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Historical Society Oregon City HU THE BANDON RECORDER Us.iv-j LF BANDON, OREGON. FEBRUARY 29, 1916 NUMBER 9 PLUME XXXII ? 1 JOSS CURRENT CATCHES FIFIELD m Schooner Breaks Bottom on Jetty Rocks And Goes on Beach Tim twin seicw steam schooner Fi Id was wrecked off tho Bandon bar the mouth of the Coquille river at !i0 this morning, the odd day of this Ip year, Feb. ti'Jtli, and excepting r machinery and u few minor arti a of freight, appears to be a total The Filield arrived during the prc- ua evening and the Urooklyu came j in the morning. The Brooklyn omptly steamed down close to the jr and dooming the prospects good though it iitlll lacked two hours of gh tide, boldly made a clash for Indon. She found the current from iinrih miirli HtrmiL'er than (in- .tt l.l Tl... ltrnklvn Qlinnrf'd ROIlle the south but still found plenty of iter and passed through in safety. (The Filield witched the proceeding id its cantain made up his mind to Ki.7 ., . ... ... Ill low suit. The iirooniyn ueu up m lir dock at 11::J0. At C:00 the Klihyam ltd steam up and was preparing to out to thu rescue. It 'Jut it was Jill dark. Seeing the Brooklyn 'ime In the ou plain of the Klihyam, Hm iliincrur of the situation, jade up his mind to go out anTi steer '. ! .. II.., Lit... l.mC M'tin 10 r ilium in. nut inu H.I.H--1 ....v )reudy umlor way and before the 'icr had reached the open sea the ' ig lliat was already in the firut lino of icakcrs. The Fifield is Hatter bottom Ij and has not as sharp a keel io Ilrooklyn and does not answer the J.dder as readily. When she got in Lo course of tho current from the arth she was not far enough over gad her stern was born steadily clown I tho rocks of the jetty. The current If ted her off and pushed her to tho IJiuth and then the breakers sent the Ivnomed boat back on the rocks, fly '.ids time tho boat was helpless and itternately beating ad drifting she klowly camt) around to the south of flie jetty and drifted bow first on the .ich, a fow rods to tho north of I'vhore the Randolph was wrecked. j In the mean timo her four sharp Must of appeal for holp had roused iore than one Bundonite and there .Vaa a general rush for the beach, j Tho tug was not able to get a line 'board. Tho rising wind kept tho surf , 'n a dangerous mood and approach- r'ng closet ho Klihyam herself was in lauircr of going on the rocks and with li irew. i The Fifield laid with aer bow to the jjnrth east slowly settling in tho sand Tho life savers hud promptly res- I I I I "".......I.. IU..n.. ...wl l.io Ifi'lOnUCCl HUH l.tlutlll tJuiiuauii Mini ii. I !.... firvirn.l tli.iir iriin mill Ktint n HlU j.iiuii "fch"' t - i icross to tho wreck. One by one tho passengers were carried over In tho brooches buoy and rtho antics of some of the passengers Ihloft over tho seething water was 'iiiiui of the diversions of the procoedini: for the spectators who had gathered n numbers along the beach walk and Lit tho sand. Then the crew was taken Julf and us it was seen there was some Stability to the wreck all of the mov- j able and light nrticles of valuo were taken off. The cargo of the vessel consisted of 30 or 40 tons of hay consigned to the IV Ilandon warehouse. This was unin 'sured and will be a total loss as the salt water will spoil tho hay tor use in feeding. Tho amount of insurance tho ves sel carried could not be learned today and in fact it was not definitely known hero that the vessel was insured at ell. Tho probability is that she has tinplo insurance and word is being u waited from tho underwriters before (jand attempt is inane to save ner nut kliinery. ffl Unless tho weather gets unusually I- . . t i .1. . lad tho maciunery can no saveu as me Low of tho lioat U well on the land ut low tide. The pasenger lint was S. E. Jouos, S M. Wclngnrteii and J. W. Knopf. t Thi Unit was In rharare of Captain fj llAnwn, It being III third trip. It wan lit ihu flmt one that a scuiiwn hud hid D huiul binKi'K when the wheel got away " fiom him going over the bur. Thu rnw iuiiul'il of '11 nutib Tlx rlpt(hfll wus built t NoIll llcmd tu H)H far lite A. I. IfcUibiwl deck boat, gross tonnage G34; net 440 and length 173.C feet; beam 39 feet; depth 12.1 feet; horse power 475; home port San Francisco, ofllciul num ber 205,438 and signal number KWQI Her lumber capacity was 750 thous and feet. She had previously been owned and operated by the A. F. Ks tubrook Company but the control of that company had recently been taken over by other interests and was pass ing over to a new organization to be known as the Fife-Wilson Lumlier Co. of San Francisco. The Fifield carried principally hay and grain to Handon and