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About Weekly coast mail. (Marshfield, Coos County, Or.) 1902-1906 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 20, 1904)
i. j.(t,- mmtmrwnttfofr,&0?&WaMMUVt1iV tM w,44v,?!v-w-;i,,-,,i -'- S$j?T '!"'' f ' n hi V i i ; T l) H'" l t i f i ;. i t H -. WEEKLY COAST MAIL MARSHFIELD, OREGON Entered In the Postoff Ice at Marskfitld A3 Second CUsi Matter. COOS BAY PUBLISHING P. C, LEVAR, F. X. HOFER, Editors and Managers TELEPHONE, MAIN 451. DAILY; By mail, for advance payment only, 30 cents a month; 4 months for $1.00. When not-paid in advance the price Is 50 cents per roonin, siraigm. Isjucd every morning except aionaay WEEKLY Isjned Every Saturday. Terms: In Ad vance, $1.50. a y;ar, Si. 00 Six Months. "Hie Barkeepers' View The Medford Mail prints the following poem without indicating its authorship. It preionta ft'eido of the drink question cot often taken into consideration, and tho author is too modest in not father Ins it. I havo read about tLo follow With the spark of manly pride. , Who never blames it on the boots, Whatever may betide. And Iv'o heard another story Of tho weak degenerate elf, "ho always blamed it on the booscj And never on himself. Although we may condemn hln, Yet we must admire the chap Who has the moral courage ,T6 Acknowledge his mishap: But we have no hope or patience For the hypocrite or sham Who striveB to blame the booie for wrongs Inherent in tbo man. In tbo wild, chaotic eplendor ,01 a milk-and-water ju.r, If his ugly disposition Buns him up against a snag, lln will thrash his wife and children He will smash up all his pelf, And blame tho damage on the boose , Instead of on himself. if he antes up a nicklo .In a quiet game ot "poke", Jest to make it interesting, .nd he quits the table broke, As his fellow members "touch him" For tbo balance of his pelf. lie will blame the whole proceeding On tho boore and nut himself. It he makes a business failure Where he Should have made success, And tho credit-mcugers flag him ,With tho signals of distress. Ae they take his final- dollar And inter him on tho shelf, He'll attribute bis misfortunes To the boose and not himself. And thus he'll go on boczing And blaming jutt thueamo Until bia life becomes a streak Of mingled boozo and blamuZ . And when tbe final summons come 'That land him on thoehelf His friends will blame it to tbe boore Just as be did himself. APOLOGIES TO THE COUNTY COURT 1 On maturer reflection we have concluded that an injustice was clone to tho gentlemen composing the county ooort, in n recent editoral commenting on thoir award of tbe county printing. When one Is yery familiar with cer tain facts, it sometimes seems to him that everyone else mnst alto be familiar with them, TbuB, to one who knows abjOUt what the circulation ot the differ crent county papers really is, itecemed as through tho county court ought to recognize tbe fraudulency of a very much overstuffed list, at a glance. fr But th.o fact Ja that nearly every one not familiar with tho iacja h&H a greatly exaggerated idea 0! the circulation of tbo ordinary country paper, and If the county court was deceived it Is not to wondered at. Aa a general rule, news paper men ate as honest and have aa groat a degree of Eolf-ref poet, as jealous a regard for their ropntatfon and gb much reluctance to laying themeelve" liable to a term in) Ike penitentiary, so the ordinary citieeh; eo that it would not ocour to t&pounty, tourtt "that the if . . ,1 t 't.J psoprietorw a nowiHptsBgi'aewspaper