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MARSHFIELD, OREGON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1910 EVENING EDITION.' EIGHT PAGES. A Co,0,,,nt'" ' "" Coa a, No. 67.
..i i and Coos Ray AdvcrtNer.
TRIP IS !SCHDDNER"ECHD GOES ON THE "
IE oy SOTO
SAND FLATS IN L
pw
EASTERN OREGON LAND FRAUD BBEAKS INTO HARD
51 1 1 ti HI I IP I biljlli'irat II I WORN 10
OWE BAY
...11 J On..mnlln U
fHenry nowui aim oujmuui u.
Bell and Associates Are
Defendants. ,
OVER 30,000 ACRES
ARE INVOLVED UN IT
ell Declares They Are -".Innocent
Purchasers" and Not
Criminally Charged.
NORTH BEND
SPENT $40,000
Has Been' Dolna Street Work
andJVIaking Many Pub
lic Improvements.
Tho city of North Bond has ox
ponded nearly $40,000 this year In
Stranger Attacks Man Who Is
In Charge and Then'
Escapes.
Leo Watson, who works In tho
Holsner livery barn, off Front Btreot,
was attacked by an unknown man
early Sunday morning. About 2 n.
m. Watson heard somo ono open tho
ond door of tho barn. Tho door
ononB on nn alloy and admits to tho
part of tho barn whoro tho horses
nro kept. Watson thought ho would
,catch tho mnn nnd Btnrtcd back nftcr:
ihlm and In his linsto noclnctcd to
public Improvement. It was nil of turn Mm ninofrin nwitoU. Tin
PORTLAND, Or., Oct. 3. Tho
i . lolin McCourt United' .-.. ., .... .. lurn U10 0Icclr0 Bwitcn. tiio
jMrcnsa). i . nturo whch grcnUy mprovcs tho 'stranger saw ho was going to bo
.. ..I. .ttnrfinl flinil fill It 111 tllG ' . I on.
filed suit In tho1
MUICI nuuiuw, CltV. Shorillini livoniln wnn Prnilml nn.l
bdml court to recover tho govern- ,,,.,.. '. .... wnM --j- ,
,t, title to nearly 3,000 acres of Krcat &
nimble mlnernl and timucr niuua iBtrccti t , lnnnod to ,)lnnt trco8
la Biker county. Thcao lands, it along tlio sidewalk and mako tho
...Mrwwi.wpro secured ! mu h.- tmirougliraro qulto nttractlve. Vlr
Land company of Taconin through
glnln nvcuuo was also graded and
IllfinlfOfl nnil Pnllfnpnln .,.ni .ilnnlswl
tie ue of dummy entries, and by MnrvInn . B(rn. wn. . . . '
!rd and conspiracy botween mem- . . emMn ni.
Un ol the (Irm, tho United States
MBBlnloner at Sumpter, Charles II. T)(J cty w,)nrf WM Innl(0(1 mI
Clnce, and tho 17 dummy entry- th(J WOfk ,mB bco1 ordorC(1 for tho
. blllldlnir of thn ulank rnnilwnv on
Tie defendants, tho Howltt Land Tr()inont Btrcct, Thl te tho rond.
wny which Is to connect Marshfleld
and North Bond along tho wntor
front nnd tho city of North Bend
,hns ordered Its part dono. which fills
Un lummoned to appear In tho nn tho last link.
rilled States court Novombor 7. Tho street work which has been
Hill U one of tho last of tho "old ,iono nnd tho cost is ns follows:
It" land fraud cases. Tho crlm- Grading VJrglnln Avo $ 4,035
I iMturo of conspiracy to dofrnud PJnnklng City Wharf 28
toapany, consisting of Henry Howlt,
resident, and J. J. Howltt, secre
tin-, J. I). Stoddnrd, Seymour II.
Ml and William II. Hewitt, has
li! (orcrnmont lms been outlawed,
Planking 'California and Vlr-
(inee the entries wcro niado In Iu
unit to recover title would hnvo
i Imnostlblo had tho government
M another day to fllo Its case, 'Grading Dolawaro
i the civil side of It would hnvo
outlawed by that time. Tho
ItoTframent at Washington had to
I! teVgrapbcd to, to obtain nuthor
l? for beginning the suit.
