OLD HOME IN VIRGINIA Drnnnsn Electric Chair IvisedtotnaDieuuiiviuia i Execute inemsuivus. ASTfiD AGAIN UNDER ARREST Seer Who Was On Coos Bay ana wno rieecea uaptain O'Kelly In Trouble. Astro, or tho "Groat Alexander", who spent sotno tlmo on Coos Day throo years ago and who subsequent ly worsted Capt. J. A. O'Kelly out of a consldornblo sum In San Francisco Is ngaln In trouble In Now Orleans. Capt. O'KoIly Is nnxlotiB to havo him prosecuted and probably will endeav or to coopcrato with tho authorities In bringing him to tlmo. Astro or Aloxandor was decidedly clover as tho scores of Coos Day poo plo who saw his show at tho Odd Follow's hall horo will romornbor. Ho wnn declared by somo to bo tho best hypnotist they over saw. Concerning him, last Thursday's San Francisco Ilullctln printed tho following: "Dr." Claudo Alcxandor Astro, nllns Conlln, famed as n llndor of lost heirs, "when tho consideration Is right," tho evil gonitis of Dctcctlvo Sorgonnt Joseph Redmond, and tho man who led tho officer a merry chaso across tho contlnont and finally cost him his place In tho dotcctlvo bu reau, is In troublo with tho pollco at Now Orleans. Wnnl ciimo to tlin local nollco Idon- prison slnco tho olcctrlo chair tlflratlon bureau this morning that lopted. it was oniy necessary i Astro had opened n clairvoyant parlor I; tho current onco. Artor tno, in tho Crescent City; that ho had been takon into custody as a suspic Luoclated Pross to Coon Day .,MLf mom.. May 21. Doug- EdtioD, of Chicago, a brother rv..J... rlcrcvman. Claroncd Rl hcaon, who paid tho ponnlty mnrdorof Avis Llnnoll in tho chair In tho Btnto prison. Just Dldalght, claimed tho body to . tAv will bo taken back to u home In Virginia If his wishes irrled out and burlod In tho llt iaetery t Armhcnst Court i Tho last worua a mu iu "iro committed to tho grnvo I Slid by too hot. Jiuruuri o. . n lioston. ltlchoson'a isil'advlBcr after ho waB tnkon it ceain uuuou. u,...o.. ...uw fcrrr messages irom mo oxccui mrtMtr to rolatlvos. L.tnn loft no will but in n con- Eion with Johnson and Wllllnm bra, his counsel, gavo directions k lh disposition 01 ins pornonui Ills library goes to cioncai Did Not Fuller. idccutlon Is said by oomo wlt- i to havo boon tho most success ful of tho fourteen hold in tho A CotMolldntloii of Times, Coast Mall nml Coon Hay Advertiser. No. 263 BOOST, BROTHERS, BOOST! We cannot all be Doctor Straw, And boss the Marshficld board. We cannot all become the gent Who wins the town's reward. We cannot all become the guy Who rules the highest roost, But one thing we can do, say I That's boost, my brothers, boost! This town is a little hotter town Than anywhere you'll hit; There's naught on earth can keep it down If we keep boosting it. Let's lay the rails; let's let a yell By local pride produced There's one thing all can do as well That's boost, my brothers, boost! When any fellow slatts to knock This town in any ay, Our dads to dig, our maids to mock, Our local folks to flay Just take the knocking one aside, And 'ere your hold ts loosed, Just whisper gently "Darn your hide, Now boost, you knocker, boost." DEMOCRATIC ADVANTAGE III STRIFE i Friday It wns foarod Itlcho- toiild not bo nblo to stand tho trsln but on tho wny from tho fo the execution chnmbor his did not falter and ho anBWorod IcMtlons of his faith In God put i by a spiritual advisor calmly. thin a fow days tho donth houso i occupied by Lona Cusamnno Enrico Mnscloll, sentoncod to k for the murdor of tho woman s :d during tho week of Juno 2. I EXKCl'TK THEMSELVES Imjiortaiit ClmugoM In System of I.lecfrucutlon. edited Press to tho Coos Day Tlmos.) IMBRIDQR. Mass., May 21. kt D. McQrath, medical oxnm Kf Suffolk county and nno of tho iki of Ilov. RIchoson'B oloctro- lll recommend sovorul Ini- it chances In tho manner of M murdorors to death. Uo bo- i lUt death should ho brought re Quickly ond by tho prlsouor Ml. He exnocts ovontunllv the lll bo devised so that tho c'r will brine about IiIh own pn. the functions of tho body Mtically throwliur on tho cur- ld bringing death. BFllir..W FROM OREGON pjolinwii, avi, Attended Ilov. fon. Fonncili- at Kiiirono. GE.E, Ore,, May 21. Ilov. t S. Johnson, lnontlonci! In 'a dispatches as being tho mln cirlng for Ilev. Rlchosnn tho nV, Is n graduato of tho Unl- lJ oi Oregon, son of tho Into dtnt J. V. Johnson, and now i ' Baptist preaehor of Doston. ll0s mainly among tho poor and tuusie I JOHNSON PLANS BATTLE & Champion Will Beam raining Soon for Bout with Jim Flynn. I Associated Press to Cooa Day Tlmos.) VEGAS v t .. oi . , ' ill, iUU w Jonnson win m-ri i,.. c.. to beeln trii-' V" V.T ...; . - lynn Ju,y Fourth, accord uatne&s!ii7A rAinin,i i.