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T he C oquille H erald VOL. 35. COQUILLE, COOS COUNTY. OREGON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1916. NO. 1 SYNOPSIS OF m \ EVENTS News of County Sîa'e and National Interest Tuld in Brief, Concise Form OREGON HAS MOST UNDER Suit is Filed in the Kentuck Inlet School Case munity has suffered but few disasters. In the sound and safe development of | the town Mr. Bennett has be» n a force i on the right side. He stood behind Mayor Straw and the council who first forced through the beginning of street paving against the opposition of a good I part of the community, and without his strong backing it ia certain that the work that has made Marshfield a mod- Prominent Banker and Attor j ern city would have been long delayed. ! In his dealings with the people as a ney Bows to the Grim banker, Mr. Bennett always wis Messenger “safe” but to anyone who appeared to ' merit it he was always helpful. There are many citizens of Coos county who j have been carried through the financial I breakers by the considerate treatment given by the Flanagan & Bennett A Man With Many Admira bank. Personally, J. W. Benr.ett was a man ble Traits of Character whom it was a pleasure to meet. He Beaver Hill Development had a fund of Irish wit always on tap, Will Be Resumed Soon J. W. Bennett died at his home in and he was as genial to the man in Marshfield Friday evening, and the overalls as to him who worejthe finest of raiment. He had one rare quality funeral took place Sunday afternoon. The following interview with Presi The news of Mr. Bennett’s death seldom possessed in so marked a degree, dent Sproule, of the Southern Pacific was not unexpected, as he had been in in that opposition or abuse aroused so regarding the development of the Bea a ser ous state for several days, hjs little of personal animosity, and that ver Hill coal mines appeared in the complsint being Bright’s disease, an(] ! the power of his position was seldom if Coos Bay Times. Beaver Hill is lo people all over the county had been ' ever used for the coercion of those who cated on Beaver Hill about four miles keeping themselves informed as down the river from this place: to his condition. For many "The I’eaver Hill mine development weeks he had been confined to work will be resumed and carried out his home, following a trip to to the fullest extent,” said Wm. San Francisco, where he sought Sproule, president of the Southern Pa the best medical advice, only to cific System, who spent several hours have the irrevocable sentence in Marshfield Wednesday evening with passed upon him. Vice-President and General Manager As a banker and lawyer J. W. W. R. Scott, Assistant General Mana Bennett was probuiily entitled ger J. H. Dyer and Division Engineer to be called the most promi Siefer. The party returned from Bea nent citizen of southwestern ver Hill and Myrtle Point about 6 Oregon, and his long residence o'clock and remained here until 10 here had made “ Joe Bennett” a o’clock. They made the run to E i~ene household word throughout Coos last night and were to leave there early and Curry counties, at least. He this morning for a trip over the Ya- was born on April 21, 1855, at quina branch. Bandon, County Cork, Ireland, "The Beaver Hill work was discon and was the son of George Ben tinued a few years ago when money nett, a barrister. In May, 1873, was scarce and hard to obtain,” con the elder Bennett, with his two tinued Mr. Sproule. "Not only was sons, J. W. and G. A. came tr money scarce but there was no imme Coos county. He bought the 60C diate market for the coal even had we acre donation claim of Thompson been able to produce it. Until the rail Lowe at the mouth of the Co road was completed, there was no op quille river, and there the elder portunity to handle the output. Now Bennett made his home during we have the rail service and we are the balance of his life, being gen going to develop the mine to the fullest erally known as “ Lord Bennett.” possibilities.” J. W. Bennett soon went to Em "The Coos Bay-Eureka line is a mat pire, then the county seat, and ter of the rather dim and distant fu studied law in the office of J. M. ture. You know the roads have never Siglin, with wnu(ii he l a t e r fully recovered from that Roosevelt formed a partnership in the prae- panic and money to build new lines and I tice of that profession. In 1874 extensions is hard to obtain. You j they went into the newspaper don’t want to build too many hopes on ¡business, b u y i n g t h e Co o s I Bay News, which had