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• • VOUME XXV. BANDON, OREGON, JULY 15, 1909 GETTING OPTIONS WOOLEN MILL FOR J. F. MUNDY HAS NEW ORDER NUMBER 27 BANDON TO ARE BUYING UP RIGHT OF WAY HAVE CARNIVAL — Will be Biggest Event of Oil Land Leases are Made Enough Ahead Now to Keep Harriman Said to be Cinch Kind Ever Held in Coos Out For An Unknown Mill at Full Capacity For ing Options of Three County Party A Year Articles of Incorporation Are Already Filed and Company Years Ago As announced in the«e columns last week active operations are well underway toward immediate boring for oil throughout Coos county. The presence of J. S. Diller, the U. S. surveyor, who made the first official report to the government ol oil evidences in Coos county and the first survey of the coal lands in this section for the gov rnment in an unofficial capacity, accom panied by H. Andrews, who began to secure leases on the lands pointed out by Mr. Diller as likely prospects is evidence that there is something doing in oil circles. Several hundred acres have been leased in North Inlet and large tracts near Libby, the latter place will be the scene of the first opera tions. The leases which confer to the lessor other mineral privileges as - well as the oil found, are made out in the name of |. F. Mundy, a man unknown in this locality. It is sup posed he is a capitalist of some im portance for Mr. Andrews is not asking a bonus in any manner nor is he attempting to sell stock or or ganize a company. They are prepared to sink 5000 foot shafts for oil, if it cannot be se cured within that depth it cannot be marketed at a profit.—Harbor. Big Clubbing Offer The R ecorder has made ar- rangements whereby it can offer its readers a daily paper at a minimum price. The daily is the San Fran cisco Bulletin, one of the greatest papers on the Pacific coast, and its market and sporting pages have no equal. The regular price of the Bulletin is $3 per year and that of the R e corder is Ji.50 her year, making a total of $4.50. We can now offer you both papers for the exceeding ly low price of $2.75 a year, if paid in advance or 25 cents less than the price of the Bulletin alone. This offer applies to both old and new subscribers. Old subscribers who will pay all arrearages and a year in advance can have the ben efit of this gigantic offer. New subscribers who pay $2.75 can get both papers for a year. Who will be the first? Ice Covers Nevada Pools Reno, July io—The coldest July temperature Nevada has experienced was recorded this week. Small bodies of water had a layer of ice, and the wheat in the northern part of the state is reported to have been frozen. Teachers’ Institute Aug. 17 to 19 The Annual Teachers' Institute for the year 1909, will be held in the school house in Coquille August 17 to 19. 1909. Arrangements are perfected for the most successful institute ever held in the county. The outside help and local assistance will be of the very best. Every department of school work will receive due at tention. ‘ Very respectfully, W H. B unch , County Supt. Arrangements are under way tor a big three days carnival in Bandon this fall and if present plans are carried out it will be the biggest event of the kind ever held in Coos county. The plans are not all complete as yet, but committees are at work pushing the plans to make the carn ival a memorable event in the his tory of Bandon. At a meeting of business men in the Star theatre building Wednes day night a permanent organization for the purpose of conducting a carnival and other enterprises was formed and a carnival committee <-omposed of C. R. Wade, W. C. Sellmer, Dr. L. P. Sorensen, Geo. P. Topping and Capt. Johnson of the live saving station was elected. This committee will |go to work at once to arrange for the carni val and will appoint sub commit tees to assist in the work. After some discusssion as to the best time of holding the carnival etc, the meeting adjourned until next Tuesduy night, when the com mittee will be ready to report. All busines men and citizens are cordial ly invited and ’arnestlv urged to be present at the meeting Tuesday night. Capitalized For $5000 Divided into Fifty Shares The Bandon Woolen Mill through Manager R. E L. Bedillion has re cently secured orders enough to keep the mill running at full ca pacity for a year. This mill bas been furnishing material for car riage fir ing for a Detroit carriage company for some time and the work is so eminently satisfactory that the said firm is willing to take the entire output for an indefinite per iod,and the amount of finished pro duct the mill can dispose of is only limited by its capacity. The Bin- don Woolen Mill is one of the best industries of southwestern Oregon and one to which Bandonians point with pride. I’lie Southern Pacific Company according to reports is closing up ill options taker, for rights of way between Drain and San Francisco, three years ago, and is paying cash WILL TOUCH RICH TIMBER. AGRICULTURAL. MINING. DAIRY ANO FRUIT REGIONS for tin- land. Whether Mr. Har riman means to commence work on the line in the near future, or w hether h is intentions ; are to more Bandon is to have a railroad and that right soon. This is no “hot securely bottle up this country, the air” story but a real fact, and from present indications, there