wli.by-r. hjULto Umm k rety tIMitf titeikl.iti b. M i ii .iii i The gentlemen of tlio county1 cOnrl x 111 plfAEo accept our nrolotttfs for" any undue eovorlfy in tbo comments hero toforo made. , HS WHY FAYOIfTllK JAPANESE? The eentlmont in Marshfield tcctua to bo strongly in favor of tho Japanese in thoir now struggle with Russia. It is bard to toll why this should bo so, un less it is from tho renimeat of aduiha tion for the norm ot thn little brown men In undertaking aa big a-,cootract as whipping one of the greatest powers of tho world, America certain! bss little to gain hv thn trinmnh of tho Jap'JJne;e. It would result ia the adoption bffi tort of "Atia fbr Asiatics" policy by Japan and China that would promise nothing for thespMadof American' (rade or in fiuence in that part 0! tho world.- On the other hand, Russia has dis played a Iriendllness for tho United 'states and an inclination to favor tills country that should not bo forced. , In any cato, If is nol likely that Undo 6am will get mixed up, in tho scrap, for thero is ho good reason why he should not retain tho friendship ot 1 both theto powers. NOTICE OF SliERIFrTlALE ON EXECUTION police is nereur given uiai unuer uu by virtue ot an execution, and order cf tale duly issued out of and under th ,iW.K seal ol the Circuit Court of tbe State of me sppiKanii, bwiou wuou .... Oregon, In and far the CouAty pi Coof. ' gj tnat hete applications were made tbe 6th day of February 1004. upop a judjtmeut and decree rendered in a cause ! ..T.I I'm.... am it.i Utl. .! ( Bantam. in oaiii wuiyuu lug nm w.; v. wv,'..- bcr 1003. Wherein Dora Hermann, was Plaintiff and Geo. U. Holcomb, Ida Holcomb, John Garamill. Thomas K. Spencer, apd Coos Bay Iind Co. wero Defendants, beine case No. 2078. of said I .- ' L,i - . t-. I- .1 v...M r..U.-. ....--.--... xno certain real property norem iiwr ptrtlcnlarly irtttcrlbed, to satUfy thw turn ot Two Tbovaanu tour uunorca Thhtv Eight and 7CM0O Dollars, (12,438.70). and interest at Eight (8) per cent ter annum, from September 14th, rji03 and the further sum of One Hun drtd and Kitty Dollars (160 00) attorney for, alio the sum 01 Two Hnmrrcu uttv Two and 40-100 Dollars ((252.46) prlncl- nal and interest for taxes together with inUrest thereon at eight (8) percent per annnm from September 14tb, 1003, and for her ccta and diaburremonts in this suit, now due on said Judgment to thn siid Platntlff from said Defendsntr. I have levied upon and will on Monday tho iJtb day of March, 1901, at tbefront. door ofthe County Court House, in tho town of Coquille, in said Coos County, of the State of Oregon, at tbe honr of 10 o'clock a. ra.. offer for sale and sell at, public auction, according to law, to tho highest bidder for cash In bnd, all the following described real property to-wit: 'orbeaH iiaMlCT. and the Wett half of the Southeast quarter, and Ix)ti Two all in Section Thirty-six, (30) in Township Twenty-five (2o), South of. Ranee Thirteen (13) West of tbe WII lamette Meridian, all in the County of Coos and Stato of Oregon, and all other right conveyed by John and Uora Por mon to Geo. U. Holcomb by deed 'dated May nth. 1690, or a sufficiency thereof to eatiefy tbe above amounts together with accrnlnir cost and ccete on said execution. Dated at Coquille this tjio 10th day of February, 1W4, f SnrnKK GLHcrt, Sheriff of Coos County, Oregon, Hall & Hall. Attorney for Plaintiff, Bill of Fare of the El Dorado Hotel (Uangtown now Plecerviile, Cel.) In tbe palmy days of pioneer life, , 1819, when they bad two gradtaol hash "low grade" and "18 caraU" "Beef p.p along" waa another dainty dish, un known to the modern culinary ecionbe, C5 years bring conaiderable change, even in the hotels, SOUP . Bean f 1.00 Oxtail ebort Beef Mexican, prhno cut Beef Upalong Beef I'luln Beef with ono potato fair size Beet tame from the btatoa i VEGETABLES Baked Bean a plafn ' Baked Beans greased " tl 60 1 60 1 0 1 00 1 25 1 60 76 1 00 DO M. Two potatoes medium 6ize , Two potatoes peeled ENTRES nv Saurkraut Bacon fried Bacon Btuffed Hath low grade l 00 1 00 1 60 l Hash 18 caratai' .. GA;MB i 1 00 GflBh baMsrpa'i? 16 jGrml roast I'Gtiih tilti n l.W JackjrnuhK wholo . lWSrilY RIes nuiidluc nloin -7k Rice pudding.wlth jilolassoa 1 Ov Rice pudding with brandy peachfs 3 00 Square mcnl with uosiort a y PatadIu lit advance Gold tcalca on tho end of tho bar GREAT LAND EXCITEMENT , Protect to Gompel the Southern Oregon Company to Sell Land Thero ivas romo 'excitement Tuesday occasioned by a number of pooplo mak ing application to purcbaio lands from tho Southern Qregolt Co. It seems that theso people wero organising tor the pur- poto ot compelling tho Southern Oregon Co, to sell its lands, held under tho old wagon road grant, at 2 50 per acre. They each cclrctod a quarter section of theso lands and mado a written appli cation to the company for tho pnrclresiv of it.tendcriog tho $2.60 an aqro in writ Ing and demanding a deed and , Also claiming tho right to purchase '.'ader the federal grant, These applications were taken down to Einplroond pres ented to Mr. Shine the secrbtarv of the company. A suit will be brought by pne of tho applicants in tho federal court nt Portland to compel tho company tq make a conveyance lor tho money offer ed. . -- , McKnlehtA Seabrook the attorneys for ' . " , , . .... pursuant to a riSht given to tho general pabHc by tho original act of congress r Tha,tact was a grant to the state of Oregon in tho aid ot tbo construction of a military wagon road of certain lands in Coos and Douglas counties, and it was I. . ... ,, , . ,"-- . - .honld soil tho lands ai tho work on this road progressed and that they were to bo used exclnelyely in the cdnstrnctlon of the road. The grant was made upon tbe express condition, incorporated in tbe act that I ti1P .,( .hnnl.1 an ilmlandi In nnntl.' ... ties not greater than a quarter section and for 0 prIco not excecdln(r 2.f50 an acre. Tbc Stato of Oregon transferred tbjs it ,, , ' ' grant subject to all its conditions and provisions to the Cojs Ilay Wagon Road ' ' " Co., who in torn, through several purlieu bftve trane( ed t do n , b(y t ' ' the Southern Oregon Co. The attorfaeys claim that tho 8tatp of y ' Oregon took tbo original grant ae a trnstee, for two purposes, 1st to cell to whoever wonld apply for the said lands at prices not exceeding f.C0 an acro,2nd to apply tbe proceeds ot such sales to the building ot tho road, Tboy further claim that congress did not intend that tbo State of Oregon rdiould bavo any beneficial interest in tho title to tho lands beyond thn f 2,60 an acre but did intend that the'roadbo built and tho country settled by persons who would buy at 2.C0 an aura. It is tbereforo as eertcd that anyone could bay these slandB, at $2.60 an aero from the State, and aa tbo Stats conveyed down to the J Southern Oregon Co. no more title than t bad, tho Southern Oregon Co. now elands in the eame place the State for morly did. It is also claimed that con gress in tho origin! grant endeavored to prevent just what has happened. That is to say a speculative monopoly fn thoie lands. The