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MARSHFIELD, OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, 1910 EVENING EDITION.
A consolidation of Times, Coast Mail
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No. 162.
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HOTEL MEN WILL MAKE MEAT
Say They Have to Do It to Cur
tail Cost of Living In
United States.
SEE DANGER AHEAD
FOR WORKING CLASS
Declare That They Will Be As
Bad Off As European
Peasants Soon.
- AFTER HEEF TRUST.
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, B. C, Jan.
Proceedings will soon bo in-
stltutcd by the Department of
Justice against the so-called
beef trust with headquarters In
Chicago. A complaint charg-
Ing operations in restraint of
trade has been investigated by
the department. The suit prob-
ably will be brought under the
Sherman anti-trust 'law.
(By Associated Press.!
DENVER, Colo., Jan. 21. Some
thing of a national character is to
be given the recently Inaugurated
meat boycot, according to Sam Dut
ton, president of the Western Hotel
men's executive Association. Tho
projected cutting down of meat con
sumption is to be considered by that
body at a meeting to be held in Chi
cago January 31, when tho associa
tion will be made national. "Unless
something is done to curtail the con
sumption of meat," said Dutton to
day, "the time is coming when tho
poor in this country will be no bet
ter off than the peasants of Europe.
When the people learn they can live
just as well and feel much better and
cut down the household expenses by
eating vegetables, the condition of
the working class will be greatly lm
proved."
FEAR VESSEL
:en LOST
STEAMER WASHTENAW WHICH
WAS FORCED TO GIVE UP TOW
CANNOT HE LOCATED.
!Cj Associated Press.)
PORTLAND, Jan. 21. Marino
men fear for the safety of the steam
er Washtenaw which was forced to
abandon the ship William H. Smith
off the Columbia river, January 17,
and which has not been seen since
sho parted from the Smith. The
Washtenaw was a tank steamer
bound from Puget Sound to San
Francisco. Sho is in tho employ of
the Union Oil Company of San
Francisco. Inquiry of vessels equip
ped with wireless resulted In reports
that she had not been sighted.
NOW NEAR SEATTLE.
Tugs Towing AVilliam H. Smith Into
Pii get Sound.
(By Associated Press.)
SEATTLE, Wash., Jan. 21. A
United Wireless message from Port
Crescent says the dismantled ship,
William H. Smith passed up the
traits this morning in tow of the
tuss Baring and Cudahy, the life
saving ship Snohomish acting as a
convoy. The Smith is reported to be
leaking badly but will make Port
Townsend this afternoon.
WEDS IN SAN FRANCISCO.
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Jan. 21.
A marriage license was issued to
"arry R. Dicftey, 37, Portervllle, and
Anna Giles, 37, Myrtle Point, Ore.,
"lis week.
EATING STRIKE NATIONAL
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Labor Union Men and Women
In Various Cities
Join In.
SLOGAN OF STRIKE!
(By Associated Press.)
BALTIMORE, Md Jan. 21.
Buttons with the inscription
"I don't buy meat, do you?"
appeared on the streets here in
large number today following
the adoption by the local Fed-
oration of Labor of a resolution
calling on L-ibor unionists and
sympathizers to abstain from
eating meat this month.
(By Associated Press.)
PITTSBURG, Jan. 21. A meat
strike has been organized in Greater
Pittsburg. Today hundreds of street
car employes signed pledges to ab
stain from meat for thirty days be
ginning next Tuesday while thou
sands of afflliated members of the
Iron City Trades Council are await
ing the word from their leaders be
fore putting into effect the meat boy
cot resolution adopted by the coun
cil last night. Sharon, Pa., Wheel
ing, W. Va., and Youngstown, Ohio,
have actively joined tho crusado
against high priced meat.
ST. LOUIS JOINS.
Women's Union There to Discuss
Meat Strike.
(By Associated Freoa.l
ST. LOUIS, Jan. 21. The high
cost of living will be discussed to
night at a meeting of the Women's
Trade Union League and It is ex
pected a resolution will be passed
asking the members to abstain from
eating meat. The Central Trades
and Labor Union will act on such,
resolution Sunday.
KANSAS CITY JOINS.
Over 80,000 There Will Quit Eating
Meat There.
(BytAssociated Press.)
KANSAS CITY, Jan. 2;. That
eighty thousand people of Kansas
City, will join the anti-meat eating
crusade during tho next ten days, is
freely predicted by labor leaders to
day. Various organizations are
planning to adopt resolutions favor
ing the anti-meat crusadoj
NEW YORK JOINS IN.
Wants 1,000,000 Housewives to Help
Strike.
