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Oregon Historical Society City Hall x THE BANDON RECORDER Bandon By-the-Sea has the Prettiest Beach on the Coast VOLUME XXXI BANDON, OREGON. SEPTEMBER 21 1915 NUMBER 37 FORM ASSOCIATION FOR GOOD ROADS Interview With Jonn Dickey Telling of Proposed Action For Benefit of Highway At the meeting of the business mens nssoclation held in Coquille a few weekB ngo it was voted to name a committee of the association to meet with the Coos county Good Koad3 as uciation and sco what could he done to improve the roads of the county. A meeting of the later association was held at Coqullle last Thursday even ing and the committee attended as well as many others interested com ing even from remote parts of the county. Ono great good resulted from the meeting and that was ufter some talk it was decided there v.r.s no one but what was ignorant of the subject and that all the old plans suggested were bad. Many had been in favor of plank roads at first but as they had time to think it over this idea had been abandoned and likowiso the advocates of other forms of roads a greed to forget their theories and they decided to blot out what had been nnd sit down to materialize plans on which all could unite. James E. Montgomery of Marsh- field was elected president of the re organized association, E. L. Powell, secy., ailfl II. II. Mast, treasurer Seven vico presidents were named, theso to constitute a committee to formulate road plans to bo presented ut tho next meeting of the association to bo held at 10 o'clock, October 7th at North Bond. This is ono of the days of tho carnival to bo hold in that Ijwn, to commcmo:atc the building of 1 10 i)ig.,.J)ridge. hj flowing telegram was read nt the meeting: Portland, Ore., Sept. 15, 1915 Jas. E. Montgomery Marshfield Ore. I am assured positively by Simon Benson, chairman Advisory State Highway Commission that State aid will bo available for a road to inter ned tho Pacific Highway when Coos County has helped herself through tho bond issue. With .this assurance wo nhould lose no more time. Please attend tho Coquille meetings and pledge our energetic and continuous mipport for a comprehensive good roads program for Coos County. Find wo can secure tho best talent in the State including Benson and the Gover nor to assist in n campaign of educa tion to the business value of roads. CHARLES HALL In connection with the above G. T. Trcadgold states that Gov. Withy combo told him during .the last campaign that he would come to the county and mako somo addresses and tho above telegram indicates that he can be relied on to boost for good roads. Among tho other things set aside is tho good roads petition calling for a special election on tho bond issue and it is not likely that this petition will bo presented to tho county court for action. Mr. Dickey is not in favor of haste in tho matter of bring good roads is suo to a vote. Ho bclir.vcc the election next fall will be time enough. Ho would discuss the matter thoroughly maturo a plan that will stand tho tc3t of any argument and then set about its adoption. Mr. Dickey says ho finds many people who are opposed to r. bond is- cue for good roads and it reminds him of an illustration. Suppose, he says one has land to clear and a crop to put in nr.d needs a horso to do the work. Is it batter to do without un til the money is earned to buy the the horse or to borrow tho money, buy tha horse and with tho proceeds of its work, pay for tho animal. When the committee appointed to formulate toad plans has reported, the good roads discussion may ho ex pected to begin n now. Tho tf le is willing to help in Uit Mutter of road bulldli'K lut it iintUts Unit Itn rrsstttiuH) numt iu butowd only where the people o( u iwtioii have inlurnsl tnoiigii in llu mat lor lu do onu woiU (or UuimwIv. Jurkon( Multiioiimlt,CIt4)i And (w Un Lulled Id Uli way. Mr. Cutten Yisits Bandon W. R Cutten of Coquille was cut- tin' a few capers on the streets of Bandon Saturday and Sunday. Mr, Cutten who admits that he composes some corking printorial compositions and gems of the art prcscvativc of arts for the Coquille Herald when his artistic spirit movc3 him to work had recently tumbled oft" the water wagon and the direction of his tunr bio was in the direction of Bandon He was enjoying his visit in our midst immensely and found things here very refreshing. Doubtless whon he gets his tongue untangled and ox tracts the kinks into which ho worked it telling the Recorder forco of his accomplishments he will be able to spin n few more on the theme of his adventures in our city. Knight For School Clerk The special school election in the high school building last Friday night developed considerable interest and there was a large turnout