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THE DAILY COOS BAY TIMES, MABSHFIELD, OREGON; WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1907. 4llllllltHt !' Fit Yourself In Size Pattern Style and Price fc $? b ', Our stock is new and complete. - " You can't better tho Be3t for 4 Sun Shine oriRaln. Wo havo I! tho goods. AH our suits ;; pressed, cleaned and repaired without cost as often as you like. .) iu-if.U ifo tfi tf i Clothiers and Furnishers t for Men from The Skin out and The Ground Up, Prices Always Right. Personal Notes. Francisco, whero they will remain two weeks, thence going to Los An goles for tho remainder of tho win ter. Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Hayden aro on Coos Bay, and havo decided to reside hero permanently. Mr. Hay den will enter Into business of somo kind before long. At present ho is making arrangements for his homo which will bo built during tho com ing month. Mrs. I. s. Kaufman, who left on tho Breakwater for Spokano on ac count of illness of her mother, Mrs. M. L. Odell, arrived yesterday, short ly before tho old lady passed away. Mrs. Odell was ouo of Spokane's pioneers. A telegram was received yesterday by Mr. Kaufman announc ing her death. Great reduction in Millinery for tho iie.t ten days nt Mrs. A. G. Aiken's. MORE JAPANESE COME IN GKEAT INCItKASK IN IMMIGHA XIOX IS OCTOIJEK. About 250 Per Cent Increase in Those Coining -Directly, Exclusive, of Smuggled Japanese. Mr. E. R. Hodson was a city vis itor yesterday. Mr. Joe Hodson was in tho city on business Tuesday. Mr. Ralph Aggler is in Marshfleld attending to business affairs. Miss Matson, of Catching Inlet, Was shopping hero yesterday. Miss Annie Johnson,, of North Inlet, was a city visitor Tuesday. Mr. Julius Kruse spent Tuesday in Marshfleld attending to business. Mr. Ford Kuntz, of Washington, D. C, is on Coos Bay looking over the country. Miss Frances Layo spent Monday and Tuesday on Coos River with friends. Mr. Fred Lockley, of Portland, is visiting In Marshfleld for an indefin ite time. . t . Mr. D. D. Dooley made a business trip to Empire yesterday, returning In the evening to Marshfleld. Miss Grayco Gould returned to this city yesterday after remalnnig in Coqulllo for the last two weeks. Mr. Robert McDell returned yester day from a three days' outing on Coos River. Ho reports a flno time and flno luck. Miss Ruby Lee arrived in this city yesterday and remained until this morning when she departed for her liomo in Bandon. 1 r f Mr. Frank Royee, of San Francis co, left this city last Mondayfor his home In tho south after haying spent several weeks on Coos Bay with rela tives. Messrs. R. Elder and D. Savlin leave the city today for Smith's TJasin, whero they will remain for a few days. Thenco returning to Marshfleld when they will leavo Im mediately for the Ten Milo country, Mrs. R. B. Azeblum, of Chicago, accompanied by her daughter Lena, Jeft Marshfleld yesterday 'or BaD Washington, Nov. 18. While im migration to America from all count ries showed during October a con siderable increase, being 29 per cent greater than In October, 1005, and 12 per cent greater than October, 190C, tho increase of immigration from Japan was greater than has been shown in any one month in tho history of the immigration service. Tho restrictive regulations operating against the Japanese and Coreans have been in force about seven months, notwithstanding this the im migration of Japanese constantly" has Increased during that period. The official figures show that dur ing October, 190G, before the restrict ive regulations were thought of, the number of Japanese who arrived In this country was G84. During Octo ber of this year the number, not counting scores who were smuggled across the Canadian and Mexican borders, was 161G, an increase of about 250 per cent. While the Increase in Japanese Im migration is not particularly alarm ing in the minds of officials of tho government, because the percentage of Japanese Immigrants js not large, It has been sufficient to create com ment. No statement concerning the matter, however, can be obtained from- any responsible official of the department of commerce and labor. THREE HUNDRED LET TERS IN FOUR DAYS (Continued from pago 1.) A. H. Eddy has been busy since coming to town. New cottage designs. Dollar and a Half n Day Is Too Much for Southern Pacific to Dig Up. Eugene, Ore., Nov. 18. The S. P. has replaced its eight white section men on the railroad here with Japan ese. The white men were laid oft yesterday withoui tho previous no tice. Most of them are heads of fam ilies, and were calculating upon working all winter, having wbrked all spring and summer at a lower wago than they could have 'received for other work in order that they might have steady jobs during the winter. All summer the whites received ?1.'G a day, but on October 1 they wero re duced to $1.50. They accepted the reduction uncomplainingly, but ob jected emphatically to being , laid off without previous notice. 