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MARSHFIELD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7, 1909 EVENING EDITION -SIX PAGES.
No. 229.
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TEN REPORTED KILLED IN CI
WIND STORM IN MISSISSIPPI
Northern Part of State Swept
By Tornado Early
Today.
INDIANA AND OHIO
ARE ALSO DAMAGED
Two Towns Sustain Heavy
Losses and Have Many
Injured.
(By Associated Press..)
MEMPHIS, Term., April 7. Ton
are reported to have been killed in a
storm that swept Northern MIssCVl
last night. The tornado swept a
wide area and dld great damage to
crops. Few details are procurable,
the telephone and telegraph lines be
ing down through that section.
(By Associated Preaa.)
WABASH, Ind , April 7. A tor
nado last night did thousands of
dollars damage and injured a score
of persons. Dozens of houses in the
northeast section were demolished.
Mrs. James Hayes was fatally burned
in a Are which destroyed her home.
Four of her children were also seri
ously hurt.
DAMAGE AT TOLEDO.
Many People Injured But No One
killed There.
(By Associated Press.)
TOLEDO, Ohio, April 7. A tor
nado which visited Toledo and vicin
ity today did considerable damage.
Many persons were slightly injured.
The roof of the plant of the Massllon
Bridge Company, 1S0X44O feet, was
ripped off and hurled into a Held.
Three hundred men were thrown out
of employment.
Indian Woman In Ontario Cuts
Strips From Body For
Starving Ones.
(By Assoclatod Press.)
PORT ARTHUR, Ont., April 7.
Wm. McKlrdy confirms the story that
an Indian woman living north of here
cut her flesh from her body in an
effort to procure food for her chil
dren when they were starving, the
la,st scrap of food having been eaten
days before, and there was no game
though the woman had hunted until
her strength had gone. In this piti
able condition, she secured a knife
and cut a strip of flesh from her body
and used it to bait a hook and
caught some fish and thus sustained
life until help arrived.
QUEEN CRUSADES
AGAINST CORSET
BUCHAREST, April 7. "Carmen
Sylva " tho Queen of Roumanla, has
initiated a crusade against corsets by
issuing a manifesto to the women
and girls of Europe-appealing to
them to boycott this injurious article
of dress.
The queen appeals to women's
vanity and common sense. She
points out that the corset disfigures
their tidtural beauty, beside inflicting
serious injury to their health. She
asks mothers to instill in their
daughters a profound dislike o'f tho
corset.
"Cabmen Sylva's" manifesto will
be widely circulated In a dozen dif
ferent languages.
The modern ccrset is supposed to
have been invented by the queen
of Charles VI of Franco towards tho
end of the fourteenth century.
unstu UnDlO
WITH OH FLESH
I CATCHING
INLET PROJECT
County Commissioners Give A
Dollar for Every Dollar Rais
ed By the Residents.
At a conference in Coqullle yes
terday between the Coos county com
missioners and Captain W. C. Harris
of Sumner, It was arranged that the
county will give toward the cost of
Improving Catching Inlet a dollar
for every dollar that the property
owners of Sumner and that section
can raise by private subscription.
Captain Harris has assurances of
about $2,000 being contributed so
the county will have to give about
$2,000 towards the project and this
amount, It is believed, will dredge
Catching Inlet from Sumner to the
Bay and make It navigable at all
stages of the tide for launches ply
ing on it.
Sometime ago, the residents of
Catching Inlet and Sumner organiz
ed and leased the Simpson dredge
and started the improvement. All
of the Inlet from Sumner to tho Bay
was declared by the commissioners
to be a public highway. Already
much work has been accomplished
on the project and when It Is com
pleted, It will be one of the greatest
improvements that has been made on
any of the Inlets of Coos Bay.
SAILS TWELVE HOURS.
Count Zeppelin Makes Long Trip
With Airship.
fBy Associated Press.)
FR1BDERICHAFEN, April 7.
Count Zeppelin's airship after a suc
cessful flight of twelve hours, sailed
to Wangen and then returned here.
Four Killed and Many Wound
ed In Melee In
Calabria.
(By Associated Press.)
