SEMI-WEEKLY
V ol . 22 : No. 40
COQUILLE, COOS COUNTY, OREGON, NOVEMBER 29, 1904.
Entered as second-class matter July H,
1904, at the poatofllce at Coquille, Ore*
«on, under net o f Congrega of March 3,
1879.
Walter Culin, M. D.
P hysician an I j SlRokON
CoqtUU.E C ity , O re .
' Kronenherg Bldg.
I Next Door to P. O.
Telephone 3.
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Stanley & Burns,
Attorueys-at-Law,
Ueal Estate, Cel lections.
Specialties—Criminal aud U. S. Land
Cases, Notaries Public.
CoquiLLU,
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O bkoon .
Geo. Russell, M. D.,
PlIYRIOIAN AND HUBOKON,
Office upstairs in MAUTIN BUILDING
Calls promptly answered day or night.
Night call will be answered from Mrs.
Wickham’ s Boarding House.
Phone, main 136.
Coquille,
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Oregon.
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A. J, Sherwood,
A ttorns y - a t -L aw ,
N otary P ublic ,
Coquille,
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Oregon
Walter Sinclair,
A ttorney -A t - L a w ,
N otary P u b l ic ,
Coquille,
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Oregon.
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Hacher,
A bstkactbb
of
T it l e s .
C o o c ii . le C it y , O re
Hall & Hall,
A ttorneys - at -L a w ,
Dealer in
H eal E state o f a ll kinda.
Marshfield, Oregon.
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J. Curtis Snooh, D. D. S.
D hntirt ,
Office two doors south Odd Fellow’s Hall
Will make Bandon a professional visit
the first Monday in each quarter.
C oqu ille, O regon.
T
W . C. Chase.
E. D. Sperry.
SPERRY & CHASE,
Attorney s- at-Law.
Ottico in Robinson Building,
Coquille,
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Oregon.
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E. G. D. Holden,
L awyhb ,
City Recorder, U. 8. Commissioner, Gen
eral Insuranoe Agent, and Notary
Publio.
Office in R obin
son Building.
Coquille, Oregon.
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D en tist .
at Residence, one block east of
Tuttle Hotel.
Coquille
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Oregon.
COQUILLE RIVER STEAMBOAT CO.
S tr.
D IS P A T C H
Tom W hite, Master,
Leaves
I Arrives
B a n d on ........ 7 a - m . | C oquille
10 a - m .
C o q u ille ....... 1 P-M. j B a n d o n
4 P-M.
Connects at. ( ’«»quille with train for Marshfield
and steamer Edho for M yrtle Point.
S tr.
F A V O R IT E
J . C. Moomaw, Master,
Leayes
I Arrives
Coquille........ 7 a - m . | Bandon. .10:45 A-M.
Bnudnn.......... 1 P-M. ! Coquille . 4:45 P-M.
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R E T A
Al va I^e, Master,
Leaves
I Arrives
Coquille ___ 1 p-M. ! B an d on ----- 5 P-M.
B a n d o n ........ 7 A-M. \ C oquille----- 11 A-M.
Carrving j»assengers and mail.
Coquille RiverTransportation Co.
S tr.
L IB E R T Y
W . R. Panter, Master.
Leaves
| Arrives
Bandon......... 7 a - m . | Coquille — 10 a - m .
C oq u ille ....... 1 p - m . | B an d on
4 p m .
Makes connection with train at Coquille
and up-river boats.
T. W . P A N T E R , Managing Owner.
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$ 2.00
E C H O
T . W . McClnsksy. Master,
Leaves
|
Arrives
M yrtle Point. . 7 a - m . | Coquille C’y 9:30 a - m .
oq n lle C ity . 1 p - m . | M yrtle F t . . 4:00 p-v.
P a lly except Sunday,
P er Y ear
Duties of s School Director.
Fifty Thousand in Hood River
we directors were exchanging opin
The Earth’s Safest Places.
Lands.
ions in regard to renewing con
BY I. HAL'KKB.
