SEMI - WEEKLY Progress of Exposition. M iss Johnson’s Short H istory.! W ill ask Taritt b e Reduced. Washington, Nov. 11.—Secretary A long-existing popular demand Portland, Oregon, Nov. 15.— Al­ Taft has decided to lay before Con­ for a brief, comprehensive history though nearly seven months still remain before the opening day, of Oregon, suitable for use in the gress at the approaching session W alter Culin, M. D. June 1, the construction work on upper grades of the public schools the project for the reduction of P h y sic ia n a n d S urgeon | the grounds and buildings of the of the state, was urgently voiced by customs duties on goods entering C o q u il l e C it y , O r e . Lewis and Clark Exposition is rapid­ some of our leading educators at the United -tates from tho Phili- K ronenborg Bldg. T elep h on e 3. ly nearing completion. Several of the annual meeting of the State pines at the present rate, which is N ext Door to P. O. the main exhibit palaces are already Teachers’ Association held in Port­ 75 per cent of the Dingley tariff T The sentiment of rates, to 25 per cent of those rates, finished and the completed state of land last June, the teachers favoriDg the introduc­ : the’ reduction to apply to sugar and the landscape gardening is exempli­ Stanley & Burns, tion iuto the schools of the study of tobacco, while all other Philippine fied in the beautiful lawns and beds Attorueys-at- Law, of blooming flowers which now Oregon history took tangible form products are to be placed on our Real Estate, Collections. Specialties—Criminal and U. S. Land This subject was dis­ at that time in the adoption of for­ free list. grace the site. Cases, Notaries Publio. cussed at great length at today’s mal resolutions setting forth the Three of the main exhibit palaces C oqu illh , - O regon . — the Agricultural building, the desirability of every pupil in the Cabinet meeting. The Secretary’s Foreign Exhibits building and the public schools of the state becom­ proposal last year was to cut the Liberal Arts building— are under ing familiar with the leading facts Dingley duties on sugar and tobac­ Geo. Russell, M. D., roof and ready to receive exhibits, of the state’s history, and more par­ co to 50 per cent of the regular P hysician and S uuobon . shipment of which will be com­ ticularly the achievement of Cap­ rates, but he argues now that, in Office upstairs in MARTIN BUILDING menced in the East December 1. tains Lewis and Clark, and respect­ view of the additional burden Calls promptly answered day or night. The Agricultural palace, the next to fully asking the state textbook com­ placed by Congress on Philippine Night call will be answered from Mrs. the largest building on the grounds, mission to select a book adapted for trade through the requirement that Wickham’ s Boarding House. Philippine goods shall be carried in which, it was stated six months ago, such study. Phone, main 136. I d this connection the lack of a American bottoms alone, it is only would l>e ready for exhibits Novem­ O oquille, : : : Oregon. ber 1st, was ready on the specified history suitable for the purpose was fair to reduce the American import date. The Forestry building, prob­ a most regretable fact, for it was duties on Philippine goods to the I ably the most interesting on the and is urgently desirable, or rather point indicated. grounds, is well advanced, the mas­ necessary, that it be made known 4. J. Sherwood, After Gambling in Olympia. sive timbers which compose the now, through the public schools, ^■"TOBNEY -AT-L a w , walls and pillars being already in what the Lewis and Clark Exposi­ N oy RY P ublic , Olympia, Wash., Nov. 11.