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About The Coos Bay times. (Marshfield, Or.) 1906-1957 | View Entire Issue (July 28, 1907)
9BiBnBifflsw?"'w''rwwfrai '$ .lliijt.l wiwwrnfflai ,;a,. r-iv ff fc - - 5gf 3-ZT IS I Pi m THE DAILY COOS BAY TIMES, MARSHFIELD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JULY 28, 1907. BY FSH-ffiT Alliance Propeller Picks Up Valuable Property Out 28 Miles from Astoria. REWARD OF $1000 OFFERED rops drawn the length of the ship, difficulty the seamon encountered In All went well until the nt and pro-! clearing the propeller when It Is peller were reached, when the rope j known the shaft and blades are was bioken. Three trials of this j twelve feet under water nature were made, with the same re-1 Doing that It wa3 a clear day, it Several Hours' Hard Labor Uequlic'd to Separate Xet From Vessel's Screw. Tho Alliance did not reach Marsh fleld yesterday on time, though she came Into North Bend before noon. She brought a good passenger list and 300 tons of freight. She .will sail on'the return trip on Monday. There is a long 3tory connected with the ship's being belated, and the' acldent whictf happened to her would probably not occur once In a seaman's lifetime. Capjain B. W. Olson related a tale to a Times" repre sentative ,whlch, Jf. the Captain was not known as a mdn of veracity, would have the earmarks of a very big Jolly. But tho Captain is borne out In his statements by the crew and tho passengers, and so the story must be accepted as being one of the strangest Incidents which ever hap pened to a steamer on the Pacific ocean. Tho Alliauco crossed the Co lumbia bar at 7 o'clock Friday morn ing, and was making good time to wards the south. The engines were working well and tho sea was smooth. The passengers wore en- might be Inferred that the lookout might have seon the net before it was picked up, but Captain Olson cays he believes the net was under tho water when the ship appioached. Following is the passenger list: N. Wcstwood, E. S. Glvenn, A. For gins and wife, Hlmer Ferglns, Mrs. Ilogland, Miss Anderson, Mr3. Nel pon, 13. Nelson, A. Johnson, Master Nelson, Master D. Nel3on, Mrs. B. W. Barker, F. F. Peters, wife and two children; Geo. Tlmklns, Dave Black, C. D. Dunar, J. Y. Baker and wife, six second-cabin passengers, C. O. Tho double Devre and wife and daughter, C. Q. steam winch was brought Into play Gillett, Geo. Goodman, Jas. Heacock, and this started the net. This pro-iA. H. DIndenger, C. N. Brown, A. A. coduro was continued for over seven ! Geer, F. Williams, G. Gront, F. suit. It wn3 plain the clearance could not be accomplished in this manner, and so the Captain ordered boats Into the water, and he, with thp first officer and the crew, entered into the work at hand in earnest. A five-inch rope was put into ser vice. A large hook was attached to this, and a spar of twenty feet bent Into the rope near the hook. With this apparatus, he hook could bo sunk Into the water and grappled Into the net. So far, the rigging worked llko a charm, but when the hauling came, there was nothing doing, and the boatmen could not make an im pression on the tangle hours, before the engineer could turn the shaft. The net was made of the strongest material obtainable, and the top line from which the network Is suspended was cotton rope. With this wound about the propeller the reader can Imagine the tremendous power It took to break the grasp of the net. 'Besides this, the net was weighted with lead, and this did Its share toward delaying the work. When the net. drifted ou'. Into the ocean from the Columbia, It was supposed to have been filled with sal mon, and this supposition was borne out by evidence as the workmen pulled tho contrivance apart. Sev eral sharks were released from tho mix-up and a number of sturgeon were also In the net. It Is said these followed and entered the net to de vour the salmon. When the stop occurred Captain Olson set the ship's, bow towards the southwest and put out sails to keep her from drifting toward the invinir tho vnvmm nnii frn7lnr nt. tho shore and consequent danger. He shoreline from southwest of Tllla- trimmed his sails and the boat drlft- mopk, when, without warning, the ed directly southward. The distance propeller ceased revolving as if covered during the work of releas- clutched In the grip of some super- lnP the propeller was six miles. human agency. Chief Engineer When the propeller had been Marro, A. Mann, W. H. Williams and wife, J. A. Valdy, Mrs. Strohlmecker, jLeua Stohlmecker, Minnie Stohl- mecker, W. E. Smith, Geo. Kimball, D. A. Lee, Jas. C. Austin and wife, A. J. Napp, D. D. Fagin, A. Hancock, Mrs. Lundglust, Alma Lundglust, Ired Lundglust, Miss Gamble, Miss Brady, M. Barnes and wife, Grace Barnes, Edwin' Barnes, Glrtlo Bar nes, Harold Barnes, J. Keck, C. Dun entur, F. C. Austin, J. Clifford, Mlko Howsky, Ernest Anderson, Fred Lee, H. Hitchcock, Miss Walton, L.Quinn, JD. A. Hunt and wife, H. C. Ostlne and wife, Tom Ostine, W. C. Barker and wife, L. J, Weaver, G. N. Payne, J. Grills, Mrs. Westwood, Miss West-wood. Whitman, of Peoria county. 