tffotyiílle City §l*r»ï&
Train Wrecks
Washlnfton Letter.
New [York, Jan. 28.— The most
PUBLISHED K VER Y TUESDAY terrible railroad wreck that has oc
curred in the vicinity of New York
in years took place last night on the
D. F. Dean, Editor and Proprietor Central Railroad of New Jersey, at
the town of Gracelaml, New Jersey.
County Official Paner. The Philadelphia & Reading ex
press which leff this city fifteen
D evoted to th e m aterial and acciai n
ouildinitnf the Coquille Valley particularly minutes later than the Jersey; Cen
and o f Coca County generally .
tral local, crashed into the rear of
Subscription, por year, in advanoo, *1 .SO the latter whilo running at the rate
of 66 miles an hour. The four rear
Prof. Gautier, of Paris, thinks
cars, which were crowded, were tel
he has discovered that arsenic is a
escoped. Tho wreck immediately
necessity of life.
He finds it in
caught fire and was J consumed.
minute quantities in all plants ned
Twenty-three bodies have been re
animals.
covered from the ruins and 15 iden
A report has been received from tified. At least 50 are seriously in
the Philippines concerning the na jured, a number fatully.
tives of the Islands.
Tho aborigi
nal race seems to be the Negrites,
Tucson, Ariz., Jan. 28.—Passen.
or little negroes, who average 4 ger trains Nos. 8 and 9 collided
feet in height and of whom there head on when running at full speed
are at present about ¡50,000. These near Valis, 17 miles east of Tuscon,
little people feed on rootB and at 3 o ’clock this morning. Eleven
small game, do not live in villages cars were consumed in a fow min
and are very timid.
utes, oil tauks spreading oil which
Some time ago an Englishman flashed through the wreck like ex
Engineer Bruce
wrote a book entitled the “Unspoak- ploded powder.
able Scot” ; now a particularly “ hot and his fireman and Engineer Wilkie
Scotch” gets back at hire with i wore burned to death, and another
volume on “ The Egregious English fireman seriously injured.
Eight bodies have been found.
man.” All that is needed to com
plete the gaiety of nations is for How many more were consumed is
Pat to set forth in book form his not known.
opinion of the two of them— but
Chicago, Jan. 28.—Three persons
Rat is doing that every day in Par
were killed, four seriously injured
liament.
and eight slightly injured in a rear
American gunners have the “luck” end collision between stock trains
that follows training. Corporal Re on the Chicago & Northwestern
gard of the Presidio, California, railway near La Fox, 111., this morn
fired a 12-incli gun at a pyramidal ing.
floating target 8 feet high and 12
Tee trains came together in a
feet broad at tho base, which was
dense fog. The killed and injured
moving at 7 miles an hour, three
were for the most part stockmen in
miles away.
His first shot struck
charge of stock on the way to Chi
tho water eight yards astern of the
cago and the East.
target and the second shot destroyed
it.
Cairo, 111., Jan. 28.— On the Illi
According to a voting contest nois Central Railroad near Pulaski
conducted by an English papor, early today the Chicago fast train
the membors of the stage who have crashed in tho rear end of St. Louis
done the most for dramatic and train, No. 203. Both trains were
lyric art are Bernhardt, the older late on account of the dense fog,
Coquelin, Mounet Sully, Eleonora and the Chicago train was running
Duse, Rejano and Adelina Patti. at tho rate of 60 miles on hour,
Sir Henry Irving ends tho list. while the St. Louis train was mak
This shows the absurdity of contem ing only 30 miles an hour. The
porary fame.
Irving is a scholar last car on the St. Louis train was
and a man of high executive ability the private car of tho late Judge
and deserves at least as high rank J. Fentress and family, of Chioago.
Judge Fentress, who died in Chi
as Coquelin or Sully.
cago Monday, was tho head coun
In one of the states of tho Argen sel of the Illinois Central, and the
tine Republic there is a tax on body was in the car enroute to Bol
single blessedness for men that be ivar, Tonu., for burial. The rear
gins at the age of 20 at $5 per half of the car was demolished, and
month, rises to $10 per month.
A tho coffin was broken up. Tho fam
widower is allowed only three yoars ily of tho Judge wero badly shaken
in which to recuperate from the up. 'Throe of the trainmen were in
first cOurso of curtain lectures and jured, but none of tho passengers
a man must run the risk of being were hurt.
accepted by threo women during
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tho year to escape paying the tax.
