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VOLUME XXXI
BANDON, OREGON, MARCH 9, 1915
NUMBER 19
DID WE GET IT? WE DID.
APPROPRIATION FOR HARBOR
Rivers and Harbors Bill Provides for Coquille Work.
Contract for Dredging River Let by Port Commission.
To Make Channel to Coquille Ten Feet Deep
Work on the Bandon harbor unci
Coquille river is now assured. Gov
ernment Engineer Wright has receiv
ed word from the Portlnnd office, that
the appropriation has lieen granted
and that the harbor work will contin
ue as per original schedule.
In addition, the port commission of
Bandon let a contract at Coquille Sat
urday to the l'uget Sound Bridge and
Dredging company of Seattle for the
dredging of the river from Bandon to
Coquille. This contract provides for
a channel 10 feet deep and 1120 feet
wide from Coquille to the river bend
near Uandon and for n channel 12 feet
deep and 180 feet wide from there to
the sen. Tho dredging required 'will
be for a depth df two feet for twenty
two of the twentysix miles of river
while four miles, composed of shoals
will require dredging to a greater
depth.
The price agreed upon is 18 cents
for eacli of 100,000 cubic yards of
dredging per month, tho dredge
working 24 hours peisday and Sun
days. If tho cubic ynrdt.pf material
removed from the river should run to
200,000 in one month, tho price is to
bo 12 cents per yard, for yardages be
tween these two the cost per yard is
to be proportional. It is estimated
that the price will be about 16 cts per
yard for tho work actually done. The
company is to receive $25 per hour'
for all delays caused by tho commis
sion but must build all necessary
bulkheads. This is probably a fair
price in view of th- great distance
covered and the small depth dredged
lor most af the way. The cost of tho
work is not t- bo '.?s than $200i,
.jr more than $.'0,i 0'. The firs".
"'0 must h) a d in cash, the second
V-Cf-OO vvii't ll.o J'ort's note an- all
sums abon tnat nun will be paici
1 Llf in ea :li and hili by note.
This iii8i.ii.". about $150,000 oxpon
cli'uro on '.lie ri. .;r and hurb'r this
rummer. Ho Ililler, who h.u charge
of the dredge, .Seattle, now in Copj
liny, expects to move to tho Coquille
river about May 1st. He is under
contract to move as soon as tho Hay
work is completed and the weather
and the tides permit.
The government engineers lmv
practically completed tho harbor s;ii
vcy and tho location of the bulkhead1?
Tho preliminary construction work is
in charge of Spec Patterson. The
work is being rushed. They are now
driving piling at the Brewer wharf,
which will serve as a foundation for
the si iff Kg of the derrick thnt will
h,ii 'He tlii rock. Tho sidewalk on the
trai .wn is torn up and the tram
tv il be finished by the first of
Vu that time tho quarry will
lie opened up ready for tho removal
of the rock.
Aid Socirlv KWvta Officers
The Presbyterian Ladies' Aid so
ciety kohl their annual election of of
ficers last Wednesday, March 3rd.
Mrs. Iingdell was elected president,
Mrs Johnson, secretary; Mrs Faa
l under, vice Di ssident and Mrs. S.riith
trcaauicr. Thoy wil! meet aain If
n arrow afteunic i with Wt. I,, c.
Gibson.
J. A. Howmnn arrived in Langlois
Inst week and spent u few day la
town attending to business. Mr. L'jw
man, in speaking of the (rent possi
bilities of Ids section, says: There is a
st tea in running through his place
which will soon lie harnessed and con
verted into power to furnish elect ru
ity for lighting and mill purpo .
He state that u sito has beun nuIiu -cd
mid that work will lie begun moidh
time thin Miiniiiier. Mr. Ilowiinin lm
found an Ideal spot wliern a tin in cm
bit rDiixtnirli'd u u minimum cunt ami
Hit now wuU wahtr will fiirnuh
IikIiI ami ownr for tliu jajojilu at Iho
lull ami oilier vMiilllm. furry
County Juilwr
Small Blaze Causes Small Damage
A fire occurred Thursday night at
the now house Obcd Harrows is build
ing on 9th street, west. It was discov
ered on Friday morningthat fire had
started in a pile of old rags that
were saturated with turpentine. The
fire, luckily for all concerned, burned
itself out uftcr burning a hole through
tho porch floor.
