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About The Coquille Valley sentinel. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1921-2003 | View Entire Issue (July 27, 1923)
To Attend Important Meeting The ed itor o f the Sentinel, accom panied by his daughter, M^sa M arian, who is its linotype com positor, start ed Tuesday, June 18, fo r a trip to Alaska, which they spent e fu ll month in m aking, returning last Thursday, July 19. I t was the first trip either o f them had aver made to that territo ry, end in many respects the moet enjoyable w e had ever ex- Beyond the crossing o f the G eorg ian Bay, between V ictoria end Van couver, B. C., neither o f us had ever been before, end north e f Portland the trip was new ground to the junior member o f the Sentinel force. From Coquille to S eattle we travel led in our car, and m oet o f the te r ritory w e covered in it w e had never before seen, so that even here in Ore gon w e enjoyed many new sceae>. G oing out to Boeeburg, though, we w ere on fa m ilia r ground, even in m aking the detour whch wee then re quired on Cessna mountain. Between that piece end Eugene, though we crossed the C akpooia mountains alongside the S. P. tracks and enjoyed seam o f O regon’s Unset scenery. Judge K. H . H u t and J. E. Norton are goin g to Portland Sunday evennig to attend the m eeting o f the Stete H ighway Commission on Monday. Thor* are tw o things Coos county in intonated in at this m eeting. One ia the lottin g o f the contract fo r widen ing and gradin g the 1800 fe e t o f the M yrtle Poin t road juat this aide o f the railroad crossing. The other ia to gat a batter allow ance fo r the f 180,000 the county has spent on the Coos Bay North high way. The commission allowed f ill, - 000 credit fo r this at th eir last m eet ing, but credit fo r only h alf o f the m arket road- fund* eras allowed and the court and Good Bonds Association feel that the county is entitled to a credit fo r a ll o f that fund i f H is un titled to anything, i t w ill nuke a dif- f arance o f about $22,000 to the county. ^ W ith the power o ff fo r an hour this noon, necessitating a long w qit fo r the m otel pot on the linotype to heat up again, it is e question how many o f the mails we shell m iss today. This sort o f thing is even m ore ex asperating to us than te the subscrib er who fa ils te g e t his Sentinel on tim e, but w hile we depend on power frem th « Bay, as we have fo r years, we can do nothing to prevent irregu la rity in power service her*. We sim ply havs to grin and bear it, hop ing that the prom ise* o f im proved ser W ednesday morning w e crossed at vice in the future m ay some tim e H arrisburg the one fe rry we encoun- come true. W illam ette and were tered on soon in the broken country between Albany end Salem where prune o r chards abound as they else had In Douglas county the day before. HEALTH ASSO CIATION NOTES • A fte r dinner at Salem we were on very fa m ilia r ground, ae our borne had boon a t Wood burn fo r tw o years before com ing to Coos county about ten years ego. The m orning o f the third day we drove across the long bridge from Portland to Vancouver, where we found a splendid highw ay fo r about h alf the w ay te Kelso, but were soon mixed up w ith s rand budding pro gram that reduced our progress to gravel road here was being paved, but the pavem ent just laid was not yet the rasignaticn o f D r. Irw in. C. K. rip * fo r traVel, and wo had te take Mulkey. Mrs. W . C. Chase and Mrs. Ida Owens w ere appointed. the h a lf th at was badly tom up. Judge M ast mads th * suggestion to Out o f K elso wo did but little bet ’ he members present at this m eeting ter, as fo r h alf w ay to Chehalia th* that the tw o nurses should have a car fo r th eir use as a m atter o f econ construction work aad it was neces omy, and stated that hs thought the sary to detour over a d irt road in a county would go 60-60 w ith th* asso h illy country that furnished plenty o f ciation. Thor* waa a saving e f throe stoop grades. These delays resulted months’ nurse salaries th * firs t o f the in our arrivin g at Chehalis too late year, and there w ill be another o f tw * to proceed farth er that night, and or throe months before a new head can Friday afternoon w e made the mis be secured, which w ill enable the court take o f taking the high line over the to finance their share i f the health hills east o f th * bay to Seattle, and association w ill provide th* other found tha road unpavsd and dusty fo r h a lf o f th* coat. about h a lf th * way. A fte r those dis The date Was sot fo r th* annual agreeable experiences in Washington m eeting at Coquille on Wednesday, wo heartily wished w e had taken the August 16, 192$. A t this tim e there trip by ra il to Seattle; aad until the w ill he elected the officers fo r the com road work in prog r ess betw een P ort ing year. E very on* is urged to got land and th * Sound cities