-A tn,inn fl lll lOaVft Olllxncrn T?rl.1nv "Panled bv hia irin nm an. "" '4nTT". . . . . TSyTOFm,TV: OUT "U'lrirn it! MDismi WAoy0clatel Press.) WASHiNGT0N D. c ' May t the ( browrios through- ,'h.t . .uuir' w aetermino DoVfn r' w,u be mad0 Id Dbi.1.. ". ,.ul0' Mlt0.ne rd n' ut U1 Pur Iooa ra- Thev mm i.ii 4i. .i Wnn t0.,,nd 0Ut aU thero 4 4illu"ut mailing- Doer. Ions chnrnctor nnd that his record In this city was very much desired. Tho tnBk of proparlng tho record was given over to Dotoctlvo Sergeant Ilodmond, who, slnco his oxporlenco with Astro, hns been restorod to IiIb old position, nnd this Is n part of what Redmond sent on to tno soum orn pollro department: "Dr. Claudo Aloxandor Astro, al ias Conlln, wnB arrested horo with a young womnn namod Stella Tynan, alias Mantoll, on Novombor 29, 1909. Tho complaining witness against tho couplo wns Jasper O'Kolly, a wealthy resident or Coos nay, nnu Known thoro as tho "towboat king of Coos Day." Kookn .Slop-Daughlpr. O'Kolly enmo to San Francisco nf tor tho death of his wlfo at Coob Day to soarch for his 18-year-old stop dnughtor, who had boon missing for n numbor of yours. Tho mothor, on hor ilcnth bod, had naked tho hus band, to find hor, nnd rcstoro to her $2,000 worth of family Jowols thnt Jmd been loft by tho girl's own fath- 1 On ronihlng tho cliv. O'Kelly was ndvlsod to consult Astro, who main tained olaborato apartments on low er .Mnrkot street. Ho visited Astro s establishment, mado known his mis sion and exhlbltod n plcturo of his dead wlfo. Astro said that ho bo Moved that ho would bo ablo to help tho old man Ills first help wns to socuro pos sosslon of tho photograph of O'Kol ly's doad wlfo Without tho know lodgo of O'Kolly, ho had this picture roplod and gavo tho copy to tho T nnn lrl. Later ho sent word to O'Kolly that ho had found his long lost dnughtor, and sent him to n Mnrkot street apnrtmont houso to seo tho girl. ,,. At tho npnrtmont houso O Kollj mot Stella Tynan, who posed as tho long-lost daughter. Hor only proof to hor claim was tho copy of tho plc turo which Astro had had made. It was enough for tho old man, how over. Ho gavo tho young woman a largo sum of money, turned over to hor $ 1,000 worth of tho family Jew elry nnd mado an appointment to moot hor tho noxt day. Hor falluro to keop this appolntmont lod to a pollco investigation and Ilodmond was dotallod on tho caso. Arrested at Station, Dotcctlvo Redmond arrested Astro nnd tho girl at tho Southern Paci fic station. They had purchased transportation east and woro await ing tho coming of a train when ta ken Into custody. Astro was released on ball and forfeited $2,000 when ho fled tho city. Ho was later capiurou "" Springs, Ark Senator Stone, of Missouri, ''' Tells of Breach Between Taft and RooseveltEx pects Victory. (Dy Associated Press to the Coos Day Tlmos.) WASHINGTON, D. C, May 21. In an address In tho Sonato today on "Tho Modorn Damon nnd Pythias and correlated subjects portalnlng u current politics," Senator Stono, of Missouri, amid roars of laughtor, told of tho latter day rolntlons of Taft and Iloosovolt. Ho said It had been a caso of "two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as ono," until tho MImy nnd poison oiis sorpout of ambition crawlod across tho path thoy woro walking nnd divided thorn. Doth had tasted tho blttcr-sweot of powor and liked It ovor much. Doth wore tomptod, both fell. "So instead of peaco wo havo war, war with knives and knives to tho As