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THE DAILY COOS BAY TIM ES, MARSHFIELD, OREGON, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER, 14, 1908.
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BJ.VC. MALONEY Editor and Publisher.
DAN E. MALONEY News Editor.
AN INDEPENDENT REPUBLICAN NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED EVERY
EVENING EXCEPT SUNDAY, AND WEEKLY BY THE COOS BAY
' TIMES PUBLISHING COMPANY.
Entered at the postofflce at Marsh field, Oregon, for transmission.
HSrough the malls as socond class m all matter.
THAT TKLEPII ONE FRANCHISE.
Vd like to love my neighbor,
But my neighbor gets a gun,
Resisting civilized appeal,
And lights us just for fun.
3 offer moral teachings,
"Which my neighbor will not hear,
Ho simply makes rejoinder
With a bolo or a spear.
He struggles for advantage, '
In a grim, commercial way;
He does his best to profit
By tho taxes I must pay.
He lacerates my feelings,
All oblivious to my fate.
I try to love my neighbor,
But he won't reciprocate.
N ANOTHER column of this evening's paper Tho Times publishes a
communication from W. U. Douglas In which he contends that the
Marshfield city council should bo complimented and commended in
stead of criticised and censured for its action in reference to the recently
granted telephone- franchise. From the tenor of his letter it is evident
that Mr. Douglas does not understand the position of The Times In this
aiatter. The two principal features In The Times criticism were:
First The power vested in the city council to take up and place on
Jts final passage In one night any ordinance that it desires, is too exten
, xivo and far reaching and is inimical to the public welfare.
Second That in meeting in secret session to agree on this franchise
lite mayor and city council establish a bad precedent. Anything so
Important to the entire city as a public franchise should be discussed and
acted upon in a session open to the tax-payers and property-owners of the
city.
Tho Times still maintains the correctness of this position with all the
rigor, earnestness and sincerity which It possesses. The Times has not
attacked or criticised the franchise granted the telephone company. It
may or may not be perfectly fair In all its features, but let us not ob
scure tho principal issue by a multiplicity of problems that will only re
sult in confusion. The consideration of the franchise is something to
which "A Citizen" devoted himself In his communication, and The Times
believes he is able to care for himself in a newspaper discussion. The
Times will confine itself to the main features of its criticism as given
above.
As Mr. Douglas does not excuse or defend the matter -of the council
having power to take up and put on its final passage, any ordinance
desired at one session, without previous publicity or discussion Tho
Times assumes that as a good citizen and a taxpayer, Mr. Douglas does
not endorse this arbitrary power in rapid fire action by the council.
When It comes to the secret session, Mr. Douglas speaks in no uncer
tain tone. He defends it with earnestness and enthusiasm. He says that
"an Important measure of this kind can hardly receive the considera
tion it merits In open session. There is usually a line of twenty-five to
fifty people present at these meetings ALL WITH AXES TO GRIND,
concerning street improvements, licenses, etc."
The Times must admit that this statement is a little bit confusing.
Does Mr. Douglas mean to intimate when the big fellows have a big
axo to grind the little fellows with the little axes should be barred out?
Or Is tho man seeking a franchise a public benefactor without any axes
eancealed about his person, while the man looking after street lmprove
aients is the man with the axe. From some of the reports that emanate
Trqm tho council chamber, The Times was of the opinion that most of
these street improvement fellows had hammers instead of axes. The
Times scarcely thinks Mr. Douglas would care to go on record as de
Tending secret sessions of the council to consider important public mat
ters at all times. Possibly conscious of his own integrity of purpose in
the present Instance, Mr. Douglas can conscientiously defend the present
action, but there may be occasions when the promoters of franchises will
not bo nnimated by such lofty purposes of public weal, and there may be
limes also when the men on the council will not measure up to the pres
ent standard. What would Mr. Douglas think of another council going
3nto secret session with some foreign franchise grabbers, seeking valu
able railway or other concessions? if it is proper and right one time
why not another? The Times maintains that it is not right and cannot
ho successfully defended on either a moral or commercial basis.
It is Inconsistent of Mr. Douglas to intimnto that tho franchise Is not
a valuable concession by saying tho stock subscription books are open
while in the same letter he frankly admits that this franchise is tho basis
on which the company expects to llont a loan to make improvements in
tho plant. Financiers nre not accustomed to let money go on cheap or
aluelcss securities. If they furnish money on the basis of the Marsh
Seld franchise, It may bo taken for granted that the franchise has some
value.
