Ocegon Historical Koctety
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THE BANDON RECORDER
Bandon By-the-Sea has the Prettiest Beach on the Coast
BANDON, OREGON, MAY 11, 1915
VOLUME XXXI
NUMBER 18
CAPTAIN ANDERSON
THE SCAPE GOAT
U. S. Inspectors Deprive Him of His
License After a Severe Examination
Into Causes of Randolph Wreck
For a while this afternoon the Ho
tel Gallier took on the aspect of the
court room. Two U. S. inspectors
werp hero nnri conducted nn investi
gation of the cause pf the wreck of
the Randolph in one of the rooms of
the hotel. They held star-chamber
proceeding and only one witness was
allowed at a time in the room with
the oflicials.
The inspectors had their own steno
grapher with them and over fifty pag
es of typewritten testimony was tak
en from Captain Anderson who was
put through n grilling examination.
At the conclusion of the examination
the captain had his papers revoked,
the inspectors considering him guilty
of "gross negligence and careless
ness" in attempting to run the bar in
the manner ho did.
Chauneey Carpenter, the one man
who escaped from the wreck through
the breakers was on hand in his naut
ical rig, just as he was on the day of
the accident. Possibly hail the in
spectors expressed doubts as to his
ability to escape in the manner indi
cated, by swimming, he was prepared
to show them how the feat was ac
complished. Henry Colvin, engineer of the Ran
dolph is down the coast, beyond Port
Orford and consequently the inspect
ors wero unable to got his testimony.
To morrow the oflicials will investi
gate charges at Coquille against Cap
tain Lencve of the Charm and on the
day following they will go to Marsh
field to investigate tho collision Ihb
tween the steamer Simpson and the
dredge Mitchic.
Propounded a Curious Quest ion
Neva Hatcher, a married man of
Coquille, indicted for a statutory of
fence, in connection with the Stilwell
afTair, was tried by a jury last Friday.
The jury was unable to agree and the
case will be tried at a later date.
Ono of the features of the Stillwell,
Hatcher, Enselo trials of last week
was a question propounded by one of
tho jurymen to n young girl who was
produced on behalf of the defense for
tho purpose of rebutting the testimo
ny of Paulino Stillwell, and discredit
ing her testimony.
It appears that after Die trial of
Hatcher and failure of tho jury to
agree and just before Ensel's trial,
ono of the jurymen heard one person
say to the young girl: "Your testimo
ny will bo tho same today as it was
yesterday." and with the permission
of tho court ,the juryman was per
mitted to propound several questions
on this point of the witness who at
first denied having received such in
structions, and later admitted it.
The result of this was to convict En
selo and may have a strong bearing on
the re-trial of Hatcher.
Idist weeK the circuit court .finished
ttie trial of all criminal matters that
wero before it, and began on civil cas
es. Thirteen cases were set for trial
before a jury and in addition to those
sot was a list of i!l cases which the
judgo put down on the "uncertain"
list, part or all of which will be ready
for trial before the first III are dispos
ed of. This is sufiicient to keep the
jury busy for nt least two and possi
bly throe weeks.
E. N. Smith is probably the only cit
izen of Ilandon who pays taxes on
Ilandon streets. $17 per year is the
amount Mr. Smith tins been paying
for property located under the pave
ment of First street.' This fact was
brought out at tho meeting of tho
council Wednesday night. This part
of the street owned by Mr. Smith is
located at the intersection of First St.
and Flltuoro avenue and was taken tit
the time First street was extended. It
wan not puld for at Hie time owing
to nn overnight of tin rnininitUw who
hud rlwijre of tho matter and wlnvh
litis not vt M'")lUd on It.
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TO OBSERVE MEMORIAL DAY
Special Services to be Held May 23rd
anu on May 2!)th by Veteran-
Special Memorial services for the
soldier dead of the Republic will be
held Sunday, May the 23rd in the Ban
don Presbyterian church, with Rev. W
S. Smith in charge. The G. A. R. post
and the W. R. C. will attend these ser
vices in n body. People of all denom
inations and beliefs are cordially in
vited to join in this commemoration.
