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f > Q- « O O • o o < I K_->— o o o * • O* « ft L I Volume XXV. I B/ NDON, COQUILLE VALLEY A Roaring A. F. Estabrook Says Com- pany Will Help to Develop Article* of Incorporation A meeting of the Cliambe- ¡of _ Commerce and all other business men of Bandon has been called for Saturday evening April 3rd at the city hall to elect .delegates to a meeting with the county court at Coquille which is to be held April 6th. The purpose of this meeting is to make arrange ments for a Coos counuty exhibit at the Alaska Yukon Pacific Ex position to be held in Seattle this summer. There will be delegates present from Coquille, Myrtle Point, Marshfield and North Bend, and Bandon should also he represented with a good delegation. At least three men of business influence will be sent from this pl ice. A special notice of the Bandon meeting to be held Saturday ap pears elsewhere in this issue, and everyone interested in the future welfare of Coos county should be there. The meeting will not be restricted to Bandon business alone, but all who are interested in the industries of the county. This should include dairymen, fruit grow ers, and all vocations of whatever kind. There may be other matters of importance that will come before the meeting, and it is especially urged that everyone who can pos- sibly do so will be present at the meeting. The high school students are at1 hard practice on their play which is $10,725,000 to be given at the Opera House on Friday and Saturday evenings April ARE LAYING GREAI PLANS FOR FUTURE 9 and 10. The play is a two act musical, TO OPERATE RAILROADS AND BOATS comedy, and has been written es In conversation with A. F. Esta pecially for the Bandon high school brook ¡of the Estabrook Co. while by a well known Bandonian, Mr. The Tacoma Ledger of March that gentlemen was here last week C R. Moore. The play is entitled 24th has the following to say on the the Game-” It is he told the ^R ecorder that his "Saving railroad situation in this country: company was greatly interested in full of local color, bright and spark "The Pacific Oregon Railway <& the future development of the Co ling from beginning to end, with Navigation company, capitalized at quille valley and all the territory songs and music of unusual merit. $10,725,000 and incorporated to from here down to Port Orford. The entertainment will be of par “build and operate lines of r«ilr »ad Mr. Estabrook stated that in his ticular interest because of the fact in Washington, Oregon, Idaho and opinion this was the most re that the production is home talent California’’ and to carry on a steam sourceful country on the Pacific throughout. We bespeak for it a ship business “between Tacoma coast and that it was destined to be hearty appreciation from every true and San Francisco and other ports a great wealth producing country. 1 Bandonian. The cast of characters on the Pacific coast,” filed articles He also stated that his company takes in the entire high school of with the secretary of state at Olym was going to work for the develop over thirty members. The scene pia yesterday. Articles of incorpo ment of this valley in every way of the first act is in the school room ration in Pierce county will be filed possible, not only as carriers of the that of the second act, a clam bake with the county auditor this morn products to other markets, but in on the beach, all full of school life ing. the manufacturing interests as well, and school spirit and not a dry line The incorporators are A. E. Law, and while he has nothing definite in the whole production. Frank McCandless, L. S. Boutell to announce at the present time he I he high school has just purchased and H. R. Dougherty, all of Ta stated that we could say to the peo a new piano, aud the proceeds of coma. None of the incorporators ple that his company would work in the entertainment will be applied on will discuss the significance attach hearty co-operation with the people the payment of the same. This of I ing to yesterday’s declaration of in of this valley in whatever undertak itself ought to assure the most tent, stating only that the corpora ing they might engage, that would liberal patronage, but the play will tion is backed by Tacoma capital; be for the best interests of the val stand on its own merits and will be that it will be operated and directed ley. sure to afford a most enjoyable from Pierce county and that its head Mr. Estabrook also said that he evening’s entertainment to all who quarters and operating offices will felt that his company had already attend. l»e located in this city. shown a disposition to enhance the Tickets on sale at Mar's Confec “It is too early to talk about the industry of this valley by the man tionery store. Reserved seat/^50 project,” said A. E. Law and F. • ner in which they had conducted cents. General admission 25 cents. N. A.'cCandless to the Led business, and th it they appreciated ger yesterday, ‘'In a few days very highly the patronage they were there may be something more for Stands by Royal Brother receiving from the people here. the public.” I.. S. Boutell referred Belgrade, March 27—Prince Al • to the articles of incorporation now exander, the second son of King ' in the hands of the secretary of state Timber Brings $700,000 Peter, is taking an active part in i for any information desired and H Astoria, Or., March 27—An smoothing over the difficulties that R. Dougherty took the same one as nouncement was made today that have surrounded the Crown Prince, Mr. Boutell. The announcement the Street Lumber Company tract his brother George, since the latter’s was made that officers will be elected of timber land, comprising slightly statement that he renounced all from the list of incorporators within over 16,000 acies in the Nehalem claim to tli.e Servian throne. Alex the next few days. Valley district, was sold re .