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About Bandon recorder. (Bandon, Or.) 188?-1910 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 28, 1909)
----------------- ------- r .i Ä CYCLONE OF FL THE TALK OF THE TOWN H TAKE ADVANTAGE L of th^ low prices and invest in Coos Co. Real Estate ANCH and City property of all kinds for sale and exchange. Houses for rent. R “"We sell ttie ZEartli” KOLP & JENSEN To-Night J Thursday, Jan. 28 James Keane AND COMPANY IN THE STAR’S MASTERPIECE Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde This is Mr. Keane’s 10th year in this great play POPULAR PRICES, 25, 35 and 50 Cts. Seats on Sale ut J. T. Mars’ -------------- ---------------------------- U Are You Going to Build? If so you can get the very best lumber on the market at the lowest figure by calling on or addressing the LYONS-JOHNSON LUMBER CO. We will deliver lumber on the Bandon wharf without extra charge to the purchaser. Lyons-Johnson Lumber Co. PROSPER, OREGON BANK OF BANDON HANIM»* OltEGOS Capital. »*23.000. BOARD OF DIRECTORS: J. L. Kronenberg. President. J. Denholm, President; F. J. Fahy, Cashier; Frank Flam, T. P. ilanly, Vice A general banking business transacted and customers given every accommodation con sistent with safe and conservative banking CORRESPONDENTS: The American National Bank, of San Francisco, Calif; Merchants National Bank, Portland, Oregon; 1 he Chase National Bank, of New York. <'ll I if«» I'll III it ut I Oregon (oust Nteniiiwhip 4 <». Steamer Alliance Now plying between rortlnnsl mul Co«»» Kay only WEEKLY GRAY A HOLT CO., Gen Agents 728-730 Merchants Exchange San Francisco TRIPS H. W. SKINNER. Agent Marshfield. Phone 441 THE T Presbyterian Church ------------ ------------------------- b Fires In Bamboo Forests Are the Fiercest Known. The Ladies’ Guild met last Wed- n sday with Mrs. J Johnson. I'he Thimble Club meets tumor SWEEP ON A MILE A MINUTE row afternoon with Mrs. C. T. Like the Roar, the Roll and the Rattle Fieger. of a Great Battle Is the Noise of the The Breakwater will sail for Port Exploding Stalks That Sometimes land from Coos Bay Saturday at 6 Shoot High Into the Air. o'clock a. m. When the forests are ttfire, when St. Valentine's mask bill Satur day evening Feb. 13th Oriental hall SIDEWALK LUMBER- -CODY MUMBER COMPANY — LOST—Pair rimless eye glasses it C. R. Wade. Don't forget the Keane company tonight they will put on a good show. SIDEWALK LUMBER- LUIA R. H. Rosa Co. carries the very LUMBER COMPANY best line of canned goods in the mar Dr. J. D. Kelly has so far re ket. covered from lfis recent illness as to Wait for the grand masquerade ball. St Valentine’s eve Oriental hall \V. C. Sellmer went to Co quille Tuesday to put in some of his light plants. Call ai Allen ¿4 Davids in’s for bargains. Don’t forget the run away Tedd* Bears ii: Saturday afternoon matinee at the the opera house. be able to attend to his practice again. We still have a few second hand stoves at bargain prices some at $10 and some at $12. Woodruff ¿4 Turner the house furnishers. It has been suggested that the mayor issue a proclamation for all business hou es to close Saturday af ternoon so as to give people an op portunity to attend the Teddy Beat- Show. The Wild Man of Borneo and his troup of Trained Teddy Bears are coming to town At the opera h use Saturday afternoon at 2:30, under the auspices of the Juvenile Sewing Society Prices 5 and 10 cents. A big line of dry batteries at the Standard Electric Co's Store of Atwater Street. SIDEWALK LU M B E R—COD V LUMBi R COMPANY' Quite a number fr >m Bandon at tended the funeral of the late John I'he Hamblock of Parkersburg, funeral occurred at Coquille Tuts day FOR SALE—(Due bay stallion Have your house wired for elec- colt coming two years old. Well trie lights. Standard Electric Co. bred. Address E. J. Hutchison, 52tf Don’t forget that home mad Bandon, Oregon. bacon and hams, of corn fed stock, F. S Perry, proprietor and man are for sale at R. H. Rosa Co’s. ager of the Bandon Veneer plant Store. went to Portland on business Wed nesday going on the Alliance by wav sidewalk LUMBER - CODY of Coos Bay. Mr. Perry expects LIMBER COMPANY. The Masquerade Ball to be given to be gone a week or two and at Oriental Hall St. Valentine's ev< hopes to succeed in a proposition Feb. 13th, will lie one of the big that will not only enhance his own business but will be of material events of the season. Land ,foi sale in small tiacts neat benefit to the citv of Bandon SI DEW ALK LU M BER—-C( >DY’ town. A. Haberly