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.
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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-