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THE DAILY COOS BAY TIMES, MARSHFIELD, OREGON, FRIDAY, MAY 29, 1908.
No. 278.
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U. S. NAV
y TORPEDO FLOTILLA
SPEND A FEW
Destroyer Perry of Fourth Tor
pedo Boat Flotilla, Now
at Empire.
FOUR OTHERS
EXPECTED SOON.
Are en Route From San Fran
cisco to Rose Carnival
at Portland.
The torpedo boat destroyer Perry
of the Fourth torpedo boat flotilla of
the United States Navy, unexpectedly
sailed Into Coos Bay late last evening
and came to anchor at Empire. The
Perry is still at Empire and will re
main there until the four other ves
sels of the flotilla arrive. The others,
consisting of the destroyer Preble
and the torpedo boats Fox, Davis and
Farragut, spent last night at Eureka
in Humboldt Bay. The Perry, which
is tho swiftest of tho flotilla ran
ahead of the others. A message was
sent to the others today but no
response had been received up to late
today.
The flotilla Is on route from San
Francisco to Portland where It will
bo one of the attractions of tho car
nival there. The visit to Coos Bay
was unannounced, the officers being
Instructed to visit several ports en
route and familiarize themselves
with tho coast and the ports.
Unless something unexpected oc
curs, a few days will be spent on
Coos Bay and all of tho flotilla will
run down to Marshfleld. This trip
up the bay will probably bo made
tomorrow If the other vessels of the
flotilla arrive tonight.
Scores of North Bend and Marsh
field people went to Empire today to
see tho destroyer Perry. It is likely
that the Marshfleld and North Bend
Chambers of Commerce tonight will
make some arrangements for a recep
tion of tho men and officers of the
fleet if it is found that they can re
main here for a day or two longer.
As tomorrow Is Decoration Day
and a holiday, and a large number of
the business houses of Marshfleld and
North Bend will be closed, there will
bo ample opportunity for any cere
monies that may be determined upon.
DENVER GETS NEXT
PRESBYTERIAN MEETING
Seattle Withdraws Invitation for Hon
ors at General Assembly in
Kansas City.
(By Associated Press.)
KANSAS CITY, May 29. Denver
was selected for next year's General
Assembly of tho Presbyterian Church
of tho United States of America. Se
attle withdrew from tho contest, the
voto being almost unanimous In fa
vor of tho Colorado city.
FUNERAL AT NORTH REND.
Swaneo Swanson, tho fisherman
who committed suicide on his house
boat near Porter several days ago,
was burled from tho North Bend
Undertaking parlors yesterday. The
Rev. B. F. Bongtson ofllclated. In
terment was in tho Odd Fellows
cemetery at Marshfleld.
COOS RIVER WOODMEN ATTEN
TION. There will be an Important special
meeting Saturday evening. Tho Buf
faly BUI will start from E. Hod
son's landing at six o'clock p. in.
sharp and return immediately aftor
meeting. H. GEDDES.
THE BEST INDEX TO PROGRES
SIVE CIVILIZATION IS GOOD
ROADS AND GOOD SCHOOLS. DO
NOT FORGET TO VOTE IN FAVOR
OF THE OREGON UNIVERSITY AP
PROPRIATION RILL, MONDAY,
We will store your goods for lc
cubic feet. Bay Side Paint Co.,
North Bend.
TO COOS COUNTY VOTERS.
T. J. Thrift, Democratic candidate
for assessor of Coos county, bases his
candidacy for tho offlce on his past
record. Equality and a fair deal for
every property owner.
DAYS IN COOS BAY
WAINWOIGHT
REAR ADMIRAL
Commander of Second Division
of Fleet Given New
Honors.
(By Associated Press.)
SEATTLE, May 29. At the
Puget Sound Navy Yard, a yel
low flag floats from the mast of
tho battleship Kentucky, small
pox having developed on board.
One sailor Is confined with the
disease and others show signs of
It. .
(By Associated Press.)
TACOMA, May 29. A two-starred
pennant Is now flying from a truck
of the Georgia's mainmast Indicating
that Richard Walnwrlght, command
ing the second division of tho At
lantic battle ship fleet, Is now an act
ing rear admiral of the United States
navy. Walnwrlght will receive his
commission as a full rear admiral In
July.
JULY RAGING
CARDJS OUT
Program Announced For Spe
cial Meet on Coos Bay July
3 and 4.
