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I gift of men, is a compliment to the carried from here to Maishfield by Rajah?” be asked.
j the most exalted position
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“He was to come here at 4 yester
Published Every Thursday Evening by the
craft properly supplemented by the rail, it is the road of best grades; day afternoon, Teddy,” she said. “It
was half past 5 before he came. I’m
Reoorder F’u.loieTiin.g; Compa-ny.
plea for the development and high it has south ex|>osures moot of the t;lad he found such congenial compa
O. ID. KOPF,
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izta.liaging Editor est cultivation of the best th 're is in way while the other road is in the ny.”
“Sea here, Rajab,” said Kenworthy,
shade most of the year and there "the explanation she refused to listen
it.--Telegram.
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fore dries slowly.
With a division to I shall tell to you.”
Known on Application. Job Priuting a Specialty.
“Aren’t men clever at explaining,
I n conversation with a number of appropriations neither road will Teddy?” asked the girl, with sarcasm.
Entered at the Bandon Foatoffioe as Second Clasa Matter.
of the citizens of West Bandon, the Ire in perfect condition for years to
writer was informed by some of come, while with this year’s ap
Second, there these gentlemen that they were propriation for the one one read it
A new banking institution, known yet been approved.
ready and in fact anxious to come could be placed in almost perfect
as the Farmers' and Merchants' is the route up the John Day river.
inside the city limits, that is to vote condition.
when the
Because,
Bank, opened for business at Co Here again we find a Harriman cor
road was
first
quille, Wednesday, March 10th. poration, the John Day Valley Rail themselves in, while others were Myrtle Point
The directors are all men of long road company which filed locations adverse to the idea, the contention opened and therefore little more
residence in this county and are in 1907. From the east the most of those who were opposed to com • than a trail, the bay people got
March 18, 1909
THURSDAY
is up the Malheur ing in was ihat the city charter was
The officers are: ,R. S. Knowlton, river.
Here the Oregon Eastern not what it should be and that there
president; Geo. A. Robinson, vice- Railway company, a Harriman cor is too much authority given to the
president; R. H.
Mast, casheir. poration has located a line, besides city council. While there may be
Other directors are: Geo. E. Bt-1- controlling old locations.
From some clauses that would appear to
loni and E. E. Johnson. The capital the south the Harriman lines are un give the council authority, to a
poor service
known as business men of integrity. feasible route
over
it,
they have
listened to nothing since that con
cerns the Myrtle Point road, though
they are
working
against
their
own best interests every time they
urge appropriations for the Coos
der construction to Klamath and on greater extent than they should Bay road to the detriment of the
to Natron.
From the west the have yet there is always a chance Myrtle Point road. Improvements
stock is f 23,000.
The bone of to the Myrtle Point road do not
T he open ditch, just west of the roule up the McKenzie river is held for remonstrance.
city limits may have been put there by Harriman, and the Corvallis and contention of those who were op concern the people of the Coquille
posed to coin ng, was the theory that valley as much as they do those of
lor a good purpose, but it is cer Eastern is owned by him. Yet cen
tainly a dangerous thing to be left as tral Oiegon is still without a rail tile council had too much authoriiy the bay, because the people here
The puzzle, which is an in the matter oi laying out streets will always get better service over
it is. We have been told that a road.
number of people have fallen into intensely interesting one, is, how, and establishing of grades, and that their road than those will over the
it on dark nights, and that stock when and where the road into cen each council could change any Coos Bay route, at the same time
has fallen into it at different times, tral Oregon is to be built? says the grade that did not happen to suit it would add to the importance of
their fancy. While this may be this route, if all mails should come
being outside of the city limits, the Oregon Journal and they might
council can do nothing, but some have gone on to say that there was true, yet as before stated the citizens this way, and the short-sighted
always have the power of remon selfishness of the bay people only
thing ought to be done about it at ample route, and plenty of induce
strance, which amounts to the same serves to hinder the rapid develop
There is a proper course of ment to build a road down the
thing as getting the consent of the ment of the entire county.—Myrtle
procedure that could be taken up coast from Drain, or some other
property owners along the street, Point Enterprise.
If the ditch is needed to drain off point to Eureka or San Francisco.
once.
is, how, when and but if there is anything in the city
charter that would mar the progress
tiling or sewer pipe should be put in where this road is to be built. 11
and it should be filled up, but it is Mr. Hid could only be induced to of the city’s growth it should be j
certainly dangerous in the present look this way then Mr. Harriman changed, not merely to suit the
I would come through in a hurry, but whims and fancies of anyone, but
condition.
the water, and it no doubt is, then And the puzzle
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and Dog of It. • !
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Hill to start for the general good of the public.
