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VOL. XXXV
MARSHFIELD, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1911 EVENING EDITION.
A Consolidation of TIiuca. Coast Mall
mid Coos Hay Advertiser.
No. 4?
mn
FINAL PLEAS IH BEATTIE
CASE BEING MADE TODAY
Strong Evidence Against Ac
cused Virginia Banker Pass
ed Up by Prosecution.
DEFENDANT SCORED AND
PRAISED ALTERNATELY
w w - w--w WWOW -WW
BANDITS KILL
AND ROB 10
PREACHERS TORN COL. ASTOR DOWN
Condemned For Relations With
Blnford Woman Defense
Relies on Father.
P.lt.UE TJIEIU XOTOIHETV.
(Dy Associated Press.)
T RICHMOND, Vu., Sept. 7.
Paul Hostile suya ho Is going
t to Now York to pose for moving
picture productions
(Dy Associated Press to Coos Hay
Times.)
CIIKSTKIIFIEU) COURTHOUSE.
V., Sept. 7. -Casting iiHldu s un
necessary the oloventli hour Infor
mation from tin alleged o.vo-wUuobr,
the coniiwunvonlth or Vlrglula today
began the flnnl nrgtinient ngulnst
Henry Clay Jtonttlc, Jr., indicted for
ltlfe murder. Two lawyers, .1. M.
Gregory (or the prosecution, and Bill
Carter (or tlio defense measured
rhetoric at the morning tv-sslon I it j
iltcrnatcly condemning and InuuJng
Ac character of tlio licensed. Grt'g
orr'i speech occupied Hourly an hour
tad a half mil was nvrathlng denim
tlatlos o( the prisoner, linrlleulnrly
ol his rontliuied lohitlons wJUi it jbi )
ol preniiptlnl fancy, eiru lu itJio sub-
teqttent months of IiIh murringo llfo.
Appealing tor.lm religious and moral
ionic of tlio Jury. Gregory judaitod x
picture of liimornllty, revolting Ic
details. Then ho einphaiized tlio cu
aulatlrc evidence of tlio common-
tealth, polntefc to what lio unllofl
the salient, Imoutrnvortuhle
Ministers Refuse to Marry Di
vorced New York Millionaire
and Girl Fiance Ceremony
Postponed.
(I5y Associated Press to Oooa Ba
Times.)
NEW YORK. Sept. 7 Colonel
Astor called on Miss Force todny be-
m nraiirn
Pennsylvania Mining Contrac-. hfjLj j j fjH f rj
tor anti uriver siam by
Unknown Thugs.
Dy Assoclntod Press to tli Cons liny
Times)
POTTST1LLE, l'a., Sept. 7. Shot
fltttd nfler being robbed of n hirga, ti:in n,.nr.n n..n ...
, ,uiiio uiuyuu nciJi u&diiuuivt;
Says No Extension to
n
b
i
i
i
01 R
fore departing for Rhlnobcck, his
country cstnte. The declination of
two ministers to perform the mar
riage ceremony, It is said, linn com
pletely disarranged tlio wedding
plans nml cnused nu indefinite post- (
ponement of the marriage. Justice '
of the Peace Frederick H. Force of
Netcong, X. J., who claims to be
related to tho Force family has vol
unteered to perform tho ceremony.
SAYS DENIAL
ESI NEWS
WOMAN AND CHILD NEAR
PORTLAND FOUND MURDERED
IS SNOT DOWN
BY ft WOMAN
miner ami a driver iinmcd Hoplns
wore the vIctlniH of bundlu today
Ion n mountain road nmi Nosqitchnn-
j Ing, Pn. Tho money stolon was for
paying Aiihr'tf miners. There Is no
itJuc.
Until wero Hhot uvldontly from ant
V 1 1 h 1 1 . Tlio box contained $3,000 to
7ny about sixty lmndH. Armed men
aro seuixlilng for the Uugltlvos.
After u Hcaroh of .ehnor's carriage
llic .box 'containing S'J.SOO pay for
Ills moil was found lntiict. Two Ita
ItniiH wen- arrested ox suspicion.
Coos Bay Now.
PLAN TO BLOW
VY
a.votji'eu .ukhsio.v.
