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About Bandon recorder. (Bandon, Or.) 188?-1910 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 14, 1909)
• * i*. •X • •• • • 9 • 4» •. ••• 4». • • % • • • • /■> • • « : > # • • ♦ % * * •« • ••• • • a . • » « • • • ♦ ♦ 4» 4 W. C. P arker YOUNG & PARKER Parkersburg and Bandon, Manufacturers|of White and Red Cedar Shingles Wholesale and Retail Shippers Spacial Attention to Local Trade THE NEW Vegetable Store Fresh Vegetables and Fruit always on hand HOME GROWN and CALIF. FRUITS, HAM, BACON AND LARD. FINE CANDIES & TOBACCO Proprietor JOHN FENOGLIO, Bandon B ottling W orks ____ SOLE AGENTS FOR______ National Brewing Co. Beer. Bottle and Steam Beer. Oregon Bandon City Meat Market Dean & Henaley, Props. Retail dealers in all kinds of Fresh Meats. Hams, Bacon and Lard Logging Camps and Ship Supplies our Spec ialty at Lowest Possible Price We also carry] vegetables C. M. WAID, Manager 1 he Two Jacks Sal Ton Formerly the Elk Horns Saloon Has opened up under new man* agement and the customers will be treated right. We will serve you the best drink in the city, and you will go away feeling ten years younger Special Attention Given to Family Orders Jack Tupper and Jack Hudson, Proprietors Stmr. Wilhelmina CAPTAIN CHRISTENSEN, Commanding. Coos Bay and Bandon twice a week Connecting with Steam Ship Alliance at Marshfield. information of Full J. E. WALSTROM, Agt. Bandon BANK OF BANDON OREGON H.l Capital, »2S.OO4. BOARD OF DIRECTORS: J L. Kronenberg, President. J. Denholm, President; F. J. Fahy, Cashier; Frank Flam, T. P. Hanly. Vice A general banking Ixisines« transacted and customers given every accommodation con sistent with safe and conservative banking The American National Bank, of San Francisco, Calif; CORRESPONDENTS: Merchants National Bank. Portland, Oregon; The Chase National Bank, of New York. A full line of Confectionery, Fruits, Cigars, Tobacco, Soft Drinks, Etc. HE peppy flaunts its flaming head Along the garden wall. T And one by one from laden trees The mellow apples fall. And In the tangled sumac brush The reedbird pipes his call NEWSSTAND IN CONNECTION HE summer winds with rich perform Through flelds of plenty roam T And kiss the waving wastes of gr.iss BANDON, OREGON Next to Vienna Cafe That shine with golden foam. While all the boundkSH countryside Prepares for harvest home. • • • 9 • • , J. E. Y oung With plenty rustles by. and to maintain reasonable forest reserves. The same is true in a less degree of Mexico, in which country Americans have hundreds of millions of dollars invested. Coos Coes Bay everything is pros perous, and the up river towns in . Laikd* for sale in small tracts ndar Tbeie is needed an international the Coqnille valley also report eon- tpwnf A. Halrfrly code of laws covering the develop- • • • • • • • t . • « • Bandon ZEtec order • t •• • ¿ ~ ^7T T he capital • stock of the Wells« hi -------- 3»ut of waterways and mining, and Fargo Express Co *s$8,000.0jo, and such a code may be an out-growth Published Every Thursday Evening hy the there is nothing to show that this is of this new conservation movemept. all paid up capital, and the probabil -J(Mirini. Recorder PviloiariiXLg Company. O. E. KOPF, - - - Managing Editor ities ure that it is not; but during- For a More Rational Jury the last year the net prefit of the Subscription, fl 50 per Year in Advance. Advertising Rates Made Law company amounted to $4,000,000, Known on Application. Job Printing a Specialty F ollowing somewhat after the according to their report filed with Enteqpd at the Bandou FostoSice as Second Class Matter. movement in California, a bill will the Railroad Commission. This J nil; r. 14 1909 THURSDAY would be 50 per cent on the entire be introduced into the Oregon From this Legislature to provide for a con The Myrtle capital if paid up. S ome members of Congress are ditions as first class. stitutional amendment to affect the inclined to regard intim tion that n ■ Point Enterprise in speaking of bus showing alone it is apparent that conduct of jury trials, and with tional legislatures need Secret Ser iness prospects in that city says: considerable reduction could be special leference to criminal cases. vice surveillance as muck-raking of “1909 promises to be a banner year made in rates charged by the com Whether this particular bill may for Myrtle Point. Merchants an pany, without materially hampering the worst sort. pass or not, is not so pertinent, as ticipate a large trade during the or deteriorating the value of the the fact that it will bring to the at I f O ne wants a good lesson in year, believing it will far surpass capital invested, and at the same tention of the Legislature the need self-control, let him try to save one any previous twelve months in the time Hie company would make tor some sort of corrective law- If the express enormous protits. hundred dollors out of his wages, listory of the city." making that will eliminate some of rate was decreased one fourth the The devil himself will conspire to the difficulty and delay involved in make him spend it ere he gets half W ith this issue the R ecorder companies would still make a big