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BANDON, OREGON, MARCH 24, 1910 VOLUME XXVI. SPECIAL SESSION INSTITUTE FOR COOS COUNTY WHAT PORT COM- LOGGING TRAIN OF CITY COUNCIL The Fifth Street Ordinance Re pealed at Meeting Friday lRUN D0WN 0N NUMBER 11 SIDEWALK TO BEACH OREGON LAND GRANTS LARGE BUILT AT ONCE County Superintendent Special Report on Coos Bay Chas. Hayter Instantly Killed _____ Arranges For a Train- Wagon Road Grant and at Craine’s Logging ing School Litigation Commercial Club Decides to Means Deeper Harbor and Camp Coquille, Oregon, March 21— The Sentinel says: ’‘County Sup Night erintendent Bunch came down to Co quille ) esterday to lie in attendance at the meeting of the special institute committee which has in charge the OTHER BUSINESS OF IMPORTANCE . matter of a teacher’s institute for this county this fall. ‘‘This is the second meeting of A special session of the city coun the committee and already they have cil was held Tuesday night, at which accomplished wonders, in the way time a large amount of important of plans for the proposed institute business was transacted among At their last meeting which was other things done, was the repealing held about six weeks ago it was de of the ordinance to improve Fifth cided to petition the county court street at this time as a number of the to appropriate the sum of $150.00 property owners objected to the for the purpose of partly defraying cost as outlined in the ordinance. the expenses of an institute, and at This means that the improvement the last meeting of the body the of this street will he ¡jostponed to a matter was placed before them with later date. the result that they responde 1 at Owing to a misunderstanding in once with the sum requested. the arrangements for the moving of “This, together with the money M. Breuer’s building back the reso already in the institute fund makes lution concerning the improvement .a total of $210.00 and the plan of of First street at the west e id. as assessing each teacher of the county lai I on the table till the next meet {$1.00 will swell the fund to nearly ing. $300.00 which will amply provide An ordinanance was ordered for the expenses of the year. drawn for the opening of Columbia “Two instructors will be secured Ave. from Fifth to Sixth street, irom the ou side, one for the pri Elbert Dyer was pi esent and an mary grades and one for the higher nounced that he would open Co grades. The plan is that the session lumbia Ave. from Sixth street to shall take the form of a school of the rock fill on the plank road. methods rather than a cramming This would mean another entrance school as has previously been the to the city and will be very bene case. No studies will be taken up, ficial. As this was a special meet the whole time being consumed in teaching the teachers how to teach. ing no bills were allowed. ’ ‘The proposed school of teaching The bids for moving the Breuer will be held from August 1 to 12 in building ranged from $800 to $1300, clusive and the school boards of the but as the original resolution was county will be requested to close laid on the table, nothing was done the schools of the county for this with the bids. period of time. It will also be sug gested that the teachers receive one week’s pay for the tim e they are in Inter High School Field attendance at the institute. The Meet regular teachers' examination will take place during the last three days The inter high school field meet of of the institute ” the various high schools of Coos county will be held at Marshfield this year, and although the ar City Gets $2,000 Out of the rangemeets are not yet complete, Fight the Bandon boys have commenced work in earnest, and good progress is being made. For the past two Oakland, Cal., March 15—The legal requirements weeks, spades and shovels have preliminary been applied energetically, and a which were necessary to permit Jef fifteen foot race <ourse now fries and Johnson to fight at Emery surrounds the new school building. ville. were cleared away today, fol of the town C. Evan Lucas, seeing tii it the boys lowing the action were in earnest, presented them trustees last night in fixing the li with a small concrete roller which is cense for the pugilistic encounter at designed to develop strength as well $2,000. In view ef this action there as to harden the track A shower will be no opposition to the fight on bath is being installed and every the part of the city. possible effort put forth to place the boys on an equal fooling with the Better Train Service rest of the schools. Last year Ban don won second honors with less promising material than they On April 1st the Coos Bay, Rose have this year and if a coach can be burg and Eastern railroad will es secured who understands his busi tablish a seven days a week train ness we will have no cause to fear service between Myrtle Point and the results of the meet Marshfield, and on May tst, a twice a day service, with the possible ex A merry party of people went up ception of Sunday. Mr. Miller, the so C. E Lucas’ ranch last Sunday agent, states that if the company is for an outing and report the time of awarded the contract tor carrying their lives. They cooked their din- ' the mail in and out of Coos Bay, in ner over a camp fire but we were other wot ds. if the mail service is not informed as to whether they had left on the Myrtle Point raid, the a war dance, but piesume they did, ' twice-a day service and seven day a- one thing they did do, however week services will be made perma was to assist a poor helpless cow, nent. If they do not get the mail that had fallen into a pit, out oi contract, the time the service will be danger, which