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About The Coos Bay times. (Marshfield, Or.) 1906-1957 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 8, 1907)
"JMlWm'l'WIIHIW THE DAILY COOS BAY TIMES, MARSHFIELD, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUSTS, 1907. IWIWWWU" iMHWUILJJTi-t-rjLlJmJLMJaTlHJIPJILWiL. tmjptvwxrazBsxTBtJtGzi guecm u ijuwujbwmcibj Coos Bay Time AN ISDVTK.VDKKT REIT """ ""vs , pj u rrni.iinRi) KVKitr hay nvcr.PTixo Mon day AND ALSO WEEKLY 1!Y The Okh ll.w Times Pi'iilimiixo Co. ! W ..I I III ! mi FRED PASLEY, Emtoii. REX LARGE, Businiss Maxagkb. Tho policy of The Coos Bay Timeg fill be Republican in politics, with the independence of which President Ilooso volt is the lending exponent. Entered at the poMofllcp at MnrMifielil, Ore gon, for tMnsmlsMon tliroiiRh the malls as second class mall.mnttcr. SUBSCRIPTION RATES- Binglo copy, daily, - 5 cents Per month, daily, 50 cents Three months, daily, H 25 Bis months, daily - - f 2 50 One year, daily, - - - ?5 00 Weekly, per year - - ?1 00 Address all communications to COOS BAY TIMES Marshfield, Oregon. THE IIAItnOR AND OTIIKIl HAB HOKS. The Impression has gone out among people who know little of shipping and harhors, and these are in the overwhelming majority, that Coos Bay has very little water on Its bar and very little In its harbor. The fact can not be too often or too em phatically repeated that tho bar is the least of the bay's objectionable features and tho harbor is now capa ble of receiving the principal ship ping of the world. The position which Coos Cay people take is, that they hnve a good bar and a good harbor, but that it Is so easy and cheap to make one of the best har bors In the world, and one which will receive the largest ships in tho world, that It is little short of criminal not to put it into the first rank. We say that Coos Day Is a good harhor now. Anybody who has sailed across the Columbia bar and afterwards across that of Coos Cay will vouch for the statement that the passenger would scarcely recognize the latter unless told about It. It is nothing. Recent government sound ings show conclusively that there are twenty-two feet of water at low tide on Coos Bay bar. At high tide there are twenty-eight feet of water on the bar. Mersey river, which furnishes tho harbor of Liverpool, England, thero are only 27 feet of water at mean low tide, and twice a month heavy ocean liners have a delay of about an hour. Lower New York Bay has a depth of nearly or quite 31 feet at mean low water. Ham burg rarely has more than 27 feet of water. E.-wineu Is In the same llx. Havre has only 30 foet at high tide and unless steamers drawing 25 feet arrive just at the right time passen gers have to go ashore In a tender. Philadelphia has a channel to the Boa which is but 2G feet in depth at low water and at the wharves of the city no vessel drawing more than 24 foot can land nt low water. Balti more has but 27 foot G inches in its channel at low water, and Boston, inside of quarantine, has but 27 feet. Nono of these harbors, therefore, can accommodato tho great vessels of deep draft and largo tonnage. Port land has about 20 feet In Its channol and this is the result of dredging as It was originally only 1 G feet. Lloyd's Register, tho official au thority on such matters, shows that tho merchant marine of the world contains fifty steamships registering In excess of 10,000 tons. It also gives tho names of 171 steamships registering over 10,000 tons. Hut tho vast bulk of the world's eom-i merco Is now carried in ships above i 7000 tons, for tho mighty fleet of i approximately 3000 ships ranging I from 5000 to 7000 tons is roaming I tho seas in search of business. In I fact not more than 1& por cent of I tho world's coninuerco Is donp In i steamships which carry In excess of 5000 tons. And thero remains US Ms pro cent which some part of Coos! Hay Is, in condition to recolvo, and fifty per cent all parts of tho main channel of Coos Hay harbor Is ac-1 cesslblo to. Thus it is scon that tho attitude thnt this harbor needs fixing in order to "slzo up" with most others Is not true, but it does need fixing to be as good as its location de mands. Of course all harbors need attention and fixing and that 13 all Coos Boy has over demanded. A small percontngo of tho outlay nvado on other harbors would mako Coos Bay harbor equal to tho best. For example Toklo, Japan, is being im proved at an expenso of 123,000,000. Liverpool harbor, has been Improved at an oxponso of $200,000,000. Tho Clyde river which furnishes tho har Iwr ol Glasgow, Scotland, was, only a few years ago, non navigable be yond