DEXIKS ANY FRAUD.
nnnur'H. Bell Declnivs They Aro
the "Inmxrut Purchaser."
mour II. Doll, who Is spondlng
hr days on tho liny, when ho
' the announcement that tho gov-
had begun suit nuolnst thorn
that he and his associates wor
""went purchasers." Ho declared
tot the Journal's statement about
tunnies," fraud, etc., was all "rot"
Jl that the suit wns merely an en
Tor b7 tho gorcrnmont to .Oi'iro
million of tho 'nnds on the
!" that they were Illegally on-
, "Pon. Jir. Boll claims that ha
rcwaaiiy noW8 mnnv of ,hA nnfpv.
I6"1 ld that thov nr nn) "Hum.
BC1 Hri tnn. .1.n. f i . .
.... 'v o i imi. iiiaieim oi
'!' acre holm, in.-nu.o.i .1.-. i,i
''.00O acres worn invniv.i
Ufn. Dell and Hnwitt fnrmorU-
I'M the Coos Bay Gas nnd EJec
company hero and besides a con
"J115 Interest In thn nni, , n
tnn iti . iiv j UK"
C, , "We th0r exten8vo Inter
7 ' this section. Consenuentlv
."" 'V BfOUSpg miieli lnti.n.t .-
Wt'' i.
tiilA . . .
.".'
WATOIS, 10 POUNDS.
UDlrtod Karme,. Ibises Mont(cn
It ti. '" 0,u' ""
mu. n far,nor living six
i?8t f Da'ton- cl,ms
UtoM i th proauct'n ot po-
Efoa,.' ' u,nort exhibits
T,LP-,at0CE of tho Gold Coin
2sedrl8,,tohlchisl0 4
1 1) . " The largest measures
'nitt,. 3 ln c,wmferenpe nnd
. J ,,nearly threo pounds.
rtiZ ,uucnotJ.Bulllngton,
K;61' tomato Krapes have
FS,uTrsfuiiy Brw th,a
hit,L nese fmntoes rosomblo
"Vni. PTAn.l ...
trptii.. ""n'"K in clusters on
glnln 1,050
Grading and Planking Sher-
man 12,(114
540
Improving Washington St,.. 1,547
Plnuklng Trcmont 12,000
rir n and Produclnu profuse-
ordinar!yarIetyalirdlerthan
(i7.tmatees.It8cia,med.
"444
VIATOR DEAD.
ET?o8SOcIate(1 P'-ess.)
Mtnu. 7T,' J Aviator IlaaB was
dltance fd,rhUo t,y,nK part of
"o Kt, m "e race from Troves
Total Street Work $35,411
In all nhout 17 blocks of streets
wero Improved In somo mnnnor.
Thoro hns also been n largo nmount
of sldowalks laid, which wns paid
for by tho property owners. Near
ly 8,000 feet of walks wero laid
a total cost of about $2,000. Tho
city hns spent sovornl hundred dol
lars In laying wntor pipes and has
also mado a number of other I
provements.
CURRY COUNTY VOTE.
Through nn error a portion of tho
bfflclal vote In Curry county wns
omitted nnd Is given bolow. The
voto on tho Democratic ticket fol
lows: For Govornor
Jof forson flyers 9
Oswald West . 4"
For Stnto Printer '
James P. Godfroy 02
J. Scott Taylor t "28
For Railroad Commissioner
Hugh McLaln 75
Chnrlos P. Strain 18
For Joint Representative-
R. A. Copplo 3
W. A. Wood
REPUBLICAN COUNTY TICKET, j
Tho RepubHcnn county ucKei ion
lows: ...f!r";v:' '"'
For Sheriff
W. A. Blshel H7
W. J. Walker 68
E. L. White 73
For County Clerk
Goorge SmithNo opposition.
For Treasurer
James Caughel! 22S
O, B.' Miller B1
For Surveyor
O.S.Wilson 200
For Commissioner '
C. t. ChenowHh 225
caught and mado a vicious blow at
Watson with a pitchfork handle.
Watson was struck on tho forehend.
'Ho was not seriously hurt but tho
blow was hard enough to mnko him
unconscious nnd It was half nn hour
beforo ho was straightened out
ngnln. Tho other man In tho bnrn
heard tho commotion nnd went to
Watson's asslstanco, nrmed with a
neckyoko but tho stranger, whoever
ho wns, had gotton nway,
Earlier In tho evening tho young
men In tho barn had noticed a mnn
who sat outsldo tho barn for qulto
n whllo and they think that per
haps ho was tho ono who brokft Into
tho plnco. Tho man evidently was
not thoro with any good Intont nnd
thu boys think ho was planning to
rob tho offlco ns they had on hand
consldernblo cash which had been
taken In during tho day.
It was reported to tho pollco that
n logger was hold up Saturday night.