been started at stood in his way. As the Marshfield the Eureka line. They Record expresses it: “Joseph W. I am glad that the people here ap- Empire by Thos. B. Merry predated the extension of the terminal moved the plant to Marshfield in 1874, Bennett was all man. He had his frail rates on lumber shipments to Coos Bay. ; later disposed of the paper to G. ties, but, oh, he had so many virtues.” The funeral, which was held Sunday, You know we have about $12,500,000 A- Bennett, who still conducts it. From that time J. W. Bennett was a was the largest in attendance ever invested in the Coos Bay Line and we [ are figuring hard now how to make it resident of Marshfield and had much to . held ' n Marshfield, iffd people were pay. It takes lots of business just to do with shaping the development of Lhore from all over the county to pay a pay interest on that investment. At that city. In 1889, in partnership with j tribute of respect to one who had stood five per cent, it would take over $600,- j Patrick Flanagan, he established the | high >n their regard. Religious services 000 per year. We have the line ready j bank of Flanagan & Bennett, the firjit j were held in the Episcopal church, with for operations now and the problem is I institution of the kind in this part of i the construction of which Mr. Bennett, I aa a member of the Episcopal organiza- to develop the business to make it a [ the state. As the leading attorney and as presi-; tion, had much to do. The funeral pro- paying investment. In this we will cession was led by the Knights Templar want and need the full cooperation of dent of the bank, Mr. Bennett occupied a position of great influence in the and the hearse was followed by march the people. I don’t think that Coos Bay can community. That his influence was ex ing Masons of the Blue Lodge, Knights of Pythias, Elks, Moose and members hope for general terminal rates until j erted for the best interests of the place of the Bar Association. At the ceme in nearly every instance there is no doubt you have vessels running inhere giving you the same water rates from, eastern i *n m' n^8 °f those who know best. tery the burial ceremony of the Ma mm mm mm mm „ 4 4 . . . „ „ n 1 . . . „ ....a ! .. . sons was carried oOt. points that the present terminal points Mr. Bennett was always conservative, on the coast enjoy. Then, I think that and during the years of development O rd e rs for A u to w riters the Interstate Commerce Commission when booms and all kinds of schemes might have led the people far into the would approve it. A telegram was received from Astoria “ No, you are mistaken. The estab quagmire, he exerted a strong hand in lishment of terminal rates is hot in the holding them down to safe lines. In by the Autowriter Co. Saturday, from hands of the railroad. Tne Interstate many instances this brought condemna W. W. Williams, the sales agent, with Commerce Commission now tells us tion from the enthusiasts who wanted a rush order for 500 autowriters. An order for 1000 had already been re what we can do and what we cannot do to see everything “ go,” but one result in that respect. If you will remember, isseeiiin the fact that the financial ceived from Gresham, Or., and the prospects for a rushing business in the the Interstate Commerce Commission conditions on Coos Bay have always manufacture of this simple device are knocked out the through rates on our been good and that the business com- good. Sunset line. We fought hard to keep them on that line but the Interstate Commerce Commission would not allow POLITICAL COUNTY them to stand.” It was stated that Mr. Sproule and , Mr. Scott came up from San Francisco to see what could be done about reliev ing the car shortage which is crippling many Oregon lumber mills. They took 1 advantage of the opportunity to see the new Coos Bay line, neither having been over it before. The line is to be 1 transferred to the Operating Depart-1 ment October 1. of the Union, having fully twenty per cent of the remaining ui eut timber in the United Statts within its bound aries. "The best available estimates puts this stumpage at approximately 538 billion feet, board measure,” says Dean George W. Peavy, of the Fores try department, O. A. C. “ More than 11 million acres of timber land, carry ing 404 billion board feet of timber are privately owned and 13 million acres carrying 134 billion board feet, are in the National Forest' This dual own ership opens up the harvesting of the immense crop of mature iimber and the perpetuation of the production of tim ber for all time. The new college course, logging engineering, is designed to fit young men for economical logging operations. The total number of feet of lumber ¿hipped from Coos Bay during the last two weeks was 5,791,000. Bandon shipped 922,000 feet. Articles of incorporation of t h e American Building & Loan association, with a capital of $1,000,000, and witn offices at Eugene, were filed there last week. The North Bend city council has awarded the contract for concreting the waterfront road between that place and Marshfield to contractors Dean and Brown. The contract price is $28,054.