Glasgow, ovon by small boats, but the largest steamors now find i ample water, due to dredging at an ! enormous expense. Millions have , been expended on New York harbor, , on Boston harbor, on the harbor of i Baltimore. ' XOT .JAPAN. . Tho exchanges and dispatches show that Japan is not so much to be I suspected of designing war against America as China 13 to bo suspected of waking up and taking, a stand 1 aqainst the world without any par-1 tlcular plan. It seems to be in the air, so to speak, that that great un wieldy, sleeping mass, which at times stirs heavily or snores in its sleep, is dangerous to civilization. Now and then some little Western kingdom, from curiosity or a spirit of mischief, prods the sleeper and when he moves slightly, It runs away and watches developments at a safe distance. The Yellow Peril is rubbing its eyes, sitting up and look ing around with a half dazed expres sion and all the world wonders what It will do next. Suppose It should stand up? Suppose from the tower ing eminence of an Immense height It should look the earth over? Sup pose It should begin to lay about with the big stick? What havoc might occur? Was It not a wise thought yfrTvrirearanuaff Why Immigrants Conu. (Caplatl Journal.) When Colonel William Barbour of New Jersey was a boy just come to this country looking for a job, he sat one day on a big rock nt the edge of Cranberry lake to rest and eat a luncheon carried in his handkerchief. That was fifty years ago. lie thought at tho time tho rock would make a fine monument and tho thought never left him. The other day he had it removed to the family cemetery at a coat of $10,000. He Is a millicj&ire now. No wonder foreigners come over to America by the thousands. The king of Sweden, who has or dered an Investigation as to the rea sons hi3 subjects leave in large num bers for the United States, will not have to wait long to learn them. The other day Peter Larson died at Helena, Mont., many times a mil lionaire. He came to this country poor and when' he died his interests were so various that It will require many weeks to find out the value of the estate. Besides leaving a fortune to his wife and daughter, he gave liberally to all the churches of Helena and to the charitable institutions such as orphans' homes and hospitals. He willed $50,000 to one brother and ?25,00 to each of two other brothers. S1 00.000 to a grand-daugh- Warm all the beds In the house, bj I a warming pan, for a fortnight. Give yon n fire in your bedroom frr an hour while you are dressing or un- after all, which Emperor Wilhelm of Germany had when he Intimated that ter and ?50(000 to a grandSon When the subjects of th king of the nations should steal upon China when It slept and by dividing it as Europe is divided, deprive it of its ovortowering strength and free the world from the Yellow Peril? There are reasons to believe that when the Empress' dictator, some times called the Empress Dowager, dies, the yellow bedlam will be let loose in all Its fury and that the na tions of Europe will again find It necessary to advance to its subjuga tion. It is believed that China is many fold more poworful in a mili tary sense than cho was in tho begin ning of the century. Her troops have been equipped with modern rifles and weapons. She has the most Im proved Instruments of war and de struction. Her companies have been disciplined and trained by drill ser geants from England, France and America. The Japanese have not withheld their keen and welcome instruction. Besides this the per sonal of the Chinese army has been improved by enlisting a better clas3 than has hitherto furnished Its recruits. They are patriotic and not mercenary. A Chinese spirit has Sweden read of a fortune like Peter Larson's, their desire to come to America will not decrease. CURIO FOR OPIUM. dressing. I Boll !) kettles, ench holding two pints of water. Cook 15 chops in 15 mluutos. J Run a small ventilating fan for 21 ' hours. lltfn n largo ventilating fan for six hours. Keep your breakfast warm for " hours. . Run a sewing machine for 2 1 hours. I Carry your dinner upstairs every i day for a week. . Carry you 30 tlmc3 from the hot- i torn of the house to the top, SO feet each journey. Keep your coffee pot warm at the breakfast table every day for a week. Carry you three miles in an elec tric brougham. I O Sails from North F. S MARSHFIELD, lie bteamci F. PU BfcndW i ANT. ednesyhy at noon. hit OREGON j I llll M ! !! limiMTmr fiiim MHWWlUllllMBIIMWWIMW"flW MIIWWW $arS333(iff COOS RIVER NOTE Mrs. J. D. Cllcklnbeard has been suffering from a sprained an;;le, but Is now improving. Mrs. Piper, of North