Local View of President Gray's
Alleged Statement Rail
way News of Coos Bay
"That Is tho best news that 1
; luive heard In a long time," said rt
i well-known Marshlteld mau who Is
A Eugene dispatch to the
Portland .louruul telllnt: of the
visit or President Gary of tho j llro"" ,,OHol ' t0,,ch w,th tl10 rn"
Hill lines In Oregon to Etigono jrond tltimtion, when told that Prosi-
snys, ".Mr. Ourj' did not deny
or iilllrm that the Hill people
wore buhlud the .surveyors, who
are very jietlvo between this
rlly Jinll the const, vlowlng n
line to 'Coos liny." !
dent Gray of tho 11111 line in Ore
gon denied that tho II 111 pooplo nro
interested In Coos Hay now.
"Ibdlronll olllclnls never admit
any move until thuy have everything
they need or desire completed," he
v w v ', loimllliimil. ''UMmil 111., nntvu nf tllolf
plans leak out. they nlways deny It.
They do not doBlro to flollboratoly
Allnged Scheme to Dynamite
Guvernment Plant Near Bos
' ton Is Thwarted.
Dy Associated I'ress to the Cooj Ui.y
Times)
liaSTO.V, "Mush., Sit. 7. - The
politic tiro Investigating what appears
to lime been nn nttompt to blow up
facts !'tno Cbnrlostowii Nnvy 3'nrd with dy-
la th cue, nan." j tho pwchime of u i nuinlt. Thw large sticks wore
iboisun Iy Pnu lleattle which four,'0""'! " yoBterday wmToted nbout
lU'er kllh'd the wire or his c-ou-j''0 fiamowor). or n huge lloatln?
!n. Ilenn Clny Jloattlo, Jr." .iUuriok. OHIuIi.Ih doclrr tho plot to
Carter argued there" was no mo- wreck tho plant might have resulted
ve (or joung Jjunttlu to kill his'1" l ,,'1t )f in,,ro ,hv" two '",n"
lle and nrrnlgntid the dotccthOH illt1 m,iU-
ho liad - mercllmsly worhod tin1
theories anA cast nisupportMl siisn'i-'
lo." llttr'ntedlj pointing to th.i
f"tructlons to tile lurv rocni-dlnt:
flrcunistanibl evldnico nnd Tcnsou-;
Meoubt," Carter nssnllod the)
'fraclty of PnI nentn.i, and pointed ,
10 Ihe unsiilIWd chnmcter of tlio j
lther' testlmjiv in Me mn'i ..inf!
he death at lil rir, n, .n,,.l
r a ri ' ii i r r
UNTIL SUNDAY
EUGENE, Ore., Sept. 7. The
Ehgeno lleglstor Tuesday printed tlio
following: "With -the statement that' misrepresent but they have to pro
he hnd come "to look nround and getjtect thuinselves against rpeoplo who
uenuiilntud with Eiigono," Carl H. ' would hold thorn up on right-of-way,
Gra.v. if the Oreuau .Electrlo com-iOtc
Former City Architect of Chi
cago Victim of Mysterious
Crime Today.
1 11 Associated Press to Coos Uay
Times.)
CHICAGO, III.. Sept. 7. Robert
Hruce Watson, one of tho best
known young architects and contrac
tors of Chicago, was shot In the head
by n mysterious woman In front of
his resldonce today. Watson Is In
a hospital. The womnii was arrest
ed. The woman gnvo liar nnmo ns Mrs.
II. II. Coney nnd ndmltted she llred
tho shot. Sho Is :t5 yours of age and
hns been living at n woll-known
down-town hotol. Wntson has been
city architect and state architect.
Wntson wns shot twlco over tho
right ear and right thigh, ills con
dition Is not serious.
puny, mopped from tho nine o'clock
train Jn.it evening after hnvlng hnd
to give up at Albany his intended
automobile trli from Snleni to Eu
If ynu recall tho history of the Hill
operations In Oregon, I bellovo you
will noto thnt they denied owning or
hnvlng nny Intention to own tlio Orc-
pi-iio, tlio rnln makliiF going on thejgon electric rnllrond and they oven
highway too Mlllcult.
lr. Grny tlltZ not caro to toll his
purtlciilur purpose In visiting Eugene
nt this time, but when nuked regard
ing toriillnnlH anil llopotii for tho Oro
denied any connection with tho Dos
oIuiKh rond oven nRor Port or, Uroth
ers hnd started construction."
