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THE DAILY COOS BAY TIMES, MARSHFIELD, OREGON, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1908.
No. 121.
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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