express Injunction that tho lands were to be disposed of in quanti ties not exceeding a quarter section to any one person, waa to prevent Any One acquiring It in a body and'holding back tbe prosperity and settlement of4 a whole county. Tho limitation set upon the price at $2 CO an a'oro was to proven tbe State or any one from speculating on it, from holding it until better prices I cpuld bo obtained. These applicants are therefore per euaded that tbo trustee of tho landa, whether (tlidt-rtsee, be the Stato of Oreson''the Coot'Bay WtrgWRoad Co, or the Southern Oregon 06'.' must sell to the first bbWiHo'BiVW, must fake' the fifii opportunity 'to get , their f 2.60 an acre out M th land, 1 ' It l&ld certainly ho n C?oWndS to ) lthls county If Measw. MoltuljiUt Scaj brook Are correct in thoir view ot tlwj law. for It would break tho hold up thld county has been suffering front for years. Tho Southern Oregon Co. IiOlds title tin der this grant to almost 00.0W (teres in thta county which they hnvo constantly refused to soil any portion ot and upon which ttuv jifly n wry email nniquut of taxes, and It wmild certainly benefit thla county it thti etasnatlou policy Was forcod nut In tho I'ntorcitn of progress and prosperity, SCHEME TO' RAISE FJJNDS So Mr. Shine Calls Seabrook and MdKdlght's Move EorTCm Mail;- Voor Isiuo ot to J ay contains n long artlclo on tbe iogonlpni schoruo recently concocted by Messrs Seabrook & MuKulght to raise fundi In connoctlou 'with the plan to compol jho Southern Oregon Company to soil choice portions ot their property at a price of 13,60 an acre, Tho article is in your editorial col umns and the natural inference is that it presents an editorial and impartial ytew of tho situation. ' In jnstlco to tho company and to tho public, tho MAIL might have stated that the arllclo in qi'eatton was wrltton sole ly by the attorneys concerned in tho scheme and insorted verbatim in vour editorial columns. We hayo no. com plaint againct Seabrook cc McKnfght. This monoy-maklng scheme is la their line ot business but It is hardly cuulet ent for a newspaper with such profess ions of business morality to givo tho at torneys tho free nao of their editorial columns and tho apparent sanction of tbe Mail in advertising their ono-aided brjefpf tbecaiS. Tbe atatoment mde in Seabrook A McKnight'a editorial, that "tho South ern Oregon Co. pay a yexy small amount ot taxos on their property!', is untruo, and unjuat to tho company and to the proaont and past officials ot Cooa county, Tho Co.'a property is assessed ap high if not higher than other similar proporty in tho county. Aa is well known, they ore by fa- tho largest tax-payers in tho county, and pay their proper and legal proportion of all tixes. M pro than that, If tho maker of thh off hand statement will look up tho record, ho will find that EVERY AORE owned by (be companjims beep asiossed since tho land waa originally patented. As to this land echeme, as briefed in Seabrook & McKnight'a editorial, tho company bus no anxiety about tho out come. Ifhe snbecrlbetB to the "war fund" had.'pansed In their hurry to get rich quick, and taken time to obtain ro liable Information, they woujd now be ahead financially. The question of non-observance' of eons of thoclaues and technicalities lb, Connection with tbo original act has already, been passed upon by tho Unitod States court, and in three solta brought by tbe Unitsd States against tbe com pany to eettlo such questions the United States jtao defeated and tho tltlo of the Southern Oregon Co, upheld and con firmed on general grounds covering thla pre?ent allegation, which Measrs. Sea brook & McKnlght have recently and mysteriously discovered. In thla echeme I hp lawyora, wljl divhlo tho epolle, Their clientage must havo tii6 gambling bump largely "developed. If any ot tho "elect" hopo that their donation of 15 to Soabrook & McKnight will bring them a prizo in thla lottery, thoy will be disappointed. "fynnri l-nl.. 4VUtl U , I B. E, Suink MARSHFIELD BOARD ..