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About Semi-weekly herald. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1904-1905 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 26, 1904)
Semi'WeeHly Kerald F R ID A Y AUG., 26 1904. Cooe County Mines. The mining industry in the vi cinity o f Salmon Mountain and on South Sixes river, just across the line into Curry county, has more than trebled during the last year, and it must be admitted that the hunt for, and the extracting of the precious metals ftom that mining belt has assumed an importance second to none in this section. It has been known for years that Sal mon Mountain was a rich propo sition. This has been exemplified when from four to twenty-eight hundred were cleaned up from the sluice boxes after a ten-days’ run at various times. That property has been bonded and movements are in progress to put water upon the mine for placer mining and to plant proper machinery thereon to extract gold from the many strata of quartz that have been uncovered, some of which have assayed up into the hundreds ol dollars to the ton. The mines on the beach was the first incentive to settlers along this coast a half century ago and since then slow but sure develop ments have taken place, and now eastern capital is coming to the front and large and expensive develop ments may be looked for in the near future, in fact, a Philadelphia com pany have already commenced on a large scale to extract pay from the Divilbiss group including the prop erty known as the Big Joe and Little Mery and other claims formerly worked by the Myrtle Point Min ing Co. A tramway for a car is being built along the group, thus enabling the eompany to select ore from the best claims. They have a five-stamp mill in fine running order and good results may soon be looked for. Mr. W hitney, o f South Sixes, has a large crew at work on “ a sure prospect” for the Phila delphia company. The Salmon Mountain Coarse Gold Mining company have had men at work this summer preparing for extensive improvements. They, too, have been aided by eastern capital, so the people of Coos and our sister county may well be congratulated for having such bright prospects before them. Woodruff, Woodford and Ormsby have lately sunk a shaft on the old Bray claim east ot Salmon Moun tain aDd found rich decomposed quartz that yield as high as one dollar to the pan when pulverized. This vein is widening out as they go down, and they have oniy gone down 14 feet. Mr. Ormsby is an assayet by profession, and has quite an elaborate laboratory at his camp, and he estimates that it will yield about $100 to the ton. Joe Kennedy has also made an excellent find while extending a tunnel in an old abandoned claim on the north bank o f Johnson creek. Ira Buzan has a promising quartz claim that shows good ore all along on both sides of a long tunnel he has run on the divide between Sucket creek and Poverty gulch, beside he has an interest in the Nugget Patch, claims that have turned out a large amount or nuggets and amalgam, and a very promising placer claim near the Flanagan Bar. Salmon Mountain is yielding rich ore at the west end and the secre tary o f the Coarse Gold Mining Co. has uncovered at the upper end of the cut in that famous mine a quartz vein that is believed to be the feeder to the placer mine and it ts hoped that it is the same ledge that the Dunbar boulder o f $2700 came from, so we see that there is much more activity in mining and with better results than have been attained for manv years, and we believe there is more interest and stronger hopes fot success than have been since the famous discovery by Mr. Dunbar. Steamer Notes. 8TKAMER ELIZABETH. Arrived August 18th; sailed August 20th. Incoming passen gers; Misses Sadie and Florinda Fahy, Ellis McCormack, W L K el ly, Mrs Pears, 50 tons mdse. Out going passengers: Thos Kelly, M .1 Leonard, A Perahbaker. E J Price, 8 W Fahy, Mrs L Stottles, Miss Hilda Erickson, Mrs J W Hall, Erma Hall, Mattie Hall, Mrs A C Curtis. 250 M lumber, 55 cords matchwood, 25 tons plunder. STEAMER CHICO. Arrived August 20th; sailed 22rd Outgoing passengers: John Black, lock, 8 M Rice 250 M lumber, 61 head cattle shipped by R C De- ent. Money in Orowing Apples. ItO TIC B FOR P U B L IC H T IO R . D b p a s t m b h i or t u Isrssios. United States Lend Office. Mr. E. L. Jewett, of Hunt, Hatch Hose liars, Oregon. Jolt 7, l'JOt. A Co., (wholesale commission mer Notloe is hereby given that in omupli chants) of San Francisco, has been ; «no* with the provi.’iinV’of'tho ¿ot of Con gress of Jane 3. 