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Coquille eli in JíeMá
COQUILLE CITY, OREGON, TUESDAY, AUGUST II, 1903.
VOL ‘¿I.
not as ‘green’ hs her name would
f i r m a n a t cos b a y
imply.
(laughter)
She’s pure
J . Curtis Snook, D. D. S.
B y R obert R olamu .
gold, twenty ounces to the pound,
Vancouver. Wash., May 14. — (To
(applause) und I ’m glad she caught
the Editor.(Having observed not
Office ever Johnson, Doan A C o ’ b
the biggest fish (laughter.) Mr.
T he G reat D ebate .
long since in your Coos County cor-
market. Coquille, Oregon.
"Mr. Chsirman,”
(Gertrude Chairman I can’t make uo speech. respondence a reference to Mr.
I
ain’t
built
that
way,
but
I
can
Green was a quiet scholarly girl of
Ephraim Catching as first locator uf
Geo. Russell, M. D.
seventeen, who noW addressed the hunt and that’s tho ‘sport’ of tho the ground upon which the town of
chair. She was a great reader and thing, just straight, plain, ‘sport’ Myrtle Pont is situated, it calls to
PHYSICIAN AND »UROtON.
ruffles
or frills,
had had eight years experience in I without any
mind the story of his pioneer ex
OffloM op stair» in MA.KTIN BUILDING.
j (laughter.) Talk about workin’ at my
giving
recitations,
and
was
quite
periences, as related to me by him,
Call» promptly answered day ornislrt.
]
it,
Mr.
President,
I
just
play
at
it,
used to lacing an audience.) "I
sitting under the “ fig tree and vine”
would rather have beeu excused ! and play is ‘sport’ and so hunting ..f his California home not tnanv
G. D. Holden,
from taking part in this debate, | is ‘sport,’ the biggest kind of sport months prior to his death. He
but as the leader of the negative and so and so, Mr. Chairman, dc- died in the month of August last.
a _ .
- - dOXCh^—
-
insisted and as I heleive it is a ! cide for our side, and I can’t think
Xja-wyer.
Mr, Catching, with his two broth
And Is
woman's duty to school herself to j of nothing more to say.”
ers, came to Oregon overland from
Justice ot the Peace, City Recorder.
Bpenk her mind, I finally consented aac resumed his seat without any
X j s . Com.niis9ioner to contribute my mite in support very startling applause, but blessed Missouri in 1846 and settled in the
He Willamette Valley. In 1848, on the
General Insuince Agent.
of the ‘sport’ of fishing.
I do not are they who expect nothing.
first intimation of the discovery of
I
did
not
seem
to
be
disappointed.
Notary Public.
for a moment think, Mr. Chairman
“ Mr. Chairman, .(it was now Eb- gold in California that reached
and friends, that ordinarily it is a
Office in Robinson Building.
he resolved at once
lady like accomplishment to be apt j en Evergay) I ’m a fisherman, I Oregon,
COQUILLE, O keoon .
A
Let them carry an ole gun to cast his fortune there.
at athletic sports, but I do think | am.
vessel arriving from San Francisco
I
that
wants
ter.
I
don’t
want
ter.
women
should
be
well
trained
in
J. Sherwood,
various gymnastic exercises that A gun makes me tired. But a fish- had brought the sensational tidings,
she should be a good walker; and pole’s nothing but fue, and if fun and while many were skeptical
kr'ow how to row a boat, and swim, aint sport then I don’t know sport with regard to its correctness. Mr.
A t t o r n e y - at L a w -.
An’ Mr. Chairman Catching had faith to warrant him
(applause) so that if she falls into when I see it.
C o q u ille C it y . C oos C ounty , O regon
a gun costs a lot of money. A hull in making the effort to reach the
the
river
she
may
get
out
again
Notary l 'oblio. ___ _____
without troubliug other people. lot, an fishin’ gear is cheap, an new gold field. Enlistiug n score or
But this has nothiug to do with the that’s sport becos 'taint no fun ter more of adventuresome companions
F. Hall,
question we lire discussing, and we work too or three months fer mon a party was soon equipped and
will now proceed to look at that u ey ter fool away on an ole gun. ready for the journey.
