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What Argo’s Crew Say
United States Inspectors Edwards
and Fuller will take testimony con
cerning the wreck of the steamship
Argo at 9 o'clock this morning.
Captain Levi Snyder will lie called
upon to give his official report and
First Officer Johnson, Chief En
gineer Snyder,
First Assistant
Thomas Russell Purser William A
Simpson and members of the crew
will be examined.
Members of the crew of the ill
fated steamship, lpst on Tillamook
Bay bar Friday night, have pre
pared the following expression of
gratitude of the heroic conduct o
Captain Snyder:
We, the undersigned members of
the steamship Argo, wish to give
expression to the splendid seaman
ship of Captain Snyder, whose cool
ness in the trying hours of ship
wreck, excellent judgment in his
every action
while being swept
across the bar with disabled ehgine,
thought for passengers and crew,
made our rescue possible.
With a rapid falling barometer, a
southwest gale, increasing in velocit y
his making for the lightship as offer I
ing the best chance for safety, justi
fied our confidence in his ability to
get us out of a serious situation.
Too much cannot be said in praise
of Mate Nelson and crew of tlx
lightship, who gave up their berths
their clothes, and did everything
for our comfort. Signed, Thos.
Russell, John Woldhouse, Albert
Meskelberg, Emil Solmonsen, H.
Hollis, C. H. Graves, C. Frednel
son, N. Pederson and William A.
Simpson.
Purser Simpson is loud in his
praise of Captain Snyder. 1 le said
"I do not know what, more 1 cai
say of the way things went in the
shipwreck, but if I have ever to go
through another 1 hope 1 ma\
have Captain Snyder commanding
the ship. 1 have heard men talk of
what they would do in emergencies,
have heard comment alter wrecks
have happened on what might have
been done, but Captain Snyder
seemed to have thought of every
thing beforehand and did all that
man could do to save the ship, the
passengers and the crew.
Astoria
looked better to me than ever before
when we reached there from the
lightship, and I am mighty thiiikfu'
we are all safely on shore again.
Oregonian.
I
ound <’ea ’ in Ins -cd. Death had I *¡r
uccurrtfti somethin.* d uuig he night ♦ <•
Lodje and Frof'asalonal Directory *
Octopus
Ä
and was due to hcait f.uluie.
•X
Waite was ab-uit 90 years of age ❖
—
New \ < rk. De 9--That George IL’ti -»I came to San Diego .1 < it •> Lodges are R. qu< <trd to Notify this Office ot. Election of Officers and on S
<«r
Change of Mectiug Night. Cards uuder this Head are 50c per in., mouth *
B. Cortelyou will be a powerful four vu*rs igo and though tie oftei
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factor in financial interests controlled bragged that he had consideiable . •> •> • • > •• •> •> •> <. ■ < <• < <» > .,*.
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a
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and allied w ith J P Morgan is the money, he lived almost in poverty'
Lewah Tribe No. 48. Imp. O. R. M.
Dr H. Li- Houston
general belief here.
It is assert- d In his ti<»users which were ♦ou nd
nW^EE 1 S every 1 hutsday evening at 8 run at
rwr.S’JCTAA X SL’KOAuA
under
the
pillow
of
his
bed.
W
efr
lliat he- will leave his present posi
the Bandon VI igman. Sojourning chiefs
Office over Drug Stor*.
Hours. *.♦ to
in good standing are cordially invited to attend.
lion, it the head of the ( ons »lidated ¿4<x> in $20 gold pieces.
a.m. I 30 to 4, v nt. ; 7 to 8 in the evening.
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G E WJwn.
About his body he wore a money* * T Alien
Nik’Lit ch II h Hiiawered from office.
Gas company next spring and take
C. of R
Sachem.
ILL-HEALTH 18 Mi'HE EXPENSIVE TUAN
HAN DON.
...