- 69. Farming and business interests of the United States are showing the keenest interest in the new farm loan system established under the Hollis Hoss rural credit law, according to Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo. C. F. Greve, a well known North Bend shoemaker, Saturday night shot and killed himself to end three years of suffering and anguish from cancer. Hopelessly ill, he decided to end his sufferings by a bullet. United States District Attorney Clarence L. Iteames, of Portland, says that Bob Jones' plan of anchoring a booze ship outside the three-mile limit at the mouth of the Columbia will not work as there is a federal statute cov ering the case. The Salem police Thursday night seized 268 quarts of whiskey being car ried by R. T. Turner in an automobile and arrested Turner. The latter was on his way to Stanwood, Wash., with the liquor which he had secured at Hornbrook, Calif. That the five years following the close of the European war will be the best the Oregon lumber business has ever known, was the prediction of M. J. Scanlon, of the Brooks-Scanlon Lum ber Company, upon leaving Bend, Ore gon, for his home in Minneapolis after a visit of several davs. Franklin K. Lane, secretary of the interior, says in a statement just issued that everyone will have an equal chance to enter upon lands of the Oregon & California railroad grants when that land is thrown open to the public. There is no way that a preferment can be obtained by prior filing or applica tion. The body of Dan Bennett, the ranch er who lived on North Coos river, and was drowned one night last week, while returning home from across the river, was discovered Sunday forenoon by Andrew Kardell, in the river at his ranch, which is above the place where the unfortunate man lost his life. Including the earnings of tolls for the month of July, 1916, amounting to $460,123, the tolls collected on traffic passing through the Panama canal from the beginning of the towing of laden barges between the terminal ports in May, 1916, have amounted to $7,217,- 956. The collections from vessels in the coastwise trade of the United States formed $1,923,122 of this total. Before Mrs. Abe Anderson of Ken tuck Inlet had left the chapel where the funeral service over the remains of her husband had been held, she was Berved by Constable Cox with notice that she was sued for $10,745 by Mrs. Flora I. Foreman, socialist school teacher in the district where Anderson was clerk. After being served with the paper, Mrs. Anderson proceeded out of the chapel and went to the ceme tery where the burial of her husband took place. People from the Powers district tell of the construction of an extension of Put to the Test the Smith-Powers railroad towards Eckley, following Salmon creek. The A preacher, at the close of one of his first work has been under way for sev sermons, said: "Let all in the house eral months, and consists of a large who are paying their debts stand up.” bridge spanning the Coquille at the Presently eyery man, woman, and child, confluence of Salmon creek, which has with one exception, rose to their feet. ; cost a big sum of money and is not yet The preacher seated them and said: finished. The grading is going on as “ Now, every man not paying his debts well, but until the bridge is finished no stand up.” The exception, a careworn, , rails will be laid.