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r TC 4 THE COOS BAY TIMES-MARSHFIELD, OREGON, MONDAY, MARCH 1, 1909 EVENING EDITION tt ?j & K! TJ V ft ft 1 i4H i . NfWS PROM ALL OVER COOS COUNTY MYRTLE POINT POINTERS. Upper Coqaille Valley News As Told by The Enterprise Operations have beea resumed on the oil well near Langlols, machinery for the drilling of the hole having arrived on a recent boat. It is ex pected to have the well sunk to the necessary depth in a short time. George Hermann cut a deep gash In his left foot with an ax while working at his logging camp across the North Fork river Monday. He will be laid off from work for sev eral days by reason of the accident. Dr. J. D. Wetmore is laying out a chicken ranch on a piece of land ad joining the Train ranch east of the city and intends to engage in the egg and chicken busines to an extent that will give his son employment during vacation. Rev. and Mrs. H. M. Branham went to the bay yesterday. Mrs. Branham is recovering from the ef fects of her recent operation, but the doctor having charge of the case wishes to keep posted regarding her condition and they went over to see him. N. G. W. Perkins and family left Wednesday for a trip into southern California, expecting to be absent a couple of months. During the ab sence of Mr. Perkins, F. E. Kane, a pharmacist from Michigan, who has been at Salem for a month, will as sist Mr. Flentge in the conduct of the business. The Smith Lumber Company of Marsbfleld has plans under way to reforest the lands logged over by Its employes, according to the ideas ad vocated by the forestry bureau of the department of agriculture. This is one of the first companies to under take such reforestization in the In terest of conserving the timber re sources of the country. It has been reported on the streets that the railroad company has under consideration the extending of Its line from here to Bridge during the coming summer, a distance of eleven miles. The extension is said to be contemplated for the purpose of bringing logs In from that section. No official announcement of the ex tension has yet been made. After all cases of scarlet fever had been cleared away and the families released from quarantine several weeks ago, and when -the community had apparently .got rid of the disease, several new cases have broken out and a number of families are now under quarantine. Some of the cases have been brought In from the surrounding country. Under strict quaraltine Itiis- probable that the new outbreak of-the disease will soon disappear. A. H. Snyder, .returned last week from a six-month's visit with friends and relatives In Idaho, Ohio, Michi gan and Pennsylvania. He Is look ing well, having gained In weight from 12S to 153 pounds, but he finds It difficult to write on account of his nerves. He had a rough trip from Portland to Coos Bay on the Eu reka, of which his son, J. II. Snder, Is chief engineer. When In Pennsyl vania he drove over the Alleghany mountains In a buggy when thore was six Inches of snow on the ground and the weather was cold. While he was In Idaho the Irrigation ditches overflowed n'nd his brother-in-law and nephews speared a bushel of fish with pitchforks. He had a very en joyable trip throughout. II.YRRIMAN si.vrv-oxi:. Mugiinto CVlilniitcd liny by Indul lua In Tnrurt Pmctliv. SAN ANTONIO, Tox March 1. E. II. Harrlnmn quietly celebrated his Cist birthday, February 25. He passed the morning In pistol and rifle practice, and said ho nover felt bet ter in his life Changed. Nell Mnud couldn't havo thought much of that fellow she married. Rcllfr-Why? Nell-She boasts that sho linVmndo another man of him. Phila delphia Record. CULLINGS OF COQCILLE. County Scat News as Told by The Herald. Ted Weber received a painful la- jury to one of his knees while work ing In Dashney's camp last Friday. He was taken to Marshfleld for treatment. Henry Goble of Eureka, Cal., ar rived here Monday and will enjoy a visit with his sister, Mrs. Bert Davenport, of this city, and many of bis boyhood friends hereabouts. T. A. Schrbeder, of Johnson's mill, left last week for California with his wife who has been somewhat broken In health for some time. Their many friends sincerely hope for early recovery. Jake Summers, an old Coos coun ty pioneer, Mexican war veteran and hero of Battle Rock, died at his home near Bandon last Thursday night, at the age; we understand, of 96 years. J. S. Lyons received a nice run about automobile by the last Eliza beth'. It is of the Maxwell make and a good and strong machine. Sev eral other parties in town have or dered machines. C. J. Fuhrman, the pharmacist who has been with R. S. Knowlton for the past year, has closed a deal with E. J. Slocum, by which he becomes the possessor of the Slocum drug store, next door to the postofflce. Mrs. Mary Luke, aged 70 years, 10 months and 11 days, died at the family residence In this city on Thursday night, the ISth Inst. Mrs. Luke came to this city from Illi nois about Ave years ago with her four sons, Ed. Ray, John and Jesse, who survive her, beside a daughter, Mrs. Minnie Schraner who lives In Indiana. Her husband preceeded her about 27 years. Adam Pershbaker who came up from Prosper Wednesday of last week to attend the funeral of his old pioneer friend, J. T. Moulton, tell us that he had recently received a letter from John and Robert Beaty who are now visiting their old home In Scotland. They complained of the cold weather and other things very distasteful to them, and expressed a desire to be back in old Coos again. BONDS ARE VOTED. Myrtle Point Will Improve Its Water System. MYRTLE POINT, Ore., March 1. The total vote on the lsue of $22,000 waterworks bonds was but (43; 41 being In favor of the bonds, and only 2 In opposition to them. The tax paying voters of Myrtle Point voted on the proposition of authorizing the issue of additional water bonds in the sum of $22,000, this amount to be used in installing iron pipes in place of the leaky wooden ones now used In the city water .system, and for the lmproement of the system generally through the repairing of the