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About Semi-weekly herald. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1904-1905 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 21, 1905)
SEMI-WEEKLY V ol . 22: No. 64 Knterudus second-clans m atter July H, 1ÎMM, at the postonico at C oquille, Ore gon. under act o f Congress ol M arch 3, 1879. C O Q U IL L E , CO O S From Jamaica. Eugene, Oregon, February 15, 1905. E ditor H erald ; Flense find be- Walter Gulin, M. D. | low some extracts from a letter P hysician and S ckueon written by Mrs. John .T. Handsaker C oquille C ity , O he . to her parents while en route to Krotienberg Bldg. T e le p lione 3. ! Jamaica, under dato of January Nuxt Door to P. 0 . 22nd, she writes: “Last night we passed Sau Salvador, the first part of the Now World discovered by Stanley & Burns, Columbus, and could see the light Attorueys-at-Law, from the light house. Now that we Real Estate, Collections. Specialties—Criminal and IJ. S. Land are over our sea sieknesB, we are Cases, Notaries Publio. enjoying the voyage very much, C o q u il l e . . . . . O beoon . this beautiful deep, blue sea is lovely. The •'OS“<'ngerf> were quite excited early this morning when it was announced that two small boats Geo. Russell, M. D., containing three persons, were near P hysician and S urgeon , our ship and evidently in distress. Ollice in RUSSELL PHARMACY. When taken aboard it was found Calls promptly answered day or night. that there were two men and a Phone, main 136. woman, natives, that three days previous had sailed iu their frail Oregon. Coquille, crafts from Narsaw for Hole-in-the- wall, Cuba, forty miles distant, with supplies for the light house. Their boats were both leaking and one A. J. Sherwood, had her mast broken and both were A ttorney - at - L aw , blown 200 miles out of their course. N otaby P ub lic , For three days they had nothing C oqu ille, : : Oregon but five small cakeH to eat. On i Monday we came in sight of Jamaica before sunrise and crossed the bar Walter Sinclair, at 0:30 into a perfect paradise of A ttorney -A t - L a w , beauty, hills covered with palms, N otary P u b l ic , bananas and coconn uts, and the Oregon. Coquille, towu itself, San Antonia, is beauti -Jb. ful. While waiting for the custom officers, and as they rowed along I. Hacher, side a gentleman in the boat asked A iistiu c tk r of T it l e s . if Rev. Mr. Handsaker was on C o q u il l e C i t y , O he board. It was the Methodist mis- sionerv stationed here who had been notified of our coming by our friends at Kingston, and had come Hall & Hall, out to welcome ns. It seemed so A t ïo u n k ïs - at - L a w , kind of him to do so. We are under Dealer iu R kal E staxk o f all kind s. many obligations to this good man M arshfield, Oregon. for the many favors shown. Natives are on board selling fruit, trying to obtain washing, etc. One woman, Ellsworth B. Hall, very black, when she saw Lois Attorney-at-Law, asleep in her berth went into rap tures, “ Oh what a beautiful dam-o- C on v in t«, : : : O rkoos . sil,” she exclaimed, and began beg C ollections and Insurance. ging me to take her for a nurse, “ I would hold her in my arms all the day.” Her proposition was not accepted. We remained in San J. Curtis Snook, D. D. S. Antonia one day, and then camo to D bntist . Kingston, a distance of 70 miles, iu Office two doora south Odd Fellow's Hall the train, and passed through many Will make Bandon a professional visit tuunels, many of them short ones. th . first Monday in each quarter. This is a nice place, the streets are C oqu ille, Oregon. laid out in a proper manner, which is more than can he said of San An tonia. The blacks are very polite and obliging, and the children are E . D. Sperry. W . C . Chase. so cute. Many of them are very SPERRY & CHASE, pretty, even if they are so black. Tlie streets are full of them but Attorneys-at-Law. they are not like the street arabs at Office in Robinson Building, home, they are as smiling and polite as can be. The whole island simply C oqu ille, - ' - - O regon. swarms with people.” If I should copy the whole of this very interesting letter, Mr. Editor, E. G. D. Holden, you should have to add a number L aw yer , of pages in your next issue, so will 3ity Recorder, U. 8. Commissioner, Gei desist. With kind regards, eral Insurance Agent, and Notary ;— r---------------1 Public. Office in Robin “ U ncle S am .” son Building. Portland, Feb. 18.