Hig. Fish Caught
Port Orford, Oregon, March 9th.
Last Sunday Percy II. Poole and
Charlie Long went deep sea fishing
from Port Orford in a sixteen ft. row
boat. Among the fish caught they
lauded a rock cod weighing nearly
thirty pounds. The fishermen caught
the cod three miles from Port Orford
and 'from the look of the wind they
must have had a hard pull to get back
to port.
PENTLAND'S STORY
NOW TO BE TESTED
Myrtle Point Murder Case
Awaits Coming of Man
Arrested in Idaho.
Now that Clarence Russell and wife
of Myrtle Point poisoning case fame
are in tho county jail, charged with
the murder of the former's brother,
and officers are on their way with
Pcntlniid, the complaining witness
from tho town in Idaho where he was
arrested, people are beginning to in
quire who Pcntland is and how much
credence should be given to his testi
mony. One account is that Pentland came
to the home of the Russell's as a
tramp and ho worked there as a
farm hand. It was shortly after his
discharge that he made his startling
charges and disappeared. He was a
new coiner to the county and his an
tecedents are alleged to be unknown,
lie appears to be one of those foul
minded men who smirch everything
and everybody they talk about with
the filth of their own thoughts.
Speaking of Mrs. Hussell the Co
quile Sentinel says:
Hussell is apparently about forty
years of age and his wife perhaps
five years younger. They both look
like hard working people, although
the woman appears to be tho strong
er and more vigorous of the two. This
is verified by the scales, as while she
looks to be about 1.'35 pounds weight,
they show that she tips the beam at
185. From what we have heard of her
we expected to find Mrs. It. a "hard
looking" woman, but despite her very
positive statements at the time her
hrothor-in-lnw's remains were first
disinterred, which led the officials to
request her to stay away tho second
time, there is nothing about her ap
pearance that would in nny way prej
udice any one against her. Indeed
she is a niece of the Into Orville
Dodge, who was the author of tho
Coos-Curry history and a few years
ago, the editor and proprietor of tho
Sentinel. Mrs. Hussell uses good lan
guage and appears to be of more than
uveiiigo intelligence.
Shu has been aciiHtomed to doing
her own housework, taking care of
her children, and liko mo many other
of the dairy mini's wlvus, luulntlug al
so in llm milking of the cows on the
nitwit. Now h feels (hat mIiu muni
In iIoIiik soninllilntf am) buj.'mi by
U'lliiliiiutf all of Mr. Dualium's i,m
IwidiHS. Nlw iiImi to do all
Ills wwi Uv mhh In jilanlJiiK Um tfar.
iJmi ujmI wiiiw fur It litU ijiriiiK,
A Timely Suggestion
Frank B. Tichenor is in Bandon
with offices at the Gallier.
Mr. Tichenor is booming Port Or
ford and will sell lots in that future
metropolis. His optimism and ener
gy nrc refreshing and he makes an
admirable booster. He conies forward
with the suggestion that the differ
ent towns of Coos county and Curry
form an association composed of rep
resentative men from each place, the
object of such an association to be
the mutual advancement of the two
counties.
Don't forget the meeting of the
commercial club tonight. If the club
can have its way, it would have all the
wheels of industry in town running,
and then add a few more wheels to
these. You should at least commend
the club for its lnudablc purpose and
bo present.
PICKED UP BUOY
TOOK IT TO SEA
Steamer Grace Dollar Left
the Harbor with an Un
usual Tow in Her Wake
In passing out over the bar Wednes
day night the Grace Dollar picked
up the buoy just inside the bar, along
with the chnin and anchor with which
it was secured. Just how the accident
occured is not known but it is sup
posed that in order to escape the shoal
on the north side of the channel, the
Grace swung too far to the south.
