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SEMI - WEEKLY V "cÔQÜÎLLE, COOS COUNTY, OREGON, OCTOBER 21, 1904. 22: No. 30 ol . HERALD. MOTH A N D C O U H D H T . Enteradas second-clan matter July 8, Coo* Bay W ould Do Mora pay 12 cents for it, and there is de annex the Gray’s Harbor country 1904, at the poatoffice *t Coquille, Ore mand for all that ia made. by a steamship line. Lord Brassey in a recent address gon, ander act of Congress of March 3, Busina** W ith Portland. 187». IF NOT BY RAIL, THEN UV WATER. The market quotations for cheese before the Manchester, England, W alter Culin, M. D. P h y s ic ia n a n d S cr oeo n C o q u il l k C i t y , O re . Kronenborg Bldg. Telephone 3. Next Door to P. O. Stanley & Burns, Attorneys-« t-Law, Resi Estate, Collection«. Specialties—Criminal and IT. B. Land Caaes, Notaries Publio. O o q u il l s , - - ■ Omaoo«. T i Geo. Russell, M. D„ P h ysicia n and B ubobon , Office upstairs in MABTIN BUILDING Calls promptly answered day or night. Night call will be answered from sire. Wickham’ s Boarding House. Phone, main 136. Coquille, : : : Oregon. A. J. Sherwood, A t t o b n s t a i - L aw , N o t a i t P u b l ic , Coquille, J : : Oregon 1 ---------------------------- 1 — Walter Sinclair, A t t o r n e y - a t - L a w , N o t a s i P u b l ic , Coquille, : : Oregon. ! i Hacher, /. A b st ra cte r o f T it l e s . O o q u il l k C i t y , O b b Hall & Hall, A t to b n k ts - a t - L a w , D ealer in of R k » l E st â t « a ll kinds. Marshfield, Oregon. I IN NERD J. Curtis Snoojfa D. D. S. D b n t is t , Offloe two doors south Odd Fellow’ s Hall Will make Bandon a professional visit the first Monday in esoh quarter. Coquille, Oregon. E. D. Sperry. W . C. Chase. SPERRY & CHASE, Attorneys- at-Law. Offloe in Robinson linilding, Coquille, I Coquille, Or., O ct 14.—President Topping, of the Bandon Board of Trade, aeid to the writer the other day: “I can buy goods cheaper in Portland than I can in San Fran cisco, but Portland will not buy from ua.” A traveling man from one of the largest hardware houses in Port land remarked with great earnest ness at the hotel the other evening: “ I have talked to the people of Portland till I have been nearly black and blue in the face and they will not believe there is such a country down here.” There are many things that Port land could buy from Coos Bay to tbsir mutual advantage. Shipload after shipload of the finest kind of white cedar, the famed Port Or- ford codar, goes to San Francisco as matchwood. Why should not tbosa matches be made in Portland? This famous dairy country has to ship in some bay from California and pays a handsome price. Why should not that hay be grown by the farmers of the Willamette valley? The distance by water from Port land is 100 miles less than to Han Fraucisco and the freight should be less. Coos bay lumber is shipped to Chicago to be manufactured in to furniture. Why should not all this lumber go by the way of Port land? And, above all, why should not Portl: 1 burn Coos bay coal? Beaver Hill has become celebrated as producing the finest domestic coal on the Pacific coast. It leaves no soot, no ash, no dirt, and is as clean about the bouse as anthraoite. The Portland hotel burns Beaver Hill coal. If Portland would use Coos bay coal that alone would keep a line of steamers busy, and in re turn Coos bay would buy goods from Portland merchants. - - - Oregon. ■■ r---------------------- -----1---------- E. G. D. Holden, L aw tnb , City Keoorder, U. 8. Commissioner, Gen eral Insurance Agent, and Notary Publio. Offloe in Robin son Building. Coquille, Oregon. A. F. Kirshman, D k n t ist . Offloe at Residence, one blook east of Tattle Hotel. Coquille . - • Oregon. COQUILLE RIVER STEAMBOAT CO. S tr. O IS P A T T C H Tom White, Maeter, leaves I Arrives Bandon ......... 7 a - m . | Coquille ------ 10 a - m . Coquille....... 1 r-M. | Bandon . . . . 4 p - m . Connect« at Coquille with train for Marshfield and steamer TCdio for Myrtle Point. S tr. F A V O R IT E J. C. Mooinaw. Master, Leaves I Arrives Coquille....... 7 A-M. | Bandon. .10:45 A-M. Bandon ...........1 r-M. I Coquille. 4:45 r-M. S tr. R E T A Alva Isee, Maeter, Î .eaves I Arrives Coquille ........ 1 P-M. Bandon . . . . 5 r-M. Bandon....... 7 A-M. | Coquille... .11 A-M. Carrying passengers and mail. Coquille River Transportation Co. S tr. L IB E R T Y W . R. Pan ter, Master. Leaves I Arrives Bandon. . . . . . 7 A-M. | Coquille.. .*. 10 A-M. Coquille.......1 P-M. | Bandon . . . 