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.'