(By Associated Press.)
NEW YORK, Jan. 21. New York
todny joined tho country-wide meat
boycot. Scores of laboring men
have agreed not to eat meat. Mrs.
Alitia Comfort Brooks, prominent
in club circles, has como forward
with tho suggestion that a million of
housewives unite to force down the
prices.
(By Associated Press.)
OMAHA, Jan. 21. An anti-meat
eating crusado has been Inaugurated
here.
MYSTERY IN KANSAS CITY.
Col. Swopo nml Relative Dio Under
Peculiar Clicuinstniices.
fBy Associated Press.)
KANSAS CITY, Jan. 21. John
H. Atwood, attorney for the Swope
estate, upon his arrival from Chicago
today, announced there will be no
important developments In the
Swope mystery beforo next week.
Specialists are examining the stom
achs of Col. Swopo and Christian
Swope have not concluded their in
vestigations. ALFALFA meal at HAINES. )
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Let Us Talk It Over
THERE IS AN old tale that telU
London, who met and prepared
began with, "we, the people of England." I was reminded of this
story when I learned that a meeting of tho North Bend Commercial
Club held Wednesday evening at which there were about 16 present,
solemnly resolved that if tho Southern Pacific desired to bridge the bay
they not only be permitted to do so, but that they bo encouraged. I
have not seen a copy of the resolution but if my friend, Col. Brigham
did not begin it with "we, tho people of Coos Bay," he overlooked the
one best bet.
I have only the friendliest feeling for the North Bend Commercial
Club as an organization and the kindliest regards for Its individual
members. I must confess, howeyer, that I am unable to understand tho
mental strabismus from which they suffer when they deliberately take
action of this kind. Coos Bay harbor Is the one great asset of this sec
tion. It is God Almighty's gift not to the North Bend Commercial Club
not td tho Southern Pacific, not to the people of Coos Bay but to the
world. There would be no North Bend, no North Bend Commercial
Club if it were not for the bay and yet the members of the North Bend
Commercial Club would deliberately strangle and choke up with a
bridge that which has made their existence possible. Why, tho man who
kijled the goose that laid the golden egg was a person of Solomon-like
wisdom with the prescience of the ruler of paradise compared with
them. North Bend and all the other cities of this section have grown
and prospered without the Southern Pacific and will continue to grow
and prosper if the whistle of a Southern Pacific engine never awakens tho
echoes of these hills, but prosperity would be but a myth without tho
bay. ,
The specious plea of the promoters of this proposition that tho Willa
mette has been bridged at Portland and tho Columbia has been bridged
Is Idle talk. These are rivers that cannot be got around. Here it re
quires only a little additional expense and some skillful engineering to
overcome any obstacles that the Southern Pacific or any other railway
may encounter in entering Coos Bay. It does not require a technical
knowledge of engineering to know that a pier bridge across Coos Bay
would ruin it as a harbor. The sand formation and the tides which
even now are filling the harbor wherever there is so slight an obstruc
tion as a pile are an indication of what the piers of a massivo bridge
would do. It would require a ha.f-dozen half-million dollar dredges,
and 'a half million dollars appropriation for each one of them each year
to keep an open channel and even then the harbor would be ruined.
The shortsightedness of men is proverbial. What one generation
builds up 'another often tears down and vice versa. There is no ques
tion of the loyalty, patriotism and communal pride of the members of
the North Bend Commercial Club. They are equally interested with eve
ry other resident of C003 Bay in its continued growth and prosperity.
Notwithstanding this for some slight temporary advantage as they may
see it they would lend aid and counsel to a colossal corporation that
would throttle the one great commercial asset of the bay. Tho Times
is not opposed to the Southern Pacific railway. On the contrary, it s
most friendly. It believes in lending them every legitimate aid and en
couragement. It believes that tho attitude of the people should be and
is of the most friendly character. It would be even In favor of granting
them a bonus, right-of-way, terminal grounds and everything within rea
son. But let them como nere as a
and not as- a destructive foice.
The Times would not devote so much time and space to this matter if
it were not so plainly evident that the meeting of tho North Bend
Commercial Club was part of a well laid plan of concerted action by the
Southern Pacific to secure this advantage so detrimental to tho best in
terests of Coos Bay. On the day before the North Bend Commercial
Club met and passed its resolution,
organ and mouthpiece of the Southern Pacific, printed the following ar
ticle headlines and all. Ybu will notice that It has no Coos Bay date
line, but was dictated and possibly written in the Oregon headquarters
of the Southern Pacific. Here is the article:
MARSHFIELD ASKS MEET.
