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© 9, • à 9 • •• * 9 Published Every Tu -sday and Frid y by the recorder Fvitoislaing Company. C. E. KQPI. Edrto. - - - T H. KREAMER. Buunr.s Manager Subscription, SI fit) p^r Year ir. Advance. Advertising Rates Made Known on Application. Job Printing a Specially Ei.teied al the Bnndou PoKtoflice hh Second ClaM M»oer. October 4, TUESDAY Public Indifference The exceedingly light vote at recent Oregon primaries show absolute indifference people hav the affairs of government. A very small per cent of those who were Registered went to the polls, Per haps the two Bandon precincts will give a good criterion from which to judge. Here we find that out ot nearly 500 registered, only a little over 100 votes were cast, and the same condition seemed to prevail throughout the state. This seems to be true not only in Oregon, but all over the country people are exceed ingly indifferent as to their right of franchise. The other day there was a special election at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on the question of granting a company the right to build and own a gas plant. Of the eight thousand voters in that city less than two thousand voted, and nine hundred and eighty- nine votes, which was a small major ity of those voting, determined the matter. In other words, eight thous and voters permitted less than one thousand to give a corporation an important franchise. In Mason City, Iowa, recently, the jieople were called upon to vote upon the ques tion ol issuing a franchise relating to a valuable street railway grant, and not one citizen in three voted. In Et Dodge, Iowa, where the im portant question of adopting the commission form of government was in issue, a very small percentage of the total vote was cast. When the public is thus indifferent it is not strange that there is corruption in political affairs. The men who fail to vote when such important matters are up for consideration, have no right to complain, no matter what happens. In the last analysis in this country, the people rule every thing. More properly speaking, they have the power to rule, and if they fail to use their power, then they must take the consequences. Publicity Pays Roseburg is one of the cities of Oregon that has found out that a systematic publicity campaign pays. Within the past month 44 families have notified Manager Schlosser of the Roseburg Commercial Club of their intention to locate in that vicin ity during the coming winter or spring. A good systematic campaign of publicity is bound to help any coun try, and Coos and Curry county ought to do more advertising than is being done at present. We have nati ral resources here that are unex celled by any country. We have orchard lands, dairy lands, timber, minerals of various kinds, irr fact, there is an opportunity here for most any line of wprk or business that anyone would Want to take up Must Help Themselves. Major Morrow's visit to Tillamook resulted in that port pled«ing $650,- 000 towards a S 2 000,000 project which will give Tillamook ao feet at the bar, 16 feet from the bar to Bay City aod 14 feet horn Bay Cuy to 1910 Tillamook at low water, the chantie to be 150 feet wide. It seems, to be an established policy of the govern ment now, that unless a port is wil ling to contiibite towards its im provement, it can expect no aid from your Uncle Samuel, says the Coos Bay Times, and it seems to be a very true statement. If the people of the Coquille valley do not get busy and create a port commission or do something else to help fix up their river, the chances are very good that our harbor will be the poorest along the coast in a very short time, while everybody knows we have the possib lines of making it one of the very best. The differ ence is that other |>orts are doing • . . . . something while we arc lying idle. Let us wake up and do something. Conservation of Moisture Dry fanning is to be taught in Eastern Oregon. Professor Thomas Shaw, soil expert, of Montana and North Dakota, is to be instrcnctor. The semi-arid secticns of Malheur, Baker, Ç rook and and Klamath counties are to receive specific atten tion in this course. The season just ended has put the farmers of the dry regions in a mood to listen to any man who can assure them of good crops, even half crops, from a parched soil, by following specifier! methods in cultivation. Dry farming has passed the ex periment.il period. The long drought of the past summer turned expert ment into certainty in sections of Montana and North Dakota, where only three and one-half inches of rain fell during the entire year, but where, notwithstanding, fair crops were pr.xiuced owing to intelli<gent conservation of the moisture that the gods provided. Conservation methods are specific and arbitrary. Intelligence properly directed, vigilance and industry that are untiring—these are the elements incident to making the most that is possible out of the s 1 all amount of moisture that Nature doles out upon great areas of the North .American plateau. ‘‘The Great American Desert ' this region was called less than three quarters of a century ago, and only imaginary lines upon school atlases bounded it. A reg ion that is now dotted with homes would still be a desert but for dry farming Professor Shaw is employed by A • • as won as it falls, causing fields» or chard-«, meadows and gardens 1 * I k as dry as dust as the season ad vances. While the Oregonian favu s irrigation in the Willamette valley where practicable, it is readv to agree with Professor Shaw in the es timate that much can be done through rejuvenation ot the soil with humus—allaita, clover, etc.