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THE SlORXTXG OBEGONIAW. MOXDAT, JUNE 22, 1914. 8 ACTIVITY AT REIGNS NORTH BEND Much Done Toward Building of Willamette-Pacific Line in Coos Bay Country. SCEXES AT NORTH BEND. MANY FACTORIES WORKING Industries Are Varied and Fine City Is Bein? Built Iesplte Dir flcnltles Pioneers Faced', Says Addison Bennett. BY APDISON BENNETT. NORTH BEND, Or., June 21. (Spe eial.l Comins in over the bar and up th channel to Coo Bay. the first place you notice of any moment la the old town of Empire, which was at one fim and for a number' of years, the neat of government of Coos County. Tn!nr Emolre. you KO but a few miles when you'come to Simpson's mill, th nMst sawmill In this section. It was erected, or rather a mill on the tarns site. In 1850 by A. M. Simpson, of .San PVanclsco. ' Mr. Simpson has been continuously Interested in the milling and other enterprises at that point and at other Places nearby from that day until the present. Indeed, no history of Coos County or Coos Bay could be authentic without riving large space to SimnRon. The mill stands under a bluff, and around it are a number of dwellings and other bulldincs which constituted the old town of North Bend. There is rnallv the entrance to the bay proper, which extends inland for thre or four miles to the City of Slarshfleld. Another Townsite Laid Out, About a dozen years ago another townsite was laid out under the name of North Bend, this being around the point from the old town. The ground was hilly, rising abruptly from the waterfront, with but a little wedge of level land lying on the bay, and this was under water at low tide. It must have taken men with intrepid spirits to attemDt to build a city on such land. Perhaps the reader has noticed that fine townsites do not always develop into fine cities. The grit and deter mination of the sort of men that build cities seem usually to be whetted and sharpened if there are hills to level, sloughs to fill, and rocks to quarry out before buildings can be erected. This Is not the Herculean task It seems to be In sections where there is a dense population immediately around to draw from; but In the Coos Bay vicinity It was different. Today, however, we find the hills leveled, the low places filled, and every street with a good grade. .Before I left Portland I heard from various sources that the Willamette Pacific would not bridge the channel at North Bend, but would swing around across Coo River. It can safely be said that such rumors are all nonsense. The Willamette-Pacifio has expended. up to the present time, over $750,000 In North Bend. For one piece or water front property it paid 80,000. for an adjacent piece I37.5J0. It purchased whole rows of dwellings and filled tens of thousands of yards. It has the grade all completed for spurs and switches and main track nearly a mile long ana 300 feet wide, and not a street crosses' It. No railroad ever had such a fine layout In a city. Railroad In Operating. The railroad is built and in use for more than a mile west of the depot site and over a fill reaching out toward the channel. From the present end of this fill, which Is now being riprapped with rock, there will be trestle work out to the main bridge. Much work has been done also on the approaches on the other side of the channel. There are two banks In North Bend the Bank of Oregon and the First Na tional. The former is about ten years old. Tt tins a capital and surplus of $65,000, and deposits of $180,000. The First National was established in 1909, with a capital of $30,000. Its deposits are $227,000. The North Bend Commercial Club Is a social organization. The publicity work of the city is done by the North Bend Chamber of Commerce. SL E. Kverltt Is president; J. A. Smith, secre tary and manager. North Bend has a nice City Hall. It also has about as fine a park system as any city in the state. The elder Simp son gave the city a beautiful 80-acre tract of virgin forest Just in the edge of town as the first park. Few cities ever had a, finer present. Then, In re arranging the grades. two smaller parks were made Lincoln Square and Orant Circle. These breathing places are about an acre each and are in the business section. In the great Simpson Park there is about as fine a ball ground as there is in Oregon. Many Factories In Operation. There are a large number of manu facturing establishments In North Bend. The Simpsons have two large sawmills, their aggregate capacity being about 50.000 feet a day; there Is a large sash and door factory, belonging to