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About The Coos Bay times. (Marshfield, Or.) 1906-1957 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 18, 1908)
jpmi jjjjWAJ -T-" ' i', 6 a i TALK ABOUT TALKING. KEEP UP TO DATE HY HEADING THE COOS HAY TIMES. THE DAY'S NEWS TOLD ACCURATELY AND CONCISELY. YOU CAN TALK TO THOU SANDS OP PEOPLE EVERY PAY BY PUTTING YOUR .WANT A US" IN THE TIMES. MEMBER OP ASSOCIATED PRESS. "I" Qftttt?0 Vol. HI. slurs DiSGRE FOREIGN OFFICES BELIEVE THAT RUMOR WAS STARTED IN BOGATA, COLOMBIA. THINK CASTRO IS NEVER TO RETURN AND HAS LEFT COUNTRY BE CAUSE OF POLITICAL TROUBLE AND NOT SICKNESS. (By Associated Press.) BERLIN, Dec. 18. Both the Ger man Foreign Ofllce and President Castro discredit the report that Venezuela has declared war against The Netherlands. The .feeling is growing here that Castro left Vene zuela not because of illness, but be cause of the political turmoil and that he has no intention of .ever re turning. Castro is to go to the hos pital Sunday for a week of observa tion to determine whether the opera tion is necessary. Castro still de nies the truth of demonstrations at Caracas on December 11. Not Believed. THE HAGUE, Dec. 18. Tho For eign Ofllce gives no credence to the report that Venezuela declared war against Tho Netherladns. The rumor apparently originated in Bogota, Co lombia. It is believed the only basis of the declaration was when Acting President Gomez of Venezuela, de clared that his country was "in a state of defense." Breakwater Arrived On Sched ule This Morning Although Late In Leaving Here. Although tho Breakwater left Coos Bay on her last trpl two days , late she arrived this morning on time. The passengers were landed . at Marshfleld at 9 a. m. On account of tho rough weather the boat laid in the lower bay before going out on the last trip and consequently was behind two days but the loading and unloading work at Portland rushed so that the captain was able to be up to the regular schedule this time. Thrfl was a larce cargo of. freight and a big passenger list this morn-1 ing. The Breakwater will leave on the trip to Portland at 7 o'clock to morrow morning. Passenger List. The following Is the Mst of the passengers who arrived yesterday: J. W. Buttz, Mrs. Buttz, Glen Ro zell, Mrs. Rozell, Mrs. Warren Stem, Miss Stem, T. J. Super, W. H. Kll llfer, L. E. Warner, J. W. Knppp, Geo. Hlllen, W. H. Paul, C. J. Sears, Mrs. V. L. Holbrook, V. Holbrook, H. A. Holbrook", A. L. Holbrook, A. Nor man, Mrs. Truax, Miss Truax, Mrs. C. Truax, C. S. Truax, W. H. Norvel, P. W. Washan, C. H. Hardy, Geo. Swanson, C. Y. Wheeler, J. W. Car lisle,' F. O. Weeks, V. S. Ames, G. Welden, J. L. Pettlt, Geo. Gille, E. O. Hammony, H. Thiene, G. Johnson, M. Sorensen, W. Johnson, T. Man tero.Wm. Oddy, H. A. Oddy, W. G. Harmon, A.- P. Jones, G. Gould, Ray Wilson, Mrs. Masters, C. Johnson. County Clerk James Watson is nursing a good sized "pet" on tho starboard side of his physiognomy. Tho boil is in just the right place to prevent Jim from looking at J;he court or jury from his accustomed desk without turning his entire anatomy in tho chair. He will un dergo a surgical operation when the "pet" reaches a head. Coqullle Herald. Any one wishing to make a dollar call at the. ANONA CASH- GROCERY. MAKES UP LOST HIE E DITED IK EUROPE Members Hold Meeting and Supper to Wind Up Business of Campaign. The members of the Marshfleld Civic League held a meeting and banquet last evening at tho Finnish hall. It was a business and social session to close up the business of the late city campaign and was also In the nature of a jolllflcatlon over the victory scored by the organisa tion, tho candidates for aldermen and recorder supported by the league being elected. At 8 o'clock the business meeting was called to order by the president, C. A. Johnson and W. F. Reeder acted as Secretary. Somo reports were presented by committees show ing the expenses of the organization and all the bills were allowed and ordered paid. Other routine matters were brought up and disposed of. The matter of admitting new members was taken up and it ap peared that there were a number present who wanted to be enrolled. There