Crescent City Wrecked-
After n lad has had a few years
study in tho physical sciences be is
prone to regard what is railed
“ science" as a fixed and cortain
quantitj’.
If he persists in his in
vestigations for a few decades he
will ultimately discover that true
science is constantly changing its
position upon most subjects, and
that his safest position is in the at
titude of the scientific philosophy
tbnt expects many things, ifi sur
prised at n few and is open to con
viction in every direction.
Connecticut, or rather that por
tion of it in the vicinity of Stanford,
is quite slmkou over the question
of cats and mice.
Some ladieB of
Stanford have arranged a mouse
catching contest between theis kit
tens, but tho Mayor o f ‘ the town,
who bears tho ducnl name of Leeds,
hasput his official foot down on it
— the contest, not tho mico — as
cruel.
If Stanford di
uot differ
from other communities the Mayor
will find he has a lbt of old cats on
bis trail that will be more cruel to
him than tho kitties would bo to tho
mice.
The steam schooner Crescent City
is high on a lodge of Fish rock
island, close to tho shore of Mendo
cino county. Her twelvo passengers
nnd tho crew were lauded on the
rock, and after a night of cruel ex
posure in n freezing storm, ten of
the passengers nnd several members
of tho crew were rescused. Of the
pnsseugers only Mrs. TV. VV. F ogg
and her baby arc beliovcd to havo
boon left on tho island Inst night.
With her aro Capt. Payne nnd some
twelve or thirtcon membors of his
crew. The tug lloliof, sent from
San Francisco by the Examiner, and
the Sea Rover, sent by Hobbs, Wall
& Co., owners of tho Crescout City,
wero standing off and on Inst night
close to tho island, but tho gale was
so high and the night so dark, that
they were unable to bring off the
people on the island.
At 11 o’clock last uight the enst-
away could be scon from the shore
of the mainland, They
,
, were
,, gather
, .
ed on tho south side
de of
of ne rock in
the shelter of tho lodge, where they
had built n big the of drift wood.
Beacon tiros were buauing on the
beach below the town of Fish Rock.
The wind was blowing from the
northwest, accompanied by heavy
rain squalls. This morning it is ex
pected that tho work of rescue will
be completed by tho ¡Examiner ex
pedition and tne other life-saving
agencies on tho spot.
To be a member of Congress, a
representative of the people is, per
haps, a worthy ambition, but it is
an expensive one. True, the salary
is $5,000 a year, mileage to and
from each session and some inci
dental perquisites, but the demands
made upon Congressmen are so
great that twice the salary would
hardly suffice to enable one to meet
them and lay something by for a
rainy day.
A Representative whose term ex
pires in March tells a tale of woo in
tlii» connection that may point a
moral. Five years ago this gentle
man was a prosperous lawyer iu a
small towr, his income netted him
about $2,000 a year nnd on this he
lived comfortably with his fnmily in
one of the nicest houses in the place
and had saved quite a tidy sum of
money. As a leading attorney iu
the county he naturally took quite
an interest in politics and as a re
ward for services to his party he
was nominated and elected to Con
gress.
He and his wife thought their
fortunes made, for with $5,000 a
year they estimated they would be
able to save at least $2,500 and
still live in excellent style; besides
there was the opportunity for him
to blossom out into a position of
political note if not into fame as
a statesman, whilo for his wife there
aroso the dream of becoming one of
the queens of Washington society.
There was also a young daughter to
be lnunchod upon a career of social
success in the capital of tho nation
and tho parents had unexpressed
hopes of catching a millionaire, a
foreign diplomat or an army officer
for a eon-in-law.
Vain dreams? Not one of those
things happened. When they first
arrived in Washington they took
apartments at a fashionable hotel,
but in less than a month discovered
that a Congressman’s salary would
not be enough to even pay the hotel
bills. They decide to take a house
for the soason, and while looking
for a suitable one, took up their
abode iu a smaller and less pretent
ious hostelry.
They wisheduto entertain, they
thought their dignity required a
handsome residence in the fashion
able quarter of the city and they
had no trouble in finding a suitable
house, but the rental alone was
$3,000 a year. By this time they
had learned that clothe?, household
expenses, servants mid the like
could not be paid for out of the
$2,000 which would be left to them
and they wisely determined to re
main in their little hotel.
