NUMBER <7 VOLUME XXIX Vote for the Port! Remember the Port Election August 27th. f and individuals who had purchased Urge tracts of timlicred lands from the Oregon anti California railroad company ol the government grant Hearing in this case was held in , May. Like all the other innocent I purchaser cases that have been set­ tled, the defendent timber company I had purchased the land in one large Thirty Cents on One Hun­ block from the railroad company dred Dollars of Property and more wasp .id for it than $2 50 Will Build Port an acre. Under the terms ol the land grant, the Oregon and Cali A three mill tax—30 cen's on fornia railway was author zed to sell pioperty assessed at $¡00 will pay these lands to actual settlers only in interest on a bond issue of $250,000 blocks of 160 acres at $2.50. The innocent purchaser's statute, and at the same time create a sink­ ing fund which will liquidate the passed just a year ago this month, b nds. This $250,000 is practi illy authorised those who purchased ol a gift because you will never pay a thousand acres or more from the more than the interest as above railroad company to forfeit them to sta ed. Incoming settlers and grow­ the government and in six months, ing assessment values on new lands time or less, to buy the land back and new enterprises of all Rinds will at the regular price of $2.50 an steadily swell the total received by acre. It is one of the provisions of the 3 mill tax until not only the in­ the statute that the lands have to terest is paid but the principal w;ll be bought back by the original disappear. Therefore the amount put chaser from the railroad com of the bonds. $250,000, is practical­ pany. Otherwise the government ly a donation to those who reside will institute a suit asking for abso here now from those who will come lute forfeiture oi the property with­ hereafter. Again: This same litt'e out any compensation to the party tax of 30 cents on the hundred dol­ losing it. The C. A. Smith company will lars of your assessment will bring another gift outright without even have to pay $50,000 to regain this the payment of interest. This ad- acre ge. The complaint was di d'tional gift will be from the gov­ reeled aga nst the Oregon and Cal­ ernment. This s ond donation will ifornia railroad, Charles A. Smith amount to at least $250,000 more and the C. A. Smith Lumber Co.— and we have good reason to believe Coquille Herald. THREE MILLS SUITICIENT * i that it will be duplicated over and over again. One good reason is that this is the history of govern­ ment improvements in ail 'he or- g.mized parties. All this money will |>our into our port and go out into circulation di. rev-fly through the hands of workers on this river. And further still: The a ided lite and vigor given by the mtlux of this volumn of the circulat­ ing medium of exchange will induce thousands to come during the course of a few years and these people will bring their private means with which to purchase homes and food and clothing and everything which mon­ ey buys. All this increased life a I business activity on the ranch a in the towns; the increased demand for land and for the produce of land as well as fur city property and lor labor ol every kind and character will be started aad brought about almost wholly by a three mill tax. But we can do nothing without the incorporated port to levy the tax aud sell the bonds and get the gov­ ernment aid and start things doin ; to biing in the people with thetr energy and their means. Get out and vote. This is your oppoitunity. Oregon Through Canal. Washington, Aug. 21 —Secretary of the Navy Daniels favers having the battleship Oregon lead tl e war- ships through the Panama Canal in December. The Oregon he be, lieves, could be ofhc red, manned, and placed in commission in a few weeks, and passed through the can- al from the Pacific to the Atlantic to join the Atlantic tieet for the formal procession through the canal in January next. It is expected that the Oregon will be placed under command of Rear-Admiral Charles F. Clark, retired, for that occasion. Smith Must Pay for Land. Twenty thousand acres of land in Coos county has been ordered for- leited to the United States from the C. A. Smith company in a degree signed by Fede il Judge Robert S. Bean. The forfeiture w « made as a settlement under the “innocent purchaser" statute, passed by con­ gress to protect