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SEMI - WEEKLY V ol . COQUILLE, COOS COUNTY, OREGON, DECEMBER 27, 1904. 22: No. 48 Entered as second-class m atter July 8, 1904, at the postotiice at Coauille, Ore gon, under act o f Congress o f M arch 3, 1879. Walter Culin, M. D. P h y sic ia n S urgeon and • C o q u il l e C it y , O r e . Kronenberg Bldg. T eleph on e 3. Next Door to P. O. Stanley & Burns, Attorueys-ut- Law, Real Estate, Collections. Specialties—Criminal and U. S. Land Cases, Notaries Public. COQUILLH, - O bk GON. Geo. Russell, M. D., P hysician S uhokon , and Office in RUSSELL PHARMACY. Calls promptly answered day or night. Phone, main 13G. Coquille, : : : Oregon. __________ I i /1. J. Sherwood, A ttorney - at -L aw , N ot . vby P ublic , Coquille, : : Oregon Walter Sinclair, A ttorney -A t -L a w , N otary P u b lic , Coquille, Oregon. /. Hacher, A bstracter of T it l e s . C o qu ille C it y , O re Hall & Hall, A ttornkyr - at -L a w , Dealer in K k a i E statk o f all kinds. Marshfield, Oregon. _______ i___________________ L_____ J. Curtis Snooh, D. D. S. D bwtist , Office two doors sonth Odd Fellow’ s Hall Will make Kandon n profossionnl visit tho first Monday in each quarter. Coquille, Oregon. E. D. Sperry. HERALD. W . C. Chase. ley are electric broilers, electric dough mixers, electric plates for the We give hore an interesting de making of hot cakes. In the pilot scription o( the above-named vessel house it is electricity that blows the from the San Francisco Call. TI ub whistle, electricity that operates the is the largest vessel yet built in steering gear, that carries messages America, and our coast may well feel from bridge to engine-room and In the proud to see such a maguificient j other parts of the ship. pilot-house is an electric clock, craft added our trans-Pacific fleet. The Great Northern Railroad ] which takes charge of the fog sig Company’s new liner Minnesota ar nals in thick weather, and another rived yesterday morning from the electrical device which stands guard Atlantic. After a brief detention in over the electric lamps which con quarantine she steamed up the bay stitute the side lights and other and dropped anchor off the Union law-required illumination. If one Iron Works The Ventura, Sono of these lights goes out a bright ma and Sierra have accustomed the lamp glows in the pilot-house and a people of this port to passenger bell begins to ring. The lamp glows liners of large size, and from the and the bell rings until the extin Korea, Siberia, Mongolia and Man guished light is again in commission. One of the Minnesota’s glories is churia people have learned some thing of the superlative degree in the breadth of her clean, white modern passenger carrying freight decks. At the forward end of the ers. But the Minnesota is in a class bridge deck is one clear space, 30 by 75 feet, room for a dozen set of by herself. lancers cr for the drilling of a bat- She lacks the speed of some of the big steamships familiar in these tallion of infantry. The Minnesota’s bridge, as she is waters, but in every other respect now loaded, is 65 feet above the overtops her floating sisters as the Her smoke stack has a battleship towers above the torpedo water line. diameter of 19 feet fore and aft by boat. She is the biggett steamship 16 feet across. She has twin, triple flying the American flag. As be comes the newest of Yankee liners, expansion engines of 10,000 horse she has borrowed from the school power. She has two 38-ton re of scientific achievement all the lat frigerating machines and sixteen She est ingenuities. She is comfortable Niclausso water tube boilers. is fitted with a longitudinal bulk as soft carpets, broad decks, ele vators, electric heaters, luxurious head, running the entire length of upholstery and perfect ventilation the ship, has twelve water-tight can make her. She could be rammed bulk-heads and twenty-four com through and through in half a dozen partments and a double bottom places and still float; cut in two, and which is used for water ballast and each section would remain on the is divided into twenty-two compart surface. She is practically unsink- ments. Traveling at fourteen knots per able. hour the Minnesota burns 160 tons As a floating hotel she has no On equal on tho Pacific, and the bur of coal in twenty-four hours. den of fifteen miles of freight enrs her trial trip she developed a speed sixteen knots. can be stowed away in her hold. The M innesota. The Minnesota is commanded by Captain John Truebridge and her other officers are: Chief engineer, George Allan; chief officer, J. F Blaine; first officer, W. S. P. Keyes; second officer, P. C. Grening, and third officer, John Duffy. She is said to have cost more than $2,000,000, and she looks like the price. She is 630 feet long, 75:6 feet beam and 56:1 feet deep. Her gross tonnage is 20,718. Her capac ity is 27,982 cubic tons, Her total capacity, including bunkers, is 32,- 221 