—Fol­ place. The Mines and Metallurgy, tion commemorates, and what rela­ C oqu ille, : ; Oregon lowing the example set by Portland, Festival Hall, the Machinery, Elec­ tively is the importance in the I Seattle and Spokane, the Sheriff of I tricity and Transportation palace, origin of the state of that first Thurston county has served notice and the Oregon building are rising journey by white men to the Pacific Walter Sinclair, upon saloon proprietors that the Fortunately this lack no from their foundations. The shel­ ocean. A ttorney -A t - L a w , state law prohibiting gambling ter pa villion, located just outside the longer exists, for we have now just N otary P u b l ic , must he enforced and saloons close Oolonnade entrance, is receiving from the press of McClurg & Co., of Coquille, : Oregon. at midnight and o c Sundays. The the finishing touches and some Chicago, ‘‘A Short History of Ore­ result is that for a few nights all beautiful modeling work in docura- gon,” compiled by Sidona V. John­ gambling paraphernalia is put out tive designs is to be noted both on son of this city, which has every­ /. Hacher, of sight, wheels fail to revolve, slot this building and the Colonnade en­ thing to commend it to the educator machines are turned face to the AB8TK.«'TK,S of T iti . e s . for school use, as well as to the trance. wall, and the gambling rooms are C o q u il l e C it y , O re The Colonnade entrance, located general reader desirous of being the same quiet, deserted places they at Twenty-sixth and Upshur streets, well informed concerning Oregon’s were immediately after the passage about eighteen minutes’ ride from most interesting beginning and of tho anti-gambliDg law by the Hall & Hall, the business section of Portland, early history. Legislature of 1903. A ttorney *- v r -I . aw , The critic will look in vain for admits one to the grounds. From Denial ill U ra l E state o f nil kin d s. the entrance a glimpse is had of the historical errors, literary crudities, New England Storm Center. grand court, named Columbia or the citation of unimportant and M arshfield, Oregon. Court, with Guild’s Lake, the Gov­ insignificant facts which constitute Boston, Nov. 14.— New England i ________ I ernment. Peninsula, and the river in the greater part of voluminous his- was the center yesterday of the J. C u ftia Onoah, h. /V P are the Administration building, conciseness without curtness, and ing, has been sweeping up the A t­ D e n t is t . and the police, fire and emergency clarity with accuracy characterize lantic seaboard. When morning j office two doors south Odd Fellow’ s Hnll stations. Passing straight through this m oBt acceptable history of our dawned yesterday the immediate j Will mnke Bandon a professional visit Columbia Court, which consists of state, which has already won the storm center was off Case Hatteras, two broad avenues, with spacious, scholarly approval of Dr. Joseph R. but in the afternoon it had moved the first Monday in each quarter. sunken gardens between, the cen­ Wilson, who has decided to use it to the vicinity of Nantucket Island. C oqu ille, O regon. tral figure of which will be the as a text book in the Portland When at its heightb the wind blew statue of the heroine, Sacajawea, Academy. with hurricane velocity. In this The last school year proceeding city the maximum velocity was 45 one reaches the parapet at the head W . C. Chase. E . D. Sperry. of Lakeview Terraces. From this the opening of the Lewis and miles at 5:20 o’clock yesterday after­ commanding position a series of Clark Exposition is fast slipping by, noon. At Block Island, R. I., there SPERRY & CHASE, broad steps, with massive balus­ and if the young people of the was a 76-mile gale, and at Kantuc- Attorney s- at-Law. trades, lead down to the shore of state are to have an opportunity to ket, this state, a velocity of 60 Guild’s Lake. At the foot of this study Oregon history and become miles was recorded. Offloe in Kobinson Building, grand stairway is the band stand, clearly and intelligently conversant Oregon. The storm passed east last night C bquille, and on the shore of the lake the with the historical significance of and was severe in Maine and the T esplanade starts. The esplanade, our forthcoming exposition before maritime provinces. At Portland, already well under way, will lead the people of Portland are called Maine, at 11 o ’clock the wind was £. G. D. Holden, outward into the lake, then west­ upon to welcome the many visitors increasing in velocity, and would, L a w t sb , ward, crossing the Trail and Bridge attracted hither by our celebration the observer at the local weather City Heoorder, 0 . 