considering the fact that it was a special meeting Three candidtes were placed in nomi nation; .John Nielson, E. II. Fish nnd C. M. Knight. F. .1. Chatburn was named as clerk of the meeting and Guy Dipple and D. W. Carpenter ap pointed tellers. A ballot showed tho following vote. Nielson 7, Fish 23 and Knight (55 and the last named was declared duly elected. Tho fact that active canvass for the vacant position had beon mnde ex plained tho interest manifested in tho election. Tho result is a tribute to the popularity and appreciation of Mr. Knight in the community, especi ally as Mr. Fish, his principal oppon ent is a strong man, capsule, alert, and popular. Mr. Nielson did not mako any effort to carry tho election. During the meeting M. Breuer rais ed the objection that tho election no tice" had -been Wrongly phrased calling for an election for a term of one year instead of the unexpired term. This, he corrected by motion. Mrs. Eva Z. Crockett finds some lit tlo notoriety attached to the fact that wo inadvertanly in a recent issue gave hor name as Mrs. Griffith instead of Mrs. Eva Crockett as it is. She says there is no telling how many hearts were broken by the wrong announce ment that she had changed her name and we take this means of making a proper correction. Mrs. Crockett a.id her son David T. Crockett have bought out tho interest of John T. Tupper in the rooming houjJCTlfctf tor which they have been mnnjMugand Mrs. Croc kett nnd son wQKnri the s.unc in the future. 1 The con. David, who is related to the Kentucky pioneer and also to the fnmily which Jesse James is descend ed, is recently out from the U. S. cav alry. He arrived in Bandon a week ago, leaving the service at Ft. Russell in Montana. Ho enlisted a year ago at the age of eighteen but hie mother decided that she- could not spare him . i. tny longer and bought his release from the service, paying $100 for theMlo ,,, , . in,,i.Mi t 1 n....! l.t ! it... 1 . . . . ., ... , . 1 mm .1 jmru 111 mu rt-'puiiiug ui no lb 111 1 rt-'iiuiiiiiir 01 nuib 111 1 tho Colorado coal fields strike. He'i also had a part in the making of some of the popular movio films in which U. S. cavalry was used. The boy hoy tried for a farrier's licenso with the government and had ho stayed ono day longer in tho scrvico would have necurcd the same. Ho also has a silver medal awarded to tho best three shots in his regiment. He was in troupe 8 of the 12th cavalry. He served In the cavalry 14 months and is now li). A Fovcn dollar phonogri ph record is surely an aristocratic record. Sabro Bros, have it in their music dept. and it is notable because tho voices of a number of stars in tho musical world are combined to mr.ko it. The record is tho Sextette from Lucia and the singors r.ro Caruso, Tclrazzinl, Amati, Jacoby, Ilada, Journct. Thoi'o nie a couple of cream ap urutoin in tho storo of L. W. 'Itobln Mm on I'imt utreut only that the cream I hoy niv InUndcd to kim l gold III- utiuid of Dim lurtuNl vnHty, They mi' tiitoitiwi fur Wwii nml wo, I. tnnl ui a (Mil f U, t&m outfit t-tntly IT. . .7 , ; Mwl nut i V,ky run Mini thvij wt ut JUjrutf j-ivtir. A Voyage on the Coquille River 40 Years Ago Thos. 11. Mery, editor of the Coos Bay News, which was then published at Empire, wrote the following ac count of his first trip to the Coquille river, which appeared in the issue of July 8, 1874. We left Empire last Wednesday a bout noon on the Satellite, in company with some dozen of our fellow citizens bound for tho blue Coquille. Friend Wm. Sounders went ashore at North Bend and borrowed a boat with which to go down Beaver slough, which boat we launched at Dr. Henry's and made sail on her. George Quigley was pilot and when we got up to Isaacs' landing we partook of a hearty dinner and then made the best of our way across the Isthmus. Arriving at Judge Halls that gentleman informed us he had that day sold out his "railroad" to Messrs, Utter & Fitzhugh for $8,- 000. We got our boat hauled on the car by a single patient mule, whose voice was 'echoless and alorie" as he brayed along the little tramroad through tho wilderness. Suddenly the heavy droning buzz of a circular saw broko upon our ears, and we camo up on a steam saw mill owned by the Isth mus Transit Railroad company and managed by J. F. Dunhnm, formerly North Bend. Wo found all hands nt work, as hard as they could drive, not only getting out timbers for the new railroad, but actually cutting out an order for an building in Marshfield. This is worse than shipping coal to Newcastle. Beaver Slough was reached at last, and I was totally astonished to think how nil the trade and travel of the Co quille valley had to pass through this narrow gutter. There were four of un in tho skiff. Saunders and Quigley (who did tho poling for six miles