WITH THE t
I TOAST AND TEA .
GOOD EVENING.
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MM DUiLUINuO
IN NORTH BEND
X Those of us who have learned A
H the art of making the best of X
H things, should extend it to the i-
1 point of making the best of i
ii people. Look at their good H
X points. Put the moBt charitable X
construction on their acts. Give a
X them credit for honest purposes
H even when they blunder. If t
K your first impulse is to ascribe
it unworthy mot'ves to those ?
X about you, It shows a serious X
X weakness in yoursolf. You can- X
X not make the most of life till X
X you have learned to make the X
X best of others. Anon. "
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A FRIEND OR TWO.
There's all of pleasure and all of
peace
In a friend or two;
And all your troubles may find re
lease With a friend or two;
It's in the grip of the clasping hand"
On native soil or In alien land,
But the world is made do you un
derstand? Of a friend or two.
A song to s'.ng and a crust to share
With a friend or two;
A smile to give and a grief to bear
With a friend or two;
A road to walk and a goal to win,
An inglenook to find comfort In,
With a friend or two;
A little laughter, perhaps some tears,
With a friend or two;
The days, the weeks and the months
and years,
Wiih a friend or two;
A vale to cross and a hill to climb,
A mock at age and a jeer at time
The prose of life takes the lilt of
rhyme
With a friend or two;
The brother-soul and the brother-
heart
Of a friend or two
Make us drift on from the crowd
apart
With a friend or two;
For come days happy and come days
sad
We count no hours but the ones made
glad
With a friend or two;
Large Number of New Homes
and Structures Now Under
Construction There.
A largo amount of building Is un
derway at North Bend and plans are
being made to start a number of
residences and small buildings with
in a short time. While building has
been fairly active during the entire
summer on and around Coos Bay, it
has been particularly so in North
Bend and its suburbs. A large
amount of municipal work Is under
way there and in addition to this, the
following buildings have been start
ed since the last list was published
in The Times, according to the rec
ord kept by J. F. Bode, manager of
the North Bend Manufacturing Com
pany: High School building $40,000
Theatre building, Backey &
Vanzlle, owners 3,000
Four neat cottages, G. A.
Gurney about, each 2,000
Three-story store and apart
ment building, J. Gunn.. 2,000
Russian and Turkish bath
house, J. Gunn 2,000
Six-room modern cottage, W.
H. Richards 3,000
Two-story modern dwelling,
A. H. Hoelling 3,500
A. L. Hunt, 1 two-story mod
ern dwelling 3,500
Eight-room modern resi
dence, Oakley & Arnold.. 5,000
Cottage, O. E. Murray 5,000
Modern residence, R. A.
Wernlch 3,500
Modern residence, J. F.
Bode 6,000
The Swedish Lutherans are break
ing grounds for a church.
jE3ES335
INANCIAL
TR.ENGTH
In a bank lies, first, In the ability and experience of Its officers,
"The men behind the gun;" second, Its board of directors who ad
vise with and direct the officers; and third, the Capital.
LIBERALITY In a bank Is Its willingness to furnish funds to
depositors to assist them in carrying- on their legitimate bua).
ess. Our motto is:
"STRONG AND LIBERAIi" Look us up and if you find W do
serving, give us your business.
First Trust and Savings Bank
OF COOS BAY
Capital Fully Paid $ 1 00,000.00
Officers and Directors.
John S. Coke, Prea. William Grimes,
WjS. Chandler, S. C. Rogers, '
Henry Sengstacken, Dr. C. W. Tower,
Dorsey Kreltzer, cashier. Judge John F. Hall.
M. C. Horton, Vice pres.-manager.
Then brim the goblet and quaff the
toast
To a friend or two;
For glad the man who may always
boast
Of a friend or two;
The fairest sight is a friendly face
in uuinest ireaa is a rrienaly pace
And heaven will be a better place
For a friend or two.
ANON.
HOTEL .MAN SUICIDE.
in
Frank Bennett of the Arlington
Washington Shoots Self.
(By Associated Press.)
NEW YORK, Sept. 12,--Frank.
Bennett, 50 years of age, and man
ager of the Arlington Hotel of Wash
ington D. C, and one of the best
known hotel men in the country,
committed suicide by shooting him
self in the hotel Gotham today.
I Flanagan & Bennett Bank I
t TTTg MARSHFIELD, OREGON. $
f ,x, , Pafd Up Capital and Undivided Profits $75,000
f " Assets Over Half Million Dollars.