OKHHIN
charge of the general direction <>f belt in which was currrency io ti e
ANY CUKES.
amount of $5620. Papers found in
M maoii I c .
Itr M. I». Perkin»*
This country is now tilled with the Equitable ife
D
ANDON
LODGE.
No.
HO
A.
F
A
A.
his
trunk
show
that
he
held mort
When seen today Cortelyou re- •
people wbo migrate across the con
OFFICE HOURS: It) s. m to 3 p
M. Stated communications first Saturday
m., 7 p. in. to 8 p. m.
tiueut iu ail directions seekiuu that fused to discuss the repot t. 1 he gages on conntry propertv
propert v in after the full moon ot each month. All Master
which gol<| cannot liny. Nine tenths
Office in New Denholm âuildiug.
Masons cordially invited.
C. I. Kime, AX . M.
of th in are suffering (rom throat aud change, it is said, will lie one of the Illinois and Missouri to the .uno. nt
Lloyd Rosa, Secretary
of
about
$65,000.
Nothing
is
kno
vn
lung troubles <>r cbionic catarrh re results cf Morgan’s acquisitions of
Dr L». B Sorensen
sulting from neglected colds and Thomas F. Ryan’s control of the of his relatives here, although it is
DENTIST
spending fortunes vainly trying to
I. <». <». F
Office Over Vienna Cafe
believer!
ite
has
two
sisters
in
James
There
also
is
strong
Equitable,
T2 ANDON 1.01 XT. No. I B. I O O. F
regain lost health. Could every suf
Telephone at Office and Home.
ferer but undo the pa«.t and cure that support for the storv of a pos->iblt- town, N. Y.
meets every Wednesday evening. Visiting
BANDON
-
.
OREGG-4
first neglected cold, all this sorrow, merger of the Equitable, the New
brulheis in good standing cordially invited.
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C. F. Thomas, N. G.
pain, anxiety and expense-conIU nave
O. T. 1 KK.t IXIO1.I»,
A. J. Hartman, Secretary
been avoided Cbambei Iain’s Cough York Life and the Mutual Life, a
ATTORNEY AND COUNSEL« '<
Remedy is famous for its cures of combine that would represent more
AT LAW,
Tbe
intense
nel
ing
character.stie
colds, and can always be depended than four billion dollars.
of
these
ailments
is
almost
instanti.!
NOTARY PUBLIC
Rebekah
Lodge
No.
126.
upon. Use it and tbe more serion
I N. <0(1 VllNNIONK.lt
It is believed the Morgan interests allayed l > Chamberlain's Salve
diseases may be avoided. For sale by
|y| EE1S in K of P. hall every second and
Many
severi»
eas-s
bave
been
cured
C. Y. Lowe.
Bandon.
- ;
Oregon.
have reach- d an understanding with by it. Sold by C. Y. Lowe.
fourth Fridays. Practice nights first Fri
day of the month; bocial evening the id Friday Office \\ ith Bandon Investment On
interests
and
that
the
Standard
Oil
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ot the month. A cordial invitation extended to
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the two plan to work in harm« >ny
all members in good standing.
Dr. H- Ivi. Brown.
Maggie White. N. G.
Independence Man Register in control oj the financial affair-. of Canada Opens War on U. S.
Resident Dentist.
Clara Goetz. Secretary.
the nation
Office in Panter Building
decfart bimseli emperor, He il »K»t
get the chance mj long as I am in
the senate.”
Realizing that the only uav he
could secure the passage of his
measure through tht
w
the elimination ot the director's job.
Mr. Mann diplomatically announced
today that he wuul i amend it by
striking out the objectionable office.
of Roseburg Land Office
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Independence, Ore, Dec. S—B.
F Jones of this city, has been offri
ed the appointment as Register of
the Roseburg Land < tftice by Serator
Bourne, to succeed B. L. Eddy,
whose term expires December 18.
