Bandon recorder., July 25, 1907, Image 1

Volume XXIII.
BANDON,
OREGON,
THURSDAY,
JULY 25,
advertising, and on their different
experiences in locating in this coun­
try.
Everybody was enthusiastic
and all agreed that what is needed
more than anything else here at
present,
are capitalists who would
ENTHUSIASTIC MEETING
invest in industries mentioned above,
and the only way to attract them MANY LIVES ARE LOST - COLUMBIA SINKS IN
Purpose to Boom and Adver­ here is to send out descriptive
LESS THAN TEN MINUTES.
matter.
tise this Community
The Colonist rates will be on Sep­
Properly.
tember 1st, and the fares one way
will be very reasonable on all rail­
Captain Doran Goes Down with his Ship - San Pedro is
roads coming west. In another
A number of the leading men of
column will be found an article on
Towed Back to Port in Damaged Condition.
Bandon met at the City Hall last
them by our special Portland cor­
Friday evening and a Commercial
respondent. If you know of friends
4 Life-boats land at Shelter Cove.
Club was organized, with the fixed
who expect to visit Coos County,
purpose of properly advertising Ban
tell them in your letters about Ban­
don and its immediate vicinity.
don and how to get here.
San Francisco, July 22.—Eighty-
Assistant to President Frey, of
T. B.
Wheeler was
elected
A committee composed of Messrs nine women anil about 50 men were
the
San Francisco Portland Steam­
chairman for the evening, and gave Wheeler, Wade and Treadgold,
drowned
like
rats
in
a
trap
when
the
ship
Company, at noon today gave
an able address to the gathering. were selected to draw up a suitable
He showed how we could be bene- constitution and by-laws for this passenger steamer Columbia, bound out the following figures:
Cabin passengers on thb Columbia
fitted directly and indirectly by such body, and to report last night. for Portland, went down at midnight
Saturday
after
collision
with
the
168;
steerage passengers, 21; total
advertising, and demonstrated with­ Everybody is invited to become a
steam
schooner
San
Peiiro.
Every
passengers, 189; crew, 60.
out a doubt that we were sadly in member. A small membership fee
woman
on
board
was
drowned.
Of
This makes a total of 241) souls on
need of such advertising.
The per year will be required, not in any
the
249
souls,
passengers
anil
crew,
board.
country at large knows vaguely of way to pay for advertising matter,
Reporteil saved, 98; unaccounted
Coos County, but very few come but to pay the running expenses of who sailed on the Columbia, 98 were
saved,
but
there
was
not
a
single
for,
151.
down to the Coquille Valley. For the organization. The advertising
woman
among
them.
The
Columbia
L ater .
various reasons they hear but little will be done by subscription and by
t
left
this
port
at
ro
o
’
clock
Saturday
of Bandon, anil it is owing largely those who are more or less directly
Later advices from the scene of the
morning under command of Captain
to the fact that we are not properly interested and benefited.
disaster report a smaller loss than
P. A. Doran. At midnight she was given at first. The last dispatch to
advertised. We have something
steaming under a slow bell off the
more than a real estate boom here,
the Oregonian gives the unaccounted
Mendocino coast, enveloped in a list at 72. A number of the women
and parties with money to invest;
dense fog. Twelve miles off shore
the desirable citizens and laborers,
The local baseball organization and four miles to the north of Shelter were saved. Four of the life boats
will all find welcome written on our
were landed at Shelter Gove and the
will cross bats with the Coquille Cove, Mendocino County, in latitude
door mat, and not on account of
survivors are being cared for at
having something to sell. There team on the local diamond, and (will 39 degrees, 58 minutes, and longi­ Eureka. The blame is undecided,
are places that are infested with real redeem the game lost to them up tude 123 degree, 10 minutes west, although a number of the passengers
estate dealers who have placed their liver last Sunday.
Hohn and the Columbia was struck by the of the Columbia and seamen on the
property so ridiculously high that it Walker will pitch the game. The steam schooner San Pedro, south San Pedro state it was due to car-
bound. An immense hole was torn
not only scares the would-be pur
boys played a good game last Sun in her port side, and in five minutes lessness on the Columbia. Some
chasers and residents, but gives the
assert the Columbia was going at
day, but played a hard combination she had gone down in 86 fathoms of
entire community a ‘ black eye.”
full speed. Both vessels knew of
Six players were struck and a hard water.
each others whereabouts as they
Nearly all present at the meeting
So rapidly did the vessel fill that
were whistling.
had something to say; their opinions bump is not calculated to make ex­
all the passengers below the hurri­
Everbody turn
as to how such a body should be pert ball players.
cane deck and the engineering force
conducted; as to the various ways of out for an interesting game Sunday.