the Simpsons also. The Coos Bay Manufacturing Com pany is another concern of note. It does a wide range of business In kin dred lines. Adjacent to the box fac 'tory is the plant of the Coos Bay Con densed Milk Company. This concern does a large business, as do all of the milk plants In Coos County. In addition to the Simpson sawmills there is one other here the .North Bend Mill & Lumber Company. This mill cuts about 100.000 feet a day. An other concern doing a big business is the North Bend Iron Works. This com pany has a large foundry and machine i shop and does a wide range of business. There is also a large shingle mill in connection with the Simpson plants. One of the largest and best equipped garages In Oregon Is just beginning business. There is a brewery, too, be longing to the Coos Bay Brewing Com pany. The Twin Cities Laundry Is an other concern of note. It does a big business and has a fine plant. Fabtic Spirit Shown. Just to show the sort of people the North Bend cltllens are. It may be well to say that they recently voted a 10 mill tax on all city property to build a county road entirely outside the city limits -a. road to the neighboring town of Kmpire. There is but on newspaper In North Bend, the Harbor, owned and managed by Edgar McOaniel. F. W. Stevens, late of Michigan, has a splendidly equipped job office and Is doing a big business. The shipbuilding plant of Krnse & Banks Is one of the biggest concerns, on the bay, doing a big business both In new and repair work. The Hotel Oregon, the Palace Hotel and various restaurants and rooming houses look after the comfort of the traveling public in good style and at moderate prices. . 1 : i . V V . M 5- ' 1 -r SK... .!' lH'y etc r -ss-v , jrf- - 1 1 ' ' At TOP, VIEW OF HARBOR FROUT MIDDLE, WIL1AMETTB1-PA-CIFIC RAILROAD IW CUT THROUGH SIMPSON PARK BELOW, STEAMERS AT DOCK. H WILLIAMS BURIED Eulogy Over Noted Lawyer Pronounced by Chief Justice. HIGH IDEALS ARE TOLD B. Stubbs; four grandchildren, Richard and Clara Williams, Robert and Jack Stubbs; a brother, Bmmett B. Williams, and a sister, Mrs, Helen Stratton, all of Portland. Interment was In Rlverview Ceme tery. The active pallbearers were L. A. McNary. Judge Kavanaugh, Dan J. Malarkey, R. R. Giltner, Raleigh Trim ble and Edward Wilson. The honorary pallbearers were P. L. Willis, H. H. Northup, Joseph Simon, C W. Fulton, Judge McGinn, Judge Wolverton, Charles H. Carey and Thomas Jordan. Rev. T. Jj. Eliot Also lauds Man Who for Over 30 Years Was One or Oregon's Leading Lawyers. Interment In Kivervlew. For baby's comfort Santlseptie Lotion. Adv. Funeral services for Richard Wll liams, for more than 60 years one of the leading lawyers of the Northwest, were held yesterday at the family resi dence, 285 Fourteenth street. Mr. Wil liams died Friday after a short illness. Chief Justice McBrlde and tne xtev, T. L. Eliot were the speakers. In the death of my friend I have experienced a personal sorrow only less than that felt by his immediate rela tives." said Judge McBriae. "In our personal Intercourse for many years the words 'Mr. Williams' and "Judge' were never used. The familiar 'Richard' and Mc' were the affectionate salutations we interchanged. "It is with no ordinary emotion tnat I reflect that never again In this life will I hear that familiar greeting or clasD his hand. "Mr. Williams' eminent success in me should be at once an example and In spi ration to young men. At the age of Is years he left home. He determined to make the law his profession. To support himself while pursuing his studies he engaged in teaching school in various parts of the Willamette Val ley. He was admitted to the bar when he was 21 years old. Until the late Rufus Mallory was elected to Congress he and Mr. Williams were law partners in Salem. "Mr. Williams moved to Portland In 1871. He was actively Interested In politics, but that interest arose from patriotism, not from Any inclination on his part to occupy puDiic station. Be vond serving a single term in Congress, from 1877 to 1879, he never held a po litical office. He was an ardent Repub lican. Civic Dntle Undertaken. Although heavily burdened with busi ness, he found time to act as school director of the City of Portland for sev eral years, and did much to promote the efficiency of the city scnoois. As a lawyer he was clear, eloquent and conscientious. While his earliest victories were won in the prosecution and defense of criminal cases, he al ways expressed to me a distaste for that branch of the law. The prosecu tion of criminal cases ought to be left to the