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About The Coquille Valley sentinel. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 19??-1917 | View Entire Issue (July 13, 1917)
during S12,4S0 which U indirectly paid by MYRTLE POINT this amount against a u a y outstand ing warrants. I * round numbers our county now owes outstanding warrants to the am ount o f $ »«¿ $ 0 .1 1 , issued subsequent to January 1, 1914, and bearing interest aU lh o rate o f • per cent. Many a f theee warrants w ill not be paid fa r years to eomo unless some o f the delinquent tones o f ¿h e county are paid. The amount o f warrants affected by the call ju st issued by Treasurer Dhu- mick is approxim ately $11,000 and the interest on theee warrants w ill be $$,- 000. In addition to tho $236,000 above mentioned warrants are now outstand in g to the amount o f nearly $100,900 which eomo under special departments and the fuade to retire them w ill be forthcom ing every yeas, but theee bear the regular « per cent rate and this interest in the aggregate w ill be re lie f to Sight. H owever, it is hoped by those a t the head o f the délinquant tax collecting movement that this de lay w ill not be forced upen the coun ty but that these lands wiU.faH under the hammer to the near future. Death o f J. H. Uptoa. J. H. Upton, a veteran news] man o f Curry county, died a t $: m. Sunday m orning, at his L a i THE SENTINEL The Oregon Farmer Offers Unusual Opportunity to Its Readers M r. Upton was the pioneer newspa per man o f Ounry county having es tablished the Poet at P o rt O rford to 1990, selling! ***• JMtPcr tw o years^at- or and again entering the field With the Southwest Oregon R eporter at LangloU to 1999. M r. Upton had led n very busy life and was fo r many ysars connected with newspaper work in the W illam ette valley. During the la tter years o f his lifs ho crippled and un able to attend to ordinary newspaper the first Maid sum The Sitka Spruce Campany pays te its man today ap proxim ately $4,500 and E. E. John son w ill pay his men approxim ately $4,250 before 7 o’clock this even in f. This sum w ill practically all be spent in chit city fo r some commodity used in the fam ilies o f the workers, though c f course a certain «m ount w ill find its w ay over U ndo Sam’s counter in payment fo r asqftey orders which w ill te rent to outside cities. The balance o f $12,480, the payrolls o f Anson *1 and Craine’s loggin g camps, w ill to a greater or lass ax- tent find its w ag into Coqutfle and be distributed through the usual chan The payroll o f the nels o f trade. Aat-ea camp fo r June was about $4,- 800 and fo r Craino’o about $9,180. O f the la tter turn a considerable part w ill no doubt be divert/>d to Bandon but even then Coquille w ill indire.-V. / hen- A fte r thoroughly digestin g the above figures it w ill be seen that the money distributed to this section for« the pest month’s labors o f r ir d ti- xens justifies us to the thought that Coquille if to s fa irly prosper#.* con dition and even the businr-ss men o f the city should begin to pork -p an # carry out some o f the enlargem ents The league was form ed fo r the pro and expansion plans they Save been motion o f defense measures fo r the making fo r so many years. Pacific coast A m ilitary highw ay from the northern boundary o f W ash ington to the southern boundary o f C alifornia is,held to bo * m ilitary ne cessity. I t i f pointed out that (o ç ÿ a Isthmus Inlot, about fou r m iles twu road could bo eopstructed by the gov side o f M arshfield, has bean given up, ernment at a cost o f $36,00QJM0. The and tost Monday m orning a t’ tta reg route o f sack a proposed road weald ular m eeting the Conunbsion fo r the bo chosen b y the fra r départaien t The chief alto o f the league is to P ort e f Coco Bay approved o f the project fo r an 90-foot drawbridge crosto s sentiment fo r the highw ay open s t Coos C ity. Various to tercets among the people o f the coa st Tw o s t the Bay had opposed this project routes have been suggested by the as long as there was s ghost o f a m ilitary engineers s t W ashington; the show o f being able to d efeat i t Theee all coast, or Balboa route, and the interests wanted a bridge a t Bastside Pacific highway M ute. The Pacific directly acitoes from M arshfield in highway route is the favored road stead, and though such a bridge m ay w ith the exception o f a sligh t devia be built in the future its estim ated tion to avoid w inter snows. The need f t » such a road is self- cost would be h a lf a m illion dollars, and there would have to be a good evident, the speaker said. F or heavy many m ore people on the Bay and a traffic o f m ilitary necessity, the £a- 60 i rPton ™ ta in *l W « interest In public affairs until tbs and and the P ort O rford Tribune carried a column o f his w ritin gs evory wash. Few men o f the state w ere so w ell versed te the political history o f the United Statoe as M r. Upton, £ a had every thing o f importance that has occurred in the country e t his mind’s call and was a f a socialistic turn o f mind