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'.* y é f* * *vr !y f 1 Ai ; , w W W S Valley B P K r ■ )rrgon » Historical Society • X * Auditorium - w J V il P A P E R T H A T ’S IJ K E A LETTER FROM HOM E VOL. XX . COQUILLE. COOS C O U N TY . OREGON. F R ID A Y , N O V E M B E R M , 1*13. NO. 4C. AUTO KILLS ONE Jos. Zachary Dead and Four In jured From Combination Speed and B o o m Another auto w Xt over the grade at the A lbert Schroeder place, a mile or so beyond Johnsona Mill, Sunday > afternoon, and plunged through the same hole in the fence that the Torn Berry Boick made a month ago, tak- i ing out one more poet. The accident resulted in the death o f one o f the fire men in the car, Joe Zachary, whose beck was brok en, and the injury o f all the men. The other four were Wood Zachary, brother o f the man killed, D. D. Strat ton, who was driving, A . Hawkins, who owned the Chevrolet, and W. Hollingshead. They were on their way from Powers to Marshfield, and / • were going at high speed. WRfein five minutes after the ac cident 15 or 20 ears were lined up along the road. Joe Zachary was placed in a ear at once and brought to Coqoille and then taken <jp to meet the ambulance which came over to take him to the hospital H e look ed to be fatally injured when picked upland it was later ascertained that ■i his back was broken. He died about «. i 7:30 that evening. The other men were lying or sitting on the ground, some with their cloth ing pertly torn off and evidently in . great pain. One o f them had several ' ribs broken. They went back to M yr tle Point, and after his injuries were dressed Stratton was brought down here by Traffic Officer Williams and lodged in pail, charged with reckless driving and involuntary manslaugh ter. The point at which the car le ft the roadway is not a very dangerous one, but it would have been dangerous fo r a n y 'c a r ascending the hill on this aide, fo r the wheel tracks show that instead o f hugging the bank, Stratton ■was driving clear on the outside * f the road for a distance af nearly 100 fe e t I t is possffite that loose gravel on the outer edge o f the road threw the car over the bank, but it descend ed the hill from the point, turned over and stopped, resting on all four wheels, about 25 feet below the road way and about 60 feet distant * Unless something was wrong with the steering gear or wheels o f the car, there was not the slightest rea son for its going over, except that It was on the wrong side o f the road. Joe Zachary was about 80 years o f . ago, a son o f Mrs. M. B. Zachary, of Powers, and had worked at Bel Lake camp, Dement creek camp and at Powers. ‘ He came to this country from North Carolina. Stratton, the driver, admitted to the officers here, that the party had been drinking before they le ft Pow ers. Stratton was taken before Justice Stanley Monday to answer to the charge o f reckless driving filed by Traffic Officer Williams. Through his attorney, Grant Corby, he pleaded not guilty. The amount o f his bond nor the date o f his trial has yet been eet by the judge. I Successful Turkey Shoot The turkey shoot held by the Co- quille Rod 5 Gun Club at their grounds here last Sunday was attend ed by a good sised crowd, many sportsmen being hare from M yrtle Point and Marshfield. It was an ex cellent day for a shoot and the crowd enjoyed It and also the noon lunch. Thirty-five turkeys and twenty-five chickens were hung up as prises and so carefully were the shoothn elaaai field that nearly every one present got a bird of one kind or i M other. Cleaning U r D rug Joints Two Chinamen and all their outfit, including pi pea and opium, were cap tured after midnight Tuesday night b y'S h eriff Eilingsen and deputies, when they made a raid oa the Chinese laundry at North Bend. One o f the Chinks runs the laundry and the trther was cook at the North Bend hotel. One hophead was found In the joint at the time o f the raid. County WID Help - Baby Clinics E v e r y Month I The second CUnie will be held in CoquiUe at the Betas pell Building on Friday, December 7th, from 1 to 6 p. m. A ll mothers o f children o f pre school age are urged to take advan tage o f these Clinics which trill be held oa the first Friday In each month. Mothers are requested to bring a blanket to wrap the baby in just previous to and during the ex amination. The Clinics are fo r all children up to six years o f age; also fo ^ pre-natal mother*. Similar Clinics trill be Conducted in the County by the County H ialth De partment and local units o f the Coos ■County Health Association as fo l lows: M yrtle P o in t-F ir s t Thursday ;n each month. P o w i.s — Second Thursday in each month. i ir Marshfield— Third Thursday in each month« North