Goquillt City Strata.
Coos Bar News.
An Oklahoma Letter.
Theodore Swanton, brother of
PUBUSHED EVERY TUESDAY Bennett and Robt. Swanton, ar
The following is an extract from
rived from Ireland, Thursday last, a letter written to W. T. Burton, of
TUESDAY. MARCH 3 ,1 9 0 3 ^ with the intention of residing here this city, from his father-in-law,
permanently.
who resides at Highland, Garfield
J. W. Bennett and R- E. Shine
Church Directory.
county, Oklahoma The writer is
have purchased 60 acres of land at
It is an ideal place well known to mauy of our towns
C h b ih t ia n
C h u r c h . - - Pieaohins every Cape Arago.
Sunday at 11 a. in. and 7:30 p. m. Sunday for a Summer outing, ‘‘down by men as he visited Cuquille about a
aohool. at 10 a. in. Christian Endeavor at
6:30 p. m.
Prayer meeting every Wedn9<9- the sounding sea,” and no doubt year and a half ago. The accom
pay evening at 7:30. All cordially invited. several cottages will be built there.
panying letter will prove interest
Episcopal Chnroh.—Episcopal services
Mrs. R obt Herron is at the Lane ing:
will be held at St. James cbnrch, Coquille
City the third Sunday in each month.
hospital at San Francisco, and tbe
The surface of Oklahoma is that
Sunday school at 10 a. m. each S u n d ay.
Win. Horsetail, Pastor. physicians consider that the chances of a plain, undulating and furrowed
are
favorable
for
her
recovery.
M .E . Church, South: Preaching each
and ever/ Sundays at 11 a. m. and 7:30 p . Her relatives and friends here have by numerous streams, along most
m. Sunday-school every Sunday at 10 been cheered by tbe good news.
o f which extend broad bottom
o ’clock. Senior Epworth League at 6:30, p.
lands which gradually rise into
m. Junior League at 3:30,p .m . Prayermeet
Capt.
Bob
Jones’
dredger
was
ing Thursday evening at 7:30.
given a trial last week, and is all high rolling prairies.
H. O. Allen, pastor.
Most o f the soil is of great rich
M b t b o d is t E p is c o p a l C h u b c k .— Servioes ready to commence work at Porter
every Sunday at 11 a. ra. and 7:30 p. m. when the bulkhead being built
ness. It varies in different sections
Sunday School at 10 o ’olock a, m. Junior
We are
League 3:30 p. m. Prayer meeting Thurs there ia completed.
but in nearly all parts there is an
day evening at 7:30 p . m. A special inyita- pleased to learn that the dredger ia
admixture of sand which makes
tion is extended to the pnblio to attend all a deeided success.
services.
W. H. M ykbf , Pastor.
the soil easy to cultivate. In the
Some eicitment was caused at
P xksbttkbiam C h u b c h . — Preaching eer*
vices 2nd and 4th Sundays, morning and Eugene on the 18tb when a man river and creek Bottoms it is a dark
evening, Sunday School every Sunday at
10 a. m. Christian Endeavor servioes every was brought in from Elmira under sandy loam o f great depth and fer
Sunday at 6:80 p. m., Miss Winnie Hall, arrest on suspicion of being Landis, tility. On the up-lands it is gen
President. Ladies’ Aid and Missionary the Coos county murderer.
The erally a red sandy loam varying in
Society meets every two weeks on Thurs
days at 2 p. m. A cordial welcome is ex man gave his name as Carr, and
tended to the pnblio to attend all our ser- said he was traveling over the depth from one to six feet.
nioes.
A d o l p h H a b e b l y , Pastor
The climnte of Oklahoma is
country.
He resembles Landis,
The W. C. T. U. meets every 1st and 3rd
Friday at 2 p. m. at the Christian chnroh. but parties in Eugene who know healthful. The winters are short
Servioes by the First Baptist 'Church o f Landis were called upon to identi and mild and the summers long.
Coauille, at the M. E. Church the second fy the prisoner and assured the The days in mid-summer are very
and fourth Suhdays in each month at 11 a. officers they had the wrong man,
m. and 7:30 p. m,
C. D. P bicb ,
warm, but the nights are generally
and he was released.
