m ilitary duty has bean com pleted
next in order w ill be the callin g up fa*
physical exam ination by their local
exem ption boards o f those who m ost
respond on the first d r a ft
“ Hera le t it be emphasised that no
man from the city o f Portland or from
Multnomah, Benton, Coos Crook,
Douglas, Hood R iver, Jackson, Jose­
phine, Lane, Linn, M arion, Polk, T ill­
amook and Yam hill counties w ill be
called on the first d r a ft
. “ They are exem pt because the coun­
ties have already furnished, by v o l­
untary enlistm ents in the regular
A rm y and N ational Guard e ll the men
required to fill th eir quotas on the
first d r a ft
“ In succeeding d rafts men from the
city o f Portland and the fourteen
counties named w ill be called in the
exact order in w hich th eir serial num­
bers w ere drawn. There w ill be no
more drawings.“
a ge bought the garage, are the prin­
cipal defendants. The leasees o f the
plant, Prank Sebow, Geo. N . B attey
and Burt D oyle are alee made 'defen­
dants in the e a s t jk couple o f years
ago Gardner A I.srssn bought the
garage from Khne A Von P egert fo r
96-600 o f which IM 0 0 consisted q f
rea l estate and 98,200 eras fa r the
m achinery, stock.an hand and good
w ill. O f this 92,000 was paid in cash,
»1,500 in m ortgage on Gardner’s res­
idence property in Marshfield, 92,000
on securitise put up as collateral.
The rem aining 9 M M was cover ed by
assessed fo r real estate, fo r th eir 1917
taxes. This year’s taxes are not col­
lectable until next spring— one h alf
before A p ril and the other h a lf be­
fore October— but i t is often the case
that movables are taken out o f the
county a fte r assessment w ithin the
year before collection, so that the law
requires the assessor to got busy
quick in th eir case.
The law was
changed by the last legislatu re, how­
ever, so that instead o f 80 days a fter
notice is sent out, only tea days is
given, a fte r which the account is
turned over to the 8 h erlff fo r collec-
A fe w weeks ago Larsen sold his
interest in the garage to Gardner tak­
in g a second m ortgage fo r 92990 in
exchange fo r hie Interest.
In chambers on Tuesday Judge
Coke St M arshfield granted the appli­
cation fo r the appointm ent e f a re­
ceiver fo r the garage and G eorge T .
Moulton was named fo r th at position.
H e declined to eccept it, however, and
M . H . H orsey was
subsequently
TO BE MADE
IN STOCKADE
The follow in g from the Portland
Journal is o f interest as showing how
im portant a part Coos county pro­
ducts are goin g to play in the groat
w ar:
“ It seems to be up to Oregon, the
volunteer* state, to jd n the war.
“ M ore definitely it m ay be that
Coos county, Oregon, w ill w in the
Eugcmc Fast Paying Oat.
Nobody la to be perm itted to enter
or leave this stockade during the year.
The work wQl be the construction
o f sense devise to be need by the gov­
ernment during the w ar— ’w hose in­
vention is not stated but that it is
tubereulin test, however, th e quarters
in which they have been kept must be
disinfected before any indem nity can
be obtained. The state and county to ­
gether pay the owner o f an infected
anim al that is over tw o years old 926
w h en 'it is killed i f it U a grade, and
FAREWELL FOB Í Í
SOLDIER BOYS 2T
C um County to Win the War.
“ Because the experts te ll us that
the w ar w ill be won in the air, and
that to win the United States must
•quip the allies w ith a preponderating
fleet o f w ar airplanes.
“ The finest grade o f spruce is
needed to make airplanes and the
supply is lim ited, in Am erica the
supply being la rgely confined to Ore­
gon and W ashington, and Coop coun­
ty has a considerable part o f Ore-
County A gen t Sm ith has been g o ­
in g over the county w ith Dr. C. M.
