SEMI - WEEKLY V ol . 22: No. 76 Entered as second-clans matter Julv 8, 1904, ut the postottice at Cc Jon u il le, Ore­ gon, under act of Congress nt March 3, $ 2.00 P COQUILLE, COOS COUNTY, OREGON, A P R IL 4, 1905. Business is a Sound Basis. Centennial Notes Hops. “ H it the Trail” at the Lewis aud Unquestionably the business of the The hop market in the northwest Clark Exposition, opening in Port- country is in good condition. In is assuming a firmer snd a more de­ W alter Culin, M. D. all the important centers of manu­ termined tone as the fact appears to ! land, June 1. Captive balloons, airships and an facture and trade business is bet­ become more patent to brewers P h y sic ia n a n ii S itugkon 1 aerodrome will prove very interest­ ter than it whs a year ago. It is that there are not hops enough in CoqmLLit C it y , O kk . showu in larger orders for goods, j the United States to supply the de- ing features of the Lewis and Clark Kronenborg Bldg. Teleph on e S. iu increased bank clearings, in pro- mand until Oct, 1, 1905. The Fair. A number of flying contests Nsxt Door to P. O. jects of railway extension. I dealers in hops now claim that 40c ! are being arranged. 1 Wages, on the whole, are better, j per lb. will be reached before June Hon. Carlor Coffigny, secretary The output of all business is great­ 1, and possibly 50. of state of Cuba, and a number of Stanley & Burns, er. The hop pool in England is at his distinguished countrymen have ^ttorueys-at- Luw. Heal Estate, Collectiuus. Reports of financial transactions last an accomplished fact. The last announced their intention of visit­ Specialties— Criminal and U. 8. Land in Eastern centers show that money papefs were signed Feb. 21, accord­ ing the Lewis and Clark Exposi­ Cases, Notaries Publio. is not lying idle. I t is at work. Build­ in g to a cablegram received by Ta- tion. C oquills . - O bsoon . ing operations show improvement, cyma dealers, sayB the News. This Two hundred Igoroltes, Moros, 1 wages are maintained, and in gen­ hop pool controls 30,000 bales, or Negritoes and Visayans will Bail eral prices are maintained. All practically all the unsold hops in from the Philippine islands this Geo. Russell, M. 0., these conditions indicate healthy England. These 30,000 bales have week for Portland, where they are P h y s ic ia n and S ubokoh , state of business. Many persons been removed from the market en­ to participate in the Exposition. I have thought, or professed to think, tirely. No price is set on them, and Office in K U 88K LL PHARMACY. A feature of the Government that re-action or reverse, from the it is claimed that at the present 1 Calls promptly answered day or night, Fisheries exhibit at the Lewis and favorable conditions of the past time any price could buy them. This Clark Exposition will be a miniature Phone, main 13C. seven years, was due this year. pool is expected to have a strength­ reproduction of the Columbia river, There has been so much to this ef­ ening effect on the market of the Coquille, : : : Oregon. illustrating the various methods fect that timid ones have actually world. The supply of saleable hops of catching and spawning salmon. been expecting the predicted conse­ is now down to where anyone may T I Mrs. Eliza WarreD, the oldest quences. But, contrary, there has figure out their location, aud any­ living white child who was with the A. J. Sherwood, been actual improvement since last one may know about how much famous Marcus Whitman expedition year. A ttornky - at -L aw , money it is going to take to buy | and a survivor of the Whitman On all sides there are proofs that them. There are 30,000 bales on i N otary P ublic , massacre, will visit the Lewis and the American people believe that the Pacific Coast. There is no i Coquille, : : Oregon Clark Centennial. their industry and business are on pool on these hops, but there might j Ventura county, California, fa­ a sound basis. The main trouble about as well be, for the holders mous for its beens, beets and United in the period from 1892 to 1897 are sticking by each other. I t is Walter Sinclair, States senatorial aspirants, will came from the attack on the money claimed that it is next to imposible A ttorney -A t -L aw , make a thorough and distinctive to buy a bale of choice hops within standard. That was a dreadful ex­ N otary P ublic , exhibit iu the California building at perience, not likely to be renewed 10c of the quoted market price. Coquille, : Oregon. the Lewis and Clark Exposition. — impossible, indeed, of renewal. Krebs Bros., of Salem, Or., have Designs for ths new passes, Sound money assures continuous issued a circular letter to hop stockholder’s tickets and commuta­ industry, sound values and steady growers denying the report circu­ /. Hacker, prices.— Oregonian. lated that they were unloading hops tion tickets for the Lewis and Clark A bstracter ok T itles . at any price and stating that they Exposition have been received by Down in Mexico there is a fellow C oquille C it y , O re The had not offered a bale for sale in ! the Director of Admissions. who owns the largest farm in the drawings are elaborate and despict two months and do not expect to world. His name is Don Luis Fer- sell hops until May or June unless scenes closely associated with the razas, and he is said to be the the market advances beyond 35c history of the great Northwest. Hall & Hall, richest man in that country. His per lb. A ttorneys - at - L aw , Miss Evelyn K . Clark, grand­ land holdings cover a space 200x150 Dealer in K kal E stât * of all kinds. Sixty bales of medium to prime daughter of former Governor W il­ miles and comprise 15,000,000 acres. hops of the Linton crop at Engene, liam Clark of Missouri, and a lineal Marshfield, Oregon. There is kept on this vast expanse Or., whex-e sold last week to Isaac descendant of George Roger Clark I J______ a million cattle, 180,000 horses, and Pincus & Sons at 26c per lb.