(Emus ADS. tm NEWS 1 IVVIHMNKSS '0W' A,)' , 1ISI'. IIIAT1TPAYSIHKVI. , ii w snrKssiT., nrs.. I" M)1I'IIII1MII. (Jirr it whu.k it is xmv nv ItKADIXn TIIK COOS IIAV TLMKS. all tiii: xmvs all tiiic timk NsS musm !" MKMIIKIt OP ASSOtlATi:i) 1MMWS TKHSKLY TOI.I) J! :t KMnlilMiril In IH7H ii h Tin Const Mall VOL. XXXIV MARSHFIELD.OREGON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1911 EVENING EDITION. A Consolidation o( Tliuof, Const Mull mill Com liny AthrrtUor. Mo. 39. !i HUNDRED OIE DAILY ROM Death Roll From Cholera In Manchuria Is Becoming Appalling TOWN NEAR HARBIN HAS HEAVIEST LOSS Chinese Emperor Reprimands Manchurian Officials For Laxity. (lly Associated Press to Coos Dny Times.) ST. ri:THIl8IUKO, IlUBBln, Fob. 2S. Shnunllntzo, nbout nfty miles from Hnrbln, la being rnvagod by the plague. Tho deaths nro reported to number 200 dnlly. Tho Chinese emperor has reprimanded tho Man churian authorities for not having dealt moro energetically with tho sit uation. The disease has appeared In many places and the death roll Is nppall Ing. AMI ACJAIXKT KKCII'KOCITV. Senators Stono nntl Young Sncnk Against It. (Dy Associated Press to Coos Day Times.) WASH INQTON, D. C, Feb. 28. Senator Stono spoke for moro than two hours and n half mid ns soon ns Stono concluded, Young of Iowa took tho floor nnd spoko against tho reciprocity ngreemont. IL FIGHT IN City Primaries Results In Many Rows In "Windy City" One Dead. (Dy Associated Press to Coos Day Times.) CHICAGO, III., Fob. 28. Ono killing and several less sorlous tils turlances marked tho municipal pri maries today. Arthur Qulnn, eoh of James Qulnn, former city sealer nnd n well-known politician, shot nnd killed Richard Clark, a union hod-carrier, after tho man had shot Qulnn In tho foot In an election row. Oregon Supreme Court Has Not Yet Passed On Local Litigation. The Oregon supremo court has not Jet handed down a decision In tho c"e of the Bennett Trust company aD(J the Southern Oregon company vs. tho Port of Coos nay. AH tho other Coos county cases argued whon 'n port 'case was last submitted i,,e lee, decided by tho Supremo Couft. It is expected that a decl 'l0I win be handed down In It next Tuesday sure. Tday, the Oregon supremo court stained the decision of tho lower ""ft In tho case of F. S. Dow vs. tho Courtney Mill company. This decl 81n Is a victory for Mr. Dow nnd against tho c. A. Smith company , , was tr-ing to establishing Us Dw " PrIor llens t0 those ot Mr- ? 0reSn supreme court also cou ?d Ul dec,3,on of th0 ,ower a " In the case of Smith vs. Kin- 0 NO DECISION II PORT CASE PLAGUE IK ONE I 1 ENGINEER IS LET OUT AGAIN Council Declares Office Vacant Filling Lowland Is Discussed. Tho olllco of city engineer of J Mnrshllold Iiiih been declared vacant ' ngnln. I The council Inst evening adopted n , resolution to that effect nfter some discussion of tho mutter. Mayor Straw, who wiih In nttvndnuco at tho , onrly part of tho meeting left before , the question of whether Sandberg i was still city engineer was broi'ght up. Councilman Albrccht first, brought It up early in the meeting by Inquir ing to make mire that the minutes of tho provloun meeting showed that Mayor Straw had dcclnred tho mo tion not to confirm the Inst appoint ment of Mr. Hnndbcrg had carried. Townrds tho end of tho meeting, Mr. Alliroplit wnnteil to know If tho council could reconsider tho appoint ment, saying that thcro had been sonio question ns to whether there I had been sufficient votes nt tho Inst tlmo to reject Snndborg's appoint ment. City Attorney floss said thnt ho didn't think they could recon sider It, having acted on tho matter once. Then Mr. Albrecht mndo n motion thnt Mr. Snndborg bo dis charged. Horo Councllmnn Copplo iiBketl tho opinion of City Attornoy doss on tho matter hb to whether tho mayor's ap pointment really stood. Mr. Goss said thnt thoro was a legal question ns to that, two provisions of tho chnr tor conflicting. A discussion of this followed In which Mr. Gobs said that perhaps tho council might think that because ho wns n friend of Mr. Snnd borg thnt his opinion was not tho propor one. Mr. Copplo assured him otherwise saying that If tho council thought that thoy would flro