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THE DILY COOS BAY TIMES. MARSHFIELD, OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY 28, 1908.
No. 277.
BOSS' SENTENCE FIVE YEAR!
TARIFF BIG INCREASE IN NUMBER
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REPORTS ON POUT PAPER
Portland Banker Punished For
Manipulation of State
School Funds.
HEARS PUNISHMENT
WITHOUT EMOTION.
Is Allowed Freedom on Bail
Pending Appeal From Judge
Burnett's Court.
(By Associated Press.)
SALEM, Ore., May 28. Judge
Burnett of the circuit coint, today
sentenced J. Thorburn Ross, the
Portland bankerrto Ave years impri
sonment nnd to pay a fine of $576,
094. Ross was convicted of wrong
ful conversions of state school funds
in his capacity as president of the
Title Guarantee and Trust Company
of Portland.
Ross will be confined in the Mult
nomah county Jail. He is allowed
to reduce his fine at the expiration
of his regular term of imprisonment
at the rate of $2 a day. Pending an
appeal he was released under
$0,000 bonds. He took his sentence
apparently with indifference.
Mr. Ross was for years one of the
best known men in Oregon. He was
prominent In church circles, being
superintendent of a Sunday school
class. His troubles over the wrong
ful diversion of funds followed the
failure of the Title Guarantee and
Trust Company.
The state's attorneys have an
nounced their intention of beginning
action against State Treasurer Steele
in the same case.
AGED WOMAN SENTENCED.
Given 18 Months For Perjury In
Druco Case.
(By Associated Press.)
LONDON, May 28. Mrs. Marga
ret Hamilton, aged seventy, a wit
ness In the identity case of the Duke
of Portland and T. C. Druce, was
sentenced today to eighteen months
imprisonment for perjury.
PREPARES TO PUT NEW
BOAT IN OPERATION SOON
Charles Thom Purchases Equipment
For Gasoline Schooner to Ply
Out of Coos liny.
Chas. Thom, formerly a Roseburg
citizen, but now of North Bend, was
in Roseburg en route to Portland,
where he goes to finish purchasing
the equipment for his new gasoline
schooner, which will be launched
from the North Bend ship yards on
June 1 next. This new boat is for
100 tons burden, and the two mag
nificent gasoline engine of 75 horse
power each have been already re
ceived. On this trip Mr. Thom will pur
chase the compaBs and the gaily out
fit, and other minor parts of the
equipment.
The craft will bo equipped with an
electric lighting system, and has an
8 horse power hoist for handling
heavy freight, which has a capacity
of 1,400 pounds per minute. This
new coaster is one of the staunchest
boats ever built on the coast, and
will ply from Coos Bay to Coquillo
and Port Orford on the South, and
from Coos Bay to Gardiner and Ya
qulna or the north. The boat will
cost complete $20,000. She will
touch at Gardiner once a week, there
by relieving the people of the lower
Umpqua of the exhorbltant freight
rates the one company now operating
in this river have exacted for some
many years. Roseburg News.
THE NEW MELROSE.
Is now open in its new homo near
the postofflco. Quick lunch a specialty.
A CARD.
To the Republican voters of Coos
County: I hereby announce myself
as the regular Republican nominee
for coroner of Coos County, subject
to your approval, at the coming elec
tion, June 1, 1908.
T. J. LEWIS.
H FINE OF $875,034
FLEET WILL
LEAVEJACOMA
Part of Vessels Sail For San
Francisco and Others for
Bremerton.
(By Associated Press.)
TACOMA, Wash., May 2S. The
Atlantic battleship fleet was again
divided today by the sailing of the
flagship Connecticut, the Kansas,
Vermont and Louisiana for San
Francisco. The Fourth Division of
the fleet composed of the Georgia,
Rhode Island, New Jersey and Vir
ginia, under command of Captain
Richard Wainwright, will remain
here until Saturday when they will
go to the navy yard at Biemerton.
The officers and men of the fleet were
entertained in various ways by Ta
coraa citizens today.
BIG FIRM CLOSED.
Assets of Pittsburg Co. $350,000
Against $1,800,000 Liabilities.
(By Associated Press.)
PITTSBURG, May 28. A petition
in involuntary bankruptcy was filed
today against George W. Lackmul
lin & Co. The liabilities are $1,800,
000 and the assets $350,000 or less,
A receiver has been appointed.
