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About The Coos Bay times. (Marshfield, Or.) 1906-1957 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 16, 1907)
-s AKB.' wcab. nw -! wmm f THE DAILY COOS BAY TIMES, MARSHF1ELD, OREGON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1907. v ft m '1 m & K I MRS. YOAKAM TALKS Of HER LAWLESS MILK RANCH Personal Notes. Coos County Woman Expresses easily- Thc cows 1,k0 u and cvery uic oi mine is saveu. 11 is cican auu W. L. GASKILL was a visitor to friends in the terday. pleasant city yes- Her Opinion to Portland Paper. THESHIFTLESSNESSOFMEN Gives Voice to Her Honest Convic tions Concerning the Stupidity of the Stonier Sev A suc cessful Dairy. Mrs. S. A. Yoakum iins been elected first vice president of $ tlie Stnto Dairymen's Associa- tlon, iu recognition of (lie im- portancc of Coos county whichj stands with Tillamook at the heail of the list of dairy count- ies of Oregon. Walter Lyon received word to this effect this afternoon. A remarkable talk on man kind in general and Coos Bay pro duction In particular, was delivered in Portland througn the medium of last Wednesday's Journal. Mrs. S. -A. Yoakam, who owns a big dairy farm near Marshfleld and who has been a leading figure at the Dairy men's convention in Portland, is the inspiration of the following article, In which she naively states that men tare stupid and shiftless: "Mere man is now nothing more than a useless appendage to an Ore gon ranch. ' Deputy State Dairy Inspector Mrs. S. A. Yoakam, who has a dairy ranch of 254 acres near Marshfleld, and who keeps 65 dairy cows on it has dispensed with him entirely. She says women can do what work there Is to be done much better and with the aid of a milkjng machine the sphere of the male's usefulness has been still further decreased. Mrs. Yoakam is in Portland to at tend the annual meeting of the Ore gon Dairymen's association, sho hav ing staged, boated and walked and traveled by launch and train to cover the 175 miles of mud and mire that lie between Marshfleld and Portland. Men More Stupid Than Women. "Yes, I travel around a good deal, inspecting dairies and see how peo ple do things all over the state and I must say that I find men more stu pid than women all around," said Mrs. Yoakam at the Hotel Eton. "I've had a dairy ranch for 30 years in this state. Seven years ago my husband was killed, leaving mo with four children. Three of them, thank goodness wero girls. My two oldest daughters and I can run the ranch easily. I used to keep one man around but he got In tho way. The milking machino does tho work better than any man over born. "Men can't help it. They're just naturally shiftless. You know it yourself. Take a boy and a girl and put them besldo each other. Tho girl digs right In and is never happy unless sho Is busy. She wants to get tho work out of tho way and have things look right. Sho has prido in herself and her house. "But take a boy ho doesn't care. If ho has enough to eat and can Bleep when he wants to, can put Ills hands in his pockets and whistle a tune, he's happy and that's all ho wants. Shift fulness of Men. "I used to havo men work on my place. I would give them sonio work to do and send them off to do it. In a llttlo whllo I'd look down tho field nnd there, suro enough, everybody had forgotten to work they wero wrestling nnd laughing and having a general good time. Tho only thing to do was to call thorn up, feed them their supper and glvo them a check for their wnges. I've never fooled with them since my girls and I can do all tho work hotter and cleaner and more thoroughly." TIioso who havo boon Mrs. Yoa kam's inodorn dairy farm In Western Oregon testify to tho fact that threo women havo mado a success of it. "I think that thoro Is more money nnd ploasantor work in keoping a dairy farm than anything olso ono enn do now In this part of tho coun try," said she. "I flguro that my profits from April to November aver ago ?C0 n cow. Got good Jerseys nnd keep them clean and feed them well. You'll And you havo n gold mine in them. But you must treat them right. I'vo installed a gasoline milking machino in my stable. Two of us milk 30 cows a night with It Die cows are kept In tho very finest condition by it. Anybody who has 20 cows had better lire their hired man and get a machine." When Mrs. Yoakam had decided to J tome to tho Portland show of the Dairymen's association alio had a good many difficulties to overcome. In the first place, the two steamers between Portland and Coos Bay the Breakwater and tho Alliance aro both out of commission. That mado traveling by sea impossible. Hard Trip Overland. "I had made up my mind to come anyway, If I had to walk every bit of the way," said she, "and so I came. I left Marshfleld at 1 o'clock Thursday morning, crossed tho bay on a gasoline launch, traveled along the beach by stage for 20 miles just missed being in the stage that was washed out to sea by a sea wave went from Gardiner to Scottsburg by the steamer Eva, then went from Scottsburg to Elkton by stage, walk