WESTERN
WHERE PRODUCTIVE SOIL AND TIDE WATER MEET
VOL. VI
PUBLIC HEARING
TUESDAY, FEB. 26
PERMANENT HARBOR LINE IS
TO BE ESTABLISHED BY
THE GOVERNMENT.
WORLD
LUMBERING, MINING, DAIRYING, STOCK RAISING
BANDON, COOS COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1918
L. J. Simpson Comes
Out for Governor
NO. 14
AIRPLANE ROUTE TO GOVERNMENT MAY Marshfield Wins in
GERMAN ARMIES
Hard Fought Game
EUROPE PREDICTED
RUN DOLLAR MILL
OVERRUN RUSSIA
Coos County's Energetic Citizen Is
Tigers Will Play Coquille on Febril-
In the Race to Win—Has
ary 22. and Mapleton High
TRANSiNIRTATION
CONGESTION r. S. OFFICIAL HERE FIRST
SECOND DRAI T DITE H VS NOT
Strong Support.
on February 2Sth.
ACUTE IND SHIPS TIED I P
OF WEEK INVESTIGATING
NET ItEEN SET—NV I L L
BY LACK OF FUEL.
SPRUCE PRODUCTION.
CA Ll. oOO.OOO.
L. J. Simpson of North Bend this
Considerable Change in Harbor Line week made formal statement of his Mrs. D. P. Jenkins Returns From a Dollar Company Miil May Be Force«!
Between Central Warehouse Dock candidacy for governor of the state
\ isit to Her Old Home in South,
to Operate or Government May
and
tlie Moore Mill—Citizens
and a Tour of the East and North
Take It Over—Tluiber May Be
Having Suggestions Should Pre
—Foodstuffs Higli Priced ami tlie
Commandeered—Rumored Influ
sent Them to U. S. Official.
Rigors of War Are Celt.
ent ial Mill Men Hostile to Rivliig.
Establishment of a permanent
pierhead and bulkhead harbor lines
in the local harbor will be made by
the United States government short
ly. To that end an official will be
in Bandon next Tuesday to meet
with citizens of the community and
discuss the line as now proposed. Un
less objections are made which point
to the advantage of a change in the
proposed harbor line at this meet
ing, the line as now surveyed will be
adopted. Under this survey the har
bor line on the south side of the riv
er follows substantially the present
accepted line from the bar to about
the Central Warehouse dock. From
there the line gradually extends out
into the river, adding approximately
L. J. Simpson,.
90 feet to the frontage in the vicin
ity of the Condensery, Standard Oil
Company, and Perry Veneer Co.
docks, and thence on up the river
to the Moore Mill Co. dock. The no of Oregon on the Republican ticket
at the primary election May 17. In
tlce of hearing follows:
speaking of his platform Mr. Simpson
Notice of Hearing
says:
“Sir: Notice is hereby given, that
“I am a Republican and believe
a public hearing will be held at the
Moose Hall, in Bandon, Oregon, at in the principles of that party, and
2:30 p. m., on the 26th day of Feb- above everything I am an American
ruary, 1918, for the purpose of con- and believe in the principles of my
sidering the establishment of per- country. I am not a member of, nor
manent pierheads and bulkhead har- affiliated with any particular faction
bor lines in front of the town of of the party; nor am I pledged to
Bandon. It is proposed to establish support any of the candidates for
the harbor lines as indicated in red cfficc at the coming primary elec
I pledge the people of Ore
on a blue print which can be seen in ion.
the office of the Port of Bandon gon, that, in conducting my cam-
Commissioners or at the Bandon U. taign I will not support any particu-
S. Engineer Office, All those inter lar candidate; that 1 will not promise
ested are invited to be present and appointment to office or political
express their views, All important patronage -to anyone; that if nom-
facts and arguments should be sub- inated and elected I shall enter office
mitted in writing for submission to with neither promise nor pledge to
the Department, for accuracy of rec redeem, except those whicli I give to
ord. Oral evidence, however, will be tho people themselves.
heard.
“GEO. A. ZINN.
"Colonel, Corps of Engineers.”
Marshfield High's quintet Invaded
[peaceful Bandon last Friday night
1 and under a heavy rain barrage slip
: ped thru the Tigers’ front line
trenches, grabbed the biggest piece
of bacon and took it hottie with them
In other words, the heavy team rep
resenting the Coos Bay high school
fought their way to a 9 to 11 victory
over the light team doing battle foi
the local high school. Only a small
crowd witnessed the game, tho' it
was a thriller and hard fought front
whistle to whistle. Marshfield start
ed the scoring when Chapman caged
one from the field after five minutes
of strenuous play.