LUMBER COM "ANY. Rev. Horsfall will hold services in C A. McKellips, the sewing St. John's Episcopal Church Sun machine man from North Bend, vill day morning and evening at th u>ual hours. Sunday School at 10 be in Bandon between the 10 and 20 of each month. Needles and sup a. m. plies for all machines. Office at SIDEWALK LUMBER —CODY’ Wood uff & Turner s Furniture LUMBER COMPANY. Store, 2-4t The Racket store sells notions, The Elizabeth sailed Sunday for stationery, glass-ware and China. San Francisco with 320.000 feet o> Lace hosiery and underwear. Good lumber, 6 <8 cases of salmon, 8 cases values and courteous treatment of woolen goods from the Bandon guaranteed Woolen Mill, and four passengers. Donald Charleston, who has Purser Blyley remained over this charge of the engineering work for trip to look after business for the the dredge Oregon at Coos Bay was company. The Elizabeth will re an over Sunday visitor with his turn to Bandon early next week. family in Bandon. SIDEWALK LUMBER • CODY We carry supplies for all makes LUMBER COMPANY. of sewing machines, also repairing Rev. J. Thomas, who was pastor and cleaning done. Leave orders of the Baptist church here last year, at Woodruff <!4 Turner's the house is now stationed at Sumner, Wash furnishers. ington. In a letter received a few SIDEWALK LUMBER- -DYCO Leneve, days ago by Mrs. J. G. • LUMBER COMPANY. from Mrs. Thomas, the • latter says A. E. Had.sal I, city engineer, has that they had 24 incl'es of sn >w on been confined to his home with an the ground when the ; letter was attack of grip but we understand written. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas are that he is some better at present. getting along nicely in their ne v All hope lor his speedy recovery. home, which will be pleasing news For fresh fruit and groceries cal) to their Bandon friends. at Allen ¿4 Davidson’s. SID E W ALK LUMBER....... CODY LUMBER COMPANY. The Bandon schools > ill give a special program on Lincoln's birth Pacific Ave., also known as Little day anil theG. A. R. and W. R. C St, has been undergoing some great of Bandon have been invited to at improvements recently. Phi. hill tend the exercises and participate in ide cast of the Episcopal church, the same. has bet n removed, from the street, Nothing like electric lights foi about 11,000 vards of dirt being re moved in the excavation. A solid home or business house. The Bijou Theater is getting good wall has been erected on the west houses every night. For Saturday side of the street and a new con- and Sunday evenings they have se crete sidewalk will be built. This cured the famous acrobats Murr and all gives the street a fine appearance Me Graw who will do some spirit id and will greatly benefit the travel Thus one by one the stunts in addition to the regular ing public. streets of Bandon are ln-ing made mot ing picture program. better. Another thing that greatly SIDEWALK LUMBER—CODY beautifies the town at the place men LUMBER -COMPANY' tioned is the terracing and sodding G. W. Bowman returned I st of the church yard east of the l-.pis •<>- week from a business trip to Port pal church, giving it a «1 cidedly land. He had intended to go on citified appearance. to th<‘ sound but was scared out In FOR RENT-Hall over |x»st- the cold weather in that section office A< Id Jess or phone I’ho-. He says he prefers Bandon dim th I >< vereux, Parkersburg. Ore. to the cold bla-ts of the North 5' D* Now is the time to l>uv yoiu A bargain 80 acr<-s of fin** level chairs Woodruff ¿4 firmer the and, s acres bottom laud and 23 house furnishers have the best bat acres fine pasture Price jm >♦>. gains in chairs ever offered in Ban Horse pasture per month $1.50. don. J M. Long Bandon, Oregon 52 4t tlie smoke makes dusk at noon and reddens the harvest moon a thousand miles away, there is the measure of a conflagration. When tile prairies burn, as they used to before farms had crept In upon the endless miles of grass, there was a lire which ran like mad and left behind ft a blackened trail of death. If one could combine the speed of the prairie Are with the tumult of the blazing forest, that would be n tire indeed. Such a combination is effected wl I the bamboo groves catch tire, The bamboo is but a grass, a grass with tlie height of a tree, swaying stems reaching 100, even ISO, feet in air. Tn Cambodia, where tlie bamboo groves along the rivers cover tlie space of forests, it is no unusual tiling for fires to break out and sweep all before them for many miles, if the summer has