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01002 Mtm& TALK ABOUT TALKING. KEEP UP TO DATE HY READING THE COOS KAY TIMES. THE DAY'S NEWS TOLD ACCURATELY! AND CONCISELY. YOU CAN ITALIC TO THOU SANDS OP HEOl'LE EVKUY ,1),W ' TUTTING YOUIt "WANT A.1B" IN THE TIMES. MEMBER OP ASSOCIATED PRESS. 1 Vol. III. THE DAILY COOS BAY TIMES, MARSHFIELD, OREGON, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1908. No. 121. mm Efe BODIES OF ABOUT TAKEN FROM PEIS1LVANIA MINE rQnly One .'Man of Fonce.at Ma- fiatina Escaped Alive SIXTY OF VICTIMS ARE IDENTIFIED .Pitiful Scenes Witnessed at Morgue This Aftennoon. (B Associated Press.) PITTSBURG, Pa., Nov. 30. The Marianna mines are yielding up their toll of dead. At one o'clock this 'afternoon, 110 bodies had been re covered. More than sixty have been Identified. Fred. Elllnger, aged 39, was the only man -who escaped alive and he Is rapidly recovering Xrom his In juries. The miners worked all flight, on four hour shifts to facilitate the work of rescue. Good progress was made and it is said that all danger of further explosions is past. John H. Jones, president of the Pittsburg-Buffalo Coal Company, ex pressed the belief that the list of -victims would not exceed 120. The work of identifying the dead Is proceeding steadily. The morgue is filled with weeping relatives of the victims and there are pitiful scenes. A forco of twenty-two undertakers is at work preparing the bodies for burial. 0. C. Fenlason of National Box and Timber Company On Coos Bay. O. C. Fenlason, president of the National Box and Lumber Company, of Hoquiam, Washington, was on the bay the past week investigating its possibilities for the location of an extensive box factory. Mr. Fenla- son's plant In Hoquiam is one of the largest on the Pacific coast the saw mill having a capacity of 250,000 feet while the planing mill and other allied factories add greatly to its output. Mr. Fenlason is understood to have made an offer for the North Bend bov factory and also made a proposi tion to the Simpson Lumber Com pany for the erection of a new plant but negotiations have not reached any conclusion in either case. Wherever ho might locate the com ing of Mr. Fenlason and the Interests which he represents would be a valu able addition to the Industries and pay roll of Coos Bay. MOTHER GIVES LIFE FOR LAD Steps In Front of Hatchet Pittsburg Man Was Trying to Strike Son With. (By Associated' Press.) PITTSBURG, Nov. 30. Maddened from the effects of liquor, Jams Hackett today, in an effort to exter minate his family fatally injured his wife and then committed suicide. The father attacked his seven-year- old son, and the mother stepped In front of the hatchet and received the blow intended for the boy. Sea fllsnlnv of nrlzes for RED MEN'S MASQUE 1J.VLL in Lockhart's window. WOULD START BDX FACTORY I HUE LARGE SUM FDRJL10.fi. Eugene Citizens Subscribe $51,089.57 For New In stitution There. EUG'ENE, Ore., Nov. 30. The campaign for the $50,000 Y. M. C. A. building closed when the solicit ing committee met, at headquarters and reported $51,089.t7. Donations that came In during the meeting brought the amount up to $51,250. Today has been the biggest day of the week's campaign. The workers had $10,000 to raise to make their goal; at noon over $6,000 had been raised, but while every man aid 'it must and will be done, no one could figure just where the money was coming from. Every man on the 20 committees worlced until late and when reports were turned In there was over $1,000 to spare. Speeches were made, and Secret ary Rhodes presented each captain with some appropriate souvenir em bodying the way In which the re spective committees did their work, among the tokens being miniature talking machines, shovels, wringers, hatchets, etc. Butter cloth badges were pinned on F. Wetherbee and A. C. Dixon, whose committees raised the largest funds. The high school boys, who raised more than their allotment were presented with pen hants, and the grammar school boys, who raised more than they were ask ed, were also remembered. The Incident which brought forth the heartiest applause was the pres entation by Senator I. H. Bingham to George H. Kelly of a tin cup with a hole in It. The speaker hoped the gift would quench Mr. Kelly's un reasonable thirst for subscriptions. Mr. Kelly, who is manager of the Booth-Kelly Lumber Company, has been at the head of the big organiza tion and