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
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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.
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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
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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
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, The Supreme Court has made the
is the most cosmopoliton has re-
^
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| 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
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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.
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opium or other harmful drug, it
course, but another cause has been
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,
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. .
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.