Oregon Historical Society r.Mtv Hall X SEMI -WEEKLY 41 m4M"M Advertisers! X The Recorder covers the I Bandon field thoroughly I Job Printing! BANDON RECORDER ;; A modern equipped job departmentin connection :: VOLUME XXXI BANDON, OREGON, FEBRUARY U, 1915 NUMBER 12 RECEIVER IN CONTROL OE THE C. ft. SMITH COMPANY Re-adjustment of Affairs of the Big Lumber Company Made Necessary by Stringency in the money Market. Mill at Marshfield To Be Continued in Operation Like a holt out of the clear sky cnine the announcement Wednesday that the large lumberTng interests of the C. A. Smith Co., centering at Marshfield had heen turned over to the creditors of the concern. The Marshfield papers- aro very guarded in their reference to the event hut the opinion prevails that the action is made to readjust the financial aflairs of the company and that the big mill on the bay will not be forced to closo down. Concerning the matter, the Coos Hay Times says: "C. A. Smith, head of the C. A. Smith Lumber company, and numer ous subsidary companies in Califor nia and Oregon, has placed bis busi ness affairs in the hands of his credi tors, according to an announcement today. His holdings are reported to be be worth $15,000,000. Mr. Smith is now in Chicago, seeking a re-adjustment. Inability to pay interest on $5,000,000 for which the Smith com panies are bonded, is the chief reason for the transfer of the business af fairs. The C. A. Smith Company, the principal creditor, has oflices here and yards and mills at Oakland, Hay Point and Murshlleld, Oregon." The above is Associate Press report sont out from San - Eiitncisca and commenting on it the Times says: "The statement' that Mr. Smith'? holdings are reported to be worth about $15,000,000 is evidently an er ror as several years ago his holdings were rated at over $15,000,000, so that the $5,000,000 bond issue was comparitively small. In addition to his immense timber holdings in Ore gon, California and in Minnesota, be is said to have some of the most val liable copper lands in Wisconsin "It is understood that the change will not affect his business locally, :u it is merely in connection with the fin ancial end that it applies. "For some lime it has been stated that the Smith interests have been made the butt of keen attacks by riv al concerns in the lumber trade in San Francisco, anil it is understooJ that some of the rival concerns will probaply try to put a wrong interpre tation on it. Despite the keen compe tition the Smith company has become the biggest operator in the San. Fran cisco market." For some time the report has been current in lumber circles that Mr. Smith has been working to make this change in his financial affairs intlic hopes of unifying and placing his bus iness on a more substantial basis. During the past nine months, while the lumber market has been at a standstill, the big Smith mill has been running all the time. That there has been a deficit connected with the op eration is suspected and this may par tiallyaccount for the action coming at this time. The report that the mill will contin ue in operation is reassuring as its closing down would not only be a se vere blow to Marshfield hut to all of this section of Oregon as well. P RENT-TEACIIKRS MEETING The next meeting of the Teacher Parents association of the Haiidou public school will he held in the high school building next Thursday, Feb. 1Mb. The following U the program. "Within My Heart a Song I Found" "My Old Kentucky Home" IjuIW (iltc Club "Piupei Choice of Bonding Mater ial Mik 1 1 tiii y ui.il Nolo PinfeMor lllelwhli I itt inline fur CUMrm", - iUmt Itoiltte i J'liti,,, Kl Mf tl44ilHMM KkjiIiiii; Mr Aviiill All in any iiliiwfcNl iij lit I,,,,,.... r iit .. i..ds Bm imhUti u Mill I'll WILL PETITION COUNCIL FOR FIRH PROTECTION. Petitions are being circulated a- mong the business men of Handon and will be presented at the next meeting of the city council Wednesday evening asking for improvements in the fire a- larm system and a more efficient mcth od of handling the chemical apparatus which the. city now owns. During the last nine months we have had 14 fires in the city and the chem ical engine has been on the scene but once. No adequate means of hand ling the machine accounts for the uselessness of the machine. Except in the business part of the city it is im possible for the chemical to be hauled to the scene in its present shape. No horses are provided to draw it and it is too cumbersome to be handled by hand. During the fire which destroyed the hous'o of Chas. Peterson last fall the chemical was hitched to the rear of an automobile with disastrous re sults; the wagon was overturned and put out of commission. In the fire last night, attempt was made to drag the apparatus up the hill. It did not even get a good start. Briefly stated.the proposition which the business men will put up to the counciT is that the council purchase an auto truck and mount the present chemical apparatus on it. This truck to be kept in a convenient place and every member of the police force in structed in its operation, so that it would bo ready for action at any mo ment. The chemical apparatus as it now stands has a capacity of 