Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About The Coos Bay times. (Marshfield, Or.) 1906-1957 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 24, 1907)
TUSEDAY EDITION -4 MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. ; VOL II. MARSHFIELD, OREGON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1907 No. 9. tttt0 . FOR COOS D.V,' Company. Formed for produc ing Building Material for the Many Needs. A FINE BASALTIC ROCK Quarry Will Ho Opened On Coos River and Operations Started Soon. A now industry is promised very soon for Marshfield and one which is badly needed. Messrs. E. G. Flana gan, Patrick Hennessey and E. B. Seabrook are the parties who will give to Coos Bay building material the lack of which has been the cause of holding back development of thi3 country, to a largo extent. There has always been an Idea that there was no basaltic rock i this territory and consequently no first-class material for concrete work. There has been on exhibition for at least two months at the Chamber of Com merce, some excellent quality of rosk, hard almost as Hint, and the very best for building and for con crete work. People iiaid it looked good and passed it up with a re mark. The rock comes from a farm own ed by Sir. Tribby, near the forks of the Coos Itiver and the samples wero brought in by the owner and placed on exhibit. Nobody seemed to recognize the value of tho property and the rock which It contains, until the men above mentioned took tho matter up and upon investigation, purchased the farm of ICO acres. It is tho intention of the company to immediately open a quarry and place tho material on the market. There are at least forty acres of the rock which can be quarried to ad vantage, and the samo is near enough to water to give the owners easy access. Mr. Hennessey, In discussing the matter, said it would be necessary to build a road from tho quarry to tho river before the company can de liver any rock. This, however, Is a small matter, since it is a mile, and a road can be constructed in a short time. It will be necessary, as well, to put in a rock crusher in order to prepare the material for concrete work. The owners already have In sight several large contracts and ex pect to furnish rock at a price that will encourage concrete building on tho Bay and even in other sections of the county. The owners have just made the purchase and naturally, their, plans are yet In embryo, yet the foregoing Is an outline of what they expect to do. COOS COUNTY TO GET. MAIL SOONER Word has been received by the Oregon Journal representative, who was here some time since and prom ised to make an effort to have the Coos county mail hurried to this country a little faster, that arrange ments have been made by the post office department to have all the Coos county mail placed on train No. 15 which leaves Portland at 7:45 in the evening, four hours ahead of t.he train which has been carrying the Coos county mail. This will beyond doubt improve matters very materi ally and land the mail in here one day ahead of the time it has been coming of late. Mcculloch saved n curriers' people Two Hundred and Forty-three Ship wrecked Passengers Rescued as Food Gave Out. Washington. Sept. 23. A mes sage was received from Captain Mun go, commanding the Bearing sea fleet of revenue cutters, dated Unalaska, stating that the cutter McCulloch had rescued 243 persons from the ship John Currier which was wrecked August 9th in Nelson lagoon. AH of the rescued persons were trans ferred to the cutter Thetis on Sept. ICtb, and the Thetis had discretion ary orders for landing either at Se ward or Seattle. The rescue was timely as the food supply Ba.ved from the Currier was Betting short. KELLY WRITES WHY HE DID NOT WIN Tells Parents Climate Ruined Ills Chance and That lie AVns Weak and 111. Baker City, Or., Sept. 23. Ever since tho big meet at Jamestown tho frlonds of Dan Kelly in Oregon have anxiously awaited his version of his dfeeat at Jamestown. In a letter to his parents in this city, Kelly gives tho first direct statement regarding his showing at the meet. He writes as follows: "The big event for which I have trained and worried so hard about for months is over and I have lost. After I was two or three days on the trip I began to feel weak, but when wo landed at Jamestown I felt in first class shape. The day after we arrived I stepped the 100 in 9 4-5 seconds. I kept working each day, but in two or three days began to feel weak. I drank the water for two or three days before I found out that It was almost poisonous. The warm weather came about four days before the meet and it was hotter at night than during the day. After tring to sleep in tho hotel two nights I gave it up and went to sleep in a tent. Here I caiight a peach of a cold and didn't sleep well, either. "All this misfortune made me worry a great deal about my physical condition and the day of the meet I was eight pounds lighter than before starting on the trip and very weak. I knew I could not win, but I did my beat. In the 100 yard dash, both heat and final, I had a good lead for tho first 50 yards, but was too weak to finish 'a any form and was fourth place among seven starteis. I was beaten about five feet by the first man, and Parsons, who took third place, nosed me out about a foot. There