THE DAILY COOS BAY TIMES, MARSHF1ELD, OREGON, SUNDAY, AUGUST 25, 1907.
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Projectile With Anchor Arrangement Invented by a
Marshfied Resident
Dr. Everett Mlngus, of Marshfleld,
has invented an anchor projectile and
has It patented. The description is
given in the words of the Inventor
and the accompanying cut shows its
shape and arrangement.
To all whom It may concern; Be it
known that I, Everett Mlngus, a citi
zen of the United States, and a resi
dent of Mnrshllcld, Oregon, In the
.County of Coos, and State of Oregon,
have invented a new and Improved
anchor-projectile, of which the fol
lowing Is a full and exact descrip
tion. This Invention Is an Improvement
In projectiles adapted, when shot Into
the ground, to become automatically
anchored therein. The object of the
Invention is to provide a device of
this character, to be shot from a
cannons the same as projectiles are
commonly shot from shore or on
hoard of ship, to carry a line to any
given point.
With this and other objects in
view, I have constructed a projectile
having In all respects the outward
formation of the ordinary projectile,
but with arms forming part of the
periphery of the projectile, designed
to fly outward due to the action of an
attached lino as the projectile is shot
and engage in the earth or other mat
ter in which projectile becomes em
bodies, .thereby forming an effective
anchoring means.
The accompanying figure Is a cen
tral longitudial section of my im
provement, on the line No. S shows
In dotted position as assumed soon
after the projectile leaves the can
non's mouth. In using the projectile
it is fired from a cannon on land or
ship-board with line attached. The
conical endOf the shell Is adjacent to
the breech of the cannon with the
line passed through the muzzel and
colled up at the outside thereof. -
As the projectile leaves the cannon
mouth it travels a short distance with
the line end foremost when it re
ceives the tension cf the line which
suddenly reverses it, the shell then
traveling with the conical end fore
most; this reversed position is due to
the tension of the line retarding the
momentum of the posterior end of
the projectile.
The tension of the line retards the
trigger disk while the body of the
projectile, being free, travels forward
with great momentum and thereby
releasing the arms during the flight
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of the projectile. As the projectile
ftrikes with conical end foremost It
becomes embedded In the soil or
other matter, (assuming that It doe3
not strike rock). The number of
arms carried may be increased and
decreased as desired, from that
shown; also various other Immaterial
changes may be made in the con
struction without departing from the
spirit of the invention.
FINDING Of NOAH'S AUK
ON A MOUNTAIN IN YUKON
Remarkable Yarn Written by "Casey" Moran Manage
ment of Alaska Yukon-Pacific Exposition Will
Investigate the Story.
"Mount Ararat with the ruins ol
Noah's Ark on It , discovered In Yu
kon," was the headlines that appear
ed In a Dawson newspaper some fow'
years ago. And while a controversy
might well be waged as to the mean
ing and original purpose of the great
ruin that Indians declared exists on
the to) of a mountain far in the in
terior oi iNorinern xuiton, uio man
agement of the Alaska-Yukon-Paciflc
Exposition, which will bo held In
Seattle In 1909, intends to sift the
story, and If there Is any ruin, to
have photos and plans ot it at the
Pacific World's Fair, in order that
archeologlsts may bo able to give an
intelligent opinion.
The story of the first discovoiy
of the alleged Noah's Ark In of itself
a classic in the North. In tho
early days of the Klondike rush a
rives from the outside world, when
in the new camp. Of those who have
since given to the world their im
pressions wero Jack London, Ilex
Beach, Jack Corbett, Ex-Senator
Jerry Lynch, of California, and oth
ers. But in the newspaper world of
Dawson then partlculary bright
tho pratlcular star was ouo Bernard
II. Moran, or, as he was known from
Point Barrow to Atlin, "Casey" Mo
ran. As a reporter Casey was unexcel
led anywhere. Thero are whole weeks
in Dawson when the telegraph wires
are down and no news whatever ar
builder could always edit a paper
tho trains are snowed up completely
and no one either leaves or enters the
city, and when the most recent news
paper of the outside world Is some
two or three months old, and every
one has read It twice at that. Get
ting out a dally under these circum
stances Ms no joke. But tho inevit
able, ubiquitous Casey was always
thero with the Item, tho speculation,
tho suggestion. A man that had suc
cessively been street preacher, whisky
smuggler, walking delegate, mining
broker, ice trust magnate and boat
under tho most discouraging circum
stances. It was one of these times and tho
editor was troubled "Casey," said he,
"the paper is going to tho dogs. Peo
ple blame us for tho wires being
FARMER BURNS AUTO
WHICH INJURES GIRL
Countryman Takes Summary Vonge-
nnco for Injury to Daughter
Society Women UmuI Itouglily.
