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About Coquille City herald. (Coquille City, Or.) 188?-1904 | View Entire Issue (March 31, 1885)
(■ iiin fn G r a s s . <? 0 t j« ilìt tfv h j ^ t r a i t i . In many parts of the forage plant called by PUBLISHED KVKRI TUESDAY. Rine In P rices. south the a ean , but its requiring to T U E S D A Y , M A R C H 31, 1885. ed by business men as a substan Recently been furnished with spring beds tial sign of a general improvement nud other conveniences for the benefit of in industrial and commercial affairs. the traveling public. M e a ls at a ll h ou rs The fundamental principle upon which this renewed confidence rests The other variety is of per ket as a result of the Egyptian war, ennial growth and is a member and foreign complications general A s times in Oregon are based «on of the sorghum family. It is ly. For several months past the the harvest prospect of California, adapted to both cold and hot cli farmers have either witheld their the following from the San Fran mates, doing well in Mexico and in grain from market or sold it at ru cisco Chicnicle may be of inter I localities as far north as where the inous rates to meet the bare neces est- ground freezes from two to three sities of the day. Under such cir The merchants of San Francisco, feet in depth. I t seems especially cumstances it followed, as a matter and especially the jobbers, are i ndapted to withstand drought, of course, that they wero unable to down on their marrow-1»mes be though where irrigation can be buy goods in any quantity or even seeching Jupiter Pluvius to open applied largely enhanced crops meet their debts to merchants and the flood-gates of heaven and favor: are harvested, as high as twenty manufacturers. Merchants in the this section with a bountiful rain. tons to the acre having been cut in west and middle states, as a result The large majority, basing their one season. On dry ground three of this condition of affairs, were judgment on advices received from or four cuttings are made in the compelled to contract their orders their country correspondents, main season, but in Mexico and other for goods and ask for extensions tain that without rain within the warm climates seven or eight may from the wholesale men. The city next week or ten days the coming be made. In Texas, where it has merchants were, therefore, equally harvest will be very Gim, and that been raised by the help of irriga embarrassed by slow collections business in consequence will u n -! tion, nine ciops were cut in one and diminished sales. The break dergo a serious depression. The season, each crop averaging four down of the farmers’ power of pur old-timers, however, maintain that feet in height The plant is rec chase or payment is felt injurious there is no occasion for the prevail- i ommended by the Agricultural ly by every c I rss of townspeople, ing alarm, although they admit Department at Washington and and has been tlie chief cause of the that the situation is far from s a tis -: reliable sources of information gloom and stagnation which for factory. show it to be all that it is repre nearly six months have pervaded Mr. Briggs, the manager of the 1 411 the trouble can sented to be. It should be sown business life. immigration Society, stated that he much the same as alfalfa, requiring be traced to a common source, and has received advice from all parts about a bushel to the acre of clean relief for the farmer means relief of the State, and that he cannot The principle seed. So far as known no experi all along the line. see any occrsion for the prevailing ments have been made with it in has been so thoroughly demonstra alarm as to the comiug harvest, or j tbi8 State, but no doubt as good or ted that improved prices of wheat anv serious necessity for immedi better results could be obtained and other farm products are recog ate rain. Even without a drop of from its culture here as in the nized immediately as a promise of rain our coast counties will have a South. The botanical name is increased prosperity, and a buoy large crop of fruits. W here rain Sorghum halepense, and no troub ant feeliug will be likely to take is most needed is iu the Sau Joa le should be experienced in procur the place of the universal dejection quin and Sacramento valleys, and A ing a supply of the seed by any which prevailed a month aga iu those great wheat belts a good oDe wishing to make the experi ready demand for wheat and corn rain ought to come before the ment of its adaptability to this abroad starts iLto activity every month is ou t In Humbolt, Lake, business agency. It is estimated coast. Mendocino, Lassen, Sonoma and that the farmers of the northwest Rougit ou Rain. Napa counties the crops are in fine 8nd Pacific coast hold 40 per cent condition and the ground is full of of last year’s crops in their own Philadelphia Ledger: A W ater moisture. The marketing of their street man is said to have got rid hands. In 1 lie Addition To The Town Of — DEALERS IN— GENERAL MERCHANDISE L U M B E R PHIL DRANK, Prop. ▼ 2n4 C e d a r , f ir , ash , m a p l e , m y r t l e , Alder and spruce lumber always on CITY DRUG STORE! C oquille C it y O