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MOB SPIRIT STILL PERVABES " EUREKA
SPRINGFIELD
Unknown Men Fire From Am
bush On Militia
Patrolmen.
MANY HAVE BEEN
PLACED UNDER ARREST
Brother of Negro Charged
With Assaulting Mrs.
Hallam Flees.
(By Associated Press.)
SPRINGFIELD, 111., Aug. 18.
That tho mob spirit la not entirely
subdued In Springfield was evidenced
last night and early today when de
spite tho presence of thousands of
militiamen, sporadic outbursts of law
lessness occurred In many sections of
the city. None were serious, how
ever. Tho center of trouble is Har
vard Park, a suburb, whero twice
during, tho night tho patrols were
fired upon from ambush. Many have
been arrested.
Tom Richardson, a brother of the
negro accused of assaulting Mrs.
Earl Hallam was driven from his
delivery wagon but escaped to tho
station and took a train for Missis
sippi. Two other brothers said to
ho former inmates of an asylum,
have been locked up as n precaution.
Gov. Deneen has offered a re
ward of $200 for evidence leading
conviction In cases of violent deaths.
Shoot at Sentries.
An attack on tho pickets and a
forced heglra of 150 negroes from
tho cornfields on tho outskirts of tho
city, to the state arsenal, kept tho
militia busy this morning. There
was firing on tho sentries and return
firing less than two blocks from tho
heaquarters of General Young at tho
county jail. The trouble followed
an attempt to set fire to a building
Eighth street, near Jefferson and
Madison streets. A negro who had
been ordered away from tho place
several times during tho night, was
discovered lurking there, and In re
ply to the centry's command to move
on, the negro drew a revolver, fired
and ran away. Several shots wero
fired at him and brought additional
troops who searched for the fugitive
without success. The shooting oc
curred shortly before daylight and
was the third attempt to assassinate
sentries made during the night.
SHOOTS SISTE!
Wm. Kiteley, Aged 50, of Ta-
coma, Commits Crime
Crazed By Religion.
(By Associated Press.)
TACOMA, Wash., Aug. 18. -While
crazed over religious subjects,
Wm. Kiteley, aged 50, shot his sis
ter, Mrs. Louisa Henstono, and com
mitted suicide. She will recover.
ADDITIONAL LOCALS.
FIflcId In. The Flfleld arrived to
day from San Francisco after a good
trip up.
Alliance Out. Tho Alliance will
sail about 3 o'clock this afternoon
for Portland, carrying a capacity
load of passengers.
To Start Old Brewery. Negotia
tions are In progress for the reopen
ing of the old brewery In Ferndale.
A Sayi Francisco party Is to bo In
terested In tho project.
Muy Hnvo Carnival. G. W. Carle
top and Charles Pylo are interview
ing a number of business men today
relative to arranging a carnival for
night diversions during the fair.
Body to Indiana. Tho body of
Mrs. Howell, who died at her homo
on Isthmus Inlet a few days ago, was
shipped today to LaFayette, Ind., tho
old homo for burial. Mr. Howell and
the children accompanied the body.
THE DAILY
HOMESTEADS
ITER Fill
Mr tfirlrlar nf Dnoolinpfi Thmle
He Made Rich Discovery But
Local Men Say Otherwise.
According to a telephone message
from Roseburg, a Mr. Kidder who is
identified with a Douglas county ab
stract office, has filed in the gov-
' eminent land ofllce at Roseburg, a
homestead entry on a valuable piece
j of property with water front just
across from the C. A. Smith mill.
Mr. Kidder, as near as could be learn
ed, claims that tho land in question
1 has never been taken up by private
parties and is still held by tho gov
ernment although various parties
havi been occupying it under the be
lief that they have titles to it. The
description of the land Is said to be
lots 2 and 3, section 36.
While details of the filing on the
land could not be obtained today, the
Intimation that some one was claim
ing it as a homestead caused quite
a furore. The tract is very valuable.
Lot 3 is shown on old blue prints
as belonging to the Dean Lumber
Company and is supposed to have
passed from them to tho C. A. Smith
Lumber Company. Lot 2 is shown as
belonging to tho Title Guaranteo and
Abstract Company.
Henry Sengstackeu said this morn
ing that Mr. Kidder must bo labor
ing under a delusion a3 ho was sure
that the title of the Title Guarantee
and Abstract Company and the Dean
Lumber Company to the property in
question is perfect. He said that in
addition to owning lot 2 in section
30, lils company had the coal rights
to lot 3.
W. U. Douglas said there must be
some mistake as under an old gov
ernment grant, sections 13 and 3G
were ceded to the state and as state
land were not .open to homestead.
An effort is being made today to
secure more details of Kidder's claim
to the water front property as home
stead. Printer Who Came to Coos Bay
Recently, Mysteriously
Disappears.