Pastor.
cool.' The average winter temper
ature is 39 degrees; the average
Two Vessel* Collide In Heavy Fog-
L O C A L ITEM S.
summer temperature is 77 degrees;
The Emporium is headquarters
The four-masted schooner Caro the mean annual temperature is
for ladies and gents underwear.
line, bound for the Umpqua col 58 degrees.
Standard-bred White Plymouth lided in the fog on the afternoon
Agriculture is the" leading em
Rocks (Hazelwood strain.) Eggs of the 19th with the four-masted
barkentine, T. P. Emigh bound ployment as the soil and climate
$1.00 per dozen. F. M. Gevrez.
The Caro furnish favorable conditions for
The Aaseu Bros.,
of Arago, south, lumber-laden.
are preparing to do a big season's line’s bowsprit was torn out and such pursuits. The staple pro
logging on the South Fork, in the lost, but tbe jibboom and other rig ductions are wheat, corn, cotton,
ging was saved.
The other vessel oats, rye, kaffir corn, barley, Irish
neighborhood o f Etelka.
was also damaged considerably in
and
sweet potatoes,
peanuts,
M arried : In Empire City, Feb. her spars and rigging.
24, 1903, Herman D. Jarrit and
The Caroline arrived in the Ump melons. All garden vegetables are
Miss Edna Magee, Rev. W. Hors qua Friday, and Captain Wester- very productive. The hay crop of
fall, o f Marshfield, officiating.
dale camo down to the bay yester native and cultivated grasses is
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Hunt, o f this day after ship carpenters to repair large and valuable. Stock raising
plaoe, paid a visit to the parents of the damages.— Mail.
is an important branch of agri
Mrs. Hunt. Mr. and Mrs. Riohard
culture. Oklahoma is well adapted
Houghton, o f Norway, last week.
Oregon-
to fruit growing. Apples, peaches,
Dr. K . A. Leep, of Myrtle Point,
pears,
plums, cherries, apricots,
Names
like
rocks
are
sometimes
made onr city a short visit on Fri
day. He, of coarse, ran in to see metamorphosed until little of tbe quinces, grapes and small fruits
ns and square np for the H erald orignal definition remains to the ob have been extensively planted and
ject bearing it.
Oregon, a few produce abundantly. The finest
while in town.
yesrs ago to people moat familiar
We learn that the item in lest
with that state, its people and re of all is the wheat pasture in the
week’s H erald concerning the
sources, was generally accepted as winter. We have to feed but
slaughter o f deer iq Camas valley
wheat
a slow going conservative common, very little. The green
daring the late storm, was consid
wealth,
with its staid business is the finest feed for milch cows.
erable magnified.
bouses, sheep ranges, fogs, timber
Write to C. A. Snow & Co., op aud fish. Today people, when they This makes it the best dairy coun
posite the U. S. Patent Office, hear the word spoken are reminded try I ever saw. We have some
Washington, D. C., for anything of its rapidly developing mineral fine creameries here. They say
you want to know about patents, resources.
It is perfectly safe to this is the place for that busiuess.
trade marks and copyrights.
say that of all the Pacific North We ship butcher stuff right from
F or R ent .— A fitst-claes dairy west states more mining machinery the wheat fields to the market, as
ranch, three miles North of town. has been during the past two or
There is a good team of horses three years and is now being íd . fat as you ever saw cattle on tame
and wagon, aDd nine cows go with stalled in the mines of Oregon than grass.
It is equally
Our roads aro good and our
the place. Appl to S. S. McAdams, in any other state.
true that there are more gold mines schools and churches are good.
at this place.
WANTED 5 YOUNG MEN from in activo operation, more stamp
Prices of land vary owing to the
mills doing service and a wider
Coos county at once to prepare for
range of healthy looking gold pros location. It ranges from $2Q.to $50
positions in the Government ser
pects in Oregon than are to be per acre. The high priced land is
vice— Railway Mail Clerks, Letter
found in any neighboring state ex well improved, close to town and
Carriers, Custom Houso and De
partmental Clerks, etc. Apply to cept California. Tbe word Oregon smooth and tillnhle.
has become so changed in its full
inter-State Corres. Inst., Cedar
This is as neat the correct des
meaning as to have lost its orignal
Rapids, Iowa.
cription as I can give. I ain not
definition entirely.— Mining.
W ill Oddy, of Camas Valley, who
an agent for this country, but a
was down-this way last week in
farmer.