Tt seonis that tho nlleged holdup
took plnco In tho stairway of tho
Red Front rooming houso. It wns
claimed that tho logger was at
tacked by somo other mnn nnd
robbed of $25. Tho matter wns not
reported to tho pollco at tho tlmo
so they had no opportunity to look
Into tho case. It was thought that
nosslhly tho man who broko Into
tho Uvory stablo wns tho man who
1icld up tho logger.
r C. Moullen, of Eugene, and
Party Make Record Run
Drain to Allegany. '
After having drivon tho first auto
Into Allegany that had over been seen
in tho Coos county town and also
having tho honor of making tho first
trip ln an auto over tho now road
leading from Scottsburg to Allegany,
P. C. Moullen, of Eugono, an auto
Balesmnn, enmo to Mnrshtlold yes
terday .onthuslnstlc over tho trip.
Dosplto tho fact that tho road, which
wns finished n fow weeks ago, waB
In rather bad shapo duo to th ro-
ccnt rain, they mado tho trip through
In, record tlmo nnd without mlshnp.
It wns a trail trip for n 30-horso-powor
Whlto gasoline mnchlno nnd
tho only stop they hnd to mnko I
tho 70 miles between Drain and Alle
gany was to put onnn extra sot of
mud chnlnB.
With Mr. Moullen wcro A. N. Don
ny, of Drain, who has been running
IS PULLED OFF
BY TUG COLUMBIA
COUNTY TOTAL .
IS $1,514,919
nn auto between Drain nnd Scotts
burg this summer, nnd Mrs. Perkins 1 278i08 mnulC8 or 4 n0r8 ic mln-
uutcs nnd 28 seconds, nn nvcrngo of
05 V4 'miles nn hour, a now American
record. Tho rnco wns marked with
fatalities second only to tho Paris
Mnlrld race. Harold Stono of Lob
Angolos, driver of n Columbia, was
probably fntally hurt soon nfcor tho
rnco stnrtod.
Mntthow R. Bacon, Stono's mech
anician, wns instantly killed. Henry
Bagger, n cleric employed by a local
auto firm, who was watching tho
raco, wns killed by Joo Dnwson'B car.
Charles Mlllor of Marquette, In a
Bulck drivon by Louis Shovrolet, was
killed In n collision with n touring
car on tho rond. Fordanded D. Zu
bla, Now York mannger of tho Popo
Hortford company, wns klllod In a
sinnnh-iip with ono of tho rncors.
Tho numbor of accidents short of
fntnlltlos ran into tho scores. From
n sporting point of vlow tho raco was
a thriller and will go down Into tho
nnnnls of racing ns tlo most success
ful rnco over held. Judging It by
tho loll In killed nnd mnlmcd, how
ovor, tho rnco. was a revolting spec
tnelo nnd tho mnnngors wero roverely
arraigned for tho manner In which
It wns conducted.
Drags Anchors During Storm,
But Is Probably Not '
' Damaned Anv.
1
KILL MANY
Sporting Events Brings Death
' and Injury to Those
Taking Part.
(By ABSoclntcd PrcBB.)
LONG ISLAND MOTOR PARK
WAY, Oct. 3. Dend and Injured
marked nonrly every mllo of tho
courso of tho sixth Vundcrbllt cup
rnco won Saturday by Hnrry Gran'.,
driving tho 120-horso-powcr nuto
Alco. Joo Dawson driving n Mnr
mon finished 25 seconds nfter Grant
nnd 1 in 1 1111 tu to ahead of John Alt-
kpilHOIl In n Kntlnnnl. flrnnf run.
turcd tho rnco last year in a car of lllt'e. u,'t l,1 tB nlo Kot lnto troublo
tho samo mako. Tho winner's tlmo nnd l0llny tho tug was on tho sn-
Both Get Aground Again and
Wait for the High
Tide.
Tho barkeutlno Echo, which has
been loading In tho lowor bay with
lumber for South America, had
trouble yesterday iflid went on tho
sand. Tho wind wns ho high that
tho vessel dragged her ujichors and
went up on tho Hand near Empire
She Is heavily lndon with lumbor
nnd alio laid over on 0110 sldo. Tho
tug Columbln pulled hor off In high
Summary of Assessment Roll
Shows Property and Val
uations in Coos.
Tho Bummnry of tho assessment wm onnbIo nn nuto to mniQ (ho
of tho Hotol Perkins nt Drain nnd
Miss Grnco Moon. Tho drlvo waB
mndo as a demonstration trip to do-
tcrmlno whether or not tho Whlto
nuto would bo n success on tho hnrd
drlvo.
