Coquille Cito Mentii*.
VOL
C O Q U IL L E C IT Y , O RE G O N , T U E S D A Y . M A Y li*, 1903.
20.
DENTIST
J . Curtis Snook, D. D. S.
Office ever Johnson, Dean & Co'a
market. Coquille, Oregon.
D. Holden,
E. G. Dav
/y er.
.
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Justice ot the Peace, City Recorder.
T J. s . O o m m i s s i o n e r ,
General Insurance A gent.
Notary Public.
Office in Robinson Building.
OoQuan*. O rsoon .
J. Sherwood,
;torney - at Law-.
fil l e
C it y , C oob C ounty , O bboon .
Notary Fnblio.
John F. H a ll,
A ttorney . at -
MAHSHFIELI), OREGON.
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»u l ji
in H k * l E stât » o f all kinds.
J. E. HAYNES
SH A D nüDSO N ,
Hudson &
Haynes,
Mining and Real Estate Agents
Eckley, Cnrry County, Oregon.
Talaable Mines, Farm», Stock
Ranches and Timber Lands for sale.
H AVE
House and ft acres o f land well improved
Wilbnr, D oor U s oonnty, Or., for sale
exohanRe for property in Myrtle Point
1903
On a Mountain Trail.
NO 45
Relics of A Prehistoric Age.
We remained upon the mountain things were run, only he had not
top until the night was so well set yet, quite pulled himself tegether,
tled that distant scenes wore lost to ufter the unexpected honor which
B y R obert R oland .
Wiraer Bros, in their mine noar
view, and then though the silent had been thrust upon him, hut after Waldo, have unear’then aud secured, >
fContinnsd from lust woek.l
scene was one of enchantment, we looking up at the tree tops again, at various times, a uumber of mor- !
“ Lets fire the old stub Uncle," betook ourselves to our hunter’s feeling in his pockets and trying to tars which are beyond question,
get something out of his throat, relics of a prehistoric race, says the
shouted a lot of the boys, and suit lodge, and our camp fire.
which would neither come up or go Grant’s Pass Courier.
They are
ing the action to the word, with a
We then took up the question of
found in the old gravel of an ancient
single little match,
less than fif organizing a club, und as a sort of down, said;
teen minutes, transformed that dry self coustituted, presiding officer.
“ Fellow citizens, I have the great channel, 50 or 60 feet below the
surfaco, firmly embedded in a ce
splintered, pitchy, fir stub, into an Undo Robert took the chair, that is — the great
mented gravel near the bedrock.
immense biasing torch forty feet a position near the root of a great
“ We ain’t citizeus,” interupted This stratum of grovel, which is six
high, with the towering flame tree, (for we were all out by the
reaching at least ten feet higher in camp fire) and called the meeting Roger Rumple, “ wo are only boys or eight feet to depth, is clearly a
and girls, out for a lark, and our much older deposit thau that which
.1
to the air, and long before it was to order.
His opening remarks
lies above it.
time to crawl into our blankets, were very brief, and included the mothers know where we arc at.
C o r n e d B e e f a n d P ic k le d P o rk
“Shut up” ruled the president.
that great boacon, and the big fire, statement, that first, a resolution to
The mortars are made of hard
Roger Rumple is out of order.”
whioh its old trunk kindled at its form a club would be in order, nud
granite and iron stone. There is no
“ Speech!
Spaech!
Speech!” similar rock in the formations of the
root, had dried out our leafy bed secondly, a name for it, and third,
for rods around its base.
One the election of officers, whereupon called a lot more voices, and Billy immediate vicinity though
both
could not ask a more cozy camping on motion of Harry Happy.Land— Billings yelled: “ Get in there, old varieties of stone are found plenti
gro und.
fully on Rough-and-Ready Creek,
duly supported by Snsie Sensible— man, and give us a speeeh!"
Then “ Mr President" began to some two miles away, some of the T h e la te s t in
Then we began to look out for the formation of “a club” was affirm-
our supper, for it was now four ntived by a loud and laughing ma get “ sandy.” He was getting a bit mortars were probably used for
o'clock, and here let me say— once jority. In fact it was carried unan out of patience, und calling for or grinding food, while others seem to
for all, to avoid repetition—that imously, but when it came to christ der, said: “ How’s a fellow to make have been used as quartz mortars.
during the entire expedition, we ate ening the child, there was a divis a speech, when you are all carry They are of different sizes and
Johnnie Jame ing on so. The next kid that to. shapes, but the handiwork of rnau
three meals a day, had a plenty of ion of sentiment.
a t M r s , C . M o o n ’s
everything inoluding blankets, and son suggested, “ Business Literary terupts, shall be taken to the guard is very evident in their aonstructon.
houso
und
locked
up
for
contempt
Thoir
age,
as
indicated
by
the
forma
Club.”
