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THE DAILY COOS BAY TIMES, MARSIIFIELD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY MAY 22, 1007.
No. 273.
ANOTHER VENIRE
FOR BOISE TRIAL
MORGAN HAS BEEN SINGING A DOUBTFUL SONG TO ROOSEVELT
CHMITZ face:
COURT ORDEAL
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Only Eleven Of Twenty Per
emptory Challenges Used
And Jury Not Selected
TO SECURE 50 MORE
Court Will Adjourn One Day To Al
low Sheriff Opportunity of Get
ting Required Number.
Boise, Idaho, May 21 It seems In
evitable that the Steunenburg case
will be halted tomorrow to permit
the gathering of another special ven
Iro of talesmen. "When the session
-EVded yesterday only 11 out of the
JvjfO peremptory Challenges had been
used and but nine of the 100 venire
men gathered a week ago, were un
called. The remaining nine can hard
ly furnish grist for a few days work,
so some time tomorrow Judge Wood
will probably adjourn Court for at
least a full day and send sheriff Shad
forth in quest of fifty talesmen. The
vacancy occasioned by the ninth chal-.
lenge was opend when the trial was
resumed this morning. The vacancy
created by the eleventh challenge
was open when court adjourned In
between the two sums up the little
stride forward today. Joseph hlnn
of chair eight was challenged by the
defense and William McGuffln of
the state were men of the old crowd
who went down today. George Powell
and Lee Scrivener were two men who
passed muster today the first filling
the vacancy made by the ninth chal
lenge and the last named by the
tenth challenge. Both are farmers
and Scriverer was formerly a sheriff
in Kansas. There were sixteen men
Most of them had deep seated opin
ions as to the guilt or Innocence of
Haywood. Two had scruples about
hanging murderer on circumstanclal
evidence. The examination droned
wearily along over the same old
ground, though the defense has nar
rowed Its' range of questioning. It
asked nothing about the Roosevelt
1 letter and the Taft speeches but de
voted much attention to possible local
prejudice and general prejudice
against the socialists. The good hu
mor has come back to the counsel
and they joked and played back and
forth all day, and the laughter of
the easily pleased crowd frequently
sounded through the room. Only once
was the easy swing of the day broken
The defense returned to juror Fisher
and questioned him as to a conver
sation with a local socialist named
jVlen Last October. Fisher was at
' iVrst certain he had not talked with
Allen, but when Allen came forward,
thejuror recognized him. Allen swore
Fis'her told him he knew of acts of
the accused in Colorado, and that
they should have been strung up be
fore geing brought to Idaho. Fisher
trlbuted to hlra, but said ho might
have told Allen Jf the men did what
hey were accused of in Colorado,
they should have been strung up.
Chief counsel Hawley for the prpse
jj&tion olisted from Allen- that he
"y&b and Is in the pay of the defense
!Jk$o11 his district, and that he re-
' coltfaa. $3.50 ner day for his services.
-""aRudge refused to sustain the
JTShalli
aflenge of Fisher.
New York, May 21 The special
grand Jury which has been investi
gating the Metropolitan Life Insur
ance company today returned 10 In
dictments against the company's pres
ldent, John R. Hageman. Seven in
dictments charge forgery In the third
degree, While the other three charge
perjury. All are based on what have
become known as, "Year end transactions."
INDICT LIFE
' INSURANCE
PRESIDENT
DEEPENING
THE HARBOR
The plan to dredge the bay for
a channel 800 feet wide, with a
depth of twenty feet at mean iow
tide to extend from the stave mill
to Bay City is a feasible one. It Is
probably one of the biggest Individ
ual projects ever proposed for Coos
Bay by private parties. The returns
would be equally as big as thepro
ject. It would not only mean ad
ditional wharfago to Coos Bay's
present water front, which is in
itself of vital Importance, but it
would prove the basis for a substan
tial increase In real estate values.
The plan of securing private work
in order to make it worth while for
a suction dreage to come here Is
an excellent one.
There Is a great deal of truth In
that adage whlcr says, "God helps
them who help themselves." By Im
proving the natural advantages which
our harbor possesses we convey more
forcibly than we could "with any
amount of advertising the implicit
confidence In what the future holds
in store for Coos Bay. People today
are prone to live In anticipation of
tomorrow and set today's opportunity
lfy neglected. The Paci', c Ocean
Commerce Is but just developing.
