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About Coquille City herald. (Coquille City, Or.) 188?-1904 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 20, 1903)
tfoquUìr tf-Ug p e rsil PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY O. F. Dean. Editor and Proprietor Countv Official Paper. D evoted to th e m aterial and aooial ji ooildintt of thoOoqaille Valley parttoalarly and o f Oooa Ooauty generally. Snbeoription, per year, in advance, {1.60 Repeal These Bad Laws. Ascendancy ol the Country Press Marshfield Ban. Country newspaper men are be coming an important factor in the development of Oregon. Formerly the papers of the metropolis gov erned the destiny of Oregon, but in these Litter days the country press are shedding their swaddilug clothes and stepping into the arena with the metropolitan journals, and their influence on legislation and public matters is shaping' (he course of the newer Oregon. If the country press declared today against a $500, O0O appropriation lor tho Lewis and Clark Fair, the Legislature would not have the temerity to pass tho measure over the veto of the country dailies and weeklies Likewise, the position of the country press on Senatorial matters is the Legislator’s safe criterion for that demand reflects the wish of the lawmaker's constituency, nml where he has failed to respect that wish his voice is rarely ever heard again in tho Legislative halls. Yes, this is the day of ascendancy for the country nrflss in Oregon, and it 'a well for " Yiffe state that such is the case. It is Oregon's safeguard against rank, political corruption and unwholesome legislation. It is the time reflector of tue genius of the state.—Eugene Register. County Expenses for ¡902. Johu Hnyder, mine host, has re turned from a visit to bis daughter, Mrs. Rollinson, who is in a hos Statement of expenses of Coos county, Oregon, for the year 1902: pital in Sun Francisco. Her many friends on the bay will be pleased County court and commissioners, salary of judge, commis sioners, bailiffs, livery, expertiog books, etc .....................$ 1352 50 to know that she is recovering from Circuit court, salary of bailiffs, reporter, jury aud witness fees, ber long spell of sickness. John Merchant and Miss Ada Johnson, wore married in San Fran cisco, last week. They are among Marshfield’s most popular voung people, tho groom being a son of C. H. Merchant, and tbe brida is the charming daughter cf our well- known and reliable citizen and fur. niture dealer, C. A. Johnson. Mr. ami Mrs. Merchant are expected home shortly. meals, special counsel, etc...,................................................. 1228 80 Justice court, fee of justices, constables, jurors, witnesses, etc.. 386 90 Sheriff's office, salary and expenses of sheriff and deputies...... 2861 29 Clerk’s office, salary of clerk and deputies.............................. . 2089 81 Treasurer’s office, salary of treasurer.......................................... 600 00 Coroner’s office, fees of coroner, physicians, jurors, witnesses. etc.............................................................................................. 223 20 School superintendent's office, salary ol supt., fees, etc............. 966 00 Assessor’s office, salary of assessor, deputies, extra help, etc. .. 1456 50 Assessment and collection of taxes, copying tax roll, extra clerks, collecting, advertising, levying on property, etc... 1 50 ’Current expeuses. books, stationery, postage, expressage, tele phones, etc, (all offices).......................................................... 1142 77 Court house expenses, janitor, lights, water, fuel, repairs, turn- iture, rent, etc........................ 1372 55 Jail, board of prisoners, medical" attendance aud medicine, re pairs, supplies, fixtures, etc.................................................... 332 53 Poor, care of, salary of county physician, poor farm, provisions or transportation furnished, hospital charges, burials, etc. 3471 50 Indigent soldiers, relief furnished................................. .............. 266 00 Insane, examination and expense................................................ 52 00 Bridges, built by contract, material and labor furnished, pay of keepers, etc.................................................. 537 88 Ferries.............. 