Docoration day will be observed on
Saturday May 29th by tho veterans
with exexreiscs nt the cemetery. Tho
program is not yet complete but Rev,
C. Mayno Knight will be the orator of
the occasion.
School clerk J. W. Mast tells us that
there are about seven places on the
list of teachers for the coming year
that have not yet been filled and
among those-hirod there are a number
who have not accepted and whose po
sitions will lie vacant. Altogether
there arc at least a dozen positions
yet to bo filled.
Council Irons Out
Latest Wrinkle
Abolishes Premium For Collecting Stray
Cattle. Other Municipial Matters
A new method of getting rich quick
was brought to light at the meeting
of the city council Wednesday night.
When the family exchequer runs a lit
tle low it lias been possible for the
thrifty husbandman to go out into the
highways and by ways of the city and
gather in stray cattle, drive them to
the pound, r.nd collect a dollar a piece
for them. When fishing fails and
the cral) seeks more secluded nooks
and tho clam is hard to locate and the
berries r.re only a promise, the festive
family cow is always to be relied on.
Chris Uichcrts wlio addressed the
council on the subject was unkiud
enough to intimate that sometimes
cows,domestic in their habits and nat
urally home loving were assisted
to become vagrants.
He said he had paid a hundred dol
lars in fines in tho city, that his ranch
is six miles away, that he aims to keep
his cows within fences, but that living
some distance away tho cows were
sometimes out for a day or two before
he knew of it. He had hired a boy to
watch them when they got out. De
spite it all cows would leave good
pasture r.nd get within the city limits.
The only way he could exxplain it was
through the inducement which the dol
lar n head created and he thought the
council should lepeal this subsidy.
The council was inclined to look fa
vorably on the request and by resolu
tion the city attorney was instructed
to draw up an amendment to the city
pound ordinance abolishing tho premi
um of $1 for the bringing in of the
catle and increasing the pound fees
from fifty cents to one dollar.
Alfred Morras and his cattorpiller
tractor came in for some attention
from the council. It was suggested
that it might he good idea to have the
machine to pull a grader over the
streets for the purpose of smoothing
them although it would hrve to be
done by private subscription.
The use of the tractor on the paved
streets of the city was also considered
and tho permision was duly given the
understanding being thnt tho engine
should bear its responsibility for da
mage to itself and in addition should
be responsible for damage to tho pav
ing beyond that of ordinary wear.
Councilman Chatham drew up a re
solution to this effect and the same
was adopted.
Contractor Webb asked for an ex
tension of ninety days on the Oregon
Ave, paving. The bad roads had de
layed the hauling of the lun her r.nd
the government survey of tho bulk
IukuI hud not yet been filed. Tho ex
tension wnn granted,
N. J. ('rain asked for porniiiuiioii to
nit trtm and hnndi on iOlh I reel in
front of H lot ownml by him und ir
mtstuH mt duly grnnUl.
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CAMP FIRE GIRLS
ENTERTAIN ELDERS
Part of Entertaining Program Given by
Patron-Teachers' Asjociation
The Patron-Teachers' association
of the Bandon schools held its Inst
meeting of the- school year in the
high school assembly room last Fri
day evening.
A feature of the long and excel
lent program that had been prepared
for tho occasion was tho appearance
of the Camp Fire girls, in costume.
They appeared in the Indian costumes
which are the uniform of the organ
ization, and gave a number of songs
and dances as well as an exhibition
of the method in which the modern
girl is wont to lake pleasure in leis
ure moments.
The appearance of tho girls was
proceeded by a paper on the subject
by Miss McKay who in guardia'n of
the local organization. She went in
to details on the subject and her de
scription was very interesting She
told how the society grew out of the
call for an organization that would
serve with girls, the purpose for
which the Boy Scout idea was given
to boys.
Work, Help and Love is the motto
of the society which, abbreviated and
the parts connected makes "Wo-he-lo"
the society word and cry.
The organization has a regular
course of promotion in following the
training which the rules prescribe.
The girls must make their own cos
tumes and earn money to pay for
their camp fire expenses.