Mr. Jones is a lawyer in the P Ik
county tow n. and always has been
steadfastly a Bourne man.
He
has served three terms as a member
of the lower house in the Oregon
legislature, and at the 1907 session
helped to elect Bourne si nator.
While living at Toledo, Lincoln
county, Mr. Jones in the general
election of 1902, was elected stati
representative from that county and
served at the 1903 session of the
legislature.
He subsequently re
moved to I’olk county, and in June
1906, was elected joint represent
ative from Polk and Lincoln. Two
years later, he was re-elected to the
same office and during the meeting
of the legislature last winter was
one of the most rabid Statement No
I members of the lower house
ceded the organization of the legis
lature last winter, Mi. Jones at one
time was talked of as the candidate
of the Statement forces for Speaker
of the House.
Aldrich and 1 aft in 1912
HOW ONE DOCTOK 8UCCES8FULLY
PNEUMONIA
TllEA I
Soon to Be One Huge
Says Bryan
I'OR THAT HULL FEELING
AFTItH
BATINU
” 1 have User! ( hambei-lain’s Stom
ach and Liver Tablets for some time,
and can testify that they have don»-
me more good than any tablets 1 have
ever used My trouble was a heady
dull feeling after eating.---Daw
Freeman, Kempt. Nova Scotia.
They also regulate tbe fiver and
bowels. They are far superior to
i
pills lint cost no more. , Get a free
sample at Lowe’s drug store and see
what a splendid medicine it is.
Made Hirr Sick.
A noted golfer one afternoon played
rather badly
lie turned lo Ills caddie
after lie bad foozled a drive mid said
in his genial way :
“This isn't a pleasant spectacle for
you. I'm as h id ns a Scotch laird al
St. Andrews.
Tlie St Andrews cad-
dies nre all eld inr-n. ami mu- day when
this laird wa in especially bad form
his caddie. ai:i r nine holes of missed
shots and putts, shook his gray old
head, surrendered the laird's bag of
clubs to anol her <ad-lie mid said'
“’Ye’ll no mind, laird? I made hut
a poor breakfast this mornin', and I’m
no in a condition to simnl nny mult*
n’t.’ ”
Thanks
People
of
Oregon
Ottawa, Canada, Dec. 5- -The
linikilitM of PytlHiiM
Minister has practically assured ■0EI.PHI LODGE. No (.4. Knight, of
a deputation of shipp’ng interests
Pythias. Meets every Monday evening
Knights hall. Visiting knights invited to
that the government has decided to at
attend.
Dr. L. P. Sorensen C. G.
reconstruct the Well.iu lCiu.il
B. N. I larrington K. of R. S.
New plans will reduce the number
of locks from 25 to 7, and this is re
Woodmen of the World
garded by shipping men as the jCJcasid«' ( amp No. 212 meets every filst and
thud Thursdays of each month. \ ¡siting
first step in a long war between neighbors cordially invited.
R. W. Bullard, C. C.
the grain carrying interests • f tin
J. N. I losking. Clerk.
United States and Canada. Since
the Welland locks were deepened
I»lt. I. AV. RONS ITE It
to 14 feet, the Erie barge canal,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
from Buffalo to New York, lias been
BANDON
OREGON
doing practically no business.
Office and residence in Banter residence propert
next door to Bi|ou Theatre
It is pointed out that an ap-
propriation from the state of New
York of over ^100,000,000 wa> Bring your
made a short time ago, and the Erie
Canal will be deepened tO I 2 feet
to T he R ecorder
The Erie when six feet deep
should carry grain to New York
cheaper than it could be carried via
the Welland Canal when that cana
was only eight feet deep. With
the Erie i 2 feet deep, it is argued !
BASIMI
that the United States would gel
Capital,
all the business.
C.
9 to 12 M.. I to 5 P. M.
OREGON
BANDON.
I n .
BARROW
Attorney and Couuselor-at Law
-
COQUILLE.
