t
htdeid, tb.V earthquaki s
tfe irt in themsehr* great dan-1
Published Every Thursday by the
Wilson made it jiossible for the n <• gi ts, Hai» I ratUTsco s earthquake
lion to confer on one of its greatest «lid off little damage directly. If
Recorder Fu/tHBiiiaag Company.
O. ® lCOPF, ...
Managing Editor Generals, even on his death bed. a city is well protected against the
the last honor and distinction that destruction of water n. ms by the
Mufacriptiou, fl 50 per Year in Advance, Advertising Rates Made
he desired, and that it was in their earthquake shock and thus is in a
Kuowu on Application. Job Printing a Specialty
A city cannot really have a healthy growth
Entered at tbe Bandon I’natoftiee as Secund Cl a Ha Matter.
power to bestow on him. May Na position to fight the tires that are
unless that growth makes for permanence.
caused here and there by the earth
tional
Magazine.
The great indication of permanent habitation
June io. 1909
THURSDAY
quakes, the population need have
in any community is the dwelling house.
E. H. H arriman has predicted little fear of the shocks that may
Tent and shacks are good enough for boom
T he best way to build up your struction of good roads was of
the return of prosperity and from occur. A good steel frame buil ling
towns
because the towns seldom last long.
own town is to do your trading at that type of internal improvement
I o make Bandon grow we must have more
every’ indication on tbe outside we set on a gaod foundation, will with
home. Patronize your home mer which interested the several states
people
and when we get them we will need
are inclined to think he is right. In stand the severest shocks known.
chants.
If they
succeed, the primarily, and the nation only in a
places for them to live. The East is looking
fact Mr. Harriman, Mr. Rockefeller Wooden frame houses, we l put up,
chances are vou will succeed. When secondary sense.
He was in favor
to the West as the land of Opportunity and
and a few others like them can will stand through an earthquake.
we are going to have these people with us.
you send a dollar to a mail order of as many good roads as could be
bring about prosperity if they want There is some danger from the fall
So
now is the time to prepare for their re
house you have the goods and they |>ossibly constructed; but beyond
to. That is if they are willing to ing of brick walls, but not much.
ception
and comfort. It is up to the owners
have the money.
Trade at home that he believed that the building
of
unimproved
real estate to build — not
I
accept a leasona' le profit’ on in In San Francisco most of the dam
and we keep both the goods and should devolve upon the people
I
1'some day” but right now; and builders will
vestment, and not try to squeeze age consisted of fractures of chim
in their communal capacity, and
the money.—Times.
find what they want just as they want it at
the life out of the public
The neys, cornices and plaster on walls.
without the direct financial aid
the yard of the
sooner these money kings realize Only a few buildings, and those of
Coos Bay people came over to which comes from Congressional
that the public is tired of being the tllimsiest construction,
were
Bandon on an excursion Sunday and appropriation, Wonder if it would
squeezed, the better it will be fur all shaken down, and in every case
brought their usual high wind make any difference to Uncle Joe if
concerned, for the public has been where a building was shaken dow n
along. Now we are glad to wel- the good roads movement were in roused to action, and they will tin-
investigation showed that it had
come Coos Bayites in Bandon any hand as a private enterprise? if, for
dergo still further financial str n- been erected on tilled ground. In
old time but we object to that wind example, it could lay claim to some
gency rather than to be imposed Messina, it is true. much damage
that blows (only when they come. ) such industrial merit as is alleged
upon by unscrupulous capitalists and was done and not by the tire. But
Ordinarily the breezes here are to attach to tariff protected in
the time has passed when the pub the houses of Messina were built for
soothing, but Coos Bay always puts dustry; would there still be no Na
lic will stand any more for being the most part, of brick and were
on the finishing touch. Cut it out tional obligation in the premises?
run by a few capitalists. Mr. Har- very old, and much damage was
Twin Screw, New and Fast
Coos Bay, the wind never blows In the face of the present Treasury
| riman also states that the panic of caused by the tidal wave which
here, only when you people come. deficit Speaker Cannon’s view of
1907 was caused by the “extra swept the city after the earthquake
$7.50
the matter is expedient if not
I
ordinary” tine Judge Landis placed shock. In San Frahcisco at least,
3.00
T he R ecorder has just received sound. But as touching the broader
on Standard Oil. If this be true, we are practically free irom the
the May number of the State I ni principle involved in the request 1 then it is only another evidence of
Our interests are your interests. Fair rates and
liklihood of a tidal wave, because
veisity Bulletin which announces the that has been made ‘or some years
good service our motto
the fact that capital is trying to the configuration of the land around
by
the
good
roads
people,
it
is
a
1
summer school to be held from
squeeze the pubiic, for the evi the bay is such that a tidal wave
June 28 to August 6.
The an lamentable lack of encouragement
A. F. Estabrook Co., 245 Cal. St., San Francisco
dence in tile case was amply suf could hardly get through the
nouncement is important to the for a policy that would eno’ mously I
C. M. SPENCER, Agent, Bandon, Oregon
ficient to warrant the decision, and Golden Gate, and would be quick
teachers of Oiegon in that the sum enhance the national wealth by sav- |
the fine of $29,000,000 was imposed ly dissipated over the vast area of
mer session is conducted practical ing the smaller and average pro-:
1 as a partial punishment to that the bay if it did succeed in forcing
sour: nipples
I URNISHI:!) ROOMS
ly free of charge in their interests ducer of untold millions annually.