F. P. Norton and other well-known
horsemen of Coos Bay have just com
pleted the program for a special race
meet In Marshfleld July 3 and 4. It
Is expected to make It one of tho
best meets that has been pulled off
In this section of the state and it will
probably only bo eclipsed by the card
of tho Second Southern Oregon Dis
trict Fair in Marshfleld, August 2C
to 29, inclusive. Many of the horses
that will participate In the fair races
will be here in training and will be
entered in the events of July 3 and
4.
Eight races have been arranged
for with good purses. In race No. 2,
as Bhown by the program below, tho
entries will close Juno 10 and the
feo will be $25 each. Entries for
all tho other races will close at 9
o'clock, p. m., July 1, and the fee
will be $5 for each horse. Four or
more must bo entered for each event
and If not, the board reserves tho
right to reduce the purse. The board
also reserves tho right to postpone
the races In case of rain or bad
weather.
Tho local track Is being put in
good shape and the course will be
In fine condition for the July meet
ing if tho weather is at all favorable.
The program for tho two days fol
lows:
Friday, July S.
Race No. 1 Trotting and pacing,
free-for-all, one-half mile. Best two
out of three heats. Purse, $50.
Race No. 2 Running, three-
eighths mile dash. Special for horses
named Gold Beach, Verosaz, and
Head Light, etc. Entrance fee $25
each, and winner to take all. Purse
$125.
Race No. 3 Running one-half
mile- dash. Purse, $50.
Race No. 4 Running flve-eighths
mile dash. Purse, $50.
Saturday, July 4.
Race No. 5 Pacing and trotting,
free-for-all, one-half mile heats. Best
two out of three heats. Purse, $50.
Race No. C Running, three
eighths mile dash. Best two out of
three heats. Purse $50.
Race No. 7 Running, one-half
mile dash. Purse, $50.
Race No. 8 Running, three
fourths mile dash. (Stallion race),
Purse, $50.
Tho men In chargo of tho races
have organized with F. P. Norton as
president; C. W. Carleton, secretary;
TEN DIE FROM
Warmest Weather Prevails in
Pittsburg and Vicinity That
Has Ever Been Known This
Early in the Summer.
(By Associated Press.)
PITTSBURG, May 29. Owing to
tho excessive heat, ten persons have
PROMINENT BROKERS INDICTED
Leading New York Speculators
and Federal Employe Ar
rested as Result of Cotton
Statistics Scandal of 1905.
(By Associated Press.)
NEW YORK, May 29. Theodore
Price for many years one of the most
prominent operatives on the cotton
exchange was Indicted by the federal
grand jury today on charges growing
out of the sensational exposure of tho
sale of government statistics as to
cotton crop conditions In advance of
the Issuance of the Information to the
Vestibule of Chicago Edifice
Gives Way Under Large
Congregation.
(By Associated Press.)
CHICAGO, May 29. A cemented
vestibule In the Lutheran church of
Our Lady of Vilna gave away last
night as a large congregation was
leaving. Thirty persons were thrown
into the basement and a panic re
sulted. None, however, suffered worse
Injuries than cuts and bruises.
I
E
Big Slump in the Prices of May
Grain in Chicago Pits Early
Today.
(By Associated Press.)
CHICAGO, May 29. Bears In tho
grain pit of tho Board of Trade in tho
early trading today forced down the
prices of May deliveries of wheat,
corn and oats from two to two and
a half cents a bushel.
For several days, James A. Pat
ton has had absolute control of the
corn mar'ot, havjnR effected a cor
ner and forced tho price upward at
the rate of four and fire cents a
day. It was said that Patton stood
to make a few million on the deal.
Tuesday's trading was the most excit
ing that the Chicago grain pits havo
known since the corner In wheat by
Joseph Lelter several years ago.
Whether today's slump was tho re
sult of the shorts settling with the
Patton crowd Is not known. One re
port Is to that effect and another Is
that Patton tried to carry things too
far.
W. S. McFarland, treasurer, and A.
J, Jackson as general manager.
Miirclunont Racing.
Tho program for tho annual races
at tho Marchmont course at Wedder
burn has just been received here. The
meet will last six days, August 17 to
23, Inclusive.
There will bo four events each day.
The running events are the most
numerous. Tho entries for all races
there close tho night previous to the
day tho event Is to bo pullod off. W.
E. Thresher U secretary.
MESSIAH full rehearsal Monday
night, at Opera House, everybody ex
pected. No rehearsal this week.
MANY HORT IN
CHURCH PANIC
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HEAT TODAY
died here since midnight.
Many have been prostrated. The
heat Is the most intense ever known
In this section this early in the sum
mer. The humidity is intense and a dead
calm prevails.