Bend— Third Friday in each month. Bandon— Fourth Friday in each month. The name o f President Monroe was misspelled four times in an article telling about the one hundredth an niversary o f the Monroe doctrine in one o f our exchanges this week. , PASSING OF MRS. J.C. SLAGLE E. E. Johnson received word last Friday morning o f the death o f hie sifter, Mrs. J. Calvin Slagle, at a hos pital in Oakland, Caljf., that morning at 0:80. He and A lfred and C. McC. started the next day fa r Oakland to attend the funeral, end were joined at Rose- burg by their slater, Mrs. T. H. Mehl, o f Vancouver, B. C The funeral was held Monday morning at 11 o’clock in St. Paul's Episcopal church, end interment was in the Mountain View cemetery. The brothers returned from the south Wednesday. Mrs. Slagle, born Kathryn Johnson, was between 41 and 42 years o f age, at the time o f her death. She was born in Stronach, Mich., and cams to Coos county with her parents. About twenty years ago she was mar ried to Mr. Slagle and they made their home in Coquills end elsewhere in the county until .ten years ago. They spent three years in British Columbia, and fo r the past seven bed resided in Oakland. For the pest four -or five months Mrs. Slagle had been in poor health and nine days before her death had gone to a hospital fo r an operation but the was not strong enough to withstand the shock. Besides the brother* and sister wtipped she leave* her husband and son, J. Calvin Jr., and two aistars, Mrs. D. L. A lbert and Mrs. R. Stanley Dollar, both o f Oakland. Mrs. Slagle Was a lovely woman, who had a host o f friends a around CoquiUe and her f u s in g w a great shock to all who knew her. She was a member o f the Episcopal church. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Slagle, o f L Angeles, also attended the funeral Monday. Tbs floral offerings at the services were the most b e a u t ifu lj» had ever seen said Mr. Johnson this Burning. Voted Special Road Taxes The special jy a d district elections held over the county last Friday and Saturday, resulted in the special tax being voted in all districts bu| one the McKinley section. Those which voted a tax and the amount voted are as foUows: Templeton, $167X Larson Slough, $1081.18. Kentuck Slough, 10 mills. North Fork o f Coes River, $11,487 56. South Slough, 86.S1&40. . Sumner, $8,820. Fairview, $8,800. 8itkum, 10 mills. North Slough, $8.200. Arago, $6,126J0. North Bank, $ 14 , 000 . Roy, $2,60844. Bear Creek, $«474.70. Bridge, $948$. Lee, $1400. Norway, $2488. Judge R. H. Mast told the repre- sentativea o f the Roy district here Wednesday ew m n g that since they had voted 4 1-2 mill special road tax, Remember the tale o f fancy article* the county court was planning to help them in road matters as much aa poe and cooked foed by the Ladies o f the sibla, and be thought the court would Episcopal Guild at th* CoquiUe Hard meet them 60-50 out o f the market ware Ce.’e new store Wednesday, Dee. road funds. 8, at t o’daak p. m. - ■\ jf m -w - ■ TWO M O I over eleven dottare. This county unit plan is coming up fo r action before long. There w ill be opposition to It on th* part o f the r" r rich districts, but i t ia u just end Supt. C. E. Mulkey Explains Its equitable means o f raising school Tax Conservation funds end should be adopted. Has Passsd CoqalHs’s City W orkings and Benefits to GOING TO ROOK IT G Highway Commission to Start : W ork oa Bandon Rond Result ' This ¿Vinter ^_____ 1 ■ * lodge R. H. Mast. Mayor C. R. Wade, o f Bendon, and C. W. Packer, o f Maashfiald, were in Portland on Monday and Tuesday this weak when the matter of rocking the CoquiUe- Bandon road was up for consideration by the State Highway Commission. A fte r considering the matter from all angles, the commission ordered ad vertisements fo r bids to be opened at the December meeting for surfacing the road the entire distance, end it is expected that work w ill be begun dur ing the winter. The grading is so nearly completed that one o f the men in charge fo r Con tractor Hampshire says that a month’s work in the spring w ill finish it This is great new« fo r Bandon, f * well aa fo r all o f Coos county, and probably means that the road w ill be open fo r travel next winter. The county's share o f the $180,000 it it estimated the rocking w ill cost, wfil come mostly from credit* the county has fo r money already spent— fo r the bridge here, for the Bandon south road, and elsewhere. The coun ty is claiming, and th* indication* are that the commission allowed, a credit of $80,000 fo r the new Coaibank slough bridge st Marshfield and $30,- 000 mors fo r two-milas o f the pavw- ment^built this way from IJprshfleld out to Millington. Other credits may ba honored if necessary, which would have to be mads good later. CoquiUe at O A C-U^f O Game There were over thirty CoquiUe people st the O. A. C.