through that tortuons and narrow pas sage) Lieo. Jicnnett of Handon and the writer. The dense brush over hung'th'e 'channel tho-entif3istance but at length wo came to the farm of Y. M. Lowe, and suddenly about an hour- before sunset, burst upon our ad miring view "The Bluo Coquille." Yes after a year of patient waiting it was before me at last the most beautiful if not tho grandest river in Oregon. Its fume had not belied it for I be hold it winding through densely wood- d mountain gorges, alternating with ' road, grassy prairies where the up ..urling smoke told that some front iersman had found a home. Compar ed with it, the Willamette is a slough and tho Sacramento but a muddy ditch We stopped for supper at tho house of Yolvcrton Lowe, who is profanely cal led "Pate," and nfter a hearty supper lit cigars for a row 'of fifteen miles down the river. The scenery and the pleasure of that beautiful night will never fade from my memory. The sun was just set ting as Saunders and Qugley gavo l.! I .... SH-A. uj- un im-ii uaiH mm wuiiut oui into the clear, pellucid currentAll above us was a glow of beauty, the sky be- tint fltltlinrl in m lttnrwl lilnvi nf .ii-imnnx ..,,, .i ., , . .. , and gold, Along the banks, thy phea- I. ,,,.,, , ,,,', ' ,. -wv... 1 iii.ithj iium the boughs of some tall fir tree, The i 1 , 1 . . , .. .1 above us, as Counselor Bennett gave us one of his inimitable anecdotes with a fluvor that Sir Jonah Barrington could not have surpassed. From timo to time I took my pull at tho "white ash breeze" ns wo shot around the bends and dnrted by picturesque cot tages. Holy twilight then stole down upon us in her modest gown of ashen gray, nnd we were singing cheerfully as long streaming files of wild fowls shot through the dusky air above us. Tho robin had chanted his vespers and flown to the side of his tender mate, while the sentry-like heron hoarbely croaked from tho limb of some decayed tree that moss-clad, towered above us like somo bearded Druid of old. Then down stole tho darkness, and tho stnrs commenced to wink nbove the tall pines that were be ginning to mirror their tapering spires in the dark bosom of the stream. Silently sploshed tho oars ns we jtas nod by the snaggy mouth of Iown nlough, and then we were out in good witttr nguln. Song ufter song woke .jh nolftudu nt the fort-nt u wo glided jnwlftly along; but noon we encounter- w un ndvurnu tide. Af(r two bourn ; f fct",'f,t Utf " wn rrtl In ull of limu'i. Prom W ,0W()j rim Kmmi jU JliMt of ijjvtr tji Quwi) ut Ulii careered through a veil of opal clouds. It was just midnight whei. we reach ed Randolph and woke up that most hospital of frontier morchants, Ad am Pershbaker. Instantly he and his industrious lieutenant, R. II. Rosa were out in that peculiar costume in which the Mnrquis of Waterford and his henchmen used to ride steeplechas es. In a few minutes they had us com fortably stowed away on downy beds, slumbering in that peace which ever rewards innocence nnd virtue. In the morning we pulled down toward the mouth of the river. Here we came upon the wreck of the steamer Com modore, wrecked here in 1870 and since dismantled of her machinery. Most of her engines are now in Pan tcrs mill nt Coquille City. This craft was built at Benicin, Cai., in 18G3, and sent down to Maztln, where she made no money and finally came back to San Francisco, only to lay her tired bones on the sands of Oregon. Just half a mile below we came to Bandon fer ry. Hero we strolled about the beach and finally found a bed of wild straw berries on the side hill. Ascending a cliff near by we got a good view of the dangerous bar at the mouth bf the river, and saw the great scalions play ing on the rocks over which the break ers boomed with endless roar. After a visit with Mr. Bennett at Bandon Beach, we were hauled back to the fer ry in farm wagon drawn by mules and driven by G. A. Bennett. It was afternoon when we reached the ferry and there was a pleasant breeze blow ing. So after pulling up the bay past Hamblock's we made sail on our craft and fairly flew up the beautiful river, arriving at Pershbakers in about an hour. i tie salmon iisneries of this river are destined to become a great source of wealth to Coos county, at no distant rtnv. Wa tinva vifiitari nil tlia nririninal fisheries. on fthe- Columbia river, - and have seen none of them more eligibly located for theUaking and curing of salmon than the lower end of the Co quille. The principal difficulty has heretofore been the want of means of shipment, but since Capt. Rackliffe has been running his little steam schooner Cordelia, the people have be gun to wake up a little. We saw her lying at anchor just below Pohl & Grube's mill, loaded with cedar lumber for San Francisco. She would have gone to sea