Oregon Historical Society City Hall . X 3 SEMI -WEEKLY c WWmumMIIIIIM Advertisers! f Job Printing! A modern equipped job department in connection BANDON RECOR X The Recorder covers the X Bantlon field thoroughly BANDON, OREGON, OCTOBER 9, 1914. VOLUME XXX NUMBER 79 ROSEBURG VOTES BONIS RAILROAD FROM COUNTY TO COOS DOUGLAS HAY WILL UK BUILT. RONDS FAVORED BY BIG VOTK. Tlie people of Roseburg, by a vote of G10 to 211, voted a bond of $500,- 000 last Monduy, for the purpose of building'a railroad from Roseburg to Coos county. There was? quite a warm campaign against the bonding proposition, it being led by tho may or and a number of other citizens, 'Jul the people wore evidently determined to put tho proposition through. It is stated that Coos county cities will ho asked to vote bonds n'so for the building of the Coos county end of the road. OWNERSHIP OF COOS COUNTY HOMES. Th oUniled States Census Depart ment at Washington lias just issued a bulletin dealing with the ownership of Coos county homes. Tiie impor tant facts contained in tho bulletin relating to this county arc as follows: There arc -1380 homes in Coos county. Of this number 1,124 arc farm homes. 702 of tho farm homes arc owned by their occupants and are free from mortgaged incumberam-e. The mortgaged farm homes num ber 201. Renters occupy 221 farm homes in this county. Out of a total of 4,380 homes in the county, 3,202 are urban homes. There arc 1510 urban home owners in the county. Of this number 258 are mortgaged. 1255 of the urban owned homes are free from incumberancc. There are 1012 rented urban homes in tho county. Tlie census enumerators were un able to secure data pertaining to the ownership of a small percentage of both rural and urban homes in tho county. MAIL CONTRACT LET FOR FOUR YEARS Roseburg The Postofllco Depart ment at Washington has awarded tho contract for cavryi.ig tho United States mails between Roseburg and Myrtle Point .to Louis Kohlliagon and John Ranks, both well known resi dents of this city. Tho contract be comes elfective on November 1 and expires nt tho end of four years. Advertisements for bids for carry ing tho mails between Roseburg and Coos county have been inserted in the press on several occasions, and twice tho proposals were rejected by tho government for tho reason that the bids were considered too high. About u month ago tho govcrment decided to abandon the old Coos Buy Wagon Road and cary the mails over tho Myrtle Point line in three divisions. Rids wore holicitod on this basis, and tho contract for carrying tlie mails owr tho Unit division, between Roso burg und Cuiniu Valley, was awarded to (Seorgo Hupp, tho Sheridan utrool merchant. When Mr. Rupp iwcor luineil Unit ho would bo compelled In furry I In Coo county mull in uddl lion to tin lonul mull, liu rupudluU'd I oiler und lefwM'il in igM ii h Duct with Hid govoniiUHiit. Il In uit lleMlXXl I llMl H U1J WHr II lit) ItMUtiViMj far tmyUw tlu m tmm jMid io MyH J'uliil, No MJ wnv wvivml for the second division, between Cam as Valley and Bridge. As a result of a remonstrance filed by tho people of Coos county against carrying the through mails in this manner, the government awarded the contract to Kohlhagen nnd Banks. Under tho terms of the contract tho mail will bo carried from - Roseburg to Myrtle Point and from Myrtle Point to Rose burg daily. Only local mails will be carried over the old Coos Bay Wagon Bond in the future. THE PERILS OF PAULINE AT THE GRAND SATURDAY The eighth episode in tho amazing adventures of Paulino will bo sli iwn at tho Grand theatre next Saturday evening, October 10th. Tho last in stallment left tho heroine locked in a deserted mine, and left to her fate. Satisfied that their plan to cause the disappearance of Paulino would this lime bo successful, 1 licks end hi:i hired assistants ride away. Mis. Haines decides to notify Hurry of Pauline's disappearance. A curious mental message seems to warn Har ry that Paulino is in danger and ho prepares to leave for the west. As he is making his preparations he gets tho wire from Mrs. Haines. Ho leaves at once. At tho big pow-wow of tlie Sioux Indians tho medicine man prophesies that a great white goddess will como to tho Sioux Indians from the ground and will help them to throw ofT tiic yoke of the white men. The tribe is very much excited and start out on a hunt to secure the nec essary provisions to entertain their expected guest. One of tho Indians in chasing n coyote over tho hills is very much surprised to sec Pauline raise in front of him apparently from tho solid ground. Pauline