SEMI-WEEKLY
22: No. 41
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Walter Culin, M. D.
P h ysician and S urgeon
C oquille C it y , O r e .
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Stanley & Burns,
Attorueys-at- Law.
Real Eatate, Collections.
Specialties—Criminal and U. 8 . Land
Cases, Notaries Publio.
C oquillb ,
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Geo. Russell, M. D.,
P hysician and S urgeon ,
Office upstairs in MARTIN BUILDING
Calls promptly answered day or night.
Night call will be answered from Mrs.
Wickham’s Boarding House.
Phone, main 136.
Goquilie,
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Oregon.
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A. J. Sherwood,
A ttorney - at -L aw ,
N otary P ublic ,
Coquille,
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Oregon
Walter Sinclair,
A t iokney - at -L aw ,
N otary P u b l ic ,
Ooquille,
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Oregon.
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A bstracter op T it l e s .
O o q uille C it y , O re
Hall & Hall,
A t t o r n e t s - at - L aw ,
D ealer in
K har E s t a t e o f a l l kind».
M arshfield, Oregon.
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J. Curtis Snook, D. D. S.
D e n t ist ,
OIH co two doors south Odd Fellow’s Hall
Will make Bandon a professional visit
the first Monday in ench quarter.
Coquille, O regon.
E . D. Sp erry.
W . C . C hase.
SPERRY & CHASE,
Attorneys-at-Law .
Office in Robinson Building,
Coquille,
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E. G. D. Holden,
L awyer ,
City Recorder, U. 8 . Commissiouer, Gen
eral Insurance Agent, and Notary
Publio.
Office in Robin
son Building.
Coquille,
Oregon.
A. F. Kirshman,
D e n t ist .
Office
at Residence, one blook east of
Tuttle Hotel.
Coquille
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O regon.
COQUILLE RIVER STEAMBOAT CO.
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D IS P A T C H
Tom White, Master,
Leaves
I Arrives
B andon........ 7 a - m . I O o q u i l l e 10 a - m .
Coquille....... 1 P-M. | Bandon---- 4 p - m .
Connects at Coquille with train for Marshfield
anil steamer Kcho for Myrtle Point.
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F A V O R IT E
J . C. Moomaw, Master,
I Arrives
C oquille.........7 A-M. | Bandon.. 10:45
a - m
Bandon ............ I P-M. | Coquille. 4:45 P-M.
Leaves
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K E T A
Alva Jiee, Master,
Leaves
| Arrives
r> p - m .
Coquille __ 1 p - m . | Bandon
Bandon........ 7 a - m . | Coquille — 11 a - m .
Carrying passengers and mail.
Coquille River Transportation Co.
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L IB E R T Y
W . R. Panter, Master.
Leaves
I A rrives
Bandon.......... 7 a - m . | Coquille ...1 0 a - m .
Coquille....... 1 r-N. | Bandon . . . . 4 p m .
Makes connection with train at Coquille
and up-river boata.
T. W . P A N T E R , Managing Owner.
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$2.00
COQUILLE, COOS COUNTY, OREGON, DECEMBER 2, 1904.
E n tered as second-class m a tte r Ju ly 8,
1804, a t the postoffice a t Coquille,
¡lie, Ore-
Ore'
iron, under act of Conuresa
'resa of M arch 3,
187».
K ronenberg Bldg
N e x t Door to P. O,
HERALD.
EC H O
T. W . McClnakey. Ma ter,
leaves
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Arrive.
Myrtle Point . 7 a n . | Coquille( "v 8 on
oqiitl). City. 1 P-¥. | Myrtle P't. .4:00 r-.M
Dally PnePpt Sunday
Child-Saving
Long Range W ea th er Forecaata.
