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cey I.. Cantield, for 2o years the
general agent of the Chicago,
Milwaukee <8c St Paul railroad in
this city, died early this morning
at the St. Francis hotel, after an
illness oi but a few days. He suc
ceeded to an acute attack of Bright’s
d sease. after lying in a semi con
scio.is state for a number ot h >urs,
Mr. Canfield was 67 years old
an I had called California his home
since his ninth year.
He was 21
when he went into Nevada and be
came the owner and editor of a little
newspaper in Eureka in the days
when Brel Haite and Mark Twain
were in Nevada journalism.
Later he became the railroad edi
tor of the Chicago Times.
When
the Pacific railroads were in con
struction he came to San Francisco
from Chicago for the railroad com
piny, in the service of which he
died.
own float wan dipping, dancing, dw
aplsaring. comitm up again, in tbe
most maddening fashion. But no sli
ver fish broke, laucelike. through the
shimmering walers. Instead, tug as
he might, there was a sense of some
thing heavy, yet alive, at the other end
Of the line, ills own Islltle ubsorbed
him. yet not to the degree of making
him forget tlie other. The girl from
her perch was at an obvious disadvan
tage. Still »be kuew the game. Back
and forth, up and down, weaving side-
wise. she let the big tisti play. Wilmer
watched her almost enviously. He
must uimself have booked the grand
father of all trout, but it was nothing
like so game.
REGISTERED
“HI. thar. you. up tree! You better
come down!" the Enuis boy shouted,
but the flsherwoman remained invis
ible. "That’s nobody but just that
Of Mar hfield, Oregon
little Joe Lane. You know, I've told
you she wasn’t more’ll half a gal.” be
Will visit Bandon the 22d and 23d
coDtiiled in low aside to Wilmer, who I I of each month. Office at Gallier
Hotel. Expert services and honest
nodded comprehension.
prices guaranteed
He bad I ecu hearing things about
Joe. a wild piece, motherless, brought
up by a mud old grandfather, to the
TORIC LENS. SO EASY MOUNTINGS
scandal of all the overgood, for she
The testing of children’s eyes a spvialty
bad never lieen sent to school and had
Broken lens’ duplicated
done exactly as she pleased all through
tier nineteen years of life. More than
that, she had a way-a way that fetch
ed all the fellows in the countryside,
only to be sent about their business
again, even Steve Batson, who had a
Under New Mana gement
store and three farms.
The l>ig trout moved sluggishly. It
was simply marvelous bow that flax
line had held him. Wilmer was wild
to ask what bait had lured him even
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If you are looking
though his own quarry filled his hands
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He was reeling in deftly, but slowly,
for
a
good
piece
making gains now of a foot, now of an
of meat just call
Inch. He had not yet got sight of his
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prize. Suddenly, in spite of reeling in.
in and see us.
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the line slackened. He saw at the wa
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ter’s surface the snaky head and ueck
Meats of all kinds
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of a big snapping turtle. An instant
the creature held fast, permitting itself
to be drawn toward the bank; then it
severed the line and sank back to its
fastness of roots and rocks.
There came a tinkling In ugh from
tlie willow tree, followed by a merry
Proprietor«
voice crying: "Please go away, you I<
two! I want to come down before
your big fit’ll comes and eats up mine.”
“Let us help you; you’ll never land
him alone.’’ Wilmer called hack. .
“Oh. I can’t—not until you go," the
voice returned.
At just that moment the trout gave a
wild, running leap, showing clear In
the air. then sounding viciously.
The fisherwoman held fast, but In
stopping his rush lost her balance and
went splash into the pool. As she fell
Wilmer understood—her feet were ab
solutely bare. Tie plunged in. The
pool was well over Ills head, but it was
nothing to tiring the girl safe to the
bank. She still held the line. The
Ennis boy snatched it from her and
plunged in himself, winding line as he
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trod water across half a dozen yards;
then, with a quick dive, reached the
tired trout, held him fast and scram
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bled in triumph to the bank.