Cliuuge In Terminal Hallway.
H Is undoi-stood thnt C. S. Winner
gon Electtlc ho hnld the pooplo horolhns tnlion nn eighth Interest lu the
sooined "to have It all doped out"
just whure tho depots were to bo lo-
Term Inn I , railway, tho orgauUatlou
which Is to build the tnrmluiil Hue
WILL IMPROVE
SUMNER RID
eatefl. Wten tin tract or land on jnnd streot-car linos In Micrnlillohl nml
w'r th death or his wire as con
"Wktln "whnt othor n'Jtnosses say
"Vk of mnnirstntlon on the part
(tbeaccsedof ,g Br0f.-
DJino'is Central Employee Will
Not 5e Called Oiit Before
Then, Probably.
(Dy Asaoeinted Jress to Coos .Bay
Times.)
CHICAGO. III.. Sopt. 7. Rej.re-
sentatlvos of tlio Iniernntlonal Unions
resumed their conference today. Ho
roro th meeting C. V. ConJnii, vlc
prosldeni or tbo Intei'iiatlouvl Mnch
Inista Union, e.xproswd tho opinion
r Prosecutor Wendenhurg do- t " aCtl" W,M tftUeB "',
the commonwe" h Z a "el U' lueotlag f tl10, "T ?
,r0llS case wtt,inil, .,..." "committee or tho International
bt hs had R.kod the man J lll
"'" a tell big gtory.
'ce Information about the now
1 ' saiim r,, ......
: " '"wnays mnu
"riier deolaroii ti,.t i ,..i .i
' ..fc ,ij ,iJt,.jii
MOHK iA'IDEVt'E FOUND.
CHESTERFIELD COURTHOUSE,
-. Sept. 7 Propwiitor Wendon
"I dtelared todny ho had nodded
to request the rooponlng of tho
little
ase on amount of tho dlusov
r ol an alleged oye-wltnoss of tho
a . ...
"arm near tl. .. , .,..
r Until n fo,., ,,,....
Hfnl. " " luier tno crimo
""he wa8 pi.,.,, ,.. ,.
Tl it iu ami iuon-
', '" l,av "enttio to leavo
r y ,ne contry. He do
m he was h,,i .' .. .
ui loe miirin. ...i .
ntiM . ' w,lwn no w"8 H t-
" to tlia
.mho niongsido the
"e saw rtnnMi , ,. ,.,
S fron, ,. " niioen mi
''Oni tho rni. ...ui. ......
(it Z from tl10 )Utt.end of a
W..?nd then sw Win shoot
4 Seat. 0man' The Informant
tQuwLV . ",.",manrt l,llU
m
Wtet because ho w
as afrall
he Is Wtlllnr.
nunn .. .. o "oiiiy. a uer caeo, nu .v..-.
'nnn'a letter Is corro- day by order of Judge Watson
testify,
horated by th fin w or for whom h
worked.
Tho declaration thnt Utmttlo club
hnd hi wife beforo the shooting 1
consldorod or muoh luterost. It Is
snid thnt physlclsiis who oxamlned
the body roportod tho rrontal bono
on tho right sldo of tho skull was
probably broken. Tho lottor of the
alleged eyo-wltuosu goes Into tho
case In grant detail.
TWO ARE RELEASED.
Ileulnh Dlnfoid, Paul lleattle i.iwj
Her I'm-dom by Judge Wat-ou. DANCE and CRAIJ HAKE Satur-
RICIIMOND, Va., Sept. 7. Heulah (ny evening, September 9, nt tho
nlnford and Paul Beattlp. detained ufe-Savlng Station, given by the
Lire-Saving crow. Everyone invitcu
and everyone welcomo. The steamer
Alert will leavo Marshfleld at S
o'clock returning after dance.
Firth Ktreet from Wlllniuttto to Ponii
wiib imlnteil out to him as that which
had bean bought up tho past week ho
roimiAted:
"Some one seonifl to hnve beon got
tlng n lot of proper y Intotono piece
lor us. Perhnps they are going to
ircako lit a pverient 'Ul It. .
