Bandon Recorder
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INCONSISTENT GLORY
When the war first opened up, Rus
sia among other things was determin
ed to establish the independancc of the
nncient kingdom of Poland. Now that
Germany has possession, she is ac
cording to latest reports bent upon
the same thing. The independence of
Poland ia apparently one of the ob
jects of the contending nations, but
the contention seems to be, who shall
have the glory. This question to an
American seems an absurdity, and all
other points at issue between the re
spective governments arc on a par
with the one cited. When the "glory
seekers" arc eliminated in the respec
tive European governments, and the
rule of sense and reason prevails, the
only battles fought will be in diplo
matic fields to the glory of which none
others arc in any degree comparable,
We have all heard big fish stories
in our time, but the English military
department takes the plum. They
have gone a'fishing, and instead of
using gil nets or seins as the Coos
county fishermen do, they use steel
nets, and claim to have caught within
the last sixty days, over fifty German
sub-marines. Some catch, and the
season appears to be always open too,
If somo botanist, biologist or bugo-
logist would only discver n bacteria
that acts as a blight on dandelion and
thistles, alone and turn the specif
ooso in Randon and vicinity, he would
earn the lasting favor and esteem of
tho Randon people.
President Wilson, has never beeii
uccused of wielding tho big stick, but
he has without any grandstand flights
quietly and forcibly called a halt on
Kaiser Wilhelm ad the whole German
empire, which was acquiesced in by
that government; made King George
and his British cabinet sit up and take
notico of the unjustness of their re
cent order-in-council with a view to
revising the same, has put the lobby
ists to flight from the halls, galleries,
nnte-ehnmbers, ways and by ways of
tho national capital, restored order in
Haiti, knocked the props out from
under tho brigand Huerta, and landed
him in jail in Texas, and best and
most remarkable of all last but not
least has recently squelched the irre
pressible Roosevelt.
THE LOST JOKE
Seated one day in my office, I was
hot on the trail of a wheeze, and my
fingers wandered idly over the type
writer keys. I know not of what I
was thinking; perhaps of the bills
that I owed, when a joke from my
cerebellum like turbulent honey flow
ed. I rolled on the floor in my laugh
er; my face turned as ns blue as aplum
the tears down my cheeks came a
coursing, and still they continued to
come. I lnughed till I had apoplexy
a physicinn was rushed to my side for
far on a barge of hysterics I should
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THE OREGON LAND GRANTS
The people of Coos county should
watch with great interest the progress
of events in the matter of the disposi
ion of the Oregon land grants, as they
will asume new phases rapidly in the
near future. The summary of the
matter to date is:
Congress many years ago granted
vast tracts of land to private corpora
tions under the restriction that these
should be sold, not more than 100
Acres to any one person, and not to ex
ceed two dollars and a half per acre.
rhere appears to have been no limita
tion on the time for making the sale.
Recently suits have been instituted
to cancel these grants, on the ground
tha I companies have failed to dis
poi i them, and that an unreason
abl 1 gth of time for doing so hns
pas me Jauprcmo L-ourr, oi me
United States upheld the grants, on
tho ground that there was no time li
mit, and that the Companies must still
.omply with conditions, that is; they
must still sell the land and receive
for it only the two and a half dollars
per acre, but in as much as tho land is
iow vastly more valuable, Congress
mould enact further legislation regu
lating the sale and enjoined the com
panies from making any disposition
thereof unless Congress so acted.
The question then arises, will the
land bo sold only for the $2.50 per acre
or its true value. If for its true value
will the overplus, after paying $2.50
to tho present holders go to the United
States government or to the state of
f Irncrnn. If in tho. Sbito of Or.iL'on.i
will it be to the State at large , or to
the school fund or road fund or both,
or will it go to the building of roads in
those counties wherein the land lies. If
ho, there would be enough money de
rived from that source to build hard
surface roads all over Coos Co. but
its dollars to dough-nuts we don't get
it. After the decision of tho Supreme
Court. Ex-Governor West was the
first person to make a public sugges
tion. He suggested that tho State'
memorialize Congress. He addressed I
a letter to the present Governor on the
subject. The papers of the State im
mediately tcok it up. The present
Governor could not choose but act. He
.ippointed a committee of nine, a large
par centage of whom are big corpora
tion lawyers to daft the memorial.