The Scientific Amerioan recently
tracts, t agreed with one of the
called attention to the odd fact that
Hood River, Or., Nov. 23.— It is
(Concluded from last issue.)
other directors that we might do
the man who rides a few score feet reported here that the syndicate of
Au eighth, ot even a tenth grade better than to retain her. She may in a New York City elevator runs a Buffalo, N. Y., capitalists, of which
pupil, equipped with only the min have heard of it. She evidently greater risk of injury aud death than
J. H. Van Horn is a prominent
imum schooling considered neces "smelt a mice", for she started out the man who tratéis from New York member, contemplates further pur
sary to start in the ordinary purj and did some effective electioneer to Chicago and back on the fastest
chases of property in this section,
sllits of life; must be a prodigy, if ing,—in political parlance—to mend
Last year the syndicate invested
trains.
ing
her
fences;
for
in
e
few
days
fit to take any position as an edu
No fewer than 30 persons were $50,000 in orchard lands in the val
cator.
I would employ one only after, about 6vet mother of her
killed,
and many more hurt, in New ley, and it is gived out from a good
pupils came to us and asked to have
temporary on compulsion.
York elevator accidents in the first source tiiat so satisfied are they
her
retained.
I
never
thought
it
Once at Empire we were in cor
nine months of this year. No such with tho results of their investment
respondence with a lady whose ser was for the best, but we continued
that they propose to acquire more
When she was not given the proportion of those who traveled on
vices we wished to secure, when a her.
the fast passenger trains between lands.
place
the
next
year,
she
asked
me
male candidate put in his appear'
Mr. Van Horn has been hero re
the two cities were even hurt.
ance aud application. He wag a for a “ recommend”. I advised her
cently
superintending the shipment
Yet
the
average
m;n
buys
an
ac
student of one of the state normals. to get the mothers of her pllpils to
cident insurance ticket whenever he of this year’s crop to New York.
sign
one
for
her;
that
it
would
he
He was 6 feet 3 inches, if drawn to
starts on an ilw ay journey of aBy In the metropolis their choice ap
the shortest distance betweeti two more effective than anything I might
I will say here, that I length, and never thinks of such ples are selling at $6 a box. They
points that far apart, and of about give her.
have
never
signed a recommenda precautions before entering the car would be sold here at $1.75 a box.
2 cwt. His black shaggy whiskers
Improved lands in the lower val
that lifts him to his office. When
and his appearance of dull compre- tion for a teacher whom I would
ley are now selling at from $175 to
ever
a
notable
railway
accident
oc
honsion would remind you of a not employ and could not cordially
curs he talks for days about the $400 an acre. Its value has been
Cossack general. He was politely endorse; although it might result in
great loss of life.
But he never increased three-fold during the past
informed of the state of affairs, and in the Christian act of heaping coals
In the upper valley
thinks
of
the
proportionately
great three years.
that we could do nothing until we fire on the heads of some deserving
unimproved
lands
are selling
er
loss
of
life
every
day
from
acci
received an unfavorable reply from culprits.
around $25 an acre.
dents
that
befall
men
at
home
in
Complaints ate sometimes made
the lady.
In a few days the
On the opposite side of the river,
their own houses
candidate returned and learned we to directors by parents when punish
in the White Salmon valley, there
The
returned
missionary
who
bad engaged the lady. He evident ment has been inflicted upon their
publicly complained the other day is an abundance of land that is con
ly was prepared for it, and his mis hopefuU. I have learned that it is
that, after living entirely unhurt for sidered just as good as the best of
useless
to
pay
any
attention
to
such
sion was to give us a lecture. He
It is un
years
among the wildest savages of the lower valley lands.
caught us together, and assuming a complaints, foritho chief reason that
developed to a large extent, how
Africa,
he
had
no
sooner
roturned
most withering look and in his most these parents would be satisfied
to civilization than he met with a ever, and its real value has never
sarcastic and measured words, gave with nothing less than a suspension
railway
accident that kept him in been determined simply because of
us his opinion of womep who, to of the school or dismissal of the
the
hospital
for six months, curious a want of railroad facilities.