25 00 Election expenses, registration, ballots and supplies, pay of judges and clerks, deputy sheriffs, etc................................ 1025 20 Scalp bounty, county, one-third state bounty............................ 58 00 Miscellaneous................................................................................... 154 60 President Roosevelt, Secretary Hitchcock, and other watchful and dependable public servant», have recommended the repeal o f the desert land act, the timber and Tbe Arcutu could not accuomio stone act, and the commutation date more than ono-balf the appli clause o f the homestead law, in cants for passage to San Francisco order to protect the public domain on her last trip. A passenger boat from the raids that are being made is one of the imperative needs of upon it, bpt these ar« not to be Coos bay. Wo should have a boat confidently expected that Congress that would cut the present time in will repeal these laws through two and make regular trips, and which vast quantities of public with accommodations that would lands have already been “ gobbled induce or tempt the traveler to visit up" by nypecotative syndicate« -and this section. capitalists, contrary to the inteat of these laws. The policy of national Academy Notes. irrigation, and that of forest reser vation, both wise and beneficent, Supt. Mnlkey appeared before and of vast importance to the coun the school this morning after an try, have also been made to serve absence o f four weeks. We are the base ends o f the landgrabbers. Total expenses for year 1902, except for roads aud high How About Our Mall? glad to welcome him back. The Department of the Interior is ways............................................................................................$19604 53 doing what it can, and apparently School moves on smoothly. Good Can’t we get a rural free deliv work is being done in all depart Roads aud bridges...................................... ...................................$18675 89 not without considerable success, .o repress these fraudulent raids, ery? That is the question ad ments. but with these laws in force they dressed to the settlers of the lower Some students of last term have will continue, to a greater or less Coqaille river. We have only one not joined our ranks yet, but a NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT. Teachers Examination- poutoifice between Coqaille and number of new ones have been and snrely not a small extent. o t i c e is h e k e b y g i v e n t h a t Parkersburg, a distance of about 18 the undersigned has this day filed his It is estimated by u close student added. We hope to reach our T be regular examination of ap aooonnt as the administrator of the of this subject, Mr. George H. miles, and now it is to be discon , .former enrollment by the close of final estate of Matilda E, Nosier, deceased, and plicants for teachers’ certificates, tinued. A rural free delivery route Maxwell, that unless these laws that Monday,the 2nd day of February, 19G3 this month. being the first day o f tho 1909 February county and Btate, will be held in are rnpealed by this Congress, over by the river would settle all the Young Mr. Belloni, who could term o f the County Court fo r Coos county, my office in Coqnille Feb. 11, 12, trouble and deliver the mail within 20,000,000 acres of the public do not enter the first term on aocount Oregon, has been set by the Jud^o of said W. H. B unch , main will be practically stolen easy reach of all. This would give of his eyes and who went to San Court as the day fo r hearing objections to 13,1903. Co. Supt. said final account in the settlement o f said the farmers a chance to get their within the next year, resulting not Frau cisco for treatment, is reported estate. Dated tbis 16tb day of Jan. 1903. only in a loss to the Government mail and send their letters without better and will return home soon. Dated this 96th d ay o f December, 1902. J. T . N O SLEB . o f probably $10,000,000, but de taking the time to go to the post- Administrator, Miss Thompson, late from Mis priving thousands of men who office or baying the steamboats NOTICE FOH PUBLICATION. souri, lias entered the Commercial stop for that purpose. Besides a wish to be honest, actual settlsrs class aud is getting fairly well f it o p s t h e C o u g h a n d w o r k s o IT t b e United Htfttes Land Office. daily mail gives the settler n chance and homebuilders, of the opportun Roseburg, Oregon, Deo. 23,1902, C o ld . started. Notice is hereby giren that in compliance ity which the law intended they to take a daily paper,‘ and as Presi Lavative Bromo-Quinine Tablots Cure a George Laird severed his rela cold in one day. No cure no pay. Price with the provisions of the act of Congress should have. While these laws, and dent Roosevelt said in his last mes o f June 3,1878, entitled “ An act for the sale especially the homestead law, were sage “ it would encourage living in tions with the Commercial class. 