She was soon
tied and passed however when Had-
sell scored two points from the field
and converted two fouls. Chapman
then converted a foul which ended
the scoring for the first period. Score
at end of first half: Marshfield 3,
Bandon 4.
Both teams came back strong in
the second period,
Bandon drew
first blood and was leading four
minutes before the final whistle.
when Marshfield took a spurt and
field goals by Gregg and Chapman
turned the tide in her favor. Final
score: Marshfield 11, Bandon 9.
Coach Grannis has a strong de-
fensive team with fast, clean passing.
Their grent
offensive team work,
woakness is their shooting, Chap-
man and Gregg did all of Marsh-
field's scoring.
Captain H ad soll
scored seven of Bandon's nine points,
with the other two credited to Bud
Fish. Paul Breuer of Myrtle Point
refereed the game and Harry Me
Nair was umpire.
After the game a local club of
young people entertained the visit
Ing team with a dancing party. Punch
was served and two hours of good
fellow-ship enjoyed.
Coquille will be played on the lo
cal floor on February 22, the last of
the regular interscholastic games to
be played in Bandon. Coquille has
a fast team and a battle royal is al
ways assured when the two old rivals
meet. A boat load of enthusiastic
fane are expected to follow the team
to Bandon.
On February 25, Mapleton High
school will be seen in action on the
local floor. Season tickets ate good
for this game. Mapleton is touring
the Coos county high school circuit
and expect* to take home a scalp
from each stopping place.
Mrs. D. P. Jenkins returned Satur-
The government may either force
day from a tour of the South and the Dollar Company to operate the
East, which included a journey via Johnson mill, or perhaps take over
California and the southern route to the plant and operate it for the dur
her old home in Alabama, thru Geor ation of the war, is the impression
gia, the Carolinas and Virginia to current locally following the investi
Washington, D. C., thence to New gation of the plant by an official of
York City and back via Buffalo and the Spruce Production department
Niagara Falls, thru Springfield and of the IT. S. Signal corps, this week,
Cincinnatti. Ohio, and the states of tithough the official was reticent as
Kentucky and Tennessee to Alabama, to his report concerning the big plant
and thence home via the Union Pa lying idle at Prosper, It was gathered
cific thru Missouri. Kansas, Col that the government does not ap
orado, Utah and Idaho.
prove of equipment so vital in pro
Leaving Bandon, Mrs. Jenkins duction of airplane spruce standing
contemplated but a trip to her old idle in tlie midst of one of the larg
home at Birmingham, Alabama, for est spruce and white cedar areas of
a visit with her mother, Mrs. J. H. tue country. There is much spruce
Evans, her sister, Miss Helen Evans, and cedar that could be sawed into
and with other relatives. However, rough timbers at the Dollar plant
she was persuaded to make the trip tributary to this vicinity, which can
to New York City in company with not be turned to the government's
her mother and sister for a visit with use because local plants now in ope
a brother, Paul E. Evans, a prom ration are working to capacity and
inent broker of the big metropolis. cannot handle this timber. The gov
While there she was a guest of the ernment has under consideration the
Woman's Press Club at the Waldorf- commandeering of all tracts of spruce
Astoria. This club is made up of timber on the coast that are suitable
women writer for newspapers and for airplane timbers, where the own
magazines,
At the banquet she ers are unwilling to sell the timbers
listened to a very interesting speech to the government at the price offer
by Editor G. Douglas Wardrop of ed, it is reported on good authority.
the Aerial Age. who spoke on the In that event, commandeering saw
subject of "Victory by the American mills to cut the logs into rough
Air Route.”
Among other things timbers which would be shipped to
he predicted before the end of the the Columbia river to be resawed in
present year the U. S. would see to smaller pieces, is the logical se
100,000 airplanes, each carrying 20 quence.
Should the mill be operated, the
men and cargo of freight crossing
the Atlantic in 24 hours. He stated civilian labor would be augmented by
the Atlantic would have been crossed use of troops from Camp Lewis or
by airplare before this time had not Vancouver barracks, to insure maxi
tlie war monopolized the airplane. mum production.
Companies Hostile to Riving?
Another interesting talk was by Mrs.