ing a good part of the way because the stage got mired, and reached Drain Friday evening at G:30. "It was dark and there wero l-i of us who went into tho little hotel at Drain. As we filed out of tho hotel and stepped onto the sidewalk again there wero four men ahead of me. Each of them, one after an other, stepped across the sidewalk and into the gully on the other side. There was about three feet of Oregon mud In that ditch, and the men wero pretty badly hurt. One of them had to stay at the hotel ho couldn't finish the trip. Just another example of how stupid men are. They had eaten and were feeling good, so they walked on out and wouldn't look where they wero going. It wasn't enough for ono to fall over. Every last ono of them had to go, too. "Well, the train was due the next morning at 1 o'clock. Then we found it wouldn't come for five or six hours. Finally we got on and when wo were 12 miles above Oregon City Falls we came to a wreck on the Southern Pacific and had to spend the night on the train, waiting for the track to be cleared. When I finally did get to Portland I went to bed and stayed there two days and two nights, just doing nothing but sleeping. "But now I am all right again and I'm going to try and tell those ex perts from the east something about dairying in Oregon and milking with a milking machine. I don't know whether I can or not It all depends on how they strike me sometimes I can talk right along as good as any one and then again I don't like to. But we'll have to wait and see." ! WILLIAM BURBECK. of North Bend, spent Sunday in Marshfleld with friends. MR. AND MRS. P. J. PERALTA, of Coqullle, aro visiting friends In Marshfleld. 'nrn nrnonu om utruoii t OF WHITE SIB BEN MCMILLAN, spending a few Marshfleld. of Melrose, days visiting An Eastern Firm- Looking for Material for Glass Manufactory. E. C. CARTER, of Myrtlo Point, is a visitor in the city and guest at the Blanco hotel. REPAIRS TO WIRES COMPLETED TODAY MRS. S. STONE, of Motesano, ar rived In this city on tho noon train for a short visit. J. SLATER, of Coqullle, is a visitor to friends in the city and is a guest at the Blanco hotel. N. C. NIELSON and Joe Leblanc, of Port Orford, were visitors In Marshfleld on Sunday. MRS. W. II. BOHLEN and Mrs W. J. Cosmey were visitors in Fern dale ono day last week. MATT NYSTROM, of Myrtlo Point, arrived on the noon train from that town for a short visit. CHARLES RUSPOS, of Portland, ar rived in this city yesterday and Is guest at the Blanco hotel. F. EIDSON, of Portland, arrived on the noon train from Coqullle for a business visit In Marshfleld. CHARLES CARTER, of San Fran cisco is a guest at the Blanco hotel and a business visitor in tho city. J. H. FISHER AND D. D. MORGAN, of Empire, came over from that town today and are stopping at the Blanco hotel. MR. ANR MRS. A. S. HAMMOND, ar rived in the city from their home at Coqullle today and will vist friends here. J. R. McDONALD, of Cacoma, ar rived in the city this morning oh a business visit and is a guest at the Blanco hotel. MUST POSSESS SILICA American Consei in China Writes to Portland Chamber of Commerce That Oregon Has a Great Future. Local Telephone Company Straight ening Things Ui Alter the Storm. Work on the repairing of the lines of tho Pacillc Telephone and Tele graph company between Marshfleld and North Bend will be completed this afternoon so that communica tion will bo reestablished, according to Mnnager L. R. Robertson, who was seen this morning. He also said that thero wero a couple of men working on tho Gold Beach line, which had been damaged by tho storm, and that It would bo in shape shortly. Tho lino to Roseburg was opened again this morning after being out of com mission for a short time. "Tho force of the storm appeared to bo stronger on tho coast than any whero else," ho said, "and the wires nearer tho ocean sustained tho most damage. All tho lines will bo in working order by this afternoon or morrow." Mr. Robertson Is awaiting tho nr rlval of a man from Portland on tho Breakwnter who will install a now switchboard at Coqullle for tho com pany. Tho now board will not tnko long to put in place and will result In a much better ser.vlco between Marshfleld and tho county seat. With in tho next two or threo months ho will havo a testing apparatus Install ed at this point for tho purposo of finding out whore breaks occur dur ing fatonns. No matter whore a wiro breaks this machine, under ordinary conditions, will locate tho vicinity of tho damage so that tho tlmo exponded in finding tho broken wiro as at pres ont will not bo roqulred. JUDGE HALL AND A. E. ANDER SON left this morning for Co qullle, where they will attend tho county court which is in session at that point today. MRS. U. S. SHAVER, wife of a rancn er of the Allegany district, has re cpvered from a spell of sickness during which sho has been iu tho North Bend hospital. MRS. J. H. PRICE and two children, of Allegany, Ore., wero pleasant visitors in Marshfleld today. Mrs. Price is correspondent for The Times in her home town and sends