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About The Coquille Valley sentinel. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1921-2003 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 3, 1922)
f. i V ■ . . j : .. A'" *' ■ 1 .V i / • a , ' ' r, j F i ' ■ Y ì® \. '-v-y y* ■ \ ‘ ;• > 1 A * ". , £ • '*• THE PAPER THAT’S no . a. COQUILLE, COM COUNTY, ! T H E E IH T H Q U M d -;.«e V t7«h FROM HOME . Most of the people of this city got an early morning caB a little after five Tuesday morning when the earth gen to move like a Said of grass grain ripe for the harvest Very tow were alarmed at this mild rsadadei the instability of the earth beneath and some of those who slept through it were peeved because they missed a novel isnseHaa E. J. Page, who; with his wife, i up with a sick child when the earth quake came at 5:18, says the ftret shock lasted about ten seconds, end after an intervcl of another tea, a i oad followed nearly twice as long. The ftrst movement appeared to be from north to south; in the second sensation was as if one was being rocked by invisible and unfelt hands. Not only did doors end windows ra t tle, but dishes did the seme. At the same tip# the frost was shaken from the trees in ths yard. At the resi denes of their next doer neighbor they started to run out of the house for fear it would fall on them. Mr. Page had experienced earthquakes before and was not worried by the flight tremor of the solid earth. One man who wasn’t earthquake broke told us that both he and his wife accused each other of shaking the bed a t the time it began to rock under them. " J w lf - As to the direction ef the oa waves some agree with Mr. Page in saying it was north and south while others say the rocking was east and % ¡FfinfÉ ■ — FE1DAT, FEBRUABY «, l i f t Ground Hog Snes Nothing AI moat Everybody Felt the Tremblor Here Early Tuesday Morning ‘ . • letter Smith’. Sole Seturday. lSth Although the sun .hone—none Saturday, February 18, is the date brightly—et intervals yesterday : C H IR L E S B I M T O O I C H P I R O L E J ■ for the community public calc, are confident that we are eoreret in ^ ■ w iU ha bald a4. Rogen* b a n in — stating that the ground hog did n o t, „ . v . , . Coquille, is the information given the H. M. i hi. shadow in Cooc county that S roke Kr° r *d Fatal and C ru n h u d -B o o f oi this morning by J. L. Smth, day. In the first place beeauoe there P i m d Away at 10:30 ly TV» Mach Clemency— manager. He bes a goed liât Theatre Palin Beneath no ground hog ef »tug already altered for tho salo, to make a | Sunday Night Going Buck to Pen > Weight of Snew low, and in the shadow, b promimo to bo a big one, and there waa no ground hog here to see one havnig any stock or farm ma- Charles E. Baiter, who suffered a H. M. Goodrich, who ha. been The story of last Saturday’s awful a shadow. Then again the rule tha chickens, etc., which ho do stroke of apoplexy ten days previous, round Coquille much of tha time for tragedy at the Knickerbocker tneatre there will still be six more weeks of te sen should list it at once with sway last Sunday evening at [the past three or four weeks, v u a r - __ ___ in Washington, where a hundred peo- winter M the aun shines oa the sec- Mr. end of February, doesn’t apply to 10:80, after lying unconscious much ______________ _____ w pió ware wiled and almost twice as 1"4 ® Pnbltoh to l to l i lis t The Tollo of the intervening time. His death [night for breaking into the telephone Coos county, for after ten ye what kind af"a~amla*ìt*vrin | “ *** toíured, wifl^t f r . a | f l» É tog daily expected for it was ottes and frightening the operators, J be: ent place Ul history. in Oregon tha writer. never seen six weeks of winter in any | «” dent from the hour of the stroke He broke two glass doors. Back of quoto h fellows troca tito twelvemonth. Occasionally there is a that he could not recover. this arrest is the story of a » man who to be fresh this month qr next; a few J ****** aooount dona Uleissnar of little near winter weather as there Tha funeral was held at tha EUing- [had betters; one registered yearing Jer- *** «eoe, who calls it "a mon- in the past two months; bet — Chapel Tuesday afternoon at 2 : 80 . good, but’did not have the stamina i temili» to Mjr J ^ y ban lament to the worst hussard Washing - tha sqaaon called winter here is such »**b ths B. F.'O. Elks, ef which, he let