4 Does a general banking business and draws on the Bank of Call-
X fornla, San Francisco, Cal., First National Bank, Portland, Ore.,
First National Bank, Roseburg, Ore., Hanover National Bank, New J
T York, N. M. Rothchlld & Son, London, England.
Also sell exchange on nearly all the principal cities of Europe.
Accounts kept subject to check, safe deposit lock boxes for rent
T at 60 cents a month or ?5 a year.
I INTEREST PAID ON TIME DEPOSTS
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COQUILLE TO PAVE.
You have no right to sigh except
when you are alone, and then you
won't.
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STAMPKIUNG CUPID.
Jt Kansas City preacher, doubt
lessly actuated by tho most wholo
jomo motives in the world, contem
plates tho opening of what ho terms
a "spooning parlor" In the basement
of his church for tho express pleas
ure and protection of working girls
and their young men. Tho enter
prising divine has been airing his
Mea with considerable onthuslasm,
nd by now, most of tho employed
young women of his city are awaro
of hf desire to mtiko their lives less
loveless and prosaic. Strangely,
they aro most ungrateful, resenting
loth his solicitude and his innuen
does. "1 consider that he has highly in
sulted tho girl who must make her
own living," writes one of tho min
ister's Involuntary proteges. "Spoon
ing parlors, indeed! You may think
3 am an old crank, but I nm not. I
-atn simply a girl of 10, working to
support myself and widowed
niotfiur, and no one enjoys having a
Kuod! time or has moro company than
I, and yet I do not entertain them
by spooning."
Tho assumption of tho preacher
that spooning U a nccoasnry feature
of ovory woman's youthful existence
emanates from a wholly inanoulluo
olut of view. The average man U
secretly of the belief that the girls
of hit calling acquaintance exist oul.v
In the anticipation anil retrospection
ngendered by hU visits and the
Asotin hours during- whloji he eon
gouts to nmko mild and inoaulugleas
Jovo, Whothor such attitude Is jus
tified It would bo most Indiscreet to
observe. One young woman, at
least, clearly objects to imputations
tending to brand her sox with inher
ent mushluess.
The preacher's scheme is admir
able in purpose, but his methods of
advertising It are entirely too brash.
"Como In hero to do your spooning,"
ho Invites tho world through his
megaphone, nnd then wonders why
tho persons ho would befriend linger
In despair In tho parks whore ihero
aro only tho unsympathetic police
men. If this well-disposed minister
had been a woman he would have
merely advertised a helping hand
parlor of platonlc companionship, or
something of that sor thereby en
snaring, without startling, that ubi
quitous and extremoly shy angel,
bird or aerial urchin known indif
ferently as tho god-o'-love, tho Pa
phlan gamin, or moro vulgarly as
Cupid.
It's the dally dull grinding that
produces the keen edge for some
crisis.
It's the man who forever is run
ning away from pain who gets most
bruises.
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Leneve, S. M.
Nosier and Mrs. E. M. Furman drove
to Coos Bay from Coquille yesterday,
Mrs. Leneve coming to take the Eu
reka for Eureka. Mrs. E. M. Fur
man expect to leave for her home to
dayi Mr. Leneve says the property
owners, with one exception, on
Front street in Coquille, have peti
tioned the city council to reconsider
their action in calling for bids for
the replanklng of that thoroughfare
and also petitioned to have the two
blocks laid with bituminous rock. W.
O. McCann was in Coquille last Fri
day and looked Into the matter and
will make them an estimate this
week.
The First National Bank of Coos Bay
MARSHFIELD, OREGON
STRICTLY A COMMERCIAL BANK
Tliis bank solicits the checking accounts of firms and individuals
and extends every reasonable courtesy nnd facility,
O. B. HINSDALE, President. W. S. McFARLANP, Cashier.
JOHN PREUSS, Vice-President. R. T. KAUFMAN, Asst.-Cashier.
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JWWW,WLTEMERS
Portland & Coos Bay S S. Line
S. S. BREAKWATER
Sails from Portland Wednesday at 8 p. m. '
Sails from Coos Bay Saturdays at Service of Tide.
S. S. CZARINA
SAILING BETWEEN SAN FRANCISCO AND COOS BAY, CAR
RYING FREIGHT AND COMBUSTIBLES ONLY.
The man who has much starch in
his neck la likely to have none In
his backbone.