has done a great work for the people of this city. The people of Eugene have given with a will. The work has been done in seven davs, and when the meeting was over that it was all news to him that Cap and the crowd went out on the street 'tain E. W. Mason of Portland, for- a great cheer went up as the Y. M. C. A., clock hand was turned past the $51,000 mark. The city had raised an average of at least $25 for every man in Eu gene. Men who had never con tributed to anything before gave -l.oli. Tnifo nnri cpnprnilfl mpn crnvn The work for a Young Men's more. Christian Association has 'been the greatest thing done by the city in years, and has enlisted the largest number of supporters of any move ment which Eugene has ever taken up. GUARANTEE NO GOOD. Pnveinent Cannot Re Warranted For Any Length of Time. PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 30. That the city will do away with the main tenance bids for hard surface impro vements js apparent, as It has been decided In the Supreme Court that no company laying a hard surface pavement shall guarantee a pavement for any length of time. Heretofore the city has been declaring the life of several of the types of hard sur face Improvements to be 10 years and accepting maintenance bids of 2 ia rents a Bauaro yard for main taining the pavements In good repair each year. This would amount to 25 cents a square yard during the life of the pavement, and in this city where so many streets are being paved with hard surface pavements the sum required each year for malntalnance has become enormous. It Is argued that this maintenance Is nothing but a present to the paving companies. See display of prizes for RED MEN'S .MASQUE HALL In Lockhart's .window. Oil coke meal at HAINES. WASHINGTON IS Shooting of Negro Said to In volve a -Diplomat and An Army Captain's Wife Whose Identity Is Unknown. (By Associated PreBS.) WASHINGTON, D. C, Nov. 30. The police of this city have a shoot ing mystery on their hands Involv ing a negro, a supposed diplomat and the nlleged wife of an army captain. William Syckes, the negro, was shot and lies in the hospital in a critical condition. The others Involved In the affair have been able to conceal their identity. The negro approached the couple Saturday night in a fashionable sec- REBELS NEAR E Revolution In Hayti Assumes Dangerous Proportions and Causes Panic. (By Associated Prea.) PORT AU PRINCE, Nov. 30. It Is feared that the rebels will enter and loot the city and the people here are panic-stricken. Stores and busi ness houses are closed with shutters over the windows and doors. The residences are being protected and every foreigner has put up over his property the flag of his nation. The rebels have taken a number of im portant towns and strategic points. I F. PLANT Steamers Arrive From San Francisco and Portland With Large Number Today. The M. F. Plant from San Fran cisco and the Alliance from Portland arrived in early today after favorable trips. Captain Olson of the Alliance said merly master of the Costa Rica, was to succeed him on the Alliance when he takes the Nann Smith. A Port land paper printed a story to that effect but local people think It was a poor guess. Prentiss Gray, one of the owners of the Alliance, will be here on the Nann Smith Wednesday anu wm prooau.y announce wv Olson s successor men. The All! ance will sail at 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon for Portland. The Alliance's passenger list was as follows: Chas. Thorn, Miss B. Falloon, M. L. Hunt, Cecil F. Burton, Miss Nora Selve, A. Bowman, Fred. Parkes, J. A. Bowen, Peter Bowpn, C. W. Mer- chant, M. E. Whltmore, C. E. Whit- more, Mary Feeney, Despain, L. H. Franx, Mrs. L. H. Franx, J. W. Craighton, O. O. Lund, Ed. McReown, D. L. Rosenfleld, E. M. Ward, Mrs. Clausen, Mrs. Jackson, S. A. Jackson, E. C. Heald, W. S. Paige, W. S. Burns, ,R. M. Fowle, J. Davis, G. Kett, John Magson, Jacob Peloy, G. Gatewood, Alfred Finell, Fred. Haga, E. MIckelson, Ed. Lindros and eight steerage. M. F. Plant In. The M. F. Plant will also sail Tuesday for San Francisco. It was expected that M. N. Knuppenberg, whojias been negotiating for the pur- chase of tho Oregon Coal and Navlg- atlon Company's holdings, would bo in on the Plant but he did not come. The M. F. Plant's passenger list ( was as follows: L. A. Noyes, Mrs. Noyes, Blancho Dyer, Miss Field, Miss