Chicago. Aug. 23. Angered be
cause reckless nutolsts, speeding at a
rate estimated at forty miles an hour,
ran down his Httlo daughter, a stiudy
Illinois farmer organized a party,
composed principally of his hired
hands, waylaid and captured n $6000
automobile, dragged socloty womon
from tholr seats, and burned tho ma
chine. Tho capture of tho speeding
"demon" and Its occupants occurred
at a lonoly spot eight miles west of
Highland Park. At nn early hour
as hours go among nutolsts, a great
red dragon loft tho garngo at High
land Park and speeded for tho west.
For tho first few miles over tho coun
try road tho machine flew as If on
down and the roads being Impassable.
Go out and get an article that will
make 'em sit up, that will be talked
of from tho aurora borealis northern
limit to the southern Cross."
That was an order such as Casey
loed. He grabed a pad, pulled out
his parka, and in a minute the sixty
five below zero fog had closed about
him.
The story appeared next morning.
That night a tribe of interior Indians
had arrived in Dawson and Casey
caught them within an hour after
starting on his search. They told of
a trip that winter after food far Into
the heart of a country no Indians had
penetrated before, away past tho
circle and east of the Mackenzie. It
was a country supposed to be haunt
ed. At any rate the Indians and
Esqulmos gavo it a wide berth, and
only the necessity for food drove
them into it this time. And they
told how they finally reached a great
mountain on whose top was the re
mains of a vast building, "like a
hundred villages built on a great
canoe," as one of the chiefs describ
ed It in the vernacular. The building
has been turned to stono but was
once wood, so tho tribesmen declar
ed. And when Casey found a family
Bible one of the old kind with pic
tures of the scenes In the Old Testa
ment and turned up tho drawing of
Noah's Ark one and all the tribes
men grunted with satisfaction and
declared tho boat on tho mountain
was very much like the picture.
Moran got affidavits from thoIn-
dlans and tho story traveled all over
tho world. The noble red men stuck
to their word notwithstanding the
most jealous questioning of rival
newspaper writers who had beon
scooped. And while many will call
Moran's getting tho story luck, it
is the sort of luck that Moran could
always be depended upon to dig up.
Ho never waited for It to come to
him, but always went to It, and by
1909 tho great Exposition, which will
demonstrate bo many things concern
ing Alaska and Yukon, may be de
pended upon to have investigated
and put tho seal of truth or tho mark
of falsity on this, tho finest nows
pnper story that tho North has over
produced.
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wings. Tho women woio delighted,
and tho chauffeur concluded to "hit
her up" some more. Ho turned
sundry and various levers which? tho
Alphonce at tho garago had thought
to have clevorly concealed from him.
Before tho "society young man" and
his companions know what had hap
pened tho "dragon" wns flying along
a lough country road at a rate of fifty
miles an hour. Suddenly a brown
little country lass of 12 years stepped
from tho roadside In front of tho rac
ing machine. Tho next moment tho
auto had struck her and hurled her
cruelly to the sldo of tho road. Her
father saw tho accident from his
homo. When tho nutomobllo stopped
and tho chaffeur canio back to inves
tigate tho farmer and two Hired men
took tho law Into tholr own hands.
Before tho automoblllsts know what
was happening tho auto had beon un
ceremoniously ditched and tho society
women dragged from tho machine by
tho Impollto farm hands. Tho next
sceno staged "Tho Farmer's Re
venge." Tho "dragon" was dragged
from tho ditch and burned.
ISLANDS HAVE
Secretary Straus Reports a Big
Reduction in Number of
Mongolians.
GIVES FIGURES ON HAWAII
Emigrants From United States
Forty Per Cent of Total
Immigrants.
After having enjoyed a Httlo re
creation yesterday, motoring through
Marin county, Oscar S. Straus, sec
retary of commerce and labor, re
turned to the Fairmont late last
night, and prepared to depart for
Washington this morning.
"There Is one thing," said Secre
tary Straus, "that the general public
does not know, and that is that our
Immigration and emigration records
show that for every one hundred
Immigrants we receive into the
United States each year we lose forty
residents, who leave our country to
return to foreign lands. The Immi
gration to this country is now more
than 1,000,000 a year. The net gain
In population through this immigra
tion is only about GO per cent of the
number that comes.
"As regards the Hawaiian islands,
there are about 65,000 Japanese,
about 9000 Chinese, about 30,000
Hawailans, about SO 00 part Hawall
ans, about 200 negroes, about 500
South Sea Islanders, about 19,000
Portuguese, and about 10,000 other
white people.
"According to the ofllclal census
of 1900, the islands had 25,707 Chi
nese, but now there are only about
9000. The Japanese population dur
ing tho seven years since tho census
report has not Increased so much as
supposed. There are not over G5,
000 Japaneso In Hawaii."
Reports from tho Immigration
office at Washington amplify the Sec
retary's remarks, and go more into
details. A dispatch from the capital
presents them thus:
From a total Asiatic population of
less than 0000 in 187S, forming only
10.2 per cent of the population of
tho islands, the number of Asiatics
increased to 18.00Q in 18S4, and
formed over 22 per cent of tho popu
lation. By 1890 tho foreign-born
Asiatics had increased to 27,000, and
constituted over 30 per cont of tho
population. During the next six
years their numbers had Increased
to over 41,000, and they formed
over 3S per cent of tho population.