boos# alone. [ wgw ^ UtUp> g pJ 7 fw " t as might prevail late in the fall or w“ » member, in charge. About ftf- Some tan yean ago Goodrich was w ashing 100 pounds each and wartton early in the spring in law favored *«**• “ •“ b an teem the hay, ha- sentenced to carve sixteen y ean in L ** --------Of coarse, the writer to not ^ [lton P«itm ,tiary to C aU fo r-L ^ ^ * * * t m ho^ T |e a m c e . prme of the capital’. movie yet sufficiently acclimated to call ^ ^ T* ' B d ' I to mmm way ha as- on. saddle hone and saddle; ehlckan. *•“ . bad recovered over luo bodies WUP to . Aoww bare be-1 7 * * ™ * “ * G»e sympathy at Fred Bunch, #nd otfcv »rticlee. *»t* bunuay nignu otner. wert u - § le t and the lin t funseal was one of the most totgslff [of Ban Francisco, a cousi nof Dr. F. | ggy Smith also exnecta to hava I tally injured. Uthars were reported of tha following July s “winter day.” I attended that ever took place to thtoiG. Bunch, of this city, who secured apecjai by Coquille merchants I ** nuMm( and comusion in nospitai We will admit, however, that the his parole from Ban Quentin afte* ( t n. ^ ,4^7*___ _________ _ I .«norta ___ ............. ......... rainy season on this coast is occasion- The services were conducted by Pe- serving eight years of his sentence. ally an unduly prolonged « - «id th . wa. paroiwi in F n d Bunch's , ---------------------- I naortly Oexore muimgnt w«mn the I a quartet consisting of Aaron W0- i s f c s a r s m ’w a A. A, I E. D. Webb. * run of beautiful Bora “ ‘ secured a second parole for | _______ [claimed. Only great piles of ootamg |snd spraye filled the front of the | him, and Goodrich still out on I Carl C. Wilson, of pleaded lrom U mi dead remaned as mute ev. r n n a IX T • HP» K A IT1 Í ch*P*1 toettfying to tha affection to this parole when Mr. B« unch died to guilty befor. Justice Stanley here 'i*nce oi tha «orgue’s grim mhabi- T R A IN T I M f e i l ’totob the departed was bald by his Sap Francisco last year. , yesterday to operating a d«»«« hall t*nU io1 th“ preceding 24 hours. A I friends. Bunch, of Coquille, was then in- without a license, and was fined 920 “*w *hlit oi • hunoreU marines, aid- Tne pall bearen Att ,* • ^ 1 ^ is week from Sunday—on Feb. E. J. P ag e,/. W. Miller, Altoo G r W , I ^ ^ SW iff » * ^ nUa“ dltUU ^ ^ s new time card will go into ef and James Caughell of this city, and I “ b “ **** d “ Itogeen hays that a couple of weeks L‘*^rin» «way the wreckage. oa the Southern Pacific, which Ohms. H a riw to M yrtU P J n t “P >“ * *»“ • ago ha and Deputy Sheriff Melehom Countleee thousands trudged coming through about ■w«-»hruek testimonial of tho freak Th« interment v u in tha Masonic y odnr r c# ^ l . S S L ” The morning mail train Igfat and there waa to much I **** through tha traffic-blocked meterv. accomDsnlad b f tkn «m- 1 ® wdsnan vn Califomis, who north will laave Powers at 8:06 and preesive burial ceremony of the B. P. f " 1“* ^ I » n d yelling and evidence of | »treats and along tha snow-swept arrive et Coquille et » :« end at O B Highways from surrounding suburbs, »old a theatre in San Francisco. With intoxication that they Marshfield at 10:86 a. m. This to Chas. E. Baxter*was born in S a n lJ * * tJ*on?“ ,d G * * ^ ™ * ™ An ax- went in. Everything was quiet while j to witness the tragic scenes of them iver an hour later than at Crus, Calif. June 8. 1870. beta* 61 debench and showed up here they were there, but when Wilson —hundreds of abandoned autos and >st the time of arrival at Portland years, 7 months and 21 days of a g e j1^ th ** kept dance «**“« mtoU three o’clock | thousands of men plying with shovels will be only one hour later, tha and snowplows at tha great drifts Here is what the editor has to say f “ " **" nM>rnin* T~ ® C ° a tK Wil' , time being shortened thirteen •t the date of hi. death. In 187» With three timepieces, neither of ninutes, the train arriving there at he came to Coot county and has sin—l ,*ri,an °®c“ u but «» Goodrich’s plea | liame ordered him to close down and | which maothered the city, still testi- the greatness of the charges wars* p re ferrea for ram ine which were on the dot, the >M instead ot 6:20. One imturaUy iade his home here and at Ms without u licerne. la hie court yot- man had to do a little correcting rid. sonden when the Cooe Bay But the heap of wreckage, whtot that it wmrid he thè la*. terday, Justice Stanley read Wilson Tuesday morning to arrive at August 28, 1504, ha was manto /hieh was opened six yearn ago, wffl « lecture la which he told of the w u once the beautiful theatre, more A short tinte ago Goodrich exact minute of the earthquake. He iave been sufiklently “aettled“ to per- Miss Ethel Shoop at Marshfield, . - jfc graphically portrayed what the storm had noticed the day before what leeidee hto wife, he leaves hie < had wrought. 