Yours truly,
Deadlock on Alaska Hill.
the interest of the Co-ro-na medi-
J ohn M oure k
oator and those afflicted with ca-
Washington, Feb. 24.—With the
tarrah, made the bay a visit, re House and Senate deadlocked on
Myoptic philosophers are pro
turning Thursday
He reports the Alaska homestead bill and no
having done a good business. That signs of compromise yet in sight, claiming the decay of agriculture
his device and remedy are a suc there is some fear that the measure ami the crowding of cities. As a
matter of fact, no country ever ap
cess is an assured fact.
may fall.
The Senate conferees proached the agricultaral develop-
The steamer “J. Warren” will aro personally willing to accede to mant of the United States and the
make regular trips between Grave. the claims of the House, but tbe growth of our agriculture is far
Ford and Myrtle Point on Wednes Senate public lands committee em from complete. Today, we lead the
day of each week, leaving at 8:30 a phatically instructed thorn not to world in wheat, corn, cotton and a
m. and arriving at Myrtle PoiDt at agree to a commucation law, or a few other staples and we are reach
11 a. m. Leaving Myrtle Point at law authorizing tbe entry of lands ing out to further control the nmak-
1 p. m. aud arriving at Gravel Ford under sol lier’s additional rights.
ets of the world.
at 3:30 p. in. C adt . J. M. B right ,
The Houso conferees contend
The Cubans consume upwards of
Manager. that everything possible should lie
200,000 boxes of Hoap per annum.
J. A. Davenport, o f this city, done to induce settlement in Alaska
They at least cannot be referred to
wont to the bay Friday to catch and, as tbe two provision tend in
as ‘‘the great unwashed”
should be
the Alliance for Enreka, California. that direction, they
The House of Representatives re
He goes back to his old home in adopted.
They point out that
Humboldt county to look after large numbers of settlers are now pudiated its Sunday legislation.
business interests and to make his going into British Columbia by
father who was 92 years of age on reason of the attractive inducements
Manager Wanted.
the 21st iu st, a visit The old held out to settlers, much more
gentleman has been very ill o f late. than would be offered in Alaska.
Trustworthy .either sox, by whole
J. W. Ivey today called on the sale merchandise company of solid
Miss Delpba Sears, a neice of
Uncle Jack Sears, of Myrtle Point, President to urge him to exert what financial standing, to manage local
camo down Friday to take the influence he could with the con representativos who will organize
train for tbe bay to c - 'ih the Al- ferees in order to insure the final clubs among consumers.
40 per
liauce for San Frauoisco. She re passago of this bill before adjourn cent saved for oar customers. Busi
ment.
turns to her old home in Pennsyl
ness no experiment but a proven
vania after
spendiug
several
Tbe Senate public lands com success. Salary $18 per week, ex
months in Coos county with her mittee today
reported without penses advanced. Experience un
uncle. While she likes Coos conu- amendment tho bill recently passed necessary. Address D. B. Clarkson,
ty very mnch, and is particularly by tbe House authorizing the entry Mgr., 334 Dearborn St., Chicago,
iavorably impressed with our cli of unsurveyed coal lands in AlaakA. 111 .
mate, there are ties which draw Its passage seems assured.
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her homeward. She leaves many
How s 1 his.
W e ll I n i n .
friends mnde while here.
V© offer One Hundred Dollars Kewnrd
for any case o f Catarrh that cannot be
The
many
friends of John Blount I enred
Mrs. S. E. Wilkins came up
by Hall’s Catarrh Cure.
F. J. CHENEY Jt CO. Proprietors.
frera Bandon Tuesday where she will be pleased to learn of his re-1
Toledo. O.
had spent several weeks with her covery from his attack of rheuma
Wo tho nndenritjned Imye known F. J.
Chamberlain's Pain Balm j Cheney for the last If» years, and believe
daughter,
Mrs. Geo. Topping. tism.
him perfectly honorable in all bnsi:..«ss
She passed on up to Halls oreek cured him after tho best doctors in transactions
and financially able to carry
on Wednesday where she will tbe town(Monon, Ind.)had failed to oat any obligations made by their firm.
West
A
Trnax,
Wholesale Druggists,
give
relief.
The
prompt
relief
from
make her home with another
Toledo, O.. Walding, Klnnan A Marvin,
daughter, Mrs. Nelson Smith, for pain which the liniment affords is Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio.
