COQUILLE CITY, OREGON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1884.
V OL. 3.
NO. 10.
T h e P ro b le m Solved.
of our local papers that eggs were ed to cart all his lumber by wagon ers of the fanning states from the
A few and oxen for miles to the Bandon Missouri river to the Atlantic are
The man who lias thousands of
“ You'll come to-morrow, then;*’ li^ht words quoted at 20 cents a dozen.
L. F. L a n k .
J ohn L ake .
weeks ago we were offered 35 cents ferry, pile it up there and pay just now compelled to consider acres of land must' either grow
lightly said.
Gayly slio waved her little hand, Rayly he for them on Coos bay.
I f v/hether or not they are to suffer some great staple or make pasture
LANE & LANE,
You will w’harfage until he can ship it
bared his head.
Attorneys and Counselors at Law. "Y ou’ ll ooano to-morrow, then,” and the naturally ask, why, then, don’t you he put it on board the train at his from an equally severe competition, of it That at least, is the usual
send them over to the bay? We place he’d have tlie choice of ship and to produce wool at a loss or way large land interests are kept
Speciality.
man on his errand went.
Office ou Main Street, opposite Cosmopolitan With a tender prayer on heart and lip, yet will tell you.
Taking our own po ping -I* at Parkersburg, or Empire, abandon their flocks. I know from up. The small farms with 25- to
Hotel.
on his work intent.
sition as a fair average illustration; and get it to San Francisco for experience that wool cun be pro 50 acres to work, has do quandary
R o 9 e b u r g , _____ _____ Oregon. The wo in a u a moment lingered; ‘ "would he
we live about 2.V miles from the considerably less than it costs duced on the plains, and on land to trouble him. He cannot farm
turn for a parting look?”
Jons A. G uay
J. M. Sim. in .
Then with half a smile and half a sigh, her river. First, cartage to the river, now. The Bandon saw mills are that is all purchased and owned, largely, so he makes his few acres
Siglin & Gray r r .
household burthen took.
and wharfage, if over a certain not much more than one mile from and provided with every conven go as far as^iossible and will often
Attorneys and Counselors \t Law, •¿You’ ll come to-morrow, then,” and when weight, steamer to Beaver slough, the Bandon beach, and the latter ience for keeping sheep, for 12 surpass the efforts of many who
MarnUfield. C*">* county. Or< u<*n.
the morrow broke,
tow boat to Coaledo, Isthmus tram is not five miles from Parkersburg. cents a pound; the charges against have sections of laud aud don’t
O ffice —Holland lmildins*. opi>osite Blanco |
Pale lips in the crowded city of the ‘ "railway
Hotel.
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way to Utter City, the steamer to When the tourist, the traveler or the wool, including every expence, know what to do with it.
accident” sp ike;
The
W . SINCLAIR.
even
to
a
10
per
cent
charge
for
A strong man in a stranger's home, in Marshfield where we arrive that camper comes dowrn the river, it
small farm lias room for a fine
death’ s dread quiet lay,
Attorn*) ¡¡t l,iiw,
deterioration
of
plant
und
other
night, and the snrae to Empire City t ikes him an hour and a half from
garden and good orchard. It can
And a woman sobbed a full heart out in a
General Insurance and Real 1 state Aj*eiit,
next day; all these different freights ; the time he arrives at Parkersburg perishable property, and estimat- thrive on bees as well as the bees
cottage a mile away.
C o q u i l i . e C i t y , O r e g o n .
So lightly our thoughts leap onward, so besides annoyances innumerable, ! until he reaches the Bandon ferry, ng that the ewes are kept until can thrive themselves. A few cows
T. G\ O W EN .
lightly we hope and plan,
and a transit occupying nearly two and from thence to the wagon road they die, and are lost. This leaves to make butter, and chickens to
While Fate waits grimly by mid smiles, to
days render the forwarding of on the Bandon beach a distance of the sheep ranchman a handsome lay eggs and then to work every
Attorney and Counselor at Law.
watch her plaything—man—
goods by all these routes ridicu two and a halt miles. If he hap profit when he sells his wool for 20 acre for all the profit there is in
M arshfield , Oon.