Their course lay through the val
few
moments and in doing bo will (derisive laughter from the hunters
Attorney - at - L a"'7r
I don’t keer a rap how- leys of Umpqua and Rogue Rivers
say first that in my opinion the Inst bench.)
M AK3HFIELD, OREGON.
If you — a region as yet in a manner un
speaker was not very happy in his much you fellers laugh.
Denial in U kxl K statk o f all kinds.
‘zest’ for a peep at the dictionary. had ter earn your own guns, I explored, and inhabited by tribes of
His definition of the word was quite reckon most of yoo'd go fishin, (ap Ibdians whose disposition toward
SHAD HUDSON, :
: J- E. HAYNES.
correct, ‘something that gives a plause) and yoo’d see a lot more the encroachment of the white man
relish,’ but he made haste to try sport in th thing than with a gun was an unsettled proposition. The
trip as far as the Rogue River coun
Hudson & Haynes, and show that ‘sport’ was something on yer back, (laughter.)
good to eat, because there was a
“ Mr. Chairman, who ever heered try was made without incident or
Mining and Real Estate Agents ‘relish’ about it. Now let us look at of fishermen killin one another? happening worthy of mention.
the two words, ‘zest’ and ‘relish’ But lots uv chaps goes a huntin' all There was, however, enacted a trag
Eckley, Carry County, Oregon.
AVE valuable Mines, B'Hrms.Htook together and see if either has nnv- right that don’t come back alive. edy which—though a reproach to
Ranches and Timber Lands fo rssie .
hing to do with hunting or fishing Some of his crowd has took ’im fer our boasted civilization, and even
(sensational.) to our race—is entitled to a place
House and fi nores o f land well i “ ProT.®d and if not his alleged argument is a bear, and s h o t’im.
Wilbnr, Douglas county, g “ '/.“ L?*?®: no nrgumeut at all, and all he has Thnt's ‘sport’ I suppose.
(laugh in history, as the inceptive prompt
exchange for property in Myrtle Point
said on that line falls to the ground ter)
Fishermen don’t shoot one ing of the Rogue Riyer War: Oue of
The two words are defined as fol another.
The work they do is to the party shot and instantly killed
lows: ‘Zest,’— something tlint gives hook one another nowD then, er an inoffendiug old Indian. The
a relish.’
'Relish—agreeable to tumble in ter drink,
an that’s Indians hud been entirley harmless
taste; to like to taste; to have a sport, (applause.)
I ’m a fisher and tlie victim of that most hellish
pleasing taste,’ all just as though man, I am, an that’s all,” and down perfily had visited the camp of the
the whole question was about some sat Eben ninid a quiet little breezy white men with seeming friendship
thing to eat. When hegoes a hunt applause, which must have been and good will. Standing with fold
ing does he taste it
(laughter) very satisfactory to the tyro in de ed arms and unmindful of the, to
him, strange implement leveled at
Does hunting ‘have a pleasing taste?’ bate.
his in-east, he fell the victim of a
What nonsense!
His plea is only
Captaiu “ Sol" has tho tloor first
‘begging the question.’ In a court of all next week, and as you may species of vaudalism which, in its
it would be called ‘pettiphoging,’ surmise his speech was a “ rattler.’| degree, is undefinable by invective
provided by tbe English language.
(applause) uuil I’m sure wo don’t
*
L e t’s
W a d e R ig h t Jinto want any of that here. So far as I H o y C u r e d o l C o l i c A l t e r P h y a t c .