was, of course, a I continued is pioblematical. worthy act. Those present in the party were: C. E. Lucas and wife I A chapter of the Order of Eastern J. A. Johnston, Charles and Clyde Barrows, Lentner Gallier, Mis. R. Star was organized in North Bend H. Hopson, Mrs. J. H. Johnston last week week with a large list of members. and Miss Edna Mills. Dredged River ’and Lower Freight Rates BIG BOATS FROM SEA TO MYRTLE POINT There seems to be a lack of un derstanding among many people in this watershed as to just what the financial benefits of a port commis sion will be and with this idea in view we will here undertake to give a few detailed ideas as to the red question. We have stated a number of times that it would mean a cheaper freight rate, both in and out of this harbor but some do not understand just how much that would amount to, and for the benefit of those we will say that the boat companies have said that with two or three feet more water on the bas, they would give us the same freight rate from here that other competitive ports have. At present our saw mills are ¡raying $1.00 a thousand more for trans porting lumber to San Francisco than they are paying from Coos B ly and other freight is proportionately high, both in and oul of this port The freight rate from Coquille and Myrtle Point, by way of Coos Bay, is the same as it is from Bandon at present, and with the port commis sion and the deepened bar and channel to Myrtle Point, the rate from Bandon would be much less as we have stated and the rate from the up river towns would be correspond ingly less, and then freight would go out over this bar, which is its natural outlet, instead of going out over the Coos Bay bar. We do not say this to antagonize Coos Bay, but merely state the facts as thev actually exist and would exist under a port commission. The up freight from San Francisco and the down freight from Portland would of course be correspondingly lowered with deeper bar and river. Farmers, as we have many times stated would get a lower freight rate than thev are now getting, merchants could sell goods cheaper, because oj the lower freight rates and in fact every department of business in the valley would be stimulated in a de gree that cannot be comprehended until it is given a trial. The ben efits in cheapened transportation would far outweigh the tax every year besides the value of the prop erty would be greatly enhanced as the result of the better transporta tion facilities. .... - Still Popular in the West One Teddy Roosevelt seems to look pretty good to the newspaper editors of Oregon, Washington and Idaho, in fact most of them west of the Mississippi River. A Chicago newspaper conducted a canvass of the editors west of the Alleghanies recently to find out their choice for President. The move was made to ascertain if Taft is still a favorite with the people. The canvass showed that Roosevelt was the favorite with 3060 editors while Taft trails with 1093. In Oregon Taft got 14 votes and Roosevelt 32; in Washington Roosevelt 51, Taft 31; in Idaho Roosevelt fell behind Taft, the .latter receiving 17 votes and Roosevelt 14.—Coos Bay Harbor. Chas. Hayter well known in Ban don, and who was in the employ ol Alvin Murck at the Eagle Bar all winter, only resigning his position on February 22d, was run over by a logging train at Craine’s camp last Thursday afternoon and instantly killed. “Hayter was employed as a load er and also performed the duties of brakeman when the train was en route to the river with logs. He had just completed loading four sets of logging trucks with logs, and be fore the train pulled out, threw on a butt chain to be repaired at the blacksmith shop two or three hun dred yards from the landing. Hay ter was standing on the tender and as the train passed the shop he threw the chain off, losing his balance and falling between the tender and first car of logs. Before the train could be stopped eight wheel - passed over his body. Hayter was about 30 years old and leaves a wife and two small children This sudden death came as a great shock to Bandon people tor the young man had many friends here, who learned of his death with regret, and who will extend sincere sympathy to the bereaved family. Interment took place in the Co quille cemetery last Saturday. Go Ahead With the Work at Once MUCH IMPORTANT BUSINESS TRANSACTED Washington, D. C., March 18— The Department of Justice has sent to the Senate a report corcerning the suits against the land grant railroads, in response to the Cham berlain resolution of January 24th. The report recites that the lands involved aggregated under the acts of July 25th, 1866, and May 41I1, 1S70, 3.137.000 acres granted, of which 820,000 acres have been sold, the remaining 2,317,000 acres being claimed by the Oregon anil Cali fornia Railroad Company as successors to the original grants, the report states that a suit was insti tuted September 24, 1908, against the Oregon an I California Com pany. the issues in the case being complicated by a large number of interventions, and that the case is now pending on demurrers, inter posed by principal defendants. In addition to the main suit forty-five olhei suits, instituted against large purchasers of the rights of the United States to the forfeiture i f lands in regard to suits to set aside the Coos Bay and Rosebui ' Wagon Road grant, made under die act of March 3, 1S69. The re port says the results of an investi gation on the condition of the lands under this grant have recently been presented to the Attorney General, the subject considered, and a plan of procedure adopted, and a discus sion of the future plans of the Gov ernment at this time would be in advisable. At