is finished, out to this m eeting whether a member w e can hardly advise any one to re- o f th* association or not, as it is desir poat our experim ent w ith roads under ed to have as representative a gath construction and that cannot possi erin g o f the people o f the county as bly be evaded between Portland and possible. th* Sound coutry. Last Friday a young follow , about 28 or 24 years o f ega, and having the w ith some negro blood, dropped in a t the Coquille Service Station end bethered Paul W alker fo r two or three hours with talk o f chartering a car to .go to Gold Beech. Paul told him to take the boat and g et a car at Bam don, but he eeid he didn’t want a boa|! rid e; it was too slow. j rifle. He was vary particular, but fin i procuring a community building, a lly took e Savage, e new case and The question o f how end where to e box o f soft-aoaed shells. Pu llin g a| must such a building eras gone into rolls o f bills hs paid John M iller $42.» at considerable length end tw * hour* 60 fo r his purchases and started. . w ere spent in discussing financing, lo- About half w ay to Gold Beach they eating and other m atters ia connection m et “ Penay” Sturdivant com ing op therewith. w ith the stage end Tom Gustafson ex-1 Follow ing is the list o f recommend- changed s e n with "Penny,” who to o k ! at ions which wars agreed upon fo r the halflbreod on down to Gold B asel* 1 submission to the tem porary orgaal- arrivin g there about eigh t o’clock. ration, which w ill m eet in the city A t three o’clock the n ext m o rn ia f k ail next W ednesday evening at eigh t the young fello w was found den% « ’«lock. not fa r from town, w ith e bullet hole That e permanent organisation be te his forehead. I effected; that a corporation with a W s learned from Gold Beach citk capital stock o f $20,000 he organised; sens last evening that Firm an W ilson, that the per value e f each aha.c o f which was the half-breed's name, had stock be $26, ead that no activa steps gone to the house o f a g irl with whom be taken toward erectin g e building he was in love, end a fte r attem pting until 76 per sent o f t^e stock has to gat into the house, fired a couple been subscribed; e ll the money raised J In his pocket whan found, was a roll o f bills containing over $100 and » stage ticket to Bosobutg. H e haa started fo r Portland but a fte r mach iug here had evidently decided to go hack aad kill the g irl, or possibly the whole fam ily. H e had th * appearance while here o f being somewhat out o f W ilson had lived around Gold Beach all hi* life, except fo r the tim e he attended an Indian school. Ho fo r m erly operated a boat on the Rogue and had carried th* m ail between Gold Boe<h and Agnees. and waa known to many Coquilla peopde who have W e found an old acquatatene* on the highway troubles in th at section. the North we* tern in the p * «o n o f Probably no ogroemertt has yet been R ev J. F. Vernon, who wna prater of reached fo r the court went down te Riverton this afternoon w ith those arrar&ements can bo made w its th* city fo r locating it th ere." Another motion adopted w et that such a Community Building should bo rant froa fo r all public gatherings to which admission is not charged. N atu rally there w ere differences o f opinion about some o f th* above, but all w ere adopted unanimously. The suggestion o f having boom o f the stock preferred eras net favored by a m ajority, and th * question o f site produced various view s but all agreed te the proposition that such a building should bo placed in th * park. E very dtimen o f CoquiHe should Da interested ia this m atter and be pres ent at the m eeting to bo hold next Wednesday evening. Lincoln and Nnah Cnn Collide Mr. and Mrs. Guy W est, whose stag* names ara Sam and E lsie Goldie, end who are to appear at th* L ib erty next week, report a rather serious accident on th* highw ay Just south o f Marshfield at th * Shingle House Slough bridge south o f Marshfield at 6 o’clock W ednesday evening. They were d rivin g a Nash ear ia which they had been a il over the w orld, hot when they cam * along behind th * Co quille stega they had a collision with Our trouble* her* w ere o t y e t over, fo r a big delegation o f Chicago doc to r » and th eir wiveo, who had been n u K ig a Pacific coast trip and hold in g a convention at Seattle, required nearly all tha afternoon to got out o f .the F ry a. H otel wUh their lu ggage aad w e had to w ait a long tim e te g et an opportunity either to eat or sleep. M eanwhile, though, w * had “secured our steam er tickets and com pleted our arrangem ents fo r our trip to the fa r north. la ger, had spent som* tim e, in , that territory. J. S. Barton had also sail ed as fa r north as th * peninsula sec tion. And one o f our first subscrip tion callers this week was M rs. Chas. Garden, o f Coaledo, who had spent a couple o f y e a n in that territo ry, at W * sailed at 9 o’clock