is no doubt in the world but that I could ha-e beaten the best man 10 feet had the race taken place the day I went down to Jamestown-or at any other time. I was simply sick on my feet, that was all there was to it. I won the broad jump simply on my nerve, as I had to run only a short distance. "In the 220 dash I ran my head off the first 150 yards and did not have strength to finish. I did not get a place In my heat at 23 seconds. I would consider this poor time when I was running at home and would consider a man a dub who could not beat it. y "My great mistake, which was re sponsible for losing, was in going south so soon. All the other athletes came the day before the meet, and tho climate did not have time to -get to them, and they were in good shape. I was there in the heavy, humid atmosphere 11 days too long. We should have stayed north and gone down the day before, but Bill did not want to pay the extra railroad fare on account of the 10 day limit, and he couldn't see that It would make much difference anyway In my condition; but we seo it now when it is too late. "I do not know how the people in the west take my losing at James town, but they understood pretty well at the exposition that I was sick and there was not much criticism." In regard to his future Dan was undecided as to whether he would attend the Western University at Pittsburg or go to Michigan. He ex pressed a desire to secure- his A. B. degree from tho University of Ore gon, but did not think It would be tho wisest thing to do at this time. HAVE GOOD FORCE OF MEN WORKING John Mitchell and son Shannon returned yesterday form a two months' visit in Idaho and report that tho Southern Pacific has a large force of men at work on the railroad grade this side of Drain. In New Quarters. Tho Oregon Electrical Supply Co. Is now located In their new store In the O'Connell building and will soon tho Royal Bakery on A street, and will open an optical business. Dies of Bullet Wound. Eugene, Ore., Sept. 23. Bert Nunn, the victim of Crowley's bullet in the pistol fight at Marcola Satur day afternoon, died at the Eugene hospital today -. at 2 o'clock. His family wero at his bedside. Special S. S. Service. RevT C. A. Phlpps, tho Interna tional Sunday school worker will preach In the Presbyterian church on Wednesday evening. There will bo spclal muBic by the choir and a solo by Mrs. McCray. Everybody Is cordially Invited. 1ILES0! m SAFE The Captain, Leffingwell and Party Are at Herschel Island. HOPE TO DISCOVER LAND Part of Crew Preparing for the Search. Others Will Return Home. Seattle, Sept. 23. A special from the Times from Victoria says Dr. Steffason of the Anglo-American Artie expedition, has reached hero from Alaska and brings the news that Captain Mikkleson, Ernest Leff ingwell and part are all well and at Hereschcl Island. Mikkleson, Leff ingwell and one other will make the attempt to find land In Beaufort Sea and are making sledges out of tho wrecked schooner, Duchess of Bed ford, and will leae from a point on the boundry line between Alaska and Yukon. .They sj-e not very hopeful of finding a large tract. Dr. Howe will bring the remainder of tho crow home on a whale boat NEARLY $400 PER ACRE FOR F0TAT0ES Captain W. C. Harris came down from Sunner yesterday with some fine Burbank potatoes raised by James Stock. Mr. Stock has har vested 117 square rods of his crop and secured 19,000 pounds. Cap tain Harris says that at the price potatoes are now selling, 1 cents per pound. Mr. Stock will have re turns of $3S9 per acre on his pota toes. BEAR KILLED ON ' THE EDDY RANCH Mr. F. F. Eddy, who returned yes terday from the farm he recently purchased near Bandon In company with Dr. Bowers, of Salt Lake, re ports having seen a bear killed on his property Sunday afternoon. Mr. Eddy believes a farm Is worth more her In the west where you have good grazing and farm lands, fruit and garden lands and good hunting thrown In. COOS BAY CREAMERY PLACES EXHIBITS The Coos Bay Creamery has put on exhibition at tho Chamber of Commerce headquarters, some fine samples of cheese, and a case of butter. These products were not shown before, and they add materi ally to what a stranger can see when he Is looking over what the country Is supposed to furnish In tho way of farm products. FINE CRANBERRIES FROM SOUTH INLET Somebody, who did not divulge his name, brought In a fine lot of cranberries from a patch he set out two years ago on South Inlet. Tho berries are of fine quality and some of them are as large as marbles, which goes to show that there are many things a farmer can turn his land to in this country and reap rich rewards. MRS. RICHARDSON IS MUCH IMPROVED Mrs. Richardson, who was danger ously 111 for several days, is greatly Improved and is now out of danger. Her gain is very gratifying to her friends who at one time were fear ful she -would not recover. PILES ARE DRIVEN FOR BANK BUILDING William Noble has completed tho work of driving the piles for the First Turst and Savings Bank build ing at the corner of First and C streets and the work of preparing for the foundation Is in progress. A force of ton men are on the job and the work will proceed with vigor. "Gasene" magnifies tho shorty comings of many other soapa. Try It and compare. HI Ell IIS LEASED Extravgances of Mining King Force