are now nearly 370 members In the league. Future work was discussed and it was decided that meetings should be held regularly in the future. It was also decided that at each meeting somo topic . regarding the city af fairs should be discussed and a com mittee will be appointed" each time to arrango a program. It was sug gested that this ought to be done in order to keep up the interest in the meetings. It was nearly 10 o'clock when the business was completed nnd those in attendance wore then invited to the -lining hall adjoining the lodse room to enjoy refreshment". Two long tables were nrniuged and about 60 men were seated. A s't'endld supper served In excellent 3 le was provided and greatly en joyed. J. E. Schilling, the new own er of the Coos Bay Bakery, vp.s the caterer and had charge of everj thlng in the supper room. The menu consisted of the follow ing: Roast Turkey Celery Cranberries Potato Salad Cabbage Salad Minced Ham Sandwiches Chocolate Roll Ribbon Cake Mince Pie Coffee Entertainment Held Today and Fine Display of Art Work Made. If there should be no other Christ mas celebration In the city the pu pils of the Marshfleld school have certainly enjoyed the coming of their favorite holiday and will appreciate the spirit of the season. This after noon the school was closed until tho first Monday In January and the last day was marked by festivities suit able to tho occasion. At 2 o'clock In tho afternoon there was a large attendance of pa rents and friends of the pupils at a Christmas operetta which was given by the First 'A' and First 'B' Grades and the Second Grade of tho school, tho pupils taking part and being di rected by their teachors, Mrs. Wll ber, Miss Sebolt and Miss McCormac. A dress rehearsal was hold Thursday afternoon and the other pupils made up the audience and today the en tertainment was given for tho grown porfple. In tho large hallway on the lower floor a platform waB arranged and (Continued on pago C.) sc G1VEG LEAGUE I ENTERTAINS PUPILS HAVE GELEBPAIN THE DAILY COOS BAY TIMES, MARSHFIELD, HELD UP Express Car On- 0. R. & N. Robbed of $650 In Jewelry But $3,000 Is Overlook ed. (By Associated Press.) PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 18. One of the most scusatlonal train rob beries ever pulled off in this vicinity occurred last night. Three amateur bandits held u , the local Chicago Express on the O. It. & N. about eight miles east of Portland. All the plunder secured amounted to $650 worth of diamonds and cheap jewelry taken from the way safe. Something over $3,000 in cash was overlooked by the robbers although It laid In easy reach, having ueen tossed behind a small way safe by Express Messenger Huff whose pres onso of mind protected the real valu ables in the express car. Neither one oF the two comblna-tlon-baggago and mall cars, which carried thousands of dollars of reg istered mail, and not a passenger In the coaches, six In number, occupied TWO NEGROES AND All Three Murderers Are Un concerned and Standing On Single Trap Drop to Death at Same Moment. (By Associated Presj.) BELLINGHAM, Wash., Dec. 18. A dispatch from New Westminster says: "Without assistance James Jenkins, a negro; Jack Portella, a negro, and Lee Chung a Chinaman, walked to the gallows of the provin cial Jail this morning to drop to Proprietor Kills His Former Employe In Act of Stealing Goods. (By Associated Press.) SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 18. Ed gar Ames was shot and mortally wounded early today while in tho act of stealing goods from a bakery, by Albert Richardson, the proprietor, who owing to previous thefts was on his guard. Ames was a former employe of the bakery and has a wife and three children. Reliably Reported That Taft Has Selected Him For At torney General. (By Associated PreBS.) NEW YORK, Dec. 18. That President-elect Taft baB selected Geo. W. Wlckersham of tho New York law firm of Strong and Cad walder to be attorney general, was learned today from a source regard ed as reliable. FAINTS UNDER WEIGHT OF HAT MUNICH, Dec. 18. A fashionable woman, wearing a "merry widow" hat three feet In diameter, fainted in tho street and was carried Into aj shop, where