26 oents. of timber lands in the States of California, the country.” We are sorry of this as George is Oregon,Nevada and Washington Territory,” good in intent, and so far as honest as extended to all the Public Land States an industrious young man, anaone A small steamer or gasoline boat ly complied with have been of vast by act o f August 4, 1892, benefit to the country, they have would do tho work quite as cheap term more would liaye made bun MRS. ZILPHA NEELY, Widow, been wantonly violated and shame probably as it is now done by tbe very good book-keeper. o f Fnirview, county o f Coos, State of mail route, and it conld be run Oiegon, has this day filed in this office ber fully abused, and the Land Depart On account of coal monopolies sworn statement No.418 2, for the purchase ment of the 'Government in some from Bandon to Coqnille and re of the N W tf of NWK <>f Section No. beiug so stubborn and demanding particulars has for many years turn the same day. Here on the We do our 21 in Township No. 26 £.. Range No. exorbitant prices for coal, congress W., and will offer proof to show that the been wretchedly mismanaged, to lower river we have no roads, and part to make 11 land'sought is more valuable for its timber has removed the tariff on this use no harsher a phuBc, and these if we had it would not work so well your{ a p p e a r or stone than for agricultural purposes, and much needed article. establish her olaim to said land before frauds and abuses should no longer as it oould not reach both sides of ance all tbat it to L. H. Hazard. County Clerk of Coos Co. the river as a water route would. be tolerated. Oregon's lawmakers assembled sbonld be. Oregon at Coquille oil Thursday, the 5th o f March, 1903. She names as witness The press of the country should Let's have the lower river take the themselves at tbe state capitol Our styles are correct, and our day es: Lee Neely, F. R. Taylor, H. L. Under unitedly demand a positive, cer lead for rural free delivery in Coos Monday the 12th and have been fit is as your form requires. If it« a wood. of Fairview, Oregon, and Willis tain reform in this matter, and in county. It works well other places doing some very good work. Com money consideration, we are able to Neely, of Coqaille, Oregon, plete organization of both houses please you Ourf ibrics are the latest Any and all persons ofaiming adversely sist that the first and principal step and why won’t it work here? the above-described lands nro requested to R e s id e n t . was affected tbe second day by and best. in that direction is the repeal o f file their claims in this office on or before - - - - »<•►*.......... electing Geo- C. Brownell, pres said 5th day of March. 1903. these laws under which such eo J. T. BRIDGES. ident of the senate and L. T. Har Coal Barons Now Face Punishment. lossa! frauds have been perpetrat FRED SLAGLE, Tailor. Register. ris speaker o f the bouse. Among ed. The united, insistent voice of the first o f their duties was tbe in Chicago, Jan. 16.—The coal con the press may brmg the majority of Governor-elect of Congress to a sense of their duty spirators are running for cover. Be auguration to the present and future public in fore sundown it is extremely likely Cbamberlaiu, and several ballots that true bills will be found by tbe haye been cast for U. S. Senator, this matter. The fact that a horsethief or special grand jury against at least but no choice has been made yet. stage robber or a bank breaker 10 of tho big operators who Lave Rev. Mr. Mulkey arrived from T H I STANOAXD PIN S EVERYWHERE. 