the corporations Governor Suizer Standing. TO WORK Will Investigate Deportation of Dr. B. K. Leach and Report Findings to Governor West Myrtle Point hems. Attorney General A. M. Craw­ ford and wife arrived in Bandon last n ght and Mr. Crawford is today, searching about to see what he can find out about the deportation of Dr. Leach- When interviewed by a representative of the R ecorder this morning, Mr. Crawford stated that he was aeked by Governor West, to come to Coos county and investigate the deportation of Dr. Leach and the 1. W. W. agitators and report his findings to the gov­ ernor. Mr. Crawford was also asked if he had anything to give out at this -1 time, and he replied that he had not, in fact he said people were not in­ clined to talk a great deal about the subject. Mr. Crawford is accompauied by his wife and they will spend a couple of _weeks in this section, and Mr. Crawford will combine his business duties with a little pleasure, spend­ ing part of the time on an outing. Mr. Crawford formerly lived in Coos county and is well acquainted with many of the older residents and his friends here are giving him a cord>al greeting. He also owns considerable property here. I . GOOD ROADS MEETING HERE Mrs. Mary Hollafield is Vic- Good Representation Present tim of Accident Near From Various Towns Losing Sheep Ranch. in County. Albany, Aug. 19,—A termination of the gubernatorial confusion is ex- pected shortly. The state legisla­ ture it is believed will recognize Lieut. Gov. Glynn. The canal Ixiard is likewise looked to, to do the same. Pa m. >t ol salaries of all tho.->e who then remain loyal to Gove' -tor Sulzer will be discon­ tinued ami s ate officers will by this method ol piocedr e get in line. Tae postoffice will, perhaps, be in duced to deliver official mail to Ac. ing Governor Glynn. Governor Su'zer insists he has not forfeited his powers but is not acting on anv important matter. He has refused to indicate whether he will notice the action of the attorney general in recognizing Lieut. Gov. Glynn. Piano Contest So many vo.es were turned in for the piano voting contest that the manager has not up to the time of goin«j to press comp'eted the count. A detailed report will be made in next Tuesday’s Recorder. ing a vote on the chairman’s rufing During the meeting l.tljeqvisi | suggested that another meeting be held at Coquille to definitely de-| termine the form the j»roposed bond I issue will take. It is probable such a meeting will be held in a week or ten days. The 2 per cent will raise about Branch Road Projected From $450,000 This money judiciously Beaver Hill to Bandon to spent would be of enormous benefit Tap Rich Field». to the county. Mrs. Mary Hollafield, grand- mother of Mrs. S. C. Endcott of this city, was instantly killed in an automobile wreck near Sheep Ranch on the Myrtle Point-Roseburg stage road Tuesday afternoon. Her daughter Mrs. Walter Kent, an aunt of Mrs. Endicott was badly in ju^ed having both aims broken. Mr. Kent who was driving the car a nil the Kent children escaped with little or no injuries other than a bad shaking up. Mrs. Hollafield and the Kent family were on their way to Bandon to visit the Dr. Endicott family who went to Myrtle Point Tuesday even­ ing in their car with the intention o* meeting their relatives and piloting them on to Bandon. The body of Mrs. Hollafield was taken back to Roseburg and shipped from there to Oakland. The Dr. Endicott family a'so went to Oak­ land to be in attendance at the funeral. We have not been able to learn at this time how Mrs. Kent is getting along, but it is said that she was in a very precarious condition. Library Receiving. The wreck, as we are informed Th«* Bandon Public Library is re­ was caused by the car gelling away ceiving iis afternoon at the library from Mr. Kent while coming down building on Atwater street. Re­ the steep grade east of the stage freshments will be served, and each station known as Sheep Ranch. visitor is asked to bring a book, When Mr. Kent felt the car getting however this is not obligatory. The; aSvay from him he undertook to run reception lasts from 3:00 until io:oo-the car into the bank, but it was p. m. evidently going faster than he thought and the result was that it The teachers’ institute at North turned turtle pinning Mrs. Holla­ Bend is starting out with a good field under the car. Then another effect, and the