is to be no ; repoit does not say. delay or hitch in the project, but the work will be rushed to com The Southern Pacific has three surveys down tile coast and will of pletion with all possible haste. c mrse have the best route possible Articles of incorporation have already been filed and the money i- to obtain and it may be that the in sight for a large amount of the construction work. The incorporators | company is simply buying the land are: Stephen Gallier, R. H. Rosa, Stephen I). Henderson, C. A so as to keep any other road from Jamieson and Elbert Dyerand the present capitalization is $5000 whic’i is getting in until they get good and divided into 50 shares of $100 each. The articles set forth the pur ready to build, however we will Lampa Notes pose of the incorporators to build a standard gauge railroad to be oper proceed to hope that this is not the ated by steam or electricity and the principal place of business is to he 1 case and that there will be some thing doing in Southern Pacific rail (Too late tor last week) at Bandon. road circles here in the near future Messrs Burgess and Garoutte are M. E. Hughes of Portland who was formerly with the Great Northern This is the route which Harriman getting a nice raft of logs into the arrived in Bandon Monday and has accepted the position of chief engineer placed to eliminate the big haul up river from their place. They also have one of the finest potato crops of the road, beginning his survey Tuesday morning. Indications now' the Siskivou Mountains and which are that the company will be able to get a very satisfactory route with will give practically a water level on the lower river. grade from Portland to San Fran Air. T. P. Manly Jr., son of the probably not more than a one-half per cent grade, with easy grading and cisco and it may be that he is now popular pioneer dairyman, who sus no tunneling. ready to take hold of the proposition The new road will tap some of the richest country in southwestern and push it through to save money tained a severe compound fracture ol the leg sometime ago, is so much Oregen. It touches the immense tracts of white cedar along the Sixes for himself and his company. But improved that he is able to be out river. In this legion is the Bishop-Dolllar Lumber Company and th«- we do not care what his ideas in the again and will soon be as well as C. A. Smith Lumber Company’s timber as well as that of other big syn matter are, what we want is the rail ever. dicates, all of which will aggregate more than a billion feet. Besides the road and we want it quick, so get Arch Bishop Christie Here The late rain, while somewhat busy Mr. Harriman. Friday marring the pleasure of those who line will run through rich fruit an I dairy country and all combined will wished to celebrate the 4th in good insure the financial success of the road from the outset. Notice to Mariners The incorporators of the road are all substantial business men and old style, is of great benefit to all Arch Bishop Christie of Portland, growing crops. A big crop of they have the bacxing to push the proposition through without difficulty. Rev. A. Lane of Albany, Rev. D. everything is now fully assured. This road will not only serve as a good feeder for this port, but w ill Notice is hereby given that a Lorimer of Portland and Father Potatoes will be a bumper crop. be of inestimable value to the entire country between here and Port Or rock with 11 teet of water over it Curley of North Bend, pastor of the Apples, e’c. with a good rain this has been discovered about the mid local Catholic church arrived in Ban late, will be of larger size than ford and that town will reap many benefits from the project. dle <>t Alexandra Patch, Chatham don We Inesday noon and from The incorporators are very enthusiastic over the movement and Mr. Sound, 4 milts S. 30 W. from Lucy here went down to Cape Blanco usual. Now the weather has clear ed, everyone will begin to cut hay. Henderson says they have the best proposition in Oregon. 'Taking into Island Light-House Lat. 24 14' 17” where they are holding confirma Luckily there was little hay down consideration the rich country the road touches, we are inclined to think N Long. 130 130 33' 33' 42" 42" w W. - The tion today. They will return here in these parts before the late rain. rock is of small tomorrow, Friday and Arch Bishop extent, there being he is right. 8 and 9 fathoms of water within a Christie will meet the Catholic A serious, and what came near The officers of the railroad as elected at their meeting yesterday ar< radius of 100 feel, 11 is marked by members at Bandon and will dis being a fatal accident happened near Stephen Gallier, president; Elbert Dyer, vice president; Stephen 1). a small quantity of kelp, which is cuss matters relative to church here last Friday afternoon. A son of Mr. G. Bogard, had been to the Henderson, General Manager; C. R. Wade, secretary; R. II. Ro,a, seldom visible owing to the strong property and improvement with tidal streams. landing for the empty cream cans, treasurer. them. —ooo and had started home, when the Now is the time for people of Bandon and the Coquille valley to get team suddenly became unmanagable in and show their hand by helping to boost the proposition. There The “Morning Oregonian’’ of Died in Nebraska and ran away throwing thediiver should be a long pull, a strong pull and a pull altogether as a railroad <>t this city reports that the officers of out of the wagon. In falling he the Bark “Mezly”sighted the wreck struck on his head and was un this kind willl be the best thing that has as yet come to the country. of a small vessel bottom upward and It means the dawn of a treat Mrs. H. F. Morrison. E. E. and conscious for some hours. A doc Let’s all get busy and help it along. covered with sea weed and barnacles and L. O. Reynolds have received tor was summoned to attend him awakening in the valley and is worthy the support of everyone in Lat 37 00' N. Long 126 00' W. the sad nt ws of the death of their and his improvement is now gradual. Date Monday July 5. 