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About The Coast mail. (Marshfield, Or.) 187?-1902 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 22, 1902)
J ' wymv f wvipH7 W w ,??5pL - IT rTfrar; f? ' m -.m , -. -...,(,. ,,. m W ltiimlWMMHlOH liiinmy 1 Jjiy W9i I . v V -MTTr 'wwi ; v '" lT S9PW . " u.JBRfcV.. ' , iiiiBi'liliBi,(rt''''i'r ?? ft jj& -ft , f wrflMM6iHn '"HM.'''"" 1 41 COAST MAIL. 8ATURDAY, NOV UKJU Published Every Saturday by the - Mail Publishing Co. SUBSCRIPTION KATI& Chic yew, In advance) .$1.50 bit months , , 1.00 Three months " '.V,o t;.co will hr clurgotl when not utU in ml -n TIMKTO WAKEUP j Arc Marehfield business men and property owners nware that the situa tion is rapidly forming which they' havo heifer had to deal before? If not, they would bettor begin to do eoiuo serious thinking. ' MarsbQeld has never iind a rival. Her eituation has siren her tho lead of any other placo on tho bay,so iongos the nat ural eituation alone had to bo dcalt.with. But any one who will koop bis eyes open now will eeo that anothcrclemoat is en tering into tho problem the element of puth and enterprise tho clement which brings towns aud cities to Iho front and often makes them outstrip rivals for more favored by nature. There Is going to be a new town fur ther down tho bay, tho first thing we know, and no one need have tho slight est doubt that it will bo a hummer. Evary one understands by this time that the gentleman who is behind the hew town of North Bend doesn't do bl igs by halve?, and even this eatffn ""tho day It can be coeu that the new town will baa go; that cnouch manu facturing plsnta will bo established thereto support quilo u population; and there is no donbt but an effort will be made to get n share of tho country trado which now comes to Marshfleld. The Impression also prevails with eotno, that inducements will be offered to tho C. B. R. & E. R. R. to extend its lino and make its terminus at the new town. In fact it teems that the modern spirit is permeating (ho new cntcrpriee. Of course the new Impulse given will not hurt Marshfield; that isn't the point. But this taw n should net be contented to simply sit and toko what falls in its lop, while other places aro reaching out aud taking tho choice frui h'or will it do any good to set up a howl or to try to cry down the work of others. Tho town must arouse itself and tako an ac tive, not a passivs partjn Iho .friendly race for supremacy, and try to at least 1 i kcop up with tho procoeeion. This is a matter which merita consul. eration, and Marehfield would better out its thinking cap on. WHAT'lS 'MARSHFIELD DOING ' An editorial in the Mail a low daye ago, suggesting that Marehfield people would better wiiko un if they do not want to get left, has routed eome com- taent, favorable and otherwise. By 1. .. . 1 some it was taken as a boos; for tho j.'i Spreckels subsidy , and .by others as a wr .. -,ti , ( -w clap at Marehfield. It rrjtaeitbcr but was a simple statement o! facta. ,' , - Nowtbeorganlzation of a fociely to n.dyance the interests of North Bond helps to omphatiro tho unaccountable inertia ol MarahOold. Wo say, un accountable, for it can not bo InU to such slmplo lack of enterprisers pro yalls in ronio communities. Marshfiotd people nro live, cnergetiu aud liberal. Thero Jis no plnco on tlin cocet whoro money can bo moro easily raited (or anything which appeals to popular judgments a good thing. Tho pcoplaaronot itiugy nor dull. They aro prosperous and can p fiord to put up lor what theyjwant. Then why is it that thero seems to bo no desire to tako advantage ol tho prtt ont opportunity to push Mnnhflold ahead. Tho advertising which Coos Bay has been getting this Bummer has di rected tho thoughts 61 people all ovor the United States, llundrods of them havo come hero to seo fcr themselves; thousands havo sent inquiries. Aud theso pcflplo who havo coaio or written are not of tho pauper class. T.'