Milton, E. Pollexfen, Mrs. Pollexfen, A. F. Medlne, Mrs. Guitlerrez, Mrs. A. S. Brown. A. Angermayer, H. D. Hutt, D ALLIANCE IN Mrs. Ruegndtz, Miss Ruegndtz, Mrs. , being candidates, other ofllclals will Itelchort, Mrs. McLeod, Ben A. Mot- havo to bo selected In their places. zger, Mrs. Motzger, R. A. Waschau, Mrs. Waschau, O. Fltzgorald, L. j See display of prizes for RED Floyd, H. E. Hplland, J. Cunning- MEN'S MASQUE HALL In Lookhurt's ham, F. Flynn, and twenty steerage, window. NEW SCANDAL tion and asked to be directed to a certain address. A short time after wards, according to the clerk of the Portland Apartment house, which overlooks Thomas Circle where the shooting occurred, a man and wom an apparently greatly excited pass ed through the lobby and left ly another door. The man's nose va3 bleeding and the woman was heard to advise him to have it attended to. They started for a drugstore on iho corner, but they changed their mluds and disappeared. The negro adheres to his first story that he simply ask ed to be directed to an address. Should he die, the police will bo compelled to canvass all of the lega tions unless in the meantime tbo identification of the man is estab lished. United States Supreme Court Upholds It In Case From Virginia. (By Associated Presss. WASHINGTON, D. C, Nov. 30. The Supreme Court of the United States reversed the decision of The United States Circuit Court for the Eastern District of Virginia hold ing to be unconstitutional an order of the State Railroad Commission fixing a two-cent passenger rate on state business, the effect of the 'ut ter decjsion being to uphold the order for lower fares. CIT? ELECTION HERE TU Last Day of Campaign Quiet- Rally Tonight Facts About Election. ELECTION TOMORROW. Polls at city hall open from 9 o'clock In morning until G o'clock In the evening. Candidates: For recorder J. W. Snover and J. W. Butler. Vote for one. For councllmen D. L. Rood, A. P. Owens, Thomas Coke and Carl Albrecht. Vote for two. Question of Issuing $42,000 worth of bonds to refund the outstanding olty warrants Is also submitted to the voters. 1 Today Is the last day of the present municipal campaign in Marshfleld 'and has been much quieter than had been anticipated. Tomorrow Js elec- tlon day when a cjty recorder and tw0 councllmen are to be elected to BUCceed Recorder J. M. Upton and councllmen J. H. Flanagan and ciaudo Nasburg. The polls will be at the city hall and they will bo open (rom 9 o'clock in the morn- jng untn g o'clock in the evening. The one big rally of the campaign will be conducted at the I. O. O. F. hall this evening by the Citizens' League. They expect to get the band out and secure a large crowd. I. S. Smith or C. A. Johnson will probably preside as chairman. I. S. Smith who has charge of tho speak ing program announced today that the league's three candidates, J. W. Butler for recorder and Thomas Coke nnd Carl Albrecht for councllmen, would speak and also R. A. Copplo, jonn F. Hall and Tom Nlcols. Others may also, make brief remarks Tho election officials as selpcted by the council aro as follows: Judges John C. Merchant, A. P. Owen and R. C. Cordes. Clerks D. L. Rood, C. H. Marsh and Geo. N. Farrln. Owing to Messrs. Rood and Owen TWO-CENT FARE LAW IS VALID SEVEN HUNDRED IN JAPANESE SHIP COLLISION LILARKE PITS Gardiner Preacher Hands In Resignation After Wife Con fessed to Liason. ROSEBURG, Ore., Nov. 30. It Is "Reverend" George Clarke Summers no more; ltls just the. name, without the ecclesiastical prefix. The man who is going back to Texas from Roseburg to answer to an indictment charging him with swindling has severed his connection with the min istry of the Methodist Episcopal church, and his membership as well. He has not confessed to tha ch&rge contained In the Indictment, but in the eyes of his church ho is guilty of a far more serious offense, the violation of the Seventh Command ment. Summers' resignation from the ministry, In written form, was plac ed in the hands of Rev. James K. Hawkins, pastor of the Methodist church, of this city. To that gentle man he also turned over his credf-n-tials. The full text of the resigna tion follows: "To the Oregon Annual Conference: "I, the undersigned, do hereby withdrawn from the ministry and membership of the Methodist Epis copal church. "(Signed) GEO. CLARKE." It will be noticed that the minister signed his name as "Clarke." Wheth er he intends to stick by this name after arriving In Texas is a matter of