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About The Bandon recorder. (Bandon, Or.) 1915-19?? | View Entire Issue (Nov. 23, 1915)
4iHll-lii4Hl i Seeds! Seeds! All Kinds of Seeds! Timothy, Alfalfa, Red Clover, Alsike, Orchard Grass, White Clover, Red Top, Bermuda Grass, Oats, Barley, Vetch CENTRAL FEED COMPANY i SERVICE FIRST! Did you ever try to figure out how much your telephone was worth to you? Iviich time you place :i call and t-ach time you answer the hell, just reduce todollarH and centH the value in convenience ami comfort and saving of lime and money which the telephone is to you. Then add thee values at the end of the month and you will have a sum much greater ian the cost of our service.. .It may be twice as great or a hundred limes as great. This is your dividend of service. You may increase it at your pleasure by using the telephone mure. Coos and Curry Telephone Co. M"H4,4MM-H"!- -H-4-M"M"K,-l,K' BANDON TRANSFER CO. Gatchell Brothers. Props. AH kinds of heavy and Unlit draying. Phone orders t i i a .... I?:..,. t. T given prom pi nilCIUHlIl. . Jiiiu umhui rusi tx. uur $ son, Fish Property. . telephone oil. Pioneer Experiences of Southwest Oregon Continued from lnstywcck. The. citpUtin was nt the custom house nt its opening, and that morning Col lator Colier was superceded by T. Liutlcr King. Mr. Colior stated to the iiptain that Lieutenant Smih hen in I'onimnnd oi' the military department t the Pacific, had sent May Sewcl, U. r. A. three t;imes fori h!im to take li in prisoner for the abduction of Li eutenant and one soldier. The captain i.,(pjircd where the Lieutenant could 1 5 found, that if he desired him he ould wait for him. The Collector t iked the Captain what ho wanted there anil he replied that ho wished t'o anchor his vessel. 8he Collector with a smile asked him for his papers ho knowing the vessel's papers had been detained by the Collector at As toria. Tho answer was, "I presume then said: Sir you may enter your your vessel; make out your manifest. Your register was left in this ofilee; you sailed with u certificate only, and furthermore, hud you killed all of them in the boat that attempted to board you in tho Columbia liver no law would liavo condemned you, and further I advised May Sewel to keep his hands clear of you if ho wished to avoid seri ous trouble to himself and you, dipt. Tic-honor, are tho first ship master who has known his rights and dared Doing Their Duty Scores of Haiulon Renders are learn ing the Duty of The Kidneys To tilter the blood is the kidneys' duty, When they fail to do this, the kid neys are weak. Itackitche and other kidney ills may follow. Help the kidneys do their work. Use Doan'a Kidney I'llls the test ed kidney remedy. I'roof of their woith is the follow ing! G. W Kerartee, carpenter and con tractor, 102 N Flint St., Itosel.uig, Oregon, nay: "I still have lonllileh.e In Poan'n Kidney Pill. I have had iio Mfrlou kidney complaint for u long time, thunkw to thin nimlirini II. -w r-rr I have luknn Doiiii'k Kidney I'iII fur a uliglit 1 1 mi Id e with my l.lsddw tiltd have hud Hip uiiw line iw.wli I I - lleve Hid)' am Hie Ut u( all kidiu-y mid bladder inwIlrlHu l' . i Lilt , m uU limit httu'i IH. My k Ar u bltii&y trntdt )vi hulmty PHk -ik mm iUu l)r hi tin iw kgjj, j Utkm- maitain them against such apparent odds." A circumstance illustrative of the difficulties to be encountered by ship masters in 1S51 and '5'J was the im puteut pretentions of the Doctor of the port, an individual created by the corrupt city olliciuls of Sai Francisco who with "Ins l'oat witli yellow flag flying at the stern, boarded all and every vessel, both coast, river and foreign, ordering their signals of sick ness to be displayed, indicating sick ness and quarantine, and exactig a fee of ten dollars from every passeng er before a permission could be ob tained to go ashore. The first to op pose this system of robbery was Capt. richenor of the "Kmily Furnham" on his arrival from the Columbia