"Oh. It doeun't matter )f It did
toMt ?1W),00Q. WO'ni more or less
ustnl to .gottlnr prestntH 11 to that
W'hr. ovtr at Htnd n short time ago
the people guvo u banquet or llowors
to ino nnn to Mr. KIHctt (of the
NortlMirn Pncillo "
CoAccrufKg the building of the
Oregon Eearlc euenslotj, Mr. Cirny
snid tluit thv comvnny hid onttired
Into a tnutrutt ror tho lint from tal
oni to Albany nnd hoped to have the
grading 'lono u good deal Vorore tho
first or .iMiuniT, for If It Is riot dot
bororo the wlnttr sets in It will hnvo
to go over until spring.
On tho othor Jinnd, contracts ror
building heiwcon Albany and Hugono
havo not been lot, -as tho company has
not taken up yetevon tho nuittor ol
Mfcurlng the nocesinry tlght-ol.way
nnd until that Is dooo contracts tan
not bo lot.
Not Inter Ifrt In Coos Ray.
Mr. Gray denied omphatlcully that
his company Is In nny way imarostod
In roachlng Coos Hay at this time.
Ho would not assumo responsibility
for surveys that aro olalmed not to
belong to tho Hnrrlman system, and
said that tholr Interests do not ex
tond beyond Eugone at this tlmo,
Accompnnying Mr. Grny aro L. I..
Wickorshnm, chlof ongineer lor the
Oregon Electric, nnd Judge Cary or
counsel for tho company.
... it.- .ncnwpnUh
ns witnesses ior me tu...,....
In the Henry Clny Deattle. Jr.. mur
der case, were released from Jail to-
North lieuil. The understanding h
that Mr. Wlnsor hns ncqulred oue
hnlf of the fourth Interest in tho pro.
Ject taken by the Simpson Lumber
company.
There 'bus boon no developments
publicly imille known of the Southern
Pacific's latitude towards the local
frnnrhlHo. It Is understood thnt
MoKsrs. Minis and Mlngus have boon
In ronferemw with omo or all of the
pnrtle-a Intorohted In If but wind
transpired nt tho conference has not
been made public.
There were .a wholo lot of rumors
In circulation about It hut little con
fidence Is plnced in nny of them. One
that rouchod heie from North Rend
was to the effect Unit If tho Southern
Pacific could not get tho terminal
francblso In Marshaiold or a big in
terest in It nnd were unable to get
permission to bridge the bay, they
would put their terminals opposite
North Rend nnd lorry ucross the bu
there.
Another rumor Is that mnny or the
pxirchasos of 15. V. Wright of Port-
lat.d made hore tlio last fow months
are for tho Southern Pacific Instond
of ror himself or a syndlcnto ns has
boen announcod.
Therro havo boen no dovolopmonts
in other propositions. Tlio old rumor
thnt Hill was nbout to tako ovor the
Coos Day and IlnUe was afloat again
today but thoro was nothing horo to
snhstnntlato It.
Get Right-of-way.
E. G. Flnnagnu and Petor I.oggle
roturuod yesterday from tho uppor
Coqulllo Valley whoro they hnve
boon for tho past two or threo wooks
securing options on right-of-way for
the Coos Day and Holse lino. They
report good progress with tho work
and found most of the laud owners
ready nnd willing to furnish right-of-way,
most of them donating It
outright. There Is still some to be
secured on that section of tho route
but they expect to be ublo to get that
Coos County Commissioners
Will Cooperate With Coos
Bay Men For Mail Service
At a conference- of reprosentntlvos
of tho Murslifioltl Chamber of Com
merce nnd tho Coos County commis
sioners at Coqulllo this morning,
tentative arrangements wero made
for temporary Improvements In tho
old Coos Hay wngon road which will
fucllltato tho mail servlco dining thu
rnlny sansnn. It wns ngreed thnt
the commissioners would come horo
tomorrow nnd go over part or tho
rond with tho Mnrshllold dologutlon
and determine what will bo neces
sary
Mrs. Daisy Wehrman and Sot?
at Scapoose Victims of
Degenerate.
CRIME IS SIMILAR
TO TWO RECENT ONES
No Clue to Perpetrator Yet
Found Dead For Day or
Two When Discovered.
(Dy Associated Press to Coun Boy
TInu i.)
PORTLAND. Ore., Sei t. 7". Tlirt
murder or Mrs. Daisy Wohrninn nud?
her foiir-your-old son, near Scnpooso;
twenty miles north of Portland,
which was discovered last nlghr, wait
similar In many respects to the mur
der of the Hill family horo and Mr
and Mrs. Coble at Ualnlor, Wnsli. Tlia
murders were committed with an ax.
and revolver. The body of Mro.