Some Coos Bay people's idea of be
ing sincere is to show it when they
dislike someone.
At 1G a girl will fall in love with
a man she will be ashamed to speak
to when she is 20.
The pessimist has his faults, but
his Ideas about tho Drain road are
likely to bo accurate.
Tho Peerless, the Beoiless, nnd
tho Fearless is tho way someone hns
characterized the Democratic prohi
bition and Republican presidential
candidates respectively.
All the world loves a lover except
the man who happens to have the
lover In his omploy.
Most people who receive charity
aro compolled to give more gratitude
than tho charity is worth.
Tell a Coos Bay woman she is not
looking well and she will look tri
umphantly at her husband.
ALLIANCE IN FROM
PORTLAND TODAY
Steamship Brings Good Cargo of
Freight and Largo Number of
Passengers.
The Alliance crossed In about 1:30
o'clock this morning from Port'artJ
with a good cargo of freight and a
fair sized passenger list, Capt. Ol
son says they had fine weather down
but they encountered some heavy
swells near the bar. In all, the Al
liance had 2SS tons of freight, In
cluding a big boiler of the Hlbbard
lnundry. The Alliance will sail for
Portland at 1 o'clock Tuesday.
Among those who came down from
Portland were:
John Minto, A. J. Notter, C. M.
Ellis, E. H. Spanger, Mrs. J. A. Glld
don, Joe Emery, S. Templeton, Mrs.
N. Stein, A. L. Mackdy, R. L. Dlgnon,
Mrs. F. Todd. A. V. Field, A. P.
Buchanan, Bon Berry, Wm. Jacob-
son, J. W. Gunn, M. Smith, Sam Ben
nett, P. Eskildson and wife, A. W.
Long, Elijah Smith, G. B. McLeod,
W. R. McMillan and twelve steer
age.
'L. W. Shaw, Agt. g
Phone Main 34 - - - - A. St. Dock H
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I CALIFORNIA AND OREGON COAST STEAMSHIP COMPANY.
Steamer Alliance - I
B. W. OLSON, Mnatcr. f
COOS BAY AND PORTLAND f
SAILS FROM PORTLAND SATURDAYS, 8 P. M. X
SAILS FROM COOS BAY TUESDAYS, AT SERVICE OF TIDE.
P. Baumgartner, Agt. H. W. Skinner. Act. T
Couch St. Dock, Portland. Ore.
Marshfield, Ore., Phone 441
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THE
Steamer M. F. Plant
SAILS FROM SAN FRANCISCO, AT 2 P. M. EVERY TUESDAY
AT 3 P. M.
FitOM COOS BAY EVERY FRIDAY AT SERVICE OF THE TIDE.
No reservation held after the arrival of tho hlp unless ticket Is
bought.
MARSHFIELD,
F. S. DOW, Agent,
OREOON
Streamer Wilhelmina
LUDVIG CHRISTENSEN, MasterV
Sailing for Bandon every Monday. For full inforhTSffon, apply
Chas Thom owner, or H. W. Skinner, agent.
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ALERT"
'IKK AT MYKTLK POINT.
I. Muchiulo's Barn ltiirncd And IIos.
pitiil Kiidnugerod.
MYKTLK POINT, Oro , Sept. 12.
The barn of J. Machado ut Myrtle
Point was destroyed by fire Thurs
day eveulujc. The Iocs Is about $800
and the local fire department had
hard work to save the hospital of
Dr. J. D Wotmore.
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Captain O. E. Edwards.
TIme-Tnble.
Leaves Allegany, dally at 7 a. m.
' Returning Leaves Marshfield 2
p. m.
For terms of charter, towing,
transportation or freight, apply on
board.
C. E. EDWARDS. Owner.
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STEAMER FAVORITE S
r?.?i?ripsdally, between Bandon and ffi
train" eonnec,lnB w'b all Marahfleld 3
Leaves Bandon . ..0:45 a.m. K
Leaves Bandon . . .1:20 p. m. , S
Loaves Coquille. ..0:15a.m. 'H
Leaves Coquille ...4:00p.m. g
.TriRvelcrBie.Rvlni? Marsblieldln the rj
mornlnc reach llandnn nt n., tw.ni "1
hours In Marshfleld and reach home the
fame day.
COQUILLE RIVER TRANS-
PORTATION CO.
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TjEe CITY MARKET Pfione 1941
C and Front, Streets, Marshfield, OregoT '
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