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About Bandon recorder. (Bandon, Or.) 188?-1910 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 20, 1908)
o i) o O ♦ o o « • »,___ ----Ï Æ85T 3®nmt>'ffiPFILY EVER AFTER, o Coquille Steam Laundry 0 e £ AMM** TIMMONS. Preaident íMTdjk MOSA. V x*-e President A. D. MOR9C Manager G. T TR F A GOLD. Secreti ry A. E. HA Do ALL, 'treasurer NOSLER & MORRISON. Trop». X Jf Bandon Investment Corporation FIRST-CLASS LAUNDRY WORK Of every kind done on rt notice and at reasonable pncee. Incorporated May 6, 1907 SATISFACTION IS CUARANTFED Order* left on Mondays with our Band** an« nt. A O. TROW BRIDGE, will l e given car»« ful attention and delivered in Bandon at the star« Friday evenings. Real tstate, Townsites, Promotions BANDON COQUILLE, OREGON. SHOES BOOTS A. McNair, The Hardware Man You can’t expect to get $♦ worth for $1, but you can get your moneys worth at B*C>GE »BEACH Stoves. Ranges and Healers have in them no many excellencies that they are now acknow ledged the Kreatest hellers on the coast, and they are grow ing in favor every year We have the exclusive agency in Bandon for these houae- i«>ld and sfhce neceasitiw, and prices range exceedingly mudarst in either case. M. BREUER’S L TINNING AND PLUMBING A SPECIALTY Dealer in Boots and Shoe« OMr A4n»tr«e«t of Hardware. Tinware and Edged Tools is Most Complete Repairing Neatly and Promptly D*t at Lowest Living Prices. Lewin’s Meat Market CIVIL ENGINEER AND SURVEYOR Cha*. S. McCulloch High Classes of Work Solicited Bandon * Oregon MR ANO MRS All Kinds of OKLAHOMA Meats & Provisions HOTEL GALLIER Rates $1 to $2 per Day by the Week or Month, in Connection Special Rate« Sample Room Furnished at living prices. A share of the public patronage solicited Oregon Bandon ; » nq'f. 1 È ililh i1 LEWIN, H III |i 1 ; ‘ ! f'e W.ELDS 4 KENNEDY, Blacksmiths and Wagon Makers Wagons of Al! Kind» Made to Order Horseshoeing a Specialty Jcdb Work attended to promptly and all work guaranteed to give satisfaction. Prices reas onable. Shop on Atwater Street. Bandon, Oregon. BANDON, OREGON Capital, $25,CO) HOARD OF DIRECTORS: J. L. Kronenberg. President; J. Denholm. Vice Fresident F. J. Fahy, Cashier; Frank Flam, T. P. Hanley A general banking business transacted and customers given every accommodation con- 0V*ent with safe and conservative banking. CORRESPONDENTS; The American National Bank, of San Francisco, Cal.; Merch- gpAi National Bank, Portland, Oregon; The Chase National Bank, of New York. Mank is open from 9 a. m. to 12 m., and 1 p. m. to 3 p. m. » The New. Elegantly Fitted and Speedy Steamer LLIZ ABETM ► ► CART. J. OLSEN. Master V>w ia new, it strongly built and fitted with the latest improvements and will etww a regular N day service, for passengers and freight, between the Coquille river, Oregon, Iran Franciaco. E. T. KRUSE, managing agent, 23 Market St., San Francisco. ► J. f. WAISVROM» Agcwt« Ikmdoei, Orwgow. « 0 The new State of Oklnhoma Is richest and most promising ever ad mitted to tht American Union. She bas half at many people as all the thirteen original States combined when they achieved their independence. By ac tual count of noses she ha» six times the population of any other State ever received at the time of admission Into the Union. She has fifty time« the amount of wealth'tbat could be claimed by any of her predecessor» at the be ginning of their State life, and has. what not one of them could »how, all the arts and sciences, the Improvements and progress that go to make a highly civilized commonwealth, from wireless telegraphy to the skyecraper, from the telephone to chemical farming. More than a million and a half peraon« claim the new State as their», and It will not be long after th«* census 1» taken in 11)10 before the 2.00f),fkO-tnark will be passed. All the old State« have sent their best blood into Oklahomk to give it cosmopolitan life, "and, no matter where you are from, if you travel with in Its borders you will find your own people. Spots that were grassy prairies are hustling towns to-day; yes terday’s towns are cities now. Up-to-dateness seems to be the watch word of Oklahoma's people In the rural districts as well as in the populous cities. Every farmer ba» bis windmill, gasolene engine or mechanical water ¡tower for supplying his house and out- buildings, and many own automobiles. Telephone» bring them Into close com munication with the towns, and the rural free delivery bear» dally mall to their door». OkkthoniH can raise any- tiling whieh grows between the ('ana- diau