Mr. Goss also. Finally, tho question of what to do wns nut up to Mr. Goss and ho said (thnt tho council could ndopt n reso ' lutlon declaring tho ofllco vacant and I thnt this would decido tho mnttor 1. . ,.. ml... t All..n.lif uoyoilll qill'Biiuu, iiiuh .hi. ni"iti." changed his motion to mnko It de claro tho ofllco vncant. Councilman Coko who was presid ing wanted to know If an ayo and nny vote wos desired. Councilman Albrecht said It was. "Hotter mnko It unnnlmous," de clared Councllmnn Powers. "Yes, mnko It unanimous," said Mr. Savngo. However, tho ayo and nny vote wns called and all six councilman voted to declaro tho ofllco of city en gineer vacant, Thon n motion ordering tho city engineer to turn over his roups, pro files and records and tho keys "of his ofllco to tho city recordor wns passed. Tho city recordor by another motion wns Instructed that In tho future ho should keep all maps, profiles, plans and specifications adopted by tho council on fllo In his ofllco. Mr. Albrecht said that If Mr. Sand berg wanted to suo for his February salary, ho could nnd that ho was n favor of fighting it In tho courts to find out whore the city stood on such matters. Ho said that tho city en gineer had not dono any work during tho month oxcept a Httlo that had been authorized by the mayor alono and that tho city had already paid JGOO too much for the engineer's of fice. Fill Lowlands. Mayor Straw reported early In tho meeting to tho council that ho had conferred with Engineer Leefe relative to filling tho city streets with dredglngs. He said that Mr. Leefe had Informed him that if tho city would ascertain the amount of dirt to be removed from the government (Continued ob page ) NEARLY FOUR HUNDRED DR01ED Terrific Loss of Life Reported From Gulf of Finland As Re sult of Hazardous Fishing. (Uy Associated Press to Coos Day Times.) ST. PETEHSHl'ItU. Hussln, Feb. 2S. Arcordlng to a official report of n fishing disaster on the Gulf of Fin laud, of 500 persons engaged fishing on tho Ice, Februnry 23, when It broke away from tho shoro, only PORTLAND LUMBER Oregon and Washington Lum ber Company Plant Destroy ed and Other Institutions Damaged. (Dy Associated Press to Coos Bay Times.) PORTLAND, Ore., Fob. 28. Fnn- ncd by n Btrong wind, n flro today practically destroyed tho plant of Son of Illinois' First Govemorl and Oldest Mason In i Washington Dies. (Dy Associated Press to Coos Day Times.) IJELLIXGHAM, Wash., Feb. 28. Dr. Honjamln Iioud, son of tho first governor of Illinois, n veteran of tho civil war, and tho oldest Mnson In Washington, died horo today, aged 84 years. Ho Is survived by n widow and threo children, 20 grand children and twlco that numbor of groat grnnd-chldrcn. Ho was Mnson for sixty yenrs. WOLF IN EAST INDIES Portland Murderer Sought On Coos Bay Twenty Years Ago May Be Located. Old timers, who recnil tho search made horo for Durdetto Wolf, tho Portland murdoror, twenty years ago, will bo Interested In tho report that ho Is now being sought In tho British India. Wolf was on Coos Bay and "Hark" Dunham mndo sovoro ineffectual trips to got him. Con cerning tho latest development In tho case, a Portland paper says: "Komombranco of asonsatlonal mur der caso of two decades ago was re vived when District Attornoy Cam eron said that ho had received pri vate Information that Durdetto Wolf, accusod of killing Birdie Morton, a Montavllla girl, Is living In Calcutta. Tho statement came from a seafaring man who arrived In Portland recent ly, but It does not appear that ho has direct knowledgo of tho fact. Tho rumor, however, has served to re vive the hunt for Wolf, which has continued spasmodically nearly 20 years, and tho East Indian officials will bo communicated with. "Wolf was a youth uhout town at tho tlmo of tho murder, and had paid nttentlon to tho girl. He went wnlk Ing with her ono Sunday and on tho way home asked her to marry him. She refused and as she walked up the steps to the door of hor homo he shot her and fled. Sheriff Kelly trac ed Wolf Into tho foothills of Mount Hood, whence ho Is believed to have circled back and boarded a sailing vessel of which his uncle was mate. "Tho murderer was traced to Bra zil, but was