vicinity from Snn Fruncisco and in hauling railroad ties, piling nnd poles from this vi cinity to San Francisco, the loss in a general way will bo felt by tho com munity at large as well as by the ownem of the vessel. Tho only man injured in the wreck was W. M. Kay of this city, an elder ly gentleman of 04 who was among tho spectators. An overbalanced log rolled on his leg breaking that mem ber while he was seeking for a vantage place from which to see tho sights. Captain Swenson of the Hrooklyn said the northwester canio up about when that boat was off Chetco and he did not think it had blowed long enough to make so swift a current as wus afterward found to bo the case. It is the current to which Captain link man attribuates the loss of the Fifield. HAS mtOKUN ANKLH Charles W. Ashton had the misfor tune to break his ankle yesterday by having the rear wheel of Goorgo Laf faws one seated automobile run over it. The incident occured just nfter noon when Mr. Laffaw was coming down to town from his homo on Ore gon Avenue, and at tho foot of the hill, on what is most usually known as tho County Wagon road fcading up tho hill from tho old Gloss corner to tho Catholic Church property. Ashton had beon standing on the run ning board or fender on one side of the enr nnd Dr. Mann on the other, and the machino was coasting down hill. Just at the foot of the hill Laffaw who was driving applied tho power just as Ashton was starting to got off, and tho machine iad a tendency U-. tako an imm.ciiia.ie jump forward, ano Ashton instead of jumping off and lotiing holds go, hung on to the car with one hand and lost his balance with tho now spurt of speed and one foot went under the wheel witli the result that one bono was broken and the other badly fractured. He was immediately taken to the hospital. Tit KA HOLD HUYS A CAIt Al. Garfield reports that yosterday he sold a Studebaker Four, 40 11. P. 1017 model to G. T. Trendgold. Tho car will arrive on the next Kilburn and Mr. Garfield and Mr. Trcndgogld will go to Marshfield to receive it, and on the return homo Trendgold expects to learn all about how to run it. Only 1U hours before the sale -Troadgold had his mind set to buy a car of an entirely different make, but Al go', there first. Andrew Jackson Sherwood of Co quillc ame down to Ilandon last Fri day ou the first boat, emerging out of the co!d fog they have up there this time of year, and landed in an atmos phere of warm kilmy crystal clear spring day, where everybody wis standing around sunning themselves, tnd as he trudged tho street with heavy overcoat, umbrella. md rubbers on, ho seemed decidedly out of tunc with the season. Ho stumbled onto a couple cf HauJon legal-itcc, and said well you don't have as much fog ns wo do, if I had known the weather was so calm down hero I would have come down in my launch. He said he came down to get Stove Gallicr to prove a will which Steve had witnessed about 40 years ngo. Leave it to Sherwood to run down nnciont history, (with all apologies to Steve.) The itheo.ieniakers and dairymen' fuuodiition from the novornl towim of Coon and Curry count ion met in It. in don hut Thuraday to nrnlco into dim big MiMrlfttlnn with a view to ttNiulurtllting the quality of vw nuiiiufuciui! Mid luvu tlw rtuH In PttMl by ut authority, vimllur tu the plNii mw folUwiHl jH Tltminiwk nouiity. All dttWM iMm(Lnm 111111 Willi) up In (ho IttwUltl U w rtilttUI Ui ttw O. H, of Hm ... tfui y k tg ADVANCE AGENTS FOR THE S. P. CO. John M. Scott Leads a Tarty oi lo Bandon Thursday Visitors Bandon entertained some disting uished railroad visitors last week. John M. Scott general passenger agen and J. A. Ormandy chief clerk of tho passenger department of the Southern Pacific and both of Port land, F. W. Miller, local agent at Marshfield, and Addison Bennett, social staff writer of tho Portland Oregonian. They registered at the Chandler Hotel in Marshfield as the first arri vals at Coos Hay by rail. They came by rail all the way excepting only five miles on which no rails had been laid, between the Umpcpia and the Siuslnw rivers. The remaining por tion of the road is connected and work trains are running ov:r it, and a special trip was made for the bene fit of these officials over the com pleted portions of tho road. They are gathering data nr.d information which is essential for the passenger department to have on hanJs ns soon as passenger service is installed on this line. Mr. Scott said to tho Re corder, you can leave Marshfield a bout 8:30 in tho morning and be in Portland at five o'clock of the snme Jay. Mr. Miller added, yes and for half of tho old price. The rate ns now scheduled we understand is $8. (!0, and