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.
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Absent Twenty-Six
Hours
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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
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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.
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Washed Into the Sea; Four Are Rescued
. By Life Saving Crew A fter
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Twenty-four Hours
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Exposure
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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
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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
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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 .
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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
,
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’ '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
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. ,,uvv the Willamette Pacific todav. gene Guard
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ryer. It is owned and operated , Mr, O’Kelley, secretary of’ the"
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“ d Wlth • Heavy rails have already been
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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
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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
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uihinouiea between
between expects a.
I be store will carry ‘ a line o of f
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lead"
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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 "
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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
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? 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
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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
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«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
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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.
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Several
motoifboats
are
kept
and was able to go on the next to any degree and which will be
f ‘
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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a.m.
am
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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
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from the accident. Lt was taken about five feet wide shut of from i *><£• Apr 2 1 . . . . . J [ 0 * : :5
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Brown’8
logging camp on Lake ized - The Mapleton , school has
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to Giles Fowlers and dried out the main office.
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fufilled the requirements neces-
creek
to
do
the. scaling.
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and everything saved.
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^°UKht t h e (celebnite .the event by holding
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¡city, just east of the store, will
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Le fioatlhg wharf and will build a school rally* next Friday even-
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M eeting of B oard T rustees be moved from its present loca- w-di. Apr. o H . . . . '.l:0
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rook
house on it. The Venture ; ing. Rev. Drumm of the F l« t
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— The regular monthly meeting fio*,out to the street and will be
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be
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of tfie town board of Trustees eQoiped for their main offices.
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be
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near has been secured to deliver the
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•*as held Monday night: No,
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where
the
men
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principal address of the evening
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wards
Went
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Sweet
creek
Mon-
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a
m
befitting
the
occasion
the regular monthly bills and guests and others to the beach s" A A|,r
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Miss
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VariBibber
supervisor
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passing an 'ordinance levying a Sunday. They report lota of
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ting out piling.
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of this district , wifi, present the
tax on the property adjacent to fun and a pleasant trip. The
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penant
after which a general
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time
will be indulged in.
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SeSST°n». WiH **' U,<1er and foot-™«jnK:*lont the beach, i^»" A&
Portland and will open a restaur
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« $
3:351 *.1
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auspices of the newly elected Melvin Hanson was guide for t h e , f c iji.
ant in the Clow building as soon
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B orn —To Mr. and Mrs. Forest
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party.
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Whisman,
April 19MC"tn(an£
*»*>< will be aiepciated with him.
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RAILS TO POTOLA
MAPLETONS’
BUDGET OF
LIVE NEWS
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