Prof. J. O. Ervin detailed some facts
relative to manual training as it is pro
posed to establish it in the Bandon
schools next year. As proposed tho
manual work is to be taught only to
the pupils of the sixth, seventh and
eighth grades. As proposed the plan
proposes an individual work bench for
each of twenty pupils. Each bench
is to be supplied with real tools, not
the toy kind, but tools of good quality
and regulation size.
In teaching manual training ex
plained Mr. Ervin, it is difficult to
teach individual trades, especially in
the smaller communities. There is on
ly n limited demand for blacksmiths,
or shoemakers or bookbinders and it
is not thought wise, to specialize in
any trade.
Many people thought that because
the boys wero taught to handle tools
they must be destined for carpenters
and some feared that the supply in
this particular trade would be demor
alized because of the large number
of artisans. Hut Mr. Ervin explained
that the students were not taught car
penter work, only since carpenter's
tools were adapted to teaching a boy
the rudiments of mechanical educa
tion, they wero made use of.
As contemplated the manual train
ing was to teach boys certain element
al forms of cabinet work. They were
to be allowed to make small articles
to take them home with them nnd the
training was to be incidental to this
work.
Mr. Ervin's talk apparently touched
a chord of interest to the school pa
trons and he was listened to closely.
Miss Abbott gave a talk on tho
drawbacks and shortcomings of the
teaching profession which she found
exceedingly plentiful. She stated
that the averago wage of a teacher
was a dollar a day and that a good
teacher was expected to bo an expert
inathenictician, an elocutionist, a pen
man, a physician, be a champion spel
ler, a mind reader, an executive, a
judge, a financier nnd do n few side
stunts in necromancy and lion taming.
Musical numbers were presented by
.Miss ElizaU'tii Fox, I'linna Schumate,
Prof. Qulgley, and Mrs. Ilamckman
all good and each of which wus en
cored; and last but not IciihI wus a
song by the Chntbiirn quartette, Kate,
llelle, (ieorge and Thomas Chntbiirn:
Their iippeiiriinre ulso, wus enroled.
ai no cioMt or iiiu program, Minn'
liougum pru-uiti'd a resolution of
thanks to Mm. ("win und the govern
Ing olliciirx of the koelet)' for llielr
fulllifuliuMM, I'llltdfiiey und i)Uirpj1ft,
whh nmiUnUm ut unuHlmounly
JfljilinJ. In biiaf nj'ijuiJj Mn. (mw-
Eatables were then brought to the
attention of the crowd and in sec
tions all who stayed were served nnd
a good tfme enjoyed thnt lasted until
flrr midnight.
The shriek of a locomotive may
shortly be heard in Bandon. Two
small locomotives arrived on the Till
lar'nook from Portlnnd today and
were unloaded on the Breuer dock.
They will be used in the transporta
tion of rock from the quarry to the
river. A boiler for running the drills
in the quarry was also received.
Yesterday was a busy day for the
city recorder, being one of the busiest
Mr, Kausrud has experienced since
tak'ng up duty for the city. $200
was the sum total of the colections
and the crowd in front of his desk,
waiting a turn to bo served was never
less than four nnd sometimes as
many as nine. It being the tenth of
the month it was tho last day ofthe
water Collections and the Oregon av
enue assessments and payments on
the forty thousand dollar bonding
proposition adopted a short time ago
all helped to swell tho total.
Facetious people are now getting
what satisfaction they can out of the
assertion that the city is supplying
meat and drink to its patrons. This
from the fact that a small fish recent
ly made its appearance with the water
with which the street cleaning depart
ment was giving First street its oc
casional bath.
Penitentiary Sentences
For Female Perjurers
Punishment. However Made Conditional
OB Behavior
Ruby Simpson-Nosier was tried in
the circuit court last Thursday on nn
indictment charging her with perjury
and was convicted. Immediately
thereafter Mary Do Costa-Pfortner
changed her plea to guilty, and both
waiving' time, were immediately sen
tenced by the court. The statutes in
such cases made and provided, de
clare that any one so convicted shall
be imprisoned in the state penitentia
ry for an indeterminate period of
from 3 to 10 years. Such sentence
was pronounced by the court and then!
continuing, the court said thaj. he be
'licvod that the defendants had com
mitted perjury, but not the particular
perjury for which they weru convicted
That they had doubtless fallen into
improper nfld bad company and that
their lives would bo ruined if not al
ready done unless they mended their
ways.