1878, entilleJ "A n aot for in Coos county for several days. the aale of tauber lande iu tbe States of California, Oregon. Nevada, and Washing- looking for good shipping app’ es. ton Territory.” ae extended to all Foblio In talking over the Situation with band States by aot of;Aog. «, 18 8 2 , Charles . ,, T B. Bradbnry.of MarthSefd.ooonty of Coos, our reporter, Mr. Jewett says: u..._ Btate o f Oregon, has filed in this office bis statement No. 2081. for the parohase ‘‘Coos county has an ideal soil and sworn of Lots 2 ,8W)^ NEJi. HKV* of sec climate for some of tbe leading tion No. 4 in township No. 27 sooth, Range No. 12 West and will offer proof to show varieties of apples, and if the farm that the land sought is more valuable for its timber or atone than for agi agricultural ____ for ers will wake up, get their old or >orpo«ee, it and to establish his claim to said ana bofej before W. U. Douglas, gla U. h. Commis- chards in good condition and set sioner at his offioe at Marshfield. Oregon, out new orchards of good varieties, on Batarday, the 1st day of October, 1804, He names as witnesxeR: Hiram King, they will soon be making more Harry 0. Noble, Oora Noble and Lymnn E. Noble, all of Marshfield, Oregon, money per acre of apples than by Any sod all persons olniming adversely the above-described lands are reqnested to any other line of farming they can Ale their claims in this offioe on or before take up. A ll of the old trees of laid 1st day of October. 1804. J. T R b id o is , Register. poor varieties should be grafted ov er to Gruvensteins or K ing of Tom N O TIC E FOR P U B L IC A T IO N - kins County next winter or spring, D epartment or the I nterior , Land Office at Rosehurg, Oregon, (pear trees can be turned into ap Roseburg, Ore., June 13, 1904. ples in tbe same way.) W ith the Notice is hereby given that in com above two as your leading varieties pliance with the provisions of the act of Congress of June 3, 1878, entitled “ An you can depend on getting about act for the sale of timber lands in the 1 cent per pound, delivered at the states of California, Oregon, Nevada, and Washington Territory,” as extended packing house year after year. to all the public land States by act of These would be packed and shipped August 4, 1892, Beniamin Gotter, of Roseburg, co nty of Douglas, state of to the San Francisco and other Oregon, has this day filed in this office markets and find ready sale at good his sworn statement No. 6227 for the purchase of the NEJ^ of section No. 30 prices. in township No. 26 south, range No. 10 California Gravensteins are usual west, and will offer proof to show that the land sought is more valuable tor its ly out of the way by the 15th of timber or atone than for agricultural August, and we have no other good purposes and to establish his claim to said land before the Register and Re apple to come in between that and ceiver of this office at Roseburg, Oregon on Friday, the 9th day of September, the 10th or 15th o f September, when 1904. He names as witnesses: W. L. our Bellflowers are ready, Cobb, J. W. Porterfield, Jacob Rogers, “ Coos county Gravensteins and and Thos. Cobb, each and all of Rose burg, Oregon. Kings will fill this gap Dicely, and Any and all persons claiming adverse 40,000 boxes per year can be taken ly the above-decribed lands are request ed to file their claims in this office on or care of without having to reduce before said 9th day of September, 1904. 6-24 J. T. B rid ges , Register. prices in the least. One old grafted tree (three year old graft) or new N O rC E OF P E T IT IO N FOR LOGGING tree eight years old will produce HOAD. 300 pounds of apples; 90 to 100 Stale of Oregon, trees to an acre would mean net Coanty o f Coos, a , }' $250 to $300 per acre each year. In the Coanty Court of Coos Coanty. In the matter of the Application of M. C. “ Can you do better?” Bingham to Establish a Logging Road Mr. Jewett has arranged for W. inCoos Coanty. To John Notley, D. F. Doan, W. W. Gage, T. Kerr & Co., to establish a pack and to any and all persons having or claiming any interest in any o f the lands ing house in Coquille City, and the through which the Road hereinafter de latter will soon be ready for all the scribed is proposed to be located: Yon will please take notice that M. C. apples that come to him and pay Bingham has this day hied a petition and map in the county court providing the loca spot cash for them. f Death of Mrs. Frank Kelly. Mrs. Frank K elly passed away at her home at North Bend on Satur day, August 20, 1904, at 10:30 p, m. The funeral took x>lace August 23rd at 2 p. in., under the auspices of camp 164, Women of Woodcraft, of Marshfield, of which she was an honored member. The remains were interred in the I. O. O. F. cemetery at that place. Deceased was born in Mendicino county, California, August 12, 1882. She leaves besides a husband, a mother, oDe brother, and seven sisters, Mrs. J. G. Blake, William Hamby, Miss es Retta, Leanua, Perley and Ruby Hamby of Bay View, Washington; Mrs, A. McCue, Mrs. J. McCue and Mrs. J. A. Russell, of Parkersburg, Oregon. ...... .