border and Florida and Texas. The cotton yield to the acre 1» greater than that in any other Ktate or Terri tory In the Union. Only three of the territories now re main, Alaska, Arizona and New Mexico. The ¡robabllitj is that one or both of SOME REAL MONEY TAYICJI. slowly and laboriously falling into the procession of constitutionalism. •in Asia, too, constitutional govern ment is advancing. The case of Japan Is known fo all. Recently In Persia— that degenerate land of Cyrus and Xer xes, whose power once dominated all western Asia—a constitution has not long since beeu accorded the people. Ami now comes Abyssinia, In Africa, whose King Menelek II., who claims descent from Solomon, has decided on giving a constitution to ids subjects. As a first step In. this reform lie lias Just established a cabinet, with ministers of foreign affairs, justice, finance, com- •inerce constitution. * « E«i««*e» Wkltk Make Reeeat <■<«•- Ivealeit«'*# Look Telata«. ■WWW w www w wwwwwwwwwwwewww w wwwwwwwwwwwwww w A community which has been coti- fronted with closing of ■ institutions California and Oregon Coast Steamship Co. whore It kept Its money balance« al I • ways con-I^Tf« it* case one of unpar » 4 alleled misfortune, say« the New York » 4 4 Post. Yet there have been “panic«,” Now plying between Portland and Coos Bay only 4 when circum 4 even In recent times, WEEKLY TRIPS stance« were more heart-breaking even 4 GEO. D. GRAY & CO., Gen. Agent« L. W. SHAW, Agent than that of depositors In the Knlcker- 421 Market Street, San Francisco Marshfield. Phone 441 4 4 Irtcker »ixl of the dozen other «mailer 4 banks which went down with It. The ■a» of 1857, «lm»«t forgotten, wai one Ln which not only bank de|>o«lts, but fhe money In the pocket’of every Indi vidua!, turn««! out useless for private wants. The mood <»f the man who learned of the closing of a «tri ng of note-1 sail i ng banks under the older sys For Sale at the Shingle Mill tem and who searched his jiocket book anxiously to see If his means of paying All ordrrs filled promptly. Office in mill. We petty bills was suddenly cut off. had a . pay highest price for red cedar logs and bolts different itapect even than today's. 1 Five month« after our panic of 1M03; the two banks In the colony of New foundland. whose circulating iioti» made up the whole currency.of the Isl and. closed their 'doors, amt both' were •ojnpietely insolvent. The community was literally left without any circu « lating medium until gold arrived from < England; a state of barter existed and where personal credit did not survive ' Successor to HOOVER & MONDAY the tinsmith took his pans to the baker to buy bread. A full year aftfr tiiat 1 extraordinary event the colonial gov Dealer in AJ1 Kinds of ernment having in the meantime guar an teed up to 40 per cent the notes of one of the two defaulting bank.*—a < B7 Ct rm • I bought «nd man would get. in his dully currency at E*.rch>F<1 thi* °J«j «nd well entablishad business, and m..vrd the same to the St. John’«, bills for $10 stainj>e<l in red ■s»Wti building, amt side Main street, we solicit a continuance of past genenm- patronage ink, ”gtuirant<e<l f««t $1,” and they •uOiWtWne hottest A<«*is. fair prices and courteous treatment to all ‘«ought JiWt $4 worth of go. sis 4 < ■ * Steamer Alliance Port Orford and Red Cedar Shingles YOL’NG & CO. W. N. WRIGMT 0 BANDON «MEAT MARKET .' Fresh end Silt Meets, Vegetables, Lard, Etc. 0 LIBESTY SPREADING. VARNEY & TUTTLE A EwQ Un« «f Confectionery, Fruit, Cigar», Tobacco, IWt Etc. News Stand in Connection • • FUlt to Vienna Cafe BANDON Menclek of Al>y»«inla to 4»rnnt Con •<! t ntion to Ilia People. > The leaven of modern political ideas and of free government Is constantly working and spreading throughout the world. A few years before the middle of the last cvntWy there win only one little state—Piedmont—on the Euro pean gontlnent that had securely won free government. Even In Great Brit ain the restriction of the suffrage pr* vented the full enjoyment of demo cratic government. Now all this is changed in Europe and even Russia 1» • • • • °o • « ° o 9 these last-named will soon be admitted to the United States, and then every section of the country except Alaska, MRS. SARAH COSTELLO Porto Rico. Hawaii and the Philip pines will be represented In the Senate. Nice clean rooms 25c and 50c * Some facts about Oklahoma, the for night; $1.25 a week; $5 a montb ty sixth State: Population, 1,500,000; size, 70,430 square miles-—larger than BANDON OREGON the combined area of all New England ; will send five Congressmen