On the Atlantic seaboard there
are about nineteen seaports. On the
3.000 miles of the Pacific Coast line
Puget Sound, Golden Gate, and the
Columbia River are handling practi
cally all of the trans-Pacific trade.
The next five years will witness gi
gantic strides In the development
of the coast country.
In 19 00 our export trade to Cuba
alone was $2G,513,400 and In 190G
the amout was ?47,7C3,uss. uom
merce will and must jliave outlets.
It is the outlets which offer the least
resistance that will be chosen. We
have every advantage hero that New
York had and there are many points
regarding our harbor which make It
far superior.
New York Harbor would today be
in a class with the Mlssippi river
but for the work of canalization.
The government Is at present at
work on the biggest and greatest
harbor work of modern times.
New York's channel to the open
sea will be known to fame as the
Ambrose channel, and when It is
finished vessels whose keels drop 40
feet below the water line, may enter
the port through this Immense
avenue.
Its dimensions are exceedingly im
posing, with a length of 7 miles, a
width of 2,000 feet and a depth of
40. Proably the original depth of
water where the excavation Is now
progressing was not more than one
half of that, so we have a section or
block of sand and mud to consider
seven miles In length more than a
third of a mile wide and 20 feet
thick, whose contents amount to
1,500,000,000 cubic feet or 55,000,
000 cubic yards, which Is the unit
of measure for dredging purposes
That Is, 80,000,000 tons of sand will
have been lifted and dumped into the
deep sea when the channel shall have
been completed.
It was apparent that dredges of
ordinary construction would be un
equal to the task, so that when the
original contractors undertook the
work their machinery was of the
most Improved patern. The work was
not wholly satisfactory, however, and
about two years and a half ago the
United States government assumed
the responsibility of the great sub
aqueous trench a.ifi Is now press
ing It rapidly to completion.
For this work the building of two
extraordinary steam suction dredges
was authorized, each costing not far
from $500,000, entirely different in
appearance from anything that had
preceded them, and these twin mon
sters with Insatiable appetites, the
Manhattan nnd the Ttlantlc, are
laboring day and night at their giant
tesk.
9$fflM Lisas"'" f 3w o?vPjksssst3"&v t
222S2s,
The Populist of '96: "I wonder where J. Plerpont Morgan found that old
horn which I threw away over ten years ago.'
Morris In Spokane Spokeiman-Revlew.
WOULD ISSUEBCNDS"
FOR ROSEBURG AND
COOS BAY ELECTRIC
To build an electric road from
Roseburg to Coos Bay, Jet the count
ies of Douglas and Coos guarantee
ar per cent Iriterest on sufficient
amount of bonds to build and equip
the road. The parties who now are
subscribing funds would pnt up their
money into these bonds and bo sure
of four per cent. If the road paid
four per cent on the k amount of
capital Invested in the road. It would
cost neither county anything while
the road did not pay anything on the
Investement it would cost the two
counties, say, eighty thousand per
annum, which is four per cent in
12,000,000.
The very worst that could happen,
In the event of that being the case
would insure the building of the road
It would also open a new fertile
country and many new settlers would
come into the two counties. In fact,
enough of them that the increased
amount of tax payers would more
than pay enough taxes to offset the
$80,000 that would be required to
pay tho four per cent Interest on the
bonds, to build and equip the road.
Now If that were done, instead of ta
ing that amount of money out of the
different business concerns the two
counties; would it not be much bet
ter that two million dollars of for
eign money come into, and be scat
tered over the two counties, giving
the business men that amount of
money to do business with, Instead of
two million dollars less, as would ,
be the case If the money was raisea
in the county and put Into the road.
I suggest this because of the fact
that when money was not as tight
as It is now and railroads were not
legislated against, notwithstanding
the bonds of the same road, leadlne
road was built and being operated
between Marshfleld and Myrtle Point,
to Roseburg could not be. floated at
t'me, in Europe or America, with ail
tho business Intelligence that could
be brought to bear In legltmato way.