Bend, has gone for a month's visit with her son, W. F. Piper, of North Coos River. John Fitzgerald Is digging a ditch and putting In a tldegato on the Tim merman place. There will be a dance given in the Coos River Hall on Saturday evening August 10th. Ladies are requested to bring cake as supper will not bo furnished by tho committee. Ilns Mi'3. J. B. Davis has gone to Wash ington to visit relatives. She expects i to be gone about a month. Herb Found in North Borneo Beneficial Effects. ! A report received' in Washington ' JIr- J- Russell's new gasoline from Consul Lester Maynard, of launch i3 now completed and was Sandakan, shows that the opium 'brought up the river last week, cure of the StraUs Sattlaments, which '' has been mentioned in these dis-' Quite a number of North Coos Rtv patches, has reached Borneo and has ' er People are planning a camping trip been tried wkh good results. The to Charleston Bay in the near future. Consul writes: i '' "A drug which is claimed to be a cure for the opium habit lias recently been introduced into British North Borneo, and, although it has been j used but a short time, many old ' opium smokers claim that they navel greatly reduced the amount of opium smoked by them daily. The drug is . used with the object of counteracting ' tho effects and finally curing the , Mr. Lee Webster, lately of St. Louis, has been taking lessons in Oregon hay-making for the last two weeks. 4 4 J $ AT THE HOTELS. t $$ 4 $ 4 4 ! 4 4 i Hliinco S. A. Llndh, Vancouver; Claude Nashburg; W. II. Galin, San Francisco; C. C. Taggart, Beaver Hill; W. A. Custer, Coqullle; W. W. craving for the opium. A concoc- arisen. which has found an aplo j ITtout0"'. T "cCalloy; E. Keane'B aver Hl, ;" for emulation In Japan. mlxli.g the result with opium. After. H , nnfv. Tj nl ' . T. ' Blackiidge, Tho attention of the world Is rlvit ed on the Pacific ocean and the na tions which border upon it. A billion people are just across the water from tho American coast, and It is time that the United States government should wake up and pay attention to every bay and inlet which may furnish any kind of a harbor In tho great conflict, military or commer cial, which will engage tho exclusive attention of mankind for several centuries to come. THE ADVANCING WORLD. The presence of wirelesB telegraph demonstrators in tho Bay cities sug gests again the over recurring wave of progress which moves tho world forward and upward to tho realiza tion of some Ideal which may be vivid in some universal mind, but Is be yond tho reach of finite conception. In twenty-five years thero havo been many wonders produced, such as the telephone, the phonograph, the type writer, phoutaic pictures, monorails, X-rays, electric cars, and tho thous and and ono Improvements desired to bring them nearer perfection. Tho latest capture from the region of marvels Is always tho most weird and generally tho most profitable. It has to bo admitted that wireless tolegraphy Is tho most astonishing of all. Yet it Is an established fact and there Is no room left to doubt that It is a success from both a scientific polut of view and a commer cial point of view. Wireless tolegraphy is, of course, treated as a privato money maker, but that is only an Incidont of its value. Those who participate in a great public enterprise and con tribute their means to its success, should, In this nge, bo encouraged, for It Is now tho only practical way to get such things done. But apart from its private value as a money maker for Investors it Is tho most startling advanco yot made In tho material progress of tho world. It makes communication with all parts of tho world easy and cheap. It en ables nations to know ouo another. It renders tho business man more so curo In his ventures by sea and land. It reduces tho rates of marlno insur ance. It promotes knowledge and hastens tho day when tho world will know enough of one another to render brotherly love and tho King dom ot God possible Coos Bay baa a cbanco to get & station and we hopo it may got into the fold. smoking a dose of two tablespoon fills of the drug should bo taken, and this lessens the desire for further In dulgence. The drug is known to the Chinese as tong hing chu. "L. Wray, curator of the Taiing Museum at Perak, has identified the plant as 'combretum sundalcum.' It is a woody climber, with opposite leaves, in size and shape somewhat resembling that of a pear tree, and bears globular clusters of small white flowers arranged in panicles, the flower being followed by a red fruit about an Inch long, furnished with four longitudinal wings. POSSIBILITIES OF ELECTRIC CURRENT What a