conjecture. He will have a long time to think matters over, however, because court meets in Throckmor ton, the town where he was Indict ed, only twice a year, and the next session will not open for nearly six months, during which time ho will remain in jail, unless he furnishes a bond of $2,000, which is altogether unlikely. In signing himself as "Clarke" the accused man may have been actuated by a deslro to conform to the cliurch records. His certifi cate of transfer from the South Methodist church In Texas was lssu- ed by Bishop McDowell in tho name States and Japan, says an agreement of Clarke, and his credentials from between Japan and tho United Sta tho Oregon conference wero also I tes which was recently made public drafted In that name. merely postpones tho Inevitablo From reports It seems that Sum - i. i i i I iiiers nui oniy nas given up mo ministry, but has lost tho decorum that goes with such a calling. His fellow prisoners in tho county Jail say that Summers put in considerable time cursing Jack Parrott, of Gardi ner, who was instrumental in bring ing about tho minister's arrest. Summers also received a letter from his female companion, Miss Bessie Massie, who is now en route from their former homo at Gardiner to her father's home at Throckmor ton. Tho full text of tho letter was not given out, but its effect on Sum mers was marked. After reading it, ho took on a crestfallen air, and it 1b reasonably surmised that the wom an Informed him of tho fnct that sho had confessed tho whole affair to Rev. M. C. Wire, district superin tendent of tho Methodist church, who aided her, In her sickly condition, to reach Drain with tho two children that have been of issue from her un lawful union with Summers. Sheriff Sperlock, of Throckmor ton, arranged for tho transportation of tho woman and tho children to Texas. Tho .use of tho metric system of weights and measures will bo com pulsory In tho Philippines after tho first of next year. A telephone system will bo com plete In tho near future In tho French African colonies which will pormlt of communication with tho most distant posts in tho lntorlor of tho Dark Continent, Buy a pookot flash-light at tho GUNNEItV and ollmlnato danger In tho dark placos, ' " LIVES LOST Two Vessels Go Down With AH On Board Off Chee Foo, China. NO DETAILS ARE OBTAINABLE NOW Meager Report Received of Disaster Off Asiatic Coast. (By Associated Press.') TOKIO, Japan! Nov. 30. Word was received tonight that two Jap steamers wero sunk in a collision oft Che Foo, and 700 lives are reported lost. (By Associated Press.) CHE FOO, Nov. 30. Two Jap steamers collided oil port today. The details are lacking. It Is reported that 700 were drowned. PEACE PACT FORMED. CHICAGO, Nov. 30. Reports aro In circulation hero that Harrlman and Hill, the big railway magnates, have buried the hatchet of antag onism and are figuratively smoking the pipe of peace. It is announced that the Harrlman and Hill lines will proceed harmoniously hereafter with the development of branch lines of roads for feeders for their big syB tems, instead of fighting each other for territory, nB in the past. J. P. Morgan is said to be the peacemaker. St. Petersburg Newspaper Says Japan and United States Will Soon Clash. fnv Associated Presa.) ST( PETERSBURG, Nov. 30. Tho Russ which has continually preached war between tho United 1 struggle until tho end of Taft's term Inf nf?t mi XTt f linn itminf ru to nramai ul mute " ""'" j.v"- ed for war and Tho Russ predicts that each will push war preparations to completion. NOTES ARE EXCHANGED. (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, D. C, Nov. 3CL Secretary Root and Ambassador Ta kahira exchanged notes this after noon concerning tho declaration of five articles which Is to govern tho policy of tho two countries In China and tho Pacific. IS FLOO Guthrie and Tulsa Suffer Heavy Property Losses From Swollen Streams. (By Associated Press.) GUTHRIE, Okla., Nov. 30. Tho flood situation Is greatly improved today, tho water Is receding rapidly. No loss of lire has been reported hi't many families havo boon lorced to abandon their homes. Tho tlnmufiO will exceed a quarter million. ffty Asar-o'lAod rrP"0 TUSLA, Okla., Nov. 30. Tho third Hood this year In this vicinity is doing groat damage. Tho Arkan- Ban rlvor Is higher than over before. No deaths havo boon reported. Tho rlvor continues to riso. DECLARES WAR IS INEVITABLE OKLAHOMA
