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About Semi-weekly herald. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1904-1905 | View Entire Issue (March 3, 1905)
SEMI-WEEKLY HERALD. 22: No. 67 V ol . E ntered» secoud-cla«« matter July 8, 1904, at the postoffice at Coquille, Ore- icon, under act of Congres« of March 3, 1879. Walter CuUn, M. D. P hysician S ukobon and C oquili . b C ity , O bb . 5 ,7 » Telephone 8. T Stanley & Burns, Attorney*-At- Law. Ileal Eatate, Collection*. H peci a Hies—Criminal and U. 8. Land Cation, Notarié* Publio. C o q ü xlia B, . . . . O bsoo h . « Geo. Russell, M. D., P htbioiam and S ubobon , Offioe in KU88KLL PHARMACY. Calls promptly answered day or night. Phone, main 136. Coquille, : : : Oregon. I A. J. Sherwood, Arrossar- at -L aw , N otasi P ublic , Coquille, : : Oregon Walter Sinclair, A T rO B N S T -A T -L A W , N otabt P ublic , Coquille, : : Oregon. I. Hacher, A bstractor or T itlrb . C oquillb C itt , O rb Hall & Hall, ATTO»NBTa-AT-LAW, Dealer in K s a l E stât , o f nil kinds. Marshfield, Oregon. Ellsworth B. Hall, Attorney-at-Law, CoquiLLB, : : : O rboon . CollectioiiB and Insurance. A Letter from Jamaica. Kingston, Jamaica, Feb. 10, 1906. E ditob H erald : The first cop y o f the H erald to reach me since I left the United States came this week, and it was read, advertise ments and all. We shall hope for semi-weekly visits. We were exactly two weeks in ooming from Eugene, Ore., to Fort Antonio, Jamaica. The change is simply revolutionary. From cold weather to hot, from a sober coun try to one where an earthquake greeted us the 2rst week, from American railroads to the Jamaican government railway, where we travel 70 miles to get 30, in 5} hours, where the first c U sb cars have match strikers on the doors so it is easy to smoke, where we go through 20 tunnels in 50 miles, where the peanut boy is u girl, where natives come to the train to sell fruit and because you are a stranger charge you double price, that is, 6 cents for 8 bananas, where they say “That’s an ugly baby,” for, to say “ She is pretty” would bring bad luck. Everything is interesting to an American. Things that are not Jamaica are English, ye know. Everything, except the capital which is developing the island. That’s good old American gold. “Oh for more Yankee enterprise,” we mourn. Kingston is hot, dirty and ugly. Its 50,1/00 people are packed into a space about large enough for 20,- 000. The poor people live in single "rooms" of which there will ,be three or four in one “yard” and each room is large enough for a family. Heating Btoves are not known and cook stoves are about as scarce. A cast iron cook stove was offered me for $35, a stove thnt would sell at home for about $7. Cooking is done on open fires. Flour Is $!) per barrel, beef, any part of the animAl, 12c, Orapenuts 20c, milk 12o per quart, potatoes 2c, California dried fruits 22c, dried apples and prunes 12c, canned butter 40c. A 6-room bouse in a fair location rente for $25. Prices are high because of import duties which are 1-6 of the value. The favorite food of the common people is nothing more or less than D bn tist . good American codfish! Tbis, mixed Olfloo two doors sonth Odd Fellow's Hall with the nckee, a vegetable growing Will make Bandon a profeaaionnl riait on a good sized tree, makes a dish not to be despised. The bananas the first Monday In esoh quarter. are superior to any yon ever taste Coquille, Oregon. in America. Oranges, of whicb T there are several varieties, are also delicious. Yams, cassavas, yampie, E. D. Sperry. W. C. Chase. cbo cho, co co, cocoanut, sweet po tatoes, tomarinds and bread fruit SPERRY & CHASE, are among our vegetables which Attorney s-at-Law. must be tasted to be appreciated. The banana and cocoanut seem the Office in Robinson Building, main product, but the former, ow Coquille, - - - Oregon. ing to the plant's delicate nature, is sometime a failure, and the more progressive men are urging the pen E. G. D. Holden, keepers (farmers) to plant more co L aw tsr , coanut walkB (orchards). Nutmegs, ly Keoorder, D. 8. Commissioner, Gen coffee, cocoa and sugar are raised. eral Insnranoe Agent, and Notary 8cenes by the roadside are inter Pabilo. Offioe in Kobin- esting. You pass one of the numer son Building. ous saloons and proprietor and pa Coquille, Oregon. trons bow unbanely to the minister. Now you pass piles of stone which women are breaking for the govern ment roads and thereby 6arn a few A. F. Kirshman, cents a day. “I beg you a quattie, D b n t is t . roassn,” sings out a “ pickney” who o n e . at Residence, one blook east ofj wants three cants. Market women who walk 60 miles or more a week Tattle Hotel. with produce upon their beads are Oregon. Coquille passing day and night When tired they lie down by the roadside to COQUILLE RIVER STEAMBOAT CO. sleep, no matter what kind of weather. The “ lords of creation” Str. D I S P A T C H are at home, presumably caring for Tom White, Master, the children. Children pass on Leare* | Arrives their way to school and their apples Bandon.7 a - m . I Coquille____ 10 a - m . Coquille . . . . . 