Kilowatt-hour of Electricity Will do for the Housewife. Tho following list of services per formed by a kilowatt-hour of electric current was compiled by an English engineer, says the Electrical World, and has valuo in advertising elec tricity. The Idea might bo applied to other commodities: Saw 300 feet of timber (deal)". Clean 5,000 knives. Keep your feet warm for five hours. Clean 75 pairs of boots. Clip 5 horses. Warm your curling tongs every day in tho year for 3 minutes and twice on Sundays. Warm your shav ing water every morning for a month. Givo you 1,250 impressions on n Bromner royal printing machine. Run a mechanical sieve for two hours. Run an electric clock for ten years. Iron 30 silk hats. Light 3,000 cigars. Knead S sacks of flour Into dough. Fill and cork 250 pint bottles. Supply all the nir required by an ordluary church organ for ono ser vlco. Pump 100 gallons of water, or other liquid, to a height of 25 feet. Run a plate polishing machino for 21 hours. Run an electric piano for 10 hours. Lift three and a half tons 75 feet in four minutes. Givo you three Turkish light baths. Keep four domestic irons In use for an hour. Keep you warm in bed for 32 hours. L. B. Blnckridge. L. N. Orosi, Calif.; James Richmond, Coqullle; T. J. Whiteman, Wheeling, W. Va.; C. A. Allen, Port land; A. H. Allen, Portland; Almee Miller; Mrs. E. B. Lane, Myrtle Point; Mrs. R. W. Lundy, Myrtle Point; Frank Miller, Portland; J. J. Sullivan, San Francisco; G. Strohm; C. W. Harrison, Portland; C. H. Mel ville, Port Orford; R. Baker, The Dalles. Central J. Hattus, San Francisco; E. Stoessel, New York; Fred Shoe maker, Portland; C. J. Westphal, Jack Olsen, D. Murphy, C. Bolster, T. Buckley, Edward Killfeather, Port land; Mollle Belieu, Newport; Jako Farse; Wm. Arnold; Thos. Nolan; Joe McDaniel; W. W. Gage; J. Sha rer; R. S. Showers, Pa.; John Wat- stadt:" W. T. White Jr.; Pnv Pnv I -.., -, uu., F. Anderson; Louis Gilbert; W. H. Smith; A. Thomas. Chamber of Commerce J. W. Pin- I ociie, bilverton; W. McLaren, San Francisco; L. D. Olds, Camas, Wash ington; Emil Stoessel, New York; 'n. A. Berry, Portland; A. L. peter, Eu gene; Robert Barker, Lylo, Wash.; F. Gullllams, Wenatche, Wash.; Jo nas Richmond, Coqullle. Today Hot! chicken at Davis & Davis'. j not i nicke: pie tdda at Davis & n.lvlR Dollnnf.ioaon f I ltciiuMiibor.7 Ilotilchicken pie today at Davis L DavX'IBnkrX F. E. AVilsoLs iaeiWdnt itago leaves tor uosetrtir Friday Juoiming W. J. Butler, ngcw BREAKWATER WILL SAIL TODAY AT 11:30 Tho steamor Breakwater arrived in from Portland at midnight, Tues day, and tied up at tho Marsden dock. Thero was a full nassomrer list and 270 tons of freight. Most of the passengers who were not hero ns guests of friends or provided bo- forehand with accommodations, were ' 1 obliged to remain aboard over night on account of lack of hotol accom-' modations. Tne shin will snll on the ' return trip today at 11:30, starting from Marshfield. WANTED Anyboiy having goods to store call at Tayloris Piano House on Broadway, near C. street. Largo warehqule just completed. Terms reasonable. x vr If you wan' thing see Mtcke man, In North B to soil any' old tub Second Hand Our line of clothing is char acterized by snappy, individual styles with the fit and hang that usuallyxonly comes with custom mada clothing Ejtner business or oiiting stylesJancy worsteds, strong caMmeres or cheviots, serges anpfthibets. Excellently made accrtjrding to the latest customs, When biwinglotping the main reason yogo to a cus tom tailor k t0i6et M fit. Now we will give ou a perfect fi at a priae hat nowhere in comparisfinwith thd price of the custcmtailor. LMowMr. Reader you are a man or good common sense, so come around to our store on Second street today and let us convince you of the above statements. Be Wise. U f ROLANDSON 2nd Street in Sacchi New Build in en Wlti0fofreiWtoMMwf1ti0&N Get It For Her An Electric Hat Iron Save her timo Save her Iienltll Save her wen ryl steps Save you money Save j on clothe Save her temper Save her complexion ?r (, b i Tiie very best nn made !: TlioXVmcr- lean j'jccti'lc Heater (It. and tin, i.cneral Electric Col. .AFe havo them .ii uiiim mm... ji iiu-'o lllllilDer nro already In iiso in Mnr&lifleld and If you want to know whether they nro n surreys or not ask any woman who owns one. The Coos Bay Gas & i Electric Co. Marshfield and North Bend. XAWMWUMMwiUl 1 aMlirtirM hii iW fc m tm Y W f mmm mgwrnXssSkki1 lU flr 'NMfaarf IfMfcM im I- i . I iBM ij (M iflMK IPPWIIiMitiiiiiitf ' i " ' I t - ii 1 1 1 hi ! gd "jimmMW iPiMHMy' m.:gSSEilZESmSk ffHHilllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllM