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MARSHFIELD, OREGON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1909 EVENING EDITION EIGHT PAGES A conso"tion Tof T,1,cs' Coast MaU No. 117.
nnd Coos Bay Advertiser. ""
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COOS COUNTY IFJ LOST ON
ME
Capt. Levi Snyder of Coquille,
and Henry Wickman of
Empire.
FOURTEEN OTHERS
STILL MISSING
Little Steamer Wrecked Last
Night Oshkosh Saves
Several.
(,By Associated Press.)
TILLAMOOK, Ore., Nov. 27. The
death toll of little steamer Argo,
which was stranded off Tillamook
Bay late yesterday, Is undoubtedly
fourteen Instead of the three deaths
recorded last night. The news to
day Is that a lifeboat containing Cap
tain Snyder and ten others has been
lost. Another lifeboat containing
Mate Johnson and nine others was
saved by the Schooner Oshkosh
which put to sea last night from As
toria to locate the stranded Argo
and render her assistance.
The three persons drowned last
night were Mrs. N. A. Oldig, Nellie
Hunter, a young girl, and Henry
Wickman, a member of the life-saving
crew from the Garibaldi Beach
station. Nellie Hunter was the ch'ild
of George Hunter of Napa, Cal.
The Argo showed indications of
turning turtle last night, and Captain
Smyder ordered all on board to take
to the boats. Mate Johnson com
manded one boat and Captain Snyder
commanded another. The two boats
became separated in the mist and
rough seas.
Johnson's boat cruised around and
was picked up by the Oskosh which
was beating up and down the coast in
the vicinity of Tillamook in an ef
fort to locate the disabled Argo.
It is believed that Captain Snyder
tried to make shore in his boat and
that In the effort his boat was over
turned as no signs of it was seen
today though the Oshkosh patrolled
the coast all night in the search. The
last seen of Captain Snyder's life boat
was when he and the crew began to
pull toward shore. A gale was
blowing and a terrific sea was run
ning making navigation of the boat
most hazardous. .
The known dead are:
Nellie Hunter, aged 6, a passen
ger. Mrs. T. A. Holdredge of Portland,
a passenger.
Henry Wickman, a member of
the life-saving crew.
The rescued are:
Mate J. A. Johnson.
L, A, Holdredge of Portland, a
passenger.
Howard Wolfe.
A E. Millard.
E. Salmonson.
Two Scandinavian members of
the ciew.
The missing are:
Captain Levi Snyder.
Chief Engineer J. H. Snyder.
Purser W. A. Stimpson of Eure
ka, Cal.
A. Mecklinberg, a sailor.
Craves, steward.
Thomas Russell, assistant engin
eer. Tony Delbort, a passenger.
An unnamed passenger who
boarded the Argo at Astoria.
Twu unnamed members of the
crew.
XLVER MIND the wet weather.
Lund's shoes will keep your FEET
DIIV or if you have old shoes that
teak he can repair them. Don't
'"get Lund's AVATERPROOF OIL
applied to your shoes keeps tho wet
out. He makes it himself and guar
antees it. Also waterproof rain
cats that are warranted to keep the
water out. O. O. LUND,
"ROADWAY SOUTH.
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REMEMBER the ONE-HALF RE
ACTION SALE still on MRS. J. II.
6MERS, designer, Coos Building.
CLAUSEN'S shoes CURE COLD
FEET. Try a pair.
0 AT TILLAMOOK
WELL KNOWN
Capt. Levi Snyder, Coquille
Pioneer, and Wickman
Prominent Here.
The news of the Argo disaster
will como as a shock to Coos county
friends of some of the victims of
the disaster, Captain Levi Snyder,
for years a Coquille river navigator,
and Henry Wickman being well
known here.
Mr. Snyder moved to the Colum
bia less than a year ago to assume
command of the Argo. It Is under
stood that Chief Engineer Snyder
was a relative of his.
Henry Wickman was about twen
ty-three years old and was born and
raised on the Bay. His mother and
sisters reside in Empire. Andrew
Wickman, a brother, is clerk In the
Southern Oregon Company's store.
Mrs. Wm. Magee, wife of the young
er master of the tug Astoria, Is a
sister to the deceased. Mrs. Jay
Montgomery of Marshfleld, is a
cousin. Ho had seen service on the
life-saving station here and just
prior to his departure for, Tillamook
had been employed In tho North
Bend stables for quite a while.
FISH HATCHERY
IS THRE
Freshet Changed Current In
South Fork So That It Is
Cutting Bank Away.
According to reports received here
this morning, tho fish hatchery on
the South Fork is being undermined
by the freshet sothatitlsln imminent
danger of toppling over into the
stream. Superintendent Smith sent
down today for workmen to help
save the structure and its contents.
The hatchery Is located on a soft
clay bank and the freshet turned the
current so that It continues to cut
away the bank even though it is now
far below high water mark.
Part of the bank under the outer
edge of the building has fallen in and
the only hope of saving it Is to Tip
rap the bank with stone-and logs
until the channel swings back to its
old place.
Petition" Filed With United
States Supreme Court
This Afternoon.
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, D. C, Nov. 27.
In behalf of Gompers, Mitchell and
Morrison, the labor leaders, a peti
tion was filed In the Supreme Court
of the United States today or a writ
of certiorari requiring tho court of
appeals of the District of Columbia
to certify to the nation's greatest
tribunal for revision and determina
tion of the appeal taken by them in
tho famous Buck Stovo and Range
case. The petition stated "The ques
tions involved in the case are of
great public importance affecting the
views and conduct of many millions
of people including the two million
that are by representation, mado the
defendants in the principal action."
ON COOS 6
LABOR CASE
IS APPEALED
Let Us Think It Over
i
GNORANCE IS AT THE foundation
the world. I was going to wrlto
but when men are educated they
the first step to enlightenment and advancement. Do not let others do
your thinking, but think for yourselves.
Ever since the writer has had control of the Coos Bay Times he has
striven sincerely and earnestly to conduct it for the communal good. In
so far as I have failed it has been the fault of inability and not Intent.
I have made It one continued essay on (the evils of discord and knocking
until I fear you are all wearied with reading it. Sometimes I grow a
bit weary myself and discouraged too. Yet when I meet you individual
ly and talk with you, I find a general concurrence in the views, but eve
ry one places the blame on the ''other fellow."
Only yesterday as I was walking up Front street, I met my friend, W.
P. Murphy and he hailed me with "We wanted to conduct a clean cam
paign but they have commenced "
I stopped him there and said "Don't tell me, Murf, for heavens sake, I
am tired of the eternal fighting. Do you know, Murphy, If the, people of
Coos Bay would quit fighting and devote the energy and enthusiasm that
is expended that way into other channels, they could build the electric
road and the steam road and make one of the great cities of the coast
on this Bay. If every knock on. Coos Bay was only a knock on the head
of a railroad spike It would build a road clear across the continent."
"That's right," Murphy agreed with me. "Put it that way in the pa
per. There s lots of us like to read
That set me to thinking and now
is to be a Saturday night sermon. I am printing it Saturday night be
cause I want you to read it, and I must cdmlt it is a trifle long but
don't blame me, blame Murphy the "other fellow" again. If you
haven't time to read it tonight read it' Sunday. I think you will find
It worth while. If it seems to get away from the subject don't get dis
couraged. Il will come back again and I want to set you to
thinking. This sermon contains a moral for not only every man in Marsh
field but every man on Coos E o and the moral is one that Is applicable
right now. Think It over.
Many years ago In a corta n town of the Middle West two men were
competing with each other in the same industry and with neighboring of
fices on the same street. They were friendly enough personally and all
that, but neither, on account of the other, was making any money. Like
two farmers in a line-fence row, each was spending large sums in harass
ing the other.
Now these men were too eminently wise In their own affairs; they saw
the fallacy of feudalism, and one day
bank and gave birth to a great idea and a great business.
One of these men was H. B. Payne and the other John D. Rockefeller.
The name of the Infant was Standard Oil.
In its youth and manhood Standard Oil has taught us some principles
of economy in the supply of necessaries to a great and growing popula
tion no matter who owns it or who gets the profits.
If it did nothing more than teach vus to get together, why it Is worth
all it cost. ,
These men sowed a seed; for since
bank hundreds of competitors in nearly every industry have gotten to
gether and QUIT FIGHTING.