and s c ritic who could show the weakness es o f politics and b ig business. Through his unlim ited knowledge o f evento end excellent judgm ent he com manded a very high rsspoct from all whe knew him sad from ogtgra who tion since the firs t a f the year total $199,924— an terranee o f $20,070 o r a tile photo a f last year. ThdTlgures cover a period oxten j- Coast M ilitary H ighway, A t a m eeting o f the Pacific Coast Defense League at Portland Thurdsay evening o f last yrsst, L . J, Simpson, o f North Bond, president o f the asso ciation, and K. W. Emerson, o f Se attle, sacreU ry, discussed the advan tages o f a coast m ilitary highway as s measure e f d effh se fe r the Pacific good deal m ore p ro p er^ there be fo re it to seriously undertaken. The Coos C ity bridge w ill conduct the C o m Bay w agon rend b y an ex tension from g u n n e r over n low <H= events and history o f the past COQUILLE HARDWARE CO From the annual report o f Btoto Insurance Commissioner H arvey W ells ju st a t hand, w s learn te a t there was $703£6&000 o f Insurance w ritten -in Orogon, in 1919 and that the amount is steadily increasing. This is p retty nearly an average o f $1,000 <rf insurance fo r every asan, woman and child In the state In n single year. The cost a f a ll our In surance m ast ba a staggerin g total —and only a sm all percentage of'ou r insurance is w ritten by O fhgoa eom- The new insurance o f 1916 in Ore- gqp is listed as follow s by M r. W alls; F ire insurance on insurable property to the amount o f $862^69,000.00; life insurance, $162,877,000.00; accident insurance, $86,000,000.00 autom obile insurance, $6,766,000.00; m iscellane ous insurance, $52,678,000.00, an d.In surance carried to fratern al societies, $98,869,000.00. The follow in g suggestion from this report is worth pondering: W e w ill endeevor to impress upon all, that among the enemies we face during these w ar tim es is the destruc tion by fire o f grain, flour, hay, gro ceries and other necessities o f life . N ot only is this waste by fire en un m itigated calam ity but a fire waste is an added bOrden and reduces our re sources. It has been said, “ W hy w orry over the le m e f f m d rtaffs when- the In surance companies have to pay the actual loss?” I t arart by understood a t this tin s , that insurance is not to In view o f this necessity, congress iw jr o u can not oa t recently sdopted a resolution to inves money end money can not- replace tiga te the need o f such a m ilitary what has been burned. road, and to make such surveys ss m ight be necessar y to W a te it. The Items From the Baj. measure has the unanimous support (F rom the Corn Bay N ew s.) o f the congressmen from the Pacific J* rckoaod wia dde bridge b u ilt It w ill, o f course, render M arshfield much easier o f ac cess from the North fo rk and East fork and is not en tirely te.C oqu ille’s interest to that respect But fo r the accommodation o f the travellin g pub- lie sad as s necessary part o f a com prehensive system o f highways there is 'n o question that the improvement is one that ought to bo made. I f the bridge at Cee# C ity could be com plet ed before the Perham contract on this end o f the Coquille-M arshfield road, there would bo a large Amount o f travel from the valley to tte Bay by Vicious L W . W . Threats. Considerable exetiem ent has been caused ever s t the Bay by reported L W . W . threats to burn the V irgin ia Olson, the vassal that Is to be launch ed a t the Kruse A Banks shipyard at North Bend tom orrow. Arm ed guards are on duty a t night to forestall any such attem pts. It lookb as i f one o f the first w ar duties confronting the It is the intention to launch i t * sew steam schooner, V irgin ia Olson, fro m the Kruse A Banks yard on Sat urday. She w ill be towed to San Francisco, where her machinery w ill be installed. The keel fo r a govern ment vessel w ill ^e told as soon as the Olson is launched. Van Scoy, o f the Pathe News Bu rm a, was bars last week by request o f the Southern Pacific and took pic- turm fo r the movies a t various places Including beach resorts and Shore-’ acrea These pictu re, w ill be re leased to m oving picture houses o f the countnr end run as scenic view s. A . A . E ichler, a C aliforn ia U. S. Shipping Inspector, arrived - on the bay last week to secure data concern the Kruse A Banka shipyard, who seem to bo the paid agents o f the Kaiapr, where they can do no fu rther harm. Their threats to burn the wheetftelds o f W ashington, Idaho and eastern Oregon a t a tim e o f universal food shortage are aimed directi y a t the life o f the nation to the world tovernm ent vessels are struggi# to which w e are engaged. to b i built. M r. E ichler is to chargs Governor Moses Alexander, o f ¡da r fjth s district from C oo. Bay t o S ^ Z S "? * t iiw ! Con,P *nr . Coart A r- ¡HIE V*»£ til rr**?**■ *. *t?od’. *cconbng to a telegram THE SENTINEL, Okie Year - (1.50 THE OREGON FARMER, one year 1.0» Total v |2.50 AU famished for $1:60 to subscriber« paying strictly ONE YEAR ia advance ttas. It is said that the o t- comoanv