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(toa lag SJ jSffilWB turns "I " l"! rET ,r WHILE T IS NEW nV GKl ' . rrurc HOOSJiAY TIMBB. STIMULATE YOUR I1US1XESS Hi' GOOD SYSTEMATIC ADVKRTIfi IXC. SUCCESSFUL HUS1XEBS HOUSES DO SO. SSJi'ASl TJ.LUGRAP.HIC NimS C0.VC181 "" MEMBER OP ASSOCIATED PRESS VfJL. Ill pffilH now trying ID CORNER SV.US MAT (CHAIN TCQ .DATS .AXI buts futures jhiavily jx CHICAGO nix. JIWCVS ARE STILL OX UPWAKD THEX1) LjlAY CLOSES AT 91JS8 AKI JULY AT iJ.l DESPJT.E HEAVY TItADIXG JX BOTJL (B7 Associated Prc.) CHICAGO, May 4. Bartletf,, Pat- & Co.. at which Bull Leader James A. Patten is a member, were credited today with selling May wheat on a moderate scale but -with piaklng heavy purchases of July. The closing prices were: May. 1.2S; July, Sl-16; September, $1.05 3-4, December, $1-03 7-8. OTHER AV11EAT MATtKETS. (By Associated Preen.) TACOMA, Wash-, May 4. Wheat B unchanged today. (By Associated Prees.) PORTLAND, May 4. Wheat was t unchanged today. WRECK IX MINNESOTA. (Conflicting RiKrts About Accident On Great Northern. (By Associated Presa.) ST PAUL, May 4. A report re ceived here says thai a Westbound Great Northern passenger train was 'in a collision at Delano, Minn., today -and that a dozen passengers were hurt. General Superintendent "Watrous asserts tnat No. 3 passen ger struck a derailed freight. At the railway offices, It Is said that only two or three passengers were slight ly injured. Iowa Senator Scores Chairman of the Senate Committee On Tariff Revision. (By A&aoclated Press.) WASHINGTON, D. C May 4. Attacking the wool and cotton sched ules of the pending tariff bill as con taining deceptive provisions, Increas ing rates of duty on many articles containing but a trifling quantity of ool, Senator Doliver of Iowa, today .delivered one of JJie most notable ssneeches piesented in the Senate since the revision of the tariff has been under consideration. A con siderable portion of his remarks uw addressed direetly to Senator Aldrlch, chairman of the Senate Committee on Tariff revision. METHODIST CONFERENCES. College HMiops Fles Dates Tbr the Xorthwest. (Uy Associated Press.) NASHVILLE, Tenn., May . The College of Bishops of the Methodist Kplbcopal church today made its ap I'ointniont of Bishops to preside over the various conferences. Among them are: Bishop Atkins, Montana, conference nt Boseman, Mont., Sep tember &; East of the Columbia con ference at Spokane, Wash,, Septem ber 1C; Columbia, conference at Jiedford, Ore., September 23. CAIH) OF TIIAXKS. The relatives of tho lata Mrs. Hobert D. Hazen wish to thank the Jany friends and tho Coos Bay Olrc'e of the Women of Woodcraft Iw their kindness and hympathy dur ing her Uineas and their bereavement DOLLIVER OQES AFTER ALDRiCH WHEAT HR JUL! COUNTY BALL MEETING SOON Will Try and Reorganize Coos County Baseball League For 1909. At a meeting of tho Marshfleld baseball faus at the Blaneo last evening. It was decided to call a con ference of representatives of the various towns in the county with a view of reorganizing the Coos Coun ty Baseball "League for the coming season, A. F. Burkhart being elect ed manager of the Marshfleld team and the representative of this city to the conference. It Is likely that the conference will be held within a weelc or so. Charles Baxter of Co quille, has given assurance that Co quille will be In sure and Fred John son has announced that North Bend will be ready. There is some ques tion as to whether Bandon will be in it again this season, R. E. L. Bedllllon not desiring to assume the management again and no one there being able to take his place. Myr tle Point Is talking of organizing but of course nothing definite can he done until the county session is held. North Bend so far has assembled a better home talent team than any of the towns, unless It is Coquille. Several of last year's players aie still in Coquille and Harry Gardiner, Coqui le's star pitcher of a year ago, Is expected back there soon. Sunday, North Bene had Its team out for practice. Burkhart expected to have tho Marshfleld candidates out ii) there but owing to a misun derstanding only four of them show ed