numerous items of interest to tho readers of this paper. The churches aud other places of worship in London can accommo date nearly a million aud a half poo plo nt tho same time. Horses, giraffes nnd ostriches havo, in proportion to their sire, largor eyes than any other living creature, MR. AND MRS. JOSEPH SOCCOMO NA, who live on an out of town ranch, have been mado happy by the advent of a little baby boy at tho Marshfleld hospital yesterday, where tho mother has been In tho care of Dr. Mingus. MR. AND MRS. J. S. GREENE left on the steamship Plant yesterday morning for San Francisco. Tho former will go to Texas and Colo rado for a couplo of months on a business trip, whllo the latter will visit rolatives at Pasadona, Cal during his absence W. ROSS SMITH, of Portland, son of M. C. Smith, master mechanic of tho Coos Bay, Roseburg & Eastern Railroad, is a visitor at tho homo of his father in this city. Ho has numerous friends hero who aro pleased to see him ngain. Both father and son expect to leave for Portland in a fow days to spond the holidays with relatives and and friends. MR. AND MRS. WILLIAM GRIMES, of Marshfleld, who havo been spending several months In Ok lahoma territory, will leavo for homo shortly according to tho Enid Weekly Wavo, of Enid, Okln. This paper states that they wero visiting friends In Enid for n fow days and loft for Kingfisher, from which point thoy will return to their homo In Orogon. An eastern Arm is seeking on tho Pacific coast a deposit of pure white sand, possessing a huge percentage of silica. It is presumed the object is the manufacture of glass or some commercial product not now pro duced on this coast. The firm has written to the Portland Chamber of commerce, asking for information as to the location of the new raw ma terial. "Any one knowing of such a de posit of sand will confer a favor by notifying Secretary Lyons of tho Marshfleld chamber of commerce. With no state appropriation to sup port the university's scientific men in making explorations or field Investi gations of any kind, Oregon's re sources are sadly neglected and it is almost Impossible to give tho cast any adequate information on most subjects that are Inquired from tlmo to time. Tho fact has frequently been brought out by Professor John Ful ton and other professors that Oregon needs to be better known to be appre ciated, and in order to make the ne cessary Investigations the state's scientific men should be kept In the field every summer during the vaca tion season. J. C. McNally, American consul at Nanking, in a communication to the Portland chamber of commerce, ad vises that Oregon commercial Inter ests should be alive to the immediate prospect that China will open Its doors to foreign commerce and indus try. He writes: "I believe Oregon has the greatest future of any of the Pacific coast states. My opinion was formed from a recent visit and careful Investiga tion. China Is about to throw open her doors to the commerce and Indus try of the world. By reason of Ore gon's geographical position she should command a fair portion of it. "His excellency Tuan Fang, vice roy of tho great provinces of Klangsu, Anhul and Klangsl, with a combined population of over 80,000,000, is also superintendent of the southerntrade, and besides being ono of tho most progressive, is tho most powerful official outsldo of Poking. "Ho resides at Nankin, and his modern ideas aro being put Into prac tical Improvements. This city, as well as others, Is about to welcome tho creations of western civilization, and tho time is opportune for estab lishing markets for Oregon products.". WfimiiW0VtM$$&!seatt t$jsfsSSgsjj2$2 ...JUST ARRIVED... THINGS MEN WILL APPRECIATE Hair Brushes Shaving Sets Collar and Cuff Sets Shirts Collars and Cuffs Neckwear Mufflers Coat Sweaters Umbrellas Hosiery Hose Supporters Initial Hdks, Silk Hdks Fancy Suspenders Suit Cases Traveling Bags Steamer Trunks Lounging Robes Bath Robes Smoking Jackets Sks? a! fa CO H 2 fx) O X Cuff Buttons Pajama Suits Hats Belts Arm Bands Gloves Military Brushes Shaving Mirrors Collar and Cuff Boxes Full Dress Sets Going home for V. v o m There are many new things you will want to wear and things you will .want to take home for presents, OPEN KVKNIXGS TILL CHRISTMAS t$&S&$3&&&UttS0Vb&!tiG31 iS0i - CO 4- ffi M Steering Wheels, Anchors, Bilge Pumps, Whistles, Dynamos, Batteries, Be'Is, Lamps, Oilers and Fittings of all Kinds. Gasoline, Distillate and Cylinder Oils In Any Quantity I; Coos Bay Water Front Near "A" Street JACK FLANAGAN opply . Phone 33 BILLLAWLOR 1 ! CHIPS TIIOM COQUILLE Newsy Items of tho Week Taken From tho Coquillu Herald. A workman named Roach was se verely Injured at tho Smith camp this morning and taken to the City hospital. Born. In Coqullle, December G, 1907, to Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Wilson a daughter. Born. At Myrtle Point, December 10, 1907, to Mr. and Mrs. M. II. De ment, a daughter. POUT OXFORD POINTERS. Como and buy your ornaments for tho Christmas treo boforo thoy aro all sold. Chas. Stauff. -"Wine- and