—Did you ever see a pansy as big as a sunflower? If you come to the Lewis and Clark exposition next year you will see A. F. Kirshman, thousands as large. The pansy- will, for the first time in exposition D en tist . history, form an important part of Office at Residence, one block east ofl tire decorative scheme of the fair. C oquille, Oregon. Tnttle Hotel. C oquille . - . Oregon. S tartling; b u t T r u e . People the world over were hor- I rifled on learning of the burning of a Chicago theatre in which nearly six hundred people lost their lives, yet more than five times this num Torn White, Master, ber or over 3,000 people died from Leaves I Arrive« Ban d on .......7 v-M. J Coquille. .. .10 a - m . pneumonia in Chicago during the Coquille....... 1 r-M. I Bandon . . . . 4 p - m . same year, with scarcely a passing Connects at Coquille with train for Marshfield notice. Every one of these cases of and steamer E.'ho for Myrtle Point. pneumonia resulted from a cold S tr . F A V O R I T E and could have been prevented by ,T. C. Mooinaw. Master, the timely use of Chamberlain's Leayes | Arrives Cough Remedy. A great many < *«»• luille....... 7 a - m . ! Bandon. .10:45 a -w. Bandon......... 1 p - m . 1 Coquille. 4:45 p-M. who had every reason to fear pneu monia have warded it off by the S tr . R E T A prompt use of this remedy. The Alva Lee, Master, following is an instance o f this sort: Leaves I Arrives “ Too much cannot he said in favor Coquille .... 1 p - m . ! Bandon . . . . 5 p - m . B andon....... 7 a - m . j Coquille.... 11 a - m . of Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy, | and especially for colds and in- Carrying passengers and mail. ! fluenza. I know that it cured my Str. E C H ( ) ] daughter, Laura, of a seveie cold, fü?H. E. James. Master, and believe saved her life when she Leaves I Arrives was threatened with pneumonia.” Myrtle Point. .. 7 a m . | oquille f ” y 9 30 a - m . oquille City. . 1 P-M. j Myrtle P't. .4 00 P-M. W. I). W ilcox, Logan. New York. ¡Sold by It. S. Knowlton. Dady except Sunday. C O Q U ILLE RIVER S T EA M B O A T CO. S tr. D I S P A T C H I HERALD. C O U N TY, OREGON, F E B R U A R Y 21, $2.00 P e r Y e a r 1 9 05. _ Centennial Notes A Letter From NOTE AN D COM M ENT. Oklahoma. The rope trust was given plenty of ropo and according to tradition hung itself. E ditor H fjilad . Perhaps you The manufasture of gold pens will form oue of the many interest remember me, it being about five ing working displays at the Lewis years since I left Coos county, and have resided in Lincoln couDty, and Clark Fair. California’s building at the Lewis Oklahoma, close to the edge of the and Clask Exposition will be four Creek county, Indian Territory. I have recently returned from a times as large as the pavilion four mouths’ visit to Iowa. I was erected at St. Louis. at Oskaloosa, Iowu, through the Fraternal societies of the United holidays. I was in a regular hard States have organized for the pur blizzard which lasted some 48 pose of erecting a Temple of Fra hours. Street cars were tied up for ternity at the Lewis and Clark that time, business houses closed, Centennial, Over $20,000 has been and all railroad travel was stopped. pledged toward the project, and On .January 5th I started home to the erection of a beautiful aud ap the beautiful Oklahoma, the land of propriate structure is assured. sunshine. I stopped off two weeks It has been decided that tho ma at Wichita, Kansas and there I was chinery, as well as the amusements lucky enough to meet with another on the “Trail,” at the Lewis and j snow storm which lastod three davs. Clark Exposition will be stopped j ; £ ,eft there and a Jay.8 run brought on Sunday. The exhibit palaces me ^ tbo lftnd of 8unshin0. Alas! will he open to the public and all Th(j WM tber0 aU Q K but other features of the Exposition no sunsbine. x {ound the grouud will be running as on week days. covered with B sbeet of ice tbree or Mrs. Potter Palmer suggests that a street be set aside in Chicago to be reserved exclusively for a fash ionable promanade. There should be another one exclusively for trade and a subway for flio beggars. A bronze bust of Washington has been presented to Congress by France. Tire clay model of tho bust which is a replica of the original destroyed in the fire of 1851 was found, to be intact at Angiers and a fresh cast has been made. France in her gifts to this country of the statutes of La Fayette, Rochambcau and this bust of Washington has been more fortunate in her selec tions than Germany which caused the country some embarrassment by presenting a statute of Frederick the Great. The Lewis and Clark Exposition buildings will he protected from danger of fire by a regular auto- matic system of fire alarms. The system works like ordinary improved city systems, automatically harness- ing the horses‘ to the fire engines and wagons, as well as sounding the alarm. {our incbes thick. While it was „nowing at Wichita a sleet was fall- ¡ng ¡n Oklahoma. We had some warm days that melted the ice and tben ¡t 8DOwed again. Since then ^be thermometer has been bobbiDg up and down from the freezing point to zero. There has not been 48 hours of sunshine for the