111., a strange story conies to a climax in the county jail, Involving love, hate, divorce, a damage suit, political In trigues, business jealousies, and finally aloged mismanagement of a largo estate. Whiting Is chnrged with embez zlement, halng been followed here by secret ngcnls of the Fidelity nnd Deposit Company of Baltimoie, which Is on his bond for $150,000 He and his friends claim the cursty company, aided by his enehiles, 13 using the Pe oria county Sheriff's office as a col lection agency, and that the embez zlement charge Is only a pretext to get him within tho jurisdiction of the Illinois civil courts, when it will be dropped The charg? grows out of his actions as conservator of the es tate of his siter, Mrs. E. Farnham, which was valued at ?125,000. I 1 M The Steamer v . o ia. O' Sails from Northsend wtcanes&ay at noon. MARSHFIELD, : : OREGON &iUUntinmiX5:kJ jjJy H ' y I Vor QVsent ffi3Jflffi3uflag!E8BggB Come Early to Make Selections of SampklRojSros in Gjffanection norh BEFORE, j PEORIA OFFICIAL JAILED SUPEKVISOlt AIlltKSTEI) IX LOS AXGHLKS, CALIFOltXIA Mann telephoned to the upper quar ters and asked If they had struck. It was now about 10 o'clock, and the sea was clear, while the shore Clima,es Story of Love, Divorce, Po- HtJcnl Intrigues and Alleged Mis- management of Estate. TheC.B.,R.&LR.R. and Navigation Co. TRAIX SCHEDULE XO. 2. In Effect Jnnunry 1, 1007. ' All previous schedules are .void. Subject to change without notice. W. S. Chandler, manaflfer; F. A, Laise, freight agent; gerferal offices, Marshfleld, Ore; No. 1. Trains. Daily Except Sunda Los Angeles, July 26. By the ar uist here of Supervisor Frank K. Leave 9:00 a. 9:30 a. 9:45 a. Arrive 10:20 a cleared a3 well as tho apparatus would allow, the engines were start ed. At nrst only nau a turn coma ui ho Tniifln Thrt rivorso wna narl " -"" I"" "" -'""- "- M was about eight miles distant. There and in working the shaft back and i Hi are no hindrances to navigation on forward in this manner, the engine the chart in this neighborhood, and was finally able to clear the trouble fjj ffffESIE3EE23E2? It was evident tho ship had not grounded or struck n hidden rock. The situation was a puzzling thing to the Captain and the officers, and for some time nobody could explain the matter and guesses w Dre in or der. Somebody standing on the stern of the ship finally saw some, not corks bobbing on the water, and then tho solution dawned upon the Captain and crew. The propeller had picked up a fisherman's net which had wound so tightly about the propeller and shaft as to stop tho engines. The r.c. ?.l been lost ' j fisher men '.n tho Columbia River and haJ drifted out to sea. The same was advertised in tho Astoria papers and a reward qf ?1,000 was offered for Us return. Tho net was 150 fath oms long and a very valuable asset to tho company which owned It. Tho nel was picked up 28 miles from the Columbia bar and had It been sight ed beforo boing wound on tho pro peller, tho crow would have divided tho thousand dollars and tho com pany owning tho not would have been ahead at that. But the net isn't worth much now, though tho Alliance crew has sonio shreds of It aboard to prove tho truth of their story. When It wa3 learned what had caused the stoppage of tho driving gear, the next question was how to relievo tho situation. Tho first ef fort to clear tho propeller was mado by keel-hauling tho ship. This, to a landsman, is all Greek, and so should bo mado clear. A new 3-Inch rope was dropped over tho bow of the ooat, tho ends on each side, and tho and the boat smarted on her way i Fk rf'i.M ??vj SsBi Fi A? ijvoK'ai Am HJM K iM EYElnjaRVlf RocV 1 1 Cenfral AFTER. AUG. KSSEEEOIfl ancroft Specialist Hotel 10th B again. Fifteen minutes wero con sumed In this manoeuverlng. Tho crew worked from 10 o'clock in tho morning until C in the even ing without stopping for food or rest, and when the ship once more pro caeded on her way, the matter had been talked over and rehashed until there was little left to say, except to tell tho story over again when Coos Bay was reached. The reader will understand the QBEGSSESKSSEBH aan. II (l Ux pi. i Stations. larshfleld. H. Junction. Coquille. iMyrtlo Point. Dally Except Sunday, j Leave 10:45 a. m.Myrtlo Point. 10:30 a. m.jcoquillo.' 12-00 m. B. H. Junction. Arrive 12:30 p. m.Marshfleld. Extra trains will run on dally special ordois. 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