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About The Siuslaw pilot. (Florence, Oregon) 1913-1916 | View Entire Issue (April 9, 1913)
FATHER AND TWO CHILDREN LOST IN THEMOUNTIANS Dewitt Stevens, Daughter Esther and Son Jesse Spend the Night In Mountians Without Food or Shelter Neighbors Turn Out and Search. j - Absent Twenty-Six Hours i Dewitt Steyeps and two child- by the rest of the' family. The ren, Esther, aged 10 years, and time Pragged on until the follow- Jessie, aged 12. were lost in the ingmomiug without sign of them I mountains near them 'home for < A search party was organized twenty-six hours without food or consisting of Phelp’s entire log- shelter The family own and ging crew and all the neighbors live on what is known as the which .scoured the hills forniltes: Albert Bristow place on Indian. , m livery direction. Monday morning Mr. Stevens Some time during the forenoon took the two children mentioned Mr. Stevens came in carrying the and started for Ind hills in search little girl who was nearly ex- of a band of goats that «had been hausted. Other than being very’ missing for some time. The lit- much fatigued the trio are all tie girl wore neither hat or coat, right, though they probably do expecting to be gone only a short not care to undergo the same ex time, Nothing was thought of perience again. Mr. Stevens the matter ubtil the afternoon, says that where they stayed all and when they hadn’t returned night couldn’t have been more considarable uneasiness was felt than two miles from home. *LETpi MAPLETON- HOTWATER GENE' STAGE EUGENE SYSTEM AND OVER-TURNS BATHSPUT IN BARK MIMI OVER TURNS AT NEHALEM Efforts To Salvage Vessel Fail When it T w ys Turtle ^ CLUB TO BE A LOCAL BOOSTER ORGAIZATION Several boosters for the Siuslaw are solici ting membership for a Siuslaw Commercial Club with headquarters at Florence.- They intend to securea perm anent’club home, fitting it up and pu ttin g ,a man [in- charge. The move is on an its a g . Somebody is a fte r you. *Preliminary arrangem ents arez being made. It is intended to make the entrance fee and dues large enough to maintain the headquarters. Enough have already promised to assure an orgahizatiqn. 4* Washed Into the Sea; Four Are Rescued . By Life Saving Crew A fter , - Twenty-four Hours . Exposure §ix- Bay City Or., April 7. The German bark Mimi which wen to rn ii 7 H 7 " l b SPÌt ° f Nebak‘m nCar,y tW° ' months **<>• t rned turtle Sunday morning. An engineering company was endeavoring tosalvgc the vessel, and had been a t work several, “She was kedged into deep water only to be overturned by action of wind and rough water. Heavy seas washed over the f . wre^ck and 16 of those on board were, washed into the sea. None' of the bodies have been recovered yet. « The known dead include Captain Albert Crowe, of Portland surveyor for Lloyds, Russell Blakman, secretary of thè Fisher Engineering company ;O. S. Estes, of Brighton, Oregon; C. W. xSibb, of North Plains. Oregon; Jack. Fritzpatriclc, Brighton Ore gon; Willie Kuschons, cabin boy; an unknown sailor who died from exposure, and about 15 sailors of the Mimi. . The Garibaldi life saving crew made a heroic run to the vessel in power boat this morniifg ami succeeded in taking from the Tigging Captain JZW. Westphal, of the Mimi; Captajn Charles S. Fisher, president of the Fisher Engineering company; F. Ludwig' àndT. Kuschons. They had lashed themselves to the rigging, and had withstood the terrible suffering toVhieh they had been ex posed for over twenty-four hours?' The Mimi is a total wreck. Little will be saved for her owners or the insurance companies. Wreckage strews the beach for miles WATori^who' returned from Chief Engineer Naylor