4 p m . Makes connection with train at i 'oquille and up-river boats. T. W. PAN TBR, Managing Owner. S tr. E C H O T. W. MrCloskey. Master, Leave« j Arrive« Myrtle Point .7 A M. | Coquille C*y i>:30 a - m . r.quBle C ity .. .1 M . ) Myrtle P i . .4 4 » r-M Hgily eTee|»t Sunday or ADVERTISING. In the past Ceos bay has hardly made itself known, but the partTbe Oregonian is taking in helping to advertise its resources is greatly ap preciated in this section. President Matson, of the Marshfield chamber of commerce, said to the writer the other day: “ This part of Oregon is fifty years behind the times. We have done what we could to advertise the country. When the people do learn about it and it starts to grow it will go all at once.” It is population that is needed here, and the inaccessibility has kept people out. President Kerr, of the Coquille board of trade, remarked the day of the Woodmen celebra tion: “ We need more people. I have seen it hotter in summer and colder in winter in Southern California— Los Angeles, Riverside—than I have seen it here in seven years. When people know our delightful climate they will come here to live.” EXPORT TRADE OF TWO MILLIONS. This is all well enough for the future, but has Portland always been mindful of her owO interests in the past? Has she always done what she could to make the Coos Bay country known for the good of Oregon? The export trade from Coos Bay foota up to about $2,000,- 000 a year. Portland, with ten times the population, has a foreign commerce of only $12,000,000. Would it not be a consi Jerable advantage to Portland to divide the Coos Bay trade with San Francisco? The people of Coos County are all Oregonians, loyal to the state poli tically and commercially, and it is a mistake to say that Cooe County be longs to Oregon only in name. That may be true of the past, but it is not the natural order of things. However, tbe feeling of the people here toward Portland is one of deep injury. One case in point will suf fice. At the State Fair for the years 1901 and 1902 a Coos County cream ery took first prizs for chsddar cream cheese over all the rest of the state. Some time after this a ship ment of four twins from this same creamery to a Portland commis sion house brought 8 cents a pound and the shipper paid the freight. The people here buy this same cheesy at the creamery end in Portland at that thine was 9 end 9$ oents. But 8 cents a pound was not so bad, to introduce a new cheese to tbs Portland market, a cheese finer than Portland people were used to. It remained for the following letter from this commis sion house to add insult to injury: INSULT ADDED TO INJURY. “The I * Grande Creamery in forms us that you quoted them cheeae similar to that you shipped ua at 4o per lb. If you bare any of these cheese and oan ship them to ns at this price please send us 15 cases.” This lette is dated September 23 last, and the firm can easily turn to Stenographer B’s notes and see that it is quoted correotly. Of course, this was a little joke on the part of the creamery, which also has cheese to sell, but it failed of appreciation down here. This attempt to advertise Coos Bay cheese in Portland was voted a failure. This same creamery also runs a grocery store and bought all its groceries in Portland. It now buys them in San Francisco. When San Francisco Bends in an order for Coos Bay cheese it does not quote market prices, but asks, “ How much will you take for your cheese?” when the order iB returned not filled. Yes, after all, Coos county belongs to Oregon only in name, and seems to be getting farther away every day. San Francisco also likes Coos Bay l utter. But the connoisseurs of the Golden Gate, who must have the best of everything, would look askance if the dealer offered them Coos Bay butter. Eel River, in Northern California, has long been famed for fine butter. So the San Francisco commission houses send up Eel River labels to the Coos Bay creameries to be stamped on tbe Coos Bay product High-grade butter in San Francisco is all Eel River, California, but the best of it is made in Coos county, Oregon. It has been truly said that Coos Bay is an undiscovered country. Here is something for the State Improve ment Association to take hold of, tor the state s u ffe iB when Oregon products cannot be shipped abroad under their true name. REPROACHES ARR QUALIFIED. We should not reproach Portland too severely for the soeming neg lect of her opportunities. She has not always been the great city she is today, able to give a world's fair. The time was when Portland was no more than Qocs Bay, and both had about an equal start. No one helped build Portland; she built herself. Now that she has attained her eminence she can reach out and help others, but who can say just what day it was that Portland left off swaddling clothes and put on the garments of a city. Now that Portland is a city many demands are made upon her, and she would be neglectful of her own interests did she not heed them. Coos Bay is not the only port that wants a steamship line with Port land. There are other towns along the Oregon coast that could also be served by a line to Cooe Bay. Then, again, there is no steam, er line between