150 StylOS B ro a d P o in t» ? * Portlaud on Thursday where lie succeeds in hiding his ill-gotten been curtailing the fuel supply. w ^ c ^ r . i . ESTERBROOK STEEL PEW The grand jury began hearing gains, or succeeds in getting thorn bad been for the purpose of under into the hands of a pal, or even an the final witnesses in the inquiry going an operation for cataract, The socrecy main from which he has been almost innocents party, does not exempt this morning. him from prosecution nor his booty tained makes it impossible to get at blind for soveral years. The oper from confiscation by law. Now tbe evidence produced this morning ation seems to have been entirely what we would like to know is why but it is known from the identity of successful, and while he has not it is not the same in tho case of land the witnesses that tho testimony been able to use tbe member very THE pleased grabbers, That laws are violated waA directly in line with the evi extensively, he is well This will there is no question, and from the dence produced previously and all with the prospects. records it could bo easily ascertain tonding to prove a gigantic conspi prove a grand thing for the Pro racy. All Chicago ih eagerly await fessor, as he was terribly handi ed who did the dirty work. If tho matter was properly taken ing the filing of the expecte! in capped in his school work by not being able to see. He was able to up by the authorities and every dictments. have bat one eye operated on at acre o f land whore fraud had been tbis time. It will require a year practiced in its acquisition returned Killed A Large Mountain Lion. or so for tbe other to become far to tho government and the ones enough advanced to be operated who did tho false swearing, etc., to Glendale, Jon. 13.--B. W. S. Folk, acquire it were doult with accord of the Highland Angora Goat Form upon. Victor Roast Coffee 5 lbs fo r $1. ingly it would soon become shorn near Glendale, last week shot and Try a package o f Union Oats and get a Dish— FREE. I lu r ■luii<lr<-«l D o l la r s n l l i u of its popularity nt least. killed near his ranch, a full grown Following we give a paragraph male mountain lion iu a fir where is the value H. A. Tisdale, Sununer- from the Act of Congress granting his dog had brought it to bay, Tbe ton, S. C , places on DeW itt’s W’itch the Coos Bay Wagon Road lands, animal was a perfoct specimen of its Hazel Salvo. He says: “ I had the and it is very easy to see how faith kind, measuring eight feet six inches piles for 20 years I tried many deprives you of fully its provisions have been com and weighing in the neighborhood doctors and medicines, but all failed your dear ones. plied with: of two hundred pounds, and was except DoW itt’s Witch Hazel Salve. It is a combination This makes the second It cured me.” That there lie, and hereby is very fat. Show your love for the one who granted to the State of Oregon, to lion killed in the vicinity within a of the henling properties of Witch is gone by providing a monument Mr. Folk lias recently Ilnz.el with antiseptics and emoll aid in the construction of a military short time. worthy the memory of that one. wngon road from the navigable lost six high grndo kids from his ients; relieves and permanently cures blind, bleeding, itching and pro waters of Coos Bay to Roseburg, herd. — I’ laindealcr. A large monument or a small truding piles, aoros, cuts, bruises, alternate sections of public lands, marker, whichever you choose at eczema, salt rheum and all skin dis designated by odd numbers, to the Diamonds In Oregon. this place, will show the best judg eases. R. S. Knowlton. e.tent of three sections iu width on ment of first-class designers and each side of said road; Provided, The fullfillmcnt of tho prophecy workmen. that the lands hereby granted shall The common school system has made 30 years ago by Professor lie exclusively applied to the con Clayton, a geologist in tue employ boon the boast of Americians, but struction of said road, and to no of tbe United ¡States, that diamond enlightened teachers are waking up other purpose, and shall be dispos mines would be found in Oregon, to the fact that our progress has ed of only as the work progresses; We is at hand. The mine is in the not kept pace with our pride. Provided further, That the grant of have been developing fads, but we Blue Mountain range, 10 miles Ooyl'ILI.K, O h KO o X. lands hereby made shall be upon have not boen developing in proper from Burns, the Heat of Harney the condition that the lands shall be measure, excellence of teaching of county. There is no question of sold to any one person only in quan the few things which would make the quality and quantity of the tities not greater than one quarter The steRmer “ J. Warreu" will precious gems, but there is a ques the great body o f boys and girls section, and for a price not exceed tion ns to their commercial value. efficient and useful men and women make regular trips between Gravel ing two dollars and fifty conts per in the spheres of lifo in which they Tbe stones thus far discovered are acre. will be pissed.