service will most likely be in stalled in April. The company con tempates a day light service, until some timo in the future when the road bed is older and more substan tial than at piesent. The delegation vi.uted the different towns of the county, called on all the business men Hint could be found left their cards, md left town as suddenly as they came. A banquet was given mem ai Marshfield, and n smoker was plann ed, but was cancelled owing to the fact that Mr. Scott was suddenly and unexpectedly called on business from here to San Francisco. Mr. Scott made no statement as o the extension of the line from Coos I! ay south except to state that it Md some timo surely be built. Tho prospect well of the West Shore Oil company at the head of Floras creek, 18 miles south east of Bandon md which is down to a depth of prac tit-ally 1500 foot, has developed an int eresting situation. After casing off jalt water at different levels, passing through shales and gumbo, and, lastly JO feet of hard limestone, tho tools juddonly plunged into loose, dry, shifting sand. Kncont investigation of tho well shows that this sand has been t'oiced up into tho well from below for a distance of more than one hund red feet. The amount of casing required will weigh approximately 17 tons, and the location of the well requires tho hauling over some of the worst roads and least improved in Curry county, oeing over a portion of tho I-mglois-Myrtle Point wagon road, and over nn elevation of nearly 1500 feet. The company plans to resume operations when the conditions of the road will permit and to find what is underneath that heaving sand. At a recent annual stockholder's meeting the following directors were elected for tho ensuing year. O. A. Trowbridge, A. McNair, E. M. Gallier, W. H. Button and E Dyer, all of Bandon and Frank Layton of Eureka, Cal. a C. It. HAItltOWS TO LKCTURK Attorney C. It. Barrows of Coquille who was a member of the 11)15 State Legislature, from Coos County will give an nddross in Bandon under the auspices of and at tho request of the Bandon Mothoifs Study Club. Tho addroaa will be of particular interest to mothers and others who are inter entod III child wolf are, and will touch upon ome fwilimm of tho doings of tho State' l.ogUlative action and ul- io ihort coining along tluwt) line, hihI uliHt thv plnn of wmk row umlur wny by the woin.m of (he xtitu who urn iitNkiug pliirui fur eoiuwrnml no thiH far child wtilfum. TU uddiwM lt wivM m (U I'mbyuirlan hurfllu tm I'ruHkJiH AvoMti m I'll day Ifrwilng Mgfwh Sid, ( djflil rilMk. AM mw wNg wgai bf lb Htilw'i pmr Otab te BiJiWi; WIN AND LOSE AT COOS BAY Bandon Basket Ball Players Appear al North Bend And Marshfield Bandon won one game and lost one when the basket ball boys made their trip to the Bay last Friday and Satur day. At Marshfield the game was play ed in the afternoon, with the air in the hall nt a temperature of nbout 00 degrees and the home team won 35 to . Coach Quigley's boys came back, however and on the following night defeated North Bend 37 to 11. The first game was lost through the inability of Bandon to connect with tho basket. In every other department of tho game they outclassed their op ponents. Burrows, Marshfield's for ward, made "5 of the total points an nexed by the team. His work was pret ty. The Bandon boys kept him well rovered but he was able to make baskets from seemingly impossible positions. At North Bend the game was rough but tho locals played rings around the cellar champions and at no time was there any doubt as to the finnl out come of the game. Tho results of these games and the defent which Myrtle Point chalked up ngainst Coquille Friday night, tie Bandon and Coquille for second place in tho league with the teams to moot here in the deciding contest Friday night. o Bandon and GJquille will tie up for the championship of the Coquille Val ley in the final game of the season at Dreamland Friday evening. Incul entally tho game will settle tho fight for second place in the County League That Bandon will come out of the contest" wKh tholong end of the score seems to be the general concensus ?: opinion for though they lost to the county seat five on the up-river floo." their Marshfield work two weeks ago gives them the edge over Coquille in speed, team-work and passing. With Oerding out of tho gamo with an in jured shoulder, the visitors will he minus their best basket shot and the radical difference between their home floor nnd the local playing surface will place them ut a disadvantage. So far the two teams have each been beaten twice by Coach Niles' cham pions and have each won from Myrtle Point With its present line-up Ban don will