public officer chosen for thai purpose, he said. He said the defense of a man whose life or liberty was In jeopardy weighed him down with a sense of responsibility that could not be compensated by a fee. "I remember one case that occurred while I was Prosecuting Attorney. The defendant had been indicted for mur der in the lirst degree. Mr. Williams bad been employed by relatives of the deceased to assist me In the prosecu tion. The day before the trial he and I were standing in front of the Court house, when a little woman with tears trickling down her cheeks passed us with two little children. The Jailer told us they were the wife and children of the defendant. Sentiment la Characteristic "That night Mr. Williams came to me and said: 'Mc, the sight of that woman nd her children has put me out of business. I should feel like a criminal myself if I helped to deprive them of a husband and father for a little money. I have returned my fee and will take the next train for Portland." He did." Dr. Eliot paid a tribute to the char acter and domestic relations of Mr. Williams. Mr. Williams was 77 years old. He is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Osman MORTON REPORTS ACTIVITY Factories Bnsy, New Plants Operat ed, Homes Being Built. MORTON, Wash, June 21. (Special.) Morton Is a busy town. The Wooden ware Company, which makes broom handles and other products, is running to its full capacity. The Morton Supply & Mill Company has secured additional timber to enable It to run for a long time. Added equipment has increased the payroll. The new water power plant of the Morton Electric Company has Just been completed,' giving the town electric lighting and power service. A steam auxiliary plant has been put in to be used in emergency. The new Ice and cold storage plant is in operation. Work on the new Masonic Temple will begin soon, and many residences are being built. OFFICE SEEKERS ARE BUSY Several Candidates for Lewis County Jobs Make Announcement. CHEHALIS, Wash., June 21. (Spe cial.) County Auditor D. W. Monfort has announced that filings for county offices in Lewis County may be made on July 14. Among those who have announced themselves are John Rledl and I. W. Taylor for Commissioner In the third district; J. E. Raught and Val Myer for County Treasurer; W. F. Bailor, C. S. Bown and A. C. Canterbury for County Superintendent. Several places are likely to go by de fault to incumbents, as it Is unlikely any one will attempt to defeat Sheriff T. C. Foster, County Auditor D. W. Mon fort or County Clerk Mrs. Bertha Gage, either in the primaries or In the general election. Many Salem Pupils Pass Tests. ' SALEM, Or., June 21 (Special.) While 50 per cent of the pupils trying the eighth grade examinations in this county in May failed, less than 20 per cent were unsuccessful at the June quiz, and as a result 186 are eligible for high school work. Those who failed at the May examinations were given another chance,1 and the number suc ceeding finally Is one of the highest ever recorded in the county. In addi tion to those taking the eighth grade tests, 160 pupils of the sixth grade took geography and physiology, which are exemption tests Life Ins. Agts. Bright's Disease One agent states that he has'wrltten $30,000.00 among prospects turned down for Bright's Disease. He put them in the way of having the albumen elim inated, thus preparing them for Insur ance. In many cases of old policy holders who have developed Bright's Disease life is being prolonged and payment of thousands ot dollars in losses is oe ing deferred, thus continuing premium payments Indefinitely, with satisfaction to both agents and the Insured. This announcement is important to both the companies and their agents. Literature that will enable Life Insurance Agents to make quantitative albument tests and thus know the exact status mailed free to all Inter ested. The ability of Fulton's Renal Com pound to reduce Albumenuria In many cases of Bright's Disease is a FACT IN PHYSICS which the albumen test above offered will duly establish. Thousands of cases have reported recoveries or I Uvea nrolonsed. John J. Fulton Com-1 pany, San Francisco. Adv. WILL PORTLAND CHAMBER OF COMMERCE PULL CHESTNUTS? The wets are asking the Portland Chamber of Commerce to help them boss Oregon. Disgruntled because all political parties in the recent primary nominated dry candidates, floods of letter from wet sources were poured upon two defeated candidates, one after the other, seeking to induce them to run independently in an effort to thwart the will of the