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he Coquille Valley THE PAPER THAT’S LI K E A LETTER . EROM HOME COQUILLE, COOS COUNTY. OREGON. FRIDAY, DECEMBER >1. HU Hotel Nearing Completion The 1924 budget for Coos county and the report of the Tax Supervising and Conservation Commission was filed with County Clerk h on Tuesday. The appro ed for the ferries of the c the cmnmission had tentatively cut out last week, were restored and plac ed in the following budget which has been formally approved and adopted by the commission. Estimated Expenditures Justice Courts .............8 1300.09 2,650.00 Juvenile Court 6,000.00 Circuit Court . ♦ 3300.00 County Court District Attorney’s office .. 1,170.00 Spec, counsel and legal fees 1,000.00 15,640.00 Sheriff’s office 4,619.00 Jail 50.00 Conveying prisoners ........... 100.00 Coroner .... County Clerk’s office......... . 10390.00 County Treasurer’s office . 2,735.00 8,870.00 Assessor s office 4,420.00 ready to install just as soon as the County Health Unit............. Vitql Statistics ...................... 125.00 building was turned over to him. Herd & Meat Inspector ....' 8,000.00 Dairy Inspector .. ................ 600.00 Sealer Weights and Measures 303.40 500.00 Livestock Indemnity ...... Scalp Bounty, Hunter and 1,600.00 Trapper ....................... 375.00 Forestry Department ..... A. O. Walker announced this morn Tax Rebates ..... 500.00 ing that he had made a deal for Hie Tax Rebates........... 500.00 sale of the local Ford agency to Establishing omers . - 25.00 Messrs. Oscar Gplovesen and C. A. . 1,000.00 Baer, of Marshfield. The deal also Fair Appropriations . 9,035.00 includes the sale of the machine shop County Farm . Other Indigent» .................... 7,400.00 in the Highway Garage and a lease on ......... 8350.00 that building? Dependent Mothers 660.00 Insane and Feebleminded .. The purchasers are live wires who tldiers ......... 2300.00 intend to establish a completely equip Indigent Soldiers 7350.00 ped Ford plant here, using all the Elections ani id Registrations Statutory Audit and Ac space in the 100x100 building for 900.00 Ford show room, Ford storage and counting • ........ Publishing and Advertising 1,800.00 Ford repairs. They do not intend to School uperintendent’s office 4350.00 utilize any space for public storage. Institute Fund 400.00 The purchase of the agency and the 86,060.001 improvements they ettpeet to make . General School Fund 860.00 in. the business will represent an in School Library .................... Elementary School Fund .. 86,000.00 vestment of nearly $25,000. High School -Tuition ........... 20,00030 The transfer will not take place un District Deficiencies ...... 2,500.00 til the end of the year. Court House-Hall of Records >. M t . Walker says he has no com Janitor’s salary ............ .. 860.00 plaint to make of his relations with 700.00 the Ford people and he has sold 190 Fuel, Water, Lights .... 150.00 of their ears during the year. But the Janitor’s supplies ........... 130.00 combined service station, Ford, ma Maintenance....................... Court House, old building .. 2,700.00 chine shop and garage business is too Furniture and Equipment . * 1,975.00 confining and he desires to enjoy a Statutory Cash payments ..141,275.00 little more leisure. County Cqurt and Viewing . 500.00 More than that he figures that the Surveyor’s office (contingent) 300.00 service station will develop into a Roadmaster's office ....... 8310.00 much larger business than it. is evejj Traffic Officer .............. /.... 2,400.00 now and he wants to devote his time Right of Ways and Fencing 18,000.00 to that end. Fifty-Fifty projects ......... 6,000.00 As a first step he plans to build sev Femes and oquille Bridge Operations eral buildings on the lot the company ktarshfield-Eastside Ferry 6,500.00 owns and the one recently leased Glasgow Ferry ......... 8,000.00 from Mrs. Taylor Dement. One of Riverton Ferry .......... 900.00 these will be a small rest room, an Bullard's Ferry ........ 3,500.00 other a battery shop, vulcanising, sol Coquille Bridge Operation 1300.00 id tire press and everything found General. Road Expense anywhere in an up-to-date automibile Publishing Notices........... 200.00 service station. e Repair and Transfer of Frank Tennison, as soon as he re Plant <.... ........... 10,000.00 turns from San Diego, where he was Motor Vehicle License .. 33.00 called on account of his son’s injuries, Lumber for general use.. 500.00 will move the frame building now Purchase of Gravel Deposit 7350.00 alongside the service station, and Mr. Machinery and Equipment 2,000.00 Walker expects to have his naw build New Grades and Construe-^... • ings up by April. tion .......... .......... 