—and by adaptation ot dry farming methods to these lands. Whether by this method or that, agriculture in the Willamette Valley should be encour aged, since thiough generally pre vailing methods ot cultivation and the total lack of conservation of moisture it is not up to tire standard of productiveness in other localities less favored by nature, and upon which the demands of the market are not more insistent.—Oregonian. The farmer has no snap. A real working farmer making his living from a little piece of land, miles from a good road, remote from a school, earns all he gets. The way the assessors jump all over him in Oregon, however, is very discourag ing. His little barn and cottage, his every fruit tree anil haystack, his cows and chickens, are carefully listed, and these evidences of indus try, good citizenship and frugality, are penalized with a tax of from two cents on the dollar up, each year Meanwhile the vast tracts of forest and swamp, hill ami slope held by some foreign corporation or titled speculator, are placed on the rolls at a tenth ot their value. The farmeis of Oregon have everything to win and nothing to lose by demanding that the taxes on improvements be lessened and the difference made up on land values now escaping. With such taxes, good roads, modern school houses, public telephones, elecltic trolley lines, and many other public utilities could be and would be constructed and operated. <■ <s> • * • • • • • • • • « •* . •• I •a 9 • • W.xkiHif» -Cosmopolitan Maga» zmciequiro I he rei vices a rep- ri senta; i\c m lianùott to look afte? alleiciiption «•'fitewaLs and To extend lirculaiK n by special iiietliiKl-' which have proven unusually siic>*»shil. Salary anil c« >Jiui>issi >a Pcevion. experience des jable but not ess n- t ai. Whole tune or spare .ime Address with relerences. H. I Campbell, C06.iUO|M»litan Magazine. 1789 Broadway. New York wit). New York. 35~«4 I 1/M Great Combination Offer The R ecorder tor Job Woik. The Pacific Monthly’s Special Introductory Offer The Pacific Monthly, of Portland, Oregon. is a beautifully illustrated monthly magazine which gives verv full information about the resources and opportunities of the country lying West of the Rockies. It tells all about the Government Reclama tion Projects, fiee Government land and tells about the districts adapted to fruit raising, dairying, poultry raising, etc. It has splendid stories by Jack London and other noted authors. The Price is $1.50 a year, but to introduce it we will send six months for fifty cents. This oiler must be accepted on or before February 1, ¡911. Send your name and address accompanied by fifty cents in stamps and learn all about Oregon, Wash ington, Idaho and California. Address, The Pacific Monthtv, Portland, Oregon. 37 14* FOR SALE. — Eighty acres choice bottom land on Sixes river. 5 miles from Port Orford, *2 mile trom county road. Address Alex Turner, Langlois, Ore. 35-5t* 11 B. Warren, of Ashland, who came over with his family three weeks ago to see his father, S. H. Warren and brothers, F. C. and Alvy Warren, of Cedar Point, start ed for their home last Thursday. They greatly enjoyed the trip which was made in their Jackson car, with out accident or trouble of any kind. While here the three families went to Bandon and had a run on the Ireach, having a big time. The visi tors were very sorry to have to go at this time, but owing to the ripen ing of their large crop of peaches and grapes, it became necessary that they return to look after them. We hope the road over the mountain from Roseburg will be in belter shape the next time they come, which will doubtless be next sum mer. as they had such a nice time and expect toepme frequently in the uture..—Coquille Herald. A great many people who come to this section of the country are in clined to find fault with land values because they consider them too high The fact that local people buy them at the price and attain wealth in growing and marketing produce raised thereon would not tend to sustain the contention of the strang er, and another thing to look at is that very little of the hnd is ottered for sale, even at prices considered not too high. The fact, that actual demonstration has proven — that more can be made off of 15 or 20 acres of feitile Oregon land than can The ed for of the Globe returned be secured from cultivating 160 : list Friday evening from a combined acres of land in the middle west is political, business and pleasure trip another argument to prove that land . in the south end of the county. Our is not held at fictitious values. 