[Copyrighted. 1907, by M. M. Cunningham.]
S pring is here, and although we . building a road just to make Harri We think, however that if the
By all the laws and the prophets of
may have some rainy weather yet, it man get busy, so the question is a charter is thoroughly studi -1 it will precedent Kenworthy should have
made a stormy exit at the height of
will not be anything like what we perplexing one to answer, but the prove satisfactory, and if it does
the quarrel. In staying on when the
have passed through during the problem will be solved some way not, then the weak points should be flual word had been said and grim si
it is hardly fair to ask
Both [minted out and they can then be
What we need is to
spring there is every reason for i Hill and Harriman might find this a corrected.
work
in
unison
for the upbuilding of
cleaning up around the alleys and i fruitful field if they would give it a
Bandon and the surrounding com
yards, and the streets as well. There 1 trial-
munity,
and this can best be ac- \
is nothing that adds more to a city’s
winter months. With the advent of ’ and that before many years.
appearance
than to see everything
M r .
R oosevelt has taken
clean and well kept.
his
This always pen in hand, and the result is his
gives a stranger the very best opinion
first signed article as contributing
of the enterprise of the citizens, and editor to the Outlook,
In rather a
if newcomers like anything it is just militant tone, Mr. Roosevelt de-
complished by incorporating the out-
, lying districts that are directly in ap-
position to the city, and all working
with the one point in view,
There
not only to
Bandon, but all
should be steps taken,
incorporate West
They can be more , dares for righteousness in journal
easily induced to settle in a well ism, and in that, as a matter of districts in juxtaposition.
kept town than one that is dirty in course, no one is surprised. The i
such a city.
-
with all its particular brand of righteousness for
D uring the past winter the bay
flower gardens and wealth of pro which the news editor of th e Out
people have been having loads of
ductive qualities, can be made the i look contends
is that which is trouble over the arrival of mails that
most beautiful city on earth, Let’s founded on truth and honest pur
the carriers have endeavered to de
get busy and make it so.
pose to attain good.
The scholarly liver over the Coos Bay wagon road,
cynicism of the intellectually capa and protests have have gone to the
appearance.
Bandon,
S ome of the holders of that mys ble, and the lower-grade abuse of department, while various inspectors
terious 143,000,000 bushels of wheat the poor sensationalist, are neces have endeavored to ascertain the
which the government discovered in sarily within the condemnation of reason in an attempt to improve the
Dignity and service.
1 might such righteousness.
In the meantime the Co
valuable
journalistic
service
to
the
make a very profitable turn in the
quille valley has had generally
community
are
its
products.
Mr.
market at this time. Cash wheat of
, prompt and
adequate service.
Roosevelt
really
said
no
more
in
his
the variety which must be delivered
I There were several times when the
on May contracts was selling yester first article than what has been said high water, slides or some other
farmers’ hands
day in
on March
Chicago
at
$1,22)4 per scores of times by scores of conscien circumstance served
to delay the
tious
newspaper
writers
at
any
time
bushel, while the May option was
mails from a few hours to a day,
during
the
past
ten
years;
never
dragging at $1.15 per bushel and
but for more than a month the ser
theless,
his
utterance
is
clear,
candid,
July sold down as low as $1.02^4
vice has been regular, the people
A
per bushel.
Probably it is the in- forceful and carries weight from receiving their mail in the early
reputation of the morning of each day, and there
why fanners will hold 143,000,000 writei as w ell as from his former has been bad storms to interfere with
bushels of what that will sell for exalted official position.« Notwith the carriers, too. The difference in
fl. 225^ per bushel, when they can standing that just at this time, in the service is due to the general
ability of Mr. Patten to understand the character and
replace it with wheat for May or certain quarters, there
may lie the character of the roads, as the same
feeling in the company uses both routes. A sum
seven to criticism of personal
twenty cents per bushel less, that is ex-president's denunciation of the of $17,000 has been appropriated
responsible for the wheat king’s newspaper which attacks the con to fix up the Coos Bay’road. If this
public servant from amount had been placed on the
persistent refusal to sell his hold scientious
July delivery
at
from
the
abstract Coos county end of the Myrtle
Oregonian.
value of his < ffering is not depre Point road Marshfield people might
ciated on that account The present get their mail as early in the morn
THERE are several ways in which employmen! of Mr. Roosevelt, to ing as Myrtle Point people now re
a railroad might secure an enhance be continued after his return from ceive their's. The bay people go
into eastern and central Oregon. Africa, is arnesi of his unques- on the theory that the Myrtle Point
ings at less than cash
wheat prices,
malignant motives,
From the north there is theToute up tionable
the dignity* and line will soon be abandoned; that
the Deschutes river.