a consoauonco of this ferocious contest, tho country nnd world is trontod to a sorles of spec tacular stunts in politics without par allel In tho hUtory of tho country nnd which I dovoutly hopo will not do again repeated." Stono referred to La Follotto's par ticipation In tho campaign nnd to tho amusement of tho Sonato nnd read samples "Of pollto exchanges of compliments," among tho throo re publican candidates. Ho said ho must grunt that Taft, "Innntoly n gentleman" was ovldontly roluctant to enter upon "this ruffian fight." Ho asserted, however, thnt tlio Inst words of "this black chapter of Amorlcan history" will bo wrlttt.i in Chicago. " say tho last chapter," ho added, "bocauso I cannot bollovo that nftor this storm or strlfo nnd theso exposures, tho American elect orate will consent to roturn tho re publican party to powor." Ho con cluded with tho stntomont thnt tho democratic candidates aro conduct ing themselves with n sonBO of pro CUBAN REVOLT PPED III BDD S ) STILL AROUSED Conspiracy Among Negroes on Island Discovered and Many Are Arrested. (Dy Associated Press to Coob Day Times.) WASHINGTON, May 21. Tho Cu ban government has oxprossod con fidence thnt tho recently dlscovorod conspiracy of tho uogro olomont oni ' .1.1 L V,i . ri.u win nuriwRfuMv I tho Industrial Workors of tho World ami persons connocieu wun inoir Proposed Mass Meeting Can celledGovernor Johnson Sends Attorney There. (Dy Associated Pross to Coos Day Tlmos.) SAN DIKGO, Calif., May 21 Sen timent In opposition to tho project ed demonstrations by citizens ngaiust nnd Detective Red- ' .i ...ii. otrniiiUnn naners, was (UUI1U, nil" v... ,..,i sent on for tho prisoner. While flKhtlng against extradition. Astro broke "foil in Arkansas and when re captured was seriously wounded. Deforo his recovery Redmond was recalled to this city by former Chief of Pollco John Martin and was ad vised on his return that he could don a police uniform and go back on StA?!ordUthe fight to extradite Astro had been abandoned by the local po llce ho was given his liberty by ho Arkansas authorities and nothing more "aa beard of Mm until word came of hia arrest at New Orelans. bo supprossod according to State De partment advises today from tho Amorlcan logation In Havnna. In tho provlncou of Santa Clara and Plnnr Dol Rio, a largo numbor of negroes woro nrrostod on tho chargo of being Involvod in a revolution conspiracy, FKAIt MOltH TUOUDLi: Govci'iniiont May Do Suppressing In formation, (Dy Asso-latod Pross to Tho Coos Day Tlmos.) HAVANA, Cuba, May 21 Tho Cuban government disclaims nny further knowledge regarding tho up rising of tho nogroos but tho opinion Is spreading that conditions aro be coming moro serious. It Is credit ably reported today that two armed partlos aro oporatlng In tho Province of Malanzn hitherto reported tran quil. Ordors were issued today for additional troops to bo prepared to take tho Held. The newspapers com plain that tho government Is holding up press dispatches from tho dis turbed districts. In a skirmish at Mangullo near Guantanamo, two ru ral guards woro killed. Tho loss of the negroes was not ascertained. Trouble nt Santiago SANTIAGO, Cuba, May 21 There Is great unrest and gravo apprehen sion throughout this vicinity. NOTICE TO NAVAL MILITIA All members of tho Coos Day ( di visions of tho Oregon Naval Ml itla are requested to meet Tuesday night at 'tho Armory when nrrangemonts for relnlistment and for tho annual cruise will be made by Lieut. G. J Dlomborg, executive officer or the U. S. S. Doston, who will bo present. Bv order or CAPT. T. J. MACGBNN, Commander. trials dovolopod today, nnd it is said the mass mooting at tho court houso planned ror tomorrow morning might not bo hold, Tho demonstration was planned to show that San Diego Is in sympathy with J, M. Portor, tho alleged vlgllanto lender, who Is scheduled to appear In court tomor row to show cause why ho should not bo Judged guilty of contompt of court becauso or tho allegation that ho had lnterrored with Attornoy Fred II, Mooro in his dofonso of a cllont connected