she recovered when tne lint was removed. A doctor who had been summoned said the woman's collapse was entirely attributable to the enormous weight of the-hat. Watch The Times for Holiday prices on Groceries. ANONA CASH GROGERY. - Xmas presents Try tho GUNNERY, AND IS SROT WICKERSil GETS TIE JOB OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER NEAR PORTLAND by about two hundred through pas sengers from the east, were molest ed. It was plain from all he circum stances that the robbers expected to And rich loot In tho express car, which they prepared to secure by the use of nitro glycerine. There be ing no through safe, they had no use for the explosives after burst ing open the car-doors with nltro-gly-cerine. The small safe was not locked and opened to the touch. Two men have been arrested who, in a general way, answer tho de scription of the two men Implicated In the robbery. The arrests were made by the sheriff's deputies In the outskirts of Portland. There is somo reason to believe it Is the same gang that robbed the Great North ern train at Hillyard, Wash., on the night of December 9, but the work was crude compared to the work of the Great Northern robbery. A reward of $1,500 for each rob ber is offered by General Manager O'Brien of the O. R. and N. The Express Company will also offer a re ward. CHINAMAN RANG death without a murmur. After the ropo was adjusted around the neck. If each of the men the Salvation. Army officers repeated prayers. The trio stood on a single trap dropping to eternity simultaneously. Portella was practlcularly unconcerned. Jenkins assaulted and murdered Mrs. Mary Morrison at Hazlemp.re, Portella killed a mulato at Vancou ver and Chung killed another China man. Chang and Portella confes sed. Jenkins did not. Later he was convicted solely upon circumstan tial evidence. HT SAILORS Swedish Steamer Is Sunk Off Dover In Collision With German Boat. (By Associated Press.) DOVER, England, Dec. 18. The Swedish steamer Llndholmen was sunk In a collision with the German steamer Friederlkeu Muller. of the crew of tho Swedish Eight i vessel were drowned and the survivors of tho unfortunate boat were landed here. Machine Remains In the Air Longer Than Any Previous Trial. (By Associated Press.) LEMANS, France, Dec. 18. Wil bur Wright made a new world's re cord for air machines, remaining in tho air one hour, 53 minutes and 59 aecondB. Tho best previous record was one hour, 30 minutes and 51 seconds. SEEK AFFINITY FOR HER. Really Men Hold Good, to Sign DIs played VANCOUVER, Bl C, Dec. 12. A local real estate firm has a sign out saying that It will buy or sell anything on earth, or furnish any thing desired. A local woman wont to tho com pany to enlist lta servlcos ia securing a hueband, This Is the advcrtlss mont tho company had offered for the dally paper: "Wanted A hus band for a lady 28 years of age, Uvght complexion, dark ,!ialr, Jjiue oyos, height 5 feoM Inches; weight 130 ,pounds;haB some means and would not object to marrying a Boldior," WRIGHT IKES NEW RECORD 18, 1908. SIX PAGES. VE WILLIAMS L STREET BONDS Arrangement Made Whereby New Planking On Broadway Will Be Laid. A settlement has been reached Insuring the work of planking First street or Broadway as It is known, from 'C street to Queen. Masters & McLain, who have the contract for tho work, did not want to go ahead unless they could dispose of the bonds and a proposition was made to the C. A. Smith Lumber and Manufacturing Co'vany to pur- chasa the lumber from that Arm and l pay for it with bonds. The Smith Company owns most of the property on tho east side of the street and tho firm has agreed to accept bonds In payment for tho lumber to the amount of the bonds for the share of work In front of their property. NO GIFT HOUSE FOR FIGHTING BOB Admiral Evans Tolls) Los Angeles People He Would Not Accept Present. LOS ANGELES, Cal., Dec. 17. Rear Admiral Boj fivans, retired, will not allow tho people of Los An geles to glvo him a house or anything else. Admirers quietly started n movement to present him with a residence in Los Angeles. A Los An geles friend wrote him. In a char acteristic reply Evans says: "Of course tho people of Los