Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About Coquille City herald. (Coquille City, Or.) 188?-1904 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 2, 1904)
(Coquille (Cito Herulà VO L ‘¿1. iD iE is r r is T C O Q U IL L E Story of Sacajawea. C IT Y , O R E G O N , T U E S D A Y , FEBRUARY 2, 1904. N O . 29. | wne the price of existence. When received 9500 for his services, Saca Notwithstanding that the South & & the case for Lewi* and Clark was ,wea received nothing, not even is intensely sensitive on the n J. Curtis Snook, D. D. S. The following beautiful tribute is | growing desperate, and the possi- er freedom, and it is perhaps the question, it is significant that the Office ever Johnson, Dean & Co’s from the pen of Dr. Jame* Hosmor, bilitv appeared that the attempt most serious blemish upon the farre faculties of several prominent white of Minneapolis, the noted editor of must be abandoned and the expedi o f the Captains that, for all the ree colleges there petitioned the trus market. Coquille, Oregon. the Lewi* and Clark journals: tion go back, the Bird.woman began ord shows, the gentle faithfulness tees of Trinity College, N. C., urg Owr entire time to the Will make H.iulon h profesaional visit ha first Monday in eaoh qnnrter. “ Now that the centenary o f the to dance and sing. She was once the affection, the extraordinary skill ing them, in defense of free speech, first crossing of our continent is more among the haunts of her peo of this daughter of the wilderness to refuse to accept the resignation of Prof Bassett, who had publiahed close at baud, Lewis snd Clark the ple; she recognized the valley into remained unrequited. Geo. Russell, M. D, “ There is one later mention of opinions on the negro queetion on heroes, who accomplished it, come which they had penetrated as the PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. if you want to sell your Ranch send us a descrip into our minds, and a revival is place srhere five or six years before Saoajawea. In 1811, the traveler tagonistic to the spirit of the South Office up stairs in MAKTIN«BUILD1NG. taking place of interest in their she had been taken captive. Pres Breckinridge, sailing up the Mis ern people. tion, price and terms. If you want to loan your Calls promptly answered day or night. story. Especially will the world ently some Iodian womeu were souri, records a meeting with an old Twelve Wyandotte chickens have ___ will __ be answered from Mrs. Night call brought in, who abandoned by the Frenchman and his wife, who he money write us. turn to that noble and picturesque eaten up $327 in greenbacks belong Wickluiiu’s Boarding House. Phone, main 130. book, ‘The Conquest,' by Mrs. eva men, had been left to fall into the learns had crossed the continent ing to Mrs. Sylvester Hughes, of I. S . K A U F M A N ft C O ., Emery Dye, in which wilh admira bands of the strangers. As the poor with Lewis and Clark. The woman Corona, L. I., which she had taken M A R S H F I E L D , OR. creatures cowered before their seemed fond of white people, tried from her son “to keep him from ble power that story is made vivid G. D. Holden. One may see sometimes at a May captors, bending their heads to re to imitate civilized ways in her dress the races.” She says “The pros & a festival, a rough cord transformed ceive their deathblow, suddenly a and manners, and in general ap perous appearance of the rooster L a 'w y e r . young girl, catching sight of Saca peared like one in whom an aspira into a thing of beauty, by being in first aroused my suspicion; he Justic« of the Peace- City Recorder. tertwined with ivy and sniilax and jawea, rushed toward her. She was tion had been aroused for something strutted around the yard, puffed tribeswoman, who having been X T . S . C o m m i s s i o n e r set off with daisies and roses. In higher than slavery. She was, says out his chest, and crowed continu General Insurance Agent. like fashion the plain thread o f his captured at the same time with the the traveler, in feeble health. Pro ously.” She slew the bloated plu. Notary Public- tory furnished by the stout explor Bird-woman, had for a time under bably she died soon after, and there tocrat and recovered $80. gone with her the pains of bondage. is no memorial of her. The river ers, unwinding day by day as they Office in Robinson Building. Chicago has 950 churches, and marched, takeu in hand by a writer Escaping, however, the friend had to which the Captains gave her name C o qu ili . e , (J uki ion . designation. several were closed because unsate of genius, has become thing of found her people again. Now a sec- bears dow another in ease of fire. Even the Univers beauty, while