to Washing ton—four Democrats, one Republican ; elected one blind man and one part BANDON TRANSFER CO. C. H. BATTERSI N & SON, Cherokee Indian to the Senate; has the longest constitution ever put together Dray and General DeEver» for a State; its first Governor, C. N. Meet« all boats. All orders handled with ease Haskell, Democrat, defeated Frank OREGON Frantz, the Rough Rider Territorial BANDON Governor, appointed by the President, by 30,000 majority; Oklahoma City, the biggest town in the State, has 45,000 Inhabitants and is only 15 years old ; Oklahoma has 0,000 miles of railroad BANDON, OREGON track within Its borders; has six times the population and fifty times tin* wealth claimed by any other State at the time of its admission to the Union. THE PACIFIC Clarence tY. Lowe Druggist and Apothecary » .1 I Furnished Rooms AT » > « ? Proprietor Q> ef Drugs and .Chemicals, Patent and Pro prietary Preparations, Toilet Articles, Druggists Sundries, Perfumes, Brushes Sponges, Soap, Nutsand Candies, Cigars Tobaccos and Cigarettes, Paints, Oils. Glass and Painters’ Supplies. Is just in receipt of a new and fresh Rtoek A Dexerted Villa««. The site of the erstwhile nourishing village of Brendon Is represented by a few gaunt stone chimneys, a stray clus ter or rootless cottages, a dilapidated Dissenting chapel, a ghostly railway station and one fair-sized shop, which serves the needs of the scattered com A. B. SABIIM munity living on the Brendon Ilills, says IL G. Archer, In the Wide World Manufacturer of »ni Yealer in Magazine. But for many years the de cl 1®r*y serted village was left just as it was All Kind« of Hamess tthd Saddles Repaired when the miners occupied it, and ns such presented an extraordinary sight BANDON OREGCM —silent, grass-grown streets of closed houses, shop?, inns and places of wor ship. It was only comparatively re cently that the buildings were razed and the materials of which they were conqiosed sold and carried away. To day the most tangible relic Is found at the junction of the roads just outside the village—a quaint, square, plafn building, over’the porched entrance to which Is the word “Beulah,” and the RASMUSSEN BROS., Props .«lute of erection, ISflt. This Is one of tile little chap««ls built for the miners. No aftempt has tieen nia«Jt« to preserve « It from decay, and not so long ago* the pedestrians <«oul<1 stroll In and find the sunlight streaming through fl«« transJu cent windows an«! their bonier» of col ored glass, making the Interior gro tesquely gay. The pulpit and pews th(*n remained, and many of the cards KINO MFNEI.FK. affixed to the book-rests and inscribed when the time Is ripe for If, will fol with the seat-holder»' names were yet low. in order to acquaint tiipiseif the t*> he seen. Oregon bettor with European governmental "»rnnrln» «hr I.and.” systems. Menelek has a commission I have just been examining an old traveling from court to court picking up information which later Is to lie look containing the accounts of the turned to the advantage of Abyssinia. charity estate of West Haddon, ern t’ nder hh'tielek, for an African potentate, bracing the yettrs 177.3-1850. who has never left the limits of his do date Aug. 17, 17,6. Is the following Has a Select Stock of minions, Is a progressive ruler ami has entry: "Paid Richard Worster seven days' Introduced many modern Improvements Into his kingdom. He entue to the work, cutting thorns and »cowering and throne In 1881» and under hitn the Ital- stoping of gaps, 10s. fid.” The term "scouring the ditch” Is ian ambition to rule the country was tisc*d on Jan. 8. 1781, and appears effectively ended nt Adowa. Where the Italian army was badly beaten. Mene many times after this date, the last In lek Is shrewd, far sighted and pictur stance tieing on April 28, 1820.—Lon- esque anil keeps well posted on foreign don Notes and Queries. affairs. His Indorsement of railroqd c Trlomnhant W»oln«. COURTEOUS TREATMENT building In his empire will go far to Manager —For heaven's sake, Frau develop the national resources of til«« country and make that °pigturesquo leln, what have yon done? You’ve gone land better known to the outside *ivid. and accepted the hero’s prff|>o«<Hl In the first act Instead of the fifth! The Star—But he begged «<> nicely! Seven mon out of ten w»o get Into o trouble are able to t|g<* tlfflir downfall And—why can’t I just refuse him iu ^Bandon »■— ar»b act?”—Flfegende Blaetter. to «Ide I iiuh ° Oregon The Eldorado o Bandon The OPERA Wines, Liquors & Cigars .GROSS BROS. • • 0 o 9 9 0 o O , o 8 O O o