The World from Coos Bay, Oregon • 1

The Aim of This Paper is to Help in the Development ol Coos Bay and of the Coos Bay Country WEATHER FORECAST. Western Oregon, western Washington, rain. A DAILY PAPER and member of the Associated Press. The best telegraphic service. 000 tM0 VOL.

THE COOS BAY TIMES, TVESDAY, NOBEMRER 6, 1906. No. ICO herewith present it to our read- BOILER WORKS TO COME HERE chanic, and his services are in demand by railways, water works and corporations employing heavy machinery, Marshfield is very fortunate in getting him to locate here. And there is plenty of work to keep such an iron works running at its full capacity the yeir around, the water works has already told Mr. Allen that It will need 1,000 feet of 12-inch pipe in the spring, and the amount of money that goes from this tow for boileYs, donkey engines and galvanized iron tanks amounts to thousands every month.

ANOTHER COOS BAY PIONEER IS DEAD W. D. L. F. Smith Passes Into Unknown-Ending Eventful Career.

GET DRUNK STEAL WATCH Are Taken Captive By Police. STRANGERS TO COOS Mr. Fqitor: Will you please give me a lutle space in your valuable paper? if the anonymous V. will send me his (or her) address, 1 shall be glad to send him a personal letter In regard to the queries and comments which he passed to me, unsigned, through the C. S.

mails. 1 am pleased at all times to answer all questions In niv power, but I abhor the Idea of anonymous correspondence, and to hide behind a-fictitious nam shows to me only the cowardly Instinct of the man (or woman). I shall be pleased to hear from Y. by personal letter. Respectfully.

R. C. Agee. ALL KINDS OF HAY AT A PREMIUM MARSH Fl ELD GETS HALF 11 Ell SI PIMA, AND NORTH HKI ALL, FROM PORTLAND. I I i I The farmers can get busy.

No longer can the wail go tip that there' is no market for their hay crop. The tremendous growth of Marshfield and the building of a hew city the Bend has made hay in this market scarce as hens teeth. There is no clean timothy and clover at any price, and the oats hay Is at. a premium, while Oregon grass Is in great demand. G.

E. Mickey, who was down at the depot trying to get cars to ship hay from Coquille, told a Times reporter that he had a hard time to compete with Portland, and that the Willamette valley supplied half the market at Marshfield and nearly all of it at North Bend. Valley grass -ould be bought at $9 a ton In Portland, and shipped here for $3 a ton. It sells for $13 a ton when delivered. "It costs as much to ship hay to North Bend from Coquille as from Portland," continued Mr.

Mickey. fter we have paid $1 a ton for freight, the hay must he unloaded on a scow and taken to North Bend, then we have to unload again and pay $1 a ton to haul it to the warehouse. Much of the best hay here Is oat hay of the white and red varieties. When asked why the farmers did not grow and harvest enough hay to supply the market, Mr. Mickey-said: "It is simply for the reason that Marshfield and North Bend are using twice as much hay as they were last year.

Now that the farmers know that they have a good market at a good price, they will not he siow in supplying the demand. CONDENSED PRESS NEWS. New York, Nov. 5. Hearst told his audience in New York City last night he was confident of winning with a plurality of 200,000 in Greater New York, and be elected by about tne same figure.

Republican headquarters also confidently predict a plurality of not less than 200,000 for Hughes. Betting varied from 3t4 to 1 on the election of a republican governor to 6 to 1, and then back to 3 to 1. Chicago, Nov. 5. Paul O.

Stens-land and Henry W. Hering, the bankers, were today sentenced to indeterminate terms In the penitentiary. San, Francisco, Nov. 5. Republicans claim Gillette will be elected by nearly 30,000 plurality, while the democrats claim Bell will have 8,000 plurality.

The Independence League claims Langdon a sure winner. Galvanized Tanks and Engines. IS A GREAT INDUSTRY GEORGE W. ALLEN IS IN THE CITY PREPARING TO BlILl) A PLANT. George W.

Murray, of Seattle, and recently connected with the Shasta railway of California, was seen by a Times reporter at the Hotel Blanco last evening. Mr. Murray was pointed out as a man who was preparing the wav to build in this city a boiler and sheet iron works. When asked to say something about his iron works, lie said that the Coos Bay region is the greatest undeveloped county he had seen in the United States. When one sees the great timber tracts of Wisconsin and Michigan, Georgia and Alabama and other southern states, denuded of their forests he realizes the great wealth that will come to this city and all the Coos Bay country long before half of the timber about here hab been marketed.

