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About The Coquille Valley sentinel. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1921-2003 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 10, 1923)
t t w Bg I THE PAPER THAT'S LIKE A LETTER FROM HOME I = - « YO L. U . - » = ■=g i = NO. to. I g ; 1 ; O ¥ C O R U ILLB . COON C O U N TY, F R ID A Y , A U G U S T IK M U " OUR ALASKA TRIP We Reach Fairbaaka Bat Fiad No Night There—Meet OU . Prospector Boy Klein, state highway engineer was in Coquille Wednesday. Ha drve in from Portland, the object-of visit prim arily being to gat first hand information as te the explosion on Camas mountain last Saturday, which wrecked Contracto* Stone’s plant and will delay the rocking o f the grade on the mountain fo r a month or six weeks. The rock otusher was a cc plate wreck, four pigs and a lot of chickens wart killed, a small hat nearly demolished, and huge boulders wars hurled as fa r ns 600 feet. ’ Mr. Klein confirmed the report pub lished last week that the gravelling o f the Coquille-Bandon section o f the Roosevelt Highway will proceed Just as rapidly ns the graders get out o f the way. This road is considerad one of the moat important now being improved by the state and everything possible is being done to hasten it. (Continuad on fourth page.) '■LE-JJg i Fair Health W n Next Wednesday Mrs. J. M. Bledse, the secretary, informs us that the next meeting of the County Health Association will be held at Coquille Wednesday, A u g ust 16 at 1 30 p. m. This is the meet fo r the election o f officers and other business will slab need atten tion so that it ia earnestly hoped there will be a large attendance. Those who are not members are cordially in vited and argod to be present and take part in this meeting. Be there if you possibly can. PR0CLAMATI0 WHEREAS, The'Inacru table hand of Providence n * Tv haa removed from this earth and the scene of i^s labor M r much beloved and esteemed President of the United States, 'Warren Gamaliel HardingS Rod, WHEREAS, It ia eminently fitting that nil loyal citizens, wheresoever they may be, should expi their sor row and regret for our great loss and their sympathy and respect for the departed as Well as for his loved ones whom he leaves behind. ' j , of Coquille, Coos County, Oregon, do hereby proclaim and declare Friday, the tenth dhy of August, A. D„ 1923, as a P legal holiday aad most nrpMitly request that all of our citi zens refrain from their usual avocations on that day and to so conduct themselves as to e »pi ens a proper reverence and respect for the honored deed. « „ I ** * - ; . CITY DADS IN ¡SESSION "¡mm- \ Given under my hand at the said City of Coquille, this 7th day of August, S. M. NOBLER, - Mayor. --------- * The City Council hhfi arranged for a memorial serv ke to be held ia the M. K. Cfcpreh South at 10 A. M Friday, August 10, which all dUscns are urged to attend. ■i AUTO. ACCIDENTS Upon request of. the County itlon, J. L. State Fair Exhibit the county Smith has boon nsi Coos coun- court to oollect and di*| Ir the latter Leonard H tyu Found Dead Un ty products at the state fth would part o f September, der His Ford—Truck to tyhere appreciate information Crowded Off Highway good exhibits o f graia,''grasses and fruits may be found.. j A tragedy, which occurred on the Ho plans this year te nuke a larger display o f lumbev than to o heretofore highway Tuesday night w ill probably en made, and wHI, o f course, take never be solved, although conjecture out myrtle wood, although this does ia that the victim either went to sleep not count in the scoring. His en fo r a moment, or that the fo g was so deavor will be t e put Coos at the head thick he couldn’t see where he was o f ths coast division, but with the syi going. Leonard Hayes, o f North Bend, was tens o f scoring now in vogue it will the victim and it was not till early be a herculean task. Since Tillamook county laat year Wednesday morning that his lifeless persuaded the authorities which ar body was found under his Ford by range the score card, to give them Jack Rosa, who lives nearby. The accident happened leas than over 700 points on Mefar cheese ex 7»alf a mile thia aide o f Shingle House hibit alone, while Cood can only score something over 400 on Hs dairy pro- Slough bridge on a straight stretch ducts, it looks like the cards were o f paving.