MONTE LEONE, Calabria, April
7. Four were killed ant1 many
wounded in a conflict In this town to
day with the local carblners. Tho
authorities were endeavoring to col
lect the new taxes which are exceed
ingly unpopular. As a protest the
neonlo invaded the city hall, the
carblners were called out and a riot
followed.
RiG LOS ANGELES EIRE.
Zelli'il-uch Paper Company Loses
.$:M),0()0.
(By Associated Press.)
LOS ANGELES, April 7. The
establishment of tho Zollerbach
Paper Company of this city, was
burned today. The loss .Is $300,000.
CHANGE LUMBER DUTY.
t
House Adopts Kowlney Amend
ment.
(By Associated Pro3s.)
WASHINGTON, D. C, April 7.
The House overwhelmingly adopted
the Fcrdney amendment to tho
Payne tariff bill striking out the
provision for the countervailing duty
on lurcbor.
LOWNEY'S famous ohooolates
and Johnson's Dutch Blttorsweets at
the RED CROSS.
50 cents Sl'SPENDEHS for 40
cont9 at Coos Bay Cash Store.
Cracked Corn $2.25 at HAINES'.
IS RIOT IS
FATAL TODAY
a
Venezuela's Former President
Is Not Wanted Any Place
and Ordered to "Move
Away" By Powers.
(By Associated Press.)
FORT DE FRANCE, Martinique,
April 7. Castro vented his rage
against tho British government and
the state department at Washington
when he left the steamer Guadalupe
here today and found that all ports
of the West Indies excepting Fort de
France were barred against him.
Castro's wife continued on tho
steamer to La Guira.
WAS FRIENDLY ACT.
Great Britain Thinks OCnstro Means
Trouble.
(By Associated Prese.)
LONDON, April 7. Great Brit
WHIPPING POST
Magistrate Near Vancouver
Applies Lash to Young Man
Who Confessed Attempted
Assault On Young Girl.
(By Associated Press.)
VANCOUVER. April 7. -- The
whipping post punishment was meted
out for a crime against a young girl
yesterday at Wattsburg. A young
Some Additional Light Thrown
On the Death of Mabbe
Lola Barnes.
A new light adding to tho pathos
of the death of Mabbe Lola Barnes
a: North Bend last Saturday night,
was thrown on the affair at the
meeting 'of tho coroner's juiy, which
Is Investigating the case, at the
Temple- & Wilson parlors last even
ing ,It was through some letters,
that the girl had written to George
Walter Smith imploring and begging
him to return and save her from the
threatened disgraco which she de
clared he wa3 responsible for. The
letters were addressed to him at a
small town in British Columbia and
were returned uropened, Smith's
name and address being scratched
out and the dead girl's name and
address being affixed. The three let
ters reached North Bend yesterday
and were brought by the father of
the dead girl to Coroner Golden.
The last letter, written March 1,
was an especially pitiful one, all tho
anguish of tho broken hearted girl
being poured forth in tho appeal to
Smith to return and marry her. In
tho letter she stated that she could
not bear It much longer. Also that
the medicine she had secured from'
the doctor had not done any good.
Smith is beyond the pale of tho
aw the girl's death having elimin
ated the possibility of prosecuting
him.
Dr. Bartl'e of North Bend, was
also a witness last night but could
throw no light on the case. Ho had
not seen tho girl for a long timo and
ha'd not prescribed for her for some
time.
Owing to tho contents of tho
stomach having been sent to tho
state chemist for analysis, It will, bo
a week or ten days before his analy
sis which will show whether or not
death was duo to poisoning, will be
available. When this is secured, tho
coroner's jury will meet again and
return a vordlct. Several vials of
medicine wore found in tho dead
girl's room and one of thom contain
ed a drug that might, In tho opinion
of Coroner Golden, cause death in
tho manner that she died.
SUSPENDERS tho 25 cents kind
for 16 cents at the Coas Bay Cash
J Store.
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M
GIRL'S LETTERS
ARE RETURNED
WITHOUT A COUNTRY
))
ain's refusal to permit Castro to
land at the Port of Spain was friend
ly act to America and other Inter
ested powers as the belief hero Is
that the dethroned dictator will
probably cause trouble In Venezuela.
FRANCE TO EXPEL HIM.