people of Orepon. The candidates, truer to honor than the wets would have them be, refused. Now the wets turn to the Chamber of Commerce. Wet letters from the Oregon State Brewers' Association, Wholesale Liquor Dealers' Association of Ore gon, Oregon State Hotel Association, and the IIop Growers' and Dealers' Association of Oregon, re flooded upon every member of the Chamber of Commerce Saturday. . Today it is announced a secret vote of the Chamber of Commerce will be taken. Only the result is to D announced. Neither the public nor any member is to be allowed to know how any other member voted. Will the Chamber of Commerce consent to be used where others-have refused! Oregon rural counties are bent on prohibition. Portland cannot afford to antagonize all of rural Oregon. Pulling chestnuts burns the fingers. -This is the fight of the "People versus Booze." The people can take care of themselves. Let booze do likewise. All the drys ask is, "Lie low and watch the biggest bear light you ever read about." PROHIBITION AND OREGON TAXES. The largest taxpayers in Oregon want prohibition. The Booth-Kelly Lumber Company, one of the largrt taxpayers in the state, writes: "We have been operating sawmills and logging camps- in Lane County, employing as high u 500 van. When there were saloons in various towns we had continuous difficulty with many of our employes, especially around pay day, who disappeared for from two days. to a week. When these men came back to t they were anything but efficient, and until they became entirely sober never earned the money we paid thero, "Since the county has been dry we have had practically no difficulty. Our employes and their familioa are better clothed, have better "homes, appear to be very much happier and more contented, and we as em ployers are certainly very much better satisfied. We would not operate our camps or mill in county where there were open saloons if we could possibly avoid it. Yours very truly, "BOOTH-KELLY LUMBER COMPANY. "By A. C. Dixon, Manager. When Springfield was voting last Fall this company sent Mr. Dixon to say that it would be cheaper for their company to pay all of the money which the saloons paid to the City of Springfield than to have saloons operate. j "Each week we are at a loss of perhaps 25 per cent of the first day's work that is, Monday; and every other company operating in any kind of business in this district has and is suffering a loss. Yours very truly, P F "BAKER WHITE PINE LUMBER CO., 1 "Frank Gardiner, Manager." SALOONS AND FACTORIES. West Virginia voted dry two years ago by 90,000 majority. Inquiries by factories seeking locations in Huntington W. Va., doubled immediately, and every inquirer mentioned the dry vote as hi reason for turn ing his quest toward West "Virginia. "Oregon needs factories. Prohibition is an inducement to manufacturers. PROHIBITION AND LABOR. Turn the' money invested in our breweries into other lines, and on the average it will employ six times as many people, according to census returns. , . ' Oregon produces a very small amount of liquor, so that the liquor business simply milks this state or money which must be sent away to buy the liquors which we consume. Prohibition would keep most of this money at home. J ' PROHIBITION AND HOPS. Less than two per cent of Oregon hops are used in this state. One of the largest breweries hero until -recently was advertising "Imported Hops." Prohibition in Oregon would not stop the sale of a tingle pound of hops, for there h a demand for Oregon hops. , The average hoppicker spends three weeks in the field and gets in 15 days work, about eight noun each day. - If the hopgrower should be compelled to curtail his output two per cent as the result of Oregon dry, each hoppickerwould lose two and a half hours' work possibly six bits from his annual income. v OTHER BOARDS. ; The Pittsburg Board of Trade has petitioned Congress to pass the National prohibition amendment. ' The railroads of the country discharge any man seen entering a saloon. The- United States Steel Trust is posting its mills with a notice that only total abstainers will receive prtv "ejOhio State Manufacturers' Association has posted all factories with a notice that any person known to frequent any place where intoxicants are Bold will be discharged. Two-thirds of all petitions coming to Congress at this time deal with one side or the other of the prohibi- tion question, and the dry petitions outnumber the wet seven to one. The reputable magazines of America do not carry liquor ads. Many newspapers are following their