lost again. It Is said that he has been a sailor ever since his flight and hap been in this port numerous times." DR. BENJ. BOND PASSES AWAY 120 subsequently got safely back ashore. XKW .MEXICO WINS. Constitution of .Vow State Appioxctl lly Committee. (Dy Associated Press to Coon Dnj Times.) WASHINGTON, D. C. Feb. 2S. The constitution of the new state of Xcyj Mexico was unanimously np-proved-by tho House Committee on Territories. tho Oregon and Washington Lumber Company in this city cntnlllng n loss to that company of nbout $ 100,000. PlnntH of tho .Multnomah Lumber and llox Company, and tho Gold Me dal Shlnglo Company were damaged to tho amount of $2G,000 and n pri vate residence two blocks dlstnnco upon which embers fell wns destroy ed. Tho causo was not nscortnlned. Tho Insurance will protect owners for nbout one-third tho damage. F GIRL'S CRIME Poisons Mother and Nephew . and Commits Suicide Fol- lowing Sister's Death. (Dy Associated Pross to Coos Day Times.) PHILADELPHIA, Penn., Feb. 28. Miss Jcnnctto Lowls, aged 27, to day murdered her motlior, Mrs. Sar ah Lewis, nnd hor nophow, Edwnrd H. MIdlon, aged 0, by administering cynnldo of potassium, nnd then com mitted sulcldo with tho snmo drug, Miss Lowls' slstor died last night, nnd It la hollovod tho young woman was crazed with grief. E IT IN OIL Former Marshfield Men Re ported to Have Made Valu able Find. The Coko Brothers of Honolulu, former Marshflold boys, havo struck It rich In oil, according to a copy of tho Honolulu Bulletin which Dr. Tower has received. Tho news will bo gratifying to tholr many friends on tho Bny. Concerning It, tho Bul letin says: "Tho Coko brothors of Honolulu received a cable from Dr. P. S. Coko of Oakland, Cal., Friday evening an nouncing tho striking of high grav ity oil on tholr property at a depth of two hundred feet. They havo thirty thousand acres of laud within a basin surrounded on three sides by an Immenso outcrop of rich oil sand lifted up to an elevation of from eight hundred feet to twenty-eight hundred feet from which rich oil of parafflno base exudes. It Is said that In ono place tho outcrop shows an exposure of sands of ns groat a thick ness as olghteen hundred feet. Tho basin is pronounced by tho best ex perts to bo tho greatest oil field In tho world. "H. M. Coko, who was formerly connected with tho department of education of this torrltory and later for a numbor of years editor of tho Maul News. Is vice-president of tho company and tho promoter of tho same, He succeeded in Interesting a number of tho wealthiest financiers In tho torrltory In his field. Tho cablegram will bo of great Internet to them, and particularly gratifying to Mr. Coko." Have your Job printing done at The Times office. .MILL BURKS DIRECT ELECTION IS BEATEN RALL AVENUE Contractor Morrissey Allowed $700 On It Council Pro ceedings. Tho question of Bottling tho trou ble about tho Unit avenue paving wns brought up nt tho city council meeting Inst evening nnd It Is likely thnt n lnrgo portion of the block nearest tho now schoolhouso will be torn up nnd repaved, or rnthor tho coating of bitumen will bo tnkcu off nnd put on again. Contractor Morrissey asked that ho bo allowed $700 moro thnu had been pnld In on the street. Coun cilman Coko objected on tho ground that tho work had not boon dono ac cording to contract. Councilman Powers said thnt ho thought thnt tho $1,000 balnnco on tho contract duo tlo contractors was sufficient to force them to do tho work right. Mr. Morrissey said that ho would llko to scttlo tho matter nnd was ready to do whatever tho council wished. Ho snld he would tear up tho old paving nnd relay It If that would bo satisfactory although tho work would bo moro difficult than It was to do It In tho first plnco. Somcono suggested that although tho surfaco of tho paving wns not ns thick ns It Is supposed to bo It Is nmplo nnd whllo tho council could not accept tho street without tho property owners consent thnt mny ho tho contractors could arbitrate It with tho Bnlncs cstnto, tho principal objectors. Mr. Morrlssoy said that ho had not tried to do this, hnvlng loft thnt to his pnrtnor, Mr. Whlt moro, who wns now out of tho com pany. Ho snld