the present system of jury trial. of it together. begins Volume 25, in good health profit. The total tax paid by the The pertinent point in any such and prospects for better business in company in the United States is effort, as we conceive, is to secure S ome of the business men of the future than has ever been our $135,270.84. of which $669.01 is law that will do away with the Of this 1 <tter Marshfield say they felt three dis lot. The R ecorder has tried to paid in Oregon. unanimous vote in the ordinary jury tinct earthquake shocks inside of an always be fair in its dealing with amount $100.37 *s paid on property trial. What is desired in the trial hour one day last week. Wonder people, slanders no one and stands and $568.64 on income and privi of any case is the speediest decision where they have] been getting their up for Bandon and its people, first, leges. one way or the other. The unan booze lately. It certainly must be last and all the time. The c »ming imous vote prevents that altogether San Francisco Response year we will try to make the paper the kind that shakes the drinker. too often, when the merits of the better than ever before, and we ask C alifornia heads the list of case are clear ly apparent. Through I t W as the coldest in Portland our friends to help us by reporting state subscriptions for the relief of this one requirement, caprice and la-t week that it has been for any items of news they may know. Sicilian sufferers, and in the contri- corruption have defeated justice and twenty-one years, and even the It is impossible for the editor to bution of California, San Francisc 1 brought more discredit upon the “oldest inhabitants,' say the weath -r know everything that is going on un is, of course, the heaviest factor. The jury system. Common sense and a was “unusua.l” Over in the fa less some one will give him informa Bay Citv is generous in accor l with desire for an honest and speeedy de mous Hood River Valley they report tion occasionally. We wish one and its reptuation, and j 1st as the rest of termination of civil and criminal is two feet of snow, and in the Missis all a prosperous year in 1909, and the country expects it to be. The sues that have to be settled in the sippi valley and farther east they are wiil try to merit your confidence very name of San Francisco con- courts urge the adoption of some experiencing a genuine touch of during the enti eyear. veys an impression of Pacific Coast neasure that will simplify the jury winter, so the little cool breeze we largeness in charity, It is recogniz- system. - T el eg ram. A lthough weather conditions ed in the West as typical of gen- have been experiencing here would seem like a July zephyr to most have not been favorable, yet the erosity, and, .is the metropolis of progress on the new school building the Coast, its giving becomes a any other place in the country.. RUNNING AWAY FROM HOME. has been quite good, although not matter ot more than local pride. In the present instance there is The Gray Haired Man Remembers f I n M any respects Massachusetts as rapid as had been hoped, and the Boy Who Tried It Years Ago. work will probably not be completed special prompting to give lioerally. is a model state. It is so especially “Whenever 1 read in the newspa by February 15th as anticipated, I'he demand of those stricken Sicil pers that a boy lias run away from in matters of education and labor but may take about thirty days ians is great-how great can probably home to fight Indians or seek some laws. The recent suggestion of longer, but one thing is certain, and be appreciated by San Franciscans other sort of adventure, it takes me back forty years,” said the gray President Roosevelt that orphan or that is, when it is completed the job more keenly than by anyone else. haired man in the club smoking dependent children should be cared will be a very satisfactory one. at The memory • of what the relief room, “for I ran away from home for in private families rather than in once, just as I suppose every other least the work is proceeding in a meant under similar circumstances youngster does, once at east, only asylums is not new, for Massachu- manner perfectly satisfactory to the is yet fresh and impressive in and in my case I wasn’t seeking adven setts had already adopted this architect who has the building in about the city of the Golden Gate. ture. 1 was escaping tyranny. “It seems foolish now, but it was policy and is systematically carrying charge, and Bandon people are as Without the reminder, San Fran all very real to me then. The tyr it out, as far as possible. The pub sured of a school building that will cisco would have maintained her anny consisted of the one fact that lic and charitable institutions are I got my first licking, and I guess be a monument to the community, reputation for liberal giving: with there’s no doubt that J deserved it. useful and as yet necessary- and what is more than all a conveni the reminder, it is 1:0 manner of But I couldn’t see it that way then. probably always will be so; yet ent building for the work of educa marvel that she should be at the 1 was very bitter, and the one idea I had was to get away where life much can no doubt be accomplished ting the young. The school board head of the list.