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COOS BAY PUBLISHING CO.,
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only, 30 tents a month; 4 months (or
&i 00. When not 'paid In advance the
rrict is 50 cents per month, straight.
Issued every morning except Monday.
THE TRANSPORTATION SITUA
TION. Manager E. J. Holt, of the California
and Oregon (Coast Steamship Co. has
announced his intention of coming to
CoosBay to look into the matter ofgivlng
a better steamer service between here
and Portland. Ho atatea that tho pres
ent service ia all that la justified by tho
trade, but voices the company's w llllng
nesa to pat on another rsteamer if tho
people of Coos Bay and Portland Kill
gnaranteo that ehe will make expense;.
Thia is all that could bo asked of the
steamship company.
Manager Holt should bo Riven a warm
welcome here, and shown the resources
aid possibilities of this section. He
thould be given to understand that the
people here are friendly to Portland
and have no objection to buying goods
In Portland if thoy can do as well there
as in Saa Francisco, and that If another
steamer were pnt on the route it would
undoubtedly result in the diverting of
more trade from the latter to the form
er Jpoint, and there would, bo more
freight to bring than there is now.
Wlien'itcomea to the f people here
making any guarantee, however, that is
another matter. It would be in effect a
guarantee that Coos Bay merchants
would buy a certain amount of goods in
Portland, and until Portland chows that
she can sell us goods cheaper than we
can get them in San Francisco, our peo
ple do not particularly care wbbtber
they trade witb.Portland or not,
QTbe general Bentiment here is that'If
Portland wants our trade we will treat
her with the greatest, consideration,
bat we are not. going to break our necks
to give it to her. gpy
We have nothing to gain 'kby switch
ing from the market which takes alljour
surplus products, and it is up to Port
land to do the sweating over j.tbe trade
tti nation.
If Portland would buy our coal for
fael, which she might vty. well Ao,
that would furnish northbound freight
lor more than one steamer on the route,
and it would be an exhibition of recip
rocity that would attract our buyers.
But so long as the trade is all one-elded
and al-togetber to Portland's profit,Port
land would better do whatever guarau
letlug is requIred.RSE
LYNCH LAW AGAIN
Last week the Mail cited the caeo of a
mob at Missoula, Mont..IwhIch assem
bled to see that a fiend, who had caused
the deathof a' little girl) was adequately
puaia
ibed, and which quietly -dispersed
when the trial resulted In a conviction
that would insure Ibanging,
The Mill
Nfgaated.tbat this was a bint for tbote
wbo wish to m linck law dene away
tittfe, Myb-f f
Uerv U tb r'in..dy tor lynchtns.
,' laws niul mlnpl rules of court
iirnrMu tlmt will tfitarniilce, ,no mo
d rpeedy li'll'ctiou ol llio death pon
dty for certain crimes, nud pcopto
'at U10 law tako Us coime.
IVJle sentiment cnlls fur tho death
ol !' monster who commits certain
r'me, and rul' " f nllrucnt 18 goiug to
jtoit that, tho pcialty is iufllcUu'
If tho mitchinery of tho law will not do
tho business tho matter will be attended
to outside tho law.
Now comes the Bulletin with this pro
test: Thia sound all rivht no doubt and
will be appreciated by anyone who liaa
eo far bren led astray ns to have been
m!xed up with a Irenztcd, half crazed
mass of humau beluga iutcut upon tuur
dcringoueof their kind whom tumor
only baa accuted of crimo. But hasn't
tho .iIk.vo Juat tho slightest ring of an
archy?
It ia true that the strong arm of tho
law sometimes moves slowly nud justicu
seems delated and even Indefinitely
postpone! in rare cases. But with all
tho delays And postponements, is a mob
thereby justified in taking tho life of an
innocent person?
And '.horcin is one of tho dangers of
mob law. And in the deliberate and
methodical tbcugh apparently useless
practices of courts of law lies the safely
to human life and property. But this
deliberation and apparent delay oppe's
useless only to the unthinking and tho
uninformed. An excited, swaylnf,
blood-thirsty crowd is not the proper
body to Judge the facts nor to interpret
ind enforce tho law applicablo to those
facts.