ORE
Office over Skeels’ Store
residence. Main 146
Office Phone. Main 335;
DR. J. D KELLEY
Physician and Surgeon
Office over Steel's Store.
G NACE
Coquille, Ore
Ai^COA
Teacher of Piano
Lessons $1.00 per hour. One-half
hour lessons given if preferred
»loh Work
Knowlton’s House, near 4th Street
BANK OF BANDON
BOARD OF
non
The Nesmith County Committee
Vessel Lost at Monterey
<!< sires, through the columns ot
the R ecorder to express its ap
Monterey, Cal., Dec. 6—The
preciation and extend its thanks to
steam
schooner Majestic bound from
| the citizens of Oregon for ti e assist
San
Pedro
to San Francisco in bal
ance rendered it .in procuring the
rcijtiisite number of signatures of last, went ashore near here today.
i legal voters to a petition for the crea Captain Keegan and the crew ol
tion of Nesmith county.
It is nine are ashore safely. Slit' is owned
through the liberal mindedness of in San Francisco b\ I. J. H irinon
of the citizenship of the state that and leased by If. J. Knowles, also
the committee h is been enabled to of San Francisco. Slie was swept
I tile the petition with the Secretary ashore bv the heavy west wind and
I of State with 35 per cent more an insetting current which made it
signatures than required by law, impossible to keep the vessel at sea.
showing that the people recognize I She recently lost a propeller blade
on a trip from Puget Sound aixl
the justice of our claim and are will- j
this added to the difficulty in man
ing that the qualified electors of
aging
her.
The Majestic was a year
the state pass judgment upon the
old and cost $150,000.
question at issue at the next general
election.
COMMITTEE,
By G. !.. Rees, Secy.
Grants Writ in Labor Case
“In troHtiug pneumouia," siiys Dr
W. J. Smith of Sunders Ala , "tbe I Lincoln, Neb., Dec 4—William
only remedy I une for the lungs is J. Bryan in the Commoner today
Chamberlain's
C'ongb Remedy.
While, of course, I would treat otbei says:
"Has it occurred to you that Taft
symptoms with different medicines, 1
have iiHed tbiw remedy many times in and Aldrich are likely to head the
my medical practice and have yet ;
failed to find a case where it has not j tepublican ticket in the next cam
controlled tbe trouble. I have used paign?
it myself, as has also iuy wife for
Taft's endorsement of Aldri. h’s
coughs and colds repeatedly, and 1
sstatesmanship,
his praise f»>r the
most willingly ami cheerfully rt-c-'tn
During the campaign which pre
mend it as superior to any ottx-i
cough remedy to my knowledge,’’ | Aldrich bill as the best ever, and
For sale t>y C. Y. Lowe.
Aldrich's torn through the west ma
king laudatory comments upon the
Senators Need Have No Fear corporation press, all points to the
plan.
Polar Controversy is Revived
"New England, has not had a
Washington, Dec. 4 How will
Roosevelt take the abolition of the place on the national ticket for some
time, although she has supported
Copenhagen, Dec. 8 —The North
directorship of the Panama canalJ
the ticket with gre.it constancy. Polar observations ot Dr. Cook
This is one ot the questions poli
Isn’t it about time to recognize reached here today and were turned
ticians asked each other tonight,
her?
over to officials at the University ■
and the answer to the query may
"Aldrich has announced tint he of Copenhagen,
Great care was
cut a large figure in the next national
won’t tie a candidate for the senate taken to guard the iron box in which
campaign.
again.
What is more naturd than the documents reposed. The ex
The director generalship is not a
that he should aspire to be the boss amination will probably be made at
present day job.
It is a place pro- j
of the senate in name, as he has Copenhagen University. None but
posed in a pending bill introduced
for years been, in fact.
the duly chosen committee rep
bv Representative Mann, chairman
‘"Why not Taft and Aldrich in rsettling the University of Copen
of the house committee on interstate |
1912, and if it is possible to swallow hagen will be permitted to be pres
and foreign commerce. Mann's bill
that, then Aldrich and Cannon in ent.
was designed to abolish the seven
1916?
