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i (tas lag Exmm Daily Edition m USE TIMES WANT ADS i m Member of Associated Press. VOL. I MARSIIFIELD, OREGON, TUESDAY, JUNE 18, Hn7. No. 200 s. Locates Marine and Railroad Coaling Center Here RUNS ALONG EAST SIDE OF BAY Henryville Mine After Years of Idleness To Be Reopened--$70,0QQ Payroll Employs 500 Men It is practically assured Unit tlic Southern Pacific Railroad Company will not bridge Coos liny. On competent authority the Times is able to Mate that (he Southern Pacific lias definitely decided on Us route, which will parallel the eastern side of the upper bay, crossing over at the mouth of Coos river, thence running along the eastern side of Isthmus Slough to the old Henryville mine, which lias been idle since J87-I. Plans are now mapped out which will not only add hundreds to the population of tle territory contiguous (o til1" upper liny, but will run the present payroll of Marshlicld into figures that seem now well nigh improbable. The South ern Pacific 1 tall road Company will niaI:o of Coos Hay a coaling center for the railroitd as well as the marine. Three mines will for the present be worked for (he company. Surveyors are now at work Ir thv vicinity of the Henryville mine run ning lines and getting estimates. This mine will be improved and rebuilt to provide for a capacity of 1, ')()() tons a day, and (lie Heaver Jlill and Sotithport mines will lie brought up to a capacity of 500 tons a day. In short, the three mines will have i a total daily output of 1,500 tons of coal a day. To handle (his vjr-l amount three coal carrying vessels, with, a capacity of !J,00() tons each, will be put in service to Coos Hay by the Southern Pacific Railroad Company, and they will carry the product of the mines exclusively. AVitli the added tailroad wharfage extending from the north end of the present wharf to the coal bunkers the additional ships which will come in will have ample room both to take on coal and load lumber. W. S. Chandler, receiver and man ager of the Coos Bay-Roseburg and Eastern Railroad, Is to take charge of the mining property o the. com pany on the Bay, and C. J. Mlllis, who is connected with the trafile department of the road, with head quarters at Portland, will take over the management of the road between this city and Myrtle Point. This is because of the new law pertaining to one management over a railroad and mine. Mr. Chandler states the company lias given Instructions to enlargo the Beaver Hill mine, the only one now under operation, to its capacity. The machinery necessary to do this has been ordered and just as soon as a pump for getting out the water In the mine has arrived and been installed the work of enlarging the plant will begin. What Is known as the Henry ville mine is to bo opened, and the work Is already under way. This mine Is located on tho east side of Isthmus Inlet, about eight miles up, also on tho survey for the new rail road to be built down the coast by the Southern Pacific Company. The Southport, which is also located on Isthmus Inlet, Is to bo opened at once. Tho Instructions from tho Southern Pacific are, to produce 1,500 tons of coal a day at the three mines when thQy are ready to be worked to capac ity. Of this amount the Henryville mine will produce 1,000 tons a day. It will require about two years to sink the necessary shafts. The Southport mino will bo In operation in about three months. A force of fifty men will be engaged in opening this mine and getting a spur track constructed from tho main lino to handle the coal. The work on the Henryville mino will be pushed along rapidly, a force of 100 men being employed. A sur veying party Is now at work running tho lines for the mine. A conservative estimato of the amount of money expended In get ting the three mines to running to,ca paclty Is given by Mr. Chandler as follows: Henryville, between $9,000 and $10,000. Beaver Hill, between $10,000 and $15,000, and Southport, about $4,000 per month, making a total of about $25,000 per month during the period of getting tho mines ready to do business on a large scale. When under operation and delivering 1,500 tons of coal per day the three mines will represent a pay roll of about $70,000 per month and "will employ close to 500 men. The payroll is the largest expended by one company on Coos Bay. Coal from the Henryville mine on Isthmus Slough will not only ho shipped out of this port by steam ships, but a great deal of it will be taken to tho interior by rail. The mine being located directly on tho survey of tho riow road, Is admirably, SELECTS COOS bo ample it will be necessary for the company to have at least three coal carrying vessels with capacities- of from 2,500 to 3,000 