procure fine raiment and pin money teacher; and should it be proven
ly illustrated the habit of the human
that
the
child
was
entirely
to
blame
would crowd out the natural bread
mind to dwell upon the remote Schooner W ebfoot Sinks in
winner, and of directors who seemed and the teacher be exbonerated,
Columbia River.
dangers
and ignore those near.
to prefer them to ambitious young they would take their darling out of
Yet the fact is indisputable—the
The schooner Webfoot sailed
men who had fitted or were qualify school.
accident insurance companies have
Until
this
year,
the
worst
thorn
in
from Coos Bay, lumber laden, for
ing themselves for the profession as
proved it to their financial loss and
San Francisco, just before the re
a life work. He recited a good dis the 8chool,ihas been the chopped up
gain— that one of tho most danger
classing
of
the
grades.
I
have
al
cent heavy blow.
Word was re
sertation all right, and one more
ous places a man can be is in his
ceived here yesterday that the
appropriate for this occasion than ways advised os few classes as pos
own home, whereas one of the safest
schooner was picked up off the
this rambling matter, but you would sible, and at the beginning of last
is in a first-class railway train at
year
insisted
upen
a
reorganization,
mouth of the Columbia river dis
quickly discover that it would not
but got no support, and when chaos full speed, while the very safest mayed, her deck load gone, and
be original.
place on earth is aboard a first-class
leaking badly, and during the galo
At that time of my life, I some came in the middle of the year, I
steamship in the middle of the
ached
for
a
"big
stick.”
I
wish
to
the mate and two sailors had been
times enjoyed a chance to say some
ocean.—Inter-Ocean.
washed overboard. The wreck was
thing mean,—a disposition, I am publicly express my thanks to our
taken in tow by a tug hut sunk in
happy to say, I have entirely sub principal and teachers for their
Steamer Notes.
the channel soon after crossing the
dued,— and in a cowed and bumble good work in the reformation.
I think I have consumed my five
Steamer Elizabeth, sailed Nov. bar. The remainder of the crew
way, I complimented him upon the
able manner with which he had minutes. I thank you cordially for 24th; incoming passengers: Mr and were taken off. The Webfoot was
handled the subject, and that for your invitation to join your associa Mrs Layton, Mr and Mrs M F Shoe owned by the Simpson Lumber Co.,
inter maker, L Patterson, Mr Breese, and was an old craft, having been
myself I agreed with him in every tion, and as I am more
thing he had so clearly presented, ested in other divisions of the work, Mrs Capt Korth and two children; built here 37 years ago. She was
that I had heard the same thing ad I heartily accept the same and shall 200 tons cargo. Outgoing: Harry an average sized three masted
vanced in no better language from endeavor to attend all your meet Hall, J W Hall, Ray Hall, Mrs Capt schooner and was engaged in the
Larsen, A Colton, N R Smith, J E lumber trade between here and
our wisest educators; that I ap ings.
Moles, G H Croy, C C Sydman, Said San Francisco, having taken on a
preciated talent, schooling and every
Gravelford Academy Notes.
Way, Capt F Weider and wife, L Y load at the North Bend mill less
qualification that he and those
other wise men had so forcibly im.
The Academy opened Oct, 17. Barv, John Rasmussen, J Siegust, than two weeks ago.— North Bend
pressed upon me; but that it were with a fair attendance.
The num J Cassavaz, A Hammerin, 7 China Post.
possible that one could have all the ber has since increased to thirty-five. men. Cargo: 200 M lumber, 40
Victim of Brutal Students.
training of a normal school with the
The new boarding hall, or Stu cords matchwood, 60 tons mdse.
schooling of the best university, dents’ Home, is now occupied by an
Steamer Chico, arrived Nov. 18th;
San Francisco, Nov. 25.— As the
and not prove a success as a teacher, earnest,busy family of nineteen. All sailed Nov. 24th. Incoming cargo:
result of a brutal hazing by students
and that an intelligent board of di members of the student family take 20 tons. Outgoing: W H Pedler,
of the Mark Hopkins art institute,
rectors might prove a blessed thing part in the home duties, making it secretary of Carman, Crites Lum
Albert Derome is paralyzed in the
in protecting a community and the more home-like than at an ordinary ber Co., goes to San Pedro with
lower limbs.