With one propellor out of commis
sion it was not thought safe to re
turn to port and all efTorts to dislodge
the heavy buoy at sea were unsuc
cessful. A. boat, was .lowered as soon
as the Grace was safely over tho bar
but, on account of the heavy sea
nothing could be done and Captain
Fosen headed for Port Orford hoping
to find calm water there.
The Grace passed out shortly after
midnight in tow of the Klihyam and
the tug stayed with her until three
o'clock in the morning. Either the
heavy weight must have "shaken loose
or was released at Port Orford, for the
Speedwell reported that she saw the
Grace near Rogue river proceeding
on her way as usual.
0 ;
ALONG THE WATER FRONT
The Speedy Patsy
The Patsy surprised herself by
beating the Elizabeth to San Fran
ce o the last trio down Tt-o PaUv
i-tfilo the flip down in '11 hours while
'.he Llizaoet!. consumed 30 hours of
time on the ,ame distance.
The steamer Bandon acted as an
alarm clock Tuesday morning. She
came into the rivor just before day
break nnd with a brace of prolonged
blasts from her whistle announcing
her arrival managed to waken every
sleeper within a mile distance.
Elizabeth Arrives
The Elizabeth arrived Monday
morning just before day break from
San Francisco. She had besides her
usual load of merchandise the follow
ing passengers: W. W. Wilcox, Mrs.
J. Wilcox, Merle Wilcox, Miss Mcln-
tose, D. E. Jackson, J. L. Kronenberg
J. L. Lowelllen, Elizabeth Lewellcn,
Joe Waltner, Adolph Mechler.
The Speedwell planned to leave
Sunday but was bar bound and was
was not able to leave before Monday
morning carrying 1-1,000 cedar ties,
50,000 feet of lumber, 100 piles and
mo telegraph poles. These nro to be
delivered to the Santa Fo railroad
at San Diego tho Estnbrook company
being the shippers.
John C. Kendall of Jiarshfli'ld was
in Bundon Monday night and Inci
dentally met with the officers of tliu
minnierclal club. Ho dc wired to find
out what (ho aitltudu of thu Uandon
pfojiln In toward the riMijHtlilnjf of
me jiuiiiion woolen mill,
M'tH was U MimhlMd llm
WEEKLY FIRE
DESTROYS HOUSE
House Occupied by Orville
Counts Consumed in Fri
: day's Midnight Blaze
Another midnight fire occured in
Bandon Friday night of last week. A
cottage belonging to Jack Counts
burned to tho ground destroying all
its contents. The house was occupied
by Orvil Counts and family. When
Mrs. Counts arose at midnight to at
tend a sick baby, she dropped a lamp
Tho fire spread so rapidly that nothing
was saved except a couple of gar
ments and every timber of the house
was consumed by noon Saturday.
The house was insured with E. E.
Oakes in the Hartford Insurance Co.
for $500. A speedy settlement was
made. Mr. Oakes telegraphed San
Francisco at 11 A. M. Saturday and
received a reply from Portland .at
.1:45 p. m. that the fire loss was to 'e
settled next week.
Jack Counts had also insured his
furniture in tho house for 500 but he
moved it last fall without notifying
the agent Orville Counts had no in
surance on his furniture which was in
the house at the time of the fire and
suffered a complete loss.
Very few fires do as complete a job
as this one. There is not a particle
of partly burned timber nor any de
bris left. A small pile of ashes is the
entire residue. The house was in a
rather isolated situation on a hillside
making aid from the neighbors diffi
cult. DANDON TO ERECT GYMNASIUM
Wlien Bonds" are Voted Down Throe
Times, Private Subscriptions Fur
nish Funds For Building
The following is from the Coos Bay
Times for March 8th.
Though three times she has voted
down bonds for a school gymnasium
Bandon is going to have such a build
ing in spite of the fact.. Funds to the
sum of $900 have already been prom
ised by private subscription, accord
ing to Coach Harold Quigley of the
Handon high school basket ball team.
To this will be added $1,000 more,
profit for the season's games and tho
structure will bo erected at once.
Plans have already been drawn.
Some carpenters have promised their
work in lieu of money, others will
work half time and in every way aid
the boys in erecting their first gym
nasium. The building will cost approximate
ly $1500 when completed and will fur
nish a place for teams to practice, c
liminating the need of paying rental
for a makeshift gymnasium.