teachers who have report has it that the front wheels been seen say they are obtaining of the car were stuck in the sand some excellent work. One line in while the rear wheels were on hard particular, that of the kindergarten ground and when Mr. K nt turned work, conducted by Miss Shearer, on the power, the car skidded and an imported instructress, is said to turned over. The exact report may be the best method the teachers not be known until Dr. Endicott hive seen. Mr. Gentle spoke yes­ and family return. * terday o 1 rural schools and their progress, and last evening the teachers were entertained with a Conference Next Week. l'cture on teaching in the Philip­ The Columbia Annual Conference pines. There are nearly a hundred of the M. E. Church South, will teachers attending and the institute meet at Coquiile next Wednesday, promises to be a very valuable one. August »7th. Bishop R. G. Water —Marshfield Record. bouse of Los Angeles will preside. It was proposed, seconded and carried, at the meeting of the Coos County Good Roads Association held in Bandon in the Commercial Club Hall on Friday, August 15th. That the electoiate of Coos County be asked to vole on a bond issue for the maximum that 2 per cent will raise. The money so raised to be divided pro rata per mile on the road from Myrtle Point to Douglas county line, from Marshfield to Co quille and from the Curry county line to Coquille via Bandon. The original plan of the committee of the Good Roads Association w?s to build from Curry county line to Bandon, from Marshfield to Coqu'lle and from Myr • • o n ' O The following dispatch from Marshfield appealed in Monday’s Oregonian. Announcement is made here that the Southern Pacific Railroad Com­ pany is arr anging to develop the Coos County coal fields as one of the principal traffic makers ol its Coos Bay and Eugene line now being completed. It is announced that the company will put in large bunkers at the principal cities arid towns in Oregon to be supplied from Coos Bay. Coal for Eugene, Salem, Rose­ burg, Medford and other Oregon towns is supplied bv the Washing­ ton, Wyoming and Utah mines mil coal retails at from $to to $14 a ton, owing to the long rail haul The Coos Bay coal can be delivered there with a haul of a few hundred miles and can be sold at a big profit for considerably less than $¡0 a ton. The Southern Pacific owns the Beaver Hill mine, the biggest pro­ ducer in the Coos Bay coal field, and is now sinking a new shaft there. The company has been end« wr­ ing also to contract for the output of the Smith Po.vers and other mines here for a period of five ycun». The Smith-Powers mine was re­ cently opened and is on Isthmus Inlet, a navigable arm ol Coos Bay, and can load direct into vessels or on cars. It is equipped with electri­ cal machinery, lor mining and hand­ ling the output, and is said to be equipped to supply coal cheaply. It is owned by C. A. Smith and A. H. Powers, two of the principal owners oi the C. A. Smith Lumber Company. I at Hennessey, for years mana­ ger of the Libby mine, near here owned by Senator Perkins, of Cali­ fornia, is in charge of the new; mine. The Southern Pacific also is ar­ ranging to build a brauch lin^ from Beaver Hiil down the Coqu'le to Bandon, which will tap several coal mines neat Riverton. New Coast Line. Messrs. Drew and Gee, manager and lineman respectively of the Bell Telephone Company at Marshfield, made a trip to Kooue River last week looking over the telephone line with a view to putting it in good condition- Mr. Drew stated that the company was ^cing to put it in first clast shape, an«l that the larger number of the poles from Bandon to Gold beach would be replaced with new ones and that a heavier wire would be stretched instead oi the old one. The work will be commenced within the next few weeks and will be completed as soon as ¡rossible.—Port Orford Tribune. Anvil in Trouble. A Portland pa|>er says: "A peti­ tion to intervene was filed in the Federal Court by the Vulcan Iron Works in the libel suit of the Union Oil Company against the schooner Anvil. The oil company furnished the vessel with fuel oil at Astoria on a number ol occasions, for which it claims it was not paid, and an action to recover $1255.17 was ac­ cordingly started. Now the iron works ask« to become one of the Elaintiffs. so it can collect some bills ir repair work that was done.” • O • . o o o o