Of course the guilty should be punish
ed. But our courts of law are establish
ed for tho purpose of cetablisbinc the
juilt or innocence of an accused person,
and, if found guilty, of indicting tho
punishment experience teaches is meet
land J;st.
Agsln, tho moral (or, Tather, tbo itu
noral) influence upon a community of a
.old blooded murder, perpetrated by a
krn, fifty or a hundred men and none
f whom is ever arrested or punished, ii
certainly not to bo desired. The better
pinion teems to be that even an execu-
1 ion carried out at tbo hands of the law
Tbonld not be open to the public gaze,
,nd tho majority of all such now take I
placo within enclosures. Poteibly mob
aw is better than no law at all, but, ow
ing to tho difficulty of distinguishing the
one from the other, it is not easy to
choose between them.
Better that many guilty ones OBcape.
than that one innocent person should
fall into tLe bands of a barbarous mob
of 10-callcd civilized men.
The Bulletin has gathered tbo wrong
impression.
The Mail can endorse every argument
used by the Bulletin, bat will respect
fully submit that they do not touch the
point, which la that so long as tho
courts will not punish certain crimes
with a reasonable degree of certainly
and celerity, moba WJLL gather to do
the work.
This 1b not an argument: it ia a sim
ple statement of fact on which an ar
gument can be based, The argument of
the Mail ia that the law and the eyatenT
if court proceduro thould be mndo ad
quate to fulfill ho requirements of pub
.ic sentiment fu these cases.
. We vaubt sometimes take things as
tbey ore, and not as they ought to be,
and human naturp IS eucb that it would
be much easier p find a remedy for
lynchings in tho way BugceBted than in
trying toeduca'.o humanity np, or down,
to the point where it will 'be considered
better that many inhuman fiends escape
than that ono inhuman fiend should
meet his deserts at the hands of a mob.
LIGHT BREAKING THROGH '
The Myrtle Point Enterprise uses just
.
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a co i iimn of its valuable spaco In which
to nhutu Major Kinney 'and the Great
Ceutrol and to explain It Inability tn
undent and how tho Coast Mau. could
htvvo n good word for thorn unless paid
1
f.ir ''boontlng." It says: ,lA certnlu
nowspnper man 'of Southern Oregon-
not tho Mail man told us hn received
at 0110 time (GO for boosting and (00 at
another."
Tlmt ccttlca it. Suspicion has now
crown acoitalnty. Tho Enterprise got
An Idea into its brad that there was a
grail for tho noiainpora In tho Great
Ceiilral proportion. After pationtly
n nit lug lor tomo tlmo in vain for tho
graft to show up, it adopted what it
fondly imagined would be coorctvo me
uretf, and began to. Jump onto Major Kin
noy. This was expected to bring hush
monry, but it ia evident that oven that
expectation camo to naught, and tbo
Enterprlso la still smarting from the
silent contempt with which its on
ala'uhte bare been received. It ccn con
gratulate Utclt that It is not tho only
one that bad tho thing sized up wrong,
however; mid tbo Mail, right hero
wishes to mako acknowledgement for
the amusement It ha derived, aud is
deriving frofn tho exhibitions of chagrin
which show how tho irritation of an
itching palm unsatisfied will eomotimes
couimunicato itself to tho editorial pon
cil. Tho Enterprise says: "If tho Mail
wants to treat the pcoplo right and pub
lish all the nows why don't It glvo some
history connected with Kinney's Salt
Lako life or bis Whito Pass railroad
venture?"
Thanka for tho suggestion. Major
Kinney kept MO men at work for three
years at Salt Lake, and tbey got their
money. H1j Whito Pass railroad ven
ture was knocked out by tbo refusal of
the Canadian government to grant a
franchise for that part of tho road which
was to bo built on Canadian coil. And
it is a safe bet that this Is moro of the
history of thoeo two matters than the
Euteipriso ever heard before. Other
wise, why doesn't it pnbllah some his
tory itself, instead of eo many iunendos
caching matters about which it knows
nothing.
