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THE DAILY COOS BAY TIMES, MARSHFIELD, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 1908.
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COOS BAY TIMES
An Independent Republican news
paper published every evening except
Sunday, and Weekly by
9Cho Coos Hay Times Publishing Co.
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DAN E. MALONEY. . . .News Editor
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THE DEVELOPMENT CONGRESS.
Coos Bay has now the attention
of a very much larger audience than
she had a few weeks ago. The
Development Congress which was
Jield this week and the action of that
congress has aided largely in this
expansion of her Influence. That
congress was a logical and natural
evolution. It came in answer to
a demand not of Coos Bay but of
Idaho, Eastern, Southern and South
"western Oregon. And its work has
been well done. It voices In a public
.and Impersonal way and with force
and truth the belief and the demand
that the last, great, partially develop
ed and settled part of the United
States, shall be supplied with trans
portation and opened up to the sea
through Coos Bay.
Oregon and southern Idaho form a
great and rich empire. That does
mot mean that Washington and
'.northern Idaho are not also great
and rich in the same degree and re
spect, but that the neglected and un
settled area is equally as important.
That this area must be opened Is
not so apparent to those who live
rwlthln Its limits as to those who
tdwell in the crowded areas of the
east. The great and unbounded re
sources of Oregon and southern Ida
ho must have transportation and they
will have population. There is but
one word which expresses all "their
possibilities vast. It is true that
some parts ot this area are with
out present productive value. But
'the proportion is no larger than in
'.other sections. Even these will
-.probably develop a value and a use
-as time rolls on, which are not now
suspected. But there are rich areas
enough left to support millions of
..thrifty workers In abundance.
The importance of the congress
which has just adjourned cannot be
overestimated. That importance was
fully appreciated by Governor Cham
berlain who made the trip nearly
three hundred mllea by water to
reach it. It was appreciated by the
distinguished gentlemen, Col. Hofer,
Judge Scott and Mr. West from Sa
lom, Judge Lowell from Pendleton
and a large number of delegates who
- are held in high esteem In Oregon
and Idaho. The people of Coos Bay
t are to bo congratulated on the fact
r that this has become a convention
lty. But it will become more so In
the future. Well', It is that the
.progressive pooplo of this city have
obtalnod for the city many Improve
ments In the last year which justified
Governor Chamberlain In making the
statement that if ho had dropped
down hero from a balloon without be
ing told It was Marshflold ho would
scarcely be able to figure out by com
parison with the city of a year ago,
ivhere ho was. But oven our hotel,
paved streets, brick and cement
.buildings and a larger public spirit
-.will -not sufilce for the future. These
-.expansions must continue for Coos
Hay is bound to fill n large place In
iho history of the Pacific const.
TRANSPORTATION.
"Tho best feature of tho Coos Bay
-cllmato Is that tho air Is and always
has beon full of railroads. In no
other part of America does this
healthy sign appear In so salubrious
and yet exasperating a form. It Is
31ko Iron In tho blood energizing,
vitalizing, Invigorating and forceful.
B3ut railroads In tho air aro pretty
tcertaln to bo railroads on tho ground
sooner or Inter and tho sooner tho
bettor. But Coos Bay does not have
to havo n railroad In order to grow.
Without one sho may well doublo her
population In tho next two or threo
years. With ono sho may well ac
quire 50,000 In tho next ton years.
Why will Coos Bay grow and pros
per whether tho railroads build or
not? Becauso sho has vast timber
and coal resources and a highway
built by tho Almighty himself which
eats any railroad manovor designed. I
Mr. Henry Dlers, in a very strong
statistical address before the Devel
opment Congress, made It very plain
that Coos Bay was one of the thirty
four great seaports of the world, so
far as its harbor capacity and conve
nience was concerned and was one
of the only eight harbors which the
Pacific coast has. What does this
mean? It means that we have a
great highway for the cheapest kind
of transportation from Coos Bay to
the mouths of the Umpqua and the
Siuslaw from Coos Bay to Tilla
mook from Coos Bay to Yaqulma
Day from Coos Bay to
Astoria
from Coos Bay to Portland.
