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- - r'M""TT7r fVW fmwmmmmmmmmmm "-flfffi'WifffvfyM iniTPfflTnrnTirTrnwrmfii'MfT'nTTf THE COOS AN INDEPENDENT REPUBLICAN EVENING EXCPT SUNDAY, AND WEEKLY BY THE COOS BAY minds through hooks, and tho valua EVENINO EXCEPT SUNDAY, AND WEEKLY BY, THE COOS BAY ' ble means of communication are in Tho policy of tho Coos Bay Times tho independence of which President Entered at the postofflco at Marsh field, Oregon, through the mails as second class mall matter. SUBSCRIPTION HATES. In Advance. DAILY. One year $5.00 Sim months $2.50 Less than 6 months, por month . . .50 WEEKLY. One year $1.50 Local readers, 10c per line. COOS BAY DAILY TIMES. Marshfllld - Oregon. Can You Afford It? You can't afford to look as if your hopes had oozed away, Though failure face you every where you turn; "You can't afford to let the world discover your dismay, Though others claim tho profIt3 that you earn; You can't afford to go about with dismal mutter'ings, Or mourn tho wrongs you suffer and tho woeful stato of things; You can't afford to show your wounds or try to salve the stings By tearfully complaining that they burn. Tho world has little sympathy for him who shuffles past, Proclaiming by his look that ho has failed; Tho world has small regard for him whose face is overcast, And Fortune- hates to hear herself assailed. Tho world Is always ready to bo- Hove in him whose air ) Is that of one whom victory makes proof against despair; Tho world is ever eager to be helpful : if Wo dare ( TO seem undaunted Where WO. might have quailed.. You can't afford to sacrifice the- watchful world's regard, No matter how I your wounded heart may ache; You can't affordMo wall b cause the blows fall thick and hard, Tho fates will not bo kind for pity's sakV. You cau't afford to look tho part of ono whoso hope has fled; You can't afford to show the wounds upon your bleeding head; Tho world looks on tho somber man ns ono whoso soul is dead, And cheers men for tho hopeful fights they make. Chicago Record Herald. THE FUTURE OF OREGON Tho "Beaver Stato" is in its in fancy In the matter of population and Industrial development. First settled inoro than sixty years ago, It is far bohlnd many states more recently ad mitted into tho union, while it ia as far ahead of them in resources that will mako for a great and prosperous commonwealth. It is sometimes profltablo as a means of bettor understanding tho difllcultlQ3 under which some com munities aro compelled to struggle, to dolvo Into tho musty pages of his tory and boo what obstacles havo heon overconio In tho march of pro gress and dovolopmont. For instance, in 1S2 1, when Prcai dout Monroe recommended to con- gross the establishment of a military post at tho mouth of tho Columbia as tho result of his promulgation of the "Monroo doctrine," and ns n moans of holding Russia in check, if noc-s-; sary, a Bumiiur uuiu u jhj ub- clared In dobato that it was tho wild- est sort ot speculation to suppose mat j Oregon should ovor become a stato. Ho contended that tho union was too largo alrcndy. All that region beyond tho Rocky 'mountains was a vant wilderness, a dreary and worthies waato that was not worth, all told, tho paper inquired upon whii-h to write our title to it! ilo flsuml out thnt if Oregon should ever he admitted as a stato, oven grautlng the possibility ot the consummation of such a wild h illu- clnntiou in tho lapse of contun -s to come, a senator from that r.'tilou would require, at the customary rat., of travel, twenty miles a day. 4fl& days to come to Washington ami re- turn homo ......v. .. ...... ..,. ..)llaR ,.,.. lvl ,m.y i.,,0i ,naKt. u . half! He asserted that If ho should even hurry up nnd make thirty miles a day It would require 350 days out of tho year to mnko tho round trip, leav- nnd Washington. But if you do not Ing scarcely two woeks for legiahi- understand already their elucidation tloul la obfuscatory. Tho country was described aa only . fit for Indiana nnd wolves and only Thera are some Marshfleld men mon with whoeli in tholr heads . who would ba eompelled to have though at that time tha idea w.