children from such teachers. I told boarding house.
cargo; lumber for San Pedro, 250
Derome, after suffering a terrible
him I had seen bacon made from
As soon as the new telephone line, M feet. For San Francisco: 10 M beating, was stripped aud bound
razor-backed hogs that did not pay
now in process of construction, hardwood blocks, 5 M fir and naked on a metal seated chair and
for the corn wasted in the attempt
reaches Gravelford, we are to have sprue; 10 M lumber; 15 M broom- subjected to an electric current,
to fatten them; that I had seen a
a phone in the Students’ Home. handles; 10 cords matchwood; 25 causing his legs to execute the
stag turned into beef when the pro
Many of our students will thus he tons coal.
"muscle dance." This is similar to
cess of fattening was a sheer waste
i able to converse with their home
the treatment applied to dead frogs.
The
King
county
delegation
to
of pumpkins. He made an attempt
The current was used an hour.
the Washington Legislature has
to answer back, hut I said some
All are making rapid progress in adopted a resolution against the em Derome says: “ The pain was hor
thing about making a silk purse out
i their studies.
Frequent written ployment of women as dorks dur rible at first, but after the first fow
of a sow’s ear, when he seemed to
: tests arc given; papers are marked ing the legislative session.
This shocks I felt no pain at all.’’ The
take the talk home as a personal
' closely and rapid advancement is experiment was tried at Olympia at boy’s physicians give slight hope of
matter, and grabbed his hat and in
noted.
the session of 1903, and proved so the recovery of the use of his limbs.
a very impolite manner left our
Some time ago another student
august presence without saying i The teachers’ review class is do- successful in every way that the del
was thrown, naked and bound, into
|
ing
thorough
work.
The
Academy
egations
from
other
counties
will
‘‘Gentlemen, I bid you good day.”
a class of female students.
Ono time we employed for six 1 has made a record for itself in pre- probably again join with King and
Derome’s father will prosecute.
months, a lady whose folks were , paring teachers for examination, employ none but men for clerks.
The
discrimination
against
the
successful ranchors.
She showed i u n ^ some have the notion that all
Submarines Reach Japan.
fair ability and her school was far
*8 necessary in order to pass is women at Olympia not only resulted
from a failure. She was a standing ob *° BPe n d about six weeks within the in a saving of expenses, but it also
Tokio, Nov. 23.— Five submarine
ject lesson of economy. She did not wfths of our building. This is not materially improved the moral at
boatB arrived at Yokohama today.
squander her hard-earned money on the case. The Academy has no pull ; mosphere around the capital city.
(The submarine boats referred to
shirtwaists and laundry bills, but °n the board of examiners.
Our Woman’s sphere in life is said to be
in
the dispatch from Tokio are prob
widening,
and
it
will
be
a
good
every day for the whole time, attired students pass because of the j
herself in her milking gown. VYe thoroughness of our works. Some, j thing for society in general if it ably the five boats shipped from
considered her forehanded enough however, merely get over the dead- broadens out so that the fair sex Quincy Point, Mass., early in Oc
to retire.
line, who would far better have will feel as much out of place at a tober IaBt, overland to the Pacific
Ono time when I was elected a ®P®nt more time in school before State Legislature as they would Coast. They were valued at nearly
feel at a ward caucus.—Oregonian. $4,000,000, and were understood to
director there was employed a lady attempting the examination,
be intended for Japan. The boats
whose methods of teaching and con-
have students from three
Not n Nick Day Nmrc.
