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VoVXVIII.-No.51.
CORYALLIS, OREGON. TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 20. 1900.
B.F. IRTIXn Editor
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COOS COUNTY
All Things are HowReafly
.r- .--IIavmaecurejdjthe.a.er,yicfiS of J. K. Berry,
who has eight years experience in bicycle -"
an4;gejiefal-repair 'worlc,"I am now- prepared
'to 'all kinds-of repair work on short notice.
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Gome and see the Olds work.
M: M. LONG'S
MAY HAVE THREE LINES OF
RAILROADS IN THE NEAR
FUTURE.
Southern Pacific, Oregon Coast and
Eastern and SpreckleB Line
Expected Thirty Miles of
Rails tlnloaded a.Drafn.
Portland, Feb. 18. The Journal
frays indications in, Coos county are
that thereywuj be two or tnree new
transportation lines undar construc
tion' this year, giving .connexion
witth Edrtland. . Business, men are
confidenVtfial 'not .only, will the
Southern Pacific build, from Braid
to Marshfiel4'and. down' the . cpaaf,
And the Oregon, -Cbasf & asjern
will "construct; its proiecteq line
from Portland to Earn boldt bay,
but that th? Spreckles line will be
extendedthroagh Coos oounty o
Roseburg. -
OTIC Bennett ot Marsnneio, wno
was a rouiana wnvat ud a
Btbamer KUburn. last" evening, ; re"
ports that. the prospects for devel
opment of Qoos- county never were
better. We said:
"The Southern, Pacific has itB
preliminary survey - run from
Dralnv to some point in Northern
California.;' I do . not know , just
where it ends. The, line has been
permanently located from. Drain To
a point near Reedsvill'e, on the
Umpqua, ana tne rignc or way oaB
Kbbti hmicrhfr and nam for from
rt r t i , ;
Drain to Elktoo, a distance of. 16
mires, with the exception of two
nlaces. "where "condemnation pro
ceedings are necessary. Thirty
miles of rails have been unloaded
a Drain for this line and it la ; uri
derstood that as soon bs weather
permits constructioL, will be com
merced and Dashed aa rapidly as
bosfible."
: 1 Mr. Bennett said that lust before
he lett home a party of half a doz
en right of way men for the Oregon
Coast & Eastern arrived at Alarsn
field and began woik. lbey came
down from Tillamook and will work
through Coos and Curry county
"Thia road will get a right ot way
through Coos county. The people
will give mo t of the right ot way
and the remainder the compaDy
will have to buy." he said. "Tbe
people want' these railroads. Eve
rvthiDe l usuries tne prediction tbat
U008 county will scon ne connected
with the outside world by rail lines
and some people are eo sanguine as
to aeseit tbat there will be tbree in
dependent lines of rail transporta
tion tnrougn VOos county. ' mere
is some activity In real Estate, but
aa the roads are bad' leading from
Roseburg into Coos county it is net
expected that any extensive opera
tions will begin until the highways
are in better condition. '
Tbe railroad alluded to by Mr.
.Bennett is a proposed extension of
the line 'already in operation be
twen Myitle Poiut and Marsbfield
It is said this line, in tbe Coquille
country, will be extended to Rose
burg and thence easterly. It is now
operating 27 miles of track owned
by John D. Spreckles & Bros
San Francisco, who also own the
valuable Beaver Hill coal mines
tapped by the road. r ? ; ;
The western terminus is of Marsh
field, i The road has proved a prof
itable investment, " under manage
ment of W. C. Chandler. Rich
Timber and coal lands along the
route of the talked-of extension are
strong inducements ..'fat build
ing to Roseburg, arid it is said that
if the Spreckles people do not make
the extension, a connecting line
will be built by other intereeta.
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- AMBLER 6c WAITERS , :
- Real Estate, Loan and Insurance
Gorvallis and Philomath, Oregon. .. .
tective tariff, which compel the
payment for structural steel and ship
plates of a much higher price than
is demanded by these same produ
cers of 1 Foreign shipbuilders when
they purchase similar commodities.
Haven t we trusts enouerh? Hasn't
the1 steel trust, with which the eub
eidy-ship trust will ally itself,
money enough; or making profits
enough, but a little while ago it
published its report, showing that
the earnings for the past year were.
approximately, $120,000,000;' yet it
nad unnueq orders to tbe amount
cf over 7,ooo,oob' tons. 1 "Its high
handed looting' is hdwtobelncreas
ed'by1 a new demand'fbroed.by'B'ul)-
sidy for ships,' at the expense 6f the
cbrintry. That is, if' trre Mil sfiould
become a law. But it may not. It
has yet to get theva'pprbvttl bl' tbe;
Mouse ana the president.
