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THE DAILY CQQS BAY TIMES, MARSHFIELD, OREGON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1907. S3taR!a&!E5&E35ZSSZS!SEE8$3S&L.SS!:18-f &.' (toy Sees Things Thai: are not Found , Easily Without Looking Straight at Them JL'Sff All over Scandinavia great excite ment and sensation has been caused by' a thirteen-year-old Norwegian boy, John Floettum, who seems to be poirtcssed of a most phenomenal clafrVoyant power. More than six months ngo somebody at SInegaas, whibro the boy Is living, observed the roalarkable ability which he had shown in finding lost things and persons. At.flrst no special notice was taken of It; but about a fortnight ago a commorclal traveler, living In the Oasterdal valley, was missed. Some body took the opportunity to speak about the boy's remarkable power to thb police, who for nearly a week had tried In vain to trace the miss ing, traveler. John Floettum tras appealed to and without hesitation the boy Indi cated a river, about twenty miles away, whore tha. body was promptly found. Tho method adopted was as fol lows: A photograph of the missing nau was shown .to tho boy, who closoly oxamlncd it. After a short visit at the hbiise where the, man boty lived, the boy, escorted by two Norwegian policemen, started In the direction which ho Instantly ''Indicated-' After a short walk tho boy, sud denly stopped, exclaiming: "Wo are on .tho right way. Hero the man lately sat down." After a few min utes' stay tho boy continued his walk. Though many people followed the boy and the policeman, tho boy did not take any notice of them. He followed rapidly tile course which he hnli laid. (out, and, although it was dark, ho requested tho police to fpl-lbw-shlm until ho had found a tree wtiero ho had seen that the man should liavo lost a handkerchief. After onoi hour's walk a tree was found, where a handkerchief was lying. It was tho property of tho midline Tnnn TlV tills tllTIO thf llOV1 was' bo exhausted that he said it was nec0)8sary to give up that day fur ther walking. Early next morning the boy arose and told tho policeman that In the night ho had seen the body of tho maii at the bottom of the river which he had indicated. THe boy went straight to the river, whore a boat was' at thb shore. He, together with tho';!pollce;and two fishermen, steered in .the direction which the boy in dicated. Suddenly he cried out: "Hero you are," and at tho bottom of 'tho rlVer where tho boat stopped the'body wasedh lying in about one and a half fathoms of water. The news of tho incident rapidly spread over Norway, and an enor mous consternation arose among the Norwegian peasants. The boy was sent back to" Slhgaas, where hl mother, a poor, woman, lives. Tho fattier dled?tHree years ago. His parents have "six children, of whom hoi'waB the ' fourth. His oldest brother Is working as a fireman. The next1 two are sisters, who arc serving as chamber maids. Tho two youngest children, a boy and a girl, are at homo at Slngaas. Johns school toaoher, Mr. Morseth, sixty years old, says: "I nover cared for such experi ments, which I always considered a waste of time, but now I believe It my duty to say that I am fully con vinced about the remarkable sense of the boy. Ho is a phenomenal, clairvoyant. I have already tried him. with several cases, and nearly always John has had a complete suc cess. Only in a few cases, when he was excited, 'the experiments have failed. But don't forget," added the old teacher, "that John Is only a boy " A'sked what sort of experiments the teacher had made with John, Morseth said: "One . day I asked