Tho numbers of the State legislature
arc invited to meet informally, and
pay their own personal expenses to at
tend a meeting to be held at Salem on
September Kith to adopt the memorial
fwo important questions are present-
I'd. First who gets tho land when sold?
Will ti go the the highest bidder,
which in all probability would be tho
present holders, who naturally could
oid $2.50 per acre higher than any one
else, or will it be determined by lot?
The second question is, if the land ,
s sold for more than $2.50 per acre,
where will proceeds go?
Any one who will watch the doings
of the meeting of September l(!th, will
note the presence of the big interests
there, and the mightiest effort they
have ever made to predominate and
control.
It is natural that suggestions havo
been made that the Oregon Senators
be present and olfer suggestions. It
is unnatural, but nevertheless surely
to have been expected that some one
would suggest that R. A. Booth of
Eugene should also be invited to pre
sent his ideas. Why Booth? Whv
not as well Bill Ilanley, cattle king of
Eastern Oregon? Why not tho sheep
king of Eastern Oregon, or the Salmon
king of the Columbia? They all have
interest in the welfare of Oregon?
Why should not some of the little tax
payers, who pay more in proportion
to their ability or in proportion to
their supply of ready cash? Why
should not the assessors of the state
be included or the chambers of com
merce, composed essentially of plain
business men? Coos County is third
in area and valuation of any Oregon
County of lauds concerned. Why was
no Coos County man a member of the
committee of 9, or oUo invited to ox
proas a view? We believe that tho
pluiulurbuud is at work witli a mighty
hand..
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ttmus We notice the Coos-Curry Rostrum
is once more the Curry County Leader
with C. N. Smjth at the helm.
This is the sort of a day which mak
cs one wonder if that classic work of
art "September Morn" might not have
been painted when the general public
was not looking, in Bnndon-by-thc-sea.
Any one who has ever had any ex
perience with gravel roads must be
convinced that they are the most prac
tical and economical road that can be
made. With a well drained founda
tion and regraveled at intervals they
will yield stisfactory service in n wet
country at cheaper cost than any oth
or road material that can be found.
Some people are inclined to scoff
it the idea of John L. Sullivan taking
to the platform as the advocate of tem
perance. They forget that John L.
is the type of a man who is not or
dinary in any of his actions. It has
been a number of years since John L.
went down before Pompadour J. J.
Corbctt down at Bayou St. Louis on
the lower Mississippi but no other ex
tinguished bruiser hns been able to re
tain the limelight to the same extent
as has John L. It would be presump
tuous to compnre his autobiography
with that of Benjamin Franklin yet it
is immensely interesting and if he tells
his nlcoholic experiences in the same
way he is bound to be a most convinc
ing human document.
Although still in the neighborhood
of thirty the career of Hans Rolf,
better known as Smiling Dutch of the
Bandon Athletic club ,has been of the
kind read of in stories. Because he
did not want to go to school any long
er, he ran away from his home in
Germany at the age of thirteen and
became a butcher's apprentice in Bel
gium. He learned that trade and pas
sed into Holland where for the lack o
other excitement he stowed away on
a Hamburg-American liner bound for
New York. His story of lost parents
elicited the symphaty of the charitable
and he was made peanut and lemonde
boy with headquarters with the ship's
steward. .
In New York tho boat officials felt
in duty bound to send him back to his
parents but Dutch eluded them and
i after a short fling in New York he
shipped on a boat for London. In Lon
don he began to learn some English
He mingled with the boat men and
after one or two more trips across tho
Atlantic sailed before tho mast for
ustralia. Seized with the gold fever
he left the boat and went to the
Australians mines. These were yield
ing high at the time and gold nuggets
wore both large and plentiful.
Among the Australian miners and
sheep herders Dutch first branched
out as an nthlete. In a fistic carnival
one of the contestants failed to appear
and his friends persuaded Dutch to
appear as a principal in a boxing
match. He received a terrible mauling
huth ad made a start and soon was ap
pearing ns a wrestler taking on any
one of his weight as he could find
them.
Dutch made three trips to Australia
working as kitchen helper, fireman or
before the mast as a sailor. As a sai
lor he went around Cape Horn twice
which is one of the most trying ex
experiences a sailor is called on to
make. He also went back to Germany
and served out his military probation,
or rather naval, for he served his time
on the warships of the Kaiser.