with tho so-called "Froo Speech" campaign horo. Stato Sen ator LeRoy A. Wright, nttornoy for Porter, advlsod against the demon stration and said that nothing which could bo construed as an effort to Influence tho court should be dono. OV. JOHNSON ACTS. Sends Attorney Geuerul to Run Diego Toiluy. (Dy Associated Press to Coos Day Times ) SACRAMENTO, May 21 Govern or Johnson Issuod a formal state ment today regarding tho Industrial Workers of tho World In San Diego in which ho announced that he has Instructed tho attorney general to proceed to San Diego Immediately. Governor Johnson snys ho Is con vinced of tho accuracy or tho report made recently by Commissioner Har ris Wolnstock on tho condition In San Diego, HOWARD'S genutno MEXICAN TAMALK8 delivered any place In the city until 13 O'CLOCK at night. They aro HEADY to 8KRVE. I'hone 835. LIGRT VOTE BEING CAST IN BETTING ON ROOSEVELT NSNVVWWWV RAILWAY NEWS OF COOS BAY Don't rorget PHONE 81J. tno Turkish Daths. Interest Centers In Council Meeting Wednesday Many Rumors Afloat. Asldo from tho Interest being manifested aB to tho probable action that tho Marshtlold city council may take tomorrow night on tho Southern Pacific's application for a frnnchlso, thoro was llttlo nowB In tho railroad situation horo today. No ono would hazard a guess as to what turn tho franchise mnttor mny take Tho rumors concerning activity on tho Coos Day nnd Dolso project and tho possibility of C. A. Smith gottlna; bohlnd It and hastonlng it to comple tion woro ngntn in circulation todny but no ono appeared to know Just whoro thoy started. Another rumor nflont today in con nection with tho frnnchlso mattor wan that tho Southern Pnclflo was considering n plan to tunnel under Knob Hill to tho gulch nnd then giv ing down Fourth street to connect up with tholr present proportlos. Doth C. J. MIIIIb nnd W. F. Mlllor were nt Coqulllo this afternoon and nolthor could be scon about It. How ever, tho authenticity of It Is doubtod. No News of Contracts. No word has been rocolvod hole rolatlvo to tho awards of tho sub contracts on tho construction of tho last OG miles of tho road from Hu go ne. It was oxpoctod that thoy would bo announced nt Snn Fran cisco tho first of this week by tho MncArthur, Porks Co. It was reported In this connection thnt tho Southern Pacific was planning to put In a dock Immediately at Sand Point to rocolvo construction material and supplies. This Is doubtod ns Mr. Hitchcock when horo stntod positlvoly that thoy wound not lmvo any bnso of supplies nt Sand Point. DntlgvH to Gardiner. It wns stated today that tho South ern Pnclflo or Warren Rood had closed a deal whoroby tho two Larson dredges will bo tnkon to Gardlnor within n short tlmo to do sonio ox tonslvo work nlong tho lower Ump qun. It Is presumed thnt tho dredg ing will bo for tho construction of now docks thero to unload equipment and nmtorlnl for tho coiiiitructtou crows both wnys out of Gardiner. Work Noxt Vonr. In a letter from Portland, n Mnrsh flold mnn who hns boon In confor onco with soino railroad moii thoro states that thoro will bo llttlo doing on tho Coos Day end of tho road this year. Do claims that tho tunnol work will bo profocutod from tho Gardiner end nnd that tho balanco of tho construction down North Slouch will bo dono noxt Bummor nnd will bo completed whon tho rest of tho road Is. Ho did not nnmo tlio sourco of his Information. This would moan that Gardiner would bs tho center of activity this year. Property for Marsh. C. II. Mnrsh stoted today that ho hmi lmiicht tho 8. C. Drown proporty nt Third nnd Commercial for himself, Iln nnld that ho boilRllt It With Uio expectancy of turning It soon, having secured It on tho pnrtlal payinont ba sis. Ho donlod thnt Right of Way Agont Ducll was Interested In tho purchaso In nny wny. Negotlntlons for somo other Com mercial nvonuo nronorty aro report ed to bo undor way today but thoy havo not reached a doflnlto stngo. Numerous salos oi small outlying proportlos hnvo been mado during tho last ton days. Fair Weather Keeps Farmers From Polls Despite