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About The Coquille Valley sentinel. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 19??-1917 | View Entire Issue (April 27, 1917)
. ■ : « .‘.'SWÜfi m m i V O L. Notee of the Since the _ April T« of tko aeveral yours p a s t Thera are probably not m ere th c m o r tw o men in Coos county, who have spent m ore tim e In tbs new s; per business than M r. L esitr; and ho has s host o f friends who w ill regret to see him quit the jou rn alistic field, but other business sad fa ilin g health seems to make the change im perative. M r. L eva r came to Gooa county w ith the opening o f the X X th Century in 1900 and bought the Coast M ai] a t M arshfield, which a year la ter he made a d aily. H e published ft until July 1906 when he sold ft end started the Coos Bay M onthly, som ething in the m ags sine line. Th is he published fo r a year. E a rly in 1918 he sem e to Coquille to take charge o f the H erald w ith which he new s e v e n his con nection. Ik e only newspaper men now in the harness in Ceos county, who w ere in business here when Mr. L eva r came in 1900, a id Goe Bennett, o f the Coos B ay ffow s, and J. E. Lose, o f the Coos B ay Sun. The Sentinel had an opportoa Th e crim inal ease# again st ths w o last F rid a y afternoon to ask S t men, w hs w ere arrested last/ October H ighw ay Com m issioner E . J. Ada fo r keeping dieorderiy houses over nt a question on which it aps lon g < in g whan a number o f im portan t m at- ths Bay, w ere dism issed in ths cir sired to g e t an au th oritative ansa cu it court hero W ednesday on m otion The sta te bead law w e a re to vote m ajority o f tho Club m embers, those o f D istrict A tto rn ey H ell. in June provides that as soon ss G not barred by age, are mem bers o f The woman again st whom indict county puts ‘SO m iles or m ors” at i the Coquile M ilita ry Reserves and ments w ere returned in October w ere M anhfield-R oeeburg road on lino I when this com pany is dism issed spend M innie Finn, F lora M artin, Verm grade tho state w ill pave it tar the rem ainder o f the evening a t the Barmee, O ra Barnard, M arion W h ite Roedm aster Murdock says w e < and E lsie Baker. nave m ore than twenty stiles o f t The la s t named w as tried by D is i L eo J. C ary reported th at the com road ready fo r pavin g b efore the pr tric t A ttorn ey L ilje q v is t in December m itte e to in terview prospective can ent season is over and before the I w ith a hung ju ry. didates fo r councilman a t next 000,000 bond issue can becomo a n The reason given fo r the dism issal month’s election, had secured the con able i f it is voted. o f these cases now waa th at ths tw o sent o f C. R. B arrow and J. W . M il So w k asked M r. Adam s what v principal w itnesses in the ease, Depu le r to have th eir aaroea presented to the lim it in the other d irection ; h ty S h eriff W . C. L a ird and D etective the caucus next Tuesday and th at A . N . E. Blackman, could not be,brought N . Gould would consent provided his would pave i f it w ere made ready to* affa irs w ere sueh th at he could be here to te s tify now, tho form er h paving. H e said there w as no Urnffij presen t to attend council m eetings. in g $.600 m iles aw ay in H aw aiia and and w e certain ly see none in the law . I t was the wish o f the members to en the la tter out o f the state in W ash A s p ractically 20 m iles o f this road dorse the com m ittee’s selection, but ington nursing a broken leg . On co lies between M arshfield and Coquille,5 in view o f the uncertainty o f M r. su iting the members e f the grand the whole o f th at stretch stands to be .Gould’s plans it was decided to put ju ry, who returned the indictm ent, ; paved as sooh as it is graded. A s thu it up to the caucus. end M r. L iljeq vist, A ttorn ey H e ll was nine p ile s between Coquille and M y rl assured th at ft would be useless to go L . H. Hasard reported th at M r. tie P oin t is now graded in part and to tria l w ithout t hose witnesses. Tho W h ile on a sixteen days’ trip Coun w ill be com pletely graded from the- defen dants now fts e d J w u c a ll bo ty A g en t J. L . Smith, accompanied proceeds o f the county bond issue! out on b a it by W . A . Barr, o f O. A . C , visited 28 w ithin a year, that w ill be included tad hards o f purs bred d airy stock, goin g j Skipworth Hold« Coart at Bay. aa fa r north as Snohomish, W ash. He the “ or m ore” m iles to be peved. And as the 24 m ilee fro m M yrtle! Our circu it court has boon a also visited the b ig H ollyw ood farm P oin t to the D ouglas county lia s ftg| possible, who