Business has practically been sus
pended. public. Price Is charged with con
spiracy to defraud. He was released
under $7,000 ball. He Is also charg
ed with bribery. It Is reported that
other persons were indicted with
him.
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, D. C, May 29.
Theodore Price, Moses Haas and
Frederick A. Peckham of New York,
and Edwin S. Holmes, Jr., former as
sistant statistician of the United
Stntes Department of Agriculture
were today indicted by the grand jury
of the Supreme Court of the District
of Columbia on charges of conspiracy
growing out of tho cotton scandal
of 1905.
JURY SYSTEM
Philippine Commission Rejects
New Plan of the Island's
General Assembly.
(By Associated Press.)
MANILA, May 29. Tho Philip
pine commission rojected the Assem
bly's bill creating a jury system, the
plan of which provided for 25 per
manent jurors for each province to
serve on all jury cases. The conrmls-
slon held that the plan is not an ideal
one because it was feared that tho
appointment of the jurors swould be
come a factor In politics.
ITOli WILL
IETAFT
Ohio Congressman to Present
Latter's Name to National
Republican Convention.
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, May 29. Whll
no formal announcecmnt has been
made, It may be stated definitely
that Representative Burton of Ohio
Will present the name of Secy. Taft
to the National Republican Conven
tion at Chicago for the nomination
for president. Tho Taft forces are
confident that Mr. Taft will be nom
inated on tho first ballot.
Mr. Burton is one of tho best
known of tho progressive republican
members of congress. Ho has al
ways been a strong adherent of Presl.
dent Roosevelt and an opponent of
the Foraker forces In Ohio. Ho Is
a graduate of Iowa college at Grln-
nell, la. Ho was candidate for mayor
against Tom L. Johnson In Cleveland
recently but was defeated. Ho has
been chairman of tho House com
mittee on waterways.
TWO REAL BARGAINS.
160 Acres of bench land, six miles
from Marshfleld and ono half mile
from Coos River. About 50G acres
clear. House and barn, all $1,100,
1-3 cash. Balance 5 years C per cent.
1G0 Acre farm on Coqulllo River,
all bottom and low bench land, CO
acres In cultivation.
Fine bearing orchard of C acres,
balance of farm fenced and In grass.
This Is tho best thing to be had for
the money. Price $0,000.
Come and see me for further In
formation. J. 1). McXEIL
Rooms iiOWJt-3 Coos Building
WILL buy your good potatoes,
Sco F. S. Dow
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CHICAGO PRIEST AND LAWYER
ARE THREATENED WITH DEATH
LAND DEALS
Announced That Government
Will Attack Some of C. A.
Smith's Holdings Here.
PORTLAND, Ore., May 29. The
Portland Telegram says: "Troubles
will not come singly to C. A.
Smith, the Minneapolis lumber
millionaire, for now that the Gov
ernment is preparing to cancel the
patents to tho $1,000,000 worth of
timber land In Linn County which
Smith is alleged to have acquired by
fraud, preparations are being made
to cancel his holdings in Douglas and
Coos counties. How soon action will
be taken to recover the lands In Coos
and Douglas is not known, as the
Linn County lands are now receiving
attention and will probably be dis
posed of first. There are still many
months before the Government loses
the Coos and Douglas holdings
through the statute of limitations,
and this gives the department ample
time In which to act.
There are, approxltnntely, 40 quar
tersectlons which Smith secured In
Coos and Douglas. There Is from
10,000,000 to 12,000,000 feet of tim
ber on each of these quarter-sections,
and each quarter-section is worth
from $20,000 to $25,000, so that tho
value of the timber lands Involved
runs In the neighborhood of at least
$1,500,000, and this, together with
the Linn County lands, will make
Smith stand to lose $2,500,000.
When Smith secured these Coos
and Douglas lands he paid at the rate
of not to exceed $5.25 an acre. Now
these same lands are valued at $125
an acre, and In some Instances a
great deal more. This gives a slight
idea of the manner in which Oregon
timber lands have Increased In value
during the past few years.
S. A. Putor, who Is the acknowl
edged authority on Oregon timber
lands and how to steal them (as per
his book, "Looters of tho Public Do
main"), declares that Smith got the
Coos and Douglas tracts through the
same methods that were used to en
gineer the deal of the Linn County
property. Smith, according to Puter,
obtained the lands through his
agents, who manipulated mortgages
among the members of Smith's tim
ber syndicate. The representatives
of Smith, it is alleged, went into tho
highways and byways and induced
people to make entry on tho lands
wanted, nnd for this accommodation
to the millionaire the bogus entry
men received from $50 to $100 each.