SOUTHERN PACIFIC TO BE RE
QUESTED TO CHANGE SURVEY.
Rumored Resumption of Coos Bay
Iiond Work Leads Citizens to
Take Action.
Anticipating early resumption of
construction work on the Coos Bay
branch of .the Southern Pacific,
Marshfleld residents have asked for
a conference with railway officials
with the hope of securing a change
of survey so that tho line 'will cross
a portion of the bay by trestle and
drawbridges Instead of skirting the
shore.
A similar proposal was made to
the company soon after tho road
was definitely located. It Is tho de
sire to secure easy rail facilities for
Rather remarkable coincidence, isn't it, that this article tho day beforo
the Commercial Club of North Bend metandresoluted. TheOregoniansays
that the peoplo of Marshfleld want, nay, are even anxious that tho Southern
Pacific change its survey. They want a conferenco with tho Southern
Pacific officials to arrango it. Notice also how coy and diffident the
Southern Pacific is. The article says:
"ThoySouthern Pacific officials, however, are maintaining their atti
tude of uncertainty as to immediate resumption of work and havo ad
vised the Marshfleld residents that a conference at this time would be
premature."
Pretty and pathetic, isn't it? The Southern Pacific doesn't think that
they are in a hurry to come Just now. They would like a little moro an
xiety on the part of the residents of Marshfleld. You will observe that
It Is the people of Marshfleld that aro anxious about having this bridge
built according to the Oregonian. WJll tho Oregonian be a little moro
explicit and givo Its readers tho names of the Marshfleld residents who
are lying awako nights to devise ways and means to secure a Southern
Pacific bridge across Coos Bay? The closeness of the Oregonian to tho
Southern Pacific is shown by tho concluding paragraph saying that
Hood's explanatory statement had Just been received at the Harrlman
offices. Will the Oregonian reporter mako another trip to the Harrl
man offices and got a list of the nimes of tho Marshfleld residents. It
will be important news in this section. Lot us havo tho names.
If tho interested reader will watch tho outside papors now, ho will un
doubtedly see that the action of the 1C members of tho North Bend
Commercial Club will bo heralded as tho overwhelming sontlment of
Coos Bay. Tho sentiment of the po0plo of Coos Bay Is not favorablo to
such a commercial and industrial outrage. When tho proper time Monies
it will be so expressed and when It is expressed there will be no mis
taking its meaning.
Think It over.
of seven tailors of Tooley street,
a petition to tho king, which they
creative ana constructive tactor
the Portland Oregonian, the official
prospective manufacturing sites. It
is understood a right-of-way will bo
offered the company freo of cost.
The Southern Pacific officials,
however, are maintaining their atti
tude of uncertainty as to Immediate
resumption of work and have advis
ed the Marshfleld residents that a
conference at this time would be pre
mature. Chief Engineer Hood's version of
the statement made by him which
was elaborated Into practically an
announcement that tho road would
be built this year, has been received
by tho Harrlman ofilces. Mr. Hood's
statement was that ho was engaged
in making estimates on the cost for
the completion of the lino which
might or might not bo adopted.
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EASTERN MEN NED
OVER GAS
RUMORS RIEE
OF RAILWAYS
Reports of Southern Pacific
Plans For Drain Line Are
Revived.
Moro railroad rumors were rife on
the Bay this morning than have been
started in a long time. However,
they were of Indefinite origin and
were said to havo been inspired by
parties arriving on tho Breakwater.
However, the authenticity of them
could not bo established.
One of the stories was that Gen
eral Manager O'Brien of tho Harrl
man lines had announced in Port
land that the construction of the
Drain line was to bo resumed In six
weeks and crews would be put to
work at both ends of tho road. That
Mr. O'Brien did not make any such
definite announcement is Indicated
by an interview ho gave out in Port
land this week concerning the im
provements projected in Oregon this
year. He said that the whole mat
ter was up to the eastern officials of
the road who havo not yet approved
of the recommendations made by the
various officials.
Bridging tho Bay.
Thero was much discussion of tho
proposed bridging of the Bay owing
to the announcement that tho North
Bend Commercial Club has passed a
resolution favoring such an action.
The. great majority of tho people
here expressed themselves as oppos
ed to tho idea. ,
"The prico is too great even as
much as wo would like to see the
Drain lino built," remarked one man
this morning. "To bottlo up . tho
bay apd oliminato tho opportunity of
making a great harbor here is some
thing that every citizen who has the
future of Coos Bay at heart should
oppose. Tho llttlo gain ofiiconsent-
Ing to such a thing would be offset a
thousand times In future years. Be
sides, Coos Bay now has moro as
surance that It will got a railroad
in the near future without bridging
tho Bay than when It turned " the
proposition down a few years ago.