“Confess that you envy him.” the Bandon
Oregon
girl said, nodding toward the Ennis
boy. She stood dripping, lint happy,
making no effort even to wring the wa I
ter from her skirts. “I can't under
stand why you chose to pull me out
Instead of the fish.” she went on. “I
fear you are no true brother of tlie an
gle."
"Well, you see. It was your fish, and
A. Garfield
I wanted It badly.” Wilmer pleaded In
excuse.
The girl shook her head. “That’s a Mill
and Steamboat Work Our
question.” she said. “True, I hooked
the trout, with. oh. such a big worm
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for bait. but I didn’t land him. Gran-
dad will have to decide thè point of
ownership. He used to be a judge, SPECIAL MACHINES BUILT TO ORDER
you know, and Is. I’m sure, much
wiser than Solomon.”
Turned Shafting, Cap and Set
“Take me to him at once.” Wilmer
Screws. Mach ito Bolts. Pipe
commanded.
The girl nodded and
and Fittings, Brass Work
darted along a footpath, beckoning the
GENERAL REPAIRING
others to follow. Soon they came upon
a red brick house with wide, hospitable
Pattern
Shop in Connection
piazzas and open doors.
Judge I.ane sat at ease there, smok
ing and dipping Into a big shabby vol
ume of Izaak Walton. He did not
seem shockial at Joe's plight.
”Y«u. miss, have no sort of claim to
the fish.
You lost it disgracefully l adies' and Children's Furnish
throudli Eve's sin of curiosity,” he
ings, Men’s Shirts and
said. “As for those others, I think
they can settle it between them. But.
Overalls
hark you. Jacky Ennis, you’ve made a
WE ARE JUST RECEIVING
great catch—one that ought to be
A LARGE STOCK OE
worth at least $2.”
Wilmer paid more, hut the trout was
not sent away. Instead It was cooked
AT THE
for dinner in the Lane kitchen. And
some six months later Wilmer came
asking the judge for Josephine. The
old man listened in silence and at the
end said with twinkling eyes:
"Humph! It seems that fish case is
If you wish a bottle cold...
mighty bard to settle. What If you
did pull Joo out of the water—d'ye
Call at the Eagle,
happen to know she can swim like a
If you love the goods that’s old--
mermaid?"
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Call at the Eagle.
“What has that to do with it?” Wil
Taint no use to sit and blink
mer demanded “You admit I did pull
If you really need a drink.
her out. It was on that ground you
gave Jacky the fish. Surely you don’t
Just make a sign or ring a bell.
mean to reverse yourself?"
And you bet they’ll treat you right
“No, for if I did 1 might lie re-re-
Down at the Eagle
rersed.” the judge said, laughing soft
ly. “Besides. I’m a stickler for prece
i
dent. and Josephine always has had
;
her own way."
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Combination
Offer
HAYES
The willow tree leaned so far out
over the water that all that happened
in it was mirrored in the face of the
stream. There was an eddy at the
tree foot, with a deeplab pool under
neatli. Trout lurked in the pool, so
big and wary they were the despair
}f all neighborhood fishermen.
The Ennis boy, of course, had told
Wilmer all about them. Wilmer, In
deed. bad found the lad much like a
local chronicle. In the week since he
had established himself nt the Ennis
farmhouse he had been possessed of at
least half the ins and outs of Brush
creek neighborhood.
Ostensibly Wilmer was a vagrant va
cationer; really he was looking out for
remnant tracts of hardwood timber.
A new railway was mooted, not yet
even In the air. but in the minds of
certain men. Before building it they
wanted to make certain of sure and
Marshfield Bonds are Ap quick relurns. Walnut, white oak.
cherry and ash in sufficient amount
proved
would furnish such returns.