losing nothing of its oud time losing her freedom, as she When she laid down her life, and ity has been compelled to rebuild supposed, she descried among the ^ J. Sherwood, what became of the baby which with truth. Her mind is well stored its portals to afford better exits. As GOLDEN B U IL D IN G , C O Q U IL L E C IT Y with the traditions belonging to newcomers no other than her old its mother had so strange an experi a result of the fire, churches, schools, companion. The two squaws em ence, no man can gay. the period; her eyes have beheld Attorney - at Law-. S a n d F r e s h 3 vE © ar. clubs, department Z e e p s c o n s a n t l y o n The Shoshone “ After a century, is it not right dance-halls, the scenes described; her imagina braced tenderly. stores, and even private"houses are C oquille C ity , C oos C ounty , O beoon . tion is quick and fruitful. She lm- women acting as guides and inter that the dust should be brushed off o f -A -H K i n d s . being rigidly inspected to make Notary tublio. parts life to a tale which it is well cessors, brought back the warriors. this neglected figure— the one wo them conform to building regula It was the very band of Bird-woman man who went with Lewis and Clark worth while to make thoroughly G a n n e d lB e e f a n d P ic k le d P ork- that at last had .been reached, and who contributed so memorably to tions. Singular, is it not, that ev vital. John F. Hall, when presently at the council she their success— who, perhaps, was en the wisest person in Chicago “ Renders of the ‘Conquest’ will began to interpret the speep of the their Balvatiou? Is she uot a hero, did not think of the necessity of j Ä - t t o r r L e s r . a t - L a w - find not only the heroes but their chief, lo, it was her own brother ine sweet and brave among the this previous to the tragedy? Do followers made distinct and attract M ARSH FIELD, OBEOON. we all belong to that brutal class whose words she was translating. sweetest and bravest?’’ ive, and it will be strange indeed if that learns only from a tragic ox. A firm friendship was at once estab Doale i in U bai . E stât * o f all kinds. the world does not wake up to an T h o la t e s t in perience? lished between the party and the Note end Comment. admiration for one among these fol Shoshones; the Indian girl had J. E. H A Y N E S . SHAD HUDSON, lowers whose desert has not been made further progress possible. Officeholders Are Not Barred. The Democratic convention to appreciated. But one woman, a HeDcoforth the way was smoothed. nominate a president will be held young squaw, plays a part in the Hudson & Haynes, Washington, Jan. 19.—Postmast story of Lewis and Clark. Her do Horses and guides were furnished; at St. Louis on July 6th. a t M r s . G. I*. M o o n ’s lin in g and Real Estate Agents ing, however, was of such a charac the friendly Shoibohes passed the The Supreme Court o f Nebraska er-General Payne today said there --- ter as to make it quite right to claim white men on the Flatheads and they has forbidden prayers and Bible was nothing to bar Postmasters or E ckley, Curry County, Oregon. other Federal office-holders) from You will find the latest in spring and summer Millinery AVE valuable Mines, Farms, Stock for her a high place among her in turn to the Nez Perces. At the reading in the publio schools of serving as delegates to political Banches and Timber Lands for sale oines; in the whole line of Indian councils Sacajawea was always the that state. at my store. conventions. National, state or House and fi aores of land well improved heroines, frem Pocahontas to Ra most important one in the line of Dress Trimming and Fancy Goods in General. Stamp Wilbur, Douglas oonnty, Or., for sale, mona, not one can be named whose interpreters. The Captains specu Senator Hanna has been re-elect county. exchange for property in Myrtle Point ing done to order. title to honored remembrance is any lated, amused as to what kind of ed bb senator from Ohio by the A C u r e t o r E r i e m u. bettor than hers. Hero is the out representation it was that at last largest majority ever given a senat reached the mountain men, when or from that state. line of the story. My baby had Eczema so bad that its head was a solid mass of scabs, “ Sacnjawea, the Bird-woman, be their speech, done in French for FRONT STREET, COQUILLE, OR Out of 32,000,000 travelers in longed to the Shoshone, or Snake Chabonneau, rendered by him into Pullman cars in the last three years and its hair all came out. I tried Indians, a mountain tribe which, in Minnetaree for Sacajawea, filtered only six have been killed. Can’t we many remedies but none seemed to do any permanent good untill I the days of Lewis