New Walk for the Gallier.
at work in the hold were given no
Commercial
Club Organized
Passenger Steamship Columbia
Rammed and Sunk by San Pedro
Baseball Sunday.
Opportunities and the
Resources
of Bandon and Vicinity..
A CLIMATE that alone offers inducements of greater magnitude
to the seeker of health, than anything else. Warm winters
anil cool summers. The sea breezes impart life and vigor,
and drive the heavy fogs, common to localities near the ocean
far to the inland.
G reen G rass the year 'round which the stock raiser can readily
see great possibilities in his line. The finest grazing facilities
in the world.
S aw mills , Ship Yards, Shingle and Broom Handle mills. Wool­
en mills, Government Works, and all branches of Commer­
cial lines well represented; all of these, and more, are favor­
able conditions for the laborer and mercantile investor.
S mall F ruits thrive and the climate is such as to cause long
seasons, which stand the local Horticulturists in a way to be­
come dangerous rivals to Hood River.
F ishing and H unting that is unsurpassable. The brooks are
filled w ith trout, and an abundance of wild game abound the
hills and valleys. Spend your vacation here, you will never
regret it.
chance for their lives. Most of the
passengers were women, and went
down to death almost before the
rush of water could have awakened
them from their sleep
Meanwhile, Captain Doran, with
rdmirable coolness, launched four
boats and two rafts from the star
board side. Bv leaping from the
Columbia to the San Pedro 98 mt n
escaped death, but brave Captain
Doran went down with his ship and
with the helpless women. The sur-
ivors were taken from tin San Pedro
Sunday morning by the steamer
Geo. VV. Elder, which was the first
vessel to arrive at the scene of the
disaster. Then with the San Pedro
in tow, the Elder steamed to
Eureka. She was spoken by the
steamer Roanoke, and this vessel
brought the first news of the terrible
ocean tragedy to San Francisco.
Idle San Pedro was out of her
course, anb struck the Columbia at
right angles on the port bow. She
must have been steaming at terrific
speed, for the Columbia was cut
down to the water, while the San
Pedro had her stem torn away and
lost her mainmast. Then with her
foremast sprung, her cargo gone
and in a w ater-logged condition, the
San Pedro backed away from the
Columbia, but not before a number
of the latters passengers had leaped
from that doomed vessel. Almost
before the San Pedro hail gotten
clear the Columbia had sunk.
When the Roanoke sighted the
Geo W. Elder with the San Pedro
in tow the two vessels were making
slow progress toward Eureka, but
they arrived there safely this morn­
ing. The San Pedro lost none of a
crew of 18.
The survivors have been taken to
Eureka and are being cared for
there. The San Pedro must have
been going at a teriffic rate of speed
inasmuch as her mainmast was
snapped off short by the impact of
the collision.
Number 30
1907
Gallier Bros, have set the pace
for progressive business men in Ban­
don, by having a new cement side­
walk laid in front of their Hotel,
<‘alleesair.ee Portland ” We under­
stand that Lorenz and Hoyt will ex­
tend the walk past their business
house, which will greatly improve
the looks of that part of the main
street, and will give the town a more
metropolitan took. The first cost
is rather high, but when durability
ami convenience is considered, the
woollen sidewalks are not in it.
With all of the new improvements on
foot, would'nt it be a good idea for
the city dads to look into the matter
of cement crossingsand curbing that
adjoin the walks that will be laid in
the future.
PriCe DoeS
J.
of timber, the user of the range, the
user of water, and other users of
Forest resources. Third, it is shown
1 how the Forests are intended for '
use, for the production of usable
products, anil for the establishment
HE DID HIS DUTY
anil maintainance of homes; how on
all of them the timber is protected
from fire, the water flow is kept Ship Yard Will be Rebuilt
steady, the forage on the range is
Site Has Not Been
increased and guarded from abuse:
Decided Yet
and how, in addition, they serve as
great public playgrounds anil as
breeding ¡»laces anil refuges for
J. II. Price wishes to state that he
game Finally, the management of does not in any wav wish to give the
the National Forests is described.
impression that
Nightwatchman.