Congressman Hawley Wires
That Prospects are Good to
Secure Money.
Numerous letters have been ex
changed between the Chamber of
Commerce and the Oregon delegation
in congress concerning the diversion
of $25,225 to be used for inside
dredging. Finally notlco was received
that a resolution authorizing the
diversion passed the senate. Effort
has since been directed In trying to
Induce Mr. Hawley to see that the
measure was put through the House.
Fearing that a slip might be made
at the last, a wire was sent the con
gressmen Monday and the following
reply was received by Sec. Lyon:
"We are endeavoring to provide
for operation of dredge and hope to
succeed."
Woik On Dredge.
Work on the new dredger is pro
gressing very favorably. Colonel C.
S. Roessler has written Secretary
Lyon as follows:
"Replying to your letter of May 23,
I have to advise you that very good
progress is being made on the con
struction of the new dredge for use
on coast waters. The contract pro
vides that the work shall be com
pleted within 8 months from Feb
ruary 12t"h, and I am advised by the
contractors that they expect to have
the dredge completed and ready for
operation by August next. At the
present rate of progress it is safe to
say that their contract will be com
pleted considerably in advance of the
time limit how much I am unable
to say."
DATE IS UNCERTAIN.
Speaker Cannon S.is Congress'
Finish Is Indefinite.
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, May 28. "Wo
may adjourn in two days or wo may
adjourn In two weeks," was the
terse comment of Speaker Cannon
after a conference with President
Roosevelt.
COOS BAY TO
RAVE DREDGE
Minority of Special Committee
of Congress Condemns Ma
nufacturers While Majority
Plays For Time in Their Be
half. (By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, May 2S. The
special committee of the House ap
pointed on the complaint of the
American Newspaper Publishers As
sociation to Investigate the wood
pulp print paper situation In rela
tion to the tariff and with regard to
an alleged conspiracy in restraint of
trade today, submitted a minority
and majority report. The majority
report recommends that no legisla
tion affecting wood pulp and print
paper be enacted until the committee
has finished its investigation and re
ported. The majority report de
clares that the present price of print
paper would not to any considerable
degree bo affected by the repeal of
tariff and "As the passage of the
At Least One Killed and Eleven
or More Injured Near Beloit
Today.
(By Associated Press.)
SALINA, Kan., May 28. A tor
nado, the proportions of which are
not known, swept over Beloit and
vicinity today.
At least one person was killed out
right. Eleven or more were injured.
The property loss will run far up
into the thousands of dollars.
The wires are down and particu
lars cannot be secured. Aid is being
rushed to the stricken section.
WILL GO TO LONDON
AS EPISCOPAL DELEGATE
Bennett Suimton of Mnrshfleld, Will
bo One of Oregon's Representn-tivesatPnn-Aiigellcnn
Conference
Bennett Swanton will leave Sat
urday for London, England, where
he goes as a delegate from the Ore
gon Episcopal diocese to the Pan-An-gellcan
Conference of the Episcopal
church. He is one of six delegates
from Oregon. The conference opens
June 15 and will be in session until
June 2G, so that he will have barely
two weeks In which to make the trip
from Coos Bay. He figures that ho
can make the trip to New York in
six or seven days and cross the ocean
in about five days.
After the conference, Mr. Swanton
will go to his home In Dublin, Ire
land, to visit his mother whom ho
has not seen in twelve years. Ho
will also visit other points In Eng
land and Ireland and will not return
until about September 1st.
BREAKWATER BREAKS
SPEED RECORD OF COAST
Made, Run From Columbia River liar
to Coos Ray in Thirteen and One
Half Hours Last Time.
PORTLAND, May 28. From the
Columbia river to the Coos Bay bar
the steamer Breakwater, Captain
Magenn, completed the passage on
her last down trip in 13 hours,
which is the quickest on record. She
would have maintained the same rate
of speed on the return voyage had It
not been for dense banks of fog into
which she ran shortly after leaving
Marshfleld.
Heretofore the best passage be
tween the Columbia river and Coos
Bay bar was completed in 14 hours
and 50 minutes. Hence the Break
water lowered the previous record by
1 hour and 20 minutes, The fog
she encountered Is said to have been
so thick that it could have been cut
with a knife.
NOW OPEN.
The Melrose is now open for busi
ness in Its now home. Popular prices
and quick service a specialty.