Tho mnchlno really proved Itself
n "wonder," snld Mr. Denny yestor-
day. 'It waB really ono of tho hnrd
cst tests nn nuto could bo given but
wo didn't linve n single breakdown.
It wns n Tomnrkablo enduranco slu
ing besides mnklng wondorful speod
oTcr mich heavy grades nnd a rond In
such awful condition."
Mr. Moullen started with tho nuto
nt Rosohurg and mndo tho drlvo 0'
40 miles to Drain In thrco hours.
From Drain to Elkton, It took nn
hour nnd n quarter and from Elk-
Uon to Scottsburg it took another
hour and forly-flvo minutes. Scotts
burg Is 35 miles from Drain. From
Scottsburg to Allogany, 35 miles,
took six hours.
"Tho first threo miles out of
Scottsburg Is nt lenst n 30 to 35 per
cent grade," said Mr. Mnullon.
"Somo plncos whoro tho road was
soft nnd shaded, tho wheels would
slip around nnd It was hnrd on tho
onglno, but It stood It without tho
least hitch. ' In tho 70-mllo run,
wo only used nbout nlno gallons of
gasoline"
Mr. Denny Is planning to got 0110
of tho machines ns quickly ns pos
sible to nfford now servlco Into Coos
Bay from tho railroad. Wlion tho
proposed now rond from Loon Lnko
to Elkton Is complotod, tho honvy
grades near Scottsburg will bo elim
inated and tho dlstanco from Drain
to Allegany reduced to 45 miles. This
flats and tho Echo wns nlao stuck
on tho other sldo of tho bny. Tho
Echo was this morning not In as bad
n position ns yesterday, ns she wns
standing on her kcol. She mny flont
without aBslstanco at high tldo. Tho
tug will probably also bo nblo to got
off tho sand flats without nsatBtanco,
Appnrontly tho Echo has not boon
dnmnged. Sho has boon at anchor in
tho lowor bay for over n wcok and
has boon loaded with lumber which
will bo takon to Chill. Tho vosaol
Is owned by ,tho Simpson Lumbor
compnny,
METIIUHRLAH ONLY 78.
I
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PASSES
1
roll of Coos county for 1910 has been
completed by Assessor T, J. Thrift.
Tho sumary shows tho total of Vft
rlous kinds of property in tho conn'
ty, Tho figures as published in tho
Coqulllo Sentinel are -as f of Iowa:
Value.
Acres .of tillable- land, -'
- 19,294 '.$1,000,734.00
Acres of non-tlllablo '
COOS RIVER ROOM.
Mr. Ren Smith desires to correct
tho Impression conveyed by tho re
port ns to what ho stated to tno
Port commission relative to tho
Smith-Powers boom. Mr, Smith says
ho did not say that the recommend
ation of tho commission would bo
satisfactory to tho Coos river peo
ple, but that ho did say that ho be
lieved that tho recommendation of
tho commission, If carried out, would
give tho Coos river people sufficient
water In which 'to navigate the
boats owned by them at present.
land, 771,015 ...... 8,008,150.00
'Improvements of deed
ed lands 604,104.00
Town nnd city lots. . . . 2,972,321.00
Improvements on town '
lots , . 1,083,345.00
Improvements on lands
not deeded 23,525.00
Miles of railroad bed,
logging road, 23.... 20,350.00
Rolling stock 6,450
Steamboats and ma
chinery '420,655.00
Merchandise and stock
'in trado 326,192.00
Farming Implements,
wagons, carriages, etc. 55,095,00
Monoy l&.sau.ou
Notes nnd accountB. . . . 223,601.00
Shares of stock, 1150.. 171,711.00
Furniture, Jewelry, etc. 166,103.00
Horses and mules, 2330 111,875.00
Cattle, 12,814 208,178.00
Sheep and goats, 5944 14,862.00
Swine, 2019 5,441.00
Dogs, 465 4,450.00
Total $15,514,912.00
Railroads, rolling stock, telegraph
and telephone lines not Included In
the above list.
FOR SALE Smnll fireproof combl-
nation safo. See L. J. Simpson,
North Bend, Ore.
round trip botween tho two points It
u dny enslly. Captain Edwards of
.tllfgnny Is planning to put on n
iwo-hour boat sorvlco botween Marsh
field and Allegany so that tho trip
from Coos Bay to Drain can bo mado
In about olght hours.
Mr. Moullen, who conducts the
Mozach garage at Eugono, left Al
legany this morning with his party
pn tho return trip,
SURVEYING ON SIUSLAW.