lead, notably the Philadelphia North American, the Chicago Record-Herald and tho Kansas City Star. PROHIBITION A SUCCESS- Last year Springfield, Or., was wet. In Jannary, February, March, April and May she had 215 arrets. Tbia yar, ' drv, 2. Last year eight policemen, overworked. This year, two, with nothing to do. ."Oregon City, for the first fonr months last year wet, 117 arrests. Tliis yenr, dry, " . . - Letters in this office received this month from the Governors f Kansas. Oklahoma, Mississippi. orth Carolina, Maine, North Dakota, and United States Senator Chilton, of West Virginia, strongly commend prohibition and ffeta. Here are a few excerpts: , i i w "The people of our state are beginning to realize and appreciate the economic value or this preat law. . r . WM. T. HAINKS, Governor of Mama. 'I do not believe any community that has prohibition once will go back to the saloon." EARL BREWER. Governor of Mississippi. 'The treat maiority of the people are highly in favor of constitutional prohibition, and North Dakota will never tV a backed step' t L.B. HAXNA, Governor of North Dakota. "With ritrid enforcement of state-wide prohibition, the results to be obtained in any slate will be very helpful and beneficial " LliK RSK, Governor of Oklahoma. "North Carolina has never known in all her history a tun of greater prosperity than that throuch which h haa passed since prohibition was adopted. LOCKE CRAIG, Governor of Isorth Carolina. SALOONS AND OREGON CITIZENSHIP- "The records show that for two years previous to last February 68.2 per cent of the inmates received laid their troubles to the drink habit Sixty-five per cent of parole violators returned to prison are returned for drunkenness F. II. SNODGRASS, Parole Officer Oregon State Penitentiary.' "I believe I am safe in saying that 75 per cent of our boys are here, directly or indirectly, owing to the fact that their homes have been blighted by the use of intoxicating liquors. .... "WILLIS. S. HALE, Supt. Oregon State Training School." The superintendent of the Poor Farm at Hillsboro, Washington County, says 93 per cent of the inmates are there because of liquor. The superintendent of the Poor Farm at Coquille, Coos County, says, "Nearly all the paupers or this insti tution have come here from drink. The children, of drinkers, in nine times out of ten, are the ones to come here." Crime and pauperism increase taxes. PUTTING OREGON DRY. V3,OOQ 6. 0 00 'j 5taor-A.VHroes T , THIS WAS OREGON'S VOTE IN 1910 ' (From Census Report and Election Returns.) Oregon Voted Wet in 1910 Because Half of Us Stayed Home. If the' booze venders are wise they will not agitate this subject. Discussion leads to enlightenment; en lightment leads to voting; and voting means prohibition. Saloons were saved in 1910 because the great majority of the electors failed to vote either way. Discussion will bring the stay-at-home voters to the polls. Liquor's success depends on women and fanners staying at home. The Anti-Saloon League of Oregon (the churches of Oregon federated to tight tho liquor traffic) has per fected a plan for inducing Oregon residents to become Oregon citizens, by voting this Fall. - " REGISTERING FARMERS. Drv notaries public, often women, are urped to qualify as registrars and eanva.s the rnrnl section, repistennr fanners and their families. Dry workers will accompany or follow them, pledging them to go to tba poll. 235,000 voters have resigtered to date; 200,000 are still unregistered, most of them drys. In the cities also a carefully organized house-to-honse canvass is beinj mndc. Unregistered drys are pledged to register and to vote. Doubtful voters are supplied with literature and convincing arguments. 133,000 stay-at-homes registered a cipher, or a "goose egg," in 1910. "Hatch the goose eggs" is the slogan in 1914. CAMPAIGN PROGRAMME, OREGON DRY, 1914. 1. List and classify all possible voters in the precinct as "wet," "dry," or "doubtful," noting whether they ar regis tered ps'ter unregistered drys; convert the doubtfuls to the dry side, s! Pledge all drys to vote November 3 early in the morning. For further particulars, instructions, canvassers' blanks, literature and posters, correspond with the ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE OF OREGON, 611 Stock Exchange Bldg., 3d and Yamhill Sts.. Portland, Or., or ywu Main fi912. A big vota is a dry vote. We challenge the wets to Join us in the effort to gef 300,000 votei on the amendment. ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE OF OREGON R. P. Hutton, Ass't Supt. (Paid Adv.) A