last Western school teachers have two or three weeks. If anyone tells adopted a novel methods of adver you it never storms or gets cold tising the Lewis and Clark Expo here, just tell him (that is if he is sition. They give their children as not larger than you) that he is a an exercise ihe task of writing a most egregious 1------r. letter to some relative or friend in I find a great many people want- the east, extending an invitation to ng to emigrate next spring to the attend the Exposition. School West—to the Pacific Coast. I have children of Moscow, Idaho, recently been recommending the coast coun try to them—say from the Umpqua wrote 1100 such letters. Ground has been brooken for the i vallej to the northern part of Cali- Washington state building for the I fornia. Lewis and Clark Exposition and Old Coos county beats this coun work on the structure begua. The | try for climate and crops—except building will typify the timber j cotton, peaches and grapes—and wealth of the Evergreen state. The ! they are very uncertain crops. L J. 8. Washington legislature recently ap propriated $75,000 for erecting the buildiDg and collecting and install- And Still They Come. ing a comprehensive display of the Portland, Feb. 20.— With almost resources of the state. An excursion that wili doubtless four months remaining before the at'ract great interest is one planned opening of the Lewis and Clark ex by F. R. Drew of New York City. position on June 1st, the demand Mr. Drew will conduct a train of for exhibit space by manufacturers prairie schooners from Portland, and foreign governments has been Maine, to Portland, Oregon, the j 80 great that not only is every Tbe State Department at Wash ington is solicting the co-operation of the French government to pro- yent the mailing of objectionable French pictures to this country. Anyone who has seen the noxious infection of the cities of France by the display and free sale of these pictures will heartily commend and support the State Department. Tom Lawson says he is tired of it all. Many people would not object to his taking a good, long rest. Ifnow lton’s Drug Store Besides a complete stock $ I ol Drugs and Druggist’s Sun-1 fjj dries carries Kodaks and Sup - \ | plies, Phyrography outfits and Supplies. Clearence Sale OF WINTER GOODS Commencing Feb. 25th. 1 will sell m y stock o f Fall and W inter G oods consisting- of Gents'Furnishing Goods, Ladies', Gents' and Children’s Sweaters, G ents’ Underwear, Gloves, Shawls, Corsets, Chinaware, Etc. Women’s clubs are sending to Congress protests against the pas sage of the bill providing for tbe whipping post for wife-beaters in tlie Districts of Columbia. They are afraid that the refined and gentlemanly wife beater may be de Goods Sold at Cost and for Cash only. graded. Florists, too, it is said are protesting on tho ground that their MRS. M. N0SLER, COQUILLE, OREGON. sales will be seriously injured if wife-boaters are whipped instead of Night call bv pressing the button A Specialty ol PeifumoB being sent to jail. ‘ at the rig of the door. and Tonic P rep aration s. All Goods new and up-to-date. No Shoddy Goods. •*# Tho most successful book of the past summer recounted the history of a woman thief and pickpocket. The most successful play of the winter consists of the exploits of “ Raffles,” a gentleman burglar and M thief. A 19-year-o!d boy has been arrested in New York for bolding up aud robbing several citizens at tbe pistol’s point aud says he re Proprietor ceived bis inspiration from tho play of “ Raffles.” These faithful re productions of literary .characters A. J. SHERWOOD, Prêt. are good ns advertisement but they are very bad for general morality. F IR S T In the light of such literary and stage creations the censorship of of the press and the stage does not appear unreasonable. T ra n sa c ts a The Russell Pharmacy a i n S t. C cx iu ille. Rex I. Russell, Dr. Geo. Russell, latter part ol the journey being the I srlllare foot of the original provision trail followed by Lewis and Clark a I contracted for, but much additional century ago. The travelers expect! 8Pace M we^- to reach Portland in October, in Soine timc a6° il W1,s tound nec‘ time to attend the Lewis and Clark (!KSary to order au additional ex- • position structure, which is now be- Exposition. ing built. Tbe new building, which bears the name Palace of Manu There was a timo in the social factures, Liberal Arts and Varied history of this country when money Industries, will contain 90,000 alone opened the doors of society, square feet of exhibit space, equal and a fortune is yet far from being ing in size the Agricultural Palace, “ Tbe Prophylaxis and Therapeu a thing despised by those who pen at present the largest structure on tics of Love” is the title of a French etrate the select and fashionable the grounds. circles