Billy
BillingB
said
let
us
comfortables, for somehow everyand
You w ill find the latest in spring and summer Millinerg
tion in which they are found, is so
where we came to camp, someone call it the “ Boy’s and girl's club,” of court.”
hud been tliero before us, and which Ada Allen amended by sug
Then there was a silence, which great as to be beyond imagiuutiou at my store.
made every preparation for our gesting "Oirl's and boy's club.” couldn't be heard, and Harry made or computation by the ordinary
Dress Trimming and Fancy Goods in General, Stamp
mind.
Since the time that the
coming.
“ Uncle Robert” insisting Edgar Englewood said “ Let’H call a fresh start.
ing
done
to order.
gravel
was
deposited
in
these
old
it
“
Uncle
Robert’s
Club,”
and
there
it was “ the fairies” which “ fairy
“ Fellow trumps! Fellow climbers! chanuels the whole face of nature
a
general
approval,
but
the
whs
tale” many of the older ones min
Fellow Tip Top-ers!
Ladies and has been changed. The channels
gled “ with a grain of fait." (cum chair interposed an objection say Gentlemen,
I am awful glad we
ijrano satis) while the youDger ones ing, “ It's to be your club, my dears, are living—I mean I’m glad we are are absolutely independent of the
Sanderson Building near the Wharf.
unquestioning, considered
it f not mine.” “ Roland Club,” shout here, and that we are organizing a present topography of the country.
matter of course, and enjoyed be ed Caleb Careful, but the chair in Club; a great big two story club; a They run across ridges and jump
across canyons, ignoring entirely
sisted that his Dative modesty,
tog comfortable all the time.
‘Tip Top Club,’ with—with a sky the present conditions. Since they
would not permit him to pat the
Having now disposed of a very
roof, and a solid ground carpet! were placed the country has been
question.
necessary thing for the balauce of
(great applause) I'm glad we've
Charley Crane suggested that it had sense enough to do it. The uphenved and rent apart until it
the trip, we will say as little as pos
must bear no resemblance.
The
sible about it hereafter,
und be named “ The Fir Grove Club, " world is before us, and all around period prior to these eruptions and
or
“
Blaziug
Stub
Club,”
in
memory
pr «ceed with the story.
us, fellow Tip Top-ers, and I think convulsions is far distant from the
of the place of organization, but be we owe Uncle Robert a vote of
reach of history or tradition and
Ergo, supper disposed of and was laughed down, though the
p la in ..
thanks. ( “ Hurrah for Uncle Rob goes back into the aeons of ages
and the sun yet more than two chairman remarked that Charley
ert” )
Now let us all get in and ago so remote that its age is almost
— o—
hours high, we retraced our stops was on the right track.
“ Bear make our club the tip topestclub in
beyond
all
conjecture,
and
the
find
to the very “ tip top” of the mount Club," shouted stout Roger Rum
seventeen states, including New ing of the undeniable handiwork of
ain, for a final view of the country, pie, whereupon Johnnie Jameson
Jersey. As the chair has before re man in the deposits of this age is a
and to see the sun set, in those wanted to know where the bear
marked, the world is before us, matter to command the interest of
great fields of living green.
The was!
Bessie Beadle suggested you jolly old tip top-ers, asisting
w m
G e t Y o n
-A.
geologiuns and antiquarians. The
day had been a bright one; was still “ Recitation Club,” and Sarah Say-
onr stern—our stern —(laughter) manner of finding these mortars
bright, and the strengthning ozone good said, “ Let us call it ‘Uncle
our stern energies. Thats the word precludes any possibility of mistake
of the soft sunny air, mixed and Robert’s niece’s and nephew’s Club,
You can savo this amount if you will and make your dear ones
I wanted; energies, noble tip topers. aB to where they occur. Tho top,
mingled with the balsam of ten and everybody laughed and said,
I f you are
As Shakespeare said when ho lit on some 40 or 50 feet in depth, was pip happy. No homo complete without a piano or an organ.
million mighty trees, fir, spruce, “ too long, too long,” whereupon
old Greece with both feet: “ two’ll ed of, down to the cement gravel looking for best values
cedar, and hemlock, thrilled our Sammy Snooks said he thought the
climb the snowy mountains; pluck near the bedrock, and in this cement
veins with such a life, we felt that “Scholar’s Own Club,”
was the the rainbow from the clouds, and
the mortars are found solidly em
we could have climbed Chimbornzo’s thing, but he was greeted with “ too
stick: both ends together.
