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J líe rali). YOL. 2 . COQUILLE CITY, OREGON, TUESDAY, JULY 1, 1884. C:«*u«'nil I.] II«'. etl up through the rocks. That this is a true fissure is shown from the fact that it lias come from the i . M. S ioi . ii «. J obs A .G bxt . fires below. Siglin & Gray. Afar in Chicamaugn’ * wood, Professor Denton in his lectures Where banner»» light the brave todeuth, Attorneys and Connselors At Law, on geology, page 101, says: The Ohio’ s gallant son lies low; Mar*hfleld, Coo* oounty, Oro^on. 'Midst battle storm he yields his breath. vapor of sulphur,®coming in con O fvicb —Hollauil building, opponiti Illanco tact {with the vapor of iron, has Oh, l.ytle! son of noble raoc! vjn'jy Hotel. *Twas Genius touched your lips with fire: produced the sulphate of iron, and Your stirring words stiil bloomed iu deeds: we are told that “ auriferous ledges Oh, hero with n yioet’s lyre! W - SINCLAIR. containing sulphates may always Oh generous heart and patriot s<*nl! Attorney at Law. So young, so brave in Mexico; be relied on to improve with depth.” General Inaurane« and Real I.stat** II«>w blazed thy warrior spirit forth And further, that, “the vapor of C o q u il l e C it y , O r e g o n . V* lien traitor arms laid Sumter low! gold coining up with and being so I see thy ride at Cnmifex, much heavier than the vapor of A lightning sketch on war’ s dark cloud: T. G. O W E N . I feel the furious charge rush by, iron, the gold lias either not risen Attorney and Counselor at Law, A sight that made the dying proud! so high, or has sunk lower, hence MiMurtKi.o, Oon. I st>e thee with thine oa*-V <<ye this class of ledges always improve Greet danger with exultant thrill, with depth.” Defying Death and daring Fate, H- H AZAR D . That autumn day at Chaplin Hill! Gold has been found iu this Attorney and Counselor at Law. 'M id comrades that his zeal has fired, particular ledge* wherever it crops E mpiuh C itt , O qn . On battle-field our Lytle sleeps; out, and I am told that essays on Net death could tear him from his charge, rock have been all the way up to And o'i r his grave Columbia weeps. J . W . BENNETT. W'hat though aii flowers adorn his bier. $78 per ton. The writer found at Attorney at Law. Nor shrouded Hag does o'er him wave? one place, gold as coarse as small M\MnriiLD, O on . W hat though no long funeral train wheat grains, at another plnee it Attends him to hi.» honored grave? D- X* W ATSO N. was fine as Hour. This ledge has Wh it though no sad procession winds, With mtifUed drum and music's swell, nowhere been prospected to Attorney and Counselor at Law And streaming eves and stifled sobs. any extent—it has been dug into Coos C ity . O on . Adown the streets he loved so well? at several points, and pieces of A nation mourns her favorite son; J. H. NOSLER. rock carried awav, but I believe His lanrels green shail ever wave, And Erin's tears shall wot the sod. Notary Pubiitf no one has tapped it 25 feet below Whore L ytle fills a soldiers* grave. CoyriLLli ClTT. OoN. the surface. If a company could tjnurlx in 1 « m » s unti lurry. be formed to strike it with a tun CARL H- VOLKM AR. The following communication nel a few hundred feet below the Attorney and Counselor at Law. will he interesting to those w h o! surface, ns it easily might be at M y rii . m P oint . Co»™ C ovnty OnaooN. ' desire information on the resources j certain points, the probability is M ill practice in all the* courts of Oregon. : of v ix>s county. Y\ Idle we may it would prove valuable, give work i not agree with our correspondent j to ft Vftst „umber of men, and A. M. CRAW FORD. ; in his assertion that woman suf- j t,rj„rr wealth to its owners. Attorney and Counselor at Law. ' inure is h past issue- it is bound to Respectfully, t i ? “General Inaura noe agency. ; come up again we certainly ad- ’ C. Wilkins. M.Mi-»:!Fixi.r>. Ogn, -------------- «+-<♦---- -------- __ mire his proposition to raise a new A f f a i r * o f III«* o ld w o r ld . J. P. EASTER, M. IN I issue, one that will develop the The Czar’s Government now ex hidden wealth of our mountains Phrsio-Xledieel and Eclectic