the meeting of the Commercial Club last Friday evening it was de cider! to go ahead at once . ith tht work of building the sidewalk to the beach, as there was sufficient money in hand to make a good start and it is thought that more will be forth coming as soon as the work is commenced so that people can see that the work is really to be done With a sidewalk to the beach, so as to have easy access to that beautiful resort, there will be much more at traction for people Io come to Ban don for an outing, and it will also be much more convenient lor Ban- donians who desire to spend a day on the beach, or to take a walk for a little outing. Other matters of impoitance were taken up and a most interesting meeting was held. A number o! other propositions were discussed among which was the debate on the mannner of raising funds for street improvement and the port commis sion question was discussed vety exhaustively, nearly every phase of “Facing the Music” the subject was taken up, and it was decided to make an active campaign showing the benefits to be derived On the opening night of the in the entire valley and the excellent Grand Theatre in this city Apr. 2d, ------ OQO------- investment on '.he money so, far as St. Mary’s Guild of the St John’s the tax is concerned. Episcopal church will present Ballinger on Conservation The opinion of those present, was the pleasing comedy “Facing the Music.” Cast of characters as unanimous that it would greatly St. Paul, March 16— “As ardent benefit the commercial interests ot follows: an advocate of wise conservatiion as Rev. John Smith, Lentner Gallier the entire valley, and that the upper John Smith, J. H. Johnston river would be benefitted more ex the most radical” was the way in Dick Desmond, C. R. Moore tensively than would Bandon, but which Secretary Ballinger of the Col. Duncan Smith, R. A. Feller that all would receive a great share Interior Department, in a speech Sergeant Dnflell, Robt. Blackerby in the advancement of business in today before the Minnesota State Conservation Convention, expressed Mabel, Miss Edna Mills dustry. his policy in regard to the public Nora, Mrs. R. A. Feller ------- -OCX-»--------- land question. But it must be wise Miss Fotheringay, Mrs. J. H. Mother Deserts Her Boy. conseivation to appeal to ms, he Johnston. declared. Mrs. Ponting, Miss Aura Conger Vancouver, Wash , March 16. — Ballinger declared himself out of SYNOPSIS (Special.) — Deserted by his mother, sympathy with those radicals who ACT I Breakfast room in John whose whereabouts are unknown, fear all natural resources are being Smith’s flat; morning. little John Schlandorf, 8 years old, used up without any consideration Act II Same as act I; ten was taken in charge by a member ol for future generations. He said that minutes later. the Episcopal Church, of this city. the co.d supply, if the present rate Act III The same, ten minutes The little fellow’s maternal grand of consumption continued, would later. 11 2t mother was written to, and she at last eleven thousand years. He said once telegraphed that she would a speed)' survey of all available areas take the child and care for him. She for settlement and the classification Beautiful America Club lives in Iowa, and telegraphed the of the remainder of the public lai ds necessary ticket for his travel, so and pioper legislation is what is Over at North Bend they have a tomorrow morning at 9 o’clock, needed to properly handle the situa Beautiful America Club, composed Johnny will begin his 2000 mile tion. of a nnmber of the ladies of the journey alone. town. The object of the club is to The ticket agent, S. J. Miller, will help beautify the city. This is a give the conductor in charge of the The Chaney Mill noble work and one to be com train a letter to be turned over to mended. Such a club might be a the conductor on the next run, ex , good thing for Bandon, as the ladies The Coos Bay Times of last plaining the circumstances, and re are all interested in beautifying and questing him to taxe the child under Thursday, says: “Unless there is a bettering the cond itions of the city. his especial care. The child’s mother hitch in present plans, another lum This fact was very apparent, by the ber mill will be erected on the Co has married again. action of the Ladies’ Art Club, who quille river, between the Cody mill gave $100 toward building a side and Johnson’s mill, by the Chaney walk to the beach. Other acts of Davenport Likes Oregon Logging Company this season, interest are being expressed from Chaney brothers have announced time to time by the various ladies It is authoritatively stated that their determination to build, l ut are and ladies’ clubs of the city, all of seeking to interest the Menasha which go toward making a better Homer Davenport, the cartoonist of Wooden ware Company and make workf wide reputation is on his way and more beautiful Bandon. to Oregon and will launch into the the mill much larger than if it is weekly newspaper business in Port built by the Chaneys alone.” We The little daughter of Mr. and land. He intends to publish a high have been unable to verify this state Mrs. Edgar McDaniel, of the Coos ly illustrated newspaper carrying ment, although we have talked with Bay Harbor died last week after a with it a class of news which would some of the parties interested. We short illess. The sor-owing parents make demand a wide circulation. sincerely hope, however, that the have the sympathy of the news Portland is his old home town and Times is right. paper fraternity of Coos county in ¿’here the artiet’s first sketches made Advertise in the R ecorder and their great sadness. their appearance. you will get results.