Gardner, assistant state veterinarian,
during the past tw o weeks, and they
have in that tim e tested 27 herds o f
cattle fo r tuberculosis, ten in the Co-
quille section, eigh t on the low er Co-
quills and nine in the Coos B ay sec­
tion. O nly one anim al out o f 1S4 in
the la tter section was found to be in­
fected. On this side o f the county,
however, the returns w ere not so sat­
isfyin g. O f the 641 cattle examined,
61, or nearly ten per cent, w ere found
to bo affected, and in one bard on the
low er river there w ore 21 out o f 29.
In another there wore 29 and in a
third ten.
O f the affected anim als about fo rty
w ere in the ea ri^ stages o f the die-
ease which had only attacked some
glands,and the meat could be need fo r
canning, it is thought, w ithout dan­
ger. The disease jn ay m anifest it ­
s e lf fir s t in the glands, the Joints or
the lungs. A cough is no criterion,
as sound anim als w ill b ften cough
w hile some th at are seriously affected
The city o f Eugene has paid a ll but
918,790 o f 9160,000, the purchase
price o f the Oregon Pow er Company’s
distributing system under a contract
entered into February 1, 1916, which
gave the city a municipal ligh tin g
monopoly. A paym ent o f 931-250 was
made recently.
The contract pro­
vided that the city should pay a t the
rate e f e t least 91260 a month, which
would have carried the payments ever
a period o f six to seven years. The
purchase price has alm ost en tirely
been paid within a period o f I f
Britt Scat To hftnury-
start fo r Portland to Join the colors,
was a d eligh tfu l social, event, though
tinged w ith the sadnspo o f partin g fo r
a future o f unknown duration.
The guests o f honor wore J. P . M i­
chels, Carl Larson, Claude K insey and
H arry Ocrding.
The ladies in attendance wore Mes-
dames V . L. Ham ilton, H arry Shark­
ey, and Bonnie W alker; Misses Cecils
Hoffm an, A llis Phillips, M ary Pike,
Esther Asplund, M adge Yoakam and
Bonnie Smith.
The other gentlem en wore Arthur
K irct, Paul R yaaing, A rch ie W alker,
V. L . Ham ilton, R. B. Murdock, H arry
Sharkey and W a lter D—dh n -
When the dance was over about
1:90 the company was invited to a
banquet tendered them by Dr. and
Mrs. Ham ilton at their residence.
A fte r fu ll justice had been done to
this delicious repast the rest o f the
waning night was spent in a sort o f
farew ell visit, during which many ko­
dak pictures were taken, and a t 6
o’clock they n il w ent down to the
train together fo r a final farew ell.
It was a night lon g to be reasem-
bered by tboee who participated in
the festivities and which the boys who
volunteered at their country’s call
w ill recall in the train in g campo, on
the ro llin g ocean and in the fields o f
Prance.
Heaven bless and guard
many dairym an who w ere not w illin g
to have their herds tested now because
this is the height o f the producing
season and b u tterfat commands an ab­
norm ally high price at this tim e. O f
course this is a very short sighted
view to ' take when the disease spread«
so rapidly once it Is introduced in a
herd. I t is lik e lettin g a little fire
It is said that the w in ter la the
worst season fo r the spread o f this
h eave, because then the cows being
dry are not kept la ee good condition,
and w ith low ered v ita lity and storm y
weather they are much m ore suscep­
tible to it.
B ritt Henderson, o f North Bend,
hose name has frequ ently appeared
the newspapers during the past tw o
Gravai Ford Wodnosday te put in a
claim fo r a borse killed w hile w orking
on thè highw ay near thè Cooper
bridge, a eouple o f weeks ago. He
had hitched his team to a amali cui-
v e rt to m ove it sligh tly when ona o f
Nobody having bean drafted in Coos
alm ost instantly. Th e claim against county the shipment o f about ninety
the county is fo r 9200, though it is
rather a nice question whether -the
county is liable.'