and Clark, was in on from her Shoshone into Chopun- have some Pullman theaters? used DeWitt’s Wit -h Hazel Salve. danger of extermination at the ish, Ootlashoot or whatever barbaric Shivering Yorkers, with the mer The Eczema is cured, the scabs are blinds of the Minnctarees, or Black- dialect might be at hand. But some faet. She had been taken captive message was conveyed, and through cury below zero, are loudly asking gone and tho little one’s scalp is when a child by these foep. When the Indian girl those remotest wilds for the man who proposed to jar off perfectly clean and healthy, and its Lewis and Clark, coming up the first heard of the greatness of Uncle the lid of Hadees for a few minutes. hair is growing beautifully again. I cannot give too much praise to Missouri, reached in their first win Sam and the good things he medi Striking drivers in Chicago re DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve.— Let’s W ade Right into ter the Mandans and Minnetarecs, tated for his newly gainod children fused to drive carriages offered free Frank Farmer, Bluff City, Ky. In Sacnjawea, a girl of 16, had shortly of the forest Nor was it solely as the Subject- before became the Blave and wife of an interpreter that she wss useful. by a liyery stable proprietor to as buying Witch Hazel*Salve look out sist in removing the injured from for counterfeits. DeWitt’s' is the . The 1904 season will be the great Chabonnenu, a French voyageur, As the party passed from tribe to est bicyclo season over known. The the Iroquois theater fire. original and the only one containing who, like many a waif of his race, tribe who were always timorous at finest equipped and most up-to-date pure Witch HazeL The name E. had sunk far towards savagery and the first encounter, disposed to General Longstreet will probably wheels that Coquille riders ever laid was living with the wild men. Per fly like frightened deer, the sight have do successor as U. S. Railroad C. DeWitt & Co. is on every box. This school, which has been in successful operation daring eight months their eyes ou will be kept in stock of the past school year, will open its Seeesxl Annual haps the best strike the Captains of Sacajawea with her papoose, rid Commissioner, The office will be Sold by R, S. Knowlton. at right prices, and if you want oua Session Monday, October 5> and continue for Eight made in preparing for thir work ing with the Captains, was reassur allowed to lapse. It was created ing. It could be no war party if a say so. was in engaging Chabonneau and tw o for the Pries of One. Months. for Confederate generals, and pass squaw and her baby were among We want your trade, and we are Sacajawea to join the expedition. es with them. The Following Courses are Offered: entitled to it, because we hav» It was believed that he would be a them. We have made arrangements COMMON SCHOOL, NORMAL, good goods, right prices, and can useful interpreter, and that the Rally, girls! The Grandduke of “ The Pacific was safely reached with the publishers o f the A M E R HIGH SCHOOL, ACADEMIC, serve you well. You don’t expoct Bird-Woman, too, might be of some before winter set in, and the journals Hesse, after visiting England, will IC A N F A R M E R by which we are anymore, but you want that rauoh, service when they readied the moun record the wonder of the squaw be make a tonr of America in an ef able to offer this great farm paper COMMERCIAL, MUSIC, don’t you. tains from which she had come. fore the great ocean, and the mighty fort to forget his domestic griefs. and erald for the prioe of A reasonable reduction will be made to students desinng to take erald alone— $1.50, for the a mixed Course. To be brief, try us and our goods, When the party started westward whale which its waters had cast He was divorced from his wife 30 W ho will be the and our way of treating you, and if in the spring of 1805, these two upon the beach. With the tribes about two years ago. Special inducements will be given to a limited number of teeohers of included— the degenerate near the coast there might have been you liko us try us again. We want were Lily Langtry had a great “ ova first to bearing Certificates and taking the Normal Course. Frenchman, and his poor little slave, much barter; but Lewis and Clark tion” by the cow-boys at a town in your businoss. Enough said. furraera Circulars with full Courses of Study issued soon. F or further wife, who, although she carried bad now quite exhausted their stock Texas named after her. With vo for Fish Bros ----- «- « ■ - strapped to her papoose, born so o f merchandise; there could be do ciferous enthusiasm they piesented particulars call on or address The Southern Oregon