The coming of Dr Cook's papers
headed isthmian canal commission
"What do the progressives sav were accompanied by a revival of
and to create in addition to the
tn tint?''
the controversy, the Politiken as
director general a governor of the
ooo
—
sertn1g5th.it the supportei s 1 if Co n
canal zone and an engineer in chief.
tnander Peary are trying to enlist
The bill passed the house but failed
A
LAMI
’
BA<
h
FOR
th .services of < .reenlaiid exp'orer-
in the senate.
When you liavo pains or lanx-m»»
The cause of the bill’s failure in in tbe back bathe the parts with in organizing an anti Cook pres
r
the upper house is said to hi lave been Chamberlain** Liniment twin- a -lay < ampaign.
j
massaging
with
tin*
palm
<>f
th»»
ban
)
due to tne fact that it was believed
l for five minutes at escli application
that Theodore Roosevelt would b< Then dampen a pit- e of tlann-- Rich, He Dies in Poverty
made director general as soon as slightly witli this liniment and bind
it on over lb<? seat of tlx» pain, an 1
the bill should be enacted.
yon may f»e surpris»--! to s»-e b-- v
San Diego, Cal., Dec. 5 —S. L.
"If Roosevelt should be made di- quickly th»» latn"in—s disappear
For
sale
by
C.
Y
’
.
Lowe.
''.'alte, said to be a relative ol tlx
rector general of the canal, ” said
lite Governor Wait-, of Colorado
one senator, rather peevishly, “it
and ar old-time friend and com
would not be very longbefcrehe
Is your subscription paid?
I j, anion of Kit Carson, w is today
would annex the United States and 1
Office Hour»:
Phone.
Washington, Dec. 6—The su
preme court of the United States
has granted the petition tor a writ
of certiorari in the contempt case of
Samuel (jumpers. Erank Morrison
i.id Tohn Mitchell officers of the
American Federation of labor. The
effect of the decision Mill be to bring
the entire record of the Buck Stove
and Range case against these men
to the supreme «.ourt for review.
(’oqnille.
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trading aii-l olii-r i-u-im
Vice
A general banking business transacted and customers given every accommodation con
sistent with safe and conservative banking
CORRESF’ONDENTS:
The American National Bank, of San Francisco, Calif,
Merchants National Bank, Portland, Oregon; The Chase National Bank, of New York.
A. M« NAIR
THE HARDWARE MAH
BRIDGE K BEA( II Stoves, Ranges and Heaters have in them »o many excellencies
that they are now acknowledged the greatest sellers on the coast and they are growing
in favor every year.
We have the exclusive agency in Bandon for the»e household
and office necessities, and prices range exceedingly modest in either case.
TINNING AND PLUMBING A SPECIALTY.
Ilur Assortment of Hardware. Tinware and Edged Tonis is Most Complete.
Portland and Coos Bay Steamship Line
BREAKWATER
o
Sail» from Coot Bay Saturdays at Service of Tide
Sail» from Ain»worth Dock, Portland, Wednesday at 8 P M.
C, M. SPENCER, Agent
. F. MILLER, Agent, Mar.hfield
o
[QI
fl
Stmr. Wilhelmina
CHRISTENSEN. Comm.ndmg.
Ceos Bay and Bandon twice a week
Coquille River Transportation
Leaves
B.»ndon
t»2.»,000.
DIREC TORS:
J. L. Kronenberg, President. J. Denholm,
President; F. J. Fahy. Cashier; Frank Flam. T. P. Hanly.
CAPTAIN
Co.’s Schedule
OHKGON
Connecting with Steam Ship Alliance at Marshfield.
information of
Full
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for every use.
Cut generous
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