Him to Lease ' Rich Mines. PRODUCT IS 27 MILLION American Managers Rellee Output Can- Easily Be Doubled. Alvarado Was Peon. Boston, Mass., Sept. 23. Tho famous Alvarado mines in Mexico have been leased by Jo3eph'A. Coram and others of Boston. They are own ed by a former Mexican peon, Prado Alvarado. His sensatloal extravag ance has attracted much attention. Last year he made the Mexican Gov ernment a proposition to pay tho en tiro debt of the republic. The mines have yielded since he has owned them $18,000,000 and fabulous sums have been offeredf for them. Alvarado's extravagance have landed him heavily In debt, and he, at last, has been forced to relinquish control of his bonanza. A leabe has been secured by the Boston people for fifteen years. Under the terms of the lease payment of $100,000 in gold is to bo immediately made and $300,000 is. to be loaned 'Alvarado at the rate of 7 per cent per annum. The lessees shall have 55 per cent of the net profits, the balance going to Alvarado, out of which the $300, 000 loan is to bo repaid. Alvarado estimates that at least $27,000,000 can be taken from the property each year. The lessee's aro satisfied that with modern equip ment the property can bo, made to yield double that amount. OIL INVESTIGATION GOES MERRILY ON Attorney Milburn Asks Embarrassing Questions. Supplies Cut Down Because Flow Failed. New York, Sept. 23. In the Oil hearing today, when W. H. Tllford, treasurer of the company, was cross examined on the stand by John E. Milburn, chief counsel of the defend ants, Mllburn'a Interrogatories were designed to show that the oil fight in Colorado between the Standard and Independent companies was begun by tho Independent company cutting prices and that no trouble was made for tho Independent company except those which came from natural causes. Tllford explained that the reason why supplies of crude oil had been cut down to the sixteen Inde pendents In Pittsburg filed just be fore the agreement was made with Standard, was because the oil supply In that district was diminishing. Milburn developed that the oil firm of Schurner & Teagle, of Cleveland, an Independent company, was not forced Into the Standard's control, but had been taken over after many suggestions from tho officers of the Schafield-Schurner. .- SALMON FISHING WAS FINE SUNDAY Captain Josephson, of tho launch Teddy, took a load of people down the bay Sunday morning to troll for salmon. They had an excellent catch. Among the party were Mr. Hayes, the opometrlst, Mr, Taylor, the candy man, and wife, and Max Zimmerman and wife. There must have been a hundred people on the lower bay Sunday, the total catch of salmon b y trolling amounting to over a ton. Most that wero caught were sllversldes, but still there were many chlnook among them. It was one continuous splash all over that part of the bay and tho sight was truly exhileratlng. The fish aro grad ually working up tho bay and In an other week should be in the upper part. C.A.SMITH TO ARRIVE . ON STEAMER PLANT Mr. J. E. Oren has received a tolo gram from C. A. Smith stating that he will arrive on Coos Bay today on the steamer Plant. Mr. Smith Is deeply interested In the proposition to dredge the Bay, and tho Port Commission will likely get busy .after his arrival. $50,000 OREGON BUILDING GRANTED Bcaer States Will lie Represented at Alaska-Viilcon Imposition. It has practically been settled that Oregon will be- represented nt the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition, at Seattle, in 1909, by a $50,000 build ing and $50,00 collective exhibit. It Is honed that more monoy can bo secured from the state legislature ,for both purposes, but that sura is avail able. At the meeting of the Oregon State Commission, held at Salem, yester day, Archlteqt David C. Lewis, of Portland, was awarded tho contract for the construction of the state building at the exposition. It was also decided that headquarters for the commission, where frequent meetings may be held, will bo estab lished in Portland within the next two weeks. Efforts will bo made to have tho various counties and individual or special and class exhibits to the col lective display made by tho state so that Oregon may have the honor of outdoing the record made by Wash ington at the Lewis and Clark expo sition. The commission exports to take a junketing trip around the state, possibly early next month, for the purpose of interesting local chambers of commerce, boards of trade, com mercial clubs and other "boosting" orcanlzatlons in the state's plans for a fine exhibit. It hasn't been thor oughly decided yet, but arrangements. for tho exhibits from each county of Oregon will be made through some particular prganization which Is tamlllar with all tho resources of tho section. It is tho desire of tho commission to begin tho work of collecting the exhibit at once, that is, to determine just how large an exhibit and of what character may be expected from all narts of tho state and from all the various industries represented here. Architect Lewis was advised today by the commission of his selection, with thS- suggestion that ho prepare a preliminary sketch of the building within the next few weeks. AUTOMOBILE LINE FOR UPPER BEACH Eugene Men Will Establish Service Between Florence and Jaivls Landing. Eugene, Sept. 