An geles who know me will understand that I do not want to be plnced In the position of accepting a house, and those who do not know me would better bo told I would not ac cept a house or any other thing." KNOX WILL NOT TALK. (Bv Associated Presss. WASHINGTON, D. C, Dec. 18. When asked about tho report that ho wnR offered, and had accepted tho portfolio of secretary of state In Taft's cabinet, Senator Knox said, "I did not start tho rumor and I can see no reason why I Bhould afllrm it or deny It." Tho senator's attltudo was entirely non-committal. BATTLE WITH Citizens of Gibbon, Neb., Fight Men Who Escape With $5,500. (By Associated Pross.) GIBBON, Nob., Dec. 18. Six rob bers after dynamiting tho safes of tho Farmers State Bank of Keeno, twenty-olght miles south of here, and tho Commercial Bank of Gibbon engaged In a pitched battlo here with the citizens early today and es caped in an automobile with $5,500, Ono of tho robbers, It Is believed, was woundod and cairled off. A posso Is In pursuit. They got $3,000 at Keeno and $2,500 here. According to tho records of tho In tornal revenue department, last month, Now York City drank fer mented liquors enough to glvo each Inhabitant nearly (hroo quaits, Coffeo Porcolators and 'dlshos nt the RED CROSS. chafing , 'UnQlo'jQBh" at, MASQ!Q' THEA TRE TONIGHT. W OT BANK ROBBERS No. 13S. OS PLEADS GUILT JURY WAS. OUT ONLY FIFTEE3S MINUTES LAST EVENING BE FORE FINDING HIM GUILT1T COURT BUSINESS FOR TERM IS ABOUT CONCLUDE GRAND JURY HAS RETURNER INDICTMENTS BUT OASES WIMa. COME UP NEXT TERM- (Special to The Times.)"" COQUILLE, Ore., Dec. IS. Sto nes Rose and Joe Williams, tlio two young men who, with: Klnnicut, -wests charged with assault upon. Milan Endlcott, tho daughter of a Mxs&ia Point blacksmith, are guilty andrTvOJ be sentenced this evening. Rose was tried yesterday and tho jury returned a verdict last night. fifteen minutes after retiring from tho court room, finding him sulUy - morning, the Williams case wo to bo taken up for trial, but the de fendant ended the master by plead ing guilty. Rose was charged wills assault and Williams with attenipteci assault. The sentence will be passeO this evening. ' About Finished. A divorce case was being heard Its court th's afternoon but all the buaS ness is about finished and Judg Hamilton will likely adjourn tonfgM: for tho term. Tho grand jury "ass returned some Indictments but tnep" are cases which will not be takeaa up for trlnl until the next tenn court. WATER PIPES ARE FR0ZE1 Cold Weather Season On Coos Bay Reaches Its Annual . Limit. The water pipes had their annua3 freeze up last night and this morn ing many a housewife turned on tbet water In her kitchen only to HbSI that there was nothing doing. Such a thing as a frozen warSw pipe on Coos Bay starts up or cry o3 distress such as would bo caneetl by ten feet of snow and a tvrenlu degrees drop of tho mercury fa sa less mild climate. For a pipe tea freeze here Is supposed to bo & limit of severe winter and it cam last night. As a matter of fact tho water sys toms In all houses aro not arranges with an Idea of any very cold wezdl er and neither need they be, but gen erally about one night In tho yeasr It will bo cold enough to causa a Hfr tlo freeze up. No great damagq was done niileaa someone trlde to thaw out tho irfpesa with hot water without turning tlit faucet and caused an expansion ao3? breaking of the pipe. Tho frcezfufS of tho pipes never moro rtnrt r,tosss an hour or two of Inconvenlpnc? nod tho annual ovent Is regarded nt sc good reminder of tho app-v-ftiatfaix due tho very pleasant weatlif.r Joyed throughout tho rest "f 1r wlnten SENTENCE GRAFTERS, Two Years and $M0 FJno For Peine- fjjlvania Mrii. fRv AKPorlntfd Press ) HARRISBURG, Pa., Dec. IS. Two yoara Imprisonment and n fino of $500 was the sentence motcd our today by Judgo Kunkol to oacn off tho four men convicted of defrmie? Ing in connection with fiirnfahins tho Capitol building in this crtsc Thoro will be an appeal, w no of ttta defendants is John II. Snndorsanr, s Phliadolnhlii contractor for Simf- turo. Stumor HREAirWATEK snTSa from Coos Ray for Portland SAT UlilDii. DECEMBER 10, at T a?3i. i m Hi I I V 1 Fv