of the large cities of the It has novf been found necessary play. The play would not be a suc United States, but every observer of | j0 add to the space in the Palace of cess here where people fall reckless the situation is struck by the fact Machinery, Electricity and Trans- ly in love without stopping to con tliat money alone has not the influ- portation, by adding two wiDgs, one sider 'its prevention or its effect on ence it once had. It cannot be said \ at eacb end> eacb wjng to bo lOOx the health. that the millennial age in society 100 feet. The building as it now An Ohio husband sued for a di has arrived when culture and re stands is 100 feet wide by 500 feet vorce becauso bis wife said he looked finement are tho passports of the long. like a monkey. He lost the case, “ four hundred” but assuredly it is a Work on the exposition structures the jury doubtless agreeing that the fact that these qualities are dis is progressing rapidly. Ten of them wife meant he looked like one puting the power of money. New- are now completed, and the others j h " ’Y eh r’s crowd port society has not, it must be ad- wjji be finished in a few weeks ________ mitted, reached a point where it ad- Only exhibits of unusual attractive- The Senate maintains its reputa- mits only the< scholarly and good, ■ ness are now being accepted, spec- j tion for economy by talking against but auy number of families equipped ja( al ten tion beiug paid to working the seed appropriation, but the con- only with foriunes and “ push are exhibits which show the process of | stituents need not worry. The seeds alive to testify that they could not manufacture rather than the manu- i will be along about planting time, effect an entrance. Washington factored products. society, which of all in this country ____ _ _ ______ , The Supreme Court has made the is the most cosmopoliton has re- ^ ,,,, , , , | beef trust look like Hamburger Chicago, Feb. 15.— Wheat sold on steak, even if the prices haven’t been fused in notable iuttances to recog-1 the Board of Trade today at the ! cut. uize tbe merely rich. Fortunes are i highest point for the year. Fright-1 common in these days. A million- ened by the prediction made by | Race suicide in this country is aire in a big city attracts no at John W. Gates that the price would net bo marked but that every city tention for there are too many of soar in the next 60 days, tbe shorts and town in the country has more them. With the great increase of fairly tumbled over one another to4 school childron than school build- fortunes in the last twenty years the get their hands on the cereal while ings in which to house them, ranks of society have been filled it was yet within comparatively easy C l i H i i i b e . l a i i i 's D o u g h R « ’ iiic«lj I h e with multi-millionaires and money reach. They bid the May price up M oth er* F a vorite. is actually common. Rut intelli to $1.19’ , gence, education and gentle man The soothing and healing prop erties of this remedy, its pleasant ners are still rare and society so The Washington fire department: taste and prompt and permanent quickly surfeited turns from the merely rich tcTwelcome thounusual responded with four engine com -! . . nnnif‘8 especially ----------------- " .. ------ . «- with pan ts, two two trucks trucks ami amt a a water water tower tower People i ^ everywhere. by motherg It of is gtnaU chil. in refinement. Money the opportunities it gives for edu-1 to the alarm Rlven a cook 00 M dren, for cold., croup and whoo cation and travel, have bad some street who had allowed the break ing cough, as it always affori £ quick relief, and as it contains no thing to do with the change, of fast steak to burn. __ opium or other harmful drug, it course, but another cause has been „ , , __ . . . . . may be given as confidently to a the fact that even the despised poor wagon amt harness »238. Inquire „f baby as to an adult. For sale by are getting rich. Geo. Wyer,¡near the Junction. I R. 8. Knowlton. j Pharmacist L. H. HAZARD, Cirhlor R. E. SHINE. Vice Pres. N A T IO N A L B A N K O P C O Ç U IU U B , O R E G O N . G en era l B a n k in g B u s in e s s Board of Directora. Corresponderá. 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. I First Nat’l Bank of Portland, Portland, Or. ROV FOX GENERAL DRAYING. COQUILLE, OREGON. Meets ah Boats and Trains. Goods Handled with Care and Dispatch. A G E N T FO R R IV E R T O N COAL. WOOD FOR SALE- Leave orders at T. J. Little’s Livery Stable. C o q u il l e Steam Laundry PH O N E 116 NOSLER & LYONS PROPRIETORS Experienced Help Best of Work Reasonable Rates Special Rates to Families and Hotels We make onr own soap and know its ingredients. No injurious chemicals n,ed. Our baskets will bo left at all the principal points on the river. Goods called for and delivered in Coquille City.