tons each, In ad dition to tho steamers Breakwater and Czarina. The latter boat3 will be kept In tho passenger and general freight hauling business. The addi tion of three largo coal carriers will increase tho shipping business of the bay materially. The new pumping plant for the j Beaver Hill mine will bo the largest I In this section, is to be run by elec-; Itricity, the power for which will be ! furnished by tho company's own 1 plant. I W. S. Chandler took charge of the Beaver Hill mine in 1897 and two years later than that was made re ceiver and manager of tho Coos Bay Roseburg and Eastern Railroad and Navigation Company, which position ho has held since. C. J. Mlllis will take charge of tho railroad as soon as 'the receivership has gone through the courts, which will be about the middle of July, after which Mr. Chandler has been a mining engineer for 32 years, during which time he had charge of a mine for tho Empire Coal Company, of Philadelphia, In Arizona for one year; operated the Carbon Hill Coal Company property at Carbon Hill, Washington, for two years and for sixteen years Just prior to coming to Coos Bay ho had charge of the eight mines of the East Wel lington Coal Company, of Wellington, Vancouver Island. While in British Columbia Mr. Chandler was for ten years on tho Canadian Government board of examiners. The eight mines belonging to tho East Wellington Coal Company at Wellington were mined out, and after arriving at San Francisco from Van couver in 1899 J. D. Spreckels placed the local mine under Mr. Chandler's management. At that timo the rail road was not operated under the same management, until nffairs could bo straightened out In tho courts. HISTORY OP THE COAL MINES. The Henryvillo coal mine was first opened in 1874 by Dr. Henry, who acted In the capacity of superintend ent of tho property for about two years, when ho became interested in mining up north, at which time the mine was leased to a company In San I Francisco. It was then operated by tho new company for about a year. Since that date the mine, although a good one, has not been operated ow ing to lack of funds on the part of the companies previously in control. It now belongs to the Southern Pa cific Railroad Company. The South Port mine was first opened a few years after the Henry ville mine wbb sunk, Tho Black Dia mond Coal Company, with B. B, Jones as superintendent and P. B. Cornwall president, first operated the BAY .j. $ .j $ $ . j .$ .$ $ $ 4 $ 8 WHAT IT MEANS. $70,000 will be added to the payroll of Coos Bay. '500 additional men will bo given employment, and later on the number will be Increased materially. Three coaling vessels will ! make exclusive trips to Coos 4- Bay. The boats will have a ca- pacity of from 2,000 to 3,000 tons. 4 Adjacent to Marshfield will be terminal yards that will mean additional men and increased payroll. . Coos Bay will take rank as one of the important harbors of the Pacific Coast, and its value as the only 'coaling station be- tween Puget Sound and Golden Gate will give It a prestige that will attain for this seaport prominence hitherto unknown. $ J. .J. J $ J $ 4 J J $ $'$$ j j $ . $ .$ j .$ , $. $. J ! J THE STORY IN "A NUTSHELL." The Southern Pacific Railroad Company will make Coos Bay its coaling station and will de- velop tho bituminous fields Into a supply station for a great part of the Pacific coast. Tho Henry- villo mine, idle since '77, will be worked Into a mino that will have an output of 1,000 tons daily. Improvements will be 4 made on the Beaver Hill and 4 South Port mines which will give them a total capacity of 500 tons dally, making a grand total of 1,500 tons every day, or 9,000 tons that will be mined each week. $ i $ $ $ $ $ t $ i $ s $ property, but only for a short time. Later the mine went to the South Port Land & Commercial Company, of which II. II. Taylor Is now presi dent. Messrs. Holt and Hawley, who were then operating the Libby mine, leased the South Port property and closed it while they operated the Lib by mine. It was next operated suc cessfully by Nicholas Loonlng, owner of the steamers Areata and Empire. Under this management coal was ta ken out for about three years. It has I remained closed since. I. A. Graham, who built the Coos Bay-Roseburg & Eastern Railroad, opened the Beaver Hill mine about thirteen years ago and operated it tabout three years before Mr. Chand ler took charge. This mine has been running- continuously since first started. S. P. Surveyor Now Laying Out Line Con nection AVlth San Fran cisco Railroad. Silver Lake, Ore., Juno 17. The Oregon Short Lino surveyors, who are surveying the route for the Ore gon Eastern from Ontario to Natron, will finish location work this month to Odell, where tho