Portland and points on the Washington coast, South Bend and Aberdeen. These are large milling settlements, and they import butter, eggs and beef. Tbe export of lumber goes to about the same ports that tbe Coos Bay and Coquille lumber goes to. Portland sells 60 per cent of the merchandise used in the Gray's Harbor and South Bend zones of trade. The cattle killed in West ern Washington settlements are shipped in on foot from Eastern Oregon. For the Hoquiam and Aberdeen markets alone 40 head of cattle per week are imported. From an agricultural standpoint that west ern Washington country never will be self-supporting. But its Umber resources cannot be exhausted m two generations. In respect to ag riculture tbe Oregon coast has the advantage over the Washington coast. But Coo* Bay need not feel neglected, while Portland fails to Tillamook, Cooe Bay, the Coquille and Curry country, in addition to their timber resources, can feed themselves end have agricultural products left f,,r export. The gold that comes iu fro:» .'oi-igii ports to pay for Coos Boy lumber can he paid out to Lome people for agri- cultuial prolucts. While Cooe Bay would not buy farm products from Portland, as would the Wash ington coast with a steamship line, yet all these agriculturists would buy Portland merchandise. If Portland cannot have railroads into this surrounding country, which is the bone of this contention, the thing for her to do is to estab lish steamship lines It was ships that made Rome great, and if Port land would maintain her independ ence she must have ships. It is true that even now San Francisco steamers going to Portland touch at Coos Bay. But the people of this section are waiting and anxious to patronize Portland when Port land opens a market for Cooe Bay produota and gives quick and reg ular, steamship service. . -------------» «»►« - - ----- — Russian* Open U. 8 . Mail*. Washington, Oct. 14.— It devel oped today that a pouch containing mail for the United States cruiser Cincinnati, then at Nagasaki, Ja pan, which was aboard the private steamer Calchas when that vessel was seized by the Russian Vladi vostok squadron, had been opened while in the possession of the Rus sian officials, subsequently resealed and sent on to its destination. This information came to the Postoffice Department in a communication from the Japanese postal adminis tration, in conformity with a prac tice always followed when there has l>Aen any mishap in the delivery of mail pouches. Tbe matter will be referred to the state department for action, as was done with the case of the ordinary United States mail on the vessel at the time she was seized. This latest phase of the seizure of the Calchas mail has caused a pain ful surprise in official circles, and if the action of opening the pouch ad dressed to the Cincinnati was wit tingly done, the probability is a second protest will be lodged with the Russian government. It is said at the Navy Department that the mail pouch referred to did not contain any official communica tions, simply mail for the men aboard the ship. Killed Seal From Dock. Sig. Hanson exhibited a little first-class markmanship yesterday on the woolen mill wharf when he shot a big seal out in the bay. Mr. nanRon noticed the big fellow swim, ming around in the water and thought he would try his skill as a marksman on him. He shot the senl through the eye and then went out in a boat and towed him in. He was a big fellow and attracted considerable attention ou tbe part of passers by. These seals are a nuisance in the bay and if Mr. Han. son could spare the time he would be doing the fishermen a favor if he could kill many more. They eat the fish and get in tbe fishermen’a nets and often when the men are ex tricating the fish from the nets, the seals bite them and often get nway with some of them.— Post chamber of commerce said that he had come to the conclusion that “ well-paid workers fully earned their high wages.” The president of Ann Arbor uni versity, who has 3,000 students un der his observation, has come to the conclusion that their morals average better than among the same num ber of young people who are pot iq college. Mexico has a tree known as the needle-and-thre*d tree, the Maguey. At the tip of each dark green leaf is a slender thorn needle that must be carefully drawn from its sheath. As tbis is done the thread, a strong smooth fiber attached to the needle and capable of being drawn out to a great length slowly unwinds itself. Secretary Hay paid a great com pliment to the city of Boston when he said no place could be more suit able for the meeting of the parlia ment of peace than that high hearted city, which had been for nearly 300 yeara the birth plaoe and the home of every idea of progress and enlightenment which has germ inated in this western world. U P TO DKTE, ROYAL LIQUORS, ROYAL FITTINGS, ROYAL