"The coal treasures," he said, "are a fortune in While jour coal may not be a good blacksmith coal for steam purposes, it is excel lent. Now if the men who own the coal lands will only encourage capital to come in and develop the mines and the city will deal liberally with the railroads, I predict that in fifteen years Marshfield will have a population of 50,000 people. "The railroads can make or break a town, and what is wanted is their good will and help in developing yom great resources. When asked to talk of his proposed boiler works he said: "For ten days I have looked over this territory very carefully, with a view of starting a boiler and sheet iron works here. While you used to get much of this class of iron from San Francisco before the fire, now you get it from Portland.

Owing to the fact that the price of skilled labor is from $1 to $1.50 a day higher now than it was before the earthquake, I am satisfied that I can get eastern machinists, who now get $2.75, to come here for $3.25 a day on a guaranty of steady work. This, with cheap coal, will enable me to turn out all kinds of work 20 per cent cheaper than San Francisco. Asked as to the cost of such a plant as he contemplated erecting, he said: "A boiler works with a gal vanized iron department installed, with pneumatic machinery to turn out all kinds of tanks and cornices, together with tne machinery for ufacturing the pony engines which are used so extensively by your saw mills, will cost $25,000. While my friends have urged me to organize a stock company, I have not determined as to this, as a man who has the money and has confidence that such an iron works as I propose will not only be a great industry for the Coob country, but that it will pay handsomely, proposes to take a big slice himself. Today two of my friends volunteered to take $1,000 each, but I cannot say what will do In this respect until I see some others.

Before next May Marshfield can count on a boiler works among her industries. As Mr. Murray is a thorough me HURRICANE STRUCK ALLIANCE AT YUQUINA THE WORST STORM IN CAPTAIN KFl.LY'S EXPERIENCE HO PASSENGERS ABOARD. Of all tile storms at sea for a year tumous for storms, that of Saturday night was the worst. The Alliance left Astoria Friday at 10 o'clock in the morning in a dense fog, and had a hard Fine cro.n ing the bar.

Tile passeugets we1 nearly all seamen, and were not pn pared for the storm that awaited them Saturday night. When the Alliance was oppo.i1' Yaquina Bay, about six miles out, 11 o'clock, a terrific wind came that Captain Kelley said wuu tin worst in all his caret It blew i re. i all directions and tossed the in sheets and solid walls of wale all about the ship, and the wave dashed clear up to the httrri n. deck. However, Cuntain 1..

didn't the ro'thig and tile ship and steadily breasted tV storm until it was over. After tin storm the sea quieted down until it looked like a sheet of glass, and th moon shone brightly from a chai sky. The Alliance landed here at 8 a. ni. Sunday.

All the passengers liad been seasick except four. The following is the list of passengers: W. Putnam, A. M. Kreps, E.

E. Minx, J. X. Johnson, Mrs. R.

T. Gale, Mrs. McCormac, Mrs. Wands, H. A.

X'abb. Mrs. X'abl), Mrs. H. C.

Griffith. Joe White, A. Hane. Mrs. J.

E. Ford, M. Skibbe, R. F. Long, R.

Ha" 1 rington, wife and child, Mrs. J. Keat- ing, L. J. Simpson and wife, W.

i Wands, Win. Mader, J. L. Kronen- burg, H. C.

Griffith, Jess White, H. A. Reynolds, G. W. Shuniard, J.

Schom-berger. OREGON AGRICULTURE COLLEGrSTUDENTS 655 ARE ENROLLED TO DATE FIVE ARE FROM COOS COUNTY. The following letter, received from J. B. Homer, registered for the Oregon Agricultural College at Corvallis, will prove interesting to many of our readers: Corvallis, Oct.

10, 1906. To the Editor: Tbinking you might be Interested in a list of the students In the Agricultural College from your county, the stenographer has kindly prepared the appended list: Leland B. Howey, Coquille; Tommy B. Kinnlcutt, Myrtle Point; Roland Leep, Myrtle Robie F. Shull, Myrtle Point; Fred L.

Spires, Myrtle Point. The enrollment already this year is 655 students, which is nearly 100 larger than before at this time of the year. The probabilities are that there will be at least 800 students in the Institution during the school year. Very respectfully, J. B.

HOMER, Registrar. SUCH IS HISTORY OF COFFEE AND KISER, ARRESTED AT NORTH BENI). North Bond, Nov. 5. (Special.) James Coffee and Ira Klsor, recent arrivals in North Bend, were arrested yesterday morning by Night Officer Stone and are now In Jail awaiting examination on a charge of stealing a watch from Ed Kean, of Marshfield.

The men had all been drinking in a saloon here, and at 3 oclock Sunday morning Kean missed his watch. The two strangers had left the saloon a few minutes before the discovery was made, but Kean followed them out to the street and Induced them to return to the Baloon, where he accused them of taking the timepiece. The accusation was denied and the men were searched, with the result that the watch was found on the person of Coffee. When the watch was found Coffee was as innocent as Topsy, when she wa3 caught with ribbons belonging to Miss Ophelia in her possession he could not account for the way it had been transferred to his person. A description of the men was given to Officer Stone, and this morning he located the men.