up. However, those four were re cruited and a practise game played. McFnrland who was imported as a pitcher for North Bend the littr part of last season is still a resident there and Is ready to pitch again. In a rather one sided game on the Eastside grounds Sunday, the -East-side team defeased Cooston by a score of fourteen to three. Eastside outplayed the visitors at all stages of the game. Mrs. C. B. Marsters Suddenly Succumbs at Her Home In the Valley. (Special to The Times.) MYRTLE POINT, Ore., May 4. Mrs. C. B. Marsters, a well-known pioneer of this section, died sudden ly at their ranch home Friday after noon. She appeared well and hearty at noon, eating dinner as usual. Soon afterwardG, she was taken 111 and passed away at 3 oclock. The funeral was held from tho church which Is located on the Mars ters ranch and burial was in tho cemetery there. She Is survived by ten children, twenty-four grand-children and seven great-grand-childron. She was seventy years old " REFORMS IX PERSIA. Engluud anil Hns.i Arrange Terms For Shall. (By Associated Proee.) ST. PETERSBURG, May 4. Dls- natchos from Teheran say the Shah of Persia has accepted the project for reforms, advunced by Great Britain and Russia. The two powers have made arrangements to grant a loan to Persia as soon as the date of the elections shall have been de cided on. MYRTLE POUT MARSHFIELD, OREGON, TUESDAY, NO ONE ASKS HUMORS OF PEOPLE DESIRING TO ADOPT OUTCAST HAIIY FAIL TO OFFICIALLY- J1ATEHIAL 1ZK. Despite the numerous unofficial juiquests mad of Judge John F. Hall concerning tiie baby found at the Charles Hunter home in the West Marshfleld lnt week, no offi cial requests for tlu adoption of the boy have been made of him. When he went to Coquille yesterday to hold the monthly session of the county court, it was with the ex pectancy of receiving several re quests but when he got there, he didn't find a one While Sheriff Gage and Prosecut ing Attorney Liljeqvist have not made any formal announcement, it is understood that they will take steps to prosecute the parents of the More Than 35,000 More Homeless Refugees As Re sult of Massacres. ( By Associated Press ) ADANA, May 3, via Larnaca, Cy prus, May 4. Adana is still lawless. More people were killed yesterday. There are 30,000 dead in Adana province as a result of the mas sacres and 35,000 are homeless and penniless refugees, lTAKMEIt IS SHOT BY OWX TRAP. BALTIMORE, May 4. Tho vic tim of his own trap, Clarence Brooks, a farmer, is wishing he had never tried to take revenge ' on chicken thieves. Brooks rigged up a gun, loaded It with coarse sand, and so arranged a string attached to the trlggoi that the slightest touch would fire it. The trap was set for two" weeks, but no chicken thieves appeared. The other night Brooks, having forgotten about the thieves, went to the hennery for so.r;e eggs. He made his way to the nests, gathered the eggs and was about to leave when the gun went off The charge of sand entered the small of his back, inflicting a dan gerous wrund. POLICE T Such Is Forecast Made at National Peace Congress In Chicago. (By Associated Press.) CHICAGO, May 4. "Tho world surely will see during this century an international police but rival navies and arnitej are doomed. These monstrous anachronisms of civilization must bo turned into bone fjcent messengers of commerce." Tins is the declaration of Mrs. Lucia Ames Mead of Boston, in address at the woman'a e33tcns of the National Peace Congress hero today. Marcus M. Marks, president of the NationnI Association of Clothiers of New York, called upon tho merchants to finance the peace movemonts and pointed out the absurdity of "settling International difficulties by mutual annihilation." Other speakers were Professor Win. I. Hull of Swarth more and Jas. Brown Suott, solicitor of the Stata De-pa: tment at Washing ton, D. C. A college president In Wisconsin , has given up a salary of $4,000 a year to take charge of as Irrigated tract In Idaho. The once neglected ?r'd ''s'on now considers itself th 'and i f I' n . 