80 gal lons, sufficient to quench quite a fire if rushed to the scene. An alarm bell of sufficient size and mounted in such a place that it can be heard in all partsof the city, is the second improvement which the com mittee of business men will ask. The present excuse for an alarm they say, can not bo heard the length of First Street on a windy night and would not wake the lightestsleoper a block away Lets Tie Timber Contract Herbert Lockhart, a capitalist of Marshfield was in Handon this week and we understand that one of our lo cal citizens got a contract for a largo tract of timber for tie purposes, for the coming summer from him. ANNUAL HALL Satlrday evening of this vA;ek the Handon chapter of the L. O. O. M. will hold their annual ball at the Dreamland Pavillion and tho affair promises to cxcell all their former dances in the way of brilliancy and joviality. O. W. Gibson, Harry Pierce Leslie Cornwall, Alvin Munk and I. C. Zeh are tho committee that have been appointed to have entire charge of the affair and under them are suqh sub-committees as they see fit to ap point and have use for. The dancing, to music furnisfied by Kausrud's or chestra in its entirity, will begin promptly at nine thirty and during tho evening punch will be served by the lodge. HE-HEARING ASKED District Attorney Liljeqvji. is hav ing bin briof printud in which he al;j the Supreme Court for a rehearing in the eneo uguiiuU tho Port of Han don. It KoeniH that the failure of a coiUiln attorney to file a certain plat iin lie unreal, ciuuod the Supremo Court to overlook the very Import Hnt fuel tlmt the houiid.irhw of the H!iL n vol ml oil, took In it coiwldnr sWo iwrtton of tli Cimm liny wafer uml &lr, MljMivlit ioIImi on Dili m Umig mini tn Dim wo.-fJ. y 7) MORE FIRE PROTECTION . ) Interviews With Prominent Handonians on the Subject . ."We have no fire protection," ex claimed "Hill" Sclmer, owner of the (Srand Theatre, when asked what he had to suggest in the matter of im proving Hnndon's fire protection. "If we are going to have a system of fire fighting the first thing we must have is an efficient fire alarm system... At the present time half of the town could be burned up dur ing the night and not over a dozen people know anything about it. A long with an alarm system we should have a chemical apparatus that can be on the scene five minutes after the fire is discovered. Mr. Savage represen tee for the LaFrance Fire Engine Company has stated that DO per cent of the fires in large cities are put out by chemical cgnines, because of their ability to reach the blaze before it has gained a headway. "It is foolish to think of purchasing a big auto pumping engine. In t lu first place it could not be used on the hill because in the winter it could not be taken off from the paved or plank streets." LOCALS TO PLAY AT MYRTLE POINT Coach Quigley and Band of Hopefuls Start Last Lap in Championship Series Coach Quigley and eight of his basketball hopefuls left on the early boat this morning for Myrtle Point to meet tl)c quintette from that school on their home floor this even ing. Equally important as was the con test with the Marshfield five last week is" this game, for should Han don lose this game the chances to land the championship are about gone. Coquille, having played one more game than the local boys, is leading the league with Handon in second place. Coquille meets Marsh field at the bay this evening and ac cording to the dope they are schedul ed to lose and if Handon pulls out to the good in their contest at Myrtle Point, there will still be a fighting chance to awry away the pennant. Only a fighting chance however, for should the local boys win tonight and Coquille lose, the local boys will have to tuck away every game during the rest of the series in order to come out on top, unless Coquille should meet with another defeat, a trick which Quigley's five bid fair to accomplish on the local floor. As yet, little is known locally of the strength of the North Hend team as they have only played two games in the league schedule, both of which they lost. Windsor at center, Stoltz and Leslie Pullen as forwards and Webb and Chathuni at guards will open the game tonight, while Ivan Pullen Har old Johnson and Myers will await the emergency call on the bench. Tlwy are due to win even though playing on a strange floor, judging from the fact that they defeated these same oppon ents HO, to 12 here at homo and the Marshfield team which took the short end of the score here Saturday even ing, beat Myrtle Point 20 to 17. W. CtT. U. PROGRAM The W. C. T. U. will meet with Mrs. Ella Nelson, Tuesday, Feb. lfith ut 2:.'10, p. m. This is tho Francis Willnrd Memorial day and nil aro In vited to bo present. Tho following is tho program: Devotional Mr, Phllpott IIuhIiih meeting Life of Pruiu'l Willard QuolutioiiH from I'ranrU Willuril or A. Llnt'oln, by ikk'Ii inuiiihur Mimlt'-Mu. l MpAIUtur und MIm KiiI ('Iwllmnii Curiwtf M'MuV- Mm. Aitim ytir !lufillngiUi of Abrultum Mj. 4 tiylfouttj In UMI E EOR BOATMEN Dispute as to What Consti tutes a Navigator's Li cense. May Lose Same Should the assertion of Harry J. Kimball, United States Collector of Customs at Marshfield