-U. o f O. foot ball gem * at Eugene last Saturday afternoon, most of whom went out by auto Friday evening. The list included Mr. and Mrs. Keith Leslie, Mr. end Mr*. Otto Davis, Mrs. PbUip Christmas Seals on Sale Th* annual sala o f Christmas seals for this county, is now on and Mtp. Ids- K. Owen, who has charge o f the sale hare ia CoquiUe, has supplied ch o f the drug stores hare with stamps. Th* proceeds o f th* sal* are to go fo r afilftuberculoaia work and if th* qaota allotted to CoquiUe ia all sold, aa much as 86 per cant of th* receipts will be expanded in this locality. Mrs. Owen has no doubt that our whole ellottment can be sold. To what extent there will be person al solicitation ws do not yet know, but every on* who desire* to help this work for th* unfortunate by buy ing these teals can find them at th* drug stores. W hy ia Not BeO Installed? Judge Meat informs us that th* Public Service Commission wants to know why th* people responsible fo r th* running o f the logging road up the CUnningham at CoquiUe haven’t obeyed its order to hiatal a bell st the highway erosstng near the tea tery hare. It’* ton* Mr. Pewers pat vy &,• '•wM'&. - «. Superintendent * f School* C. E. Mulkey delivered a talk to a fa ir audi ence, composed o f both ladies and at th* city hall Wednesday even-' explaining the workings o f the county unit plan fo r handling school affairs. He stated that Oregon was one o f th* 15 states whch still ¿8n- the district system, but there is e law on the Oregon statute books which makes th* operation o f the county unit plan optional with each county. Originally every state in the unien except N ew Mexico adopted th* district plan but by 1920, all but fif teen had abandoned i t Seven year* o f study was made o f th* question before th* present coun ty unit lew was prepared by a com mittee o f school officials end present ed to the legislature. * When adopted the office o f the county school superintendent aa now known, would be abolished, and the board o f directors fo r the county, which would include all schools hav ing less than 600 attendance, would s«l*et an executive head who would have th* active charge o f ell school*, assisted by three H représentât H ntatives from each school section. In Coos county there would be sev en districts— Marshfield, North CoquiUe, Bandon, M yrtle Point, P srs, and the county., at large. In first six mention'd there would\J>* governing directorate o f five in each, instead o f three aa we now have in the CoquiUe district. One board to handle the affairs o f *11 the smaller schools would central- lis* the authority and take their handling out o f politics. Mr. Mulkqy said that the only question asked kirn by the county court when he applied far the position mad* vacant by th* resignation o f R. IE. Baker was, What are your politics t " Being in- Johnson, Misses Marvel SkeeU, Janet f West, Ruth Woodward, Maxine Paul- son, Alice Collier, end H. N. Lorens, L. H. Hazard, G. Russell Morgan, Dr. C. A . Reitman, J. Arthur Berg, Ra- leigh Miller, Perry Lawrence, Jet. W. Laird, H. A Young, Levi end Les ter Wilaoa, Lewis Donaldson, Ken neth KJatner, Jackson K nife, Guy Minton ye, Allen Young, P s tH a rv ille , Tod Bennett, W elter Paulson, W ilford and Eugene Laird, Geo. Belloni and Roe* Kistner. There were besides a good many from Marshfield, North Bend and Myrtle Point, so that Cops county probably had from a hundred to a hundred and fifty representatives Ul the 16,000 throng which witnessed th* game. A ll th* CoquUl* boy* did not get there, however, far the Laird car in hich were W ilford and Eugene Laird, Pat Harvilla, W alter Paulson and Tad Bennett, broke aa axle on Winchester hill, north o f Roeeburg The boys were unable te get a service car to com* out fo r them and it was not until six o’clock Saturday even ing that a mechanic at Sutherlin got their ear repaired. They went on to Eugene, however, spent th* night and came home Sunday. . O. A. C. was th* victor in the game, because her team played better foot ball, winning 6 to 0, but the gem* was net as weU worth watching as was th* U. o f O-Idaho game a month previous. % ^ that he was a rrrihHran the i3 T . n n o i n U d Vdm M * PP° ‘ nUd h la eoUBty superintendent Under the unit plan the salaries would be uniform. He told o f oae rich district now which pays $160 for a lady to teach two girls, while another district gets fin $80 a month teacher fo r upwards o f 80 pupils. Under the new plain any parson who was not qualified fo r teaching would be weeded out after on* exper ience. Under the district plan he knew o f a