Tho position of tho Enterprlte, aud a
ttiong indication that Us vehement
knocking has oriEen from (ho cautes
intimated above, ia found in tho stand
it takes on the LewisandUlark Fa'r mat
tcr. It boldly advocates a combination
or understanding among tbo nowspaptrs
ofjthe slate not to "booet" tho Lewis and
Clark fair except for cold, hard cash or
its equivalent. It Is proud of Oregon
and proud of tho Lewis and Clark fair
that la destined to bring her varied at
tractions and reeonrcea more prominently
before tho world, but it ia going to keep
its patriotism in ono pocket and its ail
vortibing spr.ee in another, and tho lat
ter will bo disbursed for oln only. Of
coureo tho paper which takes that posi
tion on the Lewis and Ciaik Flr, wherfl
common decency almost compels the
press todoalotof boosting for nothing,
is incapablo f ' undemanding bow the
Coast Mail can flritlpavor to help a man
who ia working to brlns! a railroad to
Coob Bay, except forcaahdowfl.
But tho Enternrifle will learn. It un
doubtedly meana well, bat geta of! on
the wrong foot. Tho Mail is happy to
note an indication of an arouBejl con
science in tho last itfeac, in tho elimina
tion 'from the head of the tutorial pag&
of tlie statement that tho Enterprleo is
the iuruest.'paper in the coupty. True,
it has 'taVeb'tbe' MaIl quite a while to
work its. OBtcexcd contemporary up to
that point, but tho' auc'cess achieved is
atilmlloUioii tlmt thoro are' in tho Kn
terpiim Intent possibilities that nro m oil
worth cultivating, and it limy nvetitual
ly bo lofted to n plena whore it can uu.
deritaud Hint nvpnpor tuny sometimes ba
jtutltlod lit boosting what it coimhlors to
bo a good thine, without being hrlbod.
'ttUEUAN
ntlKNDIilNERH
TO
AMERICA
(Portland Telegram,)
From como points of view, at lenot,
America has no ground tor complaint
rcapectlug the Russian Invasion of Man
churia. Tho spirit of Rutitin cxpnntlon
Is tho dominant fnclor'in tho industrial
and commercial development In North
orn Aria, afRiiredly destined to he per
manent and which gives vvnry promhu
of mo;t splendid Bccbnipllslunont.
Coincident with Oils work tho gov
eminent of tho Ciu has shown (nvor to
American commorclnl enterprleo. until
the latter in Manchurlnn territory Is en
joying a supremacy that has cost little
else thau tho jealous envy ol English and
Uerman manuiaclurers who alien to
grasp tho requirements of tho situation.
In an abh article written (or the Criter
ion by Alexander Humo Ford, who has
personal knowledge of tho details of our
trade relatione in Manchuria. It ia hint
el that tho commercial world In forced
to tako coguizanco of nnew .Monroe Doc
trine, framed at St lVtorulnirK, und ap
plied to all Xslt , which prnct colly in
volves a partnership hutween tlm Mutco
vitoaud the Yankee In tho magnificent
hcrltago that is to develon in this Man
chnrian country,
A single paragraph from tho pen of
Mr. Ford is well worth quoting:
"Since Admiral Dowew anchored his
ships in Manila Bay, wo hnvo built (or
cities in Japan, Korea, China and Si
beria many miles of medern trolley.
Korea's only railroad is entirely Ameri
can. Tho railroad now building from
Canton northward, to meet tho Rutsiati
ralla pressing southward, is American;
and tbo 2O00 miles of railway in Man
churia and Eastern Siberia ia almost en
tirely of Ynnkeo construction from cross
tics to locomotives, aud tamping picks
to rails and steel bridges; while tho
scores of ciliea Russia has called into ex
htenco at tho touch of her rnngic wand
along tho tinea of her enstoru railways
woro built almost In a night, o'f Ameri
can structural iron, and lighted by
Auieiican electric lamps, and tho popu
lation Rqaslu pours in ia fed o'n Ameri
can flour and provisions andclothidln
I American cottons,
EO CONSIDERATE I
(Oregonian)
There will be uo war in tho Balkans
thia Autumn, tho dispatches say, be
caueo it baa been found to bo unneces
sary. Turkey ia really getting along
so well that there Is no occasion for En
rope to fly to arms. Thoroforo It Is that
ebo will not bo permitted to occupy the
Bulgarian territory. Houco Turkey hna
nothing to gain by hostilities, flonco
no action is contemplated by Great
Britain or any other European power;
Farther succoseos of Turkish troopp
iwcro reported yesterday, and again in
i
this morning's dispatches, so thero is
i i
nothing tq cause Harm or solicitude
Is thia enough to satisfy the con
icleoces of Christendom? Turkey, wo
may assutno, is well pleaspd. A few
moro villages have hcon devastated
with fire and sword; a few moro Chrit
tlan girls have boon murdorously vio
lated before tho agonizing gazo of futh
ore and mothers; a few more binocont
banCLhavo been cleft asundor with
borrlblo ktbsxMe9 by the moBt .cruel
and bloodthirsty ruflinH? In U "
armies of Europe. Turkey, indeed, 8
umlirri&tlnflnd. Turkish arms aro nleOBV
ed to report several more successes, It
J.