.oy have been locking for investments and for business openings..' What has Marshfield done to cncourJgo them to como hero or to mako invest ments hero? Marehfield has n Chamber of Com merce. What has It dono in tho last two years? It has tried to get an ap propriation for tho bar Improvements, which waB a good thing to do so far ns U went; but has it dono anything clso? Isn't Marshfield equal to anything more in tho naiare-of enterprise than asking an appropriation 0! Unc'.o Sam? Tho manifold Inquiries which havo como here have found nothing prepared for a response better than a copy of tho Coast Mail containing a brief deicrip tion of tho country, prepared in a hurry and,in many ways very incomplete and unsatisfactory. If tho many Btrangora V ho havo como hero with money to Invest havo met with anything but discouragement from the general public sentiment in Mareh field, tho fact has not como to light. This is not tho way to build up n town. Tho Mail is not attempting tc point out tho way. It has no desire to poso as a loader. Hut it would liko to eeo the Marsbficld people tako advant age of tho situation, and w ill bo only tco gfcd to r.ssieLjin (any work undertaken to advance tho interested! tho town. TOO BAD What a pity it is I That-coal expert went and camo hero and ato pod at a hotel and visited Glasgow 0 my day for a week and examined the coal prorosi tion thero and noverBpread tho tidingc of what ho was hero for. Then he drew t hio own conclusions and made .favorablo report' without ever consulting the knock ors. Just think of tho fund of informa " ... tionsand opinions andeuggcBtlonahoneg lcct to drew on. Ho heard enough while bitting around the hotel to draw forth tho obEcrvnticn that a ucoJ many people horo seems t9 ba gppoaoJ to all , new, 1; enterprises. But Glasgow? IJowf mucji : ho could have heard about that, if ho' had only mado hfc bueinesa known. It is a darned shame. THE BUKI J50LIPSK. "Ratseless fabrication" Is what tho Mail terms Tho Sun's statement concern ing tho wildcat towutltu of Hanger. Knowing tho (nets no tho Mail man does, its position In rendered ridiculously absurd: but trim to Its constituent n denial la ttntorod. Tho artful sophist carefully uvndes every material point nt Issue, but layj great stress upon tho ''dig up or gut off the land' and "within live days.1' Wo in ado tlieso statement) on henrmy arid yhlln tho tliuo limit In not vtrlully correct, tho "dig up or uot oil tlio liuul, H truo to moral cortiuu ty nml our Informant Mumlx ready to prove tho satuo (or niiy interested party. Thl- question as oll ns what the owner ol tlili una might nave said cuts n very small tlgaro in tliU matter, elnco tho Mall has oxnlalnttd "that thn tuouuy do posited on iiiuipjr lotn is tiod up in rituh a way that It u deed cannot lio glvon nhon th? proper ttiun coiuoi tho rnonoy will bo roturuf-d.'' If chullengos aru in order wo will defy tho Mall to point out one foot of laud In tho county that in owned ,hy tho Great Central or nuv ol its allied corporations, etvvo two small right-of-uay deeds to the belt line, and that is of record. Ilnvinn "got" con nected with n hunch nl tho Crcat CVn- tral'ti "clue." tho Mall fancies that nil aro out (or tho "tamoleons" oven if It's ucci-ssary to bo subsidiicd through tho extra copy craft. So it is "an evasion of ovory inalnrinl point at isiuo" to provo that on the ONLY point at issue whether or not tho owner of tho Hangor townsito had "within five days" (or any othornum bor of days, (or that matter) ordered the Gruat Contral to "dig up or get off tho laud" tho Sun'o statement was nb solutoly falso, with not a shadow ol foundation in fact. It will bo' noted that, having placed Mr. Eckhoff in a falro position, on "hearsay," tho Sun still lacks tbo journalistic courtesy to come out squarely and set him right be fore its rcadort, No donbt'tln Sun'a Informant, "hear say," does "stand ready to provo tho same," or any old thing. Hut tho news- pipor that ralass an itsue ol veracity between itself and Frod Kckhofi, on Coos Day, is displaying poor Judgement, to say the least. As to the fact that tho Great Central has not yet takon up tho deed to tho Bangor townute, that is a matter about which thero hao been no question or controversy. Everybody knew all about it all tho titno. Tho children on tbo etrcet knew it. And yet it seems that tho poor Hun has been treasuring th&t as a bombshell to ox plod 0 in tho Great Central cunp, if tlio"eamoleons" didn't show up. Well, well! Wo aro surprized st the Sun. And here is another one, calculated to blow tho Mail sky .high the "extra copy graft," by which tho Mail "got connrcted with a bunch of tho Great Central glue." That Is tho extra copies of tho weekly to which wo referred tho day boforo yestorday, as being tho only literaturo dcecriptive oi Coos Bay avail. abe to Bend to inquirers, Tho Mail did get connected with n bunch of Great Contral gluq, that timo; also with a bunch of II, 8ongstacken'o gluo, n bunch of R. E. Bhinc'a glue, a birtich of ' D. Brown'e gluo, and benches horo and thero "from other pavtieo., Wo nro etl 11 getting bunches about the size of a nickel every day or two, and havo quite a liUlo stack of tho papers lelt. Only fivo, canto a copy. Send some to your frienda. I U ! H. Yes, tho U(eat