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THE DAILY COOS BAY TIMES, MARSHFIELD, OREGON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1908. SIX PAGES.
No. 120.
ALL FRANCE IS STIRRED By
REVELATIONS IN STEINHEIL CASE
Nation Wrought Up Over
Charges of Wrong
Doing.
TRAGIC DEATH OF
FAURE IS RECALLED
Woman Now Charged With
Murder Was In Room Where
He Died.
(By Associated Press.)
PARIS, Nov. 28. The Steinheil
case continues to be the sensation of
the hour all over France. No one
ventures to say where It will end.
The political side looms up larger
and larger, and the Interest harks
back the tragic death in Paris In
1S99 of Felix Faure, the President
of France who died midst the Drey
fus excitement. The most minute
details of the scene In the room
where he expired while in the com
pany of Mine, Steinheil are flagrantly
published by even the Republican
newspapers. The Royalists and Anti
Dreyfus papers are demanding an of
ficial Investigation of the death of
President Faure and intimate openly
that he was an Insuperable obstaclo
to the leaders of the Dreyfus agita
tion and was murdered by plot. The
only reason to believe that Faure did
not die a natural death is found in
the fact that his body decomposed
with unusual rapidity. Seven of the
best known physicians in Paris cer
tified that he died of cerebral hem
morrhage. .
Various episodes in- the life of
Mme. Steinheil, her alleged love af
fairs and intrigues are coming to
light, and the prevailing belief in
Paris is that she deliberately had her
husband and mother assassinated.
WINS GREAT AUTO RACE.
Italian Cm- First In Grand Prize
Contest.
(By Associated Press.)
SAVANNAH, Ga., Nov. 28.
Louis Wagner, a French mah driving
an Italian Fiata, won In the grand
prize race of 403 miles by'5G sec
onds. His total time was 370 mln
;utes 31 seconds. Victor Hemerv, a
Frenchman, driving a German Bena
car, was second in 371 minutes si
seconds. Felice Nazarro, an Italian,
with a Fiata, was third in 378 and
45 seconds. The finish was the
closest in the history of automobile
road racing, the winner being in
doubt until the official times were
computed. The winner averaged
05.55 miles an hour, a new Ameri
can record.
NEGRO IS GUILTY.
(By Associated Press.)
KANSAS CITY, Nov. 28. Chas.
Stevens, the negro who stole $50,000
from the registered mail pouch sev
eral months ago, was found guilty
In federal court on all six counts.
The mnximum penalty is 35 years.
He will be sentenced later.
Steve Gallier Wins Out For
Mayor By One Vote
Maybe Contest.
' (Special to Times.)
BANDON, Ore., Nov. 28. Steve
Gallier was elected mayor of Bandon
yesterday by a vote of 12C to 125 for
his opponent, A. McNair. For muni
cipal Judge, George Topping defeated
A. D. Morse by a vote of 125 to 122.
For councilman, L. J. Radlay de
feated G. Boak bjf a vote of 127 to
124.
Owing to the close results, there
a tulk of the defeated candidates
asking a recount.
ELECTION IN
BANDDN SOON
REV. SUMMERS
GOES TO TEXAS
Gardiner Preacher Must An
swer Charges In Lone Star
State Courts.
ROSEBURG, Ore., Nov. 28. After
a weak and hopeless fight against ex
tradition, Rey. George Clark Sum
mers, the Gardiner minister, has left
on his return to Throckmorton,
Texas, to answer to an Indictment
charging him with obtaining money
under false pretenses. He will travel
in the custody of Sheriff J. G. Sper
lock, of Throckmorton, who returned
from Salem, with his requisition
papers honored by Governor Cham-
berlain. The woman In the case will
go baqk to Texas, too, taking along
the two children that are of issue
as the result of her life with the
minister. At Throckmorton the
three will find a home beneath the
roof of her forgiving father, John
B. Massle.
Sheriff Fenton did not subpoena
Rev. T. B. Ford from Pendleton to
testify in the accused man's behalf,
as ordered by Justice Long. This
would have been wholly unnecessary,
in view of the fact that the requisi
tion honored by Governor Chamber
lain ends all proceedings so far as
the local authorities are concerned.
The examination, to begin with, was
merely a formality to hold the min
ister" until "such time as Sperlock
could reach Salem and return here.