— Trade and Meriweather Lewis, will be a 750,000 sheep. A packing plant Register. visitor at the Lewis and Clark E x ­ F/lsworth R. Hall, which uses 150,000 head of cattle position. Miss Clark is prominent Attorney-at-I.aw , F r i g h t f u l N iiffV r liig l l r l i r v «*«1. and 500,000 sheep yearly is part of iu New York society circles. Suffering frightfully from the the equipment of the establishment. C o q u ille , : : ! O rk « o n . Over 2,000 pure-bred beef bulls virulent poisons of undigested food, An exchange says: Pat had a Collections and Insurance. C. G. Grayson, of Lula, Miss., took have been imported from England black eye and thus explained it: Dr. K in g’s New L ife Pills, “ with and the United States for use on its the result,” he writes, “ that I was “ Sure’en I got ut in the mostinner- herds. The sheep have been im­ cured.” A ll stomach and bowel dis sent way possible. I see Mrs. Mur­ proved by the use of rams of the orders give way to their tonic, lax­ phy, an’ I sez to her, sez I, ‘It ’s a J. Curtis Snook, D. D. S. R. S. fine marn’n’, Mrs. Murphy, sez I .’ leading breeds. I t has also several ative properties. 25c at D rntist . Knowlten’s drug store, guarantaed. I modern fire stations situated at con­ ‘It is,’ sez she. ‘A n ’ where are yez Dittos two doors sooth Odd Fellow’s Hall venient points, for cutting off grass goin g’?’ sez I. “ T o the bargain Reports no Change. Will make Handon a professional visit fires, where watchmen are continu­ sture,’ sez she. A n ’ wid that I went the first Monday in each quarter. ally or the lookout for troubles of St. Petersburg, Mar. 31— General down the sthrate wid her. Whin Coquille, Oregon. this kind. I t is situated in the Linevitch reports as follows: “ There we came to de shtore they was a state of Chihuahua. Over a thou­ is no change in the situation, a l-; crowd an’ sez she: ‘Oould the baby sand men rre necessary to care for though the enemy is displaying a minit till I come back,’ an’ I helt and operate this farm. Mr. Fer- great activity east of the railroad. the kid. A n ’ Murphy kirn up. ‘How E. D. .Sperry. W . C. Chase. razas must certainly have his hands A heavy snow fell during the night.” ar’ yez?’ sez he. ‘Oh, I ’m boldin’ SPERRY & CHASE, full, and what a pleasure (?) it would me own,’ sez I. ‘Y o u ’re a liar, sez be to pay the taxes on such an St. Petersburg, Mar. 31— Gen­ he. An’ thin he hit me.” Attorney s-at-Law. estate as his were it in the north­ eral Linevitch reports that the That the soil of the western part Office in Robinson Bnilding, western part of the United States.— Japanese have begun a general ad­ of Oregon is well adopted to grow­ Homestead. Coquille, - Oregon. vance of thoir main army, with the ing English walnuts is again dem- wings extended, and a heavy recon- snstrated in the large*new orchard Paul De Laney has spent five noissance is being made against the on John B. Stump’s farm adjoining years in traveling in Eastern Ore­ E. G. D. Holden, Russian center, the object being the Monmouth, Polk county. The trees gon, Washington, Idaho and Cali­ enveloping of the Russian position. were planted early last year and so L aw ykb , fornia, and has seen every phase of • Heoorder, U. S. Commissioner, Gen far but one tree has died, and it was life in this vast region. His first Sanitarium Burned. eral Insuranoo Agent, and Notary injured during the plowing. There novel was “ The Lord of the Desert,’ Public. Offioe in Kobin- lias been a great number of new which was inspired in his travels San Bernadino, Mar 31— The Cal­ son Building. walnut orchards started in this part thicugh this country. His second ifornia Sanitarium burned this of the northwest during the past novel, and more popular than the Coquille, Oregon. The loss is $4500. The twelve months and the industry will first was the “ Toilers of the Colum- m° rnlri8 patients were rescued through the | | be among the principal ones of ag­ bia,” hut now he has written a bet­ heroic work of Head Nurse Hopkinr. riculture a few years hence.— Home­ ter story still— a story that will A. F. Kirshman, live. It is a new feature in fiction, i _ . _ , , , stead. T . Earl Courtney, a dream prophet D entist . It deals with the great range wars, . , c. . , . , , , , , . . . . in the United States Government It is said that Mrs. Reader ob­ , Offioe at Residencp, one block east of the timberland frauds, and the lr- _ . . .. . . . , Printing Office announces that he tained a $5,000,000 contract from ngation projects in a romantic .,, , ... , . ,, .. Tattle Hotel. ... _ * , . ... will be a candidate for President on the Sultan of Johore. This Sultan spirit. See this paper about getting Coquille . - . Oregon. on the Spiritualistic platform in or Rajah has, under direction of the the story. 1908. I t is probable that there will English partial control of 200,000 Clininberlaln'N Cough Keincdy the an opportunity for a candidate people and million dollar contracts II I Hi nuit. wholesome Fon fltE N T — A good house and stored, his mind has certainly be­ Connects with lower-river boats at Coquille ! Coos county product at the City Meat several nice garden lots. Apply at Three papers of garden seeds for 10 City for Bandon and intermediate points. come affected. 1 this office. : cents at Knowlton’s. \- Market. Ample barges far handling freight. I dies and Tropi­ cal Fruits. È è u F r o n t S t r e e t , C o q u ill«», f û W i .i— ■ ■ ■ O re g o n ■ :