•ent! y .mder said: While the incorporators refuse to on a contract to the Western Co "I shall, under no circumstance . discuss it, the best of authority of operage Company of Portland for agree to take my brother's place, the unofficial but “on the inside” a consideration of $700,000 If he cannot be a good King, sort is to the effect that the Pacific Statement is also made that a neither can I. I will stick to my Oregon Railway]^ Navigation com deal is now pending for the sale of brother through thick and thin. pany claims to be backed by a syn the same tract to the Standard Oil George must remain Crown Prince 99 dicate of English capitalists. It is interests, the closing of the deal At a meeting of the Cabinet to also stated that the new concern in Alepending upon the result of the day,at which King Peter was present tends to build a railroid in the Coes cruise which is now in progress, a the resignation ¡of Prince Ceorge as Bay country, in Oregon, from some force of 22 cruisers and su veyors Crown Prince was accepted.The sub Pacific coast point, 160 miles inland being engaged in miking the ject will come up before the National through a rich area of timber and cruise, and in running lines for pro Assembly tomorrow, when in all coal. It is impossible to ascertain posed logging roads through that probability Prince Alexander will at the present time whether the be proclaimed his successor. and adjacent tracts. company wilt seiect Marshfield, Vote Down School Bonds Four Wive* Claim Estate Copenhagen, Denmark, March -7-The entire estate of the late Holger Drachmann, poet and dramatist, has now been inventoried. In his villa at Skagen he left sev eral big trunks packed with manu scripts, including two important dramas and a large number of un published poems, many of them from America. It is believed that he was the mast prolific of any of the modern poets. While everybody, including Drachmann himself, thought he possessed nothing, it turns out that he really died wealthy. Thete will, it appears, be great difficulty in di ------ OOO— viding the estate, because the poet For Sale was married four times and all his wives ate living . The last one re cently was married to a Norwegian Threejnilch cows', coming in this merchant. spring. Also bay mare, go d for riding, buggy or di aught. Apply Neat and nifty job work at the to Thos.,Asthon, near LampaCreek. 12 t f z R ecorder Office, * . La Grande, Or., March 27 La Grande today turned down the mat ti r of voting $25,000 bonds with which to build a new high school. The vote was 140 against and 77 for. Opponents of a new high school aver that a county high school move ment is to be started at once, while another argument is that the present Courthouse can be converted into a school and the growing high school population placed there while the county 1 builds a new Courthouse. The chief interest was displayed by women taxpayers. • • CITY FATHERS HOLD MEETING Chamber of Commerce and Other* to Hold Meet ing at City Hall Bandon’s Filed With Capital of this Part of County Number ?2 BUSINESSMEN OF CITY TO MEET By C. R. Moore, at Opera ------ -OOO—- Riverton Locals W. A. Bean went to Bindon last week on business. C. A. Peterson and • ’son went to / Bandoa last week. The Lampa post office will soon be a money order office. AJ Sfliith and wife left last week for the gold mines in Nevada. C. A. Peterson Jr. Is now super intendent of the Eureka coal mini-. J. Bell and family have moved into one of the houses belonging to O A. Kelly. Mrs. Helen Moore has her house almost completed and will soon oc cupy it with her family. Mrs. Lou. Nosier, of Coquille has been visiting with her sister, Mrs. Rhone, of this place, for several days. Riverton is increasing in popula tion at a rapid rate, larit Tuesday twin boys arriving at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Weinhart. Mr. and Mrs. O. A. Kelly went up to Coquille last Friday evening. Mrs. K. was initiated into the Or der of the Eastern Star. North Bend or some other Coos Bay port for its terminus or whether an entirely new port will be created on tidewather on the Oregon coast. A E. Law, whose name heads the list of incorporators was formerly superintendent of the Northern Pa cific railroad, but is now president of the American Casualitv company, F. N. McCandless is a member of the real estate firm of March Me Candless company. F. S. Boutell is also engaged in the teal estate business in Tacoma, while H. R. Dougherty is a lawyer. 99 W. H. Noryal made our tOAii a business call last week. Mr. Potter has retired from his job here of looking after the mill property. J. F. Lee takes his place. V eritas . ooo---- To Reduce Postage and the Deficiency Washington, March 27—A bill to reduce the postal rate on mer Stickney Will Resign chandise from 1 cent an ounce to St. Paul, March 27 -Samuel C. 1 cent for two ounces, and to re Stickney announced today that be duce the rate on second class nut will resign is general manager of ter, was introduced in the house to the Chicago» Great Western Rail day by Representative Henry, re- He de road April I. He has been with the publican, of Connecticut, road ever since it was built. His dared it would wipe out thepost.il successor has not been anounced. ! deficiency by increasing the re— OOO ceipts frpm mail matter. i Old papers at the R ecorder of- fice five^cents a bundle. # r 7 • Old papers for sale at this office. —OOO------- 1 « • • I APRIL I, 1909. THURSDAY, OREGON, Comedy Written House April 9 10 I 11 HIGH SCHOOL TO PUT ON PLAY / • X X“ % » • PASSES AWAY