—Record. hungry-looking individual, clothed in his i At least the railway companies in re last summer’s suit, slowly assumed a fusing the eight-hour day were consist perpendicular position. ent on one poiat. They said the cost “ How is it, my friend,” asked the, to them would be $100,000,000. This is minister, “you are the only man not the same amount they estimated when able to meet his obligations?” they opposed the air-brake law. the “ I run a newspaper,” he answered, patent safety coupler, and again, the j "and the brethren here who stood up installation of electric headlights. In are my subscribers, and short, any public demand for railway “ Let us pray,” exclaimed the minis- I reform always costs exactly $100,000,- ’ter. 000—until it is installed, when, of If this question wss asked in your' course, it becomes "a measure of effi congregation what would > ou do stand ciency and economy.” —Coos Bay News. up or sit still? Look at your label now. Oregon is the foremost timber state 1 —The Subscription Man. J. W. BENNETT LAID TO REST WAS BAT’S LEADING CITIZEN m — Berrym an in Washington 8:ar. SIR. CONGRESS BURNS AT SEA PER YEAR $1.50 old state in calling especial attention to the fact that Captain N. E. Cousins is one of her sons. The Congress was boarded Saturday and it was discovered that the damage was not as great as it was first thought. Sund.iy the tugs which had been called to take charge of her towed the big ship inside the bar, where repairs will be made. DEMAND FOR MEN IS GREAT More Help Needed on Var Passengers and Crew Are All ious Projects than Can Taken OP by Boats from Second Corn Carnival to Be Obtained Bandon and the Bay be Held Nov. 10 and 11 ----------------------- ENTERS GOOS BAY FOR REPAIRS Damage Is Not as Great as at First Believed Northbound from San Francisco to Seattle with 280 passengers and a crew of 165, the big coast liner Congress, owned by the Pacific CoaBt Steamship company of Seattle, caught fire off Coos Bay Thursday afternoon, and was totally destroyed, after being abandon ed by passengers and crew. By good fortune the Congress was only seven miles off Coos Bay when the blaze broke out in the after hold. She made a run for shore and anchored just outside the bar. The passengers and crew were taken off by small boats, which went to the vessel’s assistance from Marshfield at the first intimation of disaster, and were transferred to the United States government dredge Colonel P. S. Michie, which landed them all safely at North Bend. No one was injured with the excep tion of Mrs. Margaret R. Rieg, of St. Louis, Mo., a first class passenger, who is suffering from shock, and Jack Ty son, an under steward, 4Uio was over come by smoke and whose condition may prove to be serious, although he is not expected to die. The passengers, 250 cabin and 30 steerage, and the members of the crew lost practically all their belongings, in cluding money, tickets and baggage. There was no panic on hoard and the work of rescue proceeded rapidly and systematically. With the gasoline schooners Tilla mook and A. M. Simpson standing by to pick them up when all was over, Captain Cousins, of the Congress, and about 25 members of his crew, re mained off some distance from the burning vessel in small boats, waiting until the fire had utterly consumed her. This is in deference to the unwritten rule of the sea which deciees that a captain shall not desert his ship. The sea was unusually smooth. The fire started about 3 p. m. in the after hold among the general freight. There was some hope of controlling it until it finally spread to the oil tanks which supplied the vessel with fuel. The ship was turned about in such a way as to prevent the wind blowing the fire toward the fuel tanks but it spread to them in spite of this pre caution and then it was known that the vessel was doomed. The cause of the fire is so far unknown, although it is believed that spontaneous combustion is responsible for the disaster. When news of the burning ship spread around the Coos Bay shore-line hundreds of automobiles headed for the beach and thousands of people hurried down to be of assistance if needed. Lusty cheers went up when it was finally established that all the 445 peo ple had been rescued with only minor injuries to the two persons already re ferred to. At North Bend the people from the Congress, who arrived there shortly after 8:30 were met at the dock by hundreds of people and treated with the greatest hospitality, private homes being thrown open to all those who could not be taken care of in hotels. A special O.