Too much bonds have already been
voted to allow a gymnasium this year,
thought the people of Bandon and
thereupon Mr. Quigley set about se
curing tho necesary funds. He found
that the people stood back of him. In
three weeks the entire subscription of
$900 was mado and the building be
came a reality.
It had been proposed to place a
manual training shop in one section
of the gym, provided the bond issue
had carried. Bandon has not yet se
cured manual training nlthough ac
cording to Mr. Quigley this is a pos
sibility for next year.
The Man Who Are Assessing
County Assessor Thrift has his
force of deputies organized and al
work making the valuation of the pro
perty in Coos County for 1915. Mr.
Thrift himself is at Marshfield this
week, and he expects to personally
look uftcr business in Coquille, Bandon
and Myrtlo Point also. C. J. Furhop
of Lakeside, has the north end of the
county to take caro of, Chas. II.
Dungan, of Coos River, will do the
the work cast of tho bay, R. L.
Weekly of Myrtlo Point lias the upper
('oqullle und Its forks to go over. A.
II. Collier, of Out assessor's office, has
tho lower roqiillln und tho Miction
south ut Handon as his teiillory.
IVter 1igKia will iualu tliu flguio
for his own city, Not Hi JImmJ. Urn.
N, Halt w huvo sliarjui at Mursi.
jieiu uiiiir i r,' i ttuVMuuuUMo
A SERMON AT THE ORPHEUM
Rev. C. JMayne Knight to institute
Inovaliou by Preaching Down Town
On Next Sunday Evening
Tho Rev. C. Mayno Knight announc
es that he will preach in the Orpheum
theater next Sunday evening at 7:30.
A great deal lias been said about
thinthc failure of the church to meet
the moral problems of the times. Mr.
Knight will tell what he thinks about
the failure of the church to meet
solution of the problem. He will
speak his convictions without reser
vation. Those who think the church
is all right, if there nre any such, nro
especially welcome; and those who
think it is all wrong, are also kindly
invited.
LOST TWO GAMES
IN SUCCESSION
Defeats for Bandon Basket
Ball Team Puts Crimp in
Championship Hopes
It was bitter medicine, the dose ad
ministered to tlie local basket ball
team at North Hend and Marshfield
Inrt week Friday and Saturday nights
The contest at North Bend was
close as the score, 24 to 19 indicates
hut tho affair at Marshfield on the fol
lowing evening had no such redeem
ing qualities. The score there was
20 to 8. In both games the Bandon
players won tho commendation of
their opponents for their steady con
sistent work. The fact is Bandons
double defeat may probably be laid at
double defeat may probnbly be laid
at the door of that jinx that handicaps
tho away-from-liomc player. Tho
home team wero familiar with" life
floor and the resulting self confidence
carried them .to victory.
In order to figure a chance still for
Bandon in the championship it will
bo necesary for North Bond to de
feat Marshfield and for the powers in
authority to decided the protested
Myrtle Point-Bandon game in favor of
the locals.
The following is tho " line up at
North Bend.
Bandon North Bend
1. Pullen.f Hart, f
L. Pulen, f Holmes, f
Windsor, c Bowcn, c
Chatham, g Monde, g
Armstrong, Webb, g Russell, g
At Marshfield they lined up thus:
Marshfield Bandon
Leeoq,c Windsor, e
Seaman, f L. Pullen, f
Watters, f I. Pullen, f
McDonald, g Chatburn, g
Chapman, g Webb, Armstrong, g
LIVED LONGER THAN EXPECTED
Henry Millers Money Did Not Last
Out His One Hundred Years
Henry Miler, 100 years old on Jan.
10th, died at the county poor farm
last week. For years he was a small
rancher on Larson inlet and it was
less than a year ago that ho gave up
trying to mak'o his own living.
