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About The Coquille Valley sentinel. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 19??-1917 | View Entire Issue (July 13, 1917)
em pty pails in Am erica and Europe. I f the m ore fortunate o f our people w ill avoid waste and ea t no m ore than they need, the high coat o f livin g problem o f the leea fortunate w ill be solved. H erbert H oover, ....... United States Food Commissioner. Myrtle Point Commercial Oak W Hot m Mordoek’e la s t M onday’s special dispatches from W ashington to ths Oregon Jour nal brought the nows that- Sana tor Cham berlain had on that day secured th e passage in th e senate b y n t - l ' mous consent o f his M il amending the i*|ceat act providing fo r tbs disposi tion o f the O. A C. o f the Railroad land gran t ee as to authorise the pay m ent by the United States to the var ious O regon com ities in which that g ra n t lisa o f penalties and interest to date as w ell as the origin al amount o f tho taxes. Should this b ill also pass the aam- a te and be approved by the presi dent, it w ill mean a good deal to Geos county. " The taxes on the 0 . A C. lands in th is county which the national gov ernm ent w ill pay are fo r the years 1918, 1914 and 1918 and amount to con sid erab ly m ore than $100,000. would pay as soon as it had finished checking up the lands in question— a w ork th at is new in progress— but until the passage o f such an act . as Senator Chamberlain has bean push in g, it m ight have been questionable about the penalties and interest. In qu iry a t the Sheriff’s office elicits the fa c t th at these la tter sums new amount to m ors than 60 par sent o f the origin al taxes or between $69,000 and $00,000. This added to the prin cipal makes nearly $176,000 as the amount the United States Treasury w ill pay Coos county, probably before the close o f the present year, and the re lie f this w ill furnish can w ell be im agined. T h at the excess .paym ent over the origin a l tax due on these gran t land* w ill not only pay a ll the interest the county new owes on outstanding war- bonds may appear to be an extraor dinary statem ent, and y d it is one th at is fu lly warranted. Coos county’s outstanding warrants on the first o f June amounted to $242,707.48. The warrants issued by the county court last week brought this sum up to about $260,000. By the end o f tho present year that amount o f warrants w ill overage about tw o years, as there w ill then bo outstand in g a ll that have been issued from Jan. 1, 1914, to Jan. 1, 1918. Add to te a t the first ysar’s interest o f $18,- 100 on the road bonds fo r the current year and the total la $48,100. But this is not ell. Tho paym ent o f the O . A C. taxes w ill put the county treasury in shape to reduce $180,000. be food economics which H erbert ver, o f the Food Adm inistration, res to suggest to tbs Am erican >1* constitute the cardinal princi- o f the Food. Campaign and are forth in d e a r type on s em ail I in temsa so definite and concise < a ll w ill kmow exactly what and the fa c t that tha gra vellin g o f a road out o f M yrtle P oin t had bean stopped by order o f the county court ow ing fl—tiaol H m the New Number*. County CU rit Oddy is not w illin g to undertake the job o f hunting op the new serial number o f every nun enu m erated in the w ar census end tellin g him what it is, as the Record has told its readers he would do, and w e don’t blame him. The men Hated in this section can a ll find th eir red numbers in the Sentinel this week, Whan w ord cornea w hat num ber*' have been drawn a t W ashington they w ill know whether or not they hove CASE OF YEAR’S STANDING ENDS ^ County Com missioner A rch ie P h ilip •ays tile £oonty* court has offered to make a ssCUsmsnt w ith M anager H er bert Arm strong, o f the Southern O re gon Co., on the $167,000 judgm ent fa r the tax money in escrow which Judge Skipwerth had awarded the Company. M anager A rm stron g w asted the money and kero percent interest. The county offered him the fund without interest providing Me company would pay costa o f litigation and release the county end beaks from a ll lia b ility. straction during the adm inistration o f « tho present county roadmaster. That f< the practice o f extravagance o f M e o f- . flee is now unbearable, believing him to he incom petent to ftU such a posi- concise and simple. Lees wheat, t, m ilk, fa te, sugar and fu el. M ore |a, vegetables, foods .that are not Ibl# to be sent to comps or firin g I. N o U n itin g the food o f grow - ehildren; not