water glasses at Mi ner's. Tho AVook's News Gleaned From tho Columns of The Tribune. Nat Dean mas stopped carrying mail between hero and Corbin, and has joined his family at Dairyvlllo. Judge Woodruff passed through Port Orford last week on his way to Myrtlo Point for medical treatment. W. T. White, Jr., has also located a homestead on Hubbards creok. This makes eight recent locations of young bachelors on that creek. Charles Jamleson and wife camo dawn from Bandon last week on a visit. Ho says that tho road through tho "green timber" is so bad that ho will not attempt to drive over, or under It, again this winter. Thero aro several cases of scarlet fovor at Bandon, and in consequence of It tho school has been temporarily suspended and precaution taken to prevent tho spread of this dreaded disease Rev. George II. Roach, despite the stormy weather filled his appoint ment In tho forenoon of last Sunday, but evening services wore not hold owing to tho sovero storm. A very pleasant party of young sters met at the Marr homo In town Monday night, in honor of Miss Syl via Clarno, who will leavo hero this week with her aunt, Mrs. John R. Miller. John Wllkonson, an old pioneer who has been stopping for a num ber of years at tho Kuapp hotel, Is now confined to his room with but llttlo hope of recovery. N. C. Nollson loft here on Mon day's stngo for Marshfleld, where ho has a lot of bolated goods badly need' od here. Ho will havo them shipped to this place if ho can get a vessel. Otherwise ho will sell them up thero. Tho steamer Redondo has been put on tho run lately between San Diego, California and Coos Bay, and will call In at Eureka. This will be a great convcnlonco to many of our citizens. seo her daughters, tho Misses Jessie and Agnes who aro attending St. Hellen's Hall in that city. J. P. Messer, of this city, who went to California recently to look at somo orange land belonging to R. S. Tyrrell, Sr. Ho and W. L. KIstner have made deposits with the under standing that they take tho land under certain conditions. Threo operations wero performed, at tho Western Oregon General hos pital yesterday, Mrs. Chas. Fox, Mrs. D, R. Lewis, and Mrs. E. G. Pierce being tho subjects. Dr. Mingus as sisted Drs. Culln and Richmond, and all , three patients aro doing niceljv Mrs. P. W. Barker, who recently underwent an operation at tho Gen eral hospital, Is out again and feel ing fine. Died. In Coqullle, December 5, 1907, Infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Wilson. The llttlo one was laid to rest in tho Masonic come tory on Friday evening, Rev. Jones preacued tho funeral. Born. On tho North vomber, 28, 1907, to Mr. Alva Lee, a son. Fork No and Mrs. Born. On the lower river Decem ber 4, 1907, to Mr. and Mrs. John Barrows, a daughter. Tho news comes 'from Eureka, California, that Mrs. Claronco Ed munds is very low and llablo to pass away at any moment. A letter from Mrs. J. P. Fi!e lately received by L. II. Hazard, of this city, conveys tho sad intelligence of tho passing away of her father and former resident of this city T. J. Little, which occurred on tho 2nd of this month at Los Angeles, California. The ontiro fleet of vessels' which havo been barbound In tho Coqullle for several days, succeeded In getting to sea on Friday. This will glvo tho Elizabeth and Bandon plenty of tlmo to return with Christmas goods or dered, which will bo a great relief to somo of the business men of the rlvor. , School Superintendent Bunch and family havo moved to town and now occupy the A. N. Gould cottago near the General hospital. J. B. Moomaw, the Arago hop raiser, who with his family spent the last season In California, and who returned some time ago, was in town Monday and informs us that tho indications are that the hop busi ness will be in much better shapo next season than It was last. Buyers, aro offering to contract already at ton cents. Thero Is a move on foot for a growers' combination. John Elwood, who lived with hi son, J. M. Elwood and family, of Rlv erton, died yesterday morning at 6 o'clock, nnd will bo burled near the homo today. The deceased was 87" years of ago and has been very feeble for a long time entirely helpless since last February. Paul L. Sterling, late of Drain, is now tho accomodating and courteous station agent at this city, since tho the resignation of P. J. Peralta. Married. In Coqullle, December 11, 1907, S. W. Johnson and Miss Gussle James, Rev. John Thomas officiating. Mrs. M. A. Tupper, of Hotel Co qullle, went to Portland last week to During tho last ten years as many people havo lost their lives through the plague In India as havo perished iu all tho wars since tho tlmo Napoleon. Wrestling Is tho national sport of Persia, and tho tournaments held to decide championships rival our football matches In popularity. The mignonette is the national flower of Spain. The period of incubation if? short est among humming birds, some of them hatching their eggs in ten days, land's area Is bog, jj t . if "Ml TT -r MUilW j. n-- i lljtflfij-- ft&tlijfcift-UM jUrBnT