About nina o ’clock yesterday morn
ing a succession o f short, sharp
shrieks from ths whistle at the John
son m jll warned Coquille that ao«|0*
thing serious was happening down
thorn. The im mediate ringing o f the
Are alarm brought every one out
doors to bo greeted with the sight o f
an immense cloud o f smoke which a p
peared to rise from the rear e f the
buildings on Front street f acin g up
trap sestion.
The affair has been
worked ap on short notice bat it was
desired to hold It while H. A . Chaplin
and P rof. W . A . Barr are here. Ev
eryone is invited to com e and especi
a lly the ranchers around M yrtle
Point, and those along the low er riv ever held in CoquiHs” is the pr
er are invited and “ dared” to some. way to describe last night’s maaq
The nature o f the dare is a tu g-of- ade ball given b y the Cooeoaiaaa
Cooaeaian Band as a W ashing!
Birthday Dance.
The receipts amounted to |1B
there m oat have been appradau
600 people in the ban. m ore than
ondajr
N ight's
Anniver
sary Banquet a Grand
Geo. entertainm ent o f spectators end par - 1 arrival o f the delegations form Mash-
tleipants.
afield and North Bend. The problem
T o attem pt to describe the coa rJ of changing the data o f the Grand
tom es in detail, or even to mentkmjLLodge, which is scheduled to be held
all the characters portrayed is im Jfth Marshfield the first part o f Octo-
possible. Probably the moat e o m k d P * . to the latter part o f A ugust, sms
character sms that o f “ Jocks, III J W frn m rt. The n u tter srttl have to
Monk,” who carried on in teas m oo -fb * referred to the lodges throughout
key style even to the catching sad jO regon for the decision and should it
County Assessor J. P . Beyers last
eating o f the flans, seme e f srhfeh hb he changed it w ill assure all who at-
week sent out notices t o th e com m er
fpuad in the Chinaman’s qoe.
tand good weather and good roads,
cial bodies o f Coo# county requesting
The Z ola ch ief and Ms A frica *
the Coos county boys agree to
;rheir -i; inions on the plan ha had is
queen srere excellent im itations o f tk* provide ways and means o f using
view o f aseeeslag all property in the
real thing and won the prises for the these te good advantage. The Pythi-
county at a figure as near the actual
best sustained character.
aa Sisters trill also-ask to have the
cash value ia it was possible to ar
The Chinese lady and her
date o f their convention changed to
rive.
A ccording to the Htate Tax
shadow participated not at all in the conform with the Knights,
Commission, Coos county srith 820,-
dance but kept up e “ clack, clack”
The ladies who had charge o f the
000,000 valuation is assessed at about
around the hall srith their troodan banquet arranged with Mm. Evland
66 par cent o f Us eaah value This
shoes all evening, otterin g unintelli- to use her spacious bake ovens and
would mean that on the average all
gible gibbersh which had to peas fo r there sap wta tended the baking o f
property te the county w ool4 be rais
ed about 60 per cent above t he pres
ent valuation, srith a corresponding
low ering o f the tax levy.
Wednesday Mr. Beyers W est over
to the Bay to asoet srith the Marsh
field and North Band Chair.! urs o f
Commerce.
Apparently them sms
not much interest taken te the m atter
at Mamhfletd, hart at North Bend that
•hat down W ednesday afternoon ow
ing to a lack o f log*. The new Aaeea
cam p down the river 1« not yet able
to farniah them aa fa st as they are
needed, bat they are now buay put
ting in high lines thane which w ill en
able them to largely Increase the ou t
put. 'T o make theae high laee some
o f the fa lle n have had the ticklish
Job o f saw ing off standing trees 170
feet from the ground to hang the
blocks on.
Advantage was taken o f this shut
down to repair a leaky boiler and to
move the resaw m achinery which pre
vented the rapid transfer o f logs to
the second or truing saw and caused
a congestion th a n . A lthough dm null
has a capacity o f 60,000 feet a day,
46,006 feet hiu been the maximum
product so fa r, ow ing to this transfer
being obstructed.
year the event sms held in
Laird’s big barn near lam pa.