several days ago but the serious illness of one of Capt. Rack lilT's family. In addition to her, a steam scow called the Twin Sisters comes in here occsionally und takes off about 80000 feet of lumber at n load. It was, high noon, overcst nnd sultry on Friday when Saunders and myself bid adieu to the hospitable mansion of Mr. Pershbaker. We were bound for tho celebration at Coquille City and carried our patriotism in a jug. Of what befel us, more anon Coos Bay News. At the unearthly hour of two last Friday morning M. Ocon was waken ed from a sound sleep by the cry of a man in distress. Investigating he found a man had fallen into the slip just back of his shop and wns cling ing to the piles and calling for assist ance. Ocon summoned Night Officer Cessna who got a boat and rescued the man. Tho later, recently from Ar izonu and a stranger had wandered round into unfamiliar paths and fallen in the water. He was taken into the all-night restaurant and dried out. The owners of gasoline bor ts on the Coos river hnve been fined by U. S. inspectors $5350 becauce of laxness in obeying the government regula tions. Eight months ngo tho samo Inspector McGrath assessed these men $4500 and most of tha fines were rebated on promise to do better in tho future. Sinco tho disaster to tho Eastland tho inspectors have beon cautioned to ho stricter in the performance of their duties and thoy may be expect rd to make theso fines stick. The only Coquillo rivsr boat criticised wns tho Myrtle which was found without n fog horn ami with other tfhortages. Noticing tfmt there wits nothing at tho fair by wiy of exhibit to (how thiil there wuv nuch u pluce un ilundon fi. V. rujw Iiuk went to Mr. Wurd ut I he KXponlilon (hro ut lh viuw of (hw Hy takun with (lie rvvmVIng cum tvp Mini limy will ti July plucud wlivi? thvy fill U hwi, Jack Hickeys Hunger Strike Having tried about every thing else as a means of discouraging Jack Hickey's partiality for municipal lodging and Officer Holman has been trying a bread and water diet upon him for the past week. Emulating the London suffragettes Hickcy has gone on a hunger strike. He seems to lack consistency in this and as yet thsre has been o situation . rise com polling tho officer to feed his prisoner by force. Jack protests that he does not want the bag of sandwiches brought to him but the other day when tho marshall blow into a bag to make it appear like a full one Jack quickly discovered tho cheat nnd do maided n bag that weighed more. Bakery Building Well Built Now that the pebble dash is being applied to the bakery building it is evident that it is going to be a fine appearing building. A central figure of this building will be the oven, preparations for in stalling which are now in progress. Underneath is a cluster of twentyfive piles. On these rest 12x10 girders all running in one direction. On these are 4x4s runninir with 12 in. centers across. On top of this are 3x12 plankH i uiiiiuiK me opposite way ana on mo plank is inch thickness of asbestos. On this a fut thickness of concrete will be placed to serve as a foundation for the oven of glazed and enameled white brick. Including tho firo brick and glazed brick the oven will weigh over 70 tons. The oven will bo the famous Peterson patent and will cost $2,200 and when complete will bo the finest oven in Southern Oregon. The floor in the bake shop will be of concrete with a concrete wainscot- ting four feet high. The remainder of the building will be plastered nnd the outside is stucco over metal lath. The bake shop is 20x50 ft. and'has a ceil ing 14 feet high. It has a Mozzinin floor in the back. On the First street side are two store rooms, the one to the east to he used as a bake shop nnd is 20x25 ft in dimensions and the other to be rented is 20x20 ft in dimension. Both rooms have modern store fronts. On the north side of tho building nre two 10x50 ft. court porches, one for each floor. There nre nine rooms up-stnirs, not including bath and toi let. Three of those nre reserved for dwelling purposes by Mr. Stephen nnd tn remainuer will ue rented, rooms have large windows of plate glass 1x0 ft and the rooms will be modern in every respect. The roof is built of flexible felt and roof composition saturated nnd cov ored with Trinidad asphalt. The pro cess of laying this roof wr.s in four separate plies. Mr. Stephen has spared no money to make the building the best possible of the kind and Johnson, Payne nnd Larson working in conjunction with Architect KnrI Scheel are doing a job that is a credit to tho craft. Tho design of tho building is of simple lines yet it is a structure that would attract attention anywhere nnd will be a notable addition to the bus iness structures of Bandon. George E. Baxter one cf three brothers formerly in