Railroad Investigating T.'ui' Route
to the Occaii.
The Lnso Ooenty Aiwt company
has made public D, Mor frra Its
chlof engineer showing that the routi
(or tho piwcsed eieclrlo line from
Eugon) 10 Hit. SI iviav 1b the uvl
available 0110 for tho rot.l and that
tho cost of construction will not be
great! A Eugene newspaper states
that there are now four surveys fiom
Eugene down the Sluslaw river and
another is being made by the South
ern Pacific from Junction City to
Florence.
INCREASE SUSPENDED.
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, D. C, Oct. 3.
Interstate Commerce commission or-
dorcd tho proposed Increase In the
freight rates on lumber and forest
products generally faom tho Pacific
Northwest to pplnts of eastern desti
nation suspended until February 1,
1911.
Have your calling cards printed at
The Times office,.
Nearly Ninety Years of Agd
.., and Was Native of
7 Canada. '
Died, at tho homo of his daugh
ter, Mrs. E. E. Bodlno, in South
Mnrshtlold, Saturday evening at 0
o'clock, Jnmos L. Dies, nged 89
years, 1 months and 8 days. Mr,
Dies was born ln Canada Fobruary
23, 1821. He moved to tho United
States when a young mnn and has
lived in various sections of the coun
try, Including Missouri, Nebraska
and Southern California, and has re-
Bided In Marshfleld for.the past eight
years. Besides a brother, Allen Dies,
of St. Paul, Minn., ho Is survived by
six children, Mrs. E. E. Bodlno and
Mrs. M. R. Brown of this city, Mrs.
C. B. Coffin of Rifle, Colo., A, L. Dies
of Des Moines, Iowa, Carl M. Dies
of Seattle, Wash., and Edward Dies
of Now York, and many grandchil
dren, soveral of whom reside In this
locality. Ho leaves five great-grand
children, threo of whom resldo In
Marshfleld.
Mr. Dies lived a faithful Chris
tian life since early manhood, hav
ing been a member of tho Methodist
Church for 68 years. Ho wub also
n member of tho I. O. O. P.
Funeral sorvlccs woro conducted
from tho M. E. Church this after
noon, Rov. II. I, Rutledgo officiat
ing, and tho Interment was In tho
Marshfleld cemetery.
Phone I. S. Kaufman & Co, your
:oal Order. W.HO TER TON.
For the Queen of the Bay, see East.
side.
JcwJhIi World Hays PfrJott of Mooit
Cycle Wmk Called Year.
LONDON, Oct. 3. MothiiBOlah los
os his famous record, for his 963 re
puted years nro whittled down to 79.
Thus says tho Jowlsh World In a
discussion of Jowlsh chnractorlsttcs.
It Is Biirtnleed, tho Jowlsli World
says, that In tho earliest tlmcBtlio
month, tho porlod of n moon cyclo,
wnB called n yoar. Thus Adam's 930
years of llfo, calculating n yoar at
29,& days, work out to 75 and ono
fourth years.
After tho month year thoro camo
n five-month yenr, tho limit of flvo
being derived from the fingers on
ono hand, It boIiiK romombered that
prlmltlvo peoplo nlwnys usod tho
fingers for counting purposes. Then
camo tho twolvo-montlf yenr.
Excuso for this renrrnngomont Is
found In tho PaulmlHt'a limit 'of llfo
to threo scoro nnd ton years. On tho
five-month yenr basis Abraham's 175
years' work ended nt 72, nnd Isnnc's
10 nt 74 yoars.
Perhaps, too, thero Intorvoned a
six-month year discovered by Jacob
whllo watching Laban's flocks, Thus
Jacob's 147 years' work run out at
about 73,
WESTERN UNION
WIRES DOWN
Storm in Night Causes Trouble
and Communication
Is Cut Off.
The telegraph wires are down to
day. Thero was troublo with tho
wlros Saturday evening, but for a
time Sunday somo messages could
bo received. Today tho wires aro
entirely out of business and thoro
Is no telegraphic connection. Mnn
agor Schetter was trying to locato
tho trouble today. It Is thought that
tho storm In tho night blew down tho
wires or caused trees to fall upon
the wires in tho mountains.
ENGINE BLOWS UP.
(By Asspclntod Prosg.)
LEADVILLE, Colo., Oct. 3. Tho
onglno on a soutlfbouud passongor
train on tho Denver & Rio Orando
railway blow up whllo tho train was
climbing a steep grade In Tennessee
Pass. The engineer and fireman were
killed. Th cause has not been ascertained.
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