40,200.00 ■ Bridges ................................ .... 9395.00 Arrested for Bank Robbers Maintenance .......................... 10,500,00 Two hoboes were picked up Wed Interest on Road Warranta. 3,000.00 nesday evening near the Sitka mill Interest on Road Bonds ..... 28325.00 on the supposition that they might Road Bond Sinking Fund .. 86300.00 be the Florence bank robbers. Deputy One Mill Road Levy (70-30) 24,000.00 Sheriff Bert Smith, Marshal Leach, Market Road State Tag . .. 24,000.00 Frank Dungey, Lee Goodman and T. A. Market Road State Surplus. 8,000.00 Walker made the arrest. The two Market Road, County to were confined in the city jail for a ¿J match................................ 82,000.00 couple of hours and then released, State of Oregon-Coquille“' Deputy Smith notifying Night Officer Paving............... .............. 1,14934 Hqjlenbeck that they were not the Tax Supervising and Con men wanted. servation Commission They had been down there Tuesday 2,500.00 night and Wednesdtay evening when Salary of Clerks ..... Supplies and Postage 800.00 they built a fire there the mill watch Travelling Expenses 206.00 man, P. E. Drane, notified the sher 50.00 iff's office. Telephone ......,... Emergency Fund......... 12,000.00 SELLS FORD AUTO AGENCY Funeral Services Saturday . Grand Total .........$770,81904 Estimated Budget of Revenues General Fund ..................... .855,200<00 General Road Fund 26,182.65 Market Road Fund Surplus. 8,000.00 Road Bond Sinking Fund .. 11,436.54 From Kinney Lands Contract 15,000.00 Total ................ ..„8115319.19 Less 1922 closeout................ 824,972.67 NEW BUILDINGS WIH BOTH GAMES Heat was turned on from the boil ers in the new hotel yesterday, on the second and third floor, and with out a pound of steam showing on Many Are Being Planned for the pressure gauge every radiator on Next Year and More Yet those two floors gdt hot and the workmen enjoyed the change in tem to Be Announced perature. It will be necessary to have the heat moat of the time now The first of this week J. D. Graham to get the building dried out before A Sons purchased of Mrs. Hattie I. it is occupied. Bledsoe the lot, 65x100 feet/ adjoining When the Are was built Wednesday it would do nothing but smoke and ev their Front street garage on the east en a kerosene-saturated sack of shav- t 1 is their intention to erect thereon a ings went out when dropped down the building Covering the entire lot, two in height This new building chimney from the roof, and the draft stories 1 will be devoted entirely to garage and seemed to be down, instead of up. and will relieve somewhat the By yesterday morning, however, the storage, ' sure to follow the closing dead air had been forced out and there congestion ' the Highway Garage as a public was no trouble keeping a roaring Are. of 1 for autos, as elsewhere an C. L. Willey is nearing the end of storage 1 in this issue. installation of both room and lava- nounced 1 Mr. Graham could* not announce tory fixtures in, the hotel, and more when active building operations and more it is giving the impression just • will begin, but he does not expect to of being one of the most attractive and comfortable hostelries in south be delayed more than a month in western Oregon. . 1 starting the work. Access to the sec It seems doubtful now that the ' ond floor will be secured* by an inclin driveway, or ramp as it is called workmen will be through with the fin- ed 1 <1 touches on the building so that in department stoma. From present indications the year opened by Jan. 15. but it shouldn’t be 1924 will be a busier and more pros- more than two wAks later. year in Coquille than even in 1928 Lafe Campton stated Monday that ous ' been. the furnishings would be here and has 1 The funeral services for the late D. P. Strang Were held at the Elling son Chapel last Saturday afternoon, beign conducted by Rev. Mr. Iverson, of Myrtle Point. There waa a large attendance of friends and neighbors, who desired to pay this last tribute of respect to one whom they had known so long. Tehro was a profusion of floral offerings. The interment waa in the Soldiers’ 890346321 plot at the L O 0. F. oemetery. S. M. Nosier Will Build Another building planned for next year is the 50x100 that S. M. Nos ier expects to build on the cornea . .. . — - ,, a eally decided to do it the coming sum mer. There will be two store fronts on First street, each 25 feet wide and 50 deep. This part of the building will be one story but the rear 50x56^ facing on Hall street will be two story and contain eight apartments on the two