Rumors
from various parts of the
D. C. Seitz on "Patriotism” in which
she pointed out various ways in coast as well as locally. Indicate that
which the rich could aid their colin- rived spruce and cedar is held in dis
repute by some selfish mill owners
try during the war
and superintendents, who according
Mrs. Jenkins, who is i
to rumors, never fail to take advan
server and entertaining
tage of an opportunity to discourage
Friendship Originating U bile Princi tionalist, gives numerous
BOAT UNE FROM PORTLAND
it. Such unpatriotic action at a time
insights
into
conditions
pals were at Parkersburg, Cul
when the government's need is such
Soutli and East. Truout
minates in Romance.
that it can afford to suffer even a
Bring Flour and Feeds to Coos and
during the past three or
considerable waste In order to get
Return Loaded With Coal.
in particular the bollwevil lias be airplane spruce and cedar, is almost
At a quiet wedding at the E H. come a scourge to the cotton plan
Kinley home. Thursday of last week, ters. The wevil attacks the cotton in a class “with lending aid and
Port Commissioner J. E. Norton,
RAI
Miss Elsie Kinley became the wife bolls or pods just before they are comfort to the enemy.”
and prominent Coquille wholesaler,
of
Lieut.
Jas.
B.
Beddingfield,
now-
mature, eating the seuds and fibers.
was in Bandon Monday transacting
COl NCIL HOLDS SESSION
stationed at Camp Lewis. Washing- Hundreds of plantation owners—in
business matters.
First Man to Volunteer from Here
was
performed
ton.
The
ceremony
the
Birmingham
vicinity
—
as
a
result
Mr. Norton recently received a let
Is Making Good in Army ami
of
the
Presby-
by
Rev.
W.
S.
Smith
Carnegie
Library
Pro|>osiUon
Refer
of the lessening of the cotton yields
ter from the Columbia Navigation
Likes tlie Life.
terian
church.
red
to
Library
Boar«!.
have
moved
to
the
industrial
centers
Co., at Portland, stating that they
eldest where they are working in the mills.
is
the
Mrs.
Beddingfield
were Investigating possibilities with
E H. However, the past year lias witnessed
Ray Langlois, local man, who was
City Council held a short session
a view to placing a vessel on the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
gradú widespread planting of peanuts thru last evening, with Councilmen Mc first from this section to enter tIn
Kinley
of
Bandon.
She
is
a
Portland-Coquille River run:
and
when indications
asking that he furnish them with 'ate of Bandon High school, and also out the South and farming is again Nair, Perry. Wade, Rasmussen and American army
data relative to cargo to and from of the Oregon State Normal school at taking on new activity. Tlie peanuts Chatburn; and Recorder Mast, and pointed to the entrance of this
But little country into the great conflict, is sta
this section. Flour and feeds, and Monmouth. For the past two years are treated for the oil contents which other officials: present.
miscellaneous freight would be ths she had been employed as instructor is med in making cooking fats, etc P< sitive actb n was taken. The Car tioned in the Philippine Islands,
while the residue is refined into pea- negie. library proposition was dis where his company wbh sent from
cargo to this section, while coal from in the school at Parkersburg.
Lieut. Beddingfield's home
is nut flour, butter, or hauled back to cussed and tlie matter referred to the Presidio at San Francisco about
the Riverton mines would be car
the Library Board for future ac- two years ago. Ray is making good
ried north. If the company puts on near Springfield. Missouri, he having the farms and fed to livestock.
Petition of E. H. Fish to In the army and likes the work fine,
Hogs arc scarce in the Birming tion.
a boat they will maintain an eight come to this section about two or
although
at times ......
he .........
sort ................
of wishes
—................
day schedule, and may perhaps three years ago to accept principal ham section, the markets in that city store a few ties temporarily on the ___
make Coquille, as well as Bandon, a ship of the Parkersburg school. charging as high as 20c per pound street at Chicago avenue near the 1 he could see old Bandon and his rela
port of call, depending upon condi At the close of school last spring for hog ears and noses, which are city dock was heard. Action will be tivee and friends. It Is a question as
taken today after all councilmen to whether the boys stationed In tlie
tions of the river. They have two he entered a government training eagerly bought by the poor.
have had oppoitunity to investigate Islands will see service in Europe
boats in commission and are build- camp from which he was graduated
Everyone
is
using
war
bread,
and
as second lieutenant. He is now
during the conflict, as transports to
tlie matter.
ing a third.
in
many
sections
persons
are
allow
stationed at Camp [> Lewis, near Ta
carry them to France are not avall-
ed to purchase only 1 pound of sug
coma. at which place the new-
able, and it is also necessary to main
ar
at
a
time.