1 P-M. | Bandon------ 4 p - m . for lunch consist of a six foot piece Connecte at Coquille with train for Marshfield of sugar cane balanced nicely on and steamer Ejhu for Myrtle Point tbeirbeads. Little donkeys covered Str. F A V O R I T E from sight by their load of grass or J. C. Mrtomaw. Ma*ter, bananas meet you ard as the driver (geayes I Arrives Coquille........ 7 A-M. | Bandon. .10:45 A M . cries “ side" they crowd against the Bandon.......... 1 P-M. | Coquille. 4:45 p - m . side of the bluff. Str. R E T A A week spent with and American Alva I-ee, Ma*ter, missionary 12 miles in the country Leavee I Arrive* Coquille....... 1 p - m . I Bandon 5 P-M. showed the varid nature of his Bandon . . . . 7 A-M. j Coquille — 11 A-M. work. Ha superintends the erection Carrying pes*eng©r* and Bail. of several chapels destroyed by the Str. E C H O cyclone of August, 1903. The peo P H . E. James. Master, ple carry all tha stones and sand 1' es.es | Arrives — yrtlePoiat 7 a -B. | -piillr C y !> .10 a - b . for these stone buildings on their "1 aille City. . 1 r-B. I MyrtU F L . 4 00 e » . heads, sometimes a distance of two Daily exeapt Bnnday. I $2.00 COQUILLE, COOS COUNTY, OREGON, MARCH 3, 1905. J. Curtis Snooh, D. D. S. miles. They give a day a week to this in the six months or year in j which it takes to erect the buildiDg. The master mason has full plans for the building whicb be claims to understand, be manages to lay the foundation a foot smaller than re quired. The missionary spends an hour instructing him how to make same very simple angles. The min ister returns home to find, perhaps, some one who cannot afford to pay the gout doctor, waiting free medi cine, or, two litigants after they have stated their case will be pre vailed upon to arbitrate their “ law suit” over 50 cents. Now a tramp, once a prosperous pen-keeper, furnishes a temperance sermon on the woes of strong drink. The min ister does not buy a horse that is offered him, it is too ripe. “The time is loo stiff," says a young man who has not been coming to church, he has no money to buy good clothes. The schools are practically all under control of the minister, and this particular man has three which he superintends. Seven to thirteen years is Bchool age here. The minister's library is varnished tbis keeps off the cockroaches. He uses it as he has time in preparing his messages for his people. In America, bugs, ants, gnats and mosquitoes are prerequisites to a picnic. In that respect, life here is a picnic. For the poor people oppressed by heavy taxes, by extor tionate import duties, crowded to gether in the immorial density in their “ yards,” taught the vices but not the virtues of “ civilization.” the prey of unscrupulous sharpers, only for the educated and then with false ideas of an education and how it should be used, for these people life is no holiday. Cordially, J. J. H andsakeb . To Discuss Municipal Govern ment. P ortland , M arch 1.— A Kiest con ference of cities, which will be ad dressed by leaders in the movement for municipal reform, will be one of the most important features of Sun day exercises at the Lewis and Clark exposition. The cities of the Pacific North west, the great territory which was won for the United States by the expedition of Lewis and Clark, will be asked to send delegates to the great civic's conference, which will be held during the latter part of August. Dr. Eagar P. Hill of Port- land is now in the East ar ranging for distinguished speakers on subjects connected with munici pal reform who will address the gathering. The details of the con ference will be left to the delegates. It is expected that a league of North west cities will be formed for the mutual benefit of the cities joining such a league. Subjects of timely interest bave been chosen for I be conference, and the discussions will be along prac tical lines. “ How to Fight Cor ruption in Cities” will occupy the attention of the delegates for sev eral days. “ Social Betterment Work in Cities” is another topic, which will include the suppression of vice and the matter of dealing with the liquor traffic, “ Municipal Improvements will be a third topic, and the discussions under this head will include such practical subjects as sewers, streets water plants, light supply and sewerage disposal. A C h i r a c * A ld e r m a n O w e s I lia E l- r r t l o n t * C h a m t t e r l a l u ’ s la u g h Day of Uavailing Sacajawea Statue Settled. At a joint meeting of the Red Men and the board of the