been dry the bamboo turns sear and inflammable as tiny grass. All that is needed Is a spark; then ruin runs red. It is not necessary to rely upon the carelessness of the woodsman to start the blaze. The bamboo can kindle Itself. Let two swayirg stalks of dry bam boo be set in motion by tlie breeze, let one ruli across the other long enough, and the friction will set the spark, and the long dry leaves will feed tlie flame. It is known that many tires of the bamboo forests thus originate. Per haps it was front observing such a sight that primitive man learned the Promethean secret. That theory has been advanced. As soon as a flame In the bamboos tins crept to the level of the tossing tips it spreads like w ildfire. The wind carries a sheet of (lame along the grove at tremendous speed Some observers say that stn h tires have been seen to move forward at the rate of more than a mile a minute. Seen from below. It looks as If she sky had burst into an instant flash of flame. From such a burst of fire there could lie no escape. Fortunately tt passes high overhead at the tops of the bam boos. It serves as a warning to the traveler who may be nntking his way along some one of the water courses by which the forest is Intersected. The bamboo itself is almost an obstacle to travel of any sort. It Is well nigh itn possible to force a way through tt ex cept by the slow and toilsome labor of hewing out a pat It. The lire in the great trunks moves more slowly, mid if warning be taken it may be possible to sink one’s boat and throw up wet herbage and clay against the bank of the stream to pro vide shelter until the furnace blast has blown by. Sin h a fire In the bam boo has uot only the speed of the prai rie fire on its sweep overhead, but it has the same volume of fuel as is found in any forest fire. It combines the two types. Bamboo forest fires have Another quality which is all their own. They bang and rattle with thunderous crashes, as of artillery tire, without cessation. The stalks of these tree bamboos are frequently more than a foot in diame ter. Near tlie ground the Joints are close together; In tlie yotiuger growth the nodes may lie several feet apart. But, long or short ns they may be, each joint of tlie sun dried bamboo is a tightly sealed chamber filled with air. The partitions between the cavities are singularly tough; tlie outside rind of the stalks is almost pure flint. When the blast of the flame sweeps onward tlie air in the stalks upon which it is driven is suddenly heated to a very high temperature. The resid uum of moisture which may be in the stems is immediately transformed into steam and at once subjected to super heating, thus becoming a violent explo sive. As the hot breath of the flame becomes hotter these Joints burst with loud cannon discharges. Sometimes the force of the explosion near the roots is so great as to shoot the stalk like a javelin high into the air, where It flashes into torchliko flume and Is curried by the wind to spread wider disaster. Tiie bursting of the smaller Joints is like the roll mid rattle of rifles and machine guns. The effect is that of it battle hotly contest ed.—Washington Post. An Aquatic Outfielder. One day u ship was lying at anchor at Boca Grande when the crew ob served a dolphin chasing a flying fish, both coming directly toward the ship. On nearing the vessel the flier arose in the air and passed over the bow just abaft the foremast. As it did so the dolphin went tinder the ship and, coming tip on the other side, sprang from the water and caught the flying fish on ••the fly’* just ns It was curving gracefully down In Its ih-.-.ient to the water.-Punta Go rd a Herald. REV. GEO. H. ROACH, Pastor Sunday, Jan. 31 Morning Theme The Love of God Evening Theme The Ideal Man i A Cordial Invitatio n Extended to All Notice of Application for a United Patent to Mineral Lands, States United States Land Office Roseburg Oregon Jan. 20, 1909. Mineral application No. 0914 Notice is hereby given that Clayton B. Zeek, Mattie J. Zeek and Adam Pershbaker, the first two of Bandon, Coos county, Oregon, and the latter of Prosper, V 00s county, Oregon and all residents and citizens within the said county and slate, have applied for a patent to certain placer ground in the said county and state in the Flinch Mining District, more particularly de scribed as follows, to-wil: E 1-2 ne 1-4 nw 1-4 section 4. 