Logging Train Accident.
ipreme Court of United States Decides
that States May Outlaw the Liquor
Business and C|her States Can
not Force Btyze on Them. •
e la w of W est Virginia flaking the State Bone Dry
and Forbidding the S alt or Transportation of Li
quor for Beverage Purposes Also Afirm ed.
Another loggias train accident oc
curred just couth of Norway at 1:10
Wednesday morning, in which one car
wae totally derailed and two went
off the track at one end.
Trainmaatar Jones eaya that one
of the logs became loose and fell, go
ing under the trucks and throwing
them from the rails. No responsi
bility in the m atter has yet been de
termined. The track was torn up for
200 fast and a work train was sent
from Marshfield as soon as possible
to repair the damage. It was four
o’clock before the track was cleared,
so that the regular trains in both di
rections that day ware oonsiderably
delayed.
Judge 8Upwerth has notified the
attorneys in the Kinney tax cases
that they must fils their briefs within
ta ndays. He is expected over hare
to hold court and hear cases in which
Judge Coke cannot sit early in Feb
ruary.
A CITY PARK?
MORE BUSINESS
FOR COUNTY
The adjourned session of the county
court which was to have been held
Tuesday was postponed on account of
the funeral of Judge D. L. Watson.
The Amt business taken up when
b e n a t Coos City; Neil O w n, b o n a t
Coos City; Dorothy, bern a t Coos
City (now Mrs. Ctanaeo L Tuttle)
and Laura Lavina, b o n a t Marsh
field.
TVs Watson family had its origin
la Scotland from the earliest tradi-
tiods M ia lam ed that they wan
among the follower» pf John Knox,
the leader of M m Reformation of the
16th century (1649-1672). The battle
The transfer of the franchise to the
McDonald, Vaughn Logging company
to use a part of the cdtanty rood in the
Sumner neighborhood to the Smith-
Powers Logging company was ap-
L S ro fS S » ep m h b M fiw Ir Vo
tary with that of tM C anoh^ tfo
Commercial Club Takes Ac
tion To Get Service With
Leas Delay at Bay.
The meeting of the Commercial
Chib Wednesday evening was mors
largely attended than usual, it being
known that the m atter of the exist
ing train schedule was to be up for
discussion as to what, course Coquille
should pursue in attem pting to get
our mail delivered in Coquille the
same evening it arrivée in Marshfield.
The wishes of the Bandon people
for a daylight schedule which would
bring them their su it in the evening
by arranging the schedule so the Lim
ited would leave Portland at 6 a. m ,
were considered. All those interested,
about 12,000 in the Coquille valley,
are unanimously #f the opinion that
there must be unity of action by the
commercial bodies of Coquille, Ban
don, Myrtle Point and Powers, If we
are to secure s satisfactory schedule;
but in view of erhat the S. P. officials
have previously said it is certain they
will not consider chagning the Lim
ited schedule to make It leave Port
land at • a. m. Consequently Co
quille has felt that the reasonable
thing to ask was local connection with
the Limited a t Marshfield, although a
change patting mail and passengers
in hers at three or four o’clock would
be appreciated by Coquille aa well as
Bandon.
In order to attem pt to secure such
concerted action it was moved by A.
T. Morrison that a committee of three
be appointed to draft a resolution in
regard to train sendee. The chair ap
pointed A. T. Morrison, C. A. How
ard and C. B. Barrow, who immedi
ately prepared the faBowlgn rusota-
tion which has been sent to the com
mercial bodies of the other towns
in the county:
tsain service to Coquille valley
Tbe Watson family furnished men
for the American Revolution, who
took part to tha battles of Cowpens,
King's Mountain and Yorktnwn. The
family crossU the Mississippi into
the “Buffalo ^Settlement” as it was
than known to tha CaroHnas.
D. L. Watson’s grandfather was
named James Watson and bis grand
mother, Sarah Barber Watson; Ms
dhthsr was James Watson, Jr., born
to South Carolina to 1806 and moved
with his parents to Missouri and was
reared on Note creek, Pike county.
He married Easily Franklin to 1866
and they became the parents of. 18
c h ild ren. He moved to Iowa, where
he raised a family of eons and daugh
ters, and ta 1868 migrated to Oregon,
where he was known as tbs father of
the Oregon branch of tho Watson fam
ily. Ha dtad a t a good aid agm Tan
About a Month More.