State Nor lately as the preceding February, more trading unless they fairly strip, her with a revolver, a haltered bear Coes B a y A Œï. I û Æ ü X/KTETX", S-U-porlrLton-clorLt. mal School begins this year’s work had no choice but to follow her ped themselves. and a tarnatula in a silver cage. Coquille, Oregon. September iGth. A large working lord. •‘ We read how Clark, to obtain a A church trust has been organ library has been added; the physi From the first, however, the Bird- fine horse, gave in exchange his woman won upon the Captains and sword; while Lewis, determined to ized in the WeBt to reduce the num cal and chemical laboratory has C. Il\l. PATERSON. Prop. their men by mild and engaging obtain a magnificent skin of the sea- ber of ministers. If they wore few been fully equipped; a new gym Manufacturer of Marble Monuments, Hea.l- qualities; and as they worked their otter, persuaded Sacajawea to let er it is thought that their salaries nasium building is being erected, stones. Tablets, etc. would be larger. It is said that no and a large and handsome school cemetery lots enclosed with stone coping canoes up the Upper Missouri, she him buy it with her girdle of bluo or onrbing. Iron railings furnished to or showed extraordinary efficiency. beads. It is, however, with Clark body can preach in some places un huildiDg is nearing completion. COM PANY. der. Correspondence solicited from parties Though burdened with her babe, that the Indian girl seems to have less he has a card of the union. The school grounds are beautiful iving in the country or other towns who and picturesque. The health condi Branch Office, Pharmacy Building, Coquille City, Oregon. been more especially associated. At she labored with the men, with mav wish anything in my lino of business Marie Ziegler, the aclreBs, who tions are of the best; the social en M irsh fiutp - O b b o paddle and tow-rope, and soon ren Christmas time her present to him was shot and nearly killed by Arch vironment is pure and stimulating; T o t u e “U ri.iorru.rLsite dered an important service. A can is two dozen tails of the white weasel; duchess Elizabeth, when she found the course of study has been oe loaded with the most valuable and at a time of distress, when starv her with her husband, is on the strengthened and made more prac belonging of the expedition, the ation seems near, it is pathetic tb road to recovery, but she re tical. The faculty has been in Art purely co-operative in every respect and the Company will spare Gibbon journals of the Captains, their scien read how, with almost too great high fuses to say a word. Perhaps she creased in number and the school neither time nor money -n teaching the people at large the This old reliable and tific instruments, and thier medi loyalty to her captain, Bhe gives him eannot think of anything to say. most successful spec is now equipped to do work of the great and inestimable benefits which come to each and every the piece of bread which somehow cines, was caught in a rapid by a ia lis t in San Frarcis- A woman teacher, Mrs. J. L. Van highest order. This school belongs member of its system. 7 co, still continues to squall, and on the point of being she had reserved for a long time, It desires [ cure all Sexue! and overturned. Chabonneau, who with intending it in case o f extreamity de Water, has been dismissed from to Southern Oregon. Seminal Diseases, the public schools of New York be and merits the patronage o f the Isuch as Gonorrhes- Sacajawea, was ou board, bad the for her baby. JO lee t, 8 tr i c tn re, steering oar, and struck with fear cause she committed matrimony. people o f this great section. For “ As the expedition worked its way ■ Syphilis, in all it. The vote of the Board of Education catalogue address, went ‘howling to his Gods.’ The back again in 1806, the friends made ■ forms, Skin Diseases. B e n j a m i n F M u l k e y , President, She bad been i N e r v o n s Debility, boat filled to the gunwale and was through Sacajawea remained faith was unanimous. Impotency, Seminal Weakness and Loss of saved from an ovorturn only at the Ashland, Oregon. peculiarly successful in her profes ful. Though in part the mad had Manhood, the consequence Qf self-abuse and excesses producing the following .sympa last moment, her precious cargo been onoe traveled, to some extent sion. W a n t e d . — Liyo agents to sell Dr. toms: Sallow countenance, dark spots un floating out upon the stream. But the party struck into new paths, snd der the eyes, pain in the head, rinp'ng in Alfred Austin, poet laureate of White’s Electric Combs, patented the Bird-woman, with her wits all in the mountains sometimes felt the ears, loss of