Farewell to the social ambitions
of the wife, farowoll to the hospit
able inclinations of the Congress
man, they must settle down to re
ceive such social favors as come to
Representatives by virtue of this
office without hope of ever being
able to return the same.
This particular Representative has
now served two terms, During all
this time ho and his family • have
lived as economically as possible in
their station, and so far as saving
money out of his salary he has act
ually been obliged to draw upon
the little fund ho had saved up in
tho bank at home. Tho home peo-
plo, bless them, never failed to call
upon to contribute to evory charity,
for was he not iu receipt of the
princely salary of $5,000 to which
they had elected him?
And in the same way ho saw his
hopes of political preferment grad
ually melt into thin air. He could
not get recognition from the .Speak
er to deliver his thought upon any
ruensuro unless lie first explained
his position, and even in that case
the chances were that one of the
loaders of the House had alrend nu-
noimccH] his intention to speak upon
t)lc same subject and bis time must
be limited even if he could get the
floor. In the end lie drifted into
the condition of the vast majority of
Congressmen, mere machines to
carry out tho policy of the party
leaders, men with a voto but with
almost no voice in national affairs.
This gentleman has refused a
further term and feelH a certain pity
for his successor.
Hermann Step;: Down and oui-
Academy Notes.
T uttlc
T emperance
house.
Wrshingtou, Jan. 31.—Binger
Hermann retired from his office as
Coinmissiouei of the General Land
Office, at the close of business to
day. Assistant Commissioner Rich
ards will take possession of the
office Monday.
Mr. Hermann’s
relinquishmont was not marked by
Any formality, his personal effects
having been removed from the
office during the last few day. Mr.
Hermann simply signed the official
Ooquille Oity, Oregon.
mail for the last time, put on his
overcoat and hat, bade adieu to the
messengers and his personal clerk,
und passed out of official life for First Class in every respect Courteos treatment, Trarsient
the present.
In discussiug his
and Regular Boarding and Lodging.
future movements, Mr. Hermann
Preparation goes on for our en said:
NO CHINESE LABOR.
NO BAR IN CONNECTION.
tertainment to bo given soon. This
“ I may leave Washington in a
will be done without loss of time,
First Street— East End o f Bridge.
as drills will take place outside of day or twe, and possibly nmv re
main here some time. Just when I
school hours.
shall depart has not been determ
The Sixth grade, of whom favor- ined. My Congressionsl candidacy
ablo mention was made recently, I do not care to say anything about
have taken some of their examina just yet.
It’s been such a short
tions aud have passed creditably. time since Mr. Tongue died, and I
HAVE TH E VERY L A T E ST IN
The Fifth grado are approaching havo been so busy preparing to
tho close of their work and will soon turn over this office to Governor
take examinations iu their full Richards, that I have not had time
course. Most of these will pass, to consider it.
I expect to go di
with good grades, into tho Sixth rectly to Roseburg nnd tnke up tho
grade. The Seventh and Eighth practice of law.
I ’ll be in Wash
I f we can uot'Buit you with what we hat u sttfCK we can make any
grades are more or less rnixod, but ington frequently, as I expect to kind to your order.
are doing, for tho most part, good havo a large number of cases to try
work.
before this office and department.
Miss Lena Beloni was sick two My family will remain here until
or three days last week, but will my boy is released from school
early in the Summer.”
be ready for work soon.
Miss Price had the misfortune to
T h e la t e s t in
fall through the railroad trestle this
week. We have not learned what
damage was done to the track.
Miss Price, herself, confesses of
M akers
having received tho worst of it.
We do our
NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT.
part to make
a t M r s . G. M o o n ’ s
your} a p p e a r
■\rOTIOF. IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT
1 »1 the undersigned hng this day IK, d her
ance all that it
final Recount ns the administratrix of the
should be.
You w ill find the latest in Fall and Winter Millinery a t
estate of Bird Vowell. deoeased, and that
WednosdRv. the 4th day o f March, 1903,
Our
styles
are
correct,
and
our
my
store.
that being the third day o f the regular
1903 Maroh tern» of the Oonnty Court for fit is aB your form requires. If its a
Dress Trimming and Fancy Goods in General. Stamp
Coos county. Oregon, has been set by Bald money consideration, wc are able to-
Court us the day for hearing objections to
said final aoconnt and the settlement of please you Ourfibri.es are the latest ing done to order.
said estate.
and best.