Dutch is still young and expects to
see a few more sights before ho sits
down to write his autobiography.
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A CHARLES E. VAN LOAN STORY
It is HokiTt Bosworth
screen actor at his best, we
"Buckshot John.'" the fir3t
Charles E. Van Loan dramas
veteran
see in
of tho
to be
produced by Bosworth, inc.. In this
five-part subject adapted by Mr. Van
Loan from one of his own magazine
stories, Mr. Bosworth finds a splendid
medium for the display of his skill as
a director and his power as an actor.
For skill and power he has as we have
seen in the last half dozen years as
Edmond Dantes in "Monte Cristo,"
one of the early multiple films; as
Wolf Larson in "The Sea Wolf," his
first production under his own name;
and in many other subjects. In the
"Buckshot John" the long time Selig
player and director has the role of an
outluw fearless and reckless, too; a
bad man in the common acceptance of
tho term but a good leader of men, one
who can administer punishment and
take it as well.
Buckshot John Moran is a convinc
ing type. Superbly mounted on his
big black horse, armed with his sawed-
off double-barreled shotgun, he looks
the hard citizen. His appearance on
the screen, as we see him stationed
by the side of tho halted locomotive
and its helpless crew, brings illusion
with it, and so far as Mr. Bosworth's
division of the story is concerned it re
mains to the end.,There is a subsidary
action which somehow in its earlier
stages fails to excite any particular
amount of interest. We fathom the
drift of it as the story proceeds, but it
is only as it immediately affects the
Courtenay Foote as the Great Gil-
more, the fake clair.voyant and later
leader of his own home-made Purified
Thought cult, is at the head of the
supporting cast. Mr. Foote gives a
fine performance and is one of the
factors in the picture. It is Gilmore
who by means of his knowledge of
John's history and the art of the ven
triloquist learns the hiding place of
the plunder. Oscar Linkenhelt as the
sheriff is ideal. We note the man
who works without fuss nnd feathers,
one of tho few who can do exciting
things in unexcited manner.
"Buckshot John," is an singular
combination of western drama and
straight or legitimate drama. The
beginning of the story, with its hold
up of the train and its subsequent
shooting-up of the town is remarkably
well done. There is realism in the
scenes connected with tho latter, pos
sibly you may think there is a bit
too much for some in the lynching.
The writer will admit that while this
was nearer to what must be the truth
than anything he recalls at the same
time there was an absence of the re
pugnance he has experienced at the
portrayal of many interrupted lynch-
ings. Here the horses are drawn out
from under the suspended outlaws as
the sheriff rides madly over the roads
only to be too late. His denunciation
of his fellow-townsmen for destroying
the possibility of learning the location
of the cache is characteristic; appar
ently he is otherwise undisturbed by
their anticipation of due process of
law.
It is in the last half of the story
that it digs in deeply as we watch
the working out of the regeneration
of tho outlaw. In over twenty years
no elfort of the warden can "reach"
him. Religion is the last resort. The
convict spurns the suggestion; but he
reads the Book that is left in his cell.
The lines in the face soften. The
light streams through iron bars in
to the mind as into the cell. It is a
fine picture.
There are situations, too, that stir
the blood. There is the interview be
tween Gilmoro and the trusty in the
old shed where the charlatan leads the
trusty to reveal tho hiding place of
the booty, there nre the escape from
the guard, the boarding of the fast
moving freight train by Buckshot
John, tho encounter between John and
Gilmore ami the recovery of the booty
the surrender to the authorities and
the return of the money and the final
pardon.
The story is well staged. The file-
room of the newspaper office is especi
ally well done. The employes of
many newspapers will look upon it
with envy. It is in tho exteriors that
the picture is at the best, however.
Mountains and valleys there nre in ub-
bundance and variety. "Buckshot
John" is a worth-while picture.
See this story at tho Grand Theatre
Thursday, September, 0,
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News of Earlier Days
Interesting Ilenr- From Recorder Files ot
Ten and Twenty Years Ago
From the Recorder, Sept. 7, 1895
C. Ledgerwood was improving his
property on Atwater street with a new
sidewalk.
j. v. amitn oi uurry county was
given two years in the penitentiary
for his shooting scrape on Rogue river
The steamer Echo belonging to the
James boys sunk in tho waters above
Coquille on Monday. All freight was
got off and the boys telephoned, to
Bandon for scows to assist in raising
the boat.