In or
der to make the best of our oppor
tunities It Is just as important to aid
In the improvement of the harbors
In the way to Portland as to seek
aid for a railroad.
This Is also an Important thing
for Portland to consider. The coast
ing trade from Portland to Coos Bay
will be worth more than any for
eign business she may get. It is the
coasting trade of Boston which
makes that city a great and rich port.
If Portland would give special atten
tion to developing the several bays
along the coast and building Impor
tant cities on them, she will insure
her greatness. Is it not plain that
a small steamer like the Breakwater
making fifty t.'his a year between
the two ports, carrying nearly 5,000
passengers and a large amount of
freight In that time, is worth more
than the Kaiser Wllhelm would be?
If Coos Bay can develop a coasting
trade with many ships plying be
tween the various ports she will be
come -a rival of Portland and perhaps
excel her If Portland does not grasp
this great opportunity. But Coos
Bay people are not jealous of Port
land. They want her to grow and
are willing that she shall occupy
first place, if she will use her ut
most influence to open all Oregon
ports. She cannot have a rival, but
she can delay her greatness If she
overlooks this great highway and its
way stations which have been desig
nated by Providence. Coos Bay re
cognizes that while Portland, like
London, and Glasgow and Hamburg
Is not a seaport, that she has a har
bor which may give her a great ad
vantage over a seaport and that her
greatness will come from the devel
opment of Oregon and not from the
development of Washington.
"OUR TOWN."
"Our town" Is just what we make
It. Other people consider It to be
just what we tell them It is.
Whenever you go to a place and
find the people talking about the
beauties of "our town," and telling
you what a splendid place it is,
and how everything is prosperous
and everybody happy, you drop
Into a friendly state of mind toward
that town and realize that it is a
pretty good town.
If you happen to visit a town
where the people are bitter in their
denunciations, where everybody you
meet tells you how much better place
It use to be, or hear a lot of backbit
ing and harping and knocking, you
want just as little as possible of that
town. The first time anybody asks
you about It you aro going to hand
out the same lino of talk, as the boys
say, that you heard In the town when
you were there.
Towns aro built up or destroyed
through talk, however much people
may ridicule talk. Talk is cheap
only when it Is cheap .talk. There
aro prosperous cities in this coun
try that have been built up by talk,
but It had to bo the right kind. It
had to bo optimistic, encouraging
talk, and not the whining pessimism
of tho disgruntled fossil.
Not that people should bo satis
fied with any sort of an old town, and
strive to make people believe that a
place Is a good placo when it is not.
It is not that habit which people
should encourage. Dissatisfaction
with tho things that are not right Is
of course well. If things aro not
running to suit you, try to havo them
remedied, and do not become puffed
up with tho Idea that becauso they
oxlst In "our town" they are all
right. Tho man who Is satisfied
never progresses. But a man can be
dissatisfied without condemning
everything and everybody. He can
sot about cleaning up "our town"
without swearing to every fellow who
steps off of tho boat this Is the
"durndest hole on earth."
Hopefulness, prnyorfulness, help
fulness will mako "our town" tho
best placo In tho world to live, and
whore a man has to llvo, thoro will
It pay to help mako It tho best placo
to llvo. "Our town" ought to bo
tho best place In tho world, becauso
"wo" llvo hero; that Is tho way to feel
nbout If; that is tho way to talk
about It.
Steamer UREAKWATER SAILS
for Portland Saturday, Aug. 29th, at
1 p. m.
PETERSON AND ROSS box twen-
ty rounds tonight at tho Rink.
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TOAST AND TEA X
A GOOD EVENING. H
MEMORY.
M
T mind lets fro a thousand thlnn.
Like dates of wars and deatra
'of kings.