Wilmer had been told to spend a
fortnight looking for timber, Now. at
C. H. Moore Jr., of the firm of the middle of the fortnight, he knew
Woodin, McNear & Moore, bond he need look no more, so be was giving
his whole mind to the enjoyment of
brokers of Chicago, announced last fishing; hence today’s excursion begun
evening that the company’s attor at sunrise. So far the excursion had
fruitless. The Ennis boy was
ney s had appt oved of the purchase been
distressed.
He had rather bragged
of the 154,000 issue of Marshtieid of the sport they were to have, Be-
city bonds and that the bang bonds sides, Wilmer had promised him a sll-
ver dollar if they managed to catch
are now en route here. Just is even
one big trout.
soon as they reach here ar.d can be
Wilmer had his reasons aside from
signed up, the money for them will natural liberality. He was on the
edge of falling in love with a girl,
be forthcoming. The bonds are tc dragon
guarded. The dragon was a
be dated December i •
crusty uncle whose sole enthusiasm
This news will be gratifying to was for fish and fishing. If Wilmer
the city officials who have been could send off In the night’s mall a
snapshot of even a two pounder, along
laboring for several months to dean with a chatty account of rhe place
up the city’s financial slate.
It will where such fish might tie caught, he
also mean the closing of the negotia knew he would come near to estab
lishing himself in the dragon’s good
tions for the purchase of the “B" graces. He would also do well for
street lot, opening Commercial aven hfs Immediate principals since the
dragon was among thechiefest of those
ue to the waterfront.
depended on to finance the new line.
Messrs Moore and Frake, who
So he came to the willow tree with
came here to close the deal for the something beyond sportsman eager
city bonds and also to bid on the ness. Approach to it was not directly
along the water side, but across a
bond issue of the Port of Coos tiny promontory of gravelly turf. He
Bay left this morning for their knelt among the taut upstanding roots
stretching back of It, made ready his
home.
hook, baiting it with the choicest min-
Mr. Moore is delighted
! now tn the bucket: then, advancing
section. While waiting to see what ' covertly, still in shelter of the trunk,
would develop in the Port Com flung it midstream, a little way up
cu rrent, so the eddy might suck it
mission case, they spent several right over to the depths. Then, watch
days hunting around the Bay and ing the ripples spread and turn the
touring this section.
Mr. Moore water mirror’s picturings to grotesque
caricature, he became aware that the
said that next summer he and Mrs. hole was pre-empted—there was a
Moore will come here and spend homemade line of black flax thread.
i with a cork, likewise homemade, dan
several weeks.
1 gling from the tree, the cork bobbing
—ovu
! and dipping in exactly the middle of
tlie pool.
American Consul Confirms He dart'd not speak. The Ennis lad
i had warned him a word was death to
Story
| his chances. The boy also had seen
tlie intruding line. In swift panto
mime, by throwing himself prone and
Washington, Nov. 20—There is lying at ease, lie counseled Wilmer to
no doubt that Leonard Groce and J stay. It was good counsel. Wilmer
decider!. Ile'stood fast, keeping well
Leroy Cannon, the twe Americans away from the lAnk and so maneu-
arrested with the revolutionists in vering his rod as to keep his bait
in motion.
Nicaragua, have been executed. properly
The eddy was big and slow, so slow
The state department today re it made one sleepy to watch it. The
ceived a cable message from the mounting May sun was warm and
American consul at Managua con vital, the drone of bees in the bass
wood tops or over the sparse white
firming the report that the Amer clover blooms a lulling chant. There
¡cans have been executed on the or’ i had been a ruffling breeze, but it had
| died to utter stillness Wilmer watch
ders of President Zelaya, who is n w
ed ills float and the homemade one un-
fighting the revolutionists headed by I til be grew drowsy. And then some
thing happened that made him wildly
Provisional President Estrada.
According to the message the awake.
