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About The Coquille Valley sentinel. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 19??-1917 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 5, 1917)
lié - t if i* I m O* P A G E S 11 TO 18 "ir-..* . 4 * T. , - v COQUILL*. CO08 COUNTY ■ 't N, FRIDAY, JANUARY 5. 1917. $LS8 THE YEAR. - ■.. iii. j g a ggggaagBBsgBBggg The City's Tax Levy. Ag The Item s A re Reduced O r er $50,000 at Saturday’s Court in Session ain This Attorneys Liljeqvist u n i Goes Tell What 1« the Week. Contract« Are Awarded. Cause of the Delay. ■ m I end-that Ü m meal U ti pad hero ta feed tha 1 Gooa county. N aturally 1 m During the discussion of the itanu of the Budget for 1917 a t the meeting of the County court last Saturday morning complaint waa made by the court th at euch large aUounta due from largo eatatee remained unpaid, that the receipts from taxes never equalled the eetimatee and so the amount of outstanding county war > daiUoa et th eir bid of Uve conte a Una, rants issued in anticipation of tax re on their sta temente of éhrculation. ___ ceipts continually increased. The prfnting of oAcers’ notices waa George A. Stevenson, manager of awmrded to thè Marehfield Record a t the North Bend Mill and Lumber com pany, nude a talk telling why th at 2 canta a Una. The pablieation of thè Tax Sum- company had not paid its taxes for mona in foredosure went te thè Coca Bay Harbor on ita bid of 3 conta far each description, includine thè nasse, for ali thè inaertiona and 8 conte a Un# for all thè inaertiona of othar , m attar than deaeriptions. Dis tre t Attorney Liljeqvist aald The btyapf thè Coos Bay Times end th at ha had begun in 19X8 to take thè Marehfield Record to pubtish thè dalinquant tax Ust e t 8 conte e lina for each iaaertioa were held for fur- thef consideration. This m etter waa paaaad up by thè Supreme court la The m eeting a t the court house Sat urday-to discuss the coming year’s bod get was so well attended th at Uk County court moved upstairs to the Circuit court rosta which was half filled by the people who had come to consider the tax question * The Marshfield Chamber of Commerce waa represented by Attorney Cassias R. Peek, President Charles fiali, of the Good Roods Association, RL M. Jen nings, of the Oregon P aver Company, and others- From North Bend came Commissioner-elect Archie Philip, Gèo. A. Stephenson, of the North Band- Mill, and others, while there CHANGES MADE THIS WEEK si.'.-- . ■ m Arehie Philip, of N orth Bond, «da W. T. Dement as county term. Jeeee P. Boyers, of Coquille suc ceeds T. J . T hrift as county M ice «or, beginning a four-year term . Ha has as deputy J . C. Sullivan and as darks Raymond E. Jeub, formerly deputy county clerk, and A. A . «slander, of Sumner. The latter will be the draughtsm an in tha office. L. W. Oddy succeeds R obt R. W at son aa county clerk. His office force consists of Nets Osmundson, who con- Charfes Hall, who represented tha Good Roods Association as. wall as tha Marshfield Chamber of Commerce, op posed this, insisting th at good faith with the Communities in the upper Coquille valley which had voted for the bonds, required th at the prosaism made to them during the campaign last spring should ho fulfilled, and th at the usual annual road fund be raised eo as to perm it the improve ment of the roods north and east of of widows’ pensions and appliestlon« fa r allowances from the indigent fund. The work of the session will probably be completed so th at the court can the work was being done on the roods for bringing which to Urn and grad# the bond issue was voted, and the a r gument for n reduced levy won. One statem ent made by Mr. Pack ■was especially noteworthy. Ho mid the tax levy for the city of Marshfield this year had been reduced e mill and » h a lf fresa loot year's fig » « . 'W hnt th at was done the people who opposed the redaction insisted th at K would be neutralised by an increase of an equal Liljeqvist Still On the Job. the total they had to pay over a t the Bay would h# nu cha nged. So ho asked th a t the budges be eut enough for them to realise on their economies a t homo—and ha was not dimppoint- The following table shows the ori ginal estim ates on the principal items of the Budget, the cuts recommended by the Marshfield committee, and the amounts finally decided upon by the court. It will be noted th at the court hi some instances and U Re total made more cute from the eetimatee Budget Estim ato ’ Justice C ourt................... Circuit Court ................. D istrict Attorney*« Office Sheriff’s Offlee................. Clerk’s Office................... 12,009 2,000 . 7,800 .. 400 26.000 Budget Amount Adopted Advised ........$ 900___ . ........ 10,000___ . ........ 1,600___ . L600 ........ ¿000___ . ____ 8 ,6 0 0 .... 