Little has occurred siuce our last
out of the ordinary routine, "save
that Miss Collier has retired to rest
up a little before teachers' examina
tion. She has worked hard and de
serves a little rest Cleve and Joe
Sumerlin wont home Friday, the
latter rather expecting to remain to
rebuild tho washed out fenoes.
Both returned, however, and are
hard at work. One thing noticeable
and commendable is that most of
our students are hard-working and
painstaking students,
We shall
look for a largo share of these to re-
next year. Such students are al
ways welcome.
LYONS’ MILLINERY
Ladies, Misses & Cnildrens Hats.
Lyons’ Millinery Store.
M IL L IN E R Y
Dated this ‘.hid day of February. 1903.
MARY A. VOW ELL.
Administratrix.
Sanderson Building near the W harf
Coos Couqty Tax Rolls for 1902.
Tho County Clerk having nearly completed the copying of our tax
rolls, furnishes us with these figures which will bo of interest to our tax-
payors. The roll consists of two volumes, the aggregate net valuation of
taxable property contained therein being $2,852,755, and up<in which
amount the following taxes are charged:
State and County Tax
30 mills on $2,852,754
$85,582.62
Unpaid p olls......................
___ 880 00
Special Tax, Marshfield, city........... 4 mills on 359,780................ 1,439 12
Bandon.................................. 5 mills
on 87,444................ 437 22
School District 4 ...................4 mills
on 33,520................
134 08
“
“
8 ...................5 mills
on 196,856................
984 28
9. .8$ mills on 443,989................ 3,773 91
10..
24,600........ . . . .
123 00
16,254........
16..
81 27
18..
41,612........ ___
208 06
2 3 ..
28,847........ . . . .
86 54
2 7 ..
19,003........ . . . .
95 02
2 8 ..
16,711........
83 56
4 1 .. .. 10 mills on 111,529........ . .. . 1,115 29
4 3 ..
50,148 ___ . . . .
250,74
5 4 .. . . 21 mills on 108,555.. I . . . . . . 2,279 66
5 8 .. .. 11 mills on
9,044........ ___
99 48
6 5 .. .. 10 mills on 28,058 . .. . . . . .
280 58
7 3 ..
8,730........
69 84
Total tax to bo collected by Sheriff on tho tax roll for
tho year 1902, at this date...............................................
$98,004 27
Tho roll will be placed in the hands of the Sheriff for collection
about the 10th inst.
STEEL PENS
THI SIANOMI) PENS EVERYWHERE.
ESTERBR00K STEEL
I Kfl C tu las Fine, Medium and
I DU OlylBa
prood Points.
I by All Stationers.
PEH CO. «6 John St., New Yorfc,
$5 will liy an Organ
Only $5 a. month
on tin© installment
plan-
-- O---
$10 a Month
W ill Ost You.
Eiano-
You can save this amount if you will and make yonr dear ODes
happy. No home complete without a piano or an organ.
I f you are
looking for best values
For Spot Cash or on Time Payments
We are prepared to interest you and make the assertion thnt wo
6au do MORE for you than nny other Piano or Organ House in the
country. I f you aro interested write nt once.
THE BIG SIX: KIMBALL, CHICKERING, WEBER, MILTON,
I/0SE.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 iu stock a fine line of Violins, Banjos, Guitars and
Mandolins at prices from $5 upward.
A full assortment o f strings.
Steel strings 5 cents each. New music received weekly.
CHAS. GRISSEN MUSIC CO.
I O
O F
HALL
M A E S H P IE L D ,
Thcro are cycles of thoorios for a
brief season; tho old hypothesis
that life originated at the North
Pole and spread south over both
hemispheres now has attention.
This solves many difficulties of the
distribution of species, nnd is in
aid of the Biblical 'story of the ex
pulsion from tho Garden of Eden.
Panama Route Choeen..
Ice is the angel that guards the
w ‘ l <‘ llim < lr< -< l H o l l a r * ■■ l l o x
Garden and tho aurora borealis is
Washington, Jan. 28.— The way is the value H. A. Tisdalo, Summer-
bis flaming sword.