tho saloon busi ness in Coquille nnd for whom the Baxter hotel was named shot himself fatally in Ma'shficld last Sunday morning, lie first burned nil his let ters nnd every paper in the room that belonged to him, locked the door of the room and shot himself with a 25.3r) rifl0( tho buet tnk c(rect on his temple nnd from tho forco of which the top of his head was blown ofT. Despondency and continued brood ing over a csparation from his wife which occurred about five years ngo is said to hnvo been tho impelling causes to tho deed. When asked what ho thought was (he liest feature of the exposition C. P. Papa suid he thought tho Sperry flour exhibit was tho best thing on tho grounds. They have a small forty burrell in mill In operation and show the whole process of (lour milking from a to t. Thorn rlo (hey have (he rooks of iliffdrunt nutlonulllles, Ger man, Pencil, Jew, Turk, Jiip., (!. iJUpluying (he method of (heir nu tlonul rookery. nillgiul return (mm all iw iouw lie ut Houlli Guru! I'm fixijiU (hut ENJOIN WORK ON OREGON AVE. Archbishop Takes Legal Steps to Prevent City Making Cut Through Property The threatened stay in the proceed ings of paving Oregon avenue mater ialized yesterday morning when a temporary injunction was served on the city recorder restraining the city from going forward with this im provement through the property in dispute with tho Catholic church. The injunction was obtained through tho circuit court sitting at Coquillo nnd was asked for in the nnmo of Arch bishop Christy of the Catholic church. The city will have ten days in which to prepare an answer to the injunc tion and to show reason why the samo should not be made permanent. The injunction rests on the claim of the church that it still owns the land through which the street funs whore it is to mako its decent to tlfolgrndo of the streets of tho lower town. Tho injuncion nlfects only that part of tho work that deals with the prop erty which the church claims to own. Tho rosfobf the work is proceeding as usual but tho injunction will delay ' the sluicing of the hill nnd tho filling in of tide flats below which it was pro posed to fill witli the material taken from the hill. At tho meeting of the city council last Wednesday evening tho petition of property owners for the improve ment was taken up nnd tho city fath ers formally voted to take up tho work, tho street to bo macadamized or balastcd as the interested property owners may decide. On this score a citizen of the city rises to suggest that tho Oregon avenue paving bo turned down this 'street as' a'ino"ahs of doing away with tho dispute with the church. This could be done, us ing the street as it is now r.nd the grade would be considerably less than the new grade would be. Costello Is Defeated Contrary to the expectations of many Wilson triumphed over Costel lo, the Belgian Tiger in tho match bo fore the Bandon Athletic club last Saturday night. And it wns an easy victory or rather ono quickly decided. Two straight falls went to Wilson tho first in 24 minutes on a head scis sors and the second in 17 minutes with nn arm scissors. Costello forced Wilson for tho first fall but was com pelled to yield to Wilson's activity. Many of tho fans wanted Costello to win on his weight and were inclined to believe that he laid down but he himself admits that he met a man who was bettor than he was and whom he was not active enouirh to handle. Costello will leave with the next boat for Frisco and it is barely pos sible that tho incoming boat will car ry Chris Thcopolis to wrestle with Wilson. Thcopolis is n good man und will come if he can spare the timo from his theatrical engagements. He ap pears regularly on the stcco ns a strong man. Thcopolis downed "Ajax on two separate occasions. Once two falls in 10 minutes nnd again two falls in nine minutes. Chester Hoskins actd as referee. last Saturday night and as a prelim inary Dutch nnd Murtin entertained the crowd for half nn hour. Smili ig Dutch was at North Bend today to try and arrange a wrestling match for tho bridgo carnival. Senator Harry Lane and party of. Portland slipped quietly into town last Saturday night, arriving at about sev en o'clock und stopping at tho Gul lier ovor night, wore off for the Rogue river country in tho morning. They made their ontranco nnd exit so qulttly thut none of tho local pn. itnns knew of tho visit until it was a thing of tho past. With tho party wero the senator, Mrs, lam, Mlno Harriet luw, Marjory Initio und Ixnili Hnell. A part of the oniiimi'iitiilloii of the li. fi. building will bo (wo plutw I;! (lie PluiiiM ilmlgiiml fur (hum wt lui li ut Ibu building, oM ii tint rllthl uud Die other on tit loft lil i (h. WHJ IM wi Willi! malitdnu (hn leiu,. li. JL A nmUo 'Ifciu will aim m IMW miBim in Usui