Some anxiety Is felt for the safety
of D. C. Boyd, a printer and news
papor man who arrived in Marsh field
from Baker City on August 3rd. He
procured employment tho same day
in the office of the Coos Bay Monthly,
where ho worked steadily the balance
of the week rooming at the home of
the proprietor. Ho was paid off Sat
urday night, and Sunday was under
the Influence of liquor. He occupied
his room Sunday night but did not
come to work Monday morning and
was no' seen again until Tuesday af
ternoon, August 11, when he was
met on tho street, still In a dazed
condition and unable or unwilling to
give an account of himself. This was
tho last time ho was seen by his em
ployer, nor has he visited his room,
where his trunk and clothing are.
Mr. Boyd was a man of medium
holght and weight, with short black
moustacho, dressed In a dark brown
suit with a faint broad stripe. It Is
feared that he has met with accident
or foul play.
THE BREAKWATER sails for
Portland Saturday, August 22, at 8
a. m.
Infants and CHILDREN'S LACE
HOSE 18c and 20c, at the Ladles
Emporium.
Use The Coos Bay Times Want Ads
BOYD DROPS
GOT OF SIGHT
COOSJAY TIMES, MARSHFIELD,
SUES
Walls of Old Buildings Badly
Damaged and Crockery
Broken By Two Shocks To
day. (By Associated Press.)
EUREKA, Cftl., Aug. IS. Eure
ka was shaken by three distinct and
severe earthquakes early this morn
ing that resulted in hundreds of
chimneys toppling from roofs,
crockery falling from cupboards,
over forty plate glass windows in
the business section bolng broken
and tho walls of large stone build
ings being severely . cracked. The
property loss will be several thou
sand dollars.
The first shock occurred at 2:58
o'clock a. m,, and was the severest
of the three.
It was almost as severe a one as
was felt here April 18, 190G.
LIFE RESTOPED
Oscsr Culver of New York, De
clared Dead But Is Revived
to Soon Die Again.
(By Associated Pres-3.)
NEW YORK, Aug. 21. Cul-
ver lived through tho night, but
never fully recovered conscious-
ness and died today.
NEW YORK, Aug. IS. To all
usual medical tests, Oscar Culver, a
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Eight Employes of the Barnum
and Bailey Show ' Injured
Near Bellingham.
(By Associated Press.)
BELLINGHAM, Wash., Aug. IS.
Eight men of the cooking gang of tho
Barnum & Bailey Circus, were sever
ely injured, two probably fatally, on
the spreading of the rails which
caused four of tho cars of the first
section of tho train to leave tho
tracks on the Great Northern Rail
way, eight miles south of New West
minster. W. H. Wheaton of Rochester, N.
Y., had his ribs broken, his spine in
jured, was otherwise hurt and may
die.
Andrew Melane of Mount Vernon,
Wash., was wounded about the head
and may die.
BRUTAL CUE
H. A. Collie of Portland, Ar
rested For Assaulting Aged
Woman.
(By Associated Press.)
PORTLAND, Aug. 18. H. A.
Collie, aged 27, Is In jail, charged
,wlth assault on an aged woman ofi
this city last night. Collie is al-l
leged to have attacked the woman
In her home, beaten her Into Insen-I
slblllty and assaulted her criminally.
The woman escaped from his clutches
after the fiend had fallen asleep. An
alarm was given and the man was '
arrested ao he lay on the bed. The
man was Intoxicated.
THE BREAKWATER sails for
Portland Saturday, August 22, at 8
a. m.
The NEW CITV BAKERY, oppo
site the Baptist church, for good
bread.
Want Ada. They s:.ve time and make
money, I
WRECK
OREGON, TUESDAY, AUGUST
BY EJUIKE
The second shock occurred at
3:08 o'clock and the third at 5:30
o'clock.
The first shock caused practically
all of the damage.
The walls of tho Carnegie Library
and of the Court House were slightly
cracked.
Reports from the Seazy ranch
near Freshwater, G miles to the north,
are that considerable damage to
chimneys and crockery was done and
that rent In the earth a half-mile
long was caused.
Shocks were also felt at Blue
Lakes, 25 miles from Eureka.
NOT FELT IX 'FRISCO.
Eureka Said to He Only l'lncc
Affected.
(Rv Associated FreES.)
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 18. The
Weather Bureau has no report of
earthquakes anywhere except at Eu
reka. victim of consumption and rheuma
tism, was dead for three minutes in
the Eastern District hospital yester
day when Dr. Michael Jaffer received
report. He hurried to the bedside,
injected strychnine above and below
the heait and resorted to artificial
respiration. He was assisted by
other physicians and in a short time
Culver opened his eyes and stared
fixedly into the world from which by
all signs known to medical men he
had made his exit. His hold on life
though is still precarious.