Cnstro Can't Remain In French Ter
ritory. (By Associated Press.)
PARIS, April 7. The French gov
ernment will also undertake to pre
vent Castro using French territory
as a base of operations against tho
present government of Venezuela.
This undertaking Is In full accord
with tho wishes of Washington gov
ernment. Furthermore, the French
government is considering the ad
visability of expelling Castro from
the Island of Martinique.
CALLED TO USE
man named Anderson confessed to
having attempted to entice a girl
of tender years. Magistrate Watts
gave him tho choice of a Jail sen
tence or the lash and he chose the
lash. He was stripped in the front
yard of the court house where the
magistrate applied tho lash vigorous
ly on his bared back. Every stroke
brought cries for mercy. Later An
derson left the city.
F
BOOSTED CLUB
Commercial Bodies Organize
Coos County Chamber of
Commerce.
At a meeting of tho Coos County
Chambers of Commerce in Coqullle
yesterday, the organization of the
Coos County Chambers of commerce
was effected. The purpose of tho or
ganization is to systematize the
boosting work of all the bodies of
this section so that there will be the
least possible duplication of effort
or expense. Primarily, the organiza
tion was effected for tho purpose of
securing a good exhibit at tho
Alaska-Yukon Exposition In Seattle
this summer.
The delegates present held a con
ference with the Coos county Com
missioners relative to a county ap
propriation to defray part of tho ex
pense of the exhibit. Tho commis
sioners appropriated $1,000 for tho
I purpose, the full amount that thoy
I can use for such purpose in any one
'year. However, as no appropriation
has been mado for such a purpose
Bince 1905,. it is barely possible that
some of the back funds may bo
utilized. Orvil Dodge of Coqullle,
was selected to gather the exhibit
and to take charge of It at Seattle.
The various Chambers of Commerco
and Commercial clubs of tho county
will also prepare a pamphlet for dis
tribution at the fair in which tho
features and advantages of each town
In the county wl'l be outlined. Tho
pamphlet will also be Illustrated. In
I addition to these pamphlets of the
county, pamphlet of each town will
bo distributed.
The following officers of tho Coos
County Chamber of Commerco woro
elected:
President E. D. Sperry of Co
qullle. Vice-presidents Presidents of all
commercial club? and Chambers of
Commerco in Coos county.
Secretary C. E. Kopf of Bandon.
Treasuror-r-L. II, Hazard of Co
qullle. Executivo . Commltteo Stophen
Galller of Bandon, A. T. Morrison of
Coqullle, Henry Songstackon of
Marihfleld, J. O. Stemmlor of Myr
tle Point, and M. G. Cleaver of North
Ilend.
Each town In tho county was re
presented except North Bend, L, J,
1
COUNTY
OFFERS C. W.
AS
PLAN MEETINGS
ON PORT MATTER
Business Men to Address Vot
ers On Port of Coos Bay
Proposition.
Arrangements are being made by
the Marshficld and North Bend
Chambers of Commerce today to
have an active speaking campaign
tho latter part of next week in be
half of the Port of Coos Bay which
will be voted on by tho electors of
this section at a special election to
be held April 19.
Definite plans have not been out
lined yet, but it is proposed to have
all of the prominent men of this sec
tion speak at one or more meetings
on the matter. Tho principal object
of the proposed meetings is to ex
plain every phase of the project to
tho voters so that they will bo able
to vote Intelligently on the question.
L. J. Simpson of North Bend, has
promised to speak at a meeting in
North Bend and a meeting In Marsh
field. An effort will be mnde to
havo A. H. Powers and Goneral
Superintendent A. Mereen of the C.
A. Smith Company speak at some of
the meetings. W. P. Evans, M. G.
Cleaver, II. C. DIers, Judge Guerry,
A. H. Derbyshire and other North
Bend men will also Bpenk. Dr. J.
T. McCormac, win. Grimes, Henry
Sengstncken, I. S Smith, I. S. Kauf
man, J. W. Bennett and a number of
other prominent Marshfleld business
men will also be enlisted, probably.
Copies of tho Port Law with ex
planation and nimap showing tho
proposed district will be printed and
ready for distribution within a few
days.