Summers was taken into District
Attorney Brown's office and informed
of the governor's action. There were
present, besides Mr. Brown, Sum
mers' two attorneys, Cardwell and
Micelli, Sheriff Sperlock and Jack
Parrott, the last named being the
one who brought about the minister's
arrest. Summers wanted his attor
neys to continue the legal battle, but
they told him there was nothing
more they could do; that his future
battleground was in Texas. Sum
mers then thanked his counsel and
paid them for their services. To Mr.
Cardwell he tendered $25, with
which he might pay the fine Imposed
on him by Justice Long for alleged
contempt. The minister seemed very
solicitous about his so-called wife at
Gardiner, and made the significant
remark that "her sickly condition
was all that kept him here." Before
being escorted back to jail, he point
ed an accusing finger at Jack Parrott
and said:
"You told a He on me."
Parrott jumped up quickly from
his chair as if to resent the remark
in a physical manner, but others in
terfered and the incident closed.
The woman at Gardiner has made
a complete confession of the affair,
and is, going back to Texas willingly.
Acquaintances are aiding her and
the two children to depart from Gar
diner.
LECONTE IS ALIVE.
Reported Execution of Hnytlen. Ofll.
cial Unfounded.
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(By Associated Press.)
PORT AU PRINCE, HAyti, Nov,
28. General Leconte, who was re
ported killed by the revolutionists at
Jeremle a few days ago, lias, arriv
ed here. He escaped in a rowboat
with four officers and two sailors,
and was at sea, three days wjthout
provisions before they finally landed
at Pftit Goavp. General Leconte de
clares that the repor,t that three
men were put to death on his orders'
at Jeremlo is unfounded,
ARMY DEFEATS NAVY.
(Br Associated Press.)
PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Nov. 28,
The final score was: Army, C;
Navy, 4.
FROSTY MORNINGS may cause
your hands to chap and make them
rough and red. A 25c bottle" of. Mc
Vrthur's Hand Lotion will make them
like velvet.
CANADA TO SRUT
Dominion Lumber Mill Owners
and Timber Merchants
Want Government to Place
Heavy Tariff On It.
(By AaUfd Presu.)
WELLINGTON, N. Z., Nov. 28.
The Dominion of Canada timber
J. A. Finch Shoots and Kills
Ralph B. Fisher Who Pushed
Disbarment Proceedings
Against Him.
(By iBoolatccl Press.)
PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 28. J. A.
Finch, an attorney who was disbar
red from practice for one year by the
State Bar Association, this afternoon
shot and killed Ralph B. Fisher, a
WIRjJCTION
Circuit Court Upholds Her
Right to Retain Alleged Por
tion of Cedar Street.
Word was received here yesterday
that Mrs. McLeod had won her noted
suit to prevent the city of Marshfleld
from disturbing the fence and bulk
head of her lot on North Cedar
street. Incidentally, if the opinion
of the circuit court, which has just
been handed down, is unheld by the
Oregon Supreme Court she will gain
six feet of what has been understood
to be the street.
The case arose when the city
started to cut the grade on C street
and improve the, thoroughfare. The
old street had never been opened its
full width and when it was re-sur
veyed, it was found that the fence
and other minor improvements on
the McLeod lot extended six feet
beyond the lot line into the street.
Mrs. McLeod claimed the property
under the right of adverse posses
sion and secured an injunction re
straining the city from opening the
street to its full width.
City Attorney Farrln announced
today that the case will be appealed
to the Supreme Court.
THREE 6A
"High Financiers" of Pittsburg
Convicted of Illegal Bank
ing Today.
(By Associated Press,)
PITTSBURG. ov. 28, Guilty was
the. verdict in the United States cir
cuit court In the case of C. E. Mullln,
cashier,, and R., K. Hlssom, president
of the defunct, Farmers & Merchants'
bank, at Mount Pleasant, and E.' P,
Stelnman, former president of the
Acme Lumber Company. Mullln was
alleged to have embezzled $140,000
and tlio others to have aided in the
abetting.
William Montgomery, cashier of
the wrecked Alleghany National
Bank, was sentenced to fifteen years
In the penitentiary.