LOST SIST!
Relative of Master of the Le-
lanaw One of Victims In
Michigan Disaster.
(By Associated Press )
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich., Aug. 18.
Mrs. Isabel Labonte of this city,
sister of Charles Moscr, Captain of
the ill-fated steamer Lelanaw, was
killed as she sat In the pilot house
conversing with her brother when tho
vessel was wrecked yesterday.
The Lelanaw was plowing down
the narrow part of Carp lake with a
steam pressure of eighty pounds try
ing to make up time when the en
gineer discovered a loose bolt in tho
engine and had to shut off steam.
He was working on the bolt when
the boiler blew up tearing off tho
top of the engine, demolishing the
pilot house and the upper works of
; the steamer, but leaving Engineer
Edwards practically unscathed.
The force of the explosion was all
directed forward. All of the injured
were sitting in the forward part of
the boat. Many wero thrown into
the water but clung to tho wreckage
until they were rescued by farmers
living along the shore, although some
of them were able to swim ashore.
About a score of persons wero in
jured, several perhaps fatally.
Yesterday It was thought that a
number had been drowned, but tho
later reports showed all accounted
for.
TEXAN SELLS TWO COUNTIES
Sale Includes 20,000 Cattle and 500
Head of Horses.
SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Aug. 18.
George W. Littleton, the Texas Cattle
King, has completed a deal with a
Chicago syndicate whereby two en
tire counties, Lamb and Hockley,
comprising 300,000 acres,' will bo
sold with 20,000 head of cattle and
500 saddle horses for $3,000,000. It
Is understood that the land will bo
paid for on tho basis of $8.50 an
acre, and that $300,000 will bo paid
for tho cattle and $15,000 for tho
horses.
Tho land did not belong outright
to Littleton, but he controls the syn
dicate that obtained title to It from
the state. It Is understood that the
Chicago syndicate will divide the
land Into small farms and colonlzo
them with Bohemians.
unrn n am mi urn
AFTER 3 MINUTES
m. I0SEH
18, 1908.
PACIFIC STATES TELEPH
SELLS COOS
County Superintendent Bunch
Apportions Coos Share Be
tween Districts.
(Special to The Times.)
COQUILLE, Ore., Aug. 18 Coun
ty Superintendent W. H. Bunch has
just completed the annual apportion
ment of Coos county's share of the
state school funds. Just as soon as
the rush of the annual Institute Is
over, Mr. Bunch will-send orders for
each district's share to the clerks
of the various school districts In the
county.
The apportionment Is as follows:
Dist. No. 1 Myrtle Bank....$ 70.80
" 2 Hermann ...... 40.40
" 3 Arago 75.20
" 4 Lampey 54.40
" 5 Browns 52.80
" C Empire 134.40
" 7 McKnight 1G.00
" 8 Coqullle 752.00
" 9 Marshfleld 1171.20
" 10 Cunningham . .. 14.40
" 11 Parkersburg . . . 83.20
"12 Parkersburg. .. 50.00
"13 North Bend . ...1004. SO
" 14 Riverton 107.20
" 15 Big Creek . . . .. 27.20
" 1G Cooston .' 44. SO
" 17 Kentuck 20.80
" 18 Flagstaff 3C.80
" 19 Strange 44.80
" 20 Fishtrap 49. GO
21 Randolph 7G.S0
" 22 North Fork .... 12.80
" 23 Leo 5G.00
" 24 Rackleff 41. GO
" 25 Fairvlew 4G.40
" 2C Haynes Slough . 35.20
' "27 McKinley G2.40
"2S Gravel Ford . .. SO. 00
" 29 Two Mile 40.00
" 30 Sumner 59.20
"31 Rural 28.80
" " 32 Dora 1G.00
" " 33 Bald Hill 54.40
" "34 Catching Creek.'. 43.20
" 35 Daniels Creek . . 5G.00
" 30 Rogers 38.40
" 37 Sugar Loaf .... 44.80
" 38 Templeton 51.20
" 39 Coos River 70.40
" 40 Llbby 144.00
" "41 Myrtle Point . .. 531.20
" " 42 Rock Creek . ... 33. GO
" 43 Norway 104.00
" " 44 Roy 92.80
" 45 Allegany 83.20
" " 4G New Lako 28.80
" 47 Rowland 48.00
" " 48 Shiloah 17. GO
" " 49 Eaststde 140.80
" " 50 Remote 19.20
" 51 Utter 11.20
" " 52 Myrtle Creek . . . 25. GO
"53 North Slough . . 78.40
" "54 Bandon . ....... 812.80
" "55 Beaver Slough .. 27.20
" 56 Esterbeck 1G.00
" 57 South Slough . . 38.40
' " 58 Sunnyside 48.00
" 59 Hall's Creek . . . 40.00
" " GO Prosper 131.20
" " Gl Beach View .... 22.40
" G2 Bear Creek .... 33.60
" " 63 Johnson's Mill . . 48.00
" G4 Four Mile 30.40
" "G5 Sltkum 17.G0
" G6 Lake 40.00
" " 67 Excelsior 24.00
" " 68 Larson's Slough. 30.40
" 69 Beaver Hill . . . 35.20
" 70 King Creek . . . 25.60
" "71 Buell 20.80
" " 72 Coaledo 14.40
" 73 Pleasant View . . 73.60
" "74 Pleasant Hill . .. 48.00
" " 75 Locust Grove . . . 22.40
" " 7G Glenn Junction . 24.00
" " 77 Bridge 5G.00
" " 78 W. T. Dement .. 14.40
" "79Lattln 72.00
" " 80 West Norway ... GO. 80
" "81 Laurel Lako . .. 38.40
" " 82 Coos City 3G.80
" " 83 Coos City 32.00
" " 84 C003 City 27.20
" " 85 Joint, 2 N. Lako. 38.60
THE BREAKWATER sails for
Portland Saturday, August 22, at 8
a. m.