be true, the Myrtle Point Transportation Company has" laid itself liable to two fines of $100 apiece for operating the seamers Dora and Telegraph without the li censes of the captains aboard. Following tile suspension of the li cense of Captain T. W. Pantcr and Captain Allen Panter by Steamboat Inspectors Fuller and Edwards at the hearing in Coquille recently, the Tel egraph and Dora continued on the run with new masters in charge. Mr. Kim ball states that according to the law tho new captains cannot take charge until their papers have been examined and approved by the representative of the steamboat inspectors and the papers must be on the boat during its operation. "I have the license for both the Do ra and tho Telegraph in my office", said Mr. Kimball in an interview with the Coos Bay Times. "The boats are not supposed to operate until the new captains have 'been sanctioned by me and the owners to operate their boats temporarily without these papers, but in this case this permission has not been asked and would not have been grafted anyway". W'alter Panter former captain of thc'Telegraph, has a different view of the matter and a different tale to tell. "My understanding of the matter is that a a new master has five days of grace in which to have his papers ap proved and take the master's oath" he said "It is not our fault that the pa pers were not aboard the boat. Im mediately after my license was revo ked Captain Dunham, now master of the Telegraph, sent his papers to Mr. Kimball to be approved and they were laying in his office all the time. 1 do not think in just that we should ha"e to discontinue our service to the pub lic while the papers are being held in Mr. Kimball's office. "Mr. Kimball's interview with the Coos Hay Times is dated February 0 and I have here a letter from Mr. Kim ball dated on the 8th. in which was in closed the oath to be administered to the new master. Nothing is said in the letter about any violation of the law. The letter bears out Mr. Panter's statement. Mr. Kimball has forwarded an account af the case to Inspectors Edwards and Fuller, who will determine what to be done about the matter. A Temporary Setback The West Shore Oil company, op erating on tha Coos-Curry county line about 15 miles from Bandon, by the way the crow flies, and about 20 by wagon road, is held up temporar ily awaiting an additional installment of casing, which will weigh several tons. The transportation of the cas ing from Bandon to the well will be by wagon and team of course and de pend on the condition of the roads. They will probably be held up for sev eral weeks after which work will be continued. Wm. Sorensen who teams for E. H. Thrift between Bandon and Langlois had a bad acident one day this week He was driving half way between Bun don and Lnnglois when he passed u donkey engine, operating a ditching machine. Tho safety vnlvo of tho on gino blew off just ns Sorensen was op jiosito it und his team became fright ened. The leuders wheeled no they were no longer rodponhlvu In tho lulnw und Marled to run uwuy. Two of tho homo worn drugged it mIioi I illntuiiro, the n-mli of the wagon wi broken und one ut Dm liorniw wun Injured mif flWiuitly In (nil II nut of wuiuiiMon fur u wliHu. Mm tliu IWU ut I'euJJjui el liu Uiml feUjiiluy fL il -J'mJJ MOR TROUBLE THE GOVERNMENT WIRELESS Arno Mereen has received a let ter from Lieutenant McConnell of the U. S. navy, recently here looking for a site for a wireless station, ask ing written confirmation of a number of things. Among them is the cost of electricity, of phone and water ser vice and cost of transportation He also specifics in his letter that the government requires an absolute title to a site. The site he desires is near the Smith mill, his plan being to ut ilize one of the tall smoke stacks for one of the masts, erecting one mast and making provisions for another if necessary. The company can meet all the requirements except to cede the site, which is about 350x150 feet.frce. The cost of this will be ascertained and the matter referred to the Marshfield Chamber of Commerce. The plan was to move the Cape Blan co station here as the cost of taking supplies to Cape Blanco is prohibi tive. The government requires that wireless stations lie at least seven miles inland. They handle a commer cial business as well as government business although thy do not solicit the former. Coos Bay Times A fine baby girl was born to Mr. and Mrs. Chnrles Mason Tuesday SAYS DOCK WAS FLIMSILY BUILDED A Few Plain Facts From Port Orford Citizen. New Dock will be Stronger. We publish the following communi cation from a resident of Port Orforc' relative to the destruction of the docl at that port recently. Port Orford, Feb. 9th. On Mondaj morning the Port. Orford wharf win washed away. The wharf was onlj built last summer. The wharf the new one replaced, held for 28 years At tho time the new wharf was built many old Port Orford residents per sistcntly criticised the manner ii which the piles were driven and de clared the wharf would not stand i severe storm. Mr. Dyer Lenove, win drove many of the piles for the oh wharf was very active in urging that tho people having the wharf buill