gn . D r. S . L . L E N E V E P r o p r ie t o r ^ Dealer in drugs, medicines, chem icals etc., of the best quality, and all the time receiving fresh, every thing usually found in a first-class medical dispensary. Prescriptions carefully compounded. H . L . Dodge one of the oldest and effectually of rats that he did not stocks at better prices will increase most conservative merchants in the | went to use arsnic on, in this way: their purchasing power for city city, says that he has lately receiv- m ixed two parts of sweetened goods beyond anything they Have v2nl5. hand and for sale at the lowest rates. TOWING By the T ug K A T I E C O O K , ou the river and bar, at reasonable rates. t Golden New D rugstore! OPPORTUHITY Coquille City, Oregon, —FOR— J. H. N o b l e s ..........................Proprietor. -----Keeps----- Constantly on hand a well selected stock of fresh and choioe drugs and med icines.notions, blank hooks, school books and everything usually found in a first-class drug store. Presciptions carefully com pounded. Give him yonr orders. His prices are as low as the lowest. vln45 Our Subscribers. Appreciating the necessity of all Easiness Men, Farmers and Miners having a news paper published in the metropolies, in ad dition to their own local paper—one that contains all Financial, Commercial and General New’s; which matter not being in the scope of a local paper—the proprietor of the (Equine W . Gallier jT ir a ll Monday next, when eclipse of the sun will an annular tive.” occur. H e had kept a close study and noticed that a rain always followed one these heavenly phenomena. of He are hourly threatened, and it is not improbable that at least three of T o Vlnkc T ree» Dear. Henry W a y mire of the the great continental powers will M ont C L U B BLACK-SMITHNIG ....W I T H THE. . . . S A N F R A N C IS C O I f this be in spring fairly wanes. experi true, the United States must of ne had conversed with fanners from Fruit Recorder says: all parts of the State and was mented in my orchard, and have cessity, in a large measure become profited by it. M y trees have not the granary of both continents.— sat- isfied that there was plenty of mois - 1 ture in the earth. “I The trouble was 1 borne for ten or fifteen years, ex- S. F. Examiner. that the dry winds from the north, Cept little knotty fruit, until four prevailing for many days past, had Qr five years ago. hard After a W anted Hweetnran. Mr. W . Z. Hutchinson, in the dried the surface, and thus had winter I determined to cut them “There caused unnecessary alarm. Should down. I advised with my wife Rural New Yoiker, says: we have a good rain within t h e 1 about it, then thought I would is, probably, enough honey that next fifteen days the harvest will spare the trees for one year more. goes to waste for want of bees to be most bountiful, and even with I dug around the trees for six or gather it, to sweeten all the pies, out rain we are sure to have fully eight feet out, and round four of cakes and cookies that are baked. eighty-acre two-thirds of a large crop. The them sprend manure, and leaving Upon nearly every natural fog, or morning dew, will two others without fertilizer. The farm there is enough honey secret keep sufficient moisture in the next spring all bloomed out alike, ed by the flowers each year to fur and apples began to show on all, nish its owner with sweetning pow ground. but the fruit soon began to drop er from honey-harvest to honey- Baker & Hamilton received a from thetwo I hadneglected; but the gloomy letter from one of their others were loaded down with fine harvest. I t is admitted by our best apiarists that a few colonies ia a correspondents in Los Angeles bellflowers so that one split in county: In it he says: “ Unless two and was ruined. Since then I place give better results than a we have rains on or before the 20th fed them manure every year, turn large number; therefore, if the bees the bogs in until the fruit begins were scattered about, a few colon of this month tho crops w ill be a to get good, aud I have plenty of partial, if not a total, failure. At apples every year, and this year I ies at each farm, there would not To present, the outlook is very dis have ns fine a crop iu quality and be so much sweetness wasted. couraging. I have just been quantity as I ever had. I am sat be sure, there are, and probably al through all parts of the county and isfied that there are hunbreds of ways will be, people who make a these orchards starving to death. specialty of bee-keeping, owning have seen a large portion of the A man adjoining me bought a farm their hundreds of colonies; and grain already beginning to curl with a pear orchard on i t Tlie and turn black. Pray for rain.” trees looked bad and blighted. H e that is all right; it is to such per On the contrary, one of the firm’s replaced the old with new soil, fer sons as these that we are indebted traveling agents, who has just re tilized, and in one season he has for the improvements that have increased the yield and improved made bee culture the safe, pleasant turned from a trip down the coast, the looks of his orchard. Another reports that in the couuties of had fifteen acres in orchard that and profitable pursuit it is; but this need not deter any farmer from Monterey, San Lewi sObispo, San blue grass has starved out, so he ta Barbara and Ventura the outlook has not an apple to-day as bigas a keeping a few colonies of bees that will supply his table with that most • for good crops is very satisfactory, !?eil s w^ e A ^.ave »Uhanah the farmers and onA .............. delicious and healthful of sweets, although country ! 