eotin g by anyone •ore food than is needed. Buying I that is grow n close to tho home. The follow in g Don’t Forget That Bridge. Just now Christm as seems e long way o ff; but the County court is go ing to got busy m aking up n ext year’s budget some tim e before Christmas and i f som ething is not done mean while to fix upon the site and the ap proaches fo r tho river bridge w e want built here, we are not lik ely to get that $10,000 appropriation promised fo r a starter fo r that work. Coquille needs that bridge m ore than any oth er m aterial im provem ent w e knew o f, but while it is to be built in the s ir its foundations and approaches must be bu ilt on the ground, and it is up to the people o f this city to provide them. Don’t lost sigh t o f this mat ter fo r a day. W ORK BEGINS A T COQUILLE the Portland contractors, started work on the C oquille-M yrtle Point road last Saturday w ith a force o f •bout 20 men. Tho work eras begun • t this end o f the Hne at tho C ollier bridge over Dutch John creek. The cut is being deepened, widened and straightened a t tho east end o f this bridge, and the m aterial excavated is being used to make a fill in place o f the old bridge that has done duty so long here. A railroad track, aa yet gun on which the loaded dump ears ara run out ju st north o f tho bridge to make the fill. This w ill be length ened ss the w ork proceeds. Mean tim e the bridge rem ains open fo r tra vel, though tho approaches a t each cad have been narrowed. Judge Skipw erth was here today and in eon ri this afternoon gave an order and decree that the <117,000 and odd dollars o f Southern O regon funds a fte r consultation w ith supervisor Clinton, it was decided th at the work could bo doae from tho mafatonanco fund aHoted to this section, he could proceed. H e did n et consult w ith Clinton but p r ate sded w ith the work and spent the balance o f the m ainten ance fund allotted fo r tho year be fo re the job was one h a lf completed, sad advised Clinton th at he had ea- sesm sd to be that tho thing was loaded, and th at i f that was awarded to tha Southern Oregon, the banks m ight then sue the county to recover the in terest they had paid so that the county m ight have to pay it tw ice. 8o i f the m atter comes op hereafter all sides o f tho question can be decid The annual interest charge ui 2,200,000 cattle. Save the M ilk— The children must have milk. U se every drop. Use butterm ilk and sour m ilk fo r cooking and m aking cottage cheese. Use less Save the F e te —W o are the w orld’s grsetest fa t was tars. F a t ia food, butter is oeaential fo r the grow th and health o f children. Use batter on the table as usual but not in cooking. Moon A Gidley Got Contract awarded * PW emit annual interest to 000. But the Southern Oregon taxes w ill probably come in ju st the same w ay aa the O. A C. taxes end w ill much m ore than extinguish that amount and put the county on easy street— to say nothing o f tho $160,- 000 or m ore o f taxes, interest end penalty that must eome from the K in n ey and Boutin tracta. So even i f the county is now paying 21H per cent interest on ths $11,000 w arrants issued in Novem ber and De cem ber 191$ that w ere called a couple o f weeks ago, «o* fa r as tho Interest cent annual interest accruing on delinquent taxes, the county i* bound to be no loser when it pays only six percent annual Interest on the w ar rants that cannot be paid w hile the taxes o n still unpaid and draw ing interest. A n individual, who could borrow m oney on lon g , tim e at six per cent and reloan it all a t 16 would think ho bad the w orld by the ta il and a down h ill pull. So, Coos county should w orry because she has to pay 21 per oent interest on the called w ar rants o f Novem ber end December H o said that tho appraised value o f these properties was $807,000 w ith $86,000 more fo r contracted proper ties, on which $86,000 was due. He had in the past three y e a n received no offers fo r the property, though be could have given a clear title except fo r tho taxes due the county. L ittle or no effo rt had been made to sell the properties, ow ing to the dullness In the real estate m arket since the be ginning o f the European w ar. Answ ering a question by M r. L ii- jeq vist he said he did not think the fe e t th at Mr. K inney had tw o undi- ▼oread w ives had anything to do tn Invalidating the title that could be given to these properties. Asked i f he had endeavored to stave o ff tax litigation M r. W atters replied that he had bean guided w belly by his attorneys hi his acts in that