The bungling cork went under with
Nicaraguan government admits that a rush. The next second there leaped
the executions took place The of to view, half his silver length above
water, a monster trout, the most beau
ficials justify the act J by the decla tiful
Wilmer had ever seen. He wps
ration that Groce and Cannon con fast, having bolted the hook, but that
fessed they were laying mines in clumsy line would never hold him.
Moreover, it appeared to lie but lightly
the San Juan river for the purpose tied
to a swaying willow branch. No
of blowing up the steamers carrying doubt some rustic had left it there.
There could lie nobody in the tree.
government troops.
However tlie water mirror had been
It appears Zelaya ordeied their shattered,
it had had still moments
execution over the protest ol his during which Wilmer bad studied it
commander-in chief and the minister I close, yet seen nothing but the gold
green leafage, the netted intricacies of
general.
slender boughs, tlie rough and weath
er beaten blackness of the trunk.
What wonder that be scrambled up
SO YEARS'
the slope of it. made to fling himself
EXPERIENCE
along it and reach for the line! That
tlsh must be landed: it was a prize be
yond hope. lli« fingers were almost
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upon the c< rd when he snatched them
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kick as if from fire. Another hand
Angelin t \lnnujui > Don’t you think
had reached for the line—one small it wits drc.idfitl of the photographer to
trade M arks
and sunburned, with strawberry stain flutter me like »lint?
D esigns
ed fingers that yet were beautifully ta
Her De.ir Erlend oh. I don’t know. BANDON
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C opyrights A c .
Anyone nendtnc * ukHrh and deacrlptlon m*v
T<>ti
might want to use the picture to
pered.
it
was
a
girl
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hand
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a
very
qntckly ••«'crtaü» our oplnl<<i> free whether -n
Druggùd
and
.Apothecary
Invention it prtioably patentable. < omniuiilra«
pretty girl’s. lie saw that at a glance send in reply to a matrimonial adver
Ilona strictly confidential. HANDBOOK on Patenta
Is .ns» in receipt, of a new stock of
tisement.- Boston Traveler
ns he said rather breathlessly:
sent free, tildeat lurfinry for a ecu ri u patents.
r.itenta taken through Munn t Co. receive
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Don
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t
lose
him!
Give
him
line-as
notica, without charge, in the
Drugs and Chemicals, Paten, and
little as you can! Heavens, how he
Her Tactful Invitation.
Proprietary Preparations. Toilet V
fights!
You-you had better come
Prudent Swain If 1 were to steal a
tides.
Druggist Sundries. Perfumes,
t handaomely Illustrated weeklv. Î unrest cir
down or let me land him for yon.”
kiss, would |r «r nro mu so that yon
culation of any s> «ei'tinc journal
Tern» ? a
.-nr: four niontlia, |i. Sonlbyali aewa«ienl«ftx
“Yon liettrr le<>k at yottr own hook!" would scream? Timid Maid Icouldn'l; i Brushes, Spnugos. Soap, Note and
( 'andies. t 'igars. Tobaccos and Cig
the Ennis hoy shouted
fright always makes me dumb —Tule- I arettes, Paints, Oil«,
Gla-n and
B m MS obc*. fl* F Kt, »' sail iu«mo. IK C.
Wilmer half fell from the tree. His d-> Blade
P«> nl 'fa Supplies.
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C. T. B i . i ’ menrother , Notary Public
OFFICE IN DEVEREUX BUILDING
YOUR ATTENTION
is called to the fact that COL. C. T. BLUMEN-
ROTH ER of Bandon, Oregon, will insure Saw
mill men. Loggers and other kinds of workmen
against sickness, accident or death at reasonable
rales. It will pay you to call on him and see
what he offers in that line.
re Insurance
SS. ELIZABETH
NEW STATE-ROOMS INSTALLED
Eight Day Service Between the Coquille River and
San Francisco
First-class Passenger Fare.
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$7.50
Freight Rates.
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$3 on Up Freight
J. E. WALSTROM, Agent, Bandon. Oregon.
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T. Kruse, owners and managers, 24 California St., San Francisco.
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