Physician and ists only in fancy, and the people burgeon. Office at residence m Coquille and add renewed vigor to the ever v‘>n1 increasing industries of both county fin not know whom to obey or to Cttv. whom to look for counsel and and state: There are several C. w . T C W I E .M . D., As woman sail rage is now a past protection. issue, Sunbeam and Mayllower tea | socrct organizations established Physician and Surgeon, MvasUVIBLD, Oos. and St. Jacobs oil having been 'vilh a viow of counteracting the tried; would it not be well to give ' efforts of tbe revolutionists, and W . C .A N G E L U M.D. these things a rest, and raise a new j eacb <>m- ^bese societies works issue? And I for one suggest for j independently of the other. One Physician í ;nd Accoucheur, a subject, rich quartz in Coos and j these is the Sacred Militia, COQUILLE CITY. (KIN. Curry. Having spent some time i formed on the plan of the Nihilist v ln ltf. At its in hunting ledges, collecting and i Executive Committee. ' I O. E. SMITH. testing ores, 1 write these few head stands Grand Duke Vladimir. Sergoon Dentist linos in hopes some abler |>en will It holds a secret court and has offici, take it up, and that we may have sentenced to death some of the M ARSH FIELD , OREGON. more light on this subject It is most prominent nihilists, such as vin i 3m. in>t necessary to tell the old resi Prince . Krapotkin, LavroiT and J. M- VOLKMAR. M. D- dents of this county, of pieces of Leo Partnmn. The power gained very rich quartz being found at the i h> the Sacred MTitia has encoar- Physician and Surgeon. head of Salmon gulch;of one sheet ^ od othcr magnates to form an- M tbtlh P oint , . C Corn ock Co., O t . b . os . of gold taken from the side of a other secret society, and the Vol vL*r.4'>tf bowlder, that weighed ibout £700; untary Guard, headed by the Min J. Z. HOLCOMB of nuggets being found on Sixes, ister of the imperial household, S c * oical ami Maoiu*iCAi. D entist . all the way up to £175. That many Count Yorontzoff-Dashkoff and Offlc«: Over SoiiRStacken'a D rig Store, in of these nuggets were worn General Shuvaloff, is one of this Holland Building, Front street, smooth o n one bide, being rough class. It aims to protect the Czar, Marshfield, Oregon. UJ** Will professionally viait th* various j on the other, and showing they not only against the nihilists, but town» ou the rivtr. had adhered to bowlders. Now also against the intlueuce of any when we remember the nujnber of j °Rier Dersou or body, the Sacred J . . A - 3 D E L A J > T , immigrants of late years, these Militia, the State ponce and the C o q u il l e C it y , O r e g o n . facts may be interesting. As I Ministers included. This society GENERAL AGENCY for the sal« of City , . , - » i i i property, horn»«* and lot*, timber, farms, j lately examined ledges and quartz naturally employs hosts of secret ranches, etc. Office in Herald »milding. from the top of JollUHOU’s moun agents of their own. The provin tain to the lieud of Salmon gulch, cial nobles have also formed a I have arrived at the conclusion secret society—the Land Union. W ATCH-M AKER & JE W E LE R , that these ledges are only gash, It has many agents in every prov or surface veins, and cannot be de ince and has its own journal, O o q .- u .i l l e C i t 3 T C r . I^TW ork o f All description* done nt ehort pended on as true, permanent fis Volnoc Slovo (Free W ord), pub notice aud extremely low prices. sures. I have arrived at this con lished abroad. The Union has vln47. clusion from the character of the succeeded in inducing the Czar to quartz, and the appearance of the restore the nobles many privileges I. O. G. T. ledge. I do not mean to say that and has been so successful in fact Morning: Star Lodge there will be no rich quartz found that the “nobleman’s era” is an No. 484, regular Meet* at Coquille City every Thursday ! in this region; but I am of the established thing. The evening. Visiting member* o f this order, in opinion that the ledges will termi secret police, thus superseded by good standing, are cordially invited. nate at no great depth. Passing the agents of secret societies, have further west to the south fork of found it necessary to found their K. o f L. Pioneer Assembly» No- Sixes, we see a great change in own secret society, which aims to lx>th the geological formation and undermine all the other secret 3070 - Meets at Coqnille City every Monday ledges. This appears at oue time bodies. The most secret of all evening. Visiting members, in good stand to have been a vast bed of shale, other secret societies is known ing, are oordially invited.