— New York Tribune. Ford aud Myrtle Point on Wednes generally too small for tbe trade day of each week, leaving Bt 8:30 a. They are no larger than a small pin A Good Example. m. and arriving at Myrtle Poiot at head. A few havo been found that 11 a. m. Leaving Myrtle Point at Pittsburg, Jan. 16.—It was an would sell for from $30 to $300, 1 p. m. aud arriving at Gravel Ford nounced today that the Baltimore but they are so few in number as to k Ohio Railroad would raise sal leave the profitable working of the This signature is on every box of the genuine al 3:30 p. m. aft J. M.B biqht , Laxative Bromo-Quinine T»bi»u aries of all operators 10 per cent, fn'inB in some doubt.— Plaindealer. the Manager. remedy that euren and grant the men nine hours, in-1 give Conspiracy Proven- T uttle Tem perance House. OoQuiille Oity . Oreon. First Class in every respect Courteos treatment, Transient and Regular Boarding and Lodging. - NO BAR IN CONNECTION. - NO CHINESE LABOR. First Street— East End o f Bridge. LYONS’ MILLINERY H AVE T H E VERY LA T E ST IN Ladies, Misses & Childrens Hats. I f we can not suit you with what wo !.,i\ kind to your order. st.x'K we can make any Lyons’ Millinery Store. The latest in N M IL L IN E R Y a t Mrs. G. Moon’s n 3 ___ You w ill find the latest in Fall and Winter Millinery at my store. Dress Trimming and Fancy Goods in General. Stamp ing done to order. M j ? s . O . I V # l o * o n Sanderson Building near the Wharf. M a k e fs STEEL PENS NOTICE! Prize Baking Powder at H aw kin s’ S to re . Excellent Green Coffee 8 lbs, for 81 $5will by an Organ Only a, month on tla© installment plan — O — $1(1 a Monili W ill Get. Y o u A P ia n o You can save this amount if you will aud make your dear ones happy. No homo complete without n piano or un organ. I f you are looking for best values For Spot Cash or on Time Payments We are prepared to interest you aud make the assertion that we can do MORE for you than any other Piano or Organ House in tbe conntiy. I f you are interested write at once. THE BIG SIX. KIMBALL. CHICKERING, WEBER. MILTON, V0SE.HINZE, with the giant WHITNEY is a combination o f soundness, strength, beauty and tone unequalled anywhere. Twenty.eight other makes we handle. We also have in stock a fine line of Violins, Banjos, Guitars and Mandolins at prices from $5 upward. A full assortment of strings. Steel strings 5 cents each. New music received weekly. OHAS. GRISSEN MUSIC CO. I O O F H ALL OIESIEL Death’s Harvest Coos County Marble and Granite Works, D i s a p p o i n t m e ir t Never comes to the customers buying their goods at P E R R Y ’S STORE. ........ • • • • ....... For every dollas you tender the house you get ita equiu- lent in value. The business we do has been built on these principles, and it is on these principles we stand. Dry Goods. Groceries. Boots and Shoes. Flourland Feed- Stock in all Departnents complete- S tra n g ’s Em porium . <S& À C •dead of ten per day, and each employe 10 days’ vacation each year at full pay. Two thousand men are benefited by this order The eempany states that tho reason for the change in time and wago schedule is that the Detroit, Jan. 16.—The coal deal ers themselves today proved the chargea of conspiracy by lowering in conce tbe price of coal 60 rents a ton be w ¡hat charged by the company rocognizcs the constantly municipal coal yard whioh was in increasing cost of living in the augurated yesterday to break the Enat, combine. If you are thinking of build ing let us figure with you on all kinds of lumber, and mouldings. Glassware and Dishes, Wood and W illow- ware. Umbrellas, Leggings and hightop Loggers shoef. Outing Flannels,Mackintoshes,Rubber goods Blankets, Ladies and Gents’ Underwear. . I LYONS’ MILL. Z. C. STRANG, Prop., - - - Coquille, Oregon.