^ The wheel marks show stacked to insure the northern coun that the car did not skid but began ty a perpetual claim on the blue rib to quarter across the highway and bon. Judge Wade made a strong ob- continued down over the embankment, jection last ] > unjust mstbod about 70 feet from where it began ■11. Coos eour- to angle across. o f scoring, but to 1 Coroner Fred Wilson, who was Im but we are not ty is gyped, all has only one mediately summoned by Mr. Ross, ar like Tillamook, rived on the scene about sight o’eleck product to display. snd found the body barely w arn , from which fact he- figured that the accident occurred some time between twelve and two o’clock. Driver*, who travelled the highway that eight, bay that the fo g was prac tically impervious to ths lights o f a A t the regular meeting o f the city car and it may be that young Hayes council Monday evening, which was could not see where he was going, hut attended by aU members, the city en the most likely suppoeition is that he gineer waa instructed to prepare a dropped asleep. map showing the street number fo r Mr. Hayes, who was 25 years of Marshal Leach re every .lot in to’ age, waa living with his brother-in- ported that all signs had been law, Joe Slife, at North Bend, but placed and as as Ms, Vinton ia little seems to have beea known o f should prepared te his whereabouts the evtning before go on toffib ordinance the accident, although It ia stated requiring the of each that hs brought a lady from North house can ’ÿ % f * 'X i Bead ever to the Coquille valley that Only one ed fo r fenc- night. -. , M. Broad ing fite * The ear waa registered ia tile name 'erad te do the and H. H o f L. R. and V. A. Hayes, the latter , ob fo r $800, which was $22.18 abdra , .. , being a brother o f the victim, who m , , f T in Klamath Falla. , ’ ‘ ward flam the contract THEREFORE, I, 8. M. Nosier, Mayor of the City COMMITTEE ASKS OPTIONS On the morning o f the Fourth, start ing at the south end o f the bridge we walked the length of the main street o f this city o f the fa r north, seeing most of the business blocks and later the residences— mostly log houses. When we had reached1 the last o f the houses at the end o f this city street we paused fo r a hasty glimpse around ead retraced oar stepe; what w e fail ed to note here owing to a interven ing row o f tree# diagonally acroas the street from where we stood, was In many respects the most interesting enterprise la the city. Hare was a '■■a*. Preparing Whether Fairbanks, Alaska, is the northernmost town In the world bar in f anywhere near a thousand inhabi tants we can’t say. There are small to whs in Sweden, Norway and Fin land that are neerer the A r c tk circle than the 200 miles we were distant from it there, bet o f their pretest sise we are not informed. The famous mining camp at Dawson, a little east o f the international Una in the British Yukon territory used to be a very much larger place, but it is not quite as far north as Fairbanks and is now very much smeller then it was in the eloeing years of the last century. Memorial Service And this reminds us that we met In response to the proclamation o f ' at Fairbanks one o f the Alaska sour doughs, W. D. McLaughlin, who had President Coolidge, the Christian Sci jost come in from across the country ence Society o f Coquille Will hold a to the east. He was at Dawson in memorial service as a tribute to the Preaidant Harding at eleven 1806 among the first to arrive on the late o'clock Friday morning. , great discovery o f gold there, getting there two years before the big rush from the states in 1808, o f which we heard so much, when DaWson hnd 10,- 000 population. He waa not the first to stake a claim there, 'bet so near the first that he got one o f the best i The Community Building committee claims and made a great strike. I f he had been satisfied to quit at that which met last Friday evening in the he might have come back to the states City Hall devoted its entire discus with a fortune; but who is satisfied sion at that time to the questioa of u to quit, after he b*s struck it rich sites, it being agreed that some defin in the mining business, or any other T ite site must be determined on before So when the beach Sands at Nome stock subscriptions are solicited. A ll available locations fo r such a were found to be rich in gold, he went there and tried his luck again— this building as the one contemplated ware |i time not so happily. He struck it rich canvassed, and it waa decided that enough, bet in a little while hie claim blank options for 60 days should be was tied np in litigation o f which he seat out to all the property owners, did not see the end. So he lost all but this does not prohibit fanyono else he tnveeted In this second venture who has a site they sonaider suitable bet still had soms o f hla Dawson sav from submitting a proposal before the ings thriftily invested In government next meeting o f the committee which will be this (F rid a y ) evsning. bonds. Those to whom blank options wnra McLaughlin was ths most tataraat- n t are the follow ing; ing character we met fat Alaska anc D. C. Krauts— fo r his IDxlSfi lot, .me hnd an iqipeslenltj dering the see ■own os the otd J. J. Lamb l e t oad day e s spent in Fairbanks to J- Lyons— 100x800 feet, setath tee him washing s pan o f gold sands j '• hi one o f the few mines now being west o f the Masonic Temple. M. H. Haraay—fikxioa feet on the worked there. south side o f Second street. It ie located nine miles north of Geo. O. Leach— 60x120 feet, en the Fairbanks on Gold Stream. McLeagh- north side o f Second. lin had worked there years before, Mrs. Sarah Wickham— 60x112 fast, when gold waa more abundant than it alongside the Leach lot. is now, for in the days when Fair Chodwiok. Lodge A . F. A A . M.