outweight the visitors. The probablo lino-up will bo Gallier, cent er, Leslie Pullen and Armstrong for ards; Webb and Johnson, guards; Geo. Oerding and II. K. Boak are tho mei. who will most likely officiate. This trame will close tho bask.pt ball season so far as the local school is concerned and basketball and track athletics will occupy tho attention of the students. Due to the limited number of boys in the school, liase ball has never entered into tho county league sports, but this year Coach Quigley hopes to turn out a team and will make an effort to schedule con tests with other high schools in th county. WOODItOW WILSON PE TITIONS IN BANDON Primary nominating petitions for Woodrow Wilson for Democratic no minee for President arc in Bandon, forsig nature. Petitions for Nortli East Bandon, No. 40 and South Ea3t No. 47 aro in tho hands of Will L. Mast- Petitions for Nortli West Ban don precinct No. 45 is in the hands of Chris Rasmussen, and South West Bandon No. 41 is in tho hrnds of C. R. Wndo. All who sign are appearing voluntarily, none be ir.g solicited. A considerable number of cnthuiinsta have already hunted up the petitions and ai"ncd. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Archie II. Ro sa last Saturday morning at 8:30 A. M. a daughter. Mothar nnd bubo are doing nicely, thank you. Mm. Itotm was formerly Kthur Solve, and Ar- I chia iippeuiH NMireoly more elated . i . .i... . i i i.. .i over in new urnvtu iiuin gi-unu win, the Col. Itiwi. If the loyi mill gut Aithit nut ut lw I'ml OH'ism. whoro h fi umployiMl, lung MttHigli lu tftd I in tip (own, bit will h iixptwlnl l buy m at Jiuura. A V MiiUr i lutiul tadr fww P vtail v( H vkwk li I'tH-Uttud. PUBLIC SPEAKING, PKOGUAM IN HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM The members of the Public Speak ing Class gave a most delightful pro gram in the High School Auditorium, Tuesday, Feb. 29th at eleven o'clock Each number was a success, showing careful, earnest preparation, both on the part of teacher and pupil. The debate was possibly the great est attraction of-the hour, each girl handling the subject .logically, skill fully and with no mean wit.. The judges were Mrs. W. S. Smith, rof. Quigley and Prof. Turnbull. The decision stood two to one in favor of "When it came to the farce all did very well, indeed, imicji cnaracier was well sustained but the laurel wreath would certainly be handled over to George Chatburn. Wo would not be nt all surprised if George were still laughing. Grace Gibson made a fine chorewonian, while Haiold Johnson called trains ns glibly as though he had lived in Chicago all his life. In short the entire program show ed that these young people are getting what they need the ability to appear bcfoie the public in an easy, graceful way, and to present clearly and well what they have to say. The program follows: Heading Little' Brown Baby- Florence Iteese. Public Speaking ' Drill Mildred Langley, director; Mary Thornton. Ituth Barrows, Edith Sumner, Katie Sumner, Kntie Conrad. Bending C Liquita Helen Fish Debate Kesolved: that the Single Session in the High School bo Abol ished" Ailirmative: Veralrvine, Mary Hab erly; Negative Alice Gallier, Gall Boak Heading Mr. Bowser Flora PhiJ pott Piano solo; Alta Hansen, Farce The Albany Depot air. Itoberts, Eugeno ScofieW Mrs. Itoberts Rose Lcibbrand "Willis George Chatburn Amy, his wife Alta Hansen Mr. Mcllhency Errol McNnir Mrs. Mcllhency Jessie Bcllo .Chore Woman, Grace Gibso-i Train Callor Harold Johnson News Boy Hay Henry The Cook Forest Mathenj BROWN GOES TO ALASKA Dan Brown who has been living in Bandon for several months has caught thu Alaska fever, ad has returned to tlie field of his former operations there, near Hot Springs, on the Yu on river a short distance from Fair hanks, and will engage in placer min ing. He has left Ins family in iianuou 1 ;ovcver, and during his absence, they rill occupy tho E. C. Endicott resi chiiiee on Tenth Street in Azalea Park fir. Endicott, who was one of tho pro pnotors of tho Bungalow Grocery on Oregon Avenue has accepted a posi tion with tho Booth-Kelly Lumber Company at the town of Wendling xi'ar Eugene, and will also havi' charge of tho post office there. lie f.Jias been gone from here for several weeks, and Mrs. Endicott and children leave Bandon March first for, Myrtle Point where she will visit with her parents for several days before going on to join her husband. Deputy Sheriff Iiird came home on Ihe Kilburn Inst Sunday from Port land, where ho went to get II. J. Paul sen for passing a bod check at Bandon Paulson furnished a lond for $500 for his npiHUirancc before Uio grand jury n April and was discharged from