______ ____________ which in most places has been under the name of the “Society for hardened by heat. It is bounded the Struggle Against the Terror O . F. I. O. Meanwhile, notwithstand on the west by greenstone; on the ists.” south and east by granite; the tops ing all these anti-revolutionary so Coquille Lodge N o.53 of the highest peaks being capped cieties, the nihilists are going on Meet* at Coquille City every Satnrdny even underground work, ing. Visiting brithren, in good standing, with conglomerata There is a with their cordially invited. ledge running for miles through recruiting hero and thero new* this canyon; at some places where members and agents. Tlio spirit A F. ami A. M. the formation is linn it crops out of conspiracy has seized upon the Chadwick Lodge, No-68- at the surface, at other places Russians. The reins of the regu Meets at CoquiMe City on Saturday even ing on or beforo the the full moon in each where the formation is Dot firm it lar Government have been slack month. can only be followed by the sul- ened to the last degree. The John Goodman, phuret of iron where it has steara- Czar’s Ministers have joined dif W. M 1 U M 1 F .S S H K D S . Pence reigns in a 1 Ohio's wo .»I k ; A thousand autumn banners gleam; J.ik« trophies on outhedral wall»», While ourlin»' mist doth incense soem. s. 1. H. Wriill ferent secret societies, and con spire against each other. Sena tors, judges, beads of departments, civil and military officers and Bishops, all conspire, and every one is surrounded by hosts of spies, friendly and inimical. It seems as though the subjects bound by their oath of allegiance to the Czar had been superseded by spies bound to their purpose by secret oaths. Even the Czar is not free from the spirit of con spiracy. It is said here that he gave q.> hint of his late journey to Denmark to any of his’ ministers, and th»'y learned of his departure only after he was gone. Queen Victoria, upon her return to England fiom Germany, was graciously pleased to present to each of sixteen men of the royal yacht Osborn a very handsome steel engraving of tlio late Duke of Albany. The picture, with the autograph of the duke, was iu a handsome rosewood frame. She also personally presented larger pictures of the same relict duke to four of che warrant and petty offi cers of the yacht. Her Majesty the Queen was probably unfamil iar with the manner of berthing the sailors, an»l perhaps imagined that each one had a suit of rooms somewhere about tlio vessel. Un less the sailors thus honored trans fer their gift to their sweethearts and wives ashore, the late duke in a rosewood frame will fare bad ly in Jack's hammock. An extra allowance of grog would probably have been better appreciated by the men than a framed picture. --[Chronicle. Having had fourteen years’ ex perience, we can attest to the truth of the concluding statement. You may drive him, deprive him— And cut short his prog. But, you will soften his heart, If you give him his grog. * * A Iliislta n tl AYIio W i » n T oo A r iflio - o r u tic to l x - E i i m l . By Saturday’s overland train Martha You Forckenbeck left San Francisco for New York, a divorc ed but happier woman than she lias been for years. The time at which she thought she was the happiest woman in the world was m the gentle spring of 1875, when she was wooed and won in New York by a blonde-haired German boasting in the name of Alfred Von Forckenbeck. lie boasted of more thau that, indeed; of aristocratic descent and hightoned lineage, of castles on the Rhine and dukedoms of more than an acre, of having one cousin a burgomaster of Berlin and another who was, or had been, president of the