Sir. Catching was in favor of giv
I ¡1 u s T r i a l in c u t l l n d F u l l e d .
am concerned Mr. Chairman, if the
ing the miscreant over to the In
the Subject
My boy when four years old was dians to be dealt with accordingly
negative cauuot win on true solid
The 1903 season will be the great argument, I do not want them to taken with colic and cramps in his as they should determine; but other
est bicyclo season ever known. The win at all. (applause all around the stomach. I sent for the doctor and counsels prevailing, the wretch was
finest equipped ar.d most up-to-date house.)
Again, the art of fishing be injected morphine, but the child permitted to go unpunished, and
wheels that Coquillo riders ever laid has been sneered nt as a ‘sleepy’ kept getting worse. I then gave with the immunity so afforded, to
their eyes on will be kept in stock sort of business, as a ‘sport’ girls him half a teaspoonful of Chamber vaunt, in after years, his dastardly
at right prices, and if you want one could play at, and hence beneath lain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea act as a mark of heroism. Thence
say so.
the dignity of the proud youth Remedy, and in half an hour he was forth the enmity of the Indians to
We want your trade, and we are who con carry a gun,
Sneers are sleeping and soon recovered.— F. L. ward the white settlers, or wayfarer
entitled to it, because we have not arguments, Mr. Chairman, and Wilkins, Shell Lake, Wis. Mr. Wil was of market intensity, till at
good goods, right prices, and can when our unfortunate opponents kins is book-keeper for the Shell length it culminated in the memor
Berve you well. You don’t expect sneer at such things as girls cau do, Lake Lumber Co. For sale by It. 8. able Rogue River Wars, in which Mr.
any more, but you want that much, they sneer nt their good mothers Knowlton.
Catching participated and for which
don’t you.
who once were happy girls like us, D j
C u r e d W lllio t il t tic A id service his surviving widow is now
entitled to a pension. Though re
o l n D octor.
To bo brief, try us und our goods, and I don’t think any of them mean
and our way of treating you, and if to uo that, (applause.) Boys may
“ 1 am just up from a hard spell cognizing the primary injustice
you like us try us again. We want do some things the girls cannot do, o f the flux” (dysentery) says Mr. T. done to the Indians in defence of
or that they do not do, or nice versa, A. Pinner, a well known merchant liia own race and his own fireside
your business. Enough said.
It is much a matter of education. of Drummond, Tenn. “1 used one he joined the ranks of the illustri-
Leep & Fish.
A man may be a good cook, and a small bottle of Chamberlain’s Colic, o u b pioneer soldiers.
woman may learn to hunt, and use Cholera and Diarrhoea Romedy and
Arriving at the diggings the lit
Coos lOa/y
a gun, but all the same the man is was cured without having a doctor. tle company engaged in miniug
willing the woman shall cook, and I consider it tho best cholera med near Placerville, and with the success
the woman that the man shall be icine in the world.” There is no those early dsys in California
the hunter, though only a little neod of employing a doctor when assured, they had in a short time
C. W. PATERSON, Prop.
while ago I read of a womau who this remedy is used, for no doctor accumulated quite a sum of money.
shot and killed a mountain lion. can prescribe a better medicine for They then decided to send one of
Manufacturer o f Marble Monuments, Head
She did not do it for ‘sport.’
She bowel complaint in any from either their number with the auimals they
stones, Tablets, etc.
oometery lots enclosed with stone coping did it to save their sheep, for her for children or adults. It never bad brought to Sonora, their near
or curbing. Iron railings furnished to o r husband was away and tho lion's
fails and is pleasant to take. For est trading post, for a renewal of
der. Correspondence solicited from parties
(applause.) sale by R. S. Knowlton.
iving in the country or other towns who time had come to die.
supplies. Mr. Catching’s brother
may wish anything in my line o f business
“Time,” called the chairman.
was detailed for the trip, and in
\f
o
O bio
consequence of the high prices of
I w o for Ihe Price ol One.
“ Mr. Chairman, I move that Miss
of provisions und other necessaries
To tire X 3 n.lorru.n.ats Green have all the time she wants.”