'iho Japanese are receiving $1.35 a day. Fresh Olynipin Oysters nnd frozen Lake Point Oysters, hardshell clams, fresh fish nnd crnbs today. The Empire Fish Market, near Pio neer Grocery. wishes to exchange a list of 450 capitalists for $5, and will send the list before obtaining tho money. One man wants to know if machine shops are needed here. Then another man wishes a position as hotol clerk. Some ask about the dairying, the nature of tho soil, and tho most profitable crops. A gas maker wants to hear if there is any employment for him on Coos Bay. A Wisconsin man who has lived in tho slow east all his Hfo has a sudden attack of western fevor and would enter Into business. One man wishes to know whether or not Marshfleld is a literary center. It would take many columns of a newspaper to describe the contents of those letters. Some of tho ques tion's appear quite ludicrous to a citizen of Coos Bay, but how -are strangers a thousand or three thous and miles from us'to know what the conditions are? That's what, tho chamber of commerce is for, and all the letters are receiving cordial and prompt replies. The fine booklet which is being printed in Portland, and which will bo profusely illustrat ed, will soon be out, and then many of the inquiries can bo answered by tho booklet. Mr. Lyon has received the. proofs of tho illustrations, and tho work is very' commendable. Tho people who answer the ad vertisements very generally state in what paper or magazine they saw the same. Tho letters now being received are from small inch reading notices lately published in somo of the big eastern dallies. The page ad in the Pacific Monthly attracts Its quota of answers, and this magazine has al ways been a remunerative advertis ing medium for the Coos Bay count ry. Three hundred letters is tho num ber received at the headquarters in the past four days. That's getting action on advertising, and no mis take. Mr. Lyon Is thinking of put ting on another stenographer, but the flood may ease up and this ac tion -will not be found necessary. parts of Idaho. The species in Ida ho is sometimes called silver pine. Some of tho country's best whito plno is found on the Tndlan reservations in Minnesota and Wisconsin ' and scatered stands aro found in tho states of Wyoming, Montana, Colo rado, and one or two other states. At tho present rate of cutting tho tree will soon be practically a thing of tho past. The small stands in the National forests aro inconsiderable, but they will bo managed with the greatest conservatism by tho govern ment through the Forest Service, and through this method and practice of reforestations It may bo hoped that tho fine old-tree will furnish timber for other generations. .. THE WEATHER. Western Oregon, 'western Washington, rain followed by clear and cooler weather.- East- ern Washington, rain or snow. Cooler. Notice to Eagles. Special train will leavo Marshfleld at 7 p. m., Saturday, Nov. 23, for Coquillo. Occasion, initiation. Fare, round trip, $1.00. All brothers and visiting brothers are requested to attend. Notices to Mariners. Capt. A. Dejoio of tho Fr. Bk.Gon eral Fo reports to this office that Oct. 9, 1907, in Lat. 37 deg. 19, n. long. 127, deg. 40 w., ho sighted a submerged wreck showing a stump of a mast. Tho wreck appeared to be about C5 meters Iong.( Capt.De joie passed within about 3 miles of tho object, weather clear, fresh n. W. breeze and heavy sea. Capt. Larson of tho ship Star, of Russia, reports that on Nov. 5, 1907, in lat. 39, deg. 22 minutes n. long. 125 deg. 32 minutes w., ho sighted what appeared to bo a ship's top mast, with rigging attached. Tho preceding day Capt. Larson saw a bark , at a distance of about 7 miles, which had apparently lost her top mast, as sho had nothing set but her foresail. John McNulty, Nautical Expert in Charge. Great reduction In Millinery for tho next ten days at Mrs. A. G. Aiken's. Sewing machines nnd needles for all nukes of sewing machines at Mil-ner's. MOST VALUABLE WOOD IS FAST DISAPPEARING Washington, D. C, Nov. 18. The position which the United States has held as a lumber producing nation has, perhaps, been due more to whito mine than to any other wood. The timber of this valuable tree which has played a most important part in the material development of tho na tion in fast disappearing and now it is as costly as the finest Ameri can hardwoods. Rev. Edward Hale, the chaplain of the Senate, who has always taken an interest in forestry deplores tho passing of whito pine as our foremost wood, and tells how In his own life time he has seen the day when "tho masts of every vessel that sailed the Seven Seas were made from New England grown pine; while today very little white pine is cut In New England big enough to finish n good sized spar." He tells also, to illus trate the increasing cost of tho wood, that he ordered a Bet of book shelves on which the cabinet maker made a price, and then asked whether they should be of mahogany or whito pine. The white pine production lias shifted from New England to tho Lake States, and Michigan was the leading lumber producing state for twenty years, from 1870 to 1890, with a supremacy based on whito pine. In these two decades tho cut was 160 billions of board feet, val ued at tho point of production, at, not less than two billions of dollars, or -nearly half as much again as tho value derived from all tho gold fields of California from their discovery in tho lato forties until the present. Tho rich forests of Michigan wero onco thought inexhaustible and lum bering continued in a most reckless manner for years. Suddenly the peo ple awoke to tho fact that tho thoughtless destruction of tho trees had thrown 0,000,000 of acres on the delinquent tax list. These white pino barrens point to tho terriblo penalty of wasting the forest re sources which should havo been tho heritage of all future generations. An idea of the Increasing scarcity of white pino timber is given by the New York F. O. B. quotations, on a' basis of carload lots. "Uppers" of the best grade, cost $97 to $114 a thousand board feet and tho "solects" or next lower grade cost $79.50 ?to $99.50. Men who aro yet middle aged remember tho time when these grades could bo purchased at $15 to $25 a thousand feet. Tho present quotations" on quartered white oak, I which aro $75 to $80, offer another basis of comparison wnlch indicates tho condition of the market for whito p'ino. Tho best stands of this timber now in this country are in scattered sec- Itions in Minnesota, New England, and WANT ADS Rates for want advertising Five cents per line. M" Today FOR RENT Furnished room, $2.50 per week. "A" care Times. FOR RENT Three-room cottage, furnished. Apply Mrs. Geo. Farrin. FOR RENT Good six-room house on Baines street. Apply to Chas. Doane. FOR RENT Housekeeping and bedrooms. Coos Bay Auciton Co. LOST In Bay Park a red leather pocket portfolio, containing mem oranda valuable to owner. Re ward will be paid for return to this office. FOR RENT 3 modern and through ly up-to-date 5-room flats. For particulars see Dr. Richardson. FOR SALE Six good building lots, all cleared, at Millington. Address P. O. 317. WANTED Furnished rooms for light housekeeping, for two. Ad dress G. rare Times. FOR SALE New furniture cheap. Will sell part or as a whole. Ap ply at Times. The. furniture (used three weeks) of a six-room house, for sale quick. House, to rent. Inquire of times. FOR SALE 18-foot gasoline boat Apply to Max Timmerman. WANTED-Hotel. -Waitress at the Blanco FOUND Pair glasses. Owner may have samo by calling at C. E. Wol cott's store and describing them. Slub If D ' SlrCuJa ' Wca" I.SntEii IWBotJ INS1ST 1 , j In peal X . MKjir m"5"1 H t n Boekkecpea ! IflBB' Pcmve M f' SttnosrapherA I W SwJJSu!! Miiufoli rni I jiBW uiu4 (uNLIMITED SVaRIETIES) I"-"" Today Bazaar f and Supper in the . 0'CONNELL BUILDING, COR, A AND 2ND STS, , THE LADIES' AID SOCIETY OF THE FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Will offer for sale today a most excellent and varied lot of ladies' handiwork. There are useful and fancy articles, Products of plain sewing as well as artistic needle work, They have also received a consignment of plate proof pictures by the leading artists of the Ladies' Home Journal which will perhaps be the most at tractive feature of the Bazaar, Subscriptions, new or old, to that most popular magazine, the Ladies' Home Journal, will also be received, Do not fail to see this exhibit, The Chicken Supper This feature of the Annual Bazaar the ladies have bountifully provided for, Price - - 35 Cents BAZAAR OPEN AT 1 O'CLOCK. SUPPER AT 5:30 r; Order It Now 4 Sonic of that fine furniture for Xmus. Don't forgot your friends when the timo comes but you hud better put the order in now. ' Wo make nil kinds of fix- tiircs ns well ns furniture. Wo give nny finish as well ' as any stylo to suit the cus- A tomcr. f e Seo us about the goods you F want. ' Wo will build what yon want nnd wjve yon money. Coos Bay Furniture Co. 'HEB North Bend, Oregon. IF mi iibmiip iitfiiirtiii rttAi tmamaamrxaaaamwim For Sale nt Tho lied Cross. M. K. SMITH, Agent For Charles A. Stevens CLOAK AND SUIT HOUSE CHICAGO Cor. First & D. St., Marshfleld ' Steam Dye Works C Street. IaSIm ad Gents' GaMMata Cflwrnfl Dyad Fttip leefcw, Propri (to. MARSDEN : FOR : Straight Whiskey AND A Square Deal. PHONE 481 wwp I JHFM J