BAD CY0L01E
HITS KANSAS
Stevens bill in its present form
might spell ruin to the paper indus
try and result in ruinously high
prices for paper in the near future,
your committee believes It the part
of wisdom before making a recom
mendation for positive legislation to
await until its investigation has been
completed and thoroughly digested."
The Minority Report.
The minority report endorses the
Stevens bill In its entirety and recom
mends its passage. In discussing the
issue between the publishers and the
paper manufacturers, the report
states that an acute situation which
may bo termed "Trade Hysteria" was
precipitated In 1907 In newspaper
print manufacture when a group of
sixteen Wisconsin mills, known as
the Wisconsin Wood Pulp Associa
tion, bought fifty thousand cords of
pulp wood In Quebec, Canada, and
"Introduced new and unlooked for
factors into what was more or less
a speculative operation," and which
"Demoralized wood pulp manufac
ture of the United States as well as
Canada."
L LEE
Bjffl TODAY
Noted Confederate Leader
.Succumbs to Over Exertions
at Reunion.
(By Associated Press.)
NEW ORLEANS, May 28. A
special from Vicksburg, Miss., says
that General Stephen D. Lee, commander-in-chief
of the United States
Confederate Veterans, and one of the
last three surviving lieutenant-generals'
of the confederacy, died there
today at the residence of Captain W.
T. Riddy. Over exertion last Thurs
day In the ceremonies attending the
reunion of the Iowa and Wisconsin
veterans of the G. A. R. at Vicks
burg brought on the Illness which
ended in death. General Lee was
born in South Carolina in 1833.
H00 H00 LODGE TO
BE STARTED AT BAND0N.
Lumbermen Will Hold UIr Concate
nation nt City by tho Sen on
June 24.
Announcement has just been made
that the Hoo Hoo Fraternity will es
tablish a branch at Bandon, June 24
being fixed as the date of the con
catenation. The organization is for
lumbermen and it is expected that
a large number engaged in this work
in southwestern Oregon will join.
George M. Cornwall, editor of tho
Timberman at Portland, has charge
of the preliminary work for the con
catenation. Robert D. Inman, presi
dent of the Inman-Poulsen Lumber
Company, ex-Snark of the Universe;
J. S. Hamilton, a member of tho Su
preme Nine; L. J. Wontworth, man
ager of the Portland Lumber Co., ai:d
several other prominent members of
Hoo Hoo from Portland, will bo
present to assist in tho concatena
tion. vw
MINNESOTA NIGHT
SPEAKERS ARE NAMED
Program For Friday Night's Meeting
of the Chamber of Commerce
Announced Today.
Secretary Walter Lyon of tho
Marshfleld Chamber of Commerce,
today announced that tho program
for the regular Friday night meeting
would bo as follows:
Minnesota State Song Chorus
Mandolin Duet Isaacbon Bros.
Pioneer Days of Minnesota. Miss Hall
Orator of .the occasion. .John D. Goss
Responso Francis H. Clarke
Mandolin Number ...Isaacson Bros.
THE REST INDEX TO PROGRES
SIVE CIVILIZATION IS GOOD
ROADS AND GOOD SCHOOLS. DO
NOT FORGET TO VOTE IN FAVOR
OF THE OREGON UNIVERSITY' AP
PROPRIATION HILL, MONDAY,
ANDERSON & HALL agents for
Sputh Marshfleld Coal. Phono 817.
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LYONS BOYS
00T PARTNER
Secures Fred Hollister's Inter
est in Coos Bay Steam
Laundry.
Announcement was made today
that J. E. Lyons had purchased the
interest of Fred. Hollister of North
Bend In tho Coos Bay Steam Laun
dry. Mr. Hollister has been a silent
partner In the company and the deal
was prompted by Mr. Lyons' desire
to give some of his employes a work
ing interest In the business and make
it profit sharing In its nature.
Mr. Lyons will Immediately arrange
to Incorporate the company with
$25,000 capital. Aside from his per
sonal holdings, which will be a con
trolling Interest, the additional mon
ey that it will represent above the
present valuation of the plant will
be used In making Improvements to
accommodate, the growing business.
J. C. Jones who has been foreman of
the company will become a stock
holder and be made manager of the
business.
Mr. Lyons' business interests In tho
north will necessitate the absence of
himself and wife from Coos Bay
after September, during the winter.
During this time, the management
of the business will devolve upon Mr.
Jones.