1 p. 28south of range 14 west ol Willamette Meridian, and lots numbered one and two, said lots Iteirig a part of ne 1-4 section 33, following i p. and range; ne 1-4 nw 1-4; sw 1-4 sw 1-4 11 e 1-4, w 1-2 nw 1-4 se 1-4; nw I 4 sw I 4 se 1-4; e 1-2 se 1-4 sw 1-4, section 33, i p. 27 south of range 14 west ot Willamette Meridian, con* taining in all I 34.865 acres. I he said applicants and their assignors having located and applied to patent said placer lands as the "Independence Placer Mine" and in their name as associated, the "Independence Mining Company," the said lnd< ndenee Placer Mine and the location thereof, being ol reccrd in the office of the county clerk of Coes county, Ore gon, in Book 2 of Mining Records at Pagt- 45 f of sard record, dated August 25, 1904. ihe said "Independence Placer Mine" ami the original location thereof conform in every w ay to the legal subdivisions ol the Govenmcnt suiveys, the adjoining claims aie the Pioneer Placer Gann and the Eagle Mixing Claim. Any and all persons claiming adversely in any way the above described lands or any portion thereof, are hereby notified that unless their ad verse claims are duly filed according to law and theiulesand regulations lheieunder, within 60 da) s from the date hereof, with the Register of the Unit'd Stales I .an I Ofhce at Roseburg, Oregon, the said adverse claims will be barred, by virtue of the laws oi the United States gov erning such matters, and publication ol this notir' is hereby ordered lor the (>cnod oi sixty days, continuously, in the Bandon Recorder, a weekly newspaper of general circulation, hereby designated as nearest to the above described land. BENJAMIN L. EDDY, Register. First Publication Jan. 28. EXECJYF’G MAZEPPA. Pi ter the Greet’s Odd Way of Punish ing a Deserter. Peter tin* Great, czar of Russia, pun Islieil a ii'.iiiur 11 a notable occasion in a way that tin* niiinerou.s victims of Ihe present 1 . s w ¡.1lb might well wish were still in vogue. Mazeppa, clileftnin of the Cossacks, hail deserte I io the king of Sw eden, with whom i’eler was at war. Ma zeppa was a: on e tried by court mar- li.d in.I lot; .<1 pti’lty of hi; h treason. Selileni e of death was passed upon him. Maappa, however, was safely In tlie eamp of the Swedish king, but tills fact was not permitted to stand in tlie v.a.. < / the > drying out <>f every part of th** si men e. A wooden etligy of Mazeppa was made, and tlie punish- tntiil.-'. were inilirt <1 upon the Cossack < hiei'lain's s.tl -titule. The etligy was first dressed In Ma- zeppa's e. til ¡111, and ui »in its breast wefe pinned till of lite medals, riblrons and other <lt rations that the real cul prit had worn. While the column nding general and a squadron of cavalry stood near an olli. er advanced to the ■ wooden inatti and read tin* sentence, Then nuotiteli olli er wrenched off the etlig.v’s paletti I of knighthood ami his other decora-* lions, t< re them up anil I trampled upon them. 'This done, he struck the wood en gentleman a powerful blow in the pit of the stomach, knocking him over. NcxJ a hangman appeared. While the soldiers : I1011I<<<I ho threw a noose over tin* Imitation Mazeppa’s head nnd drag ged the <*l’l".v to a nearby gallows, white it was “h . *1 by the nei k until ir w <lea<l."< -S tap Book. Could Handle a Chovel. Tlie *■ , 1 a 1 b :t < 'hlctigo iron mill <>u< ciuplo..c<l a 11 imp wii> had been .< . 0 I., ball champion, Their 11 nc« i'l.iititnib c I 1; an in a way that 4 1 in* 11 nip -till to I k * game and all i beer,.. it w .1 * *l<l autumn dawn, and tin* i 1 a mp ha<i si. pl in front of a . urn •< <• "‘i a warm stone. Tlie fore in l>< a s! >rt • f laborer«, 011 bis i.i ir ;i: . b ar of in p. tioii spied tlie fellow and thought be would give him u job. “My man.” la* said, "can you do any thing w It h a shovel?” "Well, I could fry a piece of ham on it.” Minneapolis Journal. The Pompous Man. I do not like the immpons man. I do Miasing Opportuniti-s. not wish III m for n friend. He's built "1 have no patience with it num who on such tt gorgeoUH plan that tie ctiu makes the same mistake twice,” said only condescend, ami when he I mjws Arnies, rather severely. In sp«*aklng of his tiei-k Is sprained. He walks as on unfortunate friend. though lie owned the earth as though "Neither have I.’’ agreed Ids wife, ills vest and shirt contained all that •‘when there are bo many other tnfs there Is of sterling worth. With sa takes to make.” Youth's Companion. cred Joy I see hint tread upon a stray banana rind and slide a furlong on bis • He that studlcth revenge keepeth hW head and leave a triiTl of srncktf tie. own wounchi green.— Bacon. i hlml.—Emporia (Kan.) Gazette.