-W. R. & N. train, char tered by the Pacific Coast Steamship company, left Seattle Thursday night at 9 o’clock, en route for North Bend, and Friday the passengers of the Con gress boarded the special, which pro ceeded to Seattle. Both passengers and crew are loud in their expressions of gratitude to the crew of the Michie, Captain George Seeley, and to the captains and crews of the Tillamook, the A. M. Simpson and the many other vessels which went to the assistance of the doomed ship. One of those rescued is a survivor of the wreck of the Titanic. He is Chas. Jouglim, chief baker on the Congress. He had a similar position aboard the Titanic. f The Congress was of 8145 gross ton nage, 442 feet in length and 29 feet draft. She was a steel twin screw steamer. She carried 1100 tons of gen eral cargo when she left San Francisco for Seattle on Wednesday. The Congress, built in 1913, at a cost of $1,500,000 was now worth consider ably more than that, exclusive of the cargo which probably equalled t h e value of the ship. This Captain Cousins is the same “ Nym” Cousins with whom the writer played|around the Eureka shipyards nearly half a century ago, and who then won a strong liking and admira tion that have not been dissipated by the passage of time. The editor of the Herald is not inclined to remind his readers every week that he "came , from Maine,” but he ia proud of the .............- The second annual Corn Carnival will be held here on November 10 Bnd 11. This is the date that was definitely de cided upon by the Commercial Club at its regular meeting Tuesday night. Many suggestions were entertained as to what the date ought to be and a later date was considered. The desire is to hold the carnival as early as pos sible and yet have it late enough to give the corn of the county time to be come perfectly mature. County Agri culturist Smith was present and gave what information he could aa to when the corn would be in proper condition. He was of the opinion that the carnival should be given as early as possible in order that the exhibits of ensilage would not be harmed by keeping them too long. The chairmen of the various commit tees that were appointed last year were read and it was suggested by President Norton that these men ap point their assistants and he in readi ness for any work that might come up. The chairmen of the committees were as follows: Amusements, F. E. McKenna; prizes and exhibits, W. H. Lyons; transporta tion, J. A. Lamb; music, S. M. Nosier; publicity, 0. H. Knowlton; booths and decorations, F. C. True; assistant to county agriculturist, E. E. Johnson; ways and means, J. E. Norton. The matter of the best methods of advertising for the corn show was dis cussed nnd the special envelopes which the Herald is getting out received fav orable comment. President Norton also appointed a committee to lay before the city coun cil the fact that Coquille needs a muni cipal band and to solicit their coopera tion in the matter. The committee was: Judge James Watson, W. H. Lyons, J. A. Lamb, L. H. Hazard, and F. B. Phillips. L. H. Hazard made his report as chairman of the finance committee for the Railroad Jubilee, stating that they had collected $233.25, and that it was his opinion that there was enough left to cover the expenses of the corn show. 1 LONGSTON IS SHOKTDANDED Perham May Discontinue one Shift on Road Work For the first time in several years, the demand for labor in Coos county and in Coquille is in excess of the sup ply. Reports from the various large employers of this section, such as street and road contractors and logging camps, disclose the fact that men are scarce and hard to get. It is reported that Contractor Per ham, who is doing the work on the Marshfield-Coquille road, and who has advertised for men and ulso has had a man scouring the county to secure ad ditional help, recently made the state ment that unless more men were avail able soon it would become necessary for him to close down one of his shifts. The Longston Construction company hi s also felt the lack of workmen. Mr. Longston said that at present he could use quite a number more than he has and that as soon as he was able to get lumber as fast as lie wished that he would be decidedly short handed. Farmers are also looking for men to help in the harvesting of crops, ar.d several cases have appeared where real difficulty has been encountered in se curing help. The report comes in that there are at present more men employed in the log ging camps of Coos county than ever before in its history and that the wages as a rule are high. In the light of the foregoing facts it becomes apparent that there is no rea son why anyone in this section of the country should be idle if they really care to work. And not alone is this the case in Coos county; r»_ports from other parts of the state goto show that over the entire Northwest the labor conditions are better than they have been for years. ---------------------- - Stock Show at Portland The Sixth Annual Pacific Interna tional Livestock Exposition will he held at Union Stock Yards North Portland, The case against F. B. Cameron, Oregon, December 4-9, 1916. Owing to the splendid manner in publisher of