Saturday a tim e when th* trip up to our north- m orning, and tha w riter waa at least view in g scenery he had aoen before, until late that evening, when he pass Road Now Open AD Day ed th* entrance to Vancouver harbor ia sight o f som * e f th * ta ller build The road to Bandon via Fishtrap ings o f the m etropolis o f we*tern is now open fo r travel at a ll hours o f Canada, from which th* old folk s o f l he day, instead o f being eloaod dur the Sentinel took passage fo r the east in g fou r hours in th* asorning and tw o years ago this month. A las, w * from one to five ih the afternoon, as haa been th * m l* heretofore this year. the bounds o f life fo r on* o f us. It w ill probaby bo necessary to de W# sailed on th* Northwestern, tour via Fishtrap fo r the root o f this one o f th * ships o f the Alaska line, which had fo r th* moat part a new crow, th * old captain and m ost o f th* oArora who had been with that ‘ Trying to Settle the Trouble boat fo r yexra having J«**t been tarpne- Q uit* a delegation o f B lvorton eit- ferrad to th * now boot, Alaska, on lseiia m *t here with th* county court which w * returned ter* weeks later. thia morning in an attem pt to settle ;* la rge crowd in attendance, which Jw ow ded the table* and the dance floor. I The baseball club realised a little •ear $800 last night and should do as w ell or hotter both tonight and S atu r day evening. The a ffa ir closed at m idnight and The com m ittee appointed by the the crowd was most orderly, w ith a Community Building tem porary or- vary fe w exceptions, there being little ganisation to consider plans fo r li evidence o f moonshine among the rev nancing the building end make recom- ellers. meadatioas ia regard to it, m ot last Tonight a M arshfield delegation Is night at the c ity hall, with the foQow- promised to be Here, and tom orrow in g present: should be the b ig night. The m usk Chairman O. C. Sanford, Secretary furnished gratis by the local orchestra, A . 0 . W alker, Frank W illard, Frank added grea tly to the popularity o f the Bullack, D. F . Thompson, A lton K a y, dance hall last n ig h t field Itehoff, o f N orth Bend, who eras being taught to d rive by a ear sateo- maa. N either o f the c a n is said to have been g o in t moth than 20 m iles an hour, but they cam * together with such fere* as to smash on* wheel on th* W est car and throw it o ff its springs. The Im hoff ear also suffered some damage. Genevieve Clarke, o f M yrtle Point, who waa riding with tha W aste, was th * only on* hurt, but not seriously. “Perny” Archibald Married 150 N«w Scats at Liberty Clyde Gage has Just installed ISO m ore o f the air cushion opera seats in th * Liberty Threatra so that all tho middle taction and ten or tw elve rows back on th * tw o sidoo a it now o f that character. They a n the boot seats to bo bought aad are as com fortable a chair as can bo >roearad. It is another proof o f M r. G age’s do- sire to provide fo r tho oas* and eooa- Cards wars received this m orning containing th* announcement o f tho m arriage o f J. Raymond (P o o n y) A r chibald at Lawroneo, Kansas, yas tor- day to Miss Gertrude Genevieve Ashby, daughter o f M r. aad Mrs. J. B. Ashby, o f Salem, O r*. They w o n m arried at th* homo o f a brother o f “ Peony" ia Lawroneo, and w in m ath their home in H ooker, Mo., where be has a position w ith tho State H igh STATE GAME WARDEN HERE run with buffalo, antelope, wik and ev en passenger pigeons travelled in huch bugs bands that it was thought they never could be exterm inated, but a ll are practically now extinct. Due more to the protection o f th* fem ale than to anything elae, show tha re are p o n ia Oregon now than there w e n $0 or 40 years ago. The Chinese Pheasant, Mr. Burgh- duff belioves Is destined to beeom i the prem ier gam * bird o f the United States, and is ia hepra th at by next year it m ay be poesible to declare a short open season on thorn. The cost o f producing them a t th* state gam * farm has now boon reduced to 12 each. He suggest scattering shell ed corn in a field o f grow in g corn as a means o f protecting the grow in g crop, but stated that usually tha bird found s cut worm at the root when they industriously pulled up the ten der sprouts. T h * pheasant is w ary o f traps and gardener« near Portland found That cord stpin g around a garden patch on stakes would servo to sear* the bird* away. H * devoted quite a little tim e to th* fish queetion, bat asked if the sports men would not be satisfied w ith an abundant yearly supply o f trout fr y whether they earn* from a hatchery oa th * Coquille riv e r or elsewhere. T h * hatcheries have been increased frem five to fifteen in number within fr y to be planted this year. The State Game Commission is sup ported en tirely by the spoilsm en, only $10,000 having boon appropriated by that now hatcheries woald bo started as rapidly aa possible. H i* office makes a practice o f tred-