30,000 DEAD IN ADANA NOW IKE MAY 4, 1909 EVENING EDJTION- FOR LITTLE WAIF boy on tho criminal charge of deser tion, if they can be found. With the identity of the mother practically established, It is not believed that It will be difficult to locate her. Judge Hall says that he cannot Jtako .any action in the matter until Jt is officially brought before him. George Tribbey whose wife is so kindly caring for the waif, asked Judge Hall this morning what should be done and was told that If they wanted to keep the boy they could or If they knew of any one who wanted to take him, they could turn the child over to them and then the foster parents could legally adopt the little fellow. Mr. Tribbey said that one woman had requested that she be given the child. A couple of nights ago, some wag left a small kitten on the doorstep of the Hunter home In a basket. SEND EXPERT TO THEJALLEY Special Government Engineer to Investigate Coquille's Claim For Dredge Oregon. (Special to The Times.) MYRTLE POINT, Ore., May 4. After the committee which was sent by the Coquille Chamber of Com merce to interview Major Mclndoe in regard to 'improving tho channel in the Coquille river returned with out 'much encouragement, Mr. Dodge who vias one of the committee wote to Congressman Hawley ex plaining the situation. In answer to his letter he has re ceived the following telegram: "Honorable Orvll Dodge, Myrtlo Point, Ore.: Have urged engineers to use dredge Oregon in opening Co quille river, engineers from hero leave for west Monday and will look Into the matter, think we can get use of dredge, If engineers be shown commerce requires it. Present full showing. (Signed) W. C. HAWLEY" WOMEN WORST TOPERS. Those la Society Won't Reform, Says Scientist. ( WASHINGTON, May 4. Society' women who are addicted to an Im moderate use of intoxicants, nre less susceptible than men to treatment bv hypno-suggestion, according ' to tho view expressed by Dr. J. J). Qunckcnbos, of New York City." They do not wish to be cured in most instances, he asserted, .and are prompted to Indulge to ' excess too frequently by tho added sense of pleasure they, feel In the flattery of their admirers, His statement that ho had per manently cured more than 800 pa tients by tho method of hypno-suggestion, after the sujects have be come asleep through the use of a drug, aroused vigorous protests from several prominent scientists, who openly challenged its accuracy. THEOLOGS WANT A CORNER OX PREACH IXG PITTSBURG, Pa., May 4. Stud ents in the Western Theological seminary of Pittsburg have corner ed tho "extra preaching" business of the Pittsburg Presbytery of tho Presbyterian church, according to Information brought out at a meet ing of tho presbytery. It is allogod by minlstors that In stead of extra Sundays of preaching, with Its attendant monoy coming to ministers without chargos, tho stu dents are getting It, having threat ened to boycott the Presbyterian book-rooms of Pittsburg. which places the extja ministers, unlets they, tho students, were given all the extra preaohlng Wholesale ex pulsions from the semiuarles are threatened. "i..STSIDr" it a winner. COURT TURNS M CHRISTENS BOAT "THE POWERS J Superintendent A. Mereen Surprises A. H. Powers In Naming New Tug. "Powers" Is the namo that the now stern wheel tow boat that has just been completed for the Smith- Powers Logging Company and which will soon be started into service tow ing rafts of logs for the C. A. Smith mill. The boat passed the inspection yesterday and today is being prepar ed for service. The craft was named by General Superintendent A. Mereen of the C.'A. Smith mill, and the first Intimation that A. H. Pow ers, In whose name the craft was christened, had that he was to be so honored was when the machinery arrived from Frisco with the name "Powers" stamped on it. But if the boat keeps up to its name and gives the service that the man whose name she bears does, she will make the other crafts on the Bay "go some." Ferry Is Launched. Saturday noon, the 280-foot car ferry that is being constructed for the Western Pacific, was launched at the Kruse & Banks Shipyards In North Bend. There were no ..cere monies, the work being done on a rush order. The ferry Is one of tho largest ever seen here, having three