And yet recalls the very hour
'Twos noon by yonder village
tower.
And on the last blue noon In May
Tho wind came briskly up this way,
Crispins the 'brook beside the road:
Then, pausing here, set d)wn Its load
Of pine scents and shook listlessly
Two petals from that wlli rose tren,
Thomas Dalley Aldrich.
LETTERS OF COLD.
WHEN you i
in a frl
Write It
Something
HEN you see aught that Is good
friend.
in letters of sold;
S or other your heart
can commend
As on your Journev you dally may wend.
That tho dear Import remain to the end,
Write it in letters of gold.
Hear the glad trreetlngs as onward you
fare.
Write It in letters of gold.
Publish it wide on the mountains so bare
Over old fields of tho thorn and the tare,
"iTe cannot wander outside of my care,"
Write it in letters of gold.
There Is the message to one gone astray.
Write it In letters of cold
Tender Is rnorcy. enduring for aye.
GuW.V.B tht others who might lose thp
w.y.
Treasure the meaning for yourself and
stay.
Write It in letters of gold.
AlonzoMce.
"By the way, sir," asked the waiter
"how would you like to have your
steak?"
"Very much indeed," replied John
D. Goss, who had been waiting for
twenty minutes.
The man who does not brag on
himself usually has reason to.
There never were men like the
men we expect our neighbors to be.
You can't tell what a man's man
ners are until you have eaten with
him.
Ambition, with some men, consists
chiefly in finding fault with their
present condition.
People who keep their money tied
up in stockings usually believe in
ghosts and fairy tales.
Nearly every one can remember
something he said when a baby, and
which has become a family tradition
because it was so cute. Atchison
Globe.
After a woman passes a certain age!
she has become interested In prayer
meeting, or sitting up with the sick,
and the dead, or she doesn't see any
society at all.
If it wasn't for telling their hus
bands not to smoke too much, and
not to eat so fast, what would some
Coos Bay wives do for conversation
with their husbands?
If tho baby is noticeably soiled as
to face and raiment, the mother
apologizes by explaining how many
times she has cleaned It up in tho
course of the day.
A correspondent asks: "What is
the best way to spend Sunday?
Should a man loaf around home, or
walk, or ride, or seek amusement?"
Don't ask us; we don't know. Wo
always feel tough Monday morning,
whatever we do on Sunday.
At the time of the Cherry Creek
flood, which played havoc with the
then struggling village of Denver,
upon the outskirts of the settlement
lived, In a cabin, an old character
known as Beaver Bill, and his wife.
Tho freshet carried away everything,
save Bill himself, upon the premises,
Including his spouse. The loss of her
seemed to Impress Beaver Bill less
than tho loss of other things; but a
volunteer party worked valiantly to
find her for him.
At last, wet and weary, they must
fain report to him failure.
"Where'd yo search?" he demand
ed. "All the way downstream for two
miles, Bill," they asserted.
"Oh, hell," ho drawled, disgusted.
"You want to do your searchln' up
stream. She's too damned contrary
ever to float down."
MUSIC at SMITH'S CAFE, dally
during luncheon and dinner.
Don't miss tho BOXING CONTEST
tonight at the skating rink.
Steamor BREAKWATER SAILS
for Portland Saturday, Aug. 29th, at
1 p. in.
Dancing ovory night this week
EXCEPT Thursday, at "THE RINK."
Excollont music, usual prices.
Romembor tho BOXING CONTEST
nt tho Skating Rink tonight.
MUSIC at SMITH'S CAFE, dally
'during luncheon and dinner.
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C. W. Anderson Charged With
Peculiar Offense By Gov
ernment Officials.
PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 27. Upon
complaint of United States District
Attorney John McCourt, a warrant
wa3 this morning issued by Commis
sioner Cannon for the arrest of Claes
W. Anderson, charged with cutting
and selling 400,000 feet of saw tim
ber from the Siskiyou National for
est. Ho Is from near Myrtle Point,
Ore.