John: 'PleaBe tell mo what I have in my' purse?' InBtantly John replied; A ffoldon ring, some slips of paper, but no money.' That was quite cor rect. Another day I told John that thirty years ago, seventeen years be fore John was born, I lost a gold ring when" I was playing with the school children in tho field. John hedd his hand over his eyes and in a few! minutes said: 'I see your ring t,,i i....t, tv,n nlr Many small lle"nSrJt looking ground UUU mauj Ww - torflt. There is a very thick and fat boyho is very eageny iuo.iuB It But with his one hand he covers tho;,rlng for which he is so eagerly TheBteacher now clearly recollected tho fat boy who later died in prison. "Besides these experiments, ne continued, "many others could be mentioned, but h these cases 1 suppose- that . it was merely thought heading. That It Is real, you may be quite assured. In school John was a very Intelligent boy, but he did not caro for reading. He was not very industrious or even clover, but showed remarkable common sense and much ability at drawing. He was always Interested in all sorts of pictures and photographs. Pastor Brlsin, at Singaas, says: T compare thei case- with the same sense which we learn in thoBbeo many of the prophets. I call your nation to the story of King Saul, who went to Samuel and got ,Ui U in formation about some asses which had disappeared from Wsfathei ?, stable. Quite so wjth the boy John. Last weeK me uuj .......... -- Christiana, where he was placed wfth a fSmllT in the country, that he might Recover from the excitement to which he has been subjected In thoast month. He is, however, un der the special observation of the well known nerve surgeon, Dr. A er ring, who -was first very skeptical, but after close investigation declares that be does not deny that the boy possesses a sixth sense of which the scientific world has no acknowledg er! Wef ring made several experi ments with the boy and had success la nearly all cases. tTho surgeon has now agreed that the boy next week shall take , up , tho dltlcult task, of finding a little Nor wegian girl. Gudrun Klaussen, who gjsanpeared some months ago and or whom no trace has boon found. Qun ilrun Klaussen's disappearance caused a sensation in Norway and all the Scandinavian people are now looKing iorwaru to John's Investiga tion. Dr. Wcfrlng says: "I seo no rea son why I should not permit John to search for tho little girl. Ho Is very eager to commence, and I sup pose he will succeed. In every caso the boy's health will be tho first consideration. I will take tho full re sponsibility In that direction." By request of several people In Christiana Dr. Wcfrlng' told the clairvoyant boy on Friday that a young girl, Gudrun Klalssen, has been missed nearly three months from her parent's home, nnd asked John if ho could say where Gud run was. With covered eyes and Dr. Wcfrlng at his sido John walked at night tlmo, through .different streets, passing tho railway station. Sud denly tho boy took Dr. Wefring's hand, crying: "You must assist me, for this is the right way." John, who hitherto had -jvalk'ed slowly, be gan running, drawing the doctor with him, Only a few yards from the harbor John stopped, exclaiming: "I cannot go further." Dr. AVefrlng asked why not. "I cannot go through tho sea. Gudrun Is .not in the water, and I cannot cross the water oh my feet." At this moment John was evidently somewhat nervous and ex hausted and further experiments will, therefore, not begin until John has fully recovered. , LODGE DIRECTORY t Meeting Nights and Officers of Ccos Bay Orders llli.nrn l.nfiirn. Kn. 48. A. V. Xr. A. M. Richard