1 • 8lt a greater ^ U at Wíá¡d ther, Mrs. Linda Baxter, a ■ ; Because ef the storm and result nona a Ut- clocks and the mill whtotl& That mors naka the average time about 26 i Hal, and a sister, Mrs. ant confusion growing out of s com ing he looked at m other clock, which to mourn his untimely J, [61700. TUa ha tovwtod in thè Col-1 Mr. Wihon’s petition to thè county plete tie-up in traffic, utter collapse was running on a variation from th a t .n hour. tor. F. M. J a a t e ) a | Business men in Coquflto will lega Ina at Marshfteld, with a partner «ourt to t n license to eondvct n dance ef newspaper carrier service outside The two corrections needed, however sinly appreciate the change in tha George; and a sister, Pearl, pi wbo put up 6200. But not being able hall waa not steed upon, ss ha aaked the heart of the city and the fact that made him conclude that 5:18 must .me of the morning trato to Portland, him to the great beyond | to use bis own natine ter busta— pur-1 parntoslon to withdraw It after thè dead end injured were distributed be very near the time; and he was io we ver; for it will enable them to But the number of those who through many hospitals, thousands the paaetag of Chats. Baxter to not)P°»—■ Goodrich mad# the purchase in [court had signified it% intention rather surprised to learn that he bed oswer their afternoon mail Jn the op till noon Sunday had heard nothing __ confined to a few. He waa unlvenial- j toe name of Dr. F. O. Bunch, which | refusing to grant n o t missed it a hair. .vening and poet their letten to tito except rumors alt the disaster which It was intareating to learn from thv ^ |iy liked and respected sD over Coo« toe latter says was entirely without. without difficulty, had come to friends or relatives. reports from different seismographic everybody will be glad of the lDd" a ’ 1 county and a - ¡ T * « t a S , hi. con— t or knowtod^. P ro f« m i« u d Gloom K ilter oppor- As the death toll of the tragedy observers et just what rata Tuesday erons friend to those to need to seldom Goodrich was »tHl drinking pretty At the Liberty Theatre Saturday uaity to mail letten in the grew Sunday, and it w u revealed that morning's tremor travelled across the met. He will be greatly missed by | heavily, using receipts from the busi-1 night, Feb. 11th. that were written the even •n.-, n__ in r u —• - - i *bo1* families had been wip*d out, or continent. At Denver it was fait at ness for hto sprees and when the ore, without making a special trip »11* . J S » ? ImbM had been left without per- 6:20; at Chicago at 7:22 and at He was gently interested to ath-1 creditors began to close to, they strat- gregetlon of tacel talent will p— ^ without children, own town far the purpo Washington, D. C., at 8:25. This in Then to an important «hangs in totic »ports of all kinds, and to kis ed after the doctor. The Uttar eeeur-1 a program of song had dance lasting the city itself first realised the full every ease wee local time, la t t e f l he time of the tri-vn-ekly night tn in , younger days was quite a base bail I ed counsel and convinced them that 80 minutes that will make you laugh lorror that had struck it. of Pacific time the vfbratioa at Den oo. It will leave Marshfield at 6:20 player. * | he waa not responsible in any way, I until your sides ache. Aa nightfall again dropped over the ver occurred at 5:20, at Chicago at Since bis return from Marshfield to I but when Goodrich pulled off hto latest I The management believes that Co- I city Sunday, there were still a few the evening instead of 8:00 5:23 and at Washington at 5 J t ■ at present. Then it will Coquille six years ago he has con-1 stunt a t the telephone ofltoe, Dr. Bunch I quills has talent worthy of exploits oodles visible iiff the ruins. More So it took cevea minutes tor the Jucted the hotel here, which bean wired the officials a t Ban Quentin and I tion, and will be glad to try out any were thought to be imbedded and the re at Eugene at 12:01 < earth