If the (lecrenHe in the American
There ate today in the United
birth rate, of which we hear bo much States, at well as in other civilized
aud see so little, may fitly be denom countries, a few persons who make
inated “race suicide," it is equally ap their living by publishing so-called
propriate to denominate the neglect long range weather forecasts, based
of children— whether leading to upon old theories which have no
their moral or physical death, or foundation, and which scientific
both—“ race murder." Acting upon men long ago rejected.
We also
the principle underlying this be find in almost every community
lief and hailed us philanthropy, some man who sets himself up as a
humanity, charity or social economy, weather prophet, and who prognos
organizations have been formed ticates, year after year, hard win
through which eruest, intelligent ters, dry spells, and other calami
men and women have sought to save ties. Once in a great while he hits
to the race and the country children the mark, and then his “I told you
who were born of irresponsible par so’’ receives public acknowledge
ents. Every progressive commun ment; all his previous misses are
ity supports institutions of this forgotten, and great is his fame
class. And while the contributing throughout the land.
public regords with utter reproba- j These men may be conscientious
tion the fact that these children | in their belief, or veritable trick
were brought into the world only sters, it matters not which, and does
to be cast upon its mercy, philan- ! not change the fact that their say
thropy accepts the obligation that ings and doings are an inheritance
is thus thrown upon it, in order; of (he dark ages, when all the
thu* enlightened minds may not he world was veiled in superstition and
j accessory to the type of child mur
ignorance. This we know, for by
der that results from parental ne tracing back the mental progress of
glect, or from the far lesser misfor- j the human race we find that all
tune of actual orphanage.
savages today have their rain-makers
In our own community this p u r-! and their rain-stoppers, and that
pose is represented by the Boys’ ; the patriarchal tribes still believe
and Girls’ Aid Society, the Chil- [ that-comets, eclipses and other un
dren’s Home nnd the Baby Home usual appearances forbode dire dis
imd by a number of juvenile shelters asters. Also, anciently, the most
and training schools under the d i-1 civilized nations, such as the Chal
recti on of the Catholic church, and j deans, Egyptians, Jews, Greeks, and
finally by the State Reform School. Romans, had their soothsayers aud
With the history and endeavor of oracles, who imposed upon a credu
one or more of these child-saving lous public.
institutions, all observant citizens ¡
Latterly, the astrologers of the
are to Borne extent familiar, and ¡
middle ages had a large following,
many of them at least, regard j
and from the beginning of the 16th
the work for which such institu
century up to the beginning of the
tions stand as of prime importance.
19th century they flooded Germany,
Henry Dwight Chapin, M. D.,
France and Great Britain with al
tells us in a late number of the Out
manacs containing prophecies of the
look something of the child-saving
weather, as well as prophecies re
effort, covering a period of half a
garding the minutest detailn of con
century, that has been made in
duct in the daily lives of the people;
the New York Juvenile Asylum.
These prophecies were the merest
This work, he says, has shaped for
twaddle, but it took a long time
greater usefulness the lives of thirty-
nfter Copernicus had exploded the
nine thousand little street waifs,
theory that our littlo world was the
committed tc its care during its
center of the universe before the
long day of endeavor.
He tells us
belief in astrology received any
further that it has now reached an
check.
Now it has so far disap
epoch-making period in its long
peared that none hut artful plund
career, by doing away with the con
erers and ignorant dupes give it the
gregate system and developing the
slightest countenance.
cottage system.
This plan is re
It is not so with the so-called
garded by the directors of the in
stitution to be as much in advance long range weather forecasters.
of the old regime which necessarily Unfortunately, many people, and
comprised the herding of the chil some of the less careful publishers,
dren together as the original plan are apparently in ignorance of the
was in advance of the Btreet home true character of the work of these
self-appointed prophets.
We can
for the neglected waif.
The cottage plan has not been a not account for the continued pub
sudden development; it represents a lication of their utterances in any
long period of growth, during oeher way.
Centennial Notea.
P er Y ear
N O TE AND C O M M EN T.