the Agitator, in which ho was charged with criminal libel against which the Oregon Bankers Association; Allen McLeod, manager of the county the Portland Chamber of Commerce; poor farm, occupied four days of the the State of Oregon and the different valuable time of the circuit court last Breed Associations, have made appro week and resulted in a verdict of priations, the Show this year will take “guilty” on Friday evening, the pen rank with the largest Livestock Expo alty imposed by Judge Skipworth on sitions in the United States. Between Monday morning being a fine of $500 $20,000 and $25,000 will be given in The and costs. The case was taken up on cash premiums for livestock. Tuesday morning and that day was Shorthorn and Hereford Associations of consumed in getting a jury, it being America have made total appropria necessary to round up a special venire. tions of $5000, which being matched by Wednesday and Thursday were occu the Exposition, makes premiums of pied by the witnesses, and the attor $10,000, for those two breeds alone and neys in the case, Prosecuting Attorney insures the strongest kind of competi Liljeqvist for the State, and J. N. tion in this class. Close to $5000 is being offered in the Miller and H. G. Hoy for Cameron, managed to consume the greater part dairy division, which covers Holsteins, of Friday in voicing their arguments. Jerseys, Guernseys and Ayreshires. The case went to the jury about half Practically $2500 is being given in the past three and it took about five hours sheep classes, while hogs are recog to reach a verdict. It is reported that nized to about the same extent. The they stood eleven to one for conviction draft type of horses are given over on the first ballot, and that the time $1200, divided between the Perchcron, was consumed in brii.ging the doubter Belgian, Clydes and Shires. Cattle in to the conclusion that Cameron was car lots are recognized to the extent of $1500. The Student Judging Contest guilty. The case aroused considerable inter to be participated in by all of the Ag est among the people, as it involved ricultural colleges of the Northwest, charges against the management of again receive $300. We call the attention of the breeders one of the county institutions and one of which some of us may yet be in to the fact that the closing dates are as mates, and many listened to the evi follows: Breeding classes—November 13, 1916. Fat classes—November 27, dence. All parties concerned seem to speak 1916. Positively no entries will receive highly of Judge Skipworth for the fair consideration unless in the office of O. and impartial manner in which he pre M. Plummer, general manager, at sided and the business-like way in hia office at North Portland, on or be which he has conducted the proceedings fore noon, of the above closing dates. of the court. District Attorney Liljs- This rule enables the putting forth of a qvist is highly complimented by the catalogue very valuable to both the Sentinel for his masterly summing up; visitors and to the exhibitors. Entry Harry Hoy's address is said by Camer blanks will he furnished upon applica on to have been a fine one; J. N. Miller tion to Mr. Plummer and exhibitors should note on their entry blanks num also talked. Mr. Cameron is now rustling for the ber of stalls or pens required for their money with which to pay his fine and showing. Members of the granges of Oregon, anticipates that he will be able to raise Washington and Idaho have indicated it in the 30 days allowed him. ^ their intention of attending in large numbers, over 2500 being expected. Rosenberg Paroled Judges of national reputation wi l l handle the different classes. — — ------- ---- 1 ~ — I Rosenberg, formerly a tailor at this place, was convicted in the circuit Mrs. Cowles Honored court Saturday of obtaining money Mrs. Josiah Evans Cowles of Los under false pretenses. The sentence was from one to ten years in the state i Angeles, president of the Federated penitentiary; but upon the recommend Women’s Clubs of America, was com ation of the jury Judge Skipworth pa plimented at the San Diego Exposition, roled the prisoner and he will be re August 26, when the day was named in quired to make monthly reports to her honor. The first lawn fete ever Sheriff Johnson. The act upon which held on the Exposition grounds was ven in the beautiful Court of I,eap the charge was based was the cashing ear. Several thousand men and wo- of a bogus draft upon the bank of men met the visitor in the reception .held during the afternoon. Bandon. Cameron Fined $500 ? t \