He -lived in the neighborhood of
Coos Bay for GO years and owned an
80 acre farm. He sold the furm a few
years ago and figured that the pro
ceeds would last him as long as he
should live. But he miscalculated the
living part a triflle and lived longed
than he had anticipated. His money
failed him and a year ago he had to
apply to the county for assistance
Mr. Miller was born in Germany in
1815 nnd left home when n youth to
follow the sea. He left his ship in
Coos Bay in 1857 just after tho Rogue
river Indian war. He later married
an Indian woman and it is not known
that they had any children.
They adopted a half breed girl and
raised her but sho Is believed to be
lead.
Tho traveling men In our burg have
been unusually numerous the last few
diiys. Thuy am liko the lohln and
tliu link tho first sura liarblngurs of
Miring..
DsjHjIy Shuiiir W. 0. mh was In
KuihIoii ymiwUiy with puim fur
wlkwu fwmtt u( iww Im did not ill
PREPARING STATE
FOR PROHIBITION
Adress by State Lecturer
G. A. Taylor in Bandon
Sunday. Problems to Meet
More people did not vote a t all on
the prohibition question in 1912 than
the combined forces that voted br
and ngainst the dry proposition. So
asserted George W. Taylor, stnto lec
turer for the Anti-Saloon league in
Bandon Sunday. He made two ad
dresses in the city; in the Presbyter
ian church in the forenoon and in tho
M. E. church in the evening.
Continuing, he safcl that the Anti
Saloon league and the temperance
forces analyzed these figures and
came to the conclusion that the reason
they had been badly beaten was that
their friends had stayed at home While
the liquor forces had all turned out.
They figured that the 97,000 votes
against the proposition represented
the full vote of the liquor people;
that they had all voted, while the
stay-at-home vote was mostly favor
able to the anti-liquor cause. So a
determined effort wns made to get out
this stay-at-home vote. Thi result
was that while tho li quo re1' vote, by
tho expenditure of a vast sum ofnion
?y wns increased by !1,000 votes to
100,000 against, the anti-liquor vote
through personal efforts in getting
out the vote, wns increased by 70,000
otes, more than doubled, and thereby
.von the contest.
The Bpeaker told of the work in tho,
egislature to get a satisfactory stat
ute, relative to the enforcement of tho
law. The most difficult thing was to
;et the legislature to limit the amount
illowed for personal use. The law as
anally passed by tho legislature
makes the limit 2 quarts of whiskey
r SO quarts of beer. These allow
ances are made according to a decision
jf the United States Supreme Court
.vhich has decided that the state can
lot prohibit entirely an individual
from receiving intoxicants when
shipped in from another state. Un-
ler the new law, the amount each can
receive is limited as above stated.
Each consignee must sign a voucher
for the receipt of the liquor and each
month these receipts are placed on
file in the office of the county clerk
it the county seat where any person
:an go and inspect them. Thus nny
one who desires can keep posted as to
who is receiving the liquor that is
shipped in to the state. It is expect
ed that this will be of material ser
vice in combating the blind pigs and
oootleggers who nre bound to spring
up in the truil of tho proclamation of
prohibition.
Mr. Taylor displayed a map of Or
egon on which he showed the towns
ivhich were wet at the time of the pas
lage of the prohibition act. These
,vero especially thick in tho section of
northeast Oregon whore the sheriffs
Hid tho judges and prosecuting at
torneys are in many instances, favor-
lble to the liquor cause and where the
work of enforcing tho law will bo
very difficult. It is essential, asserted
the lecturer that a strong effort bo
made to enforce the law for the ref-
rendum gives the nnti-liquor forces
tho right to bring up the question of
repealing the enforcing laws at any
time and they also have the right to
have the whole "dry" question placed
before the people at the election in
November of next year. If they can
repeal tho enforcement laws or nuli-
fy them in any way, they will be able
iO say that prohibition does not pro
hibit, that it is a failure and since
that is the case the state might as
well have tho revenue that comes from
the business rather than allow it to
o the the enrichment of California.
Mr. Taylor said that Portland was
the largest city where it had ever
been attempted to enforce prohipitlon.
All of these were some of tho reasons
he concluded, why tliu unlMlqiior fo re
vs should be up and doing to seo that
tint work thoy accomplished In the o-
luction last fall Is not allowed to slip
tway from thorn.
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