— banks was young f 140,000 in ' gold 50x112 feet, adjoining Mrs. Wick was taken from the sands o f this ham’s let on Second. creek end the claim waa afterwards Myron H. Wickham— 100x100 feet, sold for $60,000. Now there is noth iust north o f the Sentinel offiee. ing left but tailings, yet the boys who An offer had flready been made by are working it now have been getting Geo. A. Robinson for his 100x100 25 cenU a cubic yard by hydraulicing tract 4t the corner o f Second and Hall ard if they are lucky will probably streets. His price is $2,000 plus the secure over a dollar a yard when they street improvement assessments get down to bed rock. tending against i t The process of saving what is left in these form erly rich diggings is in Baseball at Bay Sunday teresting. A flume perhaps half a The first post season baseball game, mile in length brings wster to wash between Marshfield and Bandon, win- the gold bearing sands which are scraped up a ton or more at a time nan o f tha first and sseond half of and emptied into the tail race, where the season respectively, will be play the wster the flume brings Is turned ed next Sunday, Aug. 12, at North on to wash the earth away. Bed Bend, the game starting at 2 o’clock. rock had not yet been reached, but The second game will be played at the soil that was being removed to Bandon on the l»th , and should a get down to it carried enough gold third be necessary it will be played on to be worth working, so we sew the the Bay, Aug. 26. Tha gate receipts same thing being done over again here for each game will be split 60-40 be as was tried in the California mining tween ths winners and the losers. section after the first comers had Two games out o f throe are necessary got th e‘ cream of the deposita. But to decide the championship. Eddie Mensor will umpire the first the tailings there cm Gold Stream were deemed worth washing and so game unassisted, and the two clubs we had an opportunity to see the will line up with the same players that played the last games. work in prAgrees This was on the afternoon o f our second day in Fairbanks. Our first was the Fourth o f July and we have preserved the program for that day, though it was nothing like the cele bration it would have been if Presi dent Harding had not been due the next week, and that was expected to be the biggest event ever In Fair banks. - 1 ....... Highway Engineer Hare * !■. I ,r„ C oquille ’ i F in i School B u ild in g. uMbNt’gto V For the above* picture we are in debted to George T. Moulton, who had it made from s photograph he has of Coquille’s first school house, which used to stand where the First Nation al Bank building now does. The peo ple now living in Coquille who attend ed school at this building when the tintype above reproduced was taken in 1876, or forty-seven years ago, are Geo. T. Moulton, Mrs. Jamas T. Nos ier, Mrs. Charles Watson and Mrs. T. A. Walker. Perhaps some of our readers can pick them out in the group shown in the picture printed herewith. Luke D. Wolford, who taught this school during the fall, winter and spring of 1875-76 and the spring of 1877, and also « three months term at or near M yrtle Point in 1876, mov ed away from Coos county in the sum mer o f 1877 and did not revisit this city until June o f the present year. He waa born at Silverton, Oregon, in 1867 and moved to Colfax, Washing ton in 1872. In the spring o f 1878 hs drove n team fo r Captain James M. Nosier from Colfax to The Dalles. Thence he went on down to Portland by river steamer. From that city he came by team up through the W il lamette valley as fa r aa Oakland. From there he came on down here ov er the coast ranges on the Coos Bay wagon road, switching off on s by road down Cunningham valley to Co- quill* City, as it was then called. Real Summer Weather Death of W. B. Phelps About 26 cars of Knights of Pythias will leave Sunday fo r the D. 0. O. K. national convention, which will be ir. seaeion in Portland next week from Monday until Friday. Four or five o f these cars will be from Co quille, 8. A. Male horn says, the rest being from Marshfield, North Bend, Bandon and Myrtle Point. A t Rose- burg they will be joined by the Dok kies o f that section and from there to Portland H is expeetd the Knights will fall in line at every town so that by the time the convention city is reached there will be- a caravan of several hundred cars. He left Coos county in the summer hie recent visit two months ago. He haa been a resident o f Portland fo r the past sixteen years. Our old friend, W. B. Phelps, who had been ill here fo r some time, pass ed away last Friday at the age o f 77 yeara, S months and 14 daya. Hla funeral services were held at the Christian church Sunday afternoon and the interment was in the Odd F e l lows cemetery. He lived s varied life and eras well known in many cities in which he had lived in this and neighboring states; but having le ft no near relatives here, it has been impos sible fo r us to secure the the materials fo r suck a biographical sketch as we should hava boon glad to publiah. afternoon. of the building dry, ' found th a n ia Merab. Many Dokkies to Convention of 1877 and did not return