The records serviceable calling of the pu' lic will never be, furthermore it will
show that the Deschutes Railroad writer, when that calling is pursued 1 always be the best route of the twO<
company, a Harriman corporation, in accordance with the right ideals 1 It could be made twiye as good and
faith in
line of locations up this To take up the pen in the capacity the mail service for the entire county
river, though the maps have not, he has elected, upon retiring from1 doubly better if the appropriations
has filed a
“You see,” Kenworthy went on, pat
ting the dog, "I started out In the car
to run over here yesterday afternoon.
When I got to the old Bassett place
there was Jim Culver lying flat on the
ground beneath that runabout of his.
’I’m busted,’ says Jim to me, ’and
Miss Bronson wants to get that 4:52
from the junction. Think you can get
her over? You'll have to make a rec
ord.’ What could a fellow do, Rajah,
old chap? He couldn't be cad enough
to refuse, now, could he?”
The girl stroked the kitten thought
fully.
“It’s a very clever explanation,” she
mused.
“The worst of It is, Rajab, she won’t
believe a word of it,” said he gloomily.
“I’m almost tempted to believe It,
Teddy,” said she.
“And if she does believe it she won’t
be sorry for the way she treated me,”
he went on.
“I’m almost tempted to be sorry,”
she said softly.
“And even if she is sorry she’ll never
care for me the way I’ve been trying
for the [»st four years to have her
care,” he persisted.
The girl held the kitten at arms'
length.
“Teddy,” she said very softly, ‘Tm
n I most tempted to”—
She stopped,
"nailing deeply.
Kenworthy sprang from the ham-
mo* k with a suddenness that precipi
tated Rajah to the ground.
"Allr-ia, Alicia,” he cried. “I dare you
'(i fini h that sentence!”
The ;irl dropped the kitten. She
turned to Kenworthy, and her eyv?
met his bravely.
“I dare you to finish that sentence.”
he repeated.
“I’m—I’m almost tempted—I ui
tempted and I do—that is—I yield to
the temptation,” she said slowly.
LEONARD FRANK ADAMS.
lence had succeeded the heated accu
sations and counter accusations he was
guilty of an anticlimax.
But Ken
worthy was no respecter of precedent,
and at present It mattered not a rap
to him whether he was guilty of an
anticlimax or not. lie only knew that
he was utterly 'uiserabie and that the
line view he had of Alicia's back-
turned to him witli an obviousness not
to be gainsaid—was in nowise encour
aging.
He sat in the hammock, his face a
study of contradicting emotions, gat
ing almtractedly afield and pulling the
silky ears of Rajah, the brlndle bull
terrier that lolled beside him. Twice
be essayed to speak, but each time as
he raised bis eyes and caught sight of
that uncompromising back the words
died on his lips.
At length be looked down nt the dog.
A whimsical smile curved bis lips, and
be looked grimly toward Alicia, who
to ail intents was interested in the
distant landscape.
"Rajab, old boy,” be said, addressing
the dog, "it strikes me that women
are getting very unfair these days.
They accuse a chap of all sorts of
things, and when he offers to explain
they Uy into a fine dudgeon and turn
their backs on him. They give him
the maximum sentence without a
trial."
He glauced at the girl. She was
quite unmoved. The landscape was
apparently quite as absorbing as ever.
The back was certainly no whit less
uncompromising.
“I’ve been ill treated, old man,” Ken
worthy went on
"I wanted to ex
plain it all to her, but she wouldn't
listen.”
At that moment a Persian kitten
came stalking across the lawn, paused
Irresolutely beneath the trees and then
Jumped into Alicia's lap.
“Teddy, you dear,” cried the girl,
stroking the kitten's white coat, "you
knew I wanted to tell you something
about men, didn’t you?”
Kenworthy pricked up his ears.
"Teddy,” she went on confidentially,
“all men are horrid—selfish and hor
rid. You can’t trust any of them.”
Kenworthy smiled at the dog.
"Between you and me, Rajah,” said
he, "I think the sum and substance of
the whole matter is Jealousy."
"Imagine my being Jealous, Teddy,”
said the girl scornfully.
"Who on
earth would I be Jealous of?”
"I imagine it’s the Bronson girl,
Rajah,” said Kenworthy.
"The Brdnson girl goes automobil-
ing quite frequently of late,” said the
girl to the kitten. "And she's such a
horrid little flirt! She boasted when
she came here she'd have a spin in
every car In town. I did think, Ted
dy"— She stopped abruptly.
"By Jove, it is jealousy!” said Ken
worthy, forgetting to address his re
marks to the dog.
“Didn’t I tell you men were horrid,
Teddy?" said Alicia, with much con
viction. ,
Kenworthy chuckled softly.
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