Sacajawea Statue association a few evening ago July 6 was decided upon as Red Men’s and Sacajawea day. A committee waited upon the officers of the fair and found that the date would conflict with no other special feature, and July 6 was definitely decided upon by all concerned, and from this on both organization« will work toward making that day one of the great ones of the fair. It is definitely settled that Kip- ka-pel-i-kan, the grandson of Black Eagle, will probably be among the speakers. This probably led to the sensational dispatch from Nez Perces that Moses was collecting a band of Indians to bring to Portland, and one of the features of their visit would be taking charge of the un veiling of the statute of Sacajawea. Just who will unveil the statue has not yet been announced, but the Study Club ol Coquille will be giv. en the hoDor of naming that person, as they gave the largest donation, over the amount asked, of any town in the state. Several good sized donations have come during the week from Boise, Idaho; Superior Wis., and other goodly proportions from Portland. Again, however, it is painful to state, Oregon is not doing her part in this work; $2,509 of the $7,000 is still to be raised. Up to the present the amount contributed in money by Portland is but $260, and $100 of this was given by one woman, which leaves practically nothing contributed by the public at large. It does not speak well for the pa- triotiotism of the state or city that Bucb is the case,and a blush of shame must certainly be felt when we rea lize that this beautiful work of art is being erected for us by people from abroad. Large contributions have not been asked or expected, out when tbis matter was first agitated it was confidently believed that every woman in the state of Oregon would send at least 50 cents for a member ship, and if this expectation had been realized no one outside of the state could have had the privilege of saying they helped contribute to it, and the few women who have done the work, would not feel well- nigh exhausted with the burden they have had to carry. But a few months now remain in whicb to raise tbis $2,500, and it is most earnestly hopod that the womem of tbis state will yet waken up to the necessity of their doing something. I f money cannot be contributed work can. The buttons will soon be ready to sell to the school children, which will admit them to the grounds free the day of the unveiling. Every woman of the state could sell 10 or more and help the work to that extent. Some beautiful pictures have been made of the statue and reproduced in copper tints and mounted on gray beard. These the association bad made to supply the demands for pictures that were constantly made upon it, and it will sell them to cover expense at five cents apiece. Either the buttons or pictures may be got from Mrs. C. M. Cartwright, 215, Seventh street. A number of the autograph cop ies of “ The Conquest” still remain unsold, and will be given aa a prize \ for every $10 seut to the association, or will be sold at the regular price. These may also be had from Mrs. Cartwright.—Portland Journal. M rm ed r. “ I can heartlyand conscientiously | The Senate has had to open an recommend Chamberlain’s Cough j hour earlier each day in order to Remedy for affection« o f the throat make more time for the considera and lungs,” says Hon. John i tion of the important questions that Shenick, 220 So. Peoria St„ C hica-1 are before it, but Btill it has bad go. “ Two years ago during a politi cal campaign, I caught cold after time to give three days to the dis being overheated, which irritated; cussion of a point of order made by my throat and I was finally com Senater Bailey of Texas. It would pelled to stop, as I could Dot speak be opposed to Senatorial dignity to aloud. In my extremity a friend burry over these matters. advised me to use Chamberlain’s ------- - ■ « • » • --------- Cough Remedy. I took two doses The Minnecota legislature is that afternoon and could not bolive my senses when I found the next working on a bill to H ds any man morning the inflammation had who beats his wife $50, the sum to largely sulisided. I took several go to the wife. It ie spiritedly con doses that day, kept right on talk tested on the ground that some ing through the campaign, and I thank this medicine that I won my wives in need of a new drees might seat in theCoUDcil.” This remedy be tempted to so accusation of the husband for the sake of the money. is tor sale by R. S. Knowlton. P eu Y e a r NOTE A N D COM M ENT. A bill has been introduced in Congress providing that government clerks who do not pay their debts must lie discharged. The creditors are still wondering if the bill was introduced for their benefit. President Rooievelt says in a speech: “ It is not a matter of credit