Now if the cessation of hostilities
ual business, why will it not be just as profitable for all the elements
of a community to get together and QUIT FIGHTING.
If it has worked so well by a few individuals of a class, why will not
an enlargement of the idea apply to the mass?
It Is just exactly what has been started, and what will bo 'done all
over this country.
Instead of it being in a bank it was In the stern of a little Unitarian
church In Kansas City. The meeting wasn't large; neither was the meet
ing In the back of the bank. '
It was small ,but it consisted of the diverse elements of tho commu
nity the people who had "been fighting several politicians, some preach
ers of different religious brands, a labor leader, some worklngmen, a few
large employers In the way of manufacturers, and merchants and no
gathering of diverse elements is complete without a lawyer or two.
All Ideas are old they are simply new in application.
The man who applied It was Charles Ferguson.
The first thing in the order of the meeting was, "Let's get together
QUIT FIGHTING" just as it was the first order of Rockefeller and
H. B. Payne. Yes, and tho purpose' was the same economy. They got
together first and took up the details of economy afterwards as the
diverse elements of Kansas City did.
Just an enlargement of the Rockefeller-Payne idea; for Instead of get
ting together for themselves they got together for tho good of tho com
munity not the good to the greatest number and bad to some, but the
good of all.
' It isn't economical to fight Rockefeller and Payne didn't find it so, and
what Is true In the case of an individual Is true in the case of a commu
nity. If a people only realize it, they can use tho fighting energy for pro
gress and development.
Instead of the people of Kansas City forming a Standard Oil, they
formed a Municipal University an organization for using the fighting
energy for progress and development.
Municipal University isn't a very good name for so democratic an or
ganization, for when you mention the word "university" to a low-brow
he pictures a large brick building In the middle of a lawn thick with for
est trees, and an attenuated individual standing in the doorway, with a
long black gown, architect whiskers, and cap like a plasterer's mortar
board.
The masses do not understand that
tion, a society or guild.
The man on the street doesn't understand any language but his own.
But the name will have to stand tin a better ono is found. In tho mean
time the organization is a power for
municipal election, found tho successful candidate and tho defeated can
didate, as a committee of the Municipal University, seated at tho same
table in a room working on a new cjty charter to present to the legisla
ture.
Those eminent In the movement realize that conditions cannot bo
made Ideal In a day; that an approach Is mado only by a gradual and
elevating scale, and they are doing their work by a process of informing
rather than reforming.
Therefore It Is the purpose of this
thought of the best minds on all matters
be solved economically for all the people.
Tho Municipal University is bringing all tho high-minded ones to
gether of all classes they are freeing themselves from the mob by in
forming tho mob in their Ideals.
It Is all a process to bring respectability' to a higher standard; for It
used to be that a man could be honest In his family relations, honest in
his business relations to the extent of paying what he promised. He could
of all the misery and meanness in
it 'ignorance and thoughtlessness,
think and when men think, it is
it.
I want to set you to thinking. This
they got together In the stern of a
the meeting In the stern of, that
Is profitable in the case of individ
a untversity may mean an associa
good; for tho other day, after a
organization to obtain tho best
of public Interest that they may
POSTAL SAVINGS BANK WILL
HAVE TO GO OVER A YEAR
RUSH REPAIRS -ON
RAILWAY
Expect to Have Train Running
to Coquille By Monday
Other Damage.
Unless something unexpected Inter
feres, tho local railway will have
trains in operation as far as Coquille
Monday. Just when they will be able
to reach Myrtle Point is still uncer
tain. The water has receded so that the
track Is all out in tho clear now. This
morning, tho mall was brought from
Myrtle Point to Coqulllo in a boat
and from there to Beaver Hill Junc
tion in a hand car.
General Manager Mlllls is out su
perintendent a large force of men on
tho road today and the repairs will
bo rushed as rapidly as possible.
Cuts Away Land.
F. B. Rood was down from his
Coos River ranch today. He says
that the principal damage from the
freshet will be the cutting away of
the rich bottom land. Ho says he
has lost three-quarters of his most
valuable low land as a result of the
current cutting away tho bank. He
thinks others have suffered even to
a greater extent than he.
J.C.