If the flying machines do not suc
A comprehensive Philippine dis.
play will he nn interesting feature ceed in winning the great prize at
of the Lewis and Clark Centennial. St. Louis, the ballonists might come
The Forestry building at the East when Congress assembles and
Lewis and Clark Centennial will he try hot air as a levitant.
V nowlton’s Drug Store
the second largest log building ever
erected.
On Sunday President Roosevelt
joined Cardinal Gibbons in dedicat
ing the parish school of St. Patrick
in Washington, and Archbishop Ire
land preached on “France and the
An interesting collection of old Vatican.” Isn’t all this rather tickl
mining implements will form a part ish business?
of Oregon’s exhibit at the Lewis and
It would seem as if the limit of
Clark Centennial.
luxury and extravagance had been
Several large rose beds have been reached in this country in the mat
laid out iu the Lewis and Clark ter of sumptousness, when one hotel
Centennial grounds and the roses in Philadelphia has to pay an an.
are now in full bloom,
nual tax of $82,500. Of course the
RAM BLERS
A complete showing of the in guests pay the taxes.
One of the logs used in the con
struction of the Forestry building
at the Lewis and Clark Fxpositien
weighed 27 tons.
Is Displaying a choice
Line o f Holiday Goods.
Coquille, Oregon.
NEW,
dustrial conditions surrounding the
LATEST
General Stoessel seems to he T R I B U N E S
Indian students at the Oregon In-
AND
AND
dreadfully
obstinate.
He
sends
dinn schools will figure in the gov
word
that
he
can
hold
Port
Arthur
ernment’s exhibits at the Lewis and
M IT C H E L L S
Best Wheels Out
for several months yet. Well, we
Clark Exposition.
can endure it, if Chofoo doesn’t tel
The annual convention of the egraph every afternoon that Port
Hare Bargains in Second-Hand Wheels. Wheels to Rent.
Repairing Done on Short Notice.
National Association of Railroad Arthur has just been captured.
Commissioner which will meet in
Deadwood, 8. D., next August, will
President Roosevelt is doubtless
COQUILLE, OREGON
adjourn to Portland nnd hold its correct in assuming that the tariff East End ot Front S t.
concluding sessions nt the Lewis is a legislative question and leaving
L. H. HAZARD, Cashier
R. E. SHINE, Vice Free.
and Clark Centennial.
the initiative to the other end of the A. J. SHERWOOD. Pres.
ALBERT FISH,
Preliminary work on the Govern
ment building nt the Lewis and
Clark Fair is progressing rapidly
and already the necessary excava
tions have been made and the found
ation timbers laid.
The building
will be completed April 1, 1905.
avenue. Nobody need fear that he
will veto hill reducing or even ob
literating duties on raw material.
F I R S T N A T IO N A L B A N K
OF COQUILLE, ORBGOfi.
The very last words of Commis
T r a n s a c ts a G en eral B a n k in g B u s in e s s
sioner W are, as ho joyfully quitted
his leathern chair:
“Enough! I
Board of Directors.
Correspondents.
swan! I declare! I swear!” But
A. J . Sherwood,
! National Bank of Commerce, New York City
he didn’t.
He merely emitted a H. 0 . Dement,
To P re se rv e F o re stry Building.
B. Harlocker,
L . H. Hazard, j C ocker Woolworth N ’l Bank, San Francisco
yell.
“Four years in the Pension
Isaiah Hacker,
R . E . Shine. First Nat’l Bank of Portland, Portland, Or.
Portland, Nov. 30.— It is probable office i s ------ well. Is something it
that the Forestry building at the isn’t polite to tell."
Lewis and Clark Centennial will he
Theedore Roosevelt is the second /IN
retained as a permanent structure
president of the United States to *
after the Exhibition has closed. In
wear on his face a mustache only,
order that this may be done it will
be necessary that the legislature the other having been Grover Cleve *
land. Almost all of our presidents *
pass a special bill, since the act
have worn a beard, not being as /I n Dealer in Fancy and Ladies’ Furnishing Goods. Also a com-
creating the exposition provided for
sensitive as the Sultan of Turkey,
the destruction of all the buildings,
plete line of Seasonable Millinery.