Southern Pacific surveyors aro doing location work across tho mountains. Tho line lo cated Is on an eight-tenths grade from Crane Creek Gap to Odell, and is tho best route that could be found by five if the hest engineers the Ore gon Short Lino officials could put in tho field. There are three lines be ing surveyed to Lakevlew. One leaves the main line near Narrows, Harney county, and passes through the rich valleys of Catlow and War ner to Lakevlew. Tho second line is being surveyed from Iron Mountain south through tho desert to Lako Valley, then into California. Tho third leaves tho main lino near Christmas Lake, passing through tho central part of Christmas Lake Val ley, which Is one of tho largest un settled valleys In Eastern Oregon, and contains thousands of acres of agricultural land; then Into Summer Lako Valley, another fine valley waiting for tho coming of a railroad. In this valley people have made a suc cess of raising grain and fruit, which goes to show that what can be raised In Summer Lake Valley can be pro duced In other valleys, as climate, soil and elevation are all about the same. It then goes into the Goose Lake country to Lakevlew. r- i ",: :.'"''.,'-. ' , A " ,' .. .. . W,t.i-;-.v I ' "I know It's tough, old dog, In Rapid Succession They Plunge Into Water Attempting To Save One Another LSTTLE B Then Sisters Lizzie and Ada Fol lowed by Uravo Mother and Aunt. Seattle, June 17. Five people, two sisters, a brother, mother and an aunt perished today in the waters of Lake Sammis.' Tho dead Antono Meyer, aged 13; Lizzlo Myers, Ida Meyer, Mrs. Meyer, mother; Mrs. John Iierter, Mrs. Meyers, sister. An tone had gone swimming and got Into the undertow. Lizzie plunged in to save him, but got out of her depth. Ida next attempted to rescue them, but sulteed a similar fate. Mrs. Meyer was next to sacrifice herself, and Mrs. Herter, undaunted, niado an effort that proved fatal. The bodies of the four women were recovered to night. Conway and Fritz are tho names of two young men who are taking pic tures of tho principals in tho great murder trial, crowds going to and from tho county building and other views which will be shown In a mo tion picture machine. Fritz is a nephew of tho Portland man who con ducts Halo's tour cars in several cit ies, and while tho pictures aro for him, to be shown In tho west, tho young men 'expect to start out soon to show tho views in a motion pic ture machine In the east. Tho young men havo secured a pic ture of Harry Orchard as ho ascend ed and descended tho back stairs leading to tho courtroom and havo also taken views of the crowds going In and out of tho front door of tho building. Tho camera with which such pictures rauBt bo taken permits of tho machine being moved to catch the movoments of tho crowd when it Is at least a block away. Pictures of the court room will bo taken and also views of tho jury on the trip from tho jury house to tho court room and back to tho house. Other pictures will bo se cured which, with those of the prin cipals, will make a most Interesting motion picture show. In addition to scenes In and about the court house pictures will be taken of the down todn district and street cars on Main street principally. These latter pic-' tures will be taken especially to show CAM! V OK (iM but mother's cleaning housel" Donaheu in Cleveland Plain Doaler. Climax To His Story Of Disgrace Will Be 'Capped by Re moval From Office GENERAL CLEANUP Many Heads of San Francisco's Offi cial Family Doomed for A.v Dinah Included. San Fransisco, Juno 17. As fore shadowed by District Attorney Lang don this morning of his opposition of admittance of Mayor Schmltz to bail, It is the purpose of the bribery graft prosecution to sext week set about to get the removal of Schmltz and the appointment of a new mayor .to servo until Juno 1908. If tho present plans aro not altered thee ourso of proceeduro will be the board of sup ervisors, comprising at least flfteon members, who,- subject to tho Indict ment at tho hands of tho Oliver grand Jury, will declare Schmltz tem porarily unable to properly perform tho duties of the office of mayor. Supervisor Gallagher will then ap point to tho vacancy a reform man picked by tho prosecution. Galla gher will then resign and a man will bo elected president pro tern and assume mayorallty. Next will fall tho heads of a long list of officials, among tho first being, It Is under stood, Chief of Police DInan. Under Instructions from District Attorney Langdon, tho board of su pervisors tonight adopted a resolution declaring Mayor Schmltz temporarily unablo to perform his official duties and appointing Suprvlsor James L. Gallagher acting mayor. Tho latter says ho will assume tho mayoralty at once and denies