Today capital Is more reserved in
regarding railroad bonds than at that
time, but let bonds bo on the market
with a guaranteed four per cent In
terest and in all proballty they would
bring a premium. What Is more they
would show the financial world that
the neonle of Douglas and Coos
counties have faith In the project,
and believe such a road would pay
from the start.
This is the suggestion made by
me, after talking with some of the
biggest railroad magnates In the east.
From what I could learn, I have
ELKTON RESIDENT
DIES IN PORTLAND
Mrs. Nannie Haines Cox, received
word of the of her father, Mr. Haines
who has been in St. Vincent Hos
pital at Portland. Death was caused
by cancer of the stomach. The deceas
ed formerly lived at Elhton, Doug
las county, Oregon.
There were thirteen children In
(he family and this was the first
death. The funeral will bo hold at
2 p. m. Tuesday at Elkton. Miss
Mildred Haines loft on the Gardiner
stage for Elkton.
- dZtvf
made up my mind that this is the
only way that an electric road will
ever be built and operated between
Roseburg and Coos Bay. If there Is
a more feasible way, I for one, who
is Interested would be glad to know
how It can be done.
Signed
PETER LOGGIE.
Prs. North Bend C. of C.
ROLL OF HONOR.
Following is a list of sub
scribers to the Mnrshficld Pub
licity Fund. The amounts op
posite tho names are tho
monthly installments for the
period of one year.
J. E. Oren,
Dr. J. T. McCormac,
I. S. Kaufman,
F. S. Dow,
Robert Marsden,
Edgar Wheeler,
Herbert Lockhart,
Merchant Estate,
C. W. Tower,
P. A. Devers,
Jim BancB,
W. U. Douglas,
J. S. Greene,
I. S. Smith,
Anson Rogers,
.S. Rogers,
Title Guarantee and
Abstract Co.
W. P. Murphy,
J. H. Milner,
Dr. E. E. Straw,
D. W. Small,
J. M. Norton,
Pioneer Plardware Co.
Magnes and Matson,"
John Preuss,
J. M. Blako,
Flannigan & Bennet
Bank
F. S. Memberton
Mrs Emma Nasburg
Claude Nasburg
C. A. Johnson
Bradley & Traver
0. A. Moffett
C. A. Nicholson
P. Metzerlow
John Bear
Going & Harry
J. L. Brown
F. E,. Allen
J. w. Tibbets
J. G. Thirst
Merchant Brothers
E. Mingus
Hall & Hall
W. A. Toyo
Dr. Leslie
Helming & Company
$50
50
10
10
10 -15
10
10
10
10
10
b
10
10
15
15
15
10
10
10
10
5
30
10
10
10
30
5
10
5
5
3
2.50
2
2.50
2.50
10
2.50
2
2
2
10
5
2.50
2.50
1
1
Satukday's SuusciuiiEns
M. A. Sweetman 2.50
B. M. Richardson 2.50
J. W. Ingrain 2.50
McNeil & FergUEon 5
II. S. Towor 2.50
MONDAY'S DUIIbC,MJW;il
Father Donelly Jfi
E. h. C. Farrin wJi
Monoay's Suiife(jiui;ns
Frank Sacchi :2.60
First National Bank 30
Henry Hohen 250.
Seymour Boll flat 50
A. Con dron flat 20
TERROIZE CITY
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Oddessa Is Scene Of Vindictive
War Waged On Jewish
Population
POLICE UNRELIABLE
Governor Takes personal Coiiiiiiand
Of Patrols Posted On
Street Corners.
Odessa, May 21 Black hund
reds took advantage of a funeral to
day of three police officials who were
assassinated at the central bureau
yesterday to renew attacks on the
Jews. Tho whole Jewish population Is
terror striken. All shops are closed
and deserted. The Jews wero brutally
nttacked and beaten and their houses
fired Into.