tons. When carrying 23,800 toDs dead weight the Minnesota draws 88 feet of water. She has ac commodations for 250 first cabin passengers, 68 intermediate passen gers and 1424 steerage or 1224 ! troops. The Minnesota encountered fiuo weather all the way from the At lantic, the liner’s size impressing even Cape Horn into keeping the elements in ’that neighborhood in order. There was some trouble with the crew whom Captain True bridge descrihest as the hardest crowd he ever went to sea with. One of the sailors had a fight on the bridge with the second and third officers and several of the men spent varying spoils in irons as a penalty for refusing duty. Electricity is the slave which works most of the wonders of the Attorney s-at-Law. Minnesota’s marvelous internal econ omy. There is an electric heater Office in Uobinson Padding, and a telephone in every stateroom. Coquille, - - - Oregon The central telephone office,where there will be an operator always on ----------- - -»► «------ duty, is one of the show places of E. G. D. Holden, the ship. Passengers in their rooms Grcely, Colo,, Dec. 24.— Mayor L awyisr , can telephone to any department of H. C. Watson issued a call today for 3ity Recorder, U. 8. Commissioner, Gen the ship or can talk over the wire to a mass meeting to consider a prop eral Insurance Agent, and Notary any other passenger. The electric osition to donate a large quantity of heaters can he shut off or regulated potatoes to the starving poor of Ire Public. Office in Robin by the occupants of the staterooms land. Similar meeting will be held son Building. by a simple process of turning a nt Fort Collins. It is believed tho Coquille, Oregon. button. farmers of Northern Colorado will The cooking is nil done away contribute several carloads of pota down below, out of sight, sound and toes if the transportation can be ar A. F. Klrshman, smell of tho passengers. The pre ranged for. The government will pared food is carried by noiseless be asked to furnish a transport [to D kntist . elevators, or dumb waiters, from the carry potatoes from Galveston to Offioc at Residence, one block east of lower regions to the dining saloon, Ireland. Tnttle Hotel. where undumb servitors will dis Coquille . - . Oregon. tribute it in orthodox style three Chicago, Dec. 20.—Gifts amount times a day. For the benefit of ec ing to $537,370 was announced by centric or nbnormnl appetites a President Harper tonight at the buffet is maintained in another part 53rd quarterly convocation of the Str. D IS P A T C H of the ship, where anything from a University of Chicago. John D. Torn W hite, Master, full meal to a sandwich will be | Rockefeller gave $245,000 for cur Leaves I Arrives B a n d o n ........... 7 a - m . | Coquille------ 10 a - m . served day or night. rent expenses and $60,000 for im C o q u ille ....... 1 P-M. | Bandon . 4 P-M. The saloon, around the tables of provements to the heating plant. Connects at. Coquille with train for Marshfield j which are 188 comlortahle leather- The next largest sum was gi-en by and steamer Kdho for M yrtle Point. seated chairs, is handsomely fur Mrs. Hiram O. Kelley, cf this city Str. F A V O R IT E nished and artistically lighted. | who gave $140,000 for the erection J. C. Mo.unaw. Master, There is a dainty ladies' parlor, a j of a building for clasnics. The re Leave* I Arrives Coquille........7 A-M. | Bandon.. 10:45 a - m . ! Bandon.......... 1 P-M. | ( ’oqn ille. 4:45 p-M. well-stocked library and smoking mainder of the total donation was in room, in which the most worried i small amounts. Str. R E T A man in the world could forget his Alva Tsee, Master, troubles and imagine himself J J. | Leaves I Arrives roniihlnK 3|iHI Cansra D cnlli. Coquille 1 r-M. j B an d on -----5 p-M. j Hill without the railroad magnet’s j Bandrn .. . . 7 a - m . | Coquille — 11 a - m . “ Harry Duckwell, aged 25 years, responsibilities. Carrying passengers and mail. chocked to death early yesterday The handling of cargo will bring j Coquille River Transportation Co. little discomfort to the pnssengors,1 morning at his home, in the pres ence of his wife and child. He con as all the work will be done by | tracted a slight cold a few days ago Str. L I B E R T Y 36 noiseless electric winches. The and paid but little attention to it. W . R. Panter, Master. Leaves I Arrives Minnesota has nine pairs of hatches, Yesterday morning he was seized Bandon......... 7 a - m . | Coquille. ...1 0 a - m . : with a fit of coughing which con and in the forest o f cargo booms is C oqu ille....... 1 P-M. | B an d on ------ 4 p m . tinued for some time. His wife sent Makes connection with train at Coquille one capable of lifting a 44-ton bur for a physician but before he could and up-river boat*. T . W . P A N T E R , Managing Owner. den from (he wharf and lowering it arrive, another coughing spell came swiftly, gently and without noise to on and Duckwell died from suffoca- Str. ECHO the most remote corner of the deep t.ion.