bright girl, whoa* forte was not teaching, who spoiled four different schools In the bounty, going to another as soon as requested to resign from each. This would be Im possible with on* board directing the affairs. A uniform tax levy would be the greatest benefit to accrue from th* unit plan, and using th* present $818400 general school tax as a ba sis it would mean a levy o f about 7 over th* county. It would elim inate waste and duplication, it would provide equal facilities fo r children in all districts and tend to hying ov ary school ia the county up to stand ardisation. In Crook county ovary school was standardised within on* year follow ing its adoption o f th* county unit law. In Coos county 14 one-room schools out o f 68 art stand ardized. Klamath eouifijr saved $18400 th* first year e f th e -unit law operation over what th* district plan had been costing. To show the inequitable features o f the district system, Mr. Mulkey took the Lakeside end Coos River dis tricts for comparison. Lakeside has 88 pupils, Oooa River, 82. The fortn- iploya five teachers, th* latter, six. Both have high schools. 'L a k e side with a special tax o f 41.7 mills ridaas $9,969. Coos River with only 74 mills, raises $10420. That means that to raise practically the same amount fo r school purposes, a taxpayer a t Lakeside must pay $41.70 an the thobsand o f valuation, while ia Coos River one pay* but $740 on the thousand. And the unit plan would not ruiae the Coos River levy a fraction o f a mill. Hearing W as Postponed A. L. Martin, Coos county manager o f thé Mountain States Power Co., and the chief engineer o f the company for Oregon, were hare last Saturday in connection with the complaint mad* by the city o f CoquiUe against th* servie* rendered by that corporation. The hearing on the complaint had been set far November 24, but on th* statements mads by th* two officials, J. J. Stanley, as attorney fo r th* eity, signed a stipulation granting them $0 days more to answer. W ith in that time the company hopes to make an announcement that w ill sat isfy the eity and all their patrons. Both gentloaaed freely admitted that (h* servie* they were able to ren der has not been what they thought it would be when the improvements ware mads at the Smith mill on the Bay, and Mr. Martin expressed him self as greatly embarrassed by their failure to live up te the promises he made to the council soma weeks ago. Th y are going to make those prom is** good, although It may require more time than h* anticipated to do i t COQUILLE GETS $94.77PER PUPIL A t the request o f F. R. Bullock, clerk o f the Cunningham school dis trict, the Sentinel asked Superintend ent o f Schools Mulkey how much of th* taxes levied by the Cunningham district was fo r high school tuition. Mr. Bullock disagreed with th* state ment two weeks ago In the Sentinel that th«*%igh school tuition paid to the CoquiUe district did not cover the overhead east, end that (he only way by which pupils from outside this district could ba aecomasodated in the local school was by th* formation of a union high school. .. . Mr. M ulkpf inform* a* that while the Cunninghaan district pays $ 2 !8 .ff into the high school tuition fund, the CoquiUe district gets but $84.77 o f this amount for the one pupil attending high school from the Cunningham district. Th* remainder o f the $218.- 27 is divided among th* other high schools in the county. Everyone knows that $9448 par annum is not sufficient to cover th* per capita coat per pupil in the local high school to A y nothing o f th* ex panse o f erecting, repairing and main taining building and equipmant. It la a condition that will have to be faced. Either th* districts < tiguous to Coquill* w ill have to help bear the cost o f buildings and eqaip- nt, by the formation o f a union high school, or attendance at th* local high school will have to b* limited to students in this district only. Th# time fo r such action is not hart yet but it is coming fast. Attendance has increased at th* local high over 60 per-cent ia th* past fe w y ea n . x and School Budgets The Cons Bay Times contained a statement Tuesday that th* Tax Con servation Commission had approved th* Coos county budget The report is a mistake aa the only budgets so far approved by th* commission are the CoquiUe eity bu dget end the CoquiUe school district budget As ita t*d ia .the Bay paper, th* bone o f contention between the ooua- ty court end the commission ia the matter o f a reCrtiae o f th* timber ia th* county. The court la opposed to spending from $60,000 to $76,000 fo r another cruise, with no assurance that a recruit* would be any nearer correct than the one mad* by Dannie McCarthy ten years ago, and they will tiry to