The work on the Court House An
nex is now nearing completion. The
contractors tail us that it will require
about throe weeks to get the steel
cells now in place to the upper story
riveted together and that a weak or
two will suffice to finish the construc
tion work after that. The padded
cell and two other colto bava been
brought up from the basement of the
main building and are how being est
up to the airy quartan of the third
story, which is going to bo a romant-
ably interesting place to visti when
outside the county, and
Wheraas the above-mentioned
change in schedule has resulted to
public by requiring sa over-night
Bergs, last Friday left her without tog
stop
a t Marshfield both going to god
means of support. Mm. R. O. Thorps, coming
by the United States Supreme Court
from outside points to this
wife of the Lutheran minister at
on January 8, when that tribunal af
Marshfield, will be paid tha money
firmed the constitutionality of the
to expend for the best interest of the
Wsbb-Konyon Law. By a significant
family.
coincidence this came almost simul
Mm. J. P. Childs, who is on the wid,
taneously with the passage by the
oar's pension list, was advanced $60
Senate of two important anti-liquor
to go to Spokane, where she ha*
measures, one malting the District of
friends, on signing a relinquishment
Columbia dry, and tha other prohibit
of all claims against Coos county.
ing the transmission of liquor adver
Loo J. Cary was delegated a special
The pension of Mm. Lis sic Yates representative
tisements through the mails into Sta
of the 'Coquille Com
ares
reduced
from
$82.50
to
$26
per
tes which prohibit such advertising.
mercial
Club
to
visit Bandon and taka
month, one of her children having at the m atter up with
The Washington correspondents ex
the Commercial
tained the age of 16 yearn, and being Club there. He went
pect these to both to become laws.
down on tho
no longer entitled to public aid.
The Webb-Kenyon Law, passed in
Relief
this
morning
and
It is hoped
A. H. Chubbeck, who had been a united policy can bo agmad
1918, prohibited the importation from
upon.
working
a
t
Hauser,
got
sick
and
Com
one State to another of liquor “in-
Myrtle
Point
and
Powers,
of
course,
missioner Philip was authorised to will enjoy the same benefits sa will
spend $12.60 in buying him a steamer
any manner used” in notation of the
ticket to San Francisco, Chubbeck
law of tho Stats into which the liquor
has a wife and family in California
is being imported; but it was virtually
but declared tha dog th at was with
not to operation, tha Boston Tran
him was the only friend he had. He
script explains, pending the Supreme
dug up the funds to pay for the dog's
Court decision on its constitutionality.
passage too, and urban last assn the
Now that it has coma, t£e decision
animal was standing on the bow of ton for the necessary application
is hailed by editors ami Washington
blanks to form an association, and
the KUburn os she started out.
correspondents as marking- the begin
when
those ere received a meeting
Chubbeck
could
ha
vs
gone
to
the
ning of s new era In the prohibition
will
bi
held to form an association.
county
infirmary,
but
preferred
to
go
movement to the United States. But
The
failure
of tho city council to
bock
to
his
family,
little
as
hs
cared
while all agree that the immediate
close
their
option
on the Patterson
effect of this ruling is, aa the counsel
Grove
tract
for
a
city
park, which ex
for tha Anti-Saloon League says, that
piree
the
28th
of
February,
was com
“the States may now prohibit the pos
mented
on
at
length
by
L.
J. Cory,
session, receipt, sale, and use of in
who
told
tho
result
of
the
council's
toxicating liquor and not be ham
action
the
evening
before
and do
pered by the agencies of interstate
ctored the city was giving the ten
commerce,” there is s wide divergence “Tho hearing of thè docision upon
men, who had made it possible for the
of opinion aa to what the ultimate re thè question of tho individuai rights
city to secure the tract for $2,000 a
sult will be. On the one hand, the of States la no hoo interooting than
champions of prohibition predict that Hs hearing upon tho prohibition qun-
with tide powerful weapon their drive tioa. It upholds tho individuai State
against the liquor forces will seqtHre in Ho amortion of independent aothor-
a now impetus; but, on the other, tbs Hy over sodai legislation, and goea
spokesman far the liquor inter eats ar so far as to afford each Stato protec-
gue that as a result of the Supreme tien against invaeion of ite rights in
Court’s decision many States now thia roopeet by any other State. In ery.
nominally dry will soon return to the additimi, it upoots completaiy thè eon- It wes stated also that the Sumner-
Cooe City road will bo advertised at
tantion that a Foderai Heonsa to raan- tho
February mooting as wefl as tho
ufactur* or sali liquor takss prece- Coalodo
to Coquille portion of tho
dohea of State taw. . . . .
county
highway.
Tho bridge at Coos
“Uria marks thè beginning of e new CHy wiH coot SMM0.
'
epoch ta thè prohibition ssovemrnt
n e enforoed, eh Wall sa thè assorta 1