Hall’s Catarrh Care is taken internally,
the present.
She is somewhat alone worth many timea it cost.
aoting directly opon the blood and raaoous
under the weather at preaeut, but For sale by R. S. Knowlton.
surfaces o f the system. Price, 75c. per
hopes to be stronger in a short
bottle. Sol 1 by all Druggists. Testimon
The beef trust is about prepared ials fro©
time. When she left Mr. Topping’s
Hall’ » Family lilla are the beat.
thoir little daughter Ethel was to consummate its great merger, eo
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suffering from typhoid and was as to circumvent the anti-trust law
T s C a n t t . M In O n r D a r .
thought to be very low.
Miss and any adverse decisions that have
Laxative Bromo qnintno Tablet"
Bertha accompanied her mother been rendered. Tbe trusts will get all Take
draRRiata refund the money if it failato
hut has returned to assist ia nnrs- around and ahead of Congress and : onr» K .W Grove'a sisnatnrr ia on rn-h
package.
tbe oourts somehow.
iog her little neioe.
in :A it i t t i i r u H i ii
Mr- Bryan’s Paper.
The Palace Barber Shop,
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II lu H i« I l l 'l l i l l l i i r « .
The Commoner, Mr. Bryan’s pa
To use at eighteenth century
per, will be especially interesting
M M c D o q a ld P r o p r ie to r
and instructive during tbe present j phrase, this is an “o ’er true tale.”
session of congress. The action of Having happened in a small Vir
this congress will probably deter ginia town in tbe winter of 1902,
mine the isene upon which the next it is a story very much of tbe pres
~¡P & Best Equipped Shop in Coos County.fèfÇ
Up to a short time ago Mrs.
presidential campaig will be fought. ent.
The Commoner proposes to carry Jobu E. Harmon, of Melfa Station
Hot and Cold Baths.
Only First-Class Work.
on a campaign of education and or V a , had no personal knowledge
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In addition to tbe editorial de January,” she says, "my baby took
partment, which receives Mr. Bry a dreadful cold and at one time I
an’s personal attention, The Com feared she would have pneumonia
moner contains a Current Topic de but one of my neighbors told me
partment, wherein a non-partisan how this remedy bad cured her
discussion of topics of timely inter little boy and I began giving it to
est and other valuable information tbe baby at once and it soon cured
I heartily thank tbe manu
will be found. The Home Depart her.
ment is conducted by an experienced facturers of Chamberlain's cough
woman who is widely known as a remedy for placing so great u cure
I cannot recom
writer of household topics and who within my reach.
GOLDEN BUILDING,
COQUILLB OITT
is an authority on the art of cooking mend it to highly or say to much
in
its
favor.
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which is a summary of the world’s make Dr. Crnm a recess ^appoint
news told in narrative style, and ment.
Mr Maupin’s department— Whether
Common or Not—contains original
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STEAMER
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Leaves Coquille City tor Myrtle
Point at 7:30 a. m.
Leaves Myrtle Point for Coquille
City nt 1:30 p. m.
HARVEY JAMES,
Captain.
NOTICE FOB PUBLICATION.
United States Land Office,
Hose burg, Oregon, Deo. 23,1902,
Notice is hereby given that in compliance
with tho provisions of the act of Congress
o f June 3,1878, entitled "An act for the sale
o f timber lands in the States of California.
Oregon,Nevada and Washington Territory,”
as extended to all the I* iblic Land States
by act of August. 4, 1892,
MBS. ZILPHA NEELY, Widow,
f Fairview, county of Coos, State of
OJegon, has this day tiled in this office her
sworn statement N o.4182, for tho purchase
of the
of NWI£ of Section No.
21 in Township No. 26
Uange No.
11 W.. and will offor proof to show that the
land'songht ia more valuable for its timber
or stone than for agricultural purposes, and
to establish her olaira to said land before
L. H. Hazard, Comity Clerk of Coos Co.
Oregon at Coqnillo on Thursday, the 5th
day of March, 1903. She names ns witness
es: Lee Neelv. F. B. Taylor, H. L. Under
wood, of Fairview. Oregon, and Willis
Neely, of Coquille, Oregon,
Any and all persons claiming adversely
the above-described lands are requested to
file their claims in this office on or before
said 5th day of Marohil903.
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