Anderson squatted within the
boundary of the Siskiyou forest In
1903, as a homesteader. He was a
married man. The land upon which
he settled being unsurveyed, ho was
unable to make a filing upon It, but
would have been prevented from so
doing in any event because of the ter
ritory having been withdrawn as a
forest reserve by proclamation of the
President. He was, however, left in
undisturged possession of the land.
It was an unsatisfactory home for
Mrs. Anderson, and in the Fall of
the year she left him, going to the
state of Washington, where she pro
cured a divorce. In August, 1903,
she returned to the home of Ander
son, and, It Is alleged, again resumed
her place as his wife. In the mean
time coal had been found on the land,
and Mrs. Anderson filed on 80 acres
as a coal claim, taking 120 acres ad
ditional as a homestead. Claes An
derson, her erstwhile husband, also
filed upon coal lands and a homo-
stead in addition. They then applied
for patent on all of the lands.
In support of her claim of resi
dence, Mrs. Anderson attempted to
prove that she had been a continuous
resident upon the first tract, which
the couple occupied as squatters. She
overlooked the fact that to get a di
vorce in Washington, allowed after
their original location on the land,
she was required to be a resident of
that state. As a sequel, the forest
service contested the coal entries, as
well as tho homestead, the latter
upon the ground that the lands were
incapable of supporting a family.
At the hearing of the contest An
derson attempted to prove that he
could make a living on the land by
showing that he had cut 400,000
feet of timber from one 40-acre tract
and had sold it at a good price. His
arrest was ordered upon his own ad
missions while on the witness stand.
When coal was first discovered An
derson is said to have been very ac
tive in letting his friends in on the
ground floor, but whether he located
them for a consideration has not
been developed. The persons who
joined him are alleged to have done
so in good faith, and feel that they
have been defrauded of the large
sums of money which they invested
In development for tho reason that
the coal vein has not proved profit
able, and In the opinion of experts
it never will. The claimants exhibit
a good deal of feeling, toward forest
service officials, claiming that they
should be given patents on the
ground that they have exhibited good
faith, even if the coal was not there.
AT THE THEATRE,
The Margaret lies Company scored
another big hit in "Hearts of the
Blue Ridge" at the Masonic Opera
House. The house was well filled
and tho play was a beautiful one,
and it goes without saying that It was
put on by this company without a
flaw.
Tonight the company plays their
masterpiece "Tho Young Mrs. Winth-
rop." Everyone wno can snouia see
this play.
Genuine English Royal Daltou
ware, 25 per cent off during fair
week, Coos Bay Cash Store.
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UNIQUE CASE
IS ON TRIAL
Evidence In Personal Injury
Case at Gold Beach Causes
Much Merriment.
(Special to Tho Times.)
GOLD BEACH, Ore., Aug. 27.
One of the most unique cases that has
ever beon heard In Oregon courts Is
now on trial here. The evidence hns
been so humorous that even Judge
Hamilton has had to join frequently
in the laughter that has rung through
the court room.
The case Is an action by "Pete"
Smith, an Indian, against Guilder An
derson for $1,500 dnmages for per
sonal Injuries sustained In a combat
between the two.
According to the evidence, Smith
and Anderson became Involved In a
fracas in which flats, rocks and other
missies played a part. Anderson
cUiims to have acted entirely In self
defense.
Anderson testified that he could
handle Smith but that as soon as
Smith would get a few yards away
from him, he (Smith) would start
throwing rocks. Anderson said that
the only way he could protect him
self was by chasing Smith as hard
as ho could and thus not allow Smith
time to pick up more rocks.
The specific Injury which Smith
wants damages for Is to his hand.
Anderson admits that he threw the
rock that caused the Injury but says
ho had to do It. He claims that
Smith had picked up a large rock and
had drawn back his arm to throw It
at Anderson when he ((Anderson)
threw another rock, striking the back
of Smith's hands before ho (Smith)
had let go of his mlssle.
