The Coquille Valley sentinel., July 20, 1917, Image 1

FRIDAY, JULY M. 1*17.
Talking about the attacks
i Roadmaator Murdock b
and th* Smith-Powem Loggtng com­
pan y, in which they complain bitterly
of th* scardty of labor and th* high
wagee they «re eompelled to puy ow-
ing to so many moa toaving thoir *m-
ployment to secuto wha* they cali va-
cation Joba en th* county renda. They
oven asoert that practicauly sil ths
men now employed en th* vsrtous
roed projecta in thto county ha ve besa
withdrawn frem the lsmksr campe
and milis and that they heve iH U ft
them since th* foorth of July. They
appeal to hto patriettom by daclaring
T M a k ia * About Irrig a tio n .
This luniM r’i experience to no
doubt turning the thoughts of 1 | tw t
many ranch* rm towards irrigation
problems.
Certainly rain enough
falls on th* waatorn atop— of the
coast rang* to Irrigate several times
as much land as to now under cultiva­
tion in Coos county. To build the
reservoirs necessary to hold the wa­
ters that flood th* lower valley of the
Coquille almost every winter would no
while th*
doubt take lots of
building o f the irrigation ditch** and
laterals would also be a b ig Job. Our
thought, however, to that all the mon-
•y required would bo well inverted—
after but not before th* valley toads
sa in Coos county most be cur­ have nil bpen cleared, the swamp
ia order to obviate the possibil- lands drained and a system of In­
it th* turbar’ camps and mills tensive cultivation adopted. What the
might have to shut down next winter
valley lands of thto county would pro­
duce if made to do their boot by reg­
ulating the water supply to almost
beyond comprehension.
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K
WATTERS GIVEN
FOUR MONTHS
Moet of the road men, he says, have
been heretofore employed to railroad
construction, and owing to the small
amount ci work in that line, muck
such labor to obtainable now.
Ho see* no reason, either, why the
draft of men for military service
Last week the Sentinel told of
Judo* Skipworth’s decision here that
the county must pay back to the Sou­
thern Oregon Company th* 1117,00#
it had advanced for taxes, pending the
decision of the question whether the
government would reclaim th* land
grant of th* Coos Bay W age* Road
Company, of which the Southern Ore­
gon is th* assign**.
This week comes th* news that th*
Uni tod States Court o f Appeals at
San Francisco, to which the same
matter had boon appealed from the
Federal District court in Oregon has
made an exactly opposite decision and
holds that th* Monasha Wooden ware
company and th* Southern Oregon
company cannot withdraw their de­
posits in th* hands of the Coos county
official*.
ji­
lt.to Mr. Liljeqvtet’s opinion that
H is a serious mistake to lay down at
thto time. The Cooe Bay Ttaam ro-
“ I am handling the tax foreclosure
^X T cases against th* Southern* Oregon
" Company and if I can win these
oases in ths tower court, It wfll be nse-
• we sesary for the Southern Oregon Com-
n in pany, if it appeals to th* Supreme
■pee- Court, to deposit ea a bond to court
Pert- an amount of money equal to th*
sing, amount of tax Judgment. Accerdtog-
■ for ly th* county could well afford to p*r-
■till mit in each an event the withdrawal
■lien, of the money in th* escrow case aad
i hto have it placed as a bond in th* tax
proc- case. Upon appeal if the tax Judg-
class «sent to affirmed th* Judgment to a#t-
rebe- tolled out of th* money deposited as
■war a bond, and the county does not have
to look to th* lend, which th* govern-
that merit of th* United States to suing to
•ting take over, to answer to th* argu-
«tor- meat that it would net be Just tor the
000, a bridge at Gravel Ford ea
18,000, and n bridge at* Hoffs
Hough, which coot $1,600. Bm
a certain clique at Myrtle Point
it, they are trying to rent their spite
*n County Roedmastar Murdock. .
"Murdock’s great fault, in the eyes
of como of hto opponents, to that he
to rigidly carrying out the work he
was appointed .to do, and insists en
the money of the taxpayers being
properly expended. He net only car­
ries the support of the State Highway th* mills would not have to shut down
authorities, but he to thoroughly com nor the pay roll* be stepped in th*
potent, as to generally admitted >y town* during the winter was becom­
ing more end more manifest.
Judge Watson to quoted elsewhere
knew th* other sun eras talking that
way he paid no attention to what he
said, it didn't interest him.
Hudson then, called his attention to
the oath he had taken to support the
United States government when he
took out hto first papers only four
months ago, and wanted to know why
ho didn’t pay some attention when
disloyal sentiments were being utter­
ed in hto presence aad report thorn to
the authorities, as it eras his duty to
do. At this Beckman hung his head
and had nothing further to my.
Mr. Hudson says, however, that
while in Curry county he investigated
th* report that a German wirieee sta­
tion was in speratien to th* MHc
there and found there was nothing in
it He took a long hike up Lawson
creek where it was reported teat four
Gormans were operating such a sta­
tion. Ha said that when he got there,
he found that it waa merely a pros­
pectors’ camp, th* men being all Am­
ericans and on* a native born Ore-
this money until th* last court says
it has to give-up, as $167,000 to cer­
tainly worth fighting for to th* tost
ditch.”
Mr. LUJeqvtot has Men fighting
against the withdrawal of thto money
for yean and th* court has sustained
hto position in every cane no far. Th*
Th* Sheriff’s office last Saturday county and hto successor should, in
sent out 240 notices to taxpayers who hto Judgment, carry on the fight, until
had paid for 1916 but had overlooked it goto He money out of the eecrow.
previous delinquencies.
Within six
days forty of thee# taxpayers had re­ It to aeldem that a bigger stake to
mitted th* amount necessary to fought for by a community and K to
square their account* with the county. no time to turn up one's thumbs, in
In th* first six months of 1016 th* hie Judgment.
Sheriff’s office here collected $$0,000
in delinquent taxes for 1914 and pre­
vious yuan. In the lin t six months
The Grant-Smith company did not
o f 1917 the collections for delinquent wait until finishing the fill to repise*
taxes for 1916 and previous yean the Cefltor bridge before tackling th*
have am ousted to $100,090. Thto in­ next job. on the Myrtle Pbiat rend but
dicates a wonderful improvement in installed another outfit of rails aad
business conditions and vastly mere dump can at th* Peter Jacobsen place
money in circulation here this year
Standard Oil Batidla*.
Work has begun en the Sta
Oil building for a distributing ti
hero. It will nearly adjoin the ci