Ship freights are now very low:
so vl6w that' foreign shipo where are
getting only meager returns. The
bill will' not lower the rater, hot will
ocrease themr for the intention of
it'is to get higher rates for Ameri-
oarJ ships; through bounties paid
from' the treasury, "than now are
paid to foreign' ships,- which carry
the greater part of onr ocean com
merce. " If it'is true that foreigners
catt do this wbrk at rates ruicoasly
cheap',' wby not alloW them? " -
The senate is the intrenched camp
of such schemes as this: It: is not
possible that this measure of colos-
sai'graft can' or1 will obtain the 'ap
proval of the people of tbe. United
States: "Let it become an issue in
a general election and we shall see.
Helena, Feb. 17. Upon a con
tract callrng for the; payment of
$liooo ai day from the time he left
Chicagol u'ritil his return;; Dr. Seppy,
proreBfeor or the practice ot meal
cine at Rush College, has come ' to
Helena Co "make a diagnosis of the
illness of Peter Larson of this city,
reputed "to " be the wealthiest man
int.be hoi th west with the exception
perhaps, of United States Senator
Thirty-five years ago Hanson
landed in New York penniless.' ' He
ia largely interested in ' mines,
banks, railroads, lumbering mill",
floarmills, and other western indus
trie?. Recently be and blapartner
sold two mines to the Federal com
pany for $3,006,000. He is suffer
ing from cirrhosis of the liver and
recently went eaet for an operation
but it was not performed. Dr. Sap
py's diagnosis is understood to have
been the eame as that of tne bos pit
a! doctors in Rochester, Minnesota,
that the ca6e was hopeless, but not
necessarily immediately" fatal.
TABLES HAVE TURNLD
A YEAR AGO , THE PRESI
' DENTS OS BIG INSURANCE
CONCERNS WERE IN
PRIME OF LIFE.
Portland, Feb. I5. The Oregonian
says editorially: As Wa9 expect
ed,' the senate has passed the
ship-subsidy bill. The effect
will be to draw the money from
the. treasury,' paid ' in by all
the people, and turn it over to a
group of subsidy-seekers, already
rich, for their further enrichment;
and to build up in the country
another gieat and oppressive trust,
auxillery to the steel truet, or part
of it. ' Should the "subsidy lead to
the ship construction in American
shipyards, it would ba under pres
ent circumstances, virtually a fur
ther bonus paid to the steel trust.
For hitherto the coat of construct
ing merchant ships in American
yards haa been made unduly high
by combinations supported by pro-
Albany, Or., Feb. 17. A large
piece of; silver bullion washed" tip
on the coast at Newport,' Ori, has
set agog the imagination of the den
izens of that storm-swept neighbor
hood, and the days of Spanish gal
leons laden With' wealth and the
ocean piracies of primrtrve America
are recalled.' " J. G. Crawford,"" the
Albany photographer and scientist,
is the discoverer of the wealth dis
gorged by the ocean.
While searching' for rare speci
mens of animal and mineral life
tbat are to be found on tbe Oregon
Coast during the Winter months,
Mr. Crawford ran across a large
piece of mixed silver and gold,
symmetrically shaped as if the two
metals had been mettled and run
together of some kind. Spec
ulation as to the source of tbe rare
find was Immediately rife, but that
u 1 acne from the depth of tbe ocean
is the only certain information obtainable.
lbe tact tbat tbe two metala are
melted together as if they had been
thrown into a braes kettle, or some
such receptacle, would indicate
that it is not from some of the
wrecks of wealth-laden ships of re
cent days. Few miners of today
would run tbeir gold and silver to
gether in a elngle vessel. An old
miner estimated tbat tbe bod is
worth several hundred dollars. The
bullion is quite heavy. '
Today the Once Great Magnates are
Broken in Mind and Body and
Are Physical ' Wrecks" '
Other News.
' New York, Feb. 16. A" year ago
the prbsiden ts of ' three -big ' insur
ance companies were" vigorous-men
ih mind-UHd body" and' respected
and revered as piltars;of the finari
ciarStructriM' ortheTnatlcmi y Here
is nhetrc6n,Ktion''1ddyf ,'
3 Johtf Av McCall, former president
of 'the-New 'Ydrk? XifB,' dyingv,at
Lakewoob, Nev' Jersey; broken In
fortune a well aa" bodily ' strength:
Harcirrhosis of tte" liver and heart
diBeiase: " r-1-
Tames W. Alexander, former pres-
idChTdf the Equitable;- dying 4n'a
sanatoriam at Deerfield, MaBsaohu
Setts, having-just suffered' a" stroke
of paralysis: '
Kiohard A. McCurdy, former
president of the Mutual "Life, In a
mental condition' which alarms his
family,' physicians and friends, and
his reputation' irretrievably shatter
ed. ' His fortune is intacti but he
is confronted with suits 'for restitu
tion which' tody cost him a great
sum. v"
The first attack upon any of the
big insurance companies or their
official heads was made by Thomas
W; Lawsoh' when he began the se
rial publicatiob of bis Frenzied Fi
nance ' in & very body er He open
ly charged mismanagement of trus't
funds and alleged that' the insur
ance concerns Were all manipulat
ed by Wall street gamblers. Hie
charges were taken up by Presidt nt
McCallof the New-York Life and
ridiculed as ridiculed as ridiculous
and Lawson was openly accused of
falsehood . ,-.