ho has made any agreement with tho District Attorney or anyone else to resign at his com mand In order to make way for a re form mayor whoso name is yet to bo announced. Langdon, assistant dis trict attorney Heney, Rudolph Sprcc kles and their Immediate associates In tho bribery-graft prosecution, aro by this move placed in actual control of tho municipal situation. That they will bo allowed to so remain that conditions hero are quiet, much In contrast to what oastern people havo accepted as the belief. This lattr feature will bo given especial attention by tho young men, who do clare thoy want to show tho east tho truo conditions In Boise. Messrs. Fritz and Conway will re main In Boise about a month and will leave for the east fully prepared to show tho pictures. That tholr schemo will make lots of money for them is not doubted if they get their views before the public boforo the trials are at an end. It is said tho pictures will be shown at tho Halo's tours car in BolBe within a few weeks. LTESI FOR STORY Witness Who Will Either Verify Or Falsify Orchard's Story Arrives in Boise TESTIMONY AGAIN Story of Hairy Orchard to lie Taken Up Today Takes Ride Out of Penitentiary. Boise, Juno 17. When the Steu nenberg murder trial Is resumed to morrow morning Orchard, will bo tho lirst witness called to tho stand by tho State. Ho will bo first In tho hands of the defense, In order that a series of formal Impeachment ques tions may be propounded, and then thi prosecution will take him over for his redirect-examiuation. De spite ids long stay on the stand there aro several points relative to tho Steunenlierg murder and alleged con spiracy behln.1 It that were not de veloped, and theso tile State will bring out. The prosecution also want3 to clear vp several matters dealt with by tin defense. While Orchard was under cross-examination. When Orchard was brought hack from Caldwell his guards took him to tho ofilco of .James H. Haw ley, senior counsel for tho State, for a conference as to his testimony and at tho conclusion of tho meeting ho was driven back to thoponitentiary. Tho counsel for tho State had an ex tended conference this afternoon as to tho concluding moves In their case. It was relative chiefly tol the courso to bo pursued by them toward Steve Adams. Decision as to Adams was not final, but it was tentatively agreed not to call him ns a witness for tle State, but to leavo him for tho defense, If It sees fit to make him a witness. Adams stands by tho confession which It is claimed ho made to De tective McParland, and thoro his con nection with the case, other than the use of his name, rests for tho pres ent. Orchard will be succeeded on the stand by James Klrwan, acting secretary of tho Western Federation. An objection Is made to the way In which Klrwan was served with a subpoena, but counsel for the defense waived the mattor and stipulated they would havo him in attendance whenever desired. Several addition al witnesses whose testimony is said to be of importance to tho State will arrive here tomorrow and next day and will be cleared as soon as tho way is cleared for them: . Charles Neville, son of John Neville, who was a member of the party which accom panied Orchard on his flight into Wyoming aftor tho Independence station was blown up, arrived hero today. Neville's testimony is ex pected to havo an Important bearing on tho truth or falsity of Orchard's story. Tho principal counsel for tho defenso were In consultation with Hpywood, and had an extended meet ing at their office. They have not yet given any further Indication of their general plan of defenso beyond generally expressing confidence lft their ability to rlddlo Orchard's story. without a legal contest by tho convict ed mayor's attorneys Is not suspected. It is tho plan of tho prosecuting forced to psk the resignation in a fow days of one of tho eighteen supervisors. Acting Mayor Galla- ghor will then appoint totho vacancy t man named by the District Attor noy. Soon as the appointee takes tho ofilco Gallagher will resign from the mayor's chair and his resignation will bo accepted. Tho board then will olect tho now momber Its presi dent, and ho will become acting mayor. Tho man most norslstontlv mentioned for this ulaco Is Attorney Joseph Dwyer, president of tho Indo- pondenco League, but that nolltlcnl connection Is said to render him un acceptable to Spreckles, tho financial supporter ofth0 whole bribery graft investigation. Tho first act of the reform mayor. If tho programmo Is carried out.'wlll bo to demand tho resignation of prac tically the entire Schmltz administra tion, whos0 places will bo filled with reform agents as fast as vacancies are created. "hi II m. m 1 11 igawwxwm" ,!,.,.' K'ilUW" P'l ' srv