Great Interest In Result. ODDS BEING WAGED ON ROOSEVELT AND HARMON Roosevelt and Taft Return Home to Get Ready for New Jersey Campaign. (Dy Associated Press to Tho Cooa Day Times.) COLUMDU8, Ohio, Moy 21 Tito indications in Clovolnnd aro that onTv forty per cout of tho voto will bo cnni. jNumorous wngors aro bolng mnito wun iioosovou and Harmon no slight favorites. It la estimated nt Cin cinnati that twenty-five or thirty per cent of tho total voto of Hamilton county will bo cast. Other cities report a rathor low avorago of tho total enrollment iui voting. Out of tho twenty dologntos to tho republican stato convention, fourtoon nro oxpoctod to bo for Iloosovolt an thoy nro uncontested. (Dy ABSoclntod Pross to Cooa Bgf Time.) COLUMDUS, Ohio, Mny 21. Tho Taft loadors early declared thnt tftu bright sunshine with which prlmnrjr day dawned Is Jndlcatlvo of a sura victory for Taft. Many fnrmore, they said, nro fnr bohlnd with tholr sprlnu work nnd will not leavo tholr labors to vote. Tho Iloosovolt supporters continued to claim a majority of tiro, delegates. TAFT GOIC8 EAST Will Soon Start Campaign In New Jcrnoy. (Dy Associated Press to Tho Coon Day Tlmos.) CINCINNATI, May 21 President Taft will lonvo for Washington to day and will then propnro for tito primary election in Now Jorsoy. NEW JKII8EY IS NEXT. Itoowolt Returns Homo From Cam- tmlgn In Ohio. (Dy Associated Pross to Coos Day Times.) NUW YORK, Moy 21. Col. Itooay volt returned from tho primary cam paign In Ohio todny nnd wont to lift homo at Oyster Day to remain for ' sovcral days boforo engaging In tho prlmnry fight In Now Jorsoy. Iloot volt was pleased with tho campaign In Ohio nnd whon askod regarding tho outcome remarked, "I am a hot ter warrior than prophot." MUNKKY DMNIKH HUMOR Says Iloosovolt Hum Not lromlsfI 1 1 1 nt IlritlNli AinhuNMndortdiljt. (Dy Associated Press to Cooa Day Times.) NHW YORK. Moy 21. Frank A. Muiisoy authorized today u donlnl of tho statement published to tlio effect that Roosevelt had promlsod him tbo ambassadorship to tno Court of Br, Jamcti In event of Roosevelt's election. TO NOMINATE HOOSIJVELT Win. A. Prondorgast of Now York To Make Convention Hpootli. '.Dy Associated Prosi to Tho Cooa Day Tlmos,) WASHINGTON, May 21 William A. Prondorgnst. comptroller of tho City of Now York, has boon chosen by Col, Rosovolt to mnko tho speech placing him In nomination at Chica go noxt month. engagi:mi:.nt is announced rri, fniimuinf from tha Portland Telegram will bo of Interest to tho many Coos nay menus oi mu ju nines ramlly who rormorly resided hero: Miss Dronto Jennings was tho in spiration ror n lunchoon glvon Frl- ilnv nt .Tannines' I.odu'O. at which hor engagement to Robert Cravnt was an nounced. Tiirougnout mo nouso nog wood blossoms nnd green tollago woro offoctlvely usod decorations. Tho contor of tho tnblo was a profusion of smilnx, pink rose-buds and narcissus. Tho guosts woro Miss Jennings, Miss Florence Jennings, Miss Edna Lewis, Miss Suslo Klklns, Miss Anna Rogers, Miss Pearl Flnloy, Miss Gortrudo Nolson nnd Misses Margaret and May Maschor. YESTEHDAY IN HISTORY AVIATOR KILLED BY FALL TODAY' Fred J. Southard, of Minneap olis, Drops 100 Feet at Osborn, Ohio. (Dy Associated Pross to Coos ny Times.) XHDIA, Ohio, May 21 Fred J. Southard, or Minneapolis, an aviator roll ono hundred root on tho Wright aviation Hold noar Osborn early to day and was instantly killed, DOUI1LEB ACROSS CHANNEL Tho first gramophone or talking machine of tho kind genorally In uso was invented In 1887 by Emtio Dorllner, a German-American, who was born n Hanover sixty-one yoars ago yesterday, May 20. 1861. An unfilled want causes unhappl qcbs Times Want Ads bring results. Dvlgiuu Aviator Makes Long Fllni Todny. (Dy Associated Press to Tho Co4 Times.) DOVER, England, Mny 21 ir Croinbors, a Delglan aviator, crossnl' tho English channol from Nluport, Delgium today, circled over the Sib ing port of St. Margarets with a wide', graceful swoop and without landing; started to return across tho cbamual, taking tht( direction of Calaui, a city of France.