Discounting the dim, strange future, while
lous.
Give us a railway to the I pens to have luggnge, or if lie is a cents, and gets a fleece of four and them. The man with 20 to 80
his blindey. scam o see.
s. H- HAZARD.
What a single t’ ying hour brings; where the Bandon beach and wo will deliver campQr and has his blankets and a half pounds on an average from acres is so well fixed that he gener
next step may be.
Attorney and Counselor at Law.
nil our goods in unbroken pack his wife perhaps with a baby in his improved sheep.
ally knows what to do and actually
I And love tloats laughing onward, and at his
E m pihb C it y . O on .
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The New Mexico ranchmen can does it. That is tire secret of suc
ages on the bay in one hour, and her arms or a child holding on by
side glides sorrow.
J . W . BENNETT.
While men and women 1>etween them walk w here we sell it is but natural we her skirt, if they get down in an do better than this, selling their cess. It is not every one who ^:an
and.say, ""We'll meet to-merrow!”
Attorney at Law.
should buy. Our beach is becom hour they’ll be doing well; that is wool for 12 cents a pound, and get make a small farm pay a good prof
—All the Year Round.
M arsh field . O on .
ing yearly a fashionable as well as a 24 hours from Parkersburg to the ting with one-fourth of the outlay it. There are many who do so,
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It im lo n .
healt!i resort. We’ ve a race-course road on the beach. Now, how long a profit equal to that of the Kansas yet they could not succeed as well
D- X j . W ATSO N .
Eil. Herald:—Before we had the I : the finest on the Pacific coast; the will it take to come down from shepherd, or by percentage about working on a large scale.
I
There
Attorney and Counsalor ai Law
slightest prospect of a breakwater, > sand is hard scarcely retaining the Parkersburg to the same place by double. Now, can a farmer keep are too many large farms. Own
Coos C ity . O on .
and when we had only one vessel impression of the foot. Our caves rail? N i n e M in u t e s !!
sheep and live iu competition with ership of land enables the possess
running
in
here—the
Mose—wo
Legem.
J. H. NOSLER-
these western producers? Or, in or, the whole world, but to possess
are large and cool. In one of them
were
charged
$10
a
ton
freight
on
Notary Public
other words, at what cost can he great areas that the owner cannot
a service in connection with the
A I lo y S Siiuko Story.
our wool to Han Francisco.
Now annual Methodist campmeeting
C o q u il l e C it y . 0<» n .
A Louisville boy, 14 years of produce wool east of the Missouri sufficiently improve, is not to a
that great improvements have been was held last July, by the presid
man’s credit.
Small farms well
CAR L H- VOLKMER.
age, visiting in Illinois, lias writ river?
effected by that portion of the bieak- ing elder.
It is very clear that a farmer tilled, will make a country rich and
Our rocks and beach ten a long letter home detailing his
Atto:ney and Counselor at Law.
water already built, and that we afford the fishermen and the clam
adventure with a huge black snake. cannot keep a flock profitably ou prosperous, whereas large land
M ybtlh P o in t , C o * » C ounty O ukoon .
have several schooners running in and crab catcher constant amuse
The boy was on the top of a hay pasture in the summer, and hay holdings are a curse to any coun
Will practice in all the courts of Oregon.
and out here instead of one, does ment. As far as health is concern
wagon, in a harvest field, when one and grain in the winter, and com try. Divide Oregon up into small
ATM. CRAW FORD.
it not seem strange that wo are ed, we refer to those who have oome
of the harvesters tossed a fork of pete with the western shepherd. It tracts and let the man who has a
now charged *15 a ton for doing here in quest of it, some of whom
Attorney and Counselor at Law.
liny upon the wagon. It happened will occur to some readers just small farm improve it well and the
the
same
thing,
so
that
so
far
as
\-3S ~General Lnsuranee agency.
were so pleased that they have be to contain a blacksnake about ten hero that the farmer has the ad whole country will be dotted with
the wool men are concerned is it come permanent residents. A lady
M AMHynm. O itu ,__________
feet long.