reservoir and the building of an other reservoir at the Intake. According to the city charter only tavpajers on real property were al lowed to vote, and a woman tax-payer has the same rights as a man In the election. But one woman availed herself of the oppotrunity offered to cast a ballot. HAD NARROW ESCAPE. JIKs riorenre Bouewitz, Victim of Peculiar Accident. MYRTLE POINT, Ore., March 1. Miss Florence Bonewltz Is gradually recovering from injuries received some dnys ago. While walking along the plank way across the rier she slipped and fell. One of her limbs caught and her head hung Into a pool of water about two feet deep which nlmost strangled her. Her limb was badly wrenched. One of Albert Bark low's sons was with her and succeed ed In releasing her from her predica ment and getting her to his father's house, where she has since been car ed for. BRIEFS OF BANDON. Everybody stumulos, but no man need He In the mud. Gentleman. ALLIANCE WILL SAIL AT 7::lO A. M. FROM MARHHFIKLD, Wl.l). MCSDAY, MVRCII U. A few EXTRA copies ofSaturdays Times containing pictureapd descrip tion of Marshfteld's SiS) 1U(W SCHOOL can be obuhied jU Th Time' ofllee. MAILKD to any AD DRESS la the United States for FIVE CENTS oach. GOOD HVY ?20, Haines. News of Clty-By-Tlie-Sca as Told by The Recorder. Mrs. Nancy Foster Cox died at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs J. L. Foster, on Four Mile, aged 21 years. A. N. Anes had the misfortune to get his leg badly wrenched last Thursday while shoeing a horse. The horse threw its weight on Mr. Ames, bending his leg to the floor and causing a bad sprain of the liga ments. He has been around on crutches part of the time since. The radishes were of the long red variety and were of exceedingly fine flavor. Mr. Anderson also has some cauliflower heading out and has other winter garden stuff that has grown right along regardless of the stormy weather, and they grew out doors too. If people in the east really knew what we have out here they would be running over each other to get here first. CURRY COUNTY NEWS. S. H. Morse, United States Post- office Inspector who was here last Friday, says that Oregon "looks good to him" and he will move out here with his family In the near fu ture. Of all the places Mr. Morse visited while in the west, and they were many, he likes Bandon and Roseburg the best and says he will locate at one of these places, with the probability in favor of Bandon. Events of Interest There A Told by Port Orford Tribune. Unless Mr. Adolphsen receives a better offer for his lumber he will not run his Elk river ml'.l during the coming season. Mr. Henshaw of Marshfleld, has started a writing school here. He will give two lessons an evening, one in writing and one in drawing. L Anselmo leaves on the Fl field for San Francisco where he will be gone for a few weeks on a business trip, the main object of which is to secure machinery for a new Ice plant which he will erect and run in connection with the brewery and bottling works. Mr. Anselmo recent ly purchased the brewery from George Gehrig and will remodel and improve the same to a considerable extent, and with the ice plant will conduct business on a large scale. Franz Tomsen of the Star Ranch, left for San Francisco Saturday. He 'goes for the purpose of securing 'men, whom he will employ on his J dairy ranch during the milking sea Ison. Since Mr. Tomsen has dlscard jed his milking machines, he will need more men than formerly. LAKESIDE RIPPLES ? -a-a-B-a-a-a-B-a-a-a-a-a-a (Special to The Times.) LAKESIDE, Ore., March 1. C. E. Nicholson of the Coos Bay Ice & Cold Storage Company, was In Lakeside recently In conference with the local dairymen. Mr. Nicholson is trying to complete arrangements for the Ten Mile dairymen to send their cream to Marshfleld the coming season. August Erlckson was In Lakeside Friday on business. thanking Mr. P. L. Cimlno for his services In carrying the mall before It was made a star route, he having only missed three trips during the entire winter. Cbas. Cal I ft has the misfortune to have to go to Roseburg again with his witnesses and make another proof of his timber claim on the Sluslaw. Mr. Cal Iff acquired the claim about four years ago, but ow ing to the copy of the proof being lost by the government he never received a deed for the property. A new porch has been ordered built the Lakeside school house. Henry Lilllman of North Lake, was a Tlsltor In Lakeside Friday. F. P. Crick had the misfortune to lose a valuable milk cow the other day. Thomas Anderson brought a bunch of radishes to this office last Saturday that he had grown out of doors this winter, and it might be added that thfc was not the only bunch he raised, as he brought a large number of bunches down to the hotel Gallier the same afternoon. The steamer Flfleld lay In our har bor over Friday night, presumably waiting for the tide to serve on the Coqullle bar. Her whistle wa6 the first one to wake the 1909 echoes around Port Orford, but It was only a delusion as s9e dropped anchor In the bay and failed, to come through with any of the long-looked for freight. ALLIANCE WILL SAIL AT 7:30 A. M. FROM MARSHFIELD, WED NESDAY, MARCH 3. Try LILLIAN COAL. Phone 1631 MIlo Plerson has returned from a visit with friends and relatives In Marshfleld. Otto Meutzel has leased the saw mill formerly run by Meutzel & Son, and will continue to do business at the old stand. Cbas. Norrls is planning a new addition to the Lakeside Inn. It will consist of ten new and up-to-date rooms and a large dining room. Miss Rich McDonald has been en gaged to teach the Schutter school for the coming summer. This Is Miss Rich's first school and her friends wish her a world of success. A few EXTRA copies of Saturday's Times containing picture and descrip tion of Marshfleld's NEW HIGH SCHOOL can be obtained at The Times' office. MAILED to any AD DRESS In the United States for FIVE CENTS each. Use The Cooa Bay Times Want Aft Mr. David Holden lias been notifi ed that he will take charge of the mall route Monday, March 1. 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