had dis covered a way out. He takes her to tho camp and tho Indians proclaim her the goddess of the prophesy. They try to induce her to lead them in a war on the white sttlement, but she reuses. Disgusted they tell her that she will have to undergo tho trial by Oracle. This consists of placing her in a trench from which there is no es cape and rolling down on her a huge boulder. If sho remains unhurt she must indeed bo what they think her. Harry, in the menntimc, has arrived at tho ranch and on learning tho truth has sot out to do what ho caito find Pauline. There is one half-breed in the Indian camp Hint hns become very much attached to Pauline nnd ho sets out to tell the settlers., of tho peril she is in. Ho meets with an accident, however, and is unable to carry out his intention. Ilnrry in scouring the country finds him and receives tho message. Ho rides as fast as he can to tho place where the halfbreed tells him the trial is to take place. He ar rives just as tho death-dealing boul der is started on its trip. There is no timo to get Paulino out of tho ditch J uml to jump in himself is certain death. There seems to bo no help within miles. Harry hns been resource ! ful in tho past buf this seems almost to much. Ho finally but this would bo telling tales out of school, Tho pic ture next Saturday will show just what ho did. Mm. A. W. Kiemau and two chil dren left Friday for Toledo to Join Mr. Sicilian who Iiiih taken a position with the Moore mill at Uml place. "The Perils of Pmillno" No 8, ut tliu Orwid Kiitnnluy, Oulnbor 10th. Mr. H. 0. UtklMUi left Thumduy tur vtail will) Iiej- mn ul Hulein, Vwm ih lOio u-fJJ ie ikdju, da vfom 1h wDJ juiJ mm uuiv wRj) FIRE DESilTOYS OLD LANDMARK OLD WOOLEN MILL BUILDING, OWNED BY ERNEST PHILPOTT BURNED WEDNESDAY ABOUT MIDNIGHT. Tho old woolen mill building, which has been a land mark in Bandon for 21 years, was completely destroyed by fire Wednesday night at about midnight. The origin of the fire is not known, but there is pretty good evidence of incondnrism. The main part of the buiding was not occupied except as a storehouse, in allien was stored tho hcarso be longing to George P. Topping and a few other articles in cluding a gasoline boat belonging to George Erdman. In the cast end of tho building was Sam Golfs second hand store and re Ipair shop and in the center was Carl Swclgin's plumbing shop. Mr. Gofi" lost about $300 in tools and goods and Mr. Swclgin places his loss at about $900. Tho building belonged to E. A. Philpolt and was valued by him at about $4000. It was not a very pre possessing building on the outside but it was built with heavy timbers in tho construction work and with a lit tles repairing and a now roof it would have been a substantial building. This building was put up about 21 years ago by Clark & Palmer, who op crated tho fist woolen mill over built in Bandon. Tho machinery was af terward3 moved to North Bend. Since that time the building has been occu pied by a shingle mill and by Perry's veneer plant, but both had been moved out for several years and the building had been practically vacant. CITY BUYSJ'IVE HUNDRED FEET OF NEW FIRE HOSE At the regular meeting of tho city council Wednesday night a committee composed of Councilmcn F. .1. Chat burn, J. W. Mast and H. C. Dippel, was appointed to buy some now firo hoso for tho city. Mr. Mark II. Sav ago, representing the A. G. Long Firo Apparatus Co., was in tho city and yesterday tho committee met with him and bought COO feet of tho patrol brand wax and gum hoso. It was found that this hose v.-ould last about twice as long as tho ordinary white hose and would not mildew. This fact was proven after examining about 700 feet of old hoso that had been stored away in the fire hall and among this was one section of tho wax and gum treated hoso which was practiciily as good as now, while tho white hose was mildewed and in very bad condition. TAKES CHARGE OF OFFICE AT THE MOORE MILL Spain E. Pea ice arrived on tho Speedwell from Port Huron, Mich., and will take charge of tho oflico at tho Geo. W. Mooro Lumber mill. Mr. Penrco is a stockholder in tho mill nnd Is well known In this city, hav ing visited hero u number of times. Mr. Mooro will leave tomorrow for Toledo, Ore,, and will bo loruted there tbU winter operating the Toledo mill, und uxptwtn lo open up the lluudoii mill iikhIii In the eurly xprlng. Mr. IVunre tixpouU to reniuln jxir IDuiientJy w)i Hie mill iioru ufwl Mm, JWlii will piobuhly Willi) lieiu ji) u tlioit Umu. ARTIST JAILED GEO. SMALL CAPTURED AT BAY CITY WHERE HE PASSED TWO CHECKS. IS