Walter, W. M.; Norls Jehsen, Secretary. Meets third Thursday of each month. Masonic Temple. Arngo Chapter, No. 22, R. A. M. H. Lockhart, High Prl'st; Albeit Seolig, Secretary. Meets fourth Wednesday of each month. Ma sonic Tomplo. Pacific Conimnudery. C. W. Tower, Eminent Commander; Albert See llg. Secretary. Meets fourtn Mon- aa'y of-each month. MasonicTem and fourth Wednesday, Odd Fol- MASONIC. Butler, Secretary. Meets second Anna. Farrin, 'N. G.; Mrs. Lizzie Western Star Lodge, Rcbckahs. Mrs pie. Doric Chapter, No. 53, O. B. S. Mrs. Marsh,, W. M.; Mrs. O. Macarty, Secretary. ' Meets second and fourth Tuesday. Masonic Temple. ODD FKLLOWS. Sunset Lodge, No. 61, I. O. O. F. L. Planz, N. G,; I. 8. Lando, Secre tary. Moots ever Friday in Odd Fellows Hall. Sunset Encampment, I. O. O. F. A.. Hagenmeistor, u. i; l. . ijanao, Scrlbo. Meets first and second Thursdays. Odd Fellows Hall. KNTOHTS OP PYTHIAS. Myrtle Lodge, No. 3, K. P. Chas. Nordstrom, u. u.; Tom uau, n.eep er of Records. Meets first and third Mondays, K. P. Hall. Pythian Sisters, Laurel Temple, No. 38, Mrs. Bessie Nicholson, M. E. C; Mrs. Nellie Whereat, M. of R. and C. Meets first and third Wednesdays. r WOODMEN OF TIIE WORLD. Camp. No. 100, W. O. W. W. P. Murphy, C. C; W. U. Douglas, Clerk. Meets eecond nnd fourth Tuesdays, Odd Fellows Hall. Coos Bay Circle, No. 164, Women of Woodcraft.- ' Mrs. Nora Daly, G. N.; Mrs. M. Cowan, Clerk. Meets second and fourth Mondays, Odd Follows Hall. RED BEEN. Joos Tribe, No. 33, improved Order "ofRedmen. Hugh McLaln, Sa chem; George Farrin, Chief of Records. Meets Thursdays, Red Men's Hall. . Degree of .Pocahontas, Sacajawea phird Thursdays. Nora Saly, Po L?Sontas; Ora McCarty, Keeper of Records. i FRATERJJAL UNION OF AJD3RIOA. T. Nlcols, F. M.r Mrs. Nellio Owen, Secretary. Meets first and; third Tuesdays, Odd Fellows Hall. GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC. BnUcr Post, No. 8, Department of Oregon. W. E. Thorp, Com mander; I. S. Kaufman, Adjutant; C. W. Tower, Q... M.t Meets second Tuesday each month; Longshore men's Hall. SUOMI SOCIETY. W. M. Hagquist, President; John Backman Secretary. Meets first and tbird Wednesdays, hall over Times lofflce. EAGLES. Mnrshfield Aerie, No; 538, Fraternal , Order of Eagles. T. J. Lewis, W. P.; H. McLain, Secretary. Meets A..f Wnrinnafinv nVAnl.lf? Of each month in Eagles' Hall on Front street at 8 p. m. , . Court' Coos Bay", No. 15, Foresters of Ims.l.n WllUnm TinTlfStaff. Chief Ranger; F. T. Sumner, Financial Secretary.- Meets second and fourth Saturdays in I. O. O. F. North Bend Camp, No. 8261, M. W. 7l. P, Maloney, V. C; L. A. Loomls, Secretary. Meeta second and fourth Wednesdays, 8 p. m., Taylor's Hall. Visiting neighbors Hall, cordially invited to attend. Dogreo of Honor A. O. U. W. Mascot Lodge No. 5. Meets first and third Tuesdays of each month In I. O. O. F. Hall. United Brotherhood of Carpenters And Joiners. Meets in LongfhoTB- ' men's Hall, alternate Tuesdays at 8 p. m. Frank H. Hall, president; JaB. Barrio, vice-president; John Greenwood, recording secretary; F. R. MlKer, financial secretary. SOCIALISTS. Meetings every Fri day evening - at Longshoremen's JHFmD;- T" v-?t-r-.'' "'JOGON. ' Some Special Snaps 8 Choice Lots in Bunker Hill 4 Lots, corner of Sheridan and Ohio ranjMjy.BiaEty.gpa Elks Just In. Complete hunting outfit consist ing of new 30-30 Savage, been used one week; combination money and cartridge belt, new; .leather case, new; Marble . hatchet and sheath, new; Marble knife and sheath, new; brass jointed cleaning rod, and ex tra Marbl6 peep sight, also gold sheard front sight. Call and see