floors. The Coast Auto Lines have prac tically decided to make Coquille its permanent headquarters and it would not be surprising if they erected a large garage, machine shop and de pot the coming year. % Gardner and Winters Also Wimer Bros, last week the south lot 50x100 of the feet square which C. W. Gardner pur chased of Geo. A. Robinson a few weeks ago. These are the lots at the east end of the First street paving where the street jogs. The Wimer Bros, intended building a 40x90 sheet iron blacksmith shop there next summer and Mr. Gardner ia planning to erect a machine shop structure of the same dimensions on the Other lot. Wickham Lot Is Sold Mrs. Sarah Wickham this week sold to Archie O. Walker and associates the lot west of the First National Bank on which her hotel stood before the fire, March 17, 1918. What to going to be erected there has not been announced, but without doubt it will mean further improvement of Co quille’s business section. Mrs. Jessie Richardson came down from Portland last Friday for a visit with home folks. Busy Corner to Build Concrete Still another fireproof building to go up in Coquille the coming year is the one-atory concrete building which the Coquille Mercantile Co. is expect ing to put up for the Busy Corner on their present site. Three Counties Fight the Law Klamath is the third county to come forward with a mandamus action against the county tax supervising and conservation commission because of items eliminated from the county budget, says a Salem press dispatch. The complaint will be heard at the same time as complaints from Yam hill and Umatilla counties, December 21. The government is interested and will make appearance, as among the items eliminated was one providing for a tax levy to pay interest on ir- rigation district bonds. , 4 Tom Tennison’s Accident Details of the accident which the in Sentinel mentioned last week, which Tom Tennison was seriously in jured, have reached here. He was on a telephone pole which fell with him and as a result he lost an eye, had an arm, leg and several ribs broken, and was so severely injured that he will probably be a cripple' for life. The letter stated that his condition was serious but that he would probably re cover. Callhig Cards, 106 for >1.50. Gets A Life Sent^uce HEIRS ASK FOR IT After being out 46 Atefcto last Saturday morning, the jury in the Alton Cove)l case brought in a ver- .'Z diet of murder in the first degree, with Coquille High School Teams Win a recommendation that he be confin John Bilek's Estate Had Es cheated to the State—May From Arago High Last • ed in the penitentiary "for life. ■ The jury, in arriving at the verdict, Result in a Suit Night • first took a vote on the question of --------- **■’■■■ ■ ai • sanity. All voted that tile boy was In May, 1918, an Austrian by the Coquille High won both basketball sane. The xt vote waa on guilt of I games last evening, at the high school 3rat degree murder and all voted the qame of John Bilek, who had been gym here, from Arago High. The boy was guilty. When a vote waa making his home at the L A. Law girls game was won 18 to 10, while taken as to whether there should bo horn ranch near McKinley, off and the boys had to play an extra fiye a recommendation, all voted to rec on for a couple of years, left this minutes, the result being four all ommend life imprisonment instead of county and wqnt up to Wahkiahum county in Washington, where he was at the end of the fourth quarter. The hanging. *’\ . killed Sept. 27, of that year. He was final seore was 8 to 7. The Arago Judge Kendall, tn his instructions quintet had previously -won from to the jury, spent over an hour, going a high climber in the woods and a tree Myrtle Point 21 to 12, and the prac into the details of the trial, instruct fell with him. Before he left Mr. Lawhorn sug tice game last night shows the locals ing them as to which of several ver as pretty strong on the defense at dicts they could bring in and review gested that he should make a will so that he (Lawhorn) would know least ing the case from a judicial stand what to do with the funds which Bilek The Arago girls started out like a point was leaving in his hands and^> which whirlwind and scored three field goals He told them that in Oregon fee early in the first quarter, and also ble-mindedness was not a defense for he was monthly adding from his converted one free throw. But that murder, but that it could be considered wages. It amounted to over a thous ended their counting until the last by the jury as contributing to the and dollars. “You and Mrs. Lawhorn keep it, quarter, when they made three more. mental condition of the defendant or