Reichstag. Mar tha was then 20 years of age, pret ty and impressionable. She gave her white hand and young heart to the lordly Alfred Yon Forckenbeck. They were married, and, both hav ing a little money of their own, came to Los Angeles on their wed ding trip. Iu those days Alfred was very tender and ardent, tender, as the reputation of a “chicken” tamale aud ardent as a Los Angeles August. They w'ero married again amid the orange groves of Los Angeles and then went to live on a ranch. As the years went by it was observed that Alfred Yon Forckenbeck began to grow gloomy and to practice at the bar more than was good for him. All the ardor appeared to be going to his nose and all his tenderness to his eyes. It was in such a condition that Alfred also began to cast re flection upon the lowly character of his wife’s birth, for it w as true that she sprang from plebiaa stock and had only red blood in her veins. At such times Alfred would beat himself upon the aristocratic breast and cry aloud in the hearing of his neighbors: “ Oh, why did I, a Y’ on Forcken beck—I, who have one cousin a burgomaster of Berlin and another who is, or has been, president of the Reichstag—why did I so far forget myself as to marry this woman of the people.” Thereupon his feelings would so overcome him that he would vary beaving his own breast by pulling his wife’s hair, and vary that by honoring her with kicks delivered on portions of her anstomy common alike to plebe and noble. For a time, much longer than she should, Martha bore her husband’s treat ment, but finally finding that her democratic flesh wras quite as sus ceptible to suffering us though it were ar istocratic, she decided that a 8top must l>e put to it Seeing her determined, Alfred \Ton Forck enbeck found no pleasure in mar ried life and went back to Germany to see hi$ cousins, the bergomaster o f Berlin, and the other, wTho was the president of the Reichstag. Left alone, Martha applied for a divorce, and on Tuesday last was made a free woman on tlio ground of her husband’s extreme cruelty. Set tling up her affairs here, Martha Saturday went back to her plebeian familv in New York, shorn of her arristocratic name,but having learn ed a lesson "that happiness is not al ii ays to be found with an aristocrat with a fancy for gin, and that an honest commoner is perhaps better than a “ \"on” with noble cousins and a mania for kicking a wife.— S. F. Chronicle. ri.n m .i ir s passio n . Among the prisoners in the Oakland jail is a German named Peter M ussen. He is about 50 years old and is undergoing a sen tence of six months’ imprisonment for malicious mischief, committed in the little town of Haywards, in Almeda county. His troubles are due to unreciprocated love. Mns- sen’s business was the peddling of chickens and eggs, which ho pur chased of ranchers in the vicinity. Among others who sold the pro duct of their henneries to the ped dler was a Mrs. YVrider, a buxom German widow with two children» residing on the road near Haywards. i8ho was youDg ami comely, and Mussen fell desperately in love with her. One day sho gave him a cup of ten when he was tired and thirsty. This, ho claims, contained a patent love philter, which inflam ed his love. He nursed his passion aud told her not of his love until several weeks ago, when, after buy ing the widow’s surplus eggs and chickens, In* offered her his heart and hand. The proposal was reject- e»l with scorn and the peddler or dered off the premises. This treatment, while it some what disconcerted Mussen, did not entirely discourage him, and fol lowing Sarah Althea’s example, he sought solace of a fortuneteller iu in this city. rlh e clairvoyant told him that a rival- a man with side- whiskers—stood in the way and would have to be removed beforo tlio w idow* would smile on his suit. The task of removing the imagin ary man with the »vhiskers Mussen readily undertook, and his efforts in that direction were what landed him in jail. Returning from the interview with the sorceress, Mussen impro vised a mask out of a piece of flour sack, and loading a shot-gun with birdshot, he waited until after dark on the night of June 