Beloato Coos Bay Auction company, Second street, between C and B streets. Dr. J. G. Goble, the well known optician, of Mcdford, Ore., will visit all Coos Bay towns during Sept. For dates seo this paper later. Rates 5c line first time, 3c lino each succeeding insertion .. Try a Times want ad. FOR SALE 26 feet new power fishing boat. Apply Max Tlmmer man. FOR SALE Pure bred Brown Leg horn cockrels. ?2.50 each. Seo Jack Flanagan. FOR RENT Half a store with nice large windows. Call at Taylor Piano House. iJ'OR RENT Elegantly furnished housekeeping and bed rooms close in. Reasonable. Coos Bay Auction Company. FOR SALE Fine business block, good Income, cheap. Furnished rooming and boarding houses cheap; will rent. Coos Bay Auc tion Co. FOR SALE Household goods, com plete outfit. Call Times office. LADIES wishing sewing done call on Mrs. T. Nussel and 'Mrs. Jack Rice, Pino street. TO LAUNCHMEN E. C. .Pentland, at 229 G street, Eureka, iCalif, ha3 a good launch business, for sale. Three persons can each .draw $150 ' a month and put money in tho bank besides from the profits. Business will bear investigation, but time, is short; $2500 required to buy plant, worth $7500. First payment $2000, balance by the month. Write or wlro at once. FOR SALE Good fisherman's dory In good condition, ready for use. Apply Charles Johnson, Brewery saloon. WANTED Boy at Lockhart-Parsons Drug Co, Apply at once. WANTED Good building lot or cot tage. Coos Bay Auction Co. LOST Row boat from Marshfiold dock.Taltned red. Reward for in formation leading to recovery. Julius Larsen. Flanagan & Bennett Bank MARSHFIELD, OHEQON. Oapital subscribed tttJ.ooo Capital Paid Up MO.OOO Undivided Profits J35.O0Q Does a general banking business and draws on the Bank ot California, Ban Francisco CallL, First National Dank Portland Or., First National Bank. Koseblfrg, Or., Hanover Na tional Bank, New York, N. M. Kothchlld & Bon, London, England. Also Bell change on nearly all tua principal cities of Europe. Accounts kept subject to check, safe deposit lock boxes (or rent at a cents a month or 5. a year. INTEREST PAID ON TIME DEPOSITS MAUDS L. PAINTER Is receiving pupils in Voice Culturo Homo Studio, Broadway. Phono 1755-. ., WANT ADS $225.00 per lot $ 1200.00 SUNDAY'S Xe ALERT will leave NORTH BEND at 7:30 a. m. and MAR.SHFSELD at 8:00 a. m. for 9 b at 4 p m. Fare on round trip MARSHFIELD DETECTIVE AGENCY. W. H. Davis, Manager. 4, . Will take up any kind of do- tectivo work entrustod to mo by those desiring first- class work. All correspond- once confidential and prompt- ly attended to. My work always satisfactory and terms right. Correspondence so- Melted. Address all matters to W. II. DAVIS, ftlarshficld, - - - Oregon. . -j. C. J. Hedwall H. C. Borhus COOS BAY INSURANCE AGENCY FIRE INSURANCE Wo havo just opened our office in Marshfleld and respectfully solicit your patronage. Wo will draw your policies cor rectly and guarantee prompt and fair settlement of losses. Wo represent tho following old and reliable companies: Sun Insurance Ofllco of London, Norwich Union Fire Insurance Soci ety of Eugluud, National Union Insurance Company, of Philadelphia. COOS BAY INSURANCE AGENCY Adams Building. Murshfleld, Ore. Over Telephone Office Laimcfa Express Will make regular trips between South Coos river aud Marshfleld Leaving the Maze at 7.00 a. m. nnd Marshfiold at 4:30 p. m. Sho will bo open for charter botweos a. ra. and 4 . m. MAfeTER WYATT COFFELT. JOB WORK. O1 Mr. Ous. Kramer has taken $ clmrKo of tho Times' Job de- partment nnd will figure on $ your Job printing. 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