waves to md make dose connections with tha hto name. He has ben a supporter of they wired back to arrest Goodrich |and all in any act that any individual work of rescue went on unceasingly. water on the Pacific to tidewater on No. 16 on the main lina, all civic improvements, and has done and lurid him for them. Accordingly or indhridulato would Ike to present [ None of those still buried, it w u be the Atlantic. «hieh will ge south a t 12:10. The hto part to the building up of this the doctor wont over to* Marshfield as it may be the beginning of a ca- lieved, could be alive. It is worthy to note, too, that the me of arrival ef tha Manhfield train eommunity. He eras a good bueinoss Wednesday and want to Goodrich’» I rear. Let os hear from those who can Scores were injured, many of them severest shock at Waahiagton m s man, whose word was never question- j room at the bay, where he found him I sing, dance, play any instrument or frightfully. All hospitals in the city at Portland wW not be changed. net fait until 6:55 tan minutes later ed, it being as good as his bond. with a woman. He then brought him I do any tdrii that they may have. were crowded. Doctors, nurse», Red and then the machine was thrown out Hundreds of workers in the logging I hack to Coquille and lodged him in jail. J Don’t forget tha date that the KIT Gross workers and volunteers tolled Anniversary of Big Storm of gear, and that this was at a time camps of Coos county will feel hto Goodrich haa been begging like a good MINSTRELS will appear, Saturday without rest, caring for the injured, when everything here was quiet. At Hark Dunham say» that on the first — sing as s personal lose, for none fallow to bo nteoood so ho could skip night, Fob. 11, as they are brave boy» and extending help to the stricken 10 o’clock the Washington tt February. 1881, there began a rajs rt them , ever , called ___ _____ _________ on Chas. Baxter [to Canada but tho doctor to unwilling and deserve the attention of tho familiee of the dead. menu were still registering, and that •iera on the lower Coquille that lasted I when hungry and broke, without bo- to take a chance on him. | munity. A “full houoO” to oast The full extent of the disaster did was an hour and a half after the diet three days, wttheot cessation day òr ng fed. I In two m « e years, had he kept play to and will not become apparent until Sunday, af tight Ths river reached Front street Chas. Baxter w u aa ideal hotel »traight, he maid have boon entitled come again and ter a night of confusion and terror. At Denver the experts said the »t the Busy Corner and lacked only man, popular, courteous, unfailing in p* • P*rrion, out now ha m a t go book Ion tho road to Broadi The death list increased hourly u center of the disturbance waa 1600 two feet of going over it where the hospitality, and ovar willing to go * •*** *•**■ to P « Broadway to the gea] mangled forms were carried out. miles sway and that it “was the most Baxter Hotel now stands, th e river ” . ' dome of them could be identified only , severe in 16 years”—which ,of course, as so high that tt was impossible to the limit to extending accommoda- 1 — 1 - ~ ~ ' 1 Ths admission will remain the same by the papers they carried. He hoped at one time a few would be understood “sines the Sen tte a boat to a pile reaching 82 foot ÿ^ara ago i if only the pictures were shown and to — a modern fireproof Around the corner from the theatre Francisco upheaval of l i l t , " and add above tha ordinary high water mark. O u of the matters taken up by the lit to hoped that everybody will be on | the Chrtotiaa hotel building erected on the rito of ie church was an ed that it eras “greater than register It was the biggest flood ever sees county coart Wednesday woMtho do- hand to — tha fun and incidentally | mnrovi^wt r he present hotel, but after hto health mprovfsed morgue, where bodies ed a t the San Frsneteeo earthquake." re by whits men and Hark nays begim to fail a couple ot yean ago ferrad awaru of tibe county p n n tm g j1#nd , hand where tt to deserving. war# carried to and placed in rows , At Washington it was thought ths can The C o m Bay “ ----- ----- 1 ----- ere tt ran out to the narrow paso he w u warned of high blood pressure, . ,n tho concrete basement. Ail Satur- ter of the disturbance waa 2500 miles ayeen the hills j u t below. Lampa i lie practically gave np tea idea, lea' G o tt