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About The Coos Bay times. (Marshfield, Or.) 1906-1957 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 3, 1908)
IVjTSZal l THE DAILY COOS BAY TIM ES, MARSHFIELD, OREGON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1908. 1 (; 'M iv ------ TED BY THE PEOPLE Some Interesting Letters From Readers of The Times on Various Timely Topics & m Were Pi! EDI lLY t t i t Music Then one piano would be as good as another The $800 down and $500 per month piano would fill the bill Then Art ar.j' j& ill v And Commercialism Predominate Iheres a Difference Between the noisy rattletraps that be come thin and tinny in a few months and a real sLaradard piano such as Th Come in and let us show you these magnificent specimens of the piano-maker's art W. R. Haines Music 5u2 TRIP TO D i i YOUR HOME DEALER j A Marshfield Lady Writes In terestingly of Journey-Down the Coast. On September 9th, Clara and I left that enterprising city of Marsh field on a tour through southern Coos, to be extended as far down the coast as Gold Beach. We left with high anticipations of an enjoyable time, with eyes on the alert for what ever was to be seen, either in the line of scenery, in the peculiarities of human nature, or in the progress of civilization. But we have neither time nor inclination to enter into details perhaps tiresome to the reader, however interesting and in structive they may have been to the writer. Boarding the train at Marshfield at 2 p. m., we were whirled up the bar along Isthmus Inlet, where huge rafts of logs are gathered, and gaily decorated launches glide over its peaceful waters. Then climbing the divide between Coos Bay and the Co qullle river, we reached the down grade and rushed along the upper margin of the famous Beaver Slough marsh with its extensive views and prophesies of future wealth, and then to Coqullle, the county seat, which is noted for its fine location and for its neat homes, its schools and churches, but more particularly just now for its cham pion team of ball tossers. After a hasty glance at the town, and sampling 'some excellent ice cream, we went aboard the steamer Dispatch, a roomy comfortable boat, creditable indeed to a river of much larger pretentions, and proceeded down the river to Bandon by the sea. The ride down the beautiful river Is of such surprising fascina tions that one can never forget it. It has endless changes of scenery, fine valleys and beautiful homes may smile upon you f7om one bank, while from the other the cedar clad hills come down to the waters edge, their sides drilled tunnels, at the mouth's of which great piles of coal attest the marvelous wealth of this unexplored region. We had heard that Bandon was a fine location, but it is more; it is ideal. The location is grand. The turbulent ocean is fanned by its ozone laden breezes; it looks up its freight laden river where the echoes of wakening industries are rever berating with increasing strength. The sound of hammer and saw greets one everywhere. Bandon is growing and its level townslte reaches to Port Orford. A few miles out of Bandon the road runs through an immense field of huckleberries, miles and miles of them. Wo had never seen them growing in the wild state before; wo had never dreamed even of such prodigious quantities, but it did not spoil our taste for them. We strip ped the heavy laden bushes as fast as our kind driver would break them off and supply us. If there is a va cant spot of that land, we want it. Noon at Langlols, where we were served to as flno a chicken dinner as ever surprised and gratified a hungry traveler. A sixteen-mile drive in the afternoon from Langlois, landed us at Knapp's hotel in Port Orford, where we were most hospitably en tertained, and where a few strenu ous days were spent climbing Battle Rock and her grand head lands, strolling along the agate lined beaches, fishing for trout in her beautiful lake, wading in her bath ing place, watching the whales dis porting in the bay. As a place for recjeation and scenery, Port Orford lying In a fogless bolt, Is one of the grand and beautiful pieces of na ture's handiwork. Tho stage ride from Port Orford to Roguo River this time of the year Is a thrilling, delightful oxporlenco. Juat south of Port Orford, you climb a mountain twel? hundred feet high. This is the Highest moun tain betv-ea Port' Orford and Gold LBeach. The road runs through love- WHY AUSTRALIA BUYS APPLES FROM COOS BAY A Ten Mile Lnke Mnn Tells of the Fruit Growing Conditions In the Dig Island. Editor Coos Bay Times, I read a paragraph in Tho Coos Bay Times recently about shipping apples to Australia, and as I resided in the land of the Kangaroo for twenty-four years and was in the fruit trade there for many years, I have a good knowledge of conditions there. I bought and sold many boxes of first-class California apples, oran ges and lemons, and I also bought and sold many thousand boxes of first-class