a re acquainted Irith double headed a ffa ir this week, Judge north o f S eattle where A s bought a one o f those poet rends which the Ir affa irs should bo chosen, Skipw orth having eases over a t tho number o f H olsteins fo r A . O. K jel- state commission stands pledged to t was then voted to endorse J. W . Bay, w hile Judge John S. Coke was land, o f Coos river. M ost o f the im prove i f the bonds are voted, and Iler, C. R. B arrow and M . O. H awk- busy « t ¿ho court house, here. breeders whom he visited, however, also a section in which it expects to . And i f M r. Gould w ill consent Tbs first csss heard by Judge Skip- are located in the W illam ette va lley, have the national gvoeraassnt split run the m embers Individually ea w orth was that o f tbs Southern O re and he called on the owners o f all fifty -fifty on the expanse, i f th ey w fll sed his candidacy. gon company— its fou rth or fifth at the best herds o f pure bred stock in do th at w ork before the proceeds m l Hu club w ent on record as h eartily tem pt to pull down the $167,000 the state. * u _ j the $6,000,090 issue are a ll spent, 111 lorsing the candidacy o f J. & L aw placed in the hands o f ou r county o f In addition to purchasing several looks-as i f w e m igh t have this m a ll ns as c ity recorder and M r. H aw - ficials to secure ths taxes it owes head at stock, he assured a com plete a rtery fo r connection w ith the outside • paid a fine tribu te to his a b ility Cose county. A fte r hearing ths ar lis t o f purchasable stock, w ith pic gvorld not only im proved but paved to 1 f aith fu ln ess as a public official. gum ents Judge Skipw orth took ths tures, pedig rees, records o f produc a w idth o f Id fo o t w ithout aa addition-1 m atter under advisem ent. tion, etc. This inform ation is now a l dollar o f expanse to the. taxpayers — -------. . . ... ■ - on file a t his office and any dairym an uf Coos county. And indeed w e are GETS U N E ON PURE BREDS d’Ambrouks Ssqteac R affaelle d’Am brosiot pleaded gu ilty to assault upon A ndrew D rests, tho Grade whom ho stabbed w ith s kn ife In s lum ber camp down tho riv e r last fa ll. H e was sentenced at on# o’clock W ednesday afternoon to im prison m ent fo r n year in ths county ja il and to pay tho costa in ths csss; but •the execution at the sentence waa suspended until tho fu rth er order o £ th s e o w t inform ed t^ a t the general governm ent] m oney that M r. Sm ith did to secure it, the expense would be alm ost pro h ibitive. H e th erefore urges all who are' intending to purchase new stock to g e t busy a t once sad make th eir selections, as breeding stu ff is scares and the prices advancing. A lso the advantage o f co-operative shipment and a savin g in fre ig h t charges w ill be secured by those purchasing now. ■MIHtnry Reserve Electa Officers. Lees than s ix ty o f the Coquille M il ita ry Reserves turned out to r d rill I t was an echo o f the old days be and election last Monday evening. F ol fo re the railroad came in the Circuit low in g a h a lf hour d rill period the court here yesterday when the suit company adjourned to the c ity hall. o f A . E. Shuster, o f N orth Bend, vs. I . E. N orton, chairm an o f the busi M . J. Cornw all came on fo r tria l. The ness organisation was nude comman su it was fo r $120 dam ages claim ed der-in-chief and H . G G ets was elect to bo due on account o f the loos o f the ed captain. M r. Gets is one o f the p la in tiff’s suit ease and its contents assistants in the county road m aster’s from a stage o f the p la in tiff on a office, who have been, doing the pre trip down the beach from Florence lim in ary w ork o f pneparing plans and to Cooes Bay. specification ! fo r the road program Coes county is to carry out this sum A Dollar For a Slander. mer. H e is a graduate o f O. A * G , The ease o f Glen C ollier again st L. and w ell qualified fo r the position, P . B ranstetter fo r alleged slander having been an officer in the m ilita ry w as tried in the C ircu it court here organisation at that school. H. A . Young and W m . Brown w ere yesterday, the ju ry com ing in late in the afternoon w ith a verd ict e f $1.00 elected first and second lieutenants, dam ages. The law yers state that respectively. Primitive Methods Recalled. this does not throw the costa on the defendant, as m igh t be Inferred. The dispute which led to the talk com plained o f was over some hogs. The argum ents in the K inney fo re closure cases in volvin g about 2000 lota at the B ay w ere made before Judge Skipw orth yesterday afternoon. H e announced positively th at he would hand down a fin