Here it is that the great usefulness II. C. Dorris, was responsible for
of the Forests is brought out most not giving the alarm of the fire at
clearly and strikingly; for the For-1 the Price Shipyard, when the two
ests are managed by the people in vessels and the buildings w ere de­
their own interests, and every means stroyed. The tire is an unexplain­
is used to meet the desires anil wants able thing and the blame cannot be
of all Forest users half way by deal­ attached to anyone.
ing with them in the main directly
Mr. Dorris is an elderly man, and
on the ground and in all cases with uses neither alcohol nor tobacco, and
the utmost practicable dispatch and always has been very particular in at
freedom from red tape.
tending to his duties As their great
In a word, the special interest of est dread was of tire, he used every
this manuel lies in its showing that precaution as a preventive, and made
the Forest policy of the Government a regular beat over and through the
both in principle and practice, is for boats at intervals all through the
the benefit of the ordinary man, for night. Mr. McKay was on the deck
the benefit of every citizen equally. of the Daisy about halfpast ten that
There is still a tendaney to think evening, and Mr. Dorris went the
of the National Forests as “pre­ rounds at halfpast twelve, lasting
1
serves” closed to use, and to leave until one o'clock. At that t time
the public lands exposed to unreg­ there was no suspicion of fire, A
ulated individual exploitation.
few minutes past one, Mr. 1 forris
Where these misapprehensions started for the river to get a myrtle
still prevail “The Use of the National chunk to put on the lire to keep
Forests” will go far to correct them. steam up, and as he opened the
The book is written by Mr. Fred­ door, the w hole side of the boat
erick E. Olmsted, whose intimate burst out in a solid mass of flames.
knowlege of conditions in the West He ran for the engine where he
and the policy under which the Nat­ could sound the alarm with the
ional Forests are managed especially whistle, but the steam had run so
fits him to deal with the subject.
I low that he could not make much of
Myrtle Point has a case of small anoisd with it. He had just barely
pox and we are informed that several lime to get out of the burning build­
were exposed before it was known ing.
to be in their midst. Fortunately it
Mr. Price tells us that w hen he
is very mild and the local authorities builds he will offer the position of
are watching it very closely,
night watchman again to Mr. Dorris,
as
he found him efficient in every
If it is pair of shoes you want, you
will find them in the proper styles, way for the position, and has left him
prices ami sizes at Lorenz X Hoyt.
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Not Blame Dorris
R esolved that
YOU PONT HAVE TO HUNT
AR ound for BARGAINS
EVERYTHING IS A
BARGAIN in OUR store .
B uster BR ow N
For Sale
A brand new Oliver Typewriter,
complete with metal covet. cost $97.-
50, w ill sell for $75.00
Enquire
.it this office.
How the National Forests
Serve the Public.
‘‘The Use of the National Forests,”
a publication just printed by the
Department of Agriculture, is brief,
clear manual for public information
as to the forest policy of National
Government. ,
It is too true, as the short preface
to the public says, that “many peo­
ple do not know what National
Forests are. Others may have
heard much about them, but have
no idea of their true purpose anil
use.” It is the object of this pub
lication to explain just w hat the Nat­
ional Forests mean, what they are
for, and how to use them.
In the first place, it is explained
how the Forests are created and how
their boundaries are drawn. Next,
their use and value are shown from
the point of view of the homes<eker,
the prospector and miner the 1» r
H unting
WE NEVER. PUT 5HODDY 5TUFF INTO OUR. 5TOR.E
THER.EFOR.E WE NEVER. HAVE 5HoDDY 5TUEF.
QUALITY 15 THE EIR.5T THING PEOPLE .SHOULD
KNOW ¡5 GOOD WHEN THEY BUY AN AR.TICLE.
YOU WILL BE 5UR.E To GET GOOD QUALITY IE YOU
BUY FR.ON U5, EVEN THOUGH WE AR.E NOW .SELL
ING GOOD5 AT LOWER. PR.ICE5 THAN BEFOR.E THE
TOUR.TH, AFTER. QUALITY, PR.ICE 15 THE NEXT
THING YOU WI5H To BE R.IGHT,
AR.E ALWAY5 LOW
ENOUGH
To
OUR. PR.ICE5
BE
HONE5T
PR.ICE5.
R.E5PECTFULLY,
O. A. Trowbridge
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