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who never shaves through fear of
President Jefferson Myers of the
having his throat cut by the harbor. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
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state commission says that the mem
bers of the commission are in favor
Government engineers have ap
of preserving the building. Pres
proved the plan of New Mexico for
ent plans are to have the building
a dam at "Elephant Butte, for stor
turned over to pioneer and war vet
ing the flood waters of the upper
erans for reunions.
Rio Grande. Work on the dam will
The Forestry building is the sec
begin soon.
The water thus con
ond largest log house ever erected.
served will reclaim 200,000 acres in
COQUILLE, OREGON.
The logs of which Jit is built are
New Mexico, Texas and Mexico
from four to six feet in diameter.
above and around El Paso. Irriga
Goods Handled with Care and
tion is the watchword of the West. Meets all Boats and Trains.
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MRS. BERTHS PAYNE,|
COQUILLE, OREGON.
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FO X BRO S.
GENERAL DltAYING.
C astle R o c k iB Bought by Ladd.
Tacoma, Wash., Nov. 26.— A local
real estate agency in Tacoma closed
the sale this week on a ncted and
picturesque piece of property on
the Columbia river, known as
Castle Rock, being one of the great
scenic attractions on the Washing
ton side of the river between P ort
land and The Dalles. The sale was
made to Charles E. Ladd, of P o rt
land, for Jay Cooke, of Philadelphia,
who has owned it for n number of
years. It is intended to preserve
the rock for its nntural attractions.
The consideration was $2100.
Characterizing them as fakirs and
which its promoters have watched
and worked it with care. F o r nearly imposters avails us little. The peo
a decade the cottage colony system ple themselves must decide as to
has been under construction, so to the true worth of their work. Let
speak, with the result that a mina- those who have any interest in the
ture village has been founded near matter carefully compare the pub
Dobb’s Ferry, which, it is felt, will lished forecasts with the actual
serve as a model for similar institu weather day by day, for in no other
tions for child-saving not only in way will the utter worthlessness of
the great cities of the United States, the whole mischievous business he
exposed.
Yours truly,
but upon the Continent.
E dwakd A. B eau .
This colony equipment consists of
fifteen attractive cottages, each of North Pacific District Forecaster.
Young man, take courage! If you
which will accommodate twenty in
arc poor it is a sign that Nature in
mates on the family plan.
F o r the
E x h ib it S p a c e S ca rce.
tended to give you a chance to
benefit of the 300 children thus
brought under the influence and
Portland, Nov. 30.— Forty East make somebody of yourself. The
discipline of home life all the es ern manufacturers represented by next governor of the splendid state
of Minnesota is a democrat, elected
sential public service system, in
displays at the W orld’s Fair at St.
by 30,000 from one of the stanchest
cluding a power house and a school !
Louis want space at the Lewis and
republican strongholds which gave
house, have been instituted. It is
As they cannot Theodore Roosevelt 100,000 major
believed that the percentage of neg Clark Centennial.
lected children that will be returned obtain as much space as thev wish ity. Johnson is a washerwoman’s
from these cottnges to the state in to have in the Manufactures build son, and for that reason was made
due course of time as useful citizens ing erected by the Exposition Com the victim of an asinine attack at
and intelligent home-makers will he pany, which is over crowded, they the hands of his political opponents.
relatively as great as that from have applied to the Chief of the E x This attack was bitterly resented by
average homes in which large fam hibits Department for ground spaco many in both parties, and there
ilies are brought up, and from for an exclusive manufacturing were enough republicans who were
which children are seDt out to suc- building, in which Eastern working fond of fair play to elect the target
1 cess or failure in the world.
exhibits, embracing pen making, of abuse to the governor’s chair.