SHALL VALUES
BE BOOSTED?
od firia . BaatiaaT girl srith a riaver
drees and cape made entirely a t Sen
tinels, cowboys end cow girla, srit-
chee, dow ns, n mother srith baby and
nursing bottle, his Satanic m ajesty,
Colom bia, star spangled banner girls,
renbens, French boulevsrdier, Span
ish belle, Hiasmtha, Coon town dude,
sailor boys and girla, Jesra, barefoot
ed ghost who also resembled Diogenes
looking fo r an honest man, Highland
Scotch lad and lassie, Coquille Ad
How Would This D o?
Chib, Herald girl, sunflower girl, kha
Apropos o f tho recent hitching rack ki clad soldier srith a p ig 's snoot, sim
discussion by the Commercial Club ple country lassies, tugger barber,
aad the attem pts by the council to Santa Claus and a quintet o f farm er
settle, this im pértete matter, Tho
Sentinel sventa to make a suggestion
fo r Ha accomplishment. When Tay
lor street is improved srith s plonk
paving in the cantor o f the street, as
and A. R. Clinton had ths mill
quickly subdued. But as it was the
90 pound water pressure, 600 feet o f
now hose and tho efficiency o f the de
partm ent proved that Coquille has aa
A l fire-fighting com bination.
Only the old part o f the mill was
damaged. This is srhere the p la n «
and resaw stand. The “ shake” roof
sras com pletely destroyed, several
hundred dollars’ srorth o f bolts and
the various lodges o f ths county as
follasse: E. C. Roberts, H ector No. M ,
o f M yrtle P oint; Edgar M cDaniel, Po-
sedion N o. M , o f North Bend; Tom
T. Bennett, M yrtle No. 8, o f Marsh-
Add sad J. W . Mast, Delphi No. 604.
Meet, Marian Bchroeder and Mabel
Bay. A telegram sraa read by Mr.
Chase from Grand Chancellor Harry
G. W ortm an, o f M edford, aad Grand
Kasper o f Record and Seals W alter
G. Glees on, o f Portland, who srere
in attendance at a sim ilar celebration
at Baker, Oregon.
W . J. H. Clarke, at Portland, fam il
iarly known sa “ Jack,” sraa than cal
led upon and in his talk mentioned
the various departments o f ths order
and the work they are doing— ths uni
form rank, ths Insurance department
and than the subject srhieh ha said
“sraa nearset Ms heart”— the D . O.
K. K. When the Grand Lodge meets
a t M arthflrid, Abd-Uhl A tif Temple.
D. O. K. K., o f Portland, will bring
their entire patrol team aad regalia
srith them and escort s large number
ever the burning sands to ths oasis.
Follow ing the address o f “Jack”
Clarke, the Grand V ice Chancellor,
Leslie Crouch, o f Portland, sraa in
troduced and won fo r him self a place
in the hearts o f his hearers by his
talk on “ Fraternity.” Although quit#
n young man to have assumed the po
sition o f honor srhieh he now holds,
Mr. Crouch's record shows he sras
A GOOD MAN
HAS GONE
made.
Those la attendance from thia lo
cality saure: Judge L. ila tlo c.o r,
Judge James W atson, A . J. S b erfood ,
E. E. Johnson, Postm aster J. W . La-
neve, County Treasurer T. M. Dm-
mick, J. A . Collier, H. W . Dunham, J.
W . Laird, A . R. CUnton, Arthur Kl-
ttngsea and W . H. HnO, o f Riverton.
M ajor
Fries
Spending
Recommends
$128,000
to
Deepen Coquille River.
M ajor Amoa A . Frias, o f tbs U. S.
Corps o f Engineers, and Secretary J.
E. N orton, .o f the Bandon Port Com-
misson, went down to Bandon yes
terday to attend the m eeting called
fo r 2:80 o’clock in the afternoon by
the m ajor to consider the establish
ment o f harbor lines at the mouth
o f the Coquille.
The m eeting waa very largely a t-
tended and there
much interest
and enthusiasm.