Clarabelle Mintonye and Katheryne as a step leading to insanity, which was Biiek’s reply. But Mr. Lawhorn would not have Peart were easily the stars for Co is a legal defence. fl that way and talked him out of quille, the former throwing all of On Tuesday Judge Kendall sentenc Coquille’s field goals. She is as good ed ^young Covell to be “confined in leaving H to chafity. Bilek had left s player as has been seen on the lo the penitertUaty for the remainder of a sister and a brother in the old coun try, but at that time was unable to cal floor in years and would make any his natural life.” locate them and thought they were of. the boys hustle to boat her out for Thus closed the second trial result a place on their team. Katheryne was ing in conviction for the murder com dead. At Mr. Lawhorn h inmptence He just a jump ahead of the Arago girls mitted last Labor Day, and which has all the way and it was due to her clev cost Coos oounty thousands of dollars wrote a statement that his estate should be divided between this broth er playing that Clarabelle had so and much notoriety. er and sister, Joseph and Franctoka many uppvrvuiiiiiea opportunities io to throw for me the •••«ny mrow ior ------------- L . „■ - ' Bilek, and Mr. Lawhorn end wife wit nessed it. They kept the will and also ed a snappy game and ail are entitled deeds of property Bilek owned in Aus to credit for the exhibition. The line-ups, ineluding substitutes, were: Arago—Mary Gastner, Velds Schroeder, guards; Hasel Newton, jumping center; Thelma Schroeder, running center; Roberta Doyle, Chris tina Vetter and Alice Newton, for wards. Coquille—Gertrude Mintoyne and Dena Ellingson, guards; Brica Flit croft, jumping center; Myrtle Olsen and Katheryne Peart, running center; Clarabelle Mintonye, Dulce Jorgensen and Alice Collier, forwards. The boys game was a hard fought affair and rough for a few moments Keith took the referee job and put a stop to the roughing. The Arago\ boys are a fast %>unch and have the faculty of eluding their opponents in passing the ball, and of breaking up many of their opponents’ passes. It was in this department that Arago outshone Coquille. The locals seemed to be jtftt a step slow in stop ping Arago’s passing. In the throwing of baskets both fives were somewhat weak, but the most glaring defect on Coquille’s part was the continuous and never successful long shots, from the middle of the floor or back of it. Good team woTk in passing, getting the ball near the basket before at tempting to score, will pile up many more points than the accidental suc cess of a long throw. Coach Leslie tried out a lot of his squad and all seemed to work well. With another two weeks’ hard prac tice they should be able to give any high school team in the county a bat tle. , The line-up last night was: INTEREST IN- BOY SCOUTS The sentiment expressed by the citizens in attendance at Commercial Club Wednesday evening was that Coquille is not ready yet to participate in aq extensive a program fer Boy Scout supervisiop and executive work as is contemplated by the attempt to raise 86,000 for the work in Coos and western Douglas counties. * ~~- As chairman of the local Boy Scout committee, Rev. C. S. Btrgner, had secured a. copy, of the budget which would provide that the greater part of the 86000 go as salary to the exe cutive, travelling and office expenses, etc. He stated that while he was heart and soul with the Boy Scout movement he believed that if Coquille could raise 8600 or 8700 for Scouting it should be applied more directiy*to providing Scout equipment, a place to meet and where basketball could be played during the winter, and for pre paring a camp nearby where outings :ould be held during the summer. “A building where the boys can meet twice a week, play basket ball and keep their equipment locked up ia the first essential for the local Scouts,” was Mr. Brgner*s declaration. It was then decided that a joint meeting of the Scouts and as many business and professional men as could be persuaded to attend should be held at the city hall at 7:30 p. m., on Tuesday, Jan. 8, where plans might be formulated for raising funds and putting the Scout movement on a solid basis. The training of the boys for citi Z Arago -~rr zenship and leadership is one of the Guards—Robison and Miller. most important duties the men of Center—Collier. this city, state and nation, owe their Forwards—Farrier and Doyle. country and it is hoped a good attend Coquille ance will be present for the Jan. 8th Guards—Nosier, W. Laird, Robin meeting. son, Walker. Centos—Rice and Young. To Finish Coal Bank Bridge Forwards—E. Laird, Levi Wilson, A part of the approach to