Dropping the philanthropic and hat making, weaving, shoe manu
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humane purpose which underlies
facturing, and various other forms
the effort denominated “child-sav - 1
“I was much afflicted with sci
ing,’’ its economic feature commends ( of manufacturing can be carried on. atica,” writes Ed C Nud, Iowavillc,
itself strongly to the consideration The ground space will he provided Sedgwick Co., Kan., “going about
; of practical men. The cry of a in the event the association decides about on crutches and suffering a
dimished birth rate is in the nature to erect a building.
The manu deal of pain. I was induced to try
Ballaad’s Snow Liniment, which re
of an alarm, and, judging from the
facturers will utilize the products lieved me.
I used three 50c bot
! evidence presented by the public
It is the greatest liniment I
school enrollment of the country, of j made up while on exhibition on the tles.
a false alarm at that.
The plea of grounds by returning them to th e ! ever used: have recommended it to
child-saving is made in Ihs interest jobbing bouses for sale. A repre a number of persons; all express
of humanity and of political and sentative of the Exposition lias gone themselves as being benefited by it.
I now walk without crutches, able
social economy. The one is the re
sult of baseless anxiety—the other to Chicago to consult with some of to perform a great deal of light
the response of public conscience to the leading manufacturing firms in labor on the farm. 25c, 50c, II 00.
regard to the matter.
•old by R 8 Knowlton,
; the call of duty. Oregonian.
Dispatch,
There is a good time coming,
boys. There is every reason to hope
AGENT FOR RIVERTON COAL.
for better days.
England, France, WOOD FOR SA LE-
Leave orders at T. J. Little’s Livery Stable.
Germany and the United States
have $500,000,000 worth of battle
ships and modern big guns in the
course of construction and are ex
pecting to send a full line of dele
gates to the International Peaco
Conference.
C o q u il l e
Steam Laundry
Electric ronds are multiplying so
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rapidly that it will shortly bo pos
sible to go from Boston to Denver
by trolley.
In 1900, less tlmn four
years ago, there was only 311,016
P R O P R IE T O R S
electric horsepower in tho whole
country. Today there is 850,000
Reasonable Rates
electric horsepower. At this tre Experienced Help
mendous rate of increase thore will
Special K ates to Fam ilies and Hotels
be in ten years m ore- however,
readers can Ague it for themselves.
NOSLER & LYONS
Best of Work
W e m ake ou r own soap and know its ingredients.
No injurious ch em icals used.
O ur baskets will l>e left a t all th e principal points on th e riv e r.
Kentucky sadly needs a weather
Goods called for and delivered in Coquille C ity.
bureau to predict “gentle rains and
variable winds.”
It has been suf
fering for two months with an un.
precedented drouth, and the dust
haH so saturated the atmosphere
that there is an epidemic of whet S W E E T C R E A M
IN Q U A N T I T I E S
the doctors call the “dust cough.”
Seed planted weeks ago refuses to
T<? S U I T
M I L K AND
germinate and the famous blue grass
has turned brown and yellow. Even
the men are dry and Henry Watter-
son was blown away to Europe “to
give politics a rent,” and Jack Chinn
has girded on his armor and per
mitted an admiring constituency to
neDd him to the legislature.
T H E
Dairy Produce
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coquine ice & Cold-Storage Co.
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Cnrfil I’nrial v «I a |
W. 8. Bailey, !P . O. True. Texas,
writes: “ My wife had been suffored
five years with paralysis in her arm,
when I was pursuaded to use Bal
lard's Snow Liniment, which cured
her all right.
I have also used it
for old sores, frostbites and skin
eruption«. It does the work.” 25c,
50c, 11.00, Sold by R 8 Knowlton.
Who tied the cow’s tail to his leg in tho process of milk
ing; said she had not dragged him over two miles before
he realized he had made a mistake.
H o w 2vlu.cU. P a r t n e r
Must you be dragged before you realize you are making a
mistake in not using E lectric L ights.