— ■-»<•»■« — - . C ard O f Thanks. I take this occasion to express my sincere thanks and appreciation to the neighbois aDd friends for their many acts of kindness ren dered luriDg the late illness aDd deAtb o f my beloved companion, tion o f a right o f way for a logging road through lands now in yoar jjossession in section six, townsnip twenty-eight south of range twelve west of the Willamette meri dian, in said coanty, and said application will come on to be heard before said court at the nexl regular September, 1904, term thereof, on Thursday, the seoond day of said term, being the 8th day o f Septem ber, 1904, at ten o’clock in the forenoon of sa’ d day. thereon for the appointment of viewers to locate said road in said county, in which court will be held, at which time you are required to be and appear before said court and file your claim for any dam ages that you raav oonsider you will sus tain in case skid right o f way is located as by said map shown and in said petition prayed; and further, yon do then show oanse. if any von have, why said right of way should not be located as by said map shown and projected. The point o f commencement, the place o f termination and the lands through which said proposed road is songht to be located are as follows: Beginning at the oenter of the east end o f First street in Notley’s addition to the town of Coquille City (now City of Coquille) Coos county, state of Oregon, and running thence in an earterlv direction across lands owned by John Notley, being a portion o f the south half o f the northwest quarter and the northeast quarter o f the southwest quar ter of section six in township twenty-eight south of range twelve west o f the Willam ette meridian, in said county and stale, bearing slightly sonthward and running along the north side of the canyon about sixty rods to where said canyon divide^, thence following the south branch of said canyon along the north side thereof in a southeasterly direction to the east line of the land of the said John Notley. Witness my hand and the seal o f the said Court o f Coos county this 19th day o f July. 1904. JAMES WATSON, (Seal.) Clerk. Notice to Taxpayers. N O T IC E IS H E R E B Y G IV E N T H A T the Board ot Equalization Cream for the County of Coos state o f Ore T hos . H e a t o n . W hite Mountain Ice Freezers. Tripple Motion. T. H. M ehl A C c gon will attend at the office of the F ly Bouncer is the best to keep county clerk of said county, at Co the flies from tbe cows. Knowl- quille, Coos County, Oregon, on ton’s drug store has it. the 29 th. day o f August, A . D., N ew goods at the New Drug 1904 the same being the last Mon Store- day in said month, at the hour of »«■ » • nine o’clock a, m. o f said day and NOTICE. pubicly examine the assessment TO WHOM IT M AT CONCERN— rolls and correct all errors in valua Relative to the opening oi “ B” street, tion descriptions o f quality o f lands, between Second and Watkins streets, lots or other property. Nosler’s addition, City of Coquille, Ore gon: N ow , therefore, all persons hav Notice is hereby given ot tbe inten ing business as "before the said tion ol the Common Council ol Coquille, Board o f Equalization w ill take aforesaid, to open a street through the notice and appear at the time and property ot B. C. Agee as aliove describ ed ; that a survey of said street lias been place aforesaid, and make due com made and viewers appointed to assess plaint, otherwise the assessment the damages ami lienetitsireeiilting there will stand as returned by the assess from ; and that said viewers have tiled or. their report in the office of the City Re Witnesses my hand this 31 day of corder. T. J. T h r if t , These are, therefore, to notify all per July. sons interested in the opening of said Assessor Coos County, Oregon. street, that said Common Council will, at their next regular meeting, Sept. 5th, 1904, at eight o’clock p. m, hear and de termine all objections which may lie made to said report, as to the assess ment of damages and benefits, ns made Any person cutting Timber or by said viewers. Bark o f any description on the The district embraced in said viewers’ lands of the Southern Oregon Com report is laid along tmth sides of said pany, or removing same, or other ” B " street, from First street, tietween property, from said lands, without Elliott’s and Noaler’s additions to said being duly authorized in writing, city, north five and one-half block* will be Prosecuted according to (more or less: to the north end of said Law. “ B " street, the said assessments being R E W A R D laid on each 50 feet fronting or abutting Any person furnishing sufficient upon said “ B” .