river, and Humboldt bay. In the morning after entering the vessel while getting ready to proceed up to the city to moor tho vessel for discharging her cargo, ordering the Captain to set his ensign in the main rigging, and that he wished a line, desiring to go on board. The Cap tain informed him that no ensign would be placed in the rigging, ami furthermore, if he came on board he would he thrown overboard. This, of course, caused quite an excitement when the news spread through the fleet and on shore as an issue was then forced upon the usurping olllcial. A meeting was called at Delmonicos, and full attendance was given, Collec tor Colier and T. llutler King among the rest. The former addressed the meeting and stated that the styled Doc tor of the Port had made a demand of him as collector to turn over to him New Stock o f Hardware Just in See our display in ROYAL HOLLAND BLUE GRANITE WARE Acid Proof A fiu'ral line of SHELF HARDWARE See us before you buy Starr-Mast Hardware Company IIhmi 37 J jlilllllDII (the doctor) "hospiUl dues' funds held sacred by th,e Government for the support and care of seamen. He de nounced in the strongest terms the during outrage and advised shipmast ers to maintain their rights as the Emily Farnham had done. The brig being moored, Capt. Ticher.or gave up command which he hed really Uken through friendship to the owners. In one week the command of the steamer Sea Gull was offered him. which he accepted March 1851. She was a vessel of over four hundred tons, strongly built, with suflicient power, but wrongly applied. She was immediately put upon the route of the Columbia, river and inlermedi ate ports. Freight was then from sixty to eighty dollars psr ton and pas sage to Portland eighty. Coal worth sixty, and during that year not less than forty dollars per ton. Seaman's wages per month from sixty to one hundred dollars. The Sea Gull made her regular trips. Captain Tichenor received his appointment as a Pilot of the Columbia br.r and river in April from Governor Gains then Governor of Oregon and authorized by the ter ritorial government to grant such privileges. Captain Tichenor's was the second ever issued up to that time. Captain White being the first. When the weather permitted, in every pas sage of the Sea Gull the coast line was carefully examined. Sunken rocks, reefs shoals, and currents and every peculiarity noted for future reference. The la3t of May was chosen ac a pro per time to commence a settlement at the long determined point, Port Or ford named after the Cape seven mil es to the north of the Roadstead. Nine men were engaged by Captain Tich enor, a good supply of arms nmuniti ou and provisions, secured and upon the down passage of the Sea Gull on June 9th, a landing was made. All supplies together with the ships gun and Copper Magazine, placed upon n rock, since named Battle Rock, the gun commanding the access. The men were to have their number augmented in twelve days on the return of the steamer. Upon arriving at San Fran cisco it was found necessary to repair and paint the ship. Captain Knight of the P. M. Co., kindly offered to take up the recruits and additional supplies tne Captain to accompany the P. M. C. ship Columbia, Captain Leroy, com manding Captain was to take her in to Humboldt through the channels in side the different reefs on the coast and return in the ship nt which time his own would ba ready. The Colum bia than entered Humboldt Ray for the first time, passed through all the reefs erered Port Orford in the morning ird saw a number of canoes paddling for dear life to the southward. The ship fired her gun to let the men left moment the gun was fired every Indi an in the canoe plunged overboard, giving evidence there by that some thing was wrong. Coming to an an chor a boat was lowered and then pul led nshore and immediately at tho base of the rock at the point of ascent lay a dead Indian. The indications were anything but flattering for the safety of the men left by the