23. Thos. Neefe, D. M. Kemp and Warren Andrews will establish an automobile service for passengers between Florence and Coos Bay. The trip will be made along tho beach which is a fine stretch for automobiles. When the tide is O. K. this run can be made in two hours, but a longer time will likely bo used, even with a much slower time schedule. The length of time It takes to reach Coos Bay from Valley points will be greatly lessened. The distance between Florence and Coos Bay Is 40 miles, with a ferry across the Umpqua River, half way. SOP FOR ENEMIES OF STANDARD OIL Company Plays for Sympathy Through Promise of Reform ing Organization. New York, Sept. 23. A repre sentative of the Standard Oil com pany, said today; "Tho statement that a conference, of Standard Oil interests will bo called for the pur pose of changing tho name of the company and effecting a re-orgaulza-tlon in general, Is without' founda tion. We can do nothing so long as tho company Is under Investigation, I can say, however, that as soon as. the Standard Oil company has freed Itself of tho labyrinth of litigation, now Involving It, tbero will be a re organization and capital stock will bo lcreased to an amount in harmony with tho value of Its assets, say to $400,000,000. CURREN BROTHERS LAYING GAS PIPE Curren Brothers havo a forco of workmen busy laying gas plpo In Marshfield for the Coos Bay Gas & Electric company. Thoy are putting tho first pipe In on Front street and are laying It two feet below thp sur face. They havo a contract for two thousand feet, which will take tho conduit from the Dow warehouse to a point above Third street. Tho pipe that Is being laid Is three Inch, If'TMllll CnCPWl MTU!'! .'Ur!gSatJl'UW ItuNtNbtnb ! .unciiininicn Borah Trial Develops Fact That Assassinated Man Was . implicated. TRIAL OF SENATOR IS ON Twelve Jurymen Are Accepted by Prosecution Several Express Friendship for Borah. Boise, Sept. 23. Borah, nfter one years' servico in tho United Stales senate, having been elected to take his scat nt the coming session of congress, was placed on 'trial today before J ml go Edward Whitson, in tho federal court, charged withcon splracy to defraud tho United States government "out of tho title to many thousands of acres of timber lands in Bolso county. Indicted with Bornh aro twelve other persons, while It is claimed tho conspiracy extended to 10S residents of southern Idaho who acted as entrymen, taking timber claims which wore subsequently turned over to tho Barber Lumber company corporation which em ployed Borah as nttorney.cloaked' un der tho tltlo of John Doc. Attorons for tho government today disclosed In open court tho fact that former Governor Stcuncnberg was indicted in the indictment and is alleged to have had a leading part in tho so called conspiracy. Tho announce ment came as a surprise to the com munity at largo, several of the tales men examined today declaring they had never hoard it intimated that Steunenberg had In any way been connected with tho land frauds Inves tigation. Little or no progress was made at the morning session of tho court, but during tho afternoon, tho government attorneys temporarily passed twelve men Into tho jury box. All of theso are mbject to further examination by tho prosecution and to complete tho examination by coun sel for tho defense. An odd phase Is given to tho caso by the fact that one of tho men passed Into the jury box today Is Thomas B. Gess, a local real estate dealOr, who served as foreman of tho Haywood case, and In which caso Borah served as stato prosecutor. Several of tho jurors wero ttnepo rarlly accepted. They claimed ac quaintance with Borah and one openly declared ho held tho defend ant In high esteem. Ho felt, how evre, he could deal out justice to him. Three proposed jurors who declared their belief In Borah's InucceuL wero promptly challenged by th gov ernment and excused. District At torney Rulck concluded the jjrors' examination and questioned them closely as to any fooling of prejudlco against him for his active part In securing tho Indictment of Borah and whether they believed ho had acted for personal motives pr In good faith as public prosecutor. Nearly all said they had given tho matter lit tle thought. They also declared they would not permit tholr reverence for Governor Steunonborg's memory to Interfere with rendering a just ver dict In the caso at trial. OLIVER GRAND JURY UPHELD BY COURT California Indictments Still Stand San FranclscO Jloodlers Lose Out in Supn'iue Court. San Francifaco, Sept. 23. Tio Btato suprome court late today ren dered a decision upholding tho va lidity of tho so-called Oliver grand jury. On this decision dppen:!d t! fate of Indictments found subsequent to last March. Tho attack was made In tho grand jury by William M. Abbott, of tho United Railways. Frank im" John Martin and Eugene Diaubla nt tho San Francisco GiTs & Ele" ' C and othor defendants, to tost v lldlty of tho Indlctmonts charj.nr tkom with bribery. Thoy contended that In Fobruary last tho naraos of the new grand jury woro drawn and whllo tho Oliver grand jury had not boon discharged, Its poworn lapsed with tho first stops taken to mnnnol its successors. Justice McFarland filed a dissenting opinion. -Buy your groceries at Sacchl'a. I 1 ji m an Si i Mi I 11 I (.1 .1 f ii ' : h ':i V Mm1 i t Ul