(loud and
We are prepared to interest you and make the assertion that we
loftiest pinacloiu an hour, and been long, too long,” and Richard Rich long continued applause, during bedded aDd are filled with the same
“"otod
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can
do
MURE for you than any other Piano or Orgau House in the
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tnt»,
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h «« land remarked
material,
so
hard
aud
solid
that
it
that he feared we which time the urator hod a eliunu©
has to bo picked out very patiently country. I f you are interested write at once.
the view! Ah if “ distance lent en would be long enough getting a
to get his wind, touse up his hair
and carefully to avoid breaking the
chantment to the view,” the view name.
again, aud feel in his pockets.)
THE BIG SIX: KIMBALL, CHICKERING. WEBER, MILTON,
relic.
returned it with interest ten fold
At this point the chair ask leave
“ Fellow Tip Top-ers!
We are
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compounded, from every angle of
I/0SE.HINZE, with the giant WHITNEY is a combination of
the eye, as it swept that vast pan to make a suggestion, and a unani the tip topest crowd to these woods!
New York old maids are critic soundness, strength, beauty and tone unequalled anywhere.
orama of “ G od ’s first Temples,” mous silence giving consent, he We can do anything, and Uncle ising the President for his remarks Twenty.eight other makes we handle.
the giant evergreen forest groves proceeded to say: “ You are all in Robert’s the best card in the whole on race suicide aDd yet he did
We also have in stock a fine line of Violins, Banjos, Guitars aDd
of Oregon.
Mountains of varying the wilderness, and after we re pack, (applause) and all we’ve not blame the old maids.
Mandolins at prices from $5 upward.
A full assortment of strings.
grades, lay all about us, and away turn, mayr never be here again. At got to do is to hang to it,— hang to
The Pennsylvania
legislature, Steel strings 5 cents each. New music received weekly.
ns far as the cUarost pair of wonder- least you will nevor be here again— our Club, like a bull pup at a root,
all
in
one
chunck.
We
are
near
the
and we’ll all get there, and be having enacted a baking powder law
eyes. could reach.
Great billowy
mountains—waves of everlasting mountain top, and all remember presidents of the U. S. A., before proceeded to take a rise out of the
Our Club newspapers by enacting a press
green, with white snow patches some very pleasant sights seen, and we die. (applause)
here and there, far away, bright and sensations felt, when we were is a big thing, tip top-ers! The big muzzling bill.
From that high point gest that, ever assembled, to these
nnd cheery- the setting sun. Val up there.
In liis “ swing round t h e circle” M
C l K IB .
A E S H
F I E L D
,
leys, canyons, precipice, and cliff, we saw the sun set, and the moon evergreeu shades, on these ever King Edward is making no rear-end
light
her
all
night
lamp.
Now
why
lasting
hills.
It
must
have
a
motto,
— all built on nature’s grandest
speeches. But then, King Edward
plan; wave, on wave afar, and we, not call your club “Tip Top Club," a high up old motto, and 1 propose will not have t o sta n d for re elec
or
“
Mountain
Top
Club,”
though
this:
‘Labor
Omnia
Viceit,’
which
tiny human objects, alone on the
tioD.
mountain top, this side of weary the first suggested, is the best for being made over into common folks’
President Diaz of Mexico, shows
brevity,
as
it
has
oulv
ten
letters
K IL L T H E B R U T E !
talk, means: ‘ If you dou’t work like
miles of climbing.
in three words.
It will always re the dickens, you’ll never amount his farsightedness in nothiug more
SKIN
HIM PROPERLY
The true human soul always feels mind you that it was organized on to shucks! (applause) We are all than in the compulsory learning of
AND
SH
IP H IS S K IN
nearer to God, in a place like this, the ‘tip top’ of the Western OregoD for glory, education, ejduribtts un- English in the public schools. Let
AND A L L O T H E R
and as I filled my expanding lungs const range,” and long before the um, and the star spangled banner, the Americanization go on
with the pure air, I looked aloft chairman ceased, the hand clapping, tip top-ers, and—and—what’s the
So extensive has the use of cocain
at the quiet sky, stretching my arms gnve evidence of approval, but yet further pleasure of the meeting,”
abroad as if to clasp it; with the the wild woodland child was name and the President took his seat on in British India become that the
o
u
se
prayer in my heart, if unuttered by less, until Johnnie Jameson made the root of a big tree, while the government is seriously considering
the
necessity
of
establishing
asylums
the lip: “ Oh Father!