should insist on the contractors driv ing the piling more solidly but his ad vice was neglected. Port Orford people are enterpris ing and a new wharf will be built promptly. But the people of the town declare that the new wharf will have to be built strongly. PROF. TURNHOW TO BIO SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT The school board at their meeting Tuesday night, elected as superintend ent of the Bandon schools for next year, Prof. Turnbow, principal of the Coquille schools. He is a graduate of the University of Minnesota with a B A. degree und Mrs. Turnbow, we have heard is a irraduate of the University of Michigan. Other teachers will be elected within the next four or .six weeks. DRAMATIC ENTERTAINM ENT Tho sparkling comedy-drama entitl ed "The Old Country Aunt's Visit to the City" will be given by Seaside cir cle, No. 0G2 of Women of Woodcraft, at the Grand Wednesday night, Feb. 17th. Following is the CAST Aunt Peabody Mrs Anna Tuckei Eleanor and Ilattie, her nieces Ruth Burkhnrt and Delpha Langlois Mnrimn, a friend, visiting,.. Ottilie Lowin Mrs, J. B. Sowush left in; re Satur day to join her hutdmnd ut Springfield after several weeks with her parents, Mr. Mint Mm. D. H. Ktltt. Mon mouth lieruld, Circuit Judge Coke, in holding u ulioil term ut equity ut Coqullbi thin wutik, to luiur u fw cuno wlilvli wom not nwly for trial during January Tilt Hill pnirUnMlly will (lie lHjjiiiw lur Uil lDiu ujHiuliig Uiu wii lli Muh tlsy Itt ApriJ, Mi, (Jmi, I'. Ti'lg luui UfrKul Utdwwi l&buv Uu mmii m kiWaitmmiM human YET ANOTHER E Store Building and Stock of Shields & Jackson Suffer In Last Midnight Fire The City Grocery on Oregon Ave nue, Haden Jackson and John Shields proprietors, is temporarily out of bus iness following the fire which early this morning did damage to the extent of $4,000 to their stock and fixtures and the rear end and roof of the build ing. The building was the property of J. M. Baker, who lives just south of the city und who didnot learn of his loss until late today. Shortly after midnight parties com ing out of the C. G. Garotte residence discovered the flames issuing from the roof of the store-room in the rear of the building. The news spread quick ly in the neighborhood and within a few minutes water was playing on the building from a garden hose and a short section of fire hose attached to the hydrant in front of the Stephenson residence. With this meagre outfit the flames were kept confined to the rear of the building, out on account of the shortness of the heavy hose line the main body of the flume could not be reached. The building was equipped with a sprink ling system on the roof and this was soon brought into action, preventing outbreaks through the roof. By this time it looked as if the Western Home appartments which are but three feet north of the build ing, must go, and a number of those who had gathered, assisted in remov ing the contents from that house. By tho time the flames broke through tho roof of the store, everything had been taken from the adjoining building as well as from the front room of the store. Bottles of catsup, canned goods, mutches, glass ware, dried fruits, kerosene, sugar and every thing else in the stock o( a well equip ped grocery store were mixed togeth er in piles where they had been lumped by the salvagers. Worse than that some or these piles were in the center of Oregon avenue jocularly known to the residents of that section is "tlie canal." Arrival of more men and hose from the business district made the prob lem of controling the firo an easy one and it was checked at the partition between the storehouse and tho front room when a second stream of water was brought into action. Had there been twenty-live feet of hose more available when the fire was first dis covered it could have been exting uished with a loss of not more than two or three hundred dollars. Jackson & Shields carried a stock valued at $5,000 and the fixtures were worth $1,200 more. Between the fire, smoke and water, the loss will run well over $3,000. Considerable of what was taken out of the building was damaged to such an extent as to be a total loss and none of the goods sav ed are in first class condition. Their insurance carried by Dippel & Wol vorton, of which there was $2,700 on the stock und $800 on the fixtures will just about cover the actual loss. As soon as the building cuu be repaired or another location found, the firm will reopen for business. It is not known whether Mr. Baker carried any insurance on the building which was damaged ubout $000. The cause of tho blaze is unknown as is usually the cuse with Handon fires. Evidently it started closo to the floor of the loft in tho storo-rooin but whether lo wus sot by rats carry ing matches, from a stove pipe which went through a partition here, or from other ruuHOM bus not yet and probably never will bo determined. BANDON BUZ HI III After IHm K. II, Jllaulu.rby, low I runjiuhju, iirniBil with u wurninl of unmi (rum a Um wiui t, wont up lo MyilJo J'4i Ule t)m u( (Jin wotdt UwWjjg (m kb if m iMbta. fmd m U u4 M tkk . SmiMWrn U Willi JijJ)' ww mwiij! m-& smm TiiJi umm liur-u mmm immmmn lurrou hoy mo hawiw mmis mm