Sea Gull. A search was at once instituted fragments of a diary were found scat tered around embracing every circ umstance nil the attacks up to the previous. The carriage of the gun vas broken up, the magazine gone, the two tents, also hard bread and pork scattered around, and desertion presented itself everywhere. After dilligent search with no clew to solve the disappearance. The men return ed to the ship and proceeded upon the voyage, returning to San Francisco on July 1, 1851. The Sea Gull ready to take in cargo, the report of the sup posed death of the nine men, caused much fcoling. There was but little difficulty in raising volunteers, cost ing them nothing as the city at that lime was thronged with many idlers many desi'.uto nnd willing to go any where so long as their wants were supplied. Many were despcinte bad men which fact could only bo ascer tained by a trial. Passed tho Fourth in San Francisco, sailed on the Sth, cal led at Humboldt reached Port Orford on the 1 1th of July 1851, with sixty seven men under the commsnd of Jns. S. Gamble with brass six pound guns and two with swivels of the sanu caliber with moat approved arms obtainable at that time in the city, provimoim. clothing and everything j necessary for four moiihs. At Hum boldt, Mr. Nolan joined the expedition 1 Fort Point was picketed in immediate 1 ly, two block houses erected inside of J heavy Ions and everything done for a permanent settlement. Tint ship pro levelled upon her voyage to Portland at whlidi plucti the Captain jiurehiiwd U ImrwMl, Mill W1HU, ttNgUKttd u Mr. TovHlt win) bud Imui rucwiniiMwd i..g highly i him by Ijttut. Phil. Kir !.. mImi Um1 Imwn u Miiutti tml tt( iU i ptftiN in K. J. IU Um tiU4 ku tmUiltfUm fttui Mill uU . iMiiMwM I'tmm'i hiUm at Uiv nut. I'?, lt Uuvm Innw BpmUml fit Hawytf iimmi 4 wmgm, ittj mi njm ai kf tkv ity ed upon her return passage. On ar riving at Port Orford, it was found necessary to send fourteen of tho most desperate and insubordinate of the men back to the city which was accor dingly done. . During the absence of the steamer the defences were well ad vanced towards completion. Tho hors es were all tended safely, and being now relieved of the turbulent clement of the camp, the prospect was flatter ing for a good settlement. Tiie Indi ans had begun to come in and evincing a desirj to trade and be friendly. 3 of the original nine men had lieen heard from at Portland, so the Captain had been informed, and that all had considered reliable, nil wished it to be true. The steamer made her regular trips which brought her at Portland, the last of August and on the 2!)th of .that month, leaving Porland with Doe tor Anson Dart Superintendent of In dian airuirs, together with Doctor Spaulding, a missionary in the massa cre of Walla Walla, also Mr. Parish, many years a resident of Salem, he being a missionary of the M. E. church the two latter being interpenters hav ing long resided in an Indian country. They had with them two Indians who had been captured when boys and were supposed to be from tho vicinity of Port Orford, being taken down as in terpreters.. At Astoria the steamer took on board Lieutenant Whymsn of tho Artillery, eleven men, two mules, one Mountain Howitzer, and supplies for all ordered there by Lieutenant Hitchcock who had superseded Lieut. P. Smith, commanding the Division of the Pacific, arrived at Port Orford on the 3rd day of September. A party under Tevalt had been sent with the horses to view out and cut a trail from Port Orford, connecting with the Oregon trail, another under Nolan for a similar purpose. The lat ter had been instructed by Capt. Tich enor to ascend to the summit of the Sugar Loaf Peak on the southeast of the Roadstead believing that to be the terminus of the great dividing range of mountains leading to the far inter ior, which lias since proven to be such. The party did not follow tho advice and consequently wandered through the gulches, under brush and jungles. After 7 days of hard