seems that without aid Irotii Christian
Iiurope, tho Turku will bo able to pacify
tho torror-strlvkon population ol tho
Balkan states, if tho maddened suffer
era arlso in desperation, Turkey can put
them down. Tho llulgnrlnn mohlMav
tion applies to oulj i few reglmouts,
1
nudils intended tonly for reinforcements,
ol tho frontier poiti. Thoy nrn too weak
to withstand tho Cossack fiends. Thoy
can ouly perish mttiorably In their
squalid homes, or nt best llou to tho
forests to bd burned by tho nblo and In
human strategy of tho Musslemnui.
Melancholy, indeed, would bo tho day
for London and Berlin and Vienna l(
thoso porsveutod Chrlitlans of tho
Balkan states should turn upon tholr
ngo-lonn opproMors with thu ferty of,
dencrat(on aud sull tlnlr lives ns denr-j
ly as Spartans did csntirlei npo In the;
samo peninsula whero now thu iruirint
Uoati in lurid fires. It sotno hundivds
ot thousanda of these Turkish fiends
woro made to bltn the dust; If n now
crusado from tho modorn world should
lend hope and tuohoy and military gen
ins to thu poor wrotchc of Bulgaria nnd
Macedonia until they drovo tho Sul
tan's nrmlca to the Bosphorus and even
thundered at tho gates ol Constanti
nople, thiin, no doubt, armies would
hurry from tho shadow of St. Paul's and
tho Vatican and Hlrneburgniid Cilone,
to resloro tho SultAii's g.nsp upon his
throne, and huinbto hlfl Christian sub
jects more cravonly bcniath his feel.
1
Tner J aret.vo things which porpotu
nto this awful and dlecrodltablo situa
tion. Ono is the money cost of war, and
tho other ia tho mutual fear of the great
powers for each other. Yot this fear,
(n ita turn, ia a question ot money, (or
It Is inonoy translated Into mork.MH and
sales. Tho commercial Instinct Is the
ono impulso that stops In to provont
Europo from asserting tho fcollngs with
which Its humano proplo nro moved nnd
giving to the Balkan peninsula the freo
dotn and peaco which civilization de
mands for them. It is a deprcting
thought that this sordid ambition pro
vuilaovor tho dictates of humanity. It
is passing strango that whito Cabinet
aro torn with dissension over tariff and
btidgotr, no ono thinks of calling in
question tho policy which propoics to
buy pcaco for Europo at tho prieo of
maetacros and outrage unnpeakabla In
dotsil aud almost donicd publication
through terrorism. It ia tlmo for a eon
not llko Milton's on tho Alblgenscs' or
for somo Peter thu Hermit to preach a
new cruendo.
HITCHCOCK'S LATEST VAOARY.
t . 11 ii 1 ti . .1 l r. 1
Late dispatches Indicato that Becro-
tary Hitchcock has mdo such rulings
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touching enlrios nnd final proofs undor 1
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tho tlmbor and stona act that it will hoi
. II..II.. I.-..IU1 t. . . , t. -
IMibiivaujr iKjugniiiiu iui n ujhm lu uujr
a plcco of tlmbor land of tho govern
ment unless ho is ready to swear tlmt
ho will uso all tho tlmbor for firewood In
his own stove or will oat it.