1 WQnt, aud am getting $1 a bushel for what I will sell light at home. pure honey. They will probably dealers are holding back their or It’s just like the pigs. Neglect J find bee-keepiug to be one of the ders, waiting for a good rain. them and they do not flourish; care for them and feed them and they most facinaiing occupations in Subscribe for the H erald . which they were ever engaged.” fatten.” Mrs. C. W. Olive. Mrs. A. G. Aiken. OLIVE & AIKEN. Have iust received a t ttL e lr n e w Millinery Store!! A Large Variety of and. O rn a m e n ts. Ruching E m b r c y d e r Veiling, Scarfs e tc . etc- Hats trimed to order a speciality. Straw, Plush, Silk, Satin or Velvet, which we will sell cheap f o r c a s h . rlnS. FOR TH E —<OJ— T om b ston e MONUMENT X Tube on the safe side, tee have secured an agency for the sale of tombstones and monuments,from (<oou and Reliubic House in California B3Zorse-SHoeIngr OOr.BY'JTi Neatly and promptly done, at the H liich we are enabled to give ex $2 -0 0 PER YEAR , lowest living prices. Shop next cellent bargains. Photographic de door east of Leneve’s drug store, And the yearly sn!*scription of the CHRON signs and pricelist shown on ap ICLE is $2. Now we will furnish Coquille City, Oregon. plication. The regular subscription price of our paper is David Young. Henry Huden. M a rsh field Boll For Papers lor One Year & 2 i , Postage Free. Soda Water Worts, Both papers sent to one or two adresses, op tional with the subscriber. Young & Baden Proprietors. SAN FRANCISCO CHRONI CL E ....I S THE ... Leading Newspaper ....O F T H E .... ¡¡P a c ific C c a s t . J. A. D ean . Office in Herald Building. c h e a p e s t : Quietest a ij Best Empire CilY and Drain’s Station STAGE and STtAMSCAT line! Carrying: The U- S- Mails Randolph, Oregon: > Wells. Fargo & Co's J. W a ls e r , Prop. Beer of best duality always to had at the Brewery, and Express be Jams, Cornwall h Bo. orders from all parts filled promptly, v n33 e a v s e s e m p ir e c it y a n d d r a in s s t a t io n e v e r y L MONDAY, be engaged in conflict before the gomery county Farmers’ Club, E. B ender Z R e s L S o n a u ’b l © . For particulars inquire of or W. A. B obdeb , Myrtle Point, Oregon. Has made advantageous arrangements to da vs. would be shocked should his name jvxir, starved rats creeping about, hemisphere, which is the imrnedi- appear in print, predicted that we You could knock them down with i ate cause, is likely to be of long would have plenty of rain after a stick. It was cruel, but effec-1 continuance. New complications P r ic e s Timber, match-wood and stave tim T lie L a t e s t S t a le s ber purchased. Orders for lumber filled in quanti LADIES AND CHIIDREN’S H A T S ties to suit, and at the lowest living rates. F lo w e r s , O s tr ic H J. P A R K E R , P lu m e s a n d M . L. H A N S C O M , I R V I N G M. C O O K . Tips- Parkersburg Coos county Oregon. L a ces, ______________ v l n l S t f . ‘ P a i* b lD o r L S , ed advice from all sections of the flour wjth one part of plaster of recently anticipated, and they will State. W h ile there is a general pnriSj p]aced the cake in a j i8l)> ( distribute their prosperity broad SODA, SARSAPARILLA, GINGER ALE cry for'raiu, especially in the south and a basin of water beside it. cast by the natural centrifugal etc., of superior quality, Constantly on hand for sale. ern country, he is satisfied that the The rats eat, darnlc and wero mer forces of political economy. Every SSTOoders from the country prmptly | harvest will, taking the State in its ry. The plaster of paris set in business man and every laboring filled. Address all orders to Marshfield | entirety, be a satisfactory one if we their stomachs and intestines, and roan will enjoy his share of the Soda Works. v2nl4 have rain inside of the next thirty they ate no more, It was a ! general improvement. There is way of plugging up, not the r a t ! also good reason to believe that this One of the most prominent m er- j holes, but the rats themselves. A rise in preces has come to stay anti chants of the city, whose modesty ' fortnight afterward you saw the progress. The war in the eastern Myrtle Point — AND ALL KINDS OF— 25 CENTS. replanted is of course the inoreased demand great draw for our cereals in the British mar LOTS FOR SALE! Tug Company!! HAS back. T h e H a r v e s t O u tleoU . — AND— C o q u il l e C i t y , O g n . be yearly is of course a C O Q U IL L E M I L L Our dispatches from Liverpool above announce an upward tendency in many the price of wheat, which is regard Editor ami Proprietor title has been grown for years. There seem to be two va Devoted to the interests of the Coqvllle rieties, called indiscriminately by River particularly, and of the County gen the same name. One of these is erally. Subscription, per year......................... $2.00. annual, and is a most excellent slock food, producing large crops, J A. D ROBINSON HOUSE, City Livery & Feed Statile Empire Cit37\ Or. W . R. G etty , P rop . — o — Hors«-« and Baggies at all hours. Good Pasturage by the day, week or month. ▼Inis 3m. THE CHRONICLE BUILDING. .