We have made arrangements he
was
of
course
required
It was Marion Morrison who
made the motion and it was sup with the publishers of the A M E R to take with him a considerable
Dr. Gibbon ported on all sides.
IC AN F A R M E R by which we are amount of their treasured dust.
On the eve of his starting two
T his old reliable and
able to offer this great farm paper strangers called at the Catching ca
If
no
one
objects
that
will
lie
most successful spec
I ialist in Ban Frarcis
taken ns the order of the house,” and the H erald for the price of biu and requested a ride down to
I co, still continues to
l cure all Sexual and said the chair, and as no one ob
the H erald nlooe— $1.50, for Hie Sonota. The request was readily
jected Miss Gertrude continued:
S em inal Diseases,
next 30 days. Who will be the granted und as a night’s camping
Isnch as Gonorrhea
‘‘I thank you all very ranch, but
■ G l e e t . S t r i o t n re,
first to lake advantage of this op out. of the way down was nocessary
■ S yp hilis, in nil it I cannot allow myself to trespass
it was considered fortunate to have
gforma, Skin Diseases. on another’s time, and will con portunity? This is n grpat offer
thier company. A party returning
■ N e r v o u s Debility.
The fo r o u r fa rm e rs a n d d a iry m e n .
Im potency, Seminal Weakness and Doss of clude with a singl remark.
from Sonora the next (lay found the
-
M anhood, the consequence o f self-abure question simply is one of ‘sport,’
body of the Mr. Catching who had
and excesses producing the following sympa
A
new
Station.
‘only
that
and
nothing
more,’
and
toms: Sallow countenance, dark spots un
gone foi the supplies lying by the
der the eyes, pain in the head, ringing in so when the affirmative have told us
roadside where lie had been mur
the ears, loss o f oonfld ence, diffidence, in
The
Southern
Pacific
Company
dered by
hits compauioLs. The
approaching strangers, palpate tion of the how a hunter must work ac it if he
heart, weakness o f the limbs and back, loss succeeds, we of the negative have has built a large and commodious murderers had secured $800, but
o f memory, pimples on the face, conghs- all the time asserted that fishing station, is very neat and attrative,
lmd failed to discover another purse
consumDtion etc.
Tbe
was great ‘sport,’ even to tumbling and fills a long-felt want.
on the body containing $1000.
DK. GIBBON has prac'ised in San Fran
management
of
the
state
fair
feels
If the weight of |
cisoo over 3 yearsan i t hose troubled sh«< ild into the river.
Ephraim Catching, on the receipt
particularly
pleased
over
the
station
not fail to oonsalt him and reoeive the ben argument prevails, there is not the
efit o f his great skill and exp^rienm. The
and they say that it is a good at of the sad news of his brothers death
shadow
of
a
doubt
but
that
the
doctor cures when others fail. Try him.
went immediatly to Sonora, whore
C P K E 8 G D AU VN TEED. Pi rs .ns cured negative must have the question,” traction for the fair
he entitled help in the effect to find
a* hom e. Charges reasonable. Call or and Miss Gertrude resumed her
Write.
Dr J. F. GIBBON,
and arrest the murderers. They
R-I-P-A-N-S Tabules
seal amid the heartiest applauso
25 Kearney street., San Francisco,
were never publicly brought to an
Doctors find
from the entire club, and others
write.
D R . J . F . GIBBON,
accounting for their crime. "After
A good prescription
R 2 » K'j irne v s t . H in Francis ;o
there present thus far accorded any
following their trail for several days,
For mankind.
of the speakers.
Her sweet voice,
The 5-cent packet is enough for usual oc as substantially worded by Mr.
good sense, and candid manner bad casion». The family bottle (60 cents i con
Catching, “ their tracks were no
won all our hearts.
tains a supply for a vear. All drnggists
longer tracable, and we never troub
sell them.