Montgomery was convicted of em
bezzlement and the abstraction of
over half a million dollars'. The
bank failed for a million. Before
being sentenced, Montgomery made
a statenlent to the effect that he
never took ono penny of the bank's
money for his own use. Ho said that
ho has not been given a fair trial,
While there's hair there's hope,
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PORTLAND LAWYER IS SLAIN
MRS. MGLEOD
MAM
iltnb
GUILTY
OUT OREGON PINE
trade is so seriously affected by the
increasing importations of Oregon
pine that an influential deputation of
local sawmill owners and, timber
merchants have petitioned the Pre
mier to impose a duty on Oregon
lumber. Many mills in the Dominion
have been forced to close down, other
will have to follow suit shortly. The
Premier will appoint a royal commis
sion to investigate the matter.
young lawyer, who had been desig
nated to act as prosecutor for the
Bar Association in the case against
Finch. Finch 'was disbarred on Wed
nesday, and today he went to Fish
er's office in the Mohawk building.
He went Into Fisher's private room
and fired three shots at his prose
cutor, one bullet taking effect in
the temple and killing Fisher in
stantly. Finch attempted to escape
but a group of people attracted by
the shooting barred his way. He was
taken to the police station.
IT ISJJKTRUE
United Wireless Representa
, tive Condemns Statement
Made By. New York Editor
F. B. McCord, who represents the
United Wireless Telegraph Company
on Coos Bay, declares that the
claims made in a letter which was
printed in The Times recently quot
ing the editor of the Financial World
of New York and stock brokers there
to the effect that the company's stock
was selling there at, a low figure is
absolutely untrue. He says that the
company's stock is not for sale on
the New York stock exchange and
offers to back his allegation up with
a guarantee.
Mr. McCord has received advices
from his company that the Financial
Worldi has for some reason or other
attacked their standing and has fur
nished him with evidence alleging
that the character of responsibility
of the publication and its editors are
such that they cannot be relied upon.
Mr. McCord sayft that the books
of his company ar open to any
legitimate investigation and that
such an investigation will show that
the New York publication has
maliciously maligned them.
iP TREATY
Agreement Between Mikado
and America Causes Discus
sion In England.
(By Assotetd Preee.)
LONDON, Nov. 28. The reported
agreement between the United States
and Japan for the maintainance of
the statu quo in the Pacific, and
guaranteeing the integrity of China,
is given a prominent place In the aft
ernoon papers in London and .is con
sidered of great Importapce. Thfl
Pall Mall Gazette says It will be
i i , t i
I heartily welcomed as a contribution
to the world's , peace. It is not reT
garded an entangling alliance, butas
a cpmpliment to the Angjp-Japaiiose
alliance. .....
TAFT WILL PRESIDE.
President-Elect to Tako Part In Na
tional Conservation Congress.
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, D. C, Nov. 28.
Judge Taft has accepted an invita
tion to prosido over and address the
joint conferonco of the National Con
servation Commission with governors
of the states In this city, December
1 8, an event which will bring to
1 gather an assemblage of the nation's
leading men In commercial, financial
and political activity;
M'
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MAY BE KILLED BY EXPLOSION
BANDON
M
IN
Charley Lyons and Sam Hun
ter Involved In Serious
Altercation.
COQUILLE, Ore., Nov. 28. The
Coquille Sentinel says, "Uncle" Char
ley Lyons got stuck with a jackknlfe
at Bandon, the knife being wielded by
Sam Hunter, a well-known character
of that section. According to reports
Lyons and Hunter had an altercation
whereupon Sam stabbed Lyons and
then Jumped into the river in an at
tempt at suicide. He reconsidered his
purpose, however, upon striking the
water, and called lustily for help,
meanwhile grasping a pile and cling
ing to it tenaciously. Clint Male
horn happened to be in the vicinity,
and with the nid of a boat he rescu
ed Hunter, a wetter but a wiser man.
Uncle Charley was not seriously in
jured." COOLIDGE IS OUT.
American Minister to Nicaragua
Resigns Post.
(By Associated repn t
MANAGUA, Nicnragua, Nov. 28.
John Gardner Coolidge, the Amer
ican minister to Nicaragua, has ten
dered his resignation to the Ameri
can diplomatic service. It Is re
ported that Coolidge resigned be
causo of the government's disap
proval of his meddling in the af
fairs of Nicaragua.
RESIDENCE IN DANGER.
Captain Pond S")'s the Coquille Is
Supping LightHeeper's Home.
PORTLAND, Nov. 28. Unless
something Is done soon to prevent it
from making inroads, Captain Chas.