1st, and then made his way stealthily to the resi- dense of the widow. Concealing himself under a window he heard voices from Yvithiu, and imagining that his rival was inside he made a dash to the door, which ho burst open just as Mi's. YVrider and hei children made their exit by a back door and sought safety in flight. Once inside the house,Mussen began execution with the gun, one charge taking effect in the ceiling and the other perforating the plaster and demolishing a picture on the wall. After firing the shots, the madden ed man searched the house, but findining no one, he returned home. The following day he was convict ed and taken to the Oakland jail.— [S. F. Chronicle. ay old Subscribe for the H erald . NO. 46. starting a Y>wnj»aj>«T. Did you ever start a paper No? YYell, you ought to try it. Falling down stairs with a stove on top of you is nothing to bo compared to it iu point of excite ment The name of the paper was the Review, and it was started to “ fill a long-felt want.” Jerry Cochrane was my partner. There were several very comfortablo things about the paper. For in stance, Jerry and 1 always knew on Monday that we wouldn’t have enough money to pay the Lands off on Sunday; and wo neve: did. The bauds knew it, too, and so their nerves were never shocked by a disappointment. YYe ran that way for a while, gettili g more deeply in debt all the time. Ac last, one morning, I entered the office and found Jerry looking rather solemn. “Jerry’,” says L “ you want a partner.” “ Yes, we need a new one, Bob,” he rejoined. “A business man,” said lie. “ A financier,” I observed. “ A man who can take hold of the thing and turn it into money,” he concluded. “ Then I ’ve got the man you want,” I said, and introduced Frank Hitchcock, the sheriff. Jerry said Frank was the very man lie liiyd lieen thinking of, so we installed him at once, sir. He ran the pa per with the greatest success until he had turned it entirely7 into money’. YYhen we wound up the concern there was nothing left but two passes—oue to Cincinnati and one to Burlington. YYe divided them, and went in different directions. “ I got to Burlington feeling pretty bad. I was about 200,000 miles in debt, having managed to owe everybody I knew. I would have owed the strangers, too, only I had no way of making their ac quaintance. One day I remarked to Mrs. Burdette that I ’d go over ami see if 1 couldn’t get a job on the Hawkeye. I postponed it for awhile and one day the busiuess manager came over to offer mo a place. I could have hugged the man, but I didn’t want to be de monstrative, so 1 held back rather coyly. He asked me if I had any thing in view, and I told him I had. It was the truth, as I had au idea of going out to the jioor- house, if I could get a ride on tlio cars; I was too proud to walk. YYell, lie urged me, and I finally agreed to take the matter into con sideration. I was to go iu at G o’clock the next afternoon, and I bid him a chilly good day. For fear I ’d miss the train, I m a. lown there at a quarter to four, but when I entered the Hawkeye office I walked like a lord and called the business manager “ Charley,” slapping him familiarly ou the back. I tell you his offer ing me the place gave mo a great moral advantage, and I usecl it, the result being that I was allowed the usual princely salary of a reporter. “ I worked along for awhile, nr.d finally got an interest in the Hawkeye. A curious thing hap pened after awhile, which has caused me to laugh many a timo. There were four of us ou the edi torial page, Frank Hatton, John F. YVliite and John ^Burdette, my brother. Frnnk was the first one taken from that glorious band, and lie became First Assistant Postmaster-General. John YYhko followed by becoming postmaster of Burlington, ami my brother was then appointed collector in the first internal revenue district of Ohio. Frank was born in Cadiz, Waite in Ravenna, and my brother in Cincinnati, all in the same state. I was from Pennsvl- vania and didn’t get anything. It takes Ohio men for oflices.” — [Burdette. V For canning purposes the red raspberries are much improved by the addition of a few ripe currants.