-w not I their resolutions spiked down if thoy MHobo4 la tk crMtr totm .jtnton to tf thm, THE COOS BAY "'ifiT t,,"',",,",,j iuMnini BAY TIMES NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED EVERY will bo Republican In politics, with Roosevelt is the leading exponent. for transmission would seriously entertain the propo sition of undertaking to .either devel op or defend it. Even Daniel Webster took this view of the great west, and but for the foresight of Thomas II. Bsnton at that time, together with a few other long headed statesmen, it is possible that the settlement of the Pacific coast would have been retard ed perhaps a generation. All this now appears like the most exaggerated fiction. Today all eyes In tho United States are turned to ward the Pacific coast as the future empire of the union, and the possi bility for industrial development and accomplishment here far surpass those which a century ago were found 'ii the older sections of the Atlantic. Vhcre is no otate in the west today that stands for a prospect of such rapid acquisition of population as doe Oregon. Its resources are be cdmlng better known, its delightful climate more generally understood, che opportunities for profltablo inv- .vestment more widely advertised, iUa its immediate future Is going to Jee a greater transformation than nil3 been tho experience of any other mate within the same length of time. Thero Is not a county in Oregon, i-rirfi ns Is tho nron. nf the state, but ha3 it3 mountain range somewhere from whoso sides rushes perpetual streams of water, furnishing to the Investor of tho future endless oppor tunities for tho generation of electric power the moving force that 13 des tined to transform tho industrial world with a greater rapidity than has over before been known. Ex change. TIIK NEW U. S. DISTRICT ATTOR NEY. Chrl3 Scheubel, tho new U. S. dis trict attorney was brought up in the foothills near Oregon City, the son of poor people, and has a varied career, lie worked around the mills at Ore gon City for several years. At ono time he joined tho Salvation Army and worked with the army at Astoria. He finally studied law and has been practicing a few years. W. S. U'Ren Is said to bo his backer, and his ap- pointmont is said to bo duo to U'Ron's manipulations. An Albany man, who has known him for yenrs, says ho Is a pretty, good fellow, but intimates that there is more politics than anything else in tho selection. Albany Democrat. WHAT IS A GRAFTER? "What Is a grafter?" asks a cor respondent, seeking for light. Ah, If we would onl ask some thing answerable! Who shall deflno tho indefinite word? Who shall limit hie limitless? It needb a Homer to sing tho epic of graft, and catalogue uio grafters. uraft is a tendency, an atmosphere, an influence, an Impulbo, un lustinct. , 'it is a reaching out for more. It is an evolutionary effort to survive. It la seinsnnoss. it is egotism, it is fraud, injustice. It is an effort to net more than one's share. It is as old 0s tho world and as universal as sin. 'still, that does not explain, I "What 1b a grafter?" This form of j the question is moro concrete, hut just as elusive. Our correspondent knows. Wo know. Everybody ' knows. But the "body of this death" j Is too subtle, too protean to be cof- lined in a stick of type, or embalmed in a spoken phrase. Tho latter day piphets know- Ask Upton Sinclair; a&k David Qrahnni Phllliiw: ask Lin. 1 - -, . ----- - eolu Stoffons; ask the whole tribe of mink rake wlelders. And yet. if you do not know, they cuunot tell you, says an exchange. Tho surgeons know ask Roosevelt; ask Hughes; r ju.wu. nit: I'uuuviliuuu KIIOW ass in San Francisco, in St. Louis, in Chi- cago, in Kansas, in Oregon, nnd turn your telescope toward Philadelphia WEEKLY TIMES. MARSHFlELD, xmnammnn BOOKS IX THH HOME. Written for Tho Times. We enjoy intercourse with superior reach of all. In the hest books great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their I souls into ours; God be thanked for R ohnnlH Rnkn siirh a books. They are tho voices of the,U00S W WU "BlSe bUCfl a distant and the dead, and make us heirs of tho spiritual life of pastj ages. They give to all who will faithfully use them, the society, the spiritual presence of the best and greatest of our raco. How desirable then that everyone should have a taste for good reading. Reading