informs "" — R— ~ ~ ______’ Eugeni- Sunday is authority for us that the hot waJee-cSiTis now’ the following concerning . the installed, which adds to the ef WOOLEN STORE WILL BE overturning of th<‘-*east ’bourfd ficiency of the miU from ten to LOCATED IN FLORENCE stage 'Saturdajrevening. As th e1 fifteen per cent. The cold wateff II. L. McLcx1, who has -been " ’ F \ i > 'a r r i v e d at instead of being pumped direcly with- the Brownsville Woolen (Tiles Fowler’s place where th e y in to the boiler, goes through 100 Mils Store, of Eugene, for some sto] over-night, they found feet of two inch pipe inside of an ------ time has been in Florence sev >ral that the east ftiund stage had eight inch cast pipe 25 feet long, Heavy Rails A re Being Substituted For Light Ones On Walh-r Whiaman » •„ ' la:'" n“ kil' 1' Pnlimin.ry the' Eugene End of the Willamette * overturned ove a bank forty ft. backward and forward, so that from Bolin-, IwKiHK lm mih lc high it/ ’I, river. There was when it enters the boiler it is Pacific Railroad a slid- ir ti road n i not having nearly to the boiling pdint. Where i . / ____ M . J ^Abuildiug 30x60 feet is to be Mapleton has a new industry, built for'him on lot three, block any lights w -e una ie to .see it. it kept two*'men busv firing be-1 r> / u , ‘ ’ 'ler imped in and cut fore this was installed’, one now th t ™ck*ayl" K Krade was completed. Eu I he only steam laundry on the block one, original toivn site by i j j xv , u* . ,,uvv the Willamette Pacific todav. gene Guard ‘ ryer. It is owned and operated , Mr, O’Kelley, secretary of’ the" h ii h , , °" e ,do' s. t .e " ' ? “ d Wlth • Heavy rails have already been - ____ by W. E, Wells, He has pur- Harbor-Suurid and Investment no t huh it > got out im- milch heavier lead to carry. The,™,.^,;,,,, ,i f . ,v »* „ mediately unharmed. The acci- mill is now getting d o w n ,to a inu M„i h v '.k /u s A p ^our 'oada of construction rails chased anew $65 machine, and Company. deni ocurred almut haH past working basis and everything is is to n bave- been distributed a iimogei mrfngel in a iew few days. days, The a i r - x xv" xv uihinouiea between between expects a. I be store will carry ‘ a line o of f ie , J , ' v a rap C lead" ^ tothe/ na- Mapleton an Acme recently. One. At Pr^ n t he is doing hand iron- clothing, furnishing goods hata t—- eighi and t w a^atkat half past beginning to run smoothly,- The, te „mail " ' ZJ6 f8 ° n y f ' °ad WaS I>Ut off ^t.Chiirley Cpx’s jln^ rough dry” , hut will soon «ho -s, ladies'wixilen dress gisxto ton when by the united efforts of long enforced idleness of the x L q S p a, r g ? P " ^ nt P ^ j u s t « h o v e Acme. have a complete plant in opera- and Eugene W .X n Mid the .stage passengers and Mr. mill with the machinery exposed i " ’. T At MaP|eton Mapleton they thev are art» getting CZTjfftrt«» tl0"- tlOn. The I mail mill I boat 1 n >RY will will collect /•ollor** blankets. FoWler the other horse was got- to the salt air had caused it to I : and the immediate object f is to , At ten out. They worked all night corrode, which of a necessity! crogs:nir ()f p p ' rs ^ lf‘‘ «team shovel and dinky ready 1 an,J deliver the work free. Mr. McKee left Wednesday witMhe horse but at last accounts would take a long time to g e t, a haif ^ ile west of crosaing * 7 the. g^ und e x J _ R Nicole’s wharf broke loose morning for outside points and rlx WaS-rvnab‘!