Take me up a motion that we name our club the clubites made the woods ring with
for the exclusive treatment of those
higher!
This is so near heaven, “ Tip Top Club,” and with a loud their cheers, and laughter.
afffieted with tho habit.
what can heaven be?”
clapping of hands, and calls for the
When enthusiasm had spent it
T H E B E S M O H EY'I N IT
But I had not forgotten my young question, it was carried with a great self, and order restored, Oliver
Rear Admiral Melville lias receiv
companions, many of whom were shout.
Optic nominated Frnnkie Faithful ed a pair of musk ox horns and a
busy gathering wild fllowers, to
Write for C ir c u la r s .
“ Well done, my dears,.
I think for secretary, and as there was no sheet of hammered brass which were
adorn their rough, though comfort yenr club has a ‘tip top’ name,” opposition, she was unanimously ptireliared of Esquimaux nnd which
able quarters.
I calle I them to commented the chairman, and then elected.
S : Ä p °^ l TS e s h e e p s k in t a n n e r y ^ o ^ I L r p A v
he bolieves are relics of the Sir. John
gether, and pointed out the far there was more laughing and loud
"Now Mr. President,” said Undo Franklin polar expedition of 1845.
away beauty of the scene.
I tried hand clapping.
“ Now who will Robert, “ as you cannot complete
King Edward has appointed his
to make them see these things, as I you have for President.
your organization without a Consti son, the Prince of Wales, chairman
saw them. It would expand their
“Harry Happy Land,” shouted tution aud By-Laws, I thiuk you of the commission which is to repre
souls, and lift them nearer celestial
things. It would help them remem several of the larger boys in the had better select a committee for sent England at the St. Louis, Ex.
ber their visit to this wild mount same breath, and the motion hetog that purpose to report at a future Thus the evidences of a desire on
ain’s top, and as they remembered, duly supported, and no other nom meeting. I would further suggest the part of European powers to cul
that this committee be appointed tivate the friendship of tho United
THE STANDARD PENS EVERYWHERE. 15 0 Stylet
B road Point*».
( war it selfish?) also remember me, inations made, Harrv was unani
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by the chair, as that will save time, States continue to multiply.
and the pleasure my old-young-heart mously elected President of the “ T.
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Waffel,
C»«siati,
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and give you, perhaps a better
had in all that pleased, or interested T. Club.’’
The Bureau of Insular Affairs of
committee.”
them. And in this test of far views
“Speech! speech!” called half a
tho War Department estimates that
without the aid of a glass, I found dozen voices, whereupon the chair- ] As no objection was made, the a 500 acre rice farm can be estab
chair
appointed
Robert
Roland,
there was not a young eye in the man invited the hlushieg youth
lished in the Philippines and suit
crowd that could see things farther forward, introduced him as the j Susie Sensible, an 1 Clarence Clear- ably equipped with thresher, trac
away, than my old oneB, and many president of the club, and conclud- sight as such committee, where tion engine, etc., for $5,000 while
THE
not as far. I bade them note the ed by saying, “ I now surrender the j upon the Club adjourned, amid the gross receipts from each crop
cheers
and
laughter,
until
8
o’clock
green mountain waves rolling far duties of the chair, to younger and
will amount from $15,000 to 20,000.
away like the waves of the sea, and abler hands,” whereat Harry blush-1 tomorrow evening, all well pleased
with
the
progress
thus
far
marie.
The Russian authorities I iavo dis
yet nnlike them, in that, these re ed anew, run his bandg through
Immediately upon adjournment covered an extensive secret society,
mained always steadfast; always the his hair, pulled up his collar, put
me.
his hands in his pocketB, then there was a loud call for “ Uncle the members of which are pledged
It was now dark down in the val thought he hail something in his Robert, nnd another recitation,” ami to submit to burial alive at the ago
leys, though the sun was still in mouth that must lie ejected, since he gave them a short, funny one of thirty, on the ground that per
sight; still shone upon the spot he couldn’t swallow it, looked all entitled “ Logie,” after which the sons living to execod that age do so
where we stood; still tipped with a around, as if for some way to girls betook themselves to their at the expense of others. It has
golden glow, many of the distant escape; pulled up his collar again, lodging room, aud the boys to their been ascertained that a consider
ONE-THIRD EASIER-
heights, but the whirl of the old and stirred up his hair once more, blankets, on the ground before the able number have alrendy been in
ONE-THIRD FASTER.
world soon rolled it under, and then and at last blurtiug out: "Uncle fire, and soon the late scene of terred alive.
pleasant association,
became a
the moon, which was already in Robert, what comes next.”