Then fame the quarrel between
young James Hazen Hyds and
President Alexander of the Equita
ble, and the sensational charges ie
suiting in the Frick committee in
vestigation, followed bv t)H legis
lative investigation. In ibis all the
insurance companies wtre shown
to ' have been illegally conducted
and their trust funds and a surplus
used by schemers to float tbeir va
rious projects. :
Among those whose reputations
suffered from the inquiry were Geo.
r erkicB, vice-president of tbe
New York Life, ' whose funds were
made cse ot by the firm of J. Pier-
pont Morgan & Co.; Chauncey M,
Depew, who as a director ot the
Equitable loaned himself the asso
ciation's funds on worthless securi
ty; Benjamin O'dell, former gover
nor, who has lost control of the re
publican machine in New York
state through its connection with
the insurance scandal; Senator
Piatt, who was also brought into
the limelight as having collected
campaign money from policy-holders'
trust funds; E. H. Harriman,
the railroad king, and Thomas F.
Ryan, who quarrelled as to who
should pluck the Equitable surplus.
happy operator on Wall street
with a mansion on Fifth avenue and
with a prospect of becoming as .veil
known as a successful Snanoier " as
his father had become noted es a
pulpit' orator, H. B. Beecher," son
of the Rev. Henry Ward Beecbef,
is now holdiag a minor-clerkship
in the office of City Treasurer Rbth
burn. His salary is small. He i's
to receive less every month than, a
score of years ago, he could squan
der on a dinner without causing
himself to ' feel that be was extrav
agant. Mr. Beecher has just been" ap
pointed to the clerkship through
TYeas'ure'rllIpirnger;''; He1 askedfor
it, not on his record or because ' he
is the son of a famous man, but on
his merits. . Though acknowledg
ing "iiis "identify",' B'eecheiJ will'-not
discuss His 'past: '"A brother, 'If.
F.' Beecher, Wis once collector of
customs for Puget Sound: : '
Common Colds are tbe Cause of Many
Serious Diseases."
Physicians who have gained a national
reputation as analysts of the cause of various
diseases, claim that if catching cold could b;
avoided a. long list of dangerous ailment
would never be heard of. Everyone know;
that pneumonia and consumption originate
from a cold, and chronic catarrh, bronchitis,
and all throat and lung trouble are aggra
vated arid rendered more serious by each
fresh attack. Do not risk your life or take
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Omaha, Feb! 15 The, jury in
the trial of Pat Crowe, charged with
the robbery of EdWardr A. Ctrdahy,
the Omaha Packer,' W -$26,00 -in
corinectiou'with the kidnaping of
the tatter's son five years ago, this
afternoon, after l5 noursi delibera
tion brough t in 1 a verdict" of "not
guilty."'" ''!', I
The kidnaping of Eddy Cudahy
December 19, 19oo," and his release
upon the payment by his father of
$25,000 raoBom created a" great sen
sation, and tbe searcn Tor tne kid
kn'a'p1 ers1 Was stimViTatedr'at the time
by the' offer of a reward ot $50,000
by Mr. Cudahy.'
It was the belief of authorities
that Crowe ' and James ' Callahan
were the guilty parties, but ho trace
of them could be found until' about
a year ago, when Callahan was ar
rested. He was identified by young
Cudahy as one of his c . ptors, but
was released on trial, as ' it could
ndt be Bhown that he received ' atiy
of the mohey, and there was at that
time no' law makiDg the kidnapiog
of a person over lq years of age a
crime.
Last October Crowe was arrested
in Butte, Mont., and was put on
triat February 7. There wasnoev
dence to positively identify Crowe
as one of the kidnapers.
Crowe was recently indicted in
Council Bluffs, with others, on a
charge of holding up a street' carl
Council Bluffs, la., Feb- 16.
Pat Crowe is now "a prisoner in the
Pottawdtamie county jail here and
will be arraigned tomorrow morning
on the charge of street-car robbery.
Crowe declares himself confident of
acquittal.
: ' The indictment charges that he
and Arthur Ivt held up two': motor-car
crews on the Council Bluffs
side of the Missouri River bridge
on July 2, I905, and secured $60
from them. Crowe's bond has been
fixed at $15oo. ' ' '
'Levi -was on trial today for a sa
loon hold-up committed a month
subsequent to the street-car rob
Seattle, Wash., Feb. 16. Once a
- Lakewood, N. J., Feb. 17. John
A. McCall, ex president of tbe New
York Life Insurance company, suf
fered a severe collapse late tonight
from his rally this evening. He is
kept alive by the use of oxygen and
the physicians believe he cannot
live through the night.
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