--St. Louis Globe-Democrat, T. W . McCloskey. Master, Dec. 1, 1901.” Ballard’s Horehound est hold. Leaves I Arrives Syrup would have saved him. 25c, M yrtle P o in t .. .7 a - m . J Coquille C’ y 9:30 A-M. i There are electrical devices in 50c and $1.00. For sale by R S «quille d t y . , . 1 P-M. 1 Myrtle l ’ t. 1:00 r-M. every part of the ship. In the gal Knewltou Daily ej.-ept Sunday. SPERRY & CHASE, COQUILLE RIVER STEAMBOAT CO. J M any N ation s W ill Exhibit. $2.00 P er Y ear N O TE A N D C O M M E N T The President’s recommendation Portland, Dec. 25.—The lending nations of the world and many of of a trial of the whipping post for the lesser ones have during the last wife-beaters is received with a good few days appointed their national deal of favor in all parts of the commissions to the Lewis aud Clark country. By all means let the ex Centennial, and these have already periment be tried on a scale suffici commenced working in co-operation ently large to test its expediency. with the Exposition management. The sentimental notion that twenty The commissions of several nations lashes on the bare back will make a which exhibited at St. Louis, have wife-beater worse and more degrad already commenced assembling ed, is preposterous and not to be Those exhibits for immediate shipment to thought of as an objection. who imagine that a wife-beater Portland, and there is no doubt whatever that the powers will be re would be made more brutal by a presented at the World’s Fair by flogging are tho sort of people who extensive and comprehensive dis send bouquets and perfumed notes plays. Many of the exhibits to tho cells of murdeiere. In tho brought from St. Louis will be sup case of a wife-beater a severe flog- plemented by fresh displays from giug would be a wholesome counter- abroad, thus assuring to patrons irritant. There are thousands of of the Coast Show the height of ex lonfers who commit offensts in order cellence in foreign exhibits—a com that they may be supported in those bination of the cream of what was second-class hotels called jails. exhibited at St. Louis, and addi The tendency to completely sec tional displays imported for the oc ularize our schools by excluding all casion. religious exercises seems to be There will be exhibits from nearly growing. The supreme courts of every nation that arises to the dig Nebraska and California have for nity of a place on the map. Eng bidden the reading of the Bible in land will maintain her dignity the schools of those states. Similar against Germany and Germany decisions have also been given in against France, while Japan and Minnesota, Montana, and Washing Russia will struggle for supremacy ton. It is claimed that the places in a battle of peace. China will to give children religious instruc have a great display, and Siam and tion are the home, the church, and Ceylon, Spain, Mexico, Italy, Turkey, the Sunday school. Austria and Egypt will be repre sented. Even Morocco and Persia It is very thoughtful ami consid will exhioit, Denmark aud Sweden erate of New York churches to pro have likewise fallen into line, as pose to raise a large sum of money as have Holland and Belgium, and to buy Christmas presents for chil numerous powers of less importance. dren in Japan. As the Japanese Great interest will center about do not know what Christmas is, and the exhibits from Japan and Russia, never heard about the Santa Claus both nations having been attracted myth, and as they are represented by the Oriental aspect of tho Expo as being uniformly happy and con sition. The Japanese are planning tent with the simple life, it is much for a big national pavilion in which to tin credit of the good people of will be shown their products, man Manhattan island that they have ufactures and industries, education money to spare for such a very un al conditions, and displays of fine practical and sentimental purpose. and liberal arts. Russian partici No need to say anything about the pation will be on much the same poor children of New York. lines, particular attention being given to silk weaving and other With cotton worth less than nine manufacturing industries. The cents a pound, owing to the un Russian fine arts exhibit will prob precedented crop, tliore are some ably be the finest at the Fair. It wise men who think that if the cot will be made up of works executed ton boll weevil had got in more of by the modern Russian painters and its fine work and reduced the out may he housed in a replica of a put to about ten millions of bales, handsome old Moscow palace occu prices would he much higher and a pied by the Romanoffs of the early smaller crop just as profitable. The weevil is a very wise insect, and ab days. France and Italy, too, will have solutely refuses to feed upon the fine art displays, and as these coun Paris green mixture which the en tries have long held precedence as tomologists so industriously and sprinkle over the art