Australian apples, oranges and apples. They have a first class climate for apple culture in parts of the colonies of New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Tasma nia. They export by shipload to the European markets. Tho fruit grow ers of Australia will derive great benefit from the Panama canal as they will be able to ship fruit in a week's less time to Europe than at present. Australia being on tho other side of the Equator, they have winter there when we have summer in America. Therefore when wo have plenty of apples on Coos Bay, they have none in Australia. Consequent ly if they require apples for their Christmas dinner, they must import them from American places like Coos Bay. I am glad to say that we, on Coos Bay, have a first-class climate for apple growing and Australia will always bo a good customer as long as we furnish them first-class ap ples. It will mean that there will be no difficulty In marketing all we can raise. I have a young orchard of about 300 trees, mostly Gravenstelns, and a good many are bearing this year. Wishing Coos Bay apples supcess, I am, respectfully, CHAS. OLLES, Lakeside, Ore. ly forests where we catch the north ern limit of Tan-bark oak. The road climbs hills where it ought not to, but It is good and carries one to many grand, observation points where scenery is wonderful, and an unobstructed vision of the coast and ocean lies. Away south to the bold head lands of Cape Sebastian. To our right is Hamburg mountains, rising to dizzy heights, out of tho edge of the ocean; then comes a rugged shore, with rocks huge and of fantastic shape standing like em battlements against the assaults of the sea. Down, we pass the Three Sisters, their gigantic rocks rising from the sea, where ships have sailed with cargoes of lumber. At Euchre Creek wo see some flno timber, thence to Rogue River runs on an elevated ocean bed and the long beach, near which wo travel has been famous for the treasure of gold and platinum It has yielded In the past, and tho heavy surfs of winter sift off the top sand which at this season of tho year covers, the black sand and gold. Suddenly sweeping around a point, Roguo River bursts into view, sur rounded as It appears by timbered mountains on the south, and bare hills on tho north. Wo gaze with rapture on this river of gold. As we look upon its placid waters at Ita mouth, wo can hardly realize that Its source its Crater Lake, and its course to tho sea is one of tho most turbulent in tho world. The next place wo arrive at tho Wedderburn hotel, call for salmon and dream all night of crossing the beautiful Roguo River to Gold Beach. There a few strenuous day.? were spent bathing in the surf. EDITH. T. E. DOW TELLS OF CONDITIONS BACK EAST Former Coos Bay Man Sends IJreczy Letter From "The Windy City," Chicago. CHICAGO, Sept. 21. Coos Bay Times and dear old Marshfield, while It is sizzling hot here I love to think of Coos Bay. It Is cooling, don't yon know. These earth beings' here do not know it, or surely they all would emigrate at once. I went to the baseball game yes terday 2S.000 people there shouting and rioting for their favorites, the sign of the dollar is on everybody's face here. That is all they know Burnt In sure what you might call a stoney stare. The people on the Pa cific coast certainly do not appreciate our wonderful climate, but they will all right, once they go east, if it were not for making this trip as planned, I would start for tho Pacific coast at once. Coos Bay is all right, I hope to see you all again, but this east never. Don't want to see even a photo of it. My boy, here, is selling pianos like C. W. Wolcott seils veget ables. Soon out and then filled up with fresh ones, I am doing some fine talking for Coos Bay. Hope it will do good. These people hero will thank mo all their lives if they only take my advice, and when I get old they will pension me, see. (They say, Coos Bay, Coos Bay.) Good bye, T. E. DOW. CUTS GARRY HOT TAMAL13S at Cortholl's. ----::-:--::-::----- n :: AUG. FRIZEEN "REAL ESTATE and INSURANCE 'C Street, bcUH'en Front niul Broadway. Call In and i JJ t :: t: i i vwii give you :: something if I cannot sell :: i i t: n t: V you anything -Brtt-iJ-:wJ-tt-K-:wwi-H-w; Former Coos Bay Man Writes of Prince Rupert, the City-To-Be. J. D. McNeil has received tho fol lowing Interesting letter concerning Prince Rupert, B. C, of which there has been much talk lately, from O. L. Hagood who Is well-known on Coos Bay: "I have wondered frequently if you and Dr. Ingram had forgotten my broken or rather long deferred prom ise to give you a few words on tho much-talked-of city of Prince Rupert, or the clty-to-be. Now that I have taken tho matter up, I am going to ask you to com municate to the doctor, together with my kindest regards, tho contents of this letter, insofar as it concerns Prince Rupert, thus saving to a lazy man the tremondous offort ne cessary to the writing of an extra letter. "I might, if I cared to, write pages of moonshine about tho country's cllmnte, wild mountain scenery, Illi mitable stretches of uninhabited wilderness, wild game and myriads of fish and what not but tho one thing we had in view when wo discussed it, and tho one thing I traveled far to seo was whether or not it looked good as a real estate proposition. After all we will drift back to the "lousy old dollar," won't wo? You have no doubt heard by this time that tho sale of lots in Prince Rupert, which was to have taken plnco this month, has been deferred Indefinitely. This had not been de termined upon, or at least had not been made public, before I went there; otherwise, r should not have gone. Tho reason for this delay was a long controversy between tho pro vincial government and tho Grand Trunk Pacific Railroad Company over the division of tho water front ago along tho harbor. This was not settled until about tho middlo of August, and then, as It required sev eral weeks to survey tho townslte, it was impossible to put tho lots upon tho market this fall as they had ex pected to do. As a townBlto It Is ono of tho most forbidding that ono could possibly imaglno. Ralon Island, on which it Is located, is solid rock and an up heaval of rocks at that. Tho cost of grading lots and ntreets. If it Is ever proporly dona, will be almost beyond computation. It Ja going to take a (Continued on Pago G.) Dr. Golden Writes Concerning a Much Dreaded Contagious Disease. Editor Coos Bay Times: As there seems to be considerable, scare of the possible spreading of an epidemic of diphtheria through our schools, by request, I will offer a few words of advice to parents in regard to its modes of infection and symp toms of onset. It Is unfortunate that just at this time (beginning of rainy weather we should be confronted with an epidemic of diphtheria, as damp, cloudy weather favors its spread whereas warm weather with plenty of sunshine and perfect cleanliness is- detrimental to it. Diphtheria is recognized as a very infectious disease. But the infection is only transmitted by tho implanta tion of tho causativo bacillus, the Klebs-Loeffler bacillus. This bacil lus Is found in abundance in tho secretions and excreta from an in fected diphtheria patient. It is par ticularly prolific in tho false mem brane formed' in tho throat and noso, and secretions from these membranes aro the principal source of its distrib ution. These bacillls aro transmitted by direct contact, and implantation on some .mucus membrane of a sus ceptible Individual occurs. Tho diphtheria Is not flying In the air as Is sometimes supposed. The conta gion differs in, tliis way from small pox. A person is perfectly safe In approaching within a few feet of a diphtheria patient, as long as he is not in a dust laden atmosphero whereby dried bacillls may be float ing in the air and Inhaled, and as long as ho does not touch the patient or anything that tho patient's secre tions may have come in contact with. Tho disease is contracted by and transmitted by cats; and another Im portant source of danger lies in tho milk from cows with 'chapped teats' as in many instances these sores havo been found to bo diphtheretlc and the diphtheria bacillus grows very nicely In milk. Diphtheria rarely attacks infants. It is found most often in children betweon the ages of two and fifteen years. Tho diphtheria baccillls are some times carried in tho throat of a healthy individual, they themselves not contracting tho disease, but they may transmit it to another porson who will contract a violent form of the disease. Ordinary ulcerative tonsilltls sometimes so closely resembles true diphtheria in its first stages, that it Is almost impossible to say definitely which it is without a microscopical examination for tho "Klebs-Loeffler" bacillus. Where this is not carried out, people are sometimes quarantin ed unnecessarily, or on tho other hand aro not quarantined when they should be. A very good systom for maintain ing quarantine is in vogue in Port land, where every physician who has a suspected caso of diphtheria Is re quired to send a specimen from tho throat of his patient to tho city labor atory where a culture is made, and if the bacillls aro present tho patient is quarantined and kept quarantined until no bacillls can bo found. Fre quently physicians think their pa tients are over the disease and are ready to release them from quaran tine, but the culture still shows bacillls and they are not allowed to ralso tho quarantlno. So there Is no chanco of an apparently well person, oven scattering tho disease. When commencing treatment In tlmo with tho presont day methods of treatment, diphtheria is not usually a hard disease to control and Is not considered tho dangorous dlseaso It used to be. If troubled with any kind. of a soro throat, accompanied by fever, and a feeling of depression and tired out, , keep th? child out of school, call your family physicJan and lose no (Continued on Pago 6.),
