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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.
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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
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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.
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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-
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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,
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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