11 The 1 business was in the interest of the proof of the pudding is the eating Globe, and our pleasure was meet thereof," and the true test of land ing old friends and circulating a pe values is in careful and thorough tition for a county high school, which cultivation. — Myrtle Point Enter was willingly signed by all who saw prise. it, except four individuals, two of whom were old bachelors, and the other two did not object to the es tablishing of a High School, but Contest Notice. didn t care to sign the petition Out of the seventy names received from Department of the lintenor. below, 90 per cent are very enthu United Stales Land Office, Not only do Roseburg, Oregon, Sept. 19, 1910 siastic for the school. A sufficient contest affidavit having been fil'd they warn a High School, but public in this office by Noah M. Davison, contestant sentiment is strongly informed of a against Homestead Entry No. 13645, Serial new Court House, good roads and 0)779. made July I. 19-M tor S.-W. 1-4 bridges. —Gold Beach Globe. Section 20, Township 29 S., Range 13 W, James J. Hill for the work upon which he has entered in Oregon. His methods are simple. They con sist of regular and systematic culti vation of the soil, first by the plow, then by the disc, and again by the spike harrow, the latter to be used after each rain, to conserve and hold Willamette Mendian. by Beniamin Perry, con- testee, in which it u alleg'd that said Benjamin Mesdames Mann and Tilton, of the moisture. Two crops of wheat Perry h»» never resided upon or in any way im Langlois, entertained at the home of in three years have l>een successfully proved aasd land since Making said entry, but Mrs. Mann, the Ladies’ Social Club has abandoned said land tor over five years last grown by the simple jeocesses which past; said parties are hereby notified to appear of I-akeport. The ladies were given a tally-ho ride to Langlois and back he fully explains, with corn lor fod respond, and offer evidence touching said al Mrs A T. Below, being an accom legation at 10 o'clock a m. on November I, der as an intermediate crop He 1910, liefore A. D. Morse. U. S. Commtssioner. plished driver, officiated in that would not find it difficult to convince at his office in Bandon. Oregon, and that final capacity. The hostess’ entertained i at whist. Mrs. Earl Schoonover win farmers of the Willamette valley, as hearting wifi be held at 10 o'clock a. m K on ning first prize and Mrs. W. I Rug November 15, 1910, before the Register and well as of Eastern Oregon, that “con Rceivvr at th- (Jail'd Stain L »nd Office m vies second. The club wishes to th ink their hoMes.4es for a most en servation <»t moisture is the greatest R«»d>«nt. Orefo«. The said «ontestant having, joyable afternoon On their return hied S-rl-mk-r 10 1QIU the ladies were met bv the Whitman of all conservation problems in the band and desire to thank the band West." Although moisture in un master for his cordial reception. The stinted abundance falls each year on made, it a hereby ordered and directed that club has accepted the invitation to •uch octice be given by due and proper pub- meet with Mrs. B. W. Lharlesworth Willamette valley lands, the surplus bcatmo BENJAMIN F. JONES, Rqjut« next Tuesday aftemojn.—Lakeport 3«.t5 is drained off by freshets practically Banner. •JpHE RECORDER management has made arrangements with the San Francisco Bulletin whereby we can give subscribers the advantage of a gigantic combination offer that will furnish them all the news of the country in a metropolitian daily and all the news of Bandon and vicinity in the Recorder at marvelous low price The Daily San Francisco Bulletin, Total, $4.50 Both papers through this office if paid in advance, per year 9 $2.75 I SUPPLY ALL YOUR WANTS Do you want to Buy, Build, Sell or Rent? Do you want Fire, Life, or Accident Insurance? Do you want to Register for the Fall Election? Do you want Hunter’s or Angler’s License? Do you want any Notary Work Done? If you do, Go To Yours Truly E. E. OAKES A Square Deal For All Fast and Commodious S. S. BREAKWATER Leaves Portland (Ainsworth Dock) 8 p. m. every Tuesday. Leaves Coos Bay every Saturday at service of the tide. Confimi Sailings Through C. M. SPENCER, Agent Bandon THE HARDWARE MAN BRIDGE fit BEACH Stoves. Ranges and Heaters have in them so 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 (or these household and office necesstties. and prices range exceedingly modest in either case. TINNING AND PLUMBING A SPECIALTY. Onr Assortment of Hardwire. Tinware and Edged Tools 1« Most Complete. Have you Thought About Lights for this Winter Now is the time to make preparation for electric lights for the long winter evenings. Call and see us and let us show vou may have better lights than, the kerosene lamp can give, with Itttle or no more cost. Avoid the risk of fire- .Io away with the nuisance of cleaning lamp chimneys. Install electric lights, and you will not be without them for twice the cost. Let us figure with vou We will treat vou right. BANDON LIGHT & POWER COMPANY. Next Door W’est of Coumerilh Christensen Co. ■MT o * • • • . • $3.00 per year 1.50 per year The Bandon Recorder, • • 9 e •• a 9