- f TRADE ORGANIZED 11 ii 1 0 ' MnUaeaomMFat-e. ', i . ,. L .L '' If't 'ItiiL taxtf para vj me party. It waf explalasd thai tbo t -J ditea wero to proviilo a haslo fund to woik on to hlrongocd man to do Ulfo nearssury derica) work e!c,aml todevoto hla tltuu to tho work of tho Board car rying out tho wHhoa Ot that body. 6ther funds would bo raised by solici tation from property owners etc. After n lively but good-liumorod dis cussion, tho tnallur was (mIIoU ouf nt tho motion ot Mr. Tower, and jt.wat (omul that n largo majority ot those present woro in favor of flU tnumher ohlpfo: and ftnonthjy duos. Annthor tnntlpr In which there was comidorabto difference of opinion was whothorit was host to hnvo ievornl comtnlttoos, for dlftorent branclica ol tho work, or to lot It all dlvolve on one or two at the hood of tbo organiza tion. It wss argued that oxporlonco had shown that ono or two always had to do thu work of such n body, anyway, and that tho committee system noyor proved eatlifaotory. On tho other hand It was contondod that certain special linos of tho work could bo handled bet tor by spocial committees. In answer to Milnor'a suggestion that the Board was going to have 0 man under salary and could lot blttf attend to things, SongitacUott said tli'o'y would hlro a man to do thu work, but itho brains would bo tumlshod by the body at largo. Bonuett also brought out the idea that tbe advjee andsuggeationa 0 the memborthlp would be q( the groat est valuo in tho work of tjie Board. Tho meeting last evening had about the satno attondanco as lbs first, quite a number bolus present who were not out to tjio first meeting, The bylaws drawn up by tho commit too were nbopted with aomo amend ments. Iho following ofllcnrs wero then elect ed: President, J A Mateon; vlco prml dent. Herbert Lockhart; tccretrry, 0 F McKnight, treasurer, Wm. Naiburg, The following special committee was appointed to solicit momborahlp: Wm Nasburg, Herbert Lockhart and J II Mllnor, In appreciation ot tho donation of HOOfromthoA N W Club the ladles of that body woro mado honorary mem bers of the Board, ami E. 5. Beabrook was Appointed to draft resolutions of ap preciation of tbo donation. Adjourn ment was taken to noxt Thursday even ing, RUSSIAN-JAPANFSE Events In i-m Russo-Japanese Strugcle to Feb. l Fob.O Japanoto attack Port Arthur by night and disablo tbreo cruisers ;4 wo .efflcore, nine men killed"? 01 wosmde'd.1 K Jnpanoao sink two cruluora at Chemulpo, and land jargo force, Japaneso troops advance on Seoul, Hay suggests coaceftcd -action to maintain integrity of China. Feb. 10- Japaneso capture two Russian- trans ports off coast Northern Korea;- carry Ing 2000 men. Cear issuos call to arms. Japanese crulwri capture flvo upf cbantmen, ., ,-.'