al decision during the month o f M ay. -H e allow ed John D. Goes, attorn ey fo r Frank B. W aite, ten days m ore in which to subm it a b rie f on cue phase o f ft. Lew » a n Half Gut In. O f the nineteen applicants fo r the righ ts and p rivileges and duties o f Am erican citisanship whose petitions w ere heard by Judge Coke in the C ir cuit court here last Saturday, eigh t w ere received and eleven turned down fo r the present. The case o f C arl L . Johnson, o f Tem pleton, was continued until June A x e l Hone, o f B ridge, was adm itted as also w ere John K a ri, o f M arshfield, and Antone Monaon, o f M arshfield. John W icklund, o f Em pire, was de filed , on account o f fa ilu re to furnish satisfactory evidence as to residence and character. The case o f R affaelle d’ Am brosioe, who was this w eek sen tenced to a year in ja il fa r assault, was continued. P eter Gust Olson, o f Hauser, was denied because one o f Ms witnesses didn’t have personal know Favors Coquille Project. ledge o f his en tire residence in Ore- A W ashington dispatch e f W ed gon. Henning Gustafson, at N orth Bend, nesday’s date states that S ecretary o f W ar Baker has subm itted to Congress was denied because ashen he made his the Board o f A rm y E ngineers report application fo r citizenship he was on on the Coquille riv e r im provem ent. ly 17 years old; but was given leave The rep ort fa vors the restoration at to make a new declaration. Carl Au gu st Johnson, o f Hauser, the channel to depth o f ten feet, one hundred and fifty fe e t wide from the was adm itted. M att N eiaM ’s case was continued entrance to Prosper, th e same depth but 110 fe e t w ide from Prosper to until June 6th. Frank Jokey, o f Lakedda, w as ad Coquille. The estim ated firs t cost to be $18,000, and the annua] m ainten m itted; and so w ere John Petersen, ance to be $12,000, provided local in o f Tem pleton, John M enfolk, o f Cooe- ton, and Robert McCann, at Eastsidr. terests furnish the dredge. Ralph Bischop, of, M arshfield, was The la tter is w hat the P o rt commis sion proposes to do. C. A . H oward was appointed to select a club ammbsr to go , ths du b to boar the expense. Y esterd ay th ey p re vailed upon A . T . M orrison to make the trip and he le ft this m orning, in com pany w ith Judge James W atson and Chas. H all, president o f th e Coes County Good Roads Association. R . H. M ast asked w hat had Escome o f tho bridge p roject; w hether ft had died o r was only sleeping. A nd he fo rcib ly and pointedly presented the need o f {m ediate action i f w e ever ex pect to have a bridge spanning the river hero a t Coquille. H e presented M r. C ollier’s proposition fo r a rig h t o f w ay which would land the bridge a t culturist U boosting the business o f m aking | ir d « u . Tho suegeetion that high school students m ight secure s lis t uf 1 » m ean t lota suitabls fop gardening w as approved by M r. H ow ard, who w ill attend to ca rryin g oat the plan. T a lk in g about a u ltim tin g vacant lota to produce s u re food, M r. Ro m anoff, o f Russia, is engaged in g a r dening now, and it is hoped th at M r. Hohensollern, o f Germ any, w ill soon have leisure to engage in som ething PUPILS E N L IS T . FOR GARDENS In order to ascertain to w hat ex tent the pupils in the Coquille schools the responding to the demands fo r grea ter food production, a hasty sur v e y - o f the grades from the fou rth through the high school was made this m orning. I t was found that, out o f 268 pupils enrolled in the grades m entioned, 170 are h elp in g w ith th e farm in g and gardening or are defin ite ly planning to d o ' so^ Som e w ill cu ltivate lota in tho bottom s and so Monthly Fire Drill Lust Night. have n ot y e t begun th eir operations. The F ire com pany hold th eir The superintendent placed b efore the pupils the urgent necessity o f cu lti m onthly d rill la st evening end put in vatin g every availab le fo o t o f produc a solid hour a t p rasjpn a fte r which tive soils and m any who are .not in they called a t Folsom ’s confectionery cluded in the above figures are now shore E rn ie earned th eir thanks by on ths lookout fo r a garden spot. The 'settin g up the drinks.’’ Since the departure o f R ay Jeub number at agricu ltu ral w orkers in A very, F ire C h ief lifts Fourth grade; 21; F ifth grade, 29; Sixth grade, 2&; Seventh grade, 21; Eighth grade, 21; H igh School, 60. It w ill be noted that the numbers are la rg e r in the low er grades than in the upper, so ft is altogeth er probable that the assistance rendered by a good many o f these little fo lk s is m ors im agin ary than real. H ow ever, in the upper grades the figu res are undoubtedly reliab le and a la rge per centage o f the pupils are putting forth rea lly h elpful e ffo rt in garden m aking. This w ork should be en couraged. Parents and teacher should unite in brin gin g every child to see the seriousness o f the food situation and help in g iv in g him an opportunity there brin gin g the approach 200 fe e t to aid in producing. east o f the bridge on F ron t street. M r. C ollier offered to sell the tw o lots Garden Work Systematised. between the railroad and F ron t fo r J. L . Sm ith’s office is to be the la $1,200, and a rig h t o f w ay 20 fe e t bor and garden bureau fo r'C o q u ille . wide and approxim ately 200 fe e t long H ere w ill be listed a ll vacant lota down to the street level fo r nothing suitable fo r gardening in the city , se i f the c ity would assume the $860 im cured by the high school m ilita ry provem ent ta x assessed against thht squads; the prices wanted fo r th eir strip which would be spread over a ren t; names e f those who are seek in g term o f eigh t years— the life o f the em ploym ent; requests fo r seed in fo r im provem ent bonds. H e would bear mation; and anything pertaining to the expense at m oving his house him garden w ork. Those who have ma self. nure to sell are requested -to n o tify J. 8. Law rence reported th at the M r. Sm ith, as are those seen who have c ity had dropped ths condemnation team s to do plow ing, and those who proceedings to secure a r ig h t o f w ay want plow ing done. and M . O. Hawkins explained that it F or the present, until M r. Sm ith had been dropped because the assess secures an assistant, in Ms absence, ment o f dam ages and benefits had not M iss Edna H arlocker, in the Oregon been deemed equitable. P ow er Co. office w ill receive inform a F ollow in g considerable talk, M r. tion from any o f these sources and M ast moved that a com m ittee from turn it over to Mb. Smith. th e 'd u b be appointed to m ake tbs There are scores o f lota suitable best term s possible w ith tho proper fo r gardening in Coquille and every ly owners fo r a rig h t o f w ay, eith er one can do his bit, even i f prevented as planned by M r. C o llier, or back to a point which weu)d be a contin uation at F irs t s tre e t.' Tho president In thè D istrict court bere this a f- ternoon thè )u r y waa s tili out in tho Sh ostar suit case and a ju ry was be- in g em panelled to try thè case o f Ftrst Struct Improvement. F red Goss and Fred F ig u ri, o f Ban A special council m eeting has boon doli, eharged w ith viola tin g thè gam e law s in thè hunting o f deor, w ith called fo r next M onday evening to Gam e Wardan Thom as as thè com- Th e Brat tw o days o f the week in the circu it court here w ere spent in retryin g the case o f the state against A rn old M eLay fo r w rin g in g n Beaver H ill g irl. Had ths charge boon con trib u tin g to the delinquency e f n min or, be aright have been convicted, but as ft waa he w m found net guilty. uâtZ" and the plans are fo r conservation o f food and the greatest possible in creased production this year. F o r one th in g in the campaign,- there are to be appointed IS new county agents in the' state and assis tants to many o f the older agents. M r. Sm ith is to have an assist ant soon. T bs county agents are to he given m ilita ry rank and w ill open re cru itin g aflU ss fo r farm labor, w ith a p ossibility o f d ra ft i f those inca pacitated fo r w ar do not respond to the need fo r men on the farm s. Th e production o f food and supplies is ju st as sssontisl as the organisation fo r actual figh tin g and no slackers w ill be tolerated. Th e d ra ft w ill be imposed on boys who are too young to figh t, and they w ill he required to obey orders agricu ltu rally as im p licit ly as do those who en list in the arm y or navy. ' Tho county agen t recru itin g officers w ill also co-operate w ith the em ploy ment bureaus in the cities. It is a b ig program the extension service in Oregon has mapped out but these in charge are goin g a t it in a w ay to secure the utm ost in efficient farm production. < ivi Chss. O erding in th eir w ere ten men out fo r d rill Inst even in g. W ith summer com ing on it is hoped to make the d rills asero effec- i and a ll fireman are expected to be presen t It is also urged that obstructions in ths rear o f business houses be re moved to perm it quicker action by ths company in case o f fin . , The H onor Guard G irls m et a t the city hall Tuesday n igh t and having received th eir supplies, tho conseti ta ti on o f the guard and the pledge wore