1909. sister Miss Augusta Alameda Rey ----- WO—- mdaria which he contracted during J ohn M c N ulty . Nautical Expert. Died nolds, ol Vesta Nebraska. Many Arrive on Fifield the war and from which he never U. S. Branch Hydographic Office, Miss Reynolds was a successful fully recovered. Custom House, Portland, Ore. school teacher in her state and hail The Fifield arrived in port Mon Henry G. Wilcox was born in supplemented her education at the day morning with a big cargo of Wisconsin in 1876 and died in Nebraska Weslyan University and freight and a good list of passengers. Curry county Ore., July 12, 1908 Roosevelts at Naples Institute Encampment the Peru State Normal. She was She had a nice trip up and the pas being a little over 33 years old at recognized as a lady of rare ability, sengers got along fine. Among the time of his death. Napl« s, July 10—Mis. Theodore being considered one of the most L. H. Hazard and J. S, Lawrence those who arrived are: Geo. Had Mr. Wilcox came to Oregon only a came down from Coquille Saturday Roosevelt and her three children successful teachers of Johnson ley, Mrs. Hadley, S A. Borne, J evening and instituted an encam| - arrived today on the steamer county, Neb. Burgess, J. Green, Mrs. Chas. Clif little over a year ago, coming direct Cretic The Roosevelt party will Mrs. Morrison and the Messrs ford Miss Lovejoy, D. O. Tapham, from his home in Wisconsin. He | inent branch of the Order of Odd go t<> the villa of Miss Care we near Reynolds will have the sincere Fellows. The encampment is com purchased the S. S.Shields ranch in | M. Brenman, W. F. Stores, Carl posed of three degrees called the Rome. sympathy of a large circle of friends Schlagel, R B. Emerson, W. J j | Curry county and with his wife was Patriarchal, Colden Rule and M rs. Roosevelt and her children in Bandon. living on the place. He had been Sabin, L. H Michael, Melse Miller. Royal Purple degree, and cannot left this evening for Genoa. When Ceo Moore, J. Pierce, Miss Mamie married eight years. be taken until after one has gone they went aboard the steamer they Mr. Wilcox was a Spanish Amer Epps. Miss Ida Epps. through the subordinate lodge. found the cabin filled with flowers. Laborer is Electrocuted ican war veteran and his last re Those who joined the Erfcainp- — uoo ---- quest was that he be given a mil To the Public itary burial by the veterans of the ment last Saturday night were Vancouver, B. C. July io—Chas. Teachers’ Examination war. Accordingly Dr. L. P. Soren charter members: Jas. Armstrong, Larson, aged 30, employed as a As I am no longer in charge of sen, H. Foss, Chas. Kaiser and C. A. J. Hartman, Win. Lundquist, Joe Aug 11 to 13 concrete mixer on a building being the City Meat Market I take this McCord and Harry Walker, Those E. Hollopeter, all of whom were in elected hete, early this morning opportunity to acknowledge with the war were present and fired the who took the degrees were: T. W. met death by allowing the twisted Notice is hereby given that the Robison. R. B. Derby, Roy Dick- gratitude the liberal patronage of salute and Geo P. Topping sound son and Mr. Sieinan. Thev have a regular semi-annual examination of iron rod he was handling, which the people of Bandon. ed taps. The funeral was conduct number ol applications for new mem ipplicants lor state and county was used to reinforce the concrete, C. M. W aid ed in the M. E. church at Bandon, papers will be held by the examin l<> come in contact with a live wire. bers at the next meeting. being in charge of Rev. Allen, It is believed the wire was not ing board of Coos, County, Oregon, City Transfer pastor of the church and interment properly installed. The man’s death it the court house, beginning at 9 Doctor J. D. Kelly operated up- a. m. Wednesday Aug it, 191x9 and was instantaneous. All kinds of draying and transler- was made in the Bandon cemetery. ing FOR SALE—mill wood The bereaved wife wifi have the on the throat of John Motts for the continuing three days. rom Cody's mill $2.00 per Io id. sympathy of a large circle of friends removal of the uvuli or soft pal.ite Dated this I2thday of July, 1909. Warren Littlefield and wife left Coal sold and delivered at lowest in her lime of great trial The death as a cure ’or chronic inflamation of W. IL B unch . County Stipt. this week for Portland where they prices. . J. Jcukizxs, Prop. ©f M*. Wilson ’ was due to typhoid these parts last Monday 27-3t will spend the summer. -I of one Hundred Dollars Each o 0 e> 0 _ •• • » • t • e * • » © o . d o 9 • • a • « 9 i©) • « a ♦ • 4 b