The boy didn’t tarry vantage of a good market for mut houses, dozens of them grouped to
not
mid
that
the
improvements
J. P. EASTER, M- D.
who lives in Salem and who spent long on the wagon, leaving the ton, but the largest porportion of gether. There would l>e greater
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A
made
at
the
liver’s
mouth
should
wool produced is grown upon sheep wealth by far, and more general
Phyuo-M edical and bcloctic Physician and
some weeks here this summer, told snake to hold the fort.
Surgeon.
O:\ice at residenw in (joquiite ; ] esult in raising the freight on
us that she had been in every wa
The harvesters procured long ( that have a very small value for prosperity.
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— -v"ul ,f------ i their shipments by no less tl.an 50
The soil constitutes the actual
C. w . TO W ER . M. D., . I per cent, instead of lowering them tering place of note on the Oregon poles and endeavored to kill the \ mutton, and this cannot be taken
coast, and she saw no place that reptile, but they couldn’t well 1 into account excepting as an inci and reliable wealth of the world,
Physician and Surgeon,
i by that amount, at least. There is
she would compare with Bandon. reach it.
Ladders were procured dental advantage in some cases. because, if properly treated, it
M a r sh f ie l d . O o n .
¡onlyone cure for this anomalous
Some people here were thinking and placed along the stack.
Men But even this is offset by many ex lasts forever, whereas mines and
state
of
things
competition!
Ks-j
w 'c .A N G L L L . M. D*
a few months ago of forming a mounted to the top, but the snake tra expenses which nCTirly always forests wear out, and all else is per
tiuiaiiug the cartage of our wool to
fishing company—the sea outside
Phys ician and Accoucheur.
Sev sweep away any advantage which ishable. To secure general pros
’ the Bandon ferry at only one dol- swarms with fish—but they gave it beat them back every time.
may exist. It is simply a question perity the land should be divided
COQUILLE CITY. OGN.
; lar per'ton exclusive of wharfage, up as they could find no market eral hours of valuable time were of wool and increase of flock.
v ln ltf.
among the people.
The small
consumed iu the battle and the
~ ' it c )fcts $10 a ton to get it to the here or on the river for their fish.
It
can
scarcely
require
figures
to
landowner produces all that he
O. E SMITH.
city. If we had a railroad from If we had a railway this difficulty snake still lived. The men finally show that a farmer cannot keep
possibly can to meet his own wants,
Serereon Dentist,
Empire City down to the only road would disappear, as they could resolved to burn the reptile out. sheep with profit on land worth
and often has very limited needs
where wagons can come in from land their fish near connection, or The load of hay was propped up $40 per acre, when two acres are
MARSHFIELD, OREGON.
beyoad what he can supply from
the coast on the Bandon beach in near Wesley’s rock, only a very and the wagon pulled out from required to carry five sheep through
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the farm. The large landowner
under it
Then a match was ap
land
on
their
journey
to
the
Ban
J. K. VOLKMAR. M. D.
short distance from the contem
In an instant the year. This estimate is made holds land that Nature intended to
don ferry, we could get our wool plated railway depot, and forward plied to the hay.
on the basis that one acre of pas be divided among many.
Physician
id
Su. gson«
He is
to Coos bay in one hour, and thence them to Empire and thence per the entire stack was in a blaze.
ture
ami
one
ncre
of
crops
will
the worst monopolist of all, be
The men stood around with
M ybtli : P o in t , C oes C o .. O iiboon .
down to San Francisco, and under refrigerating compartment to San
support
five
sheep.
The
return
vL’nfntf
cause he monopolizes the very
deck, too, for $4 per ton and there Francisco, where they could be clubs, pitchforks anil rakes, wait from two and a half sheep per
earth that belongs to humanity.
J.