A fter inspecting the bar end goin g
over the plats o f the boring survey
at the bar M ajor F ries has sent in
n report recomm ending the deepening
o f the river to a depth o f 12 feet from
its mouth to Coquille and the blowing
oat o f the rock pinnacles sufficiently
to provide n depth o f 18 feet at low
water. This, we believe, w ill practi
cally double the depth o f water now
available in crossing the bar when the
tide is out. The result o f the investi
gation was to show that the lepth o f
18 feat could be secured at a mod er
st expense, while to g o to 14 feet
would entail an expenditure alm ost
prohibitive.
The total expenditure necessary to
secure a depth o f 18 foot across the
bar and 12 feet from the light hou-e
to the wharves at Coquille is eetimat
ed at 8128.000; and this is the ap
propriation that M ajor Fries has rec
ommended. It w ill be noted that the
com pletion o f thia project w ill enable
any vessel that can enter the port o f
Bandon to com e up the river te C o
quille.
Elsewhere we publish an Hem in re
gard to Sons tor Chamberlain secur
ing an amendment to the river and
harbor bill to deepen the river chan
nel from Coquille dawn, to a depth o f
10 foot. Thia was a m istake due to
of
the Mg enterprises o f ths
county and sms one o f the principal
prom oters o f black sand mining on
tea beach. He also ran a general
merchandise store nt old Randolph,
and while money was very scarce and
tim es hard extended credit to scores
o f people who but fo r hie aid could
hardly have remained te the country.
Indeed, sm hoar o f one custom er who
at one time oscod him 81,600 for sup
plies— a bill srkich ho never was able
to pay. M!r. P. declined to take any
legal proceedings, however, saying
th a t he would pay when he could. My.
Pershbaker also furnished capital to
Clinton avers that as one time his
father osred Mr. P. 820,000.
He built the Prosper m ill and oper
ated it fo r a lon g time. He left an
estate estimated at |200,000, and took
srith him the good will and gratitude
o f those he had befriended to the val
ue o f m illions.
Mrs. Pershbaker died several years
ago, but tsro daughters are le ft te
mourn their loss— Mrs. Pahy men
tioned above end Mrs. Ruby E. Muir,
o f Oakland, California.
Giving It To U s Raw.
During the post week the splendid,
sunshiny spring weather that prevail
ed through the earlier part o f the
month has given way to cold rain,
snow and sleet, accompanied by high
wind and altogether disagreeable con
ditions, and aa is so often ths caso, a
coal fam ine has prevailed to aggro-
vato our troubles. A s to the reasons,
sra are informad that s scow o f coal
promised .M r. Hill fo r M onday,sras
shipped to Portland, and that instead
o f working the Riverton mine srith
a fo il complement at ten men only
tw o or throe miners have been at
stopping off into space when he
thought he had reached the floor te
going dosm stairs, knosrs how many
things it is possible to think when
the foot goes unexpectedly downward
for still another stop and how many
trem ors one can feel before his foot
reeches the floor. So in this case the
buggy appeared to be goin g up and
up indefinitely, and srith a vary wob
bly m otion nt that, as if It m ight be
an earthquake that had started rt.
The hearts o f the young people scorn
ed to come up into their mouths as
they fr it this m ight bo tka great
convulsion that meant the « id o f the
world. A fter a little tim e, bosrever,
the boggy came dosm to the ground
again and they slow ly learned what
had caused the eruption. It seems
a cow sraa lying te ths middle o f the
rood end the careful horse stepped
right over her. About that tim e the
cow woke up and at the same tim e
fr it impelled to rise and learn srhat
sraa the matter. In doM g so she bod
lifted the boggy fa r enough to cause
the sensation described. Tho boro o f
this Incident is a srell knosra citisen
o f Coquille.
Chas. Hall on Road Bonds.
On the fifth page o f this issue
Charles Hall, president o f the Good
The court house annex or “ Hall o f Roods A ssociation e f Coos county,
Records” as it svili probably be deetg- gives n summary at the provisions
o f ths 86,000,000 state road bonding
H ie Annex Accepted. *