The next speaker on ihe program
led our thoughts any farther with
was Isaac Inman, who did not come
For butter Boxes and Cubes, go reference to their wherealmuts.”
to the scratch very promptly.
He to J. G. Fish, Coquille.
This treatment of the subject was
was evidently discouraged. He said:
significant in its brevity.
T o I 'u r r n t 'o l il !u O n e H u y.
After about a year spent in the
“ Mr. Chairman: I don’t exactly
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tabl in. gold mines and the making of quite
wish I was a girl, but I do wish i
All dniggiats refund the money if it fail« to a “ sack,”
Mr. Catchins went to
could make as good a speech as core.
E. W. Grove’ s aipnatnre is on each |
S m Francisco, then a small town
Miss Gertrude, and if we lose our box. 25c.
when -e he einkr.rkod ud a sailing
rase I am more willing »o give her
Ihe glory of beating us, than all the K o d o l D y sp e p si Ea Cure vessel for Oregon, and settled near
, O pposite U. S. Patent O ffice
the lire sent .City “ f IV>soburg.
other fellows, (laughter)
She is
O I (M t i w h at you o a t.
>
W A S H IN G T O N . D. a .
tD E N T IS T
E
J oh"
H
1903
SEASON.
aid Stoae Words
On a Mountain l rail.
NO. 4.
FIRST PIONEER OF COOS BAY-
The giving of dates, as told by
Mr. Catching, would bo, by the
faulty recollection of the writer, un
reliable and of no consequence will
not in many instances lie attempted.
However, it was subsequent to his
settlement at Roseburg that Mr.
Catching bccaino the pioneer set
tler on Ceos bay. A knowledge of
the existence of a bay nnd an in
J - G - F^sh & S o n s , P r o p s -
habitable surrounding country west MANUFACTURERS ol Butter Boxes, Cubes, Apple aud Fruit Boxes,
erly from Roseburg had but recent
Cabinets, Tables, Counters, Store Fronts, etc.
ly beeu known of in the interior of
Turning W ork s Specialty.
All Orders given
the territory, and, in fact, but little
promp' Attention.
known of anywhere.
The intima
tion, however, was sufficient to
awaken the characteristic spirit of
adventuro in Mr. Catching.
He
resolved nt once to learn more of
that terra incognita, and with an
other white man, an Indian guide,
the march to the sea was inaugurat
ed. For a number of days they
scored thur way through the patcli-
less forests and rugged mountains.
Reaching the bay, a few days were
spent in exploration, when it was
GOLDEN B U IL D IN G ,
C O Q U ILLE CITY
decided upon to return home.
Coquille puri)iture
and BOX FACTORY
P . E D ron e
Butcher,
The following year Mr. Catching Keep con.sa/n.tly on Hand. FresH Meat,
singly returned to the coast, resolv
ed upon making it his future home.
of -¿± ± 1 !K:ind.s.
He arrived there just in time to
secure the distinction of being tho
C a n n e d B e e f a n d P ic k le d P o r k
first settler, making his primitive
location ou an arm of the hay since
known as Catching slough.
Soon
after hit second arrival a colony put
in an appearance, whose purpose
was to establish a town—looking,
no doubt, to the future commercial T h e la t e s t in
importance of the harbor afforded.
Thinking that Mr. Catching had
already secured the most suitable
locatiou for such an enterprise, they
made him an offer of pereliase— $2,
at M r s . G. L , M o o n ’s
000. He, however refused to call,
--- -
and as 8ubi?°quently developed,
You will find the latest in spring and summer Millinery
quoting his language. It was a
false move on tho checkerboard.” at my store.
A few days later with a canoe of
Dress Trimming and Fancy Goods in General.
Stamp
his own making, he navigated what
ing
done
to
order.
is now known as Isthmus .Slough to
its headwaters, where he found an
Indian trail leading to the south.
