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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.
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MARSHFIELD, : : OREGON
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Come Early to Make Selections of
SampklRojSros in Gjffanection
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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
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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
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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
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