TREATMENT. BAXTER BROS. PROPS. NEW, RAMBLERS It is proposed to introduce into TRIBUNES LATEST Denmark tbe whipping post for AND AND thugs. Several might be erected in San Francisco and used to advant MITCHELLS Best Wheels Out age. for according to Gen. Greene and the press of that city, the town Rare Bargains In Second-Hand Wheels. Wheels to Rent. is infested with thugs. Not long Repairing Done on Short Notice. since one of these detestable creat ures murdered a young Washing ton lawyer while on his way to Man East End ot Front St. - COQUILLE, OREGON ila ALBERT FISH, L. H. HAZARD, Ctshler R. E. SHINE, Vies Free. Until recently there was a Punch A. J. SHERWOOD, Pres. Bowl club in London, just off of Oxford street, but it has come to the auctioneer’s hammer. The big O P C O Ç U I lt U B , O R B O O p . beams which ran across underneath the roof were hung with trophies T r a n s a c ts m G e n e ra l B a n k in g B u s in e s s from every land — knobkerriee, sowshoes, lariats, sjamboks, skulls, Board of Directors. Corrssfoadeeto. head-dresses, Boer flags, and not A . J. Sherwood, National Bank of Commerce. New York City the least interesting of all a copy of R. O. Dement, J,, Harlocker, I„ H. Hazard, | Crocker Wool worth N ’l Bank, San Francisco the much-talked-of American “ big Isaiah Hacker, K. E. Shine. Flrat Nat’l Bank of Portland, Portland, Or. stick." F IR S T N A T IO N A L B A N K The steamboat company of New York which owned the Slocum says “the charge that there were a num ber of life preservers on the Slocum unfit for use does not constitute a crime." There is a great deal of diabolical roguery now-a-days which is not criminal according to law, but it is high time this, and similar charges, shall constitute crimes. Let us hope the next congress will define these new crimes and fix a heavy penalty. The municipalisation of British tramways is making steady progress. Under municipal ownerahip and central management it is thought the trolly system of England will be enormously increased. With a cheap and expeditious means of conveyance between producer and consumer the English people expect that much of the food stuff now o>- tained from abroad may be replaced by that produced at home. FOX BROS. GENERAL DRAYING. COQUILLE, OREGON. Meets all Boats and Trains. Goods Handled with Care and Dispatch. A G E N T FOR RIVERTO N OOAL. C o q u il l e Steam Laundry PHONE 116 NOSLER & LYO NS PRO PRIETORS B C St O f W O rK The further the Archbishop of Experienced help Reasonable Rates Canterbury goes in this country and Special Rates to Families and Hotels tbe more be sees the more aston ished he becomes. Speaking a few days since to an audience of 1,000 We make our own soap and know its ingredients. No injurious chemicals used. Our basket! will be left at all tbe principal points on the river. young ladies at the Wadleigh High Goods called for and delivered in Coquille City. school in New York city, he said; “ My most earnest desire is to un derstand rightly what is being done in the United States.” He added that it w a r tbe first opportunity he had ever had of being preseut at Prevent Theater Fire*. IN QUANTITIES ■ueb a school, and be hoped to SW EET CREAM Chicago, Oct. 17.---As a precau make it bear fruit in other lands TO SUIT MILK AND tion against disastrous fires, auto, than thii. matic alarm lines running direct to A result of the elevation of the the fire department are being in fighting man to tbe foremost officers stalled in Chicago theaters. The toward both savilians and the un wires are connected with the sprink fortunate enlisted men subjected to their tyrannv. More than a thou ler systems, and when the atmos sand specifications of cruelty phere becomes heated beyond a cer brought against one army officer in tain degree the alarm is turned in December last and 1,520 against a sergeant, are reckoned ordinary automatically. T H E Thirty.six registers, controlling cases, and luckless privates are known to hare been tortured to as many theater*, are being added death by these scions of a “ superior Who tied the cow's tail to bis leg in the proeeas ot milk to the fire alarm instruments now class.” ing; aaid she had not dragged him over two miles before Punishment of such of. be realized he had made a mistake. in the service of the city. As soon fenders is either dispensed with or as a blaze starts, the alarm ring* in rendered farcical by its leniency. H o E a r t l i e r at tbe city halL Without waiting : The whole remembers the brutal murder of a civilian schoolmate who for further notice, tbe nearest en too familiarly saluted a youpg naval Must you be dragged before you reali/fi yon are making a gine company fo the fire is sent to subaltern, and how the emperor mistake in not using Electric flights. condoned it. the scene Dairy Produce ÌCÈ c°<iuille Ice & Cold-Storage Co. -S S L