8. Comm is»«»»*. Gen of Nations, and ending in St. Helen's of the centennial anniversary of bureau said, reach hurricane di­ eral Inaurance Age-», «cd Notary western exploration, no time should mensions. The coast storm is ac­ road. P u b li o . O f f * U o h in - The Trail, which is the name given be lost by public school officials in companied by snow, rain, hail and ^Building. to the concessions street, will be in emulating the alert and appre­ sleet. c. A. J. SHERWOOD, Prss. stated, but it is wholly untrue and unwarranted slander on tho fair name of the nation. ALBERT FISH, F IR S T N A T IO N A L B A N K Now we are sure that Admiral Rojestvensky wants to be locked up for the safety of international com­ merce—and of Rojestvensky. op C O Q U I llllB , O R E G O N . T ra n sa c ts a General Banking B u sin e ss Correapondenta. Board of Directora. National Bank of Commerce, New York City The export trade of the United R. O. Dement, A. J. Sherwood, Crocker Woolworth N ’l Bank, San Francisco L. H. Hazard, L. Harlocker, States for the past three years R .E . Shine. First Nat’l Bank of Portland, Portland, Or. Isaiah Hacker, amounted to $4,288,000,000, an average annual increase of $516,000, 000 over the years of 1895, ’96 and 'IN / I N ✓ IN ✓ IN ’97. T 1 T^ r \ n r n T T T t t n m / u r * * Another great step in the direc­ _________________________________ __________________________ 7 * tion of international peace has been taken by the United States. An | w a V l b * i a t i v i fi just been concluded by Secretary Hay and Ambassador Jusserand. The majority of the American people, irrespective of their party party afiliations, will be thankful to learn that Mr. Parker was mislead in his statements concerning the Phillipines. We venture to assert that Mr. Parker himself is too good an American not to have been thankful when he found that no such deplorable state of affairs ex­ isted anywhere under the American fl*g. MRS. B E R M PAYNE, COQUILLE. OREGON. ’ * Dealer iu i ’aui-.y ana j-ian.eb r um isain# Al«o a earn- plete line of Seasonable Millinery. ^ FOX BROS. GENERAL DRAYING. COQUILLE, OREGON. Meets all Boats and Trains. Goods Handled with Care and Dispatch. The ‘‘Sick Man of E urope” has A G E N T FOR RIVERTON C O A L. concluded it is about time for him WOOD FOR SALE- Leave orders at T. J. Little’s Livery Stable. to contribute something to the gay- ety of nations. He has ordered that no Amencan bibles be sold or dis­ tributed within his domain. C Kuropatkin is not altogether un­ lucky. The Russian navy making him, by contrast, a paragon of dis­ cretion. o q u il l e Steam Laundry PH O N E 116 An Atlanta newspaper thanks God that, while the South has no political contest to break the mo­ notony, she has a few automobiles and football games. NOSLER & LYO NS PROPRIETORS Experienced Help Best o f W o rk Reasonable Rates The Illinois Federation of Special Kates to Fam ilies and H otels Women’s Clubs announces that ex­ travagance in dress is ruinous to women. Our experience has been W e m ake our own soap and know Us ingredients. No injurious ch em ica ls used. Our baekete will lie left at all the principal pointe on the river. that it has been even more so to G oods called for and delivered in C oquille City. men. A professor of the Smithsonian Institution writes that he has dis­ covered the germ of laziness in South Africa. We always had an idea that several good specimens could be found nearer home. Eight years ago Cuba was full of yellow fever. Yesterday President Palma explained to the Congress, which reassembled on our election day, how there happened to be a single case in Santiago. We did do something for Cuba.— World. Dairy Produce SWEET CREAM MILK AND TO SUIT coquille Ice & Cold-Storage Co. T H E A R unaw ay ICE IN QUANTITIES IVE-A-UST lllr jr lr Terminated with an ugly cut on the leg of J. B. Orner, Franklin Grover, 111, It developed a stub­ born ulcer unyielding to doctors and remedies for four years. Then Bucklen’s Arnica Salve cured. It’s just as good for Burns, Scalds, Skin Eruptions and Piles. 25c, at R. 8. Knowlton’s Drug Store. Who tied the cow ’s tail to his leg in the psooen of milk­ ing; said she had not dragged him over two miles before he realized he had made a mistake. KCo-w IMImclA rartner Must you he dragged before you realize you are making a mistake in not using Electric Lights.