labor, reached Port Orford, coming in from the north and to palliate their gross failure, named the Sugar Loaf Mountain, Tichenor's Humbug the circum stances stated, is the true origin of the name of that beautiful land mark on tho eastern side of fio bay or Roadstead, one which cannot be mis taken by any navigator bound for that place in its approach from the north west or south. The party under Tevalt had a disas trous and fearful time. Little of moun tniucrs skill was either used or exhi bited in their devious wanderings. Mountain ridges were not followed or regnrded. Immense gorges were plunged into without apparent hesitation. All the animals had to be abandoned or were killed by falling off of cliffs. Their provisions were soon exhausted or abandoned to enable them to travel or wander, for in the following year, Lieutenant Stoneman with his party of explorers, crossed their trail as shown by the cuttings evinced more of insanity than ration ality. They finally reached a point on the South Fork of the Coquille riv er, near which Camp Depot was esta blished the following spring by Com pany C, first Dragoons under Col. A. J. Smith, Lieut. Stanton, Stoneman and Williamson being with them, the latter as engineer. To return to Tevalt and party, Te valt sat down and cried like a child. All but one of his men declared they would abandon him. Cyrus Hcddcn, many years a resident of Scottsburg on the Umpqun river and a man es teemed by all who knew him declared he would die rather than abandon a comrada and by the inline -cc he had over the balance of the party, undoubt edly saved the life of Tevalt. They gathered roots and berries to save life being in a state of starvation, re-, duced greatly by fatigue and mint of j food they made slow progress in fol lowing tho river down, but were de termined to pursue that course to the ocean. Many Indians were hovering around them. Reaching the main river they finally induced an old Indi um) a canoe to app-oach tlum, and by giving him buttons and such like ar ticles as could In spared, engaged the canoe io convey them down the river to it mouth. WIidii at a dintunco of two miles, nome of the pnrty declar ed they should land uud procure some food if the hail to fight for it, while other protected, fwtrful of un en counter with the niiniurou ttivugwi on HI. Uiul Wlliln tllUK dliWUMK, Hi" coimju driftud into ulimil water. The Mtvug Trout tlw lwrw ivlm iutw the vvnUr uip4wg tit mnm awl Uu"c id M, ami Uh flgfci tUtu MUigttmUni. Il wa vry mm tm kimmU, A pw Um u( lit mu ru4n4 tmr lim ahiMw wMr utiuii " atlM at mm. A pmmi Tmii i' tlw i mi mm ut iJruaa1 W0 Hrutk 4ft l a lU aV aVk a . imIJU., lit Jnf add L, .... 1.1... 111. t.. "' Y I BANDON GARAGE CO. r For Your Automobile Troubles Largest Line of Tires and Acessories in the City tt Expert Machinist at your Service FOTER & HENRY, Props. 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The Indian hoy who hud u uixti'd in bringing them down and by nlgiiH wurni'd thorn of the dmivr of Innding. Hi paddlud thu canoo into thu ktraum with Iiriinh jrotrnUd in it. Tuvnlt hud in thu iiittunwhllu truck out to wim thu rivnr. Ho wiu ltekMl ui by tho Imllun hoy uud ear Kith llruih ti) tint uiHMilt) h(iru. Tvult wwd" nil htutt Ut tweMm lu v intf llrtuk, hmJ itwrMwl wuy down lit MNi tut Cmjw IIUjm, Utul in titffat, g m wM biwwN by Mih h' tup umr IW UffenJ. Il rmthmi U Him llmm m mujm rth M Him (mm km, W m mmi ted by tho Indians to pursue his way to tho Fort where ho arrived in u nude nnd Htnrving condition thu second duy after the disiiKter. Ilrush avoided all IndluiiH wounded us hew u, all of hU clothing coimlstlug of the reinnuiitu uf a ulilrt and jmnU which coinliined would not mukti thu half of either gar ment arrived on the third dNy.l'ort Orford Trihuiiu. t Tim IjhIlV Aid u( tlm M. li. lmrcJi will imhkI .viry VdnMUy uflijm!J In (hi jtutlor of llw ahuicU uh oil). rwU iwililtMl, SVmk M(ltiittl, All urn IiiviUmI ( Ik Bandon Recorder JI,M i ! mi w tm t mm m mm-