Tho secretary's ostensible object 1b to
lijopjlumroy cutrloa, but ho appears' to
bo carried away by his own momentum,
and is dufoatlng tho purpoeo of the act
by carrying his unomporod zoal to cx
tromco, Tho purposo of tho tlmbor and stono
act, as generally understood, Js .to glvo
tho individual citizen a chance to buy
of tho government, for his own boncfit,
100 acres of land not aultablo for home
stead entry. Thoro is no ronton why
Jhja priyilego bjiopld bo confined, to
those only who are oblo to inyest thu
sum necessary for tl0 co)o bcrjoflt of
their heirs, Tho ordinary cltUen, ha?
no.way of using in bis business (ho
mmmL
l.tf..'.tA.
f.irV."&
timber on 100 aores oMiwul. If hu buys
tho land from thu government It la (or tlio
purpose of tolling It nunln and innkln.j
a llttlo monby on his liivrsttiient. That
Is his only posalblo nhjitnt In buying ll,
Yet Secretary lillchcob'k would call that
Speculation" and roluao tu make tho
dfnl,
It aunnifl Hint tho only man who could
buy a quarter soclloh under tho now
rules would ho n man will a sawmill
who Intended to cut tho timber Into
lumber In his own mill.
. As a comparatively email numbor of
us nru the ownnra of s'nwiullli, this piuc
tlcr.lly puts nn end to all sates under the
act.
Mr. Hitchcock profeures to bo trying
ti keep tho eyudli'Mtes from gobbling np
thn land, yet the clK'ct of his policy Is to
top thu opoNtlnn of tho only law under
wh ch any ono olio can get It, and to ro
servo thu laud fui thu lieu laud .specula
tors until such tlmo as his forest reserve
program can furnish baso for thorn to
oporato with.
Tho statesman who would evolve
somo sauu and honest land policy, nut
nul'J.-ct to fraud, nnd got tho govern
ment to adopt It WvUld bo a public ben-
o'netor.
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Heal Estate Transactions
It 1) SMiford to W A Goodman 1(1
acres In bH sou 35 t 27 r 1.1 f 100, Ktalo
of Oregon to Chni A Smith nws of roJ
stc 20 t 30 r 12 50.
Julia Ann Root to Herman I. Carl 8U
acres in rec G t 20 r 12 (3500.
John Weaver to Mannlo Huborg lots
2 3 4 block u' Coqulllo 300.
R E Shltio to II II Iiuemol lot 0 block
120 Empire City.
Ktato of Oregon to A R Hengstnckon
tide land on lot 0 sec 24 t 20 r 14 U, 70
ceres f 10.40.
Herbert Lockhonrt ta Henry Hung
slacken und l-l lot 10 block Jl railroad
ndd, to Mnrahflold.
J J Stanley to Martha A Tupporlotfl
7 8 blk 12 Coqulllo (260.
H ll Deckor to JJJ Indlcolt lot 7 8 blk
I Deckers ndd to Myrtlo Point W S Por
ry and wf to V It Wilson Lots 3 4 blk
20 Coqulllo $1000.
U H to Andrew Mnltfon ec4 of 'nw4
rS nf not eec 10 ew4 of nw4 sec 15 t 34
r 11.
I. J 8lmron ti Hiram Ilinch lot-i 11
12 blk 40 North Hoi.d (100.
FA Whito to 118 Knowlton 10 feot'
off south eldo of lot 3 blk 31 Coqulllo. .'
F A Whito to Annie Knowlton lot 4
blk.tlCoquitlo.
J F Schroedor to C Albert Eehrodor
and Frank E Scbroedor, Bond for his
ranch Including Mnlcorn donation nnd
lot t sw I of net nnd other lund in tec 19
t 28 range 12 prlco (10000' '"
Joseph Ferry to Mary T Chancy lot Ia
Rivortou (25.
:
Julius Nelson In School diet Vc 20 1
ncro j ycc 17 t air 12. 8.23
Staloof Oregon to John T Collvor jt
4 eec 0 t20r 12 (28 ceres.- '
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E Dyer to 8 Mundy lots 1011 1213 11
block 10 Wooloa Mill a(j t0 mmipn.
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L J Simpson to P. A. Sherwood lot 15
blk 22 North Bond,
. f F M Stewart to J 11 Akor.naroal North
Coqulllo City 2 40 ucros (400.
, Hvlviater Rict to IV A Goodmnn wi
nw4of wl sec 20 t2 r 13 (500.
W A I'rortott to John Swln Inl vZ. of
nd ol nwlof Sou 27 1 2S r 1 1, (J50.
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