respect. H e said that it looked to Mm as I f the county would n et w ant to w ipe out the other eecurity holders en tirely S omc V ictim of tho Expiation. Am ong the victim s o f the explosion • t the M are Island navq yard last Monday w ere the fa m ily o f James L. McKenna, a brother F . R. McKenna, o f this city. The first nows the la tter received a fte r the press dispatches, cams in the shape o f a message from his parents in tho east tellin g that the house in which his brother’s fam i ly wore livin g had been bloom up. This came from te e officials there, IA . McKenna being too badly injured to him self telegraph. On W ednesday, however, came an other dispatch stating that M r. M c Kenna, his w ife and their tw o months’ old baby and the nuns w e n a ll in the hospital but wore doing w ell, which did much to relieve F . E .’s an- M r.-M cKenna, who is a naval offic er, w as livin g fat a double house at M are’s M an i, the other side o f the house, which was occupied by aa offic er named M cKensie, w ith his w ife tw o children and tw o eervaata, was blown to atoms and Mr. M Kensie’s body eras found 200 yards aw ay. Tho side o f the house in which the McKenna fam ily was liv in g collapsed when tho other part was blown to pieces, so that their injuries w ere due to the Since tho above was in typo the fo l house fe llin g in on them. Tho explo- low in g associated prom dispatch has been sent ont from W ashington, in dicatin g th at the House m ay not pesa te e Senate bill w ithout eome m odifi- o f fried foods. Soap contains fata. Do not waste it. Make your own washing soap a t home out o f the saved fats. Ube one-third ounce leas per day o f anim al fa t and $78,000 tone w ill be saved y e a rly .. Save the Sugar— Sugar ia scarcer. W e use today throe tim es ae much per person as our A llies. So there m ay be enough fo r al| a t a reasonable price. U se lees candy and sweet drinks. Do not stin t use in putting up fru it and jam s. They w ill save butter. I f every one ia Am erica w ill save one ounce o f sugar daily, it means 1,100,000 tens fo r the year. Save the fu el— Coal comes from a distance and our railw ays are over burdened h ealin g w ar m aterial. H elp relieve them by burning few er fires. U se wood when you can got it. ' the county court le t the contract fo r the clearing and gradin g o f the Coos City-Sum ner highw ay a little over four m iles in length. The only bid was that o f Moon A G idley, o f Marsh field. Their figures were $4£00 fo r the clearing, 81 cents fo r d irt excava tion, 66 cents fo r rock, tw o and a h alf cents fo r • overhaul, and $28.60 fo r lumber. According to the roadmaa- tor's estim ates this makes e total o f e little over $27,000 fo r the entire work. Newman Moon w ill begin the w ork as soon as he can get his force together and expects to fin ite it be fore w inter. Isthmus In let a t Coos C ity w ill not be le t until next year, and an appro priation fo r it w ill bo included in the budget next December A s a ll the contrasts fo r rig h t o f w ay on the Coquille-Bendon road have not y et been secured, it w ill bo impossible to advertise that project in tim e fo r tho work to bo done this year, so it w ill have to go over until 1918,* and w ill probably be the last o f tho work done finder the bond issue voted last year. A t h a lf pact three th ii afternoon the hearings in this case were about doubt that there will prom pt action to insure the collection o f tho taxes due fo r the past ten y e a n on the Kinney properties. The only question appears to be whether R eceiver W atters shall bo given an opportunity to sell and thus secure his costs within the next tw o or throe months, fa ilin g in which the county w ill proceed to sell the pro- or whether the receiver shall b e fro s - en out by an im m ediate sale. The indications are that the form er course w ill be taken and that R eceiver W atters w ill be given an opportunity to sell the properties end clear >ip the taxes i f he can possibly w ithin Judge Skipworth, who has ju st called, inform e us that ha w ill g iv e e bers a t Judge Coke's offiee a t Marsh field and th at it w in bo decided to night. , ___ The Klihyam I* AH Sight. The regu lar m eeting o f tho P ort o f Bendon Com m Uaionen was due Tuesday at Bond on but was deferred until W ednesday to m eet the govern ment assistant inspectors o f steam vessels, Captain Edthofor and G eorge W eldin there. There had been disquieting rumors th at the P o rt tug, Klihyam eras in bad shape, that her main sh aft was bent, etc., end they wanted to hear