to S o e ru n o n to fo r F o rg e r I toy night and Sunday long fitoe of away, and one offleial pronounced ft v u j u t Kk* water running « it ing it to so— one rise to fulfill his not I Sheriff Ed. P. EHtagaen left thie \ mm w*“ *n’ ***iiOM " * ^ * rfjuI- of- a funnel. When he struck this drffsm of a modern hoetery to Co morning for Sacramento, w hen Lee- am® *° ***k for relatives and friends, The weather bureau officials at the wall of water coming down, with tho ntili#. enao Bartlett to beta* held tar him B1»nlt*ta covered the bodies. There capital believed the center of ths dis ho was running, tho grado up ___________________ _____________ by the police of ¿ J p t o c e ^ I - t * turbance was in Southern Mexico tho hwTies amo so stoop that it w u Now that the Oregon Dairymen’s caTrM» The Southwestern Ore- Daoomber Bartlett wrote e number o f | fln*’ ,nd »ntomobHee and ambulances The geologiate of New York figured for a time a question whether he Co-opsrattve League has been ffis- DsUv News did not submit a rs- chocks o r * at the Bay to some e f l* * 4* ®°ntinBOU» tripe to undortak- differently and located it on the west could make tt. solvad. the dairymen of northern «.JLl to t 5 ^ u b e !ilb « a for tho o d which he signed his own nunc and I n* sstabltohmsota. Streets leading coast of South America, between Pan An old Indian »ring hare then. „ Curry are anxious to unite with those uliA i could forged others, the largest being f o r i 10 *** t*1* * ^ •*«» jammed’with ama and Ecuador. Tha earthquake iKarks a t the Cambridge, Mass^ ob “T taffiertto i rii#lSto’r t 'aZ £ o a . *5 * * S r lb “ “ • ^ L t r e r y w o fto v a done m aa’ tt was 645 .Ha then .Upped out. The rimr- “ d » * * * — . Ti«itin* 10f » selling organisatlcn. In a let- ■_ comatMe condition et that t^ m to located him recently in Secremento I “ * ■****• servatory had still another opinion end indicated — i nuis at about it and said tt occurred “under the only ptooo that warn* o o v ^ | ^ to u . A. P. Svmrt, of Langloto, 1 , M not Z S t w S about Nov. 1. and the police there pick«! him ff*J * J * " H * * *1*?**™ , a t that tima. ••ys Gm dairymen ef hto vicinity win | - | Mr. EUing— r to gotog down armed **“ Gmatro, and soldiers, sailors and the Pacific ocean, off the coast of Spectators Whan Grahaya was building the I h# glad to sand a delegation up'here, with extradition papers so that there I m*rfa*e «tood guard. ----- ------- Oregon or Washington.“ Ceos Bag Roaaburg A Eastern Bail- I if our dairymen will get be no delay. He expects to re-1 ver* b*nkod — -deep behind the turn in about . week, afta/v isitin g EvwT Uttl. while . stiff, blnn- right we shall probably never know read (tha present 8. P. line) through decide on a plan at action. sistars in Oakland for a couple of k ,t °°,rer*d ,onB woald be carried to tha annual meeting' ot the it; neither will we if it was on ths here, and old settlers told o^this flood, day.. P “ |th a church by eoldtors. Two chock artists wort busy oa the | fkri Club west coast of the eouthern bmnic- he —s entirely incredulous and told likely to be elected to Within the walls, soldiers, volun- phere. The once who located It on them they had been drinking too flree- Bay Saturday night, cashing six | Some o i have been — tog double. st, tt Tha new grand Jury will convene | and government workers labored ka totalling 650, which ■ land will probably ha chackau up in The time came later when Graham’s ed by Tom Lusk and Ed H. eided to postpone the election for one | Monday, Fab. 90, and Judge Coke | without rest to move the piles of de courec of • water tram hare to From the description given of the week, or until Feb. 8th, at which time wffl also hoar ths applicants for na- Jbris. Acetylene torches wore nsed to 4 W you hoiuvo to o o w k ju w m jio o Myrtle Point, and ha recalled the it to hoped to pick up one ot thei t o |a larger attendance to hoped for. Bov- tunriixation on that day. Tha n g n - « tt the beams beneath which bodies he had heard, exclaiming, “By the county soon, but the othei to | oral other meetings last Wednesday lar February te n t of tha cim it court I were hidden. Ropes would ho tied tho picture, “ONE WITCHING hecky, they m ust' have opened nn- ght to have left by Sunday ■ HOUR" a t tha Ubcrty next Tueeday and W . "ri.: z r z ' t t z ' z s s i z ^ i - s r ^ s a s i i M BIG CHANGE IN ^ » I " - * * V ii ^1 X, C F* ■■ ’ V c