BUILJ HERE
Many Residences Started or
Completed in Marshfield
During Last Few Weeks.
Considerable building Is in pro
gress on Coos Bay. So far it is lim
ited almost entirely to residences and
a few frame store buildings and
probably the first largo building will
be the new High School or the Chan
dler hotel which will bo stnrted soon.
Since the last resume of building
work here was printed in The Times,
the following buildings have been
btarted or completed:
It. Wooley, six-room house In East
Marshfield.
Frank Llndgren, six-room rouse In
East Marshfleld.
J. C. Doan, eight-room houso at
Washington and Broadway.
F. E. Allen, residence In Railroad
addition.
J. L. French, bungalow in South
Marshfleld.
Mrs. L. Dolan, eight-room house.
W. B. Cox, six-room cottage in
West Marshfleld.
O. M. Roos, six-room house in MU
lington. Geo. Smallwood, residence in East
side. Mrs, Lizzie Bentz, two cottages In
Bunker Hill,
Pat Hennessy, barn, In South
Marshfleld.
George Downing, cottage.
Taylor Slglin, repairing and re
building brickyard on Isthmus Inlet
that was recently destroyed by fire.
John Merchant, fine residence on
'C street In West Mnrshfleld.
Arthur Wright, cottago in Boise
addition.
C. L. Pennock, eight-room houso
in West Marshfleld.
Bon Mathlson, residence In Bunker
Hill.
Charles Metlln, houso in South
Marshfleld,
Thomas Balnea, cottage in South
Marshfleld.
DROP IN FOR LUNCH.
At tho Melrose in its new quar
ters near the postofflco, Quick ser
vice a specialty.
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Registration This Year Fifty
Per Cent Greater Than Vote
in 1906.
INDICATES UNUSUAL
GROWTH OF SECTION.
Since Primaries, 940 Names
Have Been Registered Mak
ing Total 3,644.
Coos County A'ote.
Total 1908 registration ....3,644
Gain since primaries 940
Total vote in 1906 2,422
Increase in two years 1,222
The above figures will be decidedly
interesting from a political stand
point but are also Interesting as an
index of the rapid growth of Coos
county during tho past two years.
According tho usual city directory
basis used in computing population,
Ave are allowed for each voter and
this would make tho total population
of Coos county at present 18,220
against 12,110 two years ago, a
gain of about fifty per cent.
The total vote for 1906, which was
2,422, was that cast on the prohibi
tion question then.
As a number of tho recent arrivals
on Coos Bay and in Coos county are
of foreign origin and many of them
have not been here the required time
to become naturalized, they are not
included in the registration. Hence
the growth of tho county has been,
even greater than is indicated by
tho above registration figures.
The Increase has been pretty well
distributed throughout tho county,
tho precincts on Coos Bay perhaps
having the greatest gain.
Prepare Plans For Opening
New Thoroughfare to West
Marshfield.
City Engineer Sandborg Is prepar
ing plans for tho opening and Improv
ing of 'B street from Fifth to West
Marshfleld. The work will cost
about $10,000 but practically all of
tho leading property owners have sig
nified their approval of tho plan so
tho work will probably bo ordered at
the next meeting of the council and
completed this season.
The proposed Improvement of 'B'
street was brought up Immediately
after it was found that It would prob
ably bo impossible to Improve C
street this year. It is believed that
the value of tho property In West
Marshfleld on tho proposed Btreet
will be enhanced a great deal more
than tho Improvement will cost.
There has been talk of extending:
tho Improvement to Front streot npd?
this will probably be done If the con
sent of tho property owners between
Fifth street and Front street can bo
secured. Plank will bo used for pay
ing on tho street.
Tho Improvement will be on 'B'
street from Fifth to Seventh and'
then, owing to a jog of about twenty
or thirty feet to tho north, It will''
bo continued on Prospect nvouue (aaf
'B' street is called beyond Sovonth)r
to Davidson Btreot. An elevated
plank roadway will bo put In across
the flat,
Councllmen Savage, Sacchl and
Naaburg, composing tho streot com
mittee, City Engineer Sandberg and
Messrs. Streot, I. S, Smith and L. W.
Shaw representing somo of tho affect
ed property held a conforonco abont
tho matter yesterday and agreed upon
somo of tho plans,
Tho proposed Improvement will bo
a great benefit to tho city In general
and West Marshfleld In particular,
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