not only stores the mind with useful In formation, but It helps one to pass pleasantly many hours and days when if he did not have the reading habit he would be idle and lonesomo and perhaps in mischief. A tasto for reading must be acquired in youth. If you do not learn to enjoy reading books and periodicals in your youth it is doubtful if you ever will be much of a reader. Here is a thought for mothers about the Importance of placing interesting reading continu ally before their children. Care should be taken that the llturature put into the hands of the young should bo of the best. If your boy is determined to read about Harry Tracy, let him read Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly in place of the Tip Top Weekly. Let him havo plain truth. It is not enough that young people should read. Tho reading matter should be of the right kind. It is just as essential that the mental food should be nourishing as that the food for tho body should be. That the reading matter shall not on ly be harmless, but that It be strengthening and broadening as well. Something more than mere words. If this is not looked after, the work of reading will be mere waste of energy. If every fam ily would form a reading circle under their own home light, devoting if only half an hour each evening to tho reading and intelligent discussion of some interesting page, the amount of Information gained during tho winter months would astonish them. The parents' part In helping to mako good men and women out of tho boys and girls of today is in personal In fluence and in constantly raising the standard of books they place before their children. They should never be satisfied with books that are no particular harm. The books must be of some particular good. More time . and thought should be given to the study of what are tho best books for . children, and more time in reading t books to determine which are the best suited. Every home should con-1 tain a collection of books, however small, and they should be accumu- lated on some definite plan, however . limited. The privilege of using a public library Is generally valuable, (and there Is something radically wrong when a town the size of On January 10th the mail from Rose Marshfield cannot boast ono), but burg reached Dora at G a. m. At 1 some books must be owned, and be ' P- '. it was still there, awaiting the constantly within reach, or no real arrival of a wagon from Sumner, and satisfaction can be had from them, jthe Lord only knows how much long There are innumerable families pr i waited. This is the regular who never never dream of buying any order, and it causes tho mail to book but school books. Everyone t reach Sumner, at the best, too late who can afford anything at all be- j to come down until the next day. yond the necessaries of life should A reliable man who is In a position set aside a definite yearly sum for to see the entire workings of tho sys magaalnes and should form the habit tem on which this community is de of frequently dropping into tho book pending for its mall' says: "Tho stores to see what there may be that route is badly managed, or rather not will be for the eJucation or amuse- managed at all The whole ment of the family. This is the busi-. matter can bo served up in a few ness of tho purse bearer, and he words: An exceedingly poor class of should remember that good reading carriers they neither care nor try matter is a better investment than and a boss who seems powerless to liquor or tobacco, or even cheap discharge them and get good men. candy. j Good carriers and good stock Would A good list of books for the homo 8've you a bettor mail service and would be first a Bible, concordance, cost not one dollar more. Tho rn.ids dictionary, encyclopaedias, atlas, United States history, somo good biographies our best poets, and many other standard works tho purso 'will allow. fi t it COOS BAY LOTS SELL LIKE RED-HOT CAKES Portland Paper Says Peoplo There Aro Investing in Property Here. j t Isjuo of tho Portland i lad the following booster r, I Tel- InotUv " v,y lota aro now selling "llke'specior as to the reason for delay on h"t .. ' .. hi Portland ns u result i the Robeburg-.Marshfleld route , of the dif lopmont going on in that ' It requires something In the'naturo Won. t Marshfleld C. A. Smith, j of battle, murder aud sudden death ;n Minneapolis lumberman has about ! to do juetico to the situation and to - ,.,.,.. , a nawinui wita a daily i ini'iUliy Ol i'.ill.UUU leet. THIS mill Is to stnrt .in in February with a'mit to !, "'','"" force of 200 men. Mr. Smith has a mill In operation over there now, and has established n big trade by ocean for his lumber. W'lth rail connection with Port land tho Coos Bay country is destin ed to build i p rapidly, as both the metropolis and the entire coast re gion requirn each other in the pro iren of trade. OREGON, FRIDAYJ.MJUY17J908i in mr mail i Howl on Rotten Mail Service. BE HEARD IN WASHINGTON There is No; Cause fop Present Inex cusable Delays but Careless In difference und People Should Not Submit to It. FMItnr Tlmpa A taw dnva n crn T heard a man strenuously defending!"' The government is amply the mail contractor for his course in giving us far the worst service with which wo have been inflicted for many years. It i3 "impossible" to do better. This man "had been over tho road" and he "know" that it was impossible to get tho mail over it in better time. It simply couldn't bo done. It seems that the inspector for this district is also of the same opinion. It has been reported that ho had an nounced his intention of shielding tho contractor in every way possible, as the county ought to put the road iu better shape. It is possible, though not probable, that tho contractor takes the samo view. With the exception of these three, there is probably not a man in this part of Oregon, acquainted with the situation, who does not know better. As nearly everyone knows, the Coos Bay wagon road Is a bad road, as every road that lies out of doors In this part of the state is bound to be, In the winter; but it is no worse now than it has been nearly every winter iu the past. j:t is a hard road to get the mail over; but that is simply a matter of dollars and cents, of men and horses. The people here are really not in formed as to the real situation and tho extent of the contractji-'s actual culpability In the matter. The little Information that comes through Is far from reliable. As an instance: your recent item, Mr. Editor, headed "A Horse Lost," was, off in a few particulars. First There was neith er horse nor mail lost. S&ond It happened about two miles east of the station in Brewster valley. Tho trou- "le was this: The horse took a trail a"d walked to the river, only a fow feet from the road. As it was dark anl the horse stepped into tho river, the carrier could not, nor did not, get lllni out but left him and drove on to the station. As soon. as it was 1'sht he went back and got the horse and mail. Here is an instance helping to show why the mail is late in Marshfleld: 'are better than usual at this time of year, and a right kind of an effort would give you a good mail service." Tho question is, whether tho peo plo of Coos Bay aro going to tamely submit to the imposition under which they are suffering, for fear that tho mall contractor will lose somo money, or .whether they will break loose and raiso a disturbance that will mako Itself heard at headquarters. It is true that the Chamber of Cora- jmerco has seat a letter to Washing ton, but the letter was so mild and innocuous that It was well calculated to deepen the slumber of the officials who are apparently and naturally de pending on tho reports of their in- thow that a community of tho i i ra liurtaiinn nf tl.ic r, rt n. til .,. ... for outrage it is - , As said above, it is simply a mattor f do.lars and cents, of men and horses, to get the mail over this route u t-chedule time. Of course, we have had one freshet which probably ' ' tie delay of a day or two una ollnblo. No one would blnme th a.l con'raoor for that. But it will be remmbre tkat tt oonnoiM- ment of delayed service was coinci dent with the commencement of tho first rains. As a matter of fact, as , soon as it became known who had se cured the contract thoso who Were wise knew what the result would be. It Is said that tho present contractor naele a bid $2000 below the ilgtiro at ' .- t 11 . 1 ........ trnil lw.n Inf. WniCa IUU lUak lUUUiltl Utiu uciill n.1,, whereas the increase of mail made n higher flguro necessary, and the pre- contractor,g bld wag about $2000 higher than tho compensation ho had been receiving. Shall this community suffer be cause someone sees fit to take tho contract at a lower flguro than will pay for passable service? Yet that is tho exact situation. It takes good strong horses, and plenty of them, and good men at good wages promptly paid, to get tho mall over ! tho Coos Bay wagon road on schedulo aDie ana wining to puy wuuiuvui a required, but of course will let the and good men at good wages contract to tho lowest "responsible" bidder. Why should we submit to such an inexcusable rotten service simply because somo one offered to carry the mall for a fraction of what is was worth to give good service, depending on the apathy of tho peo ple and the complaisance of tho in spector to get him out of tho scrape? The winter is nearly over, but an other winter is coming; and other bidders of mail contracts aro also coming. This community might do well to mako an example of the pres ent contractor, to deter future bid ders on the contract from making a figure too low to admit of profit on decent service. If the present con tractor is irresponsible, he probably 1U1B UUUUaiilUU. XL I1U UilllUUL K1TU uo . , tho service, let him throw up tho job, . , ' ,,, , and the Department will employ , , . someone else at whatever price is necessary I would suggest that wo all play that we are wolves and this Is our night to howl. Lot our commercial bodies and others frame up some let ters that are not calculated to havo a soporific effect. If wo stand this thing it will bo our own fault, and all the satisfaction we will have will be the consciousness that our patience under Insufferable annoy- , ance and unnecessary loss of time has onabled one man to bunko the whole community of 10,000 people with no unpleasant consequences to himself. P. C. LEVAR. Marshflejd, Ore., Jan. 12, 190S. BREAKWATER LEAVES AGAIN FOR PORTLAND Steamer Carried Fair Load of Passcn- gers and Freight. i ' The steamer Breakwater left for Portland yesterday afternoon withxa good cargo of freight and quite a number of passengers from Marsh- field and North Bend. The following . . ,, fa was her passenger list F. J. Nelson, II. C. Whlttler, C. M. Anderson, R. Booth, G. S. Henderson, P TT XOnl Q T.'tinrrnTiin "d Tn . .... ..,., . nui.,uuil., V . JJluaU, v nirl tr W W-ef.,1 Mra Tn r,,; , " '";.'...,..' imifcui, a. u. ruiiyjuiin, i. AOUOtt, Emil Stack, John Haefer, E. D. Dor ian, J. Hoffman and wife, G. Ander son, C. M. Anderson, Frank Olson. IDAHO'S SEAPORT Idaho Citii-en Expresses Himself i:n. tliusiastlcnlly About Coos Bay. Mr. D A. Utter, of Weisor, Idaho, returns homo after a six months stay on Coos Bay and carries with him a very high appreciation of the district. In a conversation with a representative of the Times today he expressed himself as being fully convinced that the state of Idaho as well ns Central .and Southern Ore-, gon would bo greatly benefitted by the open wk up oi uivgoirs deep soa- port. Whilo Mr. Utter is an onthu slastlc Idaho man ho Is also enthu siastic in behalf of Coos Ray aud de clares that it is an Idaho port in all respects except that it is not in Ida- I 'It is not tho Immediate resources ' of Coos Bay," said Mr. Utter, "which j mako it a great city, although its timber and coal will mako it a very Important placo, but Its bay and the relatlon which that bay bears to -""". auiimurn anu Central Oregon, Idaho, Utah and even to Colorado aud. Nevada which o.u r u,e .wry. it may teKe som0 are by Jo' i O. Sound, or Portland, time to connect up with all these -'eh U .-. -.r.,i model and .r states but I expect the Northwestern for a boat 80 feet long, 12. OR bam will be down here from Boise In n and a depth of' flvo fcjet. The corn few years. Tho greatest Impetus pany expects to make a decision non which Coos nay will recelvo will and will bain n,n imin. f the si.rt.in ,!. .i. 4 . - r '.!.." . 