_ 10' get UI? n his I bnghtened UP and in work- ! This is preliminary to the regu- A bfg house toa't X t ^ h l , a"d will return early in May, and will feet. The stage turned over ing order. be accompanied by his wife to jcr tarck laying and will enable been tied up at the island“ opt“ down.the river. four or five times before landing The company are ^installing a W, S. Gilmore is up from Flor to make his home on the place in the river the driver going over series of shower baths, for use the company to store materials site Acme, has been rented and north of town known as the Mrs. with it. With the exception o f 1 of the employes, with hot and nearer the scene of work pend- will be fitted up as a b im k and ence helping Jack complete the Holden homestead. He has filed Clow building. ing the time iavin„ when it can push . cook z \ f,few bruises he was uninjured cold water, that can be tempered tne iracK c house this Piece of land and has n ion thi» the track laying to Portola. | Several motoifboats are kept and was able to go on the next to any degree and which will be f ‘ ♦ M L Several n ; Une of trie teamsters was , make all the arrangement to have morning. One sack of mail and great convenience. E. S. D yerJ V T^oJnSn r ^ i „ ay,n?’ bu8y ,n the employ - - of , the -------- con- thrown, of a wagon and got a a neat little bungalow built by some other loose baggage was is looking after the installing of chanre 8aid that on h - v - L tra«<" r8 now establishing, camps badly bruised face Saturday. ( Mr. Smalley upon i t Work will washed away. The mail sack them. , charge, said that 30 days fine on tide water and much activity H. A. S tarrett of Starrett & 'cornmence at once. A road is that floated away was known as I H. D. Chamberlain is m aking! T t h a t ’ reil c o u ^ Wh° “re Hovey, was in this locality a few 1 also l>e' ng cIeared out to where Brass Lock First class and was some repairs to the office in the S d to P o ^ a and t h ^ t ♦ n Every thing ,ndi‘ eays last week, , , the house will be put up. Mr. laid to rortola, and that they cates railroad work will be rushed supposed to contaiun valuable store buildin g which in the ' wou¡d |ay f. hona there . a u t o o m ,rx ......... willing to help soon as at many points soottt " msll ftiatter such as pay checks future will be œ used as a |s p o k in g „„ their “ S ’ ■ , ^ X he‘h e " i £ reports etc. It weighed 75 lbs. pay office. A door is being cut at the ship yard. arid , was recovered by -E?rreÎÀted î° read for the Siuslaw , ---- Lester in the west end facing the street will be a booster for his part of bar-O ne hour later for Florence Ogden who foundjt lodged in the and a railing will extend from J. H. Porter was down from Lane count. ------ -------— Swiss Home Sunday. overhmging branches of a Maple the east side of the door across HIG H T ID E S L O W iflD E S H a.m. am . lit. p.m. l i t tree about a mile down stream the office leaving a passage way T am . lit . p.m . l i t Jodie Wisdom went up to 1 M apleton S chool S tandard 4 , 7.1 7.1 7.1 ,¡10:131 7.1 T .. A p ril 3 : 3 f t 3 .7 4SI«' 0 .0 from the accident. Lt was taken about five feet wide shut of from i *><£• Apr 2 1 . . . . . J [ 0 * : :5 5 1 ! 7 .2 1 0 :4 7 7.4 r.< W ed, A p r ii Brown’8 logging camp on Lake ized - The Mapleton , school has 4 A3 4 A o j O.o . . 1 0 :3 0 7 .4 -I«..».I l | l l : 1 7 l 7 A > S T h u ., A p r ii to Giles Fowlers and dried out the main office. ; Apr 3 4 . . ...........--i 5 :2 S | 1 .0 5 :1 7 fufilled the requirements neces- creek to do the. scaling. . . ¡1 1 :2 0 , 7 ,5 .1 1 :4 4 , h .l F r i.. A p r il 5 :3 5 0 :0 2 i 1.2 and everything saved. The old warehouse built by th é , Aur 5.. .111 :S0 “.•! -S u r . A p r il Port^r k t L v i Sary- Standard'zation and will 0 :3 0 fl.'H , 1.0 0 . . . Û;OV h .3 1 2 :3 7 7 .0 S u n ., A p r ^ ^°UKht t h e (celebnite .the event by holding 7.-01 7:W 1 .0 t Z f i 7 . . . ’ 0 : 3 4 S.O m ¡city, just east of the store, will 7.4 M on.. A p :_ 7 . 7 :3 4 . . . 