180___ $00 . • | e e e . *_ 30Ì) », » « • .. 2,500 . . . 20,000___ . 20,000 ........ 4,000___ .. 4000 .. 27,100 . . 10,0« .Vas M ^gOOO. es* . . 8,000 .. 26,000 . .. 1 .. 20,009.... .$177,860 . y/r.fl4 0 A 6 0 .. . . .$187,700 »70,000, t|bus making" the total eu from the original estim atiw tll.fllfl It must be rather disappointing to the Kinney tract people and the others who thought they would get n breath ing spell in the litigation for the foreclosure of the tax liens now in ■progress to usd former D istrict A t torney Liljeqvist still on the Job. Owing to the fact th at Judge Hall, the new county attorney, is in the same position aa Judge Coke in re spect to them suits—disqualified on account of being a party in internet— the county court Inst Saturday asked Mr. Liljeqvist to go on with them until he secured judgment, carrying them up to the Supreme Court should on appeal be taken, and he agreed to do so for n fee of $260 and ex penses in each of the four coses now in co u rt Thom include the tax sum monses of 1908, 1909, 1910, 1911 end 1912, the Inst of which is running in this issue of the Sentinel. Freed from the pressure of other official business, Mr. Liljeqvist says ho will prom them cases to a speedy issue. He has had them casm in hand, or a p art of them, for the' past four years and is thoroughly fam iliar with all their details. Indead he made a trip to Seattle Inst spring to famil iarise himself with the litigation in Washington along this line under n statute sim ilar to ours. in vain for notion. Judge Skipworth mid he would proceed with the ^ x eases—but did not order tha sala of the property. Finally in August, 1918, Judge Skipworth took up one m m and in four days took all tha testimony in the cnee. Ho ordered certified cop ies of the decree to bo nude a t once, and briefs filed in 80 days from tha time the copies ware mode. The a t torneys promised to have their cer tified copies out soon, but th irty days passed and then another th irty days and then another until on the S0U| ■of D aeattbfr nothing had been done. No action had boon taken on the dis trict attorney’s request for an order to compel the attorneys in the cam to flU their briefs. Public sentiment most demand th at the courts givo tha county a fair dasd. Liljeqvist m id he wanted to try the came, th at he was anxious to clean them up. The big taxpayer he mid, uses «very device to forestall action. The coart ought not to favor thorn people. Heavsn only knows when we will get e decision of th at cam triad last A ugust "The way K has bean put over from year to year is a crime, an outrage and n vioUtion of public rights,” he added. The courte should give aa much attention to Coos Monty’s re ses es to thorn of private citisene. The county cannot collect thorn tmek taxes except in the and tolling The tax levy in Coquille for the year, 1917, will bo as follows: Mills County and sta te ...........................19.4 Port of B andoa.......... - ................8. City of Coquille .......................... 17.6 City school district ................... 9.5 VERY 600D NEWS Both Our Lumber Mills To Run at Full Capacity This Year. Total .......................................... 41 A fter standing idle for several This is five mills more than last year, the school tax being five mills years the mill of the old Coquille Lumber Co. is to be put in opera greater and the othar item s the son tion again. This is the fulfillment of H ie Ferry Business o f 1916. a desire the people of this section have cherished for the past three The following is the,report of Fer years, and it m arks a long step for ryman M. C. Toser, of the traffic over ward in the Industrial improvement of the Coquille ferry here for tha year Coquille and Gw surrounding country. This announcement of the reopen Automobiles . ing of the mill was made to 'th e Sen Footmen . . . . tinel this meaning by E. E. Johnson, Single team s. who returned last night from a ten Doubla team» days’ trip to San Francisco where he Live stock . . . secured a lease on the lower mill from the Dollar people. Since the rise in the price of lumber a year ago it had been hoped th at the Dollar people would see their way clear to sta rt the mill up, but the huge profits to be made in the ex Only two bids wars submitted for port and shipping business have pre the construction of the pile approached vented any attention being given to to the bridge across Hoffman slough, logging operations. four miles above M yrtle Point. These When Mr. Johnson secured th at ware opened a t the afternoon session large contract a few weeks ago from of the County court and the contract the Sitka Spruce company, of P o rt was awarded to Edwin Ellingaen, of land, he immediately began » « w » ; Coquille, whese bid waa $1,286.96. plans to operate the lower mill. His The