Many Ordinances Passed and Esteetned Others Were Ordered to be Drawn Post Master Succumbs to Lingering Illness On Tuesday morning March z3Otl Robert Walker, post master an« well known citizen of Bandon answered the final summons , after ; prolonged illness, in which h< Mr battled bravely for his life. Walker was born in Ontario, April 17, 1S44 and was 65 years, 11 months and 13 days old at the timt of his deat h. Deceased was one of the best known citizens of south westen, Oregon having been one of the early settlers here and was alway prominent in all move ments for th< upbuilding of this entire section. He was well known in Curry county as well as Coos, and was sheriff of Curry two terms before coming to this county. In Coos county lie has also been prominent in business and political circles, lie was for a number of years chairman of the Coos County Republican (entrai Committee and was also a member of the state board of equalization, and for eight years has served as po‘t master of Bandon and was re cently reap|x>inted for another term, his service in that capacity has given good satisfaction and under his management, the local post office has risen in rank very rapidly As a citizen, Mr. Walker was held in the highest esteem by all with whom he came in contact as he dealt honestly and fairly with every one. Mr. Walker was a veteran of the Civil War and served with dis tinction, lie was also a prominent Mason and was laid to lest by the local Masonic lodge, the beautiful burial ritual of that order being said at the grave. The funeral was held at St. Jehu's Episcopal Church. Wednesday at 2.00 p. 111. being conducted by Rev. Will. Horsfall and interment made in the Bandon cemeter y. Mr. Walker leaves a wife, three daughters, M isses Mae and Pearl and Mrs. G. T. Treadgold, also two sons, Robert and Harry to mourn their great loss, The family have the sincere sympathy of the entire community in their great bereavement. The large concourse of people who attended the funeral and burial ceremony, was a living evide nce of the great esteem in which the de ceased was held in the community. The ^floral contributions by friends were many and beautiful. The city fathers met in regular session at the city hall last night ami transacted considerable business of importance, after the usual formalitv of calling to order and reading of the minutes of the previous session, several bills were read and allowed. I11 the matter of a bill for $800.00 which is now due on the fire engine, it was decided to pay the same by April 20th when a considerable sum will be available from saloon license. The fire ordinance was taken up for final reading and passed. Ordi nance for improving Columbia Ave. was also passed. In the matter of the remonstrance >11 the improvement of Atwater stieet it was stated that the remon st ranee was about 150 feet short of the necessary two thirds of the property, and with the withdrawal of the name of Councilman Bedil lion it was left two hundred feet short, On motion the street com- inittee was instructed to make final investigation of the affair and as- certain for a c rtainity whether or not there was sufficient remonstrance to defeat the measure and if not 1 » instruct th • city recorder to draw up an ordina. -e, ofdering the im provement to be mad It will be remembered by readers of the R e corder that this street vas ordered planked to the width of sixty feet and sidewalked on both sides. On motion the old ordinance re quiring saloons to procure signa tures of the voters in order to be granted license, was repealed and an ordinance ordered to be drawn, giving the council power to govern saloon license ----- OOO------- Letters That Never Came Back; 200 Sacks San Francisco,‘¿March 18 Super intendent Stephens of the railway post il service has been notified that 1 mail car was burned on the Chi cago & Council Blii'ts railroad on February 27. The car contained approximately 200 sacks of second, third and fourth class matter, origin ating principally in ] N: w England and eastern states, only a small amount having l>een i taken on at Chicago, and was destined for points in far western states, with a small percentage for trans Pacific countries. In addition to this mail the car ointaiued one sealed foreign sack for Yokohama and two scale I foreign sacks for Honkong, the con-, tents of which were all practically destroyed. ■----- <XK>------- Tati Ha* Blooded Stock El Paso, lex., .March 27—I’resi- di nt Taft, who is supposed to be a stockholder in the Coleman—Fult on Pasture Co, is interested in the ' sale of 50 h'gli grade bulls and a CARD OF THANKS > number of cows to the Vera Cruz • We, Mrs. Robert Walker and Cattle Company of Mexico City. family, wish to express our grati All the cattle came from the Taft tude to the friends who by their acts herd at Gregory, l ex. It is reported and words of sweet sympathy made a record-breaking price was obtain our burden of sorrow easier to bear- ed. and par iculaily to the M isonic fra ternity for their continued kindness Notice and to the school children for the To all members of Chamber of profusion of lovely flowers contri Commerce, also all business men buted by them. of the City of Itindon,—There will be a public meeting held at the city hall. Saturday, April 3rd at 8 p. Card of Thanks in., all are cordially invited to at We hereby wish to express our tend. Please come and make this a sincere thanks to our relatives, complete success. friend i andineighbors for their kind- S teve G ali .IE r , sec. pro tern 1 ness, "help and sympathy during the of Chamber of Commerce. sickness and death of our little son. Ms. H. P. Clausen and wife, Dance in Bank hall Saturday Fourmile, Oregon. evening April 3rd. • • ••