WHEAT GOES
May Reaches $1.25 3-4 To
day .the Highest In Many
Years.
(By Asoclatd Pres.)
CHICAGO, April 7. On a sensa
tional opening, wheat In tho Board
of Trade touched tho highest point
with ono exception In more than
twenty years. The first sales wero
of May at $1.24 to $1.25, tho lat
ter figure being 3 3-8 cents higher
than on Monday: July opened at
$1.10 and $1.11.
A minute before the close, May
wheat jumped from $1.24 3-4 to
$1.25 3-4. at which it closed.
Wheat closes as followb
May
$1 25 3-4; July.
$1.12; September,
$1.02 7-8.
Other Markets.
(By Associated Press.)
PORTLAND, April 7. Track
wheat prices: Club, $1.12; Blue-
Kern, $1.20 and $1.25; Turkey Red:
$1.15; Red Russian, $1.08; Valloy,
$1.10.
(By Associated Press.)
TACOMA, April 7. Milling IRuo-
stem, $1.18; Club $1.08; Red, $1.04
STILL CLINGS ON.
Mine, Moiljeskn limvly Allvo nt Los
Angeles;
(By Associated, Press.)
LOS ANGELES, April 7,-Mrao.
Modjoska is in a deep stupor and Is
barely nllvo.
Simpson of that city being uiiublo to
attend Marshficld was represented
by Dr. J. T. McCormac, Henry Song
stackon and Win. Grimes.
FULTON
T
MISTER TO CHINA
Former Oregon Senator Tend-
r
ered Position By President
Taft.
ASKS TEN DAYS
TO THINK IT OVER
Means That He Cannot Secure
Federal Judgeship In
This Section.
(By Associated Proea.l
WASHINGTON, D. C, April 7,
President Taft today tendered to for
mer Senator Fulton of Oregon, .tho
post of minister to China to succeed
W. W. Rockhlll. Senator Fulton,
requested ten days to consider
whether or not ho would accept.
Fulton was. a candidate for the
appointment as federal judge in the
Pacific Northwest but there were so
many protests against him that Pres
ident Taft decided he could not give
him the position.
HER HATPIN SAVES PURSE.
BEVERLY, N. J April 7. While
Miss Lottie Cannon was returning
from church to her home, two miles
from this city, she was stopped by
two negroes, who stepped from be
hind a tree and tried to seize .Tier
pocketbook, which she held In her
hands
MIs Cannon did not scream nor
faint, but pulled a pin from 3ier
hat and jabbed htr nearest assailant
in one arm. W'th a howl he leaped,
away and his frightened companion
tied with him. Miss Canoon, un
concerned, walked on and reported
the affair at a nenrby house.
Entire Tariff Schedule On Oils
Now Open For Amend
ment. (By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, D. C, April 7.
In tho House today, Vreoland offered
an amendment striking out tho
countervailing duty on oil and fixing
25 per cent ad valorem. Norrls of
Nebraska, moved a substitute impos
ing one per cent nd valorem. After
Speaker Cannon had been reversed
on deciding a point of order, the
entire petroleum was opened to
amendment,
HALTS WEDDING PLANS TO
TEACH HIM HER XAME
"Vou'II Have to Learn to Spell it,"
Illinois .Miss Tells Fiance, Who
Itroiiulit Bungled License.
FAIRFIELD III., April 7. Hu
miliated because ho had misspelled
tho name of his prospective brJdo,
and too embarrPfsed to go back to
tho Issuing license clerk to havo cor
rection mado, Cal. Payne mailed tho
llconso back to Mount Vernon, 31!.,
and came to this city and bought an
other to pormlt blm to wed Miss Gol-
dlo Oohlor of Bluford, near. Mount
Vornon, and took his flanceo to his
own homo, Keonos, 111., and wa mar
ried.
To County Clerk Phillip at Mount
Vornon, ho ha J given the name of
his flanceo nB Gold'e "O'.ler." When
lie took the document to her dho
noted the ml'. 1"
1 Then It t.if r ' " ' 3 r)thlev
Impressed tinon tho duly sorrowful
leal thM iif'-e-sltv of fmLher ! irpst
IttIon liro the rn .hi grtulijr c f his
prospective flar.Cvt's name.
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