7 :2 f t 2.3 Le fioatlhg wharf and will build a school rally* next Friday even- f|! . 1:5.3 7.2 T «. A p r il Kt. M eeting of B oard T rustees be moved from its present loca- w-di. Apr. o H . . . . '.l:0 S:(r2 0.1 0:1.’« 3.1 1 :2*< M.O 2 : 4 0 0 .0 , W pd. A p r il 0.. „ .. rook house on it. The Venture ; ing. Rev. Drumm of the F l« t 1 :5 0 S.O i 0 .5 l’f h u ., A p r il IO. . — The regular monthly meeting fio*,out to the street and will be ’ 0 :2 4 P r i.2 0 :2 4 , 3 .0 F 4 :2 0 0.1 F r i., A p r il 1 1 . . be u l^ • R WiR' Pm,byt*n a" Church of Florence . : 2 5 , 4 .2 of tfie town board of Trustees eQoiped for their main offices. !*•»" Apr 12.’i 3 : 2 0 *,.5 3 :3 0 5 .0 Mat,, A p r il 1 2 . . 1 0 1 4 .1 4 1 0 0 0.1 .1 , ,1 H 0 ;2O , 4 .3 be used along, the nver near has been secured to deliver the 4 : 1 0 x.O 0:4X 0 .0 S u n .. A p r il 1 3 . . • • • . . i . . f 2 :1 3 4.4 •*as held Monday night: No, — ------ — •, .Mon.'. Apr 1+-.'! B A SI 7 .0 7 :5p*r Ox-l M «n.. A p r il 1 4 . . where the men are working. »» « 1 , 4 .4 1:23) 0 .3 . .-4M 7.4 >4:51 0 .0 T .. A p r il 1 5 . . 1 :4 0 4 .1 2 :3 1 0 .0 principal address of the evening “ y B»» V iew B each P arty The I«% . X . S " - *:27 7 .5 0 :3 7 7 .0 W ed. A p r il 1 0 . . 3:U 0, 3 3 ii 3 :3 1 0 .0 Chester Mann and Forest E<1- — pupils .... ........ while the will .v..uc. render ( a transacted except the nsvmpnt Vpntnrx i t . d ... tv ___ > . . , T h u .. A p r. 1 7 . . 0 . 3 4 7.x ,1 0 :1 0 , 0 .2 T h u .. A p r il « ; at .hn ,eXCCPt S e 11>ayment Venture took the Bay View Hotel > Frv Apr 4 :0 4 2x3 4:2.3¡ 0 .7 pr 1 » . . 10:34 x .o 10 M.X Fri». A p ril 4 : 5 7 ’ 1.3 (j 5 : 1 0 0 .0 wards Went to Sweet creek Mon- P W a m befitting the occasion the regular monthly bills and guests and others to the beach s" A A|,r 1 0 . . t l :20 0.1 1 1 :35¡ 021 S a t., A p ril 1 0 . . 3 : 4 3 r « : T ft 5 4 0 1.1 2«». . il2:41O *1 day to work for John Steear get ......I Miss Goldie VariBibber supervisor S u n .. A p r il 2 0 . passing an 'ordinance levying a Sunday. They report lota of Apr. 2 1 . . I 0 :1 1 0 .0 1 :0 5 7.0 O :.u 0 .3 0 : 3 2 1.4 7 :r 7 j -0.0 ii 7:121 1.0 ting out piling. > 0 : 4 0 0 .7 I S O 1 7 5 T Alun. .. A A p p r r il il 2 2 2 1 . . of this district , wifi, present the tax on the property adjacent to fun and a pleasant trip. The ^ ,rr. •> 0:442! 0 .1 7 :5 0 2 .4 S ' 1 2 0 0 .0 2 : 4 0 7.1 W J . A p rir 2 3 . penant after which a general 0 :4 0 0 . 0 0 ; 3 ) , 2 0 1 ,eu sewer, on Hamlin s t day was spent wading in the serf i h“ - A,,r - !4. 2:<Xi 0 .3 3 : 3 0 0 .7 T h u ., A p r il 24 O. M. McVey came in from 0 .0 I « 1 0 , 3 .4 , îî. * . .iU I 0 :3 4 M.X 2 4> g4>od time will be indulged in. 4 .3 1 »1.4 -F r i.. A p r il 2 5 . l:2 4 44.2 ' 1 0 1 0 1 311 SeSST°n». WiH **' U,<1er and foot-™«jnK:*lont the beach, i^»" A& Portland and will open a restaur 5xT41: .1 2 l > t . . > p r i l 2 . » . . . T l J O i 44A « $ 3:351 *.1 4 : 3 f t 7.4 auspices of the newly elected Melvin Hanson was guide for t h e , f c iji. ant in the Clow building as soon H 444 A3 ¡ M S u on.. n .. A p r ii 2 7 . . . j . . . . . ' . ¡1 2 -1 4’ 0 7 20. 7 :4 « , 41..1 A p r il 2 « . J 0 : 3 f t 4 ,2 , 47 { B orn —To Mr. and Mrs. Forest • . - , '• party. ,T up ... A p r. 2V. . 7 0 5 HJi Ox'Pl' Clyde Ving- SxMi 4114 41.14 14 .RM T I _ u fu ... r .. A A p n r n il i -J 1 :5 7 ' ^4» 2 ...«ó, 13| I . 4 x •a it is completed. „ 214.'. » ' 1 • « 1 W’p<L, Apr. •'40. . H .15 H.4 » I f t 7 3 ‘ JJ¿d. A p r il 34) I 3A H | 3 .4 ¡t a j o s , l.S Whisman, April 19MC"tn(an£ *»*>< will be aiepciated with him. J RAILS TO POTOLA MAPLETONS’ BUDGET OF LIVE NEWS S . 'S " * W“> " Tide t ables l up up x íw k ft up up p a 1 91 4. i ¿ ’L S a boy. * 'V ’ . . ' ' -------