work out some method o f arriving at a more n e a rly c o rre c t valuation o f timber without going to an enormous expanse. Th* commission is required by law to either approve or reject all bod- got* before Dee. 10, end Secretary Watson says they w ill net on than* aB next weak. The commission is in ses sion today with tw o members, Fin la y Schroeder and W alter Donald present A . K. Peck is eonfinhd to his horn* b y illness. H ighw ay Is la Good Shop* Thera have bean so many reports in circulation about th* Im passibili ty o f the Coos Bay Highway, between M yrtle Point and Roscburg, that this Sentinel w riter want* te state that th* road is in much better condition than it was a month ago. Thar* is tome mud in the upper canyon fo r three or four miles this side a f Camas valley sad the mountain on th* Baso- burg aid* needs a lot a m rock, but where a month ago th* mud waa stiff and autos had to follow the truck tracks, which wars sometimes aim eat hub deep, the recent rains have aoft- the mad and it is not that deep anywhere. There waa not the slightest need o f chains Sunday when we returned, and aside from the two places mentioned th* entire roadway was smooth, hard and dry. Book is still being dumped into these soft placea and eventually th* surface w ill be built up over f i t . foundation rock whick is now ia. The Highway Commission says th* road w ill be open all winter, and after going over it we are convinced that they know what they are talking •bout. tea,. Lafe Compton Guta Hotel Last Friday eveniag th* directors o f th* aow CoquiUe hotel \ mad* a leas* with Lafa Comptes, o f Marsh field, fo r th* operation o f that hoa- tiary as soon as it is completed. Mr. Compton is a hotel aum o f years’ experience, who has bean clerk at the Chandler at Marshfield so loag that he knows ovary man gpd woman who travel into this territory, sad ia universally popular with them. It la expected that th* hotel wiU be Fins Concert Monday reedy fo r a form al opaniag soon after The Mooseheert Concert Forty, un dor th* auspices o f Ko-Ka*I Lodge Nq. the middle o f January. 688, L. O. O. M., preseated an enter Coos Furnished the M ajority tainment in th* Liberty Theatre here Monday eveing, which delighted the Coos county almost turned the crowd o f over 600 which filled every scale fai the vote on th* stato incorna seat in the house. It was a moat tax early this month. She gav# I486 successful affair and the enthusiastic for and 1487 against the taxe-aa y attendance was highly pleasing to the affirmativ* m ajority o f 488 o f a total local management as well as to the o f 60« In the stete. So th* rest ó f artists. the state came within I f vote* e f a Most o f the six young men in the stand off. T b « M g m ajority against troupe ere graduates o f Mooseheert it In Portland where so many incomes end tim e has been a desire on the will ba h it by this tax was, o f eoaraa, part o f Moose everywhere to learn expected to defeat th* measure, but how auceessful their effort* to edu in this ease Portland wasn’t , big cate th* children o f deceased Moos* enough to swing th* stats. have been. Needless to say they w e n satisfied with the showing made Mon W ants Juke Roy day evening. from th* Boy district Th* concert was mostly mui the river was present at th* with vaudeville interspersed, and the joke* were l o a large extent new and Commercial Club meeting Wednesday made a h it Garrett, clarinetist and evening to ask that body to usa ita colored musician, was probably th* influence in gettin g them electric ser one who received the most applause, vice. They have applied fo r service but LaFlamme, on th* xylophone, Di- at various times but have so fa r fa il bona on the corn et M cFat* ok th* ed to g e t tt. It was pointed out that trombone and Peterson at the piano, the company would, o f conno, bo do- eiroue o f adding new business aa wars all musicians a f ability. Over on the Seven Davfls A s a saxophone quintet the boys soon as it waa ia a position te handle there la a district which has to levy morn, and th* dab passed a resolu showed their versatility, and each 284 nrills, while fe r the tion declaring that the people o f the school at Hauser only 1J mills is re was clever oa a number a f ins Roy section should be furnished light ments. quired. end-power without delay. Sketches o f their live# at Mo .Ed Fahy sad Frank Bullard, liv: heart by one o f the party gave as in big across the road from sue *W * have put our staples aa at Bollards, are way apart to their timate idea ei how hoasa like and e f echoed tax levies. Oae pays 8X40 aa ficient this M g institution, sixty miles shelves until a fter Christmas the east a f Chicago, really is. for abat pas deal aa*. Variety I