tracks that will accommodate fifteen large freight cars. It has a forty- foot beam, is 2S0 feet long and twelve feet in depth, costing $30,000 Another ferry, a duplicate of tho present one, is to be built just as soon as this one is completed. The second one will be launched early In June, probably Both will be used on San Francisco Bay. Get New Launch. . Masters Brothers will shortly re ceive their new launch from the Holland shipyards: hero, the craft being nearly ready for service. Sho will he one of the best in service on the Bay. Local Supply Exhausted and Record Breaking Price Possible. Coos county is facing a potato famine, according to local dealers, and the price of tubers will soon be higher than bread has been since Patten's wheat corner fo'ced up flour. There are practically no old potatoes obtainable and local deal ers are offering as high as two cents per pound, Tho shortage I- not confined to Coos county, In fact this Is one of the last sections of tho coast to feel It. For some time past, local ranchers who stored their last year crop have beon shipping them to tho San Fran cisco market. According to advlcos DeMorro of tho steamship M. F. DoMorro o ftho steamship M. F. Plant, old potatoes aro now selling readily at ?2.40 in 'Frisco. There are some new potatoes on the market, but it will bo sometime before they will be plontlful and the quality as desirable as tho 1908 crop. Meanwhile, the prices will soar, possibly to a record-breaking mark. LOWXEY'S famous chocolate and Johnson's Dutch Blttersweets at tho RED CROSS. POTATOES ARE SCARCE HERE No. 252. W P TO CITIZENSHIP FEDERAL JUDGE RULES THAT NAVAL SERVICE DOES XOT GRAXT HIM PRIVILEGE. FAR-REACH IXG OPIXIOX GIVEN IX NORFOLK, VA. .MIKADO'S SUBJECT XOW CHIEF STEWARD OX WAR VESSEL WILL APPEAL CASE. fBy Associated Press.) NORFOLK, Va.. May 4. Federal Judge Edmond Waddili, Jr., of the United States Court of the Eastern District of Virginia, in an applica tion for the naturalization of Namyo Bessho, a Jap "chief steward" in tho United States navy, denied the peti tion holding that under the federal statute no Jap or alien except of white blood or of African descent cr nativity can become an American citizen, even though he be in the ser vice of the United States navy or marine corps. Bessho claimed the right of naturalisation under an act of Congress July 20, 1894, giving aliens of the age of 21 years and upward who had served honorably In tho navy or marine corps the right to citizenship. Judge Wad dill ruled that the act of 1894 should not repeal by Implication the statute of 1875 and that there are no direct terms of appeal Bes3ho is prepar ing an appeal. RORA1I SPEAKS TODAY. Idaho Senator Urges Ciuisu of In come Tav. (By Associated Pixjss.i WASHINGTON, D. C, May 4. Senator Borah of Idaho, today took tho floor to conc'ude his speech in tho Senate In favor of the income tax amendment to the pending tariff' bill. Two Firemen Badly Injured and Forty Guests Have -Narrow Escape. (By Associated Pross.) OAKLAND, Cal. May 4. Two firemen, John J. O'Brien and Georgo S. Sturm were seriously Injured in a fire that destroyed tho Overland lodging house shortly after midnight. The men were burled under tho fall ing walls. Forty inmates narrowly escaped death, many jumping from windows. HELD OX 1XDICTMENT. Mr. Anesslino of Denver Hill, Fur nishes Bond. COQUILLE, Ore., May 4. Mr. Anesslmo of Beaver Hill, was ar rested yesterday on an Indictment charging him with selling liquor without a license. He furnished $400 bond to appear for trial ut the next session of circuit court. There aro several other Indict ments roturned by tho lust grand jury on which arrests will soon he made. TO TAX PARSONAGES. CHICAGO, Mav 4. Tho church parsonage stripped In the oyes of the law of Its traditional sanctity Is slatod for taxation this year. This odlct, which will mean to Cook county an added revenue ap proxlina'ing svral hundred thou sand dol'n's tins none forth fmm tho county attorney's office. It follows a recent decision of Uio supreme court which holds a clerrv nia,nV home to he jus1 us laxable ns a m.lk d pi-t or a factory. HOTEL FIRE IN OAKLAND ; '