Another thing, you want to remem
ber and that is tho Southern Pacific
will como to Coos Bay whether or
not they aro permitted to bridge, the
bay as tho hundred thousand dollars
or so that the construction of tho
line via the other route would cost
will not bar them, especially when
they aro aware that a rival road is
coming in."
Ono story in circulation today Is
that L. J. Simpson of North Bend,
Is now in San Frhncisco conferring
with Southern Pacific officials rela
tive to the bridging of tho bay and
tho construction of tho Drain lino.
It Is understood that ho accompanied
Stovo Henderson there, tho latter
now being classed as a Southern Pa
cific ropresentatlvo hero. Mr. Simp
son left last week via Drain. The
annual meeting of tho Simpson Lum
ber Company and Rb subsidiary cor
porations will bo hold In San Fran
cisco early next month and ho may
remain over for it.
Local officials of tho road aro un
derstood to bo without any definite
Information concerning tho status of
tho Drain lino other than that tho
last newspaper utterances of Chief
Engineer Hood that ho is preparing
plans and estimates for tho work
havo been substantiated.
THE WHEAT MARKET.
(By Associated PresH.)
CHICAGO, Jan. 21. Wheat clos
ed as follows: January, $1.10 3-4;
May, $1.09 1-2; July, $1.00 0-8;
September, OC 5-8c.
WATCH GOODRUM'S
WINDOWS.
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DANCE at SUMNER, SATURDAY-
JANUARY 20Tn.
E TO TAKE
AND ELECTRIC
Billingsby and Company Buy
ing Henry Hewitt's Public
Utilities.
DEAL SAID TO BE
NEARLY COMPLETED
Head of New Company
Probably Reach Here Sun-
i
day Or Monday.
Representatives of Billingsby and
Company of Chicago, who are pur
chasing Henry Hewitt's public utility
corporations in Tacoma and Coos
Bay, arrived here this morning and
immediately began investigations
which, It Is expected, will close tho
deal. Isaac Mllkevltch, a Chicago
attorney, Is today examining tho
company's franchises in North Bend
and Marshfleld and the titles to tho
property. Seymour H. Bell and Mr.
Corbett are expected in Sunday or
Monday via Drain, and it is likely
that J. J. O'Brien, who represents
the eastern syndicate acquiring tho
property, may come with them. ,Mr.
O'Brien was here sometime ago. H.
H. Hyde, who has been head of Mr.
Hewitt's Tacoma public utilities, ar
rived on theBreakwater this morn
ing.
It Is understood that tho prico
paid for the Coos Bay property of
the company is upwards of $300,000
of which one-third Is' held by L. J.
Simpson of North Bend.
Pending the closing of tho deal,
no official announcements concerning
the new owners or their plans will
bo made. It is understood that it
is one of the largest public utility
corporations in tho country and is
possibly a subsidiary organization of
the Standard Oil Company which
has been taking over the gas and
electric plants along tho Pacific
coast.
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L DEEDS
Jas. F. Logan of Colville, Said
to Have Confessed to Four
Murders.
(By As30ciatcd Press.!
SPOKANE, Jan. 21. According
to the statements made by Dr. L. B.
Harvey of Colville, Wash., and Dr.
M. F. Steers of Spokano, a man
known as James F. Logan, whoso
real name Is belloved to bo Frederick
Jahns, on trial at Colville for tho
murder of Mrs, Agnes Janson, has
confessed not only to that crime but
to two others. Ho is said to have
killed Mrs. Janson by breaking her
neck in the heat of anger and then
burned tho body In tho firo. Also
Logan admitted ho murdered E. It.
Shlvely in Spokano, shipped tho body
north In a trunk and burned it on
his farm. Ho also confessed ho kill
ed tho real James Logan of Maplo
Falls, Whatcom county, Wash., and
hid tho body under a brldgo near
Maplo Falls. Ho also confessed his
Intention of committing other mur
ders and also to forgery.
PLAN HIU UNION.
Metal and Coal Miners of North
America May Unite,
(By Associated Press )
INDIANAPOLIS, Jan '.21. An
aggrosalvo organization of metal and
coal miners of North America is tho
design of tho leaders of tho Eastern
Federation of Minors and the United
Mlno Workers of North America,
presented to the convention of tho
United Mine Workors In thlB city.
REMOVAL SALE
Mrs. J. H. Somers,. corner Front
and Central streets.
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