At
New
York
City
she
will make their home tempo-
tain a largo white garrison In the Far
LEI 1 OVER lyweds
observed that eggs were retailing at
■ rarily.
East. Ray a few days ago received
85 cents per dflUfen; fresh salmon at
The > wedding is the culmination of
the Christmas box sent to hitn from
50
cents
per
pound;
salt
mackerel
at
' nrot*
which began when
Enlisting Decoders Mast an<l Har Bandon, and immediately wrote a
Improvement a pretty romance
28 cents; mllR at 17 cents per pint;
Neucleus
of
Park
both were instructors in tlie Park
few words of ajqireciatlon:
per Report Considerable Inter
I
potatoes at 15 cents per quart < about
Fund Is Created by I .adíes of
est Is Manifest.
ersburg school. The young people
“Fort Mills, P. L, Jan. 15, 1918.
two pounds); butter about the same
Ex-Commercial Club.
have a host of friends in this section
To the People of the City of Bandon:
price
as
here.
Coal
was
scarce,
the
who wish them success and hap
“I wish In some way to show my
daily requirement of about 100,000
Considerable interest Is being dem appreciation to the people of the
Neucleus of a fund which may in a piness along the pathway of life. tons, being contracted to fit the sup
onstrated in the U. 8. Public Service City for the Xmas box which was re
An amusing incident in which Mr.
few years from various accreations
ply of about 20,000 ton per day. and Shipbuilders reserve.
Re celved with some surpri.qe, as there
become a power of good in the beau Beddingfield and bride participated, On account of the surplus food on the
corders J. W. Mast of Bandon and wasn't a one of the other boys In the
is
told
by
the
Marshfield
Times
the
tification of City Park, was formed
East coast being sent to Europe, and 8. D. Harper of the Prosper district
last week by a donation from mem day following the stop in that city the tie up in transportation, there is state that they expect an Increased company who received any remem
“
Last
night
when
brance box or Xmas gift from their
bers of the now defunct Ladies' Com enroute north:
some talk of issuing food cards.
e: llstment tomorrow and Saturday home city.
young
couple
arrived
here
from
the
mercial Club.
It is explained in the
“It is certainly nice to know you
the south, Lieut. Beddingfield, fall I Transportation congestion was ap v hlch is the last day.
following communication
parent on every hand along the Vt-
The following is the list of those are remembered by the people when
' The ladies of the Woman's Com ing iate) his bachelor habits, wrote lantfc seaboard
The freight yards who liaxe enrolled with Recorder J.
mercial Club met at the residence of his name boldly on the register at at all the smaller towns along the V.'. Mast as members of the U. 8. you are so far away from home I
Chandler,
and
remembering
his
want to thank you one and all in
the
Mrs. C. T. Timmons as per announce-
and way. as well as the Immense yards of Public Service Reserve up to noon behalf of my company mates with
ment in Western World, The books bride, returned and added
recently a the larger cities, were filled with today: Thos Edward Thorn. D. P. whom I shared the gift, and myself
having been misplaced there were no wife'—a bridegroom so
to sign freight cars loaded with supplies for PI. male, John W. Felter, Arthur 8. for your kindness. The company
bridegroom
that
he
forgot
minutes of previous meetings, the
our Allie* and for
our army In Elliott, Frank Rupert Harding of praised the city for tta thoughtful
for
his
wife.
”
which
was
held
in
the
last one of
France
One hundred and thirty Pr sper, Curtis Ellis Klepfer, Wra. ness In remembering their boys at the
Summer of 1916. The amount in
Act. State Adjutant John Ilf Wil- seven ships were lying Idle in N«w B Strowbridge, John P. DeGesen, Front.
the treasury was sixteen dollars and
•‘Sincerely yours,
Ray Langlois,
Hams
praises very highly Coos coun York harbor alone, unable to sail Ed in B Fish.
After
discussion
as
to
fifty cents,
because they could not obtain suffi
T he names of those enrolling with 11th Co. C A C., Fort Mills,
ty's
patriotism
in
the
way
of
sup
what should be done with this money
cient coal
The congestion was les it- rder 8 D Harper of the Proe- Philippine Islands.”
it was decided to buy War Stamps to porting the Home Guard. There are sening, however, about the time Mrs. i><
district will be published next
five
companies
in
this
county.
He
be held in trust by the Bank of Ban
Jenkins left, and many of the ships w< k.