When arrested Coffee admitted having the Watch, but said that he had always been an honest workingman, but that he must have taken the timepiece when he was very, very drunk. According to his own story Coffee has been a wanderer for many years. He says that he walked here from Roseburg, and when he arrived here he went to work for Contractor Burns, who was employing his partner, Kisor. The latter claims Corvallis, aB his home. He said that he met Coffee at Roseburg, and the two men came here together.

He admits that he has been drinking hard of late, but says that be knew nothing of the stealing of the watch until It was taken from his partner. With the rush to Coos Bay many undesirable characters are finding their way to this section, and it is necessary to make an example of some of them, so that the others may be deterred from practicing their dla-honest acta in this community. A previous experience as an officer in San Francisco fits Officer Stone well for dealing with the criminal element, and he proposes to pnt his knowledge of criminals to good nse in dealing with the light-fingered gentry who find their way into this city. Notice. All members of the Doric Chapter, No.

53, Order of Eastern Star, are requested to attend the funeral of our late brother, W. D. L. F. Smith, Wednesday, November 1, at 2:30 p.

m. By order qf the worthy matron. Xl-6-2t Pal tk BELL CORD Wet Your Whistle The Blow J. R. HERRON, Prop Fraat ttrsat, MarshSaM, Orrpfl Y.

L. F. Smith, one of the pioneers of Coos county, and aptly called an "old landmark," died at 1 his home in Marshfield Sunday evening, after an illness tf some- thing over a ear. It was during the fair at Portland that he was first at- tafked by a partial stroke of paraly- tew- IV sis. From that date to the time of his death he had been more or less on the indisposed list.

The ultimate cause of his death was an attack which assailed him about a week since. Mr. Smith was born In New Milford, Litchfield county, Connect lent, in 1828. In September, 1853, he came to the coast, settling In Curry county. He was a resident of Curry county for five years, pomlng Coos county In 1858.

During the civil war he enlisted In the army serving in Company of the Oregon volunteers. Hr also served during the Indian wars that were so numerous In this section In the early times. In the early days of his lif' ir Curry and Coos counties he was pm ployed in the Tlchenor mill, wher-he worked for several years. After severing his connection with thir mill he became connected with the Randolph mines. From mining he COMIC OPERA TRIAL BY JURY GAY TREAT FOR ALL WHO ATTEND RFHKARSAL8 ARK HIGHLY PRAISED.

Ca, Theater goers of Marshfield will have an opportunity to witness an opera tonight and tomorrow night, November and 7. that will prove a mirth-prod ocer not Boon to be forgotten. Rehearsals have been faithfully and diligently prosecuted under the able direction of Prof. Rob-Inson, and those who have witnessed the rehearsals proclaim it an excellent play to suggest to friend. It is not often that Marshfieldites have an opportunity to witness ad good a production as Trial by Jury.

played by the beat local talnt obtainable, and ail abonid take advantage of this opportunity. JritH to farming, and in 1S64 he purchased a farm at the forks of rh. er, which he owned at the time ol his demise. He lived on his ninth mail some ten ears ago, when tie retired, moving at that time to tnis wheie he has since resided, On Marih 30, 1559, he married 'r xj. I vTvwyLi Mary R.

Luse, of Ohio, to which union five children were born, two boys, William and George, and three girls, Mrs. C. H. Dungan, of Berke- ley, California, Mrs. J.

D. Hawes, of I fjoulterville, California, and Miss 'Cnssie Smith, whose death occurred i i r.uie six years ago. Mr. Smith was a man of excellent 'haracter, enjoying the full esteerji and confidence of a large number of friends in Coos county. He was an honorable men.

her of the Blue Loag of Masons, and was In his 79th year at the time of his death. fi uneral services will be conducted at the Masonic hall Wednesday a 2' 30 i). under the auspires of the Masonic order. Among those expected to be preset during the last sad rites of this old C003 county pioneer is his brother, Dr. O.

E. Smith, of Eugene, who is expected to arrive via the mrain stage. Seats have been going fast, and it is expected that the bouse will be crowded to Its full capacity. Dont miss it. GOES AFTER AN ANONYMOUS WRITER A PUBLIC HCHOOL TEACHER WAXES WARM ON RECEIPT OF UNSIGNED LETTER.

The Coos Bay Times is In receipt of a letter from R. C. Agee, principal of the Wilbur public schools. In which he invites a sneaking advar-jserv into a nubile or qnaai-nubltc a of ctod slinging. From the tone of he l-t'er ome -eapondent must have hero pe Intimate with the teacher' pc a latter i.

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