In June, 1900, tho month in which
the organic act creating the Terri
tory of Hawaii went into effect, the
number of foreign-born Asaitlcs had
Increased to over 77,000, and form
ed more than 50 per cent of tho en
tire population. It Is now over 100,
000. The preponderance of Asiatics Is
even more marked in ofllclal figures
showing sex. Out of 10G.369 males,
tho native and foreign-born Asiatic
element taken together, represented
69,804, or 65.0 per cent of the total
male population In 1900. The Asia
tic preponderance In the population
of Hawaii appears still moro signifi
cantly In the figures giving adult
males alone.
In 1900 tho total male population
18 years of age or over was 85,136,
of which the Chinese and Japanese
made up 63,444 or 74.52 per cent of
the total. This abnormally large
proportion of Asiatic nationalities
among tho adult male population has
been duo to tho fact that Asiatics
have been brought over as laborers
and that able-bodied men havo con
sequently, until very recently, form
ed nlmost tho entire body of Immi
grants, the immigration of women
and children having been discour
aged. The total increase in the Caucasian
population through immigration
slnco 1900 has been comparatively
small at tho best, but tho arrivals
havo to a considerable extent been
offset by tho steady departure of
whites which has been going on slnco
tho cessation of the excitement at
tending annexation. Tho principal
movement of immigration and emi
gration has beon among tho Asaltlc
elements. Tho figures of tho Bureau
of Immigration show that from July
1, 1900, until December 31, 1905,
4S.03G Chlnfcso, Japanese and Cor
eans arrived in Hawaii, while 3S.029
of them wero Japaneso.
A great many of theso Japaneso
have como to tho Pacific Coast of tho
United States. Tho government has
no figures showing how many of
theso entered tho United States, but
Its combined total of departures
from Hawaii show that during that
sumo period 42,313 Japanese loft
Hawaii for home and this Coast.
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Raising chickens at 60 cents each and eggs at 40 cents
per dozen and berries at 50 cents per gallon and if you think
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The figures of the Bureau of Im
migration for the fiscal year which
ended June 30, 1907, show that dur
ing the twelve .nonths ending on that
day 25,862 Japaneso entered the
United States and Hawaii. The ex
act number that came to the United
States and the exact number that en
tered Hawaii cannot yet be obtained,
but the total for both Hawaii and tho
United States is 25.SG2 for the year.
This was an increase of nearly 50
pGr cent in Japanese immigration
over the fiscal year of 190G. The total
Japanese Immigration into the
United States and Hawaii in 190G
was 11,213, and the increase of 1907
over 190G was 11,019.
Japanese immigration into the
United States by months during the
fiscal year just closed wa3 as fol
lows: July (190G), 1G43; August
2037; September, 1794; October,
G84; November, 1490; December,
3904; January (1907), 911; Febru
ary, 3389; March, 3400; April, 2123;
May, 2263, and June, 2224. San
Francisco Chronical.
U. S. PLANS BIG WARSHIP
AMERICAN DESIGNERS AVANT
A'ESSELS OF 4,000 TONS
To Eclipse Glnnt Battleship AA'hlch
Great Britain Proposes, of
30,000 Tons.
C. St. beteen Front and Broadway
We wish to announce ,
the arrival of 6ur Mr
stock of Ladiesffts,
Childrens Coats and Silk
Rain Coats.
MRS. N, A. OWEN
and
MRS. MARY COWAN
AVashlngton naval circles are agl
tated over the report that the British ,
admlrallty Is about to lay down tho
heel for a giant 'battleship of 30,000,
tons, to bo armed with 12-inch guns.
It is understood that tho new ship
will not only be of no less than 30,- i
000 tons displacement against 20,000
tons of tho Drendnaught, but aside
from the mere matter of superior size
many novelties, some based on the
expeTlenco of the Dreadnaught. Such
a one, for Instance, Is understood to
bo contemplated assembling of three
guns In each turret, so that, If tho
now ship is equipped with six turrets,
it will carry no loss than eighteen
guns in its main battery. Tho cali
ber of tho guns, however, will, it is
believed, remain at 12 inches, the
present standard, Tho report of tho
British plan has caused some of tho
bolder spirits among tho American
ship designers to proceed to greater
length and propose tho laying down
of a battleship of 40.000 tons dis
placement, placing tho American
navy clearly in the lend. Naval de
signers are bolloved to bo willing to
undertake tho construction of such a
ship, it would cost no less than $20,
000,000, but In view of tho predom
inance it would give to America as a
naval power, it Is argued by advo
cates of the proposition that such a
ship would be an economical Invest
ment by tending to insure peace.
The Steamer
M. F. PLANT
Sails from Marshfield Tuesday aynpon.
F.S DOW Agent
MARSHFIELD, : : : : OREGON
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cold water. I
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prices of lots are reasonable. For particulars see
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