thoro was only nbout soventy-flvo foot of tho block whoro tho surfaco work was deficient. Couucllmon Copplo snld that if this was nil, It probably would bo tho best way to repavo It. Mr. Morrissey said that ho was given to understand that oven It this was dono, tho Dailies estato was go ing to kick on something else. Ho was told that If tho work was dono according to specifications thnt tho council would seo that ho got his money. FInnlly Councilman Powers mndo a petition thnt Morrlssoy bo allowed tho $700 on tho street, all voted In favor of It excopt Councllmnn Coko who voted no, saying tho council had no right to pay nny more on It until tho contract was dono according to specifications. Wants Moro Police. Eugono O'Connoll asked tho coun cil to provldo hotter pollco service. Ho said that nt present thoro Is no headquarters where you can tele phono to for n policeman whon you need him but havo to go out nnd chnso around tho street until yon find him. Ho said thnt ho had been Ibothored lately by "drunks" getting Into his building during tho night. Ho declared that ho thought somo of tho snloonmon wero accompany ing tho drunks thero nfter tho sal oons closo and leaving them In his building. Councilman Powers said that not long ago, ono was beforo tho council and asked to havo tho force cut down Instead of increased. Mr. O'Connoll said ho thought thero should be another night wntch and that It would be money well spent. Tho matter was referred to tho street commltteo to report on later. Front Street O ratio. Eugene O'Connell presented n potltlon from tho North Front street property owners asking that the grade of that thoroughfare bo chang ed again so that It will not bo moro than twelve Inches abovo tho present planking. Clnudo Nasburg said that ho (Continued on pag 4.) W OF SENATORS IN 0. S. SENATE Needed Two-Thirds Majority While Vote Was 54 to 33 Today. RECESS TAKEN IN -THE L0RIMER BATTLE Contest Over Illinois Senator ship Broken to Permit Vote. (By Associated Press to Coos Baj Times.) WASHINGTON, D. C, Fob. 28. Tho Senate In accordance with n pro vloun ngrccment Interrupted tho Lo rlmer bnttlo with tho voto on tho Joint resolution for tho nmendmont for tho direct election of United Sta tes senators. Tho resolution which required a two-thirds majority was lost, re ceiving a voto of G4 to 33. Senator Borah of Idaho, who has been In chargo ot tho resolution for tho election of senators by direct voto, wns gratified ovor tho result notwithstanding ho lacked four votes of getting tho necessary two-thirds, "When It Ih demonstrated that the Senate stands within four of tho two thirds, It Is certain the real fight Is ovor," ho said. Bornh snld tho re solution will bo again Introduced at tho first meeting of congress hi tho regular extraordinary session, uu4 urged unremittingly. UUMXHRGE IS LET DDT Milwaukee Railway Retrenches By Reducing Its Payrolls In Middle West. (By Associated Pross to Coos I Times.) CHICAGO, III., Fob. 28. Tho retrenchment ordored by tho Chica go, Milwaukee & St. Paul linos fol lowing tho recent rato decision ban resulted In tho tllschnrgo of 25 per cent of tho forco on tho main lino en gaged In construction, car ropalrs and other Improvements. In St. Paul alono it is estimated that 700 woro takon from tho pny rolls. It Is stat ed at tho general olllco that thero will bo no reduction on tho Pugot Sound extension force. INDIAN BILL IS SENT BACK House Refuses to Concur to Senate Amendment to the Measure. (By Associated PresB to Coos Bar Times.) WASHINGTON, D. C, Feb. 28. No agreomont has been reached thus far botweon tho two Houses of Con gross on tho Indian appropriation bill. Tho Houso today sent tho bill back for further conference. Tho Houso rofuscs 10 approvo a Senate amondiuont authorizing tho payment claims of cortaln tradors against In dividual Indians and an amendment partly recognizing an nttornoy's claim of $90,000 against tho Colvtl le Indians. RPItlXfi OPKXIXO OF M1LLTNKKY Thursday, Friday and Saturday of , this week, at 110 Front St. A Miss IBIrdsey, an up-to-dato trlmmor from I Portland, is with Mrs. Donaldson this. beuHon. 41 i j . ! J 1.-. 1AJ&XtMiklj. JUUkdkUi . t.Cl. Jjj-Ajirf. 'Mlai .-