centers, their offerings will no scientifically As for the pre doubt he notable. Mr. Zeggio, the growing plant. Italian Commissioner, is now in dacious ant, it has gone into winter Venice for the purpose of making quarters and refuses to be inter selections from the Royal Italian viewed. galleries for shipment to Portland. The German hank of Buffalo, N. France’s art collection will be taken Y., which had a capitol Btock of from winning pictures in the recont national competition fur Exposition $100,000 and deposits to the amount exhibits. France will also display of $6,000,000 crime into possession government furniture, Gobelin and of certain Ohio traction railroad Beauvaise tapestries, Sevres pot speculators and promotors, who tery, laces, silks, educational meth purchased a majority of tho bank’s ods, farming and other industrial stock, and then loaded it up with their own unmarketable wares. Of exhibits. course they used the deposits in the Austria, according to the present bank to further their schemes, and plans of the Austrian Commissioner, will show a general outlino of all now the institution is in the hands government work in transportation of receivers and 8,000 depositors are matters, industrial education, and out in the cold whistling for their the methods for tho general devel Christmas cheer. Frenzied financial operators do not seem to be con opment of industry in Austria. fined to Oberlin; Ohio, or to Mrs. Chadwick. If matters go on at this Chicago, Dee. 21.—After vainly^ rate possibly the government will searching for work and being turn have to take control of all savings ed away everywhere with the re banks. mark: “ We might employ you,! * - but we are afraid you are too old,” A piano for sale on easy terms. Will Francie Brokeski, 60 years old, a take part in trade. Enquire at this graduate of Oxford, and formerly a office. state representative, yielded to the Any scliool district in need of an rush of young men and killed him experienced teacher can he put in self. communication with one by en quiring nt this office. --»•* - With a majority of 11'! in the next House, the Republican party- “ I was much afflicted with sci will be strong enough to embarrass atica,” writes Ed C Nud, Iowavillo, itself very much by enacting a lot Eedgwick Co., Kan., “ going about of unwise legislation. It can pass about on crutches and suffering a deal of pain. I was induced to try a subsidy bill of any dimentions. Holland's 8 d o w Liniment, whichre- lieved me. I used three 50c bot Again Senator Smoot’s investiga tles. It is the greatest liniment I tion goes wearily on. A blood ever used; hnvo recommended it to thirsty oath has been revealed but a number of persons; nil express the vote of Utah was not needed to themselves as being benefited by it. I now walk without crutches, able elect the president and the Repub to perform a great deal of light lican party is under no obligations labor on the farm. 25c, 50c, $1 00. to the Mormon hierarchy. IdM bv R 8 Knowltou, V nowlton’s. Druq Store Is Displaying a choice Line o f Holiday Goods. Coquille, Oregon. NEW, RAMBLERS T R IB U N E S LATEST AN D AND M IT C H E LL S ^ Best Wheels Out Rare Bargains in Second-Hand W heels. W h eels to Rent. Repairing Done on Short Notice. ALBERT FISH, C O Q U IL L E , O R E G O N Bast End ot Front St. I . H. HAZARD, C ashier R. E. SHINE, Vice Pres. A. J. SHERWOOD, Pres. F IR S T N A T IO N A L B A N K OF C O Q U IL IiB , O REG O N. , T ra n sa c t» a General B anking B u sin e ss Correspondents. Board o f D ire c to rs. R. C. Dement, A. J. Sherwood, National Bank of Commerce, New York City L. Harlooker, L. II. Hazard, , 0 rocker Woolworth N ’l Bank, Ban Francisco Isaiah Hacker, R. E. Shine. First Nat’l Bank ai Portland, Portland, Or. ************************* * I ULX> \i/ ?i\ m / /I\ . BERTHA PAYNE, UL U I U 11 COQUILLE, OREGON. /IN * U / l V Mh Dealer in Fancy and Ladies’ Furnishing Goods. ^ * 7N * Also a com- Tlx plete line of Seasonable Millinery. six ************************** F O X B R O S -l GENERAL DRAYING. COQUILLE, OREGON. Meets all Boats and Trains. Goods Handled with Care and Dispatch. AGENT F O R RIVERTON COAL. WOOD FOR SALE- Leave orders at T. J. Little’s Livery Stall le. C o q u il l e Steam Laundry H O N E 116 INOSLER & LYONS PROPRIETORS Experienced Help Best o f Work Reasonable Rates Special Kates to Families and Hotels W e m ake our ow n soap and know its ingredients. No injurious chemicals Our baskets will lie left at all the principal points on the river. used. (roods called for and delivered in Coquille City. Dairy Produce SWEET M IL K CREAM AND ICE IN Q U A N T IT IE S TO SU IT coqoiiie Ice & Cold-Storage Co. T H E INi-A-OST Who tied tho cow ’s tail to his leg in the process of milk ing; said slie had not dragged him over two miles before he realized ho had made n mistake. HT t w Iv l-u c lr r a x t Y i e r Must you he dragged beforo you realize you are making a mistake in not using Eloctric Light«.