custody. Mr. Paulson's bond has been re ceivod in Bandon and filed and the time for his nppearace will be set a day or so Injforo the next session of the Coos County Grand Jury. With this issue of the Recorder we publish the political announcement of John II. Shields an candidate for sheriff of Coos county. We hnvo liv ed here for practically ton years, and ho Iiiim beon hero longer than wo havo wo can't say Jmt how long, but when wo flrt arrived ho improved us as a Bandon citixon of- ome coiwtquonco in nn much n he wan one of tho city iImU. and prominent ImwIiiww man. liver mhm lhat time w have beon nriikdjully linprtwMtd with lit parti mlar huuhwiry I" inM M UWH hud mm. If 14 U ua MMcttMfel In Mi ulJtpiir W m to Id prWu liv 4 It ii ruev whw It vvr, STATE ENGINEER TALKS ON ROADS Talks to Commercial Club in Company With R. B Murdock County Roadmaster At a special meeting of tho Com mercial Club last night there wore present, among others, Assistant State Engineer Cantine, and R. B. Murdock, roadmaster of Coos county. The meeting was interesting Mrl Can-? tine revised, to some extent, the ideayi of local road builders, saying thutM bonds should only be issued for such work as can be called permanent and temporary and ipair work should be paid for by direct tax levies. Under permanent work ho included acquiring rights of way, survey anil excavations (not tills) and only such bridge and culvert work ns are of concrete, iron or other permanent n.-ttorial. All oth er work, including hard surfacing, is temporary and repair work and each district should have its own way, re gardless of uny other district in tho county, whether it wants concrete, rock, gravel or plank and pay its own bill. He assured us that without doubt, the state would adopt such roads, up and down tho const from Astoria to tho California lino as were suitable for a trunk line, and supple ment the work already done by the county. He. stated that such a road would probably be District No. 4, the Pacific highway, tho Columbia highway nnd a road through central Oregon, being listricts number 1, 2 and 3 respective ly, and urged tho people of Coos coun ty to build roads with a view to mak ing them acceptable to the state later on; the work of the county nnd state, thereby supplementing each other. Tho idea seems to bo gaining ground that tho count road should bo called s. tho Balboa Highway. DEATH AND FUNERAL OF MRS. L. P. SORItENSEN On last Thursday night nt 11 o' clock occured the death of Mrs. L. IV Sorrcnsen, tho wife of Dr. L. P. Sor renson, after a long protracted ill ness. She had lived tho greater por tion of hor life in Bandop, nnd near ly all of her life in Coos county. She was formerly Mnudo Garfield and had an exceptionally largo circle of friends Besides her husband she is survived, by Lester Garfield a son of seven and Evalyn a daughter of less than two years, her mother, Mrs. L. J. Rcdley, a brother Albert Garfield, and hor Grandmother Mrs Fanny E. Dyer, all living in Bandon. Tho death occas sional sorrow, and tho business hous es were generally closed on Saturday afternoon to permit the many friends to attend the funeral services which were held at tho family residence on Garfield Avenue, at 2 o'clock and in terment was held immediately after wards at the old cemetry. V O It It UP It US ENTATI V E John C. Kendall of Marshfield was a Bandon visitor last Friday and Sa turday looking after business matters. John has had tho political bee buzzing around his head for some time, nnd when we took him to one side and quizzed him about this secret aspira tion, he openly and frankly 'fessed up and admitted that ho is disturbed somewhat by political aspiratioiiG, and. that he had definitely concluded to bo a candidate at the coming prinmry election for tho Republican nomina tion for Representative from Coos county to the State Legislatuie. Mr, Kendall has beon a resident of Cool county for six or eight yon-e, ami i a member of the law firm of Gom Kendall and Murphy of Marshfiold, and it quitn a mixor and a a result )ir mudf numerous friondo. It is rumored thnt Robert O. Graves and also Arthur K. Pock lnith utioii.eys of Marshfield are aspiring for U M..mo office, and all hotut; Republi cans, tho situstion promises a v..mi contest at the primaries. No Demo crat 1ms volunteered uo far to nuiluj the race iia-aliist the winner of the trio, John says he Is going Into the Ticbt tu win, that if it is worth Iwvii.g, It is worOi fighting fur. We of Uio IlooenJur, kuow ull flf Umnn ponwiwliy, cpilu wM, h'mI ibjfr rs all tfiMtd Uyt, rmi qualified Kfi mvr ut tlu.t MttUaiii filth w. agj wsu-fc a a dilnlm4d u iuukut MsJ g t U iys, yvu nil irtighl )f gtb 1 i