One pretext for this shooting was
that shots had been fired from the
t'louses houses in question; well
known provocative tactics Indulged
in at Ballystock and Sledllcc, being
thus repeated. General Kaulbars, un
der spur of private Instructions from
St. Petersburg has adopted measures
to prevent tho dlsoiders growing Into
a general massacre and consequently
another anti-Jewish massacre for
the time, avoided. Owing to tho un
reliability of the police, tho governor
posted himself and was In personal
control of the patrols at the street
corners. The signal for the bcglnlng
of the trouble today was the firing
of a shot at the funeral procession
from a window. This wounded a Cos
sackslightyy whQieupon tho mian'R,
companions fired threo volleys Into
tho building from whence tho shot
came. Kaulbers ordered tho building
surrounded and searched. This was
done and thirty persons were arrest
the shot. He Is a member of the
union of true Russians.
WILL IMPROVE ROAD.
County Thoroughfare to uo uovereu ,
With Slack.
D. H. Helsner road supervisor will
commence In a few days covering the
county road with slack from tho
Eastport mine. Tho stretch to be
covered runs to the north end of
Bain street and commencing again
north of tho city limits through to
Sherman Avenue. From this point
the road will bo put In temporary
good shape pending tho action of the
petloners who aro circulating n paper
for tho purpose of having Nowmark
street made a county road Instead
of the present throughfare.
Newmark street is through a part
of tho peninsula requiring llttlo ex
pense to make It a road with llttlo
grade and will shorten tho dlstanco
from this city to Empire something
over a mile, also shortening the dls
tanco from North Bend to that city
almost tho same distance.
it Is necessary for this petition to
havo at least twelve signatures of
men flvlng In tho two districts, num
bers four and five. Marshfleld Is In
district number five and Empire Is
in district number four.
Free Room Directory
Tho Times desires to btato
that anyone wishing to ob
tain rooms call at its odico
any day during tho week.
Quito a number of desir
ablo rooms havo been listed
and wo will bo very glad to
direct all inquriors. Those
having rooms to rent will
please list them at tho
Times Office
M
Judge Wood Summons Special Ven
ire of 50 Men From Which To
Select Jury.
MAY GO IN CUSTODY
Reported That The Dethroned Mayor
of San franrisco Will Suffer
Further Humiliation.
San Francisco, May 21 Unless
present intontlons of tho prosecution
are changed, an elisor will not havo
a part In the selection of tho Jury
which will try Mayor Schmltz on
charges cxtoitlon. This determination
was expressed by Judge Dunne to
day when he discharged from servlco
all talesmen remaining over from
the late Ruef venires and gavo Into
tno hands of sheriff O'Nollt the snm
munlng of a now venlro of 50, retmn
ablo tomorrow morning. Whether it
is the Intention of tho prosecution to
order Schmltz into custody during
the trial Is not known. Heney says
there is no such present intention
but It is gathered from Interviews
with various members of tl-o pros
ecution that this way may b J-ne
a little later. Dunno todny daul)d
an application of tho defense for a
substitution of tho trlal.whlch ap
pliacatlon was based on an affidavit
charging that Dunno Is with Speckles
and others who aro financial guar
antees of tho bribery graft Investi
gation and that they aro carrying
out a conspiracy to dethrone tho.pres-
ent administration ;n order themsel
ves to secure a valuable railway and
water franchise. It Is oxpected tho
Impanelling jury will begin tomor
row. Tho Roseburg ciectrjc committeo
will arrlvo In Marshfleld Saturday
for tho purposo of meeting with tho
committees from Marhflold, North.
Bend, Coqulllo and Myrtlo Point, to
tako definite action regarding tho
now electric road project which will
about tho building of a road between
this city and Roseburg.,
This will bo tho first mooting of
tho several committees and planB are
expected to developo at this tlm
which will assure preliminary con
struction work on tho road In a short
time.
ALUMNI WILL MEET TO
ARRANGE BANQUET
At a specitl meeting of members,
of tho Alumni to bo held Friday
evening at tho home of Russ Tower
arrangements will bo mado for tho
annual banquet to tho graduating
class of tho Marshfleld High School.
This banquet will bo hold about tho
latter part of Juno and Is tondercd
In honor of tho '07 graduating claBS.
Tho annual election of officers will
bo held at this meeting.
ROOSEVELT
BY NEGROES
Boston, May 21 Resolution con
demlng President Roosevelt and Sec
retary Taft for tho presidency and
supporting Senator Forakor was pas
sed today at a mass meeting of tho
colored population.
COOS BAY A!
ROSEBURG LINE
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