It also is in
line with tho fact that there are ex has been cleared for an isthminn ton, S. C , places on DeW itt’s Witch
tensive deposits of coal in very high canal. Tho cnnel will bo by the Hazel Salve. He says: “ I had the
piles for 20 years.
I tried many
Panama route.
latitudes.
The treaty between the United doctors and medicines, but all failed
The emancipation from slavery to States and tho Republic of Colum except DeW itt’s Witch Hazel Salve.
coal has begun, but it goes on with bia was signed today, and by that It cured mo.”
It is a combination
the slow nnd measured trade of a fact enabling powers have been con of the healing properties of Witch
C oquille , O regon .
great reform. Some months ago ferred on the president to proceed Hazel with antiseptics nnd emoll
the Swedish government decided to to the contruction of tho canal in ients; relievos and permanently cures
operate by cloctricity the 2200 miles | nccor<i,iuco with the terms of the blind, bleeding, itching and pro
The steamer “ J. Warren” will
of railway that it owns.
The elec j Spoonor act.
truding piles, sores, cuts, bruises,
tricity will bo generated by wator,
eczema, salt rheum aud all skin dis make rogulat trips between Gravel
It is
powor, which in that mountninous I j - 11
18 necessary,
ne£essIUJ of course, thnt1 eases. R. S. Knowlton.
i Ford nnd Myrtle Point on Wednes-
|
the'treaty
Should bo ratified by tho
country abounds, Some time ago
Iday of each week, leaviug nt 8:30 a.
I
Senate,
but
in
view
of
tho
fact
that
Italy began to use it» wnterfnlls for
! tn. and arriving at Myrtle Point at
generating olectricity, and an in I democrats and republicans aliko!
11 a. m. Leaving Myrtle Point at
dustrial revolution in that country ‘ sacrificed their personal views as j
1 to tho relative morits of Panama
.1 p. m. ami arriving at Gravel Ford
is expected in consequence oi cheap ]
power for manufacturing. Oil is i and Nicaragua, it is assumed here This sigenturo is on every box of the genuine at 3:30 p. nr. C a p t . J. M .B r i g h t ,
being largely used os fuel on ocean-1 I by leading Senators tonight that the remedy that cure* n eoM M> one day
M a n a g e r.
going craft, experiments in its sub- j ! the treaty will be ratified.
stitution for coni are awake uing1 A race of midgets has l>een
wide interest. These are littlo more found in Moxieo by a traveling
than encroachments, however, on | showman.
Some o f the grown
the border of coal’s wqrld-wide [ people are only a foot and hnlf
kingdom, but they serve to show { high.
thnt human energy and enterprise
will in time find means to einauci 1 _ _
m ~
I
pate industry, at least partially, from
five t 00m house
a bondage to coal thnt lin* long n
and two lots.
boon absolute — Oregonau
Inquire at this Office.
L Y O N S ’ M IL L .
<§ C frÆ
Laxative Bromo-Quinine Tablets
If you are thinking of build
ing let us figure with you
on all kinds of lumber, and
mouldings.
-
OZEBZE.
Death’s Harvest
deprives you of
your dear ones.
Show your love for the one who
is gone by providing a monument
worthy the memory of that one.
A large monument or n small
marker, whichever you choose at
his place, will show the best judg-
ent
of first-class designers nnd
workmen.
Coos County Marble and
Granite Works.
ft Qrifl H
Mrs. C. IVLoon
FRED SLAGLE, Tailor.
Disappointment
Never comes to the customers buying their goods at
P E R R Y ’S
STORE.
.... isO ^ ^ O s. . ...
For every dollas you tender the house you get ita equiv-
lent in value.
The business we do has been built on these principles,
and it is on these principles we stand.
_ / © © S_
Dry Goods. Groceries. Boots and Shoes. Flotirland
Feed-
Stock in all Departnents complete
Strang’s Emporium.
Glassware and Dishes, W ood and W illow -
war o.
Umbrellas, Leggings and hightop Loggers
shoe-.
Outing Flannels,Mackintoshes,Rubber goods
Blankets, Ladies’ and Gents’ Underwear.
Z. C. STRANG, Prop., - -
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Coquille, Oregon.