Officials of the Knights of Pyth
state
that
Oregon
has
approximately
don till maturity In 1923 and then
had received fuel sufficient to permit
las and Pythian Sisters lodges are
go for the improvement of the City 2.000 Home Guarders outside of them to rush for Franco with their
Everyone quit work
during that preparing for a social time to be held
PaTk.
No further business bein4 Portland, in which city is also a priceless cargoes.
tint and persons caught violating the Monday night In celebration of the
large
unit
known
as
the
.Multnomah
brought forward meeting »as ad
Mrs. Jenkins was In New York regulations were arrested as pro 54th anniversary of the organization
journed Indefinitely. Mrs. C. Tim Guard, an organization built along
Germans.
of th« Kuights.
Ciy during the heatiess
week
the
lines
of
the
Home
Guard.
mons, secretary pro tem.”
I
New Development on East Front May
Permit Germain to Obtain Food
Supplies Front Ru- -la—Nupteme
Strnggle in West Expected to Bé
gin in a few Weeks.
With the'r army partly demobiliz
ed and the German forces ed' anclng
into Russia daily over a 400 mile
front exte li: g from the Gulf of
Riga to Lutsk, the Bolshevlki gov-
ernnu nt of Russia has decided to ac
cept the
ridi peace terms dictated
from Be in
These terms Includa
tho surr. n<' -r of Poland, Luthania,
Riga and Moon island, and payment
of a tribute of $4,000,000,000. Ger
man und Austrian newspapers are
said to express alarm ovor the re-
newal of hostilities with Russia, tip»
war being apparently unpopular with
the rank and file, especially in Aus
tria.
Under terms of peace between tho
Central Powers and the government
of the new Ukraine government,
the way is opened for obtaining food
supplios in amounts greater, It is
reported than, the Central Powers
can transport, The Ukraine Is the
great wheat raising section of Eu-
rope.
To ('all 100,000 Per Month
According to Secretary of War
Baker, date of a second draft has
not yet been determined, and such
will not bo made until after Congress
has passed bills covering proposed
changes In the draft law.
When
made, the war department proposes
to call the increments of the sec
ond draft in lOO.OoO lots, until the
total call is completed.
Legislation is under consideration
to exempt railroad men as a class.
Supreme Effort Expected Soon
On the Western front tho Allied
and German forc<>s are facing each
other, crouched for the much-herald
ed Spring Engagement.
The Ger-
mans have boasted that they would
break tlie Allied lino on a second
drive for Baris tietween now an d
April 1 : while possibilities of a con-
certed Allied advance toward Ber-
lin are equally Imminent. All Indl-
cations point to the decisive battle
of the wa/r commending within a
few days or weeks, largely dependent
upon weather conditions.
Soldiers Working in Mills
Soldiers have arrived at ('cos Bay
to work In the sawmills at North
Bend. One hundred enlisted men are
employed now and more may be add
ed. Rumorc of a double shift at the
mills are rife. Several hundred en
listed men are working In tho woods
at Powers now.
('amp Lewis Hpy Interned
Helmut'i
Sergt. -Major Thomas
Ritter, whom local people will re-
call was recently arrested at Camp
Lewis, charged with being an agent
of the German kaiser, has been ord
ered interned at the alien enemy
stockade at Fort
Douglas, Utah.
C. ('. Inman returned today front
a trip to New York City and Boston,
Mass., where . e was summoned to
con fer with the directors of the Na-
tional Underwriters Syndicate, own-
ers of the Sixes mines. Mr. Inman
was appointed superintendent and
manager of the company's Interests
In Oregon.
German Mar Bread Rad
German war bread smells so bad,
tastes so bad and makes so many
persons sick that the government hat
sent a cornu littee o' cie'itlsts -on d
to see what can be done about g .
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Leila Wheeler, Prescott, Wash
Emilia Lee, San Francisco.
T J. Thrift, Coquille.
T H. Shaw, Bandon.
N W Young. Twin Falls, Idaho
W. H Donald, Bridge, Ore.
Ford Englke, Mosier, Oregon
B. N Harrfrgton, Pcrtland.
D. H Kinley, Cathlamet, Wash.
S Javits, Bandon.
Oregonian. Portland.
R. Bugge, Marshfield.
W. H. Wlgant, Langlois.
R W. Windsor, Bandon.
Mrs Lydia Carpenter, California.
Ira Anderson. Bandon.
M. M Stillwell, Portland.
H. Maskey, Bandon.
Rev. W S Smith. Bandon.
E H. Divelbias, Bandon
8. V Manley, Monroe, Mich.
Rosa Bingaman, Bandon.
C. I. Starr, Marshfield.