oonfldeuce, diffidence, in approaching strangers, palpatation of the at hand, saved not only herself and themselves to beutterly loet. When England, complains in his latest ef Jan 1,’99. Cure dandruff, hair fall fort of “ the self-same stars in the ing out sick and nervous headaches, heart, weakness o f the limbs and back, loss baby, but grasping right and left at all were in doubt and tne wilder self-same sky.” of memory, pimples on the face, conghs- It ia difficult to yet costs no more than an ordinary the escaping packages rescued what ness seemed likely to swallow them, oonsumotion etc. please some people. Wasn’t it comb. Sells on sight. Agents 3yra.reTufl.oldL, Ore. DR. GIBBON has practised in San Fran was indispensable. It was the first then the strange capability of Saca oisoo over 32yearsan J those troubled should conspicuous exhibition of her pres jawea proved their salvation. As a Carlyle who objected to the stars? are wild with success. 8end50 eta not fail to oonsalt him and receive the ben He said they bothered you so with for sample (half prioe). Write efit of his great skill and experience. The ence of miod and handiness, which little child she had come with her their twinkling. Agents for leading makes of nick. The Dr. White Electrio qui doctor cures when others fail. Trv him. later were constantly shown. people through this desert, and now, C o mb Co., Decatar, III. CURES GUARANTEED Persons cured Since Japan went to war with As the summer waned the party with the keen sight of the migrating at home. Charges reasonable. Call or approached the Gates of the Moun bird which directs its course by land China and brought that empire to r b n i n h r r l n l n * * B to m a e k a m t ( .I v o r vrite. DR. J. F. GIBBON, 62A K eener street. Stu Francisco tains, where the canoes must be for marks not noticeable by ordinary its knees, Bhe has felt strong T a b l e t * . t)ue<|HHlle<l l o r C o a s l a p a - (■ on . saken, and the horses obtained with sight, again and again she pointed enough to enforce her demands VA -'■V . promptly obtain f . 8. an»l Foreign Mr. A It Rime, a prominent which if would be possible to cross out the path. So it was that in everywhere. This is what renders We boy for Cash from Manufactures and therefore oan the divide to the head springs of the the summer the expedition came the relation between Japan and druggist of Baxter Springs, Kansas, sell yon at bottom prices. We also carry a fall line o f Columbia. Thus far since leaving again to the minnetaree villages, Russia so serious. Japan seems says: "Chamberlain's Stomach and the Mandans, there had been n inner , having accomplished an immortal likely to drift into war, in spite of Liver Tablets are, in ray judgment, sight nor sound of man; nor as (be achievement. Nothing remained for (he cautions and conservative at the most superior preparation of or p hoto of Invention mountain* rone before them was them but a short and easy course titude of her government. Every anything in use today for constipa for* port on patenta ml llty. For free book there a trace of human beings ex downstream to St. Louis and civiliz preparation is being made for the tion. They are sure in action and ;i#T to Saturo1 wrtti to And everything elae in the mnsio line. Here Chabonneau decided struggle which may begin at any with no tendency to nauseate or cept in camp* deserted months be ation. fore. The Captains ranged far ahead to take up again his abode, at the moment Japan can put 450,000 gripe. For sale by. R. 8- Knowlton. ” --- - n'ttvdr me-’ ; b it fhvi _»h at l i t «•v>t n V r o he enlisted; snd here men into the field,— Russia, twice T o t 'n r r a < »l<l In O n e D a y . g itii|i«c* w*ie ....L.in -1 of inJintiA ■ tn • !, too, .Sacajawea under the or three times as many. Russia I O O- F HALL at a list nice, tie sc nt onm hurried tin .1! of Iter lord atld master. The may delay the outbreak fur some Take 1 0 ix.ltire Rromo Quinine Tsbl.it*. | ' a way, avoiding all contact Caution, student of Lewis snd Clark reads weeks until her preparations are All di-nagt*!« refund the iminay If 1* fells to . on re. H. W. (»ru*e'a *tRii"«"re •" "rt each I 1 for th o s e mountain tribes, in fact, with a p m u lUst whi’ * Chabojineen immolate be*. Me. ' i W o Give Real Estate Business EJ P. E. Drone, Butcher, Cash Paid fr Hides in any Quantity MILLINERY U 1904 IV Ir s . C . M o o n 1903 Qoos Q ounty A cademy 1904 SEASON the H the H next days. take advantage this op portunity? This is a great offer our and dairymen. anil Stone Works CALIFORNIA CO-OPERATIVE MEDICAL Their Methds Chas. Grissen Music Co. Pianos and Organs in* PATENTS ither Violins, Guitars, Banjos, Strings CHAS. GRISSEN M USIC CO.