EO TODAY
Resident of Coos County Since
1869 Succumbs to Long
Illness.
J.'C. Robinson, a well-known pion
eer of this section, died in Marsh
fleld last evening nfter a long illness
of heart trouble and other ills. His
demise although not unexpected,
will be a shock to bis many friends
and acquaintances in this section
where ho has resided sinco I860. He
was for years located on a ranch near
Allegany.
Besides his wife, ho Is survived by
several childron. They aro Mrs. Ned
Lawrence of Marshflold, Will Robin
son of Marshfleld, Mrs. Hattie Blge
low of Wenatchee, Wash.; Mrs. Lulu
Turpln of Portland, two step-daughters,
Mrs. Tom Holland of Marshflold,
and Mrs. P. Peterson of Hoqufnm,
Wash. A son, Cassius, was killed in
a logging camp accident threo years
ago.
Tho funeral will bo held Sunday
afternoon at 2 o'clock from tho Wil
son Undertaking parlors.
JUST ARRIVED from New York
FINEST LINE of BABY OAIS and
BONNETS ever shpwn on tho Bay.
Prices 25c to $2.50. Sco windows.
Mrs. JOHN II. SOMERS, Designer,
Coos Building.
M'HEAT $1.00 at HAINES.
OBNSON
go to church on Sunday and then walk Into a director's mooting and vote
a corruption fund all this, and still bo respectable.
Corruption Is ceasing simply because it is being derespectablllzed by
publicity tho effort of such organization as tho Muulclpal University.
It Is tho processes of economy applied to a community tho samo as Rock
efeller and Payno applied them after- they got together and resolved to
QUIT FIGHTING.
It is all a process whero dollars will not bo so expenslvo for all tho
rich and tho poor. I
A great city Is nothing more than a great business.
Industry, comtnerco, politics, religion and tho various social classes
and castes aro nothing raoro than tho departments of that business.
Tho departments of a great business do not fight.
It Is a part of tho general manager's business to keep thom working In
harmony for the Interest of tho business.
Business is simply a system for tho economical expenditure of time,
money and efforts
A city Is simply a business of civilization, and civilization Is simply be
ing civil It is not feudalism.
Think It over.
Monetary Commission's Fail
ure to Report Given As
Cause.
TAFT TO URGE
IT IN MESSAGE
President, However, Said to
Be Agreeable to Wait For
New Legislation.
(By Associated Pres3.)
AVASHINGTON, D. C, Nov. 27.
Recent conferences at tho White
House havo pretty definitely devel
oped facts In connection with the
program of the administration In
tho coming congress. The first is
that there is no probability of the
monetary commission's report being
presented or considered; second that
legislation looking toward the es
tablishment of a system of postal
savings banks will have to wait
until tho monetary commission's re
port Is made and a new currency law
enacted. President Taft may re
commend postal savings banks In his
message but it is understood ihat
he agreed to a postponement of its
consideration until next year.
SAILS TODAY
.Steamship Leaves For Rose
City With Good Cargo of
Freight.
The Breakwater sailed today for
Portland with a good cargo of mis
cellaneous freight, including a big
shipment of Beaver Hill coal. The
outgoing passenger list was unusual
ly light.
Among those sailing on the Break
water were the following:
A. Ames, Mrs. Ames, A. Adelsper
ger, E. R. Elllngson, W. C. Pasley,
H. B. Hlckey, Miss F. Jones, Miss C.
Moore, Geo, Weaverson, J. Madlgan,
B. R. Keller, W. M. Weaver, H. M.
Esplng, L. R. Woodward, F. W.
Murphy, II E. Smith, S. Henderson,.
E. Doran, II. A. Ford, J. C. Savage,
Capt. A. M. Simpson, G. Welsch, G.
Vlados, J. Geroges, A. Jones. '
CONFERENCE IS HELD.
United Slates Attorneys Discuss
.Standard Oil Case.
(By Associated Press.!
WASHINGTON, D. C, Nov. 27.
A conference over tho recent Stand
ard Oil dissolution decision was held
In tho Department of Justlco today
between Attorney General Wickers
ham and Frank B, Kellogg, special
attorney of the government in tho
prosecution of tho Standard Oil
trust.
BREAKWATER
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