But they were still yourif and might
outlive the errors committed. The
court was sorry that others responsi
ble for the crime committed by the
girls, if any there were, were not also
before the court for punishment.
Thereupon the sentence of imprison
ment was suspended duiing gojd be
havior. The defendants aro lequired
to lemnin in Coos county and report
their whereabouts and doings to the
court during the first five days of each
month.
The significance of this verdict is
an enigma. The young Indies were in
dicted for testifying in the Bandon
municipal court, a court of competent
jurisdiction wherein they had previ
ously sworn to tell the truth, tho na
ture and substance of which tejlimo-l
ny was that they were with Coadi and
Herron and had visited tho Louvre
restaurant in Bandon, that intoxicat
ing liquors were ordered nnd drank by
them. Now tho verdict of the circuit
court trial jury is that when the la
dies testified in the Bandon podrc
court to having received and drank
such liquor that they testified falsely
and is equivilent to saying thitt
the young Indies did not ie;elve nor
drink such liquor, llenin the court's
remarks when prnuouiwini: sentence,
thut ho bolived they had tuft. lied
truthfully before the llundon city
rourt und did drink such liquor but
hud puijuivd thi'iiiMilvin ul olbw
(turns und plum, This uni.pliH ull
iulm unmiiwted with tin puttlMi
lur flfulr mm fwniliiittd by II mml
jury unit will datti) Ji aliuliujj jdjus.
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CITY TO HAVE
. CLEAN-UP DAY
Thimble Club Leads in Crusade For
a Spring Municipal Cleaning
Although in many sections the an
nual spring clean-up wns carried on
last week, by proclamation of the may
or, elsewhere in this paper, Bandon
will observe the season on Thursday
and Friday of this week.
Members of the Thimble Club, a lo
cal organization of women folk, are be
hind this effort for a refurbished Bnn
don. The club has appointed a com
mittee to direct affairs, the personal of
which is the Mesdamcs E. Lewin, Her
bert Brown H. C. Dipple and F. E.
Fasbender.
By authority of the council Mayor
Topping has designated Thursday and
Friday as clean-up days and the city
will provide teams to carry away and
dump the rubbish to be collected on the
streets nnd private property.
It is to the interest of every citizen
of Bandon to unite for a cleaned up
city. Citizens should lay aside ordina
ry duties at least for a portion of the
time and see that the places where rub
bish accumulates nrc examined and put
in order once more.
It is well to have the appearance of
things in mind. There is nothing at
tractive in heaps of tin cans or ash
piles or the accumulation of rubbish,
incidental to housekeeping or conduct
ing of business. But it is also well
to lay stress on the sanitary side of the
crusade.
Just remember that it is possible for
a fly to have progeny in vast num
bers in the course of a season and it is
easier to kill them before they are
hatched than to undertake the task,
one at a time later in the season. De
cayed matter in which flies breed
should be properly looked after.
The committee from the Thimble
club have some excellent advice to of
fer on the subject which may be found
elsewhere in this paper.
A Honeymoon Trip
Tho register of the Baxter hoUl in
Coquille shows that W. J. Forbrache
and wife wero registo-ed there May
5th. Later in the day we saw "Bill"
and a young lady whom wo used to
know as Miss Jane Smith. Well to
makj sure, wo went up t-j the county
clerk's c1lce nnd examined the mar
riage record and sure enough, they
were married on May 5th, by Justice
J. J. Stanley of Coquille.
And, by the wny, nn examination of
the marriage record showed that E.
M. Blackcrby had madu an affidavit to
enable Eugene A. Kelly and Helen
Stcphenoon to procure u license for
marriage, although the record did
not disclose whether or not the event
had taken place.
And we found that Raymond B.
Lowe of Bandon and Flossie Nelson
were maried ontlie 5th, and that a
couple from Myrtle Point had been
stung by the same bee.