Pond says the Coquille River will
undermine the residence occupied
by the lighthouse keoper at that sta
tion. The channel has shifted to the
north side of the river and is washing
away the bank nt a remarkably lively
rate. Captain Pond says a rock em
bankment ought to be built or the
lighthouse property will likely be de
stroyed. The captain returned homo
this morning after having spent more
than a week inspecting the several
stations pf southern Oregon. Ho ex
plains that the dike being' built by
the citizens of Bandon Is responsible
for the Coquille shifting Its channel.
LUX TO CALIFORNIA.
Insane Man Ordered Returned from
Oregon.
SALEM, - Ore., Nov. 28. The
Board of Trustees of the Oregon In
sane Asylum this afternoon granted
the requisition of the California au
thorities for tho, transfer of Louis A.
Lux from the Oregon asylum to Cali
fornia. Lux escaped from the Napa,
Cal,, asylum last year, and wa3 ar
rested in Portland, Habeas corpus
proceedings wqro brought to obtain
his release, which wero donled by
Judgo Gantebein and Lux was com
mitted to the Oregon asylum. This
Is his third commitment.
Lux was just arrested in Curry
county but tho California authori
ties refused tq send, for him. Then
he wont to Portland via Coos Bay
and was arrested tlKjre.
PAYS DEATH PENALTY.
AUBURN, N. Y Nov,
lam Robert Brasch, thp
2,8. WJ11
RochesUr wife murdered, was electrocuted In
the Auburn prison today.
HUNTER SHOOTS SELF.
COQUILLE, Ore., Nov. 28. While
out with his shotgun hunting ducks
near their homo opposite Johnson's
mill, Gilbert Pinkston, the fourteon-year-old
son of Mr. and Mrs. L. A.
Pinkston, accidentally shot hlmsolf
in the arm. several injuring that
mombor, but it Is hoped that no com
ollcatlon may arise making amputa
Jtion necessary.
ROW
S
Large Number Entombed Near
Marianna, Pa., In Disaster
Today.
LITTLE HOPE OF
RESCUING ANY OF THEM
Cage With Occupants Blown
Three Hundred Feet
From Shaft.
(By Associated Press.) ,
PITTSBURG, Nov. 28. Ac
cording to State Inspector Lout
tit, between 180 and 200 men
wero in the mine when the ex
plosion occurred.
From an authoritative source
it is learned that 275 men were
in the mine at the time of the
disaster.
Shortly after 2 o'clock word
from Marianna, says a rescue
party succeeded In entering the
mine and is attempting to force
way the debris to whero the
miners were caught. It is not
considered likely that any one.
will bo rescued alive.
(By Associated Press.)
PITTSDURG, Pa., Nov. 28. A sc
ries of mine explosions occurred to
day in tho mine of tho Pittsburg and
Buffalo Coal Company at Marianna,
Washington county, and while no
thing definite Is known as to tho
number of fatalities, it is believed
that many lost their lives. Reports
from Marfanna say that between
200 and 300 men were In the mine.
All officers of tho company said that
about 100 were In tho mine.
At ono o'clock, an hour and a half
after the accident, dense clouds of
smoke were pouring from the two
shafts of the mine, but there was net
a sign of a miner.
Several trains from this city and
Monongahela are bound for tho'
scene and the latest appliances from
the New United States laboratory In
this city, recently tested in saving
life In mine explosions, are being
carried along.
A majority of tho miners aro
Americans and their families sur
round the mouth of the pit crazed
with frenzy. The Marrinna was re
cently built at a great cost and Is
said to be tho most perfect mining
town in the world.
According to officials of the com
pany, State Mlno Inspector Louttit
and Mino Foreman Kennedy, who
had Just completed a two days ex
amination of tho mine, had como
from tho mino only three minutes
before tho explosion occurred. Tho
iron cage which carries tho men
from t,ho surface to tho workings
was blown three hundred feet from
the shaft's mouth. Two men who wero
in tho cage wero killed. But llttlo
hope Is ontertained for the men en
tombed. BOY IS KILLED
IILEJLAYING
Andrew Scheer Meets Tragic
Fate While Romping In
"Follow the Leader."
(By Associated Press.)
PATTERSON, N. J., Nov. 28.
Androw Scheer, eight years old,
while playing "Follow the Leader"
scaled a tall chlmnoy of an aban
doned browory and stood triumphant
ly at tho top but suddenly plunged
Into tho street below and every bone
in his body was brokon. Playmates
gay that tho old bricks crumbled un
)dor his weight.
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