& -T Myrtle Point, Oregon, THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE is the first paper on the coast in ability and i i the freshness and relia l.ty of in A EWS Nothing that the world desires to know is omitted from its oolumns It aims to fill every requirement of a first-c a paper. Its telegraphic reports are the latest and most reliable; its local news the fullest ani spiciest, and its editorials t.om the ableht pens in the country. THE CHRONICLE has always been, and always will be, the friend and champion of the people as against combinations, cliques, corporations or oppression of any kind. It will be independent in everything, neutral in nothing; fair and impartial to all parties, yet exposing corruption wherever found, aud working with fearless endeavor to promote and protect every interest of the great pub lic whom it serves and on whom it depends for its support. The SAN FRANCISCO WEEKLY CHRON ICLE, the most brilliant and oomplete Weekly Newspaper in the World, prints regularly 72 columns, or eight pages, of News, Literature and General Information; also a magnificent Agricultural Department. WEDNESDAY and FRIDAY The steamer JUNO or RESTLESS meets the stage at the mouth of the Umpqua. New and comfortable stages. FARE to Drains Station $7. Fare to Portland by this route $ 15 . 60 . Each {vossenger allowed 00 pounds of baggage Passengers are requested to be in Empire City the night before departure. Any information in regard to the above line can be procured at the Blaroo or Central hotels in Marshfield, and the post office or in any public b c i se in Empire.___________ THE GREAT ENGLISH REMEDY S ANEVER-FAIL mg Care for Ner I vous Debility, Ex hausted Vitality Sem inal Meekness, Sper H as r e c e n t l y b e e n f i t t e d u p in matorrhaa, lost man - hood .loopotency non First-class order by Mrs. O. Reed, daughter tatobbhka . Paralysis of the former proprietor, who will spare no and all the terrible ef pains in trying to render comfort to gnests fects of self abuse, o f of this old, and reliable house. youthful follies end Share of patronage is solicited. excesses in mature* years, such as lose of Mrs. >. U. K x k d P Proprietor. n41. Memory, Lassitude, Noctururl Emission A- version to Society. Dimness of Vission, Nois es in the Head; the vital fluid passing un observed in tbe urine, and many other dis eases that leads to Insanity and death- g u la r physician, d b . m intie . who is a re regula (graduate of the University of * Penns y Iva- nia), will agree to forfeit rrvs hvhdud dollars for a case of this kind the vital restorative (under his special advice and The people of the Coquille river should treatment) will not cure, or for anything impure or injurious found m it. bear in mind, that as good P h o t o g r a p h » d o c to b m in t ie treats all private disease as can be obtained on the Pacilio coast, are successfully, without mercury; c o n su l t a made by G. H. K a m s d e l l , of Myrtle Point. t io n f r e e . Thorough examination and ad Will soon have completed a floating vice including analysis of arine, $5. Prioe of v i t a l b e s t o b a t iv e . $1.M> a bottle,or four times the quantity $5: sent to any address With which e will visit every point upon receipt of price or C. Q. D. secure on the river between Myrtle Point and Including postage, to any part of the United from observation and in privste name if desired, by a . b . mintie , m . d . Bandon, and be prepared to do San Fran States. 11 KEABNEY ST. SAN EBAMCXSCO, CAL., cisco work at less than San Francisco prices SAMPLE BOTTLE FBKK Sample Copy Sent Free. Will be fully prepared to make Pictares in All orders must be accompanied by the Will be sent to any one applying by letter, stating symptoms, sex anu A ge. Strict se all styles known to the art, from the small coin. Address all orders to H b b a l d , Coquille City crecy in regard to all badness trassso- est Gem to a Photograph 17 x 27 inobes. tions. Coo* Co. Oregon. DR. MIKTI e ' n KIDNEY REMEDY NKPHMTlCrS All he asks is for people to oompare his curesnll kindsof kidney and bladder com work with that of others. plaints, gonorrhoea, gleet, leuoorrhora. A BARGAIN! Mr. R. has beoome a permanent oitizen For sale by all druggists; $1 a bottfe; 6 bot We have the selling of a half section of tles for $5. of Coos County, and it is to the interest DR. MINTIE' s DANDELION EILLS f.re the bgst o f the people to patronize home industry land, h a lf b e n c h And half bottom land, near Coquille City. It would make a half dozen and cheapest d y s p e p s ia and r il l io u s curs and thereby keep the money in the country good little ranches, or a good dairy and iu the market. For sale by «11 druggists. v?nltf v2n48tf stock ranch. The prioe is $20. per sere. STILL AHEAD! AID DOM YOU FORGET IT* $2 For One Year. \