And, Lord preserve u, when we got
on the "Telegraph" homewaid bound,
we found it had become a veritable
honeymoon excursion boat, for Mr.
and Mrs. W. J. Forbrache, Mr. and
Mrs. 1. B. Lowe and the nowly weds
from Myrtle Point were all aboard,
each trying to look innocent and each
eying the other couple suspiciously.
Mr. and Mrs. Fcrbracho slipped
away without informing evan family
or relatives of their plans.
Smith Seeks His Children
One of tiie many numerous fami
lies of Smiths, other designations un
known, made application to a local
magistrate for relief. He had gone to
work last Friday morning, und re
turned at night to find thut his wife
hud left him. In so doing she hud
taken his household belongings und
two children und moved to town, nnd
fitted up apartments, und when lo
cated by her other hulf, she denied
him entrance. Tho pollen woro up.
peuled to to ronsurvu tho public pt-ucti
after which the deserted hushund tip
piled for M'llnf to the court, AvrK
u writ uf jupluvJIn to iuUh Ihv good
und u pwmplory onlur for thu ute
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A Proclamation
Civic pride, punctuated by
practical energy, brings actual
results and is commendable in all
well regulated, civilized com
munities. It has been well said
thnt "cleanliness is next to God
liness"; nnd, like Christianity, is
within the reach of all, including
the most humble. Civic cleanli
ness should be indulged in and
enjoyed by ull.
Whereas, the governor of tho
state of Oregon has proclaimed
a Clean-Up Week throughout the
the state, and
Whereas, the Common Council
of the City of Bandon has auth
orized the mayor to set upart a
time for such purpose and make
provisions therefor, and
Whereas, this season of qie
year is the most suitable for the
purpose,
THEREFORE, I, Geo. B. Top
ping, Mayor of the City of Bnn
don, hereby proclaim and set
apart Thursday and Fridiiy, the
13th and 14th days of May, 1915,
as Clean-Up days for the City of
Bandon. Teams will be furnish
ed on these days by the City for
the purpose of hauling away
rubbish and refuse matter which
can not be burned on the premis
es. The Ladies' Thimble Club has
volunteered to take charge of all
arrangements, and all citizens
are urged to comply with tho
rules of this excellent cocicty.
All requests for instruction nnd
information should be directed
to Mrs. E. Lewin, Mrs. Herbert
Brown, Mrs. F. II. Fassbender,
and Mrs. II. C. Dippel, who com
pose the committee in charge.
GEO. P. TOPPING,
Mayor of the City of Bandon
Southwester Opens
Channel to Ocean
Deposits of Sand Mt Away Under
fluence of Wind and Tide
In-
The change of the wind to the south
east lias been a welcome change to
the boatmen. Under its influence tho
sand ut the harbor entrance has been
steadily moving seaward until now tho
channel is becoming freed from ob
struction. A
Tho last boat to go out was tho
Elizabeth, Sunday night und at that
time the shallowest sounding wrt'i
1UV& feet. Under the influence of the
winds tho channel hns been steadily
clearing itself out since that time.
Tho influence of the northwest wind
which prevailed for some time previ
ously was to re! a id toe incoming tide
nnd fill up the channel. The tides at
such time are below the reckoning but
with a southwest wind they exceed the
figures usually given. Consequently
with a south west wind, wind nnd tide
wprk together to clear out the chan
nel. The effect of wind and tide on tho
channel is one thnt engineers aro con
stantly studying and they have made
some remarkable discoveries in tho
way of making nature work for the
benefit of commerce. Through the
construction of wind breaks and jet
ties it is possible to dnect the water
currents to do imirensolv im.ioi taut
work.
This has been well illustrated at
Coos 'bay where boats formerly havo
been known to wait four nnd five
weeks ut a time. There a stretch of
two miles has been n!loud to (ill In
with sand und the water bus been di
rected into u channel thnt is pructiail
ly self sustaining.
The rock under tho hnrbor entrunrn
presents u barrier to tho deepening of
tho llundon channel until it Is reinov
ed by blunting. When (his is donu und
tho jetties nro properly irpulrnd the
rurronls of the rlvur will soon Ml u
diaper chunnel,
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CLEAN U P D A Y S