«treet, east and west. By order of the Common Council of evidence for the recovery of pioper- ty so taken and conviction of the the city of Coquille, Oregon. parties concerned, will b** given E. O. D. HOLDEN, Dated at Co.|nille, Ore-) City Recorder. ! one-balf of the property recovered. SornirnK O kilook C oup ant . gon, August 10, 1904. /Notice, W T KERR & CO. Notice to Creditors, Notioe is hereby given that the under signed has been duly appointed adminis trator of the Estate of Mary A. Vowel 1, deceased, aud that all persons having i claims against said estate are hereb* re quired to present them, duly verified, to 1 the undersigned, at the office of A. J. Mher* I wood in the Oity of Coquille, Coos oounty, Oregon, within six months from the date hereof, Dated this 13th day of July. 1904. W. W. Gaos. Administrator of the Estate of Mary A. Vowell, deceased. NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION. United States Land Office, Roseburg, Or., June 20, 1904. Notice is hereby given that in compli ance with the provisions of the aot o f Con gress of June 3, 1878. entitled “ An aot for the sale of timber lands in the States of California, Oregon, Nevada aud Washing ton Territory,” as extended to all the Pub lie Land States by aot of August, 4 ,18&2, LE W IS E. BROWN, O f Riverton, oonnty o f Coos, State o f Or egon, has this day filed in this office his sworn statement No. 6247, for the parohase o f the 8. H o f N W .X a n d «. W of NE. * o f Section No. 8 in Townsnip No. 28, S. Range No. 11 West, and will offer proof to show that the land sought is more valuable for its timber or stone than for agrioultnral purposes, and to establish his olaim to said land before James Watson, Coanty Clerk o f Coosooanty, Oregon, at the office of oounty clerk of Coos oounty, Oregon, at Coquille, Oregon, on Saturday, the 17th day or Sep tember, 1904. He names as witnesses: Wm. Myers, Claud Waters, Clarence Waters and Ar thur Brown, all of Lee, Coos coanty, Ore gon Any and all persons claiming adversely the above-described lands are reqnested to file their olaims in this offioe on or before said 17th day of September. 1904. J. T . BRIDGES, Register. SUMMONS. IN T H E C IR C U IT COURT OF T H E S TA TE OF OREGON IN AND FOR TH E COUNTY OF COOS. William Snyder. Plaintiff iff. j Sait in Equity for a Julia Snyder, | Divoroe. Defendant. | To Julia Snyder, the above-named defend ant: In the Name of the State o f Oregon; You are hereby required to appear and answer tbe complaint filed against you in the above entitled suit within six weeks from the date of the first publication of this summons, to-wit: within six weeks from the 2nd day of August, 1904, tne same be ing the date of the first publication of this snmmons. And if you fail so to appear and answer within saia time, to-wit; on or before the 13th day of September, 1904, the same be ing the last day of the time prescribed in the order o f publication, judgment will be ta ken against yon for want thereof for the relief demanded in plaintiff's complaint, a succinct statement of which is as follows: That the marriage contract between plaint iff and defendant may be dissolved, set aside and held for nanght and that he be restored to the rights and privileges of n single person and that the custody of his two male children be given to him and for any other and further relief as the court may deem equitable and just. Service of this summons is made by pub lication in pursuance o f an order made by L . Harlooker, Coanty Judge o f Coos oounty, Oregon, dated the first day o f August, 1904, directing that service thereof be made by Has just received a complete stock of new Worsted Dress Goods, Silks and Velvets. An elegant assortment o f new Wash materials Jor early spring. Immense line o f staole ana Fancy Ginghamsf Prices 8 13- to 20 cts. per yd. Large assortment o f white and champagne colored merceri zed Oxfords fo r Waists from 20 to 90 cts. per. yd. Pcaits, in latest patterns 7 1-2 to 20cts per yd. Vo1 co, 20 yards to the Dollar. Ladies' Ready-made Summer suits and waists. New Spring Clothing for Men and Boys. Remember our Popular-price Shoe department, New and Stylish footware is arrivng Daily. Large assortment o f up-to-date Hats ju s t received, compris ing the Steadson, Crizzly and Dunlap, the best on earth We also carry a complete line of Groceries, Flour and Feed, v- Our Price are Right. Farmers, bring your produce