Following this trail he came upon
Sanderson Building near the Wharf.
a mountuin dividing Coos Bav from
the Coquille. Ho took his little
boat across and again launched it,
decended it aud made discovery cf
the Coquille river.
The neck of
land over which be dragged his
canoe is the isthmus which divides
the water of Coos Bay from those
of the Coquille river aud now inter
vening between Mnrshfield and
Coquille City.
Cash Paid for Hides in any Quantity
MILLINERY
IV Irs . O . M o o n
1903
Q o o s Q ounty /\ cademy
Ascending the
Coquille, Mr.
Catching found aud decided upon
locating the present site of Myrtle
Point. Returning to the camp of
the company he offered to sell them
his first location, but iu his words,
“They had smelt a rat.” Knowing
his ready discerment they were, no
doubt, inclined to heleive that he
had discovered ‘a yet more favorable
place for the fonudiugof a center of
trade. Mr. Catching, without any
money considerations, abaudoned
his first election of a home nnd
transferred his habitation to im
later object of attachment. Tliero
he lived for a number of years aud,
in tbe meantime was married and
became tho father of tbreo children.
Eventually, his wife dying, he be
came discontented and sold his
place to the party who subsequent
ly divided it into town lots. He
then moved to Del Norte County,
Califoruin, where he again married
und brought up n family, aud where
he spent tho remaining years of his
life.
1904
This school, which 1ms been in successful operation during eight months
of the past school year, will open its Second Annnal
Session Monday, October 5, and continue for Eight
Months.
The Following Courses nre Offered:
COMMON SCHOOL,
NORMAL,
HIGH SCHOOL,
ACADEMIC,
COMMERCIAL,
MUSIC,
Tuition per Term of Twelve Weeks, Payablo in advnnce:
Common School Course, Grades 1 to 4 ............................... $ 6 00
■ <
••
«
“
5 to 7 ...... , ....................... 7 50
•i
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«
<•
8 ................................ 8 00
Normal Courso ................................................................... $8 00 to 10 00
High School Course, Grade 9 to 11 . . . . ................................... 8 50
Academic Course, Grades 12 to 13 ......................................... 9 00
Commercial Course, Elementary ......................................................10 00
“
“
Advanced ..........................................................12 00
Vocal nnd Instrumental Music 25 cents to 50 cents per Lesson.
A reasonable reduction will be made to students desiriDg to take
a mixed Course.
Special inducements will bo givou to a limited number of teachers
A coincidence, which may have bearing Certificates and taking tho Normal Courso.
been influenced by Mr. Catching’s
Circulars with full Courses of Study issued soon.
For furtlier
more than ordinary sagacity, is particulars call ou or address
presented in the circumstance of
H
Sviperin.ten.d.en.t.
bis homestead estate iu California
Coquille, Oregon.
now being under bond to a com
pany whose purpose it is to make
of it a future town or city. It em
braces a beautiful little valley on the
STEEL PENS
banks of Smith River, and on the
line of the proposed Oregon A Pa
cific Railroad.
Where could Mr. Catching have
selected a better aud more fruitful
place to cast his early destinies than
than where he did?
with her
vast lumbering, dairying, mining
und fishing resources, no county on
the Pacific Const has a brighter fu
ture than Coos County. Well may
the people of that section cherish
the memory of ‘Eph” Catching,
who lived a life without one blem
ish.
EPH L. MCSICK.
» •
D e l l c r T'liiin f - o M .
I was troubled for sevetal years
with chronie indigestion and nerv
ous debility,” writes F. J. Green, of
Lancaster, N. H. “ No remedy help
ed mo until I began using Electric
Bitters, which did me more good
than all the medicines I ever used.
They have also kept nay wife in ex
cellent health for years. .She says
Electric Bitters are just splendid
for female troubles; that they are a
grand tonic and invigorater for
weak, run down women. No other
medicine can take its place in our
family.”
Try them. Only 50c.
Satisfaction guaranteed bv R. 8,
Knowlton,
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»
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