occupied 17 steel flat cars and 6
ducting the school did not please , counties. At present there are five
“ I was taken severely sick with box cars. There was not the slight
me. While her classes were read- ^rom Douglas, three from Curry, kidney trouble. I tried all sorts of
ing she was occupied in other work,1 an<1 twenty-seven from Coos county, medicines, none of which relieved est mark on any of the cars to indi
mC. One day 1 saw an ad, of your cate the contents or the destination,
with the result that the pupil would
^
H*7*011, Principal,
Electric Bitters and determined to and those who made inquiry on the
crawl out of his seat, and stand in
A B u iiiw ir n ir jf i*
try that. After taking a few dose», subject received the stereotyped
about the attitude of an interrega-
Terrainate(1 with an ngly cut on I felt relieved, and soon thereafter
answer that the covered masses
tion point, and read in about thin the leg of J. B. Orner, Franklin j was entirely cured, and have not
were a part of a large shipment of
manner: "He-is-uh-man-here-but-he- Grover, 111, It developed a stub- seen a sick day since. Neighbors
machinery
destined for tho west.)
of
mine
have
been
cured
of
Rheu
was-onct-uh-bear,” —and then wipe horn ulcer unyielding to doctors;
matism, Neuralgia, Liver and Kid
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and
remedies
for
four
years.
Then
his sleeve across his nose, and while
,
Bucklen s Arnica Salve cured. It s ney troubles and General Debility."
Any school district in need of an
slink.ng into his seat, complete the j U8t as good fnr BurniI> Scalds, | This is what B. F. Bass, of Fre experienced teacher can he put in
sen fence--"foot-boy.”
When the | skin Eruptions and Piles. 25c, at! mont, N. C. writes. Only 50c, by R communication with one by en
S. Knowlton, druggist
quiring at this office.
year was drawing to its close, and j R. S. Knowlton’s Drug Store.
nowlton’s Drug Store
K
T - k
Is Displaying a choice
Line of Holiday Goods.
Coquille, Oregon.
NEW,
RAM BLERS
T R IB U N E S
LATEST
AND
AND
M IT C H E L L S
Best Wheels Out
Hare Bargains in Second-Hand Wheels. Wheels to Hent.
Repairing Done on Short Notice.
ALBERT FISH,
COQUILLE, OREOON
East End ot Front St.
L. H. HAZARD, Cashier
R. E. SHINE, Vice Pres.
A. J. SHERWOOD, Pres.
F IR S T N A T IO N A L B A N K
O F C O Q U IliU B , OREGON*
T r a n s a c ts a G e n e ra l B a n k in g
Board of Directors.
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B u s in e s s
Correspondents.
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R. O. Dement,
A. J. Sherwood,
National Bank of Commerce, New York City
L. Harlocker,
L. H. Hazard, ! Crocker Woolworth N’l Bank, San Francisco
Isaiah Hacker,
R .E . Shine. ! First Nat’l Bank of Portland, Portland, Or.
¡MRS. BERTHS PAYNE,|
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COQUILLE, OREGON.
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Dealer in Fancy and Ladies’ Furnishing Goods.
N|>
(Tj
plete line of Seasonable Millinery.
Also a com-
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FOX BROS.
GENERAI, DRAYING.
COQUILLE, OREGON.
Meets all Boats and Trains.
Goods Handled with Care and
Dispatch.
AGENT FOR RIVERTON GOAL.
WOOD FOR SALK-
Leave orders at T. J. Little’s Livery Stable.
C
o q u ille
Steam Laundry
HONE 116
j
A. E. Kirshman,
Office
HERALD.
NOSLER & LYONS
PROPRIETORS
Experienced Help
Best o f Work
Reasonable Rates
Special Kates to Families anrl Hotels
W e make our own soap and know its ingredients. No injurious chem icals used.
Our haskete will b e left at all the principal points on the river.
Goods called for aud delivered in Coquille City.
Dairy Produce
SW EET
M IL K
CREAM
AND
Coquille
T H E
M
IN
IC E
Q U A N T IT IE S
T O S U IT
ice & Cold-Storage Co.
A N
Who tied the cow ’s tail to his leg in the process of milk
ing; said she had not dragged him over two miles before
he realized he had made a mistake.
H o w Iv lu c li E a r tlie r
Must you he dragged before you roalize you are making a
mistake in not using Electric Lights.