to be honest." Perhaps not, but it has enough novelty to make it at tractive. “ Why should the President dine in Little Hungary?" asks the New York American. Probably he was a little hungry. The Wisconsin legislature pro poses to “ investigate violent cases of women injuring themselves by wearing corsets too tight.” There is a rush of statesmen anxious to serve on the committee of investiga tion. A Texas citizen announces him self equipped to send the cotton market booming by collecting and distributing in cotton sections enor mous quantities of boll weevils. This enterprising citizen is not un der detective surveillance and a bill specially looking toward the sup pression of his kind has been intro duced in Congress. Is the extensive celebration of Waebington’s birthday due to pat riotism or to the enterprise of the merchants who sell flags, wooden hatchets, and paper cherries? The Kansas Senate has voted down the proposition to extend suf frage to women. The Senators are still in session, each one afraid to go home. Dr. Hillis says that (Americans are losing their imaginations. Evi dently he is not losing his. V nowlton’s P Besides a complete stock ol Drugs and Druggist’s Sun il dries carries Kodaks and Sup- 1 plies, Phyrography outfits and ¡E m Supplies. ‘ Clearence Sale OF WINTER GOODS Commencing Feb. 25th. I will sell my stock of Fall and Winter G oods consisting of Gents’ Furnishing Goods, Ladies’, Gents’ and Children’s Mr. Stead says if the Czar is spared “ he will go far.” The best way of making sure that he will be spared is for him to "g o far,” and without delay. Chinaware, Etc. All Goods new and up-to-date. No Shoddy Goods. Goods Sold at Cost and fo r Cash only. MRS. M. N0SLER, COQUILLE, OREGON. Night call b y preaaing the button at tho right of the door. The Russell Pharmacy M a in S t. C o q u ille . Dr. Geo. Russell, Rex I. Russell, Pharmacist Proprietor R. E. SHINE, Vlee Pres A. J. SHERWOOD, Pré«. Andrew Carnegie will go to Cleveland to testify in the Chad wick case. It has boon quite a time since he has had a chance to earn $1.50 a day. Sweaters, Gents’ Underwear, Gloves, Shawls, Corsets, Mr. Carnegie is said to keep $10,- 000,000 constantly on hand. This A Specialty of Pei fumea and Tonic Preparations. is probably not true but in any case it ie an example that every one would like to follow. An Iowa woman says she can feed a tu in properly on nine cents n day. Almost auy woman could afford - a husband at that price. Drug Store L. H. HAZARD, Cuhlar F IR S T N A T IO N A L B A N K o p C O g U ILiU B , O REG O N . Russia has sent a third squadron T r a n s a c t s a G e n e ra l B a n k i n g B u s i n e s s to join the second and it ie probable that both will join the first. Board of Directors. Correspondents. Senator Cullom believes that the President should take the Senate into his confidence. There has never been any lack of desire on the part of the President to take the Senate into his confidence but he generally takes the press into it at the same time. The House saw to it that the Sen ate should draw back on the wheat drawback amendment. R . O. Dement, A . J. Sherwood, National Bank o f Commerce, New York City L . Har locker, L . H . Hazard, Crocker W o o l worth N ’l Bank, San Francisco Isaiah Hacker, R . E. Shine. I First N at’l Bank of Portland, Portland, Or. ROV FOX GENERAL DRAYING. COQUILLE, OREGON. Meets all Boats and Trains. MaDy people believe if Judge Swayne lived in a city boarding house at $1.25 a day that the pun AGENT ishment was sufficient without im WOOD FOR SALE- peaching him. Goods Handled with Care and Dispatch. FOR RIVERTON COAL. Leave orders at T. J. Little’s Livery Stable. N l r i k n H id d e n R e e k « When your ship of health strikes the hidden rocks of Consumption, Pneumonia, etc., you are lost, if you don’t get help from Dr. King’s New Discovery for Consumption. J. W. McKinnon, of Talladega Springs, Ala., writes: “ I had been very ill with Pneumonia, under the care of two doctors, but was getting no bet ter when I began to take King’s New Discovery. The first dose gave re lief, and one bottle cured me.” Sure cure for sore throat, bronchitis cougs and colds. Guaranteed at R. S. Know!ton's drugstore, price 50c and $i. 00. Trial bottle free. For Sale C o q u il l e Steam Laundry PHONE 116 NOSLER & LYONS PROPRIETORS Best of Work Reasonable Rates One 6 horse power «teem engine; one Experienced Help 600 gallon cheese vat; one curd sink; Special Kates to Families and Hotel« ciieeee hoop« and preaa screws. All the above are about aa good as new, bat will be sold very cheap. 1 We make onr own soap and know it« ingradient«. No Injurious chemicals used. _ NOBLER A LYONS, Our basket« will he left at ail the principal point* on the river, Coquille, Oregon. Goode called tor and delivered in Coquille City.