....,. ,v Hay's policy. M rcrd China jpdora- ed by powers, ande a ty! o Japan and Jtusaia, JVJjXA xum , wmwn . . ' ; . Japan formally fdMVftf ifMV aw ' Russian tro6ps begin marh on Soduj. Russians sink Japanese merchantman Koosovolt issuca proclpmatlon of neu trality, Feb, 12 RustSan torpedo Iranaport slrlkea n mine at Port Arthur, and ia blown up, Britain communicatee with naval ofll cere, (oaring Rtuala may try to aend ehipstbrough Dardanolloa, Fob. II Japaneso torpedo-boato attack threo Rueslan crulsora in Straits of Isugaro, France agrees to American policy con eorvlng Integrity ot Olilna. " ' Mletakon'-for'Japanoeo vessel a, three Russian torptxlo-boftla'aro sank by guns from fort at Ohefoo. ltallrdd'UIl(T6rV 'Arthur blown M. fS" W'-JilL J - - Cupivy uapaueee. wfy Japanese, .. - Six honfiannti apantae land at Dalioy, ii 4 ' ft 1: ' It ,oCn35'?'U8 W. rt j.nvmjr in pan 'Ghti'wiilpp; vf iim tX ti tcii,.- , nrt Sot'ond cuKiiKotnont In ryportod at V,)rt Arthur, tit wljjolt ,lluitf1tniH loio olht vosiols rtntk nud ten PApturoil - ,. Jrpnnu.o llu'it la In Uulf of Pochlll, ... ... t 4 ;, ., Ul, ':. ' "' wltlildrnn of cffrotlng n IiwuIIiik, near u 1'ort l)4Imy. '.. LIFT FOR THE B0i)11Q OF TnADE if 1--' ' ., ' n t 1 fin 1 ta ,r 1 iv 1 AN V Club ponatcs One flunked. , Dbliafo". . At tho regular meeting of tho A N W cliibji-(turd.y afternoon It was doclded todohnteflOOtothd Maiiihflold Hoard if Trade, put of.Uio fund raised ' by tho ladles of the club for tho purpose of putJ tlnRttp a ilrlnklng fotintaln, (hat pro ject having hrvri turned down by the ctty d.id, A wlllingnca to nccept tho money had been signified in tovcral ii'tutrtora, Tho Kiro Uoparlmout would lirtvo been glad V to ueu It In contemplated Improvement ' of llii'lr hall, and tho Alumni Assoc! tlon wanted It to help beautify tho echool grounds. Tho latter body v,ti roprosontod at tho mooting by E. L. (J, Fnrrlo, whllo thu Board of Trade Intor eslH wuro looked nut for to good effect, by If. lockhart, J. A. Mateon nnd P. M,' Kriodbiirg. Theso gentleman wore all very kindly received nnd hoipltably en tertalnrd, nnd wero also admitted to membership lu thu club. ' Thla wiso and generous action of tho ladles lu cutting thu good cxamplo ot llbornlly backing thu now Board of Trado, is very approprlstoandincourag lug at this time, and thoy nru entitled to tho highest appreciation from overy o'no luturoited in thu progross ol Mnrnhfleldr Tho secretary of tho club waf instruct ed to Inform the II rem on and thoAlumnl that tho club would ho glad to coopor ato with cither for tho purpose of rail- . Ing funds for its project. "LILY WHITE" REPUBLICANS NOMINATE Now Orleans, l.a., Fob. 17: Tho "I.lly White" faction of tho Louisiana Republicans usceinblud in stato conven tion today for tho puaposo of naming coudldatus for tho stato offices to bo fill ed at tho next clnctlon. A second con vention of tho parly will bo held Uibi !to select dolecatcA to tho ncpubllcan' national convention nt Chicago. SCHOONER 1 OEM ASHORE - ' AT NEHALEM III t t. k. vdt vi r,ji(0peclal to the Coaot Mall.) '' Tillamook Fob. 17 Nowa 'reached horo that tho eohoonor Ooin has, gono athoro nt Nehabm beach, Tho tu'g was sent to pull her oil, bolng unnblo to dla lodgo hor, .she will becmnu a totol wrock. Tho ichooner Gom Hallod 7rom San Frnnclsco on Fob. .'Jd for Tillamook. Arcati" Coming on Bpsclal te the Malf. The following paHaongers sailed from San Francisco for Cooa Boy at -1 p m to. day by Areata: II E Boseoy and wife, ( Mrs. Sophia Holm, Misses I.ona, Julia, and Qharllo Holm, MIbh May Miller, -n Meaaors Fred Hngloatino, J V Proctor, ,Q ,0 Webatoij 'W 'Ford, T II Hughes, 0 " ! .,. .uiUy ,w Prteraoo.U Cleric, M;plmtd0B, tttt iVS ParingtoB, eight tteerage', r ; ' f "-rvju iw mji.iifVi in. i.y.ji,f.ij, , jnC. rt 1 . ., vt Affti-v1 'iVm ' $ fa." -im-i wf - musiK vstaanrmrs&st v.tsJwaM6a,,ritMr