BOUND OVER TO TIIE GRAND JURY. Geo. Cummins, alias Geo. Small, has been jailed at Nortli Bend for passing bad checks. This fellow pass ed a check on the Racket store here for $19.05 with tho name of F. L. Christie forged to it, a short time ago. The following from the Nortn Bend Harbor tells of his operation in tho bay city. "George Cummins was this morning bound over to await the action of tho grand jury on a chargo of passing forged checks and his bond was plac ed at $1,000 by Justice Shuster. Bo ng unable to give the bail the man will go to the county jail. Cummins is the check artist who has managed to pass several bad checks. Ho got away with one for $10 at tho Eagle saloon in Marshfield. Another for $19.00 ho passed on William Schrock in this, city and one for $19.05 ho pass ed at the Racket store in Bandon. At least Cummins docs not deny that ho is the man who passed tho Bandon check as well as the ones here. The check Jio passed in Mr. Schrock's sa loon was alleged to have been given him bjtho sash and door factory. Tho man did not have tho right name of tho manager of tho factory on the check but Mr. Schrock in his haste in cashing the check did not notice tho mistake. Another (fleck for $10.85 tho man tried to pass at the Fix-up but not succeeding, he passed it nt tho Voltz saloon. Cummins is a pe culiar sort of a fellow. In jail last night ho did not deny that ho wrote tho checks but pretended to remember nothing about it or else had a very poor memory of tho whole affair." CONGRESSMAN HAWLEY HAS GOOD RECORD Salem, Ore, Oct. 8 As an answer to tho opponents of Congressman Hnwloy, who say that he has been loafing on his job at Washington, tho following has been given out by tho Congressman's friends: Up to September 19, 1914, there had been a net total ft House bills and resolutions reported during tho present Congress of 740. On tho bas is of the 435 members of tho House, the pro rata share of each member would bo less than two bills reported during the. present Congress. It will thcreforo bo seen that Representative Hawloy has secured favorable action on 'more than four times his share. A Democratic member of the Com mitteo on Rivers nnd Harbors in a public statement, printed in the press last March, after tho passago of tho River and Harbor bill by tho House in which Mr. Hnwley had appropriat tions aggregating almost $1,750,000 for 10 differont projects in his district or 1 per cent of tho total, said : "Of all tho Congressmen who ap peared before tho River nnd Harbor Committee this (session to muko np peaU for appropriations for wator wnyi in tehir respective illtriut none was no wull equipped with fact uml figure und none inuilu miIi u fa vorable pudental Ion of fact u lleprwuntutivu Ilnwley of Orotfon." Ah uii eKiiiiijil.) of Mr. ilMwiyi Jtufifi U Ilia inullw it! fJMWriJlK pfij'-riMlkiM fur llio ImimvmmA ! livm uml lirilw In 1116 lrl iJUtritt Coos Bay may bo cited. Tho first appr6printion made for this improve mcnt was secured by Richard Wil liams, then representing Oregon in Congress. After he retired ho was followed by such' able men as Reprc' sentatives Whittaker, George, Her mann and Tongue, all of whom wero nble men and known to look well af ter the interests of tho state. The nverage appropriation secured by these men for tho improvement of Coos Bay each year was $34,500. In the six years in which Mr. Hawley has had an opportunity to secure ap propriations for Coos Bay, this year not being counted, ho has secured $543,920 for Coos Bny, which is all the engineers have recommended, and is' an average of $90,050 per year. For tho erection of public buildings the maintenance of tho Chemawa In dian School and other purposes he has secured more than $4,000,000 dur ing his service in the House without attempting to estimate what his ef forts will secure during the present Congrc&s. On matters of national and international concern, Represen tative Ilnwley has taken an activo part. On March 5, 1914, in an address before tiio House on our national ag ricultural policy, which address has been known as the most able pre sentation of.that policy ever made to tho House, Mr. IlaMey took occasion to urge that tho Panama Canal should be considered as a part of the waterways of this country, that no tollshould bo charged-for American coastwise shipping in order that tho products of the west and tho manu factured ni'ticlos of tho East could bo exchanged with ns little charge for transports! oin .as .was .possible. When tho President proposed to repeal tho free tolls provision Mr. Hawloy con tinued