D E -A -3 S T ,
by effect a saving of 300 per cent, sold fresh!, and prices obtained ing for the snake to appear. Pres acre would amount to 83.75 for
When you see a tramp wandering
ently a streak, of fire ten feet long
C o q u il l e C i t y , O r e g o n .
j on the freight alone,and in addition
that would soon turn our fisher darted out of the flames and flew wool, taking five pounds for the about, acreless and aimless, you
GENERAL AGENCY f<»r the wile of City Hvoid the danger of its being satu-
men intolittle' millionaires. The across the field like a streak of fleece aud 30 ceuts for the price, see a victim of the errors of our
property, houses and lots, timber, furuis
rated with rain or sea water when Floras creek Vlairymen, too, w’onld
ranches, etc. Office in Herald building.
and $5 for the lambs, equal to 80 time—indeed of all time since the
exposed on the deck, or even cov be only too glad to forward their lightning, leaving a line of smoke per cent increase.
Against this strong hand claimed to own the
J. F. H A L L .
behind to denote the course it had
ered
with
boards.
A
few
years
Surveyor,
butter this way, and tlnls save a taken.
For two miles the streak $380 would meet interest anil oth- soil.
ago we were cut down 7 cents on a
Fon Co*» C ounty , O ukoon .
journey of five miles and get a of fire could be seen, when sudden clmrges on the land, etc., and $500
It may sound revolutionary to
Offloe: W ith T . G. Owen, Esq., Marshfield. pound on our shipment because it
is
a
small
allowance
for
other
ex
chance
to
forward
it
to
the
city
say it, but the time is coming when
ly it disappeared in a large barn.
Perfect maps of all surveyed and en
arrived wet. It was put on deck,
fresli if so desired. There are, al In the course of a fewT moments penses. The account, thus imper the right of man will include a
tered lands furnished on short not!«e. vln l
and we either had to submit to
fect, and all in favor of the farmer, right to ownership of laud.
so, many other matters wo could
The
that or take it home again.
We mention, as cnttle and sheep. As the barn was a complete mass of shows that the wool costs 30 cents
time coming, to t>e hastened os
Once more the streak of
want a railroad down here for for the. latter, all connoisseurs know’ flames.
fire darted forth and shot across per pound at least. Iu fact, if a popular education shall progress,
WATCH-MAKER & JEWELER, many other reasons also. We live
the super iority of all sea-side mut the prairie to a small stream. close account were kept tiiis cost when the soil will be, more than it
O o q .- a .i l l e C i t y , O r .
in a clime where the mean month
ton above all other kinds. We can When it struck the water a dense would run up to more nearly 40 is now, the common property of
X r f ' Worl* of all descriptions done at short
than 30 cents.
This method is.
ly temperature of January, the
notice and extremely low prices.
truly say that we have never yet cloud of steam arose, but it soon
vln47.
therefore,
wholly
impracticable. all.
coldest month in the year here is
seen a leech in the liver of one of cleared away, and then the snake, But such a system could only be
Already socialism and radicalism
I. O. G. T.
46 degrees, and that of August, the
our sheep. These could be butch for such the streak of fire proved suggested by an inexperienced man tries to incite revolution and an
hottest month here is 59, that being
Morning Star Lodge
ered and dressed here, landed in to be, Avas seen climbing a tree on on acccount of its obvious disad archy as a means of reapportioning
only
13
degrees
between
the
two.
No. 464,
vantages, but yet occasionally
Empire City in an hour and put in the edge of the stream.
Beyond there are persons w ho are green to the soil. That should never hap
Meets at Coqnille City every Thursday We produce, in profusion, melons,
> evening. Visiting members of this order, in
to the refrigerators on board the the loss of its hide the snake had the business proposing such a sys pen, for all anarchy means distruc-
good standing, are cordially invited.
tomatos, citrons and other products
steamers and sold fresh in Sail suffered no serious injury.
tion to reasonable law.
