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 ^
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