7 re tne i anuma canal Is opened. Then rail- roads nnd eastern capital will rush to the const and will find no better location for business and investment then Coos Bay." Mr. Lttors many friends on the hay will retain pleasant memories of his presence hero and Coos Bay may ' d"nend on it that the cIMm nnd Smrl have a friend who ..nr,,7'nT. "'""' ,TP Tn. " sing their praise in Idaho -pMismtrnfmmiimjUiWwwi-nmcMiurrxTt n in ! or BSPtnl n !lJf ii.'l-i IK fullLiJ liHUilHlttU Age Exposure and Grief Causes Death of Two About 100 Years Old. Word was received by Dr. Mlngus last night that two old Indians had l.een fuund dead in their cabin at th-i .uo.ith of Larsen's Inlet, and ho visit ed tho scene this morning to ascertain what was tho matter. Tho Indians proved to bo "Old Lyman," and his wife "Susie Ann," names given to them by white people years ago be cause their own names wero hard to pronounce. Tho sceno lit tho cabin was pitiable in the extromo, ns both the old peoplo were nearly 100 years old and had nobody to attend to them. A rancher pnsslng the placo a week ago today saw signs of llfo about tho place, but since thnt tlmo there had been no sign of movement. Dr. Mln gus Ib of the opinion that the old couplo diod last Monday, tho wlfo be cause of exposure and tho old Indian because of grief over tho passing of his long life partner. Tho body of tho woman was found half way between tho cabin and tho water In a undo condition, and it was evident thnt she had been bath ing, as was her habit, in the waters of tho Inlet. The exposure was evi dently too great for her and she , , ... i tit 11 dropped dead on her way back to tho ' . ,, . . , , . . ... . cabin. The old husband, although . , . ... . , ., ... crippled with paralysis, finding that , , . , .. ... , ... his partner, who was quite blind, did not return, must have mado his way to the remains after much effort. Ho covered her body with his coat and a sheet, and then crawled back to his cabin and dropped dead, grief evidently affecting his numerous years and a weak constitution too greatly for him to stand tho blow. This was what had happened judging from tlin findlnir nf tlio hnrllns nnil .. , .. ,.. ,. T ,, .there relative positions. Tho Indi an's pipe was found be3lde tho ro mains of his wife, and there was no .sign of violence in either case. That they had not starved wns easily evident from tho fact that thero was plenty of food on the prem ises, also considerable clothing, most of which had been furnished by the county. Up to a short time ago tho condition of the Indians was pitiable, because they were without food and wero unable to help themselves. Mrs. Henry Sengstacken Interested herself on behalf of tho Indians by asking the county to look after them. She had mado them up a bundle of clothing and food and was to havo , , , , , , ... few days, as she had become iuterest- ed in their welfare. From the condi tion of tho cabin, however, it has de veloped that they wore not In need -f vfhl,.,r . Jll ifl ---"'l'.l".u.i,ul,iuU, Very littlo is known of tho old couplo as thoy havo kopt to them selves for many years. It Is claimed, however, that thoy wero the oldest : Indians of the Kusan trlbo iu Cooa County, and that they wero full j grown belore this section had ever j been vlblled by whitomen. It was possibly because of this feet that 'they tound it hard to become asso ciated in finv uflv -with n rnrn wlilnh Las deprived them of their country, Tho IndIaiiB do not keop track ot tholr age, and while tho deceased Indians may havo been much moro than a hundred years old, judging fTOm their appearance, little is knowu about them, their ago is placed close to the century mark, The remains will be laid to rest by the county authorities, and Dr. Min- gun dues not think it necessary ta hold an inquest over tho remains. NEW BOAT FOR IUVF.R CoqulJle Transportation Company Has PI.iRB for Torpedo Built - Boat, W0 have been shown plans for a now boat which the Coqull!" PI" r Transportation Co., is' flgurin--' on huildinK. On. nt r,f ninn, . r ,r- nlshod by it. M. Haddock, of N w uocneiio, New York, and provH torpedo built boat 80 fPft i. - I 12 foot beam, and the other -ln-n " "-CJ- uvtttxtwts v ..- Uoat aa soon as " Plans arrive, Doth nlans nrnvM fr Q,i nf rbout M miles an hour. By another year, with this fast passenger boat and tho other boats already owned by this company, they will bo in a position. to handle the river traffic for many years. Coqullle Sentinel, rri,. . .... or. i ko v