UMBRELLAS OF EVERY prices
for every one at the Coos Bay Cash
Store.
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AN OPEN
TO THE PUBLIC
Saturday, August 29th, 1908, closes the last
week's operation of the Coos Bay Steam Laun
dry under the personal ownership of the writer,
the property having been merged into a corpora
tion of the same name, whose officers will,
on the date named, assume control of the
busienss. The officers are J. E. Lyons, Pros.;
M. D. Lyons, Scc.-Treas.; J. C. Jones, General
Manager, and J. Edgar Mousey, foreman, all be
ing interested in the business as stockholders of
ihe corporation. Upon Mr. Jones and Mr.
Mauzey will fall the active operation of the plant,
and two better equipped men would be hard to
find. Mr. Jones has been with us in the capacity
of foreman for the past eighteen months, and
prior to that was for eight years with the Walla
Walla (Washington) Steam Laundry. He is a
thorough, up-to-date laundryman, and will keep
hi front of the times in all tjiat is new in the laun
dry business. Mr. Mauzey is too well known- to
the most of you to require an introduction, as he
was connected with the Coos Bay Steam Laundry
for many years before it passed to its present
ownership, and has been employed in- almost
every line of work in connection with the busi
ness, so it is sufficient to say that this is a well
merited jn-omotion to probably the best all
around laundryman that Coos County has pro
duced. Now a few words personal to myself. I am not
a laundryman, but a lumberman, who got into the
laundry business through the time honored way
of being "seen" by the man with the "experi
ence," who had me in and the door locked before
I hardly had time to realize what was taking
place. The foregoing announcement is the result
of almost two years' hard work, spent in estab
lishing, equipping and organizing out of the
wreck of sixteen thousand dollars, a real steam
laundry, operated by real laundry people, as a
real business proposition. A plant that is, and
will continue to be a credit to the city and county,
and one whose equipment will always be kept
ahead of the growing demands of a growing com
munity. For the measure of success already attained J
thank all those who have assisted, and bespeak
for the new management your continued patron
age. Yours Very Truly,
J. E. LYONS.
FLEET LEAVES SYDNEY.
Sails For Melbourne After Week of
Great Festivities.
(By Associated Press.)
SYDNEY, Australia, Aug. 2G.
Tho American fleet Wednesday en
joyed tho last of tho festivities of
the past week and Balled for Mel
bourne. The government gave a
luncheon to the visiting and local
Journnllsts at noon today, at which
Admiral Sperry was n guest.
Fifty thousand persons, including
the Governor General, Lord North
cot of Australia, and wife; Sir Ilnr
Rawson and wife, and many officers
of the American fleet gathered on
tho cricket grounds to wltnes-3 tho
evolutions of the school chlldron
Eight thousand children In vari
colored dresses participated In tho
evening tableaux representing tho
words "Hall Columbia."
At tho Stadium, Bauer defeated
Frederick for the feather-weight
championship of tho fleet.
PROBE STOCK DEAL.
Manipulations of New York Board
to Re Investigated.
(By Associated Press.)
NEW YORK, Aug. 27. President
Thomas of the Now York Stock Ex
change has appointed a committee of
five to investigate the heavy bales of
stock Saturday when tho alleged
"matched" sales were made.
ARMY WINS TROPHY.
Washington Tenth In Rifle .Match
Contest.
(By Associated Press.)
CAMP PERRY, Ohio, Aug. 27.
The National Rlllo match for the tro
phy authorized by congress and $300
was won by the United States Infan
try team, with the navy second and
tho cavalry third. The Washington
team took the tenth place.
NOTICE.
Steamer "Queen" will leave Em
pire City for Marshfleld 8 a. m re
turning from Marshfleld ('A' St.) at
5 p. m. every day during Fair. Good
Board and Rooms at Arngo Hotel,
Empire City.
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