It
is
not
unnatural
that
Russia
sombre silence, save as the breeze
The only Hewing Machine that
sight, and had been struggling for
“ Speech," laconically responded stirred all the leaves ot the mighty j should covet Mancbura. In addi oes u it fail iu any point.
some time to get in her evidence,
that well known old chap.
forrest, with
woodland
music. tion to the fact that she has expend
began to take on a more radiant
R O T A R Y MOTION A N D H A LL B E A R IN G S .
The lightest run
“ Speech! Speech! Speech!” call Happy childhood!
Happy youth! ed hundreds of dollars in tho pro ning machine in the world.
hue, and replace as far as possible,
R A P ID —saves about one dBy in three
vince,
it
has
been
ascertained
that
the absence of the king of day, and ed the future members of the T. T. May you never know less auspi it has an ares equal to that of Texas sewing that much faster than any vibrating 'shattle sewing machine
cious days.
to come back to things nearer home, C. “ Give us a speech.”
a population three times as great aa Moie time is saved, mnr,. m ney earned.
Now Harry was a bright lad of
there was our old blazing stub,
Where they went next, and what I that of New York stale, climate, fer- i Quiet anddurahle. I he rotary motion doe awny with noise snd
near at hand, illuminating a good seventeen, who had attended p r i-1 they did, behold, you will find it, tility and timber resoucen equal to wear cauaed by the forward and back.vare movement of the shuttle.
slice o f the night, in that neighbor maries, and other public gatherings duly chronicled in the next issue of . Oregon, besides ex te naive deposits
General office fur tho Pacific Coast at 033 Market St.. San Fmnciac
hood.
and knew something about bow the H brild .
of gold, silver, iron and coal.
California
W. H, SHORT, Agent, Marshfield.
Drone & rçay,
Butchers,
GOLDEN BU ILD IN G ,
COQUILLE CITY
JCeep consa-o-tly on H an d I^resli IMIsat.
of -AJ Kinds.
Cash Paid for Hides in any Quantity
M ILLIN ERY
I V t r s . C . IN /Io o n
$5 will buy ii Organ
Onl y$5 a month
on the instadiment
$10 ¡1 Mouth
Eiano-
SEASON.
Let u Wade Right into
the Subject
The 1903 season will bo the great
est bicycle season ever known. The
finest equipped and most up-to-date
wboels that Coquille riders ever laid
their eyes on will be kept in stock
at right prices, and if you want oue
say so.
We want your trade, and we are
entitled to it, because we have
good goods, right prices, and can
serve you well. You don’t expect
any more, but you want that much,
don’t you.
To be brief, try us and our goods,
and our way of treating you, aDd if
you like us try us again. We want
your business. Enough said.
Leep & Fish.
TH E
I.
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HARDWARE STORE,
Wm. Gallier, Proprietor,
HAHDW0QE,
AGflTE WME
QUEENS W(U{E.
TIN W(U(E
C all «n d examine Roods and investgate
prices.
c o o s
b a y
ail Stone Works
C. W. PATERSON. Prop.
nfaotnrer o f Marbls Monaments. Head
stones. Tablets, eto.
itery lots enclosed with stone coping
irbinR. Iron railinRs furnished to or*
Correspondence solicited from parties
PC in the country or other towns who
wish anythinR in my line o f business
tasHfuio
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To tlie
XD
niorru.aa.ate
Dr. Gibbon
T his old relieb le and
m ost Hnccessfal spec
i a l i s t in Han Fraccis-
f oo, still oontinnes to
^oure all Hexne! and
Heminal Diseases,
lunch as Gonorrhes-
|G l e e t . B f t n o t n re,
■ S y p h ilis, in all it
■ form s, Hkin Diseases.
■ N e r v o a s Debility,
Im potency. Seminal Weakness and Loss c f
Manhood, the consequence o f aelf-abase
and exoesses prodacinR the folIowinR sym pa
toins: Sallow ooantenanoe, dark spots un
der the eyes, pain in the head, ringing in
the ears, loss o f confidence, d iffid en ce in
approaching stran gers, p a lp ita tion o f the
heart, weakness o f the lim bs and back, loss
of memory, p im p les on the faoe, couRhe-
consumntion eto.
DR. GIBBON has practised in San Fran
Oisoo over 37 yenrsan j those troubled shoald
not fail to ooueult him and reoeive the ben-
Itit o f his great skill and experience. The
doctor cu r's when others fa il. Try him.
CURES G U ARAN TEED. Person* enred
at home. Ciiarge* rea-w nsble
Call or
write.
D R . 3 . F. GIBBON.
62T» K n n i f r street. S in Francisco
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