his opposition and made an other able appeal on March 28, 1914, when ho laid before the House many reasons why the repeal of that pro vision would be ngainst the welfare of the state and nation. Ho hns been equally diligent, successful and aggressive in other matters and the long list of his accomplishments dur ing his activt sorvico in the House arc well known to people in every community in tKo state." MANY BOATS ARRIVE AND DEPART THIS WEEK The Elizabeth arrived in port yes terday with a largo cargo of frieght and the following passengers: Miss Irene Johanson, John DeCosta, wife nnd child, W. J. Wilcox, R. L. Wagner, A, W. Cope. Tlie Elizabeth will sail again tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock Tho Speedwell arrived Wednesday with the following paasongors: Mrs. W. A. Slee, Spain E. Poarcc, J. D. Black, R. B. Swonson, W. II. Matson, G E. Fields, Miss Holan Kenworthy, Francos Holoss, T. Bradley, Jos. E. Clark, Waltor Gertry, F. J. Strong, wife and child, Mr. Thorno nnd wife, J. 11. Edom, T. M. Carroll, C. A. Ba- kor and M. Andorson.' Tho Speed well wont to Coon Bay "today and will nil from tlrcro for San Fran cisco Saturday. Tho Fifleld arrived in port Tuesday with a cargo of gasoline and diilill- ato for tho Standard Oil Co., nnd sail ed again Wodnwdiy for Toledo, whero sho will Utlto on a carg of tim ber from the Go. W. Moore mill. Ii. I win Iwt UxUy for Portland, whto Im will I a dalagnU Ui the Growl Uuif at Orwn, Knight of I'ytlilM, a d.-l. it t from Um lo cal It, I'. Mjf. FmihuI Hi.iwJ U . H uitiu- fiom tin. Mk. having fwu) i Nmi a km ig Ut vtrfi uwkhi tt lik rnmbag f 111 TWO LICENSES ARE REVOKED COUNCIL TAKES ACTION ON SA LOONS WHOSE OWNERS WERE RECENTLY CONVICTED OF VI OLATION OF LIQUOR LAWS. The Club and Office saloons wero put out of business Wednesday night when the council revoked their li censes for having been convicted of selling liquor to minors, and ns a re sult Bandon has only five saloons. The Club saloon belonged to J. W. Coach and tho Oflico saloon to Arth ur Conch, although the licenso was in the name of Geo. Button. The session of the city council was quite exciting and standing room was at a premium in the nudlonco room, it being generally known that the sa loon cases were to como up. Tho Coaches were represented at tho moctng by their attorney, F. J. Fee- ney, and City Attorney Treadgold was tho chief sponsor for the city. Some very pointed remarks were passed between the two attorneys, charges and countercharges as to mo tives, etc., flying thick nnd fast. How ever, under tho charter, thero was only one thing for the council to do, nnd thnt was to rcvoko the licenses, as the saloons in question had been convicted of allowing minors to have liquor. Tho vote for rcvoklngjttie Club sa loon license was unanimous, while that to rcvoko the Office saloon was three to two. The council on this motion voted as follows: Mast and Dippel, No; Sorcnson, Chntburn and Gallicr, Yes. Practically the only business trans acted at the council meeting was the revoking of these licenses, nnd there was a large amount of other business to be attended to a special session will be held tonight. C. R. MOORE RESIGNS FROM CITY COUNCIL The following letter of resigna tion was read to the city council nt the meeting Wednesday night from C. R. Moore, who was elected to a seat in the council last June but who has temporarily removed from Bandon: Toledo, Ore., Sept." 25, 1914. To His Honor, the Mayor of Ban don and the Members of tho Com mon Council, City of Bandon, Coos county, Oregon: Since matters of business will re quire my presenco almost continuous ly in this city for the greater part at least of my term of office, I hereby tender my resignation os Councilman form tho East Ward, hoping that it will be speedily accepted and thut my successor will bo quickly chosen and qualify without loss of time, that the vacancy may work no hardship. I wish to express my thanks to tho vot ers who elected mo to the office and my appreciation of their confidence in their ability. Also I desire to as sure bis Honor, tlie Mayor, and my follow members of the Council as well as the other municipal officers, that it In not without sincere regret that I find myself compelled to withdraw from tho circle of warm personal re lationship which has grown up bo tween uh all, Sincerely youra C, R; MOORE. After (ho muling of the nndgim Uon J. Iru fildwull wun uniinlinoutly toctml by tint rouncll ("JJM tint vu tmy, UU Unit H'mtkmiui iJtcllriod ie uMttjd, uml U will tiow ju up to tk Cmud) to ulutt Mfiotlitr nun io