-Telegram. was free and tyrants were not. along the line of the president's “The impulse to depart on my is working for the best interests of suggestion and Massachusetts is travels was carried out so suddenly the district, in connection with working cut the problem, as it has A Continental Movement that I found myself wandering far away from the house before it school building, and they are anxious done many others successfully. T he P resident has invited Can dawned on me that I was ill pro that their procedures will be such vided for a journey. In fact, I had that they will meet with the approval ada and Mexico to join the Uni gone just as I was, with the smart T he graft scandal at Pittsburg, of the people, consequently they are ted States in the movement recently of my physical as well as my mental Pa., seems to be reaching larger wrongs still acute. taking every precaution to sc e that inagurated for the conservation of “As I went I pondered over the proportions as investigation goes national re-ources, and it is probable matter of provisions, and the idea the work is all properly done. farther, the officials and others who that they will accept he invitation, came to me that I would make my first stand in a cranberry bog right have the work of investigation in and that it will therefore beer me an on the farm. With this as a head hand say they will show up some B andon is likely to have a wire international North American en quarters, I would make raids on conditions that will make the San- less telegraphy station, as represent deavor. In his letter to the gov neighboring orchurds, and if worse Francisco grafting, which has atives of the United Wireless have ernor general of Canada the presi came to worst I supposed the cran berries would support life. caused so much sensation, look been here looking over the ground, dent said: “It is evident that natur “Well, I reached the cranberry small indeed. It is to be hoped that and say that they will put in the al resources are not limited by the bog presently and bivouacked. if this is the case, that the guilty station, providing they can get $50 boundary lines which separate na Here I should spend the first night under the friendly stars. I picked parties will be brought to justice. per month on it. This will be a tions and the need for conserving out a soft place for a bed and sat It has cost San Francisco a large very small amount, and the proba them upon this continent is as wide lown to wait the coming of night. “Now, cranberries are not very sum of money, but they are prob bilities are that the business wi II as the area upon which they exist." filling, especially in the raw, green ably rid of Ruefism for a while, as more than double that amount in a I bis is especially true in regard to state, but I managed to eat some of them. And then it began to get that gentleman will not be turned very short time after tne plant is forest wealth, and Canada has so far dark. loose among the people for some installed. Several of the vessels ply pursued a far wiser policy than the “Well, sir, the shadows fell quick ly on the hills about me, and the time, and it is doutful if any one ing along the coast will be equipped United States has in this respect. air grew chill. Fantastic monsters else, or any set of men will under with wireless, and it will be of great Besides, the political line dividing reared their horrid heads on every take the same thing again very use in communicating with them, as the countries has been made too hand. The free life began to pall. “So it won't surprise you to learn soon. ______________ well as for commercial purposes with much of. There is no good reason that a very little boy ran home cry Bandon or a tariff barrier along the same lir e. ing before the supper things had C onditions for a prosperous other cities and towns. been cleared away and that he nev year in the vicinity of Bandon were people should jump at the oppor Geographically the whole region is er, ran away again.”—Washington never better than this year. The tunity of getting this station. Wire one country. Various rivers rise in Post. merchants here are doing good busi less is surely the coming means of Canada and llow into the United HARVEST HOME. EYOND the smoke and noise of tows communicating by telegraph, and States, and vice versa, and the two ness and have not felt the usua B The tasseled cornfields lie bronzy squares of stubble lands great lull that comes after the holi will in time replace all other means countries should unite to get the And Stretch barrenly and dry. days. Real estate is moving at a of long distance communication, as most benefit out of those streams And every breeze that ruffs the grass % ••• •» good figure and everything indicates there will be no trouble such as prosperity. The same conditions wires being down or crossed or in exist in other parts of Coos county, fact any ether difficulty that is so according to reports. Over at common to the old system. * 9 » 4 » • 4 • • • I • • • • • t • • « • • • • • • • •• • • 4 • * • I