the new Powuder. Coal Bank Slough bridge, on the high Fhrri4r and Doyle for the visitors way at Marshfield is within the city each’scored a field basket, For Co limits of that town, and no provi quille, Wilson threw two, Rice one, sion had been made by the county snd he also converted both of Co for connecting thia bridge with the quille’s successful free throws. causeway running from Broadway out to the Veneer plant.. To Spend Holidays at Frisco The eitizens of Marshfield began J. L. Smith and family started yes last week to wish that the bridge be terday for San Francisco, to spend promptly finished, so Ben Chandler the holidays with his brother, H. D. came over to ask the county court to Smith, and,his mother, Mrs. Margar have the connection made and the et Smith, who is now visiting there. bridge opened as soon as possible. At Roseburg he expected to meet his The court thereupon instructed Road brother, S. V. Smith and family.pj master E. L. Robinson to buy the Corvallis. They are both making this lumber and have thé approach built holiday trip by auto, and expect to and to present a bill for it to the city be back in time for the children to of Marshfield. resume school work as soon as the holiday vacation is over. J. L., al . Confirmation Class though handicapped by a broken arm, During the annual visit off the put in the day before he started in Right Rev. Bishop Sumner D. D. to getting a carload of Jersey heifers, the Missions of the Coos Bay District which he has sold to a party at Bliss, under the Rev. A. W. Bell, he admin Idaho, ready for shipment, as soon istered the Apostolic Rite of Con as the result of the tuberculin treat firmation to the following John An ment given them is known. gus Gamble, Joseph Alden Harvellie. Alton Ellsworth Harris (a veteran of and Katherine rent—Bedroom and sitting f Chateau Thierr$) with stove, and connecting ; Elizabeth Wilson and Margaret Alex andra Bell. Call at this office. tria. After Bilekt death Mr. Lawhorn tried twice to get in touch with the heirs by letter, but the first was re turned and on account of the unsettled conditions after the war ho was never able to send them their money. The wife of a man named Yuseck wrote to Mr, Lawhorn from Eureka, Calif., that if he would sand her the money Bhe would see that the heirs received it, but he didn’t fall for that kind of a game. Finally, after Mr. Lawhorn had act ed as administrator and wound up the affairs of the estate, h* paid tiw bal ance of 81137.47 over to the State Treasurer, under the law that proper ty of intestate residents escheats to the state. That closed the taatter until last month when the Czechoslovakia con sul at Omaha, Nehr., Stanley Serpan, wrote to Judge R. HL Mast, asking that the will vbe produced in probate court and that the State of Oregon and Mr. Lawhorn give an accounting of the funds, and that the proceeds be transmitted to the heirs named in-the will. ------ -T?----------- Yesterday Mr. Lawhorn waa ia town to file the will with the probate court and give such information as he possessed. On the request of the consul, J. J. Stanley was appointed administrator, end the next step will be the demand on the State Treasurer for the funds turned over to him by Mr. Lawhorn. Whether the state will contest the ease or will refund the money without suit cannot be stated now, but the will has been accepted by the probate court as genuine, «nd an effort will be made to recover from the state. Mr. Lawhorn says he has the deads to the property in the old country in his possession and if the claimants can prove that they are the rightful heirs he is ready to turn the papers over to him. They were received by Hilek from his mother’s estate. Mr. Lawhorn hunted all over CJbs county and tried forty Austrians be fore he ftffind one who could read the will and that one could not read all of it. Stratton Pays 130 Fin« D. D. Stratton, who has been in jail hero since Nov. 25, was taken be fore Justice Stanley Tuesday and pleaded guilty to the charge of op erating a motor car without a driv er’s license. He was fined 880. Stratton is the man who was driv ing the Chevrolet when it went off the grade at the Schroeder place on the Myrtle Point road, on Nov. 24, killing Joe Zachary.. The grand jury had returned not a true bill when Stratton was before them, charged with involuntary man slaughter, and the officers had no evidence on which they felt that a conviction could be secured, for either driving while intoxicated or reeklera driving, and this 830 fine to the extent of his punishment for that terrible piece of reckleuneaa. Dishes for gifts from 10c up at the Variety Shop. - 9 I •• c* ■ ♦ 1