Wehrman was violated nftor donllr.
This double crime differs from tho
Hill nnd Cobles murder only In thnt
u revolvor or rille wns usod lu addi
tion to a liutchet nnd that the wo
man was victim, although violated
after the death or tho victim, al
though not mlstrentcd in tho sumo
Dimmer as Mrs. I Mil nml Mrs. Coble
The crime wns committed between.
2:30 Suiidny afternoon when Frank
E. Wolniiinii, the woman's husband,
loft tho cabin to return to (lis am-
ploymout In Portland and if V
o'clock Tuesday afternoon when Mrj.
G. Florckn nnd two chlldron saw thu
body of Mrs. Wohrninn through
curtailed window. Supposing tho
woman wns asleep no roport wan
made. Yesterday, Mrs. Florckn'
again went to the cabin and seeing;'
tho body In the same position- report
ed tho clrciinistnncos to hor husband
who Informed the authorities. The?
fact that tho chickens wero locked irv
Indicates the murder wns committed!
Sunday or Monday night. Robbery
wns not tho mollvo as Is shown by
tho fact that no vnluablns except re
revolver and some ammunition wero
tnken. Apparently the only motlvo
was tho violation of the woman'M
body nftor n inniiiior or a dogeiiorato
known to detectives and scloutlstn
as a nncrophal. The husband of tho
murdered woman was notified of tho
populated. Detectives In three coun
ties aro soarehliig far uomo duo to
tho perpetrator of tho horrible erlttnu.
Tho Marshflold delegation consist-inu,ri,or' " ronohoil tho scono In
ed or Hugh McLnln, Dr. J. T. McCor-Jnn n,1, '"" PorMnnd vory Into last
nine, R. M. Jennings, M. C. Horton night. Ilo Is hoiu-tbrokon nnd cam
and Honry Sengstnckon. .Aftor tnlk- ,ve tllP officers no oluo. The sur-
Ing tho mattor over, Mr. McLnln ns roiinillnB country Is rough and thinly
spokesman of tho delegation made a
proposition that if tho county com
missioners would spend 1,000 out
of tho road fund, tho cash for which
Is now on hnnd, ror plunking, Coos
nny would dorray tho oxponso or lay
ing It. The plank Is to bo merely
lonncd, thnt Is they will be tempo
rnrlly put In nt tho worst plnces for
servlco this winter and when the por
ninneut grndo Is established, thoy enn
be movod.
In this way, It Is bollovod that
tho worst plncos on tho Sumner ond
of tho road will bo put In good
shapo.
ALLIANCE IN
EARLY T
A
Y
later,
Mr. Flnungan reports thnt Engin
eer Alton's survoyliig crew Is now
working In tho vlglnlty of CauiHs.
Wauls Union Depot.
"Now Is tho time ror you pooplo
to start a movomout fur a Union
Depot," remarked a well-known
Murshllehl man osterdny who Is
oloHoly Identified with the railroad
buslnoss. "The time Is now bororo
Steamship Arrives From Port
land and Will Sail Friday
For Eureka.
j The Alliance arrived lu early todny
j from Portland. She hud u big ehlp
mant of onus for the Southurji Ore
j gon flompany's cannery ut Tfiwiili'i.
and also ooiishiemble uitiKvllHjiecmR
frolght.
j The Alliance will sail at U o'clogk
; Friday for Hmku.
j Among the Incoming pahheiiKnr
Hopkins, C. E. Rukkl, Chaa
U'ai'u tlin ffillriurliKv
tl II l' ft iltft i-nnilu im tti .i ,1 nlv I
IIqIioM fl ilnnnt ii'liorn nflinti Iltinu ntl1
" . V ' .... .... .... WIlllnniH. P. Thllnii. T. II. WoUiim,
Jelr ,TS8, n , Un C0T J- C' ondin. O. Palmer. Da.h
9 lonce demands a Union Depot.
and when Coos Day attains the eko Tnyor noo ,IoUIlit a
fi v wa,i ft ( IU JUllO llltj IIU11U"!
tors of tho Union Depot will bo prais
ed for tholr foresight."
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