Tho price paid by Smith was a mere
drop In the bucket to what tho value
of the timber Is today.
When the suit against Smith for
cancellation of the Linn County lands
comes to trial, tho Government will
have Its case fortified by many of tho
bogus entrymen who operated for
Smith through Frederick A. Krlbs
and others. When tho grand jury,
under Heney, first began Inquiring
Into tho conspiracy to gobblo tho
Linn County claims, tho entrymen re
fused to tell the truth, and wero
shadowed as they left tho train en
their arrival in Portland to tho homo
of Krlbs, where they wero coached
as to what they should tell. After
the first of tho entrymen was broken
down for Heney by Puter, the rest
made a rush for Immunity. Now that
they havo told tho truth concerning
tho transactions, and tho time has
olapsed for prosecuting them crimin
ally, they are expected to take the
stand and tell all they know of the
deal. This will establish tho case of
tho Government, and with such a
showing, tho land patents will prob
ably bo canceled.
Following the Linn caso, tho same
tactics will presumably bo takon up
by tho Government regarding tho
Coos and Douglas deals, when tho
entrymon will bo brought to Port
land and placed on the stand.
May Indict Him.
Tho Portland Oregonlan says:
"While United States Attornoy Mc
Court Is exceptionally sccretlvo as to
tho extent of tho Investigations that
Letter Written in Blood and
Wrapped in Crepe Sent
to Them.
ALSO THREATEN TO
DYNAMITE BIG CHURCH.
Claim That Threat is Due to
Their Activity in Behalf
of Billek.
(By Associated Press.)
CHICAGO, May 29. Rev. Father
Peter J. O'Callaghau, head of the
Paullst Order in Chicago, and At
torney Francis E. Hinckley havo beon
Informed through an anonymous let
ter, written In blood and wrapped
a crepe that they havo been marked
for death and that St. Mary's Catho
lic church, Wabash Ave. and Hub
bard Court, Is doomed to destruc
tion by dynamite. Tho letter was
dropped In tho church's poor box.
The death of the priest and law
yer Is threatoned, it Is believed In
lonsequonco of their efforts to obtain
a pardon for Herman Billek, who Is
under death sentence on tho charge
of murdering by poison six members
of the Vzral family. Father O'Cal
laghan will lay tho letter before Gov
ernor Deneen in the hope that It will
induce him to pardon Billek. Billek
was a fortune teller and Is alleged to
have murdered the Vzrals for their
life Insurance.
Observation Car on Baltimore
and Ohio Ditched Near Bal
timore. (By Associated Press.)
BALTIMORE, May 29. A report
to tho Baltimore & Ohio general of
fice says that an observation car
attached to tho rear of the Chicago
& New York express, east bound, loft
tho rails near Garrett und turned
over. Twenty passongers wore In
jured. will bo made by tho grand jury now
in session. It is possible that C. A.
Smith, tho Minnesota millionaire tlm
berman, may bo indicted criminally
for the part ho Is alleged to havo
played In securing from the stato
several thousand acres of its most
valuable timber lands. Since equity
suits were filed Monday to annul the
patents to nearly 10,000 acres of this
land which Smith is alleged to have
acquired fraudulently, it has been
discovered that tho Minnesota mil
lionaire on April 4, 1904, sent
$381.00 to the Stato Land Board as
principal and interest duo on 3C0
acres assigned by Frederick A.
Krlbs to Smith.
"Krlbs had petitioned tho board
signed for the repayment of his pur
chase money, with Interest, after
Government cancellation, owing to
the selection of a wrong base, No
vember 28, 1903. But It developed
that the part of the lauds figuring in
entries made by W. E. Mills and
Lulu Lylo, tho certificates of which
had been assigned to Krlbs, had beon
made on proper base. Tho result was
that Krlbs was ordered to pay tho re
mainder of tho purchaso price and
perfect title to tho land. It was this
money that Smith romltted to tho
board aftor the land had been assign
ed to him by Krlbs.
"It Is alleged that this transaction
between Krlbs and Smith constitutes
a continuing conspliacy that falls
within tho statuto of limitations,
making a complete chain In tho
transaction boglnnlng with tho appli
cations by tho dummy ontrymon and
loading up to tho patenting of tho
land, which is tho final stop in tho al
leged conspiracy."
V. S. DOW wants good potatoes.
Call for prices.
TWENTY HURT
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