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THE TALK OF THE TOWN H
TAKE ADVANTAGE
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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.
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“"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’
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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.
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Oregon
(oust
Nteniiiwhip
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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
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Presbyterian
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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.