Contral tcok quito a numbor of tbosepapsra: and, incredi- i h., uuu, ui.,uu4 lttgglt)te14MWttMsN8WtHalttt INone but the I eotiHlantlv furnish the biwt mid printout of tni'idfi, which given mo the Tcotillilenco of my pntroin. SVIfciA I 53 AHt A NECESSITY but it li necesmiry thtit they bo puro Sand wholiMoinp. I do not promlio n Pdlscouut, but I will give yon lumiwt i sand MtirteotH tiviitmont nml value n'ocelvud fur your niotioy Sutliiftie- I'tlon gimruntoixl or cash refunded. MABSKFiELD GASH , HKMRV UOLM, Prep. 0O3iiHioC'0e4aa9cto;8eBVr98cei! t K-H-l---H-HHK44fHii4H- innm :: escape :: GRIPPE DEBILITY aiteasuf, uttr EMUI.RION OK COD I.1VKK OH. WITH HYl'OPHOHI'lUTKS OK LIME AND SODA is prccis6ly tho remedy needed. It . 1110 ncrvuun nun inuscuinr nroiom, incrnuren inn weiuui nun uuiiiib up wiu . . V vitality. Uestoi all cmulslous bcca'Uto SEN6STACKE1VS Marslificld, H-l--H-W-H--H-H---H-l-H-H- blocs it may appear, we got our money for thorn. If tho Sun would get out a, number worth tending nwav, it might "got connected with n bnnch of Great ' Central glue," itrel(. Hut we will make r. wild guosj, right now, that tho Sun will bo disappointed in its present ambition to make connec tion by the other route. NOMINATING CAUCUS MEETS THIS EVENING Attend tho caucus in I. 0. 0. K. hall this evening and help nominate candi dates for councllmun to succeed liclsou and Eickworth. Mr. Nelson cxprosHOS n willlr.gacsa to servo another term If tho people wish him to do so, aud no doubt he will bo lenomcnatcd and eiectod, Mr. Eickworth said positively to a Mail representative yosterday that ho would declino a nomination l( it were tendered him, but possibly ho could bo prevailed upon to rcconoldor. If nuy one wjints to go up ajjalnst W. II. fi. Ilydo for recorder, ho has not made his ambition (.'anorally known. However, tho citizens should tako enough interest n town off aim to turn out and attend tho caucus. "t ' o- n STfeAMEh COULDN'T LOAD , (Port Orford Tribuno) Tho Btcaninr Chico, formorly tho Alien Hlanchard, arrive'd in our harbor Wednesday, fdr tho purpoFO of taktn about 250,000 feet of lumber for tho V, V. A It. Co. Unfortunately, ohortly aftor hor arrival ono of the worat storms of tho season camo on, which has con tinued, with slight cessation, up to tho prcsont timo. Tho etnarnor lay at tho wharf until Friday, ridinu out the gale of Thurtdayahd Thursday night, , but thero boirg no Indication of a moiidrV- fion of tho weather, and having parted Jnoveral lineo, alio pulled out,'1 having I . . 1 , , ...J., , , taken on ooarj oniy nbout 80,000 feet of J Best of Meats1 tViiiAT MARKET! N I'rou delivery. Plume 181 -Jfc. Grlpne In bad ououuli; wlmtcomonnltrr is worse. It is rtniimonlv followed by n stubborn cough, norvoiti prontra- t tion and lark of vitality just tho condition to invito other t stops thn ntuhborn oouuli, it (trcngthnnn,; ; alwaya (rush. PHARMACY, Orcjjon H-H-H--H--ll--H-H"J-H- K mmM oyymfcJI JMOTMAnm lutnlier. Threw of tho stuamor's men woro hurt, 0110 quito i,orlotuly, by a h ,ns ,,IU,' ff,,llu nt ,ho w,,nrf' Engine Company Meets Engluu Company Ko. 1 held n moot ing last rvenlng, t which W A Toye, John K Hall, J W Tibbettn, C A Wood ward, Jati WatKou, f, It Itolcrtion, .loliti Utnulf, Auk Karluy and Hrnuett Swan ton wure present. VO Pniltnnd It W Ewnntlon wero elected new tnumbom. " A motion v.r.i make and carried that an invitation lw nrcordml to Una other comjmiiius of thu Marshfibld Flro De- partrnent to meet at the Kugitin llouso on Mondfiy Nov. 2ith, nt 1:30 p m to untie nrranccmoutn (or tho annual' Christmas ball mid make it an annual Kile Department Dance. Prosper Mill Chanires Hands- (Coqitlllo Herald) Adam l'erohbaknr. thu ontorpriufng and huatling sawmill man, inerchftiit of Proopur hail bold his largo mid valua ble holdltigo In Coo'i county cousistiuit of a good and well located saw mill, n otore of general merchnndUo nml a largo amount o( fine timber lauds, tq tb.o (Inn oj Sudden b Chriiitonccn, of San Francisco. The.se , gonljuimin nro to bo congratulated upon thoir purchaso hpwover, tlioy Imvo hnd a goo.l chatiup to form a vory fair ldo.i of what tlioy havo purchased, and litivu not ntml9"n pigin-n-puko" n bargnin uu thoy have handled tho output of thu mill in tho murhoto nl California for Novernl yoars, and am thoroughly conversant with thu lmolneni from (lrht to last. Whllo wo Volcotno those gontlomon among i, wo aro exceedingly tarry to duo so btnncli accotnmodutlug and thoroughly roliablo n busincea man us Mr Poruhb.ikar atop out of tho ranks, However, Mr, lVrehi bakor roservod hia nlco homo near the mill and will romnln horo,