But the
tem.
of a semi-tropical clime, alongside
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Francisco. Should the Southern
It is very certain that while we world is gradually becoming more
K. OF L.
lio r p iiiK S h e e p Tor I*rofit.
turnips, cabbages and jjotatoes, the
are
importing in wool and its enlightened and progressive. The
Oregon Improvement company
Pioneer Assembly* No.
products
of
a
temperate
clime.
Fanners who keep sheep are equivalent about 40 per cent, of tendency to wealth is great, and if
3070.
build a railway across to the Co
our own yearly product there will
Meets at Coquille City every Monday We grow all kinds of vegetables,
quille, and we don’t see how they greatly troubled, just as wheat
evening. Visiting members, in good stand
always be a way for us to make unchecked will result in debasing
and to any amount, but save what
ing, are cordially invited.
enu utilize this valuable coal and growers are, by the competition of I money out of our sheep, without the masses to make them vassals
we can consume ourselves, they are
timber unless they do, it would the western producers, whose lands any regard to the question of mut of the rich. The free ballot in the
useless. We have no market for
m
b
probably come out at Seven Mile cost less per acre than the annual ton, which, by the way, will serve hands of the people gives them
O. F.
o.
them. Yet doesn’t it seem odd
slough, and from thence up to interest on the cost of a farm. But to equalize the burdens of the power to preserve and protect
Coqnille Lodge N o.53
sheep farmer upon still more cost
that over on Coos bay they get
Coquille City, the center of an ex the sheperd has a very great ad ly lands wit a those of the class I themselves, and when the issue
Meet« at Coquille City every Saturday even
ing. Visiting brethren, in good standing, most of their vegetables all the
tensive country and thriving pop vantage over the wheat-grower up have specially referred to.
comes to be: shall the rich grow
cordially invited.
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way frorti San Francisco, a dis
on
high-valued
farms,
and
is
not
ulation.
Where it would reach
For the profitable production of richer and the poor poorer, or shall
tance of between four and five hun
nearly
so
squeezed
by
the
competi
A. F. and M.
wool
on farms it is clear to me that government be conducted in the
Judge Low e’s, it should branch a-
dred
miles,
while
here
on
the
river
Chadwick Lodge, No. 68.
cross the river to Parkersburg, tion. It is a fact, quite plain to the flock must be an incident in interest of tne masses?
We shall
the system of farming rather than
and
this
portion
of
the
coast,
only
Meet» at Coqnille City on Saturday even
where there should be a depot. every one who can undei'stand fig the main business of it; just ns it see a great social and political up
ing on or before the the full union in each about 30 mile3 distant from the a-
It would then be near Grube’s ures, that the western and north has been made in England a means rising that will result in laws to
month.
John Goodman,
foresaid bay, they never get a caul
saw mill and at the same side of western wheat-growers have reduc of high cultue of the land, and a protect labor in its struggle for
W. M. iflower, a head of cabbage or even
the river and close to Getchell & ed the price of wheat all over the result of this as well. The manure bread and limit the right of any
a sack of potatoes, although we
In the
Co’s cannery and Parker’s saw mill, world, so that the wretched ryot of made by a large flock makes high man to possess the soil.
G. A. R.
culture
with
large
crops
possible,
near
future
the
world
will
make
could deliver them to them every
the East Indies is severely taxed
from
thence
down
R.
Rock’s,
and
and
the
high
culture
enables
the
progress towards equal right, so
Gen- Lytle Post, No. 27, morning with the dew on them.
through a dry, level country to the to live in composition with the farmer to support a large flock that the possibilities for acquisition
Meets at Coquille City, on every first
It is the same with other articles;
Bandon saw mills; it must necessa wheat-growers of Minnesota, Da with greater ease than he formerly shall be increased to the laborer
and third Wednesday. vVis: n : comrads,
take eggs for iustanca It is only rily pass near these. At present kota and California. By somewhat kept a smali one.—[Country Gen ! and diminished to the capitalist—
in good standing, oordially invitjd.
Chas. S. True, Commander.
in a late number (Sept. 30) of one Mr. Rosa, the proprietor, is oblig similar circumstances 6heep-own- tleman.
1 Farmer.
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