SCHOOL EU1D
IS DIVIDED
No. 33.
01 CO.
AND CURRY LI
R. T. Durett and Local Capital
ists Purchase Several
Exchanges.
ORGANIZE COOS BAY
HOME TELEPHONE,..
Take Over Property On- Qr
Before September 1st
Probably.
Announcement was made today by
I R. T. Durrett that he had completed!
the organization of the Coos Bay?
Home Telephone Company and that,
it would take over tho lines and ex--changes
of the Pacific States Tele
phone Company in Coos and Curry
counties on or before September 1
The charter for the new company
was received from the secretary of
state today and was issued by him to
R. T. Durett, J. Virgil Pugh and W
U. Douglas as representing the nevr
company. It was stated that all ot"
the stockholders aside from Mr. Du
rett, are residents of Coos Bay and
that while a sufficient number had
subscribed for stock to consummate
tho deal, other local parties would
become identified with it.
Includes Four Exchanges.
The deal Includes the Coqullle,.
Myrtle Point, Marshfleld and North
Bend local exchanges and all of the
toll lines connecting the various:
points in the two counties. An agree
ment has been made with the Pacific
States Company whereby its long dis
tance lines will bo used for toll ser
vice to and from points outside off
Coos and Curry counties. i
Mr. Durett said that he is now ar
ranging for material to rebuild and"
improvo the various exchanges and
lines. He said thnt this work would
bo rushed as rapidly as possible and
that strictly up-o-date instruments
and service would be given tho peo
ple. Ho said that the change would
mean that all of the earnings of the
company would remain on Coos Bay
IB
Instead of going as dividends to out
side capitalists.
Old Franchise Lost.
Messrs. Durett and Douglas wilS&
appear before tho Marshfleld eitf,"
council tonight and ask for a neww
franchise Tho Pacific States.. Com
pany's franchise here has aboubsevers
years to run but tho copy oS tho
franchlso has been lost oc doHtrojseifl.
It is said that it was buisueii' m tho
Pacific States offices at Sam Franclsr
co at the time of the earthquake By
some error, the city did. not retain,
a copy of tho franchise. Owing: to
tho deal for the Pacific States ex
changes, the franchise recently grant
ed Mr. Durett for am automatic sys
tem, will not bo applicable to the -new
conditions. It was stated that
eliminating the stipulation for aumw
tomatlc system, the franchise he wiLf
ask will bo tho same as tho ona
granted him before, carrying pravfr; i
slons for placing the wires la the ,
business section underground' and for
paying the city two per cent fran
chise tax after the popumtibir ex- .
ceeds n certain number.
Tho charter granted the Coos Bay
Homo Telephone Company by the
State of Oregon is a perpetual ono-
and fixes tho capitalization at $50,-000.
GOV CHAMBERLAIN
HEREyiuiY 25TH
Wlll Attend Oreon-Idaho DVvclop- -inent
Coiiki'vhk and Po&sfb'liv
Itcmuiu For Fair.
Gov. Geo. E. Chamberlain has; '
written that he will be In Marshfleld'
July 25, to attend the Oregon-Idaho.
Development Congress to bo- hold
here August 24 and 25. Hr will",
probably be ono of tha principal
speakers at tho meeting. It Is ex- -pected
that Gov. Chamberlain will
also remain to spend at 1 oast on day
at tho Second Southern Oregon Dis
trict Fair which opens- Angus! 2fV.
j Gov. Chamberlain Ik- now at KM
main lako visiting w. ii. uammait
and will como to Coos Bay whllo eni,
routo home.
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