[corporation for the “extraordinary” an entrance. Moreover, it a tidal
Any mother who has had expert
But
the
smaller
and
the
average
in
AT
at a time when itjis possible for them
advantages taken of their “rights.” wave were to sweep the ocean : mnce with this distressing ailmen-
terest
has
not
been
favored
of
late
to attend. In the past the larger
! The panic of 1907 was not caused beach it would quickly be stopped 1 will be pleased to know that a cure
part of those attending have been years with much of Uncle Joe’s at
by the rapid rise of the land, which n-ay be affected by applying Ct am-I
I by Judge Landis’ decision, but a few blocks inland, is of an eleva- ; berlain'a Salve as soon as the child i
tention.
—
Telegram.
teachers. The University believes
MRS SARAH COSTELLO
' rather by the operations of men in tion never attained by the highest is done nursing. Wipe it off with a j
that it can extend its advantages
Nice clean room« 26 and 60c a
I high financial circles for whose con tidal wave on record
The same . soft cloth before allowing the babe I
ninht ; *1.26 a w. ek , *5 «month
of library, laboratory, equipment and
to
nurse.
Many
trained
nurses
use
;
S oubriquets and their origin are duct the fine was meant to be a condition is true all along the
¡this salve with best results. For
teaching force in no better way than
BANDON
| sale by C. 1. Lowe
OREGON
often interesting. There is often a punishment. The fine of $29,000, Paific coast.
through a summer school.
The
I
confusion of Smiths and Browns and 000 for Standard Oil was no more
courses offered for teachers cover
divers other common names, which in proportion than $100,000 would
the greater number of the subjects
leads to the bestowal of distinguish have been for a merchant in ordi- I
required in the State examinations.
ing appelations for the same reason nary circumstances, and yet there
1
that individual names were first would have been a feeling that such
T he beautiful summer months
given. No less a person than “Sun ' a fine was just for a merchant
have come, and the excursion sea
set” Cox of New York christened who had violated the law in the
son is on. There will be many ex
The great
Secretary Wilson “Tama” Jim. This same proportion,
cursions to the beautiful Bandon
trouble with Mr. Harriman and
beach this summer, and hundreds, w is done in order to distinguish
Wilson of Tama County from [ others of his kind, is that they have
«
yes probably thousands of campers Mr.
another man of the same name not yet grasped the stand of the
from the inland empire will journey
the same state public, and they see only one side of
here for a two or three weeks hailing from
who served as United States Sen- I the question.
They still seem
camping and outing expedition on
ator.
When James Wilson, “the think that the country is and
our cool shores.
This behooves
present Secretary of Agriculrure, ! should be run for the benefit of
every lesident of the city to do al
gave up his seat in congress in business, rather than for the benefit
in their power to make a beautiful
order to allow a bill to pass, restor of humanity. They seem to think
city, so that the very best possible
ing the title of General to U. S. that men of large capital should
impression will be made on the
Grant, who was dying at Mount I have advantages and piivileges
visitors, and thus many of them
McGregor, he won for himself the denied to the ordinary citizens. In
may be induced to invest here and
everlasting gratitude of the n ition. other words they have not yet ac-
make this their future home. Each
This was in 1885 and in the 48th j cepted in its fullest sense and with
year sees a great improvement in
congress, when the house was dem all its obligations, the doctrine of
our city, and those who were hete
ocratic; “Tama Jim” then held equality before the law.
last year and will come again this
his seat provisionally, it being con
summer will see a marked change
tested by Benjamin Frederick, a
I t now appears that the middle
Among other things they will notice
democrat. A contested election had west is not immune from earth
our magnificent new school build
the right of way in congress, and quakes. Three years ago when
ing all ready for use, they will
when the Wilson Frederick contest San Francisco was so badly hit, the
notice a number of substantial busi
was seized upon to prevent the general expression of people in the
ness buildings and dozens of tine
passage of the Grant bill, the op middle west, was to the effect that
new residence properties that were
posing party resorted to filbuster- they would take their chances in a
not here last year. One of the main
ing in order to save the situation. country subject to cyclones rather
things that we need now, is better
It was at this crisis, when any de than one subject to earthquakes,
kept streets and lawns. The beau
lay in the passage of the bill would but it nowr appears that they are
tiful flower gardens of those who
mean that the death of the hero subject to both, w hile such a thing ■
have undertaken to beautify their
would supervene and render its as a cyclone on the Pacific coast is :
homes is an evidence that it will be
passage unnecessary, that “Fama as yet an unknown quantity. It .
an easy matter to have a beautiful
Jim” gained the Speaker’s recogni would seem from this, that the coas*
city if the proper effort is only put
tion and asked: “Can it be jx)s- is a much more safe place to live .
forth.
sible that a contested election case when the atmospheric and geologic
S peaker Cannon was before the is to be the boulder on which con conditions are taken into consider
Good Roads Congress as an “orator sideration of so palpable an act of ation, as we are subject to only
o! the day.” After his usual blunt justice may split? If this is the case, the one while everything imaginable
fashion he was interesting; and the as it unquestionably appears to be. seems to visit the poor victims of
more so, berhaps, because he threw the obstacle is easily removed. Mr. the east and middle west. The
cold water on the proposition of Speaker, I hereby resign my seat in next great earthquake is as liable to
national aid to the construction of this House to my contestant Mr. occur in New York, Chicago, St.
good roads. The Speakei uid, Frederick.” The anti-Grant men Louis, Philadelphia or Kansas City
among other things, that the con- were stupefied, for such an act of'as in San Francisco.
Experience
entirely unexj^cted,
Bandoil Recorder I self-sacrifice.was
but the ' generous thought oi Mr-
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