to W . T. KERR & C O . JOB W O R K The Finest to be had in Coos County at the lowest Prices. i pe: ROBERT BURNS, Attorney for plaintiff. SUMMONS. IN TH E CIRCU IT COURT OF TH E STATE OF OREGON, IN AND FOR T H E COUNTY OF COOS. Warren C. Parker, Plaintiff, vs. Suit in Bartlett Doe, Nancy H. Kezar, Eqmty. Martha A. Swan, John F. Moore, Chas. H. Moore, Frank G. Mooie, Geo. I.Doe, Mellen L. Doe, Frank P. Doe, Chas. W. Doe, Chas. B. Gould. Ralph W. Gould, Ruth W. Sargent, Albert A. Sargent, Kath ryn Sargent, Arthnr F. Doe, Cal- viu W. Doe, Emma W, Burns, Mary Ellen Boone, Lucy 1). Hyde, Loring B. Doe, Ella F. Linooln, Mary Marguirite Doe, Laura M. Doe, Lulu K. Doe, Mary A. Kezar, San Francisco Protestant Orphan Asylum, a corporation, Pacific Hebrew Orphan Asylum, a cor poration, Roman Catholic Or phan Asylum, a corporation, The Hospital for Children and Train ing School, a corporation, The Boys and Girls Aid Society, a cor poration, Golden Gate Kinder garten Association, a corporation, The Board of Regents of the Uni versity o f Caifornia, a corporation and Body Politic, U n io n Trust Company, a corporation, and Executor, including all the heirs at law and devisees of Chas. F. Doe, deceased, and J. W. Ben- | nett Administrator Defendants.J To Bartlett Doe, Nancy H. Kezar, Martha A. Swan, John F. Moore. Chas. H . Moore, Frank G. Moore, Geo. I. Doe, Mellen L. Doe, Frank P. Doe, Chas. W. Doe, Ohas. B. Gould. Ralph W. Gould. Ruth W. Sargent, Albert A. Sargent, Kathryn Sargent, Ar thur F. Doe, Calvin W. Doe, Emma W. Barns, Mary Ellen Boone, Luoy D. Hyde, Loiing B. Doe, Ella F. Linooln, Mary Marguirite Doe, Laura M. Doe, Lulu K. Doe, Mary A. Kezar, San Franoipoo Prot esten t Orphan Asylum, a corporation, Pa cific Hebrew Orphan Asylum, a corporation, Roman Catholic Orphan Asylnra a corpo ration, The Hospital for Children and Training School, a corporation. The Boys and Girls Aid Society, a corporation. Gold en Gate Kindergarten Association, a corpo ration, Tbe Board of Regents of the Uni versity o f California, a corporation and body politic, and Union Trust Company, a corporation: In the name o f the State o f Oregon, you and each o f you are hereby notified that you are required to appear and answer the complaint filed against you in tbe above entitled snit within six weeks from the date of the first publication of this sum mons. to-wit: Within six weeks from the 26th day of Jnly, 1904. the same being the date of the first publication o f this snmmons. And if von fail to appear and answer on or before the 4th day Of September, 1904. the same being the last day of the time prescribed in the order of publication, judgment will be taken against you for want thereof for tbe relief demanded in plaintiff's complaint, a succinct statement of which is as follows: (1) That an instrument o f conveyance, to-wit: A deed from Charles F. Doe to Warren C. Parker, dated February 20,1903, and reoorded April 13. 1903. in Book 38, at page 349 o f the Record ®f Deeds for Coos County, Oregon, be reformed so that the description o f land contained therein shall read as follows: lot numbered 2, also such portions of lot numbered 3 and the 8. W. of N. B. % o f Sec. 22 as lies south and east of Bear creek. All in Tp. 28 8. of R. 14 W. o f the Willammette meridian in Coos coanty, Oregon, containing 83.7A acres of land, more or less, excepting from this sale and reserving to the pArty of the first part the tide lands along Coquille river fronting the foregoing described land. (2) For his costs and disbursements in this suit, and such other and further re lief as the noart may deem meet and equi table. Service of this snmmons is made by pub lication in pnrsnance of an order made by L. Harlocker, as County Jndge of G hmi County, Oregon, dated jn ly 23, 1904. d i recting that service thereof be made by publication thereof in the ‘ *8snn-W mbklt H rbald ,” a newspaper published ai the City of Coquille, in said Coos c >onty. once earn week for «period of six weeks A. J. SHERW OOD. Attorney for Plaintiff. B ill Heads. Briefs, Letter Heads, Posters. Leqai Blanks, Envelopes, Wedding Stationery. Statements. Up-to-date Work Delivered with Neatness and Dispatch. Satisfaction Guaranteed. C. O. DRYDEN, IN C O N N E C T IO N W I T H H E R A L D . _______ 8 Alfred Johnson, DEALER IN Flooring, Rustic and all kinds of Finishings and Mouldings Constantly on hand. Deliveries made promptly by either water or rail. £ W e have all Grades and Prices Accordingly. > : C O Q U ILLE , OREGON E T o Cure a Cold in One Day r«fcs Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablet*. ^ tycA •voa f H tom toMtapart 13 month». This signature, ^ hi Tw o Daya. I on every I m» box. 33c. J