Sam Nass arrived from Astoria pre
pared to look after his cannery msi
ness nt Prosper. The Newport on
which he came also had aboard nine
tons of supplies for the Timmons can
nery. S. L. Shumate of Roseburg, who had
boon summering in Bandon for the be
nefit of his health, found the climate
very beneficial and had made all ex
penses by hauling matchwood. He
was leturning to Roseburg luit expect
ed to return to Bandon in the follow
ing spring.
From the Recorder, September 0, 1895
The construction of the light house
was fast Hearing completion.
The gross value of property listed
in Coos county by the assessor was
$9,913,190 and the tax levy was less
than 12 mills.
Frank Summer of Harshfield, for
merly of Bandon was to preach in the
M. E. church the coming Sunday.
The daughter of David Mathers of
Riverton, aged 13, was buried in the
Bandon cemetery.
John Bear of Marshfield and Miss
Jensen of Bandon were married at Em
pire. The life saving crew were still en
gaged in taking goods oil from the
wrecked steamer Bawnmoro. The
coal in the hold of the wreck was on
fire.
Fires in the surrounding neighbor
hood were put out by a drenching
rain during the week and the air was
much clearer as a result.
Duning the month the waterfall at
Bandon was 4 hundredths of an inch
At Langlois it was five tenths of an
inch.
W. Boyd was offering his livery
business for sale.
D. H. Prewett of Bear Creek was
quite sick.
Captai Snyder and crew had been
overhauling the tug Triumph.
Elijah Smith was over from Empire
to look after his fishing interests on
the Coquille.
C. S. Goodenough and Chas. Chand
ler of Dairyville had business in town
Monday.
There was one moro building to be
moved across the river from Gold
Beach to the new town of Wedder
bum. Tile contractors dumped 289 tons of
rock at the jetty one day this week
which was the largest days work so
far.
So many people loft town to see the
wreck at Floras lake Sunday that the
town seemed deserted.
The tug Triumph took a party of
people down to the scene of tho wreck-
BANDON GARAGE CO.
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Expert Machinist
FOSTER & HENRY, Props.
Tc)t'l"nu A J ftiuomJ Ml. nm Chimin Avi
ed steamer Bawnmore Sunday. They'
brought back a few sacks of flour anJ
a couple seats from a street car which I
they fished out of the ocean.
T. J. Codfrcy and Miss Lizzie Buzan
were married at Empire.
"Some one has been inclined lately
to sharo our wood pilo with us and
their conscience doesn't seem to smit j 1
them when they get tho larger half.
Now an editor can stand almost any
thing and won't even wince when his
paper comes back from a subscriber
in arrears with the words "refused"
written upon it, but we draw the lina
when it comes to furnishing wood to :i
lazy lout who is too worthless to sit by
an honest fire, and if ho doesn't let
our woodpilo alono he will head some
thing tumble. We are onto him."
A donation party was given during
the week to Rev. nnd Mrs. J. S. Mc
Cain. FOREST
IN
FIRES THREATEN
WEST OREGON WOODS
Portland, Sept. I. The forest fir;
situation is now at a critical point
throughout the entire Pacific North
west. By great effort and better equip
ment than ever beforo employed, pri
vate, state and federal forccj have so
far practically kept control of the in
creasing number of fires dim to the
protracted hot weather and prevented
disaster that would have been inexit
ablo under similar conditions in past
years, but except in a fow localities
where there have been slight local
showers the protective system is now
taxed to tho limit nnd conditions aro
extremely dangerous especially fi
wind shall arise.
A few fires aro already breaking
bounds, men can not easily be spared
to fighe new ones and the dense smoke
renders the detection of new ones dif
ficult.. The disastrous fires of 1902 fol
lowed ju3t such conditions. Appeals
are being made to all persons m th?
woods not only to bo extremely care
ful about campfires and matches but
als to work on any fires they may find
without depending on tho ovor taxed
patrol forces. Settlers are 'asked to
risk no burning of slashings.
Up to within 24 hours tho fire situ
ation was well in hand. Over 450 firt3
had been extinguished with practical
ly no loss of merchantable timber.
Yesterday, however, tho bad fires near
Mt. Hood, near Butte Falls in South
ern Oregon and in Union couty are
said to have escaped control and many
new ones are. The governor has been
asked to prohibit hunting until it rains
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