other bid waa by Hagquist A plan is to run the upper mill on fir Bjorqvist for »1880. and the lower mill on the spruce Thro# Mds were opened fa r the com which the Portland Arm is so anxious pletion of the Bandon south to the to secure a t once. Curry county line road by the court It will require about 90 man to The bidders were Chris and Chas. operate the lower mill, wfaar# C. McC. Johnson wQl be in charge. Chas. qvist and Bjorqvist. As the bids were Schroeder will continue to bo the fore itemised and it could not be deter man in charge of operations a t tha mined without considerable figuring upper mill. .The pay roll a t tha new which was the lowest, the m atter was mill will be practically the same as referred to the Headmaster to report th at of tbs old mill now, thus doubling on a t the February session of the the amount which is now being distri co u rt Another reason for tha post buted by this single industry in Co ponement was on account of the in quille end amounting to several thous junction threatened by County Sur and dollars a month. veyor McCulloch against tbs conatruc- The amount of lumber cut will like wise be doubled, Mr. Johnson figuring on a 2-million feet a month cut. claims th at the county has not yet The old mill has been running secured title to all the rig h t of Way. steadily for the post month, a large A discussion aa to the character of part of the output going to the South the improvement of this rood, with ern Pacific, which has ordered nearly regard to bridges, was started whan 2JX>0,000 feet, end which it is shipping Chris R khert asked th at tha old brid to Brooklyn, Loa Angeles, San Fran ges, which he said would last for 20 cisco and other points. years yet, be left as they are, thus While the work of getting the mill saving $20,000 so th at this amount ready to operate will begin a t once, could bo used for surfacing tha road. it will be the latter p art of the present Goo. Laird took the position th at month before active operations begin concrete bridges were needed on this there. Aasen Bros., who have 80 men new road now and urged th at they at work in their camp on Beaver be made a p art of the new construc slough and expect to put more men on tion work. a t once, will probably bo ready to sup Judge Watson gave as his opinion ply the mills here with logs by the that the application of gravel to the 16th. Crane’s camp will not got into surface did not constitute a perma tha Boutin tract to cut for the local nent improvement and therefore the mills before March. ’ proceeds from the sale of bonds could Mr. Johnson says th at there will notrbe used for this purpose, ns sug probably be a demand for more men gested by Mr. Richert. He mid Uw. thMLCan. he secured i s Coquille a t tOCSUdO 67 (his road had been left in present, when the newly opened mill the hands of tbs State’ Highway Com gets into operation, but from w hat ha mission and he did not think it the said it is understood th at Coquille res business of the County court to in idents are to bo given first chance at terfere with the commission’s plans. the new Jobs. Action on the bids was then post While this resumption of operation poned until the February meeting of has boon taken into consideration in forecasting the reasons for improved the court. Bide for operating tha Coquille fer business conditions end brightening ry were numerous, there being seven financial sky* in 1917, it is with a bidders who submitted eight bide. great deal of satisfaction th at we can John Hickam offered to take the job chronicle the actual closing of a deal for $120 per month; Chas. P. Offleld which will have so great an influence for $116; Logan Kay, $1$5; M. C. in bringing about the promised pros T o ile r, $136; Jos Peart, $116; J . W . perity. While it is a business pro McGuflln, $110; Rock Robison, $116. position with Mr. Johnson, it also In addition to t hose bids Logan Kay means better times for all, end the offered to perform the work, bear all city is to be congratulated on its the expenses for new m aterial and prospects. make all repairs for $166 per month. At the evening session of the court Short in H is Recollection. this U tter bid by Mr. Kay was ac Mr. T hrift’s books show th at in cepted and ho and Jack Tozier will stead of Charles Short’s five-acre lot operate the ferry the coming year. in Ferndale paying only «1.61 tax, it ie paying $21.26. It is Lot 6 sad is assessed for $«26. A t the Budget moating last Saturday morning Cosn- missioner Philip quoted Mr. Short) as saying th at he had beea offered $6,000 for the property and was still paying the same Utile old $1J1 taxes he did ten or twelve y ean ago, after buying the tot for $$60. Perhaps ha waa talking through his hat, too, when he claimed to have been offered $1000 aa acre for it. COUNTY COURT SATURDAY