again until This week haa given ua-raal sum mer weather here in Coquille and the usual sea breese o f the dog days haven’t been so much in evidence as they usually are at this time. Even at Bandon they tell us the usual stiff summer breeses are striking vary softly and the summer afternoons lately have been ideal. The writer remembers well his first visit to New port on a Sunday afternoon some elev en years ago, and how disappointed Post office to Close One Honr he was that he had hit upon a day Postmaster J. W. Leneve has re when the beach waa aearly deserted, ceived orders te does the afiles this owing to the stiff north-easterly gale afternoon between the hours o f one prevailing. We thought we were out ___o f luck te hit on such a day fo r our and two o’elosk, out o f respect the trip but later learned that these som late présidant A ll poeto (Bees an mar trade winds were the rule on this United States are to be closed | coast. Indeed, we remember that the hour, the intent being to . finest day and tha biggest beach business during' the fonerai ♦M« crowd we ever saV at Bandon wo at Marion, Ohio, at three j Fourth and Division streets improve ment showed that Job to have cost $4996.66. They« were a number o f extras Which had to be ordered as the work progressed, which ran the total cost a few hundred dollars evsr the original estimate. W ater Superintendent Dungey ask ed the council to order larger pipe for a section o f Sturgeon Hill, on Hite street, where a three-quarter inch pipe supplies a number o f families. The street ia to be improved at once and it was left to the water commit tee to determine what should be done to accommodate that section. Marshal Leach asked the council to purchase more bituminous rock for street repair work. He also recom mended that the hitching rack on Front street be moved to some vacant lot, but theh council were averse to any changs. A few other minor maters were dis cussed but no action was takan. Shrine Picnic August 12 The Laird building, across ths street from the postoffice is receiving a cement plastering over the west! wall to prevent the rata from soaking through the brick. Heretofore H has never been possible to keep the inside driver ad -tils Union Oil Cm truck, «raa crowded off the highway Tuesday evening by a tour ing car near the Taylor Dement bridge four miles this side o f Bridge. The truck rolled over the river bank but Kruger escaped serious injury. As ths touring car approached him Kruger saw that seme one was going to be damaged and ha kept crowding the river’s edge closer until the bank gave away under hi* right wheels. As it was the touring car swiped the truck as the latter toppled over. Such reckless driving should bo given the limit in the way o f fines and jail sen tences and the effort made to stamp out the crime of indifference to the rights o f others on the road. A sequel to the Union Oil Co. truck accident occurred Wednesday a fter noon when Dick Braden waa using his team to pull the truck out o f the river. One of the truck d riven , haul ing logs to M yrtle Point, drove so close to the team that a log brushed the whole length of one o f the horses, injured its hip and one o f the wheel» ran over its foot. Braden called to the driver that he had killed his horse, but the latter re plied that it didn’t look like a dead horse to him. Traffic Officer went up there yester day to investigate and a prosecution o f the driver is lively to result. Yesterday afternoon Traffic Officer Williams had the truck ^driver— E. M ilner— before Justice Stanley on a charge o f reckless driving. He plead ed guilty and was fined $26. He was also sentenced to ten days in jail, but the sentence is to be remitted if he pays fo r the horse. Misner had a load aleven feet wide on his truck, the law permitting but eight feet. He also had another man’s chauffeur’s license, but explained it by saying that he picked up hla room mate’s coat when he le ft Portland. He agreed not to drive further until be had secured his own teg. The Shrine picnic, which was to have been held last Sunday in the Mast grovs at Lee waa postponed un til next Sunday, Aug. 12, by Dr. L. G. Johnson, prssident o f ths Shrir.e club, last Friday afternoon, too late fo r the Sentinel to give notiee o f the Fire at Aaaen’s Camp change.. The postponement eras on account o f the death o f President Fire broke out in the Aasen camp, Harding. . about a half m il« from his mill near Norway, Wednesday afternoon, and Mm. Dunbar to Be Here Tuesday while Jt burned rapidly It was not thought to be endangering any o f the Tuesday evening the Woman’s Club green timber, although down logs will meet at the Setaspell. Let all were suffering. The entire camp waa tha members come and bring any who turned out to fight the fire. are interested in the elub. Mm. Sadie Orr Dunbar, president o f the Oregon A number o f Coquille families have Fadoration o f Woama’s ch.be, . will been camping at Bandon the past speak., week. Among those noted there laat ------------- Sunday Wura the C. L. WUley, J. W. I Celling Cards, 100 far $1 JO. Millar and -AM Johnaon familial