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THE DAILY COOS BAY TIM ES, MARSHFIELD, OREGON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1908.
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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.
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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
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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
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