i
Coonty Agricultural Agent to inau­
gurata a campaign for the improve­
ment of the ¿dry heeds of the coun­
ty, and for this purpose a fund of
160,000 has here set aside by ten
bank« to he leaned te the fu m en at
a low rate of interest for the purchase
paring. » Via
lova. Already
k are full of
DUTIES WE OWE OUR COUNTRY
and national colored himtiAg. Ar­
riving home that «renin« be only saw
• few flag« displayed. Thia lad an­
other business man to remark that
some at Coquile’s foreign bare citi-
«ens are putting to shame the na­
tive sons, by their prompt action in
throwing the stars and stripes to the
breese. It is the time for all patri­
otic Americans to show their colon,
and Coquill« should net be behind in
thus proclaiming to the world Oat we
uphold the government at Washing-
Let Old Glory ware ~1fcom
home and building in Coquille.
i soonest u ssire ear *wn safety.
* It is te be regretted that there are
H m m am«* ( n who appear to hare
' «o adequai» understanding of their
diittoa re American citisene in s time
[ ef war and who, we fear, may be
■ due to a rude awakening. Loyalty to
' our own gcwornment is the first duty
of every ntan and woman at a time
i
t like this.
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ELECTION
niag.
That the reminder of onr duties as
patriotic citisene was effective, is ev­
The stock purchased will be held as idenced by the increased display of
security for such loans by the banks.
The banks who are cooperating in
this pure bred stock cifflpnign are The
following:
First National Bank, Marshfield.
Bank of Southwestern Oregon,
Marshfield.
The Scaadanaviaa-Asserican Bank,
Marshfield.
First NattonaJ
Nreth Bend.
re. All that ire ham
may rightly demand fc
vattoh of the republic.
When that hour strikes we are go­
ing to see s revival of such militant
patriotism as has not brea witnessed
since the dark days of. the sixties;
there will be no longer any serving
ef two masters. He that is not for
us will be against us. The determin­
ation that the nation shall live with
all its rights and privileges and with
all its beneficent powers to protect
and cherish iu citisene for the years
to come will become universal and we
shall all be banded together as one
man in pa—tonate devotion and (to­
teare of the principle« that have made
our country great and glorious to the
past, resolved that in the agre to
come she shall continue to be a hea­
Federal Official Here.
Was a Water Haul.
Deputy Sheriff Clyde Gage went
down to Bandon early Wednesday
morning armed with a search war­
rant for the steamer Bandon which
arrived in port Tuesday evening. The
local Bandon officers notified the sher­
iff's office that they thought boose
was aboard the ship and they would
keep her aider guard. But the of­
ficers there ceased their vigil Wed­
nesday morning and by the time Mr.
Gage arrived there was no sign of
firewater to bo found. One of the
ship's men told him that if he had
Guo Lovegrin, inspector for the De­
partment of the Interior, was to town
Tuesday evening to investigate the
alleged cutting of timber on the
Southern Oregon company toad a few
blocks north and «net at the academy.
The complaint was filed by a man
with his service«. Indeed his thorough
familiarity with all the details of
city government and his readiness to
take the initiative when it is needed
especially commend him. Of course it
is well knew nthat he absolutely de­
clines to accept a renomination; and
though he was induced to forego an
expressed intention to retire from the
office two years ago, we fear K will
be imposible to put a stunt of that
would like te see it done.
Mr. Nosier has not boon so long a
member of the council but he has to
his credit one of the biggest im­
provements Coquille has ever seen.
For the plan adopted for the street
week at the east end of the city las*
year was his and It Itfai vary largely
due to his earnest and persistent ef­
fort that it was carried through
Though he to not a candidate, the
people would be wire to return him
to the council if possible. Mr. Haw­
kins has also bean s careful guardian
of the city’s interests during the year
to wihch ha has bald the position and
deserves the favorable consideration
of the voters.
W. H. Lyons, who dropped out of
the council a year age and whore de­
votion to the interests of .the city
and earnest attempts to compromise
Coos county, Dougins is the largest
county in Western Oregon with about
5,000 square aailee, or about the area
a t the State of Connecticut It bounds
Coos oa the north and the east and
the two counties hare a oonmon boun­
dary running around from the Pa­
cific ocean on the northeast to the
high hills of the Eden valley section
in the southeast. Thus it is that the
only wagon reads that will ever be
built running out at Coos county, will
necessarily be built into Douglas
county, with the single exception of
the coast road south through Curry.
The fact is that the climate and pro­
ductions of the interior Umpqua val-
ley directly cast of us la Douglas
county differ so widely from those of
Coos county, with the coast range di­
viding them, that there is a constant
Middue Fork pass, so that the im­
provement of the read between Myr­
tle Point and Heeeburg is a matter
of the Ihrliest interest to the people
of both counties, aa in fact it baa
been ever store a quarter of a cen­
tury and longer ago when our mail
communication with the outside world
began to be made by that rente.
Thee« are some of the reasons why
we have read with the greateet fa-
tereet in the Roseburg News of the
proceedings of a road meeting at that
place to which a comprehensive pro­
gram for the improvement of the
highways of Douglas county was
agreed upon by four representative
lined for the snbmiretea of a 1666,000
bond Irene to the people there to
finance their big road problem.
The fact that the new read law to
be submitted to Jnae provides that
the Pacific highway from the north
th« great Incentive«! to this new more
which has been launched with such
strong backing. But the citisene of
that county by no manna proposa to
stop with that, though ita preparation
requins $180,000. They propres also
to build laterals and fondare to the
number of twenty-two, including a
rood down the Umpqua to Gardiner,
and one from Roseburg to the Core
county Une to cost $00,000. V
They hare figured that the pro­
ceed« of two milla of their regular
five-mill levy for road purposes will
pay the $666,000 bonds, principal and
interest to 1$ yean, at $66,790 per
Franchise Not Accepted.
Araong the younger men who hare
never yet taken their turn In the
work of looking after the city's busi­
ness, J. W. Miller, of the Coquille
Market and E. W. Gregg, who» has
recently displayed his faith to the
future of CoqufBo by building a cou­
ple of elegant modern residences to
the northern section of the city, have
